Blue Hen Poll Released Today, Finds Students Satisfied with UD Inside
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.,.. UDairy breaks ground on Ram Jam Music Festival · Former Hen returns to So.uth Campus creamery celebrates its third year coach basketball Seepage& · Seepage 18 Seepage 28 Check out the website for u.reView I Tuesday, May 4, 2010 ·com breaking news and more. Volume 137, Issue 25 Blue Hen Poll released today, finds students satisfied_with UD Inside... More than 1, 000 undergrads respond to student-conducted survey • Poll finds UD students no BY LAUREN SAVOIE winter session. From creation of questions to analysis of re longer apathetic News Features Editor This year's results showed more than 90 per sults, the poll was conducted solely by students cent of students were satisfied with their overall as part of an undergraduate research project in the • Women, seniors most The results of the third annual Blue Hen Poll experience at the university, about the same as the political science department. Each student was al anxious demographic were released today and show high support for uni number found in the two previous polls. lowed to choose a topic to explore in depth, looking versity policies and initiatives. The poll, conducted The survey was conducted through a random for different explanations of response results for a • Some students see advis by undergraduate students at the university under sample of2,500 students, ofwhich 1,117 responded particular issue. ers as unnecessary the direction of political science professor David to the 15-minute online questionnaire. The results Junior Rebecca Riley, who has helped conduct Wilson, measures student satisfaction and opinions are predicted to be accurate within a margin of 3 St>t> pages 6 and 7 on topics such as faculty, diversity, drug use and percent. See SATISFACTION page 6 Univ. amends bookstore's builditig design BY BRIAN RESNICK StaffReporter BY TED SIMMONS 12-song set and gave way to the In a six to one vote on April26, New Managing Mosaic Editor featured artist of night - Lud ark City Council approved an amended acris. His nondescript sunglasses plan for the university's proposed Main Two years and six hit sin were offset by his impossible-to Street bookstore. gles ago, Trey Songz performed miss chain and watch. Luda dove In response to complaints from New in Mitchell Hall. His hair was in directly into his library of hits, ark citizens about the original bookstore braids then, and he had yet to re rattling off one high-energy song proposal, university architects lowered the lease Ready, his most successful after another. height of the three-story building by 10 album to date, but that same show .. The mood calmed slightly feet, so it will now stand at 53 feet, said - the screams, the undressing, when Luda ordered the lights Bill Manning, an attorney who represents the playfulness - all returned off and for asked every audience tl1e university. when Songz took the Bob Carpen member to hold up a lighter or Additionally, steps were taken to ter Center stage on Wednesday. cell phone as he performed "Blue streamline the structure, and bring its fea This time around, he was berry Yurn Yum." Songz returned tures more in line with the surrounding the opening performer for the to the stage midway through the historic buildings. Cultural Programming Advisory set so the two could perform "Sex Initial demolition of the site will be Board's spring concert. All it took Room" together for the first time gin in May, and the university hopes the was his signature "Yuuup" chant ever. The single is off ofLudacris' projected $16.6 million bookstore and cafe t6 rev the audience up, and he kept Battle ofthe Sexes, and is currently complex will be completed by the summer the energy and admiration high no. 36 on the Billboard R&B/Hip of2011. throughout his set. Before diving hop chart. Ludacris made sure to In the updated plan, the fa9ade of the into "I Invented Sex," he asked the perform his other Battle Billboard historic Christina School District building crowd, "Who'$ coming home with mainstays including "My Chick will be preserved and house a cafe. A one me?" and the Bob was instantly Bad" and "How Low," both of story connector will segue the cafe to the flooded with shrieks. which he performed in the latter first floor of the Barnes & Noble bookstore Other Songz stage antics half of his set. Perhaps the most which will sell books intended for the gen included throwing his sweat fitting and surprising development eral public. soaked undershirt into the stands came when a pair of ladies under The second floor will hold the text - "Who wants it?" - and bring wear was thrown on stage during book storeroom, and the third floor will be ing a female audience member on his performance of"Ho." reserved for office space. · stage so that he could pour water It all culminated in a roaring In the connecting space between Main down her throat to kick-start his concert that left no single unsung and Academy Streets, university architects smash single "Say Aah." Some and no audience member dis have planned a cou_rtyard with greenery one's birthday came early. pleased. and outdoor seating, Manning said. 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