March 17, 2015 - Issue 18

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Nancy Targett announced as interim president JAY PANANDIKER Managing News Editor Nancy Targett, dean of the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, was named interim university president in an announcement made by chairman of the Board of Trustees Gilchrist Sparks.

Targett will assume that role effective July 1.

“I am grateful to Dean Targett for agreeing to take on this important leadership role,” Sparks said in a press release. “She has the experience, vision and commitment to lead UD as the search committee completes its important work.”

Targett has been dean of the college since 2005 and has been a member of the faculty since 1984. Her work focuses on chemical marine ecology and she serves on national committees focusing on oceanography.

She will replace outgoing president Patrick T. Harker, who announced he was taking on a new role at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia earlier this month.

“It is a great honor to be asked to serve as interim president,” Targett said. “I have spent 30 years of my career here and I am very deeply committed to UD. It is a great institution and a wonderful community of people.”

COURTESY OF UDEL.EDU/RESEARCH Dean Nancy Targett will assume the role of interim president beginning July 1, becoming the 27th president in the history of the university after Patrick Harker announced he will take a job at the Federal Reserve.

one of the groups currently crafting the new Delaware Will Shine strategic plan.

Targett also is a member of the 1743 Steering Committee for STAR Campus.

Additionally, Targett

In addition to being dean, Targett is involved in several task forces and groups around campus.

She currently co-chairs the “Grand Challenges, Great Debates” working group—

serves as a non-elected member of the Faculty Senate and the director of the Delaware Sea Grant program, which does research on the coastal environment in Delaware.

Targett said she plans to work closely with Harker to ensure a smooth transition over the next several months.

She also spoke highly of the current president.

“President Harker has been an amazing change agent for UD and has helped to propel UD to the next level at a time when many academic institutions are floundering,” Targett said.

“I hope to help sustain the forward momentum that we have achieved during his tenure as President until the 27th President is selected and seated.”

Also announced today was a new 15-member presidential search committee which includes current students, alumni, trustees and faculty. The committee will be chaired by trustees Donald Puglisi and Terri Kelly.

Governor Markell also voiced his support for the board’s choice on Targett.

“She is recognized and respected nationally as an expert in her field, but more importantly, she has developed a reputation in Delaware as a dedicated leader, with a deep understanding of the important link between the university and the state. I look forward to working with her in her new role,” Markell said.

UDance gears up to break records AMY HOPKINS Senior Reporter

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Bar guests on Main Street enjoy the St. Paddy’s Day festivities. Despite ample partying opportunities, both Newark and university police reported lower problems with student behavior than in 2014.

St. Patrick’s Day crime falls from 2014 MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor Despite the normal St. Patrick’s Day weekend revelry all over the campus area, police activity fell significantly from last year’s numbers.

According to police chief Patrick Ogden, the University of Delaware Police Department (UDPD) made

five alcohol referrals and conducted five alcohol-related transports to area hospitals.

Of the five transports, Ogden said, four were non-university students. Newark Police made 65 arrests on Saturday, Cpl. James Spadola stated in an email.

These figures signal a sharp decline from last year’s statistics, which Ogden said

were 21 alcohol referrals and nine transports over a four day period ending with St. Patrick’s Day on a Monday.

The numbers from this year are from a shorter three day weekend window, Ogden said, and there could still be more police encounters on St. Patrick’s Day on Tuesday.

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UDance has developed from a small Greek event in the Trabant Multipurpose Rooms to one of the largest college dance marathons in the country in the past eight years. The 12-hour marathon, which will take place this Sunday, brings over 3,000 students together to raise awareness and funds to fight childhood cancer.

One p.m. on the day of this year’s marathon will mark the 100th hour of dancing since the event began in 2007. The hour will be spent honoring alumni— for some, it will be their 100th hour dancing for UDance.

Those 100 hours of dancing are the culmination of efforts by the executive board, Greek life representatives and residence hall engagement coordinators. This year also marked the introduction of UDance committees, which assist the board in organizing its more complicated tasks, such as canning.

Fundraising director Richard Weiss said his team created a new way to reach

out to donors by launching Blue Henvelopes this fall.

Instead of sending email requests for donations, they switched over to paper versions, allowing students to personalize the envelopes and messages. This created a more tangible way for students to cater donation requests toward their families, friends and anyone who might be interested in helping with the cause, Weiss said.

Through The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation, UDance currently has relationships with 40 B+ Heroes and families across the country. These “heroes” are children who are fighting or who have fought cancer.

Kelsey McWilliams, UDance co-executive director, said heroes are currently paired with groups on campus who build relationships with their heroes while working to honor them every day.

“We try at UDance to always be positive and spread that message within the community,” McWilliams said.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 17

PENCIL IT IN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 -Fulbright Student Program Information Session, 3:30 p.m., Career Services Center -Late Night Breakfast, 9 - 11 p.m., Perkins West Lounge -Men’s Lax vs. Manhattan, 3 p.m., Delaware Stadium

-Picturesque St. Patrick’s Day treat, 2:15 p.m., Trabant Food Court -Healthy Hens Kiosk, 4 - 6 p.m., Carpenter Sports Building -USC Quizzo: March Madness with SGA, 7 - 8 p.m., Perkins West Lounge

THURSDAY, MARCH 19 -Lunch with Dean of Students’ Staff, 12 - 1:30 p.m., 105 Hullihen Hall -Board game night, 7 p.m., Perkins Gallery -Jazz Ensembles I and II, Amy du Pont Music Building, Loudis Recital Hall

FRIDAY, MARCH 20

SATURDAY, MARCH 21

-Last day to pick up ONEcard, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Student Services Building -David Norton Memorial Lecture featuring Samuel Scheffler on “Why Worry About Future Generations?”

3:45 p.m., 104 Gore Hall -International Coffee Hour, 4 - 6 p.m., 44 Kent Way -Campus Chatter musical, 8 p.m., Mitchell Hall

-SCPAB Presents: “Horrible Bosses 2,” 8 p.m., Trabant Theatre -Women’s Lax vs. George Washington, 12 p.m., Delaware Stadium -Baseball vs. Hofstra, 1 p.m., Bob Hannah Stadium

SUNDAY, MARCH 22 -UDance marathon, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., Bob Carpenter Center -Baseball vs. La Salle, 3 p.m., Bob Hannah Stadium -Softball vs. Lehigh, 3 p.m., UD Softball Stadium

MONDAY, MARCH 23 -Women’s History month film series featuring “Saving Face,” 7 9 p.m., 206 Kirkbride Hall -Adaskin Trio, guest artist recital, 8 p.m., Center for the Arts, Gore Recital Hall

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TL;DR Obama signs Student Aid Bill of Rights President Barack Obama signed an executive order this week known as the Student Aid Bill of Rights. The memorandum is designed to help students better afford college by creating a website which centralizes student loans and makes it easier to file complaints. The bill also federalizes student loan debt collection which is currently in the hands of the private sector.

“I want every student to have access to a quality, affordable education at a college that’s lowering costs and increasing learning,” Obama said in a conference call with student media organizations.

“Every student should be able to access the resources to pay for college.”

University of Maryland fraternity sends racist, misogynistic email This week, the UMD chapter of Kappa Sigma came under fire when an email sent to fraternity members surfaced.

It told the brothers to“f--k consent,” and not invite any women of color (utilizing various slurs in the process).

University of Maryland has begun an investigation, and the student who sent the email was suspended.

Man sues police, media after streaking arrest

A Pennsylvania man who was arrested in 2013 for multiple instances of indecent exposure in Newark has filed a lawsuit against the university and city police departments as well as various media outlets.

Jason Grubbs, 41, was on a run in April 2013 when the police recognized him from surveillance footage.

Grubbs claims in the lawsuit he was falsely identified and suffered injuries on his ankle and leg when bitten by a police dog. Grubb was never found guilty of any of the 34 charges.

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B IDEN BEAT Biden’s requirements for our new prez CADY ZUVICH Executive Editor Lets face it. Whether Joe Biden has the official presidential title attached to his name, he has to have some say in the vetting process.

Below are Biden’s requests (predicted) to the Board of Trustees, who will ultimately decide the university’s 27th leader within the upcoming months.

Capriotti’s in Trabant. First order of business: free Bobbies for everyone. On the new president’s first day, Biden will be seen on top of a Capriotti’s truck, shooting sandwiches out of a hot dog gun to gleeful groups of students. The Capriotti’s in Newark Shopping Center is a far hike for most of students, who can’t even use their points at the beloved Delaware-based sandwich shop.

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Joe Biden library. Potential presidential candidates: if you want to win over the VP, promise a library in his name. Why party at Club Morris when you could kick it at Club Biden? And honestly, despite a recent makeover, Morris Library is pretty damn dreary. Its time for an upgrade, perhaps in soon-to-be-empty West Campus?

Parks and Recreation scripts in Special Collections. Picture this. A ribbon cutting featuring the Parks and Recreation cast (including Delaware native Aubrey Plaza), and Joe Biden with his big ol’ grin in front of Joe Biden Library. No students go to Special Collections unless they are forced to, so lets make it #hip.

Filled seats at Delaware stadium. When Biden comes to Delaware for football games, he currently sheds a single tear while looking out at the student section. The new president must work diligently to raise game attendance, even if it means bringing back tailgating in full force.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 Kildare’s opens on Main Street It’s St. Paddy’s Day! And what better way to celebrate than by honoring Kildare’s Irish Pub? The pub opened in 2008, taking the place of Shaggy’s Restaurant. Owners estimated that the pub brought in 1,000 people throughout its opening night. When the pub opened, students praised the atmosphere because it was different than any other restaurant on Main Street. The Victorian Pub room showcases Ireland’s elitism during the Victorian area and the front Brew Pub represents the beer brewing. The Gaelic room has tree-carved furniture imported from Dublin and the Shop Bar imitates old Irish pubs where customers could buy groceries. “What sets Kildare’s apart is an atmosphere that teleports its diners away from Newark and somewhere closer to Dublin,” one student said. “What’s great about it is if you don’t look out the window it doesn’t feel like you’re on Main Street at all.”

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WEISS: ‘IT’S ALL FOR THEM, AT THE END OF THE DAY.’ Continued from page 1 During the dance marathon there is a designated “Hero Hour” that honors all the heroes past and present, including those who have died.

This year, before the Hero Hour there will be a B+ Hero talent show. Heroes will be singing and rapping different songs and dancing onstage. The heroes are looking forward to the talent show, McWilliams said.

“It’s all for them, at the end of the day,” Weiss said.

McWilliams’ co-executive director, Julia Denhoff, has been a part of UDance all four years of her college career. It has made her college experience more meaningful, she said.

Students can participate in UDance on numerous levels. Dancers raise a minimum $460 before the day of the marathon while “moralers” raise $146. Both stand the entire 12 hours of the dance marathon and enjoy free food and beverages throughout the day.

“The number [46] comes from the amount of kids diagnosed every school day with cancer,” McWilliams said.

Also new this year is the use of the upstairs of the Bob Carpenter Center, an area that is typically used for concessions during sports games, McWilliams said. It will serve as a designated refreshment and food area.

Volunteers for the event can sign up for shifts to assists the day of the marathon. Everyone in the

community is welcome at the event, which has an admission cost of $8, Denhoff said.

Last year, UDance raised $850,376.75 aspires to beat that goal this year. Although Weiss said he cannot wait until 9 p.m. Sunday when the board of directors reveals the amount that has

been raised, he said it is not just about the numbers or the money raised but about changing people’s lives.

“People who come to the event—regardless of how long they attend—will feel that passion,” Denhoff said.

PHOTO FROM FILE A national analyst touted current Delaware Gov. Jack Markell as a possible darkhouse presidential candidate in 2016.

“People who come to the event— regardless of how long they attend—will feel that passion.”

JULIA DENHOFF, co-executive director

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Kelsey McWilliams, co director of UDance, works at the UDance office in Perkins Student Center. UDance will be held Sunday.

Journalist speaks on power of hope found in North Korea captivity MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor The harrowing story of Laura Ling and her experiences as a journalist took center stage at the Roselle Center for the Arts as the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the university’s women’s college continued on Wednesday.

Ling rose to national prominence in 2009 after being captured and imprisoned in North Korea. Along with another journalist Euna Lee, she was convicted of illegal entry and committing hostile acts by the government. Soon after being sentenced to 12 years of hard labor, she and Lee were freed a month later after negotiations by former President Bill Clinton.

She spoke about the trials of her time in captivity, including some of her darker moments of suicidal thoughts when she believed there was no hope for her release. Ling was relegated to a single room where she

was interrogated almost daily and was not allowed outside.

A point she also wished to emphasize was that even during her troubled imprisonment, there were glimmers of humanity that shone. There was one woman soldier, she said, who guarded her daily and seemed to sympathize with Ling at times, while another encouraged her to have faith that somehow her situation would be resolved. Ling said these are words we should remember as Americans during the turbulence the nation has faced at times.

“But no matter how difficult things get, we just have to,” Ling said. “As my North Korean guard once told me, ‘Hold onto hope, it will lead us through to brighter days.’”

Ling also made it a point to describe the problems she had been investigating when she was apprehended.

An already accomplished international journalist at the time, Ling was

working for Current TV on a story about the human trafficking industry in China. A significant portion of the women forced into prostitution in China are from North Korea, who flee their homeland in hopes of providing money for their families and finding new opportunities in China.

She also spoke on a variety of social issues in the United States and how her time abroad has influenced her thoughts about them. In particular, her time in Iran and the strict Muslim culture there affected her feelings about the images of women portrayed in the United States.

“While requiring women to cover themselves is no doubt oppressive, sometimes I wonder if we can be a little too quick to judge them as these subservient creatures,” Ling said. “But perhaps we are the ones that have become slaves to a society that puts too much pressure on our appearances.”

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Renowned journalist Laura Ling spoke at Mitchell Hall on Wednesday, highlighting her time as a captive in North Korea while working on a story about human trafficking. Ling was freed by Bill Clinton after a month.

Markell and the future of Delaware Democrats JAY PANANDIKER Managing News Editor Some political analysts believe a Delawarean without the last name Biden has emerged as a potential candidate in 2016: Gov. Jack Markell. The two-term Democratic governor will be term limited out of the highest office in the First State’s government, and that has led some to believe he may be fit for a higher office.

Jill Lawrence, a contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report, said there is potential for a national Markell campaign. Lawrence said Markell’s experience in the private sector and his age could be advantageous in a primary race. Markell has also received the attention of other political analysts and has appeared on several list of underrated Democratic White House contenders, Lawrence said.

“People have noticed him, and if he was the governor of a much larger state, people would have noticed him a lot more,” Lawrence said.

Lawrence said while she believes Delaware’s small size is not prohibitive, it certainly does not help Markell’s chances as a candidate. Smallstate governors like Markell and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo have received some recognition within political circles.

At the same time, Markell would face issues with national name recognition and his lack of media contact, Lawrence said.

“There is a big vacuum for the Democrats,” Lawrence said. “They obviously have a very shallow bench and a big need for people who will, if not take [Hillary] Clinton on, amplify her message. They need capable people out there.”

Lawrence said Markell could fit the bill, but he would have to make it clear that he is interested in seeking higher office.

If Markell does choose to run, he will likely challenge frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who has gained significant momentum in the last few years. Lawrence said potential Democratic candidates are often unable to criticize Clinton and President Barack Obama.

One way to get around this is to go after Republican candidates instead, a strategy used by former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. A similar strategy could be used by Gov. Markell.

“There’s a place for these people who say they are her rivals to make a case against Republicans and to show the party how they would stand up and how they would be spokespeople for the party,” Lawrence said. “I think that is a role that would be appreciated and could fill the void until she gets in, and they can make the calculation of if it’s worth taking her on.”

Markell also adds some potentially new elements to the Democratic field. The Democrats need a younger candidate, and Markell provides that, Lawrence said.

She said the governor could leverage his more centrist private and public sector background to make a case for taking on Wall Street and economic issues like income equality.

“A centrist is not someone who has to fail in this climate,” Lawrence said. “A centrist is someone who could do very well in the general election

and could get through the primary by proving their record and understanding of the problems.”

Lawrence said while a Markell presidential campaign is possible, it’s unlikely he would be a candidate for vice president. Delaware’s small size and Markell’s limited name recognition would mean he would be unable to add many votes to a presidential ticket, Lawrence said. There are too many politicians from bigger swing states with similar resumes who would be more likely vice presidential contenders, she said. Lawrence said a cabinet position or a Senate seat would be more likely alternatives for Markell.

Erik Raser-Schramm, a political consultant and the Vice Chair of the New Castle County Democratic Party, said Markell could make a strong candidate. He specifically cited Markell’s work as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association and the National Governors Association. Markell has also been able to form a coalition in Delaware which he has used to win Race to the Top grants.

“He has definitely done things to elevate himself to national attention, so I wouldn’t write that possibility out,” Raser-Schramm said.

Markell’s office said the governor had not yet made any decisions about what to do after his term expires.

“Governor Markell is focused on making the most of his time in office and has not made any decisions about what to do when his term as Governor is over,” said Markell press secretary Kelly Bachman.

Regardless of Markell’s future plans, term limits will force change in the Delaware gubernatorial scene in 2016.

In April 2014, former Attorney General Beau Biden announced his intention to run to succeed Markell in 2016. He also announced he would not seek reelection in order to focus on the campaign.

“Over the past few months, as I’ve been planning to run for reelection, I have also been giving a great deal of thought to running for Governor in 2016,” Biden wrote in a letter to supporters. “After careful consideration, I have concluded that it is not right to ask for your support in 2014, knowing that my focus would be divided between doing my job as Attorney General while at the same time running as a candidate for Governor.”

Two other players also remain on the scene—Attorney General Matt Denn and Rep. John Carney. Raser-Schramm said as of right now he believes both will stay in their current positions. Denn was just elected in 2014 and he still has work to complete in that role, Raser-Schramm said.

While Carney hasn’t started actively campaigning for reelection, he has been fundraising for his campaign, Raser-Schramm said.

Lawrence said the election will likely start heating up soon, with Clinton’s campaign likely announcing next month.

However, the exact timeline depends on polling as well as the current Clinton email scandal. Other candidates may decide if they’re in based on how strong they believe Clinton’s campaign to be, Lawrence said.

“I think the Democrats so badly need more voices, that his or anyone else’s with a valid claim would be welcome,” Lawrence said.

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Proposed bill would open university records CADY ZUVICH Executive Editor As it stands, the university is not required to disclose most information and documents, contrary to other publiclyfunded colleges and public bodies.

State Rep. John Kowalko wants to change this.

Kowalko is taking on the fight––for the third time–– to remove the university’s exception from records disclosure laws. He introduced the latest bill on Thursday, which would force the University of Delaware and Delaware State University to fully comply with Delaware’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

“It’s not a huge intrusion here,” Kowalko said. “We need to at least know how the processes are being done and hold UD answerable to taxpayers.”

Kowalko cited several instances, including the university dissolving the Division I men’s track and field team, in which open records may have helped the public understand the reasons behind the decisions of the Board of Trustees.

The Review has made several FOIA requests to the University of Delaware in recent years, all of which were denied.

Delaware’s Freedom of Information Act requires public bodies and publicly funded entities to disclose records upon request. Delaware State University and University of Delaware are partially exempt from the law, only being required to publicize Board of Trustees meetings and documents pertaining to contracts funded by taxpayer dollars.

Kowalko, who represents the district encompassing most of Newark, said he’s pushing for the bill because he owes it to his taxpaying constituents. He cited the controversial nixed STAR Campus data center and power plant as an example of why the university should be included under FOIA. “There are very serious concerns here,” Kowalko said.

“My constituents certainly deserve to have access to see how these decisions are being

made because we contribute quite a bit of taxpayer money.”

Kowalko’s bill comes just days before the 15th National Freedom on Information Day on Monday, the same day the White House removed itself from federal regulation under FOIA. The university is private but receives public funding due to its land-grant status. During the 2013 fiscal year, 13 percent of the university’s revenue came from state appropriations.

Though since the 2008 economic downturn, Delaware allots less of its budget to its two universities.

If passed, Kowalko’s legislation would hurt the university as it would jeopardize investments and donations to it, stated Larry White, vice president of the university’s General Counsel.

“The performance of UD’s billion-dollar endowment could be negatively affected through the elimination of potential opportunities to invest with firms that insist on confidentiality,” White stated in an email message. “A large amount of donations to the endowment comes from individuals and organizations intent on preserving the anonymity of their gifts; those gifts would be jeopardized.”

White also stated the two universities would be at a disadvantage to other research institutions, particularly when vying for federal and corporate research funding. He added that the university’s efforts to protect its intellectual property would also be at risk, as potential partners would expect total confidentiality.

The implications of opening up records is misunderstood, Kowalko said, as information of students and professors––as well as proprietary information–– would be protected. Kowalko said his bill would not give the state more influence in the university’s innerworkings.

“States won’t make any decisions for the university,” Kowalko said.

“It’s a misconstruction of what this is.

The public and the people who represent them just want an idea into how these decisions are made.”

NEWS IN BRIEF City makes steps to purchase Rodney Complex Newark City Council members took a preliminary step in potentially purchasing the Rodney complex from the university during a meeting this week. A motion which passed 4 to 1 retains the law firm of Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze to help the city purchase the complex. It was announced last year that the Rodney and Dickinson complexes would close, but the university would hold off on immediately demolishing the freshman dorms. The city is only currently interested in the 7.24 acre Rodney site which includes basketball and tennis courts, six residence halls and a dining hall.

The West Campus complex was built in 1966 and currently houses 700 freshman students.

PHOTO FROM FILE Provost Domenico Grasso held a town hall meeting to allow students ask questions. Grasso spoke about the impending release of the Delaware Will Shine report as well as student mistrust of the administration.

Provost on perceptions of admin., future of the university ELIZABETH QUARTARARO Editor in Chief

but had to leave prior to the show of hands. He was informed of it afterward.

Provost Domenico Grasso met with about 50 people Wednesday at a Town Hall meeting designed to provide students, faculty and staff an opportunity to raise questions and comments about the university. Student attendance was low and the meeting was brief at just over 30 minutes.

On the strategic plan It is nearly time for the Delaware Will Shine report to become available for public comment. The report will be 12-15 pages long and has involved the work of hundreds of faculty members on various committees, Grasso said.

Your Review recap: On distrust of administration Grasso said he was “saddened” to learn of a show of hands at this week’s sexual assault forum in which a majority of those in attendance agreed they did not trust the administration.

“This administration works very hard in the best interests of the faculty and the students,” Grasso said.

“And I would welcome any conversation about where you feel that trust has been misplaced.”

Grasso cited work underway on issues such as Title IX violations, drug and alcohol abuse and mental health issues, which he said administrators began to discuss before they became topics of national discussion.

“I was very disappointed to hear that because I can’t imagine a more dedicated group of individuals than the administration here in dealing with these issues,” he said.

Grasso was in attendance at the sexual assault forum

“I would welcome any conversation about where you feel that trust has been misplaced.”

DOMENICO GRASSO, provost

The draft will be released “very very soon,” Grasso said. At that time, there will be an open forum for public comment on the draft.

Grasso answered questions regarding the continuity of Delaware Will Shine given President Patrick T. Harker’s departure for the Philadelphia Fed this July, saying the intensive faculty involvement in developing the report means that “the university is going to own this plan.”

“It is going to be resilient to any changes, hopefully, that happen at the university because it is going to be owned by the faculty and students that have worked on this plan,” Grasso said.

On diversity The meeting opened with note that this year’s applicant pool is the second largest in university history and saw the largest percentage of applicants from underrepresented groups.

There will also be a new position created—Vice Provost for Diversity—in response to a request from the student body, Grasso said.

Grasso has also asked Vice Provost for Diversity Carol Henderson to assemble a task force to explore better ways to support the multicultural community at the university, inclusive of students from a range of underrepresented groups such as veterans, persons with disabilities, LGBT students and multiple ethnic groups, Grasso said.

Q&A with Hunting Ground producer Amy Ziering

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MEGHAN JUSCZAK Managing News Editor In honor of Wednesday’s screening of The Hunting Ground, a documentary about sexual assault on American college campuses, Meghan interviewed its producer, Amy Ziering. Ziering and the film’s director, Kirby Dick, previously collaborated on the 2012 Academy Award-nominated documentary The Invisible War about rape in the military.

The Invisible War gained major visibility and actually inspired federal policy change.

Meghan Jusczak: What’s the story behind the creation of the film? When did you know you needed to produce a film about rape and sexual assault on college campuses?

Amy Ziering: We finished making our last film, The Invisible War, which broke the story of the epidemic of rape in 2012, and after the film we were in theaters but we also went around to campuses. And every time we screened on a campus someone would come up to us and say, ‘You know, this happened to me here, and there are a lot of similarities between what you pointed out going on in the military and what happened to me at

this institution.’ So we started doing our investigating about it, and we realized that what we were hearing was as bad as it was but also that it was even worse. So we decided to jump in and make this film.

MJ: Do you think this film could have an influence on policy and culture the way The Invisible War did?

AZ: Well we’re very much hoping so. We sort of have seen it somewhat happen already—we got a seismic response out of Sundance and people were a) grateful to be getting this information and b) outright shocked and wanting to do something. So we’re hopeful that this will create a widespread awareness and motivate people in power to really change policy in a meaningful way.

MJ: When you were producing the film what was the most surprising thing you learned in the course of your research?

AZ: I was mostly shocked at the ways in which this crime is still […] viewed in our culture, was the most surprising to me. The reaction from the administrators that we kept hearing from the

survivors around the country, to me it was like I was talking to people who were reporting these crimes in the 1950s, not 2015. Like, that was really shocking. I’m a student of the 70s and 80s but I thought we’d gotten beyond that level of understanding and are receptive to these causes but it seems like we’ve regressed… that was shocking too.

MJ: As a filmmaker, clearing issues of rape epidemics are important to you, do you think you’re going to continue making movies about rape? With this and The Invisible War you have two, likely huge, movies about the topic.

AZ: I think we might do one more and make it a trilogy…Now certainly that we’ve seen that we can make not only have we made really successful films but we’ve made an impact and it’s really appealing to try to continue and break this issue open even wider…We hadn’t thought we were going to before, but now we’re considering it.

Some questions and responses not included for the sake of brevity.

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Study finds opportunity gap in race and job selectivity MARGARET MCNAMARA Senior Reporter

COURTESY OF WILLIAM BRAWLEY/FLICKR The flu wreaked havoc on Delaware this winter, claiming far more lives than in past years.

Flu vaccine less effective after virus mutation

ALISON WILSON EAssociate Editor The flu has hit Delaware particularly hard this year, taking 28 lives to date as a result of a mutation in the virus that has made the vaccine less effective.

According to the Division of Public Health, this year’s statistic is four times the state’s previous highest fatality toll for one season— conjuring seven deaths during the swine flu outbreak of 2009 and 2010. With over 2200 cases documented statewide, there has also been a higher flu presence on campus.

All who died were suffering from comorbid conditions and were over the age of 50. 25 were over the age of 60, according to Emily Knearl, chief of health and risk communication at the Division of Public Health.

The underlying cause of this hike in flu deaths is the mutation of the H3N2 strain that did not match the vaccinations available.

Antigenic drift caused subtle differences in the H3 protein, PhD Associate Professor and Interim Chairperson Michelle Parent said. Even though the number is the same, the virus is not.

This is atypical, she said, since there is usually no difference between the created vaccination and the circulating virus.

Each year the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and four other medical institutions around the world attempt to predict the flu strains that will be circulating to create the vaccination.

While the flu tends to be present year-round near the equator, it is present in the southern hemisphere during the summer and moves to the northern hemisphere in the winter, said Timothy Dowling, director of Student Health Services Timothy Dowling.

“Apparently this year they did not make a good prediction so there are strains that are circulating that are not part of the vaccine,” said Donald Lehman, professor of medical laboratory sciences.

The virus circles the globe

and it takes about half a year to complete the prediction process and create the vaccine.

CDC found when H3N2 is in circulation, there are more deaths than years when H1N1 is present, Parent said. They see double the fatalities.

“About six months ago they did not predict that the flu that is currently here would be the flu that is predominant now,” Dowling said.

Flu shots are either categorized as trivalent or quadravelent vaccinations, he said. Trivalent flu shots protect against three strains—two Influenza A, H1N1 and H3N2, and one Influenza B—while quadravalent shots protect against the aforementioned and as well as an additional B strain. According to Dowling, the quadravalent provides the body with more protection and is available on campus.

Antidotal evidence now suggests if a person received the vaccine this year but still contracted the virus, he or she was not as sick had he or she not gotten the vaccine, despite the mutation, Parent said.

The first Delaware flu case was documented in Sussex County before moving up the state to Kent and then to the most populous county of New Castle, which was hit the hardest, Knearl said.

Despite the astonishingly high human cost the virus has taken, Knearl said there has been no increase in fiscal costs to the department of health due to insurance coverage and free immunizations for children.

Still, the flu creates $10.4 billion in annual direct medical costs in the United States alone.

CDC and other medical institutions will soon begin the prediction process for the next flu season to create the vaccination. While this year was harsher than most, in typical years they guess accurately and successfully, Lehman said.

“If you think about all that goes in…that’s even more surprising that they get it right all the time, than surprising that they weren’t perfect this time,” Parent said.

Lamar who graduated from Harvard University will have a harder time finding a job than Charlie who went to a state school with less prestige, according to a recent study coming out of University of Michigan.

The study found racialized names appear to have a systematic disadvantage despite an applicant’s educational credentials. Authored by S. Michael Gaddis, it was found that names Caleb, Charlie, Ronny, Aubrey, Erica and Lesly received 1.5 times more responses from employers than Jalen, Lamar, DaQuan, Nia, Ebony and Shanice.

“It’s not the degree but the person that makes the degree.”

CAROL HENDERSON, Vice Provost for Diversity

“Discrimination is assumed when there is an otherwise unexplainable racial difference on a dependent variable,” Gaddis wrote.

The study suggests that education is not an equalizer.

Lamar’s Harvard degree and Charlie’s degree from University of MassachusettsAmherst were almost equal. Statistically, a black candidate from an elite university received one response for every eight resumes sent and a white candidate from a less selective university received one response for every nine resumes sent.

Benjamin Harris, assistant director for the Center for Black Culture, said the study shows how racism has evolved, becoming more sophisticated.

“We can educate students on racism and discrimination and also conscious and unconscious biases that we all have,” Harris said. “It’s important that students are aware of that so we can address it in our everyday lives.”

The study found that white candidates from an elite university received the highest response rate from companies, followed by black candidates from those same universities.

The almost 7 percent discrepancy between the two groups made that response rate for black candidates more comparable to that of white candidates from lessselective schools.

Harris said higher education needs to prepare students for employment with an education that equips them with the tools to be social justice practitioners that will change the world for the better.

Vice Provost for Diversity Carol Henderson said she hopes the study will help businesses address unintentional biases and develop new strategies.

“As a potential employer,

Response rate from companies 17.5%

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KRISTA ADAMS/THE REVIEW Black students face a disadvantage when applying for jobs.

that’s the kind of study that would help you go on to a job and say how can we develop a different way of assessing applications?”

Henderson said.

Henderson said the gap presented in the study is about opportunity.

“It’s not the degree but the person that makes the degree,” Henderson said.

OGDEN: ‘OBVIOUSLY WE WANT PEOPLE TO GO OUT AND CELEBRATE, BUT IN A SAFE MANNER.’ Continued from page 1 Newark Police’s figures also show a dip in their arrest figures from a year ago. Saturday’s 65 are down from 84 during the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day last year. Arrests for underage consumption or possession of alcohol dropped from 31 last year to 22, Spadola said, while charges of disorderly premises declined from 12 to one.

NPD also recorded two overdose medical transports. In one incident, a Taser was used by officers in Newark Police Department to subdue a man on North Chapel Street, who was subsequently charged with offensive touching of a police officer and resisting arrest.

Officers were called to the scene on North Chapel Street after a young man was

seen vomiting on himself in a driveway. Once the officers called for medical assistance, other people with the man became angry and the group blocked emergency medical crews from helping him, Spadola said.

A Taser was used on a man who was attempting to pull an officer to the ground, Spadola said, and one student and three non-students were arrested as a result of the incident. Spadola said the young man who needed medical attention slipped away during the fight and waas never taken to the hospital.

Ogden said he did not think the rainy weather dampened the festivities too much, but that students are beginning to learn their lesson about where ‘the line’ is between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Most

of the problems public safety encountered, Ogden said, were with non-university students.

“The thing I am very pleased with, though you never like to see people get arrested, is that it wasn’t really the students who were the biggest problem,” Ogden said. “Obviously we want people to go out and celebrate, but in a safe manner.”

Ogden said UDPD did deploy extra officers into the area, as well as some officers in unmarked vehicles monitoring campus.

A man was not charged in an accident on Cleveland Avenue after his vehicle hit a woman who was crossing the street, Ogden said, though that was also handled by the Newark Police Department.

Newark and campus crime rates fall in 2014 PATRICK WITTERSCHEIN Senior Reporter Late-night UD Alerts may have students and parents on edge, but 2014 actually saw a crime reduction both on campus and in greater Newark.

Serious crimes like robbery, aggravated assault and burglary in Newark last year were down over 14 percent, according to the Newark Police Department.

On campus, arrests made by the University of Delaware Police Department (UDPD) for serious offenses were down over 3 percent for the same period.

UDPD Police Chief Patrick Ogden said while the decrease in serious crime from 2013 to 2014 may not seem significant, the difference seen in the past several years has been drastic.

According to Ogden, the reduction in serious crime in the five years leading up to 2014 was 37 percent.

Ogden said the on-campus reductions in crime can be attributed to a number of different factors, including a push for an “intelligence-led style of policing.” The most

effective means of gathering intelligence may be the presence of surveillance cameras both on campus and in public areas in Newark.

Public Safety has the use of over 300 surveillance cameras located throughout the community, and it allows the police to maintain a constant presence even if there are no officers in the area.

“A lot of these people that are looking to commit crime, they don’t want to go somewhere where they see a lot of police activity or a lot of cameras,” Ogden said. “I think the camera project has been a huge deterrent.”

Another strategy UDPD has relied on to ward off criminal activity has been high visibility patrols, Ogden said, like the command post stationed at the Laird Campus bridge every Friday and Saturday night.

Funding from the university for Public Safety programs has also had a part in the lowering crime rates. Public Safety’s LiveSafe App and UD Alert System have proven effective means of communicating

important information.

The Jeanne Clery Act requires the university to give the community a timely warning of any serious crimes that occur on campus, but Public Safety also routinely sends UD Alerts for incidents that occur off campus where students are known to live or travel.

“Anywhere our students live, work or we know that they walk […], if we have crimes that happen there that we know about, we’re going to put that information out, so that they know,” Ogden said.

Despite the fact that crime rates are decreasing, Ogden said sometimes UD Alerts make students feel like crime in Newark is getting worse.

“The perception is that crime is up because we’re putting out more and more alerts, and we’re putting them out in geographic areas a little further away from campus,” Ogden said. “But the reality of the situation is it’s just the opposite.”

While total crime rates decreased in the year 2014, Newark did see an increase

KATELYN CONTE/THE REVIEW According to UDPD, crime around the university has declined significantly over the last five years, and that trend continued in 2014. in gunfire. According to the Newark Police, this is due to the growing drug trade in New Castle County. In 2015, Newark Police Department will work with the city to combat the drug industry.

Each year Public Safety publishes its “Campus Security and Fire Report,” available on its website under Clery Act crime statistics.

Weekly statistics are also available with a list of reported incidents.

To Ogden and the rest of Public Safety, the availability of these statistics and the annual report play an invaluable role in protecting campus and keeping students safe.

“We feel that an informed community is a safer community, in that students can make decisions for their own personal safety based on what’s going on around them,” Ogden said.

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Top universities stop accepting AP credits HAYLEY ALTMAN Staff Reporter

Top-tier American universities such as Brown, Columbia and Dartmouth are giving a big thumbs down to the common practice of granting college credit to high school students with AP scores above a three.

Questions surrounding the AP program have risen recently, particularly about if they actually are equivalent to college courses in content and rigor. Others have asked if it’s in a student’s best interest to retake courses within their major in college that they have already taken for AP credit.

The College Board offers Advanced Placement courses in 34 subjects. Each course concludes with a exam meant to test the college-level skills students have acquired throughout the year, with scores ranging from 1 to 5.

“Students learn to think critically, construct solid arguments and see many sides of an issue [in AP classes],” according to the College Board.

“Research indicates that students who score a 3 or higher on an AP exam typically experience greater academic success in college and are more likely to earn a college degree than non-AP students,” according to the College Board.

The university has yet to enforce a consistent standard of acceptable AP scores across all departments, so it varies from department to department.

Professor Louis Rossi, chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, led a study to see how well the AP Calculus AB and BC exams correlated with a student’s success in the university’s calculus sequence when he was the director of undergraduate studies for the department.

Rossi found students that earned between a 1 and 4 on either exam were not adequately prepared for the next calculus course in the sequence.

Rossi said the study focused on two main questions—what AP Calculus score should allow a student to receive credit and whether using AP scores are an appropriate math placement metric.

“The first is concerned with receiving UD credit,” Rossi said. “The second is a crucial advising issue about which course a student is ready to take when they arrive at UD. It’s important to keep this in context.”

Rossi said the university’s calculus sequence is a rich experience that cannot necessarily equate to a student’s performance on one exam. For his study,

Rossi explored eight years of university data, specifically comparing how students did on the AP exam versus their college calculus courses. The results were consistent for both the AP Calculus AB and the AP Calculus BC exams.

The department ended up adjusting their policy so that only students earning a score of 5 on both exams would receive credit for Math 241 and Math 242 respectively.

Junior Matt Coyle took AP Biology and AP Calculus BC in high school, scoring a 5 on the AP Biology exam, giving him credit for a science and a lab; a 4 on AP Calculus AB; and a 3 on AP Calculus BC, excusing him from all calculus requirements for his major.

“I think they [AP courses] are equivalent in content, but the level of the work is easier because it is spread out over more time,” Coyle said.

Coyle said he feels as his success in an AP class is a good benchmark for success in a college class.

Professor James Butkiewicz, chair of the Department of Economics, expressed interest in conducting a serious econometric analysis on how students with AP Economics credit perform in subsequent economics classes.

“I think what prepares

JAY PANANDIKER/THE REVIEW Some universities will stop accepting Advanced Placement credits due to concerns of student preparation for college courses. [students] is the classes they take, and the exam is a measure of how well they’ve learned what’s presented in class,” Butkiewicz said.

Butkiewicz noted there are students who have received credit for AP Economics and succeeded in subsequent economics courses, but those students most likely scored a 5.

“The real question is,

‘How far below a 5 do you go and still grant college credit?’” Butkiewicz said.

He expressed concern when saying that encouraging students to think they are prepared when they are not is in no way helping them in their academic career.

“Are you doing them justice?” Butkiewicz asked.

IT company’s expansion creates job opportunities for students DAVID DENNETT Staff Reporter As the alumni-founded SevOne is expanding in Newark, the company is looking to hire nearly 200 new employees—good news for university students.

According to the Career Services assistant director for employer partnerships Joyce Henderson, SevOne has employed 50 university students over the past two years, including 17 interns and 12 full-time employees last year.

It was only four years ago when SevOne, a network monitoring company, was operating out of Delaware

Technology Park, a short walk from the university campus, until company growth required a move to a bigger space. When the university opened the Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) campus, SevOne decided to buy an office there, according to marketing and communications manager Alexandra Conners.

“We’d be able to feed off the vibrancy of being on campus,” Conners said. “Our Wilmington location is great, but we definitely missed Newark.”

The business, headquartered just outside of Pike Creek in Wilmington, develops a product that

monitors the performance of infrastructures of some of the biggest companies in the world, such as Verizon, Comcast and HBO. Professor of practice in electrical and computer engineering Chase Cotton said it is extremely nice to have a company this close to the university campus, especially for students who like the area.

“We’re really lucky to have a growing company here in northern Delaware that does software,” Cotton said.

SevOne was founded in 2005 by university alumni and husband-and-wife duo Vess and Tanya Bakalov.

Henderson said the Bakalovs

are familiar with the bright talent that comes out of the university.

“Their move to the STAR Campus will make it even easier for students to gain hands-on experience in a technology environment,” Henderson said.

Cotton said SevOne seeks electrical and computer engineers or computer information scientists with impressive coding and programming abilities.

“Increasingly, in the world we live in, companies like students who go beyond their classes,” Cotton said.

The working environment is not only unique, but student-friendly as well, Henderson said.

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EDITORIAL A response to Wednesday’s campus sexual assault panel SAGE CARSON & JAY ALSTON Guest Contributors University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax made irresponsible allegations at Wednesday afternoon’s panel on campus sexual assault. She said survivors of sexual assault are actually just individuals crying “rape” after regretful sex. Unfortunately, this is something sexual assault survivors hear often, and not just from strangers, but also from their support systems like family and friends.

Spewing terms like “true rape” and “AngloSaxon American courts” (as well as calling the social sciences “junk sciences”) Amy Wax showed no respect for survivors and remains willfully ignorant about this epidemic. She told a room, of

people, mostly women, that we have no understanding of the struggles that women have gone through for years, because we are asking for victim-centered approaches. I would argue Wax has no understanding of what women are currently experiencing as they try to get an education on a college campus while being treated as objects of sexual conquest.

Despite Wax’s offensive behavior at Wednesday’s panel, the other panelists reminded us that there are people who support victims and are working toward making meaningful and lasting changes on college campuses.

On this campus in particular, women like Angela Seguin and Joanne Sampson have created and run programs to help

survivors of sexual assault.

The volunteers at Sexual Offense Support (S.O.S.) work around the clock to support victims and direct them to resources. They are non-judgemental, competent and brave people who are here to help.

Institutional change is also coming. Members of the Faculty Senate Commission on Sexual Assault are working to find solutions for the problem of sexual assault on our campus, and faculty members, like Kathleen Turkel from the department of Women and Gender Studies, work as advocates for survivors and push our campus in the right direction. There are also several prominent student activists who are organizing rallies and bringing a voice to survivors and shining light on their stories.

Legislation is in the works to uplift survivors and impose strict penalties on perpetrators of sexual assault. Sen. Bryan Townsend spoke at the panel and said he sees the problem and that he is willing to put in the work to find a solution.

It was incredibly uplifting to see a state senator take the time to show up to an event that school administrators did not attend.

The honored guest on the panel, Amy Ziering, who presented her documentary, The Hunting Ground later in the evening, has received many accolades and deservingly so.

However, we want to take a moment to recognize the people at the university who are working to end sexual assault. They are underpaid, overworked and do not receive the recognition they

deserve. Amy Wax may have a prestigious career at an Ivy League law school, but she will always be on the wrong side of history.

She is irrelevant, outdated and outright offensive. At the end of the day, people like Angela, Joanne, Dr. Turkel and student activists (including co-author Sage Carson) will be the ones to do some good in this world.

For more information about the university’s resources for survivors of sexual assault, visit http:// www.udel.edu/gbv/ or call Sexual Offense Support at 302-831-2226. S.O.S. victim advocates are available 24 hours a day.

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POLITICS STRAIGHT: NO CHASER Country needs a reason to trust government again Elections and voting in the United States are in a troubling condition as of late. The famous Voting Rights Act of 1965 was gutted in 2013, political gerrymandering is on the rise, voting restrictions are cropping up across dozens of states and voter turnout is horrifically low.

Additionally, the influx of huge amounts of cash from corporations and individuals has the effect of drowning out the voices of regular citizens. We are starting to lose faith in our government, and that faith needs to be restored.

Since the mid-1960s, trust in our government has fallen dramatically according to a Pew Research poll. The measure of people who trusted the government reached a peak of about 77 percent, just before the Vietnam War to the current anemic level of 24 percent.

To put that in perspective, it is lower than the trust people had just after Watergate. In addition to trust in government, there is the Congressional approval rating which sits in the low teens.

Another primary indicator of the level of trust in government, in my opinion, is voter turnout.

Over the past few election cycles turnout has been dropping across all levels, but overall trends remain the same. Historically speaking, the voters with the highest turnout rates are older, richer and more educated; lower turnout is usually seen among younger, poorer and less-educated citizens. But why is it the case that the first set of citizens is more prolific at voting than the second group? Well there are a few reasons. First, people who have a stake in the government or their community are more likely to vote and usually that correlates with the first group. Older citizens have a greater stake because, among other reasons, they have a greater connection to the government. For example, they obtain monthly benefits from the government in the form of Medicare and Social Security. This makes them more likely to pay attention to news and be more active citizens.

Younger citizens are less likely to vote because they lack a stake in government.

For the most part, few of us are affected directly by the federal government, with the exception being student loans or grants. This creates general apathy or disinterest towards political issues.

This is evidenced by the lessthan-outstanding turnout rate of roughly 21 percent in 2014 among youth voters (18-29).

Besides the historical reasons for voting patterns, there is the issue with our elections. Due to the examples listed above, voters are starting to think that their votes don’t matter as much. Voting restrictions enacted after the 2013 ruling could have the effect of reducing turnout. Politicallymotivated gerrymandering directly affects the votes and representation of districts across the United States. And the influence of money has a negative effect on voting in that it makes the average voter believe his vote does not matter.

A fix to these problems is not easy nor will it come easily.

First off, overturning a Supreme Court ruling would require a Constitutional Amendment, a near impossible task in today’s political climate.

Fixing the Voting Rights Act lacks any kind of bipartisan support. Lastly, political gerrymandering will not end as long as the politicians in charge have a vested interest in how a district is arranged.

An easier fix is for everyone, across all age groups and socioeconomic statuses, to become more involved and invested in the functioning of government.

Once people realize that they can enact change or realize that decisions made in all levels of government affect them, there can be progress towards regenerating trust in government. Or maybe I’m just an optimist.

—Sam Wiles samwiles@udel.edu

In the coming months, a search committee will be hard at work selecting our next university president.

Along with managing capital campaigns and getting fully outfitted in Blue Hen gear, our new president will have another task: building student trust from the ground up.

On March 9th, the university’s faculty senate held an open forum on sexual assault. During that meeting, a professor asked how many of the attendees would stand by the statement “I don’t trust the administration.” Threequarters of the room, both faculty and students, raised their hands. When Provost Domenico Grasso was asked for his response this event at his Town Hall a few days later, he said he was saddened by it and said administrators are dedicated to working on issues the campus community is the most concerned about.

Much of this mistrust, we believe, stems from a distance between students and administrators. President Harker’s email responding to racism on Yik Yak practically gave us the warm-fuzzies, given that it was the first time we’d seen him respond directly to a student issue. When we do

interact with administrators, we feel that buzzwords and PR lingo prevent the establishment of any kind of real rapport.

Much of the mistrust, however, does come from specific issues. As students, we find that mistrust of administrators by students is best represented in issues of sexual assault. The evidence abounds in personal anecdotes, stories of investigations that never happened and the fact that the university is under federal investigation for the way it has handled sexual assaults in the past.

Yes, Title IX information sessions were held, but they regurgitated the same talking points already available on the university’s website, and seemed designed more so to placate students than to respond to concerns. A few administrators did attend a student rally, but the majority of those who attended stood so far from the participants that its doubtful they could even hear what concerns students were sharing. Again and again, we have been told that a dedicated Title IX investigator will be hired, but it has been nearly six months without word on when an investigator will begin their

The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent the views of The Review.

work. The university’s tone of response has not matched the seriousness of the concern we feel.

Our next university president will face many other issues outside of genderbased violence during his or her time on campus. However, this example illustrates many of the areas where future administrators have room to improve their connection and communication with students.

Our next president will be able to establish a culture of trust by speaking a common language, not filling emails and PowerPoints with jargon worthy of a public relations textbook. They will connect with students by meeting them where they gather, whether that be on the steps of Memorial Hall holding cardboard signs or in Trabant eating sushi. They will keep students informed on what happens in Hullihen Hall, especially regarding the issues they have addressed most passionately. We hope our future president heeds these words of advice, and takes this opportunity to build relationships with the students who make Delaware shine.

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Lee’s friends are currently searching for a venue and local artists to perform at a summer festival in his honor. They have raised over a third of the $15,000 goal so far.

AFTER FATAL CRASH, FRIENDS RAISE MONEY TO HONOR STUDENT NICOLE SULLIVAN Senior Reporter When Dan Holl’s good friend and former lacrosse teammate Enoch Lee died in a car accident this past fall, Holl was more than determined to commemorate Lee as he would have wanted: through music.

Lee, known for his selflessness and vibrant personality, had aspirations not only to be a doctor but also to “save the world.” A driven and successful student, he balanced his school work and volunteer hours at Christiana Hospital all while serving on the executive board of medical service group MEDLIFE. Music was another one of Lee’s truest passions. He played the violin for most of his life as well as the guitar in high school and college, even joining the Golden Blues a cappella group his freshman year.

“He didn’t care where he was,” Holl, a sophomore, says.

“He loved to entertain people and loved to sing.”

Since November, Holl and several of Lee’s friends have been working to bring a Leeinspired music festival to life.

The team has met nearly 10

times to plan and organize details for their desired summer show, including a search for a local venue and various artists.

Mike Halfen, also a former lacrosse teammate of Lee’s, said they have contacted venues in the city of Newark but that a location hasn’t yet been confirmed. Once the location is set, Halfen says the group will hold auditions for interested artists, hopefully filling a full day’s worth of music sets with local bands and university a cappella groups.

Holl says they’ve already reached out to Us The Duo, a musical husband-and-wife pair who complimented Lee’s talents after he opened for them during a Filipino Student Association music event in 2013.

“I know they made it big recently, so that’d be really awesome if we can get them,” Lee’s brother Joseph says.

Joseph also says he’s interested in singing and playing guitar at the concert.

“As far back as I can remember, we were playing music,” Joseph says. “And the fact that one of the most important things to him is

“It’s crazy that even though he’s not here, he still brings people together with music.”

CONNIE CHEN

going to become a festival—in his honor—it’s the best way to remember him.”

As of Monday, 127 people have raised $6,463 through the E J Woo Music Festival Fundraiser “GoFundMe” page, a little over one-third of the $15,000 goal. Friends have also raised nearly $1,000 by selling $5 bracelets to friends and family. The green-andgold bracelets are externally inscribed with Lee’s name, lacrosse number (6) and Twitter bio excerpt, “I wanna save the world.” The inside reads, “The Song in Our Hearts.”

Halfen says the group plans to donate funds made at the festival as scholarship money for local high school students pursuing a college education, as well as cover all funeral costs for the Lee family.

Lee’s girlfriend Connie Chen says she is excited to see the group’s ideas develop further and is confident that the concert will mean a lot to people who were close to Lee. “It’s crazy that even though he’s not here, he still brings people together with music,” she says.

Those interested in helping the cause can donate to the festival fund, as well as register for the April 18 “Race to Save the World” 10-K run in Lee’s name in Middle Run Valley Park on Possum Hollow Road.

Onsite registration begins at 8 a.m., and the race begins at 9 a.m.

“We really miss him, and we still think about him every day,” Joseph says. “We still feel him in our hearts, and we love him.”

HOW TO GET INVOLVED >DONATE TO THE FESTIVAL FUND (www.gofundme.com/EnochLeeFund)

>REGISTER FOR “RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD” (April 18 - Middle Run Valley Park)

COURTESY OF CONNIE CHEN Music was one of Lee’s truest passions, as he was an avid violinist, guitarist and singer.

“I DRANK BEER THAT CAME FROM A WASHING MACHINE.” ABBIE SARFO / PAGE 11

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/COLUMNS it’s all in your head

When Goosebumps Strike the Right Chord

There has to be a really good reason why you insist on putting in ear buds every day when you walk to class or why you’re willing to drop three hundred bucks for Firefly tickets.

Music is, for many of us, a near-vital part of our lives— an extension of us, in some ways. We need to be listening when we study, when we work out. Many of us crave to see live music, even if prices soar into the stratosphere of I-definitely-can’t-afford-this.

Our universal love for music is not just a creative pleasure but a biological one.

“From neuro-scientific research we know that music can activate the same pleasure centers of the brain that also respond to much less abstract rewards such as food, drugs or indeed sex,” says music psychologist Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen, who performed a study commissioned by Spotify titled “Science Behind the Song.”

Our brains are so completely engaged when we listen to music that we’re often trying to anticipate the next note before we’ve heard it. We are evolutionarily wired to be really good predictors in any situation, and this habit even applies to seemingly mundane activities such as listening to

music.

But, as we’ve all experienced, music is not always so predictable. We don’t always see the entry of a solo voice coming or the pitch changes or the sudden louder moments that interrupt the quiet ones.

Typically, when one of these changes hits us unexpectedly during a song, our bodies receive it in the form of goosebumps that can spread across the entire body.

The more anticipation and build-up, the greater the chills.

And come on, the chills are arguably the best part of listening to music. It’s a ubiquitous sign of finding a song you know you’re going to fall in love with (and listen to on repeat until you can’t stand it anymore).

It appears that the science really does back up this claim.

In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers studied the release of dopamine (a neurotransmitter in the brain) that occurs in response to music we find pleasurable.

Basically, dopamine is released when we listen to music we like, but it’s released in an especially distinct pathway in the brain in anticipation of “an abstract reward:” meaning those notes

filmaholic

The Reign of Rhimes independent female lead.

Her growing body of work has everyone in the industry asking how Rhimes is so successful.

With such a diverse cast, she is unflinchingly honest in their portrayal, tossing aside common stereotypes of race, gender and sexuality.

Most importantly, minority characters wield positions of power and influence. There’s Cyrus Beene, a gay politician who is the leading advisor to the president and Annalise Keating, a prominent criminal law professor.

Rhimes is adding a dash of color in revolutionary strides— instead of catering to a narrow audience like Tyler Perry, her content appeals to all walks of life, touching on racial issues without making them the main focus of her dramas.

I think it says volumes that Kerry Washington is the first black female lead of a network TV drama since the 1974 “Get Christie Love!” featuring an undercover detective investigating narcotics in Los Angeles.

The difference between

What better way to celebrate TV titan Shonda Rhimes than dedicate an entire weekday night to her brilliance? In our household, Thursday is “Shondaday” and we pay our respects to this glorious goddess by watching back-to-back episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and, most recently, “How to Get Away with Murder.”

ABC is expanding on its Rhimes trifecta with a fourth series from her production company, ShondaLand. Slotted for the 2015-2016 season, “The Catch” stars Mireille Enos as Alice Martin, a fraud investigator whose upcoming nuptial to a con artist will conflict with her hidden profession, leading to a deadly game of seduction and survival.

From Canny Lads Production, Jennifer Schuur is the screenwriter and Julie Anne Robinson will be directing.

Variety reports that the new edition will continue to feature a fiercely intelligent and

unfiltered commentary

Tragedy is the most avoidable word. There is awkwardness in not knowing—how to act, how to be, how to feel. Tragedy strikes and first responders act bravely, family members break down and acquaintances know not their place, but the emotions they feel for those experiencing tragedy.

How to be there for someone—to embrace someone with open arms and comforting words is the hardest to know.

How to tell someone it’s okay, when you know it won’t be for a while, isn’t an option and understanding his or her emotions becomes nearly impossible.

When tragedy hits there are swarms of familiar, comforting arms to engulf you, but slowly this fades. Time moves quickly for others and yours seems to be in a standstill. You are forced to be an individual again when you feel weaker than ever, and something about recent events makes you stand differently, see

Raw Tragedy differently, act differently.

How is it that in a world where many put their beliefs in the hands of greater gods, the greater good and so forth, that tragedy always seems to strike the best people we know?

Who is the determiner of this “greater good” we are all so keen on trying to believe in? Who is the writer of the phrase “everything happens for a reason?” Can that person stand and enlighten us on the tragedies in the world, please, and give a “reason” why tragedy strikes so close, too often and with little care?

In the dark of tragedy we search for the light, that place at the end of the tunnel that we see and think: “okay, here it is— this is the way out, there in the distance is a familiar comfort that that I can almost grasp.”

We put our faith in coincidences and believe in a heaven to help us sleep better at night. Sunshine breaks through the morning, waking us and we feel that the person we love, the

and rhythms we can’t always predict. So, the anticipation really is biologically different from the simple pleasure of music.

Of course, despite the universal effects music seems to have on many of us, it is still something of an individual experience.

“Our results suggest that chills depend very much on our ability to interpret the music,” says Oliver Grewe, a biologist and musicologist at the Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine in Hanover, Germany. “It is the listener who gives life to the emotions in music.”

Apparently, only about 50 percent of people experience the chills when they listen to music (I’m sorry, but the other half is seriously missing out). And so, there are some individual differences between those who get the chills and those who don’t.

According to Grewe’s research, people who do experience chills tend to be more driven by rewards and are less likely to be thrillseekers.

So, while Delaware may love Firefly for 68 million economic reasons, those reasons probably wouldn’t even exist if we didn’t experience such intense biological responses to music.

Thank you, goosebumps.

ALLIE STRICKLER ajaye@udel.edu

The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

their characters demonstrates the growth we have made as a society. Washington’s Olivia Pope is the fixer, the one who wears the “white hat” and leader of the gladiators. Every man wants her and everyone else seeks her guidance.

It is rare we see black females portrayed in such a positive light. Pope is articulate and quick on her feet. The only nagging issue is her lack of character flaws besides her affair with the president. I want to see what happens when she struggles with the burden of the white hat.

Regardless of a few minor issues, little is found wanting in Rhimes’ shows. The storylines deviate from the norm, often shocking audiences with their successful twist endings.

However, even if you strip away the fast paced plots of murder and intrigue and political scandals, there is a cultivated insight into the lives and motivations of her characters who are absolutely gripping.

In May 2007, Rhimes was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 people who help shape the world. All hail Queen Shonda!

AMBER JOHNSON anjohns@udel.edu

The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review. ones who have been taken from us, are still here with us. We are gifted with a sense of peace that comes from that mindset.

There comes a newborn sense of life in the unlit fire behind your eyes. We learn to move forward and to laugh like we used to. We know deep sadness and fear and become appreciative and thankful for the small, insignificant things that trigger those happier emotions.

We start to find ourselves again and our fractures become healed within our new sense of self. Time drags us by the hand, day after day, and we are forever indebted to its persistence to not let us fall behind.

Some things in life shape us more than others.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross once said: “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of those depths.”

The most tragic of events sometimes allow you to realize that even when your fire has been put out, another one is just waiting to start.

ALEXANDRA STRAUSMAN astraus@udel.edu

The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

brain, body, mind

This year’s #WorldWaterDay is this coming Sunday. The theme for this year is “Water and Sustainable Development,” chosen by UN-Water to raise awareness for smarter water consumption worldwide.

The UN estimates that two-thirds of our global population will reside in water-sparse nations by 2025 if current patterns of consumption continue. Most of us are fortunate enough to have access to water 24/7, which makes it seem like an unlimited resource. But the truth is, water is in finite supply—so the more you use for your shower, the less is left for the rest of the world.

This jeopardizes economic development and the balance of our ecosystem.

Not only is smart water consumption important on a global scale, but it also affects human health within our own communities. The human body is over 60 percent water. That water serves as a conductor for electrical signals of the nervous system and facilitates many physiological functions.

Plus, studies have shown that dehydration can impair cognitive skills in both children and adults. Water is vital for the well-being of all people.

Think about how much water you use in a day—how can you reduce that number?

1.

Take a hint from Barney: always turn off the faucet while you brush

World Water Day

your teeth, wash your face or any other personal routine requiring the sink.

On a related note…

2. Take shorter showers.

You can learn how to Shower Better at the Environmental Protection Agency’s website.

3. Fix any leaks: the EPA estimates that household leaks waste one trillion gallons of water per year.

4.

Turn off the lights.

Water is used to cool down the equipment that generates our electricity.

5.

Only wash full loads of laundry or dishes, or purchase an appliance that adjusts for the amount of water needed to wash a smaller amount.

6. Volunteer monitoring: you can help to keep the EPA informed of the condition of water sources in your area.

You can also help raise awareness of World Water Day 2015 on Twitter using the hashtag #WaterIs. Tweet about what water means to you! And don’t forget to be mindful of your water consumption this week and every week.

ERIN ELLER eeller@udel.edu

The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

simply stylish

The “perfect” bag is nearly impossible to find.

That’s why so many of us have so many of them. Here are five types of bag every woman should have:

The Crossbody Bag

The crossbody bag is the most versatile and convenient bag for college students. A long chain or leather strap makes it easy to wear all day and well into the evening. The convenient style looks great and keeps your hands free all night.

It’s the perfect bag to carry for a whole day of shopping, then take to a party that same night. New York-based designer Rebecca Minkoff’s ‘Avery’ crossbody bag is my favorite one yet. For $175, you can get this day/night bag in five different color options from any Nordstrom location.

The Neutral Tote

Everyone needs a tote bag that works with anything. A leather satchel tote bag is timeless and always in style.

That is why it is important to pick the right color when buying a bag like this. Sole Society has a number of different satchel tote bags, but their “Dolores” is your perfect bag. The satchel comes in taupe for just under $40. Taupe is the neutral color that every girl needs to make her look appear put-together.

Clutch

A clutch is perfect for lunch or dinner dates. They are compact and provide the best size to pack your necessities. Clutches can be also your “just for fun” bag. Experiment with a pop of color, crazy patterns, fringe or a clutch covered in embellishments. Matt & Nat’s ‘Daisy’ Vegan Leather Clutch comes in a number of colors.

This envelope clutch in “Iris” is a pretty periwinkle purple that would compliment any outfit. For $80, you can have

Finding the Perfect Bag

the clutch of your dreams that would be easy to take to brunch with friends.

Overnight Bag

Travel bags are necessary for coming back to school from home or going to visit friends from other schools. I always had a hard time finding the perfect travel/overnight bag, until I came across the ‘Le Pliage’ Expandable Travel Bag. It is a bit of an investment, but well worth it. For $255, the expandable travel bag is big enough for a carry-on or a weekend away. The zip inset expands the bag to its full size and adds an edgier look. Whether it is for one weekend or just one night, this bag has enough room for your travel needs.

Classic Black Bag

Any size and any type of black bag is one of the most important purchases a woman can make. My favorite is a black leather bag, particularly an Hermes “Kelly” style. Now, I cannot afford a “Kelly” bag, but there are some very chic knockoffs. The trapezoid shaped bag has two handles— one saddle handle and a long shoulder strap. The padlock feature on the front makes the bag look classy and timeless, just like the woman it was named after.

Grace Kelly popularized the Hermes bag in the 1950s and it is still as beautiful as it was back then.

The perfect bag is out there ladies, but who said you have to settle for only one? Bags are the perfect collectable accessory, so start your collections now with these five bags!

HANNAH WORSH hworsh@udel.edu

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Each St. Patrick’s Day allows for the opportunity to try new ways of celebrating rich holiday traditions— but we all know college students like to do things a little differently. Of course, we’re all familiar with the quintessential St. Patrick’s Day staple: the Irish Car Bomb. But for those of us who can’t handle the high-stress, 60-seconds-or-less drinking habits of our resident frat stars, here’s a delicious alternative!

I have to stress the bravery of this endeavor because here’s the thing: I don’t bake. Ever. Yet last night I clambered down to my dorm’s kitchen, set everything out on a table and got to work.

I’d spent the week hounding my roommate to get all the supplies I needed, but I was apprehensive to start. I knew it would be interesting, to say the least.

Once I got my playlist going, I took a deep breath and began with the cake base.

I poured one cup of Guinness Draught into a saucepan. I melted one cup of unsalted butter and added it to the Guinness, along with threefourths of a cup of cocoa powder. I stirred the mixture until it began to simmer, then turned the heat down to low.

In a separate bowl, I mixed together two cups of flour, two cups of granulated sugar, 1.5 teaspoons of baking soda, three-fourths of a teaspoons of salt, two eggs and twothirds of a cup of sour cream.

I poured in the Guinness mixture and stirred well.

Next, I attempted to pour the batter into three cupcake trays. This was an ordeal. The

only way I could manage the transfer was by ladling the batter slowly (and messily) into each tray. Once I’d finished, the cupcakes went into the oven. At this point, some strangers decided to wander in to study in the kitchen. Chocolate was smeared over the counter top, the table, the floor and my face I’m pretty sure, so— looking like a deer caught in headlights—I asked them to excuse the mess.

While the cupcakes were baking, I began the chocolate ganache filling. I poured eight ounces of chocolate chips into a bowl, after which I realized the directions said to “finely chop” them. I had a butter knife at my disposal and used it to hack futilely at the chips. Obviously, this got me nowhere, so I tossed aside the knife and stuck the bowl in the microwave until the chips became soft enough to break down into smaller clumps. In the meantime, I put two-thirds of a cup of heavy cream into a saucepan and heated it over the stove. When it began to simmer, I added it to the chocolate along with two teaspoons of Jameson whiskey. As I furiously mixed everything together, all I could think about was the fact that my time spent at the gym had been preparing me for this moment.

After about 45 minutes, the cupcakes were ready to come out of the oven. I had to cut small holes into each cupcake—about three-fourths of the way down—to make room for the ganache. The filling process turned out surprisingly well (though also a little messily, as the ganache hadn’t solidified as much as it should have). Feeling proud of myself, I was ready to

LEAH RODRIGUEZ/THE REVIEW Though she is not an avid baker, Leah Rodriguez puts a spin on the Irish Car Bomb by combining it with cupcakes. tackle the vanilla cream icing.

Considering my newfound baking superpowers, this would be no problem. Then I took a closer look at the ingredients. The icing called for five cups of powdered sugar, which I’d forgotten to put on my roommate’s shopping list.

I ran frantically across the turf into the P.O.D., hoping beyond expectation that the sugar would be there. It was not. Desperate, I grabbed a container of vanilla frosting.

I went back and emptied the container of icing into a bowl, adding five tablespoons of Bailey’s Irish Cream.

The sweetness of it nearly knocked me over, but it would have to do.

At this point, the studious strangers had vacated the kitchen, and I’d been “baking” for two and half hours. Apparently, throwing ingredients around is a lot of work. I made a feeble attempt at icing the cupcakes and called it a night as soon as they looked semi-decent.

I was just thrilled that they came out vaguely resembling cupcakes.

I can’t say I’m going to bake anything again in the near future, but the evening’s final product appeared to be worth the effort. My friends were highly skeptical when I tried to pawn the cakes off on them, but they were pleasantly surprised, and the endeavor felt like a success.

Want the recipe?

Head on over to browneyedbaker.com

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW In light of St. Patrick’s Day, Abbie considers the college-specific phenomenon of day drinking. Above students partake in the festivities on Main Street.

Confessions of a temporary Irish Lass: A reflection on the “daging” culture

ABBIE SARFO Columns Managing Editor St. Patrick’s Day is awesome, but worthless. Do you know what it’s about?

Because I certainly don’t. No one does! But I can hardly think of a holiday that college kids love more. Why? The dages.

While the concept is nothing new, the term is all Delaware. Mention “dage” to the uninitiated and you’ll surely receive blank stares and confusion in return: “Dage? What the hell is that?

Stop trying to make ‘dage’ happen. It’s never gonna happen.”

The word “dage” is stupid, yes. The thing “dage” is also stupid, but very near to our hearts.

Let’s be honest: marathon drinking sessions in the middle of the day? Terrible idea. Super fun, but still terrible. Real people don’t do that! Under normal circumstances, staying intoxicated for multiple daylight hours would be filed under “a call for help.”

But we’re not real people, nor is this the real world.

We’re adult-shaped children, and the rules for proper grown-up behavior don’t apply to us.

Dages are a distillation of the greatest things about college. They’re the sloppiest expression of our freedom and youth. We’re without actual responsibilities, and we have enough free time that fun is still a major priority. Who else has the luxury of being drunk all day, for no real reason?

It took me some time to fully appreciate dages. Only last St. Patrick’s Day did I come around to their ratchet

majesty.

I drank beer that came from a washing machine. I made many of the incredibly deep (but short-lived) friendships one can only achieve while wasted. I peed in a sink while strangers watched.

It was glorious.

There’s something about day drinking that just feels right. Parties are looser, the people more uninhibited. Is there a better way you can spend your time? Definitely.

But then again, when else will it be cool for you to be this drunk at 2 p.m.?

We owe it to ourselves to get this out of our systems.

St. Patty’s dages are simply the best. Nothing beats thousands of kids partying together at unrespectable hours.

Plus, there’s the distinct air of camaraderie that only this holiday can inspire: hoards of students roam the streets, exuding a drunken happiness almost as aggressive as the green on their bodies.

For on this day of St. Patrick: Everyone’s trashy.

Nobody cares. And life is perfect.

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If the shoe fits: A glimpse of the American Dream

AMANDA SCHUMAN Staff Reporter

Abbott’s Shoe Repair has been a fixture on Main Street since 1950.

Located next to Bloom and across from Grassroots, Abbott’s is a small shoe repair store with a vast history.

Phil Abbott currently runs the store, which was founded by his father, a World War II veteran.

After the war, Abbott’s father worked at a shipyard and also did shoe repairs in his uncle’s basement. He opened the repair shop on Main Street—an ideal location, since its close proximity to Chrysler and General Motors meant he could fix the shoes of “the working man.”

Over the years, Abbott and his three brothers all worked at the shop. Abbott came back from the Air Force in January 1973, took a week off and, since then, has been working at the store every day, six days a week with minimal vacations.

Abbott says his favorite part of repairing shoes is the “magic” he can do with his hands.

“Every time I see a smile at

the other end of the counter, that’s a paycheck,” he says.

Abbott recounts many memorable repairs. A young girl came in crying over a pair of cowboy boots that she didn’t want to part with, and seeing the look on her face after he fixed them was “priceless.”

Abbott is capable of fixing more than just shoes. When a man who was sailing in a race from Massachusetts to Florida stopped in with a huge rip down the middle of his 80-by-60-foot sail, Abbot helped him repair it.

He also uses the machinery in the back of his store to revive smaller belongings, like broken backpack straps and coat zippers.

Abbott says the hardest repair job is sewing boots back into the soles, in the original holes made by the factory. His father told him that successfully doing so is the sign of a good shoe repairman.

When Abbott chooses to retire, he says the shop will close down with him.

“From what I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s a dying trade, and it is hard to teach,” he says of the business.

EMILY MOORE/THE REVIEW Phil Abbott has been working at Abbott’s Shoe Repair since returning from the Air Force in 1973, eventually taking over for his father. When Abbott chooses to retire, he says the shop will close with him.

He has no nearby competition, although he welcomes it.

“I will gladly see someone compete with me,” he says.

“Because then I [would] cut my prices so low they wouldn’t be able to stay in business. I also have already built the clientele.”

Abbott stopped advertising twenty years ago. He primarily gets business through local students and via word of mouth from customers over the years.

Customers who have moved as

far as Oregon and Florida still attest to his skills and send him their shoes for a guaranteed job well done.

“What you do with your hands is more valuable than what you put in the paper,” he says.

While it isn’t a typical restaurant or shop on Main Street, Abbott’s Shoe Repair has been sustained over the years by customers from companies such as Chrysler, Gore and DuPont.

While it may not be the most frequented business on Main Street, Abbott’s Shoe Repair is a hidden gem on our campus and a testament to the American Dream. Abbott is a self-made businessman who takes pride in his skills.

“I think it is important to be true to yourself,” he says. “I’m an icon because I made myself one, and I became the best of the best.”

Home Sweet Home: How to survive spring break with Mom and Dad JAGODA DUL Managing Mosaic Editor

Want more info?

Email Henley at hcook@udel.edu

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Henley Cook is the social media director of UDress Magazine and offers fashion consultations.

Fashion student talks styling services

KAYLA BAPTISTE Staff Reporter

Since senior fashion merchandising major Henley Cook stepped foot on campus almost four years ago, she has been finding new ways to express herself through her naturally strong sense of fashion. But it wasn’t until recently that she realized her flair for helping others find their own style.

“I just love the art of personal expression through dress,” she says. “It tells a lot about a person.”

Cook became inspired to start styling others when she went on a study abroad trip to Paris this winter with the fashion and apparel studies program.

There, she helped revamp the wardrobes of some friends, who then encouraged her to extend her skills more officially.

Since she has a strong presence on campus, Cook decided, upon returning to campus, she would offer styling services to students who wanted to enhance their means of self-

expression.

“I really enjoy doing this a lot—for myself and other people,” she says.

Cook offers personal styling at a flat rate of $40 for three hours, charging $10 for every additional hour. During wardrobe consultations, she suggests ways for her clients to change up their styles. She even goes to the mall with clients to help them choose outfits that best suit their body types. She also offers event styling, helping clients create appropriate outfits for specific events.

Cook is involved in many activities that speak to her love of fashion, including writing fashion editorials for UDress Magazine.

“My ultimate goal for my career is to become a fashion editor,” she says.

Cook says her own style is “original, unique and limitless.”

She has recently been trying to embody the “rockstar” look, which she describes as “fearless and kind of cool.” She also enjoys vintage fashion and says she has become more inclined to take risks.

“My freshman Intro to Fashion Merchandising professor, Dilia López-Gydosh, told the class, ‘College is the perfect time to experiment with fashion,’” she says. “And I took that wholeheartedly.”

Cook hopes to expand her business and grow her clientele.

She currently has two clients, senior Kathleen Corcoran and freshman Marissa Timoner.

With Cook’s help, Corcoran revamped her style during their Paris study abroad trip.

“Henley has very daring style, which I admire,” Corcoran says.

Corcoran says Cook helped her choose outfits to wear on casual days out while in Paris.

Since returning to campus, she has continued seeking Cook’s advice.

“I learned [to] not be afraid of getting out of your comfort zone,” Corcoran says.

She says Cook inspires others to “break the rules” a bit when putting together outfits.

“Henley has what it takes to be a stylist,” she says. “She will definitely shake up the fashion world.”

In the last two weeks before spring break we can’t help but stare blankly at our textbooks and pray for the end of midterms, lab reports and 80 page reading assignments that we probably won’t do anyways.

St. Paddy’s weekend has come and gone, and the future looks pretty bleak until you can fly off to some tropical location for spring break.

Unless you’re going home for spring break. In that case you probably don’t have much to look forward to and are just hoping you don’t fail your geology midterm since all you do in class is back stalk yourself on Facebook and attempt to decipher your professor’s thick Italian accent.

Going home for spring break may be something we avoid talking about and pretend isn’t happening, but getting through that week at home is definitely possible and you might even end up enjoying it.

Here’s how to avoid your mom’s constant nagging about what you’re doing after graduation and come back to school actually well-rested and refreshed (which definitely wouldn’t be possible if you went to Panama City Beach for a week-long drinking spree).

Plan a day trip

You will get cabin fever if you stay home for the entire week, so plan a day trip with some of your friends, either from home or from school who live nearby. Spending all week in your childhood bed binge watching “House of Cards” sounds relaxing and great in theory, but by Wednesday you will be in dire need of some human interaction.

Do something fun with your parents

You might wonder how “fun” and “parents” can possibly be in the same sentence, but your parents (despite what negative feelings you have about them refusing to put more Flex onto your account) are actually excited that you are home, so some quality family bonding shouldn’t be completely out of the question. Admit it—you know you miss your mom.

Try out a social media cleanse

Nothing feeds your FOMO like scrolling through Instagram and seeing all your friends taking Fireball shots in Mexico. You’re constantly glued to your phone while at school, between the 10 group chats you’re in that seem to never stop draining your battery or the constant emails your professor sends about assignment and test dates.

Put down the iPhone and you’ll find your anxiety levels falling almost as quickly as your friend’s likelihood of getting a job after graduation after she posted a picture of a beach local taking body shots off her stomach.

Take care of yourself

In between late-night study sessions and latenight bar crawls, you probably haven’t gotten much sleep this semester.

You felt your body slowly telling you to take a breather the Sunday morning after St. Patty’s Day Saturday (you didn’t get out of bed until 6 p.m. and that was only because you desperately needed some food), so spring break is the perfect time to actually get eight hours of sleep since you probably haven’t had that experience since winter break.

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Peace Corps changes application to boost recruitment MARGARET MCNAMARA Senior Reporter After a decline in application numbers in recent years, the Peace Corps is reforming its recruiting process and making changes to the old application.

Applications dropped from over 15,000 in 2009 to a little over 10,000 in 2012, according to a Peace Corps annual performance and accountability report. Peace Corps regional recruiter Julia Marsh said during those years the focus was on improving internal projects to better the experience of its volunteers and the countries it served rather than marketing and recruitment.

This past July, the Peace Corps responded to the decrease in applicants with a more user-friendly application.

It is shorter and based on the applicant’s resume, Marsh said.

It focuses on the applicant’s experience and rather than containing two essays, it now contains one.

Peace Corps campus ambassador Abby Kramer said she heard horror stories about the 60-page application. The old process may have been discouraging to prospective volunteers, but Kramer said she thinks the new application makes it more attractive to qualified applicants.

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Marsh said 23 percent of people would typically finish the application, whereas now 95 percent finish the application, increasing the 2013 applicant pool by 70 percent. Kramer said this year the number of applications skyrocketed to an all-time high of 17,000.

“People passionate about causes can use Peace Corps to achieve their goals,” Kramer said.

The White House’s Let Girls Learn initiative raises awareness about the lack of female education worldwide.

Kramer said initiatives like this make the Peace Corps more attractive to someone who cares about the issue presented.

When H.I.V. exploded in Africa, Peace Corps made that a priority. Now a lot of Peace Corps problems are focused on helping communities adjust to environmental challenges due to climate change, Marsh said.

“We always want to find ourselves on trend with what the global development community is doing,” Marsh said. “It will absolutely create more interest.”

Senior wildlife conservation major Kerry Snyder is joining the Peace Corps next year as a protected areas management promoter.

Snyder said she looks forward to teaching the importance of protecting

COURTESY OF KERRY SNYDER Kerry Snyder, a senior wildlife conservation major, is joining the Peace Corps next year as a protected areas management promoter. wildlife and deforestation in graduate school but now people allow students to gain skills communities that may not can plan their life, Marsh said. that Peace Corps sees in its understand the effects of “Folks can be really most competitive applicants. climate change. strategic about the job they The university currently The new application allows pick with Peace Corps to line has 18 volunteers serving and users to choose specific with personal and professional has had 318 volunteers overall, programs and gives them a endeavors,” Marsh said.

Marsh said. timeline for when they will Today’s college students are “Our program is largely receive a decision and when the qualified for lots of reasons, she recent undergrads and people program leaves the country. said. Internships, study abroad, just out of grad schools,” Marsh In the past, it was difficult for volunteering and opportunities said. “I don’t think that’s going people to know whether to to work with international to change.” take a job, sign a lease or go to students are experiences that

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SAM RICHTER Film Columnist Given Disney’s track record in the field of making live-action duds of their classic animated features (see “Maleficent,” “Alice in Wonderland,” etc.), it was reasonable to be skeptical about “Cinderella.” However, this film succeeds where others have failed.

“Cinderella” is undoubtedly a good film, but some may object due to the fact that they have seen this movie before.

They should not.

“Cinderella” stays markedly true to its source material, yet forgoes all the special effects and talking mice that would be needed for this film to be identical to the 1950’s classic version. The director should be praised for this decision.

Films like the live-action “Maleficent” have often felt bogged down due to its many special effects, and “Cinderella” would have likely collapsed under its own weight had it been otherwise. As a result, “Cinderella” always feels like a fresh and innovative take on a classic story.

The story is as old as time: Cinderella lives a charmed childhood until her father remarries a proverbial siren.

The wicked stepmother is played remarkably well by Cate Blanchett, who captures with ease all of the coldness and malice needed for the role.

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percent of workers who serve in Africa (23% Latin America, 10% Eastern Europe/Central Asia, 12% Asia, 10% other) the emotional heart of this movie. One cannot help but empathize with Cinderella as she is ordered from room to room and callously told that she is not allowed to go to the ball. As if this were not enough, the stepmother tells Cinderella that her dress— which was bequeathed to her by her mother—is hideous and proceeds to rip it to shreds as Cinderella wears it. Watching the innocent, helpless and kind Cinderella incessantly undergoing all of this abuse was enough to make your correspondent cringe.

Cinderella’s ugly stepsisters, Anastasia and Drisella, are also a welcome addition to the film even in spite (or perhaps because of) their obnoxiousness. Unlike their mother, these sisters lack beauty, intelligent thought and any real skill.

They do, however, try so very hard. In a scene where they make an attempt at singing, the result is so awful that one could confuse the singing for nails on a chalkboard: even their mother tells them to stop.

Like their mother, the stepsisters mock Cinderella with impunity, but they seem to lack the intelligence for being truly evil. The sisters are droll and dimwitted, their only goal in life is to marry the first wealthy man they meet.

Though they certainly do not want to get to know him first because as Anastasia says, then “she might change her mind.”

Cinderella’s persecution,

however, is a limited one. It seems notable that only “bad” individuals oppress her, like her wicked stepmother.

Greater societal oppression and persecution is almost lacking entirely. Women in this revisionist version of history do not marry unless they consent, even to the king. Racism seems to have been wiped out in the kingdom, and sexism goes unaddressed. These historical anachronisms seem necessary for Cinderella’s story. After all, this is tale of love for tweens, not a historical account of injustice.

Herein lies the only real criticism of the movie: Cinderella’s story is a simple one. There is a stark dichotomy between good and evil, and cosmic justice ensures that each group gets exactly what they deserve.

“Cinderella” is a fantastic movie, but its source material enslaves the film to a very small range of the human experience.

The film lacks the moral and emotional complexity required of a truly great film. The film’s modernizing and westernizing of societal beliefs and institutions is a particularly stark example of this.

Cinderella tells her father that stories with happy endings are the best kind of stories.

After watching “Cinderella,” many will agree, and happily everyone is invited to the ball.

The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

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‘FINDING NEVERLAND’ TAKES TO BROADWAY

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I’m trying to find Neverland, and I hear the best place to find it is Manhattan.

Last Sunday, “Finding Neverland” began Broadway previews. The musical is based off of the 2004 movie of the same name about J.M. Barrie’s relationship with the family who inspired “Peter Pan.”

The musical first premiered in Leicester, England in 2012 and after a major rewrite premiered again in 2014 in Cambridge, Mass. It is now transitioning to the Broadway stage.

When I first heard about this show, I began looking up plane

tickets to Boston.

It isn’t necessarily the plot that appeals to me. I haven’t seen the movie, but it kind of sounds like Saving Mr. Banks,” but with another Disney movie.

Which is fine, but I prefer the big flashy musicals with lights and glamour.

It doesn’t seem that this show will be like that at all. But it does have big name casting to garner a lot of attention.

First of all, Mia Michaels choreographed the musical.

For any “So You Think You Can Dance” fans, the name alone is enough to jump on the “Neverland” bandwagon.

Michaels is an Emmy awardwinning choreographer for her

“...THIS FILM SUCCEEDS WHERE OTHERS HAVE FAILED.” work on “So You Think,” but is also critically acclaimed for her work on Cirque Du Soleil tours and Celine Dion’s Vegas show.

As a choreographer myself, she’s one of my biggest inspirations. Sometimes her numbers are heart-wrenching contemporary routines, like “Calling You” from “So You Think,” while other times she does sassier jazz like “Mercy” (also “So You Think”). Her name alone on the bill is enough to get me to come. There’s no doubt the dancing is absolutely stunning in “Neverland.”

Just in case this wasn’t enough, Melanie Moore plays the role of Peter Pan in both the Cambridge premier and on Broadway. Moore won the eighth season of “So You Think.” She’s a breathtaking dancer—probably one of my all time favorites— with flawless technique and gorgeous lines.

And then, there’s the lead guy, J.M. Barrie, who was played

by Jeremy Jordan in Cambridge.

Jordan is best known for his role on “Smash,” Broadway’s “Newsies” and most recently he starred in the film version of “The Last Five Years.”

I love him. There’s no hiding it. I did see him live in Newsies, but I actually almost took a weekend off from my own show to see him in person again. (I didn’t, my mother would kill me.)

The role will be taken over on Broadway by Matthew Morrison, whose name is always followed by “the guy who played Will Schuester,” at least when I’m talking about him.

Although he is best known for uniting a group of actors in their late 20s pretending to be high school students on “Glee,” Morrison is a Tony award winner for his roles in “The Light in the Piazza,” and originating the role of Link Larkin in “Hairspray” on Broadway. Most recently, it was announced Schuester—or

Morrison, whatever—will be starring in a new musical, “17 Again.”

Morrison will be fantastic.

I’ll always look at him and think of the mashup of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” and “Young Girl” he sang to Lea Michele, in which Michele’s high schoolaged character was hitting on Morrison. (“Glee” did some pretty bizarre songs and scenarios, but that takes the cake.) Anyway, Morrison will be great if he can overcome his Will Schuester persona.

The show will do well. It’s got the big names for advertising and the talent to back it up. Over the past few months, it feels like half of Broadway’s shows closed, making room for new ones such as “Finding Neverland.” I say go for it. You won’t discover the next big hit if you keep running “Chicago” and “Phantom of the Opera.”

Otherwise, you may never find your neverland.

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Freshman Kieran Purcell gets ready to drive the ball. Purcell placed seventh in individual standings, while the team placed fourth overall.

JACK COBOURN Managing Sports Editor As the ground begins to thaw, the Delaware men’s golf team set out on its spring season, finishing fourth overall in the Appalachian State/Cape Fear Intercollegiate, held at the Cape Fear Golf Club in Leland, N.C. The team was placed fourth after Sunday’s round, with freshman Kieran Purcell seventh in the individual standings.

Freshman Jack Gianniny, last year’s New York State champion for Pittsford Sutherland High School, who also finished 29th out of 150 in the prestigious Monroe Invitational, said it would be an honor to play in the

Fierce inter-team competition, friendship spurs Blue Hens on Appalachian State tournament. at the Navy Fall Classic in early “They host a good September, and then tied with tournament,” Gianniny said. Penn at the Cornell Invitational “I’ve never played there, but it in late September. The Blue sounds great because I’ve been Hens had one more second told that it’s a great course, and usually the great tournaments are held at great courses.”

The Blue Hens are led

by Mike Keogh, who graduated JACK GIANNINY, Freshman from the university in 1973, and has been the head place finish, in the Binghamton coach for 13 years. Keogh Fall Invitational, held at the coached the team to two Links of Hiawatha Landing in straight second-place finishes Apalachin, N.Y. in the fall. Delaware first “We have an incredibly finished second out of 10 teams strong, strong freshman class,”

Keogh said. “We’ve got some solid, solid potentials.”

Delaware was ranked in the top 25 for freshmen, with Gianniny, Purcell, Erik Dulik and Blaine Lafferty joining junior Kyle Martin as the only players to have more than one tournament appearance this year. Despite the freshmen leading the way, the competition is fierce for one of the five spots in the rotation.

“We have a pretty good competition again for the starting lineup,” captain and senior Niño Rosal said. “We have guys who are pushing

“They became great friends of mine, and I think that’s what makes us different is that we’re all so close to each other.”

guys, keeping everybody playing at a better level.”

One trick to improve the team’s efforts is in a converted racquetball court in the Carpenter Sports Building.

Consisting of a TV screen and a PC, players use the system to analyze their swings. Keogh said the women’s golf team came up with the system a few years ago.

However, Gianniny said the team’s preparation doesn’t just come from practice.

“Right off the bat, I knew that these were guys that I could spend every day practicing with,” he said. “They became great friends of mine, and I think that’s what makes us different is that we’re all so close to each other.”

Kormondy leaves legacy with Blue Hens

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Senior midfielder Brain Kormondy dodges a check during a game.

Kormondy has been drafted by the Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse (MLL) and will play for the team next season.

ERIN BOLAND Senior Sports Reporter After being named cocaptain of the University of Delaware men’s lacrosse team, one of the top midfielders in the CAA and a selected athlete in the 2015 Major League Lacrosse (MLL) draft by the Ohio Machine, Brian Kormondy is still humbled by all of his success.

Kormondy, a fifth-year senior, has made a name for

himself and has taken advantage of his time as a Blue Hen. He has the build for a lacrosse player—5-foot-11 and 175 pounds—a typical frame for male athletes. But looking at him without his pads, he doesn’t look like an intimidating player.

With his dark brown hair, blue eyes, freshly shaved face and a very contagious smile, he doesn’t seem like someone opponents would be afraid of on the field.

But they should be. Before

his senior season, Kormondy scored 51 points on 30 goals and 21 assists, making him the team’s active career leading goalscorer.

He always wanted to play college hockey, but circumstances changed when he began receiving letters from universities to play lacrosse.

Since he had the option of lacrosse, it made that decision a little easier.

Since he wanted a change of scenery from his hometown of Highland Ranch, Colo., Kormondy became a Blue Hen. “It was just my favorite place that I visited,” he said.

“I loved the campus here, and the coaches made me feel they wanted me here so it was an easy decision.”

Head coach Bob Shillinglaw had seen Kormondy play and got terrific feedback from coaches that had worked with him, so he was on the radar early.

“We got him on campus and he seemed to be a perfect fit as someone who is going to help our program,” Shillinglaw said. “He could work out as an attackman or a middie, so we felt that we could definitely find a spot for him.”

After injuries during his

freshman year, Kormondy redshirted but was committed to working hard and becoming a better player.

“His determination is the reason he’s the player that he is, and just coaching him is a positive experience for me,” Shillinglaw said.

Senior attackman Tom Holland said he has seen firsthand how Brian is an example to the underclassmen on the team.

“He’s always out there early with the younger players before practice, just working on whatever they need,” he said.

“I know they’re not afraid to go up and talk to him, so he’s more than willing to take time out of his day to help them.”

According to both Holland and Shillinglaw, Brian has found the perfect balance between being “one of the guys” and still being firm as a captain.

“As a leader with your peers, you want to make sure that the point has gotten across and that you’re firm, but at the same time that you’re able to communicate,” Shillinglaw said.

“There is a strong respect for Brian, for what he’s trying to do for the program as a leader and obviously what he can do on the

field as well.”

Once he is done wearing blue and gold for the Blue Hens, Kormondy’s jersey will switch to blue and white as he begins his lacrosse career for the Ohio Machine in the MLL. He was selected in the sixth round of the draft and will begin this summer.

“That was a dream come true,” Kormondy said. “I didn’t know if I would get drafted or not but that was one of the top moments for me.”

Besides playing lacrosse in the major league, he will also be putting his degree in marketing and management to use. He will be working as an advisor and marketing guide for Bridge Financial Group, a small stateplanning company who manages life insurance portfolios for families.

There’s a special bond that you share with teammates, and that’s what he’ll miss the most once he graduates, as the Blue Hens are a close-knit team and just hanging out in the locker room with the guys holds so many special memories for him, he said.

“It’s like a family, you have 40 other brothers that you get to hang out with everyday—you can’t really beat that.”

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JACK RODGERS Sports Features Editor

Arriving 36 hours early for every competition, the Delaware women’s golf team personifies preparation and commitment. While the team as a whole is a prestigious one—placing third in a tournament last week in Florida—senior Amanda Terzian stands out in her leadership and training.

Terzian’s preparation starts at the practice round by taking notes about the angles and curvatures of the green. This helps her be precise for each putt during the match.

“I write down so many notes on the greens,” Terzian said. “I go around and hit eight putts and get a cross on every hole, which takes a while, but I definitely focus more on the short game.”

Terzian has a routine in practice, and the day of the competition is the same story. Having more superstitions than a major league baseball player,

Terzian’s preparedness and focus is that of a professional.

From the Cookies and Creme Quest bars that she rations throughout the course to the glittery hair tie she uses, Terzian does everything in her power to make a round go her way. While some athletes may shut out the world with headphones, Terzian solves Rubik’s Cubes before competitions, and don’t get her started on the Sharpie she uses to mark up her notes.

“If I lose my purple Sharpie, it’s like a mental breakdown,” Terzian said.

“My coach spent 45 minutes looking for it one day for me.

I like to keep a routine.”

Terzian’s routines speak for themselves in her resume. Terzian was the CAA Women’s Golfer of the Week twice in October, was named to the CAA AllTournament team last year and her 76.46 average round is the lowest in the history of the program. Additionally, in

the 2012-13 season, Terzian was named the UD Alumni Association Team’s Most Valuable Playerbut that isn’t what Terzian prides herself on.

“It’s good for the team,” said Terzian. “It’s nice to see how you’re doing compared to other people in the conference. At the end of the day, it’s nice for them to recognize how I’m doing, but in the end, I know how I’m doing.”

In her last season as a Blue Hen, Terzian is going to miss her team the most.

She appreciates them and relishes the fact that there is always another day that she gets to try again—until the end of this season. Knowing that stepping off the course and into the open arms or cheering mass of teammates is now a thing of the past is something Terzian is still trying to understand.

Terzian will be soaking up every second in her final trips this year. If the team can organize an international trip after the season, Terzian plans on coming back to catch the flight.

The women’s golf team and Amanda Terzian look to continue their ascent to becoming a top-tier program by competing in the CAA championships in April.

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Senior Amanda Terzian lines up a putt. Terzian said she focuses a lot on her short game.

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Sheene: The Original

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Junior guard Courtni Green, seen here earlier in the season, led the Blue Hens during the CAA Tournament. Green had 14 points against Drexel in the Hens’ semifinal loss on Saturday.

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Blue Hens fail to reach fifth straight CAA title game

MEGHAN O’DONNELL Managing Sports Editor

After an improbable run to the CAA semifinals, the Delaware women’s basketball season came to an end with a tough loss to Hofstra University Saturday afternoon at The Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, Md. Just one game shy of the championship, the seventh-seeded Blue Hens defeated Northeastern and number three-seed Drexel on the way to the semifinals before going cold against the Hofstra Pride.

“It’s disappointing, but I’m proud of the kids,” head coach Tina Martin. “This team has battled through a lot of adversity this year.

We’ve had a lot of ups and downs.”

Coming off an upset over Drexel, Delaware hoped to continue its hot streak and reach its fifth-consecutive CAA championship game, but the team struggled in the first half. The Blue Hens were just five-for-25 from the field in the half, allowing Hofstra to take a dominant 30-12 lead by halftime.

Junior Courtni Green, who had a phenomenal

tournament, again paced the Blue Hens with a teamhigh 14 points. Green led the team in its two previous games as well, with 22 points and 16 points against Northeastern University and Drexel respectively.

Entering the second half, the Pride saw its commanding lead begin to slip away thanks to a tremendous comeback attempt by the Blue Hens. Erika Brown, who was named All-CAA second team, contributed 10 points and helped pull the Blue Hens within three.

“I thought our kids really gave a lot of effort,” Martin said. “We didn’t quit when we went down double digits.”

With just under three minutes to play, Green knocked down a three to put the score at 45-42 but that was as close as Delaware would get. After shooting just 14 of 51 from the field, the Blue Hens couldn’t convert in the final moments of the game.

Joy Caracciolo, one of only two seniors on the Delaware roster, added nine points and six rebounds in what would prove to be her final appearance for the Blue

Hens.

“This weekend we really battled and came together as a team to fight and try to win a championship,” the Virginia native said after the game.

With the loss, Delaware, who swept the regular season series with Hofstra, dropped to 15-17 on the season.

Despite the disappointing end to a tumultuous year, Martin remains optimistic about what is ahead for the Blue Hens.

“We’ve got a young team,” Martin said after the loss. “We’ve got some very good players coming in, and got some good players coming back so I’m excited for the future.”

I absolutely hate icebreakers.

Trotting out minor facts about myself is something I do over time as I get to know someone, not condense it into 10 second bursts. But when I was asked to name my “spirit animal,” my choice was easy: 1970s motorcycle racer Barry Sheene.

It wasn’t a lie, as Sheene is one of the few non-Formula One racers I consider a hero.

His sense of humor (recovering from a crash mentioned later on, he said, “I’d like to thank the doctors, without them, I’d be completely legless.”) and his good looks made him well-liked by the opposite sex. But his funny attitude off the bike was met with steely determination on it.

A couple years ago, I wrote about James Hunt, 1976 Formula One world champion, and the antics he got up to both in the car and with the ladies. Sheene was the same way, but unlike Hunt, Sheene is more of a hero because of one very big incident that didn’t just catapult him off his bike, but catapulted him onto the world’s stage.

40 years ago last weekend, Barry Sheene had his famous 170 m.p.h crash at Daytona during testing for the Daytona 200, one of the world’s most prestigious motorcycle races.

He broke his left thigh, right arm, collarbone and two ribs, but amazingly, returned to racing six weeks later.

It just so happened that a British television company had sent a film crew to watch him race and after the crash they ran the footage back home where it appeared

on the evening news. Barry Sheene had finally made it big. Sponsorship deals with Brut cologne followed, and if that wasn’t enough, it got the attention of a model who asked to borrow his fireproof suit for a photoshoot. Barry agreed, and sure enough, the two eventually got married.

Sheene would go onto win the 1976 and 1977 500cc World Motorcycle Championships, winning 11 out of 14 races entered over those two years.

Sheene’s career entered a downturn after those years, and he suffered a horrific crash in which his legs were so badly shattered, the only thing holding the lower part of the legs to the upper part were the arteries. Amazingly, while the doctors thought he would be in the hospital for three months, he came out in three and a half weeks and back racing five months after that.

Sheene retired in 1985, later moving to Australia and working as a TV commentator.

A lifelong smoker, Barry died of throat cancer at 52.

To me, Sheene is a hero because of his incredible fight back from injury. Nearly 10 years ago, I had surgery on my legs, and the recovery was an ordeal. I have a feeling that if I had learned of Barry Sheene, it may just have taken less time to walk again.

I’ve even begun to adopt some of Barry’s style to my own, and every time life seems to kick me in the shin, I keep a humorous look at it, just like him. I’ll never enjoy icebreakers, but I do know exactly who my heroes are.

The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

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Double 500cc Motorcycle World champion Barry Sheene is seen here at Oliver’s Mount in September 1979 riding his 500cc HeronSuzuki. Sheene won three World Championship races that year, finishing third in the final standings.

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