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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Volume 133, Issue 17 Be sure to log on to our lLt'eV~W\""',: I Friday online edition. WORTH THE WAIT Two days after CAA loss, Hens earn bid to NCAA tournament see Sports page 27 2 March 13, 2007 2 News 6 Who's who in Newark 1'4 Editorial 13 Opinion 15 Mosaic 21 Delaware UNdressed 25 Classifieds 27 Sports THE REVIEWlMike DeVoll Students enjoy recent wave of warm weather by playing ultimate frisbee on The Green. 29 Sports Commentary Check out these articles and more on UDreview.com • PROGRAM HELPS STUDENTS DECIDE ON A MAJOR -. STUDY FINDS UNIVERSITIES' HIGH RANKING LEADS TO INCREASE IN STATE FUNDING THE REVIEW/Meaghan Jones THE REVIEW/Meaghan Jones The Taekwon-Do Club meets on Monday in the Despite midterms approaching, students take a break Perkins Student Center. from studies to play tennis. The Review is published once weekly every Tuesday of the school year, Editor In Chief Administrative News Editor Columnist except during Winter and Summer Sessions. 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The ideas and opinions of advertisements appearing in this Kristin Vorce Entertainment Editor publication are not necessarily those of The Review staff or the university. Enterprise News Editor Corinne Clemetsen, Andrea Ramsay Meghan Lobdell _c • --------~,,- --- - ---- JR March 13, 2007 3 in the news MEDIA OUTLETS FOCUS ON LOCAL COVERAGE Dining halls· leave bad News organizations confront with audiences declining so rapid ed with declining revenue and ly it has become difficult to meas increased competition are entering ure viewing and reading habits. an era of limited ambition in which Daily newspaper circulation taste in students' mouths they will drop a broad worldview declined 3 percent in 2006, but the for more narrowly focused report increase in. online readership is ing, according to a review of the more difficult to quantify. The BY ELAN RONEN news business released by a watch- three television networks collec StaffReporter Money is paramount to the aver dog group. ~ tively lost 1 million viewers - The Project for Excellence in about the average in each of the age college student. Tuition and text Journalism reports the struggle to last 25 years - but YouTube and _books demand it, while new clothes, create sustainable media brands is other online services created a new good food and Friday nights con driving "hyper-local" coverage in delivery vehicle for the networks' sume it. newspapers, encouraging citizen work. It is not surprising that college journalism on the Internet and Traditional newsrooms remain students are concerned about the uni spawning opinion-driven televi the primary source for information, versity's dining hall system. Every sion personalities. and the report suggests that news undergraduate who lives on campus, The review describes print, organizations need to be more with the exception of residents in the radio and television news opera aggressive about mining revenue Christiana Towers Apartments, is tions as weathering changes - for their work. required to buy a meal plan that costs at least $1,515. THE REVIEW/Allison Lamma Freshman Sean Burke said the Dining Services currently uses a meal and points system of payment. GUILIANI CRITICIZED BY CONSERVATIVE RIGHT actual value of the J1leal plan is not . Rudolph w. Giuliani, in an tance he places on judicial nomina worth its cost, but it has provided sur meals and more points. the food quality noted a clear differ effort to temper his support for abor tions. prising benefits. "From a variety -and value per ence in quality between the dining tion rights and his other socially lib Some constitutional law "I love the Dining Services. It spective, the choices are almost lim halls and the food courts at the eral stances, has been assuring con experts disagree with that conclu has prevented me from gaining the itless," Bowen said. Scrounge or Trabant University servatives that as president he would sion. There is no question, however, freshman 15," Burke said. Lisa Wandel, director of Center. Students interviewed in appoint strict constructionists to the that Giuliani's appointment record The dining hall food is terrible Residential Dining Services at Rodney, Kent and Russell dining Surpreme Court. has drawn concern from some con and the selection at Trabant Pennsylvania .State University, said a halls were asked to rate the food on a Some prominent conservatives servatives. University Center is too expensive, change was implemented at Penn I to 10 scale with 1 being the worst say Giuliani's record as mayor The mayor's record of judicial he said. State 10 to 15 years ago from an all food they ever tasted and 10 being undermines that promise. In his appointments, first described in the Sophomore Evan M~re said you-can-eat system to an all-points ' the best. eight years leading New York City, Politico newspaper, has made a the poor quality of the food results system. Junior Michelle Wanja rated the they say, Giuliani appointed a num splash in the conservative blogging from a lack of incentive to make it Students find the flexibility of Scrounge an 8. ber of judges who did not appear to and talk-radio community. better. the system is fantastic, Wandel said. "The atmosphere in the fit the conservative mold. The Politico noted that most of "Things you buy with points can "Students only pay for meals Scrounge is so relaxing," Wanja said. Giuliani, who has surged to a the appointees were Democrats. be priced however high they want," that they actually attend," she said. She also said she liked being double-digit lead in polls for the That is not a surprise in New York, Moore said. "Points are credit, they Meal plans at Penn State are able to watch her. food being pre 2008 Republican presidential nomi an overwhelmingly Democratic city. already have your money." required for safety and practicality pared in front of her. nation, appointed or reappointed Many also had prosecutorial experi He said a solution would be to because residence halls do not have Burke rated the dining halls a 2 127 municipal judges. He has cited ence, which matched the mayor's make meal plans optional, which cooking facilities, she said. but said he walks 20 minutes from that experience to conservative crime-fighting priorities at the time.' would force Dining Services to com Corey Braxton, manager_of the Rodney to eat at the Russell dining audiences to drive home the impor- pete with other food vendors and thus contract office at the University of hall for its better quality and selec- , improve the quality of the food. Maryland, said the system at tion. ~ LEADING DEM. CALLS FOR GONZALES TO STEP DOWN Merlyn Bowen, marketing Maryland changed to an all-points "Russell is more like a high director at the university's Dining system approximately 15 years ago. school cafeteria," he said. "Rodney is Attorney General Alberto Justice Department has become u.s. Services, stated 'in an e-mail message A change was made because of a more like prison." R. Gonzales has politicized the even more politicized than it was demographic shift in the student pop Freshman Camden Asay rated Justice Department so much that he the value of the meal plans are worth under President George W. Bush's the cost. - ulation. the dining halls a 6 because of poor should step down for the sake of the first attorney general, John Ashcroft, "The all-you-care-to-eat format. "In the 1960s, not many stu selection. nation, the Senate's third-ranking A report released March 9 by offers an obvious value," Bowen dents lived on campus," Braxton "I've probably had this chicken Democrat said Sunday. the Justice Department's inspector said. "Students can choose from over said. ''Now virtually everyone wants 20 different times," Asay said, Citing recent disclosures about general raised questions about the eight stations, including deli, pizza, to live on campus." expressing his dissatisfaction with the FBI's improper use of adminis investigatory powers given to feder He said a large percentage of the the meal he just finished at Russell trative subpoenas to obtain private al agents under the USA PATRIOT grill, dessert, hot entree, salad and, in some cases, make-your-own." change was based on student feed dining hall. records and the controversy over the Act, which Congress reauthorized back. "I guess I'm full, but I'm not dismissal of eight U.S.