FARZAD PROFILE NEWS Page 3 I he___ MOSAIC’S FOOD GUIDE MOSAIC Page 9 CAA VICTORY REVIE SPORTS Page 14 The University of Delaware’s Independent Student Newspaper Since 1882 if d] ® e u d re v ic w TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2019 VOLUME 145, ISSUE 18 udreview.com FacSen holds hearing for Dean’s List criterion raise and grade forgiveness policy BY MITCHELL Committee proposes are on Dean's List," early GPA holes is a Bs should as well. PATTERSON raising that criterion to Zachary Jackson, an retention issue. Having Otherwise, they'll ask Associate News 3.5 in order to combat academic advisor in some kind of clemency why they have to work Editor increasing grade- the College of Nursing, policy is more common so hard when they inflation. According to said. 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"Don't just look The Committee C urrently, commonality of the Hanson, a professor of at the niche, look at did not estimate when undergraduate students Dean's List and favored geology and chairman those who would not these proposals would earning a semester raising to the criterion of the Committee of feel so warmly towards be presented to the GPA of 3.33 or higher to match the majority Undergraduate Studies, this policy. If students full body of the Faculty for a full-time course of the country. said. "Early missteps are who are failing get this Senate for a vote. load are placed on "It's not an honor if a permanent part of the policy, then students the Dean's List. The 50 percent of students UD GPA. Avoiding these who are getting As and Partying with a purpose: campus organization COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL combines parties, art and charity to create connections A tale of two women KRISTINE CASTORIA themselves as a "happy medium" a potluck, games, workshops, situation," Ramirez said. "Maybe KATHERINE NAILS Staff Reporter between college parties and collaborative arts, camping for example they have artistic Managing News Editor festival culture. Metta Creative and more. The event was held abilities but cannot perform in plans on making their presence at Camp Ramblewood, a 200- certain place. Human beings are n Saturday nights there etta Creative is an greater on campus by creating a acre open space with cabins, in a species who are attracted to art are scantily clad groups organization that aims to "Metta Club" in the near future. Darlington, Md. and music." dancing, stumbling change the way millennials "The idea is similar to "One thing I really enjoyed Pfund claims that no alcohol downO Main Street and shouting, Mparty by focusing on makingfraternities or sororities, we'll about the weekend away from UD, is provided at the events in and casually dressed crowds deeper personal connections and have a house, a group of people, was that it was not just a bunch order for people to make lasting thoughtfully nursing pints of ale. giving back to the environment. and we'll throw parties where of partying college students, friendships and have meaningful In Morris Library, students sit in Davis Pfund, a co-founder of Metta everyone is invited." Pfund said. it was a coming together of all conversations with one another. silence studying. And, at Perkins Creative claims the initial idea was "But instead of being a frat house different amazing people, with However, students are allowed to Live, a crowd chuckles at a inspired by feeling disconnected and beer and partying like they different stories, getting together bring their own alcohol if they are comedian's punchline. and bored at Grotto's. do, it will be a Metta house with for some good music," Kiera 21 or over. The student population is "Our slogan is ’party with art, conversation, and music, McShane, a junior who attended Metta Creative also holds cleaved into sharply defined, yet purpose,"' Pfund said. ”We host partying the way we know how." Beauty in the Backyard, said. "A events in Baltimore, Md.; New largely unacknowledged factions our own parties, and everyone's The club is hoping to start few people I spoke to were artists York; and Washington, D.C. that divide us by credo, activity and lifestyle. We are separated invited. We make art and donate within a few semesters. Metta at the gallery and I loved being Their plan for the future is to and confined by these lines to the environment." Creative claims this will be a more able to see all of their different grow nationwide, and hopefully we have carefully drawn for Pfund was first introduced to holistic approach to Greek life. perspectives. I also noticed international. Their next event ourselves. Yet, despite this, there Metta Creative when he was a "We're approachable to how eco-friendly they were with is Catharsis on the Mall in are common threads that weave freshman. As an entrepreneurship college students, we have that recycling the whole weekend Washington, D.C., May 3 to 5. even the most divided among major, he immediately saw the taste of festival culture, openness and always having healthy plant- There, they will be co-hosting, us together: the struggles we company's potential. He believed and Burning Man principals," based food options." setting up a "theme-camp" at this face and lessons we learn about he could bring the organization Pfund said. "We've turned Part of Metta Creative's event. ourselves and our world. to the next level by utilizing the empty warehouses into the mission is to make people of all "There's always live music, Summers Founders program at most beautiful, comfortable and backgrounds feel comfortable live art, food, interaction and the Venture Development Center aesthetic environments, where and able to have fun in a safe opportunity to create things," for entrepreneurship. you would not even believe it was space. Michelle Ramirez, a Pfund said. "We always have a The Summer Founders an empty warehouse before." senior anthropology major ton of collaborative art materials Christina Hamdan, a senior program is an opportunity for Most of Metta Creative's and international student from and then we create comfortable speech pathology major, had aspiring entrepreneurial students profits come from ticket sales Colombia, has attended many of space, lots of chairs, giving always known she liked the to create a start-up and have and hosting vendors at their Metta's events and participates in people the opportunity for open university because her older weekly mentoring progress events. Occasionally, events are marketing this idea of alternative conversation. Anyone can come, brother had gone here, and she meetings with advisors. Projects sponsored by donors or co-hosts. partying. we've had kids at events, we've saw how much he enjoyed it. She are funded by donorentrepreneurs "Every event we've donated "We want to target those had grandparents at events, was excited for a fresh start. and students receive a stipend for to different environmental non­ millennials who don't feel we're open to everyone." But Hamdan is a worrier. the summer. profits," Pfund said.