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Male body found in ditch

Thomas Matusiewicz confirmed as shooter

BY BO BARTLEY Managing News Editor

BY ELENA BOFFETTA City News Desk Editor

Delaware state troopers identified the body of a 21-yearold male found in a ditch last Wednesday as Rodney Lee Faulkner, of Newark. He was identified 11 days after he first disappeared Rick Faulkner, of Townsend, Del., the uncle of the victim, said.

Rodney Faulkner left his Newark home Feb. 2 between 9 and 9:30 p.m. on foot to get Chinese food for him and his fiancé and never returned, Rick Faulkner said.

He was the father of five-monthold twin girls, and family members were certain something happened to him when he didn’t return because they knew he would never abandon

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Man’s uncle said he believes Rodney Faulkner was hit by a car. his daughters, Rick Faulkner said.

Rick Faulkner said he believes his nephew was hit by a car, but the autopsy has not yet been released so the cause of death is unconfirmed.

“Somebody had to see him,” Faulkner said. “He laid in that ditch for 11 days.”

Two pedestrians spotted Rodney Faulkner’s body in a ditch on the Christina Bypass west of

Old Baltimore Pike in Christiana, Del. around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to a press release from the Delaware State Police, who responded to the scene.

Police spokesman Cpl. John Day said the police are in the investigation’s preliminary stages and, as previously mentioned, still do not know the cause of death.

See DAY page 14

City officials question legislation putting Newark out millions

BY RUSSELL WASHBAUGH & BO BARTLEY

Staff Reporter and Managing News Editor

Newark city officials are questioning the preferential treatment Delaware’s county seats—Wilmington, Dover and Georgetown, Del.—receive in terms of state reimbursements on tax-exempt buildings. In the city, 46 percent of the buildings are non-taxable, but Newark has never seen a cent of reimbursement money, according to Newark Mayor Vance A. Funk III. The state of Delaware issues reimbursements to three eligible cities for buildings that offer “eligible nonprofit, tax-exempt activities,” such

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as hospitals, homeless shelters and public museums, according to the state’s website. Also included on the list are schools, colleges and universities, which comprise 40 percent of Newark, Funk said. The other 6 percent of tax-exempt buildings are government buildings.

Funk also said he thinks Newark has the highest taxexempt properties of all cities in the state.

City Manager Carol Houck said the amount of money the city should receive would cover much of the city’s expenses.

“The total exemptions for taxexemption for properties that are not taxed is about $4.8 million,” Houck said.

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Details about the fatal courthouse shooting on last Monday that left three dead and two police officers injured have been released by the Delaware State Police.

Thomas Matusiewicz, 68, of Edouch, Texas, was confirmed as the shooter by the state police in a press release. He entered the Wilmington courtroom lobby around 7:40 a.m. with his son David Matusiewicz, 45, of Edouch, Texas, who had a scheduled child support hearing with ex-wife and victim, Christine Belford, 39, of Newark.

While David Matusiewicz moved through a secure checkpoint, Thomas Matusiewicz stayed behind in the unsecure portion of the lobby. Around 8:15 a.m., Belford arrived with her friend, Laura Mulford, 47, of Newark. The shooter drew a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun and opened fire on the unsuspecting women.

He first struck Belford multiple times in the upper body and fired several rounds at a fleeing Mulford, some of which hit their mark. A shootout

between Thomas Matusiewicz and Delaware Capitol Police Officers Michael Manley, 42, and Steven Rinehart, 50, ended when Matusiewicz suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

The shooter was pronounced dead at the scene, while the two women were transported to nearby Christiana Hospital Trauma Center where they were pronounced dead later that day.

The two police officers were transported to the same hospital and released later that day. Each suffered only minor injuries due to their bulletproof vests.

David Matusiewicz was arrested during the initial investigation when detectives determined he was in violation of his federal probation. He is currently being processed through the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In a press release, the Delaware Attorney General’s Office said Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden issued an order prohibiting Lenore Matusiewicz, David’s mother and Thomas’ son, from coming within 1,000 feet of the three children David Matusiewicz and Belford shared.

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In 2008, the state was set to include Newark among the cities that would receive a share of the state’s payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT, fund. However, a disagreement between former Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D-Del.) and the alderman’s court of Newark led to the city’s removal from the bill, Funk said.

“There were 72 hours left until the end of the general assembly and suddenly, the next day, the governor and several influential legislators took Newark out of the bill to punish Newark for having the audacity to lower the drunk driving standard to 0.08 [bloodalcohol content],” Funk said.

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Thomas Matusiewicz first struck Christine Belford, then Laura Mulford.

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Postal Service to end Saturday deliveries

BY BERNADETTE MCCADDEN

study shows that 83 percent of people over the age of 55 who rely most heavily on the Postal Service Beginning in August 2013, support the new delivery schedule. the U.S. Postal Service will stop Daituolo said Newark residents delivering mail on Saturdays in an should not be greatly affected as effort to alleviate ongoing financial the Post Offices on Main Street and challenges, Raymond Daiutolo, Ogletown Road will remain open regional spokesperson for the Postal on Saturdays.

Service, said.

Sandy Surmacz, 24, of Newark, Daiutolo said while mail said she also will not be personally delivery to street addresses will affected and does not think many only occur Monday through Friday, Newark residents will be. packages and “I rarely check mail addresses my mail,” Surmacz to P.O. Boxes said. “I think it will will continue affect businesses to be delivered much more than six days a week. individuals.”

Post offices Junior Sigal currently open Middleton said the on Saturdays mail delivery in will remain open Newark is already on Saturdays, stressed and Daiutolo said. shortening the work “ T h e week by a day could operational plan -Raymond Daiutolo be detrimental. for the new “It already regional spokesper- takes a lot of time delivery schedule anticipates a son for the U.S. Postal for mail to get oncombination campus housing Service so this is going to of employee reassignment and make it even later,” attrition and is expected to achieve Middleton said. cost savings of approximately According to Daiutolo, this $2 billion annually when fully national policy is not likely to revert implemented,” Daiutolo said. back to the old schedule in the future The Postal Service issued because of the serious financial a survey conducted by Ispos, challenges facing the Postal Service. a leading independent market “Postal Service’s financial research company, showing that problems are more urgent than ever 80 percent of Americans support and will continue to get worse until the new mail delivery schedule, Congress takes action to reform our Daiutolo said. The survey was business model,” Daiutolo said. conducted to 1,002 people over the Dr. James Taylor, a physical age of 18 between Feb. 8 and 11. therapist in Newark said he does not Results show high support among mind the change and it makes no all age groups, income levels and difference to him. He said he does geographic locations. understand however, how the policy Based on the survey, CEO could be detrimental people with and Postmaster General Patrick low income levels.

Donahoe said the American public “Some people literally depend understands the financial challenges on a paycheck to survive so this new of the Postal Service and supports policy could seriously affect them,” this new delivery schedule. The Taylor said.

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Since President Barack Obama took office in 2008, there have been 324 drone strikes in Pakistan.

Warfare drone usage draws student concern

BY MATT BUTLER Staff Reporter

The Obama administration has come under international scrutiny due to a leaked memo from the Justice Department, reportedly written in 2011, that provides a look into the White House’s legal explanation and justification for its drone strike policy.

The memo states the explanation for the drone strike operation in Yemen that killed Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American citizen who was linked to Al-Qaeda.

Advocates for the drones program justified their use by claiming they are a necessary evil in the war on terror, but Mark Miller, political science and international relations professor, said he thinks the use of the devices is not warranted. He said he has been concerned for years about the casualties and collateral damage that drones cause as well as their use on American citizens without due process of law.

“I would contest this notion that the struggle against terror constitutes a ‘new’ form of warfare,” Miller said.

“That’s a very fallacious idea. The older I get, the more I feel that I’ve spent my entire life in a highly militarized society in which there is insufficient democratic control and accountability over the military.”

With this militarization has come a severe loss of civil liberties for American citizens, he said, including the controversial Patriot Act, passed shortly after the events of Sept. 11, 2001 to redefine the jurisdiction of some government agencies in order to address concerns about terrorism.

Miller also said Al-Awlaki was given a death sentence without due process, which is controversial, even with his support for Al-Qaeda.

“The question is if it is legal for the president to order the killing of an American citizen like Al-Awlaki, and I am very dubious of that,” Miller said.

“That is a question the Supreme Court should look in to.”

That sentiment was echoed

by Sally Milbury-Steen, the retired leader of Delaware Pacem in Terris, a worldwide organization that works towards widespread peace through

justice. She said the law that protects the drone program, Authorization for Use of Military Force, was passed immediately following Sept. 11, 2001, when the country was “gripped by fear.” Because the bill uses vague terms, its limitations are to the president’s discretion, she said.

The memo leaked from the Justice Department raised several question for Milbury-Steen, especially regarding a passage that notes the conditions under which a lethal operation can be carried out against an American citizen, she said.

“They get to be judge, juror and executioner,” Milbury-Steen said.

“Who qualifies as a high-level official?

What determines the feasibility of a capture? There are so many vague terms like that, and the worst is ‘what is an imminent threat?’”

Milbury-Steen said she has been disappointed by President Barack Obama’s foreign policy and since he took office in January 2008, there have been 324 drone strikes in Pakistan out of the total 334 that started in 2004, she said.

The Obama administration has said the strikes have eliminated 2,492 terrorist operatives, while incurring only 153 civilian deaths, Milbury-Steen said. People she has talked to on the ground in Pakistan said those numbers are inaccurate as they state there are more civilians who have died as a result of drone strikes.

“One of the great difficulties is that we are using drones in places with ‘honor cultures,’” Milbury-Steen said.

“If someone kills your father or brother, the family is bound by the mores of the culture to seek revenge. Even in places that are not affected by drones, these unmanned strikes just look like American bully-ism, empire building, and power projection.”

Mary Crowley, president of the College Democrats, said while drones may be effective, there have to be limitations on their usage.

“I think that warfare is changing, and that in order to keep up with that change, drones are a sad reality of how we need to change with the times,” Crowley said. “But against American citizens and without a fair trial, that is

not an acceptable use of a drone strike.”

Regarding the president’s legacy, both Crowley and Dylan Gallimore, president of the College Independents, said the drone strikes will not define the president’s foreign policy when it is remembered. They said Obama’s foreign policy would primarily be marked by the killing of Osama bin Laden, ending the war in Iraq and assisting with the situations in Libya and Egypt.

Gallimore also said the contributions of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta would weigh heavily on the foreign policy legacy of Obama. He said although he strongly opposes the use of drone strikes on American citizens, he believes it is an effective tool of war.

“I could be wrong, but I think that most Americans will side with me when I say that this is an easy and safe way to defeat your enemies in combat, in that we are not putting our own soldier’s lives at risk,” Gallimore said.

The president of the College Republicans, Allaire Stritzinger, said she is troubled by the violations of the civil liberties of American citizens and the current drone policy.

“I believe that the way our current drone policies stand cause great concern to the American people and their right to privacy from the government,” Stritzinger said. “The policy needs to be more transparent, and should be in the hands of the military, not the president.”

While Stritzinger said she believes the use of drones is necessary to effectively fight the War on Terror, the legality of its usage is hazy, she said.

Miller said despite the fact that drone policies are currently coming under fire, things could get much worse, as the drones make French philosopher Michel Foucault’s fears of a surveillance state very real, and strengthens the already “over powerful” military.

Milbury-Steen said her final warning regarding the drone policy, quotes a bumper sticker that became popular during the Bush administration— “We are creating enemies faster than we can kill them,” she said.

“Postal Service’s financial problems are more urgent than ever.”

Biden: ‘[Lenore Matusiewicz’s] actions over the past five years have given us serious concern that she poses a risk to the children’s safety’ Continued from page 1 “The children are safe,” Biden said. “We sought this nocontact order because we believe Lenore Matusiewicz is a danger to the children and should not have any contact with them. Her actions over the past five years have given us serious concern that she poses a risk to the children’s safety.”

In 2007, Lenore and David Matusiewicz kidnapped the three children he shared with Belford.

The 18-month long episode ended when U.S. marshals found the Matusiewiczes and the three children in Nicaragua in a trailer that Lenore Matusiewicz bought.

The Delaware State Police

continue to investigate several aspects of the case, such as forensic evidence and the events preceding the incident.

“We continue to conduct interviews and follow-up interviews, collect and analyze evidence and follow investigative leads in order to continue to piece together Matusiewicz’s movements and actions leading up to the tragedy that occurred at the New Castle County Courthouse,” Sgt. Paul Shavack stated in an email message.

The Delaware State Police requests that anyone who witnessed the incident who has not yet submitted to questioning contact Troop 2 at (302) 834-260 Extension #0.

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Robbery on Haines Street and Delaware Avenue A 24-year-old man was assaulted at 1:30 a.m. Monday by four black males. The victim was first approached by a black male on Delaware Avenue who threatened him with a handgun. Three black males then assaulted the victim and took $220 from his wallet. The suspects fled the scene toward South Chapel and escaped in a dark-colored sedan in the area of Calvary Baptist Church. The first suspect is between 5’10” and 6’, according to the victim. The case is currently under investigation by the Newark Police Department.

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Students compete in a wing-eating contest in Trabant University Center.

In Brief Decorated author set to speak

Wes Moore will speak at Mitchell Hall on Wednesday, at 7 p.m. Moore is the author of the bestseller “The Other Wes Moore,” a story about a criminal who shared his name and his hometown but not his success. Moore is a Rhodes Scholar, Army officer and White House fellow, and the movie rights for his book have been optioned by Oprah Winfrey and HBO Films. He will talk about personal responsibility and the importance of being accountable for personal choices.

Blood drive scheduled for Wednesday

The Blood Bank of Delmarva will host a blood drive in the Trabant University Center multipurpose rooms from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday. All donors must be at least 17 years old and weigh 110 pounds. The event is sponsored by sorority Delta Gamma and fraternity Sigma Pi. To schedule an appointment, call (888) 8-BLOOD-8 or (302) 737-8400.

Maya Angelou to talk to students

Civil rights advocate, author, poet, dancer and musician Maya Angelou will speak at the Bob Carpenter Center on Friday at 7 p.m. Angelou has worked alongside civil rights leaders such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. The event was previously scheduled to be held at the Trabant University Center, but was moved to the Bob Carpenter Center due to seating demands. Tickets are available for free for students with a valid ID.

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Contributed by Valery Caputi Lopez

Things To Do Wednesday, Feb. 20 UD Honors Program Hosts Wes Moore 7 p.m., Mitchell Hall

Thursday, Feb. 21 Reel Diversity 7:30 to 9 p.m., Trabant University Center, Trabant Theater

Friday, Feb. 22 Maya Angelou to speak 7 p.m., Bob Carpenter Sports Center

Saturday, Feb. 23 Women’s Tennis vs. Saint Joseph’s (Elkton, Md.) 6 p.m., Elkton, Md. Indoor Courts

Sunday, Feb. 24 Men’s Tennis vs. Villanova 4 p.m., DuPont Country Cub Wilmington, Del.

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Politics Straight, No Chaser State of the Union address

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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, left, meets with Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, right, in Tunisia.

Tunisian protests reignite

BY ERIN QUINN Managing News Editor

As protestors returned to the streets in Tunisia after the assassination of opposition leader Chokri Belaid, Arabic professor Ikram Masmoudi watched videos online of the human rights activist who called for the country to engage in more democratic dialogue.

The Feb. 6 assassination of Belaid, whose killers have not been identified, represents a “dark turn” in the revolution, she said.

Masmoudi, who moved to the United States a decade ago and makes annual returns to Tunisia, said Belaid is someone she and like-minded individuals in her generation would have supported if she were in her home country.

Belaid incarnated the ideals that Tunisians asked for in the revolution, Masmoudi said.

“The change people were looking for has not been brought by this coalition government,” Tunisian protests began two years ago and kicked off the Arab Spring revolutions that rippled through North African and Middle Eastern countries. Protestors had common cries for democracy and freedom of speech.

In Tunisia, the Jasmine Revolution resulted in the ousting of longtime dictator Zine elAbidine Ben Ali. Free elections held in October 2011 resulted in the election of a coalition transition government led by Ennahda, a moderate Islamist party that was widely supported.

Since a religious government has not been historically typical in Tunisia, Masmoudi said, “the revolution has been hijacked” by Ennahda party members who have not developed the demonstrators’ demands for democratic dialogue, economic opportunities and an end to corruption.

Ennahda party leaders include expatriates who have lived in and enjoyed the freedoms of the West for decades Masmoudi said. These leaders cannot identify with the Tunisian masses who called for

dignity and freedom, she said.

The governing party members have used the thread of Islam to connect with the people of Tunisia but they have oversimplified the demands of the revolution to a question of their religious identity, Masmoudi said. The average person is religious and subscribed to the government’s promises to improve life, but nothing has changed, she said.

“They did not go through the uprising just to have people come back from abroad to remind them of their Muslim identity,” Masmoudi said.

Junior Adam Breiner, a linguistics major who studied abroad in Tunisia during winter 2011, said he witnessed the demonstrations where people called for employment opportunities, an end to soaring poverty and improvements in security.

Breiner, who has followed Tunisian news since studying abroad, said he believes the country has mostly remained stable.

“People seemed kind of worried that an Islamist party might be more conservative than they would like,” Breiner said. “However people altogether seemed pretty optimistic about democracy.”

It was evident that Tunisian citizens were very aware of what was going on in their country and they used social media to spread news quickly, he said.

Despite the lack of some concrete changes in governing, Masmoudi said Tunisians have experienced more freedom of press and expression under the transition government.

Breiner said the assassination of Belaid will probably encourage the Tunisian government to try to remain moderate.

“If it’s going to change anything, it’s going to make everyone more cautious,” Breiner said.

The revolution in Tunisia was regarded as safer, with less bloodshed than others in the region, such as those in Egypt and Libya, Masmoudi said.

Breiner, who also studied

abroad in Egypt in the fall, said he believes Tunisia is safe and stable compared to other nations involved in the Arab Spring.

Immediately after the death of Belaid, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, called for the government to turnover power to technocratic leadership that would not be partyaffiliated, but his own Ennahda party denied this request.

Breiner called Jebali’s request to dissolve his cabinet a “kneejerk reaction” to deal with Belaid’s assassination. The leftist political movement has tried to unify in response to his death.

Ennahda’s Vice President Abdelhamid Jelassi released a statement on the party’s website that denounced Jebali’s proposal.

“We in Ennahda believe Tunisia needs a political government now,” Jelassi said. “We will continue discussions with other parties about forming a coalition government.”

The average Tunisian still seeks a better life with freedom and employment opportunities, but the new government cannot offer that, Masmoudi said. The country’s progress has been disappointing and she said the average Tunisian probably feels saddened and abused.

Tunisians once had hope in the well-organized Islamists, but they have not offered what they promised, she said.

“The hope they had is now turning to something gloomy,” she said.

When Belaid was assassinated, citizens pointed to Ennahda to blame, Masmoudi said because the party’s methods have been to terrorize and bully the opposition.

They are not ready for democratic dialogue, she said.

Masmoudi said she hopes the recent events will spark new action for democracy in Tunisia.

“It’s a very dangerous turn that this revolution might take,” Masmoudi said. “I hope that the assassination—the blood of Belaid—will not go in vain. I hope it will reinvigorate the spirit of the revolution and reinvigorate the people.”

Last Tuesday marked President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address of his second term. Like most, it was not terribly exciting and included bold policy talk, a call to work across the aisle to get movements accomplished and a notion that the state of the nation is strong.

Obama said, “…with renewed confidence that the State of our Union is stronger,” which is unusual phrasing for a State of the Union address. Normally, saying something along the lines of how the state of the union is strong suffices, but this address was different.

Obama went back into presidential campaign mode at times throughout the speech. The policy promises he made during the State of the Union sounded like he was still trying to get elected.

He took this opportunity to discuss issues on the fringe during the fall campaign. He talked about education at length and lamented the importance of preschool access across the country. He attacked Republican lawmakers for their inaction in strengthening education, infrastructure, and called for Congress to vote on a housing bill, something Rep. John Boenher (R-Ohio) seemed to get a chuckle out of.

The President discussed the failing infrastructure in the United States as well, citing that there are almost 70,000 “structurally deficient” bridges in the country that need to be renovated.

In doing so, he called for a private capital to be invested a l o n g s i d e public funds in such things as schools, ports, and oil and gas pipelines. Highspeed rail was another topic discussion point and echoed his past State of the Union addresses.

As expected, the address from the President wasn’t much different than any stump speech he gave during the campaign. One major policy proposal getting the most interest in the wake of the speech was raising the national minimum wage up to $9 per hour from its current $7.25. The goal is to get any family making the minimum wage to be able to stay above the poverty line.

The underlying problem is the minimum wage has not kept up with inflation, therefore Obama promised to tie the minimum wage to the rate of inflation. There isn’t a good chance of it passing. There won’t be enough enthusiasm in the capital to get it done.

After the address, the opposition party gets a chance to rebut the President. The speaker Republican leaders tapped for the rebuttal was Sen. Marco Rubio

(R-Fla.). An up-and-comer in the party, Rubio possesses what the party needs; he is a good speaker, his policies match up fairly well with the party’s platform, he is intelligent and, to be frank, he’s Hispanic and from a swing state.

It seemed like the right decision to let him rebut Obama. His speech at the Republican National Convention went well, so why not give him more time under the bright and apparently moisture sucking lights?

While the rebuttal is just a formality for the opposing party, this one turned into a story of its own. He did not come across as a smart, well-spoken politician. He falsely called out Obama for not addressing certain issues in his speech that were most certainly addressed by the President. Rubio claimed, “Instead of playing politics with Medicare, when is the President going to offer his plan to save it? Tonight would have been a good time for him to do it.” Well Rubio, did you read the speech? Apparently not, because this is what Pres. Obama said: “On Medicare, I’m prepared to enact reforms that will achieve the same amount of health care savings by the beginning of the next decade as the reforms proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.” He offered a plan, and Rubio chose to ignore it and blindly attack.

Senator Rubio demonstrated his ability to contradict himself. He talked about his love for the neighborhood in which he grew up in and in which he still lives (omitting the fact he is moving out of it). He mentioned how Obama has created more debt in four years than former President George W. Bush did in eight.

This claim is simply false. The five trillion dollar number the Republicans cite is a result of Bush. He expressed how grateful he was to have been assisted in his education by financial aid programs like student loans. He claimed that we need to make them easier to understand and work better for students. If that’s how you feel Senator, why did you support for the Ryan Budget, which would have slashed education spending?

Why did you vote against extending lower student loan rates? You said it yourself Senator, you just paid off your student loans recently, thought you would understand. Don’t say you support reducing the burden on college students when you have been voting against their best interests.

They know you’re lying. Lastly, a tip for you Senator, when you need female voters, it isn’t a very good idea to vote against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.

As expected, the address from the President wasn’t much different than any stump speech he gave during the campaign.

-Brian Barringer

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February 19, 2013

Longwood Gardens hosts Orchid Extravaganza

BY KARIE SIMMONS Staff Reporter

Rebecca Nurse is not a gardener and said she doesn’t even own any plants. Yet, at least twice a month she comes to Longwood Gardens to experience nature—carefully sculpted, “prettier nature.”

Nurse, of Lancaster, Pa., said she thinks it is emotionally and psychologically healthy to be around flowers and greenery every now and then. For her, Longwood Gardens is a place where she finds peace and relaxation.

“You don’t notice how dead everything is outside until you come in here,” Nurse said. “It looks like it’s summer in here.”

Although a member at Longwood Gardens, located in Kennett Square, Pa., Nurse said she came on Saturday to do more than just admire the flora and snap a pretty picture—she came to learn.

Longwood Gardens hosted a Beyond the Garden Gates Day on Saturday, opening up rooms in the conservatory not typically available to the public, and taught visitors about the work that goes into the Orchid Extravaganza exhibition currently on display.

Nurse said she was able to enter the potting shed where gardeners plan and work on displays, the library where gardeners research plants, the orchid house and the growing house, which holds the orchids for the winter display. “[Orchid Extravaganza is] beautiful and amazing, but the more you learn about how much work went into it, you appreciate it more,” she said.

Kelly Disabatino, part-time gardener at Longwood Gardens and a university alumna, demonstrated to on-lookers how to make an orb entirely out of purple orchids. She explained the process of stacking the potted orchids into the metal basket as visitors asked questions about the flower and how the orb is watered and maintained once completed.

Disabatino said Beyond the Garden Gates Day is entirely for

“You don’t notice how dead everything is outside until you come in here.

It looks like it’s summer in here.”

-Rebecca Nurse, frequenter of Longwood Gardens the guests of Longwood Gardens, so that they might get answers to questions and gain inspiration for their own gardens.

“We’re giving the public information they can take home so that they can create the same things in their own home,” Disabatino said.

Joyce Rondinella, Longwood Gardens senior gardener, spoke about the work that goes into the displays on

a larger scale, explaining to visitors the Orchid Extravaganza planning process from beginning to end.

She said in addition to the paid gardeners, designers and project leaders, Longwood Gardens heavily depends on volunteers and students in the garden school for help with Orchid Extravaganza. Others involved in the process are electricians, painters, plumbers and metal shop workers, she said.

“It takes a village to get this place looking like it does to say the least,” Rondinella said.

Rondinella said as senior gardener she spearheads the entire project. She said she travels around the world, networks with growers at local orchid societies, attends the World Orchid Conference and visits other gardens to gain inspiration and see how they run their gardens.

Another aspect Rondinella manages is working with the display designer to plan what will go into the garden beds. Then, she said she visits the wholesale grower in order to choose each type, color and number of orchids she needs for the display.

Longwood Gardens does not have the space to grow and house all the orchids needed for Orchid Extravaganza, so she said she had to buy over 5,000 orchids from other growers for the display.

According to Rondinella, transporting and taking care of that many orchids can be tricky, especially in the winter. She said orchids can freeze on the way, among other things that can go wrong.

“It’s a little nerve-racking but, hey, it all worked,” Rondinella said.

“They’re all blooming.”

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A girl leans over a pond at Longwood Gardens on Saturday.

Sierra Club forms human pipeline in D.C.

BY APRIL INGENITO Staff Reporter

On Sunday, members of the Sierra Club, a grassroots environmental organization, along with thousands of other individuals

took to the streets of Washington, D.C., to form a human pipeline for the “Forward on Climate” rally. The focus of the rally was to encourage President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, a transcontinental pipeline running

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Sierra Club traveled to D.C. to protest the Keystone XL pipeline.

from Canada down the middle of the United States, junior Megan Mauger, an environmental science major, said.

Rather than voting against the installment of the pipeline, which would carry a type of petroleum deposit known as tar sands oil, Obama delayed action on it, Mauger said.

Stephanie Herron, volunteer and outreach coordinator of the Delaware Sierra Club chapter, said peoples’ health is at risk due to the tar sands oil, which is much more carcinogenic than traditional crude oil. Tar sands oil also has much larger global climate impacts, as the oil creates three times as much climate-disrupting air pollution as crude oil, she said.

Mauger said she believes though the public’s health is important, the most significant overall issue is climate change. It affects every aspect of living and should be a top priority for Obama, she said.

“Not only would it be destroying habitat, but more importantly it’s facilitating another form of non-renewable energy,” Mauger said. “Why not start researching better technology with renewable energy instead of finding new ways to transport non renewable energy?”

The rally attracted 50,000 people, senior Elisa Sarantschin said, who attended the event.

Hundreds of the participants came from the state of Delaware, Herron said and 31 of those people were students from the university.

Sarantchin, a marine geology and environmental science major, currently interns with the Sierra Club to promote environmental justice. She said the rally was the first one she has attended.

Sarantchin said she hopes the rally will hopefully send a message to Obama. She said she had a relatively positive outlook on Obama’s environmental policies and believes he is open to suggestions on environmental policy.

“I think it’s really effective for everyone to get together,” Sarantchin said. “We marched around the White House and had signs and yelled things. It brings knowledge to people who aren’t aware of it. You are able to go and talk to people about other environmental issues.”

Herron said Obama has been using Congress as an excuse to not introduce bills and she thinks he assumes they will not be passed so he doesn’t start the process The best way to motivate people about the environment is to get them interested and involved in local communities, Sarantschin said.

Though she said she has met some people who are ignorant to environmental issues, she

met many people at the protest who were enthusiastic about the policies.

Herron said rallying at this event is one of the most important things people can do to raise awareness.

“The more people that are there, the stronger the message is,” Herron said. “People will put their votes where their mouth is. If you won’t be a leader, people aren’t going to vote for you.”

Mauger said she believes a majority of the public does not understand environmental policies, so it is important to educate people.

Herron also said the number one goal should be to take action when it comes to the environment.

She said it is a significant issue of social justice and areas of the world have already experienced repercussions.

“Climate change is the mother of all issues,” Herron said. “So many of the other issues in this world stem from climate change.”

The issue is critical to the state of Delaware because of its location near the coast, Herron said.

“Delaware is a completely coastal state,” Herron said. “It is also the state with the lowest average elevation. Sea level rise is going to dramatically affect our state because we are so close to sea level. No Delawarean lives no farther than eight miles from tidal [flowing] water.”

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Obama faces congressional wall going into second term

BY MATTHEW CASALE Staff Reporter

“Although the list of goals was long, the specific proposals were pretty modest except in a couple of instances,” political science professor Joseph Pika said of President Barack Obama’s Tuesday night State of the Union address.

Over the past four years, senior political science major Read Scott said Obama has clashed with Republicans over controversial topics regarding the economy, and there have been disagreements over tax increases for the wealthy, government spending and budget constrictions.

Pika said one of the largest issues will come to a head in March when the sequester, or time of automatic budget cuts, is set to take place. He said he believes Washington, D.C. politicians will have a long debate on how to prevent the cuts.

Scott said he thinks one of the biggest issues for the Obama administration and Americans will be the economy. It will likely be the most important topic until Obama leaves office, he said.

Scott said it was clear what Obama wants to focus on for the next four years and it offered insight into his second term.

Yet junior Kyle Vergano, a finance major, said he identifies himself as Republican and strongly disagreed with many of the president’s economic proposals. Specifically, he said he disapproves of Obama’s plan to raise minimum wage to $9 per hour.

“Though raising minimum wage seems nice, over time $2 more adds up

and small business owners won’t be able to pay every employee,” Vergano said.

“So, in theory, this way of promoting job growth might just force companies to fire more people.”

Vergano also said after the president’s proposal of raising minimum wage, McDonald’s stock dropped and he took this as a sign that the business world would not necessarily approve of this plan.

On the student-oriented side of the economy, the president addressed student loans in the State of the Union.

The issue is “in the heart of many students,” junior Tim Byrne said who personally worries constantly about the rising debt he has incurred through his time at the university.

And student loan programs could be affected if politicians in Washington, D.C. fail to come to an agreement in March, Scott said. He said many Republicans want to directly cut student loans, which would cause problems for students who pay for school themselves.

Obama, however, has been one of the strongest supporters of student loans, Scott said.

“It has been an important issue to President Obama,” Scott said. “No president before him has done more to help students go to college. I have a firm belief that he will do more to help in his second term.”

Another issue Obama raised during his speech was gun control, Byrne said.

Like many other students, Byrne said he was horrified by the violence that occurred just over two months ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

“It was awful to watch, especially

because I am studying to become a teacher,” Byrne said. “Although I think that people kill, not guns, there has to be more ways to prevent the wrong people from owning guns.”

Bryne said he wants more restrictions on guns in order to protect individuals from unnecessary violence.

But Pika said he thinks increased gun control will be highly unlikely due to a lack of wide support. He said unless

Administrative News Editor

Though the three experts who came together to speak at the 2013 Economic Forecast event shared a passion for the U.S. economy, they had differing views of the country’s current economic situation.

The speakers gathered last Tuesday at Clayton Hall hosted by the Lyons Companies and the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship’s 2013 Economic Forecast. They spoke after Vice Chairman of the university’s board of trustees John Cochran presented the second annual James B. O’Neil award for Excellence in Economic Education and Entrepreneurship to Richard Struthers, president of Ashford Point Enterprises.

“Serving as the first Delaware Market President at the Bank of America, responsible for local business, civic and philanthropic leadership, Ric Struthers made financial literacy a personal and professional priority,” Cochran said.

Former Congressman and Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Michael Oxley, who spoke following Struthers’ award, said he has been a longtime advocate of sound financial reporting to increase understanding of the economic climate.

Oxley said a “glass twothirds full kind of guy” when it comes to the economy. Despite the enormous issues that need to be dealt with in order to stimulate the economy, he said he believes in its power to bounce back.

Consumers’ “disposable income” spending has reflected an improving economy. Much of this has historically been spent on necessary items such as cars, food and houses. In 1950, he said, 53 percent of “disposable income” was spent on these items, while this year it was only 32 percent.

“So we’ve gone from over half of the spending for necessities— quite an extraordinary achievement,” Oxley said.

Jon Hilsenrath, the chief economic correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, said he believes the Federal Reserve system will play a crucial role in the future of the economy. He said in the past the Fed has been responsible for economic downfalls.

In the ’30s, when the Fed put “too little money” into the economy, it caused a “deep depression,” while when the Fed put too much money in during the ’70s, it caused inflation, he said.

“This gives the Fed enormous power, but also puts it in the position of having a very challenging balancing act,” Hilsenrath said.

Michael Farr, president of

viewed as “lame ducks” waiting for the next president to take over. Scott said although the president will be a said “lame duck,” Republicans will work with him to avoid criticism.

“The American system is better designed for those who oppose proposals than for those who support them,” Pika said. “There are so many places in the legislative process where opponents can kill proposals.”

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Obama addressed gun control, minimum wage and gay marriage in the State of the Union address Tuesday.

Experts talk economic forecast

BY RACHEL TAYLOR

supporters of gun control can play to the country’s current emotional state and push something through soon, it will not likely be a success.

Scott said he thinks many of Obama’s proposals will be put through, but not without a struggle through the next four years.

Historically, Scott said secondterm presidents have a harder time accomplishing goals because they are

Farr, Miller & Washington and the author of “The Arrogance Cycle” and “A Million is Not Enough,” said the economic recovery has been relatively disproportionate to the amount of money the government has put into the economy.

“The recovery has benefitted relatively few—meaning that the top one percent in this country has gotten a lot wealthier,” Farr said.

One of the biggest issues with the economy is for every dollar, approximately 40 cents is borrowed, Farr said. The country cannot go on borrowing so heavily, and the government must learn to function within its means, he said.

While Farr also said the economy has a long way to go before making a full recovery, he said confidence in the future of the United States is slowly improving.

When he asked the audience how many people thought the economy would get better or remain the same over the next year, more than half of the room raised their hands.

“I sat last night at this wonderful speaker’s dinner and my table companions were saying, ‘People have a lot of cash, what are they waiting for to start building? To start investing? To start growing again? When will they start hiring?’ And I looked at them and I said, ‘What’s it going to take for you?’” Farr said.

Sorority recruitment explodes RACHEL BLAIRE Staff Reporter

Though initially intimidating, the sorority recruitment process was a fun and exciting experience, freshman Janine Wasek said. She said she did not put too much thought into the size of pledge classes when deciding whether to participate in Greek Life.

“I think a big pledge class is fine,” she said. “You can have more personalities and more people to get along with.”

An ideal size for a pledge class would be around 50 girls, Wasek said.

Wasek was one of more than 1,100 students who tried to join the ranks of the 11 Panhellenic sororities on-campus this semester, a new record for recruitment at Delaware, University Student Center Director Marilyn Prime stated in an email message.

Last year, 900 students came out for recruitment and the average turnout for sorority rush at the university is about 500 to 600 students, Prime said.

The size of the class of 2016, the largest freshman class in school history, probably affected recruitment numbers, Prime said.

“Sorority recruitment is increasing nationwide,” Prime said. “I am sure the larger freshman classes are a part of that trend here at the University of Delaware.”

The university’s sororities are trying to accommodate the larger recruitment pools by taking larger pledge classes, Prime said.

“It is our goal to place as many interested women as possible,” she said.

She said students are eager to participate in Greek life because university officials strongly encourage students to get involved, in extracurricular activities and expand their networks on campus. Sororities at the university are strong academically and do a wide range of community service and philanthropy efforts, she said.

Stefanie Spatola, a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha alumnae chapter, said she also thinks the extracurricular opportunities that sororities offer are the primary reason students join.

“Students today want to be involved and sororities offer outstanding leadership opportunities,” Spatola said.

“It is a great way to meet new people and create lasting friendships. There are also countless opportunities to get involved in efforts outside of campus.”

Spatola said national organizations help chapters when large pledge classes create a strain. Having such a large group of women coming in will alter how sororities run, Prime said. The university’s sorority chapters have been preparing for the larger pledge classes since the fall semester, she said.

While the number of students joining sororities is at an all-time high, Prime said she is interested in recruiting even more women. The university has added two sororities in the past three years, Gamma Phi Beta in 2010 and the re-instituted chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma this year.

“If a woman is unsure if a sorority is right for her, I would still encourage her to check it out. There is no harm in starting recruitment and participating in the process,” she said.

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February 19, 2013

Students return from study abroad, experience reverse culture shock

BY LIZ BLEACHER Staff Reporter

For junior Chelsea Cox, the return to American culture from studying abroad was jarring and she said she feels as if she is experiencing reverse culture shock. After spending winter session in Peru and living with other students in the Amazon rainforest, Cox grew accustomed to a more minimalist lifestyle. She said being back in America has made her sensitive to materialism and consumerism.

She said in this country it seems that people are too distracted by possessions and obligations to form connections with other people.

“I loved the culture so much in Peru that my feelings don’t fit my old beliefs anymore,” Cox said. “This is my home, but it doesn’t make sense.”

Studying abroad gives students the opportunity to live and experience another culture for an extended period of time, but returning home can be challenging for some students like Cox as they can experience anything from minor cultural differences to reverse culture shock.

“Reverse culture shock is a physical and mental manifestation of a negative response to your own culture,” said Peter Rees, geography and Latin American studies professor and program director for various study abroad trips including those to Copenhagen and Argentina.

Rees said though he and his students have not experienced reverse culture shock, he is aware it is a potential issue that can manifest as depression, uncertainty or anxiety, but individual reactions vary, according to the website.

Junior Mary Jean Rainsford, who studied in London during winter session, also noticed cultural differences upon her return. Rainsford said museums, plays and excursions to historical sites are more accessible and cheaper in London compared to the United States.

“When I woke up, if I felt like going to a show, I could buy a ticket that day,” Rainsford said. “At home my family plans trips to Broadway months

in advance.”

But since her return, Rainsford said going back to school and spending time with friends has helped her readapt to American culture.

Cox alternatively said returning to school made the adjustment more difficult. If she could have spent more time with family in between coming back from Peru and starting classes, it would have helped, she said.

Yet, the cultural differences did not shorten Cox’s trip as Rees said culture shock can result in a student returning home from a study abroad earlier than planned. For most students, the adjustment period following studying abroad is typically fine, he said.

“Students often express fond memories and nostalgia at the end of the semester,” Rees said.

While students experience varying degrees of reverse culture shock, university officials acknowledge it can be an issue. On the re-entry portion of their website, the Institute for Global Studies describes reverse culture shock and lists coping resources.

“If a student had trouble readjusting, we would recommend them to the student counseling center,” said Lisa Chieffo, associate director of study abroad at the Institute for Global Studies.

In the past, university officials attempted a re-entry program, but it ended after a lack of student interest suggested there wasn’t a need, Chieffo said.

Chieffo said other members of the trip and the program’s director are good resources as well as the Study Abroad Ambassador organization for students struggling with reverse culture shock.

Talking with people that can relate to the experience can be therapeutic and help ease feelings of isolation, she said. It can also help students eliminate any guilt they feel for having trouble adjusting to their own culture, she said.

“Study abroad is meant to inspire comparison between where you go and your own culture,” Rees said. “Talking about issues is important.”

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Students return to campus for Spring semester but some experience reverse culture shock from their study abroad trips.

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Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that gave constitutional protection to a woman’s right to abort, had its 40th anniversary on Feb. 5.

Mixed reactions surround Roe v. Wade 40th anniversary

BY LAUREN PRICE Staff Reporter

Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that extended constitutional protection to a woman’s right to abort, has set legal precedent for years and continues to create controversy in the American political landscape.

History professor Anne Boylan said Roe v. Wade happened during a time when many changes involving family structure occurred, such as practices towards contraception and divorce. The decision, which had its 40th anniversary on Feb. 5, was beneficial to the women’s rights movement, but has been used as a tool in politics, she said.

“The problem is that political parties have found out that they can use reproductive rights to mobilize voters on both sides during elections,” she said.

The Republican Party, which has long advocated conservative interpretations of the Constitution, s h i f t e d politically to endorse outlawing abortion during the ‘70s in order to appeal to Catholics, who are generally against abortion, Boylan said.

Women’s studies professor Kathleen Turkell said the women’s rights movement does not follow a linear progression.

“We’ve seen an expansion, but in more recent years we’ve seen a contraction, including fights over funding for Planned Parenthood and states wanting to impose requirements that make women have vaginal ultrasounds before abortions,” Turkell said.

While the decision did guarantee abortions

constitutionality, the increase in restrictions created by states has caused backtracking in women’s rights, she said.

While abortion being legalized was a major step for women, gender discrimination still exists, Boylan said. Every step made comes with major restrictions and debates.

“It is important to remember that abortion was only one step in the big picture,” she said.

Many students believe abortion

“It is important to remember that abortion was only one step in the big picture.”

-Anne Boylan, history professor should be a right unfettered by any government regulation. The restrictions placed on it can make it a challenge, said senior women’s studies major Katrina Gearhart.

“Abortions should be easily accessible to all women in both a physical and financial sense,” she said. “Being legal simply isn’t enough.”

Senior nursing major Alexandra Meyer said the right to choose should be protected because every woman has a different reason for wanting or needing an abortion,

so it should be available for all cases.

“If women didn’t have the option to get a safe, legal abortion they would end up getting unsafe ones if they really wanted,” she said. “Making it illegal wouldn’t stop women, it would just make it more dangerous for them.”

Turkel said the fight for abortion rights is ongoing and the opponents continue to find ways to make getting an abortion difficult.

“Over the years, states have been able to carve out greater and greater ability to restrict abortion within their borders, short of making abortion illegal,” she said.

Junior education and human development major Maggie Hibner said abortion should be used sparingly, but making it illegal would be a major detriment to society. If a family is not ready to raise a child, not only will that family suffer, but so will the society that has to pay for it, she said.

“Abortion should not be looked at as a form of contraception, but as an option to ensure that a child and their family doesn’t have to suffer in society because of one mistake,” Hibner said.

Junior engineering major Rebecca Ellis said that abortion should be legal for cases of emergency such as rape or a mother’s risk of death, and making it illegal would be a great disservice to the victims. Besides though circumstances, she says abortion should not be used.

“Unfortunately abortion being legal lets people use it as birth control and gender control,” she said. “These are detrimental to both the mother and our society.”

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International student enrollment rate more than triples

BY REBECCA MCCOLL Staff Reporter

Freshman Abdullah AlSinaidi, who chose to come to the university from Oman, said he has enjoyed his time at Delaware and thinks the university does an excellent job of integrating foreign students into American culture.

“I think they are doing more than enough,” Al-Sinaidi said.

“It’s all about us and if we commit to being engaged to the activities that the university gives us.”

Enrollment rates for international students have increased annually since 2007.

From that year to 2011 there was a 365 percent increase.

Michael Alexo, an admissions staff assistant at the English Language Institute, stated in an email message that the current enrollment at the ELI is about 660 students. He said this number has increased by over 10 percent from last year.

While Al-Sinaidi normally does not like schoolwork he said taking ELI courses is the first time he has enjoyed class. He said he chose to come here because the university is so highly ranked.

Al-Sinaidi said he has made many friends from living in his dorm and participating in pickup games at the university’s gym.

He said he thinks the American students he interacts with have been sociable and accepting.

“It’s really indescribable how friendly they are,” Al-Sinaidi said. “You can’t really find that in other places.”

Junior Mengdi Zhang, an international business and marketing major with a minor in

German, came from China to study at the ELI. Zhang, whose parents applied for her to attend school in United States without telling her, said the influx of international students attending the university has become increasingly evident.

Zhang said while she has noticed a general increase in international students, she has specifically noticed a rise in enrollment of students from China and Saudi Arabia.

Students at the ELI are coming from a diverse array of backgrounds, Alexo said.

“I think we are very openminded as a campus and very accepting as a whole.”

-Alexis Miller, junior “80 percent of our students are currently from Saudi Arabia, China, Kuwait and Brazil,” Alexo said. “Over 30 other countries are represented in the next 20 percent.”

Last spring, the ELI implemented the Conditional Admittance Program Cohort Model that organizes students of different nationalities into small groups to develop friendships and linguistic, academic and cross cultural skills, according to the ELI website.

Zhang said many students from abroad are attracted to the university because American higher education is held in high esteem internationally.

She said her parents were the ones who encouraged her to come to an American school because they believed it would provide her with a quality education.

Despite the increase of students in the ELI, Zhang said she feels the university does not do much to help foreign students connect with American students.

However, she said she has made friends on campus and finds American students to be very welcoming.

“They are really friendly, polite and helpful,” Zhang said.

Zhang said she bonded with American students through joining extracurricular activities, such as fencing and German clubs. She said she also met students while studying abroad in Germany this past winter.

Junior Alexis Miller, a triple language major at the university, said she met her roommate, a Beijing native, as a freshman when she joined the International Culture Club on campus. The pair met at an ELI and International Culture Club event and have been close friends and roommates for two years, she said.

Miller said she thinks many international students are attracted to the university because of the diversity and acceptance of the student population.

“I think we are very openminded as a campus and very accepting as a whole,” Miller said. “For students who want to broaden their horizons and meet

wewstudents from all over the place, I think UD is a good option for that.”

Although the university does have programs such as the ELI and International Culture Club, most of the interactions between American and international students remain on an academic rather than social level, Miller said.

She said although the university offers some resources, the responsibility lies on students to make connections on their own.

Regardless of whether there were more resources available, it might not make a difference, Miller said.

“Even if we had a lot of programs, it is mostly up to the students whether they want to

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Eighty percent of ELI students are currently from Saudi Arabia.

Obama looks for new Director of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights

BY MATT BUTLER Staff Reporter

After the resignation of Samantha Power, the top White House official on human rights, was announced on Feb. 4, President Barack Obama will now need to find a new Director of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, in addition to various other

cabinet positions.

Power said she was stepping down from the president’s cabinet in order to spend more time with her family.

She served on the National Security Council since Obama took office in 2009. The former journalist has been a leading human rights advocate since her Pulitzer Prize-

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Power served on the National Security Council since Obama took office in 2009.

winning book, “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” and an advisor to Obama since March 2008.

William Meyer, political science and international relations professor, said Power’s biggest contribution to human rights developments has been her book, which he said changed the way genocide is studied.

The Obama administration’s record on human rights was a principal concern for Power, Meyer said, and the human rights movement has benefitted from her attention to it, although some steps have been limited by Congress “Her book had a major impact on the scholarship of genocide,” Meyer said. “It’s really remarkable that she started out as a journalist and ended up having such an impact on scholarly research.”

Meyer said some human rights advocates have pointed to the drone strike policy as the Obama administration’s downfall, but even with that, the administration’s actions have been positive.

Junior Adam Breiner said he does not think Power made the best decisions in her position, however. Although Powers received much attention for her insistence on military action in Libya, it is too early to tell whether the move was beneficial or not, he said.

“With the intervention, although it allowed the rebels to win, it’s pretty

much lawless [in Libya] now,” Breiner said. “I’m still kind of divided on the situation. I think it depends on how Libya improves or declines from now.”

Breiner said the current problems in Mali have resulted from militant groups involved in the Libyan uprising. After the Libyan war ended, these groups traveled south to Mali and continued to fight there, he said.

He said he thought the United States could have more of an impact on rebellions that have resulted from the Arab Spring.

“In Egypt, when the uprising happened, we could have made a real difference by helping out earlier,” Breiner said. “We didn’t have to commit to military intervention, or anything like that. We can voice our support for the side that is clearly morally correct.”

Senior Tom Wilson said he believes fewer human rights advocates in the White House might be slightly beneficial to forming foreign policy.

“When the U.S. intervenes it causes further conflict,” Wilson said.

“Eventually, that leads to us putting our own economic resources into resolving that economic conflict when we have our own economic crises to worry about.”

Vitor Teixeira Nascimento, a Brazilian exchange student, also said he thinks the Obama administration should be less involved in the affairs of

other countries.

He said the United States is one of the top contributors when it comes to stopping human rights crises as they arise, but the country should not necessarily step in all the time.

“Sometimes, when there are two sides to the story, the United States picks the side they agree with, instead of the side that is right,” Nascimento said. “I don’t think that the United States should be intervening, I think it should be the United Nations.”

Nascimento also said if the United Nations was to solve a conflict, as opposed to the United States, it might reach a fairer agreement because it is not motivated by other special interests.

Power’s resignation does not necessarily signal an end to her contributions to the administration, however. Power is “likely to return,” although no decisions have been made regarding her future in the administration, according to the National Security Council’s official statement on Power’s departure.

Breiner said the administration and the military might benefit from the absence of Power.

“Her real foreign policy seems to be military intervention,” Breiner said. “So if that’s the policy that she continues to pursue, I think a return to the administration would have a negative effect.”

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Students ring in Chinese New Year at UD

BY MICHAEL GOLDSTEIN Staff Reporter

The Lion Dancer, a traditional figure used during the celebration of the Chinese New Year, sat still behind the masters of ceremonies as they gave their opening acknowledgements Saturday in Mitchell Hall. As soon as Newark Mayor Vance A. Funk III stepped off the stage, the Penn Lions, a traveling Philadelphia region collegiate lion dance troupe, began to beat their drums as the Lion Dancer rose from its stance. This signaled the start of the celebration of the Year of the Snake and of the Chinese New Year Gala.

The festival, which is hosted annually by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, is a celebration of the Chinese New Year at the university, said Vice President of CSSA jand unior Janel Lo. They host the festival every year to show the importance of the New Year, she said.

“The Lunar New Year is our biggest event, so we put a lot of effort into it,” Lo said. “We hope people enjoy it as much as we do.”

Freshman Jiaiqi Ding said she was one of the many international students who attended the event.

Ding said the snake is part of the Chinese Zodiac, which consists of 12 animals, each representing a year, so the snake is associated with 2013, she said.

“The New Year is like our Christmas,” Ding said. “[The Festival is] a good way to have fun

and meet new friends.”

The gala consisted of a series of dance, stand up and vocal performances. Though labeled “The Chinese New Year Gala,” the festival also incorporates some traditional American Performances like the “Ever After: Red Riding Hood and Granny, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella and Step Sisters.”

Ballet is one of the most beautiful aspects of American culture, and the club wanted to show that in the gala, Ding said.

One of the vocal performances, the Peking Opera’s “Drunken Beauty,” performed by Linghui Tu, expressed the story of the rare and favorite concubine of the Tang Dynasty’s Emperor Xuanzhong.

Lo said spending the New Year at home in China with her family, where she would watch the festival on television and see the celebrations in the street, was amazing.

“We would watch the lion dances and go to the market festivals set up in the streets,” Lo said. “This Gala is only a tiny part of what the New Year really is.”

Though the New Year campus gala cannot match the celebrations in China, the local festivities represent a significant time for Chinese students on campus, the Director of the New Year Gala Yue Pang said.

“At home, I’m with my family,” Pang said. “Here, I’m with my friends, we make dumplings and watch the festival on the

computer, not the TV. I miss the food back home.”

The New Year is important to the Chinese, Ding said and her grandparents celebrated it for years before she did, she said. It is not about the lights or the performances; it is a time to be with family and friends, she said.

Pang said she celebrates by perfecting her performances. The club has been working on their performances since September, and Pang specifically choreographed the Dragonfly performance and practiced her various other dance acts, she said.

The CSSA hosts the gala to give foreign students a taste of home, but their hospitality to international students is year round, Lo said.

“I joined this club to learn more about Chinese culture, and they’ve been so great of accepting me,” Lo said. “They didn’t care that I was from another country.”

For those who can’t be with their families, she said the festival and the club allows students to celebrate the New Year with people they care about.

Along with the gala, the CSSA hosts other occasions such as networking events and bus trips to Six Flags and Rehoboth, Lo said, but the New Year is their most highlighted event, as the organizers aim to make students feel as though they were celebrating in China.

“The performances were great,” Lo said. “There were some technical difficulties, but we worked through them like a family.”

This year marks the Year of the Snake.

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Keno sweeps Newark bar scene, brings state revenue MICHAEL GOLDSTEIN Staff Reporter

Kraig Cobbins downed his drink and pushed it aside in frustration.

Only four of the numbers he chose —8, 30, 12 and 56—matched the keno drawings, not enough for

a payout. The Deer Park Tavern regular shook his head and looked to his friend sitting nearby.

“It’s not my day,” Cobbins said.

Cobbins, 27, Newark, is one of the many people in Delaware warming up to keno, a gambling game introduced in the state on

Delaware is the 14th state to introduce keno, a gambling game.

Jan. 23. In keno, which is similar to bingo, a player chooses up to 10 numbers between one and 80, and 20 are drawn. The payout is based on how many numbers a player picked and how many they matched.

Delaware is the 14th state to offer keno, according to

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Product Marketing Specialist for the Delaware State Lottery Cheryl Couvillion.

“Keno is just another way to promote our games, casinos and generate revenue,” Couvillion said.

The largest payout the Delaware Lottery has had for keno was $1,600, Couvillion said. Keno is played every day, every four minutes from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. at participating locations, she said, such as Malin’s Market, Wize Guyz Sports Lounge and Books and News.

Ken Malin, one of the owners of Malin’s Market, said certain businesses play keno at their sites to boost revenue and sales. While owners make a nickel on every dollar spent playing keno, the game is popular enough among customers to draw them to the store, Malin said.

“The keno player is a different player altogether, some people who won’t play the lottery will play keno for the instant gratification” Malin said.

Patrick Morton, drawing manager at the Maryland State Lottery, said state gambling officials often bring in games that work in other states with similar populations, demographics and economic standards.

“It’s a successful game,” Morton said. “For the longest time, keno was one of our top two selling games.”

Mike Cahill, bartender and manager at Wize Guyz Sports

Lounge, said most players at his bar only play while waiting for drinks. He said he is hopeful keno will eventually take off as it did in Maryland, but for now customers play it as side entertainment rather than the main attraction.

“People don’t come to the bar specifically to play keno, but they tie into other items like a live band or a DJ,” Cahill said.

But those who play more regularly could be heading toward an obsession or addiction, Marketing Coordinator of the call-in CARE Treatment Center Selena Mercado said. She has yet to receive a call or had a patient who had a gambling problem with keno, but she related the nature of the game to slot machines and card games, which people often have a problem with.

The fact that it’s played every four minutes throughout the day doesn’t help either, Mercado said.

“It’s just like how people could become addicted to video games” Mercado said. “It’s that stimuli people receive from playing, like how a pothead feels great after smoking pot.”

After his fourth losing game of the day, Cobbins closed his tab, put on his jacket and readied to leave.

He said he plays every time he sits at the bar, but he doesn’t think he has a problem.

“It’s something to do while we’re waiting,” Cobbins said. “I haven’t hit big, but I’ll keep playing.”

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Clothes in the Past Lane will be moving its storefront to 70 East Main Street, where the Newark Newsstand previously stood.

Clothes in the Past Lane to revamp look

BY ELENA BOFFETTA

on Main Street. Blow dry bars offer makeup and blow dries but does not any shampoos or haircuts, Sandi Patterson, owner of Malloy said and Gloss will remain Clothes in the Past Lane, said when open with these services. her store opens in its new location “This concept is very popular in the fall, she wants to decorate in big cities,” Malloy said. “Why the walls with vivid colors that not downtown Newark as well? will reflect the ’50s and ’60s style The city has huge fashion, great of her clothing. restaurants and this is another idea “The look will have a retro to bring to downtown Newark.” feel to it with bright colors,” Malloy said the blow dry bar’s Patterson said. “We will also be services will cost a moderate price shortening a lot of our vintage that can fit students’ budgets. The as people have troubles with the store will also sell some Bumble length of vintage clothing.” and Bumble hair care products and It is all part of her plan to Bare Escentuals makeup. build a more retail-oriented and Senior Ellen Del Collo said wheelchair accessible store that she thinks the concept of a blow will offer more cocktail dresses dry bar is interesting and she and long gowns, would try it if she Patterson said. had an occasion Construction where she needed to will begin this have her hair styled. summer at Clothes “I don’t think in the Past Lane’s the location change new location, really makes 70 E. Main St., a difference.” where the Newark Delcollo said.

N e w s s t a n d “Students who previously stood. used to shop there Patterson will continue to said after seven shop there, and the years of offering dry bar will attract a selection of new customers.” new and retro Senior Katie clothes, at the Galgano said she current location is also interested of 56 E. Main St., in the concept of she decided to a blow dry bar and relocate because she will check it out she is unsure of -Ellen Del Collo, senior when it will open. her landlord’s But according plans for the to Galgano, that building in the future. won’t be the only thing drawing At the new location, Patterson in customers. People have a desire said she not only plans to offer for vintage and retro clothing so alterations to the clothes at a the store’s new look could attract minimal price, but to partner with more customers, she said. the hair and makeup salon Gloss as “I don’t know if it’s because well. The store will also feature a of ‘Mad Men’ on TV, but the ’50s blow dry bar—a new beauty salon and ’60s have been reflected a lot,” concept popular in New York and Galgano said. “So if this trend Los Angeles, according to Bethany continues it will be interesting to Malloy, 35, owner of Gloss salon see how it will affect the store.”

City News Desk Editor

Obama vows to protect power grid

BY TC VU Staff Reporter

During his State of the Union address on Feb. 12, President Barack Obama made it clear his administration will focus on protecting the nation from cyberattacks.

“Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems,” Obama said. “We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy.”

Congress needs to pass legislation to help secure US computer networks, Obama said. Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a press release on Feb. 6 that the country is targeted by “thousands of cyberattacks every day.”

“We have got to have the capability to stay ahead of this new challenge in the face of what I believe is a growing threat to our economy and a growing threat to our critical infrastructure,” Panetta said.

With national policy makers realizing the importance of cybersecurity, the university has started a seminar this semester based on the subject.

Electrical and computer engineering professor Chase Cotton said he teaches the course along with Stephan Bohacek, a fellow professor in the department.

“Cybersecurity is really a new word for an old term,” Cotton said.

“It stands for computer and network security—security for the computer

itself and how computers talk to one another.”

Cotton said 64 students enrolled in the class, including computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics and business majors. JPMorgan Chase paid to develop the class, Cotton said.

However, cybersecurity isn’t just for technical majors, Cotton said. He said he hopes the university creates a multidisciplinary major.

“If it became a major, there would definitely be a policy course,” he said. “A big part of cybersecurity is procedures for criminal evidence.”

He said the course will touch on a wide array of topics, including a an overview on cryptography, the science of securing communication using codes.

Electrical engineering major Christopher Abrahamsen enrolled in the class after he participated in an internship focused on cybersecurity this past summer. Abraham said he is interested in the class because of a passion to understand how devices work.

“Learning about the hacking techniques used by ‘bad guys’ interests me because it helps me understand how devices and computer networks function, as well as teaches me ways to secure a system,” Abrahamsen said.

The more he becomes aware of the use of computer networks for everything from personal finance to national security, the more he thinks it is important for users to secure themselves, Abrahamsen said.

Cotton said there a few steps anyone can take in order to secure their devices, such as keeping operating

software up to date, purchasing and maintaining antivirus software and avoiding opening emails from unknown addresses.

In the cybersecurity world, Anonymous, a group infamous for hacking into the US Justice Department, is known for making political statements through their ability to manipulate cybersecurity, Cotton said. The group tends to exploit corporations and government organizations and release sensitive documents to the public.

“They’re super whistle-blowers with exotic tools,” he said. “And it’s hard to pin them down because they’re not a formal organization. And hard to understand — is it Anonymous, or is it not?”

Senior electrical engineering major Safwat Saad said he has never been hacked but is enrolled in the class this semester because he realized the importance of staying secure.

“Everything connects online,” Saad said. “Everything is going out and you don’t know where it goes.”

High profile attacks, such as the hack on the PlayStation Network and daily hacks of Twitter accounts, made Saad more aware of his need of online protection, even though he has no plans to pursue cybersecurity as a career path, he said.

Cotton said he wants to clarify the image of the prototypical hacker, which is often misconstrued by Hollywood.

He said movies are somewhat realistic, but they sensationalize the techniques hackers employ.

“It doesn’t represent the nominal person doing cyber exploits today,” he said.

“I don’t think the location change really makes a difference.

Students who used to shop there will continue to shop there.”

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Fatal drone strike on American citizen sparks controversy US govt. needs to establish clear definitions as to what constitutes as a justified drone attack A  recently  leaked  memo  concerning  the  country’s  use  of  drone  warfare  from  the  United  States  Justice  Department  has  sparked  a  considerable  amount  of  controversy  within  the  American  public  sphere.  Written  in  2011,  the  memo  reveals  a  past  drone  strike  that  successfully  targeted  and  killed  Anwar  Al-­Awlaki,  a  U.S.  citizen  living  in  Yemen  and  who  was  allegedly  associated  with  Al-­Qaeda.  Throughout  the  entire  war  on  terror,  the  United  States  government  has  strongly  advocated  for  and  utilized  drone  technology  in  various  counterterrorism  measures.  While  the  popular  belief  seemingly  accepts  the  use  of  drones  as  a  necessary  evil  in  modern  warfare,  the  fact  that  the  U.S.  government  uses  them  to  target  known  American  citizens  is  a  violation  of  basic  our  constitutional  rights.  The  leaked  memo  reminds  people  of  the  issues  surrounding  drone  use.  According  to  the  constitution,  all  U.S.  citizens  are  guaranteed  the  due  process  of  law.  If  the  U.S.  government  was  VR FHUWDLQ RI $O $ZODNLÂśV DIÂżOLDWLRQ with  a  terrorist  organization,  why  did  they  kill  him  before  subjecting  him Â

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Open relationships need rules in order to be successful

Underlying motives behind open relationships cause skepticism, doubt among student body College  students  and  young  people  everywhere  are  entering  into  “open  relationshipsâ€?  w hich  a re  gaining  more  and  more  popularity.  While  the  term  is  loosely  defined  and  takes  numerous  shapes  and  forms,  the  absence  of  commitment  is  an  underlying  characteristic  consistent  throughout  them  all.  The  concept  can  be  foreign  and  confusing  to  many,  but  also  very  understandable  and  reasonable  to  others.  However,  before  young  people  decide  an  open  relationship  is  for  them,  they  need  to  establish  strict  rules  and  boundaries  in  order  to  maintain  stability  and  keep  emotional  turmoil  to  a  minimum.  Open  relationships  are  common  among  college  students  because  many  crave  the  emotional  security  a  significant  other  provides  but  also  want  to  take  advantage  of  the  endless  supply  of  available  single  students.  Open  relationships  are  not  a  recent  phenomenon  and  have  been  around  forever;Íž  only  the  label  is Â

new.  Without  a  doubt  the  label  gives  your  open  relationship  a  better  chance  of  lasting,  but  the  underlying  motives  behind  them  will  r eveal  a  v oid  i n  t he  r elationship  ultimately  leading  to  its  demise.

Open  relationships  satisfy  the  short-­term  goals  of  young  people  and  provide  a  false  sense  of  security.  T hey  allow  for  couples  to  “have  their  cake  and  eat  it  too.â€?  However,  people  involved  in  open  relationships  are  often  merely  looking  out  for  their  self-­ interests  and  lack  an  intense  level  of  connection  found  in  couples  in  more  traditional  relationships.  In  open  relationships,  commonly  one  party  does  not  completely  satisfy  the  needs  of  the  other;Íž  therefore,  the  lacking  party  feels  the  need  to  explore  other  options.  Although  short-­term  interests  are  being  fulfilled,  open  relationships  serve  as  a  cop-­out  option  to  traditional  dating  experiences  and  should  be  pursued  with  caution. Â

“Monogamy  is  overrated.�

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Corrections: From  last  week’s  front  page  stories  “See  COURTROOM�  should  read  “See  BRIDGEFORTH.�  “See  TURKEY�  should  read  “See  PEASNALL.�  “See  POPE�  should  read  “See  ADAMS.�

On  the  front  page,  the  article  titled  “Bombing  of  U.S.  embassy  draws  mixed  response�  continues  on  page  16,  not  page  11.

Page  two  of  the  last  issue  was  incorrectly  printed  from  the  previous  While  You  Were  Gone  issue.

On  page  six,  the  caption  of  the  photograph  in  the  top  left  corner  is  incorrect.  The  photograph  is  of  the  former  Secretary  of  State,  Hillary  Clinton,  not  U.S.  Sen.  John  Kerry  (D-­Mass.).

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Facebook, social media use excessive, unnecessary Rosie Brinckerhoff

?m]kl ;gdmefakl People should focus less on documenting their lives on Facebook and more on the world around them.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” It is my personal belief Charles Dickens made this statement based on a premonition he had that one day, a terribly awesome and awful website called “Facebook” would come into existence.

He knew.

It is fair to say Facebook is a blessing and a curse taking the form of a white and blue website. Sure, Facebook lets us share our important moments in life with hundreds of people (some we have only met once), but isn’t it time we evaluate the reason why we use it?

I understand some people utilize Facebook in good faith. They use it to reconnect with friends living in faraway countries or to share pictures of their vacation with distant family members. However, these people are a rare exception nowadays.

Today, Facebook has become a place for people to brag and gloat about their lives and accomplishments. People use Facebook to get a cyber pat on the back from both friends and strangers. When you think about it, we really make posts on Facebook that make others think we are funny, hot, cute, smart, interesting and worldly. It’s time to face the truth: we don’t use Facebook to connect others anymore;; we use it in shameless self-­ promotion.

I’m looking at my “News Feed” right now. Here are the recent stories: there is a photo album filled with pictures of a girl and her boyfriend. I see this as a cry for attention. She wants us all to know someone loves her so we can waste away in jealousy.

There is an album of a girl with her friends at a bar and it is obvious she wants us all to know she has a “cool” life and has enough friends to be considered socially popular.

There is an album of a guy on vacation at an international beach who wants us all to see his toned body and believe he gained insight on the world. When we are on Facebook, aren’t we just there to seek validation that our lives are exceptional?

We need to step away from Facebook.

We need to disconnect from it and actually live and love our lives for what they truly are and not what we try to portray them as. Everything we put on Facebook, even subconsciously, we do so in order for someone to “like” it or comment on it and

give us the affirmation and self-­validation we crave so badly.

If we all got off Facebook, we would be happier. Our Facebook friends are just miniature documentaries we follow. We watch their lives unfold and keep clicking back to compare ourselves to them. Is it healthy? No. Facebook is an addiction and while there is no Alcoholics Anonymous for Facebook abusers, there needs to be a reality check.

Liberating ourselves from the prison of Facebook would free us from comparison, jealousy and unwarranted curiosity. It would make us happier. Why are we so concerned with documenting the ins and outs of our lives? It’s almost as though we are trying so hard to show everyone else we are happy, good looking and successful that we are not paying attention to whether or not we truly encompass those characteristics.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m a social media fiend. Some people rely on coffee to get them through the day, but I rely on Twitter. I love Facebook and all social media sites and it’s very fair to say I’m an Internet troll. I’m not some crazy anti-­technology hippie by any means, I’m just your average girl who noticed that Facebook is taking over the joy and content in our lives. Mark Zuckerberg, your creation is robbing us of the simplest pleasures in life.

Do I think everyone will delete their Facebook after reading this? Of course not

and I won’t delete mine either. I just want people to be more aware of the fact that life exists outside of Facebook. We have started forgetting how to interact with one another in person and that is a bitter and sad truth to face.

Happiness shouldn’t be measured by how many likes or comments you get on a picture. You shouldn’t need others to approve of your life choices, your significant other or even your outfit on Facebook. If something makes you happy in life, the important part is going for it and actively pursuing happiness.

Reporting back to the rest of the world is not necessary. If someone has a problem with your choices, then it is probably a sign they shouldn’t be in your life anyways.

Facebook is Facebook and it will always be there. Your life, on the other hand, is made up of an undisclosed amount of years. You won’t always be alive on Earth, so start living your life for yourself and stop worrying about documenting it for everyone else. In the end, the memories and satisfaction will remain in your heart and that matters much more than impersonal “likes” and “comments.”

Rosie Brinckerhoff is a guest columnist for The Review. Her viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of The Review staff. Please send comments to rbrinck@ udel.edu.

Modern social movements lack central leadership Dillon McLaughlin

?m]kl ;gdmefakl Without strong centralized leaders, social movements in the modern world lose traction and fall short of their goals.

Over the past few months, I became obsessed with Batman. I got into it because I bought the two most recent and highly impressive Arkham video games. I’ve logged more than 72 hours worth of time into the two of them combined. At first I started playing because of the solid mechanics of the game. With the tight game play, awesome storyline, recognizable villains and Batman it was everything you would want in a good game. But then I started to think.

Maybe I didn’t like Batman because he was a superhero;; maybe it was because he appeals to the more ideological a spect o f m y personality. So I re-­watched the movies and picked up some of my dad’s old Knightfall comic books. Instead of just looking at the pictures, I read them closely. I bought “The Killing Joke” at Captain Blue Hen Comics

and I read it in an hour. A nd the whole point of the Batman finally hit home with me and then a bit more. Batman is more relevant now than he ever has been.

There’s always going to be the timeless objective of Batman being a symbol.

The man can be broken, but the image is incorruptible. However, the symbol of a strong figurehead resonates deeper than I originally thought.

The modern world is a highly divisive and polarized place. We, as an American society, are still fighting over whether or not same sex couples deserve equal rights or i f a n a ssault r ifle i s s omething t hat p eople really n eed. N ot t o m ention h ow t he o riginal Occupy m ovement w as k nocked o ff t rack b y people who misunderstood the point of it. It was t o p rotest t he h orrendously m anipulative business practice by the financial sector, not for everyone to complain about student loans. But without a prominent and strong leader, important issues remain unfocused and movements crumble.

Think of the movements that were effective, the ones that we remember.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X for the civil rights and other social movements in the ‘60s, Gandhi’s entire life and our own A merican R evolution a nd t he F ounding Fathers to name a few. These figureheads are what we are missing in modern protests or reforms. There is no single person that comes to mind for the majority of the

public when gay rights or financial reform is mentioned.

I get what Occupy was trying to do by not naming a single leader. It gives the impression of total equality. But is it really so bad to have a single person speak for a movement? Leaders provide focus and motivation and also act as a constant reminder of what you are fighting for.

Having Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman certainly did not hurt the post-­war civil rights movement.

Truthfully, I w as e xcited f or t he O ccupy movement. We, the people, were finally going to hold the corrupt banking system accountable. We would finally make some progress and re-­humanize the borrower instead o f a llowing b anks t o s ee u s a s s imple sources of revenue. But then, people that misinterpreted the problem corrupted the movement. A massive influx of borderline irrelevant, “we are the 99 percent” cards hit the Internet and that became all the news media could talk about.

Without a unifying leader, focus was shifted from the legitimate goals of the movement to the sense of entitlement present in the Millennial Generation.

Examples like these makes me think we need a Batman for the Occupy movement, modern civil rights, for gun control, and all major societal issues. We need someone who stands for the cause’s central ideas.

This lack of a rallying point is why I’m

hopeful after Sandy Hook. It’s tragic and I can’t even imagine what their community is going through. But maybe, just maybe, we can find some good in all this. Maybe Sandy Hook can become the symbol for gun control. Maybe now something will actually change. Maybe the assault weapon ban could be reinstated, or stronger background checks drawn up, or maybe we’ll at least start enforcing laws already on the books.

We need someone to remind us of our responsibility, as people, to treat everyone else like people, to push against the bigots as h ard a s t hey p ush a gainst u s, t o d o f or g ay rights what King did for A frican-­Americans and to fight against the fact that somehow America gave more rights to businesses than it did to its citizens. Same-­sex couples aren’t a sking u s t o o verhaul s ociety. T hey’re asking u s f or a b asic s ocial r ight, t he r ight t o ceremonially show that they want to spend the rest of their life with their partner.

Maybe that’s what Batman is to us now.

The kind of symbol we lost somewhere down the road, and the kind we need to find again.

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

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U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway to visit university ALEC RUBENSTEIN Staff Reporter

THE REVIEW/Emma Rando

An example of a scam email recieved by a university student.

Phishing hits UD faculty, students

BY KELLY LYONS Managing News Editor

Thousands of students and faculty members found at least one fraud email in their inboxes during the first week of the semester. Those who clicked on these emails were asked to provide their UDelNet IDs and passwords, according to IT Communication Group Manager Richard Gordon.

Gordon said over 100 people gave this information and found themselves victim to a phishing scam.

Phishing scams artists send out mass emails hoping to get responses so they can steal the responders’ personal information, Gordon said.

The phishers can get access to the financial records of these people and they can also sell their email addresses to other phishers.

“It’s trying to trick you into surrendering your own information,” Gordon said.

Although Gordon said campus email addresses receive hundreds of these emails on a daily basis, the IT center received an uptick in the numbers of complaints from Feb. 3 until Feb. 7.

The students unknowingly gave their information to a website that claimed to be university-affiliated, and once spammers had control of some university accounts, they sent more spam from the accounts.

When the IT center gets a report from someone who has been hacked, they have to put a freeze on all of their university Internet accounts, he said.

Gordon said they see a rise in phishing scams at the beginning of every semester. Gordon also saw a rise in emails last August and last February.

He said this time of year might be easier for hackers to get more responses.

“There’s a bunch of fresh persons coming in,” Gordon said. “It’s taking advantage of them not knowing their way around.”

This case of phishing was one of many that university email addresses

receive throughout a semester. Senior Keith Elliott received one of these emails earlier this year.

When Elliott received an email from a website claiming to be Twitter on his school email, he was asked to follow a link to sign in to the social media website. After following the link, however, he noticed the URL was spelled differently than the legitimate website’s URL and realized he had received an email from phishing account.

Elliott thinks many people who fall victim these scams neglect to check the small details of their emails.

“I think a lot of people don’t usually think to look at the URL or other things that are indicators of a fake address because they’re so used to having all the passwords saved in their browsers so that whenever they go to websites, they don’t have to log in again,” Elliott said.

Gordon said many scams change the URL slightly to a website, including the phishers from the beginning of this semester.

Phishing is not as hard of a task as many people think, Gordon said.

He said that anyone “with adequate Google skills can look up how to do it.”

If people have realized they have given their personal information to a potential scammer soon afterward, students can still block the scammers from making any changes, according to IT Support Center Supervisor Cecilia Kerlin.

“We advise you to change your password to something very different than what it was [immediately],” Kerlin said.

Gordon had advice for students and faculty in order to not fall victim to these scams.

“Any email that asks for personal information, delete it,” Gordon said.

“Any email that contains something really outlandish, delete it.”

Experts from across the nation, including U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway, will visit Newark throughout the semester to take part in a workshop series celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Several departments are organizing the “Emancipation Semester,” according to history professor and event coordinator Anne Boylan.

“For a long time, white Americans didn’t do much with Emancipation, now that we’re on the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, I think those themes are becoming more visible,” Boylan said The semester long celebration will culminate on April 6 at 12:30 p.m. with the Emancipation Symposium, which will include speakers presenting their research on the Emancipation Proclamation.

Boylan said the Delaware Historical Society has been instrumental in facilitating the Emancipation Symposium.

Tretheway, who Boylan named “the star” of the event, will read one of her pieces there.

“I don’t think we ever expected to get the poet laureate to come,” Boylan said. “She is a very busy woman, but she is taking the time to come to us.”

Following the presentations, a reception will be held at Town Hall, Boylan said. The rest of

the semester will feature events centered on President Lincoln’s famous document.

Weekly workshops are slotted for every Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. in 203 Munroe Hall, Boylan said. The sessions will be led by university professors as well as professors from Emory University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

“It is important to remember the past issues of inequality that has scarred our nation’s history.”

-Kyle Kreider, freshman The workshops will cover a variety of emancipation topics such as American sectionalism, religion and race in post-Emancipation black churches and abolition in the Spanish Caribbean.

There are also weekly “Research on Race, Ethnicity and Culture” talks offered every Wednesday at 12:20 p.m. in 223 Gore Hall.

She said all the speakers have been eager to work and interact

with the students.

Freshman Kyle Kreider said the anniversary of the document is important to celebrate and gave the nation a sense of “fulfilling unity.”

“It is important to remember the past issues of inequality that has scarred our nation’s history,” he said.

“Everybody has been very generous,” Boylan said “They don’t get paid to do this about the guest speakers. They are all volunteering their time to do this.”

Along with professors lending their expertise to the workshops, many university departments have contributed in other ways, Boylan said.

“The Humanities Forum is providing us with funding,” Boylan said. “We submitted a grant and they very nicely gave us a grant.

But in order to do that we had to get matching funds, so we had to raise money within the university.”

She said academic departments such as the Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, the English Department, the Black American Studies Department, the Women and Gender Studies Department, the university library, the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Center for Black Culture contributed funding to secure the grant.

Senior Kate Petrick said she has might attend some of the events.

“It’s not every day you get to learn about such an integral time in our countries history,” she said.

Bo Bartley contributed to the reporting of this article.

Day: ‘This case is under investigation and we are not releasing any more information’

They found no sign of foul play when the body was discovered. The body has been turned over to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy.

“This case is under investigation and we are not releasing any more information,” Day said.

Rick Faulkner said if anyone has any further information about

this case to contact the police.

“It’s a shame his two beautiful girls will never know their father,” Rick Faulkner said.

“He was only 21, He was at the beginning of his life.”

Anyone with additional information on the incident should contact the police by calling the Major Crimes Unit at Troop 2 at (302) 834-2630 or Crime Stoppers at (800) TIP-3333.

The Emancipation Symposium will take place on April 6 at 12:30 p.m.

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Heritage Brass Quintet to perform in Newark

BY ELENA BOFFETTA City News Desk Editor

Enrolling in the military does not necessarily mean enrolling as a soldier on the ground, as some people enroll in the military as musicians such as the five members of the Heritage Brass Quintet who will perform in Newark tonight.

The Heritage Brass Quintet, part of the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band, will perform a free concert at Newark High School at 7 p.m.

The quintet is composed of five artists including Master Sgt. John Cisar, the trombone player, Technical Sgt. Jonathan Rattay and Staff Sgt. James Lantz, the trumpet players, Senior Airman Emily Britton, the French horn player and Airman First Class Colby Fahrenbacher, the tuba player. Each artist played different genres of music before becoming part of the quintet, though none sing.

“Traditionally there is no singing in the brass band although we do play very lyrical music,” Lantz said.

The concept of a United States Air Force Band became prominent during World War II when Glenn Miller enlisted in the army with his entire band and toured Europe and Asia performing music for the troops, Cisar said. The current United States Air Force Band is based on the Second World War’s model.

The United States Air Force band program is composed of a large

band with about 60 members, Lantz said. This larger band is divided into 10 smaller bands, which are then divided in smaller groups that perform different genres of music such as rock, jazz and brass.

“Every Air Force band has 25 to 30 people in it,” Cisar said. “These people are then divided to play in four to five different groups.”

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“It was neat to be able to play for the troops.”

-Technical Sgt. Jonathan Rattay Director Joe Spadafino, 50, said the quintet reached out to them saying they would be in the Newark area so the city organized the concert.

This is the first time the Heritage of America Band will perform in Newark, Spadafino said.

“They perform 300 events a year but we have been told by several people that they are great,” Spadafino said.

On Tuesday night, the quintet will play different songs and different styles from Bach to the Beatles. Britton, who is also the music director, said she chooses the music the band plays at concerts and she leads the rehearsals.

“I pitched a lot of music that I really like and a song that sticks out is ‘Michelle’ by the Beatles with a French horn solo,” Britton said. “It is hard and scary but also exciting.”

Each of the five musicians in the quintet joined the Air Force at different times and has had different experiences in their career. Cisar said he was able to see the world, discover new cultures and share his passion for music while working for the Air Force.

Rattay said he gained a lot of experience while working for the Air Force and he went into very diverse assignments since he joined the military in 2000. He said he played at different ceremonies to honor American soldiers and overseas.

“I’ve been on one deployment where we did 52 performances in a 70 days tour throughout Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar,” Rattay said. “It was neat to be able to play for the troops.”

Fahrenbacher, said he has been in the Air Force for only seven months, but even in this short time he was able to perform at different events.

In November, Fahrenbacher played with the U.S. Air Force Band stationed in Washington, D.C, he said.

“We performed at the Thanksgiving parade and I marched with 99 people down the street of New York City for two and a half miles,” he said. “There were millions of people shouting and supporting the Air Force, it was pretty exciting.”

The Heritage of America Band will perform for the first time in Newark.

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Employers seek students with internships AARON SCHLESINGER Staff Reporter

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Funk said Newark has been forced to cover shortfalls, such as raising utility cost.

Kowalko: ‘The intention is that the reimbursement does not make the budget 100 percent whole, but it is made easier’ Continued from page 1 Rep. John Kowalko (D-Del.) said the reimbursement the city could be receiving would help the city’s budgetary shortfalls.

“The intention is that the reimbursement does not make the budget 100 percent whole, but it is made easier,” Kowalko said.

Newark has been forced to cover shortfalls through other means, such as raising the cost of utilities, he said.

Funk said he hopes a bill that is currently going to committees will pass the state’s general assembly on June 30. The bill should pass barring any unforeseen disagreements, Funk said.

Employers have made it clear that they are looking to hire college graduates with internships on their resumes, which has led to greater numbers of students completing internships this year, Program Coordinator of the Student Employment and Internship Programs of the Career Services Center Scott Rappaport said.

“The more experience a student has, the more likely that the employer is going to be willing to offer them a fulltime position, and students know that,” Rappaport said.

Since summer, internship postings on the Blue Hen Careers website are 26.5 percent greater than the same time frame a year ago, Rappaport said.

However, he said this statistic does not reflect how many students are actually completing internships.

Students are looking for internships earlier in their college careers to gain valuable experience that can lead to a job or a more advanced internship, Rappaport said. They can also find out how well suited they are to a certain field and experience different industries, he said.

“It gives the student a sort of ‘tryout’ of different industries and different companies,” Rappaport said.

Jennifer Gregan-Paxton, an academic advisor in the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, said most students within the school complete an internship to fulfill their Discovery Learning Experience requirement. Every department in the college, with the exception of

the economics department, provides students with a class that allows internships to be taken for credits.

Some majors require students to complete internships in order to graduate, but Gregan-Paxton said she thinks mandatory internships are not always necessary since many students already have the drive to complete one through their own initiative.

Gregan-Paxton said an internship is valuable because it becomes a student’s first experience working in an office. Though a student may know the academic side of their chosen profession, he or she will learn much about the little things that are crucial to success in the job.

“You can’t learn in a classroom how to communicate with your coworkers, what lunch time etiquette is or how to dress appropriately,” GreganPaxton said.

Senior human services major Laurie McNamara, who is currently completing a 400-hour required internship, said she thinks having this experience on her resume will help her job prospects in a struggling economy.

“I feel like a lot of times, places that are looking for new employees want to see a lot of experience in different fields, and that you’ve not only learned about them but also applied them in the workplace,” McNamara said.

McNamara said interning for credit is a nice change from sitting in a classroom, and the field experience is a creative way to teach students. She also said due to the fact that her major can be applied to a large number of fields,

interning has helped her gain insight into different job offerings.

Senior political science major Courtney Frink said her two summer internships in Washington, D.C. were similar in content, but the networking she gained upon completing them was invaluable. She is preparing to apply to work for many of the people she connected with during her internships, she said.

“I heard over and over again in D.C. that it’s not about the grades you make, it’s about the hands you shake,” Frink said.

Although an internship is not required for the political science major, Frink said students can still complete an internship for credit.

She said a possible reason for the large increase in students participating in internships may be that they are seeking to set themselves apart from other candidates who are competing for jobs. She said a bachelor’s degree may have set someone apart in the past, but an internship may be what puts a candidate ahead of the competition today.

Both McNamara and Frink said the majority of their friends have completed at least one internship.

“So many people do internships just because they get that experience and it’s something to put on your resume,” McNamara said.

However, Frink said she believes the competitive edge interning supposedly provides may be diluted by the high numbers of students who are also interns.

“Everyone else is also doing it, so what is enough?” she said.

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Snow leopards in Tajikistan

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Snow leopard research turns deadly for grad student

BY AMBER JOHNSON Staff Reporter

Dangling off the side of a twostory building, hands clutching a makeshift rope of bed sheets, university grad student Shannon Kachel watched from above as tanks charged the streets beneath him as the city of Khorog, Tajikistan erupted with the sounds of gunfire. Kachel had expected an arduous journey to receive his master’s in Wildlife Ecology, but he never expected to risk his life and limb dodging mortar shells in the epicenter of a government attack.

Months before the chaos, in the summer of 2012, Kachel entered the Pamir mountain range for a research project documenting snow leopard populations sponsored by the university and Tom McCarthy of Panthera, an international wildcat conservation organization. Now, Kachel says he plans on continuing his research to investigate other variables regarding the declining snow leopard population, and even though he is moving on with his research, Kachel says he remains touched by his experience in Tajikistan.

His thesis asserts over-poaching of snow leopards’ prey, such as sheep and ibex, as the main factor contributing to the large cat’s diminishing numbers. Tajikistan has a lot of snow leopard habitats, Tom McCarthy says, and the country forms a genetic link between the southern population—which goes all the way across the Himalayas—and the northern population which goes up into western China, southern Siberia and Turkmenistan.

“Nobody was doing any work there so we were the first organization

to really go in and set up a program in Tajikistan for snow leopards,” Tom McCarthy says.

Kachel and his Tajik colleagues Munavvar Alidodov, Nuzar Oshurmamadov and Nosirsho Kimatshoev surveyed two regions with disparate methods in monitoring for the leopards’ prey to determine the most productive methods for conservationists.

Traipsing across “The Roof of the World,” a mountainous terrain at an altitude of 15,000 feet, Kachel installed 40 top of the line Reconyx cameras with built in infrared scanners.

He and his team set each camera four km apart covering 750 to 1000 square kilometers in each site, he says.

Before surveying their final site, the research crew returned to the city of Khorog along the Afghan border, a location the group often used to restock and rest before entering back into the rugged landscape.

Tajikistan, especially the area bordering Afghanistan, had been recovering from a civil in the ‘90s.

Government officials were still battling with civilian rebels over the territories Kachel was researching in during the summer, according to Aljazeer.

The day before a government barrage, Kachel says he recalls a tangible tension within the city, galvanized by the recent murder of senior security guard Abdullo Nazarov by local militia. The man, according to Kachel was a “notorious bully,” and it was clear to him local sympathy rested with the renegade forces.

“In the middle of the night, roughly 3 a.m. I heard some shots starting to be fired and then within a few minutes, it’s not shots in the

distance, it’s shots outside my window and windows breaking because bullets are flying and just this really intense fire fight broke out,” Kachel says.

Kachel says he and the three other inhabitants, a couple of Swiss tourists and the owner of the apartment, migrated to the bathroom in the heart of the building, clamoring into the tub to take refuge. Outside gunshots pelted nearby buildings, one embedded itself into the metal door, destroying the locking mechanism and barricading them inside.

With buildings set ablaze around them Kachel says he and his companions planned an escape route, tying together sheets so they could lower themselves to safety. Once on the ground the four maneuvered themselves through Khorog’s streets, darting behind trashcans and hiding in alleyways, he says.

“The scene appeared straight out of a video game, it was so surreal,” Kachel says.

When, after 13 hours, it appeared the government was withdrawing their troops, Kachel says he had made it safely to his partner’s mother’s house. Meanwhile his partner assisted the local fighters by establishing roadblocks.

Kachel says he could see a generational divide in terms of the local people’s sentiments regarding the situation. Many adults were striving for peace no matter what, while the younger crowd was adamant on fighting.

After the attack, he remained in the city for a few days and took in all of the damage such as rubble and trees scattering the streets, a tank-like object smoldering on a bridge and houses burning to the ground. At this

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Grad student Shannon Kachel researched snow leopards in Kajikistan point, Kachel realized his research would come to an end.

“I see the wisdom in that now even though I was pretty disappointed at the time and also had to deal with feelings of shame and guilt around leaving these people that are my friends and my partner’s mom was acting like my mom, she was hugging me and crying,” he says.

He was able to get a ride out to the capital city of Dushanbe about six hours away. After that the trip was pretty uneventful, and he was able to make it home safely, he says. However he still had to contend with leaving his research prematurely.

Kachel’s academic advisor Kyle McCarthy says the conflict was a

freak occurrence, and Tajikistan is a safe place to study.

“I was glad I had hired such a capable person for this project, I was confident he would act appropriately to remove himself from danger,” Kyle McCarthy stated in an email message.

Kachel says he still remains enraged over the government’s attack, finding it excessive.

“That town, that place, felt totally normal, those people were totally normal, they’re talking on their cell phones, driving their cars, doing their jobs like people everywhere do,” Kachel says. “It does give me an appreciation for the fact that anything is possible and not to necessarily trust the stability.”

Java Puppy brings fair trade coffee to North Campus

BY CHELSEA SIMENS Staff Reporter

Since the beginning of January, a bright green truck with a puppy’s face on it has sat next to La Tonalteca near North Campus. Students have tried inconspicuously to whip out their iPhones and take pictures of the new commodity and the owner of the truck, Mary Tipping, doesn’t mind all the attention. In fact, that is the purpose, she says.

The truck is for her business, Java Puppy, a new coffee cart that specializes in fair trade and organic products. Officially, this is their second week on campus and eighth month into their business launch but Tipping says they came here in early January to test out the area. eight months into their business launch.

As for the company’s name and image, that can be attributed to Tipping’s daughter.

“I guess she thinks adults look like caffeinated puppies when they’re on coffee,” Tipping says. “It’s definitely her baby. The dog that’s on the side of the truck is actually her dog.”

Their website features “pup of the week” as well as drink and catering options to promote their “mobile espresso truck business.”

They pride themselves on being fair trade, Tipping says, meaning farmersare getting a fair share for what they do with an environmentallyaware bonus in accordance with Java

Puppy’s business statement to only promote fair trade and to give back to non-profits. Also, all of the beans, loose teas and brownies they use are certified organic fair. Tippings says they give between 1 to10 percent of the profits to Delaware non-profits and for charity events they always give 10 percent.

And Tipping is not running the business solo. Her business partner, Karla Flesh, handles scheduling, coordinates events and runs the truck on weekends. They got into business together because of their similar visions for java. Their mutual fascination with the food truck phenomenon around the nation and their strong interest in coffee.

But it wasn’t always about the caffiene beverages. Before she got into the Java Puppy business, Tipping worked in IT. She says she always wanted to launch her own company and running Java Puppy allows her to still use a lot of IT which she loves.

“I guess I just wanted to see where this would go or else it would just bother me for the rest of my life,” Tipping says. “With the tweeting, I can still get my geek on with that.”

Still in the early stages of opening a business, the location on Cleveland Avenue is somewhat of a prototype for the Java Puppy business. The current set-up is Java Puppy’s first in a more permanent location, which Tipping says she chose strategically.

The convenience of the truck adds to the success of business so she scouted

a place where there was a lot of traffic —both student and automobile.

In the past they have catered events such as the Brandywine arts festivals, ice cream festivals and events at the Wilmington Waterfront but Tipping says she always wanted to be in Newark with the student population in order to see if they were a good target market for Java Puppy.

Java Puppy’s most popular customers tend to be students especially those that have early classes she says, because they open at 7:30 a.m. There’s typically a rush early in the morning as well as every hour at the top of the hour before classes begin, Tipping says.

Their menu boasts a diverse selection of drinks such as drip coffee, espressos with flavors, chai teas, loose teas and hot chocolate and while no prices are listed on the cart, she offers her drinks for under $3.

But Tipping’s personal favorite item is not drinkable.

“The brownies are just decadent,” she says. “It’s hard to be in the truck with them.”

A bevy of assorted treats is available from the truck and glutenfree, sugar-free and soy products are also available for the more “specialized palettes,” according to Tipping.

Sophomore Kelsey Starner, a new customer, bought the caramel latte her first time there and says would she recommend the drink to others. The name of the truck drew

her in, but it was the coffee and its values that made her stay.

“I didn’t know they were organic, but that’s definitely a plus.”

Starner said.

In the winter, customers can warm up with a chai latte, the most popular item, Tipping says. Come summer, you can grab a cold Brew Ice Coffee, which is a thicker coffee syrup extract that is split with spring water and the result is a less acidic, sweeter-tasting cup of coffee, she says.

Java Puppy sells two blends of coffee. The “Rottweiler,” a stronger blend, and the “Feisty Pug” were both developed by local vendors “What we’re bringing is a quality product,” Tipping says. “I don’t know if the WaWa coffee

drinker is ever going to be our coffee drinker. They should know that there’s something so much better and not settle.”

Tipping says because the truck is a new concept, it will take time to build a loyal fan base. However, people are already queuing up for the Java Puppy experience, including Barbara Hanson, owner of Endless Summer Salon. She says she thinks the location and the idea of Java Puppy add to its convenience and the quality is something worthwhile for patrons.

“It’s good coffee,” Hanson says. “It’s definitely strong and it’ll definitely wake you up. Trabant is crowded and busy. Sometimes you just need something to give yourself an extra few minutes to drink.”

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Students line up for the new fair trade coffee cart located next to La Tonalteca

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Engaged students reap financial benefits

BY SARAH BRAVERMAN Staff Reporter

While students are worrying about rushing, trying to find internships or jobs and making time for studying, sophomore Kellie Wood is planning her wedding.

Along with getting married comes financial concerns, but some students find this financial insecurity to be a benefit.

Wood says she plans on marrying freshman Will Ransom this summer and not for legal status.

The couple has been together for two-and-a-half years and although they are young, she says they are fully committed to this decision.

“We talked about it for a long time, and we were both on board from the beginning,” Wood says.

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at Berkeley has seen a recent rise in married students, according to a study conducted by The Bay Citizen, an investigative news center. Students are able to establish California residency much faster when married and legally independent from their parents. In addition, the study indicates Cal students from across the nation are marrying to legally reap the benefits of in-state tuition. By identifying nine students who married close friends, acquaintances or complete strangers, the study found these students at Cal together cost the school $350,000 in out-of-state tuition .

One website, whypaytuition. com, provides students seeking lower tuition with a “student matching service.” The service matches students seeking a

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Students who marry in college take extra care planning their finances

“marriage of convenience” in which students can reap the financial benefit of filing as an independent in order to receive increased financial aid.

“You need to meet one time, get a marriage license, get married by a Justice of the Peace and then get a divorce after college is finished,” the website says.

The university’s financial department says each student’s situation is different, but when they qualify as an independent or married, they take the couples’ income into consideration instead of their parents’ when deciding how much financial aid they will receive.

While many married students tend to qualify for Pell Grants, due to smaller incomes, their loan limits also increase.

Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, professor of psychology, is a relationship scientist who conducts research in this area. He has experience as a marital therapist, as a relationship therapist and as a premarital counselor. While marrying to gain residency and independent status is legal, Laurenceau says he disapproves of the practice.

“They’re using marriage as a tool,” Laurenceau says. “I’m not in support of that.”

Laruenceau says these marriages for status are not truly marriages by definition. Marriage encompasses finding a partner who you feel compatible with, he says.

Couples marry because they have shared values and goals — they develop a supportive and trusting relationship in which each can grow as individuals to be better people, he says.

Legally, these marriages are

valid, but because they are just tools for students to meet their residency or financial goals, he says he would not find them real in a psychological sense.

Wood and Ransom are Delaware residents paying in-state tuition, but she says they still have financial concerns. Wood’s parents currently support her financially, but they will stop paying for her education once she weds, she says forcing Wood to completely support herself.

Worried about a decrease in her financial aid, Wood says she went to Student Financial Services and spoke with an adviser. She learned that next year she would file as an independent on her FAFSA and will not be considered a dependent because of her marriage to Ransom.

Wood’s financial aid package will be calculated based on her income as a waitress instead of her parents’ salaries.

Wood and Ransom speak about finances regularly, she says, and they have consciously worked on managing their money since the engagement. The couple has years of school ahead of them to finance, making money management a top priority, Wood says.

The couple is planning ahead by putting excess earning into their saving account, Wood says. By saving money, she says the couple will pay off loans, rent and bills.

“Once we got engaged, we started planning a lot more,” Wood says. “We got a join bank account.

We consider each other’s money our money too, and we trust each other to not spend money on silly things.”

Senior Alayna Connell is also engaged to be married this summer.

Unlike Wood and Ransom, Connell and her fiance will wed after she graduates. Connell says she and her fiance, Matthew Ford, who does not go the university, dated with the intention of marriage.

They are waiting to marry until Connell is finished with school and is generating an income, she says.

“Matt has a full-time job and is financially stable at this point,” Connell says. “I’m waiting until I get a contract signed so that I can have an income coming in too.”

Connell says the couple could not live off Ford’s income alone, Connell says. She says they plan on pooling their incomes together and do not anticipate being in financial struggle because neither of them have student loans to pay off.

Being an in-state student, living at home and working throughout college has helped prepare Connell financially for this next chapter in her life, she says.

“Matt and I are both very similar with how we handle our money,” Connell says. “We’re not trying to live above our means.”

The couple is currently taking marriage counseling classes through their church to help prepare them for married life. Connell says discussing important issues such as finances with a third party before the marriage will help them avoid major conflict in the future.

Laurenceau supports couples discussing finances before marriage.

“You have to be on the same page about finances,” Laurenceau says. “It’s helpful to talk about it ahead of time to know what you’re getting into instead of just dealing with a problem when it comes up two or three years down the road.”

Open relationships allow students to date in new ways

BY ALEXANDRIA MURPHY Entertainment Editor

Senior Rose McNeill says she does not want to feel that a potential relationship or friendship with another person is limited because she has a boyfriend. For this reason, she is part of an open relationship.

“No one has every single interest in common with their partner, so it makes sense to be able to spend time with other people who do have those things in common with you,” McNeill says.

McNeill, who has been with her most recent partner for four months, has been involved in open relationships throughout her time at college. She says she feels that she has a better relationship with her partners in open relationships because it takes away the expectation and pressure that one partner will satisfy all of the other’s needs.

An open relationship can have many different interpretations and tends to vary as much as the couples engaged in them, but “According to Psychology Today,” an open relationship is where two parties agree to be a couple but also agree to form a non-monogamous relationship.

Psychology professor JeanPhilippe Laurenceau, who studies

relationships and couples, says although an open relationship may be unconventional, it is not necessarily unhealthy.

“I would define a healthy relationship as one where both parties are able to grow and ultimately, let each other flourish,” Laurenceau says. “This can be achieved in an open relationship, but I imagine that it would be very, very difficult.”

Laurenceau says in his experience, humans seem to be made for serial, monogamous relationships and adult, sexual activity is usually at risk for emotional involvement or attachment. Even if the couple in the relationship is able to stay emotionally unattached, there’s a serious risk that those outside of the couple will not be able to remain detached, he says.

Despite these issues, Laurenceau says because younger couples on average lack the stressors that older couples have (such as careers or children), they may have an easier time maintaining an open relationship.

An anonymous source stated in an email message that he has been in what he says is a committed and open relationship with his girlfriend for over a year. Jenkins says he knows of eight other college couples involved in open relationships

and having an open relationship may be ideal for a college student.

“This relationship model might be better suited for college kids since it allows freedom to explore, which can be especially important in long term relationship in which future commitment is predicted,” the source says.

He says open relationships also work for individual seeking casual relationships that are unsure about committing.

In the time he and his girlfriend have been together, he says they have had few problems as a result of the rules they devised and follow but which include a clause about choosing partners who are a low risk for forming emotional attachment. Despite these rules, the source says they hit a rough patch early on in their relationship.

“One partner got obsessively attached because of poor judgment in choosing a partner and difficulty taking strong action to reject said partner,” he said. “But the foundation in our relationship was strong enough that with regular discussion on the subject, we found a way to excise said partner.”

The source says while he and his girlfriend approach their open relationship as a way to experience sexual pleasure with other partners

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and discourage any risk of intimacy outside their couple, not all open relationships follow the same model.

Both the source and McNeill say their relationships gets them what they want, but they are not always easy. They admit that jealousy is an issue, and that their relationship style isn’t for everyone because of

this issue. McNeill says that envy is only human and in order to deal with it she and her partner simply talk.

“If they get jealous, make time for them,” McNeill says.

“It’s just about making sure the other person in the relationship knows you care about them.”

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In “A Good Day to Die Hard”, Bruce Willis, 57, returns to the big screen in order to save McClane’s son, John “Jack” McClane (Jai Courtney), who has been imprisoned.

The bulk of the movie takes place in Russia, which creates an interesting blend of subtitled and non-subtitled Russian throughout the film. There are several minutes worth of car chases and crashes, made interesting solely by McClane’s blasé comments and facial expressions, but the film can sometimes be difficult to follow.

Nevertheless, the plot, similar to the other movies in the franchise, is somewhat predictable. Foreshadowed moments are scattered throughout such as when Lucy, McClane’s daughter, says to him as he leaves for Russia, “Just try, try not to make a bigger mess of things,” serve as a clear indicator that he will, indeed, make quite a big mess of things. Soon enough, McClane ruins his son’s job, kills plenty of bad guys and nearly dies himself more than once (but what’s a few head gashes here and there when you’ve survived a building being blown up). Unlike the previous movies, however, McClane purposefully goes somewhere with the intention of ending trouble—in the past, he has always accidentally found it and has had his day ruined.

Today, he had a “pretty good day,” all things considered.

The actual plot is fairly convoluted and obviously just thrown together in order to create another action movie featuring the iconic John McClane. The film serves its purpose-although confusing the viewer in the process. The film features several shout-outs to its predecessors, such as a

Nicholas Sparks’ films seem to follow a basic romance feature format-a stunning couple, a quaint North Carolina town and extenuating circumstances keeping the couple from being together. While “Safe Haven” fits this mold, it also offers a suspenseful, mysterious storyline that keeps viewers guessing for the majority of the film.

The film begins with intensity, as Katie (Julianne Hough) is showed cutting off her long, brown locks for a short, blonde bob and disappearing into the night on a bus to Atlanta, as a shady character follows her. The bus makes a pit stop in Southport, N.C., where Katie is comforted by the tranquility of the town. Upon her arrival, she meets one of the locals, Alex (Josh Duhamel), a widower with two vivacious children. It is revealed that Katie is a victim of domestic abuse and she often has graphic flashbacks to the night she escaped her husband’s violent attacks. Katie is fearful of letting anyone get too close to her. She therefore denies Alex’s friendship at first, but the turning point in their relationship occurs after her newfound friend, Jo (Cobie Smulders), convinces her that Alex is trustworthy.

Soon after, we are shown a typical Sparks movie scenethe couple playfully interacts on the beach while taking a trip with Alex’s kids before going canoeing, only to be interrupted by an unexpected rainstorm (sound familiar, fans of “The Notebook”?). And the steamy, dimly-lit love scene that ensues looks nearly identical to that of Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried in “Dear John.”

Despite these archetypal instances, Katie does not remain unscathed for long, as her past comes back to haunt her. This exhibits the film’s strength, as audiences are left

bad guy falling out of a window in slow motion, a helicopter blowing up and the evolution of McClane’s white shirt getting dirtier and dirtier over the course of the film.

The film does not fail to repeatedly emphasize it’s two main points: 1. killing bad guys and 2. McClane’s vacation. Jack says to him, “Killing bad guys, that’s your thing,” after which they do in fact kill many bad guys, despite McClane saying, “Nobody’s gonna die today.” Additionally, there was a point when McClane wasn’t even on screen yet still said, “It’s my vacation!” as a vehicle came hurtling towards him.

The “Die Hard” franchise followed “Indiana Jones”’ and created a movie where the lead was now an old father reluctantly showing his son the ropes. Unlike the latter, “A Good Day to Die Hard” was semi-successful and almost believable. While McClane seems to be practically unbreakable (are we watching the right movie?) in this fifth installment, as he falls out of building himself, jumps into and out of windows multiple times, almost drowns, flings out of a truck inside of a flying helicopter, is hit by two different cars, is in several car crashes and is constantly shot at yet never actually hit— Bruce Willis is still up for one last “Die Hard” movie, so perhaps we still have one more “Yippee-ki-yay” to go?

questioning whether or not Katie is a victim or felon. Her luck takes another disastrous turn, when Alex questions her motives. Eventually, she has to face a terrifying situation that could compromise her life, as well as the safety Alex’s family. The last 20 or so minutes of the film feature considerable graphic violence uncharacteristic of this genre and a bizarre realization regarding Katie’s friendship with Jo. Before seeing “Safe Haven,” I was concerned it would follow in the footsteps of “The Lucky One,” which was slow-moving and featured Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling, whose lackluster chemistry just couldn’t convey the romance Sparks writes about. Fortunately, Hough did a surprisingly good job portraying a domestic abuse victim and her chemistry with Duhamel proved to be one of the most believable of the Sparks’ film pairings.

The film’s director, Lasse Hallström, did a superior job in ensuring the film had a mix of suspenseful plot as well as romantic moments that fans look for. The only flaw is the film’s shocking but abrupt ending. This may have been done to add more of a dramatic element, but it would’ve been nice to see more of a reaction from the main character regarding this plot twist.“Safe Haven,” yet still not straying from the usual, picturesque romances shown in Sparks’ films, offers viewers a suspenseful story that surely sets itself apart from it’s predecessors.

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Students redefine breakups using social media

BY GILLIAN MORLEY Staff Reporter

With social media’s rapid rise in popularity people can now use social media as a way to break up, vent about past relationships and deal with their exes.

Ilana Gershon, communications and culture professor at Indiana University, says while people generally prefer to break up and communicate about their relationship in person, it is becoming more acceptable to do so through social media outlets.

Despite this social mediafacilitated communication, confusion and complication in relationships can be created via the online medium, Gershon says.

“Part of the problem is that you have all these new decisions you have

to make once the relationship is over,” Gershon says. “So you have to decide what you do with the traces of the relationship that are on Facebook.”

While some people find it easiest to “defined” or “block” their ex-boyfriend or girlfriend to avoid seeing updates about them, Gershon says many see unfriending as a form of hostility that has the potential to worsen the situation.

But this mediated method of communication might not be as new as it appears, as she says. It used to be common for people to write letters to convey their feelings.

“I think people have been rude to each other for generations and generations,” Gershon says.

“But people are also astonishingly imaginative at creating social problems, and new media have given us tools for creating more of them in

our interactions.”

One trending social problem is people talking negatively about their exes post-breakup, but senior Lauren Regan says she does not believe it is a good idea to trash talk anyone on social media, especially someone you formerly dated.

“There doesn’t seem to be any benefit to doing that, and I think sometimes people forget that everything you say online has the potential to be saved,” Regan says.

Junior Alexis Bigelow says relationships should just be between two people and not put on social media for the whole world to see, she says.

Although she admits she has done so in the past, she says she regrets it and describes the practice as “immature.”

After a breakup most people want to look strong despite being hurt, she says, and posting about the breakup

on Facebook or Twitter could have the opposite effect, as it is embarrassing and makes the poster look desperate.

“Even though you may want the other person to see your pain, you should really just call them,” Bigelow says. “It is more effective and straight to the point.”

Yet the constant reminder of the ex due to excessive checks on social media can make breaking up more difficult than it used to be, Gershon says. Although it may be tempting to view an ex’s Facebook or Twitter and to post about the relationship, she says this makes it difficult to move on.

University communications professor Juliet Dee, whose expertise is in First Amendment law, says that taking to social media to trash talk someone could also have legal repercussions.

“When you write anything

that appears on the Internet, from a legal standpoint, that constitutes publication,” Dee says. “So if you write something untrue about your ex, he or she can sue you for libel, and if it’s true but considered outrageous or offensive he or she can sue you for invasion of privacy.”

Cases where people are repeatedly posting negative things about their ex-boyfriend or girlfriend on the Internet have been considered cyber bullying or cyber harassment, which can prompt legal action, she says.

However, Dee says she has not seen many court cases in which exboyfriends or girlfriends sue one another for posting negative things on Facebook, but they do exist.

“It is so expensive to sue for libel or invasion of privacy and most people just can’t afford it,” Dee says.

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Campus bartenders spill favorite juicy stories

BY MATTHEW SPEISER Staff Reporter

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Bartenders become friends to patrons and peacekeepers while on the job

“It’s a lifestyle—you really have to love it,” says Lauren Kushner, a 26-year-old bartender at Taverna on Main Street.

Kushner has been a bartender for five years and is working towards opening up her own restaurant. She says working as a bartender gives her an opportunity to network, meet new people and sometimes act as a confidante for her customers.

“People tell me their personal lives all the time,” Kushner says.

“Fights with boyfriends and girlfriends, childhood stories, the people who order drink after drink and close down the bar, some people are lonely and look to confide. I like when people tell me that stuff.”

Ryan Mara, 22, bartends at Kildare’s Irish Pub to pay his way through school as a part-time student.

Dealing with lively and sometimes wild patrons is part of the job, and many customers utilize bartenders for their listening skills, as well as their drink making abilities, Mara says.

On some occasions, Mara says he has dealt with “wannabe frat guys” who try to get chummy with the bartender and end up revealing details about their romantic lives and other personal topics. He says he also saw a wedding proposal go awry while working at the Greene Turtle in Rehoboth, Del. “I saw somebody propose to a girl and she said no,” Mara says.

“He was kind of shocked but then they just talked about it.”

Brett Tunstall, a 32-year-old general manager at Homegrown cafe, says he has also had humorous encounters with customers. He says a customer was yelling at him because they did not have his favorite vodka brand turned out to be his uncle.

“Tuesdays are awesome,” Mara says. “Three dollar Long Islands make it very popular. It does get stressful sometimes when people are waving cards and money, and college kids can be very cheap.”

Mara says although he enjoys his job, he does not aspire to be a ‘career bartender’ and has the job solely to pay for his education.

Tunstall says he has had more serious encounters and remembers a bar fight that got so out of control, he felt he needed to intervene.

“One guy was acting like an asshole who had just gotten divorced around the holidays,” Tunstall says. “He started picking fights with people I knew, I asked him to leave he started hitting me so I had to fight him.”

Another situation where bartenders often have to get involved is the use of a fake IDs by underage customers and Mara says at some establishments there is incentive to take away fake IDs, as the bartenders sometimes are rewarded for doing so.

Bartenders receive money sometimes for taking fake IDs, Mara says. It can get awkward

when they know the underage patrons, Mara says.

Mara also says that many female customers try to pretend it is their birthday, in order to receive free beverages, like a “blowjob shot.” Yet Tunstall sums up the job as mostly rewarding, despite the setbacks of fake birthdays, fake IDs and customers.

“You’re the host of the party, meet a lot of people, make great friends,” Tunstall says. “The worst is that people get rude, impatient and mean.”

As the “party hosts” many of the bartenders have also been able to gain companionship, while on the job, such as Kushner, who met her boyfriend, who was also a bartender at Taverna. She says she has made friends with many of her co-workers, as well as customers.

Bartending has provided romantic connections for Tunstall as well and even more for some people he knows. He says that one of his friends met her boyfriend while bartending, and Tunstall personally also met his girlfriend while working and after working at 12 different bars during his career (13 of those years being spent at Homegrown) he says he has met a lot of new friends as well as. He has also acquired “regulars” who have frequented the restaurant.

Mara says the best aspect of the job is the money, and although he does not enjoy cleaning up the mess at the end of the night, some days as bartender end up being “awesome.”

Community reacts to Boy Scouts’ LGBT controversy

BY NIKITA MUTTER Staff Reporter

Sophomore Erik Peterson, who was a boy scout for 12 years, says he had a rather religious scouting experience, which involved some homophobic members, during his time as scout. However, he says was not even aware of the group’s policy regarding homosexuality until the media started covering it.

“Scouts helped make me who I am today. Its universal values should be available to all boys,” he says.

The Boy Scouts of America announced earlier this month that it will wait until its annual meeting in May to announce if this is the time to eliminate their anti-homosexuality policy at the national level.

As of now, the Boy Scouts of America denies openly gay members access to the organization and the Scouts highest rank, the Eagle Award.

Due to heavy media critique and a push from LGBT advocates across the country, the organization has debated abolishing the policy in favor of a new one that would allow individual troops to decide if they would allow gay members and leaders.

“The volunteer officers of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Executive Board concluded that due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy,” the organizations board said in a written statement earlier this month.

This idea is not a foreign one for the Scouts, as it is similar to the one that allowed all African Americans

into troops in 1974 and women into leadership positions in 1988.

With a decision looming, each side has stepped up to make their voices heard by the council. Both sides have utilized websites such as Change.org, a petition-creating website, to gather support from individuals worldwide.

Although Haven has been unable to organize a formal protest or petition against the Boy Scouts due to a limited number of sources,

“We shouldn’t be afraid to move past those times.”

-Erik Peterson, Sophomore junior Ian Pass, Haven’s director of publicity, says individual members of the organization have participated in various petitions and campaigns against the current policy.

“It’s personally irritating since it’s still saying that it’s okay to discriminate,” Pass says.

Because of the current system, and proposed change, Pass thinks individual troops will automatically be able to exclude gay members even if the board decides to overturn its policy.

Sophomore Tyler Dolgos, a former Boy Scout, shares the same view as other former members

of the organization, saying that the current policy is unnecessary and discriminatory.

“Excluding gay members from troops goes against a lot that Scouts stand for,” Dolgos says. “In the Scout law, some of the defining qualities of a scout are helpful, friendly and kind.”

Despite experiencing homophobia in his troop, Peterson says his experience in Scouts played a huge role in his growing up, instilling in him important values and principles.

In regards to abolishing the policy, Peterson says that tolerance has come a long way, as it was a completely different era when the rule was first created.

“We shouldn’t be afraid to move past those times,” he says.

Communication professor Paul Brewer says the organization has been under pressure because of the public’s stance on the issue and that groups, such as the U.S. Military, have changed their stance on gay rights and allowed LGBT individuals to participate.

And while he says Boy Scouts also may risk offending more conservative groups, in the long run, overturning the ban serves to help the bring the group in line with the public’s current stance on gay rights.

If they keep the ban, they could be seen as “on the wrong side of history,” he says.

“Even more to the point, the Girl Scouts of America already accepts LGBT members, and I haven’t noticed any successful boycotts of Girl Scout cookies because of that policy,” Brewer says.

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Relationship Reality Dating Spots on Campus with Paige Carney

Finding places to go on dates can to spend time with your date, both of be a little tricky in college. First there which should make you very happy. is often the issue of not having a car, Spend time on campus: which typically limits students to places If you are not the type who enjoys within walking distance. exercise you can always watch other Don’t get stuck in a rut and people do it. Don’t forget one of the continually do the same things all the benefits of being on a college campus time. While it is nice to have traditions, is that there is always some sport in routines can get redundant and end up season. Take your date to go watch making you bored with the relationship. the Blue Hens. Hockey games here, So I made a list of ideas to help you. for instance are really underestimated.

Some might seem a little strange, but They are complete with games after I’m asking you to just trust me and try it each period and lots of current loud Try new foods: music- also did I mention they are free This one is so easy to do with for students as well.

Main Street close by. Maybe you or Walk through campus to get to your date have never tried sushi? You your destination. This allows you to should venture to Mizu Sushi Bar. You learn about your significant other, guys have never tried Indian food? Head and for them to learn about you. Take over to the Indian Sizzler. Whether you time to point out the things you pass like it or not, it’s a new experience you on campus that you have memories had together that can bring you closer associated with, and if your significant together—even if it’s just laughing over other goes here, make sure to ask about how you ran right from the sushi bar to his or hers as well.

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Salads with dressing on the side are options that cut calories for students Go somewhere sweet: Try new activities: After you go to the ice rink for I believe in trying many new a skate date, you can stop over at the experiences on dates. It may be a little UD Creamery. Not every campus has scary to try new experiences, but a little it’s own creamery, especially not one fear can create a nice adrenaline rush. as good as ours. Other great places to One of my all time favorite dates get sweets near campus include SAS was right here on campus. We went Cupcakes right on Main Street where on a double date to the UD ice skating you can dine in with your cupcake in rink. (Public skating is open from 8-10 the cutest shop on Main Street, and p.m. on Fridays, 1-3 p.m. and 8-10 p.m. Bing’s Bakery, whose pastries compare

BY JESSICA HORNEY like the Powerhouse, which consists Street about two and a half years on Saturdays, and then 1-3 p.m. on to none. Both places offer seating for Staff Reporter of all vegetables on multigrain bread. ago to provide healthy products, Sundays assuming the rink isn’t being you to seat with your date and talk The café changes its seasonal including supplements for students.

Junior Taylor Evans, a dietetics menu about every three months, he Owner Steve Fangman says their used by the hockey team. It’s free to while you eat great treats. Make sure major, says a number of restaurants says. Holmes says he’s noticed more shakes—which range from 180 to students to use the rink, and the cost to to get chocolate because it’s chemical properties give you a rush that similar to on Main Street increasing healthier students, especially those in their 250 calories—are their most popular rent skates is only $3.)

You could also try going for long falling in love. options, but there is still room for 20s, have made eating healthy and item. Students buy shakes as quick walks in all the local parks.

Just walking Stay Traditional: improvement. exercising a priority. and healthy meal substitutes, he says. together might seem a little awkward, Go get a milkshake and burger “I would say there’s a lot of Holmes says he thinks sales Many students visit Mainstream but it’s a nice place to go and be alone, at Cheeburger Cheeburger and then go restaurants that are increasing their would improve if the restaurant Nutrition instead of restaurants menu items with healthy menus in added more healthy options. People because the store is a healthier which in college with roommates, bowling or to the movies Cinema Center mind, but I think that because it’s a are alway looking for healthier and cheaper alternative, Fangman classmates and friends can be very rare. 3 in Newark Shopping Center. Both are White Clay Creek is very close and has offered within walking distance. They college town it’s harder to change options, he says. says. He says this is because at his some really beautiful trails, reminiscent may seem cliché, but they are clichés them,” Evans says.

“I don’t want to call it a fad establishment, students can replace of a Robert Frost poem in the fall and for a reason. They never fall out of a A study conducted by the because I think it’s going to last an entire meal for a cheap shake or spring. In the process, are getting fashion, and they offer great points for The you Review - Univ. of Delaware Robert Wood Foundation earlier longer than that. We try to keep buy the product to make at home. a small amount of exercise which conversation later on. this month The Wall Street Journal organic produce in mind and get our Mainsteam Nutrition had

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Senior nutrition major Brittany during winter session. Fangman says The Hudson Institute research Linn says there are numerous ways he thinks students are realizing that organization conducted the research to order healthier options when the shakes are not just a cold treat to and the Robert Wood Johnson eating at a restaurant. enjoy during the summer and they Foundation funded it.

Many establishments have a are ordering them year-round.

Healthy HENS Program tendency to put large quantities of Freshman Morgan Hilliard Coordinator and registered nurse dressing on salads, Linn says, and says she would be more inclined to Michelle Scott says Main Street ordering dressing on the side can purchase meals on Main Street rather restaurants are offering nutritious eliminate unnecessary calories. than prepare them in her dorm if options but students need to be She also says to ask for any fried more food establishments provided more educated about how to choose entrees to be made grilled, steamed healthier options. the healthier options. She says they or baked instead. Linn says the most “I know dining halls don’t should eat lean protein instead of fast important request is to ask the server always have the best food,” Hilliard food to help them think better, sleep to take away cheese or croutons off says. “I go to Rodney a lot and they well and have more energy. a meal, because alterations like those don’t provide a lot of fruit. They “Eating healthy is more of a decrease the calories of the meal. only usually have apples. So I would time issue for students,” Scott says.

Main Squeeze, which has been go somewhere that has a lot of fresh “They grab something fast between on Main Street since November fruit and vegetables.” classes and want instant gratification 2011, is a juice bar that also serves University fitness coordinator rather than buying foods that help salads and sandwiches. Owner Whitney Potts says restaurants them stay fuller longer.”

Alexa Krzyzanowski says the bar is on Main Street could start by Home Grown Café has been on looking to expand the menu in hopes adding healthy brunch options to Main Street for 13 years and offers of increasing sales. their menus to entice students to a balance of healthy and unhealthy “We’re thinking about having become regular customers. She says food options. Manager John Holmes more fruits and more variety with restaurants could offer meals like has been working at the restaurant our smoothies like adding spinach,” egg white omelets with toppings for six years and says the majority Kryzanowksi says. “We listen to such as spinach, onions and organic of the establishment’s customers eat people’s requests for different types salsa and could trade home fries for there because of the vegetarian meals of salads and are always willing to whole grain toast or steel cut oats. and healthier options. customize orders, such as making a “They would have to market the Holmes says popular meals at meal vegan.” healthier options a certain way and Home Grown Café are salads with Mainstream Nutrition, a find a way to emphasize that you’re tofu. He also says the restaurant nutrition and weight-management sacrificing your calories but there’s www.sudoku-puzzles.net features healthy sandwich options, company, was established on Main not a sacrifice on flavor,” Potts says.

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Students campaign for organic gardens on campus

BY MONIKA CHAWLA AND LINDSAY SPERIN Features Editor and Staff Reporter

Seniors Zach Elfers and Jason Begany say they are eager to implement change regarding the university’s approach to agriculture.

They say a petition they created earlier this month reaching out to President Patrick Harker has the potential to create such a change.

The proposal was created on the website change.org, a website that promotes social change, and lobbies for a program titled Gardens for Growth, which Elfers says will fight for the creation of studentoperated garden program at the university that is both educational and organic. The blueprints for the program include directly sending food grown in the gardens to dining halls for student consumption.

“This would be a huge step towards meeting the university’s goal to become ‘the green university,” Elfers says.

He says the project he envisions includes multiple gardens with an organic farming emphasis run by students working for credits and volunteer hours. The gardens would also have a faculty member to ensure the gardens are successful and comply

with the standards of the university’s from soil that does not contain other peer programs, he says. pesticides and chemicals.

Elfers says an organic gardening If a program like Gardens program at the University of for Growth was offered, the Massachusetts Amherst, which university would become turned an unused lot of campus into more environmentally an organic garden, inspired him. The friendly, she says. food grown on this lot is directly “The university sent into the dining hall, and Elfers is getting meals from says a similar program should be companies that aren’t established within the university. really producing anything The seniors have received healthy or organic,” she widespread support from says. “I think it’s definitely students, alumni and community a turn-off for students.” members, Bengany says.

“It’s only been two weeks and By working with local already we’re getting interviews farms and incorporating and hanging out with the dean,” locally grown foods into Bengany says. “There are a bunch the dining halls, Trabant of people supporting us that we and Perkins , the university don’t even know—all because we would become more want to plant a bunch of plants.” sustainable, Powell says.

Freshman Lauren Powell is a In addition to exporting member of the Down to Earth Food food grown from the THE REVIEW/Emma Rando Co-op, a student-run group that garden into the dining hall, promotes healthy food made with Elfers says he hopes to Organic community gardens can promote unity and can improve people’s quality of life natural ingredients, and she has place these gardens near garden’s manager, says community daily meals otherwise,” Euston says. worked on three farms. She says she heavy pedestrian traffic. With high gardens are beneficial to the Both seniors say they tries to eat organic foods regularly, visibility, he says the gardens will community because they create unity hope lessons on self-reliance, and if a community gardening demonstrate the university’s goal while teaching others how to grow agriculture and sustainability program is implemented, she plans of becoming a ‘green’ university. their own food. He says community will grow from the garden. to participate.

Throughout the state, several gardens have the ability to greatly “It’s called permaculture Powell says her time spent community gardens already exist improve a person’s quality of life. because it is a permanent culture,” working on a farm has shown her including Pencader Presbyterian “It builds community, provides Bengany says. “We hope that this the advantages of consuming organic Church Community Garden, located healthy, nutritious food and saves will be a permanent community foods because they are often grown in Newark. Thomas Euston , the money for people who cannot afford effort, and we know that it will be.”

How To: Make a Windowsill Herb Garden With Samantha Toscano

Dear “I need some serious help with my kitchen creations,” I am not going to lie to you—I am very comfortable in the kitchen and would go as far to say that I have worked up quite the culinary inclination. I owe about 50 percent of this talent to the genes I got from my amazing Italian and Portuguese mother who has incredible cooking abilities and taught me everything and anything I need to know about chopping, sautéing, preparing, plating, baking and eating great food.

The other 50 percent can be divided evenly between having a boyfriend who loves to eat and genuinely appreciates everything I make and working to become as good as my mother was and still is. And while my townhouse kitchen has more than adequate space for practicing everything she taught me, it is not quite the same as cooking at home.

This is not due to the fact that she is there in our kitchen, always ready and willing to offer little tips and trips as I make my way from the cook top to the oven and everywhere in between (though I do love bonding with my family through food and cooking with my mom)— rather, it has to do with the differences in equipment and the differences in ingredients. Equipment is something I will just have to accept until I can afford all the wonderful William-Sonoma cookware mom has built up in her culinary repertoire, but I should not have to settle for mediocre ingredients. And in my food-filled journey that began almost 17 years ago with plastic cupcakes and synthetic spaghetti in a Playmate kitchen in New York, I have found that one of the simplest ways to enhance your recipe constituents is with fresh and flavorful herbs. This might seem easier said than done, and up until a couple months ago it most certainly was—that is, until I decided to create a windowsill herb garden of my own. It is so wonderful being able to add some fresh chives to a spinach and goat cheese omelet in the morning, have some pesto-tossed pasta with sundried tomatoes for lunch and make fresh mint tea at night.

And as long as you remember to water your pants regularly and give them plenty of sunlight, from the comfort of your own kitchen you too can create palatepleasing meals, drinks, spreads, and snacks, almost as delicious as the ones mom makes.

Sincerely, Samantha P.S. Check out some of my favorite herbal inspirations and feel free to send any questions, comments or “How To” needs my way at stoscano@udel.edu.

EIGHT EASY WAYS WITH HERBS 1. Toss some muddled mint leaves and lime juice in your mojitos for refreshing flavor.

2. Blend fresh basil leaves with olive oil, garlic, Parmesan cheese, pine nuts and salt and pepper to test for a simple and piquant Italian pesto.

3. Add a sprinkling of cilantro to your salsa for a Mexicaninspired mixture.

4. Cream up softened salted butter and stir in garlic, pepper and oregano before refrigerating the mix in wax paper overnight for melt-in-your mouth herb butter that will melt perfectly on grilled, marinated steak.

5. Stick some sprigs of fresh rosemary in a glass jar with some slightly warmed olive oil to infuse it with a spicy and warm herbal flavor.

6. Whip up some freshly flavored cream cheese by mixing the spread with minced green onions and chives and sprinkling it with a dash of garlic salt.

7. Alternate layers of chicken, sweet sausage, peppers and full, fresh sage leaves for an easy and delicious dinner.

8. Go Greek with tangy tzatziki sauce made from a savory blend of yogurt, cucumber, olive oil, dill, lemon juice and garlic, salt and pepper to taste.

DIY: Windowsill Herb Garden Materials: small wooden crate, newspaper, wooden letters (that spell out the word of your choice), glue, paint, three or so plastic containers, soil, seeds

Step One: Cover the small wooden crate (I found mine at Michael’s craft store) with newspaper. You can also use magazine or colored paper or simply paint the crate, but I went with the vintage newspaper feel.

Step Two: Paint the wooden letters (again, Michael’s craft store) in a color that goes with the crate covering and, once they dry, arrange and glue them on the front. I opted to go with “Home,” but feel free to choose something else, such as a family name or kitchen-themed word such as, “Cook,” “Herbs” or “Bon Appetite.”

Step Three: Fill the plastic containers, which you can find at the Dollar Store or any craft store and should be about the same height as the crate opening, with soil and plant the seeds, one kind per one container.

Step Four: Mark the containers with permanent marker or herb markers so you can remember which seeds are growing in which container. Place on the windowsill in your kitchen, water and enjoy your fresh, flavorful herbs once they bloom.

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Univ. bloggers share stories with large audiences

BY JAMIE WINDER

Delaware Blog. Admissions asked her to create the blog the summer prior to her freshman year after reading her college When the admissions’ office asked essay. A music management major junior Jacki Wahlquist to blog about and business administration minor, her freshman year, she says she initially Wahlquist has featured photos of her approached the task as a job, but her study abroad trip to London with fellow perspective on blogging changed over musicians, as well as other personal time. and school-related posts. Wahlquist is “It is a hobby because I enjoy also on the executive board for a small doing it, but it is also a job in that I have group of bloggers who advertise the to put myself out there,” Wahlquist says. university’s strong social and academic Junior Jacki Wahlquist maintains environment for incoming students. a blog titled Jacki’s University of Wahlquist says her group chooses Staff Reporter

THE REVIEW/ Lindsay Saienni

Students blog as a way to express their interests and launch careers

new bloggers each year and has gotten hits from around the world. Wahlquist was crowned Miss Newark 2013 and will be competing for the title of Miss Delaware in the upcoming months.

As a representative of the city of Newark, Wahlquist also says she feels obligated to use her blog to draw attention to her service work. In early February, she posted a photo of herself wrapping silverware at IHOP on National Pancake Day. She says the blog has been one of her greatest selling points at pageant competitions “Pageant judges have asked me about it in my interviews for Miss Newark,” she says. “It definitely helps.

Miss Delaware keeps a blog. She needs to update it as much as she can.”

She says Facebook, more so than any other form of social media, is the best way to share her blog posts and personal updates on pageant events.

Business administration professor Anuradha Sivaraman who used to teach a class on the use of blogs in marketing, says Facebook is a good medium for blog sharing, but it does have its faults.

Sivaraman urges her students to never post extremely personal material on their social media accounts, so blogs can be utilized to appear more serious, she says.

Sivaraman says how it is important to write extensively on topics that you know well and think others will enjoy.

Prospective employers in particular may look at your blog to gain a more in-depth perception of your character, interests and eloquence as a writer and communicator, she says.

“I don’t think that a blog will

necessarily change an employer’s opinion of an applicant, but when the blog is tailored to your interests and knowledge, it can be beneficial,” Sivaraman says.

Although Sivaraman no longer teaches courses on blogging, she still encourages her students to remain committed to their field of interest and write about it even if they do not have time to post every day.

Sivaraman says she is disappointed by the lack of long form writing on the Internet today. She says while it is understandable to condense our writing in an age where speed and conciseness are key, the quality of writing suffers as a result.

While Sivaraman says long form writing will still bring in readership, she says blogs have become more popular because of their versatility in length and the introduction of programs like Wordpress and Tumblr.

Sivaraman says blogging is an opportunity to encourage writers to share their longer works to millions of readers. The only problem is there are a disproportionate number of blog readers in relation to writers, she says.

“A lot of people started out creating blogs, but it trickled down to only a few who remained interested in maintaining them,” Sivaraman says.

“Right now and likely later on, the rate of readership will not be equal to the number of writers.”

Junior Rachel Ibers has just recently launched a blog with the domain name Dinner Table Science.

She says she pays $18.99 per year for a blogging membership. Ibers says she

hopes to keep expanding her readership.

Ibers decided to create her blog after a co-worker at the science museum where she worked encouraged her to blog about science related topics.

She says when writing posts for Dinner Table Science, she aims to make scientific topics easier to understand for readers who do not know much about the topic.

“When I worked at a science museum this summer, I felt like there was this very big disconnect between the scientists and the people they worked with,” Ibers says. “I didn’t like how science has been portrayed as this big unattainable thing.”

Similar to Wahlquist, the majority of Ibers’ blog marketing is done on Facebook. Her main struggles now are expanding her readership and coming up with interesting topics to write about. Though her original motivations for creating Dinner Table Science were not specifically career-based, she says she hopes her blog will prove that her passion is one that should be shared with a broad audience.

Now, Ibers says she plans to include Dinner Table Science as a website on her résumé, which is a testament to how much she has gained from her blogging experience.

“Honestly, when I started it was just a weird mission, a lot of maybes,” Ibers says. “Now, I enjoy writing in long form online because I type fast and end up writing a lot about something I love. Maybe I could go to high schools and give talks about my book and my blog one day. Let it take me where it takes me.”

Campus dance groups showcase talents at exhibition

BY ALEXANDRIA MURPHY Entertainment Editor

When he was younger, senior Chris Carey absolutely hated to dance, he says. Even at an event as festive as a wedding reception, he says he would sit in a corner and completely refuse to budge. This all changed for him four years ago when his older sister dragged him to one of her favorite extracurricular clubs, swing dancing. Not long after that he was hooked, he says.

Carey and the members of the university Swing Dance Club were among the approximately 30 club dancers at the first National Honor Society for Dance Arts presentation called Make the World Dance Sunday at 7 p.m. in Mitchell Hall.

This show was the second of a twopart event featuring dancers from a variety of university dance clubs they study. Clubs like the Ballroom Dance Team, University of Delaware Dance Minor, and the Dark Arts Performing Dance Company each performed for a crowd of around 60 people, displaying their favorite moves from the dance forms.

“It was exactly what I expected,” Carey says. “And I liked the space a lot better here than the multipurpose room,” Carey says. “It felt better organized than usual, and I liked the other dance groups that performed.”

Carey, who has participated with the Swing Club at other events, says that Make the World Dance was more performer oriented whereas other the first presentation had more activities for the audience such as booths.

Nasser Alghandi, 19, is an English Language Institute student who says he heard about the event online. After realizing it was about dance and was free, he says he decided to attend with a few of his friends. His favorite dance, he says, was the hip-hop number called “Clique” performed by the Dark Arts Performing Dance Company.

Even though he says he was pleased overall by the event, he was a little surprised by the difference between his expectations and the reality. “It was my first time at an event like this, and I guess I expected it to be a little longer and maybe more like a dance competition, with judging from the audience,” Alghandi says.

The type of dances expanded Alghandi’s mind and introduced him to new forms, he says. An interpretive dance allowed him to use his imagination to understand the meaning of the movements, which was a new experience for him, he says.

When senior Jennifer Ryan went to an undergraduate research conference about dance education and first heard about NHSDA, she found her niche and became founder and president of the first chapter of the organization at the university.

Ryan says a presentation about the club sparked her interest because she knew NHSDA would give the large number of dancers on campus the chance to add credibility as well as experience to their resumes, because the club gives a certificate to inductees upon graduation.

“It’s a nationally recognized award that’s good for dance

professionals and that want something to look good on their resume,” Ryan says.

Ryan says she started the club not only to gain the certificate but also because she thought the school could use more opportunities for dance groups to showcase their talents on campus. The event, which allowed all the dancers to come together and see each other’s skills, also let the workshop attendees from last week’s portion of the event to showcase what they learned.

The last dance of the event called “New Day” had the group come together for one final dance and ended a show that ELI student Ana Cristancho, 23, says she found inspiring.

“I thought that there would be bigger groups of people and a different sort of music, and that it would also be a longer event,” Cirstancho says. “But it was still fun to watch. I would consider joining a club after practicing a little.”

Ryan says she wants this event to run again next year and already has plans for it. She says she hopes later events will have more groups involved and the date of the event will be later in the semester so attendance will have a change to increase.

Overall, she says she is happy with the outcome of this year’s show she and her group have been planning since November.

“Each club had their own performance, and each can see what the other group was doing,” Ryan says. “Hopefully, this group will help give dancers an opportunity to move forward with their dreams.”

THE REVIEW/Sara Pfefer

Dance honors society hosted performances Mitchell Hall Sunday night

February 19, 2013

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Second state bird atlas finishing owl research this year

BY SERGIO RODRIGUEZ Staff Reporter

THE REVIEW/Amelia Wang

Volunteers are researching Delaware owls for a state bird atlas this year

Students, Delaware residents and scientists are coming together to research native birds for the second Delaware Bird Breeding Atlas, despite some setback with hard-tofind raptors.

“They are living in people’s backyards,” Jean Woods, curator of birds from the Delaware Museum of Natural History says about the raptors native to Delaware.

There are about 390 bird species native to Delaware living anywhere from scenic forestlands to local grocery parking lots, Woods says.

The Delaware Bird Breeding Atlas is a statewide citizen-driven project aimed to map out the distribution and breeding of birds around the state and this year marks the end of the five-year long project, which started on 2007.

The state government can use the information to see how human behavior and development are affecting wildlife, says Anthony Gonzon project coordinator for the Delaware Breeding Bird Atlas.

“The project was extended an extra year this time to collect more data from hard to find species,” says Anthony Gonzon the.

These “hard-to-find” species, as Gonzon says, are not necessarily mean these of special concern or under extinction—it just means that they are difficult to spot, like owls which tend to come out at night.

These nocturnal raptors are rarely active during the day and include the

Barn, Great Horned, Eastern Screech, and the Barred owls, all of which breed yearly in the state of Delaware, Woods says.

Senior wildlife conservation major Jessica Nimmerichter says that most people do their bird watching during the day, so finding owls is even more difficult for researchers. She has been birding around White Clay Creek but has never seen any owls, she says.

This could be due to the fact that Woods says owls do not build nests, and their feathers camouflage them with the bark of the trees. They are also affected by noise pollution and tend to reside deep in the forest where it is quieter, so it takes time and a lot of dedication to spot one of these raptors, Woods says. But it’s not impossible.

“I got a call from a woman in Newark a few weeks ago who saw an owl flying from her backyard into the street,” she says.

The struggle for collecting information for the owls has not stopped volunteers all over Delaware who have data for the Atlas from searching in different quadrants for signs of birds breeding, she says.

The second Delaware Breeding Bird Atlas is a continuation from the first Delaware breeding atlas conducted by Rick West 20 years ago, which began in 1983 and finished in 1987. The main focus of the project was to determine where the birds breed in Delaware and gather as much information as possible about the bird species living in Delaware, Gonzon says.

The current project has 200 volunteers participating in the gathering of data since 2007 and is in the last year of research, he says.

“It’s impossible for the state to cover all the land,” Gonzon says.

“There is not enough resources available, so we must rely on volunteers and this makes it a wonderful project because anyone can contribute.”

The first Delaware Breeding Bird Atlas was successfully completed and the data gathered led to the publication of a book called “Birds of Delaware”

by Gene Hess, Woods says.

Nimmerichter says these type of projects should be advertised more to students so they can help, she says and if this were the case, students could find more data and further the goals of the atlas.

“More students would care more if they were more aware about these types of citizen science projects,” Nimmerichter says.

Delaware isn’t the only state conducting an atlas, Gonzon says.

The idea came from Great Britain and headed to Maryland, which became the first state to complete a bird atlas in the U.S., he says.

Gonzon says it is important to gather accurate and detailed data of breeding birds and the second atlas It would establish a measurement of how thing are changing in the wild.

“From what we have so far it looks like the population of raptors has increased since the last atlas,” Gonzon says.

Marshall’s Mugs Sly Fox Rt. 113 IPA

with Ryan Marshall I am going to start this off simply— this is my favorite India Pale Ale I have ever tried, period. I know we were supposed to dive into Budweiser Black Crown or Blue Point’s Toasted Lager this week, but I was unable get a hold of any, and it worked out quite nicely.

Sly Fox Brewing Co. is local to the Pennsylvania area. A mere hour drive is all that separates the 13-month-old brewery from Newark. That’s right Sly Fox has been producing brews on a large scale for just over a year. You can only find their selection in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and New Jersey, and seeing as these states are home for a large percent of the universities students, listen up.

Originally founded in 1995 in Phoenixville, Pa., it took Sly Fox a long time to rise to its claim to fame, but nothing could stop them when they opened their 30,000 square feet, 50-helicopter barrel brewery in Pottstown, Pa. While I have only tried their Christmas Ale and Rt. 113 IPA, the quality speaks for itself. Now, down to the brew.

I won’t delay the most intriguing part of Sly Fox’s IPA. Its grapefruit aftertaste is what sold me. While I don’t suggest adding it to your eggs and bacon in the morning—except maybe on homecoming weekends—this lingering citrus finish caught my attention immediately.

Front-loaded with Centennial, Cascade, German Northern Brewer and UK East Kent Goldings hops, the spicy bold character stands out as a nice hoppy IPA. Balanced with British Pale and Crystal malts, this IPA blends in with the ingredients of its forefathers, but stands alone in my mind.

So what is the special ingredient?

Unfortunately, I do not know nor can I find out. One endeavor of the craft beer world is guessing what brewmasters do to make their beverages taste the way they do. If I were to guess, it is all in how the hops are added during boiling and you were to break down the hop profile of each one added, that would be the key. But some things are better left to guessing than science. Plus, there aren’t enough pages in this issue to break down four hop profiles.

Pour the 113 in a traditional pint glass, and the basic IPA hazy orange color fills the mug. The hops give off a spicy, yet citrusy aroma.

The bread-like and spicy first taste gets washed away by the wonderful grapefruit finish. Mostly served in cans, I would still suggest finding the year-round brew on draft. Pair it with anything, and if you see it, try it, or it will be gone before you know it.

—ryanmars@udel.edu

QUICK REVIEW: (all mugs out of 5)

Taste: Bready, malty and spicy with a sweet grapefruit finish makes this IPA outstanding.

Feel: Spicy but not too hoppy for an IPA in my opinion. Usually the hoppiness drives me away but not here.

Look: Standard IPA look. Nice carbonation but not too bubbly.

Smell: The full senses are complete here. Citrusy, spicy and the slight hint of grapefruit makes the nose tingle.

Overall: After last week’s blunder Sly Fox Rt. 113 comes back and saves the day for another five in my book. It’s available year-round and definitely in my top 10. Look for it on draft anytime you go out.

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The Weekly Beaker Where Science Fails Us Science in 2013: Sickness and the Brain, Disposable Penises, Selfishness, and More The new year is already abuzz with surprising and exciting scientific findings. Consider the following stories: Jonathan Kipnis of the University of Virginia has found a link between sickness and reduced brain function.

We’re all familiar with that vague sense that you’ve lost your mental edge when ill—turns out this may be due to the altered functioning of the immune system in the presence of a pathogen.

The brain is usually surrounded by T-cells, part of the body’s vital defense mechanisms. In health, T-cells secrete a molecule that helps keep the brain safe from immune system activity. In sickness, the T-cells are more focused on fighting off disease and don’t produce as much of the protective molecule.

This prevents the neural process of learning from occurring as effectively as compared to a normal state, which could explain the lack of astuteness sometimes present in sickness.

Another study by international researchers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in January connected a region of the brain, the basolateral amygdala, to the trait of selfishness. Three women with damage to this area of the brain were tested in an investment game, where they entrusted strangers with twice as much money as healthy people, and couldn’t give a good reason as to why. The results imply that

with Jock Gilchrist

typically the basolateral amygdala is important for acting selfishly.

At least our environment isn’t full of mysterious and harmful chemicals right? Ha, wrong. A Jan. 15 report for Environmental Health Perspectives showed that prenatal exposure to a chemical used in the abundantly produced plastic PVC, and ship paint promoted obesity in mice.

Unfortunately, the chemical, tributyltin, wrought enduring effects: the mice’s grandchildren were also obese although never exposed to the chemical. The mice in the study were exposed to an amount proportionally similar to human exposure through house dust and other places. This confirmed results from an earlier study, which showed that tributyltin can reprogram stem cells to become fat cells rather than bone cells.

It sounds like this is one chemical to keep your distance from.

On a more inspiring note, researchers in Colorado reported in Science News on Feb. 15 that they had demonstrated the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which says that there is no limit to how precisely one can know both the position and momentum of an object, on an object visible to the naked eye. This is significant because the principle is usually most apparent and exerts its strongest effects at the subatomic level, on particles like electrons and photons. These researchers were able to measure an uncertainty effect of

a few picometers—a tiny distance, but a substantial one for scientists whose measurements require extreme precision—on a small drum which was hit by a laser shot of 100 million photons.

It seems that the unexpected meteor that impacted the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in the wee hours of Feb. 15 couldn’t have been expected. It was so small as to escape detection. Though it was relatively small, its aftereffects were not. As Andrew Grant writes for Science News, “it was streaking through the sky at supersonic speeds of about 18 km a second before exploding at an altitude of 15-20 km, creating a shock wave that shattered glass in a deafening boom once it reached the surface.

Various news sources have reported hundreds of buildings damaged and about 1,200 injuries.”

In perhaps the most important news that has broken so far, a sea slug boasts a disposable penis, which simply falls off 20 minutes after copulation. Don’t worry: there are backups available if necessary. When the sea slug in the experiment, performed by Ayami Sekizawa of Osaka City University in Japan, was presented with another partner a day later, spare penile tissue emerged to answer the call of duty.

“New tissue emerges like lead in a mechanical pencil,” Sekizawa said.

I can’t wait to see what else 2013 has in store.

THE REVIEW/Lindsay Saienni

Students live action role-playing on South College Avenue in the sun

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Sports

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Jamelle Hagins is one rebound away from becoming the first Delaware player with 1,000 career rebounds.

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Men’s lacrosse falls short vs. No. 1 team

BY PAUL TIERNEY Sports Editor

After tying the game for the fourth time, the Delaware men’s lacrosse team needed to make one more stop to send their matchup against defending national champion and No. 1 Loyola University into overtime.

With 15 seconds left to play, Greyhounds’ midfielder Chris Layne blazed down the left alley past Hens’ sophomore midfielder Jeff Heath.

Delaware’s help defense did not slide in time, as Layne put the ball past sophomore goalkeeper Chris Herbert while falling to the snowy ground. Loyola then held on for the remaining 4 seconds on the clock for a 9-8 victory Saturday at Delaware Stadium.

After the match, Hens’ sophomore defender Trip Ashley said the team predicted Loyola attackman and 2012 Tewaaraton Award finalist Mike Sawyer to take the final shot.

“We were expecting kind of a mumbo or a screen where Sawyer would pop out and take a shot,” Ashley said. “They set the down pick. I got around it and they ended up cutting two down. We just lost a few of our men and it just turned out unfortunate.”

Delaware opened up the scoring as sophomore attacker Brian Kormondy fought through a slashing penalty and put the ball past Loyola

Courtesy of Tisa Della-Volpe

Goalie S.J. Broadt makes a save against Stony Brook. The ACHA playoffs begin in March.

Pucks fly wrong way for Hens in ESCHL See SMITH page 31 title game, Hens lose heartbreaker in final seconds vs. JMU 3-2 loss

BY DANIEL MCINERNEY Managing Sports Editor

The bang of head coach Monté Ross’ clipboard being slammed to the court in frustration was the only sound heard over the cheering James Madison crowd in the Bob Carpenter Sports Center Sunday night as the Hens watched in disbelief.

With just 1 second left in the game, Delaware got in position to defend an inbound pass from the baseline. James Madison guard Devon Miller lobbed the ball up in front of the hoop as guard Andre Nation separated himself from the Hens’ defense and caught the pass, finishing the alley-oop for his only basket and giving them a 72-71 lead with 0.6 seconds left.

Delaware heaved a final toss that missed the basket and fell out of bounds.

“I’m competitive either way,” sophomore guard Jarvis Threatt said.

THE REVIEW/ Sara Pferer

Midfielder Danny Keane winds up for a shot in Saturday’s game vs. Loyola. Keane had one goal in the game and has three so far this season. goalkeeper Jack Runkel to give the after sophomore midfielder Tom 13 seconds later after a fast break Hens an early lead just 1:14 into the Holland caught a pass from senior gave him a one-on-one opportunity game. However, Layne fired back attackman Sean Finegan on the in front of the goal. less than two minutes later on a doorstep and put the ball in the bounce shot to tie the game at 1-1. back of the net, until Greyhounds’ The Hens took the lead back attacker Justin Ward answered just

“My team is competitive, but this loss hurts a little more. We feel like we should have won that game, and its unfortunate how it turned out.”

Delaware took a 71-70 lead with 24 seconds left in the game when junior guard Devon Saddler made a layup on a fast break. On the following possession senior forward Jamelle Hagins blocked a shot by James Madison forward Rayshawn Goins and was immediately fouled.

Standing at the free-throw line with 8 seconds left shooting a oneand-one, Hagins missed the shot and James Madison grabbed the rebound.

After moving the ball up the court, the Dukes took a timeout and drew up the final play.

Threatt, who had 12 points, four rebounds, four assists and two steals in the effort, pointed to a miscommunication at the end of the game that allowed Nation to get open.

See HAGINS page 31

BY JACK COBOURN Sports Editor

THE REVIEW/ Jeremi Davis-Wright

James Madison guard Andre Nation scores the game-winning basket with under 1 second left in the game.

It all came down to a couple of quick goals at the start of the second period for the Delaware men’s club ice hockey team as they fell to Stony Brook, 3-2, in the finals of the Eastern States Collegiate Hockey League playoff tournament.

Head Coach M.F. Schurman, now in his third year with the team, said the team was not ready for the game and that hurt its performance.

“I think we were completely unprepared to play,” Schurman said.

“We got ourselves in a hole we could not get out of.”

The Hens came into this game with a 25-10-1 overall regular-season record and the ESCHL regular-season title with 23 points. Delaware, which was ranked No. 10 in the latest American Collegiate Hockey Association poll, beat West Chester, 6-0, on Saturday to advance to the finals.

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February 19, 2013

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ChickenScratch Weekly Calendar

Commentary

Tuesday, Feb. 19 Women’s Basketball at George Mason 7 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 21 Men’s Basketball vs. Drexel 7 p.m.

Bob Carpenter Sports Center Friday, Feb. 22 Women’s Lacrosse at Monmouth 3 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 23 Men’s Lacrosse at Mount St. Mary’s 12 p.m.

Men’s Basketball at UNCW 7 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 24 Indoor Track & Field at George Mason Last Chance Meet Women’s Lacrosse vs. Denver 12 p.m.

Delaware Stadium Women’s Basketball vs. James Madison 4:30 p.m.

Bob Carpenter Sports Center

Henpeckings Indoor Track & Field: The Delaware indoor track & field team won eight events at the Princeton Indoor Track and Field Invitational at Princeton University’s Jadwin Gym on Saturday. Sophomore Latoya James won the long jump and the 60-meter hurdles, while junior Lindsay Prettyman won the 800 meters. Juniors Emily Gispert and Paige Morris also won titles in the mile and triple jump. Rounding out the Hens’ successes were senior Rachel Wasserman with a win in the 1,000 meters, as well as freshman Chelsi Campbell and sophomore Katrina Steenkamer who won the 200 meters and 3,000 meters. The Hens’ record is now 4-1 overall.

Baseball: The Delaware baseball team won two of three games played at a shortened Ron Fraser Classic in Cary, N.C. from Friday to Sunday. On Friday, the Hens beat Temple University, 8-4, to open their season off on a high note. Redshirt senior outfielder Nick Ferdinand had two RBI’s and two runs scored. Delaware then lost to the University of Toledo, 2-1, the same day.

Delaware’s game against Canisius College on Saturday as well as their game against Albany on Sunday were canceled due to weather. However, Delaware was able to play Canisius on Sunday, winning 9-1. The Hens’ record is now 2-1 overall (0-0 CAA).

Men’s Tennis: The Delaware men’s tennis team lost to Saint Joseph’s University, 4-3, on Saturday at the Elkton Indoor Courts in Elkton, Md. Juniors Troy Beneck and Adam Lawton won their doubles match, 8-6, while sophomore Evan Andrews and junior Nolan Gelman won their doubles match, 8-3. In singles, Beneck and Lawton won both their matches in straight sets. The Hens’ record is now 1-2 overall (0-0 CAA).

“JUST DUNK IT”

BY RYAN MARSHALL One of the most relished events of NBA All-Star Weekend took place on Saturday—the Slam Dunk Contest. It consisted of high-flying action by short guys and big men alike, as well as a whole lot of misses.

There is a certain flair missing from the dunk contest that I firmly remember from my youth. Who could forget Jason Richardson’s bounce from the baseline to catch the ball and put it between his legs for a reverse slam in 2003? Or Vince Carter in 2000, when he took a bounce from a teammate, cradled it through his legs and finished with a violent slam with stitches in his left hand? Or in 2006 when Andre Iguodala took a pass off the backside of the backboard from Allen Iverson, ducked his head under the padded glass and slammed it home?

There are so many to choose from.

Players like Julius Erving, Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins all made the Slam Dunk Contest RI-DUNK-U-LOSULY awesome.

Now it is the Rising Stars Slam Dunk Contest, where “real” stars don’t even participate. Can anyone imagine a young LeBron James flying from the free-throw line? It is just not the same.

What is the difference between then and now? Richardson, Carter, Iguodala, Erving, Jordan and Wilkins all made the dunk on the first attempt. There wasn’t a barrage of balls flying off the rim. There wasn’t a timer back in the day. There weren’t even props, just dunks— and darn good ones.

That being said, Terrence Ross and Jeremy Evans saved the evening for what looked to be a down-and-out flunk contest. Evans dunking over a portrait of himself and Ross slamming over an innocent child will make it into the history books.

The failed attempt of Gerald Green to try and dunk the same ball twice while in midair became a headache. Green cutting down the net was the most exciting part but then the miss after miss killed the entire buzz in the building.

Did you not come up with a backup plan? Make it creative and original, but if you can’t dunk it in practice don’t flunk it on national TV. After all that they still had to put a new net on.

Kenneth Faried’s dunks were powerful but plain. James White’s free-throw line windmill was amped up before the start, but, well, he missed. Eric Bledsoe did a 360. About 18 of them appeared in Sunday night’s All-Start Game. Bledsoe was able to redeem himself later with a pretty authoritative bouncing windmill.

In the end, the participants need to have better backup plans if the first dunk does not go down. Don’t keep trying it. The surprise is gone. I’d rather see them try a completely different dunk and miss again than see the same slam bounce off the rim three times.

Give it up for all their athletic ability but allow anyone to enter the contest. Bring back Blake Griffin, Iguodala and the stars.

No one will top the likes of Carter, Jordan or Richardson, but if the right athletes don’t have

the ball in their hand, we will just see more misses.

Send questions, comments and a better AllStar Weekend to Ryan Marshall at ryanmars@ udel.edu

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Slam Dunk champion Terrence Ross.

Under Preview Delaware vs. George Mason About the teams: About Delaware: The Hens are 22-3 overall and 13-0 in the CAA. Delaware has won 17 in a row and is aiming for consecutive, undefeated CAA seasons.

The team was ranked 18th in the most recent AP poll. Senior forward Elena Delle Donne leads the conference with 24.7 points per game.

About George Mason: The Patriots are 8-15 and 3-9 in conference play.

They have lost six of eight. Senior guard Rahneeka Saunders leads the team with 12.3 points per contest. The team was 15-16 last season.

Women’s Basketball Time: Today at 7 p.m.

Location: Patriot Center, Fairfax, Va.

Why the Hens can win: Delaware stomped George Mason, 62-27, when the teams met in January. Delle Donne’s numbers are down a bit from last year due to Lyme disease, but she is still second in the nation in scoring. She also averages 8.6 rebounds per game. Perhaps more importantly, the team is playing well around her. With five games left in the regular season, the Hens look sharp.

Why the Hens could lose: Geore Mason is playing for pride. On paper, the Hens are better than the Patriots, but as everyone knows, that isn’t where games are played. The Patriots are fourth in the conference in rebounding margin and could give the Hens trouble if they pound the boards early. Saunders is also a solid 3-point shooter.

The numbers: 730: The number of days since the Hens lost a home game against a CAA foe. On Feb. 20, 2011, they suffered a 69-64 defeat to James Madison.

16.3: Delaware’s average scoring margin, best in the conference and one of the best in the nation.

33.2: Delaware’s field goal percentage defense, behind only six teams.

The prediction: Frankly, the Hens should run away with this one. I think Delaware will get out to an early lead behind Delle Donne and control the game for an easy win.

Delaware: 68 George Mason: 48 Matt Bittle Copy Desk Chief

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Delle Donne, teammates dominate ODU, 86-62

BY DANIEL MCINERNEY Managing Sports Editor

In the final CAA matchup between Delaware and Old Dominion, the Hens made sure to leave a lasting impression on the Lady Monarchs, who will be moving to Conference USA in July.

Defeating them 86-62, The win marked Delaware’s 31ststraight overall, 16th-straight in the CAA and sixth-straight at home.

Delaware, who is ranked 20th in the nation, improved to 21-3 (120) while Old Dominion fell to 16-9 (7-6). The 86-point effort marks a season high for the Hens, who also had a season-high 24 assists.

Held scoreless for the first 4:05 of the game, the Hens offense found a spark when junior guard Akeema Richards came onto the court. Richards finished the game with 10 points, three assists and two rebounds.

“I think we were playing games with them, or I like to think that,” senior forward Danielle Parker said of the Hens’ slow start. “Our shots weren’t falling and we weren’t getting to the boards like we usually do, and that kind of stopped us in the beginning but we finally picked up momentum and crashed the glass.”

Parker, who had 13 points, six rebounds, two steals and two assists in the game, said coach emphasized the need to play better defense in the second half. She had nine of her 13 points in the second half, helping the Hens pull away and secure the

victory.

Senior All-American forward Elena Delle Donne led Delaware with 26 points, seven rebounds, six assists, three blocks and two steals. Delle Donne, who became the CAA all-time leading scorer last week, set two more CAA records in Thursday’s game when she became the leader in career field goals with 913 and in free throws with 688.

After Thursday, Delle Donne is eligible to enter the NCAA’s national rankings after having played in 75 percent of games this season. She currently ranks second in the nation with 24.7 points per game, behind Jerica Coley from Florida International University.

But Delle Donne wasn’t the only player to score in double figures on Thursday night, as Richards, Parker and senior guard Lauren Carra, who had 15 points, a team-high eight rebounds, two assists and one steal, did it as well.

With just under 13 minutes left in the first half Carra hit a 3-pointer to give Delaware the lead, which they held for the rest of the game.

Carra shot 3-6 from beyond the arc and said she felt the whole team contributed to the win.

“I definitely think there is a different type of energy when everyone gets involved,” Carra said. “Everyone is scoring and it makes us that much harder to stop.”

The Hens held the Lady Monarchs to a shooting percentage of 37, while Delaware shot 53 percent from the field. Head coach

Tina Martin said the team came out a little slow in the first half but began to play better, especially in the second half, when they outscored Old Dominion 14-0 in the paint.

“I thought today we had a little bit of a lull in the first half, and I was a little fired up because we just weren’t as efficient on the offensive end,” Martin said. “Defensively, not great in the first half, much better in the second half.”

Two Lady Monarch’s players, forward Shakeva Richards and guard Galaisha Goodhope, fouled out during the contest, as Delaware also saw a strong performance from their bench and outscored Old Dominion’s bench 18-8.

“That shows team effort,” Parker said. “Everybody doing their part because we are all scorers and we all have that mentality. We all can get to the basket and make good plays.”

The Hens faced off against the William & Mary on Sunday at Kaplan Arena. Delaware won the game 66-44 behind another strong effort from Delle Donne, who had 24 points, six rebounds, three assists, one steal and one block.

Richards contributed 13 points and five rebounds, as Delaware improved to 22-3 (13-0) and extended their conference-winning streak to 32.

They play at George Mason tonight at 7 p.m. and end the week with a home game against James Madison.

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Forward Delle Donne set two CAA career records in Thursday’s game against Old Dominion.

Lady Hens inconsistent, fall to Georgetown’s shooting sprees 6-0 run by Hoyas spoils home opener Saturday KELLY LYONS AND KELLY FLYNN Managing News Editor & Managing Mosaic Editor

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Midfielder Caitlin McCartney defends a Wales player Monday.

While fans bundled in their winter gear braving the frigid temperatures and the snow-filled gloomy gray skies, the Delaware women’s lacrosse team debuted in its season opener against the Georgetown University on Saturday.

In a back-and-forth match that ended in favor of the Hoyas, 1612, the Hens’ goals kept coming until the last 39 seconds of the game when sophomore midfielder Caitlin McCartney added her fourth and fifth goals of the game as she, junior attacker Chelsea Fay and the rest of the Hens tried to scramble back late in the game at Delaware Stadium.

“We started winning the draw,” McCartney said. “Me and Chelsea were just trying to do whatever we could in order to score.”

Delaware found it difficult to overcome the Georgetown’s 6-0 scoring spree during the second half, according to head coach Kateri Linville. Down just 9-8 with

25 minutes left to play after Fay’s second goal, the Hoyas dominated the next 21 minutes scoring six goals and only allowing four shots.

Even a timeout by Linville couldn’t halt Georgetown’s momentum and an array of Lady Hoyas repeatedly beat sophomore goalkeeper Alex Zaugra. Linville said the spree was due to the early season inconsistency.

“In terms of competing from start to finish, we weren’t able to do that, and that’s what cost us—especially in the second half when they went on that shooting [streak],” Linville said.

Georgetown proved its No. 15 ranking much earlier than the spree by winning the opening face off and heading down the field to encircle the Hens’ net. Ultimately, Georgetown’s Courtney Caputo scored the first goal of the game within the first 2 minutes of the game.

Following the first goal, Delaware retaliated with some action of its own as possession bounced back and forth between the Hens and the Hoyas, with each team scoring two goals.

Once the Hoyas gained a twogoal lead around the 14-minute

mark, the Hens found it difficult to regain their momentum during the rest of the first half, repeatedly trailing by one goal or more.

As the frame closed, the Hens found themselves three goals behind with the score at 9-6.

Although it appeared as though Delaware attempted a comeback after scoring two goals in the first 5 minutes of the second half, this was shortlived by Georgetown’s dominating run.

Fay said she and her teammates can improve upon their performance, and she and McCartney agreed the Hens want to focus on the little things, such as executing their plays and causing more turnovers.

“Obviously, we didn’t come out with a win so we still have stuff to work on, but we take it as a learning experience,” Fay said.

“We just have to work that much harder to get that much better.”

Looking toward the future, the team will not let the loss affect morale, Linville said.

“From a big picture, I’m happy to see my team compete,” she said. “If we want to get to the next level, we have to execute and take care of the ball better.”

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Hagins: Late free-throw miss allows JMU to set up alley-oop game winner Continued from page 28 He said the Hens were running a switch and expected Hagins to stay in the paint, but instead the forward followed the player he was guarding.

The mistake led to Nation being open for the easy finish.

Saddler had a team-high 23 points, eight rebounds, four assists and two steals but also a game-high five turnovers.

“I feel like I let my team down on that last play,” Saddler said. “As a captain, I am supposed to step up but things like this happen, and we need to come back and prepare for Drexel.”

The loss snapped Delaware’s three-game winning streak and gave James Madison the season-sweep of Delaware. After defeating CAA leader Northeastern on Wednesday, the Hens moved into second place in the conference, but Sunday’s loss allowed James Madison to move into sole possession of second place behind Northeastern.

Hagins had 11 rebounds in the game, bringing his career total to 999. He added six points and two blocks but sat for almost 10 minutes in the second half after getting into foul trouble.

The Hens had 11-point leads in both the first and second halves but saw each lead quickly disappear, thanks in large part to the Dukes’ 3-point shooting. James Madison, whose season 3-point shooting average is 35 percent, shot just under 48 percent from beyond the arc Sunday night.

“It’s a game of runs,” Ross said.

“Basketball is ebb and flow where you are going to be able to make some runs and the other team is going to make some runs back at you. You just have to be able to withstand it and we weren’t able to withstand it tonight.”

James Madison’s bench outscored Delaware’s, 28-8 behind guard A.J. Davis who recorded 16 points, five assists and two steals.

Sophomore guard Kyle Anderson scored 16 points, was a perfect 6-for-6 from the free-throw line and had six rebounds The Hens return to action on Thursday against Drexel at the Bob Carpenter Sports Center.

With just four games remaining until the start of the CAA Tournament, Ross emphasized the importance of learning from the loss and looking ahead to their next opponent.

“We didn’t play particularly well, but we put ourselves in a position to win the game at the end but we just couldn’t close the deal,” Ross said. “We will bounce back it’s a resilient group.”

Junior forward Nicholas LePore failed to capitalize on an empty net opportunity.

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Hockey: Hens expect to regroup in next week’s practices, defend ACHA title in March Continued from page 28

After a scoreless first period, Stony Brook came out shooting, scoring the opening goal of the game when forward Wesley Hawkins scored 15 seconds into

the period. The Seawolves did not have to wait long for the next goal, as forward Daniel Cassano scored 90 seconds later to go up 2-0.

Senior goaltender S.J. Broadt said the Hens were dominated by Stony Brook early in the second period.

“It wasn’t good, they just

came down,” Broadt said.

“The first 5 minutes of the second they outplayed us.”

With 16 minutes gone, Stony Brook forward Matthew Gervasi got a minor penalty for roughing, giving Delaware a power play. The Hens capitalized on it as senior

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forward Connor Moore scored a little under 30 seconds later.

Moore said he wants to help inspire the team, and the goal was the perfect way of doing that.

“As the captain, I’ve got to find my moments in the game where I can motivate my team,” Moore said.

“During the power play, they were beating us up pretty badly so I just got my stick on it and put it away.”

The Hens dominated the puck throughout most of the third period.

However, with a little more than 6:30 left in the game, Stony Brook scored what would prove to be the winning goal. Despite the best efforts of senior forward Vincent Pontrello, who scored with 1:50 left in the game, the Hens could not tie the Seawolves.

Now with two weeks before the ACHA playoffs in Bensenville, Ill., Moore said the team will practice to make sure that it is starting games on a good note and finishing scoring chances.

Schurman said the Hens will work on making sure the defense is stronger and the team of winning the title.

“We’ll do a lot of work on zone coverage and defense, as well as our preparedness,” he said.

The Hens look to defend their title in Bensenville, as they claimed last year’s ACHA Championship, winning the first Division I Championship in the program’s 40year history.

For Schurman, the pressure of defending a national championship is on his mind, but as long as the players keep their heads down, he said they have a good chance at victory.

“There’s always pressure, but I know we can play our game and win,” Schurman said.

Smith: On tying man-up goal, ‘We actually hadn’t scored on it the entire week in practice’ Continued from page 28 Ward’s goal sparked a 3-0 run that enabled the Greyhounds to take to a 4-3 lead heading into halftime.

Sawyer, who garnered 53 goals and 10 assists during Loyola’s national championship run a year ago, finished the half with zero points.

Ashley said Sawyer was not a threat for the majority of the game.

“Coach told me in the beginning of the week that I had Sawyer and being [6 feet 6 inches tall], I had to get all over his hands and stay with him,” Ashley said. “ Everyone else kind of knew the situation. You had to fear him as a shooter and give him respect as a Tewaarton finalist.

I think we did pretty well.”

The goalies from both sides made several stops to keep the game at a one-goal margin in favor of Loyola. Runkel denied Hens freshman midfielder Alex Martinelli on a low bounce shot with 13:30 left in the third quarter, and Herbert stopped a high shot from Loyola attackman Davis Butts on the ensuing possession. Delaware got the ball back, but Runkel saved another low bouncer from Martinelli.

With 9:29 left in the third quarter, Loyola long-stick

midfielder Chris Ratliff began a 3-1 run in favor of the Greyhounds to make the score 7-4 heading into the final period.

Delaware tied the game at seven after scoring three goals in just over 3 minutes from freshman attacker Ian Robertson, Finegan and senior attackman Eric Smith.

Sawyer returned the lead to Loyola with a behind-the-back assist to midfielder Sean O’Sullivan with 8:20 remaining.

The game remained scoreless until a tripping call on Loyola defensemen Joe Fletcher with 43.3 seconds left gave Delaware one last chance to tie the game. Smith was able to find junior midfielder Danny Keane on the crease for a quick stick goal with 26 seconds remaining.

Smith said he was surprised Keane was open that close to the goal.

“We’ve been working on the play all week,” Smith said. “The way it works is that Nick Diachenko will come down, [Keane] sets a seal for him and then he rolls right inside. So it’s always a look but it’s not the main look.”

The ensuing faceoff resulted in a fight for the groundball on Loyola’s half of the field. The Greyhounds eventually scooped up the ball and

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Attackman Sean Finnegan drives against a Loyala defender on Saturday.

“It’s really just a moral called timeout with 15 seconds left.

After the timeout, Layne began his victory,” Diachenko said. “I know dodge from midfield and scored the that sounds cliché but that’s really game-winner with 4 seconds to play. what it is. We need to come out next Despite two consecutive one- week and just get better. We came goal losses to ranked opponents, within one goal of the No.1 team in fifth-year senior midfielder Nick the nation.”

After back-to-back 9-8 losses, Diachenko said there were several positives to take out of playing a the Hens pick up play again next close game against the defending Saturday at Mount Saint Mary’s University. national champions.

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