Tuesday. September 19. 2006 Volume 133. Issue 2 Be sure to log on to our new Friday online edition. BY MEGHAN LOBDELL cultural experiences than earlier generations because they than themselves because of shared technical expertise, she Administrative News Editor were raised in a technologically advanced environment. said. Ten years ago an army of seniors stormed campus to There is a debate over the first year Gen-Y babies were In addition, their actual communication skills with writ­ begin their final year. They came blasting No Doubt's "Don't born, but it is commonly cited betWeen 1977-1980, Jackson ten and spoken English are markedly diminished in compari­ Speak," busting moves to "The Macarena" and organizing said. Because of this discrepancy, it is hard to pinpoint exact­ son to older people, she said. brigades for Beverly Hills 90210: Season 7 marathons. ly when they entered the university, but simple mathematics "They'll be OK if they only have to talk to each other, but Although they might have considered themselves "pop­ indicate the Class of 2000 were early, if not the first, members don't ask them to 'like' write anything out in a coherent man- cultured," these students were not armed with the standard of this group. ner," she said. gadgets 21st century Blue Hens take for wanted - few had Today, all university students fresh out of high school are However, psychology professor Mark Stanton said he cell phones, they had never heard of WiFI or iPods, and they definite members of Gen-Y, otherwise known as thinks Gen-Y's exposure to technology has made them better were certainly not members of the Facebook cult. "Millennials," "Boornlets" and "myPods." The Class of2010 communicators, which has increased student-professor inter­ Unbeknownst to them, this group was the last of a van­ marks ten years of Gen-Y on campus. actions. ishing race. Sure, they watched TV, owned pagers and' were Most Millennials are boggled as to how their predeces­ Jackson said Millennials' way of communicating is computer literate, but they did not have technology intra­ sors survived without modern "necessities," such as text-mes­ something the world has never s~en before. venously wired into their bloodstream since birth. saging and YouTube. Jackson said they have grown accus­ "The way earlier generations communicated was one on These "primitive" students had lived in peace for their tomed to having numerous modes of communication at their one, over the telephone or face to face," he said. "Gen-Y first three years at school, but this was about to change. The disposal all the time. prefers to sit in a room alone, but communicate with many start of Fall Semester 1996 marked a momentous event in Although these myPods have access to innumerable more people." Blue Hen history. Campus was invaded by the Class of 2000, communication tools, some argue their actual communication Jackson said one serious consequence of growing up with a completely new breed of androids: Generation Y. skills are lacking. so much technology is that Millennials expect more than ear­ According to John Jackson, CEO of Leslie Skeen, psychology professor, said Boornlets may lier genemtions. www.generation.com and Youth Content Network, Gen-Y lack the communication skills of past generations. They are can be defined as hyper-connected "kids" who have different better at interacting with each other than with people older see MILLENNIALS page 8 '. Cell rati(lll ENERATIONY 2. 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The ideas and opinions of advertisements appearing in this Leah Kiell Carter Perry Columnist publication are not necessarily those of The Review staff or the university. Administrative News Editor Meghan Lobdell Laura Beth Dlugatch September 19, 2006 3 Newark Police make arrest SPINACH E.COLI CONTINUES TO SPREAD Another packager recalled three Sunday that include spinach: in 2003 rape and kidnapping brands of its fresh spinach products Farmers Market, Hy Vee, and Fresh Sunday as a widening national E. coli and Easy. BY KEVIN MACKIEWICZ outbreak was linked to seven more The company buys in bulk from City News Editor illnesses and left spinach farmers and Natural Selection Foods, one of the Ernie Carletti, 31, of Elkton, Md. was arrcsted and vendors with wasted crops and nation's largest producers of organic empty shelves. produce. Since last week, Natural charged in connection with the kidnapping and raping of The number of confirmed E. Selection has been the primary focus a 19-year-old university student in 2003, Lt. Thomas coli cases associated with spinach of the investigation into the source of LeMin of the Newark Police Department said. rose to 109 people in 19 states. Fifty­ the outbreak, because many of those The female victim had been kidnapped near the 7- five victims have been hospitalized sickened apparently ate its packaged and a 77-year-old woman died · in spinach. However E. coli has not Eleven convenience store and Continental Court Wisconsin on Sept. 7. In Ohio, state been found in the company's bags of Apartments on South Chapel Street while waiting for her health officials said they were inves­ spinach and health officials have said fiiends, LeMin said. Carletti bound and blindfolded the tigating the death of a 23-month-old others could be implicated. Natural student before kidnapping her on May 22, 2003 around girl who was sickened by E. coli to Selection issued its own recall of 31 I :30 a.m. Carletti returned her several hours later near the determine whether the case was relat­ brand names. ed to the outbreak. The recalls come as the Food area of West Main Street. Salinas-based River Ranch and Drug Administration has warned Newark detectives and the Delaware Department of Fresh Foods, one of the nation's top consumers not to eat any fresh Justice assisted the Cecil County Sheriff's deputies in the five produce processors, recalled spinach or products containing it search for Carletti, LeMin said. He is currently being held three of its spring mix salad brands until further notice. at the Cecil County Detention Center while he awaits his hearing. BUSH FACES WORLD LEADERS AT UNITED NATIONS Carletti will be tried for six counts of first-degree rape, kidnapping and possession of a deadly weapon dur­ World leaders gather in New dent of France, and Kofi Annan, sec­ ing the incident, he said. The assault is still under investi­ York this week for a United Nations retary general of the United Nations. gation by the detectives and evidence is still being collect­ summit as the War in Iraq and grow­ Then, at II :30 a.m., he makes ing crisis of Iran's nuclear ambitions remarks to the U.N. General ed. loom over the meeting. Assembly. Later in the day, Bush will Courtesy of Newark Police The victim is no longer a student at the university, President Bush will meet with a meet with Iraqi President Jala! Ernie Carletti was charged with raping a university LeMin said. series of heads of state throughout Talabani. He returns to Washington For more see Friday's online edition of The Review. Monday - Malaysia, El Salvador, on Wednesday. student. Honduras and Tanzania. Officially,