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Saturday class proposal likely dismissed, Apple says

BY MARINA KOREN Assistant News Editor

Provost Tom Apple told Faculty Senate members Monday that his proposal for Saturday classes will most likely not move forward, but he encouraged members to continue discussions about ways to better use class time.

“I think my proposal is dead on arrival,” Apple said. “But I hope the committee will look at ways and suggestions for how to better utilize the classroom.”

Apple said he hoped Senate members would discuss new ways to improve attendance of Friday classes, which he attributed to student behavior on Thursday nights and a light academic load on Fridays.

“The votes are about even, it was 300 against and one for,” he said. “But I hope that the spirit of my suggestions at the last meeting were taken by the committees and Faculty Senate to explore further.”

On Sept. 14, Apple announced during a Faculty Senate meeting his Saturday classes proposal, which would require all classes to meet two days per week, instead of following the current schedule.

Apple poked fun during yesterday’s meeting at the criticism his proposal has received, drawing laughter from Senate members in attendance.

“My announcement to have Saturday classes was so popular, that if there’s a Review reporter in the room today, let me

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propose Sunday classes,” he said.

Apple had said attendance at Friday classes is lower than other days and argued that six-day class schedule including classes on Saturday would help increase attendance in Friday classes.

“Fridays are disappearing from the academic calendar,” Apple said at the Sept. 14 meeting. By meeting twice a week, more pressure would be placed upon the student to attend both classes, he said.

Deputy Provost Havidán Rodríguez said late last month that the Faculty Senate is initiating preliminary conversations regarding class schedules and the effective utilization of class-

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Eagle Diner server struck near Elkton Road Monday morning

BY JOSH SHANNON and ERICA COHEN The Review

Friends of Ines Fazlic, the woman killed by a train near Elkton Road Monday morning, remembered her fondly as a loyal friend who was always happy and could never hold a grudge.

“She was so bright and wonderful,” said Molly Price of Baltimore. “Anyone who ever knew her was in love with her a little bit.”

Police said Fazlic, 25, of Delaware City, was struck by a CSX freight train at 8:26 a.m.

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behind Eagle Diner, where she worked as a server.

Scherry Quesenberry, another employee of Eagle Diner said Fazlic ate breakfast at the restaurant Monday morning and then left to visit a friend who lives nearby.

“We were sitting in here laughing and having breakfast,” Quesenberry said.

Fazlic used the train tracks as a shortcut and was struck by a westbound train, said Lt. Brian Henry of the Newark Police. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Fazlic was scheduled to work the night shift Monday, but instead, fellow employees gathered at the restaurant to remember her.

Michele Walsh, another employee of the diner, said Fazlic was friends with everyone she worked with.

“She was very, very friendly, always really happy — I’ve never seen her upset about anything,” Walsh said.

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The university switched its recycling program to single stream this semester.

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Single-stream recycling succeeds in city, at UD

BY ASHLEY BIRO Managing News Editor

As of Sept. 1, both the university and city of Newark have incorporated single-stream recycling into their already present recycling programs.

Drew Knab, business and project analyst for the office of the executive vice president at the university, said the implementation of the program has gone smoothly so far.

“We have heard a lot of good feedback from students,” Knab said. “We’re one of the only campuses in the nation to offer single-stream recycling to our students, with recycling bins in every dorm.”

The university had a recycling program in place before the single-stream program went campus-wide. Knab said the university launched a pilot single-stream program on Laird and South campuses last fall. The pilot program also initiated a Game Day Recycling Program.

The Game Day Recycling Program has thus far shown a 10 percent increase in recyclables picked up at football games, he said. At the first three games last season, approximately 17 tons of trash were collected and 5.26 tons of recyclables were picked up, resulting in a 24 percent diversion rate. The first three games of this season have yielded

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approximately 13 tons of trash and 6.87 tons of recyclables, a 34 percent diversion rate.

The diversion rate for recycling percentages is calculated by dividing the total number of recyclables collected by the total amount of trash and recyclables together.

Knab said he personally expects the numbers to grow each month as the publicity for the program increases, and then drop during winter break when students are away from campus.

Richard Lapointe, director of public works for the city of Newark, said the Curbside Recycling Program in Newark has been beneficial to the city. Prior to implementation of the curbside pickup, the community had to take its recyclables to a drop-off area located around the city. The curbside program has made recycling more convenient to the community since starting on June 19, he said.

Since June, the city has produced approximately 500 tons of recyclables and 1,300 tons of trash, he said.

“The program has been going very well,” Lapointe said. “The transition went relatively smooth, and we’ve picked up close to what we were projecting.”

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October 6, 2009

H1N1 ‘widespread’ throughout Del.

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University custodians prepare campus for potential outbreak

BY STEPHANIE KRAUS Senior News Reporter

While Delaware’s assessment of H1N1 has changed from “sporadic” to “widespread,” state officials said last Thursday, as of yet, university officials will not confirm whether any of those reported cases are on campus.

The state of Delaware has 48 confirmed cases of the illness, director of the Delaware Division of Public Health, Karyl Rattay, said. Of the 48 Delaware cases, none are considered severe.

In a statement, university spokesman David Brond said for the month of September, 39 university students have been treated for influenza-like illness at Student Health Services.

“Their symptoms have been mild and all have recovered or are on their way to recovery. Normally, influenza cases are not seen until later in the fall,” Brond said. “Throughout the state, the Department of Public Health is reporting a modest increase in influenza activity.”

Director of custodial services, John Warren, has decided to provide his staff with specialized training, in hopes of keeping H1N1 controlled.

He said before the semester started, he suggested the staff receive the training from the university’s janitorial supply vendor.

“When students came back in the end of August, I decided we’re going to be proactive and start doing all this extra disinfection before anyone gets sick,” Warren said.

All 226 custodians received training on how to properly clean touch points, which include doorknobs, stairwell handles, water fountains, light-switches, telephones and desk tops, he said. The training classes emphasized advanced disinfecting and personal precautions for the entire university custodial staff, he said.

“I don’t think these measures will necessarily stop anyone from getting H1N1 but I think it will be effective in reducing the spread of it,” Warren said.

He said the special disinfecting does not create a longer work day for the custodians. The custodians continue to work an eight hour work day, so the extra disinfecting is not costing the university extra money, he said.

The university continues to encourage students to receive the seasonal flu vaccine, which is now available at Student Health Service for $13.

The first doses of the H1N1 vaccine, which will be delivered to the state this week, will be given almost exclusively to hospital workers and other health care professionals, Rattay said.

When the second shipment of doses, provided free by the federal government, arrives in the state next week, officials will begin targeting pregnant women, infants and eventually other priority groups, including college students.

State officials are expecting to receive at least 400,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine by December.

Rattay said the vaccine will be available at public clinics and in public schools in November. It will also be available through the university’s Student Health Services, but Rattay did not know when the university will receive the H1N1 vaccine.

In the meantime, the university is encouraging students to use the hand sanitizing stations on campus to prevent the spread of germs.

Custodians and building staff are responsible for refilling the hand sanitizing stations on campus. Warren said his staff checks the levels on a daily basis.

“You’ll be surprised—those stations last for a very long time,” he said. “We have one that we haven’t had to replace in

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University custodians are taking precautions against H1N1

three months.”

Warren said custodians rarely need to refill them because the dispensers hold a large volume of sanitizer, not because students are not utilizing them.

Trabant University Center custodian, Damane Belabbas, said he has noticed a minor change in the hygiene of students.

“I see more people washing their hands,” Belabbas said.

“I see people using the sanitizers, not all the time but sometimes.”

Steve DiSabatino, a custodian at Trabant said students are more conscious of their hygiene because of the potential for H1N1. He said the special training helped him realize how important thorough disinfecting is for students’ health.

“We realized we’re sort of on the frontlines here of keeping students healthy,” DiSabatino said.

Pedestrians could face $51.50 ticket for jaywalking

BY JESSICA SORENTINO Staff Reporter

Newark Police are stepping up patrols against jaywalking as part of a state pedestrian safety program.

A university student died after being hit by a car in November 2007, Lt. Brian Henry of the Newark Police Department said. The student was jaywalking.

That same year, 13 other people were injured due to jaywalking. In 2008, 25 people suffered this same fate, Henry said.

At the beginning of each school year, pedestrian traffic increases in Newark. The way to promote safety for both drivers and pedestrians is to make sure jaywalking is hardly an issue, he said.

“Jaywalking, in its simplest form, is crossing out of the crosswalk, and crossing against the signal,” Henry said.

Since the 2007 incident, the state has provided a grant each year to enforce pedestrian and traffic safety. The grant cycle begins on Oct. 1 and ends on Sept. 30 of each year, Henry said.

The officers patrolling the active intersections are off-duty, officers being paid overtime by this state fund, he said.

Within the last cycle, 57 jaywalking tickets were given out, but 44 of them were given on Sept. 23 in a three-hour block of time. All vilolators were university students.

The prime intersections on campus for jaywalking are Delaware Avenue and South College, Main Street and North College, and Cleveland Avenue and North College, Henry said. Jaywalking at any intersection being patrolled will result in a ticket for $51.50.

Senior Erik Mussoni was one of the students to receive a jaywalking ticket. He said he saw irony in the issuance of his particu-

lar ticket.

“There were two cops,” Mussoni said.

“I jaywalked, and then one of them jaywalked behind me to give me my jaywalking ticket! I jaywalked because there were no cars around and everyone does it.”

Junior Erin Grace also received a jaywalking ticket at the intersection of North College and Main Streets.

“From now on I’ll definitely be more careful about jaywalking, just because it has directly affected me,” Grace said.

Henry said the state is trying to make residents and students see jaywalking as an important issue. So far this year, 10 people

have been hurt in the city of Newark in jaywalking incidents.

In order to reach out to students more effectively, the city is now sending officers to DelaWorld to talk to the students about the importance of traffic safety, he said.

Public Safety is also taking part in the safety campaign in Newark.

“UDPD officers were in place at the intersections of Main and North College Streets, and Elkton Road and Amstel Avenue during class change periods for the first two weeks of classes,” Maj. Joel Ivory said. “It was an effort to educate the pedestrians on using the crosswalk signals.”

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If issuing tickets for jaywalking makes students start obeying the law, then it is a successful effort by the police, Ivory said.

Junior Sarah Marx said she does not think receiving a ticket will deter students from still jaywalking.

“Giving out tickets is going to make people upset and mad at the cops, and maybe a little more cautious if a cop car is around,” Marx said, “but it’s definitely not going to stop jaywalking.”

She said she thought the only way jaywalking could be solved on campus is by building pedestrian bridges over the main roads, such as Delaware Avenue, Main Street and College Avenue.

The issue is that jaywalking is sometimes more convenient, therefore, if a police vehicle is not in sight, chances of students regularly following pedestrian traffic laws are not high, Henry said.

“Jaywalking hasn’t been strictly enforced in the past,” Henry said. “It’s the quickest way from A to B.” Marx said she realizes it is easier to jaywalk but also sees jaywalking as a double standard.

“When I’m driving, I hate when people jaywalk,” she said. “It drives me crazy. But if I’m walking, I love it. It’s the most convenient way to get around.”

Grace said she does not think jaywalking is a big problem because everyone does it and most people can judge for themselves, knowing only to cross if there are not a lot of cars.

“In some places, jaywalking is definitely a problem,” Mussoni said. “But in Newark, it’s not a big deal.”

Newark police think otherwise. The next scheduled jaywalking stakeout will take place Wednesday, Henry said.

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Apartments, retail to replace Formal Affairs

BY KATIE SPEACE City News Editor

With the recent completion of Lang Development Group’s newest apartment building at 257 E. Main St., the development group proposed another commercial-residential project last week to take place at the heart of Main Street. he second and third floors.

Chris Locke, owner of Formal Affairs and general counsel for Lang Development Group, said the plans for a new building have been in his head for 15 years.

At its Sept. 28 meeting, Newark City Council approved the plans for the current site of the tuxedo shop Formal Affairs at 129 E. Main St. to be demolished to make room for a structure there with retail on the first floor and six apartments on the second and third floors.

“Ever since he has become a member of our group, we have been talking about the potential to redevelop this property,”developer Jeff Lang said.

In the last year or so, Locke said, they have been able to start bringing the plans for the building to life.

The building will not look as typical of some of the development group’s other projects on Main Street like Pomeroy Station, Happy Harry’s and the Learning Station, Lang said.

Locke said he and Lang wanted to remember the historical integrity of the existing building and bring it back to life in the new building.

“Council as well as the planning commission, on other projects we’ve done, have complained about the buildings all looking the same,” he said. “So we wanted to do something different with this building, and I think we’ve done that.”

Not only will the appearance of the building stand out among the development group’s other buildings on Main Street, Lang said, but the style of the apartments will differ as well.

“The residential units have access directly to the street right off Main Street,” he said.

“We’re creating a nice landscape alleyway kind of like what exists between the Washington House and the Learning Station building, and our entrances will be off that alleyway.”

At the council meeting, Locke proposed the number of tenants per apartment be increased from three to four, and the amendment passed after some discussion. Lang said it was simply a matter of uniformity.

“It’s typical for all our other buildings, and all the other buildings they typically approve around town,” he said.

“We didn’t see the reason why our building should have been singled out as a project that should have reduced occupancy.”

Councilman Ezra Temko said he thought the increase in number of tenants would allow for more diversity of the downtown area population.

“The rent prices on Main Street can be very expensive,” Temko said. “For students who can’t necessarily afford to live on Main Street, if you can have one more person in an apartment, there’s more potential for them to be able to.”

Another issue council brought to the table at the meeting was the number of available parking spaces for the building.

Locke said the parking waiver allows for two spaces per residential unit.

“I’m not surprised by the parking issue,” he said. “There is always pressure on parking whenever you have a downtown area in any community.

We need to address the parking issue, but we shouldn’t let economic development on Main Street be hampered by it.”

Temko said he sees parking as an item the city needs to address at the policy level, and people will still want to live on Main Street regardless if they can keep their car nearby or not.

“In that area, you’re not going to get lots of additional parking for any new residential or commercial project,” he said, “and when people choose to live where they choose to live, they know the parking situation when they do that.”

Lang said because of the building’s location, it will most likely be occupied by students, like many of his company’s other apartment buildings. . “We don’t specifically market our buildings to anyone, but it seems like the ones that are closer to campus tend to be rented by either undergraduates or graduate students,” he said.

Temko said the plan to reconstruct the current Formal Affairs building will continue to move the downtown area forward.

“We’re looking for rehabilitating old buildings and bringing people down to Main Street to live in this area, and it is a project that does that,” he said.

The new apartment building is scheduled to begin construction by the end of this year to be completed in time for the 2010-2011 school year.

In the meantime, Locke said, Formal Affairs will move to 257 E. Main St. He said he hopes to create a premiere wedding shopping destination there with Bing’s Bakery next door and the possible addition of a bridal shop, florist and jeweler.

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Conover Apartments, located on Amstel Avenue, house graduate students and students with families.

On-campus apartments marketed towards families, grad students

BY ERICA COHEN Student Affairs Editor

Robert Ryan and his 3-year- old daughter, Bella, sat on the steps of the on-campus Conover Apartments, talking to other residents and playing at the picnic held for the tenants on Saturday.

The apartment complex on Amstel Avenue is both a place for graduate students as well as students with families to live on campus, like Ryan.

While the same amenities are supplied for both families and graduate students, the needs of each group are different.

Ryan said he likes Conover because his wife works at the university and can walk to work.

Ryan has lived in the Conover Apartments for three years and said the No.1 advantage is the location, which makes buying a second car unnecessary. While he is pleased with the facility, there are a few issues he believes are not ideal for families including air quality, and mold problems in summer.

“This is a dorm marketed as an apartment, but it is a dorm,” he said.

Overall though, he thinks it is a good place for families. He said Bella loves the playground that sits on the Conover lawn, and the people in the community are friendly.

Although the apartments are marketed to families as well as graduate students, he believes families are choosing not to live there and thought that it may be because of the size of the kitchen. Ryan said there are only three or four other families and five to six kids at most.

“I’m surprised there are less families here,” he said.

Ryan said while the university does try to coordinate events for families, with few families living in the apartments it makes it difficult to create that kind of community.

He emphasized he price is fair for what tenants receive—the $1,055 for a two-bedroom apartment includes utilities and cable, and the staff who maintain the facilities are reliable.

“Specifically from a family perspective- it’s convenient and you get what you pay for,” he said. “I wish there was something I could pay more for, like choosing between two types of facilities then everyone would be happy.”

Even graduate students, who are looking for different things in an apartment, prized the convenience and location as the best things about the complex.

Ph.D. candidate Marvin Whitaker said that this is why he chose the apartment complex when he was

applying for housing this past year. He currently lives in a two bedroom with a roommate and is paying $550.

Shraddha Srivastava, a graduate student, also stressed the proximity of the complex.

“They’re closer to the university, they’re safer, and the rent includes everything,” she said when comparing her apartment at Conover to a previous off-campus apartment on Elkton Road.

Both graduate students said they liked the location and price. The tenants living in Conover range from undergraduate age to students in their 40s, but Srivasbava, Whitaker and Ryan said that the community aspect is one of the things they appreciate most about the complex.

In order to create this community, the school puts out a newsletter for the residents at both Conover and the Graduate House, which is on Main Street, that lets tenants know about upcoming events and information for families and students and gives students an e-mail list of other residents.

Linda Carey, director of Residence Life, said there is normally a very high demand for these apartments and the university often has to stop taking names for the waiting list because it gets too long.

There are 57 spots in the Conover apartments and seven spots in the Graduate House, which is on Main Street.

The Graduate House has seven bedrooms and one kitchen and is split between four American students and three international students.

Doctoral student Chris Castillo believes the graduate house is also an economically feasible option.

“It’s $645 a month which if you’re living with people in an apartment off campus you can do better, but for the room I have—which is twice as large as any room I’ve ever had anywhere and all the utilities and Internet included I think it’s more than reasonable,” Castillo said.

The university is currently looking for other options for graduate and family living because there is such a high demand for accomodating housing, Carey said..

“That’s always something on the table, the university is looking at lots of real-estate possibilities,” she said. “Were doing some things in east campus area so all of those kind of things are included in decisions looking forward to accommodating demand from students.”

Ryan, stressed what was most important to their family, and a good reason to stay at Conover.

“Bella loves it here,” he said.

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Homestays an alternative to dorm life for foreign students

BY PAUL MUSSONI Staff Reporter

This summer, Mai Kumade became a part of an American family. She spent days travelling 3,600 miles in an RV with her homestay family. Roger Evans, her homestay father, chauffeured, while her homestay mother, Amber, and the rest of the family kept her company in the back. Kumade went to a New Mexican hot spring and went to the family reunion of her American family in Missouri.

“She was a saint,” Amber said.

Kumade, visiting from Osaka, Japan, is enrolled in the university’s Homestay Delaware program. She, like many other international students, has opted to live with an American family instead of a residence hall during her enrollment with the English Language Institute.

The Homestay program aims to to help her learn English and study American culture.

Nancy Purcell, program director and homestay parent, said there are approximately 150 students living with a family within a half hour of campus. She said the program’s goal is to make students feel welcome in the United States.

“There are stories of internationals who would come and never be invited into an American home,” Purcell said. “It would be so lonely, especially around holiday time.”

Purcell became the head of the program 11 years ago. In that time, she said she has seen it grow exponentially, from just 15 families to over 175 today. The majority of the students come from China, but there are students from all over the world, she said.

Homestay families include both nativeborn American families and immigrant families from places such as China and Egypt, Purcell

Mai Kumade poses with her homestay family. said.

She said students request many different things when applying to live with a family. Some will only eat Asian food, some want to stay with a black family, while others will be upset if they are not put with a native-born American family, she said.

Scott Stevens, director of the ELI program, said the program provides intensive English instruction, including eight-week sessions and six levels of classes. He said language abilities vary between those who are basically fluent and those who cannot say “hello.”

He said the homestay program is one of the best ways to learn English.

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language unless you understand the people of the language,” Stevens said.

A homestay family can also help with homesickness and culture shock, Stevens said, because students are treated like members of the family.

“Homestay students regard American parents as ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’,” he said.

Amber, who has hosted over 30 students during the past three years, said she has noticed marked improvement in English for homestay students.

“The biggest thing at the dorm is too much time with friends and too much time speaking their language,” Amber said.

Nearly 200 racers participate in third annual Main St. Mile

BY DAVID TUSIO Staff Reporter

Main Street had a change of pace Saturday as the Downtown Newark Partnership and the Fusion Fitness Center teamed up to host the 3rd Annual Main Street Mile.

Nic DeCaire, personal trainer and owner of Fusion Fitness Center, is the founder of the Main Street Mile, a one mile race which raises money for the Newark Police Department’s K-9 unit and the Downtown Newark Partnership.

DeCaire said while he enjoys his current occupation, he aspired to join the police force at one point in his life.

“I was interested in becoming a county police officer, and although I chose a different path, I remain interested in the K-9 police force and wanted to raise money,” DeCaire said.

He said the police department does not get a lot of funding except through occasional grants. Knowing the police department was interested in acquiring a K-9 unit, DeCaire said he decided he would start something special.

“I was looking to do something different, a mile race,” DeCaire said. “The K-9 unit needed money and the police were interested in the dogs so this was a way to show support.”

Now after three years, the Newark Police Department has two K-9 officers on staff, Paco and Sjors (dogs) and Christopher Jones and Marty LaRue, (owners) who have helped raise more than $150,000 dollars of contraband, police said.

Mayor Vance A. Funk III said the event, now managed by a committee under DeCaire, has been a main supporter of the police department and the city of Newark. Funk said he applauds DeCaire for his generosity.

“In terms of the city, the Main Street Mile has raised thousands of dollars for the city, the partnership and our dog unit,” Funk said.

Newark Police spokesman Cpl. Gerald Bryda, who also credits the race’s success to community involvement, said the money raised is spent mainly on equipment and veterinarian bills for the K-9 unit.

“Any time we have an event on Main Street, it brings people from all walks of life and benefits the city of Newark,” Bryda

said.

Kumade said her first thought when she came to the country was “Oh my gosh! I can’t speak English.” Now, she said she is much more comfortable speaking the language.

Amber said although her students differ in background and personality, all come with a willingness to share their culture. In her three years, she said she has been introduced to a wide-range of food such as kimchi, a Korean dish, sushi, and her personal favorite from Kumade, a type of rice cake, known as moochi, with a red bean paste filling.

Kumade said choosing homestay over dorm life was an easy choice. She said a family helps her learn American culture and help her enjoy her time in the U.S..

Stevens said the homestay program is not only rewarding to foreign students and local families, but to the general student body as well. The international population has grown from fewer than 100 students a few years ago to more than 300 today, he said, which increases diversity on campus and opens students’ minds to other cultures.

“Having internationals in the classroom offering their perspective is critical to a liberal arts education,” he said.

Purcell said the experience is just as rewarding for the families as it is for the students. She said she went to visit her former homestay students in Japan, China, Thailand and Korea and was treated like family.

Amber said she cried for three days after her first homestay students left for home.

“You gain insight into other cultures,” she said. “But that’s so small in comparison to the emotional gain of essentially adding to your family.”

DeCaire said over the past two years the race has tremendously grown and this year approximately 200 runners came out to race in one of three heats.

Newark resident Matt Eastburn said he is an animal lover and came to show his support by running in the first open heat.

“I just started running three days ago, at age 50,” Eastburn said, while struggling to catch a breath. “But I did it for the K-9s and a worthwhile THE REVIEW/David Tusio cause.”

His wife, Julie, said she also came The race raised money for Newark Police and the Downtown Newark Partnership. out to show her support as a dog lover.

“We like to support the college and the community, and we but I did not do well.”

The third and last race was the Defender’s Cup, an event absolutely love animals and our cops,” Julie said.

Also running in the first heat were Tom McGivney and his specifically for the Newark police officers to race with military daughter Erin, a freshman at the university. They said neither of members, all in good fun but for bragging rights, DeCaire said.

Navy seals candidate Hector Espinosa won the race with a them are avid runners, but they prepared the night before the race five minute and 52 second clock time. He said he was happy a little differently.

“I ran the event the first year, but this year my daughter with his performance.

“I passed my expectations and it felt good to come out on talked me into it,” McGivney said. top,” Espinosa said.

“I texted her the night before at 10:30 p.m. telling her I was After the cool down, racers, volunteers and guests were all headed to bed early to be ready for tomorrow,” he said. “Then she texted me back saying she was just getting ready to go out welcome into The Deer Park Tavern for free food and drink.

Manager Tim Blazejack said the restaurant has been a supporter with her friends for the night.”

Winning the second competitive heat was runner Abiyot over the past couple years.

“Our owner, Bob Ashby wants to be involved with the comEndaide from Bronx, NY. “I am headed to Washington, D.C. on Saturday and one of munity and help whenever he can,” Blazejack said.

At the award ceremony, medals and $7,500 worth of prizes my friends told me a few days ago about this race,” Endaide were handed out. Following the ceremony, the police department said. “So I figured I’d run.”

Although he was mostly unchallenged and ran the mile in and K-9 Sjors, one of its newest canine officers, put on a short four minutes and 26 seconds, he said he was not happy with his demonstration for a group of onlookers curious about the hounds. time.

After the event, DeCaire said the races were a success and “I was very slow,” Endaide said. “The course is very nice, he looks forward to next year’s race.

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Home Grown chef wins title

‘Iron Chef’ imitation highlights Taste of Newark

BY WILEY TAYLOR Staff Reporter

Through careful planning and preparation, Eric Aber, chef and owner of Home Grown Café, took home the first place trophy at the Battle of the Chefs competition at the 2009 Taste of Newark Festival.

The Battle of the Chefs competition was a new event added to the Taste of Newark Festival this year by Mayor Vance A. Funk III. Funk said the Battle of the Chefs is an event that is similar to the Iron Chef competition on the Food Network.

“The event drew such a big crowd,” Funk said. “Next time, if we have it in Clayton Hall, we will try having it in a bigger room.”

The competition included five chefs from Newark restaurants who were chosen to battle in a one-hour competition using a secret ingredient chosen by Funk. The chefs included Eric Aber of Home Grown Café, Mark Chopko of Courtyard Café at the university, Brad Dawson of Café Gelato, Jason Dietterick of the Stone Balloon Winehouse and Dick Schmidt of the Blue Crab Grill.

For the event, each of the chefs had to create three dishes—an appetizer, a main course and a dessert. The secret ingredient was crab. Crab was chosen because it’s a local ingredient and also in ample supply during this time of year, Funk said.

The judges of the competition were John Ondo, of the Lana Restaurant in South Carolina, Deborah Brenner, author of “Women in the Vine”, and chefs Brian Duffy, Kildare’s executive chef, and Matt Haley, Delaware’s best known coastal restaurateur.

Aber won with a total of 168 points with only a 5 percent difference between all of the chefs.

Next year, rules will be changed because there was a small disadvantage during the event, Funk said.

“All the chefs came up with amazing ideas for dishes and not one was the same, but we will be changing some of the rules next time,” he said.

Funk said they will only have two dishes instead of three and will rotate which chef’s dish will be tasted by the judges first. Three dishes took too long to make and whoever went first to serve their dishes had an advantage over the other contestants because their dishes were still hot, Funk said. The chefs also noticed this flaw in the rules.

“I knew that since the Blue Crab Grill chef went last, his food was already cold which gave them a disadvantage in the competition,” Aber said.

Aber has been cooking since he was 16, when he started his first job. He is a chef that cooks with a mix of modern, local and classical traditions, who likes to use fresh ingredients and good flavors. He also said he taught himself how to cook and used the Internet to help him learn some of his techniques.

“I would’ve taken classes at UD if the college program Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management was available during my early years into the culinary arts,” Aber said.

He opened Home Grown Café approximately 10 years ago and has cooked at the restaurant for five to six years. He said his restaurant is a family run business that he runs with his wife, Sasha.

Aber said after the business became stable, he stopped being the full-time chef at the restaurant, but due to the economy and a recent increase in competition, he said he is coming back full time.

“My style of cooking is really based on my mood at the time,” Aber said. “Depending on the mood, I would either do normal cooking or do something exotic.”

To prepare for the competition, Aber took time to figure out what was needed in order to be ready to make dishes with the secret ingredient.

He said he planned ahead to the last bowl and worked on being organized.

At the competition, he made a crab cocktail with a shaved cucumber cut into a long thin slice with madrilène formed into a shot-glass to hold lemon tapioca sabayon sauce. His second dish was Delaware surf and turf with pretzel crusted fried chicken and a crab cake on top. For his final dish, he made a coconut ceviché, a raw dish usually madefrom marinated seafood, but Aber said raw crab meat wasn’t a good idea for this competition.

“It’s almost impossible to get raw crab meat because the shell is a host to many germs and the meat is mushy,” he said.

When he found out he was picked to serve THE REVIEW/Christine Fallabel his three dishes first, he knew he was lucky and felt concern for his competitors because he knew Eric Aber, of Home Grown Cafe won the Battle of the Chefs. he gained an advantage. He also said that the judges took the obvious disadvantage into constill plans on coming to the event next year. sideration when it came to trying other chefs’ meals.

“We didn’t really prepare like we should have for the “All the chefs were aware of the disadvantages in the event,” Diettrick said. “Although we didn’t win, three of the competition and we actually joked about it,” Aber said. judges came to our restaurant after the competition.”

Although Aber won, he said he didn’t particularly like Dietterick praised Aber’s dishes and his cooking skills. He the fact that crab meat was chosen as the secret ingredient. also said he saw Aber’s dish and he thought it was a great Aber said he has a love-hate relationship with crab meat. He meal. likes the fact that it’s a locally-themed ingredient, but said it “I’m not mad that he won because I saw that his meal was not easy to make in the allotted time. was well presented and it looked delicious to me,” he said.

“It was a good curve ball, but I was surprised that I got For next year, the festival will be held outside so more canned crab meat. It turned out to be a good ingredient,” people can watch, Funk said.

Aber said.

He said when choosing the chefs, Aber will defend his Dietterick said although he didn’t win the competition, he title, and the past contestants won’t be able to compete.

Job Jamboree draws 1,700 eager for employment

BY JOY WEDGE Staff Reporter

The conversation between students and potential employers hummed throughout the Bob Carpenter Center last Thursday, during the 41st Annual Job Jamboree at the university.

Lynn Jacobson, the Job Jamboree coordinator, said approximately 1,700 students in search of internships and jobs attended, in hopes of impressing 185 companies and firms.

In the last two years approximately 100 more companies attended the career fair, but with the economic situation some companies chose to just send job postings to the Career Services Center instead of setting up a booth.

“The budget to come to a career fair was not available, but they are still hiring,”

Jacobson said. “Paying for a table and a recruiter shows they are investing money and time into having a relationship with our students.”

An economic crisis does not stop the job search for graduating students.

“Some companies hope to be able to hire soon,” Jacobson said. “By the time students graduate they hope the future will be brighter.”

A senior graduating this year will more likely have a better job offer than an alumnus, she said.

“There was an increase in the alumni that attended who are still looking for jobs,” Jacobsen said. “Alumni of last year have more competition now than when they graduated.”

Senior Jeff Levis said he is concerned about the job market right now because he

knows students who graduated last year and still do not have jobs.

The job-finding process will be longer and students will have to devote more time to the job search. The earlier they start, the better off they will be, Jacobsen said.

“This is a year seniors really need to be focused and invest time in getting a job,”said Brian Dervan, a recruiter for CBIZ Mahoney Cohen, a certified public accountant firm.

“A student may receive one job offer versus multiple job offers.”

Hiring in advance for fall 2010 is an example of the hiring rates staying stable, he said.

“Fortunately our hiring rates have not changed and we will bring in the same or similar number of employees,” Dervan said.

Managing director for Prudential, Eric Ellsworth, said his company is looking for

more people as they want to be proactive to the economy.

“We expect things are going to get better and we want to be prepared,” Ellsworth said.

Government companies including the Internal Revenue Service attended the fair as well.

They want to make the job search stress free for applicants, IRS National Recruiter Theresa Oleshytsky said. The student process EAGER is an easy and convenient way to do that. The Excellent Applicants Get Early Recruitment is a simple one-page application to make it easy for students to have the opportunity of a career with her company, Oleshytsky said.

She said the number of applicants for see JOB page 11

October 6, 2009

Newark replaces curbs to comply with rules

BY REITY O’BRIEN Staff Reporter

Watch your step. High-traffic street corners such as Kells Avenue and Academy Street, as well as Haines Street and Main Street, are undergoing a transformation to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act regulations on sidewalk ramps.

Alejandro Miyar of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs stated in an e-mail message that the regulations were first implemented in January 1992.

Rich Lapointe, public works director for the City of Newark, said the city started putting the ramps in this June.

“All sidewalks and public facilities are supposed to be accessible for handicapped individuals,” Lapointe said. “The city approved a transition plan late last year to transition all our sidewalks to be accessible.”

Miyar said the regulations have required newly constructed or altered streets and sidewalks to have curb ramps providing access between the street and the pedestrian walkway.

“My department put together a transition plan for the city,” Lapointe said. “We looked at all the city as a whole, and this first area of the city was a high priority because of pedestrian traffic.”

The curb ramps on Haines Street, Kells Avenue, East Park Place and Academy Street are only the first to be altered.

“The transition plan is actually a 20-year plan,” Lapointe said, “We’re looking at putting in about 50 per year, and one of the next will be in an elementary school.”

He also said the project will cost Newark $94,000 this year and $2 million in all.

“It’s a federal requirement, and it’s an unfunded requirement,” Lapointe said. “It has to meet some pretty strict criteria which makes [the construction] pretty expensive to do.”

He said half the funds for the project come from the city’s general fund, which is funded by tax payers. The other half of the funds comes from the Community Development Block Grant Fund. “[The construction] is going relatively well. It’s a slow process because you're working in a very small area in multiple locations,” said Lapointe, “It’s going relatively steady and should be completed in the next couple of weeks.”

Sophomore Alicia Fretz rides her bicycle to commute from the Christiana Towers to class every day. She said the sidewalk construction will help her because it is already difficult to ride on Main Street since it is usually crowded.

“I wouldn’t feel like I was about to run into a bunch of people,” she said, “And for people in wheelchairs, it’ll make it much less of a struggle to get around.”

Fretz recognized a potential obstacle for the project’s success.

“The only way it’ll work is if people don't stand on it,” she said, referring to the ramp next to Trabant University Center, which is also in compliance with the ADA. Fretz said people frequently use the ramp as an alternative to the steps, making it inaccessible to people in wheelchairs.

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Newark is replacing curbs to compy with federal regulations.

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INNternationale unites cultures under one roof

INNternationale enjoy a shared meal on one of the building’s five kitchens

BY CLAIRE GOULD Copy Desk Chief

“This is not a dorm. This is a family.”

That is how Lucia Velotti, an Italian visiting scholar in the College of Education and Public Policy, describes the INNternationale at 153 Courtney St. Velotti said when she first came to this country, she did not know what to expect. Seeing that Velotti felt overwhelmed, a friend suggested they go ‘home,’ and took her to the INNternationale, which Lucia said really did become her home.

She said the students and professors who live at the INNternationale become a family: cooking and eating meals together, going to events together and studying together.

“We all spend so much time together,” she said.

“It’s a whole philosophy of life, to help everyone.”

Located across from the Harrington complex, the INNternationale is a large yellow house with towering white columns. It is made up of three connecting buildings: two old houses joined in the front and a large commercial-style building attached at the back.

Randy Becker, co-owner with Harley Williams, of the INNternationale, said he bought the property from the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity three years ago after they were kicked off campus for multiple violations.

Becker gutted the buildings completely and lowered the basement floor in order to create the current INNternationale, which he describes as a residence, conference center and world café.

Becker said after he bought the property he gave it to the university, who is leasing it back to him for 60 years. The university is not obligated to, but often refers students to the INNternationale, he said.

He said the residential complex can hold 66 people, but since many guests request personal rooms and bathrooms, occupancy is usually 50 to 55 people. He said the INNternationale is always at full occupancy.

Since opening for business a year and a half ago, Becker said he has seen more than 500 guests come through the INNternationale, from visiting professors who only stay a few days to grad students who have stayed more than a year.

The INNternationale is set up as two different businesses: a for-profit, which is the leasing of rooms, and a non-profit scholarship, Becker said.

“We give scholarships to international students up to $100 [on rent] right now, but at some point, I’d like to get grants to be able to give free housing to international students,” he said.

Becker said room prices range from $500 to $880 a month, but every room comes fully furnished with a microwave, fridge and a TV in some rooms, and every resident has access to all of the facilities.

Some of these facilities, aside from the five kitchens, include laundry services, a courtyard with tables, umbrellas and barbeques, a game room with

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ping-pong and pool tables, and a large multipurpose room in the basement.

The multipurpose room plays host to conferences from outside organizations, such as the English Language Institute’s faculty retreat and International Toast Club meetings, as well as programming for residents, Becker said.

“ELI did an absolutely incredible evening of art, with calligraphy and tango dancers,” he said. “We have movies too, and every year we have a huge Halloween party down here. It’s pretty famous – I’d say it’s almost too famous.”

Residents at the INNternationale come from a variety of countries, including Japan, China, Camaroon, Australia, Finland, and Malaysia.

“We’re working well with [President] Harker’s global initiative,” Becker said. “Because of their experience here, students can be influential in the future in their home countries as well as here.”

Iraklis Argyriou, a Greek student staying at the INNternationale, said the lack of space in his small room and bathroom were difficult to get used to, but after a while, the social interaction in the INNternationale was worth the compromise.

“The friendly environment here is one good reason to stay in America,” he said.

Gerardo Ortiz, a Columbian student in the ELI program, said he came to the university with his girlfriend in order to learn English, but it was hard to find a place for his girlfriend and him to live together affordably.

“Some people I know live in Studio Green, but they don’t like it,”Ortiz said. “Here, we go to the markets every Sunday, and there are other trips we go on too.”

He said one disadvantage of living at the INNternationale is that so many residents were also trying to learn English, he is having trouble finding fluent speakers to practice with.

Becker said he is looking for more American students to live in the INNternationale, so that students like Gerardo, who often request English-speaking roommates, can have their request met.

Gina Siddiqui is one of two American students who chose to live in the INNternationale.

She said a big draw was the fully-furnished rooms. She said international students buy appliances, furniture and food during their stay and then leave them in the INNternationale when they return home.

She said the community shares these items, such as woks, rice cookers and coffee pots, and it helps them come together.

“Everyone wants to know how I got in here, as if it’s some big complicated thing,” Siddiqui said. “I wanted to expand my view, and it’s truly cross-cultural here, a global learning environment, which you can’t get anywhere else, especially not this close to campus.”

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Free tuition, registration offered to students over 60

BY ANNE ULIZIO Features Desk Editor

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Safety groups urge ban on texting while driving

BY MONICA TROBAGIS Copy Editor

Freshman Ruthanne Dewey rode down The Green’s brick walkways on a cool, windy evening. As she pedaled, she pulled a cell phone out of her sweatshirt—having no problem biking and talking on her phone.

However, when asked about texting while biking Dewey said, “I would probably fall over.”

Bikers are not the only people who are simultaneously working their motor skills and their social skills. Drivers are also doing it.

Currently, the state of Delaware prohibits drivers with a learner’s permit or intermediary license from texting or using their cell phones while behind the wheel.

However, effective Jan.1, the city of Wilmington will enact a full ban on cell phone use while driving or riding a bicycle, unless the device is equipped with a hands-free accessory Cindy Genau, coordinator of the Community Traffic Safety Program at the university Cooperative Extension said anything that encourages concentration on driving as opposed to other activities in the car is going to be beneficial.

She said an annual state police statistical report stated distracted driving as the leading cause of crashes.

The term “distracted driving” provides an open definition of what “distraction” can mean.

Dewey said she can talk on the phone but she would never text.

“I can talk and still be aware of my surroundings,” she said. “I don’t have to check spelling or look down at the phone.”

However, Genau disagreed.

“Actual conversation is the distraction,” she said. “Doesn’t matter if it is talking, holding or not holding, it’s that you are not paying attention to the act of driving.”

Danny Sheppard, public affairs specialist for State Farm Insurance in the Mid-Atlantic region, said last month the Governor’s Highway Safety Association called for a ban on texting while driving.

“We are seeing a lot of legislation that started to endorse the policy,” Sheppard said.

State Farm does a lot of work regarding safe teen driving with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. A research report published by State Farm and CHOP stated nine out of 10 teens talk on cell phones while driving.

State Farm has focused on educating teen drivers.

National Teen Driver Safety Week is a great way to educate teenagers about the dangers of driving and State Farm actively works with schools during the week to help raise awareness about safe driving. Sheppard said they park a totaled car in front of the school.

In August 2009, the Gwent Police Department in South Wales also tried to scare teenagers out of texting and driving by releasing a controversial public service announcement. The video was a gory depiction of three teenage girls getting into a major car accident because the driver was distracted by a text message. It included bloody faces, heads crashing into windows and piercing screams.

The announcement recieved widespeard attention in the U.S. as well.

Communities, including Delaware and nine other states, have taken a number of measures to stop this problem, whether it be educating people, especially teenagers, on how to be good drivers or providing the legal incentive.

The issue is far more serious than people realize, Genau said.

“Every year we kill 40,000 people with car crashes, divide that by weeks, months days, every day people are dying on our roadways.”

The professional and continuing studies program at the university offers free to tuition to adults over 60 years of age, as mandated by the state.

The program began in the fall of 1986 at the university. It promotes an intellectual lifestyle for those aged 60 and up through the opportunities to take university classes for credit, earn either an undergraduate or graduate degree, or to simply take classes for the fun of it.

The Delaware legislature passed the Higher Education for Senior Citizens bill, mandating that the university, along with Delaware State University and Delaware Technical and Community College, provide the program for adult students.

Debbie Farris, coordinator of Adult Center for Continuing Education Studies Services, or ACCESS, said the program has been successful since its debut.

She said the credit and audit classes are offered free of any fees, meaning no tuition and no registration fees. All the students have to pay for are their books, supplies, and lab fees. Most of the students, she said, have most likely had successful careers, are retired and just want to learn for learning’s sake.

The admissions process, Farris said, is different than the admissions process for regular undergraduate students. Students can be part-time or full time, depending on how much they would like to be involved in the program.

Tara Kee, the marketing manager of the division of professional and continuing studies, said the program reflects the university’s efforts to continue edu-

cation during all walks of life.

“The majority of students are the people who have interrupted their studies due to life circumstances,” Kee said. “They are those who have retired and have vibrant minds, and are hungry for knowledge and education.”

Farris said the majority of these students tend to be focused in the area of arts and sciences.

The adults in the program aren’t the only ones who have benefited from it.

“The adults provide interesting perspectives that the 18 to 22 year-old demographic may not have,” Kee said. “It also promotes diversity.”

Steve and Helen Crawford, both retired university faculty, have both been taking classes since their retirement. Steve retired in 1982 and has been taking classes at the university ever since. His wife Helen joined him after her retirement in 2000.

Helen and Steve’s fees would have already been waived thanks to their careers at the university, though. Steve said the fact that the program is free was not the primary motivation for his and his wife’s participation.

“To tell you the truth, we, my wife and I, are having a ball,” Steve said. “It gets me back in touch with people since everything is so electronic. Now that I’m on the same side of the lectern as the other students, I can have fun with them and it doesn’t seem as though I could be their grandparent. Since I’m not grading them anymore, I can get on their level.”

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Student graffitis love of UD from Bethlehem

gram’s Web site.

Twenty years ago, Sleibi Jacoub Sleibi faced the wall, a can of spray paint was born a few miles from the clutched in his right hand. He was 20 years old and wall. It’s also near the grotto Catholic, a silver chain with a cross hanging over his blue where many believe Christ was University of Delaware T-shirt. The concrete wall towered born between 4 and 7 B.C., he above the ditch where he stood—in some places over 26 said. feet high and nearly 10 feet wide. It had graffiti all over it.

“Bethlehem’s a holy place,” Some was reminiscent of gang symbols, big bubbly text in Sleibi said. “As a Christian, it’s blue and white. But most of the graffiti consisted of simple, so great to live near that place. black letters —nothing fancy.

It’s convenient.”

Sleibi shook the can and pressed the red cap, letting out Sleibi, a computer science a stream of black paint. He spelled the words over the con- major, said he should have been crete: Take my soul. A long wavy line followed the “l,” in school. Since his university winding downward like a sigh of discontent. Every few decided to raise tuition for the minutes he would turn to the left, where a cylinder jutted out fall semester, the students have from the wall to sustain the watchtower above. organized a strike, which had If he were able to see over the wall where he stood back been in effect a couple of in August, Sleibi would see a ravine with a fence followed weeks. by a similar wall with state-of-the-art motion sensors and an “I don’t agree with the earth-covered “trace road” to detect footprints. Costing $2 strike,” he said. “We’re the only million a kilometer, work on the Israeli West Bank barrier— Christian school in the area, built as a temporary means to deter suicide bombings— and the school needs money began in 2002 and now runs closer to Israel's boundary with somehow.” the West Bank than the original one.

Of the selected students who An undergraduate at Bethlehem University, Sleibi had spent the summer in Delaware, been chosen, along with students from 17 other countries in Sleibi was the only nonthe Middle East and North Africa, to spend the summer Muslim. studying at the University of Delaware—part of the Middle “We’re all brothers here,” Eastern Partnership Initiative or MEPI. he said.

After painting the phrase, “Take My Soul,” Sleibi Ahmed Alfotihi, a student crouched lower and wrote: “Love UDz & all MEPIz ’09 - from Yemen studying at the Jacoub.” university, said he wanted to do Courtesy of Jacoub Sleibi “I just want everyone to know what UD and MEPI two things while in the States: mean to me,” he said. “And writing it on the wall is my way meet a redneck and go to a of showing that.” rodeo. For many of the MEPI Jacoub Sleibi poses near the wall on which he wrote grafitti promoting UD. The program began at Delaware in 2002 with a twofold students, it was the first time initiative: “to empower young Middle Eastern elites to take they had left their home counBell, and Maine’s Casco Bay. They also went to Six Flags leadership positions that will foster educational and politi- tries, many of which have been devastated by years of war and on a paintball excursion, Sleibi said. cal reforms and women’s empowerment in their home coun- and poverty.

Sleibi, along with others, expressed a fondness of tries,” and “to expose them to the contemporary American During their month-long stay in the United States, the things considered American, such as fast food and the life and appreciate its many aspects: political, economic, MEPI students were able to visit such places as the phrase, “In God We Trust.” The students began publicizing cultural, academic, societal, etc,” according to the pro- Washington Monument, the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty their experiences on their Facebook profiles, posting pictures of America and updating their statuses for family and friends back home to read, he said.

During his study, Sleibi updated his status nearly every week, usually simple exclamations that he was in Washington D.C. or Times Square.

One update read: “The United States of America??!! It's all about: peace, faith, love, food, life...and in GOD we just simply trust!”

Nearly every day since his return to occupied West Bank, Sleibi has posted Facebook updates related to the United States or the MEPI program. In honor of his stay with MEPI, Sleibi now stood to face the Israeli-West Bank barrier, or the “racist wall” or “separation wall” as he calls it.

For people living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the wall has become the subject of criticism, ridicule and even humor. Some Web sites, such as SendAMessage.nl, have gone so far as to allow one to pay to see their name in graffiti on the wall.

“I wish I were still in Delaware,” he said. “I wish I were studying there for good. I can’t even go to school right now in my country.”

Sleibi posted a picture of himself spraying the wall on Facebook, tagging anyone related to the MEPI program including fellow students and professors.

Attached to the picture he wrote the message: “Dear all MEPIZ!!! I hope you will like this small message from Palestine! Your name ‘MEPIZ’ is now at the wall...no matter if it was dangerous or NOT…beyond this wall there is another world!!!”

His photo of the tag generated a heap of comments— 46 total—from students and professors responding to it, thanking him for the effort, he said.

Sleibi posted several other pictures of himself standing next to the wall. In one, he had taken off the University of Delaware T-shirt and held it before the camera, proudly. In another, he posed in a walking position before a mural believed by bloggers to be the work of Banksy, an well-known graffiti artist from Bristol, England.

It was a picture of an escalator. Sleibi pretended he Courtesy of Jacoub Sleibi was walking onto the platform, joining the people stenciled in black paint as the imaginary escalator Sleibi visited UDthis summer as part of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative carried them upward, over the wall, to another world.

BY JAMES ADAMS SMITH Staff Reporter

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In face of recession, UD continues to buy land

BY AARON DENTEL-POST Staff Reporter

Courtesy of the Rikki Schechter

RSO provides alternative to drinking on the weekends

Members of the V8 club do sand art on Friday night.

BY ERICA COHEN Student Affairs Editor

It’s 8 p.m. on a Friday, and while many students are getting dressed and ready to go out, the Harrington Beach is packed. Pop music fills the air and buckets of colorful dye and sand are scattered around the huge speakers.

It is V8’s “First Friday” event. V8 is a registered student organization that provides events on campus that are not centered on alcohol.

Junior Caitlin Xenakis, president of V8, said the group provides a fun and safe environment for students who choose not to drink.

The event, which boasted 30 attendees, involved tie-dying, music, sand art and Frisbee spin art. V8 provided all of the supplies, as well as the music stand, which sat on the sidewalk next to the beach.

“This was our biggest event so far,” Xenakis said. “We are making huge efforts to co-sponsor events, and have many planned for fall.”

V8, a segment of Wellspring, was re-started in 2008 after a 10 to15 year period in which the club was inactive. The executive board members received an e-mail message from Wellspring asking if they had an interest in re-inventing the club.

“We went to an initial interest meeting and met there, but now we’re all friends,” Xenakis said.

The constitution and bylaws were outdated, so the group rewrote them. They registered the organization as V8, and started from scratch.

In spring 2008, the group finished making the decisions about what the group would be like, and in the fall of 2008 and spring of 2009 they began planning events.

Xenaxis said despite last year’s attempts, she believes this is the year the group will truly make its

mark.

“This year is our take-off year,” she said.

“We’ve been planning events-things that will attract students.”

Junior Stephanie Ottino, vice president of V8, said she was pleased with the turn-out.

“I’m excited to see kids are out having a fun time and not getting wasted,” she said.

The group publicized the event through an article on UDaily, a Facebook group and other advertisements.

Emily Walton, a freshman, saw the UDaily article and decided to attend.

“I like it a lot, I haven’t made spin art since I was like 9 years old so I’m having a blast,” she said.

Sophomore Elysa Desa said she hadn’t heard of the event, but heard the music playing on The Green and walked over to see what was going on.

“The music enticed us and then we saw free Tshirts,” she said. “I’m making five of everything.”

While neither student knew of V8 before the evening, they both said that they would want to attend any future events.

The next event V8 is holding will be an alcohol awareness event on Oct. 23., co-sponsoring with Alpha Kappa Si. While the group is focused on having fun without alcohol, many of the members do indeed drink.

“Most members of the group do drink, but they take a break and still have fun,” Ottino said.

The group said they seek to include everyone who wants to have a good time without having to drink.

“It is a great environment to meet new people and do activities that people may not have the funds or resources for to do on their own,” Xenakis said.

The university has continued to buy land, even in the depth of the recession. According to Mayor Vance A. Funk III, the city benefits from the purchases as well.

With the recession looming, the university agreed to buy a property from the Christina School District for $1.6 million, and has since continued bidding for the Chrysler Plant property.

Scott Douglass, executive vice president of the university, stated in an e-mail message that he could not discuss future property purchases because they could raise seller expectations of price.

Despite the university’s secrecy about its property interests, Funk said the university buying property like the Chrysler plant is good for the city.

“We’re very enthusiastic,” Funk said.

He said if the university buys the Chrysler plant property, city finances would benefit because the university buys its utilities from the city instead of Delmarva Power, as Chrysler did.

More than 70 percent of the city budget comes from utilities like power and water.

“When the Chrysler site is redeveloped, we’ll have just as many jobs as before,” Funk said.

Rob Specter, vice president of finance, said the bidding for the Chrysler plant was probably less competitive than it would have been if the economy was healthy, but was not sure if there was any hard evidence.

Funk said pricing for the Chrysler Plant property was tricky because a lot depended on who was going to clean the site up.

“A good financial deal partly depends on whether the sales price includes seller cleaning up environmental hazards,” he said.

The university has also bought the property at 83 E. Main St., which was previously owned by the Christina School District, and has plans to relocate the University Bookstore there.

Funk thinks it is a good idea because Newark desperately needs retail downtown.

Both Funk and Specter said the university ensured that the deal for

83 E. Main St. was a fair one for the school district. Specter said they did this by locking the price before the real estate market hit its lowest point.

Christina School District is using the money to fund the construction of an elementary school in Bear.

Specter said the university is just as interested as the school district in keeping the 83 E. Main St. building’s historical aspects.

“We are committed to keeping the old structure,” he said.

Specter said other connecting lots might be of use in expanding the area available for the bookstore.

“We also own adjacent lots so the site is bigger than just the 83. E. Main,” Specter said.

Funk said he believes it is a good idea for the universityto be buying property.

“I can't think of any better time,” he said.

Funk said compared to elsewhere in the state, where real estate value is down by 25 percent, Newark only lost about 7 percent. With real estate prices still relatively high, the university probably did not benefit all that much.

“It's hard to get a really good deal in the city of Newark proper,” he said.

Specter said the residential values that these numbers are based upon fluctuate more than commercial property values do.

“While it certainly is impacted, it tends to not be as volatile as residential property values do,” he said.

Funk agreed with him.

“With commercial properties there are not enough transactions to really tell,” he said.

Funk said the university had mixed effects on real estate values, sometimes raising them and sometimes lowering them.

He said one upside was that new university buildings are almost always visually appealing.

“University buildings are really stunning, which is an advantage of [the university] buying property,” Funk said.

Whether it is buying a small lot on Main Street or the mammoth Chrysler property, Funk said the university’s purchases benefit teh city as a whole.

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The university has demonstrated high diversion rates, as well. For the month of September 2007, while operating only on a separate-stream program, the diversion rate was approximately 13 percent. September 2008 had approximately a 22 percent diversion rate, including single stream recycling on Laird and South campuses and separate stream elsewhere campus-wide.

September 2009 had approximately a 30 percent diversion rate, using solely the single stream program, Knab said.

“By comparing September 2007 to September 2009, one can see the impact of the new system—a 139 percent increase in the university recycling diversion rate,” he said.

Sophomore Felicity Laird lives in Christiana West Tower and said she is glad the program has been implemented because it has allowed her to recycle on a daily basis. She did not recycle her freshman year, as living in Dickinson made it difficult.

“The university has done a really good job,” Laird said. “They’ve given every room in the Towers a blue container, and then they have all these bins outside by Lot 6, where all the people on North campus park. You can basically put whatever recycling there you want.

You don’t have to sort it. So, it’s really easy.”

She said she recycles everything she possibly can, including bottles, cans, plastic, cardboard and paper.

Laird said the bins in each dorm room also make it more convenient.

“I make sure my roommates do a good job and recycle as much as they can, too,” she said.

Living off campus is a real possibility for Laird next year. She said she will be looking into Newark’s Curbside Recycling Program when she is looking for a place to live next semester.

Lapointe said Newark’s Curbside Program has serviced approximately 5,200 homes so far. He is projecting that number will increase as more student-inhabited homes become a part of the program.

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DSWA bins are single-stream now.

Junior Danielle Ellis is a resident of North Street and participates in the Curbside Program with the permission of her landlord. Prior to this year she did not recycle, but said the convenience of the program has now allowed her to do so.

“I recycle both at home and on campus,” Ellis said.

“I try to recycle as much as possible.”

The impact of adding new containers and switching to a single stream recycling program has significantly increased the university’s diversion rate, Knab said.

The diversion rate of approximately 31 percent that the university produced this past September is the highest diversion rate the university has ever recorded campuswide.

“Since it was the first month of single stream recycling, we expect it to rise slightly in October as faculty, staff and students get more familiar with the program,” he said.

Knab said while these statistics are promising, the university is still working on improving the system even further with their state partner, Delaware Solid Waste Authority, by refining their communication plans and strategies and improving the placement of the bins.

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Accident: Victim was Temple grad

Continued from page 1 An aspiring graphic designer, Fazlic graduated from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2008, said Price, who attended Newark High School with Fazlic. She took the job waitressing at Eagle Diner a couple years ago as a way to make extra money, Price said.

She said Fazlic had talked to her recently about the graphic design and wedding photography business she was attempting to

start.

Andy Sacher, a 2009 university graduate who grew up with Fazlic in the Fairfield neighborhood of Newark, described her as an artsy person who always carried her sketchbook.

“She was always like Bohemian, kind of out there, and would do whatever to have fun,” Sacher said. “She had genuine affection for her friends.”

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Apple: Provost pokes fun at critics Continued from page 1 Hundreds of students attended the Job Jamboree on Thursday.

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Job: Event features 185 employers

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jobs exceeds the amount of positions currently available, which makes it tougher for students.

“It is a more competitive market than it has ever been,” she said. “There are more student graduates than there are positions and the competition has been fierce.”

Stephanie Patterson, director of recruiting for Diamond State Financial Group, has been to the Job Jamboree for the past three years because the quality of students are exactly what she searches for.

“The university has one of the larger career fairs and it yields the best candidates,” Patterson said.

“We used to go to more career fairs but now we choose not to.”

She said the economy seems to be getting better.

“Despite the economy we are in a big growth period and we are looking to hire,” Patterson said.

Some companies who are still looking to hire,

will go on to other college fairs.

“We will be going to 20 college fairs at the student level and 20 upper-level career fairs,” Teresa Manganaro, human resource specialist for the U.S. Army team C4ISR, said.

“This season we will hire about 300 students both at entry level and above,” Manganaro said.

University alumnus Daniel Brisach said he is seeing an increased interest from companies looking to hire this month compared to previous months..

“My job search for the summer was pretty slow,” Brisach said. “[But now] it has gotten better and I see more responses to my resume submissions.”

Senior Daniel Kiernan said the job fair was sucessful.

“I talked to a lot of companies and by the time I got home I had gotten a phone call for an interview in the morning,” Kiernan said.

rooms.

“More importantly, we are focusing on new and innovative strategies to continue to increase and promote academic rigor and excellence in all the work that we do,” Rodríguez said.

He said spreading out the schedule out would also alleviate overcrowding of classes during peak times of the day.

Rodríguez said classroom uti-

lization rates earlier in the mornings and during late afternoons are considerably lower than during the middle of the day throughout the week.

Apple also proposed implementing a more intensive writing plan for students in the university’s curricula. The new preliminary proposal, aimed at better preparing students to defend their arguments and write papers with good theses, would require students to take one intensive writing course per year.

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Recycling program needs clarity

Positive sustainability plan requires more education The city of Newark and the university have recently implemented a single-stream recycling program. In this new system a majority of plastic products can be placed into one bin along with paper. metal and glass.

Beginning on Laird Campus as a temporary initiative last year, the single- stream program has spread to the rest of campus as well as all of the city of Newark.

This new plan is a great step in the direction of sustainability and environmental responsibility, making it easier for students and residents to recycle. Implementing curbside pick-up of recycling also encourages more positive action towards helping the environment in our daily lives.

However, residents should still be aware that single-stream has some regulations in regards to what can be

recycled. Certain plastics, for example, can contaminate an entire can of recyclable waste. This waste must then be sent to be processed with the rest of the non-recyclable garbage.

Students’ and residents’ education of such simple limitations must be increased for the program to reach optimal utilization. If those acting responsibly enough to participate in recycling know what single-stream really means, and were more clearly told of the rules, contamination can be easily avoided.

It took years and pro-active lobbying by members of both the Newark and UD communities, but Newark residents should commend this single stream recycling program.

The responsibility now lies within us to participate in the program and help recycle the waste we all produce so feverishly.

Police fines will not deter jaywalkers Students are capable of safely crossing the street

The Newark Police Department is cracking down on jaywalking. Funded by an annual state grant, stakeouts and fines have been implemented to promote safety, and this funding allows police officers to set up shop on busy intersections to prevent jaywalking.

The price for “illegally” crossing the street is not cheap — $51.50, to be exact.

Not only are these tickets expensive, especially for college students, but it is also questionable as to where this ticket money goes.

The additional police presence is made up of off-duty overtime officers who are paid by the state grant.

On Sept. 23 of this year, 57 students received tickets in a three

hour timespan. Therefore, on this date alone, the NPD brought in approximately $2,214.50 in fines.

Students, beware.

This Wednesday is the next scheduled date for a police stake out against jaywalking.

As able-minded adults, students are old enough to look both ways when crossing the street. If it is evident that no cars are coming, students will continue to jaywalk.

They should feel safe and like they are being helped by the police.

They should not be threatened or fined.

If the NPD hopes to have positive student response and a subsequent decline in jaywalking-related accidents, crossing guards should be implemented for student aid, not intimidation.

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Farmville taps into America’s waning agricultural roots Michelle Trincia

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Time spent on virtual farms will hopefully increase interest in real-life harvesting.

I hate Facebook applications. I hate receiving “Vampire Bites,” and “We’re Related!” requests from family members that I don’t even let see my profile out of guilt.

I think Facebook should stick to its original simplicity. I find it anticlimactic to click on a notification only to have it to be a marketing plug for some silly new application.

Why is it then that I just wasted half an hour re-arranging my sheep on Farmville?

I had been ignoring Farmville requests for so long I think I developed a blind spot for that little corn icon. I didn’t want to be anyone’s neighbor and I didn’t want to accept a free acorn tree from the guy in my econ class. But Farmville jargon began appearing around me more and more, and when I overheard two people discussing their crop progress around closing time at Kate’s, my curiosity finally got the best of me.

There is nothing terribly exciting about the Farmville game itself. It’s basically a more cartoonish version of The Sims, with your avatar placed on a plot of land instead of in a house.

The point of the game is to plant and harvest crops which gain experience points and coins to expand your farm and buy new supplies. If you

don’t feel like waiting for your crops to grow to get cash, you can buy Farmville coins with real money via Paypal.

While this deeply disturbed me, what I found the most surprising about Farmville was the amount of my friends that were using it. My mouth literally dropped to see how many of my friends had virtual farms.

The friends I speak of weren’t the usual suspects of Facebook applications,either.

Sure that annoying girl from high school that clogs my newsfeed with her quiz results of what Disney character she resembles was there, but there were some real shockers thrown into the mix as well. The people I would put on the bottom of my “most likely to use Farmville” list were the ones at the highest level.

It was just this confusion that intrigued me. To me, the original lure of Farmville was the mixing of genres. It killed me that friends who bought me drinks by night were sending me cows as gifts during the day. I loved seeing my friend Dave’s elaborate farm and picturing him muting Kanye on his iTunes so he could hear the quaint banjo music of Farmville play as he “plowed.” It amused me seeing my guy friends talk trash to each other, calling each other’s farms “weak”

and saying their sheep and other livestock looked “frail.”

Farmville works in “real time,” and some crops take a few days to finish growing. This means anyone over level 2 has made a pretty serious time commitment. It boggled my mind to see friends up on Level 32. I felt like they were living some kind of farming double lives – where did they find the time to play this game in between school, work and a social life? And even if they do have free time, what do they get out of it? But then again, I was guilty too. I had been an official farmer for two days, telling myself I only joined to find out why it was “cool” and I was already on Level 5. I felt a strange mixture of pride and self-hatred whenever I harvested enough strawberries to buy a new farm animal.

Fifty six of my friends currently use Farmville. According to the application’s page, there are a grand total of 53,699,607 monthly active users, roughly 18 percent of Facebook’s total population of 300 million. It has an average rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 4,058 user

reviews.

Why is it so popular? Is it some digital age desire to channel a more simplistic life? Or have we become so lazy that we have to pretend to do work and get virtual ribbons to feel good about ourselves? Perhaps there are a lot like me simply falling victim to the virus…everybody’s doing it because everyone is doing it, and no one knows why anyone started doing it in the first place?

The real irony is that while the number of Farmville farmers continues to grow daily, the population of actual farmers in the world is rapidly declining. Farmland is being lost to development and damaged by climate change. A gallon of milk now costs more than a gallon of gas. The happy music and non-existent problems of Farmville don’t seem to accurately reflect true conditions down on the farm.

I’m retiring my plow since I can’t stand the notifications, but my two-day stint in Farmville raised some interesting questions for me. People are always going to play games and there are plenty of worse things they could be doing than pretending to plow a field. As farfetched a version as it is, maybe this virtual world will spark some interest in real world farming. At the very least, I hope that before players whip out their credit cards to gain enough coins to score that pixilated plow, they consider instead putting that money towards buying locally grown produce to support the real farmers that could really use it.

titled, “Eleven Things You Must Know About Delaware.” Mistaking the article for journalism, I read it. The article, in the travel section, offered a feature called “Geoquiz” which quizzed the reader on a different geographical location each week.

The article states: “Here at GeoQuiz, we absolutely do not pick on Delaware. We know for a fact it is the most insignificant state, and although we may go out of our way sometimes to say so, is that really picking on” something?

Yes, it is.

Against my better judgment, I continue reading: “This is a state shaped liked a rectangle with a couple bites taken out of it. And it’s about the same size as, say, a cookie wafer.”

I’m not sure how anyone can declare a state “insignificant” because of it’s rectangular shape, or it’s “cookie-wafer” size, but this author is not the first to take jabs at the small state.

At the University of Delaware, students from Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York frequently express their hatred toward the small state. I’m not from

Delaware, nor am I advocating it, but I wonder why “the small wonder” receives the bad rap it does.

Some might say Delaware is bullied because of its small size. If states are equivalent to elementary schools, then yes: ragging on Delaware because of its small size makes sense. But Rhode Island is the smallest state, not Delaware, and it hardly receives as much abuse as the second to smallest state.

The Durango Herald admits Delaware is credited with being the first state, but also says, “this honor really should go to New Hampshire, which was the ninth state but made the union official when it ratified the Constitution.” Even so, the honor of “the first state” cannot be touched by any other state, but I’m not sure that it wants to be. Aside from one Colorado journalist, no one seems to be trying to gain the title. It seems unlikely that non-Delawareans would hassle the state because they are secretly jealous of the honor.

Maybe it’s important to look not at what Delaware is mocked for but instead, who is

doing the mocking. You won’t find many “Southerners,” at least at the university, tearing Delaware apart. It should come as no surprise that “Northerners,” especially states known for inhabitants with feisty attitudes, hold a grudge against Delaware for being a southern territory, citing a slow-paced lifestyle and Southern accents as a bone of contempt.

However, the Mason-Dixon line, which separates North and South, actually runs vertically alongside the state of Delaware.

Consequently, Delaware is considered both a Northern and Southern state, depending on who you ask. If you ask Northerners, many would argue that having the southern half of your state nicknamed “slower lower” qualifies Delaware as the South.

So where does that find us? Delaware is the butt of jokes among students because of its juvenile nickname, its prized nickname, its geographical location and its size?

I’m grasping for straws, but I’ll suffice it to say that, maybe, it all comes down to one simple rationalization.

There’s just no place like home.

Michelle Trincia is the multimedia editor at The Review. Her viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of The Review staff. Please send comments to mtrincia@udel.edu.

Delaware, the little state that could, fights off a bad rep Stephanie Kraus

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Delawareans forced to defend their state’s name and reputation.

I’ll admit that I’ve taken my own shots at the state of Delaware. When I sit in traffic behind license plates, which braggingly read “The First State”, as if each driver claimed the land themselves?... I digress. The question is: why do people, outside Delaware, love to hate this state?

If you are from anywhere besides Delaware and attend the university, you have been asked, at least once, “Why are you moving to Delaware? What’s in Delaware?!”

I personally struggled with this question.

Besides the university (and some cows), what do you say? “The same ingredients that make up any state; schools, bars, stadiums, buildings, stores…” This doesn’t exactly translate into a glowing image of Delaware, but it doesn’t warrant animosity towards the state either, does it?

This week, the Durango Herald, a Colorado newspaper, published an article

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Alum brings art-friendly atmosphere to Wilmington

BY AARON DENTEL-POST Staff Reporter

He might be crazy for trying, but Michael Kalmbach keeps stirring a little artistic spirit into a city known more for its banks than its galleries. He’s succeeding, too. So well, in fact, that he won a Christi Award for it.

Kalmbach is the founding director of the NWAA, the New Wilmington Art Association, which helps artists find affordable living and studio spaces in Wilmington. The program, which sprung from his own experiences and needs, aims to help artists settle down in Wilmington, a city that runs on a nine to five business schedule.

Kalmbach formed the group after having considerable difficulty finding a job and studio space.

He aims to help others do what he had difficulty doing — trying to support himself as a young artist.

He has been attracted to an artist’s lifestyle since he was an adolescent, and his family supported him.

“My mother is an elementary art teacher,” Kalmbach says. “She encouraged me to do whatever it is I wanted to.”

After studying at Bloomsberg University, Kalmbach attended the University of Delaware for his graduate degree because it was the most economical option and it was close to major cities such as Philadelphia. The university also gave him the opportunity to take classes that weren’t necessarily related to art.

When he graduated from the university and began searching for a college teaching job, he found himself out of luck. He eventually decided to take a job as an admissions counselor in the College of Art and Design at the university. This lifeline would become a great asset, according to Kalmbach.

When his son was born and bills were mounting, he looked for a cheap space, but there was nothing to be found. Then, he got a break — a friend introduced him to property owners in downtown Wilmington.

“The Buccini Pollin Group expressed an interest,” he says. “We have a real need and they have a lot of space downtown.”

The NWAA is trying to promote art in the city.

“We’re trying to get people to think about Wilmington as a place to start their careers,” Kalmbach says. “A new art community can be one that is centric around a studio community.”

The organization is making sure gallery space is available as well. In Shipley Lofts, their newest project, artists will be able to get cheap apartments. there will also be gallery space on the first floor.

Presently, they have an exhibition at 312 N. Market Street that opened on the Sept. 30 and runs

until Oct. 15.

The NWAA is also a community that revolves around sharing costs that could otherwise be expensive. They share resources so that they maximize the value of their investments, like a $600 fee for a onenight show. The real goal, though, is to generate a strong community of artists in a generally businessoriented city.

This goal brought Kalmbach to the attention of Delaware’s art community. He was approached by several people who asked who he thought would be a good candidate for a Christi award — but they were considering him.

Kalmbach says his selection was an honor, and he also mentioned the award’s benefits for his organization.

“The Christi award is definitely going to reach a demographic that hasn’t heard of us,” Kalmbach says. “It provides a new platform to talk about artists needs.”

The extra attention brought on by the award is helping Kalmbach as he tries to introduce university art students and graduates to the opportunities that are available in Wilmington.

“What enables me to do all this is my job as an admissions counselor,” he says. “UD’s art programs and faculty are responsible for creating really smart and forward thinking young artists.”

NWAA members are also spreading the word to their associates in other cities like Boston and New York. The word is Wilmington.

“The sales pitch is that it’s in the middle of everything,” Kalmbach says.

He and the NWAA have big plans for the future.

Aside from their commitment to Shipley Lofts, the NWAA is close to setting up studio spaces, and they’re trying to become a legitimate nonprofit organization. Kalmbach says that in March they applied to the Delaware Division of the Arts startup program so they could qualify to get tax breaks and attain real nonprofit status.

“Our mission has to be tied to downtown Wilmington,” Kalmbach says, “When we talk about affordable artist housing it begs the question: What about affordable housing in general?”

He also says that Wilmington brings certain freedoms not found elsewhere. Due to a lack of competition, there is no shortage of space, but more importantly, Wilmington brings artists independence, a sense of community, and the freedom to make the kind of art that they’re interested in making.

“We’re just going to do what we want to do,” Kalmbach says. “We have nothing to lose in Wilmington.”

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Michael Kalmbach and the New Wilmington Art Association work out of Shipley Lofts.

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Recycling inconvenient for Courtyards residents

Recycling facilities are not available at the University Courtyards.

BY ARIF ZAMAN Staff Reporter

The University Courtyards apartments do not have a recycling program. This means that all the waste — from beer cans to pizza boxes — produced by students living there goes into the trash and then directly into landfills.

Without a proper program in place, many students say they feel it is an inconvenience for them to go out of their way to properly dispose of their recyclables. Those who do want to recycle must haul the waste to the closest drop-off center, which is near Lovett Avenue.

Senior Dave Cavagnino is a resident of the Courtyards who recycles every week.

Cavagnino says he is sure more students would partake in recycling if a suitable system was put in place. He explained how he puts his cans in a bin and drives over to Lovett Avenue.

“It takes a few minutes so it is a bit inconvenient,” he says.

Junior Kiersten Jones, another Courtyards resident, also says she feels certain that an appropriate program would boost recycling.

“I haven’t seen a lot of other people doing it, but there are definitely people who want to recycle and would if it was more convenient,” Jones says.

Liz Wright, a sophomore, is one Courtyards resident who says she feels too inconvenienced to recycle.

“I would try if it was made easier by the Courtyards, but right now it’s just too inconvenient,” Wright says.

Wright also says the regular trash disposal was already awkward to reach, and believes the Courtyards needs to look into their overall waste disposal plan.

University Courtyards property manager Christina Concilil says the Courtyards had inquired with the Delaware Solid Waste Authority about recycling a few years ago, but was unable to follow through with the plan due to structural limitations.

“It was difficult for us to find an area that met all of those constraints,” Concilil says.

Concilil also says that the restraints included specific distances from power lines and a specific amount of space for the waste truck to park in.

The DWSA website says, “Together, we’ve made voluntary recycling a success story in Delaware. Both DSWA’s Recycling Drop-Off Centers and Curbside Recycling Programs can be utilized statewide by all Delaware Residents.”

“In the past, we have had a few programs where for maybe a week or so we encourage student recycling,” said Concilil.

Although there are no permanent recycling programs at the Courtyards at this time, such programs may be implemented in the future. Although Concilil could not provide details, she says the University Courtyards has been and will continue to research other options and services for recycling.

“It is something we’re looking into,” said Concilil.

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Comedian ushers in Parents and Family weekend

Former ‘Weekend Update’ anchor revisits stand-up roots

BY BRYAN BERKOWITZ Entertainment Editor

The cast of “Saturday Night Live” changes almost every season, which makes it difficult to remember every person who appears on the popular program. Students will have no trouble remembering Colin Quinn when the “SNL” alumnus performs on Oct. 9 at the Bob Carpenter Center for Parents and Family Weekend.

The star is making his first appearance at the school in many years since he performed with “Wayne’s World” star Dana Carvey.

“I was at UD many years ago with Dana Carvey and it was so funny,” he says. “This will be interesting.”

Quinn made a name for himself hosting “Saturday Night Live’s” popular segment, “Weekend Update,” and appeared in sketches throughout his stint on the hit program.

Quinn’s career focused initially on stand-up comedy, but his talent was finally recognized when he was hired as a writer for “Saturday Night Live” during the 1995 season. His friend recommended him for the job and the producers inked a deal for him to join the cast, he says.

His work was rewarded and soon he became a full time cast member and writer.

He had to balance an on-screen persona as well as writing skits for himself and for the rest of the SNL crew. Juggling both jobs was a challenge.

“Both are hard in different ways,” Quinn says. “Being on screen is harder because you have to be totally there. You have to keep your energy up constantly. It is harder physically to be on screen but mentally harder being a writer.”

Besides a talented cast, the show’s biggest reason for success is its memorable characters. Will Ferrell’s Harry Caray and Darrell Hammond’s Sean Connery impressions led to some of the most memorable sketches in the series. Although the actors mostly wrote their own characters, as a writer, Quinn helped develop and put them into sketches to bring them to light. He also created characters for himself such as Lenny the Lion, which is his personal favorite.

Concentrating on writing his own characters was a little selfish, but it freed him to write better sketches that showcased characters, he says.

After Norm MacDonald left the show in 1998, a golden opportunity came to Quinn. MacDonald was the host of a popular segment called “Weekend Update,” a mock newscast where the anchor pokes fun at current events. Quinn took over the seat

and thrived with plenty of material focusing cast members from the show that brought enjoys watching the show again due to its on the infamous Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. him to the spotlight. The reunion was an resurgence of talent. Currently, he is doing In 2000, he left for greener pastures to host unforgettable experience and he enjoyed his stand-up routine for the foreseeable shows such as “Tough Crowd with Colin every second of filming, he says. future but admits to having some projects in Quinn” but since his stint on “Saturday “It was so much fun,” he says. “It was the works. As for a potential return to his Night Live”, he has focused mostly on unbelievable working with David Spade, roots as a host of “SNL,” he isn’t too optistand-up comedy, he says. Returning to his Norm MacDonald, Maya Rudolph and Chris mistic. roots is a fun experience as it differs much Rock. We spent the summer together and it “Of course I think about [hosting], but from the everyday memorization of lines was like being a kid again.” they [the producers] don’t think about it,” he from a script, he says.

“SNL” has recently returned to says. “Maybe someday.”

“Having a script and knowing your comedic prominence after several down lines is much easier and makes you feel years. Quinn says for the first time he relaxed more,” he says.

“Standup though, is more what we all do, so when you leave it you miss it. It is so much realer. You talk about everything happening and it’s a whole different ballgame.”

In his act, he draws on inspiration from current events. The joke writing process isn’t easy and it takes a great deal of practice to start finding the right material for a comedian’s set, he says.

“I get my jokes from writing and practice,” he says.

“Watching the news and writing down jokes from it that are funny is the best way. Not all of them are good so you try them out places until you get one that works.”

In the world of comedy there are many famous comedians to admire. Quinn has an interesting take on who he idolizes.

“Nobody. I’m too old to look up to people,” he says. “I am well past the age of looking up. But seriously, I admire the same people everyone else does like Richard Pryor and George Carlin.”

The 2010 movie “Grown Ups” starring Courtesy of Bryan Raisa Adam Sandler features Quinn as well as other Colin Quinn, a former “SNL” writer and cast member, will perform at the university Thursday.

University hosts international coaching program

BY MIA POZZANGHERA Staff Reporter

While skaters glide across the ice in the Fred Rust Ice Arena and basketball players shoot lay-ups in the Carpenter Sports Building, national level coaches from around the world gather in university buildings as participants of the International Coaches Enrichment Certification Program. This year, the program includes 27 coaches from 27 different countries representing 13 different sports.

Jeff Schneider, associate director of the ICECP, says the main goals of the program are to spread the ideals of the Olympics and to educate coaches about developing sports structure in their own country.

Schneider says the program consists of four modules and

runs from Sept. 12 to May 2010. Throughout this time, participants spend two weeks at the university, two weeks at an apprenticeship site, two weeks at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and the remaining time back in their home country completing a project of their choosing.

According to Matt Robinson, co-director of the ICECP and director of sports management programs at the university, the program is funded by Olympic Solidarity and was run for the first time last year when the university partnered with the U.S. Olympic Committee.

“We have world class coaches, athletes and facilities here,” Robinson says. “I knew we could offer a world class program, as good as, if not better than, any other university could.”

Robinson considers the program a success if participants are able to return home and implement their own coaching programs and grow their respective sports in their own country. He notes there are only five programs similar to this in the world and the program affiliated with the university is the only one in the Western hemisphere.

The overall importance of the program is what participating coaches are able to bring back to their home country, Robinson says.

Annie Grabarsky, associate director of the ICECP and project manager for the U.S. Olympic Committee, says the program was launched in order to provide coaches from around

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Zombie killing spree a fun addition to genre

Gervais and cast deliver the goods — no lie

“The Invention of Lying” Warner Bros.

Rating: PPP (out of PPPP) “The Invention of Lying,” written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson, is one of the more enjoyable movies to have recently graced the big screen. It takes place in an alternate universe where people not only tell the truth all the time, but are always brutally honest and painstakingly pragmatic.

Mark Bellison, played by Gervais, is an unattractive and untalented film writer who is alone and unemployed until he suddenly develops the ability to lie. His life turns around as he uses his unique talent to become rich and famous, and to grow closer to Anna, played by Jennifer Garner, a woman who repeatedly spurns him due to his inferior genetic material. The premise is a little strange, but largely hits the mark, and after a few minutes, it feels comfortable.

It helps that Gervais is marvelous on screen. He brings an irreplaceable everyman charm that makes the entire film more pleasant. Garner flounders a bit in his wake, but Louis C.K., who plays his best friend, makes a loveable sidekick and complements Gervais well. The addition of Rob Lowe as the nemesis makes for a good time.

To its benefit, “The Invention of Lying” also has plenty of cameos. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton and Jason Bateman all appear in the film. The cameos could be jarring, but they actually blend in nicely with Gervais’s quirky uni-

verse a n d bring plenty of welcome depth to the movie.

The b e s t part of Courtesy of Warner Bros. t h i s movie, though, is its humor. It manages to be funny without relying too much on the inherent comedic crutch of peoples’ uncontrollable truths. It also employs the brand of humor that made Gervais famous in “The Office,” recurring references to religion, and the occasional bit of physical humor. It all meshes quite well, and the jokes never seem to get dull.

The movie isn’t perfect. For all of its good qualities, it’s incredibly light fare, a problem that also plagued Gervais’s last movie, “Ghost Town.” It’s hard to picture this movie hanging around theaters for too long, because while audiences may laugh while watching the film, they probably won’t remember it as one of the greats. And it doesn’t help that its climax relies heavily on the best friend’s wedding cliché, taking some steam out of the movie’s finale.

“The Invention of Lying” won’t knock anyone’s socks off, but it’s worth a shot. It’s a very pleasant film that’s guaranteed to make its audience crack a smile.

— Dennis Clark, dclark@udel.edu

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This Is Us Backstreet Boys Jive Rating: PP (out of PPPPP) The Backstreet Boys, that irrepressible boy band that formed the soundtrack of many of our middle school careers, are back again with their seventh album, This is Us. The group is short Kevin Richardson, but makes up for the loss with collaborations with TPain, RedOne (the producer behind Lady GaGa’s ‘Just Dance’ and ‘Poker Face’) and Jim Jonsin (Lil Wayne’s ‘Lollipop’ and T.I.’s ‘Whatever You Like’). The album channels those club-style beats with much less crooning and much more movement-inducing techno rhythms. They continue to draw comparisons with *NSYNC in Bye Bye Love. The Boys sing slightly dubious lyrics, “I think I wanna stay single / Maybe we’re better apart / See I don’t want a girl.”

The radio-released single, “Straight Through My Heart,” although catchy, is pretty macabre for the normally peppy Boys. In the video, a vampire attacks the Boys in a club as they sing “I can’t stop the bleeding, oh / Straight through my heart / She aimed and she shot me.” Many of the songs have nods to other popular songs, such as Ashlee Simpson’s “Pieces of Me” and Jordin Sparks’ “Battlefield.”

Anyone wanting rough masculine voices will be disappointed — that is not the Boys’ specialty — and the album also features liber-

al amounts of falsetto. However, the songs are different enough from each other to keep the album fresh and fun. The Boys even drift into hip hop with “PDA,” where they attempt to rap about touching “your booty,” and “She’s A Dream,” which begins “Shorty ain’t got cable.”

Despite these odd attempts at extending from the boy band genre, This Is Us is still recognizable as the Backstreet Boys we remember. This is an album for the fans and has the potential to become the soundtrack to girls’ nights everywhere.

— Claire Gould, cgould@udel.edu

Forget and Not Slow Down Relient K Mono vs. Stereo/Jive Rating: PPP 1/2 (Out of PPPPP) The Christian rock outfit Relient K, known for constantly cranking out new albums, keeps this trend going with Forget and Not Slow Down. The album is equipped with 15 tracks, some of which hardly amount to a minute, that serve as intros or outros to the songs.

The album has strong religious overtones and messages throughout.

Right from the beginning,

gushi n g blood a n d mucus, these walki n g dead a r e intense.

Though Courtesy of Sony t h e y lack the truly threatening feel of the twitching, crazed zombies from “28 Days Later,” they are definitely a scare level above the slow, lagging zombies featured in “Shaun of the Dead.”

One of the best creative contributions “Zombieland” brings to the genre are the zombie-kill-of-the-week scenes, which prove the best way to see a zombie versus human showdown is in slow motion, with glass shattering and fake blood flying.

Any zombie connoisseur might prepare herself for what would seemingly shape up as a mediocre to poor quality zombie flick. The previews — which made the film seem clichéd at best, a waste of time at worst — didn’t do the film justice.

Instead, zombie fans will love every minute.

If that isn’t enough to convince you that the movie is worth the ticket price, here are two more words: Bill Murray.

Because who wouldn’t want to see Bill Murray as a zombie?

— Jordan Allen, jea@udel.edu

the title track “Forget and Not Slow Down” features the line “Resurrect the saint from within the wretch.” The singer is asking for forgiveness and hoping that the power of God can help him out.

The album is a solid work of music that has a little bit of everything. It’s got elements of pop and punk, but they should have tried a bit more experimentation in that area. Other than the stagnant level of style, the

American Ride Toby Keith Show Dog Nashville Rating: PPP 1/2 (out of PPPPP) In true Big Dog Daddy fashion, Toby Keith is as in your face as he always has been with his new album American Ride.

Led by the album’s title track, which is currently climbing to the top of the country charts, Keith’s new album will likely live up to expectations.

Just in his style, Keith doesn’t shy away from the slow

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Boys try to fit new pop mold

“Zombieland” Columbia Pictures Rating: PPP (out of PPPP) Blood, guts and jokes are thrown at you nonstop in “Zombieland,” a movie that’s best described as an Americanized version of the UK’s “Shaun of the Dead.”

The best thing about this film, compared to the Brits’ edition, is that there’s absolutely no downtime. You’re either jumping-out-of-your-seat scared, pumping with adrenaline from zombie butt-kicking scenes or laughing your head off at hilarious quips.

The movie shows a post-apocalyptic zombie world through the eyes of Columbus, played by Jesse Eisenberg. The slightly agoraphobic, germaphobic, loner college boy outlines his rules for survival as he travels toward Columbus to see if his parents survived. On the way, he runs into Tallahassee, played by Woody Harrelson, who has only two reasons for living: killing zombies (a lot of zombies) and finding the world’s last Twinkie.

The pair has a run in with two girls, Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) — at which point the story becomes less about a physical journey and more about an emotional one.

Granted, you can only have so much emotional depth in a film about the zombie apocalypse, but as far as acting goes, the feelings of loss, distrust and growing loyalty come across as completely genuine.

Along with believable emotions, the movie also delivers believable zombies.

From the make-up, to the groans, to the

album is sure to please all fans and possibly make some new ones in the process.

— Russell Kutys, rkutys@udel.edu

jams like “Woke Up On My Own,” and “Cryin’ For Me.” The slow mood is supplemented with Keith’s signature mix of hard-nosed Southern Rock, upbeat country, and sing-along pop, like “American Ride,” or “Big Dog Daddy.”

If you’re a Toby Keith fan, this album is for you, and if you’re a country fan it probably is too. Keith doesn’t shy away from his style, he sticks with what works.

—Pat Maguire, pmaggs@udel.edu Courtesy of Amazon.com

October 6, 2009

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Brittany Harmon Columnist

“I’m not sure what it is with him, but I just felt a spark between us and I just know it’s something.”

What is this metaphorical spark people speak of? Is it strictly about physical attraction or is it just the excitement of meeting someone unfamiliar to you or your ways? I believe the initial, internal fireworks show can be the real deal, but the actual first meeting is not the last chapter of a fairytale — at least not at first.

So what is considered the actual definition of “feeling the spark?” Of course this flare is a physical attraction, but that’s just nature — we are programmed to conduct ourselves that way. Let’s be serious, would you honestly approach a person if you didn’t think they were halfway good looking?

Most likely not. But once the conversation begins and you realize you are clicking with this person more naturally than you would with any other “random mistake of the night,” this is where the fire is ignited.

You sense this unbelievable immediate comfort level and the two of you are realizing you are

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very compatible within only a few sentences. Those normal jitters seem to disappear, there isn’t that awkward silence that drapes over you but instead constant rambling because you want to learn more about this person.

To me, this feeling is a surprising and overwhelming monsoon of giddiness, excitement and an overall cloud nine experience. As the night continues, you find yourself telling the story of how in the fourth grade, your mom forced you to wear your hair in two side buns and you’re still called

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Write to columnist Brittany Harmon at bharmon@udel.edu Princess Leia ‘til this day. Suddenly, you are one of the last people at the party and it’s time to leave. Soon enough, numbers are exchanged and the non-stop text messaging begins.Eventually you decide to hang out with this mysterious person. Mission accomplished — you are no longer sitting on your sofa watching Lifetime movies.

This initial chemistry is something that could have someone smiling for days on end; even during back to back all-nighters.

So is this flame of desire is growing or dissolving? What do you do now?

When this spark takes place, some peo-

p l e automatically assume “this person is my soul mate.” Don’t get me wrong, I know plenty of people who are a few years into their sparkler show and are still going strong. If it seems to be the perfect match from day one, then who am I to smack the lighter out of your hand?

All the same, I will be the first person to preach how there is no such thing as love-at-first-sight. It is a myth and something that is only witnessed in Leonardo DiCaprio movies, so do not expect or believe that you will live happyily ever after when you feel this initial connection. Sometimes that flame can burn out as fast as it arrived after a little quality time together. The person you pictured as perfect has flaws — who knew? Valid questions about a potential relationship with this person begin to rise.

A spark is not a definite sign that your perfect stranger is relationship material or that you should go out now and get sized for your wedding dress. At best, you may have a strong feeling that he or she would match you well. Time spent together, observing interactions with others, how they treat you, and watching their reactions to different situations will give you a much better idea of how well this person fits with you.

mediadarling ‘Friends’ get friendly with movie

reunite for a motion picture.

Aside from fan appeal, there could be only one motivation for executives to get the cast back together after five years filled with anticipation and denied claims — money. According to box office statistics, the “Sex and the City” movie grossed approximately $312 million worldwide.

Clearly, TV-to-movie adaptations are the kind of entertainment that draws people into movie theaters. “Friends: The Movie” could be just as big, if done right.

Over the past few years, media critics have speculated about the fate of the sitcom genre. “Friends” was part of a dying breed, one of the last of its kind. Since the new millennium, there has been a general reduction of quality scripted television in favor of reality shows.

The moment when the six New Yorkers become “Friends” again could be the last nail in the coffin for quality sitcom shows. But the long-awaited farewell party for the genre is well-deserved.

The movie may still be a little far off, but fans can take comfort in knowing that in only a few semesters they’ll get to shell out $10 — gladly of course — to see their favorite group of friends in an epic episode that fans could only dub, “The One We’ve Been Waiting For.” — Marina Koren, mkoren@udel.edu Courtesy of Amazon.com

In only a matter of a few seasons, young women around the country were rocking “the Rachel” and Central Perk coffeehouses were popping up everywhere, including on Main Street in Newark.

Rumors that the six actors were coming together to reprise their roles in Manhattan started flying after the overwhelming success of “Sex and the City” in July 2008. Hollywood brought the beloved HBO show to the silver screen, so why not do the same for “Friends,” a series with just as huge a fan base? Soon after the rumor mill went wild last year, reps for Aniston, Cox, Perry and Schwimmer denied the claim that the six friends had any plans to

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Since the hour-long series finale of “Friends” in 2004, which drew in 52.5 million American viewers, fans have been waiting for their favorite New Yorkers to hit the big screen. Now, the wait is over.

The series, which ran for 10 successful seasons, has gotten the green light to start filming a movie in the next year and a half, and the show’s creators are already gearing up to write the script. In the summer of 2011, the whole gang — Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, and David Schwimmer — are getting together for one last hurrah.

The word comes from James Michael Tyler, whose character Gunther worked at Central Perk and pined after Rachel for ten years. He says “Friends: The Movie” is definitely in the works. “I still keep in touch with a lot of the cast and they say that they are really keen,” Tyler says on IMDB.com.

“I just hope we can do justice to the show in a film.”

Since 1994, Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler, Joey and Ross have become household names. Viewers have laughed at Chandler’s sarcastic jokes, raised their eyebrows at Phoebe’s eccentric song lyrics, cringed at Monica’s obsessive cleaning habits and become embroiled in a “Will they? Won’t they?” battle about Ross and Rachel’s on-again, off-again relationship.

The series has been nominated for a whopping 63 Emmy awards and consistently ranked in the top 10 in primetime ratings.

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Imagine it. You are in the presence of the most delicious and tempting chocolate cake in the entire world. Its smooth and perfect icing covers every inch of rich, almost deadly chocolate.

Jackie Zaffarano The aroma? An Columnist entire fudge factory.

There’s no going back now — you’ve let pure bliss envelop your senses for one second too long. But wait! One week’s worth of calories in a single bite? You couldn’t possibly! You tear yourself away and grab a store brand cupcake. Although it looked alright, you taste nothing after imagining what cake heaven would have been like. Epic letdown.

I’d say the first cake is comparable to a pair of luxury brand shoes — for example, Jimmy Choos. The smell of genuine leather, perfect fit and self-actualization included with ownership, define a satisfaction that many of us only dream of. Now imagine a Choo shoe of lesser quality and craft. Cheap and Jimmy Choo in the same sentence? It’s oxymoronic.

On Nov. 14, select H&M stores will carry a line of Jimmy Choo shoes designed specifically for the store. I kid you not. But here’s the kicker — prices will range from approximately $60 to over $300. Normally costing anywhere from $600 to upwards of $3,000 big ones, this may be a cheap price to pay for Jimmy Choos, but not so much for H&M regulars. If the idea was to satisfy the H&M customer, why break the price bracket?

The store will retail shoes, bags, accessories and even clothing designed by Jimmy Choo for its fast-fashion, fairly low-priced fashion chain. If H&M customers aren’t paying $300 for a pair of shoes now, it should be interesting to see if the Jimmy Choo name will change this.

I’m not sure I could ever make that kind of splurge for “modified,” lesser-quality Jimmy Choos. The whole thing just seems so unreal.

I’ve always considered Jimmy Choo to be one of those “untouchable” brands — a retailer of shoes an ambitious 20-year-old would aspire to own. Maybe she’d earn the splurge if she worked hard enough by 30, or maybe she’d risk skipping this month’s rent. Shoes of this caliber can do that to a person.

On Nov. 14, it will no longer be necessary to spend so much on a pair of heels with a Jimmy Choo tag. Although the new designs are tempting, two or three hundred dollars is a stretch for H&M — even if they are attractive shoes. What’s to stop the customer from opting for a pair from Steve Madden at Nordstrom’s for a less expensive price?

In addition to teaming up with Jimmy Choo, H&M has recently announced its collaboration forces with designer Sonia Rykiel. Now this news excites me.

Although a high-end, ready-to-wear designer, Sonia puts on runway shows that are exciting, playful and inviting, and explore new concepts. When I think Sonia, brilliant knits, youthful elements and femininity (also Carrie Bradshaw’s striped sweater worn upon arrival to Paris — a Rykiel), come to mind. Considering all that the brand stands for, the collaboration just seems right. Besides, the United States could use a bit more Sonia love, and this may be an effective way for the brand to gain American followers — it all makes sense.

What doesn’t make sense is to branch out to fast-fashion shoppers, but offer the designs at considerably high prices for the stores in which they’re sold.

— jackiez@udel.edu

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Archives provide a peek into lives of Delaware families

The Rockwood Museum Archives detail the history of Delaware families dating back to the 17th century. The Archives can now be found at the university’s Morris Library.

BY JOHN MORGERA Staff Reporter

Seeing the Rockwood Museum Archives in storage is almost like a scene out of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” For more than ten years, stacks and stacks of climate-controlled boxes contained the history of the lives of some of Delaware’s most influential families.

There are approximately 250 boxes of documents and over 100 boxes of photos. There are big flat cases full of blueprints of Rockwood, the famous Wilmington house built in the 1850s. There are even numerous boxes filled with random materials. When asked to describe the size of the Rockwood Archives, senior research fellow Mark Samuels Lasner came up with only one word.

“The word that comes to mind is massive,” Samuels Lasner states in an e-mail message.

After spending years in the basement of the Delaware Historical Society, the archives have been given to the Morris Library’s Special Collections by New Castle County, which owns the Rockwood Museum. The physical move took place over the summer, while the re-cataloging of all the items is underway. Samuels Lasner facilitated the transfer of the archives.

He was assisted by Deborah Andrews, director of the Center for Material Culture Studies. Andrews had contacts with the Friends of Rockwood, a group of people interested in preserving the history of Rockwood. Samuels Lasner had contacts with the museum, and he contacted the county about the availability of the archives.

“It was one of those perfect win-win things,” Andrews says. “The Delaware Historical society was looking for a place to put it. The university seems like a perfect place because we have the facilities to take care of them and students to handle them. Everyone gains from it.”

Rockwood Museum curator Carey Lockman Corbin said that the archives are filled with artifacts from the people who lived there. There are letters, photos, and wills from

the Shipley, Bringhurst and Hargrave families, all of whom lived in Rockwood. Corbin says the archives are from as early as the 17th century to 1972, when the Hargrave family moved out. Since then, a few items have been added as they have been found.

“Sometimes things will make it back to Rockwood, and we try to include those,” Corbin says.

There are some very unique items along with the profusion of documents and photos, like glass plate negatives that chronicled changes to the interior of the house during renovations in the late 19th and early 20th century. Corbin says that all the items provide a greater understanding of the lives the inhabitants lived.

“There’s so much material, we really get a good idea of life for a wealthy Delaware family at the turn of the century,” she says.

Samuels Lasner and Andrews are also thrilled with the amount of material contained in the archives and what it can mean to students.

“The families who built Rockwood and lived there for more than a century seemed never to have thrown anything away, I mean anything,” Samuels Lasner states in an e-mail message. “We get a very complete picture of the families’ lives and possessions because they kept everything across generations. This is really unusual and a great asset for researchers.”

Andrews likes the fact that it gives students a more concrete artifact of history to work with.

“These are real people,” she says. “You’re not talking about huge trends in history. You’re talking about real people.”

Andrews says students minoring in Material Culture Studies nickname her department “STUFF” because it studies people’s relationships with their possessions. As the director of the department, she encourages students to learn with hands-on experience, and the new archives will give more students opportunities to do just that.

“Anything that helps students get engaged with the lives of the past and the people of the past is a good thing for me,” Andrews says.

Samuels Lasner looks forward to the research opportunities the archives are going to provide both students and faculty. The archives can be searched online worldwide, and he hopes they will draw researchers from all over to Newark to view them.

“Such collections as the Rockwood Archive provide significant primary sources in the library for faculty and students,” Samuels Lasner says. “This particular collection, rooted in Delaware history but encompassing so much more, reaffirms the university’s interest and role in preserving and making available culturally important materials.”

Corbin says she believes that the move to Newark will make it easier for the public to learn more about the history of Rockwood.

“There’s a lot to be said about accessibility,” she said.

“There’s so much material, and there’s a lot to be discovered in the collection.”

The addition of the Rockwood archives coincides with the creation of the John Sweeney Fellowship. Sweeney was once a research fellow himself, and was a buyer for the DuPonts, according to Andrews. The Friends of Rockwood wanted to honor Sweeney, who died in 1995. The student who receives the grant will give a yearly talk to the Friends of Rockwood and also try to promote awareness of the archives.

Lasner and others are in the process of cataloguing the archives to account for each item. Lasner says he looks forward to the work that will be done with the archives once everything is put into place.

“I was really pleased to be so involved in making this happen, and now I look forward to the student and faculty papers and perhaps the theses and dissertations which will result,” Lasner says.

October 6, 2009

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Reality 101: How to be a cheap TV star

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Each week, the managing Mosaic editors present their thoughts on current cultural happenings.

There’s a moment on nearly every reality love competition when the one picking from a collection of suitors realizes that one of the contestants is on the show for fame and notoriety, not to discover the true love that’s been evading them for so long. This, of course, is an outrage to all parties involved, and a confrontation ensues.

I ask: why though? The contestants who all claim to be searching for love are taking part in what seems like the most fabricated drama imaginable. Are you telling me that there are actually a handful of U.S. citizens who are so desperate for companionship that they will compete for the love and affection of a 50-year-old professional clown named Flavor Flav? The answer is simply no. Every person who applies to be on an MTV or VH1 reality show knows full well that it is to find fame and not love. And in all honesty, it’s not a bad career move.

This past week, MTV premiered its newest version of “Real World/Road Rules Challenge,” “The Ruins,” which had a 90-minute premiere, the length of time I usually reserve exclusively for movies and sports games. If you’ve been able to keep up with all of these challenges (there’s “The Gauntlet,” “The Duel,” “The Inferno,” “The Island” and all of their respective sequels) then you know exactly what to expect: the same batch of MTV personalities participating in physical challenges, sexual escapades and arguments so heated that MTV is able to tease a possible fist fight, expulsion, tragic injury or offensive remark. Any of these will do. It’s all formulaic, but it’s what the contestants and the viewers expect.

In his 2004 book “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs,”

Chuck Klosterman dissects this very issue — for reality programming, MTV does a great job at recreating scenarios. His conclusion is that prospective Real Word cast members subscribe to the personas the show continues to project. “People started becoming personality templates devoid of complication and obsessed with melodrama,” Klosterman writes. Despite the truth of Klosterman’s observation, we continue to see these sorts of personalities perpetuated on shows like “The Ruins,” partially because it’s the only thing these people know how to do anymore.

As Klosterman goes on to say, “Once you’ve been on TV, nothing else matters... It appears that the highest residual success one can achieve from a ‘Real World’ stint is that of being asked to compete in a ‘Real World/Road Rules challenge.’ ” MTV has created a batch of “famous nobodies,” as Klosterman calls them, who make careers out of being exreality stars. Getting on a reality program has now become a catalyst for a self-sustaining career of throwing oneself at the camera — any camera. And Klosterman wrote his book long before VH1 took this concept to a new low.

At least “The Ruins” doesn’t insult our intelligence by creating some false pretenses for a reality program. The producers of these shows are out to make money, which is after all the case with any television program. VH1, however, masks this truth with celebrity love stories, even though contestants get demeaning nicknames and, in all likelihood, will end up on “Charm School” or “I Love Money” in three months. These programs are VH1’s version of the RW/RR challenge, except instead of ex-Real

Worlders, they compile all the degenerates from “Flavor of Love,” “Rock of Love,” and any other façade of a dating show.

I was actually fortunate enough to speak to one of these lifetime reality stars last March in Philadelphia. I was attending a radio station workshop where numerous musical artists were present, and to my surprise Flavor of Love 2’s Toastee walked into the media room. She explained to me how she was taking classes, working on a movie and on a TV pilot, but none of these endeavors actually had specific terms. She told me how she keeps in touch with a lot of her “I Love Money” co-stars, but the only thing she said that really resonated was, “I’m watching the reality shows that are on right now and I’d like to be on another one. I think they’ll definitely bring me back in the future.”

She doesn’t just think that — she hopes they’ll bring her back with every ounce in her body. She needs them to bring her back — it’s all she has. It’s what keeps her famous and relevant, and you too can be that way. All you have to do is apply for the third season of “Real Chance of Love,” and let the reality show twister suck you up and throw you in front of countless cameras. You’ll love the attention and the new found fame.

In fact, you’ll fall so much in love with it, you’ll pretend to love something else entirely.

— Ted Simmons, tsim@udel.edu Courtesy of Amazon.com

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how bazaar

Each week in How Bazaar, Mosaic will feature a different component of everyday life that we wouldn’t otherwise have space to cover. This week, news features editor Caitlin Maloney reviews the restaurant Mizu.

ginger salad and the popular miso soup, all for a few dollars each.

Mizu’s menu can be perfect for a small, quick meal or a larger full meal.

The service fluctuates depending on the crowd, but is generally relatively speedy. As one table finished their meal and left, the wait staff was quick to clear off the table and set up for the next group waiting in line.

The servers were able to answer specific questions in regards to the Japanese cuisine, and the management was also visible, checking on customers and asking for genuine feedback.

Few improvements are necessary, but Mizu should consider expanding in the future to keep up with the already growing crowds.

Added menu items, such as a hibachi, would also draw more crowds. For now, Mizu seems to be strictly a sushi bar, which is its intended purpose.

Most of all, whether dining in, taking out or getting delivery, Mizu is convenient and will give you the most bang for your buck. The Main Street location is sure to soon be as busy as its other locations in Philadelphia.

With SAS Cupcakes right next door offering the perfect dessert option, you really can’t go wrong.

THE REVIEW/ Ayelet Daniel

Since its opening at the end of the summer, Mizu, the new sushi bar on Main Street, has been creating a buzz around campus.

The small storefront, previously occupied by Two Brothers Chicken & Burgers, has been gutted and converted into a relaxing dining experience. From the light green walls to the subtle background music, Mizu allows guests to feel comfortable and to have open conversation with others.

Guests sit at six inside tables while watching sushi chefs make creations behind the open sushi bar. Outside tables are also available when the weather permits. The outside dining offers a prime location for Main Street people-watching.

Come prepared with an empty stomach, because Mizu’s portion sizes are made for starving students. The large helpings are brought out on Asian-inspired plates that appear to be brought over from abroad in keeping with the Japanese theme.

Eight-piece specialty rolls begin at $8.95 and 12-piece California, seafood, tempura and vegetarian rolls begin as low as $4.75 and go only as high as $8.95. Items at the Trabant University Center or other Newark locations are in the same price range

but fall flat with quality. Most of the rolls are also topped with eel sauce, which adds an extra sweetness that soy sauce lacks.

Besides rolls, Mizu’s straightforward menu, which includes descriptions for sushi novices, also features sushi á la carte options and sushi combos in deluxe and supreme sizes. For the raw-fish-fearing crowd, vegetarian, chicken and shrimp rolls or gyoza are available.

Mizu also features edamame,

you speak out How does Mizu compare to other Newark sushi bars?

This is actually the only one that I’ve been to but I think it’s really good.

—Michelle Ferguson, freshman

This is our second time here in like the past three days, so we really like it.

— Kelly Gallagher, freshman

I was expecting a little more better interior design.

— Hyeji Kim, senior

If I compare this one to the ones back in Korea, it’s a bit disappointing.

— Jeongmin Kim, junior

— Compiled by Senior Mosaic Reporter Jordan Allen

Rock/reggae band Ballyhoo! to play On The Rise series

BY WILEY TAYLOR, JR. Staff Reporter

Through students’ word of mouth and the popularity among them, Ballyhoo! is scheduled to play at the Scrounge on Thursday as part of the On The Rise music series.

Ballyhoo! is a rock band from Aberdeen, Md. The band consists of Howi Spangler (vocals, guitar), Big D (drums), DJ Blaze (keyboards, programming, turntables) and Mista J (bass). Mista J says that the band was really started by Big D and Howi approximately 14 years ago.

“Howard and Donald, who are brothers, started the band down in their basement,” Mista J says.

At the time, the band consisted of Howi, Big D, and DJ Blaze — all of whom attended Aberdeen High School.

Mista J says the band started out playing house parties.

They eventually started playing bars in Baltimore, where they generated their first major buzz.

“It was about three years ago when we really started to get some hype off of our second album, Do It for the Money!, in Baltimore,” he says. “Soon, we started touring up and down the East Coast to promote our music and get our music heard.”

The Student Centers Programming Advisory Board is hosting Ballyhoo! as part of its On The Rise music series.

Senior Rosemarie Perry, creator of the On The Rise Music Series, says she first heard about the group’s popularity among students through word of mouth and booked them after some students e-mailed her about the band.

“After my first time listening to the band, I was hooked,” Perry says. “Their music has a feel-good upbeat music and they are similar to Sublime and 311.”

Perry says the purpose of the On The Rise Music series is to help music artists build their college fanbase.

This will not be the first time the band performs in Delaware. Mista J says the band has performed several times at Deer Park and played at a couple house parties.

Ballyhoo!’s manager, Steven Roeser, says the band’s fan base in the state has risen from 75-80 fans to 150-200 fans.

The band is currently on tour promoting it’s new album, Cheers!, which was released on May 5.

Roeser says the tour has given the band a gradual increase in their popularity and that touring is not as easy as it sounds.

There are times when the group will have to leave right after a performance or around two to three in the morning to make a ten hour trip to their next destination, Mista J says.

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For these trips, their fifth man, Andy Copenhaver, takes over the wheel and drives them safely to their next show.

“When you are trying to gain a bigger fan base, you can’t just stay in the same area,” Mista J says. “You got do a lot of traveling to get in front of more people and get your music out there.”

Roeser says Ballyhoo! has done 200 shows in a year, and the band’s hard work has landed it a deal with Fuel Records. When the band released its first album, 365-Day Weekend, it was not signed to a record label and the album was released independently. The signing with Fuel Records was a great achievement for the band because the record label has a distribution deal with EMI. This will help them with promoting their fourth album, due next summer, he says.

“EMI can use their connections with big retail stores such as Best Buy and FYE,” Roeser says. “Through this record deal, the amount of money Fuel Records is investing in the band will cover the expenses, get better resources and enable us to make an album with better sound quality than the last album.”

Cheers! was produced by Scotch Ralston and mix work done by Chad Sexton — both of whom are members of 311.

“The band would work on a song in the studio with Scotch,” Roeser says. “Then they would send a raw audio file to Chad for the track to be mixed, but Chad was never present at the studio.”

He says on the new album, the band has been talking about working with 311 and they want to have Sexton and Nick Hexum, the vocalist of 311, help with the production.

Roeser says that he and others in the music business believe that the band has the potential to go commercial.

“This time around, we are going to focus on making Courtesy of Steve Roeser our college fan base bigger,” Roeser says.

The band has songs that are on the radio for rock/reg- Ballyhoo!’s third album, Cheers!, was released May 5. gae stations. With the help of the new record deal, the new album will be promoted on even more radio stations. playing and making music. Mista J also says that the group Mista J says the band is influenced by 311, Incubus, loves to travel and meet new people. and Green Day. The band is also influenced by a variety of “We want to keep doing what we love and if we become music genres like reggae, rock, punk rock, and jazz. more a common household name, that’s great,” he says.

“We really don’t have a main influence in our music,” “We just want to get our music heard and see the world Mista J says. “Whenever you look at one of our iPods, while we are doing it.” everyone is listening to a variety of music.”

What drives this band to keep recording is its love of

Ballyhoo! will playat the universty Thursday as part of SCPAB’s On The Rise music series.

Courtesy of Melissa Blazejewski.

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Workshop consists of modules in several countries

Continued from page 19

the world an educational opportunity to which they otherwise may not have been exposed.

“We want to give coaches from developing countries a chance to interact with other coaches, which is the most beneficial thing,” Grabarsky says.

While at the university participants attend a variety of lectures and workshops, Schneider says. Topics of the lectures include strength and conditioning, marketing/finance, nutrition, coaching education, talent identification, among others.

During module one, guest speakers are brought in to give talks about their individual disciplines.

This year’s guests included Dr. Kristine Clark from Penn State who spoke about sports nutrition, Richard Way from Canada who spoke on long term athlete development, and Dr. Tom Kaminski from the university who spoke about sports medicine.

During module two, participants are flown around the country to complete a two week apprenticeship with a renowned coach in their respective sports. Robinson says there is a participant this year working with Bob Bowman, the coach of fourteen time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps.

Schneider said there is even a skiing apprenticeship going on in Switzerland this year.

Module three brings coaches and participants together at the US Olympic Training Center to further their education and reflect on what

they had observed and learned during their apprenticeships and also to work on their projects.

Module four is the most comprehensive of the four and lasts about seven months. It is dependent on participants taking a project they have been working on and implementing it back in their own country. Schneider says projects this year include a participant from Egypt who is developing a national coaching education curriculum for rowing as well as a participant who is developing an off-season strength and conditioning program for his national basketball team.

In May participants will reunite at the International Olympic Committee Headquarters in Switzerland to present the progress they have made on their projects. At this time, participants will receive a certificate honoring their completion of the program, Schneider says.

Robinson said there were about 60 applications received for admittance into this year’s program.

“The interactions between these coaches from all over are the greatest thing,” Schneider says. “Its bringing together all of these different worldly experiences.”

This is the second year the program has run but the administration sees no reason why it would not continue to run in the future.

“We were very proud of what the group last year did,” Robinson says, “I think this group will be just as good.”

Courtesy of Matt Volpe

The ICECP program includes 27 coaches from 27 different countries.

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Basketball team loses point guard to ACL tear

w e e k ly c a l e n da r Today Women’s Tennis vs. St. Joe’s 2:00 PM Volleyball at Villanova 7:00 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Men’s Soccer vs. Drexel 7:00 PM Friday, October 9, 2009 Volleyball vs. Hofstra 4:00 PM Women’s Soccer vs. James Madison 7:00 PM Saturday, October 10, 2009 Golf at William & Mary Invitational All Day Men’s and Women’s Tennis at Lehigh Tournament All Day Men’s Soccer vs. Hofstra 10:00 AM Rowing at Navy Day at Philadelphia 10:00 AM Volleyball vs. Northeasern Noon Men’s Swimming vs. Howard 1:00 PM Women’s Swimming vs. Howard 1:00 PM Football vs. Massachusetts 6:00 PM Sunday, October 11, 2009 Golf at William & Mary Invitational All Day Men’s & Women’s Tennis at Lehigh Tournament All Day Women’s Soccer vs. VCU 1:00 PM Field Hockey at Northeastern 2:00 PM

BY TIM MASTRO Sports Editor

File Photo/THE REVIEW Delaware’s only senior, Johnson has started since his freshman year.

Three months before the basketball season starts its 2009-10 campaign, the men’s team suffered a big blow to their season: senior star point guard Brian Johnson tore his left ACL playing basketball on August 19.

“As soon as it happened I knew it was bad,” Johnson said. “I landed really badly and it just hurt and I just kept thinking ‘I hope it’s not too serious.’”

Johnson is set to have surgery for the injury, a procedure that is expected to keep him out for the entire 20092010 season. The injury is going to challenge the Hens, who are playing a much tougher non-conference schedule this year and whose lead scorer from last year, Marc Egerson, has graduated.

“My original reaction was more disappointment for him than anything else,” head coach Monte Ross said. “I know all the hard work he put in this summer to get ready for his senior season, and he was really looking forward to his senior season.”

Johnson established an impressive resume at Delaware. Since his freshman year, he has been a consistent face on the court. He started all 94 games during his first three years as a Hen. He averaged 9.6 points per game as a freshman and led the Hens with 130 assists —efforts good enough to earn him a place on the 2007 All CAA Rookie Team. He ranked second in assists per game in the CAA for the past two seasons, and is fourth all time in Hens’ history with 450 assists.

“Anytime you lose a three-year

Linebacker Marcorelle out for season

BY ANDREW PROSSER Staff Reporter

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Sidelined for a majority of the first three games due to a knee injury, fifth-year senior linebacker Matt Marcorelle now has to consider yet another year was unable to play in the last two games right away. Head football coach K.C. Keeler has decided to medical redshirt Marcorelle, sidelining him for the remainder of the season. “[Marcorelle] needs to get things fixed the right way,” Keeler said. “It will probably take a good month or so for him to figure out in terms of what he needs to do as far as coming back for a sixth year.”

Marcorelle underwent surgery this past week to repair the torn ligaments and bone spurs that have limited his playing time and effectiveness this season, recording only one tackle in the first three games. The expected recovery time is 3-6 months. However, he is optimistic about his future.

“I think, with all the treatment and rehab I’ll be getting here, I think I’ll be back in about 4 months,” Marcorelle said.

After recovering from the injury, he plans to participate in spring practices and workouts. However, the injury impacts Marcorelle’s future hopes of playing in the NFL someday and how scouts view him.

“When the league looks, obviously they want you to be healthy your senior year. I’m sure they’re looking at me differently compared to if I had played the whole season,” Marcorelle said. “It’s not the season I was expecting to have, but it’s out of my hands. It’s out of my control. I can only do the best I can to get healthy and be ready.”

Keeler agrees that Marcorelle is not necessarily finished playing football yet.

“It’s season-ending but it’s not necessarily career-ending,” Keeler said.

The injury is a disappointment for Marcorelle who had hopes of finishing off his collegiate career with his best season yet. Unfortunately, he has been plagued by injury throughout his career, missing a total of 13 games from

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starter with the knowledge that he has, it hurts,” Ross said. “Most definitely we’ll miss everything he brought to the team, but we’ll still have him on the bench and he’ll be a leader there, but this is time for other people to step up.

We have to do it as a team and not do it as individuals.”

The most likely player to take over Johnson’s position is junior Jawan Carter, who has experience playing point guard at a collegiate level. Carter played point guard as a freshman at Saint Joseph’s University before transferring to Delaware after the 2007 season. Carter, who averaged 15 points a game last year as a shooting guard, also played point guard at Tatnall High School in Wilmington.

“I know the guys aren't going to quit,” Johnson said. “I’m going to be with them to root for them and help them every step of the way.”

When Carter needs a rest, junior Edwin Santiago is another option for the position. Santiago saw a significant increase in meaningful minutes as a sophomore in 2008-09.

“I told my guys it’s an open competition and whoever takes the ball and runs with it, literally and figuratively, will be the one who takes the position,” Ross said. “We tell the guys there are no starters, there’s open competition every day in practice and the ones who emerge will be the ones who start.”

Johnson is currently the only senior on the Hens’ roster. He has the option to take a medical redshirt and return for the 2010-2011 season.

Natalie Carillo/THE REVIEW

Marcorelle has battled an injury-plagued career since joining Hens

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Field hockey win streak continues after beating ODU

BY KEVIN MASTRO Staff Reporter

The Delaware field hockey team continued its remarkable winning streak by winning its eighth straight game, beating No. 12 ranked Old Dominion 4-0 Friday night at Rullo Stadium. The Hens dominated the game, outshooting the Monarchs 14-8 on the night.

Delaware was led by last week’s National Player of the Year, Casey Howard, who tallied two goals in the game.

Junior Amanda McCardell and senior Toni Karsten also scored on the night while goalie Noelle Diana made three saves in the shutout victory.

“We were just thinking 'hey, we are on a roll,' " head coach Carol Miller said. “We have seven wins and have been building our confidence with each game and doing everything that we needed to do with practices, with learning and taking things and going forward. This crew just has this competitive drive that I’ve never seen before.”

The game started off with Delaware holding most of the possession while the Monarchs rarely ventured into Delaware’s side of the field. The Hens had several good chances early to score but it wasn’t until a few minutes before halftime that they were able to break Old Dominion's resistance. Howard was able to get open near the net and score after receiving a pass from senior Kimmy Schlezes.

Less than a minute later, the Hens were on the board again after a breakaway. McCardell received the ball deep in her own zone from Michelle Drummonds and ran nearly the entire length of the field, weaving past several defenders before laying the ball off to sophomore Carli Shutter, who passed it across the net for Karsten to tap in.

“I got a pass off from Michelle, and Coach always tells us to take one defender at a time,” McCardell said. “So I took one at a time and I saw my options as the forwards were coming up with me, so just dished off and the sequence went

from there, just used each other the whole way.”

After losing their first two games of the year, the Hens Delaware came out strong again to start the second half, are now 8-2 and in first place in the CAA with a 3-0 record with McCardell earning a penalty shot less than two minutes boasting wins over No. 14 James Madison and Old into the half. The shot, taken by Drummonds, was headed Dominion, now No. 12. toward the corner, but a sprawling save by Old Dominion’s “Being 3-0 in the conference is awesome because every keeper kept it out. game is going to be a battle,” Howard said. “It is going to Drummonds made amends for her miss a few minutes come down to the last minute because our conference is so later, saving a sure goal by swatting the ball out of the air just tough with three teams ranked in the top 20, so this is a big as it was about to cross the goal line. The Hens regained con- win.” trol soon after, with McCardell and Karsten each coming close to scoring.

Finally, Delaware added its third goal after Alexis Esbitt collected a rebound and played the ball back into the middle for McCardell to score her 6th goal of the year.

Howard added her second of the game and league-leading 14th of the year after a great passing move from several players.

“It was an awesome executed corner,” Howard said. “The call came in from the sideline and we executed it very well, it felt amazing and just capiAndy Bowden/THE REVIEW talized our win.”

Junior Missy Woodie has started every game for the Hens this season and has one goal on three shots

ChickenScratch

underp eview: Dela w ar e vs.

Massac husetts

About the Teams:

The Hens: Delaware (3-2, 1-2 Colonial Athletic Association) just racked up their first conference win, a 2717 victory they really needed. The Hens’ defense garnered another two interceptions and the Hens earned 183 yards rushing against Maine, bringing their season total to 547 yards. Quarterback Pat Devlin connected with 8 receivers on 21 of 31 passes for 329 yards against the Minutemen. Devlin has completed 100 of 151 passes for the season and has a 144.69 efficiency rating.

The Minutemen: Massachusetts (3-1, 1-0 CAA) has yet to be tested in the conference. Their last win came against Rhode Island, but Kansas State is the only tough opponent they have faced thus far.

Massachusetts’ free safety Jeromy Miles and tailback Tony Nelson both received first-team preseason CAA honors and were named to the pre-season watch lists for offensive and defensive player of the year. The Minutemen are coming off a bye week. They are 0-1 on the road.

Saturday, Oct. 10 6:00 PM Delaware Stadium Newark, Delaware

Why the Hens can win:

Many Hens players stepped up in the victory over Maine.

A freshman, redshirt running back David Hayes ran for 106 yards and scored a 25-yard touchdown. Freshman running back Leon Jackson scored two touchdowns for the Hens.

Senior defensive lineman Brandon Gilbeaux made eight tackles and the Hens defense had two interceptions in the game.

Delaware’s success comes from a diffuse effort, one that should earn them more conference victories.

Of CAA rivals, Massachusetts has only faced Rhode Island, (1-3, 0-1 CAA). The Minutemen haven’t really been tested in the conference yet and they haven’t played in two weeks. If Delaware can repeat the intensity and poise of their Richmond and Maine games, the Hens should be successful against Massachusetts. Last week our defense stepped up and held Maine to 83 yards rushing, made two interceptions and stopped the Black Bears on the one-yard line. If the best offense is after all a good defense, Delaware is a step ahead in that sense.

Why the Hens could lose:

The Hens have won just three of their last 13 CAA games and Massachusetts is a consistently reputable opponent. The Hens rallied against the less threatening Black Bears.

The Hens actually managed to rush the ball effectively for 183 yards against Maine. It’s a step in the right direction to establish a running game, but the Hens are still lacking. Also, the Hens had trouble scoring against the Minutemen last year.

Massachusetts is a perennial Top-20 team and the Hens haven’t had success against ranked opponents this year.

The Numbers:

7-17: Score of Delaware’s loss to Massachusetts last year 2: Number of INT’s thrown by Pat Devlin this season

Matt’s Prediction:

Expect the Hens to stay hot against the Minutemen. Devlin is getting into a pretty good groove on the field and the run game is really coming together as well.

The Minutemen, up until this point, haven’t had an opponent that will push them in all aspects of the game. Look for Delaware to score early and often in what should be their second CAA win of the season.

Hens 31, Minutemen 17

Cross Country The Men’s and Women’s cross country squads competed in the Paul Short Run in Pennsylvania this weekend. The Men placed 25th out of 42 teams, led by Chris Bourke who finished with a time of 24:32 in eight kilometers. The women placed 29th out of 40 teams, led by Julia Somers who finished with a time of 22:07 in six kilometers.

Field Hockey The Hens defeated William & Mary Friday night 2-0 to continue their nine game winning streak and improve their record to 9-4. They are still undefeated in the CAA. Their only two losses came at the hands of Michigan State and Louisville during the Duke Tournament to open the season. They head to Boston to face Northeastern Saturday.

Men’s Soccer Delaware defeated James Madison 1-0 Saturday at Delaware Mini-Stadium. Senior Darren Christie scored the only goal of the game. The win upset 5-2-1 JMU, and improves the Hens’ record to 4-6 as they take on Drexel Wednesday.

Women’s Soccer The Hens maintained a winning record Sunday, battling Old Dominion to the final wistle in what resulted in a 0-0 tie. Delaware is now 4-3-3 overall and will take on James Madison Friday night at Delaware Mini Stadium.

Tennis The Men’s and Women’s teams competed at the Old Dominion Collegiate Open over the weekend. For the women, Kristen Mueller won one of the three No. 3 singles competitions for the tournament. On the Men’s side, Gokey Celik and Austin Longacre worked their way all the way to the No. 1 doubles championship, only to drop the match to James Madison.

Volleyball The Hens remained undefeated in the CAA Friday, as they swept Towson 3-0. Kim Stewart and Michelle LaLonde posted nine kills each while leading the Hens. The Hens now stand at 95 overall and 3-0 in the CAA. They will make the short bus trip to Villanova Tuesday.

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Delaware Stadium shows off history

BY RACHEL GREENE Staff Reporter

PAT MAGUIRE “MID-SEASON CHECK UP”

Saturday night when the dust has cleared, the bands have battled and the Minutemen have galloped away, muskets in hand, the Hens will officially be more than halfway through their season. While coach K.C. Keeler has stressed to his team the importance of the “one game season” for the past five games, it seems as if every game has had its special meaning.

Game one was about starting the season off on the right foot. And the Hens certainly did, defeating West Chester 35-0. But Keeler’s squad witnessed a season-ending torn ACL suffered by versatile TE Josh Baker and limited action seen by injured fifth year LB Matt Marcorelle. While the West Chester game had its positives, it proved to set the stage for the difficulties in the weeks ahead.

Richmond was much of the same. While Delaware almost beat the defending Football Championship Subdivision National Champion Spiders, they should have beaten them, and the injuries proved vital. A healthy Baker could have kick-started the offense in the final minutes and Marcorelle, who later announced he was out for the remainder of the season, could have added some much-needed leadership in a tight game.

The theme remained the same for the next few games. While every game added some positives, negatives always seemed to gleam through.

Delaware State was not supposed to play the Hens as close as they did in the 27-17 Delaware victory.

As for William and Mary —although the Hens played the No. 5 ranked team tight, they netted -2 rushing yards and failed to stop the Tribe on key drives when leadership could have been key.

Last week’s 27-17 victory against Maine was a significant step in the right direction for Delaware.

In Keeler’s weekly press conference Monday, he stressed how important it was that the Hens never lost focus, even when they were trailing 17-14 midway through the third quarter. Despite losing leaders and versatile players like Marcorelle and Baker early in the season, Keeler’s squad is finally learning to survive without their senior leaders who they fed off of for much of training camp.

It’s not unreasonable to think that with a healthy Baker and Marcorelle, Delaware would be a completely different team. It’s also reasonable to think they would be undefeated heading into Saturday’s game against Massachusetts. Each of their losses could have been won, and with some more leadership, Delaware could be head and shoulders above Colonial Athletic Association competition.

But, for now, they’re in the mix with every other team, fighting to prove themselves and stand out. Saturday’s game will prove to be vital. Despite the opportunities, the Hens have yet to beat a ranked opponent. Feeding off the momentum of the Maine victory in which the offense finally clicked and the defense didn’t lose morale, Saturday’s game against No. 12 ranked Massachusetts could prove to be the Hens’ best chance. This week, it’s sink or swim in the CAA. Last week, the Hens proved they could float without their injured veterans. This week, it’s time to get moving.

Grab your musket and sound your trumpets. It’s time for Delaware to prove who they really are —an elite CAA team, or just another team trying to stand out.

Pat Maguire is a Managing Sports Editor at the Review. Send questions, comments and a children’s stuffed YouDee toy to pmaguire@udel.edu.

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Delaware Stadium received a makeover this summer, adding some large banners to the side facing Route 896 to honor the Hen’s most talented football players over the school’s history. “[Athletic director Bernard Muir] really wanted to spruce up the stadium and at the same time, honor the great players we’ve had here before,” director of media relations Scott Selheimer said.

The new decorations at Delaware Stadium were hung to add more color and flair to the historic stadium, built in 1952, Selheimer said. The posters were put up a few days before the home game against Delaware State on September 19.

Delaware Stadium now contains a blue and gold banner hung across the student section that reads, ‘Welcome to the Cockpit,’ as well as a banner on the Bob Carpenter Center that reads in bold letters, ‘You’re in Blue Hen Country.’ “[The banners] add so much to the stadium and really add a lot of life and pizzazz to the place,” senior offensive lineman and co-captain Corey Nicholson said. “It's great to drive by this place and you can see them from the road. It definitely gives Delaware Stadium more energy and a great appearance.”

Senior Sam Hunter attended the game against Delaware State and compared the difference in the atmosphere to

past games.

“It really makes you more into the game and it’s more intense,” Hunter said.

“Having the school colors and logos all around an already all blue and gold crowd–it’s even crazier than it was before.”

Selheimer would not disclose the prices of banners, but said the university used Sport Graphics, based in Indianapolis, to make the banners. Muir contacted them because he liked the work they have done at other schools.

K.C. Keeler believes the banners are more than just pleasing to the eye.

“I walk by those banners every day on the way out to practice and it gives me chills every time,” he said. “They remind me of the great history we have here at the University of Delaware, the great players and great teams that have come before us. Our players know every time out that they are representing Delaware football and it’s a special thing.”

Six players are honored to represent Blue Hen football in the front of the stadium: Chuck Hall, Conway Hayman, Rich Gannon, Daryl Brown, Eddie Conti, and Joe Flacco. Selheimer said it was tough to choose just six out of 120 years of history comprised of thousands of successful players. Finding a cross-section of different eras and positions was also a part of the selection process.

“I think if we asked every single per-

son in that stadium to come up with six people they think should be on there, there'd probably be 20 thousand different answers,” Selheimer said. “I mean I kind of put it like Mount Rushmore. We've only had 44 presidents and there's four on there —if you'd ask a thousand people, they'd probably give you one thousand different [answers] of who they think should be on there."

According to Selheimer, there is always going to be debate over the players that were chosen for the banners.

However, he said the athletic department has received a lot of positive comments about the banners and decorations and how great of an idea they were.

Selheimer said although the stadium looks great as is, it is still a work in progress. He said other items, such as banners, will probably be added in the near future.

“On the east side of the stadium [near the scoreboard], we talked about doing even more banners of other players,” Selheimer said.

Until then, fans have the new decorations to add some more school spirit to their experience.

“They did a tremendous job on the banners around Delaware Stadium,” Keeler said. “They really add to what is already a great atmosphere and a great venue for college football.”

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Delaware bought six initial banners but plans on adding more towards the end of the season and for subsequent years

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October 6, 2009

BlueHenBabble Which fall sport do you most look forward to this season: MLB playoffs, NFL, the start of NBA and NHL or college sports?

“I’m excited for the Phillies playoffs because they won last year. I’m excited to see if they can do it again. And I’m excited to see Shaq play with LeBron on the Cavaliers.”

-Duncan Roth, junior

“College basketball — I’m a big fan, I love watching the games because there’s so many of them all through the winter.”

-Steven Hogsten, freshman

Domingos brings worldwide experience to Delaware

BY CLAIRE GOULD Copy Desk Chief

The women’s soccer team has taken on 10 new freshmen this season, each of whom must compete for field time. Freshman Tania Domingos is off to a good start. Her experiences playing for the under-19 Portugal National Soccer Team prepared her to score the tying goal in last week’s game against Northeastern.

“Portuguese players are very skillful, and my time with them definitely made me a better player,” Domingos said. “After a short time with them I felt I had more control over the ball, and now I don’t have to think about little skills while I play. I can focus on the big picture.”

Both of Domingos’ parents are from Portugal, which qualifies her for the national team.

“My dad has big aspirations for me, so he wanted me to just give it a shot,” she said. “We were going there over the summer so he brought me to try out.”

She spent the summer between her junior and senior years of high school playing with the under19 team in Portugal, and then returned for two and a half weeks in April her senior year of high school to tour with them for the under-19 qualifying rounds of the European Cup. Domingos said her Portuguese teammates were fascinated by American culture and American soccer. She said the Portuguese style of soccer is a little different, with a greater focus on tactics, especially small-ball.

She wanted to return to Portugal in September for another tour, but she did not want to interrupt her soccer or her scholarly career at the university.

Domingos is a criminal justice major and wants to one day be a lawyer.

Domingos was recruited by the Hens after playing center midfield at Newtown High School in Connecticut all four years.

“I came here because they had [a Division I program], which I definitely wanted to play, but they also have great people,” Domingos said. “I met some faculty and the coach, and it felt like a good fit

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“I’m most excited for hockey season because, there’s only club here, but they’re really good. It’s my first year in college so I’d like to watch some good hockey.”

-Mike Higgins, freshman

“I’m really excited for the NFL season because Joe Flacco’s doing awesome on the Ravens and because the Giants — I’m from New Jersey — have a bunch of new players and they’re playing really well.”

-Victora Eisenstein, junior

for me.”

She said it has been challenging to get used to college life as well as practicing every day. She said the level of competition was not something she had to adjust to, however. She feels her experiences on a club and a women’s league team, as well as her experiences in Portugal, have prepared her for varsity-level play.

“The team chemistry was a little weird at first because we didn’t know how each other played, but I think we got used to each other pretty quickly and now we’re definitely moving as a team,” she said.

“We’re all compatible people and we have fun with it and it shows on the field.”

Senior midfield Kasie Shover said she also feels the team is coming together well.

“There’s a lot of freshmen, but they definitely feel comfortable playing with us,” Shover said.

She said Domingos is a very technical player, which helps her make smart moves on the field, and will help her evolve into a great college player.

The tying point at last week’s game brought the women’s soccer team to 3-3-2 overall and 0-1-1 in the CAA. Domingos said that although it was a wet day, and the turf field was slippery, she read the situation well and it was great for her confidence.

“I wanted to prove myself, do something great to show it was worth putting me into the game,” she said.

Women’s soccer coach Scott Grzenda said Domingos showed her skill as an attack player during the Northeastern game. He said the team’s overall strategy is to always have attack first on their minds.

He said midfielders must be very technical players who don’t give up the ball, making center midfield a good fit for Domingos.

“This was the game Tania came into herself,” he said. “She showed us what we had seen in recruiting her.”

Women’s soccer defeated William & Mary Saturday 1-0 and tied Old Dominion in a scoreless game. Their next game is Oct. 9 at James Madison.

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2006 to 2008. Senior defensive end John Higginson believes Marcorelle’s leadership and athletic abilities will certainly be missed the remainder of the season.

“The loss hurts the young guys more because they look up to him,” Higginson said. “I mean when you have that much talent and have had that type of career here and you know you are a captain, you’re going to miss him in all areas and all facets of the game.”

Marcorelle’s disappointment has not gone unnoticed by Keeler either.

“His disappointment right now is he loved playing with this team,” Keeler said. “I saw the emotion after the West Chester game when he didn’t play as much as he could play.”

However, the team may benefit from the loss in the future as it allows inexperienced players to gain

valuable time on the field that will carry through to the 2010 season.

“The team [he’s] playing with this year is really the same team he’s playing with next year,” Keeler said.

However, with the loss of such a high-impact player the past two seasons, the Hens need younger players to step up. Nonetheless, Marcorelle believes the future is bright for Delaware even if he is sitting on the sidelines.

“The guys behind us are just as good, they might as well be starters. They play a lot in different packages and that sort of thing. We all go to meetings, we all get mental reps,” he said. “There is a difference in athletic ability between starters and backups, but our backups are definitely athletic enough to play and play well. At this point they don’t really have a choice whether they want to step up or not they have to step up and I’m confident that they’ll do that.”

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