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UD earns average grade in sustainability October 7, 2008

University’s enviromental efforts given a C-plus grade whether a list of endowment holdings Before teachers were able to give out midterm grades to stu- and proxy voting dents, the Sustainable Endowments Institute graded the univer- records are made sity’s performance this year on the College Sustainability Report available to the public. The shareholder Card. The university received a C-plus overall grade.

The College Sustainability Report Card is an initiative coor- engagement grade dinated by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a project of the depends on whether there is a way for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

CSRC communications fellow Ali Adler said the CSRC shareholders to incorwas founded to illustrate campus practices and to create a tool porate their judgfor students and administrators to be able to compare grades ments into decisionmaking or make recfrom other schools and to note areas of potential improvement. to The CSRC reviews the 300 schools in the United States and ommendations Canada with the largest reported endowments, including the uni- trustees.

The university versity, Adler said.

She said to determine grades for the 2008 CSRC, a team received an A in gathered information from June through August, from publicly investment priorities accessible sources such as the school’s Web site. The university because of its investreceived an A under the category of investment priorities and Bs ments in renewable sources, under the categories of administration, climate change and ener- energy gy, food and recycling, student involvement and transportation. according to the The CSRC gave the university a C for green building, a D CSRC. However, the for endowment transparency and an F for shareholder engage- overall grade was lowered because the ment.

Adler said the CSRC incorporated the information into cus- records are not availtomized surveys and e-mailed them to university President able to the public. The Patrick Harker, Dining Services and the investment office so university’s $1.15 bilthey could expand upon or make corrections to the data. The sur- lion endowment is vey responses, if returned, were reviewed by two or more eval- among the top 12 of uators. The university was then awarded points based on its poli- public instituitions in the country. cies.

THE REVIEW/Steven Gold Mark Stalnecker, In each of the nine equally weighted categories, scores translated into a letter grade, she said. The school’s GPA was cal- chief investment offi- The university’s grade of C-plus on the 2008 College Sustainability Report Card does not include culated on a 4.0 scale and converted into a final sustainability cer at the university, recent efforts such as last year’s senior gift and the creation of the Sustainability Task Force. grade of C-plus. Past reports are available on the CSRC’s Web said the university investment office only site. grades for food and recycling and the top 37 percent of schools Adler said the endowment transparency grade is based on discloses endowment listings and shareholder records when it is with highest grades for investment priorities prudent to do so.

Madsen said he thinks the university’s grades for endow“We try to balance giving information to the people but ment transparency and shareholder engagement are disappointin some circumstances it’s not appropriate,” Stalnecker said. ing and something the task force would like to examine further.

He said when companies have governance issues, the However, he said the university’s investment practices may be shareholders vote on them. Voting records are seen only by out of the task force’s control. those who are authorized to see them, such as certain staff “If it’s a structural issue, then we’re not going to be able to and the actual board members. Such policies are set by the get very far,” he said. “The task force is focused on student More than 20 percent of schools improved Board of Trustees. The investment office is not allowed to involvement. We have graduate and undergraduate students that their grade on the College Sustainability disclose when the managers are engaged in private affairs. are very engaged in sustainability issues and we are trying to harReport Card between 2007 and 2009. The “We think it’s confidential information,” Stalnecker ness that energy.”

University of Delaware is included in this said. “We try to manage the endowment in a way that is Madsen said the task force will consider the 2009 CSRC number — its score went from a C-minus in proven and safe and also gets returns.” grades in planning future sustainability initiatives, as university 2007 to a C-plus in 2009.

John Madsen, co-chair of the university’s officials are concerned about how the university is viewed.

Sustainability Task Force and an associate professor of geo“We need to do a better job of publicizing what we’re doing Schools receiving A’s in the food and recycling logical sciences, said he was not surprised by the universi- and need to educate the public about the task force and sustaincategory more than doubled between 2007 and ty’s grade. Madsen said it is taking some time for Harker’s ability issues,” he said.

2009. The university received a B in the commitment to sustainability to work its way through the He also said he expects grades for administration, green category this year. university. He said that the C-plus grade does not include the building and student involvement to improve by 2010. efforts of the Sustainability Task Force, which was created According to the CSRC Web site, C-plus is the average The percentage of schools that make a list of in spring 2008. grade for all schools CSRC surveyed. Over 75 percent of other endowment investments available at least to Older CSRC report cards show the university has schools fall within the B and C range. the campus community, if not to the public, made progress in becoming more sustainable. This year, the Sophomore Alex Hallenbeck said he thinks the university is expanded from 23 to 37 percent since 2007. The university’s grade for its administration improved from a D making progress to become sustainable. number of schools making shareholder voting to a B. “I don’t know what their standards are, but I feel like with records available rose from 15 to 30 percent.

Madsen credits the change to Harker’s arrival at the the no trays in the dining hall, our school is being pretty active The university received a D in the category this university. He said Harker places a great deal of value on in sustainable practices,” Hallenbeck said. “It’s a major step. You year. sustainability and that has motivated students and the task could argue whether it’s effective or not, but it’s still a major force to improve their policies. step.”

The highest percentage of A’s — 37 percent — “It’s great to see — a lot of it has to do with President Freshman Nancy Harrington said she is not satisfied with was in the category of investment priorities. Harker and his efforts,” Madsen said. the university’s current grade.

The university is included in this group.

Since 2007, the university’s grades have improved in “I think it’s bad that we’re just average — we should strive almost every category, according to the CSRC Web site. to be above average,” Harrington said. “When it comes to the Of the nine categories on the 2009 CSRC, seven Adler said she thinks the fact the university has environment, I feel like the university can’t settle for being averwere included in the 2007 report (student improved is a good sign. age because it’s such a serious issue.” involvement and transportation were added in “It’s hard to move up,” she said. “A lot of schools don’t Sentiments were also mixed about whether the university 2008). Of those seven, the university improved make a letter grade improvement in a year. Movement at all needs to be concerned and work to improve its score. in four categories. The other three — food and is a good sign and is motivation for students.”

Hallenbeck said she wondered how the university stood up recycling, green building and shareholder The university’s climate change and energy grade went to other comparable universities. engagement — remained the same. up from a C to a B and was aided by the 2008 senior class “If we don’t measure up we should be concerned.” he said. gift, which provided funding for the Carbon Footprint Harrington said concern for the university’s grade is neces— compiled from the College Sustainability Initiative, he said. sary.

Report Card Web site According to the CSRC Web site, in 2009, the univer“If people are rating us with a poor score, then obviously sity ranks below 38 percent of other assessed universities. It there’s room for improvement,” she said. is also in the top 30 percent of schools with the highest

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A Closer Look

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Bringing the national election home

Obama campaign opens office in Newark

BY ERICA FLORENTINE Staff Reporter

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RSOs ‘Get Political’ on the Green

The “Get Political Fair”featured music in addition to voter registration tables.

BY MATT WATERS Staff Reporter

Several registered student organizations teamed up Friday to sponsor the Get Political Fair to promote political awareness and fight student apathy on campus.

The fair, which was held on the North Green from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., offered many political points of view.

Students were rewarded for their interest in politics with free food, free Tshirts and music by Spokey Speaky, Stone City and Mad Sweet Pangs.

Lara Rausch, president of College Republicans and coordinator of the fair, said it was significant the RSOs came together like this.

“It’s important for them all to get their messages out,” Rausch said.

Andrew Grunwald, director of communications for College Democrats, said he hoped the fair would help fight student apathy on campus.

“I definitely think this is going to spark a lot of enthusiasm with the students,” Grunwald said. “I think that often times students aren’t engaged in the process and this is a great way to get people involved because a lot of people understand how important this election is.”

For those who were less educated on the election, Grunwald said the fair was the perfect place for them to learn.

“Students can get a lot more informed on the issues, as well as anyone who is not registered to vote will have an easy opportunity to get registered and can get absentee ballots,” Grunwald said. “This election affects everyone, in terms of how much college costs, how much your health care costs, the War in Iraq — everyone is affected by this.”

Not only did the Republicans and Democrats get their messages out, but RSOs such as Uganda Untold, STAND and the Pro-Life Vanguard also had representatives and information on display.

Orion Kobayashi, events coordina-

tor for Uganda Untold, said the organization wanted to get the word out about the “forgotten” war.

“We just wanted to raise awareness for the war in Uganda,” Kobayashi said.

“Very few people actually know about this humanitarian crisis, and it’s tragic because the majority of the war has been fought by children ages 8 to 12.”

Senior Kelsey Lanan, a member of the Pro-Life Vanguard, said she felt the fair was a fitting forum to raise awareness for their program.

“This is a really apathetic college campus as far as politics go and as far as moral issues go,” Lanan said.

Student traffic was steady at most of the tables, with the highest amount of students arriving between class changes. The loud music and posters offering free food attracted many students.

Senior Hyun-Seok Lim said he came over to see what the music was for and thought it was smart to add music as an incentive.

“I think this is a good method because the music seems to be drawing people’s attention,” Lim said.

Not all students felt the fair was a good way to raise political awareness.

Junior Jason Buchta said he saw it more as a rally for party support than an educational event.

“I don’t want to say that it’s not, but I certainly see a lot of people who already pigeon-holed themselves as a Democrat or a Republican going over and talking to their own people,” Buchta said.

Rausch said the Get Political Fair was an overall success for the political groups. She said the biggest attraction at the fair was the voter registration booth, which shows Delaware students are becoming less apathetic and more active.

“I had kids ask me where was the booth to register all day and if we had only one person registered, it would have been worth it,” Rausch said.

in Delaware to put the headquarters, it’s Newark,” Pika said. “It makes sense to do it near the largest university in the state. I think his organization realizes this.”

He also said he thinks the headquarters is likely to have an impact on voters. Obama already has a lot of support from students and faculty at the university, he said, and the location of the headquarters should only add to it.

Jason Mycoff, political science professor, said he was not aware Obama would be setting up a headquarters in Newark, but he is not surprised to hear one is opening.

He said he cannot see how setting up a headquarters near the university could hurt the Obama campaign because students on average prefer Obama to McCain.

“It’s not surprising,” Mycoff said. “From what I’ve seen, students are pretty excited about the election as it is, but this will help to reinforce that.”

Obama’s campaign strategists were looking for a high population center, making Newark an obvious choice, he said.

“Obama has many more offices than McCain and he’s much more aggressive,” Mycoff said.

He said he feels the office allows for a good place for students to volunteer and participate in the campaign process. Having it so close to campus will be beneficial to the university over the next few weeks until Election Day in November.

“It provides an opportunity for students to get involved,” Mycoff said. “It’s an exciting thing for the campus.”

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign opened an office on Elkton Road in Newark late last month.

This is Obama’s second headquarters in the state of Delaware. The other is located in Wilmington.

Andrew Grunwald, communications director for Delaware Students for Barack Obama and consultant for UD for Obama, a campaign committee affiliated with College Democrats, said the placement of the office near the university should reinforce student commitment to voting.

“Students are one of the strongest voting groups, so this location near campus should be helpful,” Grunwald, who is also director of communications for College Democrats, said.

The location of the headquarters was originally intended to be Main Street, but was canged to 211 Elkton Road after some negotiations, he said.

There were a few different places available, but ultimately it came down to what location would be the most affordable Senior Brian Boyle, a volunteer for UD for Obama, said he is not sure the headquarters will draw in many university students.

“I don’t think students will actually go there,” Boyle said. “They probably haven’t seen it unless they live on West Campus.”

Although the location may not be convenient for some students, Boyle said he feels the headquarters will provide an excellent place for local Democrats to campaign and increase voter registration.

Grunwald said UD for Obama will collaborate with the campaign strategists at the headquarters in the coming weeks to get people involved and lock in voters.

B e c a u s e Pennsylvania is expected to have a closer race than Delaware, UD for Obama is focusing heavily on contacting people there and getting them to register to vote, but it is also trying to get students at the university to register as well.

The Newark headquarters is part of Obama’s 50-state strategy.

Joseph Pika, political science professor, said the idea behind the strategy is to have representation in all 50 states throughout the United States. Obama’s goal is to have a campaign presence everywhere, he said.

“This is a good way to motivate voters,” Pika said. “It’s a way of networking and Obama is investing a lot of time and money into it.”

He said putting a headquarters in Newark is a smart move because of the location’s close proximity not only to a college campus but also to Pennsylvania, a battleTHE REVIEW/Melanie Hardy ground state.

“If there’s any place The Obama campaign opened an office in this building on Elkton Road.

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Student takes leave from UD to campaign

around him,” she said.

Adams said D’Armi is a natural When an 11-year-old Mike at campaigning.

D’Armi participated in his first politi“He has a way of speaking to cal campaign, he did so begrudgingly. people in a persuasive way,” she His mother, Barbara Adams, took him said. “He jumps in, learns everything with her every day after school for two he can and tries to get all the support weeks as she canvassed Kent County in he can for the candidate he’s working support of Jack Markell’s first camfor.” paign for state treasurer in 1998.

Paul Ruiz, president of College “He wasn’t too happy about it Democrats, said seeing D’Armi’s then,” Adams said. commitment to what he does inspires Things have certainly changed in the people around him. Ruiz said, at the 10 years that followed. first, he was disappointed to see Now 21, D’Armi dropped out of D’Armi leave College Democrats the university last month to take a paid and the local campaign group UD for position with Sen. Barack Obama’s Obama, but soon realized his talents campaign in Florida. were more needed in Florida.

D’Armi, who was a senior philos“The more I reflected on it, the ophy major and communications direcprouder I was of him,” Ruiz said. tor for the College Democrats, is workD’Armi is not the first person to ing as a field organizer in Miami-Dade drop out of the university to work for in southern Florida.

County a political campaign. David Plouffe, Responsible for a district of 52,000 Obama’s campaign manager, left one people, D’Armi said his duties include semester short of graduating in 1988. supervising volunteers, planning Steve Schmidt, Sen. John McCain’s events and identifying voters to target. campaign manager, left the universi“Everything I’m doing is planning ty in 1993, just three credits short of for the two weeks before the election graduating. so we can effectively get out the vote,” Neither Plouffe nor Schmidt D’Armi said. returned to the university to comCourtesy of Mike D’Armi Florida is expected to be a battleplete their degrees. ground state, so convincing voters in the Senior Mike D’Armi is working as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Miami-Dade County, Fla. D’Armi said many people have heavily-Democratic area to turn out to drawn parallels between him and He said he lives with a family in Miami that supports Plouffe, but he said there is one clear difference. the polls is important to the Obama campaign, he said.

“People in Miami-Dade just don’t vote,” D’Armi said. Obama and agreed to house volunteers.

“He just never came back,” D’Armi said. “I plan to D’Armi, who was also a resident assistant in the come back.”

“I have a precinct with just over 1,000 voters, and in 2004, Independence Complex, said he plans to return to school for only 22 people voted.”

He said he had planned to go to law school after gradD’Armi, a native of Magnolia, Del., just south of Winter Session and will still have enough credits to gradu- uating, but his job with the Obama campaign has put those Dover, worked over the summer for Lt. Gov. John Carney’s ate on time in the spring. He said the decision to leave plans on hold. unsuccessful gubernatorial primary campaign. Some of his school was made easier by the support he received from his “I kind of screwed myself out of law school with this co-workers went to work for Obama and invited D’Armi to family, friends and bosses at Residence Life. whole mess because I was supposed to take the LSATs on “No one in my life told me to stay, so I figured I had to Saturday,” he said last week. join them in Florida, he said.

D’Armi said rumblings about the opportunity to go to go,” D’Armi said.

Either way, D’Armi, who has a minor in political sciHe said the decision came down to a desire to do what- ence, plans on a career in politics. He said he expects to run Miami began the day after the Sept. 9 primary, and he received word Sept. 14 he was expected in Florida. He took ever he can for the Obama campaign. Even though Carney for office at some point in his life, likely beginning in the a semester leave from school and drove down the following lost his primary bid, D’Armi said he felt he did everything state legislature. he could for the lieutenant governor and wanted to ensure he day.

After the election, he said he looks forward to traveling He said working for the Carney campaign prepared him could say the same thing after the presidential election. and spending some time relaxing. D’Armi said during his Adams said she was surprised when her son told her he time working for Carney and Obama, he has had little time well for his duties in Florida.

“I’m doing the same thing I was in Delaware, just on a was going to Florida, but once he assured her he could still to himself. finish school on time, she was supportive. much larger scale,” D’Armi said.

“I spent my 21st birthday in an office pulling a damn“I was glad for him to have the opportunity,” she said. near all-nighter, so I haven’t had a lot of me time,” he said.

What it did not prepare him for, he said, was the culturAdams said although her son may have been hesitant to al gap that comes from moving to southern Florida.

In the end, D’Armi said, his hard work will be worth it.

“Miami is a crazy place,” D’Armi said. “I didn’t speak campaign in 1998, he has long shown an interest in politics.

“If I didn’t do all I could, I would regret it a lot on Nov. “He’s always been mature for his age, always interest- 5 if we lose,” he said. “My goal is just to make sure I don’t the language and I didn’t know anyone. I was an outsider in ed in learning new things and had an interest in the world regret anything.” every sense.”

BY JOSH SHANNON Managing News Editor

For some students, voting is all in the family

BY ALEXA MANTELL Staff Reporter

Adolescents and young adults have a reputation for defying older generations and social norms, but when it comes to politics, party preferences generally seem to bridge the gap between students and their parents.

With Election Day quickly approaching, students are getting ready to finally cast their votes.

Joseph Pika, professor of political science and international relations, said a student’s political affiliation is usually linked to that of his or her parents. In the case of a split household in which one parent is a Democrat and the other is Republican, the student is then most likely to be an Independent.

Senior Joanna Zwickel said she is a Democrat along with both of her parents. Still, they have never forced her to identify with a

certain political party.

“I don’t think I’d be shunned from my family if I was a Republican,” she said, “but I think they definitely advocated Democratic beliefs.”

Junior Christina Rizzo also supports the Democrats, like both of her parents.

“I’ve just always been inclined to believe in the morals that the Democratic Party believes in,” Rizzo said. “My party affiliation just happens to be the same as my parents’.”

Senior Joel García said he has never felt pressure to support a particular party.

“Thank God,” García said. “My parents are pretty cool when it comes to stuff like that.”

García said his father is a registered Independent who has supported the Democratic Party over the years and his mother is what he referred to as a “flip-flopper.” He said his parents’ views have helped him shape his own.

“I see their views and then I pick my own out of the batch,” he said.

Pika said when students go to college, they are exposed to new, different issues and resolve questions in their minds. Because students are becoming more mature, their political stances are strengthened by their independence.

“I would be surprised if there are lots of parents who would come down very heavily on their kids,” Pika said. “Probably the worst thing to do if you’re trying to influence your child is to come down too heavy on trying to push them in one direction or another.”

He said the election has created enthusiasm and excitement among college students across the country.

“All of the evidence this year shows there will be a substantial increase in the participation rates of the youngest age groups, 18 to 22,” Pika said. “These are the people who have

never had a chance to vote before.”

Zwickel said she believes students are developing their own political ideologies as they get older.

“I think when you’re growing up, your political views basically come from your parents, along with most of your other views,” Zwickel said. “And then when you get to college, you tend to discuss things and formulate your own ideas.”

Pika said he thinks different political opinions between students and their parents stems from the generational gap. He said there are a number of factors that contribute to this.

“I think probably racial tolerance and sexual choice is different with younger generations,” Pika said. “I think the social issues are the main reason for political disagreements and generational experiences get translated into politics.”

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Wartime photographer focuses on teaching

ulty. He also enjoys working with his students.

“I’m old enough to be their grandfather, but in some ways I’m younger than they are,” he “You should have sat in on that class,” said said. “I’m here to get them to experiment, get out Professor William Deering, or Bill, as he prefers to be of the box, because they don’t know how. I’m called. “It was a crazy house in there.” here to be a can opener.”

The noise from the classroom behind him emanatHe also helps seniors create the portfolios ed into the hallway as the students pinned their photothey need for finding internships. Deering is the graphic proofs directly to the classroom wall. head of the department’s internship program, He laughs as he takes a bite of a peanut butter cup, which sends visual communications students all his lunch for the day. He looks a little bit like an artisover the country during Winter Session. tic Santa Claus, with a fluffy white beard, jeans and a He is also the director of Raven Press, a letblack T-shirt — his uniform of choice. ter press run by the university. It allows students Deering, who teaches Photographic Design to experiment with typography outside of a comTopics (ART 414), Beginning Photography (ART 280) puter, which Deering feels is very important. and Form and Communications 3 (ART 308) this “The students are getting lazy on the comsemester, did not start out wanting to be a professor. He puter, so we’ve decided to go back to a tactile, does not even have a college degree. Instead, Deering more hands-on program […] get back to the anajoined the military after attending high school in log way of working and not be so digital,” he Cincinnati, Ohio. said.

Because of this, Deering calls himself “the street Deering also takes the entire junior class in guy.” the art department to London for five weeks in While in the military, Deering traveled throughout the beginning of summer. southeast Asia, spending 1966 and 1967 in south Brooke Maguire, a senior doing an indeVietnam. He was a member of photography squadron, pendent study with Deering, said she loved last and his photographs of combat were sent directly to the year’s trip, which showcased various artists’ Department of Defense. end-of-year shows and several museums.

Although he was unable to legally keep any of his “Bill has connections with everyone who is photographs from Vietnam, he and his friends pilfered interesting, awesome, and cool,” she said. “He’s enough film to keep 500 to 1,000 pictures from their such a people person. He can do stuff a student experience. However, Deering says most of these wouldn’t have the power to do. He’ll make it prints have been lost. happen for you.”

Despite living in the barracks with one cold showCourtesy of University of Delaware/Kathy Atkinson Deering said he prefers to keep his classes er every four days and working six-day weeks, Deering Professor William Deering spent two years taking photographs of the Vietnam War. very loosely structured, with students proposing said he enjoyed his time in Vietnam. their own projects, which they pursue independ“I know you’ll think this is crazy, but it was great,” learned a love of food. He has traveled extensively through he said. “I grew up in Vietnam. We were young and Vietnam was France taking pictures of the food, the people and the vineyards. ently.

“They can put more of themselves into what the assignwide open. We got great French foods, great French wines and His hobby, however, is a bit more somber. When he is not ments are,” he said. we played golf at the club in Saigon,” he said. teaching or photographing food, Deering is working on his own Shannon Wendelken, a junior in ART 308, said Deering’s Since then, however, his feelings on the Vietnam War have series of photographs on the uncertainty of terrorism. changed. He now believes it was unjustified, but he does not “My career has come full circle in the sense that I started classes are like none other she has ever had.

“He doesn’t treat us like children,” she said. “He’s very conregret the work he did there. out as a documentary photographer and now my photos are nected with every student — we’re kind of like family. He stress“When you’re young and impressionable, you don’t think streets and people and very documentary-like,” he said. about the fact that you’re not supposed to be there. That comes Angela Amato, a junior in Form and Communications 3 es that in his classes.”

Wendelken said she would recommend Deering’s classes to later,” he said. “We shouldn’t have been there, but at the same (ART 308) with Deering, said Deering brings his out-of-class any self-motivated student, but they have to be serious about art time we were. It was a very positive experience.” experiences to his teaching every day.

The French food in Vietnam introduced Deering to one of “It’s really great that he’s working in the field, because he and photography.

“I can say whatever I want, he doesn’t care,” she said. “He’s his two careers outside of the military, photographing food for can give us an idea of what we can do with our careers,” she said. got a great sense of humor. He’s like a cartoon character, in the cookbooks. Before the war, Deering said he had worked with his Deering came to the university in 1979. He said he likes the father in the oldest inn in Pennsylvania, the Golden Lamb, and university because of its history, central location and diverse fac- best possible way.”

BY CLAIRE GOULD Staff Reporter

Endowment loses value as market declines

BY SAMANTHA BRIX Staff Reporter

The value of the university’s endowment has decreased over the last year due to the faltering stock market, potentially harming the university’s scholarships, professorships and other programs.

Chief Investment Officer Mark Stalnecker said the university’s endowment is currently valued at $1.15 billion, a 15 percent decrease from the value at the beginning of the year. He said this is a direct result of the weakened stock market over the last year, since the endowment is invested in stocks and bonds.

Five percent of the total decrease came in response to the initial rejection by the House of Representatives early last week of the $700 billion bailout plan and resulting plunge in stocks, Stalnecker said. He said after the bailout package was passed on Friday, the stock market took another dip, sending the university’s endowment down an additional 2 or 3 percent.

“If the endowment continues to decline, there would be less money from the endowment to support virtually every aspect of the university,” Stalnecker said.

He said the university’s endowment, which is a collection of combined funds from a variety of donors, is among the top 12 of public institutions and top 50 of universities nationwide. Stalnecker said donations from alumni and friends of the university make up the university’s endowment.

Associate Treasurer Al Roberson said the endowment mainly supports student scholarships, professorships and special instructional programs, occasionally contributing to building maintenance and student awards and prizes.

Stalnecker said the endowment’s value changes in response to the fluctuating stock market and will grow when the markets recover.

“The markets are very volatile right now,” he said. “It depends a lot on what happens in the political scene.”

Stalnecker said a continued endowment decrease over a prolonged period of time could mean funding cuts for university programs, but students do not need to worry yet. He said as of now, the dip in the endowment will hardly rattle the university’s finances, as it provides less than 10 percent of the annual budget.

“The university has a very solid credit rating and lots of revenue sources,” Stalnecker said. “The university has a solid endowment and is above average in that credit.”

He said the university’s investment strategy will not change in response to the recent sink in the stock market. The university distributes its spending in accordance with an analysis of the stock market’s three-year average.

Investment officials do not dramatically increase or decrease spending according to major endowment changes in order to deflect harsh impact on university services. Stalnecker said this approach minimizes negative effects on university programs and services.

“Markets go up and markets go down, but we try to not let that impact the budget for academic programs for students,” he said.

Roberson said parents who depend on stocks in the short term to pay for college tuition will notice the effects of the drooping market, especially for the upcoming Winter and Spring Semesters.

“If they’re in stocks and have to sell them at low prices, they’re going to feel that,” he said.

Abner Tsadick, a Master of Business Administration graduate student, said the waning stock market will inevitably affect the university.

“With less cash available from financial companies, you can expect the endowment to continue decreasing in the next year,” Tsadick said.

He said the declining stock market will implement radical changes in the country as a whole, including a contraction of the workforce, a decrease in luxury and frivolous spending and reduced charity donations.

Associate professor of finance Terry Campbell said students and parents should not fret over the university’s endowment in the face of a national economic downturn, since the stock market will undoubtedly recover and is not the sole factor affecting the endowment. He said the nature of the endowment portfolio is diverse, as it includes bonds and other securities that are increasing in value.

“The people managing the endowment are well-trained,” Campbell said. “In the long term, the endowment will grow.”

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Job fair holds steady in shaky economy October 7, 2008

Employers, students fill Bob Carpenter Center to capacity

BY KAITLYN KILMETIS Administrative News Editor

As the stock market continued to plummet and the government debated a $700 million bailout, the main arena in the Bob Carpenter Center bustled with potential employers and prospective employees. The university held its 40th annual Job Jamboree on Thursday, in the midst of the unraveling of the American economy, but the outlook during the event seemed surprisingly sunny.

The Job Jamboree featured 269 companies, ranging from DuPont to Dover Downs, Inc. Career Services Coordinator Lynn Jacobson said despite an uncertain economic period the Job Jamboree filled the BCC to full capacity, which has only happened twice in the event’s history.

She said although many companies had agreed to attend the event long beforehand, she was nervous as the jamboree neared because of an unstable financial environment.

“We had a good early turnout and response, but when we heard the news about the market and the job market in general, I was concerned that companies would cancel the reservation they had made, but that just wasn’t the case,” Jacobson said.

Only three companies cancelled, including AIG Direct, an insurance organization in the spotlight of the U.S. financial crisis.

Jacobson said regardless of the state of the economy, the job fair would have taken place.

“It’s our mission to help you find jobs, so we would have a Job Jamboree if only 50 companies showed up,” she said. “It’s our mission to connect the student with the employers and make things available to you.”

Jacobson said although the economy is in decline, the need for employees still remains intact.

“Companies, even when there’s a bad job market, still need to fill positions,” she said. “Because of natural attrition, people retiring, people changing jobs, companies will always be hiring entry-level people – the new college graduates.”

Although hiring rates may decline, students do not need to worry there are no opportunities available, Jacobson said.

“Though people are not hiring as many people as they might have originally in a very good economy, they are still going to do some hiring,” she said.

Lisa Pundock, senior recruiter for Discover Financial, said her company’s hiring practices have not significantly

changed.

“We’re definitely doing quite a bit of hiring,” Pundock said. “A lot of questions students have seemed to be about that. We are going forward. We have a lot of customers who are loyal to us, who are calling and are still using their cards.

We’re still doing a lot of lending.

“We’re still doing a lot of business so we have kept hiring quite a bit. It hasn’t necessarily changed us so much.

We’re still pretty strong.”

She said as a recent university graduate, she thinks the obstacles in entering the job market remain unchanged even though the state of the economy has altered.

“The challenges are still really the same – trying to find the right fit, trying to find a company you can grow and develop with,” Pundock said. “I think they will be the same challenges you will face now even though the market may be a little tighter.”

Richard Carroll, vice president of Swarthmore Financial Services, said the attendance at the Job Jamboree is an indicator that perhaps the job market is not as unstable as students may think.

“If you take a look around here, there are a lot of employers around and if they weren’t hiring they wouldn’t be here, so this alone, as a student, would make me feel better,” Carroll said. “There are a lot of people out looking to hire.”

He said some companies are actually flourishing during this economic period.

“Now is a great time to be in the industry because you get the opportunity to help people get through this difficult time,” Carroll said. “If anything, it’s a great opportunity to recruit people to train and teach people so they can help people through difficult times as well.”

Senior Chris Gale, a mechanical engineering major, said students should not assume all industries are in peril and should take a closer look at their desired occupational fields.

“I think though the market isn’t doing well, it depends on industries you are looking at because some are still doing OK,” Gale said.

He said he has considered alternate plans because of the economic downturn.

“I’m keeping all options open,” Gale said. “There’s always the chance of going to graduate school and not going to the working world right now or maybe not taking the optimal job, but taking a job where you can springboard to

another position.”

Susan Notaras, recruiting director at MassMutual Financial Group, said students should avoid falling victim to hype surrounding the economy.

“The word ‘panic’ must be totally removed from their vocabulary because it may seem that people are clamping down or that there’s even a hiring freeze on, but that’s really not the case,” Notaras said.

She said the problem students should focus on is distinguishing themselves in an aggressive job market rather than distressing over economic woes.

“The competition is a bit more fierce, so perhaps it’s a little bit harder to make yourself stand out from the crowd,” Notaras said. “Instead of panicking, start putting together a really sharp resumé, focusing on the fact their presentation of themselves is really up to par. It’s better to channel that energy into that area.”

Senior Carine Tamasang, a sociology major, said she has not begun to fret about the prospect of finding a job but thinks university-sponsored events like the Job Jamboree will greatly aid her in that process.

“I’m not panicking yet, but I feel like with graduation around the corner, it’s going to be hard to find a job without things like this so this makes it a little bit easier,” Tamasang said.

She said she was impressed by the turnout of companies in the face of the economy’s condition.

“I figured a lot of banks and financial companies wouldn’t be here just because they’re the most hit by the economy,” Tamasang said.

She said she was apprehensive about how reassuring exhibitors were that the financial crisis was not affecting their companies.

“I don’t think it’s sincere — even online if you try to find jobs, there’s not that many already,” Tamasang said.

“It’s not as bad as it’s probably going to get, but already there’s not as many jobs out there. It’s already hard enough, but I think they have to say that just so people will keep applying so as soon as they can hire, they’ll have people to hire.”

Chairman of the economics department and Professor Saul Hoffman said although companies expressed a positive outlook and were adamant about prospective job opportunities, this may actually not be the case.

“I wouldn’t take it at face value if I were you,” Hoffman said.

THE REVIEW/Steven Gold

Three companies, including AIG Direct, originally scheduled to participate in Thursday’s Job Jamboree later withdrew as a result of the declining economic situation.

8 October 7, 2008

A bowl of fun comes to Main Street

homes, but they go out to purchase it.

“Many people go to different coffee shops to buy a When students and residents of Newark wake up each cup of coffee because they want the variety and morning, they wake to a variety of Main Street restaurants unique combinations of those coffee shops,” Busacca and eateries to pick their chosen breakfast treat. said.

Soon, a place devoted entirely to cereal will come to “We’re the Starbucks of cereal,” she said. “It’s the Main Street. fun, creative side of cereal.”

Linda Busacca, owner of The Cereal Bowl on Main Junior Stephanie LaFergola said she loves cereal Street, said the franchise breakfast eatery will have its grand and is excited to try The Cereal Bowl but she worries opening in Newark on Saturday. about the possible cost.

Busacca said The Cereal Bowl, located on the corner of “It’s probably going to be around what a box of Main Street and South Chapel Street, offers patrons more cereal would be,” LaFergola said. “Don’t get me than 30 different types of cereals. Most cereals are the wrong, it’s going to be a good new addition, but it familiar brands Busacca grew up with, such as General might be overpriced.”

Mills, Kelloggs and Post.

Although she is excited to try the cereal at The She said patrons can mix and match the 30 types of Cereal Bowl, she said she thinks cereal is something cereals with fresh fruit and yogurt. Classic cereals like that should be enjoyed at home.

Cheerios, Lucky Charms and Fruity Pebbles will be avail“Cereal is the kind of a thing where you don’t go out able at the restaurant. Smoothies and a variety of sandwichto eat it,” LaFergola said. “It’s more of a home envies are also on the menu. ronment type thing.”

Busacca, who is originally from New York, said she Sophomore Katelyn Cinzio said she likes the idea of moved to Delaware approximately 12 years ago and lives in a place where you can get a bowl of cereal. the Newark area with her family. Cereal has been a major “That’s something that’s unique,” Cinzio said.

THE REVIEW/Justin Bleiler “There aren’t any other places you can just get cereal. food in both her life and the lives of her children.

“I grew up eating cereal,” Busacca said. “I eat cereal The Cereal Bowl will offer more than 30 types of cereal when it There are bagel places and pancake places. I like anytime of day. It’s been a staple in my home all my life.” officially opens on Main Street on Saturday. cereal so I would definitely go there.”

Since Main Street is in the middle of a college town, She said she is interested in going to The Cereal she said the diversity the street brings to Newark was one Bowl to see what it is like because it is a one-of-ait was the perfect place for it.” primary reason she decided to open The Cereal Bowl.

College students eat cereal throughout the day, she said. kind thing. Cinzio said she thinks the restaurant chain could Different types of people including college students, families “Because it is not just for breakfast,” Busacca said, be profitable in college towns because college students love and Newark residents are always around Main Street, she “Cereal is perfect for college kids because it is a food that can to eat cereal. said.

“It would be something fun to go out with friends,” she be enjoyed any time of day.”

“We thought it was a great place to bring this unique, difShe said like cereal, everyone can make coffee in their said. “Instead of going out for breakfast one day, you could ferent idea,” Busacca said. “We love Main Street and thought go out for cereal.”

BY BRIAN ANDERSON Executive Editor

City ordinance enacts regulations on towing

BY NATALIE JOHNSON Staff Reporter

New towing regulations approved by Newark City Council went into effect Oct. 3, with expectations of reigning in predatory towing practices that have angered Newark visitors and residents in the past.

Council introduced the ordinance after numerous complaints from visitors whose cars were towed at a high cost. The new regulations include giving 24 hours before the towing company can assess storage fees, accepting multiple payment methods for a tow and setting the tow rate at a maximum of $80 per vehicle. Towing companies now also need a license to do business in Newark, and if found acting without one, they will be charged a fine of $500.

In addition, towing companies must wait one hour before towing a car in a business’ lot during non-business hours. During business hours, a fax must be sent to request a tow.

Councilman Paul Pomeroy, who voted to approve the ordinance, said he was unhappy with the towing companies’ aggressive actions, excessive fees and the inconsistency of the way in which the tows were administered.

Most of the frustration resulted from differences in towing stories and anger over storage fees, which caused fines to double within 10 minutes, Pomeroy said. He said he thinks the ordinances passed provide predictability and consistency for consumers without taking away the right of towing companies to do business.

“We did research to ensure the steps we were taking were tactics that had been met with some success in other communities,” Pomeroy said.

Mayor Vance A. Funk III said his main concern for passing the new ordinances was to create a more positive experience for the visitors of Newark. So far, city officials have received positive feedback from consumers

who appreciate the new regulations.

Kevin Cox, owner of Ewing Towing, said he does not agree with the new regulations.

“We’re not bad people, we’re just out there to do a job like everyone else,” Cox said. “We were blindsided.”

Harold Licht, owner of Horton Brothers Towing, said he thinks council did not adequately take into account the opinion of the towing companies.

“Regulating prices is ridiculous,” Licht said. “They’re in a rush to put us out of business or curb what they feel is wrong.”

Licht said he thinks the rationale of increasing the cost of speeding tickets is if people pay more they will be less inclined to speed again, and the same rationale should apply for towing costs. Instead, the city increased its speeding ticket costs and decided to lower towing fees, he said.

Licht’s minimal tow rate for a nonconsensual tow was $150 before the city made him lower it to $80.

He said the high fees are justified by the $72,000 it takes to buy a new tow truck, and the $35,000 in insurance his company pays every year. Gas prices also take their toll financially.

“What we were charging was medium to all other companies,” Cox said.

As far as their predator reputation is concerned, towing companies feel the one-hour grace period they must abide by will only serve to intensify their bad names. Instead of doing random drives through lots, they will now have to sit and watch more carefully to ensure that a car has been there for one hour.

Cox said the regulations are unfair to the property owners he serves.

“They are giving people’s property away for trespassers,” Cox said.

Jane Woolfey, manager of Post House Restaurant on Main Street, said she shares this feeling. Post House has a contract with

Ewing Towing giving the company authority that was touching the fire lane, but her car was singled out, she said. to tow in their lot, she said.

Jarvis said she walked by herself to an Woolfey said she doesn’t want non-customers to park in the Post House lot, even ATM because she had no cash to pay the fee, after the restaurant is closed, because if and she was uncomfortable getting into the someone gets hurt in the Post House’s lot dur- tow truck driver’s vehicle.

The new ordinance, allowing for multiing non-business hours, the restaurant would ple forms of payment, would have made her be responsible.

“We have liability when we’re closed,” experience a much better one, she said.

“I have heard about more and more peoshe said.

Woolfey said because businesses pay ple getting towed,” Jarvis said.

Funk said as a businessowner in Newark, rent and taxes on the property, the city should not regulate the towing companies that work he thinks council attempted to find a balanced to maintain open parking spots for Post approach to this situation.

“I encourage people to come downtown House customers.

“I’m perturbed about the whole thing,” and do not want them to go home with the negative feeling of being towed,” he said. she said.

Woolfey said she thinks having to fax in for a tow will take time out of doing her job in the restaurant, and it is not something with which she should be bothered.

S e n i o r Christopher Reardon said he has been towed twice in Newark. On one occasion it cost him $180.

He said he is happy about the new regulations and believes towing is needed to an extent, but the price was getting ridiculous.

Senior Jennifer Jarvis said she woke up one day at 3 a.m. to the sound of her car being lifted onto a tow THE REVIEW/Justin Maurer truck. Her car was one of the many cars in the Newark’s new towing regulations have made some local lot behind her residence business owners unhappy.

October 7, 2008

THE REVIEW/Melanie Hardy

The new South Chapel train station will replace the one on South College Avenue by 2012.

New train station planned for Newark

BY JACLYN CRISCUOLO Staff Reporter

The Delaware Department of Transportation announced plans for a new train station on South Chapel Street. The station will run four new commuter rails between Philadelphia and Newark by 2012. DelDOT, a separate entity from Amtrak, plans to build a running station with an Amtrak platform, replacing Amtrak’s current, outdated Newark station on South College Avenue.

This summer, Amtrak added new stops to its Newark station, including Friday afternoon northbound routes and Sunday afternoon southbound routes.

Junior Laura Gaylord said she likes Amtrak’s additional times, but she is more interested in the new DelDOT station.

“I’m a little nervous about getting the train from Newark just because there’s no one that actually works at the station,” she said.

“Having a fully functioning train station with people working there would make me feel better about traveling.”

Darrel Cole, director of public relations for DelDOT, said the new station will be a fully functioning train station.

He said he understands student concerns, like Gaylord’s, at the current Amtrak station.

“The new station will be able to accommodate users much better,” Cole said.

The new DelDOT station will be a scaled-down version of the Amtrak Wilmington station, Cole said, but with more services. The main station will be located where the concrete plant is now on the south side of the current rail lines, with access from Route 72 or Library Ave., and a passenger trail that will allow access from South Chapel Street and James Hall Trail. Construction is slated to begin in 2011.

Unlike the current Amtrak sta-

tion, two trains will run simultaneously, with service every half hour during peak hours. The four new 85foot-long Silverliner V rail cars will hold up to 109 passengers and include an electronic destination signage and announcement system to better communicate stops for passengers.

The first goal is to build a third rail and then the station, Cole said of the $40 million endeavor.

“There’s been a lot in the works now that we’ve been working on for many, many years,” he said.

Cole said the needed rail improvements between Philadelphia and Newark include a 1.5-mile third track and rehabilitating the Mill Creek railroad bridge.

Gaylord, a Boston native, said before Amtrak’s added additional times, she had used Amtrak’s Wilmington station, having heard the train rarely stopped in Newark.

“Even though Wilmington is farther, it was more convenient than planning my trip around the one train that actually stopped in Newark,” she said.

With the prospect of a new Newark station, Gaylord said she thinks travel in general would be much easier.

“Right now, it’s kind of a production to round up a bunch of friends, pile in the car, and figure out where we’re going to park for the day if we go to Baltimore to see the Sox play,” she said.

Junior Philadelphia native Hilary Buckley said she is more excited about the DelDOT station than Amtrak additions.

“I’ve never used the Newark station to get to Philly, but this new station sounds a lot more convenient to catch a train,” she said. “I bet a lot more students would take the train in for the day or for a safe way to get to and from the Philly bars.”

A representative of Amtrak could not be reached for comment.

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10 October 7, 2008

Professors take precautions against recent crime wave

BY ERICA FLORENTINE Staff Reporter

The increased presence of crime in Newark over the past few months is proving to make an impact not only on university students, but on professors and faculty as well. Although recent crimes have mainly been targeting a younger crowd, there is some room for concern among the older generations.

Jerome Lewis, center director for the Institute of Public Administration, said he has heard about crime activity mainly through the UDaily Web site. He lives and works in Newark and has two children who attend the university. He said he has begun to wonder whether he should be worried.

“We tend to feel safe here in Newark,” Lewis said. “News about crime doesn’t fit it, and it’s not something we’re used to.”

Lewis said approximately 90 percent of his time spent on campus is during daytime hours, while most of the crimes have been occurring at night.

Other faculty members, such as Richard Wool, a chemical engineering professor, find themselves on campus into the evening hours, raising their distress about the crime activity.

“I’m here quite late,” Wool said. “I usually am concerned and I take precautions. I make sure I’m aware of my surroundings.”

Wool, a local resident, said he thinks more could be done to keep people on the campus safe. He said he feels police could be doing more to prevent crime around Newark.

“I think they need to put a lot more effort in instead of driving up and down Academy Street looking for professors who aren’t wearing seatbelts,” Wool said.

Lt. Brian Henry of the Newark Police Department said police are currently focused on providing safety to students since they have been the ones victimized in the muggings and robberies over the recent weeks.

“The primary victims are the students,” Henry said. “They are the ones we’re trying to get the message to about safety.”

In regards to the most recent crimes Newark has seen, Henry said he has not seen professors or the older community targeted at all. As of now, there is nothing particular the police are doing to reach out to the professors and staff at the university.

“As we enhance safety for the students we’re also hoping to reach out to the professors and the rest of the community,” Henry said. “Everyone is included.”

Executive Director of University Safety Albert “Skip” Homiak Jr. said the school is working in a way similar to the

Newark Police Department in getting the messages about safety out to the students and staff.

“The message that we send to students definitely pertains to professors,” Homiak said.

He said the crimes around campus are mostly happening late at night and in areas where there is not much foot traffic. Since professors are rarely in these situations, the concern is a bit less, he said. Still, Public Safety wants to get the word out to everyone, faculty included.

“Professors usually aren’t out walking around at 12 or 1 in the morning,” Homiak said. “But quite honestly, crime can happen to anyone.”

Homiak said students and professors alike should remain aware of their surroundings and take caution. He also said he encourages people from the university to use UDaily to keep up with crime.

Doug Tuttle, a professor and a member of Newark City Council, said he does not feel his safety is violated any more today than it was in past years. He said the school is ahead of the curve with its use of UDaily and the way it posts the crimes along with their specific locations.

“I’m occasionally on campus at night,” Tuttle said. “I don’t think I am personally targeted though.”

Tuttle said he has done research into crime statistics at schools throughout the country. In order to provide the most safety, he said, it is important to be accurate in pinpointing where the crimes are taking place.

“I look at how other schools are reporting their crimes and we’re at the leading edge of that,” Tuttle said.

Many of the professors and faculty are aware of the fact that crimes on campus aren’t specifically directed at them, he said.

“Historically victimization of faculty and staff has been minimal,” Tuttle said. “It’s rare to find a robbery of a staff member.”

Faculty at the university is looking to keep it that way.

Through getting the word out to students and taking precautions themselves, many members hope the crime will begin to slow down.

“You have to be careful during the early evening and particularly at night,” Lewis said.

“Certainly you shouldn’t be walking around alone.”

Though neither the Newark Police nor Public Safety have set up specific forms of safety for university faculty in particular, both hope efforts to prevent crime on campus will succeed in keeping everyone safe.

“Our message to the students is to report any suspicious behavior to us,” Homiak said. “The message to the staff is to do the same.”

October 7, 2008

in the news

European countries face financial troubles As the $700 billion U.S. financial-system bailout gets under way, Europe is struggling to contain its own banking turmoil.

After European leaders on Saturday failed to agree on a comprehensive plan to deal with rising bad loans and crumbling banks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday the government would guarantee all personal bank deposits; a bid to prevent a meltdown of consumer confidence.

Later Sunday, the German government and the country’s major banks and insurers agreed on a new $68 billion plan to rescue

Hypo Real Estate Holding, the nation’s second-biggest property lender, Bloomberg reported. An earlier rescue plan worth $49 billion had collapsed after banks pulled their support.

Also Sunday, BNP Paribas, France’s biggest bank, agreed to take control of European financial group Fortis' units in Belgium and Luxembourg after a government rescue failed to ensure the Fortis’ stability.

As in the United States, banks across Europe have been tripped by rotting mortgage loans and a virtual shutdown of short-term funding in the credit markets.

One quarter of the world's wild mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a comprehensive global survey released in Spain.

The new assessment — which took 1,700 experts in 130 countries five years to complete — paints “a bleak picture,” leaders of the project wrote in a paper being published in the journal Science. The overview, made public at the quadrennial World Conservation Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, covers all 5,487 wild species identified since 1500.

The researchers concluded 25 percent of the mammal species for which they had sufficient data are threatened with extinction, but the figure could be as high as 36 percent because information on some species is scarce.

Land and marine mammals face different threats, the scientists said, and large mammals are more vulnerable than small ones. For land species, habitat loss and hunting represent the greatest danger; marine mammals are more threatened by accidental killing through fishing, ship strikes and pollution.

One quarter of world’s mammals risk extinction

Relief comes to mortgage holders across country

An estimated 400,000 if they could be reworked to be more Americans who are struggling with affordable.

Officials acknowledged that risky mortgages from Countrywide Financial Corp. can get their loans some borrowers are beyond help and modified and payments reduced said they would need the cooperation under a program announced on of investors who own the loans, assistance not always forthcoming in Monday.

In a pact that could save mort- the past. gage holders billions of dollars, The program, announced in Countrywide owner Bank of California on Monday, applies to America Corp. has agreed to the mortgages made before this year. It nation’s largest loan-modification had been endorsed by at least nine program to settle charges of lending states as of Sunday, including abuse brought by at least nine states. California, Florida and Texas, where The program would examine nearly Countrywide wrote the most loans.

400,000 loans across the nation to see — compiled from the L.A. Times and Washington Post news wire

police reports

THEFT OF LAPTOP AND IPOD TOUCH A laptop and iPod Touch were stolen from a house on Chambers Street on Wednesday between 2:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., Cpl. Paul Keld of the Newark Police Department said.

The victim, 21, invited his neighbors over for the evening, and the suspect came along as a guest of the neighbors. The suspect, a 23-year-old man, was the only person at the house whom the victim did not personally know.

When the suspect left the house, the victim noticed the belongings were missing. Some alcohol was involved, police said.

Police interviewed the suspect but found no substantial evidence to confirm his involvement. There were also no witnesses, Keld said.

There are no other leads at this time.

MALE BEAT UP ON CLEVELAND A 19-year-old man was injured by an unknown suspect Sunday at 1:10 a.m. in the 100 block of East Cleveland Avenue, Keld said.

The victim was struck by an unknown suspect, described as a white male, approximately 250 pounds and wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt. He approached the victim and accused the victim of spilling beer on him earlier in the night. The two appeared to verbally work things out, police said.

However, the suspect then pushed the victim into a nearby car and may have briefly knocked him unconscious. The suspect then punched the victim in the mouth. The victim suffered facial lacerations and was transported to Christiana Hospital, Keld said.

The suspect fled in an unknown direction. A group of males were later confronted and questioned by police in the Newark Shopping Center after admitting being present during the fight. The officers are following up on leads.

— Lydia Woolever

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UD campus gets juicy on controversial Web site

BY JORDAN WOMPIERSKI Staff Reporter

agrees free speech is an important and necessary part of society, but not in the way that JuicyCampus.com attempts to use it.

“I’m all for free speech — everyone is and should be — but free speech does have its limits,” Pieri said. “You should use your free speech responsibly and I don’t think that Juicy Campus is a responsible use of free speech.”

Junior Aaron Reynolds said he does not think the site should be banned, but he does not agree with its content.

“I think it’s kind of ridiculous that gossip can go that far and that people have to go online to talk about it,” Reynolds said. “It doesn’t really help anybody in any way — it just hurts the people that are being talked about.”

He said he brushed the site off as merely gossip that is not to be taken seriously.

“The fact that I haven’t been to the site even though I heard about it months ago shows how much interest I have,” Reynolds said.

Freshman Adriana Rodriguez, who learned about the site through an advertisement on Facebook, said she does not visit JuicyCampus.com but does not think the Web site should be permitted online.

“I think it’s stupid,” Rodriguez said. “It’s all just gossip and it’s probably not true.”

The gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com recently added the university to its list of supported campuses, bringing the number of schools open for discussion on the Web site to nearly 500.

The university was added to the site in early September as one of the top 20 most-requested campuses almost a year after JuicyCampus began.

Matt Ivester, founder and CEO of JuicyCampus.com, said there is a large demand for the site. The Web site allows students to discuss things however they wish to.

“Despite all of the controversy, we’ve decided to keep JuicyCampus.com true to its roots, anonymous and uncensored,” Ivester said. “We’re very excited to be expanding to all of these new campuses.”

The terms and conditions listed on JuicyCampus.com state that defamatory material is not allowed. However, the home page of JuicyCampus.com states, “C’mon. Give us the juice.

Posts are totally, 100 percent anonymous.”

JuicyCampus.com does advise viewers of the site that the things posted are not necessarily true.

“You should take everything you read with a large grain of salt,” the Web site states.

Topics discussed on the JuicyCampus site for the university range from the hottest girls at the university to asking students to post the craziest place they have had sex on campus.

Much of the subject matter discussed on the university’s JuicyCampus site pertains to Greek life, and some fraternity and sorority members fear that the negative postings on the site could affect the opinions of potential Greek life members.

One sorority member who asked that her name not be published said the site deters people from joining Greek life at the university.

“There’s not a single good thing that it does for the Delaware community and it represents Greek life in the completely wrong light,” she said. “I think it’s the most immature site on the Internet. It’s young adults who should be mature by now acting like middle school kids.”

The Web site has come under scrutiny from state authorities as a result of the questionable material on the site. In March, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram launched an investigation of JuicyCampus for possibly violating the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, and Connecticut’s attorney general is also investigating the site.

JuicyCampus.com states the authors of posts on the site will remain anonymous, although it is possible to track user information using IP addresses with a search warrant.

“JuicyCampus believes very strongly in free and anonymous speech online,” the site stated.

“We comply with lawful subpoenas because we have to, but if some university president called us asking for a favor, we’d tell Courtesy of Juicycampus.com him to go screw himself.”

The university is now featured on JuicyCampus.com, a site that Junior Philip Pieri said he supports anonymous gossip.

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Report card misrepresents UD

Sustainable additions not included in survey results

The university was recently evaluated on how green its policies are, including how it uses investments in a manner to help protect the environment. While over the past year there has been much talk about sustainability throughout the school, the university only managed to earn a C- plus.

The average grade might seem disappointing for a college that prides itself on the steps taken toward becoming a sustainable university, but in reality this grade is not an accurate representation of how far the university has come in making green a priority since President Patrick Harker took charge.

For example, last year, the senior class voted to make their class gift a more sustainable, ecofriendly place for future students.

This included focusing on five key areas affecting the environment — emissions energy, waste sectors, purchased energy, transportation and agriculture. In addition, this year the university has gone trayless in order to conserve water and food.

The report card does not include these steps which had been taken since the beginning of

Spring Semester. While other schools may not have made many alterations to their policies regarding the environment, the university has made some radical changes since the previous semester started, which would surely advance the grade if it were to be reassessed.

One of the other reasons the university did not receive an above-average marking was because much information was not made available to the public. Many of the sustainability records are not allowed to be viewed despite the fact that the grade depends on how investments are spent. Investments are a key part of the eco-friendly movement, covering many of the financial steps toward making the university green. The university received its lowest marks in the grading investments section because of the insistence to keep them private.

So while the grading system may make the university appear to have made no progress over the last year in becoming sustainable, that is simply not true. A new, regraded report card will show that the university is more green than it is given credit.

Towing laws change for better New city regulations are a step in right direction Of all the great strides the city of Newark has taken in the past few years to improve the physical and moral states of the community, parking improvements have remained low on the list.

Parking in Newark has always been a problem and with more than 13,000 undergraduate students on campus at any given time, there is simply not enough room for everyone to keep their cars on campus.

With few parking spaces available, students and Newark residents have to share a limited amount of space and are often forced to either park far away from campus or in a spot for which they don’t have a permit.

Inevitably, the lack of legal and approved university and town parking has resulted in countless towing incidents in which drivers are left with massive fines and are forced to deal with rude, unfair towing companies.

With new laws and regulations on towing companies recently set by the city of Newark, city officials should be commended for taking action to protect their citizens and fix a longstanding problem.

Although steps have been

made like no longer allowing towing companies to charge a day’s rate for a car that has been in the lot from 11 p.m. to midnight, the issue of where to park and how to reduce towing still exists.

In addition to stricter rules for towing companies, city officials should look toward adding more places on Main Street to park, so both visitors to local stores and restaurants and those who live in the various surrounding apartments can have places to park without being fined or towed.

Visitor parking should also be increased. In off-campus apartment complexes like the University Courtyards and School Lane Garden Apartments, visitor parking is extremely limited and nonresidents who visit these areas should not have to worry about being towed.

City officials say the new regulations are an effort to gain more visitors to Newark and leave them with a positive experience of the town. But while these changes are a step in the right direction, more needs to be done to ensure that drivers won’t have to worry about being towed period, not that the fine will be less when the do.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Palin’s church must be investigated

The media served us well in exposing Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, as preaching such extremism as accusing the government of creating HIV to wage genocide against African Americans. Voters are helped whenever candidates’ affiliations are revealed and in this case, even the candidate was helped to see things clearly and he severed ties.

So why the relative silence surrounding Gov. Sarah Palin’s church? The Wasilla Bible Church actually promoted an event in September designed to “pray away the gay,” that is, to change gay people into straight.

The program was presented by James Dobson’s fanatically antigay and politically active group Focus on the Family. Palin has

refused to answer whether she agrees with her church’s belief in this matter.

The best science tells us that sexual orientation probably begins in utero and is certainly in place as early as 2 and 3 years of age. Peer-reviewed, mainstream scientific reports have found “exgay ministries” are not only without scientific basis, but are potentially harmful. (Confer studies by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics).

We should know whether these candidates are as anti-scientific and homophobic as the Bush administration has been.

Douglas Marshall-Steele doug@towardequality.org

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Take action to reduce Del. pollution

The state of Delaware, my home, is suffering the consequences of stalled actions toward reduction of global warming pollutants and its effects.

The shoreline, as you may know, is eroding. This threatens the resident wildlife and habitat, agriculture and Delaware’s economy via tourism.

The people in my community are already taking action by recycling, carpooling and using less hot water. Yet, there is still much more to be done and Delawarians need our candidates for Congress, Reps. Mike Castle and Carol Hartley-Nagle, to have a strong plan to stop global warming Jazmyn Miller jmillz@udel.edu Sophomore

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Don’t txt me l8er 2nite plz, letz talk 4 real Kandid Kommentaries Kaitlyn Kilmetis

Guys, if you want to hang out please make more of an effort It’s 2 a.m. at a crowded house party. The musty smell of a 1970s’ shag carpet soaked in cheap beer fills the air and the thumping of a bass shakes the ground ever so slightly.

Standing in between a sticky beer pong table and a dance floor filled with squealing freshmen girls, you can spot him. He smiles a sneaky grin as he slams his phone shut smoothly with a flip of his wrist, in a style that is reminiscent of the Fonz punching the vending machine for a coke.

With a push of his send button he has released his modern mating call into the wild, summoning the girl of his desire with a “sextmessage.”

If he was a peacock he might try to attract you with his vibrantly colored tail of feathers. If he was a lion, he would impress you with his thick, luxurious mane. But the best you’re going to get nowadays is an “I WANT 2 C U,” or my personal favorite a “CUM OVER.” Replacing the “come” with “cum” is an oh-sosubtle touch, you witty wordsmith, you.

The cleverly coined “sextmessaging” is a

craze sweeping college campuses following a widespread increase in text messaging, in general. From under the desks in classes to crossing a crowded intersection, our thumbs have certainly been getting quite a workout and sexting adds an entirely new dimension to the text messaging phenomenon.

“Sextmessaging” is loosely defined as any text message sent with the intention of getting someone back to your bedroom at the end of the night. This contemporary, tech-savvy form of the traditional booty call is almost always sent on the weekends and usually occurs after a bit of coaxing from one drink too many.

In order to talk me into participating in the most intimate act two people can engage in, you’re going to send me a misspelled jumple of words under 160 characters and I’m supposed to swoon?

It seems males are moving backwards from upright humans to hunched over apes on the relationship equivalent of Darwin’s evolution of man.

Remember back in high school when you called my house and asked for me or nervously picked me up at my front door? Maybe you should take a lesson or two from your prepubescent little brothers, guys.

You’re a man now. If the only way you

feel comfortable in seducing me is with the help of your Verizon Unlimited Text Plan, your game is weak.

In a society that thrives on convenience and instant gratification, I can see how “sextmessaging” may seem like a legitimate way to summon a potential partner. Quick and simple may be acceptable when it comes to Kraft Easy Mac or SparkNotes. But when it comes to finding some companionship under the sheets, a little tact and finesse goes a long way. The practice of sextmessaging is really crossing the line of what is tasteful and goes against every necessary element of courtship.

Text messaging is void of any intimacy. If the only way you see fit to beckon a bedmate is a bunch of words glowing on a 2-inch screen, you probably shouldn’t be attempting to get intimate with that person in the first place.

There is nothing exclusive about text messaging. When you are on the phone or on a date, for that allotted period, you have a person’s undivided attention. They are setting aside their time in an attempt to become better acquainted with you, and only you. You can’t be on the phone or on a date with multiple people at once but on the contrary, at the same time someone is sending sweet nothings into your inbox, they could be forwarding those messages to their entire contact list.

Perhaps most importantly, texting requires almost no effort from either party. To flip open your phone, press a few numbers and hit send demands nearly no physical exertion or mental

activity. The courtship period in any relationship is an important time to gauge how much time and energy either party willing to devote to one another. Text messaging can be totally unreliable in this area because a person can send text after text appearing to be making an effort, but these simple, two-second responses aren’t much of a statement at all.

Giving someone a phone call is a statement. Asking someone out to dinner is a statement. Both require time and energy to another person in an attempt to get to know them better, which is what courtship is all about. Though initially receiving a text from your crush or hook-up buddy may seem promising if you delve deeper into it, it’s simply like saying, “I’m only going to devote the least amount of effort possible to you in a feeble attempt to get you in the sack.”

Remember the good old days when you were overwhelmed with excitement every time you heard those three short beeps in a row signaling your inbox had an unread message?

I implore you to return back to those simpler times before cell phones screens were greeted with a sigh and a roll of the eyes. Shut off your Samsungs and give your thumbs a rest.

And for all you after-hours Sextmessangers out there, let me put this is terms you can understand, ‘SRY NOT 2NITE, L8R.’

Adding to the stress were the constant inquiries from professors, family and friends as to what I want to do with my life and what careers would present the best opportunity for my future. Every time I answered with my standard, “I don’t really know yet,” I cringed a bit.

Sensing my discomfort on the issue, they responded with a, “Well, you still have time.”

Trust me, I know.

Just about everyone I know who has moved on to the real world from college has loved it and all the responsibility that comes along with it. It was a minor reassurance but still, all I could do was hope that when I was on the other side with them it would all fall into place.

It wasn’t until a few weeks after returning from the big city that I ran into an old friend.

Upon graduating, she had created a set of circumstances for herself that hindered her from achieving everything I knew she was capable of. She is smart, funny, easy to get along with and full of potential. And as much as I loved spending time with her again, it was clear the stress of getting older was causing her maturity to dwindle at a speed that was worrying. In short, it made me sad to see how much her life had come apart because she couldn’t handle the change of moving on and growing up.

Within a span of hours, my Debbie-downer attitude about my aging future was radically changed. I was shown that getting older is most certainly the better half of the deal. Imagine if instead of aging forward, we did it backwards.

This year on my birthday, I wouldn’t turn 22, but 20. And then 19. Each year I have had a multitude of experiences that I’ve taken with a grain of salt — they had to happen but I would never want to relive them. There is not a single day that I would trade in the future of working at a job for 24 hours for being 16 again — having braces, making enemies with my parents, trying to awkwardly fit in. The best part of getting older is knowing I have all those experiences from the past to take with me so I can remember to try not to be immature or irresponsible.

There’s a clear distinction between someone who is unsure about where or what they want to be someday and someone who just doesn’t care about where or what they want to be. Moving past getting older was the easy part.

Making myself an older, better version of what I am now will always be the harder part. And just like I outgrew my pink unicorn bike with sparkle streamers, I’m sure I’ll outgrow living the college life, looking back on both from time to time with nostalgic longing.

So, yes, maybe I am “old” as my summer roommate so honestly pointed out. But that’s normal. Maybe I’ll even be daring enough to say it’s good. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.

Kaitlyn Kilmetis is the administrative news editor for The Review. Her viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of the Review staff.

Quarter-life crisis averted: life isn’t over at 22 Wolt This Way

Caitlin Wolters

Surviving the lamest birthday is the worst part of getting older I was one of the lucky college students who was hired to work a 40-hour week in Manhattan this summer. Each morning I would wake up, throw on my meticulously ironed business-casual wear and ride the subway with hundreds of sweaty people shoved into every car — all to sit in front of a computer from 9:30 a..m. to 5:30 p.m. reading and researching the news.

One particular morning, I happened to catch one of my summer roommates as she was leaving for her job. We rode the subway together, casually talking about our respective universities and our plans for the upcoming weekend.

This one happened to be her birthday.

She told me she was turning 19 and this birthday was “totally going to be the best birthday ever,” but she “just really can’t wait to turn 21.” I told her in a few months I was going to be 22 years old.

“Wow,” she said. “That’s old!”

As if I didn’t already know. After the famed 21st birthday, it’s all downhill. I can rent

a car at 25 — big deal — and at 30 it’s officially no longer acceptable to be unemployed and living at my parents’ house without any semblance of a life plan.

This wasn’t the first time I thought about my impending old age.

For the last year, I have been well-aware of the lack of fun staring me in the face — a real job, lame birthdays, etc.

I even analyzed the whole concept of interning and how in the next year I would be waking up at the same time every day and spending at least 8 hours per day in an office in the real world — provided someone would actually want to hire me.

In short, the idea of growing up had slowly begun to terrify me. Wasn’t it just yesterday I was figuring out the coolest outfit to wear for my school photo and begging my mother to let me choose the neon green and blue background? Wasn’t it last month when I was riding my pink unicorn bike with sparkle streamers in circles around my driveway, dodging the basketballs my brother lobbed my way?

Apparently not. Now here I am, trying to be responsible and integrating myself into the real world. The real world — budgeting, 10 o’clock bedtimes, suits and lunch hours — was all just around the corner. I wasn’t sure how I felt about all of that.

Caitlin Wolters is an editorial editor for The Review. Her viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of the Review staff. Please send comments to cwolt@udel.edu.

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In the shadow of the golden arches One student’s experience behind the cash register at local fast food restaurant

BY SABINA ELLAHI Features Editor

The day finally arrived where I would say, “Do you want fries with that?” at my job.

I’ve worked in retail and I’ve waited tables, but I never thought I would wear the red, white and yellow uniform.

Well, actually, it’s not red, it’s burgundy. Red would make you one step closer to being Ronald McDonald.

As the manager, Jean Ellis, shoved me onto the front register during the lunch rush as soon as I started my first shift, I had a feeling that my patience was going to quickly disappear.

Between trying to understand what is said over the drive-thru intercoms, jabbing helplessly at the register — those buttons are tricky — and reeking of fried food all day, it’s easy to see why working in the food industry, let alone fast food, is not all that desirable.

I don’t know anyone who worked at McDonald’s as a teen, which is the reason I decided to see what it would be like to be an employee. With the help of a family friend who manages eight McDonald’s restaurants in New Castle County, I was hired for two shifts.

The $6.55-per-hour pay wasn’t sufficient for all the tasks for which I was responsible. I was handed a mop and was instructed to go clean the bathrooms. After watching how the food is handled, I couldn’t help but wonder, “People actually eat this?”

Even though McDonald’s has approximately 447,000 employees according to Forbes.com, I didn’t work with any college students during my shifts. According to a 30-person class poll conducted during Spring Semester 2008 in Features and Magazine Writing (ENGL 309), no one had worked in fast food service.

I worked at the McDonald’s restaurant on Rt. 896 in Newark for a lunch shift and dinner shift on a Saturday.

Both shifts had their share of customer stampedes during meal hours, as well as moments when I thought all I could do was count how many hamburger buns are in the back — there are 765.

As I braced myself to take my first order, the customer was already spewing requests before I could say, “Hi, welcome to McDonald’s.” There were two kinds of customers — the sweet customer who recites his or her order slowly to ensure there’s no mix-up and even takes the time to say “please” and “thank you,” and the feisty customer who orders enough food to feed a small country without blinking.

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I took deep breaths between the customers’ orders.

Jean patted me on the back and reassured me that I was doing just fine. She kept saying, “Just take it nice and easy, nice and easy.”

Jean, 55, says she finds herself reassuring many of her young employees. With the 50 hours per week she usually puts into running the McDonald’s, she says she feels like the kids are her own.

“I’m here morning, afternoon and night,” she says. “I would make sure that they were doing everything right and guide them a lot of the times. I just feel like I’m their mother.”

I can see the motherly instinct in Jean. Every area I THE REVIEW/Sabina Ellahi worked, whether it was putting McDonald’s restaurants employ approximately 447,000 people. fries in the deep fryer or handing orders over in the drivecousin’s car-audio shop on Route 13 in Wilmington. I was thru, Jean would be running around to each of her employ- fascinated by how much he had to manage, and asked how ees and ensuring them everything was running smoothly. he ever found the time to do all his schoolwork.

She didn’t have that boss vibe where I feared her presence “Well, I have to help my mom pay some bills since — she was warm and would never forget to pat me on my she’s a single mom,” he says. “I work here on the weekends back just to remind me I was doing something good. I espe- while I work with my cousin after school and somehow I cially appreciated the kindness as I worked in drive-thru. just manage to squeeze in some homework in there.”

For most of my second shift, I was put on drive-thru Carlos admits his grades aren’t stellar, but says he finds duty between 8 p.m. and midnight, which meant I got to solace in his five-hour shifts, since his home life is not the wear one of those cool headphones with the mic. That best and he continues to struggle in school. amusement faded quickly once I realized how grueling the “I like it here — all my friends are here,” he says. “I next three hours were going to be. love that my job can serve as a haven for me from every“I would like a number nine, but make sure you lay off thing.” the cheese, and can you make that with a Diet Coke?” the Carlos continued to help me with the drive-thru as the customer says. “No wait. Make that an iced tea. night progressed — drunk kids shouted orders through the Unsweetened. What, Josh? Shut up back there! Gosh, my intercom and soccer moms picked up emergency meals. He son will not shut up!” helped me with the register — it really is tricky — and colSurprisingly, this happened frequently with the drive- lecting money, all while telling jokes and stories about his thru customers. Kids yelling in the backseat made it harder friends and family. After becoming friends with Carlos, I for me to hear what the customer was saying. The most eventually relaxed. Perhaps I was nervous because I didn’t annoying customer, though, was the one who just couldn’t know anyone, but I think most of my stress came naturally make up his mind. from working under “Yeah uh, man, can you hold on for a second?” pressure, which is what he says. A long pause ensues. “How are your I face every day as a crispy chicken sandwiches?” college student — even “They’re good,” I say. though it’s a bit differ“How about your Big ent.

Mac?” As midnight I found myself banging approached, I felt a my head against the regissigh of relief — those ter when questions like shifts are no joke. As I these proceeded over and was leaving, Jean asked over, until employee what I thought about Carlos Lunas taps me on working as a — Carlos Lunas, the shoulder and says, McDonald’s employee.

“You forgot to ask what size McDonald’s employee I was honest and told they wanted.” On impulse, I her at first, I dreaded it glare at him. and couldn’t help but “Whoa, chica, I want to scream at every didn’t mean any harm,” he customer. She laughed. I told her once I got to know everysays, laughing. one and tried to set aside my frustration, the job wasn’t too Carlos was one of the bad. workers who took the time Jean then asks, “Well, would you work here again?” out to actually talk to me. A I smile sheepishly and say, “Probably not.”

15-year-old sophomore at She smiles back, gives me one of her famous pats on William Penn High School in the back, and says there would always be a place for me New Castle, Carlos has two there if I ever changed my mind. I thanked her, walked to jobs — one here at my car and dreamt of the shower I planned to take to get that McDonald’s and one at his French fry stench off my skin.

“I like it here — all my friends are here. I love that my job can serve as a haven for me from everything.”

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Alternate forms of media dominate election October 7, 2008

BY MATT FORD Staff Reporter

Over the past decade, the number of Americans who get their news from traditional media outlets has declined, according to August 2008 surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The number of Americans who rely on the Internet for alternative forms of media to stay up-to-date on current events has experienced a 6 percent increase since 2006. According to the surveys, retrieving news from blogs and devices like cell phones is becoming an alternative option for those who want to stay informed on the election.

Print media still holds an important place in covering the upcoming election, but according to the Pew Research Center surveys, technological forms of media have become highly influential in how the younger generation gathers information on the candidates.

Web sites known as social bookmarking news sites, where members can post and receive feedback on articles or sites they find interesting, are also becoming hotbeds of information. According to the popular social bookmarking site Digg.com, the site attracts approximately 30 million users monthly.

With Election Day less than a month away, Digg.com, along with sites like Delicious.com and Reddit.com, are swamped with political articles, videos and commentary.

Professor Ralph Begleiter, a former CNN World News correspondent, says while TV is still a major outlet for

Americans to get their news, the internet is becoming a great source for clips about politics and the election.

“There are a number of outlets for political videos on the Internet,” Begleiter says. “YouTube is full of political videos.”

Last Friday, a group of Registered Student Organizations hosted the Get Political Fair, which featured informational tables, as well as performances by three local bands. Members of the organizations were eager for the chance to get the word out on messages most important to them.

Freshman Marisa Hall, a self-described “blog watcher” and a member of College Democrats, says her transition to college life has changed the way she gets her news.

“I used to get a lot of papers delivered to my house at home,” Hall says. “But here, where I don’t have a constant mailing address, I use the Internet for news.”

Senior Tricia Connor, vice president of College Democrats, says when it comes to the debates, watching online videos of the candidates’ responses is better than cable news stations for prospective voters because raw footage does not come with the inevitable bias that political commentators bring to a TV broadcast.

“It’s an easier way to watch them without having to listen to all that talk,” Connor says.

Sites like YouTube allow people to follow a maze of links in order to help them in making a decision on who to vote for come November, she says.

However, it’s not just the Internet that has become a new source of information.

For some people, musical performances can

motivate people into following the election more closely.

Phil Stanley, whose band Stone City performed at the Get Political Fair, says, “I think music can have an influence on political attitudes.”

Stanley says he feels that while the attitudes of some concert-goers may be changed, it’s up to the voters to actually make the difference on Election Day. Senior Scott Ohlmacher says he gets his news from Internet sources and thinks shows like “Saturday Night Live” are now able to help increase awareness of the campaigns.

“People can watch a Tina Fey skit on YouTube and then they can watch the speech it’s related to,” Ohlmacher says. “In the past you either got the joke or you didn’t, but now with YouTube available, [SNL] can have a greater effect.”

Visual artistic expression is also an outlet used in changing the way Americans look at the political process in the past few weeks.

A trio of graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known collectively as Sosolimited, has taken the presidential debates to unfamiliar territory by turning them into something that goes beyond simply staring at a TV screen.

The project, called ReConstitution 2008, takes live debates and remixes them as they happen, using computer software written by the performers. They remixed the first debate in Boston and plan to do the same to the remaining two debates in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Eric Gunther, a member of the group, says the process follows the details closely.

It samples and catalogues the video, audio and language by monitoring the closed captioning of the debate. He says the individual pieces of the broadcast are then put back together in interesting ways, in the hope that doing so will strip away the biases that anyone can bring to a performance.

“It highlights different parts of the broadcast, and we try to give you a totally different view of this event,” Gunther says.

While the members of Sosolimited, dressed as TV news anchormen, tweak knobs and press keys, words pile up on the screen behind them in columns, keeping track of certain keywords said during the debate. The video feed is warped, smashed and at times absent, depending on the actions and statements of the candidates.

Though the audio can be altered in similar ways, this isn’t a musical performance.

Gunther says the performers don’t want audience members to miss the points made by the candidates, and they strive for an unbiased interpretation of the debate.

“We’re trying very hard to be nonpartisan,” he says.

With Election Day’s rapid approach comes a daily increase in information available to the public on the two campaigns. As voters begin to finalize their decisions, the availability of this information becomes even more important, whether it’s watched, listened to, read or performed.

“Cable news carries the largest quantity of political information,” Begleiter says.

“But there’s a whole raft of other media.”

New film ‘Slacker Uprising:’ Moore for less porters who tried to prevent Moore from having his political rallies and freedom of Filmmaker Michael Moore has decided speech. to uphold his reputation for releasing controThere are still questions, though, as to versial films by trying something he has how Moore’s movie will affect the voting never done before. His latest documentary, population.

“Slacker Uprising,” isn’t playing in movie Political science professor Jason Mycoff theaters — instead, it’s available for free says he doesn’t see the film making any big online. impact in the future, though there has been The film is the first full-length produca history of campaigns rallying young vottion to be legally available to the American ers, such as Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ effort and Canadian public for download at no to encourage youth voting with his “Vote or charge, through Robert Greenwald’s Brave Die” movement.

New Films Web site, BraveNewFilms.org.

“Like MTV’s ‘Choose or Lose’ that tarThomas Leitch, director of the English gets young voters, it will not be a negative department’s concentration in film studies, influence,” Mycoff says. sees the film-on-computer revolution to conHe teaches a class at the university — tinue and develope further in the future.

American Political System (POSC 150) — He says the film industry tends to adapt solely focused on following the election. He to changing trends and technology. However, says he was pleasantly surprised, as the 250 with such great competition and binding students who chose the class could have rights to market these videos, there is often a filled the requirement elsewhere. delay.

“Students seem interested and excited in “It seems to be technology wars concernthe election,” Mycoff says. ing marketing of online videos that slow He says the Obama campaign has been things down,” Leitch says. spending time targeting youth votes — one “Slacker Uprising” is set during the example was a free Bruce Springsteen conmonths prior to the 2004 presidential eleccert on Oct. 4 for people who registered to Courtesy of Amazon.com vote on Obama’s Web site. tions and follows Moore on a trip to 62 cities in the United States — mostly in battleground Michael Moore’s latest movie is available for free download on BraveNewFilms.org.

Although senior Jen Sutherland says she states — in an attempt to remove the Bush hasn’t heard about the movie, she would be administration, highlight some of the corruption in cam- for their loyalty and support over the years with a free film. interested in watching it. paigning and focus on the youth vote. The film aims to show Moore also says he wanted a documentary to rally the youth Sutherland says she supports the theory that today’s “slackers,” or 18- to 24-year-olds who haven’t voted, that vote for the upcoming election, and increase the overall per- youth is moving away from its slacker stigma and increasing centage of Americans at the voting booth in November. they do have a voice. its involvement, knowledge and interest in the election.

As one would expect with Moore’s previous outspoken The release of the film occurs on the 20th anniversary of “This is the first presidential election I can participate Moore’s first film “Roger & Me.” According to the “Slacker views, the film caters more to a politically liberal audience. in,” Sutherland says, “and with the condition of the economy Uprising” Web site, Moore wanted to give back to his fans It highlights the corruption of certain Republican Party sup- and being a graduating senior, it is important.”

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Romantic comedy comes of age

are also many cheerful scenes, such as the wellcrafted climax. In addition, many laugh-outloud moments, like Nick’s car when becomes a taxi for drunkards, are conveyed throughout the film. The funniest, and probably most disgusting instances involve Norah’s friend, Caroline, and her bubblegum.

Despite the strong humor, there are some Certain drawbacks. jokes are forced, and scenes with Caroline aren’t connected properly, making the audience feel like they are switching from one chapter to another.

A major plus of the film is the original music by Mark Mothersbaugh. The soundtrack acts as a soothing transition between each beautifully shot night scene in New York City. The performances by the lead pair are notable. Cera continues to draw the girls with his boyish charm and sense of humor. Dennings, on the other hand, is sturdy and her assertive female character stands out as a natural performance.

“Nick and Norah” is a small story told with a big heart and brilliant soundtrack. It succeeds in pleasing its target audience, and is definitely a sweet date flick that even men wouldn’t want to miss.

— Sanat Dhall, sanatd@udel.edu

Dig Out Your Soul Oasis Reprise Records Rating: PPPP (out of PPPPP) Brit-Rock sensation Oasis has returned to the music scene with Dig Out Your Soul.

Many songs, especially “Waiting For Rapture,” incorporate a heavy riff more typical of blues music. The song describes a feeling of sadness toward a girl who was perfect but was stuck in the doldrums of everyday life.

Front man Liam Gallagher sings, “She said, I’m tired / Come take me off this merry-goround.”

Oasis is widely known for its smash hit “Wonderwall,” however, many of the songs on the new album ditch the classic acoustic style of the past. The closest to this style is “I’m Outta’ Time.” The song begins with a mellow piano progression that sets the mood for some reminiscing, which is what the singer does, singing, “Here’s a sound. That reminds of when we were young / Looking back at all the things we’ve done. You’ve gotta’ keep on keeping on.”

While many of the tracks seem sad, the single “The Shock of the Lightning” is energetic. Each verse begins with two opposites together as one, like “My feet on the street but I can’t stop flying.” The moral of the song is that love makes everything possible. The chorus repeats, “Love is a time machine on the silver screen all in my mind / Love is a litany, a magical mystery. And all in good time.”

The two stand-out tracks follow the blues formula of “Waiting For Rapture.” The album opens with “Bag It Up,” which compares fame to a drug. The singer is experiencing many strange things, but a voice continues to tell him

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he wants more — he sings, “Someone tell me I’m dreaming / The freaks are rising up through the floor / Everything I believe in is telling me I want more.” The comparison goes even deeper when Gallagher says, “Tell me what you desire, and we’ll bag it up.”

The second stand-out song is “High Horse Lady.” The song is a very simplistic ballad to a woman who needs to come down off her high horse. The song goes in-depth to talk about the things she does that appear better to her than they truly are.

The topics on the album range from a stuck-up significant other to fame and its druglike tendencies, so with the wide variance, the subjects are easy to relate to. While it’s a solid album, it’s hard to live up to the success of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?

— Russell Kutys, rkutys@udel.edu

view celebrities. Sidney Young (Pegg) is an arrogant, sarcastic and unknowingly rude journalist who seems to create awkward situations any chance he gets. He fulfills every journalist’s dream by moving to New York City after getting a job offer from a cocky, hot-shot editor (Jeff Bridges) at the socialite and celebrity glossy Sharps Magazine. Annoying all his fellow coworkers and his boss Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst), Sidney seems to voluntarily place himself in embarrassing situations that make everyone want to cringe. A young and beautiful rising star, Sophie Mayes (Megan Fox) develops an odd affection for Sidney and he finally sprouts up into high society after years of getting kicked out of A-list clubs and crashing post-awards show parties.

Even with its predictable romanticcomedy plot, the film is still somewhat watchable with definite chuckle scenes, including a prank call for call girls into the office of sinister editor Lawrence Maddox (Danny Huston), and Sidney drunkenly busting out an England chant at a Fourth of July barbeque in the Hamptons.

Unfortunately, even with its potential, the film is a victim of a poorly written script with lame gags and dull one-liners.

However, it’s a strikingly interesting look into the shallowness of the publishing industry, especially in tabloid magazines.

Still, it’s one of those films that wouldn’t be so bad to catch a couple scenes of on TV, thanks to Pegg’s stinging taunts of dialogue and traces of dry British humor.

— Sabina Ellahi, sellahi@udel.edu

Unexpected Michelle Williams Sony Records Rating: P 1/2 (out of PPPPP) After dominating most of the ’90s, the girls from Destiny’s Child temporarily split to start solo careers in 2002. The lead singer, Beyonce Knowles, has proven herself an important artist in the R&B world.

Back-up singer Michelle Wiliams’ new release Unexpected shows why she never earned the spotlight herself.

Williams’ new single “We Break The Dawn” hit No. 1 on the Hot Dance Airplay Charts, but don’t become blinded by this ounce of success. The rest of the album is extremely electronic, covering up her weak voice. Williams sings, “Oh, there’s somethin’ on the surface right now / Somethin’ that keeps movin’, diggin’ deeper down.”

What’s digging down is the piercing sound of her music into the eardrums of listeners.

There are some interesting upbeat d a n c e songs on the album, such as “Lucky G i r l , ” h o w e v e r, Williams destroys the mood with songs such as “Private Party,” in which her voice is just as irritating as the screeching carwreck noise in the background.

Williams slows things down with her second single “The Greatest.” She sings, “ ‘Cause you always shine / Baby, you’re the greatest.” Williams’ listeners are the greatest, for surviving the train wreck that is Unexpected.

— Katie Pizzullo, kpizz@udel.edu

Appeal to Reason Rise Against Geffen Rating: PP (out of PPPPP) Rise Against is not rising against much. Since the 2004 release of Siren Song of the Counter Culture on major label Geffen, the Chicagobased band has gathered a mass following while diluting its hardcore punk roots to meet mainstream needs.

Appeal to Reason, named after an alternative socialist newspaper, continues a punk tradition of rough vocals,

melodic chord progressions and riotous lyrics in the vein of Bad Religion.

While the album is sincere, it lacks originality.

On “Re-Education (Through Labor),” a song

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Losing the ‘wonder’

“How to Lose Friends and Alienate People” Number 9 Films Rating: PP (out of Courtesy of Amazon.com PPPP) Director Robert B. Weide, famous for writing numerous “Curb Enthusiasm” Your episodes, makes his feature film debut with “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.”

While most would expect a hilarious subversive satire, the film falls far from being anything close to hysterical.

The story has undoubtedly been seen before — loser is out of place and tries to fit in, falls for a pretty girl but doesn’t realize it until the end and faces awkward obstacles in his pursuit for her. The somewhat lovable loser is “Shaun of the Dead” star Simon Pegg, whose charm makes the film a little bit more forgivable.

But even with the casting of a promising comic actor whose tacit humor is more cerebral than physical, Pegg seems to barely make it out alive in carrying out the humor on his own, and the supporting cast does nothing to help.

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“Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” Depth of Field Rating: PPP (out of PPPP) “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” is one of those nostalgic stories that could have easily been written by John Hughes, who gave us the teenage hit “The Breakfast Club.” First-time writer Lorene Scafaria projects a familiar feeling in the film about a mature teenage love story based on the novel by the same name, written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan.

Hughes’ films developed strong messages of being a teenager and dealing with friendship, life and love. Similarly, “Nick & Norah” reminds us of our breakups, and how we follow up on them. It reminds us of our crushes and our first kiss — experiences all worth a lifetime.

The talented and super-funny Michael Cera plays a role similar to his previous teenage comedic characters in “Superbad” and “Juno.”

The only straight guy in a gay band, The Jerk Offs, Nick (Cera) has just come out of a relationship, but continues to make mixed CDs for his ex-girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena).

Incidentally, Norah (Kat Dennings) receives those mix-CDs after Tris throws them out. Once Nick and Norah meet, they have only one thing in common — their playlist.

The movie gets to the point from the start, when Nick is leaving a voicemail on Tris’s phone about their breakup, which ended a month prior on his birthday. Throughout the movie, the audience embarks on a non-stop journey as Nick and Norah spend their first date searching for their favorite band’s surprise concert.

While the film contains several moments in which the viewers feel sympathy for Nick, there

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against capitalist labor, vocalist and vegetarian Tim McIlrath sings “Each breath we take makes us thieves / like causes without rebels.” Similarly, the album is a form of thievery and lacks any sense of real rebellion.

The punk genre — once victorious in its heyday — is now a recycled, glitzy blueprint, available at Hot Topic.

This is not to say skateboarders and rebellious mall teens won’t eat these tracks for breakfast.

—James Adams Smith, smithja@udel.edu

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Alicia Gentile Columnist

I believe in moving in with a significant other before marriage. Spending time with him or her and being able to see how he or she acts in a home setting is vital to a relationship. This is only the case when the relationship is moving toward marriage. For college couples, crashing with a boyfriend or girlfriend isn’t the smartest idea.

I find that a lot of couples in relationships that live off campus spend more than half the week at each other’s houses.

What’s the point of spending money on rent for your own apartment when you’re just going to spend every waking moment at the other person’s house? Spending this much time together can seriously ruin a potentially great relationship.

I’m young — I’d like to take advantage of my independence before I move in with someone. I have the rest of my life to spend every day with my man, and sometimes space is necessary to function. Life is busy and complicated, and space helps put things in perspective and

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slow us down.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, so relationships in which two people remain independent are healthier. Lust is easily lost if a couple spends every night together. Some things should be left up to the imagination.

I understand how the situation is slightly different for anyone who still has to share a room with a roommate — that cuts in on mojo time and you might want to leave and spend the night at your

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lover’s house. Making a habit out of it isn’t a good idea, though. There has to be a line drawn.

That line is especially important when these sleepovers affect more than just the couple. I really do feel for the roommate or housemates of the person whose boyfriend or girlfriend stays over all the time. If the person sleeping over is willing to help out around the house, that’s one thing, but it’s never cool when someone comes into your home, sexiles you from your bedroom, leaves the toilet seat up and eats all your food. It’s not as much of a burden if that person is respect-

ful, does the dishes or contributes hilarious jokes at the dinner table.

I’ve been very lucky to not have been smothered by a roommate’s significant other — I was rarely sexiled when I lived on campus. Harrington is simply too small to have a lover stay over every night.

When faced with a frequent sleepover situation, it’s important to take friends into consideration. I love to hang out with my friends and honestly, I’m sure I’d be jealous if I never got to see them because they were constantly at their boyfriend or girlfriend’s house. It’s hard to manage having a significant other and keeping your friends content at the same time, but it’s twice as hard when you’re never home or when your significant other is always at your house.

I love to brush my teeth. Leaving a tooth brush at my boy’s house would be a necessity if I was constantly over there.

But where does the thin line get drawn between a simple toothbrush and an over-stayed welcome?

It’s not healthy to spend too much time together. It doesn’t seem worth losing the lust, and it doesn’t seem worth aggravating roommates.

mediadarling The naked truth about Potter tad bit excited.

While in America we were exploiting the fact that he was going to be naked on stage all over “Access Hollywood,” ticket sales in London were skyrocketing and Radcliffe was performing sold-out shows.

I guess in Great Britain they have more lenient and less Puritanical views on nudity than America — it’s part of Europe, so of course they don’t freak out about the state of the underdressed like we do. Case in point — the infamous Janet Jackson popout during the Super Bowl in 2004. In Europe, America was ridiculed for making such a controversy out of something that was viewed as “nothing to make such a big fuss about,” according to Peter Bowes of BBC News.

Besides the fact that such a role exists for a young actor, there most likely wouldn’t be this much controversy surrounding Radcliffe if it wasn’t for his familiar role of Harry Potter. If it was any other young actor who had already found his niche playing parts that didn’t have a wide audience of children, perhaps the controversy wouldn’t have been as newsworthy.

After all, this isn’t the first play on Broadway that features teenagers experimenting with sexuality — “Spring Awakening” is a prime example.

It makes sense that Radcliffe is trying to branch out into more mature and adult-oriented roles. In fact, kudos to him for doing so. Sure, there’s a loss of innocence here, but Radcliffe can’t hide behind those goofy, circular glasses for the rest of his life. Ultimately, we just seem to forget that actors are actually people, and not the characters they play.

— Sabina Ellahi

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Coming-of-age stories are becoming increasingly popular for the theater and entertainment world, as they attract a wider audience than most genres. Movies like “Thirteen” and “The Virgin Suicides” fall into that category and didn’t fail to garner controversy for depicting teens with drugs and alcohol, or for incorporating the controversial theme of sexuality.

And boy, does sexuality play a big part in the Broadway production of the re-make of “Equus,” starring 19-yearold Daniel Radcliffe. If you’re scratching your head asking, “Why does this play sound familiar?” it’s because it isn’t the first time Radcliffe has played this contentious role.

Setting aside the fact that the play already has a rather odd synopsis of a young man who has a pathological and sexual fascination with horses — seriously, how bizarre does that plot sound? — more people are just a bit weirded out by the fact that the role of the young man is played by Mr. Harry Potter himself. The role features live nudity on stage. Yes, full-on nakedness that features some Harry Potter booty — with plenty of front views, too.

When I first heard that Radcliffe was going to appear naked on the original West End production of “Equus” in London, I remember thinking, “Wait, Harry Potter is going to be naked? He can’t do that, he’s not even old enough. And what about the Potter fans?” For the record, he was 17 and well, some female Potter fans were a

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Searching for a hero

Attention: calling for a brilliant designer. Must be daring, innovative and exceptional all at the same time.

As the month-long jet-tracking to numerous Fashion Weeks across the world wraps up this week in Paris, buyers, Sabina Ellahi editors and stylists Columnist everywhere are looking back on which brands — notice that I didn’t say designer — were cutting-edge and avant-garde. The same names are discussed every year — Gucci, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana. The same questions arise, such as, “Who did it best?” “Who tanked this year?” and “Who had Kanye West sitting in their front row?” It’s all the familar fashion politics, just a different season.

These are the brands, though, whose original designers are long gone and are mostly managed by creative directors in terms of design. No longer do we have the face of the person responsible for building a design house based on quality mixed with boldness and flair. Instead, we have multi-million dollar fashion empires that focus on mass production.

I’m not by any means an opponent of such empires. In fact, this result is what defines success in the industry. But it seems that once a design house hits the big bucks, it gets blindsighted and forgets about the intricate design process by focusing more on marketing or product expansion. Which makes me think, what happened to the era of the genius designer? With the passing of Yves Saint Laurent earlier this year, people of this generation, including myself, are starting to realize and wonder, where’s our generation’s fashion pioneer? Where’s our Miuccia Prada or Coco Channel? It this too much to ask for?

Well, sadly, yes. Times have changed, and the current economy isn’t helping us much either.

Businesses are playing it safe by sticking with brands they know their customers will buy, and aspiring designers are fearful of not becoming successful and rather seek to take their talent to work for a big-name designer. As a result, the new designer talent is dwindling greatly, and long gone is the time of the ambitious genius designer. There isn’t enough money to gamble on new ideas, but also on the other side, the mind of the consumer has changed dramatically in the past 50 years.

No longer are we running to the newsstand or our mailboxes to abide by the rules of Vogue.

The fashion-conscious person today is an independent thinker, and is no longer being force-fed all the supposed trends. In an era where “Project Runway” and the do-it-yourself mindset is becoming increasingly prevalent, it’s becoming more difficult for designers to create something that they may see as imaginative, when in reality, someone has most likely already tried it.

As much as I love being experimental with my wardrobe, I still want to be able to rely on inspiration from those visionary designers — those who can see beyond the picture.

But it doesn’t have to end here. We’re waiting for you, genius designer — I’m waiting for you. You don’t have to be afraid. Be fearless, have courage and for God’s sake, don’t sell out too soon.

So to whomever the aspiring, revolutionary designer that comes our way and sweeps the fashion world off our feet may be, I’ll be waiting to salute you. In the meantime, I will continue to flip through my Women’s Wear Daily in hopes of finding that person.

— sellahi@udel.edu

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An ongoing journey: travel guru visits Trabant

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Del. resident competes to become ‘Millionaire’ Patrick Pugh of Mt. Laurel was a contestant on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”

BY ASHLEY QUINN Staff Reporter

In today’s troubled economy, money is hard to come by. However, when the going gets tough, the tough get creative, as evidenced by one Delaware native — Patrick Pugh, 26, of Mt. Laurel.

“I needed money,” Pugh says. “And drug dealing was out of the question.”

Pugh’s solution was to try his luck on the popular game show, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”

A graduate of Mt. Laurel High School and Washington College, Pugh says he hoped to make his dream of joining the Peace Corps a reality, but knew he couldn’t go abroad until he paid his college debt.

“Millionaire” seemed like the perfect answer.

Pugh says he first applied for the game show last October in New York, where he took a 10-minute, 30-question test that would make him eligible for the show.

“It was a standardized test,” Pugh says, “and they don’t tell you what percentage you have to get right, or even how many questions you do get right.”

Once he passed the test, Pugh was interviewed by an assistant producer of the show.

“They do these interviews to make sure you’re not too strange,” Pugh says. “I guess I fooled them.”

He says he took every possible measure to prepare for the show, writing down every random question that came into his head and later looking up the answer.

“I memorized the names and the order of all the American presidents,” Pugh says.

“I learned inane things — the Olympic Games of 1904. I even slept with books on my head.”

After months of studying, his hard work paid off. He won $25,000 on the show — much of which he attributes to the supportive and positive attitudes of the staff and crew of “Millionaire.”

“Meredith [Vieira] and the producers there are some of the nicest people you will ever meet,” Pugh says. “They really want you to do well.”

He says his strategy for answering each question was simply “not to overthink it,” but when he got to the more difficult questions later in the show, things became more complicated.

“I was like a deer in headlights,” Pugh says.

After using several life lines on the $50,000 question, including asking the audience and phoning a friend, he answered incorrectly and left the show with his prize.

Pugh, who works as a summer police officer in Dewey Beach, says he has no regrets.

“Twenty-five grand for a day’s work?”

Pugh says. “I didn’t make that much in all of last year.”

In an interesting twist, Pugh says he received a call on his way home from the show’s creator and executive producer, Michael Davies. Davies told Pugh that a key word in one of the questions was misspelled, and that he was eligible for a second chance on the show.

“The question was about an opera singer,” Pugh says. “The word could have been spelled correctly, and they could have given me a definition — I still wouldn’t have known the answer.”

Still, Davies gave Pugh the benefit of the doubt.

“In the producer’s mind, it was enough to throw me off and affect the outcome of the show,” he says.

Davies told Pugh that he could choose to keep the $25,000, or return for another round on the show, starting with only $16,000 and all of his life lines. Although an incorrect answer could bring his winnings down to $1,000, Pugh decided to take the risk.

Pugh says he cannot disclose how he did in his second round, which was filmed in July and airs Nov. 10, but he did seem positive about his experience.

“I’ve got it — I’m young, I’m confident,” Pugh says.

Now, he says he awaits his departure for the Peace Corps.

“I’ve always had a strong desire to serve people,” he says, “but I’m also selfish — I want to travel.”

Although he lives with a congenital ear defect, he refuses to let his disability stand in the way of his plans.

“I have no dependents or obligations,” Pugh says, “so it seems like the perfect time.”

While Pugh aims to be upright with his winnings, he does plan on a few indulgent splurges.

“I’ll actually be buying my family Christmas presents,” he says. “No construction paper cards this year.”

Doug Lansky, travel writer and best-selling author, doesn’t like the term “travel expert.”

Although he says he feels like he has a doctorate in travel, he prefers “informed commentator.”

After all, he has traveled in Mexico on his own horse, worked as an underwater bell hop in Key Largo and crossed the ColumbiaVenezuela border in a truckful of rubber flipflops.

Lansky’s lecture, given Sept. 29 in Trabant University Center, advised students on handling peculiar international toilets, what to do when one gets a traveler’s illness and how to budget money.

According to his personal Web site, after roughly 10 years of traveling to approximately 100 countries, Lansky has published several guidebooks, including “The Rough Guide to Travel,” “There’s No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled” and “Last Trout in Venice.” His latest venture is his book-turned-art exhibit, “Signspotting,” a collection of photos of wacky and nonsensical signs he has seen around the world.

Lansky says after publishing two “Signspotting” books between 2005 and 2007, he started an exhibition of these signs last July in Stockholm, Sweden. He organized the exhibition himself, free of charge to the 30,000 visitors per day during the show’s 16-day run. His one-man show is now in high demand in many international cities, from New York City to Paris to Melbourne.

Lansky says he isn’t sure if it’s luck that got him this far. He says he believes in making his own luck and own fortune.

“There’s a decent chance you might find a rainbow, but you can’t live your life looking,” Lansky says. “Don’t look too hard to find those signs, but you have to anticipate.”

Throughout his travels, Lansky discovered his favorite destination in an unlikely spot — Cleveland, Ohio at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rejection letters received by The Rolling Stones, Sting and the like, taught him an important lesson. He says he felt moved by these letters, after the rejections he received in the past.

“This was a moment for me,” he says.

Before Lansky’s future unfolded as a bestselling author and soon-to-be art curator, he was an intern for The New Yorker and “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

Before that, Lansky was a political economics major at Colorado College. He also audited classes at Harvard and recommends these alternate educational routes to students.

He says no matter what school one attends, it’s important to “go where the great profs are.”

Learning how to think is valuable, he says.

“You’re not going to get it watching MTV,” Lansky says. “ ‘Pimp My Ride’ is fun, but it’s not going to give you the right tool set.”

He says he learned his best lessons meeting people abroad. An Italian architect told him how to balance the three most important things in life — who you’re with, what you’re doing and where you are.

Lansky says he has come to understand that balance throughout his life.

“When you’re missing one of these, it’s not a big deal — it’s just one,” he says. “But there’s an inner turmoil when all three are in the air.”

Lansky says he sympathizes with college students, who seem to have the right balance of the three until they graduate.

“You find all three when you have kids,” he says. “But then it all just goes out-of-whack from there.”

Lansky says he’s now a father living in Stockholm with his family, with whom he still travels. Together, he and his family have gone on numerous trips, including three months in Brazil and weekends in Paris. These trips all him to pass down his interest in travel to his kids.

Lansky still travels on lecture circuits, where he passes the same interest to college students, inspiring them with the name of his lecture, “Get Lost.”

Lansky says he wanted to show people how to “get more out of travel than getting drunk, and getting your picture in front of every monument.”

He shared with students attending the lecture in Trabant his off-beat experiences, including his jobs as a catamaran DJ, banana picker and snowmobile instructor. Lansky says he has taken sumo wrestling lessons and taught himself how to row a gondola instead of merely taking a tour on one.

“A gondola lesson is the same price as riding,” he says.

The Lansky maxim applies to all his travel advice — to get the most culture out of a trip.

He wants attendants of his lectures to learn to experience everything, and not to have a “cultural experience devoid of culture.”

“Traveling is like skiing,” Lansky says.

“The more you do it, the more you want to go on the advanced slopes.”

In order to get a truly cultural experience, he advises students to explore individual interests in foreign countries.

“Your interests are the skeleton key that’s going to unlock these countries,” Lansky says.

THE REVIEW/Justin Maurer

Doug Lansky offered travel advice at a lecture in Trabant University Center on Sept. 29.

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Preparing for an international adventure Octrober 7, 2008

BY AMANDA DUNBAR Staff Reporter

THE REVIEW/Katie Smith

Students preparing to study abroad have orientation meetings to attend, payments to make and in some cases, vaccinations to get. However, professors additionally offer other preparation activities for their study abroad programs.

Lesa Griffiths, director of the Center for International Studies says there are 85 total study abroad programs running for the 2008-09 academic year. Of that total, 36 are running during the Winter Session 2009. The most popular programs students apply to are in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Italy and Great Britain.

Griffiths says the Center for International Studies suggests students prepare themselves by looking at information about where they are going on the national Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention and the CIA World Factbook Web sites.

Because individual faculty directors are the ones who create study abroad programs, there is a wide variety of preparation recommendations, including movies to watch, food to try, clubs to attend or books to read, she says.

Senior Kemper O’Neill says study abroad ambassadors are students who have been on programs before and are a resource for students. The ambassadors speak to students at tables in Trabant University Center about their expectations and give general information.

“The purpose of study abroad ambassadors is to dispel the rumors that study abroad is expensive or you have to know another language,” O’Neill says.

“We are there to promote study abroad.”

He says the professors directing the programs decide what additional preparations they will assign or recommend to the students accepted into their programs.

Crista Johnson, foreign language and literature professor, says she requires students participating in her Costa Rica study abroad program to take a quiz to Cover photo courtesy of Esparta Palma — http://flickr.com/photos/esparta/2246713370/ see what they know about the country. It includes a map and questions about abroad programs are intended to incorporate international and global themes into students’ politics and culture.

“I treat the quiz as a starting point to see what they know about where they are going lives through experience. Atchison says students should take advantage of everything they and what they will see,” Johnson says. “I then use the quiz results to discuss with students can while abroad.

“Don’t be ashamed to go out and speak to people,” he says. “You may not be very what they will need to know.”

She recommends students look at a travel guide for the country they are visiting to read good, but you will improve, and people are very understanding.”

Once the preparations are done, students spend several weeks studying and learning up on things they’ll see.

David Pong, history professor, says he uses a different method to prepare his students about another country, immersing themselves in a new culture.

“The best thing is to really have your eyes open and be curious,” Cherrin says. “That for their experience during his program to China. He says his orientation meetings get students ready for the culture shock they will possibly encounter abroad, especially those who way you can come back with a wealth of knowledge and experience.” have not studied China.

“I do not want students to be shocked by some of the different and unusual things they will experience,” Pong says. “I try to mentally prepare them and give them the information they will need.”

For non-language students, he explains the basic structure of the language and writing system. Pong gives a four-page packet of sentences, phrases and pronunciations along with lessons on how to hold chopsticks.

Suzanne Cherrin, assistant professor of Latin American studies, and Galdys Illarregui, associate professor of foreign language and literatures and professor of Latin American studies, say they give additional preparation recommendations outside of the mandatory orientation meetings for the students attending their program to Argentina.

Cherrin says she sends students a link to the Web site of the university’s tango group, DelTango. This gives students the option to delve into the Argentine dance tradition.

Illarregui says students prepare for Latin American traditions through film and expressing interest in the language.

“Students should think with happiness of what is coming in this month,” Illarregui says. “It is a chance to get out of the winter time and into something really unique.”

Senior Keith Atchison says he attended the Argentina trip during Winter Session 2007. Before leaving, he purchased hand guides about the country to prepare himself and become familiar with different aspects of the culture.

“I read that guys in Argentina don’t wear earrings so I took mine out before I got there,” Atchison says. “Once I got there, though, I saw a lot of guys did have them, so sometimes there are things wrong in the book that you have to wait and see for yourself.”

Louis Arena, associate professor emeritus of linguistics and cognitive science, says he has his students look up information about Italian culture and do some reading before his program travels through six Italian cities. Language preparation is not necessary because the program focuses on the various dialects in Italy and the culture.

Arena says he has students look up the differences between American and Italian culture. As an example, he has business students look at the differences between Italian and American résumes. He also has students read Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons” in order to familiarize themselves with the geography of Rome.

Traveling abroad entails encountering another language a majority of the time. O’Neill says students should not be discouraged or think that they need to know the language of the country where they want to study.

Senior Jessica Farina says she attended the Winter Session 2008 study abroad program to Italy. She says language fluency is not necessary.

“When I went to Italy, a lot of people on the trip had never taken Italian,” Farina says. “Not knowing the language is not a setback because people are patient and the professors will help you if you get stuck.”

According to the Center for International Studies Web site, study

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A tricky selling point: ads and TV shows

BY LEXI AMBROGI Staff Reporter

After a long day of classes, senior Gregg Cantwell shuffles into his house and throws himself onto the couch. He grabs the remote and aims it at the TV, ready to unwind with some of his favorite programs.

Cantwell channel surfs for two minutes before settling on a program. A commercial for Orbit Gum comes on, and he immediately switches the channel. A few minutes later, another commercial comes on. Cantwell switches the channel, yet again. This continues for a few minutes before he lets out a loud groan and walks out of the room.

“I absolutely hate commercials,” Cantwell says. “There should be a warning before they come on.”

He is not alone. With the rise of the TiVo age, it has become easier than ever to filter out TV commercials. To cope, advertisers have turned to a more covert way to market their goods and services — product placement in TV shows.

Stewart Shapiro, an associate professor in business administration who teaches courses in consumer behavior, says product placement is an increasingly popular process by which advertisers work a promotion for their product directly into the show. This is done in an effort to force the audience to watch the advertisement — if they’re watching the show, there’s no way to miss it. It can be done subtly — a man gets into his car and the logo flashes on screen for less than a second — or it can be obvious — the “American Idol” judges have three bright red Coca-Cola cups perched on their table at all times.

Shapiro says this trend has mostly picked up in the last five years.

“Advertising is becoming less and less effective,” Shapiro says. “Advertisers are looking for alternative methods to communicate their message.”

He says product placement originally began in the hope that people wouldn’t be aware they were watching condensed commercials within their favorite programs. Because people tend to be cynical of advertising, traditional commercials are losing their effectiveness.

Shapiro says the biggest culprit of product placement is in the NBC show “The Biggest Loser.” He says the 16-episode

season featured more than 4,000 separate instances of product placement last year. One of the most blatant examples of product placement on the show involved working Wrigley’s Extra gum into the plot of one of the episodes.

Marketers look to slip in their ads wherever they can.

Many baseball stadiums now feature a green screen billboard behind the home plate so that stations can digitally project brand names for the viewers at home. Sometimes the ads change as often as the throw of every pitch.

Another popular form of product placement is when a

mote brands using this method because people tend to filter out ads like these. Though he is an avid ESPN viewer, Cantwell says he doesn’t pay attention to this type of name-dropping.

“I don’t notice product placement,” Cantwell says. “The only way I could imagine it would work on me is if it’s subliminal.”

Advertisers are a step ahead of Cantwell. Shapiro says they understand that some adults possess the mental capacity to know when they are being manipulated, so they turn to easier prey — children.

He references a group called the Girls Intelligence Agency, which takes a more structured approach. According to the group’s Web site, with 40,000 young girls working for them, the GIA organizes social events, like sleepovers, to gather a group of consumers with similar interests. The young GIA workers then promote a specific brand name or product in the hope the girls will return home to beg their parents to purchase it.

Shapiro says children are less capable than adults of knowing they are watching a commercial if it’s hidden within the show — they are not yet mentally advanced enough to cope with it. Although children don’t make money on their own, advertisers count on the power of persuasion — and whining — to loosen the wallet strings of parents if they see a product they like.

Shapiro researched this phenomenon and found that companies are hiring children between the ages of 8 and 12 to log into Internet chat rooms and talk about specific products. After they spread the word about how great the new product is, they are compensated with the merchandise that they advertised to their peers.

“A lot of children’s programming is essentially a commerCourtesy of Fox cial,” Shapiro says. “Arguably, that’s even worse than regular Coca-Cola uses product placement ads on “American Idol.” product placement.”

Senior Matt Johnson, a self-proclaimed TV junkie, says he brand name sponsors a specific portion of a show. This is wide- notices the placements on his favorite shows. He refers to the ly used in sports entertainment, like programs on ESPN. The HBO series “Entourage” and says the characters always seem to network’s show “SportsCenter” features a segment called the be drinking Budweiser beers.

Coors Light “Cold Hard Facts,” with six trivia questions in a “I don’t think it affects me,” Johnson says of the hidden row marketed as a “six pack” of questions. ads. “I know what brands I like already. I’ll only look into buySometimes it’s difficult for advertisers to successfully pro- ing it if I don’t know what it is.”

Cinema goes global at Morris Library exhibit

BY ADAM TZANIS Staff Reporter

As a dominant cultural art over the past century, film has reflected history, politics and technological innovations across the globe.

“World Cinema Worldwide,” a new exhibition by the Morris Library, uses Morris Library’s extensive world film collections and relatedprint material to showcase various examples of cinematography from around the globe.

“World Cinema Worldwide,” which will be on display in the Information Room through Dec. 16, highlights regions in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and Europe with films that reflect those cultures and promote a connection between different people. Some of these include more familiar films like “Hero,” an Asian film starring Jet Li, “Pan’s Labyrinth” from Latin America; and “Heavenly Creatures,” an Australian film starring Kate Winslet.

Library coordinator Leigh Rifenburg says foreign movies provide glimpses of different people and their heritages.

“International film exposes us to different cultures, experiences and world views,” Leigh says. “It allows us to connect with other people and share their stories, while reflecting on our own.”

Rifenburg and senior assistant librarian Meghann Matwichuk are the curators for the exhibit. Both are members of the Instructional Media Collection Department.

The exhibit is displayed in four cases, each

representing a different region of the world.

Matwichuk says the exhibition excludes North America with the rationale that American and Canadian films are familiar to the university community.

“We wanted to showcase films and filmmakers that would be new and different to the general university audience,” Matwichuk says.

“The biggest challenge was paring down the many films we wanted to incorporate.”

The curators say they want to raise awareness of the tremendous resources available to the university community in the Instructional Media Collection Department.

“We wanted to share our own passion for world cinema, and hopefully introduce people to new and interesting films that they might not have thought to try before,” Rifenburg says.

“In the end, we chose films and books that we felt best represented the cinema culture of each region.”

Matwichuk says she determined many of the specifics of the exhibit and played a key organizational role, while Rifenburg worked on the overall aesthetics of the project.

“We’re hoping that what we’ve chosen will capture the attention of those who stop by the library,” Matwichuk says, “and will raise their awareness of the great resources available to them.”

Flooding of the Morris Library during Labor Day weekend posed a threat to the exhibit’s initial opening. Due to the extent of water damage, the Instructional Media Collection

Department was sealed for mold treatment, drywall removal and repair, and asbestos abatement.

Matwichuk says the repairs “World Cinema Worldwide” blocked access to the collection for several days, in which they had hoped to prepare DVDs for display.

“The lack of collection access in the immediate aftermath of the flood and the need to deal with concerns directly related to the disaster made it impossible for us to spend the week that we had blocked off for final preparations and installation,” Rifenburg says.

Despite the water damages, the exhibit only opened a week late.

Sophomore John Georges came across “World Cinema Worldwide” and says his interest was sparked by the large collection of cinematic works and the far reach of the film industry.

“It’s not something I would usually research or visit on my own,” Georges says, “but I have to admit it’s interesting to see the differences and origins of foreign cinematography.”

He says he believes foreign cinema is downplayed in the United States and the intro-

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features foreign films through Dec. 16.

duction of global cinema will have an overall benefit for those who have not experienced it in the past.

“Growing up, I was only influenced by American films, but it wasn’t until recently that I’ve gotten to appreciate foreign cinema,” Georges says. “I feel like it’s not a big part of the country — foreign movies aren’t advertised or talked about much in the U.S.” In addition to “World Cinema Worldwide,” Matwichuk is also chair of an interdepartmental committee that hosts the International Film Series, which shows international fims in the theater on Trabant University Center on Sunday evenings. Matwichuk says the IFS Committee programs a broad array of recent films representing a variety of national cinemas and themes.

“Movies can help forge connections both emotionally and intellectually between people who may otherwise have difficulty finding common ground,” Matwichuk says.

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Did you know?

Baseball coach Jim Sherman was selected in the 14th round by the Houston Astros in the 1982 amateur baseball draft.

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weekly calendar Tuesday, October 7 Wednesday, October 8

Men’s Soccer @ Drexel 7 p.m.

Volleyball vs. Maryland-Eastern Shore 7 p.m.

Thursday, October 9 Friday, October 10

Men’s and Women’s Tennis @ Old Dominion Tournament 11 a.m.

Volleyball vs. Towson 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer @ James Madison 7 p.m.

Field Hockey vs. Northeastern 7 p.m.

Saturday, October 11

Men’s and Women’s Tennis @ Old Dominion Tournament 11a.m.

Women’s Rowing Navy Day @ Philadelphia 11 a.m.

Men’s and Women’s Swimming vs.

George Mason 1 p.m.

Football vs. Maine 6 p.m.

Men’s Soccer @ Hofstra 7 p.m.

Sunday, October 12

Women’s Soccer @ Virgina Commonwealth 1 p.m.

Hens not quite ready for CAA Courtesy of The Daily Collegian

Though Delaware only lost by ten points at Massachusetts, the score could not reflect just how dominated the Hens’ offense really was.

BY PAT MAGUIRE Sports Editor

The Hens’ 17-7 loss at the hands of Massachusetts Saturday cast a shadow over Delaware’s future in the Colonial Athletic Conference standings. While the defeat came during the Hens’ first conference matchup, it acted as proof that playing in the CAA is going to be no easy task as the season moves on.

“We’re just not as good of a football team right now,” Head Coach K.C. Keeler said Saturday. “I think some point in the season we’re going to be as good, I really do, but we were not as good as UMass today, that’s for sure.”

Losing to Massachusetts, who was ranked below the Hens nationally at the beginning of the game, made the Hens 0-1 in the conference and 2-3 overall, an undesirable position for a team who faces conference powerhouses No. 1 James Madison and No. 6 Richmond four and six weeks in the future, respectively. Both teams put 56 points on the board this week.

Delaware’s only two wins came against an unranked Albany team, and Division II West Chester.

Massachusetts suffered a hard fought loss to James Madison on Sept. 13. After Delaware’s loss at UMass on Saturday, their hopes of playing a competitive game with teams such as JMU and Richmond look grim.

However, as shown by Massachusetts’ consistent play on both sides of the ball Saturday, it is clear that UMass is an improving team.

“I will say this, I would like another shot [at JMU],” Massachusetts Head Coach Don Browns said. “I would like another shot at some point.”

While JMU and Richmond rank as the elite

in the conference, Delaware has found themselves at the bottom. In the southern division of the CAA, the Hens stand ahead of only Towson, who has lost two conference games.

Villanova and William and Mary stand atop the Hens as well. Delaware plays each team before the seasons end.

The challenge of facing a tough schedule will not be aided by the Hens’ injury plagued roster, including the loss of four linebackers in the last three weeks, and running back/wide receiver Kervin Michaud. With the offensive woes that the Hens suffered Saturday, they could have used his versatility and dynamic play, Keeler said.

“We missed the Kervin factor,” he said.

“You know last week we had Kervin and that was the difference in making the offense go, and right now we’re just back to figuring out what we’re going to do with the situation.”

The Hens’ offense will have an abundance of obstacles to face as the season moves forward and as those tough conference matchups approach, especially with the loss of most of their offensive line in the off season and the challenge of trying to fine-tune a new quarterback, Keeler said.

Although the Hens’ defense allowed 459 total offensive yards Saturday, including 265 in the air and 194 yards on the ground led by running back Tony Nelson, they followed the “bend but don’t break mentality,” only giving up 10 points (the other seven came as a result of a Robby Shoenhoft interception.) It is clear that the defense will lead the charge if Delaware is to have success in their upcoming CAA matchups.

“Our defense kept on battling, and that’s what kept us in the ballgame,” Keeler said.

“Just we couldn’t get anything going (offensively).”

With an overwhelming amount of injured defensive starters, the Hens have been turning to Junior defensive back Charles Graves for big plays. Graves has performed consistently well during the first 5 games of the season. On Saturday, he had 3 tackles, 6 assisted tackles, an interception returned for 38 yards, and a fumble recovery returned for 33 yards.

Despite the gloomy outlook, Graves said he still has faith in the Hens as they move on in the conference.

“I look around every day and we have a heck of a team out there,” he said. “One day this season, we are going to show up, and when we do, we have to make it look good.”

The next step on the Hens’ journey toward recovery happens next week at Maine. The Black Bears find themselves in a similar situation as the Hens, coming off of a bye week standing 0-2 in the conference and 1-4 overall.

Maine is Delaware’s counterpart to the North, standing at second to the bottom in the Northern Division of the CAA. “This week we prepare for Maine because we take it one game at a time,” Graves said.

We just can’t sit on the losses we’ve had in the past.”

Saturday’s loss may have hurt the Hens’ record, but nobody is counting them out just yet. To Keeler, there is only room for improvement, and they still have the potential to make a mark in a difficult conference by the end of the season.

“We battled,” he said. “Sometimes they’re better than you are. My promise to these kids was that at some point this year we’d become a good football team.”

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Delaware vs. Maine

BY RYAN LANGSHAW Managing Sports Editor

About the Teams:

The Hens:

Delaware is coming off a 17-7 loss to the University of Massachusetts, a game in which the Hens showed little offensive power, managing only 167 total yards. The defensive side of the ball continues to force turnovers, creating four last week.

The Black Bears:

Maine has had trouble with CAA opponents this season. They lost to Richmond and James Madison, but still have a 2-3 overall record. The Black Bears are led on offense by sophomore quarterback Adam Farkes, who has passed for nine touchdowns and has completed over 50 percent of his passes. Defensively, Maine is led by senior defensive end Jovan Belcher, who leads the team in tackles and sacks.

Time: 6 p.m.

Location: Tubby Raymond Stadium, Newark DE

Why the Hens can win:

-Bouncing back: The Hens are coming off an embarrassing offensive performance against Massachusetts last week. Maine’s defense does not have the top notch skill the Hens saw last week, especially in their secondary. If the offensive line can give quarterback Robby Schoenhoft time to find the open receiver, the Hens should get back on track.

-Put the Bear’s in hibernation: Despite the solid quarterback play Maine has received from Farkes, the Black Bears’ offense is only averaging 15.8 points per game this season. The Hens’ defense has given up a respectable 16.2 points per game and has kept them in almost every game this season. If the defense plays within themselves and again forces a few turnovers, the tide could easily turn in the Hens’ favor.

Why the Hens could lose:

-The bye week blues: Maine is coming off their bye week, having had two weeks to prepare for the Hens. Maine, like Delaware, is in dire need of a victory this week to keep their season alive and put the team back on track. If the Black Bears come out motivated and ready for the Hens’ attack, this game could easily turn into an upset.

-It’s confidence, stupid: Robbie Schoenhoft has been under a lot of scrutiny at times this season, and did nothing to help his cause last week, completing only five passes for 40 yards. Although much of the blame can be placed on the poor play of the Hens’ offensive line, eventually the lack of success this season will begin to affect the Hens’ new quarterback in some way, if it has not already. If Schoenhoft does not get off to a strong start against Maine, he may start trying too hard, which may lead to turnovers and give the Black Bears the advantage.

The Numbers:

167: Total yards for the Hens against Massachusetts, a season low for the team.

1: Rushing touchdown this season for Maine.

The Prediction:

Maine has struggled to find consistency this season, but the same can be said for the Hens.

Last week’s seven point offensive performance against Massachusetts really showed the team hitting rock bottom. Given that Maine has had two weeks to rest up for Schoenhoft and the injury stricken Hens, they should at least be able to keep the game close, especially in the early going. This game will be a lot closer than many think, but the Hens’ defense should be able to disrupt the Black Bears’ offense enough to pull out a win.

Game security is a real group effort Staff Reporter

By Tuesday of each week, the Delaware Stadium staff are already anticipating the next football game. Before every home game, they have the task of planning out the security measures they will implement.

Athletic Director Edgar Johnson said he works to have all the details of security figured out before any issues even arise.

“We have football-operations meetings every Tuesday and Friday,” he said. “We deal with problems we anticipate at the meetings.”

At the meetings, Johnson and a team of athletics and security staff plan out how many officers will be needed and the specific designation for each of them. Public Saftey Police Chief James Flatley then organizes his men accordingly.

“We do a special order that lists all the officers that are working, what time they are working and what their specific assignment is,” he said.

Officers are assigned to monitor various areas including the gates, tailgating areas and traffic.

Much of the security is required not only for the game itself, but to rein in the crowd of tailgaters before kickoff even takes place.

While students are tailgating, the security at Delaware football games is working to make sure the fan base stays in check.

The games also attract many Delaware residents as well as students. Johnson said one of the main goals at every game is to keep Delaware Stadium a safe atmosphere for families with children.

In order to maintain the peace, Johnson brings in assistance from the police.

“Our first line is our Public Safety officers and the police we hire from the city, county or

state,” he said.

He said alcohol has been a source of trouble at games.

Police frequently ticket underage and overly intoxicated individuals who, in some cases, have been out drinking for some time before they even arrive.

The police are well versed in matters of security when dealing with alcohol, Flatley said, and all appropriate action is discussed before the games.

The tight security is sometimes seen as a nuisance by students.

Tailgating is strictly monitored and the crowds’ fun typically ends with police disbanding the parkinglot-partiers.

“It’s a pain in the ass,” senior Mike Shevlino said. “Once the game starts, they just kick everyone out. It would be a lot more fun if they were not there.”

Shevlino said police typically checked the identification of, and in some instances even breathalyzed, his friends at the tailgate.

Flatley said these infractions are handled as discreetly as possible, and there are some situations that no one can prepare for.

“We once had an individual streak across the football field,” he said.

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Taking the matter very seriously, the police proceeded to chase down the man and promptly arrest him, Flatley said.

Johnson said he viewed the situation in a bit more humorous light. The streaker, donning a mask and snow hat, welcomed former university president, Dr. David Roselle, to his first football game.

“The streaker was in better shape than the guys chasing him.” Johnson said, laughing “It took those cops forever to catch him.”

Hens 27, Maine 17

Johnson also recalled some other outrageous incidents he has had to deal with during his tenure as athletic director. He described his personal favorite as a time a group of tailgaters left him a rather bizarre gift in the parking lot.

“We once had a group of people bring a pink 1957 Cadillac with the top cut off,” he said. “They filled it with everything they needed to party and tailgate before the game.

They went all out, and then they left it here.”

Johnson said they even went as far as to remove both the license plate and vehicle identification number so he could not track it to its owner. Eventually, he had to call a towing company to get it off his hands.

He recalls a similarly fanatical event in 2003 when the athletics’ staff had hired officers on horseback to guard the goalposts after a victory over Wofford College led to a Delaware appearance in the national championship. Correctly fearing the students would storm the field and take down the goalposts, Johnson hired a total of six policemen to protect them. He ordered three on each post.

Unfortunately for him, it did not work out quite as planned.

“The police thought the students would run onto the field closest to the student section, so they put six officers to guard the goalpost near them,” he said. “Well, the students were smart. They just ran to the other side, and pulled down the goalpost on the other side.”

While he chuckled at past mishaps, Johnson was quick to point out that the work which Flatley and his staff have done has been crucial to the security of all Delaware football fans.

“He and his men have really done a great job,” he said. “But that goalpost cost me a few thousand dollars.”

commentary New swim team captains

are optimistic for season

BY TARA SHEEHY Staff Reporter

SEIF HUSSAIN “Red rover, red rover, send a blue hen over”

Against the University of Massachusetts, Delaware’s quarterback looked like he was doing Riverdance behind our offensive line.

Every time we snapped the ball, the defense was on the field so much they looked like they had just finished the Ironman competition by the fourth quarter and our rushers looked like they were third graders playing red rover against middle-school kids.

To the Hens’ credit, they only lost by ten points, which came in the fourth quarter from a field goal and an interception return, so the defense does not deserve the weight of this loss. Also of consolation was that quarterback Robby Schoenhoft was able to evade tacklers like they had the plague, buying himself tons of time to throw the ball. Unfortunately, all the time he bought himself meant little, as he was unable to complete a full two-thirds of his passes.

About those passing yards.

There were a whole 40 of them, which itself is pretty telling. Even more hard to swallow is the fact that there were three interceptions by the Hens’ defense, yet the offense kept regifting the ball back to the Minutemen.

If this year was not a rebuilding year at the start of the season, it sure seems like one now. With wide receiver turned running back Kervin Michaud nursing an injury, the already struggling offense loses even more potency. It is also becoming painfully clear that Schoenhoft, if he is to be considered the answer at quarterback, is going to need to make strides to find comfort in the offense, better line play would be a great starting point for the receiving game.

While the running game is not terrible, it agonizes to pick up yards, if only because of the lack of a productive passing offense. Much blame can be shifted to an offensive line, which may have a better stat line than it deserves, simply because Schoenhoft has been largely successful at avoiding sacks.

Hens fans are getting disgruntled, but luckily the team has played only one conference game yet, so while the overall 2-3 record is surely not encouraging, it is not damning either. There is little time for the offense to find cohesion, but back at home against an unranked Maine squad, the opportunity is ripe for the Hens to rebound and break even in the CAA.

Seif Hussain is a managing sports editor for The Review. Send questions, comments, and our old offensive line to seif@udel.edu

The Delaware men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams announced their captains for the upcoming season this week.

The team will be led by six accomplished swimmers, including four school recordholders. Last year, both the men and women’s teams finished in the top 25 of the final CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major poll of the season, so the leadership they have chosen to continue their success will be pivotal this season.

Senior John Ohlhaver is a returning captain. Last year, Ohlhaver made the CAA Championship Top 5 Finish, and was an AllCAA selection. As a returning captain, Ohlhaver said he does not plan on making any changes from last year but is focusing on getting the team as pumped up as possible. He said this year’s team has a lot of potential and hopes to win the conference.

“People are going to work a lot harder this year and we’ve already seen it,” he said.

“We are already way ahead of where we were last year.”

Another senior, Matt Abbruzzese, is one of the first divers in the history of the school to be a captain of the swimming and diving teams.

Last year, Abbruzzese was awarded the Thomas Baranello sportsmanship and team dedication award for his commitment to the squad. He held the top scores in the one- and three-meter dives and has been named CAA Diver of the Week on several occasions.

Abbruzzese holds the school record for six dives with a score of 335.20 in the threemeter dive. He said his goal is to keep everyone high-spirited, motivated and on track throughout the season.

This season, Delaware will be competing in a newly renovated pool at the Carpenter

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BlueHenBabble

We asked tailgating students, due to the uninspiring start by the football team, whether they would actually be entering the next game or would just be there for the tailgate.

“I go to the tailgate then I leave. If we were playing a good team, I would not mind going to the game.”

-Justin Dujardin Sophomore

“I always go out tailgating until the first quarter, then I go into the game. I usually do try to stay for most of the game.

-Matt Senseny Freshman “I feel like most people go to the tailgate.

My friends and I do go to the tailgate, but we also try to go to the game at least until halftime.”

Courtesy of Sports Information

All six of the swim team captains this year have made an impact on UD record books.

Injuries test football team

BY ALEX RESCH Staff Reporter

The injury bug finally caught up with Delaware this Saturday. A depleted Hens squad fell 17-7 to the University of Massachusetts, leaving them with a 2-2 record and their first loss in CAA conference play. For the last several weeks, the team has been hit with a rash of broken bones, sprained ankles and tweaked muscles, but until recently they had been able to overcome these setbacks.

“Football is a collision sport, and there is plenty of attrition along the way,” Head Coach K.C. Keeler said.

With a .500 record and nothing but conference match-ups looming, the biggest obstacle between Delaware and another trip to the FCS playoffs may be the mounting injuries on both sides of the ball. The Hens’ next three opponents, the University of Maine, William and Mary and Hofstra have a combined record of 6-8.

During the early parts of the season, the Hens were able to overcome the loss of key players and maintain a productive starting lineup.

Heading into the team’s fifth game of the season against the University of Massachusetts, the Hens were dealing with

many injuries. Team captain and defensive end Matt Marcorelle, linebacker Walter Blair and safety Cody Cipalla all missed the games due to hamstring, knee and concussion issues, respectively.

Three of the team’s runningbacks have had minor injuries this season. Phillip Thaxton was dealing with shin splints, Jerry Butler was suffering from knee soreness and Junior Jabbie had a sprained ankle. Due to these injuries, Keeler used wide receiver Kervin Michaud as the team’s primary change-of-pace runningback when the team met Albany two weeks ago.

Michaud thrived in that role, producing an offensive spark that helped keep pressure off quarterback Robby Schoenhoft and moved the offense downfield.

Just as Michaud was enjoying a productive game, the Hens’ co-captain was sidelined with a broken collarbone. The injury cost the team one of its most versatile play makers, Keeler said.

“We’re going to miss Kervin,” he said.

“We’re going to miss his leadership and his abilities on the field. The silver lining for UD was that Michaud’s performance in the game

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-Kelly Abbott Sophomore

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Golf off to a fast start

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The Hens were comfortable at home this weekend, finishing second.

BY ADAM SAMPLES Staff Reporter

The University of Delaware golf team is off to a strong start this year after finishing seventh in the CAA last season.

The Hens placed second twice, and notched a win in their first three tournaments this year. An invitational on their home course this weekend helped them maintain their dominating efforts.

Head Coach Mike Keogh attributes the team’s early success to strong play from freshmen and veteran players who practiced hard in the off-season.

“The team is better this year,” Keogh said. He said many of the golfers played in off-season tournaments, which helped them improve their game and experience from last year.

Freshman Stephen Scialo said he worked on his game before his first season.

Scialo spent the off-season practicing his putting, which he used to finish second overall in last week’s team win at the Cornell Invitational in Ithaca, N.Y. He said he thinks teamwork is helping the Hens this year.

“I think team chemistry is probably a lot better this year,” Scialo said. He said traveling with the team is a good experience for him and it will help the new guys in the long run.

To go along with good production from the new additions to the team, Keogh said the team leadership is strong this year. Senior Tommy Ellison provides consistency as team captain.

“He shows good leadership and good stability,” Keogh said.

“He never gets overly excited and puts up countable scores.”

The team has set its goals high after a disappointing season last year in which they did not win a single tournament. Keogh said he wants the team in the top three in the CAA at year’s end.

“We want to win a few this year,” Keogh said. The winner of the CAA gets an automatic bid to NCAA nationals but a team is considered for a bid if they beat more than half of the teams they play.

Some of the teams, Keogh said, that would give them problems are VCU and Georgia State, since southern schools have the benefit of being able to play more during the year because of weather.

He said the team needs consistency from everyone to achieve its goals. While some players are setting lofty goals for themselves, oth-

ers, like Scialo, are just trying to get settled in.

“I want to get more comfortable with how things work this semester,” Scialo said. “It’s like a trial run for me.”

Sophomore Colin Smith’s goals are slightly higher going into his second season with the team.

“I want to win a tournament,” Smith said. “I want to lead the team to a win and I want to win it.”

He said he thinks the team’s goals are higher this year because nobody was happy with the results of last season.

Scialo said his performance gave him confidence going into this week and it was a good start for the team.

Delaware hosted the Scotty Duncan Invitational at White Clay Creek Golf Course this weekend.

The team, which finished in the bottom half of the field at the event last year, wants to put up more consistent scores and win.

Smith said the team is very comfortable on the course because they have all played there. Before his tee time on Saturday, he was loose and joking around while practicing his swings.

“I feel good coming into this,” Smith said. “A 72 will probably look pretty good.”

After the first of two rounds of 18 holes this weekend, Delaware was in good position for a top three finish. Led by Smith, the Delaware Blue team trailed Seton Hall by only three strokes at 291. Smith tied for first overall with a 70 stroke round.

Martinson had the next lowest score at 71 and was in fourth place.

The Delaware Gold team broke into the top 15 with an overall score of 323. Senior Steve Boerner and freshman Greg Matthias led the Gold team with a five over par 77.

In Sunday’s round, neither Hens squad could put up a strong enough score to catch and overtake Seton Hall. Finishing just two strokes back, UD Blue notched their third straight finish in the top two.

UD Gold pushed into 12th overall.

Smith, who shot 67 — five under par — on Sunday, received the individual title for the event. His combined score of 137 led the rest of the field by six strokes.

Martinson finished in third overall with Ellison six strokes behind in ninth place.

Delaware will travel to Lynchburg, Va., next week to participate in the Frank Landry Invitational held at Liberty University.

Sports Building. Since the pool is not quite finished the team has been practicing at the outdoor pool at the Bob Carpenter Center along with the indoor pool at McKean High School. According to Abbruzzese, the team has not been able to bond as well as they had hoped because of the change in facilities but that hasn’t dampened the team’s spirits.

Also wearing a captain’s letter is junior Craig Offutt. Offutt is the only junior captain on the team, but does not seem fazed by his role as team leader.

“I like being put in the position of being the only junior captain because it pushes me to work harder since I know other people are looking up to me,” he said.

Last year, Offutt turned in the second-fastest time in the 400meter individual medley and placed within the top five fastest times on the team in every other event he swam. Offutt said the team’s physical toughness is one of its strong points this year, but the team has trouble finishing close races that could be big when it comes to winning meets.

The women’s team captains have all made their marks on the school’s record books as well.

Senior Sarah Begley is another returning captain for the Hens.

She holds four school relay records and the second fastest time in the 50-meter freestyle in school history. She was also named the UD Alumni Association Team MVP as a freshman. Begley said that as a captain she is focusing on staying positive and keeping team morale high.

“I think it’s definitely going to be better than seasons in the past,” she said. “We’re starting off on a better foot so it’s bound to be a better season.”

Senior Maryann Walker holds the individual school record in the 200-meter backstroke, as well as three relay records for Delaware. She has won numerous events at the CAA championships, was twice named CAA Swimmer of the Week, has earned UD Alumni Association Team MVP and has been named to the CAA Academic Honor Roll during her career.

“We want to move up in the conference and be more competitive with the top teams instead of the teams in the middle, and I think this year we have the talent to do that,” Walker said.

Emily Watts, a senior and new team captain, holds five spots in the UD All-Time Top 10 list. She was a member of the 200-meter medley relay team that ranks fourth in school history and has the fourth-fastest time in the 100-meter backstroke. Watts said as a senior she is excited to finish her last year at Delaware with a strong performance.

“The team is thinking about its season bests and how to improve upon last year,” she said.

“I think we are also a lot more well-rounded than we have been in the previous years.”

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allowed Keeler to rest his other three ailing runningbacks, all of whom returned to the field the following week against Massachusetts.

The offense is not the only side feeling the strain of ailing players. Safety Anthony Bratton is out for the season and Cipalla is sidelined indefinitely due to a concussion, limiting the capabilities of the defensive backfield. Linebacker Brian Void, filling in for Blair, was lost for the season against Albany due to a dislocated knee, which forced the team’s third-stringers onto the field. These injuries combined with the nagging ailments to Marcorelle and Blair have thinned out the Blue Hens’depth chart and created problems in other aspects of the game as well.

“The injuries really hurt us on special teams,” Keeler said. “They force our healthy guys to play more snaps on special teams, which leads to more players getting injured.”

Strong safety Charles Graves does not want to use injuries as an excuse for the team’s perfomance so far this year.

“We’re all on scholarships, so the next guy has to step it up,” Graves said.

“You have to try and fill the void.”

Despite the injury woes, all is not yet lost for the Blue Hens. Blair and Marcorelle are expected to return to the line-up soon and some of the backups are shining with their chance to play on Saturdays.

Defensive lineman John Higginson, receiving more playing time in part because of Marcorelle’s sore hamstring, has excelled in his increased role.

Higginson dominated against Albany, blocking a field goal and recording a sack.

While he is being relied on more heavily, Higginson insists he is not feeling any extra pressure.

“When you get the opportunity, you just do the best you can when your number is called,” Higginson said.

Even with three early season losses and key injuries, the Blue Hens have not lost hope for the 2008 football season. Keeler said he firmly believes he has a talented team that is still capable of winning games in the CAA. He is keeping the team focused on the task at hand by taking the season one week at a time instead of worrying about future games against powerhouses like James Madison and contemplating whether or not the Hens will be able to make another deep playoff run.

“Every game is the CAA Championship game for us,” Keeler said. “We only look as far ahead as our next opponent and prepare for that team.”

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