Stay aware by signing up for breaking news

Dear Readers,

As some of you may know we’re working all the time to provide you with the latest news around campus and the Newark community.

Even though our print edition is available to you each Tuesday, we work around the clock to update our Web site with new content and to send out breaking news updates to you as soon we can.

Over the weekend, we posted two important breaking news alerts on our Web site––the university’s purchase of the Chrysler site for $24 million, as well as the occurrence of three armed robberies that took place around campus early Saturday morning.

We encourage you to sign up for breaking news alerts on our Web site, www.udreview.com, so that you too, can be aware of the latest, most pressing news around campus. If you sign up, any breaking news will be e-mailed to you as soon as it’s posted on our Web site. For example, we made sure to send out e-mail alerts before Saturday night so that students going out would be aware of the crimes that took place the
night before.

Here at The Review, we feel like it’s our responsibility to keep our readers informed about anything that happens on campus – whether it’s taking place at the crack of dawn or the dead of night.

It’s all part of the job. Providing you with campus news is what we’re here for.

Faithfully yours,

Josh Shannon, Editor in Chief

Maddie Thomas, Executive Editor

Check out our new ReviewThis page in News

Dear readers,

This week, we’re excited to debut a new weekly feature in the News section, the ReviewThis page.

ReviewThis will be on page 4 every week and will feature a mix of short items and pictures:

• Police reports detail some of the more newsworthy items from the Newark and university police blotters.
• In Brief features short news stories of note or updates to past weeks’ stories
• For Picture of the Week, we’ll pick a photo from the past week that either tells a story about something that happened on campus or that represents a slice of campus life.
• Things To Do is a weekly calendar of events on campus. Each week, we’ll pick a diverse range of events, one per day, to feature. To submit events for our consideration, email calendar@udreview.com.
• For This Week in History, we’ll delve into The Review’s archives and pick out an interesting or noteworthy event that happened that week.

In the Sports section, as you may have noticed, managing editors Pat Maguire and Matt Waters have started a similar feature, called Chicken Scratch, that brings together UnderpReview, Hen Peckings, the sports calendar and their weekly calendar all on one page.

We hope that both ReviewThis and Chicken Scratch make the paper more interesting and make it easier to find each section’s regular features when you need a quick run-down of the week’s news and events.

Faithfully yours,
Josh Shannon, Editor in Chief
Maddie Thomas, Executive Editor

Sneak peek of what we're writing this week

Here's a sneak peek of what we're working on this week.

• Pencader closed for winter session
• New changes in the SGA
• Jaywalking update
• Engineers Without Boarders
• Dining plans for sick students
• Fall Crime Suppression Plan update

Make sure you pick up an issue next Tuesday to check all these stories out! It's free and located throughout campus and on Main Street!

And as always, let us know if you hear of any news you think we're missing.

theudreview@gmail.com

Our coverage spans decades

Dear Readers,

Over the summer, we decided it was about time to finally clean up The Review’s office above Perkins Student Center.

After we threw away countless coffee cups from Dunkin’ Donuts (relics of all-nighters from months past) and cleaned up the cluttered desktops on all of our computers, we came across a true gem – a collection of laminated pages from archives spanning as far back as 1882.

Each page, yellowed by age, but preserved for decades chronicles The Review’s presence on campus throughout recent history.

In 1944, William Kirsch, a news editor, described how it was the first time The Review had gone to press in a year and a half, presumably because of the World War II. In 1968, reporters and photographers covered the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the subsequent civil unrest that followed in Wilmington.

In 1969, The Review announced Arva Jackson’s unprecedented nomination to the university’s Board of Trustees — the first black person to ever be nominated in university history. In 1985, The Review covered a student rally against apartheid, while university officials vetoed full divestment from companies with interests in South Africa.

We’re proud of the work past editors and reporters have done, and this year is no exception. We hope to continue covering national, local and university news as much as possible. To do so, we count on the support of you, members of the university and surrounding community, to read our issues and to let us know how we’re doing and what news you want to see in the paper.

Who knows, maybe fifty or sixty years from now future editors of The Review will stumble across laminated pages of this very issue.

Faithfully yours,
Josh Shannon, Editor in Chief
Maddie Thomas, Executive Editor

Let us know what's happening around campus!

Dear Readers,

One of the most common questions we get is “How can I get The Review to write about my event/program/group/accomplishment?”

Our answer is simple: Tell us about it.

Each week, our editors try as hard as possible to pitch a wide variety of stories they think will interest you. They look at bulletin boards, ask around and work their sources, but, of course, it’s inevitable that they will miss something.

That’s where we rely on you. If your group is sponsoring an event, if your department is bringing a fascinating speaker to campus, or if your roommate just accomplished something really cool, let us know.

Send us a press release to editor@udreview.com or contact an individual editor (contact info is listed on udreview.com). Tell us what’s happening, who to contact and, most importantly, why you think other readers would be interested. For events, the best time to contact us is about a week and a half in advance.

We obviously can’t cover all of the hundreds of events that occur on campus each week, but we try to pick out the ones we think will interest the general student body. Our mission is, first and foremost, to serve university students, so we try to cover a wide array of topics that represent the diversity of interests represented here at the university. But, we can’t cover what we don’t know about.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Faithfully yours,
Josh Shannon, Editor in Chief
Maddie Thomas, Executive Editor