Nov. 18, 2014 - Issue 12

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SGA rejects proposal that would expand presidential eligibility EMMA KINGLSEY Staff Reporter At Monday’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, the Senate debated two proposals, the first focusing on student notification regarding weather cancellation and delays (students will now receive text messages through the LiveSafe app and an email from the university), and was passed unanimously.

The second centered on the eligibility requirements for SGA president, and aimed to expand the pool of candidates. In recent years, the president and much of the executive board ran unopposed, partially because so few people are eligible to run for the position. Monday’s proposal suggested that the requirement that presidential candidates serve a year on the executive board be revised, and any senators either elected or appointed should be able to run as long as they have one year of active experience.

The proposal did not pass.

During the discussion, senators and executive board members debated whether the requirements were too broad while others said it would allow for greater participation rates and representation for the

student body.

SGA president Ben Page-Gil said he sees both sides of the argument, but it depends on how you view the organization.

“Right now every president has been successful, so there hasn’t been lack of quality,” Page-Gil said.

Danielle Imhoff, executive vice president, spoke about SGA’s goals next semester. She explained that SGA is pushing for more proposals and that there should be more come February.

She also mentioned one of the first proposals that passed this fall was creating ad hoc committees for non-traditional students to better express their needs on campus. An example of an ad hoc committee is the Green Senate, which works on creating a more sustainable campus. Another ad hoc committee being created is the one for commuter students.

“It’s a big initiative that we really want to focus on,” she said. “We’re working on confirming members and it will start up next semester.”

Adam Cantley, associate dean of students, was SGA’s speaker at the meeting. As a Title IX deputy, he fielded a few questions about the Title IX office and the recent spotlight

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“I feel really comfortable and confident about the direction the university is taking,” Cantley said. “We are doing a lot of great things to take it in a new direction.”

These new things include the current search for a Title IX investigator and the additions

this semester of a committee for education on handling sexual assault for staff and students and creating more of a government type structure for Title IX on campus.

“The university is doing a good job of educating people and empowering action forward,” Cantley said.

Page-Gil also spoke about

his recent trip to the White House to learn about the “It’s On Us” campaign, which seeks to bring awareness and stop sexual assault on college campuses.

He said it is something a lot of universities are doing and that next semester SGA hopes to focus more on the campaign.

Committee announces new master plan for STAR Campus KELSEY MCKEE Staff Reporter

KIRK SMITH/THE REVIEW Protesters stoods in the rain Monday outside of Sen. Carper’s Wilmington office. This marks a shift in tone from Carper’s April press release.

Local resentment after Sen. Carper announces support for Keystone XL Pipeline KELSEY WENTLING Staff Reporter Unencumbered by the rain, 15 people and two dogs traded in the comfort of the dry indoors for the chance to stand against Sen. Tom Carper, one of few Democrats to support the Keystone Pipeline plan.

On a busy street corner in Wilmington Monday, protesters gathered to vocalize their objections to Carper’s announced intention to vote for Keystone XL Pipeline approval in Tuesday’s Senate hearing.

The local chapter of the Sierra Club and 350.org, both environmental awareness organizations, organized the rally.

“I’m really disappointed that while he talks a good game on the environment, whenever a difficult decision that really makes a difference comes up, he really takes the political route,” said David Carter, a protester from Christiana.

The proposed pipeline would carry tar sands from Alberta, Canada to Steele City, Neb., where it would join pre-existing pipelines on its way to the Gulf Coast, passing through the United States.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (DLa.), who is facing a neckto-neck runoff midterm election against Rep Bill Cassidy (R-La.), is seeking to gather enough votes for the pipeline’s approval in the Senate. The vote is expected to be close, though Landrieu has several key Democrats by

her side, including Carper.

In an April press release, Carper stated he would stand by the Obama Administration’s decision. However, Carper’s communications team has told several media outlets–– including Huffington Post–– that he supports Laudrieu’s proposal.

Having worked for 30 years at the Delaware Environmental Institute, Carter said he attended the protest in order to express his dissatisfaction with the Senator’s announcement and ensure that his message to the Senator is heard.

“I would ask him to really look at the most important issue of our generation and to stand his ground,” Carter said. “To do the right thing on that issue and not worry about his short-term political interests. That is not the way to govern, that is not the way to lead, and he is failing us.”

Much of the controversy surrounding the pipeline is grounded in the debate between environment and economy.

Janet Johnson, political science and international relations professor with a specialization in environmental policy said while oil flowing through the United States would increase world supply, the proportion of world oil it would contribute would not have a significant impact on total oil supply or price.

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After months of protests from Newark citizens and a subsequent unanimous Faculty Senate vote that critiqued the university’s plans to partner with The Data Centers LLC (TDC), the university decided to change course.

The university found cause not only to end its agreement with TDC in July, but also to revise the “master plan” for STAR Campus.

Members of the STAR Steering Committee introduced the revised master plan to community members Wednesday evening in Clayton Hall and held a subsequent meeting Thursday in Trabant Theatre.

The previous plan sparked protests throughout the community due to its plans to install a power plant and data center on STAR Campus, which prompted the committee to terminate TDC’s lease.

Amy Roe, a founding member of Newark Residents Against the Power Plant, was in attendance at Wednesday’s meeting.

Roe, a former mayoral candidate, helped lead the protests against the power plant last spring. ”I think they’ve tried to sweep it under the rug and ignore that it ever happened,” Roe said.

The new plan focuses on the northeast corner of STAR Campus and will focus for the time being on between 60-70 acres instead of the entire 272 acres as the previous Master Plan had attempted to do. The

forgone acreage includes the land that had previously been allocated to TDC. Alan Brangman, STAR committee chairman and vice president for facilities, real estate and auxiliary services, said the committee’s vision includes creating an urban campus on the site, including everything from an improved train station, bike path, green spaces, parking garages, roads, businesses and the Health Science Complex,

“We can get anywhere we want to be in a very short amount of time. As far as I’m concerned, Newark is the center of the universe.”

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which will provide research and internship opportunities for members of the university.

“Our desire is to provide

opportunities for our researchers, students and visitors to be able to bump into each other as you’re on the sidewalks in this neighborhood,” Brangman said.

The university is also working closely with the Delaware Department of Transportation to help anticipate and ameliorate the strain on University Avenue where there will likely be over one thousand additional people commuting to and from the site via car, Brangman said.

The committee’s original plan was to recreate The Green on STAR Campus, running east to west. Now the committee has decided to implement pockets of “green space” instead, Brangman said. The university’s goal is to establish a major green space within a five minute walk of anywhere on campus.

The train station and the Health Sciences Complex sites will serve as the main hubs for students, faculty and workers on STAR Campus, he said.

Brangman said the rest of the campus will be populated by businesses that fit into the “3+1 plan”: vision, work, learn and live.

One central goal of the committee is to turn the Newark train station into a full-service commuter station.

The university must do this before 2018, or it could lose a $10 million federal grant as well as a central feature in the master plan.

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Almost 10 years after Bonistall death, mother seeks to restart PEACE OUTside MATT BUTLER Managing News Editor

“Time heals all wounds.”

This age-old adage, tossed around for centuries, has taken on the form of cure-all mantra for those mourning some sort of loss. For some it is true as the shock of a heartbreak or death fades away.

But there are exceptions.

The death of Lindsey Bonistall is a case like this. It transcends See SIFTAR page 5 the band-aid cures of time and

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distractions. Never before has a crime shaken the campus or Newark community so much as that early May night in 2005 when James Cook murdered Bonistall in her offcampus apartment.

The reminders still exist to this day, highlighted by a memorial tree and bench on Academy Street and scholarships in Bonistall’s honor. Yet absent from campus is one of the most powerful pieces of Bonistall’s legacy, the PEACE OUTside

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Campus (POC) foundation.

Kathleen Bonistall, Lindsey’s mother, founded and helps run the organization to this day. She said she still feels the effects of Lindsey’s loss, but that the organization gives her a chance to keep her daughter around in some capacity. She said at its strongest, POC was active on seven campuses at once, though that number has since dwindled to zero.

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A police officer has been arrested and is under investigation following a shooting incident Saturday outside a university in Mexico City that injured two people, local reports say.

The incident occurred when an officer opened fire on the crowd, which was gathering to organize a strike to demand justice for the 43 students who went missing after a police opened fire on a protest in September. The students disappeared after violent protests in Chilpancingo, the capital of Mexico’s Guerrero state, where protesters

hijacked vehicles and smashed congressional building windows.

The group of students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) was standing near the Che Guevara Auditorium, a historical location for social movements, discussing their participation in an upcoming protest when they were fired upon.

The officers said he fired his gun into the air to deter some protesters, and a bullet hit a male student in the thigh, according to a statement from city prosecutors.

UNAM students said the

America has seen its second citizen fall victim to Ebola after Martin Salia died Monday in Nebraska. He had recently returned from caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, where he contracted the disease. By the time he got back to the United States, he was in critical condition and continued to deteriorate until his death.

The disease has reportedly killed 5,177, almost all in western Africa, over 1,200 of which have occurred in Sierra Leone. Salia’s death elicited a response from the

White House, which praised him for his dedication to others and bravery in the face of the sickness.

Salia became more and more ill over the weekend, though when he was first tested for Ebola, the results were negative. After a second test, the tests showed up positive, prompting doctors to have him flown to Omaha, Neb. where they have been able to successfully treat two cases of Ebola so far.

Officials have said false negatives early in the illness are not uncommon and have plagued

medical professionals’ efforts to control the spread and treatment of Ebola since the beginning of the outbreak.

Gov. Jay Nixon issued a state of emergency in Missouri yesterday.

The declaration comes in anticipation of the grand jury’s decision in the Michael Brown case. Under the state of emergency, the National Guard has been activated but will be used only if needed.

Efforts are being prepared as a precaution to public responses to the verdict. While Nixon acknowledges the right to peaceful protests, he is safeguarding against possible unrest.

“As part of our ongoing efforts to plan and be prepared for any contingency, it is necessary to have these resources in place in advance of any announcement of the grand jury’s decision,” Nixon said in a written release.

Although there is no date set for the decision regarding Darren Wilson, a white police officer charged with the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager, the state of emergency will be active for 30 days unless extended.

Officials predict the decision

to be made in mid to late November.

After the Aug. 9 shooting in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, massive civil unrest broke out, including rioting and looting. A state of emergency was issued, and the National Guard was activated.

The U.S. Justice Department is also looking into the case as part of a separate investigation.

While addressing a crowd at the Vatican Monday, Pope Francis confirmed he will attend the international World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia this September. This will be Francis’s first papal visit to the United States.

Francis will be the fourth reigning pope to come to the United States, following Benedict XVI’s visit in April 2008, John Paul II’s seven visits and Paul VI, who first visited in 1965. The Pope has also traveled to the Middle East, Albania, South Korea, Brazil and

elsewhere thus far in his papacy.

Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter said at a news conference it was a “joyous day” for the city.

It is expected that Francis’s visit will draw over a million people to a Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway as well as to the World Meeting of Families, which aims to explore modern ideas about marriage and families. Hotels within a 10-mile radius of the city’s downtown area have already sold out.

“A hallmark of his papacy has been a keen focus on the many

challenges that families face today globally,” Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said. “His charisma, presence and voice will electrify the gathering.”

While the trip could potentially include a stop in New York City and possibly Washington, D.C., the Vatican’s spokesperson Rev. Federico Lombardi emphasized that only the visit to Philadelphia is currently guaranteed.

The White House confirmed the death of 26-year-old American aid worker Peter Kassig, who was killed by the Islamic State Group ISIS while providing humanitarian aid to refugees in Syria.

In a video released Sunday, ISIS showed a mass beheading of Syrian soldiers as well as an image of Kassig’s severed head. Kassig is the fifth Western hostage the militant group has publicly killed since August.

Unlike the four previous hostages, Kassig never appeared on camera or made

any statements in the video that claims his death. This has ignited rumors that Kassig may have resisted or even attempted to disrupt the filming of the video.

A former army ranger who served in Iraq, Kassig was traveling to a town in eastern Syria when he was abducted in October 2013. According to his parents, Kassig converted to Islam while in captivity and changed his name to AbdulRahman.

Kassig’s parents, Ed and Paula, released a statement

Monday saying they hope their son is remembered for his courage and humanitarian aid, rather than his murder.

“We are heartbroken to learn that our son, AbdulRahman Peter Kassig, has lost his life as a result of his love for the Syrian people and his desire to ease their suffering,” they said. “Our heart also goes out to the families of the Syrians who lost their lives, along with our son.”

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Bonistall is in the midst of reinvigorating the organization by working with similar organizations and developing an ambassador program. The ambassador program will allow the charity to adapt better when members graduate.

The organization has had issues being passed down after founding members graduate, Boinstall said.

Despite the possibility of bad memories, Bonistall said she would jump at the opportunity to reunite the university with POC and build a stronger relationship this time around. She said she met with several female students from the university over the past year who wanted to start a chapter, but once they graduated the plan once again fell flat.

“We would welcome that,” Bonistall said. “I was a little saddened to see nothing happening there the last semester or two, but just when

you think nobody is going to do anything at that school, there’s suddenly interest.”

One of POC’s main principles is to create a voice, calling for student safety that is not just from university administration. Their action plan includes a pre-college program, Teens ‘N’ Transition, as well as resources such as Living Off-Campus 101 and an Off-Campus Housing Program.

These are aimed at making sure nobody experiences what her family did by providing useful, unconventional knowledge, she said.

“You are hearing it from your peers,” she said. “It is different when someone can say ‘Don’t do that because this is what happened to me...’ It is so much more powerful. It’s a conversation, not a lecture.”

Pace University student Benjamin Shannon, the assistant program coordinator at POC, said while the message of POC may be nuanced, the delivery is different since it comes from

COURTESY OF REMEMBERLINDSEY.COM After the passing of her daughter, Kathleen Bonistall formed PEACE OUTside, an organization that works to ensure off-campus safety.

peers.

“It creates a dynamic that we can create with a student that doesn’t necessarily exist with a guidance counselor or another adult,” Shannon said.

He also said coming back to the university is something the group has wanted to do, and they plan on initiating contact with the school soon.

James Morrison, a member of the Faculty Senate committee on Student Life at the university, said he remembers the shockwaves that went through campus when the crime was committed.

He said the university and the student body are far more sensitive to crime and safety than before the murder, but the situation is still difficult with so many students living off campus.

Morrison said the sensitivity as a student body––along with an uptick of UD Alerts–– would lend itself to a student organization, such as PEACE OUTside Campus. He also said while students want the university to provide them with a safe campus, there have to be other voices as an alternative sometimes to assist.

Although it has been years since the death, Morrison said, the incident is part of campus history, and the university could still use stronger student safety advocacy from other students.

“They want to trust the administration down deep, but I’m not sure they perceive the administration as being able to do that,” Morrison said. “But I think they realize that there has to be student organizations, or any public organization, to turn to when these things happen.”

Students continue push for Office of Sustainability JASMINE RIDER Staff Reporter Students are calling for the creation of an Office of Sustainability, an initiative they have pushed for around two years.

The purpose of the office would be to help coordinate the university’s sustainability efforts and to promote more programs on campus, said senior Rebecca Bronstein, an environmental studies major.

Though the university has undertaken certain sustainability efforts, Bronstein said these efforts are not often coordinated.

“To create and maintain this culture of sustainability, we realized that the university has some awesome sustainable initiatives,” Bronstein said. “We realize that there are a lot of great things going on, but there’s really no coordination between them.”

The group’s one-pager, a handout detailing the need for an office, states that the university has not “lived up to the goals” in the university’s Climate Action Plan nor has it lived up to the goals in the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which President Patrick T. Harker has signed.

Most of the schools in the university conference have

an Office of Sustainability or a sustainability coordinator, Bronstein said.

History Grace Relf, who graduated in May, and Bronstein were summer scholars at the university in 2013 and worked together on the issue of sustainability at the university. Relf then created a 27-page proposal for an Office of Sustainability.

In December of 2013, graduate student Cesar Caro and then-Student Government Association (SGA) President Jessica Borcky, met with Provost Domenico Grasso and Executive Vice President and University Treasurer Scott Douglass. At that time, Grasso and Douglass did not see a need for the office, Caro said, and had several issues with the proposal including funding, student support and engagement of the greater community.

After the meeting, the student team reevaluated their proposal and began to find solutions to the barriers they were presented with, Caro said.

Overcoming Barriers One obstacle was the university’s inability to fund other projects if they were to fund the office, Caro said.

To address funding concerns,

the group proposed several possible sources of funding for the office in their twopager, a detailed overview on establishing the office, citing “the already existing Green Revolving Fund and/or grants available through the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)” as means of funding.

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Senior Becky Bronstein speaking at a DENIN film screening.

The main cost of the office’s structure would be the salary of the director since the Sustainability Task Force already has funding, Caro said.

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ANDREW KUCZMARSKI/THE REVIEW Public Safety discontinued safe rides after students “over-abused” the system.

Reexamining the absence of a safe ride system MEGHAN JUSCZAK Managing News Editor Lindsey Bonistall’s murder sent shockwaves through campus in 2005 and resulted in an increased emphasis on campus safety measures for years to follow. However, as the tenth anniversary of her death approaches this May, the immediacy and prominence of campus safety concerns have since faded.

The driving escort program that was created during the aftermath of Bonistall’s death was discontinued in 2009. Public safety called it an “over-abused” system and strengthened the system of walking student escorts as an alternative.

Several of the university’s peer institutions, such as American University and University of Vermont, have maintained their driving escort programs for several years.

The university’s bus system offered through transportation services is active for most hours of the day and night, said university police chief Patrick Ogden, so students are not entirely without transportation.

Although he believes the student walking escort service is underutilized, he said that it works effectively when used.

The students hired are mostly criminal justice majors looking to become police officers and undergo extensive background checks.

They receive calls from students who do not want to walk home alone from the library late at night, for example, he said. They then walk students to their residence if it is oncampus or bring them to bus stops if it is not.

“Years ago, before I served in this capacity, there was a ride escort program that was run through the police department,” he said. “But it is my understanding that it essentially became a private, unfunded taxi service that transported students from one party to the next…obviously not something the police department should be involved in.”

Between Nov. 1, 2004 and Nov. 1, 2009 Ogden said the University of Delaware Police Department provided 71,564 driving escorts. Student aides provided 1,408 walking escorts during that time period, a number that has remained steady during the past five years, despite the eradication of the driving escort program.

Junior Emily Lentz, social chair of the Alpha Xi Delta

sorority at the university, is one of students who feel the university should supply a more comprehensive safe ride program for students. Greek Life possesses its own unofficial safe ride system in order to allow members of sororities and fraternities to feel safe as they go to and from parties.

“The fraternities we mix with usually do present a system for us,” she said. “I think that, even though Greek life does get a bad rap sometimes, we do care a lot about the safety of people in our chapters—not even our own chapters but in the Greek community as a whole. This came from the idea that we want people to be safe, we want people to drink responsibly and we want people to have the option not to walk home alone.”

With violence against women so often perpetuated on or nearby college campuses, Lentz said these opportunities to prevent girls from walking home alone are very important.

Junior Elizabeth Thorpe also feels passionate about campus safety, and is currently working with a group of 12 other individuals on a project for their “Introduction to Leadership” class to implement a safety ride taxi system. The project is in its early stages as they look to meet with administrators in transportation services.

The group plans to start an RSO so students who are interested in the idea can work hand-in-hand with the program, she said. The drivers would likely be hired students who would be paid through the work study program while the dispatchers answering the phone hotline would be volunteers.

One of the greatest challenges in implementing such a program—and the reason public safety’s program faltered in the past—is securing funding, she said. The student organization will fulfill the essential role of finding sponsors, donors and providing advertising, she said. The group’s vision is for the walking escort service to evolve into the safety ride program.

“We definitely believe there are individuals that feel unsafe, whether it is walking at night from the library or in another situation where they don’t have a safe ride home, and we want the safe ride program to be a safety net for those individuals,” Thorpe said. “If they—for whatever reason—feel stranded, they know they will have a place to call.”

GIFFORD: ‘I THINK THAT IT’S GOOD THAT THEY’RE GETTING BACK TO BASICS AND LOOKING AT THEIR VISION FOR THE CAMPUS.’ Continued from page 1 The location of the university is extremely appealing to researchers, professionals and potential students, which the committee wants to capitalize on, Brangman said. In fact, the university is the closest major research institution to Aberdeen Proving Ground, a large army facility in Maryland.

“We can get anywhere we want to be in a very short amount of time,” Brangman said. “As far as I’m concerned, Newark is the center of the universe.”

The northeast quadrant alone—between the train station and Health Sciences

Complex—is estimated to take around 25 years to complete while the entire site could take up to 100 years to develop, Brangman said.

Since April, university alumnus Rob Gifford has been the city councilman for District 3, which includes STAR campus. Gifford said the the revised master plan is more focused and marks an improvement in the university’s vision for STAR Campus.

“I think that it’s more clear what their goals are,” Gifford said. “I like that they want to connect it to the train station and the rest of campus.”

Among one of STAR Campus’ current tenants is Bloom Energy. The company

builds Bloom Boxes, which help to provide cleaner natural gas conversion.

Other projects include Hydrogen Fuel Buses and charging stations for the university’s fleet of Electric Mini Coopers.

A ten-story building will soon shadow STAR Campus as local developer Ernie Delle Donne announced last November plans to build the STAR building which will be filled with high-tech tenants.

Overall, Gifford is pleased with the new plan.

“I think that it’s good that they’re getting back to basics and looking at their vision for the campus,” Gifford said.

Sam Richter contributed reporting to this article.

SARA PFEFER/THE REVIEW Alan Brangman unveiled the new STAR Campus master plan, which includes enhanced green space and better infrastructure.

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MONEY’S IMPACT ON ELECTIONS BIGGER THAN EVER IN MIDTERMS The 2014 midterms have come and gone, resulting in a Republican-controlled Congress. This Republican wave is the result of many factors, with voter apathy and the public’s disapproval of President Obama being a few of them.

One of the most striking facts to come out of this election is that it was the most expensive midterm election in our history.

The outrageous amount of spending comes on the heels of Supreme Court decisions that knocked down campaign spending and donation barriers, allowing billions of dollars to be spilled into our campaigns in the name of “free speech.”

During this election cycle, political parties, candidates, PACs and nonprofit organizations spent over $3.5 billion on campaigns all across the country. This is a massive sum of money, but proponents of the spending will argue that the consumer spending in other industries far outpaces that of campaigns.

For example, Americans spent $7.2 billion on Halloween this year on costumes, decorations and of course, candy. Other industries––like tobacco–– spent over $8 billion in 2011 on advertising. Yet, comparing other consumption spending to political spending is like comparing apples to oranges.

First, only a fraction of Americans actually donate enough to candidates or PACs. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, only 0.21 percent of the American population donates enough for the donation to be itemized (over $200). An even smaller number of people donate a large amount of money. Only 0.04 percent of the population donates over $2,600.

Monetary involvement in politics is concentrated in the hands of a few.

The highest spending donors on each side are also

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some of the most highly partisan people out there. For example, there are the Koch brothers on the far right advocating for Republican causes and Tom Steyer on the far left spending millions of his own to help climate change conscious candidates.

Meanwhile, most Americans do not reach these ideological extremes. The nation is split relatively evenly between Democrats, Republicans and Independents.

A danger that became even more prevalent this election was the influx of undisclosed “dark money.”

These donations are funneled into the process through “charity” 501(c) (3) organizations.

These organizations are not required to disclose their donors and are allowed to use up to half of their funds toward issue advertisements.

The other 50 percent is supposed to go toward operational activities or other ventures. But, often enough, the money a group can’t use on politics goes towards other groups of the same nature. This ensures that a majority of the initial donation goes towards political activism.

There’s an expression that money in politics is like water on concrete. It finds every crack, and this election was no exception. Money flowed in from the most wealthy and most partisan Americans in the country in order to influence campaigns all across the country. The 2014 election will most likely be a trial run for the 2016 presidential election. The money spent in 2016 will dwarf the $3.6 billion spent this year, further shutting out the voices of the average citizen.

The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent the views of The Review.

—Sam Wiles samwiles@udel.edu

BRONSTEIN: ‘WE WANT STUDENTS TO KNOW THEY HAVE A SAY IN THIS.’ Continued from page 3 “Even though this person would initially be an expense labor cost, the idea is that eventually through grants and other initiates, the money would pay itself back, and they would pay their own salaries,” Caro said.

The director of sustainability would be the only staff member at the formation of this group, said junior Nick Epps, an environmental studies major and the newest addition to the team.

“Once we establish a director of sustainability, we’ll be able to hire additional project managers to help facilitate some of the projects we’re looking to do,” Epps said .

The students conducted a poll to gauge support for the office; 91 percent of the 408 responses favored an Office of Sustainability, Caro said. They have also received the support from over 20 Registered Student Organizations and passed a resolution with SGA. They have also received support from a number of centers, institutes and overseeing organizations, including the the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, Delaware Environmental Institute and the Sustainability Task Force, Caro said.

What’s Up Next Last Monday the group created a petition on change. org. The petition received over 500 signatures and 80

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comments in its first two days of being active.

“The petition is to gauge support from not only students but also members of the community,” Bronstein said. “The response so far has been amazing.”

They have also sent a letter to President Harker and are waiting to hear a response, she said.

The group has created a separate letter of support for students to sign to express full support for the establishment of the office. It states, “We believe that an Office of Sustainability will engage students, faculty, staff, and the larger community on issues such as mitigating climate change, transforming our sources and use of energy, and addressing economic and social inequalities that are the defining problems for current and future generations.”

They recently met with the Blue Hen Marketing Club and talked about branding and creating a social media presence, she said. The group is planning a video campaign, where they will have onthe-spot interviews and ask students and faculty about what sustainability at the university means to them.

“We want students to know they have a say in this, and it’s an important topic that affects everyone in the community, not just students,” Bronstein said.

“It’s something that as a higher education institution, we really need to uphold and become accountable for it.”

ANDREW KUCZMARSKI/THE REVIEW Harker, pictured here at October’s Soles Lecture, requested $133 million from the state for capital and facility funds.

President Harker requests over $133 million for 2016 fiscal year CADY ZUVICH Executive Editor President Patrick T. Harker requested $118.17 million from the state Monday morning for the 2016 fiscal year’s operating costs. The amount is a one percent increase from last year’s request.

At Legislative Hall in Dover, Harker cited a focus on admitting instate students and keeping graduates in the region after graduation.

The state and university share similar goals, Harker said, and these aligning goals are reasons for a stronger partnership. He added that graduates could meet the state’s needs for stronger infrastructure and job creation.

“The University of Delaware is uniquely capable—as part of our mission and through our $6.2 billion impact on Delaware’s economy—to help you deliver on every one of those goals,” Harker said. “And we strive every day to do so.”

Since the economic downturn of 2008, the state has invested less of its yearly budget in higher education.

This reflects a trend felt by public institutions nationwide—in part a reason behind rising tuition.

Though the university’s charter is private, it receives much of its funding from Delaware. During the 2013 fiscal year, 13 percent of the university’s revenue came from state appropriations.

The university received

a yearly allotment from the state of $125 million before the 2008 financial crisis.

After four years of falling appropriations, the state since the 2013 fiscal year has allotted a larger chunk to the university. During the same fiscal year, the state invested $117 million in the university.

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“It’s crucial for our economy and our way of life that we continue to educate students to be entrepreneurs and innovators.”

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a total of $15 million for capital—or facility— expenses, which go toward improving buildings. Harker called the almost 40-year-old Cannon Laboratory in Lewes,

Del. a “capital priority” in need of renovation funding.

The facility, located at the university’s Lewes campus, is undergoing a $10.5 million renovation, to be complete in 2017.

“By early 2017, it will have renovated laboratories, plus a new HVAC [heating, ventilation and airconditioning] system, a new roof, a new emergency generator, a new fire alarm system and many other upgrades,” Harker said. “A portion of this year’s request will complete the funding required for that project.”

Provost Domenico Grasso joined Harker to boast about the university’s focus on entrepreneurship, citing the Horn Program in Entrepreneurship.

“So it’s crucial for our economy and our way of life that we continue to educate students to be entrepreneurs and innovators,” Grasso said.

Grasso went on to stress the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields, particularly retaining women in STEM careers.

However, the importance of humanities fields and interdisciplinary academics cannot be ignored, Grasso said.

“We know that STEM graduates are among our highest earners, and those who incorporate the arts and humanities into their studies can see their incomes continue to grow throughout their careers,” Grasso said.

SGA forum focuses on residence halls and pedestrian safety

ANDREW KUCZMARSKI/THE REVIEW In roundtable style, students talked with administrators about issues ranging from improved lighting to gym sanatation.

JACK CONNORS News Assignment Editor The Student Government Association forum on Thursday evening focused primarily on plans to improve the campus in the future, said Lalu Ologbauma, the SGA vice president of administration and finance.

Issues were presented and discussed, with most

pertaining to the new residence halls.

The Dean of Student Life and dining staff administrators discussed future plans for the new Academy Street Dining and Residential Facility currently being built across the street from Perkins Student Center.

University police is working to improve pedestrian safety, resulting

from the increase of foot traffic due to the new dorms, Ologbauma said.

This includes improving existing lighting, as well as finding solutions to the low number of crosswalks.

The athletics department was also present and discussed working to improve fitness equipment as well as new sanitation methods.

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UDPD cracks down on bike thieves, encourages bicycle registration LINA SORG Staff Reporter

Junior Carrie Toth is no stranger to bike theft. Her bike was stolen overnight from the racks by Trabant in April. In August, her new bike disappeared within a two-hour window from outside of the University Garden Apartments. And two weeks ago, her friend’s bike, which she had been riding, was stolen from the same location.

“Almost all the bikes on one of the racks had been cleared out,” Toth said. “Someone had come in Wovernight and taken them yall.”

According to the Bike .

Theft Trend Analysis Report issued by the University of Delaware Police Department (UDPD), 34 students reported having bicycles stolen this semester as of Oct. 28. Almost 60 percent of the thefts occurred on n Central campus. UDPD has . arrested 17 people, as stated e in the report, which marks , an increase in arrests from n past semesters but not e necessarily an increase in theft itself. l University Police Chief , Patrick Ogden said there , has been a decrease in the amount of bike thefts a over the past few years. He y attributed the rise of arrests m to more vigilant policing. r The UDPD employs a fullA time crime analysis person, t adjusts patrols based on the g locations of past thefts and aims security cameras at o bike racks, Ogden said. o “Some students might s have no idea whatsoever that , people come here and steal n bikes,” Ogden said. “They think ‘I’m going to run into r my class real quick, and I’m e only going to be here for a e half hour and I’m not going s to bother getting the lock o out of my bag.’”

While some thefts are o what Ogden considers f “crimes of opportunity,” or , are committed by university ) students who take stolen g bicycles on joyrides around . campus before abandoning e them, not all of the thieves d are local. s Residents of Wilmington o or New Castle ride DART buses to campus with the M intent of stealing bicycles, r Ogden said. They take the e stolen bicycles home via bike d racks on the front of buses s s t

and then sell them.

The Regional Automated Property Information Database requires owners of pawn and retail shops to submit information about the goods they receive. This practice allows the police to track stolen bicycles, which facilitates bicycle recovery and arrest, Ogden said.

Yet even if the thief is caught and the bicycle is recovered, UDPD cannot

“Probably 100 bicycles a year are recovered out there, and we’re not able to turn them back to victims because they’re not registered in the system.”

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always return the bicycle to its owner if it is not registered with the university. Ogden said a lack of student registration is the primary reason for the gap between recovery and return.

“Probably 100 bicycles a year are recovered out there, and we’re not able to turn them back to victims because they’re not registered in the system and we don’t know who they belong to,” Odgen said.

B a n l u s a c k Phommachanh, enforcement supervisor of Parking Services, said registering one’s bike at the university’s parking website is easy and

straightforward.

“I can’t emphasize how important it is to register your bicycle,” he said, adding that checking serial numbers definitely expedites the recovery and return process.

As of August, Parking Services addresses issues concerning bicycle registration. UDPD is only involved if a bicycle is reported stolen.

In addition to registering bikes, students can take other precautions to minimize bike theft. Both Ogden and Phommachanh advise students to use a U-shaped lock rather than a cable.

In nearly 75 percent of the reported thefts this semester, victims used a cable-type lock, as stated in the trend analysis report.

Ogden also discouraged students from locking bikes to what he called the “Princeton fence” that lines the paths surrounding the Green because thieves can easily pull the poles out of the ground.

Because Toth had not registered her bicycles with the UDPD, she did not report them and thus never got them back. She does not intend on bringing another bike to campus, she said.

P h o m m a c h a n h encouraged students to regularly check on their bicycles.

“If you bring a bicycle on campus, the expectation is you should use it,” Phommachanh said.

“You should check up on a daily basis. Don’t lock your bike up, walk away and assume two weeks later you come back and it might still be there.”

Some of the students who experience bike theft had not checked on their bikes for a few months, Phommachanh said. However, according to the trend report, 85 percent of this semester’s thefts occurred within 24 hours of the victim last seeing their bicycle.

Ogden wants students to take proper precautionary measures.

“It’s a big deal if it’s your bike and your only mode of transportation,” he said.

“An informed community is a safe community.”

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Students bare all in the ’70s for “Go Naked Week”

BY CADY ZUVICH EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Long before the days of ice buckets and acts of charity via Facebook, the campus faced a different sort of challenge.

Go naked.

Students sported their birthday suits in 1970 for “Go Naked Week” which was proposed by student Frank Buchman, selfdesignated “un-chairman” for the organization. The weeklong celebration of nudity was prompted by Buchman’s notice of “distasteful commercial exploitation of sex,” according to a May 4, 1970 article written by reporter Kate Boudart.

“Nudity is simple and innocent,” Buchman told The Review.

Students did not, however, bare all in classes. In fact, Buchman urged students to avoid getting arrested for indecent exposure, instead suggesting group activities such as nude study sessions and naked evening walks.

Just three years later, the Student Activities Committee sponsored another Naked Week during which Harrington Hall residents stripped their clothes for a game of “au naturale” frisbee on Harrington Beach. The Naked Weeks occurred in the midst of the ‘70s streaking fad in which university administrations everywhere from Harvard University to University of Colorado were met with naked dashers.

NEWS IN BRIEF West Virginia University suspends all Greek life

West Virginia University placed a moratorium on all fraternity and sorority related activities Thursday following a student’s death at a pledging event. The student, freshman Nolan Burch, was found unconscious when police arrived to the Kappa Sigma house on the university’s campus in Morgantown.

Burch was taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital where he later died.

The suspension applies to all Greek life on the university’s campus and prohibits any Greek organization from hosting social or pledging related activities until further notice. The suspension also comes in the wake of a Nov. 6 incident where pledges for a different fraternity were arrested for underage possession of alcohol and rioting in the streets. After the arrests earlier in the month, WVU President E. Gordon Gee announced a zero-tolerance policy for unruly and criminal behavior on campus in a letter to the campus community.

The decision was made by various school officials, including those in the Office of Student Activities.

“The action to halt fraternity and sorority activities while these matters are being reviewed is being done with the wellbeing and safety of our students in mind,” Dean of Students Corey Farris said in a statement. “That is—and must always be— our foremost priority.”

Newark police investigating homicide in KFC restaurant near campus

SARA PFEFER/THE REVIEW 75 percent of bikes reported stolen were locked with cable locks. Public Safety recommends students use “U-Locks” instead.

Newark police are currently investigating a homicide, which occurred at approximately 6:13 p.m. Thursday in a KFC parking lot in Newark. The restaurant is located at 1365 Marrows Road behind the College Square shopping center.

Upon arriving at the scene, responding officers found a 20-year-old victim with multiple gunshot wounds, according to a police report. The victim was treated at the scene and then taken to Christiana Hospital by New Castle County paramedics.

He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Newark police detectives are currently searching for the suspects. They were seen fleeing the scene in a light-colored SUV and a four-door sedan, according to a police report.

The investigation is still ongoing, said Lt. Mark Farrall, who is acting as public information officer for the incident.

“We have not released any further details on the investigation at this time,” Farrall said.

SIFTAR: ‘PEOPLE RIGHT HERE IN WILMINGTON WILL BE SUFFERING FROM SEA-LEVEL RISE, FROM THE HEAT PROBLEMS, FROM CLIMATE CHANGE—ALL OF THESE THINGS.’ Continued from page 1 Part of the reason the pipeline is so controversial, Johnson said, is that it has become representative of a larger push to lessen dependency on fossil fuels.

Tar sands in particular stir up debate because of how polluting they are, even more damaging than other fossil fuels and more energy intensive.

“The symbolic dimension is this whole idea of doing one more thing to facilitate

fossil fuel development, and people see that as at the expense of reducing carbon emissions and doing something for renewable energy,” Johnson said.

“Opposition to the pipeline is perceived as a way to express your opposition to continued reliance on fossil fuels.”

Protester Elizabeth Siftar of Wilmington said she objects to the Senator’s actions on religious and ethical grounds, saying that climate change affects the population disproportionately, causing

the most direct damage to those who contribute the least to climate change.

“People right here in Wilmington will be suffering from sea-level rise, from the heat problems, from climate change—all of these things,” Siftar said. “So it’s a broad range of responses, and the message is that, ‘Senator Carper, you’re making a huge mistake to do this.’ This is not a political decision, it’s a moral decision.”

Sen. Carper’s office has not yet issued a statement on Monday’s protest.

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Open dining halls, four-week classes among changes to winter session 2015

CHRISTIAN MILLS Staff Reporter Shorter, four-week courses and open dining halls are some of the changes coming this winter session.

The unpopular all-points dining plan from last year has also been changed as Pencader and Kent dining halls will now be serving meals. Students emptied shelves of student markets at the tail end of Winter Session in attempts to spend the remainder of their dining points. All of the dining halls were closed, leaving students with fewer dining options.

Administrator of Special Sessions Allan Fanjoy said dining halls will be serving full meals again this winter following the “experiment” last winter. Students had thought they would favor this plan, but ultimately the majority indicated they did not like the change, Fanjoy said.

The new four week class options are in response to student surveys that revealed students might prefer a longer holiday break after fall exams, Fanjoy said. The university is giving freshmen

AMELIA WANG/THE REVIEW Responding to student feedback, winter session policies have changed. Among the changes, freshmen will receive a 10 percent discount and students will have expanding dining options.

a 10 percent discount to expand participation.

“This group has not yet encountered in their first semester all of the reasons they might later want to take advantage of the winter, but many who did not take classes their first winter

have said in retrospect that they wished they had used the time more productively,” Fanjoy said.

C o m m u n i c a t i o n professor Dannagal Young will be teaching an online course this winter. She supports winter session and

understands the benefits it gives students as well.

“If it is a financially viable option, taking one winter class can sometimes be helpful, especially if the class is in a subject in which a student needs extra time or ability to focus,” Young

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The university has taken the time to try to see what the students really like and dislike about winter session. While they are doing well responding to students’ concerns, there is one matter that could use some revisiting, said Kelly Ringgold, academic program director for the Student Success Services Program.

“I would like to see winter session become more affordable for in-state and out-of-state students,” Ringgold said. “I saw some changes this winter with a few discounts offered for students taking a certain amount of credits. I thought that was a wonderful development.”

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Megabus route to New York reinstated after summer removal TORI NADEL Senior Reporter

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aMONIKA CHAWLA rCopy Desk Chief n t Former White House press lsecretary discusses midterm elections, future of American spolitics e As the 2014 midterm oelections marked a resounding kvictory for Republicans in the Senate, former White House spokesperson Mike McCurry dubbed it a “largely dispiriting campaign”—one that ran on a platform of negativity and lacked substantial goals from both sides of the political spectrum.

Wednesday’s National Agenda lecture brought the communications specialist— formerly President Bill Clinton’s press secretary—to address the campaign race and its aftermath.

McCurry said the candidates had failed in making coherent decisions about the nation’s most important issues––ones that could potentially change the future of America.

“This is not a happy country and certainly not a country that is happy with its politicians,” McCurry said. “And I think it really causes great concerns when we look at the challenges we’re facing in the world.”

According to recent polls, nearly two-thirds of the general public felt the country was headed in the wrong direction, McCurry said. He said the statistic should serve as a catalyst to newly-elected and returning politicians to focus on recovering the fundamental

trust of Americans.

McCurry attributed the change in leadership partially to the electorate, which he said was “older, quieter and whiter”— and far more conservative than it was in the 2012 presidential election.

The turnout was one of the lowest the U.S. has ever seen for midterm elections, with 38 percent of eligible Americans showing up at the polls. Among those who voted, 45 percent cited the economy as their top issue, while 25 percent said they wanted to see improvement in the healthcare system, he said.

Ralph Begleiter, director of the center for political communication and host of National Agenda, said he was struck by the low turnout rate in the backdrop of nationwide disapproval.

“I have a hard time reconciling these two things,” Begleiter said. “If we’re so discontent with our society, with our potential for the future, why are we ignoring the opportunity to do something about it?”

For many Americans, there has been a sense of disappointment in the idea of “change” as many are beginning to question the notion that was so prevalent in the 2008 election, McCurry said.

“We live in an era where there is a plenitude of information and a paucity of understanding,” McCurry said.

“For all the money spent, all of the words uttered and all of the campaign ads aired, the

conversation we had really lacked substance.”

Senior Brenna Crombie said McCurry’s experience as a political communicator, dealing with the press on issues such as terrorism, healthcare and the Monica Lewinsky scandal within the Clinton administration gives him a certain credibility in the realm of politics.

“He’s a guy that obviously has a lot of experience speaking in front of crowds and crafting the message in a really great way, in spite of all that was going on that the time,” Crombie said. “So I really respect him as a political figure. I consider him an icon.”

McCurry said today’s youth are struggling to find answers to the same questions that plagued his generation. The current campaigns have put these issues on the back burner and have instead become too wrapped up in negative politics, he said.

Of the statistics and exit poll information presented by the media, McCurry said what troubled him most was that a majority of the voters no longer agree with the proposition that working hard in the present could help them pass on a better quality of life to future generations.

“That is the fundamental definition of what we used to call the ‘American Dream’ and now, for two-thirds of Americans, that dream is hollow,” McCurry said. “It doesn’t represent what is going to be in their future.”

If you wanted to take a bus from Newark to New York during the week, Megabus offers one trip a day and two each day over the weekend. If you wanted to take a trip to New York over the summer, however, you would have to look elsewhere.

Since its arrival on campus in 2012, junior Sarah Stearns has used Megabus to get to New York around ten times, for pleasure as well as to make traveling home to Connecticut easier.

“My first two years here I didn’t have a car, and I needed Megabus to get closer to home,” she said. “By going to New York, my mom would only have to drive an hour and a half to get me.”

At the end of May, Megabus announced it would be canceling its service between Newark and New York City, while continuing service to five other cities, including Baltimore and Philadelphia.

Megabus contacted the university to set up a bus stop on campus in 2012 in order to grow its presence on college campuses, said Rich Rind, director of auxiliary services.

The decision to have a Megabus stop on campus was an easy yes to provide transportation options to students, faculty and the community as a whole, Rind said.

When the partnership was first announced, not everyone was excited about it. Jared Maldonado started a petition called “Keep Megabus out of UD,” arguing that Megabus is not safe or reliable while promoting Catch-a-Ride, a student-owned, student-operated bus service.

Maldonado is the founder and president of Catch-a-Ride, according to his Facebook information.

From what he has heard, the Megabus stop has been successful and used by students, Rind said.

Newark was chosen to be part of the 120 cities Megabus services because it fits into the company’s Northeast district, and buses are in demand for students and young professionals, said Sean Hughes, associate director of corporate affairs for Megabus.

When the route to New York was canceled, it was unexpected,

Rind said.

“I thought it was going fabulously, so we were surprised when they canceled it,” Rind said. “They told us they were canceling it because of low ridership, predominantly during the week, even though there it was strong during the weekend.”

Stearns was not sure how the cancellation would affect her travel abilities.

“When they canceled it, I was nervous,” Stearns said.

“Because what if my dad didn’t want me to bring my car to school? So I was stressed and nervous that I would have to call my parents so much to get me home and back to school.”

What was not communicated was that the suspension was always planned to be temporary, Hughes said.

“It was a seasonal change,” Hughes said. “There was lower demand in the summers because [students] are all off because of summer sessions, so the service wasn’t being run.

We always continue to evaluate customer demand, so we noticed during summer there wasn’t a high demand. But we saw in the fall and spring that there was significant demand.”

Rind was not too worried about the removal of the route, he said.

“I always felt it would come back because there was so much interest,” he said. “That was always the most requested route by students and parents, and that’s what anyone ever asked for, so I was pretty confident.”

Prior to reinstating the route, many people reached out to Megabus to voice their worries, Hughes said.

“We certainly take this back to operations and come up with potential solution based on demand,” Hughes said. “People were somewhat concerned, but I know that everyone was thrilled when we did come back, and we are thrilled to be back.”

Now that Megabus is making trips from campus to New York, Stearns still uses even though she has her car on campus.

“It definitely is a great alternative even if you have a car and you don’t feel like driving or don’t want to spend the money on tolls and gas,” Stearns said.

“It’s an awesome thing that’s reliable.”

EDITORIAL To the Editor: The continued use of the term Lady Hens is ridiculous. First, Hens are biologically females, so the term is redundant. It appears the university was hesitant to use the actual moniker of Fightin’ Blue Cocks, though the University of South Carolina does not seem to have a similar reservations. More importantly, however, the term Lady Hens is inherently sexist. The men’s teams are not called the “Mister Hens” or “Gentlemen Hens” though that would be interesting and more logical, given the above point on Hens’ genders.

Instead, the men’s teams are somehow solely entitled to the

From the Editors: Dear Readers, Throughout The Review’s history, we have referred to the university’s women’s sports teams as the Lady Hens. We feel it is time to retire the term.

Though a long-held tradition, referring to our women’s sports teams as the Lady Hens while we refer to our men’s teams as the Hens suggests that men’s teams lay claim to true Henship and to the true embodiment of athleticism. By categorizing our women’s teams as other, we diminish the tremendous achievements of our women’s sports.

Laura Travis, who has coached in the tennis program for 23 years, serves as an example of Blue Hen women who prove a gender hierarchy

general term Hens, without a gender specific qualifier. Both men’s and women’s teams represent the university, so shouldn’t they both simply be called Blue Hens? If not, just call them the Blue Hens men’s team, or the Blue Hens women’s team, or something of that nature.

By continuing to use this term, you are diminishing women’s roles in athletics as equal representatives of Delaware sports. As a UD alumnus living in the south, I can obviously testify that Delaware is not the only perpetrator of this convention, but I believe Delaware should lead the charge on tossing this antiquated practice.

-James Wiles does not exist. Not only was she the first woman at this college to coach a men’s team, but she also broke several university records while playing as a student. More recently, Elena Delle Donne is among the university’s most successful athletes, going on to make a name for herself both on and off the court. We must also acknowledge the recent successful seasons of women’s the field hockey, figure skating and ice hockey teams.

To our copy editors’ delight, this change will also reduce redundancy as hens, technically speaking, are female. Though this change is long overdue, we are proud to announce we are disposing of a discriminatory term.

Faithfully yours, Elizabeth Quartararo & Cady Zuvich

Hiring a Title IX investigator offers signs of progress In order to comply with federal law, universities must use a different evidentiary standard when investigating charges of sexual violence.

This standard –– called “preponderance of the evidence”–– is a lower evidentiary threshold than is used in most criminal matters. In these cases, the plaintiff must prove that it is more likely than not that a crime was committed.

It’s easy to see why the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights would insist on the lower standard.

Sexually-based offenses are often difficult to prove and universities don’t have the same investigative resources as traditional law enforcement officials.

Many members in the higher ed community, notably a group of Harvard Law professors, disagree with this policy. They cite a need for due process and

adequate representation for the accused. That sentiment was echoed by members of our own faculty during a faculty hearing last week, where a philosophy professor suggested going forth with a lawsuit against the Department of Education for enforcing this lower standard of proof.

Their concerns are founded, especially given that many serving in investigative roles at universities have little to no legal background.

In The New York Times story that examined Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ reaction to a rape allegation on campus, it was revealed that the colleges’ bookstore coordinator was one member of a threeperson panel charged with adjudicating such cases. It is hard to fathom entrusting a person with such an unrelated background to make decisions that lead to

life-changing consequences.

From a professor’s perspective, this reality is understandably alarming, as their job could be on the line.

Furthermore, the collision of this lower standard of proof with unqualified administrators adjudicating cases could lead to arbitrary and unjust outcomes.

Fortunately for students and staff, our university is in the process of hiring a Title IX investigator with experience in the legal arena.

With a lower standard of evidence requirement than is used in most criminal cases, it is a necessity that all evidence be reviewed by someone competent to assess its credibility.

This may not soothe all the qualms held by faculty members, but it is certainly an important step toward balancing due process with the desire to fulfill a victimcentered policy.

Correction

Last week’s article, “University donations include gifts from corporate partners,” stated that Pepco Holdings/Delmarva Power had a business relationship with the university as its electricity provider. We apologize for the error. The City of Newark, not Pepco/Delmarva, is the electric provider.

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Jean Paul (JP) Makhlouf

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hen brothers Jean Paul and Alex Makhlouf were juniors in high school, they say their only skills were in music.

So, they decided to make a career of their sole talents.

“We just realized we didn’t want to be doing anything else,” Jean Paul (JP) Makhlouf says.

“We just wanted to be doing music.”

Today, the Makhloufs, along with Samuel Frisch, perform in their band Cash Cash. The band headlined the UDance and Student Centers Programming Advisory Board (SCPAB) fall concert on Thursday to benefit UDance.

Cash Cash has reached nationwide stardom in the past year with its hit single “Take Me Home.” The song reached number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band’s first charting single. The band released its newest single, “Surrender” last month, and JP Makhlouf says the band recently collaborated

on a song with John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls. The band also collaborated with B.oB. on a hip-hop rack.

While the brothers were both in college, they were trying to balance both academics and their passion as musicians.

When the pair realized the balance was impossible, JP and Alex focused their efforts on their music career.

The brothers played instruments growing up and formed Cash Cash in 2008 under the name The Consequence.

The newly-formed band did not copyright its name and faced a lawsuit by the rapper who already owned the name.

“We couldn’t agree on a new name, so out of frustration we decided to just name the band Cash Cash because everyone was after our cash when we didn’t have any yet,” JP Makhlouf says.

“It was a funny joke that turned into something serious.”

Later down the road, Alex Makhlouf says they began remixing after building a studio in their home, avoiding studio rent. Through this experimentation as well as playing New York City clubs, they found their remixes to be

successful.

Looking back at their success so far, the brothers reminisce on the first time hearing their song on the radio.

“Hearing our music on the stations that we listened to growing up was really a ‘wow’ moment,” Alex Makhlouf says.

“That was the moment we knew people were listening to us.”

The Makhloufs say Cash Cash is ever evolving, and that the future of their music is not something they can map out. With three members, there are always new ideas thrown around, but they try to stick to one at a time.

The band’s journey makes sense, JP Makhlouf says. Starting out as a band playing musical instruments set the foundation for them as producers and engineers.

Having the musical background gave them a leg up in getting started as DJs because of their knowledge of writing music and putting together keys.

“It was a really slow evolution that started to make sense the more we grew,” JP ANDREW KUCZMARSKI/THE REVIEW Makhlouf says. “Looking back Cash Cash performed Thursday for UDance’s fall now, it all makes sense.” concert benefiting childhood cancer.

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Small rooms, big memories:

West Campus to be remembered for social culture

lounge and put it in his room so they could all watch a movie together, and on the last night of spring semester they all brought their mattresses out of their rooms so everyone could sleep together in the commons.

Even after upgrading to Independence Hall his sophomore year, Van Winkle says he was still grateful for the social opportunities that West campus allowed for.

“It was like living in luxury compared to Dickinson,” Van Winkle says. “I had my own bathroom and the rooms were huge, but I’m still really happy I lived in Dickinson freshman year and made so many friends because I didn’t make a single new friend in Independence.

No one really ever left their rooms.”

Current Rodney resident Devin DeTurk said he was also unsettled when he received his

rooming assignment.

When DeTurk learned that he would be living in Dickinson he was not happy. However, now that he’s been there for a while, he says he actually really likes it.

DeTurk has spent less than a semester at the university and says living in Dickinson has already provided him with a special group of friends.

“Everyone on my floor is really close and a lot of us are continuing to live together next year,” DeTurk says. “We’re like a family.”

Unlike Dickinson, several of the rooms in Rodney are singles, but current resident Cassidy Ware says that hasn’t affected her social experience so far.

“Most of us in Rodney are in singles so we’re all in the same boat,” Ware says. “I like that I have space to be an individual while still being part of a community.”

Some of Ware’s most memorable experiences in Rodney so far have come from the activities she is able to do with other girls on her floor.

Ware says she and her friends have enjoyed getting together to make art. They tiedyed shirts, personalized their doors, and used hair dryers to melt crayons onto canvas.

Though the elimination of West Campus is coming as no surprise to students, residents want to make sure it goes down with dignity.

Ware says if there’s anything people should remember about West Campus, it should be that so many people have lived and made memories there. It has allowed them to start their careers and make lasting friendships.

“Honestly, I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else,” DeTurk says.

We move on to the edible flowers portion of the lesson. Casse pulls out a small contraption that looks like a metal golf tee with a circular plate on one end. To create a rose, she expertly swirls icing up and around the point, producing the most beautiful petals. She then grabs a pair of kitchen scissors and sandwiches the flower between the blades to lift it from the tool. My hands quaking, I try to imitate her fluid motions, but my best efforts result in mostly lopsided heaps.

Casse is lovely and encouraging. She doesn’t laugh at me. She pulls out a

pastry bag of green frosting, and I squeeze a few leafshaped streaks around my sorry-looking flowers. Casse carefully wraps up the whole cake for me to take home.

I wash my frostingstained wrists and arms haphazardly, wearing the rest like a baker’s badge of honor for the rest of the day.

I walk home clutching the white box, beaming. I arrive at my apartment, brew a pot of coffee, put on some Bing Crosby, momentarily lament the fact that I forgot to ask if the bakery has any ties to Bing Crosby and grab a fork.

Life is short but so very sweet.

JAKE KAIRIS At any given moment during the colorful late ’90s and early 2000s, at least a few thousand young boys on Earth were constantly tormented by the Pokémon battle sequence music stuck in their heads, playing on loop like a seemingly endless gym leader showdown. That tune and the friendly elevator bob of the Pokémon Center may even rank in the top tier as unanimously praised works of music for a certain Millennial demographic currently struggling somewhere in their 20s. The New York “chiptune punk” band “Crying” takes its name and music from the nostalgia of revisiting these old 8-bit melodies.

The double EP from Crying titled “Get Olde/Second Wind” is not all new material, as “Get Olde” has lounged about on the internet since August of 2013, but the former EP does not show any signs of age, and the latter half in “Second Wind” is a brilliant expansion of Crying’s explosive formula. The formula is that of a standard punk tri so far as the fireworks-drummer and the power-chording distorted rhythm guitar. But Crying shuns the bass guitar and lead guitar for a modulated Gameboy, which blares out ecstatically joyful lines of 8-bit synthetic arpeggios on top of the guitar’s mostly lower register zone. Upon this muddled bolt of chaotic sound rests lead vocalist Elaiza’s smooth carefree delivery, always on the verge of drowning completely in the mix.

The songs of the double EP lend nostalgia in great waves to those who made the pixelated worlds of Nintendo their homes as children. And the music will cut even deeper for those engrossed in our growing obsession with technology, struggling to balance the computerized world with the real. On “Second Wind” track “Emblem,” one of Elaiza’s few recognizable lines captures the sentiment perfectly as she swoons, “I am slowly falling in love with myself.” She muses, “Respect my decision to keep it inside of myself. I am still listening.” Crying emanates the wild stimulation of the tech world, and how many of us feel at home within online social media, while in physical settings it’s easier to retreat within ourselves to introversion and self-reflection.

Maybe that’s a little bit of a stretch for so few discernable lyrics, but there’s a prevailing sense throughout Get “Olde/ Second Wind” that Crying’s music represents, the zeitgeist, the age of our time. There’s an underlying frothing of excitement, bursting at the seams with visions of utopian futures, paralleled by Crying’s universally major key signatures. There may not be a minor chord on the album.

Despite the muffled, introverted vocals, Crying invites growth and personal development, surpassing impassable obstacles. The songs are rife with words expressing movement, and the songs feel propelled at the speed of light. Elaiza encourages, (after admitting her crippling fear of driving) “Bloom! Get up! Do! Escape before it erupts!”

Although “Get Olde/Second Wind” makes overstimulation its job, the record never feels offkilter. It attacks musicianship from all sides and still manages to keep balance to the center.

—Jake Kairis jckairis@udel.edu The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

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BLUE HEN YEARBOOK 1975 Rodney and Dickinson Residence Halls will be closing in May 2015, but students fondly recall memories of living on West Campus during each of their freshman years.

AISHA MCCORMICK Staff Reporter It’s official. The university has announced that both Rodney and Dickinson Residence Halls will be closing in May 2015.

The buildings were constructed in 1966, and have provided housing to more than 700 freshman students each year.

West Campus is notorious for having the smallest and oldest dorm rooms on campus.

Students commonly refer to Rodney as “the Rodjects” in comparison to the seemingly lavish arrangements offered in George Read, Louis Redding and Eliphalet Gilbert Halls on East Campus.

But what has made West Campus so special over the years is undoubtedly its social culture.

Different from the other

glamorous new residence halls, Rodney and Dickinson provide lounges on every floor, giving students a common gathering place outside of their rooms.

Anders Van Winkle, a Dickinson resident from 2011 to 2012, says despite his initial apprehension, he is glad he was assigned to West Campus.

“None of my friends coming to Delaware were even living on West Campus but I heard countless times that because the rooms were so small, people didn’t stay in them and were actually social,” Van Winkle says. “That was 100 percent true. I had a great experience and I made a lot of friends.”

Van Winkle recalled some of his favorite college memories coming from his year spent living in Dickinson.

There was a time Van Winkle and his floormates moved a couch from their

Mosaic Tries Something New: Behind the scenes at Bing’s Bakery JEN FINN Mosaic Assignment Editor For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to come back in my next life as a pastry chef.

I have very precise visions of myself tucked away in a hole-in-the-wall bakery, framed photos of Julia Child dotting its exposed brick walls. I’ll knead piecrust with unprecedented tenderness, bake five different kinds of breads before dawn, fold meringues and fill éclairs with a faraway look in my eyes.

But whatever I possess in imagination I lack in handeye coordination, which puts a halt to many of my current self’s sugar-inspired endeavors. So when the sainted staff at Bing’s Bakery agreed to let me come into their kitchen to learn a few tricks of the trade, I nearly wept tears of joy.

I arrive to Bing’s on an overcast morning and swing open the door to a warm blast of buttery richness, a panoramic selection of mouthwatering treats and several smiling employees.

The whole place positively glows.

I meet Casse, my kindhearted mentor for the morning, who leads me into the back (be still, my heart!) to begin. It’s every bit as romantic as I’d hoped it would be. There’s a hushed utilitarian hum—a

lovely rhythmic bustle of electric mixers working their magic, oven doors opening and shutting, cake stands spinning—and I want nothing more than to be a part of it.

I tie myself into a white apron Casse hands me. She sets a circular vanilla cake in front of us and elegantly shaves a thin layer from the top and sides to create a smooth surface. She squirts and swipes on a pristine layer of vanilla icing with such grace, chatting easily as she seamlessly covers the cake.

She shows me how decorate the cake’s circumference.

Her trail of icing is wedding cake-worthy. Mine is not.

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UNFILTERED COMMENTARY STREET LURER I HEAR YOU, BUT I’M NOT DOWN TO RESPOND

ALEXANDRA STRAUSMAN

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Alumni return to university to market ‘Anniversary’ app AMANDA DUNN Staff Reporter Alumni Ben Klein and Kenny Wallach are the cofounders of the Anniversary app, a mobile application that allows users to employ nostalgia in a new way. The app turns fond memories into “anniversaries” and users can select future delivery dates to send “gifts” to friends via photos or videos.

Without any marketing, Klein says the app currently has 1,500 users with about 12,000 anniversaries delivered. Additionally, they have raised a full round of seed funding—their first round of investment money, Wallach says.

The pair have acquired 20 investors by reaching out to friends and family, Klein says.

Neither Klein nor Wallach were business students when they graduated in 2013.

Wallach studied English and Klein studied psychology.

Both say their studies did not relate to the skills necessary for creating the app.

“It has nothing to do with my major or Kenny’s major,” Klein says. “It’s really the type of job you have to learn on the fly.”

However, Klein and

Wallach say the university’s entrepreneurial program has been tremendously helpful. Klein credits Dan Freeman, the director of the Horn Program in Entrepreneurship, for giving their business the jump start.

Klein and Wallach participated in the annual Hen Hatch Competition, which gives students the chance to introduce their

they have not yet begun marketing, Wallach says they see user growth every day.

Recently, the pair launched a traveling campaign to spread awareness about Anniversary. Their first stop was campus on Sunday.

Wallach says they wanted to visit Delaware first because of their close ties as well as the availability of their target demographic, social people aged 18-25.

“There are amazing days and off days.

The off days are lower than an off day at a typical 9 to 5 job. But on amazing days, you feel like you’re on top of the world.”

Kenny Wallach Co-founder of Anniversary app ideas and collect feedback as they compete to win startup cash and prizes totaling $50,000. They won the competition in 2013.

“It was an awesome experience,” Klein says.

“They gave us the start-up capital to file as an entity—a real business—and put us in touch with an intellectual property lawyer who helped us file patents.”

Despite the fact that

Wallach and Klein’s goal is to draw 1,000 downloads while on campus. They plan to present to social groups, classrooms and Greek life organizations while visiting the university.

The two are partnering with fellow startup business Udwell, a website that gathers and lists information about off-campus housing in the area.

Junior Yael Bloom,

CEO and co-founder of Udwell, won the Hen Hatch Competition last spring. She says she is excited to team up with Wallach and Klein.

“They are good guys,” Bloom says. “They have a great attitude about everything and are open to suggestions.”

Udwell and Anniversary will be hosting a “Startup Carnival” Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Venture Development Center. The event will feature free giveaways, raffles, food, games and prizes, including a $100 Klondike Kate’s gift card and a $50 Grotto’s gift card.

Having been friends with Klein and Wallach before their involvement in the Hen Hatch Competitions, Bloom says their continued connection is beneficial.

“By teaming up, we can build our network more and market to more people,” Bloom says.

Though it was stressful creating a startup so soon after graduation, it has been rewarding, Wallach says.

“There are amazing days and off days,” Wallach says.

“The off days are lower than an off day at a typical 9-5 job. But on amazing days, you feel like you’re on top of the world.”

EVERYDAY RUNWAY

THIS WEEK’S LEATHER FORECAST

MADISON FERTELL

I’m still on cloud nine from my weekend in New York. As y soon as Cosmopolitan Editorin-Chief Joanna Coles walked down center stage, I knew exactly what I wanted to write about this week.

Leather pants.

I’ve never seen an allblack outfit more on point, and that’s coming from the girl whose whole closet looks like a cosmic black hole. And I know it contradicts Vogue’s “73 Questions with Anna Wintour” comment about never wearing all black headto-toe, but when done right, sometimes it just works.

But I digress. Let’s get back to the leather. So many leather pants came strutting across the stage and were seen on audience members at Cosmopolitan’s Fun Fearless Life conference. I won’t lie. I was pretty envious. I didn’t stray from my black denim W idea, but something about the leather pants just took

everyone’s outfits up another notch. All I could think of in that moment was a quote from, “This is Spinal Tap,” “turn it up to 11.”

The best way to please my bank account would be to purchase a pair of cheap pleather pants from a retailer like H&M or Target. Playing it safe isn’t really my style and as I’m searching online for quality leather pants, I find myself feeling dejected and slightly defeated as I see price tags of $300, $800 and even $1,000.

I’ve gotten it in my head that owning a pair of either faux or genuine leather pants will automatically make me look tight and right, sophisticated, chic and reminiscent of Sandy in the final scene of “Grease.” If only I could get my hair to hold a curl.

I’ve proved I can be trusted to handle and care for luxury apparel in a fashion closet, but when it comes to actually owning or wearing it, I should be treated like a child— monitored and baby proofed.

The chances are highly probable of me damaging it with wine––or falling––or any other klutzy move of which I’m easily capable. And while I think that I can somehow swing purchasing a pair of $1,000 leather pants, I float back down to reality and

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realize that I’m actually a 22year old college student with no income.

My guess is that asking Santa for a $600 pair of leather pants—just like when I asked for a rabbit when I was 8, 9 and 10—isn’t actually going to happen. So I suppose it’s only fair that the day I reach big-girl status and own my first pair of Louboutins will

be the day I also splurge on a beautiful pair of leather pants.

For now, the job hunt begins while I continue to stay best friends with the sale racks.

—Madison Fertell mfertell@udel.edu The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

“You couldn’t get none of this even if you approached me with some manners.”

Yes, that is what my friends said after we watched the viral “Woman Faces Over 100 Acts of Street Harassment Walking Around NYC” video.

Dear street lurer (that is the name I shall call you), as a female, should I give you the attention you are begging for? It seems almost like I should as you chase me down packed New York City streets or yell for me to do a quick spin around for you as I rush past you. Your eager desire to compliment my strut and behind as I walk away from you make me hate you for the next several minutes of my life until you become forgotten, known as just another lunatic on a city sidewalk.

The silent treatment can actually be detrimental in some situations. Let’s see. Pedophiles yelling “hey beautiful” or “can I get a piece of that” might have you yelling in your head, but acknowledging the creeps yelling these things with a simple “hey” or smile and fast walk away could be the setback that these people need.

My mother would have my head if she knew I smiled at these lunatic suitors.

We forget in our uncivilized civilization that cities are made of all types of people. These loner creeps are not expecting to actually get into bed with you. These people are just bored and untamed as they try to remember the forgotten feelings of when someone actually acknowledges them with their nonsensical catcalling.

Being the one who smiles at this breed of alarming individuals, I find joy in watching their stunned faces become mortified over the fact that I acknowledged their presence. Other times they are fast enough to whip up some line about me having a nice smile. Thank you—that compliment means a lot coming from you. I find solace in finally realizing that my seventh grade braceface had paid off.

The buddy system always comes into play. My parents embedded this system in my head, making even the simplest of restaurant bathroom visits a place to drag a friend along. In twos, us women might even get an increase of catcalls, but what happens when a man is at your side?

“Hey, I like your girlfriend’s dress.” Shoo. Seriously, man?

But lets get something straight. Sexual harassment is not funny. One too many times, the innocent individual is taken advantage of. Catcalling is a real component of sexual harassment. There are countless individuals who have experienced the unforgettable in higher forms of sexual harassment and are unable to just forget the loyal street callers as they pass by.

Rob Bliss’s street harassment video is blowing up the Internet reminding us that even the lowest, most disposable forms of sexual harassment are still real and painful.

Dear street lurer, your place in society is ungrateful.

The place you hold for me in your heart is one I pity, and you should realize the pain your hurtful words cause.

You become categorized as disgusting as I pass by you, so it is my intended hope that my flash of a smile makes your perverted day that much better.

From, The Disinterested.

—Alexandra Strausman astraus@udel.edu The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

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MOVIE REVIEWS

‘BIG HERO 6’

‘JOHN WICK’

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4 OUT OF 5

STARS

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“...the action scenes and performances by all characters made this an above-average action thriller worth seeing in theaters.”

“This straightforward, endearing and beautifully-animated film does not disappoint.”

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CASEY BROWN Guest Columnist Keanu Reeves stars in director Chad Stahelski’s new movie as main character John Wick, a retired hitman suffering from a devastating tragedy––the sudden death of his wife. Mourning bitterly, Wick soon becomes temporarily uplifted and astonished when he discovers a dog that his wife left him as a final gift of hope and comfort.

Unfortunately for Wick, that muchneeded comfort is ripped away when he runs into unexpected trouble with some Russian mobsters. After experiencing a brief dispute with them at a gas station over his prized possession, a 1969 Ford Mustang, Wick is followed back to his home by the mobsters. There, they steal the keys to Wick’s car and beat his dog to death. This sets Wick in a rage and ultimately brings him out of his retirement one last time, which is when the main plot starts to unfold. Although Wick is initially depicted as a lonely man living in sorrow, his character quickly transforms into a ruthless hitman who seeks revenge on the Russian mobsters responsible for his additional pain.

Keanu Reeves has starred in many movies (“The Matrix,” “Speed”

and “The Day The Earth Stood Still”) where he always seems to play the role of either a kick-butt action star or a savior protagonist. In this film, director Stahelski does a marvelous job of making John Wick’s character a powerful, mysterious and thoroughly well-respected one. In fact, Wick is so well known for his previous work as a hitman that he is greeted by practically every character in every scene.

Michael Nyqvist plays Viggo Tarasov, the leader of the Russian mobsters who possesses elite knowledge about his mob’s history with Wick as well as Wick’s assassinist trainings. Alfie Allen plays Iosef Tarasov, Viggo Tarasov’s son, the tough macho guy with the bright idea to steal Wick’s car in the first place.

Reeves delivers yet another stunning, action-packed performance. Although the movie’s plot was not perfectly constructed and its atmosphere was initially a bit cloudy, the action scenes and performances by all characters made this an above-average action thriller worth seeing in theaters.

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DAPHNE WERTZ Guest Columnist “Big Hero 6,” although not likely to make waves like “Frozen,” still reminds audiences of Disney’s unwavering ability to provide a quality animated movie for all ages. Surpassing the popular “Interstellar” with top box office ratings of $56.2 million in its first weekend, the film is a must see.

“Big Hero 6” strays from Disney’s regular animated film characters.

Instead of princes and princesses, the film provides crime-fighting robots and troubled teenagers. The movie is based off a marvel comic series and codirected by Chris Williams (“Bolt”) and Don Hall. The story provides a lighter, more family-friendly version of the more violent paper version.

Hiro (Ryan Potter), a misunderstood orphan with an unparalleled talent for constructing robots, lives with his older brother, Tadashi (Daniel Henney), and his aunt in the city of San Fransokyo.

The young genius enrolls in an esteemed academy with his brother, who creates Baymax, a nurturing yet naïve oversized robot. When tragedy strikes, Hiro seeks revenge with the help of Baymax

and his recently programmed crimefighting upgrades. With a group of friends from the academy and a flawed but determined robot, Hiro avenges the deaths of loved ones on a heartwarming, action-packed journey.

Although the storyline and ending prove predictable, the film’s incredible animation and light-hearted nature make it worthwhile. The inspiring characters and spectacular imagery make up for the lack of life lessons to be learned from the plot. Baymax provides a wonderfully innovative aspect to the film: he is soft, honest and kindhearted yet brave and spirited. Baymax wins the hearts of every audience member while simultaneously allowing for a few good laughs. Hiro and his friends also serve as an integral part of the film. They are relatable and determined with their own humorous quirks.

Predictability is not an issue when each moment captivates the audience through exciting visuals, action and humor. This straightforward, endearing and beautifully-animated film does not disappoint.

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Grad student’s Edward Snowden sculpture attracts attention in New York City KAITLYN BRELOFF Staff Reporter Edward Snowden, the man who became famous for WikiLeaks, has been immortalized as a statue created by graduate student Jim Dessicino.

Dessicino says he became interested in sculpture while studying illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia as an undergraduate. He was fascinated by how the human body could express ideas and tell stories, he says.

And that’s exactly what Dessicino did. He wanted to tell Snowden’s story through art, he says.

“I chose Snowden because I saw someone who sacrificed all his freedoms to tell us an uncomfortable truth,” Dessicino says. “To me that’s something worth documenting.”

Dessicino’s 9-foottall statue was featured in the university’s botanical gardens as part of “Art in the Park” last spring. Shortly after, Dessicino went to the Monument/Anti-Monument convention.

There, he met Dylan Gauthier, curator for “Art in Odd Places,” a festival held in various cities that presents “visual and performance art in unexpected public places,” according to its website.

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in the piece and in putting it into the festival in New York City. Dessicino and Gauthier decided to place the statue in Union Square Park because, although the park is a public place, it is managed privately.

This meant a permit would be needed to put the statue in the park.

Regardless, they put the statue up.

“The goal was to see how long it lasted,” Dessicino says. “It was to show that public places aren’t always free.”

The statue lasted three hours before the authorities ordered it removed. From there, Dessicino moved it to the corner of 14th Street and 9th Avenue.

Overall, Dessicino has received overwhelmingly positive feedback, saying it definitely wasn’t what he was expecting but great nonetheless.

In fact, there was only one negative reaction, Dessicino says.

“I wanted to start a conversation, to get people talking about politics where people don’t talk about them,” he says. “Sculptures are a great way to get people talking about the world’s problems.”

Junior fine arts student Sanjay Pelinski says he agrees the sculpture was successful in starting conversation.

“Controversy should be brought up,” he says.

“It’s almost a way of calling someone out, be it for good or bad.”

The statue is currently on display at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA), located in Wilmington, until Jan. 4.

Maiza Hixson, the acting associate director of programs and Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Arts at the DCCA, immediately wanted the piece for the DCCA. “The sculpture looks like a ghost,” Maiza says.

“He looks contemplative and despite being nine feet tall, there is an unmonumental quality about him. It was an interesting move on the artist’s part, of a man, who, to some people, represents a traitor, ex-patriot and is a symbol of perhaps the greatest demonstrations of democracy.”

She expected people to have a more negative reaction to the sculpture, Maiza says. Surprisingly, people have been very receptive to such a controversial piece and willing to talk about and question it, which was Dessicino’s original plan.

What’s next for Dessicino? He’s currently working on three new sculptures including one called “The Haircut” which will feature Kim Jong-un.

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The statue is now on display at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts.

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Fall Drop

Students danced their way through Deltronica’s third annual Fall Drop Saturday. The event, which took place in the Trabant Multipurpose Room, boasted EDM performances, hooping and art activities. Musical acts Astroglyph and Slipcase warmed up the crowd for the evening’s headliner, the Brooklyn band Exmag.

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TED & GRACIE T h e “ V o w s ” se ction m e e t s Dexter in this disturbing AMBER a n d JOHNSON h u m o r o u s mockumentary featuring writer Jena Friedman (field producer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) and comedian Ben Kronberg.

Parodying The New York Times’ sappy wedding videos, the six-part series documents the couple’s upcoming nuptial in The Newark Times, from the dreadful anticipation of meeting the parents to discovering your fiancé is a serial killer. In a time where there are so few dark comedies to sink your teeth into, “Ted & Gracie” will have you dying for more.

Poor, sweet physical therapist Gracie (Friedman) is head over heels for murderous Ted, a kindergarten teacher turned locksmith after “something” happened (that “something” being the dismembering of a human body).

There are enough red flags in their relationship to make a communist feel at home. She has never been to his apartment, let alone known his address. His unnerving artwork looks like it belongs in the “Silence of the Lambs.” He also proposed to her in a pet cemetery with a plastic finger where he buried his first “dog.” So clearly, this guy is not in the least bit deranged. I mean, pet cemeteries can be incredibly

romantic when you think about it.

Possibly the most entertaining aspect of the series is Gracie’s unquestioning acceptance of Ted’s ludicrous behavior, illustrating how far we will go for the people we love.

Crazy as it sounds, the actors have incredible chemistry and you can’t help but root for them to succeed because there is so much love and passion in their relationship. Adorable moments between the two are juxtaposed with disturbing realizations.

When describing how they met, Gracie remembers getting locked out of her apartment and calling Ted upon the recommendation of her friend Nell. She noticed his arm was hurt so she invited him to take free physical therapy sessions at her practice but forgot to give him the address. But it’s okay, he found her anyways—he’s, like, really good with directions.

The tone fluctuates almost instantly between endearing and unsettling. One minute Ted is brushing a hair behind her ear, the next he is reflected in the mirror staring over her shoulder with the gaze of a psychopath.

Honestly, Ben Kronberg in a wedding dress is truly enough incentive to watch the series. So check it out on YouTube.

-Amber Johnson anjohns@udel.edu The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

A RABBI AND A NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST WALK INTO A BAR

ERIN ELLER Through modern research technologies and experimental designs, neuroscientists strive to explain our own behaviors and attitudes. It has become increasingly evident that many human behaviors and cognitive functions can be attributed to a series of pathways and chemical reactions within the brain. These well-studied phenomena are easily measured, and therefore, conclusions about their origins in neuroscience are relatively easily formed.

Scientists, such as Dr. Andrew Newberg of Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital, seek to explain more abstract human phenomena such as religion and spirituality in a brand new field called neurotheology.

The goal of neurotheology is not to prove or invalidate the possibility of God’s existence, but rather to better understand what it is neurologically that goes on when one prays, meditates or otherwise partakes in spiritual activities.

Due to the timeless divide between scholars of science and scholars of religion, neurotheologists have to lay out careful guidelines that cater to

both disciplines. The following excerpt from the introduction to Dr. Newberg’s book on the subject, “Principles of Neurotheology,” describes these goals: 1.

To improve our understanding of the human mind and brain.

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To improve our understanding of religion and theology.

3. To improve the human condition, particularly in the context of health and well being.

4. To improve the human condition, particularly in the context of religion and spirituality.

So how can these goals be achieved? Newberg’s team measured changes in cerebral blood flow using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). It was discovered that meditation by Tibetan Buddhists caused increased blood flow in the frontal lobes, which correspond to areas involving attention and concentration, as well as decreased blood flow in the parietal lobes, which are responsible for our sense of orientation in space and time.

Newberg also monitored changes using SPECT in Franciscan nuns during prayer.

Consistent with the previous data, frontal lobe activity increased, while superior parietal lobe activity decreased. But in this study, brain activity increased in

a second area as well: the inferior parietal lobe. This is the language center of the brain, and Newberg associates the increase with the verbal nature of prayer.

These findings demonstrate neural similarities and differences between various spiritual practices. Neurotheology seeks to include studies from vastly different religions and spiritual rituals practiced around the world, exploring common threads as well as key variances between practices.

In a recent NPR segment, Dr. Newberg explained the implications of such a plainly controversial study. He made it clear that success is dependent on cooperation and respect from scientists as well as from religious people.

“For neurotheology to really work as a field it needs to be very respectful and open to both perspectives,” he explained.

As the field grows and more studies bring to light what exactly it is that goes on when we pray, meditate or practice other spiritual rituals, neurotheology could potentially start to reconcile the rift between science and religion and help the two sides of the spectrum coexist.

-Erin Eller eeller@udel.edu The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

Professors’ New York City art exhibit ‘AS IF’ to be featured until December SARAH PECK Staff Reporter At 164 Orchard St. in New York City is the Novella Gallery, named for the literary term novella, a space telling a story in real time. One of the most recent exhibits lending itself to that meaning traces back to the university art program and four professors within.

AS IF, an exhibition of new work by professors Abigail Donovan, Troy Richards, Robert Straight and Peter Williams opened Nov. 7 as one of six current collections in the art gallery owned and directed by Steve Rivera.

Straight says he liked what he saw after he went to New York to meet with Rivera and agreed to display all four artists’ work together.

Although the artists discussed what they would contribute, none of them

tried to tailor their work to fit that of the others, Richards says.

“It’s a little, kind of diverse group of artists really between the four of us,” he says. “And that makes it fun just to see the dialogue the work would have with each other.”

There are a variety of artistic concepts and foundations present in the exhibition, including space, light and time. Examples include Richards’ use of the four-color printing process–– or CMYK process––to color individual video frames of the same progression and place them on top of one another, compressing time into a single image.

Also included are Straight’s abstract acrylic paintings made of shapes on wood panels.

The opening seemed to generate a good amount of reception for the art,

and there was a good vibe, Richard says. Richard and Straight were also pleased with the exhibit’s location.

“The gallery has a low visibility, so people that discover it will be surprised both with the location and the size of the gallery,” Straight stated in an email message. “It’s like Delaware: small but mighty.”

Donovan, Richards, Straight and Williams have worked in the art department since 2006, 2008, 1980 and 2004 respectively.

With such collective years of experience, Richards and Straight vocalized their developed sense of what fine art means to them.

“It’s a way that can lead to viewing our world in a fresh way,” Straight stated in an email message. “I think that any art course will enhance the concepts and thinking that a student can use in reaching their future

goals.” ideas and you know that art AS IF will be featured kind of gives a value to that.” until Dec. 6 in the Novella G a l l e r y .

A l t h o u g h the exhibit is i mpe r man e n t, R i c h a r d s shared the l a s t i n g message he hopes that people get from the exhibit and all art. “ [ A r t ] allows you to slow down a bit and look deeper into things and offer questions that have not so simple answers,” he says.

“People are in a rush to COURTESY OF ROBERT STRAIGHT dismiss their own experience Straight’s acrylic painting titled “P-518” is or their own featured in the gallery.

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Season ends in heartbreak as Delaware falls 1-0 in CAA Tournament

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or the University of Delaware men’s soccer team, the goal was simple: to win the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament. It was a goal that was set back in August, when the team first gathered for camp.

As with any goal, there were obstacles. First, senior captain Roberto Giménez sustained a season-ending injury before the team had even played a match. Then there was the road trip to California that saw a previously undefeated Blue Hens squad drop two straight

matches to the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. There were the injuries to key starters Jaime Martinez, Ignacio Martín, Tobias Müller and others that forced major lineup changes.

Still, Delaware found a way.

The team won its final regular season game to ensure the No. 1 seed and home field advantage in the CAA Tournament.

Against Northeastern in the semifinals, freshman Carlos Perales scored on a perfectly placed free kick in overtime to keep the dream alive.

The Blue Hens’ magical run ended in heartbreak Sunday afternoon. After battling for 90 minutes in front of a capacity home crowd, Delaware fell 1-0 to James Madison University, just short of accomplishing their season long goal.

“I just don’t think we generated enough real quality chances to be considered champions,” head coach Ian Hennessy said. “Credit to JMU, I think they had one good look at goal, and they took it.”

After a series of defensive miscues by Delaware, the Dukes got the first quality chance of the match when striker Connor Coward’s shot forced Delaware goalkeeper Borja Barbero to make an incredible diving save.

Ten minutes later, the Dukes would breakthrough when Steven Mashinski beat Delaware freshman Kenny McArthur on the outside and sent the ball back to Coward at the top of the box. With Delaware senior Kyle Nuel on his back, Coward turned and placed a perfectly weighted left footed shot into the corner of

the net.

After the goal, the Blue Hens controlled possession for the remainder of the match.

Still, a Delaware team that was eighth in the nation in scoring offense couldn’t manage to find the back of the net.

James Madison withstood a flurry of shots in the final 15 minutes to hold on to the 1-0 lead and become the first No. 6 seed ever to win the CAA Tournament, beating the No. 1, 2 and 3 seeds along the way.

As the final whistle blew, several Blue Hens dropped to the turf, devastated. Several minutes later the team limped to midfield, battered and beaten, for the trophy presentation.

After an historic season, Delaware was forced to watch another team raise the CAA trophy.

Despite the loss, Hennessy praised the team, particularly the seven seniors on the roster, for another incredible year.

“I reminded the seniors after the game, that today’s

feelings will dampen some over time, and the enduring sentiment will be one of accomplishment,” he said.

“The graduating class is large, and the program, facilities and crowds they leave behind looks nothing like what was when they first came to this university, in part because of their commitment and energy.

For this we are all grateful.”

Although the team missed out on an at large bid for the NCAA Tournament, Hennessy remains proud of his team.

“We dealt with a lot this year,” Hennessy said. “I still believe that when we are healthy, we can be a top-10 team in the country.”

As for that preseason goal of winning the CAA Tournament, a young and talented Delaware team will begin preparing for next year.

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Redshirt sophomore midfielder Maddie O’Beirne fights for the ball on Wednesday. O’Beirne had the Blue Hens’ lone goal in the 2-1 loss.

Golden Flashes shock Blue Hens, 2-1 MEGHAN O’DONNELL Managing Sports Editor After winning the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship for the second year in a row, the University of Delaware’s field hockey team hosted Kent State University as their play-in game for the NCAA tournament. The outcome was not what the Blue Hens had hoped for as they fell short, 2-1, to the Golden Flashes Wednesday afternoon at Rullo Stadium.

There were some weaknesses in the game, and the team did not play the game it normally plays, said head coach Rolf van de Kerkhof.

“I think we had some difficulties adjusting to their style of play,” van de Kerkhof said. “I think the biggest challenge we faced was playing our own game.

We had the ball, but we did not execute our game plan.”

There were a number of quality offensive opportunities for Delaware, but Kent State was the first team to put a point on the scoreboard as Julia Hofmann delivered the ball into the circle and connected with teammate Hannah Faulkner, who capitalized on the pass in the 12th minute.

The team answered back shortly after when redshirt sophomore midfielder Maddie O’Beirne tallied a goal after an assist from sophomore midfielder Marjelle Scheffers.

It was the second goal of the season for O’Beirne, and she said she was excited to contribute during this play-in game for the NCAA Tournament.

“It felt good,” O’Beirne said.

“I haven’t scored in a while. It’s exciting to score in an important game. It’s just tough because we had a different outcome in our minds.”

Both teams finished the

game with five penalty corners, but Kent State was able to take advantage of such an opportunity.

During the second penalty corner, at the 31st minute, Ines Delpech scored the game winner for the Golden Flashes, with the assists attributed to Hofmann and Alayna Harris.

The Golden Flashes dominated possession in the second half and limited the Blue Hens in making a comeback win.

Junior Michaela Patzner said she was sad to see the season end, and she wished the outcome had been different.

“The energy just wasn’t there as much as it was during last weekend, and they just worked more,” Patzner said. “But all in all, it was a great season.”

In this win, Kent State’s sophomore goalkeeper Andrea Rinehart collected eight saves, while Delaware’s goalie Emmeline Oltmans had three saves on the

afternoon.

The Golden Flashes now advance to the first round of the NCAA Tournament and will compete against the reigning national champion, University of Connecticut.

The Blue Hen women were not originally prepared for Kent State’s strength, O’Beirne said.

“Kent State did really well, they were a force to be reckoned with,” she said. “I think it took us

a little while to adjust to that. I think we just adjusted too late.”

Overall, it is bittersweet for the season to end this way, van de Kerkhof said.

“This game is not a representation of who we are,” he said. “Today was not our day, but it was a great learning opportunity for us. They have done a great job representing themselves, this program and this university.”

“This game is not a representation of who we are.”

Rolf van de Kerkhof Head Coach

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Blue Hens go to .500 on year after strong home opener HALEY HARRIS Staff Reporter The Delaware women’s basketball team had a successful home opener to their 2014-2015 season on Sunday, winning 7060 against Marist College at the Bob Carpenter Center.

Head coach Tina Martin said the team played strong throughout the game.

“It was a bounce-back day for us, and the kids played very well,” Martin said. “I thought they followed the defensive game plan which I have been harping on. We did a great job of keeping Marist in front of us which was really important.”

An easy win did not seem to be in the cards from the start of the game for the Blue Hens as Marist scored its first basket within the first minute of play. Junior forward Alecia Bell put the team on the board with a shot at 16:38, followed by senior forward Joy Caracciolo with two shots and a jump shot from sophomore guard Erika Brown to bring the score to a 5-5 tie.

Play continued on with a three-point shot from freshman guard Chastity Taylor , putting Delaware up with a comfortable

13-7 lead. Offensively, the Hens put up a fight, taking and holding the lead for the rest of the first half.

However, with less than five minutes of play left in the first half, Bell took a devastating injury to her lower leg, later revealed to be a break, leaving the entire gym stunned and silent. Players and spectators looked on as Bell lay on the ground in what appeared to be extreme pain. EMTs and athletic trainers rushed onto the court to attend to the injury that affected Bell’s leg. Bell’s parents were escorted onto the court along with Martin.

Even in her injured state, Bell stayed strong for her team with hopes of her teammates bringing home a win at their first home game, Martin said.

“Alecia said, ‘we have to win coach,’ that was the last thing she said to me when they finally got her up on the gurney,” Martin said.

Brown said the team rallied around their fallen comrade to continue to fight on.

“We all just brought it in and said we have to win this for Alecia,” Brown said. “She wants us to win, she wants to be a big part of this, she’s a big part of

ANDREW KUCZMARSKI/THE REVIEW Junior guard Courtni Green moves past a Marist defender during Sunday’s game. Green had 13 points on the day. this team, so we have to get this win for her.”

Taylor and Brown brought the first half to a close, each with a three-point shot, leaving the score at 37-24.

The Blue Hens picked up where they had left off in the first half by maintaining the lead throughout the second half of the game, despite low spirits after Bell’s injury.

Erika Brown, in particular, had an exceptional game, Martin said.

“Erika is capable of putting some points on the board,” Martin said. “She’s a talented young lady, and it was good to

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see her play well today.”

Brown said this year she is stepping up offensively compared to last year.

“This year, coach harps on me to be more of a scorer now,” Brown said.

Offensively, Delaware saw numerous jump shots, layups and three-point shots from Brown, sophomore forward Hannah Jardine and junior guard Courtni Green. Delaware was able to score 33 points in the second half , and Brown had her second career game of 20 points or more with 21 points .

The Blue Hens will now face East Carolina University on

Friday in Greenville, N.C. The Pirates are 2-0 this year, having beat Fairfield University and the University of Rhode Island.

Overall, Taylor said she felt the team improved during the game.

“I think we did a lot better, especially being that we lost the last game we played,” Taylor said. “We knew we had to work together, so we definitely did that.”

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FORMULA ONE COMING FULL CIRCLE

With new team leaders, women’s basketball looks forward JACK COBOURN Managing Sports Editor

on play last season by scoring 43 and 138 points

University on the road in the near future.

A year ago, people asked the same question of the Delaware women’s basketball team. Is there life after Elena Delle Donne? The team proved there was “life after Elena” by going 20-11 last year.

This year, head coach Tina Martin said while people still ask about Delle Donne, it’s not in playing terms for the Blue Hens.

“I think that at this point, it’s been over a year, and people always ask questions about Elena,” said Martin, now in her 18th season as head coach. “They want to know what kind of person she is and what it was like to coach her, stuff like that. We’re pretty much passed the questions about basketball from an X and O standpoint. It’s more they just want to know a little bit about her as a person and how she’s doing in Chicago.”

Last year’s team featured two seniors, Kelsey Buchanan and Akeema Richards, as well as a slew of freshmen and sophomores. This year’s team features two seniors, forward Joy Caracciolo and center Stephanie Leon, as well as junior guards Courtni Green and Jade Clark and junior forward Alecia Bell to offer training to the new freshmen.

Among the freshmen, guard Chastity Taylor and Makeda Nicholas have been the strongest so far, Martin said. The returning sophomores include redshirt guard Jodi Salyer and forward Hannah Jardine, both of whom made impacts

Redshirt sophomore guard Jodi Salyer sets up a play during Sunday’s game.

Salyer said it is up to the returning players to help lead the team and get the freshmen ready.

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respectively.

While the team will miss Buchanan’s leadership, the returning players can help to fill the void, Salyer said.

“KB last year, she was our leader and a really good player on the court, so we miss her in both aspects,” Salyer said. “But Steph [Leon] and Alecia are our two captains, so they’re our leaders.”

One of the storylines last year with the team revolved around Martin’s belief that the team needed to work on rebounds and toughness.

This year, the main issue so far with the team is its defensive skill. Salyer said she attributed it to the team’s youth.

The team’s defensive skill is something she is still addressing, Martin said.

“I think the biggest thing is defense,” Martin said. “That’s always a work in progress. Our defense, at times, it’s been good this preseason––and at times I haven’t been happy with it–– so defense is something we’ll always be trying to work on.”

The schedule this season sees nonconference games against Marist College, Fordham University, Bucknell University and Princeton University on the Hens’ home court at the Bob Carpenter Center. The team will also face East Carolina University, University of Vermont and Temple

Conference play will begin Jan. 4 against Elon, while the Hens will face rivals James Madison twice this year, including the penultimate game of the regular season on March 1.

Fordham and Marist are going to be some of the more challenging teams the Blue Hens will face, Martin said.

“I think that there’s several good teams,” she said.

“Fordham is the returning Atlantic-10 champion, we’ve had a big win over Marist College and they’re the [Mid-American Conference] champion, they’ve been an NCAA team for nine straight years.”

So far this season, the team is “a bit banged up,” Martin said. Green is coming back from a medial collateral ligament injury suffered before the season began, and Bell is out for the year after suffering a broken leg in the 70-60 victory against Marist on Nov. 16.

Despite the injuries and the work needed on the team’s defense, Martin said she is confident that this season will go well for the team.

“I’m excited about this young group,” Martin said.

“We need consistency out of our freshmen, and we need consistency out of our sophomores, and certainly we need to have consistent play out of Joy Caracciolo.”

T h e F o r m u l a One season is quickly coming to an end with one race left before the season is over.

The race MARCELLO will be in Abu DE ANGELIS Dhabi, and it will signify one of the most dominant seasons by one brand: Mercedes.

Mercedes easily will win the team championship, but the driver’s championship is up for grabs.

Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg are battling for the driver’s championship.

Hamilton is currently in the lead but Rosberg can pull off the upset if he wins and win his first ever driver’s championship.

Mercedes is not the only story this year, as many teams struggled to catch a win. Ferrari and Red Bull, two powerhouses in the Formula One spectrum, had down years.

Ferrari, who has 2007 championship driver Kimi Räikkönen and Spanish sensation Fernando Alonso, could not even get one victory.

Red Bull, who has Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo, managed to get a few wins but nothing even close to past years.

Vettel won the past four drivers championships, however, that streak is now coming an end, as either Hamilton or Rosberg will claim that title.

With Mercedes winning without a hiccup, something was going to change. But what?

Everyone wanted Ferrari and get a better car and wanted Red Bull to get a better engine.

While that change may still happen, that was not the change fans anticipated.

Ferrari got word that its driver, Fernando Alonso, who is arguably one of the best in Formula One, could be leaving to join rival McLaren.

While many people saw this coming, many fans of Ferrari did not. Many thought Ferrari could hold him there with offering more money, but losing for five-straight years will likely cause him to jump ship.

Ferrari did not take long to recover though. They filled

the void very quickly. Ferrari went out and got the man they think can win, and he has proven that before. Sebastian Vettel announced he is leaving Red Bull, where he won all driver championships, to join Ferrari.

Being a fan of Ferrari and seeing them struggle even with one of the best drivers in Formula One, I think Vettel will help them, but only if they produce a better car.

Ferrari needs to put a car out that that can compete with Mercedes, which this year, no one did.

Vettel will be the first German to join Ferrari since the famous Michael Schumacher, who won five drivers championships in a row from 2000 to 2004. Vettel will have big shoes to fill, but he has proven he can win and maybe even challenge Schumacher’s run at Ferrari.

Personally, Ferrari may need to also get rid of Kimi Räikkönen, who has historically known to not get along with his team’s other driver. Clearly, Vettel will be number one on Ferrari’s list to win the championship, but that does not mean Räikkönen cannot challenge Vettel.

The success of Mercedes has been Rosberg and Hamilton not getting in each other’s way. In most races this year, they have finished first and second and battled to the end. Even though they battle, they never would put the team in jeopardy by risking a pass when it’s not warranted or getting to close to each other.

This is the reason they finish one and two and are going to win the team championship.

All in all, the end of the season couldn’t come quicker for Ferrari and Red Bull. It’s a season to remember for Mercedes. Next year it will be different, as teams will be producing better cars and better engines. Drivers will be with new teams, and everyone will have motivation to knock off the top team of Mercedes.

I cannot wait until next year, as I look forward to Ferrari taking back the top spot.

—Marcello DeAngelis mcello@udel.edu The views reflected in this column do not necessarily represent those of The Review.

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