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Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Volume 138, Issue 26
Univ. police officer charged with harassment BY NORA KELLY Executive Editor
A university police officer was arrested last week following an investigation of harassing messages he allegedly sent to a 21-year-old
female university student with whom he’d had a relationship, police said. Demetrius Sharp, 31, of Kennett Square, Pa., allegedly sent harassing text, voice and email messages to the student after she ended their relationship on Feb. 18.
Sharp, who has since been placed on administrative leave by the university, attempted to contact her over a three-day period beginning Feb. 19, including while he was on duty as a uniformed police officer. The student reported he parked
outside her off-campus home and shined a spotlight from his vehicle into her windows. She contacted Newark police about Sharp’s alleged harassment, said Newark police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall. Newark police officers
spearheaded the investigation, which began Feb. 21, because the incident occurred within the department’s offcampus jurisdiction. “I can’t think of a case like this happening in the recent past,” Farrall
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Engineering profs cite gender discrimination BY MORGAN WINSOR and PAT GILLESPIE The Review
Annette Shine was recovering from a broken rib when she received an email in mid-December from the dean of the College of Engineering, Babatunde Ogunnaike, requesting she vacate her office in Colburn Laboratory by Jan. 15. Shine, an associate professor of chemical engineering, was told her office was needed for “serious and immediate space needs,” and she would be Senior Stephanie Prezant died in a rock climbing accident in New York last month.
relocated to another on the fourth floor of Smith Hall. Worried she might further injure her rib, Shine got a doctor’s note recommending she wait three weeks until moving. But her request was refused, and she re-injured her rib while packing up her office. Shine later discovered that she had been relocated so that a male engineering professor could move his second office space into hers. Shine said this was the last
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Courtesy of Elana Prezant
Friends, prof remember student BY DARREN ANKROM Senior Reporter
Seniors Anna Trazanova and Stephanie Prezant, who attended high school together in Haworth, N.J. and were roommates this year, met the Prezant family for brunch in Philadelphia on April 22.
They drove separately and, when Prezant arrived, she noticed a parking spot directly in front of the restaurant. She stood in the rain for several minutes to hold the spot for her friend who, after stopping at multiple red lights, arrived to find a soaked and smiling Prezant. “We had a beautiful brunch. It was me, her mom, her dad, her sister,
two family friends and her boyfriend,” Trazanova said. “It was a gift that we had that brunch because it was the last time I saw her.” Prezant died on April 29 in a rock climbing accident on Mohonk Mountain in New York. After reaching the cliff’s summit, Prezant began her descent, and
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THE REVIEW/Sam Mancuso
Some former female engineering faculty believe they have been discriminated against for being women.
New Castle County earns ‘F’ grade for pollution BY RACHEL TAYLOR Staff Reporter
After investigating Delaware’s air quality, the American Lung Association gave New Castle County a failing grade in particle pollution,
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rating it the most polluted county in the state. New Castle and the remaining counties in the state, Kent and Sussex, all failed in the ozone category, a toxic air pollutant and main component of smog. The latter
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two counties received high grades for particle pollution, which is a daily average of chemical components, such as acids, metals and soil particles, which exist in the air. All three counties passed the “Particle Pollution Annual” category.
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Deborah Brown, president and CEO of the American Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic, said New Castle County’s proximity to industrial areas, such as Philadelphia, contributes to its poor air quality. “Depending on which way
winds are blowing, Delaware can get air pollution from other areas,” Brown said. “Cross-state pollution happens. It is not to say Delaware doesn’t pollute its own air, though.” Although air pollution has
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