Student Life | Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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Obama stresses education
to solidify America’s future
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Washington University in St. Louis
Treasury brings
Bristol Palin
to campus
MICHAEL TABB
NEWS EDITOR
MATT MITGANG | STUDENT LIFE
Students gather in the common room on the first floor of Gregg Hall to watch the State of the Union address
delivered by President Barack Obama on Tuesday. The College Democrats hosted the viewing party.
PUNEET KOLLIPARA
ENTERPRISE EDITOR
President Obama on Tuesday
pushed for widespread improvements to the nation’s education
system in laying out his vision for
improving the country’s future and
keeping the economy competitive
with growing global powers.
Citing current and future education challenges facing the country,
Obama told a joint session of
Congress to invest in schools and
make college more affordable. His
education proposals were part of a
broader vision he outlined to ensure
the United States could “win the
future.”
“If we take these steps—if we
raise expectations for every child and
give them the best possible chance at
an education, from the day they’re
born until the last job they take—
we will reach the goal I set two
years ago: By the end of the decade,
America will once again have the
highest proportion of college graduates in the world,” Obama said in his
nationally televised second State of
the Union address.
Obama called for some policies that would appeal to college
students, such as an extension of
his college-tuition tax-credit program and investments in academic
research. But he urged bipartisanship and veered toward the center on
economic, fiscal and environmental
issues that younger voters more often
take progressive stances on.
Some Democratic students here
who ardently supported the president in 2008 were hardly surprised
at the president’s move to the center.
Given that the president now faces a
Republican-controlled House and a
weakened Democratic majority in
the Senate, they said the president
did as well as he could have.
“I think that there’s a new reality
in Congress, and I think his speech
addressed that reality, but at the same
time he talked about immigration,
education…a lot of these are progressive ideas that in a speech he
may have stayed away from talking about,” said sophomore Anna
Applebaum, vice president of the
College Democrats.
Obama declared that America was
“home to the world’s best colleges
and universities, where more students come to study than any other
place on Earth.” But, adding that a
higher proportion of future jobs will
require a college degree, he said the
country desperately needed to make
college more affordable.
The president noted that one
of his administration’s proposals overhauled the lending system
and stopped subsidies to banks for
extending loans to students. He
asked Congress to go further by
permanently renewing his tax-credit
program that gives college students
$2,500 a year toward tuition.
The president said he was
SEE OBAMA, PAGE 9
After delays, new eateries set
to open in Lopata, Simon halls
BECKY PRAGER
STAFF REPORTER
New dining facilities in the engineering and business schools are
preparing to open, though both projects were hampered by construction
delays.
The new eatery housed at Lopata
Hall in the School of Engineering &
Applied Science will open around
Valentine’s Day and will provide a
more convenient dining option for
engineering students, whose meal
choices are currently limited to
Holmes Lounge, Steinberg Café and
Cheap Lunch, a meal of pizza, soda,
cookies and chips that is provided on
Wednesdays by the engineering student council.
The new facility will replace a
food cart that served soups, chili
dogs and pre-packed meals. The cart
was removed prior to the start of
construction.
Einstein Bros. Bagels is set to open
in Simon Hall on Jan 31., just a few
months after its initial November
completion date. The full-service
franchise replaces a food cart similar
to the one in the engineering school.
Engineering sophomore David
Morin currently leaves the engineering complex for food.
“It’ll definitely be more convenient
to walk downstairs to get food than
to have to walk over to the library or
Subway,” Morin said.
The dining facility will be the result
of collaboration between the students
and the faculty.
According to Nadeem Siddiqui,
resident district manager of Bon
Appétit Management Company, the
menu and hours of the new Lopata
facility were chosen by a focus group
comprised of engineering students.
Bon Appétit runs the on campus
eateries for Washington University
Dining Services.
“The location is wonderful, and the
space itself is very attractive,” Siddiqui
said. “In the past, there wasn’t much
space for people to sit down and be
comfortable, and the new hours will
also help draw in students.”
According to Siddiqui, the menu,
which features sandwiches, wraps,
grab-and-go options, specialty coffees,
bakery items and more, should bring
in a lot of students as well as help to
SEE EATERIES, PAGE 9
Bristol Palin will address
Washington University as the
keynote speaker for this year’s
Sexual Responsibility Week.
Student Union Treasury on
Tuesday approved a $20,000
appeal by the Student Health
Advisory Committee (SHAC)
to sponsor a four-person panel
featuring Palin. The appeal
was initially set at $25,000 and
renegotiated.
SHAC would not release
the exact amount charged for
Palin’s appearance. According
to ABC News, Palin charges
$15,000 to $30,000 for each
appearance on the speakers’
circuit.
The panel will also include
representatives
from
the
Catholic
Student
Center,
Missouri Right to Life, and
Planned Parenthood and will
address the issue of abstinence
in a college setting.
The daughter of former
Republican vice-presidential
hopeful Sarah Palin, Bristol,
now 20-years-old, has been a
champion for abstinence since
giving birth to her son Tripp
shortly after the 2008 presidential election.
The younger Palin has
appeared in a variety of pregnancy-prevention campaigns
for The Candie’s Foundation.
Palin was also a finalist on
“Dancing with the Stars” in
2010.
The event will be held in
Graham Chapel at 7 p.m. on
Feb. 7. to end the first day of
Sex Week. The week, which
seeks to start an open sexual
dialogue, encourage students
to experiment with sexual
viewpoints that differ from
their own and to provide widereaching sexual education, will
continue through Feb. 12.
The event will begin with a
25-minute speech by Palin on
her life story to be followed by
an hour-long panel discussion
and a half hour question-andanswer session. A reception
will be held after the question
SEE PALIN, PAGE 2
Large changes
unveiled to GRE
SADIE SMECK
NEWS EDITOR
Students planning to apply to
graduate school in the next year
will be the first to experience
major changes in the Graduate
Record Exam.
The new test, which is set to
launch Aug. 1, 2011, aims to
serve as a better indicator of graduate school readiness. The maker
of the GRE, the Educational
Testing Service, will implement a
wide array of changes that they
hope will accomplish this goal.
These changes affect the timing, scoring scale and question
types on the test.
“These are the biggest changes
in the history of the GRE,”
said Lee Weiss, the assistant
director of pre-graduate programs at Kaplan Test Prep and
Admissions.
The duration of the exam will
be extended from three to about
four hours, making testing endurance more important.
“You’re just going to have to do
a bunch of practice tests. If you’re
training for a marathon, you have
to build up your endurance. It’s
the same thing for preparing for a
four-hour test,” Weiss said.
Exam scores will be shifted to
a 130-to-170-point scoring system
in one-point increments, a change
from the current 200-to-800 scale
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in 10-point increments. The new
scoring system is designed to
highlight larger discrepancies in
scores in order to match them
more accurately with percentiles.
The grading for the analytical writing section will remain
unchanged. Scores range from
zero-to-six.
In the current version of the
GRE, a perfect 800 on the math
section equates to only the 94th
percentile.
The new GRE will be a multistage test, and correct answers in
a given section will lead to harder
questions and a higher scoring
band and incorrect answers will
have the opposite effect.
The user interface of the test
will also be getting an updated
look. A new built-in calculator function of the exam, while
potentially helpful for test-takers,
might also signify a more challenging math section.
The essay portion of the test
will be reduced from 45 to 30 minutes in length, and the prompts
will be more focused, making it
harder to prepare for the writing
portion in advance.
Last spring, Amy HeathCarpentier, a career development
specialist and pre-graduate adviser
in the Career Center, attended
a conference put on by the test
SEE GRE, PAGE 3
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PALIN FROM PAGE 1
and answer to allow students to interact
with Palin one-on-one.
The final vote the approved funding
went seven votes for bringing in Palin,
four votes against and one abstention.
By hosting Palin as the keynote speaker,
SHAC hoped to appease concerns with
previous Sex Weeks while also highlighting this year’s series.
“We thought a big name like Bristol’s
would help to start a dialogue,” SHAC
President Scott Elman said. “We also
wanted to target abstinence because
SHAC and Sex Week have been criticized for being too liberal and too
one-dimensional, and that the abstinence
conversation hasn’t been brought up.”
Elman added SHAC’s decision has
effectively ostracized a sizable portion of
the University community.
“3,000, maybe 4,000 people haven’t
engaged in sex. There’s a population on
our campus that does practice abstinence
and gets forgotten about,” Elman said.
“It’s not that SHAC is bringing Bristol
Palin and saying ‘this is it.’”
Some Treasury members felt that Palin’s
speech would spark student interest.
“I know it will fill Graham Chapel, so
to me, that’s value in itself,” said Treasury
representative Daniel Bernard, a junior.
“It brings the student body together in
a way that we usually don’t have on this
campus.”
Not all Treasury members, however,
supported the decision to fund Palin to
speak on campus.
“One concern I do have is when we do
fund someone like Bristol Palin, is what
really are we supporting. And to me it’s
someone who is famous because they
got pregnant at 18,” said freshman Jacob
Trunsky, chair of the Budget Committee.
Students have mixed views on the keynote address.
“I just don’t see what she could possibly
contribute to an intelligent, reasonable discussion about sex,” senior Toby Shepard
said.
Sophomore Sherveen Mashayekhi,
president of the College Democrats, had
similar sentiments.
“While she is obviously an experienced
person on the matter of teen pregnancy,
she is an extremely polarizing presence
in social and political terms and does not
provide the right type of balancing, sensitive, well-rounded force to an issue as hot
as sex on campus,” Mashayekhi said.
While SHAC recognizes that the choice
may be controversial, its members believe
that having the high-profile speaker will
ultimately benefit the series.
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“I understand that people are not
going to be happy—this will probably
be protested. We really just want to start
dialogue and the fact that we’re bringing
in a balanced panel should be taken into
account,” Elman said. “We’re not just
bringing in Bristol Palin, we’re bringing
her in with three or four other educated
people.”
With additional reporting by Kate Gaertner
and Shayna Makaron.
Write to Michael Tabb at
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
STUDENT LIFE
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GRE FROM PAGE 1
makers to address the revisions.
Since then, the Career Center has run several workshops to prepare students for the
new format, including a GRE prep session
at last year’s Junior Jumpstart event in May.
“I don’t necessarily recommend going to
Kaplan or any of the test preps for the GRE
unless you’re scoring incredibly lower than
you’d expect,” Heath-Carpentier said. “Most
students with the books and the sample tests
will prep enough to do well.”
Students who take the current GRE
receive their scores on the Quantitative and
Verbal Reasoning sections almost immediately. While the Educational Testing Service
collects enough data to set up scoring for the
new test, there will be a delay in score reporting of about two months.
As a result, students who take the revised
test in August may not receive their scores
until November or December, so those who
plan to apply to graduate schools in the fall
will need to take the GRE before the new
test takes effect so they don’t miss application deadlines.
Students will also see a change in the frequency with which they are able to re-take
the GRE, decreasing from the current once
every 30 days to only once every 60 days.
For students who are not on deadline, the
new GRE will offer graduate school hopefuls
an opportunity to save money; during August
and September, the test will be offered at
half-price. The GRE currently costs $160,
although that amount could change along
with the test itself.
“They’re really trying to get a lot of people
to take the new test because they need those
data points in order to get the scores ready,”
Weiss said.
Although Weiss recommends taking
the shorter and more predictable old test
if possible, the new test may have its own
advantages. He said that some students may
find the revised version easier to prepare for
and more straightforward.
The new GRE also allows more flexibility.
Test-takers can now change answers to previous questions. Although this new feature
offers test-takers more freedom, it might also
create pacing issues.
Because GRE scores are valid for five
years, Weiss recommends that students who
plan to take the GRE in the next few years
consider studying to take the old version now.
Based on research conducted by Kaplan, the
best scores are typically reflected in students
aged 21 to 22 years; however, anyone is eligible to take the test.
Washington University students have conflicted feelings about the new GRE.
Senior Emily Podany is planning to apply
to psychology Ph.D. programs in the fall.
She is unsure of how graduate school admissions officers will judge the new exam.
“The problem is I am getting conflicting
information about how grad schools are
going to feel about the new GRE,” Podany
said. “Are they going to see it the same way?
Are they going to ignore it?”
Podany is currently debating whether to
take the GRE before or after the changes
come into effect.
Admissions experts are also trying to
assess how valuable the GRE is to the admissions process.
Starting in August of last year, Kaplan conducted its first Graduate School Admissions
Officer Survey in an effort to reach out to
some of the nation’s top programs and get
an idea of what matters most in admissions.
“What we found is that, more than any
other factor, they consider the GRE the
most important for admissions. Two-thirds
.
Major changes to the GRE
“ETS has designed the GRE revised General Test to be friendlier, more flexible
and more focused on the skills needed for graduate and business school.”
– ETS.org
test length extended from three to four hours
200-800-point scale changed to 130-170
“Compressing the reporting metric produces scores that don’t exaggerate small performance differences between examinees.” – ETS.org
multi-stage test rather than computer-adaptive test
“provides greater flexibility—so test takers can move freely within each
section” – ETS.org
new on-screen calculator
of those admissions officers also said it is
a huge factor in getting financial aid packages like grants, teaching assistantships and
fellowships. It plays a big role both in your
admissions decision and your financing decision for graduate school,” Weiss said.
According to Heath-Carpentier, however,
the test might not be as important as students
think.
“If there’s one thing I’d say is important
for students to know about the GRE, it’s
that, of the components of the application,
this is the least important for 90 percent of
students. It’s far more important to have solid
letters of recommendation, a solid transcript
and a good personal statement. Those are
the most important things,” she said.
A free practice of the old GRE will be
offered through Kaplan at Washington
University on Saturday, Feb. 19. After
the test, students will receive a link to a
practice test of the new GRE to take for
comparison.
“This is a unique opportunity to figure out
which test is [right] for you,” Weiss said. You
can get a feel for which [test] you like better and which one you’re more comfortable
with.”
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STAFF EDITORIAL
ResLife should reconsider room reservations
O
n Nov. 12, we voiced our
concerns over the new room
reservation fees instituted
by the Office of Residential
Life. However, we would like to reiterate
our concerns in light of Student Union’s
appeal of the policy last month.
Student Union ought to be commended
for addressing the policy change. The room
fees will cut into the operating budget of
many student groups, and we encourage
members of SU to continue pushing for a
reversal of the new policy.
In his response to SU’s appeal, Justin
Carroll, associate vice chancellor for
students, cited budget cuts and diminished
resources as causes for the charges, saying
that ResLife would continue to charge
for seven of the eight ResLife-controlled
spaces.
We feel that Carroll’s reasoning raises a
few questions. If ResLife is truly operating on an increasingly tight budget, we
wonder why event assistants—students
hired to monitor events in certain ResLife
spaces—are compensated with free ResLife
housing. We recognize the usefulness of
having event assistants for student groups
putting on events; however, we feel that
their level of commitment to this position
would be more appropriately compensated
with a part-time wage than with the more
than $8,000 that Washington University
charges for housing.
We would also like to reiterate that
ResLife’s decision to spring the room
reservation policy on students last fall,
after budgets had already been allocated
for student groups, was particularly unfair.
The new policy puts an extra burden on
groups to divert existing funds to room
reservation fees or to spend extra time
appealing for reservation-specific funds
that SU may or may not grant. Smaller and
newer organizations, many of which are
performance-based, are put at a particular
disadvantage.
While the push to have student groups
rely on the DUC for larger meetings is
positive, spaces are limited. One could recommend the studio spaces in the Women’s
Building for the groups that require numerous dance rehearsals, but the policies in
these spaces prevent coordinators from
scheduling rehearsals very far in advance.
This can be incredibly detrimental to the
members of volunteer performance groups,
like those performing in one of Carnaval’s
twelve dances, who rely on consistent
rehearsal times. Even with these groups
paying for ResLife spaces, it is difficult for
them to gain consistent access to rehearsal
space.
Should this problem not be resolved,
we encourage SU to provide as much
assistance as possible, as easily as possible,
to groups that will require unexpected
additional funds to reserve these spaces.
And if ResLife is insistent on the policy
change, we feel that its implementation
should be pushed back to the fall of 2011.
Pushing it back would allow groups the
rest of the spring to create new budgets
with full awareness of the new policies,
and it would give the University time to
transition into the change.
EDITORIAL CARTOON
KATE OBERG | STUDENT LIFE
Don’t point fingers at China
KEVIN PAULE
STAFF COLUMNIST
A
distant nation with a growing
population, booming economy
and hardworking labor force
is threatening to remove the
United States from atop its economic
throne. The hysteria and fear aimed at
China comes from American policymakers
unwilling to accept due criticism of their
own decisions.
In response to Chinese President Hu
Jintao’s visit to Washington this month,
Donald Trump proclaimed to all willing to
listen that “China is our enemy,” hoping
to ignite a trade war by implementing high
tariffs on American imports from China.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
criticized Jintao for human rights violations,
despite her record of turning a blind eye
to American abuses. Fears of the Chinese
military overtaking the United States continue to grow, despite the more than tenfold
advantage the United States has in military
spending ($900 billion to $7.5 trillion). U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner has
accused China of “currency manipulation,”
while the Federal Reserve accelerates the
printing presses.
Amidst a sluggish economy, foreign
policy blunders around the globe and
unpopular politicians, Washington has
pointed a finger for our problems at China.
The hypocrisy is astounding, as our country
continues to increase the cost of American
labor through heavy taxes and regulation,
from FICA to Obamacare. While China’s
military is relatively internal and defensive,
American troops continue to be stationed
around the globe, driving the national debt
to new highs.
The uncertainty in the
American economy is
the byproduct of a dysfunctional government
in Washington, not the
one in Beijing?
Rather than blaming China for stealing American jobs and economic power,
we should point the finger at ourselves.
Unsustainable warfare and welfare systems
have created a pattern of borrowing and
printing that have made the United States
uncompetitive in a global economy. China
didn’t force us to sell hundreds of billions
in bonds to them. They didn’t force us to
police the globe. And they are mad as hell
that we are attempting to turn the dollar
into Monopoly money.
While Communist China has embraced
some free market policies aimed at encouraging growth, Washington has pummeled
American industry with more laws, regulations and taxes. Obamacare, signed into law
almost a year ago, is still a mystery to small
business owners who fear a rise in their
tax burden. At face value, the law appears
to raise taxes on those still able to make a
living and increase the cost of health care to
the majority of Americans. More than 200
companies have already received a waiver
from the Department of Health and Human
Services. Following another round of
quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve,
commodity prices surged in 2010, further
driving up fears of inflation and decreased
purchasing power. While the ruling class
touts economic recovery, the unemployment rate has remained relatively stagnant.
The uncertainty in the American economy
is the byproduct of a dysfunctional government in Washington, not the one in Beijing.
China should not be feared more
than any other country that has taken
advantage of self-inflicted wounds in the
American economy. Our nation does have
a simple solution, however: a return to the
Constitution. By removing government barriers in the marketplace, it will make fiscal
sense to once again hire American workers.
Taxes should be reduced not simply for a
year, but permanently to much lower levels.
Bringing home American troops from overseas adventures around the globe will allow
our country to solidify our own borders
while saving hundreds of billions of dollars.
Turning off the printing presses to create a
stronger dollar will strengthen Americans’
purchasing power and add more certainty
to the economic climate.
Outsourcing the blame will increase
job outsourcing, further stifling economic
growth and adding to the unemployment
rate. Washington should quit attempting to lead in laws, regulations and taxes,
and instead lead in allowing a pro-growth
American economy that can compete in
a global marketplace. America’s global
decline is not inevitable. Rather, a U-turn
in American domestic and foreign policy
can once again restore trust and faith here
at home.
Write to Kevin Paule at
[email protected]
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We really have a snow problem
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STAFF COLUMNIST
L
ast week, the campus was
buzzing. But it wasn’t the
Tucson shootings, Tunisia’s
revolution, Ricky Gervais’s
lack of decorum, or the independence
of South Sudan that was grabbing the
attention. The question that seemed to
be on everyone’s lips last Wednesday
evening was whether Wash. U. would be
shut down after the “Blizzard”/“Snow
storm”/“Ragnarok” that was supposed
to happen. When the news dropped that
Mizzou, SLU and Webster had closed,
fingers were crossed in tremendous anticipation. I’m sure that the most religious
among us were lighting candles and reciting psalms, hoping that the waist high
snow would force the University into
cancelling lessons.
And so, on Thursday morning, the
atmosphere was one of crushing and
bitter disappointment. The so-called
blizzard turned out to be a drizzle, the
snow was hardly ankle deep, and there
was no chance of classes being cancelled.
Speaking with my friends, most of them
told me that they had prayed the school
would be shut down or that their teachers would be unable to attend morning
classes. Even I was feeling slightly downhearted at the sight of the unencumbered
paths to school.
This is when you realize that deep
down, despite supposedly being
“mature” college students, we still have
middle school reflexes. You can feel
the light buzz, the tremor of excitement whenever a teacher is late for class
and the the chances of skipping a class
increase. This is despite knowing that
every missed class will be accounted
for, despite the fact that we choose and
can drop our classes, despite supposedly
enjoying what we do.
Why do we still act like kids, hoping
that the teacher is out sick? Is it because
playing truant is still a romantic notion?
Does the snow speak to the Tom Sawyer
and Huck Finn hidden inside each of
us? I’d like to think that the lush white
snow makes it hard to focus, when all
those childhood memories of snowmen,
snowball fights and snow angels come
flooding back. That it’s some part of our
childhood innocence that makes us look
longingly outside the window, watching the snowflakes tumble onto weary
branches.
Unfortunately, the answer is more
likely to be that deep down, we’d rather
procrastinate and do nothing today, even
though we know that the rest of the
semester will be slightly more hellish.
Meanwhile, the only snowball fights that
were taking place were on the Internet
on some stupid flash minigame.
Write to Pierre Deschamps at
[email protected]
The dirty truth about sustainability at Wash. U.
ADAM HASZ
OP-ED SUBMISSION
T
his past Monday, the Office of
Sustainability released the new
Wash.U. Sustainability Pledge
(available at sustainabilitypledge.
wustl.edu). The pledge states that “Through
each of us doing our part, the Washington
University community can reduce our environmental impact and create a better future
for generations to come.”
I love the idea of such a pledge, and I
encourage the entire Washington University
community to sign it. Given the dire threat
climate change poses to our generation, we
all share a moral responsibility to reduce our
personal environmental impacts.
However, the rest of the Wash. U. administration seems to have missed the message
about sustainability. While our school
diligently works to promote personal lifestyle
changes, many University decisions directly
contradict its stated goal of long-term
sustainability. And no Wash.U. policy is
more hypocritical than our association with
Peabody Energy CEO Greg Boyce.
Mr. Boyce is the leader of the world’s
largest private coal company, and one of the
arch-villains of the human race. Heard of
Tony Hayward, the hated BP CEO during
the Gulf Oil Spill? Well, Boyce is worse.
His company has blown up mountains
in the Appalachians, poisoned the water
source of Navajo Indians at Black Mesa, and
caused millions of cases of asthma and lung
disease every single year, all in the pursuit of
“cheap” energy from coal. And this doesn’t
even include looming future climate catastrophes, caused largely by the carbon pollution
from Mr. Boyce’s coal.
Unlike Tony Hayward, Mr. Boyce happens
to be intimately connected to Washington
University. He was recently appointed to our
Board of Trustees, and Mr. Boyce’s company contributed $5 million to help found
the Washington University Consortium for
Clean Coal Utilization. Apparently, the
University’s mission to “be an exemplary
institution in our home community” involves
being buddy-buddy with the worst corporation in St. Louis.
In a lecture last fall, Mr. Boyce declared
that the only way to eradicate global energy
poverty was to triple coal-powered electricity
throughout the developing world. He completely dismissed the idea that the coming
climate chaos will disproportionately burden
the world’s poor, and could easily eliminate
all of the recent gains developing countries
have made in health care, education and
quality of life. In Mr. Boyce’s view, climate
impacts such as the floods that devastated
Pakistan, the increasing desertification of
central African farmland, and the impending
global water crises due to melting glaciers are
JAKE KNANISHU
sophomore
How has the unusually heavy
snowfall affected you the
past few days?
“It [the snow]
makes my polar
bear impressions
more reasonable.”
nothing to worry about. No, our collective
mission should be to provide the world with
more coal, climate consequences be damned.
But Mr. Boyce is not content to simply
ignore the terrible impacts of climate change.
He has taken a leading role in exacerbating
climate chaos. Last year, Mr. Boyce directed
Peabody Energy to spend $5 million on
lobbying Congress and other government
agencies in an effort to block prospective
climate legislation. Peabody’s all-out effort
succeeded, and climate legislation failed.
While Peabody spends millions to promote
its “clean” coal technology to the public,
Mr. Boyce refuses to even acknowledge that
humans are causing climate change. For all
this bravado, Rolling Stone just named him
the public figure fourth most responsible for
blocking progress on global warming. He
finished just behind the well-known environmental champion Sarah Palin.
Although we may joke about Wash. U.
being a “bubble,” we are not removed from
the outside world. The University’s decisions and associations have consequences
that reverberate throughout St. Louis and
the nation. Because of its close relationship, Washington University has essentially
endorsed Mr. Boyce’s political massacre of
climate legislation. Considering University
initiatives like I-CARES and the new Wash.
U. Sustainability Pledge, which are supposedly designed to work towards a low carbon
JUDSON
KEMPTON
junior
“I hate the snow. I
have to walk from
my apartment and
the sidewalks are covered. Also hating
the snow makes me feel old.”
and sustainable future, this connection with
Boyce is disgustingly hypocritical. Our
school works diligently to promote personal
sustainability, but by supporting Mr. Boyce
and Peabody Energy, we have opposed any
national effort to directly confront climate
change.
I close with a message for the Washington
University community: Please take the new
sustainability pledge, but understand that
sustainability involves a great deal more than
purchasing reusable water bottles. All of
us must go beyond simple lifestyle changes
and fight for transformative social change,
both at the national level and on campus.
And what’s the first step we can take on our
campus? We can demand the removal of
Mr. Boyce from our Board of Trustees, and
demand that the University support strong
national action on climate change. This is
something I, along with many others, have
asked of Chancellor Wrighton. Now, I ask
you to join me. Demand that Chancellor
Wrighton stand with us, not with polluters
like Mr. Boyce.
Adam Hasz is the former president of
Green Action and a junior in Arts & Sciences. Write to Adam Hasz at
[email protected]
ANNA
ROUDEBUSH
sophomore
“I’m from a place
with lots of snow,
so I really enjoyed it. I was really surprised that so
many classes were cancelled.”
6
STUDENT LIFE
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
cadenza
Midseason TV replacements
ANDIE HUTNER, PERCY OLSEN &
STEPH SPERA
CADENZA STAFF
Cadenza investigates five new shows that
should provide you with even more excuses
not to go outside in this relentless cold.
‘Skins’ (MTV, Mondays, 9 p.m.): It’s
television’s biggest, baddest scandal of
2011 (so far, anyway). It’s been compared to child pornography, and the
Parents Television Council has convinced dozens of advertisers to add it
to their do-not-sponsor lists. “Skins” is
MTV’s new scripted show about a group
of middle class high schoolers who have
lots of sex, drink a ton and get high quite
often. In other words, it’s what every parent wants his or her children to avoid.
MTV imported the show from
Great Britain, where it realistically
depicted the lives of troubled teenagers.
Unfortunately, they adapted the show
a little too exactly. The American pilot
episode was an exact replication of the
British pilot, though the characters had
different names and producers made the
show’s content more US-friendly.
“Skins” revolves around Tony, the
ringleader of his bunch of friends. In the
pilot, Tony tries to get his friend Stanley
laid. Unfortunately, Stanley’s in love
with Tony’s girlfriend, and the girl that
Tony lines up for his friend overdoses on
pills and almost dies.
“Skins” has a lot of issues to work
out—basically, it needs to figure out how
to adapt to American television without
compromising too much of the British
core. Tune in and see how it turns out.
‘An Idiot Abroad’ (Science Channel,
Saturdays, 9 p.m.): The duo that birthed
the sitcom-changing “The Office” and
the witty A-List-self-deprecation-fest
known as “Extras” is now taking a stab
at reality TV. Ricky Gervais and Stephen
Merchant send the round-headed Karl
Pilkington—their podcast co-host who
is often dubbed by Gervais as a “real life
Homer Simpson”—to the Seven Wonders
of the World. Karl often tries to put on a
brave face, but it’s difficult with Gervais
Justin Lubin | NBC
From left to right: Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, Chris Pratt as Andy Dwyer and Aziz
Ansari as Tom Haverford on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.”
and Merchant intentionally setting up
activities they know he will loathe, like
forcing him to ride a camel in the desert
while everyone else gets to travel in
SEE TV, PAGE 7
Get ready for the season premiere of ‘Archer’
ADAM RUBIN
CADENZA REPORTER
On Thursday, Jan. 27, “Archer” returns
to FX for a second season. The animated comedy has so far received critical
acclaim and a strong following that creator Adam Reed hopes to maintain. Best
described as the bastard child of “Arrested
Development” and “James Bond,” this
spy spoof is sure to appeal to audiences of
all backgrounds.
“Archer” centers on the members of the
international spy agency ISIS and their
numerous dysfunctions. The title character, Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin),
is the top agent in the field, despite being
hampered by his own glaring incompetence, general stupidity and constant
womanizing. Malory (Jessica Walter),
Sterling’s mother, is the head of ISIS and
constantly pesters her son while grossly
misallocating government funding to
further her own misguided goals. These
include obtaining romantic dates, annoying members of her country club and
continuing her secret affair with the head
of the KGB.
Rounding out the main cast are
Archer’s fierce rival and bitter exgirlfriend, Lana (Aisha Tyler); the
straight-edge, bookworm comptroller,
Cyril (Chris Parnell); an inane and flirtatious secretary, Cheryl (Judy Greer) and
the overweight, lesbian human resources
director, Pam (Amber Nash). Jeffrey
Tambor made several guest appearances
as the head of a rival spy agency and possible father to Archer.
Archer marks the first reunion of
Walter, Greer and Tambor in a show
since “Arrested Development.” Their
placement in similar roles, along with the
show’s dedication to revisiting old jokes
and playing off of family drama, guarantees that fans of “Arrested Development”
will love “Archer.”
Inspirations for many of the show’s
aspects originate from creator Adam
Reed’s past features that appeared during
Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. The
visual style and narrative structure are
taken straight from “Frisky Dingo,” while
several characters seem to have been lifted
from “Sealab 2021.” This cruder style of
violent and sexual comedy meshes with
the clever wordplay and situational humor
to create a unique comedy experience that
audiences are sure to relish.
Catch Archer on Thursdays at 11 p.m.
on FX.
Write to Adam Rubin at
[email protected]
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STUDENT LIFE
7
TV FROM PAGE 6
jeeps; or setting up a Chinese massage
that involves setting parts of Karl on
fire. Most people would consider this
experience wondrous and life changing.
Karl does not. He does not see the point
of ever leaving England; he thinks that
going to China will somehow begin an
addiction to toad that cannot be satisfied when he gets back to England; he
gets offended when a hospitable Indian
gentleman offers him a stay at his house
with no bathroom. But Karl’s ignorance
and his changes through the series are
awkward, endearing and hilarious.
‘Being Human’ (Syfy, Mondays, 8
p.m.): The premise of Syfy’s new show
“Being Human” sounds like the beginning of a joke: A vampire, a werewolf
and a ghost walk into a bar…I mean,
share an apartment. It sounds so silly,
and yet, it’s an incredibly fun show. It
centers on Aidan (a vampire) and Josh
(a werewolf), two young doctors striving to have a normal life. Josh changes
into an evil wolf once a month, and even
with a concrete room serving as a cage
in his basement, it does not seem like
it’s too much fun. Aidan has an incredible bloodlust, and it cannot help that
he accidentally killed a co-worker early
in the first episode. To top it all off, the
Boston brownstone that the doctors
move into to give the appearance of normality is inhabited by the ghost of a dead
woman, Sally, whom only they can see
and hear. The characters are not stereotypes of the monsters they have within.
The show poses a lot of interesting questions about what it means to be different,
and it is definitely worth a watch.
‘Parks and Recreation’ (NBC,
Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.): As Leslie tells
Jerry in the season premiere (right before
hurling his painting in the lake), “The
nightmare is over.” “Parks and Rec” has
reclaimed its rightful spot behind “The
Office,” and it’s as if “Outsourced” never
happened. Except that “Outsourced”
is a hit and can be found at 9:30 p.m.,
if anyone’s interested. The point is, the
Parks Department is back in business...
sort of. Rob Lowe and Adam Scott
return as the state auditors, and they
start off the season by slashing Leslie’s
funds to next to nothing. There’s enough
Michael Becker | FOX
From left to right: Season 10 judges Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson during “American Idol” auditions in New Jersey.
“Idol” airs Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. on FOX.
money to support two basketball teams,
which are sure to develop a fierce rivalry,
but that’s about it. The show is at its
best when its characters face extreme—
and hilarious—adversity, which means
this season is shaping up to be brilliant.
Andy’s goal is to pry apart April and her
new Venezuelan boyfriend. Leslie makes
her own desperate gamble. She wants to
bring back the Pawnee Harvest Festival,
an expensive but, as Leslie asserts, exciting part of Pawnee’s tradition. If it fails,
the Parks Department will be shut down.
The stakes have never been higher for the
mid-level bureaucrats, which is exactly
the kind of show we want to watch.
‘American Idol’ (FOX, Wednesdays
and Thursdays, 7 p.m.): Last week, we
wrote about the changes this new season
of “American Idol” is bringing to the air.
The first audition episodes have caused
even the veteran Idol watchers among
us, to be pleasantly surprised. After nine
seasons of creating critiques based exclusively on the words “yo” and “dawg,”
Randy Jackson has finally stepped up his
game as the only remaining member of
the original judges’ panel. Jennifer Lopez
seems to be filling the Paula Abdul role
quite nicely. Though she has trouble verbalizing the word “no” when contestants
need to get off the stage, she has kind critiques for everyone and can still criticize
when the going gets tough. Steven Tyler
was the biggest surprise of all. He loves
the music, first and foremost, and can
often be seen clapping his hands along
with the auditioner in sheer delight.
The show has cut down the number of
completely terrible auditions, which will
probably keep some viewers away, but we
believe it’s a much more enjoyable viewing experience. The new changes will
hopefully make the rest of the season
better, but we will have to see.
Write to Andie Hutner at
[email protected]
Write to Percy Olsen at
[email protected]
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[email protected]
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8 STUDENT LIFE
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
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Staying stylish in the snow
GINIKA AGBIM
FASHION COLUMNIST
I’ll preface this by saying that even I
haven’t been the best example of chic
style during the winter months. Though
you’ll never find me in the sweatpantsand-Ugg-boot uniform (sorry if that’s
your thing), I haven’t exactly made any
effort to look stylish. One could almost
say that the winter months have caused
many of us on campus to forget about
fashion. Fortunately, there’s still hope.
To get us back on the style-conscious
track, I’ve found some solutions we can
use to solve our winter clothing issues.
Generally speaking, I believe that there
are two main approaches to winter
dressing: wearing thick, cozy pieces or
combining thinner pieces for a layered
look.
Issue 1: My feet are cold, but I’m
too busy to go shopping!
Typically, for this kind of weather,
ski socks and waterproof, fur-lined
boots are ideal, especially those sold by
manufacturers from colder parts of the
world. However, some of us may not
have purchased a month’s worth of socks
from REI and the latest Sorel boots from
their winter catalog. If this is you, don’t
fret. But don’t step outside in just your
ballet flats or moccasins and think you’ll
be OK. Hopefully, as a Washington
University student, you have a pair of
rain boots in your closet. This is a great
starting point. To stay warm, consider
layering on pairs of socks and wearing legwarmers underneath your boots.
Don’t have legwarmers? Get creative and
use the sleeves of an old sweater or shirt
that’s unsalvageable. Since these layers
will be covered by your sleek boots, no
one will ever have to know what you’re
wearing to beat the cold. Also, many of
the items your winter wardrobe is lacking
will be on sale around mid-March, so
stock up before graduation!
Issue 2: What can I wear to keep my
legs warm?
Rather than add bulk to your winter
look by wearing sweatpants, take the
layering approach, and wear your old
leggings or thermal pants underneath
skinny pants or slim jeans. If you decide
it’s warm enough to wear a dress—or
you’re just in the mood—switch out your
opaque nylon tights for solid wool to give
you the same general look while keeping
you cozy. Another solution is to buy a
longer jacket, preferably one that covers
your thighs. This will help mitigate the
adverse effects of wind and keep your
legs protected from the elements.
Issue 3: I’m tired of wearing boring
colors for three months!
It’s extremely easy to fall into a rut of
wearing black, camel and gray while there are
always clouds in the sky. However, the great
thing about winter dressing is the variety of
accessories one can purchase and wear. Add
touches of color to your look through printed
scarves, colored gloves, tribal-patterned knits,
fun hats and colored school bags. Depending
on your taste, prints and patterns such as
chevron and paisley may be the way to go. If
you’re not a print person, solid-colored items
in jewel tones such as mulberry or royal blue
are a great alternative. Find whatever works
for you, but check to make sure that the colors
and patterns you choose are appropriate for
the season. A rule of thumb for colder months
is to trend toward more saturated colors.
-Stay Stylish
Write to Ginika Agbim at
[email protected]
How to fulfill your New Year’s resolutions
SASHA FINE
SCENE EDITOR
As we reach the end of January, as always,
our New Year’s resolutions begin to falter.
Remember those? The ideas you had about
how to change for the year 2011? Although we
may break them year after year, we continue
to make the same promises to ourselves. The
truth is there are several ways to keep from
falling through on your pledges. None of them
are hard to do, and each can make a huge difference in the way you live out the new year.
First of all, hopefully you picked a resolution
that means something to you and is important.
Whether it’s something traditional, like seeing
friends more, doing better in school or working out more, or something more off-beat, it
has to be something that you truly care about
if you want to be successful in achieving it.
Otherwise, it becomes easy to stop worrying
about it.
In order to fulfill your resolution, you need
a plan. Change is hard—everybody knows
that—and you have to force yourself to truly
change how you act. Whether it’s setting up
a strict schedule for going to the gym or running, spending a specific number of hours per
week studying, or even scheduling times to
see friends, you have to define what is going to
happen. It may seem artificial and awkward
at first, but as you slip into the routine, it will
become easier.
Don’t attempt to go at it alone. When
athletes train alone, they don’t accomplish
as much as they do when they exercise with
a group. The same is true for New Year’s
resolutions. If you want to work out more,
find a running buddy or someone to go to the
gym with. If you want to study more, go to the
library with someone—if you’ll be productive
that way. In general, it’s better to let someone
know about your goals. That way, they will be
able to encourage you and push you to achieve
them. Your internal motivation can only take
you so far. In order to succeed, one often needs
a nudge from outside.
Don’t feel discouraged if it’s very hard to
keep up in the beginning. It takes a long time
to form new habits and for them to sink in.
The first few weeks are always going to be the
hardest, but once you get through them, it will
be much easier.
In the end, if you stumble, don’t give up.
Every little slip isn’t the end of the world. If
you’re several weeks along and you mess up,
just remember that it’s only been weeks and it
will take time to truly change. Instead of giving
up, keep going—you don’t have to wait an
entire year to make a new resolution.
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1 Utah Jazz’s gp.
4 Slopeside
structure
10 Sodas
14 DDE opponent
15 Dugouts, e.g.
16 Frizzy do
17 *Worm change?
19 Sci-fi saucers
20 Shimmery sushi
fish
21 Lush
22 Speck in the sea
24 Lender’s product
26 Hardly a tough
decision
29 Decelerate
31 Dough dispenser,
briefly
32 Craps cube
33 Words before
“Here’s to,”
perhaps
36 Remain unsettled
37 *Relocation
company’s
cocktail mixers?
41 Without
accomplices
42 Didn’t run the ball
43 Nice vacation
time?
44 Old word of
annoyance
46 Twitches
50 Kentucky’s state
flower
54 Sacro- ending
55 “How Do I Live”
singer LeAnn
56 One of a salty
seven
58 Architect
Saarinen
59 Start of a coconut
cocktail name
60 *Court mistake?
63 Former Israeli
president
Weizman
64 Shoelace holder
65 Canapé topper,
perhaps
66 Corporate freebie
67 Breaks down in
English class?
68 Word usually
found in the
answers to
starred clues
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2 “C’mon, sport,
help me out”
3 Cheese from
Italy’s Veneto
region
4 IV amounts
5 Hesitating
sounds
6 Negatively
charged atom
7 Game with
scratching
8 Treaty of Rome
org.
9 Top at the beach
10 St. __ Girl beer
11 Lawbreaker
12 Dietary needs
found in beef
13 Titanic signal
18 Coordinated fan
effort at a
stadium
23 One of the
Warner Brothers
25 Bard’s
instrument
27 Bubbly soothers
28 Wine choice
30 __ favor: señor’s
“please”
34 According to
35 Retirement org.
36 One on a bike
37 Add an engine to
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39 Biblical mount
40 Foreign Legion
cap
41 Hose filler?
44 Giant’s first word
45 Arched foot part
47 __ Nevada
mountain range
48 Strand on a 22Across
49 Made a basket,
say
51 Old German
money, for short
52 Wickerwork
willow
53 Antes precede
them
57 On the sheltered
side
59 Vim
61 Shaggy
Scandinavian rug
62 Sci-fi invaders, for
short
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
STUDENT LIFE
OBAMA FROM PAGE 1
especially concerned that many of America’s
brightest students are non-citizens and international students: “But as soon as they obtain
advanced degrees, we send them back home
to compete against us. It makes no sense.”
Obama cited that concern to call for immigration reform, an issue that made little
legislative progress in the last Congress.
With the Baby Boomer generation nearing
retirement, Obama said the country would
need to train 100,000 new teachers in math,
science, engineering and other areas. He
issued a call to young viewers: “If you want
to make a difference in the life of our nation,
if you want to make a difference in the life
of a child, become a teacher. Your country
needs you.”
Sophomore Sherveen Mashayekhi, president of the College Democrats, applauded
the president for emphasizing education.
“His platforms of [Race] to the Top and
tuition tax credit really speak to his understanding that a nation is only as strong as
its up-and-comers,” he said in a statement,
adding that he was satisfied with Obama’s
“thoughtful bipartisanship.”
But Obama’s proposals come as the country grapples with continuing budget deficits,
and as newly emboldened Republicans in
Congress press for deep spending cuts that
could affect education funding.
Obama acknowledged that the country
would need to cut spending and that he
would need to work with both parties. But he
warned that cutting investment in education
and innovation to close the deficit is “like
lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine.”
And he targeted the Bush tax cuts in seeking to preserve federal funding for education.
EATERIES FROM PAGE 1
“Before we take money away from our
schools, or scholarships away from our students, we should ask millionaires to give up
their tax break,” he said.
Sophomore Matt Callahan, a self-identified
centrist independent who mostly approved
of Obama’s speech, said he especially liked
the president’s willingness to compromise
and his emphasis on cutting the deficit and
expanding education.
He sounded a note of skepticism, though.
“I’m going to have to research how he’s
planning on building all these programs
but also cutting back so much. He’s kind of
saying these two things that do seem contradictory,” he said.
Obama’s State of the Union comes after
a lame-duck session in which Congress
repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the military’s
ban on gays serving openly. Obama called
on colleges and universities where military recruiters are banned to allow them to
return.
Washington University has had a somewhat tense relationship with military
recruiters. The University has allowed military recruiters on campus because of a 1995
law that cuts federal funding from colleges
that ban military recruiters from their campuses. Student activists in recent weeks have
hailed the Obama administration for the
repeal.
Students agreed on one thing they didn’t
like in the speech: They said he didn’t talk
enough about foreign affairs and national
security, especially the ongoing wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan. “He talked a little bit about
very specific things, but I wanted to hear if
there was a wider plan,” Applebaum said.
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A construction worker puts the finishing touches on a portion of the new Lopata Hall dining facility. The eatery is scheduled to open in February within the newly renovated Lopata Gallery.
decrease lunch crowds at the DUC and Holmes
Lounge.
The hours of operation for the eatery have yet
to be released.
Although the new dining option is located in
the same building as Cheap Lunch and targets
the same group of students, Cheap Lunch organizers aren’t worried.
“People like their cheap pizza” said Adrienne
Knapp, the director of Cheap Lunch. “I have a
good feeling about it, and I don’t think our sales
will decrease.”
Knapp and the other organizers have no plans
to change Cheap Lunch.
“We once tried a specialty lunch, and it didn’t
work out,” Knapp said.
“I don’t think the two will compete because
Cheap Lunch is kind of an institution—it’ll just
last,” Morin said.
Engineering students are not the only ones
who will be experiencing changes in their dining options.
Students and administrators in the business school are also excited for the opening of
Einstein Bros. next week.
Brian Bannister, associate dean for finance
and administration at the business school, said
that Einstein Bros. was selected after a group of
students focused their practicum project on food
services.
Bannister is also confident about the student
response to the new Einstein Bros.
“We’re not only providing a full Einstein’s but
also a new café environment,” Bannister. said
“It’s located on the south side of Simon where
there’s lots of nice windows and a lounge area—
it’ll be a great place to hang out and relax.”
“Before break it was pretty empty, so it was
surprising to come back to school and see it
looking great” said Moira Smith, a sophomore
in the business school. “It seems like it’ll be a
really good lunch place.”
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Bears record first conference wins of season
DANIEL KURZNER
SPORTS REPORTER
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Senior co-captain Spencer Gay, seen here in a game against Illinois Wesleyan University
on Dec. 18, scored a career-high 23 points against Brandeis University on Sunday. Gay is
the Bear’s leading scorer this season and averages 15.9 points per game.
Coming off a four-game losing streak,
the Washington University men’s basketball team released some of its frustration
on the court this past weekend.
The team defeated New York University
80-76 on Friday before trouncing No.
21 Brandeis University 70-36. The Bears
now stand at 8-8 (2-3 University Athletic
Association) on the season.
The win over NYU also ended a sixgame road losing streak for the Bears.
Sunday’s faceoff with Brandeis featured
Wash. U.’s best defensive performance of
the season by far, as they held the Judges to
a dismal 24.1 percent shooting percentage
and no points in the last 8:42 of the game.
The Bears shot 52.7 percent from the
field, marking their second-best field goal
percentage of the season. Senior co-captain
Spencer Gay led the offensive charge with a
career-high 23 points.
“I think a lot of it had to do with the
energy the kids brought to the game,” head
coach Mark Edwards said. “We executed
offense very well, and our defense played
well, so [Brandeis] couldn’t get their baskets, and we did.”
The players attributed the defensive
showing to increased focus and a need to
prove that the team was better than its sub.500 record indicated.
“The difference between [Sunday’s]
game and the rest of the season was we just
flat out had more energy, and we wanted
to win that game a lot more than Brandeis
wanted to,” said senior Caleb Knepper, a
co-captain. “We had so much intensity,
and we shut down their offense because we
were the aggressors on defense.”
When asked if the team had a particularly good defensive strategy prepared
against Brandeis, Knepper explained that
sound execution was the key to the sound
defensive performace.
“There really wasn’t any [specific defensive scheme],” Knepper said. “We change
our defense for every team we play, so [on
Sunday] it was more our energy.”
After taking an 11 point lead over the
Judges into halftime, numerous Wash. U.
players said that the Judges appeared to
lose focus and stopped putting their full
effort forward in the second half. Brandeis’
missed 13 consecutive shots to end the
game.
“I wouldn’t say they quit, but we sure
took the competitive spirit out of them,”
Edwards said.
The Bears snapped their losing streak
on Friday in a close victory over NYU.
Neither team led by more than six points at
any moment during the game.
The Bears had a few standout performers, including Gay, who led the team with
22 points, and sophomore Ben Hoener,
who posted a career-best 18 points. The
team also went nine of 16 from three-point
range.
“When our players can hit outside
[shots], especially when [opponents] are
guarding us in a zone, it really is extremely
effective in opening up the inside,” junior
co-captain Alex Toth said.
Over the course of six minutes in the
middle of the second half, Knepper hit four
three-pointers, accounting for all the Bears’
points during that stretch.
“I know that my role is to add leadership coming off the bench and show the
guys what we need to do in order to win,”
Knepper said. “When they give me the ball
in a position to score, I know that I am supposed to do that. It’s a pretty easy job to
have.”
Knepper and Toth described these two
games as a turning point in the season, as
the players demonstrated the upside of a
team that has been consistently strong on
defense all year but has not lived up to the
program’s extremely successful reputation.
“This weekend, more so than any other
wins we had, we really felt like we needed
to come out and not just win because we’re
used to winning or because we felt like
we needed to, but come out [and] be who
we are going to be the rest of the season,”
Knepper said. “I definitely think it was a
turning point for us, and we’ll hopefully be
able to keep that ball rolling for the next
game coming up at home this weekend.”
The Bears will look to continue their
winning streak this weekend at the Wash.
U. Field House, with games on Friday at
8 p.m. against Carnegie Mellon University
and at noon on Sunday against Case
Western Reserve University.
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Women’s basketball routs conference opponents
KURT ROHRBECK
SPORTS EDITOR
After four straight wins in the University
Athletic Association by an average of 26.5
points per game, the Washington University
women’s basketball team’s conference-opening loss two weeks ago to the University
of Chicago suddenly feels like a distant
memory.
The team continued the UAA portion
of its schedule with a pair of dominating
efforts over the weekend, with the then No.
8 Bears taking out New York University
80-54 on Friday in New York City and handling Brandeis University 66-36 on Sunday in
Waltham, Mass.
With the victories, the Bears moved up to
No. 8 in this week’s D3hoops.com Top 25
poll.
The Bears carried the momentum of the
Jan. 16 double-overtime win against then-No.
5 University of Rochester to their games this
past weekend.
“Obviously the Rochester double-OT [victory] was pivotal, not going down two games
[in the conference standings] was huge at that
point,” head coach Nancy Fahey said. “We’re
trying to take that momentum and just keep
concentrating game-by-game at this point, but
it did give us a boost, and we hope to just keep
carrying it with us each game.”
Wash. U. put on a clinic from behind the
three-point line to begin the game against
Brandeis. On the strength of seven triples
within the first 7:15 of the game, including
four from senior co-captain Kathryn Berger,
the Red and Green found itself on the right
end of a 30-3 lead toward the midpoint of the
half.
“Honestly, I just kind of think that everyone
on the team was in the zone, so we were having quick passes. If anyone on the team had
an open shot, they knocked it down,” junior
Dani Hoover said. “It was just one of those
things where all five players on the court were
clicking at the same time, and we just weren’t
making very many mistakes.”
Despite only hitting one three-pointer in the
rest of the game, the Bears lead never dropped
below 25 points for the remainder of the
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Junior Dani Hoover goes up for a layup against the University of Rochester on Jan. 16. Hoover led the Bears with eight rebounds in an
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game. After going into the half with a 42-14
advantage, the Bears began to spread the ball
around even more in the second half. In all,
13 players picked up at least one point, while
seven players tallied at least two assists. Only
Berger (16 points) and sophomore Kristin
Anda (10) scored in double figures.
Wash. U. shot 45.6 percent on the game.
Brandeis, meanwhile, shot 24.1 percent,
which the Bears attributed to a combination
of good defense on their part and poor luck
for their opponent.
“They’ve got some good shooters on their
team. We were able to play some pretty good
defense. They missed some open shots, but I
think it’s both our defense and it just wasn’t
their night,” Dani Hoover said.
The Bears needed a bit more time to get
going on Friday night, as they faced an NYU
team that gave them a very even matchup
until the 8:54 mark of the first half. With the
score tied 18-18, Anda and freshman Jordan
Rettig came off the bench and scored baskets,
sparking a 9-0 run to give the Bears a lead that
would hold for the remainder of the game.
NYU would cut the deficit to four, but the
Bears continued to pull away, and two baskets
from Rettig right before the half gave them a
43-30 lead going into the locker room.
“We changed a little bit, strategically, offensively, what we were doing,” Fahey said of
the team’s adjustments. “Defensively, we
were sound, but we went to a different attack,
which I think helped us exploit some of the
things that we saw in the scout films, and I
think the kids took really good advantage of
it.”
The team never took its foot off the pedal
in the second half, shooting 51.9 percent from
the floor and playing strong on the boards,
outrebounding the Violets 21-11.
Anda led the team with 14 points and has
now come off the bench to score in doublefigures in five of the team’s last six games,
including Sunday’s contest.
“We knew we had an explosive player last
year, and the opportunity presented itself this
year, and she’s really taken advantage of that,”
Fahey said. “She’s a very athletic, explosive
player, and that has really helped us, whether
it’s boarding or keeping the game at a high
tempo. She’s having a really good year, and
we’re excited for her.”
Rettig picked up 11 points, while Berger
tallied 10 and has collected double-digit point
totals in all but two games this season. Senior
Alex Hoover’s six assists led the team, as did
Dani Hoover’s eight rebounds.
With the wins, the Bears sit at 13-3 overall
(4-1 UAA) and are tied for second in the conference with Case Western Reserve University,
whom they will square off against this weekend at the Wash. U. Field House. The team
will take on Carnegie Mellon University on
Friday at 6 p.m. and Case on Sunday at 2
p.m.
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