• . • An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY February 13, 1998 • • Volume 124 THE Number 30 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Newark, DE Permit No. 26 .. 250 Student Center• University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 2lPEsues UD Rugby player BY DIA ' E DO GHERTY Joseph Farnan ruled against the Cmunburmg Eduur fraternity's request for a temporary pleads guilty The uni versity chapter of Sigma restraining order against the • Phi Epsilon fratern ity filed a university's decision to enforce BY VERONICA FRAA TZ Police. lawsuit in U.S. District court the current policy. Instead. the City News &lit or The sexual assault allegedly took against the univer ity last Friday in judge ruled on a comprom ise Thomas A: Christiansen , a place in the Fall Semester during a what they consider an al!empt to between the two parties. university graduate and former rugby toga party at one rugby team member's reverse a recent s uspension of Both Brooks and President team member, plead guilty Wednesday residence. The team had been mixing haternity privileges stemming from David P. Roselle said th e ruling to unlawful sexual contact for the with Kappa Alpha TI1eta sorority. ~ ovcmbcr 1996 incident was a positive one for the sexual assault that took place Oct. 23. Police allege Deptula raped two of classified as an alcohol violation. university. This misdemeanor is punishable by the women in the sorority who were in : Richard Abbott. counsel for the Despite this, Abboll said it is a a maximum of one year in prison, allef1dance at the party, and fraternity and general counsel for beuer ruling for the fraternity. The according to law. Christiansen forced one of the women ihe Sigma Phi Epsilon Alumni compromis.e restored the Christiansen was arrested Feb. 4 on to perfom1 oral sex. Board , maintains that the fraternity's privileges. including one count of third-degree unlawful The team was suspended in university had no definite policy at participation in Spring Rush. Judge sexual intercourse and one count of December by the university judicial the time of the incident pertaining Farnan scheduled a status hearing second-degree conspiracy. system for a year and a half. Reasons I directly to alcohol violations within for May 4 which Abboll said THE REVIEW John Chabalko According to Delaware law, a for the suspension included sexual the fraternity system. actually extends the fraternity's Sigma Phi Epsilon has accused the university of conspiring to conviction would have carried a harassment and serving alcohol to Dean of Students Timothy F. p rivileges much longer than the take over their house for extended housing. max imum sentence of 10 years in minors on the night in question. Brooks said the suspension was not initial re s training order would prison. The charge of second-degree The uni versity also required the w hich suppo e the university. 16. 1997. to help t he fraternity a result of the incident but rather of have. conspiracy was withdrawn. team to pay a fine of $300, and also for including Roselle and Brooks as secure a mortgage loan to make a compilation of other disciplinary At the same time. the The 23-year-old was arrested along its members to auend classes on sexual individuals. have taken at least two necessary renovations to the house violations. He said the 1996 compromise ensures the fraternity with another of his team members. harassment. conspiring steps to obtain control on Main Street. but never followed alcohol violation has not yet been will slow litigation against the Bryan J. Deptula. a senior. Deptula Christiansen is curremly free on of the Sigma Phi Eps il on fraternity through with either promise. resolved and refrained comment on univers ity on two o ther points was arrested on two counts of third­ $2.000 bail. He is undergoing a pre­ any mauer still in litigation. included in the case. house. Among other needed renovations, degree unlawful sexual intercourse and sentence investigation. Deptula is free In a preliminary hearing. held The lawsuit contain s allegations Abbott said Roselle promised on one count of second-degree on $7,000 bail pending a grand jury Tuesday in Wilmington. Judge two occasions. Jan. 30 and April see FRATERNITY page AIO conspiracy. according to Newark indictment. Daredevil Dunk City Council votes 6-0 to investigate one of its own BY CHARLES DOUGIELLO someone li ving in the water­ had talked to them. Cit') Ne\\'S Edttor treatmelll plam on Paper Mi II Road Wampler said hi s motivation is Round two of the bout between and storing personal property there. not to resolve anything with the Newark City Council and James Semple. of Morris, James. water-treatment plant investigation. Councilwoman Nancy Turner took Hitchens and Williams Attorneys at H e said he place Monday night after the council Law in Wilmington, has been w a s voted 6-0 to launch an investigation retained to conduct the sa tisfied into the recent actions of Turner. investigation. with the job Council decided to hire a n Wampler interrogated Turner at Luft did and investigator to look into allegati ons the Monday co uncil meeting in the findings m ade by regards to her line of questioning of of his Councilman the City Manager Carl F. Luft at the invest­ Thomas P. · Jan. 26 meeting. Turner was also igation. He Wampl e r. asked about where she had obtained said he is He accused photographs of personal property T URNER concerned Turner of being stored at the plant. with any violating the After Turner refused 10 say who council city's code her sources were, Wampler alluded member taking malters into his or when s he Turner broke the city code by her own hands. a llegedly ques tio ning city employees and "An individual co unci I member gathered WAMPLER conducting her own investigation. has no power," he said. "We are information Wampler also a lleged Turner had only permitted to act as a body. So, about told employees not to tell Luft she see C ITY page A I 0 Main Street offers more used texts than UD bookstore BY BETSY LOWTHER less. said Stan Frost. who owns the it's ne ver any worse.'' Admi11isrrmint Neh s Editor Book Exchange with his daughter Tod Petrie. general manager of Students who complai n they are and two sons. · the universit y bookstore, said he spending too much on textbooks this "The real difference between the tries to order as many used texts as semester may have other opt ions. competition and ourselves is we he can. The Delaware Book Exchange. a have more sources for used books." The bookstore has increased its Main Street bookstore that opened in Frost said. "We have access to more number of used books by 400 the fall, offers an extensive selecti on wholesalers. so that gives us a beuer percem, and textbook prices have of te xtbooks. Professors have started se lection and that's where you save dropped 2 to 3 percent since the to order literature from Rainbow money_ .. Follett Corporation negotiated a Books and Music as well. Frost said he estimated the used comract to take over the books1-0re While the prices are not too book ·prices were about 25 percent from the university in the fa ll of different from the University lower than new book prices. 1996, Petrie said. Books tore. the Book Exchange ·"We try to offer as good a price But while t he bookstore does offers a wider se le ction of used as we can:· he said. '·Sometimes it 's texts, which allows studems to spend not belter than the competition, but see TEXT page A 10 . T HE REVIEW I John Chabalko Book price comparisons The Slam Dunk Daredevils showed off their aerial acrobatics during Senior Night at the Bob Carpenter Center Wednesday during the halftime of the UD/Widener game. Course title/book author UD-new UD-used DBE-new DBE-used INDEX Acker: 'not guilty' HIST 200-010 World News ............. ... ... ...... A2 Hancock $8.96* $6.75* $8.95* $6.70 Police Reports ......... .. ........... A2 BY CHARLES DOUGIE LLO a lco h o l wi t hou t a valid liq u or Editoriai ...... .. ........................ A8 Hoffecker $15 $11.25* $15* $11.25 City News £diwr license. Feature Forum ...................... B4 WILMINGTON - A plea of Acker turned herself in to the Munroe $29.50 $22.15* $29.50* $22.10 Crossword ............................. BS not gui lty was e nt ered by the Delaware Alcohol Co nt ro l Classifieds ............................. B6 lawyer representing the owner of Commission officia ls at t he Redding $5.40 $4.05* $5.35* $4.00 Sports .................................. B 10 Cafe Ame ricana. Gi n a Acker, Newark Police Department on Jan. STAT 202-023 Wednesday and a t ria l date has 28. Her case was transferred to the Also inside: ~ been set for March 17. Court of Common Pleas. Berenson $82.70 $62.05* 1 $80* $60 Jeffrey K. Bartels of Gingri ch visits Dover. ............... .. An employee who worked for Wilmington was hired to represent Cafe Americana was a lso arrested Lecture notes $26.70 $20.05* I $?6.60 $19.95 ................................. see page A2 I Acker in her trial. Acker has been on Jan. 15 after she served alcohol Winter Session wrap-up ........... .. CRJU 203-010 charged with vio lating three counts 10 ABC offic ia ls without a liquor I ................................ see page A3 of the Delaware A lcohol Contro l license. Del. deals with heavy beach Haas $25.95 $19.50 I $'J5.95* $19.45 Act and co u ld face up to th ree S he pled not guilty to a charge erosion..................