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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, Brittany Talarico Larissa Cruz }Jt March 25, 2008 3 Five years later: university reflects on War in Iraq BY TED SIMM9NS anniversary] rolled around, we decid ing "the preconceptions the audience Staff Reporter ed we had to do something on cam might have," by commenting on the Different groups from around pus to end the student apathy issue," present civil conflict between the the university joined together Lucas said. "The main goal is we just Sunnis and Shiites. Wednesday to hold an open forum wanted to give the opportunity to the "The United States is in a posi teach-in to discuss the five-year student body to have an unbiased tion of holding back two combatants anniversary of the War in Iraq, its organization and just talk about what who are desperately trying to get at present state and possible outcomes. ever they want. We made it a very each other," Kaufman said. "When The teach-in consisted of two general, broad topic so that anyone the United States pulls out, the fight professors and representatives from would be interested." ing will get worse." the lnternational Students for Social The panel touched on numerous Senior Jennifer Price was also Equality, Students for a Democratic aspects of the Irag war including on the panel, representing Amnesty Society and Amnesty International. costs, history, future options, the International and the humanitarian Robin Lucas, president and co-. impact of the presidential race and point of view. She addressed the Iraqi founder of Whirled Peas, moderated the grounds for why the United refugee situation and the lack of a the event and said its purpose was to States is still present in the country. judicial system for military contrac not only talk about the war, but to Stuart Kaufman, political sci tors. draw attention to it. ence and international relations pro Senior Andrew Petrov, repre "This year, when [the war's fessor, opened the teach-in, challeng- senting the ISSE, also participated, calling for an independent movement from protesters for United States THE REVIEW/Jenny Lin withdrawal. Professors and students discussed the aspects of war in Kirkbride Hall. ''The perspective of the -!SSE is that thousands of people simply can hensively. itarian side of the issue of war. "We wanted to represent as After the panel finished their not push the Democrats to the left," many opinions as possible and as opening statements, the approximate Petrov said. "To create an independ many backgrounds as possible," she ly 30 students in attendance were ent political movement in their own said "Dr. Kaufman is an international allowed to ask questions, express name and not under their banners of relations professor and he is openly, their own opinions and react to what Democrats or Republicans." incredibly liberal, a very good public the panel had said, with Lucas occa The panel was rounded out by speaker and is very intelligent, so we sionally proposing questions. international relations Professor contacted him automatically. Dr. Kaufman said this particular Muqtedar Khan, SDS representative Khan is the head of Islamic studies context is one where his opinion was and senior Steve Fox and senior and as this is both a developing coun- appropriate and he was excited when Michael Winkler, who represented try and an Islamic country that we're he was asked to participate. the conservative viewpoint. talking about tonight we thought that "Robin sent me an e-mail roes- Lucas said when planning the obviously, he's a good choice." sage on the behalf of the Whirled teach-in, she wanted to have many ISSE represented the socialist Peas asking me to participate," he different subjects discussed, and by side, which does not always agree said. "I said I was happy to help. I reaching out to different groups, the Courtesy of Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway - bttp://flickr.com/photos/soldrersmediacenter/444890 144/ with SDS, Lucas said. Amnesty wanted to participate to be part of war could be spoken about compre- The War in Iraq is a main topic in this year's presidential election. International represented the human- informing students." Stuaents rally in protest of war BY RYAN LANGSHAW The rally featurt ·who's 1vho in Newark University professor wins big on game show BY SARA WAHLBERG her name was pulled after lunch. time, so word origins are kind of my thing," she said. News Features Editor She said she played two games in a row because she was Ash said she picked up a few books written by former "This NFL team plays its home games in a stadium in the returning champion after the first game. champions, including "Secrets of the Jeopardy Champion" another state named for another NFL team." The hardest part was waiting for her name to be called, she and "Prisoner of Trebekistan," to help get her prepare, along Most football· fans would know the question to that · said. with her sister who coached her and went to the taping to sup Jeopardy! answer is "What is the New York Jets?" However, "Every time they drew a name, I was very nervous," Ash port her. Gwynne Ash said she never would have expected to know When the show aired, Ash had a lot to celebrate. She that answer, let alone have it be the deciding factor in help held a party at her house in Texas for friends and fami ing her win $22,400. ly to watch her debut. Ash, a former professor at the university and a visit Evans said former colleagues and students in ing professor for the Delaware Reading Project every sum Delaware also held a party at Grotto Pizza on Main mer, appeared on the quiz game show "Jeopardy!" on Feb. Street to watch Ash compete on television. 28 and 29, the end of a year-long process of auditioning Ash, an avid Bruce Springsteen fan, went backpack and filming. ing through Europe with her sister and teaching abroad She said she first auditioned for Jeopardy! in January in Ireland and Italy, earning a wealth of knowledge that 2007, when she took an online test. her students have really benefited from, Evans said. "I've always watched "Jeopardy!" and people always "I took a reading seminar from her when she was told me I'd be really good at "Jeopardy!," so I decided to here and in class she just knew everything about any try out," Ash said. topic," she said. "You would give her rock 'n' roll Christine Evans, co-director of the Delaware Reading music, you would give her mountains in the world, you Project, said she worked with Ash while she was at the would give her just anything and she knows everything university and said she is amazed at how much trivia Ash and everybody says that about her." knows. Now an associate professor of reading in her home "She is like a fountain of knowledge," Evans said. state .at Texas State University in San Marcos, Ash said "She knows trivia about every topic you can possibly she taught reading at the University of Delaware until imagine." 2004 and still comes back during the summer to teach After another tryout in April, Ash said the show told the Delaware Reading Project. ' her if she did not hear back in a year, she could try out The Delaware Reading Project is a class for teachers again. She said she put the idea on the back burner and did in the summer that is focused on taking excellent edu not expect much to come out of it. cators of reading in the classroom and having them Then, in October, she got the call. Courtesy of Gwynne Ash learn more about the research and theory behind what Ash taped her show in California in the second week Former Professor Gwynne Ash poses with Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. they are doing, she said. Then graduates create profes of November, and had to keep everything a secret until it sional development sessions for other teachers based on aired in February. what they do in the classroom and what they have "In the time between, I couldn't disclose anything that said. "But then once I was playing there wasn't a lot of time learned-. was going on, so I just told everyone it was a very education to think. It just kind of started and then it went and then it was "It's a model of teachers teaching teachers," Ash said. al experience," Ash said. over. It was very quick." Evans said Ash has been very instrumental in teaching the Taping the show was also an interesting experience, she With only five weeks to prepare for her taping, Ash said program each summer, and is an asset to the university. said. Arriving in the morning, all the contestants got their she assessed her knowledge and studied things like the order Ash, who is planning to spend her $22,400 winnings on makeup done and did practice rounds with the buzzer before of the U.S. presidents and names of African capitals. One cat remodeling her house in Austin, Texas, said she was glad for the names were pulled out of a hat to decide who would play egory she said she mastered was the word origins category. the Jeopardy! experience. the first game of the day. Five games are shot each day, four "My students all laughed because in my reading classes I "It wasn't necessarily what I thought it would be, but I days per month, to make 20 episodes each month. Ash said teach about word origins from vocabulary and spelling all the learned a lot about myself," she said. Governor hopefuls debate Del. education BY BRIAN ANDERSON rent education policy is the rigid and complex children's educational progression. out for these people and must help them get National/State News Editor system of funding present in the state. "It takes all of us, working together," jobs within Delaware, as the state economy State Treasurer Jack Markell and Lt. Gov. Outsiders have looked at this method and can Carney said. "Whether you're mentoring a would be strengthened if people could obtain John Carney, two Democratic hopefuls in the not figure it out. child in school, whether you're a teacher in the jobs here. New revenue would be created by race for governor, debated about kindergarten The problem with this, Markell said, is classroom or a principal providing instructional these new jobs, which would help fund addi through 12th grade public education issues for educators do not have the ability to provide leadership at the building level, whether you're tional education programs for the state. more than an hour Thursday night in adequately for students under the structure of an administrator or a parent, it takes us all, Delaware resident Marian Young, who Wilmington. the system. working together, to change that instruction attended the debate, said she was most interest In the first of many debates in the guberna "It's so difficult that educators here in that's occurring at the individual desk level to ed in what the candidates said about the public torial process, Markell and Carney focused Delaware can't figure what kind of returns on raise that student achievement." school system, which is sometimes ignored in solely on educational issues, such as heavy an investment from any particular new initia He said those with GEDs or high school favor for the private schools. spending by schools, state-distributed tests and tive," he said. "We need to move from what is diplomas also must be looked after, because in The biggest issue in the debate was the mentoring children that need additional help in this very rigid funding formula to one that is today's global society, having a high school matter of the state testing, Young said. the classroom. really weighted based on the needs of the stu diploma is not necessarily substantial enough to "I think state testing is a big, big issue, and Markell said one of the biggest issues he dent." get a job. Jobs that require additional training I think both candidates were solidly in favor of has with public education is the state testing Markell said he hopes the right environ sometimes send employees overseas or move changing it," she said. program, which provides its results late in the ment is established for teachers and students, them to different areas. spring and does not allow teachers to modify and that when students complete their educa "It's not their teaching practices to help students' scores. tion, they can stay within the state to work. enough anymore, Markell said he will start a new testing "You do your work, we're going to do ours just to graduate system and eliminate the old one entirely. to make sure that when you get out of school, from high school, "I will scrape it," he said. "I will replace it there are real opportunities, right here in have a strong with a test that makes sense." Delaware for you," he said. work ethic and get Another major concern for all education Carney said the most important thing the ready to go to the processes is funding, Markell said. state can do to improve schools is to provide plant or manufac "How do we pay for it?'' he questioned teachers with support and develop principals as turing facilities," numerous times throughout the night. instructional leaders. These principals would Carney said. The consolidation of funds is important bring teachers together to act as a group for stu "Those jobs are because if districts share goods, money can go dents. leaving us, and to other educational areas to improve education This group of both administrators and they aren't here across the state, Markell said. Additionally, pro teachers would help students succeed through like they used to grams that are wanted by citizens can then out their education, he said. Additionally, par be." become realities in schools. ents play a major part in the education of chil He said the THE REVIEW/Brian Anderson He said another issue he has with the cur- dren and must take on an active role in their state must look Jack Markell (left) and John Carney discussed education on Thursday. m March 25, 2008 7 An organic option for ecO-conscious beer lovers BY QUENTIN COLEMAN He said he discovered the Staff Reporter organic taste while using organic For beer drinkers, finding bet apples at his home brewery. The ter taste and contributing to eco difference in taste gave him the friendly agriculture only costs an idea to try using all organic ingre extra 50 cents. Organic beer is one dients in his beer, and later start an of the fastest-growing categories organic brewing business. of natural beverages. The organi During the 11 years Peak cally produced ingredients give a Organic Brewing Company has better taste for a small price been in operation, the organic Courtesy ofTOMSShoes.com increase compared to standard beers have been a consistent seller, TOMS Shoes' owner Blake Mycoskie bas delivered shoes to Argentina and Africa. beer. Cadoux said. Barbara Haumann, press sec The clientele that seem to be retary for the Organic Trade attracted to the organic beer are Association, the membership those looking for gourmet foods, based business association for the he said. Even though organic beer Kicking poverty: TOMS organic industry in North America, is mostly purchased by those with said organic beer was the second specified tastes, the price increase fastest-growing category of organ is not substantial. ic beverages from 2005 to 2006. According to the OTA, organ donates shoes to the poor "The sales went from 19 mil ic beer sales have been steadily lion in 2005, to 25 million in increasing since 2003. However, it 2006," Haumann said. seems to have a low profile among BY JANEL MUELLER Mycoskie returned to Argentina for companies like TOMS to exist In order for the beer to be bars and college-aged drinkers. StaffReporter the same year to deliver the donat because it allows a very large marketed as organic, it must be Chris Berghaus, manager of Sophomore Bari Grossman ed shoes during the company's number of people to help the crafted with at least 95 percent the Iron Hill Brewery on Main said she always knew she wanted first annual "Shoe Drop." world," Hill said. organic ingredients, she said. Street, said he was unaware of to do something more with her Mycoskie traveled to Africa He said he believes the pair he There is a lengthy, ongoing organic beer as an option to serve fashion degree. She wanted to fmd this past November to deliver bought, which is imprinted with process to verify which crops can customers. a way to help others but was wait more than 50,000 pairs of TOMS the Ghandi quote, "you must be be considered organic. "I have not seen it on the mar ing for the right inspiration to Shoes. the change you wish to see in the "Farmers must file informa ket," Berghaus said. come along - and it did, in the Word of TOMS Shoes has world," will help to spread aware tion on their land," she said. Awareness of organic beer is form of TOMS Shoes. . . spread worldwide and the products ness in a positive way. "There is a third-party inspection limited so far. Senior Ryan Grossman said she first dis can be found .in more than 300 "I think the pair that I got will every few years to make sure the Wallace said he was not aware of covered the company while read stores as well as on the company's be a good conversation starter," land can still be classified as the organic alcoholic beverage, ing a fashion b1og that raved about Web site. Hill said. "It will allow me to organic." and has not seen it sold. TOMS Shoes. Curious to learn Grossman said she hopes t9 spread the word of the company Organic farms can not use "I didn't even know there was more, she said she logged onto the continue to raise awareness for · more and hopefully get others to synthetic fertilizers, toxic pesti a difference between regular beer company's Web site and was TOMS Shoes by actively promot buy the shoes as well." cides or have high concentrations and organic," Wallace said. "How instantly hooked. ing the company at the university. Junior Emily Ross, also a of dangerous chemicals in the soil, is beer not already organic?" "The second I found the com "Most people, especially col member of Grossman's Facebook Haumann said. The land is careful Despite the lack of public pany I thought, 'I could see myself lege students, want to do good group, said she has told her friends ly inspected and 'tested for a vari knowledge, organic beer sales doing this for the rest of my life,' things but they don't know how to about the company and has ety of toxins and pollutants before have increased more than two "Grossman said. get involved," she said. '"received positive reactions. given organic classification. times the 2003 figures, according She said she eagerly filled out "Supporting TOMS is such an "Many of them think it's such John Cadoux, founder of the to the OTA. the form listed under the Web easy way to do so." a good cause and really want to Peak Organic Brewing Company, Cadoux said he believes site's "get involved" section to Although she became a mem help out," Ross said. "If people see said his organization has been organic beer is going to become a learn how she could become a part ber of TOMS' Campus Sole the effects and see what TOMS operating for approximately 11 strong contender in the markets of the company. Streakers this semester, Grossman does, I think more people will be years, providing beer made from with superior flavor and environ- A few days later, Grossman said she has already been busy inclined to buy the shoes." -organically mentally conscious produc said she received an e-mail from spreading the word about TOMS She said she has become grown produce. tion. TOMS Shoes asking if she would Shoes by creating her own obsessed since purchasing her first "We use the "Ten years ago people be interested in joining their Facebook group. pair of TOMS and admits to purest ingredi didn't think organic beer "Campus Sole Streakers" team · She said she was surprised at checking the Web site daily for ents," Cadoux really had a good taste," he consisting of college students who the response she has received from new items to appear. She plans on said. "There are said. "People that buy it want to get involved and spread students joining her group. purchasing another pair once they no toxic chemicals now are the ones looking the word about TOMS Shoes. "I didn't think so many of have them in her size and says she used and it is only for the best food." According to Kirsten them would actually go out and will most likely purchase many about 50 cents Johnson, public relations and mar buy the shoes," Grossman said. "A more in the future. more per six-pack." keting assistant for TOMS Shoes, lot of them write on the wall say "Not only am I getting a great He said geneti it was during a trip to Argentina ing how much they love their pair of shoes but I'm doing some cally-modi- that the company was created. shoes and some say they're wait thing great for someone else," fied fruit Eager to help ease the poverty and ing on their next paycheck just to Ross said. and other health issues of South America, buy more." Grossman said she believes b e e r Blake Mycoskie, founder of She said she will be promot TOMS shoes are a great buy. ingredi- TOMS, drew inspiration from ing TOMS Shoes at the Students "You spend $42 and get a pair ents may Argentina's traditional alpargata for the Environment Greenfest on of shoes you can wear that are look better on . shoe and founded TOMS Shoes in May 17. going to last for a long time," she the ourside, 2006. The company had one main Grossman said she is con said. "Your purchase also gives a but the chem mission- to make life more com stantly looking for opportunities to child a pair of shoes they other icals affect· fortable for those· without shoes. promote the company. wise wouldn't have. It's a really the taste. By TOMS Shoes reinvented the "The most important thing is easy way to do something good." using organically alpargata using vibrant colors and spreading the word," she said. Grossman said she asked for grown barley, patterns, and adopted a simple for "The more people know, the more several pairs of TOMS for her hops and yeast, mula to help give back - for every changes that can be made." upcoming birthday and cannot the beer has a pair of TOMS purchased, a pair Senior Steven Hill said he is wait to start wearing them around sharper, fresher taste. would be donated on behalf of the anxiously waiting for his first pair campus. "The purity of the purchaser to a child in need. of TOMS to arrive. He said he pur "I will be proudly sporting my ingredients is linked to Ten thousand pairs of shoes chased his TOMS, because he TOMS shoes in the very near the flavor," Cadoux were ·sold during the company's enjoys supporting good causes. future," she said. said. first year in business and "I think it's really important 8 March 25, 2008 )R • Professors straddle the line of partisanship BY DANIELLE PRO ones that don't reveal their political affiliations. It allows Junior Jeremy Wolff, a business major, Sa._id he agreed Staff Reporter more conservative students to listen and contribute." professors' beliefs can be influential in the clasSroom. A recent study conducted by two college professors Senior Ryan,_...... ~~ "I prefe~ a fail'--and hal found that people who classify themselves as politically Silberstein, former class because you can conservative are less likely to pursue doctorate degrees. president of the el,i<>tinitAiu get brainwashed These results leave students wondering how their political College 1 professors,'' Wolff said. views will be challenged in the classroom. Republicans, said He said because of the Matthew Woessner, a professor from The Pe1111sylvania he does not mind of his classes, most State University, and his wife April Kelly-Woessner, a pro being the minority nr•"\tP• BY MOLLY YBORRA thetic foot designed to give amputees The product also has other physical people are surprised when he tells them how Staff Reporter greater mobility than ever before. benefits to amputees, Home said. recently he has become an amputee, because ANewark company is one of the first in The Proprio Foot, a new prosthesis "It helps reduce the energy expenditure of he frequently moves around without the use the nation to offer a new, motorized pros- designed by the global orthopedic company, the patient," he said. of a cane. Ossur, is revolutionizing the capabilities of When moving from a sitting to standing "I need a cane to walk a long way,'' amputees. position, an amputee without the new foot Able said. "But for a short walk I don't use Beverly ·Milson, spokeswoman for has to use his or her entire body to stand, the cane." Ossur, said the Proprio Foot is the first Milson said. With the Proprio Foot, sitting Home said because of its advanced motorized and artificially intelligent pros and standing are much easier. .technology, the Proprio foot is more expen thetic foot ever to be made. Proprio Foot is currently being sold sive than the traditional prosthetic limb. "All prosthetics before have been pas throughout the world, however, approxi "It is not currently covered by tradition sive," Milson said. "The Proprio Foot helps mately 500 feet have been purchased, Home al insurance companies," he said. "It is the amputee by. lifting and lowering the said. Not everyone is a candidate, he said. probably $15,000 without insurance." foot." · Milson said Ossur is also involved in Milson said the J>roprio Foot has also · John Home, owner of Independence helping.the candidates oHhe Proprio Foot. . been used to treat military amputees. Prosthetics-Orthotics Inc., on Kirkwood "When the prosthetist decides the amputee "The foot is being fitted on a lot of war • Higltwa:y; case examined in The Wednesday Mar 26 Deer Park Tavern Mos Eisley - no cover nation's capital ESTABLISHED 18Sl NEWARK, DE . 1/2 price nachos & quesadillas BY MADDIE THOMAS standing armies were fresh in Staff Reporter everyone's mind. 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State, the right of the people to no doubt there will be more keep and bear Arms, shall not be Timothy McVeigh's and a lot of infringed." individuals who would do vio Doug Pennington, the assis lence against the government if tant director of communications this was validated." for the Brady Campaign, one of Leslie Goldstein, a professor the largest organizations advocat in the department of political sci ing the prevention of gun violence ence and international relations, in the nation, said the group filed a said she believes the Supreme friend-of-the-court brief on behalf Court ruling will most likely cater of the District after being notified to both sides of the argument for the Heller case had been brought gun control. to the Supreme Court. The friend "What's probable is that the of-the-court brief allows a third Supreme Court will declare gun party at any level of the court sys control as an individual right, but tem to file an opinion of how a Congress may regulate it because case should be decided. public safety is one of the most ••we believe the lower court central functions of government," opinion was wrongly decided," Goldstein said. Pennington said. "We're encour Rachel Parsons, spokes aging the Supreme Court to over woman for the National Rifle rule the lower court opinion and Association, said the NRA filed a follow the 200 year-old tradition friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the amendment. If they read and of Heller. She said the association apply all of the 27: word amend~ supports an individual's right to ment, they will find that the lower gun ownership, because it is the court ruling was wrong." _ most effective means of protec The District is appealing this tion, as law enforcement is not verdict to the Supreme Court in always reliable. Universi~ of Delaware the Heller case. "Gun bans simply do not Heller, the plaintiff of the work,"- Parsons said. "It's been case, is a security guard who proven again and again and again. Monday •April14 • 6:00PM - believes the city's stem handgun If gun control _truly worked, law has failed in cutting the city's [Washington] D.C. would be one Smith Hall120 high crime rates and is denying of the safest cities in the nation, law-abiding citizens the individual but it's not. It's one of the most right to own a handgun for self- dangerous cities in the nation." Come· discover why the Disney College Program prot~ction. 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"At the people with access to guns that time it was drafted, tyranny and shouldn't have them." 10 March 25. 2008 Professor receives national honor Sun1n1er Jobs "FREE" HOUSING AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS .... BY ELISA LALA book "Computer Network Time Positions available for: Copy Editor Synchronization: The Network Time David L. Mills, professor of Custodial ($8.00/hour) Linen Clerks {$8.00/hour) Protocol," which incorpomtes techni Perform building cleaning tasks and Inventory, deliver and stock linen electrical and computer engineering, cal algorithms for others in his field, related work. Operate cleaning equipment has been inducted into the National in hopes of passing his knowledge on and follow established procedures Academy of Engineers for his contri to the future genemtion of engineers. butions to Internet timekeeping and "I wanted to document my work Custodial Manager Assistants ($9.00/hour) Grounds ($8.00/hour) the development of the Network because I'm not going to be here for Organize custodial staff. quality control Mulching, cutting grass. operating Time Protocol. an awful long time," he said. "And I and inspections, maintain supply inventory hand-held equipment, picking up The NAE is a prestigious, peer want to share it." litter, watering plants and pulling nominated organization, consisting Mills said he values his work as weeds · of more than 2,000 members, who well as his career as a professor, Furnishings Assistant Coordinator ($8.50/hour) Maintenance ($8.50/hour) have demonstrated fine work in the because it enables him to instill his Perform quality control inspections, maintain Assist. Boiler Mechanics field of engineering. Chosen candi knowledge into a new genemtion that supply inventory and provide general Eleclricians, HVAC Mechanics. dates are unaware of their nomina shares his passion. assistance Housing Mechanics and Plumbers tion until elections. "My students are just like me, Mark Barteau, Robert L. and only I can clone myself in them," Pigford Chair of Chemical he said. "Teaching is the best and Engineering, as well as a fellow most important job." member of NAE, said being nomi Mills said he believes engineers For your convenience you can apply online by visiting our website, nated is an honor because it shows are born, not made. www.facllitle&.udel.edu your colleagues are aware of your "It's in the blood," he said. OR successful work. "When I was just a child I would take "The trick is to get onto the bal- telephones apart. It's a true hobby." Contact: Terry Henderson, 831-0399 or email [email protected] if you are interested in lot," Barteau said. • His time-based engineering any of the positions for Furnishings Assistant Coordinator. Grounds, or He said he is happy to have hobby has led to his fascinating col Maintenance. Mills as a colleague in the academy. lection of many clocks and watches, Mills said he was astounded and all of which run backwards. Contact: Sharon Hitchens, 831-8781 or email [email protected] if you are interested delighted to hear of his election into "It's fun to see others' reaction in any of the positions for Custodial Manager Assistants or Linen Clerks. the institution. of the clocks running backward," he "It was a complete surprise," he Contact: Rich Noonan ,_ 831-3628 or email [email protected] if you are interested said. in any of the positions for Custodial. said. "It's very nice to have my fel Fouad Kiarnilev, an electrical low comrades' respect." and computer engineering professor Michael Chajes, interim dean of at the university, as well as a fellow The University of Delaware, Facilities organization is an Equal Opportunity Employer which the College of Engineering, stated in colleague of Mills', spoke of Mills' encourages applications from Minority Group Members and Women. an e-mail message that the College of teaching methods with hi@ regard. Engineering consists of five mem "He doesn't give his students bers in the academy including Mills, fish, he teaches them to fish," bestowing an example of excellence Kiarnilev said. "Somehow all of the and pride in the department. most accomplished students in our "Being elected into the acade department always end up in his THE HONOR • SOCIETY OF my, for an engineer is like being office. They're just drawn there." elected to the Hall of Fame," Chajes Kiarnilev said Mills' work with said. "We are very proud of our Internet timekeeping is a proven newest Hall of Fame inductee." accomplishment and success because Mills' contributions to the engi of its continued use. neering world have led to the syn "When a good thing works so PHI KAPPAPHI chronization of time through well we almost take it for gmnted," Internet-based work, which is still he said. "Sometimes the biggest suc Announces the twenty-seventh annual used today. cess is to not be noticed because then University of Delaware "You see the time on the bottom you know it's working, just like the of your PC?" Mills said. "That's time on our computers." moi." Mills said his career path as an UNDERGRADUATE Mills, a professor at the univer engineer and professor has been an sity for 22 years, is also a member of all-around success through both the the Institute of Electrical and accomplishments that have came of RESEARCH Electronics Engineers and the it, and the experience and knowledge Association for . Computing he has gained. ESSAY CO:M:PETITION Machinery, and is a fellow in both "It has been the ride of a life societies. time," he said. Likewise, he has published a Up to two $500 PRIZES FOR COMPLETED RESEARCH ~ Open to undergraduates in all fields. Research NEED CLASS NOTES? results must be reported in an essay written for a general, educated audience. BONUSNOTES.COM ~ - Winners present brief talks based their research essays at L ...;....:1.'1.. &..1.~.~~;...L·------·------·------___J i March 25, 2008 11 More pretzels to Main Street WAR IN IRAQ DEA'f.H TOLL HITS 4,000 IN FIVE YEARS BY ALEX MCELROY A roadside bomb killed four the evening. Four people received Staff Reporter U.S. soldiers on patrol in southern medical treatment, U.S. Embassy The Pretzel Dudes have spo Baghdad late Sunday, the military spokesman Philip Reeker said. ken. ·said in a statement Monday, taking No group asserted responsi The franchise of Jim's Soft the overall U.S. death toll in the bility, but similar attacks in the Pretzel Bakery is scheduled to five-year War in Iraq to at least past have been tied to Shiite open· a store on Main Street, after a 4,000: extremist groups. month-long delay. Earlier, mortar and rocket The fatal attack on the U.S. · Fred Potok, co-owner of the attacks pounded the Green Zone, patrol in Baghdad also injured one Pretzel Dudes, a franchise of the the heavily fortified U.S.-Iraqi soldier, but further details were not Jim's Soft Pretzel Bakery chain, . military and government complex, available. The U.S. death toll of said the store is expected to open on a day when more than 60 peo- 4,000 includes eight Defense in mid-April. ple were killed in violence across Department civilians. The "coming soon" sign has the country. The Green Zone shelling and been hanging in the empty store The Green Zone assault began the other attacks across Iraq front near Rainbow Music & shortly before 6 a.m., waking U.S. marked an escalation of violence Books for several months. Potok military personnel, then resumed at the start of the war's sixth year. said he was surprised the store has later in the day and continued into taken so long to open. "We thought we'd be open CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTS SHOW RECORD FUNDRAISING more like March, we lost a month," he said. "It's very difficult Led by Sen. Barack Obama Overall, McCain had raised because we build all over, and we (D-111.), Democratic and $60.2 million and spent $49 mil have our own plumbers and they Republican presidential con lion through the end of February. have to get certified, even though tenders - including the remaining McCain paid off much of his debt they're certified in Pennsylvania, candidates and those who dropped to consultants and other vendors. they're not certified in Delaware. I out - have raised $790 million An aide to McCain said Thursday guess it's the red tape. We lost a TilE REVIEWNuginia Rollison since the campaign began 14 that McCain had raised more in month on red tape." Jim's Soft Pretzel Bakery will have "Halo 3" available for patrons to play. months ago, campaign finance the month of March than he did in Potok said he wants to build a reports filed Thursday show. any three-month period previous model for a new kind of pretzel that offers "Guitar Hero" to its then sure I'll be there a lot," he Obama reported raising ly. McCain's campaign stalled last store. customers. said. $192.7 million and spending summer when he ran out of money. "We're a little different of a "That's awesome," Crile said. Julie Powers, co-owner of $154.7 million on his campaign He said at the time that he business than most pretzel stores," "I definitely think [it] will attract Philly Pretzel Factory, said she is through the end of February. He would take federal matching funds he said. "Not only do we bake more attention." not concerned about the competi spent $42.7 million in February for the primary season but he fresh pretzels every day, but we do Sophomore Cory Castelluccio tion of the new pretzel shop. while competing in more than 30 reversed that position after he sandwiches, pretzel sandwiches, said he looks forward to the store's "I'm not worried about the nominating contests. became the presumptive nominee pretzel dogs, we do delivery and new ideas for pretzels. opening of Jim's Bakery because I Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and money started flowing. we do our own water ice, soft- "Sandwiches on a pretzel?" think that we do very different (D-N.Y.), was second in fundrais Through the same 14-month serve." . Castelluccio said. "That sounds things," Powers said. "We're more ing. She collected $34.6 million in period four years earlier, President In case the pretzels are not pretty good." of like a wholesale thing. We do February, pushing her total to Bush raised $158 million and Sen. enough to attract customers, he Adam Hirzel, employee at super-inexpensive traditional soft $173.8 million. That includes $10 John Kerry raised $41.4 million said maybe the. two 42-inch Rainbow Music & Books, said he pretzels." million from her Senltte campaign for their presidential runs. screens set up for playing "Guitar has heard about the new pretzel Potok said his business is not account and a $5-million personal Democrat presidential candi Hero" and "Halo 3" will be store, but did not know details to be compared to the Philly loan. Clinton owes consultants and dates overall, including those who enough. about its additional aspects. Pretzel Factory. other vendors an additional $3.7 dropped out, raised $461 million He said he hopes the store will "I just heard that they were "It's an entirely different million. and spent $384.7 million, com become a gathering place and will opening one up and I heard that it operation," he said. The presumptive Republican pared with Republicans, who offer Wi-Fi to cater to busy stu was a pretzel shop," Hirzel said. Newark is the not the end of nominee, Sen. John McCain (R raised $328.8 million and spent dents on campus. He said he and his coworkers the road for the Pretzel Dudes, Ariz.), raised $11 million in $290.8 !Jlillion. "You can do your homework at Rainbow have always been fans Potok said. They plan to continue February, his best month. just like when you go over to of the existing Philly Pretzel building more pretzel stores each -compiled from the L.A. Times and Washington Post wire reports Starbucks," Potok said. Factory, on East Main Street, year. Potok said he chose to fran across from Newark Shopping "This year we built five and chise Jim's Soft Pretzel Bakery Center. . this upcoming year we'll build because they have the best-quality "I like that one," Hirzel said. five more," he said. pretzels . "It's good and cheap pretzels. The Pretzel Dudes plan on "We went to all the pretzel We'll send somebody down expanding their chain to colleges .police reports companies we could possibly find Saturday mornings and we'll all and universities nationwide, Potok and we found the best-tasting pret eat em, all day." said. MAN SCAMMED VIA FACEBOOK zel and that happened to be Jim's, · . He said whether or not he will "We're gonna be building on A 20-year-old man was scammed out of $1,880 by a person who so we franchised," he said. :frequent Jim's depends on the campuses throughout the U.S.," he responded to an advertisement he placed on Facebook. Sophomore Erica Crile said cost. said. The man called police Saturday to report the scam, which hap she liked the idea of a pretzel store "If that place is cheap enough, pened between March 11 and Saturday, Cpl. Paul Keld of the Newark Police Department said. The defendant contacted the suspect through email and arranged to send him a check for $2,000 with the understanding the victim would wire the excess money to an address in 'England. The victim wired the money and later learned the check was coun terfeit, Keld said. Police discovered the name the defendant gave was that of a recent identity theft victim. Ther~ are no leads at this time. I have friends and loved ones suffering from ATTEMPTED PURSE SNATCHING ON ELKTON ROAD Alzheimer's. But I can imagine ... and hope A 20.-year-.old woman told police she was approached Friday at for. .. a world without this terrible disease. 1:14 p.m. at_the Park and Shop shopping center on Elkton Road by a man asking fur change, Keld said. You can help make a difference. A major brain imaging study led by The woman told the man she didn't have any change and the man the National Institutes of HeaHh may help us learn how to stop the grabbed her purse. · progression of Alzheimer's. The woman began screaming and kicking the suspect and kept Please consider joining the study if you are between 55 and 90 and: hold of her purse. The man finally let go and fell backwards, hitting a • are in good general health with no memory problems. OR store window. • are in good general health but have memory problems The suspect is described as a white male, 25 to 35 years old, or concerns, OR · heavyset, five feet, eight inches to five feet, ten inches, wearing a blue jean jacket and a baseball cap. • have a diagnosis of early Alzheimer's disease. For more information, call1-800-438-4380 -Josh Shannon or visit www.alzheimers.org/imagine. March 25, 2008 • e ton Shoe company fights poverty Student spreads the word to purchase sneakers The Newaiker Sophomore Bari Grossman from TOMS Shoes asking her to wanted to make a difference in the join the "Campus Sole Streakers;"' world and took action by getting a team of college students who's involved in the TOMS Shoes com job it is to spread the word of the pany. company's cause. . TOMS Shoes has one mis Thus far, Grossman has start sion: "to make life more comfort ed a Facebook group to help able,"according to its Web site. spread the word of TOMS Shoes Blake Mycoskie, the founder to students. of TOMS Shoes, decided to start She .is making a positive his company in 2006 after witness; change by taking a reinvented ing mass poverty and health issues approach to the fight against while visiting Argentina. poverty. His shoe designs are inspired By sharing TOMS Shoes with by the traditional alpargata shoe students, Grossman is using a new style of Argentina, and for every venue to encourage change; while "I caught it with some Muscle Milk." pair of TOMS shoes purchased, a shopping for shoes, students are pair is donated to a child in a helping children across the world. poverty-stricken country during a Grossman has used her own LETTERS TO THE EDITOR "shoe drop." area of expertise and interest to This is a revolutionary idea - become involved and active in a instead of only sending a portion pressing world issue. Use paper bags instead of plastic are more energy intensive than plas not only undermine my position of its proceeds to poor countries, She has proven that individu tic is just silly. For those who don't when compared to the quotes of TOMS Shoes is matching dona als are able to make a difference. It Alas, again Newark has failed know, plastic bags are made from Patrick Donnell)!, director of the tion for donation. is her dedication that really helps a to adopt any form of rule that will oil, use oil in their production and Louise and David Roselle Center In its first year of business, project like this get off of the beneficially a!'fect its residents, are less likely to be reused or recy for the Arts, but are insulting to me the company sold 10,000 pairs of ground and keep on running. environment or appearance. Despite cled than paper bags. It's called full as an English major. For example: shoes, and last November, more Students should take note of the abundant knowledge regarding -e9st accounting. Sometimes you "I know all~ations are there to help than 50,000 pairs were delivered Grossman's involvement in the the detrimental effects of plastic just need to force people to do the groups and that is what we to children in Africa. TOMS Shoes company and inves bags, and bans being implemented things for the greater good. Newark ended up doing as well. But the time Grossman read about the tigate different ways in which they in various towns and cities nation needs a backbone, not more plastic period that they gave us does not company this semester, went to its too can become involved in the wide, Newark refuses to take action. bags. help at all. Something still needs to Web site and left her information. fight against poverty - everyone Claims about Newark's small happen on the Mitchell end." She later received an e-mail can make a difference. size and the iticreased up-front costs David Matushik This is misleading- I specifi of paper bags are trivial arguments. Newark resident cally said how V-DAY ended up If I had to pay 10 cents extra for a davidmatushik@greendelawarere going to the allocation board. paper bag, I would not drive 10 cycling.com However it was the Mitchell Hall more miles away to shop at a loca management who gave us an unrea Campus solar panels bright idea tion where they bag with plastic. Senior's quotes misrepresented sonable time limit - not the alloca Federal grants could help university fight global warming Perhaps plastic is that close to tion board which the quote as writ- . some people's hearts, but others I just wanted to say that ten implies. Any time the university has move toward better serving the · might come to Newark to shop although I was thrilled The Review Also, "My biggest concern is an opportunity to put itself on community. because we have a ban. Local busi chose to cover the Mitchell Hall that no more 'little-to-know' groups qack with the fight against global Another reason for moving ness will not be hurt by a ban. In story in the article, "RSOs subject to will be able to afford Mitchell Hall," warming, it should take all of the toward solar power is the evident fact, if most people carried reusable price increase at Mitchell Hall" in is amiss. I never used the phrasing possible steps it can. cost benefits the university would bags it would reduce costs to the the March 14, 2008 online edition "little-to-know," as it doesn't make That is why, with the new $3 receive. As professor Steven stores because they would not have of The Review, I was slightly disap sense. million the university has received Hegedus, who placed solar panels to provide bags to customers, or at pointed with the representation of I am not trying to cause prob from two federal grants to help on his own roof said, he has expe least not as many. my quotes. lems; I understand it is difficult to expand research on solar power, rienced a "tremendously reduced" As for reuse incentives, 2 cents Granted, staff reporter Amanda get quotes 100 percent correct 100 The Review was left wondering electrical bill since the installa will not encourage many people to Lopez had interviewed me over the percent of the time, particularly in what the university could do to tion. bring back their flimsy plastic bags. phone - perhaps this made it hard over-the-phone interviews. make itself more dependent upon By finding the buildings on Recycling them? Sure, you can at er to keep track ofthe conversation. However, I felt I needed to mention solar energy. campus that will work, the univer- your local DSWA drop off station, The gist of my opinion does come these particular instances. There are many reasons why - sity would be looking at a greatly but most of the recycling programs through in the piece. However, I the university should make the decreased electrical bill - money at your local grocery store end up in would have hoped my quotes would Jessica FitzPatrick buildings, which fit the criteria, which could be spent on improv the dumpster. at least be written in proper English. Senior take on solar panels. ing other areas of the campus. Lastly, the idea that paper bags As written, some of my quotes [email protected] One reason is obvious - it Overall, there are no apparent truly helps the environment. For a downfalls to undertaking this university, which for the past two process. years now has received senior gifts It may seem like a steep start involving going green and making up cost (for Hegedus it was WRITE TO THE REVIEW The Review welcomes guest the campus more environmentally approximately $20,000). But in 250 Perkins Student Center columns from those interested friendly, this should be one of the the end the money the university Newark, DE 19716 top ways to begin the process of could save and the environment it Fax: 302-831-1396 in writing. change. would in turn help are much E-mail: [email protected] State of Delaware representa greater than any start-up cost. or visit us online at www.udreview.com tives have said they plan to adopt The university should do the The Editorial section is an open forum for public debate and discussion. The Review wel ·Please e-mail different ways to incorporate solar right thing and take the progres comes responses from its readers. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit all letters to [email protected] power into their use of renewable sive step towards a better environ the editor. Letters and columns represent the ideas and beliefs of the authors and should energy sources. This should be a ment. not be taken as representative of The Review. Staff editorials represent the ideas and for more information. sign to the university it is time to . Even Mayor Vance A. Funk beliefs of The Review Editorial Board on behalf of the editors. All letters become property get its plan together and make a III said it's the right choice. of The Review and may be published in print or electronic form. www.udreview.com March 25, 2008 • • llliOll 13 Obama says what most are thinking isn't a better sporting event on, ,and I even pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pub in racial progression could be fixed, Obama The Ru · take the time to listen to some of the adver licly called the United States a "fundamen responded, "White bravery." tisements they put on the TV and radio. So, tally racist government." So, you can see Can you imagine another candidate in Hath Spoken if I had to, I probably could make an educat why Obama felt the need to address how he the past 40 years who would hav~ the audac ed guess about who I would vote for. felt because many people assumed his feel ity to stand up and speak his mind as open- Jef!Ruoss The best way I could describe my polit ings on the issue were closely tied to Wright ly? I sure can't. · ical agenda was best said by Dave Jr.'s - whom Obama partially distanced Unfortunately, since there is much Chappelle, "I don't look at their poJitical himself from shortly after the statements. deep-seeded ·racism still in America, these policies, I look at their character. You got to statements by Obama, I fear, will only hurt Presidential candidate speaks read between the lines." him. It is one thing for people to publicly out against racism. So, when I hear about Obama going out , There is no person in this countrY applaud Obama for making a stance and who can honestly say we live in I probably have as much of a place to on a limb and doing something we haven't defending his beliefs, but he won't be able seen in almost 40 years, definitely not since a utopia where racism is dead. to stand in the polling booths with those talk about politics as the immortal Hulk It's not- accept it. Hogan has to talk about fidelity. So when I the Civil Rights Movement, my ears perk people come election day. first read an article that said Sen. Barack up. Obama has done something no other Obama (D-Ill.) is leading in the Gallup Poll, One week ago, at the National It is truly refreshing, even if it was not politician has done in more than four I wondered why he is horse-racing when he Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Obama planned, to see a candidate bring up an issue decades, if p.ot longer. He stated a genuine should be ouf campaigning. openly spoke about the "racial stalemate" many Americans would rather hide from opinion on a politically taboo topic. You - The real extent of my knowledge on the United States has been stuck in for the and pretend never happened. Probably one never see this from presidential candidates politics sounds something like this: past 40 years. of the high points of Obama's speech was anymore and it is refreshing to know that President Bill Clinton is my hero, President Racism? No, why would he do that? I the fact that he did not try to sugar-coat someone out there wants to better this coun George W. Bush is the devil and, from what mean, isn't racism dead? I thought we ended what he felt. try and has the courage to stand by his stan I hear, President Richard Nixon was "not a that years ago. Why would he bring that up? Obama took a stance on something he dards. crook." Call me naive, childish or apathetic I mean, it's not like, for example, people are feels deeply about and is actually garnering Let's hope that Obama's courage to -it really doesn't matter. drawing swastikas on residence hall doors great responses from the media, at least pub stand up and speak his mind doesn't drop There is just something about political or a skin-head has taught a university class. licly. Chris Matthews of MSNBC's his rankings in the polls. Maybe people will races and all of the hot-button issues these Oh wait, those are both things -which "Hardball" said it was "worthy of Abraham realize that he is right on so many levels and candidates talk about for months upon have happened in the past four years - at Lincoln," and it bypassed Martin Luther not fall back into the "fundamentally racist" months that just, for a lack of a better word, this university. . King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. ways of our past. bores me. For someone, especially a black man Unlike many politicians, my hero However, as a concerned citizen and during a presidential race he is leading, to Clinton included, Obama said exactly how Jeff Ruoss is an editorial editor for The well-educated college-age student, I still take such a progressive step as to bring up _ he felt about racism and how he thought it Review. His viewpoints do not necessarily read all of the articles and columns on the racism, speaks wonders to his character. should be fixed. When one reporter asked represent those of the Review staff. Please candidates. I W'lich the debates, when there True; a few weeks ago Obama's former him after the speech how he thought the lull send comments to [email protected]. Be tolerant, not ignorant of sexual preference senior year of high school. "Bare" darkly doncd off into the gay section of a homo/het We are indoctrinated to fear and despise Mother touches on coming of age, coming out of the ero world. homosexuals. I have never understood why Tucker closet and the need to accept who you are. We live in a time of great social progres it's OK with most guys when two girls kiss, · Three hours after the play began, the sion and, sadly, great social hypocrisy. There but not when two guys smooch. audience rose to its feet applauding as the isn't supposed to be discrimination against If two men are into each other, they are Tucker Liszkiewicz curtain fell; I was left wondering how a play people based upon their sexual identity, yet not stealing girls from other guys and you could bother me so deeply while touching so openly gay soldiers are drummed out of the cannot catch "the gay." many others. military, and two people of the same sex are Exactly how do homosexuals threaten The writing, though inspired, was not prevented from engaging in a civil union. the lives of "straight" people? In our modern society we need to exactly the work of Oscar Wilde. The tunes, I cannot accept that there are soldiers Simply put, they don't. look at who a person is, not who while aesthetic, were not as catchy as "Rent" and medics who, having gave comfort and They make us uncomfortable because they'rewith. or "Les Miserables." medical attention to our fathers and brothers, their views contradict our own. But then What then, was this play's source of are being kicked out of the military and pre again so do any views which do not follow This weekend, I had the opportunity to power and sway over theater-goers? vented from protecting our countrymen's · our main stream mindset. attend the E-52 Student Theatre and Literary critic Northrop Frye might have lives. Last time I checked, people's beliefs and RAVEN's production of "Bare," an off argued the significance of this play did not lie I also cannot accept that a man can share views are protected by the rights we, as the Broadway musical. I had just watched "Sgt. in the words written or songs sung, but rather his health insurance with his wife, but anoth "normal," so often take for granted. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" earlier in how this play served a social function in er man cannot do_the same with his domestic As a by-product of the American male that week, and was ecstatic to see another society. partner. homophobic-tradition, I occasionally fall vic rock op,era. - Just as Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle tim to using the term "gay" to describe my I· eX.t~_ected tunes similar to "Strawberry Tom's Cabin" brought to the forefront If two gay men want to experi distaste with an unrelated person or action. Fields" and "Lucy in the Sky with American slavery in the 19th century, "Bare" ence the same miseries as a My mother once told me that using a Diamonds,"· but my happy-go-lucky smile shows the horrific cost of isolating those who heterosexual marrie~ couple, word as a slur just shows that I am too igno was car-jacked and bludgeoned curbside dur need our support in a time of instability and they should be able to. rant to think of anything better. ing the first act My shock was on the level of change. · And that is exactly what comes to mind a person going to see Disney's "The It also shows that our gay colleagues are when I see a lack of tolerance for someone AristoCats" and sitting through a screening still people who suffer from the same heart Whether they get married in a church or who is homosexual - ignorance. of the explicit documentary "The breaks and stresses as their heterosexual a courthouse is a matter for a far better peti Aristocrats." counterparts. When they decide to come out, tionee than I. However, while Christianity Tucker Liszkiewicz is a copy desk chieffor The play, for all of the non-musical they do not cease to exist in our lives, though may shun homosexuality as a valid form of The Review. His viewpoints do not necessar buffs, deals with two gay roommates at a co some people may choose to think this way. union, its doctrines would still have us ily represent those of the Review stajj: ed Catholic boarding school, during their Our gay, lesbian, transgender and bisex embrace our gay peers as brothers instead of Please send comments to tucker@udeLedu. ual friends are not, and should not be, cor- treating them like lepers. ------~ ------_1 I Getting a job doesn't mean giving up your individuality. Especi~lly when the company you. join believes in giving you the opportunity to make your voice heard. Develop your unique skills. And end up owning a piece of the corporate pie. 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March 25, 2008 17 - -- 18 March 25, 2008 )t Group thirsts for environmental activism BY CAITLIN WOLTERS go green and help the envirolup.ent despite Copy Editor being low on cash and free time. •• While many students are still reeling from "Everyone uses stuff," she·says. "It's what their green drinks during St. Patrick's Day week you do when you're done with that stuff. end, a group of Newark "green drinkers" are try Recycle it. Another step is to put compact ing to change the world, one monthly meeting at a fluorescent bulbs in dorms, houses and time. apartments. You want to cut your electricity Green Delaware, the local chapter of Green bill and reduce greenhouse gases? Do those Drinks Interntional, which is also located in 350 types of things to go green." cities around the world, is an environmental group Hesse says he has begun to go green in looking to make the state go green by becoming many areas of his life. His primary change more environmentally conscious. The chapter, has been giving up disposable shopping started by Lori and John Lake, held its first Green bags. Drinks meeting in October 2007 and now meets at "I go into 7-Eleven with a cloth bag and TGI Fridays across from the Bob Carpenter Center people notice me," he says. "You get better on the first Tuesday of each month. Green service and I think it's because they've got Delaware has gone from a small group of l 0 mem to pay for those bags. It saves them money bers to one that welcomes approximately 60 or and makes more sense. I recycle those plas more. tic bottles I've come to detest. I saw a tele The Lakes say they became environmental vision show that said every water bottle uses activists when they started renovating their house a half a cup of oil. To me, that is insanity. and didn't see many options to help make their Avoid buying the damn things." home eco-friendly. Lori and John both feel the most important "We wanted to rebuild it green, but we had a reason to go green is to protect their health. hard time finding people who were knowledgeable !hey say by being conscious of the environ about going green," Lori says. "People looked at ment, they are more aware of how the air us like we were from another pltinet when we and surrounding products are going to affect asked about green products, so we started looking Courtesy ofLori La~e their bodies. for people who had been there and done that. We Green Delaware was formed to increase environmental awareness throughout the state. "If you are surrounding yourself with toxic came across Green Drinks and researched them. materials, it affects your personal health," We thought it'd be great to go and visit with groups about the important to care for the Earth on which everyone lives. Lori says. "And that affects many other things -your work, environment." "When we first started out, we felt really alone," he says. · your family. It ripples through everything in life. And then if She says there were no groups in the northern Delaware "People thought we were strange looking for non-toxic insu everyone wants to concentrate on their own personal health area, so they decided to start their own. lation and alternative energy. In this area, it's strange. On the and their own steps in going green, whether it's saving energy John says their current project, Green TV, which involves West Coast, it's not." or improving their h~me, all those little steps everyone is mak producing short online video clips about the environment, is Gordon Hesse, a member of Green Drinks who has ing add up to a bigger difference to health on the planet." an important step toward making Green Drinks widely known attended all but one meeting, says he has felt the need to go Hesse says it's not too late to start changing how the envi throughout the area. green for a long time. His past work experience as a New ronment is treated, as long as people start making alterations "It's about fmding direction whenever it comes to pro Jersey Shore lifeguard has showed him how the Earth has in their daily lives now. moting business," he says. "The best way to find more infor been mistreated for years. "It's clear that if we continue on the path we are reveal mation is through small videos, not presentations or books. "I saw pollution on beaches interacting with the environ ing now, we will leave a horrible legacy," he says. "The way I We want Green TV to be that avenue." ment in a negative way," Hesse says. "The proliferation of see it, and I tend to take a pessimistic view of what we're The concept of going green isn't as widely accepted in plastics drives me nuts. You can't walk out of Wawa without doing, we're setting things in motion that may be irreversible the Delaware area as in other parts of the country, John says. a plastic bag. We need to come up with a way to counter that." at some time. I also think there's a lot we don't understand Green Drinks is trying to help people understand why it is so Lori says there are many options for college students to about becoming good stewards of what we've inherited." Chief discusses harmony between Earth and man BY KELLY DURKIN sounds powerful," he says. "They think· these Copy Desk Chief names give them a certain power. In nature, Piles of handmade weapons and turtle-shell everything has its own power." bowls decorate long tables in a conference room Gilbert advocates reconnecting with nature, in Munroe Hall, evoking an era of forgotten cul a view that is partially the result of his experi ture and history, as a soft-spoken man shod in ence with pneumonia as a child. Instead of going bright-orange moccasins recites a quiet prayer. to a doctor for a prescription, his grandmother He then takes a drink from a Coca-Cola can and made a cough syrup of tobacco and black strap sets it down next to a pile of animal skins and molasses that eventually cured him of the ill dried tobacco. ness. Dick "Quiet Thunder" Gilbert is a full "Many times she would take me with her to blooded seventh-generation Lenni-Lenape gather the different medicines," Gilbert says, "so Native American. He spoke to a small group of I learned something very early on in life - that students on Wednesday as a guest of the the medicines that were· helping me were not Anthropology Club about the Lenape culture's coming from a drugstore or patent medicine, it emphasis on preserving the environment and its was coming from the Mother Earth. By learning . relation to modem life. that lesson early in life, that has tied me to the Gilbert, 74, says his grandmother gave him land." the name "Quiet Thunder" when he was 4 years On the East Coast, most Native Americans old, but he never found out why, as she died have become acclimated to what Gilbert calls before he was able to ask her of its meaning. "dominant society" ·and don't use traditional Traditionally, he says, until age l 0 children medicines because that knowledge has been lost spent most of their time with their grandparents, - in many cases) due to the convenience of whose responsibility it was to name their grand drugstores and pharmacies. children. The Lenape can have as many as four "The whole idea is to get them to return to names given at different times during childhood. the forest and the streams, to get used to it," he Gilbert says today many Native Americans says. "We've gotten ourselves in a real mess choose names in the spirit of John Wayne, rather because we don't relate to the natural world. than in the spirit of tradition. Dick "Quiet Thunder" Gilbert is a seventh-generation Lenni-Lenape Native American. "A lot of people will select a name that see SEVEN page 23 ~ March 25. 2008 19 Ryan Phillipe 'wants this war to en~' Delaware native's new film sheds light on current situation. in the War in Iraq BY KATIE ROGERS like to serve overseas. Managing News Editor "I think the idea that this is happening Unfazed by his status as a heartthrob to to these people and their families and their most American girls, acting in an Academy girlfriends and their husbands means Award-winning film in 2006 and what seems something," he says. to be a never-ending list of starring roles in However, "Stop-Loss" is not feature films, actor Ryan Phillipe perks up at Phillipe's first wartime film. He also hearing the word "Delaware." starred in "Flags of Our Fathers" in 2006, "Ah, home," Phillipe says during a con .a movie that he says was a tribute to those ference call. "You know, I love it. It's where who fought in World War II, including - I'm from and it's where my family is still. both of his grandfathers. . When I think about growing up there and He says the meaning and message of also as I get older and I spend more time out that film were quite different to him. in L.A., I really miss the seasons. I miss the "That was a much different war," he snow. I love how close it is to the beach and says. "That war was absolutely necessary so many other great places, too." • and I would have signed up for that. We're The New Castle-native politely asks to in a different situation with this one." be called "Ryan" instead of "Mr. Phillipe," The politics of war itself, however, do simply because it makes him "feel like ... not change over time, Phillipe says. old." "In terms of putting your life on the In his new movie "Stop-Loss," he plays line and never knowing when a bomb's a young Texas soldier who is under the going to go off or when you'll be attacked, impression he is about to be discharged from or seeing your friends die in your arms or Courtesy of Paramount Pictures the Army. However, he's "stop-lossed" and right next to you- that's the true horror of not given proper leave, forcing him to return war," he says, "and I don't think that Ryan Phillipe's new ftlm "Stop-Loss" will priemere on Friday. to Iraq. Due to a shortage of soldiers and no changes no matter the theater or place in his draft, the Army fails to honor its contract tory." States, and he's interested in a candidate negative ~essage about Iraq, he says, but with current soldiers, sending them back for The relevance of"Stop-Loss" is what he who is willing to take the right steps to bring rather shows the bond, courage and duty additional tours of duty. says he believes makes it so pertinent for about change. U.S. soldiers face today. . Embodying the mindset of a true Texan younger generations to learn about. This is He says he feels the War in Iraq has It's more focused on paying respect to was no easy task, Phillipe says. It took hard the first war movie of its kind, in the fact that many similarities to the Vietnam War, and those who serve, he says. work and training, and even the surrender of it is being made while the war in Iraq is still he's concerned about wasting more lives and "This is not a movie that preaches, you his favorite music. being fought, he says. delving deeper into conflict. know, anti-war and Bush is bad," Phillipe Instead of his usual play list of Hip-hop, "This is happening now," Phillipe says. "I want this to end. I want this war to says. "People know that already - they he says he listened to country artists such as "And the fact is that it's happening primari end," he says. "I feel like it's not what we don't need a movie to tell them." Toby Keith and Kenny Chesney non-stop in ly to young people. I think it's interesting for were led to believe it was about." Instead, he says he prefers a movie that order to get in touch with the state of mind of an audience to kind of have a connection to Despite his strong opinion on the war in will make his audience think about the ideas a true Texas native and portray it realistical this massive war that's going on and that one Iraq, Phillipe says the movie doesn't pull the it has presented. "Stop-Loss" was inspired ly on-screen. candidate says could go on for a hundred audience in one direction or the other. . He by the true story of the family of its writer, "I got myself in the mindset. It was so years." says there's no moralizing or hidden agenda director and producer, Kimberly Peirce. different from me," he says. "I don't even Phillipe, an active Obama supporter, in the plot. Phillipe says Peirce's brother served in Iraq really own a pair of blue jeans, but I wore says his concerns lie with bringing a swift He says movies with such messages do and· fought in Fallujah. This message, he them everyday with cowboy boots when I end to the War in Iraq. He said he feels there not interest him, and they have potential to says, is stronger to audiences. was there. I mean, I think that sometimes the is a great unrest throughout the United insult audiences. "Stop-Loss" doesn't send a "It's about that," Phillipe says. "It's fun you can have as an actor is that I get to about the soldiers. It's about the humans." be an adult and pretend like I'm someone In 2006, he starred in "Crash," a movie completely different. that made many audiences discuss their "Texans think different and they're stances on race, religion and more. He says proud of it - they've got a whole unique there was a mixed reaction from audiences thing going on down there." who either loved the film or hated it. Luckily, he says he's back to himself, However, Phillipe says he didn't mind the Hip-hop and all. different reactions the film received. In preparation for the role, Phillipe says He says what was most important was he went through intense physical training that it made people think. alongside six American soldiers who were "A lot of the best movies make you either formerly enlisted or recently dis squirm a little bit or change your ideas about charged. A former U.S. Army Sergeant something, or maybe, in some respects, Major of25 years, who also trained the casts changes people's ideas," he says. of other wartime films such as "Jarhead" and In choosing roles, he says he prefers to "Saving Private Ryan," whipped Phillipe work with directors who are already experi and his co-stars into shape. , enced, as opposed to those working on their Each morning he says he was shaken first feature films. Peirce, who wrote, direct ed and produced "Stop-Loss," is no excep- out of bed ~t 5 a.m. and would continue to train until 8 P·!TI· in the relentless Texas heat. tion to his rule. . "He's jusf'the best out there," Phillipe "Every movie is a crapshoot," Phillipe says of his trainer. "He got a hardcore, full says. "You never know how it's going to turn on workout- you wouldn't think they were out, and I think sometimes seeing what actors out there." someone else has done lets you know they Thankful to be training alongside have an ability or that they are an artist." American soldiers for the movie; Phillipe In his life,. Phillipe says he feels fortu says he received personal insight from them, nate to have had the opportunities and expe which allowed him to better get into charac riences he has had. ter. The time the actors and soldiers spent "I've been really lucky. I've done so Courtesy of Paramount Pictures many films at my age," he says. "I've together was intense, he says, allowing the The Delaware native listened to country music non-stop in preparation for his role as a stars to hear real-life accounts of what it was worked with some really great people at soldier from Texas in the War in Iraq. great points in their careers." 2 0 March 25, 2008 A blow to Apatow's A horrific take on violence, golden resume this time for Americ.a "Drilltiit Taylor" flaws in the plot that "Funny Games" arena for l:mrror - the summer lake Paramount Pictures are never addressed Celluloid Dreams house - and sterilizes the sets, ideal Rating: -;;'c (out of****) and leave the viewer Rating: *** (out of izes a wealthy family and introduces Everyone has faced them at one point or asking questions ****> two well-mannered young sociopathS. another. Once you're a teenager, they are lit instead of· laughing. The American horror with polo shirts and designer haircuts. erally a growing pain. Bullies. The options to For starters, why is it genre has turned excessive The dashing chaps proceed to torture the combat them are simple - staying and fight that Drillbit is home visual violence into tradi family for no apparent reason, other ing or running and hiding. Or, if you're fresh less? He comes off as tion. Dating as far back as than being part of a funny game. out of ideas, pluck a homeless man off the a smooth, smart indi the exploitation films of Long shots on the shocked faces of street and make him your own personal pro vidual throughout the the '70s, it has slowly fil the family (Naomi Watts, Tim Roth and tector. entire film and if it tered into the mainstream Devon Gearhart) dehumanize them to In "Drillbit Taylor," Wade (Nate weren't for his tom with modern ·films like objects the intruders (Michael Pitt and Hartley), Ryan (Troy Gentile)' and Emmit and tattered wardrobe, "Hostel." Brady Corbet) can use for their carnal (David Dorfman), three geeky high-school there's no chance any Austrian Director pleasure. freshmen, get fed up with their borderline one would think he's Michael Baneke's frame Simultaneously humorous and ter insane tormenter, Filkins. The three go homeless. Taylor also by-frame American remake rorizing, the film leaves a long-lasting through weeks of torture, which includes get manages to infiltrate of his own German 1997 and overwhelming impression. Haneke ting run down by a Ford Mustang, shoved into the gang's high school film "Funny Games" defies artfully distorts everything from classi urinals mid-relief and the standard pantsing in posing as a substitute the concepts of horror and cal music to common household objects the middle of the hall. With no father figure in teacher and nobody violence. Negatively such as eggs, a hairdryer and a televi any of their lives, Wade comes up with an suspects a thing. labeled as "torture porn" by many crit sion set. Pitt and Corbet both give note ingenious plan to interview several different Apatow normally has an eye for finding ics, the film works entirely on the reac worthy performances, balancing charm bodyguard candidates for sec_prity. This is unknown talent - like Superbad's Fogell - tion of the audience, leaving the viewer with inhumanity. Pitt takes the role of when fate shows its hand and the boys cross and transforming them into overnight sensa to respond. Haneke has taken a protagonist many times throughout the paths with the one and only Drillbit Taylor tions. Plump Ryan and his spunky attitude are European approach throughout his film . film, flavoring with ;comic relief wh!le (Owen Wilson). amusing but nothing spedal, and the super career - no film score, excessively maintaining his sense of insanity. Taylor is a homeless man with aspirations skinny Wade gets more irritating with every long takes and brief outbursts of vio With many negative responses to of taking his one man act to Canada. Instead lame joke. The third wheel, Emmit, who lence, many times off-screen. , the film, such as it being an artless of protecting them, Wade is punched in the starred alongside Naomi Watts in the "Ring" Haneke experiments with the rela attack on Americans' bourgeois tastes, face on several occasions. Drillbit puts the movies, is uncomfortable to watch in a tionship between Niewer and screen. He others predict it to become a sleeper hit boys through his own training program that he comedic role. opens space to which the viewer can and cult classic. Regardless of his makes up as he goes while conning them out In the end, "Drillbit Taylor" takes a com vicariously relate to the protagonists - motive for remaking the film, Haneke of bar mitzvah money and their parents' fine mon social problem that everyone can relate usually in a postmodern reality, which brilliantly rekindled a second wave of china. · to, and turns it into· an unrealistic mess that lacks answers. controversy that began a decade ago - Produced by Judd Apatow, a man who, consists of no authenticity or rational thought. In "Funny Games," which is an this time aimed at American soil. over the past few years, has seen everything -MikePina, almost uncanny replica of the '97 film, -James Adams Smith, he touches instantly tum to gold, "Drillbit mvp@Jldel. edu H(lneke takes a deceivingly typical . smithja@tdeLedu Taylor" is a rare miss. There are far too many Day26 my bed, DAY26 Day26 don't be shy, Inspiration turned imitation Bad Boy Records don't be ·Rating: ***(out of -;;'c-;;'c-;;'c-;;'c-;;'c) scared." Contrary to popular belief, boy bands N o t Pretty. Odd. the easily are not dead; in fact, Sean "Diddy" Combs until the Panic at the Disco influenced has been brewing one up right on the TV second half Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen fail to cre screen. of the CD Rating:** 1/2 (outof-;;'c-;;'c-;;'c-;;'c-;;'c) ate a .sound For viewers of "Making the Band 4," are the Panic at the Disco - now older and without their own. Day 26's self-titled debut album is an sta· kes punctuation hang-ups (the group officially When the opportunity to see how far Brian, Willie, Q, raised, as dropped the exclamation point in its name) - is band suc Mike and Robert have come since auditions the group explores maturity and heartbreak. fighting the dreaded second-album collapse with ceeds, it and to finally get a chance to hear them on On "Are We in This Together," the an effort titled Pretty. Odd. (perhaps the punctua commits to CD instead of TV. · group belts over shaking percussion and tion issue hasn't been fully addressed): a hybrid But to less familiar listeners, Day 26 is quick-hitting synthesizers asking about the Inspiration comes in different forms but the between much in the same vein as its predecessors commitment of significant others. group's current vision can be traced back to its already 112 and Jagged Edge. While Combs' guided hand has a Liverpool and the Beatles. The members of the established The album explores the bright and strong presence, Day 26 provides five pas young Las Vegas outfit (half of the band is under flair for the dark sides of relationships, getting off to a sionate singers who are often elevating a 21) are no longer channeling their hometown's dramatic jumping start on "I'm the Reason" with track all at once, giving the floundering Bad glitz but rather dusting off their parents' vinyl and a new constant quick drums and energetic singing. Boy Records at least one type of resurrec copy of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. found The disc continues on the playful side tion. The oddest part? There's nothing outwardly apprecia with "In' My Bed," where the boys sing, ''In - Ted Simmons, tsi"!@tdeLedu offensive about Panic's second album, but there tion for the Beatles' more drug-inspired melodies. are problems in the group's passivity toward "Nine in the Afternoon," the record's first Saturday Nights and night and Sunday morning. album operates on the same expanding its sound past its influences' most single and best song, incorporates horns and a Sunday Mornings The group wastes no time premise. An . abrupt shift sweeping brushstrokes. The Beatles' influence is staccato piano part but allows vocalist Brendon Counting Crows in commanding their listen occurs when the track list apparent in the group's efficient yet wooden exe Urie a chance to belt the infectious chorus. The Geffen Records ers' ears with the unusually ing turns to "Washington cution and ultimately leaves a cloud of uncertain second single, "That Green Gentleman," is anoth Rating: *** 112 (out of rough and energetic Square." Cue the acoustic ty above the collective's head. er hit, as it features a spring in its step similar to *****> "1492." guitar and piano. Primary songwriter and lyricist Ryan Ross "Afternoon." Occurrences like these prove the Ever since the mid- Often, when waking For long-time fans <5f has moved on from topics that dominated the boys have the chops to pen very likeable pop '90s, it's been easy to count up after a rough Saturday the group, the album will be group's debut, and inferior, album A Fever You songs. . on singer Adam Duritz and night, Sunday morning is well-worth the wait, pro Can't Sweat Out, like "teen hearts beating" and But more often than not, Pretty. Odd. lacks the rest of the Crows to completely different. This viding enough painful "exchanging body heat in the passenger seat." the innovation and precision necessary to not deliver pleasantly light crooning to know it's a Now, Ross is out to prove his artistic growth by sound like an aping of its influences. The opening pop-rock with a lovable Crows album as well as transfixing his subject matter on the more track, "We're So Starving," is a reaffirmation to whiny twang. On their ·· some shockingly dirty gui abstract. the group's audience. As Urie sings, "You don't . newest release, Saturday tars to signal something "Northern Downpour," a pretty but bland· have to wony because we're still the same band," Nights and Sunday new on the horizon for a ballad, features the chorus, "Hey moon, please you can hear his tongue pressed firmly in his Mornings, fans might get a group that has become a forget to fall down I Hey moon, don't you go down cheek. While thl! band can laugh (possibly to the little something they didn't staple in the pop-rock I Sugarcane in the easy morning I Weather vanes, bank) about its coyness, a truth emerges through expect. genre. my one and only." Huh? It seems Ross has con the clutter: sometimes growth just isn't enough. The album is essen -Adam Asher, fused lofty pontification for maturity, and that - Wesley Case, tially divided into Saturday aasher@ldeLedu seems to illustrate the album's core problem - wescase@:!f!~L!t!'f ~ .... March 25. 2008 21 - delawarel INdressed In your best friend's bed fasb ior1 forward A new type of fur On the runway and streets, I've seen feath ers, I've seen alligator Sarah Niles skin, I've seen leather Cohllllllt\l and I've seen rabbit fur. Name an exterior part of I have this friend who any animal in the king never used to drink. He dom and I can assure would go out and socialize you it's been worn. Larissa Cruz with everyone else, but never Crazy experiences over But alas, there's Colwnntl'l felt the need to get sau~ed up one part of a creature ,Jike the rest of his circle. It SP·RING BREAK? that hasn't been never seemed like he planned taken advantage of nearly as much as the rest. on changing .....,... he was perfect Let Sarah know when Until now, I have never seen human hair ly · content ·staying sober and you get back. sewn into clothes, instead of naturally growing ·enjoying the nightlife without on a model's head. putting on a pair of beer goggles. Chris March, who was one of the four Then, completely out of the blue, be - [email protected] finalists of "Project Runway," decided to found out his ex-girlfriend and his good move·s. incorporate real human baiT into his collection friend had slept together - not once, but friend is as trimming on jackets and skirts. Although the twice. Two days later, my friend stumbled they will finale aired March 5, his creepy design aesthet into my apartment, slurring, stammering issue since hopefully both pa,rties have waters in order . you t~ ic is still haunting me. and looking like bell. He hasn't gone par moved on, leaving the ex-boyfriend or find trUe romantic bliss;; Unsurprisingly, style-expert Tim Gunn tying without a solid pregame since. girlfriend's heart and body on the market. lus_t don't expect it to be -~ didn't approve and went as far as to mention I'm uncertain whether his ex's bed If you and your perpetrating friend easy.feat-+·· as mu~h as your his "gag reflex" in response to March's fashion hopping and his new wild booze-bag aren't super close, then perhaps you won't friend may care about your statement. My reaction while watching the ways are related. What is clear, though, care if they go at it with your ex. Maybe it best il1tere~t, a move like this show was similar to Gunn's, except I vocalized is sleeping with a friend's eican be seri- won't cause a huge riftin the.friendship, often rips apart a stable friend~ my thoughts in a less refined manner - shout ously risky. but yQu can rest assured that it will stir up ship. · ing at my television with a disgusted face. Both guys and girls can get salty at least some emotion. When alL is said and When I was watching the tresses go down upon hearing that their.previous part In this case, if you'te the friend trying done, relationships the runway, I couldn't help but feel bad for ner .is snuggling up with one of to get freaky with your buddy's ex, .i~ come and g(), but good March's models for wearing such bizarre gar their close friends- the thought couldn't hurt to bring up your intentioQS frit;qdsJllps Jast forever, ments. It made me form questions of my own, is nauseating. with your friend before inakii:lg any so think twice before . __...... 2 2 March 25, 2008 Honoring the fathers of slap-stick co·medy BY SABINA ELLAlll dent of the Stooges Fan Club and the editor of Staff Reporter the Three Stooges Journal, is constantly trying Gary Lassin has been an avid fan of the to keep the pride of the Stooges alive. He says "Three Stooges" all of his life. In 1978, when sadly today the Stooges don't have as much of he began dating his current wife, he never an impact as they did on him while he was thought he would be a piece of comic history. growing up. "My immediate reaction was, 'How am I "Back then, there were only three TV sta going to get this girl to marry me?"' Lassin tions and the 'Three Stooges' was one of the says. programs that was played constantly on it," he He says his wife, the niece of Larry Fine says. "But now there are over 300 channels -the Stooge best known for his wild, clown and not one plays the Stooges. It's unfortu like hair- was never a big fan of the Stooges nate." Courtesy of John Tadler and still doesn't care for them today. Lassin Still, he says he believes they serve as cul Freshman John Tadler and friends created clothing to honor their beloved town. says her childhood fear of the Three Stooges, tural icons and gets excited when younger peo with their constant slapping and eye-gouging, ple visit the museum. led to her dislike of the group. "They were the original comedians of tel "Whenever he came to visit when she was evision," he says. "They were the poster chil a child, they would call him Uncle Max dren of imbeciles." Students translate love instead of Uncle Larry because she was so Lassin, whose full-time job is working as scared," he says. "She didn't like the violent an executive at a mail-order gift company, says nature of the Stooges hitting and hurting each he dedicates whatever free time he has to the other all the time." museum. He controls every aspect of the of beach into apparel Now, three decades later and still a museum, from proprietor to tour guide, and Stooges enthusiast, Lassin is the owner, pro says he has kept his family amused by his prietor and tour guide of the Stoogeum, a obsession but has also frustrated them at times. BY ANDREW LYNCH you give us the shirts and let us sell them museum dedicated solely to Stooge memora Still, his family accepts his loyalty to the Staff Reporter in the store, we will print them for free and bilia. The Stoogeum, located just outside of Stooges, including his wife. A group of university students have let you have most of the profit." Philadelphia in Gwynedd Valley, features "She puts up with it," he says. "If I'm not created their own clothing line dedicated The friends took advantage of the 10,000 square feet and three floors filled with home, sire knows I'm spending my time at the to their childhood beach town. deal and began selling the hats in Liquid, items ranging from movie posters to props museum." Freshman John Tadler, along with his as well as creating T-shirts, hoodies and directly from the Stooges' set. The museum Although the Stoogeum doesn't have reg friends, has designed and produced a line -bumper stickers. All three pieces were even features life-sized wax statues of the ular operating hours and is open by appoint of T-shirts, stickers and hats showcasing designed to feature the "LT" logo and the Stooges dressed as bellhops adorning the ment only, the museum offers free admission the southern Delaware town of Lewes. area code "302" to represent their beloved entrance of the second-floor exhibit. -a gift that Lassin gives to the public in addi The T-shirts, in particular, have become an beach town, Tadler says. Lassin, who resides outside of tion to sharing his collection of Stooges mem instant success among Lewes residents Because of the deal they obtained Philadelphia, has been collecting "Three orabilia. and fellow lovers of the town's laid-back with Liquid, the friends were able to get Stooges" memorabilia for more than 25 years. "I just wanted as many people to come," atmosphere. their products out to the public immediate The various items add up to almost 20,000 he says. "The museum wouldn't be running if Tadler says he got the idea at the end ly. pieces of Stooges history, and Lassin says it it wasn't for the attendance of the public." of Spring Semester 2007. The town is pre The group decided the T-shirts could wasn't easy. Lassin, who is still collecting memorabil dominately locals, giving it a calm sereni be sold for $15, the stickers sold for $1 ...: "It was extremely hard work, especially ia, is constantly trying to build his collection. ty that makes it unique among most beach and the hats sold for $20. since all this work was before the age of the Although eBay has surfaced and became pop towns, he says. "Sales were successful," Tadler says. Internet," he says. "I had to work to find these ular for collectors like Lassin, he says it takes "There's not much to do in Lewes," "A lot of kids from Cape Henlopen High items at memorabilia shows and dig in huge the satisfaction out of hunting. Tadler says. "We decided to make mer School became interested in buying the T bins of 'Superman' and 'Batman' comics to "It's not as fun now with eBay," he says. chandise to represent the town that we had shirts. Liquid was also reporting a good find that one 'Three Stooges' comic." "Now it's all about who bids the .highest so much fun in as kids." rate of sales." After accumulating artwork, reels of old instead of the skill of finding treasured items." Lewes was such a relaxed town that Aside from sales at Liquid, the cre footage and various costumes worn by the Lassin says he hopes to expand in the he and his friends decided to create a logo ators themselves were selling the stock Stooges, Lassin wondered what to do with his future to accommodate more people. He still and get some hats printed. The plan was to merchandise right out of the boxes. In lit collection. has thousands of items that have not made just make hats for one another as a fun tle time, the Lewes crew was making a "I just had all this great stuff packed away their way into the museum, and is constantly project. profit. that I couldn't really enjoy," he says. "I fig building his display collection. He says he Corey Schab, Tadler's childhood "I bought two for my parents and one ured, 'Why not open a museum displaying all hopes people will discover the humor and old friend, contributed the logo he and his for my sister," Tadler says. "They· make a the memorabilia I collected over the years and fashioned slapstick comedy that has made him friends put on the hats. Schab says he has good gift, that is if the recipient has been let other fans enjoy it as well?' " laugh for so long. spent a lot of time in Lewes, but is current to Lewes before." With that in mind, Lassin opened up the "Their wackiness is funny today just as it ly studying at Whittier College in Since their first summer in business, largest archive in the world of Stooges col was 70 years ago," he says. "Hopefully a new California. the friends have remained motivated. With lectibles, which formulated into the creation of generation will find their comedy to be hilari "We used to enjoy skating and surfing Schab in California, Tadler, Kulina and the Stoogeum. Lassin, who is also the presi- ous and grow to love it as much as I do." in Lewes and wanted to make something others are holding down the business back to remember those times," Schab says. "It in Delaware. They have plans to expand was just for fun." their idea, offering new designs and colors He designed a symbol that reads "LT" for summer 2008. to represent ·the phrase "Lewes Town." "We plan to have the shirts in both Next to it he drew a shape of the state of Dewey Beach Surf and Sport and possibly Delaware with the town of Lewes marked Bethany Surf Shop by this summer," with a star, he says. Schab says. "I think that the idea .could Once Schab created the design, friend really go somewhere amazing." Payton Kulina put his brains behind the Although all the Lewes Beach atten project. He decided to take Schab's design tion could possibly take away from the. to a company called Hatshack.com in solitude of his childhood stomping order to make some professional-looking ground, Tadler isn't concerned. hats. "It's a possibility," he says, "but as "Corey's the artist and I'm the ideas," long as people buy and wear the shirts, it Kulina says, "I can't draw." doesn't really matter to us." When they got the hats back, they Kulina and.Schab plan to introduce a said they were pleased with the quality of new design this summer, adding to the the work. Based on that success, they group's rapi"dly growing collection of decided to take the L-town idea a step fur Lewes gear. ther. They got in contact with a local surf "I eventually want to make jerseys shop called Liquid and set up a business and polo shirts so that everyone can wear deal. some LT clothing," Schab says. "This whole experience has made us better Courtesy of Gary Lassin "We went to Liquid because we knew the owner and they had their own printing friends and it really perpetuates the good Life-sized wax statues of the Stooges welcome visitors to the second-floor exhibit of the press," Schab says. "Liquid told us that if feelings that Lewes, Del., is all about." Stoogeum, located outside of Philadelphia. )!t March 25. 2008 23 - Broadening the home-video outlet YouTub·e videos will soon be accessible through TV BY ADAM TZANIAS Even with the availability of various Internet StaffReporter applications on other media devices like TV, Hoffman YouTube is notorious for its obscure videos ranging in says she thinks it will still be a long time before any every1;hing from drunken college kids and singing cats to ''Two type of full convergence will take place and is doubtful Girls, One Cup" reaction videos. Now those same videos that that a complete substitution of television for Internet hav.e given even the biggest idiots and dumbest gui.dos their 15 will occur any time soon. minutes of fame are available on the big screen. "I'm not sure that's in the near future because of In a Wednesday press release from TiVo, the company the different experiences each medium provides," she announced that by year's end, its subscribers will be able to says. "The television is an audience-based medium search, browse and watch YouTube videos directly from their where people can gather to view content. The Internet television sets. is more personal and customized to one individual." According to the press release, YouTube is attempting to For the average YouTube user, this service reach move beyond the Web, extending its service past the 66 million es far beyond the basic computer into new devices, Tube viewers it has already due to its availability on cell phones and broadening the range of users to epic proportions. Apple Tv, a box that streams video from computers to the tele- Phil Kranyak, president of the Rubber Chickens, a Broadcast Yourself vision. • group that has many videos of its own comedy sketch Now, TiVo users with a broadband Internet connection and es on YouTube, says he is excited about the new media TiVo Series3 box will be able to access the popular online video convergence because there is now a chance for the provider from their television. By using TiVo's digital-record Rubber Chickens' videos to be seen by a wider audi ing-service DVR, subscribers can select a video from the Web ence than ever before. He says the short-form comedy and record it for playback on their TVs. performed by the Rubber Chickens is perfect for this Subscribers will be able to use TiVo's convenient and famil type of media. iar user interface to watch, share and discuss the world's most "This might change the demographics of people popular online videos and even log in to their accounts directly who watch," Kranyak says. "The videos will get to be from their TiVo boxes and access their favorite YouTube seen by people other than those who are already familiar with playlists and channels. them." · In a recent press release, Tara Maitra, vice president and Eric Sweder, a member of the Rubber Chickens, general manager of content services at TiVo Inc., states her com expresses a similar enthusiasm for the upcoming technol pany is enthusiastic to work with YouTube and thinks it's a new ogy and says the amount of exposure the convergence step in the advancement of technology. could provide is just what small or unknown people or "We're delighted to be working with the world's leading groups need. online-video community so that TiVo subscribers can access "The greater amount of media that we get is YouTube's popular content on the TV via the TiVo DVR," states good for the group;'' Sweder says. "A system with Maitra. "Being able to make available YouTube videos to the no corporate control like YouTube is good. We are TiVo subscnber base using one device, one remote and one user looking for as much exposure as possible." interface is another major step in our commitment to combine all Now that YouTube will be available on tel of your television and Web video viewing options in one easy to evision, questions are raised about the authori use service." zation and extent to which the videos could be There has been movement toward converging media, espe used. cially between the Internet and other devices that have previous Although the convergence could provide ly only been used for single purposes like cell phones and tele some much-needed exposure, Kranyak says he visions. has some concerns about what this may mean Lindsay Hoffman, communications professor at the univer for those uploading their videos onto YouTube. sity, says there is a clear reason for the merging of different types Since the videos will now be available on TY, he of media. says authorization could be an issue. ''The main reason is to gain and retain viewers, and to be on "You can stay rather anonymous on YouTube," the cutting edge of technology," Hoffman says. "This will appeal Kranyak says. "I would only have a problem if they started to those viewers who want to watch the type of content they can doing some sort of TV show- putting videos up and talk see on YouTube with others without having to lean over some ing about them in that sense. It's more than you signed up one's shoulder to view it on their computer." for." Seven generations of Native American history from CHIEF page 18 argument for pr~servation. "This environmental problem is not an "The Indian people did not live in Indian problem, it is our problem," he says. I've spent probably almost half of my life vain," he says. "We've come back on' the "We are all in this together, whether we like roaming around the woods and creeks and scene again to let people know that here was it or not."· swamps alone, and to be honest with you, a people that lived in harmony with their Gilbert says although some scientists that's where I feel more relaxed." surroundings almost to the point that we believe the current environmental crisis The origin of the Lenape people lies in revered the land." cannot be corrected, he doesn't believe the natural world, Gilbert says, and the suc Gilbert, who served as tribal chief for humans have crossed the line of no return in cession of society has.retumed the responsi 13 years, says his people use the seventh regards to damaging the Earth. bility of the land to Native Americans and generation philosophy to remind them "The creator of all life created all this North America, or Turtle Island as the selves of their impact on the Earth's future. beauty," he says. ''With the power that the Lenape call it. The Lenape believe they have a sacred obli creator of all life has, that power is not "We have come full cycle from the cre gation to make sure that, seven generations going to let puny little man destroy this ator," Gilbert says, "creating this land we in the future, they have the opportunity to beauty." · call Turtle Island, placing the Indian people enjoy the gifts of nature that exist today. Gilbert says he realizes the majority of here on the back of Turtle Island, the com- · "As long as the Lenape were in control his days are behind him, yet he still has time ing of the European, the bringing of the of the land, we stood by that sacred obliga to promote conservationism and honor the African and all the other people who have tion," he says. "Today, the Lenape are not in promise made to his creator. come here, and once again it has come back control of the land, but I still stand by that "When the creator looks down on me to the Indian and the land. sacred obligation. It's not a mystery, it's not and says, 'Quiet Thunder, what did you do "I believe that the traditional Indian is secrets, it's common sense, and I think it's when you wall{ed upon the Mother Earth?' the living conscience of this nation. It is at a time now that we start to use that common " Gilbert says, "I want to look with straight crucial time that the dominant society lis sense." eyes and an open heart and say that I've tens .to wb.at we have to say." Even though the Lenape have a more tried to live by that sacred obligation that THE REVIEW/Steven Gold That living conscience should be used personal connection to saving the planet, you've given to me and my people to pro Quiet Thunder spoke at the university on to lend credibility to current environmental Gilbert says the issue is not exclusive to tect the Mother Earth and the land does not Wednesday. efforts, Gilbert says, and strengthens the Native Americans. belong to man- man belongs to the land." 24 March 25, 2008 Group adopts a Su u historical beclt 6 3 5 9 . BY MADDIE THOMAS "I think there's a lot of corps 1 Staff Reporter outside of college campuses that Fife and drum corps, a fairly also have junior corps and a lot of new trend among college campuses, kids who were in these corps want has spread to the university, offering ed to start their own," Backus says. a glimpse of America's foundations According to its official Web 9 7 8 and musical history to the campus site, the mission of Ithaca's corps is community. to raise awareness about fife and Dedicated to preserving tradi- drum music of the American her 7 1 a ·,_ 9 tiona! American music between the itage by performing for the Ithaca Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the College community and the sur university's Fife and Drum Corps is rounding area. composed of students who play his- Backus says he believes colle 5 3 2 1 torical tunes such as "Yankee giate fife and drum corps are impor: Doodle" on six-hole fifes and ten- tant because they provide students sion snare and bass drums. and the surrounding community . Sophomore Samantha Mellon with a realistic reenactment of the 8 7 2 3 !.1 founded the Fife and Drum Corps at nation's past. the university. As a member of her "I hope that they stop at least high school's corps, Mellon decided for a second and think, 'Wow, that to found a branch of the Fife and was the music our soldiers listened 1 3 4 Drum Corps after other students to when they marched between bat expressed interest in joining the cluJ2 tles and through encampments,' " if it was made available. Backus says. "The music serves as a 2 "I really enjoyed it in high memory from where we came from school," Mellon says, "and other and that's the best part." people here expressed interest in it, Mellon says although many so I decided that there might be members of the corps are also in the 2 4 6 1 enough people interested in it)o join university marching band, students i a club." interested in the corps are not brainfreezepuzzles.com The Fife and Drum Corps, required to have any previous musi established in Fall Semester 2007, cal experience in either the fife or officially started meeting this the drums. Rules: Fill in the grid so that each row, column, semester. So far, it has 10 members, Over the course of the semes including Mellon, who plays the ter, the members of the Fife and and 3x3 block contains 1-9 exactl once. fife. Drum Corps at the university hope "Right now we have more to perform at both on and off-cam fifes," she says. "Ideally you're sup- pus events including activities at posed to have more fifes because the churches, schools or at "any kind of drums are the undertone of the veterans event or American celebra music and different melodies are tion-type thing," Mellon says. Get To Know split up between the fifes." Like most fife and drum corps, Mellon describes the corps as Mellon would also eventually like to being a "musical heritage celebra- provide the university corps with La Salle University tion and a combination of music and realistic outfits. history." "Hopefully, we will be getting "The Revolutionary War was a traditional costumes in the future, big part of American history," she but since we just started, the uni says. "Many people know more form we're wearing is about historical dates and people just jeans and T Because in Philadelphia, rather than the culture of that time. shirts," she says. It's important that we play . this Sophomore La Salle tneans Business mu~ic to remember that time." M a t t Rebecca Murphy, one of the Pazoles original members of the John p 1 a y s La Salle's Full-time MBA students gain the communication, computer, and quantitative Marshall Fife and Drum Corps at the fife Marshall University in West in the skills needed to be successful business leaders on every continent. As a result of La Salle's Vi'fginia, says fife and drum corps corps. worldwide recruiting efforts, students in this program are immersed in an intercultural are h~storically based in the military. H e ' F¥e and drum corps of today says environment while attending their classes. are inspired by militaries of the becoming a past," Mill;phy states in an e-mail member of the message. "~torically, the fife and corps has Highlights of the program: drum corps w~ an integral part of increased his • La Salle is among 10 percent of the world's business schools accredited by the military life. ~~ey were used to understanding sound alerts and ihform the soldiers. and apprecia Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. In today's society, fife and drum tion of • Live and learn in the country's fifth largest city, PhHadelphia. corps performances aliew the gener- American his al public to catch a glin1p$e oflife in tory. · • Work experience is not required. the early formation of out-country." "I really • A one-year program is available for students with a degree in business. The first collegiate fi(e and like history, but drum corps was founded at Ithaca once I joined the • Partial scholarships are available for U.S. and international students. College in 2003 by two students, Fife and Drum • Travel and study opportunities with faculty in Europe and the Pacific Rim. one of which had been in a previous , Corps it brought corps. Senior Ernest Backus is cur- ',history home to rently in charge of Ithaca's corps, m~;," Pazoles For more information or to apply, contact us at: which is called The Fifes and Drums says. "The music of Ithaca College. brought the histo- 215.951.1913 Backus says he believes colle- ry out of.the text giate corps are becoming increas- books and it was www.lasalle.edu/ftmba ingly popular because participants n't just a bunch of e--mail: [email protected] in high school or community corps states and names want to continue participating in the anymore." N ever stop exploring activity when they enter college. THE REVIEW/Jenny Bolen )R March 25, 2008 25 Providing artistic inspiration for faltering youth "One of the most productive and ju!f1lling experiences of my life. The Summer Business Institute is a terrffic program, taught by caring and educated faculty. Dgtttitel}' a Alumna aims to help children worthwhile and rewarding experience." through the Boys and Girls Club FiORL NL \ Are you an undergraduate with a non-business major~ If so, the BY MELANIE HARDY commitment. Funding comes strict Villanova Summer Business Institute is the ideal place for you to learn Staff Reporter ly from grants, but in May, a mural According to artist Jennifer will be painted and, for the first time, the fundamentals of business this summer. Davies-Reazor, the creature Pegasus 'the art of the students will be for sale, is the representation of creativity and with all of the profits going back to The SBI is an intense nine-week program where you will learn business freedom in Greek mythology, an the projects themselves. In addition, basics from Villanova School of Business faculty who bring a wide range aspect to which Davies-Reazor is grants like those provided by drawn. Starbucks have funded the program of expertise to the classroom as teachers, researchers and corporate The symbolism is fitting for since 2005. consultants. The SBI will broaden your skill set, build your professional Pegasus ArtWorks, an after-school Davies-Reazor, who works in confidence and serve as an impressive credential on your resume. art project run through the Boys and the program, has helped the children Girls Club of Delaware, which was create projects that have been part of created to spark the light of expres exhibits shown in different loca- · summer. Invest sion and education through art. tions, including some in Starbucks. Lorraine "They have even Owens, a univer occasionally pro sity alumna and "They are vided free bever the program direc ages for openings," tor for the past getting help Davies-Reazor year and a half, says. says the program in the sense She says . she helps youths appreciates work "realize their full that they can ing in the program, potential" in com . recognizing the munities where express gap in the after they are confront school time that ed with violence themselves." turns these hours and are at a higher into "a critical risk of drug - Michelle Dirks, artist time." She says involvement. In working in the Pegasus she enjoys the time those areas, BGC with the children programs have ArtWorks program for when she may provided a safe troubled youth watch them blos- haven. som. Owens says Carrie Ida her records show Edinger, a univer that Pegasus sity alumna, ArtWorks, whose worked with the participants range in age from 8 to youths, making postcards to be sent 16, has produced a 35 percent to other children in different neigh improvement at the academic level borhoods. for the youths involved as well as an "We delivered them because the 85 percent improvement in their kids wert< afraid they would get lost," behavior. · Edinger says, emphasizing how . She says Pegasus is available at much the children care about the art 15 of the 42locations in Delaware of work and their accomplishments. the BGC, and a program in another Michelle Dirks, originally from club· will be established in 2009. Ireland, is a current artist working in Currently, there are eight artists the program. Dirks remembers from working in the program. her childhood how much her mother The projects include "screen and other women in Ireland taught printing, color theory, oil painting, children about art. Her involvement line drawing, collage, ceramic tiles, in art was an important part of giving 3-D construction, literacy-based her a sense of self and she says she is drawing and digital arts including excited to share the experience with graphic design by instruction in her students. Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe "They are getting help in the Photoshop and potentially ,movie sense that they can express them making." selves," Dirks says. Owens says the children in the She says through the art projects program leapt more than how to the children are able to learn team make art, because they .are held . work, which is especially good for responsible for ' the care of their art children with Attention Deficit supplies and classroom. 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He also said it was easier to I p.m. After missing all but two games last season returning for the 2007 season and he served as come back with teammates like sophomore _ for the Delaware men's lacross'e team with a the offensive quarterback for the team. attackman Curtis Dickson and senior attackman Baseball vs. Saint Joseph's, knee injury, senior attackman Cam Howard has · He also said that when an injury occurs, Vincent Giordano, who are b<;>th having a suc 3 p.m. (Liberty Bell Classic) returned to the team in a big way this year. most teams feel sympathy for the individual, as cessful season. Through eight games, Howard leads the team well as focus energy on how to adjust to the loss Although Howard has played well, he said Softball vs. Saint Joseph's, 3 p.m. with 14 assists and ranks second in points with of that player on the field. that coming back from such a serious injury is 24. Shillinglaw said the way Howard has never easy. Men's lacrosse at Lehigh, 7 p.m. "We look very good this year," Howard returned to the team this season has been "I'm in pretty good shape now," he said. "I said. "A number of the younger players have impressive and his work ethic has helped the still occasionally feel some lingering effects Wednesdai'M:arcb 26 really stepped up after losing some of the older Hens immensely. from the injury, but I try not to think about it." guys from last year. The guys that are returning "Cam has been extremely focused and Other players on the team have noticed Softball vs. Delaware State (DH), have shown a lot of improvement." motivated to have the most successful year pos Howard's hard work to come back from the 2:30p.m. While Howard gets to play and assess the sible," ShilJinglaw said. "On his own, he set up injury, as well as the impact .he has on the field. team, he had a much different season last year. an additional training session with the strength Sophomore attackman Kevin Kaminski, Eliday,~arch28 During a fall afternoon practice in 2006, Howard staff during the summer, fall and winter, to come who is currently injured, said Howard's work suffered a substantial knee injury, tearing his back stronger than he was before the injury." ethic has been impressive. Howard has been a ' Women's lacrosse vs. Penn' State, anterior cruciate ligament, posterior cruciate lig Howard agrees he has had a smooth return fun teammate to have back on the squad. 3p.m. ament and lateral collateral ligament - three of to the team and is playing_well with the other "He plays with great vision and makes the major ligaments in his knee. players after missing last year. everyone on the team better," Kaminski said. · Baseball at William &N.[azy, "It was very frustrating," Howard said. "I He said he has been able to step in right ?p.m. was extremely happy for the program and for my friends and coaches, but I was really disap Men's and women's outdoor track pointed that I had to sit out." at Raleigh Relays (North Carolina After the injury, Howard returned for the State) first two games of the 2007 season, but after tweaking his knee during practice, Howard and Men's and women's outdoor track at his doctor decided it would be better for him to Asics Invitational (Winthrop) sit out the rest of the season so he would not re injure himself. Men's tennis vs. Drexel (at Head coach Bob Shillinglaw said he was Florida), tba extremely disappointed for Howard and the rest of the team after learning of the season-ending Women's tennis vs. Drexel.(at injury. Florida), tba "Cam is a three time All-Conference player that had started since his freshman year," Saturday, ~arch 29 Shillinglaw said. "I was extremely disappointed for Cam, who was looking forward to his senior Softball at UNC Wilmington (DH), year and the opportunity to play with All 12p.m. Americans -Alex Smith, Jordan Hall and with All-Conference players Adam Zuder-Havens, Men's lacrosse vs. Btown, 1 p.m. Rob Smith and Dan Deckelbaum." Shillinglaw also said the injury affected the Men's tennis at Stetson, 1 p.m. team because Howard would have had a major role last season. THE REVIEW/Steven Gold Baseball at William &.Mazy, 4 p.m. Cam Howard bad two goals and an assist on six shots in Saturday's 8-4 win over Villanova. Women's tennis at Stetson, 5:30p.m. I am 5-feet-6-inches tall, 180 players have strength beyond their -prompting the fan to jump the glass. pounds. size and attitudes much larger than Domi might have killed the guy had Men's and women's outdoor track at e<)JD mentary My Napoleon complex follows their frames. the referees not jumped in quickly to Raleigh Relays (North Carolina me into any athletic competition I Former NHL player Tie Domi save him. State) have ever participated. stands 5-feet-10-inches, 291 pounds. Domi epitomizes the attitude of Throughout my life, I have Although Domi was listed under six the little man. He is third in all-time Men's and women's outdooJ: track at craved stepping on a court or field feet, he was actually shorter. Players penalty minutes and had a reputation Asics Invitational (Winthrop) and playing against athletes bigger are often listed taller than they for fighting. than myself, which is not hard appear. One of my fondest moments of Men's and women's outdoortnick at because I have always been among Domi looked tiny on the ice, but Domi was watching him square off · Mazy)mld Terrapin Invitatiop.al the smallest. would hit and fight anybody out against one of the biggest and tough, On the rugby fi~ld, I yearn for there. He would go toe-to-toe ~ith est fighters in the league, Donald Women's rowing at Lake Wheeler the big hit on a large meathead. any big man. Domi was known for Brashear. Brashear stood 6-feet-3- Invitational (Raleigh, N.C.) When I play basketball~ I look for his hitting and his scrappy play on . inches and 240 pounds, but Domi ward to going against someone who offense and defense. Whether-it was went punch-for-punch during the Sunday, March 30 has a 5 or 6-inch advantage on me. fighting for loose pucks, blocking slugfest: Domi is a tribute to small My complex makes me who I am shots or screening goalies in front of athletes everywhere. Softball atUNe~ Wtlmington, a fierce contender and a fan of the lit the net, he was tenacious. 'Jbe next little man deserving 12p;m. tle man who steps up to accomplish It was always fun watching recognition is Maurice Jones-Drew, GREG ARENT impressive feats. Domi take down someone twice his the 5-foot -7 -inch, 206-pound running In the spirit of camaraderie, here size. He proved to be a menace on back for the NFL's Jacksonville "We must stick together are a few of the memorable warriors and off the ice. While being heckled Jaguars. He is known for his down of their respective sports who do not in the penalty box by a fan, Domi hill running style .and his physical and stand tall" eclipse six feet. Usually, these small squirted the fan with a water bottle, See SMALL page 31 29 March 25. 2008 ~ Getting focused for the game BY KEVIN MACKIEWICZ That concern is why Delaware men's basketball freshman Managing Sports Editor guard Alphonso Dawson has specific rituals to relax and focus On a hot and hazy afternoon last spring, 52,004 boisterous his mind. Dawson obtains his pregame mindset through music. fans filled M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md., during the Bobbing his head and feeling the beat, Dawson becomes men's lacrosse semifinal match-up. The noise echoed through focused on the game as he listens to Young G and Jay-Z's The out the arena as Delaware faced Johns Hopkins. Black Album on his iPod. Dawson relaxes through the lyrics of . It was the largest crowd any Hens team had ever played in his music, and even encourages his teammates to rap along with front of at a game. While Delaware was unfamiliar with the him in the locker room to stay loose. rowdy atmosphere, the players quickly learned how to keep their As Dawson zones in on his music, he is essentially able to composure. meditate on the game. "It was tough during pregame practice - seeing how big "I think it's most important to go into the-game with a cer the stadium was," sophomore attackman Curtis Dickson said. "It tain rhythm, a certain swagger," the 6-foot-4-inch Dawson said. was hard to stay focused~ but I just try to do the things I usually "Coach always says that my game is mostly based on my swag do and try not to make a big deal out of it. You're always think ger, so I like to go into the game with a certain mindset. What's ing with all of the people there and how big of a game it is. most important is that I get in my own little zone." You're real nervous." Head coach Monte Ross said he encourages players like But Dickson realizes that whether he plays in front of thou Dawson to do what they need to in order to get focused. sands of fans or a few hundred, he must have his "head in the "I want these guys to just be consistent," Ross said. "I don't game." really mandate what they do before a game, but as long as This season, Dickson leads the nation with 27 goals and they're consistent and they can put themselves into a mindset leads Delaware with 36 points. He said he understands what it where they're focused and ready to go, and do what we ask them takes to have his ffiind prepared for games. to do- as long as they do that, I'm fine." "Starting in high. school, you realize that the mental part is Rugby junior second row Chris Clyde said he agrees with just as important as the physical," he said. Dawson's theory that having his head consistently in the game is Dickson's mental preparation begins the night before a absolutely crucial to his performance on the field. match. If he does not have homework, he and his friends clear Courtesy of Chris Clyde While Clyde's fellow teammates know him as being highly their heads the best way they know - with a few games of Chris Cylde (center) attempts to score o~ a try. competitive on the field, Clyde said it is his off-the-field mental "NHL 2008." The video game helps Dickson not worry about preparations that allow him to let loose during the game. As soon the upcoming opponent. the opponents he watches on video. as he awakens on gameday, everything in his life gets zoned out It is crucial for him to keep the J;~.ext day's game out of his Scherr replays possible scenarios in his head until the actu except for rugby. mind because he does not want to overanalyze it, he said. al game. He said once the match-up begins, he understands what "My girlfriend says I'm more reserved [on gameday]," "The night before, I don't really do anything- I hang out," most of the players on the other team will do when coming at Clyde said. "I don't really talk to a lot of people on gamedays." Dickson said. him in the net. Clyde said he blocks· out the rest of the world to relax. On the contrary, for Dickson's teammate, senior goalkeep "If you see something in practice or something the other While many rugby players scream and yell before. a game, Clyde er Tom Scherr, nothing is more important than having his mind team does on film enough times, then in the game, you don't saves that built-up energy for the field. Fifteen minutes before 100 percent prepared by constantly thinking of the game. really have to think about what's going on," he said. "You just the match-up, Clyde listens to rap music on his iPod and focus "That's a big thing, especially since I'm a goalie," Scherr react to it. You've already seen it, you've already done it. es on the words, completely clearing his mind. said. "If you're not focused on the other team, on the shooters "The more times you go over it in your head, the better off While players have various methods of getting focused on and on the shots coming at you, then you don't really have a you'll be." game day, Clyde said players need to do whatever best fits them chance of stopping them. If you're not focused on it, then you're Not only do players notice when someone's mind is absent, to get prepared. But however a player becomes mentally definitely not going to be ready to play." but fans will ridicule the athlete. focused, it all comes down to being successful on the field. Scherr said he gets ready for games a few days before the "There's often bad consequences," Scherr said. "I get completely and totally relaxed," he said. "I feel like I actual match. When the Hens gather in the film room earlier in Athletes do not want to be heckled by fans because of their play a lot worse when I'm nervous. I try to clear my mind and the week, Scherr visualizes the upcoming game. He memorizes inability to get focused. block things out." Hens ·influenced through careers I • BY JACOB WIGGINS play in college, but played semi-pro all of the of my parents playing sports," Martin said. "I was a player-c7:>ach that day." Staff Reparter time." went with my older brother David everywhere Martin's brother, who coached basketball When a prominent collegiate athlete per In addition to players, coaches have had as a child." for 15 years at Division-III Misericordia forms well, some wonder: what keeps them influences that inspired them to become Martin also first realized she wanted to University, also was a great influence for her to going? Who influenced them? Like anyone involved with college athletics. coach at a very early age. become a coach. who excels in a sport, many athletes and coach After head coach Monte Ross and the "I realized I wanted to coach in junior high "The coaches that I have had throughout es have had special people touch their lives and men's basketball team struggled during the school, in eighth grade, because my summer- my life tan~>ht ..-.a ------' - · _ , tell them to follow their dreams. 2006-07 season with a 5-26 record, the players league basketball ~""rh r1;r1 -~· -'· · · _ ~ ----e-· ~.., J.1l BY LAURA DATTARO Woods' rise to success and a new neighbor engineering, takes his athletic needs to the Managing Mosaic Editor who taught golf at the university inspired Elkton Country Club, where he has been play In 1972, Ted Davis found himself on an Davis to pick up clubs and learn to play. ing tennis with a group of five other tennis unfamiliar playing field. Davis, a black 1Oth Now, Davis has played for 11 years. His friends every Saturday morning for the past 12 grader from Duval County in southern basement is· a testament to his commitment to years. Florida, became an offensive tackle for Terry the sport: it features a putting green and a con His began playing at age 6 in his home Parker High School, a recently desegregated traption made of curtain sheers and a rod that town of Cobh, County Cork, Ireland, and public school in Jacksonville. allows Davis to practice driving indoors dur played in Utah, Colorado. and Illinois before Now, 36 years later, Davis is a political ing the winter months. settling in his current location in Newark. science professor at the university with "Necessity is the mother of invention," Wool said he stumbled upon the tennis degrees in criminology and government and Davis said. "If it's something you enjoy doing crew accidentally in the Blue & Gold Club, . . • . •'- -- --1-J;~ af{m~ni"tration and black enough, you'll find a way to make it happen." where he had his unofficial tryout to join its mmors m t>orn puuu" "~··--- .c . · -· · For professors who do not have a minia ranks. American studies from Florida State .... -~ ""r«ion of their fayorite playing field in "As long as you could drink with them in lW\..< ~ ...., ...... - - - - - ..,...... University. He credits his success in the aca 4·~ h.u <>ntl hoast about how good you were as demic arena to his experiences with desegre their basement, the university otters an lllC Ual.· U..t..I.U- .,...... __ _ ~ u ~ gation. employee fitness center, located in the a tennis player, then you'd be accepted," he His first i:rine years of schooling took Carpenter Sports Building, which features car said, laughing. place in all-black schools with no organized diovascular equipment, dumbbells, utility Despite his laid-back start, he said the athletics. As the effects of the civil rights benches and strength equipment. group is competitive. He views his participa movement began to ripple through his com Barry Miller, the university's assistant tion as his "weekly tune-up," acknowledging munity, he became one of less than 100 black director of recreation services, said while the high level of fitness his sport demands. students bused to the approximately 2, 100- · many employees utilize the resources offered "It keeps you fit, and when you're not fit, member student body of Terry Parker, a dis by the EFC, some share facilities such as bas it'll tell you you're not fit," he said. "I think tance he compares to being bused from ketball courts, tennis courts, fields, squash the fun is in the art o.f it all and beating one's Wilmington to Newark. courts and racquetball courts with the stu opponent by skill and cunning and well-placed "I had this feeling that even though I'm dents. bad jokes." . playing this game, we have enough black ath Others work out in the Hen House in the Wool has been sailing almost as long as letes," Davis said. "We need black folks with Courtesy of Richard Wool Carpenter Sports Building, the primary stu he has played tennis. Cobh is home to the education. We got a lot of blacks playing foot Wool aboard Sorbreghan in the Chesapeake dent location for cardiovascular and strength Royal Cork Yacht Club, the oldest of its kind ball and basketball. We need black teachers training equipment. Professors might migrate . in the world. He owns multiple boats, includ and doctors and lawyers." Bay with some of his research students. to the Hen House to use the Olympic bars and ing a 4 7-foot Beneteau called Sorb reg han It was this feeling that inspired Davis to benches not available in the employee's fit after his daughters Sorcha; Breeda and or three classes experimenting with various ness center. Meghan, and a 25-foot racing boaJ;·which he leave the football field and pursue academics, sports. It was there that he discovered golf. He "There's a couple that just like to come in docks in Havre·de Grace, Md,. ;'c ,~c despite his personal belief that he "was dumb said he was drawn to the sport, but felt certain as a rock." here because the music's better and use the For Wool, or Captain Pick as he is known stereotypes made it something of which he bikes or -something," Miller said. "The rule I at sea, sailing counters -1biiciS ··· m ·a that Although Davis turned in his helmet after could not be a part. ' ~,~Y,_ high school, he has .since returned to another have for them is that they cannot displace stu provides a balance to, hiS:: , ; ~~- ~ "It's what rich white folks do," he said. dents when they're in there. So if there's a line "Tennis makes you 11HY: · · ,sail- favorite childhood sport he said has never "And growing up with segregation and all truly left his mind. . waiting to get into the Hen House or some ing ~ake_s you spiri~a _, ';:J, he that, I just went along with it." thing, or if it's really busy, they have to go." · He recall~ a physical education class in As an adult, the combination of Tiger combmatwn of the nyo ~~ - .1- )~' elementary schoolin which students spent~o .. Ri.chard Wool~ . a professo~- of chemical t_1:j ' ~" -~·- - 31 March 25, 2008 -Small athletes think big over us just because we are too small Continued from page 28 to block them, can really appreciate blocking. His small statur.e has what Bogues accomplished. earned him nicknames such as He played the majority of his "Pinball" and "Mighty Mouse." career with the Charlotte Hornets, Jones-Drew is dwarfed by most holding the franchise record for min defenders trying to tackle him, yet he utes played (19,768), steals (1,067) still runs them over on a consistent and assists per game (8. 79). basis. My favorite Jones-Drew The most memorable Bogues moment was when he jacked up the moment was when he blocked 7-foot 6-foot, 272-pound San Diego center Patrick Ewing's shot. Bogues Chargers' linebacker Shawne swooped across the court, jumped up Merriman. Merriman blitzed and and swatted the ball from the big Jones-Drew hit him with a ferocious man, simultaneously giving all short block, laying Merriman flat on his players a bit of hope on the court. back. In the MLB, there was one "Maurice Jones-Drew should be exceptionally short player who made rookie of the year," an NFL scout hisdebutonAug.l9, 1951 fortheSt. said prior to the 2006 NFL Draft in Louis Browns. Eddie Gaede! stood at which Jones-Drew was selected. 3-feet-7-inches and 65 pounds. "He's got the biggest legs for a short Gaede! was given the jersey er guy and way more power than number "1/8" and pinch hit in the anybody gives him crewt for. And second game of a doubleheader. With he's got outstanding speed. He's just his tiny size, the strike zone was a little dynamo." almost invisible, so he easily drew a walk on four pitches. That was his - Jones-Drew now wears the No. 32, signifying the 32 teams that only at-bat in the major leagues, giv passed on him in the first round. He ing him the perfect on-base percent proves you can be small and success age of 1.000. Gaede! 's jersey is in the ful. Hall of Fame and his autograph sells Possibly the most remarkable for more than Babe Ruth's. little man to ever make a splash in So for all us smaller people, professional sports was Muggsy work hard all the time. We need to Bogues. Bogues stood at just 5-feet- have twice the aggressiveness if we 3-inches tall, 138 pounds and was a want to keep up. These successful fan favorite in the NBA for 14 years. athletes prove being small should not He remains the smallest player hinder your drive and motivation. ever to step foot on a NBA court in a sport obsessed with size. Players ~DE more than seven feet tall are often Greg Arent is a sports editor for pursued with little regard to any bas The Review. His viewpoints do not ketball talent they might possess. For necessarily represent those of the Email Resume: those of us who have been on a bas Review staff. Send questions, (fJj) HostMgSite.com ketball court, played textbook comments and some competition [email protected] defense and still had someone shoot to garent@)ldeLedu. - The Review will be away for M~n's Lacross~ WQm~n's La~:r2s~~ ~ f£1 AU ££!. ~ Pet AU Pet. Spring Break. Enjoy your Sacred Heart 1-0 1.000 5-1 .833 Old Dominion 0-0 .000 4-0 1.00 Delaware 1-0 1.000 6-2 .750 Drexel 0-0 .000 7-1 .875 vacations and remember Hofstra 1-0 1.000 3-2 .600 George Mason 0-0 .000 6-1 .857 Drexel 0-0 .000 7-1 .875 Towson 0-0 .000 6-2 .750 to always wear sunscreen. Robert Morris 0-1 .000 4-5 .444 Delaware 0-0 .000 5-2 .710 Towson 0-1 .000 1-4 .200 Hofstra 0-0 .000 3-4 .430 VIllanova 0-1 .000 1-7 .125 James Madison 0-0 .000 3-4 .430 Publication resumes William & Mary 0-0 .000 2-6 .250 No. 16 Delaware overcame its two-game losing streak by winning Tuesday, April 15. its first Colonial Athletic Association match-up of the season. The Delaware defeated VIrginia Tech 8-7 on Sunday. Senior attack Hens defeated VIllanova, 8-4. Curtis Dickson led Delaware with Casey McCrudden led her squad with two goals. Seven dijferent three goals. The Hens beat Villanova for the fourth-straight time. Hens scored in the win. Delaware hosts Penn State on Friday. Junior catcher Bill Merkler had a big week for Delaware, tallying six RBis in the week series against Lafayette. In the first of the three-game set, Merkler went to the plate in fifth inning with two men on base and his team down, 7-4. He hit a three-run home run tie the game for the Hens and capped off a four-run inning. The team lost 10-7. Although Merkler had a tough second game against the Leopards, going 0-for-4, he up for it in the nightcap when he knocked in three RBis in the 15-2 Delaware victo The Hens relied on another big fifth inning, this time scoring eight runs. Merkler start the scoring spree when he clubbed a three-run home run over the left-field fence. the outdoor track & field's season-opener at the Towson Invitational on March 22, won 13 events with senior Asha Quant winning four. Wiltingboro, N.J. native won the long jump (18-1 3/4), 100-meters (12.60), 200- (25.57) and was part of the team that captured the 400-meter relay (48.20). Delaware's women had seven first place finishes, while the men won six events. The Towson Invitational included Delaware, Towson, Temple, Fordham, Juniata, rettvst,uri!.Goucher, Loyola and Johns Hopkins. travel to Nbrth Carolina State on March 28 to compete in the Raleigh Relays. - -"" 54 East Main St. Phone: 368-7738 Mon-Sat 7OAM-9PM Sun 7 7AM-SPM FE SPRING BREAK! DVD - The Raconteurs Gnarls Barkley Panic! at the Disco The Kite Runner "Consolers of The Lonely" ~e Odd Couple" "Pretty Odd" $23.99 ON SALE! $13.99 ON SALE! $13.99 ON SALE! $12.99 ON SALE!! 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