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Sports betting could affect Edward James Olmos Commentary: Why Sept. 11 Hens' ability to host playoffs visits UD still matters seepage 28 seepage 19 seepage 15 rvreView I Check out the Web site for Tuesday, September 29, 2009 ·con1 breaki news and more. Volume 136, Issue 5 Provost proposes Voyage to India Saturday classes BY ARIF ZAMAN Oct. 5. Staff Reporter "We are now Imhatmg pre- Citing low attendance in liminary conversations regarding Friday classes, Provost Tom Apple class schedules and the effective has proposed instituting a six-day utilization of our classrooms," class schedule, meaning some Rodriguez said. "More important classes would meet on Saturday. ly, we are focusing on new and The proposal, still in the pre- innovative strategies to continue liminary phases, would change all to increase and promote academic classes to a two-day-per-week rigor and excellence in all the schedule, rather than the current work that we do." Courtesy of Ned Redmond Monday-Wednesday-Friday and He said spreading out the Tuesday-Thursday schedule. schedule would also alleviate Students gather in a Katha classroom. Four UD students wiD volunteer for Katha this winter. On Sept. over-crowding of 14, Apple told "Fridays are disappear- classes during the Faculty peak times of the Senate meeting ing from the academic day. Students plan service-learning trip that the change calendar." The utilization would encour- rate of classroom age more stu- space ranges from BY· ASHLEY BIRO Seniors Lauren House and Justyn Olliviere / Managing News Editor and juniors Nicki Brooks and Ned Redmond met dents to attend _Provost Tom Apple about 93 to 100 New Delhi, India. Despite being approxi their Friday percent between on a university study abroad program in India this mately 7,500 miles away, this place has closely classes. He said 9:30 am and 4:00 past winter. While studying there, they became affected the lives of four university students plan familar with a non-governmental organization attendance at ------------- pm on Tuesdays ning on returning there this winter to aid the chil Friday classes is and Thursdays, he called Katha, which helps to educate underpriv lower than other days because said. On Mondays, Wednesday dren of the slums. eledged children living in Africa. many students spend Thursday and Fridays, the utilization rate is The students said their desire to volunteer in nights partying and never make it around 90 percent from about Katha is their motive to return in· the future. to class the following day. 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. The class- Brooks said another part of what Katha does "Fridays are disappearing room utilization rates earlier in is publish books. They also take stories that are in from the academic calendar," the mornings and during late different langu'figes from across India and trans Apple said at the meeting. By afternoons are considerably lower. late them into English. However, the organiza meeting twice a week, more pres- Reaction among students tion's main focus is building schools for children. sure would be placed upon the hearing about the proposal was "They've grown into building 72 schools in student to attend both classes, he mostly negative .. the slums of Delhi. They have a 92 percent pass said. Sophomore Jaclyn ing rate in board exams and a 98 percent student Deputy Provost Havidan Marangella, a member of the uni retention rate," Brooks said. "It's flying colors Rodriguez said the Faculty Senate versity's track team, said it is a and it was really inspiring hearing about it." is discussing the proposed change horrible idea. Redmond said the schools are like a fantasy with the deans of all seven col- "Professors will hot want to for all of the kids. leges and will continue discussing "The · school was laid out like a castle, and the issue at its next meeting on See SATURDAY page 10 Katha's mission statement displayed on a poster See INDIA page 13 in New Dehli University Bookstore to relocate to Main Street BY STEPHANIE KRAUS School District, for $1.6 million. Scott Bookstore in Perkins, which sells mostly uni Senior News Reporter Douglass, executive vice president and treas versity memorabilia, is not expected to The University Bookstore will move to a . urer of the university, said the plan is to relo change. Douglass said the university is still new location on Main Street by 2011, offi cate the bookstore at Perkins Student Center deciding the future for the Perkins Student cials announced last Wednesday. to the newly acquired property, which will Center. University spokesman John Brennan said also include office space for university "It might become a major dining hall for UD has purchased this building on the university has purchased a building at 83 departments. the new buildings replacing Gilbert and E. Main St., formally owned by the Christina The first floor of the University Main Street See BOOKSTORE page 12 1 News 14 Editorial 15 Opinion · 17 Mosaic 21 Media Darling 27 Classifieds 28 Sports 2 September 29, 2009 Letter from the Editors Dear Readers, As journalists, we're constantly adapting to new situations. Always searching for the perfect story often lends itself to last minute interviews, new developments and digging around for the latest dirt. As stressful as it can get at times, it's the adrenaline rush of always being on the go and thrown in to new situations that always keeps us coming back to write the next article handed our way. We've dealt with it all- dead batteries in tape recorders, lost notes, unreturned phone calls and computer crashes at the 11th hour before we send the paper to our publisher. Despite these setbacks, we've always pulled together our resources and gotten our paper out to you, no matter what. On Sunday, however, we faced an issue in our office that had even us stumped - our Internet and our server, the lifelines of our paper, crashed. Not only could we not access the Internet to double check facts, our editors and reporters couldn't open their stories or layouts on our computers. We couldn't even print our pages to edit. A single flash drive, passed between dozens of reporters and editors, held all of the stories that you're getting ready to read now. At best, all we could imagine was that a power surge caused from an electricity outage the night before had fried our router or that our Internet had crashed. We plugged and unplugged wires, tried rebooting and checked circuits but to no avail. We were at a loss for words. No pun intended. As the hours passed that we still didn't have a co~ection, we all become more and more panicked as to how we were going to get the paper published today. • A cake made by Bing's Bakery is on display at Sunday's Taste of Newark festival. In a final act of desperation we contacted Mike Chinn, a tech guru and a friend of Stephanie Kraus, our Senior News Reporter, and pleaded with him to come to our rescue. Not only did he get us back up and running but he found the cause of our mishap - a damaged power cord. As hard as it was to believe that a single cord had been the root of our panic we could finally breather easier knowing that one way or another, this issue would be published. Mike, we owe you. So, take some time to look through this issue and treasure the fact that it may not have made it to the printing press. 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