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The ideas and opinions of advertisements appearing in this Kristin Vorce Entertainment Editor publication are not necessarily those of The Review staff or the university. Enterprise News Editor Corinne Clemetsen, Andrea Ramsay Meghan Lobdell February 27, 2007 3 ... Students stabbed at par1y DEMOCRATS LOOK TO BLOCK BUSH'S IRAQ PLAN BY KEVIN MACKIEWICZ wounds, they located a third victim in the residence, he City News Editor said. The third victim had reportedly been knocked ure, one that would liinit the mission With Congress returning to Three males between the ages of 20 to 25 were unconscious during a fight at the party, which broke out work this week after its holiday of U.S. forces. The measure, which assaulted at a party early Sunday at approximately 2 a.m. on the deck of the residence. recess, Democratic leaders promise has not been drafted, might restrict on the 300 block of South College Avenue, Lt. Thomas The three victims were transported to the Christiana military operations to going after al­ to confront President George W. LeMin said. Two of the victims received several stab Hospital emergency room where they were treated for Bush even more forcefully over his Qaida operatives and to supporting wounds from a knife. their injuries, LeMin said. They were listed in stable con­ War in Iraq strategy. and training the Iraqi army. It might The unknown suspects are being described as four to dition as of Sunday evening. also set March 2008 as a goal for Senate Democrats are moving to five males between the ages of 19 and 23, LeMin said. If anyone has information regarding to the crime, modify the 2002 resolution that withdrawing troops that are not Newark Police were called to the crime scene and contact the Newark Police Department at (302) 366-7110 authorized the war to place new lim­ involved in that narrower mission. after finding the two men who received numerous stab ext. 133. its on the role of U.S. forces in Iraq. Democrats contend that condi­ It is uncertain, however, whether tions have changed since Congress they will fare any better in this effort authorized the invasion to topple than in their last try - an unsuccess­ Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and ful attempt to pass a symbolic resolu­ some of the reasons for the war have Psychiatrists delve into Cooke's tion opposing the deployment of since been shown to be unfounded. 21 ,500 additional U.S. troops to Iraq. Democratic leaders plan to That resolution passed the gauge support for the measure within mental health in latest testimony House but stalled in the Senate. their caucus. But this latest BY SARAH KENNEY relationships and an emotional cold- not represent a disorder. Now, Senate Democrats are Democratic effort was already draw­ Senior News Reporter ness that is observable to others, "When people are arrested for a looking to vote for a stronger meas- ing strong Republican criticism. The Bonistall trial continued Bernstein said. Mechanick said serious crime, they have a reason to Monday with the prosecution coun- Cooke had at least shallow relation- be fearful of the people involved in DRUG HELPS DOWN SYNDROME IN LAB MICE tering the defense's assertion that the ships with his children, neices and their case," Mechanick said. James Cooke was mentally ill at the nephews and with numerous Mechanick asserted that even if Lab mice with the mental retar­ Medicine professor, said his lab was time of the crime. women. He also testified that Cooke Cooke had schizoid, schizotypal or dation of Down syrldrome became preparing to conduct human trials of Psychiatrist . Stephen was not emotionally constricted like paranoid personality disorders, none smarter after being fed a drug that the drug, although he said it would Mechanick, who had met with and the defense claimed. of these disorders would have signif­ strengthened brain circuits involved take time to complete more prelimi­ evaluated the defendant on Sept. 25, "He is not someone who lacks icantly affected his ability to think, in learning and memory, researchers nary studies and procure a supply of 2006, said Cooke was not suffering emotion," Mechanick said. "His feel or act at the time of the crime. reported Sunday. purified PTZ. from multiple personality disorders, emotions, in fact, often boil over. He "People can be mentally ill and After receiving daily doses of People with Down syndrome as the defense has stated. He suffered is capable of showing - and did - those illnesses can have no affect on pentylenetetrazole, or PTZ, for 17 should not be given the drug until it instead from antisocial personality show anger during our interview." their behavior," Mechanick said. days, the mice could recognize has been studied further, he cau­ disorder, which is not classfied as a Schizotypal personality disor- Cooke had an antisocial person- objects and navigate mazes as well as tioned, because PTZ can induce mental illness in Delaware. der is marked by strange self-refer- ality disorder at the time of the normal mice did, researchers said. seizures at high doses and might have Last Wednesday, the defense ences, Bernstein said last crime, Mechanick said. The main The improvements lasted up to two other serious side effects. called Dr. Lawson Bernstein Jr., a Wednesday. The defense argued that characteristics of this disorder are months after the drug was discontin­ Down syndrome is a genetic dis­ forensic neuropsychiatrist, to the Cooke sometimes wrote and spoke the willingness to commit crimes ued, according to the report in the order that occurs in 1 of 660 births. stand. Bemtein testified that Cooke in a style remiscent of the Bible. and the lack of remorse or empathy journal Nature Neuroscience. More than 300,000 Americans have suffered from schizoid, schizotypal They showed samples of his writing, for the victim after the crime. Cooke Scientists said the study opened Down syndrome, making it the lead­ and paranoid personality disorders including a letter he had written to a met both of these requirements, and an avenue for research in a field that ing cause of mental retru::dation. that afffected every aspect of his life. girlfriend in 2005. During their inter- others, which include deceitfulness, had seen little success. There is no approved drug to Schizoid personality disorder is view, Cooke often spoke in a preach- impulsivity, aggressiveness and con- Senior study author Craig C. improve cognition in people with distinguished by the lack of close ing style, he said. sistent irresponsibility, he said. Garner, a Stanford School of Down syndrome. "He was speaking as if he were Unlike schizoid, schizotypal or a messianic figure," Bernstein said. paranoid personality disorders, anti­ 'SPIRITUAL' PRISON PROGRAM QUESTIONABLE "His use of the Bible appeared self- social personality disorder is not A trio of appellate judges, Constitutional prohibition on govern­ referential." considered a mental illness in the including former Supreme Court ment showing a preference for any Prosectors Monday said Cooke state of Delaware. If Cooke had this Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, is religious denomination. did not have schizotypal personality disorder, it would counter the reviewing a lower court's decision Last year's previous ruling last disorder. His beliefs were not that defense's assertion that Cooke was that a prayer in prison program vio­ year said the Iowa program is "perva­ strange. People often claim a higher mentally ill at the time of the crime. lates the separation of church and sively sectarian." Testimones were power speaks to them, but they do On Wednesday, the defense state. heard from prisoners of other faiths not mean it literally, 1\:fechanick said. went into detail about the risk factors People on both sides of the dis­ who felt unwelcome in ·a program "A lot of people interpret their they claimed made Cooke suscepti­ pute say the outcome could influence that gives advantages to inmates who lives in metaphorical terms," he said. ble to pyschiatric illnesses, including the future of Bush's faith-based ini­ accept the intensive religious teach­ Paranoid personality disorder is his premature birth, malnutrition and tiative, which links government and ings. marked by unrealistic mistrust of abusive childhood. religious institutions in efforts to Inmates deemed to be making people and their motives, Mechanick "If you want to assure a child solve social problems. sufficient spiritual progress live in said. gets a psychiatric illness, withhold While in the program, prisoners better conditions than the general The defense said Cooke always love," Bernstein said. are expected to pray daily, attend population, inhabiting cells with thought his girlfriends were cheating The trial will continue at 10 worship services, and religious gath­ wooden doors and using toilets that on him and was mistrusted everyone a.m. today. Cooke is charged with erings, and participate in weekly afford privacy, a jailhouse rarity. THE REVIEW/File Photo involved in the trial. The prosecution rape, first-degree murder and arson revival meetings. They have more access to relatives James E. Cooke is 00 trial for the countered that neither fear was and faces the death penalty if con­ The central concern is whether and outside visitors and can fulfill unreasonable, in the context, and did victed. the program violates the prison requirements more quickly. murder of Lindsey BonistaU. PRESCRIBED OPIATE ABUSED BY HEROIN ADDICTS Methadone, a potent opiate once that methadone's potential for abuse used to treat heroin addicts, is is not as high as that of opiates like police reports increasingly being abused by drug heroin because it does not induce a users searching for a cheap way to strong euphoria on its own. Given its MAN IS ASSAULTED AND JUMPS OUT OF WINDOW get high, physicians and federal drug low cost and its potentially lethal An 18-year-old male resident of the apartments on Lehigh Road called Newark Police last Monday at approxi­ officials said. potency when mixed with other mately midnight after being assaulted by his roommate and another male, Cpl. Paul Keld said. The roommate and his The drug recently carne under drugs, officials worry that methadone friend who assaulted the victim are university students. scrutiny in the death of former is evading the scrutiny applied to The victim told police the two men punched and kicked him so he could not leave the residence, Keld said. After Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith. abused prescription medicatiOns like struggling to get free, the victim said he jumped out of the second-floor window to get away from his roommate. A doctor in Los Angeles prescribed OxyContin and Vicodin. The drug There were no visible injuries on the victim and the case is still active, Keld said. methadone to Smith for pain treat­ can be lethal even when mixed with ment. On Feb. 8, she was found dead antidepressants or grapefruit juice. in her Hollywood, Fla., hotel suite. Data compiled by the federal Three Unknown Females Spend Stolen Credit Card Well before her death, however, government show a steady increase A 17-year-old female from Cecil County, Md., had her purse stolen by three unknown female suspects last drug counselors and clinicians were in the number of people nationwide Thursday, Keld said. The suspects used the credit card that was found inside the victim's purse. concerned about increased abuse of adruitted to clinics and programs for Newark Police became involved once it was recorded that the suspects purchased multiple items from the the drug on the streets, in group methadone treatment, from approxi­ Suburban Plaza, Keld said. Approximately $1,000 was spent on items from stores inside the shopping center. homes and even in middle schools. mately 1,000 in 1995 to more than The suspects bought approximately $300 worth of alcohol, four Home Depot gift cards at $100 each, a Sony Play Physicians and others point out 3,700 in 2005. Station 3 and several other items, Keld said. The case is being referred to Newark and Cecil County detectives, Keld sa1o. - Compiled from the L.A. Times and Washington Post wire reports - Kevin Mackiewicz 4 Februar.:27, 2007 Jt Car accident fatal for university junior Cristin Duprey died last Tuesday from injuries

BY BRITTANY TALARICO which can take anywhere from weeks to She had a radio show on WVUD named Staff Reporter months." "Cristin was "The Rush" and was an active member of A 20-year-old university student died last Tuesday from Duprey was immediately taken to gregariOUS the Black Student Union, Cummings said. injuries she sustained in a two-vehicle car accident in the Christiana Hospital in critical condition • 1 Jack O'Neill, professor of health behav- early afternoon of Feb.14, Cpl. Jeff Whitmarsh of the. and the operator of the pick-up truck, 42- energetiC, very ioral sciences, said Duprey was a pleasure Delaware State Police said. year-old Antonio Vazquez, was transported · •th to have in class. Junior Cristin Duprey was traveling northbound on to Christiana Hospital as well, he said. engaging WI "She had a clear vision and knew she Route 896 when she lost control of her 1998 Oldsmobile Duprey sustained multiple internal and peers and wanted to work with people, especially and crossed over into the southbound lanes, colliding with a external injuries as well as severe lacera­ children," O'Neill said. "Cristin was gre­ pick-up truck, Whitmarsh said. tions, Whitmarsh said. always had a garious, energetic, very engaging with The cause of the crash is still under investigation, he Cynthia Cummings, associate vice smile on her peers and always had a smile on her face." said. Tire tracks, witness statements and other physical evi­ president of campus life, said Duprey, a 11 Duprey is survived by her parents, dence at the scene confirm the facts of the incident. resident of Christiana Towers, was from f aCe. Wallace and Stacey, her sister Devin, her "Police officers at Delaware don't decide who is at Middletown, Del., and a health and behav­ _Jack O'Ne./1 brother Jaylin and a large extended ~amil_y. fault in fatal crashes," Whitmarsh said. "We have a special­ ioral sciences major. Her goal was to work I Look next week for a feature on unzverszty ized group of professionals, who look into the accident with children. professor Junior Cristin Duprey. NJ becomes third state to grant civil unions

BY CAITLIN BIRCH what somebody said to me. It's not mar­ civil union or marriage rights for same-sex are not endorsing one father and one moth­ Copy Editor riage." co,uples. er." A bill offering same-sex couples the Currently, Massachusetts is the only "Seven Supreme Court justices, who He said his organization's goal is to right to a civil union in New Jersey took state that has legalized gay marriage. are not elected officials, are making this strengthen families across the board. effect Feb. 19 as of 12:01 a.m. Maguire said offering civil unions and not decision for 8 million-plus people in New "The overall message we want to share Under the new law, same-sex couples marriages to same-sex couples is a case of Jersey," he said. is certainly compassion toward everyone, joined in a civil union receive the same "separate but equal," and many citizens do The correct way to decide the issue, regardless of their lifestyle or their sin," rights, benefits, protec­ not seem to recognize that Rim said, would be through direct referen­ Rim said. "We want healthy marriages in tions and obligations "There are some fact. dum. New Jersey." enjoyed by married, het­ "I just get this impression "Let's let the people decide in New Maguire said the situation is reminis­ erosexual couples. These who feel that from people, this kind of Jersey," he said. "Eight million plus people cent of earlier struggles in American histo­ include, among other attitude that everything is are going to be forced to enact these laws ry. things, adoption, insur­ nothing sho~t of getting better, and it's OK, that they don't agree with." "It's a black-and-white issue," she ance, housing, medical marnage IS and just deal with it, and Rim said putting the issue to a direct said. "It's a civil rights issue. It's right or and legal rights. it's what you wanted, democratic vote would be a fairer gauge of wrong. If we were to go back and look at The bill passed in acceptat51e, but right, so be happy about what New Jersey citizens actually wanted. the Voting Rights Act or the Civil Rights both houses of the state I think the it," she said. "People Maguire, however, said in an issue Act, we wouldn't think, 'Well, I don't know legislature on Dec. 14 and think there's less and less deciding a minority's constitutional rights, if I would've voted for it or not.' We think, was signed into law by overwhelming to do." direct referendum does not work. 'Well duh. We would vote for it.' " New Jersey Gov. Jon S. majority However, Maguire said "That's why we have a system of Although Delaware currently does not Corzine on Dec. 21. The practically speaking, the checks and balances," she said. "That's why allow civil unions or marriages, Maguire law was implemented realizes this is bill will make a huge dif­ we have a Supreme Court- to stand up for said it is Qnly a matter of time. after a 60-day waiting ference in the lives of the rights of the minority because often­ "I don't think it's a ridiculous thing to period on Feb. 19. unprecedented many couples in New times, people in the majority, they won't, think that it would happen," she said. Joseph J. Roberts Jr., · progress." Jersey. for whatever reason." "Thirty years, and it'll be nationwide." speaker of the New Jersey -Joseph J. Roberts Jr. Roberts said the bill will Rim said civil unions should not be General Assembly and a make a strong statement offered to same-sex ~iouples because primary sponsor of the speaker of the N.J. to same-sex couples in the homosexuality is morally wrong civil union bill, said a G I state. damaging in family settings. marriage amendment enera Assembly "I think it'll have an He said the New Jersey Family would have been ideal, effect on the people who Policy Council has done extensive but the civil union bill is a step in the right live within the state by saying to them that research on the effect same-sex mar­ direction. they matter and their relationships matter riage has on children and has found it "I think it's a tremendous accomplish­ and they're going to be treated fairly under to be damaging. ment," Roberts said. "It's groundbreaking." the law of New Jersey," he said. "History proves that New Jersey is the third state, after Won Rim, the legislative and clergy the healthiest atmosphere Vermont in 2000 and Connecticut in 2005, affairs official for New Jersey Family for a child to grow up to offer same-sex couples the option of civil Policy Council, an educational and research in is having a father unions. group dedicated to promoting healthy, tra­ and a mother," Rim Roberts said the state is moving slowly ditional family structures, said the new law said. "Civil toward an amendment providing for gay was a hasty decision. marriage, but does not believe there is The bill was a result of the New Jersey enough support in the legislature or from Supreme Court's October ruling in the the public - a situation that frustrates case of Lewis v. Harris, in which seven many activists. same-sex couples . sued after being "There are some who feel that nothing refused marriage licenses. The court short of marriage is acceptable," he said, found the existing law to be unconsti­ "but I think the overwhelming majority tutional on the grounds of ineq1,1ality · realizes this is unprecedented progress." and ruled that the state legislature Senior Sarah Maguire, president of had 180 days either to amend mar­ HAVEN, the university's lesbian, gay, riage laws to include same-sex bisexual. trans!!'ender and ouestionin!!' cou.ples or create a new and group, said civil Unions are not enough. - equal institution under which "I'm still angry," Maguire said. 'Tv<( same-sex couples could join. had this conversation with a lot of people' Rim said the court's who think it's a really good thing. 'Now ruling unfairly required the there's more states that offer marriage,' is legislature to pass J1t FebruO[l! 27,2007 5 The quest to get 'comfortably numb'

BY CATHERINE GRELL someone shoots us? What if I get raped? . pocket. Staff Reporter If met head-on with danger, could I defend myself? I can't John's face' lights up realizing he no longer has to wait for Editor's Note: Names have been changed to protect the identities ofthe sources. even lift 5-pound weights. the woman. University students pick things up. We pick up textbooks "You know, the average university student is never going But, false alarm- the dealer doesn't carry any heroin. at book stores and groceries from Path Mark. We pick up pens to see this," John says. Without warning, two young men hop into John's back­ that roll off our desks and iPods that drop from our pockets. By hook or by crook, I put aside my worries and found seat. They begin engaging in a two-person rap session as if we These pick-ups go unnoticed - they are merely parts of the myself trekking with him to Wilmington last Tuesday at mid- were invisible. After a few minutes, one of the men offers John standard routine enabling us to lead socially-accepted college night. , . $40 worth of "H" for $30. · lifestyles. The lyrics of Pink Floyd's song, "Comfortably Numb" John's face lights up for a second time. Seeing ourselves as captives to these mundane pick-ups, vibrated throughout the car: "I hear you're feeling down I Well Driving with the two men, the formerly irritable behavior many students desire to escape from the circle society perfectly I can ease your pain I Get you on your feet again." These words caused by John's uncontrollable craving gradually dissipates. molded for us. Some pick up dates at parties, others pick up cig­ describing heroin in an appealing, almost God-like fashion~ His syringe would soon contain the liquid he hungered for, his arettes and still more pick up alcohol. They develop a need - resulted in an off-the-wall ambiance. My insides began to howl hand would soon push the plunger dispersing the liquid into his an addiction - for a getaway flight. - not for me - but for all who have fallen prey to heroin's veins, his mind would soon soar into a higher realm of exis­ For other students, these escapes prove unable to supplant trickery. tence, his body would soon be "comfortably numb." entirely their pain with pleasure. These students choose to cross While emotional mayhem shook my soul, John sparks up Without warning, he exits the car heading toward an ATM. a threshold into the risky world of illegal drugs. Some pick up a conversation. We sat there talking about movies as if the two Sitting alone with these two strangers, I realized John's addic­ marijuana, some pick up ecstasy and some pick up cocaine. of us were old pals. The situation was too surreal for words, but tion was now putting my life at risk. However, as I would soon discover, one drug outshines the rest I began feeling connected to this stranger-:- this "heroin user." Slightly turning my head, I saw them snorting white pow­ for ·users. This drug provides the only key As my imagination continues running wild, der. Their constant sniffling and rapid speech suddenly made capable of unshackling their worries. This They stole my reality interrupts. Eighteen minutes after sense. drug serves the role of a nurse, best friend, leaving Newark, John parks the car at a dark My discomfort worsened as they launched into a harangue lover and enemy. dign1ty, my trust Wilmington corner. of derogatory statements about me. This drug is heroin. 1n humanity With a face frozen with indifference he says, "Man, this girl would be so easy to fuck," one says. "Heroin is something relaxing to do after "Welcome to the part of Wilmington they Feeling justified and strong, the man behind me rests his a long day of classes," says John, a 20-year­ and my don't teach you about in school." sweaty hand upon my shoulder promptly moving it toward my old university student. "In Delaware, I have Within 30 seconds, a middle-aged man in breast. · the option of using heroin when I want since sympathy for dirt-stained clothing approaches John's win­ As he softly says, "I can have you now," he wields his it's easy to find. In my home town, I can't find their plight. dow.1n a state of delirium, he asks what drug immoral standards upon my body and soul. it." John desires. Nonchalantly he continued dehumanizing me as if I was a Historically, Wilmington has had a mas­ They stole "Horse," John says. mere object living to fulfill his primal mental urges. sive heroin market in comparison to other John's money. "The hellfire I got is some of the strongest Noticing the gun sticking out of the other man's pants, areas of the state. around. I'll get my girl to fetch it from the mental and physical paralysis overcomes me. "If you can't get it from someone you know in Newark, room," the man says. I prayed for my safety. I prayed for my life. you can always get it from someone you don't know in The pedestrians walking down the street, endless cop cars I prayed for every woman and every man caught up in the Wilmington," John says. "Sometimes I score a lot in patrolling the area and an open-windowed, fast-food restaurant drug-dealing industry. I prayed that their bodies would one day Wilmington and sell it to university students for jacked-up prompts John to turn off his engine, radio and lights. belong to them again. . prices. I sold it to at least 10 students last semester. Within five minutes, I witness the indescribable: broken­ Emotionally detached, I hardly realized John re-entered the "After shooting up for the first time, I started doing it two down homes, 12-year-old drug dealers, six cop cars 5 feet from car. Heading back to the corner, he surrenders his $30, asking to to four times a day for about seven months straight," he says. us taking a man into custody, numerous toothless, bad-breathed see the bags. The two men explain the drug resides within their "Some days, I did it up to 10 times." and muscle-spastic drug dealers approaching cars and a prosti­ home. They direct John to drop them off at the corner, drive When John went home after Fall Semester, he was unable tute with bluish-stained lips knocking on John's window. around the block and meet them in the same place. to find any heroin, forcing him to stop the habit and experience Noticing the drug deals taking place in front of a dilapidat­ He follows their instructions - their deceit. withdrawal. ed church, my heart collapses. Unable to further conceal my They stole my dignity, my trust in humanity and my sym­ "I usually can control it, but sometimes I just don't want alarm, I begin trembling from head to toe. pathy for their plight. They stole John's money. to," John says. "I mean, if it was offered to me right now, I After waiting for more th;tn 20 minutes, John unmasks his While hoping John would turn the car around, another ran­ would do it. Talking about it makes me want to do it even . irritation. Catching sight of the woman in charge of imparting dom man seats himself in the car. more." the "dope," he whistles to gain her attention. "Don't give nobody yaws money before you get the dope," A wide grin emerges on his formerly blank face. As the woman draws near the car, I notice a massive bruise the stranger says. "I got some H on me now if you want, but "Do you want to come with me to Wilmington while I pick below her left eye. Her chronic cough, hazy composure, droop­ drive. This looks too obvious." some up tonight?" ing skin and sunken bags mark further signs of a rough life. Yelling at John for ignoring traffic laws the dealer exposes His question renders me speechless. Whether the timing The barefoot woman says, "The six cop cars got somebody his frustration, but at this point, I was too comatose to care. was right or not, this student had just handed me an opportuni­ and left, but there are still more hiding out. I'm waiting for them Although the man was selling bags for $10 each, John was ty to witness first-hand the cut and dry truth about the drug to leave before I get your stuff I don't want to get locked up, charged an extra dollar for what the seller termed an "inconven­ trade. yaws understand?" ience." But did I want to get involved in this? Clueless of what to As she stumbles away with a cane, another man surfaces John finally obtained the bag and would go home to shoot expect in an "open-air drug market," numerous "what if' ques­ out from the night's depse fog. His red eyeballs protrude up. I finally obtained the truth and would go home to throw up. tions brewed in my mind. What if the police arrest us? What if beyond his sockets as he flashes some bags within his coat See next weeks issue for a look at heroin use on campus. ·New rules cause controversy for mus.ic students BY LIZ SEASHOLTZ the use of the new $48 million facility. member, who wished to remain anonynious, and the effect this would have on her music Staff Reporter Newly-implemented rules allow for limit­ said, ''No one wants to stand up for our rights in career. Since the opening of the Center for the ed availability of the CFA to students and facul­ fear of angering the higher-ups. "I'm disappOinted," Clark said. "I want to Arts in October, a battle has been brewing ty. In fact, according to Jamie Ann Johnson, "The CFA was built as an academic build­ have my recitals in the hall that makes me between the music department and CFA over service coordinator in the music department, ing for academic purposes and not allowing · sound the best." students are only permitted to use the CFA for students to use it for academic purposes is the Sophomore Christy Belardo, a member of their "culminating recitals." same as if you opened up Brown Lab and did­ University of Delaware Visual Arts Performing Such performances include recitals by sen­ n't allow chemistry students to use it." Company, said she has also interacted with the ior students in specific majors, such as music Sophomore music major Tori Clark said CFA. education, theory, composition or by graduate she feels shortchanged by the implementation "We've only used it twice," Belardo said. student performances, Johnson said. Other of the new rules. "They just seem very cautious about who gets extraneous recitals are not allowed, forbidding "Before, as long as the hall was open, you to use the facility." sophomore and junior students' final recitals could use it after reserving a time," Clark said. Patrick Donnelly, director of the CFA, and performances by music minors. ''Now, there are strict rules about who can use said the facility is a ''building for renf' and its The CFA's amenities include a 450-seat it." policy is "first come, first serve." He did not theater, 150-seat theater, 200-seat recital hall, Clark went on to describe her ordeal with acknowledge any further problems between the 300-seat orchestra hall, as well as 32 individual the CFA, which she said is similar to the expe­ CFA and music students. practice rooms. riences many other music majors face. Johnson said the new rules dictate that James Prodan, chairman of the music "It's a problem because I can't give my fees are required for non-degree recitals, department, said this issue is a "hot-button sophomore and junior year performances in including non-registered student ensembles topic" and refused to comment on the situation, there, only my senior year-recital," Clark said. with or without a faculty coach and all other as did many of the professors in the music "I'll have to use Loudis Recital Hall, which has non-degree recitals. THE REVIEW/File Photo department. horrible acoustics, or the Bayard-Sharp Hall." "Right now, all we hear are rumors and no The Center for the Arts was completed in However, many faculty in the music As first chair in the orchestra, Clark said one is completely sure what is going on," department expressed resentment. One faculty she was angry at the limitations of the new rules Belardo said. 2006. 6 February 27, 2007 wh<>'s who in Newark 'If lost, please return to UD Bookstore' 30-year veteran recaps the life of a university employee

BY KATIE ROGERS lunch run for the bookstore employees. StaffReporter "I was supposed to be bringing lunch to the kids, but I Thirty-one falls have since passed, yet a lighthearted got lost," Jones said. "They were calling all over for me, but Liz Jones, 76, is still working in the textbooks department couldn't fmd me. of the store. She follows in her grandmother's footsteps, "Now when I leave the store I have to wear a sign that who worked at the bookstore until the age of 91. says, 'If lost please return to the UD bookstore' with our When Jones first arrived at the store, she worked in the phone number on it." receiving department for nine years. She then retired but Jones said she has also had a few run-ins with the cam­ came back to work in textbooks and has worked in that pus police. department ever since, although she has retired and returned "I have a problem dialing 911 ," she said. "I don't know twice. how I do it, but I've called the police a few times. "I missed it too much and came back," Jones said. ''Now they know me by name, and call back to ask if I "They've thrown me a few retirement parties, but I always was dialing again. They don't even come anymore." come back to work. I wouldn't want to work any place else Nunziata said Jones is a lot of fun to work with and is except here." a one-of-a-kind employee. She said Jones sometimes dances Jones has worked at the university for more than three and sings and often talks about her one Jove, Kiefer decades and has seen the bookstore go through many Sutherland. changes, including three renovations and several moves "Liz is so funny," Nunziata said. "She thinks he's her during constructions. man." "When I was younger, it was more friendly around Jones said she loves "24" and thinks Kiefer Sutherland here," she said. "A big group of us used to go out to lunch is attractive. every day, but it's not like that anymore. "Up here, he's my man," she said, pointing to her head. "The old lady can't get around much. It's like meals on THE REVIEW/Meaghan Jones Jones said slots are another one of her favorite pas­ wheels in here- they deliver me my lunch." Liz Jones, 76, has retired from the bookstore three times, times. She loves going to Delaware Park to play with her According to Jones, the students are all the same and but still works in the textbook department. friends because it relaxes her. - she enjoys meeting them. "A group of four of us widows from the bookstore get "I've been around a lot of them," she said. "I like them since working here." together to play every few months," said Jones. "I've known a lot. So many of them come in and say to me, 'You're still Senior Melanie Nunziata, bookstore employee, said her some of them for 30 years." working here?'" co-workers enjoy Jones just as much she enjoys them. Brown said Jones' group of friends from the bookstore However, it is the bookstore's student employees that "They love kidding around with her," Nunziata said. are loyal and supportive. · Jones has come to know the best. "Liz is hard to get to know, but once you know her, you are "I immediately got sucked into her network of friends," Greg Brown, textbook manager, has worked with Jones like one of her kids." he said. "I would really do anything for her." for five years. He said she treats the employees like her chil­ Jones said she cannot single out a favorite memory of Jones said her years at the bookstore are hard to sum up dren. her time at the bookstore, but has had a lot of interesting in a few sentences. "She calls all of us, including me, her 'kids,' " he said. experiences over the years. "I've told you my life story," she said, "but you won't "Liz has touched countless generations of bookstore kids She said she once got lost on Main Street during a have enough paper to hear it all." _The questionable future of Newark's economy

BY KEVIN MACKIEWICZ The economy of the downtown been softened because Newark Chrysler. ·, City News Editor Newark area will not be severely makes most of its money from elec­ "There will be a major effect in As rumors and questions con­ affected by the closings of the three tricity sales. However, (:hrysler the sales to our restaurant." A Closer Look tinue to spread throughout the area major businesses, he said. The clos­ does not purchase its electricity He said he is aware that as to what the future holds for ing of Avon and Chrysler is more of from Newark. Applebee's will have to try and Newark's economy due to the clos­ a regional and state concern. Funk said Chrysler is the only market to different places around NEWARK TIMELINE ings of major manufacturing plants, "We've been advised that less major company in the city that does the state. Crowds from Glasgow city officials attempt to remain calm than 200 people live in Newark lim­ not buy its electricity from Newark. and other surrounding areas will Jan. 11, 2007- Avon Products and figure out feasible solutions for itations," Funk said. "The ripple If it had, the situation could have have to filter up to the restaurants in Inc. decided to close the plant on the community. effect is not as great as it normally been much worse. Newark. Ogletown Road and approxi­ With the recently-announced would be." "I always thoug)lt this was Justin Wolfe, manager of mately 350 employees will lose closings of Avon Products Inc., The city has also been lucky unfair, but now I thank God they Hennigan's G"rill and Tavern, said their JObs by 2009. The plant is DaimlerChrysler and Chase Bank, because both Avon and Chryster don't buy it from us," he said. his business will also be greatly being closed in order to use the city officials are currently trying to have chosen the phase-out method Chrysler owes the city money affected by the departing of the funds to build a new distribution figure out the best way to help to lay off the employees, he said. through the property tax and the employees from the Avon plant that ceQ.ter in the midwest. Newark's economy. This gives a significant amount of sewer services, Funk said. The is located across the street. Mayor Vance A. Funk Ill said time for another employer to pur­ sewer services are approximately "It defmitely will peck away Feb. 9, 2007 - Chase Bank in it has been a long and overwhelm­ chase the property of the vacant $200,000, but this is a small number little by little and have an accumu­ Ogletown makes its decision to ing month. He has had to deal with plants. compared to how much they receive lative effect," Wolfe said. "We've cut jobs of 147 employees. calls and questions circulating from Chrysler and Avon plan to through electricity costs. had incentive plans with the the public. completely close in the area by the The university has helped employees of Avon." Feb. 14, 2007 - Chrysler "There seems to be a barrage of fourth quarter of 2009. Chrysler relieve the bad taste of the major The only relief Wolfe envisions announced it would close its negative things as of late," Funk plans to cut approximately 1,600 companies closing around the area, for the business is the addition of operations in Newark completely said. "Who would have thought that jobs while Avon estimates it will lay Lopata said. The university is a the new Lowe's Home by the fourth quarter of 2009. in four weeks you'd be getting four off 350 employees. larger employer than Chrysler and Improvement store opening down The Chrysler Coporation plans to calls that all these businesses will Roy Lopata, building director, is a major contributor to the well­ the road. He said the store might cut 13,000 jobs nationwide be closing?" said the blow of losing Chrysler has being of Newark's economy. alleviate the loss that will come because of poor sales last year However, even with Chrysler from losing the employee's of that led to a loss of $1.5 billion. and Avon using the phase-out Avon. method, it is no surprise Newark Funk said even though he feels The closings of the Newark and the state will feel the negative the city is lucky because Chrysler plants will have a larger effect on effects of each of these closing, as does not purchase electricity from the economy of places outside of 700 employees will be laid off by · them, it is no secret that Newark the city, Funk said. The businesses the end of this year. will feel the impact of the major south and west of Newark will be Samuel Mbua, manager of the plants shutting down because of the more heavily affected by the clos­ Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and chain effect. The local businesses ings. The state is fortunate thaf Bar on Elkton Road, said the restau­ that purchase electricity from the many of the employees are from rant's sales will be negatively municipality will affect Newark's states outside of Delaware. affected as the closing of the plants economy. "It's well-documented that becomes inevitable. "If they're doing less business, supplies of Chrysler are corning "It is going to have a serous then they're using less electricity from the Midwest," he said. "Parts THE REVIEW/Mike DeVoll impact on us," Mbua said. "We and that is the city's major income," for the cars come from all over the The Daimler/Chrylser plant will be 'idle' by 2009. know we get a huge crowd .from he said. country." JJt _·. February 27.2007 7 The ·hidden cost of counterfeit goods

BY SUSAN RINKUNAS said. "The people who would exploit a port or Copy Desk Chief an airport to bring things in could easily Counterfeit goods are estimated to be a exploit it to send things out." $500 billion per year industry, or 7 percent of In a later e-mail message, she restated global trade. If you divide $500 billion by 8 there are no direct ties between counterfeits billion people, that is $62.5 billion for every and terrorism, but there are plenty of rumors. man, woman and child ori this earth. And that "In the original' Trade Center bombing, is not all Brian Monks had to say. in the early '90s, there were allegations that Monks, vice president of Anti­ money to support the terrorists came from the Counterfeiting Operations for Underwriters sale of counterfeit goods," Reilly said. "There Laboratories, Inc., said UL is a non-profit have been discussions on the Internet and organization that tests electrical products for elsewhere about the IRA selling counterfeit safety. He is alS'o involved in various anti­ CDs and Middle Eastern terrorists selling counterfeiting groups across the country, low-tax cigarettes. But we cannot substantiate including the International Anti­ those. Counterfeiting Coalition, the Interpol "We can tell you that the 9/11 Intellectual Property Crime Action Group and Commission found that about $200,000 was the New York City Mayor's Anti­ used by the terrorists to commit that tragic act Counterfeiting Task Force. and many federal agencies are at work to find "A lot of people say this is a victimless out where every penny of that money came crime. I will tell you this is not victimless," from. Nothing is ruled out." Monks said. In January 2005, the)ACC published its Consumers are often the victims, he said. "White Paper," officially titled "The Negative "Counterfeiting is all about dollars, yen, Consequences of International Intellectual rubles, marks," Monks said. "They don't care Property Theft." The report, available at about you and I or our fami)ies." Iacc.org, stated the FBI has "strong" evidence Michelle Moore, spokeswoman for the the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Washington, D.C., based IACC, said counter­ Center in 1993 funded their activities through feiters do not care about their workers either. a counterfeit textiles store on Broadway in THE REVIEW/Susan Rinkunas A prominent intellectual property lawyer Manhattan. · The Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. tests electrical products to ensure safety. went on a raid in Thailand and reported In a 1996 case, the followers of Sheik appalling working conditions. Omar Abdel Rahman had 100,000 counterfeit India," as stated in the press release. · · "If it seems too good to be true, it proba­ "They were chained to work stations and athletic T-shirts intended for sale at that year's Monks said counterfeit electrical goods bly is. There is no such thing as a free lunch;'' had dog bowls of rice next to them so they Olympic Games, the report said. Rahman was that are "high-volume, low-end" items like he said. "You're not getting a great deal wouldn't have to leave," Moore said. later sentenced to 240 years in jail for plan­ extension cords and power strips are often you're not helping yourself. ' Since the IACC's founding in 1979, she ning to bomb various New York City land­ knocked off because they have a high profit "People probably wouldn't let you cheat said the counterfeit industry has increased marks. The International Criminal Police margin- the goal for all counterfeiters, who, them normally, but they let counterfeiters do more than 10,000 percent. Reasons for its Organization could not be reached for com­ in general, have little concern for consumers' and I don't know how that happens." exponential growth include the global econo­ ment on these matters but Interpol's Web site safety. my, the popularity of the Internet, increased gives examples of terrorist groups, including He said the odds of buying a counterfeit WHAT YOU CAN DO technology to make goods cheaply and a al Qaeda and Hezbollah, who have allegedly good at a major retailer are like getting struck Monks said people can help themselves brand-seeking and brand-conscious culture used the counterfeit trade for funding. by lightning. and others by refusing to buy counterfeit driving the demand for branded goods. "But if you start shopping at flea markets goods. As a result, American businesses are los­ CONSUMER SAFETY or out of the back of trucks, it increases dras­ "It does take one person to start the ball ing what the FBI estimates to be $200 to $250 Luxury goods, such as fake Louis tically," Monks said. rolling," he said. "You can't change the cul­ billion per year, Moore said. Costs include Vuitton and Coach purses, represent approxi­ These goods are deceptively harmful, he ture of people, a lot of people think of it as not manufacturers losing sales and market share, mately 4 percent of the industry, Moore said. said. hurting anyone. funding anti-counterfeiting departments and The other 96 percent is made up of pharma­ "The problem is, it will wotk the first "But there's a demand and when there's dealing with consumer complaints about ceuticals, auto parts, airplane parts, electrical time, it will work the second time. It's that demand there's going to be supply." goods that are not theirs. cords, toys, software, hardware, CDs, DVDs, third or fourth time.that is what I call 'unex­ Monks said some media are not doing Here is a look at the various facets of the books, baby formula and even alcohol. pectedly hazardous,' " Monks said. "So when positive things to combat the knockoff prob­ counterfeit industry. "Russia has a big problem like that and a you leave for your milk and cookies you lem. A New York magazine told its readers lot of people die," she said about the knockoff come back and your house is on fire." · where they couk\ buy fake handbags. TERRORIST FUNDING alcohol. Counterfeiters increase the profit margin "Would you tell a person how to score Pat Reilly, spokeswoman for Moore said the World Health on electrical equipment by cutting manufac­ crack on a street corner?" he said. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, said Organization estimates 10 percent of the turing costs of their two main components: Moore said even one person's choice not buyers of knockoffs will not be in trouble world's pharmaceuticals are fake. plastic and copper, he said. to buy counterfeit could make a difference. with the law - anti-counterfeiting resources A press release from the Pharmaceutical . "They use a little more ·plastic, a little She cited as an example the consumer move­ are needed elsewhere. Research and Manufacturers of America cau­ less copper," Monks said. "It won't carry the ment involving dolphin-safe tuna. "We try to target enforcement that is tioned against the purchase of prescription current, it won't carry the voltage." "When people started seeing those going to curb the trade at the highest levels," drugs from Canada. · He said UL works with U.S. Customs, exposes about what happens to dolphins when Reilly said. "Medicines crossing the border from Secret Service, the FBI and InterpoL They they get caught in tuna nets, people cared," She would not confirm or deny suspi­ Canada may originate from almost any coun­ seize and destroy products and help put peo­ she said. "And it makes a difference to you cions that terrorists fund their activities with try in the world including places such as ple in jail. when you do the right thing, to say, 'I won't profits from counterfeit goods. Thailand, China and even North Korea." Monks said manufacturers need to support child labor.' The point is some kid is "Material goods that cross borders could Monks also had an opinion about this increase their use of technology to discourage chained to a desk." eventually come back to threaten us," Reilly practice. counterfeiting. This is why UL started using IACC has a "Get Real" campaign target­ "Don't buy your pharmaceuticals off the hologram labels on its products. The. holo­ ed toward college campuses, Moore said. The Internet. God knows what you're getting," grams are not expensive to make, but they cut Coalition makes a presentation to high-level ook Monks said. into counterfeiters' profits. marketing and public relations classes and PhRMA said consumers should not "If they're going to make 90 percent fund the students' plans to educate their peers. resort to Internet pharmaceuticals no matter profit, and only 80 percent with holograms, IACC members fund the program and part­ how inexpensive they are be;:cause programs they won't do it," he said. nerships have included Limited Brands and in the United States, like Medicare and Monks would not discuss the specific Abercrombie & Fitch at Ohio State Partnership for Prescription Assistance, can features of the labels for security reasons. University, Oakley at San Diego State contribute to the cost of prescription drugs. "Why do we want to tell the bad guy University and Perry Ellis at the University of • Jlorrt companies are proud to put what we got?" he said. Miami. thfo name address and phone num­ "Americans should not risk their health by importing potentially dangerous and c~;>un­ And the bad guy is interested in all kinds She said many college students are uned­ per. Counterfeiters do not want you of products. ucated about counterfeit goods. o know where they live. terfeit medicines from abroad. Instead, they should turn to safe alternatives here in the "It's a global problem, it's not tied to "Yeah, you're carrying around a fake," United States," the press release said. UL," Monks said. "If you have something of Moore said, "and it is certainly wrong to steal • For electrical products, look for the value, I'm telling you right now, someone's someone else's intellectual property, but what UL symbol on the product itself. Unlike the lion's share of all counterfeit goods, most fake pharmaceuticals are made in going to try and steal it." we find, especially on a college campus, is Seeing it on the label or on the pack­ . Not only are counterfeiters stealing the that people don't think it's wrong." aging it not enough. India, according to PhRMA. "According to a January 2007 report in 1de~s of others, they are not paying taxes on The Independent, more than 560,000 pack­ therr revenues, he said. The latter is illegal as For more information about the counterfeit ages of counterfeit medicines were seized last well as counter-productive- these outfits are industry, visit the U.S. Chamber of -Brendan Monks, VP for Anti­ not contributing to society in the slightest. Commerce-sponsored Web site, www. thetrue­ Counterfeiting operations at UL year in Europe. Three-quarters of the pack­ ages containing fake medicines were from His advice: costs.ol¥ . 8 February 27, 2007 Edrly competition changes the playing field for 2008

BY SARAH KENNEY as birthplaces of the women's president and what they want to do Senior News Reporter movement. This location is signifi­ in that position," he said. "We just With the 2008 presidential pri­ cant because Clinton is the most hear speculation about who the soc­ maries approaching, the face of prominent female candidate ever to cer moms are going to vote for. " political campaigns has received a run for president, he said. Although the primaries for makeover. Candidates are announc­ Communication professor most states are not until early next ing their bids earlier, using Lance Holbert said candidates are year, it is not strange for the candi­ advanced technology and raising essentially trying to sell themselves dates to emerge this early, Begleiter more money. to the American public. said. Starting early allows them to Some things, however, have "It's like selling a brand," raise more money for expenses such remained the same, including the Holbert said. "It's no different from as travel and television spots. A need for candidates to associate Pepsi versus Coca-Cola." presidential campaign can easily themselves with a former presi­ Candidates are trying to define cost between $100 and $200 mil­ dent's successes and the need to themselves in relation to the other lion. address a previous administration's candidates by associating them­ "If you need that kind of failures. selves with a particular image, he money, you better damn well start Political science professor said. early," he said. "You can't wake up Mike Wagner said because it is so "John Edwards is the union the day before the election and say early, candidates are trying to get guy. He's about aiding blue-collar 'I think I'll run for president THE REVIEW/John Transue name recognition and increase basic workers," Holbert said. "Giuliani is today.'" Arizona is attempting to pass a biU to limit the expression of political awareness about who they are. the leader. Romney is the religious Opinions differ on who is like­ opinion among teachers. "Most of the candidates are conservative. Obama is the ly to win the party nominations. just trying to introduce themselves Washington outsider." Clinton has strong campaign to the public," Wagner said, noting The candidates repeat the same team and has a good chance of win­ many Americans have limited "stump speeches" wherever they ning the Democratic nomination, Political opinions not knowledge about even the seeming­ go, until they feel as though their Holbert said. ly popular candidates. message is understood, he said. · "But there are a lot of good Political science professor "Until their campaign research candidates and it's still very early to suited for classroom? Joseph Pika said candidates are shows that when people think of say," he said, adding that more can­ using symbolism to show their Obama, people think 'outsider,' didates may emerge. stances. The locations in which they they'll keep honing on that mes­ Begleiter said he believes BY ELAN RONEN Verschoor stated. chose to announce tbeir candidacy sage," Holbert said. Obama has the greatest chance of Staff Reparter Senior Sebastian DiPietro, an is an important example, he said. After one image is solidified, success for the Democrats, despite Professors who rant about elementary education major, said the Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., the candidates will try to make what some consider to be his inex- President George W. Bush's policy in bill's prohibition on candidate gave his announcement speech in themselves seem more multi­ perience. . Iraq or mock his recent public speak­ endorsements has merit. DiPietro front of the capitol building in dimensional, he said, citing "He is charismatic and a pro­ ing faux pas may soon find them­ said even if a professor's opinion on Springfield, Ill., a symbolic move Edwards' recent speeches. foundly interesting speaker," he selves in trouble. a candidate is popular, some students because it is where Abraham "He's already established him­ said. "And he's not just another old, Voicing political opinions in the will always have conflicting senti­ Lincoln had once served in the state self as a union guy," Holbert said. white man running for president. classroom will be banned in Arizona ments. legislature, Pika said. "Now he is giving a lot of speeches His biography is interesting." if a new bill is enacted by the state's "It makes the one or two kids "Obama was trying to build on about international affairs. That is The Republican nomination is legislature. who disagree feel ostracized," he that Lincoln connection," he said. his next dimension." harder to predict, Holbert said. Both If made into law, the bill would said. John Edwards, former U.S. The Internet is becoming an Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and prohibit college and university pro­ DiPietro said a conflict might senator and vice presidential candi­ increasingly useful tool for presi­ former mayor of New York Rudy fessors and public school teachers develop between a professor who date, gave his announcement speech dential hopefuls to control their Giuliani are liberal on issues that from advocating one side of an issue openly criticizes the War in Iraq in from the backyard of a house in image, he said. On Web sites, candi­ could hurt them in the primaries. that is a matter of "partisan contro­ class and a student whose brother is New Orleans, which was also sym­ dates can get their messages out, "The people who vote in the versy." It would also preyent educa­ fighting in the war. bolic, Pika said. unfiltered by the news media. Sites primaries are more conservative or tors from endorsing or opposing Keith Pluymers, president of "That's his statement about where people can sign up for cam­ more liberal than the rest of us," he elected officials and candidates for the university's ACLU, said universi­ how the government failed after paign e-mails or create their own said. local, state and federal office. ties already have mechanisms in Hurricane Katrina," he said. homepage add to their effective­ Sophomore Lara Rausch, pres­ Violators would face fines of up place for dealing with breaches of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., ness. ident of the College Republicans, to $500 or the possibility of termina­ professional ethics. announced her intention to run for "Personalization of a message, said many people favor Giuliani for tion. Pluymers said the bill has ill­ the presidential office in an online even if we do the personalization· the Republican nomination. Julia Graff, staff attorney for the founded motivations and is a move American Civil Liberties Union of toward opposing students' civil liber­ video, but has given live speeches ours~lves, increases the connection "Everyone wants to see him throughout New York. Not only is to the candidates and increases the nominated," Rausch said. Delaware, said professors should not ties. New York her adopted state, but the chance that attitudes and behaviors The possibility of McCain and be ~ctioned for expressing opin­ "Crass attempts to limit free areas that she has visited are known may be altered," Holbert said. Giuliani running on the same ticket ions. speech are indications of insecurity," Ralph Begleiter, communica­ -as president and vice president­ "The whole point of democratic he said. tion professor and former CNN cor­ is also exciting, she said. education is to foster debate and Megan Fitzgerald is the pro­ respondent, agreed on the impor­ Senior Allie Scheer, president expose students to new conceptual gram director of Center for Campus A Closer Look tance of Web sites. of College Democrats, said she frameworks," Graff said. Free Speech, a national network of "Politicians can include their favors Obama. Enacting the bill might stop pro­ educators, administrators, lawyers most flattering pictures," Begleiter "He is running the best and fessors from discussing controversial and students that seeks to protect and Nov. 13: Rudy Giuliani, promote free speech on college cam­ former Republican mayor said. "Also, they can include their most-organized campaign," she issues and would set a dangerous long boring policies, so they don't said. "And he's a young and pro­ precedent for state control over intel­ puses. of New York, forms lectual debate on college campuses, Fitzgerald said the bill going up exploratory committee have to bore people with them ~m gressive candidate and that's what person." we need right now." she said. for debate in Arizona's state senate was influenced by an "Academic Bill Nov. 15: Sen. John Web sites are not only used to Freshmen Natalie Carillo and It would be difficult for profes­ spread a candidate's message, how­ Cristina Spagnoli, both registered sors to remain completely objective, of Freedo~," authored by David McCain, R-Ariz, forms Horowitz, which has already been exploratory committee ever. ·They are also a major Republicans, said they follow the Graff said. fundraising tool, he said. campaign on TV and on the "Bias is often inherent, particu­ deliberated in states such as "People thjnk the Internet is Internet. They both want Giuliani to larly on controversial matters," she Montana, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Jan. 20: Sen. Hil

BY MEGHAN LOBDELL are invited to join a specific chapter, Lenno said. Enterprise Editor Fmternity recruitment is entirely different Flashback to the '70s: girl power was on and more casual. Men who are interested in the rise as women were integrated with men far joining a specific fraternity can go meet with beyond the classroom. Gender lines were blur­ that chapter at its rush location, such as Grotto ring in I97I when the first co-ed residence hall Pizza or Shaggy's on Main. They can rush mul­ opened on campus. Then, in I972, the sorority tiple fraternities or just one, he said. Alpha Phi came to the university 68 years after On the other hand, every sorority partici­ the first fraternity. pates in formal recruitment, which is a struc­ Matt Lenno, assistant director of activities tured process with time limits and strict rules. and programs and Greek adviser at the universi­ "Women have no choice," Lenno said. ty, said it is no surprise sororities came to the "They have to meet everyone." university so much later than fraternities The contrast between sorority and fraterni­ because this trend was true of Greek life nation­ ty recruitment stems from the completely differ­ ally. ent recruitment philosophies of the two govern­ "Sororities sprung out of fraternities," ing bodies, he said. Lenno said. "They started over a hundred years Fmternities are govern~ by the North later. Many early ones are even named fraterni­ American Interfraternity Council. Lenno said ties because the word 'sorority' hadn't been the NlC believes competition breeds excellence coined yet." and so a system where there is competition Today, there are I5 sororities at the univer­ between men makes chapters succeed. This is sity, including nine governed by the National why fraternities do their own recruitment. Panhellenic Council, three historically black NPC, however, believes in an equal play­ chapters and three special interest or multicul­ ing field for sorority recruitment, he said. tural chapters. "They think a consistent, fair system Although there are more fraternities than breeds better chapters," Lenno said. sororities on campus, a greater number of He said the sorority women are eager to women are involved in Greek life - currently help one another because of the "Go Greek" more than I ;200 are in sororities, with chapter mentality, as opposed to promoting their chapter membership between one and I 50, he said. exclusively. Most local chapters belong to a national . "The sororities understand everybody's in organization, which has chapters all over the the same boat," Lenno said. "They realize we country, Lenno said. have to come together, stay alive together-we Courtesy of Jessica Feifer, Panhellenic Council "Local sororities are microcosms of the are one big community." Sisters from every sorority make up the 2006 Panhellenic Council Executive Board. national chapters," he said. "Nationals give their He said he believes relations between the local chapter rules to govern them and they also sororities are strong because of the influence of have the traditions, colors and national philan­ the local branch of the NPC at the university. thropies. They help support the local chapters." Senior Ashleigh Rich, last year's president THE "LEGALLY BLONDE" LABEL ?ons and performing hours of community serv­ The national organizations also give local of the university's Panbellenic Council and Johnson said she feels many people at the tce, we are rewarded by being able to plan social chapters their history, Lenno said, some dating member of Sigma Kappa, said sisters in every university judge the Greek system ·and chose to events," she said. back to the mid-latel800s and early I900s. chapter are friends with girls in other chapters. believe negative stereotypes. Johnson said Greek social life is compam­ Junior Brittany Johnson, president of the :'Panhell tries to encourage mixing "I think most women would agree with me _!:>le to that of non-Greek students. Panhellenic Council at the university and mem­ between sororities by planning sisterhood that they have received some type of negative "Yes, we do have fun and go to many social ber of Alpha Xi Delta, said her local chapter's events ... as well as philanthropy events that treatment or dirty look simply because they events. But what college student doesn't?" she national history is important to her. enable all chapters to get to know each were wearing their sorority's letters," she said. • said. "We work extremely hard academically "It is vital to know about the women who other better," Rich said. "I think it is extremely unfair because we give and donate a great deal of our time for charita­ laid the foundation for where my chapter is back an enormous amount to this campus and ble causes." today," Johnson said. "These are exceptional IS HAZING HISTORY? the community." Lenno said CAP, which scores chapters on women who built a sorority with their love and Non-Greeks often assume joining a sorori­ Rich said being wrongly judged for being a scale o_f Needs Improvement, Satisfactory, dedication. ty or fraternity will involve hazing, but hazing in a sorority has made her want to work harder Bronze, Silver or Gold, has improved the caliber "My sorority would not be here today with- has decreased significantly at the university and to dispel the stereotypes. of sorority life. Eight of the nine sororities are out them." · may be almost gone for good, Lenno said. "Many people don't understand that Greek Gold status. Lenno said in order to function successful­ "Students just don't want to deal with it life now is not the same Greek life that it was I 0 "All the sororities strive to be the best," he ly, the university's Greek life office works in anymore," he said. "They think it's stupid and years ago," she said. "Don't get me wrong, we said. "CAP is an incredibly large competition. conjunction with the local sororities, their don't want it to be a part of their life. still like to have a good time, but there is so "If a chapter gets silver, they think they're national organizations and the NPC . "If anything goes on, it's very low-level." much more emphasis on doing well in school failures." The retention mte of Greek chapters at the and performing community service that I think The high CAP scores are largely due to RECRUITMENT: AN EQUAL PLAYING FIELD university is high - 95 percent - and this is it's time for those old stereotypes to go." GPAs-the all-female GPA is 3.09I, while the This month marked a record-breaking because there is little to no hazing, Lenno said. Lenno said he also believes sorority all-sorority GPA is 3.27, Lenno said. sorority recruitment at the university - 620 "People who get hazed drop out," he said, women are harshly judged at the university. 'The all-sorority GPA blows away the all­ women registered and 425 accepted bids to the "so they are clearly not being hazed here." "I mean, look at the stereotypes. They're women's GPA on campus," be said. nine Panbellenic sororities, Lenno said. Lenno said hazing has decreased because all ditzy blondes," be said ''Not true. I tell peo­ National o~~tions have put a strong This was a 25 percent increase in the num­ of university rules including the institution of ple being Greek will actually increase your focus on acaderrucs m recent years, Lenno said. ber ofwomen who signed up from last year. The "dry pledging" and a six-week pledge limit. GPA." Many sororities will not recruit women whose pledge class quota, which is the number of He said the decrease has also been affected Lenno said the stereotypes about sorority GPA falls below a certain number, and sororities women each sorority is allowed to admit, went by changing national attitudes, including new women personally offend him. bold study hours and educational workshops. from 37 to 47, he said. sorority language; the word "rushing" has been "Yeah. I'm Greek, too," he said. "But peo­ . In Fall 2006, the sororities on campus ple are going to have their opinions. ratsed more than $36,000 for charities and con­ Lenno said he believes the increase in replac~ by "recruitment'' and "pledging" has sorority recruitment is because girls were used been replaced by "new member education." . "In reality, the Greek 1eaders know how to tributed more than 2,000 service hours, he said. to doing community service in high school and " 'Pledging' and 'rushing' are gateway run large organizations with well over I 00 peo­ 'The sororities have far surpassed anything want to continue it in college. words for hazing," Lenno said. "When you ple - they have to be conscientious and intelli­ from I 0, 15 years ago at this university," be said. gent." Junior Emily Welch, president of Alpha change the language, the behavior stops." Welch said joining a sorority was one of Sigma Alpha, said she went through recruitment Lenno said since sororities came to the uni­ the most rewarding decisions she's ever made. for this reason and more. versity, only three have left - Alpha Omicron ANEW FOCUS "Since joining I have gained confidence "I joined a sorority in order to get more Pi, Alpha Chi Omega and Kappa Delta, and just With the Chapter Assessment Progmm and have become more outgoing," she said. involved on campus, meet new people and try one was because of suspension. instituted by the university in 2000, the past few Rich said she hopes to set the record and make the campus feel smaller," Welch said. Kappa Delta was suspended by the univer­ years have been a time of change. Greek life has stmight for non-Greeks. Formal sorority recruitment is held the first sity for a hazing incident involving alcohol in focused more on academics, community service "Gre.e~ life isn't just a~ut partying any­ two weekends of each Spring Semester in Spring 2003, Lenno said. and philanthropy than ever before. more - tt s about a much btgger experience," Clayton Hall. The "potential new members" 'They went underground for a few years," Rich said although social events are still a she said. 'These organizations are breeding the meet all nine Panhellenic sororities in four he said, "but I think they are mostly done." large part of Greek life, they are now looked at future leaders, businessmen and teachers of our rounds. Members are chosen through a mutual as a privilege and not a right. communities." selection process ending on Bid Day, when they "If chapters live up to their potential and score well on CAP by attending university fun~- 10 February 27.2007 )it Univ. students work hard in the Big Easy

BY BRITIANY TALARICO Jackson, principal of the John where they need to go. We did in the Staff Reporter McDonogh Senior High School. true sense of service. Last Tuesday, senior Laura "Principal Jackson is a warm, . "You don't always go in with a Armstrong embodied the spirit of dedicated and determined man who I plan and impose it, you go in and ask New Orleans. In celebration of was extremely privileged to meet," how can we help and theri do it. Mardi Gras, she wore a black and she said. "He asked me to hold a Students were able to experience the gold Saints T-shirt and a silver fleur­ seminar for the faculty on violence, selflessness that goes along with de-lis around her neck, exuding trauma and adolescent literacy after service - you cannot control what pride in the.city where she has dedi­ a national Qisaster, which is my field you learn, but you will learn things cated so much time and effort. of research. of immense value." "At first I was outraged that the "The teachers had trauma writ­ Alvarez said she is determined city held Mardi Gras the February ten all over their faces. These people to organize another trip to New after the disaster, but I learned to lost their homes and all of their Orleans. understand it is such an integral part teaching materials. My mantra was, "I would love to teach another of the New Orleans culture and com­ 'What can I do to help?'" session at John McDonogh ·in which munity," Armstrong said. "It would Alvarez said she approached I could teach a course on mentoring, be like taking away Christmas." Maria Palacas, director of the reading and writing in secondary Last Winter Session was Ronald E. McNair Post- schools. We would have our place in Armstrong's fifth visit to New Baccalaureate Achievement the high school and students would Orleans, a place still suffering from Program, when she returned home mentor for three hours in reading the devastation Hurricane Katrina from her trip. and writing and then contribute three left behind. Palacas proposed the idea to service hours," she said. "It's scary how much needs to John Courtright, director of under­ Junior Jissell Martinez said she be done," Armstrong said. "I think graduate studies, who funded the felt this trip was important because Courtesy of Jissell Martinez most of the progress that has been program and provided the grant, she the real effects of Katrina are not Junior Jissell Martinez Qeft) and Senior Melody Casagrande (right) made was completed by volunteers." said. publicized in the media anymore. volunteered at John McDonogh Senior High School in New Orleans. She said she attended the ·"we shared a common vision," "When I went, I didn't expect to Winter Session program organized Alvarez said. "It was her brain­ see the mass devastation that I expe­ while Louisiana is basically relying give so much," she said. "On our last by the university through the Ronald child." rienced," Martinez said. "Hundreds . on volunteers." day at the school, the librarian E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate The five-week curriculum of thousands of homes were She said the most rewarding bought stocking hats for everyone, Achievement Program and the offered during the trip was Texts and destroyed and trailers were every­ and we were provided with a New English department. part of the experience was getting Contexts/Literature Disaster where. close to the students. Orleans brunch buffet, complete Students had a variety of jobs, (ENGL300), worth three credits and "In the area we stayed in, "They still e-mail me," with jambalaya." including working with the commu­ a one-credit service learning course, 65,000 residents were stranded and Martinez said. "Floyd, a senior, e­ Donald Jackson, John nity to rebuild houses and public she said. Two weeks' were spent at all their homes were destroyed." mails me all the time thanking us for McDonogh Senior High School schools, preparing seminars and the university before traveling to She said her daily duties includ­ principal, expressed his utmost grat­ workshops on college for high coming and saying how happy it New Orleans for another two weeks. ed preparing seminars for high made him." itude in his opening message of the school students, conducting research "The la8t week of the program school students and assisting teach­ school's first issue of their newspa­ and starting up a student newspaper Senior Brandi Gilbert, who had was also held at the university," ers at the different John McDonogh traveled to New Orleans twice per, The Fightin 'Trojan. at the John McDonogh Senior High Alvarez said. "The university has a branch schools. before, said this experience gave her "We are honored to have Dr. School, Armstrong said. policy on the amount of time stu­ "In a class I assisted, the social an opportunity to research her senior Alvarez and her University of "The school had expressed dents can stay in a trauma zone no studies teacher was waiting on her thesis, which involves the use of Delaware students here on our cam­ interest in having a newspaper and longer than 14 days." tax return so she could use her own writing as a cathartic process for sur­ pus. During their short time here our goal was to start one up for She said they stayed at St. money to buy a VCR to show her vivors of traumatic events. they have managed to become an them," she said. "The Fightin' Bernard's Parish at a volunteer camp students a video on the Holocaust," The sense of resilience and integral part of starting our school Trojan would be used to voice stu­ called "Camp Hope." Martinez said. "Electronic supplies determination to rebuild is such an newspaper." dent concerns. We got the first issue "The first week we were with are needed, as well as small school out before we left." admirable quality of the people in Alvarez said she heard doubts about 400 other volunteers, and the supplies like notebooks and pens." New Orleans, Gilbert said. They are from her students on the way to New This trip was a completely dif­ second week there was only 215," Students can help by participat­ grateful for everything. Orleans about rebuilding something ferent experience from previous Alvarez ~id. ing in more fundraising, she said. under sea level, which will ones she went on, Armstrong said. "In the midst of serving Approximately 28 to 30 people Hispanic Organization of Latin others,they are also helping you by inevitably flood again. The first four trips were mainly were on the trip at any given time, Americans, Campus Alliance de La "On the return home, students focused on gutting houses. she said. · teaching about their culture and life Raza and McNair scholars have all lessons, such as how to be part of a understood the need to rebuild," she English professor Deborah "There were four or five adults held book drives and sent a few hun­ team, be humble and be grateful for said. . "When you eat the food and Alvarez said she was in charge of and four grad students who were my dred books to New Orleans. everything you have," she said. talk to the people you put a face on resources and contacts for the trip. right hand," Alvarez said. "Because "They are not getting enough Alvarez said she has nothing disaster, a human face. Alvarez has gone to New I'm responsible for 28 people, my attention," Martinez said. "So much but the utmost respect for New ''New Orlean~ is like no other Orleans three times before, and in job was to organize and oversee money is being allocated outside of Orleans residents. place." October 2006 she met Donald projects and direct everyone to the country in places such as Iraq, "People who have so little often Newark resident flies high in Air National Guard BY MOLLY MACMILLAN Matwey said. family they are with." port during his visit on Jan. 24, he said. Bush Staff Reporter Spruill, a 14-year veteran of the The program has expanded the 33-year­ requested to meet the active airmen along Sgt. Daniel Spruill could not immediate­ Delaware Air National Guard, was chosen old airman's family from himself, his wife with their families. ly recall how he felt when he received a let­ because of his involvement in activities in and three children, to include two university When the War in Iraq began in April ter informing him he was the Delaware Air and outside of the Guard that demonstrates students. He considers the students his adopt­ 2003, Spruill went on active duty after 10 National Guard, Non-Commissioned Officer his abilities in leadership and team-building ed children and his expanded family even years in the reserves. In September 2005, he of the Year for 2006. He was proud of the in the community and his church, Matwey went on vacation to Canada together last spent two weeks in Mississippi helping vic­ award, but he had other major concerns on said. year, Spruill said. tims of Hurricane l,(atrina. his mind. . In addition to his duties on the airbase, Spruill said the church helps him deal "I'm taking a computer drive full of my He will be leaving his family March 4 to Spruill said he drives a bus to church for uni­ with Jiifficult periods in his life. This extend­ pictures of my kids with me," Spruill said as serve his active duty in Afghanistan. versity students who do not have a ride on ed family is a source of comfort as he gets he pulled out his wallet full of children's pic­ Spruill, a Newark resident, was chosen Sundays. ready to be deployed in Afghanistan. His tures. "The last time I was away was for for the award among three other non-com­ Spruill is an active member of Ogletown rotation will range between 30 days and six Katrina." missioned officers. The award is presented to Baptist Church, where he leads a group of weeks, but during this time, he will miss the He said when Hurricane Katrina hit he airmen based on accomplishments in a par­ young boys called the Royal Ambassadors on birthdays of his three children who are all immediately contacted his commanding offi­ ticular year or over the course of a career in Wednesday nights. He is also part of a pro­ younger than 8 years old. cer to help. Spruill said he was surrounded by areas of leadership, self-improvement and gram where his family has gained a strong Spruill said he and his wife have known destruction and only the tile floors and foun­ community involvement. relationship with current and former univer­ each other since junior high school. They dations left after the hurricane leveled mil­ Sgt. Benjamin Matwey, public affairs sity students at Ogletown Baptist Church. He attended Caesar Rodney High School and lion-dollar beach front homes. officer, said the award has been around as also volunteers with the Special Olympics at later received degrees from Goldey-Beacom He said the hurricane made an impres­ long as he has been in the Air National the university. College before moving to Newark. sion on him and had a significant impact on Guard, at least two decades. "For students away from home, we are The airman's wife and two of his three many of the men serving with him. "Of 975 airmen in the unit, about 200 to kind of a local family," he said. "We can min­ children recently met President George W. "I'm in the military," he said. "This is 250 were competing against Spruill," ister to them and they can minister to the Bush-when he flew into the New Castle air- what I'm geared up for. Send me." · February 27, 200711 Police ID criminals with. oM·v database BY TIM MISLOCK be accessed. StaffR eporter "They need to keep the public Imagine walking down a street informed on what information the where a convenience store is being state has on them and how it is being robbed. The security cameras within used," Jeschke said. the store are disabled but there are The recognition technology is cameras set up on public streets. still being developed - currently Suddenly, everyone becomes a sus­ there are a lot of false positives, she pect in the investigation as police said. By owning a license someone officers scan the security photos can now become a suspect in crimi­ through the Department of Motor nal investigations if the DMV data­ Vehicles license database, with base becomes a tool for crime fight- facial-recognition software, for ·ing. matches to the crime scene. "Cleaning up 'bank robbery sus- . Big Brother is watching. pect' from your record when you This scenario is just a vision of weren't there could be a result from the future, but Digimarc Corporation mistakes in the system," Jeschke has developed a biometric identifica­ said. tion solution aimed at cutting down Sophomore James Smith said on fraud, identity theft and even since the DMV is not a law-enforce­ underage people who have fake IDs ment agency, it is stepping into a dif­ to purchase alcohol, according to the ferent function of the government. corporation's Web site. "By going to extremes to get The facial-recognition technolo­ criminals, it could lead to an invasion gy is being used by several DMVs to of personal rights," Smith said. fight against the issuance of multiple Jeff Walker, supervisory special IDs in different names and making agent at the Wilmington FBI office, . THE REVIEW/Stacy Kleber sure those IDs · do not fall into the said legality issues will come up as Sidewalks and streets left unplowed and unshoveled caused many students to fall on their way to class. wrong hands, the site stated. the technology is developed. "It is not only terrorists who Police have access to the DMV have access to fraudulent identity license database in Delaware, but documents. Drug dealers, sex­ they are not being used with facial offenders, scam-artists, dead-beat recognition software, he said. There dads and even teenagers bent on ille­ are only being used as tools for ongo­ A slippery slope gally purchasing alcohoL have access ing investigations. as well," the site stated. Walker said using the. DMV Mike Williams, the public rela­ database is not an invasion of priva­ tions manager at the Department of cy. Wintery mix creates treacherous Transportation in Delaware, said "It is a privilege to get a there is currently no plan to bring license," he said. facial recognition technology to Walker said one problem for the Delaware, although police officers do future as this technology develops is ·conditions for students, residents have access to the photos from the how law enforcement agencies DMV license database. obtain the picture initially - from a walk on the unshoveled sidewalks pus houses, as ·opposed to apart­ "Police officers have '·access to security camera on a public street - BY LAUREN DEZINNO the photo database to match the ID and how they are using the recogni­ Senior News Reporter at the university that morning, she ments, have a greater responsibility they have obtained from you to make Extreme weather conditions said. when it snows. -tion software. sure you are who you say you are," Sophomore Alicia Livi said if not only affect those students who · "I think classes should have Rich Lapointe, director of the Williams said. been canceled," Abbruzzese said. public works department in using the license database cuts down live on campus. Snow, sleet and ice He said if the technology does also have a negative impact on stu­ "Not even the sidewalks on campus Newark, said students who live in on criminals, then it should be used, come to Delaware, it will be initiated although obtaining photos from a dents who live off campus, often were sho~eled. Nothing was." off-campus houses are expected to making it difficult for those stu­ Senior Tegan Ulshafer said she abide by the city's rules for snow by law enforcement agencies and not public security camera is worrisome. dents to attend classes and some­ agreed it was hazardous for students removal. theDMV "You don't want people watch­ Rebecca Jeschke, media coordi­ ing you all the time," Livi said. times putting their general safety at living in off-campus housing to "Snow and ice are supposed to nator for · the Electronic Frontier risk. attend classes when the conditions be removed within 24 hours from Senior Phil Taylor said it is , Maxine Colm, vice president were as icy as they were after last the end of the storm," Lapointe Foundation, said as the technology tough to decide whether the DMV week's snowfall. advances and images could be taken should be using license photos in of administration, stated in an e­ said. "However, if the storm ends from security cameras, there may be mail message that students will not "My neighborhood was not on a Sunday, it's when dark sets in criminal investigations. plowed and you slid everywhere," the following Monday." an issue with invasion of privacy. "It is not fair that you have to be penalized for missing class due She said government and law to inclement weather, provided Ulshafer said. "It all froze over that He said residents who are in give the state your picture to drive," they have notified their professor night and made conditions even violation of this are given a citation enforcement officials need to be Taylor said. "Although you willingly regarding the reason for their worse for the next morning's com­ and, if found guilty, can be fined aware of the ramifications of using give it to them because you want to security cameras in investigations drive." absence. mute." anywhere from $100 to $250 per and in what context their photo may · "Professors, as well as stu­ Ulshafer, who lives in a day of violation. dents, have the option to exercise Newark condominium approxi­ "The few complaints we have their own judgement and not place mately five to 10 minutes from received about unshoveled side­ -themselves in jeopardy because of campus, said when she came to walks don't seem to be students," extreme weather conditions," Colm school the day after the storm, the Lapointe said. said. sidewalks were still dangerous. Since the adjacent homeown­ Senior ' Jessica Abbruzzese, "This past time, I could tell the ers are responsible for their side­ who lives in an apartment on Main sidewalks had not been plowed at walks, no preparations are taken on Street, said she had trouble getting the university," she said. the sidewalks before. or after the to class last week with inclement Sophomore Chris Bruce, who storm by the city, he said. weather. lives on Cleveland Avenue, said he Colm said university policies "I have snow boots " thought off-campus sidewalks were for inclement weather can be found Abbruzzese said. "But it wasn\ the worst. · in the university policies and proce­ snowing, it was sleeting." "University sidewalks were in dures manual. She said the sleet hit her in the pretty good condition," Bruce said. "When classes have not been face as she walked to class, only to "However, the city of Newark itself canceled, it is a matter of personal find her professor had canceled the was terrible." judgement whether traveling to . class at the last minute, without He said many of his classes campus is hazardous," she said. "In notifying the students. were cancelled due to the storm, such cases, students should be "It hurt my face," Abbruzzese and he suspects largely as a result of allowed tl'J make up missed class said. "It was painful. And lucky for his professors' inability to commute time and, whenever possible, can­ me I didn't fall." in the extreme weather conditions. celed classes should be resched­ THE. REVIEW /Meaghan Jones It was dangerous for people to Students who live in off-cam- uled." Drivers' licenses are becoming tools to fight crime. 12 Eebruarv 27. 2007

The President's Commission to Promote Racial and Cultural Diversity LOUIS L. REDDING AWARD NOMINATIONS The President's Commission to Promote Racial and Cultural Diversity iS ~llOIDinltMl the Louis Lorenzo Redding Diversity Award. This award recognizes the p~•.c:nJllaltCCJ: and implementation of diversity by University individuals, units. depat'll'llf!nts; Ot' OtgllnizatiOb$ within the University community.

Previous recipients of the award have been the McNair Scholars Progra:rn. the University Gallery.. the College of Engineering's RISE Program. the Office of Residence life, the University Ubrary, the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, Dr. james Newton and Dr. Juan Villamarin.

Nomination forms can be requested and returned at the Office of AfHrmative Ad:ion!MultiCultu.t31 Programs, 124 Hullihen Hall to Gloria Davis, ext 8735, and will be received Uritil Friday, Marth 9. 2007. Nomination forms and accompanying documentation should be no more than two pages ot less.

THE REVIEW/Mike DeVoll Current members of the President's Commission to Prom\lte Racial and Cult:tll'al Diversity and Peter Pan was one of the brands, recalled after more than 300 people employees of the Office of Affirmative Action/Multicultural Progx_:ams may not be considered for the experienced symptoms of salmonella. award. For more information. contact Wunyabari Maloba at 831-8735 or [email protected]. The award recipient will be announced at the Peanut buHer recalled LOUIS L REDDING LECTURE Thursday, March 15, 2007, 4:00p.m. to 7:00p.m. Trabant University Center Theatre after salmonella scare Guest Speaker: Honorable Gregory M. Sleet Federal Judge of the U.S. District Court of Delaware BY LIZ SEASHOLTZ the flu or a stomach illness and Staff Reporter don't go to the hospital." Salmonella was detected in The symptoms for salmonella jars of Peter Pan and Great Value • are relatively mild, consisting of a peanut butter, infecting mo~e than fever, diarrhea and abdominal 300 people, according to a recent cramps. Therefore, he said, people . press release by ConAgra food. do not often attribute it to salmo­ Veronica Cash, a spokes­ nella. woman for the Food and Drug Cox said this is the first time Administration, said the recalled salmonella has been linked to jars of peanut butter include all peanut butter in the United States. Peter Pan and Great Value brands Despite the fact that there are starting with the serial code 2111. no recorded salmonella contami­ "We were notified by the nations in Delaware, graduate stu­ Centers for Disease Control and dent Jen Cascarino said she State Health Department that there believes she contracted salmonella were several salmonella cases," from· eating Peter Pan peanut but­ Cash said. "The common theme ter. was eating Peter Pan peanut but­ Cascarino ate peanut butter on ter." two occasions and felt ill immedi­ Chris Cox, a spokesman for ately afterward, exhibiting the the Centers for Disease Control, classic signs of salmonella poison­ said so far there have been 329 ing, she said. infections in 39 states, including "After this happened, I heard Pennsylvania, Maryland, New on the news about salmonella Jersey and New York. Fifty-one of being in Peter Pan peanut butter," those people were hospitaHzed. Cascarino said. "Sure enough, I . "Delaware is actually one of checked my peanut butter's serial the only Northeastern states that number and it started with 2111, hasn't been infected," Cox said. the recalled batch." ConAgra could not be reached Cascarino, who is working on for comment on the peanut butter a master's degree in animal and infection, but has expressed its food ~cience, took her peanut but­ apologies to those infected in a ter to the lab where she works and press release. is currently testing it to see if It is also recalling all jars of comes out positive for salmonella. Temple's programs in Tourism, Hospitality, Sport, and Recreation Management will infected peanut butter and offering "I'm lucky I can test things help you turn ambition into achievement, giving you the leadership tools and a full refund for the product. like this in the lab," she said. · Dallas Hoover, ,professor of "People don't realize the impor­ networking resources to succeed. Make your dreams reality. agriculture and food sciences, said tance of food science." salmonella is a common food­ Cascarino said the salmonella To learn more, visit us at www.t~mple.edu/STHM or join us for one of our upcoming Monday borne bacteria and it is impossible scare will not deter her from eating to know its past frequency in the peanut butter in the future. information $es$ions on main campus, 1700 N. Broad St., Room 412, at noon or 5 p.m.: American population. "Everything could have "All cases are-not documented pathogens on it and I'm not going March: 12 I April 9 1 May 7 riffiil School of Tourism . because oftentimes those infected to stop eating something because it 1:!:1 and Hospitality Management do not know," Hoover said. "Many could be contaminated," she said. 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Picture this. A student is walk­ It is up to the Newark Police ing across campus to class, over­ to actively enforce this law and loaded with books, coffee and distribute-fines to those who fail to important papers in his hands. follow it. Suddenly, the student loses his The problem can be seen most balance and begins slipping on the clearly on Main Street, where just ice he is walking on, struggling to last week, walking was a danger to •... stay on his feet before finally drop­ those who ventured out after the ping roughly to the ground. Coffee snowfall. is spilled, books are strewn every­ The city needs to make sure .... where and papers are drenched. the heart of this town is plowed, The student is able to collect and force business owners to clear himself and get back to his feet, their sidewalks. til· only to fall again several seconds Brick pathways that line the later. Green have also become a major It sounds like a scene out of a hazard to students walking to "Looney Toons" skit, but in reality class. you could see it every winter at the The university is very strict on university. its stance that snow is usually no With each passing snow reason to close shop for the day. storm, students are taking more This is fine, but if students are notice of the snow and ice removal expected to go to class, they procedures, or lack thereof. should expect the university has Sidewalks remain un-shov­ taken every measure possible to eled, parking lots snowed-in and make walkways safe enough to get walking paths get icy enough to be there. considered a serious hazard. Nobody wants to attempt LETTERS TO THE EDITOR This, however, is not for lack being a good student by going to of restrictive legislation. Newark every class only to be rewarded Skid Fest Recap It is hard to believe that it will and fun is getting drunk on the week­ requires all sidewalks to be shov­ with a bruised tailbone, a soaking be entering its 18th year and exciting end. The idea that learning can be fun eled and ice cleared within 24 wet ass and a number of uncom­ Please allow me to apologize to know that the first "fest" took is taboo. hours of snowfall. fortable stares. for letting this get away from me so place before some revelers were I think the university's adminis­ egregiously. My name is Kevin even born. tration reinforces these attitudes by Francis anli I was interviewed by The I and every other person who refusing to encourage anything unof­ Review this past autumn for a story has furthered the Sk:idfest legacy owe ficial. Music practice rooms are only on the origins of Skidfest (Nov. 7). I a debt to those who are willmg to available to majors or people playing Politics take over the classroom have been negligent in writing to accept it anew every year. I am hum­ in ensembles. Scholarships with Should professors be able to openly express their views? thank everyone involved not only for bled by the generosity of the folks strict GPA requirentents punish stu­ their tireless efforts in continuing the mentioned above and will continue dents who go beyond what is Colleges have been a hub of people feel uncomfortable. The legacy but also for their hospitality in to be so humbled each time a new required of them. Many professors knowledge, discussion and debate reason many students take political showmg an "old man" like me a band wraps itself around the torch. I have the false impress1.0n that the throughout American history, but science courses is to debate. good time. I was treate

~------~------. 15 Catholicism strays from noble path morals and a positive ideology. The Church blames its deClining numbers Instead of doing this, however, the church After I took notice of its public actions, I on society becoming less moral with each pass­ continues to hammer on the two main social YAHTZEE! began to see why many harbor a resentment ing year, but, in fact, the reason is simply issues it has made its agenda. This is entirely toward Catholicism. because it is not promoting its finer points. wrong. Catholicism has absolutely no place in Over the The faith is built political forums, the same way religion has no Brian Citino past few years, .---=------, on the life of Jesus, place in the classroom. numbers in the who regardless of Last time I checked, there was still a small Church has been one's beliefs, is a rule in place called separation of church and on the decline · more than a signifi­ state, giving religious groups a tax exemption What the saviors need to do and the need for cant historical fig­ from the government. to save themselves. new priests to ure and led a pretty If the Catholic Church were to be taxed, · keep things amazing life. Did then I would have no problem in its involve­ It started during the 2004 presidential together are Jesus ever talk ment in political matters. Until that happens, election. At least that is when I remember my more desperate about gay marriage and it never will, it should stay away from strong change in opinion about the Catholic than ever. I can­ or abortion though? these issues. Church. not, · however, His mission was It is about time . the church wakes up to It was a Sunday morning in early autumn say I blame the not focused on what it has been doing wrong and start correct­ and as was my weekly custom, I went to Mass. public for stay~ being pro-life or on .ing its mistakes and revamp its image. Part of this was due to routine, but I always got ing away. the assumption that All together, it is an institution which is a good feeling after fulfilling this weekly ritu­ The church being a homosexu­ based on commendable views and if it made al. That was, until that day. has put itself out al was a choice. the world aware of that it would begin to regain During the homily, the deacon began to there in recent Instead, he lived public favor. discuss the election, and, in not so many words years, but in a his life trying to get Instead of standing on the altar preaching informed the congregation that if it voted for a manner that has others to be good support of political candidates, maybe it should candidate who was pro-choice, it would be cast a negative human beings. try explaining a Jesus story or two. committing a sin. reflection on it. I find it odd that I love this religion, not because I believe it At the time I was blown away by the com­ Any time tlre man is above any others, but because it is the one ment, and it still makes me uneasy today. Did the Catholic Catholicism was that promotes the values truest to my own. I the Catholic Church really just tell me how to Church is in the founded upon just wish that the strongest advocator of these vote? Was it endorsing President George W. news, it tends to be in regards to the issues of seems to be the one whose teachings are most ideals was an institution of which I could be Bush, the candidate in favor of the death penal­ gay marriage or abortion, with an obvious con­ forgotten in promotion of the faith. proud. ty, even though the church is against that, too? servative stance on both. If there is a real concern about dropping ·After this incident I started to examine the Respect is lost because of this, and that is numbers in priests and congregation members, public appearance of the Catholic Church. For why Catholicism needs to begin backing away then why not start a campaign in full promotion Brian Citino is editorial editor for The a long time I failed to understand why so many from its public stance on these issues. We all of classic teachings like "love thy neighbor as Review. His viewpoints do not necessarily people had negative opinions of this organiza­ know at this point how it feels about them, so yourself." That is something that would gener­ represent those of The Review staff. Please tion, which I believed to be promoting good why constantly shove irin our faces? ate a positive response. send comments to [email protected] Political correctness: the new censorship finding a better approach. Redskins. than giving· censorship a new facade. Illinois is doing just that. But at what So when is enough, enough? In the case America prides it self on the notion that peo­ The Ru hath point does being politically correct give way of political correctness, it seems it is a ques­ ple have freedom of speech. Why would we sp·oken to censorship? tion of how censored you want your culture allow ourselves to be hoodwinked into I applaud Illinois for removing Chief to be. changing our way of thinking? ]ef!Ruoss Illiniwek from dancing at their sporting I can understand changing a few deroga­ This movement sheds a bad light on events - it realized that a painted, white, frat tory terms here and there, but like the old America by allowing ourselves to conform boy dancing around screaming at opposing adage says, if you give an inch, they will take just so we do not "offend." We are moving teams is not the best way to depict ancient a mile. closer and closer to the era of Big Brother. Protests are changing the people such as the Illini. The language-planning movement, a We tell ourselves we want to be respon­ face of college sports -/Tteral­ I guess the university came to the real­ movement by a group of people to change the sible for our actions, but how can we be /y ization that after years of death and removal English language so that it no longer contains responsible when we allow a minority of from their own land, the Illini had suffered any type of gender-based wording, has taken people to think for us. The worst part about enough. At the same time, the university took the inch given by those trying to be political­ all of this is when people not from the In my life I have been a Blue Demon, a a strong stance on not removing the name ly conscious and is on its third trip to the sun. groups affected speak out. Blue Hen, a Phillie, an Eagle, a Flyer and a "fighting Illini" from their school. · Not only have these groups been fight­ As in the case of the Native Americans 76er- - not really names which draw much · Many of the groups fighting against the ing for the removal of "offensive" words, but and school mascots, if the names and words attention about being politically incorrect. As use oflndian names still find this to be offen­ they also have begun to fight for a "non-sex­ were so offensive then why not speak out much as those seem meaningless to you, they sive because the names are still in place. The ist language," meaning those words you had themselves? Why must a small group of peo­ hold a special meaning to me. only problem I see would be if the groups to learn and memorize for the third grade ple who are not Native Americans tell us we If someone carne up to me tomorrow and being defamed pushed to have the name spelling bee may not be around much longer. are offending said group? told me they were personally offended by the removed. It is one thing to have offensive words If these people really want something to depiction ofthose characters I would laugh at Personally a small group of middle class frowned upon, but how are you going to fight for, why not fight hunger or try and end them. white Americans telling me they are offend­ remold them or even remove them? It is sim­ the massive amounts of suffering and death However, on Feb. 21, Chief Illiniwek, ed for the Native American culture does not ply impossible. Just because you remove or occUrring in Third-World c<>untries. the University of Illinois' mascot for the past get my blood pumping to charge the White change these words does not mean the senti­ 81 years, danced his final jig. In the past two House and rise up in protest. ment is gone. Besides, who is really being Jeff Ruoss is a~ assistant new:S editor for years since the NCAA joined the "let's be The only name which has ever been offi­ helped by changing "mailman" to "mailper­ The Review. His viewpoints do not necessar­ politically correct" movement, 17 schools cially dubbed offensive by the Native son?" ily represent those of The Review staff. have been asked to re-establish themselves American culture is that of the Washington Political correctness is nothing more Please send comments to jru@udeLedu. by removing their "offensive" names and 16 Februa. 27 2007

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The MosaiC Interview: The ECrly November

BY ANDREA RAMSAY · and it was really good to just get a good vibe going- is we're what it was going to do for us, but it was on MTV for like a Entertainment Editor going to go out every night without a set list and just take week and then .they were like, "We aren't going to do anything On Feb. 28, The Early November will step on stage in the requests. We're just going to play what people want to hear. I with· your band anymore." Trabant University Center alone, without a big-name band wait­ think that's the best thing to do and it's less stressful for us. We It was awesome that we sold so many records in the first ing to follow, plucked from the line-up of the Warped Tour may fuck up because we don't know the songs, but you know, week, but it was a disappointment to a lot of other people. A lot entourage and lacking the huge-production-yet-small-club whatever. We're going to play what people want to hear even if of people gave up faith after the first week and no one stuck spectacle of its U.K. tour with New Found Glory. The band, we don't know how to play it. We're going to make every show with it. But I couldn't be happier with [the album], I think it's whose university concert is sponsored by the Student Centers as good as it can be. awesome. Programming Advisory-Board, will have no set-list and make The last nationwide tour you did was opening for Fall Out. Do you ever wonder, "What if we didn't do the triple album no promise to remember every song it's willing to play. The Boy. How did that go? and decided to go the more traditional route, where would Early November's only goal in the Multipurpose Room on It was good. We hadn't played with those guys in a really we be today?" Wednesday night is to please its college-aged audience and fur­ long time. We've been touring with New Found Glory for the I honestly think if we did just one record and decided to ther spread their unique artistic vision and story. - past four months because we went to the U.K. with them. It was just make a record full of hits, then we would be in a different After the indie/emo-pop/rock band from nearby cool because we knew everybody going into that tour, but it was position right now. But, what this band really ·likes to do is Hammonton, N.J. formed in 2001, it quickly started to make a different because it was such a production. They did all the pro­ record and we wanted to put out a ton of songs. We knew we name for itself after signing with the small, yet successful, duction they would do in an arena tour, but they did it in small had a lot of stuff and we were like, "Well, why hold this stuff Drive-Thru Records, performing on one of the biggest musical clubs, which was pretty crazy. I've never seen anything like and hold it to the next record or the next record? Why not put it festival tours in the country and releasing its first full-length that. all out at once and give our fans more to listen to?" album, "The Room's Too Cold." We've heard you were talking with some major record How much longer are you going to push the triple album At a time when its genre was exploding into mainstream labels, why did you decide to stick with Drive-Thru before heading back into the studio? popularity, it seemed as though the members of The Early Records? We haven't really thought about it. I don't even know if we November had a golden ticket to ride this musical bandwagon It wasn't that we decided to stick with them, it was because have any plans for after this tour as of now. That is something to the top. However, as friends and peers in bands like Fall Out we were locked down in a contract. We're tied to them for like we need to talk about. We're just going to take it as it comes. · Boy and Panic! At the Disco began topping charts across the a bazillion records or something like that. Even if we did want After the release of the triple album, there were some nation, The Early November remained merely an opener. to go to a bigger label, we wouldn't even have a choice. If we rumors floating around that the band may be breaking up. Some attribute this left-behind reputation to the release of weren't, we would probably try for a bigger label, just to see Is there any truth to those rumors? the band's second full-length album, "The Mother, the what it's like. We're with Drive-Thru and they're really good Oh yeah, we break up like every other day. There was a Mechanic, and the Path." The album features three separate people, but I'd like to see what it would be like if our band was point when we almost officially broke up. We break up almost CDs which tell the story of a troubled father-son relationship on something amazing. every tour, but that's just what happens, like with any other from differing viewpoints. Each disk has a unique sound- the You released the triple album at a time when the other band. I think it just gets out a lot more with us. Other than that, first capturing audiences with a traditional rock 'n~ roll sound, bands in your genre were really starting to make it big. we're a pretty tight-knit group and we're all great friends. Even · the second portraying a softer, smoother side and the third as an Why, at such a crucial moment, did you decide to release the when we're like, "Oh, we're going break up," we're still good unusual combination of dialogue set to music. triple album? friends. We're just five completely different people and every­ Despite the album debuting at No. 31 on the Billboard Top We weren't really paying attention to what was going on one wants to be something different. It's like any other relation­ 200, support for the triple-CD album dropped rapidly as it was with everything, we just had a ton of songs and we just thought ship, even if there's no woman in it. It's like, "Dude, come back, .too long and too misunderstood. · "What the hell?" We'll just record a crap-load of songs and do I love you." · Now, amidst a sea of break-up rumors and on the brink of something really cool. We were all really into it at the time so After this headline tour, what do you plan on doing next? the band's national headline tour, drummer Jeff Kummer takes we just went with it. I'm planning on going into the studio with this band I've time to address some of the common, pressing questions that A lot of people were like, "This record is going to kill you been working with, Grace I:eriod, as a side project. We go into face the group. because no one is ever going to listen to that many songs." I the studio in May and we're going to record a full-length and think that is kind of the case because a lot of people can't get see what we can do with that It's me and some guys I started So this Delaware performance looks like a good warm-up through that CD. I can understand why because there are a mil­ my first band with. We just figured it would be fun to just go for the upcoming tour. Is this where you plan to work out all lion songs. But it was fun to do and I wouldn't take it back. and. record something. We'll do that on our downtime. Ace your jitters? How did the triple album do commercially? [TEN lead singer and guitarist] may be coming to sing on a cou­ As far as I know for this tour, what we're planning to do­ We expected it actually to do a little better. We were told a ple songs. As of right now [The Early November] doesn't have because we've played two college shows so far and we did this bunch of things and we were made a bunch of promises about any other plans, just the tour and Bamboozle in May. )t Februqrv 27. 2007 21 'Girls can't be guys in matters of the heart' 'Unhooked' author claims women of the hook-up culture are in emotional danger

BY LAURA DATTARO Features Editor Stepp's She hovers over the bed, watching his sleeping form turn book is under the rumpled, sweaty covers. His chest slowly rises and b a s e d falls oblivious to the absence of her body in the narrow twin largely on bed.' She's dressed in last night's jeans and his plain, white the close undershirt, her hair in a messy ponytail and her make-up sal­ rel-ation­ vaged to the best of her ability. ships she As she listens to him breathe, she clutches a tiny scrap of formed paper in her hand, a 10-digit nu~ber scrawled by a sh~ with col­ band is written across the off-wh1te background. For a bnef lege and moment she convinces herself to leave it next to his cell h i g h phone o~ the night stand. Then, coming to her senses, she school crumples the slip and shoves it in he~ purse, kn~wing a_no~­ girls while er meeting would never be more satlsfymg than last mght s research- impromptu get-together. . . . ing her She is 19 years old, yearnmg for romance but stnvmg for book at independence. The voice of her mother. encoura~ing her to D u k e to the hook-up culture. Their potential hook-up for the night get an education and start ~ car~er pl~ys m a contl.nuous. loop University, George Washington University, a private high probably lives within walking distance, Bogle says, and the to images of her parents bonng, hfeless mamage like a school in Virginia and two public high schools in the D.C. close, neighborly feel of a college campus can make students soundtrack to a movie. area. She also surveyed students at schools such as The feel safer with a stranger than they would at a bar after grad­ She is a daughter, a sister, a cousin, a niece. She'~ the girl College of New Jersey and Stanford University. uating. in last fall's Biology 104 lecture and the one who dehvers DP What she found was intelligent, young women who were Freshman Maggie Loughman agrees. Dough late at night. willing, and in some cases eager, to sacrifice love on the altar "This is just the time to do it," Loughman says. "We all She is another victim of the hook-up culture - a world of education. want to settle down at some point." in which girls have abandoned dating and turned to casual, "A hook-up's defining characteristic is the ability to As she cleans the rerrmants of her lunch, her friend, non-committal sex - and the subject of The Washington Post unhook at any time," Stepp says, "which is why I chose the freshman Jon Clunie, who has known his girlfriend of three feature writer Laura Sessions-Stepp's new book, "Unhooked: title. Because there's no commitment you can walk away at years since the sixth grade, says he doesn't like the idea of How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at any time. It affords the young generation a freedom of move­ hooking-up. Both." ment-between partners." "Every time a girl hooks up, she's labeled a slut," Clunie "Unhooked," Stepp's third book, explores the growth of Although this freedom that wasn't available to any pre­ says. "It's not OK for guys either because then you'll be a the hooking-up phenomenon, why it has virtually replaced vious generation of women can be beneficial, she says, it's man whore." dating and how it has affected the young women who she harmful if abused. The repetitive surrender of the body with The two students agree on the ambtguity of the term says are almost wholly responsible for its exponential growth no emotional attachment expected in return can cause low "hooking up." in the past decade. self-esteem, depression, alcoholism and eating disorders. "It's like hitting triples," Clunie says. "You do every­ "Girls can't be guys in matters of the heart, even though thing but hit a home nm." they think they can," Stepp says. "They think they can go "Yeah, even making out can be sexual in some way," into a hook-up and not feel anything the next day. Then they Loughman says. find themselves checking their cell phones and wondering She also says it's OK as long as a girl doesn't get LAURA SESSIONS STEP why he hasn't called them." attached. The primary motivating factor in the rising number of "Girls are just more open now," she says. "When they're author of OUR LAST BEST SHOT girls hooking-up is a cultural shift in what young women are getting male attention, they feed off it. If you're never going being taught about the combination of a career and romance. to see that person again, it's not a problem." The girls currently in high school and college are the first "People just do it for the thrill of it," Clunie says. generation to be taught, from a very young age, to go after "What is the ultimate goal though? It goes nowhere, just anything they want, Stepp says. . . in a big circle. "They are being told, 'get an educatiOn, establish a "Yeah, I mean they're always jumping from person: to career, then look for a partner,' " Stepp says. "Mothe~s person like a frog on lily pads. I've never believed in this How Young Women should be saying to girls, 'education is important, a career ts whole hooking-up thing." important, but so are relationships.' Most of us want all three Even though Loughman says hooking-up can be OK, of those things and we need to start practicing how to have there's a time to draw a line. Pursue Sex, Delay Love, all those things earlier." "If you're flaunting it," she says, "it's just trashy." Stepp is not the only woman to notice this potentially After observing endless conversations like these, Stepp disturbing trend among young women. · says she began to feel almost maternal toward the girls whose and Lose at Both University alurrma Kathleen Bogle also wrote a book on stories formed the bulk of her book. the subject, bluntly titled "Hooking Up." Her book, ~hich She included a "Letter to Mothers and Daughters" at the will be published this coming fall, addresses the environ­ conclusion of her writing, presenting a point-by-point sum­ mental settings that cause high school and college-aged mary of her findings and advice. women to put their emotions on the back burner. A shortened version of the list reads: Her definition of hooking-up is similar to Stepp's. "A guy can make you feel valuable, but it's not the guy "It's important that there's a range of what hooking up who makes you valuable. encompasses," Bogle says. "It can entail sex or oral sex with "Explore your feminine side beyond the black lace bra. someone you just met 30 minutes ago, but it could be kiss­ "Lust is not love, although it can feel like it," and, ing someone you have had a crush on for six months." "Think erotic, not pornographic." Bogle interviewed both current university students and Stepp says she hopes her book will reach mothers, alurrmi to research her book. daughters and women of all ages. She received countless e­ unhooke "The alurrmi said hooking-up just doesn't work on a mails from girls who saw their stories in her pages, she says, practical level the same way it does in college," she says. "In which is exactly what she hoped would happen. terms of how people define college life, it's 'Hey, I'm "All I want to do is get young women to think about young, it's time to be young and party.' People don't think that," she says. "You're a very smart generation, capable of about life after college like this. It's time to get a job and get thinking through their lives. Girls need to speak up and say, married." 'is this making me happy?' And if it's not, they can change It's not only this "til.Jle to party" mindset that lends itself it." . ._, .... 22 Februarv 27. 2007 )it 2 + 3 + Carrey = Cooper~ Linney . what's the point? carry CIA story "The Number 23" exaggerated acting "Breach" (Ryan Phillipe) was on the outskirts of the New Line Cinema during the vulgar Universal Pictures agency, trying desperately and frantically to Rating: **(out of****) sex scenes Rating:*** earn his agent status. Suddenly, he is I have a headache. between fictitious (out of****) plucked from a terrorist trail to sit at a desk I haven't been drinking, I'm not sick (well, sort of) Unlike others, in front of Hanssen's locked office, playing and I have yet to study for an exam this characters this suspense film, the part of personal assistant while he semester. But even still, I have a horrible, Fingerling and brilliantly directed watches and records his every move in the pounding, excruciatingly-annoying Fabrizia at the and co-written by search of clues to what he thinks is a dirty, headache. crime scenes they Billy Ray, doesn't internet-porn case. · I just saw "The Number 23 ." I stared at were investigating. have the intense However, as O'Neill comes to know way too many 23s, thought about the num­ By the way, fight scenes and and almost respect the brilliant, family-man ber 23 for far too long and could now prob­ 09/11/2001 adds mind-boggling spe­ and extreme Opus Dei Roman Catholic, he ably give you 23 solid reasons to not go see up to 23. cial effects. Instead, begins to realize the pieces just don't match. "The Number 23." I . n it keeps its audience He demands answers from his superior, Jim Carrey is funny- he's not meant Shakespeare's on the edge of its Agent Kate Burroughs (Laura Linney), who to cry unless he's laughing too hard. But "Julius Caesar" seat with the intri­ reluctantly decides it's time the truth came here, Carrey isn't funny and he does have a Caesar is stabb~d cate and complex out - this eager, wet-behind-the-ears crying scene, during which the camera view 23 times. relationship between nobody is in the very center of the biggest quickly changes to avoid showing his The earth's a young FBI consult­ security breach the bureau has ever seen. pathetic acting of an emotional character. I axis is tilted at a 23 ant and one of the This is where the real question comes guess director Joel Schumacher tried to take degree angle - most detrimental into play - how is O'Neill supposed to · Carrey's inherent nature into account, just in case you men in U.S. history. keep up with a man that has fooled some of allowing Carrey to still be goofy with his were wondering. Although spy the most brilliant minds our country has to signature quirky face expressions and And, ironical­ and espionage flicks offer? It's a nail-biting, sweaty-palmed gawky walk. ly, it's Joel are by no means irony of the spy who became the spied-on.' Carrey plays Walter Sparrow, who's an Schumacher's uncommon in Both Cooper and Linney delivered average dog-catcher with a beautiful wife, 23rd project. Hollywood, those spectacular portrayals of their intellectual Agatha (Virginia Madsen), and a witty son, Spooky for based on a true story characters. Phillipe, although ·not quite at Robin (Logan Lerman). sure, but a whole are slightly more the caliber of his co-stars, was convincing Sparrow thinks he's cursed by the num­ movie about it is atypical. This is the and held his own in an incredibly challeng­ ber - his full name has 23 letters, his home rather, well, psy­ story of Robert ing role. address adds up to 23, he was born on chotic. If you're a Hanssen (Chris After the conclusion of the opening Feburary 3 and he even wakes up at 11:12. numerologist or Cooper, in an Oscar­ scene, footage taken from a press confer­ And that's pretty much all I can say someone who worthy perform­ ence by former Attorney General John without giving away the almost too-twisted avoids black cats ance), who had been Ashcroft, you may forget that this is, in fact, plot. at all costs, this movie may be for you. working in the bureau for approximately 25 a true story and may just take it for the cin­ Other than the headache at the end of That's precisely what this movie is all years before he was finally caught in the act ematic gem that it is. However, as the story this painfully repetitive movie ----:- you may about in the end - going superstitiously of leaking sensitive, damaging information comes to an end and details of the true story as well go see a documentary on the number crazy. I guess it works, because if this to the Russians. appear on the screen, you are again crudely 23 that lists, with commentary, all the crazy headache doesn't go away, I'm going to go What is most refreshing and captivating reminded that this horrible man was once coincidences attached to the number - the crazy myself and blame it all on "The about this story is the novice responsible for out there. plot does have some quality. It has a twist Number 23." bringing the monster down. Eric O'Neill -Andrea Ramsay, [email protected] and it is suspenseful, but maybe it was the - Corinne Clemetsen, [email protected]

"Writer's Block 4" mixtape artists, is mainly interested in one J.R. Writer thing --' himself. The subjects are waning, as The 'Cassadega' mystery Diplomat Records hearing 15 tracks about jewelry, "bitches" and Rating: ** 1/2 machismo can be tough to swallow. Writer's (Out of*****) saving grace is his word­ "Four Winds" If there was ever a play - the Dipset MC is Bright Eyes mixtape artist, it's J.R. clever and he knows it (he Saddle Creek Writer. His debut full­ rhymes, "This will be the Rating:*** (Out of*****) length, "History in the only way you hear some­ Conor Oberst, the at-times brilliant Making," lacked a body clapping at me" 27-year-old singer-songwriter who records bonafide hit and sold before a round of applause under the name Bright Eyes, is the type of poorly, but by contrast, ends "Critically artist who doesn't hide his mistakes. Writer has ~ ained a Acclaimed"). Writer's dex­ Whether it's releasing an album of his respected reputation via terity is fun at first, but it's un-listenable preteen recordings or preten­ his mixtapes. "Writer's not helping his case - tiously stopping a song halfway through Block 4" is more of the there's nothing pushing because of a supposed wrong note same - big beats, bigger him to leave the "mixtape ("Lifted's," "False Advertising"), Oberst boasts. artist" tag behind. makes no apologies for his shortcomings, Writer, like other - Wesley Case but rather publicizes them. Then it comes as no surprise he is "The Walking Wounded" your soul gets smaller" from "(Pop )ular releasing "Four Winds," an EP of B-sides Bayside · Science"), Bayside should learn - less is and the new Bright Eyes' single of the same Victory more. name. Instead of Oberst leaving the scraps Rating: **' 112 (Out of*****) - Wesley Case on the cutting-room floor, he has decided to rather just OK. The songs are interesting in Bayside has always carried the stigma package them to prep listeners for how contrasting they are from the Bright Eyes that the band is a poor man's Alkaline Trio. "Cassadega," Bright Eyes' lOth full-length catalogue. "Reinvent the Wheel" is upbeat and "The Walking Wounded" isn't doing the that is slated for an April release. similar to Oberst's former band, Park Ave., group any favors, as Bayside continues its It wasn't necessarily a bad idea, either. while "Stray Dog Freedom" is pure '70s gui­ hand at dark, antagonistic songs. The problem "Cassadega's" lead single, "Four Winds," tar-rock, with a blues riff and a Rhodes piano lies in the delivery - while Alkaline Trio has is Bright Eyes at its best. The track is a jangly, its base. But while the ideas are there, they become scarily efficient in its songwriting, beautiful mess of everything Oberst thrives on never fully materialize. The B-sides have a Bayside sounds like its trying too hard. - heavy topics ("The Bibles blind, the consistent inconsistency about them - the "The Walking Wounded's" first single, Torah s deaf, the Qur 'an s mute I Ifyou burn gears are moving but inefficiently. "Duality," is the album's high point. It's them all together you get close to the truth"), And so "Four Winds" is a circular affair quick, catchy and controlled while putting its multiple voices and a rousing backdrop of vio­ -we're given a peak, and just a peak, at what soaring chorus at the forefront. When vocalist. lins, banjos and guitars. It's not gaudy or over­ "Cassadega" could be and what we hope it Anthony Raneri earnestly sings, "Who let this stated but is an example of Oberst's matura­ isn't. But ultimately all we're left with is spec­ feeling die I I can't get you out of my head," tion as a songwriter. ulation- just another thing Oberst doesn't there's no forcing involved. It's an example of But what is ostentatious are the throw­ have to be sorry about. benevolent siinplicity - rather than trying to away tracks. They're neither good nor bad, but - Wesley Case, wescase@udeLetlu make grand statements ("Dollar by dollar I

• )lt February 27.2007 23 delawarelJNdressed Being bad feels good fashion forward

says Tom, a senior. some- Right on Being bad never felt so good. thing hot about Sex on campus can be a little too meeting your babe risque. The smaller the space you pick, the deep in the shelves Target bigger the challenge. And you have to looking for something watch out for those pesky campus cops more than an anatomy book. From a bright r-----:: because I don't have a clue how you would But it doesn't count if you red, plastic basket I explain a "doing the nasty'' ticket to mom cheat and go into one of those retrieve toothpaste, and pops. study rooms. In between the vitamins, nail pol­ This may sound a little ridiculous, but shelves versus a semi-private little ish remover and a there is a classy way to take sex out of the room? Shelves win. silk top from an Late at night, before classes, bedroom. Public bathroom? Gross. Mall: In between trying on those award-winning afternoon lunch break, while skip­ new jeans, you can pull your squeeze designer. It's a bit ping class-it's no secret some col­ into the fitting room with you. While weird to see a lege students are having sex all the time. Tell me what think: people around you are trying on jeans piece of clothing Typically, it's happening in residence hall you you can be trying something else ot\ for advance on a rooms or apartments with the privacy and size. Hopefully, no one will notice four black, rubber luxury of a bed. Boooring. Do your friends hate your legs in one room. · conveyor belt, but Come on, you're only young once and boYfriend or girlfriend? Empty classroom: Have you been a that's the charm of Target. (Shelling out doing it in the bedroom is so last season. . naughty student and need some extra cred­ about $40 for that list is nice, too). I've been Having sex in public is not just for it? Well, there are a million classrooms on Can't stand your friend's shopping at Target since high school ~ and crazy sex freaks. If your sex life is ~tarting hook-up or annoying fling? campus, and you could easily find an even more avidly when Isaac Mizrahi to dwindle; it's time to take the action out abandoned one. And if you get caught, graced the retailer with his sartorial skills - of the bedroom. E-mail Laura: well, you were just utilizing the resources but the fab finds of th~'GO International" There can be times when sex becomes [email protected] the school has to offer. collections ensure that I'll be a Target lifer. routine and unexciting after doing it in the You don't have to go all the way to Fashionistas will know the names of same place all the time. That's why you benefit from the rush of excitement Luella, Tara Jarmon, Paul & Joe and Behnaz gotta let go of your inhibitions and spice Cemetery? Oh, hell no. Coat Check? Have from getting hot in public. You can Sarafpour, each of whom had a three-month up your Iovin'. you seen the ones at Kate's or Shaggy's? just sneak in a little peak for later stint in the women's department beginning Got a craving for a quickie that can't Good luck with that. -not lame PDA-but a preview wait? Well, don't. There's something Don't be cliche about it either. A in February 2006 (except for Behnaz, who of what's to come. only got two). Behnaz Sarafpour was prob­ about the risk of getting caught that adds beach is probably the most common and So now that I just called out ably the most well-known designer on the a whole new element to shacking up. played-out place - unless it's the some good places, go out there list, until the Minneapolis, Minn. company It allows you to explore the inner Mediterranean Sea or something. And the and fmd your own hot spot. brought in Proenza Schouler, that is. exhibitionist in you while intensifying backseat of a car? Hmm, you could do bet­ Wherever and whenever you go Pronounced "pro-enza school-er," the the moment. Knowing that what ter. make sure there's trust between the young duo of Lazaro Hernandez and Jack you're doing is illicit and outra­ So where should you go? That's up to two of you. If the late night jani­ McCollough won the Council of Fashion geous turns up the heat in any you and your lover. But.here are some hot tor or pesky fitting room clerk Designers of America's Perry Ellis Award dull relationship. spots you could check out. catches you two in the act, you "I like the danger of Library: I know you're thinking it's as for new talent in 2003 (a HUGE deal). Since better hope he or· she has your then, they dressed Oscar presenter Maggie being caught," cliche as the beach, but it's not. There's back. Gyllenhaal in that fabulous blue-and-black beaded gown. Their signature bustier-style top has been spotted on starlets like Mandy . . . Moore after appearing, in various incarna­ tions, in seven of their nine runway collec­ tions. And yes, a version of the top is in the Britney: Off her rocker Target line. This version is not as expertly crafted as its collection counterpart, but I can't name any of the stars from "The to do" - this includes checking herself in night. • what do expect for $24.99? O.C." I confused hot and hunky Slater with and out of rehab as if she has an all-week If her wish is to be ignored, it was def­ Let's be honest - what a fashion mag obnoxious goofball Screech, probably due pass to an amusement park. initely granted in the VIP room of the club. deems as a "steal" is really a "splurge" for to the fact that I've never actually seen an Apparently, Spears didn't think this one She reportedly sat alone for much of most of us. Why spend lots of money on a episode of"Saved By The Bell." I had to be through too well. Sure if she's bald she the night, garnering no attention from other trendy item that you can re~lly only wear taught the difference between the Academy won't have stylists pulling at her natural ·partygoers or friends. A bad rendition of a for three months without looking dated? For Awards and the Oscars - apparently, there hair- they'll just be giving her wigs and familiar song finally forced the star to leave the record, the most expensive item in the isn't one. touching those instead. • · - a drunken clubber had chosen " ... Baby newest "International Flights of Fashion" Let's face it, I'm not exactly a pop-cul­ . Oh, and whether you're a multi-million One More Time" for his or her chance in the collection for Target is a cropped and belted ture guru. karaoke spotlight. suede jacket for $139.99. At $44.99 are the Despite the fact that my head is I'm tempted to wonder what. has second-most expensive pieces - a '60s­ basically devoid of even the most com­ happened to Britney Spears, but in style swing coat and a printed silk dress. monplace media knowledge, I have reality, her recent behavior is not all As for the men's collection, there is no managed to pick up on a new Mr. Clean that shocking. Spears has been expe­ "GO International" equivalent, but Target look-alike showing her face on TV riencing a continual decline since her does bring in guest designers. Most recent­ screens, Web sites and magazine covers years as the teen queen, from her ly, edgy Brit rocker-turned-designer Keanan everywhere. · choice in husbands to her grungy Duffty. Think what Mick Jagger would wear · No, it's not a new ad campaign for fashion sense. if he was 25 and not manorexic-looking. His a better toilet cleaner. It's the former In fact, maybe chopping off all that looks are unfortunately out of stock on the object of men's lusty fantasies, the girl greasy, dirty hair was a good thing. site, which could mean that he's "departing" that made pink fuzzy pigtails sexy, one Perhaps it will offer her a new begin­ the store but fear not, shoppers, there are of the most famous bodies ever to be ning, her bubbly personality and plenty of other options. decorated with rhinestones - yes, it's catchy pop tUnes resurfacing with The house designers in the men's sec- Ms. Britney Spears herself. · each emerging inch of shiny clean ' tion are less edgy than their female counter­ In a gutsy move that caught the hair. parts but that's OK. Go for the Roma attention of pop-culture fanatics and Maybe Spears needed to commit Atletica line for fresh-looking track jackets amateurs alike, Spears forced the owner pop-culture suicide in order to be and hoodies. You pretty much can't go of a closed mom-and-pop salon to reborn as the person she wants, and wrong with anything from Mossimo - reopen just for her, then held an electric her fans expect her, to be. classic polos, button-down shirts and razor hostage and used it, against its Maybe now she can finally move sweaters. Some of the most playful items will, to add the finishing touches to on from one-and-a-half failed mar­ are the screen print Ts from Utility and what has been a steady decrease in atractive­ dollar media icon or not, a bald girl always riages, get through her self-proclaimed Freeze. Some samples: cartoon characters ness over the past few years. turns heads - lots of them. "rocky period" and reinvent herself as a Tom and Jerry in a mock-Scarface movie The pop star decided to shave her head Spears was seen a few days after her singer, a mother, a celebrity and a role poster, Yoo-Hoo and some rock star-looking because she was sick of people touching her flip-out at The Roxy, a swanky Hollywood model. stuff. and wanted the media to leave her alone for club, sporting a "Stepford Wives" style But what do I know? I don't even watch· Whether it's Proenza Schouler or once. She is calling this time her "rocky blonde wig and big aviator sunglasses, "Grey's Anatomy." Mossimo, Target truly lives up to its slogan period" and says she "knows what she needs which she wore inside the club most of the -Laura Dattaro, ldattaro@lldeLedu of "Design for alL" - Susan Rinkunas, rinkunas@udeLedu 24 27 2007 It's a risky business: fake IDs on campus

BY MAGGIE SCHILLER Ryan, a senior at the university, says he Sports Editor was unaware of this busting tactic. Editor's Note: Only the first name of sources have "I was out at a bar for my friend's birth­ been provided to protect their identities. day," he says. "I gave the bartender my fake, When college students gather a bag to which said my name was Brian. He looked take out on a Friday night there are those at it and then looked at my open wallet, few essential items they cannot leave home grabbed it, took out my real student ID, and without. Cell phone, check. Wallet, check. said 'Brian, next time please tell Ryan to get Fake ID, check. At a university where bars your beer.' " are a popular hotspot almost every night of Students who were unfortunate enough the week, being able to go to one is essential to have their fake ID taken away might be -21 or not. comforted to know that their property is now The real question isn't if students have being used for practical purposes. Courtesy of Gauri Nanda the IDs, but rather where students are find­ Bartenders and bouncers collect these IDs in Alarm clocks like Clocky, above, offer modern ways of waking up. ing these fakes. It isn't those sketchy Web order to train others on fake ID detection. sites where anyone can send in a picture of Sean Cannon, a former bouncer at themself standing in front of a piece of white Grotto Pizza, says the restaurant has a neck­ cardboard their roommate is holding up, lace ring of different IDs from all over the only to receive a state ID card from Texas nation. A new awakening weeks later. "When we fmd the ID we either collect It's become easier than that. them, or if we already have that state, then Most students receive fake IDs as hand­ we give them back," Cannon says. "After Clocky, other technologically­ me-downs from older siblings or friends being trained and seeing so many different who have turned IDs it becomes 21. If that fails, easy to pick advanced alarms hit the market maybe they know them out." a kid who knows Many BY MATTHEW GALLO 113 decibels. If one manages to sleep a kid whose fake IDs will Staff Reporter through the deafening noise, there is a bed brother produces have a generic Every college student can recall a shaker that is placed under the mattress homemade IDs in state hologram, moment where they hit the snooze button which causes the bed to vibrate. his basement. as opposed to a refusing to wake up on a Monday morning, Chasin, a researcher for the Centre for If it comes real state ID just yearning for 10 more minutes of sleep. Human Performance & Health, comprised a down to it, some which has a state But with the recent technoloigcal advance­ decibel loudness comparison chart of loud­ students will ask seal. ments in alarm clocks, students will no ness which can be viewed on his Web site. almost anyone Along longer pull the sheets over their head or The cliart shows the Sonic Boom alarm who shares simi­ with the IDs throw their alarm clocks across the room in a clock is 12 decibels below severe ear pain lar facial features they have con- violent rage. which occurs at 125 db. It is louder than a with them. fiscated, bar- Clocky, one of these new items, jumps power mower, subway train and a power Helana, a tenders have off the nightstand and wheels around the saw. junior, says she is books with room looking for a place to hide. The mobile Sophomore Adam Perfitt says he does­ one of these stu­ every state's ID clock that has a starting price of $49.99 n't need to pay a lot of money for such a dents. inside and scan­ comes in white, aqua and mint. small necessity. "I was so ners to help When the snooze button is pushed, "I use a standard alarm clock with a desperate to get them. Clocky rolls off the bedside table, tumbles to snooze feature and AM/FM radio to wake one I went down Many the floor and, thanks to shock-absorbing me up each morning," Perfitt says. my list of friends bouncers will materials and rubber wheels, races away He never used to have a hard time wak­ on Facebook just • interrogate the from the bed, Gauri Nanda, Clocky's inven­ ing up, but feels since he has arrived at col­ to fmd people with brown hair," she says. student with questions about his or her zip tor, says. It bumps into objects, repositions lege it has only gotten worse. On Friday, he Nick, a senior, is one of many students code or zodiac sign. In addition, many will itself and eventually comes to rest in a place says he hit his snooze at 8:20a.m. hoping to who say they are aware of what type of IDs ask for a backup ID - an obstacle that many far enough away from the bed to force the wake up in 10 minutes. As the clock struck pose a risk when trying to get into a bar. students work around. owner out of bed. 9:15, he says he finally woke up to the real­ "The best ones to get aren't actually "It is so easy to give a friend back-up," A built-in microprocessor randomly ization that he had not only missed his class you, but a real ID," he says. "It is so hard to Nick says. "Give them an old student ID programs the clock's speed, distance and but the first quiz of the semester. make fakes now to match the real state holo­ card or an expired credit card." routes, she says, so that it won't land in the "I feel the older I get, the harder it is to grams." Ryan says he has experienced times same spot twice. wake up," Perfitt says. "Since I have come to Marc Konway, a bouncer at Klondike when a bouncer tried to make a profit rrom a Nanda says parents and students are college I hit the snooze a lot more. I need at Kate's, the bar notorious on campus for confisca~d ID. calling and writing, thanking her for such an least seven hours a night to function." being the "hardest" to get into under-age, "I was at a ·bar on Main Street," Ryan effective product. . Alarm clocks with moving gadgets and · according to students, agrees. says, "and the bouncer looked at my ID and "One happy mother wrote to me saying high decibels often tend to break or malfunc­ "If the ID is legit and says they are 21, said, 'This isn't you.' I had a really good their daughter was thrilled with Clocky her tion after you take it out of the box, he says. then the restaurant cannot get in trouble, as back-up so I tried to argue with him. Then he first morning," Nanda says. "The mother There are currently more versions of · long as we make a reasonable effort," took me around the comer and said, 'How said her daughter woke up smiling as she Clocky in research and development that Konway says. much money do you have on you?' Luckily, chased it around her room in an uncontrol­ can't be disclosed, Nanda says. She says she He says there are two kinds of IDs that I only had $15 and then he told me if I want­ lable laughter." envisions a Clocky product line to be bouncers are trained to catch. There are the ed my ID back, I would have to give him the Nanda says she got the idea for Clocky released within the next few years. "fake" fake IDs - ones that were made to money. So I did." from her childhood habits. When she was a Some college students feel such neces­ copy a real state ID - and the "real" fakes, Luke Chapman, a bouncer at Shaggy's student she would hit the snooze bar repeat­ sities are not needed in the morning. which .are the real state IDs, but not the cor­ on Main, says when all else fails, they call edly, never realizing how late it was getting. Sophomore Amy Christinzio says she rect person. the cops. As a designer, she says it was obvious that can wake up in the morning without the 113 "When we look at the 'fake' fake IDs "If we think an ID is not real but the the functions and personality of alarm clocks decibels ringing in her ear. She says she has we are looking out for the lamination on the person keeps telling us it is them, we call the needed to be improved. a mental alarm that has no trouble waking card, the hologram and the background," police," Chapman says. "We sometimes However, she says she did not anticipate her up ever morning. Konway says. "When we look at the 'real' have the Newark Task Force taking people that there would be much interest surround­ "Right before I go to bed I tell myself! fakes we look at the height, weight, facial out of line on busy nights." ing Clocky. have to wake up at 9:30 for class and I do," structure and pay attention to the person's Konway says Kate's has arrested less "Clocky does more than just make a Christinzio says. "It's a mental thing that has behavior. We don't just look at the dates." than 10 students in the past three years, and marginal improvement to alarm clocks," yet to fail me." He says the best way to train a bouncer takes away· approximately five IDs per Nanda says. "Plus it has such a huge market She says occasionally she will set an is simply experience. night. . since there are so many snoozers out there." alarm but for some reason she always wakes "We keep the same group of people at With such a trained line of bouncers and Clocky is one of many new technologi­ up five or l 0 minutes before the alarm the door," Konway says. "They learn how to backup police forces guarding the doorways cal advancements in alarm clocks helping sounds. read people's reactions to the questions we to what many under-aged students believe to college students wake up on time. Christinzio says she is jealous she does­ ask them. If we ask someone for back-up be social euphoria, there is one piece of The Sonic Boom Alarm Clock with Bed n't need an alarm clock. and they say they have none, but are holding advice junior Jarrett, a former victim, gives Shaker is an alternative product for heavy "I want to go pick up an aqua Clocky a huge purse and wallet full of cards, we to his fellow students. sleepers. The Sonic Boom has an adjustable just for fun," she says. "The clock seems like know they are most likely lying." "Don't go to Kate's.'1 volume alert with a maximum loudness of it makes waking up enjoyable." /

.)1t February 27, 2Q(J7 25 Is it harder for Generation X to believe? Scholars, students comment on the science vs. religion debate

BY BRITTANY TALARICO Collins identified all genes found in the human genome, Even if science and religion lead to questions, it can be a Staff Reporter which allows us to understand the basis of disease. He was an good thing in strengthening one's faith and it isn't detrimen­ Independence. Choice. College is a place to develop agnostic and found belief in creation through his research tal, Manzella says. one's individuality. Parents can only provide guidance up to with the human genome project. As a civil engineer, Manzella says he learns all types of a point. Everyone grows up and becomes self-sufficient and "He found his faith and belief through science," DeLeon equations describing nature. free to make his or her own decisions. says. "This augments my belief in religion," he says. Faith. Belief. Religion plays an important role in many Tony Manzella, a junior civil engineering major, is an Kim Zitzner, the university religious leaders liaison, says people's lives. Once comfort zones and parental influence are active participant in the St. Thomas More Oratory Parish. He students' studies strengthen their faith and provoke awe in left behind, do students continue to practice their faith as they is a leader in ~ what they're learning. did at home? Does the scientific knowledge available to our Bible study "The greater you delve into science, the more respect generation give rise to questions about God's existence? Or, and helps out ' you have for something ·more powerful and greater then we are these two ideas congruent to each other? with many are," Zitzner says. .· Reverend Richard Palmer, of the Christiana United events. She says students come to her with all kinds of issues Methodist Church on Main Street, says yes. Manzeila spanning from faith to relationship problems. Students are · "I see science and religion as compatible/' Palmer says. says he ,made choosing their faith for themselves now that they· are away "We are speaking about the same reality thiough different an effort to from their parents and family. languages. I started out as a physics major. I think the prob­ get invol~d "There are students who claim and embrace their faith lem for people is when their theology says they can't be com­ when he while they are here, especially on a secular campus," Zitzner patible with science. For me evolution does not dismiss started col­ says. God's work at hand." ·lege. She says il! practicing faith on a college campus, stu- Palmer has been a United Methodist Pastor for more than "In the dents are surrounded by their peers.· · 25 years and has been working in Newark for 18 months. Catholic · "In college you live and study with the same people, so At the four Sunday masses, approximately two to three Church there why not pray with them," Zitzner says. dozen college-aged students,attend each service, Palmer says, are daily Junior Stephen Brasowski is serving as the president of and the overall presence of students has started to pick up. masses peo­ the Orthodox Christian Fellowship group on campus. The He says the United Methodist Church is a. very open ple attend," group meets every Sunday night at 7 p.m. at St. Paul's Chapel place for students to worship. Manzella and also organizes off-campus activities. Approximtely 10 "We have created a contemporary style of worship serv­ says. "I think people attend these meetings, and the group is very close knit, ice," Palmer says. "We also have students who like the litur­ it's easier to Brasowski says. gical style, so we offer both options." go to these "When I was born until I graduated high school it felt Patricia DeLeon, a professor of human· genetics at the daily Masses I like I was just going through the motions and going to university, says her-students are interested in using science as because you ! h eli because my parents told me," he says. "After a tool to cure diseases. can get these attending college and being away from home I "The students I teach are interested in understanding chunks of ,~ fell back on my faith to help nre along." how science can cure cancer, birth defects and diseases more . time ii1 your Holy Bible . Science doesn't pose a threat to religion, than philosophy," DeLeon says. schedule '' Brasowski says. There were saints in the Orthodox Church She says the modem-day student is more interested in throughout the day." who have worked with medicine as healers. finding cures, drug discovery and the use of science to make He says science and religion are two ways of looking at "People want to make God comprehendable, but what life better. She gives Francis Collins as an example of a leader the same thing. · makes God, God is this being beyond comprehension," he in science expressing his faith. "Sometimes they are played off to oppose each other," says. "People always want to be able to understand things so Collins, the head of the National Genome Project, Manzella says. "I think they are two different ways of look­ they can be in complete control. Even without science, peo­ ·..,. recently wrote a book entitled, "The Language of Gpd: A ing at the same thing and they can also compliment each ple question their faith." Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief." other." • Who IS David Walter? Local youth wins 'Jeopardy's' teen tournament

BY SAMMI CASSIN made sure to study Shakespeare, literature, state capitals ... stuff Staff Reporter you see all the time. You know you're going to get some of At first glance, 17 -year-old Wilmington resident David those." - Walter seems like a typical high schooler. But as this straight- · Walter says he was pleasantly surprised at how many A student heads to Princeton University next year, he'll have answers he knew and how prepared he was. some impressive facts to tell during his first floor meeting. For Walter, the best part about being on the show was get­ Courtesy of David Walter With the correct question to an answer about Greek ting up and actually playing. There's a big difference from David Walter stands with his sister, Abby Walter, on the set. mythology, Walter, a seilior at Wilmington Friends School, was shouting the answers from your living room couch and being awarded $75,000 and the title of"Jeopardy! Teen Tournament" up on the podium. Walter's parents Robert and Rhonda, who took the trip to champion. "Being up there standing on the podium and writing your California with their son to watch the taping, say it was com­ It was a come-from-behind victory. His opponent, name and having the buzzer in your hand, it's like, 'Wow, I'm pletely nerve-racking to watch from the audience and later on Benjamin Schenkel of Allentown, Pa., had a sizable lead over really doing this,' " he says. "After that, whether you win or TV. Walter going into the last round. Schenkel, who came in sec­ lose, you were up there and you did it." . "I ·was much more nervous watching him in person from ond place, ended up with a nice chunk of change himself at Walter's favorite category of the tournament was litera­ the audience," Robert says. "But when we were home watch­ $42,800. ture, in which he got all the questions right, but also really liked ing him on TV, even though we knew what was going to hap­ The tournament itself went by quickly because several the pop-culture_categories. pen we were still just as nervous. I was actually a little nau­ shows were taped at one time, Walter says. When it was his "My friends were all pretty impressed when I got a ques­ seous." turn to be a contestant, the game went ever faster. tion about Ludacris right," Walter says. "They thought that was It was Walter's father who encouraged him to apply to be Walter says one of the hardest parts about being on the pretty funny." on the show in the first place. The two would often watch show was waiting around. While they're not competing, the Walter says although he won, the most common topic of "Jeopardy!" together, and when Walter would get a good other contestants are held in a secluded room together so they conversation among friends was long-time host Alex Trebek. amount of questions right on adult "Jeopardy!," his father men­ can't watch the game in progress. • Walter admits he didn't see much ofTrebek when he was tioned he should try out. "One day I got there at 7 a.m. and didn't start playing until filming the show. Walter barely spoke to him, but noticed he On the last night of the tournament, the Walters set up four 5 p.m.," Walter says. "Sitting and waiting with everyone just was friendly and tried to talk to"'the contestants and audience televisions in their living room and invited a few dozen ot made me more nervous, but it also gave me a chance to calm members during breaks. • . David's teachers, friends and family to ' watch the champi­ down and get myself together before I went on." Walter also says it's obvious Trebek's intellectual-snob onship round. Before the final round aired, the Walters had to Walter says he has been a fan of "Jeopardy!" for a long vibe that he often gives off is no act. In fact, Trebek was keep the outcome of the show a secret. time and likes to play along when he watches at home. So, he extremely knowledgable, even without his blue note cards with Walter says the $75,000 cash prize that he won will be put wasn't surprised when familiar categories showed up in some the answers written on them. to good use. Some will be put awzy for college, although how of his rounds. "He seemed to really know _what he was talking about,'' much is still being negotiated between Walter and his parents, "There are a lot of categories that you notice popping up Walter says. "When the judges needed to deliberate on an and some he will use to travel. again and again if you watch the show a lot, so I looked at old ·answer he would throw his 2 cents in. It's not an act, he's a vei:y All in all, Walter says the experience was once-in-a-life­ archives on the 'Jeopardy!' Web site to study from," he says. "I smart guy." time and one he will never forget. 26February 27,2007 . )it New condoms aim to keep you up

BY TIM MISLOCK an "erectogenic compound to · help men dom which would be absorbed by the penis. "The female version seems like it would Staff Reporter maintain an erection during intercourse," the "This will result in increased local be effective but the Viagra condom is push­ Is condom slippage preventing you site says. This compound will be the first blood flow which in turn should lead to ing it since keeping it up is not really a prob­ from having the sex you want? Fear not - non-prescription Viagra-like substance improved rigidity, tumescence and duration lem," Turkel says. "It might cause problems there is a new condom in the works to help aimed at male maintenance. of an erection," the site states. because elongated erections could get him keep it up. Futura Medical, a company According to Futura, the condom is for Freshman Nicole Fleisher thought it messy." based in Surrey, United Kingdom, is devel­ healthy men to use, not just men with erec­ was good to see a condom company trying to According to Futura, the condoms are oping two new condoms to fight against con­ tile disfunction. inake advancements since condoms are not currently being tested in Europe with a dom slippage due to feminine dryness and a The FLD500 has a coating on the out­ guaranteed protection against unwanted scheduled release there for the end of 2007. male's inability to stand at attention. side that will encourage a female's natural pregnancies. Senior Mike Sacra says the female con- The Condom S.afety Device 500 and the lubrication process during sex. "Durex is taking into account that con­ dom is a good idea. · ·Female Lubrication Device 500 are two new "FLD500 is aimed at helping healthy doms aren't 100% effective," Fleisher says. "It would be an alternative to getting developments in sexual health, according to 'women maintain lubrication during · inter­ The FLD500 works in a slightly differ­ lube halfway through sex," Sacra says. "It the Futura Web site. The CSD500 contains course, reducing the risk of condom failure," ent way from the CSD500. The compound is will cut down on the problem of friction." the Web site states. located on the outside of the condom and He says if the condoms were eventually SSL International, the company will be absorbed by the vagina during inter­ released in the U.S. he would consider trying that owns and distributes Durex con­ course. them. doms, is working with Futura "This will result in improved local "It's something to try. I've tried differ­ Medical to develop the products, blood flow which in turn will enhance natu­ ent types with my girlfriend to see if there which are currently under testing in ral vaginal lubrication," Futura says on its are different reactions," Sacra says. "Trying Europe right now. SSL issued a state­ Web site. different types we find out which ones we ment saying the company is currently The FLD500 differs from other lubricat­ both respond to better or worse." unwilling to comment on the new ed condoms because of this. Instead of arti­ Sophomore Josh Hack says he would condoms. ficial lubrication, this condom would think about using them depending upon their "The product is still in the develop­ encourage the woman's natural response to, price. mental stage so we are unable to sexual stimulation. "If they were the same price as the oth­ comment further on that product Since the condoms are still being tested ers than I would use them, as long as they idea," the statement says. "Durex and the company manufacturing them is · work and don't cause any problems," Hack will be Working hard to bring innova­ reluctant to speak about possible problems says. tive new products to help to improve and complications due to using the condoms, He says he probably would not tdl his the health and satisfaction of people's some students seem equally reluctant about partner if he was using the condoms, but not sex lives." using them. · · · because he would be embarassed by them. According to Futura, CSD500 Freshman Jordana Turkel feels there is "You don't announce which type you're would contain a small dose of the not much of a need for the CSD500 but that using every time. You just get a variety pack Viagra-like compound inside the con- the FLD500 could be useful. and go," Hack says. Everyone has an opinion on Miss University Online

·BY JEREMY SMim Abruzzese . contacted his friend from ing for a trucker calendar," Montano says. been critical. Staff Reporter University of Pennsylvania State friend, Scott "All participants should be embarrassed." Senior Don Romaniello questions the When it comes to online social network­ Krukowski. They worked for six-months on Chew and Abruzzese consistently '"university" element. ing, Myspace addicts and Facebook fiends the site before launching it. respond to similar criticism. "It's odd because it's called Miss have seen it all before - the provocative pic­ To get participants for the new site, they "It's not meant to be like a dirty maga­ University, which implies education," tures of barely dressed women and shirtless used flyers and other means of low-scale pro­ zine," Chew says. "It's a forum for creativity Romaniello says. "But the focus of the site men, overly pimped-out pages with pointless motion. They intentionally did not over-pro­ and beauty. It's a tastefully done site." · seems to be sex." information about each person, scene kids mote the site. Abruzzese agrees with Chew's defense. Junior June Green says the site disgusts posing in artistically-thoughtful ways and "We kept the first contest smaller in order "Criticisms are just as welcome as the her. those who add as many people as possible like to gain appropriate criticisms and feedback so praises we've received," he says. "Girls can be such sugary sluts," Green it's a competition. we can adapt the Web site to what the audi­ Freshman Heather Palmer says the Weo says. "Girls try to appear sexy because they Miss University Online aims to create ence wants," Abruzzese says. site is only promoting physical attractiveness, get attention. It's OK, I guess, but they're just something different. - So far, the feedback for the Web site has • which is just one aspect of beauty. dressing to please others or valuing their bod- The Web site, run by university juniors been of general success, now spanning "It's like, 'Mirror, mirror on the wall, ies far more than is healthy." · Philip Abruzzese and Alex Chew, launched in more than fifty different colleges across the who's the fairest one of all,'" Palmer says. Stratton says she disagrees with the neg­ October of 2006. The Web site's allows col­ country, with a crew of As to the idea the ative feedback and says the women participat­ lege girls the opportunity to submit picture thirty and growing~ .------, Web site promotes a ing offer more than just looks. portfolios of themselves and each month there Chew says they certain standard of "I think it's significant to mention that the is a different "theme" that the girls can inter­ have contacted compa­ -beauty, Abruzzese girls in the contest are obviously intelligent pret with their photos. Then visitors can vote nies and received spon­ assures that this is not and hardworking, since they do . attend col­ on which girl they think best fits the theme of sorships. The most the case. lege," she says. "They are trying to make the month. notable being a spring "No effort has something for themselves, and are not relying The prizes awarded are $250 for second break company called M been made Qy the staff solely on looks to get by in this world." runner up, $500 for the first runner up, and a Extreme Trips. com. to promote one type of Abruzzese says he is looking to expand spring break vacation awarded to the winner. "It's a business ven­ beauty. We don't the site in order to go beyond what Facebook For the November contest, Amber Stratton, a ture," he says. "We're believe there's one and Myspace offer. He says there are plans to university junior, took the top prize. The offering a product that type of beauty," he include portfolios which would allow partici­ month's theme was "School Spirit." people are interested in. u says. pants to put information about music, friends, Stratton states in an e-mail message that This is not at all just Both he and photo albillns or post videos of themselves she heard about-the Web site from friends who about some horny guys Chew also pointed out doing a talent. were also promoters of Miss University wanting to look at pic­ that the participants "We're going to transitiOn from Online. She says her experience was a posi­ tures of hot girls. It's 0 are voted on by people Montano's 'calendar audition' into a national tive one. about expressing beauty registered by the site online experience," Abruzzese says. "And "I liked the whole idea of the contest, imd and creativity through an - they have no sway more individuality - this site will offer would definitely recommend entering to any­ online social network." over who wins or who opportunity for exposure. It'll create global one who is confident and comfortable in their That last bit brings doesn't. opportunity rather than just a collegiate popu­ own skin," Stratton says. up some of the criticism There's also a larity contest." The idea for the Web site came from they have faced - that question of diversity Abruzzese says that the idea isn't just to Abruzzese. During his usual rounds on this is just ariother site, allowing young guys - or, lack thereof ape Facebook, but rather to revolutionize the Myspace and Facebook, he started to notice to gawk at pictures of girls who fit a certain "It's not big enough yet to attract a wider whole social online networking system. that some profiles were rather intriguing and beauty standard and that pictures are so audience," Abruzzese says. "The majority of "People are so tired of Myspace and portrayed well-put-together photos. provocative that it's cheapening the girls who girls are from UD, and you know, this is not Facebook," he says. "Every person has a Abruzzese decided that there was no end to take part. the most diverse school. We feel that as the story, anq· this site plans to take that story and the creativity and imagination, so he set out to John Patrick Montano, a university pro­ Web site grows, the diversity will grow as somehow materialize it on a flat screen. As set up a Web site similar to, but not exactly the fessor, has a strong opinion ofthe Web site. well." you know, our adage for the site is, 'A podium same as Facebook. "I think they look like they're audition- Student reaction to the site has. thus far for beauty, competition and imagination.' " Jlt February 27. 2007 27 The sisters of Sigma Kappa would like to welcome Laundry 101 : rules of its newest addition to the Theta Delta chapter dryer engagement

BY ESTHER WALSH take up the awkward role of shuf­ StaffReporter fling through a stranger's unmen­ Students cast it into dark cor­ tionables while removing them from ners, stuff behind extra long, skinny a machine. twin-beds or jam it into any crevice Sophomore Sypherd resident, available in their cramped 11-by-12 Josh Godfrey, says he usually tries foot dorm room. These discarded to be considerate when it comes to articles are none other than dirty removing someone else's clothes laundry. from a machine. Laundry loves procrastinators. "Yeah, I take them out, but only The inevitable task challenges time­ if there are no other machines open," ly, responsible students and feeds off GoQfrey says. "I'll give them 10 to sheltered freshmen who have 15 minutes." become accustomed to relying on Freshman Mark Steverson says their parents to do the dirty work. he dislikes when people remove his Everyone dreads being stuck personals from the machines, how­ undertaking this domestic chore, ever, he admits he breaks the code of alexa geistman elise lomboy katharine gray lindsey olr.en especially college students forced to the laundry room. • alexandra Kiernan elizabeth young kathryn tschantre maria mcLaughlin do laundry in the residence halls. "I went down to the laundry amanda paladinetti emily weber katie gunther nicole medina Laundry rooms on campus are room and caught a chick in the anastasia bussard enca. caruso kelly vigneron nilr.lr.icochran known for their limited and outdated act of taking my clothes out andrea barry erin aliquo lr.rista hoffstaedter rachel gerlach washers and dryers, dryers that of the laundry room," ashley basford erin parnell lr.risten fox samantha bevacqua never actually dry clothes and Steverson says. "I ashley gabelman erin wessely lr.risten mathisen samantha wentz the notorious weekend laundry told her, 'Those ashley rappaport genevieve pannell lr.ristie cotrufello suzanne chalet traffic. are my clothes,' caitlin o'donnell gina perrochino laura bill tanya sandler Harrington resident but she just early nacer jennifer steen laura welsh teni adegbile Dana Carroll, a sophomore, brushed me courtney lr.linga jessica aberger lauren l.>rodbine tiffany betz says laundry facilities have off. 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The only other option is to clothes can drive any student insane. 28 NEW ORLEANS AND ABROAD: 2007 WINTER SERVICE-LEARNING FORUM Friday, March 2, 2007 3:00-4:30 p.m. Ewing Room, Perkins Student Center

3:00 WELCOME: Susan Serra, Coordinator, Office of Service-learning

3:05 SAVING ECUADOR, ONE TREE AT A TIME Presenters: Members of the Ecuador program Faculty Advisor: Ms. Suzanne Tiemey-Gula, FLL

Participants: Anthony Angelico, Marques Brown, Christopher Deming, Alexis Dittberner, Michelle Gill, Amy Graboski, Allen Gula, Nicole Haggerty, Kelley Helie, Corey Hopkins, Tina Hsieh, Jordyn Kramer, Oscar Romero, Meghan Todd-Gesty, Amy Weniger, Paula Williams, Amanda Wilson ·

3:20 SERVICE-LEARNING ABROAD: TEACHING ENGUSH IN PANAMA Presenters: Linsey Beeson, Marlsa Keen, Caroline Meliones, Justin Greenberg, Professor Jorge Cubillos Transfers attempt Faculty Advisor: Professor Jorge H. Cubillos, FLL Participants: Linsey Beeson, Jeffrey Brodzinski, Lori Brown, Taryn Gonabe, Marisa Keen, Sonrisa Lewis, Christine Lowe, Lorraine Makone, Diona Mcintire, Caroline Meliones, Shawneila Pierre, Lindsay Prather, Ann Rulli, Lauren Streisfeld, Erin Toole, Rebecca Walker, Bryana Williams smooth transition BARBADOS 3:35 Presenters: Erica Craig and Danielle Norris BY ALYSSA R. JIMENEZ many spaces will be available in Faculty Advisors: Professor Norma Gaines-Hanks, IFST, and Professor Nyasha Grayman, IFST Staff Reporter the residence halls for the fall." For some transfer students, the Freshman Erin Ryan, a fashion Participants: Tiffany Armstrong, Rebecca Clark, Erica Craig, Kerri DeMott, Stephanie Eisenberg, Kerri first days of classes and moving merchandising major, says she Faulkner. David Fuhrman, Chelsea Gussaroff, Mary Hutchins, Kristin Johnson, Kaitlin Kernan, Rebecca into a residence hall at a new insti• requested to live in South Central Lee, Erica Melman. laura Milazzo, Melissa Morris, Megan Murray, Danielle Norris, Nicole Pegno, Maria tution can be as awkward and campus, away from where most Constanza Pizano, Lyell Scherline, Michelle Schulte, Megan Smith nerve-wracking as the fust day of transfer students are situated, so kindergarten - the exception that she could be closer to her 3:50 NEW ORLEANS being your mother was there to classes. Presenters: Jissell Martinez and Sally Mikhail hold your hand and gently encour­ "My resident advisor is great Faculty Advisor: Professor Deborah Alvarez, English age you to "make new friends" and though," Ryan says. "She's putting "play nice." Transfer students start­ me in contact with some girls in UD Faculty/Staff/Community: John Courtright, Undergraduate Studies, Martha Carothers, Bonnie • ing classes at the largest university this building who also have a fash­ Albertson, Bruce Bigatel, Celestine lyght, Suzanne Potts, Linda Russell. Sue Serra in Delaware may fmd it easy to get ion merchandising major and she's lost in the crowds and feel as so sweet." Graduate Students: Sherol Chen, lionel! Flamer. Kytson McNeil, Laurin Parker obscure as the blinking dots on Junior Amanda Cusumano, ' navigation systems. who transferred to the university in Undergraduates: Laura Armstrong, Melody Casagrande, Jimmy Chiu, Andrea Cisneros, Amber Donoflio, According to the university's Brandi Gilbert, Katie Kerr, Tim Kim, Jissell Martinez, Sally Mikhail, Kerri Moore, Shalla Parker, Alisa Singer, the spring of 2005 from Montclair Ashley Smith, Erin Stevens, Amanda Strickland, Sarah Taglioli Web site, of the 15,849 undergrad­ State University in Montclair, N.J., uates who are currently attending says being placed on a floor with 4:05 RECEPTION the university for the 2006-2007 mostly transfers in Christiana's academic year, 4 percent are stu­ West Towers did not have a nega­ dents who have transferred from tive effect on her experience. 4.75x5.62.qxd 2/23/07 10:54 AM other academic institutions all over "If anything, it made the tran­ the United States and from coun­ sition tremendously easier," tries overseas such as Belarus, Cusumano says, "since I was China, France and Norway. placed with students who were new Louis Hirsh, director of to the school as well and hadn't admissions, states in an e-mail mes­ already established friendships. ~~llco ege"'"'' ~program"''"'o"' sage the university generally Our resident advisor and hall direc­ enrolls between 175-200 transfer tor were especially helpful if we students for the Spring Semester had any questions concerning reg­ and approximately 450 transfer stu­ istration, bus schedules, laundry dents for the Fall Semester. and room switches. Even if they He says while transfers might didn't have the answers they would need extra time to graduate due to always point us in the right direc­ inconsistencies with transferring tion." credits, most transfers are generally Cusumano also joined the successful in their academic careers Transfer Exchange Connection, a at the university. · program formed to give transfer . "We periodically check on the and exchange students an opportu­ V A paid internship opportuntty that will stand out V A custom-designed leammg curriculum that progress of inidividual students," nity to meet each other and to gain on a resm~? cam you college acdit? he says, "and these da!ll suggest support and guidance in their tran­ y A chance to gain real-world experience with the y An opportumty to meet people from around that the great majority of transfer sition into the univeristy communi­ company recently named Jf1 m BusinessWeciG first make lifelong friends, and have fun? students do graduate." ty. ever ranking of "SO Best Places to launch a Career"? Unfortunately, the university Dena Kniess, Complex does not employ "hand-holders." Coordinator for the Christiana As a part of the Disney College Program at the walt Disney wortcfl> Resort near · Rather, it provides guides in the Towers, says TEC contacts transfer Orlando, R., partic:ipants can e!!pCrience an internship of a lifetime. Attend our ~"lim presentation form of resident advisors and the students through e-mail to inform and discover why the Oisn<.>y Colegc Program is an opportunity you JUSt can1 miss! officials at the Residence Life them of events that they have set office to help transfer students up. through their transition. Some past social activities University Of Delaware Linda Carey, director of included potluck suppers, ice Housing Assignment Services, says cream socials and movie nights. Sunday • March 4th • 5:00pm in the past, they attempted to place Students meet in a conference room Monday • March 5th • 6:00pm transfers on the same floors in in the Christiana Towers where Trabant Center order to help them adjust. Recently, they are able to socialize and dis­ however, she says they have cuss any recent issues or concerns Scheduling conflict? v;,m our online E·Prcs<.mation assigned students to residence halls that have come up since arriving at disncycolegcprogra.n.com/cprescntatiOI> all over campus in an effort to inte­ the university. grate them into the social network. Kneiss says these events are "Though normally transfers crucial for transfer students looking are housed in the Laird campus to meet new people at the universi­ area, we look at where the transfers ty. have preference to go and work to It is through programming that accommodate them if at all possi­ these students are able to choose ble," Carey says. "We look at can­ social outlets and find a niche for cellation rates during the past few themselves in the university net­ years and make predictions on how work," she says. February 27, 2007 29

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BY STEVE RUSSOLILLO Managing Sports Editor The women's basketball game Sunday had the potential to be a trap game. With Delaware coming I off one of its most impressive wins of the season Thursday night against No. 22 James Madison, and the Colonial Athletic Association tournament only a week and a half away, the Hens could have easily overlooked third-to-last place Drexel. MIKE LORE But Delaware made sure there would not be a letdown from the Where are all get-go. The Hens jumped out to a 25- the jerseys? 3 lead and held Drexel without a field goal until 12:05 in the first "Put a jersey on." half, en route to a 64-36 victory We all should remember those over Drexel, witnessed by 2,113 lines yelled by ex-Buccaneers defen­ fans at the Bob Carpenter Center. sive tackle Warren Sapp at ex­ "Coach always talks about Packers head coach Mike Sherman character after a loss, and I think after a game in 2003. there's something to be said for Though in a different context, character after a big win," senior Sapp's words can be used for what guard and captain Alena I'm trying to accomplish, so I'm Koshansky said. "After the [James telling every university student to do Madison] game, we had to come what the big man said. Put a jersey back for practice on Friday and on. What do I mean? Let me explain. Saturday, be focused on the game­ I know there are many out plan for Drexel and come out with there, including myself, that would the same amount of intensity." love to own an official University of Delaware's starting backcourt Delaware jersey - whether it be combined to score 49 of the team's football, baseball, basketball or 64 points to lead the Hens to their THE REVIEW/Ravi Gupta hockey. Why doesn't the university fourth-straight victory and eight of Tyresa Smith (above) led Delaware with 18 points on Sunday. Chrissy Fisher (below left), Alena Koshansky manufacture these jerseys? Your their last nine overall. (below middle) and Smith (below right) were honored during Senior Day festivities before the game. guess is as good as mine. Senior standout guard Tyresa Professional sports teams and Smith led Delaware · Delaware held a 40-18 half­ in a single game and the field goal many universities have official jer­ 18 points and recorded time advantage and never let the Delaware has allowed both rank seys for fans, so why can't Delaware 13th straight OotlbH~-OJlglt. lead slip below 18 points for the defeating Loyola 54-27 on Delaware's do the same? I wear my jerseys if scoring game of the remainder of the game. The Hens, 14, 2003. all-time list. Her 331 my team wins or loses and the same son. Junior guard who finished 13-0 at home this The Hens will close out assists and ·244 steals should be for Delaware apparel, but DeHaven added ,season, have won 15 in a row regular season March 1 each place her fourth we'd need to have them on the racks points, five steals at home and 26 of its last 27 Northeastern before in the university's before we could even make that four rebounds games at the Bob the Bob Carpenter record books. decision. Koshansky poured in Carpenter Center. 8-11 for the CAA Fisher came to Last year, I went out on a quest points and grabbed "We wanted to Delaware uvuv1"'"' Delaware last to purchase a Delaware football jer­ rebounds. out here and jump year as a transfer sey for a few reasons. First, I wanted "When we play well, on them," Smith from Maryland something besides a Cockpit T-shirt it's usually because we've "We didn't want to and made an imme­ to wear to games. I also wanted to been led by the guards and them any chance diate impact. She is show off my Delaware football pride our pressure and get in the game. We · averaging to friends and family. wanted to start the •u<""'""- 13.5 points defense," Delaware head 6;:-_...... ,..•• and 7.6 After browsing through clothes coach Tina Martin said. tum and we came racks at the NationalS & 10 and the "That was the same playing defense rebounds per University Bookstore, I found an all­ thing today and it's got pushing the game this blue, mesh "jersey" that looked like to be the theme for us De1a a pinny with sleeves made by OT throughout rest of the sea- She also has the Sports. son." _ _.,• .c;..ability to spread the Have you ever heard of OT The Hens (24-4, offense as she leads the Hens with Sports? I haven't either, w,ptitl spent 15-2 CAA) opened the_,...._ 35 three-pointers and a .455 three­ $40 on this jersey. After I walked out game on a 10-0 run, marking the point shooting percentage. of the bookstore with my No: 5 jer­ third time this season Delaware "We've got three great seniors sey, I started wondering a few things has scored the first 10 points of a and this day was all about getting about official . Delaware sports game. the win for them," Martin said. apparel, mainly the lack thereof. Drexel was ice cold from the "The three seniors definitely put If I know my athletic logos, opening tip as it missed its first their blueprint on this game. which I do, I've noticed the jerseys seven shots and committed seven Between Chrissy's rebounding, the players wear on the field don't turnovers in the first eight minutes Alena's shooting and Tyresa's have a big "OT" on them, rather a of the game before Narissa Suber Koshansky's 139 career defense, what else can you say, three-pointers and .374 career they dictated the game for us." nailed a three-point field goal. see HENS' page 34 3 2 Februarv 27. 2007 ~ Who·is this year's CAA Cin~erella? · By Jason Tomassini, Managing Sports Editor

George Mason earned them the right "So you're saying there's .a The Hens' weakness. has been their to play Delaware in the fust round, chance?" three-point defense, which. is 11th in the but this team is not as talented as its The Hens' slim chances of winning CAA, and Northeastern's strength has seed indicates. a first-round game from the bottom seed been t9e long ball. If Delaware can Northeastern lives and dies by got a lot better Saturday when defend the three and continue to get its the three-pointer, attempting more Northeastern beat George Mason to gain recent scoring from guards Sam than any other team in the confer­ the five-seed. Instead of facing the McMahon and Brian Johnson to com­ ence. The Huskies connect on .366 Patriots, who the Hens have lost to twice plement forward Herb Courtney, the percent, third best in the league, but by a combined 50 points, they face a Hens could pull an upset in a league are still ranked 11th in the CAA in familiar 12-18 Northeastern squad they known for its underdogs. scoring. Only seven players on the played Feb. 21. It bas been a tough ~eason for the No.5 Northeastern team average more than six minutes Northeastern needed eight three­ Hens in Monte Ross' fust year as head per game so they won't enjoy the pointers to win that game 70-61 and its No. 12 Delaware coach, but a victory in the fust round There is a huge drop-off from bench advantage most teams have lack of size and seven-man rotation could help ease the pain of a 25-loss the top four teams with byes and the over the Hens. matches up well with the Hens. campaign and, all things considered, rest of the schools, as evident by the A much-needed, five-day rest should }lave the short­ would generate some moment\)nl going into next season. Huskies' 12-18 record. Prediction - Shooters go cold and handed Hens fresher than they have been all season. With They still won nine games in the they will suffer a fust-round loss to that said, it's still going to be tough for Delaware to win Prediction - Part match-up part optimism, the Hens conference and a win Saturday over Hens. and create a match-up with rival Drexel, who it beat last upset Northeastern, but fall to·D;;;xel Saturday. year. in the CAA tournament.

aging more than 10 minutes per game, the Tribe can put many fresh bodies on the floor. Friday Saturday Sunday Their depth and the CAA's fourth-best scoring defense will 8 William & Mary make up for their lack of scoring. William & Mary's top-ranked, three-point defense won't be a big factor against poor-shooting Georgia WINNER GAME 1 State, but it could give Vtrginia GAME1 Commonwealth -who is second in 12:00 PM the league in three-point shooting - ' a scare. WINNER GAME 5 The Tribe crushed fust-round GAMES No. 8 William & Mary opponent Georgia State 1wice this ~ 12:00 PM year and a first-round win would . The Tnbe, picked to finish 11th mean a successful year for this young in the preseason CAA poll, was the team. surprise team in the league this year 9 Georgia State Monday before dropping its last three regular Prediction - A closer-than-you­ CAA CHAMPIONSHIP -season games. With 10 players aver- think secpnd-round loss to VCU. . 1 vcu GAME9 WINNER GAME 9 3:00PM should pose match-up problems ·for William & Mary. But with the 4 Drexel Tribe's depth and Georgia State's lack of a true point guard (they are 5 Northeastern last in the CAA in assists as well), points could be hard to come by for the Panthers. All of that could GAME6 change if the CAA leader in three­ 2:30PM point percentage, Leonard GAME2 Mendez, has a hot night. But over­ 2:30PM all, the Panthers are outmatched. WINNER GAME 6 No. 9 Georgia State They have lost to the Tribe by a combined 30 points in two games The Panthers almost spoiled this season. VCU's regular-season champi­ WINNER GAME 2 onship Saturday but were unable Prediction - They pulled a first­ to hold on despite leading by as round upset last year as a 10-seed, 12 Delaware many as 13 in the first half. beating Towson, but William & Richmond Coliseum Leading scorer Lirnce Mary will knock them out this Perique, a 6-foot-8 wing player, year in a low-scoring affair. Richmond, Va.

What does that mean? Nothing Drexel bead coach Bruiser Flint centage defense, just less than 40 per­ short of a tournament championship would bate to see his good friend cent, but it's been their oft-stagnant and an automatic bid is going to get Monte Ross and the Hens for the third perimeter offense that bas often led to the Rams into the Big Dance. time this season. Delaware knocked losses. Last year's leading scorer Barring any big surprises, the Drexel out of the CAA tournament Dominick Mejia is scoring over three Rams will face Drex~l in the semi­ last season ·and have played the points less this season than last. finals Sunday. They won at Drexel Dragons tough both times this-year. One of the advantages Drexel does earlier in the season but the I?rexel, with an RPI of 44 and have on the perimeter is point gliard Dragons were without leading scor­ wins at Villan6va, Syracuse and Bashir Mason, a three-time All-CAA er Frank Elegar. While the home­ Creighton, probably needs to play Defensive First Team member. It town crowd should help the Rams, their way into the NCAA could be·his defense that slows down their regular rotation doesn't feature Tournament. A win over VCU in the VCU's high-powered, three-guard a player taller than 6-foot-7. semifmals should be enough, but attack ·of B.A. Walker, Eric Maynor. No. 1 Virginia Drexel's front line and tough surely Flint doesn't want to leave it No.4 Drexel and Jorge Pellot-Rosa in a possible perimeter defense should be a big, up to the selection committee. semifinal match-up. Commonwealth possibly season-ending problem for The Dragons have the best frontcourt in the con­ vcu. ference with Chaz Crawford and Frank Elegar, which Prediction They should get by Despite winning the regular should be the difference against VCU, but it's the l)elaware/Nortbeastem easily and then squeak by season CAA championship, VCU Prediction - Fans can't make up offensive production of their guards that will be a con­ VCU. But a final loss to Old Dominion could put the has just the· third-best RPI in the for talent. VCU will lose to Drexel cern. Dragons on the good side of the bubble. conference at 60, behind Drexel and in semis. The Dragons have a CAA-best field-goal per- Old Dominion. )lt February 27,2007 33 Forecasting the conference tourney

The Monarchs enter the CAA tour­ Old Dominion is led by arguably the CAA championship to play another nament squarely on the bubble with an best of the CAA's impressive European m · game in March. RPI of 33 as of Sunday. On the bright imports, senior forward Valdas Vasyllus. H a's three-headed back- side, their RPI is the highest in the con­ He's averaged 30 points and 10.5 court of Loren Stokes, the odds-on ference - six of their seven losses have rebounds in two games - his highest favorite for player of the year; been against possible NCAA tourna­ scoring games of the season - against Antoine Agudio and Carlos Rivera ment teams and they have won 11- Hofstra, taking advantage of their sus­ account for 54 points per game but if straight games. pect front court. those three struggle, it rarely wins. But a loss on Saturday or Sunday If ODU faces Drexel in the finals, it A George Mason-Hofstra quar~ would leave the Monarchs with a week would be welcomed by head coach terfinal game should be the best of of waiting before the selection cormnit­ Blaine Taylor. The Monarchs beat the Saturday even though Hofstra won tee decides their fate. With an abnor­ Dragons by a combined 37 points in comfortably at Mason this year. The mal amount of bubble teams this sea- N 2 Old D • • two regular season meetings. It's tough Patriots have the size to make son, each team would feel much safer 0. OIDiniOn to beat a team three times in a season, :H;ofstra pay inside and should be the by controlling its own destiny. b~t it's hard to argue with that kind of fan favorites. They should have the most fans present besides dominance. VCU and a semifinal match-up against Hofstra might Prediction - They will eek by come down to that extra boost from the fans. They split Prediction - The fans will get them by Hofstra in a close George Mason, but, despite their both regular season meetings with the Pride with the one and the Monarch~ will cut down the nets Monday superior talent, will fall to ODU in home team winning both games easily. night after edging by Drexel. _the semis.

ing, but Towson has just one other player, Dennard Abraham, averag­ Sunday Saturday Friday ing more than.six points a. game. If Neal isn't on or is disinter­ 7Towson ested, as he sometimes can be, UNC-Wilmington has the size and perimeter defense (third in the CAA in_three-point defense) to p\lll a pos­ WINNER GAME 3 sible upset. GAME3 But Towson beat the Seahawks - 75-61 in their only meeting this 6:00PM year and Neal has averaged just WINNER GAME 7 No.7 Towson under 29 points per game in his last GAME? In tournament play, a team can five. 6:00_PM be as good as its best player and CAA leading scorer Gary Neal has Prediction - The Tigers will get certainly shown his ability to carry by UNC-Wilmington but have little Monday 10 UNC Wilmin gton a team. At 25.6 points per game, chance, save a career performance Neal is fourth in the nation in scor- from Neal, to upset Old Dominion CAA CHAMPIONSHIP' in the second round. WINNER GAME 10 GAME10 2 Old Dominion 5:30PM - to beat DeUiware Saturday to avoid going from first to worst. 3 Hofstra Much oflast year's team grad­ uated, , but the frontcourt of 6 George Maso n Vladimir Kuljanin and Todd .ijendley, who combine for almost 25 points per game, ·could give GAMES Towson . problems . . The game ·will 8:30PM be decided on Wilinington's ability GAME4 to contain Towson's Gary Neal. ., They have some depth with 10 8:30PM players averaging at least 10 min­ WINNER GAME 8 utes per game, but it hasn't translat­ ed into good defensive numbers as they are lOth in the CAA in scoring WINNER GAME 4 defense and last in forced turnovers.

11 James Madison Prediction ~ The Seahawks have a chanc~ of beating Towson, but won'~. They have no chance ofbeat­ iqg ODU.

Everyone's sentilflental favorite Year, but their weak interior will isn't going to the Final Four again be no match for George Mason's this year. In fact, George Mason will Will Thomas. be lucky to make the final four of the ye;tr...... , '' They are last in the CAA in conference tournament , The, .. ,I>a~do.ts also struggle from three-pointers made, three-point In both meetings this year, the thtee-poi,nt nt as they are lOth in defense and defensive rebounds Patriots blew out James Madison and the CAA ip. -pointers made: and are ninth in turnover margin. a battle of the top defensive team in while Hofstra is . Those numbers aren't going to win the CAA (George Mason) and the l.{ega~;qJe$$ o ... ~it perfo a lot of college basketball games, worst (James Madison) should be fans )Vill .certainly show theirs especially in tournament play. pretty one-sided. for .a team that bas t .h Sophomore and leading scorer Gone are 2006 standouts Lamar the basketball wo:tl Juwann James could be a future Butler, Jai Lewis and Tony Skinn. No.6 George M,ason CAA. ·······. No.ll James Madison star, but Dukes fans should start Buttwo juniors who played signifi- N 0 one is .. going ~ C01.l,fit .out -the counting down the days until foot­ cant roles on last year's Cinderella Patriots,. biit this is .fl. sJ:i.el!- of the Despite recording a win over ball season. ~nad. forwards f ol~ .Cmnpbell , ~~.n!i .~,ill . Tlu~m.~, ,.. , ~,, ,4QQQ. ~aw., .. ,b,.on~l¥... t;ll~ .. lil:J; .. »'i!J, ,, 49Pl~··· !-i~ll,j~g1 ,.,. '''"'"' should keep them close with Hofstra. · · ,. · · · Old Dominion ihis season, the Dukes have struggled mightily and Prediction - The last game of a In tournament play, a team that plays defense like They will by t Prediction ...z... win come into the tournament losing long day of basketball Friday ends George Mason and rebounds like it does (the Patriots James Madison in the first round; b 10 of theidast 11. in a fop-sided rout with the Diikes have the best defensive rebounding in the CAA), usu- glory for head coach Jim Larranaga Point guard Pierre Curtis is a losing.· ally always has a chance, but Hofstra's terrific guards lose a hard-fought pa~l~ w~tP, F{Q.fs candidate for CAA Rookie of the 34 February 27. 2-QQZ }it DeHaven brings toughness to UD

BY SEAN CONSIDINE transferring. DeHaven used to charge out of control to the bas­ Staff Reporter ket, but now she paces herself and uses her tremendous speed at "I like defense. What can I say?" Kyle DeHaven says. the appropriate times. , The junior guard for the women's basketball team modest­ Martin says DeHaven would rather take a short jumper in ly speaks of her desire for defense, but with her team-leading 85 the lane than a three-pointer and has reverted back to ·the way steals this season, her actions definitely speak louder than her she played when she first arrived at Delaware. words. DeHaven said she has naturally improved because she is Growing up with three brothers, DeHaven was forced to be surrounded by more experienced players. tough. As a chitd, she always played basketball with the boys. She sees her role as bringing energy to the court and spark­ Her brothers treated her as any other boy treats a girl who is try­ ing the offense by making steals. ing to fit in. She remembers complaining to her mother that her "Everyone is working hard and having lots of fun," brothers would never give her the ball. DeHaven said. "But we need to stay together on the court. If the "My mom told me to go get the ball," DeHaven says, cred­ team stays together throughout the game, we will go all the way iting her defensive ability to her mother's advice: "It definitely this year." helped." With the Colonial Athletic Association tournament She eventually gained the boys' respect, but she had to earn approaching, she says balancing school with playing basketball it. She developed an aggressive playing style, getting a reputa­ can -be difficult. During the spring tournaments, she is forced to . tion for fouling and earning the name "Hacker." take her work on the road. The other players and tutors help Playing with guys instead of girls was difficult, DeHaven everyone complete their work and her professors are very says, but it has helped in situations against larger and more ath- · understanding. · letic teams. DeHaven studies criminal justice, a major that did not exist DeHaven moved into the starting lineup this year after a at William & Mary. back injury to junior guard Melissa Czorniewy. "I immediately changed my major when I came to "Kyle stood out from all other options," head coach Tina Delaware," she says. Martin said. "DeHaven is a good, consistent player. No ques­ She became interested in the field from watching "Law and tions, she 'earned the spot." Order" and "CSI." She wants to play basketball as long as pos- DeHaven says she had no problem assuming i{ starting sible and hopes to coach after college. . role. Her mind was set on building chemistry with the team and Her dream is to become an assistant or head coach at the establishing her new place among the other players after sitting college level. She says she loves college players as well as the out the previous season. bonds coaches and student athletes share. DeHaven transferred from William & Mary two years ago, If she cannot coach at the college level, she says she would THE REVIEW/Mike DeVoll but was not allowed to play last year due to NCAA regulations. to like to teach players who are just getting their start and learn­ Kyle DeHaven leads the Hens with 85 steals this season. "It was rough," she says. "I was only allowed to practice ing the foundations, bringing her back to playing with her broth- and had to sit on the bench during games." ers. lot. Most of the others never want to watch them though. The She says her game has improved, especially little things, . When she is not studying or playing basketball, DeHaven team is one big family. like her footwork. says she spends her free time mostly with her teammates. "Basketball is my outlet. Whenever I'm out on the court I Martin says DeHaven has become more disciplined since "We like movies," DeHaven says. "I like horror movies a feel at home."

Delaware athletes,.. react .:to ·recent Hens'. fans. left.without sexuality issues in t·he spo'rts w_otld authentic apparel · BY MAGGIE SCHILLER and all friends," junior.- men's Sports Editor lacrosse captain 'l:otnmy Scherr said. Continued from page 31 and lacrosse jerseys. So, if that were the case for ''I hate gay people, so I let it be "So it really wouldn't make a diffe white Nike swoosh. Why can't the known. I don't like gay people and I ence." . " . Delaware, it should offer football, university ask Nike to make more basketball, lacrosse and baseball jer­ don't like to be around gay people," Many than say, the 100 or so, jerseys they former NBA All-Star Tim Hardaway should not seys. Our football team won the make for the players? This jersey Division I-AA national champi­ said on Sports Talk 790 The Ticket tb,e and. pe,opl(~ ~ that the school sells looks like a "I'm homophobic. I don't like it. Ii: onship in 2003. The women's bas­ cheap knockoff. ketball team has won more than 20 shouldn't be in the world or in the I haven't seen too many people United States." games in six of the last seven sea­ • wearing a Delaware football jersey sons and reached the NIT This debate was inspired by last and I have a feeling it's because the week's announcement that former Tournament four times. Men's jersey doesn't look like the real lacrosse made it to the NCAA NBA center John Amaechi is thing, which is why no one buys it. I gay. . Tournament two years ago. know that our football rival . Baseball, which is currently ranked Hardaway's opinion on Villanova offers official Nike foot­ how he would respond to hav­ No. 43, led the nation in home runs ball jerseys at its bookstore for $50. per game, doubles per game and ing a gay teammate and about Its football team was only one game gay people in general h~ bee:g._ slugging percentage last year. over .500 last year. Its program is no It can't be hard to get these jer­ made loud and clear acrqss th~ ' better than ours but the fans can go country. , seys made. If the university has a to games wearing official jerseys deal with a company to make them But some athletes at while I'm stuck wearing my knock­ Delaware had a mo.re positjve for the team, why not make more for off. the students and fans? They'll sell. response than Hardaway. Let's move away from football. "A player is a player," Just look at how many people are Where are the basketball jerseys? wearing the Under Armour hoodies women's lacrosse senior cap­ We have some nationally-ranked tain Katie Muth said. "I don't after they came out in the fall. The programs, but fans can't show their bookstore was on the right track think it would be a problem, support by wearing jerseys because our team is all pretty accepting with the Under Armour sweatshirts they're not sold. Men's lacrosse is and shorts and need to take a big­ with most things." No. 15 in the nation and I didn't see Senior baseball captain Bryan named company like UA or Nike the bookstores loading up on and market official jerseys. Hagerich agreed a teammate is a lacrosse jerseys for the start of the teammate. Hey, bookstore, check out those season. stats and get started on making jer- ' "Obviously, either way, he i~ a Browsing at other universities' teammate no matter whatt };lagerich seys for the fans to wear. I'm tired of bookstores, it seems that a program's "Fear the bird" shirts .. said. "It is his own decision what he success results in what apparel they does on his own time." carry. Notre Dame offers official jer­ Aside from being teammates ... on seys for their nationally-ranked foot­ the field, several players said they Mike LoRe is a sports editor at The ball and hockey teams. Villanova Review. Send questions, comments are close friends off the field and does the same for football and bas­ nothing could change that. and some cheese for his whine to ketball and Hofstra offers basketball mlore@udel. edu. "Th:,whole .:eam is rea~~~ ~~~s~_,.en~e w·~ou~!l! . ~l~:~~~:~-~~~l~t~~t~!! )t February 27, 2007 35 > ----~------~------~------~------

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Coverage not available everywhere. Available features and services will vary by phone and networl The Nationwide Sprint PCS Network reaches over 250 million people. Voice calling area reaches 011er 165 million people in the U.S., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam. Offers not available in all maricets. Additional terms and restrictions apply. Subject to credit appiOIIill. See store or sprint.com for details. Phone Offer: Offer ends 03/31/07 or while supplies last. Requires a new line of service with a new two-year subscriber agreement. Taxes ellduded..Service Plan: Up to $36 activation and $200 early termination fees apply per line. Deposit may be required. Instant Savings: Activation at tirneof purchase required. No cash badt MaiHn Rebate: Requires purchase by 03/31/07 and activation by 04/14/07. Rebates cannot ellreed purchase price. Taxes exduded. Une must be active 30 consecutive days. Allow 8 to 12 weeks fur rebate. Free Text Messaging: Text message average is $0.10 per message. To avoid charges, you must contact us prior to the billing end date of the 12th plan month. Rlslcfree Guarantee: Call us to deactivate and return (to place of purchase) complete, undamaged phone with receipt within 30 days of activation. You are responsible for all charges based on actual usage (partial monthly service charges, taxes, Sprint Fees, etc.). Project RED: Motorola and Sprint will collectively make a $17 contribution on the sale of each RED MOTORAZR V3m phone to the Global fund to Fight AI OS. Tuberculosis and Malaria. Seewww.motorola.rom/red, JOINREUcom,orwww.theglobalfund.org/en fur more details.I02007 Spr1nt Nextel. All rights reserved. • SPRINT, the logo and other trademarks are trademarks of Sprint Nextel. All thi~rty product or service names are property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. 3 6 Februarv 27. 2007 ·

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