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No shots fired in 4 years

Students to revamp game day traditions

BY ALEXANDRA COSTA Copy Editor

BY EMILY MOORADIAN

Despite becoming armed four years ago this month, university police officers have yet to fire a bullet since they were granted permission to carry weapons on foot.

Albert “Skip” Homiak, executive director of Campus and Public Safety, said he would not feel secure having a police department without weapons.

‘We’ve tasked our officers with making a difference out there, making the community safe,” Homiak said. “I think the community should feel safer because officers carry weapons.”

Before the university’s policy change in February 2008, university police officers were allowed to keep weapons in locked boxes in their patrol cars. Now each of the 48 certified officers can carry a Sig Sauer .40-caliber pistol after completing a six-month basic recruitment course at the either the Delaware State Police Training Academy or the New Castle County Police Academy.

Neither Homiak nor University police Chief Patrick Ogden were on the university police force when

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Courtesy of Todd Toso

Junior Todd Toso, who calls himself DJ T-Squared, performs original songs at clubs and parties around campus.

Student DJs mix tracks, land gigs

BY DANIELLE BRODY Administrative News Editor

Following the likes of David Guetta, DeadMau5 and Avicii, students at the university are becoming self-taught disc jockeys and music producers, gaining a fan base and landing paid gigs.

Students like junior Ryan Touhill are finding inspiration from these DJs by learning the skill

and investing thousands of dollars in software, speakers and lights.

Student DJs are playing at sorority and fraternity parties, campus events, local bars and clubs—and making money. They are also creating mashups, remixes and original songs.

Touhill, who calls himself DJ Ronin, said students on campus love electronic dance music, or EDM, and the trend is gaining popularity with raves like Ultra Music Festival,

Dayglow and Barstool Blackout. He said he believes the DJ scene grew at the university because there is a lack of nearby nightclubs which offer that style of music, and student DJs can do almost the same thing at a campus party.

“The cool thing about Delaware is that it was such a spark kind of thing,” Touhill said. “We love this

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While the 2011 Homecoming week featured an award ceremony, a buffet and a Main Street restaurant tour for graduates, university officials said current students were offered few opportunities to celebrate, aside from the pre-game tailgate.

To help increase participation, Director of Alumni Relations, Cindy Campanella, announced the creation of the university’s first-ever Homecoming student committee in December.

“We can try to put together things we think students want to do, but doesn’t it make more sense for students to have a direct hand in planning exactly what it is they want?” Campanella said.

The committee will conduct the planning, managing and marketing of the 2012 event, and will hold bi-monthly meetings beginning this March through Homecoming itself.

Applications are due by

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Schools aim to prevent child abuse

BY DARREN ANKROM Senior Reporter

After a year marked by highprofile sexual abuse scandals in colleges and churches around the country, efforts to promote awareness and reform have reached the university.

The presidents of Delaware’s largest colleges joined the state’s Attorney General to commit to

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the Stewards of Children program Thursday afternoon at a press conference at the university’s Visitor Center.

“This is an important opportunity for our higher education community to be proactive in our defense of children,” university President Patrick Harker said. “As a community, we have to commit to protecting our most vulnerable populations.”

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The program will come to the university, as well as the campuses of Delaware State University, Delaware Technical & Community College and Wilmington University, to train staff and students to properly recognize and respond to suspected child sexual abuse cases.

The university will begin offering training this spring, according to J.J. Davis, vice president

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Presidents of Delaware’s largest colleges discussed the importance of recognizing child sex abuse at universities at a Thursday gathering.

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February 21, 2012

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DADT advocate joins Occupy DE movement

BY TOM LEHMAN Managing News Editor

WILMINGTON—Occupy Delaware protesters revamped their campsite this weekend with the help of a former U.S. Army officer who advocated for the end of the military’s policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in 2011, which prevented military personnel from serving if they were openly gay.

Dan Choi, an Iraq War veteran who was discharged after coming out as gay, helped approximately 100 Occupy Delaware supporters construct a large tent at Peter Spencer Plaza in Wilmington on Saturday.

Choi, who publically revealed his sexuality on the Rachel Maddow Show in March 2009, began the tent

raising ceremony by reading a poem aloud.

“A tent is usually a place where we can hide,” Choi said. “But what we are doing in these tents is exposing the reality of our country and our economy.”

The tent was originally donated to Occupy Philadelphia by the Occupy Supply Fund, which provides resources to movements throughout the country. However, after police removed protesters from an encampment in Center City, Occupy Delaware members received the tent.

Ray Lewis, a former Philadelphia police captain who was arrested at Zuccotti Park in New York City while he was with Occupy Wall Street protesters, also spoke during the tentraising ceremony.

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Iraq War veteran Dan Choi speaks to Occupy Delaware protesters at Saturday’s tent-raising ceremony in Wilmington.

Lewis, dressed in his police uniform, explained his interest in the Occupy movement Saturday.

“I was inspired in reading about people living in tents, and living under those harsh conditions,” Lewis said. “That inspired me to learn more about Zuccotti Park and other occupy movements. Why are these people doing this? And I realized they are not doing it to be first in line for a job in Wall Street. They are doing this for social justice.”

Choi related the movement’s mission to his activism regarding “don’t ask, don’t tell” and LGBT rights. He was arrested twice in 2010 for handcuffing himself to the fence outside the White House. Most recently, he was taken into custody while attending Moscow Pride, an annual LGBT demonstration in Russia’s capital.

Although the military’s controversial policy toward gay members of the armed services ended in 2011, Choi said similar policies and attitudes exist elsewhere in American society. “There is still a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ in our hearts, in our homes, in our churches and our schools,” he said. “And that’s the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ that no Congress can legislate, that no president can sign away. We have to take our own pen and we have to strike out and abolish that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ language from our own soul. Only we can do it, and no one can do that for us.”

Aside from its symbolic value, the tent also serves a more practical purpose. Jen Wallace, 40, an Occupy Delaware member, said the structure will provide protesters with shelter during the remainder of winter.

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Occupy Delaware members gather at Peter Spencer Plaza in Wilmington on Saturday.

Although she considered the season’s temperature to be mild, she said the organization has held their general assembly meetings to attract a greater number of participants who may be discouraged to attend because of cold weather.

“It is difficult when it’s cold, and we do have people involved who are older, people with health issues and just the practicality of meeting outside is an issue, it is,” Wallace said. “The tent will help that.”

The former Army lieutenant

compared the movement’s message to more mainstream political parties, who he said exclude dissenting voices.

“I think it is a strength because we have to realize that we —all in our many different issues and our many different communities—have a common oppressor, and that oppressor who takes away my rights, who takes away my freedom, once they do that, they will take away the other guy’s,” Choi said.

Donating campaign to revamp strategy for seniors

BY BO BARTLEY Staff Reporter

In previous years, the Senior Class Gift Council began soliciting donations from students at the beginning of the academic year via email, phone calls and advertising. This year, however, the council has altered its approach.

Alex Hoffmaster, adviser to the Senior Class Gift Council, said his office is changing the council’s communication methods as a part of its student engagement plan.

The council hopes to explain the benefits of philanthropy to students to encourage them to donate at the end of their senior year.

“We have learned over the last couple of years that for students to make the choice to make a gift and actually take action, to sign the check or do it online, they need to be educated about philanthropy first,” Hoffmaster said. “We can’t just expect them to know about all the inner-workings of the finances of the university.”

Hoffmaster said his office and the council carried out a campaign promoting the benefits of philanthropy during the fall semester, and hopes to prepare graduates to be lifelong donors.

Upperclassmen received emails and events were held across campus.

Senior Chris McElwee, student co-chair of the council, said the committee will lead an eight-week campaign seeking donations from seniors through emails and visits to

classrooms after spring break.

“Everything has to start with the first phase. We can’t go zero to 60 all at once,” McElwee said. “I definitely think the committee has the potential to continue growing, it’s just a matter of waiting it out and expecting bigger and better things each year.”

Senior civil engineering major John Lowe said he is unaware of the senior gift-giving process and many of his peers are as well.

Lowe said he never saw any evidence of the council’s educational campaign.

“There’s a good chance if they sent an email then it’s in-between seven other messages I didn’t read,” Lowe said. “If they sent anything in the mail, then they probably sent it home and I haven’t been there in forever.”

The council will also continue a recently-launched donation strategy this year. Traditionally, the senior class pooled its money to fund a single, tangible gift that students voted for.

The class of 2009 was the last class to give a collectively funded gift.

They raised $100,000 to help fund the installation of solar panels on the roofs of the Delaware Field House, Clayton Hall and the Center for Disabilities Studies.

Hoffmaster said the 2010 council changed its approach from tangible gift-giving to unrestricted giving, the same model used by the general alumni base. Since then, students have made donations through the council to any

university organization, college, team or fund of their choice. Their donations have been tallied and presented as the “senior gift.”

Students have not responded as generously to the new senior gift system as in years past. Last year, approximately 4,224 seniors presented a check of $9,700 for 115 recipients at graduation. On the council’s final count, the class raised $10,392.12.

Hoffmaster said he would like to see that figure increased through the active participation of the council’s 15 members. He also said he hoped more students will join the council.

“I will be blunt,” he said. “This committee, for an institution that’s the size of Delaware, should be about 50 members, so we’re really trying to increase that. We need representation in all seven of the colleges, we want different types of registered student organizations represented, everybody.”

McElwee also said the council needs more participation, and said he hoped the new approach to educating students will help recruit more members.

Robin Wray, senior director of annual giving in the Office of Development, said unrestricted giving is a way for each individual senior to enhance programs they utilized at the university or support. The office acts as a support structure for the council.

“It’s a great way that, if you’re involved in extracurricular or academics, you can say ‘I believe in

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This year’s Senior Class Gift Council members plan to rework their strategy for soliciting donations from soon-to-be graduates. this, and I want to help this next year,’” Wray said. “It’s real personal that way.”

Senior mass communications major Macey Schiff said that, if she does give money, she would donate to one of the volunteer organizations she is involved with on campus.

Hoffmaster said that the council’s new educational efforts will have a

compounding effect on underclassmen.

“Ideally, those who are freshmen now, if they go through three and a half years of education, then when we come around their spring senior year they’ll be ready to go,” Hoffmaster said.

“They’ll know all about everything that we’re doing and they’ll be ready to sign the check.”

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Feb. 21, 1978 - Students, like the ‘gladiator’ at left, celebrate Mardi Gras with Latin dancing classes and costume parties.

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Officers investigate attempted abduction at Mill Creek Village Apartment Complexes Police are investigating an alleged abduction attempt that took place Saturday night, according to officials.

The incident occurred at the Mill Creek Village Apartment Complexes at 9:36 p.m., when a woman who was taking her trash to a Dumpster was approached by a male suspect, said New Castle County police.

After the victim placed her trash in the Dumpster, the suspect grabbed her and tried to force her into a white pick-up truck.

The victim pulled away from the suspect and screamed, prompting the suspect to flee the scene in an older-model white pickup truck.

The victim was not injured during the incident.

Smyrna man arrested for strangulation, assault A 25-year-old man was arrested Sunday evening for allegedly strangling and assaulting his girlfriend in front of her three children, New Castle County police said.

The incident occurred at the 700 block of Christiana Road in the Cedar Wood Apartments, where police responded to a physical domestic dispute Sunday morning at 11:32 a.m.

After arriving, the 25-year-old female victim told officers she was assaulted by her boyfriend, Ryan Brown of Smyrna, during a domestic altercation.

The investigation revealed the victim’s boyfriend refused to leave her apartment and allegedly restrained her when she tried to leave.

While the suspect struggled with the victim, he allegedly knocked her to the floor and began choking her. When she attempted to break free, he struck her in the face before taking her keys and fleeing the scene in her black Nissan Altima, Weglarz said.

The victim suffered minor injuries and refused medical treatment.

Brown was arrested on Sunday evening on charges of third-degree assault, strangulation, felony theft, second-degree unlawful imprisonment and three counts of endangering children.

He was committed to the Howard Young Correctional Institute after failing to post $11,500 secured bail and ordered to have no contact with the victim.

—Bridgette Nealon

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Students flex their art skills at the Trabant University Center Feb. 14 by creating Valentine’s Day cards.

in brief Blood drive underway today A blood drive will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in the multi-purpose rooms of the Trabant University Center .

Donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good general health. Donors are encouraged to eat a substantial meal within three hours of donating and drink water throughout the day.

The drive is sponsored by the Residence Life Philanthropy Committee and Sigma Pi . To make an appointment, call the Blood Bank of Delmarva at 1-888-8-BLOOD-8.

Pat’s Pizzeria now offering latenight delivery

Women’s history announced

Pat’s Pizzeria, located on Elkton Road, now offers delivery service until 3 a.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings on Feb. 2.

The restaurant, which is included in the university’s Off Campus Meal Plan, features a $5.49 student menu and online ordering.

Pat’s Pizzeria officials said they began offering late-night service due to popular demand for pizza at that time in the night.

The Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and the Office of Equity and Inclusion announced the 26th annual Women’s History Month film series, titled “Women’s History, Women’s Lives,” on Friday.

The series will run on Tuesdays through Mar. 20th at 7 p.m. in 006 Kirkbride Hall. Admission is free.

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Submit events to calendar@udreview.com Tuesday, Feb. 21 Campus Blood Drive 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Trabant University Center

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Friday, Feb. 24 CSI: NY actor Hill Harper speaks 6 p.m., Trabant University Center multipurpose rooms Saturday, Feb. 25 SCPAB Presents: The Rum Diary 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Trabant Theatre

Wednesday, Feb. 22 One Night Without Warmth 7 p.m., North Green

Sunday, Feb. 26 Learning to Lead 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Trabant University Center multipurpose rooms

Thursday, Feb. 23 Workshop: Note-taking 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Office of Academic Enrichment

Monday, Feb. 27 Louis L. Redding Lecture 4 p.m., Roselle Center for the Arts

February 21, 2012

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Memes parody life at UD Politics Straight, No Chaser

BY KELLY FLYNN Staff Reporter

Paying homage to Boromir, a character from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings who declares the difficulty of approaching the fictional mountain Mordor, a Facebook user recently created and posted an image satirizing university life.

“One does not simply find a table in Trabant during lunch” captioned a picture of Boromir, exemplifying a recent Internet trend—creating and uploading memes.

Memes are pictures, sometimes from popular movies, that are given customizable and normallyhumorous captions to generate Internet buzz or merely to entertain.

This particular example was found on a university-themed Facebook meme page, featuring content submitted by students and has achieved more than 2,000 “likes.”

Another meme on the page’s photo album displayed a baby giving a triumphant fist pump, with the caption “Forgot fob —Ninja’d through door before it shut.”

The creator of the universitythemed meme page does not attend school in the state of Delaware.

Paul Saffos is a junior at Drexel University, but is originally from Middletown, Del. He stated in an email message that he frequently spends time at the university with friends. After he saw Drexel’s meme page, he decided to create one for the university.

“I thought to myself, ‘Hey, this page is going to be started up eventually by some UD student that hears about the Drexel page or whatever, so why not beat them to the punch?’” Saffos said. “I knew for a fact that this page had potential at any popular college campus and, given my personal ties, it pieced itself together in my head.”

He said he has only posted a few memes to the universitythemed page, and that the bulk of the content comes from other internet users.

“I knew I just needed a few good ones to get the ball rolling,” Saffos said.

Sophomore Taylor Fritts, who frequently posts memes on the page, likened the images to contagious jokes.

“These jokes have a wide variety and relate to, and sometimes mock, everyday life and culture.

Memes are always being created,” Fritts said. “It just depends on if they catch on with the majority or not.”

Fritts said he was introduced to memes by a friend, and began creating them soon after.

“I thought it might be fun when I heard that colleges [and] Facebook were becoming involved with these kinds of jokes,” he said. “I thought I would be a good contributor due to the hours I waste looking at them on [the comedy website] Funnyjunk. com.”

Some popular memes are organized as themes, and Fritts picked “Good Guy Greg,” as his favorite

among well-known examples. He said the collection is the antithesis to another popular series, “Scumbag Steve,” that is said to represent rudeness.

“We need more Good Guy Gregs in this word,” Fritts said. “He symbolizes goodness in people.”

Sophomore Joseph Zarraga said he has seen and appreciated the university-themed memes.

“They’re quite comical, the ones about the University of Delaware in general,” Zarraga said. “They’re very amusing and entertaining. Always good to poke fun at our lives here at UD.” Hannah Winand also said she enjoyed the memes, but that comments posted about them are sometimes excessive.

“I think that some of the memes are funny, but I think some people take memes too seriously,” Winand.

“For instance, I saw someone comment on a meme saying ‘people don’t know how to make memes.’ I don’t know why that matters.”

Frequent meme-poster and freshman Nicholas DeMarco said the images are just another way to express emotion and interests on the Internet.

“Memes will add to the image that people create for themselves on Facebook,” Demarco said. “I think that, overall, the [university-themed meme] page is fantastic. I’ve always enjoyed a good laugh from a meme and people are getting really creative and into making them.”

Courtesy of UDEL Memes

The above meme pairs student opinion about lunchtime at the Trabant University Center with a quote from “The Lord of the Rings.”

Courtesy of UDEL Memes

Students supplant established memes with jokes that are applicable to the university community.

Conservatives turn to social issues In an election year that many expected to be almost singularly focused on economic policy, the GOP primary race, national and state politics have recently centered on social issues.

After months of debating the best ways to go about lowering unemployment and the national debt, stabilizing American markets and increasing private sector job growth, Americans and our politicians are debating social issues in ways that we haven’t seen since the Clinton administration.

During the period of economic prosperity that defined the 1990s, the political focus naturally turned to issues of contraception, gay and lesbian rights, abortion and so on.

Under the Bush administration the focus shifted to national security and, soon after, America’s foreign policy as our government attempted to wage two wars to limited success.

In 2008, an economic crisis shook America’s banking system to its core, unemployment soared and the housing markets took a dip.

Since then the debate on the decision to use public funds to bail out banks and use government intervention to stimulate the economy has dominated the political scene. Over the summer, Washington became gridlocked over the national debt issue, as the rise of Tea Party right-wing hardliners forced Democrats to reconsider their deficit spending and made Republicans reconsider their tax cuts for the nation’s ultra-wealthy.

Pundit James Carville once famously said, “It’s the economy, stupid,” and political experts have been predicting the 2012 presidential election will center on that topic. Many think the fate of the Barack Obama presidency rests solely on what the state of the economy is like come the first Tuesday in November, whether deserved or not. This sudden and deliberate shift to social issues can be explained by several factors.

One option is that the Republican primary contenders for the presidential nomination are fairly consistent on their fiscal policy. They are all for maintaining low tax rates for America’s most wealthy “job creators” and reducing spending to cut the deficit.

And, of course, they all agree Obama’s policies have made the economy worse, a claim not necessarily backed up by relevant data. After hours of debate, the remaining candidates’ discernable differences can be found in their levels of social conservatism. As the primary season wears on, it’s now time for Republicans to explore their opinions more deeply.

A series of social issues have recently been forced into the spotlight all at once. Proposition 8, the referendum in which Californians voted to deny the legalization of gay marriage, was deemed illegal in court.

This decision was based on the notion that fundamental rights should not be determined by popular vote. Last week, a law permitting gay marriage passed the largely Democratic New Jersey legislature but was quickly vetoed by Republican Gov. Chris Christie. Christie, a rising star in the Republican party, favors a referendum

on gay marriage similar to the one just struck down in California.

The Obama administration recently sparked controversy with legislation that said religious organizations must provide the option of contraception to their employees as part of their health care benefits. This irked major church leaders across the country, namely Catholic bishops who argue that they shouldn’t be forced to provide a service they fundamentally disagree with.

Obama fought back, stating that there are church employees who don’t necessarily practice the religion of the organization they work for, and that the government Matthew isn’t forcing Friedman contraception on anyone, because it remains optional for those who choose to use it.

This debate became almost laughable last week as the House Oversight Committee’s panel of witnesses to debate the matter of women’s reproductive health consisted of only white, middle-aged men. It prompted one Democratic Representative to ask, “Where are the women?”

Some more cynical political scientists viewed the administration’s timing on the contraception issue as politically calculated. GOP primary candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has been surging in the polls lately over the more moderate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a movement in Obama’s favor come election time. Santorum is a staunch social conservative who, as it happens, doesn’t believe in the use of contraception. The issue’s circulation through the news gives Santorum a boost in the polls among religious, socially conservative GOP voters who might otherwise vote for Romney or stay at home all-together. Current national polls give Santorum about a 10-point advantage with 36 percent of the support to Romney’s stagnant 26 percent. As we head toward Super Tuesday, the most important day in the primary cycle, a Santorum surge and the consequent Republican disarray only helps Democratic efforts to reelect Obama.

Santorum has recently been speaking out against a section of the Affordable Care Act, often dubbed Obamacare, that requires health care coverage for prenatal care, specifically prenatal examinations.

Prenatal examinations are a profound medical breakthrough of the last 15 years. Without one, a woman is two to three times more likely to die during childbirth and a baby is more likely to die within six months of being born. Santorum says prenatal care leads to more abortions. Considering the public’s popular support of such examinations, as well as contraceptives, it’s hard to argue that Santorum’s social policy isn’t out of touch.

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February 21, 2012

Sorority recruitment numbers hit record high

BY KARIE SIMMONS Student Affairs News Editor

When senior Kaitlyn Mattson and junior Laura Simpler, who are in charge of Panhellenic recruitment, ordered 1,025 T-shirts for sorority recruitment this spring, they thought they would have a surplus. As it turned out, they barely had enough.

“We thought we had overprepared but we just made it,” Mattson said.

More than 960 young women registered for formal sorority recruitment this spring, the highest recorded number of students, according to Adam Cantley, assistant director for fraternity and sorority life.

“By the end of the fall term they had over 1,100 women on their email interest list,” Cantley stated in an email message.

Mattson said Pan Hellenic prepares for an increase in potential new members during recruitment each year, but they expected 800 girls to participate in recruitment this spring.

She said the chapters promoted themselves in the fall at Student Activities Night, open houses and

with expos in the Trabant University Center, as they do each year.

“There’s not a week that goes by when a chapter isn’t hosting an event,” Mattson said. “The Greek letters are all over campus.”

Mattson said she thinks the reason for the high number of potential new members this year was the large freshman class of 3,915 students.

Cantley said looking back through 2007, the largest previous recruitment was in 2010, with more than 750 young women starting the process. He said 200 more women came out for recruitment than last year, during which the number of interested students actually decreased. Mattson said this was due to the university raising the minimum required GPA to participate in recruitment from a 2.4 to a 2.5.

“We added more events to the first weekend of recruitment to accommodate for the numbers,” Cantley said. “We created extra recruitment groups, so that less women were in each group. We encouraged chapters to look at their room layouts and change floor plans to allow for more space for women.”

He said all 10 chapters host

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Young women gather at an Alpha Xi Delta event last week to learn more about rushing the sorority.

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This spring’s sorority recruitment at the university saw an increase of 200 participants compared to last year. events which focus on general information, sisterhood and philanthropy. He said throughout the process, chapters select women to invite back to events and the new members rank the chapters they want to return to in order of preference.

Cantley said the department uses a mutual selection process to match women to the appropriate chapters. On the final day of recruitment, women receiving a bid for membership will be invited to begin the new member process for that organization.

To accommodate the 960 women going through this process, and Greek Life administrators also worked with Clayton Hall officials to secure more space and larger rooms, and increased the number of bus pickups to allow more time for women to arrive.

Freshman Randi Polizzotto said she and many others did not benefit from the bus schedule. She said freshmen living in Rodney were forced to walk home many times because the chartered buses did not arrive frequently enough at Clayton Hall.

“There was not enough looping

during the awkward times, just the regular times,” Polizzotto said.

“And most people actually had the awkward times.”

Mattson said although chapter members learned about the high number of potential new members the Sunday before recruitment began, they were unfazed.

“To manage 960 girls is quite a feat,” she said. “We really needed all hands on deck and everyone really stepped up.”

Cantley said less than five percent of women participating in recruitment are traditionally released from the chapters at the end of recruitment. He said those who do not finish elect to withdraw on their own for various reasons, but he has not seen an unusual number withdraw this year.

Freshman Kelly Nash said she participated in recruitment and noticed how many women dropped out after the first few days.

“I saw girls that day, when they got their schedules, crying,” Nash said.

She said many of her friends on

her floor in Harrington Hall went out for recruitment as well, and although she was intimidated by the large number of potential new members, she said it was an enjoyable experience overall.

Polizzotto said she also noticed many participants drop out early on in the process and felt too many students were focused on the names instead of the quality of the sororities.

However, she said she’s glad it’s finally over.

“It was an emotional roller coaster, and we’re all sleepdeprived,” she said. “You literally just have to trust the system and it’ll be rewarding in the end, I’ve heard.”

Mattson said 20 percent of students are currently involved in Greek life on campus, and the number rises each year. She said Panhellenic takes the trend into consideration, and continues to prepare for the number of potential new members to increase in the future.

“We will do everything we can to keep it the way it’s always been,” Mattson said.

Black Student Union relaunches decades-old publication

BY COLLETTE O’NEAL Staff Reporter

The Black Student Union unveiled the first issue of its magazine, Pamoja, at a launch event on Saturday, marking a significant change in format that showcases student-produced content, such as articles, poetry and photography.

Originally released as a newsletter in 1967, Pamoja, which means unity in Swahili, reflected on the thoughts and feelings of African-American staff and students on campus. The first issue of the publication’s new format, dubbed the Influence issue, is available at Trabant University Center for free.

University leaders from various departments including the Center for Black Culture, the Office of

the Dean of Students, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, and the English Department took an interest in the project and decided to fund it.

The new issue features Kasandra Moye, director of the Center for Black Culture, on the cover and a 10-page spread profiling five different university faculty and staff members.

The magazine contains fashion, art, music, health, entertainment, feature, opinion and creative writing, and will be released at the end of each semester.

As part of the launch event, junior James Church performed his poem “Oppression for Dummies,” which appeared in this issue’s creative writing section.

Sophomore N’Kosi Oates, the magazine’s executive editorial assistant, said the magazine’s target audience is the minority students on campus, but the staff wishes to attract other students and build a sense of unity and acceptance.

“We hope to build a stronger community by publishing things that are relevant to all of our lives,” Oates said. “We want our readers to not only speak the words but to live the words as well and accept that we all have diverse opinions and lives from one another.”

While the process of bringing Pamoja to print was lengthy, junior Ashley Paintsil, Pamoja’s editor-inchief, said the project brought the staff closer together.

“The most important goal of the magazine is to create unity across

campus, which the original creators of the newsletter had in mind when they titled it, since Pamoja means unity in Swahili,” Paintsil said.

“The fact that we get to bring an extremely talented staff together and produce an amazing magazine is very special.”

First-year graduate student Asiah Lemon, who contributed a motivational piece to the Influence issue and attended the event, said she hopes Pamoja will encourage others to voice their opinions.

“Pamoja inspired me to express my thoughts and feelings and I hope it will do the same for other African-American people to speak up and get their opinions out there, express their views and educate other students as well,” Lemon said.

Lemon said she plans to

contribute more content to Pamoja and will continue to read the magazine even after graduation. She hopes that it will become published monthly so it can reach more students around campus.

Although there are currently no plans to expand Pamoja’s current distribution, Oates said they would like to do so if interest in the magazine increases.

“Our staff works to great strides to live up to the legacy we inherited and have elevated it,” Oates said.

“Hopefully we can continue to impact people on a much larger level. Seeing the magazine in its entirety signifies how we can all come together and make a cohesive piece of work that influences people and make a difference.”

February 21, 2012

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Program connects entrepreneurs to alumni funding

BY MAYA BOUVIER-LYONS Staff Reporter

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A new doctoral program in biomedical engineering at the university will be open to students this fall.

UD creates doctoral program in biomedical engineering

BY LAUREN CAPPELLONI Staff Reporter

Students seeking a career in biomedical engineering can earn their doctorate degree through a new program offered by the College of Engineering, which was created to accommodate growing interest in the field.

The Faculty Senate approved the addition to the College of Engineering’s list of programs earlier this month, and it will begin operation this fall semester.

Dawn Elliott, a former University of Pennsylvania bioengineering professor who was hired in September to develop the university’s undergraduate program, stated in an email message that biomedical engineering is becoming a widely popular major throughout the country.

“There is a strong need for graduate training in biomedical engineering,” Elliott said.

“Many jobs in [biomechanical engineering] require advanced training. The complexity of the problems to be solved requires a deep knowledge of both fundamental engineering and biology.”

Although biomedical studies have been a part of the engineering curriculum for years, the new program will allow students to concentrate on that particular subject, said engineering professor Thomas Buchanan.

Buchanan said the engineering department introduced the biomedical engineering major two years ago. He said it reached maximum enrollment during the first year it was offered, and the university had to put a limit on the number of students because there was not enough room to accommodate the high demand.

“Adding the graduate program is a natural offspring,” Buchanan said. “We have had students

from chemical and mechanical engineering that do theses for biomedical problems since I came here in the mid-90s.”

Biomedical engineers study new technology for medical and health issues and many biomedical students become medical researchers, later entering premedical careers or work in areas such as prosthetics.

In 2011, The Bureau of Labor Statistics found biomedical engineering to be the fastest growing field of work, with jobs growing by 72 percent in the next decade.

Elliot said most of the nation’s top biomedical programs have both a major and a doctoral program. She said the established program would host 10 to 20 new students each year, but the initial class will consist of a smaller number of students.

The curriculum consists of one year of core classes in math, statistics and ethics, and students focus their studies in areas of their choice. The department’s staff will consist of professors who are currently in the engineering and science colleges, Buchanan said.

“What’s unique about the program is that it brings professors from all different departments together,” he said. “There is a spirit of camaraderie among the faculty, and I hope it’s shared with the students.”

Elliott said the program will be funded by research grants from external sources, including the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation.

“The program does not incur any specific costs to the infrastructure already in place,” she said. “And the research they perform brings new science to the country, solving biomedical problems.”

She hopes the new program will later lead to a full biomedical engineering department. If the Ph.D and undergraduate programs

develop positively, she said a master’s degree in biomechanical engineering could be offered.

Biochemistry professor Andrew Teplyakov, chairman of the university’s Graduate Student Senate, said the program will be evaluated after eight years of operation to determine its usefulness. The Faculty Senate will then vote to either accept or deny the program’s continued existence.

“Any program we approve is viable and sustainable,” Teplyakov said. “If it’s approved by the dean, they have the resources available.”

Sophomore Audrey Guyer, a biomedical engineering major, said the field is important because it addresses current health-related issues.

“The graduate program can help the undergrad program develop and bring in people who know more about it,” Guyer said.

“The programs can feed off of each other.”

Sophomore Derek Hunter, a biomedical engineering major, stated in an email message that the demand for experts in the field is growing, and the graduate program can only improve the research university students are already conducting.

“The need for new medical technology will always be present,” Hunter said. “Especially today when people are enthusiastic about improving our own health and discovering ways to battle the disease, injuries and natural deterioration.”

Sophomore Kevin Chang, a biomedical engineering and computer sciences major, believes the idea of a graduate program is enticing, but may not be attractive to current undergraduate students.

“People generally try to go to other schools for their graduate work to become more exposed and diversified in their field of study,” Chang said.

After becoming the first school to utilize the online entrepreneurial platform USEED last semester, the university will launch a new website for the program to showcase student projects and encourage investment on March 5.

UDSEED is the universitytailored version of the USEED program, which helps connect student entrepreneurs with specific projects to alumni looking to offer financial support.

Daniel Freeman, faculty director of entrepreneurial studies, said the program aims to break down the boundaries of the traditional classroom by allowing alumni, other faculty, staff and friends of the university to become involved with student projects.

Matthew Racz, co-founder and chief operating officer of USEED and a university alumnus, said UDSEED is the product of the university’s partnership with his company.

“Our mission is to change the way students are educated in universities,” Racz said. “We’re hoping that our platform allows students to gain the skills, gain the networking and the money to create their own jobs when they graduate.”

Freeman said he expects programs like USEED to become common in college environments.

“Crowd engagement at universities is inevitable, it’ll happen over the next five to ten years,” Freeman said. “It’s just we’re actually going to be out on

the front of the curve.”

He also said that while the program is sponsored by the Entrepreneurial Studies department, student from any major can participate.

Senior Alyssa Kuchta said she has utilized the program to develop her jewelry company, eff.Y.bee.

“What [UDSEED offers] for student entrepreneurs has never been offered before,” Kuchta said.

“The fact that I could possibly get funding and network with alumni investors and reach out to a wider network just through doing this is incredible.”

She said the program allows student entrepreneurs to pursue their passions and will make achieving her goals more realistic.

“This is enabling me to see my dream come true, literally,” she said.

Kuchta said she learned about UDSEED in an advertising class taught by communication instructor Carolyn Bartoo, who said students in her course are required to work with the program.

Bartoo’s students will create an ad campaign for Kuchta’s business to be launched on the UDSEED website. She said she believes the hands-on learning experience will help students retain the information better than the typical textbook and scantron approach.

“My goal for the class is to present them with a totally exciting and scary opportunity that will shock them into pushing themselves more than they ever have before,” Bartoo said. “Instead of imagining it, we’re doing it.”

Courtesy of Carolyn Bartoo

Senior Alyssa Kuchta (left) uses UDSEED, co-founded by Matthew Racz (center), to promote her jewelry line. She learned about the program from her communication instructor Carolyn Bartoo (right).

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February 21, 2012

Afternoon campus mail route nixed

BY ALLISON KRUEGER Staff Reporter

THE REVIEW/Amelia Wang

University Provost Tom Apple receives the most complaints about overcrowded classrooms from the business department.

Professors, students cope with inflated rosters, crowded rooms

BY JULIE BECKER Staff Reporter

When junior Kelly Addorisio arrived at her education class in Brown Lab during the first day of spring semester classes, she realized there were too many students and too few seats.

Although Addorisio found an open chair, she watched as classmates sat on the floor, stood or sat on the professor’s desk.

“There weren’t enough chairs at each table, so by the time people got to class, there weren’t enough seats,” Addorisio said. “There were maybe five or six people who didn’t have a seat.”

While the problem was resolved before the next class started, she said it would have been an annoyance if the issue persisted throughout the semester.

Like Addorisio, many students experience overcrowded classrooms during the beginning of the semester, spurring professors and university officials to find new methods to control class sizes.

Sophomore Cori Schreider, who is enrolled in a large theater class, said she often observes students having a difficult time trying to find an open chair.

“I’ve seen other people wandering around and having to step over people to find a seat,” Schreider said.

Schrieder said she thinks professors manually add students to class rosters even after the course is full. While she has only experienced

overcrowding in one of her classes, she said it is a problem that deserves attention.

“I feel like it doesn’t happen that often so it’s not too big of an issue, but the fact that it happens at all means that it should be addressed,” Schrieder said.

Provost Tom Apple said he has heard the greatest number of complaints about overcrowding from professors in the business department. He said he does not want to minimize the problems and is working with university officials toward making changes, but does not think that the issue is widespread.

Apple believes overcrowding can be partially attributed to the university’s enrollment for the 2011-2012 school year, which has risen to more than 16,000 students.

He also said the issue is exacerbated by construction and renovations to university buildings. In order to accommodate a large number of students, the university decided to construct the 194,000-squarefoot Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory on Academy Street, which will contain classrooms, laboratories and research facilities and is scheduled for completion in 2013.

The university is also renovating Alison Hall, which contains a large number of classrooms and is scheduled to be completed in 2013.

“This is probably the worst crunch we’ll ever be in,” Apple said.

Patrick Mwerinde, a

mathematics professor who teaches statistics classes of more than 100 students, said tries to prevent overcrowding by adhering to the maximum number of students allowed to enroll in the course and by not adding extra students to the course roster.

He thinks the issue stems from a decrease in state funding to the university and said there are a smaller number of available teachers because some retired professors have not been replaced.

He believes smaller classes promote group work and conversation.

“I think they should hire more professors so class size gets smaller and smaller,” Mwerinde said. “The smaller the class size, the more the students learn.”

Mwerinde said teaching larger classes can also be detrimental to attendance.

“Some students cut classes thinking that I’m not going to recognize them,” Mwerinde said.

Apple also said the Faculty Senate is considering changing the length and frequency of some classes to address overcrowding.

He said most students take classes between 10 a.m and 3 p.m., which often makes courses during that time period especially crowded.

He believes changing the times of classes would spread students out among more rooms and minimize overcrowding.

“I don’t think it’s a problem we’ll have for a while,” Apple said.

“We’ll be in great shape by 2013.”

University officials discontinued afternoon mail delivery and collection on Feb. 13, citing a decrease in usage as a reason for the decision.

Margot Carroll, director of hospitality services, said the afternoon mail run, which includes collecting letters and packages from university departments and mailboxes, was eliminated because the volume of mail from the post office was declining drastically.

“It’s kind of a reflection of what’s going on nationally with the U.S. mail with everyone switching to digital communication,” Carroll said.

Carroll said she and her colleagues came to the decision last December. She said the Undergraduate Admissions Department used the afternoon mail service the most frequently, but its director, Lou Hirsh, thought the decision would be not be too much of an inconvenience.

“We’ve been looking at it for a few months and the decline has been steady for a few years,” Carroll said.

“We wanted to make sure it would not affect people negatively.”

Approximately 28 locations on campus received mail pickups through Feb. 13. Department administrators will have to arrange afternoon pickups through Campus Mail Services if they have a large volume of mail, but will continue to get morning pickups.

Campus Mail Services is responsible for transferring all letters, packages and magazines to more than 200 university

departments and delivers anything the U.S. Postal Service can process.

Carroll said the university will not cut mail handlers’ hours as they are still required to retrieve mail from the 13 white mailboxes around campus on weekday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. and deliver it to the local post office.

The English Language Institute, which helps international students learn the English language and is located on Main Street, offers their mailing address to students receiving packages mailed from other countries. It will also no longer receive the afternoon campus mail pickup.

Nancy Sanderson, a secretary in the business administration department, said her office has not used afternoon mail pickup in five or six years.

Sanderson said the dean’s office still used the service, and she found it useful when necessary. However, she said the decision will not affect her day-to-day job.

“Quite honestly, there is very little ‘real’ mail anymore as most people use email,” Sanderson said.

“Even when faculty write letters of reference, most of them are now scanned and sent as an attachment via email.”

Communication professor and department chair Elizabeth Perse said she has noticed the decreasing traditional mail service use in the United States. She said the decision to end afternoon pickup and delivery is not surprising.

“Email has replaced snail mail,” Perse said. “Many faculty are also opting to not receive hard copies of their journals and using electronic access instead.”

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School officials cite a lack of use for the cancellation of an afternoon campus mail route.

February 21, 2012

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Flip Flop Shops closes two years later

THE REVIEW/Amelia Wang

University alumna and songwriter Melissa Cox performs at Central Perk Friday night.

Locals showcase music, art at cafe

BY ELENA BOFFETA Staff Reporter

Tw e n t y - e i g h t - y e a r - o l d songwriter and 2005 university alumna Melissa Cox took the stage at Central Perk Friday, and began belting out one of her original songs in Latin.

Cox has been performing at Mocha, Music & More, a live concert held every third Friday of each month at the Main Street coffee shop Central Perk, since her days as a student, according to Newark resident David Robertson.

Robertson, who created the event as part of the local organization Friend’s of Newark’s cultural and community building efforts, said Cox is the considered the event’s headliner when she attends.

“It is wonderful to watch her growth,” Robertson said.

This year marks Mocha, Music & More’s fourth year of existence, and its first settled into Central Perk.

“We hold the event on Main Street because we believe that Main Street, like any central street in any town, is the heart of Newark, not just in terms economically but also socially and culturally,” Robertson said.

The event features artists of all ages and types with only one rule—they must present original work. The coffee shop does not have a license to perform cover music said Lori Benscoter, who coordinates the event’s schedule.

The performances, however, are not exclusively musical. Poets, magicians and comedians have all taken the stage.

“I try not to get the same person back for six months because we want a variety,” Benscoter said.

Unpin Campbell, the coffee shop’s owner, said the event was previously held at other venues, but Central Perk is planning to continue hosting Mocha, Music & More the rest of the year.

He also said the event nights bring approximately $100 more than an average night.

“We have a big place, big enough for people to come and enjoy the show,” Campbell said.

Junior Stephanie Wirth attended Friday’s show with a friend, and said she appreciated the demonstration Cox gave after performing, when the singer showed the audience how to use a foot pedal and a speaker box.

“I really liked her song in Latin and the way she showed the process of making her music,” Wirth said.

Two other artists also performed at the concert and event organizers raffled off prizes from Switch, a skate shop on Main Street.

English professor Phillip Bannowsky read poetry and distributed flyers for the Occupy Delaware movement, and singer Jerry DiAngelo introduced some of his original work accompanied by other musicians who played guitar and drums.

Robertson said the event can serve as a platform for local artists.

“It is a way to provide an opportunity for young performers to share their arts,” Robertson said. “We are using the event to create creativity.”

THE REVIEW/Marek Jaworski

Flip Flop Shops closed its doors late last month after sagging sales. The store first opened in November 2009, selling shoes from well-known brands like Havaianas, Quiksilver and UGG.

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Teaching corps sees rise in apps

BY MADELINE BROOKS Staff Reporter

Senior Lindsay Thomas grew up in Fairfax County, Va., attending schools she described as excellent, and was always told she would attend college.

Twenty minutes away was Washington, D.C., beset by struggling public schools and poverty. Thomas said she observed the stark education gap quickly.

“All these kids were stuck in poverty, and it was because their education system was not up to par,” Thomas said. “They just didn’t have the educational resources that I did.”

After attending an alternative spring break trip to Newark, N.J. and spending a summer in Guatemala teaching English, Thomas said she realized she wanted to work in education reform in the United States.

Like other university seniors, she found that opportunity through Teach For America, a non-profit organization that recruits college graduates to spend two years teaching in low-income urban or rural communities.

Thomas was recently accepted into the program and will teach in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas after graduating.

She was one of a record number of university students who applied for Teach For America said Rebecca Emel, the organization’s campaign coordinator on campus.

“People know that it exists, and they know our goals and the mission,” Emel said. “We’re definitely excited to see the high level of interest. We’re trying to spread it to the whole student body and not just limit it to seniors.”

The program provides two-year paid teaching positions to accepted graduates. Once accepted, they are given reading materials, support and intensive training. Then, each teacher is matched up with a struggling school somewhere in the country.

Emel said interest in Teach For America has increased from last year, when five graduating seniors became part of the corps. Though this year’s number of seniors who will work for the organization is not yet available, Emel said this year the number of submitted applications was the highest ever at the university.

Students interested in the organization this year represent a variety of majors and include sophomores and juniors who are planning to apply for the program, though only graduated seniors can submit an application. Emel said increased Teach For America awareness on campus comes from both recruitment efforts and students personal interest.

“It’s people who are dedicated to social justice and human rights and see that education is a basic human right, and see that it’s

baffling in this country that where you’re born, your ZIP code really determines the type of education you’ll have,” Emel said.

While a paid, two-year position may seem like a tempting safety net for graduates, Thomas said this is not the case for university students applying to the corps.

“Because it’s one of the most rigorous application processes, it’s very difficult to be selected,” Thomas said. “A lot of people who might apply for TFA because they don’t have an idea of what they want to do after graduation, those people often aren’t chosen because they haven’t proven that they believe in the movement, and that they can be an impactful teacher.”

Senior Sean Bunoski was accepted into this year’s program and said he applied to help have a positive effect on education.

“I think, at the core, every individual wants to make a difference in the world, and this is an incredible way to do so, especially at an early age, and pretty immediately,” Bunoski said.

He said friends told him about the organization and its goals, which eventually led him to apply.

“Every person you know has a neighbor or a cousin who has done it,” Bunoski said. “The more I looked into it, the more I saw I could make a difference, and I completely agreed with its mission and thought I could make a big change in the world.”

Though working with TFA provides valuable teaching experience, Bunoski said he sees it more as an opportunity for students straight out of college to provide a valuable service.

“With regard to charity, most of us as college students don’t have much money to donate and can’t afford volunteer work for NGO’s [non-governmental organizations], but we do have the opportunity to teach, especially in inner-city schools, helping the less-fortunate,” Bunoski said. “I think this is an incredible opportunity that a lot of people really grasp at.”

Thomas also said she applied to help students receive adequate education.

“For my situation, I am looking at TFA more for the benefit of the students I’ll be working with, giving them an energetic teacher who believes in their success and wants to set them up on the pathway for educational success,” she said.

Thomas said she hopes that while helping the education system through the program, Teach For America will, in turn, help her grow as a person.

“There’s not one Teach For America corps member or alumni who will say that it didn’t change their lives for the better, that it didn’t change their opinions and everything about the way they think and look at the educational system,” Thomas said. “I’m really looking forward to that experience.”

Online class enrollment down

THE REVIEW/Nick Wallace

The UD Online Professional and Continuing Studies Resource Center on Library Avenue will be open three days a week this semester instead of five due to decreased student enrollment in online classes. The hours are now Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

February 21, 2012

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Institute offers culture classes to faculty

BY KATIE MCCARTHY Staff Reporter

Nursing professor Karen Avino sat in a class in Penny Hall on Wednesday night, learning about

the history of Chinese art and the proper way to hold a paint brush—a subject different from the medical procedures she usually deals with.

Although it was her first time attending the class, Avino said she

THE REVIEW/Jon Gabriel

Weekly courses at the university’s Confucius Institute teach faculty and staff Chinese language, calligraphy, brush painting and martial arts.

might be able to incorporate it into her lessons.

“I may be able to use it within my class and share the ideas learned in the class with my students when we talk about art and music therapy,” Avino said.

The class was part of a series of weekly courses taught by members of the Confucius Institute, a partnership between the university and Xiamen, a major city in China, which offers lessons in Chinese language, calligraphy, brush painting and martial arts to faculty, staff and their spouses.

Jianguo Chen, director of the Confucius Institute, said the department first offered classes last spring. He said the lessons have been popular and were full within one week of opening. Nearly 40 people having signed up for them this year.

He said the university community is interested in learning Chinese, even though it is a difficult language.

“People want to and are willing to learn the language,” Chen said.

He said the classes coincide with the department’s mission, which includes promoting a world of multiculturalism.

“It’s beneficial and it helps build connections between the Chinese and American cultures,” Chen said.

Many faculty and staff are taking the classes to help improve their interactions with the Chinese students at the university, said Ming Wu, a visiting scholar at

the Confucius Institute. Wu said many faculty and their spouses had expressed interesting in learning about the Chinese culture.

“The purpose of these classes is to help the people from China and America communicate and understand each other on a more personal level,” Wu said.

The institute will offer free advanced Kung Fu classes and lessons in Taiji, another Chinese martial arts form, for $30. Chen said students cannot take Chinese classes for free because classes for credit are offered through the College of Arts & Sciences.

“The consequence of the Confucius Institute offering Chinese 1 and Chinese 2 to students hurts the university,” Chen said.

“The university would then not be able to collect tuition money for those classes if free classes are offered.”

Junior Mengjia Shi, a Chinese student who teaches painting and calligraphy classes, helps students in her class learn the differences between American and Asian art.

She said people usually equate bamboo with Chinese art, which is often used as subjects in paintings or as a painting tool.

“Bamboo is modest and strong, just like the Chinese characteristics,” Shi said.

Shi compared Western and Chinese art by placing a picture of the Mona Lisa next to a Chinese painting of a woman on the side of a landscape of mountains and flowers. She said the Mona Lisa

is the center focus of the painting while in the latter, the woman is turned to the side with her head down, reflecting a traditional Chinese belief that women should not look up at people.

“The reason why artists use black and white is related to philosophy,” she said. “The artist wants to express the beauty of nature and spirit. Spirit should be far away from materialism.”

Deborah Williams, senior records specialist in the admissions office, said she enrolled in the class because she thought it was interesting.

Williams said she would be able to use techniques learned in class at home or in the office.

“I figured I could then use it for addressing envelopes post cards and note cards,” Williams said. “I could also make a sign using the calligraphy for my new home and hang it on the wall.”

Junior Sean Spurdle has taken Chinese Level 1 at the university and said the course helped build his relationships with his international students on his floor. He said he would be interested in taking classes at the institute.

“I’ve always been interested in the Chinese culture and language to communicate with the international students at UD,” Spurdle said.

“If the institute offered language speaking classes there would definitely be a strong interest on campus.”

SGA denies proposal for cage-free eggs at UD

BY ERIN QUINN Staff Reporter

The Student Government Association denied a proposal at Tuesday’s meeting to support the Vegetarian Student Association’s recommendation that the university’s Dining Services switch from batterycage eggs to cage-free egg products.

An earlier proposal to support the recommendation was passed by SGA one year ago, but it estimated the price of each meal plan would increase by $5 after the switch.

Tuesday’s vote featured an updated estimate, an increase of $18 to $20 per meal plan, and failed with 15 opposed to the motion, eight in favor and two abstentions.

SGA president and senior Molly Sullivan said lack of student support led to the proposal’s dismissal.

“I personally do not believe that this is representative of the student body to add $18 to $20 per meal plan,” Sullivan said. “I don’t think students here are that passionate about it.”

The price of meal plans are increased annually to cover the additional costs of food products, labor and utilities. Dining Services and Hospitality Services officials recently estimated it would cost between $110,000 and $120,000 in total to switch to cage-free egg products from Sysco, the vendor that

currently supplies the university.

The Vegetarian Student Association’s president, senior Chelsea McFadden, said she believed SGA made the wrong decision because the switch to cage-free eggs would present a 1 percent price increase for meal plans.

“I think that for something that is so important for human health and animal welfare and for the environment that this really is a worthwhile expenditure,” McFadden said. “It’s not something that’s frivolous.”

She said battery cage eggs present health problems because disease breeds in tight enclosures, and noted that the European Union banned battery-cage eggs on Jan. 1st.

McFadden created both a local petition, which received 3,500 signatures from students, and a public online petition featuring more than 5,000 signatures. She also said the Vegetarian Student Association received letters from alumni, threatening to withhold donations to the university until the switch to cagefree eggs is made.

“I’m going to regroup and make a strategy for making this happen,” she said.

Sullivan and junior Dave Mroz, SGA director of operations, also announced structural change within the organization. The number of SGA members was raised from 31 to 40,

made up of half-elected and halfappointed positions.

The changes passed unanimously, and Mroz said they were made to help the organization move to a more elected system, and appeal to a larger number of student groups. He said SGA will be able to run more efficiently, and committees will have more freedom to meet and network with organizations on campus.

Junior Michelle Barineau, SGA director of public relations, said the new structure will increase student involvement, and is confident the goal will be reached.

“Of course there’s going to be a transition period, possibly with things we didn’t foresee,” Barineau said.

“I’m confident it was thought out for months and we definitely want to pursue efficiency and democracy and I believe we achieved that with this structure.”

University Provost Tom Apple also spoke at the meeting about classroom shortages and overcrowding.

He said there is a high demand from both students and professors for classes between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., but that it sometimes causes scheduling conflicts. He hopes to see classes offered at a wider variety of times, so students can have more freedom to take both required and elective classes.

Apple proposed offering

THE REVIEW/Marek Jaworski

Student Government Association members vote to deny a proposal Tuesday to recommend university officials switch to cage-free eggs.

Saturday classes to the Faculty Senate in September of 2009 to help spread out the schedule and discourage Friday night partying, but the idea has not received sufficient faculty

support.

“I’m known for my Saturday class idea,” Apple said. “Which was popular with one other person.”

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Committee: Members announced in March, university officials say Continued from page 1 Friday at 5 p.m. at the Office of Alumni Relations and interviews will be held from Feb. 27 through Feb. 29. Committee members will be announced by March 1.

Freshmen, sophomores and juniors are encouraged to apply, and Campanella said ideal candidates are “students that feel connected to the university, [who are] in tune with what’s going on and have a good grasp on what their peers want.”

Christine Scheirer, program coordinator for the Office of Alumni Relations, said the university has sought to enhance student involvement for several years. She noted the implementation of Homecoming Spirit Stations, which award university gear to students and faculty dressed in blue and gold, in 2010.

“We decided we were going to move forward with the student committee after this past Homecoming,” Scheirer said. “We really decided we needed more student involvement.”

Scheirer will serve as committee’s adviser, and said students with marketing and advertising skills would be vital to the committee’s success.

Students who were involved in last year’s Homecoming

celebrations said they were almost all part of organizations or clubs who had a direct role in the festivities.

Sophomore Jake Lefler, a member of the a capella group The Deltones, said he performed in multiple Homecoming activities, including singing the national anthem at the game.

“I was technically required to be there,” Lefler said. “Not that I didn’t enjoy it.”

Freshman Jordan Peters, a member of the university’s marching band who performed during the 2011 Homecoming, likes the idea of a student committee to better organize the week’s events.

“I think that if you form a Homecoming committee, more students will be aware of what’s going on,” Peters said. “The only improvement [would be] to get people to know what’s going on during Homecoming.”

Campanella and Scheirer both said they hoped the committee would become an annual tradition.

They called the next year’s Homecoming a blank slate, and think the freedom given to the committee will help students take ownership in their celebration.

“We don’t know what [the students] are going to ask for,” Campanella said. “We want them to recreate Homecoming.”

of Finance & Administration.

Davis will coordinate the training, which will focus on any university personnel that work with children, but is available to anyone who wants to participate.

“It’s really a win-win,” Davis said. “It’s allowing for us to provide more training and education and, in the end, hopefully it will help future generations.”

In September, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden joined local organizations, such as the YMCA of Delaware, to announce the Stewards of Children program’s goals—including training 35,000 Delawareans over the next five years.

“The bottom line is, we have a problem in our nation,” Biden said at Thursday’s gathering. “One in four girls is sexually assaulted before they’re 18, and one in six boys is sexually assaulted before they’re 18. Only one out of 10 of those children ever gained the courage, for a moment, to tell people they love that they’ve been victimized, and it’s because nine out of 10 of the perpetrators know or say they love the people they victimize.”

Of the anticipated 35,000 trainees, Harker said 1,100 will be

associated with the university.

“UD has quite the number of programs that put faculty, staff and students in contact with children,” he said. “We’ve identified hundreds of people within the UD community who will benefit from this first phase of training in the Stewards of Children Program.”

Among that group, Harker cited coaches, athlete staffs and students running summer camps on campus as beneficiaries.

According to Alison Burris, communications specialist for the university’s College of Education and Human Development, the program will enhance alreadyexisting efforts.

“Currently, the [Early Learning Center] and Lab Preschool staff receive annual training on the topic of identifying and reporting abuse,” Burris stated in an email message.

“The Stewards of Children training will be an additional resource.”

Darkness to Light, the nonprofit advocacy organization that created the Stewards of Children program, recommends seven steps to prevent child sexual abuse.

Learning the facts about child sexual abuse, minimizing situations where adults and children are alone together and promoting healthy conversation about the topic are

suggested.

Staying alert, planning a reaction strategy to an identified situation, acting on any suspicions of potential abuse and volunteering to promote awareness round out the list.

Biden said hesitancy to discuss pedophilia lies at the heart of the issue, and he commended the state’s administrators for taking a stand against a problem that’s often uncomfortable to acknowledge.

“Pedophiles go to where their victims are, and the victims are in churches, daycare centers and schools, places where we entrust our children,” he said. “I want to thank each of you for being so committed to saving people’s lives, because it does cost these kids their lives. Sometimes literally but, if not, figuratively.”

Harker said the program will be active both on and off campus after it’s implemented.

“These sorts of programs operate up and down the state in all three counties,” Harker said.

“We’ll be taking this training throughout Delaware to ensure that everybody associated with UD acts immediately and responsibly on behalf of the children in our care, children who need and deserve our care and informed action.”

Students make Valentine’s crafts

THE REVIEW/Amelia Wang

Students assembled university-themed Valentine’s Day cards Feb. 14 in the Trabant University Center during the “Make and Take: Hearts and Crafts” event. Participants also created their own build-a-bears.

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Music: ‘There’s no better feeling than just dropping the song,’ student DJ says Continued from page 1 kind of music, it hit us so fast.”

Touhill began producing music during his freshman year of college, and became interested in DJing after becoming the designated iPodcontroller at parties, and receiving compliments on his music taste.

Last year, Touhill said he purchased music mixing software called Serato, which visualizes a song as a vinyl record on a computer screen so he can add effects while he plays. He said he also makes original

songs using AbletonLive, a software music sequencer, and has a following on soundcloud.com, an audio sharing website. He said he and other students are “mobile DJs” because they can play all their music through their laptops.

He said his first gig was at the Ivy Hall Apartments, and since then has DJed at many Greek Life events, MoJo Main, Pulse and other clubs in the tristate area. He said he can make $60 and a case of beer at fraternity parties, and large college parties or clubs can pay up to $500 for the night.

“When I’m at a party, I love being

Courtesy of Ryan Touhill

Junior Ryan Touhill uses software that visualizes songs as vinyl records on a computer during performances, adding in his own effects.

Guns: Officers complete 16 hours of firearms training annually Continued from page 1 officers were first allowed to carry guns on foot. Homiak became executive director of Campus and Public Safety in July 2008. Ogden became chief in October 2009.

Ogden said officers have drawn their weapons while responding to a felony crime, such as burglary, robbery or in the case of a stolen vehicle.

Ogden said the department’s officers receive the same level of training as county and state police officers. As a result of the certification, university police officers have arrest privileges throughout the entire state, meaning they can take suspects into custody regardless of location.

Each officer is required by the Delaware Council on Police Training to complete 16 hours of firearms training per year in order to continue carrying a weapon.

“They are police officers,” Ogden said. “They are not security guards.”

Police academy training includes 80 hours of firearms practice, Homiak said. Officers learn safety tactics, weapons maintenance and retention, police force policies, patrol procedures and practice firing a gun at a shooting range.

“They are highly trained and highly prepared to carry weapons,” Homiak said.

He also said it is essential for

officers to carry weapons for the safety of students and faculty, especially in the event of an active shooting.

Officers received permission to carry guns as a response to deadly shootings on college campuses, such as the attack at Virginia Tech in April 2007, when a student killed 32 people before committing suicide. Six months later, a freshman at Delaware State University fatally shot a 17-year-old student and wounded another, who later died from her injuries.

Armed university police officers assisted in the evacuation of the Perkins Student Center last October, while responding to an unconfirmed threat against the building’s occupants.

“It’s not a secret that we’ve had a significant number of shootings on college campuses in the last 10 or 15 years,” Homiak said. “We’re not immune to that here.”

However, some students, such as senior Nathan Herbert, do not consider themselves more safe with the university police force wielding guns.

“They’re campus police,” Herbert said. “It just seems a little excessive.”

Senior Shannon McElhinney said she does not object to officers carrying guns on campus.

“I think it’s a good thing, so that they can better react to any armed threats on campus,” McElhinney said.

up there and just being involved with people in front of me,” Touhill said.

“I love connecting with them. If I see someone in the crowd having a great time, if they see me, I’ll lock eyes with them.”

Like Touhill, junior Todd Toso, who calls himself DJ T-Squared, said he makes his own songs using music production software, and has performed at clubs, parties, Laird-apalooza, a university-sponsored party on Laird Campus, and Timothy’s on Paper Mill Road. One of his original songs was recently featured on Fratmusic.com.

“That was awesome,” Toso said.

“After that, a lot of people started to get in contact with me. It was pretty nuts to finally be up there with everyone else.”

He said he bought his software three years ago and taught himself how to use it, but it took a lot of work to understand how to mix tracks. He said skill differentiates the good DJs from those he calls ‘push-and-play.”

“They’ll pretty much just stop the track mid-song, then put on a new one, no mixing, not much skill involved,” he said.

Sophomore Christian GarciaRinkert said while EDM has gained American popularity in the past two years, it has been big in Europe for decades.

“What a lot of people don’t know is that it’s a genre that’s been around forever,” Garcia-Rinkert said. “The U.S. had its hip-hop, we invented hiphop, and Europe is just getting a taste of hip-hop now. It’s like that for us with electronic music.”

Garcia-Rinkert said he started DJing last year and taught himself to use the equipment by watching YouTube videos. He said he spent approximately $2,500 on equipment and recently began paying off the investment.

“You control the crowd basically, you can get people dancing, you can get people fist pumping with whatever song you choose,” Garcia-Rinkert said.

“And it’s great to hear compliments the next day or the next week.”

Junior Eddie Hagen, who recently launched a website called Handsdownmusic.net to promote university students who are DJs, said the reaction from the student body has been positive, and it is an exciting time for those who are learning the craft.

“House music and EDM is taking over the club scene, it’s kicking hiphop out the door very quickly,” Hagen said. “And these kids are riding that wave.”

Junior Kevin Steinberger, or DJ Vision, said he started mixing music in high school as a hobby and continued in college. He said he started DJing last year with his laptop and speakers and performed at his first party last spring semester. Since then he has also DJed at many Greek Life events, philanthropy events, clubs in Philadelphia and Catherine Rooney’s on Main Street.

Steinberger said he now he has a job DJing every Thursday at Klondike Kate’s. In May, he said he is DJing a local kickoff for the Kentucky Derby in Louisville.

“I love making other people

happy,” he said. “There’s really no better feeling than just dropping the song and just seeing people jump and almost feeling the music.”

Klondike Kate’s manager Christian Szczerba said Steinberger is very professional, despite his youth.

“He has an amazing light set-up,” Szczerba said. “He makes the upstairs look amazing every time. He has a stand that he puts the LED lights on and the little lasers that come together.”

Szczerba said previously Kate’s hired older DJs who were not students.

He eventually realized bars were hiring students and that is what the crowd wanted to hear.

“Most people know who the DJs are,” he said. “The DJs are their friends or their friends’ friends,” he said. “It creates more of a tight knit bond between our entertainment and our customers. They’re familiar. They definitely want to come see someone they know rather than someone they might not have heard of before.”

Senior Jordan Scaduto, who is also known as DJ Skootz, said he became a DJ two years ago and recently started managing other performers to work at Kate’s and Catherine Rooney’s.

Toso said while many college campuses have a large DJ scene, he thinks Delaware’s DJs are supportive of each other.

“We try and help each other out, so I know like, some of my other DJ buddies will let me use some of their stuff if I need it, some of their lighting, anything like that, and I would do the same for them,” he said. “I think it’s a real friendly community.”

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Armed officers keep campus safe Permission for UDPD to carry guns deters crime Four years have passed since university police officers were first outfitted with guns in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. Though officers have, fortunately, never had to fire the weapons, knowing officers can carry guns on campus serves as a deterrent to crime, ultimately benefiting the university community.

The university is not a gated campus, and is easily accessible by all city residents. In the case of a crime on campus, university police are the first line of defense. If a violent crime, such as a campus shooting, were to occur, the need for university police officers to carry guns becomes a necessity, since the police must be able to adequately

defend themselves and others in the area.

An officer simply drawing a gun can serve as a deterrent.

University police Chief Patrick Ogden said guns are sometimes drawn in cases of felony crimes, like robberies and burglaries, which have occurred around campus frequently this year.

Showing a gun may prevent these crimes from continuing.

University police officers are just that—fully trained and qualified officers, rather than security guards. The change in weapons policy four years ago gives university police a sense of legitimacy and allows the campus community to view them with the respect they deserve.

Students given Homecoming voice Homecoming, celebrated each year in the fall, traditionally caters to alumni of the university.

However, the lack of activities for current students often makes them feel disconnected from the celebrations and leads to questionable activities. The creation of a Homecoming student committee by the Office of Alumni Relations is an important step toward connecting students to the university “family.” However, the committee must be smart in the planning of activities.

Alumni Relations has been successful in planning its activities for its alumni-focused activities during Homecoming and Alumni Weekend. Events such as Blue Hens on Main at Homecoming and the Mug Night Celebration at Alumni Weekend take place on or very close to campus. Any undergraduate Homecoming activities should follow this formula, and the committee would be wise to make use of the beautiful and spacious areas of campus, like The Green.

Alumni events are also planned well in advance. The

Homecoming student committee must also be thoughtful in its planning and coordinating of events, and should not try and put them together quickly. For example, the Cockpit’s “Drive for Five” promotion at the Oct. 8 William & Mary football game that included a $5,000 grand prize for one winner hoped to draw students to the game, but notice of the event was limited.

The game was better attended than previous games, but open spots were still noticeable.

Garnering student interest many weeks ahead of time is critical for a successful and wellattended event.

Traditions like Homecoming courts, which the university organized in decades past, have become slightly outdated. The Homecoming student committee has a chance to create new traditions that will hopefully last in the years to come. This is only possible if the committee puts its full efforts and attention into the task, and can bring the undergraduate community together for a day dedicated to school spirit.

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Corrections: In a Feb. 9 issue of The Review, a pull quote in the story “Historic Building Demolished Despite Debate” incorrectly attributed the quote “There was embodied energy in what was there and to haul it off to the landfill doesn’t make good sense to me” to Daniel Griffith. The quote should be attributed to Michael Falstad.

A standalone photo in a Feb. 14 issue incorrectly identified actors in “Graduate students, professors perform ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan.’” The play was performed by graduates of the Professional Theatre Training Program, not the Resident Ensemble Players. There was also an error in the plot description.

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Government must use values to create better society Read Scott

Guest Columnist

Staying true to the country’s values will restore the public’s faith in government.

In every election, there exists significant discussion over the ideology and promises of the candidates. Some believe the government is incapable of doing anything correctly and that it has a limited and secondary role to play in American life. There is widespread belief that the free market is infallible, and any views to the contrary are wrongly described as “socialism.”

However, despite these discouraging facts, there is a better and more progressive way forward for the United States. The truth is, government has a role to play in society, and so does the free market. Both of these institutions helped make America great. However, when either of them has grown too big or too powerful, many people get hurt and left behind.

President Alexander Hamilton argued in favor of a strong national government that would take action to address national problems.

President Thomas Jefferson was a strong advocate of personal liberty and the natural rights of the common man. These are often thought of as conflicting views, but progressives through-

out history have found a balance that seeks to improve government, rather than blindly shrink it, and to improve the free market and to ensure that all people more equally share the rewards of business. Throughout history, progressives have sought to improve society through tearing down the myths of conventional wisdom and the status quo, and challenge our country, in the words of Martin Luther King, to “live out the true meaning of our creed.”

We believe in liberty, equality and opportunity for all as our fundamental values. We can all agree that these values are the best way for a country to govern itself, yet rarely do we agree on the right way to put these values in action. And what’s more, our leaders play into the worst aspects of our human nature, where fear and cynicism become the organizing principles of our evaluations and thinking. This doesn’t have to be true. Throughout the history of our nation, average citizens have stood up and challenged society to move toward a “more perfect union,” where citizens have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

The American government is an ingenuous proposition, with real opportunity to improve lives, but at the same time, government can drastically fail the people. Its authority can be overbearing and its leader’s corrupt and selfinterested. Yet the prescription for the future is not smaller, or bigger government. We have the choice to have better government. If we don’t take responsibility for our government, the further we get away from influencing its decisions

Citizenship must be active and not idle.

That is what is at the heart of progressivism— a call to action, deeply rooted in the tradition of pragmatism. Great progressive leaders and thinkers throughout American history, such as Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., knew that great changes must take place, and that pragmatic solutions were the best way forward, not drastic and draconian measures.

They let reason and their belief in the fundamental goodness of the American people guide them, not their fears or the resentment of their opponents.

That is why liberalism and conservatism have come up short. Modern day liberals spend their time attacking conservatives and playing into the anger of their liberal base, while conservatives spend their time standing up for failed propositions and blaming the victims of injustice, claiming they lack personal responsibility or work ethic. They cheer the resentment of their voting base, and yet this only satisfies those who already agree with them. What about everybody else?

The truth is most Americans don’t respond to this kind of visceral politics, which is why they are so disengaged. The media makes politics and elections into a sporting event, analyzing the insider political moves that don’t speak to people’s concerns. The free market has equated happiness with money, and the greatest marker of success in society today is somebody’s wealth. In all of this, we lose sight of what is truly important—living up to the

true meaning of our values and ensuring that our families and the families of our neighbors and our friends are living happy and healthy lives. This is what people are most concerned about. They want a solution and a leader who will have the moral courage to tap into people’s hope and optimism.

It will take courage and faith in the people to truly change America. We need to remember our most fundamental responsibility, and that is our responsibility to other people. It is easy to blame others for the problems our country faces, especially if those people are the worse off among us. It is easy to pass judgment on someone with no job, no money, and no opportunity, instead of actually fixing the injustice and inequality that is the true cause of our social problems.

It is time that we look past what we think today, and remember our larger commitment to others. Most belief systems are based around helping others. Most religions speak to charity and sacrifice on the behalf of our fellow man. And it is the Bible that tells us that we are “our brother’s keeper.” These are not naive presumptions. They’re values deeply rooted in our society, and the government and the public can live up to these ideals once again.

Read Scott is a guest columnist for The Review. His viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of the Review staff. Please send comments to rscott@udel.edu.

MLB collective bargaining agreement benefits all Ryan Davella

Guest Columnist

The MLB collective bargaining agreement will make a better game for players, spectators and everyone in between.

We all know that agreements can be hard to make. Recently, the collective bargaining agreement between NBA players and owners almost resulted in the end of the entire season. But when it came to the MLB, the organization made their deal weeks before the Dec. 11 deadline. The deal benefits both the players and league itself and satisfies everyone.

The biggest part of the deal was the addition of another playoff spot for both the American and National Leagues. This will help the league tremendously because those two games will bring in a decent amount of revenue alone. The end of the season will become more exciting and makes those final games count so much more. I personally love a close baseball game in which it

comes down to the final out to determine the winner. The final month of the baseball season will have this feeling now because so many teams will be fighting for that final spot to make history.

Secondly, the utilization of instant replay in the game is expanding from just home run calls to fair or foul calls as well. It only makes sense that the league is finding a way to fix this issue since bad calls have caused much controversy. I remember when I used to play little league that umpires made the wrong calls all the time and it greatly annoyed me. Sometimes these calls affected the overall outcome of the game and there would be nothing we could do about it. Hopefully it means instant replay will soon trick down and become available to all leagues since the professional level is implementing it.

The prohibition of smokeless tobacco

on broadcasts was another highlight for the agreement. Since I grew up with baseball as my favorite sport, just like many other kids throughout the world, we all pick out our favorite players who sometimes also become our role models. I used to admire Derek Jeter so much that I wanted to be the player to fill his shoes once he retired.

The thing I admired most was that he didn’t use any tobacco products like many other players did. Using chewing tobacco has always been a big part of the game for reasons that I won’t ever understand. Maybe it gives them that “I’m better than you” kind of mentality that they need to perform at the top of their game. But when so many kids look up to these players, why would parents want them watching those who use these products? They wouldn’t. They’d turn the game off and probably wouldn’t want them watching an-

other game. The ban of tobacco also preserves the health of players.

Finally, the minimum salary for players was due for a raise, which makes players more willing to play at a professional level and gives organizations a chance to sign only top-notch prospects, increasing competition among upcoming players. MLB players devote all 365 days a year to the game whether it be training, practicing or playing games. These are their careers. This is what they chose to do in life. I don’t know too many other jobs that require work every day of the week, year after year. Baseball players earn the money they make and increasing salary is a plus for both sides.

Overall, the new agreement makes both sides happy, which is the original intent. It makes the game more interesting and fun to watch. It didn’t result in a season cut short like the NCA, or even an end to it altogether, which is definitely a win-win no matter what.

Ryan Davella is a guest columnist for The Review. His viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of the Review staff. Please send comments to rdavella@udel.edu.

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Senior records album inspired by travels

BY PAT GILLESPIE Senior Reporter

Senior Shane Palkovitz has shaggy, dirty-blonde hair, brown eyes and a light-hearted pitch to his voice. He says things like, “music is everywhere and everywhere is music” as he muses about his past. Behind the labels or first impressions one may have of Palkovitz—such as “surfer dude” according to Palkovitz’s friend and recent graduate, Michael Natrin—is a senior student that has dedicated his studies and musical talents to sharing profound stories.

Over winter session, Shane traveled to South Africa to do research on his senior thesis—a report on Zimbabwean refugees living, some illegally, in South Africa after fleeing from the unpopular dictatorship of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president.

There, Palkovitz found his music and his research starting to overlap.

“For the thesis, I was just tracking down people in South Africa who are from Zimbabwe, who’d been forced out—just interviewing them, seeing how the experience has been,” Palkovitz says. “And actually, among a lot of them, music is a way they connect with their home. And so I always take a guitar with me on interviews and such, and we ended up jamming a lot.”

Palkovitz found his guitar to be a disarming tool when speaking with illegal Zimbabwean immigrants residing in South Africa. His experiences talking to people inspired him to write his third album, “Songs of Pretoria,” while on his first visit abroad. He recorded the album in 2011.

Along with his six-string, Palkovitz plays bass, piano, drums, the banjo and the ukulele. He performed all the instrumentals featured in “Songs from Pretoria.”

Palkovitz first traveled to Pretoria, South Africa in 2010 where he studied at Pretoria University for three months then around other parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe for two months.

While in Pretoria, Palkovitz learned about the waves of immigrants— first the white landowners, then the oppressed black citizens—who had steadily fled to the border since Mugabe took office in 1980.

During his visit to Zimbabwe in 2010, a man tried to rob Palkovitz at gunpoint with a machine gun.

He says the incident, far from what he prefers to remember about Zimbabwe, does not trigger the same trauma it might for most.

Instead, Palkovitz felt sympathy for the obviously desperate man.

“I’m looking down the barrel at their eye on the other side, and thinking like, ‘What has happened to them to get them to that point where they have to point a gun at another human being so that they can live?’” Palkovitz says. “It really takes you for a trip, thinking ‘What must their life be?’ and ‘What is my life like?’ and ‘Why am I so fortunate?’”

Human development and family studies professor Norma Gaines-Hanks, one of Palkovitz’s professors, says his music mirrors

his character.

“It’s very relaxing,” GainesHanks says. “It reflects a lot about who he is. Again, it shows the level at which he thinks. He thinks at sort of a deeper level. Even when he’s [singing] about relationships, it’s more than just the superficial kind of things.”

Gaines-Hanks led a study abroad trip to South Africa over this past winter session. Palkovitz traveled with the group, but also steered away from the group occasionally to conduct his own research. During this second visit, Palkovitz also played concerts at schools and nursing homes in South Africa.

“Every time we would stop for gas on our bus, he would get off the bus and go talk to the people who were at the gas station because he wanted to know more about the people,” Gaines-Hanks says.

Palkovitz captures the impact of his travel and daily life in Pretoria in the instrumental piece, “For Senya”—a compilation of recorded sound clips with an acoustic melody. The sound clips range from people cheering to birds chirping.

Growing up in rural Landenberg, Pa., Palkovitz learned to appreciate nature. He believes human ties to the environment played an integral role in the development of his thesis, and in explaining an African problem to Americans.

“I’m talking about how they’re disconnected from the home and from the landscape that was theirs, which is very detrimental to them,” Palkovitz says. “And at the same, I think Americans who might read this piece don’t have the same connection to place. So I think it may be a way to examine what’s happened to them, and say, ‘Am I really attached? What does this say about me?’”

Palkovitz grew up listening to Simon and Garfunkel, but says he now tunes in to local bands such as Hundred Acre Woods and Battleshy Youths. He plays frequently at Mojo Main on Main Street, and friend Michael Natrin, class of 2011, sometimes jams with him.

Natrin fondly recalls his first impression of Palkovitz’s music as both a friend and fellow musician.

“It was unlike anything I’d ever heard before in a local setting—it was very impressive,” Natrin says. “His voice goes well with the chords he writes for his guitar parts.”

Palkovitz’s future is openended. He wants to travel abroad after he graduates then return home to Landenberg. He might go to live with family in California after graduation or venture elsewhere.

However, feeling that his friends in South Africa are now family, Palkovitz may return to Pretoria in the next few years.

Palkovitz says in his music and while interacting with people he met abroad, he pays close attention to the meaning of his words.

“I’ve seen a lot of times when words just come out of people and the destruction it can cause,” he says. “I try to be thoughtful— I’m not always, but I try to live consciously.”

Courtesy of Shane Palkovitz

Shane Palkovitz performs songs for a group of primary school students in South Africa this winter.

Courtesy of Shane Palkovitz

Shane Palkovitz takes a panoramic photograph of a macadamia nut farm in Limpopo, South Africa.

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BY JUSTINE HOFHERR Sports Editor

Aunt Margaret’s Antique Mall on East Main Street draws customers of all ages.

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Students peek into past with antiques, rare finds

BY MEGAN SORIA

Fashion Forward Columnist

Quirky collectibles, vintage frocks and eclectic antiques adorn every nook and cranny of Aunt Margaret’s Antique Mall, located on East Main Street near Newark Natural Foods. Owner Margaret Flanagan, who acquires her antiques from auctions, flea markets and estate sales, says she spends a lot of time researching the items she collects.

“I like things that have a story,” Flanagan says. “The older things are, the more likely it is to have a story.”

The building, which served as a church in the mid-1900s and a police station in the 1970s, is an antique itself. Before it became Aunt Margaret’s Antique Mall, the store was called Old Tyme Antiques & Gifts. The name changed in July 2010, when Margaret Flanagan, known to her friends and family as “Aunt Margaret,” acquired the property. Flanagan’s passion for older things is no coincidence— her mother was an antique dealer for more than 30 years.

Barbara Graham, who recently retired from the university as a human resources manager after 35 years, has been an antique dealer at the shop for 15 years. Graham says she likes to collect anything she finds interesting, from Coal Mine scrip—a form of currency used exclusively in coal mining towns—to a set of china, currently displayed on her top shelf.

“A couple of years ago, I went on vacation to Chicago, and that’s the same china sitting on Abe Lincoln’s house he owned in Illinois,” Graham says.

She says students and other members of the university community—including former university president David Roselle’s wife—are frequent

customers at the Antique Mall.

Deborah Andrews, an English and material culture studies professor at the university, says she is amazed how many of her students collect antiques. She says they often accrue items such as dolls, buttons, trade cards and guns.

“It seems to me there’s a thriving interest in young people for antiques,” Andrews says. “It’s the whole sense of the past, and how these objects bring the past forward.”

Senior Mollie Armstrong discovered a collection of trade cards, passed down to her father, while writing a paper for Andrews’s material culture seminar. The trade cards immediately captured Armstrong’s attention because of the vibrant colors and pigments that have held up over the years.

“The cards display very interesting images because they were primarily used to sell different goods, products and services,” Armstrong says. “I guess you could say they are the predecessor of the business card.”

Armstrong says her father’s side of the family has lived in Delaware for generations. The collection of trade cards, which were compiled in the mid-1890s, originally belonged to her great grandfather’s half-sister and was found in her grandmother’s attic.

“We accumulated a lot of family items that have been passed down and shoved into attics,” she says.

History professor Ritchie Garrison, director of the Winterthur Program in American material culture at the university, says he once discovered a Civil War shelter half-tent while helping his uncle clean his attic in Massachusetts.

His great grandfather, George T. Garrison, Second Lieutenant in the Massachusetts black regiment,

carried the tent, manufactured in Wilmington in 1863.

“It’s fascinating in part because there are so few of these that have survived,” Garrison says.

“And as far as we know, this is the only one surviving from the black regiment. There were more than a million of these shelter tents.”

Jon Hays, American deputy chairman of the New York branch of Christie’s—an international auction house founded in 1766— says antiques are the foundation of the American market.

“We Americans are very proud of our history,” Hays says.

“And art history absolutely is a wonderful documentation of that history.”

Hays encourages students interested in the antique industry to intern in New York City. He also says students at the university should visit the Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, which houses objects from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

Garrison says all of his students have some interest in antiques, and while entering the antique business can be difficult, it can also lead to a rewarding career.

“You sort of have to understand the world of antiques as a series of levels or strata,” Garrison says.

“But the general rules are the same as any business—buy low, sell high.”

He says market prices are volatile and unpredictable.

However, 19th-century American furniture can be less expensive than secondhand furniture in a retail market—antique drawers made in the 1800s can sell for $600, he says.

“If you’re discriminating, you can do better in the antique market than you can at the new retail market,” Garrison says. “But most people want to buy Ikea.”

Since the “I Will Always Love You” songstress was found dead last Saturday afternoon in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room, Whitney Houston’s music sales have skyrocketed, providing one more example of the so-called “death effect” in the past few decades.

The term refers to the temporary spike in sales and popularity of a celebrity following his or her death. The week after her passing, Houston’s music generated nearly $100 million in sales, including $887,000 in individual song downloads and $101,000 in albums, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the official system for tracking music sales. The week before her death, Houston sold 1,700 albums and 15,000 songs in the United States.

Other examples of posthumous popularity include the deaths of Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson, whose music sales increased after reports of their deaths made international news.

Mass communication professor Juliet Dee says she thinks the “media blitz” immediately following a celebrity’s death causes fans to experience a sense of urgency to purchase songs and films from their favorite artists, knowing he or she won’t release new material.

“My husband did the same thing,” Dee says. “He went straight to Borders and bought the entire collection of Michael Jackson CDs.” Jackson’s controversial death in June 2009 caused widespread pandemonium among fans as he set a record for album sales with a 40fold increase. With the release of his film “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” in October of that year, the King of Pop was crowned the top-selling artist of the year with more than 8.3 million albums sold.

Dee says she thinks the public is more forgiving of celebrities’ drug abuse posthumously because their demise is seen as the result of a “terrible weakness or vulnerability.”

Both Winehouse and Jackson led lives under intense spotlights and were subject to much criticism.

Jackson faced charges of child molestation and spent time in a rehabilitation center for a painkiller addiction in 1993. The cause of his death was due in part to a potent sedative called propofol.

Winehouse was admitted to rehabilitation centers in 2005 and 2008 for heavy drinking, drug abuse and eating disorder problems.

In the week following Winehouse’s death in July 2011, her second album “Back to Black” sold 37,000 copies, compared to 1,000 copies sold the week before.

Although the cause of Houston’s death has not yet been released, she was known for her history of drug and alcohol addiction.

Junior Matt Devlin says it’s unfortunate that late celebrities are often remembered more for their personal problems than their careers.

“I still think the art that the celebrities contributed to society should be celebrated more than the choices they made,” Devlin says. “Their legacy will always be shadowed with the dark spots of their careers, but it doesn’t define them.”

Tributes to late musicians by other celebrities also spark controversy in the weeks following the death of a star. While junior Michael Olaya watched the 2012 Grammy Awards, he says he could not kick the nagging feeling that the celebrities “paying tribute” to Whitney Houston’s life were using her fame to promote themselves.

“Maybe they were paying their respects, but at the same time, I’m sure it wasn’t their only incentive,” Olaya says. “Business is business and the most important thing for them is making money.”

Singer Jennifer Hudson performed Houston’s single “I Will Always Love You” at the Grammys this year in honor of the icon who had passed away a day before. The broadcast was the second mostwatched Grammy broadcast of all time.

Junior Janeen Malin says Hudson’s tribute to Houston lacked meaning and excitement because the media had already bombarded the public with news of the latter’s death.

“I can honestly say I didn’t pay that much attention when Jennifer Hudson sang that song,” Malin says.

“I kind of tuned it out.”

She says she was never a huge fan of Houston’s work, but noticed that some of her friends appeared to be re-interested in some of her popular hits, singing them “nonstop” as they went out on the Saturday night of Houston’s death.

“Celebrities are always glorified and even more so when they die,” Malin says. “Fans buy up their work as a tribute and to see what they were missing out on.”

While psychology professor Richard Hass acknowledged that marketing contributes to the sudden rise in popularity of a deceased musician, he says much of the increase in music sales could be attributed to the positive memories fans associate with certain songs.

“I remember [Houston’s] songs as a little kid,” Hass says. “The recent death makes you realize the impact is really clear after all those years.”

He says the phenomenon of fans rushing out to buy every album of late musicians such as Jackson and Houston could be seen as a type of cultural ritual.

“Perhaps the behavior of going and finding their music again is your own personal eulogy—how you would remember a friend,” Hass says.

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sights & sounds

“This Means War” 20th Century Fox PP (out of PPPPP) It’s spy against spy and friend against friend in this cheesy romantic comedy. “This Means War” chronicles the fight between FDR Foster (Chris Pine) and his best friend and fellow CIA agent, Tuck Henson (Tom Hardy), as they battle for the affection of a product testing executive named Lauren Scott (Reese Witherspoon) in unconventional ways.

“This Means War” manages to appeal to fans of action, comedy and romance. The movie opens with a high-octane action scene, introducing Henson and Foster as CIA agents.

They are soon assigned to desk work as punishment for their tactics in the field, giving them the time and energy to woo Scott.

Both agents use high-tech gadgets and gizmos to monitor their competitor’s progress and gain insight on how to win Scott’s heart.

The movie suffers from a weak script, but the attractive cast soothes

the eyes. Pine and Hardy flaunt their muscles on multiple occasions, and Witherspoon strips down during a steamy scene with Pine.

Comedian Chelsea Handler also makes an appearance as Scott’s best friend, bringing her trademark sarcasm and copious references to her inappropriate drinking habits to the film.

Henson and Foster’s fight for Scott is the kind of cute, fun, romantic attention every girl dreams

OFF THE

RECORD What Grammy Awards?

Ethan Barr I may be a little late on this, but after I crawled out from under my proverbial rock the other weekend, I realized there had been some sort of awards show on television.

All sarcasm aside, the 54th annual Grammy Awards were held last Sunday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The ceremony became the second-highest rated Grammy Awards ceremony of all time. Based on that information, viewers should have been in for a treat. But in my opinion, it was as mediocre as I expected it to be.

of, and girls will love living vicariously through her adventures with these two gorgeous spies. A high-speed car chase, multiple shoot-outs and several wild fight scenes keep the movie fast-paced and exciting, and witty comments keep the comedy floating—making “This Means War” a date movie that won’t pit girlfriend against boyfriend.

—Christina Monastero, cmonaste@udel.edu

Courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Save for the last-minute Whitney Houston tributes, the program was no different than any Grammy Awards I’ve watched before.

I’ve been a music junkie since birth, so naturally I loved the Grammy Awards when I was younger. Glued to the screen, I would pray to the high heavens that the White Stripes would triumph over Green Day or Maroon 5—yes, I was a 14-yearold hipster. Unfortunately though, the Grammys this year was just another mundane production full of world-renowned artists trying to collaborate in front of affluent bigwigs and other celebrities.

I found the performances this year especially odd. There’s something about Chris Brown, Foo Fighters, Lil Wayne and Deadmau5 on the same stage that irks me. Blending R&B with hiphop or rock with electronica can be brilliant, but all four of these genres mixed together creates an annoying hodgepodge of sound.

However, the show may have been saved by its individual performances—Bruno Mars blew me away with a funky rendition of

“Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” Columbia Pictures PPP (out of PPPPP) Despite the underwhelming critical response for the original “Ghost Rider,” the special effects-driven sequel, “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,” takes a very different direction and easily surpasses the first movie.

Moviegoers who have not seen “Ghost Rider” need not worry—the sequel opens with a recap of Johnny Blaze’s (Nicolas Cage) original deal with the devil. Blaze’s Faustian bargain transforms him into a flaming, skeletal being when in the presence of evil. The story picks up with bounty hunter Blaze hiding out in Eastern Europe hoping to control or, better yet, rid himself of his inner demons.

A French monk named Moreau (Idris Elba) manages to uncover Blaze’s location and asks him to use his Ghost Rider alter ego to find Danny (Fergus Riordan), a young boy on the run with his mother Nadya (Violante Placido.) Blaze soon learns that Nadya has also made a deal with the devil, and in doing so, gave birth to

his single “Runaway Baby.”

The fact that Lil Wayne even received Grammy nods in the first place bothers me to no end.

It seems ludicrous that a guy who repeats second-rate metaphors and uncreative rhymes over beats that require no talent can be nominated for five categories.

For the most part, though, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, which judges the Grammys, got everything right. Skrillex is one of the most prominent and talented dubstep artists in recent history, and he received three Grammys for his work. Kanye West recorded arguably the greatest rap album of the year with “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” and went home with four awards. The Foo Fighters acquired five new mini gramophones after releasing “Wasting Light,” one of the harder-rocking albums of 2011.

All in all, the best men won.

There was also one woman who went home a champion—Adele, who tied Beyoncé’s record for the most awards by a female artist in one night. Her fusion of blues vocals and powerful lyrics, backed

the spawn of Satan. Hoping to prevent the devil from entering Danny’s body and having the ability to walk on Earth, Blaze must find the boy and protect him from the devil’s grasp.

It’s clear that the directorial focus was on the action scenes—for the sake of the movie’s 3D effects— rather than on the storyline itself. However, viewers cannot deny the remarkable special effects and some of the best 3D footage shown in theatres since James Cameron’s “Avatar.” The computer-generated image of Ghost Rider’s flaming skull surpasses the effects used in the first movie by far. The action sequences, while admittedly drawn out at times, are skillfully filmed

and are an action movie fan’s dream come true. While the acting is certainly not the greatest or the dialogue the most original, Cage’s performance is certainly worth a watch, and the cliché lines are still amusing.

While “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” will not appeal to everyone, most fanboys will praise the on-screen adaptation of the comic. However, this movie is not for comic book fans alone—any moviegoer in search of quality special effects will surely enjoy this film. Don’t wait for this movie to come to DVD—the 3D experience is worth the ticket price.

—Kelly Flynn, kelflynn@udel.edu

Courtesy of Columbia Pictures

by undeniably catchy tracks, took the world by storm this year. The Allman Brothers, Diana Ross and a host of other skilled musicians also received recognition with Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Despite these successes, the entire production seemed tightly scheduled with no room for improvisation. Award ceremonies typically run this way, but the lack of spontaneity put a damper on the event. Music should be enjoyed in its full creative, extemporaneous nature, but the Grammys are stuffed with nothing but schmaltzy covers and pop garbage. Americans seem to live for award shows and base every musician, writer and artist on their achievements at these uninspired, monotonous events.

Despite the dull atmosphere and strange performances, however, the winners merited their awards and the country enjoyed the show—as usual.

—Ethan Barr, ebarr@udel.edu

February 21, 2012

Day Trippin’: Deciphering With Krista Connor

Author Robert Louis Stevenson was onto something when he wrote that he traveled simply for the sake of going somewhere, and that the point was to keep moving.

I certainly didn’t feel mobile this weekend, considering I was stuck inside writing poems, short stories and papers for my classes. I decided a trip outdoors might break my writer’s block, so I grabbed my camera and headed off with my sister and our friend Milena to Fort DuPont State Park.

The park is approximately 25 minutes from campus, located just outside the historic town of Delaware City. The town, founded in 1826, is quaint enough with its old homes, cobblestone streets and panoramic view of Civil War-era Fort Delaware across the Delaware River. But we bypassed it and pulled into the park, which isn’t quite the hiking trail and picnic area that people might expect.

This 350-acre park’s history stretches back to 1863. It has weathered three major wars as a coastal defense area and training post for soldiers. Even more surprising, it served as a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. Originally a fort, the United States Army used it as a base during the Civil War. The fort was utilized until World War II when it was purchased by the state of Delaware and eventually turned into a state park. What adds to its intrigue are the many buildings still in use—for

what mysterious purposes, I have no idea. It’s a modern community in the midst of abandoned symbols of the past.

As we walked around the boarded-up buildings, I could picture a century’s worth of wartime activity—young men marching briskly in their prim uniforms to report to officers; others perched silently along the jagged shoreline, writing letters to lovers; the nowabandoned movie theater booming with laughter and activity while the barracks filled with cigar smoke, banter and the flutter of playing cards.

I was pulled back into the 21st century by a golden retriever that bounded over, nearly shoving me into the river. After coaxing the dog, who was named Ginny, toward her friendly owner, we headed down the path into the woods. Reeds stretched far above our heads and the silence was only interrupted by trees creaking like opening doors. I was no longer in Delaware—I had stumbled onto the set of “Lost.”

We soon discovered an old cement building nestled between overgrowth and moss. Maybe I’m slightly paranoid these days, thanks to a class I’m taking about zombies, but this desolate building in the middle of the forest seemed a likely setting for an attack of the living dead. Thankfully, we emerged safely from our woodland stroll.

I discovered a crumbling stairway that led up a tree-lined

the mystery of Fort DuPont

hill. To the left was an old building that said “Emergency power generator area” across the top, with the door slightly ajar. Torn between pushing through the briars to open the door and risking a broken limb to climb the steps, I decided that both options were a bad idea and wandered back along the pathway.

As I photographed a bunker, I noticed a family with children leaving their nearby house and getting into a vehicle. I chastised myself for coming up with those zombie, “Lost” and ghost theories.

This was simply a beautiful, peaceful old park frequented by regular people. I made eye contact with the father and was about to give him a friendly smile when he abruptly turned around and said to someone in the house, “Close the curtains.”

While I suppose I’ll never get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding Fort DuPont State Park, it’s still an ideal place to take a walk or hang out with friends. I was rejuvenated by our springtime-like adventure and headed back home to my plethora of homework. But I still can’t help but feel fascinated when I think about the secrets tucked away in locked-up bunkers or peering out of dusty windows.

—Krista Connor, kristamc@udel.edu

music video and remind me of an artsy Levi’s commercial.

To me, Rihanna’s video best showcases the beauty of authentic street style. She carried the laid-back, sexy tomboy feel to her world tour as well as to her performance at the Grammys, rocking leather hot pants and a sheer cropped top during her performance of “We Found Love.” She looked stylish throughout her upbeat performance and effortlessly transitioned to a calmer act with alternative-rock band Coldplay.

The members of Coldplay donned their distinct blasé attire along with glowing neon graffiti splattered on the set and their clothes during their performance. The Revolutionary patriots promoted their last album “Viva la Vida” in 19th century-inspired military jackets—and for their latest album, “Mylo Xyloto,” the band wore clothing with a modern, urban edge and a bold color palette. The music video for “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall” is a beautiful and vivid representation of their style. When the video was first released last June, critics from Rolling Stone and The New York Post praised it for its vibrant visuals.

The most celebrated singer of the year would have to be 23-year-old Brit Adele, whose soulful songs about love and loss captured hearts all over the world. It’s safe to say the most memorable moment of the Grammys was her breathtaking performance of “Song of the Year” winner “Rolling

Courtesy of Krista Connor

Krista Connor surveys the landscape across the Delaware River.

Fashion Forward: Style inspired by sound It’s been an incredible year in music, especially for major music artists in pop culture.

We’re in an era with no limitations, and musicians are making Megan Soria bold moves in presenting their personal styles. In the evolutionary world of fashion, artists seem to draw their style inspirations from the past and turn them into their own. Whether it’s the work of a soulful singer-songwriter, an epic band of Brits or a Barbadian recording artist, every album has a look that captures the artist’s personality and sound. Live performances in particular serve as evidence of the fascinating relationship between music and fashion—and the 54th Grammy Awards last week highlighted the most epic anthems of the year.

We’ve all heard Rihanna’s single “We Found Love” on constant repeat everywhere we go—it’s almost exhausting, but not quite. The catchy dance-pop song never seems to get old, and the fashion that accompanies it doesn’t either. Rihanna’s ’90s grungeinspired look was conceptualized by fashion stylist Mel Ottenberg. Shots of Levi’s 501 cut-offs, ripped tights and Doc Martens galore dominate the

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in the Deep.” Dressed in a lovely polka-dot dress by Clements Ribeiro, the songstress expressed her style by forgoing flashy gimmicks—à la Katy Perry’s space-age outfit and Nicki Minaj’s exorcism-themed performance—and focusing solely on her voice.

But don’t make the mistake of confusing her dark muted tones and clean lines as dull and unimaginative taste. She channels the elegance of the ’60s with classic cuts and sophisticated pieces that are the epitome of chic.

Her music video for “Rolling in the Deep” is a phenomenal work of art that renders mystery and passion. In the video, Adele wears a black sequined dress with her hair pulled back in an embellished headband to show off her pretty face. Her sophisticated look keeps her audience enamored with her vocal chords and less distracted by ornate clothes or dramatic visual sets.

While artists like Adele can produce epic songs conveying powerful and deep emotions, what musicians wear is just as important as what they sing. Fashion is a wonderful tool to turn the abstract into something concrete. It can be used as a visual representation of what is felt but can’t be touched— whether it accompanies an electro-pop single of destruction, an anthem of hope or a soulful ballad of heartbreak.

—Megan Soria, megsoria@udel.edu

DID YOU KNOW? Did you know that Henry Heimlich, the physician credited with the creation of the Heimlich maneuver, was born in Wilmington?

It’s on the airplane safety manuals on airplanes, it can’t be avoided in a CPR certification class—who knew the idea of abdominal thrusts to save a life originated approximately 15 miles from campus? Henry Heimlich, credited with the creation of the Heimlich maneuver, was born Feb. 3, 1920 in Wilmington to Philip and Mary Heimlich. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1941and his Ph.D. from Cornell Medical College in 1943.

Besides the famed maneuver developed to save choking victims, Heimlich is known for other medical innovations. He began his medical career with the U.S. Navy in China in 1945 during World War II. After training in general and chest surgery in the 1950s, Heimlich piloted the first operation of an esophageal replacement—the first total organ replacement in history. Witnessing the death of a Chinese soldier who had been shot in the chest prompted Heimlich to create something to drain the blood and air from the chest of a patient—hence the invention of the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve in 1963.

During the Vietnam War, thousands of American and Vietnamese soldiers were saved by Heimlich valves.

In 1974, Heimlich’s suggestion to rescue choking victims by standing behind the victim and thrusting one’s fists into his or her abdomen to dislodge the object was published in the journal Emergency Medicine. The following week, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper reported that a retired restaurant owner had used the maneuver on a choking victim and saved his life.

From 1976 on, the maneuver was widely accepted as the recommended procedure to help choking victims, and variations of the maneuver, also called “abdominal thrusts,” are still recommended today.

Heimlich met considerable criticism for his advocacy of malariotherapy, which involves injecting AIDS patients with malaria-infected blood to induce fever temperatures high enough to kill the HIV virus.

Despite the controversy, Heimlich received several awards for his achievements, including the American Academy of Achievement Award in 1985 and induction into the Safety and Health Hall of Fame in 1993. Heimlich is currently 92 years old.

—Anne Ulizio, aulizio@udel.edu

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Students bond across borders on study abroad trips

BY JESSICA KAMENS Staff Reporter

THE REVIEW/Amelia Wang

Comic books with classic characters draw in customers at Captain Blue Hen Comics on Main Street.

Female superheroes play second fiddle in comic book adaptations

BY ALEXANDRA COSTA Copy Editor

According to Beyonce’s hit 2011 song, girls run the world, but can they save it from impending doom?

This summer’s list of superhero movies includes favorites like “Batman” and “Spiderman,” but it seems very few heroines will be fighting off bad guys on the big screen this year.

Film and women’s studies professor Peter Feng says there are many obstacles preventing quality female superhero movies from being appearing on the silver screen.

“The first hurdle is that Hollywood thinks that a movie won’t do well, and, whether that’s true or not, it affects the way that those movies are made,” Feng says.

Sociology professor Antonia Randolph says male superheroes tend to be more popular than female superheroes because of the way American society interprets heroism.

“Comic books and superhero movies have fit gender ideas of who would be a hero,” Randolph says.

“When we think of heroism, we don’t think about mothers who are sacrificing to help their kids.”

The masculine traits of strength, action and bravery set up male heroes to be the model for children, especially young boys, according to women’s studies professor Suzanne Cherrin.

“Male heroes excel because they protect, defend and save females,” Cherrin stated in an email message.

“This tried and true storyline may be experiencing change, but it is still the predominant one.”

Female superheroes are often depicted in stereotypical gender roles, she says.

“It seems that female heroes have to be sexy and the powers they have constitute part of their femininity and sexuality,” Cherrin says.

Feng says Hollywood often

surprises itself when it discovers that movies starring women achieve popularity. The success of Judd Apatow’s female-driven comedy “Bridesmaids” is one of last year’s prime examples.

“You see Hollywood learn this lesson over and over and over again, which tells you at a certain level they don’t believe it,” he says. “They write it off as an exception.”

Feng says many movie and TV adaptations of comics with female superheroes—such as 2004’s “Catwoman” and the cancelled 2011 “Wonder Woman” television series—generally do not do well with audiences, especially compared to productions involving their male counterparts.

Feng believes the lack of success these productions receive has more to do with their production than with the female superheroes themselves.

“I think that the ‘Wonder Woman’ series and the ‘Catwoman’ movie did badly because they were bad,” he says. “If they had been good, people would have watched them.”

Wonder Woman will be starring in one film this year, although it’s not the Hollywood blockbuster audiences might be expecting. An indie documentary titled “Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines” is currently in production with Vaquera Films. The film addresses how female heroes reflect society’s view of women and the cultural impact that these characters make.

Although Randolph does not see gender equality for superheroes surfacing any time soon, she says movies like “Haywire,” an action movie starring mixed-martial arts fighter Gina Carano, indicate ideas about femininity and womanhood have been shifting.

“As women enter more male arenas, it’s easier to imagine women being heroic and saving the day,” Randolph says.

Senior film major Albert Kelly says while at first female superheroes were flat characters created primarily to gain more female superhero fans, recent comics like “Jinx” by Brian Michael Bendis, have more believable, well-rounded leading ladies.

“The characters used to be forced for a female audience, so they wouldn’t be that good,” Kelly says. “ But recent comic books with female protagonists are getting more realistic and gritty.”

He thinks superhero movies with ensemble casts featuring both male and female superheroes, like the “X-Men” series, are gaining popularity because they feature protagonists for every target audience.

Such an ensemble can be seen in the cast of “The Avengers,” which is set for a May release. In the film, written and directed by Joss Whedon, actress Scarlett Johansson plays Black Widow, a highly trained spy who fights alongside Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America, Thor and Hawkeye. Black Widow is the only female hero in the film and does not possess any superpowers.

Whedon, who is best known as the creator of the television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” became involved with “The Avengers” after a failed attempt at making a Wonder Woman movie with Warner Brothers. “[Whedon’s] a fan of comic books, and he is also a fan of characters that make sense,” Feng says. “He talked about reimagining the character in a really interesting way.”

Cherrin says the long-standing gender constructions of male dominance and female dependency make change difficult, but not impossible.

“What comes first, gender change or media change?” Cherrin says. “I actually think it works both ways.”

Before they traveled to Paris on a fashion department study abroad trip this January, juniors Hillary Tattersall and McKenna Scelp had never met. But less than two months after they returned home, they were each other’s valentines.

More than 70 study abroad programs at the university take students to countries around the world each year. Due to the unusual circumstances in which they form, many students say their friendships abroad develop at an accelerated pace and are different from those they make at the university.

Scelp says prior to the trip, she and Tattersall became Facebook friends and messaged about what to pack. Tattersall says by the time they met at the airport, they didn’t feel like strangers.

“At the airport when we met for the first time, it was weird,” Tattersall says. “It was like we already knew each other.”

Senior Ali Accumanno made new friends on her English and linguistics trip to Italy last January, but she also reconnected with an old friend. When she learned her friend from freshman year, senior Briana Milavec, was on the trip as well, the two decided to be roommates. Although they had lost touch since freshman year, while in Italy, she says they both became part of a close group of nine girls.

“Because of study abroad, Briana and I came away with a new friendship that we never realized we were missing out on,” Accumanno says.

Junior Jen Harmon studied in Paris last fall on a French language program for French majors and minors. Harmon says when she missed home, she liked that she could call on other students on her trip who were experiencing the same thing and confide in them. She says she and her fellow classmates in Paris also shared the desire to travel.

“It was kind of like, ‘I want to go to Italy, who else wants to come?’” Harmon says.

Senior Carolynn Ashoff studied abroad once in London on a theater and English trip in January 2011 and again on an English trip to India this January. Ashoff says on each trip, she formed relationships in different ways. In London, she had more freedom and she and her classmates bonded by making travel plans, booking hotels, flights and tourist outings.

Ashoff says since London is a metropolitan area, transitioning to life there was not difficult.

Since India is a developing nation, however, she experienced culture shock. She says she and her fellow classmates didn’t know the language or what foods they liked, and the group of 19 students immediately became close.

“I feel like we leaned on each other a lot more for support than I would have here at school,” Ashoff says.

Accumanno says since studying abroad is such a rare opportunity, students are eager to make friends with whom they can share the adventure.

“You don’t want to miss out on the experience,” she says.

Courtesy of Carolynn Ashoff

Students on this winter’s study abroad trip to India forged lasting friendships.

February 21, 2012

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Exhibit blurs line between reality, representation

BY BO BARTLEY Staff Reporter

A flowery landscape is nothing new to the art world. A flour landscape is another story.

Sculpture professor David Meyer takes commonplace items and turns them into art in his show “Distorted,” which was shown Jan. 6 to Feb. 17 at the Greater Reston Art Center in Reston, Va. Meyer’s says his work for this collection—including the piece “Plain Sight,” in which Meyer formed flour into small hills—was inspired by the relationship between images and reality.

“I was observing things that we’re told to be true and start to believe in when they’re not,” Meyer says.

“They’re just images. They’re nothing close to the reality of being there. That kind of abstraction interested me— thinking about things we put a lot of faith in, yet we really don’t know what we’re looking at.”

Along with “Plain Sight,” Meyer’s showcase includes three hole-punched synthetic fabrics called “Misnomer” and “Hallucinations,” and the standing piece “Air into breath, 3,” made of black ribbon draped around an aluminum structure.

Meyer’s fabric-based “Misnomer” series and “Hallucinations” piece consist of several sheets, approximately the size of tablecloths, punched with holes attached to the studio’s walls.

The blue background and positioned spotlight play with shadows to create an image.

“Plain Sight” takes a topographical

approach to the classic landscape.

Meyer prepared the piece on site in Reston using a custom sieve attached to a stilted wooden structure. He worked the flour through to the piece’s stand a foot below, causing a “cone effect.”

Harrison says the flour is loosely compacted and attendees have been surprised to see the powder disperse when they sneeze.

Meyer says this is not the first time he has worked with flour in one of his shows.

“Flour for me is something that everyone seems to have a personal connection with in some way—some kind of personal memory associated with it,” he says. “Because of that, there’s some connection to the material itself.”

Meyer says the “Misnomer” series contains a self-referential aspect many don’t consider. The titles of the pieces are specific, such as “Big Foot,” and once people see the title they expect it to have something to do with the subject. However, Meyer explains that the audience is tricking themselves into looking for something that is actually not present in the image.

Meyer says he has been ruminating on the themes expressed in “Distorted” for at least a decade. He says he plays around with the concepts in his head and allows them to take form naturally.

“I collect ideas,” Meyer says.

“I don’t know exactly how they all go together. I start building up this information, waiting for that moment when it makes sense. I really don’t like forcing things.”

Gallery manager Erica Harrison

says the center was excited to include Meyer’s show in its winter exhibition.

While the show doesn’t have a set theme, Harrison says the three included artists take a similar approach to their work.

“Usually we have the artists sort of separated into their independent galleries,” Harrison says. “In this particular exhibition, because of the common nature of the materials that the artists used, as well as their laborintensive process, all three of the artists actually have more in common than usual. They flow together.”

She says the gallery uses work like Meyer’s to educate visitors about conceptual art.

“It’s not representational,” Harrison says. “You don’t get to know the answer right away, and you don’t get to know what the artist is thinking.

It’s really about the narrative that you bring.”

University graduate student Joey Grimm, who works closely with Meyer, says the professor’s work is some of the most precise he has seen.

“It’s clean, very tight, wellconsidered,” Grimm says. “There’s always a subtextual image that echoes about the work itself. It’s done using simple materials that creates a pristine quality you rarely see in modern art.”

Harrison says Meyer’s work has helped to dispel some misconceptions about art through his use of everyday supplies.

“It helps to demystify that art doesn’t have to be made from precious objects or materials,” she says. “It can be something as simple as flour.”

Courtesy of The Fairfax Times

Professor David Meyer created a landscape of flour hills for ‘Plain Sight.’

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Seven days of Main Street treats In my r o m a n t i c mind, Main Street is the quintessential core of a college town, accented with drunken shouts and quiet conversations, Rachel Nass coffee shops and thrift stores, throngs of students and young families. Presumably drawing on criteria more concrete than mine, the National Trust for Historic Preservation honored Newark’s Main Street with the 2011 Great American Main Street Award.

The variety and quality of Main Street’s food options—criteria I pay close attention to—lends tangible, savory credit to such an honor.

The quantity of delicious Main Street meals is surprising.

As most of us lack the wallets and the expandable skinny jeans to accommodate a more thorough investigation into each eatery’s offerings, I will try to condense the best Main Street food and drink into one manageable and mouth-watering week. Enjoy, and remember that piles of overflowing credit card statements make the best coasters.

Monday morning – Brew Ha Ha! Espresso & Newsstand The uncommonly friendly service and buzzing, yet not overwhelming atmosphere makes Brew Ha Ha! a perfect choice for a cranky Monday morning. Offset lost sleep with the classic Brew Ha Ha! Latte, consisting of latte, mocha, raspberry syrup and what separates Brew Ha

Ha! from its competitors—freshly whipped cream. A milder coffee taste makes the latte friendly to noncoffee drinkers. If you’re hungry, I highly recommend any of Brew Ha Ha!’s pastries or scones.

Tuesday lunch with Aunt Susan – Home Grown Café I don’t have an Aunt Susan, but if I did I would have her take me to lunch at Home Grown Café, which boasts an understatedly cool décor and a sustainable, locally-sourced menu. Get the grilled cheese, a combination of melted cheddar jack, parmesan, provolone, feta, tomato and pesto, and treat yourself to a root beer.

Sunday morning recovery Newark Deli & Bagels

Friday afternoon – Central Perk

There are several reasons—which I won’t go into here—why your delicate Sunday morning physiology might call for greasy food and HyPoint chocolate milk. NDB is one of my favorite places to find both. Get a hot bacon, egg and cheese on an everything bagel and feel the round, warm tin foil parcel changing your life, or at least assuaging that nasty hangover.

Friday night dinner with friends – Margherita’s Pizza or Peace a Pizza Margherita’s: This New York-style pizza is all about the cheese and crust, so don’t complicate things with toppings. Stick to plain or

Fat Tuesday Party Klondike Kate’s Tuesday, Feb. 21, 10 p.m.

Lower Case Blues

Saturday date night – Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant

Get anything at this food cart outside National 5&10. You can’t go wrong.

Ask for a peanut butter, banana and strawberry milkshake. It’s been a long week, and you deserve it, kiddo.

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 9 p.m.

When you want filling post-party fare that’s satisfying, decidedly American and not D.P. Dough, Main Street Sliders greets you with open, onion ring-toting arms. Welcome the embrace by ordering the Philly steak, pulled pork and chicken parmesan sliders.

Thursday lunch – Benny’s Hot Dog Stand

Try out the Kahlua mocha and/or the sparkling lemonade cupcake. Sit inside on one of those cute chairs to chat, obviously.

Kildare’s Irish Pub

Friday night post-party - Main Street Sliders

Although all of the dates I’ve had at Iron Hill have been with my mom, it’s not hard to appreciate the romance in its cuisine and atmosphere. I recommend the blue crab quesadilla appetizer followed by pan-seared sea scallops. For dessert, indulge in the Double Chocolate Hill chocolate cake with a peanut butter center, chocolate ganache and vanilla ice cream.

Wednesday night after-dinner treat with a friend – SAS Cupcakes

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Peace A Pizza: You’ll miss 100 percent of the Mac n’ Cheese pizzas that you never eat. Devour it.

Mojo Main Friday, Feb. 24, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Cougar Crossing Deer Park Tavern Saturday, Feb. 25, 10 p.m.

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Hopapalooza Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant Saturday, Feb. 25, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Love Seed Unplugged Catherine Rooney’s Sunday, Feb. 26, 9 p.m.

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Elena Delle Donne has scored more points in her career than any man or woman in the school’s history.

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BY DAN MOBERGER Managing Sports Editor

PHILADELPHIA – Everyone in the gym knew where the ball was going. Delaware was down by one with the clock approaching zero, and without hesitation, head coach Tina Martin drew up an inbounds play to give Elena Delle Donne the ball with a chance to win the game.

Delle Donne caught the ball in the middle of the court just outside the three-point line, was hounded by multiple defenders immediately and made her move to the right wing. She picked up her dribble, took a step through the doubleteam, released the leaning shot and watched it fall through the nylon with two seconds left to play.

Drexel’s attempt at its own last-second magic came up short, giving the Hens (25-1, 15-0 CAA) the 40-39 victory and the CAA regular season crown.

“I don’t care if she goes 0-13, 0-14—I’m putting the ball in her hands at the end of the game and

she’s going to make the decision,” Martin said of Delle Donne. “She’s too good of a player not to give her the opportunity to win ballgames.”

Delle Donne’s game-winning shot gave her 12 points—not a bad day for most players. But for Delle Donne, it was a career low and what she described as “one of her worst” games.

“When I couldn’t throw the ball in the ocean, my teammates picked me up,” Delle Donne said. “I really don’t care how much I scored tonight. We won, and that’s all that matters.”

After breaking the 2,000-point mark for her career Thursday against Hofstra, Delle Donne captured another milestone Sunday. Despite the low point total on the afternoon, the 12 points she scored gave her the Delaware record for most career points for anyone out of both the men’s and women’s programs.

Fellow junior Danielle Parker tied Delle Donne’s 12 points to

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Elena Delle Donne takes a free throw Saturday afternoon as the Drexel students heckle her in the background.

Delaware men push winning streak to six

BY PAT GILLESPIE Senior Reporter

THE REVIEW/Megan Krol

Head coach Monté Ross draws up a play as his Delaware team looks on. The Hens have won six straight.

The Hens continued this month’s winning ways on Saturday, routing Hampton in a non-conference, Sears BracketBusters match-up, 68-64, at the Bob Carpenter Center.

The win was Delaware’s sixth consecutive victory, a feat the team has not accomplished in almost a decade. The Hens (1512, 10-6 CAA) also guaranteed a winning record for the regular season. Delaware last held a .500 record in the 2003-04 season.

Although head coach Monté Ross has aspirations beyond a winning record, he acknowledged it was a step in the right direction for a program that finished 7-24 two years ago.

“I’ll take it. Absolutely, I’ll take it,” Ross said of the winning record. “I’m not going to be one of those guys that says ‘Ah well, it’s OK.’ Nah, it’s good. It’s good.

We need to be on that up-tick and we are.”

Delaware owned the lead for most of the game until Hampton rallied to reclaim a one-point margin. At the six-minute mark, sophomore guard Devon Saddler, who led the Hens with 26 points, nailed a jumper to put Delaware back on top for good.

Saddler also solidified Delaware’s victory by hitting two free throws with eight seconds remaining and the Pirates threatening a last-minute comeback.

“I think I’m the leader of the team, so I try to just keep myself calm and just knock the shots down for my team to win the game,” Saddler said. “Coach said this is an important month, so I’m just trying to keep the freshmen motivated and keep everybody just going.”

Freshman point guard Jarvis

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chickenscratch weeklycalendar

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Tuesday, Feb. 21 Men’s Lacrosse at John’s Hopkins 5 p.m.

Wednesday to Saturday Men’s and Women’s Swimming at CAA Championships Wednesday, Feb. 22 Women’s Lacrosse at Villanova 4 p.m.

Men’s Basketball at Towson 7 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 23 Women’s Basketball vs. George Mason 7 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday Softball at Norfolk State Tournament Saturday, Feb. 24 Men’s Lacrosse vs. Mt. St. Mary’s 12 p.m.

Men’s Basketball vs. Northeastern 12 p.m.

Women’s Lacrosse vs. Lehigh 3 p.m.

Men’s Tennis vs. Saint Joseph’s 7 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 25 Women’s Basketball vs. Northeastern 2 p.m.

henpeckings Baseball: The Hens opened their season at Houston and were swept by the Cougars. The first two games were a doubleheader on Saturday after Friday’s matchup was rained out. Delaware lost the first game 7-5 before being blown out in the second game of the twinbill 16-1.

Houston finished off the series sweep with a 9-2 victory over the Hens on Sunday. DJ Long and Nick Ferdinand led the Hens at the batters box, each batting .364 for the three-game series. EJ Stoltzfus lead the squad with three RBIs. Women’s Indoor Track and Field: Latoya James and Nijah Dupiche each won two events for the Hens at the Princeton Invitational this past weekend.

James won the long jump with a leap of 18-feet, 3-inches and bested the field in the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 8.55.

Dupiche was victorious in the 200 meter dash with a time of 25.69 and the 400 meters in 25.69. Paige Morris won the triple jump with a personal best distance of 38-7, and freshman Kelsey Evancho won the high jump with a leap of 5-7, breaking the school’s freshman record in the process. Other highlights included Lindsay Prettyman finishing second in the mile with a time of 5:04.41 and a runner -up finish by Alexandra Gervais in the 800 meters with a time of 2:19.66.

Tennis: Both the men and women’s tennis teams swept Morgan State 7-0 Thursday in Bethaney Beach. The women continued their winning ways over the weekend, defeating Saint Joseph’s 4-3 Saturday. The women have won all three dual matches for the spring season. The men are currently 1-3 in the spring and face Saint Joseph’s this coming Saturday.

“LIN”

BY DAN MOBERGER No Lin puns. No racist headlines. Nothing about his background in Taiwan or Harvard education or his failure to be previously noticed as a talent. This is about Jeremy Lin, right now, as a basketball player. In the midst of all the talk off the court, I want to give some analysis to his game on the court.

With a quick look at the stat sheet, the turnovers obviously jump out. He’s averaged 6.1 turnovers per game as a starter. That’s pretty terrible out of a starting point guard, who should be relied upon to take care of the ball, but Lin makes up for it in other ways.

His 9.4 assists per game over his nine games as a starter is a place to begin when looking to make up for those turnovers. That gives him a 2.3 assist to turnover ratio, below assist-god Steve Nash’s, which is almost three, but higher than All-Star-reserve Russell Westbrook’s 1.3 by a significant margin.

Lin makes up for his turnovers on the defensive end as well. His 2.4 steals per game

are better than Westbrook’s 1.9. Lin’s quick hands also allow him to reach in to poke the ball away, yet still avoid a lot of the thoughtless fouls that haunt Westbrook and send him to Oklahoma City’s bench with foul trouble quite often.

You may look at this assessment and say comparing him to Westbrook is just looking at one guy, but Westbrook is widely regarded as one of the best point guards in the game. He’s not quite in the class of Chris Paul, Deron Williams or Derrick Rose, but he’s about on par with Rajon Rondo, and a little above the current, aging Nash. If Lin can be in the same conversation with these guys he’s got some skill. And so the conversation begins—who would you take?

To be honest, I would take both Westbrook and Lin as my starting point guard, but given the choice, I’d actually take Lin. Westbrook and Lin play completely different games.

Westbrook is, first and foremost, an athlete.

He’s going to streak down the court, take off from more than halfway up the lane and throw down an acrobatic dunk. He’s also going to take a lot of shots that he shouldn’t because he tends to get impatient. His field goal percentage isn’t great, but it’s not terrible.

Lin doesn’t have the luxury of being able to cruise past defenders with his speed. He relies on a quick first-step, some shifty moves and what has gone largely unnoticed by those television analysts is how extremely well he uses his body when going to the basket. He finishes with defenders around him, which shows a nice touch around the hoop, but also he shields off shot blockers. He knows what he can and can’t do most of the time, and for two players of the same age, Lin’s mature decisionmaking gives him a more efficient offensive game than Westbrook.

Except for Monday night’s 100-92 loss to the Nets, in the nine games Lin has started for the Knicks, they haven’t allowed 100 points.

Westbrook’s Thunder have allowed 100 or more in five of their last nine games. Heading into this season, if someone tried to convince me the Knicks would hold their opponents to fewer points per game than the Thunder, I’d probably have walked away from the conversation.

It isn’t as though the Knicks have played vastly worse teams—they actually share one opponent over the stretch. The Knicks gave up 85 to Sacramento in a win, while the Thunder allowed 106 in a loss. Of course, this has to do with team defense, matchups, coaching and all the other miniscule details of the game of basketball, not just the way two point guards play.

Overall, the stretch Lin is having is incredible. You might see someone come out of the woodwork once in a while and have a game or two in which some heads get turned, but nine games in a row with impressive performances just doesn’t happen from somebody this off the radar.

Put the popular concern with Lin, his turnovers, into the perspective that he’s still getting used to playing starters minutes and the turnovers will drop. He’s got too big a basketball IQ, and regular IQ for that matter. The New Jersey game may show where he’s headed (he only had three turnovers).

All I’m trying to say is, I like Lin’s game.

I think he’s got a bright future and after people get over the shock that he’s brought to the NBA, I think he’ll continue to perform at a high level.

Dan Moberger is a managing sports editor at The Review. Please send questions, comments and some youthful talent for the Celtics to dmoberge@udel.edu.

underp eview: Delaware vs.

Northeastern

About the teams: About Delaware: The Hens are now 15-12 overall, and are 10-6 in the conference. They are fresh off a 6864 win over Hampton. Devon Saddler leads the team in scoring with 18.6 points per game. Saddler also leads the team in free throws made, with 4.6 free throws a game. Junior forward Jamelle Hagins is second in scoring with 12.9 points per game. Freshmen have also come to the fore, with Khalid Lewis leading the team in assists with 2.8 assists per game.

About Northeastern: The Huskies are 12-15 overall, and are 9-8 in conference competition.

They lost to Stoney Brook in the Sears Bracketbusters competition, 69-76.

Junior guard Jonathan Lee leads the team in scoring with 14.1 points per game. Lee also leads the team in assists, with 3.5 assists per game.

Junior guard Joel Smith is second in scoring with 12.0 points per game.

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The numbers: Why the Hens can win:

3: The number of Northeastern scorers in double digits.

With their last loss to Drexel on January 28th, Delaware comes into this match-up riding a six-game winning streak. Jamelle Hagins is clutch when it comes to rebounding, averaging 11.2 boards a game. Delaware also has less turnovers, with 13.0 turnovers a game, compared to Northeastern’s 15.5. Also, Delaware has a better winning average in conference competition, with a .625 average compared to Northeastern’s .529.

13.0 to 15.5: Delaware’s number of turnovers per game to Northeastern’s

Why the Hens could lose:

The last time these two teams played, Northeastern took the win at home, 62-61, after having pulled off a late rally.

And while Northeastern’s guards are small, their forwards are big, with an average height of 6 feet 8 inches, making them hard to defend when Delaware’s biggest guard, Khalid Lewis, is 6 feet 3 inches. Also, Delaware only has a scoring margin of +0.9 points per game.

5: The number of foulouts Kauri Black has for Northeastern

The prediction: While Northeastern made a late rally to win last time, their loss to Stony Brook, combined with Delaware’s winning streak, shows the Hens have the upper hand in this rematch.

Delaware 68 Northeastern 65 —Jack Cobourn Assistant Sports Editor

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Softball aiming to replicate last year

BY SARAH AMER Staff Reporter

Midfielder Dom Sebastiani (45) is one of Delaware’s five team captains for the 2012 season.

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Men’s lax eyeing three-peat

BY RYAN MARSHALL Sports Copy Editor

Three-hundred wins will not be the only major accomplishment this year if Delaware can reach it third CAA championship in a row.

It will also mark the first time head coach Bob Shillinglaw led the Hens to the NCAA tournament three years in a row.

“We want to three-peat, we want end up winning the CAA title again and return back to the NCAA tournament,” said Shillinglaw.

“And then make it to the Final Four.”

Shillinglaw’s squad lost nine seniors from last season, but said this year’s team has more depth, is healthier and plays more consistently.

“Even the younger guys are pushing the upper classman,” he said.

The high level of play in practice from all 50 players is making the team more consistent in skill, execution and enthusiasm.

Shillinglaw said leadership this offseason has been excellent by senior captains Eric Smith, Dom Sebastiani, Taylor Burns, Carter Bloor and Connor Fitzgerald.

Something the Hens lacked last year was consistency on the offensive end, Shillinglaw said.

The addition of new assistant coach Rob Cross should create more cohesion in the attack. Cross controlled the offense at Division I schools such as Rutgers, Harvard and UMBC. Cross said that he is very excited to join Shillinglaw’s staff and enjoys the family like atmosphere of the administration.

“He has a great personality— the players really like him, very knowledgeable and he does a great job of getting the across the information to the players,” Shillinglaw said of Cross.

The coaching staff will be one of the most experienced Shillinglaw has had at his disposal in recent years. Associate head coach Greg Carroll enters his 13th season as an assistant for Shillinglaw.

“Greg has done a phenomenal job the whole time he’s been here,” Shillinglaw said. “He is a second head coach out there and is great at all aspects of it.”

The No.19 ranked Hens are off to a good start this season winning their first two games. The team won its opener 19-6 vs. Detroit Mercy. A flurry of a 12 goals in the third period broke the tie. The win marked the 300 of Shillinglaw’s career.

“In the third quarter we were really clicking on all six cylinders,” Shillinglaw said.

There was no time to celebrate as Delaware took on No. 12 Bucknell, Saturday. The Hens got off to a faster start against the Bison’s leading 6-2 in the second quarter, but the offense and defense failed in the fourth and the game went into overtime. Carroll said overall the defense played well amid the snowy weather.

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Young squad hoping for success

BY MATT BITTLE Staff Reporter

The women’s lacrosse team’s season got off to a rocky start against Maryland Thursday, losing the contest 21-4. Maryland is ranked second in the nation and was last year’s NCAA Tournament’s runner up.

Delaware is coming off an 8-9 season in which the Hens finished tied for fourth in the CAA, but missed out on the conference tournament due to tiebreakers. The Hens have lost a number of key contributors from last year’s squad, including its top six scorers.

But head coach Kateri Linville, a former Delaware lacrosse standout, believes the team is still poised for success this season. In particular, the Hens have hopes of winning the CAA for the first time since joining the conference before the 2002 season.

They were selected fifth in the CAA Preseason Coaches’ Poll, and Linville is embracing the role of the underdog.

“They show a willingness to want to be the best that they possibly can be,”

Linville said.

The team has a lot of youth; of the 19 players on the roster, there are three juniors and two seniors. However, Linvell does not view this as a negative.

“They bring a lot of energy that the team builds off of,” she said.

She also believes the freshmen and sophomores have a lot of potential because of their athleticism and ability to make big plays.

Despite the underclassmen’s inexperience, Linville expects big things from them.

“The seniors have done a great job of setting them up for success,” she said.

Freshman midfielder Caitlin McCartney has already gotten off to a strong start. The highly regarded recruit, an All-American in high school, scored a hat trick in her collegiate debut against Maryland. Sophomore Chelsea Fay notched the other goal for the Hens.

Team captain and senior defender Gracie Wills believes this year’s team is capable of great things despite its inexperience.

“Being a small team, I think we’re definitely underestimated, and I think

that that’s what we keep in mind every day,” Wills said.

Though the Hens are mostly taking the season one game at a time, Willis pointed out she is looking forward to games against Loyola (ranked seventh in the preseason polls) and Towson.

Last season,the Hens lost 14-13 to Loyola, and 9-8 against Towson in a double overtime heartbreaker.

“Those games stick with me,” Wills said. “When we get out on that field, I’m gonna be ready and I’m gonna have the team ready.”

Five of the teams on the Hens’ 2012 schedule were ranked in the preseason top 20 poll released in early February.

The team isn’t deterred by that, knowing that winning some of those big games against perennial powerhouses will earn them some recognition, as well as the opportunity to be in the running for a national tournament berth.

Delaware’s schedule is ranked as the 24th toughest in the nation.

The Hens’ first home game is tomorrow at 4 p.m. against Villanova, and they begin conference play April 1 at Towson.

The softball team is a young group looking to build on the success of last year, which ended with the squad’s first CAA conference tournament appearance since 2006.

In her first year as head coach, Jamie Wolhbach pushed her team to grab the final spot in the tournament after going 21-34 overall in the regular season and 10-11 during CAA play.

Wolhbach was brought in last season from Iona to instill a sense of tradition in the Delaware program.

She wants to make it the team’s goal to get to the conference tournament each season from now on.

“The biggest thing for me is coming in and teaching them my philosophy, raising the bar, bring them new challenges, new goals, and bringing in the love for the game,” Wohlbach said.

Last season the team was picked seventh of eight teams in the CAA in the preseason polls and surprised everyone with a top-four finish in the conference. The team gained experience from the conference tournament and they know what it takes to get there, Wolhbach said.

“I’d say our goal now is to make it to the conference tournament, but not just settle for that, let’s get to the championship game,” she said.

This season Wolhbach brought in several new recruits, including junior transfers infielder Marissa Newman and pitcher Chenxi Jiao.

Wolhbach has also brought in a number of freshmen, an unusual sight in past years.

“Bringing in new recruits and skill is only going to gel us as a team to play that much better as a unit,” Wolhbach said. “Being able to produce one through nine as well as having players coming off the bench is really great.”

Delaware opened its season last week in a tournament, losing 3-4 against Charlotte, and defeating Presbyterian 2-1.

After the cancellation of their third game due to cold weather, the Hens went on to the Florida Gulf Coast tournament in Fort Myers, this past weekend, playing a total of five games.

The tournament this weekend would help the team get more experience, Wolhbach said. Still evaluating the freshmen, she gave them the weekend to show their competitive side. Wolhback hoped the team would come away with a couple of wins, if not win the whole tournament.

This weekend tested the skills and game collaboration of the newer players and the team, senior pitcher Amanada Stacevicz said.

“Last season, we had a new coaching staff coming in and the new players were getting to know us and us getting to know them—It was a rollercoaster,” Stacevicz said. “This season we’re really meshing well already.”

Stacevicz, a Cedar Grove, N.J. resident, is serving as captain for the second year in a row and a member of the team for three seasons. In her first year as a Hen she averaged .222 with an ERA of 2.89. Last season she

stepped up to an average of .258, but had a decline on the mound with an ERA of 3.27. This season however, she is redshirting due to injury. She remains as one of three captains, and as she puts it, is the team’s mother figure.

“Whenever the girls have issues, they come to us and we look out for them,” she said. “I make sure they wear sunscreen. This past weekend I even did their laundry.”

Wolhbach believes Stacevicz and other captains, such as junior outfielder Lana Andrews and junior infielder Marissa Newman have really brought the team together.

“Each game prepares us and tests us for the next one,” she said.

“We’re at a very good place for a very early part of our season.”

The Hens have been fortunate this year, as everyone else in the northeast, to have warmer weather this January. The team has been able to practice more outside on dirt, which, for Wolhbach and some of the team, is a first time experience.

“This preseason we only had to practice inside twice because it was raining,” Stacevicz said. “Usually we get out there on the dirt field and no one has even broken in their cleats.”

The team lost graduating seniors Anne Marie Pagano and Michelle Grap, who finished her college career with a total of 22 home runs, making her the university’s career leader.

“We lost some really great players last year,” Stacevicz said.

“But we’ve been really fortunate to fill their positions all around with players who have really stepped it up.”

Freshman Jess Grisler is a new part of the infield and has a batting average of .273 in her first season. She is looking forward to the Louisville Slugger Invitational at Pacific Tournament, being held in her home state of California the first weekend in March. Washington, their first game of the weekend, is the team to beat, Grisler said.

“I get to go out and see my family and I think it will be really cool for the whole team when they see a new part of the country they’ve never seen before,” Grisler said.

“It’s a really big deal for Delaware because they’re not ranked as high as some of the other teams going.”

The CAA Preseason Coaches Poll picked Delaware to finish fifth out of eight in the conference, a ranking that will allow it to be a part of the six teams to enter the playoff tournament if that is where the team ends up at the end of the regular season. In past years, the CAA only allowed the top four teams into the playoffs. Beginning this year, the top six ranked teams make the postseason.

“I think, given where we finished last year and coming back with a lot of new players, I don’t really think the conference knows what we have,” she said. “But because we are so young, I think that’s a fair evaluation.”

After the tournament in Florida this past weekend, Delaware is headed to the Norfolk State Spartan classic starting Feb. 25 for a fourgame event.

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Men: Hagins breaks school record for most career blocks Continued from page 28 Threatt added 14 points to the Hens’ scoring effort, and played solid defensively, snagging two steals.

Delaware’s defense performed well, and was exemplified in the shot clock violation Hampton committed in the first half, and the Pirates shooting 34.5 percent from the field. Delaware hit 51.9 percent of its shots.

Junior forward Jamelle Hagins became Delaware’s alltime blocked shots leader in the first half, finishing with three against the Pirates and 197 for his three-year career.

Free throws proved to be a key ingredient to Delaware’s win as the team shot 85.7 percent at the line, accounting for 18 points.

Saddler said everyone on the team shoots 100 free throws after every practice, which has helped improve their in-game performance at the line.

The six-game winning streak started on Feb. 1 against then first-place George Mason, 65-60.

Delaware then defeated James Madison, UNC-Wilmington, Georgia State and Hofstra—all

conference opponents.

“We tweaked a few things offensively, but it’s the players— It’s their confidence,” Ross said.

“We knew in our locker room what we had. We also knew in our locker room it was going to take some time to get there.”

For Saddler, who arrived on campus last year after Delaware’s 7-24 year, clinching a winning record was important to the second-year starter.

“It means a lot, because now people are going to start coming to our games and it’s not going to be quiet in here,” he said. “I think we’re turning the program around.”

Delaware finishes its regular season with two games this week.

The team heads to Towson on Wednesday, and has its regular season finale at home against Northeastern Saturday.

The CAA Tournament begins March 2 in Richmond. As of now the Hens hold onto the fifth seed.

If they win their final two games and Old Dominion loses its last two, the Hens would move up to the fourth seed, and a first round bye.

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Junior guard Trumae Lucas measures up her defender in Delaware’s 40-39 victory over Drexel Sunday.

Drexel win: Delaware clinches top seed for CAA Tournament, up to No. 9 in country Continued from page 28 share the game-high. Martin, Delle Donne and Parker each agreed Drexel was a more physical team than they were used to.

“It was a fight, but we had our fun moments,” Parker said. “I think at the end, our adrenaline definitely kicked in.”

Martin said the rough play is something she has come to expect when travelling to Drexel, and when the Hens make their eventual trip to the NCAA Tournament, the physicality and atmosphere at those games will be similar to the way it is at Drexel.

“It’s always like this when we come here, and it’s a very tough place to play,” Martin said. “When

we get [to the NCAA Tournament], it’s going to be like this. It’s very physical when you look at a lot of different conferences in the country.”

The contest was the closest of the year, and also the lowest-scoring.

The teams’ combined 79 points was lower than the Hens have scored by themselves in six games this season, and Delle Donne’s 42 points at Hofstra Thursday outscored her team’s total from Sunday.

“They’re very good at taking things away from teams,” Martin said of Drexel’s defense. “We knew coming in [that] it was going to be this kind of game.”

Drexel’s defense forced the Hens into 25 percent shooting from behind the three-point line and just

24.6 percent shooting from the field, where they average 44.1 percent on the season.

Delaware, now No. 9 in the country, was heavily favored coming into the game. The tight defense and rowdy crowd created that tournament-type atmosphere, which may have thrown the Hens off. Delle Donne said they let Drexel dictate the tempo, but that the game was an important test.

“There’s a lot of upsets in women’s basketball, as you can see, and to pull that out was a big gutcheck for us,” Delle Donne said, alluding UCONN being upset by St. John’s on Saturday. “We were able to pull it out, and good teams do that.”

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Junior Jamelle Hagins (44) has 197 blocked shots in his Delaware career.

“We kind of had some breakdowns defensively,” Carroll said. “Lacrosse is a fast game, and they are the No.12 team in the country and went on a little run and got a couple goals on us.”

The stars of the day were on the offensive end with two Delaware players scoring three goals.

Junior attacker Sean Finnegan and sophomore midfielder Danny Keane accounted for more than half the Hens’ goals against Bucknell.

Senior attacker Grant Kaleikau added four assists upping his point

total to 12 in the first two games.

“Dan Keane has improved tremendously since the fall,” Cross said.

Cross was right about Keane when he netted the overtime winner against the Bison’s with just five seconds left. Keane also scored in the Saturday’s game against Loyola.

The offense got off to another fast start leading 3-0 after the first on Saturday. Delaware is outscoring its opponents 8-2 this year in the first quarter. The defense faltered over the next two quarters and the Hens found themselves down 10-5 at the start of the fourth. The

Hens scored two goals to begin the quarter, but allowed two straight by the Greyhounds to diminish any hope of a comeback and lost 13-8.

The Hens play one of the toughest schedules in the league with their next big game against Johns Hopkins today.

Shillinglaw said to beat “the New York Yankees of lacrosse,” the Hens will have to defend well and play intelligent on both sides of the ball. If Delaware can find a way to upset the heavily favored Blue Jays, the school might see another year like 2007 when the team reached the Final Four.

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