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Graduate killed in Newark pedestrian collision CADY ZUVICH Executive Editor A recent graduate is dead after being struck by a car early Sunday morning, according to UDaily.

Amanda Hagelstein, 22, was walking to cross East Delaware Avenue and South Chapel Street at 1:33 a.m. when she was hit by a 1994 Ford Ranger driven by 21-year-old Kyle Loyd of Newark. Hagelstein, a 2014 alumna from New Castle, Del., died from sustained injuries at Christiana Hospital.

According to police, Loyd was driving east on Delaware Avenue when Hagelstein began running to cross the street. Loyd initially fled the scene, but was later taken into custody without incident by the Newark Police Department. Newark Police have charged Loyd with a DUI and leaving the scene of a collision.

He has been released on a $5,500 secured bond.

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KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Monté Ross, shown here restraining a player during a recent game, will no longer be head coach of the men’s basketball team if he is not resigned after his contract ended with Saturday’s playoff loss. Ross has been with the program since his hiring as head coach in 2006.

MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor “It’s like getting a root canal.”

That was how Pat Skerry, head coach of the Towson Tigers, described coaching against current Delaware head basketball coach Monté Ross. Skerry’s teeth may get a break soon: after nine years with the program, Ross’ next loss might be his last.

Ross is in the final year of his contract and despite his significant recent success, an extension does not appear to be on the horizon. The News Journal reported this

week that Ross was angered by a low contract offer by the university after last season, but when he decided to accept it anyway, the university declined.

Ross has emerged as a sympathetic figure in the press and among students recently. Supportive signs have popped up at games, letters and petitions are appearing on his behalf and media members around the country are calling for an extension.

Ross, whose teams have the best CAA record over the last three seasons, said his contract is not affecting the way he coaches and that

he, as well as the team, have to concentrate only on what they can actually control.

“You always appreciate support,” he said. “I think it shows that people respect the job that you’ve done, the way your players play and how you’ve built the program[...] I think we have built something here that is sustainable, and they appreciate that.”

He refused to comment on The News Journal reports and his contract in general.

Ross also would not say whether the situation has resulted in tension between he and Eric Ziady, athletic director since 2012. Ziady declined to be interviewed for

this story, citing personnel policies.

Dick Jerardi, who covers college basketball for the Philadelphia Inquirer, said though he follows Delaware basketball from afar, it is clear that Ross has been instrumental in turning the basketball program around at the university.

“The most important thing a coach can have is administrative support,” he said. “I don’t know specifically if he does not have that, but I do know he does not have a contract. On the surface, it would appear [he does not].”

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Pay cut ahead for Harker when he joins Fed JAY PANANDIKER Administrative News Editor

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW President Patrick Harker, pictured last week during a faculty meeting.

President Patrick T. Harker may be taking a pay cut with his new position at Philadelphia’s Federal Reserve Bank. As university president, Harker has been making far into six figures, his 2013 base salary being $747,507 plus $103,571 in other compensation. Harker is among the highest paid presidents and is the highest paid public employee in the state. Former president David Roselle was earning a total compensation of $2,377,100 at his time of retirement.

In 2013, Charles I. Plosser, then-president of the Philadelphia Fed, received $350,400.

This salary is toward the

middle of the range of other Federal Reserve presidents.

The amount has not changed since 2010 due to a salary freeze at the bank.

The Third District is the smallest district in terms of geographic reach and the second smallest by population. The Philadelphia Fed also publishes The Anxious Index, an annual report on the economic outlook.

As the president of the Philadelphia Fed, Harker will oversee the branch’s 900 employees. He will also be rotating member of the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets the federal funds rate—the rate at which banks lend money to each other. This rate ultimately determines the interest rate.

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-34th Annual Black Maria Film Festival, 5 - 7 p.m., 130 Smith Hall -UD Ballroom Dance Team Public Classes 6:30 - 8 p.m., St. Thomas Episcopal Parish, Great Hall -A’cappella Madness: Final Four, 7:30 p.m., Trabant Theater

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11

THURSDAY, MARCH 12

-Meet with the Provost, 4 - 5:30 p.m., Gore Recital Hall, Roselle Center for the Arts -Women’s College centennial keynote address featuring Laura Ling, 6 p.m., Gore Recital Hall, Roselle Center for the Arts -“The Hunting Ground” documentary preview, 8 p.m., Mitchell Hall

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 -Minority Mentor Lecture Series featuring Waverly Duck on “An Ethnographic -Portrait of Drug Dealing and Policing in a Small Black Town,” 12:30 - 2 p.m., Sharp Laboratory 130 -International Coffee Hour, 4 - 6 p.m., 44 Kent Way

“Rethinking Our Democracy, Reconstituting Our Republic” lecture featuring Christopher Phillips, 7 p.m., Gore Hall 103 -NET/WORK Technology Job Fair, 4 - 7 p.m., Venture Development Center -REP presents, “Juno and the Paycock,” 7:30 p.m., Center for the Arts

TL;DR Yik Yak drops by UD How high is your Yakarma? Yik Yak reps are in Newark today as part of its spring college tour. Reps were in Trabant handing out “Yik Yak swag” with 10,000 Yakarma earning you a free pair of socks featuring the Yak mascot.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14

Speaking of Yik Yak…

-Men’s Lax vs. Rutgers, 12 p.m., Delaware Stadium -Annual Clarinet Day artist recital, 12:30 p.m., Center for the Arts, Gore Recital Hall -Women’s Lax vs. Temple, 3 p.m., Delaware Stadium

The anonymous social app made the front page of the New York Times today in an article looking into the offensive yaks seen across college campuses.

SUNDAY, MARCH 15

MONDAY, MARCH 16

-Softball vs. Cornell (Delaware Spring Invitational), 1:30 p.m., UD Softball Stadium -Softball vs. Villanova (Delaware Spring Invitational), 3:45 p.m., UD Softball Stadium

-Women’s History Month film series featuring “Tales of the Waria,” 7 - 9 p.m., Kirkbride Hall 206 -Nursing Alumni Network Meeting, 5 - 7:30 p.m., STAR Health Sciences Complex, Conference Room 113

Racist video shuts down Oklahoma fraternity The national Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity closed its chapter at University of Oklahoma Monday after a video surfaced of members chanting racist slurs. The fraternity members involved were also suspended following the widespread condemnation of the video, specifically its mention of lynching and the pledge that the fraternity will never have a black member.

The campus responded with protests, and the university president released a letter expressing his disgust.

One year anniversary of Malaysian plane disappearance

Sunday marked one year since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

The plane was flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China and vanished over the South China Sea, less than an hour after takeoff. In what has become one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history, traces of the plane still have yet to be found.

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B IDEN BEAT Biden and the importance of male advocates

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CADY ZUVICH Executive Editor Happy (belated) International Women’s Day! Tis the season to tweet, Facebook and Instagram facts proving that gender inequality still (yes, even today) exists.

We also saw the launching of the Clinton Foundation’s #NotThere video, which features various female celebs explaining the issues women today face including pay inequality, childhood marriage and the lack of maternity leave.

As important as it is to address these issues, we can’t reach gender equality alone. One person who understands this is Joe Biden.

Yes, Biden. The one who received a ton of flack for suggestively rubbing the shoulders of a federal employee’s wife. But while you were looking through galleries of him getting too close to women, Biden was preparing a visit to Baltimore, where he will address rape kit backlogs next week.

Biden has been a longtime advocate of women’s issues. He was author of lead sponsor of the landmark 1990 Violence Against Women Act. Just before the bill’s passing, he spoke at his alma mater about the hurdles rape victims face.

From the archives, Biden said: “We fail to outgrow outmoded ideas in our society, and our criminal justice system still much too often treats the survivors EMERY COOPERSMITH/ of rape and abuse as if they were to blame.” Even in 2015, this quote from THE REVIEW 1990 is a refresher from the politicians who don’t understand rape.

There’s a reason Leslie Knope loves Biden. He has always been a hard-nosed advocate for women even though this role is overshadowed by the mischaracterization that he is Creepy Uncle Joe. Advocacy is a funny thing. Women own this issue, yes. But we can’t do this alone. We need allies, but Biden goes beyond that. He’s an advocate.

Friday, February 11, 1983

On a cold day in 1983, the university looked like this— covered in 14 inches of snow—yet students still had to trek to their classes. President E.A. Trabant said the university was to stay open in order to minimize expenses as well as to provide the services required, adding that union contracts prohibited the school’s closing. Trabant estimated that 75 percent of students attended morning classes and 35 percent of students attended afternoon classes that day. Around 2 p.m., Gov. Pierre du Pont declared a state of emergency and called on the National Guard to help clear roadways. The state of emergency was not lifted until Saturday around 5 p.m., after he toured the state by helicopter.

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What you missed at Monday’s sexual assault forum MEGHAN JUSCZAK Managing News Editor Halfway through Monday’s open forum on sexual assault and harassment, political science professor Stuart Kaufman asked for a show of hands.

“A few minutes ago, [a student] made a very strong statement,” Kaufman said.

“He said, ‘I don’t trust the administration.’ [...] How many people are willing to associate themselves with that?”

Three-quarters of the people in attendance raised their hands.

“It wasn’t just about the incident but about the language used surrounding it.”

-HARRY LEWIS, Freshman

When considering the issue of sexual violence on this campus, Kaufman said, it is important to acknowledge that lack of trust in the administration plays a role.

This notion of administrative distrust, as well as concerns

ANDREW KUCZMARSKI/THE REVIEW Michael Chajes, head of the new commission, fielded questions from students about Faculty Senate’s future plans regarding sexual assault education and support during an open forum on Monday. about campus climate, mandatory reporting and the inefficiency of current educational tools defined the conversation at Monday’s forum, hosted by the Faculty Senate Commission on Sexual Harassment and Assault. Professor of civil engineering Michael Chajes leads the commission, which consists of faculty, students and staff.

The purpose of the forum, Chajes said, was to receive input from the university community for the commission to include as part of its findings when it presents to the rest of the Faculty Senate in April.

Chajes said he was pleased with student attendance at the forum, especially when considering how few students attended

Title IX coordinator Susan Groff’s information sessions in the fall. He thinks advertising the forum as an open discussion rather than as a presentation was beneficial, and better encouraged students engaged with the topic to come out.

One such student, freshman Harry Lewis, initially brought up the issue many had with the administration. He cited the administration’s response to the alleged sexual harassment of a student by former professor Eric Tranby and its subsequent response when those allegations were made public by The Review as an example.

“It wasn’t just about the incident but about the language used surrounding

it,” Lewis said. “And when [the university community] found out about it, we were told to shut up, it’ll go away.

My question is, why should we trust [the commission]?

Because everyone in the administration, they’re not obliged to take these recommendations to heart.”

In response, Chajes said he thinks there have been a few indications in the past year that the university will listen to its students, faculty and staff. For sexual violence specifically, the university must listen, he said, because it is a huge issue affecting campuses all over the country.

Sophomore Sage Carson, who organized the #UDoBetter rally this fall and who serves on the Senate commission, said making

suggestions is “the only option.”

“I went from holding a megaphone and essentially screaming ‘I hate you’ to coming up with suggestions, because we don’t have another option,” Carson said.

Deputy Provost Nancy Brickhouse said she does not think there are easy solutions in issues of sexual violence, and the administration needs the input of passionate people.

“There are also many people [in the administration] who understand there have been missteps and we’re working now to rectify a lot of those missteps,” Brickhouse said. “We want to get this right. It’s really important to engage in this even if you feel frustrated.”

The scarcity of women in STEM KELSEY WENTLING Staff Reporter As a young girl, instead of playing with her dollhouse as did many of her playmates, Kati McLaughlin spent hours taking it apart and reconstructing it.

Now Vice President of Alpha Omega Epsilon—an engineering and technical science sorority, McLaughlin, a junior chemical engineering major and computer science minor, is surrounded not by other girls who reminisce about reconstructing dollhouses, but boys who remember playing with trucks and Legos.

“In freshman computer science, I always joked that there were more guys named ‘Kevin’ than there were girls in the class,” she laughed.

“Which was actually true.”

Likewise, Susan Lord knows what it’s like to be one of two women in a class of 25.

“I knew women were 10 percent of electrical engineering in grad school,” she said. “I just didn’t know that was going to be me.”

Although women’s representation is increasing in this field, in 2011 women accounted for 2,481 of 12,545 of electrical engineering master’s degrees, according to the National Science Foundation.

Lord, professor and chair of the electrical engineering department at the University of San Diego, co-authored a research publication in 2009 entitled “Who’s persisting in engineering? A comparative analysis of female and male Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and White students.”

“When I found myself teaching, I found that I was also interested in making sure more people were welcome,” Lord said of her introduction to engineering education. She said this motivated her to welcome more females into engineering.

In 2014, the University of Delaware paved the way in its ranking as the ninth

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Kati McLaughlin, one of the few women n STEM majors, works on a computer in Coburn Lab. The NSF states women make up only about a quarter of all electrical engineering master’s degrees across the nation. best chemical engineering program in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Though the university’s undergraduate body comprised over 57 percent females, the College of Engineering accommodated 21.7 percent of undergraduate women in 2013, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness.

The Women’s Caucus at the University of Delaware 2014 Annual Report also concluded that despite some progress, “women continue to be under-represented in various leadership roles, across faculty ranks and disciplines, and within many student majors (particularly STEM fields).”

Social psychologist Jane Stout researches women’s experiences in settings they feel they don’t belong— STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) fitting in this category. In 2011, she co-published her research, “STEMing the Tide: Using Ingroup Experts to Inoculate Women’s

Self-Concept in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).”

Female leadership in STEM is especially critical, Stout said, and the under representation has its effects.

“I think it’s just that people don’t think of females as engineers.”

-KATI MCLAUGHIN, Junior chemical engineering major and computer science minor

“It just suggests that women don’t belong here,” Stout said. “It suggests to women that there just

aren’t many people that you can aspire to be like, not many people you can go to for advice. It’s a barrier and a hurdle to overcome that wouldn’t be there if there were equal, better representation of women.”

Illustrating this concept, McLaughlin said she looks up to the women in her field who precede her.

“If they can make it, I can make it,” she said.

The disparity between men and women in engineering is ubiquitous, most notably in a lack of women in faculty. The College of Engineering purports 14.3 percent of full time non-tenure tracked female faculty, in comparison to the university average of 53.7 percent, according to The Women’s Caucus.

“No one suggested it to me until I was almost a sophomore in college,” McLaughlin said. “I think it’s just that people don’t think of females as engineers, and so it’s not pushed as much. There’s some concept that girls aren’t as good in science, but I don’t think

that’s true.”

In the College of Education, women eclipse their male classmates by a comfortable 94.1 percent of females out of about 1,000 students enrolled, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness.

These statistics reinforce the common belief women are better suited for careers in caretaking as opposed to jobs in the scientific or technological fields.

“Women in particular, they feel like they don’t belong even if they’re doing just as well as their male counterparts, so the reasons why men and women leave are different,” Lord said.

“So a myth that perpetuates about women in engineering is that they don’t do very well, that they drop out at higher rates than men and our research shows that that’s not true.”

Assistant Dean in the College of Engineering Frederick Shermeyer one key factor in this is the opposition women face when entering STEM fields.

Shermeyer pointed to a study in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, which chronicles 40 percent of women in chemistry and chemical engineering saying they were discouraged from pursuing a career in STEM at some point in their lives.

“The College of Engineering is very conscious of not only the number of women in our work force but also our students, and I think that what a school could do to attract more women is to have something there that is already attractive to women,” Shermeyer said.

Associate Dean of Engineering Pamela Cook has worked both with the university and the College of Engineering to increase representation of women in STEM fields. She said lack of female faculty in the college is a problem that needs to be remedied top-down.

“If you don’t see people like you succeeding,” Cook said. “You may start to believe you can’t either.”

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Humane League protests caged eggs AMY HOPKINS Senior Reporter Dining Services has announced it will no longer use shell eggs from batterycage hens. This change may not include liquid eggs that are also being served in dining halls.

Ryan Boyer, marketing manager for Dining Services, stated in an email message that university’s dining partner Aramark made a commitment as an organization to source all shell eggs within the United States from cage-free hens by the end of 2014.

“This is a matter of corporate responsibility, and the use of cage-free eggs is important to Aramark, just as it has become increasingly important to its clients and consumers,” Boyer said.

The change comes long after a 2012 push from students, donors and alumni to make the switch to cagefree eggs.

In February 2012, Student Government Association denied a proposal to make the recommendation to Dining Services, with SGA members stating the proposal was not largely supported by students. The administration at the time also refused to make the switch, and stated it would be too costly.

Just one year after after this failed initiative, Aramark announced it would move toward sourcing all shell eggs from cage-free hens.

The 2013 announcement was made in conjunction with The Humane Society of the United States.

When asked if the university has switched to cage-free liquid eggs, Boyer referred to a March 2 press release where Aramark stated it would work to expand cage-free purchasing to include liquid, pre-cracked eggs. Aramark stated that many accounts have already made this transition, but did not specific which accounts have done so.

Shell eggs make up a small fraction of the eggs used at universities, as most are in liquid form, said Aaron Ross, director of campaigns of The Humane League.

“A statement is a nice gesture, but without a timeline, is ultimately meaningless,” Ross said in

an email message.

Battery-cage hens spend their lives confined in metal wire cages with five-10 other hens making it impossible to move and easy for disease and bacteria such as salmonella to spread.

Sydney Jaworowski, vice president of Students for the Animals called these practices unethical, and said chickens are unable to look for food, take baths and spread their wings.

“The university has a responsibility to choose more humane sources of where their food is coming from,” Jaworowski said.

“They should want to do the right thing.”

This follows a nationwide push for more humane farming practices. This year, California started requiring farmers to raise cage-free hens. McDonald’s stated last week that it would begin using chickens not treated with antibiotics used to treat humans.

The Humane League has worked with dozens of colleges and all of Aramark’s competitors to phase out the use of battery-cage eggs, Ross said. Last week the organization re-launched the campaign at the university to switch their liquid eggs to cage-free. They are now also in the process of hiring students at universities that use Aramark, including the University of Delaware, to work on the campaign.

The objective of the campaign is to remove Aramark from campus, Ross said. Other initiatives the campaign will be taking include distributing leaflets on campus, reaching out to donors, alumni and corporate partners of the university to inform them about Aramark’s unsustainable and cruel egg policy and organizing protests outside of Dining Services.

Ross said the group has gone public with the matter only after it could not resolve the issue privately with Aramark and felt as if its appeals were being ignored.

“By failing to properly address this issue and continuing to contract with Aramark, the University of Delaware administration is directly supporting this cruelty,” Ross said.

Race still ‘a difficult conversation’ at Redding lecture CADY ZUVICH Executive Editor In the elite private schools of Lower Manhattan, the expectation is set the same for each student: you go to college, and an elite one at that. Geoffrey Canada has college-bound aspirations for his students living in Harlem— aspirations that have caused some to cast him as an elitist.

Canada, founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone, doesn’t see why this is the case.

“Everyone assumes that’s fine,” Canada said. “If you have money, no one is upset that you have an expectation your kid is going to college.”

Canada’s words on education, America’s incarceration rates and being a guest on Oprah Winfrey echoed throughout Mitchell Hall on Tuesday. A advocate for change in education, Canada is most known for founding Harlem Children’s Zone, a nonprofit that gives educational tools to lowincome children living in Harlem.

Canada is on a mission to do whatever it takes to reform America’s persistently failing public school system.

Canada was the featured speaker for the Louis L. Redding annual lecture, named after the first black lawyer to be admitted to the Delaware Bar. Redding was also instrumental in striking down the “separate but equal” doctrine leading to the university admitting black students for this first time after the 1950 court ruling.

Vice Provost for Diversity Carol Henderson spoke of Redding’s legacy, though she noted that even 60 years later, we are still having the same discussions about diversity, inequality and exclusion.

“We must do better,” Henderson said. “We have to change.”

Henderson serves as the

university’s first vice provost for diversity, a position born out of President Patrick T. Harker’s diversity initiative.

Harker is stepping down as president, but not before focusing much of his tenure on increasing diversity at the university.

According to the university’s 2013 demographics, minorities represented 24.2 percent of the university’s undergraduate population. Numbers have risen since Harker came to the university in 2007, but the university is still met with criticism for not being diverse.

The NAACP penned an open letter in February, writing the university has “a serious systemic problem regarding diversity.”

Just one day after stepping

“We are walking off an educational cliff.”

-JOSÉ AVILES Admissions Director

down as university president, Harker took the stage on Tuesday and said diversity is a bedrock to every university.

“We are working hard to build a culture of diversity on this campus,” Harker said, lauding Henderson for her work in promoting diversity.

“We want to make sure that culture is connected to our

campus.”

Admissions Director Jose Aviles was awarded the Redding’s annual Diversity Award for recruiting the two most diverse classes in university history. Henderson said Aviles won the award for “building ladders of access to the underserved” naming the College Readiness Institute among his achievements.

Aviles, who joined the university is 2012, is preparing to move onto the University of Buffalo after this year. He said he does not like what admissions across America has become: a narrow selection process advantageous only to those from well-resourced schools.

“We are walking off an educational cliff,” Aviles said.

Aviles said universities everywhere must create well-resourced networks of support as America becomes increasingly diverse. Being a Latino man who grew up in the projects, Aviles credits his support system for his success.

“It was people and a system designed to support me,” Aviles said. “Academic advisors didn’t cross arms to say work was too hard. They proactively reached out to me.”

Canada is one of those who provides this support system. He talked Tuesday of providing health care and extracurricular support.

Canada grew up in the South Bronx where he said he remembered thinking no one cared. His talk revolved around his book “Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence.” In it, he talks of his South Bronx childhood and the violence he encountered.

“I knew something was wrong deep within the soul of our country if they could have places like this where we knew kids didn’t have a chance,” Canada said.

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The team has done well this year, considering their low expectations, Jerardi said. It speaks to Ross’s focused mentality as a coach, he said, that the team showed the resiliency to fight back late and make the playoffs.

As for whether he would return to Delaware if given a new contract, Ross said he would be happy to come back, and he thinks the foundation has been laid for the team to be competitive for many years.

“I would love to stay at the university for many, many years to come because we built something special over the course of time,” Ross said. “We have the opportunity to win multiple championships in the years to come with the recruiting

we have been able to do and the young nucleus that we have.”

On the court, Ross has earned the respect of Skerry and other adversaries. Bruiser Flint, the head basketball coach at Drexel University, said Ross’ recent track record of success speaks for itself. Flint said the whole program –– from reputation to recruiting –– could suffer from Ross’s contract being in limbo.

“He should have the opportunity to get the program back to where he had it last year,” Flint said.

“In recruiting, you’re going to get people who say ‘I’m not going to send people to Delaware because I don’t like the way they treated Monte.’

It’s a tough situation, I feel bad for Monte for the way things are going down.“ The effect on the program

may not need much time to surface. Marvin King-Davis, a two-year starter for the team, has another year of eligibility but has said he will only return to the team if Ross is retained as coach. Highlytouted recruit Elijah Cain declined to sign early with the school while awaiting more clarity on Ross’ status.

Skerry said if Ross was let go, he is sure there would be plenty of schools interested in his services, based on his body of work with the Hens.

Having led a program revival of his own, he said it is a very difficult task to keep players and coaches invested during rough years, and Ross’s success with that should not go unnoticed.

“Look where they were and where they got to,” Skerry said. “That’s a real credit to him.”

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Israeli Apartheid Week opens with controversy MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor One of the most controversial movements on college campuses kicked off this week, as the students hosted the second annual Israeli Apartheid Week. The event will run through Friday.

Hillel sent out an email condemning the event and urged its members to avoid engaging with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the campus student group behind Israeli Apartheid Week.

IAW has been held at several college campuses and in different countries since its inception in 2005 in Toronto and has provoked controversy across the United States. Its stated purpose is to raise awareness for the Israeli policies toward Palestinians, as well as to draw attention to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns, according to the IAW website.

Hillel’s email goes on to say IAW features “extreme anti-Israel rhetoric” and objects to the characterization of the Palestine situation as an “apartheid.”

“We are asking students not to engage with the SJP group as we don’t believe it will be helpful,” Hillel wrote in the email. “It is critical that members of the pro-Israel community set an example by staying level-headed and remaining calm.”

“We believe in a respectful dialogue of ideas—not physical confrontation.”

-DONNA SCHWARTZ Interim executive director of Hillel Junior James Collins, an SJP member, said he was upset by the email from Hillel and felt it was misconstruing the point of IAW in order to

make it seem more sinister.

“Somehow, peace equals anti-Israel or anti-Semitic,” Collins said. “I find that insulting. Not to me, but to people living in that situation right now.”

Hillel’s interim executive director Donna Schwartz stated in an email interview there is no reason for their members to interact with SJP as it has not been effective at other campuses in the past.

Schwartz did not mention if efforts had been made to engage with the university’s SJP chapter.

“SJP has consistently rejected any dialogue or constructive engagement with the pro-Israel community on campuses across the U.S.,” Schwartz said. “[...] We believe in a respectful dialogue of ideas—not physical confrontation. There is no purpose served in confronting people who are unwilling to engage in a dialogue.”

Schwartz said despite her disagreement with IAW, its presence on campus is an example of how free speech is held highly on campus.

SJP member Callie

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Students watch “Have You Heard from Johannesburg?”—a documentary on South African apartheid as a part of Israeli Apartheid Week.

Zimmerman said the goal of this week is to open a dialogue with students, inspiring debate and education. She said SJP feels if both sides engaged with each other, it would be helpful and educational.

“Hillel students would have a lot to learn from hearing a different side of the conflict because I don’t think they get that from Hillel,”

Zimmerman said.

Julie Meyer, vice president of Israel U, said though her club disagrees with SJP’s views, it acknowledges the right for all students to voice their opinions on campus.

Israel U, she said, does not support Hillel’s request to disengage from SJP.

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KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Construction workers on state-funded university projects are paid prevailing wage, but those who work on university financed projects are not.

Court to rule on construction wage case JAY PANANDIKER Managing News Editor

A Delaware Superior Court judge will soon rule on whether the university is required to pay prevailing wage to workers for campus construction projects. The decision will be part of the case Delaware Building and Trades Council v. University of Delaware.

Prevailing wage is the hourly wage paid to workers in a certain geographical region and is usually set by the state Department of Labor. In Delaware, prevailing wage law applies to any project over $100,000 where the state has appropriated funds and the party involved in the project is a “subdivision of the state.”

The case is another instance of the controversy over if the university is considered a o state entity.

The lawsuit was , originally brought by the Delaware Building and Trades Council, a coalition of unions s representing the state’s construction workers in 2014, said university General Counsel Lawrence White. The lawsuit seeks a declaration that the university is subject to the state’s prevailing wage law and was originally filed d in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The court ruled in . favor of the university and dismissed the lawsuit, White said. The union then refiled s the action in a different court. g Currently the university s is not subject to the prevailing wage law because it is not considered a “subdivision e of the state.” Instead, the university is a private statel chartered corporation, White said. Despite this, the university does pay prevailing

wage on projects that are wholly or partially funded by the state.

“The University is not covered by the prevailing wage law but complies with it voluntarily and as a matter of public policy, not because the university is legally required to do so,” White said.

The union believes the university should be covered by the prevailing wage law, instead of being governed by an in-house policy.

Richard Abbott, counsel for the plaintiff, said the university gets all the benefits of being an arm of the state and should therefore be considered a “subdivision of the state.” Other public institutions in the state, including Delaware Technical Community College as well as Delaware State University are subject to the law, Abbott said.

“UD wants the freedom to decide when and if they are subject to [prevailing wage],” Abbott said.

There are a litany of cases that constitute the university as a institute of the state, Abbott said. He specifically cited the fact that the university is exempt from the city of Newark’s zoning laws.

By making the university formally subject to the prevailing wage law, an additional level of oversight is also added. It would require the university to report the wages paid to contractors, and make it subject to the enforcement and penalties of the Department of Labor.

Additionally, it would provide the Department of Labor with additional data for when they set the prevailing wage rate in the future, he said.

“In my view, it ensures

people follow the laws,” Abbott said.

Both the plaintiff and defendant have submitted “motions for summary judgment,” meaning that they have asked the court to decide the case without holding a trial, White said. This is because both parties agree on the facts of the case, Abbott said. The case will be argued in front of Judge Richard Stokes later this spring or summer. The plaintiff is optimistic the court will side with them.

“We are pleased to now be only one step away from a Court Order mandating that,” union president James Maravelias said. “We are confident that the final step will also be successful, as the university clearly qualifies as a subdivision of the state.”

White said the university tries to be prudent when constructing new buildings, especially because the money spent usually comes from student tuition dollars.

As a result, the university pays market rate wages on university-funded projects and prevailing wage on statefunded projects.

“Our policies strike a good balance between the interests of our students and the interests of Delaware construction workers,” White said.

However, Abbott said this is just another case of whether or not the university is a state agency.

“If it works to their benefit, [the university] wants to be a state agency,” Abbott said. “You get $120 million from the state because you’re a state agency.”

Though House Speaker John Boehner is two heartbeats away from the presidency, he is hardly ever written about as if he is one of the most powerful people on Capitol Hill.

Since becoming Speaker in 2010, Boehner has been hammered by the left and the far right, and usually for completely opposite reasons. In the winter of 2012, he led Republicans in a battle over the Bush tax cuts and other expenditures that nearly took the nation over the “fiscal cliff,” and he played a number of roles in both creating, ending and averting a number of government shutdowns.

He’s been elected Speaker three times now and has faced inter-party opposition during each run.

It is a shame that Boehner is hardly ever written about as one of the shrewdest officials on the Hill because, whether the media likes it or not, he is. The Speaker has managed to hang on to the gavel for five years now, despite facing challengers from the far right, and has generally been successful in uniting the Republican Party at a time when weaker leadership may have led to a party breakdown.

Following Mitt Romney’s loss—an event that still disappoints, befuddles and riles many conservatives— the GOP’s fractures and ideological divisions were on full display. But under Speaker Boehner’s leadership, the House Republican caucus was able to unite and present a unified message, even if it was something as simple as attacking the president, his policies and his fellow Democrats in Congress.

It was a simple strategy that worked, and in 2014, Republicans enjoyed historic victories and are continuing to enjoy historic majorities in Washington and in state legislatures across the country.

Meanwhile, the Republican leader has continued to be a thorn in White House’s side, most recently successfully embarrassing the president and his allies by inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress.

The move was unconventional and unprecedented, and was

panned by many in the media and on the far left. But Netanyahu’s determination to address Congress and the President’s nonchalant attitude toward the speech exposed the deep rifts that have developed between the United States and Israel during President Obama’s tenure.

Netanyahu was greeted by thunderous applause as he warned Representatives to be extremely wary of a bad deal with Iran. Despite the White House’s efforts to downplay the speech’s importance, it became clear that Boehner had successfully outmaneuvered the Obama administration.

The Speaker has also quickly become sensitized to how successfully the Obama 2012 campaign branded Republicans as out of touch plutocrats and has led to combat that image.

In interviews following the 2014 election, Boehner has not shied away from talking about income inequality, an issue that Obama and his team used to paint Republicans as the party of the rich, and the Speaker has also become aware that government shutdowns are, typically, disastrous for public perception. Boehner led a fight against some in his own party to shepherd through Congress a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, helping to rebuild the notion that Republicans can be pragmatic and can be trusted with governing.

Many are and have been critical of Boehner’s tenure as Speaker of the House. While he is neither a rapturous speaker nor fiery ideologue, he has consistently demonstrated a keen sense of what it takes to keep an unruly caucus together while still leading a hard fight against a common liberal adversary. And we should not be surprised—a leader that shrewd could make his way to being second in line for the Presidency.

—Dylan Gallimore Columnist

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

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MEYER: ‘IT’S HARD TO SAY TO COMPLETELY DISENGAGE BEFORE EVEN ATTENDING ANY OF THE EVENTS.’

Continued from page 5 “It’s hard to say to completely disengage before even attending any of the events,” Meyer said. “We are more than happy to attend these events, and if we think that there’s any dishonesty or any inaccurate statements made, it would be our responsibility to say something, but not in a fighting way.”

Israel U recognizes that the point of IAW is not to inspire a campuswide fight, she said, but to express differing opinions respectfully.

SJP is holding events

throughout the week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Monday and Wednesday will include movie screenings of “Have you heard from Johannesburg?” and “Omar” respectively, along with discussions afterward.

The week will culminate with “Perspectives on Gaza: A Panel Discussion” on Friday night, which will feature two students from Gaza and experts on the Palestinian conflict.

Hillel will also be hosting Holocaust Education Week from April 13-17, along with an educational lunch on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on March 25.

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With no treatment center to turn to, Delawareans with eating disorders often travel as far as Arizona to seek help.

There is no treatment center in Delaware, and the closest ones are over an hour drive away.

Alumna Kiersten Jones Schwendeman wants to cut this travel time for those with anorexia and bulimia by opening the first Delaware facility.

Schwendeman’s vision includes the creation of the Aster Center, an outpatient center help with those recovering from eating disorders. Schwendeman knows this lack of access from personal experience. She had to seek treatment as far as Arizona and California. She once lived in hotels for six weeks in Baltimore while spending about 30 hours a week commuting to facilities in north Philadelphia.

Schwendeman said this center will be located close to the university in order to be more convenient to anyone in the area who needs to be treated.

Schwenderman’s dream is becoming a reality through the Global Startup Battle. Her team included Pauline Rubin and John Himics from First Ascent Design as well as freshmen Matt Chen and Davis Pfund.

The Global Startup Battle allowed university

alumna Schwendeman to bring awareness to the lack of resources available for Delawareans battling eating disorders.

“A lot of the established treatment centers each have a little bit of a different approach,” Schwendeman said.

“Let’s say one treatment center in Baltimore has a meal planning system that’s totally different from the meal planning system at Philadelphia. My goal would be to offer both meal planning systems and have the patient’s treatment team decide which one is better for them.”

After ranking in the top 14 of the Women’s Track and top 20 for the KIND Track with their creation of the Aster Center, they are continuing to have high hopes for the progress of their business.

“From what I’ve gathered from Kiersten, I can say that the goal is to eventually have an outpatient treatment center in Delaware that people can come to and get help without having to travel 50 miles to New York or Baltimore to get it,” Pfund said.

Her other goal is to keep the alumni patients involved with the treatment center through support groups or fun outings.

The biggest concern for the Aster Center is funding because no money was received through placing in the competitions.

Pfund said there is not enough funding to start a center yet, but they plan on gathering the

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Stingy health insurance companies, unwilling to cover costs for eating disorders is another obstacle the group faces. Many people transition to lower levels of health care before they should due to insufficient insurance support.

Schwendeman said eating disorders are usually not taken as seriously as needed by health insurance providers.

Schwendeman’s dream of starting the Aster Center opened the eyes of Chen to the presence of eating disorders around him.

“There are a crazy amount of women and men who have eating disorders,” Chen said.

“It’s pretty huge in the university setting and also, I personally know a couple people that have faced challenges with this.”

The team plans to continue working together in order to create the first outpatient center in Delaware for people suffering with eating disorders.

Pfund felt passionate about this issue most of his life.

“I would always say there are three things I hate in life: liars, thieves and people who don’t think their body is beautiful,” Pfund said. ”They really do deserve to know this.

Especially these days when you’re looking on billboards and magazines and seeing these photoshopped people that aren’t even people anymore.

They aren’t real photos.”

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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL: Student push good, but where was administration?

It has been a landmark year for student activism at this university. Students campaigned for new policies surrounding gender-based violence on campus, and offered support for victims. In response to grand jury rulings in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, student activists staged protests and marched down Main Street. Following the tragic shooting of three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, a vigil was organized to mourn their loss and celebrate their memories. It appears that the Delaware’s reputation as an apathetic university may no longer ring true.

Other students have focused their attention inward, working to further their causes within the structure of the university. Two groups have been particularly successful in their efforts. The university’s Sustainability Task Force with the leadership of students who lobbied the university to create an Office of Sustainability. This

office would be responsible for coordinating various green initiatives on campus and engaging students in these efforts.

Haven, led by president Jeremy Mathis, campaigned for a staff person dedicated to LGBT affairs. This staff person would be charged with aiding inclusivity and advocating for the LGBT community.

These requests have been taken seriously. The university is now hiring for a sustainability manager as well as a coordinator for LGBT affairs. This winter, the university launched #VoicesofUdel, perhaps in response to activism like the March on Main. We are heartened by this level of response to student initiatives.

We also have some questions, as we are concerned that it took major student efforts over several years in order to meet needs that should naturally fall under the domain of existing administrators. Staff already already on the university roster include a vice-provost of

diversity, a staff of four in the office of equity and inclusion, and a staff of 28 in the center for counseling and student development. We are also lucky to have many faculty members who are experts in the fields of environmental engineering, science and policy. Many of these experts already serve on the sustainability task force. By partnering with departments like residence life and facilities, the task force should be able to accomplish a lot in terms of making the university greener, without hiring another administrator.

We are proud of our fellow students for leading multiyear initiatives to present their concerns and ask for change from administrators. But before it comes to this, administration needs to do its best to meet these needs—especially when there are already offices these concerns fall under—without unnecessarily creating more costs for students.

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Op-ed: Filipino Student Association pres. on inclusion on campus The first time I toured the university’s campus as a vulnerable high school senior, I was captivated by the picturesque beauty. I stood in awe by the lush green, cardinal and pearl white buildings and the indescribable energy of the busy students bustling to their classes. I finally felt the feeling of belonging and excitement at a college I heard of all my life.

As I continued to weave in and out of the different buildings and pathways, another speculation suddenly dawned on me. “Oh my goodness,” I thought. “I am the only Asian person I have seen here all day.”

At first, I did not know what to make of the feeling. I grew up in an extremely diverse town in northern New Jersey. In one classroom of my high school,

you could easily find at least 10 students of different ethnic backgrounds. I always held pride in my Filipino heritage, but I never used that quality as a defining trait in my character.

That day, I could not help feel as though my race was radiating from my skin with every step I took.

“Do I want to feel this way all throughout college?” my mind raced.

Despite this unsettling perception, the other students continued to smile, wave and hold doors open for my tour group and me. They ecstatically jumped around telling us we would be crazy if we chose any other school. The feeling of discomfort disintegrated from my mind and that of elatedness returned.

“I need to go to this school,” my heart fluttered.

Fast forward through graduation and summer, and I was a freshman Blue Hen. Making incredible friends was a lot easier than I gave myself credit for. My major consisted of 10 girls and one guy who calmed my panic attacks before exams and made me laugh so hard in the library that I cried. I joined the Filipino Student Association to eat traditional dishes, participate in diversity shows and raise money for typhoon devastation funds in the Philippines. Finally, I decided to give sorority recruitment a shot.

I received a bid to an astounding sorority filled with women from different walks of life, each with a different heartbreaking or heartwarming story. With

them, I completed hundreds of hours of community service and raised thousands of dollars for our philanthropy and other great causes.

All those people accept and love me, challenge me in ways that build and shape who I am, and never see me solely for my race.

But this is not to say I have not experienced racial slurs and been the butt of many jokes, and I am completely aware that racism and hate exist in groups of certain people, both in the past and now. Knowing that such injustices still exist in the world today will never make sense to me because I know that different colors of skin, religions, genders and lifestyles do not make any one person better or worse than the next.

It’s a fight that is far from over, but the one thing I have learned from my experiences is that hate never erases hate. Rather, awareness, tolerance and love erase hate.

Although the university is not an extremely diverse school, it consists of wonderful, well-rounded and intelligent individuals who embrace various groups of people and have a love for life. In retrospect to my skepticism, I know there is no other school that would have been as perfect for me as this one. It gives me pride for who I am and what I stand for and people who raise me up for just that.

—Talya Fidellaga, ‘16

Op-ed: Student encourages Hillel Op-ed: Students for Justice in Palestine responds members to engage and listen to email sent from Hillel officials

For the past seven months, I have spent my senior year living abroad in Tunisia, a North African country wedged between Algeria and Libya. Here I have been studying North African history and politics and teaching English to Tunisian students. I was also an active member of Hillel, and still identify with my Jewish faith and background.

I want to share some of the lessons I have learned through my experiences engaging in meaningful, cross cultural dialogues as a young Jewish woman living in Tunisia. I hope that this event can be an opportunity for learning and growth rather than conflict and tension.

I would first like to echo Hillel’s call for members of the pro-Israel community and everyone involved to set an example by staying level headed and remaining calm. I also echo their encouragement for students to continue to educate themselves.

Still, I respectfully disagree with the call for Hillel members not engage with Israeli Apartheid Week.

If I have learned one thing from my experience in Tunisia, it has been that understanding only comes through engaging, not avoiding and closing one’s eyes and ears. The key is respectful engagement. All parties should do their best to reserve judgement, put identity aside and to listen as a human being first.

Identities provide humans with a sense of community, as we see with a lens that helps us understand ourselves and our relationship to the world.

Even so, these goggles can also distort our vision, and place us on “sides” of conflicts before we even have a chance gather as many perspectives as possible.

Stepping outside of the perspective of your identity is scary, but it is worth the plunge.

I found that when I listened with my Jewish identity foremost in my mind, it brought out my suspicions, fears and

judgements, rather than mutual humanity. I learned to put all that aside and listen and understand first as a fellow human being. Once I learned to shift my identity toward the perimeters of my mind, it opened a healthy space for me to explore and challenge my beliefs and understanding.

Even if we disagreed, at the end of the discussion we put our differences aside and enjoyed each other. We saw our friendships for who we really were, recognizing that our brotherhood or sisterhood transcended political, religious and national identities.

I encourage Hillel students to see this week as an opportunity to engage primarily, if not entirely, as a listener. To not just listen to the words said while thinking about how you would like to respond, but rather, to practice active listening by reserving judgement. Listen with the intention of understanding to the best of one’s abilities where the speaker is coming from.

It is a natural reaction to respond defensively when one’s identity feels threatened. But responding in this way almost always leads to combative, emotional arguments and close-mindedness, rather than understanding and solutions based on facts, objectivity and empathy.

I also would like to encourage members of Students for Justice in Palestine and other supporters to do the same for supporters of Israel and sensitive to the legitimate fears of anti-semitism that Jewish students have on campus.

This conflict stirs up a lot of emotions on both sides and can easily be directed toward Jews in general rather than focusing on the actions and policies of the Israeli government and society.

I wish the best of luck to the UD community in meeting the challenge of engaging in meaningful dialogue this week.

While many of us were enjoying a snow day, the UD Hillel President and Director, Chabad Director and an Officer from the Jewish Federation of Delaware were busy drafting an email to send to Jewish students, alumni, parents and community members. Sent out Friday morning, it lists a series of false accusations leveled against our RSO––Students for Justice in Palestine––and attempted to stifle discussion between Jewish students and members of our RSO. We will address a few of the claims and accusations included in the email.

“We have recently learned that the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Chapter will be hosting an anti-Israel week on the UD Campus.”

The correct title of our week is “Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).” Calling the event “antiIsrael” is not only incorrect, but is an attempt to mischaracterize our programming and RSO. SJP is not anti-Israel. In fact we are united in making Israel the best Israel she can be.

Addressing the human rights abuses Israel commits and the international laws it violates is the most effective way to do this. We stand for peace, justice and safety for all the people of the region, regardless of background. IAW is focused on spreading awareness about the current apartheid policies of the state of Israel.

“Many who accuse Israel of apartheid do not understand its meanings and implications...

International law defines apartheid as establishing and maintaining an institutionalized

regime of oppression by one racial group over another...Israel is the opposite of an apartheid regime. It is a multicultural liberal democracy whose legal system upholds equal rights, liberties, and protections for all of its citizens... It is the only democratic nation in the Middle East.”

UD SJP understands the meanings and implications of calling Israel an apartheid state. That is why we decided to hold an “Israeli Apartheid Week” here on campus. The first event is one which explains the apartheid regime that existed in South Africa and how it is so eerily similar to the situation in Israel and Palestine today.

Palestinian citizens of Israel do have the same rights as Jewish citizens by law. But they do not have them in reality.

Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank have none of these rights as they are not citizens, but they are still subjected to dehumanizing laws. Palestinians living in Gaza are trapped in what is often described as the world’s largest open-air prison. We’re sure that Palestinians beg to differ with Hillel on this one.

As far as being the only democratic nation in the Middle East, that statement is quite obviously false, as Tunisia is a democracy. And other countries in the Middle East, such as Turkey are democracies as well.

Lying through omission is a running theme in this email from Hillel. They expect those who read it to believe their false claims, without researching the accuracy of their conclusions.

“We are asking students not to engage with the SJP group as we don’t believe it will be helpful.”

None of the email’s signers have ever reached out to our RSO, nor have they ever attended any of our meetings. The conclusion that engaging with us will not be helpful is therefore completely unfounded.

Dialogue and discussion is extremely important in our increasingly globalized world.

Our RSO aims to start what we believe to be a much-needed discussion on the Palestinian/ Israeli conflict on our campus.

We are disappointed that UD Hillel is attempting to bully students into silence on the issue.

College is a time in our lives when we are able to explore new ideas, learn about different perspectives and views, and share our outlooks with others.

If you received this email from Hillel, we encourage you not to allow it to discourage you from learning and having an open mind. We encourage all UD students to take advantage of the diverse voices and perspectives being on a college campus affords you the opportunity to experience.

We hope to see many people come out for Israeli Apartheid Week, from a variety of different religious, socioeconomic and racial backgrounds, and with different political views and opinions. As always, all viewpoints are welcome.

—Students for Justice in Palestine #VoicesOfUDel

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ewark-based band Fiancé is set to perform at this year’s Firefly Music Festival in June. With an ephemeral synthpop sound and driving rhythms, the band brings together eclectic instrumentation for a laidback yet vibrant vibe.

The five band members— Andrew Fusca, Jeff Marvel, Tyler Yoder, Brian Bruce and new addition Sam Nobles— will play on the Forest Stage.

While Fiancé has never played at a festival, Yoder says he believes its sound will translate well in the environment.

“Andrew and Brian played with Mean Lady last year, but this is our first time performing there together,” Yoder says. “It’s not a huge stage, so it’s probably an equal trade-off.”

Last year, Firefly attracted

80,000 people over the course of four days—crowds significantly larger than Fiancé usually sees. But the band seems unfazed by the challenge.

“It’s one of those things where there might be a b u t t e r f l y feeling, but we practice all the time and we’re comfortable w i t h performing,” Marvel says.

“Once we get through the first song, it will be all right.”

Aside from playing, Marvel and Yoder are looking forward to seeing headliners Paul McCartney and The Killers, as well as Twin Peaks and Tycho.

Fusca and Marvel have been friends for several years. They graduated from Middletown High School in 2009, where they played music together and dabbled

in other projects—some serious, some lighter in nature. About two years ago, they met Yoder (bassist) and Bruce (drummer), forming Fiancé. They soon began booking shows at places like Homegrown and World Cafe

to a wider audience. Over time, Marvel says, the band gained exposure and experience playing local gigs as well as some larger venues. They even played at KOKO in Camden Town, London in October.

“It was a complete culture shock,” Yoder says of London.

“It was bizarre.

We’re all pretty r e c l u s i v e people, and there were just so many people. It was almost like a time machine, like that sort atmosphere belonged in the ‘70s.”

Still, Marvel and Yoder say house and basement shows are their favorite gigs, as the environment allows them to form close ties with other local bands and provides listeners with a close proximity to music without the cost of a ticket

“It was almost like a time machine, like that sort of atmosphere belonged in the ‘70s.”

JEFF MARVEL, guitarist

Live.

“We’ve known each other for such a long time,” Yoder says. “We all live in Newark and hang out all the time, playing music and listening to records.”

Fiancé began recording, putting songs on SoundCloud and making music available

or cover charge.

The band members’ musical influences evolve as they do.

“It’s difficult to talk about influences because they change all the time,” Yoder says. “I know Andrew is listening to a lot of Cursive, American Football and the Jesus and Mary Chain. I’m listening to Cloud Nothings.”

The band released its debut EP, “EP1,” in October, and intends to put out a fulllength album later this year.

“Sam recently joined us playing keys and samples, and we’re interested in having him become more involved in the writing process,” Marvel says.

Marvel and Yoder express interest in going on tour sometime soon. They hope to find a booking agency that will put them on the right track.

“We’re finally realizing that we have a sound, so we’re going to continue writing music that fits into that and sounds similar,” Yoder says.

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Andrew Fusca (left) and Jeff Marvel (right) first met at Middletown High School where they played music together. Two years ago, they formed Fiancé with Tyler Yoder and Brian Bruce.

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/COLUMNS it’s all in your head

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

You’re at a friend’s house.

Everyone’s sitting around, chatting, having a good time.

And then that one person speaks. That person who, no matter how many sighs or eye-rolls her words elicit from everyone else, continues to talk, and talk and talk.

“I don’t even understand what the English major even is! Like, you speak English, so what are you even learning in those classes?!”

She probably tweets this later too. Her personal thoughts and musings are just too genius not to share with the rest of the world.

We all know someone like this. But do we know why they act this way? Are they just fundamentally lacking any self-awareness? Are they really just that…stupid?

David Dunning and Justin Kruger were able to pinpoint this phenomenon at Cornell University back in 1999. In their studies, the two researchers continuously found that incompetent people were much more likely to overestimate their performance and ability on certain tasks.

Stupid people are more confident. This isn’t really news to anyone, but it helps me sleep at night to know that this is a real, scientifically

tested phenomenon.

In this day and age, these confident, stupid people can make up more than just a phenomenon. It can often feel like an epidemic of sorts. With technology at our fingertips, and the ability to broadcast every thought at every second of every day, incompetent people have the capacity to easily influence millions of people.

We see this everywhere.

Anytime something big happens in the news—whether it’s a story about ISIS, or even something as mundane as the kind of pet the Obama family has—you can bet that incompetent people are tapping away 140 characters to let the world know exactly how they feel about it.

Research shows that people seem to suffer from this Dunning-Kruger effect because they simply don’t learn from the feedback suggested to them. They cannot learn from their mistakes, and therefore can never know when they need to correct or improve themselves in some way.

To put it simply, they don’t even know that they don’t know, you know?

Surprisingly, the DunningKruger effect can apply to intelligent people as well. More competent people tend to

simply stylish

Go Green or Stay Home boyfriend jeans, a white V-neck and a vintage flannel from Urban and you are set.

There is no reason you should have to pick between looking chic and staying warm.

So if it is cold when dage time comes, bring an oversized sweater to wear over your flannel. Just make sure that green is still showing! As an alternative to a chunky sweater, throw on a green army jacket.

Urban Outfitters has oversized army jackets that would look great with a pair of skinny jeans and boots.

H&M: You can always count on stores like H&M to have the perfect graphic tee to wear to a dage. By the time March rolls around, their tables are full of shirts that say “Kiss me I’m Irish” or “Mugs not Drugs.”

Classic slip-on Vans have made a come back, and they would be perfect with a pair of skinny jeans and a funny graphic tee from H&M. The ground will be messy

It’s that time of year again.

St. Patrick’s Day is in one week, which means the streets of Newark will be flooded with a sea of students in green on dage day. Since it’s not 70 degrees and the “perfect” dage weather, our dage outfits need to fit the colder temperatures and muddy ground.

Picking an outfit for a dage is never easy, but the St. Patrick’s Day dages have a little more direction on what to wear. Green and festive is the way to go.

Dage season is the time to really show your own personal style. For the girls, it is easy to throw on a green T-shirt, but why not try something a little more exciting? Here are some St. Patrick’s Day outfit destinations to try.

Urban Outfitters: The most popular dage destination. I walked into Urban Outfitters the other day and it was full of green items. The vintage flannels were the pieces that stuck out to me the most. Throw on a pair of

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Barney Stinson of “How I Met Your Mother” fame once texted a girl “?” at 3 a.m. She responded “!”

Legend—wait for it—dary.

Legendary.

The guy world has deemed it OK to integrate the “booty call” into our societal norms. But our college age has “OK-ed” it as a mutual want from women as well. The booty call takes away the hassle of searching out that perfect one night stand. Having that token on-call person that’s always “down” allows for a sense of accomplishment, even when you feel as though you are not #winning.

However, the booty call arrangement comes with a predetermined mentality and membership access that can be taken away if boundaries are overstepped or if respect becomes an issue.

I asked my friends what they thought of next day calls and compliments. One responded: “You’re not supposed to be the boyfriend, you’re supposed to be the booty call.”

Booty Call Etiquette Booty call etiquette says get in and get out, but why are we suppressing the raw emotions that all of us humans, boys and girls alike, have? No next day calls?

I had to ask again. She said: “If anything, I want him to text me ‘I had a really great night’ with a winky face and that’s it.”

Hmm. So what is it that people want?

Conversations without expectations, no gifts that would create blurred lines and emotional attachment, no progression into a friends-withbenefits stage or being treated with boyfriend gloves.

With some research, here are a few basic booty call tips from college girls who never got the chance to say it to you straight: 1. No sleepovers if you’re going to turn over in the morning and say: “You’re beautiful.”

2. Only ask about breakfast plans if you plan on dropping her off at Homegrown to meet her roommates.

3. Never text to say “hi.”

believe that others find tasks to be just as easy as they do.

So apparently, no one is ever really any good at sizing up their own competence or intelligence. Smart people think other people have the same abilities as them and notso-smart people think they’re more intelligent than most.

We’re all suffering from this weird, metacognitive inability to recognize our subjective ineptitudes.

Although, to get a little more meta on all of you, what if the Dunning-Kruger effect is just too convenient an explanation for what we all so readily believe?

Some people believe that the theory may fit too neatly into our implicit just-world theories, meaning we tend to believe that a person’s actions are inherently inclined to elicit “fair” consequences. Bad things happen to bad people, good things happen to good people. Obnoxiously confident people are actually just incompetent, and genuinely smart people underestimate their abilities. Poor them, and screw the dumb ones.

Taking all of these metaconcepts into consideration, what exactly are we supposed to believe at the end of the day? Perhaps it is simply a good lesson to always practice self-awareness. Be aware of being aware. It can’t hurt, right?

ALLIE STRICKLER ajaye@udel.edu

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

with all the melted snow, so whatever you do, make sure you are comfortable with your shoes getting a little dirty. From past experiences, St. Patrick’s dage time is more fun than worrying about your shoes getting a little muddy. Bean boots are the perfect shoe for both guys and girls when the ground is messy.

When you feel comfortable and confident in your outfit, it reads. Last homecoming, I wore a pair of my favorite overalls. It was a bit of a risk, but I loved the look of it, and it felt great trying something different than a typical dage outfit.

If you feel like trying something new, throw on pair of overalls and a green V-neck underneath. It could take your St. Patrick’s Day outfit to the next level. You can find them at stores like Urban Outfitters, H&M and Nordstrom. With St. Patrick’s dages happening in the next two weeks, make sure to try something new.

Have fun, be safe and whatever you do, make sure you keep your St. Patrick’s dage outfit on…

HANNAH WORSH hworsh@udel.edu

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

Don’t text before the night out because you are not a priority if someone better comes along.

4. Remember your job as a booty call is to be a backup. It’s a mutual backup relationship, though. Don’t abuse it or get jealous when you’re not the first choice.

5. Come and go in your own clothes. Walk of shaming is part of the deal and stealing comfy clothes to walk home means there is a next time and being a booty call means there are no guarantees.

6. Don’t DTR, or “define the relationship.” It usually goes a little like: “So… what is this?”

Response: “Nothing.”

Simply put, a booty call is an arrangement and the token booty call knows his/her obligations.

In a world of people searching for love, it only seems practical that people would mutually get together for the physical aspects of love with no intentions of actually falling.

It may not be realistic for the heart, but for all the “?s” in the world, there sure are a handful of “!s.”

ALEXANDRA STRAUSMAN astraus@udel.edu

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audiophile

Krill: A Distant Fist Unclenching, Exploding in Sound Record Despite being known by most as a small crustacean important for the food chain, Krill is also the name of an experimental garage band hailing from Boston.

Its members are a part of the burgeoning music scene alongside contemporaries Pile, Ovlov and Rye Pines.

Known for their short tempered breed of grunge pop, Krill’s name itself is somewhat of an oxymoron relative to their sound— which may have been intended.

“A Distant Fist Unclenching” is the second LP from Krill, and their most anticipated release to date. Their first album, “Lucky Leaves” was released in June of 2013, which they followed with the critically acclaimed EP “Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts into Tears.”

“Lucky Leaves” debuted Krill’s now famously nervous sound.

Sharp, angular guitar lines are combined with enough breakbeats to drive The Winstons insane. The snarling vocals and disjointed lyrical presentation of front man Jonah Furman (younger brother of Folk artist Ezra Furman) awakens comparisons to famed Pixies frontman and fellow Bostonian, Black Francis.

While “Lucky Leaves” had shorter, more neurotic tracks, “Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts into Tears” began to show that Krill could take their bottled nerve and repurpose it in longer form. The new album has taken this concept of elongation farther, and to a more extreme extent.

Most of the tracks on “A Distant Fist Unclenching” are in the five to 7-minute range, which is a substantial increase from the “Lucky Leaves.” The progressions

have more time to build, and the repetition of sections gives the album a stressful feeling.

Krill strikes brilliance in focusing these growing tensions, turning them into momentum and bringing them crashing down with spastic surges as in “Mom” and “Foot.”

In the album’s opener, “Phantom,” Furman lays the groundwork for the concept of the album.

“What is the orientation of myself to my non-self?” he sings, searching for answer to his internal woes.

On “Brain Problem” Furman questions his own willpower, asking God to grant him strength as he battles with his mental demons. The song “Tiger” is one of the longer tracks, telling the parallel tales of a villager and a fish who both meet their untimely demise.

The track sways back and forth, lulling between bits of frantic distortion and calming storytelling by Furman.

Krill’s constant discussion of mental health and anxiety throughout does a good job to mirror their musical style. The subject matter may not be the most cheerful, but it’s real. You feel as though their struggles are coming from experience in how honest and forward they are with the narrative.

The longer form may take a few listens to really catch its stride, but “A Distant Fist Unclenching” may prove to be Krill’s best release yet.

STEPHEN VEITH sveith@udel.edu

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

filmaholic

We are a generation raised on Harry Potter, we have more technology than Inspector Gadget (which is seriously eroding our social skills) and we live in a universe where Michael Cera is considered a leading man. This is the era of “The Nerd,” so it is fitting that we have a TV show dedicated to finding our fearless leader.

TBS’s “King of the Nerds” celebrates nerd culture like never before. Eleven or 12 contestants from diverse backgrounds and skill sets (mathematicians, professional gamers, fantasy writers, NASA engineers, bronies, etc.) are separated into two teams where they compete in “Nerd Wars,” challenges that test their intelligence, creativity and knowledge of pop culture.

The victors have immunity and both teams return to Nerdvana—a nerd’s wet dream, filled with gaming consoles and replicas of fictional weaponry—to vote on whom to send into the “Nerd-Off.” The prize is $100,000, bragging rights and the chance to sit on the “Throne of Games,” an homage to “Game of Thrones.” But instead of pointy iron swords, the chair is built from all things nerdy.

Presenters and creators Robert Carradine (also known as Lizzie McGuire’s dad) and Curtis Armstrong (Dudley “Booger” Dawson from the 1980s “Revenge of the Nerds” series, which also starred Carradine) first pitched the concept several years ago but couldn’t compete with Ashton Kutcher’s “Beauty and the Geek.”

Well, thank God they finally got their chance.

The show has a talent for bringing fantasy and science fiction works to life. Past

King of the Nerds

competitions have included a Quidditch “Nerd-Off” (complete with Harry Potter trivia and flying), zombie bashing, robot dodge ball and, of course, the “Nerd Anthems.”

This brings back haunting memories of my math and science high school’s version of public humiliation— the dreaded gym dances.

Needless to say, I am still traumatized.

Not only are the challenges ingenious, but the show features guest judges like Bill Nye the Science Guy, neuroscientist Mayim Bialik from “The Big Bang Theory” and George Takei from “Star Trek,” among notable others.

Unlike most reality TV shows, “King of the Nerds” is unscripted and the nerd drama is less stressful than watching Abby Lee Miller from “Dance Moms” verbally abuse some 12-year-olds.

Sure, the contestants can get a little emotional, there might be a little shouting and a little crying, but there are always a lot of “Star Wars” quotes and forgiveness.

While the program has had a few criticisms, especially for the ending of the first season where past contestants voted for the winner, reviews are generally positive.

My entire house is obsessed with this show.

It has even inspired us to create our own version of “King of the Nerds” because that is what we do with our time.

So go forth you Trekkies, you pegasisters, you larpers, you nerds, and watch all three seasons on TBS.

AMBER JOHNSON anjohns@udel.edu

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A CELEBRATION OF CULTURE: BRINGING BOLLYWOOD TO AMERICA BOLLYWOOD

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100,000,000 annual revenue (in dollars) a large Bollywood production house earns in the United States

COURTESY OF LA PHOTOGRAPHY Bollywood Day’s Kickoff event hosted by Bollywood United at George Wilson Community Center featured Indian music, food and an array of clothing and jewelry.

NICOLE SULLIVAN Senior Reporter When Moushmi Patil entered her freshman year of high school at the Charter School of Wilmington nearly four years ago, she was disappointed in the lack of an international dance team.

Determined to increase awareness of Indian culture at her school and create an outlet for IndianAmericans interested in Bollywood dancing, Patil and two friends started the International Fusion Dance Team. The group has since added its 36th member, an accomplishment in which Patil takes pride.

“For me, this is an important way to connect back to my roots in a country where the culture is completely different,”

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“And it’s a way to combine the two sides of my identity without having to choose either one.”

To promote stories like Patil’s and celebrate the Bollywood culture within Delaware’s community, university alumna Sanskriti Inamdar, founder of Ishanya Dance & Fitness, initiated a campaign to recognize a day in October as National Bollywood Day. Under the name “Bollywood United,” Inamdar has sought community support in a grassroots effort to spread awareness about Bollywood, kick-starting the campaign through a Bollywood Day event Saturday evening at the George Wilson Community Center on New London Road.

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The center was a sensory whirlwind: lively music, scents of steaming rice and samosas, a sea of vibrant saris (traditional Indian dresses), an array of ethnic clothing and jewelry for sale.

The proceeds will be sent to Cafe Sheroes’ Hangout, an initiative through the Stop Acid Attacks campaign founded in New Delhi in 2013.

Sponsors included the Ishanya Dance Company of Delaware, Indo-American Association of Delaware, Pearl Enterprises Advertising Agency and Indian Graduate Student Association of Delaware.

There were also several Bollywood dance performances from groups such as the International Fusion Dance Team and Wanted Ashiqz, an all-male dance group that performed live on the season finale of “So You Think You Can Dance” in September 2014.

“I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t like Bollywood, but I still meet people that don’t know a lot about Bollywood, and that is what the campaign is for,” Inamdar says. “It is to spread awareness about Bollywood, to promote it and to take one day to recognize what we love and what we want to share.”

LIGHTS, CAMERA, EARTH:

Student recounts journey in winning film fest video

COURTESY OF LISA TOSSEY Lisa Tossey won the $1,000 cash prize for her video detailing her personal journey and years of environmental activism.

KERRI WHELAN Staff Reporter The university’s second annual environmental film festival, “Lights, Camera, EARTH!,” concluded Sunday night in Mitchell Hall with the premiere of the winning film from the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN) student ambassador’s third annual video competition.

Becky Bronstein, DENIN’s chair student ambassador, announced that graduate student and doctoral candidate Lisa Tossey won the $1,000 cash prize for this year’s video’s theme: “A Personal Journey.”

Tossey, 40, is an outdoorsy writer and educator, avid kayaker and self-described “gadget geek” studying educational technology with a focus on marine science. She is working toward a doctorate in educational leadership.

Tossey narrates her fiveminute film, briefly detailing the unexpected trials and

tribulations of her personal, professional and educational journeys—despite her Type A personality and penchant for planning.

She grew up with an intense interest in science and goal of becoming a veterinarian. She excelled in her biology and chemistry studies at Salisbury University. But when she began her program in vet school, things simply didn’t “feel right.”

After one too many tearful phone calls home, Tossey’s father reminded her that she was the only person forcing herself to continue on this path. At her sister’s encouragement, she became a flight attendant with US Airways, which allowed her to “see the world” and indulge in her love of traveling. She began contributing to a travel blog, soon discovering her passion for the written word.

Tossey worked as a science editor for an online textbook company and later got a master’s degree in journalism with a focus in science.

She has since worked in

communication and education related positions for AmeriCorps for Delaware State Parks, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Delaware Sea Grant and the university—freelancing and covering environmental leaders and efforts along the way.

“I continued to travel and see firsthand how we are all facing the same issues in environmental stewardship and education— from marine debris littering the shores of our one global ocean in Hong Kong to rising seas in Venice to classrooms in South Africa,” she says in the video.

Tossey found out about the competition through social media and says her background in communication helped her create a film that exemplifies her personal journey and years of environmental activism.

“My overall goal for the piece was to point out that as much as you might try to plan ahead, life doesn’t always take a straight line and you should embrace different opportunities as they present themselves,” she says.

“You never know where they might lead next.”

Tossey also currently acts as the social media community manager and editor for the National Marine Educators Association. She intends on donating a portion of her prize money to local organizations that are meaningful to her, as well as upgrading her camera inventory.

“As Henry David Thoreau once said, ‘Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence,’” Tossey concludes in her video.

Bollywood, a nickname given to the Indian film industry, began in 1899 in Mumbai, India. The industry produces up to 800 films a year—twice as many as Hollywood, and more than all other film industries in the world. Nearly 14 million people attend the movies each day in India.

Inamdar says Bollywood gives much more than just movies to the community.

“You have everything from the arts, such as dancing,” Inamdar says.

“And Bollywood dancing can be anything because the music draws inspiration from all different music styles—classical, hip-hop and even Latin music.”

Inamdar also says Bollywood promotes physical fitness through exercise and dance classes, which she teaches in her own studios.

The industry is also philanthropic, she says.

“I enjoy the music, dance and movies,” Saritha Chekuru, mother of an International Fusion dancer, says. “But the people of Bollywood do fundraising, too. They take part in so many good causes for the welfare of people around the globe, not just for the people of India.”

The economic benefits

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that Bollywood generates through job creation and film tourism are sometimes overlooked in America, Inamdar says.

The International Indian Film Academy’s 15th Annual Weekend and Awards in Tampa Bay, FL attracted nearly 30,000 visitors in April 2014, generating an estimated $26.4 million in total visitor spending alone, according to a Visit Tampa Bay news release.

Last year, Gov. Jack Markell issued a proclamation stating that the Office of the Governor also recognizes the positive economic impact of the Bollywood industry on the state of Delaware, as well as its overall benefit on the community.

Inamdar says the governor’s support and success of Saturday’s event brings Bollywood United one step closer to persuading Congress to create a national day of Bollywood recognition.

“Washington, D.C. would be more symbolic than New York City,” Inamdar says.

“It’s hard to get a resolution passed by Congress, but maybe once they see the community coming together at such a level—the possibilities are endless.”

A BUNCH OF YIKETTY YAK

A POEM CONSTRUCTED FROM YIK YAKS RACHEL COYNE rscoyne@udel.edu I’m gonna be Ebola for Halloween, Watch out bitches.

Burning my popcorn is The reason I have trust issues.

Being dressed in theme Quadruples your chance of getting laid.

Nothing makes me feel manlier.

I feel so unaccomplished in life.

Is anyone else afraid of Ending up alone?

Every other night I question my choice of major, If I will be able to get a job.

I have to be successful because I love expensive shit.

When life gives you lemons You paint that shit gold.

If you’re trying to find A girl on Tinder...

Tinder is pointless.

Virginity drinking game.

Boys in a tent who are waiting, Can I come in?

Having fun isn’t hard when You’ve got a library card.

To whoever left a flower on my bike last night, Reveal yourself so I can Give you the biggest hug.

That made my day.

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Requirements for our new president president:

Must willingly bend to the whims of students.

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ABBIE SARFO Columns Managing Editor

Must be a cool human being.

Do you have what it takes to be the university’s new president? If you just said yes, stop lying! You have no idea what the requirements are, so why would you even answer that question? Luckily, this happens to be a complete and comprehensive list of qualities we need in our next president, so let’s see if you’re right for the job!

First on the list, you:

In the past, our presidents have been “extremely qualified” which translates roughly into “mad boring.” This time around, we’re more interested in what actually matters: That you’re a super-chill individual.

We want someone personable, someone we could potentially bro-out with on weekends. You don’t even need experience to apply for this position! In fact, we’d prefer you didn’t have any. Just be cool, and the rest will work itself out.

Additionally, our new

Here’s something you probably already know: people love to complain. And boy, will you inherit a school full of whiners! Granted, sometimes those complaints are valid—but usually, they’re not. Prepare to hear things along the lines of: “Oh, no, it weathered outside while I slept! These are not the preferred conditions for traveling to and from my firstclass education. I am displeased, and will now air my grievances quite loudly and without solicitation. I also expect you to care! THIS IS MY GOD-GIVEN RIGHT AS AN AMERICAN.” To discourage this incessant griping, simply take away the need to complain. Make our lives perfect!

Snow? No class. Sunshine?

No class. Class? No class.

Someone may have told you the point of this job is to “govern the school,” but no: The real reason you exist is to please us. And to do so, you must fulfill our every demand, no matter how illogical or inane.

And speaking of demands, you:

Must bring back tailgating.

Many moons ago, a decision was made to effectively ban tailgating. Everyone hates the ban, and it’s your job to reverse it.

For starters, you owe us.

Sports games are thinly veiled excuses to converge in parking lots and get lit, and we’ve been robbed of that opportunity. (It’s also scientifically proven that sports are unenjoyable unless partying is involved.)

Secondly, tailgating would be great for morale!

Nothing says “school spirit” like a congregation of people drunkenly bonding over their love for Blue Hens. You also can’t deny that the lure of tailgating would drum up attendance for games. Don’t our teams deserve to be seen?

The answer is yes, probably.

On the topic of being seen, you also:

Must be willing to stroll on the green.

We all know Harker exists,

but. . .do we? He was rarely, if ever, spotted casually about campus. Our new president should be one of us, which means visibly enjoying this beautiful campus just as much as we do.

Yeah, you might have presidential duties to fulfill, but you can still spare 15 minutes to pop down from your ivory tower every now and again.

Actually, come to think of it, you:

Must give free tours of the president’s house.

This is probably the most important requirement: Show us your dope new house. Serving as a personal tour guide, you are obligated to take all students through every (and we mean every) room of your fancy gilded mansion. A house that nice deserves to be shared!

On second thought, why stop at just a tour? As our new leader and role model, you should really focus on giving back to the community—and by “giving back,” we mean your house. Seriously, give us your house. It’s ours now.

‘30 Rock’ fans rejoice, ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ is a home run LISA RYAN Managing Mosaic Editor

COURTESY OF NETFLIX

Good news for “30 Rock” fans and basically anyone else with a laptop or TV: “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” has made it to Netflix. The show, written by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock (“30 Rock”), premiered on Netflix last Friday.

The show is laugh-outloud-and-startle-yourroommate funny. In the first moments of the show’s first episode, the title character (played by Ellie Kemper) and three other women are rescued from an underground bunker where they’ve been held by the leader of a doomsday cult for 15 years.

Seeking a fresh start, Kimmy moves into a reasonably-sized closet in a room rented by rising Broadway star Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess), who is always doing something wild in pursuit of his big break. Their landlady Lillian is played by Carol Kane, a character actor playing yet another kooky woman, this time with a bit more edge. Lillian’s antics are just as funny as those of her renters.

Having spent the better part of her life underground, Kimmy is completely

out of step with modern culture—but totally eager to immerse herself in it. She grows increasingly savvy as the season progresses, but remains kind and optimistic without turning into an irritatingly flawless character.

Kimmy pays the rent by working as an assistant to a woman named Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski). The job provides plenty of fodder for the “rich people are weird” jokes seen on several sitcoms, as well as endless opportunities for the once bunker-bound Kimmy to learn about things like iPhones and spin classes.

The show’s humor is often topical, poking fun at life in New York and life online (the theme song is an autotuned news clip about Kimmy’s rescue). Whether the show takes on the concept of “going viral” or pokes fun at costumed panhandlers in Times Square, the audience will laugh in recognition.

After Kimmy and the other

women from the bunker appear on the “Today” show, a studio assistant all but pushes them out of the building, thrusting “swag bags” into their arms and trilling, “Thank you, victims!

Thank you, victims!” In such instances, the humor casts a critical eye on some aspects of modern life, making the laughter questionable.

While Kimmy’s cleanedup curse words will never be the same as Liz Lemon’s FCCsafe “What the what?!” on “30 Rock,” that’s okay. It’s easy to compare the two shows because of the staff members they share: Both shows credit Fey and Carlock as cocreators, feature Krakowski as a foil and friend to the main character and are set to music composed by Jeff Richmond.

In spite of these similarities, Kemper’s Kimmy is the heart of this show, which makes it incredibly different from “30 Rock.” Whereas Liz Lemon was curmudgeonly, Kimmy Schmidt faces the world with a smile and a can-do attitude.

‘The show is laugh-out-loud-and-startleyour-roommate funny.’

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NEW MUSICAL BASED ON STUDENT INTERVIEWS

COURTESY OF CAMPUS CHATTER MUSICAL GWYN JEFFERS Staff Reporter School shootings, cyberbullying, sexual identity—nothing is offlimits in a new university play produced by Xiang Gao, a Trustees Distinguished

professor of music.

Campus Chatter––a musical based on interviews with college students over the past two years––will be presented by the UD Master Players Concert Series on March 20th and 21st in Mitchell Hall. The musical will feature 10 university

students in addition to a student from Drexel University and a student from Messiah College.

Heather Conrad, a sophomore, plays Chris, a transgender student who struggles with his sexual orientation. She says she was drawn to the play because of its authenticity in bringing to light the real challenges students face on college campuses.

Through joining the cast, Conrad has been made more aware of the problems students face in high schools and colleges. She says she hopes the audience takes away a similar awareness after seeing the play.

“I really hope this musical leaves the audience thinking about their own lives,” Conrad says in an email message. “How are we defending or defeating these social issues of gender, race and status.”

Joyce Stoner, the musical’s lyricist, was in charge of coordinating interviews with students in 2012 to develop the play’s plot points, in addition to writing the lyrics. When writing the lyrics, Stoner reviewed the interviews and noted possible themes that

should be used in songs and dialogue.

Stoner says Campus Chatter is an exciting production for her because she gets to see how her lyrics are interpreted and presented by the cast.

“I wanted to be sure to have some funny songs and some that took on edgy problem issues head on— and tried to sort ideas—and there was a lot of give and take with collaborators as there always should be in musical theatre,” Stoner says.

Like the screenplay itself, Stoner says she hopes the lyrics help relay a powerful message to the audience.

By being true to the actual experience and problems presented in the interviews, Stoner says, the audience might show an interest in preventing bullying. “[...] They may want to help international students feel included, to understand how to reach out and get lonely people involved in clubs, to be the one that is there to help someone who might otherwise be one of the people who commits suicide,” Stoner says.

Junior Seraphina Cromwell says she was

interested in joining the cast because of its similarity to “High School Musical.” She plays the role of Monique, an over-achieving African American student. Cromwell says she is able to relate to her character’s desire for success, and believes there is a bit of “Monique” present in individuals who choose to stay grounded in their aspirations, regardless of obstacles faced.

“I believe there are ‘Moniques’ of all different races, social statues and social orientations, who again, believe in their worth,” Cromwell says in an email message.

Student tickets are available now at the REP Box Office for $10 or can be purchased at the doors.

REEL CRITICISM

‘CHAPPIE’ “Humanity’s last hope isn’t human.” This is the tagline of the would-be blockbuster film “Chappie.” And that tagline–– like the movie––is devoid of any internally cohesive meaning.

“Chappie” is a strange sort of movie from the director (Neill Blomkamp) of the equally strange, but monumentally better, “District 9.” Chappie is set in the familiar South Africa of “District 9” and Blomkamp continues to focus on the grit, violence, poverty and eccentricity that he seems to presume is inherent in the region.

This does not make for enjoyable viewing. Blomkamp asks the viewers not only to empathize with a robot, but also a gang of criminal savages who have all the personality and cuddliness of a rabid pitbull. This is quite a task.

What is more, Blomkamp’s insistence on bringing us into his supposed South African underworld borders on cartoonish. In the world of “Chappie” there exists a seemingly neverending supply of graffitied, large cement buildings teeming with criminals, and Chappie himself (itself?) often acts as

if he is the unwanted metallic reincarnation of Jar-Jar Binks.

The upshot of this is that the film is equivalent to a visual and audial assault, making “Chappie” less than appealing to watch.

The movie is desperate to prove that it has some sort of meaning, and at the outset it looks as if there is hope for this view. South Africa, circa 2016, has seen its crime rate plummet following the introduction of robotic “scouts” into the police force that are designed by the weapons manufacturing firm Tetra Vaal.

Almost everyone is delighted with the new computerized police force, save for criminals and the nefarious Vincent Moore (Hugh Jackman). Moore is a disgruntled former military man now employed by Tetra Vaal, who has seen funding for his “MOOSE” machine slashed, as the government opts for the more attractive scouts.

In Moore’s mind, the one thing separating him from prosperity is the creator of the scouts and rogue coder, Deon (Dev Patel). Meanwhile, Deon is using his free time away from Tetra Vaal in tense scenes of Red Bull-fueled coding; his aim, for some reason, is to create consciousness in a

computer.

Deon succeeds and understandably, his boss refuses to let him test his creation on anything, given that they are not in the business of creating poetry and art, but rather in the establishment and perpetuation of law and order. Undeterred, Deon tests his creation anyway and is summarily kidnapped by a gang of thugs who steal his sentient robot. The rest of the movie is essentially like watching a toddler being raised by a gang of malicious hyenas.

At the end of the film one does not necessarily feel they watched a bad movie, only a movie that was not in any way enjoyable. This in turn gives rise to a feeling of longing for the two hours one just wasted and will never be able to regain.

“Chappie” seems so sure of its purpose, so sure that the questions it is asking are grave and important ones.

However, in the end it seems all too clear that the only thing the film has succeeded in doing is committing the theft of a perfectly good afternoon from all of its viewers.

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ATTENTION PENNY PINCHERS: A guide to cheap spring breaks ABBIE SARFO Columns Managing Editor Spring break is fast approaching, and you’re broke as a joke. But hey, just because you’re strapped doesn’t mean you have to stay home! There are many inexpensive trip alternatives for the monetarily challenged. Consult this handy guide, and you’ll be able to plan a spectacular, cheaply broken spring.

GO CAMPING Dirt! Wilderness! Lack of shelter! If you’re not repulsed by any of the above, then camping might be a great spring break option. (Plus, you’re poor, and I know for a fact you’re used to sleeping outside.)

You don’t even have to travel that far! Just set up a tent in your backyard and pretend you’re in the mountains or something. Fundamentally, I think camping sounds awful, but on the other hand: so cheap.

SUGGESTED LOCATIONS: Shenandoah National Park, Delaware River Gap and Cape Henlopen State Park

TAKE A ROAD TRIP Driving is usually a means to an end, but since you have no money, you get to vacation in your car. Of course, gas is expensive, but AAA Fuel Cost Calculator can help you plan ahead and budget how much money you’ll need.

And what

says “spring break” more than a good old-fashioned road trip? Just you and your friends in a cramped rolling canister, traveling together for hours on end.

If seeing some sights won’t entertain you, the imminent claustrophobia probably will.

i.e. going to museums and pretending to “get it.” And, if you’re super committed to being cheap and looking cool, skip hotels and shoot for hostels. (No, hostels are nothing like “Hostel,” so please don’t ask again.)

VISIT A CITY

Planes are metal death cages that use sorcery to float at heights perilous for human safety. But if your heart is set on traveling to warmer climes in far-away places, they’re a necessary evil. STA Travel is a great resource for searching and comparing flight prices. Even better, they offer a range of youth-based promotions: student discounts, deals for those under 26, etc.

Alternatively, if you’re

You want to go on a trip for spring break, but you loathe the idea of “spring break.” Something so college is simply beneath you! So, why not spend break in a city? Newark happens to be situated close to some cool ones—Philly, New York, Washington D.C.—and is not unreasonably far from others. You can spend your trip getting cultured,

CHEAP TRAVEL

dead set on traveling far distances, but unwilling to compromise on the whole “not spending money” thing, it doesn’t get much cheaper than hitchhiking. There’s something romantic about relying on the kindness of strangers to get from point A to B. That is, unless you get kidnapped. If possible, avoid it! A kidnapping would seriously mess up your trip, or at the very least, ruin any good vibes you had going that day.

Of course, the cheapest option for a great, authentic spring break experience is to just stay in, rent “Spring Breakers” and watch it on a continuous loop for days.

In the immortal words of James Franco, “Spraaaang breaaaaak.”

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The turf in the Field House provides 13 university teams space to practice inside but with the removal of the track, Newark High School can no longer host home track meets.

IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME The university builds grass of the future

JACK RODGERS Managing Sports Editor

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wo years ago the Delaware Field House on South Campus would sit empty for nearly 23 hours each day. While the university saw a vacant cave of a complex, they also saw a possibility for versatility and usage through a new solution: laying artificial turf and removing the track.

When the university decides to redesign or reinvent any building, they look at the activity in a certain facility and designate its current usage into something different and more beneficial to the entire school. This is no different with the field house’s new artificial turf. With the new

surface the Field House provides 13 teams the ability to practice inside.

“The positives outweigh the negatives of putting the turf down,” said Joe Shirley, athletics director for facilities at the university.

“The turf is better for their bodies and is better in the winter because of the cold.”

The field house is reminiscent of a small airplane hangar and is carpeted with Astroturf, a multifunctional artificialturf surface that has integrated a “root-zone” which makes the turf more like grass. After being filled with rubber infill, the green artificial fibers can be pulled apart much like real grass. With this invention, the players who practice on Astroturf are less likely to have injuries and are able to transfer their practiced skills more fluidly onto grass.

Wendy McFarlane, the head coach of the women’s indoor track team, says the removal of the indoor track for the new turf is not only more beneficial for a multitude of teams, but

Newark High School’s men’s indoor track team spends

MORE THAN $1,000 on travel expenses per season.

it also hasn’t affected the recruiting of new runners for Delaware’s team.

Though there are some drawbacks and limitations to what the team can practice on the new surface, as there is no current area to practice pole vaulting and shot put,

the university itself is what attracts new runners to come to Delaware each year.

“There are student athletes who really want to be at Delaware for the academics,” McFarlane said.

“Has it affected recruiting?

Somewhat. But for the student athletes who really want to be in this university, it’s a plus for them to be here academically. So yes there are challenges, but we overcome some of them.”

Within the epicenter of campus, the new Astroturf has had a positive resonance among players, coaches and administrators.

However on the outliers of this transition, local schools like Newark High School have been damaged by this change.

Mike Mooney, head coach of Newark High School’s men’s indoor track team, says the removal of the only indoor track facility in the

state of Delaware poses a threat to the sport of track.

Without the university’s indoor track, Newark High School spends more than $1,000 on travel expenses alone to compete with other high schools around the country, Mooney says. With trips to Yale, Kutztown and other collegiate indoor tracks, the price to rent a bus to these events has increased from $200 to $1,000 a trip. Additionally, Newark High School now is without a metaphorical home, as the removal of the university’s indoor track has also removed their ability to host home meets.

“Dues help to cover some of the travel fees,” Mooney said. “But the school district has to pay the majority for a bus to these other places.

There’s just not a lot of money left in there.”

Snow keeps Blue Hens cooped up

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Senior outfielder Norm Donkin throws a pitch last year. Donkin said the freshman pitching staff are coming along well.

JACK COBOURN Managing Sports Editor While the poor weather conditions lately have given students more time to sleep in and study, it has negatively affected the Delaware baseball team’s season. The Blue Hens are 2-3 overall, but that doesn’t tell the whole story.

Twelve games—plus the entire Bob Hannah Invitational scheduled for Feb. 27 to March

1—were canceled due to the weather.

“College baseball, being early in the season, is really questionable, and a lot of us coaches in Division I think that the season, the first two weeks ought to be cut off the season, start in March,” said head coach Jim Sherman, now in his 20th season here at Delaware, including 15 as head coach.

The Blue Hens have retreated to the warmth of the

Field House to practice hitting and pitching. Sherman said the team has modified its batting practice, working with pitchers, coaches and pitching machines inside. However, despite getting the necessary practice, team captain Joe Giacchino said the Blue Hens are suffering from a case of cabin fever.

When the team does get to play, it is down South, and even then, games don’t get played.

The Blue Hens won their first game, 3-0, against Georgetown in Winston-Salem, N.C. The team then lost to Wake Forest, 3-2, before four games against Virginia Commonwealth were canceled.

The team then played three games in Lexington, S.C., losing the first two to George Mason and New Jersey Institute of Technology, before winning against Canisius, 5-1. The Blue Hens were supposed to play the Golden Griffins again the next

day, but the game was canceled.

“The hardest thing about playing in Lexington was that it was a real surface of grass and dirt,” senior outfielder Norm Donkin said. “Our real field is turf and ground balls just drive on the turf. We haven’t played on a grass field in a while.”

While the season hasn’t gotten off the ground yet, the pitching staff is working away.

Among the bullpen, seven freshmen have been making waves on the mound, Donkin said, including redshirt righty Ron Marinaccio, who has one win in six and two-thirds innings pitched.

“All the freshmen on the pitching staff are doing phenomenal,” Donkin said. “[...]

They constantly ask questions and learn the game, and they’re all going to be really good players down the road.”

As spring approaches, the Colonial Athletic Association

season will be coming soon.

The Blue Hens will open their conference run with three games against Hofstra from March 20 to March 22. Another notable set of games is against Maryland, whom the Blue Hens will play a home-at-home against on April 28 and April 29.

Delaware is expected to play its first game since Feb. 28 when the team will face Rider University on Tuesday at 12 p.m. at Bob Hannah Stadium.

Overall, once the snow melts, the Blue Hens will begin to get their season on the right track, with hitting being the major improvement, Sherman said.

“We got a great group of guys, honestly,” Donkin said.

“We’ve dealt with adversity, being in the Field House and not being outside and all, and we’re a close-knit group. We all have fun together, and that’s the main thing—to have fun.”

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HENS HEARTBREAK: Delaware loses in CAA Tournament quarterfinals

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They had a chance. As the final seconds ticked off the game clock in Delaware’s CAA quarterfinal matchup against Northeastern University, the Blue Hens tried desperately to close the 67-64 gap. Chivarsky Corbett, the freshman entrusted with the final shot, just missed the mark and the team dropped a heartbreaker at Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore.

“We came up short but when you don’t win, what you want to have happen is that you leave everything out there on the court,” Delaware head coach Monte Ross said.

“And I thought our guys left everything out there on the court.”

The sixth-seeded Blue Hens hung with the thirdranked Huskies for much of the game, fighting back from a four-point deficit at halftime to even the score in the second half. In a familiar

spot, the Blue Hens felt confident in their chances to come from behind.

“Its something we’ve done all year,” said senior Kyle Anderson, who played his final game in a Delaware jersey. “It’s not anything new to us.”

Leading the way in the comeback attempt was freshman point guard Kory Holden, who contributed a team-high 20 points and five assists. Aided by Anderson’s 11 points, the Blue Hens kept the game tight throughout, pulling within one with eight seconds left. The game came to a thrilling conclusion as two quick Northeastern free throws extended the Huskies’ lead before Corbett’s last second 3-pointer missed the mark.

“I thought it was a heck of a basketball game and to be honest with you that had the feel of a championship game,” Ross added.

“I thought it was a tremendous, tremendous game to watch, and that’s what you want to be a part of. That’s why you

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Freshman guard Kory Holden had a team-high 20 points and five assists against Northeastern. coach—to be in games like that.”

With the loss, Delaware finishes the season with a 10-20 record and the future of coach Monte Ross remains clouded in uncertainty, as his contract is set to expire this year. If this is the end for Ross, he’s proud of this team.

“You’re playing to win but you want to actually do things the right way, perform the right way, act the right way, treat the game the right

way, have great respect for the game—and our guys did.

They played the right way every single time out,” Ross said.

Despite the disappointing end to the 2014-2015 season, the future is bright for the Blue Hens.

“We’re gonna keep getting better during the summer and the spring and keep coming together as a team,” Holden said of the team.

Though Delaware will

lose Kyle Anderson and senior Tom Allshouse to graduation, the core of their team will return, including CAA All-Rookie selections Holden and Corbett.

“We’re gonna be really good,” Holden said.

“We gelled this year and losing only two people— Kyle (Anderson) and Tom (Allshouse)—it’s gonna be scary for the league next year.”

The endurance of club sports JACK RODGERS Managing Sports Editor

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Jamie Jarmon (#2, throwing ball) plays in the 2011 State Championship game for Indian River High School. Jarmon will step onto a football field again when he suits up for spring practice.

Minor leaguer to major star MEGHAN O’DONNELL Managing Sports Editor When the Delaware football team walks out onto the field for spring practice on March 24, roughly four months will have passed since most players’ last competitive game. For one, quarterback Jamie Jarmon, it will have been four years.

Though the Delaware native, a graduate of Indian River High School, committed to the University of Delaware for the first time in 2011, he soon after chose a different path.

“I was on the summer circuit playing baseball, getting offers like crazy so I decommitted to open up my opportunities, and I ended up committing to South Carolina,” Jarmon said.

His time at South Carolina was short lived as well, as the Texas Rangers selected him in the second round of the 2012 draft.

For three years, he played outfield for the team’s minor league affiliate, struggling to string together successful months. Life in the minors began to wear on Jarmon.

“In the beginning it was exciting, but it just kind of grew out of me. It became

more of a job to me than something I did for fun,” the 20-year-old said. “I just kind of had the feeling that it was time for me to go.”

So he hung up one pair of cleats in favor of another and found his way back to Delaware—and to football— with some help from his high school coach and Delaware head coach Dave Brock.

“When I first got the job, one of the first places I went was Indian River and had a long conversation with his high school coach,” Brock said. “He said great things about Jamie

and what a dynamic player he was in the state. Ultimately, when he made the decision to get out of baseball and go back to college, we kind of had a little bit of a leg up on everybody else because we’d been working on it for about a year.”

Jarmon is enrolled at the university this spring, though his major is still undecided. As he prepares to transition back into football and school, the quarterback credits his mother and father as the biggest influences in his decision.

“I’d have to say my parents just for helping me through all the baseball stuff because it was rough for me for awhile,” he said. “ I

decided to come here so they could see me play football.”

After such a long time away from the game, Jarmon is focused on the season ahead and already has a goal in mind.

“I want to win the quarterback job,” he said.

Though he also played defensive back at Indian River, he’s most comfortable under center. With the Blue Hens’ 2014 starter Trent Hurley graduating, Jarmon will be competing with Rutgers transfer Blake Rankin and Delaware freshman Joseph Walker.

“He’ll start the spring as a QB,” Brock said. “That’s kind of how he sees himself, and he’ll get every opportunity to prove that he is.”

In a way, Jarmon has come full circle. He’s not that same 17-year-old kid who committed to Delaware back in 2011. He’s matured and endured. Now he’s ready to get back onto the field with his teammates and recapture some of the magic he displayed as a high school standout.

“We’re excited,” Brock said. “He’s a terrific kid, and he’s gotten off to a good start here, and I’m looking forward to spring practice.”

Daring to be first with a spread of Division I sport opportunities, students at Delaware can be Division I in everything from throwing a pigskin to rowing a boat. The university’s club triathlon team is pushing for women’s varsity triathlon to become one of these Division I teams.

The idea of going varsity, born of the minds of officers like Austin Barth, was brought about by many different conditions.

“There are a lot of serious girls on the team, which has made a great environment to train in,” Barth stated in an email message. “It would be great to have the financial and academic support of the school while we are competing.”

The sport of triathlon had been given a booster by USA Triathlon, a foundation dedicated to improving triathlon teams through grants around the country.

The organization had committed $2.6 million to cultivating Division I programs throughout America.

Collegiate and private programs alike had a Jan. 30 deadline to present the idea of becoming varsity to their college’s sports departments and sponsors, which Delaware’s tri-team had attempted to grasp.

Jake Olkkola, a senior associate athletics director, said triathlon coach Eddie Kolofer had attempted to contact him about this grant with very little notice.

“When their coach had

presented this idea to us it was, ‘Hey, this grant is out there, we need to let them know in about a week,’” Olkkola said. “Any time a request like this gets put forward, it’s important that the people requesting a change in status understand that no institution is going to jump into a decision like that.”

Coach Kolofer was unable to be reached for comment.

While the triathlon team’s varsity aspirations may be on hold for the moment, triathletes are still ravenous for competition. The goal of each triathlete is to solely complete races, motivating themselves purely from their own personal endurance.

Paula Ferrara, a member on the team, is one of the strongest competitors.

Arranged into groups of competitiveness, Ferrara competes in the toughest group. Ferrara is also among the few that have been transformed into a triathlete through the team. An exswimmer, Ferrara has molded her disciplines into a more well-rounded collection; however, this isn’t her favorite part of being on the team.

“It’s nice to be with people who don’t think you’re insane,” Ferrara said. “Triathlon is a difficult sport, and it’s really hard to get into. Being with a group that’s really likeminded, there’s something there that really bonds people together through the insanity.”

The triathlon team must now turn its attention to its next challenge; the Collegiate National Championships in Clemson, S.C. April 25.

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Members of the triathalon team are working toward achieving varsity status.

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