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Volume 127, Issue 35 www.review.udel.edu Friday, l\larch 2, 2001 ! Senior dies unexpectedly Tuesday BY ANDREA N. BOYLE Plummer was a very strong student "He would get into those discu!Sions that one of the most enjoyable students in the Copy Editor academically, Brooks said. After graduating in only people in philosophy enjoy," she said. ~rogram . Senior Nicholas Plummer was an avid the top 10 percent of his Montclair High Newark resident Ryan Day said Plummer "He was so full of life," she said. "He was Phish-head. Clad in a Hawaiian shirt, he could School class, he turned down a full scholarship was a fun-loving guy who lived life to the always laughing and had a smile on his face." be found at the band's concerts, both nearby to any New Jersey college in order to attend fullest and enjoyed journeying to concerts in Between braving whitewater rapids that and as far away as Las Vegas. the University of Delaware. his Chevrolet Lumina minivan, nicknamed were not quite dangerous enough for him and The Montclair, N.J., native followed Phish , · The high-school lacrosse player entered the ''The Silver Space Machine." lying on the beach in the early morning, for the past three summers •. selling glass art, university. as a computer science major in the Tallyen said Plummer made friends with Plummer spent some of his happiest times in saving ticket stubs and never forgetting the Honors Program. almost everyone he met. the Central American nation. many friends he met at the university and on He loved computers and originally wanted "He liked that part - the aspect of having Plummer's mother, Molly McKaughan, said the road. to pursue a career in creating computer games. family all over the country," she said. he told her the very best day of his life was Two of those friends rushed 21-year-old Plummer later decided to change his major "I don't think I have ever met anyone who spent in Costa Rica watching a volcano erupt. Plummer to Christiana Care Hospital early to philosophy, a subject in which he took the knew as many people as he did. He had like a McKaughan said Plummer had developed Tuesday morning, where he was later department's maximum number of credits. million, million friends."· into a sensitive, people-oriented person since THE REVIEW /Cowtesy of Charlotte Tall yen pronounced dead. Senior Charlotte Tallyen, Plummer' s This past Winter Session, Plummer studied entering college. Senior Nicholas Plummer poses with his The cause of death remains unknown girlfriend, said he mixed his passion for in Costa Rica with the university. · "He really had matured a lot and was sisters Samantha, 14, and Alexandra, 11 pending toxicology reports, Dean of Students philosophy with his love of people and Spanish professor Suzanne Tiemey-Gula, months, at their father's home. Timothy F. Brooks said. conversation. one of the trip's leaders, described Plummer as see STUDENT page AS Proposal Pi Kappa Alpha protects returning to UD FAFSA BY RANDI HORNSTEIN Student Affairs Editor After three years of suspension, assistance the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will return to the university. BY DEANNA TORTORELLO Ryan Flickinger, national director Natim~aVState Ne11·s Editor of expansion for Pi Kappa Alpha, WASHINGTON - Legislators met said the Delta Eta chapter was on Capitol Hill Wednesday to suspended in 1998 due to a violation introduce a bill that would repeal a by members. 1998 Higber.Education Act stipulation, Drug and alcohol charges led to which curently takes away federal investigations by the university and student aid from convicted drug the national fraternity. offenders. The investigations found the Led by Rep. Barney Frank, D­ fraternity was deficient in areas such Mass., a group of lawmakers, lobbyists as community service, financial and student supporters of the bill issues, scholarship, risk awareness, gathered in the Rayburn House Office campus involvement, housing and Building to discuss the pros and cons of · public relations. the current ordinance. Flickinger said the national office THE REVIEW/Caitlin Thorn ' The speakers voiced their opinions did not want to' reactivate the The Gilbert Annex used to on the 1998 addendum, all returning to chapter right away. be the Pi Kappa Alpha one main point - the snucture of the "We were waiting until the core house. The fraternity will be law is unfair to students in two ways: group graduated," he said. "We returning to campus soon. ~ students who have made an effort to decided to come and recruit from clean up their lives are forced to remain scratch." the IFC. in their situation because they cannot The fraternity will send one "It is important to concentrate on educate themselves well enough to THE REVIEW/Dan Strumpf recruiter to the university for three the right things or it will be a move forward with their lives; A New Orleans police officer makes one of this past week's 512 arrests. Officials were able days beginning in April, Flickinger struggle without quality men," he • and the law unfairly judges against to keep Mardi Gras festivities under control due to a year's worth of planning. said. said. drug offenders, removing aid from " The process is different than Wolf said he wants the fraternity them but not from other convicted other fraternities on campus," he to start off on the right foot. criminals. said. "We do not mass market - no · Flickinger said it takes about 13 "To classify drugs as the most fliers on campus or standing at . months to charter a chapter. heinous crime makes no sense," Frank tables." "It can be as quickly as seven said. "This automatic situation He said the fraternity's months or as long as two years," he shouldn't be nue for any situation. BY DAN STRUMPF Moria!] has 'a Mardi Gras task force, and we meet recruitment will be by said. "It is a poor approach across the Fearures Editor throughout the year so that everybody's on the same page recommendations. Dean of Students Timothy F. board." NEW ORLEANS - More than 1 million people when the main event rolls around." "Ours are more personal, one on Brooks said he is looking forward to Eileen O 'Leary, president of the packed downtown New Orleans last weekend to As a result of the advanced preparations, New Orleans one, rather than throwing up letters the return of Pi Kappa Alpha. Massachusetts Association of Student participate in the city's annual Mardi Gras celebration. Police reported that 512 people were arrested in the 8th on a sign which is informal," he " We are very pleased that Financial Aid Ad,ministrators, said the Revelers jammed the streets to watch as more than 60 District, the focal point of Carnival activities during Mardi said. national decided to re-colonize the categorical approach of the Jaw is parades wound through the downtown area and Gras weekend. He said once recommendations chapter," he said. unfair because other criminals are not surrounding parishes. · Of those arrested, 236 were charged with lewd are accepted, recruits are then Brooks said the university has prosecuted in the same way. The French Quarter, home of the famed Bourbon conduct, which encompasses indecent exposure as well as invited to come out for an interview. had a long and positive history with Frank said the law should be Street, hosted much of the weekend events, bringing public urination. "We talk to officials and students the fraternity. repealed due to this fault. millions of dollars to area businesses. These figures represent a 13 percent decrease in the about what they are looking for in "They are sending in some staff • 'The law should treat all criminals Unlike other American cities that hosted much smaller arrest rate, down from 589 dllf4!g the 2000 Mardi Gras an organization," Flickinger said. to make sure this chapter will get off the same," he said, " but 1 would not celebrations, festivities in New Orleans were not marred weekend. He said Virginia Polytechnic to a positive start," he said. support legislation that covers all by any major disturbances, raising questions as to why Defillo attributes the decline in arrests to the use of Institute recruited 140 fraternity Brooks said it is important to do a criminals." New Orleans is able to succeed where others fail. good judgement and discretion by police officers, as well members in a four-week period. good recruitment job and get solid In its current state, the bill takes aid Lt. Marlon Defillo of the New Orleans Police as better behavior of the festivity participants. "We had a lot of success doing students to add to the Greek Life on away from students convicted of Department credits the completion of another peaceful In Philadelphia, a Fat Tuesday celebration on South that," Flickinger said. campus. possession of a controlled substance or Carnival season to those involved in the planning stages of Street turned into a riot. Police in the City of Brotherly Senior Bill Wolf, Interfraternity " We have significant alumni the sale of a controlled substance. the festivities. Council president, said once Pi support in the area and they will "We plan for this year round," he said. "Mayor [Marc see 'BIG EASY' page A6 Kappa Alpha has enough members, make sure the chapter proceeds in see LAW page A7 it can submit an application to join the right direction," he said. Students threatened by night ~visitor' BY COLLEEN LA VERY ''Up until that night, we always left the back door open," prove it - she had gone through his photo album. Adminstrative New!i Editor Siegalbaum said, "but not anymore." "When she realized we called the police, she started A female innuder entered a South College A venue home He said he woke up at approximately 4:30a.m. because threatening to kill us and herself," he said. early Tuesday morning, threatening the lives of its he heard someone downstairs but assumed it was his When he went downstairs, Siegalbaum said, he saw the occupants, Newark Police said. roommate. woman standing in the kitchen, holding their carving knife. Newark Police Officer Scott Horsman said the A short while later he said he heard his roommate scream "I wanted to make sure she wasn't going to kill herself in department received a 911 call at 4:59 a.m. informing them and someone trying to get into his room, which was locked. my living room," he said. of the incident at 410 S. College Ave. The opened the door and saw the perpetrator who Siegalbaum said he later learned the woman had been Two officers were sent to the site, where they found a claimed she lived in the house. cooking in his home. woman in the kitchen wielding a knife, Horsman said. The woman told him Newark and Wilmington had been "She had taken all our food and made a casserole," he "Police were able to calm her down without using deadly "nuked" by terrorists and they were the only people alive, said. force," he said. he said. The woman also placed two full pitchers of beer in the There are currently no charges against the woman, Siegalbaum said he called the police from an upstairs refrigerator, Siegalbaum said. Horsman said. room. He said he saw the police enter the kitchen through the Junior Adam Siegalbaum, a resident of the house, "It felt like 20 minutes before the police came," he said. side door. described the intruder as a middle-aged woman with dirty "But that might have been because a lot of stuff happened "1 think they had their guns out at their sides, but they blond hair. He said she looked approximately 5 feet, 4 THE REVIEW/Caitlin Thorn between when l called ano when they got here." weren't pointed at her," Siegalbaum said. Residents of this South CoUege Avenue house were inches tall and wore a brown jacket. While the intruder was downstairs, Siegalbaum said she Horsman said he believed she entered the house through confronted Thesday morning by a woman with a knife. yeUed that the house was her home and she had pictures to see WOMAN page A6 the unlocked back door.

• .. { A2 • THE REVIEW • March 2, 2001 Student collects soap for.charity BY MICHAEL WHITE HHF in Connecticut. In the StaffR eponer Zarella said she hopes to r;Use money to finance the In the United States, most pregnant women do not trip. trek 15 hours to receive medical treatment. Marilyn Lowney, a fund-raiser for the HHF, said In Haiti, they often do, risking their children's lives the soap will be put in the organization's 40-foot long and their own along the way. container, along with medical supplies, generators, Countries like Haiti - where the average family solar-powered refrigerators and an incubator. News income is $200 per year, the unemployment rate is 70 The goods will be shipped to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, percent and one doctor is available for every 6,000 where volunteers will pick up the soap and bring it to people - rely on the work of charitable organizations the Klinik Pep Bondye-a, the HHF' s outpatient health like the Haitian Health Foundation. care facility in Jerernie, Haiti. EARTH QUAKE ROCKS SEATTLE . , Those organizations rely on the work of people like Lowney said the Klinik provides care tb 200,000 SEATTLE, Wash. - From the doorway of the downtown Sheraton · junior Margot Zarella, a resident assistant in Russell people in 98 villages, some 15 hours away by foot. Hotel, valet Mark Stanton watched g lass-and-steel skyscrapers , Hall C and founder of the Haitian Soap Drive at the 'The general message we want to get across is that swaying and flexing in ways he never thought possible under the university, now a campus-wide event in its third year. [the soap] is really going to the poorest of the poor," power of the region' s strongest earthquake in a half-century. Zarella said the drive can reach this year's goal of ,she said. "These are the poorest people in our The 6.8-magnitude earthquake, centered about 35 miles southwest 10,000 bars of soap with the help of Residence Life, hemisphere- they have nothing. of Seattle, was felt Wednesday as far away as southern Oregon and the Resident Student Association, St. Thomas Moore "The houses are the size of most people's Canada. A mild aftershock with a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 was · 1 Oratory, the New Ark United Church of Christ, THE REVIEW/Eric J.S. Townsend bathrooms and have one bed where families usually recorded early Thursday. There were no additiona l repo rts of Student Health Services, various sororities and Junior Margot Zarella is collecting soap for sleep in shifts or scrunched all together on the floor." &mqe. ; individual students. the third year a row to help aid Haitians. Kohl said a bar of soap in Haiti costs a day's salary. Of the 250 injuries directly linked to the quake, all but a few were 'The drive definitely hit a lot of people [last year]," 'They sell this horrible homemade lye soap," she minor and none were considered critical. · she said. "It touched a lot of people and I think that's that, she told me to just bring in soap. said. Because the depth of the quake was 33 miles underground, the · fabulous." 'They were in dire need of soap." Zarella said she sent an e-mail to all resident Earth's crust absorbed much of the shock, scientists said. Inspired at a one-day retreat, Zarella said she Kohl said Zarella was receptive to the talk. assistants and hall directors asking for their help with Gov. Gary Locke declared a state of emergency. He said Thursday decided to run her first soap drive during the final two "She came up to me afterward, and that started her the drive. · that precise damage figures would not be available until buildings , weeks of her junior year at Northwest Catholic High thinking that she could collect soap," Kohl said. Senior Audra Friend, resident assistant in Smyth were examined by structural engineers, but it would easily top $1 . School in West Hartford, Conn. Zarella made daily announcements over the high Hall, said Zarella asked her to coordinate the drive on billion. Karen Kohl, founder of St. Bridget's Church' s sch<¥Jl' s P A system and collected 635 bars of soap in South Central campus. Locke, his wife and two children were among residents forced out · Hope for Haiti, delivered a 45-minute speech at the · "I agreed to help because I feel the same the process. of their homes by the earthquake. Cracks appeared in the brick walls 1 global awareness retreat. She raised 2,000 bars as a freshman at the philosophically," she said. "Our campus has great of the governor' s mansion, he said, and books and pictures flew off She spoke of poverty as well as the health care that university and 3,600 as a sophomore. potential of being politically active." the walls. ' the facilities of the HHF provide the poor people in Parishioners of St. Thomas Moore Oratory donated Friend said she hopes to contact businesses to either But officials said the millions of dollars of investments the state , Haiti. She said it hands out soap in baby layette kits as the most soap in response to her weekly donate soap or sponsor the drive. She has been and cities put into stabilizing buildings and bridges apparently paid , an incentive for mothers to bring their children back to announcements at Sunday Masses, she said. creating flyers and posters and is trying to get a off. While brick and shattered glass littered the streets, there was no clinics for final vaccinations. After the 2001 drive ends on April 4, Zarella will donation box set up in the Kent Diiti.ng Hall. widespread structural damage. "After [the speech], I came up and told her I was package the soap in numbered boxes lined with Zarella said her dream is to visit Haiti and actually Most buildings constructed in Seattle since the mid-1970s were . interested in dropping off some of these packets garbage bags and make a day trip in a rented van to the hand someone a bar of soap, "to see their face light built to a uniform code designed to withstand strong earthquakes. , because it was so easy," Zarella said. "Instead of do~g right up." The Space Needle, where more than two dozen people rode out · Wedn!!sday's quake from 600 feet above the city, was built to handle , a 9 .!-magnitude quake. · Twenty minutes after the shaking stopped, the elevators and Recycling council meets structure, a landmark dating from the 1962 World' s Fair, were declared safe. Vikram Prakash , ·an associate professor at Washington BY DREW CHYZUS risks, conservation of natural resources, along the East Coast. University' s architecture department, said the devastation from Staff Reponer energy and landfill space and reduced "Paper, glass and plastics go to their January' s 7.9-magnitude quake in India was partly due to contractors · The Delaware Recycling Public disposal costs. separate markets where they will be re­ skimping on materials. Nearly 20,000 people died in that earthquake, , Advisory Council met in Dover on "I think it is [significant] that people used." and entire cities were leveled. Monday, taking the first steps to understand how important it is to Marjorie Crofts, deputy principal institute an organized recycling recycle and re-use material," McBride assistant of the Division of Air and VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL CONTINUES program in Delaware. said. "I lived in the Far East for a Waste Management, said the only JERUSALEM - A suspected Palestinian militant set off ' The committee, which is made up of while, and I found that they use their state-wide recycling program is' explosives Thursday in a taxi van, killing one person and injuring . state officials and representatives of recyclable material better. We are a presently run by the Delaware Solid nine after being pursued by police for miles. environmental and waste throw-away society, and we need to Waste Authority. THE REVIEW/Mami Lowitz It was not immediately clear how many of the casualties were organizations, reached an agreement to look at that issue." She said efforts are being made to An advisory council met in from the van and whether other people were hurt as well. Police said recycle 30 percent of Delaware's He said past attempts at expand the ·number of agencies Dover Thesday to discuss the the passengers included both Arabs and Jews. residential solid waste. Twenty-five implementing a solid recycling tackling the issue of recycling. . steps needed to make a recycling The suspect, who was seriously wounded, was flown by an Israeli percent of the state' s waste is currently "The Department of Natural program for Delaware have been met program for Delaware. air force helicopter. to a hospital, police said. Two others were also in being recycled with apathy by many citizens. Resources has been given money by serious condition. The committee said the average "Curbside pickup does not seem to the General Assembly to increase composting programs, pay-as-you­ The explosion· near the town of Umm el-Fahem Delaware citizen produces 1,200 work in Delaware," McBride said. recycling efforts in Delaware," she throw programs - where households came only a· day after police safely detonated a bomb left in a plastic pounds of solid waste annually, and Recycling "igloos," plastic bins in said. are charged for waste collection based bag in Tel Aviv. much of that waste can be recycled which people can dump their plastic, Further grants and tax cuts may be on the amount of trash they throw Security sources said there might have been a connection between Sen. David McBride, D-l3th glass and paper waste, are currently the the key to the future development of away - and any other activity that the thwarted Tel Aviv attack and Thursday's explosion. The District and a member of the council. major source of public recycling in the recycling programs, McBride said. reduces solid waste generation. suspects responsible for Thursday's blast got into the taxi van in Tel said one of the major concerns state. "We are develop,ing criteria so ''More legislation and tax cuts might Aviv. regarding implementation of a Richard Van Senton, director of communities can ask for grant money be necessary for companies to promote There was no immediate claim of responsibility. recycling program in Delaware is the Delaware Waste Management, said to implement recycling programs in more efficient recycling and waste Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said he believed the lack of public education on the matter. that after the material is collected from their area." Crofts said. "That could control." McBri

HOTEL MONEY TAKEN in relation to a domestic-related doo r , Hors ma n said. T h e re are An employee of E mbassy incide nt he said. The two me n currently no suspects. ' I • Suites on South College Avenue involved knew each other pnor to kept $ 106 in cash payments for the occurence. he rself instead of turning them T he first m an backed up and STAINED GLASS SMASH into the hotel, Newark Police said. ra n into a nearby building, An unknown person smashed Officer Scott Horsman said the Horsman said, and the suspect fled the rear window of a workshop police qepartment is investigating in a vehicle. owne d b y the C hurc h of the a possible suspect. No one was injured , he said, Nazare ne o n P ape r Mill Road He said Embassy Suites is also and warrants are pending. Horsman aid. ' dealing wi th the proble m T he 28-inc h windo w will be internally. repaired , he said. T he unknown 'SPEC'-TACULAR T RY person entered the building, but H ors m a n said a n unknown nothing was removed. RAZOR BURN person attempted to pry open the H o rs m an s aid there a re no A ma n walking ne a r the rear door of Singer Specs in the suspects or witnesses at this time. FRIDAY SATURDAY Caldw e ll S taffin g Serv ic es College Square sh opping center building in the Newark Shopping b et ween Mond ay nig ht a nd - compiled by Jill Liebowitz Highs in the mid Highs in the mid Center was threatened by another Tuesday morning. Highs near 40 man T uesday afternoon, Horsman The damages assessed a total of 40s 40s said. $ 100, he said. The suspect pull ed out a razor T he onl y e vide nce the police - courtesy of the Nalimwl Welllher Service blade and threatened the first man h a ve a re the pry ma rks o n the March 2, 2001 . THE REVIEW . A3 [Eating disorders plague college campuses ' . Speaker shares her experience Women are especially worried with compulsive overeating about their weight and image

includes what it means to be Greek BY TRACY ORTIZ rapid weight l o~ ' - BY KRJSTA REALE Sraj] Rep"rter Staff Reporter and what is out there." ·'Long-term effects of anorexia Seven million women and Funt shared her experiences with One hundred and sixty-four nervosa depend on the severity of the students req uested counseling for million men have eating disorders. an eating disorder in an attempt to state of which the person is in, .. she eating disorders last year, said John said a motivational speaker who develop a sense o f understanding said . ""A lowered imm unity. Bi shop. vice presid ent for Student visited campus Monday ni ght. among the audience members. amenorrhea [the temporary absence of " You are living in a skewed She said she battled w ith Life. menstruation I, bone Joss and harm to value system." J uliet Funt said. compulsive overeating. Most of th eir concerns in cluded major body organ' are effects of preoccupation with weight, overeating, "The images that you compare Funt said she was once 205 anorexia nervosa. anorexia nervosa and bulimia, he said. yourself to are not even real pounds before losing 87 pounds. "" Death usuall y occurs from heart Eighty to 85 percent of all eating attacks." sometimes." She said sh e discovered she Funt spoke to sorority members prefers a weight somewhere in the disorders are found in women. Clevenger-Firley ~aid short-term Dr. Joseph Siebold, director of in the Trabant University Center at middle because that is where she effects of bulimia include upset a lecture sponsored by the finds a balance in her overall life. Student Health Services, said stomach, constipation and bad breath . disordered eating is fairly common on Panhellenic Council. At 11 8 pounds, Funt said, she The disorder also has several long­ The event provided information realized that a sli m physique did not most college campuses, especially term effects -burning in gums, teeth among women. on eating di sorders. necessarily equal happiness. and esophagus; sinus infections and The Panhellenic Honor Society ·'Maybe being thin was going to ''The fear of gaining weight, pneumonia are all caused by the Rho Lambda and the Alpha Epsilon be nice," she said. "But maybe the fluctuating with diets and excessive vomiting associated with bulimia. Phi sorority assisted in organizing greatest joys in life come from exercise are all linked with disordered Siebold said that whife many somewhere else." eating," Siebold said. "This could all students are not aware that they have a the event. THE REVIEW/Caitlin Thom Dana Rhode, president of the Freshman ·Michelle Levy said lead to an actual eating disorder." problem, other symptoms can promote Funt was an interesting and Juliet Font told an audience of nearly 600 people what she has But eating disorders are not their visit. Pa nhellenic Council, said. learned about eating disorders and how to effectively treat them. approximately 600 women attended. powerful speaker. exclusive, Bishop said. "Students may come to a physician Ellen Clevenger-Fir ley, chief for to talk about weakness, fa inting. She said several women came "She shared her personal life and at all in an attempt to lose weight, Funt told audience members that nutrition services at Christiana Care, irregular menstrual peri ods or forward with their own stories after was open and honest," she said. Funt said. if someone they know has an eating said the remaining percent affected by unnecessary weight loss before they the lecture. Funt said eati'ng disorders are Bulimia is when a person vomits disorder, they should get . eating disorders are men who are can be diagnosed with an eating "The respon se from everyone bo th a private illness and an information, talk to a counselor and after a meal, she said. The person generally involved in weight­ disorder," he said. was really amazing," Rhode said. addiction. may also binge and then purge. approach the person - but only controlled athletics like wrestling, To hel p cure an eating disorder, " It really hit home with a lot of "All addiction is the same," she Funt said bulimia also includes once, and in a concerned and non­ skating and gymnastics. Miller said. an ideal team of a people." said . " It is about being exercise bulimia, which is when a confrontational way. "Although there is not a specific physician, dietitian or nutritionist and Funt is the daughter of Allen uncomfortable and turning to person exercises more frequently She advised audience members cause for disordered eating or eating counselor should be in volved in Funt, c reator of the TV show something that m akes you than is natural and healthy. to be good examples by taking care disorders, distorted body linage, issues issuing an individualized program "Candid Camera." comfortable. "This is one of the most of their own health. with control and very personal according to the patient's needs. Funt has worked as an actress, "But when you get back from pervasive kinds of eating Sophomore Jessica Jones said problems are main factors," she said. Bishop said educational efforts are comedian and a liaison in th,e your little vacation, the problems in disorders," she said. she believes eating disorders are Debbi Miller, administrative also necessary so that the person can Israeli-Palestine Peace Conference. your life are still going to be there." Funt also discussed compulsive prevalent among university women. d'ietitian at the university, said many learn to deal with, ma nage and She is currently a motivational Funt said the way to combat an overeating and body dysmorphic "I know lot of girts who have a problems can occur when weight-loss eventually overcome the disorder. speaker. eating disorder is to place value on disorder. eating disorders or who are very programs get out of control and a However, Clevenger-Firley said, Christine Cappello, director of one's internal self. . This disorder mostly affects men, concerned with their weight or pe'rson is afraid of fat or gaining prevention is the most important way Greek Affairs, said Funt was the She said there are fom kinds of she said. appearance," she said. weight. to fight eating disorders. flrst speaker in a series of four guest eating disorders - anorexia It is a psychological disorder that Freshman Kimberly Tobias said Eating disorders can result from ''Encouraging young girls [starting lecturers with messages aimed at nervosa, bulimia, compulsive ca.uses a person to exercise she thought the lecture was different emotional trauma, out-of-control in elementary school] to have self­ educating new sorority members. overeating and body dysmorphic excessively and take over- the­ thl m most. dieting, family problems and traumatic confidence and a positive body image "There are a whole bunch of disorder. cotinter anabolic drugs or steroids. " She talked about real life experiences, Miller said. is very crucial," she said. "Children things for peo ple to educate Anorexia nervosa is an illness in She said the best thing to do is to instead of throwing up a pie chart Clevenger-Firley said short-term . should be taught to accept that people themselves o n," s he said. " This which a person eats very little or not talk about these problems. and giving us statistics,:' she said. effects of anorexia nervosa include come in different shapes and sizes." Student-athletes earn highest GPA in UD history

BY STACEY CARLOUGH higher GPAs than their male couterparts, immensely. Swj] Reporter which is consistent with the entire university as 'They've been great,". she said. "Freshman Dispel that "dumb-jock" stereotype. a whole. year I'd always go to [Morrissey] and he'd Student-athletes at the university have The female athletes' average GPA last help me pick classes and w"ork out my achieved their highest collective GPA in semester was a 3.072, while the male athletes' schedule. school history, athletic officials said this week." was 2.74, he said. "They're all readily available to help." Edgar Johnson, director of athletics, said the "It's similar to the Greeks," he said, "who Morrissey said the office will continue to 2.9 GPA of athletes last semester was the consis{ently see sororities achieving higher assist the athletes this semester, highest the university has ever seen. · GPAs than fraternities." "Winter Session always helps GPAs, and Johnson said many factors have contributed The women's cross-country team had the grades are always better in the spring," he said. to the academic success, which has been highest team GPA, a 3.365, and 1.1 of the 21 "Our hope is that when we average the fall, continuously rising since the university began members made Dean's List. winter and spring GPAs, it will come out as a · actively tracking athletes' GPAs six years ago. Johnson said time management skills can be 2.92, .02 higher than it is now:" "It all starts with the student-athletes doing hard for student-athletes to acquire due to Athletic officials also said they cite coaches their jobs, doing what they're supposed to be varying practice schedules. as an influence in the success of studentc doing in the classroom,'' he said. Although time is working against their . athletes. Tim Morrissey, director of Student Services success, he said, most of the student-athletes "Coaches play a huge leadership role," for Athletes, said 11 student-athletes achieved take both their sport and their studies very Johnson said. "They help them grow as a 4.0 last semester - the most ever. seriously. · players, but also as people." Along with the higher GPAs, he said, 152 'The kids recognize why they're here," he Softball coach Bonnie Ferguson said her of the 600 student athletes made Dean's List, said. ''They' re settirig themselves up for the t~am has mandatory study hours if its average and none were academically dismissed. next 40 years of their lives, not just the next GPA falls below a 2.75. The .average GPA for the entire student four." . She said she attributes her ;:,.thletes' success body for the Fall Serpester was 2.9, Morris~>ey · Mo rrissey, who has been , with the to building a solid sense of direction. said, which means the student-athletes keep university's student services for athletes for 12 Athletes and coaches agreed that professors. THE REVIEW/File photo pace with the rest .of the student population. years, said he pinpoints his and colleagues' at the university are very understanding of the University athletes are leading the pack in more than just competitions these d4lys. The university's athletes also fared well involvement with the athletes beginning conflicting demands studeBt-athletes face, Fall Semester athletes achieved the highest GPA for athletes in school history. when "compared with athletes at other schools, freshman year on as one factor in their success. especially if they show initiative. Fischer said cross-country is more flexible "Swimming is a pretty rigorous sport, and he said. "Freshman year we offer a study skills "Professors are very supportive," Johnson than some other sports because teammates can our swimmers have great discipline in and out · "At the end of the year we get a report on class, which teaches time management and test said, "but it's easy to be supportive when a practice on their own. of the pool," he said. how we compared with other schools in our taking skills," he said. "We also monitor good ~~dent comes to you and has to miss a "Once I did five different workout's with One of them, junior Jen Haus,. said the conference," he said. "We've always been in students, and if we see one is struggling we try class or rearrange a quiz time." different members of the team in one day," be hardest thing about being a student-athlete is the top one-third. · to help them out." · Men's track coach Jim Fischer's cross­ said. missing class and practicing daily. "It's hard to compare different institutions Student-athletes said they attribute much of country team has the top-ranking GPA of all John Hayman, the men's and women' s "Your schedule's not flexible at all," she though, because, for example, some don't have their success to the Student Services for the men's sports- 3.112. Eight of the 18 swim team coach said he agreed athletes must said. "If you know you have a test you can't a football team or some offer different Athletes office. team members made Dean's List. use their skills in all areas of their .life at the skip practice to study - you have to make majors." Christina Rible, a junior on the basketball He said 'the team's success is due to the university. sure it's done before." Morrissey said female athletes tend to have team, said the office has helped her sport's individual nature. Discussion of race relations ·draws 200

BY YVONNE THOMAS Colombian ancestry, said he finds it easier to understand think the things I have gained have far outweighed any Managing Ne11·., Editor others with different racial backgrounds because he has costs." "Where do I belong?" asked junior Wendy Haro. taken the time to understand his background. " The forum also addressed the need for races to break "I'm not white, and I'm not black, and the school's ''The reason why differences frighten people is they down barriers and interact with one another. divided along these lines." don't understand who they are," he said. "You don't Rothamel said many people feel they are reaching Haro, who is Hispanic, was one of many students have to like someone else, but you have to show respect across barriers if they choose to sit next to someone of a who attended and participated in ''Race and Respect at for them." different race. However, he said, people need to work the University of Delaware,'' an open forum ·about race Another topic debated at the forum was whether the harder on taking action. sponsored by The Review in Mitchell Hall Tuesday Greek system has a part in widening the gap between "Reaching out~ide your bubble has to be a conscious night. blacks and whites on campus. effort to do something," he . aid. The event, which drew approximately 200 people, Om!lr Griffith, who is black and president of the Junior Keeley McGill said she feels she has done all was co-sponsored by the Blac k Student Union, National Pan-Hellenic Council, said he does not believe she can to cross barriers. Interfraternity Council, Hispanic Organization for Latin white and bl~ck fraternities foster differences on campus. "I am one of 32 minority students who live on [East] Americans, Resident Student Association, Lesbian Gay He said the differences in fraternities are based on the campus,"' she said. ·'My bubble has been burst. but these Bisexual Student Union, Caribbean Student AJiiance and reasons for which the fratemity was founded. people have pushed me out." · the Indian Student Association. For example, he said, he joined the Kappa Alpha Psi Senior and panelist Angelika Peacock, president of The forum was the conclusion of a six-part series on Fraternity, Inc., because he wanted to join an the Black Student Union, echoed McGill 's sentiments. race relations at the university written for The Review by organization of black males who shared common goals. "People are afraid, even though .l"m ready to reach Senior News Editor Jonathan Rifkin and a six-part series 'They were founded because of race," he said. "It's out,.. she said. · of student profiles by Staff Reporter Kevin Etienne­ about embracing the history of the fraternity." After the forum, senior Kati e Merriken said she Cummings. He said he would encourage black students to join a enjoyed the discussion. The six students who were profiled - Omar Griffith, black fraternity. "There was open dialogue.'" she said. "I wish there Matt Lenno, Angelika Peacock, Cinthia Prado, Toshal "I don't understand how a black man at this university were more people speaking, though ... Roy and Rifkin - served as panelists for the forum. can ignore the struggles our founders went through,'' he Senior Trevor Martin said he liked the forum but After the panelists made their opening remarks, said. wished a few things were different. moderator Larry Griffith, director of admissions at the Sophomore Javier Salcedo, who is Hispanic, said he "A lot of people were using words like universi"ty , prompted the panelists and the audience to disagreed. 'responsibility' and ·obligation." .. he said . "People need respond to questions about racial relations on campus. "A fraternity isn·t about race:· he said. ''It' s about to get rid of the rhetoric and make it ~imp l e . Junior Justin Brenner, who is Jewish, said he thinks people who hang out with each other and have different "When you think of it as an obligation. you think of it race relations could be stronger if each race educates viewpoints." as a bigger problem.'" THE REVlEW/A ndrew Mehan others about their differences. Junior Daniel Rothamel, who is a member of the Senior Tom Twambly said he agreed. but that Junior Daniel Rothamel, a member of the predominantly "Sometimes it seems as if we go out and impress on predominately black Iota Phi Theta Fraternity. Inc .. said Mrutin's point has one major !\hol1coming. black Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., told the 200 people other people how it's all the same,'' he said. "We have to a white student joining a black fratcmity costs the white "For some people it"~ never goi ng to happen unless in Mitchell Hall Thesday that the benefits of joining that · emphasize the differences between us." community. However, he said. the price is minimal. you treat it as an obligation." he '>aid. organization have outweighed any costs he has paid. Junior Jonathan Garbar, who is of Jewish and "I identifi ed with the principles of· Iota," he said. ·'J A4 • THE REVIEW • March 2, 2001 ------~------City Council hears resident reaction to·reservoir

BY LAURA CARNEY material. City Nell's Ediwr Joe Kula, a spokesman for the URS Man removed from Council Newark residents voiced their Corporation, the contractors for the opini ons at a public hearing Monday project, said officials have not night on an April 10 bond referendum to completely worked out the details of the meeting, called· mayor a liar fund the proposed construction of a spillway. · water reservoir and an iron-removal BY LA.URA CARNEY proved it was the most. efficient He said the pipe will be 24 inches in City Ne!Vs Editor plant. diameter and may consist of either site. The Newark City Council concrete or a ductile iron pipe with Newark police physically He said the farm was owned removed one man from a public unanimously resolved on Feb. 12 to raise cement lining. by a private developer at the time the issue of the referendum at Monday's "This pipeline will not get much wear discussion during Monday of the purchase and not by the forum and-ask the public for its input on and tear or be under pressure," Kula night's City Council meeting on county, as Porash had claimed. the matter. said. the proposed Apri I I 0 bond Po rash. also griped about the referendum. The Council said it wants to borrow Dorothy Miller, a spokeswoman for $ 18.6 million needed to fu nd the $ 18.6 million in government bonds to the Coalition of Natural Streams, asked Albert Porash began vo icing project. • build a 300 million-gallon water what the Council planned to do about the hi s opinions on the referendum "If you think this referendum reservoir and South Well Field water geese who flock to the area. and gradually became agitated. is appropriate, go ahead and vote ' treatment plant. "One thing we need to make sure of is He said he planned to v·ote for it," he said. "But I think it's . Mayor Harold F. Godwin said that if that people should b'e forbidden from against the referendum for outrageous. • the April 10 referendum receives enough feeding those geese," she said. several reasons, much of which "When these people say it's votes, construction will begin at the · Prior to the motion to vote, 6th Mayor Haro ld F. Godwin said required, I think you shoul d take Koelig farm on Old Paper Mill Road. District Councilwoman Chris Rewa, said were based on faulty information. it with a grain of salt." ' The project's estimated completion date she felt the need to speak on behalf of THE REVIEW/Ftle Photo Porash said several locations At th at point in the meeting, ' is January 2003. her district. Newark City Council heard resident comments on the new reservoir were originally considered for Porash refused to take his seat One of the vocal community "The [residents] know they'll have to that is proposed to be built on the Koelig farin on Old Paper Mill Road. the reservoir and that Council and repeatedly called Godwin a members at the hearing was former put up with construction and higher chose the Koelig farm "bald-faced Liar." ' Newark Mayor Ron Gardner. Kalbacher said he thinks the higher the progress of the reservoir project. surreptitiously. His antics led to his removal water rates, but they don't mind," she price of the water bill will be a good "We will not go to sleep on this side "l encourage all of you to support this · said. "They know this is a precious "City Council got together and from the meeting by Newark ; referendum in April," he said. "Newark incentive for people to conserve. of the desk," he said. decided in secret that they should Police Chief Gerald Conway. resource for our future." Godwin said he had heard from only Godwin said that although $18.6 residents have waited long enough for Councilman Karl Kalbacher, 3rd buy this property," he said. Godwin said that Council this. one Newark resident who said he did not million is a lot of money, he believes the "There was no public needs to fi nd a way to bar Porash District, said he was happy that Newark support the decision to have a reservoir is a sound investment. "They need it. They deserve it. So would be maximizing its water supply consideration for any other sites. .from future meetings since this let's get on with it." referendum. "I'm sure generations in the future "We can't be sure that this is was the second time he has resources. He said he wanted to encourage will think we were pretty smart, all Community member Bruce Diehl • "We've taken the bull by the horns the best site to build on." created such a disruption. said he was concerned about the people to bring their opinions to the polls seven of us," he said. "This is the Godwin said the Council "When he' s here it' s not a and put forth .the necessary plans to be on April 10 and said the Council will smartest move Newark has made in ' reservoir's spillway and the pipe self-reliant," he said. purchased the Koelig farm in healthy environment," Godwin keep the community well informed on decades." 1999 after an extensive study said. · .Secret of Europe on 84 cents per day revealed

BY SARA FUNAIOCK even gone five weeks without spending a need to be willing to repay hospitality by Senior Kristen Miller said White had Staff Reporter cent." doing chores or leaving a gift. some good tips for saving money. From village jails to the lavish homes Among his tips for saving money are t -shirts, stamps and postcards work "I hope to travel after graduation so . of ambassadors, a smart European hitchhiking and staying with strangers. best as -cheap and effective gifts, he said . saving money is a priority," she said. "l . traveler can always find a place to stay. " In Europe there is a completely White said hostels, universities and don't think I would do some of the things Author Gil White gave a presentation different attitude toward hitchhiking," small village jails can also serve as he suggested if I were alone, though.". on how to travel inexpensively to White said. "There are actually adequate places for overnight lodging. Senior Doug Calderon said he agreed . approximately 30 students Wednesday hitchhiking agencies in Europe." "Don't be afraid to go up to a that White's ideas were creative, but he night at the Trabant University Center. Rental cars are too expensive and policeman, student or local townsman and doubted they were as easy as White made White is the author of "Europe & the restrictive for student travelers, White ask for a place to stay," he said. them seem. # World on 84 Cents a Day," a book he said. White advised students to spend the " I think you need a lot of personality wrote from his own experiences as a He suggest~d students carry a flag of most money on a good backpack to carry to do some of the things he suggested," · student traveler. their country with them when hitching a their belongings. he said. A native Canadian, White said .he ride. He said his alternative methods of The presentation was sponsored by the traveled to 55 countries over an 11-year "People wiil stop because they're travel have profoundly affected his life. Student Center . Programs Advisory ' period. · lonely or because they need the extra "The experiences I had wouldn' t have Board. THE REVIEW/Caitlin Thorn ~ "Ninety-nine percent of the time I weight to balance out their car," White been possible if I just stayed at tourist · SCPAB President Lori Strauss said she Gil White, author and traveler, gave a lecture ~ spent less than 84 cents a day on lodging, said. sights," he said. "To truly understand a was happy with the student turnout for Wednesday in the TUC in which he explained : food and transportation," he said. "I've He .said students looking for lodging . country you hl}-ve to be with the people." White's presentation. how to travel Europe on 84 cents per day.

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buildings in our community, that have been recently enacted," she Property owners diminishing their appeal and said. "With vigorous law will be attracting more vandalism." enforcement, we might be able to required to take The amendments to the ordinance combat this graffiti in our require the property owner to remove community." offpaint but can graffiti from a building or structure Newark Building Director Junie missed within 10 days of notice, she said. Mayle said that in most cases, the city gf!t compensation They will also establish a fund from will try to restore the building to its continued from A 1 penalties assessed from fines and prior condition. BY JILL LIEBOWITZ graffiti convictions to reimburse "However, there are cases where appreciative of the things and people City News Ediror owners for removal costs. there will be an old building that's in his life," she said. "He had grown The Newark City Council The ordinance amendments were beat up and no.t maintained," he said. to be a wonderful loving son." approved two amendments Monday reviewed by the partnership board ''They might have to do some extra When at his mother' s home, night regarding graffiti vandalism to and its design committee and have work." Plummer spent a lot of time with his been given a unanimous endorsement, Roser said there is an overall alleviate the recurrence of graffiti in THE REVIEW/Christi an Jackson constant companion, a 15-year-old the city. Roser said. acceptance of the new amendments Two amendments to the city code will make it mandatory for black mini poodle named Silk. Maureen Roser, assistant planning " From my perspective, more among business owners in Newark. Friends and family said they could importantly, [the amendments] allow property owners to clean off graffiti vandalism within 10 days director for Newark, said the original " It's been discussed in all the of notice, but a tentative fund could help defray costs. tum to Plummer in times of need. ordinances give a description of the city to be able to go in and remove committees of the partnership, which Senior Mike Smith said his friend graffiti and forbid the willful and graffiti that is not removed by an is about 50 people that are involved," receipts," she said. defendant doesn't pay it within [a was always willing to help others deliberate damage or defacement of owner and then be able to reimburse she said. "It's not just property and Presently, more than $7,000 in certain] amount of days, then with their problems. the outside of a private or public ourselves for those costs," she said. business owners, but folks that are compensation has been required. theoretically they can be brought back "He was always the· kind of kid Commercial property owners in involved with downtown building. City Solicitor Roger Akin said if into court." who would let himself get involved in the downtown area were mailed a enhancement." "Through policing strategies and there is an arrest and a successful Mayor Harold F. Godwin sai~ a sensitive conversation," he said. legislative initiatives, we've had some notice of this particular ordinance and The city's Alderman's Court prosecution, the city encourages the there is currently $2,800 in the fund. Plummer leaves behind his parents variant degrees of success combating amendments, Roser said. It was also encourages the victims of vandalism victims of graffiti to bring estimates Roser said the Newark Police and two sisters- Samantha, 14, and distributed to business owners and to bring receipts with them to court to vandalism of this type," Roser said. for repair or restoration. Department has been successful in Alexandra, 11 months. validate restitution, Roser said. " But the bottom line is that was posted on the Newark Web site. "The [court] can make a correct apprehending graffiti artists. To date, His friends are invited to gather at unfortunately, graffiti continues to He "It's really part of a comprehensive "My understanding is that as the dollar-for-dollar restitution order there are 159 charges filed, 28 East End Cafe on Monday night for a a concern and it has remained on the graffiti program with stricter penalties fund b~ilds , we will honor the · against the defendant," he said. "If the convictions and eight arrests. celebration of Plummer's life. Health Services to switch to electronic filing

BY JEN GREVEY Dr. Joseph Siebold, director of Student ... Siebold said the university is putting EMR allows all pertinent information Staff Reporter Health Services, said he hopes the together a request proposal to fit the to be delivered instantaneously in the Student Health Services is beginning a program will eliminate paperwork so that Student Health Services' specific needs. case of an emt>-rgency, he said. process to implement the Electronic students will not have to wait in lines and "Our main concern is security," he 1 Grasson said nurses and doctors will Medical Record program, which wiH records will never be lost. said. "We want to make sure all have the convenience of seeing all the enable doctors to access records over the "We are in the process of making ·a information is kept confidential." student's records and any other relevant Web, university officials said. decision and don' t want to be rushed," Grasson said he believes EMR will information directly on the screen once Steven Grasson, assistant director of Siebold said. "We want to see how this increase confidentiality because it can . the program is installed. administration for Student Health has been applied at other universities." limit who has access to the program. In addition, he said, when the nurse Services, is supervising the project. Health officials are currently visiting Siebold said lab results will be directly inputs the student's condition, a screen "We are working closely with the staff schools, like ·Pennsylvania State sent through the new system, resulting in will display all the precautions the nurse of the medical center because they are the University and Princeton University to more efficient timing. must take in order to treat the patient. ones who will be using the new see how their electronic medical EMR will also eliminate handwriting EMR will also provide the capability technology," he said. • programs work, he said. errors and will allow records to be to send infolmation to pharmacies and The installation will begin this Grasson said Student Health Services transferred to other providers with the create labels for prescriptions, Grasson THE REVIEW /File photo semester, Grasson said·. It will take will carefully install the system. permission of the student, he said. said. Dr. Joseph Sie£o1c1, director.of Student Health · appro~imately one year for the system to " We want a program that is "If something serious occurs, students' The program can also check for any Services, said the staff will have computerized function throughout the entire medical dependable and one that will be available information can go directly into the allergies to provide for maximum safety, records within a year, resulting in higher efficiency. center. in 10 years," he said. proper hands," Siebold said. · he said.

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continued from Al of 4,000 people. One man died of head 'injuries, another remains in critical condition and· 70· others back after absence • Love arrested 77 individuals. suffered minor injuries. A total of 21 people were Philadelphia Police Sgt. Roland Lee said he arrested. BY ELLEN ENGLAND takes," he said. " It was a great believes the availability of alcohol at local bars Seattle Mayor. Paul Schell announced Sraff Reparler experience for me. I believe that it's starting at 7 a.m., along with a lack of planned Wednesday that Fat Tuesday celebrations would no Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed important to get going again." ·' activities, contri.buted to the violence later that longer be permitted in the ~erald City. community service fraternity re­ John Payne, a lso an alumnus, said evening. , . Police in Austin, Texas, clashed with bottle and activated its·chapter after two years. the fraternity was a very diverse ; ! He also pointed out that New Orleans attracts a , brick wielding .revelers Sunday night,. using ~ns, · Steve Bufflap, alumnus and acting group. different Mardi Gras clientele than Phildlphia. pepper spray and rubber pelJets to disperse the pledge coordinator, said the "A lot of the brothers were "People go to New Orleans because of Mardi crowd. When the melee eveptually died down, 35 THE REVIEW/Dan Strumpf university's branch of the fraternity leaders in other organizations on Gras,'' he· said. '"J'4ey don't got there looking for people were arrested and an addit\onal 30 were New Orleans party.:.g()ers were wel,l· . became inactive in 1998 after campus, he said. " I loved my ·: trouble - they go there to be part of the festivities injured. . behaved 'wb~o compa~ to other cities. members lost focus on the service experience with the fraternity. and part of the parades. . · ,In San Jose and Monterey C;:t.lif, police . · .. " ,., , . ~ ", · ,- ·t. and recruiting aspects of the "Pledging was one of the best "I was out there [on South Street] most 9f the· fraternity. semesters I ever had. It really forced , I res~~ to two ~~ incid~nts ste~g ~ - ?~~.; No arrests w~ made~ the crowd quickly day," he said. "In the beginning it was nice, but.as Mardi Gras celebrations...... · ~ dispersed. · ~ · , ·· ~. During a meeting Tuesday night, · me to budget my time." the night went on a different element came in as it More than 60 officers from seven-area law · Although polfce are stilL investigating inany of the university's Alpha Phi Omega Alumnus Mike Jochen said he , got later and later. ' e~f~r~e~ent ag.encies r~po~d~ to repo~s of a . the incidents. cities llC1pSs the natipn are considering alumni met to discuss the fraternity was interested in attracting a diverse : "People out there were iooking for trouble." rmru-not m Mon~y resultmg,m et~ ~- . . , . placing a~bah on~ Gras: celebrations• . hoping to . with the help of West Chester group of students. · In Seattle, Wash., police in body ~r fired tear Three officers m . ~ Jose were ~nJured ~ a ·~, -put an end to the rampant violence. · ~ . University's active members. "We were a very welcoming and , gas Tuesday night in an ~empt to· disperse a crowd · crow~ of 11,000 bnefly claShed w1th 100 police ' · · Local alumni fraternity members an accepting grou~" he said. "We will assist new members with the took in all kinds of people." tasks of pledging and organizing Junior Chris Vanacore of West service and social events. Chester University said she gained a Bufflap said there is a difference lot from her. membership. ~Woman tells residents of 'nuked' Newark between a campus service "The experiences you get out of organization and Alpha Phi Omega. this organization really help you . telieve she needs help. 'continued from A 1 something that crazy would happen to said. "If I let her get close enough and "We worked hard to serve the grow ~s a person," she said. "It's a "Even after they had cuffed her, she me," he said.· "When I heard my pissed her off enough, 1 think she community, but we enjoyed our phenomenal experience." He said the police waited until she continued hegging or taunting the roommate scream, that was the scariest would have had no problem stabbing social activities as well," he said. Stuart Sharkey, director of the ·slightly lowered the knife before police to kill her," he said. "She doesn't part. me." "The fraternity helped me Jearn· Center for School Services and also . tackling her. belong in jail. "My main concern was that she had Siegalbaum said he was watching lessons in leadership, which I apply temporary adviser for Alpha Phi ·.i Horsman said the two officers "She belongs in an institution." been hurt." her closely when the officers picked the i,n my professional life today." Omega, said the turnout encouraged transported the intruder to the Delaware Horsman said this was the woman's Siegalbaum said when he initially · woman up off the floor to leave. Alumnus Rob Schwinger said him. · ' Psychiatric Center. She has been second offense. saw · the intruder, he was not She seemed to believe it was the end · reactivating the fraternity would give " We need a minimum of six ·rtransferred to Delaware State Hospital. She was arrested Monday night at intimidated. of the world, he said. She verbalized · future members the ability to mold students, and we have approximately "The first thing to do is get her 2:26 a. m. for trespassing in the "My first reaction was that I could the phrase, "Make sure you look at me the group. 10 to 15 students interested," treatment," he said. "We're dealing basement area of an apartment complex take her and then throw her· out the . -call yo~ community and make sure "You have the unique position to Sharkey said. "This was definitely with someone who is mentally on Beverly Road, he said. front door," Siegalbaum said. they're still there and alive." define what shape the fraternity well worth the effort." disturbed." Siegelbaum said the incident He said seeing the knife irl her hands Siegalbaum and his roomates do not shocked him. changed his mind. want to press charges because they "I never would have imagined "I think she was crazy,"· Siegalbaum New Movies. New Shows & Why is TIAA-CREF the .for Mareh!! 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Swff Reporter Gaffney, realizes that the four blacks "Chocolate on the outside - that's have been put in the same cabin financial what we used to call brothers who despite the fact that one of them is wanted to be white." actually a high-ranking manager. April Turner's comedy/drama, Before long, Ahmad accuses the aid grants " Chocolate on the Outs ide ," manager - Peter, played by Jesse performed Wednesday night before a Hamilton - of being "COTO," or sold-out crowd at Bacchus Theatre, is chocolate on the outside. The dramatic continued from A I · packed with such contentious lines. tension between these two characters A student can be banned from aid Melissa Austin and Tiffany drives the play. for one year for their first possession Clagget, co-chairs of the Cultural Ahmad considers himself to be offense, two years. for their second Program Advisory Board, worked to "more black" than Peter, whom he offense and indefmitely for their third bring the professionally performed sees as a tra itor to the black offense. play to the university. community because of his occupation The punishment for a sales offen e · "It focuses on a lot of issues that go and manner of speaking. is slightly harsher, carrying a two-year on in the black community," Austin " He has a proble m with being THE REV!EW/Chia Chen . George D. Gaffney, Debra Terry, April Thrner and Jesse Hamilton perform Wednesday night in ban after the student's first offense and said. "I def!ni.tely wanted something black," Ahmad says. an indefinite ban after the second. that gives the black community Caught" in the middle are Michelle, the Bacchus Theatre in "Chocolate on the Outside," a play that examines black identity and unity. Students can redeem themselves in something to think about." played by comedian Debra Terry,and the eyes of the law by successfully his character because o f s imilar 'The play really encourages people those are real issues we face every "Chocolate on the Outside" tells Denise, played by Turner. completing an approved drug experiences in his own childhood. to examine their ideas on the issue of day. the story of the only four black Denise is forced to consider her rehabilitation program. "People tend to judge you on what race, which unfortunately is still a "We've been dealing with these employees of a real estate company own "blackness," while Michelle Corey Barbour, legislative director you believe in, and not really get a very important issue in our country," issues for a long time now, and it who are snowbound in an isolated plays the role of peacemaker and of the United States Student chance to know you," he said. she said. seems li ke there's no solution to cabin as part of a team-building provides comic relief. Association, said this provision does Turner said she has been touring The audience reacted them." · . retreat. As the play progresses, Peter not necessarily mean the offenders will with the small group for four years, enthusia_stically to the play, Turner said she thinks the idea of When the two men and two women reveals himself to be more than the resume their college careers. performing "Chocolate on the particularly to its comedic moments. unity among blacks can be useful in enter the cabin for the first time, the stereotypical "COTO" Ahmad tries to "With a pause in the middle of·a Outside" all over the country. "They were with us,'' Terry said. dealing with racial issues. stage looks like a war-zone. Crumpled paint him as, at one point standing on student's college career, they are less She said the play's message can be "They laughed at most of the ri ght "Unity doesn' t hurt anyone," she newspapers and debris litter the floor, a table and stripping to "YMCA" likely to earn their degree," he said. " summed up in one word-"think." spots." said. "It's a positive thing for us, and, and furniture is overturned and in Peter also uncovers some of his Barbour said the law bas an even The play is particularly pertinent to Freshman Lisa Kennedy said the contrary to what some people believe, disarray. past, saying he was mocked as a child larger effect on minorities. a college campus such as the play was realistic as well as engaging. it's a positive thing for humanity and The chaotic setting soon becomes because of his skin color. "Even if [a minority student] makes university's thai is dealing with racial "It was sad because it was really the nation as a whole." appropriate as one of the employees, H~ton said he has e~pathy for it to college, they do not earn a degree issues, Turner said. true," she said. "It was sad because i because they cannot afford it," he said: The law is more likely to affect ll minority student's funding due to racilfi profiling problems countrywide, Roselle asks for more Study.Abroad funding. Barbour said. '\ O'Leary said the power this law has in deciding a student's future is BY CHRIS SMITH "Of course [studying abroad] gives students available at the university is diverse, Chieffo programs. :a partial explanation for the low Staff Re/}Oner an opportunity to learn a said. "I'd say most of those I' ve interviewed for inco~ of former drug offenders, University President David P . Roselle foreign language by hearing "No specific colleges or France and Martinique didn' t have any espec i a l~ those who come from a low-income requested additional funding at a recent it spoken in action, but they disciplines are targeted," economic necessity for it," Braun said. "A good background. , meeting of the state Joint ·finance Committee also teach more besides . "We hope that she said. "We don' t care number asked, but some who ask don' t really "A d~gree is the key to e arni~ for items supported in the governor's budget, increased fluency," she said. what major you are. Lots of need it." · money," he said. "A poor student who including scholarships for study abroad. The programs can also scholarships will people would be interested, "Significant sources of funding for study has made a mistake pays the price Diane Benker, director of International increase students' not only foreign language abroad have included gifts from alumni as well ~ make it possible the eyes of the law and then i.S Programs, said that rather than an increase in confidence and flexibility, majors." as the annual contributions of an anonymous punished again in the loss of feder~ cost, the proposed budget increase is motivated she said. Among the more esoteric donor, Braun said. for students to aid. by a desire to expand the study abroad program "Students can develop an study abroad opportunities "The amount we receive varies from year to "They cannot reach up and out of through lhe involvement of more students. awareness of their own are an entomology course year," he said. study abroad poverty." "Many students need financial aid to help culture and how it' s offered in Costa Rica, an art Spanish professor America Martinez said Shawn Heller, national director for defray the costs of study abroad," she said. perceived across the world," conservation program she thinks the availability of scholarships is who might not the Students for Sensible Drug Policy, "New· scholarship funding will help additional Chieffo said. " You can taught in Greece and a important. said students from across the country students afford an overseas experi~nce." • become aware of many summer course in hotel and "Students can always use tl;lem - a lot are other-wise be able have banned together to fight the bill. Roselle stated in an e-mail message that the issues that relate to this. restaurant management that paying for study abroad themselves," Martinez "This issue is so important that our university' s goal is to make stUdy abroad more " It's not instantaneous, meets in Switzerland, said. "Very few have parental help." to do so." organization bas doubled its numbers accessible. but visiting other countries Chieffo said. French professor Bonnie Robb said that in the last six months," he said. "We hope that scholarships will make it provides greater potential to Theodore Braun, a there are a significant number of students Schools such as the University of possible for students to study abroad who might develop a new - University President professor of French and unable to study abroad for financial reasons. Maryland, Yale University, University not otherwise be able to do so," he said. ' understanding ~ as well as David P. Roselle comparative literature, said " It's es pecially important to have of Michigan and George Washington Lisa Chieffo, study abroad coordinator, said form lasting friendships." ------the majority of students do scholarships for those who are paying their own University have all joined in support of that study abroad programs h~ve many benefits. The selection of study abroad programs not have a problem affording study abroad way through college," she said. the bill. ., .

The Review would like to thank all of the -~rganizers, volunteers, ~D ~ staff, and participants who made the . 11Race and Respect at the University of Delaware'' forum ~ 'great success. ..

Special thanks to our moderator, Mr. Larry Griffith, Oirector of Admissio~s and our panelists: Omar Griffith, M~tt Leno, Angelika Peacock, Cinthia Prado, Jonathan Rifkin, and Toshal Roy .. •

We look forward to continuing the dialog. AS March 2, 2001

Breaking Barriers ' Tuesday evening, at a forum university - namely most of the organized by The Review. a panel white students are .too representing various ethnic groups comfortable to actively pursue better met with students to discuss race race relations by themselves. relations on campus. Fraternities and sororities could In this atmophere that was meant serve as good communication to spur honest statements and candid channels between different races. If conversation, people were traditionally white Greek sometimes hesitant to state their true organizations workpd with feelings regarding tradition~lly black race relations. ones on service This clearly projects and other emphasized the ReView Thjs: activities, everyone primary obstacle RaCial tension is ~ involved· would preventing this become more campus from reality on this cruPP~s, comfortable with moving closer to members of other racial harmony. 'and.it won't go ',aw~y races. The best way ·Unless student~*are Non-Greek to alleviate racial s t u d .e n t tension is to get it willing ta get together , organizations can out in the open. ,.and dis¢uss it triOre · also promote racial Stereotypes, harmony. RSA, prejudices and often. HQLA, SAGE, the hard feelings LGBSU, ISA and must be exposed BSU did this by before they can be eliminated. helping The Review in its efforts. But this will never happen if Tuesday night's forum certainly people are afraid to speak their helped get crucial race-rel~tted issues minds. Because they' re afraid of into the open. By the end of the offending someone, frightened of discussion, people had warmed up being labeled a bigot or simply enough to let their complaints. and unwilling to face the truth, many opinions peek through. students choose to dodge the issue· of But within a few months, racial tension rather than look the Tuesday's discussion will be monster in the eye. forgotten unless student The communication breakdown organizations take the torch. Unless between different races on campus dialogue is kept up concerning race cannot be tackled on an individual relations, tensions on campus won't level. The majority of students at the get better any time soon. THE REVIEW I Dan DeLorenzo

All high-school juniors and student's intelligence. But for seniors are painfully aware of the decades the test has been used in Scholastic Aptitude Test. conjunction w ith applicants' To college students - who GPAs, and the combined factors have MCATs, theses and · other strongly indicate whether trials to anticipate - the SAT I is someone will perform well in a Adding gray to a black and Air National Guard have a joint mission of serving shared in Dr. Carter's experience as a pediatric a laughable memory. But to a l7 university setting. the state and the country, each component has neuro-surgeon, but many shared in his message of year old, the weight of the world And if the SAT I is less fair to white issue other missions that differ. And they have different perseverance, hope, ;ippreciation and respect. seems to rest on underpri veliged methods of carrying out their tasks. Air tactics are Furthermore, he was constantly interrupted by more important to the Air Guard while the Army applause - not because he was a politician the answers students, how In reading the article "U niver~ity students focuses on land tactics. pressing social-issue buttons, but because he pencit'ed into would the SAT II explore race issues" in The Review on Feb. 9, I was disappointed to find the discussion to be The two components often work together, and imparted upon his listeners a genuine expression of ~ho se little be any better? both components rely on each other for support ideas and experiences. bubbles. Plenty of limited as a black and white issue with no mention to the gray areas. such as when the Air G_uard .transports soldiers. His speech was an immeasurable addition to Many people s mall, private But, as in the active components where there is a such an important day for students and their criticize the SAT colleges have Although fair arid thought provoking, I felt there should have been more of an effort to include some clear distinction between the Army, Coast Guard, families, a day set aside to celebrate students' for being stopped other minority groups such as Asians, Hispanics Air Force, Navy, and Marines, there is also a academic and personal-growth achievements. unintentionally considering the and Native Americans. Perhaps the reason why distinction between the Army National Guard and Finally, the authors of the "Commencement" the Air National Guard. · biased against SAT·. I in the other racial groups were excluded from the article editorial would have us believe that a politician or underpriveliged application is that they are less visible on campus - but they comedian will make graduation a more special and students. process. still influence the racial dynamic. · Marin Gemmill memorable occasion. Senior While these people are important figures in our The argument But if major The article's concentration on only the two most mareclar@udel. edu is that children universities like noticeable races is at the root of the continuing society and culture, seeing them or hearing them born to wealthy UC start racial problem. If your aim is to improve racial speak is just about as special as turning on the six o'clock news or "The Late Show with Jay Leno." families have rejecting the test, relations, promote awareness and provide a forum Commencement speakers have for a "meaningful dialogue," then serve all sides. Thankfully, the university already understood better access to many other been fine in the·past this when they secured Pulitzer Prize winner David study guides and schools might By not even acknowledging 'other races in the .article and instead focusing on only blacks and McCullough for this May. He will certainly have special classes, follow suit. more than just "something interesting to say" at and therefore have an advantage There's nothing wrong with the whites, you serve to further alienate those racial groups who already feel left out. After reading the "Commencement" staff this year's Commencement. · over poor kids. SAT II tests, but the SAT I is editorial on February 27, I was left wondering For this reason, the University better in judging a student's Dave Frederick whether the author of this short piece had ever Sara E. Marino of California is considering performance in a broad range of Sophomore been to a Commencement ceremony, let alone Graduate Student rejecting the SAT I as an entry topics - and this is crucial in dayidj@udel. edu reflected upon the meaning of the occasion. zildjian @ud el. edu requirement. Instead, the judging undergraduate applicants. The authors describe what they deem to be a university would judge applicants Afte r a ll, students entering Editor needs to bone up on decline in the value of Commencement speakers, Sports desk should diversify by SAT II scores and possibly college usually haven' t narrowed calling those of recent years increasingly "less develop its own standardized test. their study and career choices Armed Forces information impressive" and claiming that the university's No one is arguing that the SAT enough to know which specific efforts to bring in speakers are both inadequate as I am just writing to say that I .would like to see more articles detailing the accomplishments of I test is a good judge of a SAT lis to take. In the article written about funding for the well as insensitive to the student body. Delaware Air Guard [in Tuesday's issue of The The article also implies that it is hypocritical for athletic teams other than the main three or four ·Review], the editor printed som e incorrect a university that "boasts a devotion to its students" teams on campus. information. The Delaware National Guard is not to not bring in "bigger names" for graduation, While I don't begrudge the football or basketball 0 ·~· teams' moments of glory, it would be nice to be just the Air Guard - it is comprised of both the when the opposite is true. It is because the l'O :WRI~: ~ Army National Guard and the Air National Guard. university is so devoted to its student body that able to read more about some of the other teams on \ wHERE>lo ,. ·':< :.~ :¥ ;~ campus (the swim, track and cross-country teams, . The training required to enter each component <:;:ommencement speakers have traditionally been The. Review etc.). · differs. For example, the Army National Guard people with strength, character and spirit to share, · 250·Perkitls Student €enter not simply people with names. These teams certai.nly put in as much time and req~i~es nine . ~eeks of basic combat training plus effort as the others and should be duly recognized additional trammg based on the soldier's intended As a 2000 graduate, l was afforded the " ,.Newark ~; P,l; .,J22~§ , · for their accomplishments. I would greatly occupation in the military. The training i.s invaluable opportunity to hear Dr. Benjamin appreciate it if you would take this into Pax:·l02-831-l396 ~· . completed at an Army base along with other active Carson speak at last spring's Commencement. The author of the editorial claims that students want consideration in the future. E-mail: jenleinos~q.d~l. and reserve component soldiers. On the other hand, the ·Air National Guard requires a six-week basic Comniencement speakers they can "relate to and Alison Esposito ,. and carlosk@ud~Ledu"' training program completed at an Air Force Base, whom they will remember lO years later," and Dr. plus advanced training. Carson was just such a person. Graduate Student esposito@ udel. edu While both the Army National Guard and the Few people in Delaware Stadium last May

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The best way unless students are Non-Greek 10 alleviate racial s tud e nt tension is to get it willing to get togethe! organizations can out in the open. and discuss it more also promote racial Stereotypes. harmony. RSA. prejudices and often. HOLA, SAGE. the hard fee lings LGBSU, ISA and must be exposed BSU did this by before they can be eliminated. helping The Review in its efforts. But this will never happen if Tuesday ni ght 's forum certainl y people are afraid to speak th eir helped get crucial race-related issues minds. Because they·re afraid of into the open. By the end of the offending someone. frightened of di scussion. people had warmed up being labeled a bigot or simply enough to let their complaints and unwilling to face the truth. many opinions peek through. students choose to dodge the issue of But within a few months, racial tension rather than look the Tuesday·s discussion wil l be monster in the eye. forgotten unless student The communication breakdown organizations take the torch. Unless between different races on campus dialogue is kept up concerning race cannot be tac kled on an individual relations. tensions on campus won "t level. The majority of students at the get better any time soon. THE REVIEW I Dan DeLorenzo SAT IS• A-OK All hi gh-school juniors and st udent"s intelligence. But for seniors are painfully aware of the decades the test has been used in Scholastic Aptitude Test. conjunction with appli cants · To coll ege stude nts - who GPAs. and the combined fac tors have MCATs, theses and other stro ng ly indicate whether trials to anticipate - the SAT I is someone will perform we ll in a Adding gray to a black and Air National Guard have a joint mission of serving shared in Dr. Carter's ex perience as a pediatric a laughable memory. But to a 17 university setting. the state and the country. each component has neuro-surgeon. but many shared in hjs message of year old. the weight of the world And if the SAT I is less fair to white issue other mi ssions that differ. And they have different pe rseverance. hope, appreciation and respect. methods of canying out their tasks. Air tactics are Furtherm ore, he was constantly interrupted by seems to rest on underpri vel iged more important to the Air Guard while the Arm y applause - not because he was a politician In reading the article ·'University students the answers stude nts. how focuses on land tactics. pressing socia l-issue buttons, but because he explore race issues .. in The Review on Feb. 9, I penc iled into would the SAT II The two components often work together. and impruted upon his listeners a genuine expression of those little be any better? was disappointed to find the discussion to be lim ited as a black and white issue wit h no mention both components rely on each other for support ideas and experiences. bubbles. Review This: Pl e nt y of such a~ when the Air Guard transports soldiers. Hi s speech was an immeasurable addition to to the gray areas. ·Many people The SAT I, when sma ll. private But. as in the active components where there is a such an important day fo r students and their criticize the SAT coll eges have Although fair and thought provoking. I felt there clear distinction between the Army, Coast Guard, families, a day set aside to ce lebrate students' should have been more of an effort to include some for being factored with a s t opped Air Force, Navy. and Marines. th ere is also a academic and personal-growth achievements. other minority groups such as Asians. Hi spani cs distinction between the Army National Guard and Finally. the authors of the "Commencement" un intentionally student's GPA, is still considering the and Native Americans. Perhaps the reason why b iased again st SAT I in the other racial groups were excluded from the article the Air National Guard . editorial would have us believe that a politician or comedian will make graduation a more special and underpriveliged the best judge of how ap pli ca ti o n is that they are less visible on campus - but they students. process. Mari11 Gemmill memorable occasion. still influence the racial dynamic. While these people are important figures in our The argument an But if maj or The article·s concentration on only the two most Se11ior is that children unive rs iti es like mareclar@ udel. edu society and culture, seeing them or hearing them applicant will perform noticeable races is at the root of the continuing speak is just about as special as tumjng on the six born to wealthy UC start racial problem. If your aim is to improve racial o·clock news or "The Late Show with Jay Leno." in college. re lations, promote awareness and provide a forum famil ies have rejecting the test, Commencement speakers have Thankfully. the university already understood for a "meaningful dialogue:· then serve all sides. better access to many other been fine in the past this when they secured Pulitzer Prize winner David study guides and schools might By not even acknowledgin g other races in the McCullough for this May. He will certainly have special classes. foll ow suit. article and instead focusing on only blacks and more than just ''something interesting to say" at and therefore have an advantage There·s nothing wrong with the whites. you serve to further alienate those racial this year's Commencement. groups who already feel left out. After reading the ·'Commencement"' staff over poor kids. SAT II tests. but the SAT I is editori al on February 27, I was left wondering For this reason, the Uni ve rsity be tter in j udg ing a stude nt" s whether th e author of this short piece had ever Sara E. Marino Dave Frederick Graduate Studellt o f California is considering performance in a broad range of Sophomore been to a Commencement ceremony, let alone reflected upon the meaning of the occasion. :ildjian @udel.edu rejecting the SAT I as an entry topi cs - and this is cruc ial in davidj@ udel.edu requirement. In stead. the judging undergraduate applicants. The authors describe what they deem to be a universit y would judge applicants After a ll , stude nts e nte ring Editor needs to bone up on decline in the value of Commencement speakers. Sports desk should diversify by SAT II scores and possibly college usuall y haven·t narrowed calling those of recent years increasin gly ·'tess deve lop its own standardized test. their study and career choices Armed Forces information impressive" and cl aiming that the un iversity's effons to bring in speakers are both inadequate as I am just wri ting to say that I would like to see No one is arguing that the SAT enough to know which specific more arti cles detailing the accomplishments of In the article written about funding for the we ll as insensi tive to the student body. I test is a good judge of a SAT li s to take. The article also implies that it is hypocritical for athletic teams other than the main three or four Delaware Air Guard [in Tuesday" s issue of The a university that .. boasts a devotion to its students·· teams on campus. Review[. the edit or printed some inco rrect to not brin g in ·'bi gger names .. for graduation. While I don" t begrudge the football or basketball information. The Delaware National Guard is not when th e o p p o s it e ~i s tru e. It is because th e teams· moments of glory. it would be nice to be just the Air Guard - it is comprised of both the university is so devoted to it s student body that able to read more about some of the other teams on WHERE TO WRITE: Army National Guard and the Air National Guard. campus (the swim, track and cross-country teams. The training requi red to enter each component Commencement speakers have traditionall y been The Review people with strength, character and spi rit to share, etc.). differs. For example. the Army National Guard These teams certainly put in as much time and 250 Perkins Student Center requires nine weeks of basic combat training plus not simp ly people with names. As a 2000 graduate. I was afforded the effort as the others and should be duly recogni zed Newark, DE 19716 additiOnal trammg based on the soldier's intended invaluable to hear Dr. Be njamin for their accompli shme nts. I would greatl y occupatio n in th e mi litary. T he training is opp~ort un it y Carson speak at last spring· s Commencement. The apprec iate it if yo u would take thi s into Fax: 302-831-1396 completed at an Army base along with other active author of the editorial claims that students want consideration in the fu ture. E-mail: jenlemos@ udel.edu and reserve component soldiers. On the other hand. the Ai r National Guard requ ires a six-week basi c Commencement speakers th ey can ·'relate to and and [email protected] whom they will re member I 0 years later: · and Dr. Alison Esposirv training program completed at an Air Force Base. Graduare Swdenr plus advanced training. Carson was just such a person. 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One senior finds no help in search for jobf As a graduating database of companies companies at the job fairs that I'm clearly not alone in my job-seeking troubles. Of :•: senior, I' ve that were to interview the university holds. the 50 or so senior engineers at the university, only a Stephen Krotosky naturally been students at the Over the years, I've handful have jobs secured for after graduation. Most of !; . thinking a lot university. I could attended a number of job • them are in fields like business or banking. , 1 ~ about the future of submit my resume fairs. I dressed up in a The ones without jobs also find themselves with a • . Guest Columnist my life after I online and h&ve shirt and tie, printed out stifling small number of interviews and a growing disdain • · leave the companies approach me 15 copies of my resume for the lack of assistance from Career Services. •; • university. about positions. and arrived early to I began to wonder if maybe the market had just dried ~------~ I ' ve always Sold on the idea, I approach the recruiters up, and perhaps there really weren't any jobs available. •' . assumed that amid the anxiety and uncertainty of my quickly anted up the fee 1=--:::-:----, while they were fresh and That was until I posted my resume on Monster.com, a transition into the real world, the one thing I could be and posted my resume. eager. Web site similar the university's e-recruiting venture sure of was that flnding a good job would be an easy task. Six months and five 11!"'~·····"".-.. Typically, I would end except that people actually use it. I am a computer engineering major. If you haven' t Abe's later, I've yet to up leaving half an hour Almost immediately after I posted my resume, my · · ; been paying attention to the countless articles in be contacted by any ~~~~·__:.':"'~''' later with all but one of inbox was full of interview offers from all the companies • • publications such as Newsweek and the U.S. News and company through e­ my resumes in my hand whose presence was absent from the university's job fairs. World Report, I am apparently entering an industry at a recruiting. Moreover, - two if I needed to Motorola, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Verizon and time of unprecedented growth. I've never even seen a discard'my gum- and many others all contacted me as a result of my posting on . • The supply of workers can't possibly equal demand, worthwhile company '"-"'::..:.c ...- .c.•."·-­ dejected by the fact that a Monster.com. The Second Jntel"'t'lew:What to E11pect, Wednesday, March 7, 2001, ' ~ and it's not uncommon for an entry-level employee to net listing on the Web site. national university of You may think to yourself, "Well, how hard was that?" I! I International Careers, MoodilY, March 12, 2001, 4 '''>OOooo-S,>Opm,Mulbc>uj ... more than $60,000 per year. You can't even watch half an No Intel. No Urnv~sty Center Delaware's size and I know I did when I saw the responses I received from • • hour of television without seeing some cryptic ad about Microsoft. No ~ more events· reputation can' t manage Monster.com, except I direct the question to Career i : being ready for IBM or The Blue Man Group banging Motorola. to acquire recruiters from Services. •' 1 .. ~ . PVC pipe for the Pentium 4. In fact, when I search Career Newsletter: any of the top computer How can a free service, which I signed up for on a Given this, you would think that I would have dozens the site for computer engineering companies. whim and expected nothing from, completely eclipse in a , • . of job offers lined up, but currently my number' of offers engineering jobs, I get Last week, Career few days my stagnant years of effort put into Career •: · is holding steady - none. the same two or three Services held a Services? '': That's because the university's Career Services Center responses now that I did when I first tried back in Technology Job Fair that was literally nothing more than It's troubling to think that an institution that puts so :: · offers virtually no help to computer engineers. September. a waste of time. much time into preparing students for the real world is so ':: At the beginning of last semester, a Career Services So maybe the university just failed with its e-recruiting The overwhelming majority of companies in attendance wholly unprepared to help put them there. •!. representative came to one of my engineering classes to venture. After all, it is relatively new, and maybe it will were not looking for computer engineers, and there were :: suggest that we enroll in a new Web program, take a while for companies to join and catch on. certainly no companies I would consider working for •' . erecruiting.com., with which the university is affiliated. Surely, though, Career Services should be well when I graduate. Stephen Krotosky is a computer engineering major. .·'. . For $25, I was supposed to gain access to a whole prepared to provide me with computer engineering When I talk to my fellow computer engineers,. I flnd Send commments to [email protected]. .. . . ~ ' . .: ~ ...~,, .I "'.• ;•·•'I ' .. University does not have enough in-staters ~ ... I do not Many of these students were working 40 hours If the university wants to represent and serve its believe the per week and taking a full course load. Their work own state, at least two-thirds of the-students should Yvonne university ethic was inspiring. be Delaware residents. tU-. - Thomas accurately Attending DelTech for two semesters gave me a I am not suggesting there should be no out-of­ represents clearer sense of the Delaware community. I learned state students. I feel that everyone beneflts when 4- il \ · the people about the aspirations and goals of people in my students from different areas learn and live Y-Files of the state own community. I made friends whom I will together. ofDelawa- continue to interact with regularly for the rest of I have made many out-of-state friends during the • my life. last year and a half at the university. As they talk r~: - re. Here at the university, I have made many friends about their lives, I realize there is more of the . ~ - /' \- University statistics for the year 2000 shows that from this area, but there are also many more from world that I want to see besides New Castle ' - ;t. . -~- - -/' . ,: only 9,394 of 20,888 students are actually other states that I may never see again after County. · Delawareans - 45 percent. graduation. I have also found that no matter where a person The number of in-state students has fallen 1 It's nice to know that I could go to almost any is born and raised, every human being has the same percent every year since 1996, according to the city on the East Coast and probably meet a basic aspects of their life in common. registrar's report. university graduate, but I wonder why the I just feel the university should only admit one­ I am glad students from other states want to university is not trying to target students who will third of the out-of-state students who apply, ,1 . come to the university to receive an education, and choose to stay within the state and work. especially if it seeks to call itself a public ·it's wonderful that the university has such a good The university is not.benefiting the state as much institution. reputation. as it could be when 55 percent or more of the Now I understand the university does receive However, how can a university represent and students here will probably move back to their some private funding. However, if the university is serve its home community when less than half of home states after graduation. operating like a private institution, then it needs to its students are from the state? As I said before, De!Tech is an excellent school. call itself one. I know many local students choose to attend But since the university is so prestigious, it would If the University of Delaware is composed of Delaware Technical and Community College. beneflt the economy of the state and attract more mostly ·nonresidents, maybe the name needs to be Many of the classes at DelTech are almost identical business if more Delawareans held university changed. to the classes offered at the university. degrees. Perhaps we should be called the University of · They are also much less expensive. The university also presents opportunities that the Tri-State Area and Long Island or the I attended t>eiTech for about a year. However, I are not available to students at community colleges. University of Delaware/New Jersey/New York. did not want to major in a technical trade and soon I doubt that I could have worked as an intern for ran out of English classes that I could take. ABC during the Republican National Convention DelTech is a good college. I met many students last summer if I was attending DelTech. Yvonne Thomas is a managing news editor for - young and old, black, white, Hispanic and Asian I wonder how many college students in The Review. Send comments to [email protected]. from all around the state of Delaware. Delaware get this kind of opportunity. Deterioration of speech like, you know? .:jl: . :l. Like, the other the weakening and the unraveling of the fabric of that not be so now? ' . feeling cannot be survived by another generation of ::. day, I was, like, society be attributed not to inequality, injustice or the We are a nation in danger of becoming frail and blatant Standard English violators, I must insist that :: walking on Main lack of family values, but to the lack of substance in our extinct or depressed and non-competitive in the global someone put me out of my misery, and preferably soon. •: A. Kristina Rodriguez Street, and, like, I words and meaning in our phrases? economy if we do not consider sloughing this It is a travesty for anyone to speak in such a ;l' overheard two Most anthropologists (any anthropology "Twilight Zone" language that has shameful fashion, and it is unfair to promote this :!. Guest ColuJilllist chicks, like, major is welcome to challenge my become so persistent in our second-rate culture of language by "like, insisting that, '• talking. assertions) accept as true that pa,thetic daily utterances. like, we speak flne, you know?" ::•• I mean, like, it language is the cornerstone of I can see it now By continuing to express ourselves like a nation of . :. was so interesting l\ll human civilization. -Japanese radio and "valley" simpletons, we saturate our education with .1: because, you know, every other word they said was Social scientists .k::...------television stations accepted English offenses and victimize· those who .. "like" and "you know"- you know what I'm saying? believe that the Got>!! ' AM 51 etc: rush to report desire to speak with some semblance of eloquence and I know I'm not the greatest communicator. 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You can't even watch half an No Inte l. No IJ •"~• ·t•l~ o• C.• l• w••• 1..'r11n~· ~ t 1 (_enter I De laware's size and I know I did when I saw the responses I recei ved from .., . .. ..~ 0 [ 197 1-. Phon• 1 10 ~1 8 ll·8 4 H• ·more c v t•nl~ hour of tel ev ision without seeing some cryptic ad about Microsoft. No Fh il0:'Jtl1·H">4 reputation can· t manage Monster.com, except I di rect the question to Career being ready for IBM or The Blue Man Group banging Motorola. l ·m••' ..o·••••n>~t· ~d•l•t> ~M soo .51 c1< OF' rush to report desire to speak with some semblance of eloquence and I know I' m not the greatest communicator. But defic iency of ff \ \KNoW\!. about the intelligence. sometimes it is so distracting to listen to people talk la nguage is what pe OPt.. e MA 1c. t N a ~tlN ot: 11-le' AS l'F! incompetence Fear not - I am not suggesting that we lapse to the this way. Have we invented our own language? caused the WIIJWf! "U\t..~. we SO DOtJ'T 0 f time and idiom of the King James epoch or begin Well comrades, that is the wrenching pain and extinctio n of Ame ricans co nversing like the compell ing characters of a twisted irritation my repentant ears endure as they are Ho mo sotlND t.. '~e ""\1-41-\1' • and their Shakespearean drama. subjected to the arresting and degenerated speech of my a nd the s p eec h I am solely reco mmending that we all experience university colleagues. Neanderthal , commun ication nirvana and begin to regulate the Call it the g hetto izatio n, barroization or which were all amount of time we are willing to sound as maddening Californianization of American speech if you want- I s ubo rdin a te as fingernails grating on a chalkboard . - personally call it the manurization (as in crap, dung, species of the Speech consciousness is a daunting task. I observe excrement. etc.) of speech. more evolved my speech every day in fervent defiance of ··valley You may completely disagree with me, but it is the Homo sapien. speak" and kn ow how infuriating it is to stand in truth. Our country should be embarrassed, as Standard H o m o meticulous j udgment of my own speech. especially Eng li sh has become substandard English at the sa pien when I know I have erred. university and, sadly, across the nation. prevailed as the Placing a moratorium on words such as "l ike" except If you disagree, you exist in some alternate planet superior spec ies quandary: to express fondness or s imile;, and ·· you know·· and should be ashamed of yourself, because you are in human ''This just sometimes leaves me grasping and stammering as if I probably one of those inane-sounding, ~"elf- purpo rt ed evo l uti o n t n I suffered from a grave speech im pediment. "intellectuals'' who subconsciously and inappropriately because language Americans Sometimes I am just silent as my mind desperately spits out words such as "li ke'' and "you know" as often permitted Homo are lazy! In searches for the right word to cxprcs~. rather than say as you blink, or worse, breathe. sapiens to effecti ve ly other news. the wrong word and sound shallow. That second of For those who are fa miliar with the Discovery transmit meaning and Americans a rc silence is golden becau se it brings to my speech clarity. Channel, you are aware that language separates humans substance, to convey the also stupid!" app rop ri a t enes~ . acumen and profcs~innalism \\'hen it from the monkeys. Curious observations of the average significance of concepts If you believe I tru ly matters. college student' s communication aptitude would and symbols and the essence am being histrionic I care about that. and I bel ie ve that America and its suggest, however. that instead o f sounding mo re of feelings and thoughts. about this li ttle speech institutions of higher education ~h ould place greater intelligent. we are sounding increasin gly like our Human c ivilizati on witnessed problem. I pity you. emphasis on this ~s ubject. I am simply afraid tl1at the adorable counterparts. extraordinary progress as a result. T hose who arc people th at have been selected to educate us arc also Other th an sounding like reject thespians from the The Homo e rectus and Neanderthal indi fferent to o ur ed ucational choked by the English tranglcr. elapsed '80s "horror" movie " Va ll ey Girl,'' rapid species, with their cave drawings and ve hement chest deficiencies and inabilities to communicate deteri orati on of the English language could suggest a pound ing, simply could not compete with the int ri cacies effectively will be the first to imprudentl y articulate rapid societal degeneration. of the Homo sapiens' communication proficiency. their idiocy in an import ant employment interview. a rl. Kristina Rodrigue::. is 11 sla[f r£'JWrll'l' for The Could th at be why we have so much viole nce, The fi nal a na lys is? Surv iva l o f the fittest was television broadcast or. most upsettingly. as a parent. Rel'iew Send C0/11111<'111.\ to amdrigue::.280.' hormail.com. misunderstanding and mental illness in America? 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THE REVIEW I Strumpf Partiers pack a balcony on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, tossing beads to the crowd. Some tourists pay up to $500 to gain access to a balcony.

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L1BY DAN STRUMPF occupants. It takes the appropriate currency to Mardi Gras became a magnifying glas verted pageant begins to seem almost normal. ers sit atop custom motorcycles revving their Features Editor see a woman's breasts at Mardi Gras - cheap through which all of life's absurdities can b One of the most unexpected and visible groups engines for the amusement of the multitude. They NEW ORLEANS _:_ While many university plastic beads. . viewed. in this outlandish sea consists of protesters. pose for pictures, letting.girls sit on their bikes as students followed the herd of black pants to damp In general, the bigger beads featuring intricate With the mysteries of Mardi Gras unresolvel, Groups and individuals line the streets and fill suburbanites stare at their long beards and multi­ basements this weekend, I followed one million designs carry the most weight when it comes to the only thing to do is join the sea of onlookers n Jackson Square, seeking an audience for their ple tattoos. Aithough rough-looking, the bikers revelers through the streets of New Orleans in the skin market. But it's not worth getting too a spirited rendition of ''Show us your tits!" messages. appear to be one of the friendliest groups in the search of the truth behind the Mardi Gras myth. caught up in the bead craze. Born-again Christians carry crosses and ban­ Quarter, playing with the crowd and enjoying the After spending six days in New Orleans, I wit­ Plenty of people happily offer their beads in Sinners and saints ners through the Quarter, warning all who listen atmosphere. nessed more than these pages or the restrictions of return for a cheap thrill, and it's more entertain­ Although New Orleans is a great city boastig of impending doom and the need to repent before At the far end of Bourbon Street hundreds of the human language willt:ver allow me to convey ing to watch them beg while enjoying the fruits a seemingly endless array of attractions, Mldi it's too late. shirtless men gather outside the gay bars and in one lifetime. of their labor. Gras is a people-based event. 1 Hundreds of Baptist men parade through the dance in the street to techno and '70s anthems. However, I owe to those who paid for my jour­ Plus, an original costume idea proves to attract Travelers come from all over to gawk as ch­ crowds of revelers on Bourbon Street, singing Drag queens push past men dressed in scantily ney, and to those who never attended Mardi Gras, more attention than any string of basketball­ ers cut loose in the French Quarter. Here, evry ''We Shall Overcome" and "Jesus Loves Me." clad leather outfits and spandex, stopping to pose an attempt to illuminate one fraction of the week sized, blinking, glow-in-the-dark, breast-shaped type of freak, geek, mutant and curiosity inteJCt From the steps of St. Louis Cathedral in for pictures and accept beads from the balconies I spent in the Big Easy. beads. with average citizens, all hoping to see soine(Je Jackson Square, evangelists dressed as Jesus and above. Most importantly, I owe it to an old man who, Inevitably, lots of guys caught up in the mam­ stranger than themselves. ; other biblical figures pr~ch to passers-by via By far the raciest part of the Quarter, some of 60-some years from now, might forget that he mary mania spend small fortunes on tacky jewel­ But all those involved in this search for odi­ megaphones and public address systems, while the patrons let their penises dangle from the bal­ ever romped through the streets of NOLA. ry hoping to catch a glimpse of the ellusive ties serve as actors in this bizarre circus ofhumn­ . small bands play religious music. conies, leaving nothing to the imagination. · In the weeks leading up to my trip, I was inun­ f~maleus breastus. However, they quickly learn ity. More protestors rally in front of the .cathedral Parents hurry their children through the crowd, dated with countless rumors of debauchery, warn­ that more beads are given away at the Mardi Gras Sadomasochists and drag queens mingle inbe against the religious protestors, holding up signs having unwittingly stumbled into more than they ings of danger, stories of disaster, pieces of advice parade than pardons at a Clinton fund-raiser. streets with parents and their children. Eldrly that read ''Curb Your Dogma" and drowning out bargained for. and other Mardi Gras mythology handed down So an explanation must exist for all that flash­ couples dressed in matching powder-lue the sermons with their drums. On the side streets, residents of the French from people who had never attended the fabled ing besides the $.99 strings of plastic pearls. polyester pants amble past crowds of teentge Set against 18th-century architecture, Quarter who have remained for the annual inva­ gathering. Tammy, a 20-year-old Texas A&M student, boys sipping booze from to-go cups, eaprly Satanists, mystics, hippies, painters, neo-Nazis, sion of their neighborhood relax on the stoops of Predictably, some of this information proved attracts a large crowd of paparazzi underneath anticipating their first glimpse of .a real fi$:ed musicians and vendors crowd the square, trans­ their small homes. Some offer their bathrooms to to be correct while the majority of it turned out to her perch atop a Bourbon Street balcony. woman. forming it into a surreal carnival . . · strangers for a small fee while others seem to be be nothing but bovine feces. "It's about power and control," she explains. Swarms of frat boys stumble past the gay ars, People occasionally stop to argue or com­ counting the hours until the throngs depart, leav­ 'The women h-ave what all of the guys want, and suddenly aware that they are the targets of .rus­ mend the protestors, and heated debates flare up. ing the streets relatively tranquil. Beads, breasts and balconies they have to come to us to get it. tles and catcalls for the first time. For the most part everyone involved seems to Originally, my visions of Mardi Gras includ­ "It's really amazing to have so much influence An . endless procession of devils, piltes, ignore the' opposition and focuses their attention The Bourbon Street blues ed beautiful young women who, upon com­ over all of those people down there." Catholic schoolgirls, robots, superhtPes, on the crowd. · While Bourbon Street is the most famous part mand, graciously bare their sumptuous and Her explanation only illuminates the state of Scotsmen, aliens, goddesses, monsters, king and A loud roar emanates from a pocket of gleam­ of the French Quarter as well as the focal point of perky breasts for any tourist's inspection while affairs that has existed since the first man and demons winds its way through the QuarterThe ing chrome and black leather a few blocks away. Mardi Gras insanity, it is by far the most disap­ their twin sisters fetched another round of woman appeared on Earth. senses eventually become dulled, and thi~r- In front of a bar blaring heavy metal music, bik- pointing aspect of the entire experience. drinks. Contrary to rumors, no one bands out free However, fantasy quickly shatters under the shots of bourbon, all of the women aren't naked unrelenting pressures of reality. . and there is never a parade. Sure, breasts abound at Mardi Gras, but a The locals avoid the area during Mardi Gras at small minority are actually sumptuous and all costs -all with good reason. perky. Unfortunately, most of the bare nipples Fighting through the throngs of revelers takes belong to overweight, middle-aged women who tremendous effort, and the crowd never thins out. are dressed in a variety of tight tourist T -shirts, It can take hours to walk a few blocks, turning any and in most cases, are missing one or more of travel plans into a long-term commitment. their front teeth. The street wears a blanket of garbage, plastic Of course some exceptions remain, but when­ cups and beads that rise to mid-calf in places. No ever any semi-attractive woman even considers one escapes Bourbon Street without becoming lifting her shirt, she is immediately swarmed by covered in an authentic black slime composed of a hoard of men. Armed with every form of visu­ urine, vomit, sweat and other premium ingredi­ al recording device, these men cause both visi­ ents. bility and the length of her performance to suffer Finding a bathroom is a daunting task for men greatly. and a nearly impossible one for ~omen. Some The crowd also shows a disappointing lack of businesses charge as much as $10 to use their creativity in coaxing females into revealing their faci lities - nearly twice what it costs to purchase pectoral pendulums. a beverage in the san1e establishments. All forms of flirting and other meaningful Although the street may seem like an obvious communication are quickly abandoned by the option to some, throngs of police patrol the area masses for the more charming and timeless . and have no qualms about hauling public wina­ group serenade of "Show us your tits!" THE REV IEW I Dan Strumpf tors off to jail where violators can spend up to Nothing is free in this world, and chanting The New Orleans Saints NFL football team (left) travels through sreets during one of Mardi Gras' many fes­ alone is not enough to bring shirts flying off their tive parades. One reveler (right) enjoys the warm weather while gtting into the artistic spirit of the season. see MARDI GRAS page B4 B2. THE REVIEW • March 2, 2001

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"The Mexican" kid is hit in the head by a killed descending bullet. DreamWorks SKG Panic-stricken, Jerry flees to a nearby phone only Rating: -ec-ce 112 to return and fi1_1d car, corpse and gun gone. After a string of bad luck, Jerry begins to believe the legend behind the gm is true. Back in the States~ Jerry's neurotic girlfriend, Samantha (Julia Robeits), who has furiously moved to Las Vegas to get rid of her noncommittal man, soon finds herself chased by two mob families. Jil t. • • ,. ,.,... She is eventually kimapped and held hostage by ...... -c. .. ~ '¥> ~ ...~ - "" ~> ------sensitive Leroy (Janes Gandolfini of "The Sopranos") to ensure h.~I bungling boyfriend actually BY AMY L. CONVEK completes his mission. ; Entertainme/11 Editor I The two have lots Q_' fun swapping relationship "The Mexican" has everything expected of a woes and dancing aroll!d hotel rooms "with boas, blockbuster film - adventure, blood, ~otic locales until Leroy's new boy&;.iend is mu_rdered. t ~ . and, most importantly, established Hollywood stars. Leroy violently ave,ges his new love's death ' . The movie should be good- but it jdst isn' t. while a horrified Sam lq~ks on . Brad Pitt plays Jerry, a hapless gang ter sent to Soon, Leroy and Samare on their way to Mexico . . Mexico to bring home "The Mexican," a priceless, to meet up with Jerry, ~lo has lost his passport. cursed pistol with an interesting past. · A wild series of pulse-pounding chases and bloody In addition, Jerry is instructed to retrieve Beck, the events ensue, and Sam ionically ends up with "The "grandson" (David Krumholtz) of a Mafioso (Gene Mexican" in her possesson. Hackman in an uncredited cameo). The final showdown !raws in the history of the Once in Mexico, Jerry hops into his cool El gun (which is given by various characters in three Camino and proceeds to offend every Mexican he different and humorous fashbacks), making for a fit­ passes with cute phrases such as, "I need a ride to the ting conclusion. next town-o in your el truck-o." Despite what the traile depicts, the movie is not a He tracks down the gun and the kid amidst a romantic comedy. drunken, gun-firing celebration. Unfortunately, the Pitt and Roberts spendall but two seconds of the Roberts steals the movie, while Pitt stupidly stum­ Fundamentally, the drawn-out movie is not bad­ movie hurling insults (an< objects) at each other. bles about in his dirty yellow shirt making stereotyp­ it' s just disappointing. The Gist of It They h11-ve noticeable chemistry as a bickering ical Mexican jokes. With both Pitt and Roberts as leads, the dramatic couple but unfortunately lave few scenes together. ~~~~~ Cancun It's truly amazing the way the movie bases all of action flick could have been incredible. For the majority of "~he Mexican," Roberts is its laughs on its insulting depiction of Mexicans as Instead, "The Mexican" is decidedly south of the ~~~~ Aculpoco wellpaired with gay kidnlJ?per Gandolfini. greasy, gun-toting alcoholics. border. ~~~Tijuana Though their quick frbndship is rather hard to In a departure from his usual work, director Gore ~~Mexico City believe, the two succeed i1 lightening the surprising­ Verbinski ("Mouse Hunt") - best known for his ly violent movie with tery relationship conversa­ ~Baja work on commercials for Budweiser and Nike - Amy Conver is an entertainment editor for The Review. She tions and tender moments. competently handles "The Mexican." has previously reviewed "Sweet Novem.ber"( -t'r-t'r)

''Last Resort'' "3000 Miles to Graceland" The Shooting Gallery Warner Bros. Rating:~* Rating:* American filmmakers Will eventually stop being embar­ "3000 Miles to Graceland" brings a whole new meaning to rassed by foreign directors and learn how to make movies the term "sucks." about real people and real emotions. The cast boasts such B-movie superstars as lce-T Rather than fooling around with digital effects and mind­ (''Leprechaun 5: In the Hood"), David Arquette ("Ready to blowing camera angles, Russian director Pawel Pawlikowski Rumble") and former football player Howie Long goes straight to the root of filmmaking by showing life as it ("Firestorm"). . truly exists in his new film, "Last Resort." Surprisingly - star billing in the film's television ads aside Tanya (Dian Korzun) and her son Artiom (Artiom - all three prove as wooden and empty in this movie as they Strelnikov) arrive in England expecting to start a new life with are in their other projects. Tanya's fiance. · · Then there are the action sequences, shot with headache­ When her fiance fails to meet them at the airport, Tanya, inducing intrusiveness by director ~mian Lichtenstein. His who fumbles .with her English as she attempts to understand els in being as unpredictable as th~ves people live. attempt at being more John Woo than John Woo is stillborn, about this. Both actors seem to do little more than show up and the immigration officials, claims to be a Russian refugee. ''Last Resort'' and "You Can COnt on Me" both show that and the music-video-cum-security-guard-massacre sequence read their lines. The mother and son are shipped off to a holding area for life is full of unresolved chapters, .ch leading to the next. is especially appalling. The script unfolds as if it were cobbled together out of old refugees while Tanya tries to find out what has happened to Pawlikowski realizes nothing i ever simple and doesn't The creamy filling in this cinematic cow pie is undoubted­ Patrick Swayze movies. her fiance. cheat his viewers by giving them ;watered-down version of The film starts with a ''Point Break'' style holdup sequence, Amid the desolate landscape and cold neighbors, Tanya reality. ly the hilariously miscast Kevin Costner. As Murphy, the freon-blooded ringleader for a gang of morphs.into "Father Hood" when the pornpadoured Michael and Artiom find a friend in Alfie (Paddy Considine), a man Korzun is an early contender k one of the best perfor­ falls in love with single-mom Cybil (Courteney Cox-Arquette) who runs a nearby video arcade during the day and calls bingo mances of the year. Her character lainly reacts to the events Elvis-obsessed casino robbers, the doughy, soft-spoken Costner radiates about as much menace as a high school guid­ and goes on a road trip with her son, then coasts the rest of the numbers at night. around her, but the audience sees pre passion as she wrestles way on the soulless misanthropy of "Road House." Alfie takes Tanya under his wing, perhaps because he has with language, economic and emotinal barriers. ance counselor. a romantic agenda, or merely because he pities her and wants The main plot is supposedly fuelecj by the unbridled ani­ "3000 Miles to Graceland" ends with a shootout at an aban­ Thanks to the Shooting Gallerjmd its annual festival of doned factory filled with large, randoinly placed barrels of to help. small films that deserve to be seen, adiences can quench their mosity between the evil Murphy and his less-eVil partner, Such hidden motives make ''Last Resort" a breath of fresh thirst for what they've been misstg from the movies - Michael (Kurt Russell), as they fight over the spoils of a big explosive chemicals and steam-spewing pipes. air. Sort of a bleak cousin to last year's equally realistic and authenticity. heist. Sadly, that's about as inspired as the movie ever gets. uncompromising "You Can Count on Me," ''Last Resort" rev- - Clarke Speicher However, nobody seemed to inform Costner or Russell - Adam Malthews

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Dave Zembala · Leonard Dine Senior .Junior .Junior "Having a class that's "There could be a "Some of the [multi­ mandatory with 50 diversity month or a cultural requirement] percent minorities, so diversity club, but I ·courses don't even deal people can be free to don't think anybody with different races. They discuss things." would ever show up." need to look at different races and cultures."

' ...... Allza Israel Catherine Fahldin Kallla Hines Freshman Graduate student .Junior "I really t\aven't heard "The faculty can't do "More interaction on a about many problems. anything unless social level. If our But if there is a prob­ students want to do it." [Greek] organizations lem, the best way to were more interwoven, improve is through that'd help things out." education and bringing people together. " .. .." . •

REGAL IWLES PLAZA 0 Brother, Where Art Thou? 12:25, 3:40, THE BIG KAHUNA (302) 984-2000 ~ 6:55,9:25 The Monkees, March 15, 8:30p.m., $30.50 The Mexican ll:15l1:45, 12:30, 1:55, The Wedding Planner 2:00, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 FRIDAY SATURDAY 2:30, 3:25, 4:35, 5:2{6:45, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 11:30, East End Cafe: Adam Brodsky, Ease End Cafe: Situation, I 0 p.m .. 10:15, 10:40 2:15,5:05,7:50, 10:25 LO p.m., $3 at the door, $5 for $3 at the door, $5 for minors. ELECTRIC FACTORY (215) 627-1332 See Spot Run 12:101:20, 5:15, 7:25, 9:40 Save the Last Dance 1) :35, 2:10,4:40,7:05, minors. 3 Doors Down, March 8, 8 p.m., $25 3000 Miles to Gracend·12:00, 3:55, 7:35, 9:35 Ground Floor: R&B and Hip­ 10:20 Traffic 11:55, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 Grou)!d Floor: " Club Dance" Hop Night with DJ Baby, 9:00 0-Town, March 15, 8 p.m., $18.50 Monkeybone 9:55 CastAway 12:05.3:50, 7:15,10:15 with DJ Taviano, 9:00 p.m., $5 p.m., $5 with student ID. $7 for Down to Earth 12: I! 2:35, 4:45, 7:15, with student lD, $7 for minors. minors. 10:10 CHRISriANA MALL (368-8900) THEATER OF THE LIVING ARTS (215) 922-1011 Sweet November 11:5,2:25,5:10, 7:55, Monkeybone 1:00, 3:00,5:00,7:30, 9:45 Stone Balloon: DJ Dance Party Stone Balloon: Tin Pan Alley, free Xzibit, March 9, 9 p.m., $20 10:30 Down to Earth 12:30, 2:50, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 8:00 p.m ., free admission with stu­ admission with student 10, $5 Recess: School's Out1:25, 1:30,3:35, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 1:15. dent lD, $5 without. without. Eve 6, March 3, 8:30p.m., $15 5:40, 7:40 4: 15, 7:15. 10:00 Chocolat 12:20, 3:45,:40, 9:20 Save the Last Dance I: 30, 4:00, 7:00. 9:50 Trabant movie theater: " Charlie's Trabam mol•ie theater: "Requiem What Women Want 12:45, 4:10,7:10, THEE-CENTRE (215) 336-2000 Hannibal II :20, 2:05,:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:45, Angels," 7:30 p.m., " Requiem for 10:00, I0:35 10:00 for a Dream," 7: 30 p.m .. a Dream," I 0 p.m. A Perfect Circle, March 4, 8 p.m., $26.50 Saving Silvennan II 0 "Charlie's Angels," 10 p.m. B2 • TilE REY\EW • :\l arch 2. 2001

Pitt_, Roberts cursed by ~Mexican-'

··Thr l\l<·~il:an·· kid i ~ hit in the head by a killed dc~c..: ndin g hulkt Dna m\\'ork~ SKG Panic - ~trich. e n . J ~r r y flee~ Ill a n..:a rh y ph one unl) Rating: :c .'c 1/2 tu retu rn and find car. w q>~e and gun gone. After a ~ Irin g of bad lu ck. Jerry begin -, to hclrc\ ~ the legend behind th e g.rn is tru e. Bac h. in the St a t e~. Jcrry· s neurotic grrlfriend. Samantha (Julia Rubcrb). who has furiou ~ l y nwved to La~ V e ga~ to get rii of her noncommittal man. soon finds herself c h a~ u.l by two mob fa mili c~. She is eventually kimapped and held hosta ge by scnsllrve Leroy (Janes Gandnlfini of ··The Sopranos··) to ensure her bun gling boyfriend actu all y BY Al\1\' L. CON\'ER completes his mi ssion. l lltOtlllll''lt'" I dtt'" The two have lots o· fun swapping r c lati o n ~ hip " Th~ Mexi can·· ha~ ~ ve r y thin g .::xpected of a woes and dancing aromd hotel room s ·with boa~ . bll>ch.bustcr film - adventure. blood. exotic locales until Leroy's new boyfrend is murdered. and. most i mponant ly. established Holl ywood stars. Leroy violently averges hi s new love·s death The movie ~ hould be good - but it j ust is n' t. while a horrified Sam lmks on. Brad Pill pl a y~ Jerry. a hapless gangster sent to Soon. Leroy and Samare on their way to Mexico Mexico to brine home "The Mexican ... a priceless. to meet up with Jerry. ww has lost hi s passport. cursed pistol wi~h an interesting past. A wild seri es of pulse-pounding chases and bloody In addition. Jerry is in structed to retrieve Beck. th e events ensue. and Sam ionically ends up with "The "grandson" (David Krumholtz) of a Mafioso (Gene Mexican'' in her possessi::Jn . Hackman in an uncredi ted cameo). The final showdown !raws in the hi story of the Once in Mexi :::o. Jerry hops into hi s cool El gun (whi ch is given by various characters in three Camino and proceeds to offend every Mexican he different and humorous fashbacks). making for a fit ­ passes wi th cute phrases such as. ·' J need a ride to the ting conclu sion. next town-o in your el truck-o ... Despite what the traile depicts. th e movie is not a He tracks down the gun and the kid amidst a romantic comedy. drunken. gun-firing celebration. Unfortunately, the Pitt and Roberts spend all but two seconds of the Ro bert s ~ t ca b the movie. while Pitt ~ lu pid l ) ~ tum ­ h rndamental ly. the drawn-out movie i~ not bad ­ movie hurling insults (an

"Last Resort" "3000 Miles to Graceland" The Shooting GaUery Warner Bros. Rating: -;,'c,'c.'c.'c Rating: ·:( Americm1 filmmakers will eventuaJly stop being embar­ ··:1000 Mil e ~ to Gracc land·· bring~ a who ! ~ ne w meaning to rassed by foreign directors anti learn how to make movies the term ·'sucks ... about real people and real emotions. The cast boasts such B-movie ~ u pc rs t a r~ as lce-T Rather than fooling around with digital effects and mind­ ("Leprechaun 5: In the Hood"'). David Arqueltc ("!~ cady to blowing camera angles. Russian director Pawel Pawlikowski Rumble") and former football player Howi e Long goes straight to the root of filmmaking by showing life as it (''Firestoml'"). truly exist~ in his new fi lm. ··Last Resort." Suqxisingly - star hilling in the film· s television ads aside Tanya (Dian Korzun ) and her son Artiom (Artiom - all three prove as wooden and empty in thi s movie a~ they Strclnikov) arrive in Eng l ~md expecting to start a new life with ~u·e in their other projects. Tanya's fir a gang of fa lls in hJVc with ~ ing l c -morn Cybil (Councney Cox-Arquette) who runs a nearby video arcade during the day and calls bingo mances of the year. Her character tainly reacts to the events Elvis-obsessed casino robbers. the doughy. sort -~ pok e n and goes on a mad trip with her ~o n . th..:n coasts the rest uf the numbers at night. around her. but the audience sees pre passion as she wrestles Costner radiates about as much menace as a high school guid­ way on the so ul ks~ misanthropy ~>f ··Road Ho u ~e ... Alfie takes Tanya under his wing. perhaps because he has with language. economic and emotmal baiTiers. ance counselor. ··:\()()()I\ file-, t1> GracdanJ·· ends \\"i th a ~ h ootout at an abtu1- a romantic agenda. or merely because he pities her and want~ Thanks to the Shooting Gallerymd its an nual fe~ti va l of The main plot i~ ~upposed l ) fueled by the unbridled <1111 - to help. smaJI films that deserve to be seen. adiences can quench their mosity between the evil Murphy and his less-evil JXUtner. doned l ~rctory ti lled with largo:. random!) p l ac~d bwTeb nt Such hidden motives make ··Last Resort" a breath of fresh thirst for what thev've been miss1g from the movies - Michael (Kun Russe ll ). as they light over th~ ~ p o il s of a big cxp l o~ i' c chcmicab and ~ t ea m - ~ JJC\\'ing p ipe~ . air. Sort of a bleak cousin to last year·s equally reaJistic and authenticity. · heist. Sadly. that" ~ about a~ ino;pired a~ the movie ever gets. uncompromising ·'You C

The PRICE of FAME by Amanda Greenberg

Baby news for two of Hollywood's ideal bride would definitely not have great achievers - not as a couple, been in it for the money - please, what though. Cindy Crawford and her hus­ were you thinking? Senior Junior band Rande Gerber are expecting their "Having a class that's "There could be a "Some of the [multi­ second child sometime in September. "Friends" can't always help you get mandatory with 50 diversity month or a cultural requirement] Maybe this time she will spare us her over your addictions. Matthew Perry is percent minorities, so diversity club, but I courses don·t even deal · bare pregnant body and keep her gesta­ back in rehab, although his publicist will people can be free to don't think anybody with different races. They tion a private matter. Joey Fatone and not confirm his whereabouts or the rea­ discuss things." would ever show up." need to look at different his girlfriend got "N'Sync" and have son for his hospitalization. Perry had produced a little pop star of their own. been addicted to painkillers and alcohol races and cultures." Fatone has not said whether he will wed and was previously hospitalized. This his significant other - hopefully this poor guy gets no breaks - didn't he for­ pregnancy doesn't make him go "Bye get to use his breaks when he rammed Bye Bye." his Porsche into a house last spring too?

Reunited for what would have been "Where my dogs at?" I guess they'H their first anniversary, Darva Conger have to locate you in jail now dog. On and Rick RockweU met on "Larry King Monday, rapper DMX finally turned Live" to chat about their wedding on himself in to police and will serve 15 Aliza Israel Catherine Fahidin Kalila Hines FOX's infamous "Who Wants to Marry days in prison. DMX plead guilty to his Freshman Graduate student Junior a Multi-Millionaire." Conger started off Feb. 3 arrest, when police found mari ~ "I really haven't heard ·The faculty can't do "More interaction on a by apologizing to Rockwell, saying she juana in his vehicle after stopping him about many problems. anything unless social level. If our only went to Las Vegas for a free trip for minor traffic violations. DMX might But if there is a prob­ students want to do it." [Greek] organizations and to make her ex-boyfriend jealous. be "partying up" in his cell - you aU lem, the best way to were more interwoven, For his part, Rockwell said he really gonna make him lose his mind up in wanted to find a bride on the show and there, up in there! improve is through th at'd help things out. " wanted to make the marriage work. His education and bringing people together. " •

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BY ADAM MATTHEWS own merchandise line and inspiring fans all "I am the Radiskull." Entertainment Editor over the world. · The lyrics provide a glimpse into the amus­ The past two years have seen an explosion "I've gotten over 15,000 letters from peo­ ingly surreal tone that pervades the show. in the popularity of original, Web-based car­ ple," says Joe Sparks, creator, writer, anima­ "Listen up y'all, I'm the Devil Doll / I'm toon series as companies like Mediatrip.com, tor and performer behind "R & DO." · not very tall, but I'm havin ' a ball / I'm rabid lcebox.com, UrbanEntertainment.com and "People send all kind~ of pictures. There like rabies/ Movin' a Mercedes/ A hit with the Shockwave.com have become dedicated are photos of tattoos that people got of ladies I Reprezentin' Hades!" Internet animation studios. Radiskull or Devil Doll." Not wanting to let all his hard work go to One of the most successful series to Sparks says he never imagined his little complete waste, Sparks says, he decided to .. emerge out of this flurry of dot-com upstarts show would ever become so big. post the cartoon on his personal Web page . l is "Radiskull & Devil Doll," a decidedly In fact, Sparks says, the original episode of Before he knew it word of mouth buzz was quirky cartoon about a giant, fl oating punk­ the show was the result of a one week cram spreading his creation all over the world. rock skull and the tiny devil dude he session in 1999. . "I started checking the logs and I found out befri ends. "I had not done any kind of animation with I had something like over 100,000 [hits] Since its Shockwave.com . debut on Flash but I was really interested," Sparks showing up in just a couple weeks or so to see HalJoween of 1999, "R & DO" has grown says, "and one of the reasons was [that] I had that stupjd cartoon," he says. "I didn't create a into a cult phenomenon, watched by more been asked to tag along for a meeting with Web site for it or anything - I just put it up than 30,000 people every day, garnering its . Mike Judge, creator of 'Beavis and Butthead' and said,'Here's Radiskull & Devil Doll by and 'King of the Hil. ,' " Joe Sparks,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, this Sparks says his employer, Macromedia, is great! " ' had approached Judge to develop a possible Sparks says that was when he dec.ided to original series for the site, and he was asked take his creation to Shockwave.com, where it THE REVIEW I Courtesy of Joe Sparks to attend so he could help answer some of continues to flourish, Devil DoD and Radiskull wreak their twisted havoc on Shockwave.com. Judge's questions about the company's soft­ Sparks says he now focuses on creating the ware. show full time. The average production time don't think a whole lot about it, and then when all that kind of stuff." With little experience and only three days for an episode is between three to six weeks, people think that this or that is funny or pre­ "I have nothing against that really, and I'm until the meeting, Sparks says, he stayed up with Sparks working on every aspect of the cious or whatever, it kind of trips me out, happy for people to go nuts and whatever they all weekend experimenting with the software. show except voicing the female characters. because I didn't necessarily plan it that way. want, but for me personally I'd just rather not "It just really came sort of organically," he The software he uses takes the place of an "People laugh at the strangest things." do that." says. "I made this simple skull and dec~ded he army of traditional animators, reducing pro­ He says fans are always quick to provide The most rewarding thing about being an needed someone to talk to, and made a little duction costs almost entirely. feedback, which he takes into consideration animator, Sparks says, is the rush he gets from devil. He says one of the best things about "R & while creating new episodes. watching his creations come to life. "Once I got them both talking together I DO" is it allows him to combine acting, art, 'That's one of the greatest things about ''I'll just get a little bit of an idea and so I'll decided to have them do a song, and it was music and computers - four subjects that fas­ doing this kind of stuff, where your audience is start to record voices and pose the character really just totally ad hoc. I think that's proba­ cinated him throughout high school and col­ already wired up and part of the Web," Sparks and make him gesture and stuff, and then all of bly why it worked so welJ, because I wasn't lege. says. "I'll post something and in one hour,'here the sudden, I'm looking at it, and it's like thinking 'Well what can I do that would be "I never said, 'Oh, I just want to be this,' " come the letters and I get instant feedback." there's a living thing here." really cool?' ·" he says. "I always wanted to do all those things Sparks says one of the things that makes "R The financial troubles experienced by many

Judge ended up canceling the meeting, but and somehow find a way to make it work, and & DO" different from other Web-based car­ dot-cQm 1 companies notwithstanding, Sparks Sparks still had the demo he created. it really was computers and software that toon series is a conscious desire to work says he 'doesn't expect online animation to THE REVIEW I Counesy of Joo Sparks The story was as simple as the animation. enabled it." "clean" - sympathetic depiction of Hell 's ever go away. Joe Sparks is the mastermind behind Devil Doll offers the RadiskulJ a steaming cup Sparks says the show's appeal hinges on the minions aside. "It shows a lot of promise so far, and the ''Radiskull & Devil DoD," one of the of coffee, then they proceed to "kick it/ ' simple distinctiveness of the characters. "I notice·a lot of these things have a lot of audience keeps growing," Sparks says. "We're most popular cartoons on the Internet. launching into a bizarre rap-rock song called "It's just kind of automatic," he says. "I blood and guts and farting and profanity, and not going anywhere." 'Survivor's' blood-spilling stirs 'controversy with PETA

BY MARY CATANIA slaugfiter is not that big of a deal. "Ben Hur," several ~orses were killed in Staff Reporter 'The same thing happens everyday the chariot race filming. The tribe members on "Survivor: all over the world," he says. (\17 In the 1940 movie "Jesse James,". The Australian Outback" didn't (east on Freshman Shaun Welch shares the eight horses were killed when they were ·- gourmet rats this season . . same .opinion. tripped with wires to stage a fall. One Instead they devoured a freshly "We eat pigs all the time," he says, horse was ridden off a cliff. slaughtered wild boar - except for "so why not eat them on TV?" In the 1979 film "Heaven's Gate," a Kimmi the vegetarian, of course. People for the Ethical· Treatment of · horse was intentionally blown to pieces The controversy surrounding the Animals is investigating the possibility for a scene. Feb. 15 episode of "Survivor" has many of bringing criminal charges against Today, organizations such as the animal rights activists in an uproar. CBS because it suspects the pig was American Humane Association make Larry Hawk, preSident of the Society placed on the set. sure animal abuse does not take place on for the Prevention of Cruelty to Aaron Gross, college campaign film sets . . Animals, stated in a press release that he coordinator of PETA , says CBS staged Horses are professionally trained to is horrif1ed and stunned a pig was the entire pig scene to improve its rat­ perform stunts. Makeup is also used to repeatedly stabbed to death on national ings. make animals look injured or starved. television. "Feral pigs are very unlikely to walk In the scene in "Men in Black" where "Acts of animal cruelty for entertain­ out in broad daylight toward a group of Tommy Lee Jones shakes a little dog, ment purposes are simply unaccept­ people," he says. the pups were provided with a custom­ able," Hawk stated. "We hope· future 'The Australian Animal Protection . made harness under their sweaters to episodes will not initiate such blatant Act of 19i5 outla;.vs torturing, mistreat­ prevent whiplash. acts of animal cruelty." ing or baiting any animal or the instiga­ However, animal cruelty on sets Kucha tribe member Michael tion of such acts." encompasses a gray area. Shripin, a software publisher turned Therefore, Gross says, ifCBS placed In the making of the film "Snatch," hunter, showed no remorse after the pig on the set, it can be charged for the dog fighting scenes were staged, butchering the swine. instigating animal cruelty. even though they are legal in the United "I love it!" he said on the show as he lie says PETA is taking legal action K.ingdmp where thC? scenes were filmed. smeared the fresh pig blood under his against CBS to prevent animal brutality Jamie Stevenson, a spokesman for eyes. in the future. such acts of animal cruelty for reality fun" and games are done in good taste. are promoting show value, while the the SPCA, stated in a press release, "Our "I don't know what my position is Sophomore Atiya Fisher says CBS television. "As long as the audience is having a animals' lives are disregarded." concern here is that if it is glamorized in with the tribe," he added, "but if I go, at went too far. 'The fact is this animal died and suf­ great experience each week, that's our. Animal cruelty in entertainment has a film, it does not help our campaign to least I'm not going to be hungry." · "You just don't butcher animals like fered for entertainment purposes mas­ job," he said. been a problem ever since the dawn of ban it" Some say Shripin was justified since that for the sake of a show," she says. querading as 'hunting and gathering,' " Gross says the larger issue surround­ the entertainment industry. It is doubtful that the pig slaughter the ·show revolves around "surviving" Wayne P!!Celle, a senior vice presi­ he stated. ing the "Survivor" episode is animal Horses have been the predominant will turn hardcore "Survivor" fans from the untamed landscape of the Australian dent of the Humane Society of the In an interview on FOX News,-Mark protection on film sets. targets of abuse by filmmakers since the the show, but CBS may be facing a law­ ou£9ack. United States, stated in a press release Burnett, executive producer .. of "Animals do not belong in entertain" early 20th century: suit that might be bloodier than the slain Freshman Matt Ritter says the pig that there should be laws prohibiting "Survivor," said the show is "simply ment," he says. "[Television producers] In the 1925 and 1959 versions of swine. Phi Mu Alpha presents a.symphony of rare intrumeiits

BY MARY YURUS Originally a saxophone player, Robinson first StaffR eporter picked up a sarrusophone in the '70s and has Want to hear someone play a tone on• a sarru- played one sporadically ever since. His other tal­ sophone or eonduct a sound test on a celeste? ents include playing tenor sax, trumpet, alto clar­ This may sound like a scene from a Dr. Seuss inet and bass saxophone. book, but there's no need to go to Whoville to Robinson graduated from Boston's Berldee hear these strange instruments. College of Music in 1981 at the age of 21. The The sarrusophone and celeste, among other . following year he became its youngest faculty rare instruments, can be heard at a concert member. Monday at the Loudis Recital Hall. His credentials include performances on This concert was created as a spoof of the more than 100 recordings, some of which have usual formal concerts called General Student been nominated for Grammy Awards. Recitals, which feature music department mem­ Robinson has recently completed tours on bers and are required for all music majors. five continents performed at Carnegie Hall and Junior Lee Hartman organized this concert played for the President of the United States. He with the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and music fra­ was chosen to be a U.S. Jazz Ambassador and ternity. will be going to West Africa for eight weeks iJ} ''We were tired of hearing flutes and clarinets May. constantly being played," he says. 'This is unof­ Despite his hectic schedule, Robinson found ficially being called 'The Instruments You time to come and perform at the university. Don't Hear Every Day Concert.'" "I'm always interested in doing something Sophomore Dow Huckleberry, a member of unusuai" he says. T HE REVIEW I Christian Jackson Phi Mu Alpha, came up with the idea to have a ''When someone called me and said he want­ Phi Mu Alpha members rehearse for a concert featuring unusual instruments. . concert that featured less-common instruments, ed to do an 'Instruments You Don't Hear Every Virginia for six years. She says she looks for- and fraternity. hoping to bring some variety to the typical Day Concert,' I wanted to do it because that's ward to her first "odd instruments" concert. 'There's going to be a lot of really neat stuff weekly concerts. what I' in about." 'This commission encourages new music to going on at this concert," Huckleberry says. Huckleberry says he hopes these instruments Another highlight of the concert will be a be written for these instruments," she says. "It "We've programmed it so it won't be boring at will attract attendees, both from the music piece called "L'Amor" composed by Jennifer should be very interesting for the audience, as all." departinent and the community. Barker, a music theory and composition profes, well as the performers." Hartman says he hopes it wi).l provide a . The idea first occurred to Huckleberry when sor who joined the university's music depart­ Barker will also be accompanying a student unique listening experience for people. he came across a sarrusophone Web site. He ment in September. playing bass saxophone on a composition by "It's like a circus," he says. ·'Basically, it' was intrigued by a clip he downloaded of the Phi Mu Alpha commissioned her to compose Hartman. like a parade of freaks." instrument being played and thought it would a piece especially for the concert, which accom­ This bass saxophone is one of few around, interest others. modates an unusual combination of rare instru­ Huckleberry says. After being donated to the "I think it's exotic enough that people will ments. university and sitting in disrepair, the instrument ,;@11 ' • want to see one," Huckleberry says. The selection features an alto flute, English was fixed specially for this concert. -;,; ""' ' "''The lnstruments · Those who attend the concert will get to see hom, Contrabass clarinet, harpsichord, a coun­ · Huckleberry says Phi Mu Alpha hopes to *t You Don;t Hear Every D8y Scott Robinson, a wide-ranging instrumentalist tertenor voice and a celeste, which, according to make this an annual event. Concert" from New York, perform on his 5-foot-tall sar­ Huckleberry, resembles "a piano with chimes "One of the goals of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia ~© rusophone. instead of springs." is to promote American music," he says, "and I . t , Monday, March 6, 8 p.m. "A sarrusophone is kind of a cross between a "I think it's great because you're seeing thought there was a lot of room for creativity that , Loudis Recital HaD THE REVIEW I Courtesy of Grant Green memb,er of the saxophone family and a bas­ instruments you don't porrnally see in this com­ wasn't being exploited." Monday's "The Instruments You Don't · 'Amy DuPont Mosie BuDding soon," Robinson says. "It is actually a large bination," Barker says. Hartman says Phi Mu Alpha is confident this · Free Admission · Hear Everyday Concert" wilf feature a family of instruments including seven different · Before corning to the university, Barker was will be a fun conceit, drawing students' attention performance on the rare sarrusophone. sizes." on staff at Christopher Newport University in to upcoming concerts given. by the department \1arch 2. 2001 • 'Jill·, RE\ 11·, \\ • BJ Cartoonist Joe Sparks brings animation into the 21st century

HY ADAi\1 1\IATTHEWS own merchandise line and inspiring fans all " I am the Radiskull." over the world. The lyrics provide a glimpse into the amus­ Th.: pa't t11 0 year' ktle ~ecn an explo:-.ion "I've gotten o ver 15,000 letters from peo­ ingly surreal tone that pervades the show. in the popularity of original. \\' eb - ba~ e d car­ ple.'· says Joe Sparks, creator, writer, anima­ " Listen up y'all, I'm the Devil Doll I I'm toon ~er i c:-. a\ companie\ liJ...e l\1edi:1trip.com. tor and performer behind "R & DO.'' not vet)' tall, but I'm havin ' a ball I I 'm rabid lcebux.com. lJrbanEntcrtainment.com and ··People send all kind!; of pictures. There like rabies/ Mavin' a Mercedes/ A hit ~ v i th the Shockwa\'e .com h:l\ e b.:cnme dedicated arc photos of tattoos that people got of ladies I Reprez.entin' Hades-"' Internet animati on 'tudios. Radiskull or Devil Doll." Not wanting to let all hi s hard work go to One nf the mo~t ~ucces~ful series to Sparks says he never imagined his little complete waste. Sparks says, he decided to emen!c out of this flurrv of dot-com up ~ t art>. show would ever beco me so big. post the cartoon on his personal Web page. is ·· Ra di~kull & Devil Doll." a decidedly In fact, Sparks says, the original episode of Before he knew it word of mouth buzz was quirky cartoon about a giant. floating punk­ the show was the result of a one week cram spreading his creation all over the world. rock ~kull and the tiny devil dude he session in 1999. " I started checking the logs and I found out befriend~ . "1 had not done any kind of animati on with I had something like over 100,000 [hits I incc its Shockwavc.com debut o n Flash but I was really interested," Sparks showing up in just a couple weeks or so to see Halloween of 1999. "R & oo·· has grown says. ·'and one of the reasons was [that) I had that stupid cartoon." he says. " I didn't create a into a cult phenomenon. watched by more been asked to tag along for a meeting with Web site for it or anything - l just put it up than 30.000 people every day. garnering its Mike Judge, creator of ' Beavis and Butthead' and said.'Here's Radiskull & Devil Doll by and ' King of the Hil.,' ,. Joe Sparks.' and I was like, ' Oh my God, this Sparks says his employer, Maqomedia, is great!'" had approached Judge to develop a possible Sparks says that was whe n he decided to original series for the site, and he was asked take his creation to Shockwave.com, where it rill· Rl \II \I I C<~urtc'~ PI l<~c· ~!'·"· ~, to attend so he co uld help answer some of continues to flourish, Devil Doll and Radiskull wreak their twisted havoc on Shockwan.com. Judge's questions about the company' s soft­ Sparks says he now focuses on creating the ware. show full time. The average production time don' t think a whole lot about it. and then when all that kind of stuff." With little experience and only three days for an episode is between three to six weeks, people think that this or that is funny or pre­ ··1 have nothing again~t that really. and I'm until the meeting, Sparks says, he stayed up with Sparks working on every aspect of the cious or whatever. it kind of trips me oul. happy for people to go nut\ and whate1 er they all weekend experimenting with the software. show except voicing the female characters. because I didn't necess:u·il y plan il !hat way. want. but for me personall y I'd ju-a rather nO! " It just really came sort of organically," he The software he uses takes the place of an ·'People laugh at the strangest things ... do that." says. ·'I made this simple skull and decided he army of traditional animators, reducing pro­ He says fans are always quick to provide The most rewarding thing about being an needed someone to talk to, and made a little duction costs almost entirely. feedback. which he takes into consideration animator, Sparks 'ays. i~ the ru'h he gch from devil. He says one of the best things about " R & while creating new e pi sode~. watching his c reation~ come to life. "Once I got them both talking together I DD" is it allows him to combine acting, art, "That's one of the greatest things about ·'("II just get a little bit of an idea and ~o I' II decided to have them do a song, and it was music and computers - four subjects that fas­ doing this kind of stuff. where your audience is start to record voice' and po' e the character really just totally ad hoc. I think that's proba­ cinated him throughout high school and col­ already wired up and part of the Web.'' Sparks and make him ge~ture and ,tuff. and then all of bly why it worked so well, because I wasn't lege . says. ·TJI post something and in one hour. here the sudden. I'm looking at it. and it's like thinking ' Well what can l do that would be "I never said, 'Oh, I just want to be this,' ., come the letters and 1 get instant feedback." there's a living th ing here ... really cool?' " he says. "I always wanted to do all those things Sparks says one of the things that makes "R The financial trouble' experienced by many Judge ended up canceling the meeting, but and somehow find a way to make it work, and & DO'" different from other Web-based car­ dot-com compani es notwithstanding. Spark~ Sparks still had the demo he created. it really was computers and software that toon series is a conscious desire to work says he cl oc~n·t expect online animation to THE REVIEW I Cnunc') or Joe' Spark' The story was as simple as the animation. enabled it." "clean'' - sympathetic depiction of Hell's ever go away. Joe Sparks is the mastermind behind Devil Doll offers the Radiskull a steaming cup Sparks says the show's appeal hinges on the minions aside. ·'It ~hows a lot of promi~e so far. and the " Radiskull & Devil Doll," one of the of coffee, then they proceed to "kick it," simple distinctiveness of the characters. " I notice a lot of these things have a lot of audience keeps growing. .. Spa rk~ says. "We're most popular cartoons on the Internet. launching into a bizarre rap-rock song called "It's just kind of automatic," he says. " I blood and guts and farting and profanity. and not going anywhere."

.~ 'Survivor's' blood-spilling stirs controversy with PETA . .. BY MARY CATANIA slaughter is not that big of a deal. ''Ben Hur." sevcral l)orscs were killed in Ste. "Our "I don' t know what my position is Sophomore Atiya Fisher says CBS television. "As long as the audience is having a animals' lives are disregarded.'' concem here is that if it is glamoiized in with the tribe.'' he added. ·'but if 1 go, at wen: too far. 'The fact is this animal died and suf­ great experience each week, that's our Animal cruelty in enteJtainment has a film, it docs not help our campaign to least I'm not going to be hungry ... " You just don't butcher animals like fered for entertainment purposes mas­ job," he said. been a problem ever since the dawn of ban it." Some say Shripin was justified since that for the sake of a show," she says. querading as 'hunting and gathering,' " Gross says the larger issue swTound­ the entertainment industry. It is doubtful that the pig slaughteJ the show revolves around ·'surviving" Wayne Pacelle, a senior vice presi­ he stated. ing the "Survivor" episode is animal Horses have been the predominant wi ll nirn hardcore "Slllv ivor" fans from the untamed landscape of the Australian dent of the. Humane Society of the In an interview on FOX News,-Mark protection on film sets. target~ of abuse by filmmakers since the the show. but CBS may be facing a law­ outback. United States, stated in a press release Burnett, executive producer of "Animals do not belong in entertain­ early 20th cenwry. suit that might be bloodier than the slain Freshman Matt Ritter says the pig that there should be laws prohibiting "Survivor," said the show is "simply ment,'' he says. "[Television producers] In the 1925 and 1959 versions of swine. Phi Mu Alpha presents a symphony of rare intruments

BY MARY YURUS Originally a saxophone player, Robinson first Swff ReJHmer picked up a sarrusophone in the '70s and hac; Want to hear someone play a tone on• a sarru- played one sporadically ever since. His other tal­ sophone or conduct a sound test on a celeste? ents include playing tenor sax, trumpet, alto clar­ This may sound like a scene from a Dr. Seuss inet and bass saxophone. book, but there's no need to go to Whoville to Robinson graduated from Boston's Berklee hear these strange instruments. College of Music in 1981 at the age of 21. The The sarrusophone and celeste, among other following year he became its youngest faculty rare instruments, can be heard at a concert member. Monday at the Loudis Recital Hall. His credentials include performances on This concert was created as a spoof of the more than 100 recordings, some of which have usual formal concerts called General Student been nominated for Grammy Awards. Recitals, which feature music department mem­ Robinson has recently completed tours on bers and are required for all music majors. five continents performed at Carnegie Hall and Junior Lee Hartman organized this concert played for the President of the United States. He with the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and music fra­ was chosen to be a U.S. Jazz Ambassador and ternity. will be going to West Africa for eight weeks in "We were tired of hearing flutes and clarinets May. constantly being played," he says. 'This is unof­ Despite his hectic schedule, Robinson found ficially being called 'The Instruments You time to come and perform at the university. Don't Hear Every Day Concert.'" ''I'm always interested in doing something Sophomore Dow Huckleberry, a member of unusual," he says. t II! IH \II \\ C"h11,11,u1 .Ltd..,,~·n Phi Mu Alpha, came up with the idea to have a "When someone called me and said he want­ Phi Mu Alpha memhers rehearse for a concert featuring unusual instruments. concert that featured less-common instruments, ed to do an 'Instruments You Don't Hear Every Virginia f(Jr six year~ . She says ~he look\ f(Jr­ and fratern it\. hoping to bring some variety to the typical Day Concert,' I wanted to do it because that's ward to her fir~t "odd inst11tme nt ~ .. ennccn. 'There·:-. going to h<.: a lot of rea II) neat 'tutf weekly concerts. what I'm about." 'This commission encourages new mu,ic to going on at thi~ <.:on<.:<.:I1 ... H u cJ... Id1<.:1~ \ i c ... he "a)'· "and I Monday, March 6, 8 p.m. ·'A sam1sophone is kind of a cross between a ''I think it's great because you're seeing thought there 1\'a-, a lot of room ftll <.:1<.:a t11 ll) 1h:11 Loudis Recital Hall 'I II I I< I \ II II I Counc''' ol (ira Ill (ircen member of the saxophone fan1ily and a bas­ instruments you don't normally sec in this com­ wa~n·t l1eing c\plmtcd.'' Monday's "The Instruments You Don ' t Amy DuPont Music Buildin~ soon." Robinson says. ·'It is actually a large bination:· Barker says. H

FEATURE FORUH Carolyn Delicce Two officers t~ntl 11 lady

It was a weekend with the family, and I I slip into my dress, retouch my makeup what l thought he was doing. don't mean just Mom, Dad, sis and brother­ and don-my dancing shoes. "Well enough for a practice run, Joey, in-law. I'm talking about the whole gang - Three courses and five rum and Cokes this one is for real," my uncle st.utters with a aunts, uncles, cousins and Grandma. The later, it's now time for the bouquet toss. beer in hand. happy occasion - my cousin Kenny's wed­ Single males abound, while the group of sin­ This is when my dad figures it's a perfect ding. gle girls is limited to my 18-year-old cousin, time to put down the camera and go outside On Friday, my entire Italian family gathers the 14-year-old maid of honor, the 3- and 4- for a cigarette. How can I blame him? I with packed bags and heads down to the year-old flower girls and me. How pathetic want to leave too. Naval base at Virginia Beach. I' m ready for a is this? After the night of partying and bar hop­ weekend away from the university - undl I As the bouquet lands right in my hands I ping in Virginia Beach, we return to the get stuck in the middle of the backseat for an laugh at the set up. Kenny is going to toss the hotel to catch a few Zs before our long car eight-hour car ride. garter to his friend Joey, my foreseen prey. ride back to the university. As the rain pours down, I am grilled non­ Joey catches the garter and I chuckle to lt' s a beautiful sunny day' perfect for stop with questions from my family about myself - until l realize it is now time for driving. I cruise down the road listening to everything from boys to classes.' him to put the garter on me in front of my the Dave Matthews Band as my parents nod We arrive at I :45 a.m. and I collapse into entire family. off. my rock hard hotel bed, not looking forward A chair is brought out to the middle of the While driving on Rt. 13 in Kent County, to my alarm sounding at 8 a.m. floor and the.DJ selects "Wild Thing" as the Del., the light turns yellow, then immediate­ "BEEP, .filEEP." OK, time to wake up. I suitable track. ly changes to red. get out of bed and get ready for the wedding. With my face red as an apple, I sit in the I step on the gas as my dad says, Knowing my cousin's cute Navy Seal .bud­ chair giving a pleading look to Joey - "Carolyn, that was clearly red." dies will be there, I spend a little extra time "Don' t embarrass me!" "Is that why there is a cop behind me with preparing. Finding this oh-so-humorous, he removes his sirens on?" It's 9:45 a.m. and I meet 20 other family my shoe and tosses it across the room as he Great. What a way t_o end the weekend. members on-base in the hotel lobby so we can dances around me with the garter. I hide my My mom breaks out the checkbook and THE REVIEW I Jaclyn Gringione caravan to the chapel. After 20 minutes of face in my hands and thank God I shaved riiy starts writing. "Hellos" and "How are yous?'' we get in our legs before the reception. As I hand the officer my license and reg­ a local gas station, my whole family is back home to Main Street Court. cars and follow the proud parents of the As I uncover my embarrassed face, I find istration, my cousin cruises by in his Beemer pulled over, laughing at the situation. Who knew a weekend with the nutty groom. Joey on his knees putting the garter on with with my aunts and grandma inside, and not My dad gets out of the car, puts his arm Italians could end with a garter around my As vows are exchanged and love fills the his teeth! far behind him are more family members. around me and says to my family, "That's thigh and a $100 moving violation? air, my eyes begin to check out the cadets and Could this possibly get any worse? He ·beeps and my family laughs at me. I my girl, her first ticket." select my prey for the evening. Yes, it could. As the white-lace garter don't think it's very funny. He then decides this is a good time for Back at the hotel, I get ready for a njght of reaches mid-thigh, my uncle.decides to stop So I get the ticket, get my license back him to take ~he pilot seat. So after two-and­ Carolyn De/ieee is a copy editor for The fun at the reception. him because "that is enough." At least, that's and start the voyage again. A mile away at a-half days of embarrassing antics, I made it Review. E-mail her at [email protected]. Mardi Gras packs New Orleans' French Quarter continued from B 1 name, its history and its tradition, sents the backbone of the carnival sea­ search of the prized Mardi Gras sou­ der; while feasting on traditional Creole At the St. Louis Cathedral, Catholics which only one in a thousand of the cel­ son. venir. and Cajun fare. · kneel in prayer and place ashes on their three days in a crowded cell before ebrants seem to know anything about. More than 50 Krewes - social Parades hosted by the Krewe of Rex, Absolutely the best part of Mardi · foreheads symbOlizing the beginning of being processed. Like most oilier famous destina­ groups that sponsor the parades - host the Krewe of Orpheus and the Krewe of Gras, the parades embody the true car­ Lent. The police are not the only constant tions, Bourbon Street's popularity has separate processions winding through Endyrnion are also popular must-see nival spirit and are a New Orleans expe­ Shouts of "Happy Mardi Gras" ring presence in the crowd. Pickpockets and transformed it into just another tourist the Crescent City, shutting down traffic Mardi Gras experiences. rience that shou,dn't be missed. through the streets · of the French thieves operate with ease in the trap, complete with a gift shop on every as thousands arrive to cheer them on. No trip to Mardi Gras is complete Quarter as a crowd seeking cafe au lai.t cramped quarters. Wallets and cameras other comer. These events are no average Fourth without a photo of the Mardi Gras Last call and beignets forms outside Cafe Du disappear in the blink of an eye, turning But no matter how crowded, danger­ of July stroll. The biggest parades last Indians' fantastic ·costumes. These As Fat Tuesday rolls to a jubilant Monde. unsuspecting tourists' vacations into ous or disgusting Bourbon ~treet is, it several hours and feature giant floats "Indians" are a group of blacks cele­ close at 12 a.m., the police descend on A procession of Harleys roar past the tremendous hassles. remains the heart of Mardi Gras and an exceeding 100 feet in length and two brating aid received from Native Bourbon Street and reclaim it from the cafe while two drag queens blow kisses Besides the numerous bars, which essential part of the experience. stories in height, as well as multiple Americans in the pre-Civil War period. revelers. Reluctantly, people finish the and wave to the entourage. are usually packed beyond capacity, -Though many people leave the marching bands and celebrity appear­ Making random appearances around last of their drinks and head toward their Young women with their bare paint­ Bourbon Street offers balconies from famous esplanade disillusioned, others ances. the city, the Indians don the carnival's hotels. ed breasts walk down the street, laugh­ which revelers throw and collect beads. remain eager to take their place and see As the floats pass by, members of most intricate costumes - (!laborate Weighed down with hundreds of ing hysterically at the night's events. However, it can cost as much as $500 the excitement. the Krewes shower onlookers with handmade feather headdresses ·that beads, they stagger through the garbage, A street musician on the comer plays for access to look down on the revelers, ''throws," and children and adults alike often take a year to comp,ete. trying to keep up with friends. his trumpet as a few middle-aged cou­ and the view is rarely worth the price of When the saints go marching in compete to grab the gifts from the air. The parades create the perfect atmo­ Behind the police, a procession of ples dance in the street. admission. While most people cling to rumors The throws take many forms, including sphere to hang out with friends, drink a street sweepers, garbage trucks and city On the Mississippi River, a tugboat of Bourbon The most puzzling part and fantastic stories about Mardi Gras, ·beads, doubloons, stuffed animals anq few beers and meet the locals. They workers armed with brooms and rakes sounds its hom as it passes a riverboat Street is that all the other streets in the they tendto ignore the most enjoyable toys. . __.. · also offer the best photo opportunities begin the arduous task of cleaning up hosting a Mardi Gras Ball. Quarter are half as crowded and offer and essential experiences the festival The most coveted of throws are to enjoy the beautiful weather. the mess. Handfuls of partiers linger in bars the same crazy people, the same types offers. · painted coconu~iven out by the Zulu Many people spend the entire day Mardi Gras 2001 bas reached its end,, and atop balconies, but the streets of bars and the same nudity, bJJt every­ The parade season begins two Krewe on Fat sday morning. This watching the parades from the comfort and most people are ready for a well­ quickly clear as a fmal string of beads thing is cleaner and cheaper. · _, , ( Pt , . , , t weeks before Fat Tuesday and repre- 8:30 a.m. parade raws large crowds m of a lawn chair or from atop a s~eplad- deserved rest. descends ori Bourbon Street. The street's attraction lies in its

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FEATU RE FORUM Carolyn Del ieee Two officers ana a laay

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Ill) cn11rc It al ran famrl ) gat he r' th e: 1-1-) .:ar-old 111:1id of honor. the 3- and -l ­ f,n a cigan.: !l e. llu\\ can I blame: him ' I '' rt h p.1ch. cd h:rg' and head' dtl\\ n to the )car-nld rhi\\Cr g irl ~ and nle. How pathetic want tu leave too. 1'\ :r \ al ha'>c at \'irgin1a lkac·h I' m n:.rd) r,,r a i ... !h i<' Afll:r th.: lll ght "r pa rt ) in g and bar hop­ \\ L'ch.end a\\'a ) llllnl tilL· ll lll\ cr'''Y till til I A:- the bouquL·t lands right in my h a nd ~ I ping in Vi rginia Beach. we return to th t: get '>lu..:h. in the nuddll' ul the bach. ,cat for :1 11 laugh at the ~c t up. Kenny i ~ going to to' ~ the hot.: l to catch :1 k w z~ bciD rc our long car eight -hour c:rr 1idt: . gart t: r to hi:- fri end Joey. my fnre~ccn prey. ride back ''' the unrv n~ it \'. .\ 'the ra111 ptllll'> d,,,\ n. I am grilkd non­ Joe; catches the garter and I chuck le to It·, a beautiful ' unny day. perfLT I for ' '''P '' ith quc,tiun-.. fnHn Ill) famil) about my,t: ll' - unt il I rcali Le it i' now time for driving. I crui'>t: down the road li , tcning to c\ crything frPlll h") ' 111 cia''"'· him to put the garter on me in front of my th e Da ve l\1a11h cw~ B:111d as my part:l ll ~ nod \\"c arnvc at I :-l:'i .1.111 . and I cllllap'e into entire famil y. off. rny n>ck hard hotel hed. not IPoh.in g forward , chair is brought out to the middle of the While dri ving on Rt. 13 in Kent Count) . to Ill) alarm 'ounding at X :r. m. floor and the DJ ~ele c t ~ .. Wi ld Thing .. '" the Del.. the li ght t urn ~ ycll o\\'. then immediate­ .. BEEP. BEEP."' OK . time to wah.c up. ,uitablt: track . ly changes to red. gct out of bL·d and gt: t ready for the wedding. \\'ith my face reel as an apple. I sit in the I step Dn th e gas ~" rn y dad ' a y~ . Knm1ing my cou,in·, cute Navy Seal -hull ­ chair giving a pleadi ng look to Joey - ..Carolyn. that was clearly red ... die' \\'ill he rhere. I ' pend a li ttle extra tim ~: .. Dlln ·t embarra,, me! .. .. b that why th ere is a cop behind me with prcpanng. Finding thi~ oh-so-humorous. he removes his sire ns on '' .. It ·, 9:-l:'i :1.111 . and I meet ~()other famil y m) :-. ho.: an d tosses it across rh e room as he Great. \Vhat a \\'a)' to e nd the \\'eckend . memlx:r' un -ha'c in rhc hotel lobby ;.owe can dance'> around me wi th th e ga rt er. I hide my My mom breaks out the checkbook and ·rIll Rl: \ 11-\\ I J ., cf ~ ll (;,. ,~ ' """ caravan to the chapel. .'\ftcr ~() minutes of face in my hancb and thank God I shaved my starts writing . ·· Hellos .. and .. Ho\\' arc you,?.. we get in our legs before th e reception. As I hand the nfficcr my li ccn~c and reg­ a local gas station. my whole fami ly i~ back home to Main Street Court. car' and follow the pmud parent'> or the A' I uncover my embarrassed face. I fi nd istration. my cousin cru ises by in his Beemer pu ll ed over. laughin g at the 'iruation. Who kn ew a weekend with the nutty groom . Joey on hi, knee~ put ting the garter on \Vi th with my au nh and grandma inside. and not I'VIy dad gets out of the car. puts his arm Italians could end with a garter around my A;. \ '0\\' arc exchanged and love filb the his tecth 1 far behind him are more famil y members. around me and says to my family ...Th at's thigh and a $ 100 moving violati on ? air. my e ye~ begin to check out the cade t ~ and Cou ld this possibly get any worse·> He beeps and my fam il y l augh~ at me. I my girl. her first ti cket. .. '>el ect my prey for the evening. Yes. it could. As the white-lace garter don't think it's very fu nny. He then decide' th is i' a good time for Back at the lmtcl. I get ready for a night of reaches mid-thigh. my uncle decides to stop So I get the ticket. get my liccn:-.e back him to take the pi lot scat. So after two-and­ Corolm De/ieee is a copr ediwr ./()/· Th e fun at the rt:cepti on. him because .. that is enough ... Ar least. th at's and start the voyage again. A mil e away at a-half days of embarrassing anti cs. I made it Re1·ieH·. E-mail her 111 cdna, ..::@ udel.edu. Mardi Gras packs New Orleans' French Quarter continued from B I name. ih hi~t o ry and its tradition. scnts the backbone of rhe carni val :-ca­ search of the pri zed Mardi Gras sou­ der. wh ile feasting on ITaditional Creole At the St. Loui, Cathedral. Catholic;. which only one in a thou,and of the cel­ son. venir. and Cajun fare. kneel in prayer and place a'hes on their three days in a cnnvded cell before ebrants seem to know anything about. More than 50 Krewes - social Parades hosted by the Krcwc of Rex. Absolutely the best pan of Mardi foreheads symbolizing the begi nn ing uf being processed. Li ke mo~t other famous destina­ groups rhat sponsor the parades - host the Krewe of Orpheus and the Krewe of Gn1s. the parades embody the true car­ Lent. The police arc not the only constant tions. Bourbon Street's populariry has separate processions winding through Enclym ion arc also popular must -see nival spirit and are a cw Orleans expe­ Shollls of .. Happy Mardi Gras .. ring pres~.:ncc in the cro\\'d. Pickpockers and transformed it into jusr another tou ri st the Crescent Ci ty. shuning down traffic Mardi Gras experiences. rience that shou,dn ·r be missed. th rough the s tree t ~ of the French thieves operare with case in the trap. complete with a gift shop on every as thousands a1Ti vc to cheer them on. No trip to Mardi Gras is complete Qum1cr a' a crowd seekjng cafe au lai.t cramped quarter;.. Wallet' and cameras other corner. These events are no average Fourth without a photo of the Mard i Gras Last call and beigncts forms outside Cafe Du di~appear in th e blink uf an eye. lllrning But no matter how crowded. clangcr­ of July stroll. The biggest para les la't Ind ians· fanta,ti c costumes. Th e~c As Fat Tuesday rolls to a jubilant Monde. unsuspect111g tourists vacations into <1US or disgu ~t in g Bourbon St reet is. it several hours and feature giant floats .. Indians .. arc a group of blacks cele­ close at 12 a. m.. the police descend on A procession of Harleys roar pa~ r the tremendous hassles. remains the hcan of Mardi Gras and an exceeding I 00 feel in length and two braring aiel received from Native Bourbon Street and reclaim it from the cafe while two drag queens blow kisses Besides the numerous bars. which essential part of the experi ence. stories in height. as we ll as multiple Americans in the pre-Civi l War peri od. revelers. Reluctantly, people finish the and wave to the entourage. are usually packed beyond capacity. Though many people leave th e marching bands and celebrity appear­ Making random appearances around last of their drink~ and head toward their Young women wi th their bare paint­ Bourbon Street ullers balconi es from famous esplanade disi llu sioned. others ances. the city. the Indians don the carnival' s hotels. ed breasts walk down the street. laugh­ which revelers throw and collect bead>. remain eager to take their place and see As the tloats pass by. members of most intricate costumes - elaborate Weighed clown with hundreds of ing hystericaliy at the night' s eve nt ~ . However. it can cost as much as $:'100 the excitement. the Krewcs shower onlookers wi th handmade feather headdresses that beads. they ' tagger through the garbage. A street musici of bar' and the same nudity. hut ~:ve ry­ The parade 'ea ~on begin, two Krcwc on h ll Tuc,day morning. Thi' watching th ~.: parade, from the comfon and m o~ t pt:oplc are ready for a well­ quickly clear as a tinal :-Iring of be ad~ thing i;. cleaner and cheaper. weeks before Fat Tuesday and rcprc- 8:30a.m. parade draws large crowds in of a lawn chair or from atop a steplad- deserved rest. descends on Bourbon Street. The strcer's attracrion li es in its

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ino gambling, bright and local din.ers satisfied. Figuring out where to go can be difficult. during Mardi Gras is difficult but not However. several convenient methods of numerous museums and access to the While wandering through the French but it's bard to go wrong no matter where impossible. Most hotd room rates start at transportation wiiJ help visitors get around Mississippi swampland. Quarter, be sure to: sartiple some of the local you end up. $~00 per night and increase according to the town. specialties. The F rench Quarter, particularly proximity to the French Quarter. The streetcar li.nes make traveling Places to eat: Po· b<)ys and muffalettas are boili gargan­ Bourbon Street, is the hotte-st place to be in ffardcore Mardi Gras fans start making through New Orleans an enjoyable sightsee­ tuan sandwiches sure to plea-;e a crowd. .New Orleans during Mardi Gras. ing Home to some ()f the best food the South re,...ervations one year in advance, and most experience. has to offer, the Crescent City provides out­ Served on a kaiser role bigger than a dinner . Tropical lsle, The Cat's MMw, the hotels require fuJI payment 30 days before Taxis are readily avai lable_ but many standing examples of Creole, Cajun and tnl­ plate a traditional muffaletta overflows with Storyville District, The Old Absinthe Bar the rental date. drivers try to take advantage of unwitting ditional southern fare. Ltalian meats and cheese, topped with olive and Pat O'Brien's are some of Bourbon For cheap rooms check out the many hos­ tourists. The Food Network's famous wham-bam ~> a lad. Streets finest attractions. tels located within walking distance of the Airline tickets to New Orleans go on , ale chef Emeril Laga<.;<;e owns three eslabbsh­ Po' boys are subs or heroes served on For a less crowded but equally exciting Quarter. a year in advance. and rates increase quick­ ments (Nola, 5J4 St. Louis St; Emerirs, whole loave!!> of French bread. neighborhood, check out the Warehouse Cairo Pete's Backpackers, India House ly by the end of the summer. Johnny's Po'boys and The· Central District. which offers a number of large 800 Tchoupitoulas St.; and Delmonico, Internati onal Hostel and Longpre Guest Driving to Nev..· Orleans from Newarh. music venues as well as New Orleans' fin; st 1300 St. Charles Ave.) but is a long way Grocery Store. birthplace of the muffaletta, House all offer low rates, but beds go quick. takes approximately 25 hours and can mah.c have both mastered the an of sandwich . nightclubs. Drot> by Howln ' Wolf for alter­ from having the restaurant market covered. one hell of a road trip. although the ride making. native and rock music and the Mermaid K-Paul' s Louisiana Kitchen ·(416 How to get there: home will most likely be a mjscwble expe­ Lounge for local dance flavor. Chartres St.). Antoine's (713 St. Louis St. ), Due to extensive traffic. a car tends to be rience. Nightlife: more of a hassle than it's worth - visitors Amtr:~k trains als,l run from 1ewarl; to Commander's Palace. ( 14.02 W as hin g to~ Excitement lurks around every comer Places to stay: may find it ea~iesl to leave their wheeb at New Orleans and Student Advantage C:ud Ave.) and Toujaque's (823 Decatur St. ) dming Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Finding a place to stay in New Orleans the hotel. h\1kkr~ receive a 15 percent dbcount. keep the fl ames of competition burning March 2, 200 l • THE REVIEW • BS

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Meet near the parking lot more info. 302.658.1228. good working environment. Flexible 7-9 and/or afternoon 2:30-6/Bear/Glasgow at the foot of Third St. There will be a $50 hours and golfing priveleges available. YMCA 832-7980. For Sale prize to the non-profit group with the most Please call Gina or Mr. Kat 737·1200. volunteers. Drawings and Food! Organized Here's your chance to be a part of some. I by the New Castle Sailing Club. thing big-the AlG Life MS Walk: The DE DON'T GET LEFT AT U OF D FOR I chapter of the National MS Society will '88 VW GuH, 127K, 2 Door hatchback, SPRING BREAK! GREAT PART TIME For Rent AC, fair condition, runs weU, 5 spd., Look for the AIDS Fund Dance Marathon hold their annual AIG MS Walk on April JOB, 2 MILES FROM CAMPUS, $10/HR Delaware tag. $900 OBO. Please call coming this 'spring! Get involved with an 1st and 7th at sites across the state. Call + BONUSES. CALL KEITH 454-8955. 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March 2 • AUson Bechdel March 13 • Live Free or Die 7:00 PM, 117 Memorial 7:00 PM, 204 Kirkbride Bechdel's comic strip Dykes tO Watch This gripping film raises important Out For chronicles modern life, queer questions about the politics of abor~ Ill NEW~ FLII~H and otherwise, with an amaJgam of tion. Speaker: Wayne Goldner, '· kindness, dead... on accuracy and nit~ physician and subject of film. · ..~~- First "National Band" to come picking d~ail, Match 14 • Benefit Concert MarCh 5 • .AfFairs of Race in America featuring Relative Sight :: to the Newark are~ thi.s year. 7:00 PM, Multi-Purpose Rooms A & B, and Aerin Tedesco 1tabant Univer~ity . Centet 7:30 PM, The Scrounge, Genetk testing strongly suggests that Perkins Student Center Thomas feffe~;Son bore children with f

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BY BETH ISKOE stantial playing time. As.fistallt Sports Editor "Shannon Kron played on the Sunday's game at Richmond U.S. under-19 team," she said. "She marks the beginning of the quest for has .great stick skills and sees the another NCAA tournament berth ball well so she will get a lot of and America East title for the playing time at either attack or mid­ Delaware women's lacrosse team. field. The Hens look to avenge their 12- "Cindy Dudzinski has a lot of 9 upset loss to Hofstra in last sea­ height and gqod speed and will son's semifinals of the conference receive some playing time in the tournament, and their 14-4 pounding midfield." by Loyola in the first round of fhe Fortunato said she expects a suc­ NCAA tournament. cessful season because she does not Delaware head coach Denise see any weaknesses in the team. Wescott said she believes the Hens "We have so many good players wilJ achieve more this season than that I think it will be hard for other last season. teams to match up and beat us," she "We are shooting to be in the said. Final Four," she said. "We are look­ Wescott said Delaware has the ing to be playing an extra weekend potential to play with and beat any or two at the end of the year." team in the country and the only Senior Kate O'Connell said she weakness for the Hens is their occa­ believes Delaware will be success­ sional lack of confidence. THE REVIEW/Courtesy Delaware Sports Information ful this season because of its depth "Sometimes they don' t accept the and experience. fact of how good they are," she said. Senior outfielder Chris Kolodzey takes a mighty hack. The Hens lost only two starters "They sometimes get themselves Delaware's baseball team faces East Carolina this weekend. - Sarah Edwards and Christy Buck down mentally - they are not con­ - from last season to graduation. -fident enough. They will also be returning their "I hope the team believes it can entire defense, which wiJI provide get on the field with any top-10 stability for the team. team in the country and win, Large test for . Delaware will largely rely on because we are definitely good players who made All-America East enough to do so." Teams last season. O'Connell said she agreed Senior attacker Megan Fortunato, Delaware bas the potential to win senior defense Katy Hahn and senior every game it plays this season. Delaware nine defense Claire Marrazzo were First­ "It would be nice to go undefeat­ Team selections, while O'Connell ed," she said. "I don't see any reason was a Second-Team selection. not to. However, we have to take it B\: KATE GOREY I "Before last weekend [we] "Megan will be key one game at a time. If we Staff Reporter had only been outside [for prac­ - she is one of our get upset by one team, it After a disappointing start tice] twice," he said. "Now, I leading scorers," will really h~ us." last weekend, the Delaware think we are more experienced Wescott said. ".Katy and Boston University, THE REVIEW/Courtesy Delaware Sports Information baseball team faces the USA and we are more prepared for Claire are the. mainstays last season's conference Senior attacker Megan Fortunato (right) scored 31 goals and had 25 Today's No. 18 ranked squad­ this weekend." of our defense and will champion, is returning ~last year. Delaware opens its season at Richmond on Sunday. .East Carolina ( 11-0) - for a Sage said Delaware is opti­ calJ some of our plays. every starter so it is prob­ three-game · series beginning mistic about the rest of its sea­ Kate is the quarterback of our attack ably still the favorite, said are hungry and have incentive. The the season's success. Friday at Greenville, N.C .. · son, and feels experienced play­ and calls the offensive plays." Fortunato. most important thing for us to do is "Our team clicks and we work Although the Hens finished 1- ers will lead the team through Wescott said the Hens will also "Although, I think we will give concentrate· on playing our best really well together," she said. "We 3 last weekend in Myrtle Beach, big games this season, especial­ rely on junior midfielder Corinne them· a run for their money," she lacrosse instead of being caught up are friends on and off the field." S.C., they are ready to face. the ly against the Pirates. Shuck and junior goal keeper Laurie said. in who we are playing." , O'Connell said she is excited for aggressive play of the Pirates, Last year's America East Tortorelli. Wescott said she believes the This is the first year the winner of the season to start so the Hens can said Delaware pitcher and senior Pitcher of the Year, junior right­ "Corinne does .a great job at both four-team America East tournament the America East tournament begin working their way toward co-captain Vic Sage. bander Rich McGuire (9-2, 4.08 ends of the field," she said, "and we will include the Terriers, the Hens, receives an automatic bid to the reaching their goals. "[The tournament] is a good ERA last season) takes the want her to take more shots because the Pride and either Towson or New NCAA tournament. " I can't wait," she said. "We've chance to be competitive," Sage mound Friday. she is very .capable of scoring more Hampshire. She said she believes In addition, the tournament was been practicing since September, so said. "Hopefully we'll be able to Last spring, McGuire led the goals. Delaware really wants to win expanded from 12 to 16 teams, and we are just looking forward to play­ compete this weekend and pull conference in winning percent­ "Laurie is so consistent and is the because it was upset in the semifi­ now includes six automatic confer­ ing games and winning." out some wins." . age and innings pitched stats. heart and soul of this team. She is a nals last year. ence bids. The other 10 spots can Wescott said she is glad the Despite last weekend's losses, Sophomore right-bander, great athlete and competitor who "It's easier to get to the top than come from any conference, so beginning of the season has finally sophomore . catcher Matt Wimer Jason Vincent (7-3, 3.15 last hates to lose, and the players pick up stay at the top," she said. "When we Delaware can still make the tourna­ arrived, said the experience season), will throw on her energy." won the conference three years in a ment even if it does not win the con­ "I think we are getting tired of· was valuable. for Delaware in its As a result of returning so many row [97-99].. we got complacent and ference tournament. each other," she said. "We want to "Last weekend we second game. starters, Wescott said, she thinks took it for granted and I think we Fortunato said she believes the see another uniform. It's time to ·played very well," he · Sage (4-3, 5.32last only two freshmen will receive sub- learned our lesson. "This year we team's chemistry will play a role in play." said. ''They were all seasons) will close very close games. All out the series in of the starting pitc.h­ Sunday's game. ers played well and The Hens hope to the offense came alive." be a strong competitor for East Senior right-fielder Chris Carolina, Sage said, and walk try Kolodzey said he also feels they Hens will again for frrsf game away winners. He said they are BY CARRIE GAZAL Delaware head coach B .J. Ferguson said all are prepared for this weekend. prepared and are working bard "We are definitely ready for Staff Reporter three players should throw today due to the to follow in their own footsteps A car accident due to snow created major number of games they have. East Carolina," he said. "We and dominate on the field. traffic backups on I-95 southbound last Ferguson said that in preparation for its want to redeem ourselves after "We need to keep basic Thursday, forcing the Delaware softball team to opening weekend the team practiced hard to last weekend. East Carolina is · plays," Wimer said. "Push some turn back from opening its season in East reinforce fundamentals, hitting and pitching. one of the better programs. runs across the plate, and we Carolina. The Hens will be given another Welch said she feels that with all the hitting "This should be a good task should defmitely be able to bang chance to begin the season at the Dixie Classic practice it has worked on, the squad should be for us, and if our defense plays with them." I . in Virginia Beach this weekend. a strong hitting team this year. well we should be fine." Kolod:iey said he agreed, and' l Delaware begins the tournament today at 9 The Hens have dropped some speed this sea­ He said mental preparation is that as a result of a solid week of \ - a.m. against Virginia Tech. Two other games son, but Ferguson said they have balanced it by just as important as the funda­ practice, the squad is primed. will follow as the Hens face Elon at 1 p.m. and picking up more power. mentals of the game. "We had a great week of prac­ Radford at 5 p.m. Ferguson said the squad has no weaknesses "We need to basically relax," tice," he said. "[We now] all . The tournament continues on Sunday with a but has to improve certain aspects of its game. Kolodzey said. "The pitching is know our roles and what we 9 a.m. contest against UMBC. Following these Despite the number of young players this there, the hitting is there for the have to do to win. games, single-play elimination will year, Ferguson said, there is a lot of most part and we'll bit the ball "We are more focused than take effect among the 11 teams regis­ optimism and encouragement so we should do well this week­ last weekend, and we are a solid tered in the tournament. among team members. end." all-around team. Losing isn't Junior first baseman Mandy Welch Welch said the players have spent Sage said he agreed and that fun and we want to win this said she is anxious for this weekend. much of their free hours bonding the Hens are working hard to get weekend, and I feel we are " It should be an experience to see with one another aside from the time ready for the big weekend series. ready." bow everyone does," she said. spent practicing. "We are preparing for East The games will begin today at Welch said she remains confident so long as "We have a connection on and off the field," Carolina by working on sound 4 p.m. at East Carolina, fol­ THE REVIEW/Courtesy Delaware Sports Information defense, building on pitching lowed by a game at 2 p.m. the squad continues to communicate and play she said. Senior shortstop Carolyn Wasilewski . as it knows how. Ferguson said Delaware is anxious to start and being more aggressive at the tomorrow. The trip will con­ ,1 plate," be said. , Senior tri-captains Susan Dugan, Lauren the season after lat weekend's debacle. clude with a 1 p.m. contest on t Mark and Carolyn Wasilewski look to lead the "We have no crystal ball to perceive how were ready to play last weekend and were Wimer said he agreed. Sunday. I rejected their chance. We want to play." I Hens toward victory. well we will play," she said, "but the women ,I t ~ 1 ~ Alumni ~lyers defeat Microsoft.NET at Rust I f f f continued from page B8 After the game both teams enjoyed them­ game is a physical game, and everytime some­ , selves with a victory party. one touches the puck they should be bit. ~ with the guys from Microsoft and it's an even The Hansons fame shined through their one "Nobody does that anymore, and if a fight ~ bigger dream to play guys like these." and only movie debut, and Steve had some inter­ breaks out then so be it, that's the game. They t t Fans of all ages attended the event, seeking esting thoughts about what it was like to be a part want to get into a no-hit league and have all t autographs and a glimpse at some of their or their j of it. , these fancy-dance players like the[Jaromir] t parents, old-time Flyer heroes - not to mention f t "It means we taught Newman well," he said. Jagr's and the Lemieux's. I the Hansons. "Newman couldn't act before he did Like [Jacques] Lemaire said, if this is a no­ ( "It's good to give back to the commuruty," 'Slapshot,' be never won an award till after he hit league let me come back and play, and he's Parro said. ''It gives fans a chance to meet us. It's did 'Slapshot,' We carried him for three exactly right." good to correspond with the people." months. The guy bad no friends, he sat in the Steve said the reason players have become Valentine took a different perspective to the corner and sucked his thumb, we felt sorry for this way is because of how they have evolved fan support. the man. So we bring him over our house, physically. ''It's great to have the kids there wanting your made a huge salad, a bowl of spaghetti and had "It's unfortunate that players are getting hurt autograph," he said ''I have never had anyone popcorn afterwards. The guy, what does he do, because players are getting bigger, stronger, the want my autograph before." . he steals the family recipes from us, makes equipment is getting harder," he said. "It's The two players that may have had the best millions on us, then he gets into racecar driving amazing how everyone gets concussions when time of anyone would have to be the Hansons. because he knew we were after him. What was they get bit now. We never had concussions - "One of the things we stress as Hansons is the question?" if we did we didn't know it. Maybe that's why having fun," Steve Hanson said. "Did you see On a more serious note, Steve said today's we are so nuts." me smiling on the ice. I love this game. There is players don't have the same passion for hock­ Steve said the Hansons were given a con­ nothing like playing hockey." ey as he does. tract to do six movies after "Slapshot," but they Steve also added how much he enjoyed going THE REV lEW/James Carey "I coached five years in the pros, and play­ refused it to pursue their NHL aspirations. He around the country to amuse everyone. The presence of two of the Hanson brothers could not help the Microsoft.NET ers forget what it's like to play the game," he said being a star in a hit movie wasn't a dream 'This isn't work at all, this is fun," he sajd. "I said. "It's a privilege to play the game." · of his. team defe~t a squad of former Flyers. Microsoft lost 12-4 Monday night. love the road, I love traveling, I love watching At one time Steve coached professionally "No, a dream come true is when I played in peoples faces, I love entertaining and when we Geoff and Steve Hanson then felt the need to "One thing about being a Hanson brother is but said he would never do it again because of the NHL," he said. 'Tm not an actor. It's a once play games like this, I remind people this is wake up their goalie after the Ayers scored.late that you can get away with anything because the condition hockey is in. in a lifetime thing. l was 20 years old when I entertainment." in the second period, and this gave themselves an they expect it," Steve said. 'The good part is "I don't want to coach pro anymore," he did it, they offered me a six-year deal and I Before the start of the game, the Hansons early exit after the official ejected them from the when you do something on the ice, if you jump a said. "The game is wrong. The game is full­ turned it down because I wanted to play pro received their characteristic pre-game roughing contest with an unsportsman-like penalty. referee or jump a player, they expect that stuff time hockey, and it's unfortunate the NHL hockey. penalty to the delight of the crowd. Pleased spectators cheered them on. and that's what's fun about it." doesn't bebeve this. What we believe is that the ''I'm a hockey player, not an actor." 7 ( , t' ). inside This date in s orts histor • UD baseball team faces On March 2, 1927, Babe Ruth No. 18 East Carolina becomes baseball 's highest­ • After a delay, Delaware paid player by signing a $70,000 per year contract softball begins its season with the New York Yankees . •••••••.see page B7

March 2, 2001 • B8 Metzbower's amazing comeback fails

BY M.B. PELL "Perterbation training is a type of balance "Coming into the season we had high National/State News Editor training where we apply destabilizing forces hopes, and he was a big part of that being he After losing sophomore midfielder Ryan to the muscles," Chmielewski said. was rookie [of the year] in the conference Meztbower to a torn right anterior cruciate She said this training makes the muscle last year." I ligament (ACL), the Delaware men's respond. Barret said team meTbers expected lacrosse team knows its job has become "The ability to go back to high-level Metzbower to make a SJII!edy comeback more difficult - but the Hens say they still sports without surgery is rare, but we have a after they heard of the non operative thera­ have high h~pes for the season. · 90 percent success rate" Chmielewski said. py. Metzbower, who led the team in goals "If you go through normal rehab it's a 50 "He was working hard to get stronger, I last season, said he re-injured his knee last percent success rate." saw that as his lifting part~er," Barret said. Friday while performing rehabilitation drills Furthermore, she said, athletes who use "He rehabed the hell out of his knee. I give at practice, effectively ending his season. peterbation training are five times more him credit for getting back out there so He poppe.d his knee out Friday while per­ likely to return to their sport. soon. I forming lateral drills through a series of Chmielewski said the high success rate is "He wanted to play in laSt week's game, cones. The season-ending injury o~curred partly due to the fact that a rigorous screen­ but that just wasn't feasable," he said. while he was performing an indi- . ing exam ensures only people Barret was quick to emphasize that even vidual program during practice. ~h_o . are ri~h~ for perterbation though Metzbower scored 30 goals and had Metzbower will medical red­ trammg part1c1pate. 12 assists, the team still has plenty of talent. shirt this year and still have three ~'s IThe ACL screening exam was Metzbower said this is his first major years of eligibility left. LACibssE qeated by researching the stabil­ injury, but he has not let his ailment dis- After his original injury on it,y of people who have ACL , courage him. , , Feb. 10, Metzbower said, he was t9ars and participate in sports. "It's only affected me because there are told by team doctor Vincent Disabela that he "At the l.Jlliversity, this is the way we lots of senior guys I'd like to play with and might be able to avoid surgery and finish the determine if athletes can go back to sports," play for," he said. "I feel like I'm letting season by using augmented perterbation she said. them down." training. Before using the screening exam, doctors After his second episode, Chmielewski "When I tore my ACL it didn't swell, and simply made gut decsions as to whether said, therapists recommended surgery. Doc Disabella said a brace might substitute patients needed rehabilitation or surgery. "I met with a surgeon on Monday and for the ACL," he said. "That's when he sent Chmielewski has trained about 20 stu­ will probably have surgery by next week­ me up to see Terri." dents prior to her work with Metzbower and end," Metzbower said. Terri Chmielewski, a graduate student of said this is the most succesful program so Chmielewski said Metzbower will be biomechanics and movement science at the far in treating ACL injuries. back next year after his surgery and rehab. university, said she works with high level Senior defenseman Brian Barret said he Head coach Bob Shillinglaw said he athletes using non-operative therapy. was surprised when he found out agreed with Barret that Metzbower was an She said Augmented perterbation is a Metzbqwer's initial injury might not finish important part of the team, but the team will new method of rehabilitation that has been his season. have enough talent to succeed without him used for the past three years at the universi­ "Knowing from other guys injuries that it Until next season, Metzbower said, he THE REVIEW/Counesy Delaware Spons [nfonnation/Photo An by Jeff Gluck ty, in combination with strength agility was rare to come back, I wouldn't have will work on gaining leg strength to ensure SoPhomore midfielder Ryan Metzbower is out for the season with a tom right training. expected him to retprn." he said. he will be able to cut and plant. ACL. Metzbower led Delaware with 30 goals last season. He also tallied U assists. Hens gain first win

BY ROB ERDMAN Delaware scored the first three "We wanted to be a little more Sports Editor goals of the game, two coming from sharper during those last two quar­ EMMITSBURG, Md. - Mount senior midfielder Jason Motta, who ters," he said. "They were three men Saint Mary's freshman midfielder netted three during the afternoon. down, and we blew that opportunity Sean Martin learned a valuable les­ "Both Jays [Lavey and Motta] by not shooting well. son during Wednesday's game are playing really well," Shillinglaw "But we' re 1-1 now, and I am against the Delaware men's lacrosse said. "They're going to help carry very happy with the win." team. the offense and create some points." Junior goalie Dave Mullen, who With a little under 10 minutes Motta used his quick footwork recorded 15 saves, was also a vital remaining in the first half, Hens and agility to dissect the crease part of the victory, Shillinglaw said. . senior defender Jamie Andrew lqw­ defease-and-ripple the- mesh, help­ 'Tia-ve-was clutch," he said . "He ered his ~boulder and plowed into ing the Hens to a 8-2 halftime lead. is one of the better goalies around." the inattentive Martin, causing him With a little more than 10 min­ As a result of the large lead, to lose his stick and the ground ball. utes remaining in the third quarter, Shillinglaw said he was able to put When he finally realized what the Mount looked as ihough it was some younger guys in to get some had happened, it was over. Martin gaining QlOmentum after killing off experience, including sophomore shook his head and slowly walked some vital penalties. attacker Matt Alrich. away. The Mountaineers (0- "Matt (one goal) has come on The incident set the 1) took advantage of a strong during the last two games," scene for the entire game, ~ man-up situation them- he said. "He's playing with confi­ as Delaware (1-1) toppled LA selves (1-for-11 on the dence. the Mountaineers 13-7. afternoon) as junior ''That's what we need - guys Hens senior attackman midfielder Phil Rossetti who can put the ball in the net." Jason Lavey led the~~----~- scored unassisted on a However, he said, offensive pro­ offensive surge and tal- Hens 13 ~ rocket from IS-yards duction has not been the main issue. lied seven points with Mt. St. Mary's 7 out. Going into tomorrow's game five assists to go along Shortly thereafter, a against Rutgers, Shillinglaw said, with two goals. Mount midfielder grabbed a ground the team has to improve defensive­ Lavey, a pre-season All- ball and looked to begin an odd-man ly. American and the ninth-leading rush. However, Hens senior middie "We didn't play as well as we scorer in Division-! last year, Willie Hopkins was not going to let could during one-on-one defense," moved into 15th place on the all- it happen. he said. "Team defense got a little time Delaware points list during the Running the ballcarrier down sloppy as the day progressed. You game with 128. from behind, Hopkins laid out, cannot afford to do that against a Despite the victory, Lavey said striking his counterpart with his team like [the Scarlet Knights]." he still sees room to improve. stick as a lumberjack would splinter With a new coaching staff to "I'm not really worried about a sapling. accompany its 16-4 .season opening personal stats," he said. "We really The ball was jarred loose and victory · against Manhattan, needed a win after Loyola. gobbled up by the Hens. Shillinglaw said, Rutgers will head "We came away with the win Seconds later, Lavey fed "play- . into the showdown with a full head even though we came a little sloppy. maker" Hopkins who found the of steam. It wasn't quite as good as we want- back of the net, making the score 9- Lavey said he agreed. ed it to be." 3. ''We have to pick it up all over ­ Hens head coach Bob Delaware, ranked No. 17 in the every aspect of the game," he said. Shillinglaw said he was pleased nation by Inside Lacrosse, would "[The Scarlet Knights] are a very with the overall outcome, although never look back as nine Hens scored good team this year, so we have to he saw some room for improve- during the day. take it to another level." ment. The only weary point for The Hens will take on Rutgers THE REVIEW/Caitlin Thorn "I thought the first !wo quarters Delaware came early in the fourtlt immediately following the Senior midnelder Jason Motta (24) receives a hit in last week's game at Loyola. Delaware bounced we played were solid," he said. "In quarter when it failed to convert on Princeton-Johns Hopkins game at the second half, it got kind of slop- a multiple man-up situation, Princeton. Game time is tentatively back Wednesday to defeat Mount St. Mary's 13-7.'Motta scored three goals in the victory. py, and we had some breakdowns." Shillinglaw said. set at 4 p.m. Hanson brothens visit Newark

BY JAMES CAREY ing the community is always the main focus of the level even though these guys are older." Sports Editor squad. One of the Flyers alumni participating was goalie Ifpeople claimed that Microsoft, the Flyers and the "Everything we do around the Microsoft hockey DaveParro. · beloved Hanson brothers from the movie "Slapshot" team is care," he said. "We try to pick kids programs Parro said he enjoyed returning to the ice and see­ played in a hockey game in the Fred Rust Ice Arena, whether it is giving technology or helping kids. that are ing some of his old teammates. some listeners might think they were crazy. sick. That's the first and foremost thing we do. ''It's fun to get together with the guys," he said. But it actually happened-all three were on the ice Everything else is a benefit." ''We have a lot of fun getting back onto the ice. last Monday for the Microsoft Hockey Challenge Gordon Brown, defenseman for Microsoft, said the ''You always miss the stories and all the time we 2001. game satisfied two objectives. were with each other. It's something you always miss. The night was filled with nostalgia of "It helps us raise money for the kids, It's part of the game." great Flyer teams. of past and the enter­ Arm Age and Hockey Fights Cancer, and The only slight edge Microsoft players may have taining havoc on the ice that the Hansons allows us to fill our fantasies of playing had in the game was they were a little younger than had created with Paul Newman. some of the big boys," Brown said. the Flyers. The Microsoft.NET team is a Seattle­ Even though the score was 124 in But experience seems to have outweighed youth, based hockey club that is touring the coun- favor of the Flyers Alumni, it did not real­ except for the next day's soreness. try to raise money for different charities related to ly matter because the Microsoft team was facing for­ "Your mind thinks you can do it but your body helping children. mer NHL players, some of whom were Stanley Cup doesn't respond," Parro said. "You feel it the next Steve Hanson, one of the three brothers, said it is winners, and having a blast doing it. Most teams day." important to give back to the community. would not have even scored a single goal. Valentine said he ~ever imagined he would ever be 'The biggest thing is that we raised, in over two "I kind of summarize it as the men taught the boys a part of a game involved with former Flyers. and a half years, $3.5 million in charity," he said. "One a lesson tonight," Valentine said. "I've only played hockey the last four or five of the things we never forget is where you come from, "Before the first three minutes the guys figured years," he said. ''It's a dream come true to just play THE REVIEW/Imernet Photo and that's what the Flyers and Hansons do." they could win this game. After the three or four min­ Two of the Hanson brothers, famous for their roles in the cult­ Microsoft's goalkeeper Brian Valentine said repay- utes, then it was pretty obvious. It's a whole different see ALUMNI page B7 favorite ''Slapshot," played for the Microsoft team Monday night 1( ! • THE REVIEW • March 2-4, 2001 JY Henderson cool under fire ' . . .· . < . ;;~f:~~ ::~:; Afte.t li.ftingD~laJ;V~ ' .. :, to a. No~:.'l..seed-ili ~hiS'<· BY ROB ERDMAN Pride, the Hens would also be forced to stellar this season. tant] under 'Coach K[rzyzew ki]," Sports Editor face the reality of losing six of their vet­ While urgency in Newark ran Henderson said. "I had an idea, but I Going into the 2000-2001 carn­ eran members to graduation. high, poise and composure returned to didn't know what to expect to find as I ,·«~IJ:JJ;;e':irf.~~; paign, the Delaware men's basketball - . ted with The Review ~. As if that were not enough, the Delaware on July 21 in the form of sat in the decision maker's seat for the team had clinched NCAA tournament ,/'about his ouilook on > Delaware basketball program would be David Henderson. first time. berths ·by winning the America East without the services of head coach - "Most people would feel pres- · ''What I learned under 'Coach K' ~-: fOOfhif!g. Conference Tournament in two of the and program savior- Mike Brey, who sure," said Henderson, who has guided is preparation. We've always been pre­ previous three years. left for Notre Dame. the Hens to an 18-9 mark (14-4 in the pared going into all of our games. Led by names like Mike Pegu~, Needless to say, campus-wide America East) this season. "But person­ "We had a tough schedule early, Kestutis Marciulionis and John Gordon, expectations for the Hens were less than ally, because of my character, I haven't but we were able to~eompete . And in the the Hens set a precedent for success - felt any pressure at all. process, we got better. Now we just anything less than an NCAA ''I am very confident in what I do want to play the game well." tournament slot was not because I love the game of basketball. · Along with the ideal of prepared­ acceptable. It's supposed to be a game, and you're ness learned at Duke, Henderson said However, last year supposed to have fun playing it." his own personality has rubbed off on was a stumbling block But how can you motivate athletes the players, adding to their success. for Delaware, as it fell to have fun and perform at their highest "I am very competitive in the seven points short of levels when most outsiders had already sense that I am a leader," he said ''That expectations, losing 76- classified the season as a rebuilding year is the key in managing a group. 69 to Hofstra in the before the first tip off? "Group management is very America East ''I don't listen to outside sources important because once you lose ordei', Championship game. that talk about the history,'' he said you lose focus. If you lose focus, it In addition to the "You then can get caught up in the pres­ could be the fall of the group." disappointment caused sures of it all. It makes it hard for you to Henderson had some help main­ by the loss to the perform. taining focus and order on the team ''When I played the game, there from the other assistant coaches, includ­ was no pressure for me. Now, when I ing Tyrone Perry, who learned the sys­ .. ,\\center and discu~stti:( · coach, there is no pressure for me tem as a player under Brey. ; his long journey;.~. either." "Having assistant coaches, like Ty, Henderson, whose resume is important because he was here before includes an assistant coaching position I was, and I can go to him for insight," at Duke, along with an illustrious colle­ Henderson said. "He knew all the play­ ·Desperate to find a cut­ giate career with the Blue Devils, ers already, and having in ide infonna­ away brgck{t for the, stepped into a situation that demanded tion like that is good for the staff. ' ·· A ..'E. Champiorzship . immediate results. The perfect combination of prepa­ · Tournament,to put on And he delivered. ration, management and assi tant your fridge? Wartt to ' . This year, Henderson's squad has coaches has produced a pro perou sea­ · know how many games locked up the No. 2 seed in the son thus far. Hofstra _has won .this , America East Conference Tournament, As March Madnes begins, how­ season? Interested}ti ., besting last year'_s No. 3 finish. ever, new expectations of extended which- player .ranks 'The players have done a great j<;>b postseason play are tlouri hing, but eighth in average -fmding what we were supposed to Henderson said he is confident in spite steals per game·?:The ''. accomplish as a team,'' he said. "We've of the buildup. search is over. had individual contributions towards "We have already been through our total team effort." big games, and we know how to get mentally prepared,' he aid. "Therefore, we know we can go through the games with the poise we want to have." When playing big games Henderson said, anxiou ne scan over­ whelm a player who is not accustomed to it. However, However, he said he would draw that only from his acclaimed po tseason experi­ partia ly ence at Duke, both as a player and a St~phen Starks answers the ques- coach, to ready hi team for po tseason tion about how Henderson kept action. the team flourishing and prevented it "Because I personally have been from falling a step behind the coinpeti­ through a lot, and we as a team have ton. been through a lot, I think I can put He said, along with the outstand­ them at ease," Henderson aid. 'There ing efforts put forth by his players, the will be some nervousness initially, but knowledge he gained while in Dwham that's pait of the g__ame. has helped him make the transition from "I know how to settle them down, - assistant to head coach very auspicious. and get them ready to.play in the big ''I learned everything [as an assis- game."

I 1 • t ) • . • THE REVIEW • March 2-4, 2001 Inside: Henderson cool under fire Henderson p.2 After lifting Delaware to a No. 2-seed in his BY ROB ERDMAN Pride, the Hens would also be forced to stellar this eason. tant] under 'Coach K[ r1 y1.ew-. ki !." first year head coach, Spans Editor face the reality of lo ing six of their vet­ While urgency in Newark ran Henderson said. '"I had an idea. but I David Henderson chat Going into the 2000-2001 canl- eran members to graduation. high, poise and composure returned to didn't know what to expect to find lli I paign, the Delaware men's ba~ketball ted with The Review A if that were not enough, the Delaware on July 21 in the fom1 of sat in the decision maker'.· seat for the tean1 had clinched NCAA touman1ent about his outlook on Delaware basketball program would be David Henderson. first time. berths by winning the America East coaching. without the services of head coach - "Mo t people would feel pre - · "What l learned under 'Coach K' Conference Tournament in two of the and program avior- Mike Brey who sure," aid Hender on, who has guided is preparation. We' e always been pre­ previous three years. left for Notre Dame. the Hens to an 18-9 mark ( 14-4 in the pared going into all of our game. . Tourney Preview p. 3 Led by names like Mike Pegue , Needle s to say, campus-wide America East) this season. "But person­ "We had a tough :chedule early, Billy WeNs has lots of Kestuti Marciulionis and John Gordon, expectations for the Hen were less than ally, because of my character, I haven't but we were able to-compete. And in the opinions, especially on the Hens set a precedent for succes felt any pre sure at all. process, we got better. Now we just this weekend's tourney. anything less than an NCAA "I am very confident in what I do want to play the game well." Wells takes a close look tournament slot was because I love the game of basketball. Along with the ideal of prepared­ at every team and acceptable. It's supposed to be a game, and you're ne s learned at Duke. Henderson aid makes his title pick. However, last year supposed to have fun playing it." his own personality has rubbed off on was a stumbling block But how can you motivate athletes the player , adding to th ir s ucce~s. Ajmal Basit pgs. 4-5 for Delaware, as it fell to have fun and perfonn at their highest "I am very competitive in the Ajma/ Basit has been seven points short of levels when most outsiders had already sense that I am a leader, .. he said. ··That misunderstood during expectations, losing 76- classified the season as a rebuilding year is the key in managing a group. to Hofstra in the his playing career. 69 before the fir t tip off? ''Group management i very America East Intense on the court, "I don't listen to outside sources important because once you lose order, gentle off of it, Basit Championship game. that talk about the hi tory," he said. you lo e focu . If you lo ·e focus, it has made a big impres In addition to the ·'You then can get caught up in the pre - could be the fall of the group." di ·appointment caused sion in his one and only sures of it all. It makes it hard for you to Henderson had ·ome help main­ by the loss to the season in the America perfonn. taining focu and order on the team East. The Review sat "When I played the gan1e, there from the other assistant coaches. includ­ dmvn with the senior was no pressure for me. Now, when I ing Tyrone Perry. who I amed the ys­ center and discussed coach. there i no pre sure for me tem as a player under Br y. his long journey. either." "Having assistant coache , like Ty, Henderson, whose resume is important because he was here before includes an as. i tant coaching po ition l was. and I can go to him for in. ight," ' Bracket and Stats p. 6 at Duke, along with an illu ·triou colle­ Henderson said ... H knew all the play­ Desperate 10 find a cut­ giate career with the Blue Devil . ers already, and hav ing insid infonna­

away bracket for the < tepped into a situation that demanded tion like that i good forth . talr.·· A. E. Championship immediate result . The perfect combinati on ol prepa­ Tournament to put on And he delivered. ration, management and :.1'>!-.i~tant yow· fridge? Want to Thi. year, Hender on's squad has coaches ha. · produced a pro!-.perous sea­ know how many games locked up the No. 2 ·eed in the son thu · far. Hofstra has won this America East Conference Toumament As March Madncs-. begin ·. how­ season? Interested in be ting last year's No. 3 fini . h. e er. new xpectati ons of extended which pla)er ranks "1l1e player have done a great job po. tsea on play are n ourishing, but eighth in average finding what we were uppo ed to Henderson said he is contident in spite accomplish as a team," he aid. ''We've steals per game? The of the buildup. had individual contributions towards search is over. "We have already been through our total tean1 effort." big games. and ' e know how to get mentally prepar d:· he said. ·Therefor . A. E. Coaches Poll p. 7 we know we can ~o through the game The people who spend with the poi!'le we \A.'ant to ha\'e."' When playing big ~ames . their lives WW) lizing players make their Henderson said. anx iousness can on~r­ whelm a player who is not accu. tomed choices for the best of to it. the 2000-200/ season However, Howe\'cr. he said he would draw in the Am,erica East. that only from hi s acclaimed post<.,ea!-.Gn e.\pcri­ partia ly ence at Dul--.c. hoth a~ a player and a Stephen Starks p. s answers the ques- coach. to read; hi' team for po. tsca. on The America East's tion about how Henderson kept action. leading scorer talks the team tlouri hing ar1d prevented it "'Because I pcrsonal l] hav be n about his dream season from falling a step behind the competi­ through a lot. and \-\"l.: a.-. a team ha,·e and his climb from a ton. b en through a lot. I think I can put role player to an All­ He said, along with the outstand­ them at ease." Hend rson -;aid . ·There Conference peiforflJer. ing effort put forth by hi players, the will be ome nervousne!'ls initial!_. but knowledge he gained while in Durham that's pa~t of the game. ha helped him make the transition from "I know how to 'ettle them down. as istant to head coach very auspicious. and get them ready to. play in the big "I learned everything [as an assis- game." THE REVIEW • March 2-4,2001 Henderson cool under fire

BY ROB ERDMAN Pride, the Hens would also be forced to stellar this season. tant] under 'Coach K[rzyzew ki]," Spons Editor face the reality of losing six of their vet­ While urgency in Newark ran Henderson said. "I had an idea, but I Going into the 2000-2001 cam­ eran members to graduation. high, poise and composure returned to didn't know what to expect to find as I paign, the Delaware men's basketball As if that were not enough, the Delaware on July 21 in the form of sat in the decision maker' seat for the team had clinched NCAA tournament Delaware basketball program would be David Henderson. first time. berths ·by winning the America East without the services of head coach - ''Most people would feel pres- · "What I learned under 'Coach K' Conference Tournament in two of the and program savior- Mike Brey, who sure," said Henderson, who has guided is preparation. We've always been pre­ previous three years. left for Notre Dame. the Hens to an 18-9 mark (14-4 in the pared going into all of our games. Led by names like Mike Pegu~, Needless to say, campus-wide America East) this season. "But person­ "We had a tough schedule early, expectations for the Hens were less than ally, because of my character, I haven't but we were able toJcompete. And in the Kestutis Marciulionis and John Gordon, ·~~~~~ii~~~~~~J the Hens set a precedent for success - felt any pressure at all. process, we got better. Now we just ~ · anything less than an NCAA "I am very confident in what I do want to play the game well." tournament slot was not because I love the game of basketball. Along with the ideal of prepared­ acceptable. It's supposed to be a game, and you're ness learned at Duke, Henderson said However, last year supposed to have fun playing it" his own personality has rubbed off on was a stumbling block But how can you motivate athletes the players, adding to their success. for Delaware, as it fell to have fun and perform at their highest "I am very competitive in the seven points short of levels when most outsiders had already sense that I am a leader," he said. ''That .expectations, losing 76- classified the season as a rebuilding year is the key in managing a group. 69 to Hofstra in the before the first tip off? "Group management is very America East "I don't listen to outside sources important because once you lose order, Championship game. that talk about the history," he said. you lose focus. If you lose focus, it In addition to the ''You then can get caught up in the pres­ could be the fall of the group." disappointment caused sures of it all. It makes it hard for you to Henderson had some help main­ by the loss to the perform. taining focus and order on the team ''When I played the game, there from the other assi tant coaches, includ­ was no pressure for me. Now, when I ing Tyrone Perry, who learned the sys­ coach, there is no pressure for me tem as a player under Brey. either." "Having assistant coaches, like Ty Henderson, whose resume is important because he was here before includes an assistant coaching position I was, and I can go to him for in ight," at Duke, along with an illustrious colle­ Henderson said. "He knew all the play­ -~ :," ~Desperate ' to ftrfd · ~ cut: giate career with the Blue Devils, ers already, and having inside infonna­ J .alfay brackfd far ,ther . · stepped into a situation that demanded tion like that is good for the staff." .,_ · ·. :· A. .-- ~· Chmrrpionship- ., immediate results. The perfect combination of prepa­ · .· ·Toumame-lt! .to put on And he delivered. ration, management and as i tant yolu fridge? Want ·!0 . This year, Henderson's squad has coaches has produced a pro perou sea­ 2 seed .. know how many glimes locked up the No. in the son thus far. .Hofstra has won Jhis . America East Conference Tournament, As March Madne begins, how­ besting last year's No. 3 finish. ever, new expectations of extended . se~l!n? lntereS,ted zfi ">. which pli:Iyer f.ariks ''The playe~ have done a great j<_}b postseason play are flouri bing, but -fmding what we were supposed to Henderson said he is confident in spite · eighth in averag~ , accomplish as a team," he said. "We've steals per-game !.' The.-' of the buildup. search ·is over. ·· .. had individual contributions towards "We have already been through our total team effort" big games, and we know how to get mentally prepared," he aid. ''Therefore, we know we can go through the games with the poise we want to have." Tfie people who.spimd: When playing big games, 'their livl!~ anayl¢.!&g.,h:., ;: pulyers make their .. . ''· . ,. Henderson said, anxiou nes can over­ whelm a player who is not accustomed choices for the besi"'(f '' to it. the 2000-2001 seasiln · However, However, he aid he would draw that only from his acclaimed po tseason experi­ partia ly ence at Duke, both as a player and a answers the ques- coach, to ready hi team for po tseason tion about how Henderson kept action. the team flourishing and prevented it "Because l personally have been from falling a step behind the coinpeti­ through a lot, and we as a team have ton. been through a lot, I think I can put He said, along with the outstand­ them at ease," Henderson aid. "'There ing efforts put forth by his players, the will be some nervousne initially, but knowledge he gained while in Durham that's part of the g_ame. has helped him make the transition from "I know how to settle them down, - assistant to head coach very auspicious. and get them ready to. play in the big "I learned everything [as an ass is- game." f ) • •

' Iff 1 I • • THE REVIEW • March 2-4, 2001 Inside: Henderson cool under fire Henderson p.2 After lifting Delaware· to a No. 2-seed in his BYROBERDMAN Pride, the Hens would also be forced to stellar this season. tant] under 'Coach Klrzyzewski] ," first year head coach, Spons Editor face the reality of losing six of their vet­ While urgency in Newark ran Henderson aid. "I had an idea, but I David Henderson chat Going into the 2000-2001 cam- eran members to graduation. high, poi e and composure returned to didn't know what to expect to find as I ted with The Review paign, the Delaware men's basketball As if that were not enough, the Delaware on July 21 in the form of sat in the decision maker' eat for the team had clinched NCAA tournament about his outlook on Delaware basketball program would be David Henderson. first time. berth by winning the America East coaching. without the services of head coach - "Most people would feel pre - · "What I learned under 'Coach K' Conference Tournament in two of the and program savior- Mike Brey, who sure," said Henderson, who has guided is preparation. We' ve alway. been pre­ previous three years. left for Notre Dame. the Hens to an 18-9 mark (14-4 in the pared going into al l of our game . Tourney Preview p. 3 Led by names like Mike Pegu ~s, Needless to say, campus-wide America East) thi eason. "But person­ "We had a tough chedule early, Billy Wefls has lots of Kestutis Marciulionis and John Gordon, expectations for the Hens were less than ally because of my character, I haven't but we were able to-compete. And in the opinions, especially on the Hens set a precedent for success - felt any pressure at all. process, we got better. Now we just this weekend's tourney. anything less than an NCAA "I am very confident in what I do want to play the game well." Wells takes a close look tournament slot was because I love the game of basketball. Along with the ideal of prepared­ at every team and acceptable. It's supposed to be a game, and you're ness learned at Duke, Hender on said makes his title pick. However, last year supposed to have fun playing it." his own personality has rubbed off on was a stumbling block But how can you motivate athlete the players, adding to their uccess. Ajmal Basit pgs. 4-5 for Delaware, as it fell to have fun and perform at their highe t "I am very competitive in the · Ajmal Basit has been seven points short of levels when most outsiders had already sen e that I am a leader," he aid. 'That misunderstood during expectations, losing 76- classified the season as a rebuilding year i the key in managing a group. his playing career. 69 to Hofstra in the before the first tip off? "Group management i very Intense on the court, America East "I don't listen to outside source important becau e once you lose order, gentle off of it, Bas it Championship game. that talk about the hi tory," he said. you lose focu . If you lo e focu , it has made a big impres In addition to the 'You then can get caught up in the pres­ could be the fall of the group." disappointment caused sion in his one and only sures of it all. It make it hard for you to Hendet on had some help main­ by the loss to the season in the America perform. taining focu and order on the team East. The Review sat ''When I played the game, there from the other assistant coache , includ­ down with the senior was no pressure for me. Now, when I ing Tyrone Perry, who learned th Y'­ center and discussed coach, tllere is no pre sure for me tem as a player under Brey. his long journey. either." "Having istant coache , like Ty, Henderson who e resume i important becau e he was here before includes an as istant coaching po ition I was and I can go to him "D r in ight; Bracket and Stats p. 6 at Duke, along with an illustriou colle­ Henderson aid. ·'He knew al l the play­ Desperate to find a cut­ giate career with the Blue Devil ers already, and ha ing inside info nna­ away bracket for the stepped into a ituation that demanded tion like that i good for the taff.'. A. E. Championship immediate re ults. The perl'ect combinati on of prepa­ Tournament to put on And he delivered. ration, management and assi 'tarH your fridge? Want to Thi year, Henderson' quad has coaches ha · produc d a pro~perou · sea­ know how many games lo ked up the No. 2 eed in the on d1u far. Hofstra has won this America East Conference Tournament, A March Madnes. beein ·, how­ season? Interested in besting last year's No. 3 fini sh. ever, new expectation.· of e tended which player ranks . ''The player have done a great job post eason play are 1louri ·hing, but eighth in average finding what we were suppo ed to Henderson said he i confident in pite accompli h as a team," he aid. "We've steals per game? The of the buildup. had individual contribution towards search is over. "We have already been through our total tean1 effort." big game , and we know h w to get mentally prepared,'' he said. 'Therefore, A. E. Coaches Poll p. 7 we know we can !! through the game The people who spend with d1e poise we want to have.'' their lives anaylizing When pi a ing big eame . players make their Hender on aid, an ' i ou~ n e ·s can over­ choices for the best of whelm a player who is not accustomed to it. the 2000-2001 season However, However, he said h would draw in the America East. that only from hi. acclaimed po. t' e~ on experi­ partia ly ence at Duke. both a. a pia er and a Stephen Starks p. s answers the ques- coach. to r ady his team for posLo.; LL·on The America East's tion about how Henderson kept action. leading scorer talks the tean1 tlouri hing and prevented it "Becau e 1 personally ha e been about his dream season from falling a tep behind the competi­ d1rough a I t, and we as a team have and his clinib from a ton. been through a lot, 1 think I c::m put role player to an Ali­ He aid, along with the outstand­ them at ease," Henderson aid. ·'Th re Conference perjorrl)£r. ing efforts put forth by his players, the will be some nervou 'ness initially, but knowledge he gained while in Durham that's pa.tt of the game. has helped him make the transition from "I know how to ettle them down, - assistant to head coach very auspiciou . and get them ready to. play in the big

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Senior guard Billy Wells me, Vermont is a whole lot better used to playing in the park. If they fake you a million times, he's defi­ doesn't really matter to me, knows the America East pretty than their record shows. In my get to playing together, they could nitely a first-team all-league. They whether it's here or there, I just well. He took the time to tell The opinion, they're one of the top four be scary. That's very tough to play have three guys on their team, want to still be playing March 10. Review's Jeff Gluck about the or five teams in the league. If you against. I think . that's my advan­ Kouser, Starks and Linderman, teams in the tournament and how look at them on paper with Tony tage over a lot of guys ...:..._ I play who could be player of the year. So 1. Hofstra (23-4, 16-2) - Jay Delaware might fare. The follow­ Orciari, and the way T.J. with toughness, and you're just you gotta watch out for them. Wright, the great coach that he is, ing is Billy Wells' America East Sorrentine is playing, and they got stronger, you're bigger, you make They don't really scare me, we always has them prepared. They tourney preview - in his own that guy Trevor Gaines, and plays happen for yourself, you match up really good against them. have a great, terrific leader in words ... Shipley, he really came on, so for don't wait for somebody to make a I mean, they're scary, but we don't Jason Hernandez. He rallies his us to beat them the way we did (91- play for you. have the same matchup problems troops every night to come play. BY BILLY WELLS 68 on Feb. 22), that was really with them thar we have with Then they have probably the lead­ WITH JEFF GLUCK huge. To me, they're right behind S. Boston University (14-13, 9-9-) Maine. ing candidate for [200 1] Player of Ace Reporters Maine. I really think they could - I expected them to be . a lot the Year, Norman Richardson. make a run in the tournament. lower than where they are, but they 2. Delaware (18-9, 14-4) - I think Apodaca is just playing great for 10. Hartford (4-23, 1-17 America That's a scary team for me, really surprised me. Every game they have the best big man in the them. They have a team full of East) -It's just one of those _years because they can get some wins. If they played, they played tough. league in Ajmal Basit. Greg Miller guys that understand their roles. for them. They don't have the tal­ any of the bottom teams were to They've got some big wins, some coming on late is good for them. It's not just a whole bunch of guys ent they've had in the past. If knock off Hofstra, this is the one quality wins in the league. I fig­ He's more than just a jump-shooter going up for their shot. They're you' re 4-23, it's hard to get up for who could beat them. They're a ured Vermont and Towson would now, he's driving to the basket. definitely the favorite, and I don't a game, it's really tough. I've been tough team - I'm very surprised end up in front of them. Austen is really starting to play s~e them getting knocked off on losing teams before, where we at their record. well again I think he kind of has it unless it's in the championship lost five or six in a row. It's tough 4. Maine (17-10, 10-8) - Since going now, which is big. Mo is game. I didn't think they were to really come play your hardest 7. Towson (11-16, 7-11)- This is I've been at college, I'm 1-4 rebounding for us now and he's going to be as good after losing when you know that nine times out another team that is a whole lot against them, so there's noffifng lilaymg- some

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I would line up for pictures, he "was steals). process started all over again. what Basit has finally gotten this sea­ thing I bring to the game. always in the back row." Schools such as · Seton Hall, "I looked at Delaware, son. He has recorded 17 double-dou­ "I don't want people to think I'm Basit first played competitively Kansas, Providence and Tulane, Southern California, bles, which has kept him among the a bad kid because I got in a little alter­ during his freshman year at a Massachusetts heavily recruited Basit. Rutgers and Georgia State," he nation's leaders all season. · cation with my coach at UMass. I'm Brooklyn high school. He also received visits from Syracuse says. "I was talking to a lot of He recorded double-doubles just a regular kid - I made some mis­ "I tried out fo~ the junior varsity coach Jim Boeheim and DePaul's Pat the guys, like [current Hens in his first five games of the takes, but I'm just trying to get myself team," he says. "I showed up in sweat­ Kennedy. assistant coach] Tyrone Perry, season (a feat that had not together.'' . pants and track sneakers. But I could Basit, wooed by UMass coach who was still playing, and he been done by a Hens' Basit is majoring in economics dunk, so I made the team." John Calipari, chose to spend his col­ had great things to say about player since 1963) and with a minor in Black American 1 Basit eventually transferred to St. lege career in Amherst. the coach here." is averaging 15.7 points Studies. On Senior Night, with his Lower your standards for a stood out from the crowd in more Anthony's High School in Jersey City, 'They were No. 1 in the nation at Basit says even bench per game. mother and two-year-old sister in moment, and imagine working at a ways than one. N.J., where, during his senior year, the the time, and my high school was No. players were enthusiastic The only negativi­ attendance, he spoke to fans after the fast food restaurant. "My mother went through col­ team was named USA Today's high 1," he says. "It just seemed like it about former Delaware head ty Basit faces is incor­ game. Each day, you arrive at work, lege, so I had always been exposed to school national champions. would fit. I figured they'd have a lot coach Mike Brey. rect perceptions about 'The thing I'm most proud of is hoping and praying today is the day a lot of different things that other kids "Out of the 15 guys on that team, of TV games and all the exposure "You always want to his character. that I'm going to be the second person that you get to work the coveted deep where I grew up didn't get exposed 11 are now playing in Division 1," would be great. play for someone that people After he trans­ in my family to graduate college," he fryer. to," he says. Basit says. "Also, I thought it was going to enjoy playing for," he says. ferred, The Sporting said as he waved to his mother. "My You want it so badly. You know if He frrst started playing basketball Former teammates include be a good opportunity to play because "I didn't really want to come News published a mother was the first, and now I'm you just got the chance, if your crum­ when he was in fifth grade. By eighth Rashon Burno (a junior guard who is they didn't have a lot of guys at my here though, because I story that suggested going to do it." my boss would just see your potential, grade, he was 6-feet-2 inches and DePaul's team captain), Anthony position. But it looked more attractive thought it was too small Just Basit was such a Basit's talent hasn't gone unno­ you could be the one of the best could dunk "two or three out of lO Perry (a senior guard who starts for than it was.'' the whole America East was. troublemaker that he ticed by scouts, as he has been invited french-fry makers to come out of your times.'' Georgetown) and Devlon Arrington (a In the summer before Basit's a smaller conference, so I would not last more to several post-season camps. restaurant in a long time. Basit says he was always the senior guard for Florida State, fourth freshman year, Calipari bolted for the was pretty skeptical about than 10 games on "I know I can play against the All you need is an opportunity. tallest kid in his class. When everyone in the Atlantic Coast Conference in NBA's New Jersey Nets and was that. the Delaware ros­ more well-known players," he says. "I Ajmal Basit has been living this replaced at UMass by Bruiser Flint. "But some­ ter. know I have the talent to do that. story for the past ti ve years. "I didn't want to go there any­ times, "Everybody Sometimes when you have a smaller But no, Basit hasn't experienced more," Basit says. have called me about school, you don't get the respect. You frustration over being forced to make He asked to be released from the that," he says. '1t just have to go out there and prove to cheeseburgers instead of french fries. letter of intent that he signed, but the hurt my feelings, people that you're worthy of getting Substitute basketball for fast food, and new staff refused to let him leave. because people that recognition." it's the same situation - he wanted an NCAA rules state that if a player don't know me Basit says he loves the game too opportunity. leaves a school and breaks his letter of , read that, and then much to ever quit playing, but he will It's just that for a while, no one intent without permission, it is ruled when they see you not play professionally unless he can gave him a chance. as an "unfavorable transfer," Basit a decision that's going on TV, they think financially benefit from it. Basit enters the America East says. to be better for you in I'm a bad kid. "If I have to go to Iraq and play tournament ranked 15th in the nation "I would have lost a year of eligi­ the long run." "Some peo­ for $10,000, I'm not going to go," he with 9.9 rebounds per game and is bility III had gone, so I just figured I'd Basit sat out for ple have this per­ says. 16th in blocks with 2.9 per game. He stay," he says. a year under NCAA ception of me that Asked about his chances for mak­ is also Delaware's leading scorer. Unfortunately, the situation didn't transfer rules, and I was a thug. But ing the NBA, Basit smiles. "If you get an opportunity to turn around for the better. Yet he still then was ready to all these guys on "I won't say it's zero, but I'm not showcase what you can do and you­ didn't want to leave. play for the Hens the team would [North Carolina star] Joe Forte," he succeed at it, that's great," Basit says. "I loved the school too much," he when Brey left for say that I'm just a says with a laugh. "I'm not going to "But if you never get an opportunity, says. "Socially, it was great, and I was Notre Dame. regular guy." be a first round pick. I'm the type of then it's not worth it. I actually got one doing really well academically, and I "I was disap­ Basit says people guy who will have to go to camps and and I'm making the most of it, so I'm wanted to graduate. pointed about that," often misinterpret play well to get invited to a workout. just really happy that T got a chance to "I always thought that if I just he says. "But it tl1e great deal of "Maybe if I do get there I'll go come here." stuck with it, things would turn turned out that it emotion he brings the unconventional way ..:...... go over­ If the producers of "Hoop around for me, but they just never was really good to the sport. seas for a couple of years, you know, Dreams" ever wanted to make a did.'' that Coach [David] "A lot of things I the detour.'' sequel, they should have started fol­ During Basit's junior year, he had Henderson came do, like jumping But no matter what happens, lowing Basit long ago. what he describes as "an altercation" here. around and things Basit says he is grateful to finally have After all, his journey has all the with Flint. "Now that I'm like that, you know gotten his opportunity. Making the elements of a good movie plot. For "T just disagreed about the way I a little older, I real­ it's easy to pick me NBA would just be the finishing Delaware's senior center, the road was being used," he says. "I thought, ized the only thing out because I'm mak­ touches on a wonderful turnaround. started in New York. 'I've been putting it off for so long, you can really ask ing those gestures," "I defmitely have a chance," he "It was just me and my mother, maybe it's time for me to make a for in anything he says. "Some peo­ says. "I just think the future is very we were poor," he says. "You know, move.'" you're doing is an ple don't like me for bright for me." the usual story - single parent, living Basit says word got out that he opportunity." it, and I understand The pJ:Qducers of "Hoop Dreams" in Brooklyn. It was pretty tough." was leaving, and the whole recruiting An opportunity is that, but it's just some- definitely missed out. But from the beginning, Basit has THE REVIEW· March 2-4,2001

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ScORING REBOUNDING PLAYER TEAM G FG 3PG FT AVG PLAYER TEAM G OFF DEF AVG S TEPHEN SPARKS DREXEL 26 198 50 71 19.9 A.IMAL B AS IT DELAWARE 23 132 225 9.7 MIKE KOUSER DREXEL 26 155 46 99 17.5 MIKE KOUSER DREXEL 26 157 290 8.8 TONY 0RCIARI VERMONT 25 134 81 . 87 17.4 CARVELL AMMONS MAINE 27 144 266 8.0 NORMAN RICHARDSON HOFSTRA 27 147 38 135 17.3 TREVOR GAINES VERMONT 27 159 301 7.6 J OE LlNDERMAN DREXEL 23 132 0 133 17.3 G REG SPRINGFIELD HOFSTRA 27 141 270 7.1 J ULIAN D UNKLEY MAINE 27 147 41 104 16.3 J OE LlNDERMAN DREXEL 26 198 399 7.0 RICKEY CRANFORD N'EASTERN 25 165 15 57 16.1 ROBERTO GmENS HOFSTRA 25 130 262 6.9 MARCUS BLOSSOM N'EASTERN 27 152 51 73 15.9 . J ULIAN D UNKLEY MAINE 25 165 333 6.6 A1MAL BASIT D ELAWARE 27 159 2 105 15.7 TYRONE HAMMICK N' EASTERN 27 147 306 6.1 CARVELL AMMONS MAINE 26 l57 4 87 15.6 SAM S UTTON TOWSON 26 155 333 6.0 TF \\I ST \TISTICS FIELD GoAL PERCENTAGE (Minimum ~ FG made per game). STEALS PLAYER TEAM G FG· FGA PCT PLAYER TEAM G NUM AVG ScORING OFFENSE G Prs. PER GAME JoE LINDERMAN DREXEL 23 132 225 .587 BRIAN ALLEN TowsoN 27 62 2.30 . CARVELl- AMMONS MAINE 26 157 290 . .541 MARCUS BLOSSOM N'EASTERN 27 58 2.15 MAINE 27 2120 78.5 BRAIN BARBER TOWSON 27 144 266 .541 SAM SUTTON TOWSON 27 52 1.93 DREXEL 26 1952 75.1 AlMALBASrt DELAWARE 27 159 301 .528 RYAN IVERSEN DELAWARE 27 50 1.85 DELAWARE 27 2022 74.9 SAM SurroN TOWSON 27 141 270 .522 KEVIN FITzGERALD BOSTON U. 27 46 1.70 HOFSTRA 27 1995 73.9 STEPHEN STARKS DREXEL 26 198 399 .496 Bru..Y WELLS DELAWARE 27 45 1.67 VERMONT 27 1991 73.7 TREVOR GAINES VERMONT 25 130 262 .496 JASON HERNANDEZ HOFSTRA 27 45 1.67 NORlllEASTERN 27 1989 73.7 RICKEY CRANFORD N'EASTERN 25 165 333 .495 NORMAN RICHARDSON HoFSTRA 27 44 1.63 NEW HAMPSHIRE 27 1959 72.6 JULIAN DUNKLEY. MAINE 27 147 306 .480 T. J. SORRENTINE VERMONT 27 41 1.52 TOWSON 27 1881 69.7 MIKE KOUSER DREXEL 26 155 333 .465 RICK APoDACA HOFSTRA 26 39 1.50 BOSTON U. 27 1830 67.8 HARTFORD 27 1759 65.1 THREE-POINT PERCENTAGE (Minimum 1.5 made per game) AssiSTS Fm.D GoAL PeT. FG FGA PCT. PLAYER TEAM G 3FG FGA PCT PLAYER TEAM G NUM AVG STEPHEN STARKS DREXEL 26 50 115 .435 T. J. SORRENTINE VERMONT 27 152 5.63 HOFSTRA 691 1454 ,475 Bn.LYWELLS DELAWARE 27 66 153 .431 Asm.EY HowARD DREXEL 26 126 4.85 DREXEL 696 1465 -.475 BRAIN ALLEN TOWSON 27 46 110 .418 COLIN DoNAHUE NEW HAMP. 27 128 4.74 DELAWARE 723 1561 .463 MATT TuRNER BOSTONU. 25 45 115 .391 SAM SUTTON TOWSON 27 118 4.37 MAINE 735 1588 .463 AUSTEN ROWLAND DELAWARE 26 52 135 .385 AUSTEN ROWLAND DELAWARE 26 113 4.35 TOWSON 655 1416 ..463 Asm.EY HOWARD DREXEL 26 .48 125 .384 TORY CAVAlJERI MAINE 27 117 4.33 NOimfEASTERN 758 1646 . .461 MARCUS BLOSSOM N'EASTERN 27 51 133 .383 JEAN BAIN N'EASTERN 27 115 4.26 VERMONT 710 1618 .439 RYAN IVERSEN DELAWARE 27 41 107 .383 TAMIR GOODMAN TOWSON 27 106 4.08 BOSTON U . 628 1507 .417 MANTAS STORPIRSTIS HARTFORD 27 55 145 .379 BRIAN ALLEN TOWSON 27 110 4.07 HAiti'FORD 606 1484 .408 AUSTIN GANLY NEWHAMP. 27 42 Ill .378 JASON HERNANDEZ HOFSTRA 27 101 3.74 NEW HAMPsHIRE 662 1706 .388

FREE-THROW PERCENTAGE (Minimum 2.5 made per game) BLOCKED SHOTS Fu:E THRow Pcr. FT FTA PCT. PLAYER TEAM G FfM FTA PCT PLAYER TEAM G NUM AVG JASON GROCHOWALSKI BOSTONU. 27 77 89 .865 AlMAL BASIT DELAWARE 27 " 76 2.81 BOSTONU. 392 538 .729 T. J. SoRRENTINE VERMONT 27 77 94 .819 GEORGE AYGAR N ' EASTERN 27 41 1.52 MAINE 470 654 .719 JULIAN DUNKLEY MAINE · 27 104 128 .813 MAIT SHEFTIC VERMONT 26 37 1.42 NoimiEASTERN 336 484 .694 BRIAN BARBER TOWSON 27 93 117 .795 GREG SPRINGFIELD HOFSTRA 27 36 1.33 DREXEL 401 589 .681 JASON HERNANDEZ HOFSTRA 27 77 97 .794 RoB MARQUARDT NEWHAMP. 27 31 1.15 DELAWARE 348 515 .676 AUSTIN GANLY . NEwHAMP. 27 81 103 .786 JEAN FRANCOIS N'EASTERN 26 28 1.08 TOWSON 432 650 .()tiS TONY 0RCIARI VERMONT 25 87 112 .777 ROBERT BATfLE DREXEL 24 23 0.96 NEW HAMPSHIRE 411 625 .658 MARcus BLOSSOM N'EASTERN 27 73 94 .777 SCOTTY JONES VERMONT 27 24 0.89 VERMONT 372 569 .654 STEPHEN STARKS DREXEL 26 71 95 .747 JULIAN DUNKLEY MAINE 27 22 0.81 HoFSTRA 466 714 .653 NORMAN RICHARDSON HOFSTRA 27 135 187 .722 COLIN HAYNES MAINE 27 22 0.81 HARTFORD 389 598 .651 ~ THE REVIEW· March 2-4, 2001 ~

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W-L PCT W-L P(.'T STREAK PLAYER T F.A \1 G FG 3PG F"T VG PI.A) ER TF \\I C OFF OEF ,\\'G Hof·tra 16-2 S9 23-4 .852 Won 15 Sn Pill· '- SP\R"s D1<1 \1 1 26 llJX 50 71 19l) t\1\1\1 H ''1r Dll \\\ \RI 23 132 '1 7 Delaware Won l)l) 14-4 .778 18-9 .667 ~11"1 Kot ~I R DRI \1 I 26 155 -16 17 5 \l lt-.1 K•H ~ I I< DRI \II 26 157 sl Drexel L ost ,' (l 12-o .667 15- J l .577 3 Ttl'-' ORe 1 \RI YIR\1<>'-1 25 13-1 XI X7 17 .-1 C \1{\1 I I \\1 \It l'- \ \I \1"\1 27 1-1-1 Maine 17-10 .629 Lost 27 ~_- ,) 10-8 .556 2 :'\OR\1 \ RIC"IIAKIJSCl'­ Htll ~IR \ ?.7 1-n .\X 115 17 ..\ TRI \llR c; \1 1·\ \I K\l!l'-1 - .6 9-9 Woo -I Bo-aon Univc-rsiry 500 14- 13 .51 8 Jol l.l"\,111 K\IA'- DRI \II 2.' 132 () 17. 3 GKI ( , Si'RI"\!d II I ll lie ll '1 R \ '"" 1-11 1 '0rthcrurcm - 10 .444 9-18 .333 Won Jt I I\'- [){ '-f-:11) ~1 \I "\,I 27 1-1 7 -II 10-1 16.1. JUI LI'-DI I< \I \" I lRI I I 26 I'J ~· 7.0 L ost I ()t) Tow!. n 7-11 .389 11 -16 .407 R lt "'' Cl<\'\ltll

TEAM STATISTICS FIELD GOAL PERCE:'>T.\ C.E (Minimum 5 FG made per game) T EA~ I G FG FCA PCT P L \) F. R T~.. \" c ~DI \\ (; ScoRt'iC OFFE\SE G PTS. PER CA\1E JoF LINDERMAr-. DRI:XI'L 23 132 225 .5X7 BRIA'- Al.ll" TO\\\()"\, 27 62 2 () CARVELL AMMON M A INL 26 157 290 .5-11 I \I l \li:-- U. 27 -16 1.70 H oFSTRA 27 1995 73.9 STEPHEN STARKS DREXEL 26 198 399 .4Y6 BilL) WI· I I.S Dl· l A\\AR~ 27 -15 l.n7 V ERM ONT 27 1991 73 .7 TREVOR GAINES Y ERMO T 25 13 0 262 .-196 J A. 0 1-! ERNANDF-/ H OI-s rR.-\ 27 -15 1.67 N ORTHI::ASTERN 27 1989 73 .7 RICKEY CRANFORD N"EASTERN 25 165 333 .495 NClR!\1A . R ICHARDS0'\1 H orsTRA 27 44 I 61 NEW H AMPSHIRF 27 1959 72.6 J I.I AN D u KLEY M Al E 27 147 306 .-180 T. J. SoRRI:NTINI VrRM0:-11 27 41 1.52 T o w so 27 1881 69.7 MIKE K ou ER DREXEL 26 155 333 .-165 R ICK APODACA H OI·STRA 26 39 1.50 B os roN U. 27 1830 67.8 H ARTFORD 27 17"9 65 . 1 THREE-P OINT PERCENTAGE (Minimum I .5 made per game) Asst T. AVG FIELD COAL P CT. FG FGA P CT. P LAYER TEA~ G 3FG FGA PCT P LAYER TEAM G NUM STEPHEN STARK DREXEL 26 50 115 .-1 35 T. J . SORRb'>TINI: VERMOI'oT 27 152 5.6.\

H OFSTRA 691 1454 .475 BILLY W ELLS D ELAWARE 27 66 153 .43 1 A. HI.I-:.Y H O\\ARD D RI-.XFL 26 12n 4. 5 FW H AM!'. 4.7-1 DREXEL 696 1465 .475 BRAIN ALLEN T owso 27 46 110 .4 1 C ou D o AHL'E 27 128 D ELAWARE 723 156 1 .463 M ATT T URNER B OSTON 25 45 115 .3 91 AM S TT T O\\ SON 27 11 8 4.37 MAl E 735 1588 .463 A USTEN R OWLAND D ELAWARE 26 52 135 .385 AUSTEN R O\\ LAND D EI.AV. ARI:: 26 113 4.35 TOWSON 655 141 6 .463 A SHLEY H OWARD DREXEL 26 48 125 .384 T oRY CAVALIERI M AINE 27 11 7 4.33 NORTHEASTERN 758 1646 .461 MARCUS BLOSSOM N 'EASTERN 27 51 133 .383 J EA B A I N"EASTER 27 11 5 4.26 Y ERMO T 710 1618 .439 R YAN I VERSEN D ELAWARE 27 4 1 107 .383 T AMIR G OODMAN T OWSON 27 106 4.08 B OSTON U. 628 1507 .4 17 MA TAS STORPIRSTIS H ARTFORD 27 55 145 .379 BRIAN A LLE T o v.soN 27 110 4.07 H ARTFORD 606 1484 .408 A ST I GANLY EW H AMP. 27 42 I ll .3 78 JASON H ER:-IAJ'>DEL H of' TRA 27 101 3.74 N EW H AMPSHIRE 662 1706 .388

F REE-THROW PERCE:-ITAGE (Minimum 2.5 made per game) BLOCKED SHOTS F REE THROW P T. FT FTA PCT. P LAYER TEAM G FTM FTA PCT PLAYER TEAM c N ' 1 AVG JASO GRO HOWALSKI B OSTON U. 27 77 89 .865 AJ!\1 AI 8 ASIT D EI.AW-\RI­ 27 76 2.8 1 B OSTO 392 538 .729 T. J . SORRENTINE V ERMONT 27 77 94 .8 19 G EORGI:: A YGAR .EASTERN 27 41 1.52 M AINE 470 654 .719 JULIAN D NKLEY M Al 1E 27 104 1'28 .8 13 M ATT SHHTIC" VI::RMONT 26 .. 7 1.42 ORTH EASTER 336 484 .694 B RIA B ARB ER T o w soN 27 93 117 .795 GRI::G SPRINGFII::LD H OFSTRA 27 36 1.33 DREXEL 401 589 .68 1 J ASON H ER 1ANDEZ H OF TRA 27 77 97 .794 R oll M AR(JL'ARDT 1-\\ H AMP. 27 3 l 1.15 D ELAWARE 348 515 .676 A UST1 GA LY EW HAMP. 27 81 103 .786 J EAN FRANCOIS 'EASTF:RN 26 28 1.08 Towso 1 432 650 .665 T o Y 0RCIARI V ERMONT 25 87 112 .777 R OBERT B ATTLE D RI-XI::L 24 23 0.96 EW H AM!' HIRE 411 625 .658 MARC S BLOSSOM 'EASTERN 27 73 94 .777 SCOlTY JONES VERMONT 27 24 0.89 Y ERM O 'T 372 569 .654 STEPH E STARKS DREXEL 26 71 95 .747 J UA I D u 1KI.EY M AI 1E 27 22 0.8 1 H OFSTRA 466 714 .653 ORMAN R ICHARDSO H OFSTRA 27 135 187 .722 COLIN H AYNES M A l E 27 22 0.81 H ARTFORD 389 598 .651 , I I 'I Friday. March 2 I No. 7Towson I I No. 10 Hartford I I No. 2 DELAWARE I I 2~30 p.m. I No.3 Drexel I

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BY BETH ISKOE third-leading scorer, he also played the is his tum to take the spotlight. Assistant Sports Editor most minutes. This year's Offensive Player of March Madness. Every college The five-time America East the Year certainly stepped up to the basketball fan's favorite part of the Rookie of the We~k narrowly defeated plate and into the limelight. season. The time to reflect on the best runner-up Jason Grochowalski from Starks almost doubled his scor­ of the year. Boston University. · ing average of 10.6 points per game It's finally here. last season to 20.4 this season. Nine out of 10 America East OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE No one else in the category coaches agreed to give their opinions YEAR: received multiple votes. to the best of the 2000-01 conference Being the conference's scoring season. leader on the second-highest scoring MOST UNDERRATED: And the winners are: team in the America East makes a Many games are decided by strong case for being voted offensive what goes on beyond the statistics. PLAYER OF THE YEAR: player of the year. . Hustle and dedication can not be Earning the .respect of your own This statement describes officially recorded, and many players coach is one thing. Earning the respect Drexel's senior guard Stephen give all they can without gaining the of other America East c'oaches is Starks. As well as also having the recognition they deserve. another. highest three-point percentage in the Maine's senior forward Carvell Guiding Hofstra to its second­ conference, he scored a career-high Ammons and Drexel's sophomore consecutive regular season title, and 34 points in a 82-66 victory over host guard Ashley Howard are both play­ leading his team in scoring and steals, Vermont on Jan. 13. ers who are being recognized for not was more than enough for senior for­ Starks received more than half of being recognized. ward Norman Richardson to gain the the coaches' votes, and only his team­ respect he deserved. mate, senior forward Mike Kouser, BIGGEST TRASH TALKER: Richardson led his team in scor­ recorded two or more votes. Whether it be his emotion, his ing 13 times and was twice named attitude or just the way he plays the America East Player of the Week. DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE game, Hens' senior center Ajmal He easily outdistanced his com­ YEAR: Basit appears to trash-talk the most. petition, as no other player received Offense wins ballgames, but Vermont coach Tom Brennan more than one vote. defense wins championships, as the ·finished in a close second, while the cliche goes. entire Northeastern ba ketball team COACH OF THE YEAR: If Hofstra or Delaware win the received a vote as well. After losing Craig "Speedy" tournament championship this season, Claxton, a first-round draft pick and it will be due in large part to the BEST FANS: last season's America East Player of defense of the Pride's senior guard Before the tournament even the Year, Hofstra coach Jay Wright Jason Hernandez or the Hens' senior begins, Delaware will have a huge made all the right moves this season as guard Billy Wells. Both players tied advantage - its fans. he guided his squad to its second-con-· for the honor with three votes apiece. More than haif of the coaches secutive regular season title. agreed the Hens' fans are the toughest His Pride squad currently holds SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR: to play in front of, as Delaware lost two reputable Division I honors. Every team needs a player who only two conference games at ·home Hofstra's 15-game winning streak and can provide a spark off the bench, as all season. 12 road victories are the most in the well as a player able to substitute in a country. game without his team missing a beat. BEST CONFERENCE GAME: In a category voted on by his Delaware's sophomore guard Although there were many good, coaching peers, Wright won by a land­ Ryan Iversen does all that and more, close games, only one can be the best. slide margin. as he has been invaluable off the .Delaware ~s 79-73 victory over bench this season after transferring Hofstra on Nov. 30, which snapped ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: from the University of Minnesota. the Pride's 26-game home winning Many freshme_n in Division I Despite only starting one game, streak, narrowly beat out Hofstra's 89- basketball sit on the bench during their Iverson was the Hens fourth-leading 83 overtime victory in Maine on Feb. first season hoping to learn from the scorer; averaging 9 points per game. 17. upperclassmen. The Hens' clash at the Hofstra However, the Catamounts' fresh­ MOST IMPROVED PLAYER: Arena involved 20 lead-changes and man guard T.J. Sorrentine not only Each year, one player decides it 16 ties. led Vermont in assists and was its THE REVIEW • March 2-4, 2001 • A.E. Coaches Poll 2000-2001 Player of the Year Coach of the Year Rookie of the Year Norman Richardson Jay Wright T.J. Sorrentine Hofstra Hofstra Vermont

BY BETH ISKOE third-leading scorer, heal o played the i. hi tum to take the potli ght. Assiswnt Sports Editor mo t minutes. Thi year' Offensive Player of Offensive March Madne . Every college The five-time America Ea. t the Year certainly stepped up to the Underrated ba ketball fan ' favorite part of the Rookie of the Week nan·owly defeated plate and into the limelight. eason. The time to reflect on the be. t runner-up Ja on Grochowal ·ki from Starks almo t doubled hi s scor­ Tie- Carvell Stephen of the year. Boston University. ing average of I 0.6 point per game It' fin ally here. last eason to 20.4 this season. lAmmons (Maine) Nine out of 10 America East OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE No one el se in the category Starks coache: agreed to give their opinions YEAR: recei ed multiple ote . . and Ashley to the best of the 2000-0 I conference Being the conference' , sc01ing sea on. leader on the econd-highe ·t scoring MOST UNDERRATED: Howard (Drexel) Drexel And the winner are: team in the America East make. a Many games are decided by strong case for being voted offensive what goes on beyond the sta'isti c . . PLAYER OF THE YEAR: player of the year. Hu tie and dedication can not be Earning the respect of your own This statement de. cribe officially recorded, and many pl ayers coach is one thing. Earning the re pect Drexe l" s seni or guard Stephen gi ve all they can without gaining the Trash Talker Defensive of other America East coaches i , Starks. A well a al. o having the recogniti on they des rv . another. hi ghest three-point perc ntage in the Maine's . eni or fon ard Carvell Tie- Billy Guiding Hof tra to its second­ conference, he scored a career-hi gh Ammons and Dre el's sophomore Ajmal con. ecuti ve regul ar sea ·on title, and 34 p o int ~ in a R2-66 ictory over host guard Ashley Howard are both pl ay­ Wells (Del) and leading hi s team in . coring and steals. Vermont on Jan. 13. ers who are being recogn ized for not wa. more than enough for s ni or for­ tarks recei ed more than half of bei ng rec<. gni; ed. Bas it Jason ward Norman Richardson to gain the the coaches' votes. and onl y hi s team­ resp ct he deserved. mate. seni or forward Mike Kouscr. BIGGEST TRASH TALKER: Ri chard .· on led hi ~ team in scor­ Hernandez (HUJ recorded two or more otes. Whether it be hi ~ emoti on. his Delaware ing 13 tim ~ and was twice named attitude or j u ~ t the wa) he p l ay~ the America Ea~ t Pl ayer of the Week. DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE game. H en~· . enior center Ajmal He easil y outdi ·tanc d hi s com­ YEAR: Basit app ars to tr a~ h -ta lk the most. p titi on. as no other pl ayer receiv d Olle n ~e w in ~ b a ll ga m e~. but Vermont coa h T )m Brennan more than one vote. Sixth Man defense win champi onships. a.· the fi n i~hed in a cln~c :c ' Ond. whil e the Best Fans cliche goe . entir No rth ea~ t c rn ba~ k e t ba ll team COACH OF THE YEAR: lf Hofstra or Delaware win the recei\'ed a vote a~ well. Ryan After losing Craig ··spe dy'' tournament championship thi s :eason. Clax ton. a first-round draft pick and it will be due in large part to the BEST FANS: Delaware Ia ·t sea on' , America East Pl ayer of d f nse of the Pride'. senior guard Before the tourname nt e en the Year, Hof ·tra coach Jay Wright Jason Hernandez or the Hens' senior begins. Dela·ware will have a huge ·Avg. Attendance: Iversen mad all the ri ght moves this .·eason a guard Billy Wells. Both pl ayers ti ed advantage- its fa n ~. he guided hi s quad to its ~ ec o nd - c o n ­ for the honor with three ores apiece. More than half of the coac h e ~ secuti e regul ar :eason title. 4,980 Delaware agreed the Hens· fa ns ~u·e the toughest Hi . Pride squad currentl y holds SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR: to pl ay in front of, as Delaware lost two re putable Di vision I honors. Every team ne ds a player v ho onl y two conference ga m e~ at h me 1· . Hof. tra· · 15-game winning . treak and can provide a spark off the b nch, as all season. L...,_~~--~-'--'------'-----.J 12 road victories are the mo t in the well as a player able to substitute in a countJy game without hi s t am mi s ·ing a beat. BEST CONFERENCE GAME: Improved In a category voted on b hi s Delaware ·s sophomore guard Although there were man good. ~ Best Game coaching peers, Wright won by a land­ Ryan Iversen does all that and more . cl o~e games. onl y one can be the best. . lid margin . as he ha. been in valuable off the Delaware ·s 79-73 ictory over Stephen bench thi~ season after transferring Hofstra on Nov. 30, whi ch snapped ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: from the niver ity of Minne ·ota. the Pride's 26-gam home winning Delaware Many freshmen in Divi ion Despite only tarting one game. ·treak, nan·owl y beat out HoLtra's 89- Starks ba ketball sit on the bench during their I erson was the Hens fourth-leading 83 overtime victory in Maine on Feb. first ea on hoping to learn from the corer. averaging 9 points per game. 17. at Hofstra upperclas men. The Hen ' clash at the Hof tra Drexel However, the Catamounts' fre h­ MOST IMPROVED PLAYER: Ar na involved 20 lead-change and Nov. 30 man guard T.J. Sorrentine not onl y Each year, one player decide it 16 ties. led Vermont in a sists and was its THE REVIEW • March 2-4, 2001 CONTRAST BY JAMES CAREY SPORTS EDITOR

basketball, and Philadelphia is a great city. "It's different from home, and I missed Stephen Starks is having home · at times, but it was a fairly easy adjustment because of the size Drexel is." Life after graduation seems bright for a breakout year leading Starks, whether it be involved in basketball or doing orne post-grad schooling. Playing professionally ll)ay not even be out of the Drexel into the tourney realm of possibility. "I'd love to [play pro]," Starks said. In sports, everyone has a dream to fin­ opportunity - they are very unselfish play­ ''It'd be a dream come true. First, though, I ish off a sea on or a career with a bang. ers. Teams realized they can't just focus on am a biology major, and I am applying to Some of the all-time greats have left me." medical school after I graduate. But I would their respective sports with a championship Two teammates that opponents have to definitely love to continue my career." or while playing at the top of their games. pinpoint when defending Drexel, besides Before Starks worries about his life When Michael Jordan left the Chi~ago Starks, are fellow seniors Joe Linderman after graduation, there is some unfinished Bulls, he was the NBA's leading scorer, and and Mike Kouser. business he must attend to. he completed his second three-peat by beat­ Kouser finished second in the confer­ . An America East Championship is the ing the Utah Jazz in the NBA Finals. ence in scoring (17 .5 points-per-game) and final accomplishment Starks said he would Jim Brown did the same in the NFL. In Linderman placed fifth (17.3). love to cap off his career with. his final season with the Cleveland Browns, "I give them a lot of credit," Starks "I can't even begin explaining [a cham­ he led the league in rushing. said. "They are two very outstanding players pionship]," he said. "Four hard years down Although Drexel's Stephen Starks may and very unselfish. I understand that I am in college basketball, it would be great. not be as well known as Brown or Jordan, doing well because of them. They opened up "I'd love to be a part of it. Especially like those two super tar , he has made hi shots for me and took the pressure off." this year, because I am one of the leaders on • Ia seas n a emurable one. In addition to leadirw the America East the floor." The best of the senior guard' four in scoring, Starks also holds the highest Late in the season, Starks pas ed years as a Dragon came thi year. Starks three-point percentage in the league, with an another milestone by recording his 1,OOOth transformed from a role player to a key accuracy of 43.5 percent. point in a 93-85 lo s at New Hampshire on piece in third-place Drexel's (15-ll , 12-6 "I did work a lot on my three-point Feb. 15. Prior to his senior year, Starks only America East) sucGessful season. • • shooting," Sta~ks S(\id. "But if I dicJ.n 't have .had ~23 tQtal career point . Stark also became a major force in the such good teammate for other teams to Starks said the highlight of his tenure America Ea t by leading the conference in worry about, I would not have had as many with the Dragon wa not any particular coring with 517 points and a 19.9 point - open shots." game, but the whole season because he was per-game average. Two other significant causes for a major part of the squad. "It's a great accomplishment for me Starks' achievements this .year can be atoned "I was in the mix and it feel so spe­ per onally," he aid. "But I think doing it to hard work and maturity. cial," he aid. "Early on [in his career] it helped our team this year. Early on [in my "It's a combination of both, I think," he was rough. career] I wa n't a major part of it." said. "I really worked on all elements of my "The first two and a half years were Most players credit their great athletic game. I learned to put my elf in_position to tough. Everyone feels they can co~tribute­ ability for their uccess, but Starks takes the score, get to the foul line and improve my that's why it was so hard. road less traveled and has a humble shooting. ' "But when coach [Steve] Seymour re ponse to why he has done so well. He Coming all the way from Fort Wayne, came he . said be had confidence in me. He praises his teammates and coaches. Ind., Starks said, he came to the Dragons for and the [coaching] staff revived me. Coach "The coaching staff was a big reason the great college basketball history associat­ talked about how I could help the team." for my success," Starks said. "They had ed with the Mid-Atlantic Region. If Starks and the rest of the Drexel confidence in me in the beginning of the "I wanted to venture out to the East team do indeed win a conference title, what year. Also my teammates gave me the Coast," he said. "It has a great tradition for a bang would be for Starks' career. THE REVIEW • March 2-4, 2001 CONTRAST BY JAMES CAREY SPORTS EDITOR

hasl-.ctb all. and Philade lphia i" a great city. .. It 's difl'crcnt from home. and I mi~ .... cd Stephen Starks is having ho me at time:-. . but it \\as a fair! ) eas) adjustment hecau:-.c ur the si;c Ore cl i ...... Life after graduation seems bri ght for a breakout year leading . tar!, ..... ''hcthcr it he ill\olvcd in ha. kcthall or doing omc po..,t -grad :-.chou li ng. Playin g profc:-.sionally 111 <1) not e\ en he OUt of the Drexel into the tourney realm or po .... . ihilit). " I' d lo\e tu lpla) prnl.". Starb .-a id . In :-.port:-.. CH'ryone ha:-. a dream to fin ­ upportunity - they arc n :: ry unsc l fish pia) ­ .. It' d be a dream come true. Fir .... t. th ough. I i:-. h oiT a ~ca:-.on or a career \Vith a hang. crs. Teams rcali;ed they can 't ju .... t focus on a Ill a b i ul o g) 111 aj u r. a n u I a m a p p I ) i n g t o Some ol' the al l-time ureal:-. ha\'C left me . medi cal school a ft e r I ~ radual e. But I \\ uu ld th ei r rc:-.pccti\'C :-.ports with a cha mpi o n ~ hi p Two tea mmate:-. th at opponent :-. ha\"C to dcrinitely lo,·e to continue lll) career:· or \Vh i lc pi ayi ng at the top u I' th e ir gam~s. pinpo int ,.., hen defending Drexel. besid es Before Starb worrie about his Ii rc Whe n Michael Jordan left th~..: Chicagu . tarb. arc kllmv :-.enior. Joe Linderman a rter grad uati on. there is some unrini:-.hcd Rul ls. he \\:t'> th e NBA:-. I ading :-.corer. and and 1i I-. e Kou:-.er. bu~i ne ss he mu . t attend to . he completed hi s second three-peat by heat- Kou:-.cr finished second in the confer­ n meri ·a Ea:-.l Championship is the in!! th e tah Ja// in the NB Final:-.. ence in ~coring ( 17.5 po int s- per-game) and final accomplishment . larks .... a id he would Jim BrO\\ n did the :-.ame in th e NFL. In Linderman placed fifth ( 17.]). lo-ve to cap ul r hi . care er with . hi:-. final :-.ea-,o n wi th the ' le,·cland Bro \\ ns. .. 1 gi 'e them a lot of cr~..:dit. .. Starks .., can' t e\~..:n begin explaining Ia cham­ he led th e league in rushing. sai d ... T hq . ed )Car .... a:-. a Dragon came thi" )Car.. · l~trl-. .... threc-pui nt percenta!.!C in the league . '' ith an another milc .... tone h) recording his I.OOOth tran...,formcd from a role pla::-cr to a 1-. q accuraq or.+: .5 percent. point in a 9~-< ·-- ln.., at Ne\\ ll amp..,hire lln piece in third-pL.tcc Drexel'~ (I )-I I. 12 -6 .. 1 did \\'or l-. a lot un Ill) three-poi nt Fc h. I .- . Pr i u r to h i "L' n i or ) c