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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014 VOLUME 141, ISSUE 8
Senior Enoch Lee, talented musician and aspiring doctor, remembered for compassion ELIZABETH QUARTARARO Editor-in-Chief The “about me” box on Enoch Lee’s Twitter account reads, “I wanna save the world. Im a musician trying to become a doctor.” This mindset holds fast in stories shared by Lee’s friends and family, who tell of a pre-med senior who would buy lunch and hot coffee for homeless individuals on Main Street and who never left a conversation without asking about the other person’s family. Lee was killed early Friday in a collision in Pike Creek. At a candlelight vigil held Friday night on the steps of Memorial Hall, friends spoke of his empathic nature and warmth. Senior Cliff Hegedus met Enoch as a freshman at Newark High School and the pair stayed close throughout college. “It’s not just a cliché,” Hegedus said. “To almost a fault, he would put himself second. He was just one of those people. I don’t know if I’ve met anyone else— especially our age—that would
legitimately care and go out of his way to make your life easier even if it made his life harder, and he would do it without a second thought.” Lee was known to play his guitar in Trabant University Center or on The Green and would play guitar in the lobby of Christiana Hospital, where he volunteered. When a patient with liver cancer married her fiancé in her hospital room, Lee was asked to provide the music. Margarita RodriguezDuffy, director of visitor and volunteer services at Christiana Care, said Lee volunteered at the hospital since 2009. It “spoke volumes,” she said, that he thought to play in the lobby because he understood that the people entering the space could use the soothing sounds. She said Lee left those he encountered with the sense that they were glad they had met him. A July article by Christiana Care News about their volunteers led with an image of Lee cutting an elderly blind woman’s food. In the piece, Lee is quoted saying volunteering taught him about
Pike Creek crash claims lives of student, friend early Friday morning MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor
ENOCH LEE/FACEBOOK Enoch Lee, a senior at the university, was killed in a car accident on Friday morning. Lee was with his friend, Shane Colby, who was driving. meeting a person right where they are. “I tell younger kids who volunteer to keep their eyes and ears open, because you never know what’s going to touch you,” he said in the feature. “The world needs more people to empathize with others.” Lee took advantage of every opportunity he had to get to know others and to make them feel personally attended
to, said Lee’s girlfriend, junior Connie Chen. “I feel like somehow he knew life is really short, and he wanted to make an impact,” she said. “Everytime he saw someone, he would ask, ‘How’s your family, how’s Joe?’ He would remember specific things about peoples’ lives.” See RODRIGUEZ-DUFFY page 3
Towson rains on parade, rallies to beat Hens in Homecoming MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor
KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW The Hens take the field on Saturday for their homecoming game, a 24-17 loss to Towson. They had four turnovers and were outscored 17-3 in the second half.
The festive Homecoming atmosphere at Delaware Stadium on Saturday was spoiled by the Towson University Tigers after a 2417 defeat of the Delaware football team. Four turnovers, three by QB Trent Hurley, contributed to the loss, along with the Blue Hens being outscored 17-3 in the second half. Delaware committed several personal fouls in the second half, including a blatant kickcatch interference penalty on Towson’s game-winning drive. “It’s a disappointing loss because I really felt like we had every opportunity to be able to be successful and we weren’t,” Coach Dave Brock said. “When we lose, it certainly falls on me [...] Very rarely will you win a game when you have four turnovers and don’t get any.” See HURLEY page 14
Police have identified two young men who were involved in a two-car accident early Friday morning in Pike Creek as Enoch Lee and Shane Colby, both 21. Lee was a senior at the university, on his way to graduating with a degree in biological sciences. According to a story in The News Journal, Colby had just taken his real estate exam in hopes of taking over his father’s business. “Our deepest sympathies go out to the family and friends of Mr. Lee,” JoséLuis Riera, dean of students, said. “Our entire community is saddened by this tragic accident.” The press release issued by the Delaware State Police Department said the car, driven by Colby, was traveling at a high rate of speed in a 2001 Audi A-4. Colby lost control during a right turn, traveling into the opposite lane of Polly Drummond Hill Road. The car then struck a 2011 Chevrolet Suburban driven by Mark DeSantis, 48, of Newark. DeSantis was flown from the scene to Christiana Hospital with serious but not lifethreatening injuries. After impact, the Audi flipped and landed upside down. Both Lee and Colby were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. Any students seeking counseling or assistance regarding the situation are encouraged to contact the Center for Counseling and Student Development at (302) 831-2141, and located at 261 Perkins Student Center.
Homecoming weekend sees 13 arrests, 14 sanctions LISA RYAN Staff Reporter This homecoming weekend, there were 13 arrests and 14 administrative sanctions by the university police. Most of these crimes involved underage consumption, marijuana possession and public intoxication according to the statistics on the university’s police department website. There was an also a more serious incident in Redding Hall on Saturday morning that involved assault, disorderly
conduct, resisting arrest and underage consumption. Newark police spokesperson James Spadola said the most common crimes in the city on homecoming weekend throughout the years are underage consumption, disorderly conduct and noise violations. “There’s also generally an increase in complaints from residents about people drinking in public, trespassing and urinating in yards and having loud parties,” he stated in an email.
University police chief Patrick Ogden said the crime statistics each week leading up to Homecoming and during the weekend itself have remained consistent over the course of the last three years. He said there is usually not a marked rise in crime over homecoming weekend. Ogden attributes the steadiness of crime rates over homecoming weekend to its timing within the semester. Homecoming falls after the four-six week stretch during which the Newark police
address the most problems related to student conduct. Grotto’s Pizza manager Russ Wiedenmann said he does not see a rise in crime or disorderly behavior on Main Street over homecoming weekend, although the event does bring a greater number of customers into the establishment. He said the increased traffic comes mainly from alumni visiting Newark for the weekend. “But the alumni are just looking to have a good time, not cause any problems,” he said.
According to statistics from the university’s website, the majority of crimes committed this homecoming weekend were resolved via administrative sanction or arrest. When compared to crime statistics from 2012 and 2013, underage consumption remains one of the largest crimes. “As a police department, we want our university community to embrace Homecoming and have a good time but to make responsible decisions,” Ogden said.
Coons, Wade trade barbs in Delaware Debates as Senate race heats up MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor The university hosted Delaware Debates Wednesday night, an opportunity for the community to get to know the congressional candidates that will be vying for a seat in Washington come November. Incumbent Sen. Chris Coons, a democrat, debated Kevin Wade, a republican and his opponent in the upcoming Senate election, while Democratic incumbent John Carney answered questions from the host panel and from university students via pre-recorded segments. Carney’s opponent for his
House of Representatives seat, Republican Rose Izzo, withdrew from the debate after previously agreeing, instead opting to speak at an event for veterans in Millsboro, Del. “This is certainly the first time I’ve ever debated myself,” Carney said. Coons and Wade went back and forth in a periodically contentious debate, with Wade calling out Coons’ senatorial voting record as purely partisan and blaming the Affordable Care Act for the economic problems of small businesses. In one of the more tense
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exchanges, Wade claimed Coons raised $9 million for his campaign in the last four to five years during a discussion of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. Though Coons denied that he had raised that amount, a Center for Responsive Politics report showed that he had raised just over $9 million, though $6.4 million of that money had been spent running the campaign itself. “I’ll ask the TV audience, raise your hand if you are $9 million better off,” Wade said.
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KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW John Carney, current member of the House of Representatives from Delaware, answered questions and spoke on his record Wednesday night after his opponent, Rose Izzo, withdrew from the debate.
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