BY JACOB TROXELL
News Editor Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn helped lead his team to a 43-8 victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII earlier this month, and became the first ever Salisbury University alumnus to win a Super Bowl as a coach. “It’s been a blast; I’ve been so fortunate,” Quinn said. “We have a real style about how we play and I love being part of that; we’re fast, we’re physical and the group we work with now always feels like we have something to prove.” The Seahawks defense was ranked No.1 in points and yards per game in the National Football League this season. Some NFL analysts and writers have compared Quinn’s defense to some of the greatest of all time. “Our whole philosophy is each game that we play is a championship opportunity, from the regular season’s first game, to the 16th and through the playoffs so we really don’t change the way we prepare for a game,” Quinn said. “We make sure we have just the right amount of information against the opponent but also want to play (our) style and not lose sight of that.” The Seahawks shut down five-time MVP Peyton Manning and the highest rated statistical offense in NFL history to win Super Bowl XLVIII. Quinn played high school football for Morristown High School, about 30 minutes away from MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the Seahawks won the Super Bowl. Quinn played defensive line and track and field at SU for four years and graduated in the class of 1994. He also competed for a national championship in track and field his senior year and majored in elementary education. Quinn planned on returning home to coach high school football and track, but he said his time at SU made him want to coach college football. Quinn said he not only paid attention to his SU football coach at the time, Joe Rotellini, but watched Jim Berkman coach the SU men’s lacrosse team and Ward Lambert coach the SU men’s basketball team in the early ‘90s. BY OLIVIA KLOCK
Staff Writer As of now, SU’s decision on the plus/minus grading system has been made: the faculty recommends that Salisbury University keep its existing undergraduate grading system. Information regarding the Salisbury University Faculty Senate was presented in the graphic shown in the Feb. 11 issue. There is a significant difference between the votes of the faculty and those of the faculty senate. The graphic showed that 85.1 percent of the faculty voted to recommend plus/ minus grades in a “Faculty Senate Trial Vote.” The Faculty Senate voted on this recommendation at its Dec. 3, 2013 meeting. The vote was 9 against, 8 in favor. Faculty who did not agree with this result petitioned for a faculty meeting, which occurred on Feb. 7. If a quorum of the full-time faculty assembled, the issue could be discussed and a vote taken that might overturn the senate’s decision. Not enough faculty members attended. Without meeting a quorum, no formal decision could be made. However, the faculty who did attend decided to take a non-binding vote on the plus/minus recommendation, which data was misleadingly shown in the “Faculty Senate Trial Vote” graphic. President of the Faculty Senate Elizabeth Ragan explained that SU has 420 full-time faculty members, and all the straw poll reveals is that at least 29 percent of SU’s faculty support plus/minus grades. “It would be more correct to say that about a third of the faculty want plus/ minus grades,” Ragan said. “The difficulty, from a Faculty Senate perspective, is understanding how many faculty actually oppose the proposal, and how many don’t have strong opinions one way or the other.” Even if a plus/minus grading system were adopted, Ragan estimates it would take about a year before students would begin to receive plus/minus grades, since it would be a major policy change. Although as of now a decision has been made, this is an issue that could very well come up every few years, and the number of faculty who would like the option of pluses and minuses appears to be growing. Ragan has heard from faculty who are considering renewing the motion in the senate sometime this year. No one has formally proposed such a renewal at this time, but there is a possibility that it could come before the senate again. BY JUSTIN MCCLURE
Staff Writer The annual entrepreneurship competition sponsored by Salisbury University’s Perdue School of Business will be held on April 11, giving students the opportunity to win up to $50,000 in prizes. Students of all majors are welcomed and any undergraduate or graduate student can compete. Participants are required to create a poster, a short pitch and a business plan that will be presented to various judges with experience in the business world. The event has three rounds through which the best business plans advance to the final round, The Bernstein Competition. But first, participants must make it through a process of poster pitchings and answering questions. Hosted by the Maryland Small Business & Technology Development Center, the “Invest in My Idea, A Poster Competition” is the first tier of the competition in which participants present their ideas on a tri-fold poster. Judges from both the community and SU will determine if the student’s plan is worthy of investment. The top scoring posters will move onto the second round. The Gull Cage “A Shark Tank Competition” gives students one minute to pitch their idea to a panel of judges followed by a four minute question and answer period. The top four students advance to the final round. Cash prizes are rewarded with first place receiving $4,000, second place $3,000, third place $2,000 and fourth place $1,000. The last portion of the competition is the Bernstein Business Plan, where the top four competitors are able to present their ideas in the Perdue auditorium. There is a 10 minute time allotment for participants to share their business plans, followed by a 10 minute question and answer period and ending with a 10 minute coaching and feedback session from the judges. The winner of the final round receives $10,000. BY STEVEN CENNAME
Editorial Editor Fratelli’s Italian Restaurant, located across the street from SeaGull Square, suffered a fire caused by a faulty light fixture at around 1:45 Tuesday morning, causing approximately $300,000 in damages. The Flyer was the first media organization on the scene Tuesday morning, when information was scarce. When asked about the scope of the fire, one fire fighter said that the damage was “significant.” The same fire fighter informed us that nobody was in the building at the time and thankfully no one was hurt or injured. As the hour drew on, more and more fire engines and emergency vehicles arrived on the scene. The northbound part of Rt. 13 was closed off until well after 4 a.m. The lights from the vehicles as well as the sirens woke up many in SeaGull Square. "I usually don't give it a second thought when I hear sirens in Salisbury," sophomore and SeaGull Square resident Michael Fitzgerald said. "But when I noticed that it was right outside the window I was curious as to what was happening." Some students who witnessed the events first thought that the fire may have been at 7/11, which is next door to Fratelli’s and was open at the time. The first fire engines that arrived went into the 7/11 parking lot. But in the next few minutes, with smoke visibly rising from Fratelli’s, it was clear that the Italian restaurant, which was closed at the time, was the reason the fire fighters were there. The next morning, the owner of the restaurant let some media personnel into the restaurant to take a look at the damages. The kitchen was the main part of the interior that was damaged by the fire, but the ceiling was visibly destroyed all over the restaurant, with parts falling down in the front and the back. The front of the restaurant, where the bar area is, was relatively undamaged except for the ceiling. The odor of smoke still hung in the air, so strongly that breathing it in felt like smoking 5 Marlboros simultaneously. The damages from the fire will likely leave the restaurant closed for several months. Fratelli’s, which moved to its current location across Rt. 13 after being open for years on the Salisbury University campus’s Allenwood shopping center (which occupied the land SeaGull Square currently stands on), has been a popular restaurant among students, faculty and the Delmarva community since 1996. BY JACOB TROXELL
News Editor The Princeton Review has named Salisbury University one of the top 80 Best-Valued Colleges in the nation for 2014, and for the 15th straight year SU is one of U.S. News and Worlds Report’s Top Public Universities in the north. SU has also been named among the Top 100 Best Value Colleges by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, ranked 63rd for in-state students (nine spots higher than last year) and 44 for out-of-state students, surpassing Towson University and University of Maryland, Baltimore County. This marks the 13th straight year SU has been ranked among the Princeton Review’s Best Colleges. SU came in second on the list out of University of Maryland system campuses, only behind the University of Maryland, College Park. Kiplinger was founded in 1947 and is the nation’s oldest personal finance magazine. It bases its ratings on graduation rate, admission, student indebtedness and several other factors The Princeton Review surveys about 2,000 colleges each year and evaluates schools on approximately 30 academic measures as well as the cost of attendance. “To be named a best value in either of these publications would be impressive, but to be ranked among the nation’s best in both in a single year is a high honor,” said SU Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Diane Allen. “This is a testament to the ongoing efforts of our faculty and staff, who diligently work to provide our students with a high-quality education at a reasonable cost.” BY JUSTIN MCCLURE
Staff Writer The University Sustainability Committee has updated the Climate Action Plan for 2014 to 2017. The Climate Action Plan is a document that specifies ways in which SU can attain a greener future. Policy development, local outreach, research and promotional campaigns like Earth Week and Recycle Madness are among the few matters the CAP addresses. “In my opinion there is no greater issue facing our generation than how we as humans can make our lifestyles more sustainable in order to continue living on this planet” said Will Barrow who is Vice President of Sustainability and part of the Student Government Association. In 2007, President Dudley-Eshbach signed the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment, which pledged to move the university toward neutral greenhouse gas emissions and other environmentally-conscious efforts. In order to do this, the president created an 18 member committee of students, faculty and staff presented with the task of creating the first CAP. Documentation of the plan was formulated in 2010. Many members that sit on the committee have a history in environmentally sustainable experiences. Before becoming Vice President of Sustainability Will Barrow was a senator in the SGA working on environmental issues and has been the president of the Garden Club for three years. For those wanting to get involved in sustainability issues he encourages them to participate in events, join clubs, take environmentally oriented classes and change personal habits. BY NICOLE BISER
Staff Writer New housing for Salisbury University students is currently planned for the westerly side of South Division Street, south of Dykes Road, within the College University District. The development is proposed to be built on a 5.02 acre site south of the athletic fields and adjoined to the Southside Professional Center located in the Salisbury University zoning district. Entrance to The Gathering would be from South Division Street, opposite the medical office building. There is not an official date for completion of the Gathering at Salisbury, but an estimated time that building should start would be either late this year or next year, if everything is to go as planned. Also, it is expected to be built in one phase of development. This is something for students to look out for. The new housing is going to be called The Gathering at Salisbury. So far the Commission has approved the preliminary comprehensive development plan, submitted by Donna Sanders, which includes the development plan for a 50-unit apartment complex, with six apartment buildings. As of now the development will contain a pool and a Clubhouse. A request for multiple bike racks has also been put in by commission member Tim Spies. Two of the apartment buildings will contain handicapped units. There will be over 200 parking spaces, and the plan includes the locations of buildings, parking, entrances, dumpster locations, the clubhouse, the pool, and storm water management/micro bio retention areas. BY JUSTIN MCCLURE
Staff Writer With all kinds of themes and mediums ranging from paintings, sculptures, ceramics and glasswork, the new Salisbury University Downtown Campus Art Gallery is a host to works of local, regional and global artists. On Sept. 20, community members and SU administrators, including President Janet Dudley-Eshbach, were in attendance to celebrate the grand opening. Among the highlights of the festivities were the ribbon cutting that officially made the art gallery part of the community. |
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