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The ideas and opinions of advertisements appearing in this Kristin Vorce Entertainment Editor Corinne Clemetsen, Andrea Ramsay publication are not necessarily those of The Review staff or the university. Enterprise News Editor Meghan Lobdell ~ April 24, 2007 3 Campus shootings prompt re-evaluation of UD's plan BY SARAH LIPMAN ings in the begllining of the academ­ let people "tailgate" behind them National/Stale News Editor ic year to educate all students living when they enter residence halls. In light of the April 16 Virginia in residence halls about safety, she "Public safety takes the lead, but we Tech massacre, during which 32 peo­ said. need cooperation of other students to ple were killed, two of whom were in "We held these meetings at the make the university as· safe as possi­ a residence hall, students and faculty beginning of the Fall Semester and ble," Flatley said. alike have expressed increasing con­ again in October after the assaults Senior Liana Kinsella said she cern regarding safety within the uni­ that occurred off campus," Skelley thinks other universities have better versity. said. "We're holding them again in safety plans, especially in residence Courtesy of Brendan Taubman On April 17, university light of Virginia Tech, just to remind halls, where entrance often requires T-shirts, designed by senior Brendan Taubman, are being sold to raise President David P. Roselle addressed people how to stay safe." checking in before a visitor can enter. money for the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund. the university community in a letter She said all RAs also attended a "At Quinnipiac University in published on UDaily. He stated the meeting regarding how they felt after Connecticut, my friend said you need school works closely with Newark, the shooting at Virginia Tech. to sign in with someone or have New Castle County and Delaware "We wanted to know how our someone come downstairs to get U D reaches out to State Police and safety plans are con­ staff felt after the incident .and how you," Kinsella said. "During my stantly being looked at in depth. they responded," Skelley said. "It's Big/Little Week for my sorority, all I "Those plans are routinely eval­ important they feel safe." had to do was just knock on the door uated, and in view of this week's She said landline telephones are and someone let me in. They didn't VTech community tragedy, a comprehensive evaluation required to be" installed in each resi­ know who I was." BY SARAH LEWIS amount, but rather showing support is under way, and additional ways to dence hall room because the univer­ She ~aid she does not under­ Student Affairs Editor to the victims' falnilies and raising improve protection will be speci­ sity is capable of sending out mass stand how the gunman at Virginia The phrase, "it could have hap- awareness. fied," he said. voicemails regarding safety issues Tech was able to execute his plans pened anywhere," has beeri repeat- "Bearing the costs of losing a Roselle stated in an e-mail mes­ and weather cancellations. and that this incident is a good ed over and over during the past loved one can be an extremely emo­ sage-thaCstuoents ate encouiageato­ · "Room phones are used for a chance for tlie university to re-evalu­ week. The events at Virginia tional and physical toll on one's add their cell phone numbers to their multitude of reasons - from cancel­ ate its safety policies. Polytechnic Institute and State self," Seelin said. "While we may contact information in UDSIS as a lations because of weather to safety "I would hope our university University were felt by college stu- not be able to console each individ­ new outlet for communication. A issues to package notifications and would send out an e-mail right away dents nationwide. Now students ual friend or family member program is available which allows it's required that each room has one," after anything happened," Kinsella can show their support by donating touched by this incident, we can immediate text messages to be sent to Skelley said. said. "They should always let stu­ money to Virginia Tech. assist by donating at least a dollar to phone numbers listed in the database, If they see someone they believe dents know what is going on cam­ Senior Rose Overbey, presi- aid in the financial expenses. similar to the mass e-mail and voice­ does not belong in their residence pus." dent of the Student Government · "The last thing these people mail system which is currently in halls, students are also encouraged to Senior Andy Seagraves said the Association, said her group is col- should have to worry about in a place. · question them if they feel comfort­ university should take the time to bet- .lecting money at kiosks in the time like this is bearing the costs "There is a communications able or find a resident assistant. ··· ter educate the university comniunity Trabant University Center to be associated with it. It is important technology that can broadcast, Otherwise, they should call Public about safety plans because many stu­ donated to the Hokie Spirit that Virginia Tech knows and feels almost instantaneously, text mes­ Safety at 831-2222 or 911 from their dents are unaware of how the campus Memorial Fund, which was created the support of all university com­ sages to cell phones," he said. "That room phone, she said. would respond in an emergency. by Virginia Tech in response to the munities across the country, espe­ technology is limited in that it can "If a student calls from their "I don't even know what the tragedy. The money will help pay cially from the University of only broadcast to those cell phones room phone, even if they don't say safety plans are here," Seagraves for victims' funerals and provide Delaware." for which the numbers are on the anything, we can at least track where said. grief counseling for the campus Senior Brendan Taubman has database in question." the call came from to check it out," Kinsella said the students at community and fund other general designed T-shirts whose proceeds Cathy Skelley, assistant director Skelley said. Tech should have received an e-mail needs. will go to the Hokie Spirit of Residence Life, said residence hall Public Safety police Chief after the first shooting, even if offi­ "We realized that there were Memorial Fund. The front of the procedures have been in place for an James Flatley said police respond to cials believed it was an isolated inci­ going to be a lot of things going on maroon and orange T-shirts extended period of time. all 911 calls made and evaluate the dent. on-campus and our organization includes the date of the shooting "Our residence halls have been situation carefully. "If I never got an e-mail, I wanted to do something as well," while the back reads, 'Today, we are locked for 24 hours a day for over "If you see something out of the would have gone to class too," Overbey said. "We thought it would all Hokies.' five years," Skelley said. "We are ordinary, we encourage students to Kinsella said. "I would have gone be stronger if it were a group "I designed T-shirts and got the also able to track who comes in and report it as soon as possible," Flatley about my day and that's scary to response from the Delaware com- idea off everyone's Facebook pro­ out of them through the access card said. "Timely reporting is very think about." munity." . files of the Virginia Tech logo and used to get inside." important." SGA plans to make its dona- black ribbon," Taubman said. "I Resident assistants hold meet- He said students are told not to tion to the Hokie Spirit Memorial saw it as a uniform symbol for all Fund by the end of the month, she schools across the country. said. The shirts cost $15 and can be "Groups are more than wel- ordered on Facebook through the come if they want to help us at our global event entitled "Hokie police reports kiosks," Overbey said. "By partner- Memorial Fund Custom T-shirts." ing with SGA it all falls under one "The shirts cost $8 to create MAN ABDUCTED FROM HOME form and SGA can write one big and I charge $15," Taubman said. Three unknown male suspects abducted a man from his home on Elkton Road Sunday at approximately check once it's collected. We will, "I'm guaranteeing $7 goes to the 11 p.m., Newark Police Lt. Thomas LeMin said. The victim opened his door after the suspects knocked and of course, acknowledge other fund from each shirt." the three men forced themselves into the residence. A fourth suspect was not present during the time of the organizations that helped. Following the shootings, he robbery. . . "It's a way to culminate efforts said he decided to do something One of the suspects entered the home with a shotgun, LeMin said. The suspects robbed four people of their instead of having lots of small helpful after seeing other messages personal belongings while inside the residence. Other undisclosed items were taken from the home. ones." and activities. The suspects demanded the homeowner give them all the money present inside the residence, but he did SGA is also partnering with the "I just decided to do this not have any cash, LeMin said. The suspects took the homeowner from his residence against ·his will and drove Student Centers Programming because after the shootings I saw him to a place to obtain money. Advisory Board on the project, she lots of messages and movements to The homeowner escaped the suspects and called police once the vehicle arrived at an undisclosed loca­ said. say prayers and turn on lights for a tion, LeMin said. The vehicle is described as a dark-colored Ford Crown Victoria. "At every SCPAB event within few hours at night," Taubman said. The case is still under investigation and anyone with information is asked to call the Newark Police at the next week or so there's going to "I thought it'd be helpful to do 366-7110 ext. 135. · be a collection," Overbey said. something tangible." Senior Jennifer Seelin, SCPAB Since many students hail from STABBING AT SHAGGY'S ON MAIN president, stated in an e-mail mes- Virginia and neighboring states, A 22-year-old university male student received stab wounds on Thursday at approximately 1:30 a.m. , sage that her organization teamed Overbey said the university's demo­ inside Shaggy's on Main, LeMin said. The victim was stabbed in his left wrist during a physical altercation. up with SGA because it represents graphics make the tragedy more The suspect, Jason Vogel, a 25-year-old Newark resident, was arrested by Newark Police after they arrived the student body in times such as personal. a~ t~e scene of the crime, LeMin said. Police charged Vogel with intentionally, causing physical injtiry to. the these. "I think because of the popula- VICtim. "In previous years, SGA has tion of the university, a lot of people Vogel was arraigned through the Justice of the Peace Court, where he was issued $3,000 secured bond for been the one to raise awareness and ·have a connection to Virginia the charge, LeMin said. collect donations in times of need," Tech," she said. "Even if you don't Emergency personnel from Aetna Hose, Hook and Ladder transported the victim to the Christiana See lin said. have a personal connection, it's still Emergency Room where he was treated for wrist injuries, LeMin said. _ Kevin Mackiewicz She said the donation program another university with students just is not about raising a specific like us." I I . ' !.. __ I ------•---·------_j 4 April 24. 2007 }lt Students address the racial dMde on campus

BY MATTHEW GALLO pared to 18 returning black students diversity is high in those areas. minontles and white students intellectually, culturally and racially Staff Reporter on East Campus. The Towers are more diverse, through housing assignments. diverse," Rich said. "The priority to Junior Jissell Martinez began Black students have been Martinez said, as there is a greater Linda Carey, who has been diversify is supported by the her college experience in a new underrepresented on campus in number of Asian, Latino and minor­ director of Housing Assignment Assistant Vice President for Multi­ atmosphere filled with an assort­ 2006, with only 517 black students ity resident assistants. Services since 1997, said she does Cultural Affairs, Assistant Provost ment of faces and different personal­ on campus- a drop from 559 in "Just last year, a white student not feel the campus is racially divid­ for Student Diversity and Office of ities. 2004. moved from Laird ed, but students Student Life." As she sat down for her first Martinez, president of the campus to East will choose to live Although the Office of floor meeting in the Dickinson resi­ Campus Alliance de La Raza and a Campus because "The racial in areas where they Admissions does not have a quota dence hall lounge, she surveyed the resident assistant at the Christina he felt out of feel more comfort­ for minority students, he said the room in an attempt to interact with Towers, said the reason for the sepa­ place," Martinez division on able and can con­ university received a record number her new friends with whom she ration is because black students are said. "The same campus and in nect to the resi­ of Fall 2007 applicants, with more would be spending the next four the minority on Central and East concept applies dence hall.staff. than 23,000, including a record years. From across the room, a stu­ Campuses. for white students, residence halls "I am excited number of applications from stu­ dent caught her attention as he "There isn't much diversity in as they want to be is Or) unspo~en about the new dents of color. Over the years, the began reciting a racial joke involv­ those areas," she said. "As a result, around their own president who is university has seen a significant ing Mexicans and blacks to his fel­ Latinos, blacks and Asians are put in kind." th1ng, but 1t interested in glob­ increase in applications from aca­ low floor mates. uncomfortable situations and refuse Sophomore alization and work­ demically-qualified students of Shocked. Uncomfortable. to live in those areas." Amy Valerino, exists."· ing with admis- color. Martinez had just experienced her Martinez said only two minori­ who lives in sions in recruiting "The undergraduate student first encounter with racism and ty students lived on her freshman Harrington B resi­ qualified African­ body next year will almost surely be racial tension at college. year floor, On() was a victim of a dence hall, said it -Jeremiah Guy, Americans to the most racially and ethnically Nearly three years have gone hate crime when a white student is obvious the Black Student Union diversify our cam- diverse in UD history," Rich said. by since Martinez's moment of wrote the N-word on the student's campus is racially jun/'or Class pus," Carey said. While diversity remains in racial awakening, but she said noth­ door. As a result, segregation occurs divided. When assigning question at the university, Martinez ing has changed. The lack of diver­ among black and white students "You rarely Representative freshman housing, said resident assistants need to focus sity on campus is growing, Martinez because of racial tension. see any black stu­ a sophisticated on racial differences during their said, as the university is racially Jeremiah Guy, Black Student dents on East computer system diversity training to prepare activi­ divided with most black students Union junior class representative, Campus, as it is predominantly completes the housing request with­ ties and programs to educate their living on Laird Campus while South said the university ranks a five on a white," Valerino said. "I only have out any knowledge of a student's students. and East Campuses are predomi­ one to 10 scale with 10 being the two black students on my whole race or ethnicity. Students with the Residence Life is actively try­ nantly white. most diverse and one being the least floor." most semesters on campus are given ing to promote diversity through dif­ "Minorities want to surround diverse. A transfer from Elon first preference, she said. Freshmen ferent programs and student organi­ themselves with people they feel "The racial division on campus University, she said she was placed are assigned housing by majors, zations, she said. comfortable around and those who and in residence halls is an unspo­ on a floor with all black female stu­ honors curriculum and are some­ Guy said the solution to inte­ they can connect with the most," she ken thing, but it exists," Guy said. dents for the second semester ofher times randomly placed, she said. grating the racially-divided campus said. "When a black student is thrown freshman year at Delaware. The "A soft quota is used in some is to promote programs and situa­ According to the 2006 onto a predo~antly white floor black students were all assigned one cases, as we do not want all of the tions where blacks and whites are University Housing Assignment his or her freshman year, it is a cul­ side of the hall, while she and other floor to be of the same race of stu­ encouraged to mix. Services survey of underrepresented ture shock. As a result, black stu­ white students were placed on the dents," Carey said. "Maybe the experience will be groups, 184 returning black students dents become discouraged." other side. University Provost Dan Rich better than they think," he said. currently live in Christiana Towers, Guy and Martinez both agreed "All the black students were stated in an e-mail the campus is "Instead of telling students to while only 31 black returning stu­ minority students resort to the kind of forced to hang out," Valerino more diverse today than at any other become more diverse, find com­ dents live on East Campus. In 2004, Christiana Towers _and said. time in its history. monalities between whites and a record high 210 returning black Independence Complex their sopho­ Martinez said the university "The university is committed to minorities." students occupied the Towers, com- more and junior years because encourages separation between an educational community that is Teaching abstinence doesn't go all the waY

BY LAUREN DEZINNO "What we're seeing is that 49 percent of the students "Abstinence-only programs are often based on myth, Senior News Reporter who are in the programs have remained abstinent," Malone not fact," Wilgen said. Recent research on abstinence-only education shows it said. "At the same time, 49 percent of the students in the She said, however, there is a place for abstinence in sex does not affect the sexual behavior of young people. A study control groups have remained abstinent. This really leads us education. conducted by Mathematica Policy Research compared stu­ to believe that these programs, which are designed to teach "It's very important," Wilgen said. "We need to talk dents in four different abstinence-only programs with a con­ abstinence, are completely ineffective." about it and its advantages. I'm opposed to only discussing trol group and researchers found that sexual activity Title V, which provides $50 million of federal money abstinence. If we do that, we are ignoring the reality of sex- between the two groups was the same. per year to states for abstinence programs, is set to expire ual activity among teenagers." · Patrick Malone, a spokesman for the Sexuality this summer, he said. Sarah Kinsella, a senior at Harvard University, is the Information and Education Council of the United States, "Unless Congress takes action, that funding source will co-founder and current co-president of True Love said the abstinence programs that were studied are funded dry up,'' Malone said. "We are encouraging Congress to let Revolution, a group with the mission to promote pre-mari­ by the U.S. government under Title V. it expire because it's really a waste of time to keep funding tal abstinence. these programs that really don't work." The group, which became a student organization in It is up to the state whether to accept the funding, as November of last year, promotes discussion of relationships they have to match every $4 of federal money with $3 of and sexuality issues on campus. their own, he said. "We don't take a position on abstinence-only educa­ If Congress chooses to renew the funding for absti­ tion,'' Kinsella said. "Instead of focusing on the political nence-only programs this summer, the Sexuality agenda, we are more concerned with promoting the idea of Information imd Education Council would continue to pro­ this on our campus. I think it's very important to include mote the teaching of comprehensive sexual education to abstinence within existing programs." young people, Malone said. She said the group also offers support to students who "Comprehensive sexuijJ education includes talking are choosing to make this life decision. about abstinence,'' he said. "It is the right choice for many "It's not an easy one in our world and there are a lot of young people and the only way to prevent STDs. The worst influence~ to the contrary,'' Kinsella said. thing is when people are kept in the dark about ways they Junior Lauren Chell said taking part in an abstinence­ can protect themselves." only program would not prevent her from having sex. She Julie Wilgen, individual and family studies professor, does, however, believe abstinence has a place in sex educa­ said comprehensive sex education is the most beneficial to tion programs. young people. "Whether you teach abstinence or not, people will still "When they have compared students who take compre­ have sex," Chell said. "However, abstinence is a safe-sex hensive sex education, it shows they wil1 use birth control option so I think it should be taught." effectively and more frequently than ~tudents who have just She sajd she knows several people who are abstinent, THE REVIEWtllany Caufield , as much sexual activity but tend not to protect themselves," and they took sex education which taught both safe-sex and According to a study conducted by Matbematica Policy Wilgen said. abstinence. Research, comprehensive eex education yields the same Many of the abstinence-only pro grains are not present­ "Just because you teach young people about sex, does­ ing students with medically-accurate information, she said. n't mean they are going to have sex," Chell said. results as abstineB£e-Only education. }Jt A[!ril 24, 2007 5 The many facets of campus Judaism .Part three of the four-part student religion series

BY JOE ZIMMERMANN religious aspects of Judaism, she has StaffR eporter . been seeking to strengthen the cul­ ·Wh en sophomore Emily tural aspects of her Jewish identity. Aufschauer was asked to give a ser­ "Most . Jewish kids our age mon at a KESHER service at the (!.Ten't really interested in the reli­ Hillel Center this past Friday, she gious aspects of Judaism but are immediately knew she wanted to more interested· in the cultural and incorporate Virgin ia Polytechnical social- aspects," Chabrow said. "I Institute and State University into would say we only have one or two her speech. The news of the shoot­ traditional Orthodox Jewish students ings and the aftermath dominated on campus." the media all week, but Aufschauer KESHER emerged from its could not shake the feeling that club status to full-fledged RSO sta­ something else still needed to be tus two years ago. However, while said. the number of students participating Her task was simple enough: in campus Jewish organizations read a passage of the Torah aloud increases and the community and interpret its meaning in her own becomes more vibrant, it has little way. impact recruiting prospective Jewish So, in front of an audience of students. approximately 40 Reform Jews, she Both Chabrow and Aufschauer began her sermon. The text men­ said the university's strong Jewish tioned the ridding of "plagues of the population did not influence their body" - she took the words and college choice. transformed them. Instead of the "The fact that Delaware has need to extinguish the plagues of the such a large Jewish community did­ CoUrtesy of Rebecca Chabrow body, Aufschauer reinforced the obli­ n't affect my decision to come here," In 2005, junior Rebecca Chabrow took a Birthright trip with ot~er university students. gation to extinguish the "plagues of Aufschauer said. "In fact, I even our time." applied to some Catholic universi­ brought the group from club status to applicable to other areas. Jarema a common culture and values," she She spoke of addressing global ties." anRSO. said the setting of the class was com­ · said. "Most students see their faith as epidemics and the violence that While many community tem­ It seems unlikely for a previous­ fortable and taught in such a way culture and values and not exactly as threatens our society. The ideas of ples and synagogues have local ly uninvolved Jewish student to that the rabbi did not press any ideas a set of religious beliefs." her sermon focused on an important youth groups for high school stu­ become the president of a prominent onto the students. Instead, students To help forge this common cul­ Jewish concept ofh ealing the world. dents and nationwide Jewish organi­ and burgeoning Jewish organization were encouraged to believe what ture, the various organizations on Aufschauer, secretary ofKE SH­ zations offer broader opportunities on campus in less than two years, they chose. campus work together during the ER, reminded the audience of the for Jewish teens, many actively and yet this was the case for Rubin. "In class, when I teach these year to co-sponsor certain Jewish negative impact of the college stu­ Jewish students at the university Campus Rabbi Eliezer things, I don't make any value judg­ events. dent lifestyle - with attention con­ have had little experience with them. Sniederman said he may know the ments, no matter what people think," In addition to Freshman Fest, centrated toward getting classwork Aufschauer said she was not reason. Sniederman said. "I teach from an Rubin said all six groups collaborate done and getting ahead individually, involved with Judaism in high Sniederman, who is an on-and­ Orthodox perspective, but there's no to host Israel Fest, which was held students often lose sight of the school and that it took some high­ off adjunct professor of the Jewish sense in preaching to college stu­ last week on the North Green. The greater need for community-based quality Jewish programming on studies program and runs the Chabad dents." day-long celebration commemorates initiatives. campus before she further investigat­ center, said many students are not Sniederman warned, however, Israel's Independence Day. Israel Working together and building ed the groups the university had to properly exposed to their faith before that secular Jewish studies cannot Fest features crowd-pleasers such as a better community, she said, is the offer. entering college. replace theological study for Jewish a hooka-thon, falafel-eating contests best way to heal the world. Before she moved into her resi­ "Jewish students who come to students. and a bevy of live bands. dence hall freshman year, college usually don't have a good "There are two aspects of The next great challenge for It is no secret the university Aufschauer took part in Hillel's background in their religion," Jewish study: academic study taking Jewish students on campus is to houses a large Jewish community Freshman Fest, which gives Jewish Sniederman said. "Any study that place in a university and religious increase their interfaith relations, consisting of approximately 10 per­ freshmen a chance to move into their students received prior to coming to study," he said. "Some people are most specifically working together cent of the entire student population. rooms earlier in hopes that these stu­ college is usually limited and ele­ interested in the history of the reli­ with Christian and Muslim students However, to many non-Jewish stu­ dents will make social connections. mentary." gion and some people want to grow to create harmony among the differ­ dents, the differences between the "I went to Freshman Fest and Sniederman said he believes through God. ent religious groups. Jewish sects on campus are some­ decided to attend some Hillel pro­ students require a higher level of "Jewish studies in the academic So far, the university's Jewish times unclear. grams after that to see what they education and maturity to under­ sense do not makt better Jews." organizations have made steady Aufschauer's KESHER group were about," she said. "I was stand their religion fully. For students who are interested progress toward this goal. Chabrow is the university's hub of Reform impressed with their programs, "What can you teach kids on in more faith-based classes, said the JHP has dinners with the Judaism, the country's largest main­ which included a lot of social events three hours a week at after-school Chabrow said the various student Muslim Students' Association and stream Jewish denomination. and philosophical discussions." Hebrew classes?" he .said. "Students organizations offer Jewish religious hosted an Interfaith Study Break Conservative and Orthodox Judaism Senior Brian Rubin, former need a certain-threshold of education teachings of varying depth. Chabad before finals. are also prominent sects. While each president ofKESHER, also admitted before they can really learn about the is known to feature more conserva­ Rubin said it is imperative for denomination adheres to the general he was not involved with the Jewish faith." tive teachings as Sniederman fol­ his generation to promote interfaith laws and traditions stipulated in the community as a teen and, like While Jewish studies does not lows the Orthodox tradition. camaraderie. Torah, the Jewish holy text, each has Chabrow and Aufschauer, he did not have an official department at the Perhaps Chabad's most unique "I do think that having good separate interpretations as to how choose to attend the university university, students can take courses program is one titled "Sinai relations between faiths is an impor­ those customs are to be carried out. because of its Jewish population. that go toward a Jewish studies Scholars." Taught by Sniederman tant step in going forward in our Although the campus' six Rubin first became involved in minor. Created in 1990, the program independent of the university, the increasingly globalized world," he Jewish organizations, KESHER, Jewish life at Activities Night at enlists more than 15 professors in course is offered across the country said. "We, as the young adults of KOACH (Conservative Judaism), Trabant University Center his fresh­ various departments such as English, and focuses on learning more about America, need to show that people Hillel Student Life, Blue Hens For man year. His interest piqued after history, philosophy and political sci­ the Ten Commandments. of different faiths can get along." Israel, Chabad (Orthodox seeing the displays for Hillel and ence to teach its classes. Chabrow said students in the Sniederman agreed and said Movement) and the Jewish Heritage KESHER and talking with students Sniederman said approximately course take .eight classes, go on an maintaining positive interfaith rela­ Program, all have varying missions, involved in the organizations. 40 percent of students at the univer­ educational trip and write a paper on tions will be increasingly crucial in each have similar goals. "At that point, KESHER was sity will take a Jewish studies class the teachings at the end of the the coming years. Junior Rebecca Chabrow is a not an RSO, but just a small club before they graduate. Many students, course. The reward for the experi­ "It's good to have a collegiate member of the Jewish Heritage under Hillel," he said. "I was hesi­ he said, are more open to the idea of ence is $500 for each student, pro­ mindset between the faiths," he said. Program, a group that officially tant to get involved and go to Hillel taking such a class because the vided by the Sinai Scholars program. "I think the best way to have beauty became a Registered Student at first but I eventually did in the nature of minority studies has Despite the economic incen­ in the world is a rainbow. It's impor­ Organization a year ago. middle of Fall Semester in 2003." changed and there is less of a stigma tives, most Jewish students do not tant to listen to other people and see Chabrow grew up Shortly after, Rubin ran for attachd to being outwardly Jewish. participate in the campus' Jewish how they view the world." Conservative, but is no longer as social chair and later became presi­ Junior Lauren Jarema took a organizations for religious reasons, religiously active as she once was, dent of KESHER in Fall 2004. Jewish studies class with but instead for more worldly ones. she said. Instead of focusing on the During his presidency, Rubin Sniederman and found its material "Judaism is more about having 6 April 24. 2007 who's who in Newark The inside scoop on TCB'Y's friendly owner

BY RYAN JORNLIN Samee said his store's success is due to the fact that at least StaffReporter 90 percent of his customers are healthier-minded college stu­ When his customers walk into TCBY on Main Street, they dents who prefer the fat-free confection to ice cream. get more than just a cup of frozen yogurt - they are personally "If you eat ice cream every day, you'll be like this," Samee greeted by the store's recognizable owner, who enjoys talking said as he pantomimed a pot-belly. "I have students come in and with them as much as he does running his business. get yogurt every day." Kazi Abdus Samee moved to Delaware from Bangladesh To keep his business growing in the competitive Main approximately 10 years ago and has worked his way up from a Street market, Samee said he is asking the city to permit him to clerk at 7-Eleven to owning his own frozen yogurt franchise in a add a Mrs. Field's cookie store into the same space. bustling college town. Customer remember him for his dark hair In addition to TCBY, Samee owns the apartment above the store with red streaks. and rents it to students. According to many of his customers, including Newark res­ "The reason I like the students, too, is because I own this ident and regular Charles Molloy, Samee engages everyone who building and it's students who rent the apartment above me," he enters his store. said. "He takes time to talk to his customers and get to know Senior tenants Kelly Conant and Rebecca Hussey agreed them," Molloy said. Samee puts the same hard work into being a landlord that he Samee memorizes the order for Molloy and his wife, who does into his business. come in every Friday afternoon and has it ready in the freezer by "Whenever something's broken and needs to be fixed, we the time they walk through the door. THE REVIEW/ Ryan Jornlin just tell him and it's done," Hussey said. Samee said Malloy always orders a cookie sandwiCh with Kazi Abdus Samee makes an effort to welcome new and As an unofficial bonus to their rental agreement, Samee frozen yogurt in the middle, "the Yogwich," which Samee still returning customers. checks the parking lot behind the store when he is not serving makes for him despite the fact that it was taken off the. menu customers frozen yogurt. move to Newark with him in the middle of 2008. years ago. "When he's not on shift downstairs, he'll go out and make "Now it's very hard for me, you know," he said. "I have to "He is one of my regular customers, so I always take care sure our cars are OK," Conant said. work, take care of my house, the apartment- when they come, of him," Samee said. On one of his routine checks six months ago, Samee said he they'll be able to help me." He said he also tries to go out of his way for his other cus­ found one of his tenant's car windows smashed. tomers. He recently compensated one who received a ticket Samee said he does not have a college degree, yet his busi­ "It was around 8:30 or 9," he said. "I went around back and ness continues to prosper alongside the other establishments on while parked in front of his store. saw someone broke the window of one of my tenant's cars, so I Main Street by staying separate from the recent surge of ice "I went up to his car and gave him a quart and didn't charge told them and called the police." cream and gelato stores in the area. anything," he said. "He was happy because the ticket was $5, Samee allows student organizations to hold fundraisers at ''Now there's Baskin Robbins, Cold Stone, Caffe Gelato," and I gave him a $4.99 quart. So he's breaking even, right?" TCBY nine times per semester. It is a popular fundraiser for he said, "but nobody has the yogurt like we do. That's the only Samee said his view on the situation is that a person will not sororities in particular and he gives 20 percent of the profits to reason I'm alive." come back into his store to buy a $3 frozen yogurt if they think charity, he said. Sophomore Deborah Choron is one of Samee's many stu­ they will get a $5 parking ticket. Samee said he enjoys working with students and he is dent customers. She said she goes to TCBY because she prefers Samee, who lives by himself in Newark, has a wife and always sad to see them graduate. nine-month-old son, both of whom still live in Bangladesh along the lighter frozen yogurt. "I like them," he said. "They're nice to me and I'm nice to "I just really like TCBY," Choron said. "It's not like heavy with Samee's mother. He said they will most likely be able to them." · ice cream." Student wakes from comci after Spring Break accident

BY VICTORIA BALQUE-BURNS clinic and then transferred to a hospi­ ambulance, she said. It was a risky StaffReport er tal because of the severity of his decision because Conticelli had The first night of sophomore injuries, he . said. He suffered from developed acute pneumonia and Paul Conticelli's Spring Break in severe head trauma, which led doc­ faced the chance of his lungs filling Cancun started out normal enough. tors to put him into a medically­ with fluid or collapsing, but he was He went clubbing and had some induced coma since the extent of the successfully transported back to his drinks with his Sigma Phi Epsilon damage was unknown. home state ofNew York the next day. brothers - but everything changed Conticelli's mother, Paula, said Conticelli remained in a coma within a few hours. she felt numb when she received the until approximately two weeks ago, At approximately 4 a.m. on news from LaBruno, but knew she at which time he was transferred March 25, Conticelli was crossing had to get down to Mexico as soon·as from a hospital to a rehabilitation the street with his fraternity brother, possible. center near his house. Paula said he junior Mark Ptomey, when he was "I lost a child four years ago. I has made a great deal of progress, as struck by a car. lost Paul's brother on March 17, so it he is now talking, slowly walking "I just remember the bus was surreal," she said. "I literally and feeding himself. dropped us off like a mile away from flew out of the bed and just knew it Although Conticelli is on the our hotel and we got off without even was major." road to recovery, his family still faces noticing," Ptomey said. "As we were Paula arrived in Cancun Sunday legal and financial issues. The man crossing the street, a car struck him night and said she was amazed by the who hit Conticelli was allegedly Courtesy of Joe LaBruno by the median and sent him flying support she received from drunk at the time of the accident and Paul Conticelli (right) was on Spring Break in Cancun with fellow through the air." StudentCity, the travel agency the is currently in jail awaiting prosecu­ SigEp brothers, including Joe LaBruno (left), when he was hit by a car. Since neither Conticelli nor SigEp brothers used to book their tion. Paula said she will pursue the Ptomey were carrying cell phones, trip, and the brothers themselves. case as long as the man's life is not at Paul has lot of friends, so we thought friends at the university for the calls, Ptomey had to flag down cars to get "[The brothers] never left the stake. it'd be a really good idea to sell these prayers and support they have sent to help. After officials told him he could hospital," she said. "They took turns Paula said she has already had to wristbands," he said. her family. She said the SigEp broth­ not ride in the ambulance with sleeping in the lobby." pay $50,000 to cover the cost of her SigEp began selling the wrist­ ers have become like her own chil­ Conticelli, Ptomey went back to the Even when she arrived at the son's hospital stay in.Mexico and the bands, which are black and say "Stay dren and changed her initial opinion hotel to collect Conticelli's personal hospital with Conticelli's brother and air ambulance, and the bills from the Strong Paul," nearly two weeks ago of fraternities with the dedication information and wake up their room­ other family members, two of the hospital in New York and the rehab and have already sold approximately they. have shown to her family. mate, Conticelli's "big brother" in SigEp brothers were sleeping in the center have not come in yet. 350 of the 500 they originally "Paul joined the fraternity last SigEp, senior Joe LaBruno. lobby. Conticelli's SigEp brothers real­ ordered. Based on how quickly the year and I was very apprehensive "Mark came back to the hotel "I said to them, 'Guys, go back ized the cost of his medical expenses wristbands are selling, LaBruno· said about him joining a fraternity room around 4:30 in the morning and to the hotel. We're here now. You and decided to· start a fundraiser to they are considering buying more. because I felt it's nothing but drink­ he woke me up and he just kept on don't need to be here,' " she said. help defray some of the costs. One of SigEp brothers are selling the ing," she said, ':but I could not be . saying 'Paul was hit by a car. Paul "That never stopped them." the brothers, Jon Kobets, came up wristbands for $3 each. Paula said · ll!Ore honored to have my son be a was hit by a car. He's in the Paula and the SigEp brothers did with the idea of selling Livestrong­ neighbors, friends and family in New part of this fraternity. hospital,' " LaBruno said. "I had been not know if Conticelli had any brain style wristbands. York have started their own fundrais­ "This fraternity showed me sleeping so I was kind of in a daze. I activity until .March 27, when tests LaBruno said the wristbands ers, but are also selling the SigEp everything that my son joined for - didn't really understand what he was were performed and the decision was were a perfect idea because they are wristbands. the loyalty, the love, the brotherhood. saying at first and it finally hit me." · made to have Conticelli transferred something that everyone can see. Paula said she wanted to send a They were amazing." Conticelli was first taken·(·m ,a uback >·ttll tAe •,Unitel,t .S.tates:.ey•,a.ir1 "It has Paul's name on it and big "thank ygu" to all of Conticelli's April 24, 2007 7

~Gun laws questioned ,after VTech massacre

BY SARAH KENNEY buying a gun. The organization, Senior News Reporter however, feels "a lot of work" needs As students return to classes in to be done to improve how data is the wake of the VIrginia Tech shoot­ collected at the state level and filed ings on April 16, many states are re­ in federal databases, he said. evaluating their gun control laws. The National Rifle Association Gunman Cho Seung-Hui used was unavailable for comment. two guns in the attack - a Walther Bob Henry, manager of X-Ring .22 caliber handgun he purchased Supply, a gun store just outside of online in February and a Glock 9 Newark, said the existing laws are millimeter pistol he purchased at a stronger than gun control advocates Virginia gun shop in March. To pur­ make it seem, chase the Glock, Cho showed his The federal background check driver's license, a checkbook and his can take a while, Henry said. "It green card, which are adequate could take three minutes or it could forms of identification under take up to three business days,'' he The Washington Complex is set to be completed in winter of 2008. VIrginia law. He passed the required said. federal background check. The system sometimes works He was 23 years old - two too well, Henry s~d. The store has a . years above the minimum age to buy few routine customers who often a handgun in Vttginia. have their purchases delayed Condos look to attract older AccOJ:ding to CNN·reports, the because the.ir names are similar to store owner said he was shocked the those of registered felons who are cr.Une.had been conurUtted with a not allowed to purchase firearms. gun purchased at his store, but had Henry also said he and his residents to downtown area no reason at the time to deny the employees use personal discretion sate. with wtential customers. BY BRITTANY TALARICO and take part in other activities pre- ' of Newark attracts people to the The Brady Campaign to "If the person is acting weird or Staff Reporter sented itself, we were really excit­ college town, he said. Prevent Gun Violence, the largest just doesn't seem right, we won't sell Last summer, a historic land­ ed." "I don't think people want to gun control grassroots organization to him," Henry said. mark was tom down to the dismay Chase said it is a good idea for live out in a cornfield anymore," jn the United States, contends that Although Delaware does not of those who had memories stored Newark to have residents living Leonard said. "People are looking the purchase was illegal. According" limit the "number of handguns that there. The Stone Balloon stood as a right on Main Street for that lock-and-go lifestyle. They ;to the Brady Campaign Web site, a can be bought in one month, if m~­ fixture on East Main Street for "If they are just dependent on want to be close to the conven­ judge's 2005 assertion that Cho ''pre­ tiple handgun purchases are made m more than 30 years and students students it can be difficult for busi­ iences of a small town." sented an imminent danger to him­ one store over a five-day period, the and residents alike were forced to nesses,'' she said. "I'm hoping it Construction on Main Street self as a result of mental illness," behavior must be reported to federal say a reluctant farewell to the will be good for downtown and will be a little more challenging, he ~hould have shown up on his federal officials, Henry said. renowned hot spot. attract new opportunities for the said. Building will start on the background check and prevented "If you buy 10 handguns in five This site is now the future rest of Newark." Main Street side and move toward him from buying a gun. days, the flags are going to go up," home of the Washington House There are many attractions to Delaware Avenue. State officials disagree. he said. "They monitor this stuff." Condominiums, luxury housing living in a college town, Chase Mayor Vance A. Funk III said According to reports . by The Freshman Jeff Moorshead said that starts at $329,000. said. he is enthused about the addition of Washington Post, suspicious infor­ he has gnus for recreational purpos­ J.R. Leonard, project manager "There is a feel to a university the condos on Main Street. mation would have shown up on his es. Moorshead believes gun control in charge of sales and marketing town, it's alive and dynamic," she "We believe it enhances our background check only if Cho had laws serve a purpose, especially in for the Washington House said. "I'm looking forward to the opportunity to attract retail busi­ been involuntarily committed to a protecting children. However, he Condominiums, said five different stimulation of being able to take a ness to Main Street," Funk said. psychiatric hospital. Cho received said gun control laws prevent crimi­ models of condos are available to class and go to a concert. There is "Downtown is a great place to buy, outpatient treatment. nals from obtaining gnus. They buyers. "The Newark" and "The a spontaneity which I think we are but we have been missing retail. The Brady Campaign grades could easily get a gun from their Nottingham" are the two largest looking forward to. "I personally believe this is states on the Str\mgth of their gun family or friends or buy one private­ penthouse-style homes, ranging in "Youngsters have a lot of the missing piece to the puzzle." control Jaws. The organization gave ly, he said. price from $599,000 to $614,000. energy and we are looking forward Mandy Williams, manager at .Vrrginia a C- in 2005 and gave "If someone is planning on "The Fairfield" model, which to experiencing a little of that vic­ Klondike Kate's, said the condos Delaware a C the same year. shooting other people, they will get is sold out, has two bedrooms, two ariously." will improve the overall look of According to the Brady their hands on a gun," Moorshead bathrooms and is being sold at a Jim Baeurle. former Stone Main Street and benefit business. Campaign report cards the gun con­ said. price of $329,000, Leonard said. Balloon owner and partner in the "It will be helpful to have trol laws in Delaware are similar to Guns should be available to "The Academy" and "The White Washington House Condominium more people in walking distance Jhose in Virginia. A license is not responsible people who want to pro­ Clay" have two bedrooms and two project, stated in an e-mail mes­ for the late nights," Williams said. needed.. to buy 11 gun and the pur- tect themselves, he said. If criminals bathrooms with a den and range in sage that the idea behind these con­ Senior Chelsea Saunders said chase of assault weapons and maga­ know a resident has a gun, their price from $364,000 to $379,000. dominiums was brought about by she has seen Main Street undergo a zines are not limited. Guns do not actions could be deterred. The entire facility will include the changing nature ofNewark and lot of changes and believes the new have , to be registered with law Politicians should take care three floors for the units and two the realization that the Stone condos are not a good idea for enforcement, so police officers in when tightening the gun control laws floors of parking, he said. The con­ Balloo,n had run its course in Newark. poth states have no idea how many that they do not leave law-abiding dos are scheduled to be fmished Newark. Students need to be kept in residents own gnus or where they are citizens at the mercy of criminals between the fall of2007 and winter "Residing in a college town is mind when building occurs, located. who can obtain weapons in a variety of2008. one of the largest growth areas in Saunders said. The majority of the There is no waiting period on of ways, Moorshead said. As construction begins to gain real estate, especially among population in Newark is students. gun sales, which is a measure some Head football coach K.G. momentum and attract prospectiye retirees,'' he said. "The ability to "These condominiums are states use to prevent crimes of pas­ Keeler is wary of handguns. After buyers, buzz has been circulating park one's car and walk to most ridiculous," she said. "They are not Ilion or to allow more in-depth back­ some of his players had a run-in with about this new housing, arousing everything you need is the biggest for students and adults will be liv­ ground checks, according to Brady the law last spring, he told his team curiosities and giving rise to ques­ attraction." ing there who will probably. com­ Gampaign state report cards on gun they could no longer have gnus, even tions concerning who will be the Baeurle said the prospective plain about the noise of Main laws. at their off-campus housing. new "townies." buyers showing interest in the con­ Street. I wouldn't want to live Sam Hoover, a staff attorney for "I just don't see why, living in Jamie Chase, Wilmington res­ dos ranges from families to univer­ there as an adult." The Legal Community Against this town, you would need a ident and purchaser of a condo, sity employees to retirees. Sophomore Elizabeth Violence, · an anti-gun violence firearm,'' Keeler said. said her husband, Bruce Chase, is "We just sold one of the pent­ K vochak said building the condos ~oup, commends approximately 20 It is too easy for people to get an adjunct professor of material house units to a family with young in a college town is not a smart states that require a more detailed guns, he said. science at the university and helps children under 10," he said. plan. background check than the federal "There are m.ore checks and conduct a research group with the Leonard said the sales office "I don't think it's an intelli­ reqUirements. He said the United balances for getting a driver's chairman of the department. on Main Street has already sched­ gent business move in a town States ;p.eeds to make a Jot of changes license than there are for getting a Chase said the lifestyle of uled three home-site reservations where the majority of people are ;to its gun control laws. gun,'' Keeler said. being able to walk to places instead and had one purchase agreement poor college students who cannot '' "Ideally, there would be licens­ He hopes the Virginia Tech inci­ of driving is appealing. afford luxury condos," Kvochak since opening two weeks ago. The ing of l;l]1 g\ll1 .owners .and registra­ dent will lead the way for more dis­ "Part of my husband's long­ office will not remain in the former said. l;ion of.al1fuearms.''Hoover said. cussion about gun control. term plan is to spend more time at CVS location for more than one "It would be like Donald f the LC.A.V is still. investigating "We need to have a dialogue," the university," she said. "When year. Trump living in the projects," she whe o's mental health history he "There has to be better this opportunity to walk to campus said. a ...... ny life, .• !l~.~iv~ty •. ~~fl . cul~e .l ~~~j~ 'l il.\ ,_l.._l.~f,) 1 J. ~, 1 j , _ ..... Jsno ···. m_e:ve.nfe4-• hitn ;·~am. - -;;;-;; ; ,,.,_,~--"~~- ~,~~ ~ 8 April 24, 2007 Colleges tina U.S. News:

Croup: UD pray for VT Vi~wGroup N~twcrk: Delaware JOin Gruup ranking system unfair,,. Slz~< l09rn<~mber> Type: Student Group~ -Community Group~ Nt'w: l More Member Name BY MATTHEW GALW ''Sometimes the rankings are not: , Gcm ... lhltNina#Fqp- M.uch¢>; SmffR~porter met with happiness from peopl~ who College presidents are in an uproar would prefer we ·Il}anipulatr .Public r University of Delaware llonates to Virginia \hew Group Tech as they plan a boycott of college surveys opinion with the ra:6kings," Flanigan )oln Group published by US. News & World Report said. N<:twork: Oel~ware each year. Sophomore Sean Keyvanfar said Size 157membcrs Sam Flanigan, deputy director of he was curious where Delaware ranked Type. Common Interest- Current Events New: 18 Mure Member$ data research at U.S. News, said the with other top schools when he decided Updated. Description rankings are based on several key meas- to come here in Fall 2005. t

BY WALLACE MCKELVEY counselors know which students require immediate follow­ their transcripts. Staff Reporter up." "In addition, they will have interesting out-of-class The future is calling, but will students pick up? Campagnuolo said the most recent schools to utilize his accomplishments, awards or honors 'and unusually strong Colleges nationwide are taking cues from telemarketers company's services include the Florida Institute of letters of recommendation in support of their applications," in an effort to attract prospective students and maintain their Technology, Allegheny College in northwest Pennsylvania Hirsh said. campus connection. and Dickinson College near Harrisburg, Pa. Ben Yagoda, an English professor, said he was encour­ "Telerecruiting has been our most successful service," Louis Hirsh, director of admissions, stated in an e-mail aged to contact students who expressed interest in the said Bob Campagnuolo, associate vice president of opera­ message the university had never considered using a telere­ English major. tions for GDA Integrated Services, a marketing firm with cruiting firm because it would be unethical and a violation "Admissions wanted to get top students to come here," calling centers throughout the United States. of the student's privacy. Yagoda said. Campagnuolo said colleges hire a telerecruiting service "Someone telephoning a student to talk about the "I was given a list of five names to talk to," he said. "I to call prospective students. The service acts as an extension University of Delaware should be someone who is directly left messages and talked to the mother of one." of a school's admissions department and promotes the uni­ associated with the university and can speak knowledgeably Yagoda said the university wanted a greater yield rate versity and answers general questions related to admissions about it," Hirsh said. for incoming freshmen. and college life. Campagnuolo said students are typically called in the The yield rate - the percentage of students who accept At GDA-IS, the telerecruiting service has two tiers, he late afternoon and telerecruiters say they are calling on the offer of admission - has decreased 6 percent since said. The first, telescripted calls, are scripted conversations behalf of a particular university. 2003. used to reach a large number of potential students. Those "I don't believe they say, 'We're an admissions Though Hirsh said approximately 44 percent of fresh­ who express an interest in the school are called by telere­ officer,' " he said. "We're not going to mislead the stu­ man applicants in 2006 say the university was their first cruiters a second time to talk in greater detail. dents." choice, only 31 percent of students offered admission end Campagnuolo said the call centers can handle up· to The list of prospective students is usually provided by up attending in the fall. 10,000 students. the university, Campagnuolo said. In cases where the uni­ Stephen Bernhardt, chair of the English department, "The callers talk to kids, feel them out and try to get versity does not have the phone numbers, GDA-IS has a said he has not seen a drop in admissions. them to fill out an application or come visit campus," he database service to find them. "We are doing a better job as a university of moving said. He said the firm also runs the list through a predictor students through their programs, so that time to degree is Once a college hires a telerecruiting firm, model. improving," Bernhardt said. "That has effects on enrollment Campagnuolo said callers study the admissions process and "We try to narrow down to the students who are most numbers, since students come and go more quickly." other details of a particular school in order to answer ques­ likely to enroll in your college or university and we focus on Hirsh said the drop has not had any effect on the uni­ tions. those students," Campagnuolo said. versity's admissions and enrollment targets change from "They really customize the calls based on the school Hirsh said the university does encourage professors and year to year. · they're working with," he said. advisers to contact prospective students. He said the size of the applicant pool is a better indica­ Gina Campbell, managing director of telerecruiting at "The admissions committee ranks students when it tion of where the university stands. GDA-IS, said the service is beneficial for overworked evaluates them for admissions and scholarships," he said. The Fall 2007 freshman applicant pool is the largest in admissions counselors. "The students with the highest rankings are flagged for the university's history, with more than 23,000 prospective "We do the groundwork for counselors by contacting a phone calling." students. large number of students in a short period of time," The top prospects have the most outstanding records, Campbell said. "Via daily e-mails, we are able to let the he said. This includes rigorous courses with mostly A's on Main Street center empowers local homeless

BY ANNEMARIE VALLI congressional care and outreach Faltot said. "We had 50 people begin to see the genuine effort image of what a homeless person Staff Reporter for the church, said a coalition of show up - it's pretty impressive, counselors take in hearing and was," Bush said. The Newark United Methodist 10 different churches with a shared and more people are still coming." understanding their troubles, some Unlike the tattered and worn Church has reached out to aid the concern for the local poor commu­ The center - open on are inclined to let their guard down image of the stereotypical home­ local homeless community with nity combined efforts and Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and form a relationship with advis­ less person, she said there are a the March 12 opening of the resources to create the center. from 1 to 4 p.m. - is staffed by a ers. variety of faces of struggle who Empowerment Center that is "We asked each faith commu­ number of trained volunteers from "To let someone in that much enter the shelter. undergoing a six-month trial run. nity to put a call out for volunteers various churches who welcome really makes a difference in the "I was surprised," Bush said. Dr. James Faltot, pastor of and set up a training program," and counsel the local homeless way they live," Marcus said. "There are lot of levels of home­ who find comfort under the The stories and backgrounds lessness and a lot of levels of church's wing, he said. of homeless people who visit the need." "It's natural for a church to center vary across the board, as do Marcus said the coalition have it, so centrally located on their needs and concerns they bring receives no federal or state fund­ Main Street with so much traffic to shelter volunteers, he said. ing, but relies solely on church and people looking for help," The hub offers the poor a contributions, donations and grant Faltot said. home base for mail and phone money. Marc Marcus, assistant execu­ services. Volunteers also help by Mike Fortner, planner for the tive director of the Friendship paying for rent, utility and medical city, said Newark receives a feder­ House in Wilmington, said his bills, as well as ticket vouchers for al block grant of $350,000 per year background of working with men's bus trips and overnight hotel stays, from the U.S. Department of and women's homeless shelters has Faltot said. They also provide food Housing and Urban Development. prepared him for his volunteer and toiletry bags to grab on the Fortner said 15 percent of the position at the Empowerment way out. grant, or $56,000, can be used for Center. In addition to money and food various public services, such as Marcus said within its first requests, he said trained volunteers operational costs of the month, the center has helped more assist the homeless with more than Empowerment Center. than 50 individuals, approximately just writing a check. The department receives sev­ half of those people returning to He said the hands-on safe eral grant proposals from various the shelter for additional visits. haven places an emphasis on organizations in need and collec­ The volunteers' strategies are human contact by having a volun­ tively decides to divide the grant to work with the poor to alleviate teer at the entrance of the center to money, he said. their current hardships and to help greet visitors. Faltot said the expansions, them prepare for the future, he "Just to have someone say, improvements or the continuation said. 'Welcome, I'm glad you're here,'" of the Empowerment Center after "We're not just an organiza­ Faltot said. the six-month assessment period tion that divvies out money for an Gail Bush, Empowerment may require additional funding. electric bill over here and money Center volunteer and door greeter, "This coalition has really been for that over there," Marcus said. said her experience has helped church-based," he said. "If we end THE REVIEW/ Harry Caufield "We're really an organization that break down certain preconceptions up making this a permanent shel­ The Empowerment Center opened March 12 at ·the Newark United sits down and talks with you." she once had of the poor. ter, we may need help from the Methodist Curch. He said because the homeless "I think I had a different city." 10 24,2007 Club helps break the culture barrier

BY ELAN RONEN tunately does not have many Staff Reporter American members. American stu­ Most of the students who filled dents and international students MAXIM Adria Cafe Friday night were born alike would benefit from the added and raised· thousands of miles from diversity. EI!JIIIIiERIUS Newark. Coffee hour on Friday is often I ntSTERICAl!" The restaurant was abuzz with supplemented by a cultural presen­ IICitm conversations of approximately 30 tation, she said. Some of the presen­ international students. Many are tations in recent weeks have includ­ part of the university's ed Irish and Greek dancing as well Cosmopolitan Club, a student as singing. Bourmpakis played the "A BlAST!" organization that meets every lute while singing in multiple lan­ K'IIIIU S Friday night for coffee hour at the guages last week before teaching cafe located in the Newark Greek dance steps to those in atten­ Shopping Center. dance. Graduate student Ioannis The presentations during other Bourmpakis, who is originally from weeks have been more serious. Greece, said Cosmo provides a Matvejeva recalls the presentation haven for international students who made by a Colwilbian student last newcomers in the United States. year who explained the history of "The club is a good way to the country's cocaine problem. meet people, especially when you The cultural presentations at just arrived and you don't know the cafe will be taken to a much anybody," Bourmpakis said. larger stage on May 13, during He said when Bourmpakis "International Night," an event arrived in the United States in which will take place at Bacchus September 2006, he had trouble Theater, she said. Last year's show with the little things, such as creat­ featured numerous other student ing a bank account and finding a organizations and included acts place to live, but also with the larg­ such as African belly-dancing, clas­ www.jointhefuzz.com er problems associated with cultural sical Indian percussion and differences. . Matvejeva herself singing in "After about three months you Russian. face a culture shock," Bourmpakis Graduate student Almas Khan, PREMIERE ENGAGEMENTS said. "You are used to a certain way originally from Pakistan, spoke of life." about differences much more pro­ START FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH Graduate student Matteo found than those found in dance and Maestri, a native of France, said life song. after his arrival in June 2006 was "In Pakistan there is no free­ difficult because of the language dom of speech and there is no beer," barrier. Khan said. "It is a beautiful country "I was totally alone," Maestri but unfortunately there is no democ­ said. "I needed to talk to five people racy and there is no progress. in order to do anything." "I can't say what I want to say." He said meeting people at He said drinking beer is prohib­ Cosmo was easier than meeting ited by the Quran, the scripture people in the street or at a bar which the dominant Muslim popu­ because members had common lation in Pakistan adheres and the problems and shared similar government enforces. thoughts. The fact that Cosmo is interna­ In total, 1,028 students come tional is its best attribute, Khan said. from all over the world to receive an Graduate student Laura education at the university, accord­ Berzina, former Cosmo president ing to statistics provided by the and native of Latvia, agreed with Office of Foreign Students and Khan. Scholars. They come from well­ Berzina said there are a number known countries such as China, of other student organizations on India, South Korea and Venezuela, campus but they only cater to a sin­ as well as lesser-known countries gle, well-represented population. such as Malaysia, Bangladesh, Togo Cosmo caters to all nationalities, · and Slovakia. even those who are underrepresent· According to the university's ed. institutional research and planning "You cannot form a club if you Web site, international students only have one person, say from made up 0.6 percent of the under­ Iceland." Berzina said. graduate population in 2006. She said Adria Cafe feels like However, 31 percent of the graduate home and that Cosmo has been population was composed of inter­ meeting there since 1998. national students or "non-resident "It feels like it's ours, you can't aliens" who were able to attend the feel it anywhere else," she said. university only after receiving a Susan Pickford has been a reg­ visa. ular at Adria Cafe for 10 years. Arina Matvejeva, native of Pickford said the clientele is much Latvia and president of Cosmo, said more diverse than the typical restau­ the club was founded approximately rant on Main Street, not just because 30 years ago. of their various backgrounds but Matvejeva said the bonds also for their different ages. formed among the members over "People of various ages can go the years are strong. out to Adria Cafe and not have to "Most of the friends I have met worry about college frat guys here come from the club," she said. throwing up all over the table," she "I know at least two couples who said. met at the club and have gotten mar­ Pickford said the amiability of ried." the owner and the clientele make a Although it is open to every­ night at Adria enjoyable. one, Matvejeva said the club unfor- "You feel welcome here." ~ April 24, 200711 Local pizzeria goes global for lnt'l ·Night Pat's provides an alt. to Main Street scene

BY KATIE ROGERS can always dance here and, for me, U. niversity of Delaware Staff Reporter if I really want to have a good time Townsend Hall Across from Chrysler on Jirar Helou, who goes by the partying I have to dance," Mancera " S. College Ave., Newark name DJ JNH, plays a fast said. European-techno track and quickly She said her favorite part of slows down the pace to a smooth International Night is when DJ salsa beat as people dance on the JNH plays Colombian music. Rooted in the Past, crowded floor. Others shuffle in, Sebastian Quiroga, an ELI stu­ Future showing their passports at the door dent from Chile, said he recently Branching into the to the bouncers who cannot help began attending Pat's on but groove to the beat. Thursdays this month. Each Thursday at Pat's "I heard about it from my Pizzeria on Elkton Road, the friends. They told me this is the restaurant transforms into best place in town for a real inter­ International Night. Helou has national party," Quiroga said. "My been DJing the favorite thing international party about it is when every week for the "In an American the DJ plays past year and said South American it is a great atmos­ crowd at a bar, music because . I phere for people to know it from my learn about other if you bump into country and I cultures through someone, you're enjoy dancing to music. it with every­ "International scared you're one." night combines going to get into N i c k two crowds of Tsatsaronis, man­ people who are a f1ght. Here, ager of Pat's, said either internation­ the crowd of peo­ al students study­ the crowd reallx ple who come in ing in grad school vibes together. ' each week differs here or people from other spe- who studied cialty nights at abroad and liked - Nick Tsatsaronis, nearby bars, such the scene, so they as '90s Night at come here to get it manager of Klondike Kate's back," he said. Pat's Pizzeria or Mug Night at "We have a great Deer Park. mix of people who "Our night is are away from their country, but more of a mix of cultures, it's dif­ feel like they're in a club back ferent and the crowd's different," home on this night." Tsatsaronis said. "In an American TilE Helou said Pat's International crowd at a bar, if you bump into Deer Park Tavern Night is unique because he plays someone, you're scared you're ESTABUSHED 18Sl NEWARK, DE music from a variety of countries going to get into a fight. Here, the around the world. Music such as crowd really vibes together. 108 w. Main st.. Newark. DE Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Latin can Everyone parties with everyone." 302·369·9414 be heard booming on the dance On an average night, he said floor. approximately 220 people come www.deerparktavern.com "People come up to me and out to party and 70 percent of the request what they want to hear," he crowd is students. said. "I've really built up my Tsatsaronis said International music library to be broad through Night begins at 10:30 and ends at 1 different nationalities." a.m., but Pat's is lenient in regards Liliana Mancera, an English to closing time. Language Institute student from "At other bars, once it's 1 Colombia, said she has been o'clock, they kick you out right attending International Night for away," he said. "Here we keep the six months after hearing about it music going till about 1 :30 and the from her friends. people usually like to stay for a "I love this place because I while."

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New GRE format does THE THINGS A CRIMINAL RECORD CAN DO TO YOUR FUTURE OUGHT TO BE A CRIME not make the grade What's the value of a clean record? Employers, graduate schools, the military services, professional licensing boards, immigration authorities-- the gate keepers to a lot of the good stuff BY MAGGIE SCHILLER test that day will see the same in life--look carefully at your record. . Exactly how much a criminal record will affect your life, Sports Editor question." no one knows. What is known is that many students-- because of stepped up efforts to control A four-year, $12 million plan ETS planned to implement to revamp the Graduate Record these changes because it felt it alcohol, occupancy of private residences, or noise- will be arrested this year. Examination into a harder and would be a better predictor of stu­ Most things for which you receive citations from the University or Newark police are more complex test for students has dents' performance in graduate recently been abandoned. school, Lee said. reported as criminal arrests in national and State crime reporting. Convictions of City ordinances Jung Lee, GRE program man­ "One thing that we say is that are reported as criminal convictions. They are not like "parking tickets". And an arrest record ager for Kaplan Test Prep and every graduate school - except will turn up in the future. On background searches for employment. In FAFSA applications. Admissions, said the Educational for medical, law or business When you request a passport. Or want to do military service. Or apply to graduate school. And Testing Service canceled the plan school - uses the GRE in some for revision. form," he said. "We want the deci­ an arrest can result in University discipline, up to and including expulsion. Even if you "They were going to imple­ sions made about the test to be in complete PBJ successfully after an arrest, the arrest will still show on your record unless it ment the revised GRE for the best interest of the students." is expunged. Scrutiny of criminal rec:ords for all these purposes bas increased dramatically September 2007," Lee said, "but it Mary Martin, a university was recently announced at the graduate admissions officer, said since September 11, 1001, as reported in the Wall Street Journal. beginning of April that they will when students apply to the univer­ If you have been arrested in the past- or are arrested this year- don't panic. Maybe cancel these plans." sity graduate .school, there are The popularity of the test much more criteria considered you were arrested in the past, and would like to talk about expunging your arrest record. Maybe caused the cancellation, he said. besides GRE scores. you have charges pending now. You have the right to legal representation. I served as Newark "There are currently about "They also look at your City Prosecutor for many years, and have for the last several years represented many students in half a million that take it world­ undergraduate GPA in your major the Delaware courts. If you have been arrested and have questions about your pending case, or wide and it is offered almost every as well as your cumulative," day," Lee said. "With the changes, Martin said. "They look carefully your past arrest record- contact us. You, or your parents, or both, can consult with me by they were going to have to limit at your essays and letters of rec­ phone at no charge. the amount of times it would be ommendation and whether or not given throughout the year, and the applicant would be a good fit The things a criminal record can do to your future ought to be a crime. If you have couldn't guarantee that everyone for the program." questions, call or e·mail. who wanted to take it would get a At the university, graduate seat." admission is offered to only MARK D. SISK, A TIORNEY The GRE is comprised of approximately 35 to 36 percent of three parts, he said. There is an applicants, although numbers vary (302)368-1200 X 15 analytical writing section, a verbal between programs, she said. 299 East Main Street, Newark section with antonyms and analo­ "There may be a large number gies and a quantitative section of applicants applying to one pro­ Email vour Questions to: SiskMD@ marksisklaw.com with basic math problems. gram, and a small number apply­ Visit us on the web at www .markslsklaw.~om Changes would include ing to another," Martin said. "We extending the test from the current don't have one GRE score that we DUI• Aicohoi• No1se Violat1ons• Overcrowding• Expungement• Un1vers1ty Administrative procedures1 two and a half hour time limit to look for that is standard across the -•'>· :..' '-'• J'P<::' •t ._. •t c: r.f:r• "~ -.~t '-'" Ch a s~)e'C dl :.t n t"'~.>~e e1 .. ~it!lo more than four hours. There would campus." . be tougher sentence completions, Junior Emily Stengel said she and more reading comprehension. is glad the plans for the change In the quantitative section, there have been abandoned. YOU ·DESERVE CREDIT would be less geometry and more "When they decided to real-life questions, Lee said. change the SATs and make them "It would be the biggest harder, people's scores started FOR SPENDING THE change the GREs have gone going down," Stengel said. "I through in 60 years," he said. 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It has been just slightly more ior Brendan. Taubman, all of the than a week since the massacre at proceeds of which will be donated Virginia Polytechnic Institute and to the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund. State University, but our communi­ As a umversity community ty has wasted no time in responding similar to the one in Blacksburg, to the tragedy. Va., we have reacted the way we The university has rallied would expect any other college in around the horror witnessed there the country to if it were in the same in an effort to provide relief for unfortunate situation. Tech in its time of need. The outpouring of aid shows Such fundraising efforts there is a genuine heartfelt connec­ include donations collected by the tion that all college students share. Student Government Association In recent years the university and other Registered Student has been labeled as an extremely Organizations which will be donat­ a_pathetic campus. With the dona­ ed to the Hokie Spirit Memorial nons and fundraising efforts to ben­ Fund. efit Tech, we are showing that as a The SGA should be commend­ community we do not fit that ed for its rapid response to the stereotype and that we do care tragedy. Its efforts are providing about Issues that do not directly much-needed financial atd to the affect us. victims' families and those grieving All of those who have con­ on the Tech campus. tributed to the aid being sent to By immediately organizing Tech should also be commended charitable efforts, the SGA has for their generosity. The situation is made an effort to help when the unique in that even though many incident is still fresh in university people here know students that students' minds. attend Tech, most who are helping Other efforts in the works do not have a direct connection include the collection of donations with the students in Blacksburg. by the Student Centers Although they are Hokies and Programming Advisory Board and we are Blue Hens, the donations individual projects such as a come from a genuine care for a memorial T-shirt being sold by sen- community just like ours. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

South Park's episode inoffensive ViJJPnja Teeb.should be a wake-up here. We need to figure this out. therefore have no more siguificance of fear that our society is beginning call . 1fave we lost all ability to understand than a man telling his partner that he to accept and even embrace the new Why stop at pulling a "Souili. each other? loves him at their home. An act made· concepts of family that have Park" episode because It contains I have classic manic d~ression, .by a corporation to stop discrimina­ emerged. something of tangential referen. ce to like Van Gogh, Churchill, Ted Morgan ;Ricp Bell tion in its own facility should not be the ''Vrrgmia Tech murders" ('South Turner, Joni Mitchell, Beethoven, W:Urilington Resident written off as an act that challenges Michael Ruppel Park' silences lauldts, April 20)? Mozart, Napoleon and Hitler. These [email protected] the "traditional family concept." Freshman Why not pull ''24" this coming heroes and anti-heroes all have or We can debate the moiality of [email protected] weekend because there are guns. Or, had larger than life personalities. Disney commeJ_Its dissapoints homosexuality or even the role of perhaps pull "American Idol" Some created their own worlds gay marriages in society, but the Correction because someone will be picked on, through the arts. Some wanted to I was thoroughly saddened by decisions made by Disney do not in and the killer was picked on in his take over the world. I do not believe the remarks made by Bill Rivers in any way apply to these tssues. It is In the April 17, 2007 issue of youth. that the shootings at Virginia Tech an article about the decision made by simply an act of tolerance that allows The Review, juuior Dan Urda was What happened at Tech was were a direct result of mental ilhless. Disney to allow homosexual couples two committed human beings to pro­ incorrectly attributed as saying "It's horrible, but you cannot expect I wonder what was going on in to engage in commitment cere'­ fess that comminuent in a celebrato­ fucked up" in the article "Deadliest Comedy Central or any other busi­ the murderer's head. He was proba­ monies at the park (April 17). As ry manner. shooting in U.S. history affects stu­ ness entity to pull something bly very angry. Perhaps I am project­ Rivers said himself, these cere­ I feel that the reactions of anger dents, college safety left in question" because it might be offensive to ing, but I believe this person did not monies have no legal bearings and against this decision are simply out on page 3. someone, somewhere. have adequate outlets for his pain. If the episode had been about a Perhaps he had been abused? remorseless killer stalking around a Culture shock? Racism? Perhaps he cam_p~, perhaps then you reconsid­ felt trapped in an impossible situa­ WRITE TO THE REVIEW er arrmg It. tion and there was no way out. Read Kyle and Brian's You are really, really reaching Perhaps there are truths that. you and to say that Comedy Central had a I deal with every day as Americans 250 Perltins Student Center weekly social and moral obligation to not air that that can be ~erceived as hateful from Newark, DE 19716 episode, even if the suicide scene a foreigner s point of view. Fax: 302-831-1396 political columns. took about 10 gunshots and three As the daughter of a diplomat E-mail: [email protected] minutes. and a Jungian psychoanalyst, I have or visit us online at www.udreview.com had an unusual education and have a Frank Lee uuique perspective. As Americans, nte Editorial section is an open forum for public debate and discussion. The Review Log on to udreview.com Maryland Resident we are spoiled. This is the time to welcomes responJ>es from its readers. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit all let­ [email protected] clean up our neighborhoods and every Friday truly save ourselves by saving our ters to the editor. Letters and columns represent the ideas and beliefs of the authors and children. There is a war out there, should not be taken as representative of The Review. Staff editorials represent the ideas and that means that there is a war in and beliefs of The Review Editorial Board on behalf of the editors. All letters become property of The Review and may be published in print or electronic form. April 24, 2007 • •

Yes: 54% No: 46% 0 llliOll 15 Facebook provides false activism outlet word you were saying as you spoke - he we are all left feeling helpless, but I cannot one was alive or dead, Facebook groups were seemed so interested in hearing what I had to help but feel that it is false compassion. To created. I received an invitation to three Guest say, even though we had just met. It was that me if someone joins a "Remember VT" or groups before that day was over. And here is sincerity that made him seem very familiar. It "We Are All Hokies" group and does nothing the really disturbing thing: As I clicked Commentary never felt like else to be compassion­ "decline" I felt guilty. I felt pressured to click that was our ate, they are exhibiting "accept" because I knew my friends in the TimMislock conversa- emotion, but I doubt it is group would judge me for not joining. They ft~~t. facel:aaak genuine "compassion." would think I did not care. But I do not need I only It seems more like "fol­ people on Facebook to know I care and am knew Ross very lowing the herd" to me, saddened by these events - we all are. If you lntemet puts stuqents out briefly - only Ne\ls Feed doing what seems have a heart, you watched the news that day of touch with serious tssues a car ride to the appropriate at the time and were struck with disgust for the person movie and i 5"9n peo,le. jvs .. jo< "w fk r·#r ~ because a lot of other who could have perpetrated such a gruesome back. I knew people are doing it. act and filled with remorse for the families Maybe the Buddhist idea that we are all 11 CANADA fftA'(S fblt Tlt£"" lf\CT"II"S " f!l~ connected is not so far off. We've all played him briefly, and Joining a and friends of those killed. games like six degrees of separation, also yet I am dis­ OF -rHf: Vt~~ltiiA 1"!"ctt SI-\OOTIIII~). 0 Facebook group is not Why would someone who does not know known as six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Those traught by his ·a the only way to show anyone at Tech join a "Remember VT" games, while a good way to pass the time on death. J. 1~i13 p~le.. joiV\«4 ~t,.. ~fe)'-'f J compassion. Donate to a group? There are many better ways - real long car rides, also speak to a deeper truth - I thought I memorial fund or call ways - to show compassion. It seems to be that we all are connected. would find sol­ ''C\\AtJ(?~ '{ou-. FA~Bdo~ 1>\c..ru«.e- ~ that long-lost friend a way for people to compete with others to be Over Spring Break I went to visit my ace on Web TO T~ VI~INIA 'TE'tl-1 itl&&~JII."' ~ from high school that perceived as the most compassionate or a way friend Jen at Virginia Polytechnic Institute sites like went to Tech or go to a for people to say, "feel sorry for me too." and State University. It was a normal college Facebook, .& 11bOO ftOplf- jt;r\t«l ~(.. youp ... ~ vigil. The ppint is do Everyone was affected by the events on that visit, catching up with old friends and meet­ because after s•v\~IN\A ttut A- FAtE!3oo~ VIti!.. something. day, we are all mourning and grieving, deal­ ing her Hokie family. While there we decided all, it was a I have noticed ing in our own ways. I know joining a to go see the movie "300" and she invited place everyone this bovine behavior in Facebook group is not going to help me, Jen some of her friends from school. One of her was gathering to share what they knew and other areas, especially social activism. If or her friends deal with Ross' death any easi- friends whom I met there was Ross how they felt. But instead, I began feeling someone joins a "Stop the War" or "Save er. Alameddine. On April 16 Ross was shot and impatient and irritated. Why? Because I knew Darfur" group but never goes to a rally or a I was lucky enough to meet him, and killed in his French class. I could not begin to understand the kind of fundraiser that person is not really an activist. believe me, my compassion and sorrow for I only knew him for six hours. grief and sadness the people who lost loved He is a double-click activist who is too apa­ him, his family and his friends is too painful I remember the time well though. I sat ones felt, and yet, here I was confronted with thetic to get off the couch. He does it so peo­ to just double-click away. behind him as he drove Jen, her friend an instant village of mourners, most of whom ple who look at his profile will think of him Brendan and I to the movie. I remember lik~ didn't know any of the victims. Some went on as someone who cares about world issues. ing the music on Ross' iPod- his taste in Facebook to message friends and family to The activism should not start and stop with jazz and the fact that he listened to Sufjan get information and check in. But the majori­ clicking the "join this group" button, just as Tim Mislock is a Staff Reporter for The Stevens and Ben Folds. Jen and I sat in the ty seemed to be joining groups related to the the compassion for those at Tech should not Review. His viewpoints do not necessarily backseat. She napped as Brendan, Ross and I events at Tech. stop with joining a Facebook group. represent those of The Review. Please send talked. As we talked I could tell he was the I understand that for some it is a way to On Monday, April 16 before all the par­ comments to tmislock@JldeLedu. type of person who listened intently to each bond and show support in a situation when ents and family members knew if their loved The ethical implications of 24-hour news

Albarghouti. Not only did it seem that CNN before the Tech Convocation, CNN told me it conference when Flinchum told reporters his gettin' failed to edit or even look at the video before was not going to show the entire event information. I'm too old throwing it on the air, it took the content from because the network did not want to impose The tragic day in Blacksburg also for this an extremely unreliable source. Albarghouti's on the privacy of Tech students. marked a tragic day in journalism. It exposed video was not prefaced with a disclaimer and It did not want to impose, but hey, set­ the 24-hour news network for the liars and Kyle Siskey was certainly not suitable for any child ting a camera in the center of Tech's campus irresponsible journalists they are. watching the coverage. for 24 straight hours after the shooting and The insensitivity of the networks and Probably the most disappointing thing constantly filming random students that had their relative inability to put together a news about the video was the number of times I nothing to do with the shooting as though story with their own reporters shed a light on Cable news ignores basic jour­ was forced to see it on the broadcast. Because they had been in Norris Hall is completely CNN - it needs to get back to the basic ele­ nalistic ethics in search of a story. this was the only video evidence they had of ethical. ments of reporting such as fact checking and the shootings, CNN chose to run the one­ Another problem with the 24-hour news self-reporting. It is not often that a fellow journalist minute-and-seven-second video an infinite network was the lack of fact checking that What the problem comes down to is the speaks out against his own kind. Sure, the amount of times past noon, when I began went on throughout the day. entertainment versus journalism argument. constant struggle between television and print watching the broadcast, until five in the after­ As the "facts" came out, we learned of at CNN ignored journalistic rules to attract journalists remains, but it rarely ends up on a noon when I could no longer take the shoot­ least three different death tolls and numerous viewers and keep those viewers watching nightly broadcast or in a morning newspaper. ing noise coming from the now-infamous injury counts. From seven or eight to 21 or 22 through the commercial breaks. This column is the exception to that rule. video. and finally 31 or 33 deaths including the Running entertainment pieces without As I watched the information pour across Another one of the more frustrating shooter, CNN simply could not get it right. basing them in factual reporting is not what CNN on Monday about the Virginia things I watched was the continued footage of The next fact CNN could not get right television or print journalism is about. Polytechnic Institute and State University any Tech student walking around campus. was the number of shooters. At frrst CNN was shootings, I could not help but be repulsed by Whether the student knew about the shooting positive there was only one shooter. After an its coverage. or the student was involved in any way with initial press conference the Blacksburg Chief Kyle Siskey is the editorial editor for The The frrst bit of coverage I watched was the shooter, CNN made it into exploitive of Police Wendell Flinchum, CNN ran with a Review. His viewpoints do not necessarily cell-phone video produced by non-CNN footage to be exclusive on its channel. possibility of two shooters, finally it stuck represent those of The Review. Please send reporter and Tech graduate student Jamal One day after the shooting, just minutes with one shooter after the afternoon press comments to [email protected]. 16 A ril24 2007 MANY SAYS IT'S ''THE BEST LITTLE STORE. I-lOUSE'' IN TOWN

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BY MAGGIE SCHILLER Alongside the stage was a rest area loaded with Sports Editor snacks, water and energy drinks to keep the partici.J?ants When walking through Trabant University Center on fueled throughout the day. Sunday, passersby could hear the sounds of students singing Games such as Four Square, Coke and Pepsi and along to Otis Day and the Knights' "Shout" If they took the Simon Says broke up the dancing and allowed students to time to peek inside the multipurpose rooms, they would find mingle with each other. students tossing beach balls, jumping up and down and get­ Lauren McNerney, a junior and Delta Gamma mem­ ting "a little bit louder now." ber, says she felt the activities helped bring different At 11 a.m., with the singing of the "Star Spangled groups together. Banner," the first ever UDANCE marathon began. For 12 "I think it's a great cause because they are not only hours the participants freeze danced, did the Cotton-Eyed raising a lot of money, but they are getting people Joe and limbo-ed all the way to raise more than $8,000 to involved," McNerney says. "A lot of people from fraterni­ support the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation. ties and sororities came here. All the different acts that Hosted by Alpha Epsilon Phi and Sigma Phi Epsilon, came out today to perform really got everyone going." the event attracted approximately 300 students to Trabant Marc Zamarin, a freshman in SigEp, says the idea of for a day of dancing, games and performances by various the marathon was based off the event "Thon" that takes school organizations. place at Pennsylvania State University every year and rais­ Among these groups were the Delaware Reparatory es millions of dollars. Dance Committee, the Swing Dance Club, the Delaware "Penn State has set the standard, there is no reason an Dance Team and several acoustic performances, a cappella event like that can't work here," Zamarin said. -groups and DJs. Senior Jessica Forman, a member of AEPhi, says she came up with the idea when she decided the girls in her sorority should take part in a more involved philanthropy than they had in Scott Atkins performed at the first ever UDANCE on Sunday. the past "I wanted to do something other than Although it was the first year, Forman says they are have people write checks for all of us to run a pleased with the turnout 5K," Forman says. "I knew other schools did "It is pretty much what we expected for the first time," something like this and . didn't understand she says. "Now it is what we can take from it and what can why we didn't" we do next year to revamp and make it better." Prior to the event, members of the two Although most of the participants this year were from chapters took after the Penn State tradition of Greek Life and other RSOs, Hopp says the most important canning and stood on street comers around goal was getting the name out there to students. Newark to raise money. "We want people to be like, 'Oh, UDANCE, I've heard Sophomore Ricky Hopp, a member of of that,' for people who don't even go here," he said. "That SigEp, says the chapters were able to raise is a high-aspiring goal but we feel that if we continue to put approximately $800 and receive a few corpo­ the work into it people will start to recognize it" rate donations from canning alone. Along with raising money and increasing school spirit, Zamarin says the group is hoping that Zamarin says he hopes the event is a good way to reach out larger companies will say they want to get and prove to the school and Newark that the Greek commu­ involved down the road. nity does positive things for which they don't always get "If we can get bigger names in the future, recognized. it will increase the popularity and the quality "We want to break down the stereotype that Greeks are because in reality, the more money you have only concerned with Greeks," he says. "The problem is that the more you can do," he says. "We want to people think we are just a social club that hangs out on make it an even bigger event. The possibili­ weekends. We want to reach out to different RSOs on cam­ ties are endless." pus and bring the school together more."

Finding the key to success: Senior wins design competition

BY ANNEMARIE VALLI real estate magazine. striking image." Staff Reparter She says the winning design, a series of She says the critique fell on Keychains are like lifelines - small links colorful translucent images of overlapping the last day of her internship, but of power that carry a bulky mass of silver and keys, was crafted during a winter internship she kept in touch with art director gold. The keys they hold grant access to front with 2x4, a graphic design firm in New York Glen Cummings who told her the doors, cars and work offices. City. Times had chosen her design out For senior visual communications major Rosenthal says 2x4, as well as five other of the five submitted. Sarah Rosenthal, the everyday jingle jangle did artists and studios, was commissioned by the She says while back at more than open her apartment door above Main Times to come up with an idea for the Key issue school, the design went through a Street's TCBY. for which everyone in the office had an equal process of modifications includ­ Inspiration from the gleaming heap of shot at winning the cover. ing color additions and slight metal shapes combined with a graphic design During the brainstorming process, she design tweaks by Cummings and challenge from The New York Times fueled says studio employees were pulling out their second design intern Silvia Rosenthal to create an image worthy enough to key chains to render some sort of inspiration. Fantauzzi, a process requested by don the March cover of Key, an annual Times "Part ofliving in New York City is securi­ the Times before the magazine _hit ty," Rosenthal says. "It's never the cover. about one key, it's about 18 keys." "I assumed it wasn't on the After a failed first round of cover because he said it wasn't critiques to her proposals, she says on the cover," Rosenthal says. her second round of ideas struck "And it's The New York Times." THE REVIEW/Allie Williams 2x4 employees. One of her images She says her curiosity led Sarah Rosenthal holds up her winning cover design. made it into the top five sent to the her to check the Times Web site popped up and I started freaking out" Times. to see which design had secured the front page. Rosenthal says she was astonished to see "I thought . about it as a "That morning I got up early, hung-over her image on the cover and wanted to get her '--- -''ruvtU<---.A.l.

BY CAITLIN BIRCH One of this year's new talents was the Copy Editor Billy Bauer Band, an acoustic rock trio At least once per year since 2004, Jake from Bethlehem, Pa. and a newcomer to the Crawford and his fellow band members Dewey music scene. pack their equipment into' their van, say Billy Bauer, a senior at Pennsylvania goodbye to friends and family in Hershey, State University and the guitarist and lead THE REVIEW/Josh Baumann Brett Black's art is now on display at Central Perk on Main Street. Pa., and drive south to Dewey Beach. vocalist for the 2-year-old band, says he They know they can look forward to was surprised and excited to get the invita­ another weekend of cheesesteaks at Nick's, tion to perform. breakfast at Sharky's Grill, dozens of live "We're honored to be a part of it," - shows at Dewey's beachside venues and Bauer says while making his dinner - a maybe a few late-night drinks. peanut butter and jelly sandwich. "It should A Perk for artists "For a guy in his 30s," Crawford says, be pretty cool. We're going to bring as "this is as close as I'm ever going to get to much intensity as possible as an acoustic senior week again." trio." Crawford, singer and guitarist for The Although he says power pop isn't the ·Coffee shop opens up its April Skies - an alternative indie fivesome band's main sound, they're happy to per­ born in the early '90s - says although the form in Dewey and would play there again. band usually travels the same tour circuit of "Oh absolutely, heck yes," Bauer says, walls for local displays larger cities, including New York City, his lips sticking with peanut butter. "Sure, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., it we'd love to. If people appreciate my BY LIZ SEASHOLTZ artists who display their work successfully wouldn't-miss a Dewey appearance for any­ music, that's nice. There's nothing more Staff Reporter sell multiple pieces in a month. Salaitah thing. gratifying to a musician. Visitors stepping into Central Perk on says the first night their work is hung, "My band said, 'If we play just one "It keeps me going when the tough Main Street usually have one goal in mind artists can sell four to five pieces. show a year, it's one of the times come." - to fulfill their daily caffeine require­ Black's work is a bright splash of Dewey conferences,' " he If all goes accordingly, ments. Once customers turn away from the color against the shop's beige walls, says. the band plans to return to register, coffee safely in hand, observant leather couches and hardwood floors. His Vikki Walls, presi­ "I don't know if Dewey in October for the eyes are usually drawn to the bright can­ vibrant color choice and use of shapes dent of Dewey Beach con­ Americana Music Fest. vases scattered across the establishment. It echo cubism and expressionism. certs and festivals, says it's the saltwater Walls says Dewey offers is then that the coffee shop's other service "I get inspired in my spare time," some bands that per­ air or what, but music conferences through­ becomes apparent - a quaint art gallery. Black says. "Many times by the chaos of formed at last weekend's out the season, including the Central Perk's owner, Emad Salaitah, my roommates, my job or from skate­ Dewey Beach Popfest it continues to Delaware Music Festival, says he and his wife have always intended boarding." The result is high-energy pieces were alumni performers. Jamfest, Chickfest, an indie for the shop to serve a dual purpose. that he describes as contemporary and In the 45-band pop show­ be the event for festival and a September "We started out in California, and had abstract. case, most bands are us that we look conference of 175 bands. a coffee shop/art gallery there for 20 "I hope to sell some pieces and make quick to become regulars. She says two things set years," Salaitah says. "So then we carried money," Black says. "I know it's a colle­ "Everyone usually forward to. Dewey apart from other the idea over to Delaware." giate community and students probably has such a great experi­ It's completely local music scenes. The artists who display their work are won't buy my work, but any opportunity I ence that they all want to "First of all it's free " usually Newark residents and some stu­ get to display my work, I take." come back," Walls says. exhilarating." Walls says. "Nobody el~e dents, he says. Each artist is allotted a Black's pieces certainly have not gone Chaucer Hwang, lead offers that at all. Secondly, month to display his or her art and can unnoticed, as students such as Huxta guitarist for the the quality of the bands is arrange the work in any way on the walls. appreciate his unique art and its ability to Washington, D.C. rock -Jake Crawford extremely high. · People While sipping white chocolate mocha brighten up the room. pop band Crash Boom . . . ' know they're going to see lattes and munching on scones, students "This month's artist has really bright Bang, says last weekend's Singer and QUifanst for very talented bands that tour can get a taste of the up-and-coming artists pieces, which especially add to the eclectic Popfest was the band's • The April Skies natio~wide." . in the area. feel of the shop," she says. "I notice them second. He says Dewey Vmce Scheurman, smger Central Perk regular Kristin Huxta, a every time I go in because they stand out events are unique because and guitarist for 8-year-old junior at the university, says she has so much." they attract bands from all over the East Washington, D.C., rock band Army of Me, always noticed the changing art on the Black also works in mixed media, Coast, making them important for network­ states in an e-mail message that after releas­ walls. designing skateboards, surfboards, snow­ ing. ing its first nationwide album last week, the "I think it adds a really nice feel to the boards and clothing. He mainly sells his "It's an opportunity to meet a lot of band was still slated to perform at Popfest place," Huxta says. "I'm an art history work to surf shops, friends and family but people that are doing the same thing that until illness prevented it. major, so I really appreciate their attempt has also donated paintings to firehouses you're doing," Hwang says. "It's not a com­ Scheurman says Army of Me has to make a dent in the art world and help out and police stations. petitive atmosphere at all. It's pretty sup­ played in Dewey at least three times and amateur artists." In the meantime, Black isn't quitting portive. We really enjoy it." always has a positive experience there. Huxta says she likes the eclectic vibe his day job. He is studying fine arts at Crawford says Popfest is about seeing "Vikki Walls and her crew just love of Central Perk. "I always get my coffee Delaware Technical and Community other bands. music and are so supportive of the music there because it's a really relaxed place. College and works odd jobs ranging from "We come to be fans just as much as we scene," he says. The art is interesting, there's big tables to pizza delivery to lawn work. come to be performers," he says. "It's always a great atmosphere, right sit and do work at, and most importantly, Salaitah says customers usually like Walls says Popfest started five years on the beach, outside, live music," he says. they have great bagels." the art that adorns the walls. The only neg­ ago to showcase pop, power pop, Brit pop "We're friends with a lot of the bands play­ The Salaitahs don't charge the artists ative remarks he usually gets are from par­ and punk pop bands in the area. For one ing, all of them part of the regional music to use their space, but if they do sell any ents who don't want their children viewing weekend, 45 bands share six stages in the scene, so it's always a great time to catch up pieces, they keep a percent of the profit. nude art. Ruddertowne complex - composed of with people that you don't see as often as In the case of this month's artist, Brett "People definitely give their opinion, Rusty Rudder, The Light House and you'd like." Booksandcoffee - to provide local music Crawford says The April Skies always Black, pieces range from $50 to $350 per an~ let me know what they thi~ is appro­ piece. Black, 36, and a resident of pnate or not," he says. fans with the ultimate cover-free show. plays better in Dewey. McLean, Va., learned of Central Perk's art With April coming to a close, Black's "What we offer is so many stages, "It seems that you take us out of our gallery upon visiting his friends in work will soon be taken down and replaced back-to-back music and no cover," she says. normal hometown environment and you Newark. He signed up and waited - and by May's artist, Emily Boots. "So, you actually get a lot of people who take us down to the beach and it takes us to waited. "The changing art definitely keeps me want to check out new music, and because a whole other level," he says. "I don't know "We have a waiting list that ranges coming back," Huxta says. "I'm always it's free, it definitely makes it worth it for if it's the saltwater air or what, but it contin­ from one to two years," Salaitah says. interested in seeing developments in art. the general public to come out and check ues to be the event for us that we look for­ The wait could be because many Central Perk allows me to do that." out new talent." ward to. It's completely exhilarating." 2 0 April 24. 2007 ~ Gosling, Hopkins Slapstick and crack the case ser1ous• come "Fracture" intricate plot while not New Line Cinema cheating the audience. Rating: fcfcfc (out offcfcfcfc) Gregory Hoblit illumi­ together In an articulate delivery, "Fracture" moves nates his best cinematog­ a step beyond the typical courtroom movie, raphy, creating a land­ building a framework that engages and high­ scape of color, mood, and "Hot Fuzz" It begins slow, almost boring, when lights the superb acting ofAnthony Hopkins and detail. Symbolic imagery Big Talk Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is dismissed from Ryan Gosling. The two share an undiscovered and high-priced, post­ Productions London's Metropolitan Police force because chemistry brought to life through a battle of modem sets, accentuate Rating: fcfc he makes all the other officers look bad with wits. the scenes, compiling a 1/2 his extraordinary talent and unmanageable Ted Crawford (Hopkins) is a wealthy aero­ vibrant and interesting (out of arrest rate. He's relocated to the quaint town nautical engineer in Los Angeles whose job picture. fcfcfcfc) of Sanford, which turns out to be not-so­ involves detecting imperfections. He soon dis­ The screenplay Never perfectly simple when Sergeant Angel real­ covers his wife is having an affair. So what is the devotes itself to bringing have I ever izes that all of the accidents - such as a car most logical thing to do about it? For Ted, shoot­ the best out of its charac­ seen an old collision resulting in two beheaded passen­ ing her in the head in broad daylight might do ters, doing so half-hand­ lady punched gers and the church steeple coincidentally the trick. Even admitting to being guilty after edly. Tltis occurance may in the nose by falling off, killing the local journalist - she slips into a coma seems right in his mind. be because Ted Crawford a cop. That is, aren't really accidents. - This is not as simple as it seems. Just as has a slight resemblance until "Hot He and his naive partner, Danny Ted's profession involves detecting imperfec­ to Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Fuzz." Nor Butterman (Nick Frost), who's the son of tion, his murder could involve nothing less. but with less psychosis had I ever the police chief, band together to tum this The court case is launched with a young and more charm. Or that heard the word fake town around. ambitious lawyer, Willy Beachum (Gosling), Hopkins' mastery of the "twat" shouted The laughs are sometimes forced and called on to prove Ted guilty. So when Ted asks killer paves the way for on screen or seen pineapples used as most of them come from the stupidity and to defend himself, Willy sees an opportunity to his success in this case. Either way, the role is grenades. Somehow, in a mixed up mess of absurdity of it all, but the storyline is sur­ jumpstart his career. What seems like an easy different than Lecter's and fits more along the humor and life lessons, "Hot Fuzz" seems to prisingly worthy of praise. It teaches a little case at first rather defies the boundaries of law, lines of Hopkins' 1985 .. thriller, "Guilty have it all. about friendship, a bit more about the bal­ leaving no evidence to suggest that Ted is guilty. Conscience." "Hot Fuzz" is the British cousin of ance of work and tome life and a whole lot Additionally, Ted reveals that the detective The film also marks one step closer to an "Shaun of the Dead," which Simon Pegg co­ about the impossible feat of perfection, cre­ assigned to his case, Rob Nunally (Billy Burke), Oscar for Gosling after his loss in "Half wrote with director Edgar Wright in 2004. ating a mockery of the universal desire for has been sleeping with his wife prior to the Nelson." He is becoming more and more recog­ That success led to this new potential. Thus excellence. shooting. nizable and marture as an actor. far, it's been nothing less than a success. The movie is more like a homemade Willy struggles to find any evidence, while "Fracture" highlights the things that make a The movie has the slapstick, burst-out­ film a group of guys would make with water tom between advancing his career and maintain­ good mystery: clever writing that handles its laughing and look-like-an-idiot comedy, but guns and jokes so stupid that you can't help ing his morality. But Ted is smart enough to not subject realistically, admirable acting that punc­ unlike "Jackass" or "Napoleon Dynamite," but laugh. "Hot Fuzz" is a no-brainer with a make it that easy, "Ole' Sport." So, the two tuates the storyline and a surprise ending that which have little to no plot, "Hot Fuzz's" good message, if that's possible. launch into a complex series of mind games. has Hitchcock written all over it. plot can be taken seriously. - Corinne Clemetsen, [email protected] The film is well-balanced, weaving an -James Adams Smith, jasmith@ldeLedu

"Version" tions, Mark Ronson Winehouse When the dancing stops Columbia makes an Rating: fcfcfc (out offcfcfcfcfc) upbeat "Favourite Worst Nightmare" With a resume that includes producing break-up Arctic Monkeys tracks for Jay-Z, Christina Aguilera and criti­ song even Domino cal darling Amy Winehouse, there are high more excit­ Rating: fcfcfcfc expectations for Mark Ronson and his second ing. With (out of fcfcfcfcfc) album, "Version." Conceptually, "Version" is "Just'" England's Arctic Monkeys return unique - an all-covers album from a diverse Ronson with its sophomore album, "Favourite stable of artists, remixed by Ronson to pay manages to Worst Nightmare," in the wake of its tribute to his '60s funk and R&B influences. take a min­ critically-acclaimed debut, 2006's The result is mixed, with the good songs i m a 1 "Whatever People Say I Am, That's sounding great at the expense of the bad ones. Radiohead What I'm Not." While its introduction The clear highlights of "Version" are song and turns it into a ska-reggae fusion that to the public consisted of upbeat songs "Valerie (featuring Amy Winehouse)" and Thorn Yorke could have never imagined. aimed to bring people to the dance "Just (featuring Phantom Planet)." Ronson's "Version" sees Mark Ronson reinvent floor, "Favourite Worst Nightmare" previous work with Winehouse has been her­ some of yesterday's hits, with variable suc­ showcases heavier tones and newfound alded as a throwback to the best of Motown, cess. maturity - a rare feat for any group of and it continues here. Over layered-hom sec- - Chris Marshall 21-year-olds to accomplish. While it's surprising to hear Arctic Monkeys have matured thematically, it "5:55" vocals mix with the delicate stands out lyrically as one must come with an important caveat­ Charlotte Gainsbourg instrumentation of Air's of the more reflective it's not maturity in a John Denver I The start to fall apart I Hold on to your Vice compositions to form a pop pieces on the album. sense, but more like the maturity showcased heart"). · Rating: fcfcfc 1/2 (out of album that sounds more Gainsbourg sings, "I read a when one decides not to take that last shot While the foray into ballads shines, fcfcfcfcfc) like jazz than bubble-gum. magazine I It said at 17 of tequila at the end of the night. Lead Arctic Monkeys could not forget to include Like many actors these The album's single, "The your life is at an end I I'm singer and lyricist Alex Turner still waxes the type of songs that made the band popu­ days, Charlotte Gainsbourg Songs That We Sing," dead and I'm perfectly con­ about going out and picking up girls, but lar in the first place. Lead single is making the transition tent I And these songs that rather than bragging about a one-night "Brianstorm" thunders from the start, pro­ into the music world. 1 sing do they mean any­ stand, he laments about long-term relation­ pelled by frenetic drums provided by Matt However, as the daughter thing I To the people I'm ship·s and breaking up. Helders, and "Teddy Picker" incorporates a of famous French singing them to I People The shift into pseudo-adulthood is call-and-response verse that is sure to be singer/songwriter Serge like you." exemplified on "Fluorescent Adolescent" exploited at future concerts. "Favourite Gainsbourg, Charlotte is "5:55" is an album that and "Do Me A Favour." The former, over Worst Nightmare" is not without fault, no stranger to the busi­ mixes French and English Clash-inspired guitars, witnesses Turner however, with "Only Ones Who Know" ness. With music by lyrically, but is not just singing about the domestication of an dragging the album to a three-minute stand­ French electronica com­ for the Francophiles. It's obsessive partier ("You used to get it in still that takes time from which to recoup. posers Air and lyrics writ­ album with a sound that's your fishnets I Now you only get it in your With "Favourite Worst Nightmare," ten by Jarvis Cocker and pleasing to all who like night dress I Discarded all the naughty Arctic Monkeys attempt to push its limits Neil Hannon, "5:55" is an well-written, cascading nights for niceness"), while the latter sees and grow up, which it succeeds in doing to album to keep an ear out songs. his hard work fall to pieces ("Its these a near-flawless result. for. -Tim Mislock, times that it tends I The start to breaking up - Chris Marshall, cmarshal@udeLedu Charlotte's [email protected] April 24, 200721 delawarel INdressed Follow your fantasy fashion forward An eventful raunchy nurses take care of their bad ous, patients. Education major? Who doesn't illegal or just like a naughty-naughty lesson from their strange. Those who • favorite teacher? dream these weird and Even if you're not in a sexy major, maybe creepy thoughts spr1ng like political science; take a lesson from know they are a little off. our friends Bill and Monica. For some, a fantasy turns into It's event season. Sharing your fantasies is a way to something that gives them While most of us will Laura Beth l>lugatch connect and get closer with your partner. guilt, anxiety or fear that some­ ( 'uhtlll/1111 not be attending galas at It gives them a look into your sexual per­ thing is wrong with them. If you the Met or star-studded sonality. You can tell a lot from a person meet someone like that, tell them movie premieres, we Musicians, married men, depending on whether they want to be not to share their wack-o fantasies still have functions in professors - at some with you, but with someone with a our social calendars point, everyone fantasizes Ph.D. where we need to about sex in risque situations, Time is running out! The However, feeling guilty about a dress to impress. in bizarre locations or with fantasy isn't a trait exclusive to wack­ Review is looking for both male Here's your guide to the person of his or her jobs that need therapy. It could simply dressing for end-of­ dreams. and female delaware UNdressed be a guy fantasizing about a new girl the-semester soirees. We fantasize because columnists. E-mail us for more while he's in a relationship with some­ The "fests" or Preakness we want what we can't have. information. one else. Of course, thinking Girls: These events are outside, so leave the That dream of you lying on a about this new girl will make heels at home unless you want to leave a bill for Malibu beach caressing George him feel guilty when he kisses your ground-aerating services. As for the rest of Clooney's salt-and-pepper locks will E-mail The Review: his girlfriend. I guess fantasiz­ your ensemble, break out one of your jean skirts, never happen- but who says you can't ing isn't as bad as actually [email protected] but do the rest of us a favor and ask a morally­ dream about him as you doze off in class? doing it, but if that was my sound individual if it's too short. If you don't, Our minds run wild with sexy man, I'd kick him to the I'll be the girl with the fantastic disgusted look thoughts because we are afraid to express rescued by a dashing man on a white curb. on her face - I've had far too much practice. our true selves in the sack. Maybe you horse or if they want to be tied up and Fantasies aren't just Guys: Thank your lucky stars - you'll like it rough but your lover likes to make whipped. for the over-sexed, wild, look overdressed in anything nicer than a hat, T­ love - instead of confessing your true When someone does share his or her college kid running around shirt and shorts. passion, you fantasize about late-night, fantasy, he or she is taking a risk in hopes campus. You can fantasize Date parties body-throwing bang sessions. you will be supportive and not run for the about someone, something or Girls: Do not wear a prom dress. Go for a It may be easy to live out your fan­ door. So be careful with the looks and somewhere without getting knee-length cocktail dress or classy bermudas tasies with your lover. In college we comments you give them. Try to smile kinky with whips or whipped and a sassy shirt. Leave scandalous dresses on learn how to become professionals in through your utter shock and mutter some cream. Try it sometime. the hanger if you are going as someone else's the real world. You should start supportive words like, "OK baby, I'm It won't hurt - unless date. You don't want a whole room of strangers practicing being in that profes­ glad you feel you can talk to me like this, you like being bitten. pre-judging you. With that said, feel free to be sional role - in bed. Your pro­ but hell no, I will not lick your feet." Take your fantasies more daring in the company of friends. fessor would be proud. It's true, some people have some, out of your head and Guys: Ties are standard but no jacket is Nursing 101 can be a well, unusual fantasies that they may bring them to bed. necessary. As a kindness, you should try to lesson on how never confess because they are danger- color-coordinate your outfit with your date's. She's going to take pictures (her friends will even if she doesn't) and you'lllook oh-so-suave in the "stalkbook" afterinath. Formals Girls: Still not OK to wear a prom dress if it was one of those poofy-skirted, beaded-top Lil' Wayne reigns supreme numbers. A more mature option is a column dress (read: one that goes straight down). Lil' Wayne is the best rapper alive. but how he says it. the most simple lines sound fresh. The MC's Guys: It's time to address the white tux At least that's what he repeatedly tells Over Young Dro's "Shoulder Lean," charisma, which is heard on songs through issue. I place that outfit in the same category as listeners on his mixtapes, freestyles and Wayne spits, "Even in the dungeon, I glow I the way he changes his voice and intonation, girls' questionable dresses - wear it to your albums. And while his critics and haters cry Even if it ain't sunny, I glow I If it ain 1 about bleeds through the Young Dro staple: "And to event, not hers. As Ashton Kutcher said about foul, they might want to slow down. Lil' money, I go I No where I I'm nailed to the the kids, drugs kill I I'm acknowledging that I dressing to match Demi Moore, "You're the Wayne is about to unleash his latest mixtape floor I Money controls where I go I It is the But while I'm on the drugs, I don 1 have a purse." Don't steal the show. masterpiece, "Da Drought 3," and with it, he sail to my boat I And it's going down, it's problem with that." The last lines experience Weddings will rightfully take the crown he claims is his. going down like there's a whale in the boat." reverse accentuation as Wayne slows his flow Girls: NEVER wear a prom dress. I'm seri­ This has been building for awhile: Even music majors can appreciate the verse to mimick a person having a bad trip. Another ous. A young woman at my brother's wedding Wayne gained prominence after releasing because Wayne is well aware of his own message to the kids - quit while you're wore a bright blue glittery full-skirted disaster "Tha Carter" in 2004 and continued his hype cadence and its power. young, because rap isn't going to get more with criss-cross straps in the back and she with the DJ Drama mixtapes "Dedication" On the same track, Wayne continues his fun or simple than this. looked like a 16-year-old prima donna. and "Dedication 2." When he released "Tha ascendance as best rapper alive by making The past two paragraphs were dedicated Speaking of prima donnas, don't wear white Carter II" at the end of '05, a to one song out of 26. This sort of unless you want the bride to hold an eternal charismatic, unconventional MC dissection could be done to any of grudge (you're not a purse, but you're certainly had fully emerged. the tracks on "Da Drought 3," as an extra in bridezilla's glorious day). I suggest, Now, to whet his fans' the mixtape is a testament to a rap­ again, a cocktail dress but with a jacket or appetites until he releases "Tha per matching his money to his sweater to cover your shoulders during the cere­ Carter III," Wayne will soon mouth. Each song is what Hip-hop mony. release "Da Drought 3" - online could use more of - pure fun. Guys: A suit. As a college student, you and free of charge. Wayne knows this, as on every should own one anyway. And you don't have to In the simplest terms, the mix­ song, whether he's describing a wear the jacket for long; the length of the cere­ tape is a double-disc behemoth of threesome or delivering death mony will suffice. freestyles over popular Hip-hop threats, he can be found laughing. Always ask a veteran attendee about beats like Rich Boy's "Throw The rap game is his for the taking unspoken dress codes if you've never been. And Some D's" and Nas' "Ifl Ruled the and "Da Drought 3" is his prologue use your good judgement when deciding what to World." before "Tha Carter ill" and its wear- you might regret donning that long skirt "Da Drought 3" separates expected greatness. or those unhemmed pants when you step into a itself from other mixtapes because If this doesn't make sense port-a-potty. of its efficiency. Lil' Wayne is in yet, perhaps Wayne can explain it top form, freely associating better. He rhymes over the latest Fashion Foward needs a "Jurassic Park " "La Macarena" epic Mike Jones' beat "Mr. Jones," and former S~ Diego Chargers "I'm probably in the sky, flying columnist for next year. running back Eric Bieniemy - all with the fishes I Or maybe in the flawlessly. ocean, swimming with the pigeons Interested students Just like the Notorious B.I.G. I See, my world is different." should e-mail before him, Lil' Wayne's Me­ - Wesley Case, excellence isn't just in what he says wescase~deLedu [email protected]. 2 2 April 24, 2007 Jlt HAVEN's drag show returns

BY TIM MISLOCK students were getting up and per­ Staff Reporter forming as well. It's hard to look at drag Serenity Loves It, the emcee queens and not be impressed with for the evening, opened the night their ability to portray the illusion with a flurry of dance moves to get of a woman. The wonder turns into the crowd of approximately 120 awe as these queens perform in people ready for a night of fun and dangerously high heels and shake flamboyancy. with more moves than a university "This psycho-smock is like 40 dance party. In the Perkins Student pounds. I can't lift my arms," Center Saturday night, it was easy Serenity says as she catches her to sit in the audience of the breath from her first number. HAVEN drag show and be blown The "psycho-smock" was one away by the talent of the perform­ of the costumes worn by Serenity ers and the sense of happiness felt Loves It and her dance partner by those in attendance, regard­ Miss Cha-Chi Divine. Before less of their sexual orienta­ the night was over, the run­ THE '""" ". 'J.J ""'"' The night's winner, Phame (left), battled PHY-sicks (right) Friday night in the Trabant University Center. tion. way saw Mary Katherine Kate Mallary, social Gallagher parodies, a Bond chair for HAVEN, the Girl-themed uni-suit, university's Lesbian; stunning evening Gay, Bisexual, dresses and more In it to win it: pride on Transgender and heels than any girl Questioning group, could ever want. says the drag show The drag show is a place for the was one of the few gay community, places where the line for battle rappers allies of the com­ phrase, "We're munity and curi­ having testicle ous people to difficulties," come togeth­ didn't offend BY DANIELLE D' ALESANDRO no real way to get ready for the work." er and have anyone. Staff Reporter competition. After rapping for six Phame, 24, and whose real fun. A boxing ring encircled by years, Boots used his experience to naine is Ray Hancock, is a third­ "This Serenity caution tape that read "Danger" help him compete. time veteran of the Battle of the is part of says she has was the stage that held the rap bat­ "I've been doing it for a while Emcees and had come close to suc­ our his­ been per­ tlers during the 6th annual Battle of so I don't really prepare for this cess in previous years. He says he tory that forming at the Emcees. stuff," Boots says. "You're not was more determined this time a lot of shows like The rap battle, held Friday in suppose to prepare for it, but I just around. . people don't this for the Trabant University Center, is, freestyle all the time anrecord label, year's · "Portraying a woman the competition and acquiring pos­ know each other locally and have Cartel Enterprise, and attract atten­ s h 0 w would be like playing an old sible subject material that could be competed against each other in tion to Delaware and its growing was dif­ guy," she says. "I'm being used as ammunition for the upcom­ previous competitions. In the end, Hip-hop community. ferent something I'm not." ing battle. however, the battlers congratulate What ultimately decided the from pag­ Serenity says she feels that Eight battlers competed in the victors and show a significant judges' choice for the winner was eants of the performing as a woman cele­ three rounds of lyrical combat in a amount of sportsmanship and for­ the ability to freestyle - not only past. brates the gender since she por­ tournament style and were judged giveness. the ability to rap and write rhymes. "We found . trays strong, empowered women by the Randy, Simon and Paula of "We all cool, we just looking In a break during the final people were leaving after two on stage and hopes that people feel the night - Yung Texxus, Swanny to have fun," Boots says. round, Bad Boy Entertainment hours, so this year is pumped up safe at the university after they Riverz and Erica Roane. Reggie.Hudson, creator of the recording artist E. Ness of the' and a faster pace," Mallary says. leave the show. Swanny, the winner of last event, brought the battle to MTV's "Making the Band" and "There is no competition like the Junior Kayla Shaoul says she year's battle, looked to judge the Delaware because of his home ties. local rap artist Ray Digz performed pageants, so everyone will just be went to her first drag show during battlers on three main aspects of Hudson graduated from the univer­ a segment of their own music to having a good time." the Fall of her sophomore year and freestyle. sity with an economics degree in pump up the crowd. She says it's most important has gone to every one since. "I judge on originality, clarity 2006 and brings the event to The crowd surrounded the for curious people and potential "I love it," Shaoul says. "It is -I have to be able to hear them­ Delaware to provide locals with a stage during the performance, all allies of the gay community to nice to have alternative events on and the sting," he says. "I'm look­ chance for exposure. standing and cheering for the com­ have a good time. campus. It makes it so there is ing at the crowd and if the crowd is Coretta Ryan, public relations petitors like they would if watch­ "This is our opportunity to something for everyone." 'oow'-ing and 'ahh'-ing and on specialist for Fire Eye ing a boxing match. show people they don't have to be She says people would be sur­ their side, I'm looking at that, too." Entertainment, who co-hosted the Phame emerged as the winner afraid to be a part of the communi­ prised if they came to a drag show As game time drew closer, the show along with WVUD, says the of the event and took home the ty," Mallary says. "We're going to because they are fun and the best · mood turned more serious and the purpose of the event is to help $1,000 prize as well as a four-night be really gay tonight so please thing that people take away from rappers and the audience all sat, unknown artists express their voic- vacation to the Caribbean provided come." these types of events is an open rhythmically bouncing their heads es. by one of the event's sponsors, The show was set up in mind. to the Notorious B.I.G., Lil' Wayne "The event is meant to expose UD4 Travel. com. Bacchus Theatre, with the audi­ Freshman Alicia Brittingham and Jim Jones' song, "I'm With unsigned talent that won't neces­ What separates Phame from ence divided by a runway for the says she went to show her encour­ Whatever," courtesy of DJ Big sarily be heard by record produc­ the other artists, is, he says, his performers to strut, dance and agement for those in the gay com­ Easy. ers," she says. "It's an outlet for "swagger," as well as the clarity of pluck audience members out to munity. Nick Boots, real name Nick artists to showcase what they have. his lyrics. join in the celebration. Saturday's "I'm straight, but I wanted to States, is a rapper in the competi­ We add the competition aspect "I'm just not afraid to be event was different from the previ­ show my support," Brittingham tion and a student at Delaware which helps them bring their best myself," he says. ous HAVEN drag shows because says. State University who says there is )lt April24. 2007 23 Rosenthal: 'I didn't

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continued from page 18 A quote from Andy Warhol, "I grabbed my shoes, still in my "Art is what you can get away with," PJs and ran downstairs to the news­ was stenciled on the top of the block, stand," she says. "I opened the paper, she says. flipped to the Times magazine and Rosenthal says she addressed started jumping up and down." the block and took it to the post office But the St. Louis native says her to be stamped and shipped. • artistic flair and interest in visual "I put eight stamps right on the communications would have seeped piece of wood and crossed my fin­ through the cracks without a pre-col­ gers that it would get there," she says. lege admissions slip-up. Rosenthal says a follow-up e­ "I came to Decision Day and mail inquiry to the firm about an they gave me the wrong folder," she internship was initially declined by says. "It was Erin Rosenthal instead director of operations Hunter Tura, of Sarah Erin Rosenthal." but a lingering hope grew from his Rosenthal, an intended commu­ interest in another portfolio project of nications major, says she discovered hers, a poster that said, "Make Beats, the mishap while already running late Not War." to the visual communications semi- "He said, 'Sorry, we're not inter­ nar. ested, we don't have enough space. At Eastern Mountain Sports we're making it easy to lead a double life. ~~~... ~ She says although unfamiliar But on another note, this might sound Just show us your college student ID" and. you'll get 15% OFF ~~~~ with what visual communications strange, but would you sell me your everything" in the store. Because every now and then you need to .,.~~ encompassed, she went ahead and Beats poster?' " she says. hit the trail instead of the books, right? Stop by or check us out ....~.,,M attended the seminar because of its After some friendly nudging onli ne at www.ems.com to find a store near you. EASTERN MOUNTAIN SPORTS appealing description. and suggestion from university art ·Pret"...e:nt your current!y vahd college or un1\€f"S1ty =:;tudent 10 and orOVJde your·emari addres.s to the cashier at any Eas~ern Mountbln Sr:x>rts reta1l "I didn't even know graphic professor Ashley Pigford, Rosenthal store locat;on to receive a d;si::ount o1 lo% OfF full·pr··ced mercharxl se. PresentatiOn of a vahd college ex umoersoty_ student ID and a design existed," Rosenthal says. says her witty e-mail response struck hd err.q;l address is required to receNe ths d:scount Otter valid at Eastern Mounta1n SportS retc'lJI loc...auons only. No! valid for purchases at wwwems.com or over the phone This offer may rot be cornb,nad woth O'he' doscountS or woct1 coupons. Offer goOd fO< tre purct1ase of Past experience as a photogra­ a beat with him. tul'·priced merchandise only ln·stock merchandse only No ra.nchecks. Discount will not app;y to Merreli® productS. shpp1ng and pher and photo editor for her high "I e-mailed him back with, 'I'll handl;ng, repurchase d returned me1chandse product renta15 or gilt cards. Offer rK>t ava;lab'e to Eastern Mountaon Sp:>rts employoos Other school newspaper and yearbook sell it back to you for an internship,' i;rrl:tat!ons and exc:usions rnay apply-see &'tore kx deta!ls intrigued her visual personality, but and he wrote back, 'Touche!' " she Center Pointe Shopping Plaza, 1297 New Churchmans Rd. she says she continually swayed says. · between a creative design or writing Rosenthal says his one-word Newark; DE 19713 future. response left her puzzled, but moti­ "For a while I thought I might vated her to take the next creative want to be a photojournalist," step at winning him over. Rosenthal says. "I. was caught in the She says she took her father's Whether you are heading middle." advic() and made a bold move. She says the Decision Day mix­ "He told me, 'You shouldn't just home, living at ttie beach, up ultimately changed her mind, as send the poster, you should overnight or staying here in Newark, -- well as her major, to visual commu­ it so it's on his desk the next day,' " Take a Course nications. Rosenthal says. you can get ahead with a During a trip to New York City After interviewing with the firm with the visual communications during her next New York visit, she UD course via the Web. department to scope out various says she worked in the office for the designers, she says was immediately month of January and was given the With You With a UD Online summer course, drawn to 2x4's style. opportunity to design the graphic for you attend class when and where it's Rosenthal says a class assign­ the Key publication. convenient for you: ment following the visit required stu­ Although her future plans don't dents ~o develop a creative thank you predict a job in the city that never • on your lunch breaks note for the firm. sleeps, she says she soaked in every This Summer • late at night "I thought it was cliche, but bit that her internship had to offer. • early in the morning appropriate, to take a piece of wood "During January, my life was - a 2x4, and screen print 'Thank graphic design," Rosenthal says. 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Head to Head: Review staffers debate the postseason chances of s 0 men's lacrosse page 30 28 Basketball assistant resigns e<>nlmentacy After freak injury, former player Ryan Iversen steps down

BY MAGGIE SCHILLER Sports Editor It was the day after Christmas, and the men's basketball team was back on the court for practice. Assistant coach Ryan Iversen was running a drill and working out with the players like he usually Brendan Reed did. But in an instant, fate took a Sports Editor turn on Iversen as his right leg col­ lided with one of the players. A routine drill became a freak acci­ Someone stay in school dent that would leave Iversen still unable to walk four months later. Not many people can say they The injury, known as acute­ paid money to quit their job. Bob compartment syndrone, led Huggins can. Earlier this month, Iversen to resign from the team the 53-year-old college basketball and return to his hometown in coach opted to pay $100,000 to Minnesota. get out of a contract with Kansas Iversen said his decision was State. Huggins abruptly resigned based on the uncertainty of the sit­ from the school after just one year uation. to take a head-coaching position at "It was too much for me, and West Virginia, his alma mater. And I don't know when I'm going to while that may seem like chump get better," he said. "I don't know change to Huggins (set to earn when I'm going to be able to run, about $5 million, plus incentives, or walk without crutches. I don't over the next five years at WVU), know when I'm going to be able to the players he recruited at Kansas do my job again." State may be cursed by his deci­ Since then, Iversen has had sion. three surgeries and must go to Sometimes teams will hire rehab three times per week. assistants from within their pro­ During the remainder of the gram to fill a coaching void, but season, he said he has been able to more often, and in the case of do recruiting work, like talking on Huggins, teams hire coaches from the phone or writing letters, but other schools. was benched when jt came to day­ For Huggins, it was a no­ to-day activities. brainer to take the job at a school "It is a really rare injury," where he played from 1975-1977 Iversen said. "I had never heard of and first started his coaching it or anyone who had it. It happens career as an assistant. Coaches with car accidents or any time you love to take the job at their former have trauma to your body. It would schools, and sometimes, like in the be more likely to happen in foot­ case of North Carolina head coach ball than in basketball." Courtesy of UD Photo Services Roy Williams, they are hugely Although he tries to do some Former men's basketball assistant coach Ryan Iversen played three seasons for Delaware and coached successful. Fine and dandy for them. But type of exercise every day, Iversen two. Iversen plans to pursue a career in business and spend time with his family in Minnesota. said he has no feeling from his their recruits are screwed. shin down and cannot lift his foot been hard for Ryan, the staff and "His personality is one of a As he looks to the future and According to the National of the ground. the team to see somebody with his kind," he said. "He can get along the completion of his recovery, Letter of Intent governing body, a "I don't know if the nerves enthusiasm and energy and will be with anyone, anywhere and with­ Iversen said his plans do not high school basketball player com­ will ever regenerate," he said. "We diminished to crutches and bed­ out him, there will be a major include a return to coaching. mits to the school they'd like to want to get the nerves stronger so ridden." change here. "I majored in business, so I attend and not the coach trying to -, I can be able to walk without Kehoe said anytime you lose "Just on a daily basis, with will try and get back into business get them there. crutches or a brace." somebody who works as hard as whoever takes his place, they will in my community in Minnesota," On the outside, this seems like Iversen said since he has Iversen, the team is bound to feel not be able to fill his spot with per­ he said. a reasonable rule which serves to always been a hard worker, the some effects. sonality and charisma." Kehoe said the circumstances protect prospective players, con­ most difficult part of the injury has "The guys are going to have Iversen said although he surrounding Iversen's resignation sidering coaches can ditch their been his lack of energy. to get used to him not being believes returning home is the have taught him to not take any­ job whenever they want. But head "I get tired after an hour of around and the staff will have right move for him now, it is hard thing for granted. coaches have so much contact with being out of my house," he said. more responsibilities," he said. for him to the leave the university "Ryan has really helped me to their much-desired players that the "After an hour, I am ready to go "We will have a hard time replac­ for which he coached and played. realize that you just never know," NCAA may regulate how much home and sit down. I am just real­ ing him because he played here "I played here, graduated in he said. "It was as freak of an acci­ text messaging can go on between ly fatigued." and was so good with individual 2003_and then spent two years as a dent that you can ever be a part of. a coach and player. So it's hard to Assistant coach R.C. Kehoe instruction to the players." coach," he said. "I have wonderful "People take days for granted. understand how a player can be said it was hard to see somebody Along with the team losing an memories. The people and the kids People take moments for granted. told not to pick a coach consider­ who always gives 100 percent essential figure on the court, are wonderful, Monte Ross is I don't take anything for granted ing the amount of contact that goes reduced to doing nothing. Kehoe said Iversen was a great wonderful, it's definitely sad for now." on between them. "It's a shame," he said. "It has resource for the team's recruits. me, but it will be the best for me." see NCAA page 30 ~ )!t April 24, 2007 2 9 UD athletes highlight Hardwood Classic

BY JOE ZIMMERMANN ball. All three courts were a flurry of activity as everything." some good kids who are playing," Johnson Staff Reporter six three-on-three games were simultaneously The tournament featured 36 teams which said. "We're definitely keeping it competitive As parents and prospective students milled under way. More than 150 student participants were placed into three brackets according to and trying to win it." through the Carpenter Sports Building Saturday and event staff packed into the gym, all part of skill level: 18 in Hardwood Heroes (which The winner of the Hardwood Heroes morning, some stopped to peer through the the second-annual Hens Hardwood Classic. DeSchriver described as the "men's high level" bracket was Unity, which featured football windows overlooking the Harry Ra.wstrom The Hens Hardwood Classic is a three-on­ group), 12 in Roundball Recruits ("men's mid­ players Walter Blair, Ben Everett and Tommy Pool. Other visitors gathered in front of the rock three basketball tournament created one year dle level") and six in Queens of the Court (the Crosby. Blair said his team was primarily play­ climbing wall and more ambled towards the ago by sports management professor Tim women's bracket). The teams were initially ing for locker room bragging rights. weight room. DeSchriver and his students as a way to prac­ broken into pools of three, and winners from "We all played ball in high school," Blair One father, though, was held at rapt atten­ tice running a large-scale athletic event. each pool moved on to a single-elimination said. "It was just for fun but we were competi­ tion in front of the large glass panes at the "It was a class project for them, and we are playoff. tive and we all [trash] talked on the court." entrance of Oym 2. After several moments of trying to simulate what it would be like to run a Each team paid an entry fee of$10, which The Roundball Recruits bracket winner gawking, he quickly motioned his wife and son sporting event so they can go out in the sports bought the!Jl a T-shirt commemorating the was team Waterworks, composed of Andrew over to him, and all three stood silently watch­ world and do it themselves," DeSchriver said. event and three guaranteed games. Balick, Bryce Gaines and Jeff Isacson. Team ing the action within. "The students were responsible for getting the "With all of the event costs, we pretty Lady Bugs, consisting of Jenna Logan, Briana The gym was fully consumed by basket- prizes, getting the teams, setting up the gym, much break even," DeSchriver said. "Any pro­ Fisher and Allison Lupariello, took the Queens ceeds we do make go to the sports management of the Court division. program. In the future, we might create schol­ Senior Scott DiRico, who emceed the arships for qualified students with proceeds if event, said the prizes, which were all donations the event gets big enough." from local businesses, were valued at more than Among the participants were more than a $700. dozen members of the Delaware football team Midway through the tournament, players and women's basketball senior guard Alena participated in a dunk contest and a three-point Koshansky, playing for the team UDunkers shootout. Six players competed in the shootout along with men's basketball player Deon including Agnone and Hens wide receiver Goodman. Aaron Love but it was women's soccer player "It's fun and for a good cause," Koshansky Alli D'Amico, who won. said. "I am a sports management major so I'm Four dunkers dazzled the crowd in the playing to support the major." opening round of the dunk contest, but only She said playing in the men's bracket pre­ Nate Connell and Martwain Johnston made it to sented some difficulties. the final round. Connell impressed the judges "It's hard because the ball is a different by bouncing the ball off the backboard leading size and you also actually have to box out," to a one-hand slam, garnering a score of 29 out Koshansky said. of a possible 30. Johnston countered, however, The university's varsity athletes were and his 360-degree backwards jam brought the allowed to participate in the tournament but house down and earned him a perfect 30 to win were barred from keeping any prizes due to the contest. NCAA guidelines. Men's basketball freshman All in all, DeSchriver called the day a total guard Brian Johnson played alongside two victory for the sports management program. members of the football team and said he "The sports management students did a enjoyed competing against other Delaware ath­ super job in organizing and managing the THE REVIEW/Mike DeVoll letes. event," he said. "It was a great success." The sports management program's Hens Hardwood Classic included several Hens' athletes. "It's not Division I, but there are definitely

As draft nears, experts predict prospect's NFL fate

BY BRENDAN REED round while Miller could be taken in the late first-round to Patrick had a personal Sports Editor anywhere in the second round. He said teams that need a visit with the Jets ear­ As Ben Patrick continues to work out in Atlanta to prep tight end may select them early since there are only a few lier this month. for the upcoming NFL Draft this weekend, football experts from this year's class who can produce at the next level. Patrick said he around the country are constantly updating their mock "I definitely think in recent years we've seen the tight talked .briefly with drafts. Predicting which players will be taken with the first end become more popular and offenses are utilizing them Raiders tight end few picks is hard enough, as evidenced last year by more. As a result, teams are taking them higher in the draft," coach Kelly Skipper Houston's surprise decision to take Mario Williams over Wright said. "Teams who see the first two tight ends come on the phone last Reggie Bush. Creating a multiple-round mock draft is hard­ off the board may panic and take Patrick a little higher than week. He said the er, if not nearly impossible. he would go in other years." conversation with Scott Wright, founder and President of nfldraftcount­ However, Wright said even if Patrick is selected higher Skipper was short down.com, has been creating mock drafts for more than ten than usual, it should take nothing away from Patrick's and "nothing years. On his Web site, Wright- a member of the Football potential impact. special." It remains Writers Association of America - predicts the first three "On the first day of practice at the Senior Bowl, to be seen whether rounds wilth Patrick to be a late second-round selection, [Patrick] made a spectacular catch and that really showed the Raiders are truly ' 55th overall to the Seattle Seahawks. well for him," Wright said. "He may not have played against interested, or if they "What's helping him a little bit is that this isn't a great top competition his senior year, but he is a Division I tal­ are just doing their class for tight ends," Wright said. "There's a clear top three ent." homework. and then there's a pretty big drop-off after that." In terms of possible destinations for Patrick, it really At the tight end position, most depends on who selects Olsen in the first round, Wright Part three in draft experts have Patrick behind said. Many mock drafts have Olsen going as high as 14th series about l!ar!l!lllll!lld Miami's Greg Olsen and Arizona overall to the Carolina Panthers, but Wright predicts the preparations State's Zach Miller. Wright said New York Jets will select him at No. 25. The Jets, Panthers, NFL draft. Olsen should be selected Seahawks, Packers, Raiders and Saints comprise a group of in the middle of the first teams looking for a tight end early in the draft, Wright said.

' ' 3 0 Aoril 24, 2QQ7 . JJt Head to Head: Lax preps for postseason Experience and leadership will Sen;or-led' Hens still oren 't as drive Delaware to CAA title strong as feams of recent past

The men's ers, especially the April 11 loss against Seniors Dan they lost in the championship game 9-8 at lacrosse team Towson. Senior defenseman Rob Smith's stick Deckelbaum, home to Towson - arguably the biggest cemented a spot in was declared illegal and he was sent to the Jordan Hall, Cam game in school history at that point. Even the Colonial Athletic penalty box for three minutes, during which Howard and Alex though they advanced to the national tour­ Association the Tigers scored three goals on the way to a Smith are all three­ nament, the loss in the conference champi­ Tournament with a 10-9 victory. Delaware must perform better in year letter-winners onship was a tough one. 12-9 win over the clutch to win in the postseason. for the men's It could be argued that last year the Sacred Heart But since that loss, the Hens are 2-0, win­ lacrosse team. Hens did all they could to make a bid for Saturday. ning 19-18 over Villanova and 12-9 against They have the national tournament. Even though The win Michael LoRe Sacred Heart. If Delaware can win its final been through it all Brendan Reed Delaware lost again in the CAA improved the Hens' Sport1 Edttor game at Robert Morris, it will have momentum in past years, both Sports Edttor Tournament championship game, the Hens conference record when the conference tournament starts May 2. good and bad, did not receive an at-large bid to the to 3-2 and 8-5 over- Even though Delaware does not have an finding joy with NCAAs, despite the fact its 12 wins were all. This time last year, the Hens were 2-3 in · impressive record compared to recent years, the success in a 2005 NCAA tournament more than any other team who received an the CAA and still made it to the finals against the Hens could make an impact this postsea­ berth and anguish in two Colonial Athletic at-large bid. Hofstra - losing 12-6. son. The•Hens have been ranked in the top 20 Association tournament championship loss­ Which brings us to this year. Factor in With a core squad of experienced upper­ all year long and have played tough opponents es in 2004 and 2006. a sure win against Robert Morris on April classmen, the Hens have a chance to reach the like Georgetown, Duke and Albany. If this group of heralded seniors is to 28 and the Hens will finish the season 9-5 finals again this year, and possibly win the As of now, the CAA Tournament field, cement any type of legacy in the minds of (4-2). If 12 wins weren't enough to get tournament. Upperclassmen like Dan consisting only of the top four teams, will be the Delaware-lacrosse faithful, they need to Delaware into the tournament last year, Deckelbaum, Cam Howard, Jordan Hall, Alex Drexel, Hofstra, Towson and Delaware. The find a way to get back to the NCAAs and nine certainly won't do it this year. The Smith and Tommy Scherr were all part of the Hens, currently ranked third in the CAA, have make some noise. And, unfortunately, it team must win the CAA tournament if they 2005 team that was runner-up in the played each of those teams once this season, isn't going to happen. are to advance to the national tournament. CAA Tournament and received a beating Hofstra 6-5 and closely losing to The problem with this Winning the CAA tournament means the bid to the NCAA Tournament. Towson 10-9. The Hens lost 11-7 to this year's team in the past has been its Hens would have to face Towson or · With that playoff experience, surprise Drexel squad. inability to pull everything Drexel eventually, two teams the these. seniors will have a greater This year, Delaware hasn't proven it can together at the same time. In Hens lost to earlier in the sea­ impact in this year's postseason. run with the big dogs like Duke and recent years, whether it is a son. Besides the upper­ Georgetown, but it can put up a good stretch of poor play, injuries or Another factor to consider is classmen, look for soph­ fight against teams like Drexel, a postseason snuff, the men's that Delaware doesn't real­ omore Chris Richboro dofstra and Towson. It doesn't mat­ lacrosse team has never been able ly have a respectable win and freshmen ~er that the Hens have lost 19 to have everything go its way this year. Although getting Kevin Kaminski and straight games to top-1 0 opponents when it needed it most. an at-large bid to the Curtis Dickson to be influen­ )ecause, as of now, none of their CAA In 2004, when the NCAA Tournament doesn't tial for the Hens as well. Tournament challengers are ranked group of necessarily mean knocking Though he's only started five ihat high. aforemen­ 7 off a team like Duke or games this season, Richboro has Another advantage for the Hens tioned sen­ ~ Virginia, it does require a played in every game and is fifth on ;oing into the tournament is its iors were only fresh- · win against a respectable the team with 16 points, including 12 coaching staff, mainly head men, Delaware advanced to the CAA squad. Wild finishes against goals. Kaminski and Dickson follow coach Bob Shillinglaw. In his postseason for the first time in school his­ 1 the likes of 2-8 Sacred Heart closely with 13 and 10 goals respec­ 29th season at Delaware tory. Villanova pummeled the Hens 15-6 or 5-6 Hofstra, Delaware's tively. and 32nd of collegiate in the CAA semifinals to end their season. two previous opponents, The Hens have shined in the coaching, his experience, Evert though Delaware failed to make it to aren't going to help either. first period this season and they much like that of the the NCAA tournament, the season was It would be ridiculous to must start strong in CAA upperclassmen, will help looked at as something on which to build. say that Delaware doesn't Tournament games. Delaware the Hens in the postseason. The 2005 season was far and away the have a chance, this is has ~cored 38 goals in 84 shots on goal in the Shillinglaw has coached the Hens to the most successful year for the Hens in recent why the games are first period this year. NCAA Tournament three times - 1984, 1999 memory. Delaware won the CAA outright played. Seniors like Deckelbaum, Hall, As strong as the Hens can start, one of and2005. for the first time in school history and Howard and Smith bring experience to the their problems this year is finishing strong. Unless Towson, Drexel and Hofstra play advanced to the NCAA tournament. But it table, so you can never count them out. But They have less shots on goal in the fourth peri­ its best game of the season, Delaware will have was the way they got there that left room if recent history is any tell, something is od than any other. a chance to beat them and maybe make some for improvement. The Hens accepted an at­ bound to trip the Hens up. The Hens experienced some heartbreak- postseason noise. large bid to play in the tournament after NCAA should let athletes follow coaches without penalty

Continued from page 28 over us. The first thing he said was West Virginia, they'll have some Only time will tell the future coaches - many of whom play that he was devoted to us and that serious red tape to get through, of these blue-chip recruits, but the the role of a father figure to their When Delaware junior for- we were his first recruits basical- considering the letters they signed idea of coaches leaving their jobs players in one way or another- to ward Henry Olawoye was recruit- ly." as high school seniors obligate for more money or more success promote ditching their commit­ ed to play here, it was by former Olawoye mentioned he knew them to complete a ·full year at raises an even bigger issue. ments for more cash? coach Dave Henderson. players from other teams who had Kansas State. The only way to get College players who choose Players and coaches alike Henderson was let go by the not been as lucky and were forced out of the binding agreement is for to leave early for the NBA are con­ deserve the freedom to be where university following the 2005- off their team. the school to grant them a release, stantly ridiculed by the sports they want. But enforcing strict 2006 season and current head "I've had some friends at and Kansas State Athletic Director media and fans alike for giving up penalties on the players who just coach Monte Ross was hired a few other schools who were at the Tim Weiser has already said he their education for the riches of want to play under the head coach weeks later. Olawoye said he was school and . when the new coach will not grant releases to any of the professional basketball. In many who recruited them is not right. fortunate to inherit a coach like came he ran them off the team," he recruits. cases, these players maintain they Either players should be granted Ross, who chose to retain the play- said. "They make it seem like it's However, the players are not are making the jump in order to the freedoms coaches have in ers already on the team. not because of you, but when it being forced to stay at Kansas support their families. backing out of previously­ "Usually when stuff like that comes down to it that's really what State. They can choose not to However, when coaches leave arranged agreements, or coaches happens, most coaches tend to it is, they want their guys in." attend the school, but at a grave their jobs for whatever reason, need to be more committed to their clean . house," Olawoye said. The big story in college bas- price. According to NCAA regula­ they are given a free pass. For the jobs. "They'll tell you they don't wa)lt ketball now is the future fate of the tions, those who choose to attend a most part, these coaches already you anymore or that you don't fit players Huggins recruited to play different school after signing their have enough money to support Brendan Reed is a sports editor at the system. at Kansas State, who are ironically letter are forced to sit out for one their families while college bas­ The Review. Send questions, com­ "We definitely had a fair ranked as the nation's No.I incom- year, cannot receive any kind of ketball players aren't paid a dime ments and shredded Letters of standing with [Ross] right off the ing freshman class. If the players athletic scholarship and lose one until they reach the big stage. Intent to [email protected]. bat, he didn't judge us or recruit choose to try and follow him to year of eligibility. What kind of role models are these L______6 ______.!_ __ _ l..f.L _____~_:.~_ .. _._~ _____tf.JA ______:," ______~ t.W.lm-.::...,;-~· •. .. .. -. )lt April 24, 2007 31 Figure skating takes second at nationals After third place finish last year, club team falls to Dartmouth again

BYJOEZIMMERMANN was loose and trying to have fun on the ice dur­ Staff Reporter ing the competition. She said, however, that In a field that one Hen skater called "the most competitive" many of the team members were disappointed to in recent memory, the Delaware figure skating team took second fall short of Dartmouth yet again. place in the Intercollegiate National Team Championship with a The Hens have a longstanding rivalry with composite total of 63 points. Delaware finished behind host Dartmouth, but as of late the duels have been Dartmouth in Hannover, N.H., onAprill4. one-sided in Dartmouth's favor. Senior Annie Sophomore Mallory Houghton (novice freestyle), junior Kowtoniuk said the Hens nearly defeated the Big Emma Phibbs (preliminary dance) and junior Shieva Zandi (jun­ Green this year during a invitational event in ior dance) all won events for the Hens. The Low and High March, but could not close the gap at nationals. Maneuver teams each garnered silvers in their respective events. "In my four years here, we've always been Senior Meghan Reeves said Delaware's second place result, second to them, we're always chasing an improvement over last year's third place finish, resulted from [Dartmouth]," she said. "I really thought we were the team's positive work ethic. going to get them this year." "Going into the competition, we had been working really The team will have to wait until next year hard this year to try to move up in the national standing," Reeves for another chance at Dartmouth, but Kowtoniuk said. "Overall, the placement was very exciting since we moved said first-year coach Tiffany Scott - who won up a place from last year. the pairs title at the 2003 U.S. Figure Skating "Obviously, first place is always what you strive for, but at Championships -will have the 2008 squad well least now we know we still have a lot of work cut out for us." prepared. Junior Laura Stefanik, who won a bronze medal in the Kowtoniuk said Scott's impact turned the Junior Ladies Short Program, said the team generally met its team around this year and her guidance improved · own expectations heading into the event. the quality of nearly every skater. "Some of us had hopes of winning but I think we did real­ "She made the girls more dedicated, it's Courtesy of Kaitlyn DeRoy ly well overall," Stefanik said. unbelievable how well she can motivate people," The Delaware club figure skating team finished second at nationals Freshman Samantha Penn said while the team has several she said. "She cares, so we all care. She relaxes April14~ Dartmouth hosted the event and placed first. standout skaters, each member contributed to the Hens' strong us and she's been around the block a few times so she said. "I know schools such as Dartmouth and Miami barely showing. she has a lot of wisdom for us." "Some of the junior and senior freestylers are great skaters, Scott also helped improve the Hens camaraderie. The team pay anything for their season. But when you're the only game in and Laura Stefanik really does well and is really nice to watch skates together once per week and lifts weights, but the women town, you're easily the star. on the ice," Penn said. "But we really have people contributing also spend time together outside of the Fred Rust Ice Arena. "With us, we are a club sport that is surrounded by Olympic everywhere so everyone is valuable." Many teammates live together in off-campus housing and col­ champions and it makes it harder to justify getting more fund­ Each of the skaters took away their own favorite memories laborate in fundraising efforts. ing." from the event. Senior Kaitlyn DeRoy, who is the figure skating · Some skaters feel no matter how well the team does ill the Still, DeRoy said the team makes the best of what they have club's president, said the highlight for her was her entire Short future, the program will always be overshadowed by Olympians and, after the good showing at Nationals, the team is looking for­ Program, where she finished sixth overall. After landing her first like Kimmie Meissner who train at the Delaware facility. ward to seeing some talented freshmen to try out next year. jump, the rest of the program was flawless. Reeves said the team gets shortchanged with monetary "A lot of potential freshmen contact me over the summer "I skated the best short program of my life," she said. "I was resources because the Olympic stars receive more attention from about the program and I try to give them as much information as I can," she said. "So I really want their experience to be as pos­ so happy I cried and everyone was so supportive of me. I wasn't local media. happy with the placement but I can't complain." "We are very lucky to have such great facilities and trainers itive as possible. Penn, who won the Juvenile Dance Group B, said the team availible to us, but where I feel we are shorted is in the funding," "I really care about the future of the team."

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