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Police continue search for suspect

BY MARTIN MARTINEZ and DARREN ANKROM The Review

After an attempted sexual assault occurred last week and Newark police recently identified the man accused, local residents say they still feel safe because the incident is uncommon for the area.

The suspect, Marvin M.

Holmes, was captured on video surveillance and recognized by officers who had prior contact with him, according to Newark police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall.

The victim, a 30-year-old Newark woman, confirmed the suspect’s identity after reviewing video surveillance.

“We have received multiple calls from the public reporting

what they believed to be sightings of Holmes,” Farrall said. “Thus far, none of the sightings have resulted in his apprehension.”

The incident occurred at 9 p.m. on Nov. 13, on the James F. Hall trail adjacent to Phillips Park, located near Apple Road and South College Avenue. A man, since identified by police as Holmes, began talking to the victim in front

of the 7-Eleven on Elkton Road, and offered to walk the victim home.

The victim said she became suspicious of the suspect as they reached the trail. She turned to leave, but the suspect allegedly grabbed her and forced her to the ground. As the suspect began to

See CRIME page 12

Christie discusses economy

‘Occupy’ protest hits the highway

BY NORA KELLY Executive Editor

Nearly 30 years ago, when Chris Christie began his term as student government president at the university, the now-governor of New Jersey had ambitious plans for his administration.

He wanted to improve relations with minority students, tackle students’ financial aid issues and redefine the mission of the Delaware Undergraduate Student Congress, now known as the Student Government Association.

“I see opportunities to do some things that have never been

See CHRISTIE page 13

BY MICHAELA CLARK Staff Reporter

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (right) speaks with moderator Ralph Begleiter (left) during Wednesday’s National Agenda lecture in Mitchell Hall.

Men’s soccer loses NCAA tourney at UCLA

BY TIM MASTRO Managing Sports Editor

LOS ANGELES—Delaware men’s soccer’s fairytale run is over.

Of all places, it ended here in California. At a rain-soaked Drake Stadium, home to the UCLA Bruins, one of the most storied soccer programs of all time. The Bruins hold four national titles

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Marvin M. Holmes

and have produced more Major League Soccer players than any other college in the country.

The Hens have only ever qualified for three NCAA Tournaments and were predicted to finish 11th in the CAA Preseason Coaches’ Poll.

“Being here says it all for us,” senior goalie Kris Devaux said.

A late goal by UCLA’s

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Chandler Hoffman halted the Hens’ dreams of reaching the final 16 in the country.

It was the fifth game the Hens played in the past 10 days. In that timespan, they won their firstever CAA Tournament, qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 41 years and earned the program’s first ever NCAA Tournament victory Thursday

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night over powerhouse Virginia.

Hoffman’s game-winner Sunday came with just 6:44 remaining in regulation.

“I thought we did terrific to contain them for 80 minutes,” Delaware head coach Ian Hennesy said. “I think if we had scored early we would have won the game.

This was a game, whoever scored

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Approximately 20 protesters traveled down Main Street Thursday morning, carrying backpacks, American flags and sleeping bags, as they continued their awareness walk from New York City to Washington, D.C. Marchers, who are an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement known as Occupy the Highway, walked 14 miles from Wilmington to Newark through the wind and rain the night before. They prepared to walk to Havre de Grace, Md. on Thursday, en route to their final destination, said marcher Michael Glazer, 26, of Chicago. He said their goal is to protest the extension of Bush-era tax cuts, which favor the wealthy.

“This policy has been tried and tried and tried again with the same result, which is the definition of insanity,” Glazer said. “Us showing up there won’t change their mind, but it will let them know we’re paying attention. The U.S. is waking up to this problem.”

Protesters began marching approximately 20 miles each day on Nov. 9. They planned to arrive in

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November 22, 2011

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November 22, 2011

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Some int’l students pay for admissions app help

BY DANIELLE BRODY Administrative News Editor

Junior Haitao Zhang can hold a conversation in English, and he earned an A on his last speech for his public speaking class this semester.

However, three years ago he failed his Test of English as a Foreign Language, which he took in China.

His family paid a college application agency approximately $4,000 to prepare his application to the university, which included writing his essay, and he was accepted.

“It’s very hard for a high school student to apply in English,” Zhang said. “The English is limited, so it’s hard to apply. Most of the parents do not speak English as a second language, so there is no place to find help, we just simply go to the agencies and ask for help.”

The number of Chinese undergraduate students enrolled in American universities has grown by 43 percent from last year, according to the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors report. Officials from the university’s admissions department and the English Language Institute have recently been recruiting from China, and the number of Chinese university students rose from eight in 2007 to 517 this year.

In China, American degrees are highly valued. Chinese agencies that inform students about universities abroad, help them prepare their applications and train them for their visa interview at the American

Embassy are a growing business.

The extent these agencies are helping students is being increasingly called into question after both the New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that officials at these institutions write students’ personal essays, fake documents and receive payments from universities.

Lou Hirsh, director of admissions at the university, said the admissions office, which handles international applications, is aware of these application agencies and has relationships with them, mostly to discuss the university’s viability to international students. The university does not pay them, he said, but the families do.

Zhang said the agency did everything for him, expediting a process which might have taken him two months to complete. Even if he didn’t use an agency, he would have asked someone else for help, and would still have wanted to pay them.

Hirsh said the increased number of agencies is a response to the growth of the college-aged students’ population in China. He said while the purpose of these agencies—to help students through the application process—is legitimate, he realizes their practices could be an area of concern.

“It’s not the agents themselves that are the problem, there is a difficulty with whether they’re overstepping some bounds,” Hirsh said. “There are two really big issues; one of them is the question of being paid by institutions and the other,

somewhat more serious, issue is the authenticity of the documents.”

He said admissions uses agencies such as the Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers and World Education Services to verify application information and check for forgery. The organizations validate the authenticity of documents by confirming institutions in the application exist, retrieving original documents and ensuring the validity of students’ information.

“Our major concern of course is obviously transcripts,” Hirsh said. “We want to be sure that this is indeed the work the student has done in his or her home institution, not some fabrication.”

Hirsh said although there may be questions about international students’ applications, the international students have comparable grades to those of outof-state students.

When international students apply to the university, they can choose from one of two routes, Hirsh said. If their English is strong enough, they can apply directly to the university. They submit their essay, transcript, summary of educational experiences and Test of English as a Foreign Language score, or the British equivalent, International English Language Testing System.

The minimum TOEFL score is 90 out of 120 points.

International students must also include a bank statement and financial information to proving they have the funds to pay tuition.

If admitted, the admissions officers will sign an I-20 form, which allows them to receive their visa, and they are enrolled at the university like any American student.

If students have strong grades but do not know English well enough to pass the TOEFL, they can apply through the Conditional Admission Program. If accepted, they must take a placement test on arrival at the English Language Institute, an intensive language school which teaches reading and writing. They take classes there they are ready to begin regular university classes.

“They’ve done everything they’re supposed to do in their home country to prepare for college, except they just don’t have strong enough English scores,” said Nadia Redman, assistant director of the English Language Institute. “It’s the university’s way of being flexible with international students, to enable them to be admitted without punishing them basically for the fact that they don’t have strong English the way that you and I have strong English.”

Each level may take two months, and each two-month session’s tuition costs $2,800, Redman said. She has seen the number of Chinese students enrolled in the ELI program grow after she attended a recruitment trip in 2008.

She said the institute received 30 Chinese students’ applications a week for the CAP program, and that Chinese students make up 30 percent of the 600 students in ELI. Redman said partnering with

overseas educational counselors is an industry standard. ELI has local consultants abroad which recruit students to the program and guide them through the college search process.

Jianguo Chen, director of the Confucius Institute at the university, said he left China to earn his Ph.D at the University of California 23 years ago. In 1988, the application process was more competitive than it is today, and students could only study abroad if they secured government funding or had a fellowship, he said. Now, students who come from China’s growing middle class can pay their own tuition.

“Unlike these students, you see, they’re self-funded, to the point that they can pay for people to prepare their essay, their application essay, as the article indicated,” Chen said.

“So it’s a completely, completely different scenario.”

Hirsh said the university does not offer financial aid to international students because it is not economically possible.

Chen said many students who study in America are known as the children of rich families. Many have a “rosy future,” he said.

“They’re here simply because my parents want me to, and because this degree [is] a golden degree, so when they go back it’s kind of a passport, along this path to social success,” Chen said.

Junior Yuchan Liu, originally from northeast China, has noticed

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New printing stations available throughout campus

BY CHRISTINA MONASTERO Staff Reporter

Students can now hit “print” on their laptops from anywhere on campus and pick their document up at one of eight print stations located on campus.

The Information Technologies department has reconfigured

university printing stations to connect them to the wireless network and receive documents from any computer on the UDel wireless network. The department also added two printing stations to the Christiana Commons and Rodney Commons on Nov. 15.

During the summer, the department removed the computers

Courtesy of Carol Anderer

This printing station was added to the Rodney Commons on Nov. 15.

from rooms in Christiana Commons and the Harrington Complex, and officials are now focusing their attention on adding more printing stations and increasing the range of the wireless network, Carl Jacobson, vice president of IT and chief information officer said.

Jacobson said students did not use the labs often enough to justify their continued operation, because most members of the university community have their own laptops. Department officials realized students were only using dormitory labs to print documents or check emails quickly.

“A lot of the usage that was in the labs was printing needs,” said Carol Anderer, associate director of IT client support and services. “[The reconfiguration] allows us to shift our investments from the labs to the wireless services they need just in a different way [that’s] more accessible to more people, because you don’t have to be on site to send to the printer.”

Anderer said each print station costs roughly $5,000 to construct.

The print kiosks were cheaper to install than the labs and easier to maintain. She said the printing stations will be convenient for students who do not have printers.

Each print kiosk includes one or two computers that students can use to access their email or Sakai and another computer to print the

documents.

“We focused on trying to respond to the new needs of the student,” Jacobson said.

Anderer said money saved from the kiosks will be invested into wireless options on campus.

During the last year, department officials reconfigured the network’s placement so students can access the network on The Green and while riding buses, Jacobson said.

The library’s wireless network has several places where the signal is weak because of the building’s concrete foundation and metal bookshelves, so the IT department added more access spots to improve internet access, Jacobson said.

Jim Tweedy, associate director of Residence Life, stated in an email message that empty computer labs in the Christiana Commons and the Harrington Complex will be used for a variety of purposes.

“The Christiana Towers space is already being used as a student group meeting and group study room,” Tweedy said. “The Harrington space requires some repair and minor renovations, but we intend to have the space ready for spring term for large events, social activities and workshops.”

Tweedy said Residence Life staff members will work with

the facilities department to add features to the former Dickinson lab. They will use student and staff suggestions to figure out how to proceed.

Senior Dustin Ramsdell said he learned of the printing station project when his leadership class inquired about the empty labs for a project.

He said this is his second year living in the Christiana Towers and he used the computers formerly located in the lab for printing.

“I like technology and gear and I support the idea of pushing ahead with technology on campus,” Ramsdell said.

Jacobson said 80 percent of universities have an IT service charge of about $167, but the university does not. The university does have a comprehensive fee in addition to tuition costs, but it covers health care and projects in the athletic department.

He would prefer if the university had an IT fee, but said they are currently unpopular. He said he was focusing on improving the university’s technology and making it more convenient for students.

“We need to support mobility and printing, and we need [lounge] space and group work space,” he said.

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November 22, 2011

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Unknown suspect throws log and branches onto Capital Trail An unknown suspect threw a log and various tree branches onto Capital Trail near East Cleveland Avenue from the CSX railroad bridge early Wednesday morning, according to Newark police spokesman Cpl. Paul Keld.

At approximately 3:17 a.m., Newark police were notified of the incident by a person who saw the debris on the road. During Halloween weekend, the person was a victim of a similar incident, Keld said.

Although nobody saw the suspect in action, police believe it was a person who caused the logs and branches to fall on the road because there are no trees near the area that could have produced the debris, he said.

The charges would be criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.

Unknown suspect grabs and punches victim An unknown suspect grabbed and punched a victim in the face in the area of Rose Street near West Cleveland Avenue, according to Newark police spokesman Cpl. Paul Keld.

The victim, who police identified as a 29-year-old male but who identifies as a woman, reported to police that while walking in the area an unknown suspect approached the victim and made a comment. When the victim tried to walk away, the suspect grabbed the victim, Keld said.

When the victim tried to pull away the suspect punched the victim in the eye. Some bystanders intervened and were able to push the suspect away. The suspect then fled, he said.

The victim did not suffer any serious injuries.

The charge would be offensive touching.

Man charged with underage consumption A 19-year-old man was charged with underage consumption of alcohol early Saturday morning, according to Newark police spokesman Cpl. Paul Keld.

At approximately 1:31 a.m., police responded to a report of a fight in progress at the 100 block of Haines Street. When officers arrived, they saw a large crowd but did not see anyone fighting and began to disperse people from the area, Keld said.

As officers were dispersing the crowd, a man began yelling and causing a scene. When officers approached him to ask him to leave the area, officers noticed he was in possession of alcohol as well as visibly intoxicated.

After asking for his identification, they discovered he was underage, Keld said.

The man was charged with underage consumption.

—Martin Martinez

THE REVIEW/Megan Krol

Roses in a Wilmington garden begin to wilt in the chilly fall air.

in brief East Campus construction begins The university began construction on the East Campus residence halls.

The construction is the beginning of a project set to end in July 2013.

Two five-story residence halls will be constructed on the East end of the Harrington beach. The new residence halls will have a capacity of 767 students and contain offices for Residence Life and Housing Assignment Services.

Due to the construction, the path from the intersection of Benny and Chambers Streets that leads to Russell Hall dormitories will be closed.

Construction hours are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Morris Library hours shortened for Thanksgiving break The Morris Library is open for shortened hours on Nov. 23, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The library will then be closed completely from Nov. 24 through Nov. 26.

The library will reopen for shortened hours on Nov. 27 at 2 p.m and will close at 2 a.m.

The Special Collections and Exhibition Galleries in all university libraries will be closed from Nov. 24 through Nov. 27.

All online resources offered by the library will still be available throughout the Thanksgiving break.

things to do

Submit events to calendar@udreview.com Monday, Nov. 28 Preparing for Finals Workshop 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Gore 117 Tuesday, Nov. 29 Chi Omega Presents: Mr. Fraternity 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Trabant Multipurpose Rooms Wednesday, Nov. 30 HOLAdays 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Christiana Commons

Flexible Spending Account enrollment process extended The open enrollment process for the 2012 flexible spending accounts was disrupted for some university employees because of a malfunction in the system.

Because of the malfunction, university staff can enroll in an account until Nov. 21.

It is mandatory for university employees to re-enroll each year.

Thursday, Dec. 1 Annual Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Clayton Hall Ballroom Friday, Dec. 2 The MelUDees Present: Super Mel-U Brothers 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., Pearson Hall Saturday, Dec. 3 YChromes Fall Concert 8 p.m., Pearson Hal Sunday, Dec. 4 Solace Gospel Dance Crew Fall Concert 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Pearson Hall Monday, Dec. 5 UD Symphony Orchestra Performance 8 p.m., Puglisi Recital Hall

November 22, 2011

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Politics Straight, No Chaser Super Committee comes up short

The Washington House condominiums on Main Street are available for purchase.

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City plan would promote owner-occupied housing

BY LAUREN PITRUZZELLO Staff Reporter

Newark City Council heard plans to resurrect the Promoting Owner Occupancy of Homes program at their Nov. 14 meeting, a program that hasn’t been implemented in the city for two years.

The program, which gives loans with favorable terms to interested buyers who might otherwise choose to rent property, has helped promote homeownership in the past.

Fourteen people have used the loans when purchasing homes since the program was implemented in 2005. The last loan was given in 2009, after city officials determined there were not enough available funds to continue the program.

Mike Fortner, a planner in the city’s planning and development department, said this program could help maintain property quality in Newark because owners generally take better care of their homes than renters, and have a more vested interest n their communities.

“It hopefully creates a more stable neighborhood and allows homes that are currently rentals to become owner-occupied,” Fortner said.

Borrowers in the program receive a deferred loan of up to $30,000 to be used toward purchasing a home. The loan does not require full repayment throughout the course of the borrower’s ownership of the property, nor does it collect interest.

When the buyer sells the house, the

city collects the entire loan, as well as a portion of the value increase to the property.

Projects leading to more affordable student apartments are a city planning goal, according to Fortner. Currently, students can increase the price for single-family homes because they will pay more in rent than a buyer would for a monthly mortgage payment. Many homebuyers in Newark choose to rent them to the university community instead of living at the property themselves.

“The person who wants to buy that property as a rental house has an advantage,” Fortner said.

Roy Lopata, director of the city planning and development department, said he thought the POOH program could increase home ownership in the city and help strengthen the community.

“The exciting thing about the program is that it helps first-time homebuyers purchase homes in Newark,” Lopata said.

Ralph Begleiter, university professor and vice chairman of the planning commission, said he believes city residents want to see more people move into the city that share an interest in improving the community.

“The reason city residents favor owner-occupied housing is because those residents take care of their housing and have a long-term view of what they want Newark to look like,” Begleiter said. “Students don’t

have that long-term view.”

Newark resident Bruce Chase, 63, said he thought that in addition to the POOH program, the comprehensive development plan laid out by the planning department in 2008 could potentially entice more residents to remain in the city long-term.

The plan creates goals and guidelines for Newark’s development, and one of its provisions calls for encouraging owner-occupancy.

“It just doesn’t seem to have been implemented as much as they would have liked,” Chase said.

He said he questioned initiatives to build cheaper student apartments in order to bring down student demand for single-family homes.

“Is there really a need for more student housing?” Chase questioned.

“I think that needs to be studied.”

Washington House resident Joy Scott, 58, said she thought promoting owner occupancy was positive for the city, and thought there was plenty of room for more homeowners to share the community with the students.

Scott said she has lived in Newark for three years and has observed changes she believes are moving the city in the right direction.

“There is vitality and there are more interesting shops and more interesting things coming into town,” Scott said. “And that is one thing I would like to see continue.”

This summer’s compromise on Capitol Hill that temporarily delayed the debt crisis from this summer was officially labeled a failure Monday as the Super Committee charged with brokering a bi-partisan solution announced they have yielded no results. It is an anticipated setback to solving our nation’s debt crisis and a larger ideological battle over the nature of taxes. As it stands from the August trigger deal, vital entitlements and tax breaks for struggling lowincome and middle-class Americans are set to expire by the end of the year and deep cuts will be made to the Department of Defense in an attempt to curb spending.

To put an end to the summer debt crisis that threatened our nation’s credit rating, Congress and President Barack Obama agreed to put the challenge in the hands of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. This became known as the Super Committee —a group of six Democrats and six Republicans from the House of Representatives and Senate —who would negotiate and send reform bills for the president to sign without the typical congressional quagmire that deadlocked any hope for a resolution this summer.

The hope was that some “grand bargain” could be struck, mixing cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and defense spending with some tax raises on the wealthiest Americans. To encourage the Super Committee to find common ground and agree on a deficit reduction plan, a massive trigger that some are calling a “doomsday scenario” of cuts was put in effect in case the committee failed.

This trigger includes $1.2 trillion in cuts to defense and domestic programs scheduled for 2013. Hope for a lastminute compromise remained until the end, but as news broke that a failure was imminent, Obama took to the White House press room news podium Monday night to announce he would veto any bill calling for the removal of the trigger.

It seems the committee, which was made up of high-profile names from both parties, was set to fail from the beginning. The ideological differences that plagued the debate during Congress’ full session this summer continued among the Super Committee members. Democrats insisted tax cuts for America’s superwealthy that began during the Bush administration should expire before cuts were made to social programs that less-fortunate citizens rely on.

Republicans have remained defiant in insisting that taxes be lowered to regulate the debt, and prefer balancing the nation’s checkbook through deep and targeted spending cuts alone.

Republicans have found themselves in a particularly tight spot due to the party’s insistence that any officeholder who votes in favor of tax hikes will find a politically icy forum next time they seek re-election. An organization called Americans for Tax Reform, headed by Washington bigwig Grover Norquist, has had most of the GOP sign a pledge against raising

taxes. This powerful organization could end political careers of party members who defy this pledge. With one side so paralyzed to give any ground, negotiations had little chance at success.

Moody’s and Standard & Poors, the credit rating agencies who threatened to downgrade the United State’s credit rating this summer, announced late Monday night that they would not be taking action on news of the Super Committee’s failure.

Trigger aside, the lack of an agreement means a tough endof-the-year-stretch is set for Congress.

The committee Matthew planned to add Friedman provisions to a potential deal that would extend shortterm jobless benefits and a payroll tax holiday that directly benefit Americans hurting in the current tough economic conditions. In addition, on Dec. 16 the government’s budget is set to run out.

Another government shut-down looms ahead with approximately three weeks of Congressional session remaining to figure out a compromise to a host of divisive issues.

It seems hard to imagine that Congress’ 9 percent approval rating could get any lower, but the American people are not going to be happy with what may unfold as we head to the Christmas and New Year’s recess.

On the election battlefield, Republican primary hopefuls have already begun to blame Obama for what they seem to be dubbing a “failure of leadership” on a host of issues. They claim Congress’ failure to negotiate could have been avoided through stronger executive leadership.

Democrats have criticized the GOP leadership for an unwillingness to give ground and compromise.

It appears the game has changed since the summer debates, as far as social calls for entitlement and tax cuts go. The Occupy Wall Street movement and the income inequality they protest has made it far less popular an issue for politicians to deficit hawk and threaten social welfare programs. The markets on Wall Street seem much more concerned about a growing worry about a complete European economic failure rather than waiting on news from Washington and the Super Committee.

While it definitely sets up a tough struggle for Congress over the next few weeks, the Super Committee’s failure seems to have less of a social and economic impact than was initially anticipated. Because the feared trigger isn’t set to go off until 2013, after the presidential election, it appears the American people will get the chance to voice their opinions in a referendum of sorts at the polls next November. ­­—Matthew Friedman, mjf@udel.edu @MattJFriedman

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November 22, 2011

Soccer coach brings players, cultures together

BY TUCKER MCGRATH Multimedia Editor

Unlike many international soccer teams, the Fugees aren’t composed of a group of teammates sharing the bond of national heritage.

Instead, the team is a collection of 10 soccer players from 28 wartorn countries like Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Congo.

Sunnis play with Shiites and Hutus play alongside Tutsis, all respectful of their leader—a woman.

Jordanian soccer coach Luma Mufleh, 36, who came to the Trabant Theater Monday, Nov. 14 to tell her story to the university community, leads the Fugees, a team she founded for international refugees in the U.S. Mufleh was born into a wealthy Muslim family in Iman, Jordan, and

with prosperity came ignorance.

She humbly admits everything was handed to her, and said it took a long time for her to develop a realistic view of the world.

“My grandparents and parents valued hard work and self reliance, but I think as the second and third generations came up we started taking everything for granted, living with a sense of entitlement,” she said.

Educated in international private schools, Mufleh was a strong athlete and a good student, but she admits rarely feeling pushed to her fullest potential. There was no need to work any harder than required.

Mufleh graduated from college in the U.S. in 1997 and left her wealthy Jordanian lifestyle to stay in Atlanta, Ga. and live independently.

The lifelong gravy train of ancestral

achievement came to an abrupt end, and Mufleh learned hard lessons.

She applied to law school, but never went. She worked as a freelance graphic designer but never landed a full-time job. She even opened a café, only to go bankrupt after two years.

Her first encounter with refugee children changed everything.

“One evening I saw kids playing soccer,” Mufleh said. “They were outside of their apartment complexes playing barefoot. They reminded me of home. I wanted to play with them so I came out the next week armed with a ball.”

Mufleh and the boys played, three-on-three, kicking their new ball within the walls of a concrete jungle. The boys were surprised a girl could be athletic, and even more

The soccer team is composed of 10 soccer players from 28 war-torn countries.

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surprised that she could coach. This first encounter was the spark that would become Mufleh’s burning desire to help these refugees. Six boys became 10 as they told their friends, and before long the first team was put together.

Mufleh’s coaching career gave her a direct look into the underprivileged lives of these young refugees. Their relocation and upbringing was different from everything she had known as a child.

She witnessed a boy play through an entire scrimmage with one shoe, carefully wiping it down afterwards and braving the two mile walk home barefoot.

“That night I put away my brand new Kangaroo leather cleats, promising myself that I would not wear them until all my kids could,” she said.

For Mufleh, seeing the boys excited about soccer was rewarding, but as she grew closer to them she discovered many of their families ran out of food stamps each month.

She tried to buy them groceries, but couldn’t cover them all. When she attempted to draw out a budget based on their parents’ earnings, she found it impossible.

“I never had this incredible plan for what to do,” Mufleh said.

“Kids and their families have taught me what was needed. They’ve showed me that you can’t survive on minimum wage in this country. They showed me the racism and classism in this country and how ugly it can be.”

The story of Mufleh and her players is the subject of Warren St. John’s book “Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town.”

It is the required text for UNIV320, a one-credit class all first-year resident assistants take to explore community development and leadership.

Rebecca Krylow, Complex Coordinator of Residence Life, said the book was an invaluable teaching device for RA staff.

“That book was strategically chosen because it had a lot of the core things we are trying to communicate to the RA class, like the importance of service, leadership, and developing

a community,” Krylow said. “It highlighted a lot of core messages through the story. They all really enjoy the book.”

Mufleh tutored the children at night and started a cleaning business to employ their mothers. She taught the kids to be proud of who they were and where they came from and not to be ashamed of their accent or that their families were torn apart by war. Mufleh brought them together on the field and they became family.

During the next six years, the number of teams increased to six and competed against other well-funded programs and enjoyed a number of underdog victories. Mufleh founded a nonprofit, the Fugees Family, to include after-school tutoring, a sixweek summer camp and the first private school in the country for refugees.

Mufleh said the boys never complained about playing on gravel or unmaintained fields or worried about the color or sizes of their rejected uniforms. She said they were grateful for anything they got because it was better than anything they had and the attitude was contagious.

Mufleh has bailed players out of jail and kept many more in school.

She said she measures success not in victories, but in how many students move to the next grade in school and stay out of trouble.

Shamsoun Dikori was the first Fugee to make it to college. He fled the war in Sudan with his family as a young boy with hopes to start a new life. In November 2002, on Thanksgiving, he lost his mother and three siblings in a car accident and sustained a critical head injury.

Dikori has every excuse to be resentful. Instead, Mufleh said he speaks only of how blessed he is.

He graduated college in May 2011, proving how far the son of a goat herder can go with the support of the Fugee’s Family.

“Shamsoun is an example of what is possible this country,” Mufleh said. “Live life with no regrets, stand up for what you believe in, and remember, you only need one shoe.”

UDance increases fundraising goal to $400K

BY MELANIE CLEARY Staff Reporter

When UDance began in 2007, the organization raised $8,000 to help fight childhood cancer.

Since then, fundraising totals have grown exponentially, and the organization set this year’s goal at $400,000.

UDance will host its annual 12-hour event in March, in which organizations sponsor a child fighting cancer, known as their “hero,” to raise money for cancer research. Proceeds will be donated to the Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation, founded by Andrew’s family.

Andrew passed away from leukemia complications in 2007 at the age of 14. His sister, Ali McDonough, is a senior at the

university.

UDance executive board members said they hope between 2,500 and 3,000 people will participate in the event, which includes meeting heroes, dancing and games.

“Those 12 hours are an energetic time,” said Eric Oppenheimer, co-executive coordinator of UDance. “If thousands and thousands of people are there it would make the kids feel it more. They feed off our energy and we feed off theirs as well.”

While UDance began in partnership with two Greek life organizations, fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon and sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi, today any organization, sports team or individual can donate.

Organizations and

heroes are matched based on the organizations’ fundraising efforts.

UDance members set a goal of reaching 10 percent of their fundraising goal before Thanksgiving break. According to Oppenheimer, the organization has raised approximately 14 percent so far.

Anna Trenga, the canning coordinator for UDance, said setting periodic goals, such as 10 percent before Thanksgiving break, and events the organization attends helped fundraise. As canning coordinator, Trenga directs fundraising taking place at the door of events and other locations, where donors can put change or cash into UDance cans.

“I think when we make more specific, smaller goals it helps us reach our big goal,” Trenga said.

UDance members also recently attended a men’s hockey game and held fundraisers at several Main Street restaurants, she said.

In addition to the university community, local businesses also contribute to the UDance efforts.

Pat’s Pizzeria on Elkton Road donates food for certain events and the Studio Green apartment complex holds raffles and makes monetary donations.

This year, Studio Green is also hosting UDance’s holiday party on Dec. 4, 100 days before the main event in March. The organization will hold a 5k on The Green, also on the same day, as another fundraising opportunity.

Trenga said smaller campus events are designed to spread awareness about the program.

“The most difficult part about fundraising was getting responses from people who even haven’t heard of it,” she said.

Trenga said every donation makes a difference, regardless of size.

“If four people give $5 it could give a family enough money to fill up their gas tank to go to the hospital and be with their child,” she said.

Oppenheimer agreed, and said participation in the event goes beyond fundraising totals.

“It’s more than the money too, it’s the support and when you see so many people in the same place who care about the event,” he said.

“And so many people who attend the event want to get involved after because it’s so much more than yourself.”

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Police tactics, tuition addressed at student forum

BY TOM LEHMAN Managing News Editor

The Colonial Athletic Association’s 10th annual blood drive was held Wednesday.

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CAA holds annual blood drive for Delmarva bank More than 1,300 university community members donate blood Wednesday

BY MEGHAN MCDEVITT Staff Reporter

Despite her apprehension about giving blood, senior Mollie Welsh faced her fears on Wednesday and participated in the Colonial Athletic Association’s 10th annual “Have a Heart” blood challenge.

She fainted in years past while donating blood, but Welsh said she was willing to brave the sometimes nerve-wracking experience again.

“I feel like it’s good karma to do it,” Welsh said. “And I can do it.”

Welsh was one of 1,350 donors from members of the university community participating in the annual blood drive, which benefits thousands of people across the region. Although the university was short of its 1,400-unit goal, the event was the largest blood donation event in state history, according to the Delmarva Blood Bank.

The university competed against Drexel University, which has won the blood challenge

the last five years. Though the university did not win the title, the number of registered donors increased compared to the previous record of 900 participants.

The large-scale competition raised blood at the university and will help people in medical facilities in Maryland, Delaware and parts of Northern Virginia.

According to Margaret Hannan, Delmarva’s blood collection senior manager, those who suffer from complications during childbirth or car accidents, are in need of transfusion or dialysis, or are battling cancer or leukemia frequently require donated blood. The bank requires 350 donations a day just to fill their orders. “[Each donor gives] about a pint of blood,” Hannan said. “One donation helps 3 patients.”

Michael Waite, Delmarva Blood Bank’s director of marketing and community relations, who has worked with the blood bank for nine months, said he experienced his first CAA blood drive this year and said the event’s turnout gave

him a reason to feel positive.

“Students have certainly participated and we’ve seen alumni and faculty,” Waite said.

“We need to make people more and more aware.”

Junior Allison Rosenberg, service chairman for Kappa Alpha Theta, volunteered throughout the day, handing out snacks and drinks to those recovering after giving blood. Along with other sisters in the sorority, Rosenberg took volunteering shifts and gave blood.

“It’s a great way to get involved in the bigger community,” Rosenberg said.

According to Hannan, the donated blood is used in hospitals for several different medical purposes.

Hannan, a registered nurse who worked at the event, said she enjoys working at blood drives and similar events.

“It’s a way of making a contribution to patients, but you’re on a different side of it,” Hannan said.

While many students don’t usually have direct access to those in charge of university services, Tuesday’s open forum gave them a chance to ask questions about the school’s operation and voice their frustration with perceived shortcomings.

Administrators from several university departments, including Dining Services, Athletics and Recreation and the Office of Public Safety, answered questions about several topics related to student life.

Among the more popular issues at the meeting was enforcement tactics used by university police and its presence around campus. University police Chief Patrick Ogden said most of the department’s efforts have been focused on preventing dangerous incidents of binge drinking on campus.

“When I was a trooper, I was a big DUI guy, and the blood alcohol levels we see here—they make my jaw drop, it’s really concerning” Ogden said. “My goal is, to get through weekends where we don’t take anyone to the hospital. If we do that I feel like we’ve won, but we’re not there yet.”

Ogden explained the relationship between city, county and state officers, who may have primary jurisdiction over the university police when responding to local crimes. He said his office and other departments are academic sanctions through the Office of Student Conduct for minor offenses, such as underage consumption of alcohol.

He said those who receive criminal charges for misdemeanor offenses often learn little from the experience and thinks academic sanctions can help students.

Students who receive academic sanctions are often required to take educational classes related to the crime they were charged with.

“What we try to do for violations of our student conduct code that occur on campus, is we refer [to the Office of Student Conduct] so there’s some educational incentive involved, it’s not just purely punishment,” Ogden said. “Because let’s face it, if you get a ticket to go to court for something, you’re just paying a fine and you’re moving on. There’s no educational intervention.”

Joe Okkola, associate director of athletics and recreation services, spoke about the dramatic decrease in football game attendance and said he felt the university’s football team produced a quality product but attendance did not necessarily reflect that during a time of an uncertain economy. In September,

a football game occurred in front of the smallest crowd for a regular season football game at Delaware Stadium in 13 years.

Okkola said the department was currently looking for ways to market itself and obtain higher attendance rates.

He said it can be difficult to attract people to football games and large attendance numbers at football games are a luxury.

“In tough economic times, people are really looking at their dollars and families are looking at what they’re doing on a Saturday,” Okkola said. “Certainly we want them to come and support UD athletics and we want them at all of our events, because it really does make a special atmosphere for our student athletes.”

One student asked university provost Tom Apple about the university’s use of funds after she was unable to find financial support from faculty for a study abroad trip. She said it was difficult to understand how the money was not available despite several years of increased tuition costs.

Apple said he understood the student’s frustration but an uncertain economy made it difficult to predict how university officials would spend the school’s approximately $900 million operating budget. The university, he said, relies on a significant amount of money from the state and federal governments, which has decreased during the last year, and officials were forced to cut department’s budgets.

“I’m an optimist by nature, but I think what we have to look at in the whole academic realm is look at smart cuts—cuts that don’t affect students, cuts that don’t affect the faculty, those things that make a minimal impact,” Apple said.

The provost also talked about the potential schedule changes currently being considered by the Faculty Senate, particularly the elimination of most Friday classes after 2 p.m. and addition of longer classes on Monday and Wednesday afternoons.

Apple wasn’t in favor of the schedule changes as they are currently proposed and prefers ending classes earlier on Wednesdays.

Although he wants students to participate in service learning and faculty to have meetings, he does not want the weekend to begin on Thursday.

“I came here in 2005 and I couldn’t sell my house in upstate New York and I lived on campus on North College Avenue and on Friday morning I spent the first half-hour cleaning up red beer cups from Thursday nights,” Apple said.

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November 22, 2011

Landlord, student relations strained, some locals claim

BY DANIELLE WAINWRIGHT Staff Reporter

Senior Ashley Pirozzi didn’t expect many challenges during her second year living in off-campus housing, but found it more difficult than she thought it would be.

Pirozzi, a tenant of Lang Development Group’s Center Square apartments above Yogoberry on Main Street, found navigating a relationship between students and landlords can be a challenge for both sides.

“Last year they charged us ridiculous fines for the silliest things,” Pirozzi said.

She said she and her roommates were fined $125 for failing to vacuum their carpet and clean the bathrooms when they moved out of their apartment in May, even though she maintains they did.

Pirozzi recalled an incident last year when an entrance to the Center Square building was damaged. As a result, she said all of the building’s residents were fined for vandalism she claims could have been caused by anyone, including non-residents.

Although she was wary about the property managing group, Pirozzi resigned the lease during the following year because she liked the apartment’s location.

According to Bruce Harvey, president of the Newark Landlords Association, there are approximately 850 landlords in Newark who own an estimated 1,200 properties. The number does not include apartment units, many of which are located

around East Main Street and Elkton Road.

Lang Development Group owns 12 properties that provide off-campus apartments to university students.

These buildings include Main Street Courtyard, Abby Court, Center Square, The Newark Bank Building, Madeline Crossing and Pomeroy Station.

Jurgita Saldunaite, an assistant property manager at Lang Development Group, said she tries to communicate with her tenants as much as possible.

“We send them emails to remind them that we’re here for them if they need us,” said Saldunaite, who is the primary contact for tenants in housing complexes. “I feel like a parent to these kids.”

She said the biggest challenge the company’s landlords face in a college town is the party scene. Although she believes most negative behaviors can be attributed to a small percentage of the student body, she said they affect the reputation of the entire group.

“When damage accrues on a building it’s often times difficult to determine who is responsible, so we must fine everyone,” Saldunaite said.

Senior Tony Minervini believes there exists a disconnect between students and landlords.

Minervini, a resident in the newly constructed townhouses on East Cleveland Avenue, said the rental units were supposed to be finished in time for an Aug. 25 move-in, but residents were not able to move in until Nov. 4.

During the construction,

Minervini and his roommates were offered discounted rent at College Town Apartments on Elkton Road until they were able to move into their Cleveland residence.

Minervini said he was unable to reach his landlord during those months.

“It seems like we end up being more of a number than people living in houses,” Minervini said. “You can tell that it’s a business first and we’re secondary.”

Hal Prettyman, the landlord of the Cleveland townhouses, could not be reached for comment.

In terms of student-landlord relations, Harvey said there are two sides to every story.

“My thought is that it’s a relatively small amount of renters that cause the problems that the rest have to deal with,” Harvey said. “Tenants are living on the reputations that precede them and the reputations that they make will affect renters to come.”

He said all tenant and landlord relationships are learning experiences.

In particular, landlords want to ensure tenants are respectful of their homes.

“We like to get tenants who aren’t going to be loud and obnoxious, but the people who apply for houses don’t have loud and obnoxious tattooed on their forehead,” Harvey said.

He said it’s important to maintain a healthy relationship between both parties.

“If you’re only known by your house number, you’re in trouble,” Harvey said.

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‘Reading Lolita’ author talks Iran, women’s rights Azar Nafisi says homeland’s current struggle based on freedom of choice, not religious or cultural strife

BY KERRY BOWDEN Sports Editor

To the Iranian government, women who wear lipstick, show their hair or hold hands with their boyfriends are employing their own types of weapons of mass destruction, according to author Azar Nafisi, who spoke at Mitchell Hall on Nov. 15.

The current struggle in Iran is not against religion, culture or tradition, she said, but about freedom of choice.

Nafisi, the author of the New York Times best-seller “Reading Lolita in Tehran” was born in Iran, and moved to England at age 13 to attend school there. After returning, she wrote the book to reflect her experience returning to Iran as a teacher.

In 1981, Nafisi was expelled from the University of Tehran, where she taught, because she refused to wear her veil, which was required after the 1979 revolution.

She said she moved to the United States to have a better life

with more freedom and thought her children would be more comfortable in America.

“I came to this country because it was founded on the principle that you can have a dream and actualize it,” she said.

Nafisi said while she had difficulty in Iran as an adult, she will always remember time spent in her homeland. When she moved to England as a child she missed Iran and tried to stay connected to her culture by reading Iranian literature.

When she returned in 1979 to teach culture at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai University on a fellowship from Oxford, she said she realized how much the country had changed.

In 1979, after the westernbacked Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown during the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the country’s new leader, enacted several laws which restricted the rights of women.

“When I went back to Iran in 1979 home was not home anymore,”

she said. “The political system had changed everything.”

When she arrived in the country, the government had enacted strict dress codes for women. Nafisi was against the regime’s strong rules.

“What is demeaning is the dignity that when a regime comes to power and you cannot look or feel or express yourself the way you are— they might as well shoot you,” Nafisi said.

Nafisi said Iranian women have the same desires and hopes for freedom as other women around the world.

“People love to be happy, they want the same things, they want to fall in love, hold hands, listen to music, read poetry, look beautiful for their boyfriends and girlfriends,” she said.

Nafisi said it is hard to be optimistic about Iran’s future when people are being jailed, censored, killed and try to escape the country.

She worries about her country’s future, but tries to remain hopeful.

Nafisi said a government who kills their citizens fears freedom.

“When people use violence, censorship, force, it is not because they are strong, it is because they are weak,” she said.

Nafisi said she worries about the institutions which have been dismantled. She believes universities are places where boundaries can be broken and where students can foster their imaginations. She said everyone who has passion and commitment is welcome, and studying at universities is how celebration of international cultures happens.

She said the most important thing people should do to learn about other nations like Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Afghanistan is to read about them and learn their history rather than accepting stereotypes. Nafisi said each nation’s story involves struggles, aspirations and sacrifices to earn freedom.

“Every culture, there is not one single culture in the world, that is not guilty,” Nafisi said. “That is why we need universities, to read history, to find out that none of us, not a single one of us, is innocent.”

Sophomore Patrick Derosa, a

history major, said the speech made him want to learn more about Iran.

“Relating the repression in Iran to different countries, especially the U.S., was the most interesting thing to me,” Derosa said.

Heidi Shepler, a graduate student in the English department, said Nafisi is one of her favorite authors. She read “Reading Lolita in Tehran” and enjoyed the speech.

“I got exactly what I was expecting: a very rich, passionate delivery of her ideals which deal with universal themes, and how all of humanity is connected,” Shepler said.

Freshman Margaret Fleming, an international business major, said she comes to speeches like this to tap into her interest in international and feminist rights.

“It was very inspiring and I was getting fired up about all of these things that I liked,” Fleming said.

“It hit the ball out of the park about everything I believe in, and that she believes in.”

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Local firefighters practice drills, face fears

BY TUCKER MCGRATH Multimedia Editor

NEWPORT, Del. — Under the heat of the afternoon sun, a group of firefighters sprawled out on the pavement and doused themselves with water to cool off. Exhausted and covered in grime, dust and sweat, they had just emerged from the smoky insides of a collapsed building. The rescue mission was a success, with all three victims accounted for and in stable condition, so their supervisor shut off the smoke machine and the men packed up their gear.

The firefighters had gone through the Guardian, a $100,000 training simulator built within the confines of a mobile trailer unit. On Sunday the Belvedere Fire Company in Newport, Del. played host to the device and its inventor Thomas A. Quinn, longtime firefighter and President of Personal Protection Equipment Specialists.

Captain Dwayne Pearson of the Belvedere Fire Co. coordinated with Quinn to get his men access to the Guardian, and they spent Saturday and Sunday running through different scenarios.

“God forbid that this does happen, my guys will be better prepared in knowing what to do,” Pearson said. “If I went in and this was a real life situation, I wouldn’t have been ready.”

Firefighters who crawl through the simulator experience what appears from the inside to be a collapsed two-story structure,

complete with power outages, smoke, gas leaks, realistic sound effects and an immense amount of debris.

Quinn began construction on the Guardian in 2004. The 45-year volunteer firefighter worked at Ground Zero in the wake of the Sept.

11 terrorist attacks. In one memorable rescue, he pulled the driver of a tractor trailer from the basement of a house he had driven into, a rescue effort that took 16 hours. His life experiences inspired him to build an accurate training simulator, and in 2006 he unveiled the Guardian to its first trainees.

“It’s as real as it gets,” he said.

“This unit here behind me- we’ve had over 12,000 firefighters go through it.”

Most training scenarios involve fires, and extractions of people inside of a burning building are fast and direct. Quinn felt firefighters needed to experience a collapsed building. Navigating through the dark labyrinth, even in a twostory collapse, requires complex decision-making. The Guardian is about problem solving, balancing traditional hazards with puzzle-like thought processes, he said.

The training is so intense that paramedics are on scene in case of emergencies. Participants have been known to have panic attacks inside the trailer and trained search and rescue K-9s froze up and had to be removed by their handlers.

Firefighter Timothy Albertini said the Guardian presented many new challenges to the team. He

entered as one of two first responders, each of whom becomes trapped. It is up to the rest of their team to rescue the original victim, played by a 13year old actor, as well as the two downed fireman. The pile of debris they cleared out of the trailer would fill a full-size pickup truck—twice.

“I liked it better than fire school,” Albertini said. “I’d say the narrow corners were the hardest part, the most challenging for sure.”

A fire truck is a mobile warehouse of tools for extraction, demolition and crisis containment.

Quinn said most simulations limit firefighters to specific tools, but in the Guardian trainees are allowed full access to anything on their trucks. They must decide what they need based on the specific challenges they encounter inside. Some carried 75 to 100 pounds of gear.

One fireman fell through a hole into the lower level, where reinforced concrete walls blocked the exit. Rescuers had to break through concrete, rebar and plywood to successfully extract him. They swung sledgehammers and used electrical saws in an area roughly the same size as the cabinet space beneath a kitchen sink. Some of the men were forced to remove their oxygen tanks and even their jackets to maneuver efficiently.

In this scenario, the fallen firefighter was suspected to have a neck injury, and needed to be immobilized on a backboard before being carried out. He was the heaviest of the three victims. Men

crawled in and out of the narrow entrance carrying oxygen, water and supplies to their team, and after almost three hours the final victim emerged safely, ending the training.

Belvedere Fire Chief and 20-year firefighter Vaughn Rider emerged, brushing the dust off his uniform. Surveillance cameras inside the trailer let incident commanders look in from the outside, and Rider

checked the screen to measure their progress. He said he was very satisfied with what his team had accomplished. “[It’s ] good training,” Rider said. “You have to actually think about what you’re doing, for yourself and for the victim, before you do anything. It takes a lot out of you, and it takes teamwork to complete the mission.”

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A firefighter crawls through the Guardian, a rescue training simulator.

College Democrats, Republicans debate Monday night

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The College Democrats and Republicans participated in a debate Monday night, the first since the spring of 2010. Members of the students groups were asked to address three issues posed in the form of questions and had to form responses in four minutes. Participants discussed a variety of issues, including income levels of U.S. citizens, the country’s financial situation and energy independence. ­­—Shelby Langan

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Students shape up in campus fitness program

BY MOLLIE BERNER Staff Reporter

Graduate student Alex Delcollo sometimes struggles to find the time and energy needed to consistently exercise. But, in a six-week university program encouraging participants to work out daily and record their minutes, he found his motivation.

“This program put a little pep in my step,” Delcollo said.

The Dare to be fit program, cosponsored by the Office of Human Resources’ HealthyU Employee Wellness Program and the Student Health Center’s Healthy HENS, began Sep.6 and concluded Nov. 6. More than 500 student and employee participants were split into two teams—Blue and Gold.

The participants created personal logs, set goals for the number of weekly minutes of activity they wanted to complete and tracked their progress along the way.

Final numbers were recently released, and a total of 446,193 minutes of physical activity were reported, equaling 7,436 hours of exercise by participants.

“No one goal is always easy to achieve,” said Blue Team co-captain Kerrigan Smith.

“Obstacles do come up, but the important thing is that people continue to do it. It’s cliché, but it

really is about the journey, not the destination.”

The captains for Blue Team were university provost Tom Apple and Smith, a graduate student in the department of behavioral health and nutrition. Their competition, the Gold Team, was led by J.J. Davis, vice president for finance and administration, and Colin Dobbins, a graduate student in the department of behavioral health and nutrition.

Smith said balancing different styles of leadership was difficult when the challenge began.

“Some people respond better to pushing them, while others need to discover the benefits of working out on their own,” he said.

Delcollo said he found internal motivation, but his team membership pushed him to work harder.

“I personally think I could have done a little better with the program but it did push me to do more physical activity than I have had time for,” he said. “The minutes I logged were not just for me, it was for my team so I did not want to let them down by not putting in the time.”

For others, such as Delcollo’s fellow Blue Team member senior Courtney Ferreira, the program was an opportunity to inspire other participants.

“I am already active five days a week, so this challenge really did

not do anything to change anything about my lifestyle habits,” Ferreira said. “I really just hoped to encourage others to be involved and gain something from it.”

The program was advertised through the university’s social media channels and in health classes, especially targeting students, who were able to participate for the first time this year.

Ferreira said she promoted the Dare to be fit program to her sorority sisters, as well as the freshmen she mentors in her First Year Seminar class.

“I hope it encouraged other students to be active, get to the gym, get moving and take advantage of some of the great free classes that are offered through the program,” Ferreira said.

Dobbins said he had a positive experience during the competition and loved participating and seeing other students wearing the Gold and Blue Team wristbands that were given to participants before the program began.

“It created this type of camaraderie between the students and faculty that was fun and energizing,” he said.

The Gold Team won last year, and Dobbins said his main goal was to repeat as Dare to be fit champions. After four lead changes during the competition, the Gold Team was declared the

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More than 500 students and university employees participated in the program. winner by nearly a 3,000-minute margin over the Blue Team.

“What better way for a person to get a taste of working out then by doing it with others and having the team challenge aspect

to motivate them to achieve their minutes and help their team on days when staying in bed would have seemed like a better option in the past,” Smith said.

‘Freshman 15’ weight gain a myth, study says University of Oklahoma researchers say most students gain 2.5 to 3.5 pounds during their first year of college

BY MAGGIE EATON Staff Reporter

Despite the myth of students gaining significant weight during their first year of college, freshman Bradford Tucker said he lost approximately 10 pounds during the fall semester.

Tucker said he avoids a sedentary lifestyle by vigorously power-walking between classes and avoiding snack foods.

Still, he thinks it is difficult for many students to resist the urge to indulge in salty snacks.

“Late at night when you see that bag of chips in your closet it’s hard not to grab it and start snacking,” Tucker said.

Tucker may not be alone in his lifestyle choices. According to a study from Social Science Quarterly, a scientific journal based at the University of Oklahoma, students gained less than 15 pounds over their college careers, discrediting the phenomenon known as the “freshman 15.” The study tracked more than 7,000 students through four years of college and monitored their fluctuations in weight.

The study, which will be published in December, shows a weight increase of 2.5 to 3.5 pounds for the average freshman student, as opposed to the claim of 15 pounds. The results of the survey also show 25 percent of college freshmen actually reported weight loss.

Michelle Ness, coordinator of Healthy HENS, a program that encourages healthy lifestyle choices on campus, said changes in eating habits, stress, time and alcohol consumption can contribute to weight fluctuation during a freshman’s first year in college.

Ness said the “freshman 15” is the result of lifestyle choices.

Added stress from academic pressure is a major reason for weight gain, according to Ness.

“Studying, socializing and stress can all lead to less than healthy choices,” Ness said.

“It’s not something that can’t be changed with just a few minor lifestyle adjustments.”

She said becoming involved in campus activities such as club and intramural sports, exercise classes or going to the gym are ways to live a healthy lifestyle,

in addition to selecting nutritional food.

According to the study, typical females in this study gained seven to nine pounds over the course of four years while males gained an average of 12 to 13 pounds.

The study indicates that binge drinking is another major reason for weight gain.

Freshman Haley Anderson said she uses the nutrition labels displayed in dining halls to help her make healthy decisions while on campus.

She said she primarily eats at the dining halls and only keeps granola bars in her residence hall dormitory room to help her stay healthy.

“I don’t keep snacks in my dorm because I know I’ll just sit and eat all the time,” Anderson said.

Though she said she is aware of the threat of weight gain, Anderson said she feels confident in keeping her weight under control.

“No one realizes how much walking you do here,” she said.

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The study tracked more than 7,000 students through four years of college.

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12 November 22, 2011 China: Students must reach English proficiency through language institute Continued from page 3 many Chinese students attending American universities because of parental pressure. They do not get involved in campus activities, and often only spend time with each other. Liu is a resident assistant in George Read and said she has many American friends, but also said she is considered weird by other Chinese students. She wanted to come to America, and has immersed herself in American culture to learn the language.

“You pay a lot to study abroad, so if you make your own decision, you really work hard,” Liu said. “On the other side, that means if you don’t make the decision by yourself and you just want a degree or your parents ask you to go here, you don’t have the power. If you want to try to push yourself into a different culture, it’s so hard.”

She understands why students would use agencies to assist them in the application process because many do not know about international schools. She spent much of her final year in high school at an English institution in China, where she prepared her application to the university.

“I wrote my own essay, but I asked my [English teacher] to revise it lots of times,” Liu said. “Lots of times, seriously.”

Chen, who teaches a Chinese literature class, said some of his Chinese students cannot write essays. He holds individual meetings to help them translate their ideas into words.

“Their writing ability’s not that good,” he said. “I know they may have good ideas, you can tell. But the way they present that idea is so simplistic.”

Zhang said he graduated from the ELI in eight months. His only complaint was that he did not have many English-speaking partners to practice with.

Liu said Chinese teaching styles are very different from American styles. In China, students are not supposed to ask questions because

it is considered a waste of time.

Redman said the ELI acknowledges these differences. Chinese students are used to being quiet in class and while taking exams, she said.

Redman said that for some students, the transition between different cultural teaching styles is difficult on many levels.

“We’re asking them basically to adopt a whole different approach to academics,” she said. “So we help them here to start learning what that is and to become adjusted to American educational life, basically, and it’s everything from presentations, notetaking, writing essays, working in projects and things like that.”

Zhang said his freshman year was difficult because he did not know the right way to prepare for class.

“There is a rumor that the educational system in the [U.S.] is very easy—you don’t need to do work, just show up, you will be fine,” he said. “Actually, no, that’s not the way. You have to study hard.”

He said ELI graduates sometimes choose to live with students of similar heritage, making their assimilation into American culture more complicated.

“I don’t know why they’re struggling, because we pretty much took the same system,” Zhang said.

“I think most of the people who cannot speak English well, they are not trying to get involved with people, and I know a lot of students, international students try living together, they feel comfortable in that way. If you live with someone who [does not have a] different race, different culture, it’s probably very comfortable. But there is no way that you can improve your English.”

He said the ELI helped him learn English, and his skills improved by interacting with American students.

He is always learning new words, he said, like that “significant” also means “important.”

“If I think back, three years ago, if I had the English I have today, I probably can apply by myself,” Zhang said. “It should be easy.”

Crime: ‘I feel very safe here,’ resident says, despite incident Continued from page 1 remove the victim’s clothing, she escaped and reached an Apple Road residence, where she notified the homeowner of what had occurred.

While Holmes remains at large, Newark resident Bettie von Frankenberg’s 50 years living in her Apple Road home have left her feeling secure in the area.

“I feel really safe in my neighborhood,” von Frankenberg said. “But, at the same time, I wouldn’t go to Phillips Park at night, as nice as it is.”

Dallas Avenue resident Harold Hambleton, 73, said the only crime he’s encountered is theft, and does not feel threatened living in the area.

“I feel very safe here,” Hambleton said. “I’ve had property stolen from my lawn and car, but

that’s about it. We get a lot of transients around the area because of the trail.”

Hambleton, like von Frankenberg, questioned the decision to travel down the path late at night.

“It is not a nice-looking area at dark,” he said. “If you are going to go down there with someone you don’t know and it’s dark, you should know before you even get there that you shouldn’t be doing that.”

Farrall said officers are actively searching the city for the suspect.

“We have received several tips which have aided us in our investigation,” he said. “However, we have been unable to locate Holmes.”

Occupy the Highway walkers congregate outside the post office on Main Street.

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Occupy: Participants walking from NYC to DC Continued from page 1 the nation’s capital by Wednesday, according to Glazer. He coorganized the march with Kelley Brannon, 27, of Queens, and said the group’s numbers doubled unexpectedly.

“We thought it was going to about 12 people and nobody would pay attention,” Brannon said. “The day before we left [New York] it just became a media frenzy. We left with 24 people.”

She said she has been involved with Occupy Wall Street since its Sept. 17 beginning in New York City’s Zuccotti Park. She works various jobs including as a freelance videographer and photographer, and as a host at a wine bar, but calls this movement her full-time job.

“There are some things that are more important than money,” Brannon said.

She said long-distance marches have been utilized in the past to promote political awareness, and thought Occupy the Highway would be a powerful action.

They stopped at several Occupy movements as they traveled from New York, to Elizabeth, New Brunswick and Trenton in New Jersey, through Andalusia and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.

They joined Occupy Delaware at Peter Spencer Plaza in Wilmington Tuesday night.

On their blog, the marchers recommend participants bring two outfits, a tent and a sleeping bag along with them. Marchers depend on the Occupy movements along their route to provide shelter, and donations to fund food and medical aid purchases. Two medics have joined the protesters on their march.

Glazer said demonstrators have given the Occupy the Highway group encouraging words as they’ve passed through.

“Every time we’ve come to an Occupy, the reception that we get there, it’s like coming home,” he said. “People come up, they highfive you, they hug you.”

Occupy Delaware protesters arranged for the marchers to stay overnight Wednesday at Limestone

Presbyterian Church in Wilmington.

Charles Wilson, 68, of Bear, Del., shuttled the group from Newark to the church Wednesday night in his van. On Thursday morning, Wilson drove the protesters back to Main Street in Newark so they could continue their walk.

“I want to do whatever I can to help these brave people,” Wilson said.

Lisa Cuffs , 34, of Philadelphia, said she has a graduate degree in mathematics but has not been able to find a job in more than two years. She started her own jewelrymaking business, but did not make enough money to support herself.

“Even Wal-Mart won’t rehire me. I’m too ‘overqualified,’” Cuffs said. “I’m a little white girl with ponytails. I’m not a rapist or a murderer. I just want to find a real solution.”

A group of five Washington, D.C. protesters took a bus to Philadelphia and joined the group of marchers. Among them were an artist, a schoolteacher and two former security guards. Their leader, a 27-year-old man who calls himself “Knoxville,” said he was marching to help inspire political change.

“An unbalanced system will always fail,” Knoxville said.

Paolo Marco, 24, of New York City, said marching will prove the demonstrators are serious about making change.

“We’re not going to wait for anybody else,” Marco said.

Despite recent news of conflict between police and protesters in locations including New York City and the University of California, the Occupy the Highway movement has mostly been well-received, Marco said.

He said people have offered rides, shelter, food and money. The most support comes from middle class citizens and people from lower-income neighborhoods.

“A lot of people on the highway support us,” Marco said.

“All you hear is honks and people screaming at us, ‘Thank you, Thank you.’”

The media refers to the protesters as “jobless hippies,” he said, but many of the demonstrators have jobs and are taking off work to march. Marco is a doorman in two locations, as well as an architecture and design student.

While Occupy movements have recently faced increased challenges from officials and police, Marco said his movement will be able to reach their goal.

“The strong statement is any mayor can shut down the occupiers, but we’re’ just going to continue,” he said.

According to Newark police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall, officers were aware of the demonstrators as they marched through the city, but said there were no changes in police operations.

“We did not expect any issues with the Occupy the Highway protesters,” Farrall stated in an email message. “We respect the rights of people to engage in peaceful protest and had no reason to believe that this would not be the case with the Occupy the Highway protesters.”

Ephraim Cruz, 38, of Bronx, N.Y., a former federal agent and New York City police officer, said he is marching to raise awareness across the East Coast.

“Occupy Wall Street is about confronting the financial and political running of the bulls goring the American people,” Cruz said.

John Bezerra, 57, of Wilmington, joined the march after he met the protesters at Spencer Plaza, where he was camping with Occupy Delaware.

After his 14-mile walk to Newark, he said he was exhausted, but resting at Limestone Presbyterian Church helped him regain his strength.

“I was thinking, ‘Am I going to be able to do this tomorrow?’”

Bezerra said. “But I woke up and I feel fine. I’ll be celebrating when I get there.”

Danielle Brody contributed reporting to this article.

November 22, 2011

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Christie: People are ‘yearning for the truth’ in difficult economic times, governor says Continued from page 3 done before,” Christie said in a 1983 interview with The Review. “I think it’s about time that the student government becomes proactive rather than reactive.

We have been a good reactive group, but we now need to be an initiator.”

Almost three decades later, with growing approval rates among New Jersey voters and whispers of a presidential run in 2016, Christie returned to the university Wednesday night to deliver the semester’s final National Agenda lecture. Since he took office two years ago, Christie has been criticized for his brash, takeno-prisoners approach, but during his speech Wednesday, the governor said his style is based on making decisions when others refuse to.

“That’s what leadership is,” Christie said. “You don’t wait in a crisis for other people to act. You act. It doesn’t always mean you’re going to be right but you don’t wait. You don’t look for others to solve the problems that you’ve been elected to fix.”

A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday showed that Christie’s approval rating is approximately 56 percent among registered voters in New Jersey, while 38 percent of voters disapprove of his performance. The approval rating is down 2 percentage points from October, though the margin is statistically insignificant because of potential polling error. The latest rating is 12-point bump from his 44 percent approval rating in a June Quinnipiac poll.

Christie said Wednesday that being a Republican governor in a traditionally Democratic state is like “playing with

house money,” and said he has had to work around the New Jersey legislature.

In the Nov. 8 election, the Democrats maintained their control of the state Senate with a 24-16 majority and gained one seat in the state assembly, with a 48-38 majority.

Called a “bully and a punk” by state Senate president Steve Sweeney in July, Christie said he has used his executive powers to bypass the legislature when the state government was on the verge of being unable to make payroll in early 2010.

Christie said he had the option of declaring a fiscal emergency via the state’s Disaster Control Act and handle the issue or try to negotiate with the legislature to make cuts.

“Now for those of you who’ve watched me for two years, if you believe the answer to that question is negotiate with the legislature, you need to leave now,” he said. “You’re not smart enough to be in this room.”

Christie indeed declared the fiscal emergency and used his executive powers to make cuts to the budget and compound $2.2 billion in spending.

Over his last two years in office, some cuts have become deeply unpopular with constituents, and Christie cited his $820 million cut from K-12 education and $175 million cut from higher education as particularly unpopular measures for fiscal year 2011. However, he said they were necessary to get the state’s fiscal house in order.

“We were in some ways the canary in the coal mine for what’s happening now in the rest of the country,” Christie said.

During Wednesday’s speech and question-and-answer session, Christie

alternated between detailing the state’s economic troubles and telling anecdotes about friends, family and a chance encounter with “Sopranos” actor James Gandolfini.

While introducing Christie, Ralph Begleiter, the event moderator and director of the university’s Center for Political Communication, took a fake phone call from Snooki from “Jersey Shore.”

Christie is famously opposed to the show’s portrayal of his home state. The show was given $420,000 in tax credits for filming in New Jersey, and Christie revoked those credits in September.

He said Wednesday that the show portrays New Jerseyans as “uncouth dopes,” even though few of the “Jersey Shore” cast members are actually from the state.

“They’re from New York,” Christie said. “Snooki is from Poughkeepsie, The Situation from Staten Island. They parachuted these losers into New Jersey, and they want to make all of you believe they’re New Jerseyans. They’re not. And I’ve told [New York Gov. Andrew] Cuomo a number of times, ‘Take them back.’”

Earlier this fall, rumors emerged that Christie would throw his hat into the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Begleiter likened Christie’s attitude in the early fall to “flirting” with running, but the governor disagreed.

“Ralph said I traveled the country in the fall flirting with running for president,” he said. “Let me correct that—they were flirting with me. I said all along I wasn’t going to run and they just wouldn’t leave me alone.”

When asked during the questionand-answer portion of the event if he would run in 2016, Christie demurred,

saying that politics is ever-changing, and he cannot predict the future.

He said he was elected to the governorship because he is honest with constituents about his state’s issues.

“I don’t think that people in really difficult times are yearning to be lied to,” Christie said. “In fact, I think quite the opposite—they’re yearning for the truth. They’re hungry, they’re desperate for the truth. They know the truth is going to be ugly, they’re not oblivious.

The people you represent don’t live in some fantasyland where they think everything’s OK, A, or B, that you can just wave a magic wand and make it OK.” Senior Bill Humphrey, president of the College Democrats, said he disagrees with Christie’s style and policy positions, but he found him to be funny and charismatic.

Humphrey said although New Jersey’s economic woes were serious, Christie’s attacks on teachers unions and cuts to education were unnecessary, especially in a state with some of the highest education performance in the country. As a Republican in a historically Democratic state, Christie has had to tone down his more conservative views, he said.

Humphrey didn’t take Christie’s fall “flirtation” with the presidential nomination seriously.

“The Republicans were desperately looking for someone who wasn’t Mitt Romney,” Humphrey said.

“I think Chris Christie is still more moderate than a lot of the candidates in the race, and this isn’t a year they’re looking for a moderate candidate.”

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich currently leads the pack of nominees in a CNN poll released

Monday with 24 percent. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney registered at 20 percent, with former pizza executive Herman Cain and Gov. Rick Perry at 17 and 11 percent, respectively.

Christie said his political views took shape during his time at the university in political science classes with professors Jim Soles and James Magee. He also met his wife Mary Pat, who was his successor as SGA president, on campus.

Christie voted for the first time— for President Ronald Reagan—by filling out an absentee ballot in his Harrington E, room 208 dorm, and asked the audience if anyone lived in Harrington. When vice president of SGA and senior Jessica Ma responded that she once lived in his very room, he pulled her onto stage for a photo op.

Ma, a Monmouth, N.J., resident, said she doesn’t follow politics in her home state, but found the governor to be “charming.”

“He won me over, personalitywise,” Ma said. “He had a lot of charisma and he was someone you could approach.”

Senior Matt McGeehan, who attended the speech, said his first impression of Christie was favorable, and although he disagrees with the governor’s policies on various issues, he found him to be personable and likeable.

“I think I would consider him the lesser of most evils because I like him on a personal level,” McGeehan said.

“I know that if he did become president he wouldn’t waste his time. He would make direct decisions.”

November 22, 2011

ONLINE READER POLL:

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RSOs and businesses join efforts for central cause UDance, a 12-hour dance marathon benefitting the Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation , set this year’s fundraising goal at $400,000.

This number is significantly larger than the $8,000 collected in 2007, when the event first began to raise money for pediatric cancers. The philanthropy’s expansion shows how it has become a unifying event for a large portion of university students, as well as the city of Newark.

UDance was first started by two Greek organizations, fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon and sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi. Now, any group can become a sponsor, including businesses and sports teams. It is refreshing to see unity between these different campus groups and the Newark community, especially since unity leads to larger contributions to B+ Foundation, and helps children who need it most.

The $400,000 fundraising goal doubled from last year’s $200,000 target, and aiming high will inspire those involved to surpass last year’s fundraising amount, even if the goal is not met. However, UDance has already reached 14 percent of its fundraising goal, when it had hopes of meeting 10 percent by

Thanksgiving break, and it is very possible UDance will reach its mark, if not exceed it. Beyond the flagship event, the rise of smaller fundraisers like a holiday party and 5k run leading up to the dance marathon should contribute significant funds and raised awareness of the groups efforts.

UDance’s success stems from its connection so close with many university members. Rather than donating to a faceless organization, sponsors form ties with specific individuals, also known as “heroes.”

Any organization that raises a minimum $10,000 can adopt a hero.

These children are present at the event and many other fundraisers for UDance, like Kappa Sigma and Kappa Delta Rho’s haunted house attraction this Halloween, allowing students to bond and feel passion for their cause.

UDance is poised to stay with the university for years to come, and students should take advantage of a simple, yet extremely effective way to raise awareness for pediatric cancers and aid children in difficult times in their lives. UDance’s expansion will only unify the university community further.

Letter to the Editor

State was greeted with chants of “pedophiles” as they entered the ice and “take a shower” in the closing moments of the game from a vocal minority of UD fans. No, I still hold UD in high regard. I know more than anyone that the actions of a few should not be projected to entire institution.

-Kirk Larter, Kingsville, Md.

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The acts of a few do not represent the whole

I am a Penn State graduate and my son is a current student there.

I visited your campus Friday, Nov. 18 to attend the hockey game between our two club teams. I just wanted you to know that my positive image of UD was not diminished one bit when Penn

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November 22, 2011

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Q: Do you think SGA needs to form a long-term relationship with the city of Newark?

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DREAM Act may have many negative implications Robert Voyles

Guest Columnist

The DREAM Act could cost university students more money.

A previously written article on the DREAM Act in The Review on Nov. 7 took an unfairly liberal slant and I believe the opposition deserves its chance to relate its argument.

The passage of the DREAM Act, although supported by many, would be detrimental in many aspects as well as compromising of the American legal system values. The purpose of this act is to grant undocumented students financial assistance when applying to higher education institutions. The federal government has passed laws prohibiting these undocumented students from receiving in-state rates for these schools.

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996, states that illegal aliens in this country cannot be eligible for in-state benefits. States circumvent this law by not requiring these aliens to declare

if they are legal residents. Texas, California, Utah, New York, Illinois, Washington, New Mexico, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Kansas all have laws like this. There are, however, states that strictly prohibit illegal aliens from these benefits like Arizona, Colorado and Georgia.

Another consideration is that our country is embroiled in a “humanitarian crisis.” Advocates for the DREAM Act and similar movements find their motivation in their humanitarian efforts to aid the underprivileged. Calling those who don’t support illegal immigration rights “heartless” should be considered character assassination. Opponents to these movements find their motivation by the letter of the law. The role of objectivity finds itself on the side of the opposition.

Alabama came under fire from immigration reformists because of its controversial law passed in June. The Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act prohibited illegal aliens from receiving any form of public benefits such as education.

It also required school districts to inquire on the residency status of students and reporting those who are undocumented. The law was passed by a large majority of the state’s legislature and with the approval of the governor.

Those who are fleeing are admitting they were abusing the system by receiving benefits they

don’t legally deserve.

To address how the DREAM Act would more directly involve the students here at the university, tuition and finances have to be considered. Financial aid is a lifeblood for many students in the country. Specifically, the university has a financial aid program known as the Commitment to Delawareans. This provides economic convenience for Delaware residents to attend the university through lower tuition rates. The state of Delaware is not immune to the economic crisis that our nation faces.

State aid to the university has decreased from 13 percent to 11.9 percent in the last year. The university must compensate for the decrease in aid. Tuition rose 7 percent for both in-state and out-of-state students. In-state tuition rates rose $630 making the total an estimate of $9,670.

Out-of-state tuition rates rose $1,700 making the total an estimate of $25,940. One issue is the flat percentage rise for all students. Outof-state students pay significantly more and to raise it the same percentage as resident students constitutes a larger increase for the outof-state students. This could be worsened as a result of the DREAM Act.

The passage of the DREAM Act in Delaware would result in lower costs for undocumented students that reside in the state. This decrease in revenue for the university would have to be compensated. The pragmatic answer

would be appealing to the state government for more aid or the more convenient measure, raising tuition further. This places a burden on the state budget, working against cutting spending. A convenient measure would be increased taxes or budget shuffling by removing funding for other programs and agencies.

For the university to adjust for the increase of in-state tuition rates and a decrease of out-of-state tuition rates, it would have to raise the rates again. Another flat percentage raise would continuously be more detrimental to out-of-state students. Delaware citizens rightly deserve their reduced rates because they pay into their government through taxes, which in turn is put back into the university through state aid. It is unfair for the students who are here by legal means that have to foot the bill for undocumented students, no matter how you look at the situation.

The United States was founded on the principle of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Benjamin Franklin once said.

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

Robert Voyles is a guest columnist at The Review. His viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of the Review staff. Please send comments to rolevo@udel.edu.

Americans blind to treatment of turkeys raised for food Katie Stewart

Stewart Says

Factory farming extends to the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving meal.

Thanksgiving is a time for feasting, family and football. Early Americans celebrated the holiday to commemorate peace and an abundant harvest.

Now, it’s the one day of the year that we stuff ourselves beyond content, all in the name of gratitude.

As we all sit before dinner with loved ones, I urge everyone to examine where their food really comes from. Are your vegetables from a local farmer’s market or the grocery store shelf? Are the various side dishes prepared from scratch or did they come out of a box filled with preservatives with names that you can’t even pronounce? Last but not least, do you know your turkey? Where it came from? What it was fed and what kind of conditions it lived in?

A Butterball turkey has become the quintessential centerpiece of an all-American Thanksgiving. To many, the holiday wouldn’t be complete without it.

In our country, more than 45,000 turkeys are slaughtered just for Thanksgiving dinner consumption. Given the large demand, one is forced to wonder how meat suppliers keep up. The solution is not as pretty as you’d think.

Turkeys are one of the half-dozen or so animals that are raised on factory farms in the U.S. For

those of you not familiar, factory farming consists of raising thousands of animals at a given time in close confinement for maximum efficiency. The Food and Drug Administration does not regulate the conditions and practices on these farms, and animal welfare is of no concern.

Features of factory farms include cramming large numbers of animals in confined areas that allow for little, if any, movement. The extensive use of antibiotics and pesticides are used to help fight the spread of disease and bacteria. Also, genetic engineering is prevalent and growth hormones are administered to animals to stimulate faster growth or to produce a more desirable end product.

But back to Tom Turkey.

Turkeys on factory farms are hatched in large incubators and at a few weeks of age, transferred to massive, dirty warehouses, some of which house up to 25,000 turkeys. Due to the confined quarters, the birds’ beaks and claws are chopped off with hot blades to prevent them from wounding one other.

This practice is completed without sedation or any medication to alleviate pain.

According to PETA, millions of turkeys die before maturation at only five or six months in age due to the highly stressful conditions within which they live. The ones that do live are bred, drugged and genetically manipulated to grow as large as possible as fast as possible—all in the name of greater profit.

When the time comes to head to the slaughterhouse, turkeys are literally thrown into crates that are then piled into massive trucks without food or water. This trip often takes hours and exposes the animals to extreme weather conditions with little protection. Many are spared the merciless slaying

at the truck’s destination, only as a result of death during this transport.

Finally, an animal that has suffered and survived its short, distressed life is transformed into the plastic wrapped bird that we see in the grocery store freezer.

Upon arrival at the slaughterhouse, turkeys are hung upside down by their frail legs and then their heads are dipped into electrified stunning tanks. This immobilizes but rarely kills the birds.

At the next step, many birds are conscious when their throats are slit. Should this fail to work, turkeys are then scalded alive in vats of hot water used for feather removal.

So, why am I telling you this? Contrary to popular belief, ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is ignorance. And in this day and age, consumers should know what they’re eating.

Forty years ago, the average turkey raised for meat weighed 17 pounds. Today, the average turkey, raised for the exact same reason, tips the scales at 28 pounds. Turkeys have become so obese that nearly all turkeys born in the U.S. are a product of artificial insemination. In addition, many birds become crippled due to their weight and die of organ failure or heart attack.

For an extra 11 pounds of meat, factory farmers are treating turkeys with growth hormones. The result of this treatment is a bird that gets fatter much quicker than it would naturally. These chemicals remain in the animal and are ultimately consumed by us. This can’t be good for us and I shudder to think of the long-term health effects.

In raising America’s meat, factory farmers are treating animals with pesticides and antibiotics to combat the filthy, ammonia-ridden spaces in which

these animals are being raised. This practice is also now concerning medical experts that consumption of this meat is attributing to Americans’ increased resistance to antibiotics.

Last year, the FDA finally revealed exactly how many antibiotics these corporations were using. In 2009, factory farms were responsible for the use of 29 million pounds of antibiotics on animals being raised for human consumption.

The pollution created by these farms is staggering as well. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, factory-farmed animals in the U.S. produce 61 millions tons of waste each year. The Environmental Protection Agency also reports that polluted runoff from factory farms and other industrial farms is the biggest water pollution problem in the country.

Animal cruelty, food treated with growth hormones and antibiotics and massive amounts of pollution. This is the truth behind your Thanksgiving turkey.

If you still want to make your Turkey Day as awesome as ever, try some of the following. Be an informed consumer and demand more information about the food you eat. Support the farmers in your region—this will be some of the freshest, chemicalfree food you can purchase while supporting local agriculture. Buy certified organic. The FDA has strict guidelines and standards for organic food.

Or eat a Tofurkey. They’re actually pretty tasty.

Katie Stewart is a copy editor at The Review.

Her viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of the Review staff. Please send comments to kstewart@udel.edu.

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The duPont love story of Nemours Mansion Making a statement with seasonal fashion

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Students, faculty showcase cultural heritage

BY ASHLEY PAINTSIL Staff Reporter

Members of the English Language Institute donned Peruvian wool ponchos, modern Chinese Qi Pao dresses and purple silk coats from Uzbekistan Thursday night at the institute’s fifth annual International Fashion Show and Talent Showcase, which was held in the Trabant Multipurpose Rooms and showcased performances and clothing inspired by different cultures.

The evening began with a talent show in which members of the university’s multicultural student groups performed dances and songs that represented their clubs’ culture. Flags from China, Columbia and Turkey lined the walls of the room, while Saudi Arabian men danced in a circle to traditional Iraqi music in their ghutra an iqals, traditional head coverings of red and white checks.

ELI director Scott Stevens says the event was planned with the Institute for Global Studies and Residence Life as part of International Education Week to highlight some of the 38 cultures that the institute’s students represent. He hoped the event would provide international students an opportunity to show off their cultural heritage and pique Americans’ interest in foreign cultures.

“In many ways, it gives our international students an opportunity to just show the richness of their cultures and for Americans to marvel at the beauty of all of the fabrics, design and the history and traditions behind those designs,” Stevens says. “They’re rightfully proud of their countries

and their heritage and they want Americans to know about it, and we need to know about it.”

Following the performances, faculty and students at the institute served as models in a fashion show, which featured a black lace dress from Mexico paired with thigh-high leather boots, an Ethiopian dress made of homespun cotton and a velvet evening dress from Algeria. Other models wore mink hats from Russia, traditional Vietnamese wedding gowns and a white Japanese pant and shirt ensemble set with matching deer horn knives.

Amy Estell, a teacher at the institute, wore a long Vietnamese dress, called an Ao Dai, and provided some of the looks for the fashion show. She says she visited Vietnam a year ago and saw people wearing the Ao Dai, so she had one made at a local fabric shop.

“I love wearing this,” Estell says. “One of the reasons that I wanted to be in the fashion show was that I never get a chance to wear this—actually, I’ve never even worn it before.”

Katherine Bracy, an instructor at the institute and head organizer of the event, says she relied on students and teachers at the institute to provide clothing for the event and says she encouraged the models to wear clothes representative of other cultures so they could learn about a heritage different from their own.

“Obviously some of these things are more for festivals and weddings and special occasions, so a student wouldn’t wear it to class,” Bracy says. “But a lot of it is gorgeous and fun.”

Mikie Sarmiento, an ELI instructor, modeled looks from Palestine and Saudi Arabia and

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The International Fashion Show and Talent Showcase highlighted cultural clothing and traditions. was in charge of fitting and dressing the models. She says wearing the clothing made her feel exotic and that the fashion show allowed students to have a voice and share their culture with the rest of the university community.

“The goal for us was to give students an idea of what clothing is like in various cultures and not

THE REVIEW/Vanessa Di Stefano

The university’s English Language Institute is comprised of students representing 38 different cultures.

necessarily to wear those clothes here, but just to have a taste of the different country and what their life might be like if they had to cover their head or wear different kinds of clothes,” Sarmiento says.

Chi Shanghua, a Chinese student at the institute, says she was surprised to see so many different countries represented at

the show and was inspired to try fashions from other countries after seeing the show.

“I didn’t know we have students from so many different countries and I was surprised they had this fashion show,” Shanghua says. “There were so many beautiful clothes here I have never seen before.”

THE REVIEW/Nick Wallace

Participants modeled clothing from Mexico, Ethiopia, Japan and other countries.

November 22, 2011

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Hairstyle trend mixes masculine, feminine

BY BRITTANY BROWN Staff Reporter

From one side, senior Jen Gallo’s long, flowing hair is the picture of femininity. When she turns around, however, her partially shaved head shows her edgier side.

Gallo shaved a section of her hair in October for the Slut Walk in New York, a march created to raise awareness for and fight against the culture of rape victim-blaming. As a volunteer for the university’s Sexual Offense Support—an organization for survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence and stalking—Gallo says the hairstyle is more common among feminists, as well as those with laid-back personalities.

“Anyone who does it kind of has a carefree attitude that it’s just hair,” Gallo says. “It will grow back.”

Gallo considers herself trendconscious and says her style changes daily. Her hairstyle provoked mixed reactions from her friends and family, but she says her ultimate goal was to demonstrate that she is not concerned with norms.

“I kind of want to be seen as not caring about social scripts,” she says.

“I don’t think it’s a very feminine thing to shave half your head, and I want to portray that.”

Senior Ellie Sonderman says she was inspired by her friend Gallo,

but was initially unsure how the style would look on her. After blonde British solo artist Ellie Goulding got the cut, however, Sonderman decided to try it on her own light brown hair.

“I felt, oddly, really liberated when I did it,” Sonderman says.

“Because it’s one of those things where you’re not really sure how people would react—I wasn’t really sure how I would react.”

“Not a lot of people can pull it off.”

-Tateum Hitchcock, hairstylist

She says people are often shocked that she would shave off a section of her long hair, but she has received positive reactions so far.

Bethanne Giovannozzi, 29, a hairstylist at Cat’s Eye Salon on Main Street, recently shaved sections of her hair on both sides of her head.

She says the style has been popular

in the past and is now returning as a trend.

“Girls have been shaving part of their heads since the eighties,” Giovannozzi says.

She says she wishes more people in Delaware would adopt bolder hairstyles like partially shaved heads.

Giovannozzi says some girls choose to shave small sections of their hair, while others buzz large portions off.

Tateum Hitchcock, 31, a hairstylist at Gloss Salon, says the style looks different on everyone, and that she prefers long, natural hair to the shaved head style.

“Not a lot of people can pull it off,” Hitchcock says.

Sophomore Alexandra Sampugnaro says she often changes her hair by experimenting with color and length. Three weeks ago, she cut a section of her hair with scissors to give it a buzzed effect, and when she was satisfied with the look of a shorter cut, she asked Gallo to shave it.

She says it seemed crazy not to try the style because she believes individuality is beautiful and wanted to move away from the typical idea of beauty. “[The] beauty standard is arbitrary,” Sampugnaro says.

Leah Sininsky contributed reporting to this article.

THE REVIEW/Vanessa Di Stefano

Senior Jen Gallo has sported the shaved head trend since October.

Students stretch out stress at Yogafest

THE REVIEW/Amelia Wang

Students came out for a free day of yoga at Yogafest, hosted by the Yoga Club. The Trabant Multipurpose Rooms filled up for an afternoon of relaxation and strengthening.

Grammy nominee Dalien, aka 13 Hands, taught the workshops and played hang drum and guitar. Attendees were treated to lunch from Homegrown Café and snacks provided by the Chocolate Club.

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sights & sounds

“Happy Feet Two” Warner Bros.

Entertainment Inc. PPPP (out of PPPPP) Picking up where the beloved “Happy Feet” left off, “Happy Feet Two” will not disappoint viewers. Filled with a star-studded cast, the film brings back main character Mumble, (voiced

by Elijah Wood), a penguin who was once an outcast for his dancing talent. Mumble’s son, Erik, lacks the confidence to sing or dance, which is considered taboo in the penguin world. After feeling like he doesn’t fit in, Erik runs away and encounters a flying penguin named Sven (voiced by Hank Azaria), who inspires him to greatness and leaves Mumble feeling like a mediocre father. Meanwhile, the emperor penguins are in grave peril, due to a mystery the audience knows to be global warming.

The film is heavy on lessons—Sven’s backstory has a moral theme and shows the dangers of global warming and oil spills, while Mumble’s run-in with an intimidating elephant seal reveals the value of admitting fault and, more importantly, that there is no shame in asking for help. The

eccentric Ramon (voiced by Robin Williams) also returns, on a quest to find acceptance and love while remaining true to himself. The highlight of the movie may be the tiny role of the krill, Will and Bill (voiced by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon). Their adventures outside of the swarm teach a touching lesson about finding oneself.

Reminiscent of the first film, “Happy Feet Two” is filled with catchy songs and stellar visual effects. Erik’s mother Gloria (voiced by singer Pink) belts out touching ballads, while the rest of the score mixes old favorites with new pop songs. The gorgeous animation makes for some

OFF THE

RECORD We’re on Season 11?

Yes, you read that title correctly.

“American Idol” is currently headed straight for its 11th season on the air. I have to admit, though, I couldn’t tell you the names of the judges on the show without first consulting the “American Idol” Wikipedia page. After shamelessly doing so, I discovered Steven Tyler is one of the judges. I wondered, after the initial shock, when the posterchild for plastic surgery mistakes decided to quit his washed-up career as a musician. Evidently, the stunningly gorgeous Jennifer Lopez is also a judge, and Ellen DeGeneres even joined the ranks as a judge on the show last year. I can’t help but think that other non-“Idol” fans out there would be as surprised as I was to discover the list of veteran judges.

I can remember back in 2006 when my entire family sat on the Ethan Barr

breathtaking scenes. The film is available in both 3D and traditional screenings, but it stands on its own even without the 3D effects.

Overall, the message that “Happy Feet Two” sends is about not sacrificing individuality to conform to the standard—little Erik must learn that the flashy antics of flying penguins don’t compare to a good heart and perseverance. “Happy Feet Two” is a heart-warming film with a strong plotline and the right amount of laughs to entertain any age group.

—Brittany Brown, babrown@udel.edu

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couch wondering who the winner would be, and at the end of the program Taylor Hicks taking home the title of “American Idol.” Two years before that, William Hung Fever swept the entire nation— and probably briefly revived Ricky Martin’s career after Hung auditioned with the Puerto Rican stud’s hit single, “She Bangs.” The appeal of the show slowly deteriorated with the intermittent absences of Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul, and so did the ratings.

After the sixth season, which incorporated a very talented group of singers, viewership decreased by about 10 million over the next four seasons. This could partially be due to the fact that Cowell’s acerbic attitude and Abdul’s loopy, lovable presence disappeared. Truthfully, I believe the real reason is because people are sick of the show. With the emergence of shows such as “America’s Got Talent,” “X Factor” and “The SingOff,” the concept of a singing reality show has become trite. The judges’ responses have become so lackluster that watching contestants cry no longer fazes me. The ridiculous characters on the show, like Hung, have also become so predictable. I’d rather watch water boil.

There have been attempts to ameliorate the show’s situation.

Producers have invited guest judges on an almost biweekly basis to reel in some of those viewers on the fence. Most recently, the show added

“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1” Summit Entertainment PPPP (out of PPPPP) “I’ve been waiting a century to marry you, Miss Swan.” Those words are likely to make girls all over the country swoon during the marriage ceremony of vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and 18-year-old human Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) in “Breaking Dawn: Part 1.”

The mortal Bella is prepared to become a vampire, but she wants to consummate her relationship with Edward as a human, despite the potential dangers—his superhuman strength could kill her. She survives the night but becomes pregnant with a half-vampire, halfhuman child, which grows too quickly for Bella’s body to handle. The film graphically illustrates Bella’s struggle as the baby begins eating her way out of the womb, leaving Edward and his family fighting to save Bella.

Inevitably, Bella’s child also causes a clash between the Cullen family and the werewolves, led by Jacob

a feature where individuals could submit a video online to appear as returning contestants on the show.

From my standpoint, it seems that they have integrated more country music into each contestant’s repertoire in order to appease the masses of the United States. Nonetheless, these efforts to boost ratings and salvage the show have been all but futile.

I will admit that “American Idol” has produced some unbelievable talent. Chris Daughtry has a voice that echoes those of the elves in “Lord of the Rings.” OK, maybe I’m slightly exaggerating, but he was the first contestant to truly bring rock ‘n’ roll to the table. His renditions of songs by Shinedown, Fuel and Seether mesmerized audiences and astonished doubtful critics. He went on to form his own band, rejecting offers from hard rock band Fuel to be its new lead singer. Daughtry’s eponymous group reached the top of the Billboard charts and even received a Grammy nomination.

Kelly Clarkson is undoubtedly the most successful “Idol” worldwide.

She won the inaugural season of the show in 2002, and since then, has won two Grammy Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards and a Women’s World Award. Clarkson’s sophomore album “Breakaway” sold more than 12 million copies worldwide.

Jennifer Hudson is the paragon of a successful “Idol” starlet—the 30-year-old performed a Super Bowl national anthem, became

Black (Taylor Lautner), who vows to kill Bella before the child can be born. However, Jacob’s persistent love for Bella causes him to disobey the wolf pack and join forces with Edward to protect her.

Nearly all of the characters from the first three films reprise their role in “Breaking Dawn: Part 1,” with a few new characters joining the wolf pack and the Cullen family. The film

won’t win any Academy Awards—certainly not for the acting, which is as overly dramatic as in previous “Twilight” films— but fans of the series will enjoy watching more of Edward and Bella’s story unfold.

—Quindara Lazenbury, qlazen@udel.edu

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an Avon products spokesperson, and took the Billboard charts by storm. Additionally, she starred as a supporting actress next to Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls” and garnered an Academy Award in the process.

Carrie Underwood has also enjoyed post-“Idol” success—she has earned more than $20 million in profits, each of her albums has gone platinum and she has won multiple Grammy awards.

A new episode of “The X Factor” premieres every Thursday night, but I’m sure not going to be watching. To be completely candid, I’ll be spending that time watching “The League” on FX right after “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” both of which are actually worth my time. I believe that these “tryout” musical contestant shows will become so unpopular and will likely all be cancelled within the next couple of years. Production companies will most likely reach out toward the Internet and create “webisodes” for the general public.

Once the companies realize their utter failure, these shows will be removed altogether.

Will I watch “The Sing-Off?” No, but that’s only because the Deltones are no longer on the show.

Otherwise, I see no point in watching these programs unless Susan Boyle makes a comeback.

—Ethan Barr, ebarr@udel.edu

November 22, 2011

Day Trippin’: With Jen Rini

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Nemours Mansion

I’ve always been a sucker for a love story—something I attribute partly to my astrological sign (Libra, ruled by Venus) and partly to my lifelong affinity for Disney movies. As I set my sights on Alfred I. duPont’s Nemours Mansion & Gardens for this week’s column, I was entranced by the expansive estate, but I stumbled upon quite a love story as well.

For most of us in the university bubble, the name duPont only registers tangibly as DuPont Hall or conjures up vague impressions of the famed millionaire family hoarding buckets of money. Perhaps I assume too much—I am a little embarrassed to admit, personally, that I thought those same things when I heard the name duPont.

And boy was I in for a shock.

Alfred duPont, though born into an extremely wealthy family with ties to King Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette, had humble beginnings in Delaware. DuPont worked in the black powder mills his family owned both when he was a young lad and after he finished college. By 25, he was king of the mill, using his innovative mind to revitalize the black powder business and aid the Industrial Revolution.

DuPont may have been successful on the work front, but in the realm of love, he continually missed the romantic gondola. By age 42, his marriage to his first wife Bessie disintegrated into a divorce, considered scandalous in 1906. Never faint of heart, Alfred married the voluptuous Alicia one year later—a woman he had given away to her first husband years

earlier. Alicia never truly loved Alfred, merely humoring him by accepting his marriage proposal, while he, always in vain, tried to win her heart. His greatest endeavor of the heart is none other than the Nemours Mansion, which was built for Alicia. Now that, ladies and gents, is a way to woo.

Nemours, named after the duPonts’ ancestral home in France, is a modern-day Versailles, and is just as exquisite. The mansion, stretching over 47,000 square feet, took a mere 18 months to complete. There are 77 rooms with 300 acres of gardens that are considered to be the only formal French gardens in North America.

An iron gate woven like ivy beckons amateur historians and curious viewers down the long, winding road toward the mansion. Perfectly placed trees, barren in the chilly fall weather, guide the drive up with ponds on either side adorned with ornate, glistening bridges. The white-pillared coliseum across from the mansion opens toward a rectangular pool surround by statues emulating the four seasons and a “Temple of Love”—a white columned gazebo with a statue of Diana the Huntress posing in the center.

I have to say, Alfred was a smart cookie in constructing this mansion.

First and foremost, he created a “man cave” in the basement to entertain his friends and business partners. In the basement was an old-school bowling alley, pool tables, an exercise room with a sauna, duPont’s office, a locked wine cellar and a shooting target. As my tour guide astutely mentioned,

after duPont would get his prospective business partners good and sloshed, they’d be happy to sign any deal he laid out for them. The entire basement was clearly designed through a man’s version of interior decorating—guns and swords, maps, vintage Prussian helmets and even the head of a bison adorn the walls. That bison, by the way, was a prize from when duPont went shooting with Teddy Roosevelt in South Dakota—casual.

The upstairs floors echoed the style of Marie Antoinette—nearly everything was gold-embossed and splashed with rich color. Even the kitchen housed brass copperwear from Paris and Tiffany-engraved cutlery sets from the duPont yacht. As I learned, the servants had their own quarters on the top floor in addition to their own dining room, and lived a very bourgeois life.

The conservatory appealed to my inner nature sprite—the walls are mostly comprised of full-length windows revealing the gardens on one side and the orchards on the other.

Parakeets and doves call this sanctuary home, flitting, chirping and flirting with the visitors as we admired the greenery both inside and outside of the conservatory.

Though the mansion was made to win Alicia’s heart, duPont’s third wife Jessie was the one who made their mansion into a home. Third time was a charm for Alfred—Jessie was the love of his life, and a vibrant lover at that.

A beautiful soul who brought Alfred’s children and extended family together

Fashion Forward: Styling for the seasons As the seasons change, so does my state of mind—and there’s no hiding it because the shift is reflected in my clothing.

Clothes are my mood ring, and Megan Soria there’s an evident difference in my style when the weather changes—not just in functionality, but in color and style as well.

If I had to define my style, I’d say it’s an intersection of girl meets boy meets grandma—if that makes any sense. Not exactly the most appealing way of putting it, but the weather brings out the best of these styles.

In the spring, I tend to dress like a flower. My wardrobe life consists of floral dresses, pale hues and pretty, feminine fashions—a little girl could possibly be wearing an outfit just like mine. Bows are charming hair accessories, and dresses with darling details like puffed sleeves, Peter Pan collars or a full skirt complete the sweet look.

Once spring has sprung, the first signs of warm weather seem to make everyone happier. Flowers bloom, the grass is greener and temperatures aren’t extreme—so pants, skirts and jackets are all welcome. It’s definitely

getting warmer when girls’ nail colors get a little brighter. Pretty pastels, shades of blue and bright neon nail polish are the first signs of a mood shift.

Fall is currently at its peak, and the weather calls for my favorite pieces of the year—weathered boots, cozy knits and layers upon layers of clothing. There’s something about the autumn air that is absolutely invigorating. Summer is beautiful, but fashion for me is at its finest in the fall.

Androgynous pieces in earth tones flood my fall wardrobe and carry over into the winter. Menswearinspired pieces will forever be a part of my style—there’s something about it that takes on a sexy quality when worn by women. I’m also a fan of the military trend—olive green military jackets with pocket details look great with black combat boots.

Leather jackets, skinny corduroys and button-down flannels are cozy pieces for warmer weather.

Don’t be afraid to layer clothing and get creative, because comfy can certainly still be cute.

In the summer, granny-chic is my go-to style. Lovely lace, silk blouses and vintage pieces are some of my favorites. I usually pair a silk blouse with a flattering high-waisted skirt secured with a brown leather belt. Neck bows and desert boots are common summertime favorites, and

I fall head over heels for Victorianinspired pieces. Tapestry bags are my choice for travel—I typically opt for the big ones I find at thrift stores, but smaller sizes look great with any ladylike ensemble.

For most girls, the season calls for summery pieces that show skin. A cute tank top tucked into denim shorts is an easygoing outfit for the summer.

And everyone knows about the unofficial “sundress” —the first warm and sunny day, usually somewhere around May, when all the girls on campus don bright summer dresses.

The key is to create a balance when it comes to dressing. I try to mix and match different styles, colors and textures, like an androgynous leather jacket with a soft dress or a tailored blazer and pants with a great pair of heels.

And just because the leaves change doesn’t mean you have to send your other clothes into hibernation— dresses can be made cold weatherfriendly with tights, socks, cardigans and layers of clothing. Same goes for colors—bright, summery colors will have extra pop when combined with muted camel, dark navy or any other neutral color. Pay attention to the seasons and allow yourself to get caught up in the air—whether it’s crisp and cold or warm and breezy.

—Megan Soria, megsoria@udel.edu

at the mansion along with guests from all over, Jessie always welcomed them with a flower, a tradition the historians of the mansion uphold with touring visitors.

I think the Nemours Mansion and Gardens reflect Alfred in the best light—they are beautiful, creative, innovative, and most importantly, a testament to his giving heart. I didn’t

plan on getting so invested in the history of the duPont family, but I am darn glad I did, because their history warmed my heart with Thanksgiving right around the corner. And I’m happy that finally, Alfred got it right.

—Jen Rini, jenxwill@udel.edu

THE REVIEW/Jen Rini

The sprawling estate at Nemours Mansion and Gardens dates back to the early 1900s.

DID YOU KNOW? Did you know Hollywood heartthrobs Ryan Phillippe and Sean Patrick Thomas both hail from Delaware?

These two stars may have peaked in the late 1990s, but almost any teen at the time has seen—and most likely loved—at least one of their popular films. Both Phillippe and Thomas made teenage girls’ hearts pound, and both come from humble beginnings in the First State.

Ryan Philippe was born in the Penn Acres neighbordhood in New Castle on Sept. 10, 1974.

His mother ran a day care in the family’s home while his father worked for DuPont. He attended New Castle Baptist Academy, now called New Castle Christian Academy, and was allegedly discovered by talent agents while getting his hair cut in a local barbershop.

Phillippe starred in the 1997 horror flick “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” alongside other ’90s stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Love Hewitt. His career took off after the film’s success and he later starred in 1999’s “Cruel Intentions,” 2001’s “Gosford Park” and the 2005 Oscar winner for Best Picture, “Crash.”

Philippe bought his parents a new house in Hockessin in 2004 and returns home several times a

year to visit, making sure he visits one of his favorite local eateries, Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop. Last spring he hosted Saturday Night Live, sporting a black T-shirt that read “Wilmington, Delaware” as he introduced Ke$ha as the show’s musical guest.

Sean Patrick Thomas was born Dec.17, 1970 in Wilmington to Guyanese immigrant parents, both of whom worked for DuPont.

Thomas attended St. Mary Magdalen School in Wilmington and graduated from Brandywine High School. He initially planned on studying law, but after landing a role in the TV movie “A Raisin in the Sun,” he changed directions and attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Thomas starred alongside Phillippe in “Cruel Intentions,” but is best known for his leading role in the 2001 teen romance “Save the Last Dance” with Julia Stiles.

The movie grossed more than $90 million in the United States. He followed up the box-office hit with supporting roles in “Barbershop” and “Halloween: Resurrection.”

—Anne Ulizio, aulizio@udel.edu

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E-52 performs Shakespearean comedy ‘Twelfth Night’

THE REVIEW/Megan Krol

Student theater group E-52 performed an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” in Bacchus Theatre from Thursday to Saturday. This version, set in the 1920s, follows an immigrant named Viola, who travels from England to the New World. There, she disguises herself as a pageboy named Cesario and falls in love with Duke Orsino, leading a series of misunderstandings. Junior Kathy Harris, who plays Viola, says updated the play allowed the audience to understand Shakespeare’s humor. “Shakespeare’s plays are really funny, but a lot of the time the jokes get thrown over people’s heads,” Harris says. “When you modernize it, it makes it easier for people to actually comprehend the jokes and get the atmosphere of the play.”—Ashley Paintsil

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Wilmington church preserves state history

BY JENNIFER KESSMAN

governors and other local and historical figures. Wilson says there are approximately 1,200 Each year, more than 3,000 people buried at the site, which is people walk on the grounds of the still used today. oldest running church in the United Wilson says Holy Trinity States, located approximately Church, often called Old Swedes 15 miles from the university in church, was built between 1698 Wilmington, Del. and 1699 when Swedish settlers The Old Swedes site in occupied the Delaware Valley.

Wilmington is home to the Wilson says the church is still used 313-year-old Holy Trinity Church, today for weddings, baptisms and burial grounds from the 1600s and other religious programs. the Hendrickson House, a Swedish The Hendrickson House was farmhouse built in 1968. Inside restored at the Old Swedes site the church, rows of white pews are in the 1950s to avoid demolition. highlighted by sunlight coming Wilson says members of the Old through the colorful stained glass Swedes Foundation are in the windows that line the walls. process of researching the history Outdoors, visitors can walk along of the house. a stone path through the burial She says the area is an integral grounds, covered with tall, round, piece of Delaware’s history. square-shaped and cross-shaped “Old Swedes is a jewel for the headstones. state,” she says. “It’s history that University alumna Rebecca needs to be preserved.”

Wilson, 55, executive director of Donna Draper, 72, a tour the Old Swedes Foundation, says guide for the foundation, says she has been working at historical her husband’s ancestors played sites, art and anthropology an integral role in the church’s museums since she was 20 years beginnings. She says members of old. She is the first professional the foundation keep the site alive. director of the foundation in 20 “If we didn’t have this years. organization, things would fall “I was looking for something apart, get lost,” Draper says. “The new and different,” Wilson says. education of the colony would be She says as early as 1638, heavily damaged.” before the church’s construction, Constance Cooper, chief residents of the area chose to bury curator of the Delaware Historical their loved ones at the location of Society, says the Old Swedes site THE REVIEW/Megan Krol the current burial grounds. Among preserves a significant historical The 313-year-old Holy Trinity Church is the oldest running church in the country. those buried in the cemetery are link for Delawareans.

Peter Jacquett, a soldier who She says the site’s continued it was probably the biggest, most is still standing, and still an active “The church and cemetery are fought in the Revolutionary one of the few places that connect existence is a testament to the substantial building in Delaware church, is a tribute to the many War; James Wilson, a Civil War us directly with Delaware’s value placed on Old Swedes by at the time—a statement of faith in generations of Delawareans who general; a relative of the duPont early Swedish settlers and their residents of the state. and in the future of the young have made it their spiritual home.”

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EATER’S DIGEST

Events

Breaking down Thanksgiving berries This is an exciting time for a foodie such as myself, with Thanksgiving just days away.

However, the Thanksgiving we know and love Abby Engel today is quite different from the original three-day celebration between the Puritan settlers and the Native Americans of the Wampanoag tribe. Documented accounts of the first Thanksgiving tell us that turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie and cranberries were not included. Instead, the feast most likely consisted of some combination of lobster, rabbit, chestnuts, dried fruits, maple syrup, carrots, eggs and goat cheese, among other dishes.

Although our menu is quite different today, we are still giving thanks for the autumn harvest with turkey, gravy and stuffing. Each of these products has unique scientific properties, but this week the focus is on an underdog of Thanksgiving— cranberry sauce.

Cranberry sauce generally comes in two varieties—homemade and canned. Homemade cranberry sauce is a liquid, often flavored with orange zest and spices, and has visible pieces of fresh cranberry in it. Canned cranberry sauce is a bit more mysterious. Its texture is not quite liquid and not quite solid. I liken it to cloudy JELL-O that tends to retain the shape of the can when

removed. Serving canned cranberry sauce usually involves cutting it into circular slivers with a knife. There are no cranberries to be seen, but somehow one can imagine that some actual berries were involved in its creation.

A point of contention among many families, homemade cranberry sauce and canned often compete to be the sauce of choice on Thanksgiving Day. To some, choosing one sauce means choosing a side forever. I suspect that in my family we were conditioned to love the canned variety because it saves my mother a few hours slaving in the kitchen.

However, it’s still hard to imagine what a can-shaped tower of semisolid red mush is made of. Harder still to comprehend is its ability to retain its shape and stand up on its own outside of the can.

So, what exactly is this stuff?

It turns out that there are far fewer differences between canned and homemade cranberry sauce than one would think. Besides the addition of a little orange zest and cinnamon in homemade sauces, the only difference is a plant polymer called pectin. Pectin is naturally found in between plant cells as a sort of glue that keeps the plant tissue together. A polymer is a long chain of repeating molecules that give tissues their rigidity and shape. In the same way, pectin gives a can of cranberry sauce shape and rigidity. Believe it or not, you can achieve this jelly creation using only water, sugar and cranberries.

Pectin is found naturally in all fruits, and cranberries contain quite a large amount—it’s what keeps

the berries firm. Boiling the berries in water removes the pectin and breaks down the berries in order to make cranberry sauce. This causes the cranberries to burst and the flesh inside to release the pectin into the water.

The next step in concocting the sauce is a bit complicated. First of all, it’s important to keep in mind that water is a polar molecule, a formation I like to call the “head and tail.” The two hydrogens in water are positively charged and form the tail, while the oxygen atom is negatively charged and acts as the head. The pectin attracts water molecules, creating a pink liquid. To prevent pectin and water from attaching to one another, sugar is added to the solution.

Water is highly attracted to sugar, so much so that it competes to attach to the water molecules much more efficiently than pectin does.

If we dissolve our cranberries in a sugar-water solution rather than plain water, a solution without interaction between pectin and water is created.

The pectin molecules then have no choice but to begin to bind to each other, creating a skeleton of sorts.

The sugary cranberry and water mixture becomes trapped between the cages of this pectin skeleton, creating the canned cranberry sauce we know and enjoy. How’s that for some food for thought?

Here’s hoping that Thanksgiving Day leaves you full and happy, no matter which cranberry sauce you choose.

—Abby Engel, amengel@udel.edu

Where’s Pete?

Klondike Kate’s Tuesday, Nov. 22, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Mad-Suite Waltz World Cafe Live at the Queen Wednesday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Classic Albums Live: Abbey Road Grand Opera House Saturday, Nov. 26, 8 p.m.

Kool Keith Mojo Main Thursday, Dec. 1, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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Students divided over headphones, earbuds

BY JENNA DEANGELIS Staff Reporter

En route to his classes, sophomore Jason Hernandez drowns out the noise around him and tunes into the guitar and vocals of Elvis Costello and other rock musicians through a pair of Sony headphones. Hernandez is one of a growing number of students who prefer the listening experience of over-the-ear headphones in lieu of earbuds.

As a musician, Hernandez says his appreciation for music is complemented by his headphones because of the high-quality sound they deliver.

“They sound better and you don’t hear a lot outside the music,” Hernandez says. “You just hear the music.”

Senior Craig Viera uses green “Urbanears” headphones because he believes they release strong bass and treble sounds and are a more comfortable fit than earbuds.

He says because he spends several hours a day listening to music, he opts for devices that deliver high-quality audio to make the song sound the way it would in a recording studio.

Viera says, however, listeners who prefer convenience and find no issue with the audio quality of in-the-ear headphones will most likely continue to use earbuds.

“Earbuds will probably be most popular, more portable, cheaper and better for most people if sound quality isn’t an issue,” Viera says.

Senior Jen Donatelli, a headphone user, says most people wear earbuds because most Apple product packages include a pair of earbuds. Donatelli, however, finds that headphones are easier to keep track of and stopped using earbuds after losing five or six pairs of them.

“Earbuds are easy to lose and big headphones are easy to find,” Donatelli says.

While some students argue for the superior sound quality of headphones, other students prefer the compact size of earbuds.

Freshman Dan Haney says earbuds are more convenient because they fit easily into his pocket and deliver unobstructed sound.

“They have the bud that is the shape of the inside of your ear, so they go straight into your ear without anything stopping it,” Haney says.

Thierry Morlet, head of auditory physiology and psychoacoustics research at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, has studied the health benefits and risk factors of the two devices and says risk factors of eardrum damage depend on how students use the devices.

“We can destroy our hearing very quickly by listening to loud sounds—it doesn’t make a difference if you’re listening to headphones or earbuds,” Morlet says. “The problem is the behavior of the people and where they’re using the devices.”

He says the advantage of earbuds is their ability to cut out background noise due to their nearness to the ear, but that better quality headphone models that cut out background noise are becoming available. Morlet says students should be aware of how loud they are playing their music through their earbuds and headphones.

“You can destroy your hearing with either, because they both deliver soft music and very loud music,” he says. “When purchasing the product, the bottom line to ask yourself really is, what is the output you’re going to deliver to your ears?”

Some students prefer the sound quality of headphones, while others stick to earbuds.

THE REVIEW/Vanessa Di Stefano

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Volleyball wins CAA title

BY JUSTINE HOFHERR Sports Editor

Battling against a huge deficit for the second day in a row, the Hens could have given up not once, but twice in the CAA tournament this weekend. But they didn’t. They pushed on and raked in yet another league championship on their home court Sunday night.

Delaware fans filled the stands and cheered wildly as the topseeded Hens defeated Virginia Commonwealth in five close sets in their last game ever on Barbara Viera Court. The win marked the second straight CAA title for the Hens, and the fourth in the last five years.

“I really credit these kids for sticking together,” head coach Bonnie Kenny said. “We don’t match up well with them, and we just had to answer.”

The close win against fifthseeded James Madison Saturday sent the Hens to the finals against VCU. Delaware was down two-sets-tonone against the Dukes, but the Hens rallied to make a comeback, winning

the fourth set 25-18, and the fifth set 15-9.

Senior outside hitter Kim Stewart dominated the court and carried the team with 21 kills. She also added 14 digs for her seventh double-double of the season, dished out four assists, a service ace and a block assist.

“Kim Stewart was such a good leader tonight—she did everything.”

Kenny said. “She played defense, she served, she blocked, she was all over the floor. Her leadership meant I didn’t have to say a whole lot.”

Stewart was recognized for her leadership on and off the court, as she was named the Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. She was also named to the All-CAA third team earlier in the week.

“I just wanted to take the girls on my back and be like, ‘this is not our last home match,’” Stewart said of the turnaround in the JMU match.

“I don’t care what you guys are thinking, get it in your heads now that we’re winning. And I would not have asked for any other group of girls to play this game with.”

Sophomore outside hitter Katie Hank delivered 13 kills and seven digs for the Hens, and junior outside hitter Alissa Alker and sophomore middle hitter Karina Evans each contributed 12 kills against the Dukes.

Senior setter Renee Tomko ran the offense effectively and finished with 55 assists, while sophomore libero Cara Rosehill led the defense with a team-high 20 digs.

Set scores for the match were 20-25, 23-25, 25-23, 25-21 and 15-11. The win allowed the Hens to advance to the finals against sixth seeded VCU. The Rams had surprising victories, knocking off No. 3 Towson 3-2 in the quarterfinals on Friday and advancing to the championship match by upsetting No. 2 Northeastern in five sets.

VCU advanced to its first CAA Tournament championship match since 2009. Had VCU won, it would have been the first No. 6 team to win the CAA tournament since the seed format began in 1988.

Sunday’s first set didn’t start out the way the Hens hoped, with

THE REVIEW/Hanan Zatloff

Bonnie Kenny’s squad holds up the CAA trophy for the second straight year. the Rams matching them point for point from the onset. At 24-24, the set, which had six ties, was anyone’s game, but VCU scored two straight points to win 26-24.

Delaware set the tone in the

second set, heating up to take a 6-0 lead. A block by Alker gave the Hens a decisive 11-point lead at 21-10, and there was no looking back at that

See VOLLEYBALL page 31

Football not headed to postseason despite victory

BY TIM MASTRO Managing Sports Editor

THE REVIEW/Matt Maloney

Delaware sophomore kicker Sean Baner (20) contributed 14 of the Hens’ 26 points in Saturday’s victory.

CHESTER, Pa. — When Sean Baner looked at the design of PPL Park, his goal was to kick the ball into the river.

It’s not too far-fetched of an idea. Baner has a strong leg and the Delaware River runs right behind the small section of stands behind one of the end zones.

However once he noticed the wind when the Hens showed up to the stadium Saturday, the kicker knew it would be impossible. He had to settle for tying his own school record and kicking a gamewinning field goal.

Baner broke a 16-16 tie with 2:11 left in the game and junior safety Ricky Tunstall returned an interception for a touchdown on Villanova’s next drive to give the Hens their first win over the Wildcats since 2005.

“To be honest I wasn’t even nervous,” Baner said. “I don’t know why I wasn’t. That’s something you should be, but that’s something I’ve tried to mature myself on. I just kept my head down, looked up, saw the ball going through and was happy as anything.”

The win was Delaware’s seventh of the season. The Hens finished 7-4, but will not be returning to the FCS playoffs as they found out Sunday when the 20-team field was announced.

Delaware was one of the final teams on the bubble. The selection committee took Eastern Kentucky, also 7-4, for the final at-large bid.

It cited Delaware had six Division I wins and Eastern Kentucky had seven. One of the Hens’ wins was over Division II West Chester.

The CAA had five teams qualify. Towson received the automatic bid as the regular season champions. Maine, Old Dominion, New Hampshire and James Madison also made the tournament.

Delaware needed to beat Villanova to have any hope of being included in the at-large conversation and the Hens had to come from behind to do it. A 40yard field goal by Baner tied it up at 16 with 8:45 remaining.

Hens’ head coach K.C. Keeler was cautious with his game plan when they got the ball back. He kept giving the ball to running back Andrew Pierce. Even on third

See FOOTBALL page 31

November 22, 2011

weeklycalendar Tuesday, Nov. 22 Men’s Basketball vs. Cornell 7 p.m.

Women’s Basketball at Villanova 7 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 26 Men’s Basketball vs. Lafayette 2 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 27 Women’s Basketball at St. Bonaventure 2 p.m.

Volleyball Selection Show Wednesday, Nov. 30 Men’s Basketball at Boston University 7 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 1 Women’s Basketball at Princeton 7 p.m.

henpeckings Women’s Cross Country: The Hens placed fifth in the University Division race at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship at Van Cortlandt State Park. On Saurday the team also took fifth place in the Coaches Division team competition. Sophomore Lindsay Prettyman placed tenth overall.

This was the fourth meet in a row Prettyman led her team. Her time for the six-kilometer race was 18:40. The team had six runners in the top 100.

Men’s Basketball: On Friday night, the Hens fell to Villanova with a score of 79-69. This loss brought the season’s record to 0-2. Sophomore Devon Saddler scored 27 points to tie his career-high.

He had four assists and four rebounds as well. Playing in his first college game, freshman guard Kyle Anderson tallied 12 points on four three-pointers. Because of a stress reaction in his left foot, Anderson missed the season opener at Radford.

Freshman Jarvis Threatt contributed 11 points on three three-pointers and a pair of free throws. On Tuesday night, the Hens host their first home game of the season when they play Cornell at 7 p.m. at the Bob Carpenter Center.

Football: CAA awards were announced on Monday. Delaware senior offensive lineman Shea Allard and Gino Gradkowski, along with sophomore kicker Sean Baner made the All-CAA First Team. Sophomore running back Andrew Pierce, junior Wide reciever Nihja White, senior offensive lineman Rob McDowell, senior defensive lineman Michael Atunrase, junior captain Paul Worrilow and sophomore defensive back Travis Hawkins made the Second Team All-CAA. Defensive back Marcus Burley was the lone Hen on the Third Team AllCAA. Women’s Swimming and Diving: Senior Hannah Facchine was named the CAA Female Swimmer of the Week after the Hens beat LaSalle and Riderin a tri-meet on Saturday. Junior Heather Chucta also was recognized as the CAA Female Diver of the Week. Facchine won four events Saturday, including three individual events. Her team of Tori Gillespie, Courtney Row and Maggie Tracy won the 200 medley relay. Chucta placed second in both the one meter and three meter dives.

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Delle Donne’s Hens top No. 11 Penn State

BY TOM LEHMAN Managing News Editor

For Elena Delle Donne, the dwindling game clock couldn’t expire quickly enough.

As time ran out, the Bob Carpenter Center exploded in enraptured cheers and the team congregated on the court. Although she was excited to win the game, the forward said the end of the game also brought relief.

“Thank God it’s over,” Delle Donne said about her thoughts during the final seconds. “I so badly wanted that clock to run out.”

She and her teammates had good reason to celebrate. Their 80-71 victory over the Penn State Lady Lions wasn’t just an upset—it was historic. No. 11 Penn State was the highest-ranked competitor defeated in program history.

Delle Donne, a four-time state champion during her high school basketball career and gold medal winner at this year’s World University Games, said Thursday night’s win over the Nittany Lions was the best of her career.

Many of her teammates agreed, as she described an emotional atmosphere in the locker room.

“This is something we’re going to soak up and remember for a lifetime,” Delle Donne said. “We had players in the locker room crying. We were screaming ‘Delaware!’ and coach [Tina] Martin was dancing.”

For the 3,352 members of the crowd, the comeback wasn’t always easy to watch.

After the Hens took a 12-point lead early in the first half, Penn State took a three-point lead into the half.

The Nittany Lions would increase the gap by eight points midway through the second half and appeared to have the win within their grasp.

However, the Hens responded with an

8-0 run to tied the game and set up five lead changes. Jocelyn Bailey scored on a layup to put the Hens ahead for good with 6:25 left on the clock.

The Hens then went on a 9-2 run capped by a layup from Delle Donne that threw the crowd into a frenzy.

Although the Nittany Lions got within a point of tying the Hens with 3:15 left in the game, the Hens scored 10 consecutive points to slam the door on any chance of a comeback.

THE REVIEW/Hanan Zatloff M a r t i n Elena Delle Donne (11) puts up two of her 40 points in Thursday’s win. said the team’s resiliency kept of their team. them in the game and allowed them to take “I think we’re going to be a great team the lead late in the second half. this year,” she said. “We proved ourselves “I thought we really showed some tonight. I think nationally, that’s going to be grit, had hustle plays and huge rebounds,” recognized.

Martin said.

Although the win was a major milestone She said this win was the most for the program, Delle Donne said it is significant non-conference victory of her important to keep the team members coaching career because it was against a focused as they prepare for their game nationally ranked team. The program has against Villanova on Tuesday. only beaten three nationally ranked teams “This is only the beginning for us,” during its existence.

Martin said. “We can’t get all excited about Delle Donne said she thinks the win ourselves yet because the ultimate goal is to will put Delaware’s basketball program on win our conference.” the map and help improve outside opinion

Andy Weaver takes club cross country title Senior leads Hens with national victory in the program’s first year as a club

BY DAN MOBERGER Managing Sports Editor

For senior Andy Weaver, running isn’t just a passion, it’s a lifestyle. On Nov. 12, he took the National title at the NIRCA Club Cross Country Championship among a field of 525 other runners from around the country.

The victory seemed like just another day on the course for Weaver, who said he felt like he could predict his win before the race started.

“I kind of expected to win, but I wasn’t sure because I didn’t know if anybody was just going to come out of nowhere,” Weaver said. “Sometimes, with these club races, some guys just come out of the woodwork for nationals. That’s what happened last year. A guy—a grad student from Michigan came out and crushed everybody.”

There were no big surprises this year. If somebody did come out of the woodwork, Weaver didn’t see him because he finished in front of the pack. However, one competitor did catch his attention.

“The two-time runner-up, the past two years, was in the race, so I knew he would be pretty good,” Weaver said.

Jim Fischer, Weaver’s coach, heads not only the club running programs at Delaware, but also the women’s varsity team after the cuts removed the men’s running program last year.

“He went out with a guy who’s been the

national runner-up for the last two years, and he’s runner up for a third year,” Fischer said of Weaver and his closest competitor.

Weaver began running competitively in high school after friends pushed him into the sport. He hasn’t looked back, making the varsity squad at Delaware before the program was cut, and constantly improving since.

Fischer noted that Weaver has been running more than 100 miles a week for more than a year now. His work ethic set him up for a number of competitions he participated in this semester, including a half-marathon in September and an eight kilometer race in Philadelphia on Saturday.

“He’s definitely a hard worker and very focused,” Fischer said. “Not only the mileage, but also the intensity, I mean he really gets after it.”

The hard work has paid off. Although, as a non-varsity athlete, Weaver was not eligible for the NCAA National Championships, he and his coach believe his club championship times would have been strong enough to qualify.

“I looked at the NCAA regional results and I figured I would’ve had a real good shot to make nationals, which is something that I don’t think anybody from Delaware has ever done,” Weaver said. “It would’ve been a pretty cool thing.”

Fischer said his focus with all of his runners is not just to have them qualify for certain events and championships, but to

make them the best runner they can be. He believes Weaver hasn’t reached his peak yet.

Weaver’s impressive finishes in races outside of the Delaware club program have backed up Fischer’s belief. One week after he won the national club championship, Weaver placed sixth with a great time in Saturday’s 8K in Philadelphia.

The September half-marathon Weaver competed in was his first at that distance, but Fischer said his finishing time was still “reasonably close to qualifying for the Olympic trials marathon trials.”

Although the men’s varsity program was cut, the Weaver and Fischer have maintained their positive relationship.

“He’s technically the girls’ coach now, just because they’re the only varsity team, but he coaches us the same as he always used to,” Weaver said. “He’s done pretty well with the whole, not having a team anymore. He hasn’t changed anything. We haven’t changed too much, it’s just that we can’t go to the same meets.”

Fischer expects Weaver, as he does with all of his dedicated athletes, to continue to improve, as long as he keeps up with his work ethic.

“Andy deserves a lot of credit,” Fischer said. “He’s been a great influence and a really great athlete. He’s worked hard to develop himself. He was good in high school, but he’s put himself in a whole different category now.”

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New coach’s first year done, shows optimism

BY BO BARTLEY Staff Reporter

THE REVIEW/Vanessa Di Stefano

Delaware takes a shot on goal Friday night against Penn State. The Hens and Nittany Lions split the weekend series.

Club ice hockey beats Penn State

BY JACK COBURN Staff Reporter

The Hens proved they can compete with the nation’s No. 1 men’s club ice hockey team Friday night by defeating top-ranked Penn State 4-3 at Fred Rust Ice Arena.

Sophomores Mark Zeszut and Michael Piet scored third-period goals to boost the No. 2 Hens in the ACHA Division I, the highest level for collegiate club teams.

“We’re one of the top teams, too, so we came in expecting to have an opportunity to win, and we did that,” head coach M.F. Schurman said. “We just have to make sure we’re playing the way we’re capable of playing and I think we can play with anybody.”

Junior goalie S.J. Broadt said although the season is at the halfway point, the Hens do have championship hopes.

“It’s just kind of a guide that we’re doing well,” he said.

“We just put down No. 1 in the nation—you’ve got to feel pretty good about that.”

Zeszut, assisted by captain Andre Menard and Vincent

Pontrella, scored the go-ahead goal with a shot in front of the net 22 seconds into the third period for a 3-2 lead. Piet then added what would prove to be a crucial goal to make it 4-2 with 8:01 remaining in the final period.

“Obviously, you want to come out in the third and get a quick jump in a tie game,” Menard said.

“It took us 30 seconds to do it. We came out flying right out of the gate, set the momentum up for the rest of the period.”

The Hens never allowed the Nittany Lions to grab the lead.

Senior defenseman Chris Galgano put Delaware up 1-0 at 6:44 of the first period, with assists by Chris Volonnino and Christian Tasker.

Senior forward Kevin Miller netted a wrist shot on a 4-on-2 break for a 2-1 Delaware lead at 15:29 of the first period. His goal was set up by Nicholas LePore and J.C. Brancaccio.

Penn State came back 42 seconds later to tie the game at 2-2, thanks to a back-door goal by Mike Longo.

Broadt made a stellar save on a 2-0 Penn State mini-break that was the highlight of a scoreless second

period. He ended up stopping 22 of 25 shots in the game.

“It’s just a matter of coming out and playing the same game,” Broadt said. “You can’t really think about it.”

Penn State did make the final minute of the game an adventure, starting with Mike O’Brien’s goal with 40 seconds remaining. Not that it rattled Delaware.

“We just knew we had to stay calm,” Galgano said. “We knew we played great defense the whole game, so we had to just keep doing what we were doing. It worked out in the end.”

Penn State nearly tied the game, winning a faceoff with 1.7 seconds remaining, but the puck went into the net just after the buzzer had sounded.

“Going forward, it really sets the standard high for us and really sets us up to do well in the national championship,” Menard said.

Penn State (11-1) avenged the loss by defeating Delaware in Happy Valley Saturday night. The Nittany Lions score three thirdperiod goals to pull away. Paul Propsa scored for the Hens, who fell to 15-1-1.

The challenges began for the Delaware field hockey team before the season even opened. Head coach Rolf van de Kerkhof took the reigns when Carol Miller retired last year after a 17-season career.

Van de Kerkhof hails from the Netherlands and previously was the head coach of Michigan State field hockey. Upon his arrival at Delaware, he was tasked with turning around a program that went 8-10 last season.

Van de Kerkhoff came in with a goal to return to the playoffs because believes his squad can play with the best.

“It has a rich tradition,” van de Kerkhoff said of Delaware’s field hockey history. “You can think of it as a sleeping giant. You’ve got to wake her up. When we start to do that with development, I perceive that we can be a dynasty just like the Marylands and the North Carolinas.”

The head coach said the seniors on his team, who was been recruited and coached by Miller through the first three years of their Delaware careers, led the underclassmen by example.

However, the change at the helm of the team was difficult for some of the upperclassmen.

Senior goalkeeper Noelle Diana expressed the feelings of uncertainty she felt at the beginning of the season when the new staff arrived.

“Getting thrown into this new environment where you never really know what’s going to happen and you can’t even prepare your freshman is difficult,” Diana said.

The Hens finished the season with a record of 9-11 and made the CAA tournament, but were eliminated in the quarterfinals. The season was characterized by inconsistency. At times, everything clicked and the team competed at a high level. During other periods, the team faltered and suffered losses that should have gone its way.

Freshman defender Kelsey McKee talked about one difficult stretch in particular.

“There was about a week when we played Temple and Monmouth— that week we all just had a slump,” McKee said. “For three or four games, we all just had a slump. We couldn’t get out of it.”

During the team’s peaks, van de Kerkhoff thought his squad could compete with any team. The Hens played a nationally top-ranked team twice during the season, once in early September against North Carolina and again Oct. 2 against Old Dominion. Van de Kerkhoff looked at these matches as opportunities for the women to grow and gain experience as players.

The Sept. 24 game against Saint Joseph’s showcased the ups and downs of van de Kerkhoff’s team. The Hens were trailing by four with only eight minutes left in regulation. They refused to concede, and eventually stormed back with five unanswered goals. That type of offensive explosion is rarely seen in the usually slow-paced sport, van de Kerkhoff said.

“I joke that my life expectation dropped by five years,” van de Kerkoff said. “It’s an experience I think as a coach or a player that you have once in a lifetime. I think we cherished that moment.”

The players were similarly affected by the notable comeback.

Senior Kayla Schweitzer described the game as one she will never forget.

“It was the most surreal and adrenaline-rushed game ever,” Schweitzer said. “Just knowing that we could win and then it happening.”

Another highlight of the 2011 campaign came when three Hens— McKee, Diana and senior Amanda McCardell—were named to the AllCAA second team. McCardell said she plans on staying active as a member of the Delaware sports community even after graduation.

“I can come over whenever I want—they’re not getting rid of me,” McCardell said. “I’ll be at practice.”

While the team had a losing record, van de Kerkhoff said he and his staff plan to build on the momentum his program has. Offseason recruiting will be a busy and important time for van de Kerkhoff and his staff.

He said 2011 was a learning and rebuilding phase for the Hens, but he expects great things from his team in the years to come.

“I think we had some challenges that we faced—we overcame them together and throughout the season we grew,” he said. “As I always say, play and learn. I think we’ve done a lot of that this season.”

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Delaware pushed all its numbers forward in the final few minutes for an equalizer. The Hens’ best chance came from a free kick with under a minute left.

Sophomore Roberto Gimenez hit it wide and it grazed the side netting Mark Garrity had an open look a few minutes before the Bruin’s tally. The sophomore winger broke free down the right, but his effort from a difficult angle went right at UCLA goalie Brian Rowe.

“I think we lost to a better team,” Hennessy said. “There’s no shame in us coming 3,000 miles to play our fifth game in 10 days and losing against a team that I think is one of the better teams in the country.”

Three days earlier, at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. Delaware was the better team against Virginia, who has five national championships.

The game went into overtime after regulation ended at a scoreless tie. It was the 10th overtime game Delaware played this season.

Sophomore midfielder John Dineen found the winner.

Delaware earned a free kick just across the halfway line in Cavaliers’ territory as the clock crept under five minutes remaining in the second overtime period with penalty kicks looming. Senior center defender Darren O’Connor stepped forward to take it.

His lofted ball curled to the back post where Garrity headed it back across the face of goal.

Dineen was waiting and outjumped his defender to nod the ball into the upper left hand corner of the net.

“Mark has been a revelation for us this year,” Dineen said.

“One of our game plans was to try

to pick him out on corner kicks and free kicks. He pulled away to the back post and I saw what he was doing and I was banking on him winning the header. Just lucky to be in the right place in the right time.”

The upset earned the Hens the trip to Los Angeles to play the 13th-seeded and No. 4 ranked Bruins.

After the loss Sunday night Hennessy brought his players together for one last time this season to make sure they understood the magnitude of what they accomplished this year.

“I’m not gonna let them leave

with a disheartened feeling,” he said. “I think they’ve been brilliant all season and I’m proud of them.

They should leave here knowing that they can stand toe-to-toe with the UVAs and UCLAs of the world and win.”

The Hens finished 13-6-4 on the year. They broke the school record for most wins in the year and were the first Delaware team to make the NCAA Tournament since the 1970 squad.

“I think that kind of speaks for itself,” Devaux said. “It’s been a great ride with these guys.”

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Football: Seniors end their careers with victory Continued from page 28 down and seven, he overruled a pass play that was called to run the ball again and set up Baner for a potential game-winning field goal.

“I got very conservative,” Keeler said. “I was comfortable putting the whole thing on our kicker’s shoulders.”

Baner sensed it would come down to him. He saw Keeler look at him before calling another run and said he recognized the formation as a running play and knew his number was being called next.

“I was like, ‘Alright, coach has faith in me to make this,’” he said.

Baner’s four field goals tied the school record for most in a

game, which he set earlier this season against Old Dominion.

John Striefsky shares the record with him. Striefsky hit four against Navy back in 2009.

Baner converted field goals of 26 and 34 yards in the first half Saturday.

After his go-ahead kick, Delaware still needed to play defense. Tunstall earned his second interception of the day to seal the win.

He picked off Villanova quarterback Chris Polony and returned it 54-yards for a score.

“When we went back out there, it was just like, ‘Let’s get a stop,’” Tunstall said. “‘Let’s get another interception and do it again.’”

Pierce carried the ball 40

times for Delaware on the ground.

The sophomore running back finished with 109 yards and scored one touchdown.

At the press conference after the game, Pierce was visibly beat up from the high number of rushes.

Not that he minded.

“I want to do whatever it takes to win,” Pierce said. “That’s all that matters. I was in a war. That’s what it felt like. You can see the bruises on my face.”

It was redemption for Pierce.

He fumbled on the one-yard line last year in overtime in Delaware’s loss to Villanova.

For the seniors, who wound up playing their final game, it was the first time they could beat the Wildcats in their careers.

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Alissa Alker rises up for a spike in the CAA title game against VCU.

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Alker (right) and sophomore Karina Evans attempt the block a VCU spike.

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Ricky Tunstall’s (4) late pick-six sealed the Delaware win. He had four interceptions in the last two games.

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Two Hens gang tackle a Villanova player in Saturday’s 26-16 comeback victory over the Wildcats.

point. Tomko’s kill ended the second set 25-17 to even up the match.

The Rams bounced back at the beginning of the third set by pulling into an 11-10 lead. A kill by the Rams’ stand-out player Jessica Ojukwu brought the score to 19-12, and from there on out, the Rams cruised to close out the set at 25-15.

In the fourth set, the Hens started to execute their plays and take control of the court. A kill by Stewart give them a 14-7 lead. Junior Chelsea Lawrence’s kill evened the match up again, winning the set with a seven-point cushion.

Tensions were high in the deciding fifth set, but the Hens came out strong with a block by Stewart giving them a five-point lead at 6-1.

A block by Evans and Alker brought the score to 14-9, and an attack error by the Ram’s crowned the Hens CAA champions.

Alker led the team with 18 kills and 13 digs, and Stewart filled up the stat sheet again with 11 kills and a team-high 20 digs. Tomko dished out 54 assists, two kills and 10 digs, and

Hank racked up 15 kills for the Hens.

“These girls give me that fight and that energy to play my heart out,” Stewart said. “It was amazing, we really fed off our fans.”

Stewart’s Tournament Most Valuable Player award wasn’t the Hens’ only individual recognition.

Alker and Tomko also earned spots on the CAA All-Tournament Team.

“We knew we could do it— we had to serve tough,” Alker said.

“The fifth game was perfect. We had to finish off Barbara Viera the right way.”

With the last game on Barbara Viera Court over, the championship volleyball team now has brand new facilities in the new Bob Carpenter Center additions. The new court will be much larger to accommodate the Hens’ growing fan base.

Sunday’s win sends the Hens to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time since 2007. Their competition will be announced on Dec. 4.

“I thank God every day for this,” Kenny said. “I’m just honored and privileged to be the head volleyball coach at the University of Delaware.”

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