1991 YEAR IN REVIEW: April

As students began to prepare for finals, tempers came to a boiling point, a small heat wave hit the area, Spring Fling turned wild and no one seemed to be getting paid. It all started on Easter night, & when local youths gathered by hun - dreds near 40th Street for the an - nual tradition of "hanging out." But apparently, the city kids let too & much hang out when violence, in - cluding fights and the assault of one University student, erupted and & caused local businesses to shut & down. Then there was outgoing Univer - sity Assembly chairperson Dutch - ess Harris' temper, which ran high when she said the UA's new chair - person, College sophomore Mitch Winston, would lead the way to the UA's downfall. "Once again, a fraternal organi - zation has succeeded in placing in - adequate, unqualified leadership in student government," Harris said. The Daily Pennsylvanian also felt the heat of directed anger. A group calling itself the Valentine's Day & Coalition filed a complaint against the DP saying an ad running in the paper on Valentine's Day discrimi - nated against homosexuals. The ad, placed in the paper by the Polo Bay nightclub, specified that a dinner special was for couples of the oppo - site sex. A heat wave hit the University area April 9, sending temperatures up to 86 degrees and students out looking for ice cream. On a sadder note, Sen. John & Heinz (R-Pa.) was killed April 4, when his plane collided with a hele - copter over Lower Merion & Township. And the newly selected Class of 1995 did not seem too hot, when the admittance rate reached its highest level in years at 47 percent, the highest in the Ivy League by several points. The Spring Fling ended the year at the University with a "wild" time. The weather for Fling was the war - mest it has been in years, with a high of 60 degrees. And over 6000 students turned out to see the In - digo Girls perform at Hill Field. But Spring Fling got really hot early Saturday morning when a & group of students turned over a car and suggested lighting it on fire & during a block party on the 3900 block of Sansom Street. Finally, Penn News owner Mike Monk was feeling the heat from the state Attorney General's office, & which told him to pay back sub - scribers who had not received their newspapers. Monk never paid up. The only person getting paid was the Psi Upsilon kidnap victim who was rewarded $145,000 as a settle - ment in a civil suit against the & fraternity. In the spring of 1991, the fraternity, which used to be housed in the Castle, abducted the victim from his off-campus residence, & handcuffed him to a pole and yelled racial slurs at him. -- Melissa Fragnito

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