In Sports In Section 2 An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper Indoor track Peter Frampton: set for NAC blasts into town championships from the past page 85 page 83 Police arrest two, net $50,000 in crack cocaine By Sara H. Weiss Cooper of Elsmere, both 17, have been package crack, von Koch said. crack to campus," von Koch said. youths could face probation or incarceration Clry~Editot charged wilh trafficking cocaine, possession Aulhorities lhen went to Stewart's Forrest State Deputy Attorney Ferris Wharton said in Ferris Correctional School for boys in Local authorities arrested two teen-agers wilh the intent to deliver cocaine, delivery of Street home, he said, where officers although Stewart and Cooper are still Wilmington, he said. on multiple drug charges and seized SSO,OOO cocaine, second-degree conspiracy and confiscated 2SO grams of crack valued at juveniles, lhe state will push to try lhem as He said they may face 30 years in Jl'ison worth of crack cocaine in Wilmington maintaining a vehicle for the distribution of SSO,OOO and $3,700 cash. adults so that lhey may face stiffer sentences. and nearly $500,000 in fines if convicted by Tuesday afternoon, whi~h police believe was narcotics, said Lt. Alexander von Koch of lhe Police believe the teens, who are both Based on any prior criminal history, nature Superior Court. slated for sale on the university's campus and Newark Police. Newark High School students, are part of a of lhe crime and lheir proximity to legal age, "There is a certain amount of plea· lhe SWTOI,Ulding area. Von Koch said the suspects were driving larger Wilmington-based drug ring, von Koch Wharton said, an amenability hearing will bargaining in drug cases," Wharton said, "but The arrests marked the second time in a through Wilmington while police followed in said. decide whether the two will appear before a as a general rule, we don't plead trafficking week that police have seized large amounts of an unmarked car. Last Thursday, local forces arrested five Family Court or Superior Coun. offenses." crack in lhe area. Both crack seizures are the At about I p.m. Tuesday, officers stopped suspects on drug charges and seized $22,000 Wharton said the hearing could be held as Drug trafficking, he explained, is the one result of a two-monlh investigation conducted lhe suspects at the intersection of 12th and worth of crack in Newark. early as May. charge of the five which would not allow a by six statewide police depanments. Thatcher Streets, sear~hed their car. Police "(Stewart, Cooper and the five suspects If found guilty by Family Coun, which is suspended sentence if convicted. CraiJt Stewart ~f Wilmington and Leon found a large amount of empty vials use(i to arrested last week) were interested in selling reserved for trying those under age 18, the see CAACK paae A7 Pennell Senate execution No looking debates approved back grants By Larry Dignan Men's basketball team College Senate says Sf>l!cl•l "'nlsnmet~t .,,@< The Delaware Supreme Court research funding vital affirmed convicted serial killer sets school record with Steven B. Pennell's death sentence and request to die Tuesday, clearing 12-game winning streak to academic freedom the way for a possible execution by By Paul Kane March, a Supreme Court official By Dan B. Levine M•N&inB Edllot said. M.n~ns Edltot The College of Arts and Science The Supreme Court made the Shakespeare sald some achieve greatness and &!;)me Faculty Senate further fueled campus ruling a week after hearing have greatness lhrust upon lhem. debate on academic freedom Monday Pennell's request for the death The men's basketball team had greatness lhrust upon when It said lhe university can only penalty in an automatic state appeal when lhey were predicted to win lhe North Atlantic prohibit outside research grants in Feb. II. Conference before the lieiLiOn even began. distinct instances. The Supreme Court concluded Now, with lhe season half complete, lhe Hens have The senate said funding for that, "The facts supporting the quietly been achieving greatness wllh a 12-game research was a part of academic sentences of death for_the murders winning streak which has drawn lhem Into the national freedom and the university could of Michelle Gordon and Kathleen spotlight. reject grants only if 0 the funding was Meyer are so clear and convincing The Herts received six votes in Ibis week's USA from an illegal source or the source that virtually no reasonable person TODA Y/CNN Top 2S College Basketball Poll, and two would not allow the results of the could differ." votes in this week's Associated Press College research to be published, the grant Pennell was convicted for four of Basketball Top 2S Poll. was for classified military research or the five U.S . Route 13/40 serial And such accolades are not unearned because for the lhe research had no connection to lhe killings, and received the death past two months lhe Hens have been scratching up win educational activities of the penalty for the murders of Meyer after win. university. and ·Oordon. During a two-week period in January the Hens beat Although the college senate Pennell would be lhe first person University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Towson initially began investigating lhe issue in Delaware to be executed since State, New Hampshire, Maine and lhen Boston because of lhe Pioneer Fund ban in 1946. University. 1990, officials in the college senate Court Administrator Stephen They proceeded to eek out a 6S-63 victory over said lheir resolutions did not apply to Taylor said Pennell has until Feb . Norlheastem, went on to slip past Brooklyn College and that sprdflc case. 26 to file an appeal, but added that Drexel and beat Vermont and Hartford two times each. "Most senators present realized the former Glasgow resident would Count them. That's 12 straight victories, a new that they lacked even a passing not try to change his fate. school record. acquaintance wilh the file drawers full After Feb. 26, Taylor said the And lhe team's 19 victories ties a school record for of publicly-available documentation case will be returned to the Superior wins in a season; one more victory in the five games left about the Pioneer Fund case," said Court for Judge Richard Oebelein to in lhe regular season and they will set a new mark for David Erman, president of lhe Faculty set a new execution date. single-season victories. Senate for the College of Arts and "Pennell would like the date The Hens, currently 19-3 overall and 9-0 in lhe Norlh Science. sometime in March," he said. Atlantic Conference, are looking to add anolher notch to The college senate approved the Taylor added lhat lhe March date lheir belt this weekend in Boston. re.solution for "future, forward­ is realistic unless Pennell reverses If the Hens defeat Boston University Saturday and looking" cases Involving outsid.e his position ,and decides to file an THE REVIEW I I Gretsch- Northeastern University Sunday they will clinch lhe research funding, not issues in the appeal. Alex Coles on the reverse jam in Delaware's victory over Towson State. see WIN STREAK page A7 past, Erman said. Pennell indicated that an appeal But education professors Linda is unlikely during Tuesday's· Ooufredson and Jan Blits said the hearing. resolution was an implicit agreement "It is my wish to go on as quickly with their claim that the university as possible and not take up any violated their academic freedom by more of this court's time," Pennell DUSC seeks influential role in budget rejecting their grant application for said during the hearing. funding from the Pioneer Fund, an At Pennell's sentencing trial Oct. organization that funds research and 31, Oebelein set a Jan. 17 execution Student government to work with Faculty Senate to have more voice in decisions has been accused of being racist. date, but the Supreme Court "Had these resolutions been postponed his execution to undergo By jennifer Hastings cuts were.felt by students. Council, McAnnally said . become active in the political university policy two years ago, the the state appeal required for all Copy Editor "For the third year in a row, the "Students are responsible, process of Newark, DUSC will university would not - could not - capital punishment cases. Student government plans to university was forced to reduce its concerned and intelligent enough coordinate a non-partisan voter have placed the ban," said Bllts, In the October ruling affirmed by take a more active role in the operating budget drastically by to face the difficult issues that registration drive among students, associate professor of educational the Supreme Court, Oebelein said university budget process and almost $6.5 million this year," he budget decisions present," he McAnnally said. The deadline to studies . the premeditated murders warranted work to influence the political said in the annual State of the added. register for the election is March Former university President E.A. the death sentence. process of the local government, DUSC Address . Provost and Vice President for 21. Trabant prohibited professors from "He bound her hand and foot, he the student government president To increase student input in the Academic Affairs R. Byron Pipes "Students, because of their receiving Pioneer Fund monies in tortured her, he murdered her and said Monday. budget process, DUSC plans to said he meets monthly with short term experience in Newark, April 1990 after a Faculty Senate mutilated and disposed of her body, Rob McAnnally (EO SR), work with the Faculty Senate's McAnnally to discuss the budget.