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Student shot, killed at Studio Green

BY RACHEL TAYLOR City News Editor

Courtesy of CNN.com

Israeli air strikes hit Hamas cabinet headquarters in Gaza on Saturday in response to Hamas’ rockets fired at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Israeli, Palestinian conflict hits home for some students

BY ERIN QUINN

Managing Mosaic Editor

For the first time in four years, Israeli-Palestinian tensions escalated Wednesday when Israel launched an attack on Gaza, killing Ahmed al-Jabari, the military commander of Hamas—a Palestinian political party that rules the Gaza Strip and is regarded as a terrorist group by the United States, according to the New York Times.

Senior Sam Rackear, the political director of the student organization

Israel U, said the intensity of the current conflict is what differentiates it from the past. It’s the first time since the 1991 Persian Gulf War that rocket sirens have sounded in Tel Aviv, he said and the current conflict has also drawn attention from the international community.

Rackear, who went on a birthright trip to Israel over the summer, said he can relate to the conflict better now because “it’s not just names and dots on a map anymore.”

“There was never one moment

when I felt unsafe,” Rackear said.

However, he said now the sides of the current conflict have shown no signs of backing down or reducing rockets fired.

In the past few days, Hamas has fired more than 1,000 rockets into Israel. In response, Israel’s offensive has killed more than 100 Palestinians, 53 of which were civilians. Of the 840 wounded Palestinians, 225 were children.

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Peter DiSabatino was a sophomore interested in rap, movie making and sports who had just begun to experience the life he wanted, friends said, until he was shot and killed outside of his Studio Green apartment last Monday. The New Castle County Police Department is continuing the search for the suspects responsible for his death.

DiSabatino, 20, of Bear, Del. was a student at the university’s Associate Arts Program on the Wilmington campus and lived in Studio Green Student Village on Thorn Lane off of Elkton Road. Although his major was undeclared, friends said he was interested in movies and music.

Sophomore Jason Hewett said he met DiSabatino during football training the summer before entering his freshman year at Appoquinimink High School in Middletown, Del., and they had been close friends ever since.

“I gained so much respect for him over the years,” Hewett said.

“He was growing up and becoming a really awesome person.”

Hewett said he and DiSabatino realized they had a mutual passion for screenwriting and acting during high school and the pair often wrote scripts together, a hobby they continued through their time in college. He said they also frequently played basketball together and he was about to call DiSabatino about playing a

game when he heard of his death.

New Castle County Police Cpl. John Weglarz said the shooting occurred at 9:23 p.m. at Studio Green Student Village, where DiSabatino had been living. He said when police arrived at the scene, two of his neighbors were attempting CPR. Weglarz said DiSabatino was shot once in the upper body outside of his apartment.

The suspects are two black males, one was seen wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and the other was seen in a black hooded sweatshirt. The incident is not believed to be a DiSabatino random act.

John H. Farrell IV, the Aetna Hose, Hook and Ladder fire company spokesman, said the fire department responded by sending an ambulance and an engine company to the scene. He said the purpose was to provide extra hands and lighting to attempt to save DiSabatino’s life.

“The ambulance arrived and quickly put the young man on a stretcher in the back of the ambulance,” Farrell said. “It provided additional people in the back of the ambulance during the resuscitative effort.”

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UDSIS glitch allows hundreds to register early, most schedules cleared

BY DANIELLE BRODY Managing News Editor

Approximately 500 students who were still awake Thursday morning thought they had secured seats in classes early due to a glitch on UDSIS. The first enrollment date for the spring semester was supposed to open at 9:15 a.m. that day, but due to an error, it was open from 12:01 a.m. to approximately 8 a.m., according to the associate registrar Suzanne Stanley. The Office of the Registrar

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cleared most schedules of the students who registered early. The Registrar notified these students who registered early through email that their classes were dropped, she said.

According to the email message she sent to these students Friday morning, students who registered for classes early Thursday morning whose appointment had already passed by the time the email was sent were not dropped. The open enrollment date begins Dec. 6, and Stanley said the undergrad term/

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session table of UDSIS was incorrect last week.

“The focus has been on correcting the registration records, but the Registrar’s Office is working with the IT Department to determine what happened,” Stanley said.

The email message from Stanley stated, “As you may know, there was an issue with UDSIS which allowed students to register for the Spring semester prior to their registration appointment time.” It also said they would drop classes of students who

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signed up before their time to “be fair to all students.”

Junior Allison Wing said she received a text message at 2 a.m.

Thursday morning from her friend telling her they could register, but she did not try to register until close to 8 a.m., which was a few hours before her 10:45 enrollment appointment that morning. The text in red font that normally says the time of the registration appointment was not there.

Wing got closed out of

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registering half-way through, but her schedule was not cleared by the time she signed up for classes. Before her friends knew what was going on, she said they were worried about their schedules.

“I know some of my friends were kind of panicking a little bit,” Wing said. “They thought everyone was going to get online and fill up all the classes, and they wouldn’t be able to sign up.”

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November 20, 2012

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Soldier with PTSD relays story to students

BY DANIEL MCINERNEY Sports Editor

As he lay in his hospital bed in 2004, Bryan Adams, a veteran, began to notice a crowd of doctors gathering.

One by one the doctors looked in his direction with smiles on their faces then turned to each other and began to laugh in awe of his good luck. Adams, was just shot in the leg and hand while on an observation-post mission in Tikrit, Iraq, and narrowly evaded death.

The bullet that tore through his calf passed directly between his tibia and fibula. If the bullet had been a larger caliber or impacted his leg just centimeters to the left or right, Adams said he might have died that day.

On Tuesday night Adams, 29, spoke at Voice for Veterans hosted by Delaware by Active Minds, a national student-organization dedicated to removing the stigmas associated with mental illnesses. He shared his story in front of a standing-room only crowd at Trabant Theater and shed light on the challenges those who suffer from a mental illness face.

Adams, who was deployed from 2004 to 2005 in Iraq with the army and is a Purple Heart recipient, has given more than 30 speeches nationwide about his experience recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder and his injuries. He was also featured in an Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America television commercial titled “Alone.”

One in five Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from PTSD, yet only half of them sought treatment, according to a study by the Rand Corporation in 2008. Likewise, one in four college students suffer from a mental illness and suicide is the second leading cause of death among college

students, Adams said. The biggest challenge when addressing mental illnesses are the stigmas attached with them, he said.

William Terry, the president of the Student Veterans Association at Delaware who served in the Marines as a sniper, struggled with PTSD himself. He said people should try and recognize problems like PTSD earlier and spread awareness among both veterans and citizens.

“Instead of being a reactive nation, we need to be a proactive nation,” Terry said.

Groups like Active Minds provide students with information and resources to educate them about mental health issues. The co-presidents of Delaware’s Active Minds Hillary Porter and Lauren Tedeschi said it is important to keep students informed about mental health and to eliminate the negative stereotypes associated with mental illnesses.

After spending three months monitoring the radios while his leg healed, Adams felt he was ready to go back out on a combat mission. On his first mission back, the troop came under enemy fire and it was clear to Adams and those around him he was not ready to be back on patrols. At that point his only goal was “to get out of the military” and a year after he was deployed, Adams returned to civilian life.

Adams moved back to his hometown of Palmyra, N.J., where he reunited with family and friends were eager to celebrate his return.

Adams said his friends were constantly calling him to go out and party, but after a few months the novelty of his return had faded and people’s lives began to return to normal. For Adams

this meant collecting unemployment as he continued to search for the next social event.

“I just continued to party and I would look for people who were into that every day,” Adams said. “When you fall into a crowd like that bad things tend to follow you.”

Eventually Adams began drinking regularly in order to escape the vivid memories about his experiences in Iraq.

At times, he said his nightmares felt so real that he had trouble separating his dreams from reality, and often woke up thinking he was back in Iraq.

“I left one warzone and I went into another one,” Adams said. “The problem was the new warzone was in my head and I could not escape it.”

With no ambition or goals, Adams began to regret his decision to join the Army and felt as if he lost a year of his life. Adams continued to struggle with his anxiety and haunting memories. He began to contemplate suicide and knew he needed to make a change. To this day he is not sure why he did not kill himself, and said he had no revelation or savior, but he just did not do it.

After moving to Boston, Adams began to display the full extent of his mental illness. He went to the Veterans Affairs Hospital for a checkup on his leg, and when he was told that he could not receive an appointment for several months he began to yell at the receptionist, who calmly sat there until he was done.

She then showed him into a room with a few other people who appeared to be having a conversation. After sitting in the room for a while the other people got up and left the room and the receptionist returned. She informed Adams that he just sat in on a group therapy session of veterans who suffer

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Veteran Bryan Adams narrowly avoided death in Iraq. from PTSD. “At first I was really skeptical so I would lie and tell them I was fine,” Adams said. “I wasn’t taking it seriously and I wasn’t getting better.”

He met with a doctor who officially diagnosed him with PTSD after returning to the hospital, and began to attend therapy sessions regularly, but he did not see results right away.

Adams decided to return to college after several months of treatment, this time to Rutgers University. However, he said he had trouble fitting in with the student body and said classes became something he endured, rather than enjoyed.

While walking through the campus center one day Adams said a former Navy SEAL approached him

and the two began to talk about the lack of programs for veterans in college. As they began to meet more veterans on campus, they decided to form a student veteran organization at Rutgers, the first at any college in New Jersey.

The organization, called the Student Veteran Association, which now has more than 100 members, has spread awareness about the challenges many veterans face upon returning home and provides them with help and resources. PTSD is a battle worth fighting and in many cases can be won, Adams said.

“The greatest thing that I can impart on you is that these are not death sentences,” Adams said. “If you are diagnosed with a mental health disorder, you can recover from it and be stronger.”

‘It’s Thanksgiving’ becomes Internet sensation

BY MORGAN PFISTER Staff Reporter

Freshman Sam Weiss said the Internet sensation music video “It’s Thanksgiving,” by Nicole Westbrook, exemplifies how American culture is going downhill fast.

“If you look at YouTube it has around 20,000 dislikes and 1,000 likes,” Weiss said. “People clearly just watch it as a joke.”

Weiss said the majority of video viewers are students making fun of it. The video is just a way for the writer and producer, Patrice Wilson, to gain publicity and

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Nicole Westbrook sings into a turkey drumstick in the music video for her hit song, “It’s Thanksgiving.”

make money, he said. Wilson also produced Rebecca Black’s music video “Friday” and appears in both of these videos.

History professor David Suisman said in the traditional music business someone would look for talent and then pay that person.

In this case, Wilson looks for talent and then asks this person to pay him for the song and video production, he said.

Suisman said “It’s Thanksgiving” is a product of a small niche that has emerged in the music industry, and Wilson advertises to and recruits young girls by promising a possibility of becoming a young superstar. “[This business is trying to] build a market for exactly this kind of song,” Suisman said.

These songs gain popularity because they have a very appealing and “accessible musical structure,” according to Suisman. The most popular songs tend to be simple and are set in a melodic range that is easy for people to sing along with, he said. Lyrically, these songs appeal to the mainstream and are, at times, “cheesy” and “simple,” he said.

“You don’t have to be a good singer, you don’t have to have a particularly good voice and you don’t have to have a very good range, not only just to sing it but also to belt it out at the top of your lungs,” Suisman said.

Michelle Manghise, a professor

in Drexel University’s music industry program, compared the video to a car wreck, as everyone slows down on the side of the road to see the gory business and feels compelled to watch. She said a traditional publisher cringes when he or she sees videos like “It’s Thanksgiving” and, from this perspective, she is horrified that someone with limited talent and a “low quality” song is an overnight sensation.

Manghise said the music industry is expanding and allowing YouTube hits like Nicole Westbrook to gain recognition. However, she said it pains her to see them earn success given the song’s low caliber.

She said social media websites, YouTube and television shows like “American Idol” are all guilty of creating this new model in the music industry.

Manghise said a company called Ark Music Factory finds aspiring singers and writes their songs, styles their talent and does their production for a fee of around $2,000 to $4,000.

Despite the viewership of the video, she said these songs are targeted to pre-teenagers and a young demographic of around 13 to18 years old, and the result is a clever marketing campaign to elicit more young children to keep paying for a recorded song.

“Basically you just walk in and say, ‘Hi I want to be a star,’” Manghise said. “It’s like a little pop star farm—a machine that cranks

out young people who are talented or talentless. It doesn’t matter.”

She said the artists make next to nothing while the writers and producers reap the rewards from ringtones, downloads and YouTube payments because they wrote and own the publishing of the song.

Senior Colin Stanhope said he thinks people are talking about the video for the wrong reasons. He said people should focus more on how a 12-year-old girl is being portrayed, rather than how much they like the video.

“I don’t know whether it was her makeup or that she had lipgloss on or something, but when they zoomed in on her face and on her mouth it was a creepy, sexual thing,” Stanhope said.

Manghise said she noted some sexual undertones and innuendos in the video, such as Westbrook’s position on the bed and casually blowing out candles.

Suisman said 12-year-old Westbrook is “eroticized” in terms of how she is shot by the camera, how she is dressed and how she is made up. He said Westbrook is exploited sexually in the video, and he found it to be “incredibly creepy.”

Sophomore Stephanie Wert said songs in this genre are catchy, get stuck in your head and the videos are funny to watch.

“It’s just one of those things that I love to hate, and I’ve been showing everyone,” Wert said.

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November 20, 2012

This Week in History

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Nov. 22, 1977: The fourth annual Turkey Trot, a six mile cross country race, included frozen turkeys and Nike sneakers as prizes.

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Man arrested for local robberies and home invasion

A Newark resident was arrested last Tuesday for robbing a gas station twice in the past few months and a recent home invasion, according to Newark Police Chief Paul Tiernan.

On Nov. 6, Louis Rittenhouse, 31, entered a home with another suspect on the 100 block of Madison Drive and demanded cash from the man and woman who live there, Tiernan said. Rittenhouse and another suspect attempted to duct tape the victims’ hands together, but the male resident, 25, fought with the suspects and they fled. Detectives learned Rittenhouse was an acquaintance of the homeowners and linked him to the home invasion.

Tiernan said detectives linked Rittenhouse to several robberies at the Exxon Convenience store on South College Avenue and issued a search warrant last Tuesday. Officers found evidence linking him to the robberies, and he was arrested without incident, he said.

Rittenhouse was arrested on two counts of robbery in the first degree, two counts of possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony, two counts of attempted robbery, one count of home invasion with the intent to commit a violent felony, one count of burglary in the first degree, one count of wearing a disguise during the commission of a felony and one count of conspiracy in the second degree, according to Tiernan. He said Rittenhouse was committed to Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in lieu of $362,000 bail.

DJ’s unattended equipment stolen outside bar

More than $1,000 worth of disc jockey equipment was stolen from outside of Klondike Kate’s Restaurant and Bar Saturday, according to Newark Police Spokesman MCpl. Gerald Bryda. He said the incident occurred at 1:20 a.m. when the bar’s 22-year-old DJ left a red duffel bag filled with his equipment outside of the restaurant to get his car. Bryda said when he pulled up to the curb, the bag was gone.

There are currently no suspects for the theft, but the suspect will be charged with theft under $1,500.

Customers dine and ditch at sports bar

Two males fled from Buffalo Wild Wings Sunday after skipping out on a $44 bill, according to Bryda. The incident occurred at 9:15 p.m., when two males entered the restaurant, one wearing Dallas Cowboys apparel and the other wearing Baltimore Ravens paraphernalia, he said. During the course of their meal, several employees suspected the customers had left without paying a bill on a previous occasion, Bryda said. The employees confronted the suspects and, after some discussion, they agreed to pay for their bill using a credit card.

Bryda said the employees believed the situation was resolved, but the suspects ran out the door when the employees had turned their attention elsewhere, he said. The suspects left the restaurant in a silver compact style vehicle, according to Bryda.

While there are currently no suspects, Bryda said the suspects will be charged with theft of services.

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Students perform at the Internationsal Fashion and Talent Show.

In Brief Thanksgiving break starts Wednesday

Residence halls will close at 7 p.m. today due to the start of Thanksgiving break tomorrow. The last meal in the dining halls to be served will be lunch on Tuesday. Classes will not meet for the rest of the week and will resume on Monday. Residence halls will reopen Sunday at 2 p.m., and the first meal to be served in the dining halls will be dinner that day.

Columbia University professor to speak on ethics in Gore Hall Philip Kitcher, philosophy professor at Columbia University, will speak on “Ethics as a Human Project” in the philosophy department’s David Norton Memorial Lecture Thursday, Nov. 29 at 3:30 p.m. Kitcher received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1974 and has taught at Vassar College, the University of Vermont and the University of Michigan. The lecture will be held in 103 Gore Hall and is free and open to the public.

Magazine editor to attend pre-Kwanzaa celebration

Susan Taylor will speak at the university’s pre-Kwanzaa celebration Thursday, Nov. 29. Taylor, who is the founder of the National Cares Mentoring Movement and former editor-in-chief of Essence magazine, will deliver a speech outlining her passion for mentoring African-American children. The event is free for full-time UD students, $10 for UD faculty and staff and $20 for the general public. The event, which is being held in the multipurpose rooms of the Trabant University Center at 6 p.m., will also feature other attractions, including the universal African dance and drum ensemble, among others.

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Things To Do Tuesday, Nov. 27

Prezi Seminar 5 to 6 p.m., Sharp Lab Room 100

Wednesday, Nov. 28

Jews into Germans: Acculturation and Identity 12:20 p.m., Memorial Hall Room 122

Thursday, Nov. 29

Managing Conflicts of Interest in Health Care Culture and Leadership in a Time of Change 7 to 8:30 p.m., Trabant Theater

Friday, Nov. 30

Free Cosmic Bowling and Pizza Buffet 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., Blue Hen Lanes

Saturday, Dec. 1

REP Presents: Anything to Declare 2 p.m., Roselle Center for the Arts, Thompson Theater

Sunday, Dec. 2

Colorado Rhodochrosites 12 to 5 p.m., Penny Hall

Monday, Dec. 3

Transfer Student Banner Signing 5:30 to 7 p.m., Trabant University Center Multipurpose Room B

November 20, 2012

Politics Straight, No Chaser

Potential Fiscal Drags

$106

billion

Cast Lead II or Legitimate Retaliation Tax increases

$102

billion

Total: $607 billion $399

billion

Spending cuts Other

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‘Fiscal cliff’ marks potential economic crisis for Americans

BY CHELSEA HOLLOWELL Staff Reporter

Throughout the election season, candidates, economists and political analysts have talked about the “fiscal cliff,” in reference to the abrupt changes Americans will face if spending cuts and a tax increase occur simultaneously.

According to public policy professor Jonathan Justice, there are two ways of looking at the approaching fiscal cliff— in economic terms and in political terms.

The economic component has two parts, which include tax increases and a sequestration, or a cut in spending. At the end of 2012, Justice said “temporary” tax cuts made during the administration of former President George W. Bush and extended by President Barack Obama will reverse and taxation will increase across the board.

“In terms of tax increases, there’s something for everybody,” Justice said. “Pretty much everyone is going to take a hit on it.”

He said the tax cuts initially benefited people with a higher income, while the payroll tax reduction, adopted during the 2008 recession as an economic stimulus, benefited those with a lower income.

According to graduate student Abby Williams, the plan to reduce spending and increase taxes is to help reduce the budget deficit.

She said she thinks there are definitely other ways to solve the approaching economic crisis.

“We could also increase the rates more modestly than the Bush tax rates, which is what’s supposed to go into effect,” Williams said.

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In 2011 a “super-committee,” or Joint Select Committee, was created within Congress to spearhead a solution. Justice said they were given the ultimatum of either coming to a resolution or allowing the tax increase and spending decrease to take place.

“We’re all going to want so badly to avoid the backup plan happening that we’re going to make the primary plan happen,” he said. “It didn’t work well enough to get the super-committee to report out a recommendation last year.”

Justice said he will be watching closely over the next eight to 10 weeks to see if it works well enough to cause Obama and Congress to come up with an agreement.

Together, tax increases and spending cuts will create a contractive effect and Justice said in the best-case scenario the progression of the economy will slow. In the worst-case scenario he said the United States will fall into a “double-dip recession,” a recession followed by a short-lived recovery, followed by another recession.

Despite the impending economic deterrent, Justice said he believes Obama is starting his next presidential term with the country in better shape than when he took office four years ago.

Whether or not the president and committee reach an agreement could foreshadow how much the country will progress within the next four years, Justice said.

He said some pundits, experts in the field of politics and economics, have said the two could come to an arrangement, while others say each side had

and still has political motivation to be very inflexible. Obama’s recent re-election may give him enough political leverage to “stuff something very unpleasant down the throats of Congressional Republicans,” according to Justice.

Justice said he feels anxious and worried for the younger generation, who in the future will be left to pay for what the older generation enjoys today.

Freshman Lauren Johnson said she hopes policy makers, specifically Speaker of the House John Boehner, will compromise with Obama to come to a resolution regarding the fiscal cliff before the next generation will have to deal with the consequences.

“I think they really don’t have a choice at this point,” Johnson said.

“Republicans just got beat- again.

Unless they want to continue to lose, they can’t continue to stay where their position is and not compromise at all.”

She understands students may not have time to watch the news, but Johnson said she thinks they should be aware of the impending fiscal cliff.

Williams said she thinks the name “fiscal cliff” is ominous and speculates the term was coined in order to impact Americans.

Some pundits are saying the term has exaggerated the upcoming economic shift and according to Justice, it would be more appropriate to term it a “fiscal slope” or “hill.”

“The only way we’ll really know if it’s truly a cliff is if we go over it, and then we’ll find out,” Justice said.

Social media users might have noticed Jewish pride manifesting in the form of Hebrew posts on Facebook and Twitter proclaiming “Israel lives forever” last week, following a violent escalation of the complicated and enduring Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The commotion began on Wednesday when Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) assassinated Ahmed al-Jaabari, the commander of Hamas’ military wing, by means of an airstrike in the streets of Gaza. Israeli officials claimed the targeted attack and subsequent airstrikes were retaliatory measures in response to the persistent rocket attacks from Hamas militants in neighboring Gaza.

However, with Israel being a major ally of the United States and also a significant lobbying force in Washington, news regarding conflicts in the region often favors Israel. On this note, many Americans often oversimplify this complex and thorny issue by tacitly assuming that Israel is always defending itself and Palestinians are always aggressor terrorists trying to kill innocent civilians.

This imprudent conjecture is far from the truth, however, and reduces the true intricacy of this issue to a rudimentary thought process of “good versus evil.”

Thus, while I cannot provide a thorough examination of this issue within the confines of this column, I will attempt to provide some much-needed insight into this highly contentious matter.

The modern state of Israel as well as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank comprise what was formerly known as Palestine. Throughout this area’s long history, its population and ownership have varied greatly, but Arabs have made up the vast majority of the people for over 1,200 years with small pockets of Christians and Jews who coexisted peacefully.

In the late 1800s, however, a nationalist group of Jews known as the Zionists wanted to colonize Palestine and make it their homeland. In the beginning, this was not a concern to the Arabs who willingly sold land to the Zionists.

However, after the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and the advent of the Holocaust, Britain, who controlled the region at the time, endorsed a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Conflict soon arose as Jews continued to pour into the region at an exponential rate. In 1947, the United Nations intervened and decided to partition around 55 percent of the region to the Jewish state despite the fact they comprised only about 30 percent of the population. The majority Palestinians felt this arbitrary decision from an outside party was a deep injustice and rejected it. Zionist leader and future first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, however, wanted even more land and declared the

independent state of Israel in May of 1948. Jewish and Palestinian forces were already at battle, but upon this declaration, neighboring Arab countries invaded Israel in support of the Palestinians but to no avail.

Israel has since fought several wars against Arab forces, each time conquering additional land.

To this day, the West Bank and Gaza strip are still occupied by the Israeli military, which maintains a tight grip on the areas and conducts frequent raids despite the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, which turned over control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority.

In 2006, Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organization

by Israel, the U.S. and the E u r o p e a n Union, ousted the former Fatah Matthew government.

Garlipp Israel refused to recognize the Hamas government and responded by increasing the severity of its blockade on Gaza, raising concern among international humanitarian groups.

By 2008, however, it seemed that Hamas and Israel were on the verge of reaching a peace agreement, with Hamas agreeing to stop rocket attacks and Israel agreeing to loosen its blockade.

Hamas held up its end of the bargain but Israel failed to allow a significant increase in goods shipments. The truce lapsed, Hamas continued its rocket fire, and Israel carried out airstrikes and an eventual ground invasion that left over 1,000 people dead in a mere three weeks. This strong and determined military campaign of Israel, known as Operation Cast Lead, helped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud party garner support and eventual victory in Israel’s 2008 elections.

Now, as Israel’s 2012 elections loom closer, these events seem eerily familiar. Israel has been in a low-grade war with Hamas for about five years now, with rocket attacks and airstrikes occurring relatively frequently.

Therefore, I find it hard to believe Israel’s sudden need to retaliate and escalate the conflict, despite a recent period of relative peace between the two entities that also closely precedes an election as well as a possible UN bid for Palestinian statehood, is merely a coincidence. It is unclear whether political gain was the impetus for this recent rise in violence and many other significant factors remain that cannot fit in this piece but hopefully this goes to show this issue is clearly not as black and white as many seem to believe.

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November 20, 2012

Alums Plouffe, Schmidt talk changes in future elections

BY KELIA SCOTT Staff Reporter

Ralph Begleiter of the Center for Political Communications began the national agenda speaker series titled “Election Aftermath” Wednesday in Mitchell Hall by saying, “Whoever had won the most recent presidential election” got to talk first.

The two speakers, Democratic strategist David Plouffe and Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, both university alumni, discussed the impact of demographics, mistakes and technology in the recent election and what that may mean for future campaigns.

Plouffe, who managed President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and helped him win the election this month as his Senior Advisor, took the opportunity to explain why he thought Obama was re-elected.

Although the country went through the 2008 recession “painfully,” voters were beginning to see some progress, Plouffe said. He said people recognized the vision Obama has for the future on issues like education, technology and industry—a vision that he said will allow the country to remain a competitive global force.

Plouffe said changing demographics, especially with regard to women, young voters, Latinos and African Americans, in the electorate helped Democrats in the election.

However, he cautioned politicians not to “over learn” the lessons of the successful campaigns because the country is changing so quickly that

those lessons might not be relevant in 2016.

He said the American people are sending policymakers a mandate of “focus on us” rather than to continue fighting about partisan differences.

Schmidt managed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (R-Calif.) winning campaign in 2006 and was Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) top campaign strategist in 2008. He opened his part of the evening with an analysis on the flaws of the Republican Party and a description of what they should do to try and gain more of the country’s support.

“In order to advance an agenda, you need to be able to win an election,” Schmidt said.

Many Republican candidates, according to Schmidt, run on extreme platforms, which turns off a majority of voters who he said now associate “conservative” with “looniness.”

He agreed with Plouffe’s comments on the importance of demographics and acknowledged that the Republican Party needs to make a change regarding their attitudes toward women and Latino voters.

“If you were to say Latino to many of these people their answer would be, ‘Illegal immigrant,’ instead of doctor, lawyer, Silver Star Winner,” Schmidt said.

Many Republican policy makers have the wrong image of these voters and they need to start viewing them through a “prism of respect,” he said.

Women, according to Schmidt, do not want to hear lectures from pro-life Republicans anymore.

Schmidt said the party has a lot of “soul searching” to do, and it may take

a few election cycles until they figure out how to turn things around.

“Right now, our message is all stick and no carrot,” Schmidt said about the party, who he thinks needs a more forward vision. “The party needs to meet voters where they are, not the other way around.”

Junior Brad Willis, a political science major, said as a Republican he took Schmidt’s comments to heart and realized the party needs to reach out to different voters.

“I could see how the Democrats did that so effectively, going after key demographics and utilizing technology to the fullest,” Willis said.

After speaking generally about the downfalls of each political party in the recent presidential campaigns, Schmidt and Plouffe discussed each candidate’s individual mistakes.

Plouffe said Obama’s poor performance in the first presidential debate was expected, and afterward he and the rest of the president’s campaign staff focused on making sure he performed stronger in the next debates.

“This election had been going so smoothly that it would have been unusual if we had just landed the plane with no turbulence,” he said.

Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment was also discussed Wednesday. At a fundraiser in May, Romney was videotaped saying nearly half of the country’s voters do not pay income tax and are dependent upon the government for healthcare, food and housing.

Schmidt said the comment was a huge mistake and the Romney campaign paid the price for it. He used

it as an example of the Republican Party not understanding the electorate.

“It’s always a bad idea, if you’re running for president of the [United States], to attack 47 percent of the country,” he said.

Begleiter used the video of Romney as an example when he asked Schmidt and Plouffe how they think technology has impacted the recent campaigns.

Plouffe said even in the short time period between the 2008 and 2012 elections, technology changed dramatically. Now, he said, political analysts, the media and voters take an hour-and-a-half-long event and focus only on the small moments they think are important.

The use of mobile devices and social networking is increasing while email is fading out. In the future, Plouffe said, campaigns that use popular technology are going to be at an advantage.

Schmidt acknowledged the technology gap between the two political parties, noting that Obama’s campaign had a much larger online presence that increased voter turnout and got the party’s message out.

Republicans, Schmidt said, have a lot of catching up to do.

Both men discussed how the media makes it easier for people to believe misleading information about candidates, especially extreme message that can be found in partisan media.

“Many democrats believed [former President] George W. Bush had a device on his shoulder giving him instructions,” Plouffe said.

“It’s insanity.”

According to Schmidt, radical talk show hosts drive false messages into audiences’ minds, such as the argument over Obama’s birth certificate that began during his 2008 campaign.

He said the party would have been better off running against the “real” Obama instead of who the media was portraying him to be.

Senior Jessica Kradjel said she admired Schmidt for openly discussing the problems within the Republican Party last Wednesday, but was impressed with both speakers because they seemed to respect each other despite being members of opposing political parties.

“You have to be passionate about what your side believes in but you have to understand that the other side isn’t evil and out to get you,” Kradjel said.

Though speaking about contrasting political viewpoints, senior Kelly Schotz said both men were funny, laidback and pleasant with each other throughout the night.

“I was glad that they didn’t get super heated,” Schotz said. “I didn’t feel any negative energy coming from them.”

Throughout the evening a common message the speakers could agree on was now that the election is over, it is time for politicians to stop arguing and start agreeing to get things done. Plouffe and Schmidt discussed attempts to solve the current problems faced by the country such as taxes, the fiscal cliff and policymakers not working together.

“That’s paralysis and that’s not what the American people need right now,” Plouffe said.

‘Cops in Shops’ program aims to prevent underage drinking

BY KRISTYN DALY Staff Reporter

Carlos Salhuana, a nine-year employee at Peddler’s Liquor Mart in College Square, said he recognizes regular customers who come in to buy alcohol and typically knows what they drink. He gets suspicious when he sees a fresh face.

“They could look like they’re 21, but they’re actually 19,” Salhuana said.

“That’s when you have to be careful.”

Delaware law states that no one under the age of 21 may enter a liquor store. Even if a customer wants to select from the bags of chips and candy bars near the checkout counter at Peddler’s, they are asked for identification, Salhuana said.

Entering a liquor store underage is a criminal offense and punishable with a $50 fine, John Yeomans, Director of the Newark Police Department’s Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement, stated in an email message. The department makes an average of 150 arrests per year through “Cops in Shops,” where undercover policemen wait in liquor stores in plainclothes and ask for identification from people they believe to be younger than 21 years old, he said.

The goal of the program, which has been in operation for more than 10 years, is to prevent the sale of alcohol to minors, he said, and licensed liquor stores are very cooperative. “[We select our stores] based on field intelligence and investigations as well as those that request our presence,” Yeomans said. “Stores that are near schools and universities

that have been found to have sold to a minor in the past [also are selected].”

Not many undercover cops have been in Peddler’s this year, Salhuana said, but they typically sit in the parking lot and target underage consumers from there.

“They often come when a new semester has started,” he said. “They don’t tell us when they’ll be in though, they just show up.”

When he is suspicious about an ID, Salhuana said that by tilting it and checking the reflection, he can normally tell if it is a fake. He said most students who use fake IDs are from Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.

Unconvinced employees often ask for a backup and scan the ID because it may show up with a different name, but Salhuana said it’s hard to catch 100 percent of the underage customers who enter the liquor store.

A sophomore student who was caught last school year through the “Cops in Shops” initiative attempting to purchase alcohol with a fake ID at Peddler’s said he had used his fake ID on several occasions with no problems before then. He asked to remain anonymous.

“I had been in Peddler’s so many times,” he said. “I was a little overconfident.”

When the student tried to complete his purchase, a man he had never seen before was behind the counter. After examining and scanning the student’s ID, the man showed his police badge and the student confessed his ID was a fake.

The original charges included

$150 for intention to buy, $500 for possessing a fake ID and $70 for walking into the liquor store underage.

After his court hearing, he was charged $70 for entering the store and paid $1,200 for the lawyer he used in court and $200 for his probation officer.

Freshman Tricia Pennington said the behavior the police department uses in the “Cops in Shops” program is invasive and could be considered a profiling program. She said underage drinking is unpreventable no matter what cops try to do.

“I think they’re just out to get people because they know that college students are buying alcohol,” Pennington said. “They know they’ll catch someone [at the liquor] store, and that’s not fair. I think they should just let them be.”

Pennington said “Cops in Shops” is unnecessary because she does not think underage drinking is a major problem and she considers it acceptable.

“If you can vote and die for your country, why can’t you drink?”

Pennington said.

Alumna Frances O’Brien, 26, said it should be the shop owner’s responsibility to make sure that customers are of age. Liquor stores should be able to contact authorities when there is an issue with underage drinkers, she said.

While entering college, students are not always prepared to handle situations involving alcohol, O’Brien said.

“Not only are they learning how to be adults, but they’re also introduced to things that they need

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Entering a liquor store underage is a criminal offense and punishable with a $50 fine. to make mature decisions about,” O’Brien said. “I think people who are under 21 drink a lot more than people who are over 21.”

No matter how old a person is, she said, they need to be mature enough to know what they’re doing and, if they are underage, they need to be aware of the consequences before they make the decision to drink.

The anonymous sophomore

arrested last year said he is more cautious when he drinks because he does not want to get “caught for anything.” However, he believes “Cops in Shops” does not discourage anyone from using a fake ID or entering a liquor store underage. “[People] who use fake ID’s are still going to use them,” he said. “They think they’re invincible. I thought the same thing, too.”

November 20, 2012

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Colorado, Washington legalize recreational marijuana use

BY CHELSEA SIMENS Staff Reporter

Courtesy of www.livescience.com

Local police said they have not encountered “Smiles.”

New drug ‘Smiles’ linked to overdoses

BY ERIN REILLY Staff Reporter

Contrary to what its street name suggests, the synthetic drug “Smiles,” formally known as 2C-I, has been linked to an increasing number of overdoses across the country.

A potent psychedelic drug first synthesized in a laboratory by American pharmacologist Alexander Shulgin, “Smiles,” causes vivid hallucinations and feelings of giddiness similar to those induced by LSD and MDMA, which is a component in ecstasy.

Wellspring substance abuse counselor Jessica Estok said one of the riskiest aspects associated with taking a drug like “Smiles” is that the effects can be different every time a user takes it.

“Even when the same person takes the same exact dosage of the drug a second time the outcome is unpredictable and changes the dangers that go along with it,” Estok said. “A lot is unknown about synthetic drugs.”

Undesirable side effects include paranoia, seizures and violent behavior.

According to Estok, 2C-I users may suffer from high blood pressure and high body temperatures after taking the drug, although Estok said the long-term effects have not been researched yet because the drug is so new.

“Smiles,” which is sold in powder, pill and liquid form, has been connected to the deaths of two North Dakota teenagers and may have been involved in the alleged murder-suicide by “Sons of Anarchy” star Johnny Lewis in September.

Douglass Taber, a biochemistry professor and drug synthesis expert, said users under the influence of “Smiles” behave abnormally due to their altered state of consciousness.

“When you are in the middle of a hallucination it’s real to you and you act on it,” Taber said. “That’s why people do strange things because they are reacting to the reality they feel inside themselves.”

Estok said that there have been no locally reported cases of “Smiles” locally, but the drug is on the rise in the tri-state area. The Drug Enforcement Administration labeled 2C-I as a “Schedule 1” drug, he said. Drugs listed in that category have the highest potential for addiction without any medical benefits.

Newark police spokesman MCpl. Gerald Bryda said Newark officers deal with at least a dozen drug cases each week, but the department has not noticed an increase in synthetic drug use across campus.

“There’s nothing that would spark a major concern for us,” Bryda said.

While “Smiles” is currently not an issue in the Newark area, Bryda said the department has made arrests for K-2, a type of synthetic marijuana, and bath salt use. Distributing or manufacturing a synthetic drug like “Smiles” is considered a Class E felony that usually results in minimal jail time, he said.

Taber said synthetic drugs are becoming increasingly popular because the ingredients and information necessary to make them is very accessible to amateurs. The structure of the drug is on the Internet, so anyone could make the compound. Some cold medicines now require a prescription because they can easily be turned into a designer drug, he said.

Wellspring substance abuse counselor Amy Richardson stated in an email message that synthetic drugs are popular with young adults because many of them do not show up on standard drug screens. Richardson said more research needs to be conducted in order to gain a full understanding of drugs like “Smiles.”

“Little is known about the longterm dangers or effects these drugs may have,” Richardson said. “So far, the implications are not positive.”

Earning a profit is also a major factor that has added to the rise of synthetic drug use across America, according to Taber.

“If you do trace analysis on $20 bills, every bill except brand new ones from the government shows traces of cocaine,” Taber said. “If cocaine use is that widespread, you can imagine the market for other things.”

In July, the government passed the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act, which banned the use of synthetic substances including 2C-I, bath salts and cannabimimetic agents.

Regulations against synthetic drug use can be extremely difficult to enforce because users create new drug variations every year, Taber said. He said making the drug illegal wouldn’t work, and the most effective long-term solution is education.

The same day President Barack Obama was re-elected for his second term, Colorado and Washington became the first two states in the country to legalize recreational marijuana use and possession for people over the age of 21.

Voters approved the Colorado Marijuana Legalization Amendment, also known as Amendment 64, while the Washington Marijuana Legalization and Regulation, Initiative 502, was passed in Washington marking the first time recreational marijuana legislation was passed.

Amendment 64 has not been fully enacted yet, but University of Denver freshman Kathryn Avedon, 19, said the outcome is already stirring excitement within college communities. She said she noticed that although the legal age is 21, people of all ages are eagerly anticipating legalization.

Avedon said she believes people in Colorado were excited, but not shocked, about the legislation because the state has a stereotype of consuming marijuana.

Students at the University of Delaware, like senior Justin Heanue, think there are negative preconceived notions about marijuana use that affect people’s perceptions of the drug. He said although marijuana was formerly illegal in Colorado and Washington, it does not mean people will now legally misuse it due to the restrictions surrounding its use.

“There are still social norms,” Heanue said. “Like, you can’t go to your job high whether it’s legal or illegal.”

Despite the debates surrounding the drug, junior Anthony Winder said he agrees with the decision to place the same restrictions on marijuana as alcohol. He said the reason legalization passed now as opposed to earlier attempts is because the legislators “revamped the bill” by including a list of new restrictions.

Amendment 64 lists many restrictions in marijuana use including it being “taxed in a manner similar to alcohol.” Similarly to alcohol, customers are required to present a photo ID when purchasing marijuana.

Those of the legal age will be allowed to purchase up to one ounce of the drug from retail stores and grow up to six marijuana plants in their homes. However selling, distributing and transferring marijuana to minors, driving under the influence and using marijuana in public remains illegal.

Initiative 502 proposes a 25 percent tax imposed when the grower sells marijuana to a processor, again when the processor sells it to a retailer and a third time when the retailer sells it to a customer.

Avedon said marijuana and alcohol are related because they are excessively used by college students, so they should be thought of in the same way.

“If people are willing to risk damaging their brain and liver to get drunk then why should anyone judge

someone who is willing to damage their brain and lungs to get high?” she said.

State Senator Bryan Townsend said recreational legalization of marijuana in Delaware completely depends on the interest of voters.

In his district, he said voters do not see it as a primary issue. If residents wanted to legalize recreational marijuana, Townsend said the government would have to look at the economic benefit.

“You would have to dapple with the issue of tax revenue, which is one reason why people would be supportive,” Townsend said.

In 2007, there were 872,720 marijuana-related arrests in the United States, and 89 percent were for possession, according to regulatemarijuana.org.

The website states legalization will not automatically eliminate crime, but it might improve it over time.

Junior Elizabeth Gibson said she foresees legal recreational marijuana confusing police officers when trying to make arrests. The entire procedures for marijuanarelated arrests are going to change, she said.

“It’s not really eradicating the problem because it might be more difficult for law enforcement,” Gibson said. “There’s so much that they’ll have to know. Before it was just all weed was illegal, it was like an umbrella and now it’s just a lot more specific.”

However, Avedon said deterring the police force’s focus from petty marijuana arrests is good for the public because police will be able to make more arrests for violent and dangerous criminals.

Programs such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education formally teach students about the dangers of drugs, but junior Deborah April said a parent’s input can have an important impact. She said the legalization of marijuana can be seen as a means for opening communication between parents and kids.

“I think it will mend gaps between parents and children,” April said. “We can be more open about drinking alcohol because it’s been legal. With two states legalizing marijuana I feel I can be more open talking to my parents about that.”

Winder also said the revenue from taxation of legalized marijuana will benefit public goods, which everyone can take advantage of within the community.

In Colorado, Avedon said some of the tax revenue is going towards funding public schools. She said the individual states that decide upon recreational legalization will benefit from the extra income.

“Public schools aren’t the best in Colorado, so the taxes are going to help them so much,” she said.

“People are definitely going to be willing to pay the prices so the profits are going to be high.”

The idea of legalization is already spreading to state governments across the nation. On Thursday, Rhode Island and Maine introduced legalization measures into their state legislatures.

April said results of legalizing recreational marijuana could potentially change the way voters in other states feel about the issue, depending on how successful it is.

As for now, she said Colorado and Washington are just “guinea pigs.”

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Colorado and Washington are the first two states in the country to legalize recreational marijuana use.

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November 20, 2012

‘Roo’ discusses vision for 2040

BY ELIZABETH QUARTARARO Managing Mosaic Editor

Arabica coffee beans are used in over 70 percent of all coffee blends.

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Arabica coffee beans may go extinct

BY CHELSEA HOLLOWELL Staff Reporter

Arabica coffee beans, which make up 70 percent of the world’s coffee supply, could be extinct by the year 2080, according to a study by scientists at the Kew Royal Botanical Garden in England. The beans are facing shortages in their natural environments due to the effects of climate change, which could increase coffee prices in the future, according to the study’s lead investigator Aaron Davis.

Coffee is said to be the world’s favorite beverage and the second most traded commodity, Davis stated in an email message, and the economies of some countries depend on exportation of the beans.

Coffee beans grow in very specific climates, he said.

Indigenous Arabica, which is found in southwestern and southern Ethiopia and on the Boma Plateau of South Sudan, has a “restricted natural range” of growth that is shrinking, he said.

“In a locality analysis, the most favourable outcome is a 65 percent reduction in the number of pre-existing bioclimatically suitable localities, and at worst an almost 100 percent reduction, by 2080,” Davis said.

Investigators working on the study performed simulations to project three potential emissions scenarios, in a process called “bioclimatic modelling,” he said.

The findings of the study could be applied to the 70 countries around the world that produce coffee crops.

From 2009 to 2010, 93.4 million bags of coffee beans weighing 60 kilograms each were shipped internationally, he said. That commerce accounted for an estimated $15.4 billion in business and 52 of the 70 coffee-

growing countries reported about 26 million jobs are based in the industry.

Prices of the 500 billion cups of coffee sold worldwide each year could increase if the number of naturally acclimated crops begins to dwindle, Davis said.

Joe Marshall, owner of Brewed Awakenings, a coffee shop on Main Street, for eight years, said he estimates Arabica beans make up 70 percent of all coffee. Those kinds of beans would be the first to disappear, according to the study.

Marshall said he has not yet faced any price increases due to climate change because he has a good relationship with the co-op he buys from. He said he would handle an increase in the price of coffee beans cautiously.

“I wouldn’t immediately increase my price of coffee for maybe a month or two,” Marshall said. “It would be a slow gradual approach.”

Davis said members of the coffee industry would need to make changes to their business model if they want to remain in the business.

“There are numerous activities required to ensure the sustainability of the coffee industry, including developing mitigation and adaptation strategies in existing plantations and sourcing new areas for coffee production,” he said.

The current climates where the bean is grown can act as long-term storehouses for coffee genetic resources to prevent the extinction of the wild “germplasm,” or collection of genetic resources, while the coffee industry formulates a plan for the future, Davis said.

Some students said they heavily rely on coffee and even a minor change in the price could

alter their behavior.

Junior Matt Eherts said he started drinking coffee within the past month to help him focus. He said coffee is popular because it helps college students start their day, but cutting it out of their daily intake would not be impossible.

“At first they’ll be like, ‘Oh my god I need my coffee,’ but no you don’t, you’re fine,” Eherts said. “I was fine before it.”

Part of the reason people drink coffee, Eherts said, is because it’s a “trend and a drug.”

Senior Maggie Brezinsky said she would still purchase her black Starbucks coffee even if the prices doubled as the crops decreased.

“It would definitely impact, obviously, my consumer part of it,” Brezinsky said. “I think I would still buy it though, I would just be poor.”

Marshall is hopeful that new technology will emerge before his coffee prices would double. Prices are based on many factors, and he hopes there is a lot of time before he has to make changes.

Before acquiring his coffee shop in 2004, he had worked in “corporate America” food service for 25 years, and he enjoys working at Brewed Awakenings with his daughters and their friends who are on staff.

“I discovered this whole culture around it and I really liked it,” Marshall said. “I’ve made more friends in eight years running that coffee shop then I have my whole life.”

Davis said his team will continue to study coffee beans for the next five to 10 years as the coffee industry changes.

“There are clear financial incentives for doing this and the coffee industry is creative and adaptable,” Davis said. “It is also clear that there is a lot more research to be done.”

On Saturday, students from seven universities met to discuss their vision for the nation in the year 2040 at the Perkins Student Center.

As members of the millennial generation and of the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, a student policy organization with more than 80 chapters across the nation, these students are planning for a world where their peers will be in the positions to make the decisions that will shape the nation.

Conference leaders define millennials as those born between the 1970s and early 2000s.

Five university students including seniors Hanna Madsen and Allie Rosenberg and juniors Kristin Fretz, Stephanie Schmidt and Kelsey Schultz, founded the university chapter of “Roo” last fall, and the group now has about 20 regular members.

Fretz is co-president alongside Madsen this year, and said millennials do not like to wait around “until it’s our turn” to instigate change. The Roosevelt Institute’s university chapter gives students something they can do beyond signing a petition, she said.

“We train millennials,” Fretz said. “We try to empower millennials to think about what they value in their lives and how that can impact government and the future.”

Lydia Bowers, the national deputy policy director for the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, led a workshop called “Think 2040.”

Participants brainstormed values they would like to see reflected in specific outcomes in the year 2040, when members of the millennial generation would hold positions in public office.

During the first portion of “Think 2040,” groups discussed values, which Bowers defined as “the source of motivation for the change you want to see in the world.” Groups were then challenged to develop outcomes, or, what they wanted to see happen in the year 2040, as reflections of those values.

The final component of the “Think 2040” workshop was to develop a policy which Fretz said acts as the “in-between step” between the value and the outcome.

Workshops like this, which members of the university chapter have run in some undergraduate public policy classes, encourage people to see that policies are not just pieces of legislation, Fretz said.

“We don’t want people to think you have to pass a bill in order to make a change,” Fretz said.

While introducing “Think 2040,” Bowers said the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network was formed as a response to the 2004

elections, when people felt the government did not represent their values. She said the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network allows students to enter into the policy dialogue and gives students more to do than knock on doors to make their voices heard.

“We exist because the millennial generation has something very important to say,” Bowers said.

The full-time Roosevelt Institute offices are located in New York and provide an outlet for students to create and evaluate policies and get them to decisionmakers on the state and nation levels, senior “Roo” member, Daniel Reyes, said.

“They do something called ‘Ten Ideas,’ basically that’s a policy journal for undergraduates,” Reyes said.

“People are actively designing policies or analyzing policies for policymakers to review.”

Fretz said in addition to chapters making changes in government, some schools have also made effective changes within their schools.

At Northwestern University, Roosevelt students eliminated plastic bags from their campus, he said. At the University of Maryland, students organized an initiative to donate extra food from the dining halls and sporting events to a local food bank.

Reyes presented his project, which he does through the Office of Service Learning, at the conference. His program uses the infrastructure of the Food Bank of Delaware to directly connect low-income communities to local farmers throughout the state in a way that is economically, culturally and socially acceptable, he said.

He said the chapter serves as a platform for him to get his project off the ground as well as receive feedback and suggestions.

“The benefit of being associated with ‘Roo’ and giving presentations like that is that I can get a lot of good feedback and ideas from people who think in a similar way—or even a little dissimilar—from people who are interested in progressive policy,” Reyes said.

He said right now, the chapter mostly supports people doing individual projects, and expects it will focus on larger policy initiatives in the spring. Next semester he thinks the group will expand by getting involved in more intensive projects around campus.

Fretz said the university chapter’s mission is to make students aware of the power they have within themselves. She said, in this election especially, students were not inspired to get involved and they did not think they know enough about the issues to get involved.

“All you have to do is think about what you care about, what you know about, and how you want the world to reflect that,” Fretz said.

November 20, 2012

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Maryland narrowly passes gay marriage into law on election day

BY ROSE MCNEILL

people will now be called a marriage instead of a civil union.

The difference between the two During this year’s elections, not only lies in the wording but the Maryland voters were not only waiting benefits. Those united in civil unions for the results of the presidential race cannot file federal taxes jointly and but also to see if their state had decided federal benefits, such as social security to legalize same-sex marriage. The and can be more difficult to receive state narrowly passed the law with due to the Defense of Marriage Act, 52 percent of the vote, and many she said. DOMA defines marriage as Delaware residents are unsure of what the legal union between a man and a this means for their own state. woman, she said.

Gay marriage allows same“Because marriage is the legal sex couples that have previously relationship that all states recognize, been excluded calling the from marriage relationship rights to have something else legal benefits, makes it harder according to to challenge if history professor this is inequality,” Rebecca Davis.

Davis said.

“I think it’s Sophomore an important M a r y a n n e victory in the Gallagher said fight for full she supports gay gender equality marriage and and full equality thinks one day for gay men and it could pass lesbians in the in Delaware.

United States,” “[Civil unions Davis said. are] kind of unfair, In a study like they’re only conducted by the giving them half,” Pew Research Gallagher said.

Center, support “They might as for gay marriage -Rebecca Davis, well just allow it.” across the country J u n i o r history professor and has increased HAVEN to 49 percent President Cedric just before the election, after having Steenberghs said he believes the already increased from 39 percent to reason Delaware has not already voted 48 percent from 2008 to earlier this to legalize gay marriage legal is due year. Voter opposition has dropped to the conservative population in the from 51 percent to 43 percent in the lower part of the state. However, he same timeframe. said he thinks the majority of college Junior Kelsey Daisey said she students support gay marriage, which opposes gay marriage. She believes could help change the future for samemany people who oppose gay marriage sex marriage laws in Delaware. are hesitant to admit their opinion in Steenberghs said civil unions and front of those who support it, she said. gay marriage do not mean the same “I feel like the opposing side is thing. He said one of the main issues too afraid to speak up for what they is not calling it “marriage,” which believe,” Daisey said, “I feel like the separates it from the conventional idea people that promote gay marriage— of matrimony. they’re more open about it, and so I “The thing about civil unions is think they’re going to eventually have that they’re always just a compromise more say, and, eventually, it is going to between older people who are get legalized in more states, unless the ideologically against gay marriage opposing side tries to stand up for their because of the word ‘marriage,’ views also.” basically,” Steenberghs said. “As Davis said the legalization of gay the younger population gets older, I marriage in Maryland marks a change think you’ll see that that compromise in terminology. Unions between gay doesn’t have as much a hold.”

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Mock trial wins tournament

BY MATT BITTLE Sports Editor

Students provided evidence, cross-examined witnesses and acted as attorneys during a series of trials held earlier in the month. This was not a real trial, however, but a mock trial tournament.

Delaware’s mock trial team competed in the 10th Annual Quaker Classic Tournament at the University of Pennsylvania on Nov. 10 and 11. The team won the tournament, defeating a number of other schools, according to junior Ryan Leonard, the president of the mock trial club. The club, which has existed since 2005, had never won a tournament before.

He said mock trial competitions feature imitations of actual legal proceedings.

“The mock trial club is a simulation of kind of like a fake case, a simulation of a case that’s written by lawyers and the bar association, and the attempt is to generate debate in a courtroom in order to provide development and legal experience for college kids that are participating in it,” Leonard said.

According to Leonard, the American Bar Association also supplies different roles for students to enact, such as witnesses or attorneys.

The cases are often based upon past legal proceedings with some small changes, he said.

Sophomore Phil Pasquarello, who has been a member of the club since last year, said these simulations can be helpful to students regardless

of whether or not they plan to attend law school.

“There are a variety of majors,” Pasquarello said. “It’s just good for public speaking, thinking on your feet and critical thinking.”

Leonard said during competitions, judges score the participants for a variety of factors, such as poise and knowledge of the law. One side is declared the winner based on the performance of the witnesses and attorneys. The judges are either professional attorneys or former mock trial members, Leonard said.

He said the team is assisted by Paul Wallace and Martin O’Connor, both members of the attorney general’s office. O’Connor said he feels he has been able to offer the team some guidance. He also said one of the reasons mock trial is valuable is because it helps students learn about the legal process.

“It exposes them maybe not to real world ‘lawyer-ing,’ but it certainly exposes them to current active lawyers who are working to process works,” O’Connor said.

Leonard said Delaware’s mock trial team, which competed in the Quaker Classic in 2010, made its case and was allowed to enter into the typically invite-only tournament.

Like most teams, the Delaware mock trial squad brought two teams to the competition. The teams were split up between the club’s 19 members so as to have two equally-skilled groups, Leonard said.

Leonard said 50 teams took part in the tournament. One of the university’s

teams finished 8-0, with victories over Drexel University, La Salle University, William & Mary University and the University of Maryland.

Pasquarello said he expects the win to boost the club’s profile.

“The biggest thing is we haven’t really gotten a lot of recognition from the university and the national mock trial scene,” Pasquarello said.

He said the team has a number of talented participants who could help them in the future. O’Connor said the club’s win in the Quaker Classic displays the capabilities and dedication of the participants.

“It was really great because they’re a really young team, mostly freshmen and sophomores, who have taken on attorney and witness roles that are very complicated, and I think it’s a credit to the students,” O’Connor said.

In the tournament, three of the Delaware mock trial club’s members won awards for their performances— freshman attorney Ellie Wallace, junior witness Seth Ritter and Pasquarello, who was an attorney.

Pasquarello said the team will compete in several competitions over the upcoming months, with a tournament at Temple University in early December, a meeting at the University of Richmond in January and nationals in February in Lancaster, Pa. He said the team will be “looking to make some noise” and increase its morale.

“We’re trying to build confidence and pick up some wins and earn some recognition,” Pasquarello said.

“It’s an important victory in the fight for full gender equality and full equality for gay men and lesbians in the United States.”

Reiss: ‘If everyone knows what’s going on, it will be less chaotic’ Continued from Page 1

Wing said she thought the Registrar handled the issue well and thought it was right that they cleared people’s schedules who had registered much earlier than their enrollment appointments.

Stanley said there was a message about the error on the Registrar’s website until around 4:30 p.m. on Friday, when it was resolved and all emails had been sent out. The message said the system was fixed as soon as the Registrar’s Office was aware of the issue, no courses were

filled and registration would proceed normally.

Junior Grace Relf said she heard about the registration glitch when she was in the Honors Program building on Thursday, and her advisor was stressed about it.

She said before people knew that the seats that were registered for early would be cleared, her friends were upset they didn’t know about it. At the same time, she said they were worried their classes would fill up. She would have liked more information from the university.

“If there’s that problem, they should communicate it to the school and say what they’re doing to solve the issues so people don’t have to worry about getting into their classes,” Relf said.

Sophomore Cleo Reiss said in her first class Thursday morning, a friend told her what had happened and said when she had tried to get online in the morning, registration was closed. She said a couple of her friends on her floor also registered early. One of her friends was stress-free, then disappointed when her schedule was cleared.

Reiss thinks the Registrar

made the right decision to clear these schedules. However, she said they should have done a better job communicating with all students.

“If everyone knows what’s going on, it will be less chaotic,” Reiss said. “Registration causes a lot of stress.”

While the amount of people who registered early was not a large portion of the student population, she said it could have made a difference. She said the people who registered probably had an early reenrollment date anyway and were checking the website, and when they realized

they could register, they told their friends.

When it comes down to getting a seat in a class it’s a very stressful time for everyone, especially because students register on their own. She said the miscommunication could have frustrated students.

“If they put that responsibility on us to choose our classes, they have the responsibility to tell us what’s going on,” Reiss said.

10November 20, 2012

‘Pay as You Earn’ encourages education

BY ANDREA LUNA Staff Reporter

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Stock market plummets after Obama’s re-election

BY RACHEL NASS Staff Reporter

A recent drop in the stock market may have been the result of an election that left investors uncertain about the country’s economic future, according to Bruce Weber, Dean of Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 312 points on Nov. 7, the day after President Barack Obama’s re-election, marking the largest single-day drop in almost a year. According to Weber, the drop was due to the failure of the election results to provide a clear economic blueprint for politicians.

“The thing that will drive prices down quicker than anything else is uncertainty, and what we’ve got right now is a lot of uncertainty,” Weber said. “You didn’t really see a clear message from the voters as to what they want politicians in Washington [D.C.] to be doing.”

Obama’s victory did not reveal a preference for the president’s liberal economic policies, which include tax increases, over the conservative alternatives presented

by Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney. He said elections at the Senate, congressional and local levels also did not show a clear choice by voters of one political party over another.

Obama did not receive the votes to indicate a mandate and Republicans did not garner the same type of support they had in 2010, Weber said.

Without the mandate that would allow either Democratic or Republican goals to advance, he said, shareholders expect

continuing gridlock over issues affecting the economy.

Weber said the results indicate policymakers have more hard work to do in order to solve the fiscal challenges facing the country.

Senior Andrew Lee said Republican investors reacted based on false perceptions of how Obama’s policies affect their shares.

“The reality and how people perceive the reality are different,” Lee said. “Those in the one percent are going to perceive an Obama victory as something that would, plainly speaking, hurt them financially.”

Economics professor Laurence Seidman said some highincome investors who supported Romney might have sold stocks in the days following the election as a reaction to Obama’s tax code.

“One side feels good, the other side doesn’t feel good,” Seidman said. “They may have expressed a fear that taxes will go up.”

Some students said investors were responding to doubt about Obama’s ability to fix the struggling economy. Junior finance and marketing major Bob Brown said the market moves based on public perceptions about the country’s economic future, which some Republican investors fear for under Obama’s presidency.

“People are scared of what Obama’s doing,” Brown said. “If Republicans think that Obama’s going to do the wrong thing with their money, they’re going to pull out and show less confidence.”

Weber said he challenges suggestions that the drop was specifically caused by Obama’s win. Republican voters may attribute the market drop to investors’ distrust of Obama, but

he said that is a misreading of the market’s fluctuation. The correct interpretation is that the election did not provide a clear direction as to how politicians will solve economic issues.

Whatever the cause of the plunge, stockholders reacting to a political event is not a good sign for the economy, Weber said.

“What you like to see is that the political landscape creates enough certainty and stability that the markets will only fluctuate based on the things that are really not under political control—things like the weather, commodity prices and the economic situation in Europe and Asia,” he said. “What we’re seeing now is that there’s significant political uncertainty.”

According to Seidman, focusing on any short-term fluctuations in the markets is unwise. Instead, attention should be directed toward how politicians’ agendas will affect the economy in the long-term, he said. Most economists do not pay attention to single day moves in the stock market, Seidman said.

“I don’t think anybody should get too worked up,” he said. “It could have gone up 300 points, and I still wouldn’t take it too seriously.”

Lee said he thinks an agreement between both parties can be reached.

Obama has already demonstrated a desire to compromise on economic issues, Lee said.

Weber said the solution to the uncertainty is some form of compromise between differing positions in Washington, D.C., which he believes the investors would respond well to.

“The market would react positively at this point to seeing the two sides of the economic debate coming together,” Weber said.

President Barack Obama’s “Pay as You Earn” program will increase the demand of education and make students’ loans appear to be less of a financial burden, according to economics professor Vincent Marra.

“It is probably something that is necessary in the current budget environment that we have,” Marra said. “We cannot continue to spend federal money without looking for specific ways for it to be paid back.”

As a way to encourage higher education and relieve stress over post-college debts, Obama’s “Pay as You Earn” program was accepted by the U.S. Department of Education which began accepting applicants on Nov. 6. Under the program, student loan borrowers can have their monthly loans capped at 10 percent of their income and receive loan forgiveness after 20 years of repayment.

While Marra said there are several benefits to “Pay as You Earn,” other issues arising in debates over this program include the issue of payment and increased government spending in the poor economy.

Marra said students will still look for jobs upon graduating, since, even though there might not be a sense of urgency to pay off their loans, there is a small percentage who might not get jobs.

Senior economics major Pierre Dempsey said new college graduates will inevitably worry about finding employment regardless of the loan’s rate of repayment but thinks some graduates will not feel the same pressure.

“The only problem is for the lazier people who don’t get a job after college, they will default or get forgiven,” Dempsey said.

“It’s definitely a good plan, but minimal adjustments should be

made for those who try to get a job instead of for those who don’t and think that they’ll be forgiven in the future.”

Dempsey said the full amount of the loan should be due in a shorter amount of time and defaulting the payment should not be so easy.

Senior Stephanie Haggan said she sees issues rising due to the program’s cap being the same for all of the borrowers.

The government should regulate payment by looking at each loan individually depending on how well each borrower is doing, she said.

“I think maybe it would be helpful to individually review these financial situations to see what their progress is, what their standing is at the moment and determine it then,” Haggan said.

Dempsey said few students understand the terms of their loans since many parents take care of repayment and those who do understand these terms are the students who pay them themselves.

Haggan said she has taken out a few loans for her education and thinks her family would benefit from the new program.

She said she does not believe loan repayment will be as big of an issue as people are perceiving it to be. Students have a large amount of expenses and cannot afford to put the majority of them in student loans, Haggan said.

Marra said the new student loan program will yield benefits to society and possibly even the government.

Higher education can open up many possibilities and benefit those who might not have had the means to receive an education due to finances, he said.

“Some of these people will go on and bring benefits to society,” Marra said. “Somebody could be the next person who invents something that is very useful, like a cure for cancer.”

November 20, 2012

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Interesting items left behind at bars

BY MATT SCHULZE Staff Reporter

Senior Amanda Rominiecki said she has woken up “at least four times” after a night out at the bars with only one earring in. One time, she even lost her nose ring.

“How did I not notice that?”

Rominiecki said. “It must have been ripped from my nose.”

Rominiecki is an example of a student who has lost items when drinking at the Newark bars.

Now, with the winter cold setting in, employees at local bars are seeing an increase in abandoned outerwear items. Patrons who bring jackets, scarves and gloves are leaving behind their clothing, and lost and found boxes are filling up.

Emily Dryer, an assistant manager at Grotto Pizza, said there is a marked increase in the amount of lost and found items during the winter. The policy of many bars is to place most lost items in the lost and found box while valuable items are typically stored in the manager’s office for safe keeping, Dryer said. Patrons tend to come back more often for more valuable items, however.

“Cell phones, people tend to come back for pretty quickly, but wallets and stuff get left overnight often,” Dryer said.

The Grotto’s lost and found has limited space, and unclaimed items that are in good shape are donated to organizations like Goodwill and the Salvation Army after about a year, Dryer said.

Sarah Martell, a manager at Catherine Rooney’s, said her restaurant has a policy regarding the retrieval of lost items. If a wallet or credit card is recovered, patrons need to describe it, as well as its contents, she said.

“If it’s a credit card, they need to know the name and maybe show

another form of identification,” Martell said.

The morning after a busy night at the bar, the restaurant will hang jackets from the stairwell for patrons from the previous night to claim, she said.

Martell said she once found a bag of marijuana tucked in the corner of a booth after closing time, but no one came to retrieve it.

The amount of time a bar keeps a lost item varies from bar to bar. Home Grown Café keeps items for six months, while Catherine Rooney’s keeps items indefinitely.

Employees at some bars said their businesses have taken steps to prevent items from being left behind or taken. Kildare’s Irish Pub and Klondike Kate’s Restaurant and Bar offer coat checks where customers can give their coats to staff members.

Grant Robinson, a bartender at Home Grown Café, said students forget things at his restaurant on a nightly basis, and the only reason anyone leaves anything at his restaurant is because they are drunk.

“If somebody comes in and describes it or say they lost it, then we will show it to them,” Robinson said. “And usually you can tell—I mean, if somebody’s coming in, they aren’t just trying to get a free jacket.”

Once an EpiPen was left at Robinson’s bar and found during closing. He said he was concerned that someone would need it if they had an allergic reaction, so he made sure it was put in the lost and found.

Patrons come back the next day searching for their missing items, but are often out of luck, Kildare’s manager Anna Cooney said. The last memory of having their items was at the bar, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it was left there, she said.

Bars on Main Street hold different policies for lost and found items.

“For the most part, they know that they were intoxicated at the time, so they take it for what it is,” Cooney said.

Some students said they expect to lose items when they go out because bar environments are not conducive to keeping track of valuables. Rominiecki said she usually writes off the missing items as drunken mishaps and does not return to claim her things.

Bob Baker, a manager at Klondike Kate’s, said as patrons get more intoxicated during the night, the likelihood of someone

losing something increases. He said if patrons don’t show up to claim their items, these items could go up for grabs.

“If someone likes a jacket and it’s been there for a long time, it might end up in an employee’s closet,” Baker said.

Alumnus Edward Bruce, who graduated in 2009, said he has lost credit cards at Newark bars but always returns the next day to retrieve them.

Students who lose their belongings should not expect bars to hold on to them, he said.

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“I don’t think the bar should be held responsible for personal items that are brought into the bar,” Bruce said. “It certainly is a nice gesture if they try to keep the items, but overall, you should be responsible for your own items.”

Rominiecki said she thinks bars should be responsible for the valuables that patrons leave behind.

“We spend enough money on the drinks, they should be able to collect our lost belongings,” Rominiecki said.

Media skews results of Puerto Rico’s vote in favor of applying for statehood, 30 percent undecided

BY MATT BUTLER Staff Reporter

On Nov. 6, Puerto Ricans voted in favor of applying for statehood for the first time in history. According to a CNN report, 61 percent of citizens voted to change the current status of the American commonwealth. Similar proposals were rejected in 1967, 1993 and 1998.

However, Puerto Rico’s admission to the United States might mean little more than a 51st star on the flag, according to Persephone Braham, a Latin American Studies professor. She said the vote is not exactly as the media has reported. Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rico’s acting governor who lost re-election, pushed this initiative and overstated the results, Braham said.

“It was a very confusing ballot,” Braham said. “It was sort

of weighted to favor statehood. So when he said they got 60 percent of voters, that is a complete fabrication.”

Braham is referring to the fact that almost one-third of the ballots cast left the alternative status question blank, according to the CNN report, meaning that more than 30 percent of the ballots did not indicate whether statehood or something else was the preferred option. If those numbers are all considered to be anti-statehood votes, the percentage of supporters drops below 50 percent.

President Barack Obama said if Puerto Rico does want to be a state, the issue will be sent to Congress and considered, according to Braham. In order for that to happen, however, the president has said it would have to be clear that Puerto Ricans want to apply for statehood.

If the commonwealth was

admitted into the United States, the effect would be minimal, she said. Puerto Ricans would begin to pay federal taxes, such as taxes on income, and there would be a small increase in population of the United States. There are approximately 4 million Puerto Rican citizens, and more than half of all Puerto Ricans actually reside in the continental United States, Braham said.

Freshman Brian Helmetag said he believes Puerto Rico becoming a state will help stimulate the economy, since there will be more people paying taxes.

“More money coming from more people would help any nation,” Helmetag said.

He said the U.S. government would be able to help Puerto Rico become stronger, and thinks they deserve to be a state.

Freshman Ryan Coury said if Puerto Rico was admitted into

the country, the economic effects would benefit the United States as a whole.

“I think it would create more jobs,” Coury said. “And maybe more economic opportunities would open if we could utilize Puerto Rico as a state.”

One of the major reasons Puerto Rican statehood has failed in referendums in the past is because Puerto Ricans are afraid to lose their culture, Braham said. Part of Fortuño’s statehood proposal would mandate that English would be the main language of Puerto Rico, and the language of education and business. She said when talking to her Puerto Rican friends, this is their main concern.

“They really believe strongly that Spanish is their cultural heritage and that they should not be forced to speak English,” Braham said. “Not all Puerto Ricans feel this way, but many do,

and many do not want to lose their cultural identity.”

Freshman Zachary Pearson said he believes Puerto Rico can still maintain its culture if granted statehood because of its physical separation from the United States.

“They’re kind of like an island so they have some degree of isolation, so they’ll keep some of their culture,” Pearson said.

Economic downturn and a removed population are both major factors in the Puerto Rican vote for statehood, Brahman said. She said the issue will most likely lose popularity, and Puerto Rico will continue to be a commonwealth.

“Fortuño was defeated in his bid for a second term as governor, and the guy who was elected, Alejandro García Padilla, is procommonwealth,” Braham said.

“So it is totally going to fall off the Puerto Rican radar for the duration of his term.”

12 November 20, 2012

Students consult WebMD, internet for self-diagnosis

BY ELENA BOFFETTA

tool that is used to gather additional information about someone who has been diagnosed,” Avino said.

Sophomore Kelly Spagnola “But it is not a scholarly tool for said she visits health information use without the guidance of a websites like WebMD if she healthcare professional. Someone is curious or confused about may very easily misdiagnose symptoms she is experiencing. themselves. A diagnosis not only She said the Internet enables requires symptoms awareness but people to self-diagnose while also requires a complete physical providing them with more exam with laboratory testing.” resources and answers that can be Sophomore Billy Boyer said found faster than the time it takes he often researches his ailments to see a doctor. on the Internet because it saves She said she thinks the websites time and relieves stress when he are convenient and accurate, and can quickly find out if his illness she will only seek medical help is minor or serious. Despite the if her symptoms persist. Still, benefits, Boyer said consulting a Spagnola recommends anyone doctor is still the safest solution. who is ill to “Obviously see a doctor in you are not a order to get a doctor, so if straightforward you look up answer if they your symptoms do not want to online you do the research. can miss “ T h e something very I n t e r n e t important,” bombards you Boyer said. with all this “For example, information, a headache but a doctor can be a tumor can tell you instead of just the actual fact a headache that instead of every can be treated single option,” with Tylenol.”

Spagnola said.

J u n i o r “The Internet C a r i s s a educates you, McKinney but medical help said she does is probably the not use online best option.” self-diagnosis Regardless w e b s i t e s of convenience, -Karen Avino, because she n u r s i n g finds them nursing professor professor Karen inaccurate.

Avino said these Symptoms can online services are not always as be very general and websites accurate as people think. She said present many different diseases using websites to self-diagnose that confuse and scare a patient, can be misleading because she said. many different illnesses have “After listing their symptoms, similar symptoms. people can see a cold and cancer According to a study published on the same page which makes this month from the Pew Research them imagine the worst and get Center, 80 percent of Internet scared,” McKinney said. users have researched their Freshman McKenzie Culotta symptoms and health information said she prefers avoiding online. The study reported that 52 Internet self-diagnosis and health percent of smartphone owners use information websites when sick apps to diagnose their symptoms, because she is a hypochondriac despite some claims that Internet and a “germaphobe”. self-diagnosis can be misguiding She said if her symptoms and inaccurate appear serious she will go to the Health apps allow people to Student Health Center, or she will count their caloric intake, monitor ask her friends who are nursing their vital signs, calculate disease majors for advice. Although risk and learn answers to health- online research can save students related questions, according to the money and time, websites offer Pew Research Center. an extensive amount of data and Avino said the Internet can she finds it difficult to draw an be a starting point, but websites accurate and reliable diagnosis, like WebMD cannot replace she said. seeing a healthcare professional “I would not recommend that who can provide an accurate people research their ailments and reliable diagnosis. Websites online,” Culotta said. “If you are provides basic information about very seriously ill you might want diseases but not the expertise and to look up symptoms online to knowledge of a physical exam, get an idea but then you should she said. go to the doctor to receive an “I think WebMD could be a official diagnosis.”

Staff Reporter

“[WebMD] is not a scholarly tool for use without the guidance of a healthcare professional.

Someone could very easily misdiagnose themselves.”

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Students and faculty participated in the Colonial Athletic Association Have A Heart Blood Challenge.

University takes part in annual CAA challenge blood drive

BY MELANY JUSTICE Staff Reporter

In the past 10 years, the university and Drexel University have each won five Colonial Athletic Association Blood Challenges, according to Lisa Gravely, the senior manager of marketing for Blood Bank of Delmarva. She said this year will be the tiebreaker to see which school comes out on top, but she expects the university to win the title.

“We are competitively promoting the blood drive in local communities,” Gravely said. “We expect more than last year’s 1,386 registered donors to participate.”

Blood Bank Delmarva teamed up with the university for the 11th annual CAA Blood Challenge Wednesday with a blood drive that took place in the Trabant University Center multipurpose room, Pencader Dining Hall, Bob Carpenter Center and Perkins Student Center.

Gravely said the blood bank has been in existence for 58 years and has won the 2012 Super Starters in Business for Nonprofit award. She said the blood bank aims to provide a safe and adequate blood supply to the 16 hospitals and more than 20,000 patients on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Gravely said former university

President David Roselle started the CAA Blood Challenge 11 years ago to raise awareness and donor participation amongst college students. The challenge aspect is a way to bring unity and school pride among students, she said.

The event aimed to top last year’s donor participation level and reach a goal of 1,500 donors, according to Gravely. She said while other blood donating events are more low-key, Wednesday’s blood drive had vendors, music, sponsors and giveaways to promote attendance and reach out to students through a setting that was more fun and youthful.

Senior Erin Hoban said she works for the blood bank in the Christiana Hospital and was glad the university sponsored the activity. She said she is an advocate of donating blood because while working in the hospital she has seen patients’ first-hand who have benefited from donations.

During high school Hoban said she received a “gallon award” for donating eight times in a community center before graduating high school. In college, she said she had continued her dedication to donating.

“I’m part of the life-saver program, so I donate every 56 days,” Hoban said.

Hoban said although the blood drive was marketed as part

of the challenge she did not see the competitive atmosphere taking away from the seriousness of the event, and did not hear anyone talking about it at the event.

When she considers the amount of students that showed up to the event, she thinks they must realize the importance of being blood donors.

Hoban said she was impressed with the turnout of the event but thinks a better way to promote the impact of donating blood is to educate people through health classes.

Junior Emily Anderson said she first started donating after her grandfather encouraged her to do so. According to Gravely, every donation of blood saves up to three lives, but Anderson does not think students understand the importance. She said more students should donate because it’s an easier way for them to make a difference than participating in community service.

Sophomore John Stott said he donated for the first time during his first semester freshman year and has been doing it ever since.

“My dad does it a lot, so I grew up used to it,” Stott. “I know it saves lives better than watching TV at the dorms.”

November 20, 2012

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Gas sold on Craigslist after hurricane

BY ANTHONY RAIMONDO Staff Reporter

Craigslist is known for its sales of cars, bikes and appliances, but after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast, people starting advertising gasoline on the site.

After the storm, there were gas shortages in hard-hit areas including New Jersey and New York. This resulted in peddlers selling tanks of gas from their home and some going far enough to deliver it for an extra fee.

On Nov. 10, a seller in New York City posted, “I have gasoline and diesel available for sale. Prices are as follows: gasoline $4 per gallon, diesel $5 per gallon. We deliver a minimum of five gallons per delivery. There is an $80 service charge per delivery.”

Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) made an executive order on Nov. 2 that rationed gas by using a system where the last number of people’s car’s license plates delineates if they can purchase fuel on an even or odd day, according to New Jersey’s government website. Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I-N.Y.) enacted a similar rule on Nov. 9, according to New York City’s government website.

The ads for gas spread across Craigslist, with many being flagged for removal.

Recently, some advertisements offered gas in exchange for sex.

Saul Hoffman, professor and chair of the Department of Economics, stated in an email message that he is not surprised ads for gas are popping up on the website.

“In this case, Craigslist filled a market need that consumers could

not satisfy through normal channels because gasoline deliveries were disrupted,” Hoffman said.

Even though people can buy gas on Craigslist, it didn’t stop them from waiting in long lines to fill up at the pump.

Derek Ambrogi, an employee at Speedway gas in Randolph, N.J., said immediately following the storm, the lines for gas were the longest he has ever seen.

“We had a town generator powering the entire station because we had no electricity,” Ambrogi said. “The week after we had two hour long lines with hundreds of cars back. We had a $40 limit and police officers monitoring the station.”

Anna Lee Bachtell, 71, of Union, N.J., lives on a street with two different gas stations. She said the shortage was so bad that people were getting “testy” with each other.

“The lines were miles long and people were getting mad as they waited,” Bachtell said. “My son was in line to get gas and two guys thought he was trying to cut, so they got out of their car and threatened to beat him up.”

Hoffman said some people who could afford gas or needed it the most might have bought fuel at higher prices on Craigslist and would probably buy less than normal and only drive as necessary.

Sophomore Ivan Arguello from Tenafly, N.J., said his family has felt the affects of the gas shortage.

“I haven’t been home since the hurricane but my family said there were long lines immediately following the storm,” Arguello said. “I would just wait in line for gas but my Dad might

buy gas on Craigslist if he needed it because he drives to New York City every day.”

New Jersey authorities have filed eight civil suits accusing businesses of price gouging after Sandy, seven of which were gas stations. The state defines price gouging as raising prices 10 percent more than what the price was before the state of emergency was declared.

There were more than 2,000 complaints of price gouging since the state of emergency was declared on Oct. 27 in New Jersey, according to a CNN report.

Hoffman said that no matter what, the price of gas was after the hurricane, prices should return to normal.

“I don’t think effects on gas prices were large, because rationing was imposed instead,” Hoffman said.

“The hurricane caused a temporary but serious supply disruption. Undoubtedly, supply will return to its normal level when conditions in the affected areas improve. This will return prices to their pre-hurricane levels.”

Ambrogi said the gas station he works at did not raise prices during the shortage, and prices have gone down since. The price at Speedway gas during the shortage was $3.71 per gallon and the current price is $3.61 per gallon.

No matter what the prices are for gas at the station or on Craigslist, Arguello said selling gas on Craigslist is extremely unethical.

“It’s just taking advantage of the situation,” Arguello said. “It’s not like selling concert tickets which are a privilege. Gas is a necessity for most people.”

Local police attempt to stifle texting while driving

BY REBEKAH MARGULIS Staff Reporter

In an attempt to stifle texting and using cell phones while driving, Delaware police teamed up with the Office of Highway Safety to test the new media message “Phone in one hand ticket in the other” combined with increased road enforcement, according to OHS community relations officer Alison Kirk.

Any state with a hands-free law already in place can apply for the grant to pilot the program, she said.

Kirk said the committee put the program into effect from Wednesday, Nov. 7 to today after the office received grant money from the National Highway Traffic Administration. This pilot is the first of three waves, with two-week intervals scheduled for both April and June, Kirk said.

“We are really trying to see levels of awareness out there through observational surveys conducted to see how many people in general are using cell phones,” Kirk said.

Between Jan. 1 and Nov. 7 of 2011, 9,950 cell phone-related tickets were distributed in the state of Delaware, according to Kirk. She said the tickets were given primarily for talking on cell phones. However, police officers struggle to enforce the citation because they have to actually see the person physically texting, and the officer would have to follow the driver for some time before coming to a reasonable conclusion, Kirk said.

The statistics may be skewed though because people are not always forthcoming about their activities,

according to Newark Police Spokesman MCpl. Gerald Bryda. An officer can often suspect a driver was texting or using a cell phone, but if they did not see the offense happening or if the driver does not admit to it, they are given a ticket for inattentive driving rather than distracted driving, he said.

The Office of Highway Safety hired officers to work additional hours to enforce this program, Bryda said. Due to this program, the amount of drivers pulled over for phone violations should increase, he said.

“The biggest thing we focus on in our traffic enforcement is speeding, but this is right up there because it is one of those distracted driving violations that leads to vehicle collisions,” Bryda said. “So it should be one of the most important things we do when patrolling for traffic violations.”

When dealing with the dangers of these offences, “it all comes down to distracted driving,” Kirk said. She said distractions that take your hands off the wheel can lead to serious consequences, as these are the two main things needed while driving.

Sophomore Jordan Zarour said he never texts while driving and has a personal grudge against it. He said a friend from home hit a guardrail after reading a text while driving, which resulted in a bad accident.

Zarour said he officially decided to stop texting and driving during a health class his senior year of high school after he saw a video describing serious and fatal accidents involving distracted driving. In addition, he said there have been several television commercials that have made him seriously reconsider

even looking at his phone while driving.

“One little text is not worth brain damage,” Zarour said. “Nothing is that important.”

While Zarour said he hopes the crackdown will work, he knows a lot of people that simply do not care, and he believes they will continue to text regardless. He said he hopes if people know officers are vigilant in their searches for these offenses, they will be more cautious.

Sophomore Margot Langendorff said she believes texting and driving is one of the most dangerous things a driver could do. She said it is “about time” the police start cracking down on the law, which is already in place in Delaware.

Langendorff said she has never been pulled over for this reason, but she has texted while stopped at a stoplight.

She said she knows of the danger associated with this action, which often gives her anxiety while texting.

The new crackdown has made her conscious of her own distracted driving habits, she said, and she thinks the way police handle the situation could have a significant effect on other people as well.

Zarour said he believes this issue is worse in Newark due to its status as a large college town. As a college student, most people’s entire lives are mobile, he said. It is hard enough to walk to class without checking your phone, let alone driving for a long period of time, he said.

“People need to realize that the impact could be greater than just hurting themselves,” Zarour said. “There are more people on the road than just yourself, just pull over.”

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Despite the efforts of the police and fire departments, as well as the resuscitative efforts made by his neighbors, DiSabatino was decalred dead at Christiana Hospital.

Brookens: ‘I wish that everyone in this lifetime can meet someone as amazing as Peter’

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Despite the efforts of the police and fire departments, as well as the resuscitative efforts made by his neighbors, DiSabatino was declared dead at Christiana Hospital, according to Farrell.

John Brennan, a university spokesman, stated in an email message that the university decided against sending out a UD Alert to students due to a perceived lack of danger.

He said the alerts are reserved for instances when action must be taken and, in this case, there was no action students or faculty had to take to remain safe.

“The investigation into the death of UD student Peter DiSabatino was conducted by New Castle County Police, and they indicated to our police officers very early on that the crime was not a random event and that other people were not in danger,” Brennan said.

Sophomore Briana Brookens, who attended Appoquinimink High School with Hewett and DiSabatino, said she was in the Hugh Morris library when she received a call about his death. She said she still finds his passing “unbelievable.”

“I wish that everyone in this lifetime can meet someone as amazing as Peter,” Brookens said. “No matter what situation, I’ll always have a story about him. I’ll always reminisce about this kid. Some of the funniest moments I have from high school are about him.”

Brookens said DiSabatino was known as the “funny guy” amongst the people who knew him. She said he left an impression on students and teachers with his humor and carefree attitude.

Hewett said DiSabatino was just discovering himself before he was killed. He said he was enjoying his time in college and was maintaining a good relationship with his family.

“He was having so much fun,” he said. “He did get a taste of the life he wanted to have. For a good amount of time, he was really happy.”

Sophomore Alexander Szewczyk said he first met DiSabatino during freshman year when they both had women’s studies and introduction to drama classes together. Their

relationship quickly went from classmates to friends, and one of the first times they hung out outside of class, they watched a 19-hour disk set on World War I and went mountain bike riding. DiSabatino was passionate about making music, and his rap name was Pistol Pete, Szewczyk said.

He said he bonded more with DiSabatino in one year than people he has known all of his life. Szewczyk said he briefly lived with DiSabatino in the Studio Green apartment earlier this year, but a fight prompted him to move out. He said they had managed to patch up their friendship before he died.

“I’m going to make a poster to leave on his grave site tomorrow,” Szewczyk said Sunday. “It’s definitely not something that I’m ever going to forget or get over. I was actually there when it happened. Something like that doesn’t ever leave you.”

Hewett said one of the ways he will memorialize DiSabatino is by making the movies they planned together. DiSabatino inspired him to remain fearless in his endeavors and loyal to his friends and family.

“In college, I got to see a different side of him,” Hewett said.

“He really cared about his friends and his family. He was on the road to self improvement. I lost a great friend of mine, but I also lost the best business partner I will ever have.”

Weglarz said while he does not think the shooting was random, he advises students and residents to remain cautious. He does not want people to have a false sense of security, as the suspects have not been apprehended.

“I don’t want people to be complacent,” Weglarz said. “If you see any suspicious activity, please call it in.”

Peter DiSabatino is survived by his mother, Angela, his father, Thomas, and his older sisters, Caroline and Natalie. Visitation was held yesterday from 4 to 7 p.m. at Cornerstone United Methodist Church, in Bear, Del. Anyone with information about the incident can contact the New Castle County Police Department at 302-3958110. They can also provide a text tip at 847411 (TIP411), beginning with NCCPD, then typing the message.

November 20, 2012

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The university should improve system error message methods The UDSIS registration error causes students difficulty On Thursday morning, hundreds of students signed onto their UDSIS portals to find they were able to register for spring semester earlier than the first enrollment slot. Due to a glitch in the system, there was a window to register from midnight on Wednesday to approximately 8 a.m. Thursday morning, making it possible for students to register e arlier than expected. For most students who registered during that time frame, UDSIS wiped out their class enrollment to correct the s ystem e rror.

The university’s Office of the Registrar emailed students whose classes had been dropped afterward, saying students who signed u p b efore their scheduled time slots had to re-­ register to “be fair to all students.”

Some students who registered early claim UDSIS kept their schedules, but most were dropped. The Registrar’s website posted a message about the error on Thursday, but it was removed Friday afternoon when everything was resolved.

The university needs to become more transparent when it comes to technical errors, especially when the problem involves something

as important to students as class registration. The Registrar should have notified all students about the error, in case more were planning to sign up for classes, and should have posted a notice about the situation online. With hundreds of students registering for classes in the same time period, technology errors can be expected. However, it helps to know when to anticipate these errors and to have directions to follow in case the system is still down.

Students feel a sense of urgency when it comes to class registration.

Often, students have to sign up for classes with limited seating that they need to take in order to fulfill their major requirements. This is especially true for seniors who are obligated to take classes by a certain semester to graduate on time. The university needs to do a better job of making sure students are aware of any technical issues during registration dates to alleviate any tension during the process. Class registration is a two-­way street, and the university should be just as determined as the students to make sure everything runs smoothly.

Predicted exctinction of coffee within end of century shocking The Arabica bean’s possible extinction in next 70 years acts as reminder, Earth’s natural resources are changing Last week the scientists at the Kew Royal Botanic Garden in England released a study reporting climate change alone could lead to the extinction of the wild Arabica coffee bean well before the end of the century. The Arabica coffee bean possesses considerable genetic diversity, making it possible to create different types of coffee. Moreover, the Arabica coffee bean makes up 70 percent of all coffee. Scientists conducted this study using a modeling system generating three environment emissions scenarios over the range of 2020, 2050 and 2080. The results predict the bean will be extinct in about 70 years.

Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world after oil and an essential factor to

the e conomies o f s everal c ountries.

Hitting closer to home, we live in a culture where coffee is celebrated. Our Main Streets are lined with multiple coffee shops and coffee pots have become staple appliances in most kitchens.

Many c ollege s tudents d rink c offee everyday, with some drinking it multiple t imes a d ay. T he e xtinction of a type of coffee is shocking news to many caffeine lovers who wonder what will happen after this resource is exhausted.

The extinction of something so prevalent and woven into everyday life is an eerie reminder Earth is changing. The threat of coffee beans vanishing reminds us to appreciate natural resources, sustainability a nd f oster p rotecting land in developing nations.

THE REVIEW/Grace Guillebeau

“Ye be warned, UDSIS will faulter.”

Corrections: The page 12 article titled, “UD alum designs custom nail polish” incorrectly states alumna Sara Ricklen personalized gifts for Christmas. Instead, she designed nail polish for the holidays. Also, New York City and fashion inspired her collection, not her friend Samantha Bart.

The front page Mosaic teaser incorrectly states the article titled “Student-­run co-­op to open next semester with healthy, organic food” was on page 23, when it really appeared on page 19.

In the page 16 article titled, “Delaware: The Movie,” Amy Foley did not say the main character of Delaware: The Movie will be partaking in Parkour.

In the Oct. 29 issue, the article titled, “Main Street food cart sees first decline in eight years” incorrectly states there is a decline in business, according to owner Bernie Dollard.

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want  to  quickly  buy  a  drink  or  snack,  no  one  has  time  to  wait  in  such  a  long  line  just  to  order  or  pay  for  a  prepackaged  item.  The  Starbucks  in  Smith  cannot  be  a  coffee  shop  and  a  convenience  stop  DW WKH VDPH WLPH LI LW RIIHUV VSHFLDOL]HG GULQNV  All  we  need  is  a  snack  or  a  simple  cup  of  coffee.  The  middle  of  Smith  is  no  place  to  start  making  real  Starbucks  drinks  because  it  isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  a  coffee  shop,  and  when  we  stop  there,  we  donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  have  casual  coffee  shop  time.  And  noâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;plopping  a  well-­known  coffee  store  into  the  middle  of  Smith  does  not  fool  anyone  into  liking  one  of  the  most  unattractive  buildings  on  campus.  Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  like  a  modern  Band-­Aid  on  the  outdated  building.  Not  only  is  Smith  plain,  but  it  is  also  con-­ fusing  with  its  multiple  exits  surrounding  the  Colonnade.  For  a  poor  freshman  (or  even  a  geographically-­challenged  junior  like  myself),  this  mass  of  people  extending  from  Starbucks  PDNHV LW HYHQ PRUH GLIÂżFXOW WR JHW DURXQG WKH GLVRULHQWDWLQJ EXLOGLQJ , FDQ QHYHU ÂżJXUH RXW which  exit  to  leave  from,  and  the  last  thing  I  need  is  a  crowd  of  people  waiting  for  their  spe-­ cialty  drinks  skewing  my  sense  of  direction.   When  I  do  get  a  drink  there,  the  coun-­ ter  where  I  used  to  enjoy  a  spacious  area  to  mix  sugar,  milk  and  wipe  up  coffee  when  I  in-­ evitably  spilled  it,  is  now  a  large,  ugly  block  of  Starbucks  storage  cabinets  (which  I  origi-­ nally  thought  were  lockers  for  students,  so  this  was  another  disappointment).  The  new  counter  where  you  can  mix  coffee  is  tiny  and  crowd-­

ed  by  other  students  waiting  for  their  drinks.   If  students  crave  Starbucks,  theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll  go  to  Main  Street  and  be  OK  with  the  wait.  While  itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  nice  to  be  able  to  purchase  these  drinks  on  FDPSXV ZLWK SRLQWV DQG Ă&#x20AC;H[ 6PLWK LV IDU IURP the  ideal  location.  Plus,  this  standâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  food  op-­ tions  donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  look  fresh,  and  when  I  ordered  an  egg  and  cheese  they  didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  have  ketchup,  which  discredits  any  food  supplier  immediately.  Smit-­ tyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  as  fancy  as  Starbucks  and  didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  even  offer  hot  food,  but  it  was  cheap,  offered  a  large  variety  of  items,  the  structure  was  un-­ obtrusive  and,  most  importantly,  it  was  fast.    Smittyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  was  one  part  of  our  school  cul-­ ture  that  made  us  different  like  the  prison-­styled  'LFNLQVRQ &RPSOH[ VWUDQJH <R8'HH LQĂ&#x20AC;DWDEOH mascot  and  dining  area  called  the  Scrounge.  Starbucks  is  mainstream.  While  the  university  might  have  thought  it  would  be  appealing  to  stu-­ dents  because  the  chain  is  cool,  theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re  focusing  too  much  on  improving  the  schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  brand  and  LPDJH LQVWHDG RI ZKDW FDQ EHQHÂżW WKH VWXGHQWV who  have  to  navigate  the  labyrinth  of  a  campus.   Colleges  should  include  diverse  joints  that  give  the  school  its  personality.  With  the  XQLYHUVLW\ÂśV IRFXV RQ EHLQJ DIÂżOLDWHG ZLWK well-­known  brands,  weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re  forced  to  drink  Starbucks  in  Smith.  We  also  buy  Apple  com-­ puters  at  the  campus  Barnes  &  Noble,  and  of  course,  drink  more  Starbucks  there,  too.  The  Smith  Starbucks  and  even  the  Gore  Hall  closet  now  called  the  POD  are  examples Â

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Students come together, donate to Sandy relief Michelle Shapiro

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The  joint  efforts  of  students  donating  after  Hur-­ ricane  Sandy  provides  comfort  during  a  time  of  unease.  Love  prevailed  in  times  of  destruction  as   Hurricane  Sandy  ravaged  the  northeast  in  Octo-­ ber  and  left  communities  barren  and  devastated.  Amongst  the  affected  areas,  New  York  and  New  Jersey  received  the  brunt  of  the  attack.  Friends  of  mine  lost  their  homes,  their  boardwalks  and  their  childhood  memories.  I  think  one  reason  why  the  VWRUP VHHPHG VR KRUULÂżF WR XV LV EHFDXVH LW KLW VR close  to  home.  We  were  all  watching  areas  in  the  news  that  we  knew  and  loved.  Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m  from  Queens  in  a  neighborhood  close  to  Rockaway,  where  D KRXVH ÂżUH OHIW IDPLOLHV ZLWK QRWKLQJ DQG people  in  the  street  desperate  for  food  and  water.   The  real  tragedy  of  the  storm  and  what  makes  it  so  relatable  is  that  it  could  have  eas-­ ily  happened  to  any  of  us.  The  disturbing  force  of  Sandy  was  able  to  thrust  through  towns  and  take  so  much  from  so  many  peo-­ ple,  but  wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  able  to  rob  them  of  their  spirit.   What  surprised  me  most  about  the  storm  was  not  the  damage  it  caused,  but  the  strength  of Â

the  victims  and  those  who  assisted  them.  Within  several  days  of  the  storm,  people  volunteered  in  various  affected  areas  bringing  clothes,  food,  water  and  supplies.  I  watched  the  news  and  saw  the  trauma  ev-­ eryone  was  going  through.  It  was  different  to  see  what  the  storm  was  like  on  the  news  than  to  ex-­ perience  the  dam-­ age  for  myself.   On  my  way  back  to  Delaware  from  New  York,  I  ran  out  of  gas  in  New  Jersey.  Many  people  can  identify  with  the  anxiety  one  feels  when  running  out  of  gas  on  the  highway,  but  I  couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  antici-­ pate  the  anxiety  I  would  feel  when  there  was  no  gas  left  in  the  entire  state.  I  waited  on  gas  lines  for  seven  hours,  which  turned  into  waiting  on  the  side  of  my  road  for  my  sister  to  drive  from  New  York  to  pick  me  up. Â

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the  situation.  I  thought,  â&#x20AC;&#x153;If  I  feel  tremendous  anxiety  from  this,  how  do  the  people  who  have  nowhere  to  live  and  no  one  to  turn  to  for  help  feel?â&#x20AC;?  It  was  in  that  moment  I  decided  I  needed  to  do  something,  even  if  it  was  minor.   Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m  not  a  person  who  usually  gets  involved  in  causes  or  starts  them.  To  be  completely  hon-­ est,  Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m  not  even  D PRGHO FLWL]HQ However,  I  do  have  empathy.  I  didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  know  where  to  start  or  how  to  help  the  victims  in  the  be-­ ginning,  I  just  knew  I  wanted  to  be  able  to  reach  as  many  people  as  possible.  I  started  calling  local  businesses  for  sup-­ plies  and  decided  I  would  make  a  San-­ dy  relief  drive  for  Rockaway.  Sears  was  able  to  donate  a  lot  of  outstanding  products  for  people  to  start  rebuilding  their  lives.  I  decided  to  reactivate  my  Facebook  so  I  could  reach  the  largest  amount  of  people  as  possible.  Upon  reactivation,  I  saw  se-­ nior  John  Chrimes  had  started  a  Sandy  relief  group Â

already  and  we  were  able  to  work  together,  with  the  help  of  his  fraternity,  Kappa  Alpha,  to  make  a  food  drive.  I  started  getting  Facebook  messages,  texts  and  phone  calls  from  acquaintances  and  people  I  hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  spoken  to  in  years  asking  to  help.  The  sense  of  camaraderie  from  people  willing  to  donate  was  an  important  factor  in  the  success  of  the  drive.  By  the  end  of  the  week,  I  was  able  to  deliver  medicine,  food  and  supplies  to  those  affected  in  Rockaway.  Delaware  truly  helped  a  lot  people  who  needed  it  and  I  thank  you  all.  I  was  nervous  in  the  beginning  of  the  drive  that  no  one  would  step  up  and  help  out.  I  was  ecstatic  about  the  amount  of  donations  and  support  I  received  from  students  at  the  uni-­ versity.  All  it  takes  is  one  person,  one  voice  and  one  moment  to  make  a  difference.  Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  just  as  easy  to  help  as  it  is  not  to.    Take  that  one  minute  or  one  dollar  a  day.  Find  a  way  to  bring  health  and  happiness  to  oth-­ ers.   No  one  has  to  volunteer  everyday,  but  do-­ nating  a  can  of  food  is  a  simple  act  to  offer.  One  can  of  food  is  the  difference  in  survival  for  some  peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we  are  all  too  fortunate  not  to  give  back.  Again,  special  thanks  to  all  who  helped.  If  you  are  looking  to  donate  and  donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  know  how,  switch  your  Facebook  viewing  from  your  ex-­boyfriendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  page  to  â&#x20AC;&#x153;UD  Sandy  Reliefâ&#x20AC;?  and  do  something.

Michelle  Shapiro  is  a  guest  columnist  for  The  Review.  Her  viewpoints  do  not  nec-­ essarily  represent  those  of  The  Review  staff.  Please  send  comments  to  michshap@udel.edu.

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Blue Hens CAN collects food for Delaware’s needy

BY GILLIAN MORLEY Staff Reporter

Blue Hens CAN, the university’s first weeklong campus-wide food drive, collected approximately two tons of non-perishable food items from pasta to peanut butter in order to feed Delaware’s needy for the upcoming holiday season, according to CANR communication specialist Adam Thomas.

In preparation for Thanksgiving, the university’s College of Health Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Food Bank of Delaware organized and put on the event last week.

Many registered student organizations also helped the initiative, including the Dietetics and Nutrition Club, the Interfraternity Council, the Food Science Club and the Occupational Therapy Club.

University President Patrick Harker spoke at Mentors’ Circle last Monday to kick off the event, which continued throughout the week. The university set up food collection buses at varying locations around campus each day to gather food.

Harker said the university’s gardens have been responsible for

more than 17,000 pounds of fresh food donated to the local community this year, and he is impressed with what they have been able to provide to Delaware’s needy.

“This economy is not getting better anytime soon and people are really struggling,” Harker said. “So the fact that the UD community steps up to support our neighbors is something I am really proud of.”

Those who donated also received a raffle ticket, which included a chance to win prizes ranging from an iTunes gift card to a UDairy ice cream gift basket.

Food Bank of Delaware president and CEO Patricia Bebe also spoke at Mentors’ Circle and said some of the food collected throughout the week will be sent to New Jersey and New York’s food banks to provide aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Food Science Club president and junior Krystal Shortlidge said the Delaware food bank has struggled this year, and the food drive on campus will be a good way to help them.

Shortlidge said the entire campus should get involved and donate food even if students are not from Delaware because many residents are having trouble

feeding their families due to the recent weather.

“With the catastrophe that Hurricane Sandy has caused, we thought this would be a perfect time,” Shortlidge said.

Bebe also said the food bank has been struggling to keep up with the residents’ demands due to a variety of factors, ranging from the storm to the economy.

“This Thanksgiving, for economic reasons alone, so many people are depending on us, but with the hurricane and a large supplier of holiday baskets in Delaware no longer in business, we need to do whatever we can to fill as much of the need as possible,” Bebe said.

Bebe said the university is one of the food bank’s largest partners, so they have worked closely with Harker to coordinate the event.

Many students also volunteer their time at the food bank, which creates even stronger ties between the food bank and the university, she said.

Thomas said he was impressed with the university’s involvement in the food drive.

“The fact that we were able to raise over two tons just speaks to the giving nature of the UD community,” Thomas said.

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Additionally, Palestinian rockets have killed three Israeli civilians and wounded dozens. Israel’s Iron Dome—a system that fires missiles to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and mortar shells midair— has blocked 340 rockets, though 664 have exploded inside Israel.

Egypt is currently serving as the intermediary for negotiations between Hamas and Israel.

Misho Zumut, 24, of Newark, was born in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, and moved to the United States in 2007. He said he remembers growing up with frequent attacks from Israel. Zumut speaks to his brothers and sisters living in Palestine everyday, and said he has noticed the conflict escalate through his life.

Many friends were killed in attacks or imprisoned for political reasons, he said and checkpoints at the Israeli-Palestinian borders have tightened since he was a child.

“It doesn’t scare me anymore because I grew up in this kind of situation but I do have family back home,” Zumut said.

Seeing Israeli people in the news fleeing from a beach that Rackear visited over the summer made the conflict “seem a lot more real,” though during his trip he never felt he was in danger, he said.

Israel will not stop defending itself until Hamas stops firing on them, he said.

“The bottom line is that until Israel can be assured that they can defend themselves and their citizens

don’t need to live in danger and live in fear every single day of their lives, they’re going to continue to try to destroy Hamas’ rocket sites and weapon capabilities,” Rackear said.

The hope is always that both sides of the conflict can reach a “mutually beneficial” agreement, he said.

Israeli Defense Force soldiers, who are typically college-aged, accompany students on birthright trips to Israel, so Rackear said he views the attacks differently.

“A lot of people have no hope for peace in the Middle East and a lot of people think that the conflict will go on forever, but there’s always hope that there can be a resolution,” he said.

Senior Hamed Salhab said he thinks a lot of the media can misrepresent the conflict and present a one-sided story. The media can sometimes portray Palestinian civilian as less important than Israeli civilians, he said.

He said he speaks to his family members in Palestine frequently and worries for their safety, especially since the attacks have recently intensified. He hopes the conflict will end soon so Palestinians can live in peace.

“Being a Palestinian American I feel the duty to educated the misinformed people and to be a voice for the voiceless in Palestine,” Salhab said.

Social media gives everyone the opportunity to state opinions, but he said it is difficult to always express his perspective in an American environment because most people refuse to believe things other than what is portrayed in the media.

Salhab said he hopes to see a quick end to the recent escalation in attacks.

“I hope that occupation will end and, that Palestine will be free and innocent children will stop dying from Israeli’s mistreatment and weapons,” he said.

Senior Debra Schwartzreich said she is planning to attend her birthright trip in early December and recently received an email from the trip organizers that her trip would still be secure.

She said she will go unless it gets canceled, but her family is getting nervous because the conflict is escalatinhg. Since it is uncommon for the alarms to go off in Israel, Schwartzreich said it makes the attacks seem more threatening and “changes the game.”

Having family who live parttime near Jerusalem and Gaza makes her view the attacks differently, Schwartzreich said.

“We’re still a little more nervous now because it’s gone a little further than they’re used to,” Schwartzreich said.

Zumut said he feels that every time the relations between Israel and Palestine become peaceful, fighting breaks out again.

People are often misrepresented in the media and some Palestinians that are fighting have children and families and no access to major weapons like Israel, Zumut said.

“Nobody wants to die for just nothing,” he said. “[Palestinians] are trying to make a place safely for their families. We always just want peace.”

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Runners participate in state’s second oldest annual race

THE REVIEW/ Sara Pfefer

Runners lined up at the start-line for the 5K and 10K annual Turkey Trot races at Handloff Park Saturday.

BY DANIELLE BRODY Managing News Editor

On Saturday morning at Handloff Park, runners who had just crossed the 10K finish line red-faced and sweat-covered, caught their breath, sipped water and checked their times. Hundreds waiting for the next race, the 5K, cheered them on, stretched and chatted before they took to their marks.

While the final 10K racers were trickling in, the 5K runners, which included college and high school athletes, families and groups of friends, waited near the finish line at the annual Turkey Trot.

Bob Callahan, 70, of Salem, N.J. dressed in a neon yellow windbreaker, matching gloves and a white bandana around his head, jogged in place and stretched his arms minutes before the race.

“I try to get a run in every weekend, so it keeps me in shape, plus this is a traditional race and it’s

well organized, so it’s safe and it’s a good place to come,” Callahan says.

His wife, who he says is also his coach and motivation to run fast, stood beside him, gave him a kiss and took his jacket as he made his way to the pack to start. His goal was to come first in the 70 to 99 age group.

Callahan and more than 800 others ran the races at the 38th annual Turkey Trot this year, Joe Spadafino, the recreation superintendent of Newark Parks and Recreation, says.

The Turkey Trot is Delaware’s second oldest race and has been held in the same place every year, he says. The times were recorded by Races2Run and are posted on their website.

The warm weather helped attendance, but the race usually has steady numbers, Spadafino says. The Turkey Trot is a friendly event which brings locals and their friends from out of town together, he says, since it is close to Thanksgiving. The race

has a family atmosphere, he says.

“There’s hundreds of races throughout the country, but ours has been a longstanding tradition in Newark and a lot of people look forward to it,” Spadafino says.

This year marks Spadafino’s 17th time helping with the race, and he says he sees some of the same people every year.

This was Callahan’s fourth Turkey Trot on Saturday. With a chip time of 24:27.8, he achieved his goal of coming first in his group, which included five people. He says he enjoys seeing all age groups uniting for a common cause.

Portions of the registration fee, which was $20 before Nov. 15 and $25 after, go toward the James F. Hall Youth Scholarship, which helps children participate in Parks and Recreation’s camps and programs, according to Spadafino.

He estimates they raised $1,500 this year, which is typical. Remaining funds from registration went toward

T-shirts, trophies and prizes, he says.

Trophies were awarded to the top 10 in each age group and top three runners in each division, he says. Until about 10 years ago, they gave overall winners a box of Thanksgiving dinner, but now, instead, winners receive a gift card to a supermarket so they can buy what they need.

More than 50 volunteers, including officers from Newark Police Department and firefighters from Aetna Hose Hook & Ladder Company, helped hand out water, trophies and raffle prizes and hold traffic on smaller roads to keep runners safe, Spadafino says.

Jessica Doble, a 2010 alumna, ran a 5K for the first time with her father Bill Sage, 55. Doble, a teacher at Bunker Hill Elementary in Middletown, Del., says the school started a running club as a way for fourth and fifth graders to practice for these types of races, and the Turkey Trot was their culminating event. She says she enjoyed the atmosphere.

“It’s a nice park that I didn’t even realize was here, so I think a lot of people around the community come to this one,” Doble says. “It’s a nice day.”

She says she prepared by joining the 25 students in the club once a week after school for their endurance runs and obstacle courses. She aimed to finish in less than 35 minutes and did better than she expected when she ran a 32:27.9 race. Her father finished a few minutes later.

Running club member and fifth grade Bunker Hill student, Knygle Brown, 10, says he prepared for the race with stretches including toetouches, flamingos, where he folds his leg and pulls his foot backward, and apple-pickers, where he reaches up and down diagonally.

He says he finished in 28 minutes, which is faster than he thought he would run. He wasn’t tired but says his feet were. Smiling

with his father after cooling down, Brown says he would participate in the race again.

“It was really fun—you just run,” Brown says.

Senior Zack Jones, who ran both races, had some odds against him. He got an hour of sleep the night before because he stayed up to watch the meteor shower. Then, after finishing the 10K in less than 47 minutes, he was hoping he’d get the $5 he needed to register for the 5K from a friend.

Jones was the last person to start the second race and worked up his speed to reach the pack of runners. He says he didn’t have trouble catching up.

“It was scary at first because I was way behind, but then it got fun after a while,” Jones says. “I just started making friends along the track.”

Even with his legs “shot” and shaking at the end of the race, he says he enjoyed himself and finished in about 24 minutes.

University alumnus Mike Ward, 26, finished the 5K in second place with a 15:59.6 time. Ward says he used to run cross-country and track as a student and currently works and runs for the Delaware Running Company. He high-fived university and high school students who finished around him, posed for pictures and cheered other runners on from the sidelines.

The road race scene has a camaraderie that is rare, Ward says.

He sees the same faces in the store and at various races each week.

“The road race scene in Delaware—it’s phenomenal, it’s really unique, I don’t think anywhere else in the country where you’d find something that’s as tight knit,” Ward says. “That’s where you’re going to find your strength to kind of run faster and pace yourself a little bit because you know you’ve got people cheering you on and backing you up, even people that you’re racing against.”

‘Everyone is Gay’ website creators visit univ., discuss LGBT issues

BY LAUREN CAPPELLONI Features Editor

Starting with a dance to the Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow,” ending on a slow clap and lip-syncing in between, Dannielle Owens-Reid and Kristin Russo put their signature spin on a talk about sexuality in the Trabant Lounge Tuesday night.

Owens-Reid and Russo are the creators of the website “Everyone Is Gay.” They created the page on Tumblr, a blogging and social networking site where users can post videos, pictures and other multimedia and “follow” other users. On their page, Russo and Owens-Reid give advice on any and all topics that visitors have questions about.

Haven brought the duo to the university because many of the club’s members have used the website in the past to deal with their own problems, sophomore Jessica Snyder, Haven public relations director, says.

Three years ago, Owens-Reid

says she began her own website called “Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Beiber.” After receiving negative feedback that she was playing into a stereotype, she and Russo built “Everyone Is Gay” as a place to defend their intentions and have fun, Russo says.

They started the website in April 2010 after meeting each other in January, Russo says. The pair began doing whatever their followers asked, says Owens-Reid, starting with making videos of them lip-syncing to popular songs.

They began answering questions at the request of followers and when their fans asked them to visit their schools, they began touring colleges and high schools in September 2011, Russo says.

“We did start the site just to be funny and talk back to people, but within a few months we were hearing the thoughts and questions and concerns from hundreds of readers,” Owens-Reid says.

The bulk of their audience is 13 to 24-year-olds and includes homosexuals, heterosexuals and

parents, Russo says. Users can submit questions anonymously if they wish. They address issues such as sexuality, bullying and relationships. Owens-Reid says the questions they get all have universal problems, whether someone is gay, straight or bisexual.

On the website users can also phone-in their questions and Russo and Owens-Reid will create a video response, Snyder says.

The personalization helps gain followers, Snyder says, and the online platform is an easier and quicker way to reach out to people in need. It’s much more accessible than writing a letter to a newspaper and waiting for the advice to come back, she says.

Their comedic approach is also helpful in gaining followers, Snyder says, because it lightens the situation and lets teenagers, no matter their sexuality, learn about being queer and the issues that come with that label.

“It makes people learn easier and more willing to learn,” Snyder

says.

Although it started as a joke, “Everyone is Gay” now means taking out labels, they say.

They pose the question, “What if everyone was gay?” They discover the roots of problems and the underlying reasons are common conflicts, they say. Then, they answer their followers with comedic advice to “keep people smiling.”

“It started as we want to make people laugh and I think what we found is that making people laugh allowed us to really reach people in a way that other people weren’t able to,” Russo says.

Owens-Reid says the anonymity of the questions on their site helps increase followers and attract honest and varied questions because it allows people to discuss topics they might otherwise feel awkward or embarrassed about.

They also talked about participating in government and how to volunteer around Newark.

They left handouts on the seats that had statistics from the Gay

Lesbian and Straight Education Network about harassment based on gender and sexual identity.

The handout also included their “Six things you can do to change the world,” which starts with, “Be kind, idiot!”

After the talk, they sold and signed their merchandise, including buttons with pictures of their cats, and took pictures with students. One student had the women sign his chest saying it was his first “boob signing.” Many students clambered to get a chance to chat with Russo and OwensReid.

Russo is currently talking about a possible book deal, while Owens-Reid is working on a sitcom, Russo says. Although nothing is set in stone, the two will continue doing whatever their followers ask of them, they say.

“We will continue to be ourselves, continue to make jokes and post pictures of kittens,” Russo says.

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Prof. photographs with homemade pinhole cameras

BY AMBER JOHNSON Staff Reporter

“I bought this camera purely on whim,” Nancy Breslin says, gesturing to a dark wood antique tea box on the coffee table.

Breslin, a local artist and art professor, specializes in the making her own pinhole cameras out of household items such as tea boxes, oatmeal boxes, cookie tins and Altoid containers, which some pinhole photographers refer to as “pintoids.”

“You can make them out of any light-tight container,” Breslin says, noting the largest pinhole camera in history was composed of an airplane tank.

These mechanisms operate differently from SLR cameras with the essential difference being the absence of the lens. Intead, the light goes in through the hole and makes a picture, but because the hole is so tiny the only way to get enough light in is to leave it for a long time, Breslin says.

She slid the little shutter door on the box to the side to reveal a tiny hole—the aperture—in the middle of the camera resembling a pupil of an eye. The pinhole camera functions much like the human eye, Breslin says, because light from the outside world filters through the miniscule aperture and projects an inverted copy on the other side of the object.

The pinhole camera often lends the photograph a ghostly quality, blurring subjects in motion like people and animals, she says.

Breslin says she first used her pinhole camera to take a picture of her meal at Home Grown Café, when tie dye murals still plastered the walls.

This photograph eventually led to “Squaremeals,” a 10-year project in which Breslin captured a series of meals with her friends and family.

“I always take my camera with me,” Breslin says. “I’m really photographing my life as it comes along, so my photography and my life are sort of moving seamlessly together.”

She says her “visual journaling” allows her to document her memories—something she has been doing since childhood. Breslin recalls childhood trips to California when she pocketed little soaps from every hotel to keep as mementos. Little has

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Local artist and university professor took the photographs pictured above using a pinhole camera, which uses a light-tight container with a small hole to let the light in and lend a “ghostly” quality to the image. changed from that aspect, as Breslin says she never fails to photograph the bottles of soaps and shampoos clustered in hotel bathrooms for her project titled “Amenities.”

“This is kind of like a little art arrangement that a housekeeper in the hotel put together,” Breslin says.

“There are probably some guidelines, but somebody’s hands put this together so that it would look nice for me. And it sounds kind of weird, but it’s like this incidental still life.”

She also uses her pinhole camera to capture surreal scenes of amusement parks, she says. Breslin attributes the origin of this subject to her daughter who she used to take to fair grounds when she was about six years old. As her daughter grew older, it was no longer “cool” for her mother to take photographs of her, so Breslin started wandering around on her own.

Amusement parks are often the subject of her photographs, Breslin says, because they are typically thought of as a place for kids.

However, Breslin says amusement parks draw the attention of adults

as well, and she wants to be able to depict this complexity through her photographs.

“I think it distorts the world gently,” Breslin says. “It’s not making it totally freaky. If you think of memories you had as a kid and had a dream on an amusement park.

It captures it a little bit more in that way. It’s a bit magical.”

Senior Max Stevens took Breslin’s “Alternative Photography” class, for which he took numerous pinhole shots of beaches and dense woods. He decided to revisit pinhole photography for one of his last projects.

“They were eerie and ghostlike,” he says of the photographs. “I really like the feel to it. They were simple, basic photographs.”

Breslin’s work has been featured in over 50 jury shows, two Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowships, the Biggs Museum of American Art, the Mezzanine Gallery, the Elkton Station Gallery and publications such as Plateform Magazine and Newark Life Magazine.

She was also one of 50 finalists

in the Smithsonian Magazine photo contest which 60,000 photographers entered. Her winning photograph, which beat out thousands taken from higher quality cameras, was taken with a toy camera and featured in a New York store called “99 Cent Dreams.”

“If you want to take pictures that are meaningful and appealing to people, I think that kind of quality doesn’t really matter,” Breslin says. “I don’t think the equipment determines if it’s a good picture or not.”

Despite her numerous accomplishments, Breslin did not always pursue art, though she has always admired it. In her New Jersey high school, she felt the art room had a “gravitational pull,” and she constantly found herself there in her spare time. Though she considered art school, the science route seemed more practical and Breslin eventually became an academic psychiatrist. However, after years in the healthcare system, she says she was burned out and needed more creative pursuits. She transitioned into the arts in 1997 as a graduate

student at the university.

Senior Lindsay Yeager, a visual communications major who had Breslin in her sophomore year for “Introduction to Photo and Video.”

Before the class, she had never worked with pinhole cameras, she says. Though she says she found video and photography intimidating, Breslin’s patience, helpfulness and “art brain” piqued her interest in photography and video.

“If it wasn’t for her, I would not be where I am today,” Yeager says.

Though most noted for her pinhole photography, Breslin uses a variety of mediums including video and cyanotypes and continues to work on new projects while maintaining old ones like “Squaremeals.”

She is currently a visiting artist at the Winterthur Museum and says she hopes her work will continue to be featured in other venues.

“I think if you did wonderful work and it stayed in your closet that would be really sad to me,” Breslin says. “I want people to see it and hopefully get something out of it.”

Gun sales increase following Pres. Obama’s re-election

BY ASHLEY PAINTSIL Copy Editor

In spite of the decrease most of the stock market experienced after President Barack Obama’s reelection, gun sales rose. This rise has been attributed to a fear of more stringent gun laws that may occur after the election of a Democratic candidate.

Economics professor William Harris says this spike in sales is warranted because Democrats are generally in favor of stricter gun control.

“What people rationally do is that if they think there’s going to be future restrictions on particular types of guns that they can own, they’re going to buy them now while they can,” Harris says.

For the first time since 1993,

the number of federally licensed retail gun dealers in the United States increased in 2010 and 2011 and the the country has added 1,167 licensed retail gun dealers, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives records.

In October, the number of background checks performed on potential gun buyers across the United States, a leading indicator for future gun sales, increased to 18.4 percent, according to data released by the FBI. After the 2008 presidential election, there was a 13.4 percent increase in background checks for gun purchases.

As an Illinois state senator, Obama supported tighter state restrictions on firearms and a ban on all forms of semi-automatic weapons. During his first presidential campaign, he supported an effort

to renew a federal ban on assault weapons, which began during the Clinton administration and expired under the Bush administration, according to the Raw Report. In 2010 Obama received a grade of “F” from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence “for failing to push the gun restrictions he supported while campaigning,” according to the Raw Report.

During his first term as president, Obama focused on healthcare reform and the war in Iraq, rather than addressing gun control issues, which was a relief to gun owners, Harris says.

He says even though gun owners did not feel threatened by Obama’s stance on gun control at that time, they should be worried about it now.

“It became pretty obvious at the time that gun control was not a high

priority for him so gun owners were kind of relieved that there wasn’t a threat to their access,” he says. “But now ‘Obamacare’ has been passed— who knows what his next agenda is going to be?”

Harris says Governor Mitt Romney’s election would have been more beneficial to gun owners since he would not have been in favor of putting new restrictions on gun ownership as an endorsed member of the National Rifle Association.

Junior Bradley Willis says the right to own a gun is a private issue that the government should not be involved in.

He says he is concerned about Obama’s recent behind-the-scenes involvement in the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty. Under the treaty, the U.N. would establish objective standards to regulate the transfer of

conventional arms, regulate the illicit trade of arms and reinforce its global registry for arms which was created in 1991.

The registry covers seven categories of what are seen as the most lethal arms. Recently, countries decided that portable small-caliber firearms could be added to the registry and many countries now include small arms in their yearly reports, according to the U.N. website.

Willis says Obama’s involvement in the Arms Trade Treaty would be damaging for the country.

“If he gives up United States sovereignty to a global power, he’s treading upon the Constitution that he was sworn to uphold,” Willis says.

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20 Novemer 20, 2012

Students, administration discuss diversity, tolerance

BY ERIN QUINN

Managing Mosaic Editor

When a sophomore from the university walked out of Christiana Mall after work over the weekend, she noticed an image of a stick figure throwing bombs drawn in the frost on her car. The drawing was probably in response to the license plate she has that bears the Palestinian flag and the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palestinian prideâ&#x20AC;? on it, the student says.

She says she was not scared or surprised since Palestine has been in the news recently, though she did call mall security to report the incident.

She felt more anger than anything else, she says, and she will not remove the plate on her car despite her parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; warnings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] not fair that I should have to do something like that for my safety,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I refuse to do that.â&#x20AC;?

Students who experience a discriminatory or negative interaction will probably seek help from someone they know well like a resident assistant or faculty advisor, Becki Fogerty, head of the Office of Equity and Inclusion says.

The office deals with discrimination issues, compliance with affirmative action and victim advocacy.

If discrimination or harassment

occurs on campus, there are investigations and remedies that might go through student conduct.

For victim advocacy, the office helps a student decide what they want to do such as mediation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think a lot of students are just

projects to expand diversity in the faculty, which may vary depending on each departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individual challenges to diversity.

This fall, Andersen says the university has seen an increase in the number of African American

â&#x20AC;&#x153;You will learn more if you learn from people of backgrounds other than your own.â&#x20AC;?

-Diversity Initiative Executive Director, Margaret Andersen shocked that some of that conduct still happens,â&#x20AC;? Fogerty says.

No hate crimes have been reported to the university police that meet federal or state hate crime classification, according to available records since 1993.

The U.S. Department of Justice defines hate crime as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the violence of intolerance and bigotry, intended to hurt and intimidate someone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or disability.â&#x20AC;?

Margaret Andersen, Executive Director of the Diversity Initiative, says there are department-initiated

and Latino students admitted.

While the diversity of students based on sexual orientation or religion is not measured, Andersen says this means it is important to measure the climate of campus and ensure the university respects diversity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Diversity is really like a very rich tapestry and people tend to think of it in terms of race and ethnicity,â&#x20AC;? Andersen says.

Andersen says diversity is important to the university because studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; diversity in a learning environment exposes students to different â&#x20AC;&#x153;ways of thinking,â&#x20AC;?

worldviews and different â&#x20AC;&#x153;arts and cultures.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You will learn more if you learn from people of backgrounds other than your own,â&#x20AC;? Andersen says.

The most recent Campus Climate Survey in 2009, which received 3,609 student responses, revealed that 75.3 percent of students were â&#x20AC;&#x153;comfortableâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;very comfortableâ&#x20AC;? with the climate at the university.

According to the survey, 20 percent of students reported experiencing â&#x20AC;&#x153;exclusionary, intimidating, offensive and/or hostile conduct that has interfered with their ability to learnâ&#x20AC;? and most of those respondents said the incidents occurred â&#x20AC;&#x153;sometimesâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;rarely.â&#x20AC;?

While 29 percent of respondents said the â&#x20AC;&#x153;negative conductâ&#x20AC;? was based on something outside of survey choicesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; indicated by â&#x20AC;?otherâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;22.8 percent of respondents indicated gender or gender identity as the cause of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;negativeâ&#x20AC;? interaction.

In the time since the survey was conducted, Fogerty says she thinks the climate is improving and the office has seen â&#x20AC;&#x153;some progress toward change,â&#x20AC;? based on another climate survey specifically measuring the LGBT community.

Sophomore Jess Snyder,

a member of Haven, says she considers the university a â&#x20AC;&#x153;very accepting campusâ&#x20AC;? and has never experienced â&#x20AC;&#x153;negative feedbackâ&#x20AC;? for her support of the LGBT community.

After major Haven events, Snyder says sometimes more people are inclined to find out about the group so their efforts to spread awareness are working.

Snyder says she has never seen blatant discrimination but small efforts to be inclusive of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;whole spectrumâ&#x20AC;? of groups on campus always help. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think people could be a little more open-minded about things,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Snyder says she thinks there are a variety of resources on campus such as counseling or Wellspring for students who ever do feel that they need help or have been discriminated against.

Many of the issues the Office of Equity and Inclusion see are based in identity, whether it deals with race, gender, family background or the region students come from.

Fogerty says diversity can include things that are â&#x20AC;&#x153;more than just skindeep.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think an awareness and appreciation of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s differences could go a long wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whatever those differences are,â&#x20AC;? Fogerty says.

International Education Week showcases world fashion, culture

BY ALEXANDRIA MURPHY Staff Reporter

The Trabant Multipurpose Room was transformed Friday evening as a mixture of English Language Institute students, Resident Student Organizations and attendees came together for the Festival of Nations and the International Talent and Fashion Show in honor of International Education Week. The event hosted colorful booth displays from student multicultural campus groups and ELI students who came to represent their respective countries.

Tim Kim, the orientation coordinator for ELI and organizer of the event, said that the purpose of the festival was to promote global education to the university and show the university as a thriving global community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This event gives students a chance to share their cultures and educate the community,â&#x20AC;? Kim says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A big part is to just let the community know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here.â&#x20AC;?

Booths set up around the room featured pictures and music from their native lands and had activities where onlookers could learn more about a countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s native culture. Booths represented a large variety of countries and groups, including China, the Filipino Student Association and the Delaware African

Student Association. Although most of the booths were hosted by ELI students showing information about their native countries, a few were held by university RSOs that also promoted multiculturalism.

One booth displayed Japanese culture and allowed attendees to make their own origami figures as well as learn to write their names in Japanese calligraphy with a traditional brush and black ink.

Other booths included the Korean-American Student Association table, where students could try on traditional Korean garments. Young Choi, an ELI student who has been involved in the group for four years, says hosting a booth at the event is great for promoting the Korean community the university. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because of Korean pop music or K-pop, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot more interest in the Korean community,â&#x20AC;?

Choi says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I think being here is going to be very inspirational for American students. Here, we get to present our more traditional histories to other people at this event.â&#x20AC;?

Booths ran alongside the talent show, the main attraction during the festival, which displayed multicultural arts from a mixture of ELI students, ethnic arts groups from the area and university student groups.

Ken Hyde, an administrator at the ELI, says the large mix of students

provides a great representation of the different countries and international groups on campus.

One of these students was senior Chika Egbe, president of the Gospel Choir. She says she has been a part of the choir since freshman year and although this is the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first time performing at the event, this is not their first time performing in front of a live audience. Egbe says the group is used to performing at churches or at other university events, and she hopes this event will help increase their presence on campus.

She says although gospel isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very international, it still promotes the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals of multiculturalism. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think gospelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an American type of thing,â&#x20AC;? Egbe says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people around the world donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what gospel music is, so a lot of it is about us exposing to people in the audience what gospel music is, what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about and what we do with it.â&#x20AC;?

The talent show prior to the start of the International Fashion Show featured musical performances from a variety of cultures and student groups.

There was swing dancing, a judo instructor, capoeira performances and traditional Chinese instruments.

Kelly Xing, a senior ELI student, says she was part of a group that played a ballad called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Talk of the People.â&#x20AC;? In her part of the performance, she played on a traditional Chinese

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THE REVIEW/Mary-Kathryn Kotocavage

On Friday of International Education Week, there were various performances and a fashion show in the Trabant Multipurpose Room. instrument called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;pipa,â&#x20AC;? a pearshaped lute that has four to five strings.

She says she has practiced her instrument for 10 years, but she was still nervous during her performance on Friday.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played before in front of people, at the Mooncake Festival and in Deer Park,â&#x20AC;? says Xing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to play because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a traditional instrument that is part of my culture and my country.â&#x20AC;?

Sophomore Elizabeth Catt attended the talent show Friday evening. As an ELI mentor, she has attended other ELI events before and says this one provided a solid impression of multiculturalism at the university. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really liked the variety of talents that were portrayed,â&#x20AC;? Catt says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it shows the really good record of the diversity available that we have on campus.â&#x20AC;?

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20 Novemer 20, 2012

November 20, 2012

Students, administration discuss diversity, tolerance

BY ERIN QUINN

Managing Mosaic Editor

When a sophomore from the university walked out of Christiana Mall after work over the weekend, she noticed an image of a stick figure throwing bombs drawn in the frost on her car. The drawing was probably in response to the license plate she has that bears the Palestinian flag and the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palestinian prideâ&#x20AC;? on it, the student says.

She says she was not scared or surprised since Palestine has been in the news recently, though she did call mall security to report the incident.

She felt more anger than anything else, she says, and she will not remove the plate on her car despite her parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; warnings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] not fair that I should have to do something like that for my safety,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I refuse to do that.â&#x20AC;?

Students who experience a discriminatory or negative interaction will probably seek help from someone they know well like a resident assistant or faculty advisor, Becki Fogerty, head of the Office of Equity and Inclusion says.

The office deals with discrimination issues, compliance with affirmative action and victim advocacy.

If discrimination or harassment

occurs on campus, there are investigations and remedies that might go through student conduct.

For victim advocacy, the office helps a student decide what they want to do such as mediation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think a lot of students are just

projects to expand diversity in the faculty, which may vary depending on each departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individual challenges to diversity.

This fall, Andersen says the university has seen an increase in the number of African American

â&#x20AC;&#x153;You will learn more if you learn from people of backgrounds other than your own.â&#x20AC;?

-Diversity Initiative Executive Director, Margaret Andersen shocked that some of that conduct still happens,â&#x20AC;? Fogerty says.

No hate crimes have been reported to the university police that meet federal or state hate crime classification, according to available records since 1993.

The U.S. Department of Justice defines hate crime as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the violence of intolerance and bigotry, intended to hurt and intimidate someone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or disability.â&#x20AC;?

Margaret Andersen, Executive Director of the Diversity Initiative, says there are department-initiated

and Latino students admitted.

While the diversity of students based on sexual orientation or religion is not measured, Andersen says this means it is important to measure the climate of campus and ensure the university respects diversity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Diversity is really like a very rich tapestry and people tend to think of it in terms of race and ethnicity,â&#x20AC;? Andersen says.

Andersen says diversity is important to the university because studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; diversity in a learning environment exposes students to different â&#x20AC;&#x153;ways of thinking,â&#x20AC;?

worldviews and different â&#x20AC;&#x153;arts and cultures.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You will learn more if you learn from people of backgrounds other than your own,â&#x20AC;? Andersen says.

The most recent Campus Climate Survey in 2009, which received 3,609 student responses, revealed that 75.3 percent of students were â&#x20AC;&#x153;comfortableâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;very comfortableâ&#x20AC;? with the climate at the university.

According to the survey, 20 percent of students reported experiencing â&#x20AC;&#x153;exclusionary, intimidating, offensive and/or hostile conduct that has interfered with their ability to learnâ&#x20AC;? and most of those respondents said the incidents occurred â&#x20AC;&#x153;sometimesâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;rarely.â&#x20AC;?

While 29 percent of respondents said the â&#x20AC;&#x153;negative conductâ&#x20AC;? was based on something outside of survey choicesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; indicated by â&#x20AC;?otherâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;22.8 percent of respondents indicated gender or gender identity as the cause of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;negativeâ&#x20AC;? interaction.

In the time since the survey was conducted, Fogerty says she thinks the climate is improving and the office has seen â&#x20AC;&#x153;some progress toward change,â&#x20AC;? based on another climate survey specifically measuring the LGBT community.

Sophomore Jess Snyder,

a member of Haven, says she considers the university a â&#x20AC;&#x153;very accepting campusâ&#x20AC;? and has never experienced â&#x20AC;&#x153;negative feedbackâ&#x20AC;? for her support of the LGBT community.

After major Haven events, Snyder says sometimes more people are inclined to find out about the group so their efforts to spread awareness are working.

Snyder says she has never seen blatant discrimination but small efforts to be inclusive of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;whole spectrumâ&#x20AC;? of groups on campus always help. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think people could be a little more open-minded about things,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Snyder says she thinks there are a variety of resources on campus such as counseling or Wellspring for students who ever do feel that they need help or have been discriminated against.

Many of the issues the Office of Equity and Inclusion see are based in identity, whether it deals with race, gender, family background or the region students come from.

Fogerty says diversity can include things that are â&#x20AC;&#x153;more than just skindeep.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think an awareness and appreciation of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s differences could go a long wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whatever those differences are,â&#x20AC;? Fogerty says.

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Users can now create secret boards on Pinterest

BY SCOTT ZALESKI Staff Reporter

Just in time for the holiday season, the social bookmarking site, Pinterest, is introducing a new â&#x20AC;&#x153;secret boardsâ&#x20AC;? feature that will allow its users to protect the privacy of what they pin.

Pinterest, launched in 2010, is an image-sharing site that allows users to share their interests by â&#x20AC;&#x153;pinningâ&#x20AC;? them to their board.

Sophomore Jalissa Mitchell says the idea of secret boards is intriguing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I was working on a board or planning an event or a party for one of my friends, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to know I have the option to control who sees it until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completely finished,â&#x20AC;?

Mitchell says.

Pinterestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new secret boards feature will limit the visibility of

your board to a user and anyone the users choose to let see.

Junior Amanda Doughten says the addition of secret boards is a smart idea, especially around the Christmas season.

Pinterest will allow boards to be changed from private to public, but not the other way around. Any existing boards for users will not be able to be hidden. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it is really helpful around the holidays,â&#x20AC;? Doughten says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be able to pin crafts, recipes or gift ideas and hide them from your friends and family who will be receiving them.â&#x20AC;?

Merry Cohen says she does not see the need for making boards private and does not plan on using the feature when it becomes available. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personally, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like any information about me is really

out there that I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want anyone to see, like I feel other sites like Facebook have,â&#x20AC;? Cohen says.

Junior Robert Cahill also says he does not plan to use the secret boards, specifically because he feels like it defeats the purpose of the social bookmarking site. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to share pictures with your friends,â&#x20AC;? Cahill says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They already have the ability to limit who can see your pictures to begin with, so it seems kind of like a pointless idea and I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use it.â&#x20AC;?

Cohen says secret boards are just a small aspect of why Pinterest is so attractive to users. She says the general appeal of Pinterest is whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in recipes, clothes or craft ideas, all you have to do is re-pin to your personal board and share it with people of similar interests.

Since its inception, the site has

garnered much popularity over the internet for its entertainment value and resourcefulness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, it is pure entertainment,â&#x20AC;? says Cohen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;However, sometimes when I have a stain in something, I might search it on Pinterest for a home remedy as to how to deal with it.â&#x20AC;?

Cohen says Pinterest is a great time-waster and she uses it mainly when she is bored, but also to help explore new ideas that she never would have seen before. The site has many amazing recipes that Cohen, who loves to cook, says she never would have found on her own.

Doughten says she also uses Pinterest as a way to find new recipes and styles, while taking a break from school work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just scroll through page after page to see if I stumble

upon anything interesting,â&#x20AC;? says Doughten. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I do, I will re-pin it to one of my boards, so I can go back to it later when I want to make it.â&#x20AC;?

Cohen would like to see some improvements to the site in the future. She says the search engine could definitely be enhanced, and would like a way to dislike certain interests so that they do not crowd her Pinterest feed.

On the other hand, Mitchell says she likes the site the way it is and hopes after the secret boards are installed, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change too much. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reason Pinterest works so well is because it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require too much of your attention,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not complicatedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it really is just a fun way to spend an hour or two away from your studies, sharing pics with your friends.â&#x20AC;?

International Education Week showcases world fashion, culture

BY ALEXANDRIA MURPHY Staff Reporter

The Trabant Multipurpose Room was transformed Friday evening as a mixture of English Language Institute students, Resident Student Organizations and attendees came together for the Festival of Nations and the International Talent and Fashion Show in honor of International Education Week. The event hosted colorful booth displays from student multicultural campus groups and ELI students who came to represent their respective countries.

Tim Kim, the orientation coordinator for ELI and organizer of the event, said that the purpose of the festival was to promote global education to the university and show the university as a thriving global community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This event gives students a chance to share their cultures and educate the community,â&#x20AC;? Kim says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A big part is to just let the community know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here.â&#x20AC;?

Booths set up around the room featured pictures and music from their native lands and had activities where onlookers could learn more about a countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s native culture. Booths represented a large variety of countries and groups, including China, the Filipino Student Association and the Delaware African

Student Association. Although most of the booths were hosted by ELI students showing information about their native countries, a few were held by university RSOs that also promoted multiculturalism.

One booth displayed Japanese culture and allowed attendees to make their own origami figures as well as learn to write their names in Japanese calligraphy with a traditional brush and black ink.

Other booths included the Korean-American Student Association table, where students could try on traditional Korean garments. Young Choi, an ELI student who has been involved in the group for four years, says hosting a booth at the event is great for promoting the Korean community the university. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because of Korean pop music or K-pop, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot more interest in the Korean community,â&#x20AC;?

Choi says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I think being here is going to be very inspirational for American students. Here, we get to present our more traditional histories to other people at this event.â&#x20AC;?

Booths ran alongside the talent show, the main attraction during the festival, which displayed multicultural arts from a mixture of ELI students, ethnic arts groups from the area and university student groups.

Ken Hyde, an administrator at the ELI, says the large mix of students

provides a great representation of the different countries and international groups on campus.

One of these students was senior Chika Egbe, president of the Gospel Choir. She says she has been a part of the choir since freshman year and although this is the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first time performing at the event, this is not their first time performing in front of a live audience. Egbe says the group is used to performing at churches or at other university events, and she hopes this event will help increase their presence on campus.

She says although gospel isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very international, it still promotes the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals of multiculturalism. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think gospelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an American type of thing,â&#x20AC;? Egbe says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people around the world donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what gospel music is, so a lot of it is about us exposing to people in the audience what gospel music is, what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about and what we do with it.â&#x20AC;?

The talent show prior to the start of the International Fashion Show featured musical performances from a variety of cultures and student groups.

There was swing dancing, a judo instructor, capoeira performances and traditional Chinese instruments.

Kelly Xing, a senior ELI student, says she was part of a group that played a ballad called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Talk of the People.â&#x20AC;? In her part of the performance, she played on a traditional Chinese

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Courtesy of Pinterest

Pinterest users can now create private boards, which the site says can be used for collecting holiday gift or party ideas while keeping them secret from recipients and guests. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How toâ&#x20AC;? columnist Samantha Toscano recommends that Pinterest users use their secret boards for gift ideas as well as â&#x20AC;&#x153;down the roadâ&#x20AC;? ideas, such as wedding dress and ideas for the dream home.

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THE REVIEW/Mary-Kathryn Kotocavage

On Friday of International Education Week, there were various performances and a fashion show in the Trabant Multipurpose Room. instrument called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;pipa,â&#x20AC;? a pearshaped lute that has four to five strings.

She says she has practiced her instrument for 10 years, but she was still nervous during her performance on Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played before in front of people, at the Mooncake Festival and in Deer Park,â&#x20AC;? says Xing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to play because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a traditional instrument that is part of my culture and my country.â&#x20AC;?

Sophomore Elizabeth Catt attended the talent show Friday evening. As an ELI mentor, she has attended other ELI events before and says this one provided a solid impression of multiculturalism at the university. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really liked the variety of talents that were portrayed,â&#x20AC;? Catt says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it shows the really good record of the diversity available that we have on campus.â&#x20AC;?

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Dear â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pinterest wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let me keep a secret,â&#x20AC;?

While Santa may be able to see everything before the holidays, even the most avid pinners will be limited to viewing only those boards you do not deem â&#x20AC;&#x153;secret,â&#x20AC;? thanks to the introduction of secret boards. The boards, which were recently revealed per user requests, are a great way to utilize all that Pinterest has to offer in order to create a wellorganized and creative surprise or keep future plans hushed. I mean, what young adult girl has not seen or pinned a wedding dress on Pinterest? It is only natural for us ladies to dream of what our white dress will look like on the big day, but do you really want the world to see you planning a wedding

that will not happen for maybe 10 years from now? My boyfriend is not on Pinterest, but his mother and sister areâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; so those beer-tasting glasses that I did not want to forget about because they scream his name are clearly my idea of a perfect gift. So no more mental photographs of something you see online that would be a great gift and no more dog-earing pages in lifestyle magazines for way down the roadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you can do all that right at the virtual corkboard website.

Sincerely, Samantha P.S. Send questions, comments or â&#x20AC;&#x153;how toâ&#x20AC;? needs to stoscano@udel.edu.

amantha

oscano

Seeing as Pinterest is revealing the boards in a more gradual and controlled process, you will only be limited to three secret boards at the moment. Here are my favorite ideas to make the most of pinning privately before you max out your boards.

Gift Ideas As a self-proclaimed addict of StumbleUpon.com and lover of all the quirky and fantastic items offered in the Urban Outfitters apartment or home section, I usually end up finding the perfect gift for someone with no intention to do so in my online travels. And that would be fantastic, but I tend to forget these potentially perfect ideas and remembering the idea becomes a more grueling process than wrapping it. Needless to say, I was thrilled when I saw this secret board suggestion on the Pinterest website. It is a great way to organize and prioritize gifts for one or more of your family and friends,

especially with the holidays just around the corner. And if you are anything like me and find yourself to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;painfully indecisive,â&#x20AC;? you can always share the secret board with selected others, just to get an opinion on that sweater you might think is fantastic for mom.

Event Planning This was another board that was inspired by the Pinterest website.

While they made the suggestion of deeming your second board, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Holiday Surprises,â&#x20AC;? I decided to take it one step further and open it up to all occasions. With my best friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday right around the corner, I want to be able to remember and reference those awesome cupcakes I found on Pinterest without her seeing and making the connection that they are probably for her. You can also use it for bigger plans than cupcakes and go as far as venues, favors, decorations and the like for

every event from birthday parties to date night and from showers to a dinner with friends. Needless to say, this one is an especially useful way to create a board if you are planning a surprise party.

Down the Road Here is where we get back to the whole wedding dress pinning phenomenon. It is my personal opinion that Pinterest might be a bit more current and accessible and a bit less untidy and white if every girl our age did not pin 5,000 potential dresses and 7,000 potential cakes for the big day (unless it is actually coming up within the year or so). And this is not just applicable to weddings either; babies, dream homes and just things that generally tend to fall in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;down the roadâ&#x20AC;? category for college students. Keeping this board private is a great way to plan for your future without cluttering up everyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s present.

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“Lincoln”

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Too many biographical films suffer from a lack of balance. The spectrum is too wide, for example, or too many creative liberties are taken in telling the tale. “Lincoln,” however, manages to reel in all the loose ends and create a solid feature, running for just a little over two hours.

Director Steven Spielberg is aided by an excellent crew, including cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, composer John Williams and editor Michael

Kahn. The group is responsible for several of Spielberg’s bestknown films, including “Saving Private Ryan” and “Schindler’s List.” The cast is equally impressive, including Daniel Day-Lewis (“There Will Be Blood”) as former president Abraham Lincoln in one of his best roles yet. Alongside DayLewis star Tommy Lee Jones (“No Country for Old Men”), Jackie Earle Haley (“Watchmen”), Sally Field (“Forrest Gump”)

and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“The Dark Knight Rises”).

The production group, no matter how ambitious, does not attempt to create a biography of the president’s life. Instead, it tells the story of the last four months of Lincoln’s life, focusing on his fight to add the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and abolish slavery. This limit of scope allows the film to take a truly close look at Lincoln not as an

American symbol, but as a man.

Day-Lewis depicts the president as a wise but imperfect individual—he argues with his wife and does not have the strongest relationship with his oldest son. He speaks in a normal voice, perhaps a bit slow and thoughtful, and not in the booming and decisive tone of a legendary leader. He struggles to make decisions as he weighs the benefits and downfalls of tough choices. Unlike his portrayal in too many Civil War films, Lincoln was not the embodiment of liberty or the voice of American freedom personified—he was just an intelligent man.

Indeed, that is where the movie shines. It further distances itself from the traditional Civil War movie by creating a product that does not have a lot of battlefield action. In fact, the only war scene in “Lincoln” was a short segment at the very beginning. The true battle, as depicted by the film, was fought in the courtroom. The entertainment provided by the movie was based on clever writing and exceptional wit, reminiscent of the 1957 classic, “12 Angry Men.” The art direction only strengthens an already solid film.

Again, Spielberg does not try to exaggerate the look or feel of the time. The setting feels real with beautiful tones and an incredible use of lighting,

especially at night in the White House. The costume design likewise calls for admiration.

The president and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln (Sally Field) are not shown as royalty, but as family. The combination creates an outstanding feel of intimacy and authenticity.

This tone, demonstrated effectively in writing, art direction and acting, is truly the foremost quality of “Lincoln.”

One paramount scene that establishes this tone is included toward the beginning of the film, and it truly captures the consistent quality of the rest of the feature. Simple and elegant, the scene shows the president, tired after a day of work, walking up to his child who is sleeping by the fireplace. Lincoln lays down next to his son, gazes at him lovingly and shifts the boy onto his tired back and carries him up to his bed.

“Lincoln” is not just for history buffs. It is for anyone interested in a story undiluted by gimmicks or needless scenes. The film may not be a sitting-on-theedge-of-your-seat thriller, but it manages to grab onto and keep the attention of viewers through an intelligent and honest look at one of America’s most legendary figures.

—Marcin W. Cencek, mcencek@udel.edu

Artist of the Week: Taj Mahal with Jackie Feminella If you like: B.B. King, J.J. Cale and Keb’ Mo’ Taj Mahal is a legendary and pivotal blues musician responsible for much of an acoustic blues revitalization in the 90s. Born in 1942 to a musical family, Henry Saint Clair Fredericks was exposed to various musical styles early on in his life. His family owned a shortwave radio, which introduced Fredericks to jazz broadcasts. He took classical piano lessons and learned the clarinet, trombone and harmonica, which we can hear in the music he creates.

As an adolescent, he contemplated pushing music away for a farming career, but he eventually went on to study ethnomusicology, or the study of music of different cultures, at the University of Massachusetts.

He began fusing Caribbean and African influences together for a unique, soulful and seasoned sound. In the early 60s he chose the moniker Taj Mahal after having dreams about the social

intolerance in India and Ghandi’s nonviolence movement.

Early in his career he collaborated with other blues musicians, but being an interracial group, they weren’t marketable.

He first recorded under Columbia Records, then signed with Warner Bros. Records and eventually moved to Hawaii in the early ’80s. He has collaborated with Etta James, Eric Clapton, Cyndi Lauper, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, to name a few. Most recently, I heard his duet with Jack Johnson on the Best of Kokua Festival CD with Jack Johnson and Friends. The two sang “Further on Down the Road,” live and afterward Johnson commented, “My wife and I fell in love with that song.”

The fusion of jazz and folk make Taj Mahal’s music easy and comfortable to hear. His voice has been described by author David Evans as having a range from

“gruff and gritty to smooth and sultry.” Some believe he is the creator of the modern day world music genre, but he cites his own influences as Jimmy Reed, Sonny Terry, Sleepy John Estes and Big Mama Thornton. In honor of his contributions, he even received an honorary doctor of humanities degree from Wofford College.

His best hits albums are great places to start listening, but some standout tracks are “Queen Bee,” “Lovin’ in My Baby’s Eyes,” “Further on Down the Road,” “Diving Duck Blues” and “Sweet Mama Janisse.” In the upcoming months he will be touring California and Canada. True to his farming roots, he still performs at Farm Aid concerts and his favorite venues are outdoors because “people get up and dance.”

—jacfem@udel.edu

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The Weekly Beaker with Jock Gilchrist

Biomimicry: What Termites Can Teach Us About Air Conditioning

We’ve designed computers that bring the sum of human achievement to our fingertips, but we can’t think of another way to dispose of these brilliant machines other than tossing them in a landfill. We’ve created vehicles that carry us thousands of miles in just hours, but not without spewing damaging amounts of gas into the atmosphere. We have chemicals to clean our clothes, dishes and windows that ultimately end up in lakes and oceans, hurting wildlife.

As technology becomes a bigger part of everyone’s lives, we’ll face more challenging and interdisciplinary problems in engineering, architecture and science than ever before.

But the good news, according to co-founder of the Biomimicry Guild Janine Benyus, is that in Earth’s 3.8 billion years, nature has probably encountered similar problems and already solved them effectively and sustainably. Benyus is a major promoter of the idea that humans can emulate nature’s wisdom in our designs.

But biomimicry, a term which only entered the dictionary in 1982,

is far from a new idea. The Wright Brothers were inspired by the mechanics of birds soaring through the sky—as was Leonardo da Vinci, who sought to build a personal flying machine. Modern applications are everywhere too—take Velcro. It consciously copied the small hooks on burs, which are responsible for making them impossibly annoying to remove from clothing.

In evolution, organisms must constantly adapt to a changing environment to survive. So when, for example, a leaf gets covered by dirt or dust, it needs to find a way to clean itself. With such an obstruction, the leaf couldn’t serve its vital function as the lungs of the world, removing CO2 and producing oxygen. To combat this problem, leaves developed microscopic bumps on their surfaces, so that dirt would rest on top of them and when the rains come, be washed away. The lotus flower, revered for its beauty in parts of the Eastern hemisphere, is particularly resourceful at this. The flower is known to emerge from

mud without as much as a smudge.

Benyus points out that when humans design something that will need cleaning, like a window, we tend to make it incredibly smooth. We then need to concoct new chemicals to wipe them clean.

Wouldn’t it be easier if surfaces just cleaned themselves? In fact, some designers have created just that— self-cleaning paint and concrete with small bumps, inspired by the surface of a leaf. Their buildings need only a little precipitation to look good as new.

Termites have discovered how to keep their internal nest temperature in a range of 1 degree Celsius despite external temperature fluctuations of 39 degrees Celsius.

A midrise building in Zimbabwe borrowed the genius of the termites’ nest structure, and now uses only 10 percent of the energy of a typical building its size. Without an air conditioning or heating system it maintains a constant temperature, saving $3.5 million on energy costs in its first five years.

Buildings account for 40 percent

of human energy consumption, so implementing sustainable design into their structure is paramount.

The famous superfast bullet

“Some designers have created selfcleaning paint and concrete, inspired by the surface of a leaf.” train in Japan needed remodeling because it was loud enough for people hundreds of meters away to hear. The train’s chief engineer observed how smoothly the kingfisher bird dives into water with little or no splash, and constructed the front end of the train using a similar architectural scheme. The train is now quieter, uses 15 percent less energy, and

Marshall’s Mugs with Ryan Marshall 21st Amendment Monk’s Blood Belgain Dark Ale What is the best way to brew a Belgian Dark Ale? Go to Belgium and visit the small traditional breweries.

That is what 21st Amendment cofounders Nico Freccia and Shaun O’Sullivan did for their Monk’s Blood.

They returned from Belgium, well, with everything. Monk’s Blood has eight malts, three different kinds of hops and five special ingredients.

All components are packed tightly into the 12-ounce can.

The brand only uses cans and they used to provide six reasons for this choice on the bottom of their artfully-crafted boxes. The explanation is not on there now, but cans do give brewers benefits.

Bottles do not keep out all of the light, which causes beers to go bad and cans recycle better and seal in the flavor more.

The brewers begin this concoction with Belgian Pilsner, Two-Row Pale, Caramunich, Caravienne, Aromatic, Special B, Flaked Oats and Flaked Wheat malts.

Now, I can’t tell you why they use eight different malts, but I can tell you the combination creates a deep complex bodied brew.

After boiling the malts, 21st Amendment adds Magnum and Centennial hops. This grouping of hops gives Monk’s Blood its slightly citrus-like floral taste that is hidden because of the malts and special ingredients.

Just at the end of the brew, 21st Amendment tosses in Amarillo

hops for an additional flavor. It has a similar nature as Centennial, but since it is added later it changes the effect on the beer. The interesting part about the addition of these hops is that the profile says they are best used when in IPAs and pale ales, not Belgians—just another twist from Freccia and O’Sullivan.

The San Francisco brewery then adds Dark Belgian Candi sugar, cinnamon, vanilla bean and dried black mission figs during the maturation process, all of which are aged in oak. These special ingredients are what really make Monk’s Blood a complex masterpiece.

Pour the Belgian into a tulip glass and the dark mahogany color begins to take over. An oaky vanilla and fig aroma will tickle the nostrils as the beer releases all its flavors.

The main tastes that stands out most to me is the Belgian Candi Sugar and dried black mission figs.

There is a sweetness in the dominant first part of the taste and it is finished by the vanilla bean, which gives Monk’s Blood the silky smooth taste. It’s not every day a Belgian Dark Ale is that drinkable at 8.3 percent.

Monk’s Blood should be enjoyed on a cold winter evening after dinner. It is another option for the holidays. Try pairing it with a cheesecake after dinner or anything with a cream cheese icing.

Don’t forget to email questions, comments, suggestions or endless cases of beer to ryanmars@udel.edu.

QUICK REVIEW: (all mugs out of 5)

Taste: It took me a while to figure out how I felt about this one. It wasn’t what I expected, but in the end I really appreciated the complex vanilla fig flavor.

Feel: At first I could not sort all the flavors out. Enjoy this beer at a warmer temperature by leaving it out of the fridge for some time to help balance the flavors.

Look: Winter equals dark beer. Mahogany is pretty dark, but I was expecting this to be more like blood, because of the name.

Smell: Like the beer’s taste, the smell is complex. Vanilla, oak and figs float through the air.

Overall: I really love 21st Amendment. Their artwork on the cans and boxes is innovative—and, oh yeah, their beer is too. Try Monk’s Blood as another winter classic over the holidays this year.

even goes 10 percent faster.

The silk of some spiders is as strong as the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests. With a little tinkering, spider silk could be remodeled for suspension bridge cables, artificial ligaments in medicine and parachute lines.

Doctors recently developed a new technique for detecting and counting cancer cells in the bloodstream—invaluable information for knowing which type of chemotherapy to use—based on the way a jellyfish’s tentacles capture food. An author of the study, Jeffrey Karp, said, “Turning to nature, we can get ideas to think about and help us to think out of the box to new solutions far removed from standard approaches.”

Biomimicry shows that we don’t need to reinvent the wheel to innovate; we just need to imitate.

Natural designs are more efficient and sustainable—copying them is like getting extra credit for cheating on a test.

—ajgg@udel.edu

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Fashion Forward Brocade fashion

When it comes to art history, you can count me in as a devoted dilettante. Museums make up my world—the Louvre in Paris is my playground, National Portrait Gallery in London is a dream come true and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is like a second home (I’d live on the second floor’s left wing if I could). As a European history nerd, art history is the perfect mix of historical facts and gorgeous visuals that delve deeper than just pretty images or extravagant decorations. It’s a comprehensive subject of everything I love and undoubtedly a major fashion inspiration.

When I was nine years old, I read my first Tudor novel and after going through a serious Renaissance obsession, I vowed to see Anne Boleyn’s portrait in person. Finally witnessing the Tudor portraits last summer was a momentous check off my bucket list. I ran up to the second floor of the National Portrait Gallery to meet my favorite characters in history—and let’s just say it was so much more exciting than going to see a Willard E. Hall Education Building screen projector. Their gorgeous portraits had them fashioned in rich hues, yards of velvet or layers of silk elaborately embroidered in gold and sporting one of my favorite facets of past royal portraits—brocade.

Brocade is a rich fabric woven with a raised pattern, and is typically

gold or silver. Whether depicted in Bronzino’s “Eleanora of Toledo and Her Son,” a Ruben’s masterpiece or the Coronation portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, there’s no doubting the magnificence of brocade.

It’s been a neo-Baroque kind of runway this season and fall fashions are channeling the era of revival. The Dolce & Gabbana fall 2012 collection is the quintessential example of brocade brilliance. Black lace dresses and structured capes walked down the catwalk trimmed in bullion and dripping in gold.

Fashion house Marchesa’s take involved a lighter color palette for the trend, though no less extravagant.

Structured coats and epic gowns in white and gold gave brocade an ethereal look as opposed to the dark, gothic characteristics of the trend.

Other designers like Jill Stuart, Jason Wu and Balmain exhibited a variety of pieces in brocade such as dresses, sweaters, dress suits, blazers and pants walked down the runway, proving versatility for such an elaborate trend.

So you’re probably wondering, how do we sport such a showy trend without looking like we’re casted for a Renaissance faire? There are plenty of stores carrying brocaded pieces that can be incorporated into an outfit without looking like a human ornament as 7 For All Mankind, for example, carries velvet skinny pants with foil brocade details that can be

with Megan Soria paired with solid shirts for an elegant look. Opt for black pants with black brocade for a more subtle touch— where only certain angles or looking up close can reveal brocade detail.

Brocade blazers or skirts should be used as statement pieces—keep with a dark color palette of black, navy, eggplant or burgundy. Urban Outfitters, Topshop and ASOS offer a variety of brocaded beauties that range from shoes to dresses. A great aspect about brocaded cocktail dresses is its structure. Typically brocaded dresses have a thicker fabric which stand well on its own, emphasizing the flattering cut of the dress. Add a leather moto-jacket over a brocaded dress or heeled booties with brocaded trousers for a modern take. Utilize textures to create interesting looks and don’t go overboard with accessories—they’re already sewn into your clothes.

Brocade is a perfect trend for the holiday season—it fits for winter’s darker holiday hues and is a great alternative to the stereotypical sequin pieces for holiday parties.

It’s no secret that art history in general plays a major role for inspiring designers and creating some of the most fascinating trends.

But if you haven’t guessed, I’m pretty biased towards Renaissance/ Baroque European art—so you can imagine how thrilled I am about fall 2012’s royal revival.

—megsoria@udel.edu

Online views lower TV ratings

BY KUSHAL NAIK Staff Reporter

Graduate student Dan Coursey doesn’t own a TV or a cable subscription, but keeps up with shows such as “Boardwalk Empire,” “Breaking Bad” and “Community” through his subscriptions to Hulu Plus and Netflix.

“The combination of both of those renders TV completely useless to me,” Coursey says. “We don’t have [a TV] because we’re rarely home—most of the time I watch TV on my computer as a break from studying.”

The current ratings system, the Nielsen ratings, do not take into account views from online streaming websites because, while available, data from those sites do not carry with it the same demographic information provided by homes with a Nielson box.

Additionally, public places such as college dorms do not use an Nielson boxes, meaning that demographic data from college students only reflects a small subsection of the actual viewers.

There remains a place for traditional TV-watching. Junior Andrew DiMola says he treats his TV as a second computer window, allowing him to watch TV while working on homework. DiMola says he considers computer time as time that he should be working, which is why he doesn’t use online streaming services.

However, he says he is not averse to making use of online streaming services. DiMola plans to tune into the upcoming Netflixexclusive fourth season of Arrested Development when it airs next year, as he says he is a longtime fan of the show.

“With all of my friends who have Netflix accounts, there’s someone who might want to watch it with me,” DiMola says.

DiMola says that he does not follow any shows closely because of the time commitment needed to tune in at a set time every week. When a show does catch his interest, he says he would prefer to use online streaming services instead of trying to catch reruns.

“If I had a specific interest in seeing a TV show that has been going on for a while and I wanted to catch up, I would definitely go with Netflix or Hulu over television,” DiMola says.

“Community” experienced relatively low Nielsen ratings numbers, despite being voted TV Guide’s Fan Favorite last year. The show, which spawned the metameme “Six Seasons and a Movie,” representing the amount of time that creator Dan Harmon needs in order to tell the complete story of Community’s major characters, is speculated to be on the verge of cancellation with its upcoming fourth season pushed back from an Oct. 19 airdate to Feb. 7, in addition to being half the length of a normal season

and with no plans for renewal.

“I feel like ‘Community’ is not as high in the ratings as other shows because there is a large base of people who can wait to watch it on Hulu or Netflix,” Coursey says.

Coursey says “Community” differs from dramatic plot-driven series such as “Breaking Bad,” where people get “hooked” on the story and want to know what happens next.

The fact that many college students don’t have the desire or time to watch a TV show at the same time every week also factors into the widespread preference for ondemand streaming sites. Zofia Maka, a graduate student, says she is so busy with studying and writing her dissertation that she cannot prioritize keeping up with TV when she has so many other demands on her time.

She says she prefers to watch comedy series as a form of relaxation.

“I watch the shows because I find them funny, and it’s not as important what’s going on,” Maka says. “Story isn’t as important as entertainment.”

Coursey says current ratings methods are not representative of actual viewership because the modes of watching TV are changing.

“Considering that Hulu and Netflix are enjoying such a huge amount of popularity with people, rating shows by TV views is sort of archaic because with people’s hectic lives, tuning in to the TV at a certain time on a certain night is a fading trend,” Coursey says.

Events Calendar

(post break activities) Quizzo UD trivia Perkins Scrounge Tuesday, Nov. 27, 7 p.m.

The Resident Ensemble Players present Anything to Declare Roselle Center for the Arts, Thompson Theatre Nov. 29 to Dec. 2 David Norton Memorial Lecture Gore Hall 103 Thursday, Nov. 29, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Preparing for Finals Workshop Smith Hall 202 Nov. 26 to Nov. 29, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Holiday Art Market Newark Arts Alliance, East Main St. Nov. 20 to Dec. 30, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Thanksgiving overlooked in store holiday decorating

THE REVIEW/ Emma Rando

Stores began decorating for Christmas shortly after Halloween.

BY ANDREA LUNA Staff Reporter

Garland, twinkling lights and accents of red and green fill store windows in Newark.

Clothes in the Past Lane and Grassroots are two of the locations on Main Street that start preparing for the holidays ahead of time.

Alyssa Grave, Clothes in the Past Lane store manager, says she likes to prepare her store for the holidays at the end of November by decorating both the store windows and the store’s jewelry cases in red and green colors and by placing poinsettias in them.

“We try not to move into Christmas before Thanksgiving is over,” Graves says. “Around Thanksgiving we try to take all the fall stuff down, after Thanksgiving you are moving into the official Christmas season.”

Marilyn Dickey, Grassroots owner, says she decorates her store before Thanksgiving. A big part of her store’s holiday decorations involves holiday merchandise, which

is displayed as soon as it arrives, she says.

“Christmas merchandise goes out earlier because it starts selling right away,” Dickey says. “There is a short amount of time to sell the merchandise so we put it out sometime in October which is earlier than we used to. It’s just to remind people that Christmas is around the corner.”

Dickey uses garlands and twinkling lights to decorate her store windows, she says. Decorations are also place around the register as well as the outside railing to remind people of the upcoming holiday.

Dickey is unsure if her sales increase in correlation to her store’s decoration but she does think that decorating for the holiday’s inspires holiday shopping.

“It reminds people that it’s coming and that you have to get moving,” Dickey says about her store’s premature holiday decorations.

Clothes in the Past Lane incorporates a 1930s and 1940s television that was gutted out to display something pertaining to the season inside of it. Last holiday

season, the television displayed milk and cookies for Santa, Graves says.

Last year, they also used a lot of metallic decorations, which garnered attention, she says. Many people stopped by and asked about them, she says. Unlike other stores, which keep the same decorations for the entire season, Graves says Clothes in the Past Lane tries to change their window displays throughout the season.

“We like to change up the window every other week, we keep the Christmas display but we add things to freshen it up,” Graves says, “We keep it exciting and that keeps people interested.”

Graves is unsure if her store’s holiday decorations increase revenues, but does say they bring in customers and attention because of how creative their windows are.

Besides grabbing attention, part of the incentive for keeping store holiday windows exciting is Newark’s holiday storefrontdecorating contest on Main Street during the holiday season.

Sophomore Victoria DiRaimo works at Alex & Ani on Main Street and says she has already seen customers purchasing their Christmas gifts. Many customers are there to buy early gifts for coworkers and employees, she says.

While shoppers have recently started doing their gift shopping, others have started their Christmas lists even earlier—DiRaimo says she noticed customers start making wish lists early in the season.

“Girls take note of what they want and say, ‘I need to tell my mom I want this for Christmas,’” DiRaimo says.

Graves says her store does not decorate for Thanksgiving, but decorates for fall in general. Dickey also says she does not do much to decorate for Thanksgiving or Halloween. She does not decorate heavily for Halloween since it is not a big holiday for her store sales, she says.

DiRaimo says many stores in the mall, as well as the dollar store, were already decorated for Christmas, while Thanksgiving was overlooked.

Although the store she works in has not started playing Christmas music, she has heard Christmas music in other stores.

Both Clothes in the Past Lane and Grassroots take down their Christmas decorations within the first week of January, the managers say.

“We keep decorations up for a few days after Christmas, then take down the more ‘Christmassy’ things and make the display look more like New Year’s,” Graves says. “New Year’s extends the holiday season so we keep [decorations] up until then. We try not to drag Christmas out too much.”

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Gun Sales: ease of purchase Continued from page 19

Under Delaware law, no permit is required to purchase a rifle, shotgun or handgun. A person must be 18 years old to purchase a rifle or shotgun and 21 years old to purchase a handgun and there is no state licensing requirement for the possession of a rifle, shotgun or handgun, according to the NRA Institute for Legislative Action. Convicted felons are exempt from these rules and cannot obtain any firearms.

Freshman Brianna Hafetz says a person should not be allowed to own a firearm unless they need it for work related purposes.

“I think that the layperson should not be able to just own a gun because I think that leads to it getting in the hands of the wrong person,”

she says. “That’s where a lot of domestic violence or incorrect use of the gun happens.”

She says she is not opposed to stricter guidelines being imposed on the right to own a firearm because she feels it is too easy for people to obtain them.

“It’s kind of scary to think that any person could walk into a store and purchase a gun,” she says.

Harris says he is not impressed with the fact that criminals sometimes unlawfully obtain firearms and do not get severely punished, which can cause the need for stricter gun control policies, limiting the access of firearms to responsible gun users.

“The tens of millions of gun owners who act responsibly don’t need to be harassed and otherwise restricted,” he says.

Freedom of speech on Twitter debated

By KATIE ALTERI Staff Reporter

California resident Denise Helms made headlines following the election when she posted on her Facebook that she hoped President Barack Obama would be assassinated. Helms , who was fired from her job at Cold Stone Creamery , is reportedly being investigated by the Secret Service.

Facebook, with the status prompt, “What’s on your mind?,” has become a platform for students and employees to post uncensored opinions. As a result, the issues of whether or not social media users should be held accountable for what they say over the Internet have been brought into scope.

Freedom of speech often plays a role in these cases, and sophomore Melissa Stoll says the opinions posted on the Internet are often not appropriate, even though the freedom of speech allows citizens to have their own opinions.

“It’s definitely not appropriate on social media, and I think people should be more educated on that before speaking their minds,” Stoll says.

Freshman Alex Waad says he had an experience in his senior year of high school in which numerous students posted offensive tweets about him.

The impersonal aspect of the Internet is what made them more forthright, but he noted the students failed to express their opinions about him in person.

“I had passed a couple of these kids in the hallway and they didn’t say anything in person, but behind their phones they were a lot more bold,” Waad says.

The aggressors who attacked Waad over Twitter eventually changed their privacy settings once their school was notified about the situation. Once notified, school officials asked Waad if he wanted any action to be taken regarding the tweets, but he says he decided to handle it himself, hoping to avoid bringing more attention to the situation.

Instead of requesting the students get reprimanded, Waad started the club “Imagine.” The club, named after the John Lennon song, spreads a message of peace and harmony. Members of the club put up signs about being kind to one

throughout the high school and held weekly meetings where students could openly discuss issues such as cyber bullying.

Education and philosophy professor David Blacker says inappropriate postings should be countered with more productive forms of expression. A selfproclaimed “defender of freedom of speech,” Blacker says he typically does not think people should get punished for what they say.

It is often difficult to punish students for what they post online, unless it is threatening to another student or faculty member or could cause a general distraction to the educational environment they are in, Blacker says.

Citing court cases that deal with student speech on the Internet, he says a student may or may not be legally punished for what they post.

While prosecuting students based on the effect their speech may have on the student body, senior Anthony Serio says it is difficult for employers to differentiate between inappropriate and appropriate content. Employees should be able to have a private life, there are some cases where he thinks it is appropriate for companies to intervene, Serio says.

“If you are posting anything on the Internet that would hurt the security of the firm or the sales of the firm, then you should be held accountable,” Serio says.

Waad believes that being fired for posting opinions online should depend on the type of job a person has.

“If you’re a journalist and you tweet things very biased and kind of dicey, then you kind of know what you are getting yourself into,” Waad says. “If you are just a regular employee at Bank of America and you are getting fired for being happy or sad that Obama got elected, that doesn’t matter—it’s not affecting your performance at work.”

To mitigate tensions over questionable posts on Facebook , Myspace and Twitter, society needs to change their perspective, Blacker says.

“I think the rest of society needs to mature a little bit and realize that the cure to speech that is wrong is more speech, not stifling speech,” Blacker says. “I would hate for the message to be that everyone is running around scared of saying things.”

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This was the second time in volleyball head coach Bonnie Kenny’s career that her team almost won a third straight CAA Championship.

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Nova claws Hens in annual “Battle of the Blue,” 41-10 Delaware ends season 2-6 in CAA play, lose five of its last six games

BY RYAN MARSHALL Managing Sports Editor

As the sun slowly set behind Delaware Stadium and the overhead lights shone bright, Delaware’s tumultuous season came to an end.

The Hens entered the fourth quarter losing to Villanova 17-10, and like so many games this year, the last period didn’t fall Delaware’s way.

After an early field goal in the last frame, the Wildcats led 20-10 with 13:30 left. Sophomore quarterback Trent Hurley led his team down the field for a 14-play drive. As Hurley’s passed fluttered in the end zone towards senior wide receiver Nihja White, it appeared Delaware still had hope. However, Villanova’s Ronnie Akins cut in front of White and snatched the ball away.

Hurley said he saw man-to-man coverage on his interception in the

end zone. He tried to throw the ball over the defender, but threw it low and inside, he said.

Villanova needed only four plays to go the 80 yards to put the game out of reach, but the Wildcats weren’t done yet. In the final 5:13, Villanova intercepted two more of Hurley’s passes and returned them both for touchdowns to make the final score a blowout, 41-10.

“It kind of got away from us in the end because we are just doing everything in our power to see if we can muster up some points,” head coach K.C. Keeler said. “This day and age of football you need to score points, and three points isn’t going to get it done.”

Keeler said he was disappointed for the seniors to go out with a loss.

He said maybe the Hens should have punted towards the end of the game, but the decision cannot be undone

THE REVIEW/ Sara Pferer

Junior free safety Jake Giusti (11) strips the ball from the Villanova running back on the goal line in the first quarter. now. The Hens’ lone touchdown after he made his final juke. All that play.” came in the first quarter after was left was Villanova’s kicker, After the kick return, Delaware’s Villanova’s first score. and Johnson said he refused to get offense could not rally for any more The Hens’ sophomore wideout tackled by the kicker. touchdowns. Keeler said the Hens Michael Johnson took the kickoff “The kick return we had been didn’t make the plays necessary to 94 yards for a touchdown. Johnson working on all through the week,” win the game and haven’t really done faked left then cut right and found Johnson said. “We knew there was so all season. a wide-open hole. He said it was going to be a seam right there, so See KEELER page 31 a surprise that the field was open [Keeler] called it and just made a

Hofstra beats volleyball team in CAA finals, snaps run of consecutive titles

BY MATT BITTLE Sports Editor

THE REVEIW/Matt Bittle

Senior outside hitter Alissa Alker prepares for a serve in the CAA Championship game against Hofstra.

The Delaware women’s volleyball team took the court Sunday at Towson having won 13 of its last 15 games. The No. 2 seeded Hens played at the Towson Center against the No. 4 seeded Hofstra Pride with the conference title on the line.

As winner of the last two CAA Championships, Delaware hoped to beat the Pride for the second time this year and keep Hofstra from winning its second CAA title.

Despite holding a 1-0 and then 2-1 set lead, the Hens could not close out Hofstra. Delaware head coach Bonnie Kenny said she was extremely disappointed with the loss, especially for the team’s three seniors. She also said she was proud of her players despite the defeat.

“I’m proud of this team for

sticking together, […we] started to play better volleyball at the end of the season, and we just ran into a little tougher opponent,” she said.

The Hens began the year 3-14 before going on a hot streak to finish the regular season 15-13.

Delaware had a bye on Friday due to its high seeding. On Saturday, Delaware defeated James Madison, 3-1, setting the Hens up for a game against Hofstra after the Pride upset No. 1 seed Towson.

In the first set of their game with Hofstra, the Hens never trailed. The two teams traded points to the tune of 4-4, before Delaware took a 12-7 lead. The Hens closed the set out 25-18, much to the delight of the Delaware fans that traveled to Towson for the match.

Freshman setter MacKenzie Olsen had 10 assists, while senior middle hitter Chelsea Lawrence recorded six kills in the first set.

Kenny said Lawrence played well in her last game as a Hen. “Chelsea Lawrence showed up big,” Kenny said. “She had a good day at the net for us.”

Unfortunately for the Hens, the second set played out differently. Hofstra scored the first three points and did not relinquish its lead for the entire series. Up 13-12, the Pride called a timeout.

Hofstra went on a 12-4 run to win, 25-16, and tie the match at one game apiece. Senior outside hitter Alissa Alker had five kills in the set.

In the third set, the Hens played in a form reminiscent of the first series of play. Delaware never trailed and used a 6-0 streak to pull away en route to a 25-12 win. Freshman libero Ariel Shonk, who Lawrence said has played tremendous all year, had four digs.

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November 20, 2012

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Commentary

Today, Nov. 20 Women’s Basketball vs. Providence College 7 p.m.

Bob Carpenter Sports Center

Wednesday, Nov. 21 to Friday, Nov. 23 Men’s Basketball at National Invitational Tournament Pre-Season tip-off at Madison Square Garden

Sunday, Nov. 25 Men’s Basketball at Temple University 2 p.m.

Henpeckings

Men’s Basketball: The Delaware men’s basketball team defeated Virginia, 59-53, in the second round of the NIT season tip-off in Charlottesville, Va. on Tuesday. The win was the Hens’ first over an ACC opponent in 50 years and broke a nine game losing streak against Virginia.

Junior guard Devon Saddler led the Hens with 15 points, all in the second half. Senior forward Jamelle Hagins recorded his second double double of the season with 10 points and 16 rebounds. The Hens’ record is now 2-1 (0-0 CAA).

Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving:The Delaware men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams both placed second in the seven-team Bucknell Invitational this weekend.

The women’s team had 22 top five finishes during the three-day meet. The host Bucknell edged out the women’s team by two-and-a-half points.

Sophomore Amy Stelmaszyk placed first in the 200-meter butterfly, and freshman Caitlin Stockwell won the three-meter diving event. The Hens’ record is now 5-2 (2-2 CAA). The men’s team had 21 top five finishes.

Delaware was led by junior freestyler Paul Gallagher, who finished second in the 100-meter freestyle. The Hens’ record is now 3-3 (0-3 CAA).

“COLD HARD CASH”

BY MATT BITTLE Almost every week, I feel like we use this space to talk about shameless money grabs.

We have written several commentaries about greed, be it with owners or TV stations. Having said that, the issue of money is a very divisive one, one that engenders strong passions, and so it’s natural that such topics are frequently items of discussions.

Why do I mention this? Because I have a related issue to bring up as this commentary is focused on, yep, you guessed it— cold, hard cash.

Almost every time a sports team wants a new stadium built, the owners cry to the fans to pay for it. “We can’t afford the cost of this massive building,” they say. And so they force it on taxpayers.

It has become extremely common for cities to take on not just some of the cost of a new stadium but most of it. This burden gets shifted on the residents of the city, regardless of their fandom. The cost manifests itself in the

form of higher taxes to pay for something that brings marginal benefits to the people.

Sure, arenas and stadiums can be used for concerts or other sporting events. But, what do you think most cities would rather have: a new stadium or new schools?

I have no idea how much it costs to run a school, but surely for the hundreds of millions of dollars, the cost of a stadium, you can renovate or construct a number of schools. A large number of cities are in tremendous need of centers of learning.

You might argue simply having a sports team creates jobs and boosts the economy and hosting sporting events in town brings in extra dollars. Well, a number of studies have disputed this, arguing essentially that the money spent on sporting events is money that would have been spent elsewhere in that city.

There are some benefits to having a pro sports team, admittedly, as the city’s residents can rally behind a common cause, which raises morale.

But are those intangible things like morale worth it? I’d say no. I understand fans are afraid to lose their local team when an owner claims that he will move the franchise if taxpayers don’t open their wallets to build a brand-new stadium, but these venues are expensive, and the owners, after all, are extremely rich. The Indianapolis Colts’ Lucas Oil Stadium cost $720 million to build from 2005 to 2008. Guess how much of that the Colts franchise paid? One hundred million dollars.

After Major League Baseball President Bob DuPuy warned Miami officials in 2008 that the then-Florida Marlins would leave if the taxpayers did not cover a substantial portion, the politicians gave in. The city and its citizens ended up contributing almost $500 million to the ballpark. The Marlins franchise spent about $125 million.

According to leaked documents, the Marlins had a net operating profit of over $37

million in 2008. Yet the team was able to strongarm the city into giving it a new stadium.

The city had never embraced the Marlins before, with the team annually ranking in the bottom of the league in attendance, so why was Miami now so desperate to keep the franchise?

Fans and policymakers alike get scared when an owner threatens to move a team. The fans don’t want their favorite team to suddenly belong to another city, while the lawmakers see money evaporating from the city and moving to another town.

There is a history of greedy owners disregarding their team’s tradition in one city and uprooting the team because they felt the lack of a state-of-the-art venue was costing them cash. I would know. I’m from Maryland, which gained a football team in 1996 after owner Art Modell became frustrated with Cleveland’s refusal to build a new stadium for his Browns.

I would not want to lose my football team.

But I see no reason why I should help the filthy rich get even richer. I realize this is not a completely clear-cut issue, but I don’t think it is that complicated.

Why can’t more stadiums be like the San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park, which, when it was opened in 2000, was the first baseball stadium in 38 years to be built without public funding?

Owners have it pretty good. A sports team is a cash cow. And it’s rather bizarre that owners can get cities to push most of the burden of a new stadium on taxpayers—bizarre, and insulting.

Send questions, comments and a Delaware basketball conference title to Matt Bittle at mraven@udel.edu

Under Preview Delaware vs. Kansas State About the teams: About Delaware: The Hens are 2-1 and coming off their first victory over an ACC opponent in 50 years when the team defeated Virginia, 59-53. With the win, Delaware advances to the semifinals of the NIT season tip-off. Junior guard Devon Saddler led the Hens with 15 points, all of which came in the second half.

About Kansas State: The Wildcats are 3-0 and advanced to the semifinals after defeating University of AlabamaHuntsville, 87-26. Kansas State sits in first place on the Big 12 and is led by sophomore guard Angel Rodriguez, who averages 14 points per game.

Men’s Basketball Time: Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Location: Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y.

The numbers: 0: Number of games played by the Hens at Madison Square Garden.

Why the Hens can win:

168th to 30th: Hens points per game ranking versus Kansas State’s.

Senior forward Jamelle Hagins leads the Hens with 12.3 rebounds per game and the Hens will need to control the boards against a KSU team that is sixth in the nation with 47.7 rebounds per game. Delaware carries a lot of momentum into the contest after their win over Virginia and will rely on Saddler, who averages 16 points per game and sophomore guard Jarvis Threatt, who averages 14.3 points per game to lead the Hens offensively.

12.3 to 7.0: Delaware’s top rebounder’s average per game, Hagins, versus Kansas State’s top rebounder D.J. Johnson.

Why the Hens could lose: Kansas State is led by Rodriguez and junior guard Will Spradling, who averages just over 11 points per game.

Kansas State is sixth in the nation and rebounding and chooses to do so by committee, with no player averaging double digit rebounds on the season.

The prediction: Delaware will carry the momentum of beating Virginia into the game but Kansas State’s offense will prove to be too much for the Hens, unless they can control the boards. If the Hens can overcome the excitement of playing in The Garden and settle down early they can keep it close, but Kansas State’s big game experience will give them the edge.

Delaware 56 Wildcats 82 Dan McInerney Sports Editor

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Delle Donne still sidelined, Lady Hens hold early confidence

BY DAN GALLAGHER Staff Reporter

THE REVEIW/Stephen Pope

Senior guard Lauren Carra looks for an open teammate in the preseason game against Sam Houston State University on Nov. 9.

In her 17th season as head coach of the Delaware women’s basketball team, Tina Martin said she realizes the transient nature of expectations.

Following the most successful season in Delaware women’s basketball history, during which the Hens amassed 31 victories and were crowned champions of the CAA, the 2012-2013 team opened the year 1-2.

This is a contrast from last season, as the team suffered two losses during the entire campaign.

Martin said there were high expectations for Delaware after the record season a year ago but wins never come easy, even with the return of all the team’s five starters.

“My biggest expectation right now is to try to right this ship and start playing winning basketball,” Martin said. “We’re certainly not playing the best basketball we can be playing right now.”

Martin said the slow start was partly due to the introduction of six new players to the team, along with other players taking on bigger roles.

She said several sophomores and juniors who were being pressed into new roles were not playing as well as they needed to.

The Hens opened the season with a 63-31 win over Sam Houston

State University but subsequently lost to Georgetown University, 6256, and Duquesne University, 5147. Senior forward Danielle Parker said thanks to Martin’s influence, the team remains focused despite the two losses.

“When you play to the best of your ability, you’re going be looked at— people are going to take notice, and that’s what it’s all about for me,” Parker said. “For most of the team, we have to come out and stay motivated in ourselves.”

The Hens are playing without senior forward Elena Delle Donne, last season’s CAA Player of the Year.

Delle Donne missed the first three games of this season due to Lyme disease. The same affliction caused her to miss 12 games during the 2010-2011 season. She has set return date.

Senior guard Lauren Carra said Delle Donne is the best player in the country and is capable of helping the team beyond scoring. According to Carra, Delle Donne forces defenders to pay attention to her, leaving other players open. Without her, the Hens are forced to find open shots by themselves, Carra said.

Carra said the Hens are taking the season one game at a time. She said today’s home game against Providence College is her primary focus.

“The season is a marathon and not a sprint,” Carra said. “Yeah, we have as many losses now as we did last season, but we’re taking this right now as a lesson learned and we’re going to use this once we get to March.”

Last year, the Hens won their first NCAA Tournament game, defeating the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 73-42. Delaware’s season ended in the second round following a 70-64 loss to the University of Kansas.

Carra said the team learned from the defeat and used it to motivate them.

“That was our driving focus— we were going to get back there, we were going to take another step, another couple steps and even make it to the Final Four,” she said. “That was our overall goal, and that still is our goal.”

Conference play begins in January, but the Hens are not worried about those games at the moment, according to Martin. She said she doesn’t want to give a prediction about the season and prefers for her team to look at these opening games as part of an on-going process.

“Everybody else can have expectations,” she said. “All I want to do is get this team to play better basketball.”

Cross Country ends fall campaign with best season in last two years

BY BEN COOPER

Student Affairs News Desk Editor

After adopting a more intense training regimen under head coach Wendy McFarlane, the Delaware women’s cross country team wrapped up its season placing eighth at the ECAC Championships on Saturday.

While missing sophomore Nicole Daly, due to injury, McFarlane said the Hens entered their final meet with a “new ferocity,” which carried the women to multiple personal best performances.

This year, the Hens enrolled in the more competitive “championship” division of the ECAC meet as opposed to the easier “university” section. The team had the potential to place higher than they did, but McFarlane said she was extremely pleased overall with the team’s performance.

Delaware finished in first place in three out of eight meets this year, which was an improvement from just one win in the 2010 and 2011 seasons. The Hens also improved from 42nd place to 18th in the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh.

Delaware’s 3rd place finish in the CAA was its highest in the last two years. The Hens have ended the season two spots higher in consecutive years.

Junior Lindsay Prettyman said many of the team’s slower runners made shocking improvements.

“A lot of people just really improved a lot out of nowhere,” Prettyman said. “There were a lot of really good surprises, our seniors also really stepped it up this year.”

McFarlane said the team’s general success this year improved because of strong leadership, particularly from senior captain Kayla Koonz, who has been proving herself as a top performer and effective leader all season long.

“Kayla just has a wild energy,” McFarlane said. “The girls really feed off that positive vibe that she brings to the table.”

The Hens improved on the CAA scale this season as well, moving up from fifth to a third place finish at the CAA Championships at William & Mary on Oct. 27.

Despite missed workouts and other setbacks due to Hurricane Sandy, junior Michele Lambert said she attributes their overall accomplishments to their effective summer workouts and in-season training with McFarlane. The new coach brought in a new “speedwork” oriented style of training as opposed to running more miles during practice. “[CAA] Conferences was a really big deal for us because it was the first time we were seen as an elite program,” Lambert said. “We all responded really well to the changes.”

Their training program was focused more on quality as opposed to quantity in terms of the distances

they ran at practice everyday, Lambert said.

The Hens also concentrated on improving their race strategy by taking the first mile of their race faster than in previous performances, Prettyman said. The team has been known for trying to make up ground late in a race after a slow start, she said.

This tactic resulted in some of the Hens faster finishes and higher places, she said.

While losing three graduating seniors, the Hens begin to look towards the future. McFarlane also works with the women’s track and field team and said many of her athletes from cross country will be competing with her on the track team this spring.

Lambert said many of the seniors will continue to run after graduation and are looking to compete in marathons. She also said a few alumni who stay in the area usually continue attending cross country workouts.

The Hens have many returning runners but McFarlane still considers them a young team.

Lambert also said she is excited about the team’s future and based on their performances this year, the rest of the CAA will be worried about competing against them next year.

“We proved that Delaware is going to be a cross country program to be reckoned with in the conference,” she said.

THE REVEIW/Stephen Pope

Junior Lindsay Prettyman leads a flock of Hens on a cross country course.

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Keeler: To review, evaluate all players’, coaches’ positions on team Continued from page 28

THE REVEIW/Sara Pferer

Sophomore wide receiver Michael Johnson catches a ball in Saturday’s game against Villanova. Johnson also had a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.

Keeler said Delaware is not going to win games if they continue to drop passes in the end zone and on consecutive plays in the second quarter, the Hens had a chance to score. Sophomore wide receiver Stephen Clark was open on a slant route but let the ball go through his hands. On the next play, Johnson had the ball in his hands, but the Villanova defender knocked it out.

Delaware settled for a field goal.

Hurley said moving forward the team needs to get better at everything and included himself in his critique of the Hens’ performance.

“We had a couple of missed opportunities to take the lead,” Hurley said. “Football games— you get opportunities that you have to take advantage of. If you miss those opportunities they’re going to hurt you, and they hurt us.”

Keeler tried everything to get his team back into the game. At the beginning of the second half the Hens attempted an onside kick and recovered the ball. Keeler said the fact that the Hens got it—and just punted the ball away was a huge momentum swing.

The defense kept the Hens in the game when in the first quarter, junior free safety Jake Giusti’s fumble recovery in the end zone in the first quarter prevented a 14-7 lead.

Senior linebacker Paul Worrilow said the Hens’ defense played pretty well even though they gave up 498 yards. He said too many big plays happened, which is why Villanova

had so many yards. However, after those big plays Delaware tightened up near the red zone.

Worrilow has been a key member of the Hens defense in his four years at Delaware. He was on the sideline at the end of the game reminiscing with teammates about moments like the national championship game. Worrilow said that the 2010 season couldn’t be put into words. He played his final game and received an ovation after the game from remaining fans.

“A loss is a loss,” Worrilow said of his final game as a Hen. “It is the last game so I’m obviously going to try and find the good out of it as much as I can.”

For the underclassmen and Keeler it is back to the drawing board in the offseason. Key players like Hurley, Johnson and junior running back Andrew Pierce are all returning. Pierce only carried the ball two times against Villanova because of lingering injuries.

Redshirt freshman linebacker Jeff Williams and freshman defensive lineman Vince Hollerman will return for the defense after successful rookie campaigns. Keeler said he was still upbeat about next season and will grade everyone’s performance.

“We will take every single player and evaluate where they are in the program and what they need to do moving forward,” Keeler said. “We will examine where we are offensively, where we are defensively.”

Titles: Hofstra ends Hens shot at three-peat in CAA Continued from page 28 Lawrence said the team played well in some aspects but failed to perform as they wanted to.

“I think that we served really well in the first and third set and kept it away from their libero, who’s a really good passer,” Lawrence said.

“We terminated balls well when we needed to, but we didn’t block that well, which was the key thing that we needed to do.”

The fourth set saw back-andforth battling throughout. Delaware trailed 14-12, but the team managed to pull ahead to hold a 21-19 lead.

Hofstra scored six of the next eight points, however, to win, 25-23.

For the fifth straight year, the CAA Volleyball Championship would be decided by a fifth set.

Junior outside hitter Katie Hank, who had eight kills, and Olsen, who recorded 10 assists, led Delaware in the fourth. Kenny said the Pride played well despite the Hens’ efforts.

“I have to give Hofstra credit,” she said. “They played very well the entire championship, and they played three matches back-toback.”

The fifth and final set, a winner-take-all period, was hotly contested, just like the rest of the match. Delaware led, 7-5, but the Pride scored the next three to take a lead they did not lose. When Hofstra scored the final point to

earn a 15-12 win, the Pride players rushed the court.

Olsen had seven assists in the set to finish with 42. Lawrence had four kills, giving her 15 in the match. Hank had 13 kills overall, and Alker recorded 12 total. For the Pride, outside hitter Kelsie Wills had 18 kills, earning her the Most Outstanding Performer award for the tournament. She was one of three Hofstra players named to the All-CAA Championship Team.

Alker and Lawrence were also rewarded for their play with spots on the tournaments’ all-star team.

Kenny said she was pleased with the determination and resiliency the Hens displayed during the year. She said she thinks the Hens will be motivated for the 2013 season, given the way this year ended.

Olsen also said she felt the team would learn from the defeat.

“We’re already thinking about what’s next,” Olsen said. “We’ll be back next year, stronger for sure.”

Lawrence said she enjoyed playing volleyball for Delaware for four years. She said she was proud of the team’s accomplishments despite the loss.

“I’ll remember all the things that we did well, all the volunteering that we did in the community,” she said. “It was such an amazing experience to be a part of this team.

All the girls are amazing girls.”

THE REVIEW/Matt Bittle

Senior outside hitter Alissa Alker and redshirt freshman middle hitter Chandler Bryant strategize on how to play Hofstra.

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