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U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE EVIE Permit No. 26 ·Free Friday Volume 125, Numhcr 27 .January. 22 ' 1999 !Jniversity student leaders: A call to action )_ Expected to draw a " We hope students entire city to 900, from the nearly Wiedel said the make their voices Monday night's large number of show up, but we ask that 1,200 permits currently in use. latest proposal is just heard. i_: • homeowners, landlords students refrain from Kalbacher has proposed limiting another in a slew of " Students have to and students, the 7:30 getting up there and the cap to just a one-mile circle anti-student legislation realize this is also their 1fneetlng may p.m. meeting at the blowing off steam," he around the heart of the city, to proposed by City home, and sometimes Municipal Building on said. " It is frustrating assuage the fears of his Council. they don' t realize that," Elkton Road is shaping for students, but we constituents in the suburbs, some "The city has never he said. "Ever since I include rental up to be a spectacle.· want to make a point of which are professors who want tried to do anything have lived here, [City The campus leaders that we are as much of to be able to rent their ho uses when with the students, they Council] has been are especially urging this community as the they go on sabbatical. have always tried to openly biased against ~apvote students currently in residents." " They want exceptions for attack students," Weidel students and this is just ..' Newark to attend becaus e of the John Bauscher, president of the people on sabbatical leave and said. "This will restrict an already another point proving that fact." BY RYAN CORMIER Balserio also sai d it isn ' t a £diror in Chief large amount of students away for Newark Landlord Association, took exceptions for people getting tight market for housing . The ,·- Winter Session. exception to a plan Councilman transferred, but what we are going whole point seems to be to separate coincidence that City Council f Student leaders are urging Andrew Wiedel, president of the Karl Kalbacher has recently io end up with is exceptions for students from residents." . chose to bring up this measure at a students across campus to attend Delaware Undergraduate Student announced as an amendment to the everybody except students," David Balseiro, president of the time when most students are not in - ~onday night 's City Council Congress, said he encourages rental cap proposal. Bauscher said. "They are just Commuter and Off-Campus Newark. 'meeting, where the proposed rental st udents to attend, but not to The original proposal would getting themselves in deeper and Organization, said students should "I think that was the whole goal ~p will be discussed and possibly disrupt the proceeding. limit the number of permits in the deeper." go to the meeting to stand up and see CAMPUS page A3 ~<>ted on. ~apano 'guilty Flagg indicted as charged' in on six additional ~ahey murder assault charges BY BETSY LOWTHER Puglisi, who was rescued from Contributing Editor Flagg's Bear home four days after BY RYAN CORMIER AND five of Fahey's siblings had tears in Just three days befo re he her husband's murder. MICHAEL D. BULLARD their eyes, but kept their emotions to allegedly murdered Anthony J. Flagg' s lawyer, Brendan J. Managing Editors themselves. Puglisi and kidnapped Puglisi 's O ' Neill, said Flagg's defense will WILMINGTON- After a stern The jurors were quickly led out of wife Debra in April 1998, Donald be insanity in the Puglisi charges. warning from Judge William Swain the courtroom, and 't~y will now ftL Flagg allegedly raped a Newark O'Neill said Flagg wili plead not Lee to the Capano and Fahey families decide whether Capano should die for woman at knifepoint. · guilty to the new charges. to keep their emotions in check with the taking the life of Anne Marie Fahey in Flagg, a former autoworker at Flagg, who is being held reading of the verdict, the judge brought June 1996. the Chrysler Corporation on South without bail in Gander Hill Prison, in the six man, six woman jury Sunday The penalty phase of the trial began College Avenue, was indicted by a is currently taking medicine for morning. Wednesday, complete with witnesses grand jury Tue.sday on six new schizophrenia. According to a Thomas J. Capano glanced once at and evidence. Exp:cted to last for up to charges which state that .---------. Dec. 14 court document, the 12 jurors as they filed into Room two weeks, the jury will ultimate.ly he broke into an O ' Neill wrote that 3Q2 of the Daniel L Herrmann reconunend what they believe Capano's apartment in the Village Flagg was going to be J,:ourthouse. When none of them looked fate should be. The judge will make the II Apartments in Newark "temporarily weaned :o.ack, he quickly looked down, final decision on Capano's future with and sexually assaulted a from his medication" so ' r~maining expressionless throughout the jury's recommendation in mind. woman who lived there he could be examined lhe 12-minute proceeding. Capano's four attorneys had little to on Aprii 17. by defense psychologist :--. Lee asked the jury foreman, a 45- say after the verdict was read, saying The charges include Fred Kozma by the end . - ~-old Wilmington pipefitter, for the they will appeal the decision, but ftrst first degree unlawful of January. ~ erdict. The unnatural silence in the must save Capano from lethal injettion. sexual contact, first O'Neill, who would :~urtroom was broken when he replied "We hoped we had convinced the degree unlawful sexual not comment on Flagg's ·W-ith a stem, yet grim, "Guilty as jury that there was reasonable doubt," penetration, two counts of first medication, said Kozma has not l1iarged." said Joseph Oteri, Capano' s lead ·degree unlawful sexual yet performed the examination. As both the Capano and Fahey attorney. "The jury was a serious jury. intercourse, first degree burglary When prosecution families quietly wept with the verdict, a 'They've spoken. We're not happy, but Deborah Macintyre tel's the media outside the Wilmington and possession of a deadly psyc hiatrist Robert Sadoff tried to loud cheer erupted from outside the that's the process. We will go on to the weapon during the commission of examine Flagg on Dec. 3, Flagg courthouse Sunday, "I feel immense relief, tremendous relief." a felony, refused to cooperate, according to courtroom, where the verdict was penalty phase and save Tom's life." over the conviction of her former lover Thomas Capano. passed on by a press liaison. Assistant U.S. Attorney Colm F. J. The charges were added to the court documents. 'The cheer sliced through the eerily Connolly, the lead prosecutor who was 19 charges from the Puglisi O ' Neill refused to comment on examined the case and made the right silent courtroom as the verdict drove called "a heartless, gutless, soulless the Fahey family and all of Anne indictment, which accuses Flagg the incident, but stated in a court decision. "I think the evidence speaks three of Capano's teenage daughters disgrace of a human being'' by Capano Marie's friends will never be fully of fatally s hooting Anthony document that Flagg agreed to for itself," he said. ·into tears. during the trial, said justice was served. compensated for." Puglisi on April 20 and He went on to thank all the public Jenny Capano. 15 , leaned on Katie, · "Tom Capano put a lot of people Connolly's partner, state prosecutor kidnapping and raping Debra see FLAGG page A4 16, and sobbed. Capano's oldest through a lot of distress, suffering and Ferris W. Wharton, said, "Obviously, servants who helped put the case daughter, 18-year-old Christine, sat pain," he said. "While we have a j4st we're very pleased. We conducted an together, saying it was a "roller coaster" stone-faced next to her mother, Kay result and he will someday pay a price investigation I've never seen the likes for everyone involved. · About an hour after the verdict was R-yan. for his conduct, we also don' t have of." ' On the other side of the room,. all Anne Marie Fahey here- that's a loss Connolly added, that the jury see JURY page A2 University finally .. honors Redding :. Rock in the Bob BY CHRISTINA MEHRA the universi ty. '• Administrati,·e- News Editor The committee came up with the '• The university has decided to proposal in the fal l semester and honor Louis Redding, the man who is Roselle approved the name change at BY DREW VOLTIJRO ''Dogma," starring Ben Affleck, is directed by Kevin credited with desegregating the the end of the semester, Gibson said. SralfR<porter Smith, who visited the campus in 1997. university in 1950, by renaming the As well as desegregating the Many students welcomed news of Chris Rock' s The rumor is true: Chris Rock is indeed coming President's Diversity Award after university, Redding was the first upcoming performance. to the university this spring. him. African American admitted to Rock, the 32-year-old "Saturday Night Live"· "Finally, we have some entertainment here," The Louis Lore nzo Redding' Delaware State Bar Association. ' alumnus, will "Bring The Pain" to the Bob sophomore Brett Cowan said.