Issue 22 - April 28, 2015

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The Review TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015 VOLUME 141, ISSUE 22

Baltimore protests hit home for some students

BY MATT BUTLER AND JAY PANANDIKER Managing News Editor and Managing News Editor

WHAT’S INSIDE

A day that began in peaceful mourning ended with looting and arson. Protests in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray turned violent Monday leading to a city wide curfew and state of emergency.

The protests began over the weekend and were largely peaceful, but looting and destruction spread across parts of West Baltimore. Gray died after a week-long coma, which he fell into after his neck was broken while in police custody.

At the university, 14 students gathered in a vigil on the steps of Memorial Hall on Monday night, praying for the situation and discussing the societal problems that surround Freddie Gray’s death and subsequent protests.

Sophomore Andrea Miller and Alex Palting, a junior, are both from the Baltimore area and said the protests have a personal tinge for them. Palting said she planned the vigil spontaneously while watching news reports and seeing social media explode about the rioting.

“It’s so close to children and residential areas,” Palting said.

“People aren’t acting rationally in a lot of ways, even though there are a lot of people who are protesting peacefully.”

The riots led to looting of several stores and the arrests of more than a dozen. Fifteen Baltimore police officers were also seriously injured and have been hospitalized. The protests have also led to the closure of Baltimore City Schools on Tuesday and the cancellation of the Orioles game.

“Too many people have spent generations building up this city for it to be destroyed by thugs, who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for,” Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Rawlings-Blake said at a press conference.

With Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declaring a state of emergency, national guard troops will flow into the city overnight in order to handle protests tomorrow. About 1,500 troops are needed to restore order, but over 5,000 troops are being made available.

Lalu John, a junior, said the problem is larger than any one man or city, and that the angry reaction to systemic issues within the justice system nationwide are manifesting themselves in the form of the riots.

“Where madness breeds, it is going to come out,” John said.

“It’s not just for black people, it goes for any human. If someone was killing your own people or your family, it would cause a reaction.”

TIM CALOTTA/ THE REVIEW Thomas Wartzack, color blind since birth, is now able to see color thanks to Enchroma glasses.

‘Total sensory overload’

Video of student seeing color for first time goes viral NICOLE SULLIVAN Senior Reporter Freshman Thomas Wartzack had never seen the warm orange glow of a setting sun or the inviting pinks and purples of blossoming spring flowers. But on a beautiful afternoon last week, Wartzack put on the most important pair of sunglasses he would ever own and opened his eyes to colors he once struggled to imagine.

Developed by the company EnChroma, the sunglasses use high-tech optics to filter out the region of the color spectrum where red and green overlap, “enhancing color before it reaches the eye” and completely transforming the lives of those with a redgreen vision deficiency.

After discovering the EnChroma Cx sunglasses on a colorblind subreddit page this past December, Wartzack was initially skeptical, unwilling to believe such a simple product could potentially fix his lifelong color deficiency.

But after reading numerous positive product reviews and

comments, he finally decided to purchase the nearly $400 sunglasses.

They arrived in the mail last Tuesday.

“It’s hard to describe what I felt when I put them on,” Wartzack says. “To experience my color deficiency for 19 years and know it’s incorrect but never [see] the correct vision—and then suddenly see what everyone’s been talking about—it was just really intense. I don’t think I talked for a while.”

Willing to authentically document his experience, Wartzack asked his friend Sarah Bush to help film his first trial on the Center for the Arts Green. Bush says she was honored to be part of such a monumental moment in her friend’s life.

“It was magical,” Bush says. “To share a moment like that with someone—it’s pretty intimate and special, so it was really sweet.”

In the video, Wartzack is seen putting on the glasses and taking in his surroundings, noticing the stark contrast between nearby red brick and green

grass for the first time. It was a moment he describes as “total sensory overload.”

“I knew a camera was going and people were going to see this, but I just kind of shut everything out,” he says. “Not intentionally— but everything was kind of suddenly so different.”

Wartzack posted the video to his Facebook page, anticipating a handful of likes and comments from close

friends and family members.

Within hours, however, the video had gained unexpected attention from friends and acquaintances, as well as total strangers.

One week later, the video currently has more than 17,500 views, 600 likes and 200 shares.

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COURTESY OF THOMAS WARTZACK Friend Sarah Bush filmed Wartzack seeing color for first time. The video has been viewed of 17,500 times.

EMILY MOORE/THE REVIEW and KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Students gather on steps of Memorial for Baltimore vigil (left). Baltimore protests follow last semester’s rallies (right) surrounding race relations.

SGA senator petitions for election reform An SGA senator has proposed changes to increase presidential eligibility, reform the election and campaign process and increase student engagement.

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Ag Day held on South Campus this weekend Guests were welcome to meet the university’s farm animals and learn about local agriculture at this year’s farm-totable themed event.

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New Newark Natural Foods location features community space, café The co-op’s new Newark Shopping center location is double the size of the old space.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 28

PENCIL IT IN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 -“Law and Conversations” presentation featuring featuring author Hadar Aviram, 5 - 7 p.m., Smith Hall 321 -The Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy spring lecture series featuring Keith R. Hopper, 5:30 - 7 p.m., Deer Park Tavern -Late Night breakfast, 9 - 11 p.m., Perkins Gallery

FRIDAY, MAY 1

THURSDAY, APRIL 30 -Youth Entrepreneurship Summit, 9 a.m.

- 3 p.m., Clayton Hall -“Being Professionally Social:” social media workshop, 2 - 3 p.m., Career Services Center- Workshop Room 178 -SCPAB Casino Night, 8 p.m., Perkins Rodney Room

SATURDAY, MAY 2

-International Coffee Hour, 4 - 6 p.m., 44 Kent Way -CAA women’s lacrosse semifinals, 4 9 p.m., Delaware Stadium -Opening night of E-52’s “Angry Jurors,” 7:30 - 10 p.m., Bacchus Theater -SCPAB’s weekend movie: “Selma,” 8 10 p.m., Trabant Theater

-White Clay Creek Fest, 12 - 4 p.m., Carpenter Recreation Area of White Clay Creek State Park -Fandemonium featuring spring football game, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., UD Athletics Complex -Eighth annual Lt Matt Bowers Home of the Brave 5k, 1 - 3 p.m., Laird Campus Turf Field -Softball vs. Towson, 1 p.m., UD Softball Stadium -HTAC’s “Urinetown,” 8 p.m., Pearson Hall

SUNDAY, MAY 3

MONDAY, MAY 4

-Yoga workshop and follow-up discussion featuring Tao Porchon-Lynch, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Trabant Multipurpose rooms -CAA women’s lacrosse finals, 1 p.m., Delaware Stadium -International Film Series, “The Golden Dream,” 7 - 10 p.m., Trabant Theater

TL;DR

-Department of Fashion & Apparel Studies presents fashion panel, 4:30 - 6 p.m., Mitchell Hall I-nnovation and Entrepreneurship showcase featuring Hen Hatch finals, 5:30 - 9 p.m., Trabant Multipurpose rooms -USC Quizzo: Parks & Recreation, 7 p.m., Perkins West Lounge

-Healthy HENS Exercise Kiosk, 11 a.m.

- 2 p.m., Trabant University Center -SCPAB Dodgeball Tournament, 3:30 5:30 p.m., Little Bob - Gym 1 -Preparing for Finals workshop, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m., Office of Academic Enrichment -Spoken-word poet Sarah Kay, 7 p.m., Pearson Hall auditorium

Nepal earthquake

During a long-awaited interview with Diane Sawyer on Friday, Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner announced he identifies as female. Tabloid rumors swirled for months surrounding Jenner’s gender identity following his divorce from Kris Jenner of Keeping Up With the Kardashians fame.

“For all intents and purposes, I am a woman,” Jenner said.

For the time being, he said he prefers masculine pronouns, although he referred several times throughout the interview to his inner self as “her.”

Jenner’s coming out makes him the most high-profile transgender woman in the United States. He said he had been undergoing hormone therapy for more than a year, but has not decided about reassignment surgery.

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Three days after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, the death toll has risen to over 3,800.

The earthquake destroyed thousands of homes leading to vast tent cities across all of Kathmandu. Since then, aftershocks have rattled the Himalayan country and there have been shortages of water, electricity and food as well as fears of disease. Humanitarian aid has flocked to the country from the United States, Europe, India and China. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue teams have yet to reach the mountain villages in the countryside. The massive quake also triggered an avalanche near the Everest basecamp.

SGA senator releases petition Senior Andrew Miller released a Change.org petition Sunday to reform Student Government Association’s electoral system.

In Wednesday’s elections, 6 percent of the student body voted, and one of the five executive board positions was contested. Miller’s petition includes seven proposals that aim to make SGA elections more competitive and representative.

If expanding the pool of eligibility for the SGA executive board does not interest you, students are also using Change.org to petition UD Dining. The appeal is titled “Make the popcorn chicken actually popcorn chicken and not just chunks of bread.”

I DE N BE AT Times when Joe Biden was an advocate for civil rights:

EMERY COOPERSMITH/THE REVIEW

#TBT

Bruce Jenner comes out as transgender

During the Vice President’s commencement speech, he referenced the socially contentious years following his graduation.

He recounted a time in April 1967 when he stood on the Amtrak platform, watching Wilmington as it engulfed in flames.

Since the ’60s, Biden has been an unwavering advocate for civil rights, evidenced by 35 years in Senate devoting time to civil rights legislation.

The VP is pro-affirmative action. He scores 100 percent from the NAACP.

Biden came out publicly in support of marriage equality–– before President Barack Obama. He also supported antidiscrimination laws on the basis of sexual orientation before most democrats.

Biden co-sponsored reintroducing the Equal Rights Amendment in 2007. The ERA sets equal rights between men and women.

Biden was a keynote speaker at the 2012 NAACP convention.

During his speech, he said, “And we, the President and I and Eric [Holder] and all of us –– we see a future where those rights are expanded not diminished, where racial profiling is a thing of the past.”

THE REVIEW IS HIRING BUSINESS INTERNS April 19-20, 2003 Walkers raise $35,700 at first Relay For Life Approximately 400 people raised $35,700 for the American Cancer Society at the university’s first Relay For Life. Participants walked over night in the 12-hour marathon at the Field House, representing the continuing battle against cancer. “Cancer never sleeps,” said Shaun Gines, co-chair of the event. Caribbean dance lessons, free massages and a Y-Chromes concert provided entertainment, as did several cancer control programs. Educational programs included a Best Lips Contest, where contestants left their mark on paper with SPF lipstick.

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University receives Community Engagement classification

HANNAH TATE Senior Reporter

Three days a week, university students pile in a carpool to Dover to work with members of the Delaware General Assembly through the Legislative Fellows program.

The partnership gives students rare access to congressman and opportunities to work on policy affecting Delaware.

This program is just one of the service partnerships that helped the university receive a prestigious community engagement classification.

The university applied for the Community Engagement classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching last April, and received word

this January that it was successful.

The classification is given to colleges and universities with partnerships with the communities that surround them, usually involving the exchange of knowledge and resources. The exchanges must be mutually beneficial, and can be on the local, state, national or global level, according to the foundation’s website.

Theatre professor Lynnette Overby headed the task force created to assemble the application along with other faculty, student and community representatives. She said the task force allowed them to do a self-study of the university’s community engagement in relation to other campuses.

By the end of their research, the task force had found 300 unique community partners from just one year alone, Overby said.

The application highlighted organizations with significant resource exchange.

One such organization was Special Olympics Delaware, which gives individuals with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to compete and train in sports. Engineers Without Borders, which focuses on providing sanitation and clean drinking water to global communities, was also featured. Also in the application was GoBabyGo, which provides mobility to kids who have trouble moving on their own.

Senior Lauren Mick––one

of the students participating in the Legislative Fellows program––thinks these projects are highly beneficial for students.

“The Legislative Fellows program has allowed me to apply what I’ve learned in the classroom in the real world,” Mick said. “Me and my colleagues do the job of real staff professionals where we interact with real legislators and their staff every day.”

The Carnegie Foundation also helped the university look into ways to improve in community engagement.

Their advisement helped establish the university’s Community Engagement Commission. Some of the goals include being more systematic in the way the university collects

community engagement data from all sectors, Overby said.

According to the university, the commission has been established to build on the task force’s work by studying models and best practices of community engagement throughout the United States and developing a structure best suited for sustaining and improving community engagement.

The commission’s goal is to continue to build on the good work that is already in place and make improvements in areas needed, Overby said.

Official SGA election results announced JAY PANANDIKER MANAGING NEWS EDITOR

PHOTO FROM FILE

After 1,044 votes were cast, the results of Wednesday’s SGA election were made official yesterday night. For the fourth year in a row, the presidential election featured a single candidate— junior Rebecca Jaeger claimed victory. The only contested race of the six on the ballot was for Vice President of University Affairs, where Tim D’Agostino defeated Ross Schinik by a 65-35 margin. Others elected were Aryana Alborzi for

Executive Vice President, Lalu John Ologbauma for Vice President of Finance and Sarah Brotzman for Vice President of Judicial and Governmental Affairs. Matthew Hopkins and Haley LaMontagne were both elected Student Affairs Senators. The 1,044 votes meant approximately six percent of eligible voters cast ballots and is an increase of 47 votes from last year. It is over a thousand votes fewer than the peak in 2011 when all the available seats were contested.

Journalism ace prepares for exit from university, talks future of media IRENE KOUTSIDIS STAFF REPORTER Born to Holocaust survivors and travel enthusiasts during the 1950s, former CNN correspondent and Director of the university’s Center of Political Communication Ralph Begleiter is the epitome of hard work, dedication and the American Dream.

As he prepares to retire from the university this spring, Begleiter shared his life’s journey in a speech on April 22, in Purnell Hall at the university. The speech covered his journey as a professional and the apparent change in media.

Begleiter was raised in Bergen County, N.J. just outside of New York City.

A junior in high school, he found he was most interested in media. He said his classmates signed his yearbook with phrases like, “Can’t wait to see you on TV!” He studied political science and history at Brown University where he joined the student radio station.

During his college summers, Begleiter went to New York and worked for ABC News Radio.

Looking back, Begleiter was most inspired by his parents, who he said “led a very independent life” and the events that took place the summer of 1969 when he was working in the newsroom and astronauts for the first time landed on the moon. This experience he says, “solidified” what he wanted to do as a reporter.

After graduating from Columbia University with a master’s in journalism, Begleiter went on to take a job in Washington, D.C. at a news radio station.

His first real setback and disappointment, he said, was at age 30. He had yet to become a broadcast news reporter.

“When I was 33 years old, I finally got my job as a network TV reporter,” Begleiter said.

Jamie McIntyre, a former senior Pentagon correspondent for CNN and current newscaster on National Public Radio, originally met Begleiter while the two worked at WTOP. McIntyre said Begleiter was always an inspiration to him, not just during their time working together at CNN but also throughout his career since then as well.

“Once you start scrambling for viewers, you have to figure out what it is that turns them on,” -RALPH BEGLEITER,

DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY’S CENTER OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

“I modeled my reporting on Ralph, he was sort of my role model,” McIntyre said.

“He was the kind of reporter that, if you were involved in some sort of controversy, you would want him to cover your story because he was thorough, fair, accurate, careful and smart, and not many reporters actually fit that mold.”

It wasn’t until 1980 when Ted Turner, a popular sports reporter, decided he wanted to create CNN as the first allnews TV channel. At first, Begleiter denied the offer to join the station, thinking it would not be an opportunity worth leaving his station in Washington D.C. “I laughed in his face and said, ‘You gotta be kidding.

No one’s going to watch an all news channel,’” Begleiter

said. “A year later CNN was on the air, and it was clear it wasn’t going to die in six months […] I was such a smartass at the time.”

In relation to how CNN has changed, and the change from TV news-as-news to news-as-entertainment, Begleiter said, “TV has always been about entertainment.”

In his speech, Begleiter described the early 1990s as a time where stations were realizing that sports and comedies were making them money, and news was something they would spend money to cover. By the mid-1990s, because of CNN’s success, news started searching for entertainment style ratings and viewership numbers.

“Once you start scrambling for viewers, you have to figure out what it is that turns them on,” Begleiter said. “You put more of it on the air, and start putting less of other things on the air. We’re increasingly going after larger audience numbers and less focusing on what the audience really needs to know to make informed public-policy decisions.”

Begleiter describes the beginning of news as a time when people could be innovative. Once competition set in, you had to match what others were doing or top it.

Begleiter left CNN in 1999 due to changes that were occurring throughout the station.

After deciding with his wife the next step would have to bring them closer to their beach house in Bethany Beach, Del., Begleiter made a call to the university. He said he had always thought about teaching.

To his surprise, the school was very enthusiastic, he said. He became a professor and eventually gained his position as the director for the Center of Political Communication.

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KATELYN CONTE/THE REVIEW Six percent of the student body voted in this year’s SGA election. This follows years of lower voter turnout and unopposed presidential elections.

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EMILY MOORE/THE REVIEW Students outside at the “Meet a Muslim” event for Islam Awareness Week, an event hosted by Muslim Student Association. The week featured guest performers and speakers, student panels and public prayer.

Islam Awareness Week provides venue for education and peer dialogue ELIZABETH CATT Editorial Editor Few activities are as American­ —or as strenuous—as two-a-day football practices. Sprinting, lifting and tackling are hard enough on a full stomach, but exhaustion comes much sooner when fasting for the holy month of Ramadan.

Muslim-American student athletes push past fatigue every year as they strain themselves to meet the demands of this iconic right of passage while remaining faithful to Islam.

Members of UD’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) used this imagery, via a clip from a documentary titled “Fordson: Faith, Football, and Fasting,” to begin Thursday’s discussion of what it is like to be a Muslim on our campus. In football and in college, American culture does not always align with the demands of Islam, they say.

Young Muslims are charged with the difficult task of navigating a society that that often clashes with their religious teachings and treats them with suspicion.

Islam Awareness Week, coordinated by the Muslim Student Association (MSA), sought to correct common misconceptions about Islam and its 1.5 billion followers last week.

Universities around the world host Islam awareness weeks, many featuring famous Muslim speakers and academic discussions.

Junior Tasnim Amin said MSA chose to take a more student-oriented approach by creating opportunities for non-Muslim student to interact with their peers who follow Islam.

“We’re just trying to get non-Muslims to come meet us,” Amin said. “There are people who are Muslim that don’t fit the cookie cutter stereotype in the media.”

Thursday’s panel discussion, titled “Muslim at UD,” provided a forum for MSA members to discuss the rewards and challenges of practicing Islam on campus.

Audience members, many

of whom were not Muslim, directed the conversation.

They asked candid questions about the religion and the experiences of MuslimAmerican college students.

Juniors Joselys Cornelio and Camila Sosa both hoped to deepen their understanding of Islam and Muslim students by participating in the conversation.

“UD is a complex campus, but if you’re a minority you are characterized so strictly into that group.”

-JOSELYS CORNELIO, JUNIOR

“UD is a complex campus, but if you’re a minority you are characterized so strictly into that group,” Cornelio said.

The panelists offered a variety of perspectives on coming of age as Muslims in the United States. Some believe they have seen less prejudice in their college years. Junior Waleed Ahmed said his experiences prior to college, particularly middle school, were a lot worse.

Freshman Nasser Alghamdi described receiving subtly hostile looks, especially around the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Others, especially female panelists who wear hijabs, said they encounter overt and aggressive harassment.

MSA members also spoke openly about how

their religion impacts their lifestyles as students. To follow the teachings of Islam, Muslim students forgo activities that many nonMuslims participate in, like drinking alcohol, dating and dancing. They also commit to praying five times per day at specific intervals.

Alghamdi cites the campus Muslim community as being a source of strength during his college years as a follower of Islam.

“Having these people to go through the struggle of faith with makes it easier to remain strong in my faith,” Alghamdi said.

The panelists’ steadfast commitment to practicing their faith was highlighted at the end of Thursday’s panel.

Shortly after the discussion was called to a close, the Muslims present in Smith 140 knelt together in prayer.

The week’s earlier events introduced students and community members to Muslim-Americans who defy stereotypes. The week kicked off with a lecture by Noor Tagouri, a reporter who aspires to become the first hijab-wearing broadcast journalist in the United States, as well as performances by spoken word poet Kashmir Maryam and a “Meet a Muslim” event in Trabant University Center on Wednesday.

Originally slated to be held on The Green but forced inside due to weather, the week’s events ended with a Jummah prayer in Perkins Student Center on Friday.

Aamir Majeed, a freshman member of MSA, considered the week a success.

“It feels nice that we’re getting together as a community, and it makes us feel like part of the UD community,” Majeed said.

“It’s good to know there are a few more people out there who know a little bit more about Islam.”

Nancy Brickhouse, deputy provost of the University of Delaware, said the value of having someone with Begleiter’s knowledge is immeasurable, and that the university is always trying to bring more people like him to campus.

Brickhouse cited Begleiter’s ability to draw from his long experiences all over the world can lead to more engaging learning opportunities than other universities might be able to present, such as the Global Agenda Lecture Series that has been held on campus in which high-ranking, influential officials from around the international relations landscape come and speak on current events.

“It brings an important perspective, it brings experience as a professional in the field, both the insights and the expertise,” she said.

“Having somebody who has achieved at the highest level in a field is extremely useful.

They bring expertise and perspective, but frankly, also connections.”

As to the future of journalism, he said he is unsure if it is still a great field to pursue but thinks it is still important. The opportunity to influence public policy is narrowing, he said.

Journalism is changing and many young journalists interests are changing too, he said.

Begleiter’s career has been anything but uninteresting, but now he looks forward to quiet days ahead. He said he has been to all seven continents and 100 countries. He spent much of his life traveling.

If time travel were possible, he would go back and tell himself to “chill out.”

“You don’t have to achieve the Pulitzer Prize on the first day, you can achieve it on the second day,” Begleiter said. “It will work out okay if you keep working at it.”

Matt Butler contributed additional reporting to this article.

SGA senator petitions for election reform MEGHAN JUSCZAK Managing News Editor After six percent of students voted in Student Government Association (SGA) elections last week, senior and SGA senator Andrew Miller is spearheading another proposal to expand eligibility for student body president.

He blames Wednesday’s turnout on “restrictive” electoral rules and the fact that SGA does not require its candidates to create campaign platforms.

Miller and fellow senior senator Jordan Wohl introduced a bill last semester to allow any student who has served in the SGA Senate for at least a year to run for president (previously the presidency was open only to members of the executive board).

Now, in his final month at the university, Miller aims to extend the candidacy to all students with a grade point average above 2.5.

The proposal to increase the pool of SGA presidential candidates is part of a group of six other proposed changes, all of which Miller will introduce at the SGA Senate meeting on May 11. Though the proposals address different elements, all possess a singular goal—to increase student participation in future elections, as well as make SGA more representative.

“Personally, I’m about to graduate and it’s my last chance to make a change and improve the process for other classes,” Miller said. “I never voted for SGA president because it was always uncontested, and I think student government can be so much more— we could have concrete platforms and really address campus issues.”

In the coming weeks,

Miller will partner with as many senators as possible to develop a coalition of support for SGA proposals.

A Change.org petition was also released Sunday to change the eligibility rules.

Miller said the goal of the petition is to receive a greater number of student signatures than those who voted in the executive board election.

“It would be a pretty powerful statement if that occurred,” he said. “It would allow students to make it clear that it’s their lack of choice that’s a problem.”

Students can gain knowledge of how best to advocate for the student body in many places on campus outside of SGA, he said, and these capable candidates should not be restricted.

When it comes to the commonly-cited fear of “joke” candidates? Miller had one response: “Run a better campaign than them.”

With the proposals’ new requirements involving the development of platforms and public debates, he thinks less serious candidates will be dissuaded from running.

At Monday night’s SGA Senate meeting, however, there was no discussion of these upcoming bills.

After University Secretary Jeff Garland spoke about commencement, three other proposals were passed.

The first two, put forward by sophomore Ellie Halfacre, will create a biweekly newsletter of community service opportunities known as “VolHENteers” and a student legal guide called “DeLAWare.”

Additionally, incoming SGA President Rebecca Jaeger passed her first proposal Monday, implementing a microwave in the Perkins Scrounge.

BRICKHOUSE: ‘IT BRINGS AN IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE.’ Continued from page 3 “In assessment, for example, to be more systematic in the way we collect community engagement data from all sectors, including community partners,” she said.

Overby said the classification shows that the university is focused on making outreach to the community a central part of the school experience, instead of just a secondary component.

The university’s classification is valid until 2025 and the reclassification

application process will begin in 2023, according to the Carnegie Foundation.

Evidence showing community engagement has become more pervasive and better sustained on campus must be provided to the Carnegie Foundation in order to keep the classification.

PHOTO FROM FILE New SGA President Rebecca Jaeger passed a proposal, her first, to add a microwave in the Perkins Scrounge.

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New Newark Natural Foods location features community space, café EVAN BUSCH STAFF REPORTER

MALLORY SMITH/THE REVIEW The Bank of America Career Services Center saw 1,951 students last semester.

Nationwide, students underutilize career services centers ALEXANDRA MORRIS Staff Reporter The state of the postgraduate job market leaves too many students dreading the loaded question. What’s your plan after college?

Millennials are overwhelmed and underemployed, yet many are missing out on a very simple and valuable tool— career service centers on their college campuses.

Although 94 percent of students think that college career service centers are necessary, more than 50 percent of college students do not use them, according to a 2014 study by Millennial Branding, a Gen-Y research and consulting firm.

The study also found that 8 percent of students say career centers around the country are successful in helping them figure out a career path, while 61 percent think that their assistance is not effective when it comes to getting hired. Career services offices around the country have not kept up with current labor market trends such as digital branding, while others do not properly utilize their alumni networks, the study said.

Career service centers function to prepare students for the real world, but they are struggling to stay relevant at colleges around the country due to shortages of funding and staff, the study said.

Senior Nate Donhowe said he falls into the 61 percent. He said while the intentions of career services are good, it still needs some work.

“Out of all the people I know, very very very few of us have actually talked about career services,”

Donhowe said. “The closest we’ve had are conversations about why career services are sending us emails telling us there are opportunities like jobs at TD bank or Chase or something.”

The university’s Career Services Center provides students with a variety of resources aimed at career development.

The staff works closely with a network of university faculty, alumni and employers to help students build skills, explore careers and gain access to professional opportunities.

“Students are getting bombarded with tons of information everyday.”

-Lynn Sydnor-Epps, interim director of the Career Services Center.

“In terms of finding job and internship opportunities, the resources we offer are very effective,” said Lynn Sydnor-Epps, interim director of the Career Services Center.

She suggested that students should start at Blue Hen Careers, an online database of hundreds of internships and jobs, workshops and alumni mentors. On any given day there can be over a thousand

postings for all majors, Epps said.

“It’s the low-hanging fruit,” Epps said.

“It’s employers that say, ‘We want UD students and these are our positions.’”

Students can also find opportunities and expand their network in a variety of ways: job fairs, job vacancy listings in Career Service’s library and the Campus Interview Program that brings more than 250 recruiters to campus to interview students.

Career Services is currently in the process of tracking success rates of student and employer interactions, according to Epps. They ask employers to rate student interviews, preparedness and performance and use that data to maximize efficiency and overall student experience.

Epps said the peak recruitment months of September, October, February and March bring about 12,000 individual visitors to Blue Hen Careers.

In addition to the online tools, students can make appointments to meet with a counselor in their field of interest or plan to visit during daily drop in hours. Last semester, 1,951 students met with career counselors, she said.

Epps said it is important to get people engaged and involved with the career services center. Each college is assigned an advisor who sends out monthly email updates.

Recently, the center has also worked to improve communication by being more active on social media and creating its own hashtag.

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After 30 years at 240 E. Main St., Newark Natural Foods opened the doors of their new location in the Newark Shopping Center.

The move to the new location doubles the co-op’s retail space and moves the store closer to campus.

With the expansion comes a café featuring fresh hot organic food, organic salad, locally roasted coffee and a juice bar. Community rooms for events of up to 125 people are also available.

By expanding in size, the co-op has been able to join the National Cooperative Grocers Association—a network of 190 stores in 38 states. This allows the co-op to have stronger purchasing power, which translates to cheaper prices for customers, Moos said.

The store’s marketing manager, Anita Moos, said the store is member owned and its main mission is to serve the local community.

“We are definitely keeping students in mind,” Moos said. “Being closer to campus, we want to be able to serve that base.”

The co-op strives to make organic food more affordable to the community, and the new space will accommodate a 20 percent larger selection of food, Moos said. The weekly Sunday Farmers Market will be double in size and be located in the store’s parking lot, starting May 3rd.

From a business perspective, Downtown Newark Partnership’s Administrator Ricky Nietubicz said the move will make the business more accessible to customers.

“The new location will help raise awareness that those [healthy] options are available to students,” Nietubicz said.

The new store’s close proximity to Main Street will provide the community and students alike, with opportunities to purchase healthy and fresh food free of preservatives, dyes, pesticides and antibiotics, Moos said.

Senior Matt Clark was using the ATM when he noticed the store’s opening and decided to make his first visit.

“I’ve actually never been to Newark Natural Foods before,” Clark said. “I’m surprised by the quality of vegetables compared to the other supermarkets around here.”

The new community rooms will also host cooking classes and instruction for customers on how to prepare certain foods that are not widely used. One of the coop’s missions is to educate others about using healthy selections, Moos said.

Café 67 and the other facilities offered are set to be unveiled in the coop’s grand opening in May. Executive Chef David Jones will create menu items that change on a daily basis, ranging from vegetarian and vegan options to freshly baked bread and free-ranged chicken wings.

“It’s amazing that we are still surviving,” Moos said.

“It’s because the community wants us to survive. We have been here longer than there has been a Trader Joes or a Whole Foods. We were the first ones to start that movement, and we are thriving.”

EMILY MOORE/THE REVIEW The new space is double the size of the old and can accommodate events for up to 125 people.

Delaware Will Shine: Fixing UD’s diversity problem MARGARET MCNAMARA Senior Reporter In 2009, a campus climate survey reported that minorities felt uncomfortable at the university.

This spring’s draft of the university’s new strategic plan, Delaware Will Shine, aims to rehabilitate the unwelcoming attitudes that still exist on campus six years later.

“We have this very much siloed system—the black students can go here for support, the Latino students go over here for support, the queer students are over here,” said former Haven President Jeremy Mathis.

“But I think there’s power in solidarity.”

The draft’s diversity section aims to bring awareness and challenge social injustice on campus through research, by developing a culturally

sensitive curriculum and by recruiting members from underrepresented groups.

“There’s a number of important topics that we’re beginning to talk about,” executive committee chair Charles Riordan said. “I think our campus climate right now is that it’s a place where good conversations are beginning to take hold, but there is much work ahead.”

The draft plans to recruit and support faculty, students and staff of underrepresented groups and survey why they do not choose to attend or stay at the university.

The last campus climate survey reported a quarter of the staff, students and faculty of color agreed racial discrimination was a problem at the university, while one in 10 white staff respondents said it was a problem. In this same 2009 survey, the

most recent of its kind, more than half of L.G.B.T. respondents reported feeling uncomfortable or unwelcome on campus.

The university is tolerant of underrepresented groups but its not always the most accepting environment, Mathis said. No one tells minority students explicitly that they cannot be here, but they are not welcomed with open arms either, he said.

Riordan said the campus needs to be a place where everyone feels safe and welcome. Everyone should feel they have a voice, where different perspectives are encouraged.

The draft comes at a time with heightened attention to diversity at the university.

Racist comments on the anonymous social media app Yik Yak prompted response from university President Patrick T. Harker this fall.

Early this winter, students

marched on Main Street and held other demonstrations in reaction to the nonindictment verdicts in the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Shortly thereafter, the university launched #VoicesOfUdel to facilitate conversations on race and diversity.

This spring, the NAACP criticized the university’s lack of diversity in a letter to President Patrick T. Harker this spring. Five percent of students and two percent of faculty are black. The university is 76 percent white, 7.5 percent multiethnic, 7.4 percent Asian and 2.5 percent Hispanic/ Latino—a decline from the 4 percent of students that identified as Hispanic in 2010.

Within the past three years, much of admissions’ focus has been centered on increasing diversity. 2014 saw the most diverse year

ever, with 26 percent of the freshman class coming from minority groups.

Mathis said there have been improvements in the university’s handling of current issues––instituting a Title IX coordinator for issues regarding sexual assault, hiring the Vice Provost of diversity and adding more full-time staff members at the Center for Black Culture. Mathis said more multicultural programs are needed.

“We’ve been making strides but I don’t think that they’re enough,” said Mathis.

“We’re, in a sense, putting a band-aid on a larger wound.”

James Jones, director of the Center for the Study of Diversity, said the university not as diverse or as sensitive as it needs to be, but it’s making progress.

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EPPS: “THERE IS A WEALTH OF RESOURCES HERE.’ Continued from page 5 “I think the other challenge too is that students are getting bombarded with tons of information everyday,” Epps said.

Junior Emily Freedman said she feels most people do not utilize career services because of its lack of promotion.

The several emails she receives from career services also tend to go ignored, Freedman said, as she prefers to go to her major

advisor instead.

Epps said one of the center’s current goals is to be more efficient and to get the word out about the programs and resources they offer.

“Hopefully students realize that there is a wealth of resources here and our charge is to help out students find opportunities—whether it’s career [related] or whether they want to go to graduate school, our team is here to do that,” Epps said.

JONES: “WE WANT PEOPLE TO GRADUATE AND REALLY BE GOOD CITIZENS.” Continued from page 5 “We’re trying to identify issues and find an approach that will assist us to figure out what works and what doesn’t,” Jones said.

The draft also emphasizes a diverse curriculum. John Pelesko, chair of the task force to reform general education requirements, said faculty members are working to keep diversity as an integral part of the curriculum.

Pelesko said the requirements include two new core courses that incorporate group work and interaction with students outside of one’s major. Within each degree program, students need to take a capstone requirement that focuses on applying

diversity to their individual fields of study.

“The big switch in philosophy here is that we want to measure and see how students develop diversity competence over their four years,” said Pelesko.

Jones said right now the multicultural requirement is the only specialized curricular requirement that addresses diversity.

While diversity is a specified section of the Delaware Will Shine draft, it’s a theme that is integrated throughout the entire plan, Riordan said.

“The world you guys are going into is increasingly diverse,” Jones said. “We want people to graduate and really be good citizens.”

COURTESY OF SARAH FULTON Junior Sarah Fulton started Blue Hens for Hillary, an organizion which strives to win hearts and minds of other students for the 2016 presidential election.

College Democrats, Republicans react to campaign announcements RAQUEL MORRIS Staff Reporter The next U.S. presidential election is more than six months away, but students are already racing to win the hearts and minds of fellow Blue Hens.

For senior Sarah Fulton, the next ruler of the free world should be Hillary Clinton, and she wants other students to think so too. Come next fall, she’ll be holding Clinton-centric events, registering voters and garnering support hoping others will “jump on the bandwagon.”

Fulton––a member of the College Democrats board––started student organization Blue Hens for Hillary in January 2014 after contacting the coordinator of Super PAC Ready For Hillary. Once she heard the PAC had plans for campus outreach, she jump started plans for the organization.

“Hillary has the upper hand with the Democrats by a landslide,” Fulton said.

Of the Democrats, Hillary Clinton is the only candidate to officially announce.

Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee are also rumored to be running.

But in the Republican Party there are many options—Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio have announced, and Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, among others, remain unofficial contenders.

Alumnus and Vice President Joe Biden has also hinted at a run for the top White House seat. Biden has run twice before––first in 1988 and again in 2008.

Senior Kyle Offenbecher, another member of the College Democrats board, said he is happy with Clinton’s announcement but has mixed feelings about the Republican candidates.

Candidates like Rand Paul, he said, will probably put up the best fight because they “speak to young people.”

Erin Dugan, a junior public policy major, said politics became important to her during her freshman year of high school, during Clinton’s last campaign. She is interested in Clinton’s economic and foreign policy plans because of her experience as secretary of state, but sees Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as a preferable candidate.

“I wish [she] would run,” Dugan said. “She has incredible ideas about economic policies.”

Warren is known for her liberal analyses of the structural flaws within the U.S. economic system, particularly Wall Street and other wealthy interests’ manipulation of the economy. Many students like Dugan support her proposals to make college more affordable and hold the rich accountable. However, despite her high-profile, Warren has said repeatedly

that she will not run for president.

Sophomore Andrew Lipman, an active member of College Republicans, wants to see Republican candidates promote a more aggressive foreign policy and “turn America’s chaos into order.” He would love to see Scott Walker or Condoleeza Rice run for president, even though Rice previously denied rumored campaign plans.

Despite wide support for Clinton, many within College Democrats, such as its president, Alanna Mozeik, said they want to see more Democratic contenders.

Though Mozeik is a strong Democrat, she, like many others, is tired of seeing political dynasties as people “stick to what they know,” she said. However, even if a Bush-Clinton election is ahead, new faces will appear in the next couple of presidential elections, she said.

Mozeik said members of the RSO want to see a renewed focus on LGBTQ rights and the Affordable Care Act. “I am also interested in seeing the dynamic between Clinton and the president and how he endorses and supports her,” Mozeik said.

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EDITORIAL Petitioning SGA: Reform the electoral system SAM WILES

POLITICS STRAIGHT: NO CHASER CIVILIAN DEATH REIGNITES DRONE DEBATE Last week President Obama publicly admitted that a drone strike intended to kill Al Qaeda leaders resulted in the tragic deaths of an American aid worker, Warren Weinstein, and an Italian, Giovanni Lo Porto. The President’s apology was a rare admission of a military failure, but the ill-fated drone strike has ramifications well beyond the deaths of these two men.

The resultant deaths revive the debate on the efficiency and efficacy of drone warfare.

Drone warfare is still in its nascent stages, and its effectiveness is still not fully understood. These strikes are effective at eliminating their targets and gutting terrorist networks, which ultimately protects people all around the world. But the strikes also result in unnecessary collateral damage in the form of civilian deaths and increased animosity toward the United States.

There will always be people who direct their hatred toward the United States, and the drone program does not help mitigate that hatred.

Fostering this animosity drives people towards radicalism and terrorism, which ensures that the war on terror will be an endless cycle.

While the drone strikes do have the potential to exacerbate the raging conflagration that is the Middle East, they may remain the most effective method for stopping terrorists in the short term.

And if that is the case, then it seems that these programs should continue. So if we are going to allow these programs to exist, we should shine a light on them by making them more transparent. By increasing transparency for drone strikes, we can create more accountability and ensure that any future strikes are ordered with more care and attention to details, thus limiting collateral damage.

President Obama’s admission that a U.S.-led attack, and possibly a drone strike, killed the two hostages is a step toward improving the program’s transparency. Yet,

this admission failed to answer many key questions such as whether the attacks were indeed drone strikes, whether the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) ordered the strikes or whether the strikes took place in Pakistan or Afghanistan.

These unanswered questions show that the administration is still opaque when it comes to providing information about the drone strike programs. And that needs to change.

For one, President Obama never signed off on this specific strike, instead leaving it up to the C.I.A. to conduct the strike. While the President said he bears final responsibility, the President should initiate the order for a strike and not delegate a matter that can result in civilian fatalities.

Additionally, public disclosure of the number of civilians killed in a strike and public acknowledgement of those deaths can help to rein in a program that has the potential to maintain a perpetual state of war.

While the Obama administration claims that it will not launch a strike unless there is “near certainty” of no civilian deaths, that has proven to not be the case. Hundreds of people, combatants and civilians have become victims of these strikes and unless a change is made, that is likely to continue.

The attack that killed Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto is one in a long list of attacks that resulted in inadvertent deaths.

The animosity built up by the survivors of these strikes carries over and keeps the seeds of terror alive well after the target has been eliminated.

Until there can be complete assurance that there will be no civilian casualties, drone warfare should become more transparent and remain a plan of last resort.

Following last week’s Student Government Association (SGA) elections, student affairs senator Andrew Miller released a Change.org petition (the text is reproduced here). It calls on SGA to allow all students with above a 2.5 grade point average to run for president, among other proposals to improve the electoral process. Miller said it would be “powerful” if the petition received more signatures than Wednesday’s election did votes. A link to the petition can be found on The Review’s website.

The Student Government Association has suffered from declining student participation because of overly restrictive electoral rules. Barely 5 percent of students voted in last week’s election and only 1/5 executive positions was contested. The last time the presidency was contested was the spring of 2011. The rules need to be changed so more students have the opportunity to get involved and students hear from their representatives instead of giving a rubber stamp. For more info, read The Review’s story from last week. As stakeholders in this university, we urge

you to show your desire to improve your representative organization and #beheard!

Here are the proposed changes that will be debated and voted on May 11 at 5:30 in Gore 116: 1. “Extend the voting period to a full week. Students receive the email on Monday and have until voting closes at 5pm on Friday to be heard.

Timing of release is subject to discretion of organization.

2. All candidates must develop a platform for their candidacy and platforms for all candidates must be published in a publicly accessible venue no later than 3 days before the voting period opens.

3. In the event that any position is uncontested, voters must have the option to select “no confidence”.

Additionally, should the unopposed candidate no receive greater than 50 percent- the Student Senate will nominate and approve a student appointment to said position.

4. Resolution that the representatives of SGA will attempt to facilitate more in person participatory events

where members of the student body will have an opportunity to interact with candidates and hear their vision for the university.

Examples may include: candidate forums, coffee with the candidates, twitter chats, tabling in Trabant, etc.

5. The email to vote must contain a link to the mission of SGA and a link to candidate platforms, in order to ensure students are casting informed votes.

6. Amend the Student Government Association governing documents to allow any University of Delaware student with a grade point average above a 2.5 (Submitted to elections board) run for any executive board position.

7. Amend the Student Government Association governing documents to allow any University of Delaware student with a grade point average above a 2.5 (Submitted to elections board) run for the office of student body president.”

Thank you for your support and we hope to see you on May 11th!

-Sam Wiles Columnist The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent the views of The Review.

People speak louder than numbers.

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Editorial: To better fight sexual violence, think of victims, not data Governments are increasingly interested in collecting data. The theory goes that statistics will provide insight, create impetus for change and empower public servants to make good policies. On its face, this push for quantitative analysis is common sense.

But at the university, and as a society, we must remember that behind every data point is a complex human being, with needs for privacy and a sense of emotional security.

With that duty in mind, The Review’s editorial staff cannot support a proposed Delaware bill that would add an additional layer of mandatory reporting to the responsibilities of university

faculty and staff when an act of sexual violence is disclosed.

As the law stands today, trusted figures, including RAs and professors, must alert the university’s Title IX office if students confide they were sexually assaulted. If this state bill were to become law, the university’s Title IX office would then report those cases to campus police, local police and the Delaware Department of Justice. This information would be used to compile reports on incidents of sexual assaults in the state, which the bill’s sponsors believe will increase the state’s efficacy in addressing gender-based violence.

A primary intention of this bill is to provide better

statistics so policymakers can determine potential courses of action to address sexual violence on college campuses.

However, at this point, it is time to move forward with the information we already have. Student rallies, focus groups, letters that have appeared in The Review, student participation in open hearings and more point to an issue. We know there is a problem, and policymakers do too. Passing this bill likely will not change policymakers’ courses of action, but it will change students’ willingness to seek support, emotional or otherwise, following an assault.

In order to make it easier for victims of sexual assault to

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seek support, they deserve the same right to privacy victims of other crimes receive. If a student were robbed on campus, then returned to their dorm and told their RA, the RA would not be required to share the details of that crime any further. We believe students will remain silent with greater frequency if they believe that talking to a trusted peer or mentor will mean that person is required to report the assault. We fear, as many victim advocacy groups do, that this bill would prevent students from seeking support from trusted figures following an assault.

Knowing that some details of their assault will be provided to the police with or without

their consent may make victims apprehensive about coming forward. Legislating additional reporting mandates for sexual assaults is well-intentioned, but a poorly conceived idea.

Means, medians and modes are the stuff of great PowerPoint presentations.

They are bullet points that often tell audiences what they already know to be true.

If Delaware legislators truly want to prevent and improve the prosecution of sexual violence, they must turn their attention to creating a system that is sensitive to victims’ rights.

Correction Last week’s women’s golf article was written by Jack Cobourn, not by Jack Rodgers, who was mistakenly bylined.

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ATTENTION BIG SEAN TICKET HOLDERS: IMPORTANT NOTICE If you purchased tickets to CPAB’s Spring Concert with Big Sean featuring PartyNextDoor between Wednesday, April 15th and Friday, April 17th, you MUST bring your tickets to the box office for an exchange of newly printed tickets ASAP. There was a glitch in the system and tickets were printed without barcodes. Barcodes are needed on every ticket to enter the show.

The box offices are open during the following hours:

Trabant Student Center: Mon – Fri, 10am – 3pm Bob Carpenter Center: Mon – Fri, 8:30am – 4:30pm

All seats from the original purchase will remain the same during the exchange.

For additional information, please contact the UD Box Office at (302) 831-4012.

UD Community tickets are still available.

Get yours today at UD box offices.

TOP: Greek games are held on North Campus on Sunday.

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW ABOVE: Ag Day was held on Saturday. See Mosaic page 1 for more info.

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Move over Mr. MacDonald, there is a new farmer in town.

MOSAIC The Review

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THE POWER OF HOPE

UD Relay for Life organizes a huge event.

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Farm-To-Table: Ag Day 2015 highlights local, organic food

AIDAN LEDDY Staff Reporter

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his year’s Ag Day was all about going local.

With the theme Farm-toTable, the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) hosted its annual agriculturecentered event on Saturday.

The celebration included over 90 different vendors and exhibitors, spread out around Worrilow and Townsend Halls.

The theme was decided in September by a collaborative committee of students, staff and faculty. Mark Rieger, dean of the CANR, says the focus on sustainable food systems was an important one.

“All the decisions made in the grocery store go right back to the farmer,” Rieger says of food sourcing. “And the impact is always felt upstream.”

Rieger, who also teaches an organic and sustainable farming class, says he has since been amazed by the extent of natural resources on the university’s south campus, which he referred to as a “350-acre oasis, right here in Newark.”

The Extension Tent provided space for the day’s Outdoor Classroom series.

Demos featured topics such as Container Gardening and Bee Box Building, presented by the New Castle County Master

Gardeners and UD Professor Emmalea Ernest.

In one talk, Ernest discussed her work on creating lima bean crops that are more disease resistant and have a higher tolerance for heat stress— important work in a state with the most acreage dedicated to lima bean growth in the United States.

In tents set up throughout the event, visitors could meet the university’s cows, sheep, chicks and other farm animals.

Alpha Zeta, agriculture fraternities, with Sigma Alpha, agriculture sorority, barbequed and prepared meals for event goers. UDairy Creamery, ice cream made from the university’s Ag campus dairy cows, had a line out the door all day.

For 40 years, Ag Day has provided a space and time where the CANR can showcase its resources, developments and opportunities to the surrounding university and residential communities.

In addition to being a CANR student, senior Deanna Lentini also served as the Ag Day Student Coordinator.

Alongside staff and faculty, Lentini and her planning committee have been working since September on organization and logistics for the event.

“A lot of students do not know who we are because we’re so secluded,” Lentini says.

With several committees, and over 100 volunteers working before, during and after the event, Lentini and the rest of the Ag Day team were able to yet again run a successful festival for both the CANR, and Delaware’s agricultural community as a whole.

“Ag Day has had such a big impact on my life,” Lentini says. “I hope it has the same effect on both visitors and volunteers who celebrated.”

“All the decisions made in the grocery store go right back to the farmer.”

Mark Rieger Dean of the CANR

For kids, there was an “animal hospital” where they could learn veterinary basics with stuffed animals.

Some of the outside exhibitors present included the Delaware Nature Society, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the New Castle Conservation District and Newark Natural Foods. University chapters of the Collegiate Future Farmers of America, Ducks Unlimited and The Wildlife Society set up shop among many other organizations, from both on and off campus.

Alpha Gamma Rho and

ALL PHOTOS MORGAN BROWNELL/THE REVIEW

WHAT? A movement concerned with producing food locally and delivering that food to local consumers.

Promoted by the agriculture, food service and restaurant communities. Usually associated with organic farming initiatives, sustainable agriculture and community-supported agriculture.

WHO? Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, John Jeavons and Alice Waters WHY? Disappearance of small family farms, geneticallymodified foods into the food economy, scarcity of fresh and seasonal foods, ingredients shipped from afar WHERE? Home Grown Cafe, Soffrito Italian Grill, Stone Balloon Winehouse

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“MY EYES ARE SLOWLY DOING CIRCLES IN MY HEAD, BUT I FIGHT THE URGE TO NAP.”

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/COLUMNS it’s all in your head

Getting lost in a

world worse than our own

Happy endings don’t matter when it comes to dystopia. It’s the journeys that take us to the end.

Books are a great way to escape from the real world for a little while.

When you’re absolutely exhausted after a week of assigned readings, papers, lectures and all your other responsibilities, immersing yourself in a fictional world is the perfect way to temporarily pause your real life.

And yet, while reading is often thought of as a pleasant getaway, we actually tend to find ourselves reading some pretty bleak stuff.

Our society seems to have an insatiable appetite for novels (and, of course, novels-turned-movies) about dystopian fiction—possibly the bleakest of any type of literature that we could read.

Dystopian stories explore some of the most chaotic and destructive themes we could possibly imagine.

These themes often challenge what we already know and believe about ourselves and the world in which we live. It’s thought-provoking, sure. But these books aren’t typically the most “pleasant” to read.

So why do we bother?

This genre often finds a

way to speak to readers in a very real and very chilling way. Think of this in a big picture versus little picture kind of way.

In the big picture, we see societies with nationally televised, mandated deadly battles. Books being outlawed and burned on a regular basis. Young adults forced into factions.

Obviously, none of us in the real world have to be too concerned about any of these things actually happening to us.

However, in the little picture, we see things that we truly relate to. Unrequited love interests. Deteriorating relationships within the family. Cliques, enemies and everything in between.

Dystopian literature finds a way to blend the little picture into the big picture in just the right way. We identify with these characters in their personal lives, even if the societies in which they live don’t exactly mirror our own.

Although, there are many people who would argue that it is dystopian fiction’s bold, and possibly accurate, comment on our society that

makes it so intriguing to read.

A government that holds too much power. Ruthless murder in the streets. These situations aren’t totally unknown to us.

Either way, dystopian stories intend, above all else, to communicate a message to us. These stories aren’t happy—they don’t even have the typical happy endings that we generally like to see in movies or read in books.

Happy endings don’t matter when it comes to dystopia. It’s the journeys that take us to the end. The characters that we either learn to love or hate. The people in power who, no matter what, can’t seem to be shaken down.

The demoralizing, barbarous societies.

But there’s almost always a hero, isn’t there? And we absolutely love heroes’ journeys. Almost all of the films and books we consider to be classics today are stories that revolve around a hero, rising from the ashes of a fallen society.

When it comes right down to it, dystopia simply offers a damn good story. Maybe not all of us can relate to it. But it certainly makes us think about and question what we know.

ALLIE STRICKLER ajaye@udel.edu

The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

filmaholic

In this tender comingof-age story, blind teenager Leonardo (Ghilherme Lobo) struggles with independence from his overbearing parents and his budding feelings for the new boy in class.

The film is a continuation of director, writer and coproducer Daniel Ribeiro’s 2010 short film “I Don’t Want To Go Back Alone,” with the actors reprising their former roles along with an added depth. The original Portuguese title “Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho” translates into “Today I Want To Go Back Alone,” showing Leonardo’s transition to an autonomous lifestyle.

Blind since birth, Leonardo has spent his entire life using his loved ones as a crutch. His parents won’t let him out of their diligent sight and his devoted best friend Giovanna (Tess Amorim) walks him home every day, serving as a surrogate mother.

Taunted by classmates for his noisy braille typewriter, Leonardo has had enough and longs for the ability to escape his picturesque little town in Sao Paulo for a study abroad program in America.

Even Leonardo’s relationship with Giovanna has become smothering— the two spend all of their time together. They spend their precious summer vacation lounging by Giovanna’s pool and lusting after some type of adventure, ideally in the form of a suitor.

Neither of them has been kissed. It is clear in the way she looks at him that Giovanna has deep feelings for Leo, but that her affections may not be requited.

Their relationship becomes further strained with the arrival of Gabriel (Fabio Audi), whose presence awakens

The Way He Looks

simply stylish

Spring Cleaing 101 mess with “The Big Pile” that you have to finish sorting it in order to make your room livable again. Normally, I would back out halfway without that extra motivation.

Have you ever stood in front of your wardrobe and thought, “I have nothing to wear,” even when your closet was completely full? Don’t worry, you are not alone—I say it all the time. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but I have realized it means the time has come for some spring cleaning: closet edition.

It is not my favorite thing to do, but I know it is necessary if I want to make more room to support my shopping addiction.

It’s time consuming and I get a tad emotional parting with some of my clothes, so I had to come up with some steps to make my closet purge a little more enjoyable.

STEP FOUR: BRING A FRIEND It’s always helpful to have an extra set of eyes while deciding what to keep and what to let go. They are your wardrobeslimming voice of reason. They can honestly tell you that they have never seen you wear those high heeled wedges that seemed like such a good idea last year.

That trend didn’t last long, did it?

STEP FIVE: THE ONE-YEAR RULE Have you worn that sweater within the last year? If not, I would say throw that piece of clothing in one of the “I don’t want this anymore” piles. If you can’t think of two ideas of how to style it, it is not worth keeping in your closet. Don’t be a hoarder. The best option is to put it in your donate/sell pile if it is in good condition.

Take these to a consignment shop like Plato’s Closet, sell the clothing and be rewarded for your spring cleaning! You can also donate the items to places like Goodwill or Salvation Army.

STEP ONE: PRIORITIZE Go into cleaning with a plan.

It will lead to spring cleaning success quicker. Have three delegated spots in your room for where you want to place the clothing you are going to keep, toss and donate/sell.

STEP TWO: MOTIVATIONAL MUSIC Background music can go a long way while cleaning. I recommend catchy pop music, the kind that gets stuck in your head. A little bit of TLC’s waterfalls is always on any of my playlists. Also artist like Britney Spears, new and old, is the perfect mix of upbeat and catchy. It keeps your spirits high when you get tired of sifting through what seems to be a never-ending pile of t-shirts.

(Honestly, I’m still not sure how I ended up with so many t-shirts in my life).

STEP SIX: ORGANIZE THE WAY THAT WORKS BEST FOR YOU! Once you go through the clothing, it is time to put the rest away. I love hanging up most of my clothes. They are easier to see that way and are less likely to wrinkle. I keep my drawers for my exercise and leisure clothing.

Just remember, letting go of the old makes room for new. Say this to yourself while looking at that sweater hanging in your closet: “Do I need it?” and “Does it fit?” Those questions are key, and if the answer is no, put it in your toss pile. Spring cleaning is a good thing, so embrace it.

STEP THREE: “THE BIG PILE” The only way I am successful with cleaning out my closet is what I call the “The Big Pile.” I take all the clothes out of my drawers and closet and make one grand pile. Not only does this give you the best view of all of your belongings, but it also allows you to see how much you actually have. When you go to put the clothing away, take the pieces one at a time and decide which pile you will put them in: the keep, throw away or donate/ sell pile.

Another benefit of this step is that you make such a

HANNAH WORSH hworsh@udel.edu

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unfiltered commentary

COURTESY OF LACUNA FILMES something inside of Leo. Soon Leo is spending more time with him than he is with Giovanna, who has resentfully become the third wheel.

For a film about first love and friendship, the story deviates from clichés and takes on a more natural approach. Leo’s comingout story is not a grand spectacle, but rather a slow realization and blossoming love.

At the end of the film, one of the bullies that had been harassing Leo makes

a comment about Gabriel being his boyfriend. Instead of telling him off, Leo just reaches for Gabriel’s hand and the trio walk away.

The 2014 Brazilian film won two awards at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival and is now available on Netflix.

AMBER JOHNSON anjohns@udel.edu

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Oh those summer nights.

They just understand you.

Your post-day drink-game face is on and the search begins for the perfect 5 p.m. snack, which will also count as dinner. Chipotle seems like the right choice.

Main Street is suffocated with crowds of intoxicated people masked by sunglasses.

Their inability to stand on their own sometimes pulls them closer to the front of the Chipotle line—a thoughtout strategy if you ask me. It starts to make sense why the glass separating customers from those Chipotle chefs is so tall.

Those gorgeous boys you’ve never seen on campus before come into the light.

Dogs seem friendlier, with more free time to chat or to receive a real loving pet from a stranger.

My eyes are slowly doing circles in my head, but I fight the urge to nap, Chipotle in hand—unstoppable. I recite the “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” theme song and resort to finding a patch of grass near my apartment door to make a bed.

Making it home is labeled with a success rate.

However, as it gets hotter, there’s that sense of sadness as you count down the number of weekends left to have that post-day-drink adrenaline high. There’s that pit growing inside of you worrying, wondering if the friendships with those graduating will still be as strong once the convenience of them being on campus, living so close, is no longer.

I cling to the old saying: Those who are meant to stay in your life always find a way.

Senior year lingers in the distance, and I wonder how time has passed so quickly,

Post-day-drink since I was once that freshman who knew nothing and wore Delaware gear to a day drink before the first football game.

I dismiss the idea of graduating early—the idea of leaving my perfect roommates and the Main Street owners that know my face, my order, when I walk in.

Somehow a couch, a beanbag, lounge chairs and a bunch of people I love have decided that the empty parking space in our driveway between two cars was a good place to post up for the next few hours.

Pat’s Pizzeria makes its way with the deliveries—each driver as confused as the last as to how 20 people are having the best time occupying the space a small car could.

I look around. I feels good to be young. Will this youth be something I can always remember? Is it something that I can harvest and never let go?

I can’t help thinking that we are the lucky ones. We are all thrown into the mix as freshmen, we all start out so lost but somehow we find our home and our people at this enormous university, where it seems so unlikely.

It’s nights like these that remind you how all the stress of college, all those all-nighters and group projects where you did all the work alone is worth it. It is not that time has to slow down—it is that we have to be careful enough to collect the memories along the way.

That way, time has nothing on us.

ALEXANDRA STRAUSMAN astraus@udel.edu

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MEGHAN O’DONNELL/THE REVIEW More than 600 participants and 40 teams raised funds and awareness for cancer research during the 12-hour walking marathon at Newark High School Saturday night.

Ready, Set, Relay:

UD Relay for Life walks for a cause TIANNA BECKLES Staff Reporter Senior Melanie Daue is no stranger to cancer.

Her mother is a threetime endometrial cancer survivor. This December, she lost an uncle to cancer.

And just an hour before Saturday’s Relay For Life event at Newark High School, she received a call with news of a friend’s diagnosis.

Daue’s anecdotes undoubtedly resonate with the over 600 participants who also braved the chilly, windy weather to take part in Relay For Life, an overnight community walk that raises funds and awareness for cancer.

Daue, the senior director of Relay For Life at the university, says cancer’s toll on her friends and loved ones serves as a

“constant reminder” of the importance of such events.

“Everyone goes through so many things, and this event allows people to see how cancer touches everyone’s life in some way,” she says.

The event kicked off at 5:30 p.m. with a ceremony, d u r i n g which Chris Clement, a university s y s t e m s programmer, gave opening remarks.

“Tonight we’re taking a stand against cancer,” Clement said. “The money you’ve raised is essential to helping the American Cancer Society fulfill

its mission of research, education, advocacy and service for cancer patients and their families.”

Collectively, more than 40 teams raised over $41,000.

around the track, meant to celebrate victory over cancer as well as the caregivers’ love, support and selflessness.

Attendees took part in a wide range of lighthearted events—a lipsync battle, a Chipotle burrito-eating contest, a glow-stick dance party— as well as a poignant “Luminaria Ceremony,” in which lit candles in personalized bags are placed around the track.

The candles are glowing tributes to those who have battled cancer in the past, as well as to those whose fight continues today.

“Tonight we’re taking a stand against cancer.”

Chris Clement University Systems programmer Following the opening ceremony, cancer survivors and caregivers were encouraged to take part in a “Survivors Lap”

“Tonight, your walk symbolizes this fight against cancer,” Clement said. “[...] Together you’ll walk into the darkness, because the battle against cancer is long and has some dark moments. You’ll see the light in the darkness in the Luminaria lap, and you’ll keep walking and keep fighting.”

Senior Christen Lassig, secretary of the board for the nationwide organization Colleges Against Cancer, also attributes her involvement to her own loss of loved ones. “[There are] way too many people [who] should be in my life [who] have passed away from cancer,” Lassig says. “It just feels really good to take part in events like Relay For Life, because it allows you the opportunity to help others.”

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Anything but a drag:

Drag queens dazzle at annual Haven show LISA RYAN Senior Reporter Drag is extreme in all senses: the makeup dramatic, the hair gigantic and the costumes showstopping.

Decked out in sparkles— dancing and lip-syncing to current hits and comical oldies tunes—drag queens (and former “RuPaul’s Drag Race” competitors) Tyra Sanchez and Raven performed Saturday night at Haven’s annual spring show in Clayton Hall, alongside Delaware-based queens Phoenix Rising, Magnolia Applebottom and Anita Mann.

The queens changed costumes and characters more than once, maintaining an infectious energy and passionate stage presence from start to finish.

Sophomore Naomi Major has attended the drag show

four times in her two years as a student here. She and friends Sarah Stump and Ariana Bishop enjoyed the show’s energy and music, although Major points out that this year’s audience energy level was lower than usual.

The rescheduling of the show from March to April due to inclement weather likely contributed to the drop in audience energy, she says. About half of the room was filled.

Matthew Spicer, president of Haven, says the fall drag show tends to be more popular than the spring one.

Students who did attend, however, clapped along with the music and cheered during every performance.

Proceeds collected from attendees through raffle bids will benefit AIDS Delaware.

Countless hours of hard work went into making the

show a success, Spicer says.

“The most challenging part is the fact that it’s an event with so many different moving pieces,” Spicer says of the planning process, which includes coordinating finances, publicity, and volunteers.

He credits the team that helped plan out Haven’s drag show and bring everything together.

Although the show drew a predominantly college-aged crowd, younger and older audience members were also in attendance. Maggie Hussar, Haven’s director of major programming, says the drag show is a great way for Haven to get in touch with a broader community beyond university students.

Peeking through the curtain and seeing audience members laughing, dancing and enjoying themselves, Hussar says, is the most rewarding part of organizing the show.

EMILY MOORE/THE REVIEW Tyra Sanchez was one of five former queens from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” to perform Saturday night at Haven’s annual spring show.

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NOT ANOTHER FAST FOOD CHAIN: Honeygrow coming to Newark

NICOLE SULLIVAN Staff Reporter Unsatisfied with his “cubicle job” at a real estate company and in need of a change, Justin Rosenberg contemplated integrating his plant-based diet into a business where customers could enjoy wholesome, delicious ingredients.

Rosenberg turned his vision into a reality when he opened Honeygrow in 2012. Come this autumn, Newark residents will be able to experience its food.

Honeygrow, originally located in Philadelphia, has three other locations in Radnor, Pa., Bala Cynwyd, Pa. and Cherry Hill, N.J. Looking to expand his business, Rosenberg will open restaurants at 58 E. Main Street below the new Tsionas Management apartments as well as in Wilmington, Hoboken, N.J. and at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall.

“We’re barely three years old yet,” Rosenberg says. “And to really be part of the Delaware community, that’s part of our growth story at the infant stage. So to really find success

down there and be a part of who we are as we continue to get older—that would be really cool.”

Honeygrow offers organic and locally grown ingredients with house-made sauces and proteins. Patrons can choose to create their own stir fry bowl or salad and customize it to their liking.

With sauce options like red coconut curry, lemonmiso-tahini and cherry barbecue, Honeygrow offers their customers to simple and yet tasty ingredients that go well together.

“It is an eclectic mix,” chief brand officer Jen Denis says.

“I think we draw our flavors and inspiration from all parts of the world. There’s Asian influences and Middle Eastern, so I’d definitely like to think we have a good blend of all flavors.”

Besides a kale salad, customers can also enjoy a kale smoothie, incorporating

banana, pineapple and mint.

To satisfy a sweet tooth,

Honeygrow serves “honeybars” made with fresh fruit and garnish of choice, topped with local wildflower, buckwheat or clover honey.

As a 2000 alumna and Newark native, Denis says she has seen the “mom and pop” style businesses and restaurants Main Street once offered evolve into a franchise and larger-companydominated area.

Although Honeygrow is not a franchise, the restaurant is able to provide high quality ingredients by hand and along with high standards and good organization, the business falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum, Denis says.

“We don’t want to come in and sort of steamroll a new place,” Denis says. “We want to become part of the fabric of that neighborhood of that

region. We’re not here to just sort of decree our way of eating or our style of food—we want to become part of the landscape.”

Honeygrow uses a touchscreen interface for orders. This lends its flexibility to custom meals without the pressure of an assembly-linestyle food place. Because of its location, it is a great place for students to go in between classes at any time of the day, Denis says.

Until its official opening in the fall, Rosenberg says he hopes the company thrives in Newark as it has at his other locations.

“I just hope that our guests can connect with what we do and our team can connect with what they do and they get something out of working for us,” he says. “It’s just common sense that if you take care of your team and if you take care of your guests—everything else should fall into place. If I can grow a business through that model, I’d be very happy.”

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Earth Day Haikus MEGHAN KEATING Staff Reporter

RANDI HOMOLA/THE REVIEW Down to Earth, the student-run co-op, has partnered with local, organic Fair Weather Farm owned by Nancy Bentley.

Local farmer talks partnership with student food co-op

LEAH RODRIGUEZ Senior Reporter

There’s a light rain pattering on the roof of an enclosed space on Fair Weather Farm where about a dozen students are diligently transplanting fledgling plants that have outgrown their seedling containers. A rhythm has set into their work, contributing to a sense of busied contentment as they work through the tasks set out for them—the outcome clear.

These students are gradually discovering the process of cultivating organic crops through practice, seeing from start to finish how the food they will consume develops from seedling to a fully grown crop.

Some of the same students will return to campus and venture into a dining hall. The assurance that existed on Fair Weather is no longer present as they look around at the food presented to them. Where is it coming from?

Down to Earth food co-op recognizes the importance of consuming local produce. With a motto of Eat, Educate and Empower, the student-run coop brings together members of the community who want to support local, organic growers.

Last week, Down to Earth agreed on a partnership with local farmer Nancy Bentley,

Continued from page A1 “It was a little intimidating,” he says.

“But if this is spreading awareness and more people can experience what I have experienced, it’s totally worth it.”

Colorblind since birth, Wartzack realized the extent of his deficiency in first grade after using a green crayon to color in a person’s skin. He was eventually diagnosed with severe protanopia as well as tritanopia.

For Wartzack, this means that earthy colors like red, green, yellow and orange

owner of Fair Weather Farm in Elkton, Md. This summer, members of the co-op will lend a hand on Bentley’s farm in exchange for produce to use in their weekly group dinners and monthly community dinners.

Becky Bronstein, an active member of Down to Earth, describes this partnership as a great opportunity to not only labor for the sake of fresh produce but also to learn from Bentley, who is keen on educating the volunteers who come to her farm.

“It’s important to know where the food we eat is coming from,” Bronstein says.

“That’s why Down to Earth sources local, usually organic farms.”

Originally a banker, Bentley started her farm in 2008, following a long-term dream of hers. It was certified organic. The farm is supported through a program referred to as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), where local community members will pay a fixed amount of money for access to whatever is in season at Fair Weather.

Because Bentley’s farm is three miles from the university’s campus, it seems like an ideal place from which to source food for the university, but this is not the case. The university has a contract with Aramark, a large

scale food distributor. All the on-campus food sources, including the dining halls and POD markets, are provided by Aramark.

When asked about a potential partnership with the university, Bentley expressed enthusiasm for the idea but points out the restrictiveness of Aramark’s contract with the university.

Since Bentley runs her farm nearly single-handedly, the manpower needed to produce enough food for the university would need to increase dramatically, something that is not financially feasible with the money brought in from CSA. “Where the food comes from is not a priority for [the university], but I can’t blame them because they’re just trying to feed a large community of people,” Bentley says. “It’s easy consistency.”

Produce provided by Aramark has the potential to travel thousands of miles, which causes the food to lose much of its nutritional value, Bentley says.

“Stuff that travels long distances is often picked prior to ripeness,” Bentley sys.

“They’ll also gas it to preserve it.”

Professor McKay Jenkins brings forth this issue to his journalism students, probing them to address these

questions that rarely cross students’ minds. Bringing his students to Bentley’s farm allows them to gain handson experience with growing their own food from seedling to finished product. Bentley describes the volunteer help from students as “enormously helpful.”

Maddie Becker, a student in Jenkins’s environmental journalism class and a member of Down to Earth, describes the experience of seeing fellow classmates growing produce for the first time.

“Students definitely learn the importance of local food,” Becker says. “A close friend of mine was planting something and said it was the first time planting something that they would eat and see grow to maturity.”

She says it’s possible for the school to consider incorporating locally sourced food as an option if enough students were passionate enough to make their voices heard.

“Students don’t know where their food is coming from,” Becker says. “It’s important to take back control of what we put in our bodies.”

Disclosure: The reporter is a student in Professor Jenkins’ news writing class, which is not the class mentioned in this article.

Wartzack: ‘It was a little intimidating.’

appear as one hue, which he always referred to as “green.”

Cooler colors like blue, purple and pink also look the same, a color he called “blue.”

Colorblindness or color vision deficiency affects approximately one in 12 men and one in 200 women in the world. Wartzack says his 14-year-old brother Luke has already developed the redgreen deficiency, while his 17-year-old brother Noah is unaffected.

Wartzack says his inability to share in the innate bond that most “color-seeing” people have with each other can almost make him feel like

an outsider. Small tasks that others accomplish with ease often pose problems for him.

Wartzack has only gone clothes shopping on his own once, leaving empty-handed because he lacked confidence in the color of his desired purchase. As a computer engineering major, he also struggles with colored graphs and color-coding wires, relying on his friends and classmates for the correct information.

“I know it’s technically a disability, but I never see it as that,” he says. “I know I could never be a pilot. I could never be a fashion designer or

a painter. But as far as typing code, it’s never really affected me. It’s not like I can’t be an engineer because I can’t see colors.”

Since his life-changing encounter with color, Wartzack says he uses the glasses every chance he can get. They work best in the sunny outdoors, but cloudy days and indoor spots also look more colorful than they used to. Wartzack is simply enjoying every moment that he can step outside and see the world as he’s never seen it before.

“There was actually a warning that shipped with my

The haiku, a Japanese poem of 17 syllables broken into three lines of five, seven and five, traditionally evokes images of the natural world and is not just a poetic exercise used in middle school language arts classes.

It is now being used to spread environmental awareness, as displayed by students this past week.

Last Wednesday, the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy hosted “Haiku Conversations” in Pearson Hall to celebrate Earth Day in collaboration with St. Andrew’s High School of Middletown, Del. The event featured readings of haikus written by students from the university and St. Andrew’s.

“Vote to green policy Time to act was yesterday We can’t eat money” – Thomas Aristone, junior, English, UD “Somebody please help!

I’ve been overrun by them If they don’t stop soon….”

– Mike Mekulski, senior, Mechanical Engineering, UD “Drilling in the deep Rigs beyond the horizon Lie past memory” – Miller Murray, St. Andrew’s

“By pipe or by train?

What is the best bad option?

What will trees look like?’

– Shestin Thomas, sophomore International Relations, UD “Feeling powerful Way high up in the mountains.

But I am so small.”

– Emma Porrazzo, St. Andrew’s

glasses saying, ‘Don’t operate machinery or drive until you’re used to the presence of colors,’” he says. “I definitely get distracted more. Everything is just so new and different.

Everything is so much more interesting now.”

While Wartzack learned the names of colors in elementary school, he was unable to correctly apply them to their corresponding hues. Now, with the help of his glasses, he can finally learn to identify the full spectrum—a task he’s more than willing to accomplish.

“I don’t have a favorite yet,” Wartzack says, “but I’m excited to find it.”

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REEL CRITICISM

‘PAUL BLART MALL COP 2’ SAM RICHTER Film Columnist

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0 OUT OF 5 STARS “This was by all measures, a no-

good, horrible, downright cringeinducing, sickness-causing, talentless sham of a movie.”

This was by all measures, a no-good, horrible, downright cringe-inducing, sicknesscausing, talentless sham of a movie.

Perhaps, dear reader, you think this is harsh. Perhaps, in the movie’s defense, you would point to the fact that in its opening weekend, it grossed over $23 million. Surely, many of those people thought that going to this movie was a “good idea.” I’m afraid that is the scariest part of all: some people do enjoy this.

I must begin with a caveat—I never saw “Paul Blart: Mall Cop.” However, if the latter film is anything to go by, it is safe to assume it is just as thin on plot and thus trivially immaterial to this review.

We meet our hero, Paul Blart (Kevin James), in New Jersey where he is living a sad life as an overweight, middle-aged security guard. His mother was just hit by a milk truck (Blart remarks that he did not know those still existed), and his beautiful wife left him just six days after his marriage.

Luckily for Blart, he still has his daughter, but she was just accepted to UCLA. Blart is none too amused by the prospect of her going anywhere but the local technical college. Happier still for our hero, he is going on vacation to Las Vegas for a security officer conference.

Summarizing the plot of this movie is an onerous task, particularly because it does not have much of one. One might say the plot is about Blart giving a keynote address, his daughter flirting with the valet and the idea of going to UCLA, or perhaps it is the heist that is taking place within the casino while these subplots are occurring.

None seems important to the film. Instead we spend 10 minutes with jokes about Blart’s vibrating fork. Which he uses to slow down his eating and suppress his appetite. We spend another 10 watching Blart wrestle with an emu.

The characters are not

likable.

They are vain, gluttonous, pretentious, ignorant and so on. The only purpose I think this movie could serve is as a confidence boost for the general public, with the idea being that there are people out there who are more pathetic than you.

Even if you find this idea as offering some kind of solace, I still cannot in good conscience recommend you subject yourself to Paul Blart.

The movie has a runtime of 90 minutes, but your correspondent noticed that time began passing more slowly in the “Paul Blart” theater, which could be a boon for science but was toxic for your correspondent’s mental health.

As I left the theater, I could not help but feel that the real joke was on me and the handful of other people walking out of the film.

Kevin James and company insulted our collective intelligence for 90 minutes with a script that seems written by a 13-year-old on the edge of a nervous breakdown, and they got us to pay money to experience this—suckers.

Yet the fact remains, Kevin James has made a career out of writing and acting in these types of movies. They typically do horribly critically but still make a killing at the box office. Some will cry out that Paul Blart is a harbinger of the decline of Western Civilization.

These pronouncements are overblown.

It is true that there are better films, but we cannot in an open and liberal society impose our preferred culture on those that would otherwise go see the mall cops of the world.

Paul Blart is always keen on safety, but he forgets the most important tip of all: if you value your mental health and that of your loved ones, do not delay. Tell them to be safe and avoid “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.”

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LISA RYAN Senior Reporter When I first hear the Paleo diet defined as “the caveman diet,” I assume it must be a bad joke about a bare-bones cooking technique.

Some light Googling reveals that the Paleo diet does in fact permit more than nuts, berries and slabs of raw meat—although it does mean excluding foods that wouldn’t have been available to ancient huntergatherers.

While further investigation shows that the Paleo diet’s alleged health benefits are debatable (thank you, Huffington Post!), it has to be better for me than all of the Easy Mac I’ve been eating this semester. With that in mind, I head to Home Grown for a five-course Paleo meal, a one-time tasting provided by start-up business Gluties.

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW I end up eating dinner For this week’s “Mosaic Tries Something New,” Lisa Ryan tries the Paleo diet option at Home Grown. with people who know way more about the Paleo diet than I do. Everything is gluten-free, they tell me, and bread and dairy products are not allowed.

As someone who loves cream cheese and can polish off a half gallon of milk in just a few days, capers so much that I can untouched as a result.

The more I eat, the more I life without dairy seems just barely keep from Next up: brussels sprouts think I could get used to absolutely unimaginable. cleaning my plate. Sadly, with bacon. It’s delicious. this whole Paleo thing after Even so, I remain excited to I decide that I must save This dish, like the last, uses all. The chicken and lettuce sample some Paleo dishes, room for the remaining a naturally salty food for wraps served next remind if only for a night. four courses, leaving flavoring. (The Paleo diet me of something you’d find I enjoy the first course some shrimp and avocado does not allow added salt.) in a Chinese restaurant, of vegetables, shrimp and

‘The Flintstones’ meets haute cuisine with the help of Gluties

WHAT IS THE PALEO DIET?

FRUITS

LEAN MEATS

SEAFOOD

VEGETABLES

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Student behind UD’s geofilter tag reveals inspiration JAGODA DUL Managing Mosaic Editor A New York City native, Kate Gordon always felt the university was missing something: a geofilter. So she designed one.

“I’m from New York, and there’s so many different geofilters to choose from there,” says Gordon, a sophomore cognitive science major and interactive media minor.

“I thought UD should have one too.”

When the original geofilter, a sketch of Memorial Hall, was released, Gordon says it was hard to see over some Snapchats so she decided to incorporate the university colors in a mosaic design.

She created the blue and gold UD mosaic design on Photoshop and submitted it through Snapchat’s online submission form that anyone can submit to by choosing a geographic area and uploading an original image for the filter.

“I’m thinking of making more for places like The Green or the library,” Gordon says. “I’m open to suggestions from other students.”

minus the soy sauce. I happily note that none of these foods taste wildly different from dishes on a “regular” restaurant menu.

During the next two courses, I start to notice more of the differences between Paleo and nonPaleo eating. The glutenand yeast-free Paleo bread is much denser than “regular” bread. I don’t quite know what to make of it. I decide that it must be an acquired taste— especially for someone who loves a good bread basket as much as I do. The bread is served with tomato sauce and meatballs, with crisp strands of vegetables standing in for spaghetti.

Although I do not subscribe to the fruit-asdessert school of thought, I enjoy the fruit sauce that tops the biscuit-like dessert. Its other topping is white, with a similar consistency and taste to low-fat whipped cream.

It’s different than what I’d expected, but the food is still flavorful.

The Paleo diet is not as intimidating as its reputation may imply.

Many of the dishes I sampled have as much flavor as anything I would typically eat, and each dish seemed to use vegetables in deliciously creative ways.

While I’m not quite ready to go completely Paleo myself (give me bagels or give me death!), the event proved a wonderful way to sample some great new recipes.

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HEALTHY FATS

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the final-round score Andi Slane shot last weekend in the CAA Women’s Golf Tournament

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the number of shots the men’s golf team were away from finishing second in the CAA Men’s Golf Tournament

the percentage of faceoffs won by the men’s lacrosse team this season

MEN’S LACROSSE

The Art of the Faceoff EDEN ZILKER Staff Reporter A blur of blue, yellow and white co-mingles with maroon and gold as two players wrestle to gain possession of the ball in the middle of the field. Twirling around for what seems like hours, they shove and push as they fight for the ball placed in front of them by the ref.

Moments earlier, they took their positions either with one knee on the ground or solid-footed, crouching with their sticks prepared to attack. The entire momentary duel takes years of endless practice to master and is unique to each individual player.

“I’ve been facing off and playing lacrosse for about eight years now,” senior Tyler Barbarich said. “It’s always been something I loved and paid attention to. At my high school it was always a big tradition to face off, and now here it’s an even bigger tradition that I plan on continuing.”

As the top faceoff player for Delaware, Barbarich should know how to get the best out of such a play.

Barbarich has had a strong season after coming back from an injury last year.

“Last season I was taking a faceoff against UMass and won, then the guy I was up against slammed into my shoulder and broke my collarbone,” he said. “I was out for the rest of the season and now have screws and a plate on my left collarbone.”

This injury left him on

the sidelines, aching to finish with his surgeries—all six of them—and get back to what he loves most.

Barbarich’s teammate, John O’Connor, bore witness to this season-ruining injury and actually took matters into his own hands.

“I was so angry at what they had done to Tyler that when the game started back up I smashed into the guy that did this to him and broke a few of his ribs,” he said.

O’Connor and Barbarich work closely together and rely on one another during faceoffs. O’Connor is a wingman, which means he is one of the two players on the field that run in, while Barbarich is on the ground wrestling to gain possession of the ball. At the last moment, Barbarich scoops up the ball and tosses it to O’Connor.

Redshirt freshman Matt Olbrich is the backup faceoff player for Delaware and has been taking faceoffs for six years. Olbrich said he was influenced by a former player at the university, Dan Cooney, whom he worked with to better his game.

“I remember the first time I had met him,” Olbrich said. “He came out with about four or five sticks and said to me, ‘Pick any stick you want,’ and it really just changed my whole way at looking at facing off now. He changed my stance up, and it ended up really being effective for me.”

Olbrich and Barbarich were both used to the twofeet-up stance in facing off but recently had to make the switch to their left foot up

ANDREW KUCZMARSKI/THE REVIEW Senior midfielder Tyler Barbarich looks for a pass. Barbarich has a .474 faceoff percentage this season. and their right knee on the ground. This technique was put in place this season so as to prevent players having an unfair advantage over another.

Many faceoff specialists use the “motorcycle grip,” which sees the player hold their stick with the palms facing downward. In order for a clean faceoff to happen, the stick head must be

perpendicular to the ground and cannot touch the midfield line before the ball is placed and the whistle is blown.

“I try to just breathe and focus on what I’m doing with as little stress as possible,” Barbarich said.“If we’re winning, I’m less stressed and typically do better. If we’re losing and my game is off, I tend to focus on the negative, and it puts me in the biggest

slump.”

Barbarich said winning the faceoff is the most important thing to get momentum for one’s team started.

“Be quicker, be smarter, and win the faceoff,” Barbarich said. “That’s how you secure the game for the team. Past that, all you can do is hope your team can come together and play as one.”

WOMEN’S GOLF

Slane leads by example JACK COBOURN Managing Sports Editor With an injury hindering her desire to play soccer in the eighth grade, redshirt junior Andi Slane turned to the course to let her competitive side shine.

“My family had all played golf, but I never really played before that,” Slane said. “I didn’t take it super seriously. It was a change from soccer––a lot slower––so it took me a while to get used to it, but I ended up really liking it.”

Now, at the end of her penultimate season, Slane has found success in winning the CAA Women’s Golf Tournament last weekend at the Reserve Club course at St. James Plantation in Southport, N.C. Slane shot a conference— and Delaware—record final round of 67 to finish seven under par.

“I think personally, it’s been a long time coming,” she said. “I’ve been playing for a certain amount of time, so it’s kind of nice knowing I’ve caught up with everyone, but I haven’t even known what the original

records were. I just kind of got there and put up some good rounds.”

Slane, a native of Temecula, Calif., was a good junior golfer in high school, being named to the All-Southwestern League and All-Valley Region first teams in both her junior and senior year, as well as qualifying for the 2009 California State Championship. In addition, Slane was a medalist in the Future Collegians World Tour event in Wigwam, Ariz. in January 2011.

“When I was in soccer we always played local, I mean that’s all you really do, but when I played junior golf, I was in Oklahoma one weekend, Florida the next,” she said. “My parents gave me the opportunity to go travel so it’s really fun to see new places.”

Originally heading to Georgetown University to be coached by Patty Post, Slane instead followed Post to be a member of the inaugural class for the University of Delaware women’s golf team. In her first year, Slane was one of four Blue Hens to play

in all 11 tournaments, with an average round of 79.59, placing her second on the team. Slane said her drive to join Delaware was due to wanting to move east and get out of California.

The next year, while Slane played in the final three fall tournaments, a shoulder injury kept her out of the spring season.

Senior co-captain Amanda Terzian said the injury made her want to become an even better player.

“She spent a lot of time on the bench because she was hurt, and I think watching everyone else play, she got a real drive in her, and it came out this spring,” Terzian said.

Slane said she originally had a lax attitude to practice, but now she really enjoys practice. Post said it is Slane’s drive to be the best that causes her to put her best foot forward in practice.

“It’s the offseason where she improved back home in California,” Post said. “She put in a lot of time and effort during the winter term.”

Overall, Terzian’s

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COURTESY OF THE COLONIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Junior Andi Slane follows a shot during last weekend’s CAA Women’s Tournament. Co-Captain Amanda Terzian said Slane was “in the zone” during the tournament.

favorite memory of Slane is of her picky eating habits.

“She hates tomatoes so much,” Terzian said.

“We always joke with her about it on the golf course

GAME RESULTS WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD 3rd place in the 4x100 meter at Penn Relays 1st place in Delaware Classic SOFTBALL Delaware 0, Hofstra 3 BASEBALL Delaware 16, WILLIAM & MARY 8 MEN’S LACROSSE Delaware 10, Massachusetts 9 WOMEN’S LACROSSE Delaware 6, James Madison 8

because we get lunches and the lunches always have tomatoes on them, and she won’t eat it if there are tomatoes on the sandwich.”

UPCOMING GAMES SOFTBALL Towson (DH), 1 p.m. & 3 p.m.

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April 28, 2015 udreview.com BUSINESS

Behind the logo:

the business of athletic apparel

COURTESY OF UD ATHLETICS Athletic director Eric Ziady recently signed a five-year deal with Adidas, which will be the brand for all of Delaware’s athletics programs starting in July.

MEGHAN O’DONNELL Managing Sports Editor It has been a rough few weeks for the University of Delaware Athletics. Lost in the turmoil of the last few weeks is the school’s recent move to an exclusive five-year deal with Adidas—marking the first time in history that all 21 of Delaware’s athletic

programs will be outfitted by the same athletic apparel company.

The partnership, signed off by Athletic Director Eric Ziady, will begin in July.

This isn’t Ziady’s first venture into the lucrative world of college athletic sponsorships.

In 2010, he negotiated the largest sponsorship

deal in the history of Boston College, a six-year, multimillion dollar deal with Under Armour.

Behind the negotiations, apparel partnerships are one of the most profitable facets of college sports.

There are three major players in the college athletic apparel business—Adidas, Under Armour and Nike.

Between the three of them, these companies pour an estimated $250 million into college athletic departments each year.

The largest current collegiate athletic contract belongs to the University of Michigan, which pulls in $8.2 million from their sponsorship deal with Adidas.

Of that, $4.4 million is in apparel and the remaining $3.8 million comes in the form of cash.

Adidas and Under Armour typically pay higher prices to obtain the exclusive rights to collegiate programs, while Nike shells out significantly less. The company’s largest deal is with the University of Texas for roughly $5.56 million.

Still, that’s a lot of money. So what exactly do these companies get out of the deal, and is it worth dropping millions of dollars to get it?

There’s the exposure that comes with having 34.2 million people watching 132 guys wearing your

gear for over three hours, as was the case when two Nike-sponsored teams— Ohio State University and the University of Oregon— faced off in the Bowl Championship Series game.

The game drew the highest ratings in ESPN and cable history, while Nike used the championship as an opportunity to unveil newly designed uniforms for both teams.

In addition to exclusive rights to supply both schools’ athletic apparel needs, Nike received a number of other perks.

For example, outlined in the corporation’s deal with Oregon is the right to use all photos and film footage of any of the school’s athletic programs in Nike commercials or other advertisements. In the Ohio State contract, all football, basketball and soccer coaches must be made available for up to four appearances for Nike events.

The deal also includes other benefits such as additional signage at the Buckeyes’ athletic fields.

For their part, national champions Ohio State received over $2,546,014 in equipment and apparel, $1,448,000 in cash and $150,000 in discretionary apparel expenses for the 2014-2015 season.

The Buckeyes also received a $10,000 bonus for competing

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in the BCS Championship game.

Think that’s indicative of the university’s newly signed deal with Nike’s biggest competitor? Not so fast.

While most major schools do receive deals similar to those of Ohio State and Oregon, many teams from smaller conferences––such as the CAA––do not enjoy such benefits. In fact, many must still purchase their uniforms and apparel at wholesale prices even after signing a sponsorship deal.

What determines the magnitude of a school’s contract? Having a top football program is the number one factor. As the most visible college sport, football revenues far exceed other sports in most major conferences.

However, basketball is a close second. Top basketball programs that traditionally make deep runs in the NCAA Tournament, such as Kansas, can also pull in huge sponsorship deals.

The Jayhawks will earn $6.1 million in cash and apparel from their Adidas deal. A final determinant of contract value is school size.

So while Delaware’s new deal is groundbreaking, as it provides consistency across the school’s athletics programs, the Adidas deal may not be as lucrative as originally thought.

sports commentary Spending Memorial Day the right way

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Freshman golfer Kieran Purcell watches his putt. Purcell tied for 30th place Sunday.

MEN’S GOLF

Martin finishes fifth at CAAs JACK COBOURN Managing Sports Editor The men’s golf team finished sixth at the CAA men’s golf tournament, held at the Founders Club at St. James Plantation in Southport, N.C. The Blue Hens carded a score of 296 during Sunday’s round, tying their best score from Saturday’s round. The team was five shots out of second place, as the College of Charleston ran away with the tournament, finishing Sunday’s round with a score of 287.

Head coach Mike Keogh said despite the team’s relative youth, the players were calm under pressure.

“I was extremely proud of the way they handled themselves,” Keogh said. “You have four young kids, averaging 18, 19 years old in their freshman year adjusting to college, as well as playing a Division I sport, with a lot of practicing and a lot of traveling. They held up remarkably well at the end of the year.”

The tournament started well for Delaware, as the team finished in fifth place the

first day with a score of 306.

Freshman Blaine Lafferty led the Blue Hens the first day, tying for fourth place with a score of 72.

Junior Kyle Martin sat sixth at the end of the first day, having shot a 73.

“I think Blaine and I played very well, but the conditions were pretty tough,” Martin said.

“It’s not like we put ourselves out of the tournament, we still had a shot to come back.”

Day two saw much improvement for Delaware, which shot a strong 296 for the round. The Blue Hens finished the day tied for fourth place with the College of William and Mary and Elon University with a two-round score of 602. Kyle Martin moved up to tie for fourth place, consistently shooting a 73.

Freshman Jack Gianniny made a big improvement on the day, playing 17 shots better than he did in the first day.

“It was definitely an improvement,” Martin said. “The weather certainly helped, it was a lot nicer, the wind wasn’t blowing quite as hard. It did rain, but rain doesn’t really affect anything, it just makes the golf course softer, so it made it a little bit easier.”

Gianniny shot the best round by a Delaware golfer on the third day, going one under par and moving into a tie for 18th place with a score of 226, 10 over par. Lafferty tied for 25th place with a final score of 229, while freshman Kieran Purcell tied for 30th place. Freshman Erik Dulik rounded out the Blue Hens’ scores, tying for 43rd place with a score of 238.

Keogh said the team’s success is due to the fact the whole Delaware team is very competitive.

“Those guys who didn’t get to go away really pushed these kids this year because they knew if they didn’t work really hard, there were guys nipping at their heels right behind them to take their place,” he said.

Overall, Keogh said the team will learn a lot from this weekend to improve on its play in the tournament next year.

“Sixth sounds kind of far away, but when you look at the actual numbers, to be only five shots at the end of the three days out of second place with a young squad, it bodes well for the future because we play there again next year also,” Keogh said.

With Memorial Day just around the corner, most families will be celebrating their weekend at overcrowded beaches or barbecuing in the backyard with neighbors.

These traditions are common in most households but not mine.

Rather than stick to the status quo, my family, along with about 50,000 other people, will be at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia for the holiday.

We’ll sit in the stadium as we watch the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Semifinals and Championship games. It’s something not many people know about but is still growing.

The semifinals for Division I play on the Saturday (May 2), and the teams lucky enough to make it to the championship suit up on Memorial Day to decide who will be the champion. In the meantime, the Division II and III championships are played Sunday. So if you’re a fan of men’s lacrosse, this is the perfect weekend for you.

There are multiple games from different levels, so there is plenty to keep you entertained.

I’ve been attending these games for over ten years now, and it’s a weekend unlike any other. When I started going, it was held at Rutgers University but has now been moved to football stadiums to accommodate the growing number of fans. It’s typically held at either Lincoln Financial Field or M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. It will change every few years, but no matter where it is, the avid lacrosse fans will always show up.

To put it in perspective, in 2007, the total attendance count for the weekend was 123,225, which is the highest it has ever been.

Over the past few years, it has remained steady and averages about 75,000 fans.

You will find so many different types of people at the lacrosse semifinals and championship. You’ll see plenty of college students cheering on their classmates that made it to the playoffs.

The student section will be representing their school colors and then tailgating in the parking lot with beer pong and flip cup.

Then you’ll see the families with kids of all ages—lacrosse players at the high school level or beginners who are having a catch with their very first stick. Families will play cornhole, ladder ball and KanJam before entering the stadium and watching their team. Or you’ll find the fathers who once played during their own college years and can now see how far the game has come.

Everyone simply goes to spend time with loved ones, enjoy the warm weather and watch some exciting lacrosse games.

At the end of the weekend, it really doesn’t matter who won or who lost. Most of the years I have gone, I can’t even tell you played in the Final Four, let alone who won the championship. That’s not the point of the weekend.

It’s about the people you go with, the memories you create and the time you spend tailgating and having fun.

Honestly, the lacrosse games are just a bonus. This weekend brings together all kinds of different people.

It may not be as popular as football or baseball, but lacrosse is definitely growing rapidly and capturing the hearts of so many young players.

ERIN BOLAND Sports Assignment Editor

The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

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