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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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