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Balloon's Absence: a Stone Cold Realhy Tuesday, October 24,2006 Volume 133, Issue 7 Balloon's absence: a stone cold realHy . BY GEORGE MAST "Last year I went to The Balloon and it was awesome, senior year and that it became a hassle to try and find new Senior News Reporter but this year Homecoming was just so crowded," Koestler places to go to that were not overcrowded. A chain fence surrounds a large desolate plot of bare said. "Not having The Balloon was a major detriment to this "It was part of a routine almost," she said. "That's just ground on Main Street where there was once a sprawling year's Homecoming." what Y9U did on Tuesday and Thursday nights. It was hard stone structure. He said for years, graduates have been coming back to transitioning from Fall Semester to Winter Semester with­ The sidewalk in front of the fence, where hundreds of The Balloon at Homecoming. But this year, there seemed to out The Balloon . students used to stand shuffling in line, mugs in hand, wait­ be less alumni due to the closure of.their old bar. "It was sort of like, where do we go from here?" ing to enjoy local talent or even legends like Bruce "The Balloon being closed down put a huge dent in the McTighe said. Springsteen and The Dave Mathews Band, is now covered school's social life and bar scene," Koestler said. For Michael and Camille Gracie this loss carries an with protective scaffolding, a sign of the imminent con­ Mike Mignano, a 2005 alumnus, lived across the street extra significance. Camille said the two met while they were struction soon to begin. from the bar for two years and said he remembers the huge students working at the bar and will be celebrating their This past December, The Stone Balloon's doors were crowds at The Balloon on Homecoming. 26th wedding anniversary this week. shut forever, and on June 6, the slowly deteriorating land­ This year was different, Mignano said. She said they have fond memories of The Balloon and mark of the university campus for more than 30 years "It was almost like you could hear crickets on Main are still close friends with many of the people they met became a pile of twisted rubble to make way for the con­ Street with it not being there," he said. there. struction of condominiums. In previous years there .were tents put up in the parking "Certainly in my age group we would not still be going However, many alumni and once-devoted patrons feel lot behind The Balloon and it was able to accomodate thou- to The Stone Balloon so it's not like we miss it as a destina­ no amount of reconstruction on this waSteland can refi II the sands of people. • tion for the weekend," Camille said. "But we do feel gener­ hole left in the atmosphere of the university community. For others, like 2006 alumna Maria McTighe, the loss ally sad that it isn't there just because it was so much fun for For fifth year senior Craig Koestler, and many others, of Tlie Balloon was a bigger issue than j)lst its lack of pres­ us, and I think it is a little bit of a loss for the university this issue came to a head at the past Homecomipg, as other ence at Homecoming. com~unity." local bars developed lines longer than usual. McTighe said she went to the bar weekly ~uring her See ALUMNI page 11 ~ , . ~ . • .. • .• ••. • • • ......, ,.f .1' .. " ., .' I' " I' .' .. t ••• '. ."' .. • .. 'f· f ." ....... '4 ',.,. ".,','~'f.'''' '-, '" .... Ii. ft, _. ,_........ 'I.· ............... '" ' .. ' .. ',. ',~ ' ...... 'j,. ' ... '. '. 't. '. ' •• " ... ' .... ~. '.ii!:...................... II< ................ ,,~ ~ .... wt. ..... _ 2 October 24, 2006 Ill• SJue• .,.l 2 News 6 Who's who in Newark 14 Editorial 15 Opinion 17 Mosaic 21 Delaware UNdressed. 25 Classifieds 27 Sports THE REVIEW/Sara Davidson With Halloween around the corner, pumpkins are a main sell at Milburn Orchards. 27 Sports Commentary "vel) excJ)]sives Check out these articles and more on UDreview.com • STUDENTS LEARN TO LOVE THEIR BODIES Wellspring runs a day dedicated to health and self-image. GALLAUDET STUDENTS ARRESTED • AFTER PROTEST A historically deaf college in chaos after students disapprove of new president. 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Republican seats at risk have In a measure of the party's nearly tripled since January, accord­ growing optimism, the Democratic ing to the nonpartisan Cook Political Congressional Campaign Committee Report. Then, 18 GOP seats were plans to announce Tuesday it will endangered. Now, 48 are considered begin airing advertisements in 11 in play. new districts, including eight the To take back the House, which party had not considered competitive they lost in 1994, Democrats need a until recently, party sources say. net gain of 15 seats - something THE REVIEW/Jim O'Leary A panel of four professors and experts facilitated a teach-in with more than 70 university and community RISE IN BRIBERY THREATENS BORDER SECURITY members against the War in Iraq on Wednesday in Gore Hall. Bribery of federal and local brought against Border Patrol officials by Mexican smugglers is agents, local police, a county sheriff. rising sharply and with it the fear motor vehicle clerks, an FBI super­ that a culture of corruption is taking visor, immigration exatr!iners, Professorsencourag"e hold along the 2,OOO-mile border prison guards, school district offi, from Brownsville, Texas, t6 San daIs and uniformed personnel of Diego. every branch of the U.S. military; At least 200 public employees among others. The vast majority have been charged with helping to have pleaded guilty or .. have beell. dialogue on War in Iraq move narcotics or illegal immi­ convicted.' , grants across the U.S.-Mexican bor­ Some schemes have displayed der since 2004, double the illicit considerable sophistication among BY LEAH KIELL cult to find a common ground from than the protests of the 1960s. activity documented in prior years, Mexican drug lords, and their sue: Managing News Editor which the country can unite. Some audience members said an L.A. Times ex.amination ofpubUc cess shows a diseouragipgwilUngJ The history and potential injus­ "We picked as hard of a case after the Sept. II, 2001 terrorist records has found. T~usands more ness by public employees accep~ tices of the War in Iraq were dis­ that you could possibly find in that attacks, protesters' are often consid­ are 'under investigation. tainted money. cussed Wednesday evening as part of area of the world," Farber said of ered un-American as Bush originally Criminal charges have been a week-long, ,nationwide teach-in Bush's plan to make Iraq a "shining connected the Iraq War with al­ protesting the Bush administration's beacon of democracy" in the Middle Qaida, a claim that was proven false, DUKE UNIVERSITY PAVES WAY FOR INVISIBILITY foreign policies. East. but still remains in the minds of A panel of four scholars The only common factor Iraqis many Americans. It is not the kind of invisibili­ The cloaking structure, based described events surrounding the Iraq share is a hatred for Western culture, Junior Justin James, reflecting ty cloak you could put on and then on a neW theory proposed by John War to an audience of more than 70 brought about by years of British the concern of many members of the disappear, but scientists at Duke Pendry of Imperial College students, faculty and community Imperial rule and the United States' audience, said he was uncertain of University say they have taken a London, was described by team members in Gore Hall.
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