Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Volume 135, Issue 21

T~~·ew I Chec~ out the Web site for Ul/.1._'-'Tfcom breakmg news and more. Residents, management in disputes at Studio Green

BY SAMANTHA BRIX · States, Australia and New Zealand, according $102 for his electricity and water. "The magnitude of the problem we learned of Staff Reporter to its . Web site.· Studio Green is one of its Jim Short, president of the United States after we acquired it was astounding." , Rent prices will increase for Studio facilities and is approximately 58 percent Division of CLV, said the new price will Four residents, who declined to give Green apartments, despite longstanding com­ occupied. include water-sewer, gas, electricity, high­ their names for fear of retribution from man­ plaints of cockroaches and bedbugs. Tony Rivera, a doctoral student, is a res­ speed Internet and cable television, all of agement, said their apartments currently have A new owner took over the complex last ident and former employee of Studio Green. which·are not currently included in rent cost. cockroaches or have had them at some point July and launched an advertising campaign to He said the current monthly rent of his two­ According to the CLV Web site, the facil­ since last summer. refresh the image of the apartments previous­ bedroom, 926-square foot apartment with a ities at the Newark complex include a pool, Rivera said his apartment has been ly known as Towne Court and Park Place. balcony, living room, dining room, kitchen, fitness center, free on-site tanning, a laundry infested with cockroaches 17 out of the 18 Neon green signs sprang up on Main Street, study and bathroom is $950. According to the facility, free parking and common areas for months he has lived in it. Facebook and the university bookstore, pro­ Studio Green Web site, featuring new rates outdoor sports. Rivera worked in the Studio Green office moting valuable, stylish and environmentally and floor plans with names like "Ener-Green" The pest problems long associated with as a resident assistant since last summer. In responsible living. and "Sun-Ray," the rate for the same size the former apartment complex were unknown one instance, he said tenants could not move Campus Living Villages, a company apartment will cost $1,280, nearly a 34 per­ to Short prior to purchasing the property. into their apartment on time because cock- based out ofAustralia, owns housing facilities cent increase, effective July 1. "When we bought the apartment we had near 47 university campuses in the United Rivera said he currently pays a total of no id~a there was a pest problem," Short said. See COMPLAINTS page 3 Video criticizes former Residence Life program

BY JOSH SHANNON ed that claim. Managing News Editor FIRE sent a letter criticizing the Residence An advocacy group released a video on Life program to university Pre~ident Patrick Thursday that criticize~ the university's former Harker, who eventually suspended the program. Residence Life program and calls on other uni­ In May 2008, the Faculty Senate approved a versities to investigate their own programs. tamer, voluntary prograni. · The 15-minute film was distributed by the The film, titled "Orientation or American Council of Trustees and Alumni to Indoctrination," was produced by Liz Rose, more than 3,000 trustees of universities nation­ wide as an example of what universities should See GROUP page 4 not do. It is also posted on YouTube. The film features education professors Jan Blits and Linda Gottfredson, as well as three The hosts of ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" spoke at the Bob Friday night. students, discussing their experiences with the program, which drew national attention in 2007 The Sports Interview: Michael Wilbon, Tony Komheiser amid complaints that the diversity training pro­ gram went too far. "We discovered we were merely the lead­ BY SElF HUSSAIN AND GREG ARENT Friday night. Expecting much more pomp ing edge for this type of programming around Managing Sports Editor & Copy Editor than was actually on hand, we entered The the nation, so I thought it important to get the There was more than a bit of trepida­ Bob's locker room, only to find Kornheiser warning out to other institutions, and this was a tion on the part of Greg and myself as we and Wilbon oblivious to our presence and good way to do that," Gottfredson said Friday. prepared to interview Michael Wilbon and arguing playfully over a fallen banner, Controversy over the Residence Life pro­ • Tony Kornheiser of The Washington Post which may or may not have been the fault gram began in October 2007 when students, and ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" of our subjects. parents and faculty members upset with the pro­ fame. We were ourselves budding colle­ They quickly composed themselves, gram contacted the Foundation for Individual giate sports journalists, getting ready to and very graciously made introductions, Rights in Education, a Philadelphia-based interview two of the most influential sports displaying the same type of synergy and organization that speaks out on behalf of college journalists of our time. It was a bit of anx­ jubilance in person their viewers are so students who feel their rights have been violat­ ious enthusiasm, if not quite nervousness, used to. It was surely a highlight of our ed. Both Blits and Gottfredson spoke out as we approached the room where we comparatively brief journalistic careers to against·the program at that time. would meet the dynamic duo we had both be able to speak directly with men who Many sfudents said last year that those liv­ watched on TV 'near-daily on ESPN since were hopefully a projection of our future ing in residence halls were subjected to group ''PTI's" inception. selves, if we were to continue down our discussions about diversity and one-on-one They were at Delaware to put on a path of sports wiiting. questioning about their feelings on race, sexual SCPAB hosted, "PTI"-style show, for an identity and other sensitive subjects. Some stu­ Bill Rivers and Kelsey Lanan discuss their audience at The Bob Carpenter Center on See REVIEW page 28 dents said they were led to believe the sessions were mandatory, although the university disput- experiences with Residence Life in a video. • • _l JDSJue 2News 14 Editorial 15 Opinion 17Mosaic 20 CD·Reviews 27 Classifieds 29·Game of the Week 2 March 24. 2009

TifE REVJEW/Steven Gold YoUDee and two students posed with the ':"orld Series trophy when it was brought to the university on Monday.

Members of the university's Greek Life took a Students board a new bus in front of the Field House. piCture together at the Bob Carpenter Center.

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Complaints of bugs lodged at former­ Towne Court,·Park Place

he asked a resident Continued from page 1 assistant about pest problems since that par­ roaches were found in the apartment "The assistant director at the time said ticular apartment was we can't let them move into the apartment, partially underground. but we can't tell' them why," Rivera said. "I asked if there were bug problems in The assistant director no longer works the apartments, and he for CLV and could not be reached for com­ said no, not at all," ment. Rivera said he did not want to work at Wilhide said. CLV after this incident and quit. Andrews said resi­ When asked about this incident, the dent assistants are director, Susan Andrews, said that when CLV instructed to respond bought the complex, many apartments were honestly to questions unacceptable for tenants to move into. about pests. "If for any reason the apartment is not up "Employees are to standards,. the tenant was moved into an first and foremost told to apartment that was up to standards," Andrews be truthful in regards to said. our community," she Another resident, Peter, who asked that said. his real name not be printed for fear his secu­ Short stated in an e­ rity deposit will not be returned, worked at mail message that OrKin Studio Green from June until mid-September Pest Control regularly as a resident assistant treats apartments for He said over the summer, many tenants reported bed bugs in certain apartments as cockroaches and also responds to reported well as cockroaches in the woodwork and air incidents. THE REVIEW/Ayelet Daniel conditioning units. Peter said that in early "Each week, our The apartments formerly known as Towne Court, located on Elkton Road, are now owned by Studio Green. September he was checking the property with pest' control company The switch in management will lead to a rent increase, and some students are voicing concerns. workers from Orkin Pest Control and entered treats every unit in three a random apartment buildings," Short said. "I opened the door and three rqaches fell stated in an e-mail message that the depart­ "The pre-lease that was generated by a from the crack from the door in the roof right "If we note evidence of roaches in other units, ment has the authority to prosecute violations resident assistant, without being approved by in front of me," Peter said. then they are treated as well." of the Delaware Landlord-Tenant Code, the a professional staff member, contained incor­ Heidi Truschel-Light, media relations law that stipulates landlord obligations and rect terms in the agreement," she said. Junior Brett Wilhide, who is a staff director for the Delaware Division of Public reporter for The Review, said on Feb. 18, he tenant responsibilities. Peter said while he worked at Studio and his girlfriend took a tour of a one-bed­ Health, said bed bugs have been an increasing "If the Department of Justice receives a Green over the summer, when tenants signed room Studio Green apartment Wilhide said problem nationwide in recent years. She said complaint involving a violation of the law, we and returned their leases, they were told that when pest issues arise, will advise the landlord of their obligation management would sign within two weeks. the state agency can under the statute and take enforcement action, But, he said while he worked there, many consult with city inspec­ if necessary, to ensure compliance;" Angell · leases, including his, were not signed by man- tors, but it lacks any · said. agement. · A Closer Look inspection program or She would not say if the department has "Susan would sign their lease only if enforcement power. received complaints about Studio Green, cit­ they came back and asked to see their lease," "I know from ing a policy against discussing particular he said. "They told me not to call people, to past experiences that we complaints. let everything play out." have not had any ability Short said the bed bug removal is a work When asked to comment on the former State of Delaware Landlord-Tenant to require changes," in progress. employee's recount of signed leases, Andrews Code: A compliation of all Delaware Truschel-Light said. "In "We are down to four units where we are said the policy calls for copies ofleases to be the past we have advised still working with residents to eliminate the mailed to residents once they are signed by statutes concernin~ landlords and ten­ town inspectors to do bed bugs," Short said. the director. ants under Title 2s- the enforcement" Stephanie Dougherty, a former employ­ "If residents cannot locate a copy of their Dana Johnston, ee, said when she. moved into her apartment lease and request a copy, we are more than -Where there is a written rental agreement, the land­ community affairs offi­ last August, bed bugs were an off-and-on happy to provide them with a copy," Andrews lord is required to provide the tenant with a copy of the cer for the City of problem for two months, until management said. agreement, free of charge. · Newark, said the city moved her into a new apartment She said Short said since Studio Green took over, - The landlord is requrred to give the tenant 48 hours has domain over safety Studio Green gave her a $250 rent credit, the company has spent $800,000 on repaint­ notice of intent to enter the urut for any purpose other issues but not insect reimbursed her for mattress covers and paid ing, flooring and installing light fixtures in than to make repairs requested by the tenant or in the problems. She said com­ for her laundry and moving costs. common corridors, $400,000 on maintenance case of an emergency. mon areas of apartment "That was definitely more than suffi­ and appro~imately $200,000 on a new elec­ - Within 20 days of the termination or expiration of complexes are inspected cient," Dougherty said. "They've done more tronic lock system. the rental agreement, the landlord must provide the but individual units are · than they need to." "There's a pure bundling of amenities tenant with an itemized listing of any damages to the not Recent inspections Dougherty said her father, Stephen, is from what they get from rent," Short said premises and the cost of reparr, and must return any have shown no problems friends with Andrews, as they are both mem­ Senior and resident Joe Debus said when money remaining from the security deposit to the ten- with Studio Green com­ bers of the North East River Yacht Club and he renewed his lease with Studio Green last ant. , mon areas, Johnston attend some of the same events. August he told management that the smoke­ - If the landlord fails to provide the list of damages, said. Peter said between Sept 5 and Sept 10, detector in his apartment goes off every time She said if the 2008, a resident whose lease included a furni­ he runs hot water in his apartment, and that the landlord is-not entitled to keep any of the security city is made aware of ture package checked into the office with his the detector has yet to be fixed. deposit that must be returned to the tenant. problems in individual lease he and his mother had co-signed. "When 1 first moved in and every time I - A landlord must start efforts to correct defective units, it can take no The lease stated he was exempt from paying go in the office, I tell them I have a problem conditions within 10 days of being notified by the ten­ action. the first month's rent since his furniture was with my fire alarm," he said. "They've never ant of the defect and must remedy the conditiOn com­ "The ·only thing not ready on time. really done anything to fix it" pletely within 30 days. the city can do is tell Peter said he witnessed Andrews tell the According to the Delaware Residential -The term of the rental should be set out in the rental management to do tenant he could not have one month free and Landlord Tenant Code, section 5307, from the agreement. No rental agreement can be effective for a something about it," that his lease must be changed. time a tenant reports a minor repair, a land­ term longer than one year unless it is in writing. Johnston said. "The tenant told her you can't change it, lord has 10 days to start fixing it and 30 days - If the rental unit is not ready or if the landlord fails "Unfortunately, the city that's a legally binding document," Peter said. to complete it. to rut the new tenant into full P.OSSession, then the ten­ can't do anything to "She ripped it up and said now it's not" · "They're going around crazy cleaning an will not have to pay rent during the time that the enforce." When asked about this incident, everything, painting, putting up new internet tenant is unable to enter the rental unit. Kerry Angell of Andrews did not confmn nor deny that she wires," Debus said. "I feel like they're serv­ the Delaware ripped up a tenant's lease, but did comment ing their own agenda more than they're serv­ - compiled by Stephanie Kraus Department of Justice on the nature of the particular lease. ing our needs." 4 March 24, 2009 Students unaware of stimulus package benefits Group uses UD as negative example BY SAMANTHA BRIX expanded plan now covers auxiliary college "If you put that on Facebook, it would go Staff Reporter expenses like room and board, books, manda- through the roof and everyone would know Continued from page 1 President Barack Obama signed the tory fees and computers. about it," Cribbin said. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of Hudson said the university has created a Senior Joy Tydings also felt the Internet who works for the Erie, Pa.-based com­ 2009 into law on Feb. 17. The legislation is Web site, www.udel.edu/recovery, to inform would be a helpful tool in educating students, pany Free to Choose Media. Rose said soaked with benefits for college students, of and update students on the stimulus pack­ many of whom are in the dark about helpful she was hired· to produce the film by a which many students at the university are age's education benefits. tips about the bill. group that wishes to remain anonymous. unaware. She said the Web 'site was developed "to "The Web site should be better adver­ She would not reveal any information The $787 billion package, championed provide information to the university commu­ tised," Tydings said. "We don't know about about the group. by Obama in the months before his inaugura- nity regarding other federal agencies that are the benefits because it doesn't affect us yet." Anne Neal, president ofACTA, said tion, calls for federal tax cuts, more unem- providing grant opportunities for projects that Hummerston said the university should ACTA played a role in hiring Rose, but ployment benefits and increased spending for range from research equipment to capital reo­ expand assistance to students by offering would not give details about the financial education, health care and energy. For ovations." more work-study positions. arrangements. months the package stirred the House of _ Junior Nicole Pegno said she has a broad "I'm looking for a job through the school ACTA was founded in 1995 by Sen. Representatives, sending the two political knowledge. of the package and knows it calls right now, and it's· really competitive," Joe. Lieberman, 1-Conn., and Lynne parties deep into their comers. for an increase in grants, which she plans to Hummerston said. "I think everyone's trying Cheney, the wife of former Vice Christina Hudson, the university's budg- utilize. to get whatever they can get." · President Dick Cheney. The Washington, et office's lead budget and financial analyst, "I am personally going to have to pay for Junior Paige Ewers said she would like D.C.-based group communicates with ·stated in an e-mail message that the bill grad school on my own," Pegno said. "I'll to see the university expand aid to students by university trustees to advocate intellectu­ includes many money saving opportunities take advantage of the . grants, and I'll be helping to pay for textbooks. al diversity and the elimination of speech the university i~ attempting to present to stu- working while I go to school." "I'd like to see some intervention in the codes. dents. Sophomore Lisle Hummerston said she way of book subsidies or some control on the Neal stated in an e-mail message "The university is aggressively pursuing also plans to take advantage of the package as raise of prices that seems to happen every that her organization got involved with ·all funding pote~tial opportunities and has long as the process is not complex. semester," Ewers said. the film in order to show trustees the dan­ created a working group to monitor and track "I haven't applied for financial aid yet While some students plan to take advan­ ger of approving similar diversity pro­ these opportunities as they become avail- because it's such an intense process and so tage of the new legislation, others, like grams. able," Hudson said. competitive," Hummerston said. Whitley, oppose the stimulus package. "It is our hope that trustees will Beginning July 1, the Pell Grant will Junior Jesse Whitley said he would apply "It's been proven in the past that when work to ensure their own campuses' Res increase from $4,731 to $5,350 and $200 mil- for any new provisions in the· stimulus pack­ government intervenes with economy, it only Life programs scrupulously respect ·the lion will go to the Federal Work-Study age, like the Pell Grant and tax credit. makes things worse," Whitley said. "The freedom of conscience of students," Neal Program, which supports part-time employ- "Even if the process was difficult, hey, economy's already $9 trillion or so in debt said. ment of students based on their financial it's free money," Whitley said. before all this stimulus package stuff, and A similar film using much of the need. Hudson said the bill is on university stu- now we're over $12 trillion in debt, which same footage will be distributed soon by The bill also includes an increased tax dents' radars due to its spotlight in the media, means our children are going to pay for that." FIRE, two of whose officials also appear credit for college expenses. but information on specific benefits will Cribbin said he will utilize as many of in the film. Hudson said the American Opportunity unfold as they become available. the bill's benefits as possible, as he is finan­ University spokesman John Tax Credit of $2,500 will temporarily replace "Since a number of the benefits provided cially independent and pays his rent, bills, all Brennan said the university had no com­ the Hope Tax Credit of $1,800. to students will be realized during the next personal expenses and his tuition. ment about the film. Director of Although it is still early for effects of the academic year, some students may not be He said he is unsure how successful the Residence Life Kathleen Kerr and bill to play out, the university and its students fully aware of their specific benefits until stimulus package will be, and the government Associate Director ofResidence Life Jim can immediately access some of the funding, they finish with the FASFA process for next should do more to help students struggling Tweedy, both of whom are criticized by including the Pell Grant and Federal Work- academic year," she said. · with education costs. name in the film, did not respond to Study increases, she said. Senior Tim Cribbin said he was vaguely "There should be a law that college requests for comment. The stimulus package will also bolster familiar with the bill, and more efforts should tuition has to be a set rate," Cribbin said. Junior Kelsey Lanan, one of the stu­ the 529 Education Plan, a government pro- be made to relay useful information to col­ "Yeah, it sounds nuts and socialist, but at the dents who wrote to FIRE in 2007, said gram that helps families save for college. The lege students. same time we're in a terrible ecpnomy." she agreed to appear in the film after Rose contacted her last spring. "I hope this will help this not to hap­ pen at other schools," Lanan said Friday. She is shown in the film sitting on the patio outside Morris Library with junior Bill Rivers and senior Alyssa Koser as the three students discuss their experi­ ences with the program. Lanan describes how she felt as a freshman living in Russell C in 2006 when her resident assistant hung posters on the wall listing various minority groups and told students to write down stereotypes they had heard about each group. · "The kid who was sitting next to me actually identifies as being Hispanic, so I was sitting there writing these terrible things about Hispanic people on there and he's looking at it as if I actually believed all those things," Lanan said in the film . .Blits , who first learned of the Residence Life program in 2007 when he was approached by students in his honors colloquium, said he agreed to participate in the video in order to raise awareness of diversity training programs like the one abandoned by the university. "I take the problem ofthe Residence Life program very seriously," Blits said. "I think it's very harmful, and I think pro­ grams like that should not be tolerated." The interviews with the students, professors and FIRE officials took place outdoors on The Green. Rose said she had permission from thb university to film on campus, but Brennan said he was only made aware of the interviews with Blits and Gottfredson, not the other inter­ views. Rose said university officials declined an offer to respond on camera. JR March 24, 2009 5 Former UD speaker faces genocide charges - BY KAITLYN KILMETIS "It is not about the host campus (which is confirms that Senior News Reporter to be commended for helping a threatened col­ Prof. Leopold A cloud of controversy continues to sur­ league), the professor who gave the lecture or Munyakazi round statements made at a speech given at the the lecture itself," Quinn said. "It is about an was first university on Oct. 25, 2006. In the speech, attempt by a foreign government to prosecute a indicted for Leopold Munyakazi denied that genocide professor for giving a lecture on a US campus; genocide in occurred in his native Rwanda, a denial that for open discussion of a very difficult issue, 1995 with sub­ some believe has led to the charges against something that is both legal arid central to the sequent updat­ him. mission of our universities. If he is deported ing of indict­ Munyakazi is accused of genocide in and imprisoned for speaking at UD, what kind ments since," Rwanda and faces deportation, The New York of a message does it send to other guests on our Ngoga said. Times reported last month. campuses? What effect does it have on our "He jumped In a faculty forum, sponsored by the own freedom to hear different views, to ques­ bail in 1999 office of the provost and local chapters of the tion and to debate them?" and fled to the American Association of University The UDaily article stated at the time that USA." Professors, Munyakazi said the 1994 massacre Turkel said the importance of Munyakazi's In the in Rwanda, which resulted in the killing of presence at the forum was to highlight freedom statement, Courtesy of University of Delaware/Duane Perry more than half a million people, was not a of speech. Ngoga said the . genocide but rather a civil war. "The main concern is no.t deciding who is reason Rwanda When Leopold Munyakazi spoke at the university in 2006, administrators "There is a killd of international conspira­ right or wrong on any particular issue, rather is calling for didn't know he was facing charges at home in !{wanda. cy to hide the truth about what happened," that we value discussion, we value academic Munyakazi 's Munyakazi said during the talk. "I refer to it as freedom, where issues can be discussed with­ extradition has denied the Holocaust recently and got in so civil war, not genocide; it was about political out the threat of intimidation, without reprisal," nothing to do with comments he has made con­ much trouble . with the Pope. The evidence is power. ... Ethnicity is not really understood Turkel said. cerning the genocide. overwhelming and everybody understands that about Rwanda; in Rwanda there are no tribes, Turkel said last week that at the time he "The office of the Prosecutor General this genocide occurred. Only those who for there are social groups. They are one single didn't have much background about refutes reports to the effect that Leopold some reason, their own political agenda, their people." Munyakazi besides his country of origin and Munyakazi was indicted because of criticism own ax to grind, deny that this occurred. It's He said the conflict was driven by deeply was not.aware of the charges against him. of the government of Rwanda," Ngoga said. like denying that the sun comes up in the East rooted social-economic conflicts rather than "My understanding is that no one really A representative from the Rwanda and sets in the West." ethnic issues. knew this," Turkel said. "I think what hap­ Embassy who did not wish to be named said it He said the genocide in Rwanda was born The event was organized by former pened was this was raised during the forum by is not his speech at the university that led to his out of a perpetual state of tension between the AAUP president and sociology professor some questions, not so much about his role in problems in Rwanda but rather his role in the two major ethnic groups in Rwanda, the Tutsi Gerald Turkel. Turkel said he invited a speak­ his own country but rather there were some 1994 genocide. and the Hutu. er from Scholars at Risk, an organization that very serious questions raised about his views "Based on his scholastic and academic Campbell said in January of 1994 the brings scholars being persecuted in their own on what had occurred during the 1990s in his background he tried to justify that what hap­ Hutu drafted a plan to rid themselves of the countries to host campuses to highlight their country but there were no accusations made pened in Rwanda wasn't genocide ... what Tutsi. plight, to speak to more than 100 faculty and during the forum about any potential illegali­ Rwanda is looking for is for him to be brought "Extremist element within Hutu ethnic administrators at the forum. ties of involvement in genocide at that time." to justice and there are a lot of questions he side that was unsatisfied with sharing power," Robert Quinn, founding director of The UDaily article stated that during his needs to answer," he said. he said. "They decided to eliminate the other Scholars at Risk, came to the university to talk presentation, Munyakazi ·said sometime after The statement from the Office of the side, the Tutsi, and not just the political leaders about his organization, its mission and its the bloodshed began, the militias destroyed his Prosecutor General also echoes this sentiment. in government but all Tutsi." activities. Turkel said Quinn decided to bring home, and he was later arrested and kept in jail "The Office of the Prosecutor General Campbell said this plan of action was not Munyakazi to campus to speak about his own for five years without any charges. He also stat­ calls for the timely extradition of Leopold put into place until April 1994 after a plane experience as a scholar at risk in Rwanda. At ed that after his release in 1999, he chose to Munyakazi so that he may face the charges he crash killed president of Rwanda, Juvenal the time, Munyakazi was a visiting scholar and remain in the United States due to his fear that is accused of in a ~ourt of law," Ngoga said. Habyarimana. assistant professor of French at Montclair he would be arrested upon his ' Turkel said although he expected Campbell said the genocide lasted for 10 State University in New Jersey. Munyakazi return to Rwanda. · Munyakazi to be a controversial figure, he is weeks and killed approximately 800,000 peo­ later began teaching at Goucher College but In a statement surprised by the charges that have been brought ple. He also said this version of events is wide­ was suspended in December after the universi­ released by the National against him. ly accepted, and denying the existence of such ty learned of the charges against him. Pub I i c "One would expect that when you invite a an occurrence is offensive. According to an Oct. 25, 2006 UDaily group like Scholars at Risk, speakers are "It becomes almost a second crime that article, Quinn stated at the forum going to be controversial in some someone is denying the first crime," Campbell that Munyakazi is "an example ways," he said. "I was pretty said. of the numerous, deeply shocked by the allegations that He said whether or not to allow someone courageous scholars we . were made against him by his gov­ in Munyakazi 's position the opportunity to have been able to meet ernment." speak at the university is a difficult issue. in our network." Turkel emphasized the fact "What you have are two clashing values," This Monday, that since the charges have yet Campbell said. "One is the importance of free Quinn stated in an to be proven, it is necessary to speech but on the other hand there's an impor­ e-mail message that stay open-minded about the tance to serve justice, to provide justice to the much of the media matter. victims of this genocide and to make sure not coverage of the story RWANDA "First of all, I think that we only is it remembered but that genocides like is misleading and have to bear in mind that we this don't happen again in the future." Munyakazi 's perse­ do know what his role was," He said the university should be more cution raises a num- • KIGALI he said. "There are accusa­ careful when choosing its speakers. especially . her of questions per­ tions that are being made that when it pertains to a highly sensitive issue. .taining to the free­ are very shocking and "Not that you want to suppress freedom of dom of speech. extremely serious and we do speech, but it may be wise to decide to be more know that the events that selective on who you invite and who you don't occurred, the genocide that invite," Campbell said. "The university also occurred, is just horrible but has the freedom to invite or not invite whoever he's never been on trial. it wants. I can't see the university or the Board There's never been a legal of Trustees inviting holocaust deniers." proceeding and I have no way He said he hopes this situation will lead of knowing." the university to be more cognizant of the type Prosecution Political science professor Kenneth of individuals they invite to speak. Authority of the Republic of Campbell, a member of the International "They should be sensitive or at least start Rwanda, Prosecutor General Association of Genocide Scholars and author to become sensitive to these kinds of issues and Martin Ngoga stated the series of "Genocide and the Global Village," said try to avoid inviting people who are either of event occurred differently Munyakazi's denial of the genocide in Rwanda criminals themselves or will deny the crime," than Munyakazi claims. is unfathomable. Campbell said. "The office of the "It's outrageous," Campbell said. "It's not The university declined recent requests Prosecutor General of Rwanda that different than that Catholic cardinal that to comment on Munyakazi 's speech. 6 March 24, 2009 Newark Post one of many A senior political science major presents his weekly views on politics and current events from a center-right perspective. struggling in poor economy "On this day, we come to pro­ claim an end to the petty grievances BY TADEUSZ KASIAK But the newspaper may have He also points' out the online and false promises, the recriminations Staff Reporter trouble retaining its paper circula­ version of the paper incorporates and worn-out dogmas that for far too The journalism industry has tion. Pollack said more and more searchable databases, links and long have strangled our politics." been a collateral damage victim of people are going online and getting maps as well as direct feedback from - Barack Obama s the current economic situation. In an the content for free. This in itself the readers - features impossible to Inauguration Speech, Jan. 20, 2009 attempt to cut costs, companies have would not be a major problem if recreate in print editions. Because of significantly reduced advertisement advertising was as equally distrib­ this, their online circulation attracts I did not vote for Barack Obama spending, the lifeline of all newspa­ uted in print as online and had the thousands of readers each week. but, like many Americans, I am proud pers and magazines, by 2.6 percent same value. "All people need information of what his election represents. His in 2008. A further 13 percent reduc­ "You just don't have the same - it's just a matter of how they're election proves many of our nation's tion is predicted for 2009, according impact on advertisement as you have getting it," Corrigan said. "So there critics wrong. We are not a racist to The Wall Street Journal. This, in in a paper edition," he said. "You will always be a need for qualified nation, and America is still the land of conjunction with decreased paper don't have full-page ads or half-page people to gather that information, opportunity that it has always been. :\lichad Brickman circulation and increased online ads, you just have banners." put it into a coherent form and dis­ Yet, as America faces two wars ( "olulll/1111 usage, has made it harder for publi­ Pollock believes some type of tribute it." and an economic crisis, cations to keep afloat. business model has to be established Pollock agrees and believes this Congressional Democrats and the politician), and appearing on a late­ This national trend is becoming to make revenue. creates a venue for trusted news Obama administration have used our night comedy show (a presidential more locally visible. . "As an industry we have been sources. problems as excuses to implement a first). Michael Pollock, editor in chief so slow to react, trying to wish the "The Internet has created more severely partisan agenda. The culmi­ Currently, economic uncertainty of Out and About Magazine, based Internet away," he said. garbage to sift through," -he said: nation came this month when is being used as an excuse to pass in Wilmington, said his publication Matt Sullivan, general manager "Anyone can say whatever they Secretary of State Hillary Clinton measures that will hurt the economy has found it hard to attract advertis­ and editor of Spark Weekly, pro­ want." acknowledged her feeling that we even more. ing from new clients. duced by The News Journal, agreed. Pollo~k also points out the sim­ should, "never waste a good crisis." Money is being printed which "Every month is a challenge to "Online is a faster medium, but ilarity between the journalism and Obama is an accommodationist will lead to inflation; Cpngress is just hold on to the clients that we the advertising world hasn't quite music industries. He believes they at heart. His writings and speeches seeking to pass constitutionally ques­ have already .advertising," Pollock caught up to that yet in terms of are both art forms that suffer from reveal a genuine understanding of the tionable measures that would limit said. value," Sullivan said. weak business models. With 99-cent political process, and he has often executive pay, which will lead to Since the magazine is free, Pollock said. advertisers still songs and free articles on the lamented what Alexis de Tocqueville fewer competent executives at the advertisement is vital. While the view print ads as better, despite the Internet, the people who create each called the "tyranny of the majority." companies that must recover if our publication is always looking for fact the online ads could potentially respective art form are finding it However, as was often men­ economy is to do the same; trillions of ways to reduce fixed costs, it has not reach a greater audience and be hard to sustain themselves. tioned during the campaign, he has dollars are being spent that will result yet had to go through cutbacks. more effective at communicating "Bands aren't making as much seldom lined up with moderates when in higher debt and higher taxation; The Newark Post has not been their information. money from albums as they used serious issues force him to choose and Democrats are strongly pushing as lucky. Mark Corrigan, assistant Thus, publications are left with­ to," Pollock said. "But that doesn't sides. , the so-called "Employee Free Choice editor, said in an effort to alleviate out an ability to effectively tap into mean there won't be any more More troubling is the fact that as Act," which will allow trade unions to the amount of money the newspaper this new market and get the much­ bands." the blanks in his policy positions are force unions into businesses without was losing, staff was cut. needed revenue from advertisement He believes it is the same with slowly filled in, they seem to reveal giving workers the right to a secret "As of present there are only spending. Despite these difficulties, jourqalism- it won't die out as an the picture of a doctrinaire liberal, ballot. two reporters in Newark, the chief publications acknowledge the art form. The business side of it will rather than the post-partisan figure In addition, despite the two editor and myself," Corrigan said. importance of having a presence just need to be restructured. that many were hoping he would turn months the media spent praising The newspaper is planning to online and integrating their Web Sullivan, in turn, views things out to be. Today Obama is harness­ Obama's transition as smooth and run advertisement specials and have sites with their paper editions. Spark from a historic perspective. ing his campaign infrastructure to capable, a large number of candidates promotions to increase the subscrip­ already offers more content on its· "People have been writing push his agenda, and so the long cam­ for appointments have had to with­ tion rate. It will also do everything Web site than in the magazine. about what happened last week since paign goes on. draw in embarrassment while . still in-house to keep costs down, as free­ · "Our photo galleries in print writing started," he said. "So jour­ Former President George W. other important economic posts lancers can be more expensive at may have 10 photos, whereas onlme, nalism will survive millennia past Bush was criticized for the amount of remain empty due, likely, to a lack of times. they may have 40," Sullivan said. the point we're all dead." influence he allowed Karl Rove and qualified, willing, or acceptable can­ his White House Office of Political didates. Affairs. The office has been Nevertheless, while it is upset­ denounced by members of both par­ ting to see a man who promised he ties and is an explicit reminder of would not need on-the-job training White House partisanship. During make so many missteps, they happen. the campaign, Sen. John McCain The really unfortunate thing is that promised to remove this office from Obama has not lived up to his centrist the White House. When Obama was promise. elected, he kept it and appointed A recent editorial in The Review Patrick Gaspard, a fierce partisan, as praised Obama for "inviting GOP its head. leaders to the White House for cock­ Gaspard is a liberal political tails." While, indeed, this was a kind, organizer who has worked on behalf symbolic gesture, it is useless if it of many controversial political organ­ remains a symbol and nothing more. izations, including the Service Days after his inauguration, Obama Employees International Union began to ignore the people he invited (SEIU) and the Association of for bipartisan photo ops and engaged Community Organizations for in partisan policymaking. Reform Now (ACORN), which has Some may respond, as Obama been widely accused of using voter reportedly did in private, that elec­ fraud as a political tactic. tions have consequences and since he In addition, Gaspard was affiliat­ won he gets to enact his policies. ed with a democratic-socialist third However, a candidate who wins a party called the New Party. In his campaign based on centrism does not 1996 election for the lllinois State have a mandate for the types of far­ Senate, Obama sought and received left policies we have seen in recent the endorsement of the New Party weeks and can expect in the futur.e. after agreeing to support its agenda. I hope for this country's sake we Meanwhile, as the economy can move beyond the problems we threatens to go from bad to worse, face. However if we do, it will likely Obama is acting the candidate and be despite many ofObama's policies, filling out his NCAA bracket, coordi­ not because of them, and either way, nating an all-out assault on entertain­ it will not be in the spirit of post-par­ er Rush Limbaugh (a pundit, not a tisanship. The Newark Post has had to cut staff members and freelancers as a result of the economy. March 24, 2009 7 From oil brush to ink needle: a student's life as a tattoo .. artist

BY ASHLEE BRADBURY "Anybody can tattoo once for them. I don't have that mentality, Recrnitment Manager you've had this class," he said. because I do it all the time, to be like Sixty-one-year-old Walter "That's why there are a bunch of this tattoo needs to mean x, y and z." Doyle sits in a chair with his shirt off crappy tattoos out there." For Guerin, the best aspects getting a fresh tattoo of a skull on his Guerin, along with Trademark's about being a tattoo artist are the art, right pectoral. His entire upper body, other experienced artists by whom the money and the interesting people including both of his arms, is cov­ he said he is truly inspired, has been he meets on the job. ered with black and colored illustra­ tattooing quality illustrations for "If it's a bigger piece, I estab­ tions depicting past experiences and years. B.J. Betts, one of the shop's lish a relationship with the person," creative concepts. Though the loud owners, who has most of his body he said. "This one guy though got buzzing needle typically inflicts pain covered in tattoos, has been in the the cover of a Tool album and the on its canvases, Doyle started his tat­ business for 14 years. dude was a tool. I gave him my num­ too collection when he was 16 and "I still don't think I've done my ber, and he would call me and com­ endures the harsh sting almost favorite tattoo yet," Betts said. "I plain about his problems, and I was effortlessly. enjoy every one I do in a certain like, 'Are you kidding me?' Doyle, along with several other way. I absolutely see myself doing Sometimes you want to bridge the customers, is receiving a new tattoo this for the rest of my life." gap, but you can't always." to add to his elaborate assortment The custom pieces of the ~ttoo He said he is constantly hearing from Trademark Tattoos. This flashy artists are displayed on the shop's stories about the tattoos he does tattoo shop, located in Wilmington, walls and in numerous catalogues when he talks about them with his celebrated its one-year anniversary piled on the tables in the waiting customers. For instance, one woman on Saturday. Built from the ground area amidst metal hand grippers cus­ wanted to write "man man" on her up, the shop employs one of the uni­ tomers can use to ease the pain dur­ wrist because it is a term of endear­ versity's artistic minds - 22-year­ ing the inking procedure. ment for a child. old junior Steven Guerin. Guerin, · "I've heard the most painful "I was like 'You have 'man' whose father is also a tattoo artist, place to get a tattoo is apparently the written twice on your arm,' " Guerin has been tattooing since he was 12 back of your knee. For me, it was said. "People get all kinds of weird years old. my knee cap and my sternum. The things. Just because it doesn't mean "I don't think my dad taught me nerve endings protrude outside of anything to me, it means something necessarily, but he definitely sup­ the bone and ergo - you feel more to another person, and they love it." plied me with everything I needed," pain," Guerin said. "People pass out Doyle, who is partial to black Guerin said. "When I was young, I and cry all the time when they get and white tattoos, said his favorite started oil painting canvases at an tattoos." tattoo is of a picture of him, his early age. Art was like second nature Guerin has the majority of his father and his grandfather having a tome." body covered ·with original tattoos. beer. He started his serious tattooing His chest and stomach are done with "I started getting tattoos back career during high school and has various pieces. He has a pin-up girl when I was 16," he said. "Cool is the worked at several tattoo shops since on his leg, roses on his kneecaps, 13s rule." then. Unlike most tattoo artists who on his ~nkles for every Friday the Guerin said he is more inclined usually take on apprenticeships 13th, "Real Talk" behind his knees to do realistic artwork like portraits when starting out, Guerin only com­ and "fork me" and "spoon me" on or paintings in color. pleted the standard blood-borne "I've had enough of butterflies THE REVJEW/Ashlee Bradbury the left and right sides of his stom­ pathogen class that familiarizes ach. and stuff like that," he said. "Being . Steve Guerrin, a university student, tattoos Robbie Foras at Trademark artists with the sanitation and sterili­ "I have a lot of tattoos," Guerin here, it's definitely time to take it to Tattoos in Wilmington. The store celebrated its first anniversary Saturday. zation processes. said. "There's really no real reason the next level."

•' Class of '09 graduates choosing _service over salary BY MARINA KOREN ences on a resume can provide interesting zations appeal to students because they will Philadelphia while working toward her mas­ Staff Reporter talking points for an interview, as well as fod­ help them prepare for life and allow them to ter's degree in urban education at the In the coming months, while most grad­ der for the personal statements that must be access chances at better jobs or acceptance to University of Pennsylvania. uating seniors will be preparing for their new written for graduate school or professional graduate school." · "I had to choose between Teach For jobs or graduate school, a number of students school applications," Green said. "Service, Senior Evan Moore has also made the America and going to graduate school for will bypass entering the workforce and join travel or other alternative paths can be two-year commitment to Teach For America. speech pathology," Bither said. "So I'd defi­ volunteer organizations. The driving force? rewarding personally and professionally." He joined the teaching organization because nitely say I chose the alternative path. I think The desire to make a change in the world and A grim job forecast, combined with the he wanted a job that would give him the it's a really great program, and I'm so excit­ escape the current less-than-stellar job mar­ desire to give back through volunteering, has opportunity to create positive change, he said. ed." ket. caused an increase in graduating seniors con­ Moore has been assigned to teach sec­ Senior Greg Gillespie will also pass on A report published earlier this month by sidering service opportunities after college. ondary science in Phoenix. He plans to going into the workforce after graduating col­ the National Association for Colleges and Senior Ryan Kapa will be teaching in become a high school physics teacher after he lege. He has enrolled into the National Employers stated many companies are plan­ high-needs schools for the next two years receives a master's degree in secondary edu­ Language Service Corps, a government-spon­ ning to hire 22 percent fewer graduates from with Teach For America. The organization cation from Arizona State University. sored volunteer program for speakers of rare the class of 2009 than they hired from the has experienced a 42 percent increase in Moore believes employers like seeing languages. Gillespie, who will be a Russian class of 2008. Job prospects have dropped in applications from last year, according to New volunteer organizations on young applicants' interpreter, will be part of the Corps from the virtually every sector this year, the survey Orleans-based The Times-Picayune. resumes. time he graduates until April 2010, after said. ' Kapa said he joined the teacher-recruit­ "The great thing about Teach For which he can choose to either leave or contin­ Marianne Green, assistant director of ment program because he believes all chil­ America is that it has an amazing reputati<;m ue with the program, he said. Career·-services, said there has been a 30 per­ dren should be entitled to a quality education. in the business world and among graduate "I want to be a part of something that cent incroose in students considering Teach "For the next two years, I will be teach­ schools," Moore said. "No matter what, I will makes a difference across the country and the For America, Peace Corps and other service ing special education in eastern North have plenty of options." world," Gillespie said. "I think this is some­ opportunities. Carolina," Kapa said. "After that, I plan on There are other factors besides the strug­ thing I would like to spend the rest of my life "Many students are interested in making attending a graduate school, hopefully some­ gling economy and crumbling job market that doing. The word 'workforce' just sounds grim a difference and providing valuable service, where in North Carolina." drive students to take time off to volunteer or and depressing, as if we can't have jobs that while others want to try something new and He said he believes because of today's join the military after college, he said. we actually like." different before going to graduate or prefes­ economic situation, more students are looking "College kids these days have grown up He said he would not let the current eco­ sional school," Green said. "Others want to toward joining organizations like Teach For learning about the importance of community nomic situation interfere with his goals. avoid the current job market." America. Not only are they helping a good service and giving back, so many people are "I can understand that many students are She said employers are usually open to cause, they also build a good resume. looking for jobs where they can make a dif­ looking towards these kind of organizations viewing postgraduate volunteering experi­ "Such organizations provide you with ference," Moore said. because of today's economy," Gillepsie. said. ences as positive opportunities to develop training and a salary to help you maintain a Senior Kate Bither has also committed to "Since everybody seems to be losing their skills and abilities. decent quality of life," Kapa said. "Since it is teaching for Teach For America. She will be jobs and becoming poorer, why not take part "Having service and interesting experi- so hard to find a job these days, these organi- teaching elementary school students in in something that makes a difference?" 8 March 24 2009 }R Sites provide immortality, for your profile, at least

BY HEATHER PLANK alive." Staff Reporter Although he was initially surprised to In the age of online social networking, learn of MyDeathSpace.com, he said it rep­ people keep tabs on their friends via their· resents the death rituals society has always Twitter tweets, their Facebook updates, their had, yet updated for modern life. MySpace postings and their blogs. "It plays the same role as a tombstone, And now they don't have to fall out of just in cyberspace instead of physical touch just because their friends die. space," Laurenceau said. "These days, peo­ Entrepreneurial minds filled the hole in ple spend a considerable amount of time the marketplace by creating Web sites that online. It's how they communicate and allow people to maintain virtual connections interact. It makes sense that friends and after death. family want to keep the Web page up." One such site is MyDeathSpace.com, Communication professor Juliet Dee which is not officially affiliated with agreed. MySpace.com but is dedicated to MySpace "My first reaction is, 'This is really members who have died. Friends or family macabre,' " Dee said. "But it's an electronic members can click on the "submit a death" obituary." tab to post news of one's death. She thinks it is also practical. fy your onl ne f Then from the sites' homepage, users "When someone dies, family members may click on "latest articles," which takes are utterly exhausted," Dee said. "If they them to a page that lists name after name, have to contact hundreds of people, posting accompanied by a photo of the deceased and the obituary online might make the task less a brief description of the manner of death. overwhelming." From here, users can follow the link to She said an online death posting is akin the person's MySpace page, or read an to a birth announcement. Death, like birth, accompanying post about the person - is a milestone that people want to know which ani usually either a traditionaf obitu­ about as soon as it happens. . ary or a police report -and comments left "The more I thought about it, it's a real­ by both those who knew the deceased and, ly good idea," Dee said. "People shouldn't more often than not, strangers. be offended by it." The messages that strangers leave may Survivors of a Facebook user who has be a simple "R.I.P." but are sometimes less died have the option to either remove the sympathetic. One comment about a 17-year­ page of the departed, or keep the page in a old California boy elicited this response: memorialized state that, according to the "Oh my sweet Jesus Christ...THAT kid ... he Web site, removes status updates and was like the king of parodies all over the restricts profile access to friends only. place, basically because he posted his sui­ Sophomores Patrick . Anderson and cide note." Randi Bello said keeping Facebook profiles The deceased's MySpace page is left as is a good way to say goodbye. They had a Courtesy SlightlyMorbid.com it was the last time he or she logged in, but friend who died more than a year ago and SlightlyMorbid.com notifies online garners when their virtual friends die in real life. friends and family can continue to post his Facebook page is still up and maintained comments. Many people share memories of by his mother. They said they still visit his news via e-mail. Sophomore St~phen Ching is a U.S. Air the dead, send a birthday greeting, or write page from time to time. Anderson plays ·online games, but said Force ROTC student and plays online "I miss you." One person posted, "P.S. is the They don't agree with the concept of he would not want to know if a fellow games. He said the Web site is a good idea. internet free in the afterlife?" another Web site, though, called gamer di~d. , DeathSwitch.com is a Web site that Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, a professor SlightlyMorbid.com, a death notification "If we're just playing a game, we can't reveals pertinent information of the dead of clinical psychology, explained why the system. be that emotionally attached," Anderson such as computer passwords and bank family would want to keep the deceased's This Web site is not for friends and said. "It's like that person is a million miles account information to friendsor co-workers Web page up. family, but more so for online friends, like away. I wouldn't want to know." of the deceased. "It's like parents who leave the room of fellow garners who might not know each Another target group of According to the site, it can also be a deceased child alone," Laurenceau said. other's real names. In the event of one's SlightlyMorbid.com is military personnel, used for "final wishes, unspeakable secrets, "It's a way to keep the person's memory death, those virtual friends will receive the who are offered a 20-percent discount. or the last word in an argument."

Partnership with Jefferson Medical College to bring clinical campus to Newark

BY HEATHER PLANK study halls and a new residential facility." be a national policy expert speaking on behalf of President Staff Reporter The university will host a conference today called Stronger Barack Obama's administration. Newark will soon house a satellite clinical campus for Health-Based Part:qerships, which will feature representatives of The university and the Medical College of Thomas Thomas Jefferson University's Jefferson Medical College as a all members of the DHSA. Among the speakers will be Gov. Jefferson University have a longstanding partnership jointly continuing collaboration of the Delaware Health Sciences Jack Markell, who will show his support for the Alliance in his sponsoring the Medical Scholars Program, in which a student Alliance. earns a bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware and a University Provost Dan Rich said the campus might be built medical degree from Jefferson. on the former site of the Daimler Chrysler plant, which closed in "Thomas Jefferson has a good reputation. Two juniors in the accelerated nursing program, Allison December. · I would that that we'd be exposed to Starr and Jessica Boaman, said the clinical campus is great news. "It could be prospectively the Daimler plant," Rich said. "Thomas Jefferson has a good reputation," Starr said. "I The DHSA is a partnership between the University of more cutting-edge technology." would think that we'd be exposed to more cutting-edge technol- Delaware, Thomas Jefferson University, Christiana Care Health ogy." . System and Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. Boaman said the campus will be a beneficial experience for Rich said the plan to build the satellite campus is of major -Allison Starr, students. importance to university students because it will offer enriched junior in the "They will be more confident coming out of the program," possibilities and a strong faculty. He said the campus will Boaman said. "And more instructors will help." encourage medical students to come to Delaware to do their clin­ accelerated nursing program Starr and Boaman said they . are both impressed with the ical training, which will help create new jobs, establish new university's nursing program and their professors, but they said businesses and generate money from research. some of their resources are outdated and the facilities do not Because the University of Delaware, Jefferson University first major keynote speech as governor, Rich said. Another fea­ offer enough space. Boaman said she likes that the clinical cam­ and the Delaware Institute of Medical Education and Research tured speaker will be Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. pus will probably have state-of-the-art equipment and offer the are working together to build the campus, there is a greater pos­ House of Representatives and founder of the Center for Health opportunity for students to gain field experience there. sibility to receive .federal funding, Rich said. Transformation. "Clinical work is nerve-wracking but necessary," Boaman In an op-ed in The News Journal, Robert Barchi, president Rich said the keynote speaker for the Future of Health said. "It's not the same working with mannequins that can't of Thomas Jefferson University, wrote that "the campus will Policy in a Time ofTransition had not been confirmed, but it will respond." · house classrooms equipped with video conferencing technology, March 24. 2009 9 Ag school raises YoUDee's real-life counterparts

BY ALLISON RUPPINO about 35 of them." Staff Reporter She said the birds do not require any The characteristic that sets the universi­ special care, and they are taken care of by ty's mascot apart from most schools is the full-time staff. If people want to come see the university actually raises live Blue Hens on Blue Hens, they have to make reservations. campus. YoUDee can find several of his fam­ Gouge said some people have seen the ily members at the Poultry House, which is birds; however, students do not come in fre­ part of the department of animal and food quently. Besides those who see them in class­ sciences. es, graduate students, who are working on According to the Delaware Blue Hen: research projects, are normally the only other Fact and Fancy sheet, written by animal sci­ group of students that visits them. ence professor emeritus' Paul Sammelwitz, Senior Karen Wiener, who is the presi­ the Blue Hen is not a recognized breed. The dent of Collegiate FFA, an agricultural edu­ sheet explains how the term has evolved cation club, said she started working with the from historical tradition and refers to fighting Blue Hens her freshman year. For Animal gamecocks /that gained fame during the Science Laboratory (ANSC 111 ), there was Revolutionary War. one section that allowed students to identify The Fact ·and Fancy sheet said there are breeds. numerous accounts suggesting the Blue "One of the breeds present was a Blue Hen's actual origins. However, a definite fact Hen," Wiener said. "I was excited to see the is the Blue Hen was officially named mascot in the flesh imd actually took a photo Delaware's state bird onApril14, 1939. on my cell phone holding a baby Blue Hen Bob Alphin, poultry research coordina­ chick."· tor and instructor for the department of ani­ She said although she was excited to see mal and food sciences, said the birds have a Blue Hen, her first impression left her beeri at the university since the '60s and were slightly disappointed. donated by S. Hallock du Pont, who raised "Blue Hens are actually rarely true livestock and donated funds to the College of blue," Wiener said. "There are two types of Agricultural and Natural Resources. Blue Hen, a dark and light variety. The 'blue' He said the university hatches out a new hen comes from the mixing of these two vari­ group of birds every year. ·One year, he said, eties. Even then, the blue coloring itself a retired professor tried having the Blue Hen comes in shades and variances." lay an actual blue egg. Wiener was also a teaching assistant for "It was unsuccessful," Alphin said. the ANSC 111 lab in Fall Semester of her "But, it did add a few different traits to our junior and senior year. Every few weeks she YoUDee is up against Goldy the Gopher from the University of Minnesota to make it ·bird." handles the birds and allows students to to the finals of SportstalkNY's Mascot Madness competition. History shows the Blue Hen is an touch them. aggressive bird. "I always wanted to make sure that "If, for instance, you take males that when the Blue Hen was brought out, that have been raised together, they coexist well," every student present would touch the mas- . Yo UDee tnakes setnifinals Alphin said. "If you separate them for a cou­ cot," she said. "Having your mascot be an ple of weeks, they will fight aggressively to animal is one thing, but being able to touch establish a pecking order. We have to be the mascot is definitely a fun experience." careful when we separate and move birds As part of her experience as a teaching in collegiate cotnpetition around so they don't fight too much." assi~tant with Alphin, Wiener received three Manager of the university's poultry farm dozen eggs from the universitY farm to use in the poultry lab. for the creation of SportstalkNY's entire mas­ Karen Gouge also works with the Blue Hens. BY ERICA COHEN She said the Blue Hens are for students to see "After waiting impatiently for three Staff Reporter cot contest · in class. weeks, our chicks arrived," she said. "We Feathers are flying as the university's Carter's son Evan is on the university "We use them to display what Blue currently have five Blue Hen chicks, and favorite Blue Hen goes for gold in the cheerleading team and participated in the Hens are," Gouge said. "We usually maintain their fighting spirits are showing already." - SportstalkNY Mascot Madness competition. United Cheerleading Association National · YoUDee is now in the semifinals against three Championships held in January in Orlando, competitors in a bratket-style competition. Fla. YoUDee earned first place in the open SportstalkNY is an Internet television mascot division of the UCA Championship. sports talk show with an interactive chat room Evan said his father saw the skits the dif­ that has been conducting the competition, ferent mascot teams performed and· was according to its Web site. inspired to create· a new take on traditional Hosts AJ. Carter and Mark Rosenman March Madness. started the Mascot Madness competition with "I showed my dad YoUDee's tape and he 64 candidates on Feb. 25 . Now there are four saw the routine in person and thought it was mascots left: YoUDee, Goldy the Gopher of interesting," Evan said. the University of Minnesota, Sparty from A.J. Carter then did research and chose Michigan State University and Keggy the Keg 64 mascots for SportstalkNY's own contest, from Dartmouth College. originally placing them in four categories - Rosenman said the winner of the compe­ insects and birds, animals, people and miscel­ tition, who is decided by popular vote by the laneous. public, will be announced April 1. Rosenman said the competition was cre­ He said .the show purposely did not tell ated for fun and there are no prizes for the schools about their involvement in the compe­ winner. tition witif~ibe final eight were decided in "We're an intimate show - we don't order to make voting fair across the board. have much of a budget, just national bragging The competition, which is conducted by rights," Rosenman said. "Maybe we can get an online vote on Sportstalknylive.com, had the person who works on the mascot to come YoUDee in the lead as of Monday. Goldy the on the show, and that would be cooL" Gopher is trailing behind by a significant mar­ He said the competition has been a suc­ gin. cessful first-time endeavor. SportstalkNY will announce tomorrow "This has been a blast," Rosenman said. which mascot has made the fmals. "It's been a fun part of the show, and if we can The university's mascot program has inspire kids to watch and be part of been asking students to vote for YoUDee after SportstalkNY, that's great, but it's really just THE REVlEW/Ricky Berl finding out about the contest on March 12. for fun." The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources maintains approximately 35 Blue Rosenman said YoUDee is responsible Hens for teaching purposes. '' 10March 24,2009 )1t Sexual health resources abundant on, around campus

BY BRITTANY HARMON ers the safest sex practice to be 100 percent LGBT provides information about safe sex and Wellspring was unavailable to comment; · Staff Reporter abstinence. various STDs. however, according to its Web site, the center The university offers several different "Condoms are only 85 to 95 percent effec­ Also, condoms, lubrication, dental dems provides students with information about ways for students to get tested for sexually tive when used correctly," Knearl said. and information on how to use all of these prac­ understanding one's sexual ori~ntation. transmitted diseases. Planned Parenthood does testing, for a low tices are available at the LGBT office. According to a recent na6o.\}al study that Joe Siebold, a physician and director of fee or through med­ LGBT does not was conducted, one in four. young women cur­ Student Health Services, said students should ical insurance, for provide any on-site rently has an STD, Knearl said. be attentive as well as an advocate for their own all major STDs, "We are more than willing to go with testing but uses Gay men are still ranked highest in living and others' health. including HIV. any student as an advocate if needed resources -from with and having IllV and AIDS. Services offered at Student Health Also, · with every Planned "African American women between the Services, free of charge, are counseling and scheduled visit, for testing on any given day." Parenthood, ages of 18 to 24 contract these diseases the testing for mv, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, there are free con- Student Health fastest as well," Bello said. active herpes infections, HPV testing (women's doms available for Services and Knearl said Delaware is ranked eighth in PAP test) and venereal wart (HPV) treatments. those who need -Innocence Bello, Wellspring the nation per capita for hlamydia, seventh in "There are many other illnesses, such as them. graduate assistant at the Lesbian, Gay, Wellness Center on for gonorrhea and sixth for HIV Hepatitis, which also can be sexually transmit­ "Akeywayto campus. Bello said students should be knowledge­ ted and we offer testing as appropriate as well," prevent STDs from Bisexual, Transgender Community Office "We are more able about different resources available on cam­ Siebold said. occurring is to make than willing to go pus and should be comfortable with what they He added Student Health Services pro­ smart choices and to with any student as are doing. vides test results to students during the same preventfrom further yourself health _;...______an advocate if "The safest sex practices are obviously office visit. needed for testing using protective barriers but use the 'Let's get Another resource location near campus problems down the toad," Knearl said. on any given day," Bello said. to know each other lirst' method," Bello said. that provides safe-sex information and services The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender The Wellspring Student Wellness Center is "That is a rarity in college students - be con­ is Planned ParenthoOd. Community Office is another useful and another available source on campus for stu­ fident in saying no. If that's not the case, there Emily Knearl, vice president of public resourceful location to provide information. dents who have questions on STDs, IllY and are plenty of people and resources to use on UD . affairs for Planned Parenthood, said she consid- Graduate Assistant Innocence Bello said pregnancy. campus." ,. Following the food: what happens to leftovers

BY ANDREW LYNCH ly donates unused fresh produce and Copy Desk Chief dairy products to the Delaware Food Many Main Street eateries, as well Bank." . as the university's Dining Services, do She said only fres_h produce and their part to help the Delaware commu­ dairy products are donated because of nity by donating their leftover fresh the corporate policy of ARAMARK, foods to charities and nonprofit organi­ the food company that supplies the uni­ zations. versity dining services. ARAMARK Loca'i shops in Newark, such as does not sanction the donation of left­ Panera Bread, Subway and Newark over food, not being able. to guarantee Deli and Bagels, . bake breads and the safe transport, storage and prepara­ bagels fresh each day. Since these tion of the food once it leaves campus. breads are baked in large quantities Senior David Laffey said he eats at prior to sales, leftovers remain after the dining hall several times per week sales have ended. and feels more businesses and universi­ Junior.Caitlyn McGarty, shift man­ ties should donate their fresh leftovers. ager at Panera Bread, said the restaurant He said most universities are well off THE REVIEW/Steven Gold donates its extra bread and bagels to the with the amount of money their dining Dining Services donates unused produce and dairy products to the food bank at the end of each semester. Food Bank of Delaware and has donat­ halls receive, and donating to local food ed to other organizations in the past. banks is a great way to give back to the Employees prepare a box of leftovers, community. and someone from the Food Bank picks According to its Web site, the Food it up almost every night, McGarty said. Bank of Delaware is the only facility in Brandy Barham, an employee of Delaware with the equipment, ware­ Subway on Main Street, said the store house and staff to collect donations and doesn't donate because it typically uses safely and efficiently redistribute them all of its bread by the end of the day. to those who need them. The food bank "Usually, we run out and have to redistributes the leftover breads and end up baking more," Barham said. rolls · through more than 350 hunger­ "But what we, have left over we just relief programs. keep in the warm box and use it the next Generally, the food· bank accepts day." any items that are surplus, cosmetically She said if someone representing a damaged, mislabeled or unlabelled, nonprofit agency came into the store code-dated or discontinued from a gro­ and requested a food donation, she cer or local business, according to the would need to get clearance from cor­ Web site. Its most-neede.d foods me porate headquarters. For now, however, soups, canned and packaged beans, Subway is being conservative with its packaged pasta, rice and macaroni breads in order to yield the highest prof­ products. PepsiCo, Food Lion and it, she said. Super G are some of its largest partners, Sue Bogan, director of Dining donating an average of 500,000 pounds Services at the university, stated in an e­ of goods annually. mail message that the university makes Laffey said he thinks with the every effort to minimize waste in its dwindling economy and other factors, operations by keeping accurate produc­ more people than ever should donate to tion and consumption records. local food banks. "We have very little waste in our "It makes good use of materials locations," Bogan said. "At the end of that would otherwise go to waste," he each semester, Dining Services current- said. Panera Bread on Main Street gives a box of leftovers to the Food Bank almost every night. ·~

March 24, 200911 Federal aid to Amtrak could bring jobs to state

BY ADAM TZANIS that we would get a new train sta­ Staff Reporter tion in Newll.rk, which would be Sens. Tom Carper and Ted more convenient and user-friendly Kaufman (D-Del.) joined Vice for the students and residents," he President Joe Biden on March 13 said. in announcing nearly $97.5 mil­ Funk said the demand for rail lion in new economic recovery service in Newark has risen, as funds that will benefit Amtrak­ evidenced by the station's full lot, related projects in Delaware. and the addition of a new train sta­ The funds come from tion would have a positive impact. President Barack Obama's $1.3 "The more people we can get billion stimulus package for off the highways, the better off we Amtrak nationwide. Of the money are," he said. ' Delaware will receive, $58.5 mil­ Funk said the recent influx of lion will go to refurbish 59 train Amtrak riders has increased the cars at the Amtrak shop in Bear; demand for train rides and has $21 million will be for the posed a problem for the amount of Wilmington Station Restoration train tickets available on a daily project; and $3 million will be for basis. security upgrades at Amtrak facili­ "We need to increase service ties in Delaware. to Newark, and in order to do that, Carper and Kaufman said in a we've been told by SEPTA that press release that projects will be there's a tremendous need for a aimed at creating and saving jobs third rail line between as well as maintaining an energy­ Wilmington, Del. and Perryville, efficient, low-cost transportation Md.," he said. . system. Tom Posatko, president of the The completion of repairs, made capable by federal funds, will allow more riders to use Amtrak. "In the short term, this money Delmarva Rail Passengers will put a lot of Delawareans to Association, said it's common to work. In the long run, these be unable to get ·a ticket because upgrades will help reduce traffic, trains are running at capacity and oil consumption, greenhouse gas the addition of repaired train cars emissions and household trans­ will make a big difference. portation costs," Carper said. "There are a significant num­ "When gas prices increase, so has ber of passenger cars owned by Amtrak ridership, because Amtrak that are out of service - Americans are desperate for trans­ they sit in what is called a dead­ portation alternatives that are more line," Posatko said. "The Amtrak fuel efficient and are good for the shops at Bear, Del. are one of the environment." only places in the country that can Kaufman said in a press do repairs on the cars." release rail travel and investments He said it will also benefit ' for the future will create jobs university students. today. "It will effect kids at the uni­ "Because of thy recovery versity because there will be more package, almost $100 million will seats available," Posatko said. be spent in Delaware restoring old He said if the Bear shops are equipment like coach cars and given the repair work, it is likely locomotives, improving the there will be a rise in employment. Wilmington station and replacing "The Bear shops are a major water and power systems," installation for Amtrak," Posatko Kaufman said. "This is another said. "The potential · is there for example of the crucial role some job creation in Newark out Delaware .plays in our nation's of this." efficient railway system." Tracy Connell, spokeswoman Newark Mayor Vance A. Funk for Amtrak, said her company has III said Delaware's acquisition of not yet finalized a list of projects. this money will aid in the creation "We are still waiting for a of jobs. detailed list of projects to .be "I tbink for Delaware, it's an approved by the federal railroad incredibly ,good ·deal because we administration," Connell said. "It are one of the main bases for trains is under their review and we used," he sai'd:-::we're hoping that expect to have that finalized list it will increase employment at the soon, but until then we can't pro­ repair shop." vide any details on what projects Funk said he met with Carper will be funded." in a briefing on March 18 where Posatko said Amtrak could they discussed possible plans for benefit by using the money in 'the money. He said he was unsure jmproving infrastructure. about what immediate effect this "A great deal of rail lines in would have on Newark, but they this country were laid down well have a few ideas in the works. over 100 years ago," he said. "A "I'm not sure it'll have any hope of mine is that Amtrak will initial impact, but what we were spend the money on infrastructure hoping would come out of this is improvements." 12 March 24, 2009

,. Speaker says ·global THE HONOR SOCIETY Of warming harms Arctic

PHI KAPPA PHI'"'.· BY CHELSEA CALTUNA NASA study that predicts an increase in Announces the twenty-eighth annual StaffReporter sea levels, Sakakibara states by the 2050s, . University of Delaware Chie Sakakibara, a researcher at major coastal cities in the world, including Columbia University, informed students New York City, will be at higher risk of about the effects of global warming in the flooding during storm surges and hurri­ UNDERGRADUATE Arctic on Friday in a lecture titled canes. "Kiavallakkikput Agviq - Cultural "In this way, it would eventually Responses to Climate Change among the become the fundamental issue of human · RESEARCH Inupiaq People of Arctic Alaska." The lec­ survival on the earth," she said. ture was co-sponsored by the departments Sakakibara believes people all over ESSAY COMPETITION . of geography and anthropology, the the world can learn from the example of College of Marine and Earth Studies and the Inupiaq people. the American Geographical Society. "Global warming is not only happen­ . ~ Up to two $500 PRIZES FOR COMPLETED As part of The William S. Carlson ing in remote regions, but will soon affect RESEARCH International Polar Year Events, a series of our lives as well," she ·Said. "Learning events at the university to raise awareness from Inupiaq people) adaptation process I about the importance of the world's polar may guide us through to survive future ~ Open to undergraduates in all fields. Research regions, Sakakibara shared her findings environmental changes. and challehges." about the effects of global warming on the Kathy Dettwyler, an anthropology results must be reported in an essay written for a cultural survival of indigenous people in professor, said she has already witness~d general, educated audience. the Arctic. the effects of . global warming in Sakakibara was introduced by Delaware. Frederick Nelson, a professor in the "I've heard many stories about how ~ Winners present brief talks based their research department of geography. The tw.~ met in much snow there was in the 1950s and 2005 while doing research in Barrow, 1960s," Dettwyler said. "I've seen the essays at K Initiation Banquet on May 8, 2009 Alaska. snowfall decrease until we practically Born in Japan, Sakakibara studied have no winter anymore." Native American studies and cultural She said she keeps up with the ~ Submission deadline is April 20, 2009 geography at the University of Oklahoma. research on global warming but was look­ Her polar research focuses on the Inupiaq ing forward to hearing another perspective Awards announced by May 1, 2009 people of Alaska, who call themselves the on recent developments in the Arctic. "People of the Whales." . "It always helps to have independent She was originally interested in the outsiders say some of the same things that For competition rules, see www.udel.edu/pkp or contact the symbolic relationships between humans the professor lectures about," Dettwyler Undergraduate Research Program (12 W. Delaware Ave, and animals, which eventually led to said. "I get the feeling sometimes that stu­ 831-8995). research in subsistence whaling and glob­ dents think we just make this stuff up." al warming after spending time with Freshman Laura Doherty said the lec­ Inupiaq hunters in Barrow in 2004. ture taught her a lot about global warming. "The warming Arctic eventually "I learned global warming is not only accelerates climate change worldwide," affecting our environment, but also cul­ Sakakibara said. "Climate change affects tures and traditions throughout the world," Arctic residents' lives every day." Doherty said. In her lecture, Sakakibara said global She said the lecture motivated her to warming is causing the sea level to rise, learn more about the effects of global which is eroding the homeland of the warming and how she could help: Inupiaq people. There has also been a Sakakibara said the best way to get rapid change in sea ice over the last 20 involved is to witness the effects of global years, she said, causing the culturally crit­ warming firsthand. , ical bowhead whales to migrate further "Travel around the world, see, hear north, which makes the traditional prac­ and talk to the people who are actually tice of whaling difficult. going through the problems caused by cli­ Sakakibara's research reveals that mate change," she said. "Learn from their global warming will soon affect areas perspectives and put human faces on glob­ beyond the Arctic. Referring to a 2007 al warming."

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BY JESSICA SORENTINO should have a steady night base of consumers.'; Staff Reporter As of now, the Sugar Rush Cafe's anticipated· On North Chapel Street, behind Santa Fe hours are 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. daily. The closing Mexican Grille, is an empty store. The paper-cov­ hour is still questionable and will be based on ered windows display a sign reading, "Coming demand. Soon: Sugar Rush Cafe." Andrea Fakis; manager ofBrew HaHa!, is not Tentatively scheduled to open on April 3, the worried about any competition with the Sugar Sugar Rush Cafe is located off of Main Street. Rush Cafe. Manager Lorinda Lafferty, who works closely "I saw the sign, and I was curious about what under Paul Owens, the owner of the Sugar Rush it is going to be," Fakis said. "I'm not concerned Cafe, explained Owens' goals for the opening. for competition because we're on complete oppo­ "He wants it to be all about laughter and a site sides of Main Street." place to be personal," Lafferty said. "We want to She said Main Street has many boutique ven­ know our customers and what they like. Sugar dors succeeding on Main Street and more opening Rush is going to be like 'Cheers' without the up can only be a good thing. The businesses bring liquor." more people to the city, not only yo the university, She said the cafe will supply a little bit of and make Newark a livelier place. everything. The restaurant will serve Belgian waf­ Students are anticipating the opening of Sugar fles with toppings and -breakfast sandwiches in the Rush Cafe after hearing what the place will have to morning. After lunch, Sugar Rush Cafe will offer offer. Sophomore Audrey Sullivan said despite the soups, salads, baked potatoes and paninis. location being far from classes, it. sounds like a The restaurant will serve coffee, tea, cappucci­ place she would try out. no, lattes and espresso. Chocolates, desserts, Junior Jared Frane said he likes how Sugar homemade ice cream and waffle cones will also be Rush Cafe will be another Newark establishment available. with longer hours. The reason the-Sugar Rush Cafe will be open­ "I like the idea of it being open later at night ing right off of Main Street in Newark is because it because only D.P. Dough and Dunkin' Donuts are is a central location, Lafferty said. Its target cus­ late-night places," Frane said. tomer base is an age group, not so much of just the Lafferty said although the cafe is opening far­ students at the university. Because of this, compe­ ther away from the university, that could be a part tition is not a big deal to Owens and Lafferty. of its success. She thinks the area of Main Street "We're completely green and organic, yet our near Santa Fe Mexican Grille and Seasons Pizza prices are going to be and stay competitive to the needs a coffee shop or quick-eats place. Lafferty local businesses already succeeding on Main predicts the restaurant will get a morning rush from Street," Lafferty said. "Also, there aren't many students living i.n apartments ·on South Chapel THE REVIEW/Ayelet Daniel businesses opened at night in Newark, so we Street. The Sugar Rush Cafe is tentativelyscheduled te open April 3.

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Know who is speaking on campus Allimations University unaware of speaker's view on genocide On Oct. 25, 2006, former should have been someone who at Goucher professor Leopold least knew that Munyakazi was a Munyakazi gave a speech at a uni­ wanted criminal in his home versity faculty forum representing country. Scholars at Risk, an organization Last semester, T.J. · Leyden, that brings scholars who are per­ the person upon whom · the film secuted in their home countries to "American History X" was based, various campuses in order to spoke at the university. Leyden speak about their experiences. In . openly discussed his past as a neo­ Munyakazi's speech, he denied Nazi and white supremacist - the now widely accepted and the university advertised his Rwandan genocide that occurred speech in that manner. It's not the in 1994. Based on his speech university's responsibility to cen­ given at the university, he is being sor a speaker, and in fact, should accused of genocide in Rwanda. be open to people with all view­ An educational community is points, but the faculty forum was bound to draw a variety of people advertised as having a speaker with different opinions and beliefs from Rwanda, representing from throughout the world, and Scholars at Risk. There was no rightfully so. However, the uni­ mention of the accusations against versity has to recognize that its Munyakazi and his standing on name is attached to those who are the genocide. brought to speak at the school ....:._ With all the information that for better or worse. The adminis­ is widely available to just about tration outwardly says it did not anyone with access to a computer, know Munyakazi would be deny­ there is no reason why the admin­ ing the Rwandan genocide. With a istration did not know about sensitive subject like genocide, it Munyakazi's past. The backlash is the university's responsibility to over the speech remains ·mostly know who is speaking on campus. negative, and this is an issue that Ws impossible to screen what could have been avoided. It's someone may or may not say important that the administration "We all need spring break to come." when put on a stage before hun­ knows what the university's name dreds of people. However, there is being attached to. Job not the only option after college LETTERS TO THE EDITOR More students participate in alternative programs Ferris Bueller said it best - growth, but they allow partici­ Generalizations made in letter end rather than on Tuesday) and definitely not is Italian, and I was "Life moves pretty fast. If you pants to volunteer their time to a how the religious aspect is disre­ insulted that this person would don't stop and look around once worthy cause while still gaining I read The Review weekly. garded. complain about the generaliza­ in a while, you could miss it." work experience. There are times when I agree As I read the letter, I under­ tion of a holiday and then gener­ For seniors, life is moving There may not be many with things that are written and stood how he felt, until he said, alize the people in my area of faster as graduation approaches opportunities after graduation to times when I disagree, and even "Please do not claim to be Irish if New Jersey. and the pressu!es of finding a job, travel and experience the world then; I respect everything I read. you are not even close on St. I unQ.erstand that he is upset a place to live and a way off their without the pressures of a job to But never have I been insult­ Patrick's Day. I don't go around with how nonreligious the holi­ parents' couches are even greater go back to. Students should take ed or angered until I read the let­ once a year and say, 'Look at me, day has become, but please, don't and more challenging in this eco­ the time right after college to ter to the editor in the March 17 I'm Italian!' because I am sure I be a hypocrite. If you're going to nomic environment. think about what they really want issue of The Review. would insult all those from North generalize me, I will most defi­ That could be why, instead of to do, not just jump into the first A junior at the university Jersey." nitely be generalizing your holi­ jumping right from college into a job opportunity that comes their wrote a letter to the editor about All those from North Jersey? day next year when it comes job in whatever field they way. St. Patrick's Day and how gener­ I hail from Sparta, N.J., in Sussex around. majored in, many university stu­ The fact that many students al the holiday has become. He County - the northernmost dents are taking an alternate route are consciously volunteering their said he is disgusted by students county in the state. I am Russian, Kelly Raquet and choosing to participate in time after they graduate from col­ who conveniently celebrated the Irish, Dutch and many other Freshman programs like Teach for America lege is proof of our generation's holiday (partied over the week- nationalities, but the one I ail). [email protected] and the Peace Corps. desire for change. Despite the Rather than get discouraged economic recession and other by the current job market and social and political problems the move back home to do nothing country is facing, the generation WRITE TO THE REVIEW The Review welcomes guest for the months after graduation, that has been pegged as "lazy" 250 Perkins Student Center columns from those interested graduates should be encouraged and "apathetic" is proving that Newark, DE 19716 to try other things, to go against they are anything but. Fax: 302-831-1396 in writing. the grain. Sometimes, students The lesson here is thaf E-mail: [email protected] get caught up in their expecta­ although times are a l.ittle rough or visit us online at www.udreview.com tions - go to college, graduate, and the job market may leave Please e-mail get a job. But that doesn't always something to be desired, it's not The Editorj.al section is an open forum for public debate and discussion. The Review wel­ [email protected] for have to be the case. the end of the world. When times comes responses from its readers. The editorial staff reserves ~e right to edit all letters to · Not only . do alternative pro­ are tough, don't just sit back and the editor. Letters and columns represent the ideas and beliefs of the authors and should more information. grams like the Peace Corps or wait for them to get better - get not be taken as representative of The Review. Staff editorials represent the ideas and www.udreview.com Teach for America provide excel­ up and make the best of a bad sit­ beliefs of The Review Editorial Board on behalf of the editors. All letters become property lent life experience and personal uation. of The Review and may be published in print or electronic form .

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------~------~------15 'A Modest Proposal' revised and abridged edition I put a second cap on so I could think hard­ the potential benefits are too good to pass at University Courtyards isn't paying for A Side of er. And then, after at least a full five minutes up. Let's start with the meals. itself. Ditch the lease and move back on of wearing caps and thinking, it hit me _:_ a Freshmen are young and in good campus. For free. Cynicism solution. health. Most of them have also recently Think of the other benefits. Frat par­ We at the university are suffering. With gained 15 pounds. What that means for the ties? Empty. Move on in and finish that keg. Caitlin Birch a dramatic revenue reduction projected for rest of us is nice, hearty, plump meat. At the First Year Experience courses? Don't need the state of Delaware, the university's budg­ beginning of Fall Semester 2008 there were them. Fire those professors! Dining hall et will almost certainly be slashed. We need 20,500 students enrolled. Subtract roughly lines? Non-existent. Fresh leg of freshman, A good wallet-friendly meal is closer to start cutting costs wherever possible, and 3,800 freshmen from that total, and you please! than you think this ought to begin at the bottom - fresh­ have approximately 4.4 freshmen per stu­ You may be thinking this plan is men. dent. extreme. It is. But as President Harker said It was the best of times, it was the worst in his Jan. 8 letter, "If we take actions imme­ of times - mainly it was the worst of times In the grand scheme of things, fresh­ - when the university community realized men are our most expendable resource. Do you realize how long you diately to maintain a balanced budget, we They take up space, use supplies, guzzle will be positioned well for the future." This that it was, in fact, going to be affected by energy and, in the meantime, what are they could survive off of 4.4 fresh­ is action. This is immediate. And I can the current state of economic upheaval. Too actually accomplis_hing? They've only just man? A nice chubby arm could assure you, this will balance our budget. If long, we had hidden our heads in the newly easily sustain you until April, but I'm wrong, you can tie me up and put me installed Astroturf that used to be sand on begun their studies, meaning they're no one's research assistant, no one's thesis can­ 4.4 whole freshmen could last away with the lanyards that once hung the Beach, but no more. A series of sobering didate, no one's team captain or group until the end of the semester. You around little freshmen necks. But I'm confi­ letters - fireside chats, if you will - might even end up with a surplus arrived from our esteemed president Patrick leader - they're expendable. The solution, dent in this course of action. It's times like to me, seems clear - we should .eat the if they haven't been working out. these we must ask not what ·our un.iversity Harker, and we knew then that it was time to freshmen. can do for us, but what we can do for our act. My suggestion may have upset you. I Aside from the obvious nutritional ben­ university. And I'll tell you what we can do When Harker told me in his Nov. 21 let­ -we can eat the freshmen. If that fails, I'm ter to the university that times were getting understand that. So try thinking of it this efits, there are so many other positives to way - it's kind of like a "last hired, first explore. For instance, once we've eaten pretty sure we have a decent-sized sopho­ tougher and that "Today's economic situa­ them, the freshmen will no longer require more class this year. tion requires us to make hard decisions," I fired" situation. Except replace "hired" with put on my thinking cap. When he promised "accepted" and "fired" with "eaten." residence halls. Yet their room and board is We have to face it - with increasingly paid through the end of the year, and do you Caitlin Birch is a managing mosaic editor at that "If we make these decisions wisely, empty wallets, none of us have money to know what that means for 3,800 of us? Free with discipline, analyses and an eye toward for The Review. Her vi-ewpoints do not nec­ shell out for food. Not only would this give housing. We have pennies to pinch, here, essarily represent those of the Review staff. the future, UD will be more· efficient and and that spacious apartment you're renting effective in fulfilling our collective vision," us an exceptional (and free) food source, but Please send comments to [email protected] Spring break is a time to remember, don't black out. my trip to Daytona Beach. I'm looking forward accepted as your friends. As we all have been sign attached to it. Kandid to wearing sundresses, drinking strawberry warned, at some companies Facebook is being Although this may not come as a surprise daiquiris and entering the euphoric Spring used to screen job applicants. Perhaps tht! to any of you, if you put thousands of college Kommentaries Break mode. album titled "Brian Macking Biddies," a collec­ kids in a confined area mishaps and accidents Those who have experienced it before tion of your Spring Break conquests, will keep are bound to occur, from the extremely serious Kaitlyn Kilmetis understand the Spring Break mentality. you from landing.a post-college job. to the incredibly stupid. Sometime it's subtle, a sudden burst of So if you don't want to have to explain to So if you don't want to explain to a poten­ confidence you have upon arrival that was your 15-year-old brother why you made a tial employer why you have a blemish on your Vacations are fun, until someone absent when_you boarded the plane or a sunny cameo in his masturbation material, shimmymg otherwise immaculate record for breaking a gets arrested disposition that seems to correspond with the sans-clothing in a drunken stupor as one of the bottle over someone's h~ad in Bermuda or Contrary to what the Nevada Board of tropical rays shining down on you. In other infamous "Girls Gone Wild," I'd suggest the defecating on the streets of South Beach, it Tourism would like you to believe, "what hap­ cases it's more extreme, Bible-Toting Barbara only protection'is to keep your top on because would be well advised to think sensibly over pens in Vegas ... " does not stay in Vegas. And who teaches a Sunday School class at a local you never know who's taping around you. the course of your trip. sorry to be the bearer of bad news, all you church becomes Barbie on Spring Break - Other things to avoid include excessive Spring Break bound boys adding an extra hun­ bouncing her big boobs around on stage in a Another negative Spring Break binge drinking, drunken tattoos or piercings, dred crunches to your ab workout to sport a six­ soaking wet, see-through shirt in a number of public urination and/or wet T-shirt contests. pack in your swimming trunks or all you girls souvenir that you may not count ungodly positions. . on coming home with is an STD. Besides those few features to avoid, have fun. fast-minute starving yourselves to look svelte in I'm no stranger to this tra,nsformation. On Go wild. Come home with a stockpile of your string bikinis, but what happens on Spring my first Spring Break experience, a trip to the stories to share with your friends who opted to Break doesn't stay on Spring Break either. Bahamas for a group of six senior girls in high Although it may not cross your mind as stay home, but be aware of the consequences of I thought· I'd attempt to impart some school, a member of our brigade who was nor­ you're rolling in the surf in the throes ofpassion your actions. Create memories that will last advice to' my fellow students before we all head mally shy and reserved around the opposite sex with the person you've been eyeing across the long after you turned your graduation tassel to south, from ~ancun to Cayman, to embark on blossomed into a make-out bandit before our poolside patio since this morning, chances are the left. the ever-infamous collegiate rite of passage, eyes. I have photos of her lip-lock with a num­ if you met him or her in the past 24 hours it is Soak up the rays. Make the most of every Spring Break. So while the world seems rela­ ber of fellow Spring Breakers to prove it. unlikely they have disclosed their entire med­ minute of your mid-semester trip but keep in tively clear and your minds, and vision, aren't Twelve in total was the final count, I believe. ical history with you. mind long after the sun sets on your Spring blurred by a combination offruity cocktails and Now-a-days things have changed quite a Yet another unfortunate prospect to antici­ Break, there are a number of things that may hoards of scantily clad bodies, 'listen up and bit. Not only will pictures of all your Spring pate is the possibility of getting in trouble or follow you home, like mortifying photographs, perhaps as you pack your luggage in the Break mishaps likely be posted within hours of possibly arrested on your trip. · arrest warrants, little red bumps below the belt ·' upcoming week you'll be sure to leave a little your arrival back on campus, but those pictures In fact, once upon a time when my father, and beyond. . room for common sense and self restraint. can be accessed by your ever-extending list of a lifelong law-abiding cjtizen, sported a fro and Before I begin, I must say I do not mean to friends, which in some cases has grown to. corduroys sometime in the late '70s, he experi­ be a Debbie Downer or a den mother, putting a KaitJyn Kilmetis is the senior news reporler for include elementary school teachers, current enced his one and only arrest on Spring Break The Review. Her viewpoints do not necessarily damper on anyone's plans for the holiday that professors and tech-savvy elderly relatives. in Fort Lauderdiile for talking back to a cop looms ahead. I am counting the seconds until represent those of the Review staff. Please send This threat extends to those you have not after sitting on a fence with a ''No Loitering" comments to [email protected]. ·~~----~------~

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18 March 24.'2009 )it Bromance is in the air: ·men find their matches

BY CAITLIN MALONEY pus. Junior Nick Moore says he's in a loving hot girlfriend so I knew he had to be an OK "Coming to the same colleg~ has made StaffReporter bromance with his best friend, junior guy to pull that off!' our friendship probably even str6nger," he · There's friendship, there's romance and Andrew Piersante. The two began communi­ Piersante never had a bromance before says. "We ended up getting. even• closer, then there's bromance, a term that's grown cating the summer before their freshman meeting Moore because his friends from his especially because we live together." in popularity in part because of the media. year after learning they'd be roommates. hometown had conflicting personalities. Since entering college, Lynch and With movies such as 2007's "Superbad" Once they got their housing assign­ "Nick was - my first bromance," Wagner have gotten so close they've and the recent "I Love You, Man," bro­ ments, they looked up one another on Piersante says. "If the personalities mesh become brothers - fraternity brothers, that mances are becoming more acceptable. The Facebook and began instant messaging. [well], you can have a good bromance." is. Both joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon their MTV reality series "Bromance," in which "The first thing he asked was if I played The bromance between juniors Dave freshmen year as part of the same pledge "The Hills" star Brody Jenner searches for a video games," Moore says. "I thought he Lynch and Craig Wagner has been going class. new best friend, has also put the word bro­ was definitely going to be a hermit." strong since they first met in middle school Best friends do everything together, and mance on the radar. The two only talked a couple of times more than eight years ago. The two became the same goes for men in bromances. Taking According to UrbanDictionary.com, a before meeting each other on freshmen instant friends and have remained close ·a trip to the grocery store seems to be a com­ bromance can be described as a "totally het­ · move-in day. Although Moore had precon­ through college. Lynch and Wagner had mon activity. Moore says he and Piersante erosexual loving relationship between two ceived impressions of Piersante, the face-to­ planned on attending different colleges, but go to the grocery store together several or more men," based on respect for the face introduction changed his mind. both decided to attend the university after times per month. other's manliness." "Onc·e I met him, I knew he wasn't what last-minute changes- . to their plans, -Lynch Bromances can be seen right on cam- I thought he was," he says. ·"He also had a says. See GUYS page 25

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and author ~ orler message that while Umversity alumna Rose Giroso likes to ask lots of ques­ l)!lllloO:n'iS u_ca.u~uuuJ' designed, he has mixed feel,: She also enjoys building and rearranging things. But most ings. use of Stones from1he Balloon's old f~e. importantly, she's passionate about transforming lives. As an design. the restaurant more embracing, Giroso created well incorporated into the design." Kane says chitectural interior designet she believes her work can influ- different spatial areas. "but at the same titne, the use of the stones kind of screams a nce how people move ~ bve. "My focus was on ergonomics/' she says... 1 wanted to cre­ apology attempt 'See! This is still tbe Stone Balloon!' It' Giroso's most recentDtoJect t1 on the Stone Balloon, ate areas where everyone's different needs would be acknowl- not.'' old Main Street tavern tliat reopebed last month as an upscale edged." · · General manager and university alumnus Bill Galbrai rant and winehouse. Th s:6 ation was rather no · - Th · · · · area, . wher wine · , is s restauran s receive big re onse the alu able. modeled to resemble a living room. It's a place to come and who have visited so far. Gone were the crowds of drunken and sweaty students, hang out with friends, drink wine and relax. Toward the center "A lot of people are upset at first when they hear what we convulsing to live rock 'n' roll bands. They were replaced by a of the restaurant and in direct sight of the entrance is. the bar, have done," Galbraith says. 30-and-older crowd · dressed iri business casual, sipping wine which invites customers inside and creates a warm feeling. To Apart from having the same location, owner and liquor and listening to jazz, a welcome change to the older Newark the left there's a lounge created for more vibrant and lively cus­ license, the winehouse has nothing in common with its prede­ crowd. tomers. The dining area is toward the back and situated next to cessor and many students feel that it's unfair to keep the old Giroso attributes her design success not only to her bache­ the open kitchen. name. lor's degree in art and 20 years of experience, but also to her However, Giroso is most proud of the loft-style dining "But then the old patrons notice that the floor doesn't stick degree in psychology. Through an innovative approach called room that curves around on the second floor. It's designed pri­ anymore and they are like, 'Wow, this place is great,' " he says. lifestyle profiling, she matches design with her clients' person­ marily for private parties and wine tasting. .Giroso says her company, Rose Authentica, is about real alities. Another key design choice is the use of natural and green and authentic design. It's important for her to create interiors "In America, we kind of have this concept of moving into materials. Brick pavers give way to stone and natural wood and that are true to the clients' vision. Baeurle had a vision of the spaces and making them work for us, but the true concept of go into a cement bar with cork lining. Stone Balloon as grown up. interior design is to create spaces that serve us," Giroso says. "A lot of designers are afraid of mixing so many materials," Giroso says with age, everyone changes. She and her "And to do that you need to have some kind of understanding Giroso says. "It's not easy, but we were able to do it really well." friends have different interests and tastes now. The new Stone and really need to know yourself and what your needs are." The combination of warm yellow, green and brown colors Balloon Winehouse gives them a place to reminisce about their During the first few meetings with a client, she spends a with the Tuscan furniture ties the design together. college days while enjoying the present. large amount of time learning about what makes them feel good One of the few elements that Giro so actually took from the "We couldn't recreate the Stone Balloon," Giroso says. and their vision for life. The process becomes an intense psycho­ old tavern was the original stone. As the building was demol­ "You just can't take a tavern where rock bands play and make it logical interview. ished, people started taking the stone as mementos - some a restaurant. It has to change." The information she gathers from these sessions influences were sold on eBay. Giroso used the remaining stone to build a Kane agrees. the design of the presented space. During her talks with wine large archway between the dining area and the bar. "The place epitomized the down-and-dirty energy and fun house owner Jim Baeurle, she carefully analyzed his vision for . "Using the original stone creates an energy just within itself of the college bar/band experience," Kane says. "I can't see how the restaurant. Together they came up with a Tuscan-inspired - that's just cool and nostalgic," she says. a wine bar can capture that and forge great college memories for wine bar designed with celebratory colors and European flavor. But not everyone is happy with the transformation. people, but hey, it's not supposed to - that's not their intent." ·)it March 24, 2009 1 9 Mu.slim comedian tackles stereotypes in post-Sept. 11 Anierica

BY MADDIE THOMAS · voiceless," sbe says. considered a monolith," Siddiqui says. "We News Features Editor Rami's performance was co-sponsored need to see a different perspective in the pub­ Tissa Rami has received comments by Students Acting for Gender Equity; the lic sphere." from all over the world on her Web site - dean of students; the departments of anthro­ Throughout her career, Rami has trav­ some nice, others downright threatening. pology, foreign languages and literatures, eled the United States and visited places she One comment from Mississippi says, "I am a history and political science; the Office of never thought she would go. Rami says she white southern gal who cooks good grits. Affirmative Action and Multicultural Affairs; never thought her audience would relate to YOU ARE FABULOUS! I will thank The the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; her experiences without having a background Mystery every day for YOU! Please stay the women's studies program; the Office of in the Middle East. She has often been sur­ alive. You have balls that CLANK!" From Women's Affairs and University Student prised to .find that fans from all over the Massachusetts, one fan writes, "My dear sis- · Centers. The performance was also featured nation appreciate her humor. ter, I personally have no objections to per­ as part of Women's History Month. "People are open to listening," she says. forming or being a great comedian. It's Jessica Schiffman, assistant director of "It shows how much we have in common great. But it is a huge responsibility that you women's studies; says the department was despite our differences." are taking in front of Allah. You will have a one of the initiators that pulled the event Rami has developed five lessons she has . heavy disaster- in your book of deeds in the together. She says a lot of Americans hold learned on the road so far. Her fust lesson is, - day ofjudgment."And finally, among others, mistaken views of other cultures and are one­ "People want to be entertained." She believes a fan from an unknown location writes, "U R dimensional in their understandings. humor, especially through her comedic mate­ the Coolest. Muslim. Ever." Schiffman says Rami's comedy helps stu­ rial, allows her to cut through cultural barri­ Rami is one of the world's few female dents develop a nuanced understanding of ers and is a great way to use her voice. Muslim stand-up comedians. other cultures. "Humor cuts to the heart of things," On Wednesday, she came to the univer­ "I think she crosses a broad spectrum," ·Rami says. "There are things you can say sity to give a stand-up comedy performance Schiffman says. "Doing that with humor is with humor that you can't say without." and speak about her career. One of Rami's great." Her second lesson, "Don't prejudge the goals is to create a greater -understanding Rami remembers one particular event audience," has shown Rami what some of between Americans and Iranians through her from her childhood - the Iranian hostage her own stereotypes are against others. It's comedy, which she has been performing crisis in the '70s - when she and her family taught her that despite differences, people since 2002. told members of their community that they will often fmd their own ways to relate to her "No, I do not ride camels and no, I do were Persian, not Iranian, in order to avoid material. not live in a cage," Rami says at the begin­ conflict and stereotypes. Her third lesson, "It's not just the joke, ning of her stand-up routine. "We weren't just Muslims- we were stupid," has taught Rami to go above and Born in Iran, she moved to Boston with New England Muslims," Rami says. "We beyond in her career as one of the world's her family when she was 5 years old. Rami love our lamb chowder." few Muslim comedians. says she has experienced misconceptions Although she became a U.S. citizen a She says her fourth less~m, "I have to be firsthand about Muslims since moving to few years ago, Rami says she still gets has­ my own biggest fan," is especially important America. Many of these experiences are used sled by Customs officials in airports when to her because she sometimes encounters as material for her jokes. she travels because her passport lists her people who believe her work is un-Muslim. "It's been a hard few years for us birthplace as Iran. In Spain, for example, At the beginning of her career, she says Muslims," she says. security · guards thought her passport was her parents were strongly against the idea of • After Sept." 11, 2001, Rami remembers fake. · her being a stand-up comedian. While Rami her first flight on an airplane. She says she "If my passport were fake, do you really says they are .now proud of her, much of her was stopped by security guards and subject­ think I would write my birthplace as Iran?" extended family still living in Iran isn't ed to a full cavity body search, an experience Rami asks. aware she does stand-up comedy because it's she says was humiliating. Another ·goal of her humor is disprove unheard of there. ''Next time I have to fly anywhere, I'm common stereotypes of Muslim women. She l'Ier final lesson, "You cannot please taking a magic carpet," Rami says. mentions how some have criticized mosques everybody," has helped Rami to not take per­ In fact, the events that occurted on Sept. as being sexist, due to the requirement that sonal offense if someone disapproves of her 11 inspired Rami to enter the world of stand­ men pray in the front and women in the back. career or doesn't like her material. Despite up comedy. Although she was originally ter­ Rami's response? hearing criticisms from some, she says she rified to discuss sensitive issues about the "We just like the view. We're praying has learned about the success of diversity and Middle East so soon after Sept. 11, Rami for a pi~ce of that. Thank you, Allah." acceptance though her career, even finding says she was determined to find a way to Junior Gina Siddiqui says she admires her. own place as a Muslim Iranian- reach the people and address the dramatical­ Rami's goal of breaking stereotypes about American. · '------:T:::HE=-:RE=-=-v=IE=w~;-:::s'""te.:o:.ve--n-::G:"'o-:-!ld . ly increasing stereotypes against Muslims. Muslim women. "I've really learned a lot about the peo­ Tissa Hami is one of the world's few female "We are not all terrorists and hijackers "There's a recognition of diverse ple in this country," Rami says. "I've fmally Muslim comedians. an4 not all Muslim women are oppressed and American women, but women in Islam are figured out where I fit in."

'Twilight' fans take a midnight bite out of DVD

BY SAMMI CASSIN candy hearts with phrases like "E&B 4 "It's probably going to be a little bit As 9 p.m. rolls around and fans start Editorial Editor Ever" and "Bite Me" are mass distributed to smaller because it's something that people pouring into the store, dressed in their To •.fully · comprehend the extent to stores around the country. And what fan­ have seen before whereas the book was ·"Team Jacob" and "Team Edward" apparel, which the< Twilight" brand has infiltrated girl's collection would be complete without new," Shean says. "But we've got some fun ready to do battle over whether vampires or the. pop culture sphere, it helps to visit a the official "Twilight" slap bracelet? events and the fans are kind of diehard and werewolves make -better boyfriends, the local bookstore. This is the environment in which the that lends excitement." Borders employees get their game faces on Not only are the four books that make "Twilight" DVD was released. The DVD hit Becky Uttley, another Borders employ­ and institute their game plan. up Stephenie Meyers' "Twilight" saga on stores Saturday at 12:01 a.m., and fans ee, remembers the midnight release of the "I heard lots of stories from people ..,. display five feet from the . entrance in showed up in hoards to Hot Topic and fourth and last book in the saga, "Breaking around me who were terrified of the huge Borders near Newark, but the faces of the Borders bookstores around the country Dawn," and says she was amazed at the crowds last time around," Shean says. stars of the film adaptation - specifically hours beforehand to participate in sheer enthusiasm the so-called "Twi-hards" "There was, of course, a throng of scream­ ·' Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart who "Twilight" trivia, win prizes and make sure have for the series. ing 14-year-olds, but I can still get into the play Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, they got their copy. "When 'Breaking Dawn' came out, oh fangirl screaming spirit. I was right there respectively ~ are plastered on every type Krissy Shean, an employee at Borders, wow," Uttley says. "The only way to with them- I'm into that." of merchandise a 14-year-old girl would has worked midnight parties for the describe it is to call it exactly what it was. It ever want to own. They're on backpacks and "Twilight" book releases before, and says was 150 screaming 16-year-old girls dressed posters, calendars and umbrellas. Boxes of it's an exciting and intense experience. in 'Twilight' paraphernalia." See MANIA page 25 2 Q March 24, 2009

. ,. Spot-on chemistry saves Double genres overused story weigh down 'Duplic#y, "'. "I Love You, Man" "Duplicity" more focused on mature relationships. A Paramount Pictures Universal Pictures shirtless Owen is about the height of the Rating: ** 112 (out of****> Rating: ** (out of****> sex appeal, and tile movie's success with While "I Love You, Man" might look With a strong story, "Duplicity" has young viewers might have similarly low and feel like what's come to be the stan­ the potential to be intriguing. The key potential because of it. With a more con­ dard for comedies lately - loaded with· word there is potential. The plot, with servative sense of humor and style, foul language, outlandish predicaments, twists, turns and plenty of steam, had the "Duplicity" is better suited for an older the usual cast of characters- there's still chance to be entertaining, but is an crowd. · something new and different about it. extreme let-down. The film's only saving What's supposed to be a mind-twist-· There's Paul Rudd, who ditches his grace is a sporadic sense of humor ing story about two spies is too often smart-aleck, sharp-tongued form to play throughout. caught up in itself, and with the relation­ Peter Klaven, a more vulnerable and less Julia Roberts and Clive Owen star ship thrown in, it gets to be too much. cynical character. as corporate spies who try to turn the Moles trying to fmd out groundbreaking Klaven ventures into a new frontier tables on their crooked employers, all secrets, the distracting scenari9 of ene.­ as well, hanging out with dudes instead of while reigniting a past romance. Roberts, mies turned lovers - Owen and Roberts just his girlfriend. Once he becomes punch lines, Hamburg shows. Fife and ·who usually dot;s an amazing and con­ are just too busy, and the value of their _engaged, Klaven's fiancee (Rashida Klaven as complementary .and explores vincing job on screen, doesn't puH love story is lost in ati the confusion. Jones, "The Office") worries that why bromances form rather than just con­ through this time. The two make a fierce Although they are two good-looking Klaven's lack of male friends might speak firm their existence. It would've been far team, but neither seems able to pull the people, the chemistry isn't as intense as it to a deeper problem he has. In an effort to too easy and disappointing to simply plug comedy off well. With both Owen and should be. circumvent these worries, Klaven goes on jokes into the frame of a new topic, but Roberts on the wrong side of 40, love The movie is also long and drawn a series o~man-dates and eventu~lly finds Rudd's performance and the general scenes that were young and sexy when out. Right when viewers expect and hope Sydney F1fe (Jason Se_gel), who s exa~tly pong-like give·and take between him and the two teamed up in "Closer" are now for the credits to roll, a new scene begins. the supplement for ~hich he was looking. • Segel elevate the film above its simple The film is held back from its failure . !h~ story arc IS" clearly borro~ed, ' story_ it's truly a marriage of styles. to commit to a genre- either comedy or Timickmg tha!, of Knock~d Up or There's even something blue, as an "Oceans 11" type of thriller. The plot Role Models, bl!t watchmg _Klaven Klaven gets daring and begins to go fur­ swirls into a confusing mess and the st~mble through scenes and d~alo~ue ther out on a limb. By the time he's ready audience spends more time trying to fig­ without a shred of confidence or ':hrectl?n to tie the knot, there's a good mix between ure out the pieces of what's going on than never gets old. Segel_ plays Fife with boyfriend time and girlfriend time. While they do feeling entertained by the about as much ~efimtwn as the role the pace of "I Love You, Man" isn't as movie's attempt at humor. There are all

Metamorphosis rapcore, heavy Papa Roach metal and punk. DGC/Interscope 0 n This one's for the girls Rating:** 112 (out of Metamorphosis, *****> each song is Poseidon and the Bitter Bug The name solely alternative Indigo Girls Metamorphosis is meant rock and the Independently released to symbolize change. group doesn't Rating: *** 112 (out of*****) Unfortunately, Papa dip into the If you were to type Indigo Girls into Roach's fourth album has world of rapcore Pandora.com, you'd hear tracks from the )¥Omen a lot of the same things anymore. of the '90s - female singer-songwriters like the public has · come to While it Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant and 10,000 expect from the group. seems that Papa Maniacs, Paula Cole and Lisa Loeb. And if you The album is entertaining, Roach has con­ listened to enough of their music, you'd hear a but doesn't really experi­ formed to more range of influences, from Joni Mitchell to R.E.M. ment with anything new. conventional To listen to Poseidon and the Bitter Bug is to When Papa Roach genre lines; the tener a look at how the listen to a sampling of the Indigo Girls' peers, par­ first hit the scene with the album still resonates in members feel about war ticularly on "Sugar Tongue," whose guitar chords song '~Last Resort," the the hearts of music lovers. and the loss that it can sound a bit like the Indigo Girls have been sam­ band was known as a On songs like "Had bring. pling "Trouble Me" by 10,000,Maniacs. breath of fresh air, with a Enough," the band slows - Russell Kutys, "Closer to Fine," their most well-known style that banded together it down and gives the lis- [email protected] song, was a hit on college campuses when it was released in 1989, and many of the songs on the like Marlboro cigarettes, Reese s Peanut Butter album feature chord progressions that sound an Cups I A Pepsi in his hand, getting offthe school • The Boss ofAll Bosses over slow-turning, heavy-hitting ·heats, awful lot like that first big single. But Poseidon bus," to the haunting, "Now its tattooed girls with Slim Thug have been the norm from Houston greats and the Bitter Bug also capitalizes on the best a past they can i remember I Who pledged alle­ Koch Records aspects of "Closer to Fine" - it features power­ like UGK or Scarface. On songs like giance to a life of bending the curriculum I She "Top Drop," Slim Thug joins the legends ful, folksy guitar melodies and vivid lyrics whose Rating: ** 112 (out of*****) tastes like spring, there she goes again," "Driver Considering while providing his own meaning will resonate with any young woman Education" is poetic and honest like a Joni the recent 2-mph ride-out music. who wishes s~ could feel a little closer to fine. Mitchell song and just as fun for driving (no· pun decline in the Indigo Girls are a duo -whose members, But the tough thug intended) as Sheryl Crow's "St~ve McQueen." prominence of persona runs thin on Emily Sailers and Amy Ray, have distinctly dif­ In contrast to the rest of the album, "True Houston rappers, "Thug" and "Associates" ferent musical styles-if Ray is the punk rock of Romantic" features minimal guitar playing and Slim Thug's and it's evident that Slim '77, then Sailers is the Woodstock of '69. After aching vocals that take you back to the hopeless­ sophomore Thugs has but one trick. performing together for m.ore than 20 years, their ness of feeling that you've "got the best intentions release The Boss If you can enjoy that styles have blended somewhat, but it's apparent I but !just can i do it." This song"is one to cry into of All Bosses trick even marginally, who the main creator was on each of the 10 tracks your pillow to, but it's also an example of the serves as a good then songs like "My on Poseidon and the Bitter Bug - Ray and musical variety that makes it possible to listen to reminder that H­ Bitch," though unimagi­ Sailers each contributed five songs to the album. Poseidon and the Bitter Bug from start to finish Town still has a native, can get some play With its catchy guitar riffs and poignant - a rare treat in the iTunes era. place in while you grip your lyrics, "Driver .Education" is arguably the best There's no doubt that the Indigo Girls play today. woodgrain wheel. song on the album, and possibly the most difficult rock for the ladies of the campus, but it's an audi­ Odes to - Ted Simmons to attribute to either Ray or Sailers. Froni the crys­ ence they shouldn't abandon any time soon. cars, jewelry and tal-clear image evoked by the lines, "He tastes -Alexandra Duszak, aduszak@udeLedu - WIDU~ ..all JR March 24, 2009 2lv·

BY TED SIMMONS unknown artists could get feedback on their music from The­ But perhaps the biggest attraction was the Black Entertainment Editor Dream, J. Holiday and Ryan Leslie, among others. The Hip­ Hollywood Workshop, in which Jamie Foxx and otllsr indus­ Hundreds of aspiring artists flocked to the Downtown Hop Workshop included Common, Jadakiss and others offer­ try professionals had words of wisdom for aspiring (\Ctors Marriot in Philadelphia on March 15, all chasing a dream ing advice to young rhyme spitters. The R&B Workshop did and film makers. The Review was able to catch some of the founded in the arts. Philadelphia Hip-hop and R&B station the same, except with panelists like Bobby Valentino and panelists between workshops and hear what advice they had 100.3 The Beat hosted the Second Annual Music and Keri Hilson. The Inspiration Workshop helped young for students at the university. As Elroy Smith, father of the Entertainment Conference - an event featuring panelists preachers and speakers, and the Fashion Workshop featured conference and Radio One Philadelphia's operation manager who speak to attendees in customized workshops. a wide array of panelists to help those pursuing modeling, described it, "This will be Hollywood in Philadelphia." There was the Listen & Critique Workshop, where fashion design or those just learning how to dress well.

Today's rising· acts on the future of music I' Mychael Knight I The Review sits down with rappers Maino, Sam Scarfo and Freeway, of 'Project Runaway' rapper I producer Ron Brow~ and Michael Bivins of 'Making the Band 4'

If you could change one thing keep seeing growth around the her. on fashion and design about the rap game today, what country. You're going to keep see­ would it be? ing other regions and markets keep Michael Bivins: Listen to R&B. What does 'fresh' mean to you? right now, especially because of the popping up with new artists and R&B is just as good. We need economy. Thete are so many other Maino: I would get all the fake, stuff like that. You're definitely moreR&B. Mychael Knight: Fresh is just venues to get a look, and to make it phony, lying people .out of the going see a resurgence in New doing you. Fresh is being clean, look like fashion. You really don't game and put all the real genuine York. I'm leading that. SS: My real advice? Get into sell­ fresh is being fly, fresh is just being have to do much. The old saying, people in, if I could. ing houses or something. yourself. I feel like I'm fresh today "Less is more," is really true. I say SS: I see it going back to the - I feel like I'm real fresh today. you can never go wrong with a Ron Browz: I guess the reputa­ music. It's going to get all the way FW: You just got to stay on top of great pair of jeans. Even ifl wanted tion. They think that all rap artists exploited and commercialized, and your job and keep grinding. When I'd say so. I like the gator-skin to wear these shoes with some are just horrible people. It's a stig­ we are going to be really throwing you see an opportunity present bow tie. jeans, I could. And really just kind ma. They think we're always up to on these wrestling types. itself, you've got to take advantage of build up from that. I like jeans. I ' no good. But it's not like that, of it. MK: Thanks, it's one of my own. always say that's a main staple. because I'm not like that. I'm well­ FW: I think it's going to be on the I'm doing men's furnishing now ­ Buy some jeans - you can dress mannered. I got a lot of respect for Internet. I think there won't be a What makes a good rap song to ties out ofleathers and exotic skins, them up, dress them down, whatev­ people and others around. lot of CD sales and all that stuff. you? and furs. I got one made out of er. notebook paper - crazy stuff. I'm Sam Scarfo: The other factor of it What advice would you give to MA: A good hook and a good beat. a guy that likes to wear this type of What mistakes do you see a lot of - the wrestling factor of it. The someone who wants to start Definitely nice lyrics, but the hook stuff, but I was getting kind of people making with their WWF of it - I'd bring it back to writing rhymes or lyrics? and the beat are what catch most bored a little bit with other people. wardrobes? the music. people. So I said, "I'm going to start doing MA: If that's what you want to do, my own ties," and then I started MK: Doing too much, like some­ Freeway: Definitely bootlegging. you should believe in yourself and· RB: Hot beat, hot chorus. wearing them and people were like, times you don't need all of that. make the right kind of preparations "Yo, I want one. Where'd you get Like I see nowadays people have Where do you see rap going in to get that done. SS: A good chorus. Defmitely the it?" on a scarf, necklace, knapsack, a the next five years? content - it has to be about some­ whole bunch of bangles and doing RB: Try and make catchy lyrics - thing. Songs that are about some­ What advice. would you give to this, and I'm like, 'Yo, where are MA: I feel like you're going to just lyrics people are going to remem- thing are the ones that last long. college students who are trying to you up under all that?" So some­ stay fresh and trying to look good times, really, less is more - just when they go out at night. What knowing how to do it in proportion would you say is a good look? and doing enough of it. Because if I'rn going to do a crazy hat and Miasha, author of 'Secret Society,' MK: Really, just keep it simple. stuff, befieve me, everything else is You don't have to do too much going to be really simple. on w.riting and Hollywood

Where do you get the inspira­ make sure I'm hitting all my do the plays and then try to bang tion for the books you write? points. If I'm not necessarily in a on Hollywood's door. creative mood, I can still get what Miasha: Well, a lot of it comes I need to get done. How has your experience been from real-life experience mixed in Hollywood? with imagination. It's concepts Are there any issues for your that I want to tell - sometimes next book that you're planning MI: It's actually been good for there's industries I want to expose on talking about? me. Fortunately, there haven't but it all ~ind of blends together. been too many road blocks. l'ni MI: Well actually, l'm producing definitely ambitious. I have the Can you describe your writing a play based on my .first novel, drive that pretty much gets me process? "Secret Society," that's going to through. Talent also speaks for be my main focus because it's itself and being able to produce a Ml: Basically I just go to the going to be geared toward play and have so much success computer, sit down and start typ­ Hollywood. We're trying to cross my first time around has definite­ ing it out. It usually just comes off over into the film industry. I think ly been that push that I need. Once the top of my head - I just go . that that's every author's dream I got that, I felt I could basically with the flow. At times when I'm - to get their book made into a do anything. So now it's just a For full interviews and more from under deadline, though, I have to movie. So I'm basically going to matter of me keeping it moving the Second Annual Music and Entertainment Conference, write out an outline, so that I can follow Tyler Perry's footsteps - and taking it to the next level. visit www.udreview.com March 24, 2009 23

Everyone has a st(Jry to tell. Each week, The Review will feature the story of one student at the do on the week­ university. Students are selected randomly. ends?' I say, 'I write jokes.' BY ELISA LALA more socially adept. They see me and City News Editor "I use my passion fqr comedy to help me in my social life they automatical­ When sophomore Charles Warren sets his mind to some­ as well," he says. ly think I'm thing, it's as good as accomplished. Warren has a reach-for-the Warren took his passion for stand-up comedy into his col­ going to say, 'I stars, no-one-can-stand-in-his-way mentality and he doesn't lege life by auditioning for a stand-up comedy routine in the read Plato.' " care what others think about him. Student Centers Programming Advisory Board's Coffee House There's He does, however, care if they laugh at him. Series. more to Warren Warren is a stand-up comeqian and his mission is to make "There was a sign in Trabant that said, 'You think you're than people people laugh. He became involved in comedy when he sponta­ funny? Try out,'" he says. "So I did." would assume - neously signed up to do stand-up comedy for a talent show in Warren now performs often in the coffee series and has he's also a small high school. another show within the next month. business owner. Unfortunately, the show didn't go over as well as he Although he'd love for comedy to be his future career, "I drive an hoped. Warren says he sees this as unrealistic. ice cream truck "After the show I really felt really terrible about it," "It's hard to make money doing comedy unless you're on Long Beas;h Warren says. ''I told my first joke and a few people chuckled." Will FerreU," he says. "And in comedy, if you're not the best, Island, New Nevertheless, he didn't give up. you're the worst." . Jersey, in the "Even that little tiny laugh gave me such a rush. Just being In Warren's perspective, comedy also isn't supposed to be supuner," he up on stage thinking, 'I'm funny,' was enough," Warren says. cool. says, "and that's He calls his comedic style "precocious, nerdy, apocalyptic "It shouldn't be a rock star kind of thing" he says "It's how I pay for pessimism." school." more of a 'couple people sitting around, that guy's funny, let's Warren earned Courtesy of Charles Warren In other words, Warren sees himself as smart and geeky, as give him a microphone' kind of thing." well as terribly afraid and neurotic that either a) he's going to Warren tries to keep his routines a secret from everyone enough to have two trucks - one he drives himself and the wind up as a poor, drunk comedian or b) the world is going to else, so they will enjoy his shows and be surprised. However, other he hires someone to drive. end. And he shares these thoughts with his audience. not everyone enjoys his comedy. "The liberty and the freedom of not having a boss and "I try to get people to relate to me on this geeky, funny ':My roommate hates me for my jokes," he says. "I'll say making my own hours is the best part," he says. "But it's hard level," Warren says. something to him and he'll be like, 'Dude, shut up.'" work, seven days a week about 10 to 12 hours a day." After a performance, he says he gets jittery and excited. Warren says people are shocked when they hear that he Warren says his motto is work hard, play hard "It's an adrenaline rush," Warren says. does stand-up comedy. "I like to look at myself as a doer," he says. "I feel people He says the stage has also brought him more confidence "They see this nerdy little kid sitting in the front of the waste their intelligence or waste their talents by just saying and enabled him to become a better public speaker, as well as class taking notes," he says, "and when they ask, 'What do you what they think rather than doing something toward it."

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_Continued from page 18 Piersante don't judge one another, they often get teased by their "His car is parked too far friends for being so close. Moore away, so I usually drive him," says he gets comments such as, Moore says. "Plus it's more fun "Why don't you ask your when you have a friend go with boyfriend?" or, "Are you too busy you." for a girlfriend because you have Moore says he and Piersante Andy?" . do everything together, from basic "Surprisingly, girls make fun errands to going on weekend of our relationship more than other adventures. In the past, they've guys," Moore says. "Maybe other gone on a fishing and canoeing trip guys have bromances, too, so they together. understand." The two also started doing Piersante says the comments Saturday activities, including ice from otl;ler people simply show skating at the Fred Rust Ice Arena they're envious ofhis bromance. on campus. Although they usually "They all think we are gay, but go with a group of friends, Moore I think they are jealous of our great ­ says he has gone with just friendship," he says. "They just Piersante on many occasions. wish they were us." It's also common to see men Most of the jokes Lynch expe­ going to the gym with their best riences are from girls as well, friends. Lynch says it's good to although he says the comments have a spotting partner for weight don't come that often. lifting, and having a gym buddy Moore and Lynch have girl­ can be motivational as well - friends and both say their bro­ Moore credits Piersante with get­ mances have never gotten in the ting him into a fitness regimine. way of a relationship with a girl. "He 'was the one who really "If anything, sometimes girls got me started on a new workout get in the way of it," Moore says. plan and took me to the gym and While the media has popular­ taught me everything," Moore ized the tetrn bromance, it hasn't says. "Now I am obsessed with it." had an effect on how guys perceive Sharing hobbies is only the start of their closest friendships with other THE REVIEW/Sammi Cassin a bromance. According to guys. Lynch says he rarely watch­ A group of "Twilight" fans made matching T-shirts in honor of Jacob, a character in the film. UrbanDictionary.com, two males es shows and movies that highlight in a bromance "have a deeper bromances and they haven't had a understanding of each other, in a big effect on him. Although Moore, way no women could ever realize." has watched some of the movies, Mania ensues at local bookstore Moore says Piersante knows cer­ he says he only watches them tain things that other people - because they are funny. even his other roommates- don't "I have had a bunch of bro­ Continued from page 19 And why not show support for their favorite were­ know about him. mances since I was younger, so it's wolf at the same time? "I tell Andy my feelings nothing new," he says. Uttley and Shean are responsible for leading "I'm good at art, so we drew his face on the because I know he won't judge "Bromances have been around for­ the night's activities, and gather the approximately back and we picked quotes because we thought they me," he says. ever - the media just made a 150 in attendance to the back of the store to play were funny," Garbini says. "Jacob's blonde jokes Although Moore and name for it)' ' "Twilight" trivia. The crowd is divided into two are fantastical, even though I'm blonde, but oh well, teams, Team Cullen vs. Team Sparkle. (The whatever." Wolfgang came in a close third for team names). The girls eclio the sentiment of most of the The faqs are obviously knowledgeable, and the "Twilight" fans, as Chantelle Preston says she likes game gets competitive. In a last ·round tiebreaker, the series because it's not like a typical vampire Team Sparkle wins by one. movie and the characters are easier to relate to. Uttley then tells the crowd that there will be a "I like it so much because it's mythical but it storewide scavenger hunt, and the first few teams to makes a lot more sense than the traditional vampire retrieve every item on the list will receive stories. with burning in the ~un and eternal damna­ "Twilight" related prizes. The crowd goes crazy. tion and all that," Preston says. "And it's a love "The moment I said, 'Go;' everyone ran," story. I think I've read all the books a total of 18 or Shean says. "People all throughout the store could 19 times." hear the sound." Last week it was announced that the "Twilight" Also out in full force and representing quite cast would make appearances at several midnight respectively are the Twi-moms, a very specific type premiere parties in New· York, Los Angeles, of over-30 fan of the saga who are just as diehard, Chicago, Dallas and Salt Lake City. Of course, it's if not more so, than "Twilight's" tween followers. every girl's dream to see her fantasy vampire­ Terri Carpe, who is there with two friends and boyfriend in person, right? has the first ticket to get the DVD one minute after "I'd probably freeze and just not say anything," midnight, says she's not ashamed to be a Twi-mom. Preston says. "Yeah, I guess that's us," Sarpe says. "We're The others agree. They'd be nervous but try to not here with our kids. They're little. We all saw the keep cool, and fail. movie and read the books." "If the cast showed up here, I would have. The Twi-moms excel in both the scavenger screamed and passed out," Garbini says. "I would hunt and the trivia game, and one particularly ram­ try to be as calm as po·ssible because I kind of feel bunctious group of mothers comes away with one bad for them- they're always getting swarmed. So of the top prizes of the night - a postcard with the I would attempt to be calm, but there's no w.ay it characters' pictures on the front. would have worked out.'' · After the games and other activities, there's The night ends with the "Twilight" awards, as nothing to do but wait for the witching hour. A Uttley reads off the results of the vote taken earlier group of girls scan the table of "Twilight" action in the night. The kissing scene won for favorite figures, dressed in matching homemade "Team Bella/Edward moment and Edward was announced Jacob" T-shirts. The back is a fairly accurate depic­ as "favorite vampire," followed by a celebratory tion of Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob in the film, scream. and the frol!t features their favorite Jacob quotes At midnight, people form lines all over the from each book. store, according to their assigned ticket number, One of the· girls, Sammy Garbini, says they which they purchased beforehand. wanted to come and thought they should match. . "We're going home and watching it all night," says Preston. "We'll have it on a loop." -·- 2 6 March 24, 2009

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Breaking News: Delaware Athletic Director Edgar Johnson announced his retirement on Monday, after 25 years at the AD position and 40 years on the UD athletic staff.

Johnson and Keeler react to UD /DSU series BYMIKEPINA With the two schools' one and only meeting StaffReporter resulting in a lopsided 44-7 win for the Hens, com­ This game is more than football. On Sept. 19, bined with the fact that the games will be played at 2009, after 82 years of restless waiting, a community Delaware Stadium, has cynics saying this could be . wanting nothing more than an old fashioned in-state a one-sided series . rivalry will finally get their wish. Sure, thanks to an Johnson had opposing views on that, citing NCAA playoff pairing in 2007 that produced a record the cyclical nature of FCS football. crowd of 19,765 at Delaware Stadium- the third­ "I think some people mi&_ht think there is an largest crowd for a first-round game in Football advantage," he said. "I look at it as we have the Championship Subdivision playoff history - this same amount of scholarships and we're both out technically will not be .the first time the two schools there recruiting the same kids. I think we're on will have played one another. It is however the first equal footing." time the two schools reached a mutual agreement for Keeler added whenever you play a team and an annual series of games-A move that. has a football are expected to dominate, it is very difficult. frenzied community breathing a collective sigh of "If you look at our schedule, we have games relief against James Madison and Richmond coming off a "People have said they wanted to see this game national championship, our whole schedule is full played over the years so there's already a pent-up of playoff teams," he said. "This is going to be interest and it's a natural rivalry," Delaware Athletic another important game, but the atmosphere in the Director Edgar Johnson said. "If it follows the course stadium is going to be a little unique." of other states such as Iowa and Iowa State, Florida The game will obviously be exciting · for and Florida State and Texas versus Texas A&M, then football fans, but also for the community. I think welll have a great rivalry and an exciting game The two schools are a 45-minute bus ride each year." THE REVIEW/File Photo from one another and the citizens in between who When K.C. Keeler, head coach of Delaware:s Fans can now enjoy four regular season games between UD and Delaware State. have been hearing about the game-that-should-be football team as well as a former player, first told hts for generations will certainly take notice. captain that he would need him to attend a press conference That atmosphere has the potential to develop into some­ "Since the day I got here there's been a lot of talk [about regarding the announcement, his reaction did not surprise him. thing unparalleled with anything Delaware football fans have the game]," Keeler said. "I've always wanted it to happen but a "It was 5:45 in the morning and I told [Matt Marcorelle] ever witnessed. Keeler noted that with an in-state rivalry the lot of things had to be worked out. It's a big financial win for we ·were about to announce a scheduled meeting with Del. environment will be one of a kind. everyone." State," Keeler said. "He was extremely excited and said, · "When we played them in the playoffs, there was a lot of This game agreement is a small step in smoothing out the < 'Coach, that was an unbelievable atmosphere when we played bantering in the parking lots. It is great for both programs and negative public perception concerning the relationship between them in the playoffs."' great for the state," he said. these two institutions. Johnson said the relationship between the Keeler shared the excitement, saying he wished it hap­ The likelihood of a true rivalry developing is more realis­ two schools has improved since the game has been set up, and pened sooner. tic than most fans are expecting. each has been able to understand the other much better. "I was excited," he said. "I was pushing for this game for "I think it'll help both programs as a game that means "I think one thing it does do is, through this process we've a long time. It made too much sense. I want more 1-AA games something each year," Johnson said. "Hopefully it will grow gotten to know them better and they've gotten to know us bet­ in our stadium and the best thing for Delaware football is to and build. Ultimately I see us playing for some sort of trophy ter," Johnson said. "We've become more collegial towards one have as many home games as possible." or cup, passing it back and forth each year." another." The RevieW" chats 'With 'PTI' stars Continued from page 1 cess in the NFL as it pertains to a· rise in versy was on for like four prominence of the Football Championship days on ESPN. Delaware We were told we would interview the Subdivision? just killed Delaware State. gentlemen one at a time, and were a bit per­ But good, so that's ~ood, turbed to find we would only have a very Wilbon: FCS? What is the FCS? Oh, yeah, progress came. Don't you limited amount of time speaking with each yeah, yeah, yeah. I still call it.DI-AA. Stupid think that's a good idea? of our interviewees - in fact, only five min­ name change. Anyway, some of the best This school has every­ utes with each. Luckily, understanding of quarterbacks came from small schools. Terry thing to gain. If you get beat our plight, perhaps from having been in our Bradshaw, Phil Simms. There's six Super that's a real loss, but it's situation many times in his past, Wilbon Bowls right there. As a matter of fact, ifl put good that you play. It's good interjected and rectified the time limitations. together an all-time team, I'll take that that these rivalries exist. It's small-college all-time team. You can have all terrible that Maryland and , Moderator: I hate to do this, but you only the BCS schools, and I'll pick that-small-col­ Georgetown didn't play for have five minutes. lege all-time team. many, many years. I think Who's on it? The best receivers. Jerry it'll be controversial and Wilbon: Now why you gonna do that? Why Rice. I don't know for sure that T.O. would political, but only at first, do they only have five minutes? be the other starter, I gotta think. But any­ and the more you play the way, you got Walter Payton, you got Jerry less that will be an issue. Moderator: I was told you were on a sched­ Rice and you got Terry Bradshaw. Right THE DJO\m"''"~ ..... - ule. there you can play with anybody offensively. Having been to so many In addition to PTI, Kornheiser is on Monday Night venues, which would you Wilbon: What schedule? Who's waiting for After much controversy, allegations of say is· your favorite stadium or arena to Center in Chicago, it's where Arizona and us? We don't go on till eight-frickin' -thirty. racism from ESPN's Jeff Pearlman and a watch a game? Illinois played that great game in the region­ Whatever time they need, they're good. historic 44-7 thrashing by UD in the 2007 al fina-ls. · FCS playoffs, a four-game series has been Wilbon: Well, that depends on whether There are a lot of college arenas that I I was immediately set at ease by announced between UD and Delaware you're talking NBA, college stadiums, what really love, and my favorite football stadi­ Wilbon's candor. The following question State ·university. What are your thoughts sport. Most of my favorite stadiums don't ums are college arenas. and answer session was done separately with on this new in-state rivalry and the events exist anymore. College football stadiums like Auburn, each man but has been organized into one that have led up to it? College basketball it's different stuff, Georgia. interview to facilitate easier reading. maybe more dependent on the games them­ Pro football stadiums are all the same to Kornheiser: I remember that. That contro- selves. I think it might be called the Horizon What do you think about Joe Fiacco's sue- See ESPN page 29 2 9 March 24, 2009 · JJt • ESPN sports gurus opposed to !!_andling of Title IX· Continued from page 28 is look at the entire BCS situation. They're Chicago in 1964, so I was 5. I remember my how to put it on the Internet. That's just evo­ taking the lazy way out every time rather dad had to hold me up so I could see Mantle lution. m_e. The Line [Lincoln Financial Field] than creatively attacking the problems. Not round-the bases. That was incredible. I can might be my favorite, but it's probably a tie to single out any school, but just academic still see it like I have 'a snapshot in my mind. Kornheiser: Ink and paper wiil be extinct between The Line, Seattle, Chicago, organizations in general are just handling ' within the next five to 10 years. Newspaper Houston and Arizona. Well, OK, Lambeau is these issues in the lazi_est ways possible. Kornheiser: It would have been baseball, will live on and whatever replaces them will first, definitely first, Lambeau is the last one and it would have been the New York live on the Internet. The news will be the left. Kornheiser: The _University of Maryland Giants. It would not have been the Bobby · same. The writi{lg and reporting skills will doesn't have a baseball team. You're telling Thompson· "Shot heard 'round the world" in be the same. It is the delivery that will Kornheiser: My favorite place to watch a me that an ACC school can't have baseball. 1951, because I really wasn't old enough to change. · game is in bed. I like to watch and then It's like Title IX is a wonderful idea that has absorb that. · · When this all shakes out, reporting will sleep. I particularly like to watch golf on gone wrong just in this one area. By 1954 or so it would have been some­ be important and writing will be important. weekends, and go to sleep when Tiger is at Take football out, especially in those thing to do with Willie Mays, but I definite­ People are not going to just text each other No. 7 and then wake up when he's at about schools where football is making the money. ly remember Don Larsen's perfect game in the news. Without news you cannot have any No. 15. Football funds everything. You're killing the 1956 in the World Series. I listened to it opinions. So the news gathering will stay the As far as stadiums I don't know. I've goose that laid the golden eggs, I think. I when Sandy Koufax pitched. I had a transis­ same, it is the dissemination which will been to them all a lot of times. They don't don't know if women are going to be happy tor radio, all kids did in elementary school. change. hold that great allure for me anymore. with that poin~ of view. Yankee Stadium they tore down, so what's As a journalist, what are your thoughts on So we've got to ask you. After your show, left? Wrigley and Fenway are left. Go there How do you feel about sports betting, the slow extinction of print journalism? would you be interested in grabbing a before they tear them down. especially with the recent news that it will drink with us at the local sports bar, Football, all the stadiums are OK, but very possibly become legal .in the state of Wilbon: Well, it ain't slow. It's over. It's Grotto Pizza? there's nothing like seeing a college football Delaware? over at least the way I knew it. I mean it's game. There is absolutely no pro experience not over in the sense that storytelling is not Wilbon: Oh boy, if I walk into a sports bar, • you will ever have that will match what you Kornheiser: It's gonna happen. If it doesn't going to end, and the need to learn how to that would not be one of the better decisions have here if you care about the school that happen here it's going to happen somewhere tell stories and get that type of education is of my life to this point, but I appreciate the you go to, or what you had in high school else. The leagues can't stop this anymore. not going to end. There will be journalism invitation. Ten years ago I would have, but when you're so intimately involved with it. It's good that it's in Delaware where there's still, it just won't be appearing on the print­ today I wouldn't dare. not a pro team. By the same token, the ed page. With Delaware's men's indoor track pro­ WNBA has a team that actually plays in a The Internet is the most significant Kornheiser: I'm turning you down, but it's gram being cancelled and replaced with casino. Their games are in The Mohegan Sun invention when it comes to reading and writ­ just because my daughter has been ill and I women's golf, Title IX and it's implemen­ Casino. How do you justify that? ing since the printing press. So for me, my want to get home. If that's the same Grotto tation has become an issue both locally There is a market out there in Las Vegas son will grow up never understanding what I Pizza they have in Rehobeth, everybody just and nationally. Your thoughts? fm: a basketball team at some point probably. did because he won't have newspapers seems to love that. Here's the problem I've If you think about it, there is legalized gam­ around. He'll be reading things on a screen -got. Wilbon: I have a big problem with it. I am bling right now. It is called lotteries. For the growing up. It's very depressing. The busi­ When I walk into a sports bar, that's my absolutely and utterly for the promotion and sports teams to be so strong and say you ness that I grew up in, the reason that I do the constituency. It's so hard for me to sit down encouragement of women, especially young can't have this, that is going to change. things I do, that is over. and have a good time. I've got a lot of peo­ women, in sports. Not, however, at the detri­ We were actually just talking about this ple coming up to me and basically saying, ment of boys. So to me there needs to be a What would you say is your first lasting . before you came in. If you were in the horse "You're a moron. What do you think about way to figure out how to do both. sports moment as a fan that really left an business, and now Ford is· rolling automo­ this? Well, how can you think that?" So I'd They need to take football out of the impression on you and pushed you to love biles off the assembly line in Detroit, your rather go to a bar if there was one television equation to remove the factor of those schol­ sports? shit was over. Done. Why own horses? instead of 20, and everybody there was an arships, because there is no women!s sport to That's nice, but here's a car. So you know opera fan. equal the 85 scholarships or whatever it is Wilbon: I remember I saw Mickey Mantle it's going to be different, and for us it's a that football takes up now. hit a home run in at Old Comiskey Park in hard thing to swallow, but you will learn Academics are lazy, all you have to do

Baseball: -The team has a 12-7 after a 2-1 series win against Towson last weekend .

• • - This week they face St. Joseph's in om tnt on one game, and Old Dominion in a 3- game weekend series. Time: March 27-29 - Freshman pitcher Rich O'Donald Location: Bob Hannah Stadium was named CAA Pitcher of the Week. BY MATI WATERS The Numbers: Assistant Sports Editor Softball: - The team has posted a 5-l 0 record About the Teams: 1-4: The Hen's' record after a 1-2 series against James against left handed Madison last weekend. The Hens: Why the Hens can win: starting picthers. - This week they face Delaware State .l- Delaware is 12-7 after earning a in a doubleheader and Georgia State hard-fought 2-1 series win against Old Dominion is 2-8 in their last 10 games and in a two-game series . Towson University this weekend. 0-7 in away games this season, while the Hens are Leading the Hens with 34 hits is 7-2 at home, making them the clear favorite. The . 334: Team batting Carlos Alonoso, who has an impres­ Hens have had lively bats as well, outscoring their average for the Hens, Men's Lacrosse: sive .443 batting average. Bringing in past three opponents 63-41. first in ·the CAA. - The team limped to a 2-6 record after the runs for the Hens has been Bill two tough losses against Stony Brook Merkler, with 6 home runs and 27 runs and Villanova last week. batted in. The Prediction: Why the Hens could lose: - This week they look for redemption ~ The Hens are easily the better against Lehigh at home and at Brown The Monarchs: The Hens pitching staff has a below-average University. Old Dominion has struggled this earned run average at 6.65. They also allowed seven team. The Monarchs only have 83 year with a 6-12 record, their biggest runs in the first inning of a recent Towson game, so runs batted in compared to the loss coming against South Carolina Hens' 161 and have hit 20 less it could all be on the offense again and they can't·be Women's Lacrosse: 13-3. Sophomore Donnie Corsner relied on to keep up their hot hitting. homeruns. Look for the Hens to sweep this series with ease. - The team is 3-3 after two winning leads the Monarchs with 26 hits, 3 efforts against Temple and St. homeruns and 17 RBis. Hens 3 games, Monarchs Bonaventure last week. ·none JR March 24, 2009 3 Q _ Egerson hopes to continue Considering the state of the economy·and the his basketball career in pros problems that face President Barack Obama, do you think it was appropriate for him to BY DAVE THOMAS Egerson adds that part of the r!!ason he Staff Reporter transferred to Delaware in the first place was to be appear on ESPNfor March Madness? Next year, the Hens' basketball team· wjll have closer to his family. A serious committment consid­ the unenviable task of replacing 15.4 points per ering Georgetown's campus is only a two hour drive game and 10.3 rebounds per game. The team will no from Delaware. longer be able to rely on the skill and leadership of "It will be bittersweet, leaving them," he says. its only All-Colonial Athletic Association selection. "They would be happy. for me, but it's' still really "Obama is a guy like A senior at the university, it is time for Marc sad." everyone else. Why can't Egerson to move on. The transition he is about to He says he will be certain to call frequently, and make may be every bit as challenging as the Hens' he hopes he can negotiate with a potential employer he take off some time task of replacing him. · to have his family sent over at least once a month from work to fill out a A 6-6, 235-pound guard, his imposing presence during the season. Teammate Hakeem Akallah said is quickly offset by a calming demeanor and a bevy fatherhood has mad Egerson a more mature person bracket?" of adjectives avowing his gratitude to the university. and better leader. He displays a quiet confidence that belies the hum­ "Fatherhood has made Marc a more mature per­ -Joe Waltman bling truth of playing basketball for Delaware. This son on and off the court," Akallah says. "He has. Freshman is no Kansas. This is no University of Connecticut. pushed a lot harder to accomplish his goal." And this. is certainly not Duke. Although he was While the goal of playing professional basket­ named to the National Association of Basketball ball has presented some unforeseen challenges, his Coaches (NABC) Division I All-District 10 First family has never wavered. "He's been more of a Team, he faces an uphill battle in achieving his goal "They know ifl don't make it they want the best of playing in the National Basketball Association. for me," he says. "I wouldn't see them as much, but celebrity than a figure The Georgetown-transfer understands what it is they've got my back." . like to play on the grand stage. Georgetown, which Egerson says he has also considered the NBA head recently with his plays in the Big East conference, receives ample Development. League, often called the D-League. appearances on ESPN national exposure. The Big East's television deal The little-known version of the NBA's minor leagues with CBS ensures at least 14 Big East matches will still features a very high level of play. and 'The Tonight Show,' so be nationally televised. Delaware's games were tele­ "If a team picks me up, but wants me to start out vised on the local Comcast SportsNet, if they were in the D-League, that would be fine with me." it seems inappropriate." shown at all. Although this is a possibility, both Egerson and -Sean Keim He understands he will need to continue to worls: Ross feel that playing overseas is much more likely. to get his name out to NBA scouts. For that, there Ross feels part of the reason he has no hindrance in Freshman are scores of people eagerly hoping to be chosen to recommending overseas clubs is because of the market his talents. Egerson, not without the input of encouragement of his family. his mother, girlfriend and coach, excitedly hears out "I don't think it'll be a challenge for him," Ross "I don't think politics and the suitors. says. "He has great family support and they want sports should mix anyway, "Right now I'm in the process of signing with him to follow his dreams, so I don't see his family an agent," Egerson says, adding that many were rec­ being an obstacle." ' but right now he needs to ommended by head coach Monte Ross. "Then I'll be attending an NBA tryout camp focus on our economy in Portsmouth, Virginia." . and not who's winning He has met with agents from all over. International agencies ooze at the potential of college basketball." promoting his talents to overseas clubs. As for the tryout camp, the invitation­ -Sean Sanpiedro only Portsmouth Invitational Tournament Freshman boasts a star-studded alumni of NBA stars, such as Cuttino Mobley, Scottie Pippen and Avery· Johnson. · However, in Ross' short tenure as head coach, he has never sent a player to the NBA. He admits the NBA remains a long-shot. "He would love to play in the NBA, he could go to the tryout camp, tear it up, and get a shot at the NBA," Ross says. "But I would Michael Londino - Baseball say the more likely scenario is overseas." For Egerson, playing basketball is a dream, whether it's New York or New Delhi. After Towson scored seven runs in "Wherever I can play, that's where I'm the first third of the first inning, the gonna end up going," he says. He shows the sophomore right bander threw 6.2 same enthusiasm for playing abroad as he sc.oreless innings, allowing the Hens to does at the thought of playing in the NBA. It pull even before scoring the winning may not be the exact path he had in mind, but. run in the top of the. ninth. he is OK with that. · Previous to this outing, Londino Still, there are some bumps in the road. had allowed seven runs on nine hits in "I would like to go somewhere where 8.0 innings. This outing brought the they speak English," he says. "Oh, and I ERA down to 3.68 for the Hens' top set-up man. would miss TV. I moved from Wilmington to ~~~~~~~~--~ Dover, went from Com cast to DirecTV. I hate learning new channels." Emily Schaknowski - Women's Lacrosse Australia would be a favored destination, Egerson says. Argentina would be another ideal option. However, the inevitability of soccer being on 24-7 is a bit troubling to him. He would not be the first Blue Hen to The junior attack scored her 100th play in the South American basketball power. career point on her second goal of the Herb Courtney, ·the Hens' All-CAA guard who game as the Hens beat St. Bonaventure graduated in 2008, signed· a contract to play 12-8 on Saturday. for Quimsa of the Argentine National Schaknowski now has three goals Basketball League. this season along with four assists, Then there's the whole family issue. with a shot percentage of .214. Egerson would have to be away from his long-time girlfriend, Ashley Christopher, and the couple's two-year-old son, Ryan Chase Courtesy of Sports Information Christopher. Egerson may have to go abroad to keep playing basketball. 31 March 24, 2009

Cleveland Indians outfielder Shinn-Soo combination of major, minor and independent Dallas _Cowboys versus Philadelphia Eagles Choo has one hell of a day job. As a starting out­ league players. magnified by thousands of people on a global fielder for the Indians, he gets to take the field The beauty of the WBC did not truly come scale. daily for a Major League :Baseball franchise. At out until this season. With baseball now being Having something such as the WBC allows age 26, he is entering the prime of his career, and played on a global scale, and many foreign play­ all of these traditions and rivalries to .continue. is coming off his best season to date. ers having success in the Major Leagues, the The people of Korea can now see those baseball More importantly to me, however, is the WBC has become more than baseball. superstars gain recognition on a world stage, but fact that he represents something bigger. Choo is Take for example, the Netherlands team. perhaps in a more gratifying way, can see them the only major league player on the roster for Featuring out-of-work right hander Sidney succeed on it. Korea, which just advanced to the semi-final Ponson as the ace, the country stood tall against Countries such as Canada, Puerto Rico and round of the World Baseball Classic. the Dominican Republic, who were heavily the United States are used to having· baseball In order to advance to the finals, the Korean favored to win the entire tournament. stars, and seeing our countries succeed in world­ national team needed to beat a Venezuelan squad By doing this, the Netherlands showed the wide contests. When ESPN shows Japanese fans featuring 22 major league players, all seasoned world just how far they have come in not only waving their thundersticks with intense force with experience. Earlier in the tournament, an developing world class talent, but also gave after seeing their country pull ahead, or when the outgunned and undermanned Netherlands team hope to future generations of young kids. Netherlands gets a key win and can have their also beat the heavily favored Dominican team. Netherlands advanced the hopes and dreams of country dominate the. headlines even for a brief Twice. many young people in their country. It is now period, the WBC has done its job. After watching both countries play with OK to dream of playing baseball there. For a moment in time, various histories, tra­ passion as ·they represented their homelands, all Korea is no different. Aside from Choo, ditions and ways of playing the same game can RYAN LANGSHAW I can say is this. many Korean players will never get even a sniff all come together. Now there is some march Move over NCAA tournament, the WBC of playing in the Major Leagues. People who .madness. ''THE REAL just dunked in your face. live in Korea will never have the. chance to see The second incarnation ofthe WBC has just most of their natienal baseball stars take their Ryan Langshaw is a Managing Sports built off the tremendous success of the initial game to a global level. Editor for The Review. Please send questions, WoRLD SERIES'' tournament, first held in 2006. The tournament Korea is heavily competitive when it comments, and a signed pair of WBC thunder­ features 16 countries, with rosters made up 9f a comes to sports with China and Japan. It's sticks to [email protected] Softball off to shaky start in CAA play BY PATRICK GILLESPIE this year. Ferguson was also pleased with White's Madison, including two solid performances by Staff Reporter clutch performa1_1ce. Meredith Felts, Ferguson was nothing but positive Tuesday, March 24 The Delaware softball team dropped two of "Shanette is a hard worker and she's always about her team's offense. three games .to James Madison University this ready to play," Ferguson said. '.'We have the ability, one through nine, to be Golf@ William and Mary Invitational weekend in their Colonial Athletic Association Even though the scores were not what opposing for any pitcher," Ferguson noted, "With home opener. They won the first game of Delaware desired, she thought the effort was our effort, we should've come away with two . Baseball @ Penn Saturday's doubleheader 4-3, dropped the second admirable. wins." 3p.m. game 6-4 and fell short Sunday losing 5-3. "We set the tone with our play," she said. The series put Delaware at 1-2 in CAA play, "After this series, the team sees itself in a dif­ The squad swept Lehigh last week in a dou­ and 5-10 overall. The Dukes improved to 2-1· in Men's Lacrosse vs. Lehigh ferent light," head coach B.J. Ferguson said. "We bleheader, and coaches and players believe the conference action and 16-6 overall. James ?p.m. know what we need to work on to improve." winning attitude and confidence carried over into Madison is in second place in the conference, but Despite losing two out of three games, the this series. the team has the best over- Wednesday, March 25 team and coaching staff saw the series as a poten­ "There's no one thing in particular that we all record The Hens are in tial building block for the rest of the season. There need to improve on," Ovittore said. "We need to the lower ranks of the Softball @ Delaware State was an optimistic tone on the team after the series. be good at all aspects of the game." conference standings, but 3p.m. "We're on the rise," shortstop Kim Ovittore Along with Ovittore, Michelle Grap is help­ with the play of the James said after Sunday's game. "We'll definitely be a ing to anchor the offense for Delaware. Grap had Madison series, they are Men's and Women's Tennis vs. surprise in the CAA." . two hits in each game of the series, batting .600 making a strong case to be Lafayette Ovittore had a great weekend at the plate, hit­ (6-10) against JMU and .349 for the season. a contender in the CAA 2:30p.m. ~It out onhne et udn!vieW.com ting .500 (5-10), and knocking in a run in every Despite facing tough pitching from James playoffs. game. She also made a smart play in the second Men's Soccer vs. American inning of Sunday's ganie. She covered third base 5p.m. when the batter tried to fake bunt in order to allow the runner on second to easily steal third base. Ovittore tagged out the runner stealing third, and Thursday, March 26 the JMU rally was silenced. Sophomore pitcher Anne Marie Pagano felt Women's Lacrosse vs. Oregon (at the team held its own. After picking up the win in Westwood Mass.) the first game Saturday with seven innings 1p.m. pitched, Pagano gave a valiant five-inning effort Sunday, but took the loss. Early errors hurt the team in Sunday's per­ Friday, March 27 formance. Pagano admitted the errors were frus­ trating Men's and Women's Tennis @ Hofstra ''Yes, but we can't let those get to us." she 1 p.m. said. Although Ferguson noted that losing two of Baseball vs. Old Dominion three games is nothing to be happy about, James 3p.m. Madison is at the top of the conference, and Delaware kept every game close. Ferguson saw the series as a possible building block for the Saturday, March 28 team. "The more we're challenged, the better we Golf@ Towson Invitational will get," she said. "Our conference is very bal­ anced, and it is one of the toughest from top to Women's Outdoor Track and Field @ bottom. We have to come to play every day. It's Towson Invitational got to be a team effort." Two players, Shanette White and Amanda Women's Rowing @ Murphy Cup Stacevicz, were important role players in Sunday's performance. With two outs, the bases Softball @ Georgia State loaded, and James Madison leading 2-l, White Noon roped a single, which brought in two runs, tem­ porarily giving Delaware the lead. Stacevicz pro­ Baseball vs. Old Dominion vided a solid, two-inning pitching performance in 1 p.m. relief Also, she proved her stamina and durabili­ ty Saturday by pitching nine innings in the second Men's Lacrosse @Brown game Saturday. · 1 p.m. "She's confident but she still has things to improve on," Ferguson said. Pagano believes she'll be an important con­ tribution to the team, especially the pitching staff, THE REVIEW /Ricky Berl Errors hurt a young Hens squad, as they continued to fall further under .500 this season. ------~M~o~r~c~h~24~,~2~00~9--:3!2

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A burn is an injury to the skin from contact with skin. The skin is white and appears cooked. These include ibuprofen (Advil™, Motrin™), heat, electricity, sunlight, or chemicals. Many There may be no pain in the initial stages. naproxen (Aleve™) or acetaminophen people experience minor burns from household (Tylenol™). For minor burns including first-degree burns and items such as cooking oil or curling irons. It's second-degree burns limited to an area no larger • Minor burns usually heal without further important to know how to provide first aid for than 3 inches in diameter, take the following treatment. Watch for signs of infection such minor burns. action: as increased pain, redness, fever, swelling or There are three categories of burns. oozing. If infection develops, seek medical • Cool the burn. Hold the burned area under • FIRST-DEGREE BURNS: Thin help. cold running water or soak the area in cold or superficial burns which are limited to • Don't use ice. Putting ice directly on a burn water for at least five minutes or until the pain the upper skin layer. They cause redness, can cause frostbite wich can further damage subsides. Cooling the burn reduces swelling by tenderness, pain and swelling. your skin. conducting heat away from the skin. Never put • SECOND-DEGREE BURNS: Partial • Don't apply butter or ointments to the burn. ice on a burn. thickness burns which affect deeper skin This could prevent proper healing. layers. Symptoms are more severe and usually • Cover the burn loosely with sterile gauze. Bandaging keeps air off the burned skin, • Don't break blisters. Broken blisters are include blisters. vulnerable to infection. • THIRD-DEGREE BURNS: Full reduces pain, and protects blistered skin. thickness burns that involve all layers of the • Take an over-the-counter pain reliever. For major burns, call 911. Until help arrives; make sure the victim is no longer in contact with smoldering materi­ als or exposed to smoke or heat. 1. 2.. 3. Don't immerse large severe burns in cold water. Doing so could cause shock. Check for signs of circulation (breathing, coughing or movement). If there is no breathing or other sign of circulation, begin cardiopulmo­ nary resuscitation (CPR). Elevate the burned body part or parts by raising above heart level when possible. Cover the area of the burn with a cool, moist, sterile bandage or clean moist cloth or paper towels .

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uying athletic shoes can be almost as WHAT SIZE SHOULD I BUY? misleads people. Very rarely does a recreational Bcomplicated as buying a new car these athlete benefit from the top of the line shoe. days. When shopping, we are often left on You should have your feet measured every time Many times a mid-priced shoe that has the proper our own with a new employee to guide us in our you buy shoes because your foot structure chang­ support for your foot will be better than the new­ purchase. This short article will hopefully make es as you age. The best time to go shoe shopping est style or the most expensive shoe. ls later in the day. Because our feet commonly the process much less confusing. i swell as the day goes on, shopping later in the WHEN TO GET NEW SHOES KNOW YOUR FOOT TYPE day will help assure a better fit. Your foot should As a rule of thumb, running shoes should not be comfortable in the shoe, but your foot should If you have flat feet, you probably wear out the be worn for more than 500 miles of training. At not move from side to side. The length of the inside edge of your shoes first. You should look about that time, you will feel that the shoe has shoe should be one centimeter (about one finger for shoes with more stability on the inside edge begun to break down. Another way of determin­ width) longer than the longest toe on your biggest and better arch supp~ort. As a rule of thumb, the ing whether your shoe is providing the proper foot. Don't be embarrassed; most of us have two more supportive materials are darker in color so support is go to a store and find the latest model different sized feet. you should look for a shoe with a gray or black of the shoe you are currently wearing and try it inside edge. People with high arches will also WHAT TYPE OF SHOE DO I NEED? on. If this shoe feels better than the shoes you are want good arch support but should look for shoes wearing, it is time for new shoes. Keep in mind with better cushioning because their feet do not It is usually not necessary to buy a specialty shoe that sneaker styles change every 15-20 months so absorb shock as well. These people will often unless you participate in that sport more than it is not always easy to find the same shoe. Ask show more wear on the outer edge of their shoes. three times per week. A simple running shoe or a sales person for assistance: they usually know a cross trainer is all that most people need. The which models coincide with the old models. current style trend or the price of the shoe often TDAP VACCINE AVAILABLE A booster vaccine. Tdap. adds protection Exercise You know itS good for goo! for pertussis ("whooping cough") in addition to updating tetanus and diptheria. These three diseases are caused by- bacteria. You lthough most of us know that exercise OTHER HELPFUL TIPS: A can benefit our physical and mental • Exercise regularly, it then becomes a habit. were vaccinated against these diseases as a health, incorporating it into our lives is • Don't give up if you have to miss a few days. child. but. as an adult. y-our immunity- gradu­ sometimes an effort. What is holding you back? • Remember comfort and safety. Choose appro­ ally- wears off. increasing susceptibility- to Feeling tired? Find exercise boring? First, realize priate clothing, locations, and weather condi­ disease. that you probably already have some physical tions. (For example, break in new sneakers activity in your day. See if you can gradually slowly to prevent blisters; wear a helmet if Pertussis can cause severe coughing spells. increase the time and pace of your activities. Add biking) vomiting. and disturbed sleep. It is highly­ to existing activities and vary what exercise you • Encourage friends to join and/or support you . contagious. Its incidence has been on the are involved in so you don't get bored. Walk • Drink plenty of water. rise in the US. in recent y-ears. Infants are with a friend or perhaps a dog, throw a Frisbee, • Know when you have had enough - your ride a bike, swim in the pool, or find music that body's warning signals. (For example, joint at highest risk of pertussis-related com­ has a good beat and dance to it. If you choose pain or abnormal heart palpitations) plications so it is important that adults be activities you enjoy and fit your personality and • Challenge yourself and celebrate your suc- vaccinated to prevent transmission of the lifestyle, you will be more apt to find time for cesses disease to other people and. particularly-. to exercise. If you build up to as little as 30 minutes of mod­ infants. erate physical activity each day, you can seri­ ously improve your health, The Tdap vaccination is given one time in your looks and your place of the usual tetanus booster shot. attitude. Physical activity Your healthcare provider may- recommend 10\yers your risk of heart that y-ou receive this vaccination for pro­ dis~ase , cancer, diabetes, tection against contracting or transmitting hypertension, osteoporo­ sis, and back pain. It also these diseases. improves strength and endurance, helps maintain healthy bones and muscles, helps control your weight, and improves your mind MARCH IS NATIONAL and mood. Go for it! You can do it! NUTRITION MONTH

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