T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f D e l a w a re ’s i n d e p e n d e n t s t u d e n t n e w s p a p e r s i n c e 1 8 8 2 @udreview
CLIMATE CHANGE
NEWS Page 4
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4 2018
VOLUME 145, ISSUE 13
udreview.com
KIDZ BOP
GRITTYWATCH
MOSAIC Page 10
SPORTS Page 15
“‘What are people going to think?’” The struggles and successes of students with mental illness KATHERINE NAILS Managing News Editor
L
iving each day with mental illness for senior Stephen Pihl can be like trying to escape from a lethal, aphotic labyrinth. “Everyone’s day is like a maze,” he said. “Some days, the maze is easier than others, but you always get out. For me that maze is 10 times bigger, 10 times more complicated, and when it’s really really bad, it’s like that maze is pitch black and there’s someone in that maze trying to kill me. And sometimes I don’t make it out of that maze and so I’m stuck, I’m stuck and so I can’t live a certain day because I’m stuck in yesterday’s maze or last week’s maze, still trying to figure it out.” Pihl lives with Bipolar II disorder, and said that he hopes others understand that the increased difficulty of this metaphorical maze is the only difference between himself and “neurotypical” individuals. Pihl’s experience is not unheard of. According to a study by the Healthy Minds Network, about 36 percent of
college students have been diagnosed with a mental illness at one point in their lives. A World Health Organization (WHO) study corroborates this, stating that about one third of college freshmen worldwide “report symptoms consistent with a diagnosable mental health disorder.” While such statistics hint at the scope of the problem, the day-to-day reality of college students with mental illness is more complicated. Pihl’s problems started in middle school — he was bullied badly and attempted suicide. When he graduated from high school as a four-sport, varsity athlete with a 3.8 GPA who was voted funniest in his class, things, at least on paper, were great. Turmoil, however, was hidden underneath his polished surface. He was depressed, but he also heard sounds that nobody else did. He would have periods of overconfidence and impulsivity — he once thought he could climb Mount Everest in shorts and t-shirt, and he would get speeding tickets and take unnecessary risks. Pihl was finally diagnosed in his senior year of high school with bipolar disorder.
SAM FORD/THE REVIEW He arrived at the university shortly after spending time at an inpatient psychiatric unit. While he was not seeing a therapist, he had been put on high doses of medication, which made it difficult
Another semester gone by, no action on graduate college ALEXIS CAREL Senior Reporter
U
niversity President Dennis Assanis proposed the idea back in March 2017 to add an eighth college to the university: a graduate college, meant to help solve health- and climate-related issues on the basis of interdisciplinary efforts, also packaged with the wish to double the university’s graduate student population over the next ten years. Yesterday, the Faculty Senate met, originally scheduled to vote on the graduate college draft bylaws, but the vote was rescheduled for February, with the committee responsible for the bylaws claiming that the original deadline of Jan. 1 would be impossible to meet. To refresh your memory as the college’s future continues to hang in the air, we recount its troubled history so far. The total number of graduate students enrolled is currently 3,794; the possibility of doubling that number had raised concerns in the past due to the assumed increase in faculty and undergraduate numbers as well. During his inaugural address in December 2016, Assanis referred to the concept of a “graduate city.” In the May 2017 Faculty Senate meeting, Assanis provided more specifics. He was seeking to increase doctoral students by 1,000 and master’s students by 2,000, giving a possible enrollment of 7,000 graduate students in 10 years — a 75 percent increase rather than his initial hint at 100 percent. In spring 2016, former Senior Vice Provost of graduate and professional education Ann Ardis also stated that Assanis had plans to add 250 new faculty members and noted that undergraduate tuition does not go towards
graduate students; the actual revenue coming instead from federal grants and endowments, or gifts to the university. In fall 2017, it was announced that the college would be formally named the Stuart M. and Suzanne B. Grant Graduate College as the result of a $10 million donation from the family. At the time, Stuart M. Grant was serving as a member of the university’s Board of Trustees and had been reappointed for another term by Gov. John Carney, but was serving on an expired term as his nomination awaited state senate approval. Then things took a turn. The next day, The Review reported that Grant was involved in a lawsuit in which he accused a former director, Reuben Guttman, of his firm Grant & Eisenhofer, of stealing clients during his departure in 2015. Guttman’s defense alleged that Grant had sexually harassed female associates at Grant & Eisenhofer. Following reporting on the matter by The Review and The News Journal, Grant, citing backlash from the university community, withdrew his nomination after serving as a trustee for seven years. There was general unrest at a town hall meeting held by Provost Robin Morgan back in April — meant to quell concerns and answer questions, a few faculty members had questioned if the rush to form the college had been due to the Grants’ endowment. Morgan stated the matter was urgent because the creation of a graduate college was needed. Morgan continued to say that the need for the graduate college could be pinned down to visibility: a “necessity to improving the education and lives of graduate students at the university.” However, in June, the university then announced it was no longer accepting the donation
from the Grants, leaving open the question of exactly how the graduate college would be funded. “The University is actively seeking new donations to support the graduate college as we have decided not to name the college after the Grants,” university spokesperson Andrea Boyle Tippett stated in an email in June. Discussion of the draft bylaws are still in progress, headed by Faculty Senate member Martha Buell. Although there were talks at yesterday’s meeting of postponing the vote as late as March, the draft bylaws will hit the Senate floor at the Feb. 11 meeting after classes resume for the spring semester.
to concentrate. Sometimes he couldn’t remember how to spell his name or who he was talking to. Pihl, a neuroscience and biology double major, began
failing all of his classes. He also said he was good at hiding his problems and “overcompensated” by frequently partying. This only provided a brief reprieve. “I would just go for long walks CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Faculty Senate delays graduate college vote ALEXIS CAREL Senior Reporter
T
he Faculty Senate gathered for its final general meeting of the fall semester on Monday, Dec. 3. The meeting began with a few remarks from Faculty Senate President Chris Williams concerning business from the November meeting. Provost Robin Morgan then spoke on behalf of Vice President of Student Life, José Luis-Riera, regarding student mental health. In the wake of the death of student on Nov. 21, Morgan reminded those in attendance of the university’s resources for student safety, including the Center for Counseling & Student Development, the 24/7 Crisis Line, Sexual Offense Support (S.O.S.) and the Student Behavioral Consultation Team. The Student Government Association brought forth their “Student Death Notification & Assistance Act” in response to the death. It was introduced as new business and is expected to be voted on during the next Faculty Senate general meeting in February. The proposition included that the entire student body would be notified by the president’s office within one week of any student’s passing in the future (dependent on familial wishes), and that professors who the student had would be mandated to have counseling professionals present the class period immediately following the announcement. This discussion on mental health prompted a question from Chantelle Batson, the Academic Program Manager for the Associate in Arts Program (AAP), who expressed concern over a perceived lack of mental health support for AAP students. Students enrolled in the AAP program do not pay the student health fee, which covers services via the counseling center. Luis-Riera clarified that this was an issue currently being worked on with the faculty director and assistant dean of the AAP. The Faculty Senate requested to extend the deadline for establishing the graduate college, as the draft version of the bylaws was meant to be voted on this meeting to ensure the college’s establishment on or before Jan. 1, 2019, as originally promised. The reasoning behind this delay was that “the organizational structure and
bylaws are still being reviewed by the Faculty Senate Committee structure and January 1, 2019 will not be possible to assure a comprehensive document.” The new date for voting on the graduate college’s establishment was met with concern from some senate members, who wanted to extend the deadline to the March Faculty Senate general meeting so as to ensure the drafted bylaws were completely finished. “If we had to vote [on the graduate college] today, the senate would vote it down. I don’t see how we can have another open hearing and have it done by the February hearing,” Deni Galileo, a senate member representing biological sciences, said in support of a March deadline in lieu of the February one. “The choices would be to extend it again and if it hasn’t gone through the process, the senators will just vote it down.” Regardless of expressed concerns, the new deadline remains for Feb. 11, 2019. These announcements were followed by a series of votes on university policy, including the deactivation of the honors psychology bachelor’s in science (a formality due to the regular bachelor’s in science degree having been deactivated last year), and approvals of edits to sections in the faculty handbook. The Faculty Senate voted for a revision to transfer credit policy, which would allow departments to grant credit for the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP), a program that allows its participants to demonstrate mastery of college-level material for college credit, regardless of where the material was learned. Taking into account the amount of student veterans enrolled, there was an effort made by the Faculty Senate to make the CLEP policy more lenient. This leniency will now extend to courses taken during students’ time serving in the military that may not have been approved by an accreditation board and CLEP itself, which is frequently used by veterans as well. Three votes were taken on issues concerning policies of promotion and tenure, including discussion of workload and departmental standards policies, deleting and adding a section regarding mentoring and the external review process in promotional dossiers.
2
DECEMBER 4, 2018
udreview.com
PENCIL IT IN
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5
Finals Week Breakfast, 9 a.m., Trabant
Winter Holiday Celebration, 12 p.m., Perkins
RGB: The 2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition, 5:30 p.m., Smith Hall Rm 130
Cooking Demo, 5 p.m., Laurel Hall
Quizzo, 7 p.m., Perkins West Lounge
University of Delaware Men’s Basketball vs. United States Naval Academy, 7 p.m., Bob Carpenter Center
HOLAdays, 6 p.m., Trabant
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7
You De-Stress Fest, 11 a.m., Perkins
Last Day of Classes
Biden Institute Special Event: The Soul of America with Author Jon Meacham and Vice President Biden, 3 p.m., Trabant Multipurpose Room Cupcake Decorating, 6 p.m., Perkins Gallery Room
EDITOR IN CHIEF Caleb Owens EXECUTIVE EDITOR Brandon Holveck NEWS Katherine Nails Mitchell Patterson Natalie Walton MOSAIC Olivia Mann Grace McKenna Leanna Smith Bianca Thiruchittampalam SPORTS Hannah Trader OPINION Quinn Ludwicki Alex Eichenstein COPY DESK Bridget Dolan Ryan Richardson Leighton Trimarco Jessica Leibman Victoria Calvin VISUAL TEAM Casey Orledge Julia Silverman Minji Kong Xander Opiyo
FOR AD INQUIRIES, CONTACT ADSUDREVIEW@GMAIL.COM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9
The Happytime Murders, 8 p.m., Trabant Theater
University of Delaware Men’s Basketball vs. Saint Francis University, 2 p.m., Bob Carpenter Center
CPAB’s Stress Reliever, 7 p.m., Trabant Multipurpose Room The Happytime Murders, 8 p.m., Trabant Theater
University of Delaware Women’s Basketball vs. UCF, 5:30 p.m., Bob Carpenter Center Finals DeStress Fest, 8 p.m., Horn
BSU’s Annual Holiday Party, 6:30 p.m., Center for Black Culture
#TBT EDITORIAL STAFF
Color Me Calm and Yoga, 4 p.m., Perkins Collins Room
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8
Dec. 13, 1991
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10 Final Exams Begin Morris Library Finals Week Stress Less Activities for Students, 8 a.m., Various Locations
DECEMBER 4, 2018
udreview.com
3
Analysis: Cohen admits to lying to Congress about Moscow real estate project JACOB WASSERMAN Senior Reporter
N
o one in the political world was expecting a bombshell to drop when they woke up on the morning of Nov. 29. That was until the press was made aware of breaking news regarding the investigation by Robert Mueller, the special counsel. The news was that President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, was about to plea guilty to lying to Congress. That means that Cohen “knowingly and willfully made a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement and representation” in an August 2017 letter to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It was regarding an effort to build a Trump Organization real estate project in Moscow, Russia, that the plea document refers to as
the “Moscow Project.” Such false statements did not have to be under oath. In federal court, Cohen said that he did so in order to protect Trump personally and to protect the prospects of his campaign. This development in the Mueller investigation directly implicates Trump himself in dealing with the Russian government deep into his eventually successful presidential campaign, throughout which he denied doing so. He and many other campaign officials, such as Donald Trump Jr., Kellyanne Conway and Paul Manafort, maintained often that there was no contact at all between the candidate and the Russians. “This is yet another example of the President’s closest allies lying about their contacts with Russia,” Sen. Mark Warner (DVa.), ranking member of the Senate intelligence committee, said in a statement. “With each indictment and each guilty plea, we learn more about the President’s connections to Russia in the midst of Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.” According to the plea document, which was signed by Mueller, Cohen made false statements on three topics. The first was that he said that the project had ended in January 2016, which is before any of the presidential primary elections took place, and that the project
was not extensively discussed within the company. In reality, the project was active as late as June 2016, which is after Trump had secured the Republican nomination for the presidency. Additionally, as late as June 2016, Cohen had discussed the project with someone identified as “Individual 2” in the document. That person is thought to be Felix Sater, the managing director of the real estate company Bayrock Group, who worked as an FBI informant against the Russian mob in the 1990’s. Cohen also had talked about the project with “Individual 1” — who is known to be thencandidate Trump — more than the three times that he first claimed to. The plea document also says that Cohen “briefed” members of Trump’s family. The second false claim was that Cohen never agreed to travel to Russia in relation to the project, and that he had never considered asking Trump to do so as well. But Cohen actually agreed to travel to Russia and asked Trump to do so as well, although such trips were never taken by either of them. Cohen’s third false claim was that he did not recall any contact with the Russian government with regard to the project. He told Congress that he had sent an email to Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, but had received no response.
The truth was that on or around Jan. 20, 2016, Cohen had been contacted by Peskov’s personal assistant and then spoke to her on the phone shortly after for 20 minutes. The plea document then states that Peskov’s assistant had taken notes during the call and would follow up with other officials in the Russian government. Additionally, Sater told Buzzfeed News that Cohen had offered a penthouse suite in the planned 100-story building to Putin through Peskov’s office. That penthouse is thought to have been valued at $50 million. It is not clear if Trump himself knew of the offer. Since the news about the plea became known, Trump has said that Cohen is lying in order to get a lighter sentence. Also, Trump has said everything about the deal was public, and has pointed out that the project never started — it was just talked about. Trump was still denying that he had dealt with the Russians after he assumed the presidency. “I have no dealings with Russia, I have no deals in Russia, I have no deals that could happen in Russia because we stayed away,” Trump said in a January 2017 news conference. Based on the information given to the special counsel by Cohen, we now know that he did not “stay away” at all. Though a deal was never struck with the
Russians, it was actively being negotiated throughout the 2016 primary season. “Against all odds, I decide to run for President & continue to run my business-very legal & very cool, talked about it on the campaign trail,” Trump said over two tweets. “What he’s trying to do -- and it’s very simple, he’s got himself a big prison sentence and he’s trying to get a much lesser prison sentence by making up a story.” It is certainly possible that Cohen is motivated to cooperate with Mueller and federal authorities because he wants as little of a prison sentence as possible, as anybody would. Regardless, that does not necessarily mean that Cohen is lying to achieve that. Additionally, federal authorities would not accept a plea without sufficient corroborating evidence. “Michael Cohen’s indictment and guilty plea is once again an example that you cannot lie to Congress without consequences,” Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said in a statement.
“What are people going to think?” The struggles and successes of students with mental illness in like the parking lot behind George Read … I would just walk, and like cry, because I didn’t want to worry my roommates, because obviously I don’t know them,” Pihl said. Halfway through his freshman year, he decided to take a medical leave of absence. Pihl is one of the 34.9 percent of students nationwide who currently sees a mental health professional and also had counseling prior to attending college, according to the Collegiate Center for Mental Health (CCMH). For the other 65.1 percent, college is the first time they have sought professional help. When Amanda, who requested that only her first name be used, was a senior at the university, she found herself crying most nights. Amanda began to manifest strange symptoms. She was hearing things, experiencing hot flashes, her tongue was tingling and she was anxious. When a friend of Amanda noticed that there was something wrong, they took her to the university counseling center. There, Amanda spoke to a therapist, and she decided to go home for a few days and try to unwind. Her parents picked her up that weekend. A few days later, her parents took her to the hospital as her odd symptoms persisted. She had not slept in about four days. From there, she was admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit. At the unit, she was diagnosed with anxiety and depression — she had been having panic attacks. She said she was terrified that she would never recover and sad that she would likely not be able to graduate with her friends. “I kind of just cried a lot at first because I was upset, I wasn’t at school and I was like ‘what are people going to think,’” she said. Amanda said that, while she thinks the stigma surrounding mental illness is diminishing, there’s still negative rhetoric
CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE
being used. “I feel like the stigma is if you’re on medication for depression or anxiety or anything else, I feel like it makes you seem like you’re crazy,” she said. “And people are like ‘oh you’re crazy, you’re psycho.’” Brad Wolgast, director of the university’s Center for Counseling and Student Development (CCSD), said friends like Amanda’s can play a crucial role in helping someone cope with mental illness. Asking a friend how they’re doing and listening intently can be a comfort. Amanda and Pihl echoed this idea, saying that friends listening without judgement or stating their support can be a relief. But, Wolgast explained, friends of struggling students should be careful to recognize when a problem is beyond their control and encourage those suffering to see a mental health professional. “Some of the people we meet — they’re caring people who become caretakers for their friends and roommates and their friends,” he said. “It’s too much work for us to expect or for anyone to expect a friend can be the mental health caretaker for one or two of their friends with serious mental health problems.” The counseling center Wolgast runs is free for student use. It’s located inside of Perkins Student Center. One of the center’s biggest strengths, he said, is its personnel. Amanda and Pihl echoed this sentiment— both found the counselors to be helpful and caring. Both Wolgast and Pihl believe that the best way to improve the center would be to grow the staff. If the center’s 16 full-time and part-time counselors each had eight, one-hour-appointments every day, they would be able to see 896 students each week. The university has a total enrollment of about 24,000. Applying the ratios found by the Healthy Minds Network and WHO, approximately one third of students, or roughly 8,000 students at the university, could present symptoms of
mental illness. Wolgast noted that the university’s student-to-counselor ratio is better than many other universities, and is within accreditation recommendations. He also said the budget for the center, which he was unable to disclose, is almost entirely dedicated to hiring and maintaining counseling staff. The need for more mental health personnel, however, is increasing both at the university and nationwide. According to Wolgast, the center has had an 81 percent increase in students using their emergency services over the past four years. The CCMH study stated that over five years, counseling center use throughout the U.S. went up by an average of 30 to 40 percent. He said this is likely a combination of decreased stigma, increased awareness and an increase in mental illness itself. He also said that there appears to be a correlation between sleep loss and mental illness. Ella, a senior who also requested that her last name not be used, saw a counselor for the first time at the university. She said she may have had anxiety before college, but it got noticeably worse when she arrived at the university — it affected her ability to sit through classes and have fun with friends. “I gained anxiety when I came to school — the main reason for seeing the counselor now — I would say definitely it’s something that is not crazy rare,” she said, explaining that she knows a lot of people affected by anxiety. She went to the university counseling center, too, and said the center has helped her. She said she also learned importance of finding a counselor who is a good fit for the individual seeking help. The mission of the CCSD, Wolgast said, is to help as many students as possible get the help they need, particularly those in crisis, or a situation where they are not longer safe, and operates under a short-term model like
nearly every other college counseling center in the country. For students who are recognized to have needs beyond the scope of CCSD, the center hired a referral coordinator to assist them in finding local resources. The center also offers group therapy and a helpline that students can call for anything from an emergency or to talk about everyday stressors. Pihl used the counseling center when he returned to school, though he now sees a nonuniversity therapist. Especially in the beginning, he had to adjust to his new, personal version of normalcy. “[People think that with the] normal college experience you’re not going to therapy, with the normal college experience you’re not doing these types of things,” he said. “But what is normal? That’s up to you to decide.” In addition to official treatment, Pihl said his professors, who are for the most part accommodating, have been “just the biggest blessing.” A few have made themselves available outside of class to talk as mentors and friends. He is also a member of Friends4Friends, a group on campus that aims to normalize discussions about mental health and provide a peer support network for students who may feel like they’re alone and have nobody to talk to. The group hosts meetings and events like game nights or Sunday bonfires, open to everybody on campus, not just members, to help combat the “Sunday scaries.” Pihl hopes that when people spot the Friends4Friends logo around campus, they know the individual sporting the logo is an ally and there to help or lend a sympathetic ear. Amanda is a new member of Friends4Friends. After the inpatient psychiatric program and then an outpatient one, she returned to school last spring. She said she was excited to see her friends again and that they were supportive. The university counseling center helped her
find a long-term counselor in Delaware and re-adjust to student life. Today, she said, she feels like she’s “back to [her] old self.” Amanda is also passionate about mental health advocacy — as an education major, she hopes to bring awareness to the classroom. This, she said, is because, before her experience, she only had basic knowledge on the subject. “When people ask me questions about it, I’m very open to talk about it now because I want to help other people who are experiencing the same thing because I feel like I’m back to my old self now, but at the time it was so scary and I didn’t know what was going on,” Amanda said. She said she has turned her experience from a negative one to a positive one — using it to better herself and help others. “It’s not something that you necessarily have to be in medication for for the rest of your life. It could be something that just happened,” she said. “You can still go back to being your old self but you’re just growing and learning more about ways to cope with it every day.” Pihl said that finding the right counseling, medication and support systems have helped him to heal. He too speaks openly about mental illness, and is continuing to learn from his experiences. “You can either run from the past or learn from it,” he said. “And I choose very much so to learn from it.” Kevin Travers contributed reporting.
4
DECEMBER 4, 2018
udreview.com
Same worries, new numbers: students and experts address climate change
JACOB BAUMGART Senior Reporter
“
It can be very depressing to look at this and say ‘What can I as an individual do?’” Michael Chajes, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, said of climate change. In the wake of the release of the second volume of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, which predicted that climate change could threaten economic and communal health across the world, the Earth, Ocean and Environment Club discussed the threat and how to best address it with a panel of three industry experts. Wednesday’s discussion in Trabant Theater followed the club’s viewing of “High Tide in Dorchester,” a documentary which details the threat of sea level rise in Dorchester County of Maryland’s eastern shore. The film’s research predicts that Dorchester, Maryland’s fourth largest of 23 counties, will drop to its 14th largest by 2100 due to an anticipated sea level rise of about one meter, or 3.28 feet. Rising waters threaten more than Dorchester County, as the National Climate Assessment (NCA) projects there is a 66 percent chance that between $238 billion and $507 billion of real estate will be below sea level by the same year. Delaware’s own Sussex County could be part of this trend. Panelist Philip Barnes, an associate professor at the Institute for Public
Administration and urban planning expert, said a nationwide survey revealed the county’s poor land use over the past decade. He said the survey showed that during the last ten years, Sussex County built the third most homes in areas vulnerable to sea level rise. “Sussex County absolutely sucks at allowing development in places where development should not be happening, in areas where we know are going to be vulnerable to sea level rise,” Barnes said. Analysis: How Delaware will be affected by climate change, according to recent report Poor building choices, like the ones in Sussex County, put Delaware coastal property at risk, according to the Delaware Geological Survey (DGS), which predicts that there is a 90 percent chance that Delaware sea levels will rise between .52 and 1.53 meters (1.71 and 5.02 feet) by 2100. DGS’s prediction includes a 5 percent chance that the true sea level rise falls below its estimated interval, and another 5 percent chance that the level surpasses it. “1.5 meters, we stated that it’s very easy for sea level rise to be much higher than that,” panelist John Callahan, a climatologist at the DGS, said. “[The chances of surpassing] that 95th percentile, that’s really only one in 20. If you had a chance of getting hit by a bus in one in 20, you wouldn’t take it … You don’t want that one in 20. You don’t build to 95 percent; you build to 99.9
percent, and those values are going to be much higher than 1.5 [meters].” Chajes, who was also one of the panelists, said the anticipated sea level rise could hurt more than just private property and public infrastructure. He claimed the potential rise could overtake barrier marshes, making some areas unfarmable because of the salinity of the water that would immediately border the land. Despite the potential threats that climate change could pose, Chaje said he believed there were some reasons to be optimistic, pointing to a bipartisan, climate-protection bill introduced in the House of Representatives the the day prior. The bill, called The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2018, would tax fossil fuel companies for their carbon dioxide emissions. Chajes said he thought the bill was unlikely to receive any serious attention from Congress until Jan. 3, when the newest House will take office, because of how little time is left in this legislative session. While Chajes said he was pleased that Congress began making legislative efforts to combat carbon dioxide emissions and climate change, he said he believes the matter will only become a top legislative priority if the electorate pushes the issue. “Eventually Congress will do what people want,” Chajes, who is also a lobbyist, said. “We
eventually need enough people to want that. When you go to elections, you ask people ‘What are the issues you care about?’ This issue is way down, and so it’s hard to expect politicians to really venture out and do something.” Caleb’s Corner: Can climate change ignite the next student protest movement? Barnes also believes empowering and informing constituents is the key to pushing politicians to enact policy to mitigate the effects of climate change. His worry, however, stems from conservatives’ past pushback against the legitimacy of climate change. “That is very well established that there is systematic … wellcoordinated, well-funded effort to misdirect, create doubt amongst you, the public, about the reality of climate change because if we don’t believe it’s a problem, then we don’t have to do anything about it, and that is the goal,” Barnes said. “It’s like concussions in football. Remember five, 10 years ago? The NFL didn’t want to admit that playing the game would cause long term brain damage with the players. Why? Because they realized admitting that reality would have an impact of the future viability of the business model … It’s the same thing [with climate change].” Elizabeth Byrne, a member of the Earth, Ocean and Environment Club, shares Chajes’ hope. “We are going to need an
interdisciplinary approach to fixing climate change,” Byrne, a sophomore who studies environmental science, said. “I do think it’s a problem can solve, not to be super cliché, but I think humanity is capable of a lot, and I think this is something we can fix.” Rachel Roday, the club’s chair of sustainability, agreed that an interdisciplinary approach is needed to address climate change, but she is less optimistic about humanity’s ability to immediately reverse the effects of climate change. “With the way that the current administration and other developing countries are heading, it’s just so large of a problem that we can’t fix it before it gets much much worse,” Roday said. “You need to think in the term of thousands of years to bounce back from this kind of carbon dioxide, pollution and species extinction rate. I don’t think that the mindset of our our entire planet is capable of fixing this problem in short term.” Although Roday is less optimistic about the planet’s immediate recovery potential, she still believes it is necessary to fight climate change as much as possible. “You can’t just sit back and watch the planet fall apart,” Roday said. “You want to preserve the things that you enjoy in nature for the next generations, even if it won’t be. You have to try. You can’t just give up. Right?”
#TBT Dec. 14, 1990
The Review is accepting submissions of student work to be featured in the Mosaic section of upcoming issues! Send any photography, illustrations, paintings,drawings, sculptures, collage etc. to julias@udel.edu with a title, your name and any brief description you’d like featured with the piece. CORRECTIONS The Review staff is dedicated to accuracy and fair representation of all sources. If you notice a factual inaccuracy in a story, please email a correction to eic@udreview.com.
DECEMBER 4, 2018
udreview.com
5
Delaware Memorial Bridge closed on peak traffic day RYAN COSTA Staff Reporter
T
raffic came to a complete halt last Sunday, when Delaware’s largest bridge was forced to close on one of the busiest travel days of the year. The Delaware Memorial Bridge, a major twin-suspension bridge linking Pennsville Township, N.J., to New Castle, Del., had all of its eight lanes closed due to a flammable gas leak at a nearby chemical processing plant. Management of Croda’s Atlas Point manufacturing site advised authorities to close the bridge around 5 p.m., when unsafe levels of ethylene oxide, were found to have leaked into the air. The plant is located on the Delaware side of the river, directly adjacent to the major bridge. Students making their way back to the university through New Jersey at this time found themselves at a dead stop on the roads that lead up to the bridge. Traffic was redirected to other crossings, including Route 322’s Commodore Barry Bridge into Chester, and Route 76’s Walt Whitman Bridge into
Philadelphia. “After an hour of waiting in the traffic leading up to the bridge, my GPS took me back 20 miles to Route 76,” second-year student Dan Bartfield said. “I was stuck in traffic moving in the opposite direction as my destination.” Bartfield, a history education major at the university, did not arrive at the university until over five hours after his departure from central New Jersey, more than doubling his usual travel time. The bridge was reopened at 11 p.m., once the levels of ethylene oxide were found to have returned to a safe level. The closure lost travelers hours of their holiday weekend and the Delaware River Bay Authority six hours’ worth of peak travel time toll revenue.
CREATIVE COMMONS
Make Winter Count 2019 Winter Session 5-week classes begin January 7
STAY ON COURSE TO “FINISH IN FOUR”
4-week classes begin January 14 EMBRACE NEW EXPERIENCES
Get ahead. Quickly fulfill breadth requirements. Lighten the load for your spring semester.
Explore new interests. Diversify your skillset by trying a new course, checking out another major, or adding a minor.
Catch up. Get back on track after a challenging semester or change of major.
Have Fun. Special Student Life programs will keep campus buzzing.
You can do all this and save money, too. Take 6 or more credits and get a 25% discount on the standard per-credit rate.
See details at www.udel.edu/winter
#UDWinter
6
DECEMBER 4, 2018
udreview.com
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Improved mental health resources are only half the battle
T
hroughout high school, most students are led to believe that going off to college is supposed to be a fouryear-long, fun-filled and alcoholfueled extravaganza. Those first few weeks in the dorm, away from your parents and free to do whatever you want, are painted as some of the best and brightest of your life. Reality, however, does not frequently mirror this image. Being ripped away from the place you had previously called home for 18 years only to be constantly bombarded by difficult assignments, decisions directly affecting your future and social responsibilities is a more difficult transition than most first assume. As a result, students often find themselves anxious and overwhelmed with few resources to cope with this shift or those that follow. Students who already struggle with depression or anxiety may be confronted
with even more feelings of hopelessness or despair and, as a result, struggle to adequately adjust to campus culture. During an era in which rates of student depression, anxiety and suicide have been steadily increasing, the university should provide more mental health resources for students in order to assist with this adjustment and the stresses associated with the college experience. At yesterday’s Faculty Senate meeting, the Student Government Association (SGA) introduced a resolution regarding university protocol for situations following the death of a student. The resolution pledges to require professors of courses in which the student was enrolled to have professional counselors present during the class period following the student’s death, as well as a protocol for notifying the student body of the passing of a fellow student. The resolution, which was
passed unanimously by SGA, should be taken seriously by the administration. Because our campus has unfortunately been confronted by issues regarding suicide and student death multiple times over the course of the past few years, a protocol is necessary. These steps may afford fellow students solace during a confusing and painful time, as well as alert others to the resources that are already in place for those who may be struggling with their own mental health issues. In terms of potential solutions, there should be more mental health resources available for students on campus. At universities across the country there has been a recent push for the availability of services intended to help students cope with their anxieties, depression, changes in behavior and academic or career-related concerns. At a university as wealthy as the University of Delaware,
there should not be a cap to the amount of free counseling and psychiatry sessions offered by the Center for Counseling and Human Development. The university should be able and willing to balance the available resources with the vast demand for care, especially because the aforementioned concerns are affecting such a large proportion of young adults. Solutions such as therapy dogs and self-care events are often short term and unfortunately superficial, whereas counseling may provide more benefits to someone who is struggling with anxiety, depression or suicidal thoughts. These “stress-less” events are meant to brand the university as in touch with students problems which could not be further from the truth. Evidently, there is something innate within the college system that is a causing students such extreme anxiety and pain. As a result, there should be a formal
assessment of campus climate in order to discover at least some of the root causes of this pressing problem. The proposed SGA resolution should be passed by the Faculty Senate and implemented by the administration. It is the university’s responsibility to provide more effective mental health resources and illustrate an ongoing dedication to ensuring the mental health, stability and comfort of each student. Weekly editorials are developed by The Review’s editorial board, representing the majority opinion of staff members, the Executive Editor and the Editor in Chief. This week’s editorial was developed by Editorial Editor Alex Eichenstein, who can be reached at aeichen@ udel.edu.
TAYLOR NGUYEN/THE REVIEW
Opinion: Response to “UD’s Illegal Ideological Censorship”
A
n op-ed written by three professors, and published in The Review on Nov. 26, 2018, spelled out support for leaving up the posters found around campus a few weeks ago that declared “It’s okay to be white!” These professors claim that the removal of these posters by UDPD officers violates the right to free speech of those who placed them. They argue that these posters were only allegedly a part of a white nationalist campaign, that the UDPD are becoming “thought police,” that this is comparable to Professor Richard Aumiller being fired in 1976 for supporting homosexuality and that the email students received does not line up with what the university spokeswoman relayed to the press. I respectfully disagree with all these claims. While I understand that people will always have different opinions, I believe that this oped was misguided in its efforts. Posters like the ones found on the university’s campus were also found at Montgomery Blair High School in Maryland, the
University of Vermont, Champlain College, Tufts University and others. The university’s response was not based on petty political preference, but rather the actual danger of intimidation that these signs represented. This was a deliberate, organized effort, which has been seen on campuses across the country, not just at this university. UDPD taking down these posters was not an attempt to become “thought police,” but instead was the reasonable enforcement of campus policy, and part of a continued effort to establish an environment where all students feel safe. The comparison between this event and the firing of Aumiller is similarly misguided. Aumiller was fired because of his public support of homosexuality in a time not long after the Stonewall Riots, when the Gay Rights Movement had not yet made the strides many students and faculty on this campus benefit from today. Aumiller’s firing was a deliberate act of discrimination, and is in no way comparable to the removal of these posters that contained a message that is
potentially harmful to some of the university’s students. The authors comparing this support of homosexuality to a phrase that is heavily associated with the white nationalist movement is horribly homophobic in a manner I am horrified to see from the university’s faculty. This comparison equates supporting homosexuality to supporting a movement intent on putting people of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and anyone of a differing faith into a lower social standing, if not their outright removal from society. This is an extremely harmful dialogue to begin, as it makes it seem as though these two things are similar or truly equivalent, as if the LGBTQIA+ community should have to debate its very existence as acceptable. The article also makes the point that in the email students received, it was made clear that the posters were removed from campus because of the message they displayed, while the university’s spokeswoman told the press they were removed because permission is needed to hang anything on campus.
Why must these two things be mutually exclusive? Why is it something to be looked down on that the university wanted to assure that it does not support a white nationalist movement? The university used this email as an opportunity to reach out and let its students know, especially its students of color, or students otherwise negatively affected by the white nationalist movement, that the university is looking out for them and is concerned about their feelings of safety on campus. Frankly, it’s shameful that these professors seem to put the preservation of these posters over the preservation of a feeling of safety for their students. The professors who wrote this piece center their argument around the American right to freedom of speech. This does not mean, however, that the university should blindly allow speech that seeks to harm members of its community. The right to freedom of speech means that the government cannot regulate our speech or our use of the press to make that speech known, not that Americans have the freedom to use a college
campus as a vehicle to begin hateful rhetoric. The university has the right to choose what kind of culture it cultivates for its students. Choosing to attempt to create a peaceful, safe environment for its minority students is something that should be commended. The university is right in being specific about what kind of culture it cultivates. As history shows us, the allowance of hateful and violent viewpoints can have dire consequences for marginalized members of those communities. The university is doing its job of making its students feel safe, and doing its part in attempting to maintain a positive environment for minorities in our community. It’s contemptible that not all of its professors are doing the same.
Morgan Kolukisa is a sophomore English major at the university. She can be reached at kolukisa@udel.edu.
DECEMBER 4, 2018
udreview.com
Caleb’s Corner: The deceptive, market-driven meaning of “interdisciplinary”
Biweekly liberal ramblings from the Editor in Chief of your only student newspaper.
CALEB OWENS f Editor in Chief
y , @
7
I
t is 5:15 a.m. on Monday and my column, yet unwritten, is far past its deadline. Short on ideas, I am looking at the some 90 books stacked along my wall and wondering if my having read them makes me “interdisciplinary.” The representation is diverse. Anatomy and physiology and primatology textbooks lay at the base of one stack, and, in ascending order of no intentional significance, such names as Melville, Hitchens, King Jr., Hume and Foster Wallace appear, interspersed among several other obscure and deteriorating books, one of which details the history of the Gregorian Chant. There’s even a Bible (two, actually, one with apocrypha and one without), coexisting peacefully in the same
stack as a Koran. Assuming that I have, in fact, read these books, and don’t just own them for the purpose of pretentious interior decoration (as is the trend today — David Foster Wallace, in particular, often finds himself unread on college students’ desks), I think it’s appropriate to say that my intellectual exposure is “interdisciplinary.” But this would contrue “interdisciplinary” in a far too literal sense. As any good undergraduate ought to know, intentional and useful exposure to multiple disciplines is only half of the definition. That is, something is not truly interdisciplinary unless it is formally recognized as such, unless its interdisciplinaryness can be demonstrated on a resume. So, let us pretend for a moment that I don’t suffer from crippling indecision, and that I don’t have multiple majors and minors declared. Let’s pretend that I’m simply a history major, but that I’ve still read all of the books stacked on my floor, and that I’ve still taken my share of math and science courses. This might as well be true. Even if it is, I am not interdisciplinary. Get the logic? There has been no relevant change in what I have actually learned, what I actually know. But there has been a change in what my credentials say I know, and again, as any good undergraduate ought to understand, if my resume cannot
provide explicit proof that I am familiar with a certain discipline, then I am not familiar with that discipline. And, if my credentials say that I only know “history,” then according to the market I know nothing. I cannot and do not know anything about science, writing or economics, or anything else. Due to our obsession with titles and names over facts, this must be the case. Ergo, I am not interdisciplinary. This logic, flawed it may be, is the driving force behind the most dramatic changes in higher education. Here at the university, making things “interdisciplinary” is among the most cited justifications for otherwise useless and wasteful projects, tinkering with names while offering no substantive improvements. The addition of a graduate college — an apparently “necessary” addition, as the administration has consistently argued, although the actual necessity of it continues to elude me — is supposed to make graduate education more “interdisciplinary.” The ongoing cluster hiring, an “interdisciplinary” recruitment process designed to attract more “interdisciplinary” faculty, works the same way. These projects remain in their infancy, but for a hint at what’s to come, we can look to a regional campus of the University of Wisconsin. Recently, the school decided to eliminate its history department. It did so at the expense of four history faculty members. The others were retained and relocated to “careerfocused” and “interdisciplinary” programs, which are nominally
(and the name, remember, is what’s important) related to science and technology. At a regional campus, where the vocational emphasis on an education is probably stronger than it is here, this seems like a pragmatic compromise. Students with history degrees from the school, like those from other schools, struggle to find employment. So, find a way to preserve some sliver of an education’s liberal arts core while demolishing your economically useless humanities departments. Under some sexy, “interdisciplinary” new degree program, the humanities will survive (at least for now), finding ways to make an otherwise shallow and narrow STEM education appear complete and conform to the “interdisciplinary” desires of the market. Wisconsin, in this regard, offers insight into what “interdisciplinary” means. The word, literally suggesting the intersection and collaboration of discrete, recognized, autonomous disciplines, means instead the amalgamation of disciplines into market-savvy programs and titles. It involves the dissolution of humanities departments, the relevant portions of which are selectively reintegrated into science and technology programs, always subordinate in the service of the STEM. The fact that history departments are, apparently, the first to go highlights how ridiculous this trend is. History, a discipline that can and must be interdisciplinary — nothing, especially not science or technology, escapes history — is seen as devoid of value, too
narrow in scope. If I am a history major — if I declare the single most interdisciplinary of majors — I am not interdisciplinary. (If, however, I am a biology major and a history minor, I am now interdisciplinary. Medical schools will love me, so the thinking goes.) The same may be said of pretty much every other humanity. Nevermind the actual content of what a given discipline offers. It’s all about the name, that which appears on a resume, that which can make itself profitable. The “interdisciplinary” developments at this university and others are the early steps toward marginalizing and eventually crushing the annoying humanities departments, those that are too “outdated” and aren’t “preparing students for the workforce.” Now doubting my interdisciplinary-ness, I look back to my stacks and see several “histories” written by scientists, who will, in 20 or so years, be the closest things to historians that we have. (Next time you go to Barnes and Noble, notice that all of the humanities-oriented bestsellers are written by MDs and neuroscientists, those whom we endow with authority.) I think about how bad those books were, how deficient even the best were in literary and historical value (I look in particular to “The Gene,” by Siddhartha Mukherjee) and, shifting back to the Bible and Koran, I pray in vain that humanity’s decline into technocratic semi-literacy will at least be a swift and painless one. Till next semester. Happy Holidays.
Opinion: Yes, my Dad referred to Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas
S
everal days prior to the 2018 midterm elections, I was having a mindless phone conversation with my father, who happens to have quite different political views than I. He always has, and he always will, but the difference between now and my childhood is that now my views are reinforced as a budding political science student. They are not merely mimics of what he deems “[my] mother’s poisoning of me.” Nice, right? A bit of mindless dialogue later, and that’s when it happened. The astonishing statement, even for my dad, that brought my blood to a boil. “Don’t vote for Pocahontas, Lizzy,” he said, followed by a casual chuckle that stung my ear canals so sharply I nearly hung up the phone. And then I did. We live in a culture unhinged by political poison and differing opinions, as many struggle with it within their inner circles, and even their own homes. As a politically engaged student, a
woman and a human of decent values, I have been finding it harder and harder to maintain relationships with certain people in my life than I did before Trump’s election. It was not until I started really having conversations about my beliefs that people’s true colors came to life, alongside my changing opinions of who I want to be associated with. I would identify myself with being fairly reasonable, and am well versed in hearing others’ opinions, as well as understanding their differing views, as long as they have evidence to back it up. Opinions have increasingly become more confused with beliefs, giving people a stronger sense of ignorance. It has become difficult to have discussions in this political climate, as we have become so divided. My roommate and I were having a brief discussion about the election, and she admitted to me that she voted for Trump in 2016 without having any prior knowledge about politics whatsoever. She just frankly did
not care, and I could not get past the fact that she voted for a racist, homophobic, degrading sexist. As a woman, did she not stand against any of these issues? I began to realize that some of the people I was closely surrounded with either had no idea what was going on in the world, did not care enough to make an educated decision or stood for policies I was completely and utterly against. These people were some of my closest friends, peers I was now finding hard to fully respect, and even my own father. Granted, his views have always been the same — old money and conservative values — yet some of the opinions he had on certain topics were beginning to alarm me. Derogatory comments regarding race, unsettling views surrounding migrants hoping for a better life in America and, of course, the Pocahontas comment. At a time where I am emerging into a real adult, with my own values and belief systems, identifying with a person of such opposing views is difficult and
confusing. Opinions matter, and seem stronger than ever before, but how is it that we can fully maintain relationships with people when our inner beliefs stray so far from each other? It leads me to wonder, is it even worth the effort? I do not want to spend my time with someone who views women as inferior, or shows vicious hatred toward people of color. As I have grown and matured throughout my college years, some people have become a mere blip on my radar for various reasons. Yet more recently, I have begun evaluating my relationships more closely based on my beliefs, because to me, it is important to surround myself with people who share the same. When it became apparent that certain friends deviated so far from me, I began to reconsider what that really meant. This is not to say that I am a raging liberal who rails against conservatives at all costs. Rather, I am a person who sees the truth and deep meanings behind whom one chooses to vote for. I have
Republican friends, and I want to have Republican friends; it creates opportunities for interesting and insightful conversations, and broadens my horizons for possible new outlooks. The only hesitations I now have are against people who wholeheartedly support racism, sexism, homophobia and a number of other stances that I will never be able to come to terms with. It truly makes me think, the culture we are now existing in has become so divided to the point in which friendships are reconsidered, families are encountering uncharted territory and people are finding themselves caught in the crossfire. Yet, is it really that unrealistic to part ways from someone so different? I for one will not be calling anyone, other than the Disney princess, Pocahontas in my life.
Olivia Feldman is a junior at the university. Olivia can be reached at ofeldman@udel.edu.
Start the campus conversation by participating in new weekly essay contests Looking for opportunities to write outside the classroom? Want to say something provocative? Have some really strange ideas that nobody else will publish?
This week’s prompt:
Gritty, Santa Claus or both? You pick who to take on a date.
We might have just the thing for you. This fall, The Review is introducing weekly essay contests, designed to push conversation and creativity in new directions. This isn’t a place for predictable political grumbling or sappy columns. We don’t care if you’ve been “published” in the Odyssey, and you can spare us the stale Black Sheep humor. This is a place for your writing and ideas to come alive. To prove to the campus community why you, more than your peers, deserve to be heard.
So how exactly can you do that? Each week, you can submit an essay of no more than 500 words in response to the week’s prompt. That’s pretty much the only rule. Nothing too profane, obscene or defamatory, of course, but otherwise it’s yours to make your own. Deadlines for submission will be 12:00 p.m. on Saturdays, and all college students in the mid-Atlantic area are invited to participate.
Essays will be reviewed by The Review’s editorial board and evaluated on the basis of ingenuity of thought and quality of writing. The winning essay will be published in the week’s print edition. Already bursting with ideas? All submissions can be sent to essaycontest@udreview.com.Have at it.
8
DECEMBER 4, 2018
udreview.com
Be sure to follow The Review on social media to stay up to date on breaking stories. @udreview
@udreview
@udreview
Catch Up or Get Ahead!
...with Winter Session classes at Mercer County Community College • • • •
Earn transferable credits toward your college degree. Save money. Ease your course load for Spring. Take classes anywhere with MercerOnline.
ENROLL NOW! 6-week MercerOnline classes begin December 17 2-week on-campus classes begin January 2, 2019
TO REGISTER, CONTACT ADMISSIONS TODAY! admiss@mccc.edu 609-570-3224 or 609-570-3244
www.mccc.edu/enroll
MOSAIC
DECEMBER 4, 2018
THE REVIEW
Post-release review: Grant Claytor’s “Bon” is a haunting work of nostalgia EDWARD BENNER Staff Columnist A tape click and analog reel whirr lead into a gentle fingerpicked guitar melody, exuding warmth and comfort in Grant Claytor’s “Bon.” His raw vocal delivery showcases the intense emotion in the song, reflecting on times of old and looking at the past through a nostalgic lens. The New Jersey-based artist attends the university and just released the song as a single and an accompanying music video for an upcoming album titled, “Thank You for Shopping with Me,” to be released in early 2019. Claytor is a relative newcomer to writing and recording music, only starting to play guitar at age 16. “I’ve never had any formal training whatsoever, I just read books,” Claytor says. “I would just play by ear a lot of the time and read tabs online until eventually I could just play and learn that way.” Claytor is interested and involved in all parts of his music, doing “everything from the mixing to the mastering to the guitar, vocals, slide guitar, synthesizers and the metal drum sound.” He uses this to his advantage and feels immense satisfaction from the ability to make things sound exactly as he envisions them. His decision to work
independently allows him free rein as an artist. Juggling student life and being an independent musician — which requires countless hours of work and energy— comes with its own set of difficulties though. “It gets super overwhelming,” Claytor says. “I wish I could delegate a lot of stuff to other people, but it definitely gives me a lot of creative freedom.” Listening to “Bon” most definitely reveals the labor of love put into its creation. Its beauty, focus and overall feel are incredibly impressive, especially considering it was self-released by a self-taught musician. Lyrically, the song expresses the pain and yearning resulting from memories. “I miss that salty shore / I miss what I was aiming for / I miss that color red / The things I should’ve said” are repeated in the chorus, speaking to the intense human emotions of longing and regret. “The song is about two people going to the same vacation spot each year and having a ‘summer fling’ one year but then the next year they come back and the love interest doesn’t care about them anymore,” Claytor said. “They dress different and act differently and it ruins the place for them because it feels like they are growing up too fast.” “Bon” is a summation of Claytor’s musical influences, which he cited as “60s and 70s chamber pop and folk.” These
COURTSEY OF GRANT CLAYTOR Grant Claytor sings of summer warmth, lost love and the power of memory in “Bon.” older elements are at the heart of the song, complementing its subject matter, and making it feel reminiscent of the past
while brining a creative new direction to the sound. Claytor’s vision included using the proper equipment to
capture the themes of “Bon.” He used a 1965 Kimberly hollowbody electric guitar as the main instrument along with a Jupiter 8 style synthesizer for the song’s recording. The accompanying music video was shot totally analog with a Super 8 camera on location in Greenport, NY. “I got to record it all and it was all unedited Super 8 footage,” Claytor says. “It felt really accomplishing getting that back … It was a six-month process basically from when I got the camera and then finished the video and had the digital copy.” Youthful restlessness and the beauty of simple moments are all captured in the gorgeous video. The rich hue of color and graininess from the film give it an aesthetic totally in line with the song’s sound and message. As an up-and-coming musician, Grant Claytor is uncertain of his future or what the next step in his career will be, but he’s shown a great deal of promise and talent from his work thus far. Finishing and releasing the album is his main priority, but he has even larger goals. “I would love to travel the world and play music — that’s the ideal thing,” Claytor says. “I’d love to be able to just make my passion into something that I can sit at home and just do all the time.”
SATIRE: Five places on and off campus not to hit on women MADELINE MCGHEE Staff Columnist
WWW.UDREVIEW.COM
A few weeks ago, around 10:30 pm, my friends and I were returning from dinner on Main Street. I went to Walgreens while my friends stopped for frozen yogurt. As I was paying, some guy twice my size (I’m only 5 feet 2 inches) was standing between the registers and the exit. He told me I was beautiful and proceeded to ask for my name. He then asked me, “What are you doing tonight?” I was the only customer in the store and the cashier was also visibly uncomfortable. I felt uneasy and I quickly left after paying. As I rushed out, from behind me I could hear, “You’re just gonna reject me like that?” As I fled to meet my friends across the street, I feared he would follow. This altercation has inspired me to share these tips on how to avoid making women uncomfortable in public spaces. Disclaimer: These locations are not ranked in any particular order. None
of these are more or less acceptable situations to bother women. 1. Walgreens (or any store for that matter) Finding spaces to meet a potential love interest is difficult on a college campus with numerous parties, clubs and designated social gatherings. Though your struggle is noble, when women are running errands, we don’t often welcome romantic advances when picking up prescriptions, buying groceries or waiting in line. While you may have sculked around Walgreens hoping to find love or a hookup, I just wanted to buy Mike and Ike’s without feeling mildly threatened. 2. The Little Bob You may be shocked to hear that the last thing most women want lingering in their minds is the thought that you were ogling them as they worked out. I’m sure no one told you that women at the gym are not there hoping to meet an eligible bachelor who will compliment them on the bodies. We can surely appreciate that you were overcome by the urge to
compliment us while we’re on the elliptical and could not resist, but please refrain in the future. 3. From a distance It would be heartbreaking for you to drive, walk or bike past your soulmate without notifying her of your presence, but consider that shouting may be a tad off-putting. Although the timeless “hey shorty” (this has actually been shouted at me), “hey girl,” creepy lipsmacking and observations about her body might seem respectful, they aren’t typically received as such. No one faults you for your ignorance. Who hasn’t heard the classic tale of the boy catcalling the girl from a vehicle with his leering friends, and they lived happily ever after? 4. At work Isn’t the sole purpose of working at one of the stores or restaurants on campus — Honeygrow, Barnes and Noble and Saxby’s — to find a potential mate. I’m sure it’s immensely difficult to resist texting or snapchatting, “Wyd tonight,” since you already have her number from that
convenient employee group chat. What’s the worst that can happen? Other than her having to continue working with you while incredibly uncomfortable because of unwanted advancements in the workplace. Unfortunately, we live in a cold, cruel world where professionalism triumphs over your need to find a hookup. 5. Secluded areas at night Nothing says romance like moonlight and privacy. However, contrary to what many believe, women don’t enjoy being approached alone (or not alone) at night. While you’re probably thinking, “But I would never follow her, threaten her, or attack her,” one of our many shortcomings as women is an inability to read minds. Given this tragic deficiency (surely due to that pesky extra X chromosome), we would rather not risk our safety walking home (with no witness present) late at night.
COOL KIDZ ON THE BLOCK
BOWLS, BURRITOS, BLISS
PAGE 10
PAGE 11
Mosaic reviews Kidz Bop 38.
Our Executive Editor reviews El Diablo.
HEARTFELT PORTRAIT Our Copy Desk Chief reviews “Boy Erased.“
PAGE 12
10
DECEMBER 4, 2018 udreview.com
SOS — Save Our Studying: Mosaic’s guide to finals week resources
JENNIFER WEST Senior Reporter
Finals are coming. But that doesn’t mean that preparation has to be a catastrophic free-for-all. Below is Mosaic’s guide to on-campus services and resources to support university students as they navigate the final stretch of the semester. The Center for Counseling and Student Development During the most stressful part of the semester, it is easy to neglect health, both mental and physical, and prioritize maintaining a perfect GPA. In addition to referral services, the university offers short-term, professional counseling services. To make an appointment, check out the counseling options, then call (302) 831-2141. The University Writing Center Nestled in the basement of Memorial Hall in Room 016 sits one of two of the university’s writing centers. The writing centers, staffed by both undergraduate and graduate student tutors, host free in-person and e-tutoring options to assist with both academic and non-academic writing. The tutors offer assistance at all stages of the writing process, from drafting to final revisions to citation styles. Appointments can be made through the writing center’s website. Note: The writing center in the
EMILY MOORE/THE REVIEW Morris Library and your workload have one thing in common: it’s flooded. This finals week, check out the basement of Memorial Hall in Room 016 for an appointment with either Memorial Hall’s writing center or Morris Library’s writing center. basement of Morris Library in Room 017 is currently closed due to flooding. All scheduled appointments in Morris Library’s writing center will be hosted in Memorial Hall’s writing center. The Oral Communications Center If you have a final presentation and need advice on speech delivery,
the oral communications consultants, a team of trained undergraduate students, can assist in aspects ranging from visuals to persuasion. The Oral Communications Center is located in the same location as Memorial Hall’s writing center — Room 016 in Memorial Hall — and you can schedule appointments through the writing center’s
with experienced students specific to both subjects and classes. The drop-in tutoring, hosted in various locations on campus, features group study sessions by course. Student Health Services If you actually want to attend your finals, a decision possibly more important than studying would be taking a trip to Student Health Services on the South Green to get a flu shot. There is nothing that makes studying harder than nausea and a fever. Morris Library Resources Not only does Morris Library boast by-reservation group study spaces, but the library is open 24/7 during finals week. Additionally, if your technology fails in the days leading up to finals, the Student Multimedia Design Center in the basement offers rentals of laptops, cameras, cables and other technology. During this stressful time, always remember that you are not your grade, and physical and mental health is more important than academic perfection.
website. Office of Academic Enrichment The Office of Academic Enrichment offers both free drop-in tutoring and individual tutoring through their tutor directory. Although the individual tutoring requires payment by the hour, the tutor directory can connect you
Album review: Kidz Bop 38? More like “Modern Masterpiece” diehard Kidz Bop groupie. Unlike much modern music, this album can elicit a wide range of emotions within one listen: self-hate, boredom, joy, sadness, nostalgia, laughter and more. If there is any album of 2018 that is worthy of multiple Grammys, it is surely this one.
BIANCA THIRUCHITTAMPALAM Column Editor
After enduring 45 minutes of prepubescent kids singing the latest mainstream hits, I can safely say that Kidz Bop 38 reflects the voice of a generation. Creatively titled Kidz Bop 38 — an obscure reference to this being their 38th record, generally only understood by the real Kidz Bop groupies — this revolutionary work was released on Jul. 13 of this year. Following the pattern of prior Kidz Bop albums, Kidz Bop 38 features a compilation of songs of the past year performed by a group of — wait for it — kids. Many of the songs featured on the compilation have their lyrics altered, in order to make the album’s content more “kid friendly.” Initially, I was hesitant to even listen to Kidz Bop, as the high-pitched screams of 12-year-olds instantly conjured up memories of my own childhood: braces, begging my mom to let me buy clothes from Justice that were bright enough to cause permanent eye damage and having so many Silly Bandz on my arms that I nearly lost my circulation. However, I put these feelings aside, took a risk and listened to the album in its entirety. Immediately, I was entranced by the eerie shouts and high-pitched wails that the album featured. The album begins with an artfully composed cover of the 2018 hit — played on the radio to the point of being almost intolerable — “The Middle” by Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey. The singers’ voices soar higher than Snoop Dogg as they emphatically shout the lyrics of a song WWW.UDREVIEW.COM
CREATIVE COMMONS With 38 years of musical creativity under its belt, kidzbop.com boasts itself as being “The No.1 Music Brand for Kids.”
with an excited energy that blows the original out of the water. The second track, a cover of “Finesse” by Bruno Mars and Cardi B, finds the group singing, “Blame it on my confidence or blame it on the way we dance,” in a creative, artful lyrical maneuver to keep the album safe for the innocent ears of children. Although it sounds as though it came straight out of an elementary school hell, the song will remain stuck in listeners’ heads for days. By the halfway point of Kidz Bop 38 — marked by Ariana Grande’s musical masterpiece, “No Tears Left to Cry” — listeners will find that they, too, are out of tears to cry. Whether these tears are from joy or selfhate is up to the listener’s
discretion. One of the last tracks of the album, a cover of Drake’s inescapable song, “God’s Plan,” is one that will transcend the ages. “Don’t call up at 6 a.m. to talk here with me,” the Kidz Bop crew sings, replacing “cuddle” with “talk,” adding depth to the track. With proud, piercing vocals, the singers assert their confidence of their place in the music industry: “Without all the singing, there’d be no me / Imagine if I never met the KB [Kidz Bop].” Overall, this record is one of the musical highlights of this year. Listeners may have difficulty getting into the style and lyrical content, however, after the midpoint of the album, anyone is guaranteed to become a
DECEMBER 4, 2018 udreview.com
Home for the holidays: Mosaic’s guide to family time
Mosaic gets festive: Holiday movies & tunes edition
LIV ROGAL
NICOLE KHANUTIN Staff Reporter
It’s finally December which means that we can all take out our ugly Christmas sweaters, bake those amazing Pillsbury cookies, listen to “All I Want For Christmas Is You” a billion times and watch reruns of “Elf” every weekend. The celebration and festivities of all the different holidays during this season is what helps finals week and awful, windy weather go by faster. And what better way to jump into that holiday cheer than snuggling up at home watching classic films and listening to holiday tunes? Below is Mosaic’s curated list of our favorite films and tunes to get everyone into the holiday spirit.
Senior Reporter After the stress of finals week and end-of-semester to-dos, university students flee from campus to a much-deserved relief from academics. For many university students, even though the everyday stress of college life ends, a different kind of struggle begins: being home during break. CREATIVE COMMONS The stress and anxiety For many university students, a family that comes with spending extenroom decked with boughs of holly is sive amounts of time with family, just as stressful as being unable to although it functions differfind a seat at Morris Library during ently, can be just as bad as that finals week. spawned by schoolwork. That said, below is Mosaic’s guide to surviving the around the holidays, so build in holiday breaks. time to do what you need to feel Be a good friend to like yourself again. Debriefing yourself. Sometimes it can be with a friend or family member easier to see and provide for who feels similarly to you can be another person’s needs than it especially beneficial. is to recognize your own. When Have productive converdealing with anxiety that family sations. So before you’ve even and home situations may cause, made it to the cheese board, your be aware of the causes and what uncle has already started his anyou can do in order to care for nual tirade about hating political yourself. Whether it’s taking a correctness, minorities, women break by hiding out in your child- and all those goddamn liberals. hood bedroom or calling a friend, As much as you’d like, chances do for yourself what you might are you won’t be changing his do to support another person. mind about immigration or uni Make a plan. Maybe some versal healthcare anytime soon. things with family are particu Before getting into an larly triggering for you — Aunt argument that will leave you Carol asking about your postfeeling defeated and even more grad plans, Grandma asking upset, know where you might be about relationship status or Dad able have productive conversaasking about your grades. Before tions. Take a deep breath, chalentering these situations, think lenge them as calmly as you can, about how you might react when question why they have those they happen to maintain control feelings and never be afraid to of the impact. Maybe that means excuse yourself from the table setting boundaries with family when needed. ahead of time or having go-to Become an observer. stress relief exercises when you Disengaging in the name of selfknow something is going to be preservation is okay. Maybe you potentially triggering. decide to mentally check out Allot time to recover. If from the festivities and play the you know something is going to role of observer for the evening. be emotionally draining, make Through this strategy, maybe you sure you are giving yourself can at least get some good comenough time to process what’s edy material out of your dysfunchappening around you. It is okay tional family. to feel deflated and exhausted
Films 1. “‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ never fails to center me during the hectic holiday season of bustling consumerism and remind me of what is truly important. Each year my family gathers together to watch it and it often ends in joyously mimicking Pig-Pen’s glorious dance moves.” - Edward Benner 2. “My favorite holiday memory is staying up late with my family and watching ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’ while opening up one present at the strike of midnight. Whenever I watch the movie it reminds me of my childhood, when everything was so easy.” - Cam A. Johnson 3. “Not only do I credit ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’ for inventing the concept of the ‘diss track’ (‘You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch’),
CREATIVE COMMONS It’s finally December which means we can drink all the hot chocolate we want without being shamed by those who say it’s only a winter treat.
but it also inspired a feverdreamish editorial cartoon last December.” - Olivia Mann Tunes 1. “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”: “It embodies all the parts of the Christmas season that makes this time of year so beautiful and comfy.” Christine McIntosh 2. “All I Want For Christmas is You” by My Chemical Romance: “Although it’s not as good as the Mariah Carey classic, it really appealed to my angsty, sixteen-yearold heart. One of my best friends and I used to BLAST this in her car, and it brings back a lot of nostalgia and memories of our friendship.” - Bianca Thiruchittampalam
absolutely adore the entire Christmas and Chill album by Ariana, but this is definitely our favorite song. Every December since it came out, we play the entire album non-stop, especially this song!” - Bianca Thiruchittampalam 4. “Santa Tell Me” by Ariana Grande: “I listened to this song for 8 consecutive hours a couple of Christmases back. I just couldn’t stop.” Caleb Owens
3. “December” by Ariana Grande: “My sister and I
Food review: I ate at El Diablo almost weekly for years so you didn’t have to, but you might want to BRANDON HOLVECK Executive Editor
11
This isn’t the story of a blown away newcomer. I eat at El Diablo, or El Diablo Burritos as it’s officially known, at least once a week. When I walk in the greeting I receive from the employees has recently changed from “How are you?” to “How have you been?” They don’t know me, but they know me. I’m there that much. El Diablo has been a part of my life for nearly five years. I hardly remember a time without it. For those who haven’t had the pleasure of visiting, El Diablo is a quick-service restaurant that offers burritos, burrito bowls, tacos, salads and quesadillas. Partners Roger Andrews, Dean Vilone and Shannon Stevens cofounded it in 2010. Since then, the brand has expanded to four restaurants, including a location on Newark’s Main Street — the third installment. That description probably sounded a lot like Chipotle, because it is. Ask any student about El Diablo and they will almost inevitably bring up how it compares to Chipotle. It feels only right to pit the local devil against its national counterpart. In the bleak moments I remember before El Diablo came to Newark, I was as big a Chipotle fan as they come. Before Chipotle even came to Newark, I was downing hard shell tacos at a Chipotle location in Sarasota, Fla., on family vacations. The revolutionary Washington D.C. brand had made it there before
flavor?” I’d ask myself. The chicken plays in the background as the melding of cheese, pico de gallo, onions and chipotle ranch takes center stage. If chicken isn’t your tempo, you’ll find the typical stylings of steak and pork plus extras like bacon and chorizo. But the accents, the excitement, come in the form of the toppings. The corn salsa. The pineapple salsa. The aforementioned onions. Each brings it own flair. Each perfect for a different palette. In many ways, the discourse surrounding the great Main Street burrito debate (or should it be deemed the burrito bowl debate? If you’re not BRANDON HOLVECK/THE REVIEW bowling it in 2018, what are you doing?) has stooped Brandon’s bowl of white rice, chicken, cheddar cheese, pepperjack cheese, lettuce, to political-esque levels. kale, mild pico, spicy pico, corn salsa, onions, cilantro and chipotle ranch. When I explain to others anyone even had heard of it across the street no less, and why El Diablo is my go-to, here. its massive white ceramic my point is rarely heard out. (We The chicken reeled me in, bowls loaded with elements get it Qdoba fans, they have free but the cheese kept me wanting Chipotle never dreamed of — I guacamole). Burrito lovers are more. was immediately back in love. fierce in their loyalties. Soon Chipotle took over the The chipotle ranch dressing, I will say Chipotle should laundromat next to Margherita’s the pickled onions (R.I.P., the always be appreciated for its Pizza and vacation could be any cherry-churred onions are good role as the grandfather of El day I wanted it to. but not the same), multiple Diablo. Without Chipotle, there But after a while it felt staid. cheeses — they’d thought of is no El Diablo. The pepper logo Its chicken was still flavorful, everything! I’d scorn when established and perfected the every now and then the white I saw people still carrying assembly line service technique, rice had the perfect twinge of Chipotle’s paper crests topped but with fresh ingredients. Fast lime and the cheese was still a with an aluminum lid. Those food with the quality of sithighlight, but the infatuation “bowls” paled in comparison to down. phase was over. It was no longer El Diablo’s behemoths. For an But, like with most things my family’s little thing, it was extra two bucks, I could get all we encounter as consumers, everyone’s thing. of this and never leave hungry. it evolves. El Diablo is the Enter El Diablo, directly “Do the others just not like evolution of Chipotle. That’s my
case. It delivers individualized tastes that Chipotle and its 2,400 shops cannot. But as much as my El Diablo fandom drains my wallet, the picture of what’s inside those transparent garage doors isn’t complete without acknowledging what Chipotle, the elder statesmen in the burrito quickservice game, does better. The pricing is a start. A chicken bowl, burrito, tacos or salad costs $6.85 at Newark’s Chipotle. El Diablo’s figure for its deluxe offering has crept to $9, a $.50 increase from when the Newark shop first opened in 2015. If you want a gooey quesadilla, toss in an extra quarter, the equivalent to 12 minutes of parking in Newark. There’s the chips and salsa, both less expensive and more flavorful. And I do sometimes long for the juicier pico de gallo. A Diabs loyalty program would be nice for us diehards. (One of my favorite experiences this year was receiving my tenth Poke Bros. bowl free.) But the good folks at El Diablo know they don’t need to. I’ll always come back.
WWW.UDREVIEW.COM
12
DECEMBER 4, 2018 udreview.com
Movie Review: “Boy Erased” draws and quarters the heart
RYAN RICHARDSON Copy Chief Desk It is not often that a film tugs at the heartstrings from quite as many directions as “Boy Erased” does. The film, which starts in medias res and unfolds in sporadic segments, draws from Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir of the same name, depicting an Arkansasbased saga that is part comingof-age classic, part sexual-politics critique and part horror story. Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges) is the only child of tempered, upstanding-type parents — Marshall (Russell Crowe), a Baptist minister who owns a Ford dealership, and Nancy (Nicole Kidman), a soft-spoken Southern belle with a coiffed, MarilynMonroe-inspired hairdo. Their shared lives, for a while, are characterized by predictability — family dinners, Jared’s basketball games and, of course, Sunday mass, led by Marshall. Yet, when, amid wholly problematic and vexatious circumstances, it is revealed that Jared “has thoughts about boys,” Marshall — under the guidance of God, another pastor and a man whose son has harbored similar thoughts — poses an ultimatum: Jared must either enroll in gay conversion therapy or compromise his position in the Eamons household. To save himself, Jared enters Love in Action. The program imposes forceful, psychological measures upon Jared and other same-sex-attracted men and women in attempt to change their “condition.” Jared meets Love in Action’s head honcho, Victor Sykes (Joel Edgerton, who
also wrote, directed and coproduced “Boy Erased”), whose qualifications are as scant as his tolerance: barring some moments of contrived patience, Sykes is ruthless in his mission to quash the queer out of his “patients.” While the preconceived notions that guide Sykes and the other inflictors may read as satirical, or even comical — college-assigned Nabokov novels or leg-crossing enkindling same-sex attraction, for example — the repercussions on the receiving end are harsh, and are not lost on the viewer. Bring tissues. Jared’s faith in Love in Action as a whole waivers throughout the film, and is often informed by the impressions and strategies of his counterparts. One boy (Xavier Dolan), whom Jared mistakes for a soldier, has been “contact-free” for some time, prompting salutes instead of handshakes. (Though, from the outset, all contact is either prohibited or strictly scrutinized.) Another boy (Troye Sivan) advises Jared to acquiesce to the program as much as possible — otherwise, he warns, one could lose everything. Jared joins the ranks of Love in Action hoping to reconcile his desire for men with his desire to be accepted by his family. Yet, through the program, he instead must grapple with who he truly is, and how much he actually wants to change that. His parents, ultimately, must confront a similar conundrum: how can they, at once, exert unconditional love for their son, in his entirety, and their unconditional faith in God? “Boy Erased” delves into this conflict-driven narrative,
Regardless, “Boy Erased” is commendable. It showcases high-caliber acting by Hedges, Kidman and Crowe, and its nonchronological sequencing scheme fills in gaps as needed, fostering an all the more riveting viewing experience.
CREATIVE COMMONS 21-year-old Hedges earned strong reviews for his lead role in “Boy Erased.” exploring both the exasperation of internalized homophobia among queer people and the turmoil at the intersection of Christianity and same-sex attraction. The film executes this superbly: it evokes emotion despite a crisp logical appeal. The critique, in this sense, of Love in Action, and conversion therapy as a whole — which can still legally be practiced on
minors in 36 states — is apparent. (For reference, Delaware, in July, 2018, passed a law banning practitioners from engaging in conversion therapy with minors or referring minors to different practitioners for conversion therapy.) Yet, “Boy Erased” stops there; it falls short in its critique of the faith- and family-based values that ultimately keep the lights on in institutions like Love in Action.
Is Victoria’s Secret screwing with your head? NUSHI MAZUMDAR Staff Columnist
Models, who are considered the most attractive creatures to walk the face of the Earth, walk the runway in revealing lingerie — what could go wrong? Um, a lot more than expected. These images of perfect specimen become ingrained in the minds of thin and worrisome body types. Many women and girls are raised to believe these stickthin models are an example to follow. The average size for a woman is size 14, yet the majority of plus-size models wear a size 12. Even the curvier models are slimmer than the average woman, demonstrating the fashion industry’s attempts to promote slimmer figures. Although plus-size models, such as Ashley Graham, have promoted the gradual acceptance of curvier body types, there are still very few plus-size models. One study found that just 1.4 percent of the models in a group of 460 Spring 2016 campaigns were plus-size. But that is still greater than the number of plus-size models that have ever walked in a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show: zero. Many brands have embraced the curvy trend, showcasing healthy models, but Victoria’s Secret seems behind on this movement, continuing to display a worrisome image for women and girls to follow. For instance, Victoria’s Secret models are required to have a 24-inch waist, 18 percent WWW.UDREVIEW.COM
CREATIVE COMMONS Victoria’s Secret is known for its lacy lingerie.
body fat and be at least 5 feet 9 inches tall. Victoria’s Secret, in other words, is encouraging women and girls to adopt an alarming lifestyle that fits the strict standards of a Victoria’s Secret Angel. The reason behind these supposedly perfect and beautiful bodies is extreme dieting and exercise. For instance, Adriana Lima, a Victoria’s Secret Angel, does not even consume solid foods and went on a strict liquid diet, forgoing water a few days before the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show to shed extra weight. (Lima was under the supervision of a nutritionist.)
In addition to this extreme diet, Lima would exercise for four to six hours a day, ensuring that the scant food she did consume would not be found anywhere on her body. Other Victoria’s Secret models have faced similar experiences as they’ve struggled with pressure from the company to consume inadequate amounts of food and train. Some models, such as Erin Heatherton and Bridget Malcolm, have openly stated that the image Victoria’s Secret forced them to maintain through a dangerous lifestyle was unsustainable. Both models have expressed concern over
the portrayal of beauty that Victoria’s Secret — with their stick-thin models — forced upon the public. I have experienced, firsthand, how much the Victoria’s Secret models can influence perceptions of beauty. I started watching the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Shows out of curiosity. I don’t remember what I expected from the models the first time I watched one, but I at least assumed that some of them would look like me. Yet, each of the models was significantly thinner and taller than me. I was at a healthy weight at the time and generally had
a healthy relationship with food. But seeing Victoria’s Secret models, who, allegedly, represent the epitome of beauty, made me feel completely inadequate. I simply did not fit the image that Victoria’s Secret projected, so I chose to be a stubborn little s--t, and I adopted an eating disorder to further my weight loss attempts. When I finally looked as skinny as a Victoria’s Secret model, my health was dismal, and I never felt content with my appearance, constantly wishing to lose more weight. I had always been taught by brands like Victoria’s Secret to believe skinnier is more beautiful. I later learned that true beauty is not gained by punishing oneself with an extreme and unhealthy lifestyle, but rather through loving oneself and treating one’s body with respect. Although Victoria’s Secret encourages a thin and supposedly beautiful body image that may be tempting to follow, beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Hopefully, with times changing and the growing acceptance of all body types, we can soon expect more diverse models walking the runway. For now, stay healthy and embrace your natural beauty — curves, flaws and all!
DECEMBER 4, 2018 udreview.com
13
Mosaic’s guide to first-year students for surviving the university’s lengthy Winter Session CAM A. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
Fall semester is finally coming to an end and you’re anxious to return home to your family. Trust me, I’ve been there. Personally, as a Delaware native who’s only about 45 minutes away from campus, I didn’t have a huge adjustment to make when entering college. I am relatively close to campus, but I was still able to enjoy the college experience. For my out-of-state peers, I realize that whether you’re Florida-, Connecticut- or Californiabound, being back at home can be an adjustment — major or minor. College life can be liberating and college norms can force an independence that is both frightening and exhilarating. Leaving campus and returning to an environment affectionately known as “home” might give a few people pause. The sights, smells and sounds of home, albeit familiar, may be viewed through a different, more mature lens. Two months is a huge amount of time to be away from campus and your college friends. You’ve been away for five months and now you’re back in your old stomping grounds, anxious to catch up with your high school friends. Whether you’re an out-ofstate, in-state or international student, being away from home can be stressful and coming back can be exciting — or terrifying.
Below is Mosaic’s guide to surviving winter break as a first-year student — whether that be a first-year student who is going back home for winter break or an international student who is unable to return and will spend winter break here on campus. Homebound Spend time with your loved ones: Enjoy the time you have with your friends and family — you haven’t seen them since move-in day so soak up the love. Don’t be surprised if you miss school: I know it’s shocking but sometimes having a routine is nice. If you find yourself falling into this category, maybe try researching material in anticipation of your spring semester classes. Some friendships may end: The friends you had eight months ago when you graduated from high school may not be your friends today and that’s okay. Friendships come and go. It just means you are starting to mature and if this is happening to you, venture out and try to make some new friends — or don’t; that’s okay too. Don’t expect normality: Going back home may seem strange and foreign, so don’t expect everything to be the same as you left it. Relationships between family and friends change and it’s a part of maturing and establishing your own norms. Reach out in the community: That homeless shelter located a few miles from home or that food bank in an adjoining city would greatly appreciate old
TAYLOR NGUYEN/THE REVIEW Here’s Mosaic’s guide to winning the battle against Winter Session.
clothing — like that coat you won’t wear because it’s “so twomonths-ago” — or help bagging food donations. Community service during winter break can be rewarding. Practice self-awareness and self-care: Try that new cleanse or workout, maybe explore a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. You have extra time to spend, so why not spend it on yourself? After all, you’re a worthwhile investment. If you improve some aspect of yourself in the process, it is a colossal win overall. International Bring your traditions here: If you are unable to visit your parents around the holidays,
CREATIVE CONTENT: NICOLE MORFITT “I’m done,” said Charlotte, hurling her suitcase down the stairs, bras and socks pouring out. “You’re not leaving,” said Mary. “What? Now you want to talk about it!?” “No. You’re not leaving because it’s pouring outside and your windshield wipers are broken,” she said. “Mom,” pleaded Charlotte. “How could you not tell me?” “I did,” said Mary. “No, you told me he had a heart attack. That he was in the hospital.” “He was.” “I never got to tell him goodbye,” said Charlotte. Mary gestured to the urn. “You can tell him now,” she said. “What is wrong with you?” she asked, pacing down the stairs. “No funeral? No closure? Just cremate him and move on without telling me?” “It was my decision,” she said. “I’m the wife.” “I’m the daughter,” said Charlotte. “You haven’t spoken to him in years. You haven’t even visited.” “After all the shit he put us through?” “I don’t know,” said Mary. They slumped into the kitchen chairs, curled around hot cups of tea. “He tied me to a tree,” said Charlotte. “Don’t,” said Mary. “He tied me to a tree and said we would play a game. He beat me with a broom, laughing. And
Brewing you told me it was my own damn fault for being stupid enough to let someone tie me up.” “I know,” she said. “You would make me sit in the parking lot of the bar,” continued Charlotte, “while you walked in the front to find him, just in case he saw you coming and ran out the back with another woman.” Charlotte looked into her cup, tea rippling in the thunder. “You always chose him over me,” she said. “I’m sorry,” said Mary. “He should be the one apologizing,” said Charlotte, looking to the urn. “Asshole got off easy.” “Charlotte.” “Sorry.” “He broke my hand,” said Mary. “We were arguing in the tool shed over whether to build your crib. He said we didn’t have the money to buy one; I said homemade wasn’t safe. He slammed the door when I was still in it. More than once.” Charlotte got up, topped off the tea. “How long was he in the hospital?” she asked. “Not long. I called you minutes after he had the heart attack. He passed quickly. I knew it would be days before you could fly in.” “I want his hat, the blue one,” she said. “A keepsake.” Mary shifted in her chair. “I threw it away,” she said. “What?” “I threw away everything, all of his stuff.” “Mom … ” Charlotte clinked her spoon on her cup, a little too hard. “Why wouldn’t you leave him?” she asked, looking again at the
vase on the mantle. Her father. “Our first car together was a Ford Pinto,” said Mary. “The hood stuck out so far, one of us always had to direct the other as we pulled into the garage. He jumped out every time, holding his arms out like he could control the car with his mind. He’d have his giant, goofy smile on and yell, ‘I am Superman! Come to me!’” “Remember when I graduated?” asked Charlotte. “It was community college, and I barely passed my classes. But he was so proud that he told everyone I was valedictorian.” “He used to draw cartoons of the two of us,” said Mary. “He’d leave them all over for me to find. On the bathroom sink, in the car. Your dad knew how to make me laugh.” They smiled into their cups. “So how are we supposed to remember him?” asked Charlotte. They looked at his urn — the golden statue on the fireplace mantel, the metallic baggage on the shelf — and raised their teacups. Brewing. Nicole Morfitt is a senior English major at the university. Her work has been published in “Caesura Literary Magazine” and “The Main Street Journal.”
have your own celebration with your college friends. Put your own flare on the party and add things that remind you of home. Go explore: This is your time to explore all that Delaware has to offer outside the university. Go to the state parks, explore the shopping venues, go hiking or go to a museum. It’s your time to have fun and enjoy yourself. Accept that invitation: Take that classmate up on the invitation to visit their family over winter break. You may enjoy the new surroundings, and you can explore the area when visiting. Make more connections here and abroad: Send messages
to loved ones that you’ve lost contact with. Catch them up on your adventures at college while catching up on theirs. Spend the time: Get together with peers to watch Netflix, try out that new restaurant in town or pamper yourself at the spa or salon with a self-care retreat. One semester down, one to go! Your first year is almost over. It’s a huge accomplishment. Be proud of yourselves and enjoy winter session! Mosaic looks forward to seeing you in 2019!
“Chicken Scratch.” Go to udreview. com/join to apply.
TAYLOR NGUYEN/THE REVIEW
WWW.UDREVIEW.COM
S P O RT S
DECEMBER 4, 2018
WWW.UDREVIEW.COM
THE REVIEW
DELAWARE FALLS TO JAMES MADISON IN FIRST ROUND OF THE FCS PLAYOFFS HANNAH TRADER Managing Sports Editor As Delaware finished up their 2018 football season, there were many things to reflect on such as an appearance in the FCS playoffs for the first time in seven seasons, the loss of a large class of seniors and the strengths and weaknesses on both offense and defense. However, at his end-ofseason press conference, Head Coach Danny Rocco also brought up many aspects to look forward to going into the 2019 football season. “To our student athletes, in particularly our seniors, I just have a great appreciation for what their experience was like here over a four or five-year period,” Rocco said. “And I’m very happy and proud that they were able to break through and make it into the postseason and to kind of be the first team to do that since 2010. There’s a lot of moments of highs and lows and we certainly had a lot of highs this year, that’s something that our student athletes deserve to celebrate. I believe our foundation is set.” Below are five things to take away from Delaware’s 2018 football season and into their next one. Quarterback Situation Heading into next season, Rocco feels like for the first time at Delaware, he has a clear sense of what his quarterback situation looks like. “I certainly feel really good about what Pat was able to do this year,” Rocco said. “Sometimes as things come to
BRANDON HOLVECK Executive Editor
Days after his team’s season ended on a three-game losing streak and even less time after he let go of his offensive coordinator, Head Coach Danny Rocco delivered his team’s post-mortem in a mostly somber tone, ruminating over the injuries that spoiled his team’s midseason surge and stressing the need for his coaching staff to adjust its system to fit its personnel. But when asked midstream about the dynamic of coaching what will be a young 2019 Blue Hens squad, Rocco seemed genuinely excited and unloaded a patented methodical and inspirational speech. “It’s refreshing. I really do embellish that part of the challenge,” Rocco said. “When you talk about really building your culture and your foundation, it’s obviously something that takes time. There is a certain eagerness with youth that is, I think, contagious and we have a lot of that.” With more than a dozen starters leaving the team, including eight on defense and the offense’s three leading receivers, shaping the 2019 roster into a playoff contender will be Rocco and his staff’s toughest test yet. He already set the goal of becoming Delaware’s first back-toback playoff team since the 2003 and 2004 seasons. “There’s a lot of guys that know they have a chance to be the guy,” Rocco continued. “When you kind of turn the clock back a year a lot of guys probably didn’t feel they had a
WWW.UDREVIEW.COM
closure, it’s a little easier to have perspective for all of us so we’re always dealing with the heat of the moment and the importance and the significance of each week.” Kehoe, who will be a redshirt senior, started off the season strong, helping the Blue Hens to a five-game winning streak midway through the season. He had his career day against Towson when he completed 18 of 32 passes for 305 yards and four touchdowns. Kehoe was battling a partially torn ACL injury late in the season and left Delaware’s second to last game with concussion symptoms. He was sacked five times in the final game of the season against James Madison and completed only 13 of 32 passes for 116 yards with two interceptions. Rocco credits a great deal of that play to the injuries Kehoe was facing. “Pat will be at his best and I think we all have an image of what that looks like,” Rocco said. “So Pat at his best is pretty good and certainly capable of leading this team.” When Kehoe was taken out of the Villanova game, Nolan Henderson stepped in capturing many plays that Rocco called “attention getting.” He went on to say that’s a “really good starting point” for the soon-tobe-redshirt sophomore. Another quarterback option, freshman Anthony Paoletti showed what he is capable of while practicing with the starting lineup when it seemed he may have to jump in as quarterback against JMU. “You’re hearing me talk
positively and optimistically about a position that’s really been a position of uncertainty for a number of years in the past,” Rocco said. Graduating a large and impactful class as well as looking to the young talent now Delaware graduated over two dozen seniors many of which were starters. When Rocco joined the Blue Hens in 2017, he took over an experienced veteran team. Now for the first time in his experience at Delaware, he will be coaching a young class, building up the program while also building off of the progress made by the soon-to-be graduates. “We have a lot of good, young talent,” Rocco said. “And it’s always a function of being able to manage your roster and your depth and we’re going to make the necessary decisions we need to make within our system to play to our talent and if we have to restructure we will and those conversations are occurring pretty much as we speak.” Delaware’s secondary is graduating all four of its starters and looking to the younger faces. Redshirt freshman Justis Henley and Amonte Strothers are two promising names that will be looked at for the cornerback position. The Blue Hens have many options at safety as well including freshman Noah Plack, who was seen in three games. Coming back off of a knee injury, Tim Poindexter will also be looked to along with the possibility of linebacker Kedrick Whitehead switching to safety.
Delaware’s graduating all of its go-to receivers as well, including Joe Walker, Vinny Papale, Jamie Jarmon and tight end Charles Scarff, leaving many spots open on the opposite side of the football. Defense To possibly somewhat of a surprise due to Delaware’s typically stout defense, Rocco said he will be “transforming our defense.” Rocco is looking to keep the 3-4 system that he brought with him to Delaware, but wants to use the personnel he has to the best of their ability. With depth in the defensive line, Rocco could go to a fourman front more frequently, which was seen in Delaware’s game against JMU. “Since we have a lot of depth in the D-line, we’re moving from D-line to cat, cat to inside, inside to outside, outside to safety, safety to corner,” Rocco said. “But that’s the way for us to distribute our talent and when you kind of look at that, you say I like the lineup and we have to put it all together and go out there and play, but I like the lineup.” Transfers and incoming freshman Come Wednesday, Dec. 19, Rocco is looking to sign 10-12 high schoolers to join the Blue Hens. But incoming freshman are not the only players Rocco is searching for. For the first year, any player looking to transfer has to submit his name to a list, making the search for players a little easier for coaches. Just like being able to see the list of rising freshman
— allowing coaches to see their possible players — coaches can now see every single one of the transfers as well. “I don’t know that there’s ever a year where you don’t feel the necessity to bolster a position with something other than just incoming high school players because you need some older guys,” Rocco said.
Future offensive coordinator Matt Simon, who joined the Blue Hens in 2017, will not be returning to the program leaving a major position vacant. Rocco will be looking both within his current program as well as externally for someone who has experience as an offensive coordinator, preferably at the FCS level, as well as someone who is not “married to one system.” “There’s a lot of different applicants and pools of applicants and it’s exciting to look through all that,” Rocco said. “I do think I’m looking for, as I stated, a body of work that does speak to having done the job, maybe even having done the job at this level, understanding this level, understanding the geography, the competition, the scholarship limitations.”
FOUR GUYS WHO COULD BE “THE GUY” FOR DELAWARE FOOTBALL IN 2019 chance to be the guy as they looked in their position rooms and said, ‘Eh this isn’t going to be my year.’ And it’s the absolute worst mindset that a student athlete can take into a season, that he has no chance. Life’s too short. The time is now. So if you want to have a good day, make it today. That’s the way some of the younger players do look at this opportunity now.” Who will be the guys in 2019? Here are four lesser-known players that could emerge. Justis Henley Freshman Cornerback With starting cornerbacks Tenny Adewusi and K.C. Hinton departing, Rocco was asked about who may start on the outside of the defense. Henley’s name was one of the first offered. “Justis Henley, we think is as gifted a corner as we’ve had in a long time,” Rocco said. “Played minimal this year. Played more than a redshirt would play, because we always felt that his day might come this year.” Henley played in four games as a true freshman this season, seeing time as Delaware’s fourth cornerback behind Adewusi, Hinton and redshirt sophomore Nijuel Hill. His name was never called for more than a few drives at a time, a testament to how the defensive backfield rebounded after poor showings against Richmond, Elon and Towson. Coined a “natural athlete” by Rocco, Henley had offers from Air Force and Army coming out of Philadelphia’s North Penn High
drills and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, look at Justis. Look how natural he is. Look how smooth he is. He’s low in his back pedal, his knees bend, he’s got a good base, he can flip his hips, he’s tall, he’s long. He’s a great receiver in high school, he can catch the ball.’ “So you’re looking at all of these things and it’s like day one stuff. And it’s like so many other things. He’s got the skillset to play the position very well. Now you have to teach him and train him. But if you don’t have the skillset then you have a lot you have to overcome. So those are the kinds of things that we see in him that excite us.” COURTESY OF DELAWARE ATHLETICS Having played in only Freshman linebacker Drew Nickles, one of the Review’s players to watch for 2019, rushes four games, Henley will the passer in the first round of the FCS playoffs against James Madison. be a redshirt freshman next season. School. There, he was a star wide receiver, returned kicks and played cornerback and safety. North Penn also developed a wildcat package so Henley could operate the read option and occasionally pass. A glance at his high school highlight tape reveals a player with elite speed and quickness, a knack for high-pointing the ball in traffic and soft hands. The numbers back that
evaluation. Henley intercepted 16 passes in his final two seasons at North Penn, tallied 1,933 receiving yards and scored 24 total touchdowns. He’s impressed Rocco and the Delaware coaching staff from the outset. “We come into summer camp, very first day of camp we film all of our drills,” Rocco said. “So you watch all of our DBs do all of our
Drew Nickles Freshman Linebacker Nickles, who already contributed in 2018 as a true freshman, will only see his role expand with three of Delaware’s four linebackers graduating, in addition to versatile edge player Armen Ware. His first significant action came at KAT outside linebacker when Colby Reeder missed the game
CON’T. against Cornell with an injury. In that game, Nickles had two solo tackles and half a sack. By midseason he was a key rotation piece, playing on many third downs as an edge pass rusher, often with his hand in the ground. He finished the season with 11 tackles, a sack and a quarterback hit. As Delaware undergoes a defensive “transformation,” as Rocco termed it, Nickles could slide back to outside linebacker or play on the defensive line, which will likely feature more four-man fronts. The Blue Hens were impressed by their young linebackers all year. “It’s been cool to bring those guys along,” Troy Reeder said during the season. “It’s a role that we’ve all pretty much taken on. Had a lot of time through walk throughs and meetings to mentor those guys and try to help their progress and a lot of those guys have been thrown into the fire through camp and have
done a really good job.” Kedrick Whitehead Freshman Linebacker Whitehead is another freshman linebacker that was thrown into the mix this season. Appearing in 11 of 12 games, the Middletown High School alumnus recorded 14 tackles, three tackles for loss and an interception, which came against New Hampshire. Throughout the season he backed up fellow Delawarean and Hodgson Vo-Tech grad Ray Jones at Bandit outside linebacker, a position that requires a player who can cover slot receivers in space and approach the line of scrimmage to play the run. Rocco routinely calls it the most difficult position in Delaware’s scheme. In limited action, Whitehead delivered on his promise in that role. Perhaps his best performance came in the second half against James Madison after Jones was
SPORTS COMMENTARY: A LOOK AT DELAWARE MEN’S BASKETBALL SO FAR AND THE SEASON AHEAD MATT KUNZ Staff Reporter Following Delaware’s triumph over Columbia University in New York, N.Y., the Blue Hens are 7-2, tied for first in the CAA with Charleston. Not only is this start exceptional, it is historic. This is their best start since the 1999-2000 season, when Delaware boasted a 9-1 record early on in the season. The Blue Hens have been playing well on both sides of the ball. Delaware leads the CAA in scoring margin (+8.6), field goal percentage (48.9) and three-point field goal percentage (42.4). Watching them play, it’s clear that the key to their success on offense is passing. Playmakers such as sophomore guard Kevin Anderson, redshirt senior forward Eric Carter and redshirt senior guard Darian Bryant use their leadership on the court to make connecting passes that lead to open shots. Anderson has 41 assists, leading the Blue Hens in assists by 15 and is ranked fifth in the CAA in that department. Carter follows with 26 assists and Darian Bryant with 22. But their leadership would all be for naught without their finishers. Carter has been a leader by not only making plays, but executing as well. Carter
is ranked sixth in points per game (18.1) and second in field goal percentage (63.8) in the CAA. He leads Delaware in both categories. Freshmen Ithiel Horton and Matt Veretto started the season coming off the bench and performed exceptionally. In recent weeks they’ve both made their way into the starting lineup. Horton is second on the Blue Hens in points per game, averaging 13.1 points. Veretto has been shooting with precision, shooting 34-61 (55.7 percent) overall and 16-31 (51.6 percent) from outside the arc. On offense alone, the Blue Hens are a formidable force. They are able to score consistently and their amount of offensive performers and cohesive work as a team has allowed for their great success. On defense, Delaware leads the CAA in opponent’s field goal percentage (41.1). On an individual basis, Carter is tied for fifth in the CAA for blocked shots with eight. The Blue Hens have not only proven so far that they are a contender for the playoffs this year, but if they keep playing at the pace they’ve maintained so far this season, they will be one of the teams to beat in the CAA.
udreview.com
ejected for targeting. Whitehead made four tackles (two and a half resulted in a loss) and had a sack. Whitehead, who played linebacker and running back as a Cavalier, is a candidate to slide back to safety, where Delaware will have to replace starters Nasir Adderley and Malcolm Brown. Bryce de Maille Freshman Tight End Charles Scarff demonstrated how valuable a receiving threat can be at tight end in Delaware’s scheme. The redshirt senior dominated the red zone, scoring seven touchdowns in Delaware’s first eight games, before the entire offense settled into a late season swoon. He came one touchdown shy of setting the school record for most touchdown receptions by a tight end in a season and a career. De Maille, a freshman from Frederick, Md. out of Oakdale High School, will likely get the first
chance at filling Scarff’s role. In limited action across 11 games, de Maille caught three passes for 24 yards, including a touchdown grab in traffic against Lafayette in week two. His low number of targets was more a product of the names stacked ahead of him on the depth chart than his ability. “Bryce de Maille is a guy who can line up anywhere and catch the ball,” Rocco said. He saw snaps at both tight end and h-back, the role Owen Tyler primarily handled this season. De Maille is built more like Tyler than Scarff, but he is probably a little quicker than both of them. De Maille, who played mostly wide receiver in high school, could be lined up all over the field week-toweek to exploit the best matchup. Scarff was crucial to moving the sticks as one of quarterback Pat Kehoe’s favorite targets. Of his 43 receptions on the season, 30 resulted in a first down or
15
touchdown (a team-high) and nine came on third down (second to Vinny Papale’s 10). Can de Maille become the goto move the sticks guy? He seems to have the aptitude. In two high school seasons, de Maille caught 104 passes for 1,674 yards and 27 touchdowns. He turned down 22 scholarship offers out of high school to now have the opportunity to become the next in the line of successful Delaware tight ends, following the likes of Scarff, Nick Boyle and Ben Patrick.
MATT SIMON OUT AS DELAWARE OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR HANNAH TRADER Managing Sports Editor Just three days after Delaware’s playoff loss to James Madison, Head Coach Danny Rocco announced that Offensive Coordinator Matt Simon will not be returning to the program. Simon, Delaware’s offensive play-caller, joined Delaware’s coaching staff two years ago, in the same offseason Rocco became head coach. He served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in his first season. This year, he coached the running backs as Alex Wood was brought in to coach the quarterbacks. Delaware’s offense stumbled down the stretch, averaging just 10 points in its final three contests of the season. “Coach Simon and I met on Monday to discuss our 2018 season, as well as to look towards the future of our program,” Rocco said in a statement “During the course of this meeting, we both mutually agreed to part ways.” Although Delaware returned to the playoffs this year, ending its seven-season drought, the Blue Hens offense didn’t score a touchdown in their final game of the season. Despite taking steps forward in the passing game,
Delaware’s offense went backwards other aspects. After ranking last in the CAA in passing last season (and in 2015 and 2016), Delaware finished eighth with 195.1 passing yards per game. The passing game dipped over the waning weeks of the season, producing LOUIS MASON/THE REVIEW just 150 yards per game across the final four games of the season. Delaware Huskies and the 2000 Super wasn’t efficient, completing a Bowl Champion Baltimore league-worst 49.5 percent of its Ravens. 333 pass attempts. Delaware’s running Brandon Holveck contributed attack regressed in Simon’s reporting. second season as offensive coordinator. The Blue Hens finished eleventh in the 12team CAA with 105.3 rushing yards per game. Delaware had finished second in that department in each of the past two seasons. The Blue Hens total offense ranked tenth out of twelve teams in the CAA, averaging 314.8 yards per game. Simon, 64, coached running backs at Buffalo for six seasons prior to joining Rocco’s staff. He’s coached for 41 seasons at multiple schools, including North Texas, where he served as head coach from 1994-1997. He was on the staff of the 1991 national champion Washington
GRITTYWATCH: TWO MONTHS IN, AND GRITTY IS STILL BALLIN’ BRIDGET DOLAN Copy Desk Chief, Gritty Expert On Sept. 24, the world of mascots changed forever — Gritty, from deep beneath the Wells Fargo Center, made his debut, and he’s been on an upward trend since. The Philadelphia Flyers’ new mascot was quick to achieve meme status, and has been called a “Twitter darling” by the New York Times. In his early days, Gritty wiped out on the ice and shot a guy with a t-shirt gun, quickly becoming an internet sensation. He bounced back, bodacious and bold, and he has since shown himself to be more graceful, and has descended from the rafters more than once at Flyers games. His visage has appeared on cakes, babies and dogs — the latter two of which fall into the category of “Griftys,” being non-authentic versions of the orange fiend. The Griftys spurred a Twitter rant on Halloween, and Gritty asserted his thiccc-ness. Gritty saw snow, too, and
frolicked about in the wintery wonderland of the Wells Fargo Center parking lot. He even made an appearance in Philadelphia’s Thanksgiving Parade last month and helped carry a balloon along. On Nov. 30, at the Rutgers men’s basketball game against Michigan, Gritty sank a wicked half-court shot. Gritty dropped down into the splits afterwards, showing off a flexibility that the world didn’t know he had. As the holiday season approaches, Billy Penn tweeted out a link to 12 Christmas movies reimagined, and Gritty as the star to top all of them. Accompanying the link were movie posters featuring Gritty in each. Following the White House debut of its Christmas tree assortment, a photo emerged on Twitter of the stark, red trees edited to be orange and bearing the face of none other than Gritty himself. Gritty Claus is coming to town
… you better watch out.
WWW.UDREVIEW.COM
BLUE HEN SPOTLIGHT Art by Julianna Spatola