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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Volume 136, Issue 4

University’s Second Life in cyberspace

BY STEPHANIE KRAUS

BY LAUREN SAVOIE

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Working late some nights, Gregg Silvis leaves his office on the second floor of Morris Library to find the atrium just as it was 20 years ago — packed with students.

“It’s always been full, but the difference now is that there are three or four laptops on every table,” Silvis, assistant director for Library Computing Systems, said.

The university library, like other libraries around the country, is updating its technology to meet the challenges of an increasingly digital world that has threatened the role of libraries and changed the way people retrieve information.

But despite facing budget cuts and the need to move a large number of print materials offsite in recent years, the university library has seen a surge of users — so much so that officials expanded their hours last year to cope with the demand for late night study sites by students like Junior Matt Cunningham, who walks from his residence hall on Laird Campus to study at the library two or three times a week.

“The dorms are just kind of full of distractions,” Cunningham said. “So by going to the library I take the time to walk all the way, so it forces me to focus.”

Sandra Millard, assistant director for Library Public Services, have also noted the increased need of structured study areas that give students flexibility when they need it.

“The new purpose of the library,” Millard said, “is to provide a physical space and an electronic space.”

She said areas of the library like the Bleecker Street Café and the Multimedia Design Center were purposely conceptualized as noisy spaces where students See LIBRARY page 10

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H1N1 vaccine to be released next month

Students use software for class, tours Courtesy of Debbie Jeffers

Services department is in charge of the program. She said the university purchased the Second Life Memorial Hall sits on an island with a sandy islands in the summer of 2007 through the New shore. Inside the building are galleries of paintings. Media Consortium for $4,300 each.

“By choosing this route, we are guaranteed to Just outside, the “R/V Hugh R. Sharp” research boat bobs on the water, pelicans flap, and university be located within an educational continent, in close admissions officals book campus tours from their proximity to other colleges and universities with similar objectives and goals, creating a greater sense bait stand. of educational community,” she said. “NMC deals These are the university’s Second Life islands.

Second Life is an online world in which partic- directly with Linden Labs, the company that owns Second Life, and ipants can create an offers its clients avatar and live a virtual life, interacting with “Second Life is now what the Internet is in the extra support not readily available other virtual people. mid-90’s. A lot of people said, ‘What do I need elsewhere.”

Creating an avatar is Sophomore free but Second Life this for?’ back then also. But in 10 years, this Andrew Barroso charges for the islands kind of 3-D, totally immersible internet will be was hired by Jeffers for people to live on and to assist classes in for premade virtual everywhere.”

Second Life. He accessories like buildings builds specialty and clothing. Participants can also create their own — Professor Collette Gaiter items for classes as well as wanders the accessories. island, talking to One of the universivisitors and pointing ty’s islands contains teaching spaces where classes can meet virtually. out the island’s features. Because Barroso and There is a large stadium for talks to be broadcast Jeffers build many of the pieces themselves, they while they happen in real life, such as the Global avoid paying fees for downloading game elements.

“Some kids think it’s just another World of Agenda series last spring.

The other island is everything else: admissions, Warcraft, but there’s no monthly fee for students to galleries, an art conservation display, demonstra- play,” Bross said. “With 16,000 kids here paying tions of research such as the electronic car, and an tuition, this is small for the university to pay for exhibit run by the Women’s Studies department with such an incredible unleashing of imagination.” interviews from real Afro-Latina women.

Debbie Jeffers of the IT-Client Support and See SECOND LIFE page 11

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On Sept. 15, the Food and Drug Administration approved the new H1N1 flu vaccine, which is expected to become available within the next four weeks.

College students are among those considered the vaccine’s “target population” for H1N1, Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services said Friday during a conference call with college newspapers.

The H1N1 virus has the potential to mix with the seasonal flu strain and become more dangerous, Sebelius said.

Beth Bell from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a change in the virus would not necessarily null the new vaccine.

“There’s a spectrum of complete protection, partial protection or no protection against severe disease,” Bell said. “There’s many ways that the vaccine could still provide some benefit, and that’s the sort of thing we can monitor.”

Sebelius said the new vaccine is right on target to fight H1N1 because the virus has not changed since April. She said although the virus continues to present itself like the seasonal flu, it will continue to be watched carefully.

“So far it hasn’t mutated or become more lethal, but we don’t know that won’t happen next month or next week,” she said.

Sebelius said one dose of the seasonal flu vaccine is now considered sufficient for college students.

“Now we have a shorter window of worry for college students about how long it would take before people can be vaccinated,” she said.

Bell said similar to what happened in the spring, children and young adults are being hit the hardest.

The flu is in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with the See H1N1 page 9

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September 22, 2009

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UDairy aiming to churn out its own creamery by spring

THE REVIEW/Nicole Aizaga

Next spring, the Ag school will build a creamery on South Campus.

BY ERICA COHEN Student Affairs Editor The UDairy Creamery had been working to make itself known on campus this past year. Next on the agenda: its own ice creammaking facility here on campus.

“The goal is that this spring we will get the equipment and we will start to make ice cream here on campus,” said Katy O’Connell, the communications manager for UDairy.

Right now, the milk from the cows at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is shipped to Hypoint Dairy in Wilmington, where it is pasteurized, homogenized and turned into ice cream.

Students and faculty are looking at different options for manufacturing equipment and are trying to determine which products they want to use here at the university. They are also figuring out which steps, if not all, will be done on campus and which may be left to Hypoint Dairy, O’Connell said.

“There are numerous steps and the more challenging are what happens to the milk first- we may have the milk come back as a mix and use the equipment to blend in flavors and create the ice cream,” O’Connell said.

The UDairy program hopes to continue to build and eventually have all of the necessary equipment to produce the ice cream entirely on its own, and perhaps have a storefront at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, she said.

Junior Connie Helstosky works as the sustainability coordinator for the creamery.

Until the facility is developed, UDairy will continue to work with Hypoint Dairy to be present at larger functions for the university. This semester, there will be ice cream made at Hypoint served at Newark Community Day on September 20, Taste of Newark on the 27 and Coast Day on October 4, Helstosky said.

“I’m looking forward to Coast Day. I think it’s a good opportunity to get the com-

munity involved because some people don’t necessarily know that we’re in existence so it would be nice to reach out to them and show them what we’re up to,” Helstoskv said.

Along with a new facility, UDairy may also work on some new flavors. Right now there are eight university flavors made at Hypoint: vanilla, chocolate marshmallow, black raspberry, butter pecan, cookies and cream, creamsicle, strawberry and mint chocolate chip.

“We’re hoping we’ll have some seasonal flavors like pumpkin, but those are decisions our students will now be tasked with coming up with,” O’Connell said. “It will be up to them to think about the market and making decisions according to what they’re selling.”

In the meanwhile, university students are enjoying the flavors they have now and taking advantage of the different events UDairy attends.

Sophomore Courtney Simmons said she tried the ice cream last spring on Ag Day and then at the Trabant Student Center last week.

“Mint chocolate chip is my favorite, I think it’s really good,” Simmons said. “It doesn’t taste generic, it just tastes well made.”

She said if UDairy opened up a storefront she would definitely go to it, and believes that many other students would as well.

“I think they should offer it more at football games or basketball games so that more people can experience it because it’s only really been available near the Ag School so far,” she said.

But for right now, the program members are just trying to make UDairy a successful community effort.

“I feel like encompassing everybody in the college community and involving students from different backgrounds is important and hopefully providing good ice cream to students because that’s the whole idea, right?”

Helstosky said.

Main Street parking meters get $18,000 makeover

BY AARON DENTEL-POST Staff Reporter

A passerby might not even notice, but Main Street just got an upgrade with a price tag over $18,000.

Dana Johnston, community affairs officer for the city of Newark, said the money was used to replace the aging parking meters on Main Street, which were breaking and needed replacement.

“The city purchased 50 housings from Rehoboth for $15 a piece totaling $750,” Johnston said in an email message. Newark also purchased new meter mechanisms for Main Street at a cost of $18,720, she said.

Director of Finance Dennis McFarland said the city of Newark has a parking fund that supplied the necessary money.

City council didn’t need to approve the cost because it

Newark installed new parking meters on Main Street.

was under their $25,000 threshold for approval, Johnston said..

People were unable to pay because many of the old meters were broken and needed repairs, she said.

McFarland said the revenue that comes in from parking meters and parking lots supports the costs of running the lots and maintaining the meters.

He said he did not believe the rise in rates had anything to do with the maintenance or replacement costs of the old meters. He also said there is no plan to further increase the cost of parking.

“Meter pricing gets decided by city council and is based on recommendations from the parking committee,” McFarland said.

Johnston said parking on Main Street is considered premium.

“We want to encourage traffic turnover on the street for those who want to be able to run in to a business on Main Street or have lunch,” she said.

In Feburary the city standardized the price of parking at meters throughout the city to $1.25 per hour.

McFarland said the revenue that comes in from parking meters and parking lots supports the costs of running the lots and maintaining the meters.

Another component of Newark’s renovation on the meters is aesthetics. A new powder coating was paid for by the Downtown Newark Partnership, which raised the necessary $12,095 through fundraising, Johnston said.

“The remaining meters, which are 18-years-old, will eventually be replaced, but it is not in the immediate future and there is no set timeline for that to happen,”Johnston said.

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Community Day celebrates Newark’s local flavor

BY REITY O’BRIEN Staff Reporter

Four elementary school girls in spangled neon costumes sashayed and high-kicked to the Cheetah Girls anthem, “Cheetah Sisters,” on the steps of Wolf Hall on Sunday afternoon at the 38th annual Newark Community Day. Echoing the event’s spirit of solidarity, the preteens mouthed the pop lyrics, “We make up one big family, though we don't look the same.”

Kennedy Barnes, 6, of Bear, was one of the dancers showcasing what the Delaware Arts Conservatory has to offer local residents.

Barnes said she was nervous because it was her first time performing at Community Day. Teddy bear-clutching toddlers, civic-minded senior citizens and college co-eds alike filled The Green from Memorial Hall to Main Street. Parents waited in line to help their children stuff scarecrows, while local politicians campaigned. Artists and other vendors lined The Green, selling their wares amidst the alluring scent of funnel cake.

Three year-old twins Allison and Mika Olney beamed while waiting to get their faces painted.

Recalling her favorite part of the day thus far, Mika said she was excited to see the fire trucks.

The twins’ father, Jason Olney, who grew up in Newark said, “I’ve been going my whole life. I just like walking around and seeing everybody, and being out on a nice day.”

Joe Spadafino, the recreation superintendent for Newark’s Department of Parks and Recreation, said he was pleased with the turnout and the sunny autumn weather.

“Last year with the humidity, the temperature was up in the mid-

90’s,” he said.

The annual fair represents a synergy between the university and the City of Newark.

“The university has been a great host and it’s a very picturesque environment for the event,” Spadifino said.

Sophomore Julia Beach expressed a similar sentiment.

“Freshman year I didn't know this event was here,” she said.

“The Green is the perfect place for it.”

The Wilmington Kennel Club’s booth attracted hoards of dog-lovers with their furry mascots for the 15th year in a row.

“The students get to see what else is available in the area, especially if there are organizations that they might want to get interested in,” Janice Bibik, instructor at the WKC and professor in the health, nutrition, and exercise science department at the university said.

Junior Matthew Brown seemed to have already found his niche in the Newark community, namely as an instructor at The Korean Martial Arts Institute.

“We’re trying to get more students to our school,” he said.

“We’re also trying to have some fun. We brought some boards for the kids to break — that’s always a crowd pleaser.”

University students also played a role in the organizing the event, Spadafino said.

Freshman Barbara Eisele helped Spadafino in planning the event.

“This is the first time I’ve ever been here. I needed community service hours for my major, but it’s awesome,” she said.

“Community Day is so much fun, and the vendors are so grateful for your help.”

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September 22, 2009

Pets provide costly comfort to university students not be too much of a problem in most cases because of low-cost programs like Senior Ariel Kostrinsky had two the new SPCA facility and the spay and cats, a male named Ash and a female neuter services offered at the Humane named Kanye, in her off-campus apart- Association. ment last year before she was forced to “We provide low cost spay/neuter give them away after her landlord spot- surgery for the public,” Carroll said. ted them.

“There shouldn’t be the excuse that it’s Patrick Carroll, the acting director too expensive because it’s pretty affordof the Delaware Humane Association, able here.” said in order to avoid situations like Cavanaugh said the organization Kostrinksy’s, the Humane Association recently opened a new low-cost spay and requires landlords to give permission neuter clinic at their Stanton facility. before they will allow a college student “We’ve wanted to implement or creto adopt a pet. ate something like this for many years,” “The biggest factor is that people Cavanaugh said, referring to the Jane R. have the right space for a pet and also Haggard Spay/Neuter Clinic, which their lifestyle allows for it,” Carroll said. opened on Sept. 10.

“Most college students are compromised While the SPCA has always offered in those areas.” sterilization services, the new clinic will Anne Cavanaugh, executive direc- more than triple the amount of animals tor of the SPCA, said she agrees that col- the SPCA can spay or neuter in a year. lege living “We arrangements did have a are one reason clinic here she doesn’t see before, but too many uni- “The biggest factor is that peo- it was much versity students smaller and adopt pets. ple have the right space for a we were “It’s kind limited as of hard for us to pet and also their lifestyle to the numadopt to college ber of anis t u d e n t s allows for it.” mals we because of their could get transitory living done,” she situations,” “We — Patrick Carroll, said.

Cavanaugh said. used to do “Our adopDelaware Humane Society about 2,200 tion criteria are animals a that you own year. We’re your own home, planning to or if you don’t own your own home then do over 7,000 now.” you have your landlord’s written permisCarroll said it is important to spay sion. If not, then we don’t adopt to or neuter animals. them.”

He said there are many benefits to Before her cats were evicted, having animals spayed or neutered.

Kostrinsky made sure to have them fixed “It eliminates unwanted litters, it despite the high costs at the vet. reduces fighting and roaming, it reduces “We wanted to get the boy neutered the risk of certain cancers and of course so that they wouldn’t start doing it, you it reduces the homelessness of pets,” he know?” she said. “We knew he would said. “If you have animals reproducing, get really hormonal if we didn’t. Just to you have more animals, so you end up get a checkup and do simple procedural with more homeless animals.” things like cut their nails, it was ridicuJunior Brittany Fischer lives in an lous.” off-campus apartment with her Kostrinksy said she stopped going Chihuahua, Koda. Fischer, who bought to the vet with her pets because she Koda as a puppy from a local pet store could not afford it. and had him neutered by a veterinarian, Carroll said pet ownership is an said owning a pet is more expensive than expensive endeavor for a college stu- she thought it would be. dent.

“My parents paid for a lot of stuff “It is a financial commitment when when we first got him when I was living it comes to food and medicine and vet- at home, but now that he lives with me I erinary care,” he said. “I know college pay for pretty much everything,” Fisher students are busy and they sometimes said. “I mean, the vet bill just for his work on top of going to school so it’s yearly checkup is like $150, and we conjust a matter of making sure they can stantly have to get his nails cut, and buy handle it.” him food and treats and everything Carroll said pet ownership is a big else.” responsibility, and maybe it’s not the She said she wishes she had known best time in students life to have a pet. about low-cost spaying and neutering However, he said he certainly facilities like the SPCA’s Jane R. understands why a college student Haggard Clinic and the Delaware would want to have a pet.

Humane Association’s program.

“Dogs and cats are great company, “I feel like the vet charges so and they’re good for exercise,” Carroll much,” said Fischer, who estimated the said. “And we believe that they help cost to have Koda neutered was around with stress, and God knows you have a $300 or $400 dollars. lot of stress in college.”

“Owning a pet is definitely expenHe also said despite the financial sive, but it’s worth it,” she said. burden of owning a pet, money should

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THE REVIEWNicole Aizaga

Black Student Union rallies for HIV/AIDS awareness

Members of the Black Student Union collect donations for AIDS awareness.

BY CLAIRE GOULD Copy Desk Chief

Delaware receives an “F” in AIDS care, proclaimed Dr. Carlton Cooper at the Black Student Union’s first annual HIV/AIDS Awareness Rally.

The theme of the rally, held on Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Bacchus Theater, was “HIV is NOT in a Recession!”

The event drew approximately 100 students, staff and faculty. It began with R&B beats from DJ Soulbuck, a non-denominational prayer and the singing of the Black National Anthem, “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.”

Cooper, a microbiology professor at the university and the night’s featured speaker, gave a presentation titled “The Impact of Black Culture and Religion on the Racial Disparity of HIV/AIDS in the Black Community.”

He said although he was born and raised Southern Baptist, he feels the religious culture of the black community is hindering AIDS prevention by avoiding the subject of homosexuality.

“It’s all the things we don’t do and don’t say, because we’re so religious,‘oh, I don’t talk about that,’ but that’s not the Christ I know,” Cooper said. “He came for the sick and the needy.”

He said he found it strange that many people talk about diabetes and heart disease, which sometimes cannot be avoided, but not AIDS, which is preventable.

He said some of it is fear. A late friend of his was afraid to tell Cooper he was gay, even though they were close.

“Religiosity really is the backbone of black society,” Cooper said. “But we’re quick to tell you you’re going to Hell, instead of talking about what’s going on.”

Cooper showed a slide comparing AIDS death rates in various races. Blacks had the highest rate, 19.4 percent. Hispanics had the next highest rate at approximately 4.4 percent.

Senior Tiphane Purnell, president of the BSU, said this slide was what stuck with her most from Cooper’s speech.

“I had been running around doing stuff but when I saw that slide I stopped,” Purnell said. “It made a big impact. I hadn’t really realized how serious this was.”

She said the BSU decided to host the event as a promotion for AIDS Walk Delaware, an event the organization participates in every year. The event was co-sponsored by the Cultural Planning Advisory Board and received support from Planned Parenthood Delaware, AIDS Delaware and Wellspring, which had tables at the event.

After the rally, students could visit the tables and ask questions of the organizations there, as well as Cooper. The BSU also had a table with signup sheets for the AIDS Walk and Mr. and Mrs. BSU elections.

Wellspring handed out free condoms and dental dams, Planned Parenthood advocated its Healthy Woman Program and AIDS Delaware told students about its new rapid AIDS testing sites on Tuesday nights at St. Thomas’s Parish of Newark.

Also at the rally was Stimulating Prose, Ideas and Theories, a creative writing club, which performed a poem about the stigma and pain experienced by the 33.2 million people living with AIDS. The Solace Gospel Dance Crew performed an inspirational dance.

Khulamani Theater Troup performed a poem of their own called “AIDS: More Than Just Letters.” It was spoken in parts by each member of the troupe and described how AIDS knows no color or age lines. It emphasized that AIDS spreads discrimination and intimidation, but that black does not equal AIDS. Kelly Emery, the executive technical director for Khulamani, was holding a sign before the presentation stating “You can prevent HIV.” She said she was honored to be part of this event because she believes awareness is half the battle.

“People think AIDS has been eradicated, but it’s still around,” Emery said.

“Everyone has heard about cancer and other diseases, but not AIDS. The more you know the less you need to be afraid.”

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Don’t confuse hemp with sister plant, speaker says

she said Brozosky’s presentation focused on Carol Brozosky likes to talk about mari- hemp’s historically essential place in the juana. economy. She said for centuries, hemp was More specifically, she likes to talk about manufactured to produce paper and fabric. how marijuana has given a bad rap to its sis- Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson ter plant, hemp. were both hemp farmers. The first American Brozosky, a hazardous materials con- flag and the first pair of Levis jeans were sultant, gave a presentation to a small group both sewn from hemp fabric. of students and community members at the Brozosky said growing hemp is more university Sept. 15 about the possible bene- sustainable than other products such as cotfits of legalizing hemp farming in the United ton because cotton requires pesticides States. whereas “I have three h e m p kids who went requires through college, and n o n e .

I know that a lot of “If you tried to smoke a whole field of Hemp can people view it as the hemp, all you would get is a headache.” yield four same as marijuana,” t i m e s Brozosky said. m o r e “There’s a lot of paper than — Carol Brozosky the averconfusion about it.”

Industrial hemp age forest, has more than she said, 25,000 uses from and has fabric to fuel, she the most said, making it one of the most sustainable biomass of any plant on earth making it a plants on earth. However, hemp production viable fuel source. Unlike corn, hemp does in the United States was made illegal in the not take away from the food supply by using early 20th century, due in part to its relation it for fuel. to marijuana.

Freshman Alex Rossini, who attended “They look the same, but botanically the seminar, said he felt hemp had a reputathey are different plants,” Brozosky said. “If tion as being synonymous with the marijuayou tried to smoke a whole field of hemp all na culture. you would get is a headache.”

“The seminar reinforced what I already She said she is an impassioned tree hug- knew about hemp,” Rossini said. “It’s even ger and wants to set the record straight about better and more realistic than I thought.” hemp and encourage the scientific communiSophomore Adam Cowperthwait said he ty to rally behind a bill before the U.S. agrees Congress shouldn’t reject the bill to House of Representatives to exclude hemp legalize the production of hemp. from being a controlled substance.

“I think it’s unwise to have it be illegal Part of the problem, she said, is the peo- in the first place,” Cowperthwait said. “It’s ple promoting the legality of hemp are the not marijuana. There’s no reason for it to be groups also promoting legalizing marijuana illegal.”

— the ones Congress does not want to listen Sophomore Nick Buisson said he knew to. that hemp and marijuana were different “I could have worn my hemp clothes and plants, but had only seen it used and worn by my hippie wow-wow outfit, but that would- people associated with marijuana use. n’t have helped my case,” Brozosky said. “I “I didn’t know hemp was illegal,” wanted to bring brownies just to keep people Buisson said. “It seems weird that the govguessing.” ernment would make it illegal just because it If the scientific community were to get looks like pot, especially if it supposedly has involved, lawmakers might be more willing all those uses.” to hear the arguments for industrial hemp,

BY LAUREN SAVOIE Staff Reporter

The Rodney Fitness Center closed over the summer.

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After Rodney gym closes, officials seek replacement

BY KARIE SIMMONS Staff Reporter

This semester the Rodney Fitness Center has been closed due to a lack of attendance and a decrease in the university’s budget, causing students to find other places to exercise.

Interim associate director Barry Miller said the RFC had very low participation over the last several semesters, with an average of eight students an hour.

Miller said the RFC wasn’t up to the university’s standards.

“It was too small to serve. It was not a comprehensive fitness center,” he said.

Originally converted from a dining area in 1997, it was not only too small, but also did not meet the standards of the other fitness centers on campus, he said. The available capacity in Rodney was only about 25 to 30 students, compared to the 100 student capacity at the Hen House.

In addition to size problems, keeping the RFC running was costly.

“Just to staff it costs between $4,000 and $5,000 a year,” Miller said.

“To upgrade all the equipment would also cost a lot of money.

Miller said the other fitness sites on campus, such as the Independence Fitness Center and the Harrington Fitness Center, have available capacity and are fully equipped with strength training and cardio equipment. Unlike Rodney, these locations were designed to be fitness centers and serve that purpose much better.

“The numbers have been poor for a long time. The argument was, how can we justify keeping it open? We are spending your money, and we believe the money would be spent better elsewhere,” he said. “We do not want to duplicate services where we don’t have to.”

Although there is available capacity at the three fitness centers on campus, many students are still experiencing overcrowding and think keeping

Rodney open would help space issues.

“The Carpenter Sports Building is really, really crowded. There was a line of ten people once,” Freshman Nik Arun said. “Sometimes it’s more convenient just to go for a run.”

Miller said the overcrowding issue is situational.

“Everyone tries to work out at the same time, mostly from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.,” he said. “If you only want to use one machine, you will have to wait. It all depends on the machine you want.”

As for the future of the empty space at Rodney, there are plans to convert it into something both useful and beneficial for the students.

Now that student government elections have concluded, the chosen representatives from both Rodney and Dickenson will form a student committee to decide the best replacement for RFC. However, they are heavily encouraging student opinion on the matter.

“A lounge or a game room, that would be cool,” Freshman Christina Napolin said. “Some place you wouldn’t need an access pass, and anyone could go.”

Associate Director of Residence Life Jim Tweedy said some students have suggested a coffee shop, hoping that it could be student-run.

Other ideas have included another lounge area, an open room for aerobic classes and even a smoothie stand.

“A late night place to eat would be good,” suggested Arun. “Especially since the dining hall always closes so early.”

Although Tweedy does not believe there is adequate space in RFC for anything extravagant, he insisted the space could be made into something useful.

“We are considering all the ideas that are coming in,” he said. “But we still have to be cost-cautious. We certainly won’t be doing any sort of renovations.”

Carol Brazosky gave a presentation about hemp on Sept. 15.

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UD’s retention rate similar to local schools

BY RACHEL GREENE Staff reporter

University Provost Tom Apple said some students dropout because of academics or finances and others linger on past the expected graduation date.

The term “super senior” defines a student who has been enrolled at a university for over four years.

Associate Provost Joseph DiMartile said in a typical senior class, 10 to 12 percent of students are in their ninth or tenth semester.

“Going to school is the most important investment a person will ever make in their life — it’s the cost of a car,” Apple said. “Even out of state it’s the cost of maybe a Mercedes but yeah, it’s an awfully good investment.”

Apple said if students care enough about school they will invent in their studies and work hard to maintain their educational sucess.

“A student will graduate when they become passionate about what they do,” he said. “The students that don’t finish are the ones that never get engaged.”

In order for the university to have a better retention rate, Apple proposed to the Faculty Senate that the university hold the prerequsite courses over winter session so if a student fails a certain required course, it can be re-taken over the winter session.

He said if this regime is implemented, students can get back on track without losing time.

Apple said around three-quarters of the university’s students are graduating within five years.

He said new students are generally required to take at least 13 credits.

“So what happens?” Apple said. “Well you’re free and you bomb some exams and get a poor grade in the first semester of one of those courses. Studies show if you do poorly in the first course, you’re going to do even worse in the second course.”

The New York Times recently published an article examining the graduation and retention rates among schools, and the rates of being a college drop-out or a fifth-year student have drastically increased over the years.

Apple said the university has a better retention rate than

most other schools, but there are still some that do better.

Retention and graduation rates are always something the university is concerned with, and officals are constantly trying to figure out ways to make it better, he said.

Heather Kelly, director of the office of institutional research, said the university is involved annually with the Consortium for Student Retention and Data Exchange.

“Our involvement with this consortium gives us the opportunity to compare UD’s retention and graduation rates with other schools across the country,” Kelly said.

Despite the university’s numerous super seniors, it has a high national retention ranking. Apple presented an information chart showing the number of freshmen returning for their second year to be 87.5 percent in 2000. Currently the number has risen to 91 percent.

“Retention and graduation rates are something we always try to make as high as possible, so almost everything we do is geared towards that,” Apple said.

BHAs add Main Street, Roselle Center to tour

BY ERIN QUINN Staff Reporter

The Blue Hen Ambassadors tour has been expanded to include restaurants and stores on Main Street, along with other highlights of the campus.

According to the BHA Handbook, a tour of Main Street shows students how they can have fun on campus without alcohol.

Tours last approximately 90 minutes to two hours and feature a walk down South College Avenue and The Green, and tours of East, West, and Laird Campuses.

Bryn Campbell, the assistant director of the BHA program, said tour guides are encouraged to speak of how they use Main Street and some of the major stores and restaurants there.

“It gives us a better angle to see Main Street, and we are continuing to talk about all the amenities it has to offer,” Campbell said.

She said tour guides are advised to talk about their personal experiences on Main Street and how it is so close to campus.

Along with the expansion of the walk through Main Street, the tour has also added a visit to the Roselle Center for the Arts.

“Puglisi Hall’s versatility, the impressive main lobby and the stages are all beautiful facilities that people appreciate seeing whether they plan on being music majors or theatre majors,” Campbell said. “The building leaves a wonderful impression.”

She said often when students come to the university as freshmen, they are unaware of what Main Street has to offer.

Freshman Matt Garlipp said adding Main Street to the tour is helpful.

“I think it is a good idea because it gives an idea of what’s around campus because there’s a lot of sweet stuff,” Garlipp said. “It makes you feel less restricted to the campus.”

Freshman Brittany Drazich said she agreed Main Street would be an essential area to show prospective students becauseit is a large part of the university’s culture.

“Main Street is part of the flavor of UD,” Drazich said.

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Students earn credit for weekly strolls across campus

BY PAUL MUSSONI Staff Reporter

Senior Joe Madanat and five other students trudged down Main Street to The Cereal Bowl on a gray Thursday morning, but they were not walking there for a bowl of cereal. Rather, it was only one stop on their biweekly stroll for the class (HESC 120) “Walk for Fitness”.

Madanat signed up for the class after finding it online.

He said he believed it would be beneficial without requiring too much effort.

“It’s easy as cake, I don’t have tests and I get healthy while doing it,” Madanat said.

“Walk for Fitness” is a one-credit pass/fail class offered by the Health and Exercise Sciences department this semester.

Sarah Trager, a graduate student in the Biomechanics and Moving Sciences department, monitors it on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Bob Carpenter Sports Building.

“Walking can be a form of exercise,” Trager said. “I want students to understand general exercise measurements

and how to plan a fitness plan.”

Trager said the majority of the class consists of simply going for walks, but students were also required to fill out a training log tracking their progress.

Trager said the students will be tested three times throughout the semester to see if their walking times improve.

Previous walks have included a three-mile trek down Creek Road and a walk on New London and Main Street, Trager said. On Thursday, students were broken into teams and sent on a scavenger hunt to take pictures of an item representing each letter of the alphabet. There were two required stops: the Cereal Bowl for the letter C and Student Health Services for the letter S. Trager said it is important for students to set their own pace when walking. She wants students to get the most benefit from the class.

“In order to get a workout from walking, you have to push yourself and raise your heart rate,” she said.

Senior Christine Buckley took the class in the spring

2007. She took it because she needed an easy semester after studying chemistry during winter session, she said.

“Everyone made fun of me,” Buckley said. “They said, ‘You have to be taught to walk?’ ” She said when she took the class, the students planned out the walking routes. The class was good because it wasn’t time consuming, but she said she would not necessarily recommend it to other students.

“Try to take something like ice skating that you normally wouldn’t do,” she said.

Senior Jared Drewen is taking the class this semester to squeeze in an extra credit to help him graduate sooner. He says he normally stays pretty active and rides his bike for two hours a day to work and class. He said Walk for Fitness is a fun class and more challenging than he expected. He particularly enjoyed the scenic walk along Creek Road, he said.

“You get to walk around and talk to people and see places you didn’t know were there,” Drewen said.

Nursing majors pair meditation with medication

BY KATIE RIMPFEL Staff Reporter

Methods of meditation and relaxation, once confined to yoga studios, are now being taught in Holistic Nursing (NURS 411).

The elective course, offered by Karen Avino to upperclassmen and graduate student nursing majors, looks at the biological, psychological, social and spiritual needs of a person, Avino said.

She said hospitals are beginning to adopt integrative medicine, which uses some holistic medicine techniques along with traditional medical practices.

“Hospitals incorporate this into the medical system because consumers want it,” Avino said.

Looking at the current health care debate, a great deal of emphasis has been put on preventative care. Avino said she believes these complementary and alternative medical

practices can be helpful.

“Chronic diseases are related to stress and nurses can teach people to be reflective and reduce their own stress levels through relaxation and meditation,” she said.

Avino’s students learn about a range of topics which seek to either aid or replace traditional medical practices.

This includes meditation and relaxation, as well as the use of herbs and vitamins. Students learn about the possible interactions these supplements could have with medications so they can properly advise patients.

She said the class is offered every semester and usually has an enrollment of 20 to 25 students.

Avino said she hopes the course will offer students one more way to serve their patients.

“It will offer them another tool for basic care and comfort,” she said.

Senior Jill Monack, a former student and teaching

assistant in the class, said the class helped her focus on more than physical symptoms by looking at the patient as a whole. In her experience, she found patients really respond to alternative medicine.

“When the patients are happy, everybody’s happy,” Monack said.

Sophomore nursing major Annie Grace said she has not heard of the class, but is not surprised the nursing school would offer courses on topics such as these. She said the school provides nursing majors with a whole range of medicines to study.

“The program is geared toward what we’re going to see in the hospital,” Grace said.

Even though she was not familiar with the class, Grace said she is interested in the concept of holistic medicine.

“I like to know everything going on with the patient,” she said.

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Students channel inner pastry chefs through RSO

BY JOY WEDGE Copy Editor

“Before I came to school all I could bake was cookies from Pillsbury and brownies out of the box,” sophomore Sherri Silverstein said. “I make biscuits from scratch now, and it tastes a whole lot better.”

Debbie Ellingsworth, the adviser of Baker’s Dozen, said the RSO was created around seven years ago for students who loved to bake.

Bakers Dozen students make cupcakes, celebration cakes and wedding cakes to name just a few, which are often donated to the community. The Newark Senior Center also requests baked goods from Bakers Dozen every year for various events, Ellingsworth said.

Ellingsworth, who received her International Baking and Pastry Degree at Baltimore International Culinary

College, arrived at the university in the fall of 1997 to teach an introductory food principles course.

Because many of her students have never worked in a professional kitchen setting or don’t know how to cook, Ellingsworth said she enjoys teaching her students the basics. However, a really good baker needs to not only have the skill and knowledge of baking, but also a developed imagination, she says.

“Baking requires you to have artistic and creative ideas,” Ellingsworth said. “It has to taste great and look great.”

She said she does not allow her students to say the words “I can’t” in reference to their own cooking.

“When a student has never done a technique before and all of a sudden I see their confidence in mastering a technique, I feel they can then teach it to someone else,”

H1N1: College students are target group for vaccination Continued from page 1

highest activity in the South East part of the United States.

“There are 21 states reporting widespread influenza activity at this time which is pretty much unprecedented,” Bell said.

“We’re seeing that emergency rooms, office visits and student services visits are higher than was suspected at this time of year by a lot.”

Bell said the conditions on college campuses, such as living together, may promote the transmission of the flu and other respiratory viruses. She said it is possible older people have some immunity that protects them from the H1N1 virus better than younger people.

Sebelius said colleges should consider some strategies for dealing with H1N1, including relocating either the healthy or sick roommate out of the joint living situation, and creating some sort of meal brigade to deliver meals to infected students so they don’t have to go to the cafe-

teria.

Bell said there is no national guidelines for when colleges should close down, but that institutions should make a local decision based on their specific situation.

Jennifer S. Wooleyhand, spokesperson for the Delaware Division of Public Health, stated in an e-mail message that because the bulk of all flu cases are most likely H1N1, the very ill or hospitalized may be tested, but the majority of flu cases will not be.

Joseph Siebold, director of Student Health Services, said he is still waiting to hear from the state regarding the expected date of arrival for the H1N1 vaccine.

Wooleyhand said the state department is communicating with the Center for Disease Control on newer arrival dates for the H1N1 vaccine, but they are not yet confirmed. The regular seasonal flu vaccine is still expected to arrive by mid-October, she said.

Ellingsworth said.

Silverstein said Bakers Dozen has given her the opportunity to make baked goods for her family and friends.

“I baked pumpkin bread last Thanksgiving, and my parents were obsessed with it,” she said.

Silverstein also said she discovered a new way to relax through the RSO. “Last semester while studying for finals, we baked cookies together and it helped relieve stress,” she said.

Senior Sheela Mathew said she takes also pleasure in baking with Bakers Dozen.

“I made two cakes, one with fondant which is a sugary play dough or clay with a smooth look to it, and the second was a cake with icing from a squeezable pastry bag,” she said.

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Shopping parties popular among college students

BY JESSICA SORENTINO Staff Reporter The Avon headquarters in Newark recently closed down. As the economy is gradually improving, spin-off companies are targeting consumers in a different way.

Consultant shopping, shopping that comes to the customer, has been around for a long time, but has more recently begun to target the college-aged female demographic. In this type of shopping, consultants are the liaison between major companies and customers.

Stephanie Bisaccia, a consultant for both Avon products, before its demise, and Lia Sophia jewelry, said one of the reasons college-aged girls enjoy the consultant party shopping experience is because it is more comfortable than shopping in a conventional store.

“Having all of your friends come over to shop in your house with a consultant, someone who uses the products and knows a lot about them, is a reason to have a social gathering,” Bisaccia said. “Also, shopping this way is less expensive.”

Junior Samantha Batchelor attended a makeup party for mark., a division of Avon. Batchelor said the party is a good way to buy products because the consumer gets to experiment with them in person.

“These brands are all catalog-based and not sold in stores,” Batchelor said.

Another type of consultant-based party that is becoming more and more popular on college campuses is Slumber Parties, a company that sells intimate and sensual products.

Some university students are hosting and attending Slumber Parties in their dorm rooms and off-campus apartments.

Senior Carrie Winiker attended a Slumber Parties party

“Having all of your friends come over to shop in your house with a consultant, someone who uses the products and knows a lot about them, is a reason to have a social gathering.”

— Stephanie Bisaccia

on campus and agrees with Bisaccia that the parties are something different and fun to attend, even if there is no intention of purchasing anything.

“Going to an event like this with a bunch of close girlfriends is fun, interesting and more comfortable than walk-

ing into a store to buy things like this in, say, a mall,” Winiker said.

She also said everything at the party was reasonably priced with the most expensive product costing less than $100.

For companies such as Avon, mark., Mary Kay, Slumber Parties and Lia Sophia, another factor that adds to their increasing popularity with this demographic is its work appeal.

Bisaccia said the job of a consultant is usually a side job.

“Some people are consultants as their everyday job,” she said. “This is my side job. I host approximately two parties of each brand a month.”

Every time someone purchases a product from the brands’ catalogs or at the parties under the consultant’s name, the consultant receives a commission, as stated on the Avon Web site.

Junior Courtney Donegan, who hosted a mark. party in her off-campus apartment, said she is interested in becoming a consultant.

“I would definitely be a consultant as a side job to make some extra money,” Donegan said. “I’d probably only do it for a makeup or jewelry brand though.”

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could socialize or work on projects together.

“Ideally we would like expand the physical space of the library so there are more areas to do that kind of study,” she said. “The kind of flexibility that allows students to talk and drink coffee.”

To make room for more study space, the library has begun to sort through book stacks and move infrequently used volumes to the library annex. Students who wish to take out a book from the annex can fill out an online form and pick up the book from the main library within two hours, Millard said.

Despite downsizing the number of journals and books offered at Morris Library in favor of computers and work spaces, Director of Libraries Susan Brynteson said the library has become increasingly service oriented.

“The world of specific information is going to be very electronic,” Brynteson said.

“But people are also hungry for guidance with that information.”

She estimates the library now spends over $5 million a year to bring online resources to students wherever they are, on or off campus. The university was among the first in the nation to offer online databases such as WorldCat Local, which allows university members to search the holdings of 65,000 libraries worldwide, she said.

“The role of librarian continues to be bringing information to people,” Brynteson said, “In the same way libraries order new books, we continually order new technology.”

Junior Toni Luciano said

the new technology and the services offered are instrumental in drawing students back to the library.

“I feel like a lot of libraries have started to offer more technology that people don’t have in their homes,” Luciano said.

“I’m really bad with computers so I go there because they know what they’re doing.”

Millard said the library is adapting its staff to meet the technological assistance required by students like Luciano.

“What librarians learn today are things like how to organize and find information regardless of the source,” she said.

The library has transitioned its staff to cope with technology demands by updating and reassigning staff positions that are not used as often, allowing the library to keep a relatively stable staff of around 50 professional librarians, Millard said.

Brynteson also agreed the professional staff is an invaluable part of the library’s resources and the reason it continues to attract large numbers of students and staff.

“The Web is not a substitute for librarians, and because of that, libraries continue to offer authoritative information that students can rely,” she said.

For this reason Brynteson said she is confident libraries are not going anywhere anytime soon.

“The library is changing the way it delivers information,” she said. “But its mission has stayed the same.”

As technology progresses, librarians at Morris Library are seeing their roles change.

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Second Life: Students explore an island-view of campus Continued from page 1

He said some students have been worried about safety on such an open internet platform, but the university has tools to keep unsavory people off the islands.

Jeffers said the university islands average about 370 visitors a week, but during events, they have had more than 1,000. The Women’s Study exhibit alone receives 16 to 40 people a week.

Associate Prof. Alvina Quintana taught the class that put together the exhibit last semester, Women’s Studies Capstone (WOMS 410). The oral history interviews as part of the Delaware Oral History Project are being archived in Special Collections in the Morris Library.

“It gives the project a much more global scope and will enable many more people to experience it,” Quintana said.

Professor Janet Hethorn uses Second Life in her First Year Experience class, Visual Impact and Action. She said since the purpose of the class is to show freshmen how visual images affect their behavior, Second Life gives the students a chance to completely immerse themselves in a virtual visual world.

“The students can interact with global environments and people of different cultures, which they wouldn’t have access to in a regular classroom unless they were doing study abroad,” Hethorn said.

She said the support Jeffers gave her class made the program easy to use. Her class will use a Second Life classroom to meet for small group activities. She will also use it to hold class if H1N1 breaks out on campus and classes are canceled.

Associate Prof. Don Lehman’s Forensic Science (MEDT220) class is also using Second Life this semester.

Jeffers and Bross are building a crime scene, complete with a dead body and a forensics lab within the university’s islands.

Students will work in pairs as avatars to investigate the crime scene and collect physical evidence. The goal is to determine what happened at the crime scene and who is responsible, Lehman said.

Jeffers and Barroso are building specialty equipment in Second Life the students can use to run DNA profiling and toxicology tests, among other processes, on the samples.

Lehman said without Second Life technology, the students would be using written case studies, but Second Life provides them with a simulated real life experience.

“When I first saw it, it was kind of a neat thing, but I didn’t know its educational value,” Lehman said. “But stu-

Courtesy of Debbie Jeffers

This screenshot from the university’s Second Life island shows a restored painting in the art conservation studio. dent interest necessitated a forensics course, so my wife suggested I use this new technology in the new course, because now’s the time to experiment with it.”

He said none of his 16 students had ever used Second Life before. He attributes that partly to the steep learning curve associated with Second Life. The multitude of tools and options take some getting used to, he said.

“They’re showing what I’ll call ‘tempered enthusiasm’ — they seem alright with the idea, but I suggested they go into the islands before the project started to get the hang of it and explore, and as of Monday there are not yet any avatars.”

Since then, Tejal Naik, a junior in Lehman’s class, has

Courtesy of Debbie Jeffers

This screenshot shows the Delaware Oral History Project exhibit featuring interviews from Afro-Latina women.

created an avatar. He said this class was the first time he’d heard of Second Life and he finds the experience of using it much like the game “The Sims.”

“It’s interesting to think about what Lehman will do in the virtual crime scene,” he said. “In Second Life he could do a lot, but I don’t know what to expect. It could be good or lame.”

Naik said the program was hard to use, but he thinks it could be fun once he gets the hang of it. He said he’s happy Lehman isn’t just using written case studies to teach forensics.

“That would be so boring.” he said. “It would just be like another class then. This is more like virtual CSI.” Professor Collete Gaiter uses Second Life in her Media/Design/Culture class (ART204). The students are required to make an avatar and explore the university’s islands. The assignment is designed to show Second Life as a unique and up-and-coming medium, Gaiter said.

“Second Life is now what the Internet is in the mid90’s,” Gaiter said. “A lot of people said, ‘What do I need this for?’ back then also. But in 10 years, this kind of 3-D, totally immersible internet will be everywhere.”

She learned about Second Life through the Summer Faculty Institute, where she was impressed with a location where an avatar can walk though the inside of a human body and a virtual version of New York City’s Harlem neighborhood with nightly performances. She hopes to integrate the exact replica of the Louvre as well as several other museums into her class.

She said only one student out of approximately 125 had used Second Life before, and those who had heard of it had heard mostly negative things.

Prof. Joyce Stoner, director of the Preservation Studies doctoral program, helps maintain the Art Conservation program’s presence on Second Life. She said she has met resistance from people who associate Second Life with X-rated activities or don’t see the educational potential, but she is excited about what her program is doing.

The art conservation part of the university islands has examples of paintings before and after they have been repaired, she said. Clicking on the paintings pulls up information about the various treatments.

Stoner decided to set up the area of the island after hearing about a university in California receiving a McArthur Foundation grant for educational uses of Second Life. She said she realized it could be a useful public outreach tool.

“There is a new audience of people who may discover art conservation,” she said. “It is an unusual way to inform people about a little-known career and profession.

Perhaps it is also a younger audience.”

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Morris library without any books?

New university plan to relocate books is a good move Morris library has undergone multiple makeovers in recent years, in both space and function.

With the information revolution, students often go their entire college careers without once checking out a book from the millions included in Morris’ catalog.

The library however has only gotten more crowded in recent years.

With homes and dorms often proving too chaotic to buckle-down, students have brought their home offices with them and inhabit the library for hours each week without ever using a book, making available work space hard to come by.

While the role of librarian moves into the world of technology, the space for books will soon relocate as well. Morris library will soon begin to move volumes of books to

make space for both more desks and additional technological resources and work areas.

While the idea of a institute of higher learning getting rid of the very thing education is based on— books—is very scary, times have changed and these modern updates to Morris will in turn make completing work easier for the student body.

With this being said, students should be required by classes to use physical books as well as technological resources. The instrinsic value that exists in opening actual books and reading the words on a paper page should not be forgotten in these ever-changing times.

While making room for students, the university must make sure that books are kept a priority in the classroom.

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UD finds a Second Life online

New software gets students interactive in cyberspace The university has invested in purchasing “real estate” on the virtual simulation game Second Life.

Virtually recreating Memorial Hall and multiple other real-life resources found on campus, the Second Life UD world has recently featured art exhibitions and has capabilities of holding real life classes within its virtual classrooms.

While the “islands” that the university purchased and built a virtual campus upon cost upwards of $4300 each, the virtual possibilities for the university in this interactive computer world seem worth the price.

Visitors to the virtual campus can experience the real-life atmosphere of the university from far-off lands, enabling the university to reach potential students they may not have easily attracted through traditional marketing tactics of

the past.

In addition students on-campus will be able to use the online world to complete assignments from the comforts of their living rooms–a resource all the more valuable with the threat of swine flu fast re-approaching.

While it may seem humorous to think of Avatar professors milling through the classrooms of a make-believe campus, as long as the university is representedtruly and fairly, there seems to be only positive gains from this step into the unknown that is the fast growing simulation technology of today.

With that said, the university must now make it a priority to hold the virtual campus to the standards it holds its human one. Diversity, environmental awareness and cyber-safety must translate to the university’s Second Life.

yoUDon’tSay: Haley Marks, Editorial Editor: “I love UD’s campus when the season is about to change. The mood on the green, the smell in the air. Fall and spring, just two more reasons I never want to graduate.”

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Recycling of resources in the 21st century reaches the world of academia and books may be the first to go.

Natalie Carillo, Photography Editor: “Why is there so much traffic on Main Street during classes? Aren’t we trying to go green on campus?”

Alesandra Duszak, Managing Mosaic Editor: “Chai Tea Lattes beat coffee for the fall.

Brew Ha-Ha has especially delicious ones.”

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As the health care battle continues, students face off Ted Briggs

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Responding to last week’s guest column, Briggs offfers his views on health care reform The acrimony and contention that the health reform debate has spurred removes any room for further hyperbole and misrepresentation of facts. I can’t recall ever reading a column more devoid of reason, factual accuracy as well as persuasive and productive statements than Mark Abdelnour’s guest commentary,“Possibility of universal health care creates bad blood”.

Seldom do I feel the need to disabuse some guest commentator of hyperbolic and inaccurate notions, but Abdelnour’s article was so rife with unqualified and unsubstantiated claims that I think it necessary.

First, if Abdelnour is implying that Obama supported a single-payer universal system during his campaign, this is incorrect.

Throughout his campaign and presidency, Obama has been flexible and open to new ideas about health care reform.

Second, Abdelnour’s shameless accusation,“The ‘public option’ is simply a singlepayer system that Americans would pay into and receive insurance directly from the government,”–besides being redundant– is just wrong. I would even have been begrudgingly

willing to accept a cynical and speculative statement such as “the public option could lead to a single-payer system” but to say they are one-in-the-same is just flat out erroneous.

The public option would, in no way whatsoever, be subsidized by taxpayers. It would function on the basis of a larger pool of people with more diffused and calculated risk.Take it from somebody who would want more than anything for a single payer universal system to come to fruition—a public option is not a singlepayer system.

Third, Abdelnour states that “if the federal government created a ‘public option,’ it would ultimately end any type of choice.”

Public option is a choice, so by definition it couldn’t end choice.

People aren’t required to take advantage of a public option. If they choose not to, their tax dollars won’t pay for it. Proponents of the public option have tirelessly assured the public that their option would compete like any other health insurance provider.

Abdelnour’s simplistic approach to improve the expensive, exclusive and convoluted morass that is health care seems to be (1) to offer Health savings accounts (HSAs), (2) to import pharmaceuticals from abroad

and (3) to phase out HMOs. Wow, I hope this wasn’t an attempt at some well-intentioned panacea. HSAs have been available since 2003 when former President George W. Bush signed them into law. Although they have some utility, they have been roundly disparaged because they tend to benefit a few healthier people and drive up costs for everyone else. The very poor still can’t afford to benefit from them.

They are subject to market volatility.

Reforming pharmaceutical restrictions and HMOs might or might not help but they won’t begin to address the problems of millions of uninsured, millions of underinsured, hundreds of thousands of insured who will be unfairly denied coverage, rapidly rising costs, malpractice reform, those denied for preexisting conditions, those who can’t afford any insurance at all, etc.

He preemptively accuses the as-of-yet non-existent public option of being a “bureaucratic nightmare” but again doesn’t explain why or accept that current insurance companies’ procedures are nothing short of bureaucratic nightmares.

Abdelnour writes that the Democrats plan will “cause the most damage,” but he

clearly doesn’t understand what the plan is, or at least hasn’t demonstrated so, thus conceding that the Republicans don’t really have a plan.

Face the facts. According to the World Health Organization, the United States of America ranks 37 in quality of health care, marginally above Slovenia and Cuba. We rank absolute last among westernized developed nations while we pay twice as much as any other country. According to our government, half of the millions of bankruptcies in the United States are due to medical bills. 75 percent of those people had insurance coverage at the time of their bankrupting illnesses.

According to our government,thousands and thousands die every year because they don’t have access to quality health care. I can go on and on about why we need serious reform and why a public option is just a good first step.There are more reasons, but let it be said Abdelnour’s basic stance holds water like a sieve.

And yes, I may be writing this in unequivocal support of some sort of serious reform but at the very least, unlike Mark Abdelnour, I suffer no pretensions to objectivity and I rest my case solely upon facts and reason. I don’t pretend to highlight the shortcomings of both parties and make believe that I am some bipartisan voice of reason

And with that, their conversations continued without batting an eyelash. No gasps, no pauses. No worries, cares or realizations about how horribly offensive they sounded. Oh you know, just throwing around some slurs that demean and demoralize an entire group of people. No biggie.

Hey guy on Main Street: how hard is it to pick a correct adjective to describe your friend ? Here’s some help. Dim, thick, dull, brainless, idiotic, dumb, uninteresting, inane, imbecilic, simple, pointless, witless, bothersome, annoying, irritating…

And for you, girl who hates your homework, here’s a whole list of words which may better describe your feelings: abhorrence, malevolence, objection, nuisance, resentment, repulsion, enmity, illwill Need I say more?

You’re probably thinking that because I’m writing this column I’m a liberal, feminist lesbian. I’m not. Yes, I may be a staunch liberal but I’m not a lesbian. I’m simply comfortable enough with my own sexuality and tolerant enough of others to understand the implications of calling someone a faggot or using the word gay as a slur.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s spoken with deliberate hatred or in jest during

casual conversation. A slur is a slur. It’s ugly, inappropriate and hurtful no matter what context.

Whether we’re aware of it or not, we all know at least one person who is gay, be it a family member, friend, professor or colleague. I myself have gay family members, friends and best friends with gay parents. I would never dare to casually throw around the F-word or think to classify something as gay because doing so would demoralize the ones I love.

claim to be of others, if you choose to say these slurs, you are a hypocrite.

How has casually calling someone a faggot or using gay in a derogatory manner become such an accepted part of our culture? Personally, I find these words as offensive as the N-word and every other racial slur. How long is it going to take before slurs against gays are deemed just as hateful and taboo? Hearing these words spoken in public and especially in such a nonchalant manner is not only uncomfortable, - it’s unfathomable.

Growing up, my parents always told me that profanity is the language of the ignorant. The words we choose and the manners in which we say them are a large reflection of who we are as individuals. If, by being derogatory towards others you like appearing like a close-minded bigot, by all means carry on. We all have the right to free speech and I certainly can’t stop you. However, if you would rather appear sensitive, respectful and tolerant of others, please consider using different words.

Ted Briggs is a guest columnist for The Review. His viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of The Review staff. Please send comments to briggs@udel.edu.

Your casual language may offend, think before you speak Maddie Thomas

Who’s Your Maddie?

Why use offensive language casually when so many more poignant words exist?

The power of words is undeniable.

Even though a word is just a simple stringing together of a few carefully placed letters, these chance arrangements can instantly elicit humor, fear, anger or disgust. Every day, with each sentence we utter, we pick and choose our words to best convey our feelings. However, few people fail to understand that just one word can carry with it such an unbelievable amount of hatred, racism and intolerance – faggot.

As I walked around campus this week, it amazed me not only how often I heard this word being thrown around, but most of all with how casual a context it was spoken.

“Man, you’re such a fag,” a guy said laughing as he walked down Main Street with his buddies.

“God, that assignment was so gay,” another girl said in passing to her friend.

If you choose to describe a friend’s stupid actions, a class assignment, a song, a shirt, or anything else as gay, you instantly turn someone else’s identity into something negative and wrong.

Would I ever want to degrade my aunt, my best friend’s mother or some of my friends? Of course not.

I know plenty of people who claim to be accepting of gays. They support gay marriage, oppose hate crimes against gays and have gay friends. However, they seem to have no problem saying, “That’s so gay,” or “He was such a fag.” I don’t care how accepting you say you are of the gay community, or how liberal or tolerant you

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Food documentary shines light on healthier eating habits

BY ARIF ZAMAN Staff Reporter

All Photos courtesy of Eleni Vlachos

Eleni Vlachos interviewed people across the U.S. and Greece for her documentary.

Arguably one of the most frequent and significant decisions one makes on a daily basis is what to eat. Regardless of whether you choose to eat at a dining hall, use your Points or play chef at home, there is virtually always some sort of choice when it comes to eating.

Students’ decisions of what to eat have far-reaching consequences, and Eleni Vlachos’s documentary “Seeing Through the Fence” reminds viewers that making the right choice when it comes to eating a meal can be not only easy but fun.

“Seeing Through the Fence” is about food’s role in society and the modern day alienation of the consumer from the food production process. Students for the Environment arranged for the documentary to be shown on campus. It will be showing in Kirkbride Hall today, Sept. 22.

The focus of Vlachos’s documentary is to create a discussion that transcends the typical stereotype of a vegan animal-rights activist attacking a non-vegetarian lifestyle.

According to PorchLifeProductions.com, the documentary is based on a series of interviews with random people across the U.S. and Greece.

After touring for a year as the drummer in her band, Vlachos found she had garnered a large positive response about the documentary. So far the documentary has been a success with vegetarians and nonvegetarians alike.

According to her Web site, the documentary was screened at over 90 universities and performance spaces nationwide from 2008 through May 2009.

Vlachos put together the documentary through the dialogue that ensued from her growing interest in animal activism.

“When I started as an activist, I was led down the path of listening to people and asking questions about animals,” Vlachos says.

She says people have a natural com-

passion for animals, as proven by the abundance of people who have pets, and Vlachos hopes that these sentiments will continue into the realm of how animals are treated with regard to food processing.

“People seem to relate to the homemade nature. It’s not judgmental,” she says.

Vlachos says the general public misconstrues choosing to eat in an ethically responsible manner as an inconvenience.

They think that one must eat less, she says.

“The main thing to think about that: it’s not a subtraction problem, it’s an addition problem,” Vlachos says.

Vlachos says she believes eating responsibly is not only convenient, but it can also be made enjoyable.

“It’s becoming an adventure to make your plate more interesting,” she says.

People often get intimidated by activists for their all-or-nothing attitude towards food choices. However, this is only a tendency of social groups and the aim is to show people that responsible eating can be socially acceptable on a wider scale, she says.

The very nature of the subject causes it to touch upon larger issues present in the national discussion, including caring for the environment and crop sustainability.

The documentary touches on a variety of topics, and that is what allows it to connect to so many different people.

Bari Grossman, co-president of Students for the Environment, says the documentary is a reminder to make conscientious food choices.

“Every day we make a million little decisions without even thinking about them, and I'm hoping the documentary reminds us that every so often we should step back and do some thinking,” Grossman says.

As far as the expected turnout goes, he says, “I’d love to see as many people there as want to be there. I'm just beginning to advertise so I don't have an idea just yet.

Hopefully it'll be a pleasant surprise!”

Students create majors tailored to individual goals

BY MEGAN KENSLEA Staff Reporter

After witnessing firsthand the dangerous working conditions in textile and footwear industries on a family trip to Taiwan in August 2007, university senior Rita Chang could not stop thinking about what she saw.

“Working conditions weren’t good at all,” Chang says.

Chang, who had come to the university as a biological sciences major, was inspired by her experiences to create a unique major: social responsibility in the textile and apparel industry.

Her experiences led her to Marsha Dickson, a professor in the fashion and apparel studies department. Dickson, who serves on the board of directors for the Fair Labor Association, helped Chang create the Dean’s Scholar major, which focuses on understanding workers’ rights in other countries.

This past summer, Chang returned to Taiwan for two months to do independent research. She worked for one month as a pseudo-corporate social responsibility consultant, she says, before interning at Nike in Taiwan for the second month. At Nike, Chang helped re-design the company’s second sustainability report. She also helped write an informational booklet on how recycled polyester bottles can be made into polyester fibers and used for clothing. The booklet will be circulated and used

globally.

For Chang, the chance to go to Taiwan gave her experiences she couldn’t get in the U.S. “Since most U.S. footwear and apparel industries outsource, especially to Asia, I wouldn’t really have had a chance to work with a factory if I hadn’t gone,” she says. “It was more about learning from the factory point of view, as opposed to the business point of view.”

Chang hopes to go to business school after she graduates, and to ultimately work at a corporation.

“That’s where most of the problems in factories originate,” Chang says.

However, without the Dean’s Scholar program, Chang would not have had the opportunity to create the major.

“The Dean’s Scholar program is a great option for students with a broad range of interests that don’t fit under one major,” says Dickson, Chang’s advisor. “It’s a way to precisely create a major to custom fit the student’s needs.”

Dickson helped Chang figure out how she could play a role in improving working conditions in factories. The pair collaborated to put together classes they thought were key for the industry.

“From supply chains to profit makers, we are giving her

that kind of basis for the merchandising, to understand the industry and how it works,” Dickson says.

Chang’s major also includes courses that formed a graduate certificate in socially responsible and sustainable apparel.

“Those courses are more advanced, looking at the things that trigger changes in the industry,” Dickson says.

The courses include trade policy and its influence on the industry, and how the culture of different people involved in factories can affect working conditions.

“A factory could be set in one country, but have migrant workers from another, and a manager from a third,” she says.

“There are all kinds of situations that could arise in that scenario.”

The main difference between Chang’s major and a typical fashion merchandising major is the broader range of courses she has taken.

“We took out courses focused more on branding, consumers and marketing,” Dickson says. “We added courses about the economics of developing countries, international development and other economics and political science courses that round out the full understanding of the industry and the situation its in.”

Dickson says there is a large range of options for students See FASHION page 25

Talk show host brings film crew to dining hall

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Segment explores healthy lifestyle options for college students

BY ALEXANDRA DUSZAK Managing Mosaic Editor

It’s not uncommon for college students to struggle with eating a healthy diet — limited budgets, drunk pizza and busy schedules make it hard to keep off those extra pounds.

What is uncommon is for students to go on national television to get advice about how to improve their eating habits.

But that’s exactly what university sophomore Paige Barton did.

Today, Barton will appear on a previously filmed episode of the “Rachael Ray Show,” a daytime talk show hosted by celebrity chef Rachael Ray. Barton says in the episode, Ray and “Eat This, Not That” author David Zinczenko go through a buffet line that mimics what is available in a college dining hall, commenting on the nutritional value of the different choices available. They ask Barton, who sits in the front row of the audience, for her opinions on the options.

The show will also include a segment that follows Barton and her friends as they hang out in her residence hall and eat at Pencader Dining Hall.

Barton says the producers of “The Rachael Ray Show” contacted Barton after Maria Pizano, one of her sisters in Alpha Delta Pi, wrote into the show asking for advice on how to eat a healthy diet in the dining halls and dorms.

Although the producers were willing to help, they wanted to film a sophomore who lived in the dorms. Since Pizano was a junior and lived off-campus, she referred them to Barton.

Barton played soccer and softball in high school and was also a member of her school’s ski team. Although she continued to go to the gym when she got to college, she says she found it hard to stay in good shape.

“In high school, you go home for a home-cooked meal,” Barton says. “It’s always balanced. You don’t have to think about it.”

On Aug. 31, the Monday before school started, the show’s crew filmed Barton and her friends as they talked and enjoyed typical less-than-healthy college fare in her

Paige Barton will appear on the “Rachael Ray Show” today.

Independence Hall East residence hall room.

The girls and the crew then made their way to the crowded dining hall, where Barton gave them a tour of the facilities.

MK Hennelly, Barton’s friend who accompanied her during filming, says, “It was crazy.

People thought it was like ‘The Real World.’ ” As Barton and her friends made their food choices, the crew zoomed in on their plates and encouraged them to take more food.

“People probably thought we were such pigs,” Hennelly says.

The crew also gave the girls directions about how many toppings or scoops of food to take, says Colleen Clare, another friend of Barton’s.

Barton found out she would be featured on “The Rachael Ray Show” over the summer, and her friends found out they would be on the show Paige Barton is a mass communications major. about a week before school started, Clare says.

Preparation for the show was pretty hectic.

Barton says she was amazed at how busy Ray is.

Barton, who is from Massachusetts, says she had to fly “I didn’t get to spend as much time with her [Rachael] down to Delaware the day the show was being filmed. Her as I wanted to. She was really nice though,” she says. friends also found out about the segment filmed at the uniBarton says she is learning how to eat healthier and versity bit by bit. how to take better care of herself in college.

“She had to keep calling them back and forth, so we got “I learned a lot about portions and how one bad choice it in spurts,” Hennelly says. can effect a whole day of healthy eating,” Barton says in an Barton, a mass communications major, says she was e-mail message. “Also that snacking, late at night especialespecially excited to go on the talk show because of its rel- ly, can add an extra thousand calories to your daily intake, evance to her major and because her mom is a big fan of even if it seems like a small snack.”

Ray’s.

She also got into running over the summer and is excit“My mom loves her cookbooks so it was really cool to ed about the new P.O.D. Market, set to open in October or meet her,” Barton says. “Her style is a lot different than I November, because students are only allowed to take one thought. It was very audience-based.” piece of fruit per person each time they visit the dining hall.

Barton says her experience on the set was pretty plush “Usually I grabbed an apple and a banana, so that was — in addition to having her trip to New York City paid for, against the rules,” she says in an e-mail message. “Although she had her own dressing room (complete with her name on I wasn’t presented with many options last year, I didn’t try the door), received a complementary fruit basket and had very hard to make the right choices with the options I was her hair and makeup done. given.”

All Photos courtesy of Paige Barton

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Cody’s ‘Body’ of work goes from birth to hell

Little ‘Happens’ in love movie gone wrong

“Love Happens” Universal Pictures Rating: P (out of PPPP) At its heart, “Love Happens” is a giant cliché — the all-too-common story of a man and a woman who fall in love, have trouble, and then end up together. Happy Ending! The plot is uncreative, overused, and struggles to stay alive.

The film chronicles the chance meeting of Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart), a selfhelp book author attempting to cope with the death of his wife, and free-spirited Eloise (Jennifer Aniston). The two meet during Burke’s stop in Seattle to promote his book “A-Okay!”

The first shot is of someone slicing lemons, and a narrator kindly relates the old adage, that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. The movie is filled with moments like this — moments that seem to be taken directly from other movies that have “love” in the title.

While the movie attempts to prove that love after loss is possible, it does so only after an hour and a half of whining, misplaced anger, disjointed plot points and the typical list of flat characters.

To that end, Aaron Eckhart tries his hardest to make the character of Burke Ryan as cheesy and unrelatable as possible — a combination of your run-of-the-mill inspirational speaker who can’t follow his own advice and typical pretty-faced romantic hero.

Jennifer Aniston’s portrayal of Eloise also lacks depth. Her strange habits — such as writing random words on hotel room

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walls — are supposed to come across as whimsical but lack any sort of explanation that would make them at all meaningful.

This is not to say that there are no positive points to the movie. Despite a dragging plot and lackluster performances, the film offers an interesting cinematic tribute to Seattle.

The best moments of the movie are the few that make use of the rainy city’s artsy charm, romanticizing unique landmarks like the Pike Place Market, the Fremont Troll, and the infamous “gum wall” — a public art project made entirely out of passesrby’s chewed gum. And yes, “Love Happens” somehow manages to make an otherwise disgusting display of ABC gum somewhat charming.

The pretty pictures don’t disguise the problems with this movie though, and after two hours and an unconvincing conclusion, you’ll just want to go home.

— Aaron Dentel-Post, adentelp@udel.edu

Sound flowers on new album

ally hilarious while rattling off cliché after cliché.

The sensuality of the movie is strangely tame, making the film feel like it was meant for children even though the gore clearly makes the film otherwise. It even makes the occasional attempt at humor by dropping a handful of “Juno”-esque quips. Unfortunately, they feel woefully out of place and aren’t nearly as funny as the “horror.”

There are literally dozens of movies more worthy of one’s money and time. This one feels like nothing more than a vehicle for Megan Fox, which is regrettable because neither her role nor her acting is remotely memorable.

It makes one wonder if this movie would’ve ever come to be without the success of her role in her biggest hit, “Transformers.”

— Dennis Clark, dclark@udel.edu

He is more successful with slower tunes like “Twist Ya Around,” in which the Jamaican crooner pays homage to his breakthrough hit, singing, “you’re way too beautiful, girl.”

Tomorrow isn’t quite the follow-up Kingston could have provided, but songs like “Fire Burning”are too infectious to deny. The disc will keep the young Kingston relevant and positioned to put out more sure-fire hits.

Life Starts Now Three Days Grace Jive Rating: PP 1/2 (out of PPPPP) Three Days Grace’s newest album, Life Starts Now, is a bit of a letdown.

The album has a few good tracks, but the majority of the songs will reminded listeners of other artists.

The album’s opening track, “Bitter Taste” is reminiscent of Muse’s notoriously profound sound.

However, Three Days Grace seems to dumb down their lyrics for a mainstream audience.

“Break” and “World So Cold” follow, but both songs

Luckily, Kingston has a bright future and will still have a chance to improve his releases, far beyond just Tomorrow.

— Ted Simmons, tsim@udel.edu

have a sound similar to groups like System of a Down. Although these songs do not include cursing or extremely violent lyrics like many hard rock bands, they are neither crowd-pleasers nor memorable tracks for audiences to connect to.

The fan favorite for this album will most likely be “Lost In You.” The album takes a softer turn with a classic sound and no screaming lyrics.

Overall, the album is filled with screaming singers and a lack of thought-provoking lyrics — a definite disappointment.

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kinds of music can appreciate.

The fast-paced songs will get the heart of any alternative rock fan racing.

The slower songs will have those fans of softer rock sitting down and reminiscing about the good times as any good song can do.

On songs like “Vices,” the bass is something that Hip-hop fans can appreciate.

However, they may not dig the vocals.

The album will give any listener, whether old or new, a sound that is, in one way or another, brand new.

— Russell Kutys, rkutys@udel.edu

Tomorrow Sean Kingston Epic Rating: PP (out of PPPPP) For dance hall heavyweight Sean Kingston, tomorrow is a promising proposition. Coming off smash hits like “Beautiful Girls” and “My Love,” the 19-year old reggae artist has the opportunity to corner a sparsely occupied genre.

Kingston doesn’t quite match his debut release in fire power though, as much of Tomorrow lacks that youthful energy Kingston has made so familiar.

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Daisy Brand New Interscope Rating: PPP (out of PPPPP) Daisies don’t normally coincide with the same vibes that the music of Brand New gives off, but they blend together seamlessly on the band’s latest release, Daisy.

The album opens and closes with a snippet of the song “On Life’s Highway” by Bertrand Brown. On a first listen, the music plays out in an almost eerie fashion because it is far from what one might expect from the band. A heavily distorted guitar quickly cuts the strange sounds off, resulting in a musical punch in the face. It’s at that moment that the listener realizes the right music has come on.

Contrary to their name, Brand New is no band of rookies.

This is actually the fourth studio album to be released by the band. The plan for Daisy, as it is for all albums, is to make something that will surprise the fans listening.

The band surely keep the surprises coming while also making sure to stay true to their alternative roots. The guitars are distorted, the bass is driving and the drums are loud.

They do, however, have an uncanny ability to slow things down, as they do on “Bed.” The song has a very mellow feel, almost on the depressing side but nonetheless is one of their better contributions to their newest album.

Daisy has qualities that fans of different

“Jennifer’s Body” 20th Century Fox Rating: P (out of PPPP) Movies are rarely truly terrible in every respect. However, “Jennifer’s Body,” from Director Karyn Kusamaand and “Juno” writer Diablo Cody, is the queen of those awful few.

From the acting, to the writing, to the plot — every part of this movie is a total train wreck.

Given the plot and cast, this film is an uphill battle to a quality movie.

Jennifer (Megan Fox) and her best friend Anita (Amanda Seyfried) narrowly escape a bar fire, but Jennifer is abducted by a sinister band, leaving Anita nervous when Jennifer begins to act oddly after her return.

The movie shows that Jennifer has become a demon through some ritual, an occult sacrifice gone wrong. But because Jennifer’s condition is never secret, the plot must repeatedly leap forward to attempt to ramp up the tension. Instead of feeling tense, the audience is left dazed and confused as it’s expected to understand whatever twisted logic the movie follows. The movie is too busy distracting its audience with jarring combinations of sex and gore to have it make sense of the gaping plot holes that pockmark the film.

If that wasn’t enough, “Jennifer’s Body” also dabbles in too many genres to fulfill any of them successfully. It’s not remotely scary, and most of the supposedly suspenseful moments are actu-

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Brittany Harmon Columnist

During freshmen year, we are all thrown into the college pool of thousands of strangers, all trying to figure out where we fit and trying to meet as many people as possible to gain the full college experience. Sooner or later, relationships begin to form and we all rush quickly to our computers to let the Facebook world know that we’re “in a relationship.”

Fast forward to senior year. In rare cases, some of us do stay with one person for a number of years, but the majority of us have experienced our fair share of breakups, makeups and hookups in college.

With senior year, we are faced with the upcoming choices that come with actually beginning your real-world life of postgraduation. So what happens when that Zach Morris and Kelly Kapowski couple of UD reach their senior year? Or is it senior year and you feel like you suddenly think you met the girl or guy of your dreams? Do you still pursue it even though you could be going in two opposite directions?

Forget the whole potential mar-

Debating senior steps

ried-life-with-two-kids scenario, think right after graduation. She wants to jump right into the work force, but he wants to continue his education by studying abroad somewhere. She wants the third-floor loft with a crazy business lifestyle while he wants a two-story house in the country. Maybe these were your plans when you initially met and you hoped they would change over time.

Maybe you just met that someone and you’ve discovered that is what he or she wants to do. Is it truly worth getting into a relationship or continuing a relationship

you think

Tell me what

...for next week:

Have you ever let alcohol affect your hook-up decisions?

Write to columnist Brittany Harmon at bharmon@udel.edu with that person? Even though you know in the back of your mind it will be over in a year after graduation? My opinion: absolutely not.

I do have my hopeless romantic tendencies, believing that everyone has their own personal The Notebook story. Yet, I am a firm believer that besides getting an education, college should be about going out, meeting people and getting involved in groups. There is a larger perspective that is far greater than the narrow distance between you and your partner’s eyes. That perspective is the life you have predetermined for

yourself and the dreams you hope to fulfill in the real world. If that doesn’t seem to fit into your schedule or dreams and you wind up in New York City and him in Seattle, then it’s not meant to be. End it now while you still have time to experience college.

I am not saying go crazy and hook up with every person you see walking down Main Street if you decide to end things. Hang out with your friends, go to parties and live up your senior year.

Even though you may have invested serious time in your relationship, which is always the difficult part to walk away from, don’t waste it on someone you know will not be there in five years because of their plans. Yes, it will hurt, but it will be better for the both of you and maybe your paths will cross again in the future.

Granted, some couples are reading this now thinking to themselves, “I want to live for now, not the future.” I respect that. Yet, in the broad spectrum of things, the future is right around the corner for everyone, seniors especially. I know that I would much rather end things with someone if our lives do not include each other at the end of the year and have more wild college stories to share with my kids down the road.

mediadarling A Swift kick in the rear for West on stage and was now too frightened and overwhelmed to be standing in front of a live audience, in addition to an audience of millions of others with their TV sets tuned in.

After Kanye decided his fans were given enough time to gaze at his demi-godliness, he left, and the audience started to clap in support of Swift. So, what many people are wondering is, who or what granted Kanye permission to just waltz on stage and expect people to agree with everything he says?

Sure, he produces one of the most successful record companies today, and sure, his first album sold over three million copies — he’s been nominated for Best New Artist, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Album and Album of the Year Grammy’s time and time again. He started the Kanye West Foundation for underprivileged minority children to receive proper educations. He is under contract with Nike for a new line of kicks to be called “Air Yeezys,” and sure, during Paris Fashion Week he debuted a new line of shoes designed for Louis Vuitton.

Still, so what? His penchant for inappropriate outbursts and offensive commentary has only gotten him into trouble, and it seems like our star hasn’t learned much since his first public outcry in 2004.

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Was anyone truly surprised when Kanye West jumped on stage to steal the spotlight from Taylor Swift and aim the attention at himself? Well, Kanye would probably tell anyone his controversial VMA moment this year was not to highlight himself, but to give Beyoncé the credit he thought she deserved.

Anyone who has followed Kanye’s career knows pretty well by now that he has an indisputably impressive track record of letting people know exactly what is on his mind.

The announcement of Taylor Swift as the winner for Best Female Video of 2009 was not the most expected catalyst for Kanye’s outburst — Miss Swift deserved the credit when it was due.

However, Kanye didn’t seem to think so.

He appeared almost out of thin air on the stage next to Taylor, grabbed the microphone during her acceptance speech and cried out, “I’m sorry...but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.”

Needless to say, his presence on stage during Taylor’s moment of glory was somewhat strange, but his words were what sent the crowd into a wave of shock. Even Beyoncé herself sat in the crowd with mouth agape looking up at Kanye, without the foggiest idea of how to respond. Taylor looked like a lost puppy that somehow found its way

At the American Music Awards in 2004 in Los Angeles, he stormed out professing he had been “robbed” for not winning the award for Best New Artist. This was only the beginning. In 2005 he promised to raise hell if his album Late Registration didn’t win the Grammy for Album of the Year. He kept up with his yearly trend of arrogant claims and pouty behavior the following year at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards. When he lost the award for Video of the Year, he charged on stage.

Fast-forward one more time to the following year at the 2007 Video Music Awards in Las Vegas. His live performance of the hit “Stronger” took place in the Palms Hotel in the Hugh Hefner Sky Villa, and not on the main stage. He was reportedly very upset that he wasn’t featured in the epicenter of all the attention. He allegedly stated that he would “never return to MTV” after the episode.

West is undoubtedly one of the most talented rappers of this generation. He’s worth millions and has set the bar high for those trying to make it big in the world of hip-hop.

Even still, his success and fame do not excuse his offensive outbursts that aim to put himself at the top and insult other artists, attempting to keep them at the bottom of the totem pole. Simple morals would have kept most people from making the decisions he has made in the past, but modesty and morals seem to be something Kanye compensates for with the fat checks he receives.

—Annie Ulizio, aulizio@udel.edu

September 22, 2009

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fashionforward

Lohan not designer material

Dear Lindsay Lohan, Although your performance at age 10 in “The Parent Trap” was pretty great, I do think your peak thus far lies with “Mean Girls.”

Jackie Zaffarano As for your most Columnist recent career moves, I can’t say they live up to those days spent worshipping Regina George. I hear you’re playing a fashion designer now. What I have to say is this: Go back to wearing pink on Wednesdays, Cady. If I had a burn book, I’d burn you.

This month Lindsay Lohan was named Artistic Advisor for the French high-fashion brand Ungaro. The twenty-something American celebrity will be contributing to the aesthetic of the brand’s October runway collection. I first heard the news with hopes that E! Entertainment Television was lying. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing — or rather, I didn’t want to.

How could someone with so little experience as a designer advise on design for a highend fashion brand? Sure, Lindsay’s a celebrity and knows fashion, but by this, I mean she’s worn great clothes, not designed them.

I suppose it wouldn’t be fair to say the actress lacks any experience. I knew she had recently developed her own line of leggings, but when I first heard of the company, I couldn’t help but regard it as just another celebrity attempt at a fashion line. Although I generally don’t have the highest hopes for celebrity fashion lines, I figured I should do my research before making assumptions about Lindsay’s. As it seems, the leggings are pretty attractive and do retail at Nordstrom’s. But then again, how hard is it to design leggings?

I commend her for keeping things simple. I suppose with resources and a following, why not try for a hobby on the side?

Lohan calls her collection 6126, after Marilyn Monroe’s birthday. Keeping this notso cleverly crafted title in mind, I can only imagine the creative genius she’ll filter into Ungaro. For Ungaro’s sake, let’s hope she can get more original.

The 6126 Collection Web site features photographs of the actress donning the leg wear — although the fur coat she wears doesn’t exactly draw attention to her designs. It’s a Lindsay slide show ending with a quote by Marilyn Monroe, and nowhere does the site say anything about the actual products themselves. But rest assured, apparently 6126 is “a lifestyle brand of feminine power and grace.”

Overseeing an entire collection is a far cry from getting dressed in the morning. I’m sorry to say it, Mr. Ungaro, but the Teenage Drama Queen’s been called to rectify your company.

To give Lindsay the benefit of the doubt, I suppose she’s just taking advantage of an amazing offer. Besides, with a celebrity such as Lindsay Lohan in this position, the brand may hope to attract a younger, hipper and, more importantly, larger band of followers.

“Everything we’re going to get is going to be a plus,” Ungaro’s CEO Mounir Moufarrige says in “Women’s Wear Daily.” “I think the noise level around Lindsay will be very, very big.”

For the sake of a once thriving design company and the Lindsay I once loved, that noise had better be cheers for a successful runway show, and not shouts for an actress.

So to you LiLo, I say best of luck — the world is watching.

—jackiez@udel.edu

22 September 22, 2009

Main Street stores offer organic, recycled apparel

BY JORDAN ALLEN Senior Mosaic Reporter

THE REVIEW/ Natalie Carillo

Clothes uses soy ink to print their logo on their bags and tissue paper.

Mimi Sullivan-Sparks doesn’t shop at stores owned by giant companies. She goes to locally owned businesses or stores to get what she needs. She buys her food from produce stands and small vendors.

This lifestyle, which she describes as living with a conscience, carries over to how she runs her boutique.

Sullivan-Sparks, owner of Bloom on Main Street, says her store specializes in products that are made in the U.S., but she also makes it a point to carry organic clothing items.

“When I buy things for the store, I buy it with a conscience,” she says. “I feel good about it and I feel like I’m supporting my personal philosophy.”

In the midst of the green movement, organic clothes are growing more and more popular. Sullivan-Sparks says customers can make those clothing purchases and feel good about their choice. Not only are they supporting the vendor that’s making the organic clothing, they are also supporting the earth.

Bloom’s organic items include cotton T-shirts, scarves and bamboo knits.

Jamey Godfry, owner of Frolic, says recently, the store’s organic products have been selling well even

though they are typically a few dollars more expensive.

“People have really been eating it up,” Godfry says.

“People have been really hot on it.”

Frolic carries approximately four brands of organic clothing, cotton, hemp and bamboo t-shirts. He says the companies they carry have always been earthy, and ordering organic items just seemed to fit well with the store.

“We’re a hippy store so it just kinda goes with the theme,” he says.

Godfry says one attraction of an organic material like hemp is its durability. When first purchased, a hemp shirt is more coarse than a cotton shirt, but it softens after washing. The hemp doesn’t wear down as quickly as cotton, increasing the longevity of the shirt.

Another popular product is bamboo shirts, which are extremely soft and more breathable than cotton. He says bamboo and hemp are better for the environment because they are renewable resources that don’t require chemicals.

Growing organic cotton, on the other hand, is a little more complicated. Among other specifications, the cotton must be grown on a farm that is a certain distance away from non-organic farms in order for the cotton to be considered organic.

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Taste of Newark seeks to improve town-student relations

BY WILEY TAYLOR Staff Reporter

Mayor Vance A. Funk III has had a hand in planning the Taste of Newark Festival longer than he has been an executive of the city of Newark, and this year is no different.

For the past few days, he has been finalizing plans for the sixth annual Taste of Newark Festival, which will be held Sunday.

Funk is the director of the event and expects to attract up to 1,000 attendees this year. According to Funk, the main goal of the event is to bring residents of Newark and university students together to form tighter relations. He says the event raises thousands of dollars every year and the numbers of attendees has increased gradually each year the festival has been held.

“We already sold 940 tickets and 40 tickets will be sold at the entrance,” says Funk. “There is a long line of people trying to get those tickets.”

The first Taste of Newark Festival was held six years ago when Funk was working as a real estate attorney. At that time, the mayor and the majority of the city’s council scoffed at the idea of this type of event, due to the then adversarial relationship between the city and the university, according to

Funk.

Once Mayor Funk took office in April 2004, he worked to make the festival a reality. Funk says getting started with plans for the first festival was difficult because the city was trying to cancel the event. Despite the city’s efforts against the mayor’s plans, the festival still went on and had approximately 450 attendees.

Now the festival is a joint venture of both the city of Newark and the university.

The office of the mayor, President Patrick Harker, and Jan O’Neill of Conference Services at the university plan to collaborate every year to plan and put everything into action.

Tickets for the festival are $40 in advance and $50 at the door. Don’t worry if this may seem a little pricey, since attendees can expect $20 worth of gifts when they arrive. The mayor says only about five to ten percent of students participate in the event, but it seems to be pretty popular among those student attendees.

“There’s someone flying from Michigan who has recently relocated who came to the events before and she timed her visit back to Delaware to come to the event,” says Funk.

This year, special guest Deborah

Brenner, author of “Women of the Vine” and prominent California winemaker, will make an appearance at the festival.

There will be the usual offering of tasty delights from more than 45 Newark restaurants, including the finest wine distributors in the area. Another event to look forward to is the Battle of the Chefs competition.

Chefs will have an hour to conjure up delectable dishes from a secret list of ingredients. The competitors will be Eric Aber of Home Grown Café, Brad Dawson of Caffe Gelato, Jason Dietteric of the Stone Balloon Winehouse, Mark Chopko of the Courtyard Café at the Courtyard Marriott, and Dick Schmidt of the Blue Crab Grill.

Jason Dietteric, a chef at the Stone Balloon Winehouse and a Newark native, says the mayor contacted each chef in the competition individually to ask if they would participate in the event. Dietteric says he was rather hesitant about competing in the event at first, but he soon understood how the festival would foster better relations between the Newark residents and university students.

Dietteric says he believes that the competition is an effective and exciting way to show what the chefs can produce under

crunch time.

“This event will also showcase on how diverse the chefs are based on their style of food, ranging from a European style to an Asian Style,” explains Dietteric.

Both Dietteric and Brad Dawson of Caffe Gelato have participated in this type of competition before. While this will be Dietteric’s first time participating in the Newark festival, Dawson is a returning competitor. Dawson shares Dietteric’s view of the battle as an engaging, unique way to showcase the talent and style of each competing chef.

“It’s a really good way for the attendants to meet the chefs that cook for them at each restaurant,” says Dawson.

Funk says the return of the festival is a testament to the past success of and continuing effort to foster strong relations between the university community and the Newark community.

“I wanted to prove that a town and gown works because it’s all on the university campus, its run by university students and the people that come to the event are from the town,” says Funk. “I want the university and the city to work as partners, not adversaries.”

THE REVIEW/ Natalie Carillo

The Taste of Newark festival will feature a competition between chefs from several restaurants in downtown Newark, including Home Grown Café and Caffe Gelato.

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September 22, 2009

mosaicmusings

Cover songs make Tuesday nights boss

Each week, the managing Mosaic editors present their thoughts on current cultural happenings.

close corner for those able to attend the one-man show.

Except it isn’t really a one-man show at all.

“The thing I like about the Tuesdays at The Deer Park is it’s interactive,” Jefe says. “They love to sing along. Early in the night, people request the songs that are cool and chill and laid back, that are more listening music, or maybe try to stump me with some more obscure stuff they might not think I know. But once it starts to be an interactive party, that’s what they want, sing-along songs, stuff that they grew up to, just anything that they can sing back. Anything that they’re involved in as opposed to just stand there watching.”

On Tuesday nights, thanks to Jefe, everyone’s a singer.

Of course, the beer helps, but a night full of covers from JayZ to Green Day is a non-stop trip to yesteryear. Song after song, the lyrics bury themselves in your head.

At times, I’m not even completely sure what song I’m singing, but I know the melodies and choruses as if I had just studied all night. But the cramming has lasted a lot longer than one night — years for most — and for some, whole lifetimes. Jefe says himself that a majority of the requests are classics, not the latest flavor of the week.

“It’s not really, the newest songs,” he says. “I know everyone loves Kings of Leon now, so you’ll see ‘Sex on Fire’ or ‘Use Somebody’ requested. There for a while it was ‘I’m Yours’ by Jason Mraz. But outside of that, it’s not a whole lot of new stuff. You hear ‘Blister in the Sun,’ by the Violent Femmes, ‘Country Roads’ by John Denver. Really huge classic sing-alongs, those are the ones I hear every single week, and then sometimes it’s random ‘90s stuff like Counting Crows ‘Hangin Around.’ ”

Ah, the ‘90s, the first decade when our generation was truly able to bask in pop culture, and the only decade we can dissociate with our hectic present. While Jefe may see things differently, he recognizes why the upstairs is packed every Tuesday night.

“I think what makes it work so much on Tuesdays, you know with everybody singing along, is it’s about them. The crowd knows they can come and be a part of one thing. So, it doesn’t really become about just listening to me. Even though it’s me playing the song, half the time I’m making them sing anyways.”

—Ted Simmons, tsim@udel.edu

THE REVIEW/Natalie Carillo

It’s hard to hear Jefe Ebbert. He has a stage and a microphone, but right now the crowd of students that packs The Deer Park Tavern every Tuesday night is drowning him out.

Students have followed Jefe to Deer Park for four years now, partially to see the 36-year old local rock star, but more importantly to hear what it is he’s doing. Why would students flock to the New London bar on a week night with one name on their minds? Jefe knows it has to do with the covers.

“They know the words, they can sing along, they can be interactive with it,” Jefe says. “As opposed to originals where you have to really get to know a band to actually know the words to their songs.”

Jefe, who leads local cover band Burnt Sienna, plays The Deer Park Tavern every Tuesday, rattling off a set of covers and renditions. Tonight, he skips from Shaggy to Weezer, mixing in some Bob Marley, R. Kelly and Eagle Eye Cherry.

Some songs are weekly staples, others are first time requests. The Eagle-Eye Cherry song, “Save Tonight,” is the perfect dose of nostalgia Newark bar-goers are searching for.

The single was first released in 1998 and is probably the only piece of music anyone can name from the since faded musician. It peaked at no. 5 on U.S. billboard charts back when most of Deer Park’s patrons were entering double digits.

The treasure of Jefe’s show lies in his ability to transport students to their pasts, to their childhoods. Most students wouldn’t be able to list five songs from 1998, yet no one misses a word in “Save Tonight.” It’s the perfect trip back to a time when life was less complicated, and when the weight of the “real world” wasn’t looming around the corner — a

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Senior Jaclyn Hughes layered two images, one from the beach, and another from a park.

24 September 22, 2009

how bazaar

Each week in How Bazaar, Mosaic will feature a different component of everyday life that we wouldn’t otherwise have space to cover. This week, Staff Reporter Wiley Taylor reviews the video game “Midnight Club: Los Angeles.”

unlike most racing games of the genre.

When the player switches views to look inside the car, every little detail is closely showcased, from the old cassette players to the fine stitching on leather seats. All these added details make customization even more entertaining.

Unfortunately, the game lacks a variations of cars and the selection is relatively small, with 46 cars to choose from, which is low by today’s standards. Another bothersome aspect of the game is that some the simulated cars for traffic are either cars you can’t customize but wish you could.

Another problem with the game is the difficulty. The medium races may seem hard for new players, but once you get used to the game and know the short cuts, medium setting is rather easy. When you attempt the hardest level, you will want to just give up or throw your controller against the wall because the hardest level is almost impossible to beat and not worth the frustration.

The final issue with this game is that you can’t seem to simply restart your career on the same profile without deleting their recent achievements. The only way to get around this is to make a brand new profile or just simply overwrite your first achievements in the game.

— Wiley Taylor, tjtaylor@udel.edu Courtesy of Amazon.com

“Midnight Club: Los Angeles” by Rockstar Games is a game that will please and challenge the best arcade racing gamer, but might leave more average players in the dust.

Straight off the bat, the game story line is rather typical: players assume the role of a new racer in town and need to prove themselves in order to gain respect.

When you start off, you have a choice of three cars that are rather slow and one that is popular among tuners, the 1998 Nissan 240SX. When the player starts driving around, he will notice how good the controls are on the game and how Rockstar made sure to keep that distinct arcade feel by having special power ups like “zone,” which slows down time and enables better steering. After playing the tutorial, the player is off to explore the world in the game and what it has to offer.

The environment within the game is vast and impressive. The creators of the game paid very close to attention to detail on the environment, putting in a 24 hour day-to-night cycle, weather effects and traffic conditions. Another nice touch is the overview map and how it has a zoom in and out effect of taking the view to an aerial shot, then swooping right back down to your car or destination.

Each time your car is damaged after a race, the damaged parts are replaced

with old junkyard parts, and the car is riddled with scratches on the parts that were not damaged as much.

In the game, the player has to literally drive to wherever the host racer is and flash his lights. This can get very tiring for players when they have to complete missions on the far east and west ends of the maps, resulting in drives that seem rather long and annoying.

When it comes to customization, Rockstar did a wonderful job. Almost every aspect of the car can be customized, from what kind of brakes and tires a player wants to the color of the seats of the car,

you speak out What is your opinion on organic clothing?

“A lot of times it could be more pricey. My roommate had sheets made out of bamboo last year and they were really soft and they dried really fast, but they were more expensive.”

— Kristin Bubel, junior “My guess is something like that would take the price of the cloth the garment is made out of and jack the price way up. Being a college student I wouldn’t have the money at this time to purchase stuff like that.”

— Abby Harting, senior

“I support that.

That’s good, support local farmers and such. I don’t see why anyone would be against that.”

— Yasir Khan, freshman

“It’s definitely interesting. As part of a green revolution thing, that would be good.

Save the planet.”

— Gigi Sangari, senior

— Compiled by Senior Mosaic Reporter Jordan Allen

September 22, 2009

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Singer Syd kicks off Wednesday concert series

BY MIA POZZANGHERA Staff Reporter

It was just around 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday and the Trabant University Center was coming alive with the usual midmorning crowd. An hour later, Syd took center stage as the first Wednesday Concert Series artist of the semester.

“I’m happy to be back [at the university],” Syd says, a 27-year old singer, songwriter and producer.

Caitlin Birney, Student Committee Program Advisory Board’s (SCPAB) Wednesday Series Chairperson, says Syd has performed at the university three times since the fall of 2008. Wednesday marked his second appearance as a Concert Series artist.

“SCPAB has a huge following of Syd,” Birney says. “We love when he comes here.”

Syd is a Vermont native but moved to Boston to attend Emerson College. He says his passion for music skyrocketed during his college career and is still growing today.

Although Syd came to Trabant ready to entertain students with his soothing voice and guitar, he does not focus solely on his own performances. Syd is also very active in the songwriting and producing aspects of his career.

“I can’t do one thing exclusively,” he says. “I get antsy — I need other stuff going on or else I get kind of bored.”

Syd says, he broke into the music industry during college when he started writing songs and hanging around the Boston music scene. He says he got to know a few people in the industry who helped him cultivate his own sound.

He cannot put his finger on one particular role model, but Syd says there are many people in the industry he looks up to.

“Kanye is awesome,” Syd says. “But really, I look up to anyone who is doing what they’re doing with integrity and honesty without stabbing people in the back.

The music industry is full of that.”

Syd says he tries to surround himself with great artists in the industry, which is not too difficult to do because there are so many of them. He says he admires people like Butch Walker, who has led the same sort of career path Syd is on now. “[Butch] has co-written with Avril

Lavigne but then also plays his own music a lot of fun — I really enjoy working with concert in Trabant. Unfortunately for with his own band,” Syd says. “We’re kind them and the best thing is that when we Greisler, it was the first of the last, but she travel together, we sell out at venues that was thrilled that the chosen artist was Syd. of both doing the same sort of thing.”

“I have seen him like two times Syd is continuing to promote his new none of us normally sell out alone.”

As Syd stepped up to the microphone, before,” Greisler says. “He is really great, I album Upswing with a fall tour, on which the university was one of his stops. Upswing Trabant was packed with students ready to just love him.” was released a few months ago and most of listen. For the freshmen, it was their first the songs are available to listen to for free on Syd’s Web site as digital downloads.

“I’m really excited about the new album,” he says. “We even made a video for the song ‘The Big Town.’ It was a lot of fun.” Syd says the video can be viewed on his Web site.

Senior Taryn Greisler, also a member of SCPAB, stopped by Trabant to hear Syd’s performance in between classes.

Greisler says one of her favorite memories of Syd coming to the university is when he came with the group “The Who’s That Pack.” It is a group of five musicians who come together to help each other present their music.

Greisler says they are funny to watch and a joy to listen to.

“The Who’s That Pack” got its name from the famous group “The Rat Pack.”

“It’s a play on words,” Syd says. “You know, the guys in The Rat Pack are well-known and we’re really not so it’s kind of like ‘Who’s that?’ ” Syd says the group works because none of the members are household names. However, they are all known in their own little ways, so they feed off of each other to make themselves the best they can be.

The group has created a fan base even outside the university.

Syd says he enjoys working with the group because it gives each musician a chance to feature his own music with the help of a few friends. Each of the members takes turns playing each instrument and giving vocal solos.

Courtesy of Syd “The first few shows we do are often a bit shaky,” he says. “But it’s Syd has performed at the university several times before.

Fashion students branch out

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Rita Chang traveled to Taiwan to intern with Nike.

Courtesy of Rita Chang

interested in similar majors. “There is a big variety of pretty interesting things to do,” she says. “Rita could go into human rights law, into business into a corporate responsibility program, like the one at Nike, or maybe work for the government or the State Department. She could even work for an NGO, for organizations and consumer campaigns.”

Like Chang, junior Jennifer McCord did not enter the university planning to create a fashion-related major, but after she took a broad range of classes, including anthropology, sociology and environmental studies courses, her adviser suggested she create a Dean’s Scholar major.

McCord’s major, social responsibility and sustainability in the fashion industry, focuses both on workers rights as well as environmental policy and political thought.

McCord, who entered the university undecided, says she created her major because she feels the movement towards

green living and sustainability is relevant to the fashion industry. It’s a good way to make an impact, she says.

Last year, McCord worked on a research project in the fashion department called the University of Delaware Sustainable Apparel Initiative, researching the strategies companies could use to make businesses more sustainable. She says the project, which was published in the fashion magazine “Women’s Wear Daily,” helped her learn how to contact people in the industry.

“You can have ideas in academia, but they don’t actually matter unless you can reach people in the industry and consumers,” McCord says.

Dickson says she has enjoyed working with students like Chang and McCord.

“Working directly with students who are passionate about issues, like they are, is very rewarding and exciting.”

26 September 22, 2009 Clothing must fit USDA guides “Instead of dosing their fields with chemicals and then all those chemicals run off into the streams and lakes and rivers and whatever, organic farms aren’t contributing to the negative footprint on the earth,” Godfry says.

The Sustainable Cotton Project (SCP), based in California, was started in 1996 to increase the knowledge and use of alternate farming practices to replace chemically intensive ones. The project includes Biological Agricultural Systems in Cotton (BASIC), a program that helps farmers improve eco-friendly cotton growth by informing and supporting Biointensive Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices on their farms.

This system relies on habitat manipulation, biological control, modification of cultural practices and use of resistant varieties as the first line of defense against pest outbreaks, according to the Sustainable Cotton Project Web site. Pesticides are used as a last resort and treatments are made with the goal of removing only the target organism.

Farmers use reduced-risk chemicals to minimize risks to human health, other animals and the environment.

The specifications for an organic product are defined by The National Organic Program (NOP).

This group develops, implements and administers national production, handling and labeling standards for organic agricultural products. The NOP also accredits the certifying agents, both foreign and domestic, who inspect organic production and handling operations to ensure that they meet United States Department of Agriculture standards, according to the USDA Web site.

Sandi Patterson, owner of Clothes in the Past Lane, says she tries to stock organic items because her store focuses on helping the environment, but she doesn’t think

the word “organic” necessarily has a place in the fashion world.

“People might argue with me, they might say ‘that was made with toxic chemicals’ blah blah blah,” Patterson says. “Well, we’re not going to put it in a landfill; we’re going to wear it and enjoy it and not hurt the environment with it.”

For the most part, she says, organic means more expensive. Her store carries organic t-shirts, shoes and pants. Sometimes she marks expensive organic items down, such as jeans, because she promises her customers she will never stock pants that cost over one hundred dollars.

Patterson says she buys organic products to offer an extra option, but she doesn’t think those who buy the items are really concerned with whether or not they are organic. She says the people who shop at her store are more concerned about the environment through other venues, such as food.

“Even that is more expensive,” she says. “I think it tastes better…but we’re not going to eat the clothes, we’re going to recycle the clothes and then they’re going to become vintage clothes and then we’re going to recycle them again.”

Patterson says the key to helping the environment in the fashion industry is recycling. She purchases and stocks vintage clothing because it can be in the marketplace and be reused for anywhere from 40 to 60 years.

Her store will continue to be environmentally conscious, she says, but to her, organic clothes are still just clothes.

“It might have a little bit different look to it, a different feel, but nothing that absolutely grabs you in the face and says ‘oh my God I have to have this, it’s organic,’ ” Patterson says. “I swear by organic potatoes, I think they’re great, but again, some people wouldn’t be able to tell.”

Bloom carries a selection of eco-friendly clothing.

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September 22, 2009

Did you know?

Freshman Mike Williams recently shattered the UD bench press record by 50 lbs., setting the new record at 385 lbs.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Men’s Soccer at St. Joseph’s 7:00 PM Volleyball vs. Seton Hall 7:00 PM

Thursday, September 24, 2009 Women’s Soccer vs. Hofstra 7:00 PM

Friday, September 25, 2009

Field Hockey at VCU 6:00 PM Men’s Soccer at Old Dominion 7:00 PM Volleyball vs. George Mason 7:00 PM

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Golf at Cornell Invitational Softball at Carole Weil Tournament in Allentown, Pa. Rowing vs. St. Joseph’s, Temple 10:00 AM Women’s Tennis at Villanova 1:00 PM Men’s Tennis at Villanova 2:00 PM Football at William & Mary 7:00 PM Volleyball vs. James Madison 7:00 PM Sunday, September 27, 2009

Golf at Cornell Invitational Field Hockey at James Madison 1:00 PM Women’s Soccer at Northeastern 1:00 PM

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Delaware wins inaugural First State Cup

BY PAT MAGUIRE Managing Sports Editor

After 82 years coexisting as Division I football programs in the same state, and months of hype, speculation and excitement, Delaware played Delaware State in their first regular season matchup ever on Saturday, defeating the DSU Hornets 27-17.

Now that the flyovers have passed and the media hype has subsided, the Hens must leave Delaware State behind them and head to William & Mary for a crucial Colonial Athletic Conference match-up.

“It’s really the kind of game you want to play in when you get sandwiched with Richmond and William & Mary,” Hens’ head coach K.C. Keeler said yesterday, referring to the Delaware State game. “That can be dangerous, too.

The Hornets were dangerous. While it was dubbed a rivalry, the Hens were supreme favorites to handily take the First State Cup. However, the close score did not come as a surprise to either head coach.

“They were a much better football team than they were in ’07 [the last time the Hens played the Hornets in the first round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs],” Keeler said. “I have so much respect for Al (Lavan) and his program.”

Posting a line of 23 for 40 completions and throwing for 208 yards on the day, Delaware State QB Anthony Glaud led the Hornets within striking distance of the Hens. Although the Hornets were close, they could never quite catch Keeler’s squad.

“Preparing throughout the week, we knew we would have the opportunity to score the football,” Glaud said. “It was no surprise for us because that’s what we prepare for.”

While Delaware scored early in the first quarter on a 15-play, 63-yard drive capped by a Pat Devlin quarterback sneak into the end zone,

they were stagnant for the rest of the half. to Expecting score late in the half, the Hens found themselves 4th and 1 on the one-yard-line as the clock was winding down. On a run up the middle, Leon Jackson was stuffed by Delaware State LB Kevin Green, sending the Hens into the locker room leading 7-3 rather than 14-3.

“I guess I just kind of read it,” Green said. “I saw the motion and shot it. The game was about momentum.

We stopped it, so I felt like the momentum went right to us.”

The Hornets were unable to capitalize, however, and could not score throughout the The Hens and Delaware third quarter.

“We simply couldn’t make enough big plays to get some scoring done,” Hornets head coach Al Lavan said. “There were opportunities there and we just fell a little short being consistent in our play.”

The Hens offense was unable to kick into gear until a 38 yard reception from Devlin to WR Tommy Crosby late in the third quarter.

Crosby’s reception set up Devlin’s second rushing touchdown of the day, giving the Hens their second set of points on the board and a 14-3 lead heading into the final quarter of play.

Delaware didn't slow down after their third quarter drive.

After a recovered fumble forced by Saddiq Haynes at the beginning of the final quarter, Devlin and the Hens drove six plays and 59 yards capped by a 17-yard touchdown pass from Devlin to freshman WR Rob Jones to make the score 21-3.

“Getting Pat in an empty set and letting him control the game made it a different game in the second half,” Keeler said.

He believes Saturday’s second half is a preview of what the Hens could become as they prepare for William & Mary.

“There’s glimmers of what can be,” he THE REVIEW/Natalie Carillo said. “It’s really about

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State fought for the First State Cup Saturday.

the execution of the offense.”

Despite Delaware’s flashes of offensive dominance, the Hornets never gave up. Delaware State answered with an interception shortly after Devlin’s touchdown. Jerome Strumms intercepted a pass intended for Hens WR Mark Mackey, returning it 71 yards for a touchdown.

The Hornet’s high did not last long, however.

RB Jerry Butler returned the kickoff inside the Delaware State 30 yard line, setting up a threeyard touchdown run by Leon Jackson shortly after to make the score 27-10.

Although Delaware State scored its second touchdown late in the fourth quarter on a 74-yard drive to make the score 27-17, it wasn't enough to catch the Hens.

“At the very end, we finished the drive but before that we didn’t finish,” Lavan said. “That’s the point. I’m very proud of our guys. We never stopped fighting.”

Hens’ QB Pat Devlin finished the day with 228 yards passing, with two rushing and one throwing touchdown.

“He’s so close to being great,” Keeler said. “I need to make sure Pat’s getting all the individual work that he needs.”

With Delaware State behind them, Devlin and the Hens are looking for their first conference win Saturday night against the #5-ranked Tribe.

Hens’ DB Anthony Walters cited the William & Mary game as a pivotal point in the season.

“Every time we play a ranked opponent, it’s a huge game,” he said. “I’d like to think so because we’re not ranked and if we håad beat [#1 ranked] Richmond, we would have easily cracked the top 25. This will give us the chance to move probably inside the top 20. If we win this, our confidence will skyrocket. If we lose this, then it’s kind of tougher.”

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Tennis teams off to hot starts

BlueHenBabble

How do you feel about the sports betting policies affecting playoff games in Delaware?

“I don’t like that because a lot of kids want to come watch, and it’d probably make money for the school to host playoff games—they’d definitely be sold out. So I’d say no, it’s not worth it.

It’s not benefiting university students.”

Daniel Wham -Freshman

“I hate it how we can’t host conferences here at all. It’s not fair to us that we don’t get to host one just because of the state, it’s not like it’s our school that’s doing it.”

Kayla Hennessy -Junior

BY KATHARYN REINAGEL Staff Reporter

Though last year the men’s and women’s tennis teams ended their season early in the CAA Quarterfinals, both teams are off to a great start after returning to the courts for the 2009 season.

This weekend, the women went to the Maryland Invitational and the men went to the Swarthmore Tournament.

The biggest priorities at the start of the season, said the teams’ head coach Laura Travis, are staying in shape and working on team chemistry.

“I feel the women are as good as last year,” Travis said. “For the men, it’s figuring out singles and doubles. This future is really great.”

The men are taking on three more freshmen and two transfers, which gives them a 12-man squad.

Returning senior leader Austin Longacre had a record of 20-5 last year and holds a career record of 52-30. Longacre, who holds the school record for wins in a season with 22, was also named to the 2009 All-CAA Second Team for singles play.

“Longacre is on the track to rewrite every single record in tennis history,” Travis said. “He’s an amazing player.”

Longacre looks forward to taking the court with his new

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teammates.

“We have so many talented guys,” Longacre said. “There’s so many different guys pushing each other. I am looking forward to playing doubles with the new guys. They’re meshing real well, the chemistry is there. Staying healthy and staying in shape is important.”

Travis looks to the remaining seniors to contribute to the team as well. Andre Vorobyov holds a 13-10 record last year, but 3-1 in doubles with Longacre and 8-1 with senior Camilo Perez.

“Vorobyov, we look to him to contribute,” Travis said. “Sam [Barrer] and Perez, looking for major leadership from them.”

At the Swarthmore Tournament, Longacre made it all the way to the Flight A single final before losing a hard-fought match to Andrew Wang of Johns Hopkins. Sophomore Courtney Scott won the Flight B final, defeating teammate Chris Hincker, while Jeff Marshall took home the Flight D championship as well. Scott and Hincker teamed up later to make it to the Flight A doubles final, eventually losing to Casey Blythe and Jacob Barnaby from Johns Hopkins.

For the women’s sevenwoman team, she focuses on keeping the team healthy and injury free.

Dela w ar e vs.

William & Mar y Date: September 26

BY ELLEN CRAVEN Assistant Sports Editor

About the Teams:

The Hens:

Delaware (2-1, 0-1 Colonial Athletic Association) just won the First State Cup in a 27-17 decision against Delaware State University.

Pat Devlin scored two rushing touchdowns and passed for another.

He completed 19 of 29 passes for 227 yards. Devlin has completed 61 percent of passes in the last three games. The team averages 25.7 points per game.

The Tribe:

The Tribe is 3-0 for the first time since 1998. The Tribe went 7-4, (53 CAA) last year and their defense returned eight starters this year.

They have been ranked as high as No. 5 this season. The Tribe averages 28.7 points per game and senior quarterback R.J. Archer has a 127.4 efficiency rating.

Location: Zable Stadium, Williamsburg, VA

Why the Hens can win:

The Richmond game proved that the Hens can compete with any team in the CAA. Confidence should carry Delaware well into conference play.

The Hens’ last three games showed that their defense can perform well in high-pressure situations. The Hens stepped up last time they met a threatening offense, and they should be able to do so again.

The Hens are the first CAA rival the Tribe will see this season. The Tribe is undefeated but conference opponents are often more familiar with one another’s systems.

Why the Hens could lose:

The Tribe defense only allowed their last opponents 39 yards rushing. Since the Hens haven’t yet established a strong running game, they could easily get frustrated on offense and become predictable with their play calling.

The Tribe beat ACC opponent Virginia in their home opener. They’ve also proven themselves. The Hens have yet to be tested on the road and still don’t know how they will handle a foreign environment or hostile crowd.

In their last game, the Tribe defense held Norfolk scoreless until the fourth quarter and allowed zero passing yards in the first quarter. If the Hens don’t get off to a good start, they may not be able to make up for it.

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20-13: Delaware’s record against the Tribe 27-3: Score of the Hens’ loss against William & Mary last season Matt’s Prediction:

The Hens got rocked by William & Mary last season, but who didn’t they get rocked by? This season is a turning of the leaf for the Hens, who have the potential to turn their worst season into a significantly better season.

I’m sure the Tribe isn’t oblivious to the changes that have happened in the Hens locker room, but they also are undefeated and will have a certain swagger about them. Still, look for the Hens to win this in a close fight.

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“Our small size is an obstacle,” junior Samantha Carnall said. “But it makes us closer.”

Carnall had a record of 17-5 last season. Junior Ivana Petrich led the team in wins with a 24-3 record. The teams' two seniors Elena Berry and Kristen Mueller followed with a 22-6 record and a record of 7-3 for singles, respectively. Travis is looking for the two seniors to lead the pack. Over the summer, Mueller was recognized for the UD Team Sportsmanship Award.

“It’s a similar team to last year,” she said. “We hope to stay injury free. The fact we’re carrying seven, staying healthy is important.”

Two weeks ago, the Hens won seven out of eight matches at the Swarthmore Tournament, their first tournament of the year.

Mueller dominated all three days, winning the Flight C championship, and Doran was able to make it to the semifinals of Flight A. The team was hampered by injuries, as Petrich had to retire in Flight A play and Berry pulled out of doubles due to an injury.

“Kristin Mueller was in the first flight and she really stepped up,” Carnall said. “She also took Berry’s spot in doubles.

Hopefully, we do what we’ve been doing for the rest of the season.”

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Cross Country Both the men’s and women’s teams finished first Saturday at the Delaware Invitational. Chris Bourke led the men’s team, posting a first place finish of 26:14.94 in eight kilometers. Julia Somers led the women’s race with a time of 18:49.74 in five kilometers. Nick Pyle finished second for the men and Jessie Ermak finished fourth for the women. The Hens’ next meet is Oct. 2 at Lehigh.

Field Hockey Delaware won its fifth straight game Sunday against California to improve their record to 5-2.

The Hens won the game 2-1 behind the play of Missy Woodie, who was named the CAA CoPlayer of the week because of her help anchoring the defensive unit. Woodie’s play also helped the Hens secure a shutout against Temple on Friday.

Delaware kicks off their conference schedule against Virginia Commonwealth on Friday.

Men’s Soccer With a short bench due to suspended players, the Hens lost their fifth game of the season against Rider Friday night, 2-1. The loss leaves the Hens with a record of 1-5 as they prepare for their next game against St. Joseph’s to be held Wednesday night.

Women’s Soccer The Hens dropped to 3-2 on the season Sunday night, as they were shut out by La Salle, 1-0. The Explorers edged the Hens on the 67th minute of play. Delaware begins their CAA schedule Thursday night when they host Hofstra.

Tennis The men’s tennis team competed in the Swarthmore tournament over the weekend as the women headed to Maryland to compete in the Maryland open. For the men, five individuals and a doubles team advanced to the finals. For the women, Kristen Mueller won the flight C championship for the Hens.

September 22, 2009

Casey Howard leads field hockey to 5-2 start

BY PAT GILLESPIE Staff Reporter

Senior Delaware field hockey captain Casey Howard was awarded the Army ROTC Best of the Blue Hens Athlete of the Week award for her performance against Brown University on Sept. 6. Howard scored five goals in the 10-2 rout of Brown.

“I feel like I was just in the right place at the right time,” Howard said of her performance.

Hens forward Kimmy Schlezes expressed a similar opinion about Howard’s success in the game against Brown.

“I think our players set her up with some great passes,” she said. “I also think she is so intense that she just never stops.

She just keeps going, going regardless of the score.”

Besides making an impression on Brown, Howard has also made one on head coach Carol Miller over the past five years.

“Invaluable,” Miller said of her senior forward. “Her work ethic everyday at practice just inspires others to pick it up.”

Howard’s work ethic is certainly paying off. She leads the team in goals, assists and points, but attributes her success to the core of players around her.

“My teammates, in a sense, have made me more successful,” she said. “It’s been nice playing with a lot of the same people for four years.”

Schlezes echoes Miller’s opinion that Howard influences how other players perform. She defined Howard as a quiet leader who allows her playing to speak for her.

“She works hard every day, and it’s contagious,” Schlezes said. “She definitely helps me pick up my intensity. She just makes you better playing around her.”

Howard is coming off a hiatus due to an injury that forced her to redshirt the 2008 season.

In 2007, the field hockey squad finished with a 10-9 record. In 2008, the team struggled and ended with a 3-15 mark.

This season the team is back to its winning ways with Howard back on board and a 4-2 record.

“She’s on the radar of every team we go up against,” Miller said. “I say very jokingly, but I’ve said this before, she’s my Joe Flacco. She can do it all, but, like Joe, he needed players around him to be successful.”

Howard’s development as a player over the past five years,

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Howard is the team captain after an injury shortened 2008 season.

including her redshirt season, has been more mental than physical.

“She seems to have developed a maturity to learn how to now motivate people around her, not only by her actions, but also by her words,” Miller said.

Miller claims Howard’s most valuable leadership quality is her relentless work ethic both on the practice field and at games. She has at least one goal in four out the five games played this season.

Despite the disappointing 2008 campaign, Miller, Howard, and Schlezes all have a positive outlook on the 2009 season.

“The team is great,” Schlezes said. “The energy is really positive. Everyone is working really hard. We just want to win. That’s what we came to do.”

Howard feels the team has a

great foundation of veteran players who can help out the newcomers.

“We have 10 seniors on the team so [there’s] a lot of experience,” Howard said. “I’m the only captain this year for the team, but with 10 seniors it makes it so much easier because everyone has kind of fallen into that leadership role.”

Howard’s Throughout career, conference play has been an Achilles heel for the Delaware field hockey team. In the three previous years Howard was an active player, the team went 8-16 in Colonial Athletic Association play. They intend to right the ship against CAA opponent Virginia Commonwealth University on Friday, September 25th, with Howard leading the way.

“She’s a coach’s dream,” Miller said.

Volleyball rallies to beat North Carolina

BY KATIE RIMPFEL

Champion Tar Heels (4-6) couldn’t hold off the Hens, who got 23 kills from Katie The Delaware volleyball team pulled off Dennehy and 13 apiece from Kim Stewart a thrilling 3-2 (21-25, 19-25, 25-22, 25-20, and Michelle LaLonde.

15-12) come-from-behind win over the “We just fought,” Barry said. “We found University of North Carolina Tar Heels on our play and took in the crowd.”

Friday night at the Bob Carpenter Center. The The Hens kept the score close in the first Hens (5-5) fought back after dropping the two sets, but could only manage to tie the first two games to the North Carolina team. score once in that span. Delaware had severThe defending Atlantic Coast Conference Co- al chances to overcome the Tar Heels during the first two sets, but were plagued by attack errors. set third The resembled the previous two with Delaware down 4-12, but the Hens fought back with kills from LaLonde, Dennehy, Erickson, Paige Alissa Alker and Kim Stewart, who also contributed an ace on the serve.

The Hens won five consecutive points at the end of the third to keep the match alive and overcome the Tar Heels 25-22.

Encouraged by the record crowd of 2,517 in the stands of the Bob Carpenter Center, the Hens came out swinging in the fourth set, where THE REVIEW/Christine Fallable Steph Barry helped lead the Hens with 32 digs in Friday’s win vs. UNC Delaware then got its Staff Reporter

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first lead of the match. The Hens found success again in spreading the ball around, getting points from seven different players, including an ace from senior Stephanie Barry, who recently set a new program record for career digs, as well as a rare kill from setter Jess Chason. Chason also added 52 assists.

The Hens started out the tie-breaking fifth game with a quick 7-1 lead, aided by attack errors by North Carolina. The Tar Heels made a valiant comeback bringing the score back to 13-11, but the Hens closed out the set due to attack and service errors from North Carolina.

North Carolina was led by Ingrid Hanson-Tuntland, who had 17 kills. Kaylie Gibson also contributed a match-high 39 digs for the Tar Heels.

Delaware head coach Bonnie Kenny said she was proud of her team for coming back after being down two games. Delaware had dropped their last three games by a score of 3-1.

“Winning one game isn’t good enough,” Kenny told her team at the break.

Senior Barry, who had 35 digs for the night, was also happy with her team’s perseverance and hard play.

Despite this thrilling win over a difficult opponent, Kenny still sees room for improvement. Her outlook on the rest of the season is still the same.

“Doesn’t change it at all,” Kenny said.

“We’re still a work in progress.”

The Hens will look to build on the win when they host Seton Hall (6-9) on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in the Carpenter Sports Building.

EMILY NASSI “ARIVALRY BEGINS” When I first heard about the Delaware-Delaware State new “rivalry” game, I scoffed at the idea.

Perhaps I was thinking back to two years ago, in 2007, when the two teams played in the first round of the NCAA FCS tournament and Delaware dominated the game, winning 44-7. So I assumed the thenupcoming game on Sept. 19 was going to end the same way.

It definitely did not.

The first half was miserable to watch as a Delaware fan. Even when we were ahead 7-3, I still felt as if we were losing since so many mistakes were made. And even though it wasn't a blow out, it still wasn't a good first half spectator-wise. Despite this, being the loyal fan that I am I stayed for the second half .This is when I saw why Delaware vs. Delaware State was a good rivalry.

The second half of the game was overall enthralling. I found myself, along with my friends, watching every play rather than zoning out, which sometimes occurs during the three-hour duration of the game.

Even when Delaware was leading, Delaware State was never far behind, even when it seemed as if the Hens had a comfortable lead.

That's what makes a good game.

But does that mean it will make a good rivalry? If you had asked me before the game, as I said earlier, I would have shot that down in a second. Now however, I think this could be a great rivalry in coming years.

Some have said that this rivalry could end up like the West Chester “rivalry” —that is, complete Hens dominance for the past 16 times the two teams have met. I'm going to think about it this way though. If the Delaware team from the 2008 season had played Delaware State last year, would Delaware have come out on top? There's no way to tell, but I'm going to take a gamble and say there's a really good chance that Delaware might have lost.

There's always going to be off years when one team crushes the other. It's bound to happen, but that shouldn't detract from what looks like is going to be a great rivalry.

Perhaps Delaware football isn't all people make it out to be. Or Delaware State is better than people think. From my standpoint, it looks like an even matchup, and something that came 82 years later than it should have.

Emily Nassi is a sports editor at The Review. Send questions, comments and a Loyal Fan of the Year award to enassi@udel.edu

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September 22, 2009

Delaware 27, Del. State 17

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