In Sports An Associated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper Hen men stomp and a National Pacemaker A chat with heavily favored Britain's indie­ Richmond pop darlings page B4 FREE FRIDAY Wanted: A hired gun Gun the paper provides for an additional A man is arrested after seeking charge. Upon responding to the ad, one dealers unidentified caller claimed he was a hitman through the classifieds. asked to commit a murder by Folk, BY IIMMY MILLER '"e x-Marine, special forces, Delaware State Police Cpl. David W. Ciry News Editor weapons/explosive expert or Thomas said. After the caller contacted State to be A Georgia man was arrested New soldier." Year's Eve and charged with The News Journal telephone sales Police, an undercover officer soliciting a hitman through a representative who accepted the ad responded to the ad and set up a Dec. Wilmington News Journal classified from Folk said: "It sounded like he 31 meeting with Folk at a truck stop ad, Delaware State Police said. was looking for a bodyguard. That's on U.S. Route 13, Thomas said. targeted Brian H . Folk, 24, a former the only reason I took the ad." The Folk, who once attended the Delaware resident who now lives in representative refused to divulge his Taman School in Hockessin, Del., Dunwoody, Ga., near Atlanta, name. allegedly offered the undercover Delaware's allegedly ran a classified The advertisement directed trooper $4,000 to murder an advertisement in the Dec. 28 edition respondents to leave a name and unidentified North Carolina man, he firearm licenses of the News Journal which sought an phone number in a voice mail box see CLASSIFIED page A6 will be reduced 'right off the bat.' BY MELISSA TYRRELL Associate News Editor UD Professor A proposed increase in national For New York's homeless, license fees for gun dealers would reduce Delaware 's number of firearm licensee's "right off the remembered in bat," said Kahau Morrison, Christmas brings no jo resident agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and What ... what ... what a fluke. Firearms (ATF) in Wilmington. 'People pay As the woman walks away, In a proposal to Congress made Smilh spins and proudly shows the by Treasury Sec retary Lloyd memorial servive gifts to two of his I 00 or so attention to us Bentsen Wednesday, commercial housemates - a pair of mangy, and private firearm dealers would graduated from the University of dirt-laden, middle-aged men in be required to pay $600 for a Ohio, in Cleveland, in 1949. He today just out Ralph Exline dire need of a good meal. license to operate and buy received his doctorate in They're relatively unimpressed. firearms from manufacturers or psychology from the University of of pity.' After all, if there's ever a day out of state dealers. was 'a leader Illinois. when people are likely to pay BY IEFF PEARLMAN In addition to the 900 percent He began teaching at the attention to New York City's Ediror in chief increase from the current fee of university 38 years ago. In 1973, Grand Central Station's homeless in his field.' NEW YORK - For one brief, $66, Bentsen also announced h e became chairman of the population, it's Christmas. glimmering moment, Christmas in plans to make falsifying or failure psychology department, serving in "This holiday sucks," says ICK Larry Smith's house is looking to maintain records of gun sales a ~ ~,;; ,~~~fe;t~re~f~~o~ this position for 10 years. Exline Luis Montoya, a 45-year-old pretty much like Christmas is fe lony . Seven colleagues of Dr. Ralph took on the position as acting homeless out-of-work carpenter. supposed to. In the wake of the recently­ ' Exline gave eulogies Tuesday at a c hairman in 1984, then resumed "My son got so many presents He stands against one of the signed Brady bill, which requires ', ' memorial service honoring the station's concrete walls, downing teaching in 1985 and he became this year," a woman says to him, a five-day waiting period and a ! university professor and former acting chairman once again in the a Budweiser with Smith and Billy cradling two Teenage Mutant background check on all gun !: psychology chairman who died on fallofl993 . Taylor, both also homeless. Ninja Turtle specials in her arm ~ , buyers, Bentsen ' s proposal is the Dec. 19 from cancer. To enhance his education and "That fr iendshi p ... t11at family "that I have these extras. Would second step in the Clinton "We are here to remember sharpen his teaching skills, Exline tradition- it's gone. It's shit. It's you like them for your holiday?" adminis tration 's plans to attempt Ralph's life and his achievements, visited Oxford University as a not any more- Christmas, it's Aaahh, that good ol' y letide to reduce crime and violence. but to also celebrate his life," Fellow in the department o[ just selling things. People pay warmth. Smith gladly takes the The proposal is targeted at Interim Provost Richard Murray experimental psychology three attention to us today just out of gifts, gushing a big, cheek-to­ weeding out private a nd street said to more than 100 people who times throughout the course of his pity 'cause it's the holiday and cheek smile and wishing the sales from legitima te businesses. attended the service held in they're supposed to . see PROFESSOR page A6 woman a warm, heart-felt merry Bentsen said the increase would Mitchell Hall. "Christmas is dead." Christmas. d eter an estimated 70 percent of " He was a respected and The bitterness in Montoya's the 284,000 citizens with national dedicated scholar and teacher and voice comes from nearly three will be greatly missed," Murray months of living on New York's licenses from paying for renewal fees. said. cold, paved sidewalks. He has the According to Morrison, Barbara Fehr, a former student ability to work- heck, he wants Delaware would b e greatly of Exline's, said he worked very to - but nobody's hiring, and, closely with his students, helping even worse, nobody cares. affected by the proposal if passed. them in any way he could. Even on Christmas. Delaware has approximately 584 federally-licensed firearm dealers, "He was a leader in his field "People don't believe in (Left) In New York and through him, we as graduate goodwill," says the native Pueno of which only 25 percent operate students met other leaders in the Rican, rubbing the shaggy black, shelters, people learn to as commercial establishments. field," Fehr said. gray-speckled beard that covers sleep while sitting. "The other 75 percent operate The boundaries of Exline's too much of his blistered face. in residential homes," she said. research were not limited to the . "When you want to help people (Top) James Wendor's "They get a license because they confinements of the laboratory. you do it from tlJC bottom of your signs tell a homeless plight. can deal directly with another Exline served as orinciole heart. When I'm in good shape, I d ealer or manufacturer out of investigator for his ·research find people around lhe street and I state. a middle-aged, scraggly-looking "If there were a particular involving the study of the find people without clothes and I woman tries her best to capture the importance of verba1 vs . non­ go, 'Here, have it."' firearm you would pay higher for attention of anyone who'lllisten. in a Delaware shop, !with a verbal TV performances in There's an angry "Who's this affecting impressions of public "SOMETIMES IT'S BRUTAL" license] you could purchase it for figures. In another section of the station, sec HOMELESS page A4 less, directly from a dealer out of He was also involved in a later state," she said. study of the relationship between EXLINE Morrison said by rais ing the politicians' televised non-verbal fee, Delaware's ATF will see behavior and their competence as which license holders operate seen by English, Italians and legitimate gun shops and which American viewers. Students outraged by dining changes do not. As a result of his study on Because private citizens with visual interaction, eye contact, federal firearm licenses have no gaze direction and the effects in From 'It's like a jail' to 'There's less variety,' people aren't thrilled. access to computerized facial displays of emotion, Exline background checks for clients, earned an invitation to the Carter BY IENN!EER POST to a de.cre<lse of students on campus, but even get a seat the first night Center before getting on line. required by the Brady law, it is White House to consult with Srudem Affair< Ediror will re-<>pen for Spring Semester. The Coon was open for Winter Session. "It's real inconvenient to get your illegal for them to sell firearm s Jimmy Carter on the When hungry students returned to the resultant overcrowding and long lines Finding an open scat was not a own foo:l and plales," Luce said. "Plus, which they can purc hase for Reagan/Carter campaign, said Ann university Sunday, many were have angered many campus diners. Jrol>lcm for Dan Dziubczynski (AS SO), they're always out of stuff." wholesale. Exline Starr, his eldest daughter. disgruntled at the changes that had Lisa McMahon (AS SO) said th e but sining with his friends was. Gina Tomaino (AS SO), who was Morrison said these arc the "My father refused the occurred during the short ten-<lay break.