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Work on new Umrath, Wohl WU administration
going ‘as planned,’ officials say moving forward
with tobacco ban
Some criticize
lack of student
input and
communication
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COURTESY OF FACILITIES
Phase I of construction on the South 40 will be completed with the opening of Umrath Hall and part of the new Wohl Center this fall.
Left: Umrath Hall under construction this summer. Right: the architect’s rendered image of the finished building.
Jack Marshall
Contributing Reporter
With move-in day quickly
approaching,
Washington
University
administrators
say construction of the longawaited Umrath Hall and
Wohl Center on the South 40
is going as planned.
“There are certain activities lagging, certain activities
ahead of schedule, but we are
overall on schedule,” said Steven Rackers, director of capital projects & records.
While masonry and landscaping are slightly behind
schedule, some interior furnishing remains ahead.
Phase I of the construction
will be done before fall move-
in, according to Project Manager Nancy Marshall. This
first phase includes the new
Umrath and Wohl residential
areas, a fitness center, certain
stations at Bear’s Den, part of
Bear Mart and a temporary
dining facility.
Residential spaces will be
ready for early move-in students, which includes freshman participants in pre-orientation programs, student
advisors and resident advisors.
Phase II—which consists
of the completion of the new
Bear’s Den, an upgraded Bear
Mart and College Hall, an assembly space for the residential colleges—will be done by
August 2010.
Dean of Students Justin
Carroll wrote in an e-mail
that construction for College
of Hall will start after the
old Wohl is completely demolished. The University, he
wrote, expects it to be done by
fall 2010.
According to a description
from the architecture firm
Mackey Mitchell and Associates—Umrath and Wohl’s
designers—the lower levels of
Umrath and Wohl will feature
student activity spaces to accommodate 3,000 residents
and a new dining service facility.
“Modeled after European
streetscapes, the site features
an upper and lower plaza,
which creates ‘outdoor rooms.’
Cascading stairs, ramps and a
sloped garden lead from the
adjacent parking garage to the
lower plaza, creating a social
heart for the residential neighborhood,” the firm’s description reads.
Due to the new Wohl’s
LEED Silver certification,
there will be other noticeable
changes in Bear’s Den, such as
china dishes instead of disposable ones to help reduce waste.
The kitchen will use energyefficient hoods to reduce energy use, and food wastes will
be sent to a composter.
The loading dock near
the dining facilities will be
sheltered by a green roof that
provides not only recreation
space but also a vegetable and
herbs garden for students to
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New dining options await students
Chloe Rosenberg
Staff Reporter
As members of the Class of
2013 prepare to make Washington University their new home,
Dining Services is scurrying to
finish the new dining facilities on
the South 40.
The new Wohl Center, currently under construction, will
house the new dining facilities.
The former Wohl Center, where
most of the South 40’s dining facilities were located, was demolished in mid-June.
Amid student concerns, Bon
Appétit insists the quality of the
food options offered on the South
40 will not suffer from the transition.
The new Wohl Center will
be built in two separate phases—
the first of which will be finished
before August move-in. The first
phase will house both permanent
and temporary dining facilities.
A permanent dining facility will
be completed with the second
phase to replace the temporary
one.
The new dining hall is set to
offer many of the same options
previously available at Bear’s
Den, including a bakery, grill
and sandwich station in the permanent section, along with a tacquería, salad bar, global station
and a hot kosher station in the
temporary facility.
A temporary Bear Mart also
will be available for the 2009-
2010 school year.
Ursa’s will be the only South
40 dining facility to remain unaffected by the changes.
“It is going to be one of the
top food programs and living
and learning concepts in the nation,” Nadeem Siddiqui, resident
district manager for Bon Appétit,
said of the new facilities.
The second permanent wing,
which will open for the 20102011 school year, is set to house
an Indian station and a Mongolian grill.
In 2010, the temporary facility will be replaced by offices and
a kosher kitchen—the first of its
kind on campus. Until this point,
all kosher food items have been
prepared at the nearby Hillel
House and delivered to campus.
Vegetarian options will be
broadened next year as well. The
dining facilities will have a separate grill and fryer for vegetarian
food. Plans are underway to have
at least one vegetarian option
available at each food station.
“I think that having the separate fryer is a good option. Seeing
my food touch meat is a personal
turn-off to me. That’s really good
that they are trying to be more
sensitive,” said junior Meghna
Srinath, a vegetarian.
All of the food in the new
dining hall will be served a la
carte. Though there will be no
replacement for Center Court, a
Dan Woznica
News Editor
Ashtrays soon will be a
relic of bygone days at Washington University as all of the
institution’s campuses move
toward the implementation of
a complete smoking and tobacco ban in July 2010.
The decision to prohibit
smoking and the use of all
tobacco-related products on
University property was announced last April by the administration, which framed
the ban as a public health initiative intended to reduce the
effects of secondhand smoke.
“We’re not passing judgment on what you should or
should not do,” said Jill Carnaghi, associate vice chancellor for students and dean of
campus life. “We’re saying
on our campus we want as
healthy an environment as
possible.”
Carnaghi’s sense is that
most undergraduates agree
with the ban. But she feels
many who supported it were
nonetheless frustrated that
the University made the decision without taking student
input into account.
“I think there was a good
number that didn’t like the
way the decision was made,”
Carnaghi said. “They were
upset with how the process
went in the decision, rather
than the decision itself.”
Senior Tom Aylmer was
one such student angry with
how the University implemented the ban.
“The people who implemented it didn’t give the students any say in the decision
process,” Aylmer said. “I’d
like them to at least inform
the students as to how they
made the decision, what kind
of research they did. They
should address why they
didn’t give the students any
consideration.”
Student Union (SU) also
decried the lack of student
involvement in the administration’s decision. Last April,
SU passed a resolution requesting that the administration reconsider the ban after
hearing students’ opinions on
the matter.
Although the University
is not currently planning to
reevaluate its decision, Carnaghi is leading a committee
of around 12 undergraduates
in the coming year that will
offer student input to the administration concerning the
ban and its implementation.
“We’ll pull together a
committee to identify what
are the issues, what are the
concerns and then how do we
as a group—which is made
up of a lot of students, some I
hope to be smokers and some
not—move forward with this
in a realistic way,” Carnaghi
said.
The committee likely will
include representatives from
student groups that may be affected most by the ban, such
as international students from
cultures more permissive of
smoking.
Carnaghi said the committee also will work to engage
the broader undergraduate
population through open forums for students to express
their opinions.
The administration has
created separate committees
for working with the rest of
the University population.
The faculty and staff committee is headed by Alan Glass,
director of Student Health
Services, and Brad Freeman,
associate professor of surgery,
while the graduate and professional students committee
is headed by Sheri Notaro, associate dean in the Graduate
School of Arts & Sciences.
At present, while the Uni-
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Financial troubles: University
prepares for another hard year
In the midst of the worldwide economic crisis, Washington University is dealing
with a difficult financial situation of its own.
The administration estimates the University’s endowment is down by 20 to 25
percent as of the end of May,
according to Chancellor Mark
Wrighton.
“That [estimate] might be
a little better than we had in
mid-April, when I communicated it to the community,”
Wrighton said in reference to
an e-mail he sent to students,
faculty and staff to inform
them about the University’s
financial situation.
He followed up that e-mail
with a “State of the University
Address” on April 23, providing the community an opportunity to ask questions.
Wrighton said donations
to the University have held
relatively steady, even as the
number of donors to the University has decreased.
“[It] might even be ahead
[of] last year,” Wrighton
said.
In fact, the total amount
of money donated to the University in fiscal 2009 as of
the end of May was 4 percent higher than the previous year, according to David
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Blasingame, executive vice
chancellor for alumni and development programs.
Blasingame said the University is also outperforming
peer institutions in donations.
“I think most places are
experiencing downturns,” he
said.
Blasingame attributed the
University’s slight upturn to
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Webfood: Online orders for DUC food available this fall
Becca Krock
Staff Reporter
Starting this fall, students
will have the option to pre-order certain menu items online
and pick up their items at the
Danforth University Center at
no additional cost.
The new service, called
Webfood, is intended to reduce waiting times and congestion in the Danforth University Center (DUC) for
students’ convenience. The
program, developed by Bon
Appétit administration, Student Union (SU) members and
students at large, is the product of efforts from over the
last two years.
“If you’re someone that’s
frustrated about going to
get food and it’s a long line,
and you spend most of the
time you want to spend with
friends waiting in line, you no
longer have to do that,” said
senior Jeff Nelson, SU president. “Even if you don’t want
to use Webfood, you can benefit anyway, because the lines
will be shorter.”
Bon Appétit selected the
independent service Webfood
from several similar options
in large part because other
U.S. colleges, such as Cornell
University, have used the system to positive reviews.
“It integrates very nicely
with [the campus card system] we currently have, which
lowers the cost that it would
take to implement it,” Nelson
added.
Another benefit that became apparent as SU was researching Webfood, Nelson
noted, is that fewer wrong orders will be thrown away.
“You’d be surprised at how
often it happens,” Nelson said.
“They’re trying to get through
50 people in the lunch hour,
so sometimes they mess up
orders, sometimes they forget
things, and food is wasted.”
Menu items will be limited at first, though more options will be added over time
as students and food service
employees become more comfortable with the new system.
The Webfood system limits the number of orders that
can be placed at one time.
That means an order’s cooking time alone determines
how far in advance students
have to order their food.
“The item won’t be prepared 15 minutes ahead of
time; it’s literally just a few
minutes ahead of time,” said
Paul Schimmele, assistant to
the director of operations in
Dining Services.
While Webfood may be
advantageous for students,
Schimmele said Bon Appétit
staff likely won’t benefit from
it in any particular way.
“I don’t know if it is any
easier for the staff; it’s just
a different way to take an
order,” Schimmele said. “I
don’t think it complicates the
job once everybody understands how the system works.
There’s going to be changes
to the routine a little bit, but
I don’t think it affects what
they do really.”
Nelson has heard concerns
from some that Webfood may
eliminate opportunities for
students to interact personally
with Dining Services staff,
but he disagrees.
“If you value standing
in line and talking with the
workers, developing that relationship, you still can,” he
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cultivate.
As for residential areas,
Umrath will house 99 freshman students and three upperclassmen resident advisors.
Sixty-eight of these students
will live in four-person double
suites joined together by a
shared bathroom, 21 will live
in triple units, and 10 will live
in double units.
Three residential advisors
and 125 upperclassmen will
live in the new Wohl building. Of these, 108 will live in
four-person single suites, six
in three-person single suites,
two in a two-person single
suite and six in individual
double rooms.
Wohl and Umrath’s future
residents say they are looking
forward to the changes that
the new buildings will bring
to the South 40.
“I think the new build-
ing will better the look of the
South 40 since the construction will be over,” senior Brandy Randall, an RA on Umrath
4, wrote in an e-mail. “Once
new Wohl is complete it will
bring about new eating options as the cafeteria choices
will be enhanced and the variety of food will increase.”
The excitement is enhanced by prospects of a new
residential college—formed
by Rubelmann Hall, Umrath
and Wohl.
“Adding Wohl and the upperclassmen to a once freshmen-only residential college
will diversify the types of
programs we put on,” said senior Rebecca Shareff, an RA
on Umrath 3. “With a new rescollege comes our new mascot, the Red Umbrella Whales,
and a huge source of pride and
energy.”
KAT ZHAO | STUDENT LIFE
The kitchen inside the new Wohl Center will be able to serve more
than 3,000 people.
brunch buffet will still be available on weekends.
Incoming students expressed
enthusiasm about the new dining
options.
“I think that what will be
there in 2010 makes the transition worth it,” incoming freshman Tori Wesevich said.
Dining Services will be allowed to move into the new Wohl
Center beginning on July 16,
leaving workers a month to prepare the facilities in time for the
projected mid-August opening.
“I think the milestones that
have been set to make sure this
will be handed over July 16
have all been met, so I am less
nervous,” Siddiqui said. “We’ve
just got to be flexible, just got to
keep an open mind. We continue
to tweak and we continue to adjust.”
said.
Schimmele and Nadeem
Siddiqui, resident district
manager for Bon Appétit,
downplayed potential problems with Webfood’s implementation, saying the administration is taking the process
slowly to avoid complications.
In addition, incoming
freshmen and students taking
summer classes on campus
will be testing Webfood in a
pilot program before August
move-in to avoid snags.
“I’m sure there will be
timing issues, other sorts of
things. We want to make sure
all that is tidied up before August when we open it to the
larger market,” Siddiqui said.
Basic items from Trattoria
Verde and Delicioso’s tacqueria and grill stations, snacks
and beverages will be avail-
able for pre-purchase on a
Web site that has yet to be revealed. Orders can be placed
at any time of day, but can be
picked up only between 7:30
a.m. and 10 p.m. at George’s
Express in the DUC.
Most students have not
heard about Webfood and
none have had the opportunity
to try it, but some are looking
forward to trying it.
“If I’m going to have to
wait 20 minutes either way, I’d
rather have that 20 minutes in
my room,” senior Amaka Onwuzurike said.
Despite Webfood’s intended benefits for students, the
program may not be gladly
received by all.
“I’ve heard some people
sort of criticize Webfood and
say it’s just a luxury. I think
it’s really a necessity,” Nelson
said.
NEWS BRIEF
Undergraduates to make switch
to Microsoft e-mail service in fall
Student Union announced earlier this month that Washington
University undergraduates will be switching to an e-mail account
powered by the service Microsoft Live@Edu this fall.
This new initiative will provide the means of what Student Union
(SU) calls a “unified communications platform,” where all students,
faculty, staff and administrators can share information with the same
tools.
The decision came after a yearlong evaluation of Live@Edu and
the similar application Google Apps for Education and numerous surveys, town hall meetings, product demonstrations and focus groups.
Though many students opted for Google Apps in their surveys,
Nelson said that Live@Edu will offer all the features that Google
Apps offers and “much more.”
Each student’s Live@Edu account will provide a 10-gigabyte email inbox, 25 gigabytes of file storage space, a sharable calendar,
online workspaces and direct integration with social networking sites
such as Facebook and Twitter.
With the new application, students will be able to search the email addresses of classmates, arrange appointments with advisors and
complete other functions all within the same system.
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several large donations at the
beginning of the year. The
University, he said, also has
benefited from an institution-wide strategic planning,
which provides potential donors a glimpse into new ideas
and plans underway at the
University.
As one of the foremost
responses to the economic
crisis this past year, Wrighton said the University is
re-prioritizing resources to
increase financial aid. Bill
Witbrodt, director of Student
Financial Services, said the
financial aid budget “has top
priority.”
“We recognize that when
the economy is rough, our
families are having a tough
time too. We need to do all
that we can to make sure that
our students can continue
their education at Washington
University,” Witbrodt said.
“When things are tough, it’s
even more important to have a
stable financial aid budget.”
The student financial
aid budget has increased by
20 percent in the past two
years—a feat accomplished
partially by cutting administrative expenses. Meanwhile,
tuition has risen—though by
less than 10 percent, Wrighton said.
This is the first time that
University has had to freeze
compensation expenses since
Wrighton’s tenure as chancellor began in 1995, he said.
The University has also filled
advertised jobs slower and recruited fewer faculty this year
than usual.
Wrighton predicts the next
fiscal year, beginning July 1,
2010, will be even more challenging. In fact, the University—in efforts to brace itself
for greater financial troubles
ahead—has started prepar-
ing for next year much earlier
than it has in the past.
Even with the chancellor’s
recent disclosures about the
University’s economic state,
most students remain dissatisfied with the administration’s
extent of communication and
transparency in financial issues.
This past semester, several students came together to
start a Facebook group called
“WU Students for Endowment Transparency” (WUSET). Junior Jacob Stern, one
of WUSET’s founders, said he
and others formed the group
after reaching a consensus
that students have very limited access to the University’s
financial information, such as
the breakdown of the endowment.
“By adopting a method
of controlled disclosure, the
University would join the
ranks of prestigious educational institutions, such as
Brown, Harvard, Yale, Duke,
Stanford, and Columbia that
have empowered students by
making investment records
available but would not limit
the power of trustees or administrators,” the group’s
mission statement reads. “We
feel this step would reflect an
institutional commitment to
student participation in the
broader university community.”
WUSET is in the stages
of preparing for more active
efforts in the fall, including
talks with the administration.
“We really hope that it
can be a really cooperative
relationship,” said Stern, who
hopes that the partnership
will be beneficial for both
students and administrators
alike. “We don’t see the administration as an enemy by
any means.”
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Student Union Senate Speaker Chase Sackett speaks on the SU
resolution last semester decrying the University’s tobacco ban.
versity carries forth with its
plans, many students continue
to express mixed opinions
about the ban.
Junior Adeetee Bhide is allergic to tobacco and has been
hospitalized for coughing fits
after inhaling secondhand
smoke. Despite her sensitivity to tobacco, she said she is
still able to see both sides of
the issue.
“I’m glad that I’ll be able
to do my homework outside
without having to worry about
people smoking, but I do understand that it’ll be a big inconvenience for people who
do smoke,” Bhide said.
Bhide has to hold her
breath when she walks past
the entrances to Olin Library
and Seigle Hall, where smokers often congregate. Several
times, she said, she has had
to relocate from doing work
outside after a smoker lit up
a cigarette.
Still, she feels that banning smoking altogether on
campus is an unnecessary
step.
“I think a better compromise would be to have designated smoking areas,” Bhide
said.
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SWAP-ing trash for charity:
Student groups combine sustainability and philanthropy
William Shim
Staff Reporter
Fifteen to 20 desk chairs,
10 to 15 televisions, 40 to 50
desk lamps, 15 to 20 microwaves, a few living room sets,
a large number of plastic bins
and hangers. This names only
a few on the long list of items
Sharing With A Purpose collected from Washington University dorms and apartments
after move-out this past semester.
Better known as SWAP, the
program collects and donates
to charity any unwanted reusable items University students
leave for trash. The newly established student-owned business has been a member of the
Student Entrepreneurial Program since fall 2008 and received non-profit status from
Missouri in February 2009.
Seniors Michael Young
and Ross Kelley, two of
SWAP’s six co-founders and
owners, had no idea the group
would meet so much initial
success.
“We knew a lot of Wash.
U. students were concerned
about campus sustainability, but we did not expect the
response to SWAP to be so
positive in only its first year,”
Kelley said.
SWAP, however, is certainly not the campus’s only
student-run program with conservation and charity in mind.
Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE)
fraternity’s furniture drive,
which accepts all non-electronic appliances to donate to
the St. Louis-based food bank
Operation Food Search, has
operated since spring 2002.
Senior Adam Yasinow,
president of TKE, said the
fraternity’s annual drive has
remained successful throughout the years. Yasinow could
not provide this year’s final
collection number as the drive
was still ongoing as of June.
The furniture drive and
SWAP make up two of the
largest contributors to the
Share Our Stuff (S.O.S.) program in the Office of Sustainability at the University.
Launched in 2008 under the
leadership of Matt Malten,
assistant vice chancellor for
campus sustainability, S.O.S.
seeks to reduce the amount of
waste generated each year on
campus.
TKE joined S.O.S. after it
“ saw a marriage of interests”
in the relationship, Yasinow
said. SWAP owners also recognized the common ground
and saw potential for raising
its own publicity with the
partnership.
“I cannot stress enough
what a tremendous asset our
relationship with the S.O.S.
campaign and the Office of
Sustainability has been, and
we only look for further build
upon this relationship,” Young
said.
SWAP’s main beneficiary
is Lydia’s House, a local organization that provides transitional housing for domestic
violence survivors. After
holding an on-campus sale
of its items in late August,
SWAP will send the proceeds
to Lydia’s House and donate
all unsold items to Operation
Food Search.
“Our items go back to the
Wash. U. community while
[other groups] donate their
COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY
(L-R) Zach Kelly, Ross Kelly and Mike Young gather donated items in the lobby of Wheeler House on the South 40.
items to outside organizations,” Young said.
Despite the ongoing work
of such programs in past
years, some students say that
the efforts are not well publicized.
2007 alumnus Nicholas
Gregg, who currently works
for the School of Medicine,
said he had never heard of
TKE’s furniture drive during
his undergraduate years at the
University.
“Senior year, when we
were moving out of our offcampus house, we did not
know of such student groups.
So we just left the items [in]
the back alleyway, which
someone did come and pick it
up,” Gregg said.
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and with S.O.S. mutually beneficial.
“We have been able to
bounce ideas off of each other to help make the program
more successful, and we have
been able to share resources,”
Young said.
Yasinow believes the cooperation also lets the programs
pursue an overall agenda to
“actively promote campus
sustainability.”
With ever increasing public attention to the need for
a sustainable future, the organizers expressed optimism
about the success and impact
of their efforts.
“Next year, we look to
strengthen and continue our
relationship with the S.O.S.
drive. We have a strong relationship with Operation Food
Search and look to continue
our philanthropic cause,” Yasinow said.
SWAP expects an even
more successful drive next
year, Young said.
“As this was our first year,
there is plenty of room for improvement and efficiency on
our end. We hope to achieve
our current goals at a higher
level—promote our campus’s
sustainability while benefiting a local charity.”
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ORIENTATION ISSUE
STUDENT LIFE | FORUM
FORUM
A welcome
to the Class of 2013!
Mark S. Wrighton
Chancellor
W
elcome to the
Class of 2013!
Beginning
your career
at Washington University is an
exciting time for you and your
families. It is equally exciting
for my colleagues and me, as we
reflect on the great possibilities
that lie ahead for you.
I am grateful to all of you for
making the important decision to
join the Washington University
family. The Class of 2013 is one
of the most academically gifted
in our history. Equally impressive is the diversity of personal
abilities, intellectual interests and
life experiences you bring to us.
We feel fortunate to have so many
talented individuals join our
community, and I expect that we
will learn a great deal from you.
In turn, you will benefit from the
exceptional students who came
before you, and our world-class
faculty will serve as your mentors
and guides during the next four
years.
Alumni of Washington
University often tell me about the
wonderful memories they have of
their undergraduate years—an experience they had in a laboratory
or classroom, a leadership role
they held in a Greek organization, a friendship with someone
in their residential college or a
professor who influenced their
career choice. Time will tell what
your memories will become, but
I am confident that numerous
opportunities lie before each of
you. The path ahead will be both
challenging and rewarding, and I
encourage you to make the most
of your time here.
You are joining a thriving
community of young scholars.
Washington University students
consistently impress me both in
and out of the classroom. In the
Class of 2013 are student athletes
who will continue the outstanding
legacy of the Washington University Bears. Some among you
will lead efforts to improve the
environment by educating your
peers about recycling and energy
conservation, serving as advocates for decreasing our carbon
footprint and improving sustain-
ability efforts at the University.
Many will continue our proud
traditions of community service
through programs like Each One
Teach One and Relay For Life,
while others will start new traditions. Dozens of you will spend
time studying in another country,
discovering new languages and
cultures—experiences that will
broaden your views of the interconnectedness of our world.
The Class of 2013 arrives at
Washington University during
an important era in the world’s
history. The global and national
financial crises represent important challenges. We see unrest in
many countries as citizens struggle with the complex issues of energy resources, nuclear weapons,
proliferation and the principles of
democracy in government. It is
easy for one to feel overwhelmed
about the challenges that we face.
However, there are two things that
give me great hope.
First, Washington University
remains strong. While we are not
immune to the present financial
realities, we have been around for
a long time, steadily growing in
quality and impact over the past
5
The experiences that
come to shape us
156 years. We have loyal alumni
and friends, exceptional faculty
and staff and many unique and
innovative initiatives that will be
a source of strength for us in the
era ahead.
Second, we have you! The
arrival of a new class is a significant and symbolic event for
every great university, and you,
the Class of 2013, represent the
future of Washington University,
our country and the world. Your
creativity, enthusiasm and talents
are inspirational. With the help
of the knowledge you will gain
here, you have the potential to
address the world’s most complex
problems. Whatever path you
choose during the next four
years, continue to nurture your
intellectual interests and strive to
make a positive difference in the
lives of others. Again, welcome to
Washington University! You have
my very best wishes for success
in this community of learning
and discovery.
Chancellor Mark Wrighton can
be reached by e-mail at wrigh
[email protected].
Kate Gaertner
Senior Forum Editor
A
s I write this
column, I am
sitting at a café in
the East Village of
New York City. It is raining and I
am watching the droplets trickle
down a dilapidated window next
to me—seemingly random, infinite in their movements, impossible to track. I ended up here for
the summer because innocence is
something that is running out, and
new experience is something that
I now actively seek.
New experiences were plentiful during my own freshman year.
I’ll be honest: I took on classes
that were probably too hard and
cried when I didn’t earn the
straight A’s I’d expected. I entered
a prematurely serious relationship
with a graduating senior—and
earned a premature sense of worry about the real world. I rushed,
pledged and disaffiliated from
a sorority. I threw up in toilets
and got kicked out of a fraternity
house after falling down on a
dance floor (within my first week).
I changed my prospective major
from English to econ to PNP to
IPH to econ to English. I gained
15 pounds from a silent trifecta of
alcohol, late-night quesadillas and
sloth. I bonded with my freshman
floor over the things that one can
perhaps only bond over on freshman floors: vodka watermelons,
endless Guitar Hero, prank wars
and incessant gossip.
Looking back, I was
enthralled—excited that my parents would not be there to witness
my walk of shame, thrilled that
this university had allowed me to
take an upper-level class. Would I
do it differently if I could go back
to live my freshman year over
again? Probably.
But here’s the catch, an
important caveat that you may
already know, and if you don’t,
one that you will discover when
you arrive: These mistakes, which
you will certainly make—these
failed relationships and wrong
academic decisions and late-night
quesadillas—these are what will
shape you. Your most profound
truths will be found unexpect-
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6 STUDENT LIFE | FORUM
ORIENTATION ISSUE
Knowing when
Goals can’t be defined
to throw in the towel
in a dictionary
W
elcome to
college and
to the pages
of Student
Life, where we hope to find
you often. There will be
no shortage of friends and
relatives offering you advice
in the coming months, but
these columns provide advice
from those of us still immersed in college life. So set
some goals for yourself, and
remember to keep everything
in perspective.
With tons of AP credits,
or even with none, work your
schedule to take some courses just for fun. Every semester, take a course that seems
interesting or beneficial, even
if it doesn’t count toward
three different requirements.
Try a career-enhancing class
like public speaking, or even
a muscle-enhancing class like
weight training.
One semester, take 12
credits and then take a
language pass/fail, if you’ve
always been interested in
another language. You’ll get
more than 15 credits for the
semester, have only 4 graded
classes and learn another
language!
More importantly than
taking these suggestions,
however, is finding an ar-
rangement that works best for
you. Be adaptable; just because you’ve never dropped
a class in high school doesn’t
mean that you cannot, will
not or should not drop a class
here. Just keep your eyes,
ears and course book open
for alternatives.
Find a club or two that
interests you, and devote time
to that. Some people can be
in 40 different organizations
and manage quite fine, but to
explore all that clubs have to
offer, and to advance through
the leadership ranks, requires
commitment. In high school,
it was easy to be involved in
40 different activities, since
they mostly met during defined hours of the school day.
In college, days are defined
from when you wake up to
when, and if, you go to bed.
In between, the time spent
in class, doing work or being
involved is all at your discretion. Discern wisely and don’t
be afraid to re-prioritize.
This may be the first time
you’ll get over-involved or in
over your head with stuff to
do. Realize if that’s happening and adjust your schedule/
activities/amount of time
spent sleeping accordingly.
Take advantage of the
opportunities here. You’ll
hear a lot about opportunities in the coming months,
and that’s because there is
no shortage of them at Wash.
U., and not just academically.
I won’t explicitly encourage
you to cut class to attend an
Assembly Series speech or
other interesting event, but
take a step back occasionally
and evaluate the big picture.
A failed quiz, or even a B
in a class, will not ruin your
future.
Don’t feel the need to do
everything first semester. Of
course, pursue your passions from the start, but I’m
sure you will find that many
upperclassmen are not best
friends with their best friends
from first semester, and a lot
are involved in a completely
different set of activities than
at first. That’s fine, as long as
you’re doing what you love.
Aim to achieve what you
accomplish. Personally, I
came to college to expand
my circle of friends and
develop a social life. And I
tried harder on that front than
on the academic front. Now,
I’m still graduating on time,
and with friends! My goals
are accomplished. Now go
define, and accomplish yours!
Brian is a senior in the Olin
School of Business and the
associate editor. He can be
reached by e-mail at krigs
[email protected].
Aditya Sarvesh
Forum Editor
S
o you’ve just graduated
and are now looking
forward to enjoy a
long summer vacation
before starting your “exciting”
college career. Little do you know
that college changes a person, and
once you step out of that minor
league-high school gymnasium
clutching a framed piece of paper
and walk under the giant arches
in St. Louis, you officially enter
the realm of life.
I was once like you, happy to
be out high school, where things
didn’t seem as if they mattered
anymore. However, as summer
vacation dragged on while I
planted myself in front of the TV
with my friends, I felt a nagging
feeling that I should be doing
more before college devoured
my life. I pushed that feeling
aside and continued watching
endless James Bond marathons
on Spike. In retrospect, I realize
that college does take up much
of your time, and summers in
between semesters are meant for
productive things like research
and classes (have fun). I’m not
saying you have to do either of
those before you start your college experience, but do something
right now that will enrich your
life and make you a wholesome
individual. Travel, participate in
interesting local events—in short,
get out there and enjoy yourself
before college.
After summer will come
move-in and orientation week.
During this period of time, you
will see the true character of most
of your peers. Excited, noob-ish
freshmen will be doing either
“
However, as summer vacation dragged on while I
planted myself in front of
the TV with my friends, I
felt a nagging feeling that
I should be doing more
“
Brian Krigsher
Associate Editor
before college devoured
my life. I pushed that feeling aside and continued
watching endless James
Bond marathons on Spike.
of two things during orientation week: going to parties or
deciding whether to read ahead
for class or to go to a party. No
advice shall be given here, but
either option will result in painful
memories. After a few weeks,
real coursework and college
life set in, placing freshmen in
deer-in-headlights situations. For
me, high school work was never
a strenuous activity, but during
freshman year, I had to read over
a hundred pages every night just
to keep up.
However, the most crushing
blows come when you study for
nights in a row and still get that
B-minus on a test. Face it: In high
school, B-minuses came rarely
and those A’s were handed out
like candy. Throughout your college experience, there will always
be a class or a test that you will
struggle for and still not get the
grade you thought you’d get. At
that point, you must realize that
this is real life: And the road is
going to be bumpy.
You’ve heard the rest from the
endless sources of advice given
by those who are in college, so all
I need to say is this: Enjoy your
last truly free summer. I write
to you from summer classes at
Wash. U., and for those freshmen
who already started playing the
college game, my condolences.
There’s always summer after
senior year of college. This transition between high school and
college throws you head first into
life (albeit a somewhat sheltered
life), and you must learn to plant
your feet firmly when you land.
Aditya is a junior in Arts &
Sciences and a Forum editor.
He can be reached by e-mail at
[email protected].
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guise of experience.
Over time, you will learn
habitual independence: You will
learn to wake up for your 9 a.m.
lecture, to go to the gym, to talk
to your professors, to call your
mother without being nagged.
Your introductions will change
from a sheepish wave to a firm
handshake.
So much of the beauty of college consists in an infinite sense
of future lessons of experience—
this constant feeling that you do
not know, cannot know, where
you will be sitting in another
year. In the end, we are all like
these droplets that I cannot keep
track of—we are new and fresh
and fallen from somewhere, and
we will drip somewhere else
afterwards, attracting and repelling along the way, enthralled
by the experiences that come to
shape us.
Kate is a junior in Arts & Sciences and the senior Forum
editor. She can be reached by
e-mail at kmgaertner@gmail.
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7
Wash. U., the gay way
Laura Lane-Steele
President, Pride Alliance
A
s some of you
already know, and
all of you are going
to find out, Wash.
U. exists in a bubble. Wash. U.
and the surrounding area provide
much of what many students want
or desire, thereby limiting their
exposure to the greater St. Louis
area and culture. However, when
it comes to tolerance and attitudes
towards diversity, Wash. U. and
its students exist in a bubble as
well. Unlike the outside world,
where our liberal president won’t
back gay marriage, where people
can be fired for their actual or
perceived sexual orientation and
where it is not uncommon to hear
about the bashings and murders
of our non-heterosexual or gendervariant peers, many students at
Wash. U. consider the phrase
“that’s so gay” offensive and
derogatory.
There are many student organizations that cater to the needs of
students of all sexual orientations
and genders: Pride Alliance (the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual
student group), Safe Zones (a
peer education group) and the
Alternative Lifestyle Association
(ALA), to name just a few. Professors and peers create a classroom
environment where every nonviolent comment is tolerated and
respected. Couples of any gender
can walk around campus hand
and hand without fear. The only
thing not tolerated at Wash. U.—
by professors, administrators, and
students—is intolerance.
We must take advantage of the
four years we have to live in this
judgment-free world. It is easy to
slip into a sense of complacency
when we can be ourselves without
ridicule or criticism, and it is
easy to look around Wash. U. and
forget that this is not the case in
most other places in our country.
Violence and intolerance plague
our world, and not only against
LGBTQIA people. People are
discriminated against and even
murdered for their religious, racial
and political identities.
At Wash. U., we have the
unique chance to do something
about these problems. Join Pride
Alliance and protest anti-gay
legislation on the state house
steps. Join Safe Zones and teach
residential advisors and other
peers about LGBTQIA issues. It
is a waste to go through Wash.
U. just taking classes, jumping
through hoops and walking away
with a piece of paper without
taking full advantage of what this
university has to offer.
We have to take the opportunity we have here to work
toward making the world’s level
of tolerance mirror that of Wash.
U. We must use the advantages
and resources we have at Wash.
U. to work for the good of the
disempowered, marginalized
and oppressed. Get involved, volunteer, take classes that educate
you about the issues you care
about, and most importantly, care
about something. Get excited,
freshman—this will be an experience unlike any other.
Laura is a senior in Arts &
Sciences. She can be reached
by e-mail at lauralanesteele@
gmail.com.
Getting the least out of your college experience
S
o, you’ve settled
for Washington University in St. Louis.
Congrats. You
didn’t want to go to Georgetown anyway. Welcome, or
whatever. It’s typically the
job of someone in my position to offer advice on how
to “make the most” of your
college education.
Funny choice of words,
since, when I take stock of
our student body, I’d say if
anything we were working
hard to make the least of our
college educations. The happiest among us take no class
before 11 a.m. and fulfill
our Quantitative Analysis
requirements with courses
designed not to require
quantification or analysis,
classes with vaguely insulting
titles like “Stars and Galaxies” or “Dinosaurs.” We take
glassblowing, guitar lessons
and anything at the business
school to pimp out our GPAs
as if they were they point of
our education, and even that
effort taxes us greatly.
We were all once capable,
organized high-school grads
like you and now our idea
of fun involves a case of
Natural Light, a funnel, a
length of tube and some good
ol’ primeval chanting. So I
don’t really know what to
tell you if you want to make
the most of your time here.
You’re probably pre-med and
already better prepared to
meet the challenges of adult
life than I’ll ever be. I guess
I’ll just tell you the stuff I
wish people had told me back
when I was a freshman.
The student body:
You will never have to
associate with anyone from
your freshman floor ever
again if you so choose, so
feel free to treat them as a
long-running social experiment. Remember, it’s only as
awkward as you acknowledge
it to be. Also, be very delicate
when addressing the subject
of Israel, no matter how
egregious its human rights
violations may strike you.
The food:
At school it’s pretty
decent, but the meal point
system is kind of a rip-off.
At the end of the year you
will almost certainly have
a whole lot of extra meal
points or know someone who
does. These don’t carry over,
so you’ll lose any you don’t
“
“
Charlie Bohlen
Forum Editor
… if fumbling,
meaningless coitus
is your thing, you’re
at the right venue.
Dress accordingly.
He will not call you.
spend. I’ve heard you can
donate them to charity, but
more fun is to be had splurging on some expensive bottles
of wine at Ibby’s Bistro. I
recommend the Cakebread
Cellars Pinot Noir, which
is exorbitantly priced (but
then again, it’s not your real
money). When ordering out,
remember that all the “local”
pizza joints that deliver suck.
Pointers is tasteless and Imo’s
uses a greasy cheese substitute they call Provel, which
will coat your mouth with
an uncanny goo-like sensation, quite slick and deeply
unpleasant. Stick with Papa
John’s. St. Louis itself does
great frozen custard, decent
barbecue and passable Italian. As for more far-ranging
fare, eat at your own risk:
They put cream cheese in the
sushi. I’ll leave it at that.
St. Louis at large:
Explore the city, but don’t
get your hopes up. It was one
of the most economically
depressed cities in America
before this depression hit.
Then they sold Budweiser
to the Belgians. Adjust your
expectations accordingly.
Fake IDs:
Are essential. No buts
about it. There are a couple
of places on the landing that
are super strict about it, as
well as Blueberry Hill. Invest
in one that scans, otherwise
you’ll just end up having to
buy another one after your
crappy one gets confiscated.
You should always have a
second form of ID at the
ready, but that doesn’t mean
you should keep it in your
wallet. You’re liable to lose
your wallet or your purse at
some point, and if it ends up
with the campus cops, they
will go through it and give
you an instant fine. Don’t let
the hassle of getting a fake
turn you off to one. Without
it, you risk actually having
to look forward to those Frat
Row basement parties. That
reminds me...
Frat Row basement parties:
Are as hot crowded and
boring every time. They are a
yearly thing, and they do not
improve. Once is enough, perhaps too much. Guys, you’ll
be competing for hookups
with upperclassmen. Girls,
as freshmen, there is pretty
much a price on your head.
So if fumbling, meaningless
coitus is your thing, you’re at
the right venue. Dress accord-
ingly. He will not call you.
Illegal downloading:
The freshmen dorms have
encryption all over them,
which can make pirating
a chore until you move off
campus. However, many of
the classrooms’ and the entire
library’s wireless connections are to date unencrypted.
Do your downloading there,
but be careful: Unlike some
schools, Wash. U. does not
have your back on this if the
RIAA decides to sue you.
So there’s a taste of the
useful wisdom I’ve actually gained at this place, but
I’m learning all the time.
Like, did you know it’s a bad
idea to climb all the way up
Brookings because that’s
where they keep the tornado
sirens, which can deafen you
if you’re within 50 feet of
them? Neither did I.
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The college Politics, politics everywhere
experience
Kat Berger
President,
College Democrats
AJ Sundar
Forum Editor
P
ossibly the best
advice I can give
to you incoming
freshmen is this:
Forget everything. Until now,
you’ve likely looked at college as a place for development, growth and intellectual
achievement. I thought the
same way, but after only one
year I’ve realized that this is
completely false. Don’t get
me wrong—you will undergo
development, growth and
intellectual achievement, but
college itself is largely irrelevant to this process. Rather,
these characteristics grow
internally, in an environment
that happens to be that of
higher education.
Instead, my advice to you
is this: Enjoy it. Do what
you find fun, fulfilling and
fruitful. Join the clubs that interest you, study the subjects
that fascinate you and make
friends with those that mesh
with you. In other words:
Follow what comes naturally, and everything else will
fall into place. You develop
yourself over these next four
years, and you have complete
control over what you want to
do—unless you choose to give
it away.
When I first walked past
the arches of Wash. U., I had
the singular goal of getting
a 4.0 GPA and becoming a
successful professional in
the future. Paying 25 grand a
semester meant that I could
waste no second in becoming a proud affluent indi-
vidual that my parents could
be proud of. However, that
mentality soon dissolved as I
realized that I didn’t just want
to be an academic. I wanted
to hang out with my friends,
write for the newspaper (read:
shameless plug), build audio
amplifiers and see Phish live.
I was able to do all of the
above (except for Phish, as
their concert at The Pageant
was canceled two weeks before the show) and much more
because my environment
allowed me to do whatever
it was that I actually wanted
to do.
I’m still not quite sure
where I am in my development as a person. I’m not
really sure about what I want
to do with the future, and I
am perfectly comfortable in
that uncertainty. I know that
these four years are for experimentation and exploration
and that this uncertainty is
intrinsically valuable.
And so, from this vantage
point, I offer this: Do what
you love, and the rest will
come. You won’t be able to
predict what your life in college will be, and the journey
is so unbelievably different
for everyone that the famous
“college experience” doesn’t
really exist at all. The only
experience is your own, and
the responsibility to shape
and build this experience
belongs singularly with
yourself.
AJ is a sophomore in Arts &
[email protected].
W
elcome to
Wash. U.,
where politics
is like water:
never bottled up. From national,
to local, to university politics,
people rarely keep their opinions
to themselves and need very little
encouragement to shout them
from the rooftops, or at least from
the Student Life editorial pages.
Thank God.
I live for the banter, for the
dissent and dissension, as much
as the next political buff. I love
the formal debates on the same
scale as the earnest conversations
in line at Whispers. I cherish
the sight of College Democrats
and College Republicans flyers
hanging side by side like proud
flags on every vertical surface on
campus. Politics is an omnipresent force at this school: From the
classroom to the dorm room, from
The New York Times to Student
Life, we are a community of
diverse political ideas in the midst
of one of the great American
swing states. Is there any better
place to engage?
If, reading this, you find
yourself worrying that you may
not fit in with this level of political
fervor, simply ask yourself these
questions. Did you spend fall
2008 frenetically working for the
Obama or McCain campaigns?
Did you recently vote in your first
local election? Have you done
community service or raised
awareness for a cause? Have
you stood up for something you
believe in? Have you embraced
this country as your home, be it
temporarily or permanently?
You, my friend, are interested
in politics. It is the force that
drives your world, that has the
power to make your passions into
actions. So speak up and join up!
Wash. U. is resplendent with College Democrats, Republicans, and
Libertarians all dying to make
you a card-carrying member. If
you’re not interested in partisanship, join Green Action or Students for Choice, volunteer with
the Campus Y, run for Student
Union office or participate in any
of the millions of student groups
that pledge their time toward
political and community action.
As you begin your career here
at Wash. U., you will find yourself
besieged from all sides by your
fellow students waving brightly
colored fliers and extolling the
virtues of Group X and Club Y,
offering the various seductions
of pizza and candy and free pens
to draw you like so many moths
to the flame. At the same time,
your advisers, deans, parents,
residential advisors and various
well-meaning others will encourage you to pace yourself and not
over-schedule your first semester.
Eventually, you’re going to figure
out where you fit between these
extremes of activity and inactivity.
My only advice for you as you
embark on your time at this university is that you find something
that has meaning for you: Don’t
shy away from engagement, from
speaking out about your passions.
Whether you care to admit it
or not, you are interested in
politics—embrace it, engage with
it, and you won’t regret it.
Kat is a junior in Arts & Sciences. She can be reached by
e-mail at keberger@artsci.
wustl.edu.
Plan for spontaneity
Jeff Nelson
Student Body President
G
reetings, Class of
2013! We are excited to welcome
you to our community. You have learned a lot
during this past year’s college
application process. I am sure
that you have realized that applying to college is somewhat
formulaic and that success
generally hinges on following
a well-established set of rules
and best practices. High school
was mostly a staging ground
for your college application—
each class and extracurricular
was carefully chosen to increase your chances of getting
accepted to a school like Wash.
U. As you begin your freshman
year, you may be tempted to
approach your college experience in a similar fashion, but I
advise against this. I encourage you not to view these four
years as merely a means to any
particular end.
I was admitted to Wash. U.
intending to major in finance
while pursing a career in investment banking. During my
first semester I randomly took
a class in computer science and
really enjoyed it. Now, I am
on my way to graduating with
a degree in computer science
and philosophy. I also came to
Wash. U. planning to immediately get involved with student
government, but an unexpected
sequence of events allowed me
to gain leadership positions
with Washington University
Television and the Office of
Orientation instead.
As you can see, my time
as an undergraduate has been
characterized by a certain
degree of spontaneity—sometimes out of necessity, but most
often unintentionally. As I look
back, I tend to admire the laidback attitude that I exhibited
at times. In fact, I think my
spontaneity is the reason that
I have a diverse array of options for postgraduate pursuit
instead of a singular tract that
can be jeopardized by any one
decision I make.
Now, I’m not advising the
Class of 2013 to be careless.
Each of you should approach
your college experience with
the necessary thoughtful-
ness and prudence that has
characterized your journey to
Wash. U. But I do recommend
that you plan for spontaneity
by being curious, flexible and
open-minded.
Curiosity is a fundamental
aspect of learning. Come to
Wash. U. with a curiosity about
St. Louis, the people around
you, and the different activities
on campus. This curiosity will
greatly enhance what you learn
outside the classroom. Use the
MetroLink to travel to places
beyond Forest Park and the
Delmar Loop; talk to people
who don’t share aspects of your
background; join clubs and
activities that you did not join
in high school.
Be flexible as you explore.
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we had known
and you will want to cry. Divide
the room in two equal halves and
you will keep your roommate’s
sky-high sock piles away from
your meticulously color-coded
desk organizers.
Eve Samborn
Forum Editor
I
received a lot of advice before coming to college—my
friends, relatives, neighbor’s brother’s uncle’s best
friend’s girlfriend’s dogs all felt
the need to share their best words
of wisdom before I embarked
on this major life adventure.
Some of it was worthless, some
it was weird, and some of it was
priceless.
So when I was asked to join
2. Buy the smallest freshman
meal plan. Most freshmen end up
with tons of extra points at the end
of the year, and, even if you need
more, it’s cheaper to add them
later. Of course, feel free to ignore
this advice and make friends by
feeding upperclassmen.
3. Use the Writing Center,
Cornerstone, Career Center, tutors
in your residential college, professor’s office hours and all other
academic resources available to
you. There are a lot of people on
this campus who want to help you
get good grades and succeed.
“
I can assure you
that I am learning a
lot more in college
than simply the odd
lessons contained
above and those
4. Same goes for the nonacademic resources on campus.
Whether it’s your RA, Uncle
Joe’s, Student Health Services, a
religious leader or even a trusted
friend, don’t be afraid to ask for
help when you need it.
“
listed on my course
syllabi. It would do
little good, however,
to list those lessons
5. If you are really set on a
major after two semesters, declare
early and take advantage of the resulting advising and massive flood
of departmental e-mails about
upcoming events and internship
opportunities.
here.
the chorus of advice-givers,
I thought carefully about my
freshmen year and the lessons my
friends and I wish we had known
before it all began. Here is the list
of greatest hits:
6. Another thought about
majors—you only need one.
Given that most Wash. U. students
acquire majors almost as readily
as free T-shirts, I might be missing something here. I believe,
however, that in the real world,
your four extra majors will be
generally unnecessary.
1. If you are a neat freak and
your roommate is, well, not, resist
the urge to position your beds into
an L-shape. Your messy roommate’s stuff will magically expand into the center of your room
Our path
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7. When you stay up all night
writing a paper, do not go to sleep
until AFTER you turn it in. Trust
me on this one.
8. Frozen waffles are not really meant to be microwaved.
So that’s it. The best advice I
can give you. True, advice about
frozen waffles, furniture arrangements and major requirements
may not be particularly profound,
but it is the most useful advice
I’ve got.
I can assure you that I am
learning a lot more in college than
simply the odd lessons contained
above and those listed on my
course syllabi. It would do little
good, however, to list those lessons here.
That’s because one of the most
important lessons I am learning
is that my life will not and need
not follow the simple, straight line
I’ve tried to lay out for myself. No
matter how much good advice we
receive, we have to make a few of
our own mistakes.
All of the ink in the world will
not help you learn your alcohol
tolerance as well as one bad
hangover. Bold headlines about
the “Freshman 15” will not send
you to the gym as quickly as the
number on the scale over Thanksgiving weekend. Being in college
means having the freedom, safety
and responsibility to figure out
these life lessons for yourself.
So instead of life lessons,
I offer you a few wise tips and
wish you the best of luck. Enjoy
the ride.
Eve is a junior in Arts & Sciences and a Forum editor. She
can be reached by e-mail at
[email protected].
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Assistant Vice Chancellor
for Sustainability
D
ear Class of
2013,
Welcome to
Washington University in St. Louis! You are
embarking on your college
careers during a time with
great challenges and even
greater opportunity.
Some of the greatest challenges of the 21st century—
issues relating to energy, the
environment, and sustainability—are central parts of our
mission here at Washington
University in St. Louis. We
are moving quickly to transform our University into a
“Living Learning Laboratory”
that connects scholarship and
discovery directly to design
and management in order to
find sustainable solutions to
global challenges, to bring
rapid transformation to our
campus and society.
The active engagement and
participation of every member
of our community is crucial
to our success. To contribute
to our ongoing goals, we
recommend each of you start
with the following five steps
your first year at Washington
University:
1. Expand your education. Whether or not you
plan on pursuing a degree in
a field that will address the
environment, every school at
Wash. U. teaches courses or
conducts crucial research on
issues that are key to sustainability. We encourage you to
purposefully pursue at least
one course on these issues. In
addition, there are at least a
dozen student “green” groups
devoted to sustainability; you
can join them or become part
of the University’s Student
Green Council to apply
your coursework in ongoing
projects.
“
Some of the greatest challenges of the
21st century—issues
relating to energy,
the environment
and sustainability—
are central parts of
our mission here at
Washington University in St. Louis.
2. Participate in research.
Through our International
Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability, Wash. U. is leading
cutting-edge research in a
variety of energy, environment and sustainability fields.
We encourage you to attend
the Center’s distinguished
speaker series to learn from
experts in the field. We also
encourage you to actively
seek research internships
with the Office of Sustainability.
3. Green your lifestyle.
A key part of our campus
culture is learning how to
live well in our community.
5. Help shape our sustainability strategic plan. This
year, Wash. U. will be finalizing our first comprehensive
sustainability strategic plan.
Through orientation, campus
forums, speaker events and
our sustainability Web sites,
there will be multiple ways
for every member of our community to provide feedback
and ideas that will help us
become the national leaders
in sustainability.
If you are interested in our
work or are curious to learn
more about these opportunities and our efforts, please
visit http://sustain.wustl.edu
or contact me directly. I wish
you the best for a sustainable
future.
Matt Malten can be reached by
e-mail at [email protected].
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Religion
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Father Gary Braun
I
s there a place for religion
at Washington University?
Not officially, because the
charter prohibits supporting any particular religion. But
how do we account for the growing number of religious groups
over the last decade or the
extraordinary growth of groups
like the Catholic Student Center
over those same years? Mass
attendance has necessitated three
expansions of our chapel, which
includes students of all faiths and
none on any given Sunday. Religion at Wash. U. is on the rise,
and is frequently an object of
reflection and study and debate.
“
“
If religious groups
are to succeed at
Wash. U., it will be
because they respect
all students as they
come, of any faith or
none.
Perhaps this rise has to do
with the need we all have for
guidance, for coaching in the
often complicated and painful
world of relationships—arguably
the most important “school” at
Wash. U. We at the CSC define
our work at Wash. U. to be at the
service of helping all students
become more capable of giving
and receiving love. That is for us
the essence of God, the essence
of life itself.
Campus ministry can be a
place to go with your broken
and blessed lives, to believe in
something bigger than a mecentered life—some horizon
against which every day can be
lived out, a place where your
own personal story and the Great
Story can connect and lead to
transformation. A place to help
us remember we are not alone.
And a place to honor the desire
many feel to worship, to give
thanks, to pray.
From my perch across
Forsyth for the last 18 years, I
have seen that being religious
at Wash. U. can be a source of
great consternation and great
creativity, and my observations
have given me great hope for the
future of religion in the world. It
is religious illiteracy that hurts
people and can be dangerous
to the common good. Campus
ministries at Wash. U. work hard
to encourage greater understanding of one another. Together, we
seek to model the dialogue that
will always lead to the truth, the
truth I trust will set us free.
If religious groups are to
succeed at Wash. U., it will be
because they respect all students
as they come, of any faith or
none. It will be because our
faiths are open and engaging and
willing to be challenged, calling
us beyond ourselves and our own
agendas.
Can the practice of faith
help us, then, during our years
here? Clearly, yes. Because it
will challenge all of us to be less
selfish, because it will lead us to
be better citizens of the world.
It will encourage us to step
back and ask the Big Questions
like “What am I going to do
with my life?” and “How can I
contribute?” and “What is my
personal and our civic morality?” and questions like “What is
the relationship between wealth
and success and happiness?”
The practice of spirituality can,
undoubtedly, invigorate our
education.
Father Gary can be reached by
ORIENTATION ISSUE
Nurture the spirit
along with the mind
Rabbi Hershey Novack
Director, Chabad on
Campus
C
ongratulations on
your decision to
attend Washington
University. You are
about to embark on four of the
best years of your life!
Washington University
is a great place to be Jewish.
Last summer, Jewish Living
identified the campus area as
the “epicenter” of one of the
top 10 Jewish communities
in America, describing Wash.
U. as “an elite school popular
with Jews from around the
country, known for its kosher
kitchen and strong Hillel and
Chabad programs with plenty
of activities.”
While you experience the
breadth of college life, remember that the soul and spirit
need to be developed as well
as the mind. Do things that
add meaning to your life. Our
university, while embracing
the diversity of religious life
on campus, identifies itself as
non-religious.
To have an active religious
life during your time here, you
must make the choice to get
involved. Great programs and,
more importantly, great people
are available to you to help
enrich your college experience
with the vibrancy and diversity
of campus spiritual life.
I know that many students
who arrive at Wash. U. after
years of religious school are
disinterested with religious
life. For many in the Jewish community, connecting
with Jewish life may not be a
priority in your college plan.
I would like to challenge
you to prove yourself wrong.
Discover that becoming more
engaged with your faith and
NELSON from page 8
Focus not on the destination,
but on the journey you want
to experience. Fight any urges
to plan your entire four years
or decree what your life will
be like after college. Taking
things a day at a time will
give you the flexibility to take
advantage of opportunities that
will greatly enhance any destination you eventually reach.
Curiosity and flexibility are
only beneficial with an open
mind. Try not to hold on to
rigid views about yourself and
your future that were developed in high school. Many
students come to Wash. U.
intending to pursue one area
of study and end up pursuing
something else. If this happens
to you, it is OK. In fact, it will
be a good thing! There are so
many opportunities, many of
which you have yet to learn
about. You will only be in a
position to consider them if
you have an open mind.
So throw all of your
assumptions out the window. Come prepared to take
advantage of opportunities
that you probably have not
even considered. Your first few
weeks will be an exciting time,
and I hope you get off to a
good start by embracing a little
bit of spontaneity!
sense of community can be an
exciting and enriching experience.
At Chabad on Campus, we
strive to create programming
that high accessible and meaningful for students of all backgrounds and levels of religious
observance. Highlights of our
programs include organizing
Israel trips for many hundreds
of Wash. U. students through
Mayanot’s Birthright Israel
program.
We host family-style
Shabbat dinners each week,
which attract a diverse array of
students and faculty. And, we
focus on Jewish learning and
teaching Torah, a rich compendium of wisdom for life. Our
affiliated student groups offer
substantive exciting programs
and leadership opportunities.
While the Chabad movement is rooted in the fertile
soil of Jewish tradition, a cur-
sory visit will demonstrate that
the students who choose to
participate are from a diverse
spectrum of backgrounds and
affiliations and have widely
varying world views.
Dozens of other groups
offer services for their respective communities within a
framework of mutual respect.
I have helped Muslim students
at Washington University
advocate for Halal-approved
foods to be made available in
the food stores. Differences
in religion demonstrate the
potential to bring people together. Allowing your spiritual
life to develop during these
next four years will help not
only you, but those around
you.
Rabbi Hershey Novack can be
reached by e-mail at rabbi@
chabadoncampus.org.
Read more by the Student Life staff at
http://www.studlife.com.
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Not once did I think that I’d be
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Hannah Schwartz
TV Editor
O
ne of the
best rewards
of college
life is the
graduation
from sitting through your
high school’s rendition of
“Bye Bye Birdie” to taking
part in the variety of arts and
entertainment that Wash. U.
has to offer. From publications such as Spires, Eleven
Magazine, Drop Knowledge
and, of course, Student Life,
to performances like W.I.L.D.,
the Lunar New Year Festival,
Carnaval, WU Dance Theatre
and Diwali, there is something
for everyone to enjoy. Here is a
preview of what is to come...
Cici Coquillette
Music Editor
Gargoyle: The tiny
on-campus cafeteria venue
features some of the best
musicians around: From the
infamous Girl Talk show to
Animal Collective to Zach
Galifianakis, you can get a
front row spot for free or at an
affordable price.
Kemper: Are you in the
mood for a museum but don’t
want to go all the way to Forest Park? Just take the shuttle
straight to the Mildred Lane
Kemper Art Museum, and
enjoy the permanent collection
featuring pieces by Willem
de Kooning and Max Ernst,
among others. Additionally,
the few exhibitions each year
feature widely diverse topics
and host free opening parties.
Assembly Series: The
Assembly Series Committee
works incredibly hard to bring
important and diverse speakers
to campus every week of the
school year: Over the years
we’ve had Seth McFarlane
(creator of “Family Guy”), Bill
Nye the Science Guy, Peter
Sarsgaard and the controversial Alberto Gonzales—as well
as Madeleine Albright and
Maya Angelou.
Diwali: Ashoka, the South
Asian student association,
collaborates with the community to organize and create
an enormous, amazing celebra-
tion of Diwali, the Festival of
Lights. Hundreds participate,
and hundreds more camp out
in line just for tickets to the
show—evidence enough that
it’s definitely worth checking
out.
Jazz at Holmes: Every
Thursday night, renowned
jazz musicians perform as
listeners lounge, eat and enjoy
the atmosphere. The intimate
concert is also a great, relaxing place for homework and
reading.
Spires: The intercollegiate
literary journal is based at
Wash. U., bringing fiction,
poetry and art from many other
universities and providing
a creative outlet unique at
the University. Anyone and
everyone are free to submit
their work.
A cappella: There is such
a wide variety of groups: allmale, all-female, coed, even
one that sings only Disney
songs! Everyone is sure to be
able find their favorite. The
Amateurs had the opportunity to sing their arrangement
of “Love Song” for Sara
Bareilles, and The Mosaic
Whispers earned a spot opening for Ben Folds in one of his
concerts!
types of songs to blast on your freshman floor to make friends/establish
your place in the musical hierarchy
(you hipster, you) 8. Blink 182 reunion
W
elcome to Wash U, incoming freshman! You are about to be thrown
into a pressure cooker of arts and
entertainment, surrounded by culture
24/7. And some of that taste is more highly valued than
others. Make sure you grab your place in the musical hierarchy early on with these simple playlist suggestions:
9. Songs with related dances.
10. Any of the bands the Gargoyle
has booked.
supernatural taste in bands—just check the lineup
for Lollapalooza: Five of the bands played Gargoyle
shows last year alone—guarantees you some major
bonus points.
The Gargoyle, Wash. U.’s on-campus venue, boasts
a number of great shows throughout the year. Their
The “Single Ladies” dance, Soulja Boy,
Stanky Leg, *hell*, even the “Macarena.” Getting
everyone up and moving is a great way to get to
know people.
There’s something about Blink 182 that takes us back
to sixth grade sans Ritalin. Their reunion tour has been
cause for great excitement, which is always an easy way
into the musical hierarchy. Make sure to check them out
in St. Louis on Sept. 3.
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id you somehow find time between General
Chemistry and Writing 1 to watch TV and catch
a good preview? Have you been counting down
the days until the new “Twilight” movie comes
out? (Note: If so, I’m judging you.) Heard that your favorite
obscure indie band was coming to The Pageant, but have
no idea what that means? Here is your guide to movie and
music venues all over St. Louis, most of which you can get to
without driving. All you have to do is walk or take St. Louis’
fine public transportation system (free, thanks to your magical
U-Pass). And I’ve oftentimes found that a trip on Metro can be
just as entertaining as your destination.
MetroLink and MetroBus routes and timetables can be
found at http://www.metrostlouis.org.
The Tivoli
When you step into the Tivoli, you step back in time,
back to when going to the movies was an event, and the
movie theater was just as important as the movie being shown
(because, back then, people would line up to see elephants get
electrocuted). Built in 1924 and located right on the Delmar
Loop, this theater, with three viewing screens, mostly shows
foreign and independent films. And every Halloween you
can put on (or take off) your costume and trek to the Tivoli,
as it has a midnight screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture
Show,” where you will be sure to find yourself in a situation
that’s equal parts entertaining and mentally scarring.
The theater is a nice walk from campus, and with all the
restaurants on the Loop, you can get dinner before the movie
or dessert after. If you’re walking from campus, just take a
right at Blueberry Hill.
The Esquire
The Galleria 6
The Esquire is also a short walk from campus and located
at the corner of Clayton Road and Big Bend Boulevard, right
by the main corporate building for St. Louis Bread Co.—
known to the rest of the world as Panera Bread. The Esquire
shows new, mainstream films.
This theater is conveniently located downstairs by the food court in the St. Louis
Galleria, which is right off the Brentwood MetroLink stop. I wasn’t used to paying
less than $10 for a movie after 6 p.m., but here, students pay $6 all the time. The theaters are average sized and the seats recline. And, if you’re afraid your movie is going
to be sold out, you can just get there early because you are in a mall. My biggest
complaint is there is not trivia before the movie starts, but instead, you get advertise-
for parents
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college
top movies
C i c i C o q u i l l e t t e , M u s i c Ed i t o r
The Pageant
The Pageant is the closest major venue to campus. It’s conveniently located on the Loop, east of Skinker Boulevard. It has
shows almost every night, including a variety of major national
acts. The 1,500-person venue is set up like a much smaller club
with a very intimate feel. Most shows are reasonably priced,
especially general admission tickets. Check out http://www.
thepageant.com/calendar.html for upcoming events.
Gargoyle
Wash. U.’s very own on-campus venue, the Gargoyle is
located on the bottom floor of Mallinckrodt. The student-run
committee books local and national acts, and most shows are
free with your Wash. U. ID. This past year, the Gargoyle hosted
Wolf Parade, Los Campesinos!, No Age, Ratatat and Cut Copy,
to name a few. Be sure to take advantage of this hot spot on
campus.
Billiken Club
The Billiken Club is Saint Louis University’s (SLU)
equivalent of the Gargoyle. It’s a bit further than other venues,
but gives you a chance to put your U-Pass to use. Take the
MetroLink to Grand and walk about 10 minutes to SLU’s
Busch Student Center. Recent shows include So Many Dynamos, William Fitzsimmons, and Junior Boys. Upcoming shows
have yet to be posted, but keep checking http://thebillikenclub.
wordpress.com.
Pop’s
Many of the larger acts that come through St. Louis end up
at Pop’s, one of the largest venues in the St. Louis area. Located
at 401 Monsanto Ave in Sauget, Ill., the trek out to Pop’s is long
but worth it. Getting there by public transportation can be a
little spotty, so look into hitching a ride or renting a WeCar.
I
endured hours and hours of movie watching and bags of
popcorn all in the name of the pure scientific research it took
to compile this article. So, start thinking of what a drum roll
sounds like. Do you hear it? Good, because I am now going to
present the definitive list of the best college movies of all time.
(And, if for some reason you disagree, just check out the officiallooking chart I made with categories I arbitrarily decided upon. You
can’t argue with a chart.)
5
“Accepted” (2006)
4
“Back to School” (1986)
After their roles in “Accepted,” Jonah Hill went on to star
in “Superbad,” Blake Lively took her talents to “Gossip Girl,” and
Justin Long, well, he’s in those Mac commercials. Because he is
afraid to tell his parents about getting rejected from every school he
applied to, Bartleby (Long) creates a fake college Web site for the
South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.), and pretends to
have been accepted there. But then, rejected students from all over
apply to S.H.I.T., and through a computer malfunction, are accepted.
Eventually the whole scheme unravels, they end up in court, and
Bartleby gives a heartfelt speech about the merits of alternative forms
of education. And even though he gets away with this, I do not suggest leasing an old, rundown asylum, hiring Lewis Black as a dean
and starting your own university at the age of 18.
In this hilarious film, Rodney Dangerfield plays a wealthy
businessman (he owns a chain of “Tall and Fat” stores) before deciding to go back to school after visiting his son, Gordon, in college.
Dangerfield somehow worked most of his stand-up routine into the
dialogue of this movie: “I think I’m attracted to teachers. Yeah, I took
out an English teacher. That didn’t work out at all. I sent her a love
letter...She corrected it!” And, if that’s not enough reason to watch,
Robert Downey Jr. appears in one of his earliest roles as Gordon’s
anarchist roommate clad in a pirate shirt, parachute pants and a trench
coat with blue and maroon streaked hair. The film culminates in a
diving competition, in which Dangerfield—and by Dangerfield I
mean a horrendously obvious body double—performs the dangerous Triple Lindy. You’ll be a pretty satisfied viewer as you watch the
credits fittingly roll to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect.”
3
“Old School” (2003)
2
“Revenge of the Nerds” (1984)
Remember when going to a movie starring Will Ferrell and
Vince Vaughn automatically meant “Lizzing”? (Note: If you get this
reference, please write for us.) No? Well, it has been a while. But,
throw in that “Old School” DVD, watch Ferrell, Vaughn and Luke
Wilson start a fraternity and take on Jeremy Piven, and laugh so hard
you whiz for the better part of 90 minutes. And, with the help of this
film, Will Ferrell became one of the most quoted cultural texts in
history—second only to the Bible. Yup, I’m pretty sure it goes God,
Will Ferrell and then Shakespeare. I have a chart backing this up
somewhere...
When the Alpha Betas accidentally burn down their house,
its brothers take over the freshman dorms forcing all the other residents, which include the nerds, to live in gym.. After they get rejected
from every fraternities and become fed up with stray basketballs
interrupting their chess games, Louis, Gilbert, Poindexter, Booger,
and Takashi petition and are unwillingly accepted into a national, and
historically African American fraternity: Lambda Lambda Lambda.
But, after they still don’t gain any respect, the Tri-Lambs realize
they have to relinquish the Alpha Betas control of the Greek Council
by winning the Greek Games. And, they do so with a musical act
so professional, so enthralling, so ’80s, it puts the Alpha Betas’
skit to shame. Check out the awesome, original version at http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx-g26tjFFM, or a hilarious, updated,
animated homage to this great movie scene at http://www.hulu.com/
watch/73581/family-guy-talent-show.
“Animal House” (1978)
The first and the best, “Animal House” introduced us to toga
parties, sweatshirts that say COLLEGE and Kevin Bacon. Animal
House has made it on two of the American Film Institute’s Top 100
lists and into the National Film Registry. Harold Ramis (arguably
Wash. U.’s most notable alum—because fame and celebrity trump
Nobel Prize every time) co-wrote the script and based some of the
movie on his experiences at our own Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. More
importantly, though, “Animal House” imparts one of life’s hardest
lessons: If life hands you lemons, do you just give up? No. You invite
your favorite band over, grab some bed sheets and beer, and throw a
blowout.
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Bears finish fourth at nationals in record-setting season
Josh Goldman
Managing Editor
Though the Washington University men’s tennis team failed
to defend the Division III nation-
al title, the 2008-2009 season
was a record setter for the Bears.
The team captured its first
University Athletic Association
title on April 17 with a 5-4 win
over rival Emory, ending a 19-
Charlie Cutler follows through a backhand in the NCAA
quarterfinal against Gustavus Adolphus College. The Bears won
the match 5-3 to reach the tournament semifinal.
year streak of conference titles
for the Eagles. The Bears also
ran the table for a school-record
19-match winning streak, took
second at the national indoor
championships and finished
fourth at the 2009 NCAA Division III National Championship.
“Those
accomplishments
give us confidence and experience in those big situations that
other teams may not have. But as
we saw this year, even teams that
are new to the tournament, such
as Amherst, can surprise everyone,” said Max Woods, a rising
junior.
The Red and Green entered
the NCAA tournament as the
No. 1 overall seed and blew past
Carthage College and DePauw
University without dropping a
match at the Tao Tennis Center. The team then traveled to
Claremont, Calif., for the round
of eight. After a 5-3 win over
Gustavus Adolphus College, the
Bears met their match against
Amherst College.
Top singles player John
Watts won at third doubles with
Nirmal Choradia 8-1 and then
at first singles 6-1, 6-2, but the
Bears would drop the remaining
matches to the Lord Jeffs.
The rematch with Emory in
the third-place match proved no
better, as the Eagles avenged a
conference loss with a 5-3 victory. Watts won both of his
matches and Charlie Cutler and
Chris Hoeland took first doubles.
Emory rallied from the early 1-2
deficit by winning four of five
completed singles matches to
take third place.
“Fourth place was disappointing. However, Amherst
played amazing in the semifinals, and we can’t be dwelling
on that match when the season
starts anew,” Woods said.
“It was a new position for
the program to be in [as] the top
seed heading into nationals. I
definitely feel everybody learned
something about themselves and
the program in order to improve
upon it next time around,” Head
Coach Roger Follmer said.
The Wash. U.-Emory matchup featured the top two teams in
the nation, and Follmer said he
believes the Bears ended their
season with a loss to the best
team in the Division III even
though the University of California, Santa Cruz won the national
title.
“No disrespect to Santa
Cruz; but if Emory learned
how to play better doubles at
some point this past spring, they
would have been in the final. In
our case, we just didn’t play up
to our signature standard level
of doubles during the final eight
portion of the NCAA Tournament,” Follmer said. “I feel that
we can learn from Santa Cruz
and the urgency that they played
doubles with for next spring to
get our team in position to capture another team title.”
Despite the 0-2 finish, the
2009 graduating class leaves a
legacy unprecedented in Wash.
U. tennis. Aside from the team’s
accomplishments,
Hoeland
graduates as the all-time leader
in doubles wins and a two-time
All-American in doubles. Cutler was named an All-American
three times in doubles and twice
in singles, and all six seniors
graduated with career winning
percentages over .500.
For Follmer, the legacy left
behind by Cutler, Hoeland,
Choradia, Trevis Bowman, Eric
Pollak and Mark Partridge goes
beyond career numbers.
“I am so proud of the legacy
that the graduating seniors left
for the WU men’s tennis program. WU tennis history was
truly written in their seasons on
the Danforth campus…It will
be big shoes our returning players will be filling without question,” Follmer said. “However,
I feel that the seniors taught the
underclassmen just what it takes
to play with the best in D-III.
Now it is just up to them to put
in the time and make the necessary sacrifices to keep expanding
upon the legacy.”
The 2009-2010 season tentatively begins on Sept. 18 with
the three-day Wash. U. Invitational. For the second year in the
row, the Bears will then host the
2009 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Fall Regional Tennis
Championships on Sept. 25-28 at
the Tao and Dwight Davis tennis
centers.
The 411 on Wash. U. sports Professional sports teams
Johann Qua Hiansen
Senior Sports Editor
One national championship. Four top-five finishes.
Seven top-10 finishes. Fifteen
teams in NCAA action and
nine University Athletic Association championships.
That's just one school year
in Washington University
athletics and the 2008-2009
year. What do students new to
Wash. U. need to know about
their college's sports?
There's a lot to brag about
with an athletic program that's
ranked 4th in all of NCAA
Division III, according to
the 2009 Learfield Directors'
Cup, and won 16 national
championships.
The men’s basketball team
will open play in the winter
looking for a third straight
national championship, while
the women's basketball team
will look to avenge a loss
in last season’s NCAA title
game.
Men's swimming & diving
had a seventh-place performance at the national championships as junior Alex Beyer
earned an individual championship in the 400-yard individual medley. The men’s tennis team and women’s track
and field teams also placed
fourth and fifth, respectively.
Both the women's soccer and
volleyball teams also made
runs deep into the NCAA
tournament last season.
For information on all 17
varsity programs, check out
the University’s official sports
Web site at http://bearsports.
wustl.edu and in Student Life
throughout the year.
Here are a few tips for becoming the ultimate Wash. U.
sports fan:
The official mascot of
Wash. U. is the Bear.
The official school colors
are red and green.
You can join the fan group,
Red Alert, and be eligible for
contests, free food and free
shirts.
The venues for most sports
are on campus at the Athletic
Complex and Francis Field.
All games are free for
Wash. U. students with their
student IDs.
Most importantly, athletes
perform better with more fans
in the stands. Athletes at the
Division III level don't receive
athletic scholarships and are
floormates, classmates and
friends.
Show off your Wash. U.
pride as volleyball, men's soccer and women's soccer begin
their national championship
campaigns on Sept. 1. Football kicks off and cross country hosts a meet on Sept. 5.
Students show off their school spirit at the Bushyhead Track. Red
Alert gives out free pizza to students at big games.
thrive in St. Louis region
Alex Dropkin
Sports Editor
With Busch Stadium, the
Edward Jones Dome and the
Scottrade Center only short
MetroLink rides away from
campus, there's never an inopportune time to catch a sports
game in St. Louis.
The Cardinals
Often rated as one of the
best baseball cities in America, St. Louisans love the Cardinals. What's not to love?
The St. Louis Cardinals are
second, only to the Yankees,
in number of World Series
championships (10), with the
latest coming in 2006. Firstbaseman Albert Pujols, one
of this era's greatest hitters,
keeps his team in contention
year after year.
Games to see: The Cardinals' last home game of the
2009 regular season is Sept.
20, so get your tickets fast.
The Cardinals face the Chicago Cubs in a three-must-seegame series. The bitter rivalry
began in 1885.
How to get there: Take the
MetroLink toward Shiloh-
Scott and get off at the Stadium station.
The Rams
While the St. Louis Rams
have had very little success
of late, there is never a bad
reason to head downtown for
a football game. Tickets are
cheap and you just might get
to see your favorite team beat
up on the Rams. Running back
Steven Jackson is one of the
NFL's best, and the Rams selected offensive tackle Jason
Smith second overall in the
2009 draft, hoping to return
to the success of early this decade.
Games to see: The Rams
take on the defending NFC
champion and former St. Louis squad, the Arizona Cardinals, in their home opener on
Sept. 27.
MetroLink towards ShilohScott and get off at the Convention Center stop. The Edward Jones Dome is only a
two-block walk from the station.
The Blues
After making the playoffs
for the first time in five years
in 2009, the St. Louis Blues
are on the rise. Full of young
talent combined with the veteran experience of goaltender
Chris Mason and left winger
Keith Tkachuk, the Blues are
looking to do some damage in
the 2009-2010 season.
Games to see: The Western Conference's Central Division was one of the best in
the NHL, with nearly all five
teams making the playoffs.
Whether it is the Detroit
Red Wings or the Nashville
Predators, the Scottrade Center will be alive.
MetroLink towards ShilohScott and get off at the Civic
Center stop. The Scottrade
Center is only a few steps
away from the station.
Even though the St. Louis
Hawks (the city's professional
basketball team) relocated to
Atlanta in 1968, basketball
and sports fans worry not. The
Cardinals, Rams, and Blues
provide enough easy, fun and
accessible entertainment to
last the entire year. Besides,
you can always watch the
Wash. U. Bears.
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CLUB SPORTS
The Wash. U. club scene
Becky Chanis
Sports Editor
As incoming freshmen,
many of you have questions
about the Wash. U. club scene.
Club sports, that is.
Undoubtedly, most of you
know that Washington University in St. Louis students
are not widely renowned for
their physical prowess. Still,
Wash. U. offers a plethora of
sports programs for all students, athletically inclined or
not.
In addition to its varsity
sports, the University boasts
36 club teams, each unique
from the others. There are
also more than 50 intramural
teams, which vary in degrees
of seriousness and range from
arm wrestling, inner-tube water polo and kickball to soccer
and cross country.
Clearly, there are other options for students besides varsity sports. And there are a lot
of advantages.
One such benefit is that
many club teams are less demanding than their varsity
counterparts, thus allowing
students to competitively
pursue their love of a sport
according to their own limits
and desires.
More importantly, such
flexibility allows for students
to explore other interests,
according to rising junior
Stephanie Dusek, captain of
women’s lacrosse.
“A concern that many varsity athletes I have spoken
with have is the question of
life after college: Have they
missed out on other opportunities the school could have
provided for them had they
had more time to pursue other
areas outside of athletics?”
Dusek wrote in an e-mail.
“Club sports offers the transition from being told what to
do by hired authority figures
to choosing by your own merit
what kind of a role athletics
will play in your life.”
Moreover, club sports have
many of the same benefits
as varsity sports. Besides a
healthy, active lifestyle, they
offer “an opportunity to compete and all of the things that
go along with training for
competition. The development
of leadership skills, team
building, motivation to be
successful, improving one’s
personal abilities through focused effort,” said Cameron
Carter, coach of Wash. U.’s
club rowing team.
These benefits can come
hand in hand with achievement. Club team results are
mixed, but the naturally ambitious nature of Wash. U.’s
overachieving student body often shines through. For many
teams, “the forum is highly
competitive because you have
a bunch of motivated, highachieving individuals putting
their time into something they
care about,” graduate student
Peter Boumgarden, president
of the Triathlon Club, wrote
in an e-mail.
For example, the Wash.
U. Women’s Ultimate team
(WUWU) made the Ultimate
Players Association College
Women’s Championships this
year, placing 17th. The Wash.
U. men’s crew team placed
second at the American Collegiate Rowing Association
Championships in the Men’s
Varsity Lightweight 8+. The
Wash. U. men’s lacrosse team
missed the playoffs by a technicality. And the list goes on.
But there’s a drawback to
the flexibility of club sports.
TASHA PARMAN | WUWU
The Wash. U. Women’s Ultimate team took 17th place in the country last season.
“A value that women’s lacrosse holds to is that academics come first for our players,”
Dusek wrote. “This usually
leads to a less stressful environment on the field because
we are not holding them there
while they are worried about
other school related obligations. The downside is that
practices are not always as efficient and effective as varsity
sports.”
Thus the competitiveness
of a team depends on the individuals and the sport. For
many, competition is not the
point. Instead, pure enjoyment
of sport and a chance to spend
time with friends may be all
the reasons necessary. At the
heart of any club team is “the
same thing that makes a varsity sport worthwhile...Loving
the sport, loving being on a
team, loving staying in shape,
loving being competitive, loving having a place to go every
day,” rising senior Ruth Mandelbaum, a member of Wash.
U. crew, wrote in an e-mail.
It seems that all club
teams, big or small and competitive or not, are based on
the ideas of enjoyment and
self-improvement. With so
many options, every Wash. U.
student can find a home on a
team.
“The beauty of club teams,”
Carter said, “is that the level
of commitment is determined
by the culture of the particular
club at any given time...[If] a
club decides that they want to
take on intercollegiate competition, they need to ask themselves if they are willing to
put in the same effort as their
competitors. Sports may not
be about winning and losing
but it always should be about
doing your best and becoming
better.”
NCAA spring
championship results
Baseball
May 16: NCAA Regional
against Carthage College
L, 21-3
Final Record: 25-12, 3-3 UAA
Softball
May 10: Regional Final
against Webster University
L, 7-2
Men’s tennis
May 21: Consolation Final
against Emory University
L, 5-3
Fourth-place finish overall
Women’s tennis
May 9: NCAA Second Round
against DePauw University
L, 5-4
Track & field
May 21-23: National Championships
Men’s Team: T-44th/81
Women’s Team: 5th/70
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cont.
from
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7. Queen/Journey (great singalong songs).
You know how it is—there are certain songs that
just bring people together. “Bohemian Rhapsody”
and “Don’t Stop Believing” are the epitome of bonding songs.
6. A cappella songs
You are entering a rare stage of your life where
everyone seems to like it. Don’t let these four to seven
years go to waste.
5. Songs from summer festivals
Summer is a great time for music festivals—
Bonaroo, Coachella, Summerfest, Pitchfork and
Lollapalooza, to name a few. If you had the chance to
get to any one of these, it’s an awesome conversation
starter. Everyone loves a good concert story. Even if
you couldn’t make it to one of the festivals, you can
still read the reviews and fake it!
4. Vinyl
In the pantheon of music, vinyl is king. The
dedication it takes to actually maintain a record player
at school, as well as to amass the vinyl collection,
speaks to a profound love of music. Set that needle
con t i n u e d f r o m pg. 12
Chase Park Plaza Cinemas
down and watch the accolades roll in. (Shameless
plug: StudLife runs a weekly blog called “Rare Finds
at Vintage Vinyl.” If that’s your speed, check it out
online.)
3. Disney songs
College students love Disney songs. It’s pretty
much an irrefutable fact. Also, there’s nothing quite
like singing, “I’ll Make a Man Out of You,” in a
group of people you barely know. Instant friendship,
I guarantee it.
2. Girl Talk
guide
Greg Gillis’ infectious mashups are almost
universally loved and are sure to garner a high place
in the musical hierarchy. Bonus points for spreading
the Girl Talk Tasering story that occurred on campus
long before your time here. Just ask an upperclassman about it.
1. In the immortal words of T.I.,
whatever you like.
College is a place to assert yourself. Want to
listen to the Jonas Brothers nonstop? Go right ahead.
Chances are you’ll find people with similar interests
no matter what your tastes are.
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This is my favorite movie theater—located in the hip niche of St. Louis known as the Central West End. My friends and I usually go to the movies
and then get dessert and coffee at a quirky café after. The five theaters themselves are cozy and adorable, with ornate, hand-painted walls. There is
stadium seating and the seats recline. If you’re lucky, you’ll get to watch the manager as he doubles as an organ player before the movie starts. And as
you leave the theater, they give you free candy!
To get to Chase Park Plaza, take the MetroLink to the Central West End stop, taking a right out of the station. Walk about four blocks and take a
right on Lindell Boulevard.
Check out
The Moolah Theatre & Lounge
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The Moolah is an amazingly weird place. It is literally a large living room with couches set up sporadically in front of a movie screen. There are
typical movie theater seats too, but the couches are the reason you go to the Moolah. The theater shows mainstream movies during the day. But the
best is when you go there at midnight to see offbeat cult films like “The Warriors,” “Labyrinth” and “The Big Lebowski.”
To get to the Moolah, you can walk a little more than a mile from the Central West End MetroLink stop. Just take a left on Lindell Boulevard and
you’ll eventually reach the theater. Or, you can take the WUSTL Gold bus from Mallinckrodt Center to the Central West End bus station. Then take
the 92 or 93 MetroBus from the station and get off on Vandeventer Avenue.
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It’s not always easy to get in and out of lines when grabbing a bite to
eat in between classes. So we have started a new online service in
which you can place an order, in advance, and choose your time of
pick-up! And as always, the food will be made fresh to order.
“Good to Go” Pre-Packs:
To offer you more health conscious choices, we have created
a pre-pack line in which every entrée is 800 calories or less.
August 20th: Stop by for a refreshment at
freshman move-in. Our red balloons will be
tied to our table.
August 26th: Pick up the first regular issue
of Student Life on your way to your first day
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Bio Diesel Program:
We are converting our fry oil into bio diesel fuel for the
use of our commissary delivery truck on campus. The truck
will display our new bio diesel logo.
Gluten-Free & Kosher Programs:
We are introducing two new lines of pre-packs; Kosher and
Gluten-Free. They will be clearly marked with the symbols
shown here, and can be purchased in our cafés on campus.
Other News:
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Cookies & Milk (served for $1 every Wednesday at select cafés) • Farmer’s Markets (look for more
opportunities to purchase local products) • author & nutritionist, Mollie Katzen will visit Wash U on
October 6th (you are invited to attend her presentation and book signing) • look for Iron Chef competitions
in the Fall & Spring • Healthy Cooking Demo (live chef demonstration; how to make delicious, healthy food)
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1. The Moolah
Icebreakers
Freshman Orientation is famous for one thing—icebreakers. New students on any college
campus can always expect a lot of these fun-filled activities during their first week. Luckily, at
Washington University, most of them are actually fun. But if you’re looking for a change of pace,
you can always gather together a group of people from your freshman floor and plan your own
icebreakers. Check out some of these well-known St. Louis venues where you can easily have fun
in groups and get to know fellow students without any awkward silences or forced conversations.
5. Forest Park
Forest Park is located directly across the street from Brookings Hall and is one of the largest urban
parks in America (even bigger than New York’s Central Park). This is not your typical park with only
trees, ponds and grassy fields. Of course, it has all three of these, but visitors can also see some of St.
Louis’ landmarks (all free), such as the majestic St. Louis Art Museum, located on top of Art Hill.
Stand outside the museum and take in the breathtaking view of the park, or wander the museum and see
works from some of the world’s most famous artists.
You can stop by the St. Louis History Museum or the St. Louis Science Center and Planetarium, but
the zoo is definitely a must-see. It’s bigger than you think, so stop at the entrance and pick up a map.
The zoo features hundreds of animal exhibits, from ferocious tigers, jaguars and mountain lions to an
entire hall of butterflies.
Take some friends, a picnic lunch and a Frisbee to spend quality time lounging on the fields or navigate your way through the various museums. Either way, you’re sure to have fun and get to know one
of the best entertainment venues in St. Louis.
6. Pi
Located right on the loop, this famous St. Louis pizzeria is perfect for big groups. Stop by for
dinner and sit outside, across the street from the Pageant Theatre, where you can do some great
people-watching. This Chicago-style deep-dish pizza is a favorite of many (including President Barack
Obama, who has said Pi is his favorite pizza), and it will certainly not disappoint. Not only are the pizzas incredible, but Pi is also committed to its ecologically sustainable philosophy—Pi is an example to
other restaurants and businesses, encouraging them to minimize their carbon footprints. So get green,
get fed and have some fun only 10 minutes away from campus.
7. P.F. Chang’s
Located right next to Saint Louis University on Lindell Boulevard, this famous St. Louis
lounge/movie theatre is a favorite hangout for many college students and residents. If you’re getting
bored with the typical megaplex movie theater experience, or if you’re tired of the uncomfortable
seats that always leave your neck feeling a little stiff, the Moolah will offer you a much-needed
movie theatre vacation.
The seating features a wide selection of comfy leather couches and lower and upper tiers of
regular seating. While the couches all sit at the same level rather than on an incline, one might
worry that it would be difficult to see beyond the couch in front. However, the Moolah screen is
positioned at a perfect angle such that all couches have a clear view of every film. The staff selects
one film every two to three weeks, so be to sure to check the Moolah’s Web site for updates: http://
www.stlouiscinemas.com/moolah.
This beautiful, historic building also houses a full bar, a bowling alley, a foosball table, a pool
table, dart boards, arcade games and plenty of lounge space with the ambiance of an old gentleman’s club.
So take in a movie, and spend a few hours getting to know other students in a fun, relaxed environment. The Moolah is certainly a diamond in the rough of entertainment.
2. Mad Art
While exploring downtown St. Louis, one could easily mistake this art gallery for a Police
Station—mostly because it was. The building functioned as the Third District Police Station from
1937-1990, and the exterior, as well as much of the interior, has been maintained. In fact, in addition to the art exhibits, visitors will find original and fully functioning police cells inside, including
wall graffiti from inmates dating back to the 1930s.
The gallery shows between eight and 10 group exhibitions each year and is also open to the
public for cultural events such as film screenings, concerts, improvisation and theater performances
and various fundraisers.
Mad Art will never leave you bored, as almost the entire facility (including the cells) is open
to the public. So if you don’t have much to say about the art, the building itself will be a constant
source of conversation.
3. City Museum
Although the name can incite a yawn or two, don’t let it mislead you; this is no ordinary museum. Instead, think of it as a 600,000-square-foot playground/obstacle course. Made entirely out of
found urban objects, this architectural masterpiece was created by Bob Cassilly, an internationally
recognized artist, and has been a constant source of entertainment to St. Louis’ young and old alike.
Be sure to visit the MonstroCity attraction, located on the roof of the City Museum. Here you
can climb through two authentic Sabre 40 aircrafts, an old fire engine and dozens of metal bridges
and tunnels, all while enjoying a great view of downtown St. Louis and the museum grounds.
Crawl through the walls and floors of the building in a labyrinth of caves and tunnels. The Enchanted Caves were painted and textured to feel like the real deal, including pools of dripping water
and unpredictable dips and bends. Go with a friend, because chances are you will get lost.
Other attractions include a 13,500-square-foot aquarium, an exhibit of renovated architectural
relics from famous American architects Elmslie and Sullivan, a collection of vintage shoelace
machines and the world’s largest pair of men’s briefs.
This venue will never leave you bored. So go bond with fellow students while getting lost in a
tunnel of caves or climbing through an airplane fuselage five stories above the ground. With attractions like these, who needs conversation?
4. Six Flags St. Louis
If college isn’t enough of a rollercoaster for you, head over to Six Flags (only 30 minutes from
downtown St. Louis) and enjoy some real rollercoaster action. Make sure to visit before Sept. 7 to
enjoy the water park for a relaxing day away from the heat and chaos of campus.
Create lasting bonds with one another by racing down water slides or flying at 70 mph across
rollercoaster tracks thousands of feet long. Six Flags has all kinds of rides for all kinds of people.
If you’ve had a little too much excitement or if you’re feeling queasy after the loops of the Ninja
coaster, kick back and relax while floating along Hurricane Harbor’s lazy river and drift among the
waterfalls and lush tropical landscapes.
If you’re looking for another restaurant for your group, you won’t find anything better than P.F.
Chang’s. For those of you who have an aversion to chain restaurants, have no fear; the food here is delicious. This famous Chinese bistro is located in Richmond Heights, only a short drive from campus. The
dining room is dimly lit and spacious, with high ceilings and painted mural walls. Best of all, the menu is extensive. No matter what you order, the portions are certain to be huge, making each dish perfect for
sharing. After dinner, make sure you ask your waiter about the New York cheesecake with raspberry sauce (not included on the menu). It may be the very best cheesecake in St. Louis. This place is always busy,
so make sure to call ahead. Mostly full of college students, P.F. Chang’s is loud and fun, so your group will never have a dull moment.
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South 40 Fitness Center
One of the most basic workout areas available, the South
40 Fitness Center is filled mainly with cardiovascular exercise
machines, such as treadmills, bicycles and elliptical machines.
Also available is weightlifting equipment, but the selection is very
limited. So, if you’re looking to build up some upper body muscle,
this may not be the place for you. On the plus side, the center is
perfect for that spur-of-the-moment-type workout, since it offers
a place near the dorms for a nice, air-conditioned run. The new
fitness center is located in Wohl.
Athletic Complex
Robyn Husa
Scene Online Editor
Of the many changes that take place during the transition
year from high school to college, negative alterations to the body
(weight-wise) should not be one of those considered. However, the
so called “Freshman 15” continues to be a worry for new undergraduates due to the wide variety of deliciously unhealthy food
available at any time of the day or night, combined with almost
certain periods of academic stress. Fortunately for you, Washington University offers a great number of ways to stay active and fit
throughout the year.
For those a little more serious about fitness, the Athletic
Complex (AC) provides a treasure trove of athletic facilities. On
the main floor, there is a large recreational gym that can be altered
for games of basketball, volleyball and tennis. If you venture down
to the lower levels, you can find several racquetball courts and,
for the select few who play the sport, two squash courts. For those
who like a traditional workout, there is a vast cardio section complete with the standard treadmills, bikes and elliptical machines.
Into heavy lifting? The AC is the place to go because it has its very
own weightlifting section on the bottom floor. But the conveniences don’t stop there—also included for your workout pleasure are
locker rooms, complete with separate saunas for both genders.
For those who prefer to take a more Michael Phelps approach
to keeping fit, the Olympic-sized pool in the AC is perfect for
swimming laps and diving. Also near the AC are the Bushyhead
Track and the Tao Tennis Center, which are great for training athletes. Chances are, no matter what workout mood you are in, the
AC has what you need. The AC is located on the northwest side of
the Danforth Campus.
Forest Park
This large park located directly east of Wash. U. is more than
just a great picnicking area or a place to see penguins at the zoo:
the many paths throughout the park offer a great opportunity for a
long run, in which you can forget your worries and just appreciate
the beauty of the scenery. You can stick to the basic paths or be a
little more adventurous. Either way, Forest Park is a great area for
jogging, walking, and biking...weather permitting, of course.
Sports/Clubs
Not into machine-based workouts or solitary runs? Wash. U.’s
wide array of clubs can solve your fitness dilemma. All sports are
represented and available for joining, from the competitive to the
intramural level. There are also clubs dedicated to keeping active
through enjoyable means. For example, the rock climbing club
takes you off campus to a compound where you can rock climb to
your heart’s content. Also, the running club allows for you to run
in a decently sized group of other students across campus. What’s
great about keeping active within clubs is the level of commitment
is flexible. They also provide a great opportunity to meet other
students while letting you stay fit at the same time.
Miscellaneous/
recreational
At Wash. U., you can stay fit with even the tiniest effort. This
is made evident by the small pool available next to the upperclassmen housing in the Village. Unlike the AC’s 25-meter pool, this
mass of water is intended for a more relaxing swim. The best part:
You are still burning calories. Unfortunately, this pool, like most,
requires a lifeguard to be present, and it seems there is rarely one
available when you want one.
Don’t fret, though, if you can’t set aside a specific workout period/swim time for the week. Just taking that long walk to classes
every day keeps your heart racing. It may not seem like much, but
you will soon come to appreciate that small level of fitness once
you discover that, yes, that carrot cake in the Wash. U. café is
indeed delicious.
Decorating your dorm room: 101
Paula Lauris
Senior Scene Editor
“College is a fresh start.”
The meaning of this phrase will
quite literally become evident
when you first walk into your
empty, sparsely furnished,
white-walled dorm room. If
you’ve ever dreamed of revamping your room at home but
haven’t gotten around to actually cleaning it up, then decorating a brand new space can be a
very exciting opportunity. Just
remember to keep the following
tips in mind.
1.
If you didn’t need
it at home, then
Hana Schuster
Scene Regular Features Editor
When you first arrive at
Washington University, your
inbox will be flooded with
e-mails about hundreds of different events going on around
campus. This will be the University’s attempt to make sure
freshmen have enough options
to keep them active during the
first month of school. While
all of these events certainly
help new students adjust to
campus and meet new people,
they make it all too easy to
forget that there is life beyond
Brookings.
After all, you didn’t just
move to Washington University; you also moved to St.
Louis (hence our wonderfully
creative name). St. Louis might
be a small city compared to
New York City or Los Angeles,
but there is still plenty to do. So
take advantage of some of these
options while your workload
is still at a minimum…because
the free time won’t last for very
long!
For the sports
enthusiast
Cardinals’ Baseball
All home games happen at
Busch Stadium—a beautifully
renovated facility in downtown St. Louis overlooking the
Gateway Arch. Take a group of
friends and learn what it takes
to be a Cardinals fan.
St. Louis vs. Milwaukee: Sept.
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St. Louis vs. Atlanta: Sept.
you most likely won’t need it in
college.
A backrest with cupholders and pockets for snacks? A
lamp with five different-colored
bulbs? Sure, these items may
sound amazing, but have you
ever found a need for them
before college? Many stores will
try to convince you that you’ll
need a lot of different items for
college, but be sensible with
what you buy! The same goes
for bringing stuff to college that
you already own. While you’ve
become accustomed to that big
stuffed elephant on your bed or
that hanging basketball hoop
on your door, that doesn’t mean
that they have to make the trek
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St. Louis vs. Florida: Sept.
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St. Louis vs. Chicago: Sept.
18-20
State Farm Arch Rivalry
Game, Illinois vs. St. Louis
Sept. 5, 2:30 p.m.
Edward Jones Dome
The biggest sports event of
the season, this game is sure
to be a crowd pleaser. If you
want to get a feel for St. Louis
sports, this rivalry match is a
must-see. Just be careful not to
get trampled in the wake of all
the diehard Rams fans.
For the
theater buff
“Guys and Dolls”
Sept. 5-Oct. 4
The Robert G. Reim Theatre
Come to this intimate venue
to see this classic musical
produced by Stages St. Louis, a
local nonprofit theater company
of professional actors. This
is always an unforgettable
performance, with its showstopping musical numbers and
kooky characters. For ticket and
performance information, visit
http://www.stagesstlouis.com or
call 314-821-2407.
“Phantom of the Opera”
Sept. 30-Oct. 25
The Fabulous Fox Theatre
With almost a full month of
performances this fall, you will
have plenty of opportunities to
see this world-famous musical.
But don’t wait to buy tickets—
this show is popular every time.
all the way to your new Washington University dorm.
Let your walls speak for you.
Sure, the bare
walls in your dorm
room may not
seem like much
at first, but they give you the
chance to express yourself.
Posters of your favorite sports
teams, bands or even funny
sayings provide a great talking
point for when your new hallmates wander in. But don’t just
limit yourself to posters—you
can create funky wall art with
simple blue tape or make an
interesting collage of old ticket
stubs. You can even coordinate
2.
Get seats in the back of the
theater, where you and your
friends can sing along! Tickets
are $28-$75. Go to www.fabulousfox.com for performance
details.
For the
music lover
“American Idol Live”
Aug. 29, 7 p.m.
Scottrade Center
For fans and non-fans
alike, this promises to be a
spectacular show. “American
Idol” winner Kris Allen will be
performing in St. Louis for one
night only, along with Adam
Lambert, Danny Goki and all
of this season’s top 10 finalists.
Tickets are on sale NOW for
$37-$66 through the Scottrade
Center.
The Moody Blues
Sept. 5, 8 p.m.
The Fabulous Fox Theatre
Rolling Stone Magazine
called them “the Sistine Chapel
of popular music.” See this
iconic group, part of the ‘60s
legendary British Invasion, this
fall in St. Louis. Take a group
of friends and rock out to some
of the world’s best rock ‘n’
roll. Tickets are on sale now
for $42.50-$52.50 through the
Fabulous Fox Theatre.
Kings of Leon
Sept. 30, 8 p.m.
Scottrade Center
The New York Times
referred to them as “the allAmerican long-haired rockers.”
They won “Best International
with your roommate beforehand
to decide if you want a particular design for your room and
plan out decorations according
to the theme.
If at first there is no apparent
use for it, then find one.
Keeping an
open mind is important in college
and decorating
your dorm room is no exception.
Even if you may not be the typical “starving college student,”
it’s still important to make the
most of what you have. For
instance, basic items like crates
are great not only for storage
but also for makeshift stools and
3.
Band” and “Best International Album” at the 2009 Brit
Awards, and a Grammy at the
2009 Grammy Awards. See the
Followill brothers live this fall
for one night only. Tickets are
on sale now for $43.50 through
the Scottrade Center.
Miley Cyrus
Oct. 4, 7 p.m.
Scottrade Center
This famous teenybopper
can put on quite a show. Miley
Cyrus, the world’s hottest teen
sensation, will be performing in St. Louis for one night
only. Warning: Expect to fight
hundreds of screaming 13-yearolds for the best view of the
stage. Tickets are on sale now
for $39.50-$79.50 through the
Scottrade Center.
Open Acoustic Night
Every Tuesday night, 8 p.m.
Pop’s Blue Moon, 5249 Pattison Road
Whether you’re there to
listen or perform, this venue
is open to anyone, with or
without a guitar. If you have
questions about the venue, or if
you would like to play during
the Open Acoustic Night, call
Joshua at 314-276-2700.
For the
diverse crowd
Japanese Festival
Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
St. Louis Botanical Gardens
Enjoy a truly authentic taste
of Japan right here in St. Louis.
This annual festival takes place
in one of the largest Japanese
tables. And who needs fancy
plates and bowls when you can
use microwave-friendly and resealable Tupperware containers?
letin or dry-erase board on your
wall. You can also replace bulky
floor lamps with cool hanging
lanterns or mini lights.
Win the race to find space.
It’s no secret
that space is a bit
cramped in college, but there are
plenty of ways to improvise and
expand your room without magic. Many students lift their beds
higher with bed risers in order to
store stuff underneath. If you’re
running low on floor space, then
take a tip from NASA and look
up. You can hang shoe racks
from your doors and keep your
life organized by posting a bul-
Keep home close to heart.
However you
choose to decorate
your dorm room,
it’s important to
give it a personal touch. A photo
collage of friends and family
members can be great to look
at when you’re feeling lonely.
A meaningful gift from a loved
one can bring old memories to
your new lifestyle. College may
be a new transition, but that
doesn’t mean you have to leave
your home life behind!
gardens in North America.
Among dozens of performances
and activities, visitors can enjoy
Bon Odori (traditional Japanese
dance), Taiko drumming,
Ikebana flower arranging, delicious Japanese food and sumo
demonstrations. General admission: $10, pay at entrance.
enue and Forsyth Boulevard, an
auction, a glassblowing stand, a
performance stage and various
hands-on art booths. The event
is free. Sept. 11, 5 p.m.-10 p.m.;
Sept. 12, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sept.
13, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.
4.
5.
Big Muddy Blues Festival
Sept. 5-6
Laclede’s Landing
This cultural festival
highlights the best of blues
from across America. Big
Muddy’s various stages will
feature regional and local
bands, while the main stage
showcases national headliners.
This blues fest attracts music
fans of all genres and ages from
all over the Midwest, and for
the past 15 years it has become
synonymous with Labor Day
in St. Louis. Pack a picnic and
drag a group of friends to this
unforgettable event. Entrance
is free.
The Great Forest Park Balloon Glow and Race
Sept. 18-19
Center field in Forest Park
Join hundreds of visitors
who flock to Forest Park every
year to see this grand spectacle.
On the evening of Sept. 18 (78:30 p.m.), dozens of enormous
hot air balloons will be lit up
for viewers to see. Bring a
picnic dinner and a blanket and
bask in their glow. Or, you can
come watch the balloons lift
off on the 19th to commence
the race and enjoy festivities
through out the day. Pony rides,
food stalls, photo contests and
skydivers are only some of the
things on the agenda (12-6:30
p.m.). Entrance is free.
St. Louis Art Fair
Sept. 11-13, various times
The heart of Clayton, just
five minutes from campus, will
shut down its streets for three
days in September, giving visitors a chance to take in some
truly remarkable art. Artists
from all over the country submit their work to the St. Louis
Art Fair every year, and those
who were selected by a panel of
judges will display their work
on the streets of Clayton. The
fair grounds will include food
stalls set up on Brentwood Boulevard between Maryland Av-
Chili Cook Off and Salsa
Competition
Sept. 26, all day
Westport Plaza
Watch as nearly 100 aspiring and professional chefs prepare their chili and salsa recipes
to compete for the Missouri
championship titles. Samples
of all recipes are 50 cents, and
visitors are encouraged to vote
for their favorites. Other food
will be served, including brats,
burgers, grilled chicken and
smoothies. Come taste and vote
and be a part of this hot event.
Entrance is free.

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