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The ideas and opinions of advertisements appearing in this Sarah Niles Managing News Editors Fashion Forward Columnist publication are not necessarily those of The Review staff or the university. Katie Rogers, B,rittany Talarico Larissa Cruz February 26, 2008 3 Web site causes controversy on Campuses . .. what this Web site is doing. There is no responsibility whatsoev- er." JuicyCampus allows collegiate Aside from than banning JuicyCampus, students at other universities have taken an alternative step toward a positive out­ come. rumors to be spread anonymously Rachelle Palisoc of Loyola College in Maryland created a Facebook group called "BAN JUICYCAMPUS!" She said she BY AMANDA LOPEZ rate and damaging." started the group after a faux shooting threat was posted onto the StaffReporter Jerry Derloshon, director of public relations and news at site. On today's college campuses, Web sites like Facebook and Pepperdine, said the SGA acted strongly in suggesting the uni­ "My roommate and I checked out the Web site and what we MySpace undoubtedly play a huge role in the lives of students versity ban the site or remove it from access due to the strong found on there prompted us to take action against it," Palisoc nationwide. Bulletin board posts, Facebook groups, events and nature of the remarks posted. said. "All ofthe posts were full of degrading comments that were status updates allow easy access into the personal happenings of "What Pepperdine did as a university was not to ban the racist and homophobic." others at any given moment. site," Derloshon said, "But to protest to the organizers and the On April 12 and Sept. 15, the Facebook group will be tak­ For most, these novelties can be harmless fun, but for oth­ site itself the vile nature of the content and our opposition to the ing part in a rally called "Make JuicyCampus a SWEET one! A ers, these Web sites can be a breeding ground for public slander very nature of JuicyCampus.com as degrading and demeaning." positive comment campaign!" The ultimate goal of the rally is to and gossip. Derloshon and Canales said they agreed that although the bombard the Web site with positive comments, she said. · A new social networking site, JuicyCampus.com, has · increased buzz about the site will promote visitation and curios­ "I don't know how effective it will be, but it is one way of caused controversy at campuses nationwide by allowing stu­ ity, the overall results will be positive. . eradicating the site of slander, calumny and defamation," he dents to do just that, at the click of a button. "While a dialogue may motivate some to explore the site said. CJ Slicklen, Cornell University Student Government who may not even know about it, anyone who does explore it Palisoc said those who hide behind their First Amendment Association president, stated in an e-mail message that news of will see it for what it really is, and then JuicyCampus.com will rights are faulty in their logic. the Web site became a major topic of conversation among vari- probably have a very short-lived future," Derloshon said. "If they truly believe in freedom of speech, they would not ous student groups and individuals. · Though students said much of the public opinion is nega­ be afraid to come out in public and give their opinions," she said. "I heard about it from one of my friends who text messaged tive towards the site, there are some who disagree with trying to "I believe that gossip is freedom of speech for people who are me and told me about the awful material that was appearing on ban JuicyCampus all together. afraid to speak, for people who cannot even confront the people this Web site," Slicklen said. Slicklen said despite the slanderous remarks posted, ban­ they are speaking against." According to the site, anyone who accesses it can post ning the site would become a constitutional dispute. unlimited amounts of anonymous gossip and rumors. "I'm in favor of individuals developing a certain level of Users do not have to register, nor does the site require that respect and maturity," Slicklen said. "When we get to a point posts be from one of the 60 universities supported by the site. where we are shutting out free speech, then we're running into The University ofDelaware is not one of the supported schools some very sticky issues." at this time. Students should have a right to say what they want, he said, Many students such as Slicklen said they felt much of the though the nature of what is said is important as well. Slicklen material is largely negative and includes homophobic, racist and said defamatory and false gossip is entirely inappropriate. slanderous remarks, despite the Web site's disclaimer under its Canales said a ban of JuicyCampus is more important now terms and conditions page. JuicyCampus declined to comment. than ever before. In light of the shootings at VIrginia Polytechnic The Student Government Association at Pepperdine Institute and State University last April, and Northern lllinois University has taken a stand against JuicyCampus and has University this month, he said what students say is of extreme asked its administration for help as well. importance. . Andy Canales, SGA president at Pepperdine, said speak­ ''There is a very serious concern about safety," Canales ing and generating an administrative and student-wide conversa­ said." People are very concerned about how someone might tion is the most efficient way to deal with the Web site. react in response to what they read." "I wanted to address the student body and begin a conver­ VIrginia Tech is supported by the site and many of the sation about this," Canales said. "Exposing it for what it is and recent posts are from the university. working actively towards a solution was very important." "IM GONNA GET YOU [sic). I will get you all," stated a 02·2:5·2006 In response to the site, the SGA held an open discussion post on Feb. 21, from a VIrginia Tech student. smartest kid in cc 08 inviting the student body to express their concern and to help Canales said that although he has received positive and neg­ generate a solution, he said. ative feedback regarding SGA's decision to seek administrative 02·25·2008 "The overall opinion was very negative towards the site," help, he remains proud of the movement. Canales said. "Ihstead of it being a tongue-in-cheek conversa­ "I'm appreciative of First Amendment rights but you can't THE REVIEW/Ricky Berl tion, we collectively agreed that this Web site is grossly inaccu- endanger others by your actions and words," he said. "That is JuicyCampus.com does not have a Delaware chapter. Castro's reign succeeded by younger brother I BY BRIAN ANDERSON "I would describe it as keeping the status hurt the island on some issues, including not and will not happen anytime soon. National/State News Editor quo," he said. "In the last five years, the rela­ negotiating with the United States. He con­ Stieglitz said he hopes Raul brings in Fidel Castro, the ruler and face of Cuba tionship has reached a point in wl;lich each has fined people to thl! country by imposing strict some political change, as currently Cuba for almost the past half-century, announced decided to ignore what the other has done." rules about leavirig the island, forcing the peo­ holds one party, one candidate elections. his resignation on Feb. 19, stating he will not Raul is perceived as a reformer who may ple in Cuba to sometimes live in poor living "It's not really a democratic process at all accept a new term as head of the country. be willing to open up the economy, but that conditions. over there," he said. "Hopefully it opens the Castro's 76-year-old younger brother, remains to be seen until Raul takes charge of However, he did do some positive things, door for there to be other political candidates Raul Castro, who is currently the first vice the country for good, Carrion said. including stepping up to the United States and who can run and hopefully help the island." president of the nation, has b"'een named his He said he thinks there will be no dramat­ the travel plans of many Americans, Stieglitz A professor at the university, who wishes successor. Raul has essentially run Cuba for ic change between the United States and Cuba said. to remain anonymous, stated in an e-mail the past year and a half when Fidel announced until Fidel dies. If Raul tries to make changes "He did show the world it wasn't message that she is very skeptical about Raul he had undergone emergency surgery and was to reform Cuba's economy, it may spur on America's playground anymore," he said. and does not think the Castros will bring any temporarily ceding his powers. change, but that remains to be seen. Stieglitz said he hopes Raul looks at the change to the country. Fidel will remain in the government as "The fact that he's still there looms large people of Cuba who live in poverty and poor "Nothing will change in Cuba, unless the head of Cuba's Communist Party and a mem­ in Cuba," Carrion said. "Nothing will happen living conditions and institutes economic regime changes and there are free elections ber of the National Assembly, Cuba's legisla­ in Cuba until Fidel is completely out of the changes to help the quality of life. with multiple political parties and candidates, tive branch. picture." · He said the relationship between the not just one, the Communist party and Fidel Fidel's resignation has left some wonder­ The United States has an embargo on United States and Cuba will not change quick­ Castro respectively," she said. . ing if' tqe relationship between the United trading with Cuba, he said. This could change ly and it will take time for progress to be seen. The professor said she does not believe States and. Cuba will improve, as Raul is in the future, as most southern states would "Relations with Latin America haven't the United States should have relations with a viewed as more of a reformer than his broth- probably like to be' able to trade with Cuba, really been a priority," Stieglitz said. "It'll be country that does not afford its citizens basic er. but Carrion said he thinks it is unlikely to hap­ a slow process. Ideally, what I'd like to see is human rights, such as freedom of speech. Julio Carrion, professor in the political pen within the next year or two. . relations start to mobilize, especially for fam­ She said she ultimately hopes that one science department, said the U.S.-Cuban rela­ RaUl does not have the charisma of his ilies, so travel restrictions are lifted so fami­ day, Cuba becomes a free nation. tionship has not been friendly in previous brother or the full control of the government lies can go back and see family members that "I really don't know but I can only wish years, yet it has not been openly confronta­ as his brother used to have, he said. Though they have on the island and then we'll move they have [no relationship with the United tional. Raul will be governing with his "closest asso­ forward from there." States] until the Cubans are truly free," she Carrion said both countries have ciates, Fidel will still hilVe major power with­ He said he thinks the United States will said. "There should be a totally new govern­ remained "carefully indifferent" regarding in the government. attempt to right some previous wrongs but ment and the Castros should not have any­ one another. Junior Matt Stieglitz said he thinks Fidel normal, diplomatic relations will be difficult thing to do with it." 4 February 26, 2008 }!t UD's 'Commitment' remains in question

BY JENNIFER HEINE transcript, what you see are very few Senior News Reporter college prep courses; we are not like­ The percentage of Delaware res­ ly to admit this student to the Newark idents enrolled at the university has campus," he said. "Another student decreased by 6.6 percentage points might have a significantly lower within the past four years. Members GPA, but has taken a rigorous cur­ of the state's Joint Finance riculum that includes Honors and Committee questioned President Advanced Placement (AP) or Harker during his presentation to International Baccalaureate (IB) state lawmakers on Feb. 13, about the courses and has an upward trend in high numbers of out-of-state students grades; this student might be a very enrolling at the university. strong candidate for admission." Approximately 60 percent of However, according to the students at the Newark campus are Commitment to Delawareans Web from other states, according to the site, in order for Delaware students to Office of the Registrar. feel confident about being admitted, The percentage of freshmen in­ they should take 20 full year academ­ Artists introduce USB albums state students enrolled at the Newark ic courses, have no grade below a B­ campus was 36.1 percent, 31.8 per­ minus and have a cumulative GPA in cent, 30.5 percent and 29.5 percent these academic courses that is a B­ respectively for the classes of 2008, plus or higher. as future of music industry 2009, 2010 and 2011. "We tell Delawareans and their Louis Hirsh, director of admis­ families that if they pursue this cur­ sions, stated in an e-mail message riculum in the way that we outline, that the number of Delawareans they can be confident of admission to BY LYDIA WOOLEVER and music enthusiast who is "[USBs] will most likely be admitted to the Newark campus has the Newark campus,'~ Hirsh said. Staff Reporter intrigued by the idea of USB short-lived; the record industry has declined "a little bit,'' mostly because According to statistics provided On the historical trail of vinyl albums. come up with a lot of technologies of tightened admission standards. by Douglass, four out of five college­ records, 8-tra<:ks, cassettes and "As a college student, I lean like this before," Avino said. "We raised the minimum num­ bound high school Delaware resi­ compact discs, the music industry towards the most convenient form He said he is apprehensive about ber of academic units students need­ dents apply to the university. has continued its technologic evo­ of media," Brupbacher said. "I the possibility of CD replacement ed in order to qualify for admission to In 2007, 92 percent of Delaware lution of bringing music to the fans think most students can relate to the •by the USB. UD,'' Hirsh said. "The reason for the applicants were offered admission to by introducing USB flash drives. necessity of portable music." "Independent labels are mak­ change is that students who took the university. Sixty-six percent were Artists, such as Ringo Starr He said the speed and relative ing it so if you buy CDs now, they weak academic loads in high school accepted at the Newark campus and and The Mars Volta, are now circu­ ease at which digital media can be will usually provide you with a did very poorly in their freshman 26 percent were accepted to the lating souvenir albums and exclu­ transferred will be the strongest code to get exclusive content classes and we wanted to ensure that Associate in Arts Program. In fall sive content through these external point in marketing USBs as a online," Avino said. "Everything students who enrolled were better­ 2007, 169 of the 2,451 Delawarean hardware flash drives - a device source of music. has special content now, not just prepared to handle university course­ high school students who submitted small enough to fit into your pock­ "As a listener, my choice in USBs." . work." complete freshman applications were et, a statement that cannot be made media is based on practicality, Amanda Suriani, intern for Executive Vice President Scott denied admission. about the current CD format. rather than preference," Colombia Records' promotional Douglass said the Commitment to Hirsh said 38 to 44 percent of Bill Cummiskey, vice presi­ Brupbacher said. department, said she thinks CDs Delawareans program, which offers non-residents who apply are admit­ dent of artist relations for Fender Sophomore musician, Alex will still have their place in the set criteria for Delaware high school ted to the university. Ninety to 93 Musical Instruments Corporation, Wasserman, said the features of the industry. students so they can be confident in percent of Delawarean students are stated in an e-mail message that USB are better than CDs today. "Consumers are still going to admission to the university, is one admitted to either the Newark cam­ artists are attempting to find ways "Once there is compatibility of be interested in a hard copy for step the university is taking to ensure pus of the Associates in Arts to reach their fan base in the most getting USB players in stereos and album artwork, packaging and on­ more Delawareans are being accept­ Program. accessible and convenient manner. cars, there is no reason why USBs hand lyrics," Suriani said. ed. The university admits a higher "The dialogue of how artists wouldn't be the dominant medium Cummiskey said he sees the "Any Delaware student that percentage of college-bound in-state can reach their fan base and add of music," he said. advantages of digital music, but meets the standards of the University students than any other public uni­ value to an existing release is an Wasserman said he does not there are drawbacks as well. of Delaware is admitted," Douglass versity in the region, according to the ongoing discussion with many remember the last time he bought a "Digital music is great," he said. 'There is no limit on that num­ statistics provided by Douglass. artists nowadays," Cummiskey CD. said. "But it does come at a price to ber. In theory, we would fill our Harker mentioned in his presen­ said. "I've had several artists send "As more bands release their all artists who are losing money entire class if they all met that basic tation to the Joint Finance Committee us electronic press kits in the form music independently on the due to all the illegal downloading. requirement." that he is making efforts to have all of USB drives, and in every Internet, it becomes apparent that This is a tragedy!" He said all Delaware students Delaware residents be able to afford instance it has included MP3 's of traditional platforms of releasing Cummiskey said he feels who qualifY are accepted. The rest of attending the university. Douglass . their music." music in the industry are on their today's younger consumers do not each class is filled with out-of-state said in-state students should receive With the replacement of CDs way out," he said. place any real value on music or students in order to have approxi­ enough financial aid to allow them to by USBs, USBs will become even Local artist Tim Hein said he ownership of publishing as a result. mately 15,000 students taking classes attend the university. more popular as storage capacity thinks that USB albums will be "The majority of these con­ at the Newark campus. Douglass said if less increases, transfer rates increase quick and easy to use. sumers are not growing up exposed The university and Delaware are Delawareans met university stan­ and pricing continues to drop, he "I assume they're not cheaper to the best that the audio has to obligated to each other, Douglass dards to be offered admission over said. than CDs, but their accessibility is a offer, especially with the highly said. time, the state's education system and This will fare well for music pretty cool thing," Hein said. "You compressed MP3 format," he said. "We have a commitment to the not the university's admission would and video storage of the future, can record a live show, put it on the Suriani said the USB still seems State of Delaware,'' he said. 'The need to be examined. Cummiskey said. Every new com­ USB and sell them right after you promising. State of Delaware has been very gen­ ''Hypothetically, if we began to puter has a USB port, but disc finished the set." "Digital media does have its erous to the university and we have see a trend where there were less drives are starting to go away, as Chris Avino, owner of benefits," said Suriani. "It is cheap­ made a commitment in return to Delaware students that were qualify­ did floppy drives in the past. Rainbow Music & Books, said he er and faster. And there's just a nov­ admit every student who is quali­ ing for the university, that would sug­ "I believe the CD is already disagrees with the distribution of elty about it- it's a cool idea." fied." gest that people would want to look somewhat obsolete, but will likely USBs as a medium for music deliv­ Cummiskey said the USB tri­ Hirsh said the Commitment to at the quality ofK-through-12 educa­ be around for a few more years," he ery. umphs over CDs in respect to con­ Delawareans · program will allow tion,'' he said. said. "I've really only heard of two venience, ease of shipping, lack of more in-state students to be accepted Maria Luna, a freshman at Regarding possible endorse­ bands using the USBs - The compatibility issues, faster transfer at the university. Delaware Technical and Community ment by Fender for flash drives, White Stripes and the Barenaked rates and the "high cool" factor. "We are trying to increase the College, said"she thinks the decreas­ Cummiskey said the outcome Ladies," Avino said. "It is just Brupb&cher said he feels as number of Delawareans by making ing amounts of freshmen at the uni­ seemed positive. another gimmick by the recording technology continues to advance sure that more of them meet our versity has to do with many "Our business is delivering the industry to get more consumers to and become more convenient, he requirements for admission,'' he said. Delawareans attending school out­ tools such as guitars and amps buy their stuff. They end up being will keep up with the trends. Hirsh said the university does of-state and many students applying [amplifiers] for musicians to create more expensive, around 40 bucks, "I would without a doubt pur­ not have minimum GPA or SAT to the university from other states. the music," he said. "But we have when you can get a CD for half that chase a USB album of my favorite requirements but rather looks at stu­ "It's probably that more students to stay up with whatever technolo­ price." band if it were available," dents' academic records as a whole. are coming from out7of-state," Luna gies deliver content to consumers." He said he feels going digital Brupbacher said." How is digital "A student might have a very said. Sophomore Michael is a natural progression for music music not a part of my life?" high GPA, but when you look at the Brupbacher said he is a guitarist technology. -Jjt February 26, 2008 5 Medicinal marijuana. debate blazes on

BY l\1AI)DIE THOMAS to legalizing and regulating marijuana, and is the largest mari­ Staff Reporter juana policy reform organization in the United States, Bernath The American College of Physicians, the second-largest said. organization of doctors in the United States, recently urged the "The other options offered are dangerous, addictive nar­ federal government to reconsider its current standpoint against cotics that are not as effective," he said. medical marijuana. Thomas Hardie, associate professor of nursing, said he In a statement issued Feb. 15, the ACP advocated increas­ hopes research will make marijuana safe for medical practices. ing federally-sponsored research on marijuana to further deter­ "Hopefully research will isolate the active components in mine its medicinal properties. marijuana that aid nausea for example, but without the nega­ David Dale, president of the ACP, said the organization tive side affects like paranoia or the munchies," Hardie said. always supports "the discovery of new and better treatments." Hardie, whose research interest is addiction, said he Many important antibiotics and medicines used today, such as believes marijuana should be taken off of the Schedule I drug aspirin, have been derived from chemical compounds found in list and placed on the Schedule II drug lists. As a Schedule I plants and fungi, he said. drug, marijuana is classified along with heroin, ecstasy and "The link between medicine and botany has gone back to LSD as having no medicinal value and a high potential for the beginning of time," Dale said. abuse. The Schedule II lists would still classify marijuana as According to the statement, cannabinoids are the chemical having an abuse potential, but it would be considered legally compounds found in marijuana, such as delta-9-tetrahydro­ acceptable for medical use along with strict restrictions. cannabinol, also known as THC. The ACP believes cannabi­ Although marijuana is not as addictive as heroin or noids contain potentially therapeutic properties, which should cocaine, he said the drug can still lead users to become depen­ be researched further to determine their optimal dosage and dant. means of administration. "Users of marijuana can develop marijuana dependency," Karen Avino, an instructor in the nursing department, he said. "The detox is not as massively painful or long like with whose research interests include complementary and alterna­ more serious drugs like heroine, but users can still develop a tive medicine, stated in an e-mail message that marijuana has physical or a psychological dependency. It stimulates the com­ been used for hundreds of years for medical purposes. mon reward pathway in the brain that makes users feel good." "Herbs are the oldest form of healing used," Avino said. According to the Medical Marijuana Project's Web site, "Museums contain archeological evidence of herbs being used there are currently 12 states including Alaska, California, as far back as the primate ancestors of the Homo sapiens." Hawaii and Vermont which permit medical marijuana usage According to their statement, the ACP suggests cannabi­ for seriously ill patients. The ACP believes physicians who The American College of Physicians is sponsoring research noids in marijuana may mediate severe weight loss associated ­ prescribe medical marijuana in accordance with state law on marijuana's potential medicinal properties. with AIDS wasting as well as nausea and vomiting linked with should be exempt from federal criminal prosecution. The chemotherapy. They may also aid glaucoma, multiple sclero­ organization claims patients who use medical marijuana legal­ Bernath said the future of medical marijuana still remains sis, spinal injuries, chronic pain and other trauma, but further ly under state laws should be protected from criminal and civil unclear but the ACP's report is considered by· some to be the research must be conducted to determine to what extent. consequences. frrst step in the path towards medical marijuana becoming Some supporters of medical marijuana claim synthetic Sophomore Megan Albrecht said she believes medical legalized. and legal medications are not as effective as medical marijua­ marijuana should become legalized, but must be regulated by "The physician's report from the ACP is a very important na and may have even worse side effects. the government. development in the debate for medical marijuana," he said. "If Dan Bernath, assistant director of communications for the "There needs to be an agreement between the states and the 124,000 members of the ACP support medical marijuana, Marijuana Policy Project, said traditional medicine could pose the federal government to prevent it from getting out of con­ it's clear that the federal government has it wrong when it dangerous side effects - legal or not. trol," Albrecht said. comes to prosecuting doctors an<;! patients who are using it for The Marijuana Policy Project is an organization dedicated medical reasons." Photo professor views life through a pinhole

BY COURTNEY ZANTZ time, will run through March. rectangular photos. Breslin said she aims to show her stu­ Staff Reporter For the past five years, Breslin said she· Rebecca Dietz, curator of the exhibit, dents a different view of life to help them Photography professor Nancy Breslin is has been using a pinhole camera to capture stated in an e-mail message that she chose to find their inner voice and their own special being featured.' in an exhibit named passages of time she has spent at restau­ feature Breslin and Orr together because way to portray the visual world. "Intervals" with Casey Orr, a professional rants, coffee shops and amusement parks. they both incorporate a sense of time in their Virginia Bradley, chairwoman of the art photographer from Leeds, England at the She said she bought the camera on an work, but each with a different take. departrnt:nt, said Breslin's work is extreme­ Visual Arts Center at San Antonio College. impulse and thought it was beautiful. Orr's work documents her nine-year ly beautiful and poetic. The exhibit, which focuses on intervals of Different from other cameras, the pin­ journey by canal from England to her birth­ "Nancy's non-traditional darkroom hole camera has place in Chester, Pa. Her portraits of the techniques add another dimension to our no lens, but its land and sea show the parallel between her photography curriculum," Bradley said. tiny opening journey and the flow of goods and people Breslin said she was raised in New needs very long across the Atlantic in the past. Jersey and after being a psychiatrist for 10 exposure time. In contrast, Breslin's work is part of her years, she left the medical field to study art. The exposure lifestyle. She has been creating this collec­ After taking classes in painting, she said she time can range tion for five ye_ars and is continuously was completely blown away. In 2000, from seconds to adding photos that expose her social life Breslin received a master's degree in fine more than an when dining at restaurants and visiting arts from the university. hour, depending amusement parks. "I was trying to find my inner muse," on the amount of Dietz said each of Breslin's images Breslin said. "It was self-indulging and the light hitting captures an interval of time from start to fin­ helped me in discovering myself as an the scene. ish. During each interval of exposure, wait­ artist." Breslin said she ers and waitresses are shown bringing food In 2003 and 2008, she received has an on-going, to the table, heads nodding back and forth in Individual Artist Fellowships from the online journal conversation and utensils moving. The pin­ Delaware Division of the Arts. She also called hole camera does not allow the user to con­ serves as a member of the Newark Arts "Squaremeals: A trol what movements it is catching, which in Alliance on a gallery committee. Pinhole Diary of effect produces a surprising result. · Breslin said the "Intervals" show is the Dining Out" that "Ghostly faces, light trails and softly furthest distance from home where her work records meals blurred forms stand in stark contrast to sta­ has been displayed. However, she has had she has shared ble lights, windows and doors as the film solo or two-person shows in Delaware, with family and records changes in light and movement on a Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. friends. She said single frame," she said. From March 5-28, Breslin's pinhole she decided to Breslin said her purpose for the blurry photographs of amusement parks will be on use the name silhouettes of individuals is to give more exhibit at the Mezzanine Gallery in "Squaremeals" recognition to the actual mealtime. Wilmington, Del. because the As a professor at the university, Breslin "My pinhole camera is in my purse all images created said she works to share her enthusiasm of the time,'' she said. "It's an obsession and I by the camera art with her students. Her teaching style do not see this project stopping anytime Courtesy of Nancy Breslin are square, rather places emphasis on the quality of light and soon." Nancy Breslin used a pinhole camera to capture her photo, "Tea at than standard color and essentially art history. the Mad Hatter Cafe in San Antonio." 6 February 26, 2008

Couple brings Alaskan sport to Delawor:e

BY AARON HOLM Catherine is the primary operator of nent member of the team after seeing his posi- Staff Reparter Maryland Sled Dog Adventures. She is the tive effect on the other dogs. . Most weekends Catherine Benson mushes musher~ the trainer, guide and teacher, but she is "Sobo is such a good fit with the other through the Northern Central Rail Trail with her also a lawyer. Before she found Zoe, an dogs," Eric said. dog sled team. Alaskan Husky, Catherine said she practiced Catherine said their newest and youngest Maryland Sled Dog Adventures, a dry­ law for seven years and occasionally still does dog, Okemo, carne from a rescue operation in land dog sledding organization in central when she is not out running or teaching with the Tennessee and in his first year with the team Maryland, first started with Catherine Benson, dogs. has proven to be a powerful ''wheel dog"- the her husband, Eric Benson, and their dog, Zoe. Eric, a bio-resources professor at the uni­ dog closest to the sled or rig that helps to steer Eric said it is best to book dates three to versity, said he routinely makes, customizes or the others. four months in advance. sporadically breaks equipment for the team. She said she runs a patch program for local "We are booked every weekend and dur­ "The equipment is a bit like Harley­ Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops known as the ing the week," Eric said. Davidson motorcycles - qo one's set up is "Scout Run,"which is a re-enactment of the exactly the same and everyone has to customize famous Serum Run of 1925 to Nome, AK. An their own," he stated on the organization's Web outbreak of diphtheria would have killed thou­ site. sands of people that were stuck in Nome if Eric said before they found dog sledding, medicine did not reach them in time. Zoe was a destructive dog with too much ener­ It is a three to four hour program that gives gy. approximately eight to 20 scouts a hands-on "She destroyed cell phones, bills, a pair of learning experience with the dogs, Catherine clogs and a couple couches," he said. said. The scouts learn how to train the dogs, to Eric said Zoe is a natural leader and is the harness them . and then they setup a mock predominant dog on the team. Serum Run relay. ''Your lead dogs are the most experienced, She said she mushes with a scout to one most responsive dogs," Eric said. "I'm looking location, where one scout gets OlJt of the rig and for a dog that's smart, responsive. That kind of gives the "serum" to another as he or she gets in Courtesy of Eric Benson nervous energy I can use." and they race to the finish. Catherine Benson trains dogs while also Catherine said all of her dogs carne from Catherine said she also leads a classroom rescue operations. Zoe was adopted from the program that gives young students the opportu­ practicing law. Humane Society of Dorchester. When nity to have a tangible learning experience in Catherine and Eric first began training Zoe she conjunction with their teacher's lessons. She ered sports. "really took to it," but their second dog, T­ said the program is best with Jack London's One of these sports is bikejoring in which Bone, did not. "Call of the Wild," in which the students can when a dog is harnessed to a bicycle and the T-Bone is a Siberian Husky-Sheltie mix interact with a real dog sled team and learn dog pulls as the rider pedals. She said only a and is smaller than the other members of the firsthand what London is describing. single dog should be used for this or it would be team. Unlike Zoe's boundless energy, T-Bone Despite the lack of snow in Maryland too powerful. was, at first, much fonder of nestling on the there are a number of dry-land, dog-powered Canicross is cross-country running or Benson's couch than pulling a sled, Catherine sports, Benson. walking with the dog pulling, Benson said. said. "As global warming warms our planet, These dogs don't have to be the traditional With the introduction of Sobo to the team, there are less opportunities to run your dogs on Husky, but they do need to be at least a medi­ T-Bone became more interested. Sobo was snow," she said. um-sized dog, she said. Courtesy of Eric Benson The overall goal of these sports is not to be The Benson's established a dog sledding originally being fostered by the Benson's for With this in mind, Catherine said she has a Tails of the Tundra Siberian Husky Rescue. program called "Run What you Brung," which pulled around but rather as an exercise for own­ organization in Maryland. Eric said they decided to make him a penna- is designed to train dogs for various dog-pow- ers to spend time with their pets, she said. New U.S. surveillance bill taps into real life

BY CAITLIN WOLTERS said. "I believe this bill now try in order to protect citizens. my cotleagues on the House ing our personal rights. If it's not in Copy Editor includes appropriate court and con­ Castle said he would like to Financial Services Committee to there, they don't have the authority Congress has been debating gressional oversight of our surveil­ see further actions taken to ensure strengthen our ability to undercut to do it." over a law that would expand the lance activities." there is not another attack similar terrorists' financial base of sup­ Carper said the FISA bill does government's ability to monitor He said if the House of to 9/11. port," he said. not actually violate the constitution phone calls and communications Representatives and the Senate do Carper said FISA does have because semi-annual reports must outside of the United States. The not agree on how surveillance of provisions which would protect be submitted to Congress to moni­ Foreign Intelligence Surveillance foreign countries should be con­ "It is vital that we U.S. citizens, so it does not over­ tor what intelligence has been col­ Act had been extended for short ducted then the government will no step constitutional boundaries. lected. There will also be yearly periods of time since last August, longer be able to monitor commu­ make certain our "The bill also protects audits and the Offices oflnspector but now Republicans and President nications of potential terrorists. military and Americans by increasing the role General will show how the law has George W. Bush are no longer Representative Michael Castle of the Foreign Intelligence impacted U.S. authorities and citi­ allowing temporary extensions due (R-Del.) stated in an e-mail mes­ intelligence Surveillance Court to review and zens. to the need for a permanent fix. sage tqat he supports FISA because approve surveillance of U.S. citi­ He said the bill still requires FISA, which passed in the of its focus on keeping the professionals zens overseas and ensures tradi­ authorities to obtain a warrant to Senate 68-29 on Feb. 12, will American people safe. The law, have the tools tional FISA warrant rules still observe the actions of U.S. citizens allow the United States to have which was originally passed in apply for purely domestic commu­ but foreigners will not be granted specific surveillance of communi-· 1978, needs to be continuously they need to nications," he said. the right of needing a warrant. cations made from within the updated for the purpose of moni­ track and Freshman Gillian Fitzgerald The legislators are continuing country to foreign countries. Bush toring terrorist activity that has the said she does not believe the FISA to work out the specifics of this bill claims this will help reduce the risk potential of occurring in the United dismantle terrorist bill is a positive step towards so both parties feel comfortable of a terrorist attack on the United States. networks." decreasing a terrorist attack. She with the final product, Castle said. States. "It is vital that we make cer­ said she thinks it will only allow "Currently, the House and Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) tain our military and intelligence -Mike Castle, the government to infringe on con­ Senate are . negotiating over the stated in an e-maii message that he professionals have the tools they stitutional rights. substance of the final surveillance supports the extension of the FISA need to track and dismantle terror­ Delaware Republican "I don't really like the idea bill," he said. "I intend to vote for bill because it does not overstep ist networks, while also protecting Congressman that the government can listen to legislation that effectively clarifies boundaries on citizens' freedoms. civil liberties and preventing the phone calls," Fitzgerald said. "I the legal means of conducting sur­ "This bill strikes the right bal­ unwarranted surveillance of U.S. understand they want to keep us veillance on foreign terror sus­ ance between protecting citizens," Castle said. "In addition to surveillance of safe, but no terrorists are stupid pects, which is vital to preventing Americans' privacy while making He said he also supports going terrorist communications, I also enough to conduct business over future attacks and keeping sure our government has the tools beyond monitoring the communi­ believe firmly in tracking terrorist the phone. With the Constitution, Americans safe." it needs to stop terrorists," Carper cation of groups outside the coun- financing and I have worked with they're not supposed to be infring- )Jt February 26. 2008 7 University accepts Tonight Tuesday Feb 26 new educational The Jefe -no cover Deer Park Tavern Wednesday Feb 27 ESTABLISHED 1851 NEWARK, DE Mos Eisley - no cover graduate program 1/2 price nachos & quesadillas

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And so now ate school in the country for 2008. this new program is formalizing According to Gail Rys, assistant what we've had success with in the SundayMar2 director for the School of past." Education, making the decision to He said the program provides Chorduroy- no cover break educational studies into two an important opportunity to under­ majors was essential in keeping up stand sports in the context of an with this high ranking. educational environment. "The accreditation require­ "If you ask me, one of the ments changed, so we had to revise most challenging jobs in the entire . 108 W. Main Street Newark, DE 19711 PH 302-369-9414 some of the courses to still be in school industry is a high school accordance," Rys said. "It's really athletic director in that they deal www.deerparktavern.com kind of keeping up with what we with trying to find an upper pro­ WIFI Now Available!l! need to do to stay accredited." gram that's going to help individu­ Rys said the driving force als prepare for that division," behind the degree changes was the Robinson said. "It's a combination school leadership concentration. of them understanding the educa­ "But on the school leadership tional environment and then also side, because of this national understanding and developing accreditation, it's our responsibili­ skills that will help them manage ty to make sure that our degree athletic programs in that environ­ prqgrams alway~ align with the ment." standards," she' said. "And so Karren Helsel-Spry, of the that's really what drove this whole Faculty Senate, said the process of process." disestablishing or approving a new Board members had the major is a complicated one. The chance to concentrate on classes proposal needs to be passed that would bolster the higher edu­ through three committees before cation administration degree and making it to the Senate. distinguish the degrees from one "The [majors] have to meet all ·another upon establishing the two the university requirements," new education degrees. Helsel said. "They can't water "It really was two different down programs and you have to populations," Rys said. "One maintain the integrity of the pro­ SUGAR is ,.part of the Promoters . of group of students was working in gram." wellness (POW!), a group of peer kindergarten through twelfth grade Graduate-level programs are in public settings, and the other not automatically given a perma­ educators committed to educating group of students was at universi­ nent status in the school, but are ties. So now they're broken out granted provisional status for five their fellow students on various and each degree better suits the years, Helsel said. After the test of issues. SUGAR focuses on needs of the student in that pro­ time, the programs are either gram." granted a permanent status or dis­ sexuality! She said revamping the established. majors to comply with the new Rys said the School of requirements has provided the Education will be working closely Do not miss this opportunity! opportunity to strengthen classes with students under the old degree, and think about them in a·different who now have the option of finish~ way. . ing it out or concentrating on one For more information or an Th6 school leadership major is of the two new majors. application to join, visit designed fur students preparing to "Depending on if they are one day be'eome principals. Rys pretty far along, if they were going www. ude 1·. edu/we 11 spring/Pow/ said under the new school leader­ to graduate, say next fall, then it • · Powpage.htm ship degree, the School of makes sense to finish the require­ Education will be working with ments that they have left from the school districts in the area. old degree," she said. "But if "We are working with local they've just started and maybe or contact wellspring@udel .edu! school districts to have them refer they've only been here one semes­ people they want to become princi­ ter, it might make sense for them to pals," she said. "So we have a real move into the new degree. But The application DEADLINE is March nice partnership with the school we'll work real closely with them 2nd, so don't delay! districts in the state of Delaware." and everybody will graduate." For the new higher education 8 DeL Tech suspect WANT TO ' -.... in custody after c bomb threat

BY ALANA PHIPPS ously and evacuated the area that Staff Reporter appeared to be affected by the A student at Delaware Technical threats," Martelli said. "We've and Community College has been implemented various security poli­ arrested in connection with sending cies that increase the safety of cam­ messages threatening students at the pus personnel." college's Stanton campus. Del. Tech's public safety depart-,· Sergeant Josh Bushwcller, a ment for the Stanton campus has a spokesman for the Delaware State combined 150 years of law enforce­ Police, said the student, Rachel ment experience, he said. Despins, of Wilmington, was "We have a wealth of well­ enrolled in a culinary arts class at the trained, well-skilled and very experi­ college. Despins, 21, allegedly made enced personnel in our public safety threats directed towards the class on department that translates into Feb. 14, Bushweller said. knowledge and experience," Martelli "This woman sent an e-mail to said. "We, basically, in a situation everyone in her class, including the • like this, assist the Delaware State instructor, through the college's e­ Police work." mail," he said. The college also has a Crisis Bushweller said he could not Management Response Committee release the specific content of the e­ to deal with emergency situations, he mail, but said it made a non-specific said. reference to someone dying if they According to a statement posted came to class the following day. After on Del. Tech's Web site, the college The application DEADLINE is March a student and the has instituted crime­ 2nd, so don~t delay! instructor report­ alert bulletins. The ed the message to statement said each Del. Tech, the Del. Tech. campus college canceled will provide warn­ the class for the ''This woman ings to the college next day and con­ sent an e-mail to community about tacted the offenses reported to Delaware State everyone in her local law enforce­ Police, he said. class, including ment or to campus Police also security authority. linked Despins to the instructor, . Warning the stu­ Applications due by March 3, 2008 an earlier incident dent body will in which a note through the depend on similar. had been left in college's factors and will the culinary arts consist of posting ·for NewarkAAUW Award department on e-maiL" on a given campus Jan. 31. -Sergeant Josh Web page, targeted "A hand- announcements on written note was Bushweller, Delaware the college portal, found stating a 'State Police . posting on campus AAUW Award Nominations bomb would go information televi­ off at 9:30 a.m.," sion monitors, bul­ Bushweller said. letin board postings For Outstanding Senior Woman The building or electronic mail, was then evacuated and police according to the statement. searched for a bomb, but nothing was Amanda Falkowski, a junior at The Newark Branch of the American Association of University found, he said. Police investigated Del. Tech, said Friday she did not Women (AAUW) invites students to apply for its annual $500 award to the incident but did not have a sus­ know about the arrest or the threaten­ pect. ing messages. Falkowski said she an outstanding senior woman graduating from the University of Police were able to identifY the believes the college has in place only suspect by using the internet IP two methods of communicating with Delaware in May 2008. The award will be presented on UD Honors • attached to the e-mail, Bushweller students in emergency situations, one said. of which is fext messaging. Day, Friday, May 9, 2008. The recipient will also be recognized at the "The person who sent the e-mail "I think there's that and e-mail," May 2008 meeting of the Newark Branch of AAUW. did it through a Verizon account," he she said. said. Christopher Dohring, a fresh­ Principal criteria include academic achievement (with aminimum Police were then able to link the man at Del. Tech., said he did not AMERICAN e-mail to the home address of know about the threat either. Dohring index of3.25) and leadership in volunteer service, not only on campus, Despins and verified she was a stu­ said if the university wants to com­ ASSOCIATION OF dent in the class to which the threat municate with him about an emer­ but also for the greater Newark area or her home community. was sent, Bushweller said. Police gency on campus, it will have to be in UNIVERSITY secured a warrant and arrested a way other than through cell phones. Applications are available in the Office of Women's Affairs (305 Despins. "I don't have a cell phone," he WOMEN He said Despins faces two said. "I don't text." Hullihen Hall), on the web at [www2.lib.udel.edu/ref7aauw~ or by felony counts of terroristic threaten­ Kelly Reed, a Del. Tech. fresh­ ing which resulted in evacuation of a man, said she found out about the e-mail to Sandra Millard at [[email protected]]. The deadline for building. incident on campus through the Steven Martelli, public safety news. Reed said she believes the col­ submission of applications is March 3, 2008. information officer at Del. Tech., said lege handled the situation well. he could not speak specifically about "I wasn't here when the bomb Submit applications, nominations, or questions to Sandra Millard in the incident, but beginning with the threat happened, so it didn't affect first message, Public Safety did its me," Reed said. ''No need for causing the UD Library at 302-831-2231 or via e-mail [[email protected]]. best to protect students and staff. a riot if there's no reason." "We obviously took them seri- Februa 26, 2008 9

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CUNTON ADOPTS NEW DEMEANOR TO SALVAGE CAMPAIGN In a move to salvage· her bid for primaries. Those critical contests the Democratic presidential nomina­ could doom her candidacy for the tion; Sen. Hillary Clinton, (D-N.Y.), party nomination if she fails to break adopted a newly bellicose tone a losing streak that rose to 11 this toward rival Sen. Barack Obama, (D­ week - a stretch that has battered Ill.), on Saturday, saying he was mak­ her campaign as much as it has ing false and shameful attacks on her buoyed her rival's. record. Clinton made her remarks to a Clinton mocked Obama's cluster of reporters as the crowd dis­ speaking skills and his power to draw persed from a rally at a college gym­ tens ofthousands of supporters to ral­ nasium. Waving the mailings and lies that have dwarfed her more mod­ raising her voice, Clinton accused the est events. Clinton scolded Obama Illinois senator of "perpetuating for two campaign mailings that she falsehoods." described as distortions of her posi­ Obama declined to match tions on health care and trade. Clinton's anger in his response at a Clinton's rhetorical blasts came campaign stop in Columbus. 10 days before the Ohio and Texas NEW SURVEY PROJECTS DECLINE IN RELIGIOUS AFFILIATIONS Forty-four percent ofAmericans vey interviewed 35,000 people. have either switched their religious Among other findings, the sur­ affiliation since childhood or vey indicated that members of dropped out of any formal religious · Protestant denominations now make group, according to the largest recent up only a slight majority, 51.3 per­ survey on American religious identi­ . cent, of the adult population. fication. The 44 percent figure includes THE REVIEW/Bailey Kung The survey, released Monday by people who switch affiliations within Farmer+Smith LLC was recently hired by Newark officials begin construction on Curtis Paper Mill. the Pew Forum on Religion and one of the major faith traditions, such Public Life, found that Americans' as a Protestant who goes from Baptist faith identity fluctuates during their to Methodist. Counting only people lives, with vast numbers moving who switch traditions altogether - away from the faith tradition of their say, from Catholic to Orthodox, or Construction plans begin childhood to embrace other religious Protestant to Muslim - the number traditions or no faith at all. The sur- drops to 28 percent. NEWLY INDEPENDENT KOSOVO SEES SPARK IN VIOLENCE Kosovo's declaration of inde­ pushed for Kosovo's separation from on Curtis Paper Mill site pendence has touched off an all-too Serbia and was among the first coun­ predictable spasm of violence and tries to recognize the new nation, will hostility in a region that emerged receive the brunt of Serbian fury. Far BY MOLLY YBORRA how to develop the site, titled the future Pomeroy Trail, an from devastating war scarcely a from stabilizing the region, as the StaffReporter "Paper Mill Partners." expansive biking and hiking trail decade ago. Bush administration forecast, the Newark city officials have ini­ Consisting of community throughout the city. From an American Embassy in move by Kosovo has launched a peri­ tiated an effort to change the face members, the group will meet sev­ "I would like it become an flames in the Serbian capital of od of volatile uncertainty. of a historical city landmark, the eral times in April, May and June area to pull in and park to get to Belgrade, to stone-throwing at Riots in Belgrade on Thursday Curtis Paper Mill. to determine what must be done the Pomeroy Trail," he said. NATO troops along the new night, which left one person dead, The city hired the public rela­ with the site, Bauemschmidt said. Funk said the smokestack, unsteady border between Serbia and 150 injured and more than 200 arrest­ tions and lobbying firm The group will also lead the which displays the Curtis name, Kosovo, the anger of Serbs over the ed, were the largest outburst of anti­ Farmer+Smith, LLC to spearhead fundraising efforts after a plan is has been left standing for histori­ loss of a region.' they consider their Western rage since before the fall of the project. established. cal reasons. cultural heartland is intense and dan­ dictator Slobodan Milosevic in Paul Bauemschmidt, manag­ The city is paying Bauemschmidt said in its hey­ gerous. October 2000. ing director of Farmer+Smith, Farmer+Smith, LLC $7,500 to .. day, the mill was an institution in And the United States, which LLC, said the Curtis Paper Mill, jumpstart the project according to Newark. - compiled from the L.A. limes and Washington Post news wire located near the intersection of Bauemschmidt's proposal. "People would be able to tell Paper Mill Road and Old Paper Mayor Vance A. Funk III said what paper was being made by Mill Road, was constructed in the city hired Bauemschmidt what color the creek was running 1870 and operated for more than because it does. not have the abili­ that day," Bauemschmidt said. 100 years before closing in 1997. ty to raise enough money by itself. He also said the mill is known The mill sat dormant for 10 years "Paul has the ability to help us for being the source of paper on before being demolished late last raise money to restore the site," which several World War II peace MAN STRUCK OUTSIDE KLONDIKE KATE'S year. Funk said. treaties were written and signed by A 22-year-old male was struck several times in the face outside of Newark Councilman Stu · The success of the Japanese. Klondike Kate's Sunday at 1:31 a.m., Cpl. Paul Keld of the Newark Police Markham, a supporter of the city's Bauemschmidt's book and his However, a few issues have Department said. · plans for redevelopment, said the community initiative has made produced a need for a creative The victim was walking down East Main Street when he heard some­ mill needed to be tom down. him a logical choice for leader of solution for the site, Funk said. one talking about his friend, Keld said. The victim was then struck in the "Unfortunately, the buildings the Paper Mill Partners, he said. Approximately two-thirds of the face several times without warning were unsafe," Markham said. "It Some current ideas being dis­ Curtis Mill site sits on a hundred Police responded to the scene and, along with several witnesses, chased was a pretty bad image for the cussed are the creation of a park year flood plane, prohibiting the the suspect, Gerald Lore, 21, ofNew York, Keld said. Police caught Lore city." for the community, a museum to city from building a large structure and charged him with third-degree assault and resisting arrest. Bauemschmidt said he came commemorate the rich history of in the mill's place. up with the idea to redevelop the the site and a simple athletic field "We can't do much redevelop­ MAN GIVES STRANGER RIDE AND IS ROBBED land, after the success of his col­ for town residents, Funk said. ment because of the flood plane A 28-year-old man was robbed and stabbed after giving the suspect a laborative book, "Histories of Newark resident Fred Steams [the site] sits on," Funk said. ride. ' Newark." More than 50 authors said he would like to see the new Markham said the city is on a The suspect is identified as Benjamin Ortiz, 26, of Wilmington. Keld participated in writing the book, site include an eatery. tight budget for the project. said Ol'J;iz approached the victim in the parking lot of the Park and Shop which was published in December. "An upscale restaurant might The approximate cost to shopping~enter on Elkton Road and asked for a ride to the Park Place "I thought it was cool if the be nice," Steams said. restore the smokestack alone is Apartment5-. community came together to do Newark resident Susan close to $200,000, Funk said. The victim obliged and also allowed Ortiz to borrow his cell phone to something for the community," Mooney said she would support an More money and city volunteers make a call, Keld said. Bauemschmidt said. "Everybody idea that includes the adjacent would be needed to actually rede­ Upon arriving at the apartment complex, Ortiz left and promised to wants something new and fun." White Clay Creek. velop the site into something use­ return with money to compensate the victim for gas, Keld said. Instead, he That same sentiment drives "I would like to see a park site ful. returned with a knife and demanded the suspect's wallet. him to work with the community a incorporating the water," Mooney Markham said it is up to the Ortiz took the victim's wallet and stabbed him in the hand, Keld said. second time to redevelop the said. community to decide the fate of Police examined the victim's phone and discovered Ortiz had used it to demolished Curtis Paper Mill Bauemschmidt said he would the mill site. call an apartment in the complex. Police responded to that apartment, saw property, he said. like to see the area developed into ''I'm in the supporting role Ortiz inside and-arrested him, Keld said. Bauemschmidt drafted a pro­ "some type of park." here," he said. 'This needs to be a posal concerning his idea to seek However, Funk said he would community group decision." -Josh Shannon ideas from the community as to like to see the site become part of February 26, 2008

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In-state students looking for help New program gives hope to young Delaware residents The university has always One step which the university prided itself on welcoming all is taking to help right this wrong, is Delaware residents into the hall­ the Commitment to Delawareans ways of this college. program which was instituted in However, recently there has November 2006. The program been controversy surrounding just guarantees Delaware residents who how much the university is doing meet a certain GPA and SAT score for their residents. requirement automatic admission Although the university pads to the university no matter what their statistics by allowing students other extra-curricular activity they into both the traditional four-year have done. plan and Associate in Arts Although this program may Program, which has students not seem fair to out-of-state stu­ attend Delaware Technical dents, it is an excellent opportunity Institute for two years and then the for in-state students to excel and be Newark campus for the remaining given an opportunity to join their "I'm all for this global warming thing." two years, there still are not state school. enough students of Delaware ori­ Out-of-state students are put gin coming to Newark each year. through a tougher test because the In fact, of the 92 percent of university is looking to make sure Delaware applicants offered it ·remains a top choice for the WR1Y.E TO THE REVIEW admission in 2007, 26 percent smartest and most well-rounded Send letters ond comments to were put into the Associate of Arts students from across the country 250 Perkins Student Center program instead of the four year At the same time, however, Newark, DE 19716 [email protected] plan. .. the university should not risk its Fax: 302-831-1396 We understand that if appli­ national reputation just for the sake E-mail: [email protected] cants are not strong enough, they of having more in-state students. or visit us online at www.udreview.com Pleose include o nome ond should not be accepted even if they The university needs to are Delaware residents. But this is remain tough on who it allows in, The Editorial section is an open forum for public debate and discussion. The Review wel­ doytime telephone number with Delaware's flagship university and and has to make sure the standards comes responses from its readers. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit all letters to oil submissions for verification the university does have an obliga­ it is setting for the Commitment to the editor. Letters and columns represent the ideas and beliefs of the authors and should tion to see more Delaware resi­ Delawareans program are strong not be taken as representative of The Review. Staff editorials represent the ideas and purposes. dents coming into the university as enough to keep the university rec­ beliefs of The Review Editorial Board on behalf of the editors. All letters become property part of its classes each year. ognized as a prestigious school. of The Review and may be published in print or electronic form. February 26, 2008 • • 0 IIDOll 13 Is America ready for a change? U.S. will stay in cruise control Finally the time has come

first run for president in 2000, McCain said he with just a few back-country crowds of cre­ Lip would not support a repeal of Roe v. Wade ationists still behind former Arkansas gover­ (read: liberal). This time around he affirms the Riklpedia nor Mike Huckabee. Service abortion law that protects the rights of moth­ McCain has risen to the top of the pile in ers should be overturned. He is a lead sponsor the Republican primaries for one reason ~ he Sarah Lipman of gun control and immigration reform laws, Rigky Berl is the parties most electable candidate. The yet remains conservative on the heated War in Democrats, until recently, have been confused Iraq. about this decision. In the face of an unprece­ If McCain continues t'b play his cards dented choice between a white woman and a Come this November, I will be voting for correctly, after he officially secures the Now, more than any time in American black man, who do you choose? Th_e one with a man whose favorite words are "hope," Republican nomination, he will have an history (maybe barring the '60s), we are fed the better policies, I suppose. But what dic­ "change" and "unity." Barack Obama, the advantage over the Democratic candidate ~ up with the way our leaders have run our tates that? What do the American people want Democratic senator from Illinois, believes the solely because he is everything we have ever country into the ground. America is ready for out of their next president? Well, with the United States is ready for adrastic change and known in a leader. change. The national debt has nearly doubled recent string of 11 straight victories for - does not think, but rather knows he ha& the If America were trnly ready for a minor­ over the past eight years, the value of the dol­ Obama, it seems the American people have (for lack of a better word) balls to bring it. ity president, be it Sen. Hillary Clinton (D­ lar continues to drop and we are nearing the finally decided. They want something new. He has me hanging by his -every word N.Y.), or Obama, citizens and the media fifth anniversary of a senseless foreign war McCain, though he once showed himself and speech and it seems much of the nation would be focusing less on their minority sta­ which has no end in sight. to be a bit of a liberal-leaning rebel in terms of feels the same way~ for now. tus and more on the issues at hand. The count­ After the eight-year reign of an elected his political positions, has come to be much Based on all previous American history, less columns and articles in the country's official who was never actually elected in the more in line with the hard-line conservativism however, I am confident in making the fol­ largest newspapers are not focusing on the first place, America finally has a chance to characteristic of his fellow Republicans since lowing bold statement. dire state our nation is nurse its wounds and he announced his bid for the presidency. This It will not last. in and what the candi­ repair its image abroad. move was meant to gain the approval of his On Nov. 4, 2008 the American public dates plan to do to But, the ques­ party and his conservative voter base and it will go with what they know ~ a middle to change that, but instead tion is, will America worked. older aged, white male. In this presidential on the qualities that take that chance? We Clinton is, of course, more liberal than election no one fits that description better than once the next president already made a disap- _ McCain. In fact, she and Obama share nearly Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.). McCain steps into the Oval pointingly similar mis­ identical views on the range of political topics embodies the status quo, and it will give him Office will become take four years ago at stake in this election, from immigration to the edge he needs in the general election ~ obsolete. when we allowed our abortion. The only real differences between regardless of whether the Democratic nomi­ As a public we proud tyrant to keep the two are in their respective levels of com­ nee is a black male or white female. need to realize it is not his desk in the Oval mit:tnent to the different issues, as well as the The power will remain entwined in the someone's sex or race Office instead of boot­ one huge, nasty, infected sore thumb of the white male. that determines a suc­ ing him to the curb of election: Iraq. Right now, Americans are banging down cessful presidency. The Pennsylvania Avenue. Clinton originally voted for the.war but the White House door rallying for change. consequences of our As our man himself has since decided it was probably a bad idea. However, basic psychology says human vote will not be due to once said, "There'S an I guess with so many Americans still believ­ instinct is to resist change ~ hence why the the election of a black old saying in ing the War in Iraq was in any way related to ballot box will overflow with votes for man or a white woman, Tennessee ... I know the War on Terror, we can forgive Clinton for another Republican. - but more importantly it's in Texas, probably her moment of indiscretion. _ What excites the public most about the the election of the poli­ in Tennessee... that So then, the issue becomes, what in the Democratic candidates is the novelty they cies and beliefs they says, fool me once, world are we supposed to do now? Clinton's _bring to the table. This is the first election in hold. shame on ... shame on answer is to get troopS out, but not until 2013. -which several of the candidates represent gen­ If Obama chooses you. Fool me ... you This stance, along with her stark refusal to erally under-represented groups in the politi­ to withdraw troops from Iraq it is not because can't get fooled again." I'm sure The Who engage in diplomacy with nations such as Iran cal arena. No minority has made it so far in an he is black. Clinton is not pushing for univer­ would agree. and North Korea, comes across as willful election that no matter who the nomination sal healthcare because she is a woman. So now America has another shot, this ignorance of international policy at best and goes to, it will be a minority. This is a first for Candidates are fighting for these issues time between a man who is sure to deliver thinly-veiled warmongering at worst. This is all. because they believe they have the right plan more of the same and a man who is (and there the kind of rhetoric that the American people Beyond that excitement however, little to tum our nation around. should be no shame in admitting it) black. are used to hearing from Republicans like hope remains for the Democratic Party. The "minority report" brings up the Anything other than the status quo ~the fme, Bush and McCain, and are rightfully tired of. McCain has worked his way up to the 2008 question of not whether we are ready for a upstanding old WASP with a political career Clinton's attitudes toward international Republican nomination after a crushing loss president who presents him or herself as out­ that has slowly but surely led him to the can­ issues betray an unwillingness to take steps to everyone's favorite ,Texan, George W. side of the box (both physically and ideologi­ didacy ~ has always proven unsavory to the that will lead to better days for both America Bush. cally), but more importantly if we are willing average American. This is borne out by the and the world at large. McCain is merely an In 2000.McCain has learned to appeal to to accept the fresh face and trnst _our crum­ fact that the only non-WASP president in the amplified version of this and an overt adher­ both ~nds of the political spectrum leaning bling nation in their hands. history of this nation did not even live to see ent to the status quo. The final question comes toward rlgl).t-of-center policies to gain support Sadly, "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart the end of his term. down to one of electability. Can a young black from the niore conservative Democrats, more captured the sentiment I fear the nation will There are, of course, other candidates man that promises change and faith in liberal Republicans and moderates ~ a sum fall back into at Sunday's Academy Awards. still involved in the race, but they hardly merit progress beat an old white man that promises which far outweighs those on the extreme left "Normally when you see a black man or mentioning at this point. Sen. Hillary Clinton, constancy and faith in purpose? or right. a woman president, an asteroid is about to hit according to The New York Times, won the I, for one, think America will choose McCain, while having a predominantly the Statue of Liberty." primary in her senatorial home state of New change. conservative voting record, has been York by a mere 17 percent. Sen. Barack described as a maverick. According to a Sarah Lipman is the executive editor for The ' Obama (D-Ill.) leads in Illinois by almost Ricky Berl is the photography editor for The columnist for the Arizona Republic, McCain Review. Her viewpoints do not necessarily double that number at 32 percent. Sen. John Review. 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- 18 Februa 26, 2008 Larry the Cable guy is 'Gitten R Done' on stage and over the radio waves

BY BRIAN ANDERSON mentary on various topics. He called 27 radio National/State News Editor stations, five days per week for 13 years and his Fans might hear the name "Larry the Cable last piece of advice would always be, Guy" and immediately think of one word - "Whatever you do, just Git R Done." redneck. The man famous for his hillbilly "After 13 years and 27 radio stations and humor is often seen wearing ripped jeans, a saying nothing but 'Git R Done,' at the end of baseball cap and at least one article of camo, all my call-ins, it just caught on," he says. . and his "Git R Done" catchphrase is what keeps Larry says he knew he had made it when people packing the house at all the Nebraska he heard someone in a mall tell his buddy to just native's comedy shows. "Git R Done." However, Larry says his early fans saw "Right there I th6ught, 'Holy crap, I got something he wasn't wearing during his come­ something right here,' " he says. "It all hap­ dy shows - sleeves. His sleeveless shirts stick pened by accident I never seeked out a catch out and are a continued staple at his shows. phrase, it just happened." "They almost seemed disappointed to see Larry says his on-stage persona is a small Courtesy Todd Chappelle me with sleeves on," Larry says. "I guess I just part of who he really is, only taken to an Todd Chappelle's song, "I'm From Delaware," is featured in a popular got my fans used to seeing me without sleeves." extreme - fitting since he only goes by a por­ Larry, who was born on a pig farm in tion of his real name, Daniel Lawrence YouTube video. Nebraska, says he has always had a sleeveless Whitney. lifestyle. Growing up in a hot climate made the He says he knows only one kind of life _:__ outfit a necessity to keep cooL • shaped by his Southern upbringing - and the Taking Delaware _pride Larry's fans' love affair with his lack of character he portrays is shaped by real-life sleeves seems to border on madness - people experiences. now expect Larry to show a little skin. In jest, "What I do is a small part of me magni­ Larry says the sleeveless look may inspire him fied," he says. "Everything else is B.S. to make a movie. Everyone else I grew up with, mixed up, to to the YouTube screen "I actually want to do a romantic picture form one kind of a character." called 'Sleeveless in Seattle,'" he says. Larry says he is sometimes surprised at the BY TED SIMMONS "The line that's gotten the most reac­ In his most recent film, "Witless amount of negative feedback he gets from his Staff Reporter tion is, 'No more Kahunaville,' " Protection" released last Friday, Larry plays comedy. Todd Chappelle's been everywhere­ Chappelle says. "It was a popular bar in Deputy Larry Stalder, a small-town sheriff in "I push way less buttons in my work - if in Delaware, that is. And while exploration Wilmington that hosted a lot of live con­ Mississippi. Described by Larry as "Barney that's what you want to call it, work - than through the diminutive state may not be certs and was right on the riverfront It was Fife on steroids," Stalder believes the town is Dave Chappelle or Carlos Mencia do," he says. exciting, the addition of music and a famil­ just a big, fun, loud place that abruptly too small, but when he sees the dashing Connie "They push way more buttons in their shows iar tune has turned Chappelle's home-state closed. When I remembered it for the song (Jenny McCarthy) being chased by the FBI, but I'm the one who catches more flak and I landmarks into a two-minute homage to I originally didn't think to put it in since it Stalder thinks it's up to him to protect her. can't understand why." the cities, bars and cultural markings the closed, but figured I'd just talk about its Larry says one of the best parts of making Like Howard Stem, Larry says 'people First State has to offer. closing." "Witless Protection" was working with sometimes listen to him to hear what he will say "I'm from Delaware" is getting Chappelle also includes a bar that McCarthy, who was "super nice" on set He next However, he has a certain type of humor Delaware and Chappelle some newly might be more familiar to students. says working with a woman like McCarthy is a that won't change. found recognition on the Internet, even if "I put Deer Park [Tavern] in because positive experience. Larry says he doesn't care if people don't it's as small as the state he sings about that's where I went most often," he says. "Well look at her- who wouldn't want to like him, as those people are not the ones buy­ Chappelle, who graduated from the As of Feb. 24, "I'm From Delaware" work with her," Larry says. "Not a bad kisser, I ing tickets to his comedy shows or movies. He university in 1993, first thought of the idea has 9,425 plays on Chappelle's MySpace gotta tell you. Not a bad kisser." _ says he performs for people who enjoy his com­ for the song after seeing a commercial for page. But Chappelle says he doesn't have Outside the film world, Larry says his edy, and the people who don't like him only Choice Hotels InternationaL The advertise­ any lofty expectations for his music career. catchphrase, "Git R Done," was never intended make him want to push his comedy even fur­ ment uses the Johnny Cash song "I've With a wife, kids and a job as an account­ to be his motto. It's a made-up phrase Larry ther. Been Everywhere" to market the vast loca­ ant,. music is just ~ fun way to pass the says he never expected to catch on. "They give me way more incentive to keep tions in which they can house travelers. time. To develop a fan base early in his career, he doing what I'm doing," he says. "I really enjoy Chappelle says after .seeing the adver­ "My goal is to have a regular perform­ says he called radio stations to offer social com- pissing them off." tisement and being a long-time Cash fan, ing schedule in Delaware, to continue writ­ the melding of melody and "Delaware" ing songs and pursue music as a hobby," he seemed to just click in his head. says. "I obviously can't pursue it as a pro­ "I've always loved Johnny Cash and fession." that song," Chappelle says. "And when I It seems, though, Chappelle doesn't saw that commercial a light just sort of need to focus solely on his music, since went off: 'I've Been Everywhere - I'm others are involved in its promotion. After from Delaware.' " he wrote the song, a music video for "I'm With the concept in place, Chappelle From Delaware" popped up on YouTube, • just needed to think of enough familiar without any help or hint from Chappelle. places in Delaware to fill four verses. He "The video was made by a and his wife, also a university graduate, Pennsylvanian woman," he says. "I met pulled out a map and a pen and began to her at one of my gigs, and all I know about make lists of what towns they've been to her is that her name is Mary Ann and she and what bars they visit most frequently. makes videos in her spare time." "I've been to Milford, Wilmington, The video features pictures of all the Dover, Harrington I Newark, Glasgow, locations in the song, which Chappelle Seaford, Long Neck I Claymont, says totals at 46 towns, 20 or so bars and Georgetown, Marydel, Middletown I approximately 20 miscellaneous things Lewes, Port Penn, Smyrna, Townsend I about Delaware. Elsmere, Little Creek, Laurel, Dewey But what could come off as overkill or Beach I Fenwick, Stanton, Frederica, a song oozing with irrelevant Delaware Felton," he sings. locales actually sounds like a state anthem. Chappelle says after making lists, he While he now lives in Chadds Ford, Pa., then had to fmd the right words that both Chappelle isn't hiding his Delaware roots, rhymed and fit in the meter of the line. and instead celebrates them. "I had to put words in the right order "I'm from Delaware, man, I'm from for the verses," he says. "I found that three Delaware I They're building everywhere, syllable words worked best in lyrics." man, I can 't drive nowhere I I got a town­ The line that has garnered the most house out in Bear, man, I'm from recognition, though, is neither three sylla­ Delaware." Larry the Cable Guy's new mm, "Witless Protection," was released last Friday. bles, nor a place to visit ~ February 26. 2008 19 The Mosaic Interview: Chuck Wicks

BY SAMMI CASSIN out who I was as an artist, and because of that I went right What did you do when you found out that "Stealing Entertainment Editor back to RCA about two years ago and got the full record CindereUa" hit the Top 10 on the Billboard country One of the great things about Delaware is the local deal. charts? music scene. The artists represent dozens of genres across I was excited. It's just a feeling of relief because it's so the specpum, from folk and indie to punk and heavy metal. What were you doing while you were living in Nashville hard. Once you get in the Top 10 you're with the elite, you're Most of them stay local, performing at open-mic nights at but still weren't signed to a label? with the best of the best. You see Carrie Underwood and clubs and bars nearby, but never really make it big. The first thing I did was get a job. I went out and got a Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley and all these names that Country music, on the other hand, is a genre that is job the second day I moved here and I started parking cars as you grew up listening to around you and you're like, "I can't underrepresented on the Delaware circuit. But one local a valet parker. I would write during the day, park cars every believe I'm in this company." It's very surreal, but at the country singer has worked his way to the top. single night and that was my source of income. That's the same time it's very rewarding. It makes you feel like you've From his days growing up on his Smyrna potato farm to only way I made money. I was just writing to become better kind of made it. I know there's such a long way to go but this parking cars in Nashville to finally signing a record deal, and eventually after about a year and a half I got a publish­ is a good first impression of who I am as an artist, but it's Chuck Wicks has broken into the business the difficult way, ing deal that helped me get by a little better than I was · definitely not the last and it's just one of those things where with good old-fashioned hard work and a little bit of luck. before. So instead of working seven days a week, I worked you can say, 'I got a Top 10' and hopefully we keep going Now, he has a Top-10 hit on the country music Billboard four or five days a week. I would go to work, I would sing, higher and higher. charts with his first single "Stealing Cinderella," a hit debut I would write, I would be in the studio, it was just a contin­ album and a year-long tour with country music superstar uance of trying to fmd out who I was and becoming better as You wrote almost every song on your new album.· What Brad Paisley. In the midst of his busy schedule, Wicks took a songwriter and .as an artist. I was paying my dues, so to do you like to write about? time to talk to The Review about his career, newfound suc­ speak. All that time was spent learning and figuring it out I write about things that I've experienced or I believe in cess and the journey it took to get there. and it seems like a long time but that's what you gotta do. or that I've seen and can relate to. Mostly I tend to write about relationships just because that's what I've experienced How did you get into country music while you were living So was it a long journey to release your first album and and whether it's been a good relationship or a bad relation­ in Delaware? The two don't really seem to go together. sign with RCA? ship or something that I wish I had back or something I People say that, but I would say that you could put them Yeah. If you think about the time I really found out missed that I wish I wouldn't have. I tend to write about together because that's just how I grew up. I grew up on a about Nashville and really wanted to go do this, I was about things like that and I try to write about things that I know I farm and what I knew of country music was what I heard on 20 years old and now I'm 28. So it took a good eight years can sing every day and still deliver the same amount of pas­ the radio. I remember my dad really got me into the country to really find that niche, make the correct steps, pay your sion and feeling over and over, night after night, because you music scene just by riding around on the farm with him and dues and find yourself. And now "Stealing Cinderella" is out have to do that or else it will become unbelievable. That's listening to the country station. My mom got me into differ­ and I couldn't be happier. We're really blessed with that song why I like to write about things that I've actually experi­ ent music, too. Country as well, but the '80s station, which and it's been really good. Especially for a new guy, for the enced. was like Journey and Chicago and all that stuff, but I also first single and having people react to it, which is nice. The grew up as a country music fan myself. I would imitate peo­ best thing about it is hearing peoples' stories about how that Do you think growing up away from the South gives you ple on the radio like Garth Brooks and all those guys and song has touched them or how they related to it. It's a cool a different sound or any kind of advantage in the busi­ that's just what I grew up listening to so it's kind of funny thing because I've been writing all these years for moments ness? when people say, 'Hey, you grew up in Delaware, how do like this. I don't think so because of the way I grew up. I grew up you like country music?' I think that's just a common mis­ on a farm and all my neighbors were my aunts and uncles, so take.with a lot of people. They just think everybody in the way I grew up is the way people the South listens to country music, but really the coun­ grow up in the South. I look around try music format is so wide. It's played everywhere in Nashville and I'm in a bigger city and Delaware is definitely one of those places. than I ever was in Delaware. So real­ ly, I'm in the South right now but I Were you a singer first and country came later, or live right outside the city. I lease 100 was it always country? acres down in Shelbyville, Tenn., . It's always been country music. When I was 11 or because it's a farm and I go there to 12 years old I started imitating these guys on the radio kind of escape and go back to my but I didn't really know too much about Nashville or roots. When I'm on that farm, I feel how to get a record deal. My main focuses were work­ like I'm on my farm in Delaware. ing on the farm, chasing girls and playing baseball. I It's the same thing, there's just a few was just a normal kid- I didn't have any inspirations, more hills. I didn't know how tp get into country music; I just knew I loved it and I loved to sing it. When I got to What have you been doing since college is when I picked up a guitar. I started writing youralbum has come out? songs and it turned into a passion and a goal, that this We're just promoting the album is something that I want to do. starting now and getting the rest of the music out there. I'm out on tour How did you get from Delaware to Nashville where with Brad Paisley this whole year so you live now? that's an opportunity that's just I moved from Delaware to Florida to go to col­ unbelievable. I get to perform for lege. I went to Florida Southern College and I played 10,000 people a night and play them baseball there and lived there for about six years. My over half the record. As a new artist junior year I started flying back and forth to Nashville that's really, really crucial because because I found out that's where country music was to you get to expose seven songs of the be. If you wanted to get into the country music indus­ 11 on the record in one sitting for try, you needed to move to Nashville. So I started tak­ that many people. You can't buy ing trips there and tried to find out more and more that. People are still putting together about it, like how do you get a record deal or how do who sings "Stealing Cinderella" on you get a publishing deal as a songwriter, all those the radio. They hear it on the radio things. The next thing you know, I started to make the ·and they're still like, 'Who sings right connections with the people in town here and I that again?' 'Oh yeah, Chuck ended up getting a development deal with [major Wicks.' 'What does he look like?' record label] RCA records six years ago. I wasn't 'OK that's what he looks like.' It going to move to Nashville until I got a foothold in the· takes time for people to really know music industry and I had something to go by. I didn't who you are. So the thing that's next want to move· to Nashville an4 throw my cards up in is to get "Stealing Cinderella" as far the air and hope that they would just land. I wanted to up there as we can on the charts and figure it out and then go. Once I got the development play it for as long as people want to going at RCi\ I packed my things and moved up there hear it and then we'll go to single and tried to mak~ it work. The funny thing is I moved number two and do the same thing there and about a week later I got dropped from my all over again. And then we'll go to development deal. I had to start all over again and single three and four and five and really become a better songwriter and get better as a continue to do that for as long as we performer and as an artist and find myself and who I can on this first record, and hopeful­ - was and what I wanted to sing about and talk about. So ly people will want to be a part of once I moved here, that's what I spent the next five the journey and who I am as an artist years doing. I was basically a student at the Harvard and to have them come with and do school of songwriting. I literally grew up with the best it with us. And then when the time songwriters in the world and they taught me every­ Courtesy of Sonygmbnashville.com comes, we'll do it all over again with thing I know now and I'm still learning, but I found Smyrna native Chuck Wicks has a Top-10 song on the country music Billboard charts. album number two. - 2 0 Februa 26, 2008

Leading men make Too many points, it worth the rewind not enough p-lot "Vantage Point" Lewis (Forrest Whitaker), an 'American Columbia Pictures tourist who captures the chaotic scene on Rating:** (out of****) his camcorder, becomes heroic as the plot "Be Kind Rewind" "Ghostbusters" At a time when terror­ unfolds. But compared to his Oscar-win:. and "Driving Miss Partizan Films ism is a constant threat, "Vantage ning performance in "The Last King of Daisy," Gondry Rating:** 112 (out of****) Point" attempts to depict the ele­ Scotland," the role proves to be nothing In the past, Michael Gondry, the creative takes his charac­ vated state of American fear in' a force behind films like "Eternal Sunshine of more than pedestrian. ters' lack of special 90-minute action-thriller packed The flashbacks recap the 23 minutes the Spotless Mind," and "The Science of effects budget and with heavy-hitters. Hollywood's before the assassination, leaving cliff-hang­ Sleep," has directed highly original and visual­ turns it into a visu­ routine of bombarding the public ers at the end of each account. By the ly stunning films. With his newest offering, al treat. He uses with trailers featuring big-name fourth recap, however, the film starts to Gondry takes a step down from his usual everyday, rundown ·actors may attract people to the become monotonous in its continual circle impressive imagery, but still manages to enter­ objects from. . theater; however, it doesn't guar­ around the political assassination. tain. Jerry's home in a antee a box-office hit or notewor­ Matthew Fox plays Kent Taylor, the "Be Kind Rewind," stars Jack Black and junkyard as props thy performances. young Secret Service agent ~orceful in ~s Mos Def as Jerry and Mike, two half-witted and puts them The film takes place in actions to protect the president. Dennis best friends who spend their days in a dilapi­ together to create the Plaza Mayor, the hub of the Quaid, who played the president in the dated movie store that exclusively rents outdat­ fun and silly paro­ Spanish city Salamanca, where 2006 flop "American Dreamz," plays ed VHS tapes. dies. the president of the United States Fox's older partner in a reverse role as a Unfortunately, due to a freak accident in Jack Black (William Hurt) is to give a speech veteran Secret Service agent, Thomas which Jerry is electrocuted while attempting to and Mos Def thrive in their stripped-down cre­ at an international anti-terrorism summit. Barnes, who has previously taken a bullet destroy his neighboring power plant, he ative atmosphere. The two are as funny as ever, Masses crowd the plaza to witness an for the president. His character's tense, on­ becomes a human magnet anti inadvertently despite falling back on standard gimmicks alliance between political leaders, as heavy edge demeanor is evident solely through erases every tape in the store. · infused in every other character they have ever security flanks the perimeter of the area. his actions, as Quaid has less .than 20 lines Luckily, when they decide to make their played. The news team, Global News of dialogue in the entire movie. own versions of each movie using a single Unfortunately, besides the extensive Network, covers the momentous event The lack of discourse detracts from camera and some junkyard props, the tapes footage of filming the remakes, "Be Kind under the firm management of its producer the film, which relies on an hour and a half become a hit and bring their small community Rewind" isn't much of a film. The story itself Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver), whose of stunts and a dizzying car-chase. Quaid together. is flat and uninspired, with far too much primary concern is to capture optimum runs around for the majority of the film, in While there are a few twists and turns emphasis on the run-down community sur­ footage of the summit. Five minutes into an endless pursuit to hunt down the assas­ involving business problems and the quickly rounding the characters to keep up with the the film, the president is shot multiple sin. growing demand for up-to-date technology in a overpowering imagery of hilariously haphazard times in the chest, two bombs explode and The performances proved ordinary small town, the film is entertaining in spite of film making. hysteria ensues. and uninspired iii an attempt to reflect the anything having to do with the plot. Most of the Essentially, this film is nothing more than Six flashbacks structure the frame­ film's frenzied, panic-stricken tone. From comedy comes from the duo's hilariously sim­ a glorified children's movie saved by good on­ work of the "Vantage Point," each showing the audience's vantage point, the movie ple and desperate film making process. It is screen chemistry from each actor and an excep­ the assassination from eye-witness was a disappointment despite the big guns. here that Gondry's creative genius shines. tional director. - accounts of the main characters. Howard -Brittany Talarico, btal@udeLedu In remakes of movies like "RoboCop," -Adam Asher, [email protected]

The Return Lil' Zane Too much, even for the rave Hollywood Fame Rating:* (out of*****) If Hip-hop was a candy store, Lil' Discipline Zane would be about as useful as Janet Jackson Sweethearts without the sappy sayings. Island Records With ringtone rap grabbing the most Rating:** (out of*****) attention in the Hip-hop business, the Janet Jackson has been through a lot in the genre is in danger of entering a state of past few years. Between some embarrassingly perpetual garbage, where Mims and harsh reviews of her last couple of albums and the Hurricane Chris are imitated for success, infamous "Nipplegate" incident during Super despite the fact that their own accom­ Bowl XXXVIII, it's time for Jackson to learn plishments are hollow and temporary. from her past, grow up a bit and redeem herself. Lil' Zane, who is in desperate need Unfortunately for Jackson, time and experi­ of defining himself and differentiating ence have not added up to new and improved. Her his music, does neither on his third latest effort, Discipline, would perhaps be more album, The Return. Instead he unimpres­ No we don't, and Zane doesn't aptly named after another track on the album sively raps about money, sex and cars. bother to offer any explanation or justi­ titled "This Can't Be Good." On the CD's intro, Zane asks, "Do fication. Ultimately, the beats are tired, Discipline is a necessity in the music busi­ you really know who you messin with? I the lyrics are elementary and the only ness and something Jackson has had to maintain Don't you know that I'm the best at thing Zane returns to is obscurity. in ordet to endure some tough tribulations. One this?" - Ted Simmons, [email protected] would think she would have a lot to say about her life and has learned how to say it with a little The whole album ends up sounding virtually New Amerykah Part One ent immediately in the first by a harmonizing choir that class. Apparently, Janet didn't get the memo. like one long rave. The neon glow sticks and paci­ (4th World War) track "Amerykahn softens the mood of her Rather than draw from her real-life woes and fier necklaces are almost visible among the pul­ Erykah Badu Promise," which sounds gangster, but inspirational give fans something raw and edgy, Jackson's sating beats that run constantly through the CD. Motown like the streets of Harlem in lyrics. lyrics are cheesy and immature. The song titles That's not to say that a couple fun dance Rating: **** (out of the 1970s. It only gets bet­ "Even though you go alone - "LUV," "What's Ur Name," "Never beats are necessarily a deal breaker on a techno *****> ter from there. through struggle and stride Letchu Go" - all sound like something out of a CD like this one, and on tracks like "Curtains," It's got funk, it's got Badu's voice cuts deep to keep a healthier life I pre-teen's text message log. it's even enjoyable. But more than an hour 0of soul, it's got truth - it's to the soul, often backed up Everybody knows that The title track is by far the strangest on the almost nothing but brain-shattering house beats is America according to black or white there s album. With the weird and over-sexed (even for difficult to stomach, even for the most experi­ Eiykah. preachers in every size," Jackson) baby-making track backed by heavy enced of club-goers. Erykah Badu has left she sings on the powerful club beats, Jackson gives up a little too much Despite several collaborations with big-time -fans hanging since 2003's "Master Teacher." information about her inner sexual animal ~ "I producers like Rodney Jerkins, Ne-Yo and Worldwide Underground. With her unique blend misbehaved I I touched myself even though you boyfriend Jermaine Dupri, Jackson's breathy Now, on New Amerykah of soul and street, Badu's told me not to." vocals and creepy lyrics are enough to distract Part One, Badu is consis­ new album will please the What follows is more of the same. The rest from any interesting beats or effects on any track. tent from beginning to ear and the mind while of the album takes on a techno/electronic vibe And in the first single of the new album, end, blending smooth, keeping listeners waiting and, when mixed with Jackson's odd blend of "Feedback," when Janet tells listeners her swag­ jazzy instrumentals with for the next installment of inappropriate, heavy breathing, whispering and ger is, "Heavy like afirst day period," the album's sultry, often funky beats. New Amerykah. synthesized vocals, it's just not a desirable way to oddity reaches a pinnacle. Her genius is appar.- -Adam Asher spend an hour and 20 minutes. - Sammi Cassin, scass@udeLedu J,·. l' ... ------· -. -- - -· --- "- - ·• ... ._ - ~ .... "' • a. a

• .• ,J•' February 26, 2008 21 del: ''a rei IN·dressed One man's turn-on tunes f:tsl1 i<)lJ forward No recession You" is one of the best songs this in g Philadelphia-based group has put out and like it's some I dare you to fmd better. sort of ritualistic mat- for the runway Tenacious D - "Fuck Her Gently" ing call. You might not "You don't always have to fuck her hard I want to play this for the girl If my closet is any In fact sometimes that s not right to do. " you expect to take home to the indication, the amount of Warning: this song could potentially get parents, but you hope she will money I've spent on my you smacked, and not in a good way. Be get down to it as well. wardrobe is terribly Jeff Ruoss careful when and where you choose to AI Green - "Love and colossal. Often, I choose Editorial Editor drop this gem. Also, make sure you have Happiness" clothes over everyday an escape plan if she doesn't get the Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It college necessities, such This Friday started off just humor. On" as food, books and like any other - 11 a.m. at For more than 40 years, these two my morning coffee. Larissa Cruz Grotto Pizza, with five Look forward to men have been getting the ladies naked But before you Columnivt friends and a round of beers and ready for whatever might happen. deem me a girl who for everyone. Suddenly, Boyz Both Gaye and Green epitomize what it is has ample money to II Men's ''I'll Make Love to Sarah's return to make love. Their sexy, soulful voices waste and doesn't eat, let me assure you I am You" came flowing through bellow through every crevice of a woman's none of the above. the speakers. next week body. I'm a tight-budgeted college student with a As we all stared at each Look at it this way - these fairly decent appetite and at the moment, the other not saying a word, the man boldly tell girls they are waning economy is threatening to hinder my - silence was gently broken when one of Ideas? E-mail Sarah tired of waiting and for them to spending even more. my friends said, "I don't care, man, I love just get in bed, and still girls The financial downturn is not only affecting this song." As a matter of fact, we all [email protected] believe they produce the best me, but it's also taking a toll on the fashion indus­ enjoyed it so much we decided if there love-making music out there. try. was a hook-up playlist, this song would If you were to try being that During New York's Fashion Week, which absolutely have to be on it. John Mayer - "Your Body is a bold, I'm pretty sure you was Feb. 1 through Feb. 8, most designers were So it got us thinking - what other Wonderland" Because the ladies love John would get slapped, so just economy-conscious about what they sent down songs would make a playlist for when Mayer. And in private, so do you. let Marvin and Al say it for the runway. you need to throw on some music to set All-4-0ne - "I Swear" You know you. Most played it safe, by reinventing invest­ the mood? Well, here is that very list - you heard this song back in elementary I understand these are not ment-worthy classics and everyday wear instead as best as we could figure it out, at least. school and have been missing it ever since. the only, and again probably not of excessive fads. Only a few took a risk by cre­ Boyz II Men - "I'll Make Love to But remember, she hasn't heard this song the best, songs to throw into ating must-have trendy looks to entice buyers. You" If there is any post-1970s group since then either, so when you throw it in your mix. But, if you are looking In terms of creativity, the clothing was more out there that can get you into the your mix you are going to look like a smooth for a little something conservative than sensational. For instance, "sea­ right mood better than Boyz II Men, connoisseur of the best make-out songs. something on Friday sonless" clothes were common, because they're I have not heard of it. Boyz II Men The song of today (i.e. the Apple uight and the mood is not sensible and wearable and allow customers to is the only group to re-invent Bottom Jeans song, "The Thong Song" or just right, try some of make use of their layering capabilities. the Motown era, which is the "The Whisper" song) You know the song these songs. Who knows, Despite my low in-flow of cash and the pes­ best "get-it-on" era ever. - the one that as soon as it comes on at a they may work better for you simistic predictions of the economy, I still don't "I'll Make Love to club or bar every girl in the room starts dane- than they do for me. think I'm prepared to forfeit style. I refuse to wear whatever I can scrounge. It's every fashiouista's worst nightmare - we yearn for what's new, but we don't have the funds to keep up. · This is precisely why cheap chic stores like '60s class turned millenium trash H&M and Forever 21 are currently booming­ they deliver the latest trends with consumer­ friendly price tags. We've seen Lindsay Lohan play iden­ just as sexy at 36 as Lohan does at 21. talizes Monroe as the ultimate sex symbol, With or wi,thout H&M, though, I'd honestly "The Last Sitting" is iconic. The while Lohan's shoot seems like a desperate tical twins in the 1998 remake of"A Parent still sacrifice to obtain the clothes I want, and as Trap." We've seen her infiltrate the renowned spread features one of the most cry for attention. some of you must know, nothing can come "Plastics" in "Mean Girls." We've seen her memorable women the show-business She certainly has received media between that kind of unconditional love. crash cars after nights of partying. We've world has ever seen. attention from her shoot. New York During these supposedly bumpy times, fash­ Lohan's shoot, which sits on news­ Magazine's Web site has been flooded with seen her go to rehab. ion doesn't necessarily need to be compromised We've seen it all from Lcrhan - the stands across the country, reminds us just more than 20 million hits since the photos in order to appeal to the mass market. All design­ acting, the drinking, the criminal behavior how legendary Monroe is. "The Last were made available online one week ago. ers should keep this in mind, especially during Sitting" is timeless and classic. It immor- An extra 5,000 copies of the magazine and the almost weekly trips in and out of Fashion Week, when the extraordinary and luxu­ clinics. · have been made for back-order rious are the standard. There's a reason why the Now, we're seeing a different sales and the magazine has gotten word "show" is involved. side of Lindsay. Bare skinned and 500 extra subscriptions this week. · There are exceptions, however. Not all prettied up, Lohan appears naked in One thing both Monroe's and designers let the business woes affect them. Lohan's shoots have in common is the Feb. 25 edition of New York "Beauty, I think, is recession-proof," Magazine's Spring Fashion issue. the photographer, Bert Stern. American fashion designer Derek Lam says, in Of course, when Lohan is Simple yet artistic, Stern shows response to the recent monetary circumstances. involved, it's never free of contro­ both Monroe and Lohan as fragile Lam's confidence in fashion is refreshing­ and lonely. versy or comment. This was no possibly because he's young- but I do believe ordinary photo shoot. It was The similarities end there. there's some truth to what he says. As superficial inspired by the ultimate sex symbol The circumstances were different or naive as Lam may be, it's fun to imagine the for Stern this time around - 40 and one of the most important fashion industry as an invincible superhero force women in the history of American years ago it was just him and that can overcome whatever crosses its path. entertainment - Marilyn Monroe. Monroe, while Lohan's manager, Even Cynthia Rowley, another American Lohan's 10-picture photo shoot security guard, stylists and assis­ fashion designer, says, "I think we'll - not to resembles Monroe's final shoot, tants were all a room away from the use a bad fashion term-but we'll probably skirt show-all shoot. deemed "Tbe Last Sitting," as it a real recession." Monroe played every bit the part was done only six weeks before If that's the case, then hallelujah, but if not, of sex symbol in "The Last Sitting." Monroe overdo'"s-o:d and died. I don't think my shopping habits, or anyone Lohan is seen wearing a blond She sold sex and sold it well. Lohan else's, will be altered by that much. looks like she's selling her body for wig and fake eyelashes to create a And so what if I end up living in a card­ likeness to Monroe. The cover pic­ the next gig she hopes to land. board box someday, due to my passion for ture shows Lohan biting down on When we look back at Lohan's - clothes? At least I'll have the comfort of knowing pink chiffon, while other photos in photo shoot 40 years from now, we that I did it all in the name of love. the magazine show her lying on a won't view it as iconic and ground­ bed of white sheets, seductively breaking. It won't be etched into looking into the camera. history like "The Last Sitting" will Like Larissa's columns? Visit her Unfortunately for Lohan, there always be. We'll see Lohan's shoot new blog "I Can Dress Myself" at will only be one Marilyn Monroe. as a wannabe diva looking for love. In the 1962 shoot, Monroe looks -Brian Anderson, bland@ldeLedu www.udreview.com 2 2 February 26, 2008 m From '60s turmoil to Delaware beaches Writer discusses life and career rich if! political activi~m

BY ASHLEY WAYNE casket and sink me to the-bottom of Indian River." Staff Reporter · Gover explains how his friend, Wendell Harris, When it comes to race and literature of the 1960s, heard of the plan. 79-year-old Robert Gover is not just a witness but an "[Harris] told me to grab a toothbrush and get out active participant in making radical history. of my house and gone ASAP," he says. "The die-hards "I had the sense that I was witnessing a tremendous missed me by about a minute." change, that the country would never be the same, that Gov~r's next stop was California, where he was the various movements of the sixties were revolution­ introduced to many of his famous cohorts, including ary," Gover says, "and when the dust settled around the "Bobby" Dylan, Norman Mailer and Jim Morrison. mid-1970s, I was left feeling somewhat disoriented, not ·He recalls a night he went out to dinner with only from dashed expectations but also frorri drugs and Dylan, who began playing a song on his guitar and the booze and too much promiscuous sex." maitre d' kicked them out. They spent the rest of the Fifty years after this revolutionary era and the night floating from restaurant to club, absorbing differ­ release of his New York Times best-seller, "One ent sounds of the time. Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding," Gover has moved "Dylan and I had a few drinks and were chatter­ to Rehoboth Beach. ing about writing, the nuts and bolts of word-smithing While Gover says he now feels out of touch in and the mysteries of inspiration, stuff like that." · Rehoboth, it's a welcome change of pace from the past Gover was on assignment from The New York 79 years. Times to do a story on the lead singer of The Doors, Gover's success as a writer opened the door to the Jim Morrison. After their formal interview, they hung party that was the '60s. He was an ·eyewitness to one of out and Gover got to know Morrison apart from his the most influential decades in history, from flower management team. He reported back to his editors power to segregation. about Morrison's free spirit, and, in return, had his Gover says his father died before his first birthday, story reassigned. and his mother, ill-prepared to care for him, turned him Despite being removed from ;the story, Morrison over to Girard Orphanage. Because of this, Gover grew and Gover remained friends for many years. Gover up on the streets of North Philadelphia. recounts waking up at 4 a.m. to find Morrison raiding During World War II, he spent Saturday nights Courtesy ofRobertgover.com his fridge, or spending the better part of his day talking playing harmonica for soldiers and sailors passing to Morrison on the beach. Robert Gover has recently settled down in Rehoboth .Beach. through the area. . . "There was method to his seeming madness," "They'd inevitably ask where they could find some Gover says. girls so we'd lead them .. .into what was then called the ship and a fun read." For now, Gover is removed from the politics of the 21st black ghetto to the red-light district," he says. His understanding of racial relationships is evident in century; however, he thinks the eras are more similar than By age 12, Gover says he became fascinated by whore­ "One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding," the fictional story they seem. For instance, he mentions the campaign of houses, madams and working girls. of a middle-class white kid and his weekend rendezvous Barack Obama. He spent summers in southern Kentucky visiting the with a black prostitute. "He seems to be possessed by the spirit of the '60s, family of his deceased father. Gover became very close with "Reactions to that novel were hot," Gover says. and is getting positive responses from the people," he says. a black child who also went by the name of Robert. Robert ·"Liberals loved it, conservatives hated it and African­ "So, times change, and then change again, and go on and many of the other black children Gover met in Americans were split." changing." · Kentucky varied greatly from the ones he knew from inner­ Gover quit his day job as a print journalist and became Since movi,pg to Rehoboth with his wife, Carolyn, city Philadelphia. one of two white men involved witl~ the The National Gover says he is greatly involved with economic astrology, "What I'm getting at is that I had a lot in my personal Association for the Advancement of Colored People. the correlation between the economy and planetary cycles, and family past that connected me to African-Americans, so "I wrote an article about how segregation was being and is toying with the idea of writing a Rehoboth Beach it was a subject I wanted to take on as a young novelist," maintained in Florida and it was published by a New York novel. Gover says. "I figured that the essence of American racism newspaper," he says. "That brought me to the hot attention "The older I get, the more I value my unique perspec­ had to do with sex ... so I conjured those two characters and of the local Florida die-hards, as they were called back in tive," Gover says. "I don't know if I'll have the juice as an put them into what I hoped would be a symbolic relation- the '60s ... who then planned to grab me, put me in a cement old geezer to nail this novel, but I'll give it a try."

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KELLY DURKIN The film archive contains two large, cli­ Copy Desk Chief mate-controlled vaults where all of the film is One of the first things movie fans think of kept. The collection focuses on movies that when they hear the word "Oscars" is the red were either nominated or won awards, as well carpet, filled with glamorous actors and bril­ as the telecasts of the award shows themselves. liant directors. Kelly Chisholm, a university Chisholm says there is also an extensive collec­ alumna, walked right alongside them at the tion of documentaries, public programming and 80th annual Academy Awards ceremony on home movies from celebrities and other people. Sunday. Chisholm says the most difficult task she Chisholm, 28, works for the Academy of faces is dealing with public mindset concerning Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in new formats and technologies. Hollywood as a collections services coordina­ "I'm asked all the time, 'Oh, so you guys tor at the academy's film archive. are just putting everything on DVD now,' and Her journey from the Green to the red car­ it's frustrating to hear," she says. "As people get pet began during her undergraduate years as a more used to having things all the time, they get chemistry major at the university. She was an used to thinking they will be there forever and undergraduate research scholar and was also a we have to fight against that public opinion." Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant recipi­ Chisholm says she believes it's important Courtesy of Kelly Chisholm ent. to preserve motion pictures because they show Alumna KeUy Chisholm works for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "It made a lot of sense to me," she says. "I what life was like in the early 1900s. was trying to figure out what I could do and "The 20th century is the first where we can ''No one cares what you're wearing unless awards ceremony, Chisholm states she enjoyed chemistry was the one topic I could tutor peo­ literally look at people living and going about you're a celebrity," she says. the event, and she and her sister saw Hilary ple in and explain to people." their daily business, movies and how culture Chisholm says although she's never talked Swank and Helen Mirren on the red carpet. Chisholm says she stumbled upon the field was reflected in mass media," she says. "We to any of the stars attending the awards, it's "Getting to congratulate Jon Stewart on a of film preservation after seeing a documentary have such a better idea how it was to live in exciting to see them in real life. job well done on our way out after the show on the subject and became interested in it 20th century as time goes on, and that informa­ "It's fun to see people, like George was probably the highlight for me - he just because of its applied approach. tion will become more and more valuable - Clooney- he's beautiful," she says. happened to walk by on his way out." She says she started taking film classes at documentaries, movie footage, any kind of In an e-mail message written after the the university and decided she wanted to have a footage." career that involved film, while continuing with Chisholm says using her chemistry major. film as a medium is crucial to "I loved college. I think I ended up taking the preservation of motion nterns ps nine or 10 film studies classes," she says. "All pictures because of its the professors are really great and helped with longevity ·and durability, ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• finding things to do after I graduated. With the unlike DVDs and videotapes. help of [English professor] Peter F eng, I looked "Look back over the last at the into film preservation," she says. "It started to 20 years and see if you had­ Delaware General sound interesting and I went from there." n't been using film where Although her background in chemistry things would be," she says. Assembly isn't directly connecfed with film preservation, "If you have old VHS tapes, Chisholm says it didn't hinder her in searching. they look fuzzy and lose for a job she wanted. magnetism. Digital technolo­ "I found that, going into the job market, gy moves so fast, it gets hard the fact that you had a college degree was to even have equipment to important," she says. "It's still more about what look at it. you learn than nec~ssarily what you come away "Even if we have huge with and technically what your degree is in." uncompressed digital files, . After the Newark native graduated in how long will they stay 2001, she attended technical school at the L. good? If it gets dropped or Jeffrey Selznick School for Film Preservation something - that informa­ at the George Eastman House, where she tion is gone. We can physi­ obtained a certificate in film preservation and cally open up a can and look received a Kodak Fellowship in Film at the film and say, 'Oh that's Preservation. Her time at the Selznick School what this is.' Hopefully if included one year in Rochester, N.Y., working you put film in a cold, dry in film archives, visiting professors and taking vault it should last for hun­ field trips to learn more about the art of preser­ dreds of years. Film is still vation. the best way to go." Web for more details: www.ipa.udel.edu/legfellows "It was very hands-on," she says. "It was Chisholm says her cur­ / very much like, 'Today we'll learn cataloging, rent position is an adminis- ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• / tomorrow we'lllearn how to restore film.' I like trative job, working with working hands-on instead of being scholarly." donors and depositors who Featu r·es ·. Chisholm said she strengthened hc:;r skills give film to the archive. Part with various internships, including positions of the perks of working for that involved sound restoration, digital restora­ the Academy ·includes an • Work in State Capitol 20 hours/week, transportation provided tion and a photochemical lab, as well as getting invitation to the Oscars. In • Contribute in-depth, non-partisan research to see the COIJlillercial side of film preservation. years past, Chisholm says / After technicah.chool, Chisholm says she was she has taken her mother and unemployed for a time and wanted to remain sister as guests. living on the East Coast. Eventually, she says, "It's overwhelming," Efigibility: she caved and interviewed for a job at the she says. "We don't have University of Los Angeles Film and Television much that we can offer most Full-time graduate and senior-level undergraduates archive and moved from there to a ·position at of the year, but this day, it's the academy. really cool." 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Women's swimming at CAA Championships (George Mason) Women's lacrosse vs. Rutgers, 3p.m. Women's basketball vs. Georgia State, 7 p.m. THE REVIEW/Michael LoRe The women's lacrosse team prepares Monday afternoon for its upcoming game against Rutgers on Feb. 28 at Rullo Stadium. Friday, Feb. 29 BY ANDREW GERBOSI be easy, but I feel like we have the talent and we 2008. Men's swimming at CAA Staff Reporter have the personnel that we did not have last year." The Hens rank No. 20 in the Inside Lacrosse Championships (George Mason) The Delaware women's lacrosse team refus- She said she and other players understand Pre-Season Top 20 Media Poll, the first such es to settle for anything but first place this year. where teammates will be on the field. ranking for the team since Ciarrocca took over as Women's swimming at CAA Head coach Kim Ciarrocca said her players "Chemistry is definitely a key in helping the head coach in 2004. She said this sets the bar even Championships (George Mason) believe this season will go down in Hens' history team move forward," Flego said. "We are going higher for the squad as the Hens approach the as being the best. to be faster on defense. We finally have some start of their season. Men's indoor track at New York Last season, Delaware finished 11-6 (5-2 speed back there that's really going to help us. "[Muth] stepped up and said this is my last University Fasttrack Invitational Colonial Athletic Association)- a vast improve- The biggest thing we are working on right now is go-around and I want to make it to the [NCAA (New York Armory) ment after finishing 5-12 in 2006. The team suf- ball control. Tournament] before I leave Delaware," Ciarrocca fered a heartbreaking 15-13 loss to James "We feel like our offense can score on any- said. "We want to be in the top 15 this year." Women's indoor track at New York Madison in last year's CAA Tournament semifi- one. We have got to get possession and keep the Muth said Delaware has the talent to take University Fasttrack Invitational nals. ball on offense." control of the CAA. Five of Delaware's games (New York Armory) Ten starters from last year's squad return to Ciarrocca said.having a team return so many are against top-20 teams. Ciarrocca said no mat- the team. The Web site which ranks lacrosse starters is important in improving on last season. ter the result, the games against ranked opponents Softball vs. UNC Greensboro, teams across that nation, LaxPower.com, ranked "Continuity on and off the field is impor- will be important this year. 12 p.m. (East Carolina Pirate Clash) Delaware as the second-most improved team last tant," Ciarrocca said. "It's nice to have a team that "It is either going to help us or it is going to year and with all of the pieces still in place, the gels so well together." kill us," she said. "As long as you are competi- Softball vs. Liberty, 2 p.m. Hens continue to improve. S_enior captain Katie Muth said she noticed a tive, it helps you." (East Carolina Pirate Clash) Expectations run high once again for significant difference in the experience of the Delaware opens the season at home on Feb. Delaware, as the team is predicted to finish sec- team. She said last year, the players spent a lot of 28 against Rutgers. Muth said there is a lot to be Saturday, March 1 ond in the CAA behind No. 15 James Madison. time getting used to how someone else plays in a motivated about heading into this season. Last year's CAA Rookie of the Year Nicole game, but this year, they understand how the "We are going to be the most impressive Men's swimming at CAA Flego said she's offended by the preseason con- other players perform on the field. team that Delaware has had in a long time," Championships (George Mason) ference expectations. In 2006, seven of the team's 12 losses came Ciarrocca said. "When we play you, you know it "To me, it was kind of an insult that we were by three goals or less. Last year, the Hens is going to be a high-paced, fast-action game." Women's swimming at CAA not [ranked first]," Flego said. "It is not going to improved and look to continue their progress in Championships (George Mason) Ever since reality television playing against the average "Joe go from cashier to professional ath­ Men's lacrosse at Rutgers, 1 p.m. started controlling every major Schmo" who thinks he is a true lete by schooling people like Cf)Ulmentacy cable network on the tube, I have bailer. This gives the opportunity Dominique Wilkins on the basket­ Baseball vs. Princeton, 12 p.m. ranted incessantly about how much for amateur athletes to attempt to ball court, is real excitement. I hate it. "Laguna Beach," "The break a tackle from Bill Reality TV shows glorifying Men's basketball at Towson, 4 p.m. Real World," "Temptation Island," Romanowski, wrestle Bill Goldberg amateur strength and athleticism "The Anna Nicole Show" "The and break the full-court press make a push to be the most preva­ Softball vs. Radford, 10 a.m. Osbournes' " "The Simp!~ Life, " against Clyde Drexel, among other lent entertainment on television. (East Carolina Pirate Clash) "The Bachelor" - they make me retired star athletes. "Last One Standing" gives six ama­ sick. For years, I was convinced This show stimulates me teur athletes a chance to perform in Softball vs. East Carolina,. 2 p.m. nothing good could come out oftel­ because of viewers who sit on their a world of physical challenges. The (East Carolina Pirate Clash) evision outside of ESPN and re­ couches at home and talk about how contestants live in remote lands runs of "Seinfeld " they could do better than the "Joe" with indigenous tribes, fighting for S~nday, March 2 Recently, I have realized there on television. their lives and tribal acceptance is a brand of reality TV which can Watching the former superstars through physical battles. Baseball vs. Princeton, 12 p.m. appeal to my passion for competi­ trash-talk the average "Joe," who is The men must fight in tion. Reality TV has turned to the nothing more than a glorified gym wrestling matches with the Kalpalo Women's basketball at VIrginia world of athleticism and physicality rat, serves as true entertainment. wrestlers of Brazil, Zulu-stick fight, Commonwealth, 2 p.m. GREG ARENT in order for contestants to win. The best part of the show however, foot race across the Mexican moun­ The best show is "Pros vs. is when the former athletes lose to tains wearing home-made sandals, Softball at East Carolina Pirate "Bring it in Joes." It features retired profession­ the average players. Watching a martial-arts fight in Java and vari- Clash, tba al athletes in their sport of choice, nobody from a small town in Ohio, for the 'real' thing" See ATHLETIC page 30 2 9 February 26, 2008 ~ UD has become quarterback Mecca . ..

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BY S.EIF HUSSAIN bility due to an unpleasant scholarship situation, decided on n't want to go to a first-tier football school with a second-tier Sports Editor Delaware annvay, instead of FBS suitors. academic program. Countless quarterbacks sit on the bench for an entire col­ Keeler said Delaware's program already had a connection "Delaware just had the best balance." lege career, albeit for one of the premier programs in the with Fiacco; as the Hens attempted to recruit him out of high Keeler said he maintains a high standard for any interest­ nation, or have the glory of a starting position while perform­ school, but Fiacco took the more attractive FBS offer. ed transfers, with regards to their performance both on and off ing in a stadium worthy of a high school team. "Quarterback U" has become the informal moniker, as the field. The coaching staff accepts no transfers with any C This choice has been presented to some of the best bench­ deemed fit by The News Journal and other local media outlets, grades on their transcripts. Keeler said Delaware scrutinizes warming quarterbacks in the upper echelon of college football referring to Delaware's football program, which through some prospects with social issues in their history or troubling off-the­ since 2002. Andy Hall, Sonny Riccio, Joe Fiacco and now intangible allure has brought a number of impressive quarter­ field problems. Robby Schoenhoft were given the choice of picking between backs to Newark in recent years. It is difficult to understand The selection process is rigorous and with apprax.imately the two paths. what could bring Hall, a former Philadelphia Eagles draft pick, 100 transfer applicants annually, the staff stays busy evaluating Yet these four quarterbacks saw the fork in the road an

BY PETER BUNDY Longacre lost the first singles match, but extended Jason Staff Reporter Pinsky, a top-60 player, to three sets. The men's tennis team has become accustomed to aver­ Delaware senior Jon Schwartz earned a significant win at age performances. Last year, the Hens closed out the season No. 6 singles. with a 9-11 record, falling short in the Colonial Athletic "The team showed tremendous fight and never gave up, Association Championship quarterfinals for the sixtli-straight despite playing one of the best teams in the country," season. Schwartz said. "Although we came away with the loss, we The team hopes things will change for the better this looked at this as a building block to the rest of the season." year. Everyone has been in the weight room and putting in In men's tennis, every team is guaranteed a spot in the extra practice in hopes of being a formidable force this CAA Championships. Delaware has traditionally finished spring, said head coach Laura Travis. approximately sixth or in the middle of the pack. This year, Travis said the extra work should pay off. the Hens hope to have better results. "This has been the easiest two years of my coaching The team is primarily composed of young players. career," Travis, who is in her 15th year as the men's head Freshman Chris Hincker is expected to compete at the No. 4 coach, said. ' singles spot, and only two seniors graduate after this season. The men's team a~empts to build on momentum from a No matter what the results are this season, this young successful fall s-eason. The accomplishments began Sept. 19, team is in it for the long haul - and for the love of the sport, when sophomore Austin Longacre led the Hens to a sweep of senior Jason Hanschmann said. .all six titles at the Swarthmore Invitational. Results continued 1HE REVIEW/Caleb Smith "To me, tennis is a way to relax during the day," to be positive, with a strong showing at the Eastern College Nolan Greenberg was 9-4 at No. 1 and No. 2 singles in the faD. Hanschmann said. "It's like, when I'm having a bad day, ten­ Athletic Conference Tennis Title and a 4-3 comeback victory job of getting us ready for the matches. In the fall, we really nis rides in with its shining armor and beautiful white stal­ at Villanova by sophomore Camilo Perez. bought into what she had to say and it showed." lion, sweeps me off my feet and saves me from having to deal At the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Greenburg said it was a fun fall season, but it means with the troubles of the day. And the day is like a terrible, Regional, top singles players Longacre and Nolan Greenberg nothing without vic1ories in the spring. frightening, fire-breathing dragon with scales and an insa­ proved to be a formidable force at doubles, by upsetting top­ After a strong start at The College of New Jersey on Feb. tiable hunger for human misery. seeded Princeton. 16, the team suffered a 6-1 setback against Penn a day later. "I'm like, 'Thanks tennis.' And he responds, 'No prob­ "With all that in the fall, our expectations of the spring Travis said the defeat looks worse on paper. lem, Jason. No problem.' " are extremely high," Longacre said. "Our coach does a good She said Penn is one of the strongest teams in the nation. )1t . . February 26.2008 30 Tales involving the individuals underneath the irik Delaware athletes explain personal significance of tqttoos "\• BY BRAD GOODMAN D.C. to Newark. Staff Reporter Psalm 121 stayed posted on his mother's hospital bed Tattoos remain prevalent in athletic culture and the per­ the entire time. He got the number tattooed on his body manent marks on an athlete's body oftentimes have person­ several months later. In between, he started to memorize al significance to the players. Many tattoos tell in-depth sto­ the psalm. PJalm 121 ries about a person. Commonly, a tattoo has greater signifi­ "I didn't tell my family about the tattoo for a few cance to the wearer than what is seen by an outsider. months," Kenworthy said. "They were disappointed Delaware men's basketball junior guard Marc Egerson, [because] I didn't tell them right away but when I 1Q ~ill.$ .... who ranks second on the team in minutes (34.9) explained it, it was not a bad thing." I lift UJl eJe.S to fl'Je and points (12.9), has several tattoos w,hich can He said he remembers the ttt~tre boe.s mJ ~dp tome &om? easily be viewed by anyone. The Georgetown psalm as part of his daily ritual, transfer said the most noticeable of his 11 praying it every night before going .fDJJ ~elp tome.s from t~e LO.ll.D. tattoos is the mark which reads "God's to sleep. Gift" on the left side of his neck. Despite Kenworthy's other tattoo is on th .maier of ~eauen anb eart~. the possibilities for people to be offend­ his left side, and it reads, "KEN­ ed, he said the tattoo is popular. WORTHY." He said it is mean­ "That gets a lot of attention," he ingful because he will always .Itt will not let JOUr foot .slip ,.,., said. "People will see me and talk about have the family name as well as it, but it's mostly compliments." the tattoo. .Itt ttt~o tttatt~e.s otter JOU will not .slnm6er; For Egerson, the tattoo on his "I have two tattoos of meaning­ forearm reading "LOVE" has deep ful things to my life, God and inbeeb • .Ite ttt~o tttatt~e.s otter brael significance. His mother nicknamed family," he said. him Love because he was the first Freshman long-distance runner will ntit~er .slnmlier nor .sleep. grandchild of his generation on both Nate Twer recently received his sides of his family. "LOVE" became only tattoo approximately one Eger•son 's month ago. "AMP" reads on the ~~t LO.ll.D tttatth.S otter JOU .... first tattoo back of his left arm, in honor of his and the nick- friend since childhood, the late t~e LO.ll.D i.s JOUr .s~abe at:Jonr riJ~t ~anb: name still Andrew Peff. sticks with "Andrew and I went to the same t~t .sun will not ~arm JOU fiJ baJ. him. elementary school and we lived down t~e nij~t. "The nickname the street from each other," Twer said. nor moon 6J changed a bit as time went "Then, Andrew, [our friend] and I went to dif­ on," he said. "People changed it up a ferent high schools, but we always hung out." little, [especially when] playing bas­ This past January when Andrew was killed in a snow­ ~~e LO.ll.D will ieepJon from all ~arm .... ketball. As time went on since, it boarding accident, his group of friends decided to have his went back to just 'Love.' " initials tattooed on them. llt will watt~ otter JOUr life: Egerson 's favorite tattoo also They all used the same font, but Twer explained they reminds him of his family. The ini­ did not all get them on the same spot. t~e LO ll.D Utili watefi otter JOUr tominj aab tials of his son, Ryan Christopher, "It was [our friend's] idea," Twer said. '.'[He and I] JOiJUJ read across his chest. Ryan turned were the first to do it, two one recently and Egerson said he got days ·after Andrew died. I 6ot~ now anb foretter more. the tattoo shortly after the birth, felt it was something I approximately 10 months ago. should do." Delaware football junior punter Twer said the tattoo Stuart Kenworthy said he has two brings back memories of tattoos which have personal signifi­ his childhood. When peo­ cance. Kenworthy explained the ple ask why he has some­ tough time he had during his second body else's initials on his semester of college, when his father arm, he is well-versed in was in Iraq and his mother was in the explaining. hospital with life-threatening blood "People who knew me clots. before [Winter Session] After spending time at asked when I came back and home with his two sisters, he found I had to explain," he said. "I solace in Psalm 121 - the number got used to it. I've simpli­ now tattooed on his body. fied it lately." "I was heading in the Twer said it is OK that wrong direction," Kenworthy said. "I tattoos are permanent because left school for a few weeks to be with they can be more than skin my sisters, but the wrong path esca­ deep. lated. I found comfort in this psalm." "[Andrew was] a great He said the difficulties started at person, a best friend," Twer said. the end of his freshman year during "Death is permanent. We felt it Winter Session, when he traveled back was the right thing to do." and forth from his home in Washington,

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Continued from page 28 The only downfall of the show - Hulk Hogan. couches, boasting they are stronger, faster and more athletic The Spike TV show, "Ultimate Fighter," gives amateur than the lucky contestants who were selected. Everyone . ous other events. It is impressive to watch the amateur athletes mixed-martial-arts fighters a chance to earn a contract with knows I could have beat Evan in "American Gladiators." show off their physical prowess against tribesmen across the the UFC, the world's premier mixed-martial-arts league. The After watching professional athletes get paid millions of world. show is brilliant because only one fighter in the contest earns dollars only to complain that t~ey want more, it is fun to glo­ Another TV show allowing average athletes to flex their a contract. The participants fight for their career, as the win­ rify the amateur athlete. So as long as there is going to be real­ muscles is the recently revived "American Gladiators." This ners become professionals. There is nothing better than seeing ity TV, let's keep the shows· that feature athleticism and get rid show allows athletes to go head-to-head, not only against each some schmo put his sweat and guts into training and fighting, of poor entertainment. other, but also against the Herculean Gladiators. This show only to be rewarded in the end by going professional. The appeals to audiences because viewers root for the little person. show is more "real" than the "Real World" because these ath­ Every athlete who has a Napoleon-complex loves to see the letes fight for their professional well-being. Greg Arent is a sports editor for The RevieWi His viewpoints tiny contestants go toe-to-toe with their enormous competi­ The true reason viewers are hypnotized by these shows is do not necessarily reflect that of the R view Staff. Send tors. Every time a Gladiator gets destroyed by the puny con­ because it gives them a chance to watch people they can relate questions, comments and the · · TV remote to testants, it gives hope to many average viewers. to as they compete. It gives viewers a chance to sit on their garent@udeLedu. ·. " 31 February _26, 2008 ~ The perf~ct baseball throwing mechanics and drills

BY JACOB OWENS used when a ·long throw is needed from the outfield. Tsakonas because batters are taught growing up to always swing at a fast­ StaffR eporter said the most important part of a crow-hop throw is to set up sev­ ball, but using that disguise, we can utilize different grips and Life is full of firsts. One such first is learning to throw a eral steps behind catching the ball and then catch in motion. As hand rotations to give a ball specific motions," Walker said. ball, and more importantly, learning to throw without looking players catch the ball, they begin the jump starting with the leg Besides the physical aspect of pitching, there is the mental awkward. Little pressure is applied to our ability to throw in our opposite of their throwing hand and following through with as side of being able to control a ballgame. Often, it is the mental daily lives, aside from lobbing a TV remote to a roommate. accurate of a throw as possible, in doing so they align their upper maturity and confidence that lead a pitcher to victory, Walker As the Delaware baseball team prepares for its inaugural and lower body to maximize the power of the throw. said. road trip, players understand the importance of a good throw. "The key is to get set up," Tsakonas said. "Get your feet "A lot of kids get caught up in velocity, but I have never "With the upcoming season, tournament and the draft all in under you before starting a fluid motion, because you do not seen a radar gun get somebody out," Walker said. the back of my mind, it pushes me to work harder and have bet­ want to start after catching on your back foot and off balance." Slovak said he finds himself overanalyzing the game while ter games, so I have learned to rely on what I have been taught There is the other side of throwing in baseball, the 60-feet on the mound. McGuire said he rests and clears his head before and pitching the way I know how," senior pitcher Mike McGuire and six-inches that have intimidated batters and U.S. presidents a game so any doubt or self-consciousness is gone by game time. said. alike. Pitching is not easy and it takes a lot of repetition. "The key is to be able to trust in all of your pitches all of the Part of the hard work includes training and practicing Learning how to set the body for different pitches is one of the time, and if you are able to do that, you will be the strongest before game day. Pitchers usually choose to weight lift and build most important parts of the education, Walker said. pitcher you can be," McGuire said. strong upper bodies or do cardiovascular and band workouts to Pitchers begin with the opposite foot forward, then as they stay lean and flexible. McGuire said he used to weight lift, but begin, they motion their start to step forward with that foot while now opposes such workouts. He chooses to run more and partic­ beginning their wind up, he said. Just before their lead foot ipate in flexibility exercises because pitching is strenuous on the touches down in mid-step, pitchers begin to torque their hips as joints. their arm moves forward. When the motion is finished, their hips "One common misconception that pitchers especially have, should be squared with the catcher and the ball released at the is that you have to have a strong upper body to throw, but actu­ end of their throw. ally most of the power comes from the core and legs, so we do "You want to have your hand behitid the ball the whole way daily routines to strengthen our abs and then keep the rotator cuff and when you release the throw, your hand should be stretching muscles in the shoulder flexible," pitching coach Brian Walker out towards the catcher as if you wanted to shake his hand," said. Walker said. Pitchers are not the only players concerned with throwing, The classic pitch is the fastball. In order to throw a proper senior outfielder Adam Tsakonas said. Speed and control while two-seam fastball, the middle and index fingers must be togeth­ throwing·exist as two of the most important aspects of defensive er in the narrowest area of the seams with the thumb underneath baseball. A converted third baseman, Tsakonas said the different and between the fingers, senior pitcher David Slovak said. styles of throwing between the infield and outfield initially took Slovak is a "submarine" pitcher with a unique pitching style. He getting used to because speed and quickness are more essential throws his pitches a little higher than a softball pitch, but still to the infield, where as power and control are· more important to below the waist, and in doing so, can trick a batter. the outfield. "My ball inoves so much and is so sharp that I look at the One factor remains constant whether throwing from third to mitt and do not consciously think about an area, instead I rely on first or flipping a groundball to second. my skills," Slovak said. "With my slider, I throw it like a fast­ "Grip is the most important part of throwing because you ball, but with a different grip and rotate my hand and fingers to do not have to be the quickest thrower," Tsakonas said. "If you make it fall down and away from the batter." can get good grip on the ball and aim at your target's forehead, Another potential pitch, the changeup, looks like a fastball then you are putting your teammates in a good position to get an but is much slower, and is McGuire's favorite. This pitch is posi­ TilE REVIEW!Ricky Berl out." tioned deeper in the palm than the fastball. Delaware has two doubleheaders against Princeton March 1-2. Then there is the infamous "crow-hop throw," generally "A pitcher will always make their throws look like a fastball --· How's your favorite Men's Basketball W2m~n's Bask~tl!all Delaware sports team doing? 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urtis Dickson Sophomore attackman Curtis Dickson had a huge game for the Delaware men's lacrosse on Feb. 23, scoring five goals and adding three assists to lead the Hens to a 12-6 victo- over Marist. The five-goal output matched Dickson's performance against UMBC a week earlier, in 15-7 win over the Retrievers. The back-to-back five-goal games marked the sophoinoi:e·s best single-game goal-scoring totals since he began playing for Delaware last - " n'""r Dickson became the first Hen to score five goals in back-to-back games since Anthony '--~--'DiMarzo in 1995. Dickson has found the back of the net in 12 consecutive contests.

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