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Following fire, Spencer Lab evacuated Friday

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An electrical fire was reported in Spencer Laboratory at 130 Academy St. this afternoon. The fire was reported at 2:45 p.m. and was under control at 3:30 p.m., Aetna Hose Hook & Ladder Chief A.J. Schall said.

The building was evacuated and will be closed roughly until 6 or 7 p.m., university spokeswoman Andrea Boyle Tippett said.

There was a large amount of smoke that needs to be cleared from the building, Boyle Tippett said.

The fire was contained to an electrical room on the first floor in the back right corner

of the building.

Schall said Spencer Laboratory is an older building, which poses some challenges for fire crews.

“There’s no sprinklers in this part of the building, I believe,” he said. “None that were activated at least.”

About 30 firefighters were on the scene, Schall said.

Junior Corey Shannon was in the basement of the building when the alarm sounded and said people were calm as they left the building.

“We just thought it was a drill for about ten minutes until a cop came out and was like, ‘Hey, there’s an actual fire, so you should probably move back.’”

One year after resignation, Funk still active in Newark

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FILE PHOTO/THE REVIEW Funk started serving as mayor in 2005, brining to life citywide events like Taste of Newark.

Vance Funk’s run as mayor ended inauspiciously a year ago. He resigned amid growing public tension over the construction of a new Wawa in tandem with personal health concerns.

In his open resignation letter, Funk blamed some of his health problems on the very issues that were facing the city at the time. Specifically, he pointed out the efforts of

several city residents who had started a grassroots campaign to prevent the new Wawa from being built on South Main Street.

“Quite frankly, I can no longer afford the adverse health consequences that come with my ever increasing blood pressure caused by the antiWawa campaign and the other issues before the city,” Funk wrote.

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Tripled up: Largest freshman class in university history squeezes into dorms MEGHAN JUSCZAK Managing News Editor

At last week’s Twilight Induction Ceremony, 400 more candles glowed on the South Green than last year, each candle representing a member of the largest entering class in the university’s history.

There are 4,200 new freshmen in the class of 2018, whereas the average in past years has usually been

around 3,800, Vice President of Enrollment Management Chris Lucier said. Although the school’s target of 3,800 remained the same for this year, more students than normal chose Delaware when they were accepted.

Part of Lucier’s job— which is a new position at the university—involves looking at data to understand why this situation occurred, then applying that information into the admissions process

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THE REVIEW/KIRK SMITH Several regional fire crews responded to an electrical fire in Spencer Lab Friday afternoon.

COURTESY OF JENNIFER TORMAN A room in Rodney, one of the 378 forced triples on campus.

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going into next year.

“I think there is a perception of the University of Delaware as a great value to students,” he said. “Our low cost and financial aid make us very competitive, as does our academic and student life experience.

UD students are also going onto prestigious jobs and graduate programs, which is important to prospective students and families.”

Because of the over enrollment, 30 percent of freshmen currently live in extended housing. There are 378 forced triples this year, Kathleen Kerr, executive director of residence life and housing, said. Typically, there are around 110.

“We do our best to accommodate students in this situation,” she said.

“We explain that we pick the largest rooms and work to detriple those with the greatest concern most quickly.”

She also said that residence life provides a weekly rebate for any students still living in forced triples beginning Oct. 1.

Freshman Jen Torman, who lives in a triple in Rodney Residence Hall, said that she was initially upset about her room assignment, especially because she had already chosen a roommate and assumed they would be living in a double room.

“It hasn’t been bad at all, though,” Torman said.

“We’ve gotten used to the space we have and so far my roommates and I all respect each other. We’re making it work.”

In honors freshman housing, the percentage of triples is consistent with the rest of the residence halls.

In fact, 150 of the additional 400 students in the freshman

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class are enrolled in the honors program. The program usually has approximately 400 to 450 students in each class, but there are 599 honors freshmen this year.

Honors Program Director Michael Arnold said that, like general admissions, its target remained the same this year. However, the program experienced a similarly high and unexpected yield.

There is not a clear answer for why this happened this particular year, he said, but he did think new marketing efforts played a role.

“The Taste of UD pilot program this year where current honors students hosted prospective students for lunch during a campus visit likely had an impact,” Arnold said. “But I’d also like to think most of it is the result of the growing strength and reputation of the honors program and the university as a whole.”

Both Arnold and Lucier expressed the university’s commitment to supporting this larger class. Several more introductory classes, especially within honors, were added, and some residence hall staffs were expanded. Lucier said despite the increased size, the aim for the school is to provide the same experience as always.

Arnold said the university and the honors program plan to make efforts to scale freshman enrollment back down to its usual numbers this upcoming year.

“What this will likely mean is that we will become a more selective university in the future,” Lucier said. “From the number of applications we receive we will be accepting fewer students.”

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DOZENS OF ACTRESSES ENTANGLED IN MASSIVE NUDE PICTURES LEAK

Yesterday, social media potentially deadly drinking exploded with a barrage of sexually explicit pictures, thought to be obtained through a massive hack of Apple’s iCloud memory storage organization. Another source for the pictures has been said to be Dropbox, another photo-storage site similar to iCloud. The list of images, which consists of over 60 celebrities, was posted on the website 4chan.

Female celebrities such as Kate Upton, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice and Jennifer Lawrence were among the list, as well as many more well-known figures. It appears the only male celebrities caught in the hack are actor Dave Franco and baseball player Justin Verlander.

The FBI has said they are addressing the large-scale invasion of privacy. It is unclear if the hacker possesses pictures of all of the celebrities on the supposed “masterlist” that was posted to 4chan. Buzzfeed has reported that the person who has been spotlighted by Reddit and some other internet communities, Bryan Hamade, has denied involvement with the leak.

The story is reminiscent of the 2012 celebrity hacking scandal that resulted in a 10-year prison sentence for Christopher Chaney, who infiltrated the computers of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera and others. Chaney then published the photos online.

—Matt Butler Managing News Editor

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HUMAN TRIALS FOR EBOLA VACCINE BEGIN THIS WEEK

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New and human Fissure eruptions spreads vaccinegame Iceland’s Bardarbunga

The first phase of clinical trials for an Ebola begin this week In Bethesda, Md. The National Institute of Health and the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline are developing the vaccine, and so far it has “performed extremely well” in primate studies.

This development arises as West Africa remains the site of the largest outbreak of the most deadly hemorrhagic fever in history. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the virus has killed 1,552 people since March, and there have been over 3,000 suspected cases reported­—a number that surpasses the count of all previous cases since Ebola was first detected in Zaire in 1976.

The WHO warned the international community Thursday that unless serious, immediate action is taken the virus could spread to as many as 20,000 cases in West Africa within the next nine months.

Infected patients exhibit symptoms similar to malaria and cholera, which can often make diagnosis difficult, particularly in the remote areas where it has been most common. In recent weeks, however, it has been spreading to cities, particularly in the hardest-hit countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

GlaxoSmithKline said its grant will enable it to produce 10,000 doses of the vaccine while trials continue, and if all goes well, it plans to make the drugs immediately available to the WHO for distribution.

—Meghan Jusczak Managing News Editor

near volcano Sunday prompted authorities to raise the aviation warning code to the highest level, restricting flights in the surrounding airspace.

The nearly undetectable eruptions caused fountains of lava to rise up to 50 meters high, which started to appear about 28 miles from the main Bardarbunga volcano. The volcano lies under the vast Vatnajokull glacier, spreading across much of Iceland’s eastern corner.

Iceland’s weather agency confirmed that scientists and air travel experts are watching the ongoing eruption closely.

“Visual observation confirms it is calm but continuous,” the agency said on its website.

Thousands of small earthquakes have also rocked the region, igniting concerns that the main volcano could be in danger of eruption. Its location beneath the Vatnajokull glacier could complicate the situation, according to Melissa Pfeffer, a volcanologist from the Icelandic Meteorological office.

“The thicker the ice, the more water there is, the more explosive it will be and the more ash-rich the eruption will be,” Pfeffer said.

Although the area is isolated with a fairly small population, it receives myriad hikers and tourists in the summer.

In early 2010, a volcanic eruption in Iceland caused major air traffic disruptions, canceling more than 100,000 flights and stranding 10 million travelers worldwide.

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For the first time in three years, Britain’s threat level for international terrorism raised to “severe” level Friday because the terrorist group, ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, gained large amounts of territory.

An Islamist extremist group, ISIS is seeking to create its own country. Besides gaining territory, the group has also gained some followers and support, namely among British Muslims. The United Kingdom is now looking into legislation that would allow the police to confiscate passports of suspected militants.

Considered to be at the “severe” threat level, a terrorist attack is “highly likely” but not necessarily “imminent” in the country.

According to a statement released by U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May, the increased threat is “related to events in Syria and Iraq where terrorist groups are planning attacks against the West and that some of those attacks are likely to involve fighters who have traveled from the U.K.” It is estimated that 500 Britons have traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight with the Islamist groups and that possibly half of those have then returned to the United Kingdom.

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OPEN ELECTIONS DENIED IN HONG KONG

China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee ruled only candidates approved by a nominating committee would be allowed to run for chief executive of Hong Kong.

Hundreds of people, including both pro-Beijing groups and prodemocracy supporters, gathered Monday at the city’s AsiaWorldExpo where the meeting was being held, though not everyone was pleased with the decision.

A top Chinese official said all candidates must “love the country and love Hong Kong.”

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said this is a step in the right direction.

“This is the first opportunity—a very good opportunity—for Hong Kong to have one man, one vote—universal suffrage. This is something we should all feel proud of.”

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Occupy Central movement has a different opinion. Protesters have taken to the streets for weeks to advocate for universal suffrage.

The group has pushed for elections to allow any candidate to run for chief executive.

Many pro-democracy groups have threatened mass civildisobedience if not given “genuine choice” for the 2017 elections.

After the decision was made, the Occupy Central movement released a statement on its website, denouncing Beijing’s choice.

“Genuine universal suffrage includes both the rights to elect and to be elected,” the statement said.

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After three years of leading Greek Life, Cantley to join Dean of Students ELIZABETH QUARTARARO Editor-in-Chief Adam Cantley, the current assistant director of fraternity and sorority life, has been hired after an application and interview process as associate dean of students effective Aug. 8. Under the direction of Dean Riera, he will help connect students to “needed resources” and create “purposeful engagement experiences,” Cantley stated in an email message.

In a Facebook post garnering more than 1,000 likes, Cantley announced his new position and thanked the university’s Greek community and said he will continue to remain involved in “the fraternal movement.”

“Remember, we all signed up for lifetime membership,” he wrote in the status.

Cantley has been working in University Student Centers for the past three years, he said.

“We have seen our community grow to over 4,000 affiliated students, we have added new opportunities for student involvement and have addressed troubling situations in a fair manner,” he said.

Junior Aryana Alborzi worked with Cantley last semester as chapter assessment program chair for Alpha Xi Delta. She said Cantley is easy to talk to and takes personal interest in students, noting his approachability and times he gave shout outs to student organizations via social media.

She said this approachability will be especially important in

his new position.

“I think this is going to be very important to him as assistant dean,” she said.

“They didn’t bring someone from outside in. They brought someone in from the school, and it will be an easier adjustment for him and for the students. He [already] knows the students.”

Among students and staff, Cantley is known for wearing a bowtie each Tuesday, in what he calls “Bowtie Tuesdays.

Sometimes, Cantley will post a “Bowtie Tuesday” picture on Instagram with the hashtag #bowtietuesday.

Cantley has been proud to work with the University Student Centers over the past years, he stated in his Facebook post.

“It has provided me an

amazing learning experience, outstanding professional support and, most important, the ability to make a difference with our student population,” he said. “The power of the Student Union and the experience we create are truly inspiring.”

His vacated position will be posted nationwide, he said.

“I have no doubt it will be filled with a talented candidate that will continue to elevate Greek life on campus,” he said.

Cantley has worked with college students since 2003, including work at Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State University and for Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity.

Though she is sad to see him depart his post within Greek life, Alborzi said she is looking forward to having someone with a Greek

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Adam Cantley at a Greek life meeting.

perspective in Hullihen Hall.

“I definitely think he’s probably an incredible addition to [the dean’s office], and he’s going to do an incredible job there,” she said. “It’s sad to see him go.”

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SARA PFEFER/THE REVIEW Produce is sold at the campus farmers market in Mentors’ Circle. The market will continue every Thursday until Sept. 13.

Dining services draws from near and far states to stock farmers market MOLLY CARROLL Staff Reporter As the summer winds down and the growing season slows, the university’s farmers market located at Mentors’ Circle will continue to sell produce every Thursday until Sept.

13. Though the market touts its focus on local foods, shoppers can still expect to see produce shipped from as far away as Virginia, in addition to an assortment of Pepsi products.

Among the tables occupying Mentors’ Circle every Thursday is Dining Services, which offers an assortment of baked goods, Pepsi drinks and a chef’s table seasonally-inspired entree, in addition to a variety of produce.

Though Dining Services–– which has a contract with Aramark––continues to sell at the market, a South Campus farm maintained by students also participated for the first time this year.

An article published in The Review last year juxtaposed the dining services market with a nearby farm stand, comparing the locality of the two sellers.

While the farmstand sold primarily produce from Pennsylvania, the dining services sold produce from a variety of locations, including North Carolina.

Sophomore plant science major Alexandra Keith interns for the farm on South Campus and said she does not believe food should be labeled “local” when it is coming from so far away.

“I think that it is crucial, especially for a state school, to support farmers’ produce that was grown in the state instead of supporting the farmers who aren’t represented at the markets in Virginia or New Jersey,” Keith said. “I think the farmers

market is supposed to be local, or else how is it a true farmers market, if it is not from a local farm?”

Andersen, whose job involved ordering produce for the dining services area at the farmers market this summer, said locality is a focus of theirs.

The farmers market makes roughly $800 to $1,000 a day, according to university dining services employee Megan Andersen.

She said she expects profits will increase now that more students have returned for the fall semester.

This is the fifth consecutive year dining services is participating in the campus farmers market. Customers at the market may use cash and flex to purchase a variety of fruits and vegetables from 21 different farms shipped from Pennsylvania all the way to Virginia.

“We try to order as locally as possible,” Andersen said.

“However, we want a variety of produce so that is why we have to order produce from other states.”

Signs at the market label the produce as “local” and are accompanied by a large chart nearby the checkout showing the location and name of the farm where the produce was grown.

“We consider anything within the tri-state area “local” here at the farmers market, and if people ask about where the product came from, we explain to the customer where it grew,” Andersen said. “We are just trying to get the most fresh ingredients.”

The interpretation of the term “local” can vary, depending who you ask.

Senior nutrition major Jackie LiPera interpreted local to mean, in this case, food from nearby Pennsylvania or Delaware farms.

“When I saw the sign that said ‘local,’ I assumed the produce came from either Pennsylvania or Delaware, but I wasn’t expecting it to come from as far as Virginia,” LiPera said.

Keith also said locality is something she values and seeks out while at a farmers market.

“When I am attending a farmers market, I look out for produce that is obviously not grown in this region and only purchase produce that is actually local as in within 100 miles from here,” Keith said.

Andersen, whose job involves contacting each farm, said dining services also always tries to order organic, but sometimes that is not always available.

LiPera said as a consumer she feels it is more important for the products sold at a farmers market to be organic rather than local.

Along with produce and baked goods, a cooler filled with Pepsi products is sold at the market. Andersen explained why these items–– although not grown or created locally––are sold at the farmers market.

“We buy Pepsi products because the UD dining services has a contract with the company Aramark,” she said. “Aramark also has a deal with Pepsi so the farmers market provides people with drink options if they choose to eat lunch there.”

LiPera commended the idea behind the farmers market, but said she believes there should be transparency about the foods and products sold there.

“I think that this is a really good concept to bring onto campus,” LiPera said. ”But there should be a more honest relationship about the origin of the food being sold.”

Despite the somewhat acrimonious departure from office, Funk said he does not wish to hold a grudge against the city.

Every Saturday, Funk said, he wakes up and sprays over any graffiti he can find throughout Newark, then on Sunday he walks down Main Street and Elkton Road, cleaning up litter along the way.

Funk said he is enjoying his time outside of office, particularly because it gives him a chance to live in Newark without facing complaints about how the city is being run. Funk said though he misses parts about the job, the only true regret he has about his tenure was running for a fourth term.

“It was stupid to run for a fourth term,” he said. “In 2005 when I ran for office, I set out a list, and I am satisfied with the results.”

In addition to beautifying the city of Newark, Funk also has remained involved in the community by continuing to lead the Taste of Newark event, which he founded in 2004. The event is an annual celebration of Newark restaurants and wineries.

Bill Sullivan, managing director of the Courtyard

by Marriott hotel at the university, assists Funk in running the event, and said he was never worried about Funk stepping away from Taste of Newark when he left his position as mayor.

He said Funk seems more at ease and focused now that he is no longer a public official.

“He is much more relaxed, he does not have to put up with the pressures of the mayor and the council,” Sullivan said. “He can look at Newark as a citizen, not an elected official. I think he’s much more comfortable now letting someone else deal with those issues.”

As for relaxation, Funk said he now has more time for it than in years past, although he does still run his own law firm in the city,

where he continues to work full time. He said he plans to travel much more in the next five to ten years.

“It was very difficult to get away from Newark during my term,” Funk said.

“It has been a lot of fun not being mayor, although I do miss parts. But not the city council meetings.”

Sullivan said he has been impressed that Funk has kept a high-level of energy since leaving office, and continues to remain a strong presence in Newark.

Although he is still around to contribute advice if asked, Sullivan said it was good decision for Funk to step away from the constant stress of elected office, particularly for health purposes.

“It’s important for a city to have an upper-crust of citizens, and he certainly fits that role.”

-BILL SULLIVAN Managing Director of the Courtyard by Marriott Newark Hotel

Funk sets an important example for people around Newark with his continued dedication to the city, which is integral in keeping the community going, Sullivan said.

“It’s important for a city to have an upper-crust of citizens, and he certainly fits that role,” Sullivan said.

“He donates personal money to charities, he is on several different boards, he is always there to pitch in, just trying to help out, doing what a citizen can do. It’s important we have people like Vance.”

FILE PHOTO/THE REVIEW Former Mayor Funk joins city and state leaders in cutting the ribbon at the opening of Pomeroy and Newark Rail Trail.

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DuPont brings $35 million soybean research facility to Newark

BY KELSEY WENTLING News Assignment Editor DuPont Pioneer announced plans in August to build a $35 million soybean research facility in Newark, expanding on DuPont’s Stine Haskell location with plans to complete the project by 2016.

Richard Wool, a chemical and biomolecular engineer who works at the university, focuses his research on soybeans to create highperformance materials. He said he is very excited about this expansion and the environmental benefits that it could bring to the field.

“Now, what is very exciting is the ability to tailor the molecules of the oil through genetic engineering through hybridization and crop selectivity, which is what DuPont does, both at its DuPont center and in the new Stine Haskell $35 million expansion,” Wool said.

The molecules being grown in the field as close their final state ensures that minimal energy is expended to convert them to useful material––which is

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what Wool considers a green method.

Wool has been working in green chemistry at the university for decades and primarily works with creating materials such as the rigid composite materials that can be found on tractors, pressure sensitive adhesives and eco-leather, all made from soybean oil as feedstock.

Although Wool said he believes genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have gotten a bad reputation over the years, they serve an important role in today’s society and DuPont’s research center could help lead the world in this field.

“I think it’s going to be local, national and global,” Wool said of DuPont’s research impact. “We are talking about one of the leading companies in the world in terms of being able to do these kinds of genetic modification, but in particular with a view for materials applications, and it is from a scientific point of view.”

The topic of genetically modified crops has been a source of contention among scientists, with many debates existing

BETSEY COLBOURN Staff Reporter Two years after Gov. Jack Markell signed the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act into law, officials approved a contract with the First State Compassion Center (FSCC) to open the state’s first medical marijuana distribution center.

The distribution center, which is located in Wilmington, will start growing medical marijuana this fall, according to Emily Knearl, communications director for the Division of Public Health.

Under the current timeline, it should begin selling medical marijuana in early 2015, and the Division of Public Health expects no difficulties between now and the opening date, she said.

Knearl said the contract was awarded to the FSCC because they have an experienced team of individuals, all of whom have an advanced background in the field of medical marijuana.

“One of FSCC’s principles was deeply involved in the operation of the nonprofit Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center in Rhode Island, whose medical marijuana laws bear striking similarity to the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act,” she said. “In addition, their application was rated the best given several factors, including financial and security plans.”

Other organizations played a key role in the distribution center’s recent development. The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), which works to reform marijuana laws, helped get the medical marijuana bill passed in 2012.

Robert Capecchi, the deputy director of state policies, said while the MPP did not play in role in the contract’s signing, it had been working with the current administration to move the bill’s progress forward. Capecchi said it had been frustrating for the MPP activists to watch the slow progress, and they are glad a contract was signed.

“We’re pleased to see the license awarded to the First State Compassion Center,” Capecchi said. “We’re hoping it’ll bring regulated access to some patients across the state and would like to see more compassion centers, as the law requires.”

The current process for receiving a medical marijuana license begins with a patient meeting the program requirements, listed on the Division of Public Health’s website.

The program covers certain medical conditions, including HIV/AIDS, a cancer positive status or Hepatitis

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“Now, what is very exciting is the ability to tailor the molecules of the oil through genetic engineering through hybridization and crop selectivity.”

-RICHARD WOOL Chemical and biomolecular engineer

food companies. Colorado will vote in a GMO labeling measure on its November ballot. Additionally, over 60 countries already require labeling.

Soybeans are the second to corn of crops most commonly grown in the United States. 90 percent of U.S.-grown soy crops are genetically modified and able to withstand herbicide, according to the Department of Agriculture.

Wool said he believes GMOs can have a positive impact and far-reaching benefits.

“In the agricultural industry, because we are growing things in the field with potential exposure to the rest of the world, there has always been this lingering concern that strangeness can happen in terms of leakage of genes into other systems,” he said.

“But if handled correctly, the impact on society can be extraordinary and so companies like DuPont learned a long time ago how to do this and do it in an environmentally-friendly way.”

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that address the potential outcome of consuming GMOs. Over the summer, Vermont became the first state to require GMO labeling, prompting a lawsuit brought on by four

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Under other states’ laws––such as New Jersey––a broader range of diseases qualify for a medical marijuana card, such as Crohn’s disease.

Medical marijuana cards have a fee of $125 and will be valid for one year after they are issued.

The distribution center will be required to meet certain security standards to ensure the drugs are not misused. Knearl stated that the FSCC proposal met or exceeded the requirements, which include exterior lighting, cameras and an intrusion detection system.

According to state law, the distribution center will be regulated closely.

Capecchi said multiple regulations have already been drafted, similar to those in states with medical marijuana programs

“Adequate regulations will also ensure that medicine isn’t being diverted to non-patients.”

-ROBERT CAPECCHI Deputy Director of state policies resembling Colorado’s.

“There are security and labeling requirements, all sorts of rules and regulations the distribution center must follow to make sure the medicine being offered is labeled and tested,” Capecchi said. “Adequate regulations will also ensure that medicine isn’t being diverted to non-patients.”

Knearl stated that the dispensary center will also

be limited to cultivating no more than 150 plants and will keep no more than 1,500 ounces of medical marijuana on site.

Senior Jeremy Mathis, member of the Office of Student Conduct Appellate Board, said he did not think medical marijuana would significantly change university policy.

“I feel like the number of students using medical marijuana will be minute,” Mathis said. “I don’t think new university policies will be formed. If they did, I think they would come up with policy that would explain proper use, forms needed and how they can carry it.”

The first medical marijuana center could also have a big impact on the state’s terminally-ill population. Capecchi said while he does not know if medical marijuana will have a noticeable effect on the state itself, he does think it will have an enormous effect on individuals who suffer from terrible medical conditions. “[Individuals] can have benefits from using medical marijuana,” Capecchi said.

“They have been waiting for this access for years and it will have a noticeable impact on their lives. But I don’t think a healthy individual who lives in Delaware will see much change at all.”

Residents in Sussex and Kent counties, however, may not have easy access to the dispensary center.

Capecchi said access to the Wilmington dispensary center from lower counties will depend on public transportation routes, as well as the patient’s access to a car.

“The law passed in 2012 said there was to be a center put in all three counties,” Capecchi said. “We’re hoping when Wilmington opens and they see access issues for those who live far away that they’ll take another look at licensing the next two compassion centers.”

FLICKR CREATIVE COMMONS A new regulated marijuana dispensary will open in Wilmington this fall.

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Lerner College students, faculty anticipate latest ranking after steep decline SAM RICHTER News Assignment Editor The Lerner College of Business and Economics was ranked the 96th best undergraduate business school this year by Businessweek, sliding 40 spots over the course of four years.

Though some are dismissive of college rankings, business professor John Antil said these figures often come up among prospective students.

“We always get asked about the rankings at our recruiting events, particularly the events targeted at top students,” Antil said. “It always comes up.”

Antil said he believes the school should not take a “rankings do not matter” mentality, because they do have some influence. In fact, Antil said he believes corporate recruiters and applicants put a great deal of stock in rankings when deciding where to recruit and apply.

Recently, money has often been too tight to offer much aid to top students or students with financial need, especially as tuition costs continue to rise, Antil said.

“If you look at the money under our control for aid and to get really good students, we don’t have much at all,” he said.

Despite the fact that the Princeton Review has named the university a top

20 school for worst financial aid, Danny Eddins, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the university is still still a great buy.

Eddins said that lower tuition and better academic aid is precisely what brought him to the university’s campus, as opposed to schools such as Penn State or George Washington University.

Among the 25 most selected majors for this past year, finance tops the list, with marketing and accounting––also majors within the business school–– making it into the top ten.

“I’m an in-state student so tuition is already incredibly cheap, and UD offered me a $7,500 merit scholarship, so I really couldn’t justify attending anywhere else,” Eddins said.

“I personally don’t really care about the rankings.”

One percent of the university’s expenditures during the 2013 fiscal year went toward student aid, according of the Office of Institutional Research. The university met 74 percent of undergraduate financial need during the 2013-14 year.

Although Antil said the university could do better with aid, he believes that price alone is not the only cause that has prevented the college from climbing in the rankings. The studentfaculty ratio is subpar compared to the rest of the university, Antil said, with classes being twice the size

of the university average.

Both Business and U.S. News and World Report use class sizes as a metric in determining rankings.

Improving this statistic would be a costly endeavor requiring more faculty.

Rob Mcnew, a junior in the College of Engineering, came to the university knowing that the 75th ranking that the university earned in U.S. News and World Reports did not reflect the quality of the university’s chemical engineering program.

“I just didn’t see a reason to spend triple the price to attend college when the chemical engineering program at UD is one of the best in the country,” Mcnew said.

Antil stressed that ratings can be overutilized and their value for assessing whether a school is a good fit for a student can be questionable.

“Within any university you have some departments that are really good and some that lag behind,” Antil said. “When it comes to rankings, the more specific it is, generally, the more valuable it is. But if you are really looking for one indicator for the quality of a school, it’s the quality of the students.”

U.S. News and World Report will announce the university’s overall ranking on Sept. 9.

As August draws to a close and pundits and politicos debate which Senate candidates across the nation “won the summer,” there grows an acceptance of a sentiment that gets a bit more cemented every day: the Republican Party will most likely win control of the Senate in November.

The President’s sagging approval numbers and the slew of international crises that have daunted his administration will most likely lead to the American electorate turning to a different party for leadership.

While this conventional wisdom is good news for the GOP, it does pose an important challenge. Taking the Senate should not be viewed by Republican leaders as the end of the Republican Party’s long road back to prominence.

Instead, it should be viewed as the beginning, as an opportunity to make the case to the American people that Republicans can be trusted with governing.

This trust is essential if Republicans want to send a conservative to the White House in 2016, and it should be integral to that effort.

From a policy perspective, the Republican Party has been successful as a minority party.

They’ve used the filibuster and other procedural tactics to halt the President’s agenda, and they have, in many ways, disrupted a presidency that they’ve viewed as potentially damaging to the fabric of our nation. Over the past four years, voters have become so accustomed to thinking of the Republican Party as the “party of no” that it’s barely reported upon any longer. It’s simply understood.

Those tactics may have worked for the GOP while being a minority party in the Senate. But if Republicans hold majorities in both houses, they will effectively control one third of the federal government.

No longer will Republicans be

able to blame a liberal agenda or Democratic leadership.

Yes, the President reserves the power to veto legislation he doesn’t support, and Republicans won’t have the two-thirds majority needed to overturn that veto, but nonetheless, minority party tactics simply won’t cut it when the GOP holds the Senate and the House.

But this is only the first challenge the GOP faces.

Perhaps the Republican Senate will rediscover a motivation to legislate and begin producing rigidly ideological bills without any bipartisan support, not unlike the Democratic supermajority did from 2008 until 2010. Should this happen–– come 2016––the GOP will most likely receive the same treatment voters gave President Obama in 2010.

It’s a very real possibility that a Congress that swings too far to the right will become politically toxic, giving Hillary Clinton or whoever the Democratic nominee will be the chance to paint the GOP as out-oftouch ultraconservatives, something President Obama did quite well in 2012 when the GOP controlled only the House of Representatives.

Failure to legislate or failure to craft and pass sound, commonsense, bipartisan legislation could doom the chances of a President Christie or a President Paul. So while the Senate Majority is an essential and attainable goal for Republicans, I fear that it may become the shovel with which the GOP digs its own grave rather than becoming the first steps through the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2016.

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

—Dylan Gallimore

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Smallest tuition increase in decades for 2014-2015 year KATE JENKINS Staff Reporter

The university announced tuition rates for the 2014-2015 academic year over the summer, rising the lowest percentage in 30 years, according to university officials.

Undergraduate tuition and fees for in-state students now total $12,342, an increase of 1.9 percent. For out-of-state undergraduates, tuition and fees come to a total of $30,692, an increase of 2.54 percent.

For Delawareans, the average total cost of an undergraduate education including tuition, room and board and required fees is now $23,900. For nonresidents, the average cost is $42,250.

Chief Budget Officer Kathy Dettloff said determining tuition and fees is a year-long process.

In May, room, board and fees are announced for the subsequent school year.

However, tuition rates are not decided until July S .when the state of Delaware finalizes its budget, she

said.

13 percent of the university’s budget is derived from state appropriations, according to the university’s Office of Institutional Research.

“The setting of tuition and fees is a collaborative effort involving the administration and the board of trustees,” Dettloff said. “It considers all factors including state funding, families’ ability to pay and the economic environment.”

Sophomore Kerri Mottola said she decided to come to the university because she loved the school, although the high cost for out-of-state students initially made her pause.

“You’re risking a lot,” Mottola said. “Not knowing if you’ll come out with a job is overwhelming. I think it’s very strange that college is viewed as something you need and then priced as a luxury good.”

Dettloff said major costs driving up tuition include improvement of facilities, expansion of technology and recruitment and retention of faculty. Decreases in

government funding also play a role, she said. She said the university received $117 million this year from the state, a decrease of $10 million since 2008.

Aid is granted in the form of need-based and merit-based aid, with merit scholarships being awarded to freshmen based on their high school records, said Jim Halloway, compliance manager at Student Financial Services.

“The university has made great progress to increase the financial aid available to our students,” Holloway said.

“Our institutional grants and scholarships have grown over 138 percent since 2008.”

This year, over 76 percent of undergraduates received financial aid, with an average award of $8,500 for incoming freshmen, Holloway said.

Chemical engineering sophomore Maelan Grehr said she chose to attend the university primarily for financial reasons. Because she is a Delaware resident, she pays the in-state tuition

rates and also receives a merit scholarship.

“Some of my friends are taking out loans, and I know people who are doing work study,” Grehr said. “Some people have had to drop their work studies––it gets [to be] too much with work and school.”

Mottola said she receives $6,000 per year in financial aid: half need-based and half merit-based. She said she took out loans to pay for the rest.

“I’m already $40,000 in debt,” Mottola said. “I’m going to be paying it back for the rest of my life. Monthly payments until I’m 50 years old at least.”

Mottola said all of the out-of-state students she knows are struggling to cover costs. Like her, most of them have taken out loans and some work as RAs to get prepaid housing, she said.

Still, she said, the burden of going to school while simultaneously working to pay off loans is a struggle and even working a job can only help a certain amount.

Grehr said the costs of a university education are

worth it since the university is highly ranked in her major, chemical engineering.

Mottola said she would not have spent the money to get an education if she did not think it was going pay off.

She said she is confident that the price will be worth it and her education will provide a secure future.

Dettloff said that the Budget Office is always mindful of the financial burden on families.

“It is of the utmost importance to the administration and the Board of Trustees to provide a high quality education that is accessible to qualified students,” Dettloff said.

Grehr said it is unfortunate that many Americans must choose between a good education and an affordable one.

“I wish colleges made it easier to pay, so that didn’t have to be the deciding factor,” Grehr said.

“You shouldn’t be going to college about money, it should be about the education.”

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CADY ZUVICH Executive Editor

2014 is the year of record-breaking “bigs” for the university. During move-in weekend, Newark witnessed the arrival of 4,200 new Blue Hens––the largest freshman class yet.

The ISE Lab, the mammothsized building shadowing Academy Street, is just a piece of the university’s building plans along with other East Campus expansions.

This year also marked the biggest donor year for the university—totaling $63.9 million, according to the university. This reflects the growing fundraising power of the university, as this year’s total is a $22.3 million increase from the 2010 fiscal year. According to the university, the donations are from among 37,000 donors including individuals, corporations and foundations.

Below are some of the university’s most interesting donors.

1. W.L. Gore Associates The Gore family––as well as its company––has donated significant portions of money to the university, most recently a $10 million commitment from Delaware businessman Bob Gore.

Announced earlier this year, Gore’s donation to the ISE Lab earned Gore and his wife an ISE lab wing titled “Bob and Jane Gore Research Laboratories.”

During the 2013 fiscal year, W.L. Gore Associates donated a maximum of $49,000 to the university, according to President Patrick Harker’s Philanthropy Report.

2. Du Pont family Du Pont’s long history in Delaware, especially at the university, is no secret.

Unidel Foundation Inc., founded by Amy Elizabeth Du Pont, exists solely to support the university.

In January 2013, Unidel pledged a $5 million

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW President Patrick Harker and other state and university officials cutting the ribbon at the ISE Lab dedication last fall. A wing of the building is named for top donors Bob and Jane Gore. donation commitment to the university for the ISE Lab construction. According to its 2012 IRS form, the Unidel Foundation has a net income of over $13 million.

3. Collegiate Housing Foundation For the 2013 fiscal year, Alabama-based Collegiate Housing Foundation donated

WOOL: ‘It’s a spectacular development to have DuPont expand this type of activity.’

a minimum of $1 million to the university. Collegiate Housing Foundation assists the university with student housing and lists the University Courtyards under one of its projects, according to its website.

4. Whiting-Turner Construction Company Among the four companies

Continued from page 4 In a press release, Neal Gutterson, the vice president of Agricultural Biotechnology at DuPont Pioneer, said the research at the facility would work to improve crop yield as well as enhancing protein and oil content.

“We’ve been doing it for some time and the benefits have been extraordinary, and this is obviously something that has to continue.”

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“This research is an important part of the DuPont strategic focus on agriculture and nutrition against the backdrop of an increasing world population and demand for more food,” Gutterson said.

Although GMOs remain a highly contentious topic, Wool

to donate over $1 million in 2013 was Whiting-Turner Construction Company. In 2010, the company donated $5 million to the University Initiative Fund, a portion of which went to the ISE Lab. The contracting company has built extensively throughout campuses, including the oversight of the Roselle Center of the Arts as well as the ISE Lab.

ultimately said he believes this type of research is very important.

“It’s a spectacular development to have DuPont expand this type of activity,” Wool said. “This is where the world needs to go with very clever genetic modification of plants. We’ve been doing it for sometime and the benefits have been extraordinary, and this is obviously something that has to continue.”

Aside from enabling farmers to produce more food with modified seed, soybean research has played an important role in developing myriad of products.

Wool’s most recent project has been working to create something called eco-leather, a 100 percent bio-based substitute for leather, which is currently on worldwide environmental top-10 hit list of the most polluting things on earth, Wool said.

Genetically engineered or modified crops already play a large role in everything from fuel and food to leather, and the importance of increased research––such as will be done at Stine Haskell––should not be understated, Wool said.

“The world is basically turning to the U.S. and companies like DuPont and Monsanto to continue to provide these enhanced crops and the whole world will want to copy us,” Wool said. “So you’re talking about the companies that are leading this charge.”

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Following trends, glass-bottled growlers come to Newark DOMINIQUE CARPIO Staff Reporter

New liquor store The Delaware Growler will open its doors to the public on Main Street at the end of September, allowing buyers to purchase craft beers in reusable, half-gallon glass bottles known as growlers.

The opening of The Delaware Growler follows the signing of a state bill

by Jack Markell in May 2013 that legalized growler purchasing at liquor stores.

Previously, growlers could only be sold in Delaware at brewpubs and breweries, such as Iron Hill Brewery.

Breweries in Delaware produce over 200,000 barrels of craft beer per year, the 17th highest nationwide, according to Brewers Association. Sales of craft beers have increased n steadily, rising 17.2 percent r in 2013.

Customers can either n d drink the beer served at the y bar or they can seal the beer f in the growler container. The . beer then remains fresh for y about two to three days, said y Michael Rivera, manager at , Iron Hill Brewery.

Growlers are available f e in two locations on Main Street––Iron Hill Brewery and 16 Mile Taphouse.

When asked if a growing competition among the sales of growlers could increase, Rivera said it is welcomed as it will bring beer connoisseurs to the area.

“If they have a great list that just means more beer fans are coming down and–– from my point of view––I would assume people that are big fans of beer are going to stop here as well,” Rivera said.

He also said growlers are a popular purchase, making up a good percentage of his sales. He added that growlers purchased from other bars and restaurants are allowed inside along with a discount on the next purchased growler.

However, Praful Patel, partner at Newark Discount Liquors located in the Newark Shopping Center, said he felt worried about the store opening and the competition it will create on Main Street.

“I don’t feel good when more stores come to Main Street because we cannot make very good money when there is too much competition,” Patel said.

Although Newark Discount Liquors does not sell growlers, Patel said he and his partner have considered selling more craft beers, but don’t currently have enough room in the store for growlers.

The location of The Delaware Growlers is across from Grottos, a popular bar that Patel thinks could potentially take away from some of The Delaware Growlers’ business.

“I’m not sure if they have an advantage,” Patel said of the store’s location,

COURTESY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE.SCOUTOLOGY.COM The Delaware Growler will sell 64-ounce glass-bottled growlers, which will hold hard-to-find craft beers.

“All of the bars, like Grottos, are right there so it’s hard to know if people will buy from the bars or from the stores.”

Senior Kelly Wallace, who is familiar with growlers, sees the advantage of a growler store.

“I think it would be advantageous to the students on campus to have a location for craft beers,” Wallace said. “Previously if you wanted a nicer beer, you needed to go down to the state line and that could be difficult if you didn’t have a

car.”

In addition to a convenient location for students, The Delaware Growler would provide a larger selection of beers for customers. Patel said he thinks growlers are becoming increasingly popular among collegeaged students and, although he said he is not exactly sure why, he attributes an increase in popularity to the environmental benefits of larger, refillable beer bottles and the wider variety of craft beers.

Similarly, Rivera said growlers seems to offer a wider variety of beers to customers who perhaps wouldn’t have bought these beers before.

“I think the perception from the public is that you can get beer from a growler that you can’t necessarily buy off the shelf,” Rivera said.

EDITORIAL Tuition Increase Before the beginning of every school year, the university announces that it will be forced to raise tuition and fees.

Fortunately for students, this year’s price hike is the smallest increase in over 30 years.

Undergraduate Delaware residents will pay 1.9% more while out-of-state undergrads will see their bill rise 2.54%.

Graduate students will be subject to a 3% increase.

The total cost of attendance for undergrads, including room and board, is now $23,900 and $42,250 for in-state and out-ofstate students respectively.

This comparatively small increase will perhaps set students and families at ease. The rising cost of college attendance has become a hot topic, but not an issue that appears to have a readily available solution. Any sign that the pace of college cost escalation has slowed is good reason to celebrate, but let’s not get too excited.

Both the state of Delaware and the university speak publicly about their commitment to giving Delaware residents access to a college education. Neither seem willing to tackle the most significant barrier: cost.

While state initiatives like “College Application Month” and delawaregoestocollege.org are encouraging Delaware’s high school seniors to attend college, the vast majority of funding for the state’s flagship

university comes from sources other than state tax dollars.

The University of Delaware does not take top priority when the legislature hammers out its budget. If the state really wants to expand college access, it has to commit to more than just lip service.

The most visible cause for concern is the university’s changing landscape.

New construction projects dot the campus, and the reinvention of the former Chrysler plant has just barely begun. It’s true, due to current economic conditions now is a good time to borrow money for capital projects. But what will the cost of these projects mean to future students? Once the bricks are laid and plaques reading the names of donors are hung, the upkeep of these buildings, many with state-ofthe-art scientific equipment, become the responsibility of those that pay tuition. It remains to be seen whether the university’s leadership can balance its desire for increased prestige with its responsibility to educate students at a fair price.

This year’s increase in tuition was much more reasonable than in years past.

We hope to see this trend continue, with help from the state and the university’s leadership.

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Lack of Transparency Unlike most land-grant universities, the University of Delaware is not obligated to comply with the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The law is designed to grant the public access to information held by state agencies.

Between 2012 and 2014, the university denied 82% of FOIA requests, according to delawareonline.com.

These requests were denied on the basis that they did not directly relate to the way taxpayer dollars were being spent. This argument is particularly concerning because of the fact that once state dollars are deposited into the university’s “general fund,” there is no way for the public to track exactly how they were spent.

Rep. John Kowalko introduced a bill that would require both the University of Delaware and Delaware State University to fully

comply with the Freedom of Information Act, but due to opposition by top democrats and the universities, the bill’s original aim will not be met.

Instead, both universities will only have to comply to the same degree that they already do. The University of Delaware cited that releasing more information would damage it ability to compete with private universities.

The university’s lobbyist did not specify what pieces of information currently being withheld would cause said damage.

Taxpayers, students and their families are receiving a filtered message about the success of the university.

Data, such as progress indicators on the “Path to Prominence” initiative, are being kept under wraps for reasons only the university would be able to discern. In the particular case of “Path to Prominence,” faculty and

administrators are give the ability to access progress indicators, but students are not. In doing this, the university’s administration is purposefully keeping students in the dark.

As a student body, we deserve the right to ask questions. If the purpose of an education is to become both intellectually curious and capable, our university is failing to uphold the values it supposedly champions.

Denying nearly every request for information sends a clear message to students, journalists and taxpayers that they should not even bother to think more deeply about the actions or performance of the university.

As a world-class land grant institution, the university ought to view transparency as core tenet, not an enemy to its ability to compete.

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How to survive freshman year NICOLE RODRIGUEZ & JAGODA DUL Managing Mosaic Editors When going anywhere new, it’s always helpful to have some pointers to get you started. That’s why we have created this freshman guide to keep you ahead of the pack and college savvy. First off, welcome to the university!

Though you’re at the bottom of the pack now––just like in high school––your college know-how will soon increase.

For a head start, check out the tips below.

STUDENT DISCOUNTS The best deal ever is the free (six month) student subscription to Amazon Prime. Just plug in your university email and voilà— six months of free Amazon Prime, which includes free two-day delivery and access to many of their book, music, video and television libraries.

It’s perfect for textbooks or any of those last minute items you forgot. Just remember to cancel your subscription before they start charging you. If you love it enough to keep it, it’s only $39 a year for students.

The university bookstore and Lieberman’s Bookstore occasionally have sales on university gear, so make sure to stock up when you can because you do not want to be wearing high school gear in college.

Though the stores and restaurants on Main Street can be pricey, they often have sales targeted to students.

Heart and Home is currently giving students 10 percent off all items, so keep an eye out for great deals. Caffé Gelato does a take-out meal for two for $25, including salad, pasta and a pint of gelato. Make sure to follow Main Street eateries on Twitter, where they’ll frequently post their specials.

THE FRESHMAN FIFTEEN The dining halls are both the best and worst places on earth. They offer an array of unlimited options usually filled with carbs, carbs and more carbs. Make sure you check out those tiny little signs with the nutrition label before choosing your meal— even if you look weird poking around lines of students eagerly awaiting the burgers and fries or the famous create-your-own macaroni and cheese bar known as Le Mac. If you want a snack in between dining hall hours, look for the P.O.D closest to your dorm. If you’re on The Green for class, look for the P.O.D. in Gore Hall and the Starbucks in Smith, which accepts dining points. Also keep an eye out for the P.O.D. in The Roundhouse on the southern end of Graham Hall.

FITNESS The gym––better known as The Little Bob––was recently renovated. With lots of exercise equipment, pools, a climbing wall, an indoor track, fun classes (there are even one-credit courses) and the availability of inexpensive trainers, there’s almost no reason for you not to go.

We have a b-e-a-utiful campus. Take a run around central campus and keep track of your mileage with the markers lining the brick pathways.

The app MyFitnessPal contains nutrition information on the university’s food options and adds up the calories for you. It gives you a personalized calorie target, allows you to connect a step tracker and keeps track of your nutritional and fitness goals.

ALCOHOL You’re underage. Alcohol consumption is illegal. For a lot of you, college is the first time when alcohol is very present. Of course, you can avoid it (and should due to legal reasons), but many of you won’t. So here are our pointers on alcohol and the party scene at the university.

You need to realize that alcohol contributes to the Freshman 15, and it can be even harder to keep track of these liquid calories. So don’t be surprised if you come home with a slight beer belly despite the fact that Natural Light is basically water.

Always have a buddy so you can keep an eye on each other. Make sure someone knows where you are, including if you’ve left one location or arrived at another.

Make sure you always have your cellphone and keys on you. And although a buddy can be great for holding your hair back or acting as a wingman, remember that you are accountable for yourself.

RANDI HOMOLA/THE REVIEW Students playing volleyball on the Harrington Beach, a central location for East Campus freshmen

HOOKING UP Don’t be that freshman that ends up on the UD Makeoutz Twitter account three weekends in a row because you shotgunned too many Natty Lights with your roommate before going out.

Your friends will retweet it and you will be humiliated.

It’s perfectly fine to make out with that hot guy from your econ class, but just do it in the privacy of your dorm and not on the dance floor.

Floorcest makes things awkward. Do your best to avoid the drunken hook up with your floormate, but if it happens, embrace the weird tension and move on with your life. By next weekend, it will be old news.

RELATIONSHIPS Here we go. There are so many possible scenarios for freshmen to be in regarding their love lives: A. You have a significant other (SO) who goes to another college or is still in high school. We’re going to be honest. It’s tough. It sucks.

There will be a lot of pressure from both partners and then there is always the temptation of new romantic interests in college. Claps to you for staying dedicated, but don’t be surprised when the road gets bumpy. Like earthquake bumpy. Just make sure you guys are communicating and stay honest.

B. You broke up with your SO since you knew a long distance relationship would not work out. One way to move on: get involved.

Whether that means throwing yourself into a new club, your classes or by meeting new people, go for it. You do you.

Make an effort to hang out with your floormates and have fun—you wouldn’t want to spend your first few weeks at college moping!

C. You got in a relationship right away in college. Well… every story is different, but honestly? College just

ANDREW KUCZMARSKI/THE REVIEW Students at the head phone disco event for freshmen on the south side of Memorial. The event went from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. started! There could be a cuter somebody downstairs!

You have no idea who is on campus, so make sure you discover the campus and the people in it before latching on to the first person you see just so you have someone.

You have four years. Take advantage of them.

D. You’re single and just doing you. College is a great place to find yourself, become independent and figure out what (and who) you love.

STUDY SPOTS Perhaps a bit obvious, but your dorm room is always a solid study spot choice. It can be really quiet and give you the alone time you need to hit the books hard, but it can also drive you crazy. Make sure you take a breather to walk around your hall or take a quick jog outside because you may soon see come to know your room as a dungeon, rather than the nap haven it is.

Newark’s nightlife is most alive at Club Morris, the university’s beloved library.

There are so many different places to study that it will be your haven during finals week. It can be difficult to snag a group study room during midterms and finals, so be sure to reserve a space in advance.

When summer turns to fall and spring is just beginning, you need to be outside. That’s why The Green

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and Harrington turf make great study spaces for those few weeks each semester when the weather’s perfect.

Make sure you start your tan and bring your books outside.

Just try to avoid the frisbees.

HOMESICKNESS The Megabus offers routes to both New York and Washington D.C. out of its Laird Campus bus stop, right by the Christiana Towers. Bus fares can be as low as $1 for a one-way ticket if you buy far enough in advance. If you are from New Jersey, you can easily take a bus to New York City and then take a train home.

If you’re looking to avoid traffic, especially around the holidays, you can purchase an Amtrak ticket. The train is more expensive but still convenient if you’re in a pinch. The Amtrak train station is located on South College Avenue. You can always purchase a parking permit if you are able to bring a car on campus. It’s pricey but worth it if you know will be traveling a lot.

Remember that it’s normal to be homesick during freshman year, and taking advantage of extracurricular opportunities and meeting new people are ways to help make Delaware your home away from home.

GREEK LIFE You have to keep in mind that going Greek means more than just being social.

Being part of a fraternity or sorority requires a huge time commitment involving philanthropic efforts and academic excellence. Greeks are expected to uphold a certain GPA and participate in numerous on-campus activities. If you can see yourself going Greek, then check out these tips.

Being part of a fraternity is an experience that some guys can’t picture their lives without. If you want to find

out if it might be something for you, then attend the Rush Kickoff event on Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the Perkins Lounge and register online at udel.edu/greek/recruitment.

You will get much more information about the rush process online, but be sure to clear your calendar for the first two weeks of September when the fraternities host their open house events at restaurants on Main Street and at their houses all over campus.

Panhellenic sorority rushing doesn’t start until the spring, but you can start to get a better idea of the sororities by going to the open houses and lunch expos each sorority hosts in Trabant during the semester. The dates for these events have yet to be finalized, but keep an eye out for the first lunch expo in mid-September and the first round of open houses in late September.

If you don’t think a social organization is for you, another great way to get involved in Greek life is to join a special interest or multicultural chapter, such as the co-ed agriculture fraternity or the music fraternity. If you’re interested in rushing a multicultural greek organization, there are 12 fraternities and sororities to choose from.

Last fall, Pi Alpha Phi came to the university, offering membership to Asian American students who were interested in becoming part of a brotherhood based on their heritage and culture.

Hopefully this guide offers a glimpse into your year ahead. This year everything is new to you, so make sure to take it in and try to make the most of all the opportunities that are at your fingertips.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

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RUSTIE’S “GREEN LANGUAGE”

JAKE KAIRIS

Within the vast and expanding realm of electronic music, there exists a sect of “drop enthusiasts.” These are listeners, more often ravers, who judiciously critique tracks for their ability and innovation in leading up to the drop––the moment where the buildup hits a sudden cliff and then falls into a thorny bed of bass. Scottish electronic musician Russell Whyte does not compose for that audience.

Instead, under the moniker “Rustie,” Whyte selects samples that collide into something more atmospheric and expansive, rather than narrow and forceful. His music is described as maximalism, but not because the listener is barraged with a multitude of competing harmonies and counter-harmonies, but because the symphonic stage is set up with a dense stack of ambient layers, including animal sounds, light angel choirs and maybe a jet plane taking off, which run through a few dozen effects.

The second Rustie LP “Green Language” opens with “Workship,” a cinematic exposure in its progression, the curtains slowly revealing Whyte’s electronic props. What follows is a nicely thought out pyramidal structure for an album. The songs slowly progress to become more accessible, poppy and arenafriendly, as Rustie lays out tinny snares and redux-ed bass drums for Detroit rapper Danny Brown to squeal over in centerpiece “Attak.” Danny Brown serves as an excellent preacher for Russell Whyte’s universe, his unique texture of a voice adding to the chrome landscape.

There are a few tracks that could serve as potential party bangers: album highlight “Raptor” sports ascending synth chord bursts and shoots jets of hot air beneath the supine and “Dream On” feels like the jumpup-and-down version of “Moment 4 Life.”

In fact, Rustie pulls a worthy trick on all of us here and saves his most poppy and accessible tracks, “Dream On” and “Lost” for the back half of his album, rewarding patient listeners with a couple of sugary treats.

But in between these gems, Rustie also delivers songs of a slightly different flavor in which they’re toned down with hollow, more natural sounds.

“Paradise Stone” is anchored by a skipping woodblock-chime line that weaves in slight variations to its call in Aphex Twin stylized complexity. And for the cinephiles out there, the closing tracks “Let’s Spiral” and the title track “Green Language” reflect a golden, uplifting ending to a Miyazaki film, one where everything returns to a harmonious balance.

“Green Language” is an electronic LP, but not necessarily one to be enjoyed while kneedeep in mud and plastic cups at Ultra. It is subtle in its layering and respect for the potential of synthesized music. Take a stab at “Green Language” while sitting in your bedroom thinking about nature and how you’d really like to go camping again sometime.

Just save a few of those tracks for your workout/party playlist.

Although Whyte takes the time to craft absurdly layered tracks that deserve an attentive ear, he also knows how to write a hit.these players is most easily recognizable at the beginning of the tracks, but throughout many, the mix rises in crescendo to satisfyingly loud finishes.

If one line could sum up what Ought seeks to convey in their debut album, it might be from the final song, “Gemini.” “I retain the right to be disgusted by life/I retain the right to be in love with everything in sight.”

The world may be crashing down upon us, but every day remains extraordinarily beautiful.

—Jake Kairis jckairis@udel.edu

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RANDI HOMOLA/ THE REVIEW Insomnia Cookies opened just in time for the semester, adding a new late night food destination to Main Street.

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ABBIE SARFO Mosaic Desk Editor Main Street said goodbye to some old friends over the summer, welcomed some new ones and made plans for the future. For your convenience, here’s a run-down of the changing game on Main.

Newcomers

Insomnia Cookies Dreams do come true.

Insomnia Cookies has (finally) opened a Newark store, in place of the late, great Newark Newsstand. This bakery offers a variety of cookies, brownies and ice cream to satiate every sweet tooth. Better yet: Insomnia delivers every day until 3 a.m., ensuring you’ll have the sweetest of dreams.

Del Pez Del Pez is a getaway in the middle of Main. The seafood restaurant boasts a mixture of Mexican, coastal Latin and South American influences, alongside a lush tropical decor. What’s more,

Del Pez offers both style and substance.

Managers Zack Wiseman, 35, and Patrick O’Connell, 31, crafted the menu with wellness and sustainability in mind.

“We try to educate people and let them know that you can still have healthy food that comes from local areas that is still absolutely delicious,” Wiseman says. “We care about health needs and people first.”

Del Pez also has several new promotions, including vegetarian happy hour and 20 percent off for university faculty. And, if you’re still on the fence, there’s always the booze. “We sell some very inexpensive wines, which is great!” Wiseman says. Visit Del Pez at 76 E. Main St., the former location of Cucina di Napoli.

Changing Locations

Newark Natural Foods A fixture on Main for over ten years, Newark Natural Foods is on the move. Come January, the organic grocer will

have a new home in the Newark Shopping Center. Assistant manager Ethan Knettler, 27, says the move will allow Newark Natural Foods to offer more conveniences. “With a new location, we are hoping to increase our farmer’s market size,” Knettler says. “We are also looking to double our sales floor size so we can offer amenities we don’t currently have, like a café bar, juice bar, and second community room.”

In the meantime, you can still visit Newark Natural Foods at their original location, 280 E. Main St. DP Dough Everyone’s favorite drunk eatery is alive and well, but in a new location. D.P. Dough is in the process of moving from its original location to South Main. D.P.’s new spot might be far for some, but delivery always gets the job done.

Newark Bike Project The building that formerly housed the Newark Bike Project (in addition to

the Delaware Book Exchange and T’licious), has been razed to make way for apartments.

Now, after occupying several temporary locations, the Newark Bike Project has put its roots down at 136 S. Main St.

Coming Soon

El Diablo Burritos Main Street is becoming a prime place for Mexican fare.

El Diablo Burritos will soon join the ranks of Chipotle, California Tortilla and Del Pez. The Delaware-based Mexican chain is currently under construction and will inhabit the space formerly occupied

by D.P. Dough.

Arena’s Deli & Bar In the wake of Coldstone Creamery and Pita Pit (R.I.P.) comes Arena’s Deli & Bar, another Delaware-based chain. Prospective patrons can look forward to an array of sandwiches, soups and other standard American cuisine.

Arena’s Deli & Bar is still currently under construction.

MY BEST FRIEND: THE INTERNET

SELFIES: A NEW SENSE OF AMERICAN CULTURE

ALEXANDRA STRAUSMAN It’s addicting this obsession we have created with ourselves. I think my selfie is just as good as the next guy’s. Sorry not sorry.

When we meet me in person, I probably won’t be so chrome, but you will learn to see past my unfiltered reality and decide that maybe you like me for my #nofilter.

Our generation isn’t accountable for anything.

We put the word “selfie” righteously in the dictionary.

What’s more? Apple has just included a “sharing selfies” section to the App Store as of this past March, further acknowledging society’s conscious thought toward self action.

So, it would appear that the front camera of the smartphone is the best invention since... the actual camera. If you don’t have the front cam option, then you have voluntarily declared yourself as irrelevant to every girl that wants to judge all the features on your face negatively.

This is mean girl

territory.

Worse than Facebook poking is the invention of Snapchat selfies. The Snapchat game allows our generation to love ourselves even more than we already do. It is so on point. The “me me me” generation with front cameras!

What’s worse? We have put our total trust into this vanishing system.

The idea that a Snapchat bank does not exist is an absurd thought. Freely we are sending and receiving “innocent” photographs with full trust in this faceless ghost app. Somewhere there has to be a glitch that will be able to expose and destroy the careers of our nation’s future leaders with pictures from their immature pasts.

With 30 million plus monthly snapchat users and more than 400 million snapchats received daily, it seems that our selfie is being taken at less than face value.

The selfie-competition has increased the standards for basic recognition. With #selfiesunday being a trending hashtag, it is clear to see who participates in this competition and what qualifies as a good photograph by the number of likes it warrants.

Although all selfies in actuality are the recreation of the same thing and work to objectify a person, the judging process can either be extremely positive or negative resulting in altered self-esteem levels.

However, living in a world where media allows the ability to find out any and all information about a person, it only makes sense that selfies have a place in society where not only your verbal actions are judged but your looks as well.

I just finalized plans to meet up with my cousin tomorrow. Her final text to me: “We can take some pretty co0l s3lfiez.” I’ll have to thank her for keeping me from becoming irrelevant.

Judge away.

-Alexandra Strausman astraus@udel.edu

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

@THEELLENSHOW/TWITTER Ellen DeGeneres’ selfie set Twitter’s record for the most retweets in history.

11 Mixed reactions to Comcast’s presence on campus SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

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JENNIFER FINN Mosaic Assignment Editor New and returning students were greeted this week by an unexpected color combination on campus: red and white.

As per the university’s new partnership with Comcast, all students living in on-campus housing now have access to Xfinity on Campus. The services, now included in tuition fees, give students access to about 90 channels on their dorm televisions. They also allow students to activate up to three other devices—laptops, tablets and smartphones—to stream shows anywhere on campus on the university’s Wi-Fi. There are 165 channels available on mobile devices.

Comcast representatives have set up shop in kiosks and tents on Main Street and in and around some campus buildings to spread the word and encourage students to purchase additional benefits.

“We’re here to evangelize—I don’t think a lot of students know yet,” says Chris Toal, a senior

marketing manager at Comcast.

In addition to spreading awareness about the existing services, representatives are urging on-campus students to purchase a package deal of the premium channels of their choice, such as HBO, Starz, Cinemax, Showtime and a Sports Entertainment Package.

Comcast representative Tom Gallagher says the sign-up process takes “three minutes—max.”

“It enhances their lifestyles,” Gallagher says of the services.

The university is the fifth college Comcast has visited to promote its Xfinity on-campus program.

Representatives will be heading to the University of Pennsylvania next.

Toal similarly praised the university for being one of the “early adapters” to the program.

“It really shows how they’re moving forward with technology,” she says. “And that’s something that’s really important to Comcast— taking TV anywhere, anytime and on any device.”

Representative Kelly

Devine says the services allow students to access great entertainment on campus without the restriction of a dorm.

“If you have class on the opposite side of campus, you don’t have to go back to your room to watch a show,” she says.

Despite the services’ convenience for an increasingly mobile demographic, not everyone feels favorably.

University Student Centers Associate Carrie Toth, a junior at the university whose opinion does not reflect the opinion of the university or University Student Centers, expressed opposition to Comcast’s recent presence on campus.

“The people themselves have been abrasive and aggressive,” Toth says of the representatives, several of whom have set up a kiosk just a few feet away from her desk at Perkins Student Center this past week.

Toth says one approached her and asked where she is living this year.

When she answered that she preferred not to divulge that

“WE’RE HERE TO EVANGELIZE—I DON’T THINK A LOT OF STUDENTS KNOW YET.” -CHRIS TOAL

Senior Marketing Manager Comcast

ANDREW KUCZMARSKI/THE REVIEW Students watch TV in a residence hall. On campus students now have access to Xfinity with options to purchase premium television packages. information, he continued to press her for details. She finally explained that she lives off-campus—without a television—and is actually trying to cut back on watching programs on the Netflix account she shares with her mom.

The representative then sarcastically challenged her to take out her laptop and get rid of her Netflix account on the spot, she says.

“I see it as horribly invasive,” she says. “You shouldn’t have to tell someone where you live. It’s underhanded, what they’re doing.”

Toth says she also witnessed another representative flirting with female students and says she disapproves of the way most representatives tend to

yell out to passersby.

“I imagine that it’s very overwhelming, especially for international students,” she says. “Especially because it’s the first week. It’s terrible. It just adds to the chaos.”

Freshman Devon Infinito, who lives in Rodney, says he has passed representatives on campus several times and, though he understands why others might be, is not offended by Comcast’s presence.

“There’s other people passing out stuff,” he says.

“It is a campus.”

Infinito says he has already activated two devices to receive the services included in tuition fees but has no plans to add any additional premium channels.

UDairy sundae takes home Food Network gold

COURTESY OF JENNIFER RODAMMER UDairy’s award-winning “Rockwood Carnival Cardiac Craze” is topped with salted caramel, homemade caramel corn with bacon and a fried Oreo.

NICOLE SULLIVAN Senior Reporter While being filmed for the new Food Network show, “Eating America with Anthony Anderson,” the UDairy Creamery shattered all preconceived notions of traditional ice cream sundae-making.

Featured in the Rockwood Ice Cream Festival on June 29 in Wilmington, the university’s creamery beat out 10 other contenders to take home the title of “Best Sundae on Sunday.”

The episode showcasing the creamery’s monster of a dessert will air on Sept. 15 at 10:30 p.m.

After registering UDairy for the ice cream festival for the fourth year, creamery manager Melinda Litvinas and assistant manager Jennifer Rodammer were contacted by the festival promoters about the Food Network’s interest in filming the festival and featuring a segment on “Eating America.”

The show, which first premiered on July 28, highlights food festivals across the country.

Although UDairy Creamery’s participation in the Rockwood Ice Cream Festival was nothing new for Litvinas and Rodammer, the national exposure took them out of their element.

“Of course we said yes,

because the Food Network is awesome,” Rodammer says.

After committing to the show, Litvinas was put in touch with the producers, who held preliminary interviews first and later conducted more in-depth interviews with the vendors to learn more about the backstory of each location.

The UDairy Creamery was one of three creameries selected to be featured in its own segment. A camera crew filmed the front of the store, the back where production occurs as well as throughout South Campus.

“Our biggest push was the whole student-run business,” Rodammer says.

“It’s very unique. You don’t see that anywhere else.”

Senior Peter Milliken was one of the students present during filming.

“It was a good time,” Milliken says.

“I think everyone was a little on edge about it, but in a funny way, because we weren’t sure if wanted to joke around and do the stuff we normally do in the back or if we wanted to try and make it more serious.

And everyone’s trying to avoid spilling things, and it’s just funny.”

Due to limited space, the creamery does not typically make sundaes for customers, but the challenge to create a noteworthy and delicious dessert for the competition seemed to pose

no problem for the team.

Through collaboration with the student employees and management, the UDairy team created a decadent sundae with a carnival theme.

The finished product, aptly named “The Rockwood Carnival Cardiac Craze” left nothing to be desired among sweet-toothed customers.

Funnel cake formed the foundation of the sundae, followed by three flavors of ice cream—“Junk in the Tree Trunk,” “Caramel Corn” and “Nanner Nutter.” The sundae was then loaded with salted caramel, homemade caramel corn with bacon, candied apples, Oreo whipped cream and topped off with a fried Oreo instead of a maraschino cherry.

“For us to make sundaes was definitely a unique experience,” Litvinas says.

“They want things to be exciting and extreme and pretty intense, so we took everything they had to say to heart. It paid off though.”

Five taste-testing judges deemed UDairy the winning creamery.

Litvinas and

Rodammer were awarded a “Best Sundae on Sunday” trophy, which is now on display at the creamery.

Litvinas called the win “unexpected” seeing as ten creameries were vying for the trophy.

Milliken was surprised by the creamery’s win as well.

“I just didn’t expect anything like that—that we could win it,” he says. “I just thought that would be too good to be true.”

Although “Eating America” host and actor Anthony Anderson was not present for the actual judging of the sundae, Litvinas and Rodammer conducted a demonstration with him and showed him how to make the dessert.

“He liked that we were very young and that we were very friendly and willing to crack jokes and just make it fun,” Rodammer says.

The producers of the show also took notice of the UDairy team’s sense of humor and willingness to crack jokes, Rodammer says.

Because the university’s

creamery supports a noncompetitive outlook against other local creameries, this is a first “win” and moment of national recognition for the business. “[We’re] nonprofit, so we don’t seek out business,” Litvinas says. “We don’t advertise or market outside of the university. We never have.”

Latvinas says to receive national publicity is huge for the creamery, especially since the show highlights the student-oriented aspect of UDairy.

The winning sundae has already been made into a single ice cream flavor option, available on the creamery’s menu. It includes an apple base, funnel cake pieces, caramel corn, bacon and an Oreo swirl.

“I don’t know what our plan is for next year as far as the Rockwood Ice Cream Festival,” Rodammer says.

“I have a feeling the Food Network thing won’t happen again. They might make it an annual thing, though, and if that’s the case, I’m sure we will compete.”

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To bridge militarycivilian gap, cadets run from Newark to Houston TORI NADEL Senior Reporter It would take 22 hours to drive the approximately 1,500 miles from Newark to Houston but those numbers were not daunting to a group of university and ROTC cadets who made the trip. They did not, however, get to Houston by plane, train or automobile.

They ran.

The cadets planned the 15 day journey, which took place from July 26 to Aug. 9 in an effort to raise funds and awareness for their own nonprofit, Reviresco.

Junior David Dinerman says that the idea for Reviresco came to junior Micah Petersen, a cadet at West Point who will soon be transferring back to the university. Petersen found out that Houston––his hometown–– was the most popular place for veterans to retire.

“Micah called me, and he always had a passion to help veterans,” Dinerman says.

“With less people serving in the military, there is a greater misunderstanding [of] what the military stands for and a lack of knowledge about the struggle that veterans go through, as well as a lack of knowledge [about] civilian responsibility.”

From there, the gears began turning in the cadets’ heads.

“We were thinking, ‘How can we support this cause?,’” Dinerman says. “We thought that we are at UD, in the first state and first entity the military had

to defend, and we wanted to connect Houston, which is the final destination for veterans,” Dinerman says.

With that, Dinerman and Petersen, along with junior cadets Joe Erony, Todd Thorp, as well as sophomore cadets Andrew Major, Alex Chiodo and Matthew Rojas, came up with the idea for the run.

The main goal of the run was to raise awareness about the civilian military gap that exists, as well as to raise funds for Team Red, White and Blue and Got Your 6, all organizations that support veterans as they reintegrate into civilian life, Dinerman says.

The word “Reviresco” is a Latin word that means “to renew,” which is directly related to the goals of the nonprofit, Thorp says.

When it was time to decide what they would do to bring awareness to their mission, the cadets knew it had to be something that grabbed people’s attention.

“If we drove or we just tried doing it from one central location, people wouldn’t be as interested,” Chiodo says. “But if they see us running on the streets from Delaware to Texas, they would be like, ‘Wow, these guys are actually doing something and making a difference.’ So it’s putting an action to the fundraiser and getting people excited.”

The run was the starting point of many conversations, a tool the cadets used to get people interested, Major says.

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University and West Point cadets arrive in Texas after running from Newark. The cadets ran to bridge the military, civilian gap.

The cadets ran the distance in a relay style, with some running together and the others in an RV behind them, Thorp says.

Traveling from Newark to Houston had its risky moments, which entailed running on tight road shoulders next to traffic and in the dark. In Maryland, the cadets asked for a police escort to follow them while they ran to make for a safer trip, which caused a chain reaction through the other states, Chiodo says.

The cadets also made sure to take advantage of the high population of people in the cities they ran through.

“We hit at least one major city in every state,” Dinerman says. “Our mission in each was to spread the word to as many

people as we could, and there are a lot more people in these cities.”

All of the cadets agreed that they would not have been successful without two people––Petersen’s father, Timm Petersen, who remained with them throughout the trip, and Rojas, who did not participate in the run but whom the cadets compared to NASA’s Mission Control.

Support along the way kept the cadets motivated.

“We had cross-country teams, friends of ours and all together we knew a lot of people along our route,” Major says.

“The hospitality we received was unbelievable.”

Despite the long distance, not all of the cadets were always avid runners.

“Before I joined the program, I hated running,” Chiodo says.

“After ROTC and this run, I don’t mind. I kind of like it.”

Currently, the cadets know they want to do another run.

Although they are not yet sure of the details, they do know that it is important to continue raising awareness.

“Back during the world wars, everyone would definitely know people that would be in [the] army,” Major says.

“Now, about one or less than one percent of people is in the military, and that’s why the gap is being created.”

The cadets even created a hashtag that they used throughout their journey. “#cadets4vets,” they say in unison.

FILMAHOLIC

WELCOME TO THE BOYS CLUB

AMBER JOHNSON “He told me that I look too young and I need to wear more make-up!” My boss seethes through clenched teeth, haphazardly flinging her bag on the bed. From the furious gleam in her eye, it is obvious that she has heard these words before–– most likely repeatedly––probably from a string of egotistical male industry execs called Steve who believe that they can throw more weight around in the film world than they are actually capable.

This slight to my employer may seem insignificant, it may barely leave a scratch in one’s armor of self confidence, but the concern here is the underlying message. In this man’s eyes, she is not taken seriously—she is not really one of them.

You see, we are at a small Southern film conference in Music City to promote my boss’s first feature film. For the sake of anonymity let’s call her L. This production is L’s “baby” if she ever had one. She wrote it, directed it and shot it. So you

can already envision the amount of time and dedication it took to take this idea buried in her head and breathe life into it.

To exacerbate the natural waves of nausea and anxiety that plague any first time filmmaker, L happens to be a woman in an industry dominated by men, and when I say dominated, only 16 percent of executive producers, editors, cinematographers, producers and screenwriters in this field identify as females, according to a study done at San Diego University.

Listening intently, I acknowledged that “Scumbag Steve’s” comment was inappropriate, but I was initially shocked by L’s reaction. That day marked my second week as a post-production intern and I was clearly a small fish who did not know the first thing about the film world.

I understood from light research that women are severely underrepresented and misrepresented in media, but I had not realized to what extent.

L began to relay to me other personal accounts that put her reaction into perspective. She recounted experiences during pitching when men interrupted her to ask which hotel room she was staying at, comments condemning her good looks as setbacks to greater success. Over the course of the next week, I observed a disheartening pattern

of subtle, and in some cases, overt sexism.

One of the luxuries the conference provided included an informal meet-and-greet set in a lavish industrial art venue.

Producers and filmmakers congregated in the main room, supplied with a steady source of beer, wine and mixed drinks like “The Leggy Blonde.” It was basically a massive schmooze fest—“A psychedelic thriller, really? How inventive!” I should

L later confided in me that one of the reasons she brought T involved the pull he has with male industry execs. The film features a strong, female-led cast and could mistakenly be categorized as a “chick flick,” but a man advocating and supporting the film would emphasize an inclusive audience.

Unfortunate, but nonetheless a logical strategy.

As the conference progressed and participants

ONLY 16% OF EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, EDITORS, CINEMATOGRAPHERS, PRODUCERS AND SCREENWRITERS IN THIS FIELD IDENTIFY AS FEMALES. -SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY STUDY also mention that L brought along one of the film’s male producers, who we will call T. Noting my position as a lowly intern, I hung back and mingled with others akin to my status on the totem pole while I silently surveyed the room. In the event that my boss and T were approached, the men gravitated towards T, more interested in the work he had compiled though it was L who was responsible for the film and our presence at the conference.

became better acquainted, the line began to blur between appropriate and inappropriate behavior at a work function.

The evening festivities included alcohol, a helpful aid in reducing formalities.

On one occasion, L mentioned that a fellow filmmaker started pestering her, even grabbing her purse to get her attention and accidentally ripping the strap. Another female executive board member at the event told me later that one of

the male filmmakers whose acquaintance she had only made twice grabbed her from behind at a bar without her consent. She was visibly upset and shocked that this older man would find his conduct appropriate.

After explaining her discomfort, he apologized. But his actions raise an incredibly important question. Why do men in the film industry continue to see women as sex objects? I believe the answer is because the world of film is still a boys club.

Although more movies with female leads like “Bridesmaids” and “The Hunger Games” are performing exceptionally well in the box office, the lack of women in the behind-the-scenes roles of entertainment perpetuates the longstanding gender bias.

Until more female voices are recognized, women will be portrayed in the manner men see and value them. Unfortunately, these characters have fewer speaking roles and often serve as sex objects or plot devices, an unsatisfactory image that has translated to the tangible world and sadly influenced the way the few female pioneers fight to get their stories recognized.

-Amber Johnson anjohns@udel.edu

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

EVERYDAY RUNWAY

LIFE OF AN NYC FASHION INTERN

It’s a quarter to midnight on a June Sunday night in New York City. I just finished a bottle or two (or three) of wine with my new roommates, because how else do four complete strangers bond?

I lie out my outfit––black shorts with lace trim, a flowy black long sleeve, black booties and a burgundy “Sunburst” House of Harlow 1960 necklace—monochromatic, but chic for a first-day-of-work outfit. It’s my second summer at Cosmopolitan Magazine. I already know I can get away with wearing jeans on my first day, but it’s a fashion internship, in an industry where everyone judges you at a first glance.

I walk into the office with sea of strangers staring at me, and one recognizable face—my boss’s face. And so the best summer of my life begins…

So what is it like to be a

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fashion intern? Often people think anything regarding fashion is identical to what they saw in “The Devil Wears Prada.” And if I’m being completely honest, that is what I anticipated when I arrived my first day at Cosmopolitan two summers ago. Within the first five minutes of my internship I learned that the idea of “The Devil Wears Prada” is just that—an idea.

Whenever anyone asks me what I do at my internship, I always tell them I play with clothes all day because it’s true. I carry them around the city, I document their existence moving in and out of the fashion closet and sometimes I get to try on some of the pieces.

And you can always spot us out on the streets because we’re the ones with garment bags draped over our arms, moving around

all of the slow walkers. But even that layer of arm sweat that forms between you and the garment bag is all worth it in the end when you unzip the bag and get a sneak peek of what will be trending in three months. There’s something exciting about having the inside scoop.

Though the majority of our days are spent working with clothes, we are often assigned creative projects like trend reports or mood boards. For a mood board, think of a collage surrounding an idea, like the south, or global warming. When creating a trend report we look at a specific season, like Resort 2015, and go through all of the designers’ collections that are normally seen in the closet and create trends within them, like nautical, boxy and the crop top.

And there are several perks

of being a fashion intern: the free table, attending previews and access to photo shoots.

The amount of nail polish and bronzer I now have is ridiculous, all thanks to the free table.

Attending a preview is pretty amazing, but attending a photo shoot takes the cake for best intern perk. Depending on the story, the model and stylist can influence your level of involvement. My first photo shoot was for “Your Passport to Hotter Sex” and “From Intern to Inspiration” stories in the September 2013 issue.

Because the stories involved a less-recognizable model, I was highly involved in styling and on-set. But in the upcoming November 2014 issue, I was involved in a photo shoot with a teenage heartthrob celebrity, working in the background was

MADISON FERTELL where I was most useful.

Though the days are long and physically exhausting, there is nothing more exciting than seeing all of the clothes you handled, or even catching a photo shoot you attended in the magazine.

—Madison Fertell mfertell@udel.edu

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

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘IF I STAY’ STRESSES CHOICES AND SACRIFICE ALEXA PIERCE-MATLACK Staff Reporter “If I Stay,” the film adaption of Gayle Forman’s book of the same name, came out this week. Overall, “If I Stay” is a good movie with a great story line for young adults. Mia Hall, played by Chloe Grace Moretz, is a high school senior trying to make the most difficult decision of her life––going to an amazing music college away from home or going to college close to home to stay with her boyfriend Adam, played by Jamie Blackley.

A tragic car accident on a family drive makes that decision insignificant, as she has to decide to stay with Adam and friends or to continue on with the rest of her family.

The two best characters in this film are Nurse Ramirez (Aisha Hinds) and Gramps, Mia’s grandfather (Stacy Keach).

Initially, neither have a huge presence in the film, but both leave a lasting impression that you will take with you on your way out.

They are the only two in the film who acknowledge that Mia’s tough decision is hers alone to make. Adam and Gramps also have the most

developed characters, with a clear purpose for their part of the film.

Keach and Blackley do a wonderful job of building a connection with the audience early in the film, allowing their emotions to be shared with the audience and a feeling of empathy that is much needed.

The major downside to “If I Stay” is Moretz and her acting. She is not able to connect with the audience, leaving her emotions and reactions to seem exaggerated and disconnected. If she had been able to build this relationship, the movie easily would have been the best of the week, but the lack of empathy towards her took away from big plot points where you were yearning to share in her sadness and loss.

The major themes of the film are choices and sacrifices.

Through the course of the movie, Mia learns of many choices or sacrifices others made for her to give her the life she now has. Things she had always thought were done for others and that she’d been jealous about become revealed to her as someone trying to ensure and support

her dreams and successes.

This is important in a society where young adults mainly see things as “how does this help me?” rather than “how can this help someone else be better?”

While the time progress of the film is disjointed and confusing, the flashbacks were an essential role of explaining Mia’s situation.

The whole movie in real time takes place in the span of one day, but it appears to be longer, and is not clarified until the end. The audience gets to see short glimpses of her life that push and pull her into making her biggest decision, all from her perspective but also hearing those around her talking as if she’s never coming back.

If they had been organized chronologically, the flashbacks would probably be less confusing and add even more to the emotion and steps to making a decision to stay or go.

The ending of the movie is abrupt and leaves the audience unsatisfied, possibly due to the author having a second book. There is some resemblance of a resolution and a decision, but you are left hanging and wondering what will happen next.

WARNER BROTHERS Grab your box of tissues and a shoulder to cry on, because there won’t be a dry eye in the theatre due to this

wonderful journey of love, loss, tragedy, sacrifice and friendship.

bike lanes, outdoor seating and closed streets for pedestrians.

Other projects have yielded community gardens and parks for children.

time, and there’s a lot of red tape to get through.”

Willauer says that working with organizations like West Side Grows Together is a great way for students to apply what they are learning in school to real world problems.

“It is knowledge put into use, and a valuable experience to have before graduation because it sets students up for work having already done something practical,” he says.

The Better Block program spurred discussion among Wilmington residents, many of whom thought bringing change to the community was impossible.

“A lot of people think, ‘this is the city I live in. How it was, is, and has to be,’” Willauer says.

“Union Street is perfect example of that.”

Following the construction of the temporary structures, residents began discussing implementing permanent changes, Willauer says.

Willauer calls the the relationship between West Side Grows and the university is a strong one. In the past, students and the organization have worked together on Engineering Without Borders, when students worked on drainage issues in Wilmington.

As for future partnerships with the university, Rojas and King both say they agree that something permanent would be a great experience for other students to learn how policy is implemented.

“There’s so much more to Wilmington than UD students think,” Rojas says. “It has so much to offer. We’ve met great people who are genuinely interested in the development of their community.”

Christian Willauer, director of Economic and Community Development at West Side

COURTESY OF PATRICIA DIIENNO Union Street residents show off their yoga skills thanks to amenities provided by Build a Better Block.

“Better Block” works to revitalize Wilmington neighborhood LEAH RODRIGUEZ Staff Reporter Last spring, the West side of Wilmington––specifically Union Street––was barren. Sophomore Aaron King says the community was “dead” with a noticeable lack of pedestrians.

King, along with organization West Side Grows

Together, are working to revitalize this neighborhood, hoping to buck this trend and in place create a tangible sense of community.

The organization has collaborated with local residents and other interested parties to plan projects and initiate steps in creating a lively environment in the West Side. Several students,

including King and sophomore Matthew Rojas, were among those who worked to meet the organization’s goals.

As part of the “Better Block” initiative, temporary structures are implemented on a trial basis to indicate to local residents what could become permanent community fixtures.

These fixtures included

Grows Together, underscores Wilmington’s compactness, a quality that makes it a walkable city.

Though compact, most residents drive to their destinations rather than walk, Willauer says. Much of what the organization does involves getting residents to walk around their community in order to enjoy the experience of making connections.

After the temporary fixtures were put into place, Rojas and King both say that feedback from residents was unanimously positive.

Both students are invested in the positive effects that public policy can have on communities such as Wilmington. King says working with the Better Block program proved to be a tremendous experience for him, and the collaborative efforts were greatly effective in getting things done.

“The support for what we’d done was great,” King says. “[The residents] thought it was permanent.”

King and Willauer both explained that leaving the fixtures in place would be a violation of city code. Those involved were given special permission to have the temporary fixtures on a trial basis in order to gauge the receptiveness of the residents until the changes can be made permanent.

“The nature of the program is temporary,” Rojas says.

“Physical changes take a lot of

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Football team looks to improve in Brock’s second season MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor After last year’s inconsistent season, the football team will try to improve for coach Dave Brock’s second season. Last season certainly had some highlights for the Blue Hens, who finished 7-5 overall. It was an odd, up and down year, which saw the team win seven of its first nine games, subsequently rising to No. 15 in the national Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), but the Blue Hens missed the playoffs as they lost their final three games.

The team did show signs of brilliance during their first nine games, upsetting No. 14 James Madison in late September, then upsetting No. 7 Towson in a thrilling, last-minute comeback.

This year they will have to attempt to be more consistent despite losing a significant amount of starters on both sides of the ball, including star running back Andrew Pierce, versatile wideout and top returner Rob Jones as well as defensive line stalwart Zach Kerr.

The Hens find themselves the underdog in their opening game for the first time in recent memory. Stepping up to Football Bowl Series (FBS) football to play Pittsburgh would be a challenge, coach Dave Brock said during his preseason press conference, but

he said there are also benefits to facing such a stiff challenge to start the year.

“When these guys have been working all summer, they’re staring down the barrel at Pitt,” Brock said. “I think there are a lot of positives from a standpoint of what we are trying to get across and what we are trying to do. Philosophically, I think it is a good opportunity and a good game.”

The Hens will, however, return several key players from last year’s roster. Patrick Callaway and David Mackall will be back to anchor the linebacker corps, while Nick Boyle, starting tight end, was named to the 2014 Colonial Athletic Association Preseason All-Conference team. Starting quarterback Trent Hurley will also be back at the helm of the offense, though without Pierce and backup Julian Laing, starting running back duties will fall to Jalen Randolph and Wes Hills, both sophomores.

Randolph and Hills will form an interesting one-two punch for the Hens, with Hills listed at 6’2”, 200 lbs., while Randolph is 6’1” 230 lbs. Both were productive in reserve roles last season, with Hills picking up 81 yards on 10 carries during the year, and Randolph averaging 5.1 yards per carry over 63 attempts.

Hurley will try to continue

his improvement, as last year he showed marked advancement in his passing game. In 2013, Hurley cut his interception totals in half from the previous year, and he and the offensive line combined to surrender 17 fewer sacks. His yards per attempt also went from 6.7 to an impressive 8.2.

Hurley said the preseason camp this year has been the most impressive he has seen during his time at Delaware. He said he believes the team is also more comfortable in the second year of Brock’s high-paced offense.

“I feel like we have players like Michael Johnson and Nick Boyle, players who can spread the field, and it really is a challenge for the secondary,” Hurley said. “We play fast––not as fast as Oregon––but pretty fast, so I think for the second year we have more of that comfort and familiarity with the offense.”

Hurley, who has started the most games by a Blue Hens quarterback in the last 20 years, will be throwing to experienced wide receivers Michael Johnson, a senior, and junior Jerel Harrison. Johnson is coming off an especially effective season as the team’s top wideout, in which he had 60 catches for 1035 yards.

There is not much debate over whether or not the team

part of 2013.

Brock also said Craig Brodsky, a junior defensive back, is out for the year with a shoulder issue that has bothered him for a long time. On the other side of the ball, Brock said, Sam Collura, a junior offensive lineman, suffered a careerending back injury outside of training camp.

Though Brock said he was confident of Delaware’s chances against Pittsburgh, the Blue Hens had a rude awakening, getting shutout 62-0 on Saturday.

Despite the issues, Saulsberry said that he has appreciated the way Brock has not thrown the program into a complete rebuild mode as was predicted when K.C. Keeler was fired in 2012.

“Everybody comes to Delaware to win,” Saulsberry said. “We don’t come here to be a mediocre program. And even though that’s what our record has been, we are hungry to win.”

Lady Hens look to repeat CAA, national success JACK COBOURN Managing Sports Editor

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Senior midfielder Kyle Nuel goes in for the strike. Nuel had one shot in Sunday’s victory.

Number one-ranked Blue Hens kick off highly anticipated 2014 season

A controversial no-call ended the Delaware men’s soccer team’s historic 2013 season in heartbreaking fashion.

This year, however, the team has the potential to make an even deeper run.

After winning a programbest 14 games and hosting the team’s first ever NCAA tournament game, the Blue Hens are looking to build on last year’s success and avoid the pitfalls of overconfidence.

Delaware is picked to win the Colonial Athletic Association this season, but eighth-year coach Ian Hennessy said he is doing his best to keep the squad grounded.

“I believe the quality is there,” he said. “I just don’t want these young minds thinking that anything’s achieved yet because somebody said, ‘You’re the number one guy.’”

Showing no signs of complacency, the team has been working hard in the offseason. A main reason for its number one ranking in the CAA is a Delaware

has the offensive weapons to succeed. The Hens’ main problem last year was a historically bad defense. Senior lineman Derrick Saulsberry said he thinks the overall youth of the team might be an advantage for the Hens, particularly with the talent coming in with this specific class.

“This is the most talented freshman class I’ve seen since I have been here,” Saulsberry said. “Guys like Bilal Nichols and Charlie Bell, all of those guys are playing a very big role in this defense, and I am excited to see what they have.”

The defense looked downright ugly at times, particularly in a 62-28 loss to Maine and again during a 51-7 defeat at the hands of Navy.

The team will be starting the year at a slight disadvantage, with senior defensive end Laith Wallschleger out for at least the first game due to the same injury that knocked him out for

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offense that was second in the nation in goal production in 2013. This year, the frontline will once again feature sophomore Hermann Trophy candidate Guillermo Delgado.

Delgado, who led the team with 15 goals last year, has shown no signs of slowing down this offseason. He’s already garnered tremendous media attention and countless preseason awards. After playing with the Philadelphia Union’s developmental league affiliate this summer, Delgado said he wants to continue to improve and “perform [his] skills even better than last year” and “contribute to the team with not just goals and decisive moves this season.”

In addition to Delgado, the Blue Hens are returning eight starters from last year’s team, including goalkeeper Borja Barbero. Named to the All-CAA preseason first team, Barbero will anchor a fierce Delaware defense featuring senior standouts Tobias Müller and Ignacio Martín.

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After a season in which the Delaware field hockey team went undefeated in the conference on its way to claiming the Colonial Athletic Association Championship and making it to the NCAA Tournament, one might expect the Lady Hens to start off training slowly.

However, judging by the drills and exercises the team were doing at practice, the team looked ready to get back into competition and secure a second-straight CAA championship trophy.

Head coach Rolf van de Kerkhof, now in his third year coaching Delaware, said while much of the training had been carried over from last season, improvements were being made to make sure every part of the action was quicker.

“It’s business as usual, but you always talk about ‘play and learn,’ and what we’ve learned is that we want to go further into potentially the CAA competitions or NCAA participation,” van de Kerkhof said. “We have to get faster, faster in every aspect of the word—speed of execution, speed of decision making.”

Changes to the team this year include the losses of four graduates: goalie Sarah Scher, defender Heather Hartman, midfielder Clare O’Malley and forward Toni Popinko. Scher allowed 34 goals in 22 games, while Hartman, O’Malley and Popinko contributed 12 goals to the Lady Hens’ totals last season.

Eleven players return to the field this season. Top of the list for Delaware is junior midfielder Michaela Patzner, who scored 16 goals and had nine assists last season while starting 14 games. Patzner said she had been recovering over the summer due to a stress fracture.

She said the offense has been working hard to improve its shotmaking chances.

“I think we’re pretty strong, especially with a lot of incoming freshmen, we got a lot of new input that’s going to help us on the forward line,” Patzner said.

“I think we’re going to be a good

goal-scoring team again.”

In addition to Patzner, sophomore midfielder Esmée Peet is back this season. Peet scored 13 goals and had six assists last season on her way to CAA Player and Rookie of the Year honors, in addition to being named a first-team All-CAA player. This year she was named the CAA Preseason Player of the Year.

Peet said that winning individual awards is a great feeling, but it is secondary to winning with the team.

She said the team is lively and brimming with skilled players.

“I think there’s a lot of energy in the team,” Peet said.

“Everybody’s working hard.

There’s a lot of new talent in the group.”

Nine freshman, including two redshirts, join the Lady Hens this season. Two players, midfielder Isabelle van der Kaaij and goalkeeper Emmeline Oltmans, hail from the Netherlands, while six come from the tri-state area.

One freshman, forward Taylor Lister, said the change between college and high school field hockey was not hard at all, as her teammates got her prepared.

“It’s definitely different, but I thought it wasn’t that big a shift because the girls have definitely helped me over the summer,” Lister, who hails from Hummelstown, Pa., said.

“A lot of them were texting me and telling me about the run test and telling me what I can do to

prepare to make it not so much of a gap.”

In fact, Lister showed she had adjusted well to the collegiate game as she scored the winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Pacific University at Stanford University on Saturday, after they lost to the hosts on Friday, 4-0. The 18th-ranked Lady Hens played University of California yesterday, winning 3-2 in overtime.

Delaware returns to Rullo Stadium on Friday to face Richmond before having to play No. 2 North Carolina on Sunday.

The Tar Heels were the Lady Hens’ first-round opponents in the NCAA Tournament, beating them 6-2.

Van de Kerkhof said playing North Carolina is a gauge for how strong the team is at the moment.

“Playing them again this year like we did last year, it allows us to see where we are,” he said. “Every year that we have played a caliber program like a Carolina, the gap has gotten smaller, allowing us to see that we are making progress as a program, so UNC at Delaware will allow us to further build for the rest of our season.”

Overall, the coach said he was pleased about how the team looked in practice.

“I’m excited to be back with our team,” he said. “A very motivated group of young players, leadership has been further developed and the puzzle pieces are being put in place along the way.”

COURTESY OF MARK CAMPBELL/BLUEHENS.COM The University of Delaware field hockey team celebrates winning the 2013 CAA Tournament. The Lady Hens look to repeat their success this season.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

In silver anniversary season, Lady Hens go for fourth-straight CAA Tournament appearance

Sophomore defender Ari Fryer receives the ball.

MEGHAN O’DONNELL Managing Sports Editor 2014 is a special year for the Delaware women’s soccer team. Not only is it celebrating the program’s 25th season, but it is also trying to make Delaware history by advancing to the Colonial Athletic Association tournament for a fourth straight year.

Coming off a season in

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which they compiled a 9-7-3 record and advanced to the first round of the CAA tournament before falling to Northeastern University on penalty kicks, the Lady Hens were picked to finish sixth in the CAA. Head coach Scott Grzenda said he has set the goal much higher.

“Our team has the expectation of winning the conference,” Grzenda said. “We

need to put ourselves in the position of participating in the tournament and then winning the automatic bid.”

To do that, the team will rely heavily on the 14 returning players from last season, particularly on senior defender Allegra Gray. Named to last year’s All-CAA first team and this season’s All-CAA preseason team, Gray will lead the defense.

Also returning from last season’s backline are juniors Maddy Parker and Alison Slark, both of whom had strong 2013 campaigns.

In the midfield, senior cocaptain Andi Arnold and AllCAA preseason pick junior Emily Market will once again run the show.

While the team is experienced in some areas, this year’s squad will still be fairly young. With just nine upperclassmen, the Lady Hens will lean on their five incoming freshmen and 11 sophomores.

Coach Grzenda said he isn’t worried, as the underclassman are ready to show what they can do.

“Our freshman class is

very strong, and all of them will compete for playing time this season,” he said.

With the loss of outgoing senior forward Shannon Kearney, Grzenda will be looking for two of those freshmen to step up and shoulder some of the goalscoring load. Krista Trinidad and Gina Tricocci will both be expected to contribute to the Lady Hens offense this season, as will returning sophomore Natalie Zelenky who had three goals and two assists during her rookie campaign.

As for who will replace last season’s goalkeeper Jess Levy, the team has several options.

Senior Jess Figueroa, junior Kelsey O’Donnell and redshirt freshman Kailyn Rekos will all compete to win the starting job.

Through the team’s first three games this season, Rekos has gone the full 90 in two, while Figueroa started in the other.

No matter who the starter is, the Lady Hens’ most important focus this season is improving on their 3-3-2 conference record from a year ago. This season, they won’t see a conference foe

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With new additions, volleyball aims for improvement ERIN BOLAND Sports Assignment Editor After finishing the 2013 season with a 3-11 record in the conference and 11-17 record overall, the Delaware women’s volleyball team is looking to bounce back to start this fall season.

With a very different team from last year, head coach Bonnie Kenny said the team is hoping to collect more wins under her belt.

“We have people that can terminate and put balls up that allows our hitter to do the work, so it’s kind of exciting for this team,” Kenny said.

The squad returned in June and has been working hard both on the court and in the weight room in order to be prepared for the competition they are going to be up against.

Eight players return to the fold this season, four of whom are starters. The team has two transfers, sophomore middle blocker Alexa Swann from Virginia Tech and sophomore setter Julia Anderson from the University of Maryland.

In addition to Swann and Anderson, four freshmen have joined the Lady Hens this year.

Kenny said she is pleased with how they’re developing as athletes.

“Alexa Swann joined us in January and had a really good spring with us,” Kenny said.

“She’s a good terminating middle for us. Julia Anderson is another transfer and she’ll open up in a 6-2 offense, so she’ll set three rotations with Erin Layne.”

As for the freshmen, Daria Robinson will start for Delaware while Jess Chakonis is expected to come in as a defensive specialist sometimes throughout the year. Taylor Bennett and Raven Luckett are also two new players who will look to contribute to the team later in the season.

One returning player who is hoping to continue her success on the court is junior outside hitter Katie Hillman. Hillman not only led the squad with 3.15 kills per set, but also ranked fifth in the CAA in the category.

Hillman said she still has room to grow her skillset.

“Individually, I want to develop more as a leader, work hard to bring the team together and just go out there and improve,” Hillman said.

Coach Kenny said she knows what Hillman is capable of and is comfortable giving her some responsibility over the team.

“Katie is somebody we’re going to rely on,” Kenny said. “It’s different when you’re a junior. When you’re a freshman, the expectation isn’t there. She’s mature and she’s getting better and now she’s embracing the leadership that comes with that.”

Delaware was picked sixth in the CAA Preseason Coaches’ Poll. The Lady Hens came in before Towson University, The College of William & Mary and Elon University.

Hillman said the season is wide-open for who could take the title.

“I think every team in our conference has a fair shot at it,” Hillman said.

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“We’re always a really even conference. Each game we’re going to have to go out there and fight and hopefully we come out on top every time.”

Like Hillman, Coach Kenny said she is not concerned with where the team was placed in the ranking, adding that the team has the desire to improve.

Despite their record last year, Hillman said the Lady Hens understand that this is a new season to work hard and leave everything out on the court.

“As a team, we’re looking to come out strong this year, have a lot of confidence and play hard,” Hillman said.

“Obviously the ultimate goal is to win the CAA championship.” Hillman said.

The Blue Hens will open their 2014 season at the Bob Carpenter Center by hosting the Courtyard by Marriott Tournament on August 2930. They will face University at Albany, Loyola University (Chicago) and University of Rhode Island.

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Continued from page 14 As for the midfield, sophomore Jaime Martinez, who was named to last year’s CAA All-Rookie team, and junior Joe Dipre will look to fill the gap left by graduated seniors Mark Garrity and Vincent Mediate.

Both will also be asked to take on some of the goal scoring responsibility this season.

Despite its impressive preseason in which the team defeated second ranked University of Maryland 2-1, Delaware has faced some challenges.

Unfortunately for the Blue Hens, they will be without the services of captain Roberto Giménez, who’s been plagued by a nagging knee injury since last year. According to his

coach, the striker will miss the entire season.

Despite the Giménez injury, coach Hennessy knows the time to win is now. This year may be the team’s best chance to take home the CAA title, as it is led by an outstanding senior class, which Hennessy calls “the core of our success over two of the last three years.”

“This year, we’re losing all the guys from 2011—our first CAA conference championship, best season in 85 years and last year, best season in 87 years,” Hennessy said. “I’d like to send them out on a high note.”

In order to do that, Hennessy has changed his tactics going into this year, employing a new 4-2-3-1 formation with Delgado as the lone striker in order to cope with the loss of Giménez.

until Sept. 26 when University of North Carolina-Wilmington comes to Grant Stadium. From there, however, they’ll end their regular season campaign with nine straight conference matchups.

The team will look to build upon its early success against non-conference opponents.

Delaware opened its season with a 3-2 win at home against Monmouth University on Aug. 22. The Lady Hens then defeated Saint Francis University, 1-0 thanks to a goal by sophomore Maddie Brosler before dropping their first game of the season, an overtime loss to St. John’s University.

Despite the setback, the team hopes to show that it’s much better than that sixth overall CAA ranking suggests.

“We’ve told the girls from the beginning that we can play with any team we play,” Grzenda said.

The Lady Hens will look to prove their coach right and get back to their winning ways this Friday when they travel to take on Army at West Point.

It worked out well in the team’s home opener against Sacred Heart University last Friday, which Delaware won 2-0.

Even after the win, the players know they have a long way to go to achieve their goal, but that hasn’t stopped them from dreaming big.

“I think we are able to win the ring this year and the conference,” Delgado said.

As for the team’s plans after that?

“Then obviously we’re going to go and win the national championship,” he said.

For now, the team’s highly anticipated season continues with non-conference games against Long Island University Brooklyn and Iona College at Grant Stadium this week.

It started with a flop and ended with a flip. From Fred’s dive in the opening game to Miroslav Klose’s front flip following his team’s final victory, the World Cup had it all. Over the course of 31 days this summer, soccer’s biggest event demanded the world’s attention. Let’s look back and the best and the worst of the 2014 tournament:

WORST

1.) The Bite What’s a World Cup without a few defining moments of madness? In 1998, for example, David Beckham saw red for kicking out at an opponent.

Then there was Cristiano Ronaldo’s scandalous wink after successfully lobbying for Wayne Rooney to be sent off in the 2006 quarterfinals. Of course, the 2006 tournament also featured Zinedine Zidane’s infamous headbutt. Trumping all of these moments, however, was what transpired in the group stage matchup between Italy and Uruguay. A must-win game for both teams saw Uruguay emerge victorious thanks to a late goal, but the real story centered on Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini. The mercurial striker–– who has a history of sinking his teeth into opponents––claimed to have slipped and fallen teeth first onto Chiellini’s shoulder.

Unfortunately for Suarez, FIFA wasn’t sympathetic to his toothache and issued a fourmonth ban from soccer.

2.) European Powerhouses (Germany excluded) Yes, Germany won it all, but European counterparts and fellow perennial contenders crashed and burned out of this year’s World Cup. Let’s start with Italy. Drawn into a difficult group including England, Uruguay and tournament dark horse Costa Rica, the 2006 champions started well enough.

They defeated England 2-1. The sweltering heat and humidity in that first game appeared to take its toll on the team as they dropped their next two and were eliminated.

Next we have England, whose entire World Cup lasted

a grand total of six days. After two losses and a draw, the team didn’t even get the chance to lose on penalty kicks, exiting in the group stage instead.

Though much of the blame was placed (unfairly) on Wayne Rooney, the biggest issue for the English was tactics. Coach Roy Hodgson employed a 4-2-3-1.

The formation left gaping holes in the English midfield, leaving the country to wonder how a team with so much talent could be coming home so soon.

Perhaps the biggest disappointment was the reigning champions, Spain. They had a good run, winning the European championship in both 2008 and 2012 and raising their first ever World Cup trophy in between. That said, the glory days are definitely behind them.

The aging squad opened against the Netherlands, in a rematch of the 2010 final. What most expected to be a good matchup quickly turned into a massacre, as the Dutch hammered the Spanish 5-1. They lost their next match to Chile and then won a meaningless game against a depleted Australian side before quietly exiting the tournament.

BEST

1.) Germany Yes, they’re the obvious choice as the reigning world champions, but the Germans did something truly special.

Employing a mix of promising youngsters, Thomas Müller and Mario Götze, and celebrated veterans, Miroslav Klose and Philipp Lahm, they fought their way out of the group of death, demolished the host nation and took care of Messi and company to claim the title. They were the San Antonio Spurs of the tournament, playing as a team, each player executing their role to perfection. With an unmatched youth system and a core group of young talent, they look poised to rival Spain’s historic winning streak.

2.) Brazil The aforementioned Brazil that lost 7-1 to Germany in the semifinals? Yes, that Brazil. Sure, their World Cup ended with two straight losses in which they were outscored 10-1. However, in a larger sense, Brazil delivered a World Cup worthy of all the hype. In the months leading up to the tournament, the nation was plagued by concerns over unfinished stadiums, riots and traffic. Instead, fans were treated to an incredible experience. The 2014 World Cup was a huge success, putting to rest all pretournament doubts and giving us a preview of what’s to come in the 2016 Olympics.

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