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Remnants of the home opener’s tailgate in the parking lot in front of the Fred Rust Ice Arena await cleanup by a bulldozer.

UDPD steps up tailgate regulation BY MARINA KOREN Editor-in-Chief

University police plan to increase law enforcement at all home games this football season, targeting underage drinking and other criminal activity at tailgates with the help of undercover policemen and state agencies. University police Chief Patrick Ogden, who joined the Office of Public Safety two years ago, said increased police presence at home

games this year reflect a renewed commitment to enhancing student safety. In previous years, activity at student tailgates was not as heavily regulated. “Everything that we do revolves around the health and safety of our students,” Ogden said. “We don’t want to give anybody a hard time. I don’t want to ruin anyone’s tailgating or football experience. It’s all in the name of safety.” Ogden said officers’ main

concern is the concentration of thousands of individuals in one area. If an emergency situation were to arise within the crowd, emergency personnel would have difficulty quickly arriving at the site of an incident. University police have also partnered with the Newark Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit, which operates using plainclothes

See TAILGATE page 13

When junior Tayo Lapite arrived on campus two years ago from Nigeria, he felt fooled. Lapite could not visit the university before enrolling, and thought the student body would look like it had been advertised to him—a blend of ethnicities. “I wasn’t able to come here for like Delaworld or a tour, so I was based on pictures,” Lapite said. “On UD’s website it says that it’s diverse. They have like a picture that picked one black person, one Chinese or something and made it look so diverse. But when I came here, it was a different story.” Lapite is not alone in his judgment. The university has historically admitted a largely white student body, and a recent accreditation report expressed concern about an absence of diversity. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education, a nonprofit organization whose evaluations can be used to determine if a school can receive federal funding, recommended in a July report that the university seek plans to improve diversity within the student body. It also expressed concern about the “worrisome” graduation rates of minority students. “This does feel like a very white campus,” university Provost Tom Apple said. “It was clear obviously

to our visiting committee that came in and looked at us, that we’re still not very diverse, so we have a long way to go.” Last year, the student body consisted of 77 percent white students, 5 percent black students and 5 percent Hispanic students, with the remaining portion constituting several other ethnicities, according to the university’s Office of Institutional Research. Apple said the university has developed multiple initiatives to improve diversity on campus, such as the formation of a Diversity and Equity Commission in 2009, to better represent minority groups on campus. One such goal is a faculty “hiring cluster,” which Apple said will bring in faculty members specializing in areas of diversity, like sociology. He said the hires may not be exclusive to minorities, but believes diversity experts usually are people in minority groups. He said many faculty members and departments seem motivated to participate in the initiative. “What’s nice is I see a lot of energy on campus and a lot of people really devoted to [improving diversity] and really dedicated to this,” Apple said. The Middle States report evaluated several aspects of the university, including the university’s “Path to Prominence” strategic

See DIVERSITY page 11

Ugandan woman shares story of escape from brutal civil war BY CHELSEA HOLLOWELL Staff Reporter

After rebels abducted Ayaa Grace’s husband in northern Uganda, she was left with her six children and no means of transportation or method of escape for four years. “I really had just had a small young baby who I had to carry on my back before the umbilical cord cut off,” Grace said. “We had to sleep under the bush for about a week without any food, without

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anything.” Grace, who was invited to speak Wednesday night in Brown Laboratory on behalf of a joint effort between the student organization Uganda Untold, the Department of Black American Studies and various other groups, recalled a story of war, poverty and hope as she lived it in Uganda. Grace said she lived in northern Uganda until the civil war’s eruption in 1993. The Ugandan government has fought a brutal war with two main rebel

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groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Allied Democratic Forces. The war, specifically the actions of the LRA, sparked the creation of the 2003 documentary Invisible Children. According to Grace, many others fled as well, sleeping under bushes and trying to avoid capture by the rebels, deprived of food. She said that Uganda as a whole has been devastated by the war, and that children in

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Ayaa Grace discussed Uganda’s civil war Wednesday in Brown Laboratory.

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October 11, 2011

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October 11, 2011

UD reacts to antiMuslim sentiment BY ALYSSA BRADY Staff Reporter

Bahrain-native Duaa Almeshqab’s five-week stay at the university helped her feel more comfortable in America, but a CNN poll shows the feeling might not be mutual. According to the poll, the majority of Americans remain wary of Muslims and their practices, more than 10 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Forty-seven percent of respondents to the poll said the values of Islam are at odds with those of Americans. The poll also reported nearly half of Americans would be uncomfortable s e e i n g M u s l i m s performing traditional d a i l y activities, such as women Khan w e a r i n g burqas or the construction of a mosque in a residential area. Almeshqab said before she left for the United States, some of her fellow Bahrainis expressed concerns about her trip. “People would say to me, ‘America— you’re going to the enemy?” Almeshqab said. “But to me, the enemy is the international policy, not going to Delaware.” Almeshqab participated in the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative over the summer and is now enrolled as a student at the university. The university has been selected eight times to host the program since 2004, and has seen more than 200 participants study in Newark. The MEPI program, funded through the U.S. Department of State, is designed to directly engage people from the Middle East and North Africa. Program organizers seek to teach civic engagement skills that participants can then apply to their home countries. Almeshqab said stereotypes she held about the U.S. were quickly diminished by her experience. She said she was surprised to see how much students are valued in America. “Everyone is very respectful and always asking, ‘Is everything okay’?” she said. “I got sick, coughing all the time. They took good care of me, even people not responsible. That gave me courage to come here again.” Political science professor and practicing Muslim Muqtedar Khan said the poll’s results were based heavily in misunderstanding between the cultures. “What are people afraid of?” Khan said. “They are afraid of ignorance, they just don’t know. I don’t blame them because 9/11 contributes to the fear, but American Muslims are not like

that.” The issue that disappoints Khan the most is the desire to ban Sharia Law, the religious law of Islam. Forty-nine bills have been introduced in 29 American states to ban Sharia. Sharia is the law of Islam that outlines religious, social and personal values for those who practice it. Khan said he is upset most by hypocrisy found in the desire to ban Sharia. He said because he believes America is based on freedom of religion, Muslims should be able to exercise their religious rights. “People trying to ban Sharia don’t know what they are talking about,” Khan said. “Sharia bans murder. If Sharia is banned in America, will murder be legal?” Freshman Hannah Rosenberg, who is not Muslim, went to a diverse high school where Caucasians represented the minority. She said that her high school experience helped her develop a perspective not everyone has the opportunity to gain. “I think a lot of people haven’t had a chance to personally know a Muslim,” Rosenberg said. “A lot of my friends are Muslim and I don’t see them any different than I see anyone else. I’ve seen my friends get stopped at an airport when they have never done anything. That always surprised me that people would do that.” Junior Zuneera Masood, a practicing Muslim at the university, said she believes racial profiling exists outside of airport security. Muslims are constantly looked at and judged for participating in their own culture, she said. “My first job was at Walgreens and a man came up to me and said, ‘You speak very good English,’” Masood said. “I looked at him and said, ‘So do you.’ Everyone laughed. I have to prove myself for some reason just because I’m not that pale and I don’t have the same color eyes as everyone but that doesn’t mean I’m not American. You can’t tell me what American looks like. I am what an American looks like.” After she reviewed the CNN poll, Masood said she was disturbed by the results. Then she scrolled down to find the posted comments on the story and felt even worse. “I wasn’t surprised, but I was taken aback by how disgusted people are with us,” Masood said. “Whenever I do hear things like that, you have this burn inside you, but it’s just ignorance. Sheer ignorance.” Senior Shazida Sarwar said many people misinterpret Islam because they do not understand that it is a religion that promotes peace. “Based on 9/11, our religion is correlated to violence and terrorism,” Sarwar said. “They don’t really get to know the religion. Islam literally means ‘peace’ and a lot of people just don’t know that.”

Recycling bins return to Main Street

THE REVIEW/Samantha Mancuso

Recycle containers returned to Newark Wednesday after a brief hiatus, during which the bins were redesigned. City personnel painted the containers blue to help differentiate them from regular trash cans.

Students barred from LSAT BY ABIGAIL STOLLAR Staff Reporter

Senior Dan Rose spent three months studying for what he called the most important test of his life, only to be denied admission in a matter of minutes. When Rose arrived at Purnell Hall to take the Law School Admissions Test on Oct. 1, he was informed that his photo identification was insufficient, denying him entry to the exam. Rose was one of several university students denied admission to the LSAT testing room due to discrepancies with their photo identification. Students taking the test are required to bring their admission ticket, a valid form of state identification and one two-bytwo inch photo that clearly shows their head and shoulders in front of a plain background, in order to be admitted into the exam. “It was literally horrible,” Rose said. “My whole personality is different now. I studied and waited so long for this test and it was all for nothing. It’s ridiculous.” An official from the Law School Admission Council, the organization that administers the exam, declined to provide the number of students who were denied admission to the test because of improper photo identifications for reasons of confidentiality. The website for LSAC states that a candidate’s photo must show only the face and shoulders

and be clear enough so there is no doubt as to the test taker’s identity. Rose said the exam supervisor told him to speak with the onsite LSAT administrator to verify his photograph. However, the administrator told Rose and other students with similar problems, that they could not take the test unless he had a photo with a completely blank background printed on photo paper. “She just kept yelling at me saying that I couldn’t take the test,” Rose said. “The amount of emotional stress you experience preparing for the test is just ridiculous. I couldn’t believe that I wouldn’t be able to take it.” Wayne Batchis, professor and adviser for the university’s prelaw program, said he learned about the incident from a student who contacted him after she was turned away from the exam. “This was a result of miscommunication and a misunderstanding of what the rules are,” Batchis said. “It sounds like the individuals who were administering the test interpreted something wrong.” The test is only administered four times per year, in February, June, October and December. Since many law schools accept students on a rolling basis, those who submit applications and LSAT scores earlier have a better chance of being admitted, Batchis said. “This is pretty significant for the students affected,” Batchis said. “Prelaw students who are planning

to apply for fall admission need an LSAT score. Not having an October LSAT score is a huge disadvantage.” Senior Derek Gay, who took the LSAT on Oct. 17, was informed by a supervisor that his photo was unacceptable because there was a blackboard in the far right corner of his photo. “When they first told me I wasn’t allowed in the test, I thought they were joking,” Gay said. “Turns out they weren’t.” Although the blackboard took up a small amount of space in the corner of his photo, he was informed that he needed a new picture. Gay said he had just enough time to run home and fix his photograph and return to the testing site. “I ran two miles in 14 minutes and arrived there at 8:29, literally one minute before the test,” Gay said. “I was soaked in sweat, but they finally let me in. I couldn’t even concentrate for the first 30 or 45 minutes because I was exhausted, but at least I got to take it.” On-site supervisors told individuals like Gay and Rose to contact the LSAC directly to discuss what had occurred. Rose said he received an automated response on Monday evening from the LSAC saying that his case had been sent to a review board. “My future hinges on the results of this test, and now I can’t take it,” Rose said. “I had a valid state form of [identification]. That’s how the government recognizes you, so why isn’t that good enough for a test?”

October 11, 2011

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This week in history: October 13, 1971 - Student theater group, The Vietnam Veterans Against the War, protests hostilities in Vietnam in full camouflage on campus.

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Man charged with burglary on Cleveland Avenue A man was charged with an alleged burglary on East Cleveland Avenue early Sunday morning, according to Newark police spokesman MCpl. Gerald Bryda. At approximately 1:23 a.m., the victim returned to his home on the first block of East Cleveland Avenue when he heard noise coming from an upstairs floor. Knowing that no one was home, he asked who it was and asked them to come downstairs, Bryda said. None of the residents could identify the man, who was in possession of a backpack containing items which belonged to the residents. The victims securely held the man until police arrived and took him into custody, he said. The man was charged with second-degree burglary of a dwelling and two counts of theft under $1,500. Stolen City work truck recovered A stolen City of Newark work truck was recovered Saturday behind the Dickinson Hall complex, according to Newark police spokesman MCpl. Gerald Bryda. An unknown suspect removed a white Chevrolet pickup truck, which had been last seen Thursday, from the city garage, Bryda said. It was then seen by a university employee and a university police officer outside of the complex, at which time they contacted Newark Police. The vehicle was dusted for fingerprints and searched for evidence, which is currently awaiting processing, Bryda said. There are currently no suspects. The charge would be theft of a motor vehicle. Bicycle reported stolen at Main Street Court Apartments A bicycle theft was reported Wednesday at the Main Street Court Apartments on the 200 block of East Delaware Avenue, according to Newark police spokesman MCpl. Gerald Bryda. Sometime in late September, an unknown person removed the victim’s bicycle from a bike rack, Bryda said. The theft was not reported until this week, however. The bicycle had been chained to the rack with a chainlink bike lock, and police believe the lock was cut and removed with the bike, Bryda said. The charged would be theft under $1,000. There are no known suspects at this time. —Martin Martinez

THE REVIEW/Hanan Zatloff

The Hens, accompanied by head coach K.C. Keeler, rush onto the field Saturday at Delaware Stadium before the game against William & Mary.

in brief UDSIS down for upgrades starting Thursday The university’s student records system UDSIS will be down for a major upgrade this week. The system will be unavailable from 5 p.m. Thursday until Monday, when it will be back with an upgraded interface. IT officials said the update would bring drastic changes to the system’s interface and users should complete a checklist of technical requirements prior to signing on, located on the university’s registrar website. New employee mentor announced John Warren, formerly the director of custodial and pest control services,

has been appointed as the university’s new employee mentor. Warren, who received his degree from Franklin & Marshall College, will coach university staff on reaching performance goals. University officials say Warren has experience in team building and leadership training, and was honored with an award for leadership and service with an award in his name last August. University President Patrick Harker said Warren has exemplified leadership throughout his years at the university and shown that he is an adequate candidate for the position.

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Submit events to calendar@udreview.com Tuesday, Oct. 11 Academic Enrichment Workshop: Academic Management 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Willard Hall 007 Wednesday, Oct. 12 Latino Heritage Month: Comida Latina Food Festival 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Kent and Rodney dining halls Thursday, Oct. 13 2011 First-Year Common Reader Program presents Rebecca Skloot 4 p.m., Mitchell Hall, freshmen only

Peer mentor application now available Applications for the fall 2012 First Year Seminar peer mentor positions are now available. Peer mentors aid First Year Experience teachers, and are a resource to students who may feel more comfortable speaking with a fellow student rather than a professor. The program runs during the first eight weeks of the fall semester. The deadline for the application is 12 p.m. on Oct. 24.

Friday, Oct. 14 McNair Scholars Program Graduate Fair 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Trabant University Center multipurpose rooms Saturday, Oct. 15 Final performance of Resident Ensemble Players’ “The Little Foxes” 7:30 p.m., Thompson Theatre, Roselle Center for the Arts Sunday, Oct. 16 Wind Ensemble concert 8 p.m., Puglisi Orchestra Hall Monday, Oct. 17 Career Event: Graduate School Admissions Process 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Career Services Center

October 11, 2011

Politics Straight, No Chaser A new week, a new GOP frontrunner

An artist’s illustration of what the Goldilocks planet may look like in space.

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Professors, students examine possibility of life on new planet BY DAN MCCARTHY Assistant News Editor

A team of European astronomers recently discovered a new, possibly habitable planet in Earth’s intergalactic backyard, but local experts say more research is needed to determine its viability. The planet, formally known as HD 85512 b, goes by the epithet “Goldilocks” because its climate is not too hot or too cold—it is just right to support single-cell life. John Gizis, physics and astronomy professor, said while many details about the newly discovered planet remain unknown, its discovery alone shows continued progress in the hunt for intergalactic locations that could support life. “At least we know there is a planet there, which is new, right?” Gizis said. “A few years ago, we didn’t have any planets like this, we only had much bigger planets, and 20 years ago, we didn’t even have any big planets.” Located 36 light-years from Earth, HD 85512 b was found in the constellation Vela. One light year is approximately 5.88 trillion miles and, for comparison, the North Star is 430 light years away. The planet is located next to the star Gliese 581’s habitable zone. Planets circling around a star within that zone can potentially contain water and support habitation. Gizis said another reason the Goldilocks planet is promising to host life is its small relative size, only about three and a half times Earth’s mass. Physics and astronomy professor Judith Provencal also pointed to the

planet’s size as a factor that could point towards life. “Most of the planets we’ve been finding now are like Jupitersize or bigger, so you wouldn’t find life as we think of it on one of those planets,” Provencal said. According to researchers, HD 85512 b is a place of extremes. Because it does not rotate, temperatures are estimated to reach as high as 160 degrees on the side facing its star, and as low as 25 degrees below zero on the side that faces away. Gizis said these calculations have been made under the assumption that there is an atmosphere similar to the Earth’s. He said all hopes of this planet’s habitability hinge on whether or not such an atmosphere exists. “Then they said, ‘well, if it is at least half covered by clouds, then it could have the right temperature’,” Gizis said. “Minus those clouds, it wouldn’t work.” That type of cloud cover is not unheard of. According to researchers, Earth has about a 50 percent cloud cover. Senior Nicholas Troup, who interned at NASA’s Goddard Center and studies the habitability of planets, started in an email message that life on this newly discovered planet faces other obstacles, such as its proximity to its star and its eccentric orbit. He said while these obstacles would make the planet inhabitable to complex life, single-celled organisms, such as an amoeba, may be able to function. “So for this particular planet, the prospect of complex life developing is grim,” Troup said.

The planet’s star is much dimmer and cooler than Earth’s Sun, which poses a problem with developing plant life. Ultraviolet rays are produced less often, making photosynthesis difficult, Troup said. The Earth’s Sun will eventually cool down as well, and become a white dwarf star. For now the Sun is much brighter than Gliese 581, the star the Goldilocks planet orbits. Though NASA’s shuttle program was recently cut and the new planet would be out of a shuttle’s reach, Gizis said there still remain options to gather information. “An interesting issue is now much NASA will do for space telescopes to study planets like this,” he said. Another “planet” was also recently discovered, but the diamond mass is 4,000 light years away. Also, whether or not it can actually be considered a planet is debatable, Gizis said. “In this case, all that’s left is a white dwarf with the mass of a planet, and the idea that they believe this white dwarf became really cold and crystallized, so it really would be like a giant diamond,” Gizis said. “So, it’s not really related to planets as this Goldilocks planet probably is.” The future of HD 85512b remains unknown and, according to Gizis, could stay that way for some time. “It’s not entirely clear that this planet would be habitable, and maybe it never will be clear, but it is very promising,” Gizis said. “This is some sort of super-Earth, hopefully, that you can get excited about.”

As the nation moves toward the end of President Barack Obama’s first term in office and a looming presidential election in November 2012, the focus has shifted toward the Republican Party’s competition for the nomination and their apparent inability to find a strong frontrunner. For university students, most of the major party primaries in our lifetime have consisted of strong party-approved and appointed candidates moving quickly through primary season and on to the general election. The candidate has usually been chosen more by party leaders than the people, and strong pressure was placed on a candidate who tried to cross the party. That all changed in 2008, when now-Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Obama engaged in a long primary battle for the Democratic nomination. That contest redefined the nature of primary season. In the past, states like Iowa and New Hampshire ruled the scene because their primaries came first, and a win in these states led to momentum that would ultimately win a particular nomination. In this system, the states whose primaries are earliest have the most power. During and after the 2008 election, many states chose to move their primary dates up in the year, thus giving them more influence. The frenzy that ensued in 2008 for the Democrats seems to have transferred to the Republican field for 2012. The headlines covering the 2012 Republican field running for president over the last several months reveal an odd and distinct pattern. One candidate quickly rises in popularity, plateaus as the frontrunner for a few weeks, and then quickly drops back to the levels of the rest of the field as a new frontrunner emerges. From Newt Gingrich to Michelle Bachmann, then Rick Perry and now Herman Cain, the pattern repeats itself. Throughout this primary season, steadfast frontrunner Mitt Romney has maintained support hovering around 20 percent, other candidates have at times appeared to rival or pass him in popularity, but the former Massachusetts governor consistently manages to weather the storm as candidates fall around him. The Republican Party initially warmed up to Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House during the Clinton White House. A series of botched public appearances and mismanaged campaign finances quickly led to his political demise. At one point, Gingrich took a lavish vacation with his wife, and the pair was then exposed to have outrageous unpaid bills to Tiffany & Co. jewelers, resulting in his entire campaign staff walking out on him. To Republican voters, he was considered to be a less than

serious candidate. The next GOP hopeful to rise in the polls was Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.). In August, she won the Iowa Ames Straw Poll. A straw poll is a vote with non-binding results held by states to gauge support for candidates in upcoming elections. As the spotlight on Bachmann intensified, she responded with a series of public gaffes about American history and policy facts that garnered widespread criticism from the Republican field and political pundits. Matthew The final stake Friedman was driven when Newsweek gave Bachmann a cover story with the headline “The Queen of Rage.” The photo featured a close-up of the congresswoman against a stark blue background as she stared directly into the camera with a crazed, wide-eyed look on her face. The picture stirred up controversy and Tina Brown, the editor of Newsweek, ultimately apologized. But the damage had been done. Bachmann’s time as the frontrunner was over. A late entry into the Republican field was Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose poll numbers peaked in mid-September. Republicans flocked to support Perry, but the truth is, the country knew very little about him or his policies. The other members of the field constantly attacked him in a series of debates on several policy issues. Perry supports the rights of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally through no fault of their own. When a parent brings a child across the border, for instance, Perry supports that child’s ability to grow up and attend college in the U.S. This sounds very similar to parts of Obama’s Dream Act, a bill the Republican Party is largely against. Bachmann directly attacked Perry for mandating that female teenagers in Texas receive the HPV vaccine, on the grounds that he trampled fundamental parental rights and passed the legislation because the drug company that produced the vaccine had contributed to his campaign. Though Perry denies these allegations, his time as the GOP frontrunner came to a grinding halt as quickly as it had begun. The current Republican primary candidate-of-the-hour is Herman Cain, who has little political background but is a successful businessman and former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, headquartered in Nebraska. Cain

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October 11, 2011

Bee population dwindling UD maintains apiary, sells honey at UDairy BY HANNA MADSEN Staff Reporter

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The UDairy Creamery will sell honey harvested on campus through the end of November.

Despite declining numbers in bee populations across the country, the university’s apiary is still buzzing. The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources recently introduced honey harvested and bottled on campus at the UDairy Creamery. It will be sold until late November to benefit the university’s 25-year-old teaching apiary on South Campus. Bill Leitzinger, president of the Delaware Beekeepers Association, said that bee keepers and honey bee populations have been in decline since 2007, when the insects began to mysteriously disappear due to what’s now called colony collapse disorder. Worker bees disappear from the colony and leave behind the queen bee with younger offspring, stagnating the bee population. “They couldn’t trace it,” Leitzinger said. “Something was happening where the bees were just gone.” This problem has wideranging impacts, Leitzinger said. Roughly $14 million in agricultural wholesale products depend on honey bees, and

produce such as apples and melons would cost 10 times as much without them, he said. The university is helping to combat the problem by operating a second apiary in Georgetown, which pollinates locally grown vegetables.

“Something was happening where the bees were just gone.” -Bill Leitzinger, Delaware Beekeepers Assocation president Deborah Delaney, director of the apiculture program at the university, thinks a different factor has contributed more significantly to the recent decline of honey bees. “Every decade there is some kind of disappearing disorder,” Delaney said. “So this isn’t out of the ordinary—except now, we have Varroa mites.”

Native to Asia, Varroa mites are parasites that feed on honey bees. They are steadily decreasing the honey bee population across the nation. “They are really horrible things,” Leitzinger said. “We as bee keepers have to help the bees fight Varroas every year.” Despite disorders and parasites, both Leitzinger and Delaney said keeping bees in Delaware is easy. There is no license required, and start-up apiary equipment can be bought online for $300 to $400. Senior Bonnie McDevitt said she researches native bees under the apiculture program and harvested honey last summer at the apiary. The process involves pulling honey-coated frames from the boxes and dumping the honey into a large cylinder, she said. “All the honey splats into the cylinder and then drips into the bucket,” McDevitt said. “It’s a really fun, sticky process.” Delaney teaches a class for interested bee keepers in the spring semester, where students manage their own bee hive. “Almost anyone can be a bee keeper. You just have to be a little brave,” Leitzinger said.

October 11, 2011

Gunman robs three on Cleveland BY DANA FINKLE Staff Reporter

Three Newark residents were allegedly robbed at gunpoint by an unknown suspect in a parking lot on Cleveland Avenue early Tuesday morning. At approximately 1:30 a.m., a 23-year-old woman and two men were getting out of a vehicle parked behind a residence in the 100 block of East Cleveland Avenue when an armed man approached them and demanded their property, according to Newark police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall. The suspect, who was carrying a gun, took each of the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wallets and cell phones before fleeing on foot through a driveway toward East Cleveland Avenue, Farrall said. No one was injured during the incident. The suspect was described as having an olive complexion and a thick beard. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a red hooded sweatshirt and a red fitted baseball cap. Newark police spokesman MCpl. Gerald Bryda said he believes it is wise for students to travel in groups at night. He said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also

important for students to comply with a gunmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demands. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just want to remind people, if that happens, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put up a fight,â&#x20AC;? Bryda said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just put up your valuables, because your safety is more important than anything else.â&#x20AC;? Bryda said there has not been a trend involving armed robberies and college students this year. Junior Mary Arnstein, who lives on Cleveland Avenue, said the news was unpleasant becauseÂ she does not always find people walking in her direction when she needs to walk home at night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On weekends I usually have people to walk with, but when coming back from a meeting or class, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a choice,â&#x20AC;? Arnstein said. Although she typically walks down the 100 block of East Cleveland Avenue after sorority chapter meetings Sunday nights, Arnstein said she may consider a different way home because of the robbery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m rethinking that route from now on,â&#x20AC;? she said. Senior Sarah Berrue, who lives in an apartment on Kershaw Street close to Cleveland Avenue, said the presence of criminal activity

was disturbing because she already thought the area was unsafe. Berrue said she feels less safe when walking down parts of Cleveland Avenue that are further from campus and would try to find someone to walk home with in the future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been fond of living on Cleveland because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard that this stuff happens around here.â&#x20AC;? Berrue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a scary thought because I live near [the scene of the crime].â&#x20AC;? Farrall said he recommends students remain vigilant and treat all suspicious action seriously. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you see anyone suspicious walking around a parking lot late at night, it would be a good idea to call the police so they can determine if it is, in fact, suspicious behavior,â&#x20AC;? Farrall said. Anyone with additional information about this incident should contact Det. Nick Sansone at (302) 366-7110, ext. 135 or nick. sansone@cj.state.de.us.

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Tom Lehman contributed to this article.

AEPhi to be reinstated in spring BY SAMANTHA TOSCANO Student Affairs Editor

Alpha Epsilon Phi will be allowed to operate at the university again after the sorority was suspended last month, according to sorority president Talia Fishbon. During an Oct. 3 meeting, Fishbon said the sorority had received a deferred suspension from the Office of Student Conduct for the spring semester and will serve a probationary period through the fall 2012 semester. AEPhi, which was previously under a one-year suspension, will be allowed to meet as a chapter, recruit, and hold sisterhood events in February. Fishbon said the suspension was lifted because of support from the Greek life and university communities and their philanthropy organizations. She also asked the Office of Student Conduct to review the case. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I asked them questions about

the case and they looked more at it and noticed that if a student was in the same position, the sanction would have been much less, so they lessened it because they wanted to be in line,â&#x20AC;? Fishbon said. Scott Mason, associate director of Student Centers, explained that the sanctions were modified after reviewing the individual student conduct process and comparing it to the student group conduct process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was determined that the sanction on AEPhi was not in line with the current practices of the offices,â&#x20AC;? Mason said. He said there will be additional educational sanctions to address the behavior at the formal. According to Fishbon, the chapter will internally respond to the eight girls who acted inappropriately during the formal. As for the chapter as a whole, Fishbon said she thinks every girl in the chapter has a renewed appreciation for the sorority.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was nice because we all kind of thought the suspension was a little harsh and they recognized that everything wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in line and we appreciate it,â&#x20AC;? Fishbon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now I am a senior and I get to have some of my senior year back.â&#x20AC;? Senior Jessica Krummel, a member of the AEPhi executive board, said the original suspension was difficult to accept. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hard to acknowledge that everything I had worked so hard for and spent so much time on was over,â&#x20AC;? Krummel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Although it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t over forever, for me as a senior, it felt that way.â&#x20AC;? Krummel said she is excited the sorority will return in the spring, especially since she believes the suspension has brought the sorority sisters closer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize how much something means to you until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone and after losing AEPhi and being lucky enough to get our suspension reduced, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think anyone would do anything to compromise that,â&#x20AC;? Krummel said.

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University alumnus Drew Marshall, 27, of Wilmington, protested the Federal Reserve, the United Statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; central bank, and the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq on Thursday in front of the Trabant University Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to inspire the students to be free to share their ideas and to stop the apathy and to make more people aware of just how important the times are right now,â&#x20AC;? Marshall said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we should all unite against the war.â&#x20AC;?

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Reporter talks Afghan war, Taliban resurgence BY HANNA MADSEN Staff Reporter

Pamela Constable, deputy foreign editor for the Washington Post, called the war in Afghanistan a likely failure and warned of declining conditions in Pakistan during a speech in Mitchell Hall Wednesday night. Constable spoke at the university as part of the Center for Political Communication’s National Agenda lecture series, and drew on her years of experience reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan. She also recently published a book titled “Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself.” Constable attributed growing problems with the Taliban to an enduring culture of corruption and tribal traditions in Afghanistan, combined with ranging American international interests. Taliban forces are returning stronger and bolder, Constable said. Militants frequently shut down cell phone towers across Afghanistan to prove their influence, she said. In one raid on a rural Afghan government base, local Taliban members used Twitter statuses to broadcast new developments. “We are damned if we stay and we are damned if we leave,” Constable said of American occupation in Afghanistan. Taliban militants are only reinforcing accepted customs, Constable said. When the Taliban regime ended in 2007 with the U.S. invasion, she said the conservative culture in Afghanistan remained. Men did not shave their beards and women

did not begin to walk unescorted, both previous Afghan traditions the Taliban enforced. “What we hated about the Taliban was that they forced us to do something we were already doing,” Constable quoted from an Afghan farmer. According to Constable, corruption remains one of those customs. Superior applicants for Afghan government projects and positions have been denied because they are given to family members instead. Funding then went into family funds rather than to necessary education and infrastructure improvements, she said. Constable said she believed the U.S. efforts in the country have been ineffective. “What is there to show for it?” Constable said. “I can count on my fingers what there is to show for it: poorly built schools, bad bridges, no textbooks.” Taliban forces sought to control poppy farms, utilized as cash crops, during their regime, Constable said. Poppies are a primary ingredient in heroin, and since American occupation, poppy farms have reemerged. Despite American and U.N. efforts to halt the trade, Afghanistan now produces more than 75 percent of the world’s heroin, she said. Anti-Americanism was deepened by the attempted suppression of the drug trade, combined with failures on projects promised to Afghans, Constable said. Despite the collaborative effort of dozens of nations, Constable said

Afghans don’t see the U.S. occupation as a time to rebuild. She said that neighbors like China and India make the region crucial to U.S. interests, but that anti-Americanism in Afghanistan and Pakistan is the highest it has been in decades. “There, American visitors are extensions of failed international policies,” Constable said. Constable said the mission leading to Osama bin Laden’s assassination, conducted in Pakistan, has intensified anti-Americanism in the country. “To us, it was a great victory,” Constable said. “To them, it was a great humiliation.” The declining relationship with Pakistan means valuable information between agencies is not shared, Constable said. That lack of support from Pakistan then strengthens the Taliban in Afghanistan. With the power vacuum created by recent assassinations in Afghanistan’s government, a civil war there could be possible. “For many people, the Taliban are a necessary alternative to a weak and almost non-existent state,” Constable said. Both American and international pressure are not enough, she said. “The mission is becoming close to failure,” Constable said. “It’s going to take more time and more effort than the world is willing to take.” Every American community has been touched by the war in Afghanistan, Constable said. She asked audience members to raise their hand if they knew someone who had

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Washington Post deputy foreign editor Pamela Constable visited the university as part of the National Agenda lecture series Wednesday. been or was stationed in Afghanistan, and hands across the room went up. “The question is not whether they are dying, but what they are dying for,” she said. For some students, like freshman Sarah Swanson, the message was different from what she heard on the news. “It’s hard because we want to have faith—and we can’t,” Swanson said. “I felt my heart drop.”

Freshman Eric Komar has an older brother who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq. He said he found that Constable reinforced many of the views his brother developed abroad. However, he said it would be difficult to completely pull out of the war. “They would be appalled if we simply ignored what tens of thousands were set out to do,” Komar said. “We can’t stop.”

Public Safety promotes new campus shooter PSA BY MOLLY TORRES Staff Reporter

Although the odds of being attacked by a shooter on campus may be low, students should be prepared for the instance, university police officials say. Office of Public Safety officials are promoting a public service announcement titled “Shots Fired on Campus: When Lightning Strikes,” on their website to educate students and faculty on how to avoid dangerous situations in the event an armed gunman arrives on campus.

Marcia Nickle, emergency preparedness manager for the Public Safety office, said individuals should be prepared to react appropriately in a life-threatening encounter. “I think now is a good time to teach people how to protect themselves,” Nickle said. “We’re not helpless.” The 20-minute PSA encourages students to adopt a survival mindset incorporating awareness, preparation and rehearsal of protection tactics. It also includes tips and examples of what to do in case a shooter situation arises, including strategies for escape,

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hiding and taking out the assailant. The video urges students to report suspicious people and activities to university police, resident assistants and professors. This semester, the Office of Public Safety began offering presentations by request to student and faculty groups, where they provide a brief information session, show the video and answer questions. “Most people haven’t been in that situation,” Nickle said. “Having an officer there to provide insight is an added benefit.” University police Chief Patrick Ogden said the video is an effective tool to educate the public on campus safety. “Examples from this video are intended to train the university community,” Ogden said. “It’s a step in the right direction as far as I’m concerned.” According to Nickle, the university purchased the licensing rights to “Shots Fired on Campus” in 2009 from a Washington-based instructional company called the Center for Personal Protection and Safety. Many universities across the nation have also used the PSA, including the University of South Carolina, Stetson University in Florida and the University of Texas at San Antonio. After the licensing rights were purchased, University Media Services incorporated footage of university police officers and campus surroundings to make the PSA more relatable. Ogden said it was also important to make sure all of the information was relevant and up-to-

date.

“We consulted with the Delaware State Police Training Academy, in reference to active shooter training for their troopers,” Ogden said. “The information presented in the video is an example of the best practices available at this point.” The PSA has been shown to the Faculty Senate and Residence Life officials, and Nickle said various fraternities and sororities have also requested a presentation. Although the video has just begun spreading through the university community, those who have already seen it expressed mixed emotions. Chrysanthi Leon, sociology and criminal justice professor, watched the video as a faculty senator in April and was disappointed. Leon thinks the film is “ridiculous” and instills a sense of concern and worry in viewers without providing constructive instructions. She also said the film placed unnecessary emphasis on the frequency of campus shootings. “They framed the beginning of the film as if this is an increasing, pressing problem, but when you look at the statistics it’s extraordinarily rare,” Leon said. “If we’re going to spend money on a film, why not spend money on an issue that’s actually relevant to our campus, such as sexual violence?” Although there has not been a recorded shooting on the university campus in recent years, a student was killed during an incident at Delaware State University in Dover in Sept. 2007. “Shots Fired” claims that the likelihood of a campus shooting is similar to the probability of a lighting

strike. Kathleen Kerr, director of Residence Life thinks the film is helpful, but was prepared for a range of reactions from RAs who saw the PSA this summer. “I think the video does a really nice job of presenting very pragmatic suggestions about what you do if you find yourself in that situation,” Kerr said. “It’s not over-dramatized, they don’t use scare tactics and I think the RAs appreciated that.” Senior Hillary Blair said she had not yet seen the PSA, but thought it was worth looking at because it may provide her with new safety techniques. “I’m probably not prepared for an emergency on campus,” Blair said. “All I know is the basic stuff I’ve read in articles about shootings at other schools, like shut the lights and lock the door.” Senior Allan Arisi said he felt safe on campus and does not think the occurrence of an attack on campus is likely. “I might consider looking at it, but I’m not sure,” Arisi said. “I don’t think a lot of people are walking around with guns.” Nickle said Public Safety plans to promote the PSA through faculty and registered student organizations. There are no plans to make watching the video mandatory for students, but she hopes the university community will embrace it in the future. “It’s the best we can do in this type of situation, because you can never predict it,” Nickle said. “Overall, I think we’re in a lot better shape than other schools.”

October 11, 2011

New Delaware Ave. complex proposed BY LAUREN PITRUZZELLO Staff Reporter

The Newark Planning Commission will consider a proposal to construct a new four-story apartment and retail complex on East Delaware Avenue in November. During Tuesday’s planning commission meeting, developer Jeff Lang, of Lang Development Group, outlined a plan to build 4,000 square feet of commercial space in the lower levels of the building with 24 townhouse-style apartments built on the upper levels. The new complex would be located between the Washington House and Planned Parenthood buildings. The demolition of two houses located at 132 and 136 E. Delaware Ave., would be required in addition to the rezoning of one of the properties’ segments. Lang said the one-to-two bedroom apartments would be geared toward graduate students and young professionals. He thinks the market is favorable for properties marketed toward people within that demographic, but many of them move to Trolley Square and Philadelphia because they cannot find housing in Newark. “We can build four-bedroom units, we can rent four bedroom units, but we don’t think that is where the need is,” Lang said. Lang said the development group

would still allow occupants to rent the property, rather than requiring owneroccupancy of each apartment. The commission voted five to one to table the proposal because they felt Lang needed to develop the plan further and the Planning and Development department needed more time to review the project. Officials plan to revisit the proposal during the next meeting in November. Roy Lopata, the city’s planning and development director, said the proposal is still in the development stage, and expects to see a modified plan when the commission reconvenes. “Based on the meeting it certainly appears that changes will be made,” Lopata said Lang’s original proposal, which was changed to reduce the building’s density, featured 28 apartment units. Professor Ralph Begleiter, vice chairman of the commission, said he motioned to table the proposal because the commission was unprepared to discuss it without a report from the Planning and Development department. “I’m confronted with the situation of having to deal with a proposal that was only presented 10 minutes into this meeting,” Begleiter said. Lopata said any changes in the downtown Newark area are compliant with the city’s comprehensive development plan, which the planning commission adopted in 2008. The

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This property, located at 132 E. Delaware Ave., will be demolished to accommodate the new apartment and retail complex if the Newark Planning Commission approves the construction proposal. plan calls for the promotion of owneroccupied housing in downtown Newark. Jim Baeurle, a partner in Washington House LLC, said he requires occupants to own their property, a policy in accordance with recommendations from the development plan. He thinks other developers should apply similar restrictions. “You all spent a ton of time writing a comprehensive development plan.” Baeurle said. “We had to stick to it, and you should stick to it now.” Lang said his proposal would not require occupants to own their residence but he thinks the layout of the apartments will attract young adults

who will eventually buy the apartments. “A place that could potentially be owner-occupied is better than a place that could never be owner-occupied,” Lang said. The proposal also met some resistance from members of the public. Some local residents felt that owneroccupancy would not be encouraged by the developer, and were concerned that the ability to rent the apartments would only attract undergraduate students. Washington House resident John Horner said he hopes to see more residencies that bring a greater amount of diversity to the downtown Main Street population. “If Mr. Lang really is able to attract young professionals and young

families, than it could be great,” Horner said. “I just don’t foresee him being able to do that.” Joy Scott, an owner of a Washington House condominium, said she does not mind living among university students, but she believes there should be a limit to how many residencies are geared toward that demographic. She said she thinks the apartments could attract more undergraduate students and increase the number of students to an undesirable level. “We aren’t saying that we don’t want students to live on Main Street,” Donner said. “We’re saying that we don’t want to live on campus.”

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Ravens linebacker defends gay rights BY MAUDE MICHEL Staff Reporter

Brendon Ayanbadejo makes his living chasing down running backs and sacking quarterbacks as a linebacker for the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baltimore Ravens. Off the field, however, Ayanbadejo tackles the issue of gay rights. After defeating the New York Jets the night before, Ayanbadejo spoke to students more about his cause than his sport Oct. 2. To Ayanbadejo, football is not the most important part of life. He seeks to use his status to become a role model. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a whole other world out there besides footballâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;people rely on us to put smiles on their faces and bring their families together,â&#x20AC;? Ayanbadejo said. Ayanbadejo said his past is what inspired him to advocate for gay rights. His mother is white and his father is Nigerian, and their relationship was considered taboo while they were dating, Ayanbadejo said. He said he sees parallels between the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to his parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; relationship and many peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to the gay community now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all people, we should all be treated in the same way,â&#x20AC;? Ayanbadejo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No better, no worse.â&#x20AC;? Ayanbadejo, who is not gay, is a spokesperson for the NOH8 and the Equality Maryland civil rights organizations. Haven, the student-run LGTB group, and the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s football team cosponsored Ayanbadejoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speech held in the Trabant Theater. Colleen Dougherty, Haven president, said Ayanbadejoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career as a professional athlete is why she jumped at the chance to co-sponsor an event with him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try and work with speakers who wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally be associated

with the LGBT community,â&#x20AC;? Dougherty said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people think of athletes, they think of masculine, macho men. Especially with football, which is never associated with us.â&#x20AC;? An audience member asked Ayanbadejo how one can be a gay rights advocate without being labeled as gay. He thinks it is beneficial for the gay community to have allies of all sexualities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did it on my own, [Equality Maryland] asked me for support and I said Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could be off, but having a straight person reaching out to others can help.â&#x20AC;? Ayanbadejo said he has been called derogatory names by people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share his views, but receives support from other outlets. He said he has never received backlash from his teammates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some sport websitesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they rip me apart, but on Huffington Post, people say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so courageousâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? Ayanbadejo said. Ayanbadejo is hopeful for more positive change for gay rights and believes the current generation is the key to making it happen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Public opinion is changing and politicians want to be with whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current,â&#x20AC;? Ayanbadejo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting critical mass.â&#x20AC;? Freshman Kelsey McKee said she attended the speech because she heard it would be inspirational, but was surprised by the subject matter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were told it would just be great for team sports and then to go in and find out a professional athlete is for gay rightsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you just never hear that,â&#x20AC;? McKee said. Freshman Hannah Pepper said she enjoyed hearing from an athlete with a different perspective. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know in sports itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suppose to be that everyone is macho and perceived a certain way but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to understand that everyone isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the same and not a cookie cutter,â&#x20AC;? Pepper said.

Politics: Cain in dead heat with Romney for Republican presidential nomination Continued from page 5 is a strong supporter of the Tea Party Movement and his â&#x20AC;&#x153;9-99â&#x20AC;? tax plan has gained strong conservative support in the last few weeks. The plan calls for a 9 percent flat tax on businesses, a 9 percent flat tax on individual citizens and a 9 percent national sales tax. While economists doubt the effectiveness of such a plan, for a party craving a simpler tax code free of loopholes, the plan has caught the most recent wave of public support. The most recent Gallup Poll shows Cain to be in a dead heat

with Romney. It will most likely be the case that, in time, Cain will fall like the GOP hopefuls before him. Barring any new entrant into the field, it appears Romney is the only candidate who has proven support with any kind of consistency, and he is the favorite to win the Republican Party nomination. Political scientists are debating what this phenomenon means for the Republican Party and if it gives any indicators toward 2012 general election results. If lukewarm Romney wins the nomination in the end, what it demonstrates is that the GOP doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have a candidate

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they can rally behind for 2012. With such a long primary process, it appears the candidates have become a bust too soon, and it will be difficult for any of them to boom again. Especially with the news of New Jersey Gov. and university alumnus Chris Christie officially not seeking the presidency this time around, it appears there is nobody left to have a late season boom into the election against Obama. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Matthew Friedman, mjf@udel.edu @MattJFriedman

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New website brings office hours online Alumnus develops virtual space for students to study, chat with professors before exams BY LAUREN PITRUZZELLO Staff Reporter

Social networking websites can be a distraction for some students trying to study, but one university alumnus hopes his peer-based study service will be helpful during lastminute exam preparation. Nikhil Paul, a 2009 graduate, created the website Nfoshare.com to foster group studying online. Professors can register for the site with an email address and set up a virtual space for questions and messages from students, who access the site through Facebook. The network allows students to ask professors, fellow students, teaching assistants or participating tutors from the Academic Enrichment Center questions during the night before an exam. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My thinking was that we have social networks for everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; social networks for cat lovers, social networks for carsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we have a social network for the classroom?â&#x20AC;? Paul said. Last year, approximately 20 classes and 500 students used the website, Paul said. This semester approximately 25 classes and 850 students have registered for the service. Paul said some professors have hesitated to use Nfoshare because they feel it will take too much time to manage. However, he thinks the website would actually save time for professors since every student can see answers to questions raised by their peers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They get so many emails that ask the same questions, but with this they can answer questions, tag it, save it and then it will be there for future semesters,â&#x20AC;? Paul said. Paul said the site is currently only in use at the university, though he is hoping to create models that can be used elsewhere. He is in talks with Drexel University and Philadelphia University about piloting programs on their campuses.

Professor Chandra Kambhamettu said students in his introductory computer science course did not immediately gravitate toward the site last semester, but used the site more frequently as the course progressed. Kambhamettu said he would access the site during the night before an exam to answer his studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; questions. He said he liked the convenience of being able to directly speak to his students, and they liked receiving feedback while they were studying. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They study the night before the exams, so they were more prepared to ask me questions, and I was able to answer them from my home,â&#x20AC;? Kambhamettu said. Senior Victoria Winslow, who used the website for an introductory psychology course, said she felt there were pros and cons to online tutoring. However, she thought the service was particularly helpful for students who might not ask questions during a normal class period. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It gives students time to formulate their thoughts, write it down, and then get an answer fairly quickly,â&#x20AC;? Winslow said. Senior Nicole Sermabeikian said she thought the website was helpful for her introductory biology course last semester. She thinks the website will be a viable resource for studying, as long as discussion is focused on classwork. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has the aspects of social media but also online tutors and all those things to help you study,â&#x20AC;? Sermabeikian said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a twoin-one.â&#x20AC;? Junior Arun Das said his upperlevel engineering course will utilize the site this semester for exams. He thinks the site is going to be helpful with the difficult curriculum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a lot of physics concepts in the course, and students that really struggle with that could benefit from the tutors on the site,â&#x20AC;? Das said.

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Diversity: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still not where we need to beâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Continued from page 1 plan, which aims for â&#x20AC;&#x153;a diverse and stimulating undergraduate experience.â&#x20AC;? According to 2004 graduation rates listed in the Middle States report, 52 percent of black students graduated from the university, while 67 percent of Hispanic students received a diploma. Seventy-seven percent of white students graduated in 2004. The 2005 graduation rates, the latest available numbers considered by the committee, improved for black students to 60 percent and Hispanics 69 percent. Some students, however, feel issues stemming from the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lack of diversity are not limited to graduation rates. Junior Serena Walker, a black student and graduate of Brandywine High School in Wilmington, was aware of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demographics before arriving freshman year. She said she chose to attend the university because of the education and in-state tuition. Although she was aware of the numbers, she was surprised by the lack of minority representation when she arrived at the university. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do you get people to want to come to a place where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not being represented?â&#x20AC;? Walker said. The lack of diversity provides

some minority students with a sense of disconnect from the rest of the student body, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m able to relate to people,â&#x20AC;? Walker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think sometimes just that racial barrier [â&#x20AC;Ś] gives me some type of isolation. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just natural, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like I want it to be that way.â&#x20AC;? Lapite and Walker said they enjoy attending the university and feel they are treated fairly by other students. But interraccial friendships, they said, tend to begin and end in the classroom, creating an on-thesurface friendliness that lacks any depth. As for Greek life, Lapite feels the black chapters are underrepresented. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a house,â&#x20AC;? Lapite said, referring to black fraternities and sororities on campus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should have one.â&#x20AC;? Lapite believes a house would help improve social life for black students on campus, thus making the university more attractive to black applicants. Lou Hirsh, director of university admissions, agreed with the Middle States Commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assessment of the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diversity. Hirsh also said black and Hispanic students are underrepresented on many college campuses and not just at this schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first step is get more underrepresented students to think of themselves as college-bound,â&#x20AC;? Hirsh

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said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think that a large part of the problem is we need a larger pool of college bound students to draw from.â&#x20AC;? Hirsh said the admissions office visits middle schools in the state to spark interest in college programs and suggest the best high school courses. Many middle schools also visit the university throughout the year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea is to get students while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still in middle school just excited by what goes on in a college classroom, so they see this as something they really want to do,â&#x20AC;? Hirsh said. Hirsh and Apple said the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lack of diversity may stem from the pool of applicants. They both agreed there are not enough underrepresented students who fit the criterion for admission, an issue that hits on multiple racial and socioeconomic problems in education. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3, 915-person freshman class consists of 157 black students and 256 Hispanic students, approximately four and six percent respectively, Hirsh said. Approximately 18 percent of freshmen claim a minority background, a number significantly higher than in recent years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still not where we need to be,â&#x20AC;? Hirsh said.

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Uganda: Project Have Hope supports 100 Ugandans and their families Continued from page 1 particular suffered. Grace said that sometimes young girls were held captive as sex slaves to army officers. “When they finally had a chance to escape, they were already pregnant and their lives had been ruined,” she said. Before her escape, Grace said that she and others sought shelter in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, now known as the Acholi Quarter. This is where she first met Karen Sparacio in 2005, who founded Project Have Hope within a year. Grace serves as director of operations. Sparacio, a photojournalist from New England, said she was in Uganda photographing for several

relief organizations. After hearing three different women share their experiences during the war, she knew she had to take action. “I was in awe of what these women had gone through, but amazed by their beauty, generosity and exuberance for life,” Sparacio said. “By the time I got to hear the third Ugandan woman’s story, my mind was already like, ‘I gotta do something about this,’ but I didn’t know what.” Sparacio returned to the United States with her memories and a bag full of handcrafted paper beads. She began selling them, and within weeks had sold them all and knew how to begin helping her Ugandan friends. With the goal of promoting self-sufficiency and providing

Ugandan families with the skills and capabilities to run their own businesses and take care of their families, Project Have Hope sells paper jewelry crafted by women living in the Acholi Quarter. Sparacio said the organization has used the profits thus far for numerous projects including a mushroom house, a chicken coop and multiple balcony gardens. The balcony consists of cabbages, onions and spinach. All are maintained by women of the Acholi Quarter and help teach them to become self-sustaining, according to Grace. The paper beaded jewelry is currently available locally at Gecko on Main Street and at the university through Uganda Untold, which seeks to raise awareness

about the conflict in northern Uganda. Project Have Hope currently supports more than 100 members and their families, which equates to nearly 800 women, according to Anna Ciulla, associate professor in the department of medical technology, faculty advisor to Uganda Untold, and Sporacio’s aunt. “I hope students leave the presentation with a better appreciation and understanding of the people of Uganda and the strife they live with daily—how they are trying to rise from the impoverished conditions through the education of children and vocational training for adults,” Cuilla said. Grace, who is the director of

operations for Project Have Hope, said she will return to Uganda with vitamins and school supplies donated at the speech and continue her efforts to help the women in the Acholi Quarter. But not all those who have escaped are ready to return home to Uganda, Grace said. Despite this, Grace said she will keep returning to Uganda in order to bring hope and support to those women in the Acholi Quarter who have, like herself, experienced the sufferings of war and poverty in Uganda. “Some of them up to now as I talk, haven’t come back home,” she said. “The few who wanted to come back, came back and found their parents dead.”

‘Occupy Wall Street’ moves into fourth week in New York

THE REVIEW/Nora Kelly

Protesters camped out in Zuccotti Park Saturday (left), continuing the Occupy Wall Street movement that began Sept. 17. The demostration rallies against big corporations and the growing gap between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle class. Tourists also gathered in the park to observe protesters’ homemade signs (right) and pick up copies of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, a newspaper created to promote the demonstrators’ cause.

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Tailgate: Fewer arrests made Saturday Continued from page 1 officers, for all home games this season. While the focus is regulating underage binge drinking, Ogden said the four undercover officers assigned to tailgates are also targeting ticket scalpers and illegal drug use. The large crowd at the season’s home opener Sept. 10 posed several safety issues, and although no arrests were made, Ogden said officers evaluated the scene in order to prep for future increased enforcement. For Sept. 17’s home game, university police reached out to the Delaware Department of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement and Newark police for assistance. The department does not impose its own set of regulations on campus police handling tailgates, but offers additional police manpower at no cost to the university. Previously, these agencies would only be called in for Homecoming or other special game days. These departments were also present for Saturday’s game against William & Mary, and will be monitoring attendees for the rest of the season, including during Homecoming on Nov. 12. “The more people, the more precautionary measures we have to take,” Ogden said. Ogden cited an example of excessive drinking at Saturday’s game involving a 21-year-old student requiring medical attention because his blood alcohol content had reached .27. The legal limit for driving is .08. “I’m worried we get a kid like that in the crowd, he goes and lays in the back of a car, and he dies,” Ogden said. “That’s my concern, is that these blood alcohol contents are so high. I feel like it’s the right thing to do to increase our presence and try to curb some of this binge drinking.” At the second home game, university police made 25 arrests, with charges including underage consumption of alcohol and providing alcohol to minors. The third game day on Sept. 24 saw five arrests, and Saturday’s game saw no arrests, with three students referred to the Office of Student Conduct for underage drinking. Ogden said he believes these recent enhanced monitoring efforts have curbed student arrests for underage drinking. At the start of Saturday’s tailgate, two pickup trucks arrived, one carrying 900 cans of beer. University police officers warned the drivers that they would be held accountable for each can of beer, especially if one were to be passed to someone under 21. The drivers left with both trucks, a move Ogden said prevented several arrests that day. By game three, Ogden said the tailgate atmosphere in front of the Fred Rust Ice Arena was markedly different than the home opener, perhaps due to word of increased police presence spreading on campus. Attendees were participating in traditional tailgating games, he said, rather than raucously partying in the open space, which was filled with people during the first game. “We definitely want people to come and tailgate and enjoy the whole game day experience, but the idea is that you’re supposed to go to the game,” Ogden said. “The problem is there’s more students tailgating in that lot then there are students in the game.”

Kelly Lawless, a 2011 graduate, also noticed a difference in atmosphere when she arrived at Saturday’s tailgating festivities in front of the ice arena. “This is just sad,” Lawless said, looking around the parking lot. “There’s no one here.” Lawless and her friend, fellow graduate Carys Golesworthy, heard from undergraduate friends that police were cracking down on tailgate activity. Golesworthy said this decision seems superfluous, as there haven’t been any serious incidents at tailgates in the past to her knowledge. “It deters the university community from coming to the game,” Golesworthy said. “It’s just not the same sense of camaraderie and school spirit.” Senior Brendan Vilar said heavier tailgate regulation discourages underclassmen, who typically fill up the majority of the student section in the stadium, from going to games. “There’s a clear cause and effect that attendance is the lowest it’s been since 1998 since the tailgate crackdowns three weeks ago,” Vilar said. He said the sole reason he has not attended another tailgate since the home opener this semester is because of the increased police and regulation efforts. “The job of police enforcement isn’t to ruin people’s fun, it should just be to protect them,” Vilar said. “If they see something that’s getting out of hand, then they can go in and stop it, but they’re not there to be checking everyone’s cups.” He said his fraternity, Sigma Pi, have not hosted a tailgate since the first game. “We’ve completely scratched the idea of having tailgates at home games for the rest of the semester,” Vilar said. For the city of Newark, students and alumni leaving South Campus after the tailgating period ends means increased disorderly behavior in the residential areas leading up to the main campus, said Newark police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall. “Anytime you have several thousand people walking up and down South College Avenue, there’s a likelihood for increased calls for service,” Farrall said. Nick Florie, a 2008 alumnus, said Saturday’s tailgate seemed considerably tamer than during his undergraduate years, recalling speakers blasting music and people dancing on trucks in the parking lot in previous years. He attributed the mild atmosphere to increased police presence. “There’s 200 percent more police here,” said Florie, who was celebrating his birthday at Saturday’s tailgate. “There’s tons of cameras, there’s local and state police.” University police recently installed six new security cameras at Delaware Stadium, as part of the Intelligent Campus Safety System, a program that began in May 2010 with the installation of 34 surveillance cameras throughout campus. Ogden said it’s important to find the balance between allowing students to enjoy the tailgating tradition and following the law. “I get both sides of the equation—I get that people are in college and they want to have a good time,” he said. “But for me, it’s a safety issue.”

Newark hosts annual flea market

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The Newark Parks and Recreation Department holds its annual Fall Flea Market Saturday at George Wilson Park, located off New London Road.

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Univ. diversity efforts lacking

In July, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education released its report evaluating all aspects of the university. In the report, the Middle States Commission, which accredits the university and allows it to receive federal funding, found diversity on campus was sorely lacking. Last year, the student body consisted of 77 percent white students, 5 percent black students and 5 percent Hispanic students. Simply walking around campus highlights this disparity between ethnicities. The campus population numbers do not match up with the racial makeup of the state of Delaware. According to the 2010 United States Census, 68.9 percent of the state of Delaware was white, while 21.4 percent was black. The university started a push for diversity, which is a smart move, but forming different committees, like a Diversity and Equity Commission, is only the beginning. These committees’ efforts should be taken into serious consideration moving forward. University Provost Tom Apple said officials also want to increase diversity within faculty. The university should instead be placing the focus on students, especially since the Middle States Commission’s recommendations centered on

diversifying the undergraduate population. In addition, working on diversifying faculty members could lead the hiring officials to focus less on qualifications and more on ethnicity. The university should also increase diversity before it highlights the campus as diverse in its promotions. Many university website pages and brochures feature students of different ethnicities, which does not accurately reflect the actual numbers on campus. It is important for the university to not misrepresent itself to prospective applicants. In addition, more attention should be paid to helping foreign students assimilate and adjust, especially into the general student body, and not just getting them to enroll at the university. Last week, university President Patrick Harker told Faculty Senate members that the school needed to improve campus diversity, stating that diversifying campus was a significant part of overall university aspirations. Considering Middle States applauded other aspects of the university, it will be interesting to see how much effort is actively and visibly exerted by university officials to meet the recommendations of the commission.

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Letters to the Editor School not ready for move to FBS I read the letter from Adam Smargon in last week’s issue on the move to the FBS. He may think it is the time, but it truly is not. We do not have the facilities to compete with the Big East Schools. Take a look at our locker room facilities, weight training facilities and press boxes. Does this man come to football games? Also, where are the students to support the team? We are in one of the best conferences around— the CAA—and I feel we should stay where we are for the time being. Until we can upgrade our facilities, we really cannot do much of anything even being in the CAA because we will be at the bottom of the list looking up at all the other schools who have upgraded their stadiums and facilities. Here again, where were the students at the William & Mary game? The athletic department even had huge giveaways and those stands still were not filled. Everybody, including students: get out and support your team. If you want to move up in

conference, then get out like those other schools do and support our team. -Jack and Clara Rust, Newark, Del. Federal Reserve large cause of country’s problems The Occupy Wall Street protesters have been characterized as a loosely organized group with no clearly defined goals, other than calling for a change and an end to the status quo. Whether Democrat, Republican or Independent, there is an issue where they all can find common ground—the Federal Reserve is out of control. Until recently, most Americans had never heard of the Fed despite its ability to set interest rates for the entire economy and print U.S. dollars at will. In its nearly 100-year history, the Fed has been shrouded in secrecy, never even audited until shortly after the financial crisis. What was uncovered is staggering. Shortly after the crisis, the Fed loaned $16

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trillion (not a typo—more than the national debt) in nearly interest free loans to U.S. and foreign banks. To the Democrats, the Fed can fund the endless wars in the Middle East and throughout the world, despite their unpopularity, by inflating the currency (printing money), diluting the value of our dollars and therefore our savings. To the Republicans, the Fed can, by the same process, fund any government program, and is the biggest factor in enabling the increase in size of the federal government. The fact that the Fed acts in secrecy, loaning money to its friends in the large banks and corporations in backroom deals, while hitting everyday Americans with a hidden inflation tax epitomizes what is wrong with politics in America and should be the focus of anyone attempting to change the country for the better. If you would like to learn more about the Fed, I suggest reading “The Case Against the Fed by Murray Rothbard.” -Ryan Mowers, Class of 2013 250 Perkins Center Newark, DE 19716 Fax: 302-831-1396 Email: letters@udreview.com or visit us online at www.udreview.com

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Being a New York Mets fan has hidden advantages Emily Nassi

Nassi’s Notes Following the Mets has its upsides, too. The last thing I wanted this baseball season was a New York Yankees vs. Philadelphia Phillies World Series again. I was fully prepared to just deny the existence of baseball for a week and ignore anyone and everyone who spoke of it. That matchup is definitely the worst possible outcome for someone who is a New York Mets fan. Luckily, I was spared that anguish after the Yankees and Phillies failed to win the ALDS and and NLDS, respectively. I probably won’t care too much about the World Series now, but it’s much better than dealing with those fans, and being reminded that the team I root for is not that good. For some strange reason though, I don’t mind being a Mets fan. I’ve come to terms with the fact that the last decent season the team was five years ago, and there actually a lot of upsides—they’re just harder to find. For starters, I now expect nothing out of the Mets. On the surface, this might seem negative, but it’s actually quite positive. I can’t really be let down by my baseball team if I have no expectations for them in the first

place. One of my friends, a die-hard Phillies fan, told me sometime last week that the Phillies were going to win the World Series. He seemed pretty confident in this prediction. I didn’t bother saying anything to him when the Phillies lost to the Cardinals in Game 5 on Saturday. I figured he was in extreme emotional distress. The same goes for those Yankees fans that watched Alex Rodriguez blow the game in front of a record crowd. I saw the Facebook status updates. Shock. Disbelief. Luckily, as a Mets fan, I feel less or none of these emotions about a close loss or miserable season. In fact, I now come to expect it. In fact, I would feel shock and disbe-

lief if the Mets all of a sudden did well for once. It would be so awesome and so unexpected. Though a win is a win, upset or surprise wins feel much better, in my opinion. It’s fun to be the underdog sometime. Showing up the disbelievers (or Philadelphia fans) never gets old to me. The need to prove yourself to the doubters applies in every day life, so it can definitely be applied to the Mets—who have a long way to go proving anything to anyone. There’s other little reasons why being a Mets fan is an advatange. No one will ever accuse me of a being a bandwagon fan. Who in their right mind would all of a sudden start rooting for a team that is likely not going to win any kind of title? Baseball is expensive to go watch, but Mets fans will get a discount year after year since ticket prices are going to be reduced

in 2012 for the third straight year, according to The Washington Post. A decrease in home attendance means reduction in prices, so we can actually go watch some baseball if we really want to. I’m definitely biased, but I love the Sportsnet New York broadcast team, who does the commentary for the Mets games. I have a hard time listening to other broadcasters. Plus, how many other teams have had Jerry Seinfeld broadcast a game? There is a really good chance I am just grasping at straws here, looking for anything to give me peace of mind about being a Mets fan over being a fan of a successful team. Half my family members are Yankees fans, so I certainly hear about it. I just cannot imagine rooting for any other club. But, like in any other sport, things change with time. The Mets were good in the past, and they might be good in the future. The Phillies are historically the worst team in baseball, and look at them now. And when the going really gets tough, I just remind myself that the Phillies are still from the grand old city of Philadelphia, and nothing will ever change that. Emily Nassi is the editorial editor at The Review. Her viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of the Review staff. Please send comments to enassi@udel.edu.

Pencader Dining Hall disappointment to hungry students Ally Crossman

Guest Columnist One student discovers the reason for Pencader’s lack of popularity. Though it has been said time and time again that the dining halls at the university are unsatisfactory, I wasn’t truly able to pinpoint myself what was so unsatisfactory about them until a recent trip to Pencader. Yes, the food isn’t always appetizing and yes, there is often a wait, but what did I expect from an industrialized kitchen that served thousands of meals a day? Well, I can tell you exactly what I don’t expect when I make a trip to the dining hall. I don’t expect to wait in line for 15 minutes for a new batch of chicken, and when I ask the server how much longer, for him to tell me 10 more minutes on top of that. For that kind of wait, the chicken better be farm-fresh. I don’t expect to see the employees shutting down their stations at 7:15 p.m. when I swipe in after my class that runs until 7 p.m.

either. This is especially true when people are allowed to swipe in until 7:30 p.m. What are we supposed to eat after 7:15 p.m.? Do we wait in line for 20 minutes at one of the two stations open? Do we attempt to make a sandwich? Or if we’re truly brave, we could attempt to get cereal from the new cereal stand. The cereal stand presents a whole new set of problems. There’s never milk and half of the cereals offered don’t dispense from the containers provided. In front of the dispensers is a war zone of bowls, discarded after the frustrations of no milk or cereal that won’t come out or even no spoons to eat my cereal with. However, my biggest woe came one night when I was left to dig out the last 12 Mini-Wheats from the container with a plastic cup someone had left after they themselves struggled to get cereal out. I didn’t get skim, 2-percent or even whole milk to flow from the fountain, so I progressed on to Silk soymilk, which I don’t

have a problem with, until it pours from the carton chunky—clearly sour milk. After pouring my sour milk, I left the dining hall, having entered half an hour before and leaving without eating a single thing. I’d rather go to the overpriced Provisions on Demand than spend any longer searching through the mess Pencader was. Until the event of the chunky milk, most of my complaints were just that—merely complaints. But once the minute rotten milk came into play, it was more of a health issue. I’ve thought a lot about that night at the dining hall, to be honest. Probably more than I should considering the exams I had this week, but I thought about what could be the root of the problems. And I came to the conclusion it has to do with staffing. I understand and appreciate that much of the dining hall staff is students. However, I have a problem with the lack of motivation they demonstrate to complete their job well. When chicken is running

low, these employees should call for more before it runs out. Cereal should be checked regularly, as should cups and every other utensil or flatware in the place. I think that the lack of motivation, efficiency and speed demonstrated by the dinner staff is not only a source of frustration for many students but a poor reflection upon management. Management is defined as “the coordination and organizations of activities in accordance with policies to achieve objectives,” according to Businessdefinitions. com. From my perspective as an outsider, I can only assume that the objectives of the dining hall are to make sure all students are fed efficiently and sufficiently. It should be enforced that the dining hall doesn’t stop admitting students until 7:30 p.m. Until the time the traffic of students slows significantly down, every employee should serve the students and work with the most efficiency to ensure that everyone is fed. Ally Crossman is a guest columnist at The Review. Her viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of the Review staff. Please send comments to allc@udel.edu.

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Student bridges gap to deaf culture BY DANIELLE BRODY Administrative News Editor

Growing up in a mountainous region in Pakistan, senior Talha Malik learned sign language to communicate with his older brother Sunny, who became deaf as a child after suffering two bouts of pneumonia. In the poor and remote area where they lived, Sunny could not receive the medical attention required to reverse the damage to his ears. Malik’s family decided to move to England, and later to Claymont, Del., to give his brother more options. Sunny is now a student at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y. “If you’re disabled in Pakistan, the state is not that strong, so there’s not a lot of opportunities,” Malik says. “Most disabled people end up just sitting in their house for the rest of their life. We thought he could come here and make something of himself, get a job.” Nearly 14 years later, Malik started the Sign Language Club at the university to teach students the language. On Wednesday night, he captured the attention of a full room in Gore Hall, waving his arms and forming his fingers into various signs. “I’ve always wanted to teach in general,” Malik says. “Not a lot of people know about deaf culture and because it’s such a big part of my life, I wanted to share it with other people. I think people like it too, there’s deaf people around here, so they can relate.” Malik says friends have always asked him to teach them sign language because the university does not offer ASL courses. Junior Patricia Mace became interested in ASL after taking language and culture classes in high school, and asked Malik to teach her. “I just realized there was this whole population I couldn’t really talk to,” Mace says. “It was just interesting talking to Talha and learning about the deaf community, because they have their own slang signs. It’s so interesting—we just know so little about it.”

Senior Talha Malik holds weekly meetings in Gore Hall, teaching new signs and reviewing material from previous weeks. Last spring, Malik, who also knows five other languages, taught ASL classes through other organizations and received a strong student response. Mace says she and Malik are in the process of turning the Sign Language Club into a registered student organization. In addition to teaching a more advanced class on Sundays, Malik hosts weekly meetings, teaching approximately 30 to 50 people each time. At Wednesday’s meeting, Malik reviewed the previous week’s vocabulary, then bumped and twisted his fists and waved his forearm to show students a new conversational phrase, “How are you?” Mace wrote on the chalkboard while senior Emma Gretina signed alongside Malik. When they learned the sign for “bored,” which is conveyed by the forefinger touching the side of the nose, Gretina compared it to picking

your nose when you’re bored. When Malik told students to practice the new terms, they began carrying on their own conversations in sign language. “People are learning, that’s what I’m really happy about,” he says. “I thought people would just show up and forget everything, but every week that the regulars come back, they retain everything.” Sophomore Rachel Fernicola says she came to the club with limited knowledge of sign language. As an elementary education major, she is interested in special education and thought sign language would be a beneficial skill. “I didn’t think we would learn as much as we did so quickly,” Fernicola says. Junior David Broadwater, a friend of Malik, says he didn’t know any sign language at first, but has been practicing frequently. He was

impressed by Malik’s ability to teach a class of his peers. “He’s actually a really good teacher,” Broadwater says. “I wasn’t expecting him to have as much authority as he has over the class because he is my age.” Gretina, who helped Malik during the meeting, took ASL in high school. She has been to each club meeting to assist Malik, and says teaching the class is helping her remember the language. “I think it’s important because it’s a language for someone, and you don’t want to isolate them,” says Gretina, who recently helped a deaf person communicate with the staff at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Malik says sign language teaches people about the nuances of communication because it is a different form of expression than speaking. “A lot of sign language is

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expressive with your emotions, how you talk,” he says. “You want to be real expressive with your face, so we might not think about that when we speak English every day.” Malik is planning a trip to Delaware School for the Deaf and Gallaudet University, a deaf university in Washington, D.C., for club members to practice signing. He says his ultimate goal is for the club to become a university class. As an international relations major, Malik wants to work with impoverished countries, and says his background has fostered this interest. “Because I’m from Pakistan, I know what it’s like to be in a poor country, and just have the mentality of helping out the poor,” he says. “Sign language just helps because [when] you grow up with it, you kind of understand what it’s like to be in a minority culture.”

Feather trend sweeps across campus BY ALYSSA BRADY Staff Reporter

Senior Ellen Kidd stands in her bedroom, a neat row of feathers lining the top of her vanity. Her fingers move as quickly as a hairdresser’s, and after less than 10 minutes, one of her clients leaves with a new feather hair extension. Kidd, a fashion merchandising major, started Fab Feathas last spring to capitalize on the growing trend of feather hair extensions. She says she got the idea after visiting a friend in Wisconsin, where the feathers were a popular trend. She knew the trend would likely catch on in Delaware and decided to open her own

business. “When I came back here, all my roommates wanted them,” Kidd says. “I knew I could do it too.” She says most of her clients wear the feathers in the bottom layers of their hair so they can pin their hair back or pull it up and show off the feather. The feather can also be added in bangs or to the top layers of the hair, so it’s always showing, she says. Some hairpieces are applied with adhesive glue, while others are attached through a siliconelined bead that protects hair from damage. Kidd operates the business out of her house, with feathers that she purchases online in bulk. Every

few months she makes an order, which includes between 20 and 50 feathers, and charges $8 to $10 for each feather she uses in a client’s hair. Fashion and apparel studies professor Jaehee Jung says despite the trends’ current popularity, feathers are a passing fad that will most likely fade away after new styles emerge for high school and college-age girls. “It’s a form of body modification and a lot of people want to emulate the styles they see in the media,” Jung says. “I think some people just want to experiment and be different sometimes.” Kidd believes this trend has its roots in 1960s and 1970s retro

styles, and now has an updated, contemporary look. “It probably stemmed from the Navajo hippie-chic trend,” she says. “With feathers, it’s more modern than putting a flower in your hair.” Kidd says the feathers come from roosters bred specifically for the long plumes on their backside and can be styled, just like hair. Freshman Margie Weidman added the extension to her hair this summer at her local salon when it became popular in her hometown of Media, Pa. She says she received several comments from friends on the accessory when she arrived at the university. “I was surprised here, because where I am from everyone had it

but when I came here, everyone was like, ‘What’s that?’” Weidman says. Freshman Jess Doyle wanted to add an edgy style to her hair and caught on to the trend when she noticed the feathers on other girls. “I liked that they weren’t permanent and you could take them out when you wanted,” Doyle says. “I didn’t have to dye my hair pink if I wanted a little bit of color.” Kidd doesn’t think this trend has reached its peak because she continues to attract different clients. “People always tell me they love my feathers,” Kidd says. “It’s a little flashy and a laidback kind of feel.”

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UD duo play annual Delmarva Folk Festival BY TYLER WILDRICK Staff Reporter

CLAYMONT, Del. — A long pathway in the woods of Claymont, Del. opened up to a small clearing, welcoming festival-goers of all ages to the 20th annual Delmarva Folk Festival on Friday and Saturday. The festival was hosted by the Delaware Friends of Folk, a non-profit organization dedicated to local folk musicians. Vendors, a merchandise tent and food and beer distributors were scattered across the festival grounds. The stage, decorated with tie-dyed sheets and multi-colored lights strung along the sides, featured performances by local bands that had won coffeehouse competitions over the past few months for a chance to perform at the festival. Musicians competed Friday night to play in the festival’s main line up on Saturday, along with a cash prize and a recording session. One such band is comprised of university seniors Michael Natrin and Erin Magnin—a folk-acoustic duo called The Honey Badgers. They took the stage Friday night, Natrin dressed in a suit and bow tie and Magnin in a white dress.

Natrin picked up his guitar as Magnin held her violin, and the duo started the show. “Can you hear me out there? Staying warm? Drinking lots of beer?” Natrin asks the audience, followed by a raucous response from the crowd. Festival-goer and Dover resident Nick Pettoruto, 26, says he appreciated the band’s authenticity and originality. “They didn’t do a whole lot of covers—did stuff that was real,” Pettoruto says. “They clicked together. They were truly original.” The Honey Badgers continued their set and some songs picked up with a faster tempo, dominated vocally by Natrin’s lyrics and quick guitar chords accented by Magnin’s violin. “It’s a pretty diverse crowd we wouldn’t normally get to play for,” Natrin says. “Not like up in the NewarkWilmington area.” Seaford resident Lynne Betts, 53, says that her favorite part of the festival was witnessing the festival-goers’ encouragement for the bands. “I think it’s awesome to be so supportive of the local talent—it’s really touching,” Betts says.

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Seniors Erin Magnin and Michael Natrin have grown up playing music.

Q&A with The Honey Badgers Q A

How long have you been playing music?

Natrin: In general, my whole life. My band Battleshy Youths started up in 2011 and we play shows around Newark and Wilmington. The Honey Badgers is just the duet form of the band—we strip down songs into acoustic guitar and harmonies, and write songs that are more fitting for that very basic folk duet sound. Erin sings and fiddles with Battleshy Youths sometimes too, but the other members are Mitchell Ebbott, Andrew Johnston and Andrew Deinert—all UD alumni. Magnin: I’ve been playing violin since I was 7, and this was a change and I’m a music major so I play and listen to music pretty much all day.

How did you come up with your band name?

Magnin: We arrived at the semi-finals in Dover and in all the excitement had forgotten a name, so we named ourselves after the YouTube video “Honey Badgers.” It’s a really funny video.

How would you describe your music style? And who are your musical influences?

Natrin: Contemporary folk—The Mountain Goats and the Decemberists.  Magnin: Conor Oberst from Bright Eyes, Rufus Wainright, Jenna Marbles and Ingrid Michaelson.

Tell me something quirky or weird about yourselves.

Natrin: I feel like everything we do is weird. We meow a lot.  Magnin: We do lots of weird things—doodling. It’s hard

The Honey Badgers are an offshoot of the band Battleshy Youths.

to pinpoint one thing when everything you do is weird.

What is the band working on right now?

Natrin: We are hoping to release The Honey Badgers’ EP “Booth Bay” by mid-November. It is a compilation of songs that Erin and I wrote throughout the summer, and focuses on travel and nature and the complications of living lives that aren’t capable of pleasing everyone. We just finished up recording a split Christmas CD with The Paper Janes and some other friends— we’re looking to release that by mid-to late-November as well. It’s a 12-track compilation of Christmas classics, some modern covers and some original tunes. It will be available online and in local shops. We’re selling it as a benefit for a Christmas-y nonprofit.

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sights & sounds

“Real Steel” Touchstone Pictures PPP (out of PPPPP) It’s hard not to compare “Real Steel” to every other robot-themed cultural phenomenon, with some critics even calling it “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots: The Movie.” Fighting robots may not be an original concept, but the film has just enough depth and heart to avoid becoming a cheap knock-off. Director Shawn Levy, best known for films such as “Cheaper by the Dozen” and “Night at the Museum,” doesn’t stray from his element, delivering a story that is just as much about the relationship between a child and his father as it is about boxing robots. Hugh Jackman plays Charlie Kenton, a former boxer who was once number two in the world. When robots replace humans as champions in the boxing ring, Charlie becomes a controller, maneuvering the robots during violent fights. However, he soon finds himself on a losing streak. When Kenton is forced to take care of his 11-yearold son Max, whose mother has just passed away, the two spend the summer teaching a

junkyard robot named Atom to fight. Atom, who was only built as a practice target for other robots, surprises everyone by beating his opponents with the moves Charlie used as a boxer. The film is fun and heartfelt, with Atom making a name for himself in the ring and Charlie and Max forming a relationship for the first time. Not much else has changed in this future except for the inconceivably

OFF THE

RECORD Is Punk Dead? Ethan Barr

B l i n k 182’s recentlyreleased sixth studio album, “Neighborhoods,” is not the carefree, nostalgic album fans might have expected. The group’s playful lyrics have been replaced by atmospheric rock and the near-abandonment of the bare-bones punk style the band became famous for. Fans may see this as a macabre look into the past—almost as a statement that punk, frankly, just doesn’t work anymore. Punk began as a revolutionary style, involving shorter and faster songs stripped down to the most basic modus operandi. Out of the music grew the punk subculture, which focused on antiestablishmentarian thoughts and borderline anarchist ideology. It reached a point where the

thin and transparent cell phones, and the robots’ awkwardness and ineptitude when it comes to boxing make the plot seem even more far-fetched. The film’s story seems to be aimed at younger children, but a few laughs, plenty of action and Jackman’s washboard abs might be enough for the rest of the audience. —Quindara Lazenbury, qlazen@udel.edu

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Sex Pistols and The Ramones appeared not as dangerous hoodlums, but rather as heroes for the American youth. Once the neopunk scene hit the United States, bands like Green Day and The Offspring dominated the charts. We all loved them. Few children from the 1990s can honestly say they truly disliked Sum 41, Blink-182, Green Day or any of the other punk bands that busted onto the music scene during the tail end of the decade. Their music was played at all the school dances. Whenever our parents turned on the radio, we would rather have listened to American Hi-Fi’s “Flavor of the Weak” than some antiquated disco. You were out of the cultural loop if you couldn’t sing every lyric to “All the Small Things”—in fact, you’re still out of the loop if you can’t do so. The members of Green Day peaked at just the right time. By the mid-2000s, pop-punk was still alive and well. Weezer and Fall Out Boy were topping the charts with their feel-good singles and goofy antics. It was difficult to resist the hollers of Fall Out Boy lead singer Patrick Stump: “We’re going down, down in an earlier round / And sugar, we’re going down swinging.” Unfortunately for these groups, punk just isn’t cutting

“The Ides of March” Columbia Pictures PPPP (out PPPPP)

For his fourth film as director, George Clooney looks to the betrayal of Julius Caesar, naming the film “The Ides of March” in reference to the date the power-hungry Roman dictator was assassinated by a group of his supposed friends. After watching “The Ides of March,” however, one can’t help but wonder if Caesar got off easy—he never had to suffer through the American primary season. Clooney’s film is rife with backstabbing, rampant extortion and corrupted idealism. It’s also one of the best movies of the year. The film covers a time span of roughly one week, as two Democratic candidates and their respective campaign teams prepare for a key primary in Ohio. Pennsylvania Gov. Mike Morris (Clooney) is an idealistic visionary and gifted orator. He is flanked by two of the best advisors and campaign managers in the country, Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling). Zara’s job is to secure the endorsement of a powerful North Carolina senator (Jeffrey Wright), whose allegiance is known to go to the highest bidder, while Myers runs the

it anymore. Hip-hop and dance music have become so incredibly mainstream that punk can’t possibly fathom making any sort of a comeback. Green Day has changed its style almost entirely to pop. Their most recent album, “21st Century Breakdown,” was a mix of overly exaggerated rock operas that would have made the members of Queen cringe. Bowling for Soup, on the other hand, released a purely punk album last year that flopped spectacularly. The group’s immature demeanor and straightforward approach to punk music has become cliché and unappreciated. When we were kids, we all thought pop-punk music would last a lifetime. Now the majority of these musicians are struggling to make it further in the industry, and the ones who are successful have sold out. They’ve become musical chameleons that blend in with whichever genre is most popular, much like the Black Eyed Peas in the eyes of hip-hop and funk critics. All matters considered, I would safely say that punk has reached that dark turning point from which there is no return.

—Ethan Barr, ebarr@udel.edu

day-to-day operations of Morris’ Ohio office. Myers also pursues a romantic relationship with a college intern (Evan Rachel Wood), whose dark secret can potentially flip the entire race upside down. Additional screen time is granted to Paul Giamatti, a rival campaign strategist, and Marisa Tomei, a muckraking New York Times reporter. This is an award-worthy movie in every sense of the word—written and directed with poise and acted to perfection. The six lead actors already have 11 Oscar nominations between them. Despite Clooney’s liberal

opinions, “The Ides of March” is not a bleeding-heart picture— it fully acknowledges that politics is a dirty game. When Wood’s shocking personal demons are laid out in the open, the film’s sad truisms become a jumping-off point to convey an even deeper and more cynical message. Irrevocably bleak but undeniably entertaining, Clooney’s newest offering is a film packed to the brim with tension and wit.

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Day Trippin’: With Jen Rini

Ye Olde Renaissance Faire

Hear ye, hear ye, check your swords at the door and welcome to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. After a one hour and fortyfive minute drive turned into three hours on the way to Manheim, Pa., suffice it to say that I didn’t know what to expect at said faire. With my knowledge of the Renaissance only dating back to high school history classes and HBO’s “The Tudors,” I was ready to get a taste of the pomp and circumstance. Walking into the faire was comparable to walking into Disney World for the first time. People in costumes meandered about, ecstatic children ran around and a swarm of smells wafted through the air, beckoning customers to indulge in fried delicacies. Dorothy was definitely not in Kansas anymore. Once in the midst of the faire, a play of sorts caught my attention—“The Duo of Woos,” a play featuring the comedic talents of Argyle and Tabish McManley. Yes, Argyle and Tabish McManley. They informed us lowly peasants in the audience about the art of wooing—in kilts, no less. The moral of the story: gentlemen, fight for your ladies’ honor, preferably in a kilt and perfectly coifed curls. After learning a bit about the art of wooing, a lovely gentleman named Sir Willem was kind

enough to show me and my friends where the famed Renaissance turkey legs were roasting. As my friends ran off to chow down on the juicy treats, Willem dazzled me with his ensemble as I brushed up on my English accent. He is a “playtron,” or a patron of the faire who assumes a specific Renaissance-era role and interacts with guests. Dressed to the nines in his pumpkin-colored pants, lace chemise, doublet and chapeau, I was astounded that he wasn’t breaking a sweat in the heat. Willem says he loves coming to the faire to meet all of the eccentric individuals. We chatted about her majesty the queen, and thanks to his directions, we were able to catch a giant human chess match fought in her honor, in which the human pieces dueled to gain their spots on the board. “Who cannot love Queen Elizabeth?” says Lady Emerson, another playtron who joined us at the match. As the Duchess of Lancaster, Lady Emerson has been visiting the faire for 31 years, and now brings her four children with her. Chatting with my new Renaissance friends taught me a lot about Ye Olde English culture. The black shirt I was wearing symbolized royalty, while facial hair upkeep for gents signifies

how many taxes a man would have to pay. “It took many, many years and [was] worth the wait,” Willem says, referring to his manicured goatee. The giant human chess match, authentic food, dueling and elaborate costumes made my day at the faire quite an experience. It’s safe to say that I didn’t cover nearly as much ground as I would have liked to. I wanted to see the jousting, but watching two little kids duel in full armor was definitely entertaining. I learned some Elizabethan words of wisdom from Willem, who told me that in the realm of romance, it is most important for the man to know how to woo. “Must treat a lady as a lady, not as you deem in today’s standards,” he says. All I have to say is huzzah, Willem, huzzah. —Jen Rini, jenxwill@udel.edu

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DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in a mansion north of Wilmington for two years?

In the spring of 1927, Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda took out a two-year lease on Ellerslie, a mansion north of Wilmington. Fitzgerald’s most well known legacy is his novel “The Great Gatsby,” which explores several complicated relationships in Long Island during “The Roaring Twenties”—a time of cultural hedonism and relative economic prosperity. John Biggs Jr., a lawyer from Wilmington and Fitzgerald’s roommate at Princeton University, helped the Fitzgeralds obtain the lease. To compensate for the enormous rooms in Ellerslie, a 19th century mansion on the Delaware River, Zelda ordered oversize furniture from Philadelphia that made the couple’s guests seem childlike. Fitzgerald’s short story “Outside the Cabinet-Makers” was likely meant to take place in Wilmington. It recounts a day when Fitzgerald and his daughter, Scottie, sat in their car while Zelda bought a dollhouse as a surprise gift.

Together, father and daughter created several imaginary stories about the environment surrounding them. In one such fantasy, they transformed a local boy into an ogre. The Fitzgeralds left Ellerslie for Europe in the spring of 1929. —Leah Sininsky, lsininsk@udel.edu

22October 11, 2011

Festival celebrates Latin American culture

THE REVIEW/Nick Wallace

As part of Latino Heritage Month, Latin sorority Chi Upsilon Sigma hosted the Guallando Latin Festival Saturday afternoon in the Perkins Scrounge and Gallery. Festivities started at 4 p.m. and included free food and Latin dance performances.

October 11, 2011

Restaurants, shops feature local artwork BY DANA FINKLE Staff Reporter

While feasting on a bowl of penne à la vodka, patrons at various restaurants on Main Street can also feast their eyes on the jewelry, paintings and photography featured on the walls or in display cases. Several Main Street establishments such as Brew Ha Ha, Brewed Awakenings and Cucina Di Napoli feature and sell the work of local artists. All profits from the sales go directly to the artists. Brew Ha Ha general manager Andy Fakis says displaying local art benefits both the artists and the customers. “We always ask our artists to post their contact information,” Fakis says. “It’s completely free for the artists, and for us, we just get to see cool art.” She says the art is donated either from local artists or the university, which donates student artwork to the café at the end of each year. “Once we had a customer make incredible doodles in his notebook,” Fakis says. “So we put them up for sale for 15 cents.” Senior Hilary Gibson says she occasionally admires the artwork at Brew Ha Ha, which she describes as “artsy” and unusual. “They used to have wood shelves with trees and plants that were nice,” Gibson says. “But I’m not really a fan of the fluorescent eggs right now.” Gibson says she believes Brew Ha Ha is an ideal venue to show local artwork. “It’s good for the kind of customer Brew attracts,” she says. Wilmington-based artist Pamella Bounds-Seemans, 62, has been selling her work in restaurants and hardware stores since she was a student in New Mexico. Her paintings have been on display in Cucina di Napoli since September, and she says once the restaurant sells a painting, the manager and his wife ask her to bring in a

replacement to the restaurant. “She [The manager’s wife] doesn’t like to have her wall empty,” Bounds-Seemans says. Bounds-Seemans describes her style as “outsider art,” as she feels her technique is not characteristic of most art. She starts by painting the middle of the canvas, usually with water colors, and then adds decorative collage items such as antique jewelry to create the desired effect. She then places the piece into a decorated frame.

“The painting kind of continues into the frame,” BoundsSeemans says. She says she can make up to three or four pieces a week, focusing on seasonal and local scenes. At Cucina Di Napoli, her pieces are sold for approximately $100. She says she prices them lower than usual so college students can afford them. Brewed Awakenings manager Dana Marshall says pieces are changed once a month so customers

have something new and different to look at. “Every month is different,” Marshall says. “It’s whatever people want to put up, as long as it’s not provocative.” Senior Mark Woodrum whose latest photography prints are on display at Brewed Awakenings, has been taking photos for approximately five years. He says he chose to feature his art at the coffee shop because he goes there often and noticed there was an open spot on the wall.

Brew Ha Ha features artwork from local artists as well as university students.

“I thought it would be easy because I know the owner,” Woodrum says. “I never really had the opportunity before.” John Walters, a customer who has gone to Brewed Awakenings every day for the past 11 years, says he often notices the unusual artwork there and has considered purchasing a few pieces. He believes it is important to display local talent. “It gives a little guy a chance to get his name out there,” Walters says.

THE REVIEW/Amelia Wang

‘Harry Potter’ series fans hunt for horcruxes on campus BY COLLETTE O’NEAL Staff Reporter

The four houses of Hogwarts went head to head Tuesday night while searching for the missing pieces of Lord Voldemort’s soul. The Horcrux Hunt, held by the Harry Potter-inspired registered student organization, Lumos Literary Society, featured a cross-campus scavenger hunt for small items used to represent Voldemort’s horcruxes. These items included a child’s tiara to represent Ravenclaw’s diadem, a pocket-sized notepad for Tom Riddle’s diary, a plastic spider ring to represent Marvolo’s ring and a string necklace with a paper pendant for Slytherin’s locket. The remaining horcruxes

were represented by pictures. Junior Kristen Barnett, president of Lumos Lit, says the RSO’s approximately 30 members are randomly assigned to one of Hogwart’s four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Each house receives points when its members attend events, which include Quidditch games and a Yule ball, a formal dance that resembles the holiday dance celebrated at Hogwarts in author J.K. Rowling’s fourth book, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” Barnett says the club provides students with the chance to participate in some rare activities. “I like the fact that the events get students involved and

give them the chance to be silly in college like running around on broomsticks,” Barnett says. “That’s not something you always have the opportunity to do.” Sophomore Kathryn Scrafford, who won first place in the Horcrux Hunt and scored “house points” for her Hufflepuff group, says her favorite clue from the hunt was “Hidden in a place often frequented by the studious house of Rowena, it waits right under their noses. B358.J85 1930,” which took her team into the Morris Library. “The clues were challenging but fun, and were exciting once you solved them,” Scrafford says. “It made you look through the library, as opposed to simply

arriving there and moving on.” She says she wished the prize had been as big as last year’s—a free ticket to the midnight premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.” Instead, she received a Lumos Lit T-shirt and was able to keep the Horcruxes, which she says would serve as a memento of the hunt. Lumos Lit members and other participating students were divided into six groups, and used their clues to race to Old College, Laurel Hall, the South Green fountain, Morris Library, Trabant University Center and Lieberman’s Bookstore on Main Street to find all of the horcruxes. The last clue, “I open at the close,” led students back to Gore Hall to

claim their prizes. Junior Martin Petrella, the club’s secretary, says his favorite part of being a club officer is helping to choose events. “It’s great to create fun activities for students to participate in, but are still related to the story that I like so much,” Petrella says. Barnett says her motivation to create the club was to celebrate the common ground of their generation—their affinity for Rowling’s series. “We originally wanted to make the club because our generation grew up with Harry Potter and it was a common factor among all of us,” she says. “We wanted to celebrate it.”

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EATER’S DIGEST

Events

Fermented foods—friendly or freaky in students’ diets? As I sat on my couch and enjoyed my guilty pleasure, “Jersey Shore,” on Thursday night, the scientist inside me began to wonder if Snooki had any Abby Engel idea that her goto drunk foods, pickles and cheese, have something in common with the source of her frequent drunken haze—wine. All three products go through a chemical reaction called fermentation. She’d probably be disgusted and confused to know that fermentation involves encouraging microorganisms to grow in food to create products like alcohol and pickles. In the case of pickles, a cucumber is soaked in a salty brine solution, which allows bacteria found on the vegetable to grow and use the plant’s sugar stores as food, causing them to produce the chemical compound lactic acid. This lactic acid gives pickles the tart taste many of us crave. Cheese is also a result of bacteria using the sugar in milk, called lactose, to produce lactic acid. The lactic acid reacts with a chemical enzyme called rennet to form the curds that become cheese. Fermenting grapes into wine works in relatively the same manner. Yeast, a microorganism found on the skin of grapes uses sugar as fuel to produce ethanol. Ethanol is the type of alcohol that has been giving humans their buzz since the first civilizations developed it thousands of years ago.

100 Years & Running—Save UD Track Cavaliers Country Club Friday, Oct. 14, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. New Sweden Mojo Main Friday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Fall Color Hike Brandywine Creek State Park Saturday, Oct. 15, 2 p.m. It may seem contradictory, but having these bacteria in food is actually beneficial. Lactic acid bacteria are efficient at using up the sugars in foods more quickly than other bacteria because they are able to grow in conditions that contain a large amount of salt, namely briny solutions. Other bacteria capable of surviving in these conditions are weakened and unable to consume the sugars in the cucumber or the milk as effectively as the lactic acid bacteria. The lactic acid bacteria secure the majority of the sugars in salty solutions for themselves, starving out harmful bacteria. Pickles sold in jars at the supermarket are not actually a product

of fermentation—they are simply cucumbers soaked in vinegar. Pickles produced by fermentation are also known as “barrel pickles” because they are often fermented and sold out of barrels. Fermentation affects the taste and texture of the cucumber, which is why some people swear that barrel pickles taste better than one that comes from a glass jar. So next time you’re watching “Jersey Shore” and you see the cast guzzling wine and stuffing their faces with pickles and cheese, you’ll think, “Who are these crazy people swilling those products of fermentation?”

Spokey Speaky Deer Park Tavern Saturday, Oct. 15, 10 p.m. Zombie Party Mojo Main Sunday, Oct. 16, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

—Abby Engel, amengel@udel.edu

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Across 1. Black cat, “Hocus Pocus” 4.Philadelphia medical oddities museum 9. Three Broomsticks libation 12. Commercial tree planting 13. Cinderella’s carriage 15. “Dial M for Murder” director 16. Ornamental fruit 17. Fall color palette 19. Paranormal backscatter 21. October birth stone 23. Crop gathering 25. Oak dropping 26. Jack Skellington’s girl

Cornucopia -Megan Krol

Down 2. “Sleepy” schoolteacher 3. Apple beverage 5. Mario’s mushroom friend 6. Día de los _______ 7. “(Don’t Fear) the ______” 8.Deciduous leaf phenomenon 10. Annual terrorist 11. Arthur Miller play 14. Burial vault 18. Hipster staple 20. Sweet corn 22. Friendly ghost 24. Relating to blood

October 11, 2011

Botanic Gardens attract visitors, fauna with diverse plant species

THE REVIEW/Nick Wallace

The university’s Botanic Gardens, located around the agricultre school at Townsend Hall, feature the Herbaceous Garden, a collection of miscellaneous plants. The Lepidoptera Trail includes plants that attract butterflies and caterpillars, and the Trial Garden is used to test seeds for the university. The Botanic Gardens depend on 140 volunteers to help with the design and maintenance of the grounds. Visitors of the Botanic Gardens can expect the Cones for the Cows trail in the near future, a trail that will connect the UDairy Creamery to the cows that supply the milk.

“Experts at Nothing” by Justin Sadegh

“Experts at Nothing” is a weekly comic strip that follows the lives of Sam and Dan. Their lives? About nothing. Why read it? ‘Cause they’re experts. —Justin Sadegh, jsadegh@udel.edu

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Did you know? Delaware is one of two teams in NCAA football to have two shutouts this season. The other is Alabama.

sports Prof publishes study on winning baseball BY PAT GILLESPIE Senior Reporter

THE REVIEW/Hanan Zatloff

The Hens defense swarms the Tribe late in the fourth quarter. Delaware did not allow any points Saturday night.

Hens hold Tribe scoreless Pierce runs for 143 yards, Donnelly throws two touchdowns BY DAN MOBERGER Managing Sports Editor

The past two weeks have showcased the multiple personalities of head coach K.C. Keeler’s football squad. Saturday’s dominant performance in a 21-0 win over William & Mary was in complete contrast to the loss against Maine a week earlier. The victory pulled the team to 4-2 overall and 2-1 in the CAA. The offense, defense, special teams and coaching staff looked in sync for the first time against a quality opponent all season. Keeler attributed the all-around success to the team and coaching staff’s special attention to detail during practice. “This whole week was about the details of the game,” Keeler said. “If we clean up the details, I think we’re a good enough team that we can do some damage in this league.” Delaware’s running game set the pace for the evening, helping the Hens control possession for almost 10 minutes more than William & Mary did. Sophomore

Andrew Pierce ripped through the Tribe defense, rushing for a season high 143 yards and a touchdown. Running backs David Hayes and Michael Johnson, starting quarterback Tim Donnelly and backup quarterback Trevor Sasek contributed to the 214 total yards on the ground for Delaware. Pierce got his fifth 100-yard rushing performance in six contests this season with 28 carries, another season high. He also caught a teamhigh seven passes for 26 yards. “As many carries as it takes to win—that’s all that matters,” Pierce said when asked about his heavy workload. “We came out and showed that we can be a dominant team if we play well and play with no mistakes.” The Hen defense did a 180 degree turn from the Maine game and got its second shutout of the season. It was also the first time the Tribe were shutout since 1997 against a Tubby Raymond-led Delaware team. They held the Tribe to just 210 total yards offensively, less than half of the 477 they gave up to Maine. The defense also forced two interceptions by captain

Andrew Harrison and Maryland transfer Travis Hawkins. Hawkins’ second quarter pick ended a nine-play drive by William & Mary that had progressed 49 yards and into the Hens’ side of the field. He also made a leaping play to break up a long pass down the sideline earlier in the game that could have brought the Tribe deep into Delaware territory. Keeler said the secondary, which came off the Maine game where they gave up 264 yards through the air, showed improvement this week. “We got our head in the backfield too many times in that Maine game and we got hit on some big plays,” Keeler said after Saturday’s game. “We put Jake Giusti back there at safety. I thought he cleaned up some of the issues.” The third quarter interception by Harrison, a senior linebacker, was the first of his career. He joked about it taking him so long after the game. “Me and Paul [Worrilow] always talk about how jealous we

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Pitching and fielding do not win championships in baseball, according to professor Charles Pavitt. At best, Pavitt believes a team will win only half its games if they have a great defense, but no offense. In his recent study, “An Estimate of How Hitting, Pitching, Fielding and Base-stealing Impact Team Winning Percentages in Baseball,” Pavitt examined statistics over a 47year period, from 1951 to 1998, and concluded that hitting is the most vital aspect of winning ball games. “Hitting alone is way more important than pitching and way more important than fielding,” Pavitt said. In the study, which will be published in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, Pavitt writes that offense and defense have equal sway in a team’s ability to win, but the components of the two vary in value. According to Pavitt, 48 percent of winning is determined by hitting, while pitching and defense each constitute 25 percent. Base-stealing contributes approximately 2 percent in his formula for winning. Pavitt said the few things he

is unsure about in his study are his conclusions on pitching and defense. “The tricky part, which I’m not as confident in, is dividing defense into pitching and fielding,” he said. “That’s because there’s an interdependence there. Theoretically, when a ball is hit in play, theoretically, some of the responsibility for what happens ought to be on the pitcher and some on the fielders.” Pavitt broke his data down into three categories: low offensive years, medium years and high offensive years, which included the 1998 home run chase between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire. Steroids had little influence on the production of an entire major league season, Pavitt said. Pavitt used regression equations to calculate the influence of hitting, pitching, fielding and base-stealing. He made four estimates for each category—the low, medium and high offensive years, as well as an estimate for overall years. He took those estimates to make conclusions on the importance of the different factors of baseball. Pavitt noted pitchers, statistically speaking, own little influence on balls

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Volleyball moving up in conference standings

Wins over JMU, GMU this weekend BY KERRY BOWDEN Sports Editor

The Delaware women’s volleyball team won their first CAA home game on Friday against James Madison University. Even with the team being unable to practice on Saturday because it did not have its gym, the girls still came out on top again on Sunday versus George Mason University at home. Both matches had set scores of 3-1. Head coach Bonnie Kenny said the team practiced well this week in anticipation for these two matches. Practices have been getting a little more competitive recently “Our focus in practice really helped us,” said Kenny. “We probably spent more time on James Madison than we did George Mason because that is who we played first and that’s usually how it happens.”

Kenny said the focus of the team dwindled coming into Sunday’s game. She was not happy with what she saw in the pre-game. “I don’t like warm-ups, and I usually don’t pay a whole lot of attention to them but I was angry at how we warmed up today,” said Kenny. “I just thought we didn’t really have the focus that we needed.” The Hens jumped out to a big lead in the first set Sunday. But the Patriots rallied back late to only lost the set by four points. “We had a lot of unforced errors on our side so that gave momentum for the second game,” senior Alissa Alker said. “We realized it and we got back up for the third game.” Senior Renee Tomko said the errors in the second set were a result of lack of communication between players.

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Wednesday, Oct. 12 Men’s Soccer at Drexel 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday Women’s Golf at Rutgers Invitational Saturday and Sunday Men’s and Women’s Tennis at Lehigh Saturday, Oct. 15 Football vs. Massachusetts 3:30 p.m. Volleyball at Virginia Commonwealth 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16 Women’s Soccer vs. James Madison 12 p.m. Men’s Soccer vs. Hofstra 3 p.m.

henpeckings Women’s Soccer: The team’s three-game winning streak abruptly ended with a 2-1 loss to William & Mary on Sunday. William & Mary is currently undefeated in the CAA. Senior forward Stacie Dulkis scored the only goal for the Hens with the help of Laura Klebe. Delaware took 11 shots during the game, and William & Mary took a total of 21. On Friday night, the Hens host Virginia Commonwealth at home. The game is part of a two-game home stand for the Hens, and they will host James Madison on Sunday. Field Hockey: Two hat tricks by Hofstra contributed to The Hens losing 7-2 in CAA play on Sunday. Freshman Kelsey McKee scored the first goal for the Hens, cutting the lead in half before Hofstra regained control. Sophomore Clare O’Malley cut the lead in half yet again in the second half of the game, but that was the last time the Hens got on the board. Hofstra out-shot the Hens 24-17 throughout the game. Men’s Golf: Men’s Golfers finished eighth at the Joe Agree Invitational held on Tuesday. The Invitational took place in Williamsburg, Va, and was hosted by William & Mary. Senior Stephen Scialo finished 17th in individual standings . Scialo fired a two over par 74 during Tuesday’s final round, posting the best round of the day by a Hen. Scialo was Delaware’s top finisher for the third time in four fall tournaments. Men’s Swimming: Opening the 2010-2011 schedule, the Blue Hen Men’s swimming and diving team sweeped Georgetown 190-106 on Saturday. Josh Hyman had three individual top finishes in addition to being the second leg of the winning 200yard medley relay team to earn top honors of the afternoon. The Hens continued their domination as Ryan Roberts placed first in the 200-yard freestyle and the 200-yard backstroke. Other top finishers for the Hens were Paul Gallagher, Zach Lowe and Cole Clark. The squad heads to George Mason next Saturday to begin their CAA dual meet schedule.

“NBA WAKEUP CALL” BY DAN MOBERGER I’m getting right down to business because this is a huge topic to confine to a few hundred words. With the NBA players and owners in a heated lockout right now, the future of the upcoming season looks about as likely as Tiger winning another major. The NBA season is scheduled to start Nov. 1, but NBA fans are going to need to see some miracles if the season is to start on time. For those who haven’t been paying attention, the National Basketball Player’s Association and the NBA owners have not been able to work out a new collective bargaining agreement. The quarrel has numerous different points of view as to why the two associations can’t reach a compromise, but it all boils down to money. Both sides seem to believe they are being taken advantage of by the other; both

sides make millions of dollars every year and both sides are at least partially to blame. It is important to understand the BRI, or Basketball Related Income, in order to grasp the problem. The BRI is the key way the owners and players divide up the money. It covers just about everything, from tickets and merchandising profits to media contracts and advertising. The former collective bargaining agreement split the BRI 57 percent to the players and 43 percent to the owners. The split made sense since there are more players than owners in the league. It logically follows that the players should get slightly more of the profits because they need to split it up among more people. The players are the entertainers as well. Any person with the money to do so could go out and buy a team, but the players have unique talents that drive the business of professional basketball. Essentially, the owners are complaining that they lost money last year, and originally wanted the new BRI to have a 61 percent to 39 percent split in favor of the owners. The massive drop was most likely a strategic overestimate by the owners to shrink the players’ expectations along with their bank accounts. After meetings between the two sides, the owners changed their stance on a hard salary cap, which the players were opposed to, and brought their proposal on the BRI split all the way up to 50/50. Initially, the owners were the side overstepping their bounds, but now the players are out of line. The players are now requesting a 53/47 split, and with that miniscule discrepancy in percentages comes what looks like an insurmountable gap in moral agreement. The preseason and the first two weeks of the season have already been cancelled

following another failed meeting. Now that the owners have made their concessions, it’s time for the players to step up. What they don’t seem to realize is that they are losing money by refusing to end the deadlock. By the time the lockout ends, each side will probably have lost more money than they were arguing about in the first place. Furthermore, the lockout affects businesses dependent on the sport. Without the games drawing large crowds, local businesses surrounding the stadiums are suffering. The players have the power. They have the option to play overseas and still get paid copious amounts of money while the owners sit at home paying to maintain their empty arenas. Those who were wise enough with their investments can ride out endorsement deals until the owners cave if they don’t feel like playing overseas. I want to see this NBA season happen. My Celtics are getting older and this may be the last shot they get to bring home another championship. It’s a shame the only thing standing in the way of the season is a 3 percent disagreement. I started out thinking the owners were at fault, but now it’s really the greed of the players that has me exasperated. The NBA has been riding an upswing of popularity the past few years. As we’ve seen with other lockouts like that of the NHL a few years ago, a shortened season can damage a lucrative business. The players need to get over that 3 percent, get back on the court and give NBA fans something to cheer about. Dan Moberger is a managing sports editor at the Review. Send questions, comments and a new CBA to dmoberge@udel.edu.

underp eview: Delaware vs. UMASS

About the Teams:

Time: Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Location: Delaware Stadium

Why the Hens can win:

About Delaware: The Hens rebounded from a 31-17 loss at Maine two weeks ago with an impressive shutout victory over William & Mary last week to pull their record to 4-2 overall and 2-1 in the CAA. Sophomore running back Andrew Pierce has been the focal point of this offense all season. Quarterback Tim Donnelly also bounced back from a sub-par Maine game and had a solid showing against the Tribe. The shutout was the defense’s second of the season.

The look of the Hens at home versus on the road is incredible. They are 3-0 at home and 0-2 on the road. Those road games were against tough opponents, but sloppy play was the real reason they fell apart in the fourth quarter and lost the Maine game, not that they weren’t good enough to come home with a victory. Saturday’s game is back in the friendly confines of Delaware Stadium. They played with very few mistakes against the Tribe, and recovered well from the ones they did. As Keeler said, it’s all about the details, and last week’s game showed what happens when they get those details right.

About UMASS: The Minutemen are 3-2 on the year and 1-1 in the CAA. Their two losses came against Boston College and Old Dominion, a team the Hens defeated earlier in the season. UMASS also has a talented running back in senior Jonathan Hernandez. It will be an interesting matchup between the UMASS offense and the Delaware defense. UMASS football is moving to the Mid American Conference next year so this is the final time the two teams will be seeing each other in the near future.

Because the Minutemen defense is quite porous, they could be looking to turn this game into a high scoring affair. If the game does take that turn, more pressure could be put on Tim Donnelly to make big plays instead of play to his strengths, which are to manage the game and focus on moving the chains. UMASS could be hoping to take the Delaware offense out of its element, which also hurts the defense because when the offense gets off the field quicker, the defense wears down from being out there longer than they would like to be. The Minutemen like to pass, which is dangerous against a tired defense.

The Numbers: 4-1: The Hens record in Parent’s Weekend games the past five years. 120 to 60: Points the Hens have scored vs. their opponents through the first the quarters this year. 35 to 45: Points the Hens have scored vs. their opponents in fourth quarters this year.

Why the Hens could lose:

The Prediction:

The Hens are coming off their best game of the season, they thrive at home and UMASS allows almost 400 yards a game. Baring another ugly fourth quarter for Delaware, the Hens get momentum and keep it throughout the contest for another Parent’s Weekend victory.

Minutemen 20 Hens 34 -Dan Moberger

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Delaware drops heartbreaker to CAA foe James Madison in OT Frimpong’s two goals not enough, Hens lose on late free kick BY TIM MASTRO Managing Sports Editor

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Hens’ senior offensive lineman Rob McDowell lines up before a snap

McDowell back at center BY TIM MASTRO Managing Sports Editor

Rob McDowell was just as confused as everyone else. The Hens’ senior center started the season with unexplained bad snaps, which were prevalent in Delaware’s first two games. In the second half of the West Chester game Sept. 10, McDowell was moved to guard while fellow senior Gino Gradkowski was shifted to center as a result of the poor snaps. The formation on the offensive line remained that way through the next three games. But McDowell was still trying to fix whatever was wrong with his snaps. So he looked at some old film from last year. He picked out what he thought was one of his best games in 2010, against William & Mary, also the next opponent for the Hens. Saturday against the Tribe, McDowell was back at center. It went so smoothly it was never reported and only the most observant of Hen fans would have noticed the change back to McDowell. Head coach K.C. Keeler’s first discussed the move at his Monday press conference. “We didn’t make a big deal out of it,” Keeler said. “I didn’t think it was a big deal, but we’re a better football team when Rob’s playing center and Gino’s playing guard.” Not one snap Saturday resulted in a fumble. “It felt good, definitely my more comfortable position,” McDowell said. “I think the guys play better when that’s the organization, when Shea [Allard] and Gino play next to each other, and Will [Nagle] and [Brandon] Heath, and I’m between the two of them.” McDowell had played guard

before in his career. In 2008 he won the starting job at left guard and became the first player to start every game on the offensive line as a true freshman in Delaware history. The following year, he transitioned to right guard and replaced two-time All-American Kheon Hendricks and once again started every game. Last year was his first at center and he continued his streak of consecutive starts. McDowell said going back to guard wasn’t as easy as it seemed. “It’s been a long time,” he said. “I felt a little awkward at guard.” He said his trouble with snaps in the beginning of this season could have been because he was playing with a new quarterback. With former Hens’ quarterback Pat Devlin last year, McDowell usually could move his feet more to get ready to block as he snapped. This year he realized he needs to hold back just a little bit more with junior Tim Donnelly behind center. “Tim coming in took a little getting used to,” McDowell said. “I had to take an extra breath, couldn’t jump the snap as much as I used to.” Now that the snapping problem is figured out, the line is back to what Keeler calls the biggest strength of the team. And, in his opinion, it starts in the middle. “I think Rob is one of the best centers I’ve ever coached,” Keeler said. “It’s not only his physical ability, but his mental ability. We put so much on our center in terms of making the calls on the line of scrimmage… Just the amount of thinking that goes on at the center position, and Gino can handle it and handled it well, but Rob excels in those kind of things.”

Delaware was just a few minutes away from taking a result off the top soccer team in the CAA. They even had a couple opportunities to get a win. In the past, the Hens could have looked at this as a moral victory. But this year the expectations are higher. The Hens had James Madison (8-1-1, 4-0 CAA) on the ropes, but a late free kick goal in overtime gave the Dukes a 3-2 win, leaving Delaware (7-2-1, 2-2 CAA) to rue a missed chance to earn a win over a team receiving votes in the NCAA national polls. “They’re a good team,” head coach Ian Hennessy said of the Dukes. “But I think anybody who watched today’s game saw that, in terms of being the better soccer team, we were the better soccer team.” With 36 seconds left in the first overtime period, the Dukes’ Patrick Innes lined up a free kick on the edge of the Delaware penalty area. Innes, James Madison’s leading scorer on the season, already had beaten Delaware goalie Brandon Paul earlier in the first half to open the scoring. Innes curled his kick over the wall and Paul dove, but could not reach it as it sailed into the corner

of the net, setting off a Dukes’ celebration. “I think he finished it pretty well,” Paul said of the shot. “We just need to go over some things in practice in terms of free kicks to shape that up a little bit better than what it was.” Delaware came back from a one-goal deficit twice in the first half. Senior Evans Frimpong scored both goals to bring his total of the year to nine. He used a similar move for each goal. Each time, the ball was bouncing and he chipped it passed his defender. The first time he beat the defender and was one-on-one with the goalie before rounding him and sliding the ball on the ground into the net. Late in the first half he was at it again, maneuvering his way through the James Madison defense, but this time another defender was able to get in front of him. The ball was mishandled and Frimpong was able to get back on to it, and poked it with his toe into the bottom corner. They were the first goals the Dukes let up since they lost 4-1 to No. 5 North Carolina Sept. 13. Their shutout streak lasted 455 minutes before Frimpong ended it. Both goals by James Madison came off the counter-attack.

Delaware was missing its defensive midfielder John Dineen, who is suspended for two games due to a red card he picked up in Wednesday’s 2-1 win over Northeastern. Hennessy said the Hens missed Dineen’s organization and tackling skills. “We made a couple of crucial mistakes and to their credit they scored them,” Hennessy said. Not only was Delaware without the services of Dineen, the Hens were also shorthanded a few players who are out with injuries. Roberto Giminez, the team’s leading scorer behind Frimpong, has not played since a 2-0 loss to Old Dominion Sept. 30. Also sidelined are defenders Ignacio Martin and captain Tobias Muller. Delaware only used one substitute off its bench while the Dukes brought in four. Yet they still had chances to win, none better than the two chances Frimpong had late on the right side of goal. One went just over the crossbar while the other sailed wide of the far post. “We gave James Madison as much as they could handle,” Hennessy said. “I think we stretched them, had good opportunities and had the lion’s share of possession. I can’t complain with the guys who were on the field. They were fabulous.”’

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Evans Frimpong (10) scored both goals in Delaware’s 3-2 overtime loss to James Madison Sunday afternoon.

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Baseball: Recent study reports hitting more important than pitching, defense, base-running Continued from page 28 hit in play. Pavitt evaluated pitchers on Defense Independent Pitching Statistics (DIPS), which include home runs allowed, walks and strikeouts. “The outcome of a ball hit in play is surprisingly independent of the pitchers,” Pavitt said. “Like you hear all the time when you’re watching baseball, a pitcher, he ‘pitches for contact.’ Well, it turns out, that pitching for contact is a stupid—in and of itself—a stupid strategy because the more often a ball is hit in play, the more often it will be hit.” When asked about pitchers known for pitching to contact, such as future Hall of Famer Tom Glavine, Pavitt said Glavine was successful because he gave up few walks and home runs, not for his ground-ball outs. Pavitt also dismissed intangible aspects of baseball, such as clutch hitters and momentum swings, which many believe are an integral aspect of the game. Pavitt said it is possible to have clutch, timely hitting, but the concept of a hitter who consistently hits in pressure situations is a myth. Momentum shifts in baseball are simply “random activity,” Pavitt said, and have litte influence over the entirety of a regular season. “Things like psychology and team spirit probably have very little impact over the course of a whole season,” Pavitt said. “All the stuff about team spirit allowing a team to do better than the [ability of] individual players is a myth.” He did not receive any reaction from the baseball community, but he would find some support from university baseball coach Jim Sherman. “We even had a pretty good year last year offensively,” Sherman said. “We were tied for first all season long

going into the last two weeks.” He agreed hitting is close to 50 percent of winning, and noted that he spends about 70 percent of his practice time on hitting drills. He also said he favors an offensive-minded ball club because it is difficult to recruit for pitchers against southern schools, which have larger, local talent pools to choose from and also recruit nationally. Sherman, however, disagrees with Pavitt’s belief that intangibles do not affect a baseball team’s likelihood of winning. He cited his team’s finish to last season, when it lost seven of its last eight games and a chance at the conference playoffs. The late-season slide began when they were swept against Old Dominion, Sherman said. “You could sense it, we start to squeeze ourselves playing,” he said. “Everything lined up in our favor against both Old Dominion and Northeastern. Just the feel of—the feeling that you were going to win— changed. The intangible—we didn’t believe we were going to win.” Junior second basemen DJ Long agreed with Pavitt’s assessment on the importance of hitting, but believed that clutch hitters do exist in baseball. “Everybody says that hitting is contagious. If one person is hitting then the next person gets a hit—people feed off one another,” Long said. “If you look at big league guys, there’s a lot of clutch hitters that come up in big situations and get big hits. I don’t think it’s a mythical thing.” Senior pitcher Eric Young thinks pitching accounts for more than 25 percent of the game, a statistic Pavitt emphasized he was not certain about. “As a pitcher, you have the ball every play of the game,” Young said. “You control the tempo of the game. You control what the defense is doing.”

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Nihja White (19) snags the final touchdown of Delaware’s 21-0 win Saturday night against William & Mary.

Volleyball: Hens now in second in CAA, travel to W&M, VCU next Continued from page 28 “We just had a little trouble with that, stumbled here and there,” Tomko said. “We need to do a better job of sustaining over an entire match.” She said she was proud of how the team turned things around in the third game. Set scores were 25-21, 17-25, 25-17 and 25-18. Senior outside hitter Kim Stewart led the team with 15 kills. “I thought this weekend Kim Stewart was great,” Kenny said. “I thought she was a great leader, I thought she passed well, she defended well, she blocked well and she served well.” Sophomore Katie Hank had 13 kills from the outside. Hank said she agreed with Kenny that the team started off a little slow during warm ups on Sunday, but picked up the intensity toward the end of the match. Coming into this weekend, James Madison was the only undefeated team left in the CAA. With the two wins over the

Dukes and the Patriots, Delaware moved into a tie for second in the conference. “Coming out here and playing really well against this team proved to everyone that we are a great team and we can do this,” Tomko said Kenny said the team’s goal is to win the CAA and advance in the tournament. “Our goal will never change. As long as I’m the coach at University of Delaware it will stay like that,” Kenny said. “I still truly believe this team is capable of doing that. We just have to keep making progress; we are still a work in progress.” The next matchups for the Hens are on the road this weekend. They play William & Mary Friday at 7 p.m. and Virginia Commonwealth Saturday at the same time. “We are excited for next week. We are playing two more good teams,” Tomko said. “Now that we got two conference wins at home, we need to go and get two conference wins on the road.”

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Andrew Pierce (30) rushed for 143 yards and one touchdown. He has more than 100 yards in five of six games.

Football: Hens improve to 2-1 in CAA action Continued from page 28 are because Leon Jackson comes in and one of his first or second games, he gets a pick, it’s thrown right to him. Jessel Curry comes in his first game, he gets a pick, it’s thrown right to him,” Harrison said with a smile. “This one, the ball was tipped right to me, so now Paul, hopefully he gets the easy one next.” Besides an early blocked punt, lost fumble and Donnelly interception that Keeler described as “greedy,” the Hens played one of their strongest games of the year. The team was able to recover from those mistakes each time, and capitalized on miscues by William & Mary like those two interceptions. Tim Donnelly’s 124 yards and two touchdowns weren’t

necessarily glamorous numbers, but he managed the game well, Keeler said. The Hens had two drives of more than 90 yards, including a nine-play, 98-yard drive in the first quarter that ended in a 29-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Bobby Russo. Donnelly, Pierce and Keeler each gave the offensive line credit for how well the offense functioned after the game. “It’s the way football is supposed to look when you do it right,” Donnelly said of the lengthy drives the Hens were able to put together. “The offensive line was doing their thing tonight.” Game one starting quarterback Trevor Sasek saw his first action since his injury against Navy. He ended the game without any completions in limited action, but did have a seven-yard scramble

that was called back for holding. Keeler said he was glad to get him back on the field. “I’m really happy we got Trevor in there,” Keeler said. “It was just an opportunity to get him back on a real football field and just get a chance to get out there with the fellas.” Next up for the Hens are the Massachusetts Minutemen, who’ll come down Saturday for the Parent’s Weekend game. The Minutemen are 3-2 on the season and 1-1 against CAA opponents. After the game, Keeler stressed the depth of the CAA and expects another test for his team against Massachusetts. “We’ll be challenged next week because they’ll throw the ball all over the place,” Keeler said. “This could be a league that two losses might win the league.”

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