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KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Conversation around sexual assault has come into full swing on campus, attracting the attention of state legislators and stakeholders. Clockwise: Title IX Coordinator Sue Groff at student government meeting, sophomore Sage Carson at September’s UDoBetter rally, outgoing SGA president Ben Page-Gil.
Del. legislators propose mandatory reporting bill Bill would bring sexual assault reports to law enforcement
CADY ZUVICH Executive Editor Reports of sexual assaults rarely make their way up to student conduct, let alone law enforcement. Justice is rarely served. Reports––either with the police or the university––remain largely unfilled. A group of Delaware legislators are looking to change this underreporting norm by spearheading a bill that would require universities to share sexual assault reports with law enforcement. But some survivors and their advocates say the bill would do just the opposite and hinder people from reporting. Sponsors Reps. Kim Williams and Valerie Longhurst and Sen. Karen Peterson announced the proposed mandatory reporting bill earlier this month with a slew of other legislation related to women’s rights. The legislators have yet
to finalize the bill, but could bring it to the floor within the coming months. “These people who do these violent crimes know that they will continue to commit,” Williams said. “We are done allowing you to take advantage. If we send that message, think of the power of what could be done.” In recent weeks, the sponsors have been meeting with various campus stakeholders, such as advocates and administrators. One of the students consulted was Sage Carson, the sophomore behind September’s UDoBetter rally against sexual assault. Carson said mandatory reporting is a far cry from being survivor centered. “You’ve already had your power taken away,” Carson said of survivors whose initial reports will more likely be forwarded to law enforcement. “Do you really want to put your
future in the hands of someone you don’t know?” Carson started a change.org petition against the proposed bill. As of Monday, 240 people have signed. ‘We just want more conversations about this’ The bill mimics legislation created in the wake of the Earl Bradley case. Bradley was a Delaware pediatrician convicted in 2011 on 471 charges of molesting, raping and exploiting 103 of his child patients. After Bradley’s arrests, Gov. Jack Markell signed nine bills into law, one of which enhanced mandatory reporting requirements by healthcare practitioners. For Rep. Williams, it was documentary “The Hunting Ground” that prompted her to go forward with her legislation. The documentary crew came to campus in March to show
the film, which examined the prevalence––and mishandling–– of sexual assault cases on college campuses. “I left [The Hunting Ground] and could not believe how this is such an epidemic –– how its underreported and how people aren’t paying the price for their actions,” Williams said. “We just want more conversations about this.” As it stands, the bill would require the university’s responsible employees to forward reports to law enforcement. The bill would exempt clergy, professional counselors and victim advocates from the reporting requirement. Senior Ben Page-Gil, outgoing president of Student Government Association, met with legislators in recent weeks and said legislators do not seem open to receiving feedback on the bill. He also said no drafts or further details of the bill were given
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University officials have confirmed that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will be visiting campus next week as part of its investigation into the university’s handling of sexual violence cases. The university was put under investigation last May by OCR on whether it violated Title IX, a federal law that mandates gender equality at universities. OCR’s list of colleges under investigation has inflated since last year, with 106 higher education institutions as of April 1 facing inquiries into their handling of sexual assaults. OCR investigators will be holding focus sessions next Tuesday and Wednesday with anyone who would like to speak about sexual violence on campus. The OCR will also be
available to speak in private and with survivors of sexual assault. OCR’s visit comes at a time when administration is reviewing campus sexual assault policies. The Office of the Provost in conjunction with Faculty Senate issued a climate survey last week to evaluate undergraduates’ experiences with sexual violences, including if students know the available resources and reporting protocol. The survey closes May 4. Professor Michael Chajes —chairperson of the Faculty Senate Commission on Sexual Harassment and Assault – said the survey could give data that filed sexual assault reports cannot give. “It’s important for universities to gather the best data we can and report it,” Chajes said. “I think we can do it without infringing on the survivor.”
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A behind-the-scenes look into the university’s security cameras and how they are being used to solve campus crimes. NEWS Page 3
Title IX coordinator Sue Groff, who came into her position one month after the university was placed under OCR investigation, is facing understaffing and changes to her office. Some staffers have left the Title IX office, and Groff said at a Student Government Association meeting earlier this semester that she will soon be “burnt out.” The university is looking to hire two Title IX investigators to add to Groff’s office. Groff is currently the only staffer investigating cases. OCR has visited other colleges this month, including Harvard University, University of California—Los Angeles and Iowa State University. OCR found in November that Princeton University was noncompliant with Title IX. An agreement was reached to bring Princeton University to compliance.
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Tuesday in Trabant University Center Multipurpose Room B 10 a.m.: University faculty 11 a.m.: University staff 1 p.m.: Resident assistants 2 p.m.: Student Government Association and campus leaders 3 p.m.: Members of organizations addressing issues of interest to women 4 p.m.: Individual meetings with OCR. Please call one of the OCR representatives below to schedule a private meeting. Walk-ins are also welcome. Wednesday in Ewing Room of Perkins Student Center 10 a.m.: University undergraduate and graduate students 11 a.m.: Individual meetings with OCR. Please call one of the OCR representatives below to schedule a private meeting. Walk-ins are also welcome. 1 p.m.: Members of sororities 2 p.m.: Members of fraternities 3 p.m.: Individual meetings with OCR. Please call one of the OCR representatives below to schedule a private meeting. Walkins are also welcome.
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to stakeholders. ‘Mandating people to go through this process –– it’s kind of ridiculous,” Page-Gil said. It should be up to the survivor.” Page-Gil also expressed concern that the bill could compromise our Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Campus Grant. The VAWA grant, which was granted in 2011 and again 2014, requires a certain level of survivor confidentiality. The University of Delaware in partnership with Delaware State University has received more than $1 million from the VAWA grants, allowing for the hiring of prevention specialists and promotions of special programming.
EDITORIAL: POLITICAL COLUMNIST SHARES INSIGHTS ON BALTIMORE “The sounds coming out of Baltimore are not hateful, vicious or anti-American.” EDITORIAL Page 7
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TUESDAY, MAY 5
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-Student Music Show, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Trabant Patio -Issues in Public Policy lecture featuring National Wildlife Foundation Director Collin O’Mara, 5 p.m., Memorial Hall 127 -USC Quizzo: Students Today. Blue Hens Forever, 8 - 9 p.m., Perkins West Lounge -Candlelight vigil for Nepal, 8 p.m., outside of Memorial Hall
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6
THURSDAY, MAY 7
Packed sports weekend ends with Mayweather victory
Royal baby born, media circus ensues
Justice for Freddie Gray?
-University Museums open house, 4:30 - 7:30 p.m., Old College & Mechanical Hall -Hutchinson Lecture in Economics, 7 - 8:30 p.m., Gore Recital Hall -Reel Productions 7th Annual Film Festival, 7 - 10 p.m., Trabant Theater -SCPAB spring concert featuring Big Sean, 8 p.m., Bob Carpenter Center
The Kentucky Derby, the NFL Draft and the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight made for a packed sports Saturday. American Pharoah, a 5-2 favorite, won the Derby by edging out Firing Line and Dortmund during the final stretch of the race. The horse finished the race in 2:03.02 and will compete in the second leg of the Triple Crown in two weeks at the Preakness. The latter rounds of the NFL Draft took place, which included the fifth-round selection of senior Blue Hen tight end Nick Boyle by the Baltimore Ravens. Finally, Saturday ended with the long-awaited fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. After a full 12 rounds, Mayweather prevailed by unanimous decision to remain undefeated.
Duchess Kate Middleton gave birth to the second royal baby over the weekend, a girl weighing in at just over eight pounds. The new princess becomes fourth in line for the British throne, just behind her older brother George, now 21 months old. The baby has been named Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.
Six Baltimore police officers were indicted over the weekend on a variety of charges connected to the death of Freddie Gray, a Baltimore man who died after suffering a severed spine while in police custody. Protests and rioting flared after the case, grabbing national headlines after yet another black man was killed at the hands of law enforcement. Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore State Attorney, announced that the group would face charges including assault, manslaughter and false imprisonment. Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which Gray suffered his injuries, was charged with second degree murder.
-UDress Magazine spring launch, 6 8 p.m., Perkins West Lounge -UDairy Creamery outdoor movie & all-you-can-eat ice cream, 8 p.m., Townsend Hall parking lot
FRIDAY, MAY 8
-International Coffee Hour, 4 - 6 p.m., 44 Kent Way -Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m, Center for the Arts, Puglisi Orchestra Hall -Outdoor Movie on The Green: “Pitch Perfect,” 8:30 - 10:15 p.m., North Green
SUNDAY, MAY 10
-Mother’s Day -International Film Series, “Life Feels Good,” 7:30 p.m., Trabant Theater
SATURDAY, MAY 9
-Lyme Disease Awareness 5K Walk and Run, 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m., Laird campus 5K course -Disney Live! brings “Three Classic Fairy Tales,” 1 & 4 p.m., Bob Carpenter Center -Chorale, 8 p.m., Amy du Pont Music Building, Loudis Recital Hall
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MONDAY, MAY 11
-Science Cafe featuring Karen Rosenberg, 5:30 - 7 p.m., Deer Park Tavern -HRIM presents wine education seminar series, 6 - 9 p.m., 208 Trabant University Center
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Warmer days are upon us. As temperatures break 80 degrees, it’s time to start thinking of our summertime diets. For most of us, that means ice cream. Lots of ice cream. Our dear VP Biden is a notorious ice cream connoisseur. In fact, one tumblr page features various snaps of Joe devouring delicious iced treats. So for your summertime pleasure, I present you a Biden-centric summer treats. For starters: Cup of joe ice cream. Coffee-flavored ice cream with bits of gingersnaps swirled with caramel. UDairy, I know you are no longer accepting submissions for your make-yourown-flavor contests, but consider this. In my senior will, I leave to you a Biden-themed flavor. Maybe to celebrate his exit from the White House? Quench your thirst: Non-alcoholic Buckler beer. Despite popular belief, Biden does not sip on a Budweiser as he washes his Trans Am. He’s actually entirely sober, a teetotaler if you will. He’s entirely abstinent from alcohol, as alcoholism runs in his family. Because Delaware: Capriotti’s Bobbie. Because it’s a staple in any Delawarean diet. For the grand finale: A slice of Grotto’s pizza and a slater (non-alcoholic!) I like to think Biden can live it up without being inebriated. The best way to finish it up VP-style is to head over to Grottos and compete in slater races with his favorite fellow Blue Hens.
April 1968 On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered at a motel in Memphis, Tenn. In the aftermath of his death, riots broke out across the country in dozes of cities like Chicago, Baltimore and Wilmington. At least 45 people were injured during firebombing, looting and sniping April 8 and April 9 in West Wilmington, though no deaths were attributed to the disturbances. More than 3,500 Delaware National Guardsmen were called into the Wilmington Area on April 9, remaining in the area for several days to assist municipal and state police. During these two day, curfews were imposed in Wilmington and all of New Castle County. Of the 160 arrests made on charges including violation of the Wilmington riot ordinance and carrying a concealed weapon, almost 85 were on curfew violations. In Newark, fire bombs were thrown at Deer Park, windows were smashed on Main Street at the Newark Country Club. Two services were held April 8 on campus to honor King.
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Ten years later, remembering Lindsey Bonistall This article ‘I called her my Lindsey Lou’ was originally published May 17, 2005. It has been edited for length; the article in its entirety is posted on our website. This weekend marked the 10th anniversary of Bonistall’s murder. On May 1, 2005, Bonistall, a sophomore, was killed by James Cooke in her Towne Court apartment. She was a journalism student, and a scholarship was made by the university in her memory. After Lindsey’s death, her parents founded Peace Outside! a nonprofit dedicated to promoting safety for students living in off-campus housing. Cooke is currently on death row.
All who knew her said humor encapsulated Lindsey’s life. Comedy Central was constantly on the TV in their apartment. It was common knowledge that Lindsey’s favorite movies were “Old School,” “Office Space,” “Super Troopers” and “13 Going on 30” because she would
Christine said, especially in the book she was planning to write about her large; close-knit lrish Catholic family. “She was going to write about specific stories from family functions and kind of make fun of her family in a good way,” she said. Kathleen Bonistall, Lindsey’s mother, said during
“Anything she decided she wanted to do, she did and she put her whole heart and soul in it and did it well.”
JIA DIN and CAIT SIMPSON News Editors The pictures nearly covered the entire wall of the bedroom. A collage of family and friends from home and school documented 20 years’ worth of memories. The Vincent Van Gogh print of “Café: Terrace at Night” and a Bob Marley poster hung next to light-hearted doodles drawn during many hours spent in class. In the main room, bright colored tapestries adorned the ceiling and walls. Posters of Sublime, the Dave Matthews Band and Pink Floyd decorated the walls amid numerous original works of art done by friends. The independence that came with living off-campus in her Towne Court apartment gave sophomore Lindsey Bonistall the opportunity to create her own lifestyle. Lindsey’s father, Mark, said she wanted to chart her own course. ‘’She liked the idea of having her own place and the idea of working and paying her utility bills,” he said. “She told me she was financially independent and I chuckled. I told her, ‘All you’re doing is paying your utility bill.’” Lindsey, 20, of White Plains, N.Y., was found strangled in her bathtub May 1 during an investigation of an early morning fire that was set in her apartment. The once artsy apartment has been reduced to ash marks and water damage. The smell of make pervades the building, which is still blocked off by police tape. According to police, the killer is stiII at large. To those who knew her, Lindsey will always be remembered for her sense of humor and energetic personality. Lindsey’s sister, Kristen Bonistall, 22, said Lindsey had the ability to add humor to any situation. “She would be the one that would be making it better for us all right now,” she said through her tears. “She would be the one who would make us laugh and make us be happy again— she was joy.” Sophomore Jon Little, Lindsey’s former boyfriend from freshman year, said he and his friends agreed Lindsey would want them to be happy regardless of the tragic situation. “If she were here, she’d be making jokes and laughing about it and saying, ‘Guys don’t worry about it,’” he said. “She just had that altitude where she was always happy.” Laughing, her sister recalled Lindsey’s habit of making funny faces in pictures.
with too many activities, Nicole said, Lindsey figured out her niche. Despite having a guaranteed transfer to Cornell University for her sophomore year, Lindsey decided to stay in Newark because she grew accustomed to her friends and lifestyle. Originally a biology major
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A tree was planted in Lindsey’s honor by the path between Perkins and Memorial Hall, a spot chosen because it was a route she woudl walk frequently. recite lines verbatim to the amusement of friends. Sophomore Christine Bush, Lindsey’s roommate, sophomore Nicole Gengaro and Lindsey, who met after living in Dickinson B residence hall their freshman year. They were inseparable. “We were just obsessed with each other from the moment we met,” Christine said. Junior Paul Wachter, who dated Lindsey during Fall Semester and worked with her at Cafe Gelato, said her laugh accompanied her charismatic personality. “She had a very unique laugh,” he said. “She kind of tilted her head back. It was very honest.” Lindsey’s sense of humor showed through her writing,
her years at Good Counsel Academy High School, Lindsey occupied her time as senior class president, captain of the soccer and track teams, member of two cheerleading squads, Universal Cheerleading Association instructor, a competitive diver and volunteer, among other activities. “Anything she decided she wanted to do, she did and she put her whole heart and soul in it and did it well,” she said. Lindsey made the cheerleading squad and the dive team her freshman year at the university, but decided against pursuing these activities. Jon said Lindsey gained a new perspective between high school and college. “She got a new approach on life,” he said. Instead of busying herself
with aspirations to become a doctor, Lindsey realized her interest in writing and turned to English/journalism. “She just flip-flopped her major and was full-steam ahead with journalism,” her father said. “It really lit up her lamp when she got published [in The Review].” Mckay Jenkins, journalism professor, said he enjoyed teaching Lindsey because of her curiosity. “She struck me as somebody who was not afraid to say she didn’t know something,” he said. “There wa no pretension about her. She wasn’t pretending to be a super-reporter, she just wanted to leam what she could learn “ Her mother recalled Lindsey’s many accomplishments and noted her last as covering the Philadelphia Flower Show, which was published on the front page of The Review’s Mosaic section. “She was so proud of that,” she said. Friends noted Lindsey’s close relationship with her father. Megan said Lindsey spoke of her father all of the time, which she found rare for a college student. “They were like best friends,” she said. “She loved her family, she had so many pictures or them on her wall.” The last time her father saw Lindsey was April 11, when Lindsey made him stop on his way back to New York to show him her published clips that she was saving. “Unfortunately, all of that was lost in the fire,” he said. Lindsey’s father said the only belongings of hers he could salvage from her apartment
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were a few articles of smokedamaged clothing. He also recovered pieces of Lindsey’s jewelry, along with some of her class notebooks found in her car. “We’d trade in everything to have Lindsey,” he said, “but just having little pieces of her is important to us.” Friends noticed as Lindsey’s naturally blonde hair darkened as the year progressed. Despite some protests from her parents, Lindsey dyed her long curly blonde hair and sweeping bangs to a deep brown that contrasted with her bright blue eyes. Christine said Lindsey’s dark hair had to do with her finally coming into her own. “She was more into doing things she wanted to do in college,” she said. “That’s why she was doing journalism. She figured out the kind out person she wanted to be.” Close friends of Lindsey’s traveled to White Plains to pay respects at her wake and funeral. Thousand gathered at three sessions of the wake and the funeral to honor Lindsey’s life. The Bonistalls have received countless flowers, letters and support from people who were touched by Lindsey. At the wake, a slideshow made by one of her cousins featured an array of pictures and home, videos taken of Lindsey. Songs by some of her favorite bands, such as Keane, Pink Floyd, John Lennon and Enya played in the background. Nicole said the prayer, which was given to everyone in attendance, expressed her feelings perfectly: “Grieve not... nor speak of me with tears...but laugh and talk of me as though l were beside you. l loved you so...’’Twas heaven here with you.” Christine said the funeral gave the situation a sense of reality, and was the first step in the difficult path to closure. “Sometimes it still feels like she’s coming back,” she said, “like she’s just on vacation.” Christine said being with friends and remembering Lindsey has helped. “But you can’t think about what happened, or how it happened,” she said. “You can’t think about that because Linds was about living.” President David P. Roselle stated in an open letter to the community the university has established a $50,000 fund in Lindsey’s memory toward scholarship for journalism students. Her father said he is honored by the university’ scholarship and hopes to work on other projects, such as a foundation to help victims of violent crimes. “It’’s a great honor and a valuable tribute to Lindsey in her memory,” he said. “We’re going to make sure her legacy continues.” Nicole said to her family and friends that Lindsey’s memory will not be lost because her personality was unforgettable. “lf you didn’t know her then you didn’t know what you were missing,” she said. “She was definitely not someone you could forget.” Her mother said Lindsey’s energy was motivational. “ln her short little lifetime she accomplished so much,” she said. “She was my strength, my inspiration. I called her my Lindsey Lou.”
An inside view of the university’s 340-camera surveillance room PATRICK WITTERSCHEIN Senior Reporter Controlling a camera that sits atop Delaware Stadium, a public safety aide can read the hours posted on the door of the bank that sits across South College Avenue. With a different camera, he can capture the face of each person entering Morris Library, and with another he can keep a watchful eye on the steps of Memorial Hall. All this is done with the click of a mouse at the Video Monitoring Center at the Public Safety Building—a room packed wall to wall with computer monitors providing a view of everything happening on campus at any given moment.
The surveillance cameras installed around campus over the last several years have given Public Safety unprecedented coverage of campus, and a leg up when it comes to improving student safety. Executive Director of Campus and Public Safety Skip Homiak said the cameras represent a continued effort to improve campus security. “The university has been investing heavily in safety, and this is just one example of that,” Homiak said. Surveillance cameras were first installed in 2009, but since then the program has grown to include roughly 340 units around campus. The location of the cameras can be viewed on a map on the Public Safety website.
Mark Seifert, manager of Emergency Communications and Information Technology, said Public Safety plans to continue expanding the program, especially in new construction and renovation areas on campus. While the program started with 30 units in 2009, Seifert said, “We’re growing every day.” One of the main reasons for continued focus on the surveillance program has been its success in deterring crime and aiding investigations, according to Seifert. “It’s been a really good investment,” Seifert said. “The amount of crimes we solve, just with archived video, is increasing each year.” The cameras were instrumental in a 2013
investigation following nine shots that were fired at the Laird Campus basketball courts after a basketball game dispute. Not only was the suspect’s car identified on camera—the footage also showed the muzzle of the gun flashing nine times. At a recent football game, the cameras were used to direct emergency crews to a spectator who had gone into cardiac arrest. Operators in the command center pinpointed the exact location of the victim, and were able to provide emergency medical services with detailed information. Seifert said the impact on campus has been significant. When the University of Delaware Police Department (UDPD) noticed an increase in thefts in the library during finals week
several years ago, they decided to install surveillance cameras with a public safety kiosk in the front lobby. The kiosk and on-camera monitor had the intended effect on potential criminals. “People were looking up at the monitor and turning around and walking right out,” Seifert said. In Phase IV of its deployment, the surveillance program has proven itself to be useful for police and reassuring to the campus community. When deciding where to install new cameras, Seifert said Public Safety consults input from Student Government Association, UDPD officer input and crime trends. See CHANDLER page 4
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CARSON: ‘THERE’S NO CUT AND DRY ANSWER.’ Continued from page 1
Similar bills have been brought up in other states. Virginia senators advanced a mandatory reporting bill in January during the wake of Rolling Stone’s redacted University of Virginia sexual assault article. Lack of data
MALLORY SMITH/THE REVIEW With security camera technology, hundreds of views of campus are avaliable at the click of a button.
CHANDLER: ‘WE NEED TO SEE WHO GOES IN AND OUT AT ALL TIMES.’ Continued from page 3 Christopher Chandler, manager of Computing Operations, said one of the recent trends is covering entrances and exits of buildings with cameras. While private areas of residence halls are never under surveillance, Public Safety has installed cameras to record residence hall entrances to combat crime. “We need to see who goes in and out at all times,” Chandler said. Some of the more advanced cameras are equipped with pan, tilt and zoom features (PTZ) for greater control over visibility. The high quality of the cameras ensures that Public Safety can see what it needs to, both day and night. The PTZ cameras come with a heater and blower to prevent ice buildup in the winter months. Camera casings also have rainwash
solution to bead up rainwater that would otherwise disturb footage. Surveillance cameras range in price from about $1,000 for a fixed camera to up to $2,500 for a PTZ camera. Officer James Spadola of the Newark Police Department said the department works with UDPD to identify suspects who may have appeared in surveillance footage. “If we or they have reason to believe looking at our or their cameras will help solve a crime, then we do exactly that,” Spadola said. Newark Police Department has 26 cameras around town, mostly located in the downtown area near Main Street. Public opinion of the surveillance program has been mostly positive, Seifert said. Because the program has resulted in an increase in community safety, UDPD has seen little pushback. This
summer, Public Safety plans to expand the program by an additional 30 cameras in new and renovated buildings, Seifert said. Chandler expects UDPD and Public Safety to continue to embrace new methods of policing to increase campus security. The installation of surveillance cameras is only one way that UDPD has adapted to better provide services for the campus community. Seifert is proud that Public Safety has been able to develop such a strong program over the past several years. To Seifert and the rest of Public Safety, installing the cameras was simply the easiest method to provide security to the entire campus. “Why wouldn’t you leverage technology to benefit students and faculty?” Seifert said.
The Office of Civil Rights already requires responsible employees to report accusations that come to them to university Title IX offices. The university currently defines responsible employee as all university employees. This means that when student discloses to anyone from a resident assistant to professor, that employee must report the case to the Title IX office. Professor Michael Chajes chairs the Faculty Senate Commission on Sexual Harassment and Assault, which is slated to issue policy recommendations to administration in the fall. Mandatory reporting does not fit into these recommendations, according to Chajes. “The evidence across the country suggests that if you make someone a mandatory reporter, fewer people will come to them,” Chajes said. Since the university notified students of the mandatory reporting rules, Chajes said professors who usually received a large volume of reports have since seen a drop in students disclosing to them. Instead of mandating reporting, Chajes said a climate survey—issued in April to undergraduate students— could give us the data needed at a time when sexual assault statistics are lacking. Three on campus sexual assaults were recorded in 2013 by university police, according to the latest Clery Act report. University of Delaware Police
Department Chief Patrick Ogden suspects this number will jump in the next Clery Report. “You will see at least a tripling of that number, if not more,” Ogden said. “We definitely have more coming in, but not everything is reported. We’re getting much better, and more people are reporting to the Clery compliance officer.” Ogden said he has mixed feelings about the proposed mandatory reporting bill. “I want to know that the crime occurred and I want to hold the suspect accountable, but I also want to respect the privacy and wishes of the victim,” Ogden said. Shifting the focus For Page-Gil, legislators in Dover should focus more on affirmative consent laws. The university requires affirmative consent, but it is not yet required throughout Delaware. “It is time that we come into 2015 and have an affirmative consent law,” PageGil said. Carson is on the Faculty Senate Commission and said the survey would help the university understand how much students know about available resources, and how certain populations are affected. Previous climate surveys indicates students are largely unaware of available resources, according to documents received from a Freedom of Information Act request. In a 2007 climate survey issued by the university, 93 percent of students who experienced sexual assault did not report. The focus, Carson said, should not necessarily be on just numbers, but also prevention and education— especially since sexual assault pervades all student populations. “It’s everywhere,” Carson said. “I understand wanting numbers, but you need to attack from every perspective. There’s no cut and dry answer.”
Faculty Senate moves against closed presidential search MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor
MORGAN BROWNELL/THE REVIEW Abish Regmi, a doctoral student who is originally from Nepal, has many family members in the country’s capital who have been affected.
Nepalese students to gather for Tuesday vigil AMY HOPKINS Senior Reporter Abish Regmi woke up to a missed call from his brother at approximately 4 a.m. on April 25th followed by a text saying, “Did you call Nepal?” As soon as he learned there had been an earthquake, he picked up the phone and began calling. But the phone lines were down. “I started panicking,” Regmi, a Ph.D. in biological science, said. So far, the earthquake has caused 7,000 deaths, with thousands more injured and displaced. The intensity of the earthquake has measured in at a 7.8 on the Richter scale. Regmi, who is originally from Nepal, said he traveled to the United States to further his education. He currently has family members back home, many of which are in Kathmandu. “Thankfully they are fine, they just have to live outside in open ground in a tent for a couple of days,” he said. Pragya Shrestha, another
Nepalese doctoral candidate, said people are still scared to go back home. Shrestha has been in touch with her uncle, who is currently in Kathmandu. She said her family members have been living outside, crammed in open areas with others who have been displaced. The weather, she said, has been less-than-ideal, as rain and thunderstorms continue to hit the region. “We are running out of resources—there is scarcity of clean drinking water and even food,” Shrestha said of her relatives in Nepal. While mourning the loss of life, Shrestha points out there is also a loss of heritage. Some of the World Heritage sites she would frequent at home have now turned to rubbles. “They’re not built with the new standard of engineering— they were built centuries ago,” Regmi said. “So even a small Richter scale could just bring them down.” See REGMI page 5
By a margin of 36 to 19, the Faculty Senate voted Monday to recommend an open search for president. The move directly contradicted a Board of Trustees decision last week that decided not to reveal the search’s process, including finalists for the job. The vote came during the Faculty Senate’s last meeting of the year, as professors attempted to conclude a large batch of final business before the summer recess. Several issues provoked long discussion among the professors, but the most controversial was asking for an open search. Senator Bob Opila, who is on the presidential search committee, said the committee disagrees with the Trustees’ decision and would prefer a transparent process. Before school ends, he said the search committee wants to hold open forums that would allow students and faculty members the opportunity to tell the committee what they should be looking for in the new president. While some senators wanted to delay the vote on the recommendation until the next meeting in September, others warned this could lead to a president being selected through an entirely closed process. Nobody would be happy with that outcome, senator John Courtright said. “This is imminent, this is happening,” Courtright said. “My fear is some time in the winter, it comes down from on
high who our next president is and we’ve never heard a thing about him. That scares me immensely, and it should scare everyone in this room.” There were some in the room who supported the closed search decision by the Trustees. Nancy Brickhouse, deputy provost, said that while transparency is important, getting the best candidate is the most important aspect of the search. Brickhouse said without confidentiality, the best candidates––who could be sitting university presidents elsewhere––may shy away out of fear of retribution from their current institutions. “This is a very high stakes search for this institution and you want to get it right,” Brickhouse said. “I understand you have to balance the issue around having a candidate that is fully vetted, but I think you have to understand to attract some of the people you would want in that pool, confidentiality is needed.” Nancy Targett, acting interim president of the school, said she wants the senate to show some patience when it comes to the search. If a closed search is what it takes to get the best candidate, she said, perhaps the search committee and the Trustees deserve some freedom to pursue how they see fit. “If we approve this, we are jumping the gun,” Targett said. “We are not giving them a chance to do what we have asked them to do.” The 3-3-3 committee’s report was also a hot topic of conversation in relation to the presidential
search. The committee was formed in order to design quality representation and involvement for faculty members during important administrative hirings. Their report on this topic, published last year, said an open search is always preferable for the university community instead of closed, particularly toward the end of the search. John Morgan, a member of the committee, stated in an email message that an open process ensures that the job attracts a more honest candidate. “I don’t understand why some people are so keen on attracting applications from sitting presidents at other universities who will apply only if they can do so surreptitiously,” Morgan said. “If such a person is hired at UD, what will he be doing a few years from now?” Faculty Senate also spent time working on some other things, including establishing a biomedical engineering department and renaming the art department as the “art and design” department. Professor Jeffrey Jordan was given the 2015 Jon Olson Exemplary Service Award. After the meeting, feelings about the presidential search continued to run high. “It seems to me that this would be similar to a woman trying to find a good husband by searching for successful married men who are secretly willing to abandon their current wives,” Morgan said in an email later in the day. “The rationale for a completely closed search just doesn’t make sense to me.”
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Bill drafted to legalize statewide medicallyassisted suicide DAVID DENNETT Staff Reporter
ELIZABETH QUARTARARO/THE REVIEW The ASDR project, which started two years ago, will be completed in the coming weeks. It will include three residential buildings, which will house 300 freshmen, and a 50,000-square-foot dining facility.
New dining hall nearing completion, to feature Mongolian grill, Kosher foods JAY PANANDIKER Managing News Editor As the semester comes to a close, the final coats of paint and landscaping are being added to the Academy Street Dining and Residence Hall (ASDR). The project, which began two years ago, is scheduled to be completed in the coming weeks, said Alan Brangman, vice president for Facilities and Auxiliary Services. Three residential buildings, or “pods,” will house 300 incoming freshmen, while a 50,000-square-foot dining facility below will seat 1,180 students. Once the final construction is complete, the carpet will be installed and the furniture will be moved into the residence halls. Each pod will have rooms in a racetrack design, similar to the soon-to-be shuttered Dickinson complex, but will be similar in size to Redding and Gilbert. Each floor will have 35 to 40 residents, a floor lounge, study space, a kitchen and
shared bathroom, Brangman said. The pods can be accessed from the ground floor as well as the second floor green roof, but will not have direct access to the dining facility. The dining facility located below the residence halls will have 13 food stations, many of which will be “just in time,” Brangman said. This means food will be assembled immediately before being given to students. The dining hall stations will include a Mongolian grill, a sandwich station and Kosher facilities. Brangman said the food will be similar to the food that is currently available in the existing dining halls. Currently all the plumbing and electrical fixtures are installed, Brangman said, and crews are working to install the final cabinetry work. Brangman said the style and scale of the new dining and residence hall match of the historic buildings on the South Green. “One of the most interesting things about the residence hall is that you don’t have a sense
that the dining hall is under the residence hall when you see the dining hall from the green side,” Brangman said. The opening of ASDR will also coincide with the reopening of the Harrington Complex. The Harrington project is currently ahead of schedule and is expected to be completed by the end of May, Brangman said. Also included in the Harrington project will be a new POD convenience store, which will be larger than the POD that formerly occupied the place. It will also house a Subway, Brangman said. Recently announced is the renovation of Russell Dining Hall which will commence in the summer of 2016. The dining hall will close through this summer and into the fall semester, later reopening in 2017. The renovated Russell will have made-to-order stations similar to those available in ASDR, Brangman said. When Russell is closed, Kent Dining Hall will reopen to accommodate the surplus of students.
A local district representative is drafting a new legislation that would permit physician-assisted suicide in Delaware. Paul Baumbach (D-Newark) is writing the “Death with Dignity” bill, which is legal in only three other states— Oregon, Washington and Vermont. Baumbach said the legislation should pattern Oregon’s law, which has been in place for 18 years. “It provides patients with less than six months left to live the ability to work with a physician and be prescribed a medicine which will terminate their life under their terms,” Baumbach said. The Oregon law provides many safeguards which address the critical concerns of people taking their own lives, such as the notion of mental illness and multiple witnesses for the request, according to Baumbach. Professor of sociology, Barret Michalec, said if the bill is as comprehensive and mirrors Oregon’s law, he could support Death with Dignity. “I support patient activation, patient empowerment and patient decision-making,” Michalec said. “It’s important to help out patients have a say in their life and death.” The bill opposes a physician’s creed to first do no harm. Michelle Parent, associate professor and interim chairperson of medical laboratory sciences, said even with lifesaving
technologies and procedure, doctors have to look at whether or not it would increase that person’s quality of life. “There’s a point in time when, if they’ve been educated of their illness and they know what the outcome will be, they should be able to make that decision,” Parent said. “A physician should be able to assist without running the risk of being convicted of suicide or homicide.” Abuse of this bill would be a main argument against this legislation being passed. Michalec said the measures the bill takes make it hard for this to happen, if the law were to mirror Oregon’s. “The doctors aren’t prescribing,” Michalec said. “They write a certificate to allow individuals to get their own prescriptions, so it’s in the individual’s choice. The patient also has to make a request twice within a 15-day span for the physician, so the idea of abuse or making a rash decision is held off.” When everything is taken into account, what is in the best interest of the terminally-ill patient is what is most important, including Death with Dignity as a choice, Baumbach said. “I’ve seen people pass away and people go through Hospice [care for the terminally ill] that struggle with their health,” Baumbach said. “I think people in Delaware should have the choice to control the outcome of their final days.”
REGMI: ‘EVEN A SMALL RICHTER SCALE COULD JUST BRING THEM DOWN.’ Continued from page 4 Shrestha said it is hard not being able to directly help her family. Having mere minutelong phone conversations with loved ones to see if they are safe has been hard, she said, especially when she knows they are in distress. “You are here physically, but your mind—your everything—is there,” Shrestha said. Ashutosh Parajuli, a Ph.D. biomedical engineering student from Nepal, called the present situation difficult. Parajuli said he is frustrated because the only thing it seems
he can do is share Facebook posts to raise awareness. “We are the youth of the country,” Regmi said. “We should be there to help when our country needs us, but we are here.” Regmi described the stress of the university Nepalese community as extreme feelings of helplessness and frustration. However, having each other has been the ultimate support system through this difficult time, he said. “Simple things like asking, ‘how is your family doing?’ means a lot,” said Parajuli. As the Nepalese community came together
to talk about the devastation back home, they began planning a vigil. It will be held on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in front of Memorial Hall. The vigil is open to the university community and will honor the lives lost in the earthquake. Regmi said anything people can do in terms of praying, donating or attending the vigil means a lot to him. Shrestha said having the Nepalese community at the university has helped her feel less alone. Sharing memories and experiences has been a great means of support. “We are united,” in the wake of this turmoil, Regmi said.
COURTESY OF PAUL BAUMBACH District Rep. Paul Baumbach is writing the “Death with Dignity” bill which would permit physican-assisted suicide in Delaware.
Delaware adopts standardized test for prospective teachers, draws ire RUSSEL KOGAN Staff Reporter Despite the university’s education department faculty and students speaking out against the standardization of teacher evaluation, a Delaware law was passed last month that requires all teacher candidates to pass a thorough, standardized test to enter the profession, effective July 1, 2016. Students aspiring to be teachers will now have to choose between taking the edTPA or the PPAT if they want to get a teaching license in Delaware. According to the edTPA website, the test “ask[s] teacher candidates to demonstrate what they can and will do on the job, translating into practice what research shows improves learning.” In essence, it would be to teachers what the bar exam is to lawyers. edTPA was created by Stanford University and the American Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education after years of testing and is aligned with state and national standards. Its goal is to replace current methods of evaluating teachers, which are often specific to each school. In May 2014, the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) proposed a law that would require future educators to take rigorous teacher performance assessments like the edTPA. Soon after, about 80 university faculty sent a letter to the DDOE, urging them not to pass the law, according to an email from Deborah Bieler, an English Education professor. On April 1 of this year, the law was passed, thereby potentially altering Delaware’s public education landscape for years to come. Bieler and her colleagues believe “the introduction of additional assessment requirements for pre-service teachers has not arisen from any demonstrated need: that teachers are underprepared is a manufactured crisis,” according to the letter.
Sophomore Sydney Palmer, president and founder of the student organization Secondary Educators of Tomorrow (S.E.T.), is critical of the changes the recent Delaware law is bringing about. “The majority of people in S.E.T. believe that our secondary education program and the faculty who run it here are more than equipped to rigorously evaluate our performance during student teaching,” Palmer said. Palmer, along with her peers, are skeptical of the actual effectiveness of such tests. They say standardized tests promote a “teach to the test” mentality where higher scores are prioritized over deeper learning. “We want our future students to be more than just a number,” Palmer said. “And we feel like we are also more than just a number.” The edTPA test comes in 27 different subjects and covers early childhood, elementary, middle childhood and secondary education. At its core is a candidate’s portfolio
that includes unedited video of the student-teacher in action and teaching materials. edTPA’s creators at Stanford University partnered with the private organization, Pearson Education, to begin the mass administration of the test. Today, institutions in 35 states use edTPA at different levels to evaluate future teachers. University faculty agree with many of the opinions of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), a nonprofit that advocates for equity and social justice through multicultural education. NAME supports the current teacher evaluation system in which teacher candidates are assessed by their teachers and other school faculty. According to NAME’s position statement on edTPA, the test fails to take into account “the complexity necessary to evaluate teacher performance on a multicultural scale” and could thus reinforce “institutional racism, classism
and white supremacy.” Supporters of edTPA consider such criticism to be unwarranted. Stanford employee and edTPA’s media contact Robert Johnson claims, “it actually favors demonstration of understanding the multiculturalism in the classroom more than anything else that’s out there.” This is because it stresses the need for teachers to adjust their lesson plans to their students’ backgrounds. Dan Brown, executive director of the Future Educators Association, an organization that tries to encourage people to become teachers, sees edTPA as an opportunity to elevate teaching standards across the country. “Teaching is evolving in ways that are exciting and sometimes scary, but ultimately will hopefully lead us to better prepare young people for what it takes to succeed in the 21st century,” Brown said.
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fMRI technology coming to campus will open research possibilities at university JORDAN MCBRIDE Staff Reporter
COURTESY OF SANDY ELLIOTT Sandy Elliot is joined by other midwives and members of the Delaware House of Representatives.
Midwifery licensing bill passes state House
KATE JENKINS Staff Reporter A Delaware woman who wants to give birth at home currently has only one option— hire an unlicensed midwife practicing illegally. But House Bill 70 (HB 70), which just passed the Delaware House of Representatives, could change that. The state House passed HB 70, a bill regulating the practice of midwifery. The bill, passed in April, would set up a system of licensure for directentry midwives, allowing them to practice legally in the state. The bill now heads to the Senate Health and Social Services Committee for deliberation. Rep. Paul Baumbach, D-Newark, the primary sponsor of HB 70, said his bill would allow non-nurse, or directentry, midwives, to practice in Delaware. Currently, midwives must have a collaborative agreement with a physician to practice, and no physician in the state will agree to one, due to liability concerns. Consequently, it is almost impossible for a Delaware woman to have a home birth. “If the bill passes, it’ll mean women have a legal choice,” Baumbach said. “Pregnant women who would like a home birth now can have them if they qualify as a low-risk patient.” There are three kinds of midwives in the United States: Certified NurseMidwives (CNMs), Certified Midwives (CMs) and Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs). CNMs are registered nurses with additional training in midwifery. CMs are not nurses, but receive similar training to CNMs. CPMs follow a different pathway, usually a practical apprenticeship program. CMs and CPMs are grouped together as direct-entry midwives. All midwives receive national certification and
may be licensed in individual states. Currently, however, only CNMs are able to practice in Delaware because they work for physicians, hospitals or federally qualified health centers, instead of running their own practices. In Delaware, the unlicensed practice of midwifery is a Class F felony, punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine. “Unlicensed midwifery can be reported to the police, it’s investigated by law enforcement,” Baumbach said. “I thought to myself, ‘we’ve got a real serious problem here.’” HB 70 would establish a Midwifery Advisory Council, made up of four directentry midwives, one CNM, one obstetrician and one pediatrician. The Council, which would report to the state Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline, would draw up guidelines, review license applications and make recommendations to the Board. Bills regulating midwifery were introduced in the previous two legislative sessions, Baumbach said, but they went nowhere, because it was difficult to draft a bill on which everyone agreed. “But this bill, nobody hates it, nobody loves it,” he said. “Everyone says, we can live with it. It’s a bill that will not meet with objections because we’ve incorporated a very large range of stakeholders.” Baumbach said he expects HB 70 to easily pass the Senate and be signed into law by the governor. Sandy Elliott, an instructor in the university’s School of Nursing, has been a CNM for over 25 years. She said she has delivered thousands of babies— in hospitals, birth centers and patients’ homes. “Midwives believe in a woman’s right to choose and to have different options,” Elliott said. “Regardless of whether we’re CNMs or directentry midwives, we all have the
same beliefs that women are normal, healthy and deserve choice; we just have different backgrounds.” Elliott said one of the primary differences between the medical and midwifery approaches to childbirth is the amount of time spent with the patient. Midwives believe in continuous labor support and stay with the woman for the entire labor, delivery and postpartum period, unlike most physicians who only come in near the end of labor to deliver the baby. Although not every woman is a good candidate for a home or out-of-hospital birth, Elliott said about 80 percent of women are considered low-risk. However, that can change at any given time, she said. “Midwives do a health assessment before the due date to screen for high-risk births,” Elliott said. “But there are things that can occur in any birth situation that are unexpected and the woman might need to be transferred to the hospital.” Baumbach said doctors tend to believe births should take place in hospitals where they have the facilities to deal with complications in the unlikely event that something goes wrong. Meanwhile, consumers and midwives believe home births should be an option for low-risk women, and they would like to be able to offer them in more cases than doctors would advise. He said even though a very small percentage of women seek a home birth, it is still very important that his bill pass. “We’re not talking about large numbers, but for the two percent of women who want this, it’s a huge deal,” Baumbach said. “We want this to be a choice for Delaware moms too.”
Psychology professor Robert Simons walks through McKinly Lab and watches eagerly through the back window as construction takes place next door at the Life Sciences Research Facility on Delaware Avenue. Starting in February 2016, the facility will house the state’s first specialized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine, a tool that will allow faculty to conduct research closer to campus. What makes this specialized MRI different from the regular MRIs on campus is that it looks at brain function instead of just structure, which can provide a deeper insight into how the brain operates. Because of the stronger magnet that the fMRI, or functional MRI, contains, it also provides higher-resolution pictures than regular imaging machines do. “We’re surrounded by amazing research universities who have this type of technology, and now we do,” said Simons, who co-chaired the initiative to bring the fMRI to campus. “People are very excited.” A soon-to-be Multimodal Imaging Center is also being built to house the new fMRI, as well as other smaller imaging tools. “I’ve spent the past two or three years on this, so I’m very excited,” Simons said. “It’s about time.” Planning for the center began two years ago as a task force led by Simons and chemistry professor Tatyana Polenava. Simons said the group held town hall meetings across campus in order to gauge interest in the new technology, and discovered that interest in a new machine was strong. Through the meetings, about 30 faculty members looking to use fMRIs in their research were identified. They came from various colleges and departments on campus, Simons said. Some of those identified were already using the technology in their research, but since that type of imaging did not exist yet in Delaware, researchers were spending time and university money traveling to other institutions in order to use their fMRIs. “We have one member of the department who travels to Maryland to use their facilities, we have an engineer on campus who goes to Penn, and then of
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Editorial: To prompt action, students must participate in OCR sessions College students, more than any other group, are well-positioned to make a difference in their communities. This may sound cliché, but there is a long and proud tradition on American college campuses of rallying for positive change. On May 19th, 1989, 250 students gathered on the steps of Memorial Hall to protest university policies they saw as supportive of South Africa’s Apartheid government. At that time, white and black South Africans lived starkly different realities, and the nation’s government enforced a series of policies designed to keep that status quo in place. Disturbed by this injustice, UD students pushed the university via petition and public protest to use its power to help alleviate the suffering of black South Africans. The result was a facultystudent exchange program and scholarship funding for South African students. Students campaigned for change, and the university
helped them realize it. Today and tomorrow, our generation of students will have excellent opportunity to uphold this tradition. Investigators from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights will be holding focus sessions to discuss the campus climate in regards to sexual violence and harassment. Students may also schedule time to speak privately with investigators. Information provided during the focus sessions, along with other elements of the investigation, will help federal officials determine if the university is compliant with Title IX, a statute that mandates gender equality at colleges that receive government funding. The university, along with 105 other colleges, is facing formal allegations that it has violated Title IX in its handling of sexual violence cases. Just as Apartheid was in 1989, sexual violence on college campuses is an issue in the spotlight of
public consciousness. The white house commissioned the “It’s On Us” campaign. Every major news outlet has covered the issue and a bill titled “The Campus Accountability and Safety Act” is pending in congress. In this year alone, members of our campus community have held a demonstration on the steps of Memorial Hall, screened “The Hunting Ground,” participated in a “Take Back the Night” march and attended series’ of open forums and information sessions. If there’s going to be change, it’s going to happen now. We cannot take this momentum for granted. So take a moment, schedule an alert on your phone, and show up at one of the many OCR sessions tomorrow and Thursday. Participate in the conversation and encourage your friends to do the same. No one will listen unless we give them something to hear.
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Corrections: Last week’s story, “SGA senator petitions for election reform” incorrectly stated that Andrew Miller is a current SGA senator. Miller previously served as a senator, but stepped down in February after taking a full-time internship. (This is partially why he is partnering with other senators, because he cannot introduce a bill without a Senator Sponsor). Delaware Will Shine article stated that this year’s freshmen class was the most diverse ever with 26 percent of students coming from minorities. However, the percentage of minority students declined from 2013 to 2014 from 25.6% to 23.2 percent, respectively.
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POLITICS STRAIGHT: NO CHASER
LISTENING TO THE VOICES OF BALTIMORE: REJECT THE MEDIA’S FALSE DISBELIEF AND GIVE PROTESTERS’ ARGUMENTS CONSIDERATION “We must delve into the depths where neither liberals nor conservatives dare to tread, namely, into the murky waters of despair and dread that now flood the streets of black America...” African American scholar Dr. Cornel West wrote those words over twenty years ago in the opening pages of his flagship work “Race Matters.” Today, they not only resonate throughout the chamber of the American consciousness with a deafening echo. They illuminate the absurdity of America’s media and those who are lured into its trance. Right now in Baltimore, those murky waters of despair and dread are rising, while the voices of the media move swiftly to establish a familiar, convenient narrative of outrage and false shock. It happened after the Rodney King verdict. It happened after the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. And it’s happening now—first, a racial injustice occurs, followed by backlash, protests––and yes––violence in urban areas. The media descends, and instead of focusing on the messages the protesters wish to deliver, opts to run hours of repetitive footage of violence and looting, as commentators feign disbelief. “I can’t remember anything like this…in a long time,” gasped CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, while footage of a burning CVS rolled. Really, Wolf? Because I’m a lot younger than you, and I remember it happening a few weeks ago in Missouri. So why the rush to build this contrived narrative? Why the decision to focus solely on the outrageous actions of a few criminals, instead of the message of urban protesters, which has essentially remained consistent since the 1960s? I’ll leave answering those questions to media experts and political scientists, but I challenge all readers to reject the media’s attempt to distract Americans from the important messages of the protests. We here at the University of Delaware are a stone’s
throw away from Wilmington and Camden, two of the most violent and impoverished urban areas in the region, perhaps in America. A drive through them reveals that the wallpaper of the lives of the urban impoverished consists of liquor stores, fast food restaurants, abandoned infrastructures and struggling public schools— the poverty that engulfs them is extreme and crippling. This is not an excuse for crime, nor an apology for it. Crime and violence fly in the face of the rule of law, and in any developed democratic nation, should be punished swiftly. It is, however, a common sense, right-underour-nose argument that simply isn’t getting any play in the mainstream media. While Erin Burnett leads a somewhat trivial discussion about the use of the word “thug,” peaceful, but angry, protesters are forming a community in Baltimore, eager to communicate that abject poverty is killing them. Abject poverty has been killing inner city Americans for decades, and, perhaps, the anger stoked by that fact has reached a boiling point. We are all spectators to the racial upheavals— riots? Uprisings?—of 2015 and as such, we have a duty to reject the familiar safe scripts of left versus right, Republican versus Democrat, welfare versus jobs, etc., and instead—listen. The sounds coming out of Baltimore are not hateful, vicious or anti-American, even if the media paints them that way. They are woeful, saddening and painful. They should cut through the clutter of political and pundit class discourse, directly to the American heart. The murky waters of despair and dread are indeed rising, and America has an obligation to reject the distracting clamor of its absurd media and listen before our inner cities drown.
—Dylan Gallimore
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The local movement: food for thought Flowers are bursting, bees are buzzing, and the University of Delaware Earth Month activities are in full swing. Scheduled activities have been designed to engage students across departments and through a variety of mediums. DENIN and the Sustainability Task Force gathered students for the screening of the DisneyPixar film Wall-E. The Black American Studies Department hosted an Environmental Justice Forum that discussed issues surrounding environmental racism. But one big piece of the sustainability pie is still missing for many UD students: and it has everything to do with where that pie is coming from. While the University of Delaware is surrounded by farmland, it holds a contract with food service corporation Aramark. Therefore all food on campus – from the dining hall to the so called university “farmers market” – is required to be distributed by the company. Last year, student reporters discovered that the produce at
the university farmers market was being sourced from as far away as North Carolina. Meanwhile there is a growing local food movement on campus fueled by studentpowered groups like the Down to Earth Food Co-Op. DTE serves up local, vegetarian, and organic meals twice a week to its members. There are also a number of new and popular classes including “Organic and Sustainable Farming” and “Environmental Journalism” where students are able to get hands on experience learning about and growing their own organic food. Perhaps it is no coincidence the theme of Ag Day this year was “Farm to Table”. A number of universities across the country are taking the local food movement very seriously, including the University of Maryland. By accepting the Real Food Challenge UMD has made a pledge to source 20% of its food from local farms. The impact of this decision will be abundant for the community.
The John’s Hopkins Center for a Livable Future says that “By purchasing local food, universities could put millions of dollars back into the local economy”. Newark has great potential for small businesses to grow and thrive. By reinvesting in the local economy the university could nurture a stronger, more diverse business community and would appeal to a variety of students and outside investors. For many students, it is easy to let our eating habits slide while we are running between classes and extra-curriculars. While Delaware students are high achievers in the classroom and on the field, the vital third component is what we have on our dinner plates. Eating local and seasonally is a great way to stay healthy. Since they don’t have to travel far, local foods are not harvested until they are ripe and retain more nutrients. By serving up local and healthy options on campus, students will naturally have more energy and have the opportunity to
form better eating habits. Buying into the local food system would help to fulfill several aspects of the University’s Climate Action Plan. One of the four major components of the plan is Green Power. According to Locavores, the US agricultural industry is responsible for twenty percent of petroleum consumption in the United States today. Sourcing food from the local system reduces carbon emissions and cuts distribution costs tremendously. Another principle of the university’s climate plan is Community Action. It states: “To achieve a low-carbon campus, we must change not only our technology but our behavior, practices and policies…The University must use its educational and research excellence to instill an ethic of environmental responsibility”. By building a relationship with local farmers, students will be able to cultivate interest and knowledge of the area surrounding the university
including its land and ecology. Stitching students into the local environment makes them shareholders in the community and prepares them to be advocates for a sustainable future. While the university has made great strides in the recent past towards increased sustainability, there is still much more that can be done. Delaware students have initiated a move towards supporting local agriculture, now it is time for the university to respond.
—Madalyn Becker Prof. Jenkins
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“And no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute, be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.”
NICOLE SULLIVAN Senior Reporter With nothing but a microphone and her creatively-molded thoughts, spoken-word poet Sarah Kay entertained a full crowd in Pearson Hall’s auditorium Monday night. Inspiring, honest and downright funny, the young writer was met with loud applause, laughter and—much to her chagrin—a lot of finger snaps throughout her performance. A native New Yorker and Brown University alumna, 26-year-old Kay has been writing poetry since she was 14, after an unknown person signed her up for a slam poetry show. “To be 14 years old and to be told I created something meaningful to a stranger— that was what hooked me,” Kay says. She has since written two books—best-seller “B” and
“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.” “Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.” “You are a woman. Skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. Not apologies, not excuses.” “My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.” “No Matter the Wreckage”— and is also the founder and co-director of Project VOICE, which uses spoken-word poetry to entertain, educate and inspire students around the world. Kay says it is her “greatest joy and hardest work.” She is also a spokenword poetry teacher and has acquired international fame through several of her TED talks. Weaving personal stories into her poignant and humorous poems, Kay touched on family, friends and love. She tackled the emotional rollercoaster of a first love ending, the warm memories of an inspiring elementary school teacher and even the paralyzing effects of “FOMO”—the Fear Of Missing Out. “I think that poetry needs to be true, but I don’t think it needs to be fact,” Kay says. Kay says she actually enjoys comparing the art
of writing poetry to an unexpected human act: pooping. “If you have a poem inside you, it has to come out,” she says. “And sometimes it can be really difficult and take a lot longer than you’d like it to. It might even be painful. Other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected it to. Either way, it’s important— and you feel so much better when it’s done.” Though she admits the metaphor is a cheeky and somewhat vulgar one, she says it allows people to see the raw nature of poetry. “I think sometimes people are made to feel unwelcome in the house of poetry, and so I try to make it a little bit weird or a little bit gross to remind people that poetry is just as human and smelly and sweaty and hairy as you are,” Kay says. The event was hosted by the Robert Longwell-Grice Chapter of the National
Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) and co-sponsored by the Resident Student Association and the English department. “Our core values are recognition, leadership, service and scholastics,” NRHH president Will Rehrig says. “And really, what we found was, [Kay] kind of hit all of those things. She’s been a phenomenal leader, and some of the underlying tones and things like that really speak to finding your voice, which is an important part of leadership.” To incorporate the “find your voice” theme, Stimulating Prose Ideas and Theories (SPIT), the university’s student-run slam poetry organization, opened the show and allowed three undergraduates to creatively express their ideas. “I was excited and nervous at the same time,” junior Aisha Monroe and one of the three SPIT performers
says. “I tell everyone I kind of came out of retirement. Last time I had been on stage was like three years ago.” Monroe says she enjoyed Kay’s dynamic performance and that listening to an educator’s point of view provided a different perspective. “Some poets are just poets who like to write,” Monroe says. “But [Kay’s] coming from a point of influence, so she’s careful about what she says, but it’s also still very relatable.” For NRHH executive vice president Haley Leo, the event was more than she could have asked for. “We’re just so happy that everyone that came was totally engaged and totally enthralled to be there,” Leo says. “Sarah as amazing, but seeing how having her here was so impactful for students—that was even better.”
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Baby Come Back
The disco era has come full circle this season with the revival of ’70s trends like bold prints, fringe and denim. Spring 2015 is all about ’70s silhouettes, especially in the denim department. Those bell bottoms are back with a modern flare. They can be spotted on some of the top trendsetters in the public eye, like Danielle Bernstein of fashion blog “We Wore What” and celebrity model Chrissy Teigen. Skinny jeans are being pushed aside in stores and women’s closets for the new denim style. The skinny jean has remained a staple for so long because it is so easy to style. So, you don’t have to get rid of yours. Just make some room for a little variety. I personally believe that skinny jeans will always be a staple in most closets. There are just some outfits that need to be paired with a skinny-legged bottom. For example, baggy and oversized sweaters are basically meant to be paired with skinny jeans.
I am welcoming the return of bell bottoms with lots of heart eye emojis. Wide-leg denim is not as easy to wear, but here are some tips to help you try this up-and-coming style:
Pair your bell bottoms with heels
The added height makes this jean trend super slimming, and will give you the extra long leg look every girl strives for. If you want to continue with the bohemian chic ’70s look, opt for platforms or “flatforms.” (Flatform heels are shoes that have a very thick bottom that adds height, but keeps your feet flat and not angled like platforms.) Otherwise, a pair of pointy-toed pumps can give you a little bit of an edgier look.
Select the right top
What makes this denim trend look more contemporary is pairing your jeans with a modern staple. Grab a classic v-neck out of your closet and tuck it into your wide-leg jeans. This makes sure that the best part of the jeans are
shown: the waist. When the waist is shown, it elongates the look and will stretch the visual line all the way from the top of the pants down to your toes. Because of this, make sure your shoes are just as chic as your new denim bottoms.
High-waisted bottoms are your friend
The high-waisted bell bottom styles show off your curves, and like I mentioned above, they elongate the look. The best thing to pair your high-waisted is a boxy, crop top. This shows off the top of the jeans. Try and find a pair that sits right at the belly button. The highwaisted structure at the top of the jeans will balance out the flowy, flared bottom. The best places to find the perfect pair of bell bottoms are Free People, J Brand and Lucky Brand Jeans. I believe that jeans are an article of clothing that deserve to be an investment. If you buy a quality pair of jeans, they will last you forever. This groovy movement has been on the radar for the past few seasons. I say run with it and go get a pair of bell bottom jeans before everyone else does. HANNAH WORSH hworsh@udel.edu
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Take the Mic Final Concert Preview
It is finally May, and these last few weeks are sure to feel like a blur to most students. With final project deadlines, exam week and graduation looming, finding time to enjoy oneself becomes increasingly difficult. If you do find yourself looking for a release in the upcoming week, look no further than your very own Perkins Student Center. This Friday, Take the Mic is hosting its last show of the semester. If you’re not familiar with Take the Mic, it is an RSO that brings bands from across the country to play shows for students on campus. Friday’s show features one of the best lines up of the year, headlined by Jeff Rosenstock, and is sure to help you end your year on a high note. Despite putting together great shows, a lot of the acts featured by Take The Mic are not very well known. So, I’ve included a preview of Friday’s lineup to help entice the curious into coming out.
rock music. Rosenstock has since moved on to recorded solo albums, including the album “We Cool?,” which was released in February. “We Cool?” feels more intense than his past releases, and the song structures have a grander and more elaborate feeling. Even more exciting, his live band will be filled out by members of Andrew Jackson Jihad, Chumped and The Smith Street Band. Songs to check out: “Beers Again Alone,” “Get Old Forever” and “All Blissed Out”
Sorority Noise
A self-deemed “party punk” band hailing from Connecticut, the members of Sorority Noise are serious when they mean “party.” Their album “Forgettable” is filled front to back with thumping drum parts, accompanied in every song by overdriven guitar that swings back and forth with hypnotizing rhythm. Despite this party aesthetic, the lyrics on the album are heart-breaking, and the combination of feelings and party anthems will surely provide some serious group therapy come Friday night.
Jeff Rosenstock
An alumnus of Bomb the Music Industry!, Long Island musician Jeff Rosenstock has played in an alarming amount of bands. He is also a noted veteran in the realms of both ska and punk
On the bathroom wall in Taylor Hall, it says: “Tell me a story I’ve never heard before and then tell it again using different words.” It’s a new wall blemish, but it is beautiful. It’s written out with a cool font on the corner wall when you turn to leave. I totally took a picture of it. “Tell me a story I’ve never heard before and then tell it again using different words.” The quote resonates with me. Our life is a series of stories— of memories we have scraped up and saved for later. The other night, someone said to me, “Let
Loose Tooth
Based out of Philadelphia, grunge-pop outfit Loose Tooth are making their first appearance in Delaware to support their first album, “Easy Easy East,” released in late April. The effortless combination of beach pop, grunge guitar and jazzy hard rock drumming place the record somewhere between Tera Melo’s “X’ed Out” and Slint’s “Tweez.” This release is one of my favorites of the spring.
Story Teller me see the world through your eyes. I want to know where you’ve been.” It was such a horrible pick-up line. I started listing off European countries, South American cities and western states, that one time I went to the top of Whistler Blackcomb in Canada to ski in July, then stopped. This was pointless because I was listing off places in the world without framing them. The sights I had seen were not ones I could describe. The things I had done there were personal memories I could only tell a stranger in so much length. Sometimes, things happen
When Arash (Arash Marandi) walks by a pit of decaying bodies on his way home with his pet cat and a James Dean swagger, we know something is awry. The music slows down to an old jackin-the-box halt, and the title appears à la Spaghetti Western style: “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.” This is the first appearance of the Girl’s handiwork, a chador-wearing skateboarding creature of the night. It is also an introduction to the film’s setting, a fictional Iranian ghost town known as “Bad City.” Straight out of director and writer Ana Lily Amirpour’s graphic novel, Bad City is like a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, but from the perspective of old school religious fundamentalists. A nameless drag queen hovers in the outskirts of town, a silent observer to the goings on. The denizens succumb to the sweet release of opiates, prostitutes roam the barren streets and there is–– of course––the unsettling presence of the Girl (Sheila Vand), an undead vigilante who sinks her fangs into the flesh of male chauvinists who disrespect women. Set against the crumbling city, Arash takes care of his father Hossein (Marshall Manesh), a heroin addict whose debt causes drug lord Saeed (Dominic Rains) to collect Arash’s 1950s vintage car as payment. Not to worry. The Girl, after seeing Saeed rough up a down-on-her-luck working girl, bites off his finger and pushes it sensuously into his mouth, before finishing him off. Yep, this is definitely not Twilight. The scenes shift focus from Arash to the Girl until they finally meet on an abandoned street corner. Arash has just come back from a costume
A Girl Walks Home Alone Tonight
party, tripping on E and dressed like the original bloodsucker himself––Dracula. He is not afraid of her predatory saunter or her cold skin; instead, he holds her close, wrapping her into an intimate embrace with his cape. Devoid of a serious plot and sparse with dialogue, “A Girl Walks Alone At Night” relies on its stunning visuals. For a few moments I thought I might be a victim of hypnosis. I was so arrested by the silky movement of the Girl’s chador in the wind, her sultry dance moves that beckoned from behind the screen. The cinematography can be described in one word— mesmerizing. Amirpour keeps the mystery of the girl intact, even until the final frame. We do not know her origin, her age or even her name. We know only that she is an avenger, both merciless and tender in her nature. Whether Amirpour is opting to make a political or feminist commentary on Iranian culture is up to interpretation, but she has started a conversation. In a world where it is dangerous for a girl to walk alone at night, Amirpour’s anti-hero protagonist makes the night her own. It is no wonder this multigenre hybrid caught the eye of Elijah Wood’s new production company, SpectreVision, which supplied some of the funds to their Kickstarter campaign making the film possible. While there isn’t exactly a demand for a monochrome vampire film with Persian subtitles, critics are sure it will be a cult classic. Watch it for free on Netflix. AMBER JOHNSON anjohns@udel.edu
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Songs to check out: “Pickwick Average,” “Yorami (Walking Into Rooms)” and “Lizzy”
Secret Mountain
From the bustling metropolis of Wayne, N.J. emerges Secret Mountain. This lo-fi pop group first came to my attention when I saw them play with Free Cake for Free Cake for Every Creature. I hadn’t heard of Secret Mountain at the time, yet they stole the show. The group has great chemistry, and will most likely play songs from their new album “Shift Happens,” which is to be released May 10th. Songs to check out: “Fiona,” “Dead Cat” and “Okay” STEPHEN VEITH sveith@udel.edu
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Songs to check out: “Rory
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to us that change our lives––our course. Sometimes these are tragic events, sometimes they are eye openers and sometimes we are lucky enough that happiness has shaped our path. To tell a story is to share insight with another person, to let them ingest the information you bestow upon them, as they will. Stories are often wonderful to hear, to indulge in, but living in a story is the only way to know one. As media-immersed students, we are so invested in our phones, in the latest posts or texts screaming “received now” on our locked home screen. How to detach becomes our main problem without us realizing it. The idea of detachment from a virtual world we consider our reality is the hardest to know. It takes determination and a conscious effort to create change. But we fail to remember that our
generation is the last to grow up without the age of information fully in our grasp. The rebooting of the Windows desktop, that was by no means a flat-screen Mac desktop, would take 20 dire minutes to turn on and load up before I could finally pop the “Barbie Nail Designer” disk in. Now toddlers are unable to release their sweaty palms from iPads and iPhones at family outings and I, unable to relate, wonder if they know the small handheld game Hungry Hungry Hippos. I begin to hear my parents’ words escape my mouth when speaking to my younger cousins: “When I was your age we didn’t have…” To tell our story, we have to detach, to realize that a Snap story is a snippet of what is real. I may be old fashioned to not remember what it was we were laughing about this past
weekend or that time in the old photograph taken years ago, hanging from the fridge. But I know that we were laughing, and my time spent with you––with them––was valuable and memorable and that is the very soul food we need to create those chapters of our own personal stories. I shouldn’t spend time wondering if my cousins should have had the chance to miserably stick on poorly-printed nail art from a 1996 Windows desktop. I should spend my time hoping that their precious iPads and iPhones are my Hungry Hungry Hippos.
ALEXANDRA STRAUSMAN astraus@udel.edu
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As the culminating event in the Greek community’s annual “Greek Week,” Airband allows sororities and fraternities to showcase their talent and creativity through their choreographed routines.
Alpha Xi Delta and Pi Kappa Phi win annual Airband event LEAH RODRIGUEZ Senior Reporter Walking into the Bob Carpenter Center, there was a restless hum that grew louder as the doors opened. Waves of noise thumped in the background as each fraternity and sorority ran through their nearly perfected routines, adhering to the regimented schedule like an army preparing for battle. Wandering through the crowds are goddesses, clowns and witches. Hawaiian shirts and fishnets become visible as people in character fall in line with their groups and pounds of hairspray and makeup disperse through the room. Airband is the culminating event in the Greek community’s annual “Greek Week.” Each day consists of various games, mixers and competitions leading up to Friday night’s Airband show when winners of the best dance performance are declared as well as the winning sorority
and fraternity of Greek Week. Each Greek organization participating in the event spends time choreographing routines, designing costumes and making props. Some spend several weeks preparing for the event, holding two practices a day during the week of Airband in addition to the time after spring break that they have spent working on choreography and costuming. Senior Lauren Hartung, a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, organized her sorority’s Airband performance two years ago. She explained the amount of detail and energy that goes into getting everything ready, a process that goes on months in advance. “The Airband committee picks the theme, which has to be approved by the Greek Council,” Hartung says. “They also come up with music, costumes and storyline.” For many, it’s a competition of originality while for others it’s a showcase of skill. Theta’s preparation started nearly a
month ago after the end of spring break. “During the week of Airband, there’s so little time,” Hartung says. “There are last minute costume issues, practices two times a day at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. It’s a lot of work, but I’m really excited.” Other Greek organization take a different approach to Airband preparations. For junior Max Rutcofsky of Delta Tau Delta, it’s about having fun. As three-time winners of the event, Rutcofsky says there is no added pressure. He discusses how different groups approach Airband, mentioning friends in sororities who were practicing multiple times a day. “Without a doubt, it’s less intense for us,” Rutcofsky says. “We practice about two to three times a week. We’re not trying to be that competitive.” He described coming up with Delta Tau Delta’s theme, “Locked Up,” after last year’s
event ended. Rutcofsky and Junior Chris Klein, who have choreographed together in the past, were in charge of adding amusing elements to their theme such as “It’s the Hard Knock Life” from Annie and the instant hit “Breaking Free” from High School Musical. Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council event programmers Rachel Giovanello and Chris Razzano, members of Alpha Phi and Theta Chi, respectively, discuss the minute details that go into organizing Greek Week, especially the final Airband performance. “There are so many little details that go into organizing Greek Week,” Giovanello says. “There are 46 chapters and five events over the week. Most people don’t realize what we’re doing.” Razzano and Giovanello say everything involves a constant flow of communication. In addition to organizing the events of the week, they were in charge
of approving props, music and various other components of the Airband performances. “During this time we can get up to 25 emails a day from people who have questions or need things approved for Airband,” Razzano says. Both mentioned being relieved and satisfied once the event was over but looked forward to seeing the performances in their final formats. The night brought with it grand spectacles from Alpha Phi’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” and Kappa Alpha Theta’s “American Horror Story” to more amusing performances like Sigma Nu’s “Making a Perfect Airband” and Alpha Sigma Phi’s “Wolf of Main Street.” In the end, Pi Kappa Phi and Alpha Xi Delta took first place with their performances of “Willy Wonka” and “Night at the Museum,” respectively.
AN ODE TO UD “The Voice of the Senior Class” blog hits over 20,000 views NICOLE DUGAN Staff Reporter
Alex Duggan’s email inbox was flooded last month when she asked seniors to share their experiences from the last four years. The website she created to post the seniors’ responses has since received more than 50 submissions and 23,000 views. Duggan, a senior English major, began a blog called, “The Voice of the Senior Class: University of Delaware 2015,” on a whim in hopes of creating an d outlet for students to look back , at their college experience and provide some advice for younger e Blue Hens. h With graduation fast e approaching, Duggan could s not help but reflect on some of o her best memories here at the n university, including the last day of her freshman year, which e was spent outside by basketball d courts and a single patch of y grass with some of the people t she now calls her closest friends. Now, she is calling on fellow e seniors to share their stories. s While interning this past y semester for the English Department as a social media intern, Duggan says she began to wish they had these outlets N when she was a freshman to u help with the transition. “I was thinking, as a senior, I s have a lot of advice for incoming y freshmen,” Duggan says. “So I e thought it would be beneficial for students leaving UD to write
down their advice.” After sitting around with some friends and brainstorming questions, Duggan reached out on social media via Facebook and Twitter to let others know about her personal project. “One of my friends sent a link about it to me, and I really wanted to share my experience,” Amanda Stevenson, a senior dietetics major, says. Senior exercise science major Jordan Zarour says he decided to participate in the blog in order to leave something behind for other people to see. “It’s good to be able to go back and share your thoughts with friends,” Zarour says. Duggan says she was not expecting the blog to be such as success, calling it “a total surprise.” “Honestly I thought that I would have some of my friends do it and that would be it,” she says. Among the questions Duggan created were prompts asking seniors to describe their favorite things about the university, the university’s best kept secrets, best study spots, six adjectives that best describe their experience at the university and advice they would tell their freshman self. Zarour’s favorite question that he responded to was one concerning advice he would give his freshman self. “Relax, life has a way of working itself out,” Zarour says.
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Duggan’s blog asks seniors for their favorite memories and advice. She hopes the site provides a place for seniors to reminisce and a place for underclassmen to learn from those who have been in their shoes. Stevenson took a more I’m glad I stayed though, because says regardless of whether you humorous approach when it got a lot better and I think if a are a freshman or graduating answering some of the questions freshman isn’t enjoying college, senior, seeing fellow students’ Duggan posed, including her they can see these blogs and the memories written down most embarrassing memory at memories made and see what helps to realize what it UD. UD can really offer.” means to be a student here. “Face planting into a girl on For Duggan and the other “It’s like our personal ode to North Chapel freshman year participants, the biggest gain UD,” Duggan says. then having to go to the first seems to be perspective. Duggan day of classes with a black eye,” Stevenson says. “The site shows the individuality of everyone that has gone to school here the last four years,” Duggan says. “Something that I don’t think we realize if we don’t know them.” She says she hopes the site not only connects the class of 2015 but also provides insight for incoming freshmen. “I have grown a lot since I was a freshman, and I wasn’t into staying here,” Stevenson says. “I was expecting it to be different.
“The site shows the individuality of everyone that has gone to school here the last four years.” Alex Duggan
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NewBark PawLooza offers first dog event for city EMILY MOORE/THE REVIEW
ELIZABETH QUARTARARO Editor-in-Chief Though Beau was donning his Superman cape, the 4-pound Chihuahua Jack Russell Terrier mix still needed a water break after his short jaunt past the judges’ table. He lapped water from a miniature blue cup as his owner joked about his recent victory: tying for “Smallest Dog” at the City of Newark’s inaugural NewBark PawLooza, held this weekend at Handloff Park along aptly-named Barksdale Road. “The scale won’t even register his weight,” Tracy Wyszynski, 42 of New Castle says. “I have to weigh myself first and then weigh him.” Not far away, a 145-pound Newfoundland named Maggie cooled off with her owner, Mark McCurnin, 59 of Newark, after winning the “Goliath” title for tallest dog. When Maggie jumped
up to embrace her owner, the one-and-a-half-year-old dog’s paws comfortably reached her owner’s shoulders. Her thick black and white fur only added to her height. “She’s honored to win,” McCurnin said. Organizer Sharon Bruen, the City of Newark’s recreation supervisor of community events, said events in the city for dog and dog owners were, until now, an “unmet need.” There are no dog parks within Newark’s city limits, she said. There are two dog parks in New Castle County, one in Iron Hill and the other in Glasgow. The city had wanted to do something for dogs for a while, she said. “It’s an opportunity for dog owners to get together to meet new dogs, and it’s just a nice day out,” Bruen said. Though the occasional tuft of fur and splash of slobber dotted the park,
the pups were largely well-behaved. As owners introduced themselves to one another and traded the basics—name, age, breed— several remarked on their dogs’ socialization with others, human and canine alike. One such visitor was Mary Kaled, 70 of Newark, whose 6-year-old Welsh Corgi was on one of his first outings among other dogs. Kaled adopted Monte a year ago this Mothers’ Day. Prior to his adoption, Monte had been attacked by another dog, so Kaled was not sure how he would get along with the many other dogs at the PawLooza. “I just wanted to bring him out to socialize with the others, to see how he’d do,” Kaled said. Without so much as a bark, Monte had been playfully interacting throughout the morning. So far, Monte had been “wonderful” around the others, she said.
More than 30 vendors attended the inaugural PawLooza, Bruen said. In one corner of the park, Academy of Dog Training & Agility set up an agility course. On the main field, Lost Dogs of Delaware, Delaware SPCA, Greyhound Pets of America—Delaware Chapter, Delaware Humane Association and several others advertised their services, such as adoption and grooming. Just behind the field, a competition zone was set up to accommodate games of “Musical Sit,” a talent contest and “Celebrity Look Alike”—a title which went to Jake, a bloodhound resembling Duke from “The Beverly Hillbillies.” Stephanie Dennis, 27 of Claymont, who owns Mud Puddles Pet Salon, was one of the 30 vendors in attendance. For Dennis, the event created an opportunity to promote the grooming business she’d started after
working retail jobs and going to school for office administration and realizing it was time to try something different. She launched Mud Puddles as a “last minute thing” and now spends her days caring for dogs she says range from two pounds to 150. With her was Gabby Bucci, also of Claymont, who greeted young children with free bubbles with the logo she designed for Mud Puddles. Bucci did this from inside of the full yellow labrador mascot costume she’d handmade—and which she wore for the duration of the event on the 70-degree day. This was Dennis’ second event as a vendor. She said going to events such as this one have been good for business. “It brings a lot of clientele in,” she said. “It’s getting out, talking with people. That’s what I’ve liked about it.”
Student sculptor talks artistic form, freedom DAPHNE WERTZ Staff Reporter As students line up for bagels and coffee at Einstein Bros. Bagels in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory each morning, an ethereal woman balancing on one leg looks on, completely still. Senior Matthew Cristello is the mastermind behind this captivating statue. A Newark native and fine arts major, Cristello has always had a passion for ceramics—and the university took notice. While working in the studio during his freshman year, Cristello, now 22, was approached by art professor Abby Donovan, who told him he’d be a viable candidate for the Academic Year Arts program. Donovan encouraged him to apply and wrote a letter of recommendation on his behalf. “Matt exhibits a marvelous combination of creativity [and] focus, and an unswerving work ethic,” Donovan says. Cristello recalls submitting a thorough proposal of the piece, including how many hours would be dedicated to making it, what its ultimate meaning would be and what the installation process would look like. The statue took about three months to complete, Cristello says, and proved to be one of his most challenging projects to date. “It was really difficult for me because of the standing pose,” he says. “I had never done a full figurative sculpture, and I chose to do this one on one foot as well. Titled “The Breakthrough,” the sculpture represents nature, he says.
“I really love the idea of the regenerative process of nature, and how breaking down old ideas can still bring forth new life,” he says. Cristello says the building that would later house his sculpture also served as inspiration. “I really love the ISE lab building because it’s one of the most innovative spaces on campus,” Cristello says. “Everything about it is green. The roof is literally covered in plants. I love that idea.” Cristello built the piece in the studio arts building located on North campus—his “hub”— where all necessary equipment is provided by the university. Cristello says he’s not a traditional figure sculptor. Instead of using strict references as he builds, he tends to draw out his concept in 2-D and then work from there. “It’s more illustrative than realistic,” Cristello says of his process. “Most of my work is stylistic—I take liberties in creating forms that may not necessarily exist in the natural world.” Cristello’s fondest memory is sharing his project with peers and professors at an end-of-theyear presentation. The event brought together individuals of several departments and the surrounding community, he says. After graduation, Cristello plans to utilize his fine arts degree with Dota Two, a video game company based in Seattle. “It’s where my ceramic art and digital art come together,” Cristello says.
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It took senior Matthew Cristello three months to create this statue featured in the ISE building, which he says has been one of his most challenging projects to date.
KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW At Tuesday’s final round of the Hen Hatch Funding Competition held in Trabant, the winning team received $50,000 worth of cash prizes.
STEM study site wins “Hen Hatch” startup competition EVAN BUSCH Staff Reporter For alumnus Charlie Horn, having a personal purpose in life is absolutely critical. He said it is one of the most important lessons he has learned, as it plays a role in his dedication to thinking creatively and entrepreneurial studies. Horn founded the university’s Horn Program in Entrepreneurship in 2012 through a $3 million financial contribution to what was already known as the Horn initiative. Dan Freeman, the program’s director, said the program offers a range of opportunities, including one of its most popular: Hen Hatch, a startup funding competition. The competition hosted its final round Tuesday, revealing budding entrepreneurial victors. “Hen Hatch is meant to introduce students to the ‘state of the art’ in terms of how you conceive an idea and start the process of bringing it to the marketplace,” Freeman said. This year’s student winner was The Practice Set, a web-based program that provides a step-bystep approach to solving problem sets revolving around science, technology, engineering and math. Its founders, sophomores
Jordan Gonzalez and Keith Doggett, are striving to create a “freemium” website that allows students a comprehensive solution tutorial that educates rather than just providing answers. “It is doing what you want and building something from the ground-up and seeing what you can do with it,” Doggett said of entrepreneurship. Hen Hatch consists of three rounds in which entrepreneur students, faculty, alumni and staff pitch their ideas to compete for $50,000 worth of startup cash prizes. In the final round, there are three student group finalists and three staff, alumni and faculty group finalists. These groups compete and are judged separately from one another based upon their presentations. The winner of the faculty, alumni and staff competition was SimUCare led by nursing faculty Amy Cowperthwait and Heiddy DiGregorio and alumni Amy Bucha and Robert Tilly. Their pitch was a wearable healthcare simulation product. This allows actors (commonly used in the process of educating doctors) to put on a device to simulate illnesses that in turn correlates to a certain procedure. In real time, the wearable
simulation will notify its wearer when pain, discomfort, or other patient responses would be felt realistically. Being able to experience an actual human response as opposed to working on a mannequin offers greater medical education. The other student finalists for Hen Hatch include ProjectedU, an inclassroom message system that broadcasts relevant data to students via preexisting projectors led by Ben Rapkin and Austin Crouse. Another is called GoHappy, an application and local business marketing tool that shows nearby customers relevant deals, led by Elpiniki Apostolaki-Iosifidou. For the faculty, staff and alumni competition, one finalist was the Art Preservation Index, an index that quantifies the conditions of fine art, led by alumna Emily MacDonald-Korth. The other finalist was GoShare, an app similar to Uber that seeks to tie truck owners and customers in need of a truck by alumnus Shaun Savage. The competition reveals that the university continues to “hatch” vibrant ideas to provide purpose for the entrepreneurs, their community and beyond, just as Charlie Horn may have hoped.
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The Swing Club will celebrate its 10th anniversary with their annual End of the Semester Social on May 16 in Kent Dining Hall, which will feature the band Sarah Sullivan and the New Old Fashioneds.
Tenth time’s the charm:
KATIE DESMOND Senior Reporter
Swing Club celebrates anniversary
On a normal weekday, the booths in Perkins Scrounge are home to busy students filling coffee mugs and grabbing a bite to eat while finishing last-minute assignments. But on Friday nights the area is transformed, bustling with activity as partnered duos dance to the swing jazz music permeating the air. It is this vibrancy that the UD Swing Club celebrates as they mark their 10th anniversary with their annual End of the Semester Social on May 16 in Kent Dining Hall. The night will start with dance lessons at 8 p.m., followed by the main event at 9 p.m. featuring the band Sarah Sullivan and the New Old Fashioneds, a routine from the club members and the arrival of dancers from Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Towson University and other surrounding areas. Founded by Laura Magee in
2005, UD Swing started off as a small club, barely reaching double-digit numbers in their membership. Current Swing Club president Sean Krazit, a junior English Education major, recalls the club’s small beginnings. “It was just a group of people who had heard about swing dance and decided to start a club,” Krazit says. “They had five to 10 people and they just did what they could and it has grown a hell of a lot since.” Despite their humble beginnings, the club now attracts up to 50 people at their weekly Friday dances in Perkins and sees more than 100 attendees coming from all over to their annual End of the Semester celebration. Senior biomedical engineering major Kyra Isaacs has seen big changes over the four years she has been in the club. “When I started it was very different,” she says. “I’ve seen people become more dedicated
and more into the dance as a whole, not just at UD.” This connection to the swing dance community is what many on the executive board equate with the club’s growth. Along with their social dances and workshops held on campus, the group frequently travels to Baltimore and Philadelphia during the week to expand their dance scene. The club also attends competition and exchange events on weekends in various cities such as Washington, D.C. and Boston. These dances often last until dawn and feature live bands and feasts of food and fellow dancers. “A lot of other dances its all about competitions and winning and these weird point systems,” Krazit says. “But Lindy Hop [the form of swing dance the club uses] is all about who’s going to do the coolest stuff and throw down the hardest.” With its highly improvisational and social structure, swing dance is
designed for dancers of all levels of experience. The majority of the club’s members, as well as its executive board, started off with no dance experience. “It’s about learning to dance and move your body and also having a really good time,” Isaacs said. “I think that’s what’s special about our club, is that its almost entirely students as teachers.” For the executive board it takes more than just practice to capture this dance in the form of a club, however. It also involves exuding the highenergy and sociable charismas that characterize swing dance. Kevin Mascitelli, a junior international relations major and the club’s secretary, says activities night is when they truly showcase their club’s energy. It was activities night that drew Mascitelli into the club his freshman year. Despite the slippery mud and wanting nothing more than to go back to the dorm and dry his feet, he
stuck it out for one more booth when his curiosity was peaked by the swing dance table. “The people there were really friendly and wouldn’t let me go until I at least signed up,” he says. “I was really happy they did that because I showed up on Friday night, had a great time and I’ve been going ever since.” For Julianne Ferrill, a sophomore triple language major, it was Mascitelli along with Krazit, who were the ones making noise at the recruiting table when she first signed up. While activities night is what initially drew Ferrill into the club, it was the camaraderie and atmosphere that made her stay. “There’s a really strong sense of community within the club,” Ferrill says. “We don’t all necessarily have a lot in common, we have different majors and different hobbies outside of dancing, but this club is the common thing that unites us.”
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‘THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON’ SAM RICHTER Film Columnist
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The perfect is the enemy of the good, they say. The Avengers pay no heed to such a remark in their second outing, which is even more ambitious and starstudded than their first. Luckily, it works brilliantly - evidenced by its tremendous opening weekend take of $187 million, a total that is second only to the original “Avengers.” My film studies colleagues at university may think me naive, but it seems that when I watch a film, the relevant questions for rating that movie are: a) What was the purpose of this film, and b) How well does it achieve that purpose? That is, films should be judged within the context of their genre, so we never end up comparing “Schindler’s List” to the “Human Centipede.” “The Avengers” does not, in the proverbial sense, reinvent the wheel, but it is some of the most fun you will have at the theater all summer. That is the goal—to entertain and overwhelm with raw uninhibited star power—and “The Avengers” is a rollicking success at this. This is the quintessential Hollywood summer blockbuster, replete with A-list actors, comic-book heroes and enough explosions to make Michael Bay look like Martin Scorsese. Even better, like any self-respecting summer phenomenon of a movie, “The Avengers” puts the fate of the world at stake. When we first meet this team
of billionaires, mutants and outcasts, they are fighting a new lethal threat who has been using a unique Sceptre (see “Thor”) to experiment on humans. The villainous group has developed a powerful weapon in twins Pietro (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who has the ability to move at some nondescript but very fast speed, and Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen), who has the power to read minds, manipulate minds and wield energy as a weapon (I’m not entirely sure what her exact power is, but safe to say she’s pretty OP). The Avengers are shaken after this encounter, but do retrieve the sceptre. In a very “Lord of the Rings” sort of way, Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) declares that he will use the Sceptre of unimaginable power for good. When a character says this, it almost never ends well. He builds a sentient robot whose purpose, as Stark puts it, is to bring about “peace in our time.” It seems that genie rule of being vigilant about specifics in your wishes holds for sentient robots as well. Stark creates Ultron, a being whose idea of peace is the elimination of all life on Earth, so it goes. Ultron, perfectly voiced in a villainous staccato by James Spader of “The Blacklist,” is one of the best villains outside of the Batman omniverse. Our characters wax philosophical about the nature of peace and just war as a result of Ultron. Indeed, Ultron sees our heroes as antagonists toward peace, similar to how some
4 OUT OF 5 STARS “It is a movie that should not be missed, and for good reason, this is one of the most entertaining films of the year, and was that not the point?”
interpret America’s approach in many wars. The Avengers have broad objectives of justice and oppose all those who wish to go against these ideals, even at the cost of sacrificing innocent civilian casualties along the way. The film also synthesizes broad fears that seem evergrowing about the potentially dangerous and dehumanizing effect of technology on the world. In these ways, “The Avengers” transcends itself from the average action movie genre to the great. The new-vogue, middleaged brat pack of aging superheroes, Iron Man, the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and many others make a welcome return. However, with such a large cast, there is little time to develop any individual character, and it would have been easy for the movie to forget a character for long stretches of time. Somehow, neither occurs. “The Avengers” relies on empathy developed for the characters in their individual feature films, and strikes a good balance of paying equitable attention to all. “The Avengers” is an endless stream of action that continues gaining momentum until its brilliant crescendo of a finale. It is a movie that should not be missed, and for good reason, this is one of the most entertaining films of the year, and was that not the point?
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the number of Delaware players who have Super Bowl wins (Joe Flacco, Gino Gradkowski)
the number of players from Delaware who have been drafted into the NFL
the number of Pro Bowl appearances by Delaware players (Rich Gannon)
SARA PFEFER/THE REVIEW Former Delaware tight end Nick Boyle celebrates after a touchdown against Elon last fall. Boyle was chosen in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens.
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Birds of a feather flock together: Blue Hen Nick Boyle heads to Ravens JACK COBOURN & JACK RODGERS Managing Sports Editor & Sports Features Editor The road from Delaware to the National Football League (NFL) has another traveler. Tight end Nick Boyle was chosen by the Baltimore Ravens in the 2015 NFL Draft Saturday at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. The Ravens chose Boyle in the end of the fifth round with the 171st pick. As well as Boyle, the Ravens
selected Maxx Williams, adding additional depth at tight end. The last time the Ravens took two tight ends in the draft was 2010, with their selection of Ed Dickson and Dennis Pitta in back-toback rounds. Boyle’s road to the NFL draft began in January, when the 6-foot-4-inch, 268-pound Boyle was selected to play for the North Team in the Reese’s Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., where Boyle was highlighted jumping over a safety after a reception. He also led the
Hens in receptions with 37 for 304 yards. With a 4.23 second 20-yard shuttle and a 11.65 second 60-yard shuttle, both top times in the tight end class, Boyle is expected to be a consistent contributor. Assistant General Manager of the Ravens, Eric DeCosta is excited about Boyle’s arrival. DeCosta was quoted by BaltimoreRavens. com writer Ryan Mink saying, “He stood out. These small-school guys, you want to see how they do on the big
scale.” Boyle will join fellow Delaware alumnus Joe Flacco in Baltimore. Flacco, a 2008 first-round pick by Baltimore, has veteran experience—winning Super Bowl XLVII against the San Francisco 49ers in 2013. With this pick up, it will be the third Blue Hen addition to an already advanced Ravens roster. Boyle joins a long history of Delaware alumni who went on to play in the NFL. The Blue Hens’ first NFL player
was guard Bo Bogovich, who was picked in the 32nd round in 1943 by the Washington Redskins. Fellow alums chosen in the 20th century include quarterback Jeff Komlo, chosen in 1979 by the Detroit Lions, and 2002 AFC Champion Rich Gannon, who was chosen in fourth round in 1987 by the New England Patriots. For the moment, Boyle will settle into his new role and begin to prepare himself for training camp in July.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
‘This one will hurt’ Dukes end season for Blue Hens, 10-7
ERIN BOLAND Sports Assignment Editor In a repeat of last year’s CAA semifinals, the Delaware women’s lacrosse team took on James Madison on Friday night. Despite the best efforts of the Blue Hens, the result was all too familiar. The team fell short 10-7, forfeiting their chances of advancing to the championship. Head coach Kateri Linville knew what to expect from the Dukes, but it was not enough. “We knew it was going to be a battle tonight,” Linville said. “In the second half, we felt we could break them down offensively. We wanted to be patient and let the ball do the work. We got some great opportunities, but unfortunately we didn’t convert and capitalize when we needed to.” With an evening start time, the sun began to set soon after the game began. Fans shuffled into Delaware Stadium, creating a mixed sea of purple-and-white James Madison fans and blue-
and-gold Delaware fans. Despite the slight chill in the air, both teams gave it their all under the stadium lights. James Madison was the first team on the board five minutes into the game. The Blue Hens answered back as sophomore Kirsten Hale scored an unassisted goal, causing the entire team to erupt with excitement. The excitement remained steady throughout the game, and both teams kept going back and forth with scoring. No team ever led by more than two goals until the final 11 minutes of the game. Junior Shannon Hawley led the Blue Hens with two goals and several other players chipped in by adding single tallies of their own. James Madison scored with 30 seconds left in the first half, giving them a 5-4 edge on the Blue Hens. The home team came out fighting in the second half. Junior midfielder Kara Dattellas tied the score, giving the team hope that they could go on to
KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Junior midfielder Kara Datellas scores a goal at Friday night’s semifinal. The Blue Hens kept a tight game against the James Madison Dukes, until the last 11 minutes of the game. the championship game. After rolling the crease, Dattellas dodged through two defenders and placed the ball in the lower left corner. Senior midfielder Caitlin McCartney followed suit by charging through the eightmeter arc and giving Delaware the lead. As she stepped on the field for the last time in her Delaware career, McCartney finished with one goal and an impressive CAA
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Tournament record of seven draw controls. The Blue Hens had a 7-6 lead when defender Erin Wein ran the ball down the field and scored. However, the lead wouldn’t last for long. James Madison scored four unanswered goals to give them the lead and ultimate win. They celebrated their 10-7 victory and advanced to the CAA Championship game. Though not the outcome
GAME RESULTS WOMEN’S TRACK (CAA Championships) 4th place FOOTBALL (Blue-White Spring Game) Blue 24, White 0 MEN’S CLUB ROWING (@ Princeton) 1st place in 1V SOFTBALL Delaware 2, Towson 5 BASEBALL Delaware 2, UNCW 12
the Blue Hens wanted, the team put up a fight for the entire 60 minutes. “This one will hurt, but that’s how sports work,” Linville said. “There are highs and lows. This wasn’t the Cinderella story that we wanted, but I’m proud of the overall team’s effort tonight.”
UPCOMING GAMES BASEBALL @ St. Joeseph’s, Tuesday ROWING @ Dad Vail Regatta, Friday & Saturday BASEBALL @ Elon, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
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>Top Three Highest Paid Coaches
Sports Business: A winning price tag? MEGHAN O’DONNELL Managing Sports Editor Mike Krzyzewski stood on the court in Indianapolis after winning the NCAA Championship last month, a smile on his face. He had just won his fifth title in nine attempts, firmly solidifying his status as one of the greatest coaches of all time. He had taken a team with four inexperienced—albeit highly recruited—freshmen to the pinnacle of college basketball. There were plenty of reasons to smile. But what if Duke hadn’t won? What if Wisconsin hadn’t blown a nine-point lead and Bo Ryan’s Badgers had come out on top? Where would Coach K be then? He would still have led the Blue Devils on an impressive run. Sure, he would have lost some of those top ranked freshmen to the NBA Draft, but with the number one recruiting class for 2015 it wouldn’t have hurt too much. Then there’s the $9,682,032 total salary he gets regardless of whether or not his group of 18-year-olds makes it to the championship or crashes out in the first round (as they did last year against 14th-seeded Mercer). So while the ring is nice, it sounds like there still would’ve been plenty of reasons to smile.
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That’s the case for most top college basketball and football coaches. The most high profile programs (think Alabama, Notre Dame, Texas) pay absurd amounts of money to these men (And yes, it’s only men. Even the top paid women’s basketball coach, Geno Auriemma, is a man). While there are contract incentives for winning, many of these coaches ink deals with millions of dollars guaranteed regardless of on-field results. Where else can you get a multi-million dollar salary without having to be a top performer? Sounds like a pretty good deal if you can get it. In fact, college coaches are the highest paid public officials in 40 of 50 states. Those 40 are made up of 27 football coaches and 13 basketball coaches. Sounds like a lot, but even that number may be too low, as state salary databases can be misleading. States often only list the coach’s base salary and don’t include the additional compensation coaches receive from appearance fees, apparel contracts and more. The university’s coaches are not public employees, so they wouldn’t show up on databases that make salary information publicly available. Top coaches face long, unconventional hours, intense
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COURTESY OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE/ WILLIAM D. MOSS media scrutiny and minimal job security. Big schools bring in millions and choose to invest it in coaches within their highest revenue-generating programs. The question remains: Do coaches deserve that money? One may argue that coaches can be measured using quantifiable statistics such as the team’s record and should be paid accordingly. However, the true measure of any major
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school’s athletic programs is the revenue they bring in, and it’s nearly impossible to say that any one person—even a football or basketball coach at a Division I powerhouse—is directly responsible for the money the school brings in. Take Michigan, for example. Last season, then head coach Brady Hoke led the team to an embarrassing 5-7 record and the Wolverines missed out on
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a bowl game for only the third time since 1975. Despite these historically poor results, the football program still generated $91 million in revenue. Hoke was fired after the season but not before pocketing $4.3 million. While you may not agree with it, it’s unlikely to change any time soon. So regardless of how next season goes, Coach K and his colleagues can keep on smiling.
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BATTLING BACK:
Derek Battle reflects on football and senior thesis on enviro-friendly stadiums
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for Delaware. “After that one, I had to hang it up,” Battle said. “I just couldn’t take it anymore.” This wasn’t the first time that an injury had plagued Battle. His first injury, and first blow to his ACL, came in preseason before the start of his 2012 season. From the sidelines Battle would watch the Blue Hens march to 8th place in the CAA. Driven to get back into the field, Battle worked with members of the university to ensure his recovery for the future. However, the injury in 2014 wasn’t rushed into recovery. The surgery could wait, and Battle could plan around his classes rather
“There was a lot of things I couldn’t control.”
Derek Battle JACK RODGERS Sports Features Editor Blackness. That’s all that linebacker Derek Battle remembers after getting hit hard by a Pittsburgh fullback in Delaware’s season opener this year. It was his ACL again, and he knew it—the piercing pain in his knee and the audible “pop” upon impact told him that. After getting carted back to the locker room, Battle gingerly changed out of his uniform. It would be the last time he would dress
than squeeze his doctor’s appointments around games and practices. His scholarship for football remained intact—Delaware has a policy against revoking scholarships because of injury—and he settled back into his routines. Battle suddenly found himself focusing more on classes than football even though the game that he and his father, an ex-football player at North Carolina A&T, seemed to find a way into everything he did. Majoring in energy and
environmental policy, Battle found himself fascinated by shaping the stages he’s used to playing on toward a more efficient future. Now sharing his vision through a senior thesis, Battle paints the picture of a leaguewide initiative of efficient stadiums, much like Lincoln Financial in Philadelphia. Through this initiative, NFL stadiums throughout the country would take action into becoming more efficient with the use of renewable energy and other forms of harnessing the power of the earth for electricity. “The league-wide initiative would be ideal,” Battle said. “The Eagles made their changes based on their ownership, but a lot of other teams aren’t up to date in that area. The NFL has a huge impact on their viewers and on America, that they can have a huge impact on sustainability as well.” Heinz Field, where Battle sustained his careerending injury, has none of these innovations. Battle even says that the stadium’s grass field may have had some impact on his injury, as he personally is used to playing on turf. “I’m used to playing on turf,” Battle said. “And on grass, your foot plants totally different. It was hard.” Through all of the injuries Battle has overcome, he looks back on his experience playing football at Delaware with no regrets. “There was a lot of things I couldn’t control,” Battle said. “I just never wanted us to go forward with a defeated attitude. It was a good experience, I think.”
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sports commentary Zero: Baltimore makes attendance history amidst riots When Chris Davis hit a threerun home run in the bottom of the first inning last Wednesday, he was met with deafening silence. As he rounded the bases and looked out toward the stands, an unfamiliar evergreen color met his gaze—a huge contrast to the normal sea of orange. This game was yet another instance that the seemingly incomparable streams of sports and history had intertwined. We easily consider these two entities separate, and in separate worlds—seeing as no one in our world of Monday morning traffic and budget meetings would receive almost half a billion dollars to hit a ball. History has often proven that these realities are connected, and last Wednesday’s game amidst the Baltimore riots was no exception. In 1989 an earthquake shook the foundation of Candlestick Park, halting the Bay Area World Series—an event that stopped play for 10 days straight. The 6.9 magnitude quake shook the lives of those in northern California along with those in the world of baseball. The draft in 1943 and 1944 claimed multitudes of young athletes for the war effort and forced the combination of four NFL teams to create the Steagles and Card-Pitt. We see this unity in Baltimore. A team seemingly afraid for its city closed its doors, sacrificing the money in ticket sales, food, beer and other amenities to protect their fans. A MLB team, which is normally thought of as a business, looked out into the public and made a selfless decision for the second time. On the 25th, the Orioles asked fans to remain in the stadium because of “ongoing public safety issues,” to attempt
to keep their fans’ safety in mind. The attendance for that game was 36,757. The Orioles’ Vice President was even quoted saying, “We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the United States and while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards… inconvenience at a ball game [is] irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting upon ordinary Americans.” This statement is just another example of how supportive and understanding the Orioles’ management is about the current state of affairs in Baltimore. Last Wednesday was a statement without words. As the city of Baltimore raged around the stadium, Ubaldo Jimenez lead the Orioles to their 10th win with two runs on three hits. The Orioles gave their fans history for being the first team in MLB history with an attendance of 0—and a fantastic game to watch from the safety of their homes. The photos say more than words ever could. There are pictures of Chris Davis’ aforementioned home run ball sitting untouched by the men’s room. The scoreboard displayed only the Orioles logo. The vendor stations sitting closed. Those who ended up braving the waning madness in Baltimore, standing in their Oriole gear, craning around entrance gates to see the game. And the iconic “0” drawn on the clubhouse white board. JACK RODGERS Sports Features Editor
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Camden Yards was empty last Wednesday as the Baltimore Orioles closed fan access due to riots.
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