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YouTube sensation ‘I’m Shmacked’ comes to campus, chaos ensues BY KATIE ALTERI & JAGODA DUL
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The night of Sept. 9, graduate student Yosef Shirazi was in the process of moving into his new house, not anticipating anything out of the ordinary. While driving past Trabant University Center, he watched a swarm of students approach his car and proceed to vandalize the vehicle while he was still inside. “I was stuck at a red light, and I saw the crowd coming in my direction,” Shirazi said. “I thought to myself, ‘Should I run the red light or let them pass?’ I decided on option two, and, next thing I know, there is a huge crowd jumping on my car.” Shirazi said the experience was “straight out of a movie,” and he is now facing damage costs up to $4,500 for the repairs of a caved-in roof, damaged doors and a cracked windshield. The event Shirazi described occurred the night that internet sensation “I’m Shmacked”made an appearance on campus. The evening’s events started at a house party at the men’s club rugby house located on 402 S. College Ave which escalated to thousands of students acting erratically on Main Street. Following the event, campus administrators and Newark police are dealing with the aftermath of the property damage that occurred. Newark Police Department Cpl. James Spadola said a complaint was received last Monday night regarding the
disorderly party. Due to the size of the crowd in attendance at the house party, Spadola said, additional units were called to investigate the situation. Seventy-five officers from the University of Delaware police, New Castle County police and Delaware State Police departments came to campus to ensure the crowd was broken up, according to a Newark Police
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Pond Ice Arena coowner charged with unlawful sexual contact BY MATT BUTLER Student Affairs Editor
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Lawbreaker in Markell campaign finance case put on yearlong probation Staff Reporter
Dover developer Michael Zimmerman pleaded guilty last Tuesday in the state’s Supreme Court to illegal donations in support of Delaware Governor Jack Markell’s 2008 campaign. Zimmerman, 56, was sentenced to one-year probation and instructed to pay a $21,600 fine as a result of his plea deal for making illegal contributions of at least $14,600 to the campaign under false names from his family members, business partners and himself, according to Marin Lessner, Markell’s attorney. Under Delaware law, an individual can contribute $1,200 to candidates per election cycle, Lessner said. This rule also applies to individuals, such as property owner
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were involved in the public destruction and unlawful behavior is still ongoing. “We cannot comment on situations of specific students because of privacy, but I can say that any time students are charged by police they are referred to the Office of Student Conduct,” Grasso said.
Police flood Main Street in response to students’ unruly behavior last Monday.
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Department report. “They came up and attempted to clear out the party,” Spadola said. “There was a lot of people that were spilling onto the streets. [We] arrested the residents for the party for a variety of charges [...] arrested the cameraman that was seemingly inciting the crowd.” Provost Domenico Grasso stated in an email message the investigation of students who
Zimmerman, who own 50 percent or more of a company and use that company to make a donation, he said. Lessner said Zimmerman was given a memo explaining the limits on contributions when he expressed his interest in donating to the campaign. The investigation into the illegal donations was first probed two years ago when former Delaware Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey was appointed by Attorney General Beau Biden to investigate Delaware liquor store executive, Christopher Tigani, Lessner said. Tigani pleaded guilty in May to two felony violations of campaign-finance law and was later sentenced to two years in federal prison for campaign finance fraud and tax evasion, Veasey said.
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The Newark Police Department held a community forum last Tuesday at Newark High School to give concerned parents a chance to discuss the recent arrest of Scott Bicking, who was charged with two counts of unlawful sexual contact and two counts of attempted unlawful sexual contact with a person under 18 years old. Bicking, the co-owner of the Pond Ice Arena, was arrested and released on $12,000 secured bail, according to Lt. Mark Farrall, the public information officer for the Newark Police Department. According to Farrall, Bicking’s release has two restrictions—that he refrain from contact with anyone under the age of 18 and that he have no contact with the Pond Arena. The Newark Pond Ice Arena could not be reached for comment, and a call to the number listed under Scott Bicking’s name was not answered. Along with Farrall, representatives from the Delaware Attorney General’s Office, the Children’s Advocacy Center of Delaware and the Delaware Ducks Youth Ice Hockey organization were in attendance at the forum in order to field questions and concerns from members of the community. The police have continued to investigate the incident and are currently reviewing details to determine whether there is evidence of other victims, Farrall said. On Sept. 4 and 5, he said the families of two boys, ages 13 and 14, came to police to tell them of possible abuse by Bicking. Bicking, who lives in Mantua, N.J., turned himself in on Sept. 6, after being notified of a search warrant issued for his arrest. Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, Farrall said he could not elaborate on too many details, but some details were released in order to help other people or children come forward with further evidence. “One of the incidents did occur in his office in the facility,” Farrall said. “The other three instances did occur inside the facility, but not in the office. One of the reasons we released that one
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instance did occur in the office is so that if you are speaking to friends, maybe a light bulb would go off and you would be reminded of an instance when you saw someone in his office with him.” Dozens of parents attended the forum, and many asked questions to the collection of speakers. Martin O’Connor, Deputy Attorney General of Delaware and the leader of the sex crimes unit in New Castle County, answered several questions from the audience. O’Connor said the state has not indicted Bicking yet in order to allow time for additional victims to come forward. O’Connor said it is important for children to come forward if they do feel like they had been a victim. “It would be a very sad thing if there were more children that came forward who were victimized by this person,” O’Connor said. “At the same time, Scott Bicking it would make the case involving the kids who have made a disclosure already much stronger if there are more kids who have suffered the same type of thing. That’s an uncomfortable thing to think about and we understand that more than anyone in the sex crimes unit, but it would ultimately do a service to your child, as well as the children who have already come forward.” Several parents also expressed concern that the ban on Bicking’s contact with The Pond does not include a restriction on the Pro Shop Bicking co-owns at an ice rink in Washington Township, N.J. O’Connor said Bicking’s no-contact rule regarding minors would keep him away from any children at the skating rink. Although he said he is unsure that the Delaware Ducks hockey organization will change its policies, which currently does not call for a background check requirement, O’Connor said rethinking that principle would make sense.
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FLOODING IN COLORADO DISPLACES MANY, CAUSES DAMAGE
Storms in Colorado have resulted in over 1,000 people unaccounted for and more than $100 million in damage. From Sept. 9 to Sept. 13, more than a foot of rain fell in Boulder, Colo. as a result of record storms, compared to a normal September total of less than two inches of rain. Fifteen counties in the state were given emergency presidential disaster declarations as thousands were evacuated and property damage took its toll. At least six people are believed dead, and the number of missing individuals have risen in recent days, sitting at 1,253 as of Sunday night. More than 11,000 individuals were evacuated, while in excess of 1,500 structures were destroyed by the rains. Approximately 600 members of the U.S. Army and Colorado National Guard have assisted in rescue efforts. Boulder, which sits at the mouth of a canyon and has a creek running through it, is believed to have been the most heavily-affected city. Though rain storms are expected to continue to hit the state this week, they will be much less severe than those present last week and are expected to die down by the weekend.
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WORLD’S OLDEST LIVING MAN DIES AT 112
Salustiano Sanchez, a Spanish-American who became the oldest living man in June, died Friday at 112 years of age. Sanchez received the title of “oldest living man” from Guinness World Records after 116-year-old Jiroemon Kimura passed away three months ago. Born in Spain in 1901, Sanchez came to the United States in 1920 and married in 1934. He worked in a coal mine in Kentucky for a time before moving to New York. Sanchez’s wife died in 1988, and in 2007, Sanchez moved into a nursing home. He credited his long life to eating a banana every day. Among individuals who live to 110 (supercentenarians), about 90 percent are female, making Sanchez a rarity. The current oldest person in the world is Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman who is 115 years old, and the oldest confirmed person of all time is Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived to be 122. Bolivian man Carmelo Flores Laura claims to be 123, which would make him the oldest person ever, but his claim is believed to be false.
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POLICE FIRE SHOTS IN TIME SQUARE, HIT TWO BYSTANDERS
After being confronted by a disruptive man who pantomimed firing a gun in Times Square Saturday night, two police officers opened fire, striking two women and missing their target. During the incident, the man in question, identified by authorities as Glenn Broadnax, 35, of Brooklyn, lay down in the middle of a crowded intersection, then later put his hand in his pants, withdrew it and pretended to shoot at the responding officers. Broadnax did not have an actual gun on his person during the incident. After Broadnax pretended to fire, one officer fired a single shot and the other officer fired twice, striking two women from Manhattan who were walking in the area. One of the women suffered a leg injury and is expected to undergo surgery at Bellevue Hospital Center. The other woman suffered a graze wound to the buttock, received treatment at Roosevelt Hospital and was later released. Neither woman has been identified. Broadnax was later surrounded by officers, shocked with a Taser and successfully subdued. According to authorities, the two officers involved in the shooting were relatively new to the force and had never been involved in any shootings prior to Saturday. -Rachel Taylor Copy Desk Chief
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After lying on its side for 20 months on a Tuscan reef at Giglio Island, engineers were able to detach the Costa Concordia from its watery entanglement in the reef where the sunken cruise ship was once stuck. Using a system of pulleys and counterweights, engineers applied approximately 6,000 tons of force to move the ship. Three hours into the attempt, engineers on the scene witnessed the ship separate from the granite reef on underwater cameras. The Costa Concordia capsized on the reef in 2012, killing 32 passengers. The granite pierced a gash into the ship’s hull, which caused a rush of water to enter the ship causing it to tilt. The ship’s captain is currently on trial for alleged manslaughter after he steered the ship too close to Giglio Island. The ultimate goal is to shift the ship into a vertical position, so it can be towed to shore. The next phase of the shift involves moving the ship onto an artificial seabed made of bags of cement. However, the size of the ship and amount of rusting that has taken place is proving to be a problem during the recovery process. Salvage experts have said the Costa Concordia could prove to be one of the most costly and difficult marine salvages in history.
The United Nations stated Monday there is “clear and convincing evidence” chemical weapons were used in a suburb of Damascus last month, but did not say who launched the attack. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the evidence gathered by U.N. inspectors is “indisputable,” but whether or not President Bashar al-Assad is responsible for the attack is unknown. Due to this report, Ban said the United Nations is planning on putting Syria under international control and is urging the Security Council to reach a decision regarding intervention. In recent weeks, Secretary of State John Kerry has been an outspoken proponent of humanitarian intervention. “The U.S. has been formulating its response to an alleged chemical attack carried out by Syrian forces that killed hundreds of civilians last month,” Kerry said on Sunday in Jerusalem. “These are crimes against humanity and they cannot be tolerated.” Meanwhile, Russia has been more cautious of directly intervening. In an op-ed in the New York Times, Russian President Vladimir Putin said military force should be avoided until the U.N. can determine who is responsible. The investigators reported 85 percent of blood samples tested positive for sarin gas.
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STAR campus overshadows local neighborhood Devon Binns BY CADY ZUVICH
In a letter addressed to John Kowalko, state representative from the 25th district, university President Patrick Harker stated This is part of a series “the complex will have to meet looking into the development all local, state and federal laws and future of STAR campus, the for emissions, water quality 272-acre site purchased by the and noise.” University of Delaware in 2009 Harker, who is also a director under President Patrick Harker. of energy delivery company The goal of STAR campus is Pepco Holdings Inc, went on to attract to state by researchers as using a naturalwell as other gas-powered corporate center, TDC partners to will “reduce, or develop on even eliminate, the site, with h i g h l y the project polluting diesel timeline generators.” spanning up Kathryn to 30 years, G i f f o r d , according to doctoral student Andy Lubin, in the public director of policy program, real estate has lived in for the Devon Binns for university. eight years with Located her husband, in the heart Robert Gifford. of south Though they N e w a r k , were originally neighborhood excited for Devon Binns the proposed is what STAR campus, resident they said the -JACKIE LEGASSE, u n i v e r s i t y ’ s S a n d y Schriver calls in DEVON BINNS conduct a community negotiations was RESIDENT, 63 disappointing. with a “main town“ S T A R city feel.” The 50-year-old campus was this blank slate that neighborhood, with its blocks could be made into anything,” and cul-de-sacs accompanied Gifford said. “It should be with playgrounds, is so developed, but I don’t think tightly knit that citizens share it’s good to lock in such a large everything from stories to portion of it for industrial use.” tomatoes, Schriver said. Kathryn Gifford cited “Everyone sits out on their original proposals of STAR porch,” Schriver said. “You campus issued by the the get to know everyone just by university after 1743 Holdings walking down the street.” LLC., the wholly-owned This very community, subsidiary of the university, however, will soon be in the purchased the site that shadow of the 248-megawatt was formerly the Chrysler natural gas power plant that Assembly Plant. will power Wolf Technology In the 2011 STAR Campus Center, a data center that will Master Plan, it was stated STAR cater to entities such as banks, campus would be “organized social media websites, insurance around the university’s companies and government definition of environmental agencies, according to Andrea sustainability.” Additionally, Wolf, vice president of the West community engagement is one Chester, Pa.-based Data Centers of the core values of the plan. LLC., which signed a 75-year Robert and Kathryn Gifford agreement with the university said they doubt the efficiency of for the site. TDC. Gifford, an alumni from Jackie Legasse, 63, has lived the engineering department, said in Devon Binns intermittently he does not think the company since 1995, ultimately deciding will be successful in recapturing to settle in Newark upon most of its emissions like retirement partially because officials at TDC are claiming. she has always considered the “When you think of data university a “good neighbor.” centers, they are the biggest However, the news of the power energy hogs of them all,” plant––and the “clandestine” Giffords said. conduct of the university––does Among Legasse’s other not sit well with her. concerns include noise Turning her words into pollution, the local economy action, Legasse, along with other and the environmental impacts. residents of District 3, crowded Legasee, while pointing to around a booth Sunday at the an aerial map of the city, said city’s annual Community Day. parks and local schools such Identified by matching T-shirts, as Newark Center for Creative the group, No Newark Power Learning are within a few miles Plant, has begun organizing of the power plant. Also, by events such as a meeting today having pipelines run through at Newark High School and a state park White Clay Creek, march next week from the train Legasee said the data center, as station to Delaware Stadium. well as the university, is taking “We want people to know away the city’s green space. what’s happening in their “Just as much as [the backyard,” Legasse said. “We university] is selling out the don’t believe the university is residents, they are selling out the being a good neighbor.” students,” Legasse said. Managing News Editor
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JPMorgan Chase & Co., a formerly-popular student loan provider, is based in many cities, including Wilmington (as pictured above). The company will stop providing loans next month.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. ceases private student loans BY CHRISTOPHER MERKEN Staff Reporter
Three years after Congress enacted legislation expanding federal funding for student loans, one of the United States’ largest money lenders is ceasing its private college loan program. JPMorgan Chase & Co announced that as of Oct. 12, it will stop accepting applications for private student loans. JPMorgan Chase & Co’s student loan sector has seen a decline in profit over the last five years. In 2008, profits from the loans topped $6.9 billion, but in 2012 that amount fell to $200 million. Nathan Franklin, services manager in the Office of Student Financial Services, stated in an email message that the JPMorgan Chase & Co announcement will have no direct effect on the university. “Of the 17,484 undergraduates enrolled last year, 1,711 (9.8%) borrowed from a private source, while 9,179 (52.5%) received a student loan from a federal source,” Franklin said. “Of those who borrowed from a private source, 1,512 borrowed from both a private and a federal source.” In 2012, the amount of financial aid disbursed by the university was $200 million, with $87.6 million being in the form of loans, both private and federal, Franklin said. The university does not promote any lender to students but does have suggestions for matching
students with lenders on their website, Franklin said. James Butkiewicz, the chairman of the economics department at the university, said he thinks the current trend of rising tuition costs outpacing inflation will begin to cease. Over the last few years, colleges have started to reach a plateau
“Students have come to expect more and more from a university [...] these things all cost money, and that cost is reflected in the rise in tuition.” -JAMES BUTKIEWICZ, CHAIRMAN OF THE ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT where they realize they simply cannot keep raising rates by the percentages they have for decades, Butkiewicz said. However, he said he thinks students are partially responsible
for the tuition hikes as well. “Students have come to expect more and more from a university,” Butkiewicz said. “Where a university used to be solely focused on education, today students want nicer dorm rooms, better fitness facilities, technologically-advanced classrooms and more. These things all cost money, and that cost is reflected in the rise in tuition.” U.S. Congressman John Carney (D-Del.) has been involved in the student loan debate. Carney’s communications director Sheila Grant stated in an email message the Congressman is very concerned about the JPMorgan Chase & Co decision. “This development underscores the challenges students and their parents face when tasked with paying rapidly increasing college tuition rates,” Grant said. “Higher education is key to our country’s economic competitiveness and to the success of our young people, but the cost of college is higher than ever.” Butkiewicz said despite speculation about other mitigating factors, JP Morgan’s decision was economically motivated. “JP Morgan’s decision to get out of the college loan business does not mean they suddenly do not want to offer student loans,” Butkiewicz said. “It means that they have found more lucrative field to move into. At the end of the day, it was a business decision through and through.”
New provost strives to highlight university accomplishments BY KEVIN CELLA Staff Reporter
When the search committee dedicated to finding the new provost decided to recommend its preferred candidate to President Patrick Harker, every member was in agreement, George Watson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and chair of the provost search committee, said. “We unanimously recommended [Domenico Grasso] to President Harker for consideration, and I am just delighted it worked out and he’s here,” Watson said. “I think it’s going to be a great step forward for the university.” Grasso’s position as provost became effective Aug. 15. He is replacing interim provost Nancy Brickhouse who temporarily assumed the position after her predecessor, Tom Apple, resigned in June 2012. The provost is responsible for directing all of the university’s graduate and undergraduate programs including those pertaining to academics, research, mentoring, teaching and student life, Watson said. The provost works directly with the deans of all seven colleges as well as other university officials to ensure the university maintains a high academic standard and improves over time, he said. Grasso was the vice president for research and the dean of the graduate college at the University of Vermont. During his time at Vermont, he was also of the dean of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Before working at Vermont, Grasso was a Rosemary Bradford Hewlett professor at Smith College. He also served as head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut, and during his time there, he was the director of the Environmental Engineering program as well.
This vast range of experience is what Watson said made him excited to have Grasso join the university’s staff. “Almost every aspect of the work he needs to do as provost here he’s experienced and at a variety of institutions,” Watson said. “He’s just the perfect candidate.” Although Watson said he thought Grasso was a perfect candidate, his vote was not the only one that mattered.The provost search committee consisted of 13 members, including Kathleen Matt, dean of the College of Health Sciences, Michael Gilbert, the former vice president for student life and various other faculty members, Watson said. Students’ opinions were also taken into consideration, Watson said. The committee also featured graduate and undergraduate student representatives. “[The] provost will have a big impact on student life and the learning that takes place here so we thought it was important to have the student perspective as well,” Watson said. “I was pleased with their full level of participation.” Although student representatives participated in the search, some students, such as senior Ryan Huttman, said they do not know much about the position. “I’ve never heard of the provost before,” Huttman said. “I am not sure what that is or what that would entail to be honest.” Though there are other students who have no knowledge of the provost, Huttman said he thinks the university could benefit from Grasso being more well known. “I think it’d be good if more people knew about it,” Huttman explained. “Then students could be more involved and let the university know what it’s like for students here.” Despite a lack of student understanding about the position, Grasso said he still wants to have
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a positive impact on their lives. He said he hopes to make students’ educational experience “second to none,” and by doing so, he will have prepared both undergraduate and graduate students for their future careers. Grasso said his past experiences have helped define his goals for his new position. At Smith, the university focused on undergraduate education, whereas Vermont and Connecticut are research-based universities similar to the university, Grasso said. He said he has seen the advantages of these two different types of schooling and hopes to incorporate a focus on undergraduate education while simultaneously having the opportunities that come along with being a research university. Another important goal for Grasso is getting the university fully recognized for all of its achievements. “One of my goals is to really expose the greatness that’s at this school,” Grasso said. “There is a certain degree of modesty here, and I think it’s time we uncovered it for the world to see. So that’s one of my goals, is to bring all the greatness of the university to the light of the world.”
“We want people to know what’s happening in their backyard. We don’t believe the university is being a good neighbor.”
VEASEY: ‘A MORE REFINED SYSTEM FOR DELAWARE DONOR CONTRIBUTIONS IS IN THE WORKS.’ Continued from page 1 The Zimmerman controversy marks the third time in less than a year that Markell has faced questions about improper campaign contributions, Veasey said. He said they are looking into “the question of whether Markell or any campaign knew about or suggested reimbursement.” Veasey also said there would be a report released at the end of the month that will provide specific information regarding the cases he has been working on for two years from Tigani. “A more refined system for Delaware donor contributions is in the works,” Veasey said. Lessner said Markell did not become aware of the illegal campaign donations made in support of Zimmerman until he was indicted on the charges.
He said once Governor Markell and his staff learned about the donations, the money was donated to charity, including The Boys and Girls Club of Delaware and the Kingswood Community Center. “The Markell for Delaware campaign has no interest in receiving or benefiting from contributions made in violation of Delaware law and has donated any improper contributions it has been made aware of to charity,” Lessner said. Veasey said he thought Markell did the “right thing” by donating the money to charity. For students such as sophomore Jack Wallice, Markell’s reputation has not diminished by the incident. “Markell is a trustworthy governor, and I am proud to be included in the state of Delaware,” Wallice said.
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Alpha Sigma Phi returns to university BY MATT BUTLER Student Affairs Editor
Though Pi Kappa Alpha, otherwise known as PIKE, was unrecognized by the university in 2005, it was officially suspended by the national organization this past summer, according to the national chapter. Justin Buck, executive vice president and CEO of the Pi Kappa Alpha International Organization, stated in an email message he was unable to conduct an interview on the topic, but could provide some clarity to the situation. “The charter of the Delta Eta Chapter was suspended June 5, 2013 for violations of fraternity standards including failure to meet financial obligations and low membership,” Buck said. “The chapter appealed that decision and
that appeal will be considered by delegates from the other chapters in August 2014, per policy, at the international convention.” Buck said these were the only comments he or any member of the International Organization would be able to provide regarding the situation. Former members of Pi Kappa Alpha were able to speak more freely on the topic, including Chris Mitchell, a Pi Kappa Alpha member of the 2013 graduating class. Mitchell, who rushed Pike in the fall semester of 2011, said he thought the history between PIKE and the university began years ago. He said there was a party for members of PIKE years before he became a member, which was Honolulu luau-themed. The party was not validated by university staffers, but members went ahead with the party, Mitchell said. The
event got out of hand and he said police were forced to break it up. Michael said the university took the Pi Kappa Alpha letters down from the house. However, he said the house was not university property, and it did not have the right to take down the letters or kick the members of the house out. Mitchell said after the lawsuit, fraternity members felt the university was biased against them. He said he thought the lawsuit had a long-lasting effect on the relationship between Pi Kappa Alpha and the university. “[The lawsuit] played a big role in why the university still does not like PIKE,” Mitchell said. “They were really not happy with how we pursued things even though we were off campus.” Mitchell said the suspension from the university meant PIKE was unable to participate in Greek
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week, air-band or register parties with the university. Mitchell said while he was there, PIKE continued to have rush events, but membership numbers declined steeply. He said not being an official part of the Greek organizations on campus hurt the fraternity. “We didn’t infringe upon university rules during the suspension,” Mitchell said. “We got to the point where membership was so bad, because of what other fraternities would say, because we couldn’t use the university’s campus to recruit.” Senior Brian Liachowitz, another Pi Kappa Alpha member, said he rushed PIKE as a freshman and would not change his mind if he had the choice over again. He said he thought the brotherhood of the fraternity was still strong, despite the barriers PIKE was forced to overcome. In September of 2012, Liachowiz asked to meet with Adam Cantley, the assistant director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at the university, in order to discuss reinstatement for the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity on campus. Cantley denied the request, and wrote in an email that the university has a strict policy of not meeting with local organizations, without first speaking with the the organization’s national office. “Since we do not allow local organizations of any type at the University, we have to make sure we work through a national entity,” Cantley wrote. “I can not locate any other emails or communication from the national office until this past summer. . . This is when they informed me they were rescinding the charter of the chapter here in Newark.” Liachowitz said he felt several entities on campus were biased against Pi Kappa Alpha, including other Greek organizations, as well as the university itself. He said at one point, despite the fraternity’s
off-campus status, the university sent letters to parents of students, discouraging them from allowing their children to join Pi Kappa Alpha or any other off-campus Greek organization. “It’s a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to fraternities,” Liachowitz said. “Everybody wants to be the best. So when one fraternity gets knocked off campus, the other fraternities don’t really feel like standing up for them.” Junior Rob Harris, who was the acting president of the Delta Eta chapter when their charter was revoked, said he agreed with Liachowitz in that he felt the university and other Greek organizations had turned their backs on PIKE by the time he had come to the university and rushed. Harris said he felt PIKE got a bad reputation due to the suspension, and other Greek organizations viewed them as “rebellious.” He said current members of PIKE did not feel as if they were rebels, but more as if they were excluded from Greek life simply due to something that happened several years ago entirely out of current members’ control. “Other Greek organizations looked down on us, but I never let it bother me in the first place,” Harris said. “I mean, if [somebody] already makes judgments about someone else based on an association that they have, that’s not someone I would want to be friends with.” Harris said he hopes to continue with the brothers that still go to the university, and he wants to keep them together. Harris said the brotherhood goes beyond any roadblock they may encounter. “Right now, we’re still a brotherhood,” Harris said. “We’re sticking together, and we’re operating as we always have. We still have meetings, we still have goals and objectives, and we’re just seeing where it takes us. We are confident in where we are right now.”
S. Wilmington 34 percent brownfields by land area, DNREC raises awareness BY MARTIN DRAKE Staff Reporter
A young boy, seven or eight years old, walks down the sidewalk in South Wilmington. When he gets to the corner, a woman leans out of her window, calls him by name and tells him to look both ways before he crosses the street. He obliges, then continues down the sidewalk to the next corner. When he arrives, a different woman leans out of her window, calls him by name and tells him to look both ways before crossing the street. Again, he obliges, then continues to the next corner. When he arrives for the third time, a woman calls him by name out of her window, and again reminds him to look both ways before he crosses the street. This is the story David Carter, former environmental manager of the Delaware Coastal Program for Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, recalls when describing the tightly-knit community south of downtown Wilmington, known as Southbridge. The residential heart of South Wilmington, the people of Southbridge take pride in their cohesive neighborhood, where everyone knows and looks out for one another, Carter said. Separated from downtown Wilmington by the Christina River, the area is isolated and distinct from the rest of Wilmington, and to a certain extent, forgotten about by the rest of Wilmington. Carter worked closely with the residents of Southbridge as part of the South Wilmington Special Area Management Program. SAMP was designed to address contaminated industrial waste sites, known as brownfields, within the community. “It is the most complex and engaged community that I have ever worked with,” said Carter. Carter said the residential area of Southbridge is surrounded by brownfields, as its proximity and access to the Delaware River has made it an ideal spot for various industries throughout the history of the city. The perimeter of the community, which is marked on three sides by the banks of the Christina River, is riddled with waste from oil industry, chemical companies, autosalvage yards and a booming leather tanning industry in the 1800s, Carter said. He said toxic metals such as arsenic and mercury can be found in large concentrations in the area. The state has been working in Southbridge since 2004 to help with the redevelopment and remediation of the brownfields around the community. A city-sponsored program identified 60 brownfield sites, according to SAMP’s South Wilmington Neighborhood Plan. The plan states, “Brownfields
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raise environmental justice issues, due to the relatively high occurrence of adverse health conditions in South Wilmington.” Carter said this area-wide assessment is one of the more thorough documentations of brownfields that has been done in the region. State programs provide some funding and incentive for development and cleanup of brownfield sites in South Wilmington. DNREC’s Susan Love, planner for DNREC’s Coastal Program, said one example of a site where contaminants have been addressed is a new Shoprite. The developers “capped” the brownfield site by covering it with asphalt, she said. “If a willing landowner has an agreement with the state, there is funding available for a cleanup,” Love said. “But there are a lot of contaminated sites that will never be cleaned up because they’re wetlands.” Capping the sites with asphalt
“The environment is a concern to the Southbridge community but not their primary concern.” -KEVIN ADKIN, DOCTORAL RECIPIENT AT THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY or concrete traps contaminants, but contributes to flooding, which is a large problem for Southbridge as a result of its flat lowland nature, according to the Neighborhood Plan. DNREC’s Special Area Management Program has helped raise awareness in Southbridge about environmental concerns. The SAMP put a particular emphasis on involving the community in its planning and execution. David Carter said he sees this as crucial to addressing the environmental issues facing the community, as DNREC alone does not have the capacity to address the brownfields single handedly. However, the residents of South Wilmington and Southbridge in particular, have more pressing concerns than these environmental substances, Kevin Adkin, doctoral recipient at the university’s School of Public Policy, said. The residents of South Wilmington are primarily lower income, Adkins said, with more than half of South Wilmington’s households earning less than half the
median income for the region with one-fifth of households earning under the poverty line. The community is well-organized in its focus on immediate issues and around the time of the recent financial crisis, economic concerns became more pressing than environmental cleanup, he said. “The environment is a concern to the Southbridge community but not their primary concern,” Adkin said. South Wilmington is around 34 percent brownfields by land area, which is one of the highest concentrations of brownfields on the east coast, Adkin said. He said there are 78 various toxic chemicals in the soil, with high concentrations of arsenic, mercury, lead and polychlorinated biphenyls. DNREC has helped the community deal with the waste sites to a large extent, but the rising sea level and sinking land further complicates the environmental situation, Adkin said. Very little is known about what the possible effects of sea water inundation on contaminated sites could be, said plant sciences professor Donald Sparks. Sparks said he is currently principal investigator at the university for the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. “There is a surprising lack of literature worldwide on this topic,” Sparks said. The research conducted by Sparks goes beyond the brownfields, as it focuses on the use of Roxarsone, a feed additive used at chicken farms in southern Delaware, he said. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, roxarsone was recently taken off the market by a Pfizer subsidiary. Roxarsone is an arsenicbased compound, but it is made with organic arsenic, which is not toxic in the same way as inorganic arsenic. Its suspension from the market is following an FDA study which detected high levels of inorganic arsenic in chickens fed with Roxarsone. The arsenic compounds also can come out in the chicken’s feces as well, Sparks said, thereby potentially creating more arsenic laden brownfields around the state. Along with potential arsenic deposits from chicken farms, Sparks said there could also be arsenic in soils from arsenic based fertilizers used on farms around the state. Sparks said not much is known about how sea water could impact the contaminants in brownfield sites. As industrial sites around the globe have tended to be situated close to water for ease of access, he said many potential brownfield sites could be soon facing the effect of sea level rise on the chemicals which they house.
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Students report long lines and difficulty finding seats as East Campus population grows.
Overcrowding at Russell frustrates students BY ALISON WILSON Staff Reporter
Crowding at Russell Dining Hall these days is not a mystery to students or Dining Services. New residence halls on East Campus and the 767 first year students they house are the culprit. Despite future plans to build a new dining hall located across from Perkins Student Center, Russell, which can seat 364 students, is facing a surge of overcrowding. Russell Dining Hall is currently experiencing an increase in diners of approximately 150 to 200 students per day, Robin Moore, Senior Director of Operations, stated in an email message The location of two new residence halls, Louis Redding and Eliphalet Gilbert, makes Russell Dining Hall the most convenient dining option for freshmen living on East Campus. As students head there for meals, long lines outside the building turn into a sea of hungry students, crowding through the doors the moment Russell opens for service. Dining options closest to East Campus include the Scrounge in Perkins, Kent Dining Hall, Russell Dining Hall and Einstein Bros. Bagels, inside the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Lab, which opened this semester. Dining Services expected this crowding at Russell and came up with a few strategies to try to spread the students among the dining options on East Campus, Moore said. Dining Services teamed up with Residence Life to put together a dining schedule for 1743 Welcome Days, to avoid a mad rush during the first year students’ opening meal, she said. They staggered the arrival times and sent a bunch of East Campus students to Kent, hoping these
students would continue to eat there, she said. To further accommodate the number of students, hours at Russell have been extended and the to-go program has been enhanced, Moore said. “In anticipation of the increase we had planned on extending the hours of operation seven days a week [until] 8:30 p.m.,” Moore said. “We also have in place our enhanced to-go program that was piloted last spring.” The To-Go Program is Russell’s own form of take-out; it allows students to fill food containers to take with them, rather than eating inside of the dining hall. Loreto Viray Casuga and Shelton Harder, both freshmen, said eating at Russell is a hassle and causes them exasperation. “Finding a place to sit takes a long time, and students are forced to take laps around the dining area,” Casuga said. Harder, a West Campus student from Dickinson, said she was surprised by the contrast between Rodney Dining Hall and Russell. “It’s empty in Rodney,” Harder said. “I was shocked the first time I came here.” Despite the attempts of Dining Services to promote Kent and the Scrounge during 1743 Welcome Days, Russell seems to remain the majority of the East Campus freshmen dining hall of choice. Kent Dining Hall is open weekdays for continuous dining from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. While the dining hall is close to the East Campus residence halls, some students are not aware they have this dining option. When asked if he ever eats at Kent Dining Hall, Casuga said, “Kent? Ha, I didn’t even know that existed.”
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POLITICS STRAIGHT NO CHASER:
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF SHOULD NOT BE SEEN AS SEATWARMER-IN-CHIEF
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Students congregate on Main Street and South College Avenue last Monday.
@MARCUSHYDE: ‘JUST TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE RIOT IN DELAWARE YET I WAS THE FIRST ONE ARRESTED #IMSHMACKED #PROJECTUD.’ Continued from page 1 “To date, Newark Police have arrested four individuals in connection with the incident.” According to Newark Police reports, the two residents of the S. College Ave. house that held the party, Anthony Iadisernia and Evan Tuozzoli, were arrested the evening of the incident. Both individuals face charges of underage consumption, noise between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., disorderly premises and failure to obtain a special event permit. Marcus Hyde, 26, who is a cameraman for “I’m Shmacked,” was charged with disorderly conduct on Sept. 9. Hyde addressed the arrest on his personal twitter page. “@MarcusHyde: Just to set the record straight I had nothing to do with the riot in Delaware yet I was the first one arrested. #imshacked #ProjectUD.” The Newark Police Department posted a press release last Thursday urging two male suspects to turn themselves in. The suspects were photographed damaging the roof of a Ford Mustang the night of the incident. Freshman John Marine turned himself in after seeing the press release online. Marine faces charges for rioting, criminal mischief under $1,000 and disorderly conduct by obstructing vehicular or pedestrian traffic. The second suspect, freshman Stephen Avallone was arrested Friday after detectives were given numerous tips leading to him. Avallone faces charges for rioting, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. Shirazi said in addition
to the vandalism his car experienced, he personally saw another car being damaged moments before his. “I saw a nice, white Lexus SUV getting the treatment I was about to get,” Shirazi said. “The vehicle probably belonged to just an innocent bystander that was getting bombarded in the same way I was about to.” Spadola said comments made on social media sites reflect how locals feel about the university following the disturbance. “You can just look at the comments on Facebook to see how it affects the university’s image,” Spadola said. “It doesn’t look good for the residents of Newark to see the college kids, who they view as non-residents, partaking in actions like that.” Shirazi said he thinks this incident will not help the image of the university and will probably make it appear to be a party school. He said this might attract more applicants, but not necessarily the type the university is interested in. Grasso said anytime an academic institution receives negative media attention, there is a concern it will affect the admissions process, but because the situation has been held in a responsible manner, he said it should not be an issue for the university. Spadola said an event of this nature has occurred at the university before, and cited the instance when students flooded the streets in May 2011 in reaction to Osama Bin Laden’s death. “When Osama Bin Laden was killed, a couple hundred people took to the streets, but
there was no damage,” Spadola said. “Nobody walking on cars, no drunken revelry––just more of a celebration.” Although the event included nearly a thousand individuals, according to a Newark Police Department report, there was no UD Alert sent out to the university community. Grasso said because the situation was handled quickly, there was no need to utilize the UD Alert system. “The emergent assembly of individuals and their subsequent rapid dispersal happened so quickly that there was no need to send out an alert,” Grasso said. “The UD Alert system is used when there is some action that members of the university community need to take, and that was not the case with this incident.” Shirazi said he has not pursued getting damage costs covered by the university. He said he called the police immediately when returning to his home at 12:30 a.m., and they arrived at his residence at 2 a.m. to take a damage assessment. “I talked to a few of my friends, and they all think the university does bear some responsibility,” Shirazi said. “It seems that someone dropped the ball on anticipating this kind of event.” Following the event, Grasso said it is expected students behave in a responsible manner and in a way the university community can be proud of. He said in a letter sent to students from himself and President Patrick Harker last Tuesday most students did not and would not participate in the incident or one similar to it.
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Technically speaking, a president is in power for a maximum of 96 months, but when reelection, midterms and lame-duck sessions kick in, the president’s ability to govern is severely limited in terms of time. Before the 2010 midterms, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell set the goal of making President Barack Obama a “one-term president.” That was two years into the president’s first term, more or less starting speculation for 2012. Only a few months into the president’s second term, the administration has been stuck in neutral mostly due to internal scandals, a split Congress and the chemical weapon debate in Syria. Yet, it can be said that the administration’s lack of influence began before the 2012 election with media outlets, pundits and politicians alike setting their sights on 2016. There are still 28 months until the Iowa caucus and three full years away from the 2016 election, yet there is a phalanx of potential candidates jockeying for position. Among the potential candidates on the Republican side are many who are not so subtly visiting early primary states and making noise. One of the first to come to mind is Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). He launched himself onto the national platform by performing a 13-hour filibuster in opposition to John Brennan’s appointment to head the CIA. Paul is a staunch defender of civil liberties and individual rights––something he no doubt inherited from his father. The junior Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), is also entering the
presidential fray. Cruz is a Tea Party favorite, who, like Paul, is a staunch conservative and strict constitutionalist. He has already made trips to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina––all early primary states––in order to make a name for himself. Senators Paul and Cruz are not the only potential candidates shamelessly jostling for votes this early. Among these “candidates” are junior Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) and Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.). In fact, King’s recent announcement makes him the first candidate from a major party to decide to run for the 2016 presidency. His announcement comes only nine months into President Obama’s second term. Not only are Republicans mounting early offensives on the White House, but many members of the Democratic Party are making slightly less overt attempts at getting name recognition. Hillary Clinton has started making more public appearances since her tenure at the State Department ended, Vice President Joe Biden has made trips to Iowa and New Hampshire and Governor M a r t i n O’Malley (D-Md.) has already announced he is laying a “framework” for a 2016 bid for the White House. Democrats are acting less conspicuous with their presidential ambitions, but this could be due to a sitting Democratic president. However, it is only a matter of time before their efforts accelerate as well. There once was a time when explicitly campaigning for president was frowned upon. Now it is an absolute necessity to be successful, even if it is three years early. That is a shame. However, the disrespect awarded to the sitting president by campaigning so early is shameful. Regardless of your party or ideology, there needs to be a greater amount of respect and decency afforded to the office––this can only be done by campaigning later and acting like the president is the Commander-in-Chief instead of Seatwarmer-in-Chief.
Explicitly campaigning for president was [once] frowned upon. Now it is an absolute necessity [...] even if it is three years early. That is a shame.
— Sam Wiles samwiles@udel.edu
WILLIAMS: ‘IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS GOING ON, DON’T TRY TO FORCE THE ISSUE, IT IS A PROCESS.’ Continued from page 1 The Delaware Ducks organization could not be reached for comment. Randall Williams, of the Child Advocacy Center of Delaware, said he encouraged parents at the forum to voice any concerns they may have about their children to them directly in order to help them feel more comfortable about anything that may
have happened. “They may have already heard about the arrest, so talk to them about your concerns,” Williams said. “Talk with them about any experiences that they may have had, or any fears and concerns that they may have. Disclosure about physical or sexual is not a one-time event, it’s a long term process. If you are worried about something that is going on, don’t try to force the issue, it is a process.”
3-tesla MRI to improve research on campus BY JAY PANANDIKER Staff Reporter
Beginning in the fall semester of 2015, students and faculty at the university will have a new scientific tool to improve research on campus. The university has approved the construction of an MRI scanning facility, which will likely be housed in the new Health Sciences Complex on STAR Campus. “The MRI scanner is a valuable research tool which cuts virtually across all the colleges on our campus and it is a facility that all major universities have access to,” said head of project and psychology professor Robert Simons. MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, is a technique used in radiology to visualize the structures of the body. Unlike with a traditional X-ray, an MRI gives a clear image of soft tissues, making imaging of muscles or organs—such as the brain—possible. The scanner will serve as a hub for scholars, Simons said, allowing for scientific research as well as
education. He said the idea for an oncampus scanner cannot be attributed to one person. “It’s just so big in the field that any scientist would know that an MRI facility is important to have on campus,” Simons said. Professor Simons stressed the cross-curricular uses for the scanner, and said projects involving the scanner can be part of several of the biological departments on campus, including psychology, health sciences and physical therapy. One benefit of having the MRI machine is it can look at the brain in real time, Simons said. Not only will the MRI machine serve to benefit departments, but it could potentially benefit students, Simons said. “The scanner allows us to bring undergraduates into the laboratory and position them to where they can go out and apply to graduate schools where this technology is commonplace,” Simons said. According to Riordan, the MRI scanner project began approximately two years ago when a group of faculty
felt an MRI facility was important for research and education. The group then took their idea to Tom Apple, who was the Provost at the time. After a year of working, the task force presented their ideas to thenInterim Provost Nancy Brickhouse. After making what Vice Provost of Research Charles Riordan said was a “compelling” argument, the task force received the approval to continue the development of the facility. Riordan said the MRI scanner would not always be used in the conventional clinical sense but rather as a research instrument. “In research, some faculty will push the frontiers of what the technology can do and in terms of what an experiment says,” Riordan said. He said the effects of this research will be felt both inside and outside the classroom. Riordan said the facility will offer new research opportunities for undergraduates all year. With the facility, students will be able to utilize the instrument for research and observe experimental design.
The department of biomedical engineering will utilize the new MRI scanner facility to move basic research to clinical practice, engineering professor Dawn Elliott said. Elliot said she is currently conducting MRI research, examining the effects of everyday loads on spinal disks. She said according to the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering, one of the grand challenges of the next twenty years is to improve early diagnosis and treatment of disease through improved methods for noninvasive medical imaging. “In order for UD to participate in this challenge, we need to have MRI facilities on campus,” Elliot said. Riordan said the MRI is set to complete in the fall of 2015, and will most likely be housed in a new building near the Life Science Research Facility on the main campus. A special building is required to house and meet the technical demands of the three-tesla magnet due to its power, as most conventional MRI scanners contain
0.5 tesla magnets. University officials met with architects and engineering firms this week to listen to various proposals for the new facility and will sign a contract with a firm in the next several weeks. Construction of the building will begin in the summer of 2014, Simons said. Charles Riordan said the assembly of the magnet will begin at around the same time. However, he said the road to this point has not been easy and securing funding for the project has been a challenge. Riordan said some of this is due to the spending cuts in Washington, D.C., frequently referred to as the “sequester.” However, looking toward the future, he said the scanner will not just benefit the university, but also other partners in the region. “The scanner will benefit in a number of ways, including the research capabilities for faculty, staff and students, to address the challenging problems facing our world,” Riordan said.
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FINANCIAL LITERACY
NEWARK RESIDENTS ENJOY COMMUNITY DAY
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE CLOUD
MARCIN CENCEK I have always been incredibly interested in “the cloud,” both for practical and economic reasons. The term itself is incredibly vague, with a variety of different definitions floating around (pun intended) with one common trait—storing, managing or processing data remotely accessed on another device. While this concept has been around since the 1950s, it truly began to be a buzz word quite recently thanks to ever-increasing methods of accessing the Internet. After all, nearly every college student on campus has a laptop, tablet or smartphone with them at all times. So, what are some common examples of this “cloud,” and how can clouds help you save time and money? Perhaps the most basic examples are sites that let users store content, such as Google Drive and Dropbox. Both services keep your files easily accessible from any location with Internet access. For instance, Dropbox allows you to create a free account on dropbox. com and upload your files to their secure site. To increase efficiency, you can install a Dropbox folder on any computer you use and sign in with your account. This folder will look identical to all other folders on your
PC but will automatically upload any files and update any changes to the cloud. Ultimately, you are able to seamlessly work across an unlimited number of devices and pull up any assignments in an instant without having to worry about emailing yourself individual files or storing them on a flash drive or external hard drive. While Dropbox starts at a relatively low tier of 2 GB, you can upgrade your storage amount for free through a variety of marketing-oriented actions, such as referring friends. Other cloud-based services have more specific purposes with the same goal of providing easily-accessible data. My personal favorite is the music feature of Google Play Music, which allows users to store music on Google’s cloud and listen to it from up to ten devices. Currently, Google allows users to upload 20,000 songs for free. For comparison, that is roughly 80 GB worth of music— more than any iPod except for the largest iPod classic. The music can be played over WiFi or mobile data and favorite songs or albums can be downloaded right onto the device they are being played on if the user wishes to listen to them offline. Of course, the ability to access content from any Internet-connected device is not only convenient but also proactive for avoiding potential losses. Important financial data, for example, can be stored on reputable cloud providers’ servers, and suddenly, your hard drive failing or laptop being stolen is no longer as large a catastrophe. Forgetting to send yourself an email with the latest version of your report (or simply forgetting to attach it) is no longer an issue if you were working on a cloudconnected folder or even an online service like Google Docs. There is a wealth of free services out there to help save your valuable time — and the number is growing every day.
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Community Day, Newark’s annual festival, took place on The Green Sunday. The celebration included performances by local musicians, a variety of foods, fine art, homemade crafts, a children’s play area and booths from local business. ABOVE: Pit Bull Atticus plays with a Pit Bull Pride of Delaware volunteer at Community Day. LEFT: SAS hosts a candy stand at Community Day.
— Marcin W. Cencek mcencek@udel.edu
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For students with intellectual disabilities, on-campus living to come BY KATE JENKINS Staff Reporter
The university’s Center for Disabilities Studies is planning to create an on-campus living option for students with intellectual disabilities who are enrolled in the Career and Life Studies Certificate program. Laura Eisenman, education professor and coordinator of the disabilities studies minor, said the CLSC is part of “a small but growing trend.” Eisenman said the CLSC offers post-secondary education for students with intellectual disabilities. She said it is a two-year certificate program that combines classroom experience, internships and social activities in order to teach academic, career and life skills. In 2010, Eisenman said the university won a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which provides funding for CLSC for five years. This enables the university to charge only nominal tuition to students enrolled in the program, she
said, along with twenty-seven other universities who have received the same grant. “These programs are intended to offer an opportunity to students with intellectual disabilities that hasn’t been widely available before,” Eisenman said. Eisenman said the CLSC caters to students with intellectual disabilities who desire additional education after high school, but are not qualified for traditional undergraduate programs or need additional support to progress onto higher education. CLSC is offered through the Professional and Continuing Studies program and allows students to take undergraduate classes, as well as receive support from peer mentors and staff coaches to focus on their individualized needs, Eisenman said. These students may also participate in social activities and cultural programs on campus, such as RSOs, she said. The students also benefit from being part of the campus community, Brian Freedman,
education professor and CLSC director, said. “What this program allows is for the students to really feel a true sense of identity with being a University of Delaware student,” Freedman said. If they choose, CLSC students may go on to additional academic or career training, according to the department’s website. A maximum of 15 students are admitted per year and the first class, consisting of 10 students, graduated in May. In August, junior Rachel Gettinger, a human services major, and Eisenman presented a research project, “Designing On-Campus Living for Students with Intellectual Disabilities,” Eisenman said. “I see benefits, not just for the students but for the campus community, in terms of helping to continue to raise awareness about the capabilities of people with disabilities,” Freedman said. The plan, which Freedman said is “still in the exploratory phase,” may involve CLSC students living in dorms or in apartments just off-campus.
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Eisenman said many CLSC students will likely require additional levels of support to succeed in independent living, but she said she believes it will be a valuable experience for them. “Many people with intellectual disabilities learn better in real-life settings, given the proper supports,” she said. During focus groups held by the Center for Disabilities Studies over the summer, CLSC students and parents expressed interest in creating on-campus living options, Gettinger said. Students were excited about the possibilities for increased social interaction, while she said parents were enthusiastic at the opportunity for independent living. Deborah Bain, program manager at the Center for Disabilities Studies, said CLSC students face many of the same challenges as traditional students do. Both groups must learn to cook, to shop for groceries, to do laundry and to set alarms and get up for classes on time without parents
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All Axcess U must take responsibility for damaging actions While students are responsible for their own actions, issues with the organization I’m Shmacked should not be overlooked. Jeffrey Ray, co-founder of I’m Shmacked, stated in an interview with The New York Times in 2012 that his videos attract students to the universities that are filmed. However, we believe these videos bring negative publicity to the schools filmed and do not provide an accurate representation of the student body. Donors and researchers will be turned off by the content of the video, and degrees from the university will lose value in the eyes of employers who are familiar with the situation. The university did not ask I’m Shmacked for this sort of publicity. A statement released by I’m Shmacked regarding last Monday’s incident stated “[I’m Shmacked is] not in the business of encouraging any illegal or immoral activity at our events and aim to do just the opposite, as we put all of our efforts in presenting entertaining and exciting events infused with DJ’s, special performers, and unique merchandise for all
Mom and Dad must be so proud.
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Why this riot is different College students have had a long history of rioting. Our own University of Delaware has a history of riots and rallies and is joined in that by even the most prestigious institutions the world over. Protest is part of being young, passionate and figuring out how to come to terms with that. Passion for anything means you care about something, even something that seems insignificant. Monday’s riot is different because it was not inspired by students caring about an issue personally related to them as members of our school, nation or world at large. History shows this to be true, no one riots without reason. The Stonewall riots in New York City were fueled by personal frustration reached a point where people could no longer tolerate the name-andshame discrimination against the queer community any longer. Riots during the civil rights movement of the 1960s were caused by frustration and outrage at discrimination people
could no longer tolerate. It seems strange at first to compare these historical landmarks to our own recent “riot” and the Osama bin Laden riots, but while not in the same league, they share an important common factor. People rioted because they personally cared. Riots at another university over winning a long awaited championship occur because they are in response to what people personally value. Right or wrong, a public outpouring over something that is personally significant is the common factor between each of these examples. The most recent “riot,” however, is different. What makes the incident at Delaware different and upsetting on multiple levels is it did not come from passion, outrage or any other source of value. It did not come from us caring about our school, nation or world but instead from seemingly nothing. While I am disappointed in the poor choices of my fellow students, I am outraged at the cause. What makes this riot different
reminding them, she said. Time management and prioritizing activities are challenges for most students, with or without disabilities, Bain said. CLSC students receive assistance from peer mentors who tutor them and help them integrate into campus social life, Bain said. She said being a peer mentor or coach is a valuable experience for the students. “For many of our students who have joined our staff, it’s been a tremendous learning opportunity for them to really make some decisions about career choices for themselves,” Bain said. Gettinger said having CLSC students living on campus will help their peers become more comfortable with people with intellectual disabilities and dismantle myths about them after seeing how similar they are. “The similarities are much bigger than the differences,” Gettinger said. “They’re people before disabilities. Their disabilities don’t define them.”
is this was not formed from our community but instead formed from two people using our school for quick personal gain disregarding any consideration for our image as a whole. Misrepresenting the majority of our great institution to make a buck should convince us this was unacceptable. Hearing about one of the hardest-working students I know, currently interning for a Fortune 500 company five states over, having to justify our incredible institution to get the respect she has earned is something to be upset about. I am proud to call myself a student at the University of Delaware and a member of the local community, and I have not stopped being proud. I am still proud because I know we are better than this because we will take responsibility and because I know that is not an accurate depiction of what it means to be a Blue Hen. — David Felt guest columnist
students in attendance.” With the very name of the program being “I’m Shmacked,” which is indisputably an expression that means severely intoxicated, we find it hard to believe the program aims to present anything other than just that. Furthermore, I’m Shmacked has yet to present ways by which they discourage binge drinking or underage drinking during their filming. The statement claims, “We regret any association with these destructive events, but did not, nor would ever, encourage or participate in such destructive actions.” Yet, I’m Shmacked still plans to release the footage taken during last Monday’s events, and neither removed its cameraman from the situation nor discouraged rioting behavior during the incident. We recognize that the more media attention I’m Shmacked gets, the more successful their program will be. Controversy sells, but the students at the university understand that college lifestyle is not all about reckless drinking. Even brobible.com commented this is “probably as good of a time as ever to remind our readers that going to college is not an excuse for acting like an idiot.”
Plans for STAR campus should consider community environment The university has disregarded community and university input regarding the implementation of Data Centers LLC., which will be powered by a 248-megawatt natural gas power plant. The opinions of Newark residents should not be forgotten when considering building a power plant that will drastically affect their lives. Factors such as air pollution and noise are not so easily ignored. Instead of consulting residents and university members prior to negotiations, 1743 Holdings LLC., the wholly-owned subsidiary of the university that purchased the Chrysler Assembly Plant, did not take the community’s concerns into account before acting on their plans to bring this massive project right in the middle of the city. There was little transparency, with the TDC claiming its patent-pending status allowed the project to be confidential for so long.
The gas pipelines, which would stretch all the way to Pennsylvania and Hockessin, Del., would cut through the White Clay Park, which causes loss of habitats and poses a serious threat to that ecosystem. When building, we need to be especially cautious with protected areas like state parks. The university would do well to ask experts in our prestigious engineering, environmental science and public policy departments to explore alternative environmentally-friendly solutions. The original intention of STAR campus was to bring alternative and renewable energy to Newark. Bringing a data center that consumes a massive amount of electricity— electricity generated from a natural gas plant—is not reflective of the original vision of STAR campus. With everyone working together, we can build up our community without hurting the environment.
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UDaB expands influence, creates more trips BY CHELSEA SIMENS Features Editor
“People ask me all the time, ‘It’s only a week of service, what are you actually doing?’” says senior Margaret Stohler, program coordinator of University of Delaware Alternative Spring Break. “‘You’re going to a community that you know nothing about, serving and then leaving. That couldn’t possibly be helpful.’ But I think about the perspective that you gain when you’re on the trip, prioritizing the community and your life values and choices.”
This perspective is what UDaB calls “active citizenship” and will grow now that UDaB has expanded their trips this year, Stohler says. Students who attend a UDaB program participate in service-based learning trips. “From the very beginning it was bigger than we ever anticipated,” says Susan Serra, assistant director of the Office of Service Learning and coordinator of UDaB. From its first trip three years ago with 92 student participants and 12 student leaders to its most recent trip last spring with 152 student
participants, UDaB has seen its community grow, according to its website. Due to increased interest, UDaB has added three more trips this year. Currently, there are 11 trips set for Spring Break 2014. This year UDaB is also collaborating with the Blue Hen Leadership Program, the Honors Program and the School of Nursing. Each program will have its own alternative break. UDaB is partnering with them on the training and in some aspects of the application process, Serra says. Last year the Honors Program sent out a trip similar
to UDaB’s, and this year the groups officially partnered together to send out a trip, Stohler says. “In addition to these new partnerships which has increased the leadership in our organization, we are also increasing the number of trips we are sending out which is probably the biggest draw for our trips this year,” Stohler says. “It’s a testament to how much we’ve grown in the past year and how much university support we’ve gotten.” About half of UDaB’s trips this year will be returning to the same sites or issues they have in the past, she says. UDaB will continue to partner with Habitat for Humanity and the National Relief Network in New Orleans, Stohler says. UDaB has a new trip to Detroit this year which will work on issues regarding hunger and homelessness, Stohler says. In addition to these, UDaB’s trips will focus on affordable housing, arts education, disaster recovery, health, urban environment and urban farming, according to their website.
Due to the smaller size of those programs, Serra says, applicants can apply and be considered for up to three different trips. Senior Alyssa Barone, recruitment chair of UDaB, hopes the growth in interest allows more students to attend the trips. “We hope to have the capacity to have as many trips as there are people interested so we don’t have to turn people away,” Barone says. An eclectic group of students is the main prerogative when choosing students to go on trips Serra says. “We want students to have a mix of classes, a mix of majors and a mix of experience,” Serra says. “We want students who have done very deep service and students who are just starting to explore service.” The area of issue within a community is the most important aspect for choosing a trip location, she says.
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Greeks host first tailgate but lack attendance at game COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ALTERNATE SPRING BREAK
Student participants take a break from volunteering during the 2013 UDaB trip to Bayboro, N.C.
Sights & Sounds
the family
Perhaps best known for directing “Léon: The Professional” and writing the “Taken” and “Transporter” movies, Luc Besson is certainly not new to the crime genre. With “The Family,” however, the French director demonstrates comedy is not among his greatest strengths. While the film may be excellent in some aspects, the unfortunate genrebending is ultimately enough to truly hurt the quality of the movie. “The Family” is set mainly in the Normandy region of France, where old Brooklyn mobster Giovanni Manzoni (Robert De Niro) and his family are living under the federal witness protection program under assumed names. His wife Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer) seems to be as sick of the constant hiding as the couple’s son Warren (John D’Leo) and daughter Belle (Dianna Agron) are. The irritation is shared by FBI agent Robert Stansfield (Tommy Lee Jones) who reluctantly watches over Giovanni, although the exmobster seems to have no desire to live a quiet and peaceful life,
even with a $20 million dollar price on his head set by the crime family he ratted out. The comedy constantly shifts between absurdist (wife blowing up a grocery store because the clerk was rude) to black (Giovanni breaking the legs of a plumber because he was trying to rip off the family) to plain cartoonish (daughter nearly beating a guy to death because he made advances toward her). The plot progresses through several subplots that have little to no meaning to the rest of the story, many of which were never finished and leave a significant number of loose ends. The character development was likewise nearly nonexistent, probably due to such a large portion of the screen time being filled with repetitive, cheap attempts at laughs. Did I mention several people being beaten senseless for minor trespasses? But the film is not all bad. Actually, in a nutshell, “The Family” is an excellent film with a lot of junk scattered around throughout. It is a perfect example of a movie that would have been much, much
better if 45 minutes were cut— it truly is noticeable when you leave a movie theater and bang your head trying to figure out, “What was the point of that one scene where...?” There were a lot of those scenes that served absolutely no purpose. The oversaturation of poor humor is a shame because “The Family” certainly had several truly hilarious moments. The cast added to the strength of the film. Acting was exceptional across the board, which was perhaps expected from the assortment of big names led by De Niro. Direction and cinematography is also worth mentioning as an obvious favor, but these two elements that Besson usually shines with are unfortunately far less noticeable in a comedy. Ultimately, “The Family” might be worth seeing for a handful of laughs, and it certainly is not boring. But a weak story and too much recycled content ultimately proves that the film is only slightly better than average. — Marcin W. Cencek mcencek@udel.edu
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Members of the Greek community hosted a tailgate on Sept. 7 prior to kickoff between the Hens and the Delaware State Hornets. Senior Corey Ellsesser, President of Inter-fraternity Council, says he was one of the masterminds behind the project. Having worked for the athletic department in the ticket office for the past three years, Ellsesser says he wanted to do something to show his appreciation for his bosses and give back to the university. The event, which was organized by members of the IFC, started as an idea at the end of last semester. The IFC approached both the athletic department and police department during the summer in order to plan and develop the event. Together, the three groups established a common goal: to provide a safe and enjoyable environment for students to attend a football game, Ellsesser says. In addition, he says he wanted to see an increase in ticket sales, as he noted that over the past couple of years, attendance at games has decreased dramatically, in part due to the strict tailgating regulations enforced in 2011. Last Saturday marked the first time an all-Greek tailgate has occurred at the university, Ellsesser says. Starting at around 1 p.m., students made their way to Tubby Raymond Stadium. In order to enter the tailgate, individuals had to sport green wristbands, and to distinguish those that were under the age of 21, red X’s were drawn on their hands, Ellsesser says. Throughout the tailgate, food, beverages and games were available for the students. It was required by police to have a proportional amount of food to the amount of people that were consuming alcohol, Ellsesser says. University Police Chief Patrick Ogden says he was on duty during game day and only a few instances of underage drinking were reported. “What we found was some of the people that were under 21 either tried to use some type of sanitary wash to wipe off the red X or drink openly with the red X on their hand,” Ogden says. “Obviously, we didn’t turn a blind eye to that.” Ogden says no arrests were made, but at least two students were referred to the Office of Student Conduct for their actions. Despite having to work for a large portion of the event, Ellsesser says he was was happy with what he saw. “Everyone was having a blast,” Ellsesser says. “It’s so different here, because normally on Saturdays everyone is with their respective chapters. But it finally brought a group together,
and you could see friends that are in other fraternities and sororities, instead of everyone kind of just breaking off.” Following the tailgating festivities, the hope was that the students would move into the stadium to watch the game. However, a majority of the students either didn’t go into the stadium at all or left at halftime, Ogden says. Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation Services Eric Ziady says he was surprised by the students’ actions. Having worked hard over the off-season to reach out and increase the fan base, Ziady says the response to major sporting events is very different from other colleges, such as Boston College, where he previously worked. “I still don’t understand where students are rushing off to,” Ziady says. Junior Francesca Pelletier, a member of the Alpha Phi sorority on campus, says she was included in the group that only attended the tailgate. She says if there is another tailgate in the future, she will probably make more of a conscious effort to go to the game as well. “I thought it was a different experience just because Delaware hasn’t done the whole tailgating thing before,” Pelletier says. “But it was also fun to do something different than normal on a Saturday.” Organizers of the event did whatever they could to try and get students to stay for the full length of the game. Besides having a designated Greek seating section, there was also an announcement made for them at the end of the second quarter. In addition, the green wristbands that were issued to them to get into the tailgate also entitled the students to get dollar hot dogs during the third quarter, Ellsesser says. Ogden says he went into the stadium at the beginning of the second quarter and the Greek section was almost empty. “I don’t know if we should promote a Greek tailgate or any kind of tailgate that is essentially just a party,” Ogden says. “The idea of a tailgate is to enjoy lunch, have a beer if you’re of age and then go into the game.” Pelletier says she would be interested in attending another Greek tailgate in the future, especially if there was a bigger group of students in attendance and if music was played during the event. Ellsesser says he thinks it is possible more Greek tailgates will be held in the future. He says he plans to contact the athletic and police departments to have a debriefing of the event. “The police were happy with it, which is the best thing,” Ellsesser says. “Athletics did so much for us—they rented the tent, the space itself, so as long as their happy, I think it’ll be able to happen again.”
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New RSO buildOn builds schools abroad Members discuss plans to send students to developing nations to partake in building projects, chapter goals BY MOLLIE BERNER Staff Reporter
KATIE ALTERI
OFF THE RECORD ALBUM REVIEW: John legend’s Love in the future
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“Love in the Future” serves as the first studio album from John Legend since his 2010 release of “Wake Up!,” a collaboration with The Roots, and it provides a fresh twist on Legend’s distinctive talent. The album is a compilation of mostly love songs, and it includes tracks written by a diverse group of writers, from Kanye West to Ingrid Michaelson to Kimbra. Legend stays true to his R&B roots, but this album clearly exhibits more of a focused soul flair. The apparent soulful sounds on the album are comparable to veterans such as Marvin Gaye or Sam Cooke, but Legend does an excellent job of presenting songs that sound like classics without appearing mimicked or lacking in their own flavor. The three singles unveiled before the complete album’s release surpass the other songs on the album. “Made to Love” was featured in a Chevrolet commercial during the summer, and it is the perfect equation of an up-tempo beat with powerful vocals from Legend. “Who Do We Think We Are” starts off as a simple, laid back track, and it gains energy with a rap verse from Rick Ross midway through the song. At first, I thought the addition of Rick Ross to the track might have been a marketing ploy to get hip hop fans to tune into the album, but I was pleasantly surprised to find the rapper’s verse makes the track gain energy. The most recent single, titled “All of Me,” is a pure representation of Legend’s talent and is an overall stunning track. The song, which was dedicated to his fiancé, model Chrissy Teigen, features Legend’s vocals paired with his equally-as-impressive pianoplaying skills. Even though the album as a whole is an impressive accumulation of moving tunes, it loses momentum toward its middle where a few of the songs sound too similar. Tracks such as “Hold on Longer” and “Tomorrow” are not likely to be the songs that you’ll be pressing “repeat” on while listening to the album. They are easily forgettable when compared to the singles from this album, in addition to “The Beginning” and “Wanna be Loved,” which contain more memorable lyrics and are more distinct representations of Legend’s talent. Despite a few lackluster tunes, “Love in the Future” is proof of Legend’s ability to be a multi-talented artist and create an album that as a whole exceeds even the best of his previous hits. It is more than likely that Legend will be receiving a few Grammy nominees for this album, and it will be very much deserved. —Katie Alteri kalteri@udel.edu
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As the summer months come to a close and students return back to their busy schedules of the fall semester, many reminisce with friends over what they did for those weeks apart. Some traveled, some worked and some brought memories back to school with them they’ll keep throughout the year. Junior Elizabeth Burland spent her summer doing work that did not involve textbooks or classes. She interned at buildOn, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to “break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations through service and education,” according to buildOn’s website. The nonprofit creates after-school service programs throughout the nation and builds schools abroad in some of the world’s poorest countries. Burland, whose uncle is on the board of the national organization in Stamford, Conn., became invested in the organization during the summer months and wondered if she could continue her efforts upon returning to school, she says. Burland is the recent founder and president of the buildOn chapter at the university. She, along with a few executive board members, brought this new Registered Student Organization to campus this fall. Burland approached her intern supervisors during the summer and asked if starting a new chapter would be possible, she says. The organization was extremely interested in continuing work and expanding, as the nonprofit is present in many high schools across the nation but few colleges and universities, she says. Junior Cara Kuppersmith, vice president of buildOn, was a part of this organization
throughout her high school career, she says. “When Liz came to me with this idea, I was so excited to get involved again,” Kuppersmith says. “I’ve always cared.” BuildOn has built more than 500 schools abroad through its Global School Construction Program, while providing rural communities in nations across the globe with access to education. BuildOn breaks ground on a new school every four days, Burland says. The after-school youth service programs mobilize urban
Gould says. “These kids in Nicaragua, they didn’t choose their circumstances, but this is something they want. Education is the foundation and where it all starts.” Kuppersmith says she also stands behind buildOn’s mission wholeheartedly and believes increasing literacy rates is the first step out of poverty. “I’ve worked with this organization for a while, and, when you see kids abroad that are so happy after what we’ve done for them, you really start to appreciate your own,”
“We want people to at least say that they’ve heard of buildOn—that would be an accomplishment. We want to share the mission with the university community and have them support us.” -ANNIE GOULD, TREASURER OF buildOn AT UD
teens to lift their communities, sending 94 percent of these high school seniors off to college and future endeavors, according to the buildOn website. Sophomore Annie Gould, treasurer of buildOn, says her education correlates to where she was brought up. “I have received so many benefits, and, if I had been born anywhere else, then things would be so different,”
Kuppersmith says. “For us, education seems like second nature. But in other countries, that’s not necessarily the case.” Burland says buildOn is one of the most efficient nonprofit organizations she has ever seen. “They’re not a charity, but a movement,” Burland says. “They’re not just giving out handouts—we’re going to actually help you.” She says buildOn takes
frequent two-week trips to countries abroad in order to build schools. The national organization is in charge of selecting approximately 15 of the newest RSO’s members to go, she says. The group looks forward to taking their trek abroad next summer as the university plans to sponsor a school in Nicaragua, Gould says. According to Burland, the executive board of university’s chapter organization will be a part of the selection process. The organization will need to fundraise around $30,000 total to build a school abroad. “We will reach out to corporate, and to our friends and family for donations,” Gould says. “We know we can’t just do it all through bake sales.” The group has held two meetings so far, and the executive board members collectively were pleased with the student turnout, Burland says. Gould says she has high hopes for the organization on campus. “We want people to at least say that they’ve heard of buildOn—that would be an accomplishment,” Gould says. “We want to share the mission with the university community and have them support us.” The founder, president and CEO of buildOn Jim Ziolkowski will be coming to speak to the university community this fall to inform students about the group, Burland says. He will also discuss his book, “Walk in Their Shoes,” she says. Kuppersmith shares the same viewpoint. “The money that you help to fundraise through buildOn is going directly to something,” Kuppersmith says. “You can buy a brick or a blackboard. You’re doing something so great and so direct. It’s going to be life changing.”
SARAH’S SPOTLIGHT
FUSION & Appreciation of Performance Arts
SARAH BRAVERMAN Performing in front of a live audience is scary. There’s a big difference between singing in the shower and belting out on an open stage. I for one remain a shower-singer, but I am all too familiar with stagefright before dance performances. To be honest, I’m quite familiar with audition-fright, too. I have great admiration and respect for anyone who puts him or herself out there in a
THE REVIEW/SARAH BRAVERMAN Camden Asay presented his unique yo-yo routine at FUSION’s 2012 Performance Night in Bacchus Theatre.
performance. These things are always a gamble for the artist. How will the audience respond? Did I rehearse enough? What if I mess up? All of these fears stem from the fact that performance art makes the artist vulnerable, something I believe we humans have become very skilled at hiding. A performance only happens once, and even if a play has six separate shows or a musician’s tour has 25 stops, each performance is its own entity. There is a personal connection between the performer and every individual member of his audience. As viewers, listeners and spectators, performances can stick with us for life. I vividly remember attending my first concert. I saw John Mayer at Madison Square Garden with my family in the winter of 2006. The Garden seats roughly 20,000 fans per concert, yet at times I felt like I was the only one in the room. John played a solo acoustic version of “Why Georgia” (a throwback even then) standing on an extended piece of the mainstage in the middle of the orchestra seating area. The lights were dimmed, and it was just a man and his guitar. Can you imagine his nerves? These fears and nerves can be restricting, sometimes restricting enough to prevent artists from seeking performance opportunities. FUSION & Appreciation of Performance Arts president and sophomore Rebecca Gasperetti says she believes everyone is born with a special talent. This talent shouldn’t be kept a secret, and she encourages students to build confidence in their talents through involvement in FUSION. FUSION is an RSO focused on showcasing campus talent, and is an all-inclusive performing arts organization. Performance talents range from singing, acting and dancing to juggling oranges, performing magic tricks and
THE REVIEW/SARAH BRAVERMAN Oyetade Oyeyemi performed original slam poetry and spoken word pieces at FUSION’s first Performance Night in November 2012.
entertaining through stand-up comedy. Gasperetti says she is amazed by the sheer number of artistically-inclined students on campus, and she says FUSION gives students the freedom to share these talents. FUSION was founded last fall by former president and current senior Madison Helmick. I am FUSION’s former treasurer, and I worked closely with Maddie on the executive board. Maddie and I wanted to create a stress-free environment for students to share their performance talents, meet fellow artists and engage in artistic collaboration. I’m so excited Rebecca is continuing the RSO’s mission to bring performance opportunities to all genres of the performing arts. Last November’s inaugural Performance Night featured spoken word artists, a yo-yo trick master, musicians and more. Though I am no longer directly involved in FUSION, I can’t wait to see what hidden talents this semester’s
performances will uncover. Rebecca says she hopes to have monthly showcases featuring both registered performances for FUSION members and open mic nights to engage FUSION’s audience members. She also says she wants to host an art exhibition and to get her group more involved in on and off campus community service initiatives. “SPOTLIGHT: A FUSION Preview” was FUSION’s first event of the semester, and was held last Saturday in Perkins Rodney Room. Rebecca says two members of the university’s Ballroom Dance Team and Vocal Point a capella group were among those signed up to perform. Any student is welcome to become involved in FUSION and can do so by emailing Rebecca Gasperetti at rgasp@ udel.edu. —Sarah Braverman braves@udel.edu
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRARIAN Liquid Fuels are King
YOSEF SHIRAZI Hydraulic Fracturing, ultra-deepwater drilling, wellacidizing, Arctic drilling and tar sands. What do they all have in common? They represent the latest manifestations of society’s increasing desperation to exploit additional sources of liquid fuels. That’s right; in much of the developed world, we are not desperate for electricity, solid or gaseous fuels, but liquids (primarily oil). While many individuals are conceptually opposed to these environmentally destructive extraction methods, few acknowledge it is our personal checkbooks that finance the operations to the tune of thousands of dollars per year. However, this column isn’t about the dissonance between our beliefs and our actions (I’ll save that for a later week), but simply about the unique properties of liquid fuels and why we will likely remain stuck with them for the foreseeable future. Many Americans don’t
realize it explicitly, but liquid fuels rule. Quite literally, the world runs on the liquid derivatives of crude oil; mostly gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and bunker fuel. Whether it is planes, trains, ships or automobiles, and whether carrying human cargo or various goods, liquid fuel powers that motion. In essence, liquid fuel is transportation and transportation is liquid fuel. This isn’t the way the world needs to be, nor is it necessarily the way the world should be. However, replacing liquids with any other fuel poses serious technical and behavioral challenges. For an overview of the importance of liquids in transportation, check out “Prime Movers of Globalization” by Vaclav Smil. Also, look at “The Quest” by Daniel Yergin for a perspective on technical and geopolitical trends in oil exploration and production. It is also important to understand the issue of transportation and liquids is not a trivial one. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory estimates that in 2010 nearly 40 percent of end use energy in the United States was consumed by the transportation sector alone. Nearly all of this energy came from liquids, the extraction of which has become increasingly
environmentally destructive as lower quality reserves are exploited. At this point in the discussion, well-intentioned environmentalists typically retort that renewable sources of energy like wind, solar and hydro represent an easy way to reduce our dependence on oil. However, they overlook the fact that these renewable energies produce electricity, not liquids. As a transportation fuel, electricity has a variety of drawbacks relative to liquids, and has only a limited history as a fuel for transportation. Currently, only a tiny fraction of 1 percent of our transportation needs are met by all sources of electricity combined. While I believe electrification of our transport sector is a noble and worthwhile goal, it is also an immense undertaking that should be fully understood. First, let’s explore the inherent advantages of liquid fuels. Liquids are incredibly energy dense, meaning relatively little fuel contains a great deal of energy. In fact, one gallon of gasoline contains over 31,000 food calories, or the energy equivalent of 56 Big Macs (McDonalds lists them at 550 calories each). If humans could digest crude oil, one
gallon would be sufficient to feed 15 individuals for a day on a 2,000 calorie diet. On the other hand, electrical batteries exhibit comparatively low energy densities. While prices have fallen dramatically over the past decade for lithium ion batteries, they store roughly one-fiftieth the energy of gasoline on an equivalent weight basis. Despite low energy density, a wide-spread transportation system based on electricity is possible in certain transportation segments. Such a change would require a variety of societal adaptations, but would also yield a variety of environmental benefits. We could reduce destructive drilling and mining processes and improve air quality at the same time. While air travel and sea travel may not be electrified any time soon, personal automobiles seem like a particularly great place for electric vehicles. In fact, a professor here at the university, along with his team of researchers, is doing very exciting work integrating personal electric vehicles into the electric grid. This innovative research, led by Dr. Willett Kempton, is breaking technological barriers and also promoting increased grid stability and more affordable
New chemistry professor ‘thrilled’ to join university BY GABRIELLA MANGINO Senior Mosaic Reporter
Students and faculty faced an unexpected loss last fall with the sudden death of Mary Beth Kramer of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department on Oct. 14. Her passing left an estimated 800 students in CHEM 103 and 104 without an instructor. James Wingrave of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department stepped in temporarily to fill Kramer’s shoes, instructing not only most of her 800 students but his own two sections’ worth, while department chair Klaus Theopold instructed the remaining students, those in CHEM 104. The goal was to hire two new faculty members for this year to teach some of the seven undergraduate freshman courses in chemistry, Burmesiter says. This is because, he says, the four regular (non-honors) sections of CHEM 103 have grown in enrollment over the years, from 738 students in 2006 to 1,255 in 2012. These new professors, like many of the existing faculty members, would be teaching a large load in terms of contact and numbers. A saving grace for the department came when Jacqueline Fajardo applied for one of the open positions. Although initially worried about handing in a particularly late application in May, Fajardo says she was “thrilled” when she received the job as assistant professor of chemistry, along with Mark Bailey who filled the other spot. Fajardo comes from a long background of chemistry, specifically biochemistry. She says after taking undergraduate courses in chemistry in Denver, she was presented with a research opportunity called the Science and Engineering Research Semester offered by the government at the Department of Energy. With this opportunity, she relocated
to Richland, Wash. to serve as an intern to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for a semester. That semester turned into almost three years. She began to consider science as a career option. She pursued her undergraduate career at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. She then continued to participate in research and accomplished what she says was one of her “proudest achievements” — solving a protein structure using the technique of X-Ray Crystallography. Afterward, she moved back to Colorado and pursued a PhD in Chemical Education at the University of Northern Colorado. Fajardo considers this to be one of her dream jobs, as she was eyeing Delaware for quite some time, she says. She was especially drawn to the university and its chemistry faculty for its known efforts in problem-based learning, which she says breaks away from a “dry lecture format” and uses “application and problems.” This semester, Fajardo is teaching two sections of about 100 students each in CHEM 103. Fajardo’s more traditional chemistry course includes lecture as well as laboratory and workshop time. For teaching the required concepts, Fajardo says it is important to give relevance as opposed to just presenting the material and expecting students to simply learn it. She says when students can see a demonstration and bring a concept to life, they find meaning in it. “It is important to explain why we are teaching that particular concept,” Fajardo says. Her present focus is to integrate the university’s various new technology resources into her curriculum, which she says she finds very useful yet challenging. James Hartman, who says to be a chemistry graduate student who works with Fajardo and CHEM 103 students, says Fajardo
has been “working and studying many methods and examples of different teaching styles to better help the students grasp and understand the material [...] There is not a day that goes by that I do not see her actively working or changing her presentations.” Fajardo says her favorite topics in CHEM 103 include the structures of molecular compounds and how they relate to the compounds’ function, electron configuration and valence shell electron pair repulsion theory. When able to instruct CHEM 104, she looks forward to teaching chemical equilibrium, she says. Fajardo says she has a passion and enthusiasm for her job and its topics of study. Burmesiter says he recognizes her, along with Bailey’s, love for and commitment to teaching. He says he constantly receives questions from the two, which to him display their excited and dedicated involvement in the undergraduate chemistry and biochemistry program. “We need people like Jackie Fajardo [and] Mark Bailey [...] they are critical parts in our overall teaching program,” Burmeister says. Being new to the department and unknown by many students, Fajardo says she would like the student body to know her door is always open outside of lecture. Hartman says he has seen her walking into her students’ laboratory classes to see how they are doing outside of her lecture. Fajardo says she would love for students to come by aside from just during her designated office hours and be able to work through problems with them on her board. She also says help sessions are a way for her to work with students in a one-on-one environment. Fajardo’s enthusiasm and energy has caused her to stand out from other professors, Hartman says. He also says “Working together with Dr. Fajardo has been a wonderful experience.”
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Professor Fajardo asks her students if they have any questions before starting her lecture.
electric vehicles. For more information, visit http://www. udel.edu/V2G/. Despite recent advances in electric vehicles, liquid fuels are not likely to fade away in the foreseeable future. The United States currently consumes nearly 20 million barrels of oil a day, mostly for transportation. Efficiency improvements and alternative fuels have tempered our use of liquid fuels, but developing countries are increasing their consumption. Only a dedicated effort away from liquid-based transportation will ensure the increasingly desperate (and environmentally destructive) practices listed in the opening of this article will finally be scaled back. In closing, I will leave you with a prophetic statement by a former Saudi oil minister. Acknowledging that global oil resources are only limited by the desperate methods society is willing to employ, Sheikh Ahmed Yamani said, “The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.” —Yosef Shirazi yshirazi@udel.edu
DINNER TABLE SCIENCE RACHEL IBERS
The Final Fronteir
COURTESY OF SPACEX
On July 21, 2011, National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Space Shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth after delivering supplies to the International Space Station. The space shuttle would never leave Earth’s surface again. NASA has officially shut down their shuttle program, using the funds and time spent repairing the outdated shuttle fleet to put more research into more efficient engines, rocket fuel and solutions for the International Space Station. But don’t think this means us earthlings are all grounded for the time being. NASA’s slow (and planned) decline over the last several years has opened the doors to a new market: commercial space flight. Entrepreneurs all over the country are coming up with innovative ways to explore and traverse space, and are challenging the government monopoly that was NASA. One such man is Elon Musk. Musk is a South African native who has studied at University of Pennsylvania and co-founded PayPal. He is also the founder of Tesla Motors and, most notably, SpaceX. SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, is located in California and was the first commercial space corporation to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. On May 25, 2012, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft delivered cargo to the space station and made history. To cut down on the cost of manufacturing and designing such complicated and unique equipment, SpaceX tests, designs and produces much of their materials in house, and is therefore a mostly independent company. One of the ideals that makes SpaceX such a frontrunner in the private space races is to produce reusable
spacecraft and cut the costs of replacements and repairs for return flights. One such rocket is currently in the testing stages at SpaceX, and is by far one of the coolest things to happen to spaceflight in a while. Meet the Grasshopper. The Grasshopper is currently a technology demonstrator, meaning that the actual rockets being used right now are just to show off new technologies and won’t actually go into space, but future versions of this rocket probably will. The Grasshopper is about 10-stories high, and is the first rocket to launch vertically, hover in the air and then return to the launch pad. Grasshopper can only hover about 1,066 feet (as of June), but the technology is there and it will improve. Controlling a vertical tube that’s over 100 feet tall is an impressive feat, and a rocket that can land itself with that kind of control is a huge step forward in the journey to reusable spacecraft. The craft not only lands itself upright, but can also perform controlled lateral movements, allowing it to correct itself during launch or landing. If the Grasshopper’s technology becomes mainstream (or at least, viable for SpaceX), then spaceflight costs are going to decline significantly. Reusable spacecraft are truly the answer to many of the spaceflight dilemmas. Once missions into space can be done repeatedly, and without a fleet of constantlyreconstructed spacecrafts, launches will certainly become more common occurrences. For the awesome video of the Grasshopper’s latest test flight, check out www. dinnertablescience.com. — Rachel Ibers eyeburz@udel.edu
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 THE REVIEW
RACHEL TAYLOR
READING WITH RACHEL Never Let Me Go
Seeing as I couldn’t think of another terrible book to review without resorting to romance novels or teen supernatural romance, I decided to read a novel that is one of my friends’ personal favorites. “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro is narrated by a woman known only as Kathy H., and is primarily about her experiences at her childhood school and home, Hailsham, and her friends Ruth and Tommy. The novel is read in three parts: “Childhood,” “Adult” and “Donor,” though the events within the parts are not always chronological. The school of Hailsham is initially described as an ideal, almost magical place to live. The children are well-educated and encouraged to follow artistic passions. Kathy talks about how the people she cares for as an adult are usually curious of her life there and wish they had similar experiences in their childhood. Despite the idealized, romantic qualities of Hailsham, it doesn’t take long to figure out something is not quite right. The school is run by “guardians” who are constantly telling the children they are “special,” and who are extremely careful of their health and well-being while at Hailsham. The most significant aspect of Kathy’s time at Hailsham seems to be the artwork the students create; they are taught no other significant life skills beyond
how to create various works of art and writing, the best of which are taken to the “Gallery” by a woman named Madame, who is, for some reason, disgusted by the children. It is during Kathy’s days at Hailsham the reader discovers what is really going on with the school and the children, though Kathy says she knew about it ever since she can remember. Usually with books, I can do a pretty good job at guessing twists, but this one really threw me for a loop. I really hate spoilers in reviews, but this one is so significant it is really impossible to continue talking about the book without mentioning it, so if you don’t want to know, please skip until you see “spoilers complete.” While the children of Hailsham seem to lead carefree lives, it is revealed throughout the book they will one day be “donors.” That’s as in organ donors, giving away all of their major organs one surgery at a time until they “complete.” At some period in the future, human cloning processes were discovered, and it was found the clones could be harvested for their essential organs to prolong the lives of “normal” people. Hence, “students,” aka “donors,” like Kathy and her classmates were created. The students know they will initially leave Hailsham to become “carers” for other donors for up to, but often less than, 15 years until they get a notice it is time for their donations to start. Ruth and Tommy both get their notices before Kathy, and she becomes their “carer” until their completions, despite her and Tommy attempting to get a deferral based on a rumor they could have three years together if they could prove they were in love. The novel ends with Kathy facing the beginning of her donations and her own eventual “completion.” Spoilers complete. With “Never Let Me Go,” Ishiguro has managed to write a compelling piece of work that delves into serious questions, like what it really means to be human and how we go about facing death. It’s hard to pin down what exactly the genre of this book is; while it has sci-fi qualities, it’s horrifying that Kathy doesn’t seem to find her situation horrifying at all. It also mixes in some coming-of-age elements with Kathy’s realization and acceptance that her eventual manner of demise is inevitable. While the book is very well done, it also has some serious holes that could have been addressed. For instance, why couldn’t Kathy and Tommy have fled and blended in with everyone else, successfully avoiding their fate? The novel doesn’t describe them as looking different than anyone else, so it seems like it could have been an option. Despite this and some other minor flaws, the book is well written, thought-provoking and emotionally intense. I highly recommend you pick up this novel and explore what it really means to be human. Have a book you want to see reviewed or just know a great (or terrible) read? Email Rachel Taylor at retaylor@udel.edu. — Rachel Taylor retaylor@udel.edu
COURTESY OF VINTAGE BOOKS
SERRA: ‘WE TRY TO PARTNER WITH COMMUNITIES...’ Continued from page 9 “We try to partner with communities where the students will have the opportunity to really talk with community members and understand from their point of view what is going on and what kind of difference it is making to have the UD students there,” Serra says. The second factor when choosing a location is cost, Serra says. Trip prices range from $300 to $800 depending on the location, Stohler says. On average, students raise at least $75 to decrease the price, she says. “As the main center for alternative breaks, we wanted to make sure that all breaks are going through the same leadership and having the same
training so that they can send out really quality trips,” Stohler says. “When these partnerships arose, we jumped at the opportunity to train leaders so that we could create UDaB as that center for quality breaks.” In the future, Stohler says she hopes more organizations will come to UDaB to establish an alternative break trip. After coming back from a trip, the group will ask about one change students have made. Stohler says she’s heard everything from changing their major to not using plastic bottles. Whether switching their majors or becoming more involved in community service, students who go on UDaB trips change their focus, Serra says. However, that is not UDaB’s primary goal.
“We’re not trying to get everybody to change who they are but to think about how the skills that they have can be used to better issues out in the community,” Serra says. Lifelong relationships through group bonding and impacting communities are the most unique aspects of UDaB, Serra says. The most gratifying part of working with UDaB, Serra says, is how transformative an impact the trip can have on students. “They’re really excited about the work they’ve done, and it really spills over into their whole life,” Serra says. “It’s not just they go off and volunteer for a week and then they come back. It really becomes a part of the way they think about themselves as engaged citizens.”
COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ALTERNATIVE BREAKS
Bayboro, N.C., was adversely affected by Hurricane Irene. Students traveled to this area to help victims of the storm during the university’s last spring break.
COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ALTERNATIVE BREAKS
40 students volunteered with UDaB on the Bayboro, N.C. trip during the spring break of 2013.
What We’re Hooked On BILL NYE: Our favorite science guy made his Dancing with the Stars debut last night. We are looking foward to seeing his wide selection of bow ties this season. COMFORTABLE SCARVES: We are so excited fall weather is finally here, which means scarves are our go-to accessory. NINA DAVULURI: Miss New York is the first Indian American to take home the Miss America crown. Congratulations, Nina! NEW IPHONES: This Friday, Apple is releasing two new iPhone models. We can’t wait to try out the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C.
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FASHION’S FINEST
Get your grunge on: your definitive grunge guide
ASHLEY PAINTSIL Fashion fortunately (and sometimes, unfortunately) is cyclical. When I heard the ’90s were back in the consciousness of popular culture around October 2011, I was quite excited the time period I grew up in was starting to have cultural relevance. It all started with TeenNick’s series, “The ’90s are All That,”which airs reruns of old shows I watched as a 6-year-old, such as “Clarissa Explains it All,” “Doug” and “All That,” and later “Hey Arnold!” and “CatDog.” Then I noticed hoards of floral dresses, plaid and crop tops — all bits and pieces that pointed to a significant resurgence of the ’90s. People have always referenced the ’20s to ’80s as past ages that provide inspiration for designers, artists and the media, but have mostly avoided the ’90s, I presume because it is too close to their recent pasts. However, designers have
managed to bring it back into the fashion cycle. I don’t particularly pay attention to the start of fads until they become trends that actually grow and stay around longer than a couple of months. It seems like most fads never reach this maturity point in the fashion lifecycle, making them unworthy of serious attention. Designers also show their collections a season before their clothes will actually appear in stores, so by the time these collections have reached the general public, I have had enough of them and the trends that follow. I started to see the 90s show up everywhere so I quickly realized I had to pay more attention to this trend when Dries Van Noten presented his Spring 2013 collection — a luxe, prettier version of the plaids and florals that dominated the seemingly hardcore, unattractive bout of 1990s fashion called “grunge.” He cited Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, the music group that arguably led the grunge movement, as his direct inspiration for the looks and ushered us into the age of the neo-grunge look. I recently saw Preetma Singh, market editor at the Wall
Street Journal Magazine in a top from Look 53 of Van Noten’s collection on Harriet Walker’s Spring 2014 roundup of street style fashion on the web glossy Never Underdressed. I also saw stylist Ece Sukan sporting a top and skirt from Looks 12 and 36 of his collection through the lense of Tommy Ton, known for his fashion blog Jak & Jil. It’s safe to say that if the interpreters of fashion are wearing these looks, and I keep seeing friends drape plaid button-downs around the waists of their distressed denim, grunge is here to stay for a while. With the first week of fashion month is over, New York designers have given us collections full of beauty looks with messy, undone hair and light makeup that almost seems as if it’s not there — traces of the bare-faced grunge movement that have infiltrated the fashion system. Grunge came to be in the late 1980s and came to a head at the beginning of the early 1990s, when independent record label Sub Pop led a group of murky, heavy metalsounding rockers like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney in a new music movement originating in Seattle. The movement went on to create a
screaming fashion statement. The grunge sound was sad, depressing and hard with a look consisting of dreary-looking vintage clothes — band tees, flannels, thermals, old denim, worn in boots and messy hair — some dyed in an array of colors. When Kurt Cobain was photographed wearing a vintage floral dress and brown combat boots, people suddenly started to take note of the music and the grunge look. The people involved in the grunge movement were the world’s first hipsters, save the fact that they made as little effort as possible with their appearance and dressed for comfort and affordability. Grungers, as I will call them, never followed mainstream trends. Rather, they primarily enjoyed obscure indie bands but disowned them when they signed to major labels. Their look was about making a statement of poverty, since the grunge movement arose amidst the recession the United States faced from 1987 to 1992. It was not really a look that was supposed to be at the center of a high fashion movement. James Truman, the editor-in-chief of Details magazine in 1992, expressed
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his disappointment with fashion folks going gaga over the movement in the New York Times. “Punk was antifashion,” he wrote. “It made a statement. Grunge is about not making a statement, which is why it’s crazy for it to become a fashion statement.” Strangely enough, designers believed the look had staying power and, in 1992, Marc Jacob, with his infamous Perry Ellis grunge collection, Anna Sui and Christian Francis Roth, followed the trickle-up theory of fashion, where designers get direct inspiration from everyday people and brought grunge to Fashion Avenue. Now we’re seeing grunge in the form of Hedi Slimane’s awful Fall 2013 Saint Laurent collection, layers of buttondowns with slip dresses and combat boots or Chuck Taylors, Doc Martens, frayed hems, plaid, the ever-present band tee and crazy-colored hair. Seems like grunge will be something I have to get used to because it doesn’t seem like it’s going away anytime soon. — Ashley Paintsil paintsil@udel.edu
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Hens struggle in second-half, trounced by Navy 51-7 BY MATT BUTLER
Student Affairs Editor
Saturday in Annapolis, Md., was a rough day for the Delaware football team, which was routed by the Navy Midshipmen with a score of 51-7. The Hens were unable to find a rhythm all game, and the Midshipmen took advantage of several Delaware miscues throughout the game. Junior quarterback Trent Hurley, who went 17 for 25 for 152 yards and got a touchdown to go with two interceptions, said he felt like the team was hindered by frequent mistakes that upset the offensive flow. “We shot ourselves in the foot the entire game,” Hurley said. “We knew we would have to put up points in this game. Navy has a great offense [. . .] It’s really hard to overcome yourself.” Navy’s unconventional tripleoption offensive game plan gave the Hens’ defense trouble the entire game. Keenan Reynolds, Navy’s quarterback, was masterful in guiding the Navy offense up and down the field on a Hens defense that at times looked tired and confused. Reynolds came up big in the spotlight on Saturday, finishing the game with 109 rushing yards on 15 carries, along with 233 yards and two touchdowns on 10 for 13 passing. Delaware’s offense did move the ball some against Navy’s defense, gaining 336 yards. The Hens’ opening drive of the game started off with promise, with Hurley hitting four different receivers on five attempts, for 21 yards. The offense stalled around midfield after a false start penalty, and a shanked 6-yard punt gave Navy the ball at its 47-yard line. After that, Navy struck quickly
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Senior running back and team captain Andrew Pierce runs the ball between two Navy players during Saturday’s game. Pierce had a team-high 83 rushing yards. Pierce has 239 rushing yards on the season with a 10-yard touchdown run from Darius Staten, culminating in a six-play drive that took 2:27 off the clock. Five different players carried the ball for Navy on the drive. Senior defensive tackle Zach Kerr said after the game the methodical, machine-like nature of Navy’s offense, which produced 589 total yards to Delaware’s 352, was one of the reasons for the Hens’ struggles. He said it is difficult to prepare for an offense that is not widely used in football anymore. “It’s a well-oiled machine,
they practice it every day, they’ve been doing it for years,” Kerr said. “It’s hard to stop something like that, especially when it’s not traditional. You don’t see it every day. Hats off to them, they run the triple-option, and they execute it very well.” Kerr also said the defense was somewhat surprised at the variety of the Midshipmen offensive attack, particularly an expanded passing game usually absent from Navy’s offensive systems. Reynolds’ 233 passing yards were not only a career-high for the young quarterback, they
were also the most a Midshipmen quarterback has thrown for in a game since 2000. “We were surprised about that a little bit,” Kerr said. “We know we could stop the run. We put ourselves in a couple situations where we stopped them as far as running the ball, then they caught us off guard with passes over the top for big plays. That’s the story of the game, big plays after big plays.” The game was 10-0 in favor of Navy heading into the second quarter, when the Midshipmen began to pull away. The Hens had possession of the ball to start
the quarter, when Hurley threw a pass that was deflected by junior receiver Michael Johnson into the arms of Navy linebacker D.J. Sargenti, who returned it to Delaware’s 44-yard line. Two plays and just over a minute later, Navy slotback Geoffrey Whiteside took an option pitch from Reynolds and ran 7 yards around the right side to the end zone. On the Hens’ next drive, Hurley and backup running backs Julian Laing and Jalen Randolph carried the offense down to the Navy 37-yard line. Hurley hit Stephen Clark and Jerel Harrison early in the drive, but on his fourth pass attempt, he was intercepted by cornerback Brendon Clements. Hurley avoided a would-be sack, scrambled to his right, then fired into quadruple coverage. Reynolds then hit slotback DeBrandon Saunders for 63 yards for a touchdown. Saunders finished with a team-leading 3 receptions for 86 yards and a touchdown, along with 2 rushes for 18 yards. The Hens are now 2-1, with wins over Jacksonville University and Delaware State University. The Hens next play Wagner University on Saturday at Delaware Stadium at 6 p.m.. Brock said he was proud of how the team persevered and played hard, even when the score was getting out of hand. He also said he does not think the Hens’ first three games have been a very good gauge of the team’s true ability. “The Navy game will not define this team, and neither will the first two wins,” Brock said. “I don’t think we will know what we really have until after six games. I don’t know that we found out a terrible amount during the first two weeks, and I’m not 100 percent sure of what we found out today. Time will tell.”
Kerr making the most of second chance at football BY MATT BITTLE Copy Desk Chief
Zach Kerr’s life revolves around football. But there was a time when the Hens’ senior defensive lineman did not know if he would be able to keep playing, as he had academic issues, partied too much and spent time with the wrong crowd, he said. “Don’t bring the wrong people into the right situation,” Kerr said. “That’s what I continuously did my previous year before coming here. I would just bring the wrong people around, they would make a bad decision, I wouldn’t really care too much because it wasn’t me necessarily doing it, but I wasn’t looking at how it would affect me in the long run. And it did.” Kerr originally committed to the University of Maryland and spent 2009 and 2010 playing on the defensive line for the Terrapins. Kerr took a year off because of his poor grades, and though he was able to get a grade changed after the first game of Maryland’s 2011 season, making him eligible, he had already left school. After taking time to focus on his future, Kerr said he realized he had to mature. He wanted to keep playing football, and he said he knew he would have to start making smarter choices. “I just reflected on my life, a lot of the stupid decisions I made and
how I could better myself,” he said. Kerr said he decided to transfer to Delaware, a place close to his hometown of Gaithersburg, Md. Additionally, he had played with Travis Hawkins, now a senior defensive back for the Hens, first in high school and then at Maryland before Hawkins transferred to the university. Kerr said the influence of current cornerbacks coach Henry Baker was also a significant factor, as Baker had recruited Kerr to Maryland before becoming a member of the Hens staff. Kerr said coming to the university from Maryland was a bit of transition off the field, but on the field, few things were different. He said he learned how to play with intensity and how to bond with teammates while at Maryland, and he has been able to bring that to the Blue Hens as well. In 2012, Kerr started all 11 games for the Hens, finishing second among defensive linemen on the team with 27 tackles. He also recorded an interception return touchdown. In anticipation of even greater things in 2013, The Sports Network named Kerr a second-team All-American. That was not the only honor the lineman received before the season, as he was also elected captainby his teammates. See KERR page 15
Volleyball wins Delaware Invitational, Shonk named MVP BY TOMMY MANDALA Senior Sports Reporter
The final of the Delaware Volleyball Invitational was very much still up for grabs as Delaware and Furman University began the fifth set Saturday night. The win and championship was, however, sealed when Delaware freshman Erin Layne rallied off five consecutive serves for points as the Hens pulled away at the end. Head coach Bonnie Kenny said she was impressed by Layne’s performance. “For a freshman to come off the bench in the fifth set like that and get us five consecutive points, that was
unbelievable,” Kenny said. Layne’s points at the end were both a product of her serves and sophomore Jill Meyers’ series of momentum-changing blocks. Sophomore defensive specialist/ libero Ariel Shonk said Meyers played a team game. “At the end, Jill Meyers just had a block party,” Shonk said.“She is just such a good, unselfish player.” However, it was Shonk who paced the team through the entire game, and the tournament for that matter, as she took home tournament Most Valuable Player honors. See VOLLEYBALL page 15
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Freshman midfielder/forward Guillermo Delgado (No.) has been named CAA Rookie of the Week.
Delgado assists Hens in staying undefeated at home BY HARRISON CORBETT Senior Sports Reporter
The Delaware men’s soccer team grabbed its second win of the season as the Hens defeated the Saint Bonaventure Bonnies 3-0 Friday evening at Delaware Mini-Stadium. Coming off a double overtime 5-4 loss against Seton Hall last Tuesday, the Hens looked to straighten things out. Head coach Ian Hennessy said the difference between Friday’s win and Tuesday’s loss was that the team was able to stay focused throughout the game. “The mentality in the second half was different,” Hennessy said. “We gave up five goals last week which was uncharacteristic for us and our focus for today was a shutout, which we accomplished.” The first half was very evenly matched, with most of it being played in neutral territory. However, junior goalkeeper Borja Barbero had three diving saves in the first thirty minutes, keeping Delaware alive. Freshman forward Guillermo Delgado, who scored his seventh and eighth goals of the year on Friday, said the team decided to use more of the field during the second half. “We were too relaxed during the first half,” Delgado said. “They were playing tight in back and our long balls weren’t working, so after half we
decided to play a lot wider and that was the key to our success.” The first half ended with a score of 0-0 and eight shots for the Hens, with only three of those being on net. The team gathered for halftime and returned an allaround better team. Hennessy said his halftime speech involved telling the team to get more flow in their game.
“The mentality in the second half was different. We gave up five goals last week.” -IAN HENNESSY, HEAD COACH “It was just sloppy, especially with the wind at our backs,” Hennessy said. “We could not get a rhythm going, and I told them we had to tighten things up.” The Hens came out right away and netted a goal in the 48th minute, thanks to Delgado. “The first goal in the second
half helped us to create our game,” said senior defenseman Tobias Müller. “The easy onetwo touches helped open things up… and we start playing our game. I think we can beat a lot of teams.” The momentum continued as sophomore midfielder Joe Dipre scored the Hens’ second goal, this one coming in the 74th minute. The ball was passed to him by senior midfielder Vincent Mediate, allowing Dipre to take a chip shot from 18 yards out on the left side and put it right behind St. Bonaventure goalkeeper Jeremy Figler. The Hens scored again in the 85th minute when Delgado notched his second goal of the night with a shot from six yards out after faking out the goalie with a move that caused the keeper to fall over. The goal was assisted by Müller and senior defenseman Mark Garrity. The game ended five minutes later with a score of 3-0 in favor of the Hens, giving them a 4-1 record. The mens’ soccer team prepares for the next bout against Temple tonight at 7 p.m. at Delaware Mini Stadium. Dipre said the team is going to prepare for the next game by not overthinking how to play. “We won’t get ahead of ourselves,” Dipre said. “We’ll prepare well, eat well, train well and we’ll play our normal game and hopefully be successful again.”
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COMMENTARY WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?
PAUL TIERNEY
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Sophomore midfielder Michaela Patzner holds on to the ball during Sunday’s game. Patzner scored two goals during the match.
Lady Hens roll Spartans, now 5-1 BY JACK COBOURN
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Fans of the Delaware field hockey team were treated to a big scoring day Sunday as the Hens beat Michigan State University 5-1 at Rullo Stadium. Head coach Rolf van de Kerkhof, who coached at Michigan State before coming to Delaware in 2011, said he was glad to see some of his former players again. “In a way, it was just a game, but I have to admit, I was excited to see some of my own recruits and some of the kids that I coached for a year,” he said. The team played Friday night against Temple under the lights, winning 2-0, thanks to senior defender Heather Hartman and sophomore midfielder Michaela Patzner, who made her fifth goal of the season. Van de Kerkhof said it was a signature victory for the team. “They played outstanding,” he said. “They executed the plan, they stepped up their defensive efforts, not only the backfield but the entire team, and it was a quality win.” Delaware came into the Michigan State game with a 4-1 overall record (0-0 CAA), but for a little while in the first half, it did not look good for the Hens as Michigan State’s forward Allie Ahern scored in the 14th minute from 8 yards out to give the Spartans the early 1-0 lead. The Delaware offense rallied, pushing the ball into Michigan State’s zone as they had before Ahern’s goal. This rally would pay off, for in the 20th minute, Patzner was awarded a penalty stroke and converted that into a goal to tie the game at 1-1. Patzner said she just followed her thoughts on how to put the ball away. “I think I just trusted my preparation and executed my plan, which was putting it in the left low corner,” she said. It wasn’t long before the Hens built on Patzner’s goal as redshirt freshman Maddie O’Beirne scored on a tip in 5 yards out from sophomore forward Jackie Covaleski to put Delaware up 2-1 in the 24th minute.
Even with the lead, Delaware’s offense kept pushing to increase it, and they were able to add to the lead as Patzner scored what has to be a candidate for goal of the year in the 33rd minute. A rifle shot 10 yards from goal on the right-hand side crossed in front of the goal in midair and went over the goalie’s right shoulder to give the Hens the 3-1 lead going into halftime. Patzner said the goal was scored due in part to senior forward Kasey Prettyman’s help, as well as Patzner knowing where she was in relation to the goalmouth. “I saw my teammate Kasey. She just faked receiving, and then I just had to receive the ball and go around this one girl, and I saw there was no one in front of me and I just chipped it up high in the left corner,” she said. Delaware had nine shots in the first half, and came out in the second half ready to go, making two of their five shots on goal in the first six minutes of the second half. In the 50th minute, O’Beirne scored on another tip in, this time thanks to senior forward Toni Papinko, to give the Hens an unassailable 4-1 lead. O’Beirne said the goal was a team effort, and it was due to her moving to get into position. “The second goal, I saw my teammate Toni Papinko carrying the ball, and I knew I had to be on the opposite post, ready to score, and I was,” she said. “I was a little nervous, but I scored.” Junior defender Rebecca Pepper scored her first goal of the season in the 62nd minute to round out Delaware’s scoring. Pepper’s goal was unassisted. Van de Kerkhof said in his post-game speech that the team can celebrate now, but at midnight, the score is reset to 0-0 as they prepare to face Penn State on Friday at 5 p.m. He said the Nittany Lions are going to be a challenge, but if the team works together, they may show themselves to be a threat for both the CAA and NCAA championship. “If we play our own game, we execute our game plan, we stick together as a team, we can play everybody in this country right now,” he said.
Two weeks ago, the Delaware football team trounced in-state foe Delaware State University 42-21, extending its unbeaten record against the Hornets to 5-0. Junior quarterback Trent Hurley threw for 328 yards and four touchdowns, both of which were career highs. Senior wide receiver Rob Jones scored three touchdowns, one of which came on an exhilarating punt return that sent the crowd at Delaware Stadium into a frenzy. Despite the fanfare (or lack thereof) surrounding the “rivalry” between the state’s only Division I football programs, the game was a colossal waste of everybody’s time. In theory, playing Delaware State in football makes sense for both schools. Delaware State gets a giant payout from the Hens’ athletic department, while Delaware gets to walk all over the Hornets and maintain their stranglehold on the area’s recruiting landscape. But at the end of the day, Delaware doesn’t get any better, Delaware State gets consistently embarrassed and the stands are empty by the middle of the third quarter. And while beating Delaware State is fun, football is about making money, and money is made when the team wins on the biggest stage possible. This past Saturday’s 51-7 thumping, courtesy of the Navy Midshipmen, was an embarrassment for the Delaware football team, it’s players, coaches and fans. But, it didn’t have to be. The University, whether it knew it or not, threw its flagship athletic program to the wolves Saturday and watched it get eaten alive.
Although it’s not uncommon for Football Championship Subdivision schools to schedule Football Bowl Subdivision opponents, the Hens were forced to play in front of a record-setting crowd at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium after opening up the season at home against Jacksonville and Delaware State. Coming off victories against two historically weak programs, it would have been completely unfair to expect the Hens to compete with an opponent who outclasses them in nearly every aspect of the game. Granted, good football teams lose to less talented squads all the time. But the Hens had no experience competing against an opponent with the size, strength or speed of Navy. The best team Delaware played all season was itself in practice everyday. I’m not here to accuse any players of dogging it, or the coaches for failing to prepare their team for Navy’s gameplan. Regardless of who Delaware played in their first two contests, they were never going to beat Navy. They are a much better football team. But it’s the University’s responsibility to put its studentathletes in the best possible position to succeed. Playing Delaware State prior to taking on an FBS school and then preparing for CAA play doesn’t help anybody. Next season, the two teams will play the final game under the contract signed both each school. When the game ends, so should the rivalry. Maybe one day, if Delaware State’s program improves dramatically, the university could consider rekindling the game and create a competitive rivalry. But until then, the university must look out for the best interest of its football program. And as we saw in the team’s performance on Saturday, those interests are better served without Delaware State on the schedule. Paul Tierney is the managing sports editor at The Review. Please send any questions, comments and a new Delaware football schedule to ptierney@ udel.edu.
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Cross Country: The Delaware cross country team finished second in the Delaware Invitational Saturday at White Clay Creek State Park. Senior Lindsay Prettyman finished fourth overall with a time of 22:19.99, breaking the UD course record set by Julia Somers in 2006 of 22:31.59. Senior Emily Gispert also finished in the top 10 with 22:35.26. The Hens’ record is now 1-0 (0-0 CAA).
Women’s Golf: The Delaware women’s golf team finished fifth in the team standings at the Princeton Invitational, held at Springdale Golf Course in Princeton, N.J. from Saturday to Sunday. Freshman Grace Chua finished in 10th place in the individual standings with a 10 over par 226 for the weekend, including a even 72 in Saturday’s second round. The Hens finished with a three-round total of 936 after carding a 313 round on Sunday.
Women’s Soccer: The Delaware women’s soccer team beat Seton Hall University, 2-1, Sunday at Delaware Mini Stadium. Freshman forward Natalie Zelenky scored in the 87th minute to break the 1-1 tie after Seton Hall scored in the 62nd minute. Senior midfielder Chelsea Duffy scored the opening goal of the game, having been ably assisted by senior forward Shannon Kearney. The Hens’ record is now 3-4 (0-0 CAA).
Men’s Club Ice Hockey: The Delaware ACHA Div. I men’s club ice hockey team opens their season on Friday against Navy at 7 p.m. at Fred Rust Ice Arena. Returning players include senior forwards Christian Tasker and Christopher Volonnino, as well as junior defenseman J.C. Brancaccio. Last season, Volonnino led the team in goals and assists with 29 apiece, and Tasker had 15 goals.
KERR: ‘I’m a serious guy when it comes to football, but you have to have fun with it.’ Continued from page 14 “It was kind of surprising and it felt good to know that 94 other guys on the team believed in me, and they believe that I could be their leader and believe that I can take them as far as I go, so I really felt honored,” Kerr said. Sophomore defensive lineman Karon Gibson said he has learned a great deal from Kerr. “Zach, he’s taught me a lot,” Gibson said. “He’s come from a similar background as me, so I’ve learned a lot mentally, to keep my head in the game, always be ready for practice, always prepare myself for practice like it’s a game.” Head coach Dave Brock said Kerr is a physical player with a number of good qualities—chiefly his quickness and strength—who continues to improve. On Kerr’s part, the senior said the most important factor in his success is simply the fact he loves football. That drives him to succeed, he said. When he is not practicing or playing in games, Kerr is reading
about the sport, watching it or playing football video games, he said. He is interested in statistics pertaining to the game, and he said he would like to use his passion for and knowledge of football to become a broadcaster. Kerr said virtually everything he does is related to his passion, and he wants to spend his life working in or around the game in some capacity. Though Kerr hopes to enter the field of broadcasting, he may have to wait, as the senior might follow in the footsteps of former Delaware teammate Paul Worrilow, a member of the Class of 2013, and try to make it in the NFL. “Just because you want to play pro football doesn’t mean you will,” Brock said. “I think he’s got the skill set to do it, I think he has the ability to do it. Now it’s a question of, ‘Will he put on tape—game after game— what people want to see?,’ and, ‘When you do that you become a prospect?’” However, Kerr, who has 11 tackles and one forced fumble on the year, said he is not focused
on going pro, as his concerns lie solely with the Blue Hens right now. Winning is all that is on his mind, he said. “I think it’d mean the world to me and my teammates for us go out with a championship, especially in coach Brock’s first year,” he said. If the Hens, who are currently 2-1, have a successful season, the preseason second-team All-American will likely have contributed to that success and not just for his play on the field. Kerr said he feels he has helped create a brotherhood among the teammates, in part due to humor. Gibson said Kerr frequently cracks jokes but knows when to be serious. For his part, Kerr said he utilizes humor to make the game fun and to help prevent his teammates from getting nervous. “I like to keep people laughing, just take some of the load off sometimes,” Kerr said. “I’m a serious guy when it comes to football, but you have to have fun with it. This is our job, so you can’t go and dread and hate your job. You have to make it fun.”
Volleyball at Villanova tonight Continued from page 14 Shonk recorded 12 digs in the match and a number of athletic plays that led to crucial kills. That final set was a sharp contrast from the first set during which the Lady Hens lost, 25-15. Delaware rebounded in the second set, as the lead changed hands a number of times. The team was able to turn that set into a 2521 win on the strength of a couple of momentum-swinging kills by sophomore middle hitter Chandler Bryant. Bryant, whom Coach Kenny lauded for her athleticism, had 10 kills for Lady Hens and was named to the All-Tournament team. Senior Katie Hank was also named to the All-Tournament team and blasted a season-high 23 kills. “Katie had a great game for us,” Kenny said. “23 kills on 51 attempts is incredible.” Hank also chipped in with 3 blocks as the Lady Hens racked up 25 total blocks and kept Furman out of sync for the majority of the match. “Defense and blocking really changes the momentum,” Bryant
said. “It really gets everyone pumped up and our crowd into the game.” The third set was taken over by the three All-Tournament Hens as a series of athletic plays by Shonk and several kills by Bryant and Hank closed out the set, 25-21. Furman came out for the fourth set and quickly went up 3-0. From there, the Paladins went on to win 25-21. After lapsing during the fourth set, the Lady Hens came out and ran away with the fifth and final set for the title. “I’m really proud of our team,” Kenny said. “We had two five-set matches and were really able to sustain our energy level over three matches.” For Kenny, there was no shortage of motivation in the final game as it pitted her against her niece, Caitlyn Scioscia, who plays for the Paladins. Kenny got to protect her family bragging rights, and the Lady Hens were able to “protect their house,” as Shonk put it. Team members look to ride this momentum into its next game tonight at Villanova.
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