In Sporls In Section 2 An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper Hens run and and a National Pacemaker Adino-myte roll over sorry summer for Lehigh Hollywood page B5 page B3 FREE FRIDAY Mysterious illness strikes students Students sure." they were Ire fll"St to arrive on campus. over any more of my residents squeeze The large numbers of patients at There were rumors only West [because] they were swamped," Trecia Classro.oms are unfilled and S~udent Health services prompted Campus residents were affected, but in SteWart (AS SR), an RAin Dickinson S1ebold to notify Public Health fact students in at least eight different B said. officials are puzzled. officials Thursday morning to residence halls ocross campus became When Stewart herself became ill, into .full detennine Ire cause of the outbreak. sick, he said. she hung signs on her floor to warn 19'~SSA HUNT lmg lines at Laurel Hall. The afflicted students, mostly Environmental health staff took The wi~ illness may simply others and to inform her residents of samples from dining halls, tested possible prevention methods. Tracey Lecac (AS FR) a freshmen, reported to Student Health ha.ve been due to a virus, Hatchcock university water supplies and S81d, but whatever the cause, it was She was told by Student Health that quarters Dickinson residmt, said she not Services by Friday morning with could examined residence halls fer possible exacerbated by the stress of starting drinking plenty of liquids, avoiding believe she got sick her first week at complaints of vomiUing, nausea and sources of contamination. school, especially for 100 freshmen. fatty fc Jds and following rules of good sdlool. diarrhea. Dr. Josqil Siebold, director State epidemiologist Leroy stan "I almost passed out at Student of 100 facility said. "It's a lousy way for kids to off hygiene may help COOJOOt 100 illness. Hatchcock of the Department of Health, so they made me stay there The cause remains a mystery, their first week on campus " he said, . Je.nnifer Wilson (AS 'FR), a Hundreds of Health said he interviewed more than "but for the most pan, over iL" overnight," she said. "I just wanted to although the students' symptoms trey'~ Dickinson resident, said she avoided 60 sick students and 30 unafflicted go home." disappeared within 24 hours, Siebold For resident assistants (RAs) and dining halls her first few days on freshmen are in But Le<:a:'s pliglu was not unique said. ones to d1eck fer differences in recent other victims, oowever, those few days campus and never got sick. m campus when nearly 150 students "In terms of prevention, I wish I activities. made it diffiCult to adjust to life at the "I wouldn't be surprised if it was triples. Many are fell victim to an unknown illness could tell kids, 'Dm't do that or touch Hatchcock added the freshmen university. frool the food," Wilsm said may have been struck earliest because "Student Health told me not to sel'k1 not happy. which left classrooms unfilled and this,"' he said, "but we just can't be see ILLNESS page A4 BY GBAHAM SEGROVES Student Mairs Editor The class of 1997 may soon be After seven years, graduates of space management and patience 101. the DeShields According to Barbara Rexwinkel associate director for administration u; t~e office of Housing and Residence case is closed. L1fe, the university received an unexpected~y high number of housing requests this year, especially among Convicted upperclassmen. The office of Admissions added that 200 freshmen more than last year accepted the university's offer of murderer admission, contributing to 100 situation. "We had a larger freshman class, a· larger number of upperclassmen requesting housing than is typically the executed case," Rexwimkel said. "And in lJddition, over the summer we had BY BRIAN HICKEY City News Editor fewer cancellations and fewer academic A lengthy struggle through the drops. judicial appeals process ended for . "So we had more people staying Kenneth W. DeShields and his with us and more coming in," she said. counsel Tuesday· morning, as he . Twe~ty students were assigned tnples m Pencader, 35 moved into faced death by lethal injection at the three-person "expanded capacity" Delaware Correctional Center in double rooms in south central residence Smyrna. DeShields, 33, had been on death halls, 60 were given tri ple~ in R «ell and 74 students moved into floor row since 1986 following his lounges in Dickinson when housing sentencing for the August 11, 1984 demand exceeded supply. murder of 67 -year-old Sussex County landfill worker Elizabeth At the beginning of the last academic "Betty" Reed. year, only 94 students received extended housing assignments, but 238 In an attempt to stall the execution, .DeShields' attorneys students were assigned to extended housing triples in 1991, she said. filed motions into the early morning hours approaching rhe scheduled Bruce Walker, dean of admissions time for execution; but were notified said: "It's a guessing game we play. It that their requests to the third U.S. appeared to us that our yield was going Circuit Court of Appeals were to be down this year, so we made a few denied at 2:30 a.m., sealing more offers of admissions than we DeShields' fate. found out we needed to." Representatives of the Walker said the university made Department of Corrections said nearly 10,000 admission offers for the class of 1997, some 600 more than last DeShields' last words were difficult President CUn: greeb spedato" during his vlst to Su"ex Couoty A;•port In Geo•getown hi day. The P.esidenfs visk lnduded:n"':;'.;::';:.::: '""' to make out, but the words: "I hope year but about even with the 1991-92 others have learned from my school year. mistakes ... " were understood before The large honors freshman class was he was pronounced dead at 9:17. a major _facto_r C?ntributing to a housing After DeShields' execution, his c~ch m Dtckinson, said Lou Hirsh, attorneys read his last statement, in Clinton supports aviators director of honors admissions. which he asked for forgiveness from The 3 19-member freshman honors the Reed family, offered love and home-built model of a Cessna 172 see HOUSING page A4 airplane. He told the president the · support to his own family, thanked !"so!e~~forNOIAN . During a First State visit the aviation program has had a tremendous his friends for their support and his GEORGETOWN - Prestdent ' Clinton'shelicopterlandedamida President seeks backz·ng +. impact on his life. · lawyers for their help. thousand sun-baked Delawareans at J 0 r Orphe also said he plans on going According to the Department of on to college to study aeronautics. Man takes own life Corrections, the execution took Sussex County Airport Friday for his h [ k first. visit to Delaware since his SC 00 The president said he was proud of place without any hitches and -tO-WOr program. elecnon. the two students' achievements and A 34-year-old man died last DeShields' body was released to the glimpse of their president. welfare. We pay in jail costs. We Visiting students of an aviation ~y spoke of bettering our country through ~onday. when he allegedly shot Medical Examiner's Office, which is Ointon told the crowd. filled with ' in dnuz cost~ . " h1m~lf m tJv> hP;vl ~ftPT hi< wifP ~gram ~ed by a Kent County The president stressed the Pducaiinl! its vouths. standard orocedure. students and their families, that he was After Ointon employed support for picked him up from the Deer Parle This execution, the thii'd by lethal high school, Omton spent two hours there to praise the program and to seek importance of school-to-work touring the airport where students the school-to-work legislaiion, he made Tavern in Newark, police said. injection since its _reinstatement in support for a nationwide school-to­ programs as an investment in our Newark Police gave the participate ~"Operation Skyway," a his way through the crowd, shaking the state with last year's execution work program designed to give all country's future. following account of the incident: program designed to teach them about hands and giving voters and the media of Steven Pennell, marked the first s~en.ts a chance to get good jobs with Clinton said, "Programs such as opportunities to take pictures and get . Jeffrey E. Maloney and his case in which the criminal fought careers in avialion. nsmg mcomes. Operation Skyway make education With his sleeves rolled-up, he toured video. wife, Cheryl A. Maloney, 36, both the sentence. He said, "I didn't come here just to come alive for students." of Bear, Del., were allegedly the airport hanger that facilitates the Although drenched in sweat, In his defense, DeShields was show~ these students, but to make "Most schools are just bookwork Clinton made his way toward the field fighting as they drove home depicted as a changed man who program. ~ ~ students explained the pomt that every student in America and boring lectures," said Chrissie the mechanics of smgle-elgine aircraft of potluck supporters, with a Diet Coke shortly after leaving the Deer Park. turned 'to religion while in prison needs the opportunity to have a Thomas, a junior in the program who in hand, to give them a fair chance to As they drove past the Newark repair and the president helped clean addressed the crowd. and reformed his ways. program Iikrr this. meet him face-to-face. Post Office, Maloney pulled out a some spark plugs. This program's emphasis is on real­ "He had made something of '"There can no longer be a division The accepting crowd showed their .25 caliber gun, pointed it to his Ointon then gave a speech to seek world experience and fun, Thomas himself in prison through religion," between what is practical and gratitude by clapping and cheering him temple and frred, police said.