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Medical anthropologist to speak at commencement

BY ERIN QUINN Managing News Editor

Contributed by Ashley Bostwick

Last night, Markell urged students to suppost the Delaware bill that would legalize gay marriage in Delaware.

Markell pushes for marriage equality

BY CADY ZUVICH

Student Affairs Desk Editor

Gov. Jack Markell urged students to “write history” by supporting a Delaware bill that would make it the tenth state to legalize gay marriage.

“This is not about watching history happen,” Markell said. “It’s about making it.”

Markell spoke to a full audience in the Trabant Theater on Monday

night for the Equality Delaware rally. Held by the organization Equality Delaware, the rally aimed to encourage students and community members to make 2013 the year gay marriage is legalized in Delaware.

The event was sponsored by student organizations UD Democrats, Haven, Amnesty International, Active Minds, RSA, Mannrs, SAGE, VOX, V-Day, Uganda Untold and Deltronica.

Deltronica president Charlie Field spoke on behalf of his organization in full support of marriage equality. His support is derived from personal experience he said, since his older brother came out last year.

“It pains me to see my brother unable to experience the beautiful thing that is marriage,” Field said.

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Medical anthropologist, physician and humanitarian Paul Farmer will deliver the commencement address on May 25, university officials announced Thursday. Vice President and University Secretary Jeffrey Garland said Farmer was chosen after a consultative process that considered a variety of candidates and involved student and administrative input to determine the speaker.

The process of selecting a speaker involves a board committee, speakers bureaus and student suggestions, Garland said. There are a couple major components of a speaker that they consider, he said.

“What do we think fits where the university is?” Garland said. “What would increase the variety or diversity of the speakers over time?”

The administration welcomes student suggestions and input about speaker, Garland said. Senior Debra Schwartzreich said she “had no idea who he was” when she heard of the speaker and wished she had been included in the process of choosing.

“It would’ve been nice if they

asked our opinion or either put a few choices out there or an idea of what we would like,” Schwartzreich said.

A f t e r researching the speaker, she said she is interested to hear what Farmer will say and to hear Paul Farmer about his life at commencement.

Farmer started his work by addressing healthcare problems of farmers in Haiti in 1983 as a student.

He went on to be the founding director of Partners in Health, a nonprofit research, advocacy and healthcare service organization.

His organization has grown to extend work across Haiti and in additional developing nations and focuses on communitybased solutions and treatments for those areas that lack resources.

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Main Street Sliders to close doors after three years Thursday

BY ELENA BOFFETTA City News Desk Editor

THE REVIEW/ Emma Rando Main Street Sliders has operated for three years, serving burgers, fries and a variety of small sandwiches.

The business has had financial problems due to the influx of similar businesses in Newark.

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After three years of business, the burger place Main Street Sliders will close its doors to the Newark and the university community, according to restaurant owner Jason Voit.

Voit said his small business has been having financial problems because of its inability to stay competitive with different restaurants that have opened up in the past few years on the street.

“The influx of restaurants and the student community not growing has made us a casualty of war,” Voit said.

Downtown Newark Partnership Administrator Ricky Nietubicz said it is not uncommon for restaurants to close on Main Street because of the competition.

Nietubicz also said there are

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a number of other burger places in the area with more successful business models, leaving Sliders unable to adapt. Yet, he said he does expect the empty space to be taken up soon by another company.

“It’s always a shame to see a business go,” Nietubicz said. “But it is a nice store front with a lot of windows, and we would like to see a nice retailer go there.”

Voit announced the closing of the restaurant on Sliders’ Facebook page last Wednesday. The post had over 900 page views, while he said a regular post only receives about 300 page views. He said most of his customers have not reacted well to the news.

“People are in kind of disbelief,” Voit said. “They don’t want to see us go.”

Sophomore Maggie Tracy said she believes Sliders has a lot to offer its customers, but she sees how it

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can be hard to compete with the various restaurants on Main Street.

She will said she is particularly disappointed in its closing.

“I definitely have to go there within the next week for one last meal,” Tracy said.

Although she believes she and many students will miss the restaurant, she said it will be easy for the students who regularly went to the fast food restaurant to find a new place that will satisfy their cravings.

Junior Stephen Beutel said he liked Sliders for the food and its affordability. He was particularly drawn to the small servings that offered more choices, he said.

He said the costs of these meals, however, could have hurt the business in the long run.

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North Korea’s rhetoric puts U.S. on high alert

BY MATT BUTLER Staff Reporter

In response to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s declarations that the Korean peninsula is in a state of war and nuclear attacks are to be expected, South Korea and the United States have begun to mobilize defensive forces on the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea.

After the United Nations sanctioned North Korea last month for carrying out a third nuclear test, North Korea threatened strikes that could potentially hit South Korea, Japan, Guam, Hawaii or mainland America.

History professor Hannah Kim said although the South Koreans are concerned with the prospect of nuclear warfare, they have most likely grown accustomed to their northern counterpart’s threats, as the two countries have had tense relations for decades.

“If you ask South Koreans—it is definitely a concern—it is not like they are immune to it, but they are also used to it too,” Kim said.

North Korea maintains international attention by making threats, which is why Kim Jong-un initiates hostilities so often, Kim said.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said earlier this week that

the North Korean threats present “real and clear danger,” especially considering their nuclear capacity and new missile delivery technology.

Hagel said Pyonyang’s hostilities are a cause for concern for U.S. allies like Japan and South Korea and for U.S. bases in Guam.

He said achieving a peaceful solution would require North Korea to work with neighbors and act responsibly as a member of the global community.

War threats also have a domestic function as they rally North Korean citizens’ support, Kim said.

For North Korea’s allies like China, Kim said the main interest in keeping North Korea afloat is the fact that an unstable government or the collapse of Kim Jong-un’s administration could mean trouble for the bordering Chinese government, with the biggest danger being the refugees fleeing the border to China, as a result.

“Their policy is to absolutely return any refugees back to North Korea, even though they know they are going to be probably tortured, executed [or] other such things,” Kim said. “The United Nations says that you cannot return a refugee to a country where you know they are going to be physically harmed, but China does.”

Freshman Scott Amankwatin

said he was concerned about the situation but not overly frightened.

Amankwatin said while he is not afraid of an attack on the United States, he thinks the United States should get involved if North Korea attacks South Korea.

Amankwatin said though there are United Nations’ sanctions on North Korea that revoke humanitarian aid and trade relations with the United States, he does not see them as a factor in the rising tensions. He said the North Koreans’ resentment toward the United States runs too deep for sanctions to affect them that strongly.

“I don’t really see those as a reason for the increasing situation,” Amankwatin said. “I feel like they would have hostile intentions toward us regardless, so I do not think that it is the United States’ fault.”

While it is unfortunate North Korea is antagonistic toward the United States, Amankwatin said he believes things will work out in the end and does not expect North Korea to incite nuclear warfare.

Freshman Will Kobus said he agreed that while the situation is serious, he thinks it would be an extremely poor decision if North Korea attacked the United States since he said their nuclear weapons would not be a match for U.S. forces

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has declared that the Korean peninsula is in a state of war. South Korea has mobilized defensive forces. if they chose to retaliate.

Kobus said he believes the United States should intervene if North Korea was to attack South Korea. Yet he said he believes there would be little reason for the United

States to react with a nuclear bomb.

“If it was a nuclear strike, I don’t think that we should retaliate with another nuclear strike, because that’s not the type of end that we want to come to,” Kobus said.

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This Week in History

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April 13, 1999: A university senior attempted to complete a “1,000 Beer Semester” during his final spring of college. Greg Knott, the 22-year-old honors German major, posted a flyer on his residence hall door to document the progress of his 12,000-ounce challenge, which he called his “final hurrah.”

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Things To Do Wednesday, April 10

Ramon Lopez Colon Distinguished Artist Lecture Series 5 p.m.

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Thursday, April 11 Veterans Career Networking Night 7:20 p.m.

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Friday, April 12 Resapalooza 1 p.m.

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Saturday, April 13 Lawn Mower Tune-Up, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Sunday, April 14 Gamma Sigma Sigma Banding Together 5K 1:30 p.m.

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Over spring break, some students chose to go hiking in at Old Rag mountain in Shenandoah National Park, Va.

Police Reports

Student assaulted on Haines Street A student was assaulted while walking northbound on Haines Street last Thursday at approximately 9:06 p.m., according to Newark Police spokesperson Cpl. James Spadola.

The 19-year-old female said she was walking down the street after work and was talking on her cell phone when she heard someone running behind her, Spadola said. The suspect pushed her to the ground and punched the left side of her head multiple times. The victim said she began yelling that she did not have a wallet. The suspect got up and entered a small four-door SUV on Continental Road. The suspect, a 6-foot-1-inch African-American male, did not attempt to go through the victim’s pockets or take her phone.

Spadola said the suspect was charged with offensive touching and police officers are still trying to locate him.

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Resident life festival The Resident Student Association will put on the second annual Resapalooza on Friday, April 12, at 1 p.m. on the North Green. The event will include music, inflatables, free good, games, raffles and service initiatives. Resapalooza is free and open to all students.

American icon comes to campus Bob Dylan will perform with special guest Dawes at the Bob Carpenter Center on Friday, April 12, at 8 p.m. Remaining tickets can be purchased at University of Delaware box offices or through Student assaulted on East Cleveland Avenue and North Chapel Ticketmaster.

Street Sunday Last Sunday police officers responded to a call for an assault at the corner of East Cleveland Avenue and North Chapel Avenue at approximately 1 a.m., according to Newark Police spokesperson Cpl. James Spadola.

The victim, a 19-year-old male, was assaulted by two males and was kicked in the head while he was on the ground. The three individuals were arguing on the sidewalk when the victim was attacked. The police officers found the two suspects on North College Avenue. They were both charged with assault and conspiracy, Spadola said.

Glee actor speaks Glee actor Harry Shum will give a lecture on diversity at 7 p.m on Saturday, April 13, in the Multipurpose Room of Trabant. The event is sponsored by Student Centers Programming Advisory Board, Haven and HOLA. Tickets can be purchased at the Trabant Box Office for $5 for students and $10 for the general public.

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April 9, 2013

Delaware Senate debates death penalty

BY MILLARD ADAM VAUGHN Staff Reporter

The Delaware Senate has passed the Senate Bill 19 to repeal the death penalty with a vote of 11 to 10. If the bill passes into law, it would annul the state of Delaware’s death penalty and make Delaware the 18th state to permanently do away with capital punishment.

Yet, the bill has one more vote to go through, in addition to the vote held on Mar. 26, before the death penalty would be completely extinguished in Delaware—one vote by the Delaware House of Representatives.

Sen. Karen Peterson (D-Del.), the chief sponsor of Senate Bill 19, said she believes Delawareans ultimately want to abolish the state’s death penalty.

She said the United States needs to join the modern era and begin to rethink its stance on capital punishment.

“We’re one of the last civilized nations in the world to still use the death penalty,” Peterson said.

One of the biggest problems with the death penalty is the possibility of wrongly executing an innocent person, she said. A human life is far too valuable to jeopardize in the court of law, she said.

Peterson said the criminal justice system has made too many mistakes in the past as evidenced by the 142 people who were on death row and have now been exonerated. She said the state cannot take the risk to execute innocent people.

“Most of the cases that are overturned are not based on DNA evidence because most of these crime scenes don’t have DNA,” Peterson said.

“People have the idea that every crime is like CSI—there is always DNA, there is always some forensic evidence, but that’s not the case.”

Peterson said many wrongfully imprisoned people are convicted in capital cases based on the strength of testimonies. She believes the death

penalty is too severe a punishment to depend solely upon the possibly unreliable evidence of firsthand accounts.

“Most of these people are convicted based on witness statements,” Peterson said. “Three people see something happen, and you get three different stories. By the time the story gets back to you don’t recognize it, but we put people to death based on that kind of testimony.”

Deputy Attorney General Steven Wood served as the Attorney General’s representative during floor debates to inform Courtesy of delaware.newszap.com the senate that the Delaware could be the 18th state to repeal Attorney General capital punishment. opposed the repeal of Wood said the Attorney General the death penalty in Delaware. and his staff intend to continue to work “The Attorney General believes with Delawareans who believe the that the death penalty should be state should continue to provide the imposed rarely, fairly and judiciously, death penalty as a rarely used option in and he believes that Delaware’s existing criminal cases. death penalty statute accomplishes Philosophy professor Richard those purposes,” Wood said.

Hanley said he is happy the Delaware Under Delaware law the death government is working toward penalty is appropriate only if the jury repealing the death penalty and that it is finds unanimously certain factual only a matter of time until other states circumstances have been revealed followed suit. He said although it is a about the criminal, the crime or the complicated issue, our morality should victim, he said. not be determined by the immorality Examples where the death of others. penalty may be used appropriately Hanley said the United States’ are cases including multiple murders, peculiar state-level criminal justice murders committed by inmates who systems do not make the transition away have escaped from prison, the murder from capital punishment easy while of a witness in a case or the killing many other nations simply ban the death of a victim in a rape or kidnapping, penalty by way of federal legislation. according to Wood.

He said he hopes the Supreme Court Wood said each state is granted the of the United States will pursue better right by the Constitution of the United Constitutional interpretation as a means States to administer its own criminal of finding the death penalty a violation justice system, and, because of this, of the Eighth Amendment, which the effectiveness of capital punishment protects citizens from the imposition of nationwide should not be taken cruel and unusual punishment. into account.

“It is uncivilized,” Hanley said.

“When judging the use of the death “Some criminals may deserve the death penalty in Delaware it’s important to use penalty, but it does not follow that we statistics that relate only to Delaware in should give it to them. Our actions need the modern era,” Wood said. “It makes not be dictated to us by the actions of no sense to judge the operation of the criminals, hence we are not required death penalty in the 21st century in to rape rapists, torture torturers or Delaware by examining what happened execute murderers.” in another state 30 years ago.”

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Farmer has published on health, human rights and social inequality.

“He’s a very substantial global figure in fighting poverty and inequality,” Garland said.

Alumnus Dan Reyes who graduated in the fall but will attend spring commencement said he first learned of Farmer during his freshman anthropology class when he read the biographical book “Mountains Beyond Mountains” by Tracy Kidder, which details the life and work of Farmer.

“For me he’s just an inspiration,” Reyes said.

Several things are taken into account when choosing a commencement speaker, Garland said, including speaking skills, the message and relevance to university.

He said the university considers different types of people and keeps a running list of candidates year-to-year

including athletes, economists, writers and politicians.

Schwartzreich said it would have been helpful for the university to send an email or survey to seniors in order to gauge their opinion on the commencement speaker.

“I mean they’re asking us for money to donate to the school but they don’t ask us about our speaker for our own graduation,” she said.

Reyes said he was excited to hear Farmer would be the speaker as he was drawn to Farmer’s work.

He said Farmer’s work was notable because of his principle of ensuring all people have access to the highest quality healthcare and recognizing it as a basic right for all.

Inspired by his work, Reyes said he decided to major in anthropology.

“The success that he’s had is by proving that providing the highest quality of care and integrating systems within economically and socially

depressed communities by integrating healthcare systems with them rather than just handing out medicine and things like that,” Reyes said.

In his work for the organization Students for Haiti and as an outreach assistant for the Food Bank of Delaware’s Community Supported Agriculture program, Reyes said he is influenced by Farmer’s work. Reyes said that Farmer’s discussions about structural violence—the idea that social, political and economic forces harm people—help him view issues in a systemic way.

Reyes said students can hopefully find inspiration in Farmer’s dedication to his cause and recognition for sustainable healthcare developments.

“I think what people can take away from him is the immense potential for good that can be done with their skills if they look at things from a systemic point of view,” Reyes said.

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World Review Britain’s first and only female prime minister dies at 87 Margaret Thatcher, 87, died yesterday after suffering a stroke at the Ritz Hotel in London. As the only woman to ever have held the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Thatcher was an iconic figure in postwar British politics who held a towering presence on the world stage and who had been sick for several years prior to her passing.

Best remembered as the “Iron Lady” for her personal and political toughness, Thatcher was a conservative party leader and an old friend of Ronald Reagan who served longer than any other prime minister in the 20th century.

During her 11-year, 209-day tenure, she became responsible for leading her country in a more right-leaning direction while finding victory in the Falkland Islands and helping to end the Cold War. She retired from public life in 2002 after suffering a stroke and had suffered several since.

According to the British prime minister’s office, a private cremation will take place for Thatcher following her ceremonial funeral at St. Paul’s Cathedral sometime next week.

-Samantha Toscano

Legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic dies at 70

Roger Ebert lost his battle to thyroid and salivary gland cancers this past Thursday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The 70-yearold movie reviewer had been working for the newspaper for 46 years and gave his criticisms on television for 31 years.

The critic was often celebrated for his quick-witted and concise deliveries of his opinion, whether or not he liked or disliked a film.

In 1975, he was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame added his name to the sidewalk in 2005.

Ebert was diagnosed with the cancers in 2002. He lost his ability to speak and eat in 2006 when part of his lower jaw was removed due to the cancer, but he continued to write for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Ebert was with his wife in a Chicago hospital when he died.

-Kelly Lyons

Georgia high school students plan to hold first racially integrated prom In Wilcox County, Georgia high school students have attended racially segregated proms and homecoming dances for decades, but have now decided to organize their first integrated prom to be held April 27. The annual proms are private events, sponsored by students and parents and remained separate for black and white students long after the schools were desegregated.

This year a group of friends at the high school who decided they did not want racial differences to prevent them from having the dance together, began selling tickets and promoting the integrated event.

Students said their efforts were applauded by the Board of Education but their posters that were ripped down indicate that not all support the idea. About 50 tickets have been sold so far for the “Masquerade Ball in Paris” themed event that is planned to accommodate all 400 of the county’s high school students.

During the school’s homecoming dance earlier in the year, an integrated court was allowed but the winner, who was black, was unable to attend the white homecoming party. Additionally, a biracial student was turned away from a white dance last year.

The school’s principal even added the discussion of a 2014 prom to the agenda for his next meeting. Students have set up a Facebook page for the integrated prom that garnered thousands of “likes” and they continue to fundraise for the event.

-Erin Quinn

Season Premiere of ‘Game of Thrones’ Becomes Most Pirated File Ever The season premiere of HBO’s sword-and-sex-filled drama “Game of Thrones,” which aired March 31, broke the record for the most simultaneously pirated media file hours after the torrent appeared on websites, according to torrent trend tracking website torrentfreak.com.

More than 160,000 users downloaded various forms of the show, which was the most pirated of 2012, within a day after it aired. NBC’s superhero drama “Heroes” previously held the record for its season 3 premiere that had more than 143,000 simultaneous downloaders.

Through analysis of their data, torrentfreak.com found that the pirates were largely based in locations outside of the U.S. Australia, which has a population of about 22 million, had the highest rate of downloads and London was the city with the most pirate activity.

In an interview with The Young Turks, a YouTube based news channel, President of HBO programming Michael Mobardo said he is not worried about the piracy.

“I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but [piracy] is a compliment of sorts,” Mobardo said “The demand is there. And it certainly didn’t negatively impact the DVD sales.”

-Bo Bartley

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April 9, 2013

Supreme Court discusses DOMA

BY ALEC RUBENSTEIN Staff Reporter

After 45 years of waiting, Edith Windsor married her partner Thea Spyer in 2007. The lesbian couple traveled to Toronto to tie the knot and then returned to the United States where their marital status was not recognized due to the Defense of Marriage Act. After two years of marriage, Spyer died, and Windsor was forced to pay over $300,000 in federal estate tax on the inheritance of her spouse’s estate.

Windsor argued her taxes in court in 2009. After failing to gain the support of many gay rights organizations, her case was passed on to Roberta Kaplan, an attorney who had previously taken a similar matter to court.

Currently, Windsor’s case, United States v. Windsor, is pending in the United States Supreme Court. DOMA and the issue of marriage equality has been a continuing debate over recent years, and United States v. Windsor has provided the country with a tangible end to the issue of marriage equality.

While rallies on both side of the issue have been held in front of the Supreme Court and around the country, students at the university have reacted in different ways to the pending decision.

Senior Samantha Zbik said she believes marriage equality is one more step in the progress of social rights.

“Several decades ago, interracial marriage was illegal and interfaith marriages were frowned upon,” Zbik said. “I want to live in a world where people can marry whomever they love regardless of color, faith or gender.”

United States v. Windsor argues DOMA, specifically, its definition of marriage, is unconstitutional.

According to DOMA, marriage is defined as “a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.” It also defines the term spouse as “a person of the opposite sex who is a husband and wife.”

Both the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals agree that DOMA is unconstitutional and can no longer qualify as the law in the United States. On Mar. 27, the Supreme Court began reviewing the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals by hearing oral arguments from all parties.

Equal marriage rights are being advocated on a national scale. As of Jan. 2013, eight states—Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Washington—plus the District of Columbia, have legalized gay marriage.

Junior Liz Penczak said she has two gay friends who are in a committed relationship with each other, and she believes her friends should be able to get married just as she can.

“I know a lot of people are against the idea of not having both a mother and a father, but there is so much diversity in American families these days, anyway, that this should just be seen as another unique way of raising a family,” Penczak said.

Though the outcome of United States v. Windsor and the future of DOMA is uncertain, supporters have continued to show their encouragement for marriage equality. Red equal signs can be seen across Facebook, Twitter and other social media to symbolize marriage equality for all.

Sophomore Dylan Gallimore, president of the College Independents, said he believes the definition of marriage has to be re-conceptualized to fit modern society.

“America long ago blurred the line between church and state, allowing a religious institution to become a state institution,” Gallimore said. “In an ideal world, I would like to see these two different concepts untangled and the line between them redrawn.”

The courts might be hesitant to alter a law pertaining such a farreaching act as DOMA, according to Gallimore.

“I think the court is hesitant to deal with a question this large and tangled,” Gallimore said. “[The Supreme Court] may find they have only limited constitutional authority on something like this.”

Sophomore Liz Catt is president of the College Republicans and a supporter of gay marriage. However, she believes neither the federal government nor the courts should create legal precedent about the practice.

The government should involve itself in issues regarding taxes and financial benefits, she said, but it is not the Supreme Court’s job to decide morality. Catt said she has seen support for the overturn of DOMA on social THE REVIEW/Sara Pfefer networking sites, but that kind of Director of the European Program at the Center for Strategic and activism ultimately has little effect.

International Studies Heather Conley said Europe and the United “The Supreme Court doesn’t States must develop together when responding to international crises. care how many people change their profile pics,” Catt said. “They’re more interested in changing laws.”

The issue of gay marriage should be left up to the states, she said. She holds the belief that it should be up to each state’s legislature to independently

BY RACHEL TAYLOR begin her duties on Sept. 11, 2001. address the institution of marriage.

Administrative News Editor While she said her time as Deputy Though the potential for DOMA Assistant Secretary of State was hectic to be changed provides hope for the gay Senior Fellow and Director and stressful, she enjoyed her work and and lesbian population, Zbik believes the U.S. will need time to acclimate to of the European Program at the was glad she could continue working Center for Strategic and International with European nations. She said she this change in society.

“As a gay American, I am not sure Studies Heather Conley talked about continued her work until Colin Powell that America is ready for gay marriage her experiences serving the U.S. left his position as Secretary of State to be universal.” Zbik said. “There are Department of State as well as her in 2005.

Working for the Center for still many parts of our own country knowledge of the relationship between the U.S. and Europe in last Wednesday’s Strategic and International Studies, where it is legal to be fired for being Conley said she has analyzed the gay. I think we as a country need to start Global Agenda speaker series.

Ralph Begleiter, the director for European debt crisis in an effort to small and change those laws first before the Center of Political Communication understand it and the United States’ we can expect marriage equality.”

Zbik said she doesn’t believe and the host of the series called role in the European economy. She said the outcome of DOMA will change “America’s Role in the World,” said there are three areas that the foundation the concept of marriage in the future, Europe’s role in the world has varied for the Euro-American connection rests but instead make the status of gay significantly over the years but has upon—military security intelligence, marriage will be seen as legitimate on always been intertwined with the economy and trade and a more United States’ role. He said despite the secular area. a federal scale.

“The third pillar—I call it the “The only real change is that same- close relationship that currently exists sex relationships will be seen as just as between the two powers, it has not ‘invisible pillar’—is our shared values, our history and our culture,” Conley valid as heterosexual relationships in always been a smooth ride.

“America’s strongest political and said. “In some ways, that’s our most the eyes of the government,” Zbik said. military allies are in Europe, along with important pillar, that’s really who we three other nuclear weapons nations are. Together we stand and defend and the United Nations,” Begleiter said. democracy. We might not always “Europe is a huge trading partner and agree on everything, but we share competitor of the United States. When a common history and certainly a Public policy and administration the U.S. goes to war—with Libya, common culture.”

Conley said the structure of professor James Morrison said Iraq or Afghanistan—the U.S. looks in a recent evaluation of faculty, to Europe first for help and doesn’t these pillars has changed over the past few years, putting a strain on the there is discontent concerning the always get it.”

Conley said her experiences relationship between the United States transparency of Harker’s presidency.

He said he thinks the faculty lack working with European nations started and Europe. She said the nation has an appropriate amount of power when when she was interning with the U.S. become tired after fighting wars in the it comes to decision-making within Department of State in the Bureau of Middle East, and European nations are their departments and believes they Political-Military Affairs. At the age of not interested in getting involved in 22, she was pulled from her internship these conflicts, such as those happening should be involved in budgeting.

“I think the faculty feels that and sent to the then Soviet Union to in Mali and Syria.

The United States and Europe have they are disconnected when it comes bring humanitarian aid left over from to decision making, critical decision the Gulf War, the first time a mission to develop together when responding to making and not really involved,” like this had been implemented for international crises, she said, because this area. if these regions do not work together, Morrison said.

Although Conley said she was there is the possibility the United States Physics and astronomy professor John Morgan said he believes an issue initially intimidated and afraid of will step back from its role in the world that has been “pushed under the rug” going to the Soviet Union during and Europe will not step forward, is utilizing existing resources and such a volatile time, she said her leaving serious international problems classrooms, rather than continuously attitude changed after visiting their unattended to, she said. hospitals, where she had never seen Junior international relations and expanding or building new structures.

He said encouraging students such deplorable conditions in a hospital history major Michelle Morreale said she found the lecture interesting and to explore less popular class options setting in her life.

“It was hard to remember what found Conley’s perspective on U.S. could potentially save the money in I was afraid of with the Soviet Union European foreign policy a refreshing classroom costs.

“We could save a lot of money when they couldn’t even provide for change. She believes U.S. citizens often focus more on the Middle East with the construction of new their own hospitals,” Conley said.

After completing her work for and China, and she thinks it is in the academic building if we used our existing classrooms in the evenings the State Department, Conley said she best interest of the country to keep and perhaps even on the weekends,” attended Johns Hopkins University for focus on Europe, she said.

“There are other issues going on Morgan said. “I would ask some graduate school. Once Conley finished serious consideration be given to up her education, she was appointed as and other important things Europe is having some system which motivates the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State involved in, and I think she hit on a lot students to register for evening classes during the first term of former President of important points that people should George W. Bush. She was meant to be aware of as well,” Morreale said. or even weekend classes.”

Faculty senate talks ‘Path to Prominence’ end

BY RACHEL TAYLOR Administrative News Editor

University President Patrick Harker discussed the approaching end to his five-year Path to Prominence plan that will expire at the end of the semester and the new ideas for the university after the plan at the Faculty Senate meeting Monday.

Senators expressed concern about the lack of connection between financial members in academic departments and faculty. Senators also brought up the issue of using university resources to the fullest extent and the impracticalities of continuing to raise tuition at the rates in previous years.

While Harker said he believes the Path to Prominence has been successful for both the university and students, he said certain issues still need to be addressed.

“A lot of people put a lot of work into it, the committee put a lot of work into it, and it addressed the big areas we needed to address, but let’s face it, it was written six years ago and the world looks a little different six years into it,” Harker said.

Harker said a challenge not addressed in the Path to Prominence was the impact of the recession on the financial statuses of students and families. He said no one foresaw that

the recession would last as long as it did, which caused constraints in budgets and the ability of students to afford higher education nationwide.

The university cannot continue to increase tuition at previous rates, Harker said, because the cost of education will begin to extend beyond people’s means.

Another aspect the Path to Prominence failed to recognize was technology’s impact on the learning process, Harker said. He said while it was not impossible to predict technological advances, it was difficult to calculate the pace and extent of it in education.

In regard to the Path to Prominence’s goal of increasing diversity, Harker said there has been a dramatic change in student demographics with rising minority enrollment over the past few years.

“What we’re starting to see with a lot of hard work is we are meeting that new challenge and that new demographic,” Harker said. “56 percent rise in African American freshman since 2008, 27 percent rise in Hispanic enrollment. But you know, those numbers are great, but we should be honest, it’s good progress, but it’s easy to make good progress when your baseline is pretty low.”

Conley talks Europe, U.S. relations at Global Agenda

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Café Olé acquires city alcohol permit

BY KATHERINE GINIS Staff Reporter

Café Olé owner Manuel Aguinaga opened his restaurant Feb. 5 with the intention of serving alcoholic beverages. He secured a state liquor license, but was unaware of Newark’s special use permit.

Equipped with the permit required by the city, which he received on Mar. 25, Aguinaga sold his first alcoholic beverage on Mar. 28. The restaurant now offers a limited assortment of alcohol, including 10 beers, three drafts, six wines and one type of sangria, Aguinaga said.

Director of Planning and Development Maureen FeeneyRoser said the restaurant did not have any problems with the application process for the special use permit, and the success of Aguinaga’s other restaurant, Olé Tapas Lounge & Restaurant on Kirkwood Highway, made the approval easier for the city.

Aguinaga said Café Olé, located on 170 E. Main St. and formerly home Groucho’s Deli, is a smaller, more student-oriented version of his other restaurant. Aguinaga, whose family is from San Sebastian, Spain, said the Main Street location is meant to give the university an introduction to tapas and Spanish culture.

“We [reviewed] their application against its impact on the community,” Feeney-Roser said. “And Café Olé came through with flying colors.”

Feeney-Roser said since he believes there is no other restaurant around with similar cuisine, it will appeal to those students with varied palettes, while offering alcohol will only make the restaurant more attractive to diners.

Although Aguinaga said he does want to attract the university community, he hopes to create a quiet atmosphere where people can hang out with friends.

“I’m not a bar—people aren’t coming to get drunk,” Aguinaga said.

“I don’t want to have any problems with alcohol.”

Aguinaga said he hopes students will stop by Café Olé before they head out to the bars in the evening, as the restaurant is planning to extend closing time from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. or 1 a.m. on Thursday through Saturday in order to get some late night business.

Some students think the success of the restaurant’s alcoholic servings is contingent on its advertising, which currently includes two

neon signs.

Junior Sean Page said he believes serving alcohol will increase business as long as the student community is properly informed.

“I think it’s going to be about how they promote it and get the word out,” Page said.

He said posting a sign outside the restaurant listing drink specials would be helpful.

Senior Allison Rosenberg also said the restaurant marketing strategy will be crucial to assure their success, and a student deal would be a good way to do so.

Rosenberg said she thinks the addition of alcohol is a good idea and student response will vary based on where they live in relation to the restaurant. If it is convenient for them, and if they like the food, students will be patrons, Rosenberg said.

“I think it’s great that businesses and restaurants on Main Street are trying new ways to get the attention of students to dine,” Rosenberg said.

Senior hotel and restaurant institutional management major Katie Flachsenhaar said she has never eaten at Café Olé, but intends to go there after hearing some positive feedback about it from friends. She said she thinks students who are in the market for ethnic cuisine will be more likely to go due to the extra beverage options.

“It’s probably a smart idea from a competitive standpoint because a lot of other restaurants on Main Street serve alcohol,” Flachsenhaar said.

Other students, such as senior Taylor Smith, do not feel as though the license will have that much of an effect on them personally.

“I feel like it’s not that big of a deal, since most places on Main Street have liquor licenses,” Smith said.

However, Smith said people like to have options, and because of the more relaxed atmosphere of the establishment, locals may be more inclined to stop in during the afternoon to relax and have a drink rather than go to busier spots, such as Grotto Pizza.

Aguinaga said he is confident the acquisition of the permit will help business immensely. He said the first two months were rough without the license because people would come to the restaurant and leave without eating once they learned alcohol was not available.

“It is a complement of the food,” Aguinaga said. “For Spaniards, wine is a part of life.”

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The bill titled House Bill 35 was introduced by Gov. Jack Markell after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.

It is part of a package of new gun measures that includes new rules on guns in school areas.

Delaware passes new gun control law, requires universal background checks

BY MATT BUTLER Staff Reporter

New gun control legislation, passed by the Delaware House of Representatives, will require universal background checks for the sale of firearms. The bill, introduced by Gov. Jack Markell following the recent mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., will make it a criminal offense to privately transfer or sell arms, as transfers will require a criminal history background check.

The bill titled House Bill 35, passed on March 28 and passed with a 24-17 vote is part of a package of new gun measures that will include new rules on guns in school areas, faster reports of stolen or missing guns, and bans on high-capacity magazines and assault weapons.

Doug Tuttle, public policy professor and the former university public safety director said that the uptick in state-by-state gun legislation is partly a reaction to the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings, but also due to uncertainty about the future of gun control laws on Capitol Hill.

“There are a lot of bills, but how many actually make it through the process?” Tuttle said. “We’re seeing a lot of states take action because the thought is that the national response will not be 100 percent, and it won’t be quick.”

House Bill 35 underwent several changes during the debate process, including the addition of 10 amendments supported by the National Rifle Association. The main addition to

the bill was a ban on any type of state gun registry system.

Licensed firearm dealers would carry out the background checks and be required to maintain records in accordance with state and federal law. Currently only federally licensed dealers have to use a background check to determine whether it is legal to sell someone a firearm, in accordance with federal law.

Essentially, the bill is an attempt to close a loophole regarding gun sales, Tuttle said. Previously, person-toperson sales, or any sale that does not go through an actual gun dealer, were not subject to criminal background checks. House Bill 35 requires those transactions to include an official criminal background check by a registered gun dealer.

Despite the new regulations Tuttle said he doesn’t believe that the law will completely stop crime. Criminals will not be affected by the bill because they don’t buy or sell their guns legally, according to Tuttle.

The new laws are not able to prevent certain crimes, such as the Newtown shooting, Tuttle said.

“It’s natural for there to be a legislative reaction to some tragedy like a school shooting, but with the recent shooting in Connecticut, those guns were in the family,” Tuttle said. “There was no sale involved. It would have had no bearing in that particular case.”

House Bill 35 passed in Delaware with 88 percent of voters in favor of the new background law. Although the law was overwhelmingly supported,

students’ opinions differ vastly on the effects of gun control.

Freshman Chris Soto said the bill will be helpful in preventing gun crime. However, he said limits on high ammunition amounts or assault weapons will not be effective.

“As long as they have the background checks, I don’t think the ban would matter,” Soto said. “[Congress] should just keep the high capacity mags. A bullet is a bullet.”

Soto also said he would support a national gun registration system. He believes the government should know who has guns and where they are at all times and so registered guns could be monitored if a gun-related crime occurred in the vicinity, he said.

Freshman Carlos Velez said he would be against a national gun registration system. Velez is supportive of some gun legislation, but believes there needs to be a limit on it.

“It’s fine to check people’s backgrounds, but I think you would be running into a privacy thing with that,” Velez said.

Velez believes the second amendment should be upheld in any gun legislation that is put into law.

Tuttle said he thinks the future of gun control could be very different from region-to-region in the United States because different areas hold the second amendment in higher or lower regard.

“Everyone thinks that schools should be safer, shopping malls should be safer, but when you get to the fine point, that’s when it’s tough to come to a consensus,” Tuttle said.

Markell: ‘We have an unbelievable opportunity to write the next chapter in history’ Continued from PAGE 1 In addition to Field, several student representatives of supporting organizations stood on the theater’s stage, urging students to stand for marriage equality.

Additionally, State Represenative

Paul Baumbach and Lietenant Gov. Matt Denn spoke, with Attorney General Beau Biden and U.S. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) appearing on-screen in prerecorded videos, speaking of their unwavering support for equal protection of rights.

Alumnus Joe Daigle, former president of UD Democrats is

recently engaged to alumnus Dan Cole, who he met while a student at the university. Daigle said he is directly affected by the gay marriage bill, as it is the only way the couple will be married.

“With all of the work, the sooner Dan and I will be married,” Daigle said.

Diagle said legislation

allowing gay marriage is not only about him and his fiancee, but about everyone in the state of Delaware. The more work supporters put into the effort, the sooner marriage equality in the state will be a reality, Diagle said.

During his speech, Markell garnered applause and cheers, though he told students the rally

was not a celebration yet. Markell said he would sign a bill allowing gay marriage, and would like to see it on his desk by June 30.

“We have an unbelievable opportunity to write the next chapter in history,” Markell said.

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New District 4 councilman to be selected by end of

BY ELENA BOFFETTA City News Desk Editor

THE REVIEW/ Lindsay Saienni

Scientist Daniel Hillel said younger generations must understand the environment to be sustainable.

World Food Prize winner talks enviro sustainability, soil science

BY ABENA DAPAAH Staff Reporter

Daniel Hillel, last year’s winner of the World Food Prize­­—the “Nobel Prize of Agriculture”—learned to farm in Israel’s Negev Desert, before becoming a soil scientist and leading developments in irrigation and land management.­­ Alongside Robin Morgan, professor of animal and food science and former dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Hillel discussed soil science and environmental sustainability during the Delaware Environmental Institute’s lecture in Mitchell Hall Thursday and engaged in a 45-minute question and answer session led by Morgan.

Hillel said two of the most important aspects in furthering his field are promoting environmental sustainability and educating youth to be more involved with sustainable efforts.

He said younger generations must be informed about the environment with hands-on experience to be more effective in sustainability.

“If there’s anything you take from this lecture, it should be sustainability and constructivity,” Hillel said.

From his own classes, Hillel said one of the most critical things students should take away is the significant difference between soil and dirt, jokingly adding that no student could pass his class if they mixed up the two. He said soil has aided in the discovery of many things, such as antibiotics, unlike dirt, which has no life-sustaining properties.

Sophomore environmental science major Lindsey Craig said the lecture put soil science into a new perspective for her. She said Hillel’s description of soil as a cleansing, life-bringing material made her more aware of its significant differences from dirt.

“I never quite put into perspective that soil was the nutrient for all life,” Craig said. “The soil versus dirt discussion was really a new concept for me.”

Sophomore wildlife conservation major Kerry Snyder said students ought to be aware of environmental issues and to get involved, no matter what their major is or how much experience they have in the field of agriculture.

Snyder said her favorite part of the lecture was when Hillel described his trip to the upper regions of Pakistan, where he surveyed the agriculture and irrigation systems.

During the trip, Hillel noticed the poor irrigation techniques used by a local farmer and suggested a method of trickle irrigation. Snyder said this method, in which the farmer drips water on the plant continuously rather than watering it intermittently with large quantities of water, proved successful for the farmer, which she found interesting.

For reforming the methods of bringing water to crops in arid regions Hillel won the 2012 World Food Prize.

His system, known as micro-irrigation, implemented a low-volume, highfrequency water supply to plants while noticeably increasing plant production and water conservation.

The impact of his work

improved the lives of farmers in the Middle East and other areas, and his sustainable methods of water management are promoted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization worldwide.

Snyder said while she found the lecture enjoyable and informative, there were certain topics she wished Hillel had expanded on, as she said learning about other methods of farming would have been useful to her.

“I think it’s important for more university students to attend events like this because learning is so much outside the classroom” Snyder said.

When talking about the conservation of groundwater in respect to soil, Hillel said it is important to not waste the available amounts of groundwater, as it can be easily overused and it takes a long time to replenish.

Farming is labor intensive, Hillel said, and their work’s dependency on fossil fuels and nonrenewable energy has put the planet at risk. He said people should focus more on sustainable energy sources such as solar, geothermal and hydraulic energy.

Hillel said many teachers and professors throughout his life have inspired and helped him learn more about the environment. He said he encourages students to learn and be inquisitive about the environment, as it will become their responsibility to care for it in the future. Hillel said he strives to continue learning about how to protect the environment.

“I am a lifelong student,” Hillel said. “I don’t ever stop learning.”

More than 100 Newark residents went to the City Council Chambers on Monday, April 1, to meet the four candidates from District 4 and decide who they will be voting for at the election today, which will determine David Athey’s replacement as councilman.

District 4 includes neighborhoods south of Main Street, as well as properties on East Delaware Avenue, East Park Place and The Green and the meeting was sponsored by the non-partisan organization, The League of Women Voters. Carole Walsh was selected as the mediator.

“Following the forum, we will not endorse the candidates as an organization, but we encourage people to become informed about the issues and to vote,” Walsh said.

After giving their opening remarks, the four candidates— Margrit Hadden, Robyn Harland, Sherry Hoffman and Ron Walker— answered questions from the audience. The main issues discussed were student housing, penalties for housing code violations, the outsourcing of the city’s waste removal service, the Newark Police Department’s effort in combating drugs, the opening of a new Wawa on South Main Street and parking on Main Street.

Hadden, 57, expressed the challenges the city is facing regarding student behavior, alcohol abuse, property management and traffic control. She said she wants to give back to the community and her position at the university for 15 years has given her the skills necessary to create a bridge of both communication and sharing between the city and the university.

“I would like to be part of the solution to these challenges,” Hadden said.

Harland, 68, worked as paralegal from the time she graduated high school until she was 45 years old, before going back to school to receive bachelor’s and master’s degrees in behavioral disorders.

She came to Newark four years ago, she said, and mentioned the volunteer work she has been doing since moving from New York City.

She said her experience will help in her role as representative.

“I have a large background

in real estate, matrimonial and corporate and I want to give it back to my community,” Harland said.

Hoffman, 66, worked for the Attorney General Office for 24 years and said she is running for District 4 because she wants to give back to the city. She said she wishes to address the fair housing issue, and she would like to see the city and the university come together to discuss and find solutions.

“I believe students have the same rights to housing opportunities as everybody else in the community, and they don’t lose their housing rights simply because they are involved with the University of Delaware,” Hoffman said.

Walker, 72, is a retired president of the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce who worked for the governor and on the board of the Downtown Newark Partnership.

“When we retired, my wife and I had a long discussion regarding where we wanted to live,” Walker said. “And we love the trails, we love the parks, we love the proximity of Main Street, we love the university campus, we love the college town atmosphere and, yes, we think the taxes are reasonable for the excellent services the city provides.”

The four candidates agreed on several issues raised by the Newark residents such as combatingdrugs, keeping the service waste removal service and finding alternative solutions to reduce the city’s dependence on utility fees as a source of revenue. Disagreement camewith other topics such as student housing and the opening of a new Wawa on South Main Street, to which Harland was strongly opposed.

Newark resident Catherine Ciferni, who currently lives in District 2, said she was unimpressed and underwhelmed by the meeting, and she would like to see stricter standards and guidelines in the future regarding civic engagement and understanding of issues for candidates who run.

She said she believes the candidates were uninformed and unprepared and would have liked to have heard a more cogent discussion from the candidates, especially about what can be done to augment the city budget.

“I feel that I knew the issues much better than most of the candidates did, and that sort of scared me,” Ciferni said.

CAGDstravaganza event supports National Alliance on Mental Illness

BY GILLIAN MORLEY News Features Editor

Warriors competed Saturday night on a virtual battlefield for glory and a good cause as the Computer Animation and Game Design Club paired up with the Psychology Club to co-sponsor CAGDstravaganza, a League of Legends tournament that helped raise money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

The event, which raised $190, also included a video game and computer animation showcase and popular hits spun by DJs Steve Rosenkratz and Jean Carlo Vilalta of Boom Getloud.

The winning League of Legends team, Angry Cow, won $100 and the creator of the best video game or animation,

which will be decided at the next CAGD meeting, is to be awarded $50.

The League of Legends tournament was the main focus of the event, event coordinator Meredith Greer said, as it is the most played video game in the world with 30 to 40 million people logging in to play each month.

“They have offices in a ton of different countries and they actually have professional games where the prizes can go up to millions of dollars,” Greer said. “It is actually considered an ‘e-sport,’ so it can get pretty intense.”

The game is a lot like Capture the Flag, Greer said, and the goal is to destroy the other team’s base.

Greer said members of her group have wanted to do an event such as CAGDstravaganza for a long time, and

they were able to do so with the help of the Psychology Club.

Greer had a class with the vice president of the Psychology Club, she said, and learned that they held a Mario Kart event each year, so they combined efforts. The event was $5 to enter and all the proceeds went to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the Psychology Club’s charity of choice.

CAGD President and Founder Ryan O’Dowd said he was content with the turnout, especially because it was the club’s first big event.

Six teams with five players per team competed in the League of Legends tournament and an additional six computer design students showcased their animation and game designs during

the event, Greer said. The goal was to get 50 people to show up and participate in the event and they were successful in reaching that goal, said Greer.

Freshman biology major Jeffery Mu was on the winning League of Legends team. He said he thought the event was well hosted and a great success.

However, he did say the advertising for the event could have been better and more could have been done by way of publicizing the event. Some of his friends on campus who play the game did not know about the event, and he thinks it is necessary for game tournaments to have a good amount of promotion in order to be successful, Mu said, though the event itself was a smart choice.

“It’s a great way to raise money— much better than getting bombarded by donation requests or buying overpriced food,” Mu said.

He estimates over 1,000 students play League of Legends on campus, but just didn’t know about the tournament.

He said it could have been improved and more money could have been raised for charity if more people had shown up.

Yet O’Dowd said a lot of planning went in to the event and publicity was by far the biggest part of the process.

“We had to get the space, the WiFi and computers set up and everything, but the biggest thing was advertising,” O’Dowd said. “I don’t know how big League of Legends is on campus, so we wanted to make sure that we got everyone who was interested to come.”

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Honors history fraternity transcribes civil war diary

By Nikita Mutter Staff Reporter

The Phi Alpha Theta honors history fraternity has begun its first community service project—the transcription of the wartime diary of Union soldier Rev. Joseph Brown.

Zachary Sidrane, president of Phi Alpha Theta, said it is unusual for undergraduate history students to have the opportunity to work with a primary source. Students usually work with secondary sources so transcribing a primary document from the Civil War is exciting, Sidrane said.

When the project first started, the Historical Society of Cecil County sent the diary directly to Phi Alpha Theta, Sidrane said. The entire diary was then scanned by individual page into the program so the transcription could start.

“Transcribing one page can take 10 to 45 minutes—it all depends on the page,” Sidrane said. “The hardest part is figuring out his handwriting, but once you do, it’s pretty easy to figure out what’s written.”

Phi Alpha Theta hopes to complete the transcription by the end of the semester and the society is using a technique known as crowd-sourcing, the widespread use of many volunteers, to help complete the project quickly and accurately before revealing it to the student body. Crowd-sourcing, which is based on the idea that the

more eyes that look at the document the better, increases the chances of correctly transcribing the work as multiple people view the same passages and pages.

The group is accomplishing the transcription with the use of free software called FromThePage that enables volunteers to transcribe online using an indexing and annotation function, which allows users to discuss difficult writing or obscure words within the pages.

The resulting text is then hosted online, which makes documents open to all.

The fraternity’s faculty advisor and history professor John Montano said the group received the opportunity to transcribe the document due to history professor Katherine Grier’s connections with local historical societies. He said the technique the group is using is a tried method and has been successful in similar projects.

“Crowd-sourcing allows participants to skip over parts they cannot read by placing brackets where the word would be,” Montano said.“Other participants can then go back and see if they can figure out what was written.”

All students and faculty of the History Department are encouraged to participate, but anyone else who has an interest in transcribing or the Civil War is invited as well, he said.

So far the project has been successful and much progress is being made on the diary, Sidrane

said. By allowing participants to do as much or as little work as they want increases the likelihood that more people will participate.

Junior Daniel Carr said he recently learned about the project and is excited to work on it.He said choosing how much work he wants to do is appealing, and he believes others will be interested due to the flexible nature of the project and the fact that it is online.

“By transcribing the diary online, it can be more easily shared and anyone around the world who is interested can view it or be involved,” Carr said. “Everyone can assist one another and bring their individual knowledge to the text.”

When the project is successfully transcribed, it will be turned into a PDF file as well as a podcast that will be available to anyone, Montano said. Although the final product will be accessible to anyone, the focus is to make the document available to researchers File photo across the globe. At the end of the project, Montano said he hopes The UDairy creamery stand currently sits near the entrance of the P.O.D. students and participants will be engaged by with the basics of archival research.

“Almost every town has an archive or history association, so one of the main ideas with this project is to get people excited about documents that are in these archives that most people really don’t know about,” Montano said. “The idea is to bring more eyes on to the source and get students more involved.”

BY CADY ZUVICH sophomore Danielle Perkins said Student Affairs Desk Editor she is excited for their “Strawberry Nirvana” smoothie. She said she Students looking to grab a enjoys smoothies more than ice smoothie before class will soon cream, so she is not bothered by be able to do the change. just that at a When the juicenew Jamba Juice seller is installed, location opening Perkins said she on Laird Campus will probably next week. get her smoothie L o c a t e d once a week, and in the P.O.D. she expects other Market in students to follow Pencader Dining suit.

Hall, JambaGo, a “I think Jamba modified version Juice will do well of Jamba Juice, because people will opens on April know more about 17 and plans it,” Perkins said. to feature a “I guess it would smaller portion better for them -Manager of UDairybe of the smoothie to bring more local retailer’s menu Creamery, Melindabrands though.”

Ilex Pounders, M e l i n d a LitvinasLitvinas, m a r k e t i n g manager of manager of UDairy Creamery, Dining Services said the replacement stated in an email message that is a result of UDairy products the JambaGo, which will feature being offered in the dining halls, primarily smoothies, will be the including Pencader Dining Hall. A first Jamba Juice store in Delaware. part of Elevate the Plate, UDairy “We are excited to add the ice-cream is offered at dining Jamba Juice brand to this location,” halls to offer students with more Pounders said. options.

Students can purchase items Additionally, pints of Udairy at JambaGo with “Points,” “Flex,” Creamery ice cream will still be credit, debit and cash during the sold in the P.O.D. Market, and market’s normal hours, Pounders Litvinas said because the ice said, and the stand will be cream is still readily available. replacing UDairy Creamery’s ice The installation of JambaGo is not cream scoop case, where students unwelcome and will not adversely could previously purchase cones affect the creamery’s sales. or cups of ice cream.

“The two products are very According to the company’s different, so I don’t think there website, Jamba Juice does not will be any competition,” Litvinas add artificial sugars, preservatives said. “It’s good that there will be or coloring to its smoothies, and more variety on campus.”

Jamba Juice to replace UDairy Creamery in Pencader P.O.D. “The two products are very different, so I don’t think there will be any compeition.”

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Debate continues over benefits of technology-oriented education

BY KERRI TOBIN Staff Reporter

Young children have often been discouraged from sitting in front of the TV, but with the increase in popularity in educational technology, such as computers and tablets, “screen time” is becoming more interactive, human development and family studies professor Jennifer Gallo-Fox said.

Technology has become an integral part of the current culture, Gallo-Fox said, and the question is no longer whether children should or should not be exposed to technology, but how technology can be used most effectively as an educational tool.

“I have seen our youngest children—around eight and below—

referred to as the Web 2.0 generation, and many children today are being exposed to technology at a very young age,” Gallo-Fox said. “It is a part of their lives and a part of our culture.”

The current guidelines outlined by the American Pediatrics Association and the National Association for the Education of Young Children recommend no screen time for children younger than two years old and two hours per day after that. Gallo-Fox said although technology use in society is transforming, it is important for parents to follow these guidelines and encourage their children to be active.

“Active play and pretend play are critical parts of a child’s development,” Gallo-Fox said. “We need to be sure that children have time to play and

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Too much screen time can also hurt a child’s development , according to Plourde.

interact with other people.”

Educational technology professor Mathieu Plourde said screen time should be supervised, not banned, in the household. The fact that technology is so present in the world today will put kids who do not know how to use certain devices at a disadvantage and despite beliefs about the harmful effects of screen time, not informing children on how to use these technologies may be more detrimental, he said.

Yet, according to Plourde, too much screen time can also hurt a child’s development and getting in the habit of watching TV or sitting at the computer is a problem with all age groups and especially children. “[TV] is probably the most effective way to transmit knowledge— kids are drawn to it and there is a reason for that,” Plourde said. “It has to be seen as a balancing act of making sure kids stay active and socialize with other people. Whether or not they are exposed to the right content is up to the parents or educators.”

Chrystalla Mouza, a professor in the university’s School of Education, said there are ways to combat this dependency and it is important for parents to not treat technology, such as TV and computers, as a babysitting device.

“The truth of the matter is that children between the ages of three and five are using technology,” Mouza said.

“A recent report by Sesame Workshop indicated that 25 percent of children between the ages of zero and five use the Internet at least once a week.”

And even though children are experiencing technology at younger

and younger ages, it does not mean that parents should be ignoring their use, according to Mouza.

Mouza said it is critical that technology does not replace traditional developmental activities, such as playing with blocks or doing crafts, but rather that it is used as a supplemental learning aid.

Human development and family studies professor Suzanne Trueblood said an electronic application or game should be judged as useful for children based on how educational it is.

Trueblood also said it is also important for parents to interact with their child and teach them directly.

“Given the opportunity, put the child on your lap and read to them— the child gets the one-on-one contact with an adult that is so important for emergent literacy,” Trueblood said.

But while it may seem preferable for kids to go outside and play rather than stare at a screen, there are positive aspects of letting them play games, especially those that make them think, Gallo-Fox said.

“There are many apps that enable children to create stories or draw or play with music and sound,” Gallo-Fox said.

“These apps provide a new medium for exploring, thinking about the world and creating.”

Mouza also said these technologies, particularly iPads, have the potential to be used in schools to help kids learn. Children are already using these devices at home and may be more engaged if they get to use them at school too, Mouza said.

Beyond that there are an estimated 20,000 educational applications

available for children, and they have the potential to aid in academic learning, Mouza said, and according to Plourde, technology can also be used to help students take charge of their learning.

For example, an application called Evernote allows kids to keep track of and share things they learn in the classroom. Plourde said students will often throw traditional paper notes and worksheets out or forget the information after the year is over, so keeping records electronically could be more beneficial.

However, some teachers have noticed a decline in the writing and communication abilities of students because of the terminology used on social media and through text messaging, Gallo-Fox said.

“Many of [the games and apps available for school aged children] are not mentally stimulating,” Gallo-Fox said. “I think we need to pay careful attention to any materials that children use and ask ourselves, ‘What are children learning through playing with or working with these materials?’”

Plourde said technology can be either a distraction or an enhancer in schools depending on how an educator decides to use it and Mouza also said that if used appropriately in the classroom, technology can only serve to benefit both educators and students.

“It is important that teachers use technology to create new teaching paradigms,” Mouza said. “Instead of using technology to replicate traditional activities, teachers need to create activities that take advantage of technology to allow them to do things they were unable to do without the technology.”

April 9, 2013

New environmental humanities minor takes ‘humanistic’ approach to enviro

BY DILLON MCLAUGHLIN & CADY ZUVICH Senior Reporter & Student Affairs Editor

Next fall, the fields of science and humanities will converge to create a new minor offered to students interested in gaining a deeper, untraditional understanding of the environment, according to English professor McKay Jenkins.

Featuring classes ranging from philosophy to biology, the new environmental humanities minor will require enrolled students to take 18 credits worth of classes.

The minor, which was created by Jenkins and environmental historian Adam Rome with a multidisciplinary method, is taking a more humanistic approach to students interested in the environmental studies.

“Though the sciences provide basic insight into environmental issues, a growing number of scholars, policymakers and environmental professionals have recognized that many of the most basic environmental questions are humanistic,” Jenkins said.

Besides “Introduction to Environmental Literature,” “Nature and History” and “Environmental Ethics,” students have over 50 class choices that will fulfill the minor, according to the minor’s website. The program will supplement what other environmental majors do not have, Jenkins said, because the minor will study both science and policy. Additionally, he said there will be philosophical, cultural and historical emphases within the courses.

Topics such as fracking, the releasing of natural gas and petroleum from the subterranean rock through hydraulic fracturing, will enable students to examine at the history of the area and the politics surrounding the issue, Jenkins said. For example, the East Coast, in particular the Susquehanna River, has a history of energy exploitation, he said, so this history of energy exploitation within the coal and timber industry will be explored in the minor.

“If you don’t know where you are,

you don’t know who you are,” Jenkins said, repeating a quote by environmental activist and writer Wendell Berry. “If you don’t even know what watershed you live in, you might as well be in Oklahoma. It’s really important to know where you are––take drinking water. Literally, where does the water come from?”

As environmental issues become more complex and public, environmental humanities is becoming more important to understanding nature, Lars Hedin, director of Environmental Studies at Princeton University said, who took part in the “Environmental Humanities in a Changing World” conference held at Princeton University last month.

Linking science and humanities is not something that is easy to do, Hedin said, but can deepen the understanding of environmental issues. Because the environment is often studied in the context of science, understanding of it is currently limited, she said.

“We’ve forgotten to have discourse between humanity and the more abstract descriptions of nature,” Hedin said. “Maybe that’s the great challenge to our society at the moment.”

Science can be used to describe nature, but policymaking can be improved only through the understanding of how humans relate to nature, she said.

Noting environmental humanities as a growing field, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences George Watson asked Jenkins for help finding an environmental humanities professor.

Overall, nearly 300 applicants applied for the one position, Jenkins said, all with various backgrounds, including anthropology, history and literature.

From there, Jenkins and Rome brought together a group of 10 professors from around the university to create a committee that met for about a year to decide what the program should look like, consider what fields should be incorporated, what the requirements would be and which electives students could take, Jenkins said.

Each faculty member brought their own personal experiences to the

committee, making the new minor the first of its kind, Jenkins said.

“I look at a river as an aesthetic beauty and an incredibly important ecological feature,” Jenkins said.

“Someone else might see a hydroelectric dam and someone else might see transportation. If you talk to 30 different people, you’ll get 30 different answers.”

Sophomore and environmental science major Rebecca Bronstein is planning on enrolling in the minor, she said. Coming into the university, she said she wanted a science foundation but was also interested in policymaking so she is looking forward to taking the minor because it will offer non-science environmental classes.

With this minor, she said there will be more integration which will make it more applicable when dealing with environmental problems.

“Real world issues are interdisciplinary,” Bronstein said.

“Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem but also a social and political one.”

Being inherently interested in both humanities and science, environmental science junior Amelia Snelling said she has already taken many of the classes required by the minor and has therefore almost completely fulfilled it. “American Environmental History” and “Environmental Nonfiction,” classes both taught by Rome, were her two favorite classes at the university so far, she said.

Snelling also said she hopes to gain additional skills from engaging and communicating with professionals from various fields.

“This is an excellent way to bridge different colleges and fields of study,” Snelling said. “I think it is a critical component of the college experience to learn as much as you can.”

The minor signals a shift in national environmental awareness, and one that, according to Jenkins, the university is paying attention to.

“UD is becoming very seriously interested in the environment,” Jenkins said. “It’s hard to imagine being educated in this day and age without being able to talk about the environment.”

Beutel: ‘It’s unfortunate but I can kind of see how they were struggling because no other place had prices like that.’

Continued from page 1 “It’s unfortunate but I can kind of see how they were struggling because no other place had prices

like that,” Beutel said.

Sophomore Moriah Springstead said she is upset by the closing of the establishment since she, like others, finds the food delicious and the

prices reasonable. She understood how the business’s location might have hurt it though.

“There are so many places to go on Main Street, so unless you are the most popular one, you have trouble getting customers,” Springstead said.

Voit said he will not be leaving Newark after the closing of his restaurant but will help the owner of I Don’t Give a Fork, a food cart on South College Avenue, expand on campus. He said he is an unofficial partner with the owner and has been helping her get off the ground and get started since she opened her food cart.

Although he is excited about his new business venture, he is disappointed to have to close his restaurant which brought in so much of the community.

“I sincerely appreciate the opportunity we had in Newark and the support of the students and the local community,” Voit said. “It’s heartbreaking to have to make this decision.”

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Politics Straight, No Chaser Proposition 8, DOMA and the future of gay marriage The election of 2008 was a great season for liberal Americans—President Barack Obama was elected and the Democrats picked up eight seats in the Senate and 21 in the House of Representatives, making for a good start to the post-Bush era.

Yet, they did take one punch to the gut with the recent passage of Proposition 8 (commonly known as “Prop 8”) in California. By a margin of 4.4 percent, California voters passed a state constitutional amendment stating that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in the state of California. It was yet another failure for the gay rights movement in America as whole.

Oppositionists filed lawsuits almost immediately after Prop 8 was enacted and the multiple cases slowly wound their way through the legal system until they were eventually folded into one case. The case won in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and then had that decision affirmed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. On appeal from the loser in the lower courts, a consortium of pro-Prop 8’ers, led by Dennis Hollingsworth, a former member of the California State Senate, the U.S. Supreme Court of the granted certiorari or the right for the lower court to send them the case. It was argued on March 26th.

The issue in Hollingsworth is whether this is whether Prop 8 violates the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses in the 14th Amendment. The lower courts held that it did, and the Supreme Court has added the Article 3 standing question— whether a controversy exists that is caused by the law to one of the parties in the case. Here it is asking if the consortium headed

by Hollingsworth has the right to defend Prop 8.

Another gay rights case, United States. v. Windsor, was argued the day after. This one dealt with a Clinton-era law called the Defense of Marriage Act. It was enacted in 1996 and it restricted the benefits a same-sex couple could receive from the federal government. It also restricted the word “marriage” to refer to the union of one man and one woman in the federal system, eliminating any hope of recognition for samesex couples. This costs gay couples quite a bit of money with the tax breaks married couples receive from the federal government and this is where the controversy exists in this case.

Edith Windsor, a woman involved in the case, was levied with a $363,000 federal estate tax when her wife and partner of 40 years passed away. They did not qualify for estate tax relief as they would have if they were a fully recognized married couple in the eyes of the federal government.

The case mainly revolved around whether DOMA or not is in violation of the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection, which is derived

from “nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” An argument was made that homosexuals qualify as a suspect classification and would require heightened scrutiny by the courts, but the lower courts did not accept that and instead they applied the Fifth Amendment.

There are secondary issues about standing and jurisdiction, but they are really the part that would allow the Supreme Court decides to kick the can down the road if they so choose. It probably won’t happen in Windsor.

In fact, it is much more likely that the same standing issue will derail another gay rights case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, from the sound of the oral argument.

A lot of time was spent on the standing issue and that is the more controversial case of the two. The decision in Hollingsworth could be much more far-reaching than the invalidation of DOMA as potentially holding that same-sex couples have an absolute right to marry is a big deal for the court.

It would surprise me if the opinion went that far.

What should we expect from the two decisions? In my opinion, DOMA will be declared unconstitutional, with Justices Sotomayor, Ginsberg, Breyer, Kagan and Kennedy as the majority. DOMA should be the clearer case for them—the law exists only to exclude and that should not stand under the Fifth Amendment’s guarantees.

As for Hollingsworth, if they don’t dismiss for lack of standing, it will probably be the exact same majority. I base this on the fact that Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Chief Justice Roberts will never vote for gay marriage, but Kennedy, who has written he opinion in favor of homosexuals in the last two major gay rights cases, is more likely to side with the liberal Justices again here.

However, Chief Justice Roberts, a Bush 43 appointee, did write the majority upholding the Affordable Care Act, so he has surprised us before. But I don’t think that will happen again. Expect a long-winded and borderline insulting dissent from Scalia if my predictions hold true, with Thomas probably signing onto it. Roberts might write his own as well. I predict there will be a lot of concurrences and dissents in these cases, for every Justice will want their opinion to be heard in these landmark cases.

Gay marriage has more support now in both government and the general public than ever before.

One way or another, gay marriage will become a right in the United States. Whether it takes a federal law or a new amendment or that it is guaranteed by a holding from the Supreme court, the day will come when it becomes an absolute right. Hopefully this court will be on the right side of history.

-Brian Barringer

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12 Younger generation greatly impacts gay-rights movement Same-sex marriage rights under supreme court discussion, gain notoriety, traction The Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, defines marriage as the “legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.”

However, given the recent traction gained by gay-rights activists on the national scale, some American citizens and politicians are beginning to seriously doubt the validity of DOMA’s definition of marriage. Yet gay-rights are not a recent topic of conversation on Capitol Hill. In the beginning, it seemed as though gay-rights activists lacked the potential to succeed in the eyes of many. But as time progressed, the salience in the younger generation’s promotion of same-sex couples earning equal marriage rights played a huge role in the movement’s progress.

The older and usually more inflexible politicians constantly bring this debate back into the spotlight by stubbornly standing behind the outdated concept of marriage being exclusively shared between a man and a woman.

Without a doubt, the issue deserves political attention, but politicians

are continually revisiting obsolete discussion points surrounding gay-marriages’ invalidity. Given the increasing support from the younger generation, it is almost time for socially conservative Americans to realize they will lose the fight on gay marriage and that marriage will be more loosely redefined.

There are many who say the gay-marriage debate will be looked back upon by future generations as the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s. In the future, once gay-marriage rights are ultimately revised, this debate will seem futile to history students studying the 21st century American politics. People will not be able to comprehend why it took so long to allow equal rights surrounding marriage to our citizens. The younger generation clearly has a firmer grasp on the future of gay-rights. However, the process will likely continue to be drawn out. Time may be the ultimate and only healer for the gay-rights movement’s success.

editorial Letter to the Editor

This letter is written to discuss the factual inaccuracies presented in the article written on the 12 March event concerning rocket attacks in Sderot, as well as the over all simplicity with which the piece deals with a very complicated issue.

First, the article states that Israel was formed only after the first Arab-Israeli war; this is inaccurate. The United Nations established Israel on May 14, 1948—and Israel came under attack the very next day by 5 of its Arab neighbors. In addition, citing the number of Palestinian refugees without any further contextual information does not account for the encouragement many Palestinians received from incoming Arab armies who foretold a swift victory against the Jews— nor does this simplification make any mention of the many Jewish refugees who would have been displaced in the same manner as their Palestinian counterparts. Second, by hypothesizing that armed groups like Hamas and Hizbollah simply act to protest the idea of an Israeli “occupation” (which in itself is an oversimplification), you fail to take into account that the very preamble to Hamas’s charter reads, “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”. Similarly, the United States is not alone in considering Hamas or its military wing to be a terrorist organization; the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand are other countries in which Hamas is viewed to sponsor acts of violence targeting innocent civilians. The conflict requires context to understand completely, and so it is detrimental to those trying to learn about the situation if such simplifications are presented.

Next, you write that the Balfour Declaration granted the establishment of a home for the Jewish people, while in

Josh Rutstein (CAMERA Campus Fellow) Ally Turkheimer (Morningstar Grinspoon Intern for the ICC) Ninette Lyubarskaya (President, Israel U) Avi Kleinman (Co-political Chair, Israel U)

“No more confusing these gay-rights issues.”

University takes steps toward filling demand for jobs working in environment quite rapidly. The university is obviously recognizing this and acting accordingly by offering a wide range of environmental majors and minors. It is sure to increase the number of graduating students able to find jobs working with the environment while attracting potential students to the university.

Interdisciplinary majors are more representative of the skills needed in the working world. Chances are, most jobs require not only a scientific background, but also a broader understanding of the field. Similar to the biomedical ethics debate which has become such a big conflict, especially surrounding the use of stem cells and other controversial medical practices, environmental policy makers need to be well versed in environmental literature and history. The university is recognizing the growing demand for this kind of work and deserves applause for proactively responding so quickly.

Sincerely,

Editorialisms

Environmental humanities minor reflects new job market The university has recently adopted a new minor to offer to students who are looking to study the environment from both a scientific and philosophical standpoint. The interdisciplinary minor is geared toward bigger picture issues surrounding the environment including insight into environmental issues and their political counterparts like fracking, the releasing of natural gas and petroleum from the subterranean rock through hydraulic fracturing and its potential harm to surrounding areas. “Introduction to Environmental Literature,” “Nature and History” and “Environmental Ethics” are a few of the optional courses under the new minor among many other areas of study which unite the sciences and humanities.

Given the national attention the changing global environment is receiving, the job market for well-studied individuals in the field of climate research is growing

actuality, this Declaration was simply a soft voice of support for a future establishment that would not risk prejudice towards the civil or religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. Again, this simplification disregards the historical actualities that are so important to properly understand the roots of this conflict. Lastly, you report that the Human Rights Watch group counted 4 Israeli casualties and 103 Palestinian casualties in the crossfire between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories—which is incorrect.

The Gaza strip has been ruled unanimously by Hamas since 2007 and Israel has been disengaged from the territory since 2005, so your assertion that the territory was occupied at the time of Operation Pillar of Defense is wholly wrong. If your goal is to report factual information, then it is imperative to make sure that your information is indeed correct, and that you take a neutral stance with an eye towards all sides of an issue.

As concerned parties in this matter, we are disappointed to have been affiliated with such inaccuracies. We would appreciate some expression of apology from the Review Staff, and to see appropriate corrections made. Thank you for your time.

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Finding religious balance important, necessary Rosie Brinckerhoff

Guest Columnist Taking religion too seriously can hinder one from receiving all potential benefits. Finding the right balance is essential.

My mom and dad had a religious tug of war over me when I was growing up. At least, that’s how I like to think of it. My mom is a devout Catholic, and my dad is a more easygoing Episcopalian. When I was younger they took turns every Sunday taking me to their separate churches and when I reached around the age of five they basically told me to pick. Really guys?

Leaving that big of a decision up to a kid who spent their time in church counting the different colors of the stained glass windows up above?

Needless to say, I had no idea what to pick, so I chose the church with the better donut hour.

It sounds terrible, but you can’t expect much else from a five-year-old. If you’re wondering, the Catholic Church had better donuts, so I was raised Catholic.

My mom took my sister and I to church every Sunday. I could tell it was very important to her by her urgency to leave on time and get a

good seat at Mass. My sister and I were probably the worst two kids to bring to church seeing as how we paid more attention to each other than we did to the actual liturgy. I had my First Communion and Confirmation in the Catholic Church, and ended up leaving my Episcopalian school to attend a Catholic high school. I went to church every Sunday throughout high school, but then I reached a funny crossroad in my life where I found myself stuck over a question— do you need to go to church to be religious and have a relationship with God? My answer is no. I realize a lot of people find the idea totally unconventional that you can consider yourself religious without going to church. My mom sees it as unthinkable. To her, being religious means that you’re devout in going to church every Sunday, but I disagree.

Going to church and not paying attention is similar to sitting in a parked car expecting to get somewhere. It’s simply not going to happen. I have found many times while at church my mind just wanders off and I end up trying to beat the next level in Bubble Blaster on my phone while I hear some hymns echoing in the back of my ears. Why go to church if you’re not going to get anything out of it? That was my predicament.

Much to my mom’s dismay, I made the decision for myself that I would go sit in church only when I felt I needed it. Sometimes I am drawn to church, and I find sitting in mass can quiet my thoughts and help me grab ahold of myself. Then again, sometimes it is my nemesis on Sunday mornings. I don’t go all the time, but

when I do go, I appreciate it more and feel much better about going on my own terms.

I consider myself to be a religious person.

I pray and look to God for answers when I find myself in trouble or at a crossroads in life. I give thanks to God for all that He has given me, and I trust He has a plan for me in life that’s out of my hands and in His. I don’t think that I’m any less of a Catholic or any worse of a person than my mom is because I don’t go to church every Sunday. They used to tell us in Sunday school that you need to discover your faith for yourself and find what works for you. I’m not sure if my teachers would approve of how I view religion now, and I’m pretty sure they would think I took their message the wrong way. This is OK with me though, because I am comfortable with the system I have going. I know myself well enough to decide if I need to go to church and listen, and I know myself well enough to decide if I just

want to sit in bed and pray in solitude. I think God hears all of our prayers the same, and I don’t think He judges us by who goes to church every Sunday and who doesn’t. I do what I need to do to feel my best, and that is all that matters.

Maybe someday I’ll want and need to go to mass every Sunday, and maybe I’ll be upset with my kids the way my mom was with me when they decide they don’t like sitting in a pew early Sunday morning. I do not know what is down the road for me in these terms and that’s okay, because I have something that fits just right for now. It’s unconventional, its untraditional, but it’s my way.

Rosie Brinckerhoff is a guest columnist for The Review. Her viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of The Review staff. Please send comments to rbrinck@udel.edu.

When partying, students forget to have fun, relax Jason Hewett

Guest Columnist Students view going out on weekends to be an obligation, not a way to blow off steam and unwind.

It’s amazing how dedicated many of us are to partying at the university. The way my dad describes parties when he was in college at Temple University makes them sound like something he and his friends went to for fun. At our school, we treat partying like it’s our civil duty—we sacrifice for it, we honor it as a sacred custom.

It takes us five minutes to throw on comfortable clothes for class, yet five hours to choose the right outfit to wear to a dark, sweaty basement in a stranger’s house.

Pre-gaming, or drinking a little alcohol before the party, is an activity as revered as breaking bread together. Everyone knows the sanctified dance of grinding and the unwritten rules and languages that govern the courtship we know as “hooking-up.”

We might figuratively bleed our team colors, but alcohol is literally in our blood, in each other’s hair and even in between

our clumsily colliding tongues.

As the cliché goes, a really fun night is usually one you do not remember. Of course, the crazier nights are often more entertaining, but we often overexert ourselves in the process. We focus so much on dressing right and worrying about who we go out with that we forget to relax and have a good time. Instead of using alcohol as an aid to take the edge off, we often find ourselves at its mercy, allowing it to bring us to our knees before the great toilet gods as we regurgitate an unpleasant sacrifice to them.

It is fascinating to see what students put themselves through for the sake of going out, and unfortunately, partying is not always the most comfortable endeavor.

I would imagine walking a mile in heels while slightly intoxicated is painful enough, let alone doing it in a miniskirt as it snows.

After braving all kinds of weather with sleeveless outfits, we stuff ourselves into tiny basements that smell like sweat and beer and who knows what kind of mold.

More often than we like to admit, we find ourselves braving the elements only to fail to get into a fun party.

After trying so hard to find a party, texting every number in our contacts, spending hours dressing up and walking all over campus while trying to furtively lower the number of unwanted males in the group, the night almost always ends

disappointingly in the end. Whether it’s an overcrowded basement, a police officer at the door ready to shut down the party or taking the role of babysitter for a friend, we will continue to go out on weekends because it is just what college kids do. But what was it all for? Why do we put ourselves through all this? Are we competing to drink more of the worst beer and wear skimpy clothes in terrible weather to make a testament to some sort of party-warrior toughness?

Everyone knows that you don’t ask these questions when you’re going out, but we all contemplate them in the back of our minds. Not to say that drinking and partying are inherently stupid, but I think in general, partying should be a way to relax, blow off steam and take our minds off of school while giving us the chance to meet new people and have a fun time. It should not be an obligation or a competition, and is certainly not worth going to the hospital for.

I’m not trying to echo the antidrinking philosophy or the mindset of the university’s Alcohol.edu program, but there is something to be said about the fact that we are so desperate to party and impress our peers that we jeopardize our happiness and lives in the process. Maybe it takes a few semesters to realize how embarrassing it is to be a sloppy drunk and how awful it feels to be sick from over-drinking. All partygoers at the university can identify with this, and I think most of us learn from our

mistakes and eventually figure out how to party responsibly. But at the end of the day, students could have a lot more fun partying if we focused on enjoying ourselves instead of striving to be cool.

Jason Hewett is a guest columnist for The Review. His viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of The Review staff. Please send comments to jhewett@udel.edu.

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Social media responds to DOMA legislation

THE REVIEW/Emma Rando

Facebook users changed their profile picture to the human equality symbol to support gay marriage.

BY JACK FISHER Paula Deen and pop culture Staff Reporter references spread on the site.

Many users changed their Over spring break, Facebook profile pictures to the equality users saw the red Human Rights symbol in response to the pending Campaign logos adorned with constitutionality of two existing

gay rights legislation pieces in the Supreme Court, the Defense of Marriage Act, and by extension, California’s Proposition 8.

The original Human Rights Campaign logo is a pink equals sign surrounded by a red background.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of Facebook users who normally change their profile pictures more than doubled after the Human Rights Campaign released the logo on March 26.

According to the Human Rights Campaign website, social media users should post the logo to their social media accounts in order to show their support of gay marriage.

In 1996, DOMA was passed, restricting same-sex marriages from being recognized at the national level and prohibiting those couples from the benefits couples in opposite-sex marriages are allowed. In the 2008 election, the state of California voted in favor of Proposition 8, defeating the attempted statewide repeal of DOMA. Proposition 8 is presently upheld by DOMA. According to sophomore Jennifer Dabell, many Facebook users brandished their own variations of the logo. Dabell says one she found particularly funny included celebrity chef Paula Deen sitting atop two sticks of butter replacing the equals sign and read,

“It gets butter, y’all.”

Dabell says she has her doubts about whether or not the Facebook campaign will affect the gay marriage cause but notes social media can impact peoples’ opinions.

“It does have an influence on our generation,” Dabell says.

The Human Rights Campaign website also illustrates a panorama of creative versions of the equality logo which commonly reference food and media entertainment themes. One version alludes to the musical “Les Misérables,” showing a classic French Revolution battle scene under which a caption reads, “Do you hear the people sing...”

In another variation, the equals sign is engulfed by a small representation of Washington state. The picture has a caption that reads, “Get on our level.”

Washington reversed the effects of DOMA statewide in 2012.

Facebook users also denounced the Supreme Court’s consideration of the repeal of DOMA by changing their profile pictures to the Human Rights Campaign logo with a slash through it, freshman Justin Sauerwine says.

“I have a few friends with conservative relatives,” Sauerwine says. “To disagree is one thing, but to completely put down a lifestyle is another.”

Sophomore Julianna Diamond says she noticed recent Facebook buzz regarding Fox News contributor Suzanne Venker’s failed attempt to criticize gay marriage. Venker accidentally included a picture of the wedding of two women in her column condemning same-sex marriage, Diamond says.

The large number of students who changed their profile picture to the original logo has an impact on gay rights policy issues by because it increases visibility of social problems, Diamond says, adding that other Facebook users become aware of issues through social media.

“It’s great that issues are trending very fast,” Diamond says.

Dabell says many politicians use social media to update their constituents and in addition use it to gauge public opinion.

Though Sauerwine did not personally change his profile picture he says many of his friends did. However, he says social media can only do so much for political movements.

“Social media is a start,” Sauerwine says. “But if people don’t do things like call representatives, awareness is not directed to the right people.”

New app tracks employees’ offensive tweets

BY KATIE ALTERI Entertainment Editor

Sophomore Rhiannon Hare says in the past, she has turned to Twitter to vent about her summer job.

“Yes, I’ve tweeted about [my job] in a negative way, not using any direct names,” Hare says. “Saying like ‘ugh my job sucks.’”

But according to a new Twitter application titled “FireMe!,” many other Twitter users have too and are being warned by the website’s “firemeter” when their tweets are offensive or possibly warrant termination from their jobs.

The “FireMe!” application has been catching the attention of social media users because the site sorts tweets into four increasingly fire-worthy categories titled “Haters,” “Horrible Bosses,” “Sexual Intercourses” and “Potential Killers” depending on the content of the tweets. In addition to these categories, the site also features a leaderboard that ranks tweets in order of the most disrespectful or vehement content.

Although the website features a variety of tweets from Twitter users venting about their jobs, the website’s creator, Ricardo Kawase, explains on the application’s website that “FireMe!” was not created to exploit individual’s who bash their employers. Instead, Kawase says in the “About” section his intention is to educate social media users about the importance of filtering the content of their tweets and to help them realize that content on the Internet is permanent.

“Our goal is to raise awareness about the danger of public online data,” Kawase says on the “FireMe!” site.

“Most people seem to be unaware that on the Internet, once something is said, you can never take it back. All tweets shown here are publicly available on Twitter. So don’t blame us, instead get responsible.”

Communication professor Jennifer Lambe, who has expertise in the subject of media accountability, stated in an email message that although she does not believe it is imperative for employers to monitor their employees’ social media accounts, she understands it is important to know one’s employees are not misrepresenting the company.

“I do not think it is vital, but I definitely understand the urge to make sure that employees aren’t badmouthing your business,” Lambe says.

Freshman Reyna Tillman says she has never tweeted negatively about her employer, who she says she liked.

Despite this, she says she has tweeted about certain situations at her job, such as encounters with creepy customers, and does not think an individual should not be terminated for their tweets.

“I don’t think they should be fired unless it’s really offensive —if they were venting about how stressful it was I think that’s ok,” Tillman says.

Senior Emily Loughman says the extent of her tweeting about her job has been a post about having to work a double shift. She says she is cautious about what she writes, and as long as the content does not negatively represent the company, it is acceptable to post it on Twitter.

Loughman says she does not see a problem with employers using the “FireMe!” application, but she “doesn’t understand” why they would feel the need to use it unless the employee

has previously exhibited a reason for distrust.

“They should be able to use it if they think their employee is questionable, but then again, why would they hire someone who is not reliable?” Loughman says. “I think it would depend on the circumstances. I would hope my employer wouldn’t be questioning me, but for other people it might be necessary.”

Although an employee’s boss could follow their employee on Twitter and be able to view their posts, Tillman says she thinks the application is an invasion of privacy.

“I feel like it’s an invasion of privacy although if they are going to put that out on their social media site they could follow them,” Tillman says.

“Using it as an app is kind of a cruel way to do it.”

Regardless of whether or not students believe employers should be able to view their work-related posts, Lambe says she thinks companies will take advantage of the application because the ability to read employee’s tweets will be “irresistible.”

Twitter users have control over what they post on their personal accounts, and they should pay attention to what they tweet since it is possible for employers to see the posts, potentially by using the “FireMe!” application, Hare says.

“I think that you have the power of what you put on the Internet,” Hare says. “You should know that. You should control that and censor yourself.

I guess because employers have access there’s no reason why they shouldn’t.”

Professor of the study of law and public policy, Leland Ware, says individuals have the ability to filter what

they decide to post on their social media accounts and should not post something without thoroughly considering through the consequences that may follow if they write an inappropriate post.

“People shouldn’t post things without thinking,” Ware says. “They should think if someone else or my boss reads this how is he or she going to react? If the answer is negatively, the simple thing to do is not put it on there.”

Hare says she takes advantage of the privacy settings social media accounts offer, and she does not allow any authority figures to follow her on Twitter.

Ware says the privacy settings on social media sites can often be hacked, and individuals should consider anything they write on these sites to be public. Because of this, many individuals think these privacy settings are stronger than they truly are, Lambe says.

“Some believe that only the people

they have ‘friended’ will see what they are saying,” Lambe says. “But if one of their friends comments on their post, or shares it, then lots of other people might see it as well.”

Individuals can avoid negative repercussions from work-related tweets by not posting anything that they think could cause them trouble in the future, Ware says.

As Kawase stated on the website, he created the application in order to inform Twitter users on the dangers of posting explicit comments about workplace matters or user’s vendettas against their bosses and not to get anyone fired. Kawase says on the website he hopes no one is fired due to the application, and instead, that the application will inspire individuals to take responsibility for their tweets.

Courtesy of abcnews.go.com

FireMe! allows employers to see when employees are ranting.

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Sophomore rewarded for courageous character

BY KELLY FLYNN Managing Mosaic Editor

Two days after her high school graduation, sophomore Grace Firestone was having a normal day consisting of tubing on the Brandywine River and going to her first varsity soccer practice when her heart stopped beating.

“I came home, sat on the couch for about an hour, went up to my mom’s room, said, ‘I don’t feel well’ and collapsed,” Firestone says.

Firestone says she was rushed to Christiana Hospital where she would later discover that a virus had attacked her heart, which resulted in an implantable cardioverter defibrillator being inserted in her chest. After a summer of cognitive and physical rehabilition, Firestone says she wanted to get back to her two passions—athletics and charity work.

Firestone has been named this year’s recipient of the Delaware Women’s Alliance for Sports and Fitness Wilma Rudolph Courage Award and will be recognized at a ceremony on the Apr 14. Principal of Administration at Dover High School, Evelyn Edney, who is also on the committee that chooses the winner, says Firestone’s determination to overcome the obstacles in her life and humanitarian efforts made her stand out.

“We had a slew of candidates

to choose from,” Edney says. “It’s like the award picked Grace.”

Edney says the DWASF looks to recognize women involved in sports in Delaware who have made significant accomplishments, and when the organization read an article in the News Journal on Firestone, officials reached out to her. After speaking to Firestone, Edney says the organization decided she was the “epitome” of the courage award, which looks to recognize a person who has overcome some sort of affliction.

Firestone’s brother, Grant Firestone, 25, says one of his sister’s greatest accomplishments is surviving cardiac arrest. In addition, he says two remarkable moments stand out when he thinks about his sister: her athleticism when she scored the only goal at the women’s state soccer championship in high school and her charity work when she journeyed to Africa this winter.

“I’ll always say I thought the older sibling was supposed to cast the shadow, but that’s just not possible when Gracie’s your sibling,” Grant Firestone says.

Firestone says she has always been an athlete, and when she was in eighth grade, she played on three varsity teams. Firestone says she was one of only eight high school students nationwide to earn the National High School Spirit of Sport Award her senior year.

In high school, she says she felt there was pressure to do

community service, and while she was involved in Habitat for Humanity, she wanted “something of her own.” A friend understood her desire and introduced her to Youth Venture, an organization that aids young people in creating charitable projects. When she contacted the group, she says she did not have a specific idea in mind, but she later decided she wanted to combine her interests of sports and children.

As a result, Firestone says she organized Let the Kids Play, a community service project that provides sports equipment to disadvantaged schools. Firestone started by raising money for inner city schools through events such as dodgeball tournaments, but she says her scope expanded when Youth Venture sent her a link to an organization called Flying Kites, which provides childcare to orphaned children in Kenya.

“I was hooked on everything about [Flying Kites],” Firestone said. “I wanted to help. I got in touch with them, and our next batch of equipment and money went to Kenya.”

Firestone says she developed a relationship with Flying Kites.

Then, when Sen. Chris Coons (D.-Del), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, read an article about Firestone’s charity work, he asked her if she would like to coordinate efforts. This resulted in Coons’ wife, Annie, personally

Courtesy of Grace Firestone

Firestone plays soccer with one of the children of Flying Kites. She helped raise the funds to provide the sports equipment to the kids.

delivering Firestone’s sports equipment on her next trip to Kenya, Firestone says.

This past summer, when Firestone saw Annie Coons’ photos from her trip to Kenya, she says she decided she wanted to visit Kenya for herself. She then learned about Flying Kite’s adventure challenge, which she later described as “crazy trips to raise money for Flying Kites.”

“For some reason, I thought the most doable was [climbing] Mount Kilimanjaro,” Firestone says. “As school started, I was telling people about this. It became more and more feasible.”

To achieve her goal, Firestone started a fundraising website, and by the end of December, she had raised around $10,000 towards her trip. When Flying Kites asked her if she thought the climb was wise considering her medical history, she says she wanted to prove to everyone that she was still physically capable.

Firestone says climbing the mountain was the hardest thing she has ever done in her life— both mentally and physically.

And though the mountain was “surreal,” she says visiting the children of Flying Kites after her climb was the most rewarding part of her journey.

“Regardless of how amazing the mountain was, I think the kids had an even bigger effect on me because they had so little and were the happiest, most loving kids I’ve ever met in my life,” Firestone says.

Firestone says her experiences in Kenya taught her if you have drive and good intentions, you can bring people together to support your cause. Looking towards the future, Firestone says she hopes to find a way to combine her biology major and public health minor with charity work to make an even greater difference.

Sophomore Megan Fortman, a friend of Firestone, stated in an email message that Firestone has taught her about the importance of perseverance. She says Firestone is one of the hardest-working people she knows, and she sometimes thinks her friend could save the whole word if she had the time.

“A lot of people talk about great things,” Fortman says. “But Gracie has always been the type of person to make things happen.

I mean, the girl climbed Mount Kilimanjaro when anyone in their right mind with the same medical concerns wouldn’t even consider it. Luckily she has the right heart– one that doesn’t give up.”

Courtesy of Grace Firestone

Firestone poses on Mount Kilimanjaro with her guide.

20 April 9, 2013

sights and sounds

When a film is made into a 3-D version, there is always the concern that it will tarnish the legacy of the original version and distract viewers from what was good about the film to begin with. Moviegoers might also worry that seeing the film’s new effects won’t be worth their money if they have already seen it. Luckily, Jurassic Park fans will be more than pleased to find the 3-D presentation only adds to the intensity of the original.

Though Jurassic Park has the exact same structure as the original film released 20 years ago, viewers who are familiar with the film are offered an entirely unique, regenerated experience when viewing the movie in 3-D. Although the original version of the film wowed audiences due to the digitalized, yet shockingly lifelike versions of the dinosaurs, seeing the new effects is even more captivating. The protagonists’ first encounter with the Tyrannosaurus rex, who crushes the jeep and devours the on-site lawyer in one terrifying bite, is captured in such intensity that viewers who had seen the scene prior will feel as if they are watching it for the first time.

Another scene sure to wow audiences is the herd of Gallimimus charging down a scenic hill as Dr. Grant and the children look on. It will leave viewers feeling as if the dinosaurs are running towards them at high speed. Any scene that features the T. rex takes full advantage of the 3-D effects, and the camera angles allow audience members to feel as if they are looking straight on into the face of the violent creature.

The film’s only flaw is its lack of captivating effects usage towards the beginning of the film, during which dinosaurs

are only seen in a few fleeting instances. The producers try to feature some effects, as not to bore viewers, but 3-D plants and the occasional awkward close-up of the main characters are very underwhelming. The initial descent of the helicopter into Jurassic Park could have been one of the more powerful scenes, but it lacks any real wow factor that would set it apart from the original film. The real, jaw-dropping 3-D effects are not seen until about 45 minutes into the film, when the park’s security system is hacked, the dinosaurs begin to roam the land freely and havoc ensues.

Whether you missed out on the original film, or are experiencing it for the first time, Jurassic Park 3-D is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. Although the original version featured action-packed scenes, state-of-the art graphics and dynamic performances by adventurous paleontologists Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), eccentric millionare John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) and his vivacious grandchildren Lex and Tim (Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello), the film is superior in 3-D form and allows viewers to feel as if they are being chased by the speedy Velociraptors, to experience the sky-high terror of the Tyrannosaurs rex or simply to admire the more peaceful veggie eating dinosaurs like the Apotosaureses (yes, the film does feature a few less aggressive dinosaurs).

—Katie Alteri kalteri@udel.edu

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I am a big fan of old-school campy horror films—including (and especially) the well-known “Evil Dead” franchise. The original trilogy, which debuted in 1981 with “The Evil Dead” and concluded in 1992 with “Army of Darkness,” featured legendary cult favorites Sam Raimi (“Spider-Man” trilogy) as writer and director, Robert Tapert (“The Grudge”) as producer and Bruce Campbell (“Burn Notice”) as lead actor. Concerns were certainly very valid when it was revealed that the 2013 “Evil Dead” would feature a cast and crew of largely unknown individuals, with the classic trio only serving as producers.

The backstory of the film is crucial in order to understand that this remake is intended for a fairly niche audience as it attempts to revive the overdone campy slasher genre and modernize it. The intentional absurdity fans have come to love and expect is still there, although it is less comical in nature and instead presented with over-the-top gore, countless plot holes and extremely stupid characters. And this is perfectly okay.

The entertainment within the film is presented through outstanding direction from first-time feature film director Fede Alvarez, excellent editing and a surprisingly strong script despite the tired plot. All of these elements work together to create a pace that keep the action pumping. After a brief exposition, the ball gets rolling and there is no stopping the torrential downpour of ridiculous, gory near-farce that follows.

The plot is as simple as it is absurd: while staying at a cabin in the woods in order to help the drug-addicted Mia (Jane Levy) detoxify, five friends discover a book used to summon

a demon, which proceeds to possess Mia and inspire her to attempt to kill the friends one by one. There is no moment to stop and think about the plausibility—because there is none.

“Evil Dead” manages to succeed where a lot of remakes fail by taking the core elements that made the original film so great and adapting them in a modernized style instead of simply attempting to create a carbon copy with fancier special effects and more blood. Because of that, it manages to stand strongly on its own and organically distance itself from the original trilogy. The plot and characters are significantly different, but the core idea remains the same.

Due to the changes, however, fans of the franchise may be disappointed if they see the film merely as a remake.

Likewise, horror fans expecting a traditional scary flick might be irritated with the glaringly obvious idiotic actions of the characters within an unoriginal plot. Regardless, the four-star rating is nevertheless highly deserved because “Evil Dead” excels at exactly what it aims to do, and will be enjoyed by individuals who are willing to take a look at a fresh perspective of this campy genre and accept the fact that to stay modern, the formula has to change with age. And certainly, the formula provides what Raimi managed to deliver more than 30 years ago—campy, mindless and unrelenting horror entertainment.

—Marcin W. Cencek mcencek@udel.edu

Jack’s Jams: The Strokes with Jack Cobourn You never really know what bargains you might find sitting on the shelves of your local FYE music store during spring break.

Maybe it’s a really terrible compilation album of 1990s stars singing 1960s surf rock, or maybe it is the exact album you are going to review.

The Strokes’ latest album, “Comedown Machine” was released on Mar. 25. I heard of the album’s release a few weeks earlier and was very excited about it. I feel The Strokes can adequately replicate the 80s early alternative sound I enjoy so much so getting the new album at half price was both a happy surprise and a shock because it had just come out two days prior. Was it going to be a disappointment?

Happily, it was not. The first song, “Tap Out,” starts with a sound reminiscent of the opening riff of the title track of The Replacements’ “Hootenanny,” but then goes in a completely different direction by putting drum machine beats with synthesized sounds and lead singer Julian Casablancas’ seemingly Auto-Tuned voice adding the melody Its beat makes you want to dance the same way all those teens in John Cusack movies do. The second track “All the Time,” is more of a traditional rock sound combined with a bit of indie twang from the guitars but with a moving drumbeat. A good guitar solo complements this song.

“One Way Trigger” is an almost perfect carbon copy of A-ha’s 1985 hit “Take On Me” right down to the synthesized keyboard’s notes and Casablancas’ voice. You can almost put on the “Take on

Me” video, play this track and see no difference. The fourth track “Welcome To Japan” mixes in a Franz Ferdinand-esque guitar riff and drumbeat to the equation, which is how I really expected this album to sound. But it is straight back to the decade of excess with the next song “80s Comedown Machine,” which seemingly borrows the drum beat out of Tom Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More” and combines it with a slow-moving cobbling of noise and lyrics. I had a hard time paying attention to this song, which could have been named “Valium” because it put me in a trance-like state.

I was re-awoken by the next song “50/50,” which was a driving rock song punctuated by wild guitar riffs and pounding drumbeats.

While the song could have been a rejected Arctic Monkeys’ song, it is by far one of the better tracks on the album. “Slow Animals” is the next track, and despite the name, it is a quick-moving song.

I couldn’t help but picture protagonists of a teen romantic comedy finally connecting at the big dance at the end of the movie. “Partners in Crime” is a strong rock song. The guitar riffs, including the short “set piece” riffs before the chorus, are the best part.

“Chances” begins with a sound that reminds me of the opening to the original theme to “Doctor Who”—a distorted guitar riff that makes your hairs stand on end and a cold feeling pervade your body. But instead of continuing with a haunting sound, the beat is something out of the background music of “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,” and Casablancas’ voice doesn’t do anything to help this song

along. “Happy Ending” is only saved by the instrumentation because the lyrics just fade into the background, and it could be considered a “throwaway” song. Finally, “Karma” brings a French Bohemian feel to the party, which is rare in a rock song. It is a great song to cap off the album.

Overall, I’m glad The Strokes like to hearken back to a glitzier, pop-driven time in the history of music, but I would have liked more songs like “50/50” or “Partners In Crime” on the album. Don’t get me wrong, though, because I feel “Comedown Machine” could be high on my list for “Album of the Year.” It just goes to show that even if you pay half, you can get double your money’s worth sometimes.

April 9, 2013

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Pole fitness provides new way to exercise

BY KELLY FLYNN Managing Mosaic Editor

Sophomore zumba instructor Cristina Toscano says when she broke her ankle last summer she decided to look for low impact exercise. When she found out her studio offered pole fitness classes, she says she thought the classes would be fun and not hard on her ankle.

“I took a class, and I was addicted,” Toscano says. “When they teach you the spins, it feels like you’re flying, and I had to go back.”

According to the United Pole Artist’s website, pole fitness is a form of exercise combining dancing, gymnastics and strength training.

Toscano says she thinks pole fitness has gained popularity within the last few years because the classes are fun and don’t feel like a typical gym workout. In addition, pole training is a way to trick your body into strength training, she says.

In addition to teaching Zumba, Toscano teaches private pole fitness lessons and offers “affordable pole parties.” Toscano says her pole is portable because it is tensionmounted, and according to her Facebook page “Zumba and Pole Fitness with Cristy,” Toscano’s students can have the lesson brought to them if they have a hard ceiling and a room with space.

When she bought her own pole, Toscano says her friends frequently wanted her to teach them some moves. Her friends’ enthusiasm helped her realize she could help people by teaching pole lesson, she says.

She says thus far, she thinks most students at the university who have taken a lesson have enjoyed exercising through pole fitness.

Toscano says people of any fitness level can take a pole fitness class, and she has even taken her mother to one.

“Little by little as you learn more complicated things, your body will be getting stronger so you’ll be more accustomed to it,” Toscano says.

Pole fitness promotes selfconfidence as well as providing strength training, Toscano says.

While her Zumba classes have provided her with a cardio workout, after incorporating pole fitness into her exercise regiment, Toscano says she has upper -body strength for the first time.

Toscano’s instructor Elizabeth Stevens, 28, who works at Body, Mind and Pole in Mineola, N.Y., says pole fitness has taught her how her muscles are connected as well as how to engage certain muscles. Stevens has taught pole fitness for three years and says people tend to gravitate toward pole fitness because they find the trend “intriguing.”

“There is this sort of label on [pole fitness] that makes it seem a bit more risqué than other forms of exercise,” Stevens says.

Stevens says she thinks pole fitness sometimes has a negative connotation for people, and this is going to happen any time the “sexy side” of exercising is involved. In the past, pole dancing had the sole purpose of exploiting women’s bodies, but today, pole fitness has become more mainstream as a result of people opening themselves up to

the positive aspects of pole fitness, she says. If a person takes a class, he or she will find that pole fitness is a difficult form of exercise, she says.

Stevens says the average person can go from a beginner to advanced at pole fitness within six to eight months of taking three to four onehour classes a week. However, the best way to become adept at the pole is to invest in your own pole, Stevens says. On average, a pole costs between $300 and $400, Toscano says, because it needs to be sturdier for acrobatic tricks.

After taking one of Toscano’s classes, senior Katrina Contaxis bought her own pole. She says by practicing every day, her entire body has slimmed down and built muscle.

In her experience, the perception toward pole fitness isn’t always positive, she says.

“Right when you mention the word ‘pole,’ people start laughing at you,” Contaxis says.

Junior Kristen Schmidt says at times she receives a similar response when she mentions pole fitness.

“People just think, ‘Oh, pole.

Stripper. Obviously, all you do is gyrate on a pole,’” Schmidt says.

“No, it’s not just gyrating on a pole.”

However, for the most part, Schmidt says the people she has informed of her exercise regiment usually become excited when she mentions pole fitness. She says she is often shocked when she brings up pole fitness, and people she never thought would be interested in the trend express interest.

Contaxis says she thinks the perception will change within the

next year because advertisements for pole classes are picking up throughout the exercise industry such as in yoga and Pilates classes.

According to Contaxis, poles are being used as tools, and she sees poles in yoga classes now.

Toscano says she is trying to change the stigma associated with pole fitness. Using a pole is just an addition to dancing, she says. She says she does not teach any of the striptease elements of pole dancing, and pole fitness classes today are a combination of acrobatics and Mallakhamb dancing, an traditional form of Indian dancing that involves

posing on a wooden pole.

Pole fitness has also become a form of competition among those practicing pole fitness, and the competitions are judged on a variety of categories such as dancing or acrobatic skill, Toscano says. She will be representing her Long Island studio at an upcoming competition where numerous competitors from various studio will compete.

Toscano says her long-term goal is to open a fitness and nutrition studio where she can teach fun fitness classes, such as pole fitness, that provide a strenuous workout but don’t feel like a typical workout routine.

Cristina Toscano demonstrates her strength.

Courtesy of Cristina Toscano

How To: get fit this with season Samantha Toscano Dear “I want to get in shape for spring,”

As someone who is on top of my fitness game whether it be stocking up on chia seeds to boost my metabolism, reading all about the latest exercise trends or scheduling my gym time in my planner a week ahead, I have found the springtime to be an ideal season to make the most of getting in shape. It’s not too hot where you feel like even a brisk walk will turn you into a sweaty mess and it’s not too cold where all you want to do is head inside, wrap yourself up with blankets and drink warm, calorie-laden cocoa beverages. And then there is the additional bonus of not having to go to the gym.

Now, I have nothing against the gym (you can find me cycling away at the “Little Bob” on Mondays or Fridays and kickboxing my heart out on Thursdays), but my motivation tends to instantly plummet the second I see a line to get in the doors or have to wait for someone to finish up with the machine I would really like to use.

Spring leaves no room for excuses—the outdoors makes for the best gym you can have access to, especially when you realize it is lined by cherry blossoming trees and covered with bright blue skies. But don’t damper this by associating outdoor exercise just with running through The Green. There are many ways to get fit without fussing over mileage and forgetting to enjoy that spring has sprung, so try one of these activities and combine it with eating right and staying motivated, and you will be sure to reap the benefits that are guaranteed to come. Happy spring!

Sincerely, Samantha P.S. Feel free to send questions, comments, “How-To” needs and a new pair of running shoes my way at stoscano@udel.edu.

Play some golf:

I wasn’t a believer of the “golf is a sport” mantra until I actually got myself some clubs and headed to the driving range. Work those muscles by taking some golf lessons or do a lighter version with walking cardio at the miniature version. Experienced? Head to the course and ditch the cart for an 18-hole walk (which is also great for someone who is tagging along and wants to get fit) while muscling up the energy to carry your golf bag down the greens.

Walk to class:

Recent research compiled by US scientists who studied and analyzed the benefits of exercise proves that walking is just as good for your heart as running. The report goes on to explain that a brisk walk proved to lower the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes slightly more than the same amount of energy expended on vigorous activities. So instead of taking the bus or grabbing a ride from your friends, try walking to class at least three days out of the week for the rest of the semester. It’s one of the best things you can do for your health with the added bonus of people-watching on The Green.

Go to the park:

Just a quick walk off of campus, White Clay Creek is a fantastic getaway location.

And I’m not talking spa or beach kind of getaway—I’m talking about a one-withnature experience in a beautiful hidden gem of a park. Go for the afternoon and take a good old fashioned bike ride or hike one of

the trails with a friend before settling down for a picnic. Not in the mood to hike? I highly recommend making the 10-minute drive to Lums Pond State Park, where you can kayak for a whole two hours for just under $20. It makes for a great date as well, all in the good name of getting fit.

Give back:

Philanthropy events usually include 5Ks and walks for cures, so why not sign up for one this spring? It doesn’t have to be a particularly long race (and you can always walk), but contributing to a good cause while losing weight sounds like win-win to me!

If you decide to compete in the challenge, stay fit by training regularly and making the event your capstone achievement. Schedule a second one to keep up the fitness and see if you can beat your original time.

Challenge your friends:

Competition is an incredible source of motivation so make the most of living on a campus filled with your closest friends and challenge them to get fit with you. Whether you play an intense pickup game of flag football or host a scavenger hunt party that will get you to run around campus, getting involved together is more often than not a stronger motivator than getting involved alone. And if you opt out of fitness-inducing plans, you are not just letting yourself down, making for more of a reason to commit.

Bonus: Make motivation jars

If your reason for getting fit involves dropping some extra pounds for summer,

make yourself a set of motivation jars.

They are a great way to track your progress, reward yourself for your hard work and slim down before suiting up in the next couple months.

Materials:

Two small matching glass jars, stickon-letters, paint, glass pebbles

Directions:

1. Label one jar with the stick-onletters, “Pounds to go” (or some variation of that phrasing) and decorate with the paint.

2. Label the second jar with the stickon-letters, “Pounds lost” (or some variation of that phrasing) and decorate with paint.

3.

For each pound, inch, halfpound or some other measurement you want to lose, put a pebble in the “Pounds to go” jar.

4. Move the pebble to the other side when you lose that amount and don’t forget to reward yourself for your progress.

Courtesy of Pinterest

22 April 9, 2013

Annual Walk a Mile In Her Shoes

Events Conscious College Road Tour Thursday, April11, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Green Gospelrama featuring Kurt Carr Thursday, April 11, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Mitchell Hall Auditorium 12 Angry Jurors Friday, April 12-14, 8 p.m.

27 N. Chapel Street Resapoolza featuring Kingsfoil Friday, April 12, 1 p.m.

North Green An Evening with Harry Shum Saturday, April 13, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Trabant MPRs

Contributed by Maya Bouvier-Lyons

As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Inter-Fraternity Council held the fifth annual Walk A Mile In Her Shoes event on Thursday.

What We’re Hooked OnThis Week Game of Thrones: We eagerly awaited the third season, which premiered last week, and we can’t put the books down. Who doesn’t love some blood, guts and warring families?

Adam Levine: With “The Voice” premiere over break and his performance at the Wells Fargo Center this week, we can’t help but marvel at this tattooed stud. No one can rock a white t-shirt like him.

Buzzfeed: The website provides hours of entertainment and procrastination, which is perfect because we’re still in Spring Break mode. Bring on the puppy pictures and celeb shots.

Basketball: Although niether of us are sports buffs, we were proud to watch the women’s basketball team make it to the Sweet Sixteen. Elena Delle Donne makes us all proud to be a blue hen.

Summer Blockbusters: The warm weather is a reminder that summer is right around the corner and with that comes awesome movies like Iron Man 3, The Wolverine, Star Trek Into Darkness and Monsters U.

—Kelly Flynn & Lauren Cappelloni, Managing Mosaic Editors

April 9, 2013

The Book Worm

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Photographer Brian Rose Illustrates Staying Power of Lower East Side TenementStyle Architecture with Jack Fisher

Courtesy of Nancy Breslin

Breslin uses pinhole cameras to capture images on display in Winterthur Museum.

Winterthur exhibit features local artists

BY MONIKA CHAWLA Features Editor

University artist in residence Nancy Breslin says she documents her travels by taking pictures of her meals from around the world and has been doing so for five years.

“I’m just documenting my life as I move through—I’d say my work is a visual diary of some sort,” Breslin says.

Breslin and other local artists will feature their works in a joint exhibition this month that will be held at the Chris White Gallery in Wilmington from April 5 to 26 and feature works inspired by the collection at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, she says.

Some of Breslin’s work on display uses a film camera with long exposure, which causes all the moving objects to blur. The effect creates distortions of her own experiences and gives a new perspective on the object she photographs, she says.

“They bring attention to the things I may not have noticed,” she says. “Like the ceiling fixtures or the salt shaker or the people I was around—they almost seem to disappear.”

Lois Stoehr, associate curator at Winterthur, says the museum hopes to build a relationship with the emerging Wilmington arts community by connecting artists with their historic collections and resources.

The museum teamed up with the New Wilmington Art Association last year and invited regional artists to an open house, Stoehr says. Together, they developed a collaborative exhibition to give a fresh perspective on the museum’s collection.

“The main idea is to revitalize the downtown art scene and lure people down here to see what these galleries have to offer,” Stoehr says. “People that are familiar with Winterthur and unfamiliar with this art gallery can hopefully learn more about it.”

As a member of the New Wilmington Art Association, Breslin says she took a special behindthe-scenes tour and became immediately inspired by the art and antiques the museum had to offer. She says the museum staff gave artists full freedom to study and research anything they wanted.

Breslin says the first project she proposed for the exhibition was a short film revolving around the trade literature that featured centuries-old antiques. She took pictures of the actual items on display and placed them next to the image from the catalogue.

“One of the things that really grabbed me was

the number of old trade catalogues—filled with all the silverware, ceramics and candlesticks that people would buy a few centuries back,” she says. “And suddenly I was thinking how wonderful it was to have catalogues documenting ordinary objects that are now considered special antiques.”

Breslin says photographing objects to show how they evolved over time was the center of her projects. She chose to use some George Washington memorabilia and a vast teapot collection at the museum and included voice-overs based on the 18th century language found in the catalogue.

Another one of her projects, titled “Above and Below,” featured fish from the Winterthur Garden pond, she says. She used a camera that shot 400 frames per second and was able to compile a near slow motion account of the fish swimming, she says.

Carrie Mae Smith, a featured artist who is a graduate student at the university, is also showcasing several sculptures and objects she has constructed for the same exhibition.

While in residency at Winterthur, Smith says she created furniture to go along with the pieces she found intriguing. She says a rare commode chair gave her the idea to re-create a piece of furniture with a dualfunction. Her new version embraces an all-in-one style of the commode chair and table, she says.

“When they first invited me to participate, I wanted to really go behind the scenes and check out the archives,” Smith says. “The objects and architecture of the museum were what inspired me.”

One of her other creations, she says, is a peepshow viewing box she sculpted so the viewer can look in, press a button and watch a video inside.

Although she started as an oil painter, Smith says she moved to three-dimensional objects, like her viewing box, in graduate school. Now, she specializes mainly in carving and sculpting, and has woodworking skills, which she credits to her early experiences from working with a cabin maker, she says.

Smith says the visual landscape and culture she engages with always make her stop and think about her surroundings. She says her main sources of inspiration are antiques and rich historical architecture, which is precisely what Winterthur offers.

And Breslin, the museum serves as an ongoing influx of ideas and opportunities.

“It’s really a wonderful chance as an artist to have a museum as your muse,” she says. “To be invited to let your ideas mature and to create images that get exhibited is really a fulfilling experience.”

Brian Rose, photographer, and his collaborator Ed Fausty, whose collection was displayed at the Dillon Gallery in Chelsea, decided to “etch in stone” the chaotic state of the neighborhood they stumbled upon in 1979. In “Time and Space on the Lower East Side,” Rose has put together a collection of side-by-side photographs of New York’s Lower East Side that compare the neighborhood from 1980 to 2010.

The Lower East Side has long been known for having underwent massive gentrification, a process of area renewal, displacing the neighborhood’s low-income original residents. While this may be true in demographic terms, Rose’s piece is proof that, architecturally, many tenement-style structures in the Lower East Side are still intact.

That is, he does not illustrate a stark contrast between a once bombedout array of buildings and a modernday gentrified setting. Instead, the remaining dilapidated, graffiti-ridden buildings of the Lower East Side stand out in each side-by-side comparison of photographs.

Rather than oversimplify the differences of the neighborhood between each decade, as many comparable photography books on the

Lower East Side do, Rose notes its gradual evolution.

“When I first approached the Lower East Side,” Rose writes, “I had the sense of the neighborhood as a rather separate part of Manhattan... in the shadows of Wall Street’s towers. Today, I feel that it is more integrated into the city as a whole.”

Indeed, “Time and Space” presents the new Lower East Side as a neighborhood that is becoming more like the rest of Manhattan, scattered with sterile high-rises but retaining small, culturally-diverse storefronts.

It is true, however, that some of the book’s pictures may be incorrectly dated, such as that of Hilly Kristal’s iconic punk-rock nightclub CBGB. The club closed in 2007, but is shown as being open for business in a photo that is supposedly from 2010.

Comparable books, such as Q. Sakamaki’s “Tompkins Square Park,” perhaps falsely make the Lower East Side out to be an inaccessible recreational area for the rich. Rose’s Time and Space, on the other hand, does a justice to the neighborhood’s remaining diversity and slow transition.

—johnfish@udel.edu

Courtesy brianrose.com

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FashionForward Music Festival Fashions with Megan Soria ‘Tis the season of haute hippies and tribal chic. The start of festival fashions full of flower children, a ubiquitous amount of feathers and girls that look like they walked right out of a Free People catalogue is underway. Coachella, the music and arts festival known more for the style than the sound, is coming up this weekend and unless you’re a lucky blogger or dedicated festival fanatic, you’ll probably be witnessing the stream of street style through a computer or phone like me. But no matter where you are, draw inspiration from the latest spring trends and the lineup of talented musicians with these tips.

My first music festival was in the muddy marshes of East London and for some reason I thought it was OK to wear Bass loafers—rookie mistake. I was sinking 2 inches deep the whole time. So no matter which music festival you attend, boots should be the go-to footwear of choice because mud will become an inevitable fashion accessory, wet or dry. Your cold weather boots can transition well into spring and summer when paired with cute lace dresses or denim cut-offs to keep feet safe and dry. Opt for cool studded boots or cowboy boots to wear with a summer frock. Channel the 90s with some Dr. Martens blues, which J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. will likely be sporting when he takes the stage April 14 and 21.

But boots aren’t the only cold weather trend that transitions well to the warm season. Leather was huge for the fall and is here to stay for spring. If your style is less

boho and more rock‘n’roll, draw inspiration from the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, scheduled to play on April 12 and 19. Frontwoman Karen O. is well-known for incorporating amazing leather pieces to her performance outfits—especially her iconic studded motorcycle jacket.

Spring staples out in stores this season include cute flared mini skirts and high-waisted shorts made in leather. Balance these high-waisted leather pieces with a cropped top and juxtapose the material with a cool denim vest for a fashion-forward Coachella-esque look.

Grimes, the Canadian electronic-pop musician taking over the music scene with her dreamy sound, will be performing on April 14 and 21 and bringing her eccentric look and cool pink bangs with her.

Some of my favorite Coachella fashion statements include the amazing hairstyles and headpieces that accent the street style outfits, but if you’re not ready to make the commitment to color, hair chalk is the coolest temporary hair trend sported during the sunny seasons.

Chalk the tips of your hair in pastel colors to sport strands of a rainbow.

You can buy hair chalk at your local drugstore or use pastel chalk from the craft store (I suggest you Google directions for successful unicorn hair), but if that’s not your thing, remember floral headbands are all the rage this season. Create the look yourself by hot gluing craft store flowers onto a plain headband for a beautiful, blooming headpiece.

—megsoria@udel.edu

Courtesy of stereogum.com and styleinspades.com

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Marshall’sMugs Victory Swing Swing and a miss—at least for the Phillies so far—and the baseball season is off along with Victory Brewing Co.’s spring seasonal as the Victory brewmasters, known for their love of baseball, created another opening day special.

The Pennsylvania brewery made this session saison to compliment the warming weather with a robust full-flavored. They describe the brew as lively and jazzy, and it definitely is a jolt of flavor.

Victory is known for a variety of brewskies characterized by their popular tendency of leaning toward a hoppy pyramid. Swing uses German and American hops, which is a little straightforward and disappointing.

The bulk of this spicy flavor comes from the addition of peppercorn, orange peel and lemon zest, which are popular ingredients in spring and summer beers. The orange and pepper really stand out in the aroma while the lemon zest slides in at the end.

The Belgian saison yeast creates a subtle finish. The body is full for a spring seasonal thanks to the German malts, rye, oat and

wheat. Swing gives a full mouthful of flavor that is not too heavy for the rising temperatures.

Swing pours a goldenrod flower as it fills the pint glass with a foamy white collar. Orange, peppercorn and rye emit from the tip of the beer. That is the jazz Victory says will spice up your spring taste buds. And the slow and smooth finish of Belgian yeast and lemon zest wipe away any fear of things heating up too much.

Victory plays with more of the senses and themes with its beers sometimes. I think you throw a love of baseball “tag” and people are more likely to enjoy it.

If I were at Citizens Bank Park and saw Swing on tap—just out of nature—I feel that I would order it, and I am not sure why.

But kudos to Victory for having that effect.

There is a clear choice for what to eat with Swing, a ballpark frank and Chickie and Pete’s crab fries. The fries will enhance the spice in the beer while the hotdog will pair well with Belgian yeast.

Enjoy and go Phils.

—ryanmars@udel.edu

with Ryan Marshall

QUICK REVIEW: (all mugs out of 5)

Taste: Not super impressed with the flavors that are pretty standard for a spring brew.

Feel: The complexity was a twist for the time of the year. I like the layers of spice.

Look: Classic golden ale.

Smell: Peppercorn doesn’t really say spring time to me, but the hint of fruit saves the day.

Overall: I feel like this is a pretty tough score for a popular brewery. However, there is something catchy enough to order at a baseball game. Beer doesn’t always make sense, but that is what’s so great about it. Bravo.

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April 9, 2013

Sports

Did you know?

With Friday’s comeback win against George Mason, the Delaware baseball team tied the 10-game win streak of the 2006 squad.

The current streak of 12 games is the longest since the 2004 team’s 13 straight.

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Lady Hens return from Conn. disappointed, heads held high

BY DANIEL MCINERNEY Managing Sports Editor

As the final seconds ticked off the clock during the Sweet 16 women’s basketball matchup between Delaware and the University of Kentucky at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., it was clear to both those in attendance and fans watching

on television that the defeat of the Hens signaled much more than the end of another season. It indicated the end of an era, during which countless records were set, many of them by senior forward Elena Delle Donne.

During her final season as a Hen, Delle Donne was the CAA Player of the Year, Capital One Academic All-American of the

THE REVIEW/Ryan Marshall

Delle Donne will leave Delaware as one of the most decorated athletes in school history.

Year, Senior CLASS award winner, Wooden Award All-American and a first-team All-American and was recently named to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Division I Coach’s All-American Team.

Delle Donne has set 10 individual university records and five CAA records. She became just the ninth player in Division I history to score more than 3,000 career points and is fifth all-time with 3,039 points.

“This has been awesome,” Delle Donne said. “We have made a lot of history at Delaware, made our fans very proud and we’re proud of ourselves also.”

Six other seniors—Danielle Parker, Kayla Miller, Lauren Carra, Trumae Lucas, Jaquetta May and Chelsea Craig—also saw their playing careers end, but not before making Delaware athletics history.

The Hens have won back-toback CAA titles in the last two seasons, advanced to the first Sweet 16 in program history and won three NCAA Tournament games in the last four years. Prior to the 2011-2012 season, the Hens had never won a game in the tournament.

“It’s going to be hard, but we have had an incredible journey

Baseball reaches 12game winning streak

BY RYAN MARSHALL Managing Sports Editor

Let the streak carry on.

Delaware baseball continued its 11-game winning streak Sunday after a 16-1 win, completing the sweep of the 12-20 George Mason (4-11 CAA) team that is plagued with injuries. The Hens are just one game away from tying the 13-game winning streak by the 2004 team that made it to the CAA Championship final.

Cheered on by a buzz of over 350 fans at the Bob Hannah Stadium with ideal baseball weather, Delaware jumped ahead early on the Patriots and continued to smack around George Mason pitchers the

rest of the game by scoring at least one run in seven innings.

“We knew we had this home series of 16 or 17 games, and we wanted to make a mark,” head coach Jim Sherman said. “We had a kind of agreement between the captains that a 14-3 run would be kind of good.”

The streak looked to be in danger Friday when the Hens were down 8-5 in the bottom of the ninth inning. After five singles and only one out, senior second baseman D.J. Long stepped up to the plate and answered Delaware’s prayers with a game-winning three-run home run deep to right center field.

See STREAK page 30

THE REVIEW/Jeremi Wright-Davis

Senior All-American forward Elena Delle Donne hugs head coach Tina Martin following their Sweet 16 loss against Kentucky. here,” senior forward Danielle Parker said after the game.

In the postgame press conference, head coach Tina Martin focused only on the positives, first congratulating the Wildcats on their victory and then speaking of the illustrious careers many of her players had.

“I can’t be more proud of my team,” Martin said. “I can’t be more proud of the season we’ve had, and they need to hold their heads up because they represented this university and this state so so

well, both on and off the floor, and it’s a credit to them as individuals and to our university how this group of young ladies handled themselves.”

When asked about the difficulty of holding back such strong emotions, Carra showed that it was no easy task. She began to answer the question but stopped mid-sentence as a wave of emotions flooded over her. Parker began to console her teammate and answered the question for her.

See RETURN page 31

Gender in field hockey questioned in America

BY JACK COBOURN Sports Editor

THE REVIEW/Sara Pfefer

Joe Giacchino had two hits and scored one run in Sunday’s win over George Mason.

It is a warm September evening, the perfect weather for a high school football game. But tonight, the game that’s being played is faster and more fluid than football. The game in question is field hockey, a sport played the world over. The players move quickly from one end of the field to the other, sticks smashing the ball.

The stands are filled to the brim with parents and high school teams.

As the sun sets, the on-field action becomes more electric, and the players’ outlines are magnified by the floodlights surrounding the field.

But it is something else in the stands that pulls the attention away

from the game. There is a loud noise emanating from the lower deck. It’s a sight one might see at any sporting event; young kids get bored easily, so they play games or run up and down the stands, making an unholy amount of noise.

But these two are different, because on closer inspection they are holding field hockey sticks, miniature versions of the ones racing down field trying to score goals..

A sudden thought crosses the mind—it’s nice to see boys playing such a great sport, why don’t other boys? That thought is quickly erased when the coach comes over after the game and hugs the children—they’re his sons.

See QUESTION page 30

April 9, 2013

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ChickenScratch Weekly Calendar

Commentary

Tuesday, April 9 Softball vs. Lafayette (Doubleheader) 3 p.m.

Delaware Softball Stadium Wednesday, April 10 Softball at Maryland (Doubleheader) Friday-Sunday Baseball at UNCW Friday, April 12 Women’s Lacrosse vs. Old Dominion 5 p.m.

Delaware Stadium Saturday, April 13 Outdoor Track and Field Delaware Open 11 a.m.

Delaware Mini-Stadium Men’s Lacrosse at St. Joeseph’s1 p.m.

Men’s and Women’s Tennis at George Mason 1 p.m.

Sunday, April 14 Women’s Tennis vs. James Madison 11 a.m.

Delaware Field House Courts Women’s Lacrosse vs. William & Mary 1 p.m.

Delaware Stadium

Henpeckings

Men’s Golf: The Delaware men’s golf team finished second in the Rhody Invitational in Portsmouth, R.I. from Saturday to Sunday. Sophomore Niño Rosal finished tied for fourth place in the individual standings, with a 12 over par 76-78-154 score over the two days. Also, freshman Brandon Shattuck finished tied for eighth with a 16 over par 82-76-158.

The Hens’ record is now 0-0 in CAA competition.

Men’s and Women’s Tennis: The Delaware men’s and women’s tennis team beat Hofstra Sunday at the Delaware Field House Courts. The men’s score was 6-1, with doubles victories being won by the team of junior Nolan Gelman and sophomore Evan Andrews and the team of junior Jason Derene and freshman Alex Sweet to earn the doubles point. In singles, junior Adam Lawton tied a season-high eight-game winning streak as he claimed his singles victory in three sets. The women won their match, 7-0, with freshman Danea Jonjic and sophomore Kim Milla winning their fourth-straight doubles match. In singles, freshman Carmen Lai had a career-best sixth straight victory, beating the Pride’s Malissa Gilanchi in straight sets. The Hens’ record is now 5-9 (1-3 CAA) for the men and 10-4 (3-1 CAA) for the women.

Women’s Lacrosse: The Delaware women’s lacrosse team won, 18-8, at George Mason on Sunday. Sophomore attacker Allison Hahn had a hat trick and five assists and junior Chelsea Fay recorded her fifth hat trick of the season. Sophomore midfielder Caitlin McCartney scored four goals as well.

The Hens’ record is now 7-5 overall (1-3 CAA).

“Black

Days At Red Bull”

BY JACK COBOURN

Two weeks ago, shockwaves were sent around the world of the Formula One World Championship when, near the end of the Malaysian Grand Prix, Infiniti Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel passed his teammate Mark Webber, even after the team told the two drivers to hold position. Vettel went on to win the race with Webber finishing in second.

On the podium, a seemingly contrite Vettel said, “I think I did a big mistake today. I think we should have stayed in the positions that we were.”

Meanwhile, a very angry Webber stated Vettel “made his own decisions today and will have protection and that’s the way it goes.”

The feud at Infiniti Red Bull has been ongoing, with rumors of Webber’s immediate retirement circulating, to speculations of him staying on and being a rogue teammate stealing wins from Vettel. Everyone in the racing world

seems to have an opinion on this issue, from former drivers and commentators, to even the boss of Formula One, Bernie Ecclestone.

Well, here is mine. While Vettel should not have passed Webber, it is in his best interests to do so. Formula One is a “team” sport, but while drivers work together to score points for the team to win the Constructors’ Championship, they are competing against each other for the Formula One Drivers’ Championship.

It is like this in no other sport. Do you think Lauren Carra gave the ball to Elena Delle Donne so Delle Donne could score her 3,000th career point for Delaware? Or did Joe Flacco throw to Ray Rice to help him lead the league in yards?

Simply put, no. For Carra and Flacco, they are working to feed Delle Donne and Rice in order to score points and help their respective teams win the games. In Formula One, the teams’ championship is secondary to the drivers’ championship in terms of public knowledge.

So what is Vettel’s next move? He could “give” a win to Webber by slowing down and letting Webber pass him for the lead when they are in a 1-2 position in a future race. Tennis players used to do something like that. In the late 1960s, if an opponent was given a bad call, the other player would “hand” them a point to settle the score.

But unlike in tennis, where the fans have no idea if a point is given or not, the thousands at the track and the millions watching on TV around the world will know that Vettel handed victory to Webber as an apology, and more scorn will rain down upon him.

Eleven years ago, something similar happened with the Ferrari team and the fans went mad. In the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix, Rubens Barrichello had to slow down to almost a crawl right before the finish line to let his teammate, Michael Schumacher take the victory. Never mind that Schumacher had four World Championships

at this point, nor that he had a 27-point lead over his closest rival, he had to have the victory.

Now, while the Austrian incident was bad, what Schumacher did was even worse a few months later in the United States Grand Prix.

Coming off the final turn, the two drivers staged a dead heat finish, which Barrichello won. On the TV coverage, one could hear the boos of the fans fall on the Ferraris as they took their “victory” lap.

This incident, along with Vettel’s, is common in the “new age” of Formula One. Big money and big TV coverage lead to top drivers and teams doing things to make a mockery of the sport in exchange for glory. It is a far cry from the 1950s, when drivers were gentlemen who showed up to the track to drive powerful machines for a few hours every once in a while. In 1956, Ferrari teammates Peter Collins and Juan Manuel Fangio were battling for the World Championship heading into the last race of the year. During the race, Fangio had trouble with his car, and instead of capitalizing on Fangio’s misfortune, Collins handed him his car, and the right to win the World Championship for a fourth time.

But such days have passed the sport by, and instead, we have moments like the one in Malaysia two weeks ago. The sport will quickly become a soap opera if Ecclestone is not careful.

So, Sebastian, my question to you is how are you going to fix this error? If he wants to be a “true” champion, he had better right this grievance quickly.

Jack Cobourn is sports editor at The Review. Send all questions, comments, and the second seat at Infiniti Red Bull to jclark@udel. edu.

Under Preview

Delaware vs. Saint Joeseph’s

About the teams:

Men’s Lacrossee Time: Saturday at 1 p.m.

Location: Delaware Stadium

17.25: The number of shots on goals the Hawks average per game, last in the conference.

About Delaware: The Hens are 4-8 overall and 0-3 in conference play. Delaware has won its last two games, highlighted by a 12-5 victory over Michigan Saturday. The team is last in the conference. Senior midfielder Nick Diachenko is sixth in the CAA with 2.25 goals per game.

About Saint Joeseph’s: The Hawks are 5-7 and 1-3 in the CAA. They lost to Hofstra, 13-1, on Saturday and are fifth in the conference. St. Joe’s was picked to finish last in the conference in the preseason coaches poll.

The numbers:

Why the Hens can win: The Hawks struggle to score, averaging a conference-low 6.42 goals per game. The Hens have not had such problems, as they have three players with at least 22 points. Delaware has connected on 27.4 percent of its shots, whereas the Hawks have scored on only 19.9 percent.

Why the Hens could lose: Unlike Delaware, St. Joe’s has a conference victory. The two teams have similar defensive numbers. If the Hawks can get a couple of early goals, they could force the Hens to play from behind and possibly even panic.

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12: The number of assists Hens junior midfielder Conor McRoy has, tied for third in the CAA. 34.0: The number of ground balls the Hens get per game, best in the conference and nearly 10 better than the Hawks.

The prediction: The Hawks’ offensive woes continue. The Hens need to win out to make the conference tourney, and the team picks up its first CAA here.

Delaware: 10 Northeastern: 6

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Streak: Hens half way to record Continued from page 28 Leadership was the key for the comeback, said Sherman, who mentioned before the streak that veterans need to step up.

“It’s college baseball and it’s the pendulum of the momentum swing,” Sherman said. “We battled back in that bottom of the ninth to get runners on and chipped away. […] Our captain D.J. Long comes up with a big three-run homer and we win and just roll from that point on.”

As for Sunday, there was no rally needed.

The Hens’ bats collected 19 hits Sunday, along with three home runs with, two from senior

Jimmy Yezzo.

“I was just going up there looking for a pitch to handle, and fortunately, they left a couple balls and I was able to hammer them,” first baseman Yezzo said.

Hitting wasn’t the only thing Delaware perfected for the series finale. Senior right-hander Matt Soren kept his solid return to the rotation running with seven innings pitched with four allowed hits and no runs.

This season, Soren is 2-1 with a team-low 1.69 ERA in 42.2 innings pitched with 40 strikeouts.

“Last year, I didn’t have my slider command, and it doesn’t matter how hard you throw at these D-1 hitters,” Soren said.

“If you throw the ball 92 mph at these hitters over the plate, they’re going to hit it, so you need your breaking ball there too.”

The Hens will need contributions from the entire team as they go on a two-week road trip around the CAA. Yezzo and Sherman said the team accomplished its homestand goals, but can’t lose the focus.

“We’re comfortable with [away games] and the next two conference weekends are on the road,” Sherman said. “We got a big series against UNC-Wilmington, then we run up to Hofstra. So we’ll be tested. It’s going to be a good run through the next two weekends.”

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Pitcher Adam Davis allowed just one run in 6.2 innings and earned a win in Saturday’s matchup with George Mason.

Question: Sport shows progress with March indoor tournament, over 50 players came to participate in NIT Continued from page 28 Field hockey is a sport played by both genders worldwide—except in the United States. For Rolf van de Kerkhof, head coach of the Delaware field hockey team, the sport has played a major role in his life. Van de Kerkhof comes from the Netherlands, one of the top countries in international competition. The national team won Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000, three World Cups, eight Champions’ Trophies and three European Cups.

In Europe, field hockey creates bonds between people in the clubs.

Van de Kerkhof said these bonds are one of the reasons he became interested in playing hockey.

“Field hockey is one of the top three sports in the Netherlands, so it’s a very popular sport,” van de Kerkhof said. “Boys and girls play, men and women, people of all ages play. Over here it seems you play your games and then it’s over. In the Netherlands, it’s part of your culture. You have clubhouses, you have club programs with 500 to 1,500, 2,000 members.

They organize study halls for kids, organize daycare for people, so you can spend the entire weekend playing at the club.”

In the United States, field hockey is largely played by girls in middle or high school. After college, field hockey becomes a recreational sport. There are men in the United States who play, but they are mostly immigrants from India or other parts of the former British Empire.

The university club team’s senior defenseman, Nii Dbani, is one

of only two men on the team. Dbani comes from Ghana, where his father is on the board of the International Hockey Federation, the sport’s global governing body. He said it is not unusual for men to play field hockey in the United States, but that people’s preconceived notions about the game being a “girls’ sport” get in the way of the world’s view of the game here.

“It’s because of a stereotype associated with it being played predominantly by females in the U.S.,” Dbani said. “So a lot of guys think that it’s a female sport whereas they haven’t really bothered to look around and see the international game or have been exposed to the international game at all.”

While Dbani has never been made fun of for the sport he plays, only getting angry looks from other club teams who don’t have male players, his teammate and roommate, junior forward JaJa Kentwell, has.

Kentwell, whose parents played for both the Chinese and British national teams, said in high school, his female teammates tried to humiliate him every chance they got.

“When I played for my high school girls’ team, I had to wear a kilt as well along with the rest of the team just to play,” Kentwell said. “I think they did it to kind of to intimidate just boys in general who want to play field hockey, because they don’t want boys to play field hockey. So therefore, they try to do everything they can to intimidate them by doing such things as not cheering during plays during games, so like if a boy does something good, everybody will boo.”

Suprisingly, for a country that is

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Jaja Kentwell (at right) practicing with the men’s Junior National U-21 field hockey team. Kentwell plays midfield for the University of Delaware club field hockey team. apathetic about men’s field hockey, the United States does have a national team. The team is made up of players who play overseas in Europe and Australia, as well as some on both coasts. But at the moment, there could be trouble on the way for the team. In January 2012, the team pulled out of an Olympic qualifier due to having a “lack of player commitment,” according to Amy Shipley of the Washington Post.

Kentwell, who plays for the national team, said although the team has a limited number of players, the team should be better by the next Olympics.

“We have a small group of very talented individuals who live on the West Coast and on the East Coast, so there’s not many people in the middle of the country, so it’s mainly in California or down the East Coast,” Kentwell said.

But the issue of getting male players ready to compete should start earlier, like it does in Europe.

Michaela Patzner is a freshman midfielder on the Delaware team.

Hailing from Rosenheim, Germany, she has played on SC Munchen and the Div. 2 German National Team.

She has experience with men’s field hockey, for her team won two German indoor titles and has produced multiple national team players.

Patzner said promoting the sport is key for it to grow in the United States.

“I think the influence of the other sports [in the U.S.] is big, and I think marketing is a big point, so you have to promote the sport because it’s a pretty new sport,” Patzner said.

“That’s the same in Europe actually.

It just started a bit earlier, and the structure here’s off. It’s not that good because after college, you’re pretty much out of it because there are no real adult clubs and no league where they can play after college.”

One way to fix the problem of not having enough players to even support a national team is to promote the sport better and create a ladder system for the men, starting off at a very young age and building the players up to be good into their adult years.

Patzner, who started out playing with boys, said the ladder system could work in America if teams followed the German model, but she cautions the hold American sports

have over teens.

“So when you’re really little, you start together with the boys, and then you split off into the boys’ team and the girls’ team in middle school,” Patnzer said. “I think it’s really hard because guys can play football, baseball, soccer, basketball and all these sports are so big here, but maybe with a lot of marketing and promotion, maybe you could start playing field hockey in middle school with girls and split them in high school.”

Progress has already started to be made in the United States to get men to play field hockey. In March, 56 male teen players played at the National Indoor Tournament in Richmond, Va., according to the U.S. Field Hockey Team’s website.

Van de Kerkhof said he believes anyone, male or female, should attempt to play the sport that he has embraced for most of his life.

“Pick up a stick, give it a try,” van de Kerkhof said. “I would say the same to any person that is female that would come up and say hey. I would encourage everybody to give it a try and we would try to help them wherever we could help them.”

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Lacrosse knows team needs to win out to make CAAs MATT BITTLE Copy Desk Chief

Just over 90 seconds into the third period, the Delaware men’s lacrosse team led the University of Michigan, 6-1, Saturday at Delaware Stadium. Hens senior midfielder Nick Diachenko drove to the goal, cut right and then shot with his stick angled behind his back. The shot sailed into the net for a goal, Diachenko’s third of the game.

Wearing pink jerseys and taking on the Wolverines in the annual Cancer Awareness Day, the Hens scored early and often en route to a 12-5 victory. Delaware entered the contest with a 3-8 record, coming off a victory Wednesday against Marist College. Michigan, in its second year with lacrosse as a varsity sport, held a mark of 0-10 prior to the contest.

Hens coach Bob Shillinglaw said he was pleased with the team’s performance.

“I thought we did a great job of executing,” Shillinglaw said.

“I looked at the stats at halftime. I don’t think in my whole coaching career we’ve ever had a half where we only had two turnovers, so we seemed really sharp.”

Senior attacker Eric Smith opened the scoring, recording a goal off a pass by freshman attacker Ian Robertson about 4 minutes in to give Delaware a lead it would not relinquish. With 7:49 remaining in the opening period, Diachenko

scored, with sophomore attacker Brian Kormondy getting credit for the assist. About 5:30 later, Robertson connected with junior midfielder Danny Keane for a goal.

Smith said the Hens did not overlook Michigan even though the Wolverines entered with a winless record.

“Every team in Division I is a good team,” Smith said. “You never know what’s going to happen.”

He said the team played very well on both offense and defense, limiting Michigan in shooting while not turning the ball over.

Less than a minute into the second period, Smith scored off a pass by senior midfielder Dom Sebastiani. Hens midfielder Conor McRoy recorded a goal later in the period, making it 5-0 Delaware.

With a little over a minute remaining, Michigan got on the board, courtesy of midfielder Mike Hernandez, but the Hens answered when Keane put the ball in the back of the net 14 seconds before halftime, sending the Hens to the break up 6-1.

Delaware held a seven shot advantage over Michigan at halftime, 23-16. The Hens turned the ball over twice, whereas the Wolverines gave it away 10 times.

Shillinglaw said though he was a bit worried about his team being fatigued after having played an away game three days before, the Hens quickly stomped out his concern.

“You’re always concerned when you end up playing a

Return: Marks end of Delle Donne era, what now for UD women’s basketball?

Continued from page 28 “It is easier said than done obviously,” Parker said. “Like I said when we got in the locker room it was the same thing that coach Martin said, ‘We’ve accomplished a lot, this group of seven seniors.”

Although the season has ended, Delle Donne’s basketball career is far from over. She will enter the WNBA draft, which will be held on Monday, and will likely be a top-three pick.

When asked about how she planned to prepare for the draft and her WNBA career, Delle Donne indicated it was not on her mind following the loss.

“I’m not even sure about that and haven’t even thought about it yet because I have been so focused on my college career, but now that it’s over I’m going to prepare and train like I always have and then whatever team drafts me, I’ll do whatever the coach wants me to do and be receptive.”

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Danielle Parker scored over 1,000 points and grabbed over 1,000 rebounds in her career.

Delle Donne’s future looks bright, but the remaining juniors, sophomore and freshman have a long offseason of hard work ahead.

Along with some big shoes to fill.

midweek game, that there’s a little bit of fatigue involved, things like that,” he said. “It was an away trip, three hours, four hours that it took, but I was impressed with what we did Thursday and Friday. The team seemed really focused.”

Diachenko scored an unassisted goal early in the third, followed by a goal from Keane—assisted by McRoy—and a goal from senior attacker Sean Finnegan. Michigan midfielder Tom Sardelli was able to get a goal, but once again, the Hens answered. Robertson and Diachenko each put the ball in the net once more in the quarter, making it 11-2 after three.

Freshman goalkeeper Conor Peaks, who made 13 saves, said he felt he contributed to the win.

“I think I got what I needed to get done,” Peaks said. “There are a couple I wish I could get back, and there’s a couple saves I’m proud of making, so all in all, I think it was all right, but the defense gave me all the good looks they were supposed to give me.”

Attacker Mike Francia of the Wolverines scored the first goal of the final period about 10 minutes in. Smith added one final goal for the Hens with 2:32 remaining.

After goals by Michigan attackers Thomas Paras and Evan Glaser to make the score 12-5, the game came to a close.

Six Hens finished with goals, and Keane, Smith and Diachenko recorded hat tricks. Five Delaware players also had assists. Thanks to

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Midfielder Nick Diachenko scored three goals in Delaware’s win over Michigan on Saturday. He leads the team in scoring with 29 points.

Diachenko leads the team his four points, Smith was named the Milt Roberts MVP of the game. with 29 points and 27 goals on The award is named after the co- the season. The former ranks him founder of the school’s lacrosse second in the CAA. Smith has 27 points, and McRoy has 22. program.

Delaware, now 4-8 overall Smith said though he felt he had played well, another member of and 0-3 in conference, plays CAA foe Saint Joseph’s Saturday. Smith the team had a better game.

“Conor Peaks in cage was my said the Hens know they must keep winning in order to claim the CAA MVP,” he said.

Delaware finished with 35 crown.

“I know we have to win out shots, 36 ground balls and seven turnovers. The Wolverines had to have a chance to make the 32 shots, 30 ground balls and 18 tournament, so we’ll be ready to go,” he said. turnovers.

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