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The 76ers announced Saturday afternoon that they were beginning a D-League basketball team in Delaware, the 87ers, otherwise known as the “Sevens.”

76ers announce D-League to play at Bob Carpenter Sports Center

BY RYAN MARSHALL Managing Sports Editor

The landscape of basketball in the state of Delaware has been altered— and for once Elena Delle Donne has nothing to do with it.

The Philadelphia 76ers announced a partnership with the

university to be the official host for the Sixers D-League affiliate, the Delaware 87ers, at The Bob Carpenter Sports Center.

The “Sevens” will play 24 of its 50 games at “The Bob” next season, which starts in November with a ticket price of about $15. Games will usually be featured on Friday and

Saturday nights.

“We looked in dozens of communities, and we looked in some seven states before deciding Delaware was the perfect home for the Philadelphia 76ers D-League team,” said Sixers CEO Adam Aron.

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A woman holds a falcon on her arm at Ag Day Saturday.

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Gun control legislation passes in Delaware House, Senate

BY GILLIAN MORLEY News Features Desk Editor

Democratic state governor Jack Markell is expected to soon sign into law a bill that Delaware state senators approved earlier this month to expand background checks for gun sales. They voted 13-8 in favor of House Bill 35 on April 18, which passed 24-17 in the State House of Representatives last month.

The bill, proposed by Markell in January, aims to close a loophole in the existing law that only requires background checks when the sale

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includes a licensed firearms dealer. It will amend the legislation to require checks in the sale of firearms between private parties as well.

Exceptions include “transfers to immediate family members, qualified law-enforcement officers and certain short term transfers to persons personally known to the owner,” according to a press release from Markell. Anyone who violates the new law would be charged with a misdemeanor for a first offense and a felony for any subsequent offenses.

Since 1990, the General Assembly has attempted to pass

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legislation at least six times to address the loophole, but the issue has never made it to a vote.

“For too many years criminals and other ‘persons prohibited’ have been able to avoid background checks and exploit a loophole that allowed them to easily acquire firearms,” Markell said. “By passing this legislation we will close this loophole once and for all.”

Lieutenant Gov. Matt Denn said he is proud of the Senate for passing the bill, since it is a step in the “right direction.”

“House Bill 35 is an important

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step toward ensuring that we minimize the number of gun tragedies in Delaware, by keeping guns out of the hands of people who we all agree should not have them,” Denn said.

Attorney General Beau Biden, who helped to implement Brady Law background checks during his time with the U.S. Department of Justice, said Bill 35 is “critically important” to protect the community.

“I want to congratulate the General Assembly for recognizing that background checks are an essential law enforcement tool that has stopped 2 million individuals

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nationally, primarily felons, individuals convicted of domestic violence crimes, and fugitives, from purchasing firearms since 1994,” Biden said.

Despite optimism from the politicians, professor of law and political science Sheldon Pollack said he believes the new gun law may not reduce crime all that much.

Many criminals do not purchase guns legally at gun shops or gun shows, Pollack said, and thus are not subject to a background test.

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Faculty Senate discusses change in employee title

Wilm. abortion clinic temporarily closes due to ongoing investigation

BY RACHEL TAYLOR Administrative News Editor

BY GILLIAN MORLEY News Features Desk Editor

The Planned Parenthood clinic in Wilmington that performs surgical abortions has temporarily closed its doors in the wake of allegations of “unsafe and unsanitary” conditions made by former nurses at the clinic.

Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich, a nurse who quit working at the clinic due to what she thought was an unsafe environment, said the conditions in the clinic put patients at risk.

“We had a doctor who was always very hurried and he would bring patients back and there would be blood on the examination table,” Mitchell-Werbrich said. “He couldn’t even wait until the room was cleaned because he was so quick to bring in the next patient.”

She also said there were no written guidelines for the staff to follow and the staff was not properly trained. She said even basic procedures, such as injecting patients with sedatives, was not done properly.

“They did not use the proper protocols and guidelines,” MitchellWerbrich said.

“There just weren’t any.”

She said the way the procedures were being done was potentially very dangerous to the mother as well as the fetus.

In correspondence between the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Planned Parenthood, the state organization cited the clinic with two violations in February.

According to the notification, “Health care employees performing tasks such as assisting with medical procedures and handling specimens were not trained in accordance with this item.” The other citation reads, “Employees were exposed to contaminated needles following the administration of multiple employee PPD Tests with standard, non-

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OSHA and Planned Parenthood of Delaware came to a settlement in February when a fine of $3,060 was levied against the company. Other complaints submitted by MitchellWerbrich and other employees were found to be unsubstantiated through the investigation.

Ruth Lytle-Barnaby, the new CEO of Planned Parenthood of Delaware could not be reached for an interview. She said in a press release that the organization has launched a full review of patient services at the clinic.

“I determined that we need to take immediate steps to assure our patients of our high quality care, including enacting immediate personnel changes,” Lytle-Barnaby said. “We do not tolerate employees that fail to meet our standards for patient care and services.”

She said she is currently addressing the concerns with a team of medical experts from the national Planned Parenthood office. She is confident in the high quality of care at the office, she said, but if there is any employee who does not live up to their standards, they will be terminated.

Mitchell-Werbrich, a veteran nurse, said she had never experienced working conditions like those at clinic before and reported the issues to Planned Parenthood. She said she contacted the Planned Parenthood president and CEO, as well as the vice president of medical services for the organization, but neither took action against the doctors or the staff.

“I had told anyone who would listen that it was unsafe and about

some of the numerous unsafe things that were going on,” MitchellWerbrich said. “They said to me that they were working on it, but there was no change.”

Professor of history and women’s studies Anne Boylan stated in an email message that it is important to note that no Planned Parenthood clinic has been shut down but rather abortion services have been temporarily suspended at the clinic. She said the investigation and the suspension have come following pressure from groups against abortion in Delaware.

“An anti-choice group involving a Newark resident and retired UD employee Rae Stabosz has been pressuring state health regulators to investigate the clinics,” Boylan said.

“The tactic is part of a nationwide strategy by anti-choice groups to make it difficult, if not impossible, for women to seek safe legal abortions.”

Boylan was discussing the “40 Days for Life” campaign, an effort to protest abortion clinics using prayer rallies outside the buildings.

Mitchell-Werbrich said the issue for her is not issue with abortion services in general but the safety of her patients. She said she went into the clinic as an objective nurse but left fearing for the women who were treated there.

In her view, things are looking better, she said, since the clinics are currently undergoing an investigation, and hopes the clinic can clean up and reopen so women can once again have access to affordable healthcare.

“They are having a massive cleanup and that is what they really needed to do,” Mitchell-Werbrich said.

Faculty members filled up the room as professors debated over switching how certain professors are identified during yesterday’s special faculty senate meeting. The senate also discussed members of the agenda previously not discussed at the last meeting.

Sheldon Pollack, faculty senate president, said the items talked about at the meeting would be for discussion only. He said the senate would reconvene and vote on the subjects at a later date, possibly during the summer or in the fall.

Although nothing was officially passed at the meeting, Pollack said it was his goal for the senate to discuss the issues involving the promotion of nontenured faculty. He said extensive conversation is needed before the senate makes any final decisions.

“The PNT committee spent two years working on a set of proposals to try to deal with some of the problems out there, how to treat continuing non-tenured track faculty in the promotion process, and they just need to get on the agenda for the senate because the open hearings were kind of—I chaired one of them, it was very civil, intelligent discussion,” Pollack said. “There’s clearly two different opinions, and it breaks down the faculty.”

Pollack said the discussion was meant to identify if there was even a problem in the first place. He said there was no point in voting if the majority does not think anything needs to be changed in the guidelines.

One of the more controversial parts of the agenda was regarding the promotion and tenure in “Departmental Responsibilities.”

According to the agenda, the handbook should be amended to provide that participation on department promotion and tenure committees should be limited to those faculty members who are at or above rank to the position for which the candidate is applying, and in decisions that involve the granting of tenure is limited to those faculty members who hold tenure.

Danilo Yanich, a professor for the School of Public Policy and Administration, said the aspect of the resolutions that caused the

most difficulty for him and other members of his department was the idea that non-tenured faculty are barred from voting on tenure decisions. Although the approval of this recommendation was postponed, he said while it may not intend to demean what he does as an associate professor, it blatantly does.

“The idea that somehow CNTT [Continuing Non-Tenured Track] folks cannot vote on a tenure appointment because we lack some set of capacities is offensive,” Yanich said.

Pollack said an oversight that needs to be addressed is allowing the promotion of non-tenure track professors. He said certain parts of their contracts disallow for them to receive a raise in rank and title, something that has caused serious problems in the past.

“There seems to be a glitch in how those people would be promoted,” Pollack said. “That’s why we’re getting lots of cases where CNTT faculty feel that they have been promised the right to come up for [promotion], and the document prevents them from actually doing it—or at least a large number of them.”

Pollack said non-tenured faculty are hired for either public service, clinical work, instruction and funded research and are also eligible to be promoted to a higher rank if they maintain the same criteria as required by tenure track faculty. He said they are also required to demonstrate excellence in scholarship or teaching and must maintain high quality in the other categories.

This is a serious problem for certain members of the faculty, such as those who do clinical work at Christiana Hospital and teach nursing students at the university, Pollack said. As these members do not instruct full classes or maintain scholarship by the current rules, they are unable to acquire an elevated position, he said.

While changing the qualifications and titles for professors is still under debate, Pollack said he and other members of the faculty are attempting to come up with a solution that works for everyone. He said while he approves of the recommended course of action, there is still room for alteration.

Pollack: ‘Criminals tend to buy guns through underground, illegal sources’ Continued from page 1 “Criminals tend to buy guns through underground, illegal sources, and it may not have a huge impact at all in reducing crime in Wilmington and other cities,” Pollack said Pollack said one of the main issues with gun control laws is that a law has yet to be passed on a federal level. This makes it easy for people to cross state lines to a more lenient state to buy a firearm.

Another issue that may need to be addressed in the future,

according to Pollack, is people who obtain guns from family members or as gifts.

For example, Pollack mentioned Adam Lanza, the Newtown, Conn., school shooter who obtained the gun used in the killings from his mother’s home.

She had obtained the gun through legal means.

Though there are obvious holes in the law, Pollack said, it makes sense to have background checks for those looking to buy legal guns.

“One would think if someone

just got out of prison and committed a violent crime should not just be allowed to walk in and buy a legal gun,” Pollack said. “This may not be a cure, it certainly helps, and it doesn’t hurt in any way.”

Sophomore Matt Hudson said he thinks universal background checks are important and passing this law makes sense.

“Now that a universal background check policy is set in stone it can only be a good thing,” Hudson said. “Most Americans support the idea so it is no surprise to me that it passed when it did.”

A poll released by Gallup on yesterday shows 65 percent of Americans believe the gun control bill that was defeated in the nation’s Senate April 17, should have been passed.

He believes more left leaning states will pass stricter gun laws and right leaning states are less likely to do so. Hudson said in “red” states people may see gun control as the government infringing on their constitutional rights.

Hudson said he is a liberal person and would support most laws that require background

checks but it is hard to enforce laws when each state has different standards.

Though he doesn’t believe the bill will cut crime, Hudson said he feels more comfortable knowing the state has taken steps to stop people who shouldn’t be purchasing guns from obtaining them legally.

“If the bill stops one schizophrenic felon from buying a gun at a store, then I think it’s worth the inconvenience it may cause to peaceful gun owners,” Hudson said.

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May 3, 1988: A child poses during the university’s annual Ag Day event. Attendees could milk a cow as part of the festivities.

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Things To Do Tuesday April 30 Tuesday Tech Talk 12:30 p.m.

Pearson Hall rm. 304 Wednesday May 1 22nd Annual Victim’s Vigil with guest speaker Marilyn van Derbur 6:30 p.m.

Dover Sheraton Thursday May 2 Jamnesty 2013 7:30 p.m. the Scrounge, Perkins Student Center Friday May 3 Diversity Panel 12:00 p.m.

Trabunt University Center Rm. 209-211 Saturday May 4 Ladies’ Night Out, 7 p.m.

Christiana Commons Monday May 6 Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop 5-6 p.m.

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A falcon prepares for flight at the annual Ag Day event on Saturday.

Police Reports Ogletown Road Wawa robbed on Sunday On Sunday at about 5 a.m., two male suspects robbed the WAWA Convenience Store located on Ogletown Road, according to Newark Police spokesperson Cpl. Gerald Bryda.

The two suspects entered the store with their faces concealed and told the clerk they had a weapon. They removed the cash from the register and fled the scene, Bryda said. The clerk was not injured and the suspects were last seen fleeing on foot eastbound towards Marrows Road.

The first suspect is a black male, between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 7 inches tall, Bryda said, and he was wearing a navy hooded sweatshirt with green and yellow lettering. His face was concealed with a light colored bandana and he was wearing white gloves, light colored pants and white shoes.

The second suspect was a black male of about the same height as the first and he wore a black hooded sweatshirt with a red and white design on the front, Bryda said. He was wearing a dark colored bandana to cover his face and a black baseball cap with a white logo on the front. He was also wearing black gloves, blue jeans and black and white shoes. The second suspect was caring a blue Adidas duffle bag.

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In Briefs A sophomore class T-shirt swap and the first ever Blue Hen Games will take place on the North Green Wednesday, May 1st. The event will be hosted by the university Alumni Association, the Office of Alumni Relations and the Student Alumni Ambassadors.

WVUD will host its spring concert featuring, the Spinto Band on Thursday May 2 in the Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student Center. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m and tickets are $5 for students who show a university ID.

The university Graduate Outreach Open Discussion (GOOD) will present a panel on diversity. The event will be held from noon to 2 p.m. on Friday, May 3 in 209-211 Trabant University Center. The panel will discuss what diversity means to the university.

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PNC Bank and LivingSocial Hacked

The websites of PNC Bank and LivingSocial both came under siege from cyber attackers Friday.

PNC Bank apparently suffered a denial of service attack, preventing some customers from accessing the website. A denial of service attack involves flooding a website with traffic. PNC officials said the terrorist organization Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters threatened to take down several banking websites last week. The group has attacked banks in the past, taking down American Express’ website for a few hours in March.

Although PNC’s website was temporarily down, no customer information was able to be stolen.

LivingSocial, however, was not so fortunate.

An online deals website that boasts more than 70 million users, LivingSocial had some of its databases hacked, giving the attackers access to the passwords and other information of 50 million.

A company spokesman said no credit card numbers were stolen, and customers from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and South Korea were unaffected.

The company alerted customers, telling them to change their passwords. It is unknown who was responsible for the attack, and LivingSocial has not speculated about it.

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Officials investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syrian civil war

Investigations are underway in Syria, in which U.S. covert agencies are assessing the use of chemical weapons by the government in the civil war that has been raging for over two years. The intelligence community’s investigations are preliminary and two Syrian officials have denied the accusations. The Syrian government also accused the rebels of the use of chemical weapons after a lethal attack in the northern province of Aleppo.

Agencies began their examinations last week in response to opposition groups’ reports of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces using sarin gas, manmade nerve agent, on at least two occasions.

Sarin may cause convulsions, respiratory and failure.

President Barack Obama has stated that the use of chemical weapons could prompt a response by the United States that would possibly include a military intervention.

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Saudi Arabia issues first ever antidomestic abuse ad

Using an advert of a hijab-clad woman with a blackened and bruised eye visible through her veil with a slogan reading, “Some things can’t be covered—fighting women’s abuse together,” the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has launched its first anti-domestic abuse campaign.

Backed by the King Khalid Charitable Foundation, the “No More Abuse” campaign aims to “provide legal protection for women and children from abuse in Saudi Arabia.” Saudis are also being encouraged to report cases of domestic violence to nearby locations of help and assistance around the Kingdom including Madinah, Najran, Makkah and Riyadh.

And while domestic violence statistics in the country are hazy and the campaign has sparked media buzz, the campaign noted in its advert literature, “The phenomenon of battered women in Saudi Arabia is much greater than apparent.”

The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report ranked the country 131 out of 134 countries for gender equality in 2012 and the foundation is hoping that by taking action now, they will achieve justice for those abused in all parts of the Kingdom.

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Emirati men deported from Saudi Arabia for being “too handsome” During an annual heritage and cultural festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia three men from the United Arab Emirates were forcibly removed by religious officers for being too good-looking because the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices feared women would “fall for them.” The three were then deported to Abu Dhabi, capital of the Emirates.

Omar Borkan Al Gala, a poet, actor and photographer from Dubai, is rumored to be one of the deported men. The Emirati government speculated in an official statement that the Saudi religious police were anxious over the unexpected presence of a female artist in the pavilion.

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Bangladeshi building collapses, kills nearly 400

385 people died last Wednesday when an eight-story factory building fell to the ground in Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, according to Reuters. Hundreds of workers remain unaccounted for, while rescue workers were able to save 2,500 people from the wreckage.

Eight people were arrested Monday morning for their responsibilities in the collapse.

Building owner Mohammed Sohel Rana was arrested in Benapole, a town close to Bangladesh’s border with India. He was taken to Dhaka in handcuffs as onlookers chanted their protests to him.

Rana’s father, Abdul Khalek, four factory bosses and two engineers were also arrested. Those arrested face charges of unlawful death and faulty construction.

The building, which is located in Savar, housed several factories for making Western clothing.

Late Sunday night, sparks from rescue workers equipment started a fire in the wreckage, killing one survivor workers were attempting to save.

Officials have little hope in finding more survivors in the rubble.

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Student poll gauges opinion on university, current issues

BY ERIN QUINN Managing News Editor

The Blue Hen Poll, which has been administered annually since 2008, revealed that 31 percent of undergraduate students have wished they attended another college or university since last fall, though students are overwhelmingly content with the university, as 93 percent agree to being “satisfied” or “very satisfied.”

Students in David Wilson’s political science and international relations course “Topics in American Government, Blue Hen Poll Research” spent the semester choosing topics to explore in the poll, administering it and later analyzing the data results.

Wilson said the poll allows students, who are interested in certain issues, to further research them at the university with hard scientific data.

“Every year we emphasize this idea that the Blue Hen Poll is by students, for students, because it allows students to have some level of engagement with the information that we’re collecting,” Wilson said.

The topics come from students, Wilson said, though he helps to refine ways to ask questions. The data is publicly available so it becomes a tool for faculty, administrators, students and the community if they choose to use it, he said.

From March 10 to April 7, the online survey was made available to almost 5,000 students, which included all racial minority students and a random sample of white and international students. The final working sample of completed surveys amounted to 1,383 responses, which brought the margin of error to 3 percent. Since minorities were oversampled, weighting was used to bring the responses back to a reflection of university demographics.

The Blue Hen Poll also utilized randomized images in questions as an experiment to see how the visuals

would affect responses.

“This year one of the things we wanted to do was get involved in the political communication aspect of what we’re doing,” Wilson said.

“And one of the main ideas of political communication is that people pay attention to communication no matter how implicit or nuanced it is.”

It is expected that images do not make a difference, Wilson said.

However, when there is a discrepancy in responses due to differing images or a lack of image, he said they need to explore why.

For example, an experiment was used in a question about whether participating in the 2012 presidential election made respondents more proud to be an American, less proud or if it had no effect. Students received one of the three question options in the poll.

When the question was asked alone with no image, 53 percent of students said it made them more proud.

When the questions was asked with an image of President Barack Obama and a statement that the first African American president had been elected twice, 43 percent of respondents answered that they were more proud.

“We are priming people to think about Obama and think about race and see if it affects their opinions on how proud they are,” Wilson said.

Students are less likely to be proud to be an American when mentioning race in the question, according to the results, Wilson said.

Beyond patriotism, this year’s poll gauged opinions on student experiences, political engagement, the ban of plastic water bottles, study abroad, diversity, the Student Government Association, voter ID laws and perceptions of university demographics, among others.

Senior Eric Watts, who is taking the class, explored topics university evaluation, university preparation of students for post-graduation and samesex marriage opinions.

While 91.8 percent of students responded that they would recommend the university to others, 14.5 percent answered that they would volunteer to help recruit students.

Regarding life post-graduation, 41 percent of students said they would attend Homecoming events and 39 percent said they would attend spring alumni weekend, but only 15 percent of students said they would donate to the university.

While Watts said while none of the results were particularly surprising, he was interested to see the difference in opinion Courtesy of the Blue Hen Poll based on gender. When The poll will be publicly released on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in Trabant Multipurpose analyzing the data, Room. he said he noticed poll might have more legitimacy due or white hands in a business suit differences in the way males and females view athletics and to that fact that students administer in handcuffs. it. Additionally, university members With no image, 39 percent of campus safety.

After compiling data from poll are invited to the poll’s public release respondents favored the right to vote results, students ran the numbers though presentation to see all the findings, for convicted criminal felons and with the image of black hands, 48 percent statistical analysis software, which he said.

“If students actually have an favored it. showed correlations between variables, “The percent in favor of felons “cross tabs” between results and how overwhelming perception of something, statistically significant the findings whether it’s positive or negative, their having the right to vote was a lot lower point does get across,” Watts said. when we showed no image, than when were, if it all.

Sophomore Chad Wood, a political we showed hands,” Wood said.

For instance, Watts said 83 percent Wood said using the hands made of female respondents supported legal science major in the class, explored recognition of same sex marriage, topics of felon disenfranchisement, the issue seem “more humanized,” as while 75 percent of male respondents political engagement and post- it prompted people to think about those graduation plans. who would be affected by the issue. He favored it.

Wood said the one thing that said the class taught him how to find “It really gives you an idea of how surprised him was the student responses the biases or influential aspects of polls, people think on campus,” Watts said.

The poll is valuable because it about felon disenfranchisement and which render the results unreliable.

“It’s fun to learn how pollsters can gauges strictly student opinion, Watts how images affected answers. Students said. He said the class worked hard to received the question with either no manipulate responses just by changing make sure the poll avoided biased or image, an image of white hands in one word or adding a picture,” Wood learning questions and believes the handcuffs, black hands in handcuffs said. “It’s pretty significant.”

Co-founder of Global Voices talks Internet rights, freedom

BY KATHERINE GINIS Staff Reporter

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest the world by population, falling only behind China and India, Global Agenda speaker Rebecca MacKinnon said.

MacKinnon spoke on campus last Wednesday night in Mitchell Hall about the importance of society protecting its freedom and rights on the Internet as part of the Global Agenda

series “America’s Role in the World.”

MacKinnon is a co-founder of Global Voices, an international citizen media network, as well as a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of “Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom,” according to her website. She is also on the board of directors for the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Global Network Initiative, as well as a former news correspondent for CNN in Asia.

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Global Agenda speaker Rebecca MacKinnon speaks about the importance of society protecting its freedom on the Internet Wednesday night in Mitchell Hall.

MacKinnon said people often view the Internet as a tool that serves solely to benefit them. However, unless people take affirmative action, she said it could serve as a valuable instrument for the government to gather personal information instead. She said everyone wants the convenience that comes with technology, but something must be done to oversee the aspect of surveillance that comes with it.

For example, in Egypt in 2011, activists broke into the state security office, and employees attempted to destroy the documents housed there before the activists could read them, MacKinnon said. However, they were not able to shred all of them, and the ones that were left intact contained personal information of citizens including their cell phone records, texts and emails, she said.

MacKinnon said if the government had passed the Stop Online Piracy Act, which was intended to give law enforcement more authority in terms of combating copyright infringement, as well as the buying and selling of counterfeit goods online, the Internet would be much different than it is today.

Facebook is blocked in many countries, including China, according to MacKinnon. When Chinese citizens attempt to access the site, as well as any other restricted ones, their screen displays an error message. She said this

is referred to as “The Great Firewall of China.”

In addition to controlling the information already on the Internet, she said, China goes to great lengths to ensure new content is subject to revision by the government before being published online. While abroad, MacKinnon said she tried to write a blog post, only to find that it was immediately denied due to her mention of a jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner.

“This kind of self-discipline and this mechanism was actually the same mechanism that United States companies would have had to deploy if they had to abide by SOPA,” MacKinnon said.

There is a common and dangerous misconception that authoritarian countries will become democratic with the implementation of technology, although that is not always true, MacKinnon said. In reality, it depends on several different aspects, and if the people are not careful, democratic countries could end up resembling an authoritarian society, she said.

“While of course nation states still have power over our physical being and our physical communities, increasingly the choices that are being made—the engineering decisions, the programming decisions, the decisions about what you can and cannot do on Facebook or what you can and cannot do on your Amazon web hosting service

or what you can and cannot do with your Apple devices—is increasingly affecting your physical freedoms in different ways,” MacKinnon said.

Sophomore Donya Feizbakhsh said she liked how MacKinnon made the information relatable by tying in Facebook.

“She showed how everyone here has one, and in other countries they think it is detrimental to society,” Feizbakhsh said.

In general, MacKinnon’s speech brought a much-needed outside perspective on topics that are taught on campus, Feizbakhsh said.

Sophomore Robert Applegate said although he attended the event for extra credit and went in without any expectations, he ended up really enjoying the presentation. Applegate said he was very surprised to learn about the amount of surveillance present in the United States that most people are unaware of and the possibility of the government abusing it.

Applegate said after the discussion, he realized it is very important for students to attend similar events on campus.

“A lot of people, and my friends in particular, kind of live in a box, and we should show what is going on,” Applegate said. “The government is supposed to represent the people, but if we don’t pay attention, they can kind of just do what they want.”

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‘Take Back the Night’ calls attention to backlogged rape kits

BY LAUREN CAPPELLONI Managing Mosaic Editor

Rape survivor Natasha Alexenko said that of every 100 rapes in the United States, 46 will be reported to the police and five will lead to a felony conviction. Alexenko’s experience made her aware of the rape kit backlog—an accumulation of untested biological and physical evidence collected from a rape victim’s body—and inspired her to create the group Natasha’s Justice Project in 2011.

As part of Sexual Assault Awareness month, Alexenko spoke in the Perkins Bacchus Theatre Thursday and attributed the low rate of rape conviction to the untested rape

kits. Natasha’s Justice Project aims to end the buildup of untested rape kits.

After a rape, victims can submit to a rape kit test, a process that can be invasive and last for hours, she said. The kit, which holds clothes, DNA and police reports, are stored in police stations or crime labs until the incident is reported and evidence from the kit is needed, she said.

The information in the kits is vital to prosecuting a perpetrator and DNA is now even being used in property cases. Many rapes, however, go unreported, she said.

“We really want people to understand the value of this technology,” Alexenko said. “It’s unbelievable what we do with it and I think we’re just scratching the

surface and I really think it’s being under utilized.”

Alexenko said about 400,000 to 500,000 untested rape kits are “collecting dust” on shelves across the country. The number is hard to pinpoint though because the definition for rape kits is unclear and there is no system for keeping track of the kits, she said.

Lauren Gibson, a volunteer for Sexual Offense Support and prevention specialist for Student Wellness and Health Promotion said rape kits in Delaware are destroyed after 30 days if the crime is not reported to the police or the perpetrator is unknown. Evidence of class A felonies, which include rape in the first degree, is never destroyed,

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Students gather to learn about and show support for personal safety and women’s rights during Sexual Assault Awareness month.

she said.

A major problem of these untested rape kits is the lack of crime lab resources, Gibson said, as kits may $1,000 or more to test.

“All these rape kits that are in the back just not tested, there are a lot of possible perpetrators that you could probably persecute with that evidence,” Gibson said. “But unfortunately sometimes if they’re not tested, you can’t prosecute.”

Studies have shown that in cases where the rape kit was collected and tested, arrests and prosecution were more likely. Testing rape kits confirm a suspect’s contact with a victim, identify a potential assailant and corroborate the victim’s account.

Alexenko was raped at gunpoint in 1993 and underwent a rape kit, but her rapist was not identified until a decade later, after the statute of limitations expired on DNA evidence and so the kit was untested and could not be used. When New York lifted the statute law in 2006, she was able to testify against her rapist in court.

Not all states, however, have lifted the statute of limitations so many kits remain untested until the time limit runs out, she said.

A backlogged rape kit, by the National Institute of Justice’s definition, is an untested kit sitting on shelves in a medical lab. Their criteria does not include kits in police stations, so any grants for addressing backlogged kits do not cover any remaining in police stations, she said.

Alexenko’s group noticed this problem and now uses research, public education and media outreach to raise awareness of the issue.

They also give travel grants to rape survivors to attend trials of attackers.

“Each kit represents a human being whose body is a crime scene and that really affected me when I thought about that and I decided I didn’t want to be an anomaly,” she said.

Most recently, NJP announced on March 27 that it will partner with Alameda County District in California to end rape kit backlog in the county and focus on testing all rape kits, instead of only those

involved with unknown perpetrators.

In New York City it is now the law to test all rape kits, whereas other precincts do not test kits where the perpetrator is unknown or when the victim is unreliable, she said. While the national arrest rate for rape is 24 percent, she rate in New York City is 74 percent.

“Something is working in New York City and I think we know what it is,” she said.

In addition, the New York City Police Department has teamed up with Combined DNA Index System, a national databank of registered criminals. Alexenko said out of 80 matches between DNA from a rape kit and a CODIS profile, 2,000 crimes were solved.

Alexenko said the rate at which rapists will commit the crime again is high, but they also commit many other crimes, so when finding a match for a rapist law enforcement can also sometimes link the perpetrator to other crimes.

Gibson said sexual assault on college campuses is a problem and one in four women can expect to be assaulted in college. Events like Take Back the Night are important for support and information in a time where these crimes are so prevalent.

She said rape is still taboo in this culture and victims can be blamed.

“I think there have been advances made, but I think we still have a lot of work to do,” Gibson said.

Junior Lauren Manna, the president of Students Acting for Gender Equity, said the group brought Alexenko back because attendees had such a good experience with her last year. Manna said she is a joy to work with and is friendly and down-toearth, despite her experiences.

SAGE has about four events each year with Take Back the Night as its main event, Manna said. The importance is to spread awareness, give support to survivors of sexual assault on campus and change the idea of blaming the victim.

“We want to remind people what we’re fighting for,” Manna said.

Del. pedestrian fatalities rise 6.4 percent from last year

BY KELLY FLYNN Managing Mosaic Editor

Senior Jennifer Bakry said she was crossing Delaware Avenue a little after midnight her sophomore year when a man in an SUV hit both her and her roommate. She came away from the accident with cracked ribs and some bruises, while her roommate broke her femur.

Though she said she could have been more careful while crossing, Bakry said drivers in Newark also need to be more attentive on the road.

“I think drivers sometimes forget that they need to be aware of pedestrians,” Bakry said. “This is a busy town. It’s something they have to be conscience of too.”

Delmarvanow.com reported that pedestrian fatalities in Delaware have risen 6.4 percent since last year with 30 deaths taking place in 2012 as opposed to only 19 in 2011. One pedestrian fatality has occurred in Newark this year, according to Cpl. James Spadola of

the Newark Police Department.

Douglas Tuttle, public policy professor and the former university public safety director said he thinks pedestrian safety is an issue the city.

“I’ve lived in Newark a long time, and while fatalities are rare, there are a number of pedestrian accidents,” Tuttle said.

Depending on the time of day, accidents in Newark usually have a few main causes, Tuttle said. He said he thinks daytime pedestrian accidents are related to traffic and volume issues. At night, however, accidents are more often related to visibility or alcohol and drug consumption by either the pedestrians or the drivers, Tuttle said.

Cities cannot do much to influence pedestrian behavior and the only way to decrease pedestrian accidents is through infrastructure and community delineation of crosswalks, according to Barbara Harsha, Governors Highway Safety Association executive director, “It’s a community level

[problem],” Harsha said. “There are communities that are working on those. New York City has done a lot for pedestrians.”

Tuttle said Newark has improved its infrastructure in order to improve pedestrian safety. On Main Street, the city has marked the crosswalks with bricks and kept speeds low to make crosswalks easier for drivers to identify, Tuttle said. However, he said motorists do not treat every street like Main Street.

He has often seen students walk into the crosswalk on Academy Street, without looking, while they are texting on their phones. Pedestrians feel confident that motorists are going to stop, Tuttle said.

Distracted pedestrians pose a particular problem, he said, and students are usually in a hurry to get to their next point, he said.

“You’re probably still thinking about what you’re going to be doing when you get to your next class so crossing the street doesn’t get a high priority,” Tuttle said.

Motorists have an expectation that pedestrians will cross where they should and be alert, but that doesn’t always happen, Tuttle said.

Bakry said if she used every crosswalk, her walk to class would be twice as long. Many students on campus do not have a car, and oftentimes, their only way to get places is by foot, Bakry said. As a New Yorker, Bakry said she thinks she is quite adept at jaywalking, but the city of Newark should be focused on having more pedestrianfriendly crosswalks.

Newark does not have long blocks, and pedestrians do not have to go significantly out of their way to get to an intersection, Tuttle said.

Pedestrians can prevent accidents by staying alert and using marked crosswalks, he said.

In addition, Tuttle said bicyclists should understand that the laws of the road apply to them.

Tuttle said he thinks that bicyclists often think that because they are in the bike lane they can go wherever they want, but that is not the case, he said.

Pedestrians often have the misconception that a car is supposed to “immediately grind to a halt” when people are walking in the crosswalk, Spadola said. However, vehicles are only required to stop if the pedestrian is on the same side of the sidewalk as the car, and pedestrians cannot “jump out in front of a crosswalk,” Spadola said.

“Nothing in traffic laws gives pedestrians the right to cause a hazard,” Spadola said.

Pedestrians should feel safe as long as they obey traffic laws, he said. In addition, the Newark police also have officers work extra hours to target problem areas where pedestrians have been hit in the past.

Twenty-five percent of traffic accidents are caused by driver inattention, and while inattentive pedestrians pose a problem, Spadola said bad driving habits are an even greater concern.

“A distracted pedestrian is risk to themselves and a distracted driver is a risk to themselves and others,” Spadola said.

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Annual ‘Resapalooza’ features music, pizza

BY KELLY LYONS Managing News Editor

A moon bounce and other inflatable games sat in the center of the North Green Friday, as members of various RSOs set up games and posters at different tables lining the area. Hundreds of students came out on the warm sunny day to play games, eat free food and watch live music. The most notable performer included the drummer of band Kingsfoil— Frankie Muniz.

The attractions were a part of the Resident Student Association’s annual event Resapalooza.

Sophomore Stephen Kanefsky came to the event in order to represent the new RSO Autism Speaks U. He and another member were selling $2 bracelets and $3 magnets. The group has gained 50 members since it started this semester, and the team was able to get about 25 people to sign up to work with the RSO. “We’re just trying to get people to join, and get as many donations as possible,” Kafensky said.

Kafensky said he and other volunteers were able to enjoy the free food that was handed out, including Grotto’s Pizza.

Junior Shellee Wong represented the National Residence Hall Honorary.

Sporting a burgundy shirt, she was spreading more awarenees about the group and its goals.

NRHH is a sister organization of the RSA, according to Wong.

The RSO represents the top one percent of the university residence halls. She said members of the group are held to four pillars, including, service, recognition, leadership and scholarship.

Members participate in conferences throughout the nation as well as on-campus events.

At this summer’s conference in Pittsburgh the philanthropy will take place at St. Jude’s hospital and a local Pittsburgh children’s hospital, she said.

Wong and her team had started making coloring books for the children, and were asking Resapalooza attendees to finish off their project.

“They’re very excited because we’re asking them for just 30 seconds of their time—3 books, just put six staples in, and then they’re done,” Wong said.

Wong said the group had gotten about 300 books stapled by those who had come to the event.

Many students were attracted by the free food and live music, however. Students sprawled across the northernmost part of the lawn in anticipation of the music. The performers took stage in front of the brick wall lining Main Street.

Though freshman Lisa Bonaviso said she was happy to receive a free sno cone while also getting to play with the puppies stationed at the Puppy Raisers of University of Delaware’s table,

she was unable to get a henna tattoo because of the long line. She was mainly attracted to the scene because of the entertainment, however. “ F r a n k i e Muniz definitely reminds me of my childhood,” Bonaviso said.

Muniz’s band took stage at 3 p.m. that day while student s began gathering around, clutching popcorn and various other treats.

Senior Jesse Barth said he thought Frankie Muniz looked as though he had aged in both his physical appearance and his style. He said he thought Muniz “should have done standup.”

Barth said he left after the band had started their first song.

“I just wanted to make sure it was actually Frankie Muniz, and it wasn’t THE REVIEW/ Lindsay Saienni just a rumor,” Barth The band Kingfoil with drummer Frankie Muniz performed on the North Green during said.

Resapalooza.

University adds two fuel cell buses to fleet

BY MADELAINE LEVEY Staff Reporter

Students can expect to board two additional zero-emissions, sound-free buses within the next year as the university’s fuel cell program continues to expand according to engineering professor Ajay Prasad.

The university already has two fuel cell buses in its fleet. Due to the addition of the new buses, recharging stations will be installed on the Science Technology and Research campus so the need travel five miles away to recharge will be eliminated, Prasad said.

“We are working feverishly to build a factory for Bloom

The fuel cell buses produce zero emissions and are sound-free.

Energy,” Prasad said. “As the STAR campus develops and people relocate there, then perhaps we can use our buses to carry out zeroemission commuting between the two campuses.”

The fuel cell program started in 2005 with the first bus arriving on campus in 2007 and the second bus arriving on campus in 2009, Prasad said.

The fuel cells in the buses are hydrogen-based and only emit water from their tailpipes.

The two original buses are prototypes, Prasad said, with the additional buses expected to improve upon the current models.

“The goal is to drive these buses on a real route and transport people safely and reliably,” Prasad said. “We want to put a lot of miles on the bus and learn what is working well and what’s not.”

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Prasad, along with undergraduate and graduate engineering students, has created new hardware to make the buses more efficient.

By working on the buses, students in the engineering school are gaining hands-on experience, Prasad said, and dedicate significant portions of time to improving the buses during the summer.

Furthermore, the maintenance system allows students to perform repairs from anywhere.

“Our engineers don’t have to be on the bus to fix anything,” Prasad said. “They can be in the lab and call the driver and take corrective action without being physically on the bus.”

Sophomore Emily Firth said she has taken a fuel cell bus on campus before and thinks the introduction of more buses will be beneficial.

“It’s good for the environment and you have to start somewhere,” she said. “Maybe if they get more fuel cell buses, people will be more aware of them.”

Prasad estimates there are around 25 fuel cell buses in the United States, but the number is expected to grow with President Barack Obama’s plan to form an Energy Security Trust. This Trust would benefit hydrogen fuel cell studies, and would allocate a portion of the plan’s $2 billion funding over the next 10 years, he said.

According to a White House press release, the goal of the Energy

Security Trust is to fund research for “technologies that will protect American families from spikes in gas prices and allow us to run our cars and trucks on electricity or homegrown fuels,” according to a White House press release.

As for the university’s buses, Ballard Power Systems, based in Vancouver, makes the fuel cells that they use while a Los Angeles company named Ebus actually builds them. Prasad said the Delaware Transit Corporation and Air Liquide, the Delaware company that built the refueling stations where the buses recharge, also help to maintain the fleet.

The fuel cell buses differ from other buses on campus not only internally, but externally as well, said sophomore Allison Shaw, who can easily spot the buses by their different shape and size.

“When you see them you automatically know what they are because they look different from the regular buses, but it’s rare that you see them,” Shaw said.

Aside from “rare” appearances and a few late deliveries of parts for the buses, everything has gone according to plan with the fuel cell bus program, Prasad said, as the buses have done an efficient job transporting students in Newark from place to place in an environmentally sound manner.

“There has been no deviation from the goal,” Prasad said.

“We are doing exactly what we proposed in the original intent.”

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War veteran plays music in honor of Del. soldiers

BY CHELSEA SIMENS Assistant News Editor

More than 20 empty chairs— each signifying a Delaware soldier who gave his life during the Iraq War—sat in the silent Trabant University Center Theatre Tuesday night. One by one, students read the name of the deceased soldier each chair represented.

The “empty chair” ceremony was used to kick off the “Among the Veterans” event to honor the military personnel involved in the conflict. Following the somber introduction, war veteran and musician Josh Hisle presented his music as well as clips from his upcoming documentary, “From War to Wisdom.”

The event was organized by professor Guy Alchon for his seminar in American history, “Political Economy of the Modern U.S.,” which focuses on issues of class and society.

During the seminar, students discuss the role of veterans in society once they return from war. Hisle previously spoke to Alchon’s class and was inspired by Alchon’s commitment to veterans and honor.

“I’m not sure you all understand the importance of a professor like this, but you’ll look back and say, ‘I thank the Lord that I was in his class,’” Hisle said.

After serving two tours in Iraq, Hisle returned home and started playing his music for the public. Hisle has toured with Crosby, Stills & Nash and has recorded on Neil Young’s label, Vapor Records. During the forum, Hisle played songs he wrote about time in and after war.

Veteran senior Anthony Gagnon, the vice president of the Student Veterans Association, said he could relate to Hisle’s music.

“I spent four years in the same service he did so I enjoyed hearing his words,” Gagnon said. “It was good to see a marine that was inspired by music.”

Senior Dominic Calvarese, on the other hand, said he liked Hisle’s music due to the folknature of it.

“He has a good voice—it’s very sincere, but it’s melodic at the same time,” Calvarese said.

“His music is a good combination of story-telling and guitar riffs.”

As the co-founder of the Common Ground on the Hill Veterans Initiative program , an annual multicultural gathering of musicians and artists, Hisle said, the Veterans Initiative program of Common Ground on the Hill unites veterans to share their experiences and help them adjust after war.

It even “saved his life” because he was able to relate and talk to other veterans about his experiences, he said.

Sophomore Allison Williams said she went to Hisle’s performance because she is a member of the College Independents Club, which helped to organize the event. Williams thought Hisle’s involvement with Common Ground was the most interesting part.

“He’s not just playing music and talking to people,” Williams said. “He’s specifically helping veterans through his music, which is really cool.”

It is important for average citizens to see the healing process for people like Hisle, Gagnon said, so the soldiers can overcome the stereotypes related to their situation.

“Seeing veterans talk about their experience in war promotes awareness and understanding for veterans,” Gagnon said.

Hisle ended the night by reminding the audience to enjoy life. It is just as important to stay home as it is to go out, Hisle said, even after going to war and back.

“War changes you,” Hisle said. “You see things that the average person doesn’t see. I saw a man on his last day. Now I can tell my son I suffered a little bit, but I can help a lot of people.”

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Josh Hisle performs in honor of fallen Delaware soldiers.

Courtesy of the University of Delaware

Christiana Care has partnered with the university, allowing NURS/THEA214 to be a permanent course.

New ‘Healthcare Communication’ course blends theatre, nursing

BY SARAH BRAVERMAN Staff Reporter

Grief following a loss, pain from a chronic illness and hysteria after an unexpected diagnosis were a few of the emotions students were asked to convey during auditions last Friday for next fall’s nursing and theatre hybrid course.

While instruction in healthcare theatre through independent study began in 2009, “Healthcare Communication” officially made its way on the roster in fall 2012. Now, Christiana Care has partnered with the university, thus enabling NURS/ THEA214 to be a permanent course.

Nursing Professor Amy Cowperthwait said she desired a more empathetic alternative to using highfidelity simulator mannequins that require care and respond accordingly during exercises meant to improve nurses’ bedside manner. In essence, their inability to interact on an emotional level made for a somewhat lacking experience, she said.

“While they’re wonderful for some things, they’re not great for how to communicate with a human being or how to identify with someone on a human level,” Cowperthwait said. “I was afraid [my students] were going to go into the hospital and start treating patients like mannequins.”

Cowperthwait said she wanted to incorporate acting students into medical training, but struggled to connect with the theatre department for a few semesters. The physical therapy department was also intrigued about the prospect of using acting students in training, and the PT faculty theresuggested Cowperthwait contact theater professor Allan Carlsen, who was excited to help her out.

Using acting students in simulations can be challenging,

especially when the actors lack proper direction, Copperthwait said. In typical simulations, the nursing instructors work alone and become focused on giving their students feedback, but end up neglecting the theatre students. The course, on the other hand, specifically prepares the actors for a multitude of humanlike simulation settings before they begin working with the healthcare students The “extremely lifelike” simulations then take place in McDowell Hall, Christiana Hospital and Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Cowperthwait said, and are currently happening in those locations, where university actors act in many patient roles, such as those with spinal cord injuries, alcohol withdrawal, traumatic brain injuries, delirium, chronic pain and metastatic breast cancer. The actors also address ethnic diversity in patients by portraying conservative Muslim women lacking medical care, patients who rely on traditional folk medicine and do not believe modern medicine is working for them, people who do not have English as their primary language and patients with physical disabilities, for example, Cowperthwait said.

The program employees keep video archives of interviews with people who have conditions or diverse backgrounds. If video archives are not available, the class visits the appropriate medical setting to observe and interview patients, but Cowperthwait generally credits Carlsen for his dedication to the program and for training his acting students.

“He sent me a couple students and himself, which just made the transition and everything work very well,” Cowperthwait said. “He was directing the students and giving feedback while I was working with the nursing students and the physical therapy instructor was

working with the physical therapists.”

Before direction occurs, the audition process allows the theatre instructors to access the actors’ abilities and determine what roles and ailments would work best for them to portray, while making sure “they’re accessible to go to certain emotions,” Carlsen said.

While there are no cuts at the audition, Carlsen said students are expected to use the opportunity to experience what will be required of them during the semester and play specific roles based on their strengths so they can learn and understand how they want to challenge themselves to grow as actors, even if they are not theatrically-inclined.

“The majority of our people aren’t actors,” Carlsen said. “They want to go into the healthcare field and are interested in how this process works.”

Junior Andrea Montoya enrolled in Healthcare Theatre when it was still in the beginning stages in 2012.

Montoya, who conducts research with Cowperthwait for the program, is a nursing student and has trained with the other actors to create simulations.

She said Cowperthwait encouraged her and other nursing majors to take the course.

“It just caught my eye because it was something different,” said Montoya of the course. “As a nursing student, just seeing the other side was really valuable.”

Montoya has performed simulations for large nursing lectures on campus and at a conference off campus.

She said the course is a significant time commitment, but it is a very rewarding experience for both the actors and healthcare students involved.

“It’s about improving communication and improving the ability of nurses to understand and relate to someone on a human level,” Cowperthwait said.

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Controversial computer privacy bill debated

BY MATT BITTLE Copy Desk Chief

The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, also known as CISPA, has stalled in the Senate.

The bill, which would allow private corporations to share user information with the government to help protect against cyber terrorism, has been in contention for a year and a half. It was first introduced to the House of

Representatives on Nov. 30, 2011

by Michael Rogers (R-Mich.).

It passed in the House on April 26, 2012 but failed to pass the Senate. On Feb. 13, CISPA was re-introduced by Rogers, and it passed the House once more on April 18. However, on Thursday, several officials announced the Senate would not pass the bill.

Though CISPA advanced through the House by a more than 2-to-1 margin earlier this month, there were concerns about it. The

American Civil Liberties Union is among the organizations opposing the bill, while President Barack Obama announced he would veto it if it were to pass the Senate.

These concerns arose due to the fact the bill walks a fine line between safety and privacy, according to Danilo Yanich, professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration.

“What I’m seeing so far is that there are very vague phrases that are used in terms of what’s

CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, stalled in the Senate.

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required for companies to give the government information,” Yanich said.

CISPA, Yanich said, would allow companies to share user data with the government in potential instances where national safety is threatened. If passed, the bill would also make companies safe from lawsuits in such situations, he said.

Data is already collected by companies like Facebook and Google, according to Yanich, but a potential problem could arise with the bill as it currently stands because it makes companies immune from lawsuits when sharing data with the government.

He said this could lead to oversharing, with companies being more likely to provide information rather than withhold it when requested by the government.

Rep. John Carner (D-Del.), who voted for CISPA both times in the House, said in a statement he feels CISPA guarantees individual privacy while also providing national security.

“The key to combatting [sic] cyber threats is making sure that companies and the government are sharing information about vulnerabilities and potential attacks, so they can work together to prevent them,” Carney stated in an email message. “But through that information-sharing process, we have to make sure that we’re protecting people’s privacy. That’s the balance the bill we voted on in the House aims to strike.”

Communication Professor Lindsay Hoffman said CISPA’s supporters tout the bill as an answer to the threat of cyber attacks. The bill would give the government more power, she said, and she is unsure whether or not it is a good thing. She said she was unsurprised CISPA passed through the House after already doing so last year, but its apparent failure in the Senate indicates a worry over the bill’s privacy protections.

“Senate and president are likely more concerned about issues of civil liberties and privacy and that those concerns are outweighing the concerns about cyber attacks,” Hoffman said.

Carney said the United States is at risk of cyber attacks from hackers, foreign or domestic, as well as unfriendly governments.

More importantly to Hoffman than solving the issue of CISPA,

however, is simply having a discussion about monitoring the Internet, she said. Because the Internet is so new and has become such an important part of everyday life in the United States, there has not yet been a real discussion over privacy versus security, Hoffman said.

“Honestly, I think we’ve waited too long to have these kind of debates,” she said.

Hoffman said she feels most of the public is unaware of the bill, something she thinks needs to change. Yanich had a similar sentiment. According to him, the media generally focuses on trivial issues, and so society remains uninformed about CISPA and the issue of Internet monitoring.

Though the Internet has basically been a free area safe from governmental restrictions in the United States, that is not the case everywhere, Hoffman said.

China and Iran are two places that censor the web and monitor citizens’ activity.

“As Americans we really take for granted our Internet freedom and in many other countries this simply isn’t a given right they have,” she said.

Freshman Miles Rouzer, who learned about the bill from the social media site Reddit, believes most college students are unaware of CISPA but would oppose it if they knew about it, he said.

“I think for the bill, there was a lot of stuff as being like antiterrorism, anti-cyber terrorism, stuff like that, but it’s being just sort of overshadowed by the loss of privacy,” Rouzer said.

Rouzer said a bill to help protect against online attacks could be good, but it would have to be careful to avoid infringing on personal privacy rights.

Though many people are currently unaware of CISPA, and some who do know of it oppose it, Hoffman said she believes it would not take much for that to change.

She said the Patriot Act, which gave government officials more tools to gather intelligence and was passed less than two months after Sept. 11, is an example of a bill being created as a response to world events. CISPA may be stalled, but it is not gone forever, she said.

“All it needs is a cyber attack to create support for this,” Hoffman said.

Newark appoints two new city council administrators

BY ELENA BOFFETTA City News Desk Editor

John Wessells and Michael Gritz were appointed last Monday to city positions, according to Mayor Vance A. Funk III. Wessells was appointed to the consecutive advisory commission and Gritz was appointed to the community development and revenue sharing advisory committee. Funk said a city council member must select a Newark resident before they can begin their three-year term.

“We try to spread the

appointments throughout the city, so each council member is allowed to select someone,” Funk said.

“We generally put these selections on the consent agenda at the meetings, and it is very rare that we discuss if a person should be appointed to a position.”

Wessells was selected by councilmember Jerry Clifton for the consecutive advisory commission. Clifton said this committee gives recommendations to the city council to improve environmental and conservation issues. The members of this committee also recommend the

city council to make new policy regarding the environment or to change old ones.

Clifton said Wessells is an environmentally friendly outdoorsman.

“I think he is bringing a new dynamic to the committee, and I am looking forward to all the great things from him and the committee,” Clifton said.

Funk said the consecutive advisory committee was created because the city devotes a lot of energy to resource conservation.

Gritz was selected for the community development/revenue

sharing committee by council member Mark Morehead. The city of Newark receives grants from the state and federal government to support community groups to help individual programs have more funds, and the committee is in charge of distributing this money to the different groups in Newark.

“They see if the balance given to previous groups was adequate, and they try to create a balance for new groups,” Funk said.

“Unfortunately some groups won’t receive any money because there are just too many groups.”

Funk said the committee

meets three times a year in a one month period where the members examine who asks for money and which group needs money, come up with a preliminary budget, and at the last meeting they make a final decision.

Gritz, 73, is a retired chemical engineer who has been living in Newark for 46 years. He said he is enthusiastic about this position, and he is looking forward to give back to the city.

“My only goal is to be fair, open minded and to try to be a good listener,” Gritz said.

April 30, 2013

Students celebrate ‘Happiness Week’ with compliments, ice cream social

Politics Straight, No Chaser Americans on Terrorism

BY BO BARTLEY Managing News Editor

Hesitant at first, the boyfriend brought his bullhorn close to his mouth.

He looked at his girlfriend, standing opposite him on the patio of Trabant University Center.

“You make every day a little bit better,” he said.

His girlfriend excitedly picked up her own bullhorn.

“I love you so much,” she said.

The couple was taking part in “Street Compliments,” an event Thursday afternoon when students walking past Trabant were invited to share a positive remark about a friend and announce it. The function was organized by a group of Blue Hen Leadership Program students for their “campus change” project called “Happiness Week,” according to group member and sophomore Meghan Rowland.

Rowland’s group teamed with other Registered Student Organizations around campus to help students destress at the end of the year. The group members identified organizations already holding events and then teamed up with them to publicize what they were doing.

The group did not want to take over the events, but it did want to make sure their events had a better showing than normal, Rowland said. It received a lot of help from Wellspring, who provided the group with professionally made posters and other publicizing material.

“Another goal of ours was to make everyone else aware that there are RSOs out there that you may not have heard of, and you should check them out,” sophomore group member Milena Ho said.

The group wants students to learn about all the resources available to them, Ho said. The group Ho and her friends held their Wednesday event with the C.A.L.M. Club, one Ho was not aware of.

“I went to the event, and there

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Students take part in “Street Compliments” Thursday afternoon. were actually a bunch of people who went, a bunch of random people,” Ho said. “It was nice to just see the variety of the people there.”

A few of the events the group helped organize included Yogafest with the Yoga Club, an ice cream social with the Honors Club and Zumbathon with the Zumba Club.

The project was a part of the BHLP’s Tier 2 system, which requires members to create a “campus change” project. The Happiness Group and the rest of the BHLP groups will present their projects Tuesday night in the Trabant Multipurpose Rooms.

The Happiness Week group has been organizing its events since the beginning of the year and began contacting other RSOs as soon as they chose a date, Rowland said. Most of the RSOs they contacted were willing to accommodate and work with the group to incorporate students events into Happiness Week, Rowland said.

“We got a lot of great responses like, ‘Yeah, we would love to, let us know what week it is and we’ll try to

plan something,’” Rowland said. “Then we let them pick exactly what they wanted to do.”

Sophomore Laura Snyder, another group member, said she was pleased with the number of people who participated. She said the Facebook page the group created had nearly 200 members, and several people who she rarely spoke to, such as a girl she studied abroad with, congratulated her on the week’s events.

One of the events Snyder was most proud of was a thank you card signing.

Students could stop by a table the group set up in Trabant Thursday and write thank you notes to their friends. If they could not think of someone to send a card to, the group suggested they write a letter to a child in Haiti, which the group will send this summer.

However, Snyder said she and the group put so much work into organizing and advertising the events that it was hard for them to relax.

“It’s kind of ironic because a lot of us were really stressed out, and it was hard for us to be happy,” Snyder said.

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings and fervor over the criminal status of Dzhohkar Tsarnaev, one big questions comes to mind: Should he be designated an enemy combatant or not? Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) would want to know if we could use a drone strike on him if that were to be the case, but it also brings up one of the more shameful characteristics about the United States recently.

Those we deem to be terror suspects have recently received almost zero protection under the framework of our Constitution. Whether it be our torturing, or as the elected officials and news media like to call it, using “enhanced interrogation techniques,” the indefinite detention attempted by us before it was mercifully stopped by the court system, or the humanitarian atrocities that are our military prisons, like Guantanamo Bay Detention Center we have a problem. When people begin to advocate stripping an American citizen of his Constitutional rights and are OK with torture, things are not good.

On April 19, we as a nation were glued to the TV watching the end of the manhunt for the surviving Tsarnaev brother, a hunt that led police to the outskirts of Boston in a town called Watertown, where the suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appropriately took refuge in a boat on dry land. Hundreds of Massachusetts police officers descended upon him and managed to take him alive.

As soon as word spread to the public that the suspect had been taken into custody and sent to the hospital to be treated before being tried, the media started babbling on about something it clearly didn’t understand, the “public safety exception” to having your Miranda rights read. The media also seemed to believe if a criminal was not Mirandized, they would have to answer questions. You still have your Constitutional rights even if you haven’t been read your Miranda rights. He could still not answer the questions. The worst part was everyone was okay with it.

The Daily Show, the seemingly lone bastion for intelligent and progressive thought in satirical news media today, kindly demonstrated with a montage the “freedom fighters” who keep arguing that we need to strip this man of his rights one by one. The same people who complain about President Barack Obama coming

after Second Amendment rights are advocating we ignore the civil rights in questions surrounding the treatment of Tsarnaev. One of them even said we need to waterboard Tsarnaev—but why? In this country this has become the norm in the political climate though. So many people, mostly right-wingers, have become misguided, pick and choose, Constitutional “defenders.”

Thankfully, we have a voice of reason in the White House with the president who refuses to bow to these loudmouths in Congress and on TV who are advocating we strip Tsarnaev of his rights and declare him an enemy combatant. Weirdly though, this may be the high point of this administration for the rights of terror suspects. Obama’s drone policy is suspect in itself with the lack of due process given to those we decide to engage with a Predator overseas. One of them was even an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was taken out in Yemen. And to top that, we killed his 16-year-old son two weeks later in a separate strike in Yemen. He was also an American.

Clearly, Obama and his administration have no problem using the enemy combatant designation on citizens. He got away with it though, in part because it didn’t get much publicity until now.

But the Boston bombings case is so publicized that he can’t get away with that here thankfully. This serves as a reminder that in terms of human rights, Obama has not changed much from the Bush administration.

We definitely still use “enhanced interrogation techniques,” Guantanamo Bay is still open five years after the president promised he would shut it down and we are using more and more drones.

So yes, we might be stopping terrorists with the drone strikes and we might be getting great, actionable intelligence from our use of torture.

It certainly has played a massive part in our war on terror—but at what cost? Being strong on terror does not mean we have to be weak on human or guaranteed rights. If we think we are the exceptional nation we say we are, we should be above this. There’s a better way, a legal way. If that means we don’t catch some terrorists, so be it. It’s the price we will have to pay to be the most respectable country once again.

-Brian Barringer

Drunk driver nearly strikes Dickinson Residence Hall, no students injured

BY ELENA BOFFETTA City News Desk Editor

A drunk driver lost control of his vehicle yesterday morning and crashed his car next to Dickinson A, according to university Police Chief Patrick Ogden.

Ogden said the accident occurred on Monday around 1:15 a.m. when an officer saw a darkcolored Mustang commit a traffic violation at the corner of New London Road and Cleveland Avenue. The police officer was eventually able to place himself

behind the driver on Hillside Road and flashed his light requesting him to stop.

“The suspect failed to stop and sped up to 60 miles per hour,” Ogden said. “But it wasn’t a car chase, because he soon lost control of the vehicle and crashed in a grass area adjacent to Dickinson.”

Once the driver crashed on the hill next to the building, the police officer was able to approach him. The suspect, a 24-year-old non-student, was taken to the hospital due to minor injuries. He was charged with driving under

the influence of alcohol and other related charges.

The two passengers in his car were not charged nor injured in the crash, and the university building was not damaged by the crash.

Freshman Cole Hutchison said he witnessed the crash on his way back from a trip to 7-Eleven.

Hutchison said he noticed police lights down Hillside Road and heard a car accelerating after he parked his car in the Dickinson parking lot. He turned around to see a black Mustang going over the curb, taking down a blue light and

crashing into a concrete block to the right of Dickinson. The car then did a 90 degree turn and stopped parallel to the building, he said.

“He must have tried to get away and did not notice the turn,” Hutchison said. “I don’t know if he was drunk, but it was raining and he was accelerating.”

Hutchison said he saw two passengers get out of the vehicle while the driver was still behind the wheel. Police officials had to get the driver out of the car through the window and lay him on the ground. The driver claimed he

was hurt and did not want anyone touching him, he said.

Eventually, the police were able to approach him, and take him to the hospital in an ambulance.

Hutchison said he did not see any blood on the scene, and the victim did not appear to have any severe injuries.

“It was a close one,” Hutchison said. “He was maybe 10 feet from the dorm itself and a couple of more feet to the right he would have gone right through the building and into someone’s dorm room.”

April 30, 2013

ONLINE READER POLL: Q: Do you support CISPA? Visit www.udreview.com and submit your answer.

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CISPA raises many questions in Senate, guidelines need reform, reconsideration After passing in the House of Representatives for the second time, CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, was recently vetoed in the Senate.

Had the bill passed, it would have offered complete protection to private corporations like Facebook and Google from lawsuits over sharing private information with the government about users who are considered a threat to national security. While the bill will not require companies to share private information with the government, it is clear many corporations will be more willing to participate once granted immunity from prosecution.

Although the bill in its current form lacked support from President Barack Obama and had little chance of becoming legislation, it is clear the discussion surrounding the protection of Internet users’ privacy from the government will continue to be debated.

The bill has passed through the House of Representatives twice, which means it must be fairly respected on Capitol Hill. Once it is reformed, the inevitability of it

becoming legislation can no longer be ignored.

In theory, the bill seems beneficial toward ensuring national security, but the threat of possible government misuse of private information can seem scary to many American citizens.

Students and people working in the corporate worlds all heavily utilize the Internet and need to be able to do so without the looming fear of the government potentially misinterpreting their private searches. While CISPA is more strictly regulated and better defined than its influential precursor, SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act, if enacted, the bill needs to have concretely defined and concentrated guidelines about who is deemed a “threat” to national security. Strict rules surrounding exactly what the government can do with the information should also be clearly defined. United States citizens are very sensitive when it comes to their private information reaching the government and transparency is key if CISPA is going to be approved by the American people.

NBA D-league coming to Newark, benefits community Philadelphia 76ers affiliate, 87ers, to play at ‘Big Bob,’ attracts students The newest addition to the NBA D-League, the Delaware 87ers, have reached an agreement with the university to call Newark home and play 24 of its 50 games at the Bob Carpenter Sports Center. The team is a subdivision of the Philadelphia 76ers and will compete against other NBA D-League (similar to baseball’s minor league) teams.

This addition to the sports lineup in the Delaware area is particularly exciting considering the state’s lack of professional sports teams, and the team should draw a number of benefits to the university in particular.

Coming off the recent enthusiasm surrounding basketball in the Newark area due to women’s superstar Elena Delle Donne, Newark is becoming a bigger basketball town, and bringing the 87ers in should help continue this trend. While the venue will attract many Newark locals, it is also likely

to bring more university students, who are known to be relatively apathetic toward varsity athletics on campus, to both the Bob Carpenter Center and south campus. Despite the 87ers being non-affiliated with the university, getting students more excited about athletics on campus will likely attract students to the idea of going to more games and will boost their interest in athletics.

In addition to promoting athletics at the university, bringing in the 87ers will also create jobs for local residents. Also, two university students will be given internships each year within the 76ers organization in order to get more experience in the field of sports management. Bringing the 87ers to campus was a great move by the university and is guaranteed to benefit both the university and Newark area in more ways than one.

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Liberal arts majors benefit to society often overlooked Jason Hewett

Guest Columnist Many people fail to see the usefulness of English and creative writing degrees and pursue other fields out of fear of not landing a job.

On April 18th, a comment written on UD Confessions, a Facebook page allowing for anonymous comments about the university to be posted, stated “If you are going to UD for anything other than a STEM (the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics) or a business degree… You also stole someone’s opportunity to go here and study something that is actually useful to society. I would yell at you, but your almost guaranteed unemployment and subsequent underemployment (for all of eternity) will probably cause your conscious to do my yelling at you for me... So congratulations on wasting society’s time…Society will be sure to return the favor in due time.”

I know ignorant statements such as this

don’t normally merit a response, but I want to use this blatant example to illustrate an attitude I’m sure many students and parents have toward graduating with a degree considered impractical by modern society.

Nobody yells at me or accuses me of wasting money and time on my English major, but I do get a lot of weird looks, a lot of “what are you going to do with that?” type of questions. I tend to hear a lot of engineers complain about the amount of work that they, and no one in any other major, have to do. And then there are the students saying that their parents wouldn’t even allow them study English because “That type of major doesn’t get you a job.”

Obviously some specific jobs require a particular major, such as doctors and lawyers. But majoring in business just so you can get a “real job” is just as good as majoring in psychology, biology or art history. I got a “real job” at a bank as an English major, without a degree. My mom and dad majored in journalism and history, respectively, and are doing very well in their respective careers, both of which have pretty much nothing to do with their majors.

I like to think that the weird looks I often get are really looks of concern, not chastisement. But the person who wrote the post brings up an interesting point.

Are people who don’t major in STEM or business “wasting society’s time?” While I think everyone has no trouble agreeing that English education majors are important, I wouldn’t be surprised if many people considered my concentration in English, creative writing, a complete waste of time.

Let’s be honest, does society really need a bunch of writers sitting around in coffee shops working on novels and whatnot?

It seems like an obvious answer. Even I used to think it was simply a matter of passion and boldness for someone to major in English with the hopes of becoming a writer. But try to imagine what society would be like without “Harry Potter.”

Imagine if society decided that writing was a waste of time and J.K. Rowling should learn business and get a “real job.” Passions aside, I’m fairly certain J.K. Rowling makes more money than most people with “real jobs.”

However, one could argue that JK Rowling is the exception to the rule, and aspiring writers can’t expect to achieve that level of success. By this logic, students shouldn’t major in business because they can’t expect to have the same success as Warren Buffet. For every J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and George R.R. Martin there are millions of writers who fail. But for

every Apple, Verizon and Starbucks there are millions of businesses that fail.

I’m studying English for the same reason Warren Buffet studied business.

I don’t expect that a degree in creative writing will in any way better my chances at reaching any level of success in writing, but I do hope my studies will help me in the same way studying business helped Warren Buffet. His degree has nothing to do with his success, but what Warren learned while working towards it no doubt helped him to accomplish his goals and continued to fuel his interest.

Whether I end up teaching an English class, writing something as popular as “Harry Potter” or joining a staff to write for an underrated TV show, I think everything I learned while studying English will help me in those fields more than studying business.

And I’m not worried about the practicality of any of these jobs. I didn’t need an English degree to know how to write, and I didn’t need to get a business degree to learn how to budget either.

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

Undergraduates often leave college unprepared Rosie Brinckerhoff

Guest Columnist Students learn a lot of useful information at the university but often end up leaving without practical knowledge like filing taxes and managing money.

I’m going to graduate college not knowing how to do my taxes. American culture tells us four years and more than $100,000 later, college students should be primed and ready to face the real world on their own. That’s how it is usually supposed to go, right? Wrong.

The closer the real world gets, the more I realize college has not really prepared me for very much. As a political science major, I’ve had ancient political thought and constitutional law incessantly jammed down my throat for the past three years, but unfortunately none of this will help me when I am trying to hold my own after college. Besides learning how to take care of crying drunk girls and mastering the art of drinking a beer at 8 a.m., I think it is fair to say college isn’t teaching all of us what we really need to know.

The other day, I sat down to fill out my employee information for a new job. A lovely little thing called my W-4 popped up. I have seen the W-4 before, but I’ve usually just called

my dad and had him tell me what I can or cannot withhold.

This time I looked at the screen and thought to myself, “Why don’t they teach us how to do this kind of stuff in college?” It’s a valid question seeing as how it’s undoubtedly an annoying document that will haunt us for the rest of our lives. Learning the ins and outs of similar monotonous forms would be more useful than learning about all the issues of Plato’s “cave.”

Similarly, why aren’t they teaching us proper interview etiquette? This year for summer internships I had 17 phone interviews, and going into the first one I had no idea what to expect.

Questions came flying at me like bats out of hell, and after I finished my first call I found myself mentally cursing universities everywhere for not teaching students what to expect.

It’s not as easy as having a “friendly conversation.” You have to tactfully maneuver the interview because one wrong word and you sound like a blubbering idiot. I can confidently say I would sign up for a class, even for just one credit, to learn how to handle tricky interviews.

It would be a lot more helpful than sitting through a class on John Locke’s theories on “the Enlightenment.”

Also, why doesn’t the university teach us how to properly manage money? If anything, this skill would be the most worthwhile lesson to learn, and it seems cruel the university makes us figure it out the hard way. It’s even crueler how credit companies tempt us with student credit cards promising low interest rates that suddenly increase capriciously. Hello debt!

Colleges need to teach how to budget

and, more importantly, how to save. Also, parents supplying their children with monthly allowances are making college students ignorant with a blatant disregard for having and saving money. Teaching students how to properly and effectively manage their finances would really help us now, and more importantly, in the future.

I would much rather learn how to manage my own money before being taught how the U.S. Mint works.

Adults may read this and think, “Please, it’s part of growing up, figure it out yourself.” But no one should have to suffer through figuring out the W-4 by themselves, and no one should have to lose a job due to unfortunate word vomit. We’re in college to learn and grow, and we should be taught the real life lessons that we’re all going to need to know sooner or later. I’m sure people would be bored of their “W4-101” class and skip occasionally, but down the road they would be glad that they at least learned the basics of how to complete the form.

It would be nice if colleges would start teaching the nitty-gritty, mundane chores and responsibilities of life—the tricks we actually need to know how to do. Don’t get me wrong, we will all figure it out eventually, but it would just be nice if someone taught us ahead of time so we could avoid some unfortunate calamities and looming debt and unemployment down the road.

I am going to graduate college knowing Locke’s “social contract theory,” and I hope to God with crossed fingers that it somehow helps me figure everything else out that “real people” are supposed to know how to do.

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

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‘Comet of the century’ to pass sun by end of year

BY ASHLEY PAINTSIL Copy Editor

THE REVIEW/ Rebecca Guzzo

The comet should be visible for some time this fall, Provencal said.

The “comet of the century,” ISON, is slated to pass the sun and possibly be observable by an onlooker from Earth by the end of the year, according to reports released by NASA. There’s a chance the comet could become extremely bright as it passes near the sun and be visible during the day, James Dalessio, a senior Ph.D. student in physics and astronomy, stated in an email message.

“Comets that are visible with the naked eye are rare—with a small telescope, maybe a few per year,” he said.

A comet is a “big rock” filled with ice and frozen gases like methane and carbon dioxide, Dalessio said. There are thousands of known comets and many more comets that are unknown, as they spend most of their time far away from the sun in the outer parts of the solar system, he said.

The best way to understand what a comet is made of is to think about is a dirty snowball, director of the Delaware Asteroseismic Research Center and resident astronomer at Mt. Cuba Observatory in Greenville, Del., Provencal said. It is made of frozen water, some frozen gas, a little bit of dust and some dirt mixed together.

Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok first discovered this particular “dirty snowball” in September 2012 using the International Scientific Optical Network located near the city of Kislovodsk in Russia, and ISON is now passing

through the Gemini constellation.

There is a NASA satellite called Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope taking photos of it, Provencal said.

The telescopic images show that the comet is “starting to glow a little bit,” which means when it gets closer to the sun, it is expected to be one of the brightest comets seen in the last 50 years, she said.

“It might be bright enough that you can see it during the day, but that’s all a prediction,” she said. “A little bit of caution there because there’s a lot of things that could happen.”

The comet should be visible for some time in the fall, Provencal said. As ISON gets close to the sun, the liquid water and the frozen gases the comet is made of are going to change into gas.

The gases are going to sublimate, change directly into vapor, create a solid deposit again on cooling and form “a big, long tail,” she said.

The four-mile comet is losing 112,000 pounds of dust every minute and may be as bright as a full moon, Provencal said.

“A lot of people think that when the comet goes into the sky it’s gone but it’s going to be there for at least a couple weeks,” she said. “Depending on how big and bright the tail gets it could be a really, really cool comet.”

Sophomore Zachary Bend, who took an astronomy course last semester, said he has not been out to watch a comet or meteor shower before but thinks it would be interesting to see ISON. Bend said he is not worried that the comet will come close to the Earth.

“Space is so huge that it’s very rare that something only four miles

wide [will] get anywhere near earth,” he said.

Provencal said the best way to look at a comet, especially a four-mile wide bright one, is to simply go outside and look up since a telescope only reveals a small section of the sky at a time.

If the comet does not break up as it passes the sun, it won’t be nearly as bright, and Provencal said she hope that doesn’t happen.

“Let’s keep our fingers crossed that it’s not going to break up because it’s going to get so close to the sun, and these things are not particularly held together very well,” she said. “It could break up, and then it won’t be nearly as bright. But if it holds itself together as it gets really close to the sun it should be a really nice move.”

The comet is more active than average for a comet this size and this distance from the sun, so it may be composed of many volatile materials that turn into gas when it gets hot, Dalessio said. If ISON survives its encounter with the sun, it could be the brightest comet in centuries, he said.

The body or “nucleus” of the comet is a few miles across, Dalessio said. The rocky form of the comet is surrounded by an additional “coma,” which is comprised of dust and gas. If a comet of this size made contact with Earth, it could “wipe out much of humanity” and make an impact similar to the asteroid or comet that killed dinosaurs, Dalessio said.

“There is absolutely no chance the comet could hit Earth,” he said. “It will miss by millions of miles. No reason to stock up canned corn.”

Transportation workshop addresses local traffic, train station

BY ELENA BOFFETTA City News Desk Editor

Newark residents could see different plans that will take place in the city at the city planning commission’s workshop on transportation last Tuesday, which included the development of Newark train station and details of intentions to address local traffic.

According to the Delaware Department of Transportation Project Director Mark Tudor, the new train station will bring increased service through Newark starting next fall as it will provide a connection between Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. It will also have a larger platform that will allow two trains to arrive at the same time and will be equipped with a revamped overpass connecting the platforms and holding either an escalator or elevator.

To be more accessible to pedestrians and drivers, the station will also be constructed with a brick façade to fit the design of the city, and will eventually be equipped with a ticket counter and bathrooms, all while striving for long term success, he said.

“Our goal from the government is to obligate the federal grants

funds by June of this year and ultimately we will advertise for construction next spring and the goal is to start construction next fall,” Tudor said. “And ultimately we envision about a two-year time frame to complete constructions of the new railroad services.”

Regarding the traffic situation, Development Supervisor Michael Fortner said there are several congested areas in the city such as the intersection of Capitol Trail and East Cleveland Avenue and on Delaware Avenue between South Main Street and South College Avenue.

Fortner also added that in a 2009 resident survey, the majority of respondents said their least favorite thing about Newark was the traffic. In response to this and the issue of parking raised in the survey, Fortner said the city of Newark created a comprehensive development plan to help alleviate those concerns.

“We want to improve access to transit so people don’t have to drive and we want to make it a place friendly to walk and bike so people don’t feel like they have to drive everywhere,” Fortner said.

Fortner said most Newark traffic is created by people from outside of Newark driving through the city. Newark resident Marilyn

Gleber, 86, said the solution for traffic in Newark is to create an overpass over Cleveland Avenue.

She said an overpass at that location would help the people coming from Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as those going to Wilmington to arrive at their destinations without creating traffic.

“People on Cleveland Avenue would have a hissy fit because [the overpass] would be outside their bedroom window but they are not here—those are students, they come and go,” Gleber said.

Gleber also said the Main Street congestion caused by students getting out of classes could be reduced by adding traffic lights at the crosswalks.

Council member Margrit Hadden said to decrease the traffic congestion in Newark, it would be beneficial to have the university ask the students to not bring their car to campus, though she said it would be difficult to see through. Hadden said she encourages alternatives to driving.

“I think it’s great they are pushing the bicycle use and the walking and I think Newark is a great town for it,” Hadden said.

“It’s a nice biking town, it’s a nice walking town but there is room for improvement.”

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The railroad services should take two years to complete, Tudor said.

April 30, 2013

First Area Studies Fair focuses on internat’l perspectives

State legislature amends Constitution regarding felons’ rights to vote

BY BO BARTLEY

second chances and the right to vote,” Jealous said in a press release.

“Today Delaware did the right thing.

Delaware Representative Today’s vote in the Delaware Senate Helene Keeley (D-3) traveled to Iraq ensures that fellow citizens who in 2009 to oversee elections there. have made a mistake, did their time, The joy she saw in the people with and paid their debt to society will be purple ink dotted on their thumbs able to join the rest of their fellow and the violent lengths people went Americans in performing our civic to in order to intimidate would-be duty of voting.” voters were enough to show her that The NAACP’s “Restore the voting should be a universal right, Votes” campaign is an effort to work she said. with lawmakers around the country The next year, Delaware to decrease the amount of voting state representative and longtime blocks to felons. The group is also proponent of voters’ rights Hazel focused on passing legislation in Plant fell ill. Knowing she had little Iowa, Kentucky, Florida, Virginia time left, Keeley said Plant asked and North Carolina. her to take up the cause of her and Those who have paid their her late husband, Rep. Al Plant, to debts to society, President of the secure immediate NAACP Delaware suffrage for State Conference felons who served Richard Smith their time. said, should be Plant passed given their rights away shortly once they are after enlisting reintegrated.

Keeley’s help, “This is a but Keeley finally victory for voting succeeded in rights and criminal passing the Hazel justice and should D. Plant Voter be an example to Restoration Act other states also in the Delaware working tirelessly Senate on April 16. to restore the The constitutional votes of people amendment will who committed allow felons, offenses in the except for those past, but now are convicted of our neighbors, murder, public loved ones, corruption or sex coworkers, and crimes, to vote fellow taxpayers,” immediately after Smith said. being released The state from jail. Before legislature is the amendment able to pass passed, there constitutional was a five-year amendments waiting period with a two-thirds on nonviolent majority in both felons voting chambers of the in Delaware.

General Assembly “What you’re without a signature -Richard Smith, by looking at is Governor somebody who President of Jack Markell, so wrote a bad check, the 15-6 vote is the NAACP enough to make that’s nonviolent,” Keeley said. “Even the act law. The to a certain extent, someone who governor is expected to sign the may have held up a corner store law within 30 days regardless, without a gun or robbing someone.” Keeley said.

The reason for the five-year Sen. Bryan Townsend (D-11), a waiting period that the bill amended, cosponsor for the amendment, said it Keeley said, was a means for the was important in the current political original bill authored by Al Plant to landscape to give as many people get enough support to pass. the right to vote as possible. Since However, the five-year period voter apathy seems to be rising, did not begin until after the felon giving people who want to vote that was off probation. Keeley said the chance is important, he said. amount of time on probation, in Townsend said he recalled a addition to the waiting period, could few instances when he was on the last as long as seven or eight years campaign trail going door to door and was an unjust punishment. and he met some adults who were “They’re back, they’re not on his list of residents. It took working, they’re paying taxes, him three or four times before they’re paying rent or mortgage or he realized that these men were whatever it might be,” Keeley said. convicted felons who had not yet “They’re full members of society, so recovered their voting rights. they should have the right to vote.”

“One or two times in President and CEO of the particular I had very profound NAACP Ben Jealous attended the conversations with a person very General Assembly the day of the much willing to vote and participate vote to lobby for the bill to pass. in the democratic process, but he “As Americans we believe in couldn’t,” Townsend said.

Managing News Editor

BY RACHEL TAYLOR Administrative News Editor

A dancer demonstrated several moves of raqs sharqi, a style of belly dancing, during the first annual Area Studies Fair.

The event featured performers and information sessions in order to increase awareness and participation for the department, which focuses on international perspective and multiculturalism.

Political science and international relations professor Julio Carrion said the Center for Global and Area Studies is a relatively new program, founded over a year ago. He said while the department’s mission is to promote faculty research, it also was set up to encourage students to become more involved in Area Studies.

Carrion said the dean of the College of Arts and Science, George Watson, was one of the main reasons the department was created. He said Watson was extremely dedicated to getting the department up and running.

“The programs that are part of the centers, for instance, the Latin American Studies program or the Asian Studies programs are older,” Carrion said. “What we’re doing now is bringing all of those programs together into one single center and that’s our center.”

Although this is only the first year for the Area Studies Fair, Carrion said he is already envisioning how to make improvements for next year’s fair. He said he plans to have the event happen once every spring and hopes that for next year there will be four or five performances, rather than the two scheduled for this year’s event.

Carrion said the Area Studies department brought together various different types of cultural studies and the fair is meant to promote knowledge of the department. He said students may not be aware of the wide variety of majors and minors offered, something he said he hopes the fair will correct.

Philosophy professor Alan Fox said one thing he has noticed during his 25 years teaching at the university is the growth of the field of area studies. He said there are more study abroad opportunities, language studies and international students studying at the university than there was when he first started.

“What we see here, I think, is a series of very well-constructed programs that satisfy a real need,” Fox said. “Historically, I will say that there is some confusion over what we mean by area studies.

In some cases, areas refer to geographical areas. In some cases, they refer to thematic areas that span geography—cultures that are

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A dancer performs raqs sharqi, a style of Egyptian belly dancing. broader than that.”

Fox said for him, area studies refer to the expansion of cultural literacy to include cultures other than our own narrowly defined sense of culture. For example, he said not many people have seen movies or read books older than they are, as they are more focused on what is happening in the present.

One of the featured performers of the night was Shiraz Raqs, a belly dancer who graduated from the university in 2012. She said she focuses on raqs sharqi dancing, an Egyptian style of dance meaning “dance of the country.” She said the dance originally came from social and folk dancing and many people participated in dancing.

“It would happen at weddings, celebrations, circumcisions—these kind of big family gatherings,” Shiraz said. “So unlike here, where if you want to be a dancer you need to have talent, that’s not the main point there. A lot of people dance, even if they’re gender segregated, but they dance for the feeling, for the festivity, for the unity, for the gathering. The feeling is really important for this dance.”

Shiraz said the style of dance

evolved as time went on and other cultures adapted the dance.

She said it eventually became more popular in night clubs and on stages, though its traditional purpose is still practiced in the Middle East.

Senior political science major Ryan Leonard, who was representing the Islamic Studies table for the event, said he first became interested in the subject when he studied abroad in Tunisia and began taking Arabic.

Leonard said he hopes to help others gain more interest in the future, as well as encourage more participation from students. He said next year, he hopes for there to be more performances and a wider variety of lectures, but he still was pleased with how the event was progressing for its first year.

“I think the most exciting part is talking to prospective students and encouraging them to pursue other areas of academic interest, especially with something as easy as these area studies minors, which can be accomplished with tons of overlap, relatively painless and are very rewarding, ultimately,” Leonard said.

“This is a victory to voting rights and criminal justice and should be an example to other states also working tirelessly to restore the votes of people who committed offenses in the past, but now are our [...] fellow taxpayers.”

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“30 Rock” star talks local upbringing

BY CHRISTINE BARBA Staff Reporter

David Patch, a theater teacher at St. Mark’s High School in Delaware, was directing a performance of George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan” when he looked up and saw his student Keith Powell doing something surprising.

“He was playing a character in it and during one of the performances, I looked over and there he was lying down on the floor with his legs kind of crossed, still in character, still paying attention, but you know, it’s something that never happened before and here he was doing it,” Patch says. “He was very imaginative and creative and laughed very easily and there wasn’t anything he wouldn’t try to do.”

Powell, 33, is best known for his role as James “Toofer” Spurlock on NBC’s sitcom “30 Rock.” The final episode of the seven-season sitcom aired on Jan. 31.

When you perform, you’re playing a certain part of you at 100 percent, Powell says.

“I’d like to think that there is a part of me, in me, that is Toofer,” Powell says.

Senior Zaynah Henry says she used to watch the show nearly every Thursday, except for the last season, and she enjoyed the sitcom because of the humor that was used.

Henry says she thinks “30 Rock” was really different from many of the other sitcoms she has watched.

“You know a lot of sitcoms focus on a family in a house, but this show focuses on the ins and outs of a sketch comedy show,” Henry said.

Just as Powell’s character Toofer

was a writer, Patch says Powell was always writing. He says he had an easier time telling Powell to go home and write a play rather than read one.

Powell’s writing was “very perceptive of people” and deeper than what other high school students at the time were writing, Patch says.

Patch says he wanted Powell to write about being the only male in a family of women. According to an article on Playbill.com, Powell was raised by his mother and grandmother and grew up with two aunts.

Some of the actor’s success can be attributed to Powell’s family, Patch says. Powell was born in Pennsylvania before moving to California and then Delaware. He now divides his time between New York and California, according to the article.

At 23, Powell founded the Contemporary Stage Company in Wilmington where he produced, directed and performed in plays starring famous actors and actresses.

He says he put the company together during a difficult time in his life. His mother was terminally ill, and as a result, he had to put his career on hold to return to Delaware to take care of her, he says.

Powell says he learned a lot from his experience with the company.

“At the time, there was a lack of dialogue about how Wilmington perceives the arts,” Powell says. “I created something that would be inner dialogue about how Delaware sees itself. I feel like it was my grad school.”

He says he would tell students who want to act that they will face a lot of rejection. If you act for the love of it and not for the money or

fame, then the career can be very rewarding, Powell says.

Powell performed in many plays in high school, Patch says. According to him, Powell did a fabulous job playing Henry David Thoreau in “The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.”

“He got so into it,” Patch says.

“If he saw something that needed to be addressed he would stand up and address it, just like that particular character.”

When he was 12 years old, Powell first told his parents he wanted to act and began pursuing acting professionally when he was 19. He said he did not admit to himself it was okay to want to be an actor until he was 21, during his last year at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Patch says Powell’s willingness to try new experiences has made “all the difference” in getting him where he is today.

“Somehow he got the idea that the world was his, go out and try stuff, and it’s been wonderful to watch,” Patch says.

Now that “30 Rock” is over, Powell says he has a number of projects but none he can discuss at the moment making each day a new journey.

Powell says something he learned in Delaware that he used on “30 Rock” was the saying “keep everything as simple as possible.”

Patch summed up Powell’s success with a quote by Joseph Campbell. “‘Follow your bliss,’” he says.

“It might not make you a lot of money, but it might make you feel fulfilled. I think that’s what Keith has been able to do.”

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Keith Powell, “Toofer” of “30 Rock,” poses to promote the popular NBC show.

Ag Day promotes South Campus activities

BY CADY ZUVICH Student Affairs Desk Editor

Though cow-milking, planting and beekeeping are everyday sights on South Campus, they became true were spectacles on Saturday as thousands of students and community members poured in and around Townsend Hall to see the firsthand interworking of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Animal exhibitions, food samples and a tree climber were some of the features at the university’s 38th annual Ag Day, which was met with clear skies and warm temperatures.

The event was organized entirely by a team of CANR faculty members as well as a committee of eight students.

Junior food science major Alyssa Kennedy was one of the members of the Ag Day student committee that was responsible for the logistics of the event. The team organized into separate education, entertainment and volunteer committees, and Kennedy’s main task as a logistics committee member was to ensure that everything went according to plan, she says.

“Ag Day is the College of Agriculture and Natural Resource’s biggest event of the year,” Kennedy says. “It shows everything we do

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Ag Day attendee browses flowers for sale at the annual event, which was held on Saturday.

in agriculture to the school and community.”

And with the biggest turnout in recent years, Saturday’s event attracted a crowd currently estimated between 8,000 and 10,000 people, comparable to last year’s count of approximately 5,000 people, Kennedy says.

For Mark Rieger, dean of CANR, Saturday was his first Ag Day ever.

Reiger, who became dean in August, watched the Ag Team orchestrate the event several months prior to the occasion, which, he says, exceeded his expectations.

“It’s absolutely perfect,” he says.

“I had no idea it was this big.”

From the educational exhibitions to the drum playing that took place on behalf of his development director, Rieger says every part of Ag Day puts what CANR does on display for the public to see.

The event also included several new exhibits such as a demonstration tent that Kennedy described as an “outdoor classroom.” In the tent, professors and groups gave various educational talks to students and spectators.

Jennifer Pyle, environmental health and safety specialist at the university, says she attended Ag Day to provide information on storm water cleanliness, and her table’s activities were specifically geared toward children. However, children are not the only people who benefit from the information, Pyle says.

“While the parents are standing there, we try to educate [them] because the kids often already know the information,” Pyle says.

Pyle says she also handed out informational flyers with tips about preventing pollutants from contaminating storm water that then drains into the Delaware River, Delaware Bay or the Chesapeake Bay. One of the most popular events at Ag Day was a bird demonstration led by alumnus Phung Luu, owner of Animal Behavior and Conservation Connections, Kennedy says.

Watching students attend demonstrations and seeing the crowd grow throughout the day brings Kennedy great satisfaction, she says.

“I like seeing it all come together,” Kennedy says. “Hearing that [everyone] has fun and seeing it come together as a whole is really nice.”

The event also allowed student organizations affiliated with CANR to give the public information about what their groups do. Sigma Alpha, the professional agriculture sorority, sold veggie wraps to satisfy spectators’ hunger while educating them about food, senior Monica Sterk says.

Her fourth and final year at Ag Day, Sterk says ingredients for the veggie wraps were bought at local stores such as Newark Natural Foods.

Sterk says she has participated in Ag Day every year, and she will miss the event.

“It really shows off our college, and I will definitely come back as alumni,” Sterk says.

Accompanied by a lengthy line, UDairy reported 3,600 patrons visited the creamery, senior agriculture and natural resources major Renee Poole says. As a member of the student Ag Day team, Poole says wants that the event to broaden people’s preconceived idea of CANR. Poole says she hopes that after Ag Day, students who do not usually attend classes on South Campus will understand CANR is not just an agriculture school, but also a division of the university that focuses on food science and technology.

“When people learn about us and get more of an understanding of what we do brings me so much joy,” Poole says.

In a mostly urban and suburban area, exposing locals to CANR is especially important, Rieger says, because the school focuses on issues integral to everyday life, regardless of location.

Reiger says Ag Day shows the diversity of what CANR does and the importance of having agricultural and natural resources on campus.

Ultimately, Kennedy says the yearly event is a way for students from the main campus to not only experience South Campus life, but to also gain a deeper understanding of it.

“I hope [Ag Day] gets away from the view we are all farmers,” Kennedy says. “We do more than that.”

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Seniors showcase fashions at Obscura

BY ASHLEY PAINSTIL Copy Editor

A black vinyl dominatrix ensemble was followed by a green and purple printed skirt-and-top combo and an iridescent pink taffeta minidress with scrunched ruffles that twirled down the runway Saturday night at the “Obscura Fashion Show” put on by Synergy Fashion Group in the Trabant University Center Multipurpose Rooms.

Senior apparel design major and President of Synergy Kate Ackerman says the designers have been working on their collections since last September, after “emotion” was chosen as the theme to represent

this year’s senior collections. Their final work showcased four looks from each senior, she says.

“When we were thinking about emotions and thinking about how the brain works it really is such a mysterious obscure thing,” Ackerman says. “It’s something that is such a big part of making decisions and how humans interact with each other and so we felt when it was paired with how unknown some things about the brain are, it fit our show well.”

The show featured the creations of 16 seniors and 10 underclassmen in the apparel design program with models provided by the Barbizon Modeling Agency and Acting Center

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The lingerie piece was apparel design alum Lauren Pisarczyk’s favorite item in the fashion show.

of Delaware and hair and makeup from Spice Hair Salon and Makeup Studio in Wilmington.

The judges were Robert Haney, the director of design and product development at Red Ledge, Cari Rodgers, the owner of Moxie Boutique, Abby Lutz, design director for the Institute of Dress in New York, fashion merchandising professor Katya Roelse and Laura Lee-Williams, the president and CEO of Laura Lee Designs Inc. They scored the Open Submission, Blank Canvas and Senior Collection portions of the show in categories such as originality, construction, cohesion and overall presentation.

Senior apparel design major Catherine LoMedico won first place in the Senior Collection category with her theme “Inspired.”

LoMedico used upcycled and cut up fabrics from Goodwill and Salvation Army for about half of her collection and micro-suedes and sweatpants for the other half, she says.

The inspiration for her collection came from viewing hip-hop as a subculture instead of a form of music, while combining it with her views on an urban environment and lifestyle, she says.

“Real hip hop, not just what’s on the radio, is meant to inspire people to come from a place where they don’t have a lot to a place, where they can inspire others,” LoMedico says. “The whole collaboration of all types of people in the city can be shown through the way the fabrics juxtapose but also intertwine.”

Winning was a very big accomplishment for LoMedico because she spent four years planning her collection designing and re-designing, she says, but she was not the only one who put hard work into her pieces.

“It feels amazing,” she says. “It sounds so cliché but I wish everyone could get something because the time that everyone puts in—you don’t realize it unless you’re one of us— but I think everyone deserves some kind of recognition for the amount of time and effort they put in.”

Lauren Pisarczyk, a 2012 apparel design alumni, says she was surprised by the number of the long dresses shown in the Open Submission and Blank Canvas sections of the show.

Pisarczyk, who has graduated from the university, started working in the fashion industry where she says she has seen how lingerie draws in a fair amount of money to the fashion industry. Her favorite look of the evening was lingerie wear designed by Ackerman, she says.

“The presentation was very clean,” she says. “A lot of times with the Open Submission, because the girls do them out of class time, it’s a rough putting together job at the last minute, but I was really impressed by how well they were put together and how well they were presented.”

Lee-Williams says it was very inspirational to see some of the diverse looks, feels and colors of each collection. She appreciated seeing the cleanness and the pureness of the colors from seniors Kelly Pierce and Margot Rubin’s collections, she says.

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Seniors in the apparal design major displayed their final projects that they have been working on all year. fashion industry. Having business acumen will be the determining factor of whether the student designers will succeed in the future, she says.

“I would say work with a designer as quickly as you can and

get as much understanding of the business aspect of it as much as you understand the design,” LeeWilliams says. “Now you need to understand the business because the business is going to keep your line that alive.”

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sights and sounds

“The Big Wedding” is a dramedy about dysfunctional families poking fun at each other as they prepare for Alejandro (Ben Barnes) and Missy’s (Amanda Seyfried) wedding.

Al’s adoptive parents, Ellie (Diane Keaton) and Don (Robert De Niro), have been divorced for 10 years when they are forced to reunite for Al’s wedding. When they find out his birth mother from Columbia will also be attending the event, Al is scared that her strict Catholicism will clash with his adoptive family’s lifestyles, and that she will be mortified to find out that his parents are divorced. The movie centers on this hilarious weekend where Ellie and Don are forced to pretend to be married to appease Alejandro as his Columbian mother, Madonna (Patricia Rae), and the situation forces Don’s new girlfriend and Ellie’s former best friend, Bebe (Susan Sarandon), to leave the house.

The movie opens with Ellie using a spare key to get into the house, before accidentally walking in on Don and Bebe in a compromising position, letting viewers know right off the bat that this film isn’t exactly a family movie. The R-rated complications continue as we find out more about the family, including Jared (Topher Grace) who is still waiting for love while holding onto his virginity at 29, and Lyla (Katherine Heigl), a snarky woman who has kicked her husband out and doesn’t get along with her dad. And the sexual intricacies don’t end, when Al is going through premarital counseling

with Father Monighan (Robin Williams), where he admits that he and Missy have not remained “pure,” they have even used birth control, which are big “no-no’s” within the Catholic church. Later on in the film, viewers are introduced to Missy’s parents, Muffin (Christine Ebersole) and Barry (David Rasche), who are not happy that their daughter is marrying a Columbian, and they go so far as to get a table outside a restaurant when it is supposed to rain, just so they won’t be seen with Ben, Madonna and her daughter, Nuria (Ana Ayora).

I didn’t have very high expectations for “The Big Wedding,” but it turned out to be better than I thought it would be. It was cheesy and predictable, but also funny and made for a good time. There is plenty of surprising, naughty humor, which makes the film more interesting, and although there have been plenty of movies about weddings and two families joining together (causing chaos to ensue) writer and director Justin Zackham delivers a movie just different enough from the normal romantic comedies to work.

You might want to wait and save the $11, but if your girlfriend wants to see it, I do recommend splurging at least for the laughs you’ll definitely get out of it.

"Pain &Gain"

In Michael Bay’s juiced-up action film “Pain & Gain,” he turns the outrageous true story of the three delusional members of the Miami Sun Gym gang into a no-expense spared film full of strippers, art-deco mansions, drugs and expensive cars. Bay utilizes a big opening scene complete with Miami-Dade police dressed in full swat gear carrying machine guns while raiding the Sun Gym. It appears as though the film’s main character Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) may get away, but then Bay brings viewers back to where the story all started when Lugo first came to the Sun Gym and convinced owner John Mese (Rob Corddry) to hire him. Mese agrees to hire Lugo, despite his questionable past involving theft and deception. Lugo would target elderly people by posing as a venture capitalist interested in investing their money, and he succeeded at this due to his skills as a manipulative smooth talker.

Lugo is in pursuit of his own piece of the American Dream, complete with a purple Lamborghini and his very own Romanian stripper named Sorina Luminita (Bar Paly). Of course, Lugo does not act alone. His persuasive nature, shiny muscles and overzealous attitude manage to convince his airhead gym buddies to join him in his race to success somewhere between 1994 and 1995. First, he recruits Adrian Doorbal, played by the witty Anthony Mackie.

Doorbal is a moldable “roid-head,” who is easily charmed by Lugo’s big muscles and go-getter attitude. The other comrade, Paul Doyle (fittingly played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), is a jumbo sized Jesus worshiper just released from prison, whose ironically soft

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—Jill Lovette jlovette@udel.edu

Jack’s Jams: Pinback with Jack Cobourn “Information Retrieved” is the fifth studio album

by San Diego-based alternative band Pinback and was a great find on the shelves of Rainbow Records. The guy behind the counter assured me, “I’ve listened to all their albums and haven’t gone wrong yet.” Sure enough, he was right.

Originally released as an EP, the album is broken up into two halves—side A and side B. The first song on side A “Proceed To Memory” is a combination of indie and 90s punk music, and it is easily my favorite song on the album. The synthesized and guitar-based melody of it really help drive the song home. The next song “Glide” opens with a Nick Drake-esque acoustic guitar before the vocals and sound come in. Apart from the drums in certain parts, it is a very light sound, and the song is worthy of its name. “Drawstring” is a really good alt rocker, driven by the vocals and strong guitar.

This song is one you could expect to hear on the radio or in a movie because it has that kind of feel about it. Despite the name, “Sherman” combines both Dr. Dog, Peter, Bjorn and John songs to create a fun, beatdriven sound. The vocals on this song are probably the strongest on the album. “His Phase,” the last song on side A, has an 80s rock beat mixed with indie sounding

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lo-fi vocals to create a brilliant song. The beat is probably the best part of the song because is relentless.

Side B opens with “Diminished,” a jazzy-feeling tune. The beat, plus the piano, helps make the song have a Brazilian bossa nova sound. The next song, “True North,” is a generic alternative song that might be played in a crucial scene on “Scrubs” or “How I Met Your Mother.” It is because of this familiarity, however, that this song works. “A Request” finds a light, airy beat. It is a relaxing song that is truly calming.

“Denslow, You Idiot!” is more of that alternative mixed with 90’s punk feel about it. I really like the way this song sounds with the “oohing” in the background taking me back to the days when MTV actually played music videos. The final song, “Sediment” is a lowlevel song that mellows you to the core. It’s a perfect song to end the album.

Overall, “Information Retrieved” is a great album.

It provides the perfect relaxing background to whatever you have to do whether it’s cleaning or writing a term paper. The guy behind the counter at Rainbow was right—you can’t go wrong with Pinback.

—jclark@udel.edu

heart adds unwanted twists to the film as he goes against Lugo’s already doomed plan to steal and murder his way to success.

Bay’s attempts at adding comedy to highly violent scenes fall short. Watching the Sun Gym gang idiotically fail at its murder attempts could have the potential to be funny, but the comedy is lost in the execution of this remarkably true story, which viewers are reminded of as the film exceeds ridiculousness. Instead, “Pain & Gain” ends up being more of a horror film than a comedy, but it still manages to squeeze out some laughs, which are mostly encouraged

by Doorbal’s wife, played by the outrageously hilarious Rebel Wilson. Although the film does not succeed in reaching the level of such movies as “Pulp Fiction,” where gritty violent shootouts end with brilliant one-liners from Samuel L. Jackson, it does seem as if Bay wants to portray Mackie as the new Jackson, but he may not be ready yet.

Also, seeing Johnson barbequeing his victim’s hands on a grill outside a torture warehouse is so over the top that it even managed to garner some laughs from the audience. The stupidity of these muscle-obsessed meatheads is just not enough to make this movie a must see, but Wahlberg, “The Rock” and Mackie will no doubt entertain the audience as they try to manipulate, steal and torture their way to the top.

—Megan Matteson mhmatt@udel.edu

April 30, 2013

The Book Worm “You” by Austin Grossman The life of a gamer used to be devoid of anything someone could confuse as “sexy.” The stale stench of a basement after marathon gaming sessions, days coding in front of a blinking screen and the tendency to lose oneself in false realities were all things connected to nerd culture. However, around the turn of the century, the perception of gamers started to shift. In Austin Grossman’s novel “You,” the author returns to the 80s and 90s for a nostalgic look at the gaming world that once was.

The awkward friendship fostered between a group of high school outcasts, Russell, Lisa, Darren and Simon, is endearing in a pathetic way. Their overall lack of social skills makes it easy for the only charismatic one, Darren, to take control as king of the nerds. His “older brother swagger” is enough in the minds of the rest of the introverts to convince them of anything, and he convinces them to help him make the “Ultimate Game.”

Simon takes to programming like Mozart to the piano and naturally learns the ability to create massive digital worlds. He is the typical poor boy-genius, the product of a broken home and near savant levels of introversion. His imagination is only held back by the physical limitations of the world. He is unable to escape “Realms,” the imaginary world he created. When he goes to a high school party, he can only think of the revelers around him in terms of hit points and talent pools—both video game mechanisms. He dies in an accident caused by his own weaknesses. His inability to separate his own identity from his “Realms” persona leads to an unwillingness to properly care for himself and a truly tragic end.

When it is time to go to college, Russell is the only one of the group who feels the need to abandon programming. His split with his friends is evidence of his compulsion to do what is expected. The other three start a video game company, Black Arts, and become millionaires off of Simon’s magical “Realms” code.

After graduating with an English major, Russell floats

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from city to city and job to job, never quite finding his place in life, an all too real possibility for English majors these days. Eventually, Russell decides to rejoin his friends in an entry-level position at their company. The success of Russell’s friends and his own failures provide a good contrast and dynamic through the rest of the novel.

When he arrives on the job, Russell is introduced to the video game industry of the 90s. Darren is a rock star, the Rolls-Royce-driving “Mick Jagger” of Black Arts, and he has every right to be. The novel is set in the pre-Internet time period, when the sky was the limit for technological start-ups.

“You” is a sometimes serious, sometimes snarky look at how gamers evolved through the last decades of the 20th century. Its dry humor is apparent in the protagonist’s reflective observations, and the use of different literary structures is a nice change of pace. Sometimes the minutiae of the gaming world can be overwhelming, but the insights they provide on the history of the industry are remarkable.

When the book is not inundating the reader with gaming factoids, Russell’s quest for self-worth is poignant and never melodramatic. He grows in front of the reader from a nervous 20-something into a confident game designer ready to build and share fantasy worlds. The novel is a must read for video game fans and anyone with an interest in becoming one.

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How To: B ookmark Your Best with Samantha Toscano

Dear “I just want to curl up with a really good book,” As a self-proclaimed “English nerd,” it’s not surprising that my bookshelves have become more than just pieces of furniture in my bedroom—they are home to my personal favorites and several timeless works that would be considered standard in any literary enthusiasts’ repertoire. Yet despite my love of the written word, I do not have quite enough material to fill the bookshelves I use as nightstands on either side of my bed. Yes, I have my Dickens and my Shakespeare, but I could definitely use my fill of Dumas and Brontë as well.

And what I make up for with my impressive number of Fitzgerald and Poe pieces, I do sincerely lack in stories

by Steinbeck and tales from Twain. The solution? I have recently decided to go on a “classics” binge and collect beautiful hardcover editions of literary masterpieces that have been overlooked for far too long on quaint bookshop shelves. Now needless to say, I do not consider downloading a book to an electronic bookshelf or some other form of technology-based literature as truly and honestly “collecting the classics.” Call me cynical, but I think printed works are going out of style like polyester did at the end of 70s and like grunge flannels that tied around the waist did at the end of the 90s, and it is critical to get them before they’re gone.

And while I understand not everyone might agree with me, I am (and will always be) of the school of thought that there is no better way than to enjoy the written word than by curling up with a good book.

So my advice to you is this—stock up, sit down and don’t forget to mark your progress along the way.

Sincerely, Samantha

P.S. Feel free to send questions, comments, “How To” needs and vintage hardcover copies of “The Catcher in the Rye” and “The Hobbit” my way at stoscano@udel.edu.

From envelopes…

Instead of sending a letter, use an envelope to craft a bookmark. Fold a sheet of plain white paper diagonally before drawing the arc of a heart in the corner and cutting it out. Use this as your template and place it on the top of the bottom corner of a plain envelope. Cut around the template and then use it on colored or patterned paper to make the heart that goes on top of it. Glue it on top and open the envelope to place it on the corner of a page for a charming bookmark.

(Feel free to reference the photo for finished product and change up the shape or design as you make your own!)

From paint chips…

Paint chips are the perfect bookmark size and shape with the added bonus of an adorable ombre effect so grab some from the hardware store. Hole-punch the top and thread some ribbon of the corresponding pallet through the top before using a patterning hole-puncher on each color section. You can also use a letter holepuncher and simply monogram the bottom section of color or spell out “R-EA-D” or some other word with one letter per number of colored paint section. If you don’t have specialized hole-punchers, you can always stamp a design over the ombre for an artistic twist.

From ribbon…

The best vintage bookmarks are often made of ribbon or a strip of velvet fabric or lace. To recreate this stylish and elegant appeal, start by collecting vintage baubles, earrings, rings or brooches. Take a strip of thick ribbon a couple inches longer than the binding of a book and either hot-glue the charms or use a ribbon clip (which you can find at any craft store) on one end of the ribbon. If you go with the clip, use pliers to secure it and attach the charm to it with a small hook. Either way, you’re guaranteed to end up with a project as classic as the book itself.

From paperclips...

Turning this simple office supply into a story spot-saver makes for an easy and efficient craft. All you have to do is take a little bit of creativity and a glue gun and add your favorite accents to the end to the top end of the paper clip. Some ideas? Try making a bow out of your favorite ribbon and glue it together before attaching it to the clip. If you don’t have ribbon, you could also simply attach scrapbook add-ons that you can buy in the craft store or fabric or plastic buttons.

22 April 30, 2013

Rape, murder portrayals increases in television

BY KATIE ALTERI

television scriptwriters are trying to portray realistic criminal behavior such as gory crimes, instead of sugarcoating their plots.

Television shows featuring rape and murder might be more beneficial to viewers if they put less focus on the violent acts themselves and allowed viewers to see the detrimental effects of crime that victims experience, Duckworth says.

“A lot of times with these TV shows, we don’t learn about the rape victim or murder victim, and they

television shows that frequently depict scenes of violence accomplish the opposite of providing viewers with awareness, and she says that seeing these acts so regularly portrayed on TV shows decreases their shock value. Duckworth says she thinks when television shows continually show instances of rape or murder, it teaches viewers that these acts are everyday occurrences and does not motivate them to take action to stop it.

“By showing this over and over again, it makes us think violence is

it up so we don’t live in a violent society.”

The 109 shows featured on the list did not just fall under the category of crime or mystery dramas, with shows such as “Gossip Girl,” “Nashville” and “Grey’s Anatomy” also making the cut. Two ABC family shows geared toward pre-teens and teenagers, “Pretty Little Liars” and “The Lying Game,” were featured on the list of shows that had at least one scene of murder or rape as well.

Mangino says she does not find

happened to them personally, and they were watching gory things, its going to bring up emotion,” One hundred and nine scripted Mangino says. “But I mean regular drama-related television shows that people or someone who doesn’t have been on the air this season, or have anything wrong with them are scheduled to air this summer, mentally, I don’t think its going to have featured at least one rape make a big difference.” or murder scene, according to an Duckworth says in addition article in New York Magazine’s to the prevalence of violence in blog “Vulture.” In comparison, 16 television shows that are supposed scripted dramas have not shown to be relatable to young adult these types of scenes. audiences, these acts of violence Noël Duckworth, director often play into gender stereotypes, of training and prevention at the with violent crimes usually being Delaware Coalition perpetrated by strong Against Domestic male characters.

Violence, says the “Most violent acts on popularity of violence TV are committed by the in television shows has male protagonist, and we become a trend that is are starting to have bigger often sensationalized conversations about and made out to seem talking about manhood glamorous in order to and masculinity, and increase viewership. why we continue to send “People perceive messages that manhood that violence is normal equates to violence,” or natural, or that this is Duckworth says. how they should react to For some viewers, a situation because this there is a concern is what they see on TV,” watching violent Duckworth says. “When television shows will it comes down to it, lead to psychological people are desperate for or emotional damage. nonviolent solutions.”

However, Mangino The article, which says she feels unless a came out April 17, shows viewer has personally a trend senior Katie experienced violence, Hazlett says she also has they will most likely not noticed. She says acts be affected by what they of murder and rape are see on TV shows. featured on television Duckworth says shows because violence it is difficult to find brings in viewership someone who has not and audiences been affected by violence gravitate toward the or abuse to some degree dramatic element these during their lives, and plotlines present. because of that, the media Hazlett says she has a responsibility to thinks most viewers provide audiences with find plotlines that do programs that will not be not have an actiondetrimental to viewer’s based plot as boring, emotions and prior and that audiences are experiences. likely to want to watch In order to lessen a show that does feature violence in real life, violence.

Duckworth says programs “You see it a lot,” needs to provide viewers Hazlett says.

“It’s with characters that common, not weird or deal with problems in a inappropriate anymore. productive and healthy People get more excited manner, instead of THE REVIEW/Stacy Bernstein resorting to aggression about a show if it has a New York Magazine’s Blog, “Vulture,” says that out of 124 drama shows on air, 109 feature rape or murder at soem point. violent aspect to it.” and unlawful behavior.

Freshman Gabriella “We need to Mangino says she thinks the reason are just like an object,” Duckworth inevitable, that its as common as this to be surprising, as it seems create communities and media violent plotlines have become says. “We see dead bodies on shows tying our shoes or drinking a glass to be more and more common for programming that supports respect so prevalent in television shows like ‘Law and Order’ and the more of water,” Duckworth says. “We television programs geared towards and peaceful solutions and equality, is due to the fact that the world we objectify people, the easier it is really need to look towards the the youth demographic to have an and the things that are going to lead hears about rape and murder on a to be violent towards them.” to less violence and more harmony,” science and social activism that are element of violence. regular basis. She says it is likely Hazlett says she believes taking place, things we can do to set “I think if something has Duckworth says.

Entertainment Editor

April 30, 2013

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Fulbright Scholarship winner plans trip to India

BY MONIKA CHAWLA Features Editor

Trading in the classic college experience for a tropical monsoon abroad, senior Elizabeth Hetterly has traveled all over the world to study women’s health. Now, after being awarded the Fulbright Scholarship this past month, she plans to use the money to continue her to adventures in India for a yearlong research expedition.

She will work for a nongovernmental organization called the Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action, with her research based in Mumbai. Hetterly says she will work on a specific project to prevent violence against women and improve their nutrition and maternal health.

“What I’m interested in studying is how different social, economic and political factors shape women’s health and their access to healthcare, but I also want to find some ways to improve it,” Hetterly says.

Hetterly says she will evaluate the effectiveness of resource centers made to improve health services in poor regions. The non-governmental organization, she says, has set up community research centers in different slums across Mumbai, which provide family planning, educational help and referrals for specific problems.

And while she will be affiliated with the NGO, Hetterly says she will also have access to the Tata Institute for Social Sciences in Mumbai, India, where she hopes to do some research with a professor or take classes in the subject area.

Currently a biology and sociology double major, with a minor in political science, Hetterly is also a Dean’s Scholar who has taken her educational experience beyond classroom boundaries. For once, Hetterly says she has had the ability to design her own major and study different subjects that she is unable to find in one specific major.

“If you could name it, it would be a major in ‘Global Health,’” she says. “Through sociology and political science, I learned about how social and political factors shape health. And studying biology showed me how health is shaped on a very physiological and molecular level.”

She also has concentration in maternal and child health, which stemmed from the idea that health is about more than just the environment that people live in, she says. The majority of it, she says, comprises of factors that have accumulated over the course of life, and after traveling to Peru through the MEDLIFE chapter at the university, her previous goal of becoming a doctor changed, as she started to see health and medicine in a different light. She says she began to realize all the factors that come together to affect people’s surroundings and shape their health.

“All of those things determine their probability to become sick in the first place,” she says. “So I felt that if we could address those factors as well as the oppression against women and inequality in society,w It would be a lot more effective than me going to medical school and becoming a doctor.”

Hetterly says this perspective was also shaped through the Dean’s Scholar program and through the various advisors in different departments.

Professor Patricia Sloane-White, the director of the Dean’s Scholars program at the university, says she taught Hetterly in class about Muslim leaders and communities in Delaware.

Hetterly handled the subject matter and class activities in an outstanding way, she says.

“Elizabeth was really an articulate and sensitive member of the class and handled herself with grace and empathy when she was talking to people with different points of view from her own,” Sloane-White says.

Sloane-White says Hetterly has also earned a high grade-point

average and conducted advanced to accomplish.” goals, I have no doubt she’ll serve research in neuroscience, comparative Michalec says that the ability for as a prominent voice for change,” he health systems and maternal and child women to have access to healthcare is says. “At this particular stage, Liz has attachment. Hetterly’s research, she an important issue in countries, and laid out all the groundwork—I have says, has been presented at various despite efforts to empower women, a strong feeling that she will make a academic conferences. the overarching culture is oppressive significant difference.”

Having previously traveled to when it comes to their choices for Regarding the vast cultural Bangladesh through the university’s reproductive planning and health change that will come with traveling to Plastino Scholar’s award, Hetterly in general.

India, Hetterly says she is no stranger was able to obtain $6,000 to conduct Countries need to provide women to adapting to different countries. She research about the maternal health with proper access to proper medical says she finds Indian culture to be practices in the country’s capital. care because they are becoming fascinating and enjoys learning about During her time there, she had the “active agents” in their community the religion and philosophy that is chance to oversee childbirth for the regarding healthcare, he says. Women often associated with the country. first time, outside of her research.. are becoming leaders in challenging Although the scholarship only Her senior thesis focuses on the current systems in their country, not funds one year in India, Hetterly says maternal and child healthcare alike in just for health but also employment and she hopes to stay longer to decide Bangladesh and Sloane-White says political rights, he says. what exactly she would like to pursue her previous experience in the country According to Michalec, Hetterly’s in graduate school. allowed her to really dig into the project spotlights a number of issues “I’m always thinking about how problems and the culture surrounding that play out regarding women and their I can have the biggest impact,” she sickness and disease. role in society. He says that Hetterly has says. “Where is the best intervention “I think her experience traveling just begun to scratch the surface. area? And so I thought that tackling abroad in Dhaka [Bangladesha] “As Liz continues to fine-tune health even before the start of life was helped her understand the problems her methods, approach and research the best way to begin.” and the promises of providing health care in socially and economically unequal settings,” she says. “And it’s her goal to help change the system that creates those inequalities.”

After receiving her Fulbright award, Hetterly says she will be able to continue researching the social aspects of maternal and child health in one of the largest and poorest slums of Mumbai for one funded year beginning after her graduation in May. Professor Barret Michalec, an advisor for Hetterly’s constructed curriculum, says he is aware of her passion for exploring women’s health issues and health policies. Her writing and critical thinking skills, he says, will serve well with her future project in India.

“Liz is very driven and quite determined,” Michalec says. “Her accomplishments in India really will depend on how far she sets her sights.

She’s learning that when you open one box, five others must be opened Courtesy of Elizabeth Hetterly as well, so she’ll need to stay on task Senior Elizabeth Hetterly spent a semester abroad in Bangladesh. and keep her focus on what she wants

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24 April 30, 2013

Healthy Habits Stay Happy and Healthy During Finals with Victoria Natali

With finals quickly approaching, students are beginning to think of a plan of action to perform their best. Health is often placed on the back-burner as students scramble to fit in the necessary study time or replace sleep with all-nighters and caffeine binges.

Even though it may seem impossible, students can still keep health in mind during hectic times. Maintaining mental and physical health is critical to performing well academically, so in preparation for the remaining weeks of the semester, here are some health tips that are easy to follow and will immensely improve your mood, health and general study habits during finals. Good luck, everyone!

Plan Ahead

Establishing a routine is key to balancing a busy lifestyle, especially in college. Plan ahead by dedicating specific days and times to studying, socializing, exercising and sleeping.

By creating a routine, you’ll be able to manage your time more wisely and get more rest, which will in turn improve your productivity during the day.

Stay Active

Exercise has been proven to reduce stress, improve overall mood and increase your concentration. Make it fun by working out with a friend, taking a fitness class or just getting outside to enjoy the weather. Not only does physical activity make you feel better, it will help improve your performance in class or on tests as well.

Sleep

Finals week is not complete without a couple all-nighters and severe lack of sleep. However, skimping on sleep is one of the most detrimental things you can do to try to get ahead on your studies. Obtaining enough sleep is critical in memory function, focus, energy and overall

healthy body function. Try to start studying for exams a few days earlier than you normally would so you can maintain at least seven hours of sleep a night. Naps may also help you increase your performance, but just make sure they aren’t too long or too close to bedtime.

Improve Study Habits

Piggybacking off the importance of sleep, all-nighters should be avoided at all costs to maintain good study habits. Many students opt to cram and pull all-nighters right before exams in order to do so, but lack of sleep will impair your focus, resulting in a less successful performance on exams. The brain processes information best when it is spread out over the span of a few days, so studying a little each day is the way to go. Additionally, try to study in a quiet environment with few distractions, such as the library.

Minimize Stress

While sleep and exercise are important to minimizing stress during finals, it is important to make sure you also allot time for just relaxation. Students sometimes feel the need to constantly keep busy during finals week to make sure they are doing all they can to do well on their exams, but putting limits on how much work you do in a day can be extremely important to performing well. Try taking a yoga class to simultaneously fit in physical activity and relaxation.

Snack Healthy

Students are constantly running around, especially during finals, so make sure to stock up on some healthy and portable snack options.

Snacking during studying can help to maintain your blood sugar levels resulting in better concentration, energy and mood.

—vnatali@udel.edu

Courtesy of dailytexanonline.com

Students often crash after pulling an all-nighter during finals.

Events Reel Production’s UD Campus Film Fest Thursday, May 2, 7 to 10 p.m.

The North Green The Spinto Band with Mean Lady Thursday, May 2, 7:30 to 11 p.m.

Bacchus Theatre in Perkins Student Center Outdoor Movie: The Lion King Friday, May 3, 8 to 10 p.m.

The North Green Deep Bass Drops Hard Saturday, May 4, 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Gore Recital Hall Night on the North Saturday, May 4, 6 to 9:30 p.m.

Independence Turf Take the Mic Presents: Beach Fossils, Kite Party, LVL UP and Sunset Theme Sunday, May 5, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Bacchus Theatre in Perkins Student Center

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UDress holds release party for spring magazine

The spring semester issue of UDress, titled “Renessaince,” was released on Thursday and celebrated with a party at Timothy’s of Newark.

Marshall’sMugs Sixpoint Sweet Action Leave it to Sixpoint to brew something with ingredients from different ends of the beer spectrum. Sweet Action is part pale, part wheat and part cream ale , which basically means hoppy, malty and sweet.

Sixpoint was founded in 2004 in Brooklyn, N.Y., but the company claims to date back to since man began drinking beer.

The Sixpoint Brewers’ Star, depicted on all Sixpoint products, has been a symbol of the company for over 100 years, it says and has been around since the medieval period.

Also, Sixpoint’s brewing philosophy is to make it undefinable, which is a nightmare for people like me. However, I think this is what makes the craft cans so refreshing.

For the second week in a row, I am working with a beer that lists no ingredients on its website.

However, Sixpoint gives us one hint by sharing the IBUs, which defines the bitterness of a beer caused by hops. Sweet Action is a 34. That is a pretty low number for a pale ale.

Sweet Action works in a traditional pint glass and pours like golden amber. The body looks like a wheat beer, complete with the foamy collar and color. The aroma smells like the pale ale portion while the after taste definitely has the smoothness of a cream ale.

The combination of flavors is everything that Sixpoint says it is. It is hard to define, and almost indescribable as one beer turns into three.

Since the beer is made with such variety, the food pairing is diverse as well. I’d say even though the weather is not going to be right this week, try out Sweet Action with some linguini and clams in a white wine sauce, preferably on a deck overlooking the beach on a sunny day. Good luck finding that in Newark.

Right now, there are two places I know where you can get SixPoint craft ales—Kildares on Main Street and Kelly’s Logan House in Wilmington. On Wednesdays, you can get craft cans for $3 at Kelly’s, so come and get your cans.

—ryanmars@udel.edu

with Ryan Marshall

QUICK REVIEW: (all mugs out of 5)

Taste: If you can mix three styles of beer into one, you get a five in my book.

Feel: The senses really pick up the different styles and a mouthful of this beer is quite smooth.

Look:

I like the golden amber color that appears as it really is, a summer-time drinking beer.

Smell: Definitely a little citrus in the aroma, which lends toward the wheat-based portion of the brew.

Overall: Sixpoint really grew on me after trying it. Sweet Action really is a well-done beer.

THE REVIEW/Emma Rando

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Did you know?

Jason Collins, an NBA role player, became the first active player to announce he is gay.

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Sports

87ers: Will play 24 home games Continued from page 1

“It was not lost on us that there are a lot of avid Sixers fans already living here in Delaware,” Aron said.

In addition to 76ers ownership on hand, university President Patrick Harker, Gov. Jack Markell and Sen. Chris Coons and Sen. Thomas Carper were all present to celebrate the announcement at “The Bob” on Saturday.

Even though it is a small state, Delaware will be one of the larger markets for the NBA D-Leagues, Aron said. He said teams in South Dakota and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas will not be able to compare with the Newark-based Sevens.

Not only will the market fit, but the historic background of the First State holds true to the Sixers, as well.

Aron said the 76ers were named because of the colonial history in Philadelphia and, in a similar fashion, the decision was made to name the Delaware D-League team based on the day it was made a state in 1787, (hence the 87ers).

This kept the historical ties while accomplishing their primary goal, which Aron said was to keep the face

of this team as not in Philadelphia but in Delaware.

While the first thought that might run through the minds of the community is that it is just a minor league team, President of the League, Dan Reed, knew exactly what he was doing.

Over 132 alumni of the D-League’s now 17 teams are currently playing professionally and many NBA athletes are sent down to get extra playing time or recuperate from injury, which can make for exciting basketball, he said.

“It’s the best basketball in the world outside of the NBA,” Reed said. “You’ll see current NBA players coming from assignment from the Sixers. You’ll see recent players who are working their way back to the NBA, and you’ll see the top NBA prospects who are not already NBA.” Reed said 90 percent of the players that participate in the D-League played in Division I, twothirds of which were all-conference or better. So it is “basically an NCAA All-Star team,” he said.

Additionally, D-League games usually involve many fun activities during the game and include bull riding and moon bounces in some

other stadiums. Children will also be able to come down and get autographs right after the game, according to Reed.

Markell accordingly took the chance to talk about the entertainment and employment opportunities that are being created via the partnership.

“What’s most exciting to me about this is that it’s more about the fun page rather than the sports page,” Markell said. “There will be plenty of great articles in the sports pages about the Sevens, but what I’m excited about is what it says about Delaware and the job creation with the people you are going to be hiring here.”

But creating advantages in the basketball arena will not be the only way the new cooperation will give back to the community. Harker said each year two students will be able to intern and get sufficient experience with the 76ers organization.

“This brings the deal full circle for us,” Harker said. “[It goes] back to our fundamental mission—highquality, real world learning that prepares students for personal and professional success.”

Carper and Markell thanked Coons for pitching Delaware to the

THE REVIEW/Lindsay Saienni

Sen. Tom Carper points to the sign that says 87ers to show his excitement.

Sixers and getting an “assist” on “You’re driving up I-95 during bringing the team into Newark. the evening, the lights are usually on at Carper also said he sees a very the Blue Rocks Stadium and we have successful franchise for the team one of the winningest Minor League because of what happens with the Baseball teams in the country…”

Blue Rocks at Frawley Stadium in Carper said. “What’s going to happen, Wilmington, where some of “the best is the same thing [that’s] going to players” on the Kansas City Royals happen with the D-League, and we’re have played. excited about that.”

Sky is limit, Delle Donne bids farewell

Stadium upgrades fail to help every team at university

BY RYAN MARSHALL Managing Sports Editor

BY CADY ZUVICH

Student Affairs Desk Editor

Every year during the winter months, members of the women’s track team line up in the Delaware Field House––their primary training facility––to practice sprints, perform jumps and compete in meets. Come next semester though, the track and cross-country program will lose its indoor track due to a large-scale, $3.8 million renovation project.

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THE REVIEW/Jeremi Wright-Davis

A toddler is more interested in Elena Delle Donne’s water bottle than an autographed ball at her signing Saturday. Young and old showed up to see off the All-American before she leaves for the Chicago Sky tomorrow.

As young children filed into the room for an autograph signing with WNBA No. 2 overall draft pick Elena Delle Donne, they stared with wide eyes as if they were looking at a skyscraper.

And as each boy or girl left the room, they were sky-high.

Before leaving for Chicago tomorrow, Delle Donne had a farewell at ATI Physical Therapy center on Saturday for fans that wanted to catch one last glimpse of the future All-Star.

“To have this following and see some of these familiar faces come just to see me is incredible,” Delle Donne said. “It really means a lot to me.”

Just as the Bob Carpenter Sports Center was jam-packed with fans of all ages for last month’s NCAA Tournament, there was a diverse amount of admirers coming to wish her luck.

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Wednesday, May 1 Softball vs. Villanova (Doubleheader) 2:30 p.m.

Delaware Softball Stadium Baseball at Rutgers 3 p.m.

Friday, May 3 Softball vs. UNCW (Doubleheader) 12:00 p.m.

Delaware Softball Stadium Friday, May 3 to Saturday, May 4 Women’s Outdoor Track & Field at CAA Championships Friday, May 3 to Sunday, May 5 Baseball vs. La Salle

Henpeckings NFL News: Former University of Delaware linebacker Paul Worrilow signed a free-agency contract with the Atlanta Falcons on Monday. Worrilow recorded 377 career tackles during his time with the Hens, including 107 this year, ranking him 15th among all NCAA Div. I FCS players with 10.7 tackles a game.

Men’s Golf: The Delaware men’s golf team finished fifth at the CAA Men’s Golf Championships, held at St. James Plantation in Southport, N.C. from Friday to Sunday. The team finished with a three-round total of 925 over the weekend. Senior Ben Conroy shot an even par 72 on Sunday, tying for 10th place overall with a 228 overall score over the three rounds.

Softball: The Delaware softball team lost at Georgia State in a doubleheader, 8-0 and 4-2 on Saturday. In the first game, sophomore outfielder Jessica Gristler had two singles, while freshman outfielder Shelby Jones hit a double. In the second game, freshman utility hitter Lisa Stacevicz scored an unearned run in the second inning. In the sixth inning, Jones hit a solo home run to left field. The Hens’ record is now 32-18 (9-9 CAA).

Women’s Outdoor Track & Field: The Delaware women’s outdoor track & field competed at the West Chester Open at Farrell Stadium on Friday.

Junior Alana Pantale won the hammer, shot put and discus events, while sophomore Kelsey Evancho claimed the high jump. Sophomore Haley Gorenflo took the pole vault and sophomore Spencer Nendza rounded out the wins for The Hens by winning the triple jump.

“A CHRIS BERMAN FREE DRAFT”

BY MATT BITTLE The NFL Draft is one of my favorite sporting events of the year.

It’s certainly my favorite non-game day, and I am far from the only one who loves the three-day event.

Football is American’s preferred sport, and its draft is our biggest sporting event that isn’t actually an athletic competition.

For the draft, an annual end-ofApril event, fans wait outside all day to get tickets and go inside Radio City Music Hall in New York City in hopes of witnessing their team select a future Hall of Famer. Of course, the attendees also have fun booing NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and draft picks they don’t like.

The NFL Draft is about hope.

It’s about the thought that any team, however downtrodden it may be, can

select a franchise-changing star. Look at the New England Patriots and Tom Brady—a little-known sixth-rounder in 2000 became one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Fans of any team can sleep soundly for a few nights, confident their team has snagged a star in the making. Even Oakland Raiders or Buffalo Bills fans can rejoice in the knowledge a turnaround may be coming.

Fans watch and wait as young men have their dreams realized. It does go without saying though, of the picks, some will become stars and some, even the supposed can’t-miss prospects, will be out of the league in a few years.

Mostly 21-year-olds get their first true taste of fame. The top picks walk on stage, in front of millions.

But even the lower selections get to hear their names called, signaling them as one of the best in the world at this sport, this game so many Americans love.

It is a dream come true for those athletes who are handed recognition, responsibility and millions of dollars. These men will be idolized or villainized, or often, both. In a world, even a sporting world, that is so often dominated by negativity, I find the draft refreshing. It’s a break from the talk about the charade of college amateurism, about football’s concussion problems, about steroids in baseball.

It’s a chance for young men to have their childhood ambitions fulfilled. It means so much to them,

and you can tell. Occasionally players cry. I still remember Braylon Edwards bawling when he was selected third overall in 2005. The fact that Edwards did little as a player does not take away from that memory, and we saw more players getting emotional this year with the oft-criticized Tyrann Mathieu.

Players also get upset. You empathize with those who are selected much later than expected.

Think of Aaron Rodgers in 2005 or Geno Smith this year. They sit there, waiting, waiting, waiting, just to hear their name called. Their humiliation, the fact that teams don’t value them as much as we thought, is evident.

These moments are so real. And they serve as a reminder that sports can be raw and unreserved, as well as a powerful tool for good.

In addition to the moments that touch us ever so briefly, the NFL Draft gives us a chance to play armchair general manager. You can approve of picks or not. In the case of New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles fans, it’s usually the latter, with a displeasure that is expressed vocally.

I always walk away satisfied that my Baltimore Ravens are in a better place than they were a few days before the draft. In Ozzie Newsome we trust.

Fans always enter the event hopeful, thinking that maybe, just maybe, their preferred team can make a shrew trade or steal a prospect who slipped 20 picks for no good reason.

Hope springs eternal, especially at

the NFL Draft. Your team is just a few home run selections from contending, and this draft could easily turn your team into a playoff squad.

Never mind if that’s what you told yourself before the last five drafts. This time will be different. The draft always produces surprise picks, such as third-day selections who turn into Pro Bowlers. And just as certain, there will be top-10 selections who flame out spectacularly. You can set your watch to it. I could write a whole article just listing draft busts.

Somehow, the draft also makes for good TV. On the surface, it makes no sense. A man reads from cards, grown men in the audience make fools of themselves when their teams pick and talking heads on television debate while game tape plays. Yet, we keep coming back for more.

I guess it has to do with the realness and the emotional aspect of the event. The NFL Draft allows everyone to hope. It’s not just fans who cross their fingers—embattled coaches thinking their jobs are saved if they can only grab one fourthrounder who turns into a star, and players just hoping for an opportunity, a chance to make the big time.

The draft, that annual spring ritual, is a renewal of hope. It’s emotional and it’s real. That is why it matters.

Send questions, comments and three days of Trey Wingo to Matt Bittle at mraven@udel.edu.

Under Preview Delaware vs. UNCW

About the teams: About Delaware: The Hens are 32-18 overall and 9-9 in CAA play. The team has lost 10 of its last 12 to fall to fifth in the conference. In eight of those 10 recent losses, Delaware has scored two runs or fewer. The Hens are hitting .293 and have a 2.80 ERA

About UNCW: The Seahawks are 16-34, with a 3-14 mark in the CAA. They are sixth in the conference. The team is 10-20 all-time against Delaware. The Seahawks have a .238 average and a 4.22 ERA.

Softball Time: Friday at 12 p.m.

Location: Delaware Softball Stadium

Why the Hens can win: Delaware’s hitting and pitching is better than UNC Wilmington’s. The Hens are fighting for a spot in the CAA Tournament, and currently sitting two games behind Towson as the season enters its final week, they know they cannot lose. Look for the Hens to count on sophomore outfielder Jessica Grisler, who is fourth in the CAA with a .390 average.

Why the Hens could lose: The Seahawks are playing for pride in what has been a tough season. Though UNC Wilmington has struggled, Delaware is slumping. The Seahawks can get on-base. They have drawn 141 walks, second-most in the conference. Senior infielder Lauryn Buckworth is hitting a team-high .343.

-Matt Bittle Copy Desk Chief

The numbers: 15: The number of home runs the Hens have surrendered. The Seahawks have allowed 40. .406: Delaware’s slugging percentage. UNC Wilmington is slugging .323.

94: The number of errors the Seahawks have committed, 26 more than the Hens and the most in the conference.

The prediction: In this doubleheader, I like the Hens. Delaware still has a chance to make the CAA tourney, and it cannot afford to slip up.

Game 1 Delaware: 7 North Carolina Wilmington: 3 Game 2 Delaware: 6 North Carolina Wilmington: 3

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UD, Under Armour study results in new cleat tech. for student-athletes safety

BY DANIEL MCINERNEY Managing Sports Editor

While attending a conference at Under Armour’s facility in Maryland in the summer of 2010, Thomas Kaminski, the director of athletic training education at the university, approached several employees and offered to test Under Armour’s new cleats, the “Brawler.”

After inviting several representatives to the university’s facilities, specifically the Human Performance Laboratory and athletic fields, Under Armour decided to allow a team led by Kaminski to conduct the research.

The “Brawler” is a high-top cleat designed for use by linemen who require strong ankle support, but not as much mobility as skill players, such as running backs or wide receivers. Many of the university’s athletics teams are currently sponsored by Under Armour, especially the football and soccer teams, which are the primary teams used in the research, with approximately 50 football participating in the first and second studies.

“The proximity for them to have what we have upstairs and the facility we have to do the tests—it was a nobrainer for them because we can do it,” Kaminski said. “We have the facilities and we have the equipment to do it.”

The first project examined the ankle support provided by the “Brawler” and compared it to the benefits of using spat taping or ankle braces. Using the university’s biomechanics lab, Kaminski and a team of doctorate, graduate and undergraduate students were able to test for laxity, which is the amount of looseness or movement in the ankle. After conducting tests

in the lab, the student-athletes were brought out to the practice fields where they performed an assortment of drills designed to test their balance, speed and agility.

At the end of the study Kaminski and his team concluded that the “Brawler” did effectively replicate the support provided by spat tape or braces.

Under Armour used the findings of the study to market the cleat and found it so helpful that they asked the university to conduct several more research projects using their products.

“Students get to be involved with the research process and have access to some cutting-edge equipment and assessment tools,” Kaminski said. “It is kind if neat to see student-athletes in a research environment instead of their traditional athletic environment, so I think that is a win-win for them.”

As a result of the “Brawler” project, Under Armour developed a cleat for skill position players that provides ankle support similar to that provided by the “Brawler.” According to Under Armour’s website the new cleat, the “Highlight” allows for “razorsharp cuts and explosive speed” while providing “unreal stability.”

After developing the “Highlight,” Under Armour asked Kaminski and his team to test the laxity of football players before and after practice. They tested players who wore either the “Brawler,” “Highlight” or “Fierce” cleat, which is one of Under Armour’s low-top cleats commonly used by skill players. Using an ankle arthrometer that was set up right outside of the locker room, approximately 50 players on the football team had their ankle laxity measured before and after practice.

While the project was delayed due

to Hurricane Sandy, it is still ongoing and the early results are positive. The support provided by both the “Brawler” and “Highlight” cleats has led Under Armour to develop a high-top soccer cleat. Traditionally, soccer players wear low-top cleats because the cleats are lightweight and limit restrictions of movement. The high-top soccer cleat will be similar to the “Highlight” and is still in the production stage.

Kaminski and his team are currently studying both club and varsity soccer players to measure the laxity, balance, power and proprioception, which is one’s awareness of the body. This project is still ongoing as well and will continue through the summer.

According to Kaminski the partnership between Under Armour and the university is mutually beneficial, as the company receives data used to market and develop their products while the university gains publicity for working with a well-known brand.

After each project is completed the university donates the extra cleats to a local high school and plans to continue to do so with future projects.

Kaminski credited the success of the projects to the cooperation of coaches and athletic trainers and also stated that one his favorite parts is that his students get to be involved in the research and gain valuable hands on experience. He also complimented the student-athletes and their willingness to participate in the project.

“I can’t downplay the fact that student-athletes have been awesome,” Kaminski said. “They are interested.

They’re intrigued and they are willing to help, and I respect that because they give a lot of time to their sports.”

Club ice skating rallies to bring home national championship in N.H.

BY PAUL TIERNEY Sports Editor

On the bus ride back from day one of competition at the U.S. Intercollegiate Figure Skating National Championships, Delaware’s collegiate figure skating team president Julianne DiMura said she was not sure if her team would be able to close the 30-point advantage opened up by host Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.

Regardless of her team’s standing in its final competition of the season, DiMura decided to stand up in front of her peers and drive home the importance of competing fiercely in day two.

“In those kinds of situations, everyone is just stressed out and nervous,” DiMiura said. “We really wanted everyone to come into the second day focused, prepared and to take everything with a grain of salt and only focus on their skating and not

worry about anything else.”

In the second day of competition, Delaware stormed back to take a twopoint lead into the final event. Although the national championship was on the line, junior Brogan Kavanagh said she had no idea that her performance in the Senior Long program would determine whether the team would emerge victorious.

With her teammates cheering her on relentlessly, Kavanagh nailed all seven jump passes, three spins, a spiral sequence and a footwork sequence during her four-and-a-half minute routine.

“I do really well under pressure,” Kavanagh said. “ I don’t really freak out or choke up or anything like that, especially when it comes to skating.”

After it was announced that Kavanagh had received second place, team vice president Megan Marschall said she already knew Delaware would be crowned champion.

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The skating team stands together for a team photo.

Fraternal twins use special connection on club tennis team Courtesy of Davis and Bailey Flanagan

The fraternal twins practice their serves. They helped the club tennis team place 44th in nationals.

BY JACK COBOURN Sports Editor

In doubles tennis, players must have a connection. The teammates need a good working relationship, trust and a certain amount of telepathy.

For juniors Bailey and Davis Flanagan, that is just the case. The fraternal twins have only been playing mixed doubles for the Delaware club tennis team since college but have found that they mesh very well.

Bailey Flanagan said her closeness to her brother has helped them win because each knows how the other on the court.

“We’re such good friends,” Bailey Flanagan said. “I think we have a really distinct advantage because we both know each other’s games really well. I truly know what he’s going to do most of the time, so it’s really easy to look out for each other and see just what your partner is going to do next.”

The twins said they have been playing since the age of four and both have enjoyed it ever since.

Davis Flanagan said it was a family influence in particular that sparked their interest.

“It was definitely a family sport at the beginning,” Davis Flanagan said. “Our parents played when we were little and they got us started playing.”

The duo’s talent has helped the club team place 44th out of the 64 teams in the USTA Tennis on Campus Nationals in Surprise, Ariz., earlier in the month. There are more than 600 university club tennis programs in the United States.

Sophomore Alexis Chlada, who is president of the club team, said club tennis is a great way to compete while making friends and having a good time. The format of the club tennis team is the same as World Team Tennis, with substitutes being allowed in as seen fit by each team.

Chlada said the twins help the team by keeping play light and fun so that everybody has a good time when competing.

“They help to keep a positive attitude on the team during matches,” Chlada said. “Some of us

are very competitive and lose sight of the fact that we are out there to have fun and they do not hesitate to remind us.”

Chlada also said even with all the pressure of a match, the twins always have a smile on their faces, and don’t really change from their normal upbeat personalities.

In doubles, Bailey Flanagan said one of the hardest things is to not blame your partner for missing a shot and giving up points to the other team, which could potentially lead to a loss of focus.

“We just usually brush it off,” Bailey said. “Or if it was something simple that [needs] to be fixed, we tell them. Like in a match, if we’re hitting the ball too late constantly, we help each other take it sooner.”

Davis Flanagan said both twins’ styles of play help cover the court and allow them to win the point, as their combined style of play essentially compliments each other. Bailey Flanagan is a baseliner who can also come to the net, while Davis Flanagan plays a serve-andvolley style game that brings him to the net as well.

“During a match, because we’re playing doubles, I can take control of the net and she can rally out from the baseline during her point,” Davis Flanagan said.

“It really doesn’t bring up any problems typically through any of the matches, it’s just a different way to play. It works very well.”

The twins will go on to play mixed doubles together next season.

Chlada said she thinks the two will continue to improve over time and learn each other’s games more.

Bailey said one issue the twins will have next season is being consistent, due to differing extracurricular activities, Greek life and academic commitments between the two.

“It’s hard to balance playing and schoolwork and everything that’s going on campus,” Bailey said. “Especially because we don’t have indoor courts here, so it’s hard to play a lot leading up to nationals and it gets so cold in Delaware, so we didn’t have enough playing time to get ready for nationals.”

Despite these setbacks, Chlada said she thinks the twins are a good match for one another. She said she has played with them for two years now, and their team energy is a strong suit for their success.

“Their dynamic is great,” Chlada said. “I believe they have what everyone calls ‘twin telepathy’ and can read each others mind which obviously makes for the ideal team. I honestly don’t think there are any disadvantages to them playing together.”

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Farewell: Leaves for Chicago tommorrow Continued from page 28

Catherine and Harrison Dempsey, of Wilmington, said the NCAA Tournament games were a lot of fun, and she was an amazing player.

“She’s really nice,” Catherine Dempsey said. “Taller in person obviously, but a great girl and we wish her the best. … It’s really cool someone from Delaware is so famous.”

And while the children were starstruck to meet the All-American, there was no age limit on being in awe of meeting Delle Donne.

Senior Citizen Florrie Callahan, of Newark, said to Delle Donne that it was her birthday treat to see her play in the last couple years, and she wished her luck in her future.

Callahan said she was never interested in basketball, and she had not ever been to a game in high school or college until she saw Delle Donne play.

“I started watching Elena and for four years it has been the most important thing on my television set,” Callahan

said. “I really enjoy the games and I’m going to miss these girls a whole lot.”

Athletic Director of Glasglow High School, Jeremy Jeanne said he got to know Delle Donne by training with her at ATI.

“It’s funny because all along we knew she was going to be big talent,” Jeanne said. “Now you look back and you’re like, ‘Wow, I was working out with maybe the best player that ever come out of Delaware.’”

Jeanne said he might have even beaten her once in basketball, but Delle Donne responded with saying, “Let’s not talk about how old we were.”

Everyone wished her luck and thanked her, as she took the time to get up after almost every signing to take a picture and learn and talk about each person who came to see her.

But one exchange with a family was simply put.

“I’ll see you at the game,” Delle Donne said to the family walking out.

“We’ll be there,” they responded.

THE REVIEW/Emma Rando

The Delaware track & field team will lose its indoor facilities after the $3.8 million rennovations around campus.

Upgrades: Benefit mostly baseball, soccer, club sports

THE REVIEW/Ryan Marshall

Delle Donne chatted each person that came to see her. Harrison Dempsey talked to her about his basketball skills.

Champs: Came back from 30 points Continued from page 30

Even with the win in hand, Marschall said it was still extremely important for the team to display good sportsmanship and waited until the official announcement to celebrate.

“We all huddled up in a circle with our arms all around each other,” Marschall said. “I remember the people next to me were shaking because they were so nervous. The moment that they announced we had won it was just the best feeling in the whole world.”

The road to the national championship began last fall when the team traveled to Liberty University and finished in second place. Senior Kyle Herring, who joined the squad this year after retiring from Team USA figure skating, said the team lost out on several starts and had to fight from behind throughout the competition.

The second-place finish was good enough to qualify Delaware for nationals, but the team still had to host its own competition at the Fred Rust Ice Arena before having the opportunity to achieve its season-long goal of winning a championship.

Marschall said as a student-run

organization, it was up to her to plan the competition, while also making sure the skaters were physically prepared to execute their routines.

“It was a lot of planning calling the judges, getting them hotel rooms, booking them flights, finding them rental cars, getting them food,” Marschall said. “It was a lot of work.”

Delaware went on to win the competition, beating out defending champion Dartmouth and building momentum into the national championship. Leading up to nationals, the team had practice at 6:40 a.m. each Thursday morning.

Herring, who acts as both a coach and skater, said the hard work and dedication of each team member was what propelled Delaware to realizing its goals and sent its seniors off on top.

“Everyone else had written us off except for our own team,” Herring said. “We felt like we deserved it. We worked very hard this year and we are an extremely close-knit group. It took everyone on the entire team to push through the 30-point deficit and come back to actually win the national championship.”

The Delaware Field House, along with the Bob Hannah Stadium and the outdoor track in the Delaware MiniStadium, will undergo renovations in an effort to “enhance the experience of thousands of University of Delaware students for years to come,” the university announced in a press release on Wednesday.

Renovations include installation of artificial turf in the Field House, as well as new scoreboard, dugouts, bullpens and batting cages for the baseball stadium. Additionally, the soccer fields will be resurfaced and a new outdoor track will be installed.

Though the renovations seek to improve facilities, senior track member Katie Deinert said she does not consider herself and her team the students who will reap the benefits of these renovations.

“It’ll be a huge loss if they take away our whole indoor track,” Deinert said. “It’s where we train in the winter, and it’s hard to get an effective training program on a field that’s meant for another sport.”

Deinert, who has one more year of eligibility in the track program, said she was debating returning to the university for graduate school, but without an indoor training facility, she is reconsidering her decision.

Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation Services Eric Ziady said the decision to turf Delaware Field House comes after a study on the facility’s annual usage, which found the facility is “underutilized.”

“It’s vacant 85 percent of normal business hours,” Ziady said. “The women’s track team is one of the very few groups that utilize the Field House under its present condition.”

Along with the outdoor track, the indoor track would also require significant investment for improvements as the current track is worn down, Ziady said.

The transformation, Ziady said, will ultimately transform the facility into a “hub of activity,” that varsity, club, intramural and recreational sports will utilize. By installing turf that is more durable, the facility will

attract a wide range of activities.

How the team will adjust to these changes is still uncertain, head coach Wendy McFarlane said. There are benefits to practicing on turf, McFarlane said, but it is detrimental come competition time.

“Just like anytime you have to make a decision of any kind, it’s very rare it’s going to be a perfect scenario.”

-Athletic Director, Eric Ziady “As far as competitions, we need to be on a familiar surface and that [the turf] does not provide it,” McFarlane said.

McFarlane, who is currently in the recruitment process for new athletes, said having an upgrade to the outdoor track is “definitely a plus,” but the installation of the turf will require significant adjustments from the indoor track team.

Following the decision, McFarlane said she would prefer modifications made to the current renovation project, though she said she understands the motivations behind the decisions.

“I would like to see a change made and I would like to see the team be more accommodated for,” McFarlane said. “As far as the decision goes, we move forward and I respect it.”

The plans for the renovation project have been in consideration for years, Ziady said, including altercating the Field House. Because the building is significantly underused, installing

turf would give other teams a chance to utilize the building.

“Just like anytime you have to make a decision of any kind, its very rare it’s ever going to be a perfect scenario,” Ziady said. “There are limited resources and we need to do the best we can to maximize the usage of the resources we have.”

Though Ziady said he recognizes the turf installation could adversely affect the track program, the improvements upon the outdoor track could potentially bring in other track teams for home meets.

Recruitment could potentially be affected by the turfing, McFarlane said, as sprint runners especially benefit from an indoor training facility. Deinert said if she was in the recruitment process, choosing between a school with an indoor track and one without an indoor track would be a “no brainer.”

“Recruits that can run at a D-1 institution are going to run at one with an indoor track,” Deinert said. “If I was between Delaware and a place with an indoor track and that was my sport, I would pick one with an indoor track.”

Despite the changes, McFarlane said the team will adjust, as with anything in life.

“There is always change, and people adapt to change,” McFarlane said. “I think it will affect us, but we will move forward.”

The renovations to the Field House will be competed in August, according to the press release, but Deinert said she hopes altercations can be made to the original plan.

The track team, she said, is given sufficient facilities, but not enough compared to other Division-I teams.

Additionally, she said though track does not draw thousands of spectators like other sports at the university do, the team should still be given attention.

“I think there could be a compromise,” Deinert said. “They could leave us some lanes or just turf the inside––I don’t think it should be all or nothing.”

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