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Security standards ofBonistall programnot mandatory in city

BY SAMANTHA BRIXStaff Reporter

Four years after then-sopho-more Lindsey Bonistall was killedin her off-campus apartment, onlythree apartment complexes inNewark have been certified as safeand secure facilities by PEACEOUTside Campus, the Lindsey M.Bonistall Foundation.

Mark Bonistall, Lindsey’sfather, said landlords of any apart-ment complex or individual homefor rent can register for inspection,and after making the necessarysecurity upgrades receive certifica-tion from the program. In the threeyears the program has existed,Studio Green, Holly Woods LuxuryTownhomes and UniversityCourtyard Apartments haverequested and been approved forcertification.

After Lindsey Bonistall’s May2005 death in her apartment inTown Court, recently taken over bynew owners and named StudioGreen, Bonistall’s family createdthe organization in her name to pro-mote safety in off-campus housingnear the university and near collegecampuses nationwide.

The foundation, in conjunctionwith police and fire officials, creat-ed a Certified Off-Campus HousingProgram to expand existing securi-ty measures.

Requirements for larger apart-ment complexes to be certifiedinclude deadbolt locks and peep-holes on front doors, self-closure onall exterior doors, special latches onground-level windows, a fire sprin-kler system and hard-wired smokeand carbon monoxide detectors.

“This is just basic life 101,”Mark said. “If landlords actually

lived where they’re renting, theywould want that stuff there, so whywouldn’t it be there for their resi-dents?”

Mark said his foundation pre-sented the program to the Town &Gown Committee in February 2006hoping the city would mandate cer-tification of properties, but it didnot.

“The city of Newark hasadopted the program as voluntary,which is not necessarily where wewanted to go with it,” he said. “Ifyou’re going to rent to college stu-dents, you need to go through thisprogram.”

Mayor Vance A. Funk III stat-ed in an e-mail message that thecity worked closely with theBonistalls in order to encouragelandlord participation in the pro-gram, but did not want to mandateit.

“If a student chooses to rent ina complex that does not participate,we do not feel we should forcethem to do so,” Funk said.

The university’s HousingAssignment Services Web sitedirects students to off-campushousing, but Jessie Matson, cus-tomer service representative in theHAS office, said the university hasno official affiliation with locallandlords.

“When it comes to studentsgoing off campus, they’re out of ourhands,” Matson said.

Of the 15,407 undergraduatestudents at the university, Matsonsaid 7,000 live in residence halls oncampus. This means approximately8,000 university students eithercommute from their homes or live

BY HEATHER PLANK Staff Reporter

As of Friday, there were 44 con-firmed cases of swine flu inDelaware, 24 of which are universi-ty students.

Despite these numbers, E.F.Joseph Siebold, director of StudentHealth Services, said the H1N1 flu is“definitely on the decline.”

As of Friday, the university hasno new cases.

Although the flu appears tohave stopped spreading for now,Siebold is anxious about the fallwhen it is likely to reappear.

The Centers for Disease Controland Prevention is investigating thespread of H1N1 at the university tobetter understand the virus.

Gregory Armstrong of the CDCsaid to his knowledge, the universityis the only campus to have an out-break. Because of this, the CDC sentout a survey Sunday night via e-mailto all university students.

“Information we are gatheringfrom this is potentially going to bequite useful in the fall, should therebe another outbreak,” Armstrongsaid.

Flu experts are concerned aboutthe resurgence of H1N1 this autumn,he said, which is why he stressed theimportance of student participationin the survey.

“Data from the survey will be ofa lot of interest to other universities,especially if we have a severe flupandemic,” Armstrong said.

Public Safety is preparing forthe possibility of the swine flu’sreturn in the fall.

Marcia Nickle, Public Safetyemergency preparedness coordina-tor, said a plan to create a campaignfor Fall Semester is underway.

The university’s newly formedCommunicable Disease WorkingGroup, which will be in charge of thecampaign, will stress the importanceof good hygiene and remind studentsto wash their hands often, use handsanitizer and not share things likecups.

Nickle said almost 50 percent ofgerms and viruses are killed throughhand washing. She said it is a simpleact that people may already do, but itis important to remind them.

“The students hold their own

BY WILEY TAYLORStaff Reporter

The swine flu outbreak affectednot only Newark residents, but alsothe businesses surrounding the uni-versity.

From April 26 to May 2, manyrestaurants near campus experi-enced a decline in customers.

Bill Galbraith, general managerof The Stone Balloon Winehouse,said the restaurant experiencedsome decline, presumably due toswine flu.

“We had a 20 percent decrease

in customers during that weekend,”Galbraith said.

Iron Hill Brewery closed forthe afternoon on April 30 and re-opened May 1 in the afternoonbecause of the illness, GeneralManager Christina Matarese said.

Matarese said the decision toclose was made between the generalmanagers, regional managers andowners of the restaurant. The restau-rant received positive responsesregarding closing down from the e-mail sent out to customers of thebrewery. As a result of closing, the

establishment experienced someloss of profit that week, she said.

“We really wanted to makesure everyone was safe, includingthe employees and customers,”Matarese said.

Unlike Iron Hill Brewery, TheStone Balloon Winehouse stayedopen the whole week, Galbraithsaid. He said the incident seemedmore as though the media werelooking for news. However, TheStone Balloon Winehouse employ-ees made sure to increase theircleaning procedures such as wash-

ing their hands more than usual.“We didn’t really see the point

of closing down during that weekbecause none of the employees oranyone they knew was sick at thetime,” Galbraith said.

Unlike the restaurants on MainStreet, gyms near the university,such as Fusion Fitness Center and1614, profited from the incident.

Fusion Fitness Center ownerNic DeCaire said because theCarpenter Sports Building closed

Businesses see decline during swine flu scare

Twenty-four swine flu cases

confirmed at UD

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The Caribbean Festival took place outsideTrabant Friday with music, food and fun.

Art in the Garden was on display by Townsend Hall this weekend. See story, page 7.

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Buildings, recycling first steps in climate planBY BRITTANY HARMON

Staff ReporterDuring the university’s Earth

Day activities three weeks ago, uni-versity President Patrick Harkerintroduced the Climate Action Planwhich proposes reduced carbonemissions from campus buildingsand transportation. Since thisannouncement, the carbon footprintaction plan team decided on four topprojects for its agenda this summer.

Professor John Byrne, head ofthe committee and director of theuniversity’s Center for Energy andEnvironmental Policy, said there are15 projects to complete but the cur-rent primary focus is improvingbuilding efficiency, solar panelinstallation, single-stream recyclingand the master transportation plan.

“We are working with the uni-versity in regard to which buildingswe are going to be able to shut downover the summer in order to con-serve energy,” Byrne said. “Wewant major improvements.”

Byrne said the committee isworking on technology that willallow them to turn lights in build-ings off when no one is using them.

Andrew Knab, project analystfor CEEP, said the university facili-ties department will be working ona preliminary plan to place meteringand building automation systems in16 buildings with high energy use as a first step. Some ofthe buildings include Spencer, McKinley, and Brown Labsand Morris Library.

Knab said the university is reviewing its lighting designstandards for the campus, as well.

“As interior lighting is consistently identified as one ofthe most cost-effective ways to reduce energy usage, mucheffort will be placed on finalizing this project over the sum-mer,” Knab said.

Byrne said another item on the agenda is the solar panel

installations. Requests for proposals will take place within the next

few weeks, and the major part of construction will be com-pleted by the end of 2009. The entire installation plan willbe completed in three years.

“Once the construction and plans are completed inthree years, the university will have the largest campus solarplant in the country,” Byrne said.

Knab said the plan will require careful planning toidentify suitable roof space as well.

Single-stream recycling is another project that will

begin slowly over the summer but will go live inSeptember. This plan gets the campus and stu-dent body involved, Byrne said.

“Anything you can recycle can soonenough be all put in a single container and willbe later sorted at a plant,” Byrne said. “But wewill need help from the students as well for thisto work efficiently.”

Byrne said the committee is looking atcomposing alternatives for food waste. Usingleftover food waste for fertilizer on the campusis one idea the team is considering but soley as asubordinate to single- stream recycling.

Byrne said the master transportation planis expected to be released in the fall, andinvolves investing in new forms of public trans-portation that also decrease the emissions. Usinguniversity bus systems effectively is on the topof the list.

“GPS locators will be installed on thebuses for students to be able to flip their phonesand see where it is en route to,” he said. “At thispoint, they can make the decision to not taketheir car across campus.”

The committee is also trying to establishincentives for those who carpool and bicycle tocampus, including possible lower parking per-mit fees, Byrne said.

To get the community involved, theOffice of Residence Life as well as theAcademic and Student Affairs CouncilSustainability Task Force will be working onfinalizing the green e-letter, green liaisons andother educational programs, Knab said. This willhelp educate those on the plan and how the com-munity can do its part.

Lado Kurdgelashvili, limited term researcher, said alarge part of the university’s focus will be on planning andorganizing projects that will be implemented over the sum-mer and the next three years.

“Our target for the total reduction in carbon emissionson campus is 5 percent by 2012,” Kurdgelashvili said.

Knab said, like all forward-looking plans, this plan isnot absolute. Undoubtedly there will be changes as the uni-versity spots new opportunities and technologies arise.

“What will not change is our commitment,” he said.

The university’s top environmental priorities include solar panels and single-stream recycling.

recycling tips For recycling in Newark:Beginning June 15, 2009, the City of Newark is hoping to implement a city-wide, single-stream recycling program. This means residents and students willbe able to place all city-approved recyclables together in a wheeled cart. Thereis no sorting required.Materials accepted in the curbside recycling program:3 newspapers/brown paper bags 3 magazines/catalogs 3 telephone/soft cover books 3 junk mail/envelopes (all types) 3 paper 3 paperboard (cereal/tissue boxes) 3 cardboard 3 narrow-neck plastic bottles 3 plastic grocery bags 3 milk jugs, bleach/detergent, shampoo bottles 3 glass bottles/jars (any color) 3 metal cans (tin/steel/aluminum)3 Call (302) 366-7040 between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday throughFriday

— from cityofnewarkde.us

Recycling locations in Newark:3 Phillips Parks – Phillips Avenue and B Street, parallel to the railroad tracks just off ofRitter Lane3 University of Delaware Pearson Hall — 120 Academy Street, behind Pearson Hall3 University of Delaware Rodney Hall — 105 Hillside Road, behind tennis courts3 University of Delaware Laird Campus — 340 New London Road, on Route 896 north ofClayton Hall3 University of Delaware Hollingsworth Parking Lot — 33 West Cleveland Avenue, behindDeer Park Tavern

Items that can be recycled at the above locations:3 glass (clear, green and brown)3 plastic bottles (narrow-neck bottles only)3 metals (steel and aluminum)3 paper (newspapers, magazines, phone books and junk mail)3 corrugated cardboard 3 motor oil and oil filters (only accepted at Phillips Park and Hollingsworth parking lot)3 household batteries3 plastic grocery bags

All residence halls have recycling containers outside. White containers are for newspapers,aluminum cans, clear glass bottles and green glass bottles. Blue containers are for 100 per-cent plastic bottles onlyNo bags in recycling containers and no foodPart of the “Path to Prominence” is to explore single-stream on campus.3 Single-stream recycling is at Laird and South Campuses and at Game Day locations3 Separated stream recycling is at Central, North Central, East and West campuses3 If any trash or the incorrect material is placed in any bin, all material in the bin will bedisposed of as trash.

— compiled by Ashley Biro, from the university’s facilities Web site

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May 12, 20094

Markell, business leaders seek alternatives to state pay cuts

Art conservation programsaves pieces of history

BY JON BLEIWEISStaff Reporter

While Delaware is goingthrough tough economic times,Gov. Jack Markell has proposed abudget for the next fiscal year thatincludes a temporary 8 percent paycut for all state employees startingJuly 1. However, manyDelawareans are upset about thisplan.

Joe Rogalsky, spokesman forMarkell, said the initial proposalwas made in March, when the statehad to make up a $750 milliondeficit in the next budget. He saidnow the deficit has increased to$780 million.

In opposition of the pay-cutproposal, a coalition of 13 state-employee unions has been formed,called the State Workers United fora Better Delaware. The goal is tofight against these cuts, whichwould save the state $91.7 million.According to Markell’s presenta-tion, the average salary of a stateworker is $44,000.

The coalition sponsored a rallyoutside the Legislative MallWednesday, in which more than1,000 union workers came toprotest the proposed changes.

Diane Donohue, president ofthe Delaware State EducationAssociation, a union in the coali-tion, said the cut is too severe forstate employees, some of whom tryto maintain two jobs in order to earnenough money to live.

“I believe that the 8 percentsalary cut is a devastating cut tomany state employees,” Donohuesaid. “Many of our members workfull time and are not even at thepoverty level now. They barely canmake ends meet as it is. Taking an 8percent cut is going to be devastat-ing.”

Rogalsky said many stateemployees have communicatedwith the governor’s office abouttheir dissatisfaction with the paycuts.

“We didn’t expect people tolike it. The governor doesn’t like it,”Rogalsky said. “The governor hassaid he is open to ideas to reduce thedeficit. If someone comes up with aresponsible way to achieve the sav-

ings in some other manner, he’sopen to those ideas, too.”

Donohue said the coalition islooking into multiple alternatives tothe pay cuts, including raising per-sonal income taxes for those inhigher income brackets, using a por-tion of the state’s rainy day fund andincreasing the fees of limited liabil-ity companies.

“You have to look at what rev-enue sources are there for the statethat will ensure that Delaware pros-pers and has a strong economicenvironment so we can provide theservices to all of our citizens andour students in the state ofDelaware,” she said. “The only wayto do that is to look into all avenues,not just cutting.”

One possible solution to raisefunds for the state and to restore thecuts includes the reauthorization ofsports lottery. In Markell’s proposal,he would allow sports lottery atcasinos and other venues and add upto three new casinos, which wouldgive Delawareans a fairer share ofcasino revenue.

“The governor expects torestore the cut in the coming years,”Rogalsky said. “That’s one reasonwhy he’s pushing so hard for hissports lottery plan because it willgenerate additional revenue thatwill help us restore the salaries totheir current level going forward.”

Donohue said the only way toensure prosperity to the future ofDelaware is to find a revenue sourcethat will be sustainable over timeand not resort to temporary paycuts.

“We don’t believe that you cancut off this economic crisis,” shesaid.

Donohue said in addition to thepay cut, state educators would bepaying a 50 percent increase inhealth insurance premiums and get-ting three furlough days, whichwould cost educators an additional1.5 percent of their salary. A freezeon additional educator programsand stipends would cost educatorsextra pay that used to be on top oftheir base pay.

Rogalsky said while the gover-nor was presenting town meetingsacross the state, state workers were

concerned about potential layoffs.“What they asked the governor

to do was to make a proposal thatasked everyone to contribute equal-ly, that didn’t let some people keeptheir jobs in an office, but lay offothers. So that’s what the governordid,” he said.

When presented with theoption of layoffs or pay cuts,Donohue was torn.

“We don’t want layoffs —that’s obvious — I don’t think any-body would want a layoff,” she said.“But to say either/or is a tough call.”

In order to achieve the savingsthe pay cuts provide, Rogalsky saidthe state would have to lay offapproximately 1,500 state workers,a decision that would be similar toactions of other states in the nation.

“We’re not interested in doingthat,” he said.

Donohue said while neitherDSEA nor the coalition has an offi-cial position on specific alternativefundraising methods such as gam-bling or an increase in sales tax,potential ways to get the state moremoney should be examined.

“We need to look at anythingthat will increase revenue,”Donohue said. “If gaming willincrease revenue, then we need totake a look at it.”

Donohue said she is certain thelegislature will not pass the budgetwith the proposed 8 percent pay cut.

“I have full confidence that thegeneral assembly will provide abudget that will not have such anegative impact on our members oron any state employee,” she said.

Rogalsky said while the eco-nomic situation for the state is notideal, Delawareans must do theirpart for the greater economic goodof the state.

“In the governor’s proposal, itasks all Delawareans to chip in.We’re all in this together,” he said.“It asks for some tax increases,some fee increases, more moneyfrom the casinos, everyone’s beingasked to chip in here. He’s not crazyabout it and wished we wouldn’thave to do it, but given the toughcircumstances he faces, he felt thiswas the most equitable option at thispoint.”

BY SARAH MARXStaff Reporter

While many students writepapers and memorize equations,members of the university’s artconservation program handleancient and precious works ofart that have both historical andmonetary value.

Vicki Cassman, director ofundergraduate studies, said thedepartment stands out from oth-ers she has worked with in thepast.

“I have experience interna-tionally with other programs andthey sometimes have blinders onin the sense that they cover onlyone area, one specific kind ofmaterial,” Cassman said. “WhatI think this program does well isgive an introduction to manymaterials.”

The department conservesartifacts in a variety of mediumsincluding furniture, objects,paintings, papers, photographsand textiles. Conservators havea unique and precise process ofconservation for each kind ofart.

“In a sense, it’s being a doc-tor for objects,” she said. “Justlike with a patient, you need tounderstand what’s going wrongwith the object, why it is the wayit is and what treatment will bemost effective and preventive.”

It sounds straightforwardand simple, but carrying out thatprocess is quite an ordeal,according to Gretchen Guidess,a graduate student in the textilesprogram.

“Before I ever intercedewith an object, I make a verycareful examination by lookingat the piece under magnification,doing research about the pieceand really getting a sense ofwhat the piece is all about,”Guidess said. “When learningand examining things closely, Ican dispel some of the anxiety.”

Cassman said some stu-dents feel anxious while han-dling precious and valuable art-work, but they are required tofollow strict guidelines, whichmay help to ease their nervous-ness.

“We’re very much aboutethics and documentation,” shesaid. “Everything we do needs tobe reversible, and everything wedo needs to be recorded.”

Art conservation students,especially in the graduate pro-gram, get plenty of practice withmending artifacts at theWinterthur Museum, a partnerwith the university.

Winterthur, the formerhome of Henry Francis Du Pont,houses more than 85,000 arti-facts, 60,000 volumes and onemillion manuscripts, accordingto its Web site. Du Pont was anavid collector of American deco-rative art and expanded hishome to accommodate his col-lection.

The estate was opened tothe public in 1951, and theWinterthur University ofDelaware Program in Art

Conservation was established in1974, Cassman said.

Today, Winterthur is essen-tial in providing facilities andadjunct professors, as well asartifacts for students to practicewith, Joy Gardiner, a textile con-servation professor, said.

“The public can bring inobjects for us to look at with thegraduate students,” Gardinersaid. “We try to get a wide vari-ety of different types of objectsfrom different time periods andwith different problems that stu-dents have to deal with.”

Only a handful of studentshave the opportunity to interactwith Winterthur, seeing as theuniversity selects only 10 gradu-ate students each year, Cassmansaid.

Material culture preserva-tion, the undergraduate program,which currently has 70 students,is highly competitive and iscomposed mostly of chemistry,art history and studio art classes,Gardiner said. Accepted gradu-ate students spend three years inthe master’s program to becomeexperts in an art medium of theirchoice.

Guidess said she is going onto her third year in the program,which is practicum training for13 months.

This summer, Guidess willwork with decorative materialsand flags in a state laboratory inupstate New York. She will thenstudy in London and Canada forthe remainder of her graduateeducation.

“A person is shaped by thesum total of their experiences,so I’ll be able to learn a lot fromnot only the program here, butthe individuals I’ll be workingwith in different labs and institu-tions.” Guidess said.

The department takes spe-cial care to bring as much cul-ture to the program as possible.

“We recently had a visitingscholar from Bolivia, and one ofour adjunct professors is work-ing in the Forbidden City inChina,” Cassman said. “We tryand reach out to our sister con-servator programs in other coun-tries that don’t have trainingprograms.”

The university recentlyagreed to partner with the StateDepartment in a project to set upan art conservation institute inIraq and train Iraqi conservators.

“As a country, when weinvaded, we didn’t protect thenational museum as well as wemight have,” she said. “This ispart of the United States’ com-mitment to make up for that.”

Cassman said because theindustry is not known for itshigh salaries, a passion for con-serving and protecting art isimportant.

“When students graduatewith an academic backgroundlike ours they could be making alot more money than they do,”she said. “So there has got to besomething else to it, and that’slove of the field.”

The state defecit has reached $780 million, prompting officials to consider an 8 percent employee pay cut.THE REVIEW/Steven Gold

May 12, 2009 5

More than 800 sign up for alumni weekendBY MICHELLE ONORATO

Staff ReporterThe university will be hosting its

inaugural Forum and Reunion WeekendJune 5 to 7 in order to improve relationswith alumni.

The event, which will be held annual-ly, will include a 5K run/walk, showcasesby each of the colleges, musical perform-ances, campus tours, family activities andchances for networking.

“We want to give people the opportu-nity to reconnect with each other and theuniversity,” Cindy Campanella, directorof Alumni Relations, said.

Tickets to the event cost $20 forFriday and $35 for Saturday, but will beincreased by $15 after the early registra-tion ends Friday.

She said more than 800 participantshave signed up to attend so far. More thanhalf of the alumni are from the class of2001 or later.

“This is not a fundraising event,”Campanella said. “Sure, we want alumnito give back to the university, but thisevent is all about them falling in love withit all over again.”

In order to accommodate attendees,the university is giving alumni the optionto stay in Thomas McKean Hall suites for$66 per night with extra services likelinens or $43 without them. Campanellasaid so far there are 123 reservations forthe residence halls on Friday night and 68on Saturday night.

“There’s been an unbelievableresponse to the dorms,” Stephen Mangat,communications coordinator for AlumniRelations, said. “The price and the nostalgia are great sellingfactors.”

Lisa Campbell, a 1984 graduate, thought the universitywas trying to raise funds with the event when she received

information about it.“I think that this event will be popular with more recent

graduates who are looking to connect with friends theyhaven’t seen in a while,” Campbell said.

She will not be attending because of fami-ly vacation plans she has for that weekend.

Ricky Komdat, a 2008 graduate, is consid-ering attending, depending on whether hisformer classmates and friends will be there.

Komdat said he considered the cost to par-ticipate in activities like Mug Night andrenting a residence hall room to be inexpen-sive.

Mangat said the original goal for the eventwas approximately 1,000 attendees, an arbi-trary number since the event has no prece-dent. He still thinks that this number willstill be reached since registration has pickedup steadily since the beginning of May.

Although there will be special celebrationsfor the classes of 1959, 1984, 1999 and 2004because of their milestone anniversaries,Campanella hopes current students will getin the habit of attending now.

Mangat said the next marketing push willbe aimed at current students, particularlythose in the senior class.

“Other than being fun and a great deal, it’sa good way for seniors to get their name outthere by networking with alumni if theydon’t have a job,” he said. “From a profes-sional aspect, it’s a great opportunity.”

Some current students are still not awareof the event, including sophomore BenStrickland, who didn’t like that it was theweekend after graduation.

“If they can get alumni to come back,that’s cool, but I don’t think I would want tocome back to campus after just moving outthe week before,” Strickland said.

He did like that all of the proceeds fromthe 5K will be going to a general scholarshipfund.

“We hope that everyone embraces this new tradition,”Campanella said. “People may think that this is just an alum-ni event, but that’s not the case. We want anyone who is afriend of the university to come back and celebrate.”

Many alumni return for homecoming festivities. This year, the university is hosting its first-everForum and Reunion weekend to bring alumni back to campus from June 5 to 7.

Graduating seniors hope to stay connected to universityBY BRITTANY HARMON

Staff ReporterThe university offers many events for

alumni to be able to sport their blue andgold and socialize with their peers, evenafter they graduate.

Seniors are being encouraged to donatefor the senior class gift in order to give backto the university for all the years of commit-ment to students and to leave a memory ofthe Class of 2009 on campus. Senior KelliSmits said she made her donation to the sen-ior class gift.

“I have already donated $20.09 inhonor of my graduation year,” Smits said. “Idonated money because I want to maintainand increase the value of a UD degree andkeep UD competitive on a national level.”

The senior class gift committee createda YouTube video to promote donating,reminding all seniors, “show your blue henpride, give us money to show our goldenside.”

However, senior Mike Melone said heprobably will not donate to the senior giftbut might donate to the school once heobtains a good job and steady income.

“My mom is also an alum and has beendonating for 25 years now, so the school hasbeen getting money from my family for awhile,” Melone said. “I guess that’s why Idon’t feel much pressure to donate rightaway.”

Junior Shazim Uppal thinks donating tothe university should be voluntary instead of

forced.“It seems as if you walk across the

stage at gradua-tion, get yourdiploma, then theyare waiting for youon the other endwith your personalcheckbook andtheir hands out,”Uppal said.

Alumni areencouraged tocome back to theuniversity forevents and stayconnected, as pro-moted by the UDConnection Website, which isdesigned for alum-ni to check what’sgoing on at theuniversity and stayconnected withformer classmatesand professors.

Graduate stu-dent and universityu n d e r g r a d u a t ealumna AlexisSpina said shekeeps in contact with many of her class-mates and has developed a strong connec-tion with the friends she has made here.

“We keep tabs on each other to seewhere we are, what we have done with our

majors, etc.,” Spinasaid. “It is interest-ing to see whatfields people havegone into, who isgoing back toschool, who is hav-ing trouble findingwork.”

Uppal said notonly staying con-nected with formerclassmates but alsowith professors is abeneficial move foranyone. She thinkskeeping connectionsallows the potentialfor more opportuni-ties and doorwaysthat may lead to big-ger possibilities.

“There is no waythat keeping con-nected with facultycan harm or nega-tively affect any-one’s path aftergraduation,” hesaid.

Spina said professors are helpful andhave students’ best interest at heart.

“I have classes with them, go to lunch

and seek out their help and advice whenev-er I can,” she said.

Those interviewed said they will mostlikely not check the UD Connection Website, considering they have other means ofcommunication such as direct phone num-bers, e-mail and other social networks.

Alumni events are created so those whodo not stay in touch year round are able togo to various events. Melone said he willdefinitely come back for football gamessince he barely missed any as a student.

“I think I’ll try and get together withfriends down the road and plan to come tosome alumni events so we can all catch up,”he said. “I also would be interested to seehow the campus has changed in 10 or 20years.”

Besides overall tailgates, barbecues andalumni dinners, seniors plan to stay con-nected in some way in order to better thefuture for potential university alumni.

“By staying connected and showing offmy UD pride, the cost of a UD educationcan be minimized,” Smits said. “Moreimportantly, I want to be part of a long-standing tradition.”

Melone feels as though when studentsspend such an important time in their livesin one place they really get attached to it.

“Delaware will always be a very com-fortable place for me and will feel likehome,” he said. “Newark is a great collegetown and a nice campus. I see no reasonwhy I’d want to never come back.”

“My mom is also an alum

and has been donatingfor 25 years now,

so the school has beengetting money from my

family for a while. I guess that’s why

I don’t feel much pressure

to donate right away.— Mike Melone,

senior,on his decisionnot to donate

to the senior class gift

Courtesy of Stacy Klever

May 12, 20096

The political world can be diffi-cult to navigate, and today’s nearlyendless sources of information canmake it even trickier. There are stillgreat sources of information in tradi-tional media. However, traditionalnews sources have allowed opinionand bias to force out what once was arespectable degree of objectivity.Today, more and more breaking newsand investigative reporting comes notfrom reporters, but from bloggers.

When reading about the day’sissues, it is important to seek as manyperspectives as possible, while alsobeing careful to take what you readwith a grain of salt. In this column, Ihope to compile some of the bestsources of news and opinion on theWeb so that you, the reader, can hearfrom all sides and form your ownopinions.

Among the first stops for politi-cal watchers of all affiliations is theDrudge Report (DrudgeReport.com).The site, run by Matt Drudge, datesback to the mid-1990s before blogseven had a name and consists of a sin-gle sparse page of links and picturesthat told a big story about the day’snews.

The conservative Drudge Reportis well-read in newsrooms and politi-cal offices around the country, andDrudge is often the beneficiary ofleaks from these sources. This mostfamously occurred in early 1998 whenNewsweek decided not to run anexclusive story about a White Houseintern named Monica Lewinsky andher possible affair with President BillClinton. Drudge ran the story himselfand proved to all the emerging powerof the Internet.

Other important sites also have acombination of original and borrowedcontent. For quick hits of information,try University of Tennessee professorGlenn Reynolds’ blog Instapundit(pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/),which provides links with smallamounts of commentary from a con-servative/libertarian perspective.

Among the most popular andinfluential liberal political websites isThe Huffington Post(HuffingtonPost.com), which is runby liberal pundit Arianna Huffington.The Web site has opinion writers fromHollywood celebrities to Washingtonpoliticians as well as both original andborrowed news content. The site fre-quently breaks news and has becomea 21st century newspaper of sorts thatprovides entertainment, business, andother types of news in addition to itspolitical coverage.

Huffington’s site was assisted inits infancy by Drudge co-editorAndrew Breitbart as a liberal responseto Drudge. Recently, Breitbart hasfounded a conservative website that ismore similar to the Huffington Postcalled Big Hollywood (bigholly-wood.breitbart.com).

Another very influential liberalsite is Talking Points Memo (talking-pointsmemo.com). The site began asa small blog, and like Huffington’screation, has morphed into a multime-dia powerhouse with many contribu-tors providing news reporting as wellas opinion.

Other influential blogs includeMatt Yglesias’s blog(yglesias.thinkprogress.org) on theleft, and Little Green Footballs (little-greenfootballs.com) on the right.Moreover, many traditional politicaloutlets have blogs, from AndrewSullivan’s liberal/libertarian blog atThe Atlantic to conservative blogs atthe Weekly Standard (weeklystan-dard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP), and TheNational Review’s The Corner (cor-ner.nationalreview.com), and the out-standing Campaign Spot (cam-paignspot.nationalreview.com).

The liberal Web siteFiveThirtyEight.com is quicklybecoming one of the most influentialblogs in American politics today. Thesite is run by Nate Silver, a formerbaseball statistician turned politicalanalyst.

During the 2008 election, Silver,by using his own statistical methods,correctly predicted every Senate raceand was correct on the presidentialrace in 49 of 50 states. He also hasoutstanding analysis on such topics aswhen states are likely to legalize mar-ijuana and the costs and benefits of theso-called “Jungle Primary.”

There are other great tools onlineas well. Memeorandum.com showswhich stories are making a splash onvarious blogs and news sites, whileliberals (mediamatters.com/blog) andconservatives (newsbusters.org) pointout political bias in mainstream newscoverage.

RealClearPolitics.com providesan outstanding collection of polls andthe best political commentary of theday, while Mark Halperin’s The Pageblog (thepage.time.com) provides thedaily political happenings in anappealing format.

Finally, online news content isstill not altogether lost. Traditionalnews outlets are still good resourceswhile new players like Politico.comare changing the idea of what a news-paper is. The Politico has a small printedition, but most people know it as anews Web site. The site providesnews, blogs, videos, and more, andwas responsible for breaking manyinfluential stories throughout the 2008election season.

The world of political media ischanging and becoming more frag-mented and politicized. As a citizen, itis important to keep up with the newpurveyors of information, but perhapsmore so, it is crucial to keep an openmind and hear what all sides have tosay.

Brick’sPolitics

Michael BrickmanColumnist

A senior political science major presents his weekly views onpolitics and current events from a center-right perspective.

Sunday strummers gather atNewark Arts Alliance weekly

BY SHANE WEBERStaff Reporter

Jeff Smith starts tuning his acoustic guitar, stringby string, and eventually plucks a few chords. Theguitarist to his left starts picking up on the familiarchords, listening with his eyes, peering at the neck ofSmith’s guitar. After a couple seconds, he’s got it. Injust a few moments, the art gallery goes from Smithhitting empty one-notes to Bob Dylan lyrics andchords bouncing across the room’s white walls.Welcome to “Every Sunday Jams.”

Since February, from 2 to 6 p.m. Smith has host-ed “Every Sunday Jams” at the Newark Arts AllianceCenter on Main Street. Smith taught himself to playthe guitar about 50 years ago and started “SundayJams” in order to unite people who enjoy playingmusic together. With wood boards beneath patrons’feet and local artists’ paintings and pictures hangingon the white walls, Smith has found an acoustic gemin the NAA art gallery where the event is hosted.

“The acoustics in here are great,” Smith said.“It’s like singing in the shower.”

Newark native Kathy Tanner, almost as if was oncue, walks in at the end of a seven-minute Dylancover.

Tanner, a guitar player, is a member of the NAA,but this is her first time checking out “Sunday Jams.”

“Room for one more?” Tanner said, brushing raindrops off her shoulders as she makes her way to thesemicircle of players.

“This is a great way for me to learn and get bet-ter at the guitar,” Tanner said. “Sitting back and beingable to listen to these guys play is a great learningexperience.”

With the rain settling down outside in puddles,Miles Stiefvater enjoys a bleak Sunday at the jam ses-

sion. Stiefvater, who has been playing for 30 years,showed up with his electric guitar and slowly workedhis way into Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.”

While Tanner comes to the art gallery to learn,Stiefvater uses the crisp acoustics to clean up his style.

“I typically just play in a full band with drumsand a lot more going on,” Stiefvater said. “It’s nice tobe able to come here and be able to hear everythingI’m playing. Plus, it’s just a great way to spend aSunday afternoon.”

Smith said anywhere from a few to 15 peopleshow up every Sunday. There is no schedule for theevent, letting attendees have the freedom to playwhatever they would like to. Players of all skill levelsare welcome and can bring any instrument theychoose. Smith said some people just come to sit backand listen, as well.

“We play anything from folk, blues, to rock androll,” he said. “But sometimes when people show upwith their banjoes we play a little more bluegrassmusic than usual.”

Smith plays a Philippine folk song he picked upfrom his time in the Peace Corps during the ’70s, andeven though the rest of the group has not heard thesong before, they don’t find much trouble in playingalong with him.

During the jam session, it is hard to tell whereone song ends and the next begins. Usually one gui-tarist takes the driving rhythm of a song and sticks tothe chords, while the rest of the players bounce fromharmony to melody as they please. When Smith fin-ishes, he reaches down for a water bottle, an unspokengesture for someone else to pick up the next song.

“Anyone want to play a little ‘Mustang Sally?’ ”Stiefvater said. “I’ll take care of the chords — I justneed someone to pick up the lyrics.”

Every Sunday, musicians can stop by the Newark Arts Alliance for a jam session.

THE REVIEW/Ricky Berl

UD gardens settingfor art competition

May 12, 2009 7

BY ADAM TZANISStaff Reporter

Jay “Gooz” Guzman, also known as Peso, is anunderground Hip-hop artist whose debut solo mix tapewas released today. Guzman is a graduating senior atthe university and plans to pursue a career in the musicindustry.

Guzman’s new mix tape, titled A Fresh Dude fromthe Bronx: The Pilot Season, is a socially consciousalbum of 15 tracks, four skits and one bonus track.Guzman said the mix tape’s name is a spinoff of the’90s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” with a per-sonal touch. He said he chose “The Pilot Season”because just as a new television show has a pilotepisode, this is his first work as a solo artist.

“I feel like that’s usually how I’m recognized ifyou don’t know me. You know I’m from the Bronx andI like to dress, I like to stay fly and stay presentable, soI’m just a fresh dude from the Bronx,” Guzman said.“It’s simple.”

Guzman hails from the South Bronx, which iswidely credited as the birthplace of Hip-hop and rapmusic. He said he was influenced by the atmosphere ofthe South Bronx and the Hip-hop oriented style of NewYorkers in the area. Guzman said the rap scene is preva-lent in his hometown and it is not uncommon to seepeople walking around with large sound systems play-ing music or conversing about their favorite rappers.

“The more and more I got into Hip-hop, the moreand more I realized how much Hip-hop I was as a per-son and influenced I was without even knowing,” hesaid.

Guzman said he first became interested in rapmusic when he was 12 or 13 years old, memorizing thelyrics to his favorite songs, analyzing the verses andbreaking them down into bars while creating his ownsense of flow. He said his true welcoming to Hip-hopwas after his father bought him his first three rapalbums — Jay Z’s Roc La Familia: The Dynasty; JaRule’s Rule 3:36 and LL Cool J’s G.O.A.T. He said hismain influences as an artist are Jay Z, Jadakiss, JuelzSantana, Kanye West and especially Big Pun, whoGuzman identifies with as both are Puerto Rican rap-pers from the Bronx.

Guzman said he did not think of rapping as morethan a hobby until he reached college and got involvedwith rap groups like GTG and the Moneymakers, whoreleased a group mix tape in 2007. He’s also worked atthe university’s radio station, WVUD 91.3, as the urbanmusic associate and the co-host of a show and is work-ing as a utility person for an internship.

Senior Mark Stitz, an indie and experimental rockproducer, helped Guzman produce vocals on his newtape. Stitz said Guzman is a great artist to work withand has a lot of potential.

“He’s really professional, but he wasn’t afraid or

bashful about his music, which I found really impres-sive,” Stitz said. “He has a lot of talent, so I think he’sgoing to go really far as long as he keeps his head downand stays humble.”

Bryant Gilliam, also known as Heartbeat daProducer, is a university graduate and a Hip-hop artistand producer who has worked with Guzman in the pastand helped produce songs on Guzman’s mix tape,including the song “See it in Me.” Gilliam said heenjoys working with Guzman and has collaboratedwith Guzman on his own album, titled The SpotlessMind.

“The guy has a lot of charisma, and he’s definite-ly somebody to look out for,” Gilliam said. “He’salready a dope act, and he’s definitely got the potentialto go big as far as the professional world is concerned.”

Guzman said he gains inspiration for his lyricsfrom day-to-day life experiences and tries to put emo-tion into his raps. He said he’s performed at the univer-sity’s Bacchus Theatre on three separate occasions andhas performed in a showcase in the Flatbush area ofBrooklyn.

The 22-year-old artist said he can tackle any typeof rap music and reach listeners on the concert as a wellas the party level. He said he brings raw talent withwitty lyricism, wordplay and metaphors to create asound that people can relate to.

Guzman said music lets him express himself andis very therapeutic.

“I feel like it’s one of my few opportunities whereI just get to leave it all out on the floor and nobody cansay nothing about it,” he said.

Along with his music, Guzman is involved with amarketing company called Expressive Frontier that hascreated a clothing line called “DFFRNTWRLD,”which is in its beginning stages. Guzman said he uses ablog to promote the company’s “Obamamania” line, aspinoff of “Hulkamania,” and T-shirts and news areavailable for consumers online at eflifestyle.com.

Guzman majors in human service, education andpublic policy, with a minor in leadership. He said if rap-ping doesn’t work out he’d like to become a guidancecounselor.

He plans to continue his work with music and islooking in the Washington, D.C., area for radio posi-tions at stations like WPGC and 93.9 KISS, the area’smajor R&B stations.

“I don’t mind to work hard, so hopefully I can getmy foot in the door and just proceed from there,”Guzman said. “I plan on continuing music because Ifeel like I have a passion for it, I’m talented at it, and atthis point it’s not even about being a big star. As long aspeople can feel like they relate to me, they sense I’mgenuine and they feel the music, then keep on listening,keep on supporting and I’ll keep on making the music.”

Senior Jay “Gooz” Guzman just released a new mix tape of original rap songs.

Student’s roots inspire rap

BY JOY WEDGEStaff Reporter

Art In The Garden, the univer-sity’s ninth annual OutdoorSculpture Exhibition, showcasedunique artwork by University ofDelaware and Towson Universitystudents. On Thursday, a receptionand an announcement of this year’swinners took place outsideTownsend Hall in Clark Garden.

Caroline Golt, a research asso-ciate in the department of plant andsoil sciences, started the collabora-tion between university art stu-dents and the university’s BotanicGardens Friends group because ofher passion for art. Golt thenpassed the idea on to art professorDavid Meyer.

Meyer said he decided to askTowson students to participatebecause they could share points ofview with students from theUniversity of Delaware. JimPaulsen, Towson University’s artprofessor, is a University ofDelaware alumnus.

Meyer has participated in thesculpture exhibition and encour-ages students to put their artworkin a different element to experi-ence criticism and praise fromviewers.

“The audience changes.People become different creaturesbecause indoors they are very heldback, but outdoors they are freer,”Meyer said.

The experience for TowsonUniversity students was different,however, due to the outside envi-ronment of the exhibition as wellas being away from theirBaltimore campus. Meyer said thisyear’s Art In The Garden is uniquebecause it is the first year an out-side school has been involved.

Towson senior sculpturemajor Kevin Lichtfuss said he hasvarious talents that inspire his artwork, including his interests inmusic and experience in workingconstruction. His piece titled“Phlogiston” was entered in theexhibition.

“My motivation has been mybackground in construction andmy knowledge of a wide range ofmaterials and techniques,”Lichtfuss said. “Sculptures just fitperfectly with my capabilities andinterest.”

He compares his sculpture toan open slinky. While it may havelooked difficult to make, it wasactually fairly simple, Lichtfusssaid.

“Made out of steel rod andwelded together with simple mate-rials, it was a simple project,” hesaid. “What I try to accomplishwith all my art is trying to make a

visual manifestation of my mind,how it works, my thought andartistic process. So all my piecesrepresent a visual limit put onsomething that is infinite.”

Faculty and students observedthe artwork as judges critiqued andinterpreted the artists’ work inorder to declare a winner. One ofthe judges was Victoria Eastburn,the associate curator of educationat the Delaware Center for theContemporary Arts inWilmington. Eastburn mostlylooked for specifics in the artwork,including concept thoughtfulnessand craftsmanship, she said.

The second juror, universityalumnus Stephen Ruszkowski, theexhibition designer and preparatorfor the DCCA, experienced hisfirst time judging an art exhibitionduring Art In The Garden.

“Some pieces, if they were ina normal white wall gallery setting,would come across more sterileand overly pronounced, where outhere, the works are more subtle,particularly if they are made out ofearthy materials that blend into thelandscape,” Ruszkowski said.

Winners of honorable mentionwere senior Erica Leoncavallo andPaulsen. The winners includedsenior Sean Doll for third placeand Towson University studentJonathon Davis for second place.First place and $150 was awardedto junior Esteban M. Pilonieta-Vera for his piece titled “FromHere to Nowhere.”

Ruszkowski described Vera’swinning piece, a collection ofabstract arrows scattered about thegarden as a type of pedestrian signfor guidance, even though thearrows did not lead to any specificdirection.

“The directional arrow signsthat seemed to be really officialand important, as if you wanted topark and these signs were the signsyou wanted to follow to stay on thepathway. But if you pay attention,the arrows point down to theground or into the trees,” he said.“So it’s a bit of humor and absurd-ity there because they are leadingyou astray, but you feel like you’resupposed to follow these signs.”

Vera said he puts his life andheart into his work, making it cre-ative and noticeable. His inspira-tion stems from life occurrencesand his Venezuelan background.

“The idea of direction is try-ing to guide people somewherethat doesn’t exist and forget theirsurroundings,” he said. “Becauseeven though the signs are through-out the garden, they don’t guideyou, they refute each other andmake no sense.”

THE REVIEW/Ayelet Daniel

Bye!— seniors

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May 12, 20098

TTHEHE BBEEREER GGUIDEUIDE......BY ASHLEY BIRO

Assistant News Editor3 One general rule is to keep sweet with

sweet, and tart with tart. Try to keep your beersweeter or tarter than the sweet or tart food on

the plate. There are exceptions, like pairingdrier robust beers with sweet chocolates.

3 Throw all of the rules out the window andexperiment with contrasting and complimenta-ry pairings. Match foods with complimentaryflavors, or try contrasting them and create a

slew of unique results.3 For those of you who are bound to the winepairing school of thought, think of ale as redwine and lager as white wine. Hoppy beers

can also be used in place of a pairing that callsfor an acidic wine.

3 Taste is very subjective and what works forone person might not work for another. If ittastes good to you, then go for it. However,also be open to suggestions, as these tend to

come with some knowledge and possiblepalate enlightenment.

With Beef With Fish

From brewery to bottle...

While dining at Iron Hill, customers are able to view the underground worldof the beer-brewing process through glass windows that display its hefty machinery.Using domestic and imported malted barley and hops, yeast and water, the restaurant isable to create the crisp taste it prides itself on.The entire procedure takes an average of14 days, but depending on the beer, it could run up to 30 days. The first step in beerbrewing is milling. Grains are selected depending on the beer style. The grains aremilled into the grist hopper in order to extract the essential ingredients. Iron Hill’s brew-er, Justin Sproul, said the mill room is the only room not shown by the glass windows.Next, the grains are moved from the mill room through a feed auger to the mash tun.Hot water is added to form the mash. The mash converts the starches in the malted bar-ley into fermentable sugars.

Lautering follows this process. The liquid is drained from the mash of themash-lauter-tun and then recirculated to the top so that it can filter through the husks ofthe grains. Hot water is passed over the grains to remove all the sugars, a process calledsparging. This makes the enzymes stop converting the starches into sugars. The solu-tion, or wort, is then extracted from the mash tun and sent to the kettle.

Then, the wort is brought to a full, rolling boil and hops are added for bitterness. Itis important to boil for 90 minutes in order to extract all the bitterness from the hops.Flavor and aroma hops are added later to the solution, which gives each beer its uniquetaste.

Before the wort goes onto the next step, the solids need to be separated from theliquid solution. The wort is drained and the solids stay in the kettle.

“In brewing, we never want the solid matter, we only want the liquids,” Sproul said.

An Americanbrown ale:

“Indian BrownAle” by

Dogfish Head

An English porter:“The FamousTaddy Porter”

by Samuel Smith

An American stout:“Chocolate Stout”

by Rogue’s AleBrewery

A German pilsner:“Prima Pils” byVictory Brewing

Company

An American IPA:“Sierra Nevada

Celebration Ale”by Sierra Nevada

Brewing Co.

ADortmunder/exportlager: “Great LakesDortmunder Gold”

by Great Lakes

4

3

5

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With Poultry With Dessert As a Digestive

...behind the beer at Iron Hill

Next, the wort must be cooled down. Thehot wort is passed through a heat-exchangerwhere it is cooled to a temperature appropriate forthe yeast to ferment. This process allows the wortto circulate through a set of tubes while the chilledwater is circulated through another set. The tubeswith the hot wort transfer the heat to the tubeswith the chilled water. In order to avoid contami-nation from stray yeasts in the air, it is importantto cool the wort quickly so that the yeast can beadded right away and fermentation can begin.

Fermentation is the next step in the beer brewing process. The wortis transferred to a fermentation tank where the yeast is added and allowed toferment. This converts the sugars to alcohol and carbon dioxide. If the beerbeing made is going to be an ale, the wort is maintained at a temperature of68°F for about two weeks. If the beer is going to be a lager, the temperaturewill be maintained at 48°F for about six weeks. When fermentation has com-pleted, the beer is cooled off to about 32°F. The remaining yeast settles to thebottom of the fermenter, and other unwanted proteins are eliminated from thesolution.

“Before fermentation, the solution is only called wort,” Sproul said.“After it is fermented, it is officially called beer.”

The last procedure before the beer isable to be served is filtering. The beeris sent through a filter to remove alltraces of the yeast before it is transferredto the serving tanks. The beer-carbona-tion level is adjusted by bubbling carbondioxide into the beer. Now, the beer isfinally ready to enjoy.

Sproul said he maps out a schedulefor the seasonal beers he wants to brewover the course of the year about a yearbefore he decides to brew them. Within amonth’s range, he has to plan for hisbeers to be on tap.

Sproul said there are specific sea-sonals that are locked in because of theirpopularity. He said he tries to mix in twoor three different beers over the course ofthe year, but a lot of regulars expect cer-tain beers at certain times.

Sproul likes to have three or fourseasonals on tap at one single time. In thesummertime, he stays away from beerswith more than 10 percent alcoholbecause he wants to drink light.

“I’m not trying to drink big darkbeers in the middle of July,” he said. “Ilike something lighter, something paler.”

— by Ashlee Bradbury

An American PaleAle (APA): “SierraNevada Pale Ale”by Sierra Nevada

Brewing Co.

An Irish red ale:“Samuel Adams

Irish Red” bySamuel Adams

A Witbier:“Hoegaarden

Original WhiteAle” by Brouwerijvan Hoegaarden

An Oatmeal Stout:“Samuel Smith’s

Oatmeal Stout” bySamuel Smith Old

Brewery

An AmericanPorter: “Stone

Smoked Porter” byStone Brewing

Company

A Foreign/ExportStout: “Lion Stout”

by Ceylon/LionBrewery Limited

An Americanstrong ale:

“Arrogant BastardAle” by Stone

Brewing Company

An Old Ale: “OldStock Ale” byNorth Coast

Brewing Company

An AmericanDouble/ImperialStout: “Founders

Breakfast Stout” byFounders

THE REVIEW/Steven Gold

May 12, 200910

BY JAMIE SHEAStaff Reporter

This week, the Fashion MerchandisingClub will host the university’s first-everFashion Week. Events began yesterday andwill run through Saturday.

Junior Rita Chang, FMC’s president,stated in an e-mail message, she came upwith the idea for Fashion Week last summerwhile looking through fashion magazines.

“When I saw magazine articles on thetrends of prior international Fashion Weeks,I suddenly had the idea that FMC could hostUD’s own Fashion Week,” Chang said.“Ever since November 2008, when we werenotified that we were able to successfullyreserve campus areas for this event, theentire FMC has been working hard to makethis event a success.”

Junior Meghan Thorne, director ofcommunity outreach for the FMC, said theclub wanted to put on an event that hasnever been done on campus before.

“We’re trying to get our foot in the doorand become more well-known on campus,”said Thorne.

Junior Lauren Rizzitello, fundraisingcoordinator for the FMC, stated in an e-mailmessage that the club is working hard to

make Fashion Week a successful event thatwill be held again in the future.

“Fashion Week is important because ithelps make others on campus aware of ourmajor, what it is all about and how talentedwe are,” Rizzitello said.

Chang said another motivation forFashion Week was to take part in the univer-sity’s sustainability initiative. Monday’sevents consisted of eco-friendly tie-dyingand a fashion show titled “Reconstructed.”

Thorne said the fashion show featuredold clothing recycled into new garmentsdesigned by students.

“This event is really important to pro-mote the whole eco-friendly thing,” shesaid.

Another event supporting sustainabilityis Wednesday’s clothing swap. Students areinvited to bring any old or unwanted clothesin exchange for another donated garment.All of the leftover clothing will go to ProjectH.O.M.E., a non-profit organization inPhiladelphia dedicated to helping homelessmen, women and children.

“Fashion Week is important because itallows FMC to help educate people on thefeasibility of having fashion and sustainabil-ity exist at the same time,” Chang said.

“There is quite a strong public opinion thatsustainable garments are both visually unap-pealing and expensive, but we prove thatwrong at Fashion Week.”

Today’s event on the Trabant UniversityCenter patio will allow students to nominatethemselves or their friends for a freemakeover.

Chang said another goal for FashionWeek is to bring the university and commu-nity together.

“For instance, the Saturday finale showcalled ‘Swagger Like A UD Man,’ will fea-ture university’s hottest men from all acrossthe university,” Chang said.

Rizzitello said this event is the one sheis most excited for.

“Some of UD’s hottest males are com-ing out to compete for our grand prize andwill show us how good they can walk thecat-walk,” she said.

Participants in “Swagger Like a UDMan” will be modeling casual wear, formalwear and swimsuits. It is also a competitionfor the models since they will be asked ques-tions, like in a pageant. The FMC hopes tofind the three best models at the university.

The models will also be present atThursday’s event on the Green, wearing

pink to show support for the Susan G.Komen for the Cure Foundation. The modelswill be soliciting donations from passersbyfor the cause while local boutiques, vendors,businesses and campus clubs will be adver-tising and selling merchandise at tables.

“Several RSOs will have tables to dis-cuss how each sees fashion through its ownlens,” Chang said.

For example, the National EatingDisorders Awareness Committee will bepresent to discuss eating disorders in thefashion industry and Students for theEnvironment will show the importance ofsustainability in production, consumptionand disposal of apparel, she said.

Chang said Friday’s events include ascreening of “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” and atrade show featuring student designs. Thepurpose of the trade show is to allow univer-sity students, not only apparel designmajors, to sell their own apparel, jewelry,handbags and accessories.

She said the event will be enjoyable forstudents.

“Students can expect excellent shop-ping opportunities from UD students andlocal boutiques, free food, and in case youcouldn’t tell, fun,” Chang said.

BY ERICA COHENStaff Reporter

Infinite Crescendo, the fashion show put on by SynergyFashion Group, displayed work from more than 50 students inthree categories: open submission, blank canvas and senior col-lections. The theme, chosen by the fashion and apparel designdepartment, and this year’s senior collections were based off of18th and 19th century classical music. On Saturday, attendeesof the Infinite Crescendo arrived in attire ranging from shorts toball gowns.

Senior Katie Broderick, president of Synergy, said thegroup raised $14,000 toward the event and sold approximately550 seats in the Trabant Multipurpose Rooms.

“This to us is way bigger than graduation — afterSaturday, we’re done,” Broderick said.

The show is an opportunity for both apparel design majorsand non-majors to exhibit their work for an audience and forjudges in the fashion industry, she said. This year the judgingpanel was comprised of representatives from various fashionbrands including Rosa DiPietrantonio from Etro, KatherineKalinoff from Farhi, Leah Reiner from Tahari, Jessica Schillingfrom Anthropologie and Isabel Sole from Elizabeth and Jamesand LaROK.

Synergy Fashion Group is a club for students who areinterested in fashion and whose focal point is the spring show,according to the event’s program.

The show began with an overview from Broderick whothen introduced the show and the judges. Following this wasthe open submissions that showcased works of underclassmencreated in draping or flat-pattern classes.

The first dress on the runway was a red gown with

turquoise pleats created by senior Carolyn Kilgore for her drap-ing class.

“I knew I wanted to try pleating because I had never doneit, and I really like how it looks,” Kilgore said. “I knew I want-ed to do something sleek and long — really classy.”

For open submission, first place was awarded to SarahAppfor her red dress created in her draping class. Senior AllieThompson won third place for her purple gown and juniorJessica Lapidos won second place for her red dress done in herdraping class.

For the blank canvas category, Synergy gave students atheme and participants had to create a garment representative ofthe concept. Junior Beatrice Mistretta, treasurer of Synergy,said students received musical genres to create their piecesaround in correlation with the Infinite Crescendo theme. Genresincluded folk, blues and pop music.

First place was awarded to sophomore Jenna Shaw. Herdress, influenced by techno music, was comprised of neonlights that changed color as the model walked down the run-way. Senior and Synergy Secretary Laura Thompson wasawarded third place for her doo-wop inspired white gown.Sophomore Katelyn Wagner, given the genre of blues music,was awarded second place for her black dress.

Following the blank canvas submissions, audience mem-bers watched a video montage of the senior apparel designmajors working on their collections at Alison Hall late into thenight.

“Most people don’t understand what goes on here,”Mistretta said. “We live here, and it’s good to show other peo-ple what goes into our work.”

Following the montage, the 15 seniors showed their col-

lections. Each collection included three or four pieces and wasa different interpretation of the overall theme, Broderick said.

There was a tie for third place, which Thompson and sen-iors Michelle Tate and Taylor Carr won. Clark, whose collec-tion was titled, “reBELLEion: The beauty in rebellion,” wonsecond place. The first place winner was Synergy VicePresident and senior Amanda Seidenberg for her collection,“Haunted.”

“Mine was based off of the Paris Opera house,”Seidenberg said. “A woman was killed there when part of achandelier fell on her and supposedly there’s a ghost in theopera house.”

The fashion show ran smoothly and without any majorproblems, Broderick said, owing to months of planning.

“It starts in fall and it’s our responsibility to orchestrate thewhole show,” she said. “We get the models from the Barbazonmodeling agency, but we pretty much organize that. We decideon a set, and this year we expanded a lot of our print work.”

The program for the show was placed on each seat in theaudience and echoed the floral theme that was also present inall of the screens, backdrops and petals placed on the runway.

Thompson was thrilled with the show and her wins. “I did not expect this. I’m kind of in awe,” Allie Thompson

said. “It is so surreal. I can’t believe it’s my last show.” The Synergy board was thrilled to have come this far and

tried to make the show more professional and creative this year,Laura said.

Seidenberg said beyond the satisfaction was a sigh of reliefand accomplishment.

“There have been times I didn’t think I’d make it, but hereI am,” she said.

First-ever fashion week promotes sustainability

Synergy hosts ‘Infinite Crescendo’ fashion showModels walked the catwalk wearing original student designs at a fashion show sponsored by Synergy Fashion Group on Saturday.

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health in their hands, literally,” Nicklesaid. “So if we can get them to gethealthy that way, the whole campuswill be healthier.”

She also defends the decision toenact the UD Alert notification sys-tem, saying it was prudent.

Nickle said Public Safety workedclosely with the Delaware PublicHealth Department in the decision-making process.

“Having that information mightchange your behavior when you wakeup the next day,” she said. “To us itmade sense that if this is going tochange anything that you’re going todo in your day-to-day life, then youneed to know it and you need to knowit now.”

Nickle said the decision to canceluniversity events, but not classes, wasto keep the virus as contained as pos-sible. By keeping the university open,it was less likely that students mayhave gone home, possibly to other

states that had no cases of the flu andspread it to friends and family mem-bers.

By canceling events, there wouldbe fewer non-university people oncampus who may otherwise have beenexposed.

Siebold said he was pleased withthe UD Alert notification.

Although the cases on campuswere mild and patients recovered orare recovering quickly, no one knewhow serious it would be, he said.

“We wanted to be transparent andget information out as soon as weknew it,” Siebold said.

Nickle said custodial crews willcontinue sanitizing and disinfectingkey “touch points” throughout the uni-versity, such as light switches, door-knobs, desks and keyboards.

Sanitization will continuethroughout the semester and duringthe summer, even though warmweather usually kills viruses, she said.Summer classes should not be affect-ed.

down for the possible swine flu vic-tims, Fusion Fitness Center gainedmore customers.

“This event gave us more possi-ble customers and gained us new cus-tomers who signed up,” Decaire said.

At the Fusion Fitness Center,there was a change in the crowdbecause of the incident, he said. Thegym dropped in attendance, butwould still make a profit because ofthe monthly payments for member-ship at the gym.

“We usually get between 200 to250 people coming to the gym everyday, but about 50 people were absentthat week,” Decaire said.

Fusion Fitness Center stayedopen because its managers knew peo-ple would be concerned with theirhealth and their thorough cleaninghabits would attract new customers,he said.

He said its employees’ mainresponse method to the incident wasto increase their cleaning habits.

At 1614, the gym didn’t experi-ence any changes, owner MikeWomer said.

He said the week seemed to be anormal week and approximately had

15 to 20 less visits because of theswine flu. On average, the gym has150 visits per day.

“The first day was actually pret-ty light, but the next day was like anyother regular day for us,” Womersaid.

Just like Fusion Fitness Center,1614 gained two new members to thegym, which is average for a week,Womer said. He said employeesmade sure to be extra clean to ensureto their customers that there could beno possibility that they could catchthe swine flu at the gym.

“It was a positive in businesssense, but I really can’t see it as apositive since I can’t wish someonegetting sick,” Womer said.

All the general managersbelieved the swine flu epidemic wasblown out of proportion.

Even though the general man-agers didn’t agree with the way themedia covered the outbreak, they didagree with the university’s responseto the swine flu epidemic.

“I believe the university did agreat job to make sure the viruscouldn’t spread and took the correctprecautionary methods to use in orderto face the problem,” Matarese said.

CDC, state prepare for possible flu recurrence

Gyms, restaurants focus on flu protection

Three complexes certified in program’s existence

in off-campus housing withoutany official affiliation to the uni-versity.

Mark said the universityshould take the lead in promotingoff-campus housing safety andembrace the program by directingstudents to certified propertiesfirst.

“The university has to beinvolved and say, ‘Hey, we onlywant certified properties for ourstudents,’ ” Mark said.

The HAS Web site links tothe Bonistall Foundation’s Website, which has an up-to-date listof certified properties. It also linksto a city of Newark Web page thatlists Holly Woods Apartments andTowne Court Apartments. It doesnot list University CourtyardApartments, which was certifiedin December.

Chris Cochran, owner ofHolly Woods LuxuryTownhomes, said he got his com-plex certified last summer in anattempt to ensure the safest possi-ble living for his tenants.

“They’re a little bit morestringent than the city of Newark,”Cochran said. “It’s just a goodidea.”

The certification programalso stipulates landscaping regula-tions, prohibiting decorative riverstones and patio pavers. Cochransaid sacrifices to the aesthetics ofhis property were overridden bythe importance of such enhancedsafety.

He said they had to removeall of the river stones and patiopavers because they could be usedto hit someone in the head or toprop open a door.

“It’s good marketing,” hesaid. “You can put it on your Website and parents see that you’reBonistall-certified.”

Susan Andrews, director ofStudio Green, stated in an e-mail

message that when CampusLiving Villages bought the prop-erty, half the apartment complexwas already certified under theprevious owners, and the entirecomplex has since been recerti-fied. She said the programaddresses both personal and prop-erty awareness and adds to tenantsafety.

“For many students, attend-ing college is their first experienceliving away from home,”Andrews said. “The programhelps to make their off-campushousing somewhat safer by rais-ing personal awareness aboutsafety issues they might not everhave considered without the useof this program.”

Holly Woods is a new build-ing and thus had to follow thecity’s new building codes, manyof which overlapped with theBonistall program’s requirements.For this reason, Cochran saidrequirements were not too costlyfor him, but would be for land-lords of older buildings.

Cochran said upgradingolder buildings with a fire sprin-kler system and hard-wired smokeand carbon detectors can cost atleast $12,000 for each apartmentor building.

University CourtyardApartments Property ManagerChristina Concilio said she decid-ed to certify her complex throughthe program after hearing about itfrom a resident and reading aboutit in The Review. She saidUniversity Courtyard Apartmentsalready had all of the requiredsafety and security measuresrequired by the program, andtherefore did not bear any cost toget certified.

Chris Watts, manager ofUniversity Garden Apartments,said he would look into the certifi-cation program for his complex,although he thinks his complexalready has sufficient security

measures. He said he does not find the

guarantee of being listed on theWeb site much of an incentive.

“Demand is so high here thatwe don’t really take out anyadvertising,” Watts said.

Angela Tsionas-Matulas ofTsionas Management, whichowns Continental CourtApartments in Newark, said hercomplex does not need to be certi-fied, as it already complies withnew building code standards andextra safety precautions. She saidshe would not be opposed toapplying for the program.

“I don’t know if it wouldhelp us, but it couldn’t hurt us,”Tsionas-Matulas said.

Bruce Harvey, president ofthe Newark Landlord Association,said he is familiar with the pro-gram but does not have time tocertify the six properties he ownsin Newark, one of which is rentedby students.

In a NLA newsletter, Harveydescribed the certified off-campusprogram and asked for a landlordvolunteer with a special interest intenant safety to help with the cer-tification process. He said no onecame forward.

“The Bonistall information issitting nearby in a folder,” Harveysaid. “I need one other landlord totake the lead on administering it.”

Mark said he has contactedcompanies that manage studenthousing facilities across the coun-try and has not gotten a singleresponse.

“It’s so frustrating for usbecause we’re saying, ‘Folks,you’re going to get on two Websites to show you’re a certifiedproperty,’ ” he said. “They can sayan independent, objective organi-zation inspects us once a year tomake sure safety and security areabove what law requires becausethat’s how much we think of ourtenants.”

Studio Green is one of three apartment complexes in Newark to be certified by PEACE OUTside Campus.

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Safety certification is ultimate goal

With graduation on thehorizon, seniors are starting toget phone calls asking for dona-tions toward the solar panelsuniversity students voted on asthe 2009 senior class gift. Moststudents don’t give a secondthought to donating after receiv-ing calls from the university. A$50 donation to a university thatseemingly already has millionsof dollars at its disposal is notexactly high on a broke stu-dent’s priority list.

Most students have report-ed they are not planning to stayconnected to the university aftergraduation, but rather intend onmoving on to out-of-state jobsor back home. Despite the manyefforts the university makes tomaintain alumni relations, itdoesn’t seem like enough tokeep current seniors invested.

Because current studentsare so immersed in the campus,it’s often hard to see where allthe money is coming from andwhere it’s going. But a lot of themoney the university receivesdoes come from alumni whowant future students to enjoy

Delaware just as much as theydid, and it’s important to realizethat giving back really doeshelp.

The university gives stu-dents a lot — four years of edu-cation, a decent place to eat andlive and enough blue and gold t-shirts to last a lifetime. It isn’tnecessarily the responsibility ofthe alumni to keep the universi-ty running, but we should takepride in the future of the schooland give back so future studentscan have the same experienceswe did.

A donation doesn’t have tocome in the form of money —there are other ways to giveback. Donating time, volunteer-ing at university events andusing contacts and connectionsto help improve the universitycommunity are all ways to giveback after graduation withouthaving to break the bank.Staying connected to the placethat ultimately gave us our startin the real world doesn’t neces-sarily have to be a priority, butit’s nice to come back and visitonce in a while.

Landlords should be aware of safety off campus

Maintain univ. ties after graduationAlumni donations fund many university programs

Since university studentLindsey Bonistall was murdered inan off-campus apartment complexfour years ago, her family hasworked to increase safety in hous-ing facilities around campus.PEACE OUTside Campus, theLindsey M. Bonistall Foundation,has joined with police and fire offi-cials to create a Certified Off-Campus Housing Program to pro-mote safety standards in off-cam-pus housing.

However, the city has notmandated that landlords have theirproperties certified, and only thenewer buildings, including theHollywoods and UniversityCourtyards, have been certified,mostly due to the high expenses ofcertification.

It is the duty of landlords topromote safety in off-campusapartments and houses. While it isunderstandable that especially inthese difficult economic times it iseven harder to spend money onsafety, the precautions shouldremain a priority. For example,locks should be changed when newtenants move in and smoke and car-bon detectors should be properlymaintained at all times. These arethe basics, and it is an importantstart to promoting safety proce-dures.

As students, we cannot expectimmediate certification within ashort period of time because thereare some areas that require exten-sive work. However, landlordsshould consider setting a long-termplan for certification. The plancould meet certain requirementsgradually over the course of a fewyears, or however long it takeslandlords to budget the changes. Itcould begin with immediate fixes,such as locks and move towardmore long-term fixes. With all thework that has been done by theBonistall family, the universitycommunity should at least movetoward this certification inLindsey’s honor.

Students should work withlandlords to find a middle groundon safety promotion. It is theirresponsibility to communicate withlandlords when something needs tobe fixed. Don’t just assume anapartment complex or house is safeenough because it’s only a short-term living environment — speakup if that change is important.

The Bonistalls suffered a greattragedy, but have made an effort tomake sure no one else has to sufferthe same fate. It is up to the city,landlords and students to worktogether in order to make sure theirefforts are not ignored.

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Corrections

In the April 28 article “Bonistall’s murderer seeking new trial,” professor Nancy Schweda-Nicholson wasmisquoted on several points. The use of the word “horrible” in reference to a possible retrial is inaccurate, aswere quotes regarding hypothetical situations under which the original trial may have occurred. The misquota-tions result in the relevant law being mischaracterized. We apologize for these errors.

In the May 5 article, “Engineering professor fuels passion for Porsches,” there were some factual errors.Professor Steven Timmin’s race of 170 miles per hour was on a race track and not on the street. Also, ProfessorTimmins worked as an accountant for two years, never raced hot rods and did not change to business becauseit was easy, but rather because it was easy in comparison to engineering.

THE REVIEW/Natalie Carillo

SGA, student groups should incorpo-rate student poll results into agendas

Over the past month and a half, I and therest of political science professor DavidWilson’s Public Opinion, Politics and Societyclass (POSC318) have had the opportunity tocollect, analyze and report on student opinionwith the 2009 Blue Hen Poll. Last Tuesday, ourclass held a public release of Blue Hen Poll dataand presented our findings to a crowd of facul-ty, administrators, students and media. Iapplaud all of those who attended the event tofind out more about what university studentsthink, as well as those who voiced their opin-ions through their participation in the Blue HenPoll. Our collection of responses from over1,000 respondents, both undergraduate andgraduate, gives us one of the most all-encom-passing snapshots of student opinion availableon campus. But of what use is this snapshot?

In a letter to Col. Edward Carrington,Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The basis of our gov-

ernment being the opinion of the people, thevery first object should be to keep that right.”According to Jefferson, public opinion is thebasic principle of the democratic process.Consequently, I am shocked that StudentGovernment Association and other studentorganizations who strive to be democraticexpressed no interest in the Blue Hen Poll data.

Last year, Professor Wilson invited SGAto speak at the public release of the Blue HenPoll results. SGA chose not to participate. Thisyear, SGA acted in a similar manner and neithersent a representative to the public release, norexpressed interest in reviewing the poll results.In contrast, Public Safety and Residence Liferepresentatives spoke out about their desire toreview student opinions concerning their pro-grams.

SGA should be at least as, if not more,concerned with student opinion as non-studentrun organizations, yet this may not be the case.

I do not deny that SGA has done someamazing things for university students. I knowthey are actively working to implement a“Good Samaritan” policy to ensure students donot receive a “strike” for seeking medical atten-tion concerning alcohol. Additionally, SGA hasbeen integral in the extension of library hoursand the campus safety walk. However, it is justas important that SGA support and implementpolicy changes in a democratic way.Undemocratic societies may claim to act in thewill of the people, but those in democratic soci-eties look down upon governments who claimthis because they see democracy as the onelegitimizing force of government.

I have no doubt SGA will quickly come toits own defense and say it invites students tocome to its meetings and that RSOs can voicetheir opinions in the SGA-run DelawareUndergraduate Student Senate. Nevertheless,because of a discreetly announced electionwhere five out of six candidates ran unopposedand a lack of transparency with SGA’s refusalto announce election results, students arebecoming disenchanted with an SGA that looksmore like an oligarchy than a democracy.

While SGA is in desperate need of struc-tural reengineering, the first order of businessmust be to refocus SGA on who it represents —the students of the university. Necessary struc-

tural changes will occur more easily when SGAmakes an effort to hear what students are say-ing. SGA may believe it can gather an accuraterepresentation of student opinion by its sparse-ly attended meetings and the handful of e-mailsit receives, but I encourage SGA to also look atdata collected in the Blue Hen Poll and talk tothose involved in the poll’s conduction so that itmay better understand student opinion at theuniversity. I would also advocate that SGA playa more active role in future Blue Hen Polls.

Finally, I must note that SGA is not theonly organization that could benefit from BlueHen Poll data and chooses not to. Organizationslike the Young Democrats, the YoungRepublicans, HAVEN and other civic, social,and political groups can benefit from under-standing student opinion. The opportunity forall organizations to work with the Blue HenPoll, providing input about topics and using theresults to make changes, is essential for a dem-ocratic university and should not be wasted.

Blue Hen Poll results can be found athttp://udel.edu/~dcwilson/bluehenpoll09.html.

Greg Dwyer is a junior at the university. Hisviewpoints do not necessarily represent thoseof the Review staff. Please send comments togregory.dwyer@gmail.com.

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LAST WEEK’S RESULTSQ: Do you think the university handledthe swine flu alerts appropriately?

71% Yes29% No opinion

After five years of a debilitating illness,recovery is possible

I was 13 years old the first time I thought Iwas going to die. It started with a headache sopowerful I physically could not move, sit up oreven walk. The pain was paralyzing. I wasrushed to the emergency room for a CAT scanbecause the doctor thought only a brain tumorcould cause pain this intense. As we drovethere, I remember thinking this could be it —today, I could find out I’m going to die.

I didn’t have a brain tumor — but myhealth continued to deteriorate, with no answeras to what was wrong. The headache was con-stant, and I developed severe joint pain, fullbody tremors — which manifested constantlyin my hands — blurred vision, chest pains andheart palpitations, among more than 50 othersymptoms that came and went daily. I no longercould go to school because of the pain. I could-n’t shower, use stairs and I couldn’t move with-out assistance. My existence dwindled to noth-ing more than an embodiment of medical mys-tery — a mass of skin and bones that could feelpain and nothing else. I endured EKGs, a spinaltap, an MRI and other tests on my brain. Eachtime, doctors told me I was fine. “There’s noth-ing wrong with you,” they said.

About a month and a half into this ordeal,my primary doctor at the time told me I was“making it up.” He said I was faking the painbecause I wanted attention and my symptoms

were only psychosomatic. That diagnosis ledmy parents on a witch-hunt, alone, to find outwhat was wrong with me. Months later, we didfind an answer — chronic Lyme disease.

Although, even that was debatable.Lyme disease, discovered in 1981, has tra-

ditionally been seen as a non-threatening illnessrequiring two to four weeks of antibiotics. Thisidea has resulted in one of the largest medicalcontroversies of our time, as patients and aselect group of “Lyme-literate” doctors arecoming forward to show that Lyme disease canexist in a chronic form if left untreated, isextremely debilitating and can even be fatal. Itshould be treated with antibiotics for as long asit takes the illness to be cured.

In the United States, we go to the doctorexpecting to tell them what is bothering us andfor them to listen and treat us in an appropriatemanner. We don’t expect to be bombarded withthe politics and corruption that govern insur-ance companies and disease patents.

In 2006, the Infectious Disease Society ofAmerica wrote Lyme disease guidelines statingthe disease is not chronic and does not requirelong-term antibiotic therapy, despite countlessamounts of patients — like myself — who haveseen a recovery with long-term treatment.These guidelines have been devastating to theLyme community, because it is these termsfrom which other doctors and insurance compa-nies base their protocol for treatment.

Therefore, those who need long-term treatmentare being denied that on the basis of theseguidelines. The problem lies with the insurancecompanies and drug manufacturers who wouldrather pay for short-term treatment since it is farless expensive — although detrimental to thepatient — and the doctors who benefit finan-cially by adhering to their wishes.

Ideally, the IDSA should gather a group ofneutral doctors to research and write treatmentguidelines for a disease. According to a 2008documentary titled “Under Our Skin,” nine outof 14 doctors on the panel have direct financialties to the disease and benefit from promotingshort-term treatment — six have individually(or their university has) patented Lyme disease,four receive funding from Lyme test manufac-turers, four have been paid by insurance com-panies to write guidelines on how to treat Lymeand nine have received money from Lyme vac-cine manufacturers.

In addition to their strong financial ties, theIDSA did not consult any Lyme-literate doctorswhile writing the guidelines. Approximatelyhalf of the 400 references were from researchdone by the authors themselves. This researchcame from people like Dr. Eugene Shapiro,who says, “The anxiety is as large a problem, orlarger, than Lyme disease itself,” on his person-al Yale University Web site.

As if this view of Lyme disease was notenough to discourage patients from seekingaccurate treatment, the IDSA and insurancecompanies have used their connections to forcestate medical boards to investigate doctorstreating chronic Lyme. Doctors who do treatlong-term are losing their licenses, one-by-one— because they’re making people healthyagain. This leaves fewer Lyme-literate doctorswilling to help patients that are sick, and in

some cases, dying.Lyme disease has become the largest

health epidemic in our country. The CDCreports around 20,000 cases each year but read-ily admits there are more than 10 times thatnumber, making totals over 200,000. This dis-ease is more prevalent than AIDS and there isno way to effectively prevent it. Deer ticks,which cause the disease, are about the size ofthe period at the end of this sentence.

I believe the truth always comes out. Iknow someday the people who deny the painand suffering that I and thousands of othershave experienced will pay. The corruption andlies will be exposed. I have to believe that.

I was told I wouldn’t get better, I wouldn’tgraduate from high school or go to college — Iwould never get my health, or my life, back.After five agonizing years of treatment, almosttwo and a half of which were seen with virtual-ly no improvement, I proved those doctorswrong with a near-complete recovery that Iowe solely to my long-term antibiotic regimen.

Over the years, my family has received acountless amount of phone calls from people,who have been caught in the politics of Lymedisease, asking how to deal with the doctorsthat call them liars and crazy. I am neither thefirst, nor the last. I remain outraged that peopleare sick but are still told this disease is an imag-inary scapegoat.

I have found this is the greatest revenge —proving that they are wrong by living my lifeand speaking out against their corruption. I’llwin this one, too, just like I won the last one.

Caitlin Wolters is an editorial editor for TheReview. Her viewpoints do not necessarily rep-resent those of the Review staff. Please sendcomments to cwolt@udel.edu.

Medical corruption causes pain for chronic Lyme patientsWolt This

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Caitlin Wolters

Blue Hen Poll requires more attention from RSOs

May 12, 2009

Despite SGA’s grandiose state-ments that it is concerned with

student opinion, its indifference tothe results of the Blue Hen Poll

convey an entirely different mes-sage — SGA does not seem to care

about student opinion.

During my five-year battle withchronic Lyme disease, I found

money is infinitely more importantin the medical system than a

patient’s health.

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Veteran DJ brings classical touch to WVUD

BY TAD KASIAKStaff Reporter

When orchestral music resonatesfrom radios around campus, it’s thework of Larry Carr. For the last 21years, Carr has been the host of “FineTuning,” the Friday afternoon programon WVUD that airs classical music.

His career at WVUD began with achance encounter. While walking downAcademy Street one day in 1987, Carrran into a couple of disc jockeys. Theycasually mentioned their need for helpwith Radiothon, the annual fundraiserfor the station. Carr agreed to help outby answering phone calls from contrib-utors. When Radiothon ended, he wasurged to take the test to become a DJ. Afew weeks later, he passed both the pol-icy and technical aspects of it andreceived his radio license from theFCC.

At the time, the only availableopening was the Friday classical musicsegment, and Carr accepted it. He saysback then, the job required a lot moretechnical skill than it does today.

“All the music was on reel-to-reeltape,” Carr says.

The tapes required a lot of carefulset-up and foresight. He sys when radioswitched to CDs a few years ago, itbecame a lot simpler. Instead of havingto handle large magnetic decks, the DJnow just slides a in CD.

When he first started, Carr onlyplayed music performed by theChicago Symphony Orchestra.Approximately two years ago, radiomanagement decided to bring morediversity to the program. As a result,Carr was tasked with choosing a reper-toire of various composers and orches-tras.

“It depends on the DJ, but I like tohave the program ready in advance,” he says.

Every week he goes to the Newark Free Library and picksout CDs. He also goes through WVUD’s private music library.He usually plays his favorites — Bach, Rachmaninoff,Tchaikovsky and Beethoven.

Apart from managing his own program, Carr also substi-tutes for other DJs. He sometimes does the late-night segments,

during which he plays his favorite rock songs from the ‘50s and‘60s.

Carr never really thought he would become a DJ. Aftergraduating from high school in Detroit, he joined the army. Hewas stationed in Washington state for a year and a half. Afterfalling ill, he was admitted to a veterans affairs hospital inPennsylvania.

When he was discharged, Carr went to live on a farm

before eventually moving toWilmington. In 1970, he moved toNewark. He started taking classes atthe university and received undergrad-uate degrees in psychology in 1979 andcriminal justice in 1987.

Carr has undertaken a wide varietyof jobs around campus. He worked asan assistant cook in Perkins StudentCenter before joining facility mainte-nance and operations in TrabantUniversity Center. Now, apart fromDJing at WVUD, he also volunteers atthe St. Thomas More Oratory, where hehelps out during Saturday mass.

Carr has another job during thefootball season. He calls himself theimaginary coach. While on air, he givespep talks to any football players whomight tune in. The main point is to givethem a sense of organization and tourge them on.

Chief engineer at WVUD DaveMackenzie says these pep talks are wellthought out.

“Carr always has a positive atti-tude and looks at the bright side ofeverything,” Mackenzie says.

Station Manager Steve Kramarck,who has known Carr for almost 15years, agrees.

“He has the rare ability to getalong with everyone he comes intocontact with,” Kramarck says.

He also believes Carr’s interest inparticipating with groups of diversepeople makes him the perfect commu-nity member. He isn’t shy around stu-dents and is willing to donate his time.

“One of his closing things is to tellpeople to be careful out there,”Kramarck says. “He is always thinkingabout others.”

Carr says radio plays an importantrole in his life. It makes him feel like

part of the community. It also gives him exposure to the public,allows him to be creative and provides an opportunity to attractthe public’s attention.

“But mainly it’s a chance for me to express my apprecia-tion for music and to share that appreciation with other people,”he says. “I use my imagination and try to get other people to usetheir own.”

BY TAD KASIAKStaff Reporter

Five figures stand on a stage, each beforea microphone and a note stand. They assumemultiple personalities — talking, shouting andgesturing as they transition between differentcharacters. It’s May 5 and the final late-nightperformance of “The Maltese Falcon,” basedon a story of the same name by DashiellHammett, is taking place in the Pool Room ofHartshorn Theatre.

The production, which was staged in thespirit of a radio play, featured ProfessionalTheatre Training Program alumni includingMichael Boudewyns (1992), Lynn Berg(2003), Luis Galindo (2007), Sara Valentine(2007) and Paul Hurley (2007).

The touring performance markedDelaware’s first participation in The Big Read,an initiative of the National Endowment for theArts and the Delaware Division of Libraries.

National Reading Initiatives literaturedirector David Kipen says The Big Read was

formed in response to a 2004 report by theNEA, which found literary reading in theUnited States was drastically declining amongall age groups.

Kipen says the report stated fewer than 50percent of American adults read literature.

According to the NEA Web site, The BigRead was inaugurated as apilot project in 2006with 10 communitiesfeaturing four books. Asof this year, it has expandednationally to include morethan 400 communities.

The Big Read pro-vides members of the com-munity with an opportunityto not only to read, but todiscuss a common book.Each cycle of the programlasts one month and incor-porates kick-off events,panel discussions, film screen-

ings and theatrical readings — all promoting asingle book. The NEA helps fund and promotethe community events.

State librarian Patty Langley says theDelaware Division of Libraries chose “TheMaltese Falcon” from the dozens of books list-ed by the NEA because it was considered to beless widely known.

“We thoughtpeople would

have alreadyread bookslike ‘To Kill a

Mockingbird’or ‘Fahrenheit451’ in school,”Langley says.“Plus thec r ime /mys te rygenre appeals toboth women andmen.”

Langley obtained

a grant to fund a theatrical reading of the bookand turned to Boudewyns and Valentine towrite and organize the performance in severallibraries situated around the state.

“The original script is adapted directlyand faithfully from the book and uses only dia-logue and narration by Dashiell Hammett,”Boudewyns says. “The audience discovers thiscrime story through his unique, signature writ-ing style.”

Boudewyns says because “The MalteseFalcon” was written to mimic the structure of aradio drama, a radio show performed live infront of library audiences seemed like a perfectfit. This type of performance would allow forthe use of narrators and the incorporation ofexact sentences from the book.

Boudewyns points out that while past filmscreenings of “The Maltese Falcon” were trueto the story, they didn’t include many of thedescriptive passages that make the book

PTTP hits the airwaves with Big Read project

After 22 years, Larry Carr still spinning records at university radio station

Larry Carr has two degrees from the university, one in psychology and one in criminal justice.

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BY TED SIMMONSEntertainment Editor

Friday’s release of the latest “Star Trek” movie may not be the franchise’s final frontier,but it certainly marks several new ones for its cast and crew.

Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the new adaptation, has never before starred in amovie, instead sticking to roles on TV like arch-villain Sylar of “Heroes.”

Spock’s on-screen counterpart, Captain James T. Kirk, is played by Chris Pine, whosebiggest role before “Star Trek” was opposite Lindsey Lohan in “Just My Luck.”

And then there’s director J.J. Abrams. The creator of “Lost,” “Fringe” and “Alias” isn’tnew to the director’s chair. He was at the helm on “Mission: Impossible 3” and “Cloverfield,”but the business of intergalactic ships and species isn’t exactly something he’s been preparingfor his entire life.

Abrams admits he wasn’t a fan of the “Star Trek” saga and was apprehensive to take theproject on at first.

“[Paramount] asked me if I wanted to produce a new version of “Star Trek,” Abrams says.“And as someone who was not a fan of it to begin with, I felt like, well I’m probably the wrongguy to do it. And then I thought, well maybe if I want non-fans of ‘Star Trek’ to see the moviemaybe a non-fan of ‘Star Trek’ should direct it.”

He describes the film as passionate, funny, exciting, intimate, emotional and optimistic,but it isn’t exclusionary. Abrams says it isn’t only for the “puzzle makers and puzzle doers.” Ifanything, this is the “Star Trek” for beginners, the version for fans and non-fans alike — all thecharacters, all the extravagance but none of the assuming story lines or complexities. No oneneeds to worry about having to understand the Vulcan language.

“I think that non-fans can look forward to the fact that this is a movie that’s much moreabout relationships and characters and challenges than it is about planets and starships andaliens,” Quinto says.

For Quinto and Pine, the challenge was playing characters who have already gone downin the annals of pop culture history as one of the greatest duos of all time. William Shatner andLeonard Nimoy were the previous Capt. Kirk and Spock, but the updated version shows thembefore they were the icons they are today.

Quinto’s Spock is more unsettled, the star says.“He’s less in control of the duality that exists within him,” he says. “He’s much more in

conflict. He’s struggling with a lot of deeply felt emotions — passion, fear, anger and the strug-

gle. The core struggle for me was containing all of that, you know, containing all of this deeplyfelt stuff.”

Pine was able to take Kirk to different places as well. The actor describes him as decisive,angry and arrogant at times.

“We get to see this character before he becomes the confident commander of the lateryears,” Pine says. “He’s dealing with what he’s going to do with his life, whether or not hewants to face up to this challenge. His journey is to learn how to mold this kind of angry ener-gy into more of a polished commander and leader of men.”

While Kirk leads his crew on-camera, it’s all Abrams otherwise. As Quinto embarked onhis big screen debut, he says the surrounding staff made it much easier, especially “the com-mander in chief.”

“The atmosphere he creates on set is just all about making the best product possible,”Quinto says, “but also while you’re doing it having the time of your life.”

And Abrams’ vision was clear — create a “Star Trek” that remains smart but appeals to awide audience. He embraced the limits, choosing to play on someone else’s playground ratherthan create his own. He took the characters that fans knew and loved and explored their roots.

“The interesting thing for me was playing with the baggage that we inherited and that tome is — was — really part of the fun,” Abrams says.

The cast features Simon Pegg, Eric Bana and John Cho alongside Pine and Quinto. It’s asif a movie that was already massive in size only expanded with its cast, a feature Pine says reas-sured him that he chose the right project.

“Realizing who was behind the camera, and the guy that I was going to be able to trustwith my performance,” Pine says, “and then talking with Zach, the guy that I was going to beworking opposite with, I realized I was in great hands.”

With a sequel already inked and all players signed on, Abrams’ “Star Trek” takes its starsand its audience into a whole other realm — one that the director hopes viewers of all back-grounds are able to enter and enjoy.

“There was already enough going on that I didn’t want people, especially in a two-hourmovie, to go into the movie and leave confounded,” Abrams says of the difficulties of steeringthe franchise.

“I don’t have that passion for it but I’m very interested in the idea of creating a version of‘Star Trek’ that does appeal to me,” he says. “And by the time we had a script and I read it, Ijust thought, ‘Holy shit, this movie is everything I love about movies.’ ”

‘Star Trek:’ A blast from the past, a film for the futureChris Pine, Zachary Quinto and J.J. Abrams collaborated to shape a new vision for “Star Trek,” one that appeals to a broader audience.

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“Next Day Air”Summit Entertainment Rating: PP (out of PPPP)

“Next Day Air” would feel a lotmore satisfying if it had a point. Movieslike this one rely on the ability to remainexciting and edgy. Unfortunately, “NextDay Air” is so caught up in its attempt toseem exciting and edgy that what ismeant to be a complex and intricate plot isonly the shell of one.

Delivery man Leo (Donald Faison)sets in motion a chain of events when hemistakenly delivers a package full of con-cealed cocaine to the wrong apartment.Illegal activity of all sorts keeps thisPhilly-based crime caper gritty enough,but the focus is unfortunately on flauntingMacks and bricks and not on any form ofthoughtful storytelling.

The concept isn’t terrible — theproblem, though, is that “Next Day Air”

is only an idea. If perhaps a story hadunfolded with surprises or unexpectedturns, then the film would’ve felt like oneof those Guy Ritchie adventures. Instead,it’s just money and drugs changing hands.The question is never how it will end, butrather when.

Because this type of movie has notime to develop or focus on any one char-acter, a strong ensemble cast is important.“Next Day Air” does deliver on that end,featuring Mos Def, Mike Epps and WoodHarris alongside Faison.

Director Benny Boom, who had onlydirected music videos until this movie,fails to give the film any real sense of pur-pose. In fact, “Next Day Air” feels a lotlike a music video itself with plenty ofgun talk and gunplay, gratuitous bootyshaking and a whole bunch of tough-guyegos. The off-center shots and fun mini-montages show the director had someintention to mimic the Ritchie style offast-paced, unconventional filmmaking— Boom just lacks the expertise to do itsuccessfully.

“Next Day Air” has plenty of humorand violence, if that’s what you’re look-ing for, but by the time the credits roll, thejokes and bullets that have been flyingnon-stop have no lasting meaning. Themusing by some of the characters thatmaybe a life of drug-dealing shoot-outsisn’t the best path hints at a message, butin the end, that point is overshadowed bythe disjointed aimless package that is“Next Day Air.”

— Ted Simmons, tsim@udel.edu

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“Star Trek”Paramount PicturesRating: PPPP (out of PPPP)

This is not your parents’ “Star Trek.” Gone are the cheesy sets and cos-

tumes, the campy action sequences andthe outdated ’70s technology — directorJ.J. Abrams has created a visually arrest-ing, exciting and sophisticated piece ofcinema. Even the typical plotlines of dis-covering an alien planet, fighting the hos-tiles and being seduced by beautiful alienwomen are gone. Instead, moviegoers aretreated to stunning, seamless CG visuals,completely believable aliens and anaction-packed plot.

The 2009 reboot could’ve beencalled “Star Trek: The Prequel.” Itexplores how Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spockcame to join the enterprise crew, showingaudiences for the first time the influencesthat gave them the personalities theyknow and love. Other familiar charactersemerge — Scotty, Sulu, “Bones” McCoyand Uhura are all part of the maiden voy-age of the Starship Enterprise. And whileUhura is missing her signature afro, theyall more or less resemble the originalcast.

The actors honor the right charactertraits from the original series while stillbringing their own personal styles to themovie. Chris Pine’s scruffy and ruggedlyhandsome Capt. Kirk is especially inven-tive, updating the bravado and sex appealof the original character for a modernaudience. However, there are still insidejokes for long time Trekkies. Most char-

acters keep their catchphrases from theoriginal series, although “Beam me up,Scotty” is conspicuously absent.

The actors become their charactersso earnestly that they’re completelybelievable, and when combined with theflawless and spectacular visuals, theworld of “Star Trek” becomes perfectlyreal. The starscapes are amazing.Explosions, black holes, suns, planets,spacecraft — all are breathtakingly awe-some. The plot is easily understood, withno disruption from the speedy pace andcomplicated twists.

“Star Trek” lovers will see it for thethrowbacks — first time Trekkers willcome for a fast-paced action-adventure.“Star Trek” will quickly become a must-see movie for the summer and part of anycollection for years to come. It’s truly anew and refreshing version for the nextgeneration of fans.

— Claire Gould, cgould@udel.edu

BricolageBricolageSlumberland RecordsRating: PP 1/2 (out of PPPPP)

If you’ve never heard of Bricolage,don’t be alarmed — this band fromacross the pond isproudly affiliated withonly independentlabels. But as its nameimplies, this band islike a collage, andeven if you’ve neverheard of the actualgroup, you’ve heardits influences.

On its secondfull-length album, theband sounds like thelove child of Rooney,mixed with some more

distinctly British sounding bands — lis-teners will pick up the punk sound ofThe Clash, some Fratellis-esque drumparts and even traces of the Beatles.

None of the songs on the album areanything to write home about — the disc

is neither good norbad, but it’s cer-tainly nothing youhaven’t heardbefore. Bricolage isa melding of musi-cal influences, andas a result, you’ddo better to setyour iPod to shuf-fle.

— AlexandraDuszak,

aduszak@udel.edu

Crime PaysCam’RonAsylum RecordsRating: PPP (out ofPPPPP)

After an extendedhiatus and the disbandingof his group TheDiplomats, Cam’Ronmight be the most intrigu-ing figure in rap today.

His return with CrimePays is a mix of whatCam’s been doing hiswhole career — wearinghis swag on his sleeve —and a few new tricks.

The disc starts offwith the synth-laden“Cookin Up,” where“Killa Cam” attacks thebeat while dropping the

references andslippery word-play listenershave becomeaccustomed toover the lastdecade.

He deliversstandard bangers,but he alsoexplores somenew territory.“Who” sounds like it waspulled right out of theDipset era. (Dipset isCam’ron’s former band.)“Spend the Night” showsCam’s radio-friendly side,“(I Hate) My Job” showssome rare thoughtfulnessand “Get It Get It” soundslike Cam’s candid side of

the Dipset fallout.Cam’Ron’s crude and

explicit lines are all overCrime Pays, but hearingthe Harlem MC in anycontext is fun, and “Spendthe Night” is the kind ofirresistible cut that makesthis album pay off.

— Ted Simmons

Rock royalty makes a return21st Century BreakdownGreen DayRepriseRating: PPPP (out of PPPPP)

No longer American idiots, the boysof Green Day rediscover their political-ly charged pop-punk roots on theirnewest work of art, 21st CenturyBreakdown. The album is loosely con-ceptual album, much like their last stu-dio album, American Idiot.

The album seamlessly meldstogether heart racing punk-rock songswith slow soft-rock ballads. The abilityto mesh the two opposites together issomething that Green Day has had forquite a while. The trio has a distinctstyle that’s truly all their own.

When listeners hear vocalist BillyJoe Armstrong, they know immediatelywhat they’re listening to punk-rock royalty.Green Day has tinkered around numeroustimes with releasing albums under assumednames, most recently as the Foxboro Hot Tubs.The group released an EP under the name, butit took no time at all for people to realize it wasGreen Day, which is a testament to how big ofan impact the band has made. The trio hascome a long way since it formed in 1987 andDookie was certified Diamond — the sales rat-ing that means there were 10 million or morecopies sold.

The new album tells the story of twolovers, Gloria and Christian. The lyrics areheavily political and make many negative ref-erences to the 43rd president. The album issplit into three separate parts, “Heroes andCons,” “Charlatans and Saints” and“Horseshoes and Handgrenades.”

“Heroes and Cons” includes the first two

singles, “Know Your Enemy” and the titletrack “21st Century Breakdown.” The sectionintroduces the two main characters and gives alittle background of what’s going on. The twocharacters are losing themselves in the allureof the real world with which so many peopleare fascinated.

The second act takes a stance againstmodern religion. Songs like “Peacemaker”make a stinging commentary on holy wars.The song has a certain Egyptian feel and withlines like “As God as my witness / the infidelsare gonna’ pay,” it’s pretty clear what he’stalking about.

In true Green Day fashion, the third partof the album is an anti-war statement. This sec-tion serves as the conclusion to the story, espe-cially with “21 Guns,” which is a reference tothe salute given to a soldier lost in battle.

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Frenzied story fails to live up to its genre

It seems to me that mostfarewell columns go along the

lines of “it’s been a year of writ-ing about sex and relationships,and now I’d say I’ve finallyexhausted all of my topics.” Well,for me that’s just not true. I thinksex provides an endless amount ofentertaining conversation. Soinstead of pretending that I’ve run

out of things to talk about, I’m going towrite my final column.

Facebook makes one-night standsimpossible. I’m sure you’ve all had thatnight where all you want to do is kiss a ran-dom person and then not talk to him or heragain. Sometimes, you just want to go out,hook up and end it there. Well ladies andgents, that’s not always possible anymore— Facebook makes those random hook-ups not so random.

We’ve all been in this situation: aftera night out you sign on to your Facebookaccount and see that you have a friend

request — and it’s the person youmade out with last night. On the flip

side, I’m sure some of us havemanaged to stalk down our

hook-up buddies onlineand friend request

them only moments after the evening isover.

The fact is, you can know as little as aperson’s first name and still manage to findhim or her on Facebook. If the curiosityexists, Facebook is the way to find out moreinformation about that mysterious kisserfrom last night.

So who’s more curious in this situation— the girl or the guy? I surveyed somefriends who said most of the time, the girlwill make the first Facebook move. I dis-agree. Gender doesn’t make much of a dif-

ference; it really depends on a person’sintentions. If the intent to pursue a relation-ship exists, you’re guaranteed to see the fol-low-up, maybe in the form of a Facebookmessage or poke the next day.

What’s also interesting to think about ishow some people go about following up. Iknow many think it’s a requirement to waita couple days before you friend your mys-tery lover, claiming it’s about not comingoff too strong. My friend, who I’ll call Sally,says it’s rare, if ever, that she would friendrequest a random hook-up — instead, shelets the guy friend her. She also says the fact

that aguy shows inter-est in finding her onFacebook is flattering.Unlike Sally, there are oth-ers out there who are overlyexcited and hunt down theirsecret kiss on Facebook theminute they get home.

I find the fact that someone canfollow up on a hook-up that easily isflattering and disturbing at the sametime. I would be flattered if a guyremembered me and went out of his wayto look for me. But at the same time, Iwould be disturbed that he could find mewith little to no effort, or that what I want-ed to be random with no strings now hasmany strings attached. Thanks, Facebook.

If a relationship arises from arandom hook-up, then both par-ties went into that kiss withmutual intentions. In otherwords, it wasn’t that randomafter all.

Maybe next time youplan on going on a personhunt to find a random guyto hook up with, think twiceabout the consequences —because thanks to Facebook,one-night stands are nowimpossible.

On that note, enjoy yoursummer. I know that I’mleaving the delawareUNdressed column ingood hands. Although it’ssad, this relationship iscoming to an end. It’s notyou, it’s me.

mediadarlingOn the “American Idol” battlefront,

you’re either a Simon or a Paula. Fans ofFox’s hit singing competition appreciate thejudging duo for their ceaseless banter, polaropposite critiques and impeccable wardrobechoices, but at the end of the day, any loyal“Idol” viewer knows Simon Cowell and PaulaAbdul can’t coexist. Eventually (my money ison Season 23), one judge will destroy theother, the world will implode, Clay Aiken willannounce he’s straight and Taylor Hicks willsuddenly be wildly successful. Until the“Idol” day of reckoning, though, fans mustpledge their loyalties to one judge and onealone, and I think the choice is pretty obvious— Paula.

The 46-year-old pint-sized bundle ofBotox is rarely fazed, always articulate andgenerally a model of composure. Fans valueAbdul for her straight-forward, to-the-pointcritiques and her ability to say exactly whateveryone else is thinking. Prime example: sheonce told Season 7 contestant DavidArchuleta, “David, you are ridiculous. I wantto squish you, squeeze your head off and dan-gle you from my rear view mirror.”

She read my mind.Unfortunately, though, the hero of “Idol”

was recently attacked in what some mightargue is the most uncouth publication in theUnited States: Ladies’ Home Journal. Themonthly magazine dedicated to all thingslibelous (and a lot of delicious recipes) fea-tured Abdul in its June 2009 cover story titled“Paula Abdul, Straight Up.” They should’vecalled it “LHJ, Villainous Tabloid.”

In the feature, Abdul reportedly admits to

a prescription painkiller addiction that hasspanned the last 12 years. She supposedly tellsreporter Peter McQuaid (more like PeterMcMade-this-story-up) that she checked her-self into rehab last November, went throughan excruciating withdrawal and finally kickedher habit. However, in a statement made lastweek on the Detroit radio show “Mojo in theMorning,” Abdul exposed the story for what itwas — a malicious lie.

“It was very stressful for me to hear thatand to be quoted saying something I neversaid,” Abdul said on the air. And you know

what? She has every right to be stressed —who would ever believe she was abusing sub-stances?

Her behavior has been unwaveringly nor-mal, except for the few times she’s fallenasleep, fallen out of her chair or fallen over herdog. But really, who among us hasn’t brokenhis or her nose after tripping over aChihuahua? Rookie mistake.

And even if her behavior is a little off attimes, she’s always completely coherent in herspeech. Take her critique of Season 7 contest-ant Jason Castro: “I am so glad that you

showed a beautiful vulnerability and if youare great in front of the guitar and leaving itdown, that — I — you know — there’ssomething — first of all, one thing that I waskind of — I was kind of surprised you pickedthat song.” What’s unclear about that? Abdulis the most eloquent speaker I’ve heard sinceAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin first put lipstick ona pig. I’m 83 percent sure she might’ve beenPalin’s speechwriter.

But that’s neither here nor there. The factis, Abdul is clearly and visibly sober when-ever the camera’s rolling, and I expect aretraction from LHJ any day now. I mean,the magazine clearly isn’t a respectable pub-lication to begin with, but you would thinkthat if they were going to fabricate a story,they’d at least make it believable.

And what’s believable about Abdul ondrugs? I’ll tell you — nothing. Like she saidin her Wednesday “Idol” performance, she’sjust there for the music. The music and themorphine.

— Caitlin Birch, jecabi@udel.edu

21May 12, 2009

When I think ofChanel, “classic” is whatcomes to mind. A Chanelpiece is simple, stylish andmost definitely a purchaseI aspire to make. You maysay a girl can dream —what I say is a girl canhave whatever shewants if she workshard enough. Chaneldid it, right?

Given that the name Coco Chanel is hardlyan unfamiliar one, I’d say the woman got whatshe wanted. On May 5, the Chanel Web site pre-miered a new campaign for its most popular per-fume, Chanel No. 5. The less-than-three minutefilm features the French actress Audrey Tautou,the most recent face of Chanel. The company’sprevious film advertisement for No. 5 featuredNicole Kidman as the spokeswoman for Chanelin 2004. At an outrageous $18 million it was themost expensive commercial ever made.

Although I understand the importance ofeffective advertising, I question whether it’s nec-essary to advertise for a product that’s alreadybeen successful for such an extended period oftime. I also question how many more bottles ofperfume were sold because of the film and if theprofit was worth it. After all, $18 million is quitea lot of cash to throw down.

Like most high-end fashion brands, Chanelgenerates the majority of its income from itsleast expensive items, such as fragrances.Owning a Chanel perfume isn’t exactly the sameas owning a classic Chanel little black dress, butit’s still Chanel. Purchasing the fragrance stillgives the impression of everything Chanelstands for, and this way can be obtained at anaffordable price.

Does a short online film really have signif-icant power in a situation like this? It isn’t as ifChanel is proposing a new, cutting-edge ideathat demands highly visual marketing strategiesshowing how a product comes to life on thewearer. This is a fragrance we’re talking about— the lovely Chanel No. 5 classic fragrance inits perfectly simple little bottle.

It’s hard to imagine that updating a com-mercial after five years is really going to make adrastic marketing difference for a fragrancethat’s been selling successfully for so long. Ialways thought a classic was a classic — justbecause an ad campaign may have potentiallyfallen out of style, classics never do. The compa-ny may hope to target a younger audiencethrough the film, but I must say that I’m not sureall the expenses are worth it.

First marketed 88 years ago, Chanel No. 5is the best-selling scent of all time. Consideringthe company predicts that one bottle of No. 5 issold every 55 seconds, I wouldn’t exactly say itneeds all the help it can get.

The Chanel No.5 bottle is simple — reflec-tive of Mademoiselle Gabrielle. She once said,“On a woman, a natural flower scent smells arti-ficial. Perhaps a natural perfume must be createdartificially.” No. 5 was the result — a perfumethat wasn’t the typical 1920s scent of sweet-smelling flowers. It was more real, more natural.

Simplicity is timeless. Therefore, it’s nosurprise the perfume was destined to be a classic.Frills and frou-frou were a no-go in Chanel’seyes. After all, think about some other classics—jeans, the T-shirt, the little black dress.They’re not all glitz and glamour, yet they’vemanaged to withstand the test of time.

I believe Chanel couldn’t have said it betterherself — “Fashion passes, style remains.” No. 5definitely has the style factor we’re talking abouthere. Faces of Chanel have come and gone overtime. What remains is classic.

— jackiez@udel.edu

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BY CHRIS MEIDANISStaff Reporter

It’s an early morning in a small African village in1961. The day’s chores await the farmer, includingherding a large flock of goats. But today, the farmerwon’t have to undertake that task. He has a replacement— a female baboon that will look after the flock.

She leads the goats out from the village during theday, watches for predators, herds them back at night,grooms them, searches for missing members and evencarries a crying baby to its mother.

Robert Seyfarth, an expert on non-human primatecommunication, showed this documented example,illustrating the parallels between baboons and humansat the beginning of his lecture at the university onTuesday.

“No trained dogs have exhibited this knowledge ofsocial relationships that exists among others likebaboons have,” Seyfarth, also an award-winningauthor, says. “She did it spontaneously, without anytraining or reward.”

Seyfarth, a graduate of Harvard and Cambridgeand psychology professor at the University ofPennsylvania, has sought to discover the origins ofbaboon intelligence.

“This mentality arises as a result of natural selec-tion acting on baboons to favor a mind that is extreme-ly good at recognizing the relationships of others,”Seyfarth says.

He exhibited and attempted to prove these beliefs,which he developed during 15 years of research inBotswana, in his lecture titled “Baboon Metaphysics:The Evolution of a Social Mind.”

“We are trying to find the nature of this knowledgeand how it translates into improved survival and repro-duction,” Seyfarth says.

Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney, his research partnerand wife, follow individual baboons for a specific timeperiod and record their actions. They repeat the process,helping to acquiring more information about eachbaboon.

Seyfarth and Cheney have presented evidence thatsuggests several parallels between baboons andhumans.

Ideas such as the recognition of voices, close asso-ciates and dominance in ranks show the two groups

have striking similarities.“Baboons have developed a non-egocentric way of

looking at the world,” Seyfarth says. “A baboon knowsnot only about her own relationships with others butalso about their relationships with each other.”

Coexistence in a group is vital to the survival ofany baboon or human society, he says. As a means ofapology for an act of aggression, baboons use a form ofreconciliation, communicated by grunts.

“This is especially impressive because there is a lotof thinking involved in this process,” Seyfarth says. “Itis a good example of how baboons use their sophisticat-ed knowledge of relationships and vocalizations.”

A baboon’s knowledge of kinship and rank is gar-nered through observations and the appropriate deduc-tions, much like humans. The two groups also havesimilar sources of stress and means of dealing with it.

Baboons experience shifts in levels of stress basedon aggression, death of a relative or their reproductivestate. To counter these high levels of stress, femalestend to network with males, who can provide protectionand females who can provide comfort.

“All these factors of stress — loss of a companion,unpredictable events and weak social networks — canbe paralleled with stress in human societies,” Seyfarthsays. “This makes females maintain social bondswhich, in a self-correcting way, reduce stress.”

These experiments help people form a generalhypothesis of the relationship between humans andbaboons. With new groundbreaking discoveries, peoplecan begin to understand Darwin’s original investiga-tions, Seyfarth says.

“Questions about the nature of a baboon’s mindand what it involves are being answered,” Seyfarthsays. “Now, we have to start formulating our own ques-tions.”

Seyfarth’s presentation at the university was partof the university’s Year of Darwin Celebration, spon-sored by the Department of Anthropology, as well asseveral other campus programs.

Seyfarth’s interest in the topic was sparked by acollege course for which he spontaneously signed up.From that point, he received encouragement, supportand helpful mentors along the way.

“It’s amazing how many important decisions in lifeare made on a whim,” Seyfarth says.

Robert Seyfarth and his wife Dorothy Cheney studied baboon behavior in Botswana.

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BY MICHELLE HECTORStaff Reporter

With finals fast approaching,students are invariably feeling thestress, and life may be starting toseem a bit overwhelming. But a sim-ple solution exists — all you have todo is breathe.

“I think it’s important to realizethat anxiety is a universal phenome-non,” Roberta Luft, a psychiatrist atthe university, says.

Luft, who cites stress and anxi-ety as the most common reasons stu-dents visit the counseling center, sug-gests that in addition to eating well,exercising and allowing for leisuretime, individuals suffering fromstress should try methods of relax-ation such as meditation.

“They help to induce a morecalming physical state in our bodiesand our minds,” Luft says.

The American PsychologicalAssociation’s 2008 stress reportreveals that stress is on the rise withapproximately half of the adult popu-lation reporting an increase in thepast year. Symptoms of stress varyaccording to the individual and canbe both physical and emotional. Thisincludes headaches, muscle tension,feelings of anger or sadness, a changein appetite and fatigue, to name afew.

If not addressed, stress can leadto serious health implications such ashigh blood pressure, heart disease,obesity and diabetes. In extremecases, panic attacks or other anxietydisorders can occur. This is whererelaxation methods like meditationcome into play.

Meditation, in essence, serves torelax or focus an individual, and thecraze is catching on. As the Centerfor Mindfulness in Medicine, HealthCare, and Society at the University ofMassachusetts Medical Schoolreports, since 1979 its stress reduc-tion program has had 17,000 partici-pants. The center has found that prac-ticing meditation leads to a decreasein physical and psychological symp-toms, increase in relaxation, betterself-esteem and stress reduction.

“Mindfulness is paying atten-tion to what’s going on in your headand body,” communication professorScott Caplan says. “The idea of beingcompletely focused on the moment— that’s mindfulness.”

Caplan, along with communica-tion professor Steve Mortenson, isresearching mindfulness and rela-tionships. Caplan says one of theways to achieve mindfulness isthrough meditation.

Caplan suggests meditation as ameans to reduce the stresses thatcome along with studying.Meditation improves cognitive func-tioning, or in simpler terms, increas-es an individual’s ability to work withinformation and think.

“It makes you more effective atusing your mind,” Caplan says.“Mindfulness is about bringing youback — getting away from the anxi-ety — and it improves things likethinking.”

While traditional meditationinvolves focusing on breathing, itspractice can be incorporated into alldifferent facets of everyday life.

“No one needs to necessarily bean expert about it,” Mortenson says.“You can have a mindful meal withyour friends — just enjoy eating.”

Even the simple task of eatingan ice cream cone can serve as a formof meditation. As Caplan andMortenson propose, all it requires istaking the time to truly taste the icecream.

“Now, during my study breaks, Ican look forward to a bowl of icecream and achieving mindfulness,”Szafranski says.

All meditation truly requires isthe discipline and willingness toexperience being in the moment.

“Stop talking to yourself,”Mortenson says. “Just turn off yourtalking and let your senses come tothe forefront.”

Several resources exist for thoseinterested in exploring meditation,including books, CDs and for themore Internet savvy, Web sites —one being University of California-Los Angeles Semel Institute’sMindful Awareness Research Center,a favorite of Caplan and Mortenson.On the Web site, anyone interested inmindfulness can download differentmethods of meditation.

In addition to better study habitsand better concentration, meditationcan lead to greater health benefitsoverall.

“Our culture is addicted to workand not feeling our emotions,”Caplan says. “Both are not healthy.”

Meditation offers solution to study stress

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BY BRIAN ANDERSONExecutive Editor

Abby Ritman’s dream is to be a buyer at a store likeMacy’s. She’d love to go out and decide what a departmentstore sells.

For now, though, she’ll be helping a different set ofcustomers dress up — American Girl dolls and the girlsthat play with them.

Ritman, a senior fashion merchandising major, has ajob at the American Girl store in New York City lined upafter she graduates at the end of the month. She internedthere last summer, and after applying to many jobsthroughout the country, but American Girl was the onlyone that called her back.

“I’d never been there until I got the job,” Ritman says,“but it’s ridiculous.”

At the American Girl store, she says she’ll be workingin a management position in charge of the sales associates.It’s more of a retail experience and not what she wants todo for her career, but she’s excited about having a job inNew York City.

However, there's one thing she wishes she couldchange about the job.

“You know what kills me? My dress code at AmericanGirl is all black,” Ritman says. “It kills me. A little part ofme is dying inside.”

Ritman, originally from Rockland County in N.Y.,says she has always been interested in fashion, even as achild, and knew she wanted to do something fashion-relat-

ed both in and after college. She chose the university

based on the fashion merchandising program and, luck-ily, fell in love with the school.

Ritman’s hope to ultimately be a buyer for a largedepartment store would combine her strengths — mathand fashion.

“I just really like the idea of what stores sell,” shesays.

Ritman says her job this summer won’t be muchdifferent than a manager in a mall, but the hype of NewYork City makes the job seem much bigger than it real-ly is. She says her responsibilites will include openingand closing the store, making schedules and keeping thesales floor under control.

Additionally, she’ll be in charge of middle-agedwomen who have retired and decided to work at theAmerican Girl store. She says it should be interesting toboss around women twice her age.

Still, she feels fortunate to have a job.“I know how lucky I am—trust me,” she says.Ritman says celebrities often come in to buy

American Girl apparel for their daughters and theirdolls. Ritman has seen Julianne Moore shop at the store,but took off the days Kimora Lee Simmons, Tyra Banksand LL Cool J were shopping for doll-size clothing.

Ritman won’t let the hype of the store go to herhead, though.

“I’m not the American girl,” she says.Ritman says she's happy she has a job and that people

she talks to know where the store is. Most people she tells,including mothers of friends, get excited about the idea of

working at an American Girl store.“It’s like Disney World,” she says, “except it’s in New

York, and it’s dolls.”

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Abby Ritman — Senior, Fashion Merchandising

Sean Henry — Local Artist

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“Mr. Bubbles” is a watercolor and pencil portrait of the artist’s nephew, Blane F Henry III. The name of the piece derives from a nicknamegiven to Blane by the artist’s father and embodies the subject’s vibrant personality. More of Henry’s work is available at SeanHenryArt.com.

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what we’re hooked on this week you speak out

How do you relaxduring finals week?

“Facebook Scrabble’sa good outlet. You’realready on your com-puter — you might aswell just go on it.Unless you’re losing,and then it’s morestressful.” — Brittany Schwartz,

senior

“I don’t know, Idon’t really relax,but I guess listeningto music helps me.”

— Lloyd McKee,freshman

Gossip in the Grain by Ray LaMontagne“It’s just a great album and he has such a beautiful,soulful sound. For someone who hadn’t heard muchof him before, this was an incredible find.”

— Alex Porro, Sports Editor

“I would say exerciseand drink wine.Separately. Firstexercise, then show-er, then drink wine.”

— Lauren Donati,sophomore

McDonald’s french fries“They’re so bad for you, but I can’t get enoughof that salty goodness.”

— Jen Hayes, Copy Desk Chief

Trashy VH1 reality shows“From ‘Rock of Love Bus’ to ‘I Love Money 2,’ fromBret Michael’s sense of self-importance to Frenchie’sunintelligible accent, it’s like a train wreck — I don’twant to look but I can’t turn away.”

— Kaitlyn Kilmetis, Senior News Reporter

— Compiled by Alexandra Duszak and Ted Simmons

“I go to the gym, justget some of that stressout — just work someof that out.”

— Sam Needles,sophomore

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unique. The version he and Valentinecreated does this.

The first words on stage arefrom the opening paragraph of thebook, in which one of the actors/nar-rators describes Samuel Spade, themain character. The audience gets tohear the true description of Spade, aman with a bony face filled with Vs— his chin, his nose and eyebrowsare all V-shaped. The descriptionends with a simple statement — “Helooked rather pleasantly like a blondSatan.”

“You can’t recreate that in amovie,” Boudewyns says. “Byincluding this first paragraph, wecreated a distinction between thebook and the movie.”

It’s one of the subtle hints hehopes audiences will pick up on,inspiring them to read more.

During the performance, theactors play several characters andshare the role of the narrator. Theyuse simple visual accessories likehats, glasses and scarves to help theaudience keep track of each charac-ter. They also rely on varying speak-ing patterns and accents. Live soundeffects are added as well.

Boudewyns says the perform-ance still maintains the quality ofany other good theater production.The only thing that truly differenti-ates this from a stage production isthe minimal movement and lack of aset. Even the script is like thosefound in other performances.

“We did have to adapt the bookand bridge scenes by choosing toread some of them while summariz-ing others,” he says.

As Boudewyns and Valentinecreated the script, they tried to main-tain the author’s style and the gener-al aura of the 1930s.

In one of the scenes, Wilmer, adark character, confronts Spade.

The audience laughs as the nar-rator reads the line, “The boy spoketwo words — the first a short guttur-al verb, the second ‘you.’ ”

Boudewyns says “Today,authors and playwrights would justswear, but Hammett wrote a verycreative sentence that communicatesthe expression without actually say-ing the words.”

He says the line is truly “deli-cious.” It forces people to think, tobe creative and to use their imagina-tion.

“It’s the very essence of read-ing,” he says. “Through the stimula-tion of the imagination, it not onlybecomes a form of entertainment butalso of communication.”

Delaware’s Big Read programlasted throughout April, with “TheMaltese Falcon” performed through-out the state 14 times over the courseof 12 days.

Boudewyns and Valentine arenow thinking of marketing their ver-sion of “The Maltese Falcon” aroundthe country to other libraries takingpart in The Big Read.

Langley says The Big Readmay not happen next year due tobudget concerns, but it will surely berepeated sometime in the future.

“So far we have had a greatresponse from people who attendedthe show,” he says. “It’s been a real-ly good introduction to the pro-gram.”

Tapping into a well of generosity

Theater alumnipen radio dramaContinued from page 18

BY SARAH HUBBSFeatures Editor

On a hot spring day, students passing Smith Hall can find the “waterguys.” Since the spring of 2006, the water guys have been perched outsidethe building near South College Avenue, weather permitting, ready tohand out free water bottles to students walking by.

There’s no catch to accepting a water bottle— just take it and keep onmoving. But despite the free water, the students providing it are still on amission.

Alum Isaac Hicks says the idea for the water guys came about whentwo students decided praying for the campus in general wasn’t enough,and they would rather know more specifically what prayers students andstaff needed.

“We just decided to come out and find a way to actively speak withstudents about issues of their heart and know what we can bring beforeChrist to bless their lives,” Hicks says.

He says his hope is for the university to become closer to God and tomake God’s love a foundation in the lives of all students and faculty oncampus. But then again, the purpose of handing out water bottles might beto keep people hydrated, Hicks says jokingly.

“No, it’s actually a way to show you our love for you in a very non-discriminatory and non-judgmental way,” he says. “God created all of usand naturally water is a huge part of who we are as humans. We need it tosurvive and it makes up about 70 percent of our body — it’s essential justas much as we believe that God is essential to our lives.”

Junior Sarah Shovestul says she’s seen the water guys on campus andtaken some water from them a few times, but doesn’t really know whatorganization they’re from or why they hand out free water.

“If they’re doing it to inform people about their group, then I guessthey're not doing a very good job,”Shovestul says. “But if they’re justdoing it as a nice gesture then I think it's pretty cool.”

Sophomore Allison Ziino , who works with the water guys, says sheenjoys spending time with specific students when handing out water, buthas a hard time picking out one aspect of the ministry she finds mostrewarding.

“We’ve been well-accepted on campus,” Ziino says. “The studentshave come to expect us — perhaps excluding the freshmen — and the fac-ulty and staff even recognize and know who we are.”

Students are generally surprised when they see free food and water— anyone would be, she says.

“It’s not often that there isn’t a catch when getting something for free,and I think that when students find out that we just want to give it away tothem, they are taken aback,” Ziino says.

Most of the time, students will take the water and keep on walking toclass or wherever they’re going, she says. However, for the students whoare interested, the group is available for discussion.

Hicks says he recalls one instance where a student stopped to talk.“The first semester we did this, we received a prayer request from a

girl who was going through a really rough time,” he says. “Most studentsdon’t leave names or contact information, but she asked we pray for herfinances, the ability to stay in school, that her parents would learn to loveher, that her landlord wouldn’t kick her out and that she would find somefriends at school. No lie, it brought tears to my eyes.”

Although Ziino says she has never had an especially touchingmoment like Hicks, she’s experienced a funny mishap.

“Once, I tried to toss a bottle of water to a kid riding his bike and Iknocked him off onto the ground,” she says. “I felt so bad.”

The surprised reactions the group members receive from students isenough to make their day. Most students are expecting something morethan just grab-and-go, Hicks says.

“ ‘What’s the catch?’ ” he says. “We get that a lot and then when wesay we got some cookies, brownies, cupcakes and doughnuts, too, I thinkthey get overwhelmed and don’t know what to do with themselves.”

Some students are afraid to take the water because they’re used toeverything having a catch. The comments the group receives are mostlypositive and some students love the fact that all the members belong to theuniversity community and are praying for the campus, Hicks says.

“We want to share the love that God has for each and every one of us,”Ziino says. “We want to fill the hearts of the students here with the love ofGod.”

Since 2006, alumni and students have distributed free water in front of Smith Hall as part of a mission to bring the university closer to God.

‘Water guys’ hand out bottles and blessings

Courtesy of Isaac Hicks

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To say I’ve enjoyed my fouryears at the university is anunderstatement. A large under-statement. I never thought Icould have so much fun in fouryears in Delaware. I graduatedhigh school knowing collegewould be fun, but I neverthought it would be that muchfun.

With graduation a fewweeks away, I’ve thought a lotabout what I’ll miss most. SureI’ll miss my friends, my late-night adventures and even goingto class, but after thinking longand hard about it, I realized oneof the biggest things I’ll miss isthe sports.

It’s a hard thing to explain,but there’s something beautifulabout college sports. Maybe it’sthe day-long tailgates, thescreaming undergrads, the col-ors, the mascots or the rivalries.But a lot of professional leagueshave those, and there’s some-thing that sticks strictly to col-lege athletics that I’ll miss.

For example, Delaware willalways be my school, but notreally “my school” after gradua-tion. It’ll be the school I graduat-ed from. I doubt I’ll live aroundcampus for the rest of my life, soI won’t be able to connect withthe university forever. As I growup, my connection with studentsat the university will slowlyfade. It will be difficult to ignoreand cast away when it doesoccur, but I know it’s occurred inthe back my mind.

I’ll miss walking down theGreen knowing this school ismine. Once I graduate, the feel-ing of ownership will inevitablywear off. I’ll miss being excitedon a Tuesday for Saturday’sgame and for the chance thatmaybe my team will be in the

BY BRIAN ANDERSON

“BLUE HEN PRIDE”

UD names Bernard Muir as new AD BY MATTHEW WATERS

Assitant Sports EditorOn March 23 the University of Delaware

announced its search for a new Athletic Director toreplace Edgar Johnson. Fifty days later, PresidentHarker introduced Bernard Muir as the new Directorof Athletics and Recreation Services.

Muir, 40, already has 20 years of athletic admin-istration experience. He has served in many different

positions, from athletic administrative assistant atButler University right after college, director of oper-ations for Division I men’s national basketball cham-pionship from 1998-2000, to a plethora of differentpositions at Notre Dame before finally taking the ath-letic director job at Georgetown.

Muir was all smiles during his ovation before headdressed the crowd of coaches, trainers and media atthe Bob Carpenter Center Lounge.

“I am so fired up,” Muir said. “When Dr.Harker and the search committee called and said‘We have an opportunity we think you might beinterested in,’ I wanted to jump.”

Harker said it was his philosophy of the posi-tion of Athletic Director that caught his attention.

“He emphasized that it’s not just intercolle-giate varsity athletics, it’s also the club sportsteams and other recreations,” Harker said. “It’s awhole set of activities that we want to make evenbetter for the student body.”

Muir made it clear he wanted to make a dif-ference and build a program of his own.

“I had a great opportunity at Georgetown,"Muir said. “When I got the call saying there’s thisopportunity at Delaware and started to hear Dr.Harker’s vision for the place, I knew I wanted tobe at a place where I can roll up my sleeves andstart really building and have an impact on some-thing.”

Although the coaches haven’t had time to sitdown and talk with Muir, they expressed theirexcitement of having a new athletic director witha reputation such as his. Head Football Coach KCKeeler already did some of his own investigatingon Muir.

“I’ve only heard outstanding things abouthim,” Keeler said. “I’ve talked to my friends inthe football community and they said it’s going tobe a huge loss for Georgetown and a huge pickup

Courtesy of Sports InformationNew AD Muir is formally from Georgetown University.

BY BILLY DESAUTELSStaff Reporter

After a season reminiscent of a roller-coaster ride, university officials canceled thesoftball team’s final series of games and theirseason came to a sudden stop.

The university canceled the team’s lastmatch up against Hofstra University as a pre-cautionary reaction to recent swine flu develop-ments on-campus.

Head coach B.J. Ferguson said the three-game series, which was scheduled to take placeon May 1 and 2, was a last-minute chance forthe team to make their way into the ColonialAthletic Association playoffs.

“If we had played well, there was an out-side chance that we could have gotten in,”Ferguson said. “But, you know, we would hadto have played three phenomenal games to haveput ourselves in that position.”

She said even though the team was nothappy with the decision to cancel the last series,they all understood the reasoning behind it.

The three Hofstra games were not the onlycancellations this season. Many matches werecalled due to weather, including the game priorto the Hofstra series against the University ofMaryland, Baltimore County on April 29.

Ferguson said the biggest weakness that

the team had this season was inconsistency.“I think we were somewhat of a roller-

coaster this year,” she said. “I think there weremany games where we fell short, but we hadsome great wins and really demonstrated thepotential that the team had.”

Despite the inconsistent performances andthe many cancellations, the team came out ofthe season with a winning 21-18 overall record.

Even though the team did not make it to theCAA championships this season, four of theirnine starters were recognized for their perform-ance on the field. Senior shortstop KimOvittore was named to the All-CAA SoftballFirst Team and sophomore third basemanMichelle Grap made second team. Freshmanpitcher Amanda Stacevics and freshman centerfielder Rachel Jones both made the CAA All-Rookie Team.

The coach said the season had its ups anddowns and ending in this manner was disap-pointing for all the players. It was hardest onthe seniors, who had to end their collegiate soft-ball careers prematurely.

Ovittore said that it would have been a longshot for the team to make it into the CAA play-offs if the last games were not canceled, but shesaid it was a possibility.

“It would have been tough, but I think we

would have given Hofstra a run for theirmoney,” the shortstop said and added that theteam might have needed a series sweep to makethe post-season.

She said she understood the university’sdecision to bring the season to an end, becauseif the swine flu ended up being worse than itwas, it would have been devastating for it tospread across the teams. Looking back, shewishes she would have had the chance to finishher career properly.

“I can’t really say either way if they shouldhave or shouldn’t,” she said. “It is what it is,unfortunately.”

Ovittore said this season was rough. Everytime the players would get into a groove, agame would be canceled because of the weath-er and throw them off.

“I mean we did the best we could and it justdidn’t work out. It wasn’t meant to be,” shesaid.

Even though her softball career in collegedid not end the way she hoped, Ovittore is look-ing forward to the break.

Ferguson said she is optimistic about nextseason. While the team is still young, theygained a lot of experience this season, and the

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BY MATT WATERSAssistant Sports Editor

About the Team:

The Hens: Delaware had a rough weekend,

losing all three games in their seriesagainst Northeastern. They nowstand at 23-18 with a below-averageconference record of 8-10, leavingthem in ninth place. Their limitedscoring this week was headed byJosh Dean, who had three RBIs intheir 8-5 loss on Saturday. CarlosAlonso also stayed consistentthroughout the weekend and kept hisseason-long on-base streak alive.

The Rams: VCU sits right below Delaware

in tenth place in the CAA with a con-ference record of 8-13, 20-22 overall.Their big producers this season areMatt Leskiw with a team-high .352batting average with 15 RBIs. Theirslugger has been Justin Wright, whohas a .544 slugging average witheight home runs and 39 RBIs.

Why the Hens can win:Delaware has the upper hand in this series as VCU is just 6-12

in away games. Also, the pitcher with the best ERA on their team isIan Thomas, with a 4.27 ERA. In order for the Hens to win they haveto get their bats going early: VCU is 6-12 in games when trailingafter the second inning.

Why the Hens might lose:Delaware needs these last games in order to have a better seed

in the playoffs; however, they needed the last series againstNortheastern as well, and they choked. If the Hens focus too muchon the playoffs and not enough on the task at hand, this series couldeasily get away from them. If VCU gets on top early, the numberslook bad for the Hens: VCU is 11-4 when leading after the first.

The Numbers:

1-9: Delaware's recordwhen allowing two or more

home runs in a game

71.2: Innings pitched byVCU's Ian Thomas

Time: May 14, 15, 16

Location: At DelawareNewark, DE — Bob Hannah Stadium

Three game series

May 12, 2009

Baseball:

- Despite freshman RichO’Donnell’s third complete gameof the season during the seriesfinale, the Hens were swept in athree game series againstNortheastern over the weekend.

- The Hens face Marylandtonight and VirginiaCommenwealth over the weekendto close out their season.

Rowing:

- The Hens’ crew of RachelWaylett, Laura Wertman, ChelseaMcFadden, Virginia Hall and ToriDrach placed fourth in the DadVail Regatta Saturday on theSchuylkill River. It was the Hens’best showing since 2003.

Softball:

- Kim Ovittore was named tothe CoSIDA/ESPN the MagazineAcademic All-District SoftballFirst Team while Caitlin Smithwas named to the second team.Both athletes finished the yearwith above a 3.6 GPA.

The Prediction:Alonso and Bill Merkler

have lead this team all season,and it’s doubtful they’re readyfor their season to end, especial-ly on a losing streak. As long astheir bats are alive and the pitch-ing is solid, the Hens have agreat chance at taking this series.Keeping the Rams under fiveruns is the key as they have nowins scoring four or less.

Hens win the series, 2-1

UD alum connects with Delaware athletesBY ADAM TZANIS

Staff ReporterKevin Tresolini has spent his career

patrolling sidelines and press boxes, fromDelaware Stadium in Newark to the WaterCube in Beijing, uncovering stories and shed-ding light on some of sports brightest stars andtelling the stories of relative unknowns.

Tresolini is a university graduate and hasspent the last 28 years as a full-time sportsreporter and part-time columnist for theWilmington News Journal. He has writtencountless articles over the past years and hasbecome a fixture at university football and bas-ketball games while covering the high schooland collegiate beat for the News Journal.

Tresolini is from Bethlehem, Pa., and saidhe aspired to be a journalist from a very youngage. He said has been reading newspapers sincehe was 7 or 8 years old when his familyreceived a subscription to the BethlehemGlobe-Times, which he would read daily. Hewas most fascinated with the sports section ashe combed through the baseball box scores andread about his beloved Phillies.

“I guess because I was reading the paperall the time I must have realized, ‘Wow look!There are names on these stories, this must besomebody’s job, they must get paid to do this,’to go to these games and to write about them,”Tresolini said.

He said growing up in the ’60s, especiallyduring Vietnam, there was a lot going on in theworld and he gained a passion for currentevents. Tresolini said a combination of hisinterest in sports as well as in the news steeredhim toward a profession in journalism.

“I don’t know when it hit me, but from avery young age, elementary school I’m talking,I kind of thought I’d like to be a journalist,” hesaid. “My mother bought me a subscription toSports Illustrated for my eleventh birthday andthat was the greatest thing I could have gotten.”

Tresolini came to the university as a fresh-man in 1976 and said he was attracted to theuniversity’s gorgeous campus and the idea ofwriting for a paper at a school with a dominantathletic program.

“I knew I was going to a school where Icould work for a school paper and could coversome pretty good teams, specifically a footballteam that was a national power,” he said.

Tresolini graduated from the universitywith a degree in communications but studiedEnglish and journalism as well. He said hebegan writing for the Review as a freshman andafter the conclusion of his first semester, he wasasked to become the assistant sports editor.

Mid-way through the following semester,the Review’s sports editor resigned andTresolini took over the position. He remainedsports editor for the Review through the fallsemester of his sophomore year. Although hedid not hold any other staff positions at the uni-versity’s newspaper for the remainder of hiscollegiate career, he covered various sportingevents, especially football, and wrote an edito-rial column called “Jock Itch,” which appearedperiodically over thefour years he spent asa student at the univer-sity.

After graduatingin 1980, Tresolinispent the next year asan intern at the univer-sity’s sports informa-tion office but said hemissed writing andreporting for a paper.At the conclusion ofhis internship, heapplied for a job at theNews Journal, washired in the summer of1981 and has beenthere ever since.

“I’m the onlyreporter who coveredthe Hens’ 1979 cham-pionship and their2003 championship,”Tresolini said. “The’79 one for the Reviewand the 2003 one forthe News Journal.”

Tresolini said his main responsibility at theNews Journal is covering university sports butoccasionally writes editorial columns, coverstrack events and covers professional teams likethe Phillies and the Eagles. He said he has alsocovered the 1998 winter Olympics in Japan, aswell as the past three summer Olympic Gamesin Australia, Greece and most recently, China.

“I’ve seen people win gold medals, I’veseen people set world records and I’ve gotten tosee Michael Phelps flap his wings through thewater and that’s an incredible experience rightthere,” Tresolini said. “But it’s not just peoplelike that; it’s also getting to interview the 5-foot-1-inch, 110 pound, female weight-lifterfrom Salem, Ore., who looks like somebodyyou put your chair up next to at your hometownswimming pool.”

Tresolini has stuck with his beat as thehigh school and college sports writer despite

offers to cover profes-sional sporting eventsfull time. He said heprefers writing aboutpeople in his own com-munity and enjoys thefeedback and relation-ships developedthrough writing abouthigh school and collegesports.

“I’ve always pre-ferred writing aboutpeople who actuallyread the paper,”Tresolini said. “If youcover the Phillies or theEagles, you’re just oneof the many.”

Responsible forcovering the Hens’sports teams, Tresolinihas become close withmany of the coachesand players. He said heputs an emphasis onbeing fair, professional,and writing objectively

in his articles.Head Football Coach K.C. Keeler is often

on the receiving end of Tresolini’s questions.Keeler said he’s known Tresolini since he wasa student at the university and has dealt withTresolini as a reporter for the past seven yearshe has worked at the university.

“He’s really the one that broke the storythat that I was going to be the head footballcoach here,” he said.

Keeler said Tresolini is fair in his reportingand tells the story the way it really is.

“I think Kevin is a guy who loves hisDelaware sports, understands Delaware sportsand does a great job interviewing our kids andtelling the story,” he said. “Sometimes guyswalk in with preconceived storylines, that’s notKevin at all; he listens to the story and writes itbased on the answers.”

Scott Selheimer, director of media rela-tions at the university, said he’s known andworked closely with Tresolini for about 25years and considers him a friend. Selheimersaid Tresolini has a great personality and does agood job of fair and accurate reporting.

“He’s an outstanding writer, he’s extreme-ly hard working, and he does a great job cover-ing our athletic program,” he said.

Tresolini said he writes an average of 400stories each year and when the university goesfor a national championship he may have 20stories in a seven to ten day period.

“I think the most rewarding part of it forme is when I have people tell me they’ll readanything that has my name on it,” he said.

The 50-year-old sports writer is the fatherof two ninth-graders and said he hopes he cancontinue his work as a journalist for as long ashe can. He said it’s not the deadlines that arestressful, but the future of the newspaper busi-ness and his profession.

“The most stressful thing about the jobright now is the uncertainty in the industry,”Tresolini said. “I’m the kind of person who hasto start everyday by sitting at my kitchen tablewith a newspaper, I can’t imagine not doingthat. I just hope my profession needs peoplelike me for a long time.”

Courtesy of Kevin TresoliniKevin Tresolini was raised in Bethlehem, Pa.

30May 12, 2009

BBlluueeHHeennBBaabbbbllee“In light of the progression of baseball’s steroid

era with the recent revelations of MannyRamirez’s steroid usage, have you lost any faith in

the sanctity of Major League Baseball?”

“As a nursing major, I know howunfair steroids are. It’s a game,it’s a sport, it’s supposed to befun, but baseball is starting to

go the wrong direction.”

-Maureen O’Keefe Sophomore

“Yeah, I feel it’s definitelychanged the game for the

worse. It’s destroying baseball.”

-Anthony TramontozziFreshman

BY EVAN KORYStaff Reporter

Delaware’s men’s and women’s track season is comingto a close after another successful and satisfying year. Withonly three meets left, both squads are hoping to end on ahigh note and finish what everyone claims to be one of thebetter seasons for Delaware track.

“For both men and women, we took a great step for-ward this year,” track and field head coach Jim Fischer said.“We had a lot more people who were very talented and verycompetitive.”

The team has had several high finishes in a number ofdifferent meets including the biggest of the year, theColonial Athletic Association Championship, where theywere happy to finish fifth, but looking to place a little high-er next year.

However, even with so manyrewarding finishes, the men’s trackteam had to overcome some seriousobstacles over the past year.

In mid-December, Delaware optedto cut the indoor men’s track team, inorder to honor Title IX. In doing so theyalso added a women’s golf team. TitleIX ensures that no person can beexcluded or denied participation of anyeducational program that is funded orpartially funded by the federal govern-ment. Therefore, the decision to demotethe previous varsity sport of indoortrack to its current status of a clubsports team was related to fulfilling oneof the many Title IX requirements.

However, the team is trying to keepemotions to a minimum and not letdemotion get in the way of the ongoingseason. When asked about his thoughtson the decision, Fischer refused com-ment.

What looked to be a potentiallydevastating blow to the team’s overallmorale was actually handled with matu-rity and acceptance. Both players andcoaches alike managed to come togeth-er, refusing to let such a decision standin the way of a successful season.

“It was a shame to see it go,”

Connor Whitesel said, who competes outdoors in the ham-mer. “But there’s not much we can do now. We’ve moved onand are now focused on outdoor events.”

Whitesel also said the team is looking at the decisionwith an optimistic attitude. “We now have more time to getready for the outdoor season,” he said.

But Fischer said that has been the team’s outlookthroughout the year both on and off the track. “The kidshave a real good feeling about training and what’s expectedof them,” Fischer said.

With that positive attitude as a driving force, the menhave had some triumphant meets with team finishes as highas No. 2 at the Rider Invitational. And on a more personalnote, 31 men received honors for exceptional performance,many being the recipient of more than one.

One of the outstanding names on the men’s team is

Connor Whitesel, who was hammer champion as well asCAA Male Field Athlete of the Week. Another teammate,John Viotto, was a recipient of the same honor, and waswinner of three shot put championships.

The team has a few meets left before the close of theseason, but Fischer already set some goals for his next sea-son.

“We did real well this year, but the challenge for nextyear is to place a little higher,” he said.

The women’s team also enjoyed a rewarding season,having several top ten finishes including a sixth place finishat the annual CAA Championship.

However, there were some doubts about how the sea-son would turn out and unsurity concerning the changes anew head coach would make. McFarlane as well as the ath-letes agree that the results thus far are nothing short of a

success.Some of the success can be seen in the

personal achievements that many of the womenhave attained over the season. There were anumber of women standouts with 21 athletesreceiving personal honors. Among those credit-ed were Cristine Marquez, champion of the4x100 relay in two different meets as well asnamed Wilmington Trust Best of the Blue HensAthlete of the Week. Another multi-meet cham-pion was Jillian Seamon who was crownedjavelin champion three times this season.

Seamon is only a freshman but enjoyedher first year on the team. She had no troubletransitioning from high school to the collegiatelevel and felt comfortable and happy with theteam chemistry as the team spent a good deal oftime together during meets and overnight trips.

As far as the actual track meets went,Seamon said they turned out well.

“Our best was probably conferences. Wereally came together and felt like there was areal sense of family,” Seamon said.

Both teams are pleased but not contentwith their season. There are still a few meetsleft, including qualifiers, where both the menand women hope to have more than a few ath-letes who will move on to nationals.

“We already have a few new schoolrecords and have a good amount looking toqualify for nationals,” Whitesel said.

Track teams finds success despite midseason hurdles

THE REVIEW/File PhotoAlthough Title IX regulations threatened to cut the program, the Hens had a solid springseason.

NCAA tournament. I’ll miss hoping thelacrosse team plays well, so maybe I can seea home playoff game at my school. Oncegraduation is over, it all goes away.

I’ll miss knowing that when I watchthese athletes, a lot are either my age, slight-ly older than me or younger than me. I’ll misspossibly seeing Elena Delladone or AaronLove on the way to class (I’ve seen neither,and I doubt I’d look past them if they didstroll by me).

I’ll miss going to the same school theathletes do — walking the same paths to classand eating in the same food courts. I’ll missgoing to the same bar as them, or even seeingthem perform on TV while I go to the bar. I’llmiss knowing members of the less “sexy”sports and see how they did on Friday’s trackmeet or Wednesday’s softball game. I’ll missactually knowing the athletes.

I’ll miss going to football games, know-ing I’m guaranteed a seat in the stands. I’llmiss the basketball games, where I reallyknow I’ll get a seat. I’ll miss the spring sportsof softball and baseball — the guys and girlswho might never play professional, but stillget their uniform dirty because thats the waythey play the game.

It seems like every day, there’s anotherrecruiting issue in collegiate football, ratingsof women’s basketball is talked about beingtoo low or teams are being demoted to clubstature because of Title IX. College sportsoften get a bad rap, but people still watchwith amazement.

Even when college sports do encounterthese and other issues, there’s still an airabout them that keeps the games magical. It’shard to explain — even when the business ofcollege sports appears so ugly, people cannotget enough of them.

The Delaware football team will play itsannual Blue-White Spring Game on Fridaynight. No where else do preseason games getan actual name than in college sports. There’sno Pin-Stripe Game when the New YorkYankees split into two and play, and there’sno White-Green when the Boston Celtics suitup against their own teammates.

In a year, I’ll sit down and watch collegefootball, basketball and baseball with a wholenew set of emotions. I’ll be the old man com-pared to the players. I won’t say, “Wow, thatkid is only a sophomore,” I’ll say “Wow, Iwish I did something like that during my col-lege career.” I’m not a great athlete so thatthought will be wishful thinking, but I’ll missknowing that those athletes are just like me.

There will be a lot of things I’ll misswhen I finally get my diploma. From thebrick walkways to the crowds of people to theeducational classes, I’ll certainly miss a lot.But I never thought I would truly miss col-lege athletes playing the games that we alllearned as kids.

Brian Anderson is Executive Editor atThe Review. Please send any questions, com-ments and an extra year of eligibility tobland@udel.edu.

College sports created memoriesContinued from page 28

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for Delaware. “Very rarely do you find a sit-

ting AD at a Big East school thatyou could persuade to come to aCAA school. Obviously we have alot to offer and I think there’sunique opportunities to move for-ward with our athletic program.”

Head basketball coach MontéRoss said he was excited to workwith someone coming from aschool with a powerful basketballprogram, but was more impressedwith Muir as a person.

“Everyone says he’s a super-star,” Ross said. “Everyone sayshe’s a great person, and wheneveryou start with that you have achance to do a lot.”

Muir understands that otherthan football, varsity sports don’tdraw as many supporters as theyshould.

His remedy to the apathy is asimple concept that has provendifficult to achieve — success.

“My hope is that every timewe have a contest it’s a chance tobring the community together,”Muir said. “I know we’ve had suc-cess in numerous programs alongthe way so hopefully we can main-tain that and get the students real-ly active. It’s an important part ofa vibrant community, especiallywhen you’re having success, andit’s great to bring people togetherand celebrate that.”

Hopefully Muir’s excitementabout the job will translate intosuccess. His willingness to leave aBig East school for Delawareshows that he is truly committed toimproving the athletic department,which has gained more and morenational attention over recentyears.

“In athletics, people movearound and you jump at opportuni-ties,” Muir said. “In each stopalong the way I’ve had greatopportunities at great places, andthis is now the next stop at a won-derful place and I’m ready to buildfrom that.”

players that will be joining next year should bepromising.

Grap, a veterinary major, said that she wasoriginally angry at the decision to cancel the lastseries of games, especially when no members ofthe team were showing symptoms. She said theswine flu really is not much different than the reg-ular flu, but she understood that precautions hadto be made and that it was a serious condition thatwas spreading very quickly.

“They had to do what they had to do,” Grapsaid. “It would have been our fault if it wouldhave spread somewhere else, and that would havebeen more of an issue.”

She said it was the worst possible way to endthe season, especially when they could have madeit into the conference championships.

Grap agreed with Ferguson that the team’sbiggest weakness was how inconsistently theyplayed. They managed to beat teams like GeorgiaState University, one of the top teams in theirleague, and were also the only team in the confer-ence to lose to George Mason Univeristy.

“You can say all these excuses of why it hap-pened, but we’ll never really know why we wereso inconsistent,” she said. “That happens toteams. I’ve been on teams like that before.”

Despite the inconsistent play of the team,Grap was happy with how the season went andthat the team performed a lot better than the yearbefore.

She said the majority of the team this seasonwere freshmen and sophomores and expects theplayers to take what they learned this season andhopefully make their way to the conference play-offs and have productive seasons in the future.

“I have really great hopes for next year,because I think everybody can really see that wecan do it,” Grap said. “Next year, we’re not goingto let it come down to weather and disease.”

THE REVIEW/File PhotoDespite young talent, the softball team missed theplayoffs.

Softball looks to improve on ‘09 season successesMuir set to replaceJohnson on July 1

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Alonso has successfull reached basein all 41 games this season. He has ateam-high batting average of .394.

This week the Hens fight for a betterseed in the playoffs against CAAopponent Virginia CommonwealthUniversity.

Ovittore was named to the All ColonialAthletic Association Softball FirstTeam on May 5.

The softball team ended the season ona disappointing note, missing a chanceto make the playoffs due to cancella-tions caused by the swine flu outbreak.

Kim Ovittore — Softball

Carlos Alonso — Baseball

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