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COMMUNITY GARDEN ASSESSING ASSANIS BLUE HENS FALL SHORT The Review takes a look at a local Wilmington resi Our presidential mansion correspondent gives the Delaware loses to Villanova in season finale, leav dent’s attempt to revive his own health through the latest on the day-to-day of President Assanis. ing them out of FCS playoff contention. development of an urban farming plot. NEWS Page 3 MOSAIC Page 13 SPORTS Page 14 University holds town halls in search fdr Grasso’s successor CALEB OWENS & JACOB departments. provost vacancies, women have Faculty also stressed the need for WASSERMAN The earlier Nov. 16, faculty- not ultimately been hired. dual governance between faculty What you need to know: Managing News Editor & Senior only town hall commanded a Attendees also requested and administration in university Reporter rather small audience of about 20 candidate willingness to affairs, as well as equal commitment • 16 members of the uni people. The audience consisted of understand the university's role, to different disciplines. versity community will be As campus emptied for break members of the search committee location and identity, rather Faculty Senate President and involved in the search for on Friday, Nov. 17, the university and a handful of members of the than making assumptions and Professor Martha Buell, who is a the next provost. held a “town hall" in the afternoon, university faculty. implementing incompatible member of the search committee, seeking community feedback The town hall sought feedback models of achievement. The need said that bridging divides between • President Dennis Assanis for the ongoing provost search on “competencies” demanded of for financial competence and the university’s seven colleges, has promised that the process will be transpar — that is, from the diligent few whose current structure leads to ent, following complaints who reached the end of President unintended consequences and about transparency Dennis Assanis’ email on Nov. 10, “Part of the problem is us, as higher ed institutions, confusion, should be a priority for throughout his own which announced the meeting. that we are not doing enough to reach out and the provost. Deni Galileo, former selection process. A similar, faculty-only event break down the walls of the ivory towers,” faculty senate president, expressed was held on Nov. 16, whereas the the same concern, noting that the • Natalie Criscenzo, Nov. 17 town hall was open to Maisson said. “We’re not doing enough to have a current system leads faculty to president of the Student faculty, students and staff. bidirectional conversation between us and society “think of their college as their own Government Association Members of the Provost about why academic work is important and impacts little kingdom." (SGA), will be represent Search Committee, who Assanis The university’s traditional ing the undergraduate their daily lives.” community. announced in the same email, role as an undergraduate-focused -David Maisson were in attendance. The institution was mentioned, and • The provost is the chief committee includes two student Criscenzo cited several major academic administrator representatives, with Natalie a prospective provost, as well as acknowledging the university’s factors for undergraduates, at the university, oversee Criscenzo, president of the insight into the various challenges limitations were also discussed, as including study abroad programs, ing the academic affairs university’s Student Government and opportunities facing the the university proceeds with plans campus comfort, proximity to in all seven colleges. Association (SGA), representing university. Attendees cited the to hire 250 new faculty members major cities and a sincere care for the undergraduate population, need for diversity and openness over five years. students. • Two sparsely attended and David Maisson, president of in the candidate search, noting On Nov. 16, faculty referenced In a separate interview with town hall meetings were the Graduate Student Government a trend of men occupying top the university’s recent Princeton The Review, Criscenzo said that held to collect community IGSG), also participating in administrative positions. Review ranking as the nation’s her priorities for the committee feedback for the process, the search. Other committee Although women have No. 6 party school, demanding include a focus on student life and but similar events will be held in the future members included faculty and undertaken interim positions for that the next provost re-establish success, citing several concerns administrators from various the most recent president and the school’s academic reputation. presented to her. SEE PROVOST ON PAGE 3 The opioid epidemic continues LENNY PROSSER, RENEE STAUB, tightening its hold on the country the opioid epidemic. In an informal including the university was actually just him being high.” TREVOR BEAM & NICK BAKER like a belt tied around a user’s arm, survey of 123 university students, community. About 10 months These days, Hastings recounts Staff Reporters and citizens are suffering. As The about three out of five said they have passed since freshman Sarah the story of her brother's struggle Review recently reported, there know someone affected by opioid Wood died, on her bedroom floor to her clients — who are almost An undergraduate at the were 308 fatal heroin overdoses in abuse, and most knew an opioid in Dagsboro, Del., from a heroin exclusively with opioid addicts. university worries about her best Delaware in 2016 — more than the user indirectly. overdose, days before Christmas. She works to keep the grownups friend who has overdosed three number of deaths in car crashes. Heroin is cheaper and easier to She was 19. “clean” so they can regain their times in four years. A downstate So far this year, the drug has killed get than prescription opioids, and Naomi Williams, a sophomore lives, stay out of prison, regain social worker regrets failing to 185 people. is so addictive that researchers told from Boston, MA, shared what it custody of their children and find see signs that her kid brother was And while University of The Review that as many as four in is like to have a best friend from work. hooked. A nurse in New Castle, Delaware Police Department five recovering addicts eventually home who doubles as a heroin Some of them are new mothers Del. remembers how drugs quietly (UDPD) says addiction is not a big relapse. addict. whose infants are born addicted. took hold of her mother-in-law: factor on campus, the collateral Over two million Americans Williams’ friend has overdosed “Watching a baby suffer from “You never would have known she damage is as commonplace here are currently dealing with some three times in the past four years, opioid withdrawal is incredibly had an addiction.” as it is elsewhere around the state. type of opioid addiction, and the and after running away from rehab unsettling," Hastings said. The opioid epidemic is Call it the second-hand smoke of effects are being felt everywhere, centers, is currently being placed “They twitch uncontrollably, are in a halfway home — a center that constantly quivering and sneeze ‘A sense of belonging”: National Agenda speaker shares his immigrant experience helps individuals adjust to life in constantly...they need to be on society. morphine or opium just to exist.” “I talk to her every week and Cheryl Alexander, who works I can visibly tell that she’s aged. for the Visiting Nurse Association I'm like ‘when is it going to stop?’" at Christiana Care in New Castle, Williams said. “I mean you have to also has plenty of first-hand love yourself just a little bit.” experience dealing with the crisis. Despite Wood's death last year Like Hastings, not only has she and the indirect damage addiction seen addiction on the job, but also can cause, UDPD Police Chief within her own family. Alexander’s Patrick A. Ogden still maintained mother-in-law died from an that opioid addiction is not a overdose. V 1.U5 large issue on campus. Danielle “The problem is more H Hastings, a social worker for the widespread than people know,” she CHRIS GARCIA state Division of Social Services said. “It's easy to hide. My mother in Sussex County — where Wood in law was only 55, a grandmother, died — said she experiences the you never would’ve know she had epidemic every day. an addiction.” Growing up in Wilmington, Alexander has “definitely” Del., Hastings had no clue how vast seen addictions rise in 17 years on of an issue addiction was in her the job — and not just with heroin. home state, until her own family “When people hear addiction was affected. they think heroin, cocaine, et “I had never seen heroin or its cetera. But there is a very large effects before my brother, I used to number of people addicted to think it was so cute when he would prescription medication." be nodding off and sleeping all She says people turn to heroin the time, thinking ‘aw, he's just so or other street opiates, because DAVID RUSSELL/THE REVIEW sleepy,”’ Hastings said. “But, that they are cheaper than painkillers SEE NATIONAL AGENDA ON PAGE 5 SEE OPIOID ON PAGE 6 * A < "> NOVEMBER 28, 2017 udreview.com PENCIL IT IN TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 NOVEMBER 29 NOVEMBER 30 DECEMBER 1 DECEMBER 2 DECEMBER 3 DECEMBER 4 Nursing Fair, 5 Study Abroad B lue Hens Reindeer Run C horal C arols by Faculty Jazz, p.m., Trabant Storytelling 101, Sports Cage, 5 & R o m p 5 k Celebration, Candlelight, 7 8 p.m., Gore M P R ’s 6:30 p.m., Morris p.m., station 91.3 benefiting 3 p.m., Amy p.m., Newark Recital Hall Library Special Olympics du Pont Music First Presbyterian Tech Talk-0 Paul W ise Delaware, 7 Building, Loudis C hu rch Tuesday: Cyber R um ble in Distinguished p.m., Center of Recital Hall Security, 5 p.m., Purnell: UD Lecture Series, Academy Street Evans iSuite Debates, 7 p.m., 3:30 p.m., Purnell and Delaware “ From th e Purnell Hall Hall, Rm 11 Ave Author Of,” 2 LGBTQ p.m.