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I f ". ~ .. Santa Fe applies to Try Anything: Hens move to No.1 extend li9uor _license Newark Police ride-along with win over UMass Seepage 5 Seepage 21 Seepage 27 [nrev.lew I Check out the website. for Tuesday, November 16, 2010 ·oom breaking news and more. Volume 137, Issue 12 Union protests university's construction project BY MARINA KOREN "We're out here because we're the university's construction of the salaries ofuniversity President Patrick Managing News Editor trying to uphold the wage and benefits new facility East Campus Utility Harker and Executive Vice President standards that we have established in Plant Project,-located near Academy Scott Douglass and stated: '~Why Members of the United this area," said 'Benny Johnson, of Street and Lovett Avenue. do people like Mr. Harker and Mr. Brotherhood of Carpenters and Clayton, Del., a representative of the According to the fliers, the . Douglass think it's OK for them to Joiners of America Union 626 union. "And we believe the University university has hired an out-of earn this kind ofpay while supporting stood behind a large white sign that of Delaware is helping to destroy it." state contractor that according to the destruction of area standards for read "Shame on the University of The United Brotherhood of the protestors, pays their carpentry local workers by allowing out-of Delaware" at the intersection of Carpenters and Joiners of America employees wages and benefits that are state contractors [ ... ] to work on their South College Avenue and Delaware Union 626 i~ a private company and substantially less than .the area labor projects?" Avenue, passing out fliers to passers trade union located in New Castle, standards for carpenters working in The flier continued, "Maybe Mr. by about the university's construction Del. Late lastweekandMonday, union Delaware. projects. members distributed fliers describing The fliers also listed the yearly See LABOR page 10 THE REVIEW /Megan Krol Union members protest Thursday. Adderall: Professors' concentration free speech comes with consequences protected BY CHRIS MEIDANIS BY ALEXANDRA DUSZAK Staff Reporter Executive Editor In response to recent federal It's 10 p.m., the night before and Supreme Court decisions Julia's accounting final. The that have challenged academic university junior has had five othet freedom and First Amendment exams this week, and zero time to rights of professors, the university study. There's only one way for Faculty Senate finalized a new her to learn all the information she amendment to its handbook at needs for her exam, but staying up an Oct. 4 meeting in an effort all night seems impossible-at least to protect the free speech of until she reaches into her purse for a university professors. small, blue pill. The amendment revised She pops it in her mouth. ambiguous language regarding Withjn 30 minutes, her brain's free speech, giv~ng faculty neural circuits are on fire. She's 1HE REVIEWNicole Becker the right to freely address any completely focused on her textbook, Cho Cho Cai (right), Ji Cong Wang (center) and Ai Zhong prepare for their Japanese class in Gore Hall. The matter, institutional policy or and will remain so for several more students are part of a growing trend of international students coming to the university. action of the administration. The hours. revised policy now covers faculty' "You just get zoned in on governance, an aspect of academic whatever you're doing," Julia says. freedom· that allows professors "Anything that you're studying is Int'l enrollment doubles to speak freely when discussing just way more interesting than it BY NICOLE BECKER business major. She had initially policies or changes in faculty or administrative structure. would be normally. I'm like, 'Oh, E_ntertainment Editor A look at UD's international gone to Japan to study, but she this isn't terrible at all,' even if it's "We now have a policy students: part 1 of 2 and her father later decided that like statistics or accounting. It's just Freshman Cho Cho Cai sits attending an American university that's as strong as any I've seen easier ·to-focus on it, get it all done with three other Chinese students Coming next week: would provide her with more at any university," said Jan Blits, without straying from it." waiting for her Japanese class to International students not educational opportunities. chairperson of the Committee on Faculty Welfare and Privileges The feeling Julia describes is begin. She is smiling and her hands fully integrated · "I was in Japan, but Japanese the result of Adderall, a drug that -are gesturing with animation as her university is very hard to enter but within the Faculty Senate. "Faculty aids in concentration. In recent voice rattle~ off in aforeign tongue. easier to graduate," Cai said. "It's governance is now broadly stated pronounces each syllable as she years, college students have hailed She is confident and opposite in America, it's easier to . so that any forum in which I voice Adderall a "wonder drug" and have passionate as she speaks until she is formulates her response in English. enter, but hard to graduate, but I an opinion or anyone else voices turned to it as a Study aid at an approached by an American student "Page se-ven-ty six," Cai said. want to enter the university firs.t, as an opinion on university matters unprecedented rate. A 2007 study asking her about the homework "Yes. You are ver·y wel-come." soon as possible, so I come here." would be protected." _from the University of Michigan's assignment. 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