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The Revi ew THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1882
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013 VOLUME 140, ISSUE 4
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Justice Sotomayor comes to campus, encourages community bonds BY KELLY LYONS Editor-in-Chief
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke at the Bob Carpenter Center on Thursday as part of the university’s First Year Common Reader program. The First Year Common Reader was Sotomayor’s biography “My Beloved World.”
Campus farmers’ market not so local BY KELSEY WENTLING Staff Reporter
Twenty-six years ago, Mark Barczewski began selling tomatoes on the side of the road to make diaper money for his newborn son. Passersby would drop money in an old cigar box, grab a few tomatoes and be on their way. At the time, Barczewski was working at the DuPont Factory by day, and at night, he would head over to his nearby farm stand to collect that day’s diaper money.
“I hate podiums,” said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as she descended the steps of the stage at the Bob Carpenter Sports Building. Sotomayor signaled to her security team lining the edges of the seating on the floor. “These very stern looking people—they’re my police protection,” Sotomayor said, as she looked at her security. This was only one more way in which this year’s First Year Experience speaker let freshmen get closer to her. The first way was by letting them into her own thoughts and feelings through her book “My Beloved World,” the required common reader for incoming freshmen. As a Puerto Rican woman from New York City, Sotomayor said she had to persevere through economic, health and social hardships, such as her diagnosis of Type I Diabetes in childhood. She then went on to graduate from Princeton University and Yale University’s school of law. Though she is proud of becoming a Supreme Court justice, she said that is not all she has done with her life. “I wasn’t a justice first, and I hope I won’t be a justice last— that I’ll be Sonia first and Sonia last,” she said. Sotomayor said she wrote “My Beloved World” “to give something really big and heavy to my friends, and, whenever I get too full of myself, they would hit me over the head with it.” Sotomayor then began to advise students, as she patted some on the back and shook some of their hands, that instead
of being concerned with their own egos, they should be more concerned with answering the question of how to improve the world. “Don’t worry about the social and economic importance of what you do,” she said. “Do whatever satisfies you.” Whatever this may be, Sotomayor advised, students should be pursuing knowledge and continue learning throughout their lives to become more engaging people. “What will make you a meaningful person in life is that you become an interesting person,” she said. Sotomayor also stressed the importance of friends and family in her life. Sociology professor Maggie Andersen, who introduced Sotomayor and coordinated her visit to the university, commented on the emphasis of community that Sotomayor incorporates into her book. “No matter how smart and determined you are, you do not go it alone,” Andewrsen said. Sotomayor applied this theory specifically to college students, tying it into the process of writing papers and working on projects. She said sharing her book with others during the editing stage was useful for getting getting the support of her family members and delving deeper into her family history. Once Sotomayor climbed back onto the stage, students presented questions freshmen in FYE classes had constructed for the justice. Sotomayor asked those students to come down from the seats and take pictures with her once she finished her talk.
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THE REVIEW SITS DOWN WITH ED SHEERAN BEFORE CAMPUS CONCERT LAST WEDNESDAY
Nineteen years later, after several episodes of theft, in which not only tomatoes but entire crates were stolen, Barczewski quit corporate America and expanded his tomato stand into a sizable produce and flower stand. Just down the road, the university’s Dining Services entered the produce business and opened the university’s first farmers’ market in Mentor’s Circle in 2010.
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 27 -ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING GUEST SPEAKER SEMINAR, 1:302:30 P.M., COLBURN 102 -DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY FALL 2013 DAVID NORTON MEMORIAL LECTURE, 3:455:30 P.M., GORE 104 SATURDAY, SEPT. 28 -AIDS WALK DELAWARE, 10-12 P.M., DRAZO PLAZA ON THE RIVERFRONT IN WILMINGTON -NATURALLY REDEFINED NATURAL HAIR EXPO, 10 A.M.-7 P.M., CLAYTON -WOMEN’S LACROSSE BLUE VS. GOLD SCRIMMAGE, 10:30 A.M., DELAWARE PRACTICE FIELD -BLUEPRINT 7.0 CLIMAX, 6:30-10 P.M., TRABANT MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM -FOOTBALL VS. JAMES MADISON ON YOUTH FOOTBALL DAY, 7 P.M., DELAWARE STADIUM MONDAY, SEPT. 30 -WORKSHOP: TEST TAKING, 3:30 -4:30 P.M., MITCHELL 001
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University farmers market sells food from four locallyowned farms and food from 17 out-of-state farms.
Managing Mosaic Editor Katie Alteri spoke with English musician Ed Sheeran prior to his performance at the Bob Carpenter Sports Center last Wednesday. For his thoughts on his upcoming album and song inspirations see SHEERAN page 9
University ‘shmacks’ rugby team with five-year suspension, team appeals BY CADY ZUVICH & MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor & Student Affairs News Editor
Sophomore rugby team member Thomas Abram has been playing rugby since freshman year of high school and said the
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university’s club program is a crucial aspect of what attracted him to enroll in the first place. Now, Abram will be unable to play rugby for the remainder of his college career after the Office of Student Conduct decided last week to suspend the entire program–– which more than 80 students are a
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part of––for five years. The suspension comes after the Sept. 9 “I’m Shmacked” events in which a party occurred at 402 S. College Ave., a house rented by four members of the rugby team. Abram said an individual who is on the rugby team was in contact with I’m Shmacked representatives,
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who paid the house member to host the party. “I was shocked myself,” Abram said. “[The incidents] were not caused by the rugby team––it was caused by individuals acting on their own.”
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