ThurtenE Carnival diversifies attractions, focuses on St

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VOLUME 137, NO. 51
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MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
BASEBALL
The Bears take
four in a row
over the weekend
(Sports, pg 5)
FASHION GUIDE
Find out what you’ll be
seeing a lot of this spring
(Scene, pg 9)
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ThurtenE Carnival diversifies attractions,
focuses on St. Louis community outreach
A HISTORY OF THURTENE
1935
1983
For the first time, the festival is run entirely by
ThurtenE honorary. It continues to expand each year.
The first ThurtenE
Carnival takes place
in front of Brookings
as a result of
construction for the
new athletic facility
by the tennis courts.
The move is financed
by a temporary
increase in the
student activity fee.
1907
Pralma, a senior men’s honorary, hosts the
“Younivee Surrkuss” on May 8. Acts included
acrobatics and magic tricks.
1919
The festival returns
after a two-year hiatus
due to World War I.
1929
1916
Thyrsus makes a silent film for the
event called “Maid of McMillan.”
After another
two-year hiatus,
the festival comes
back in December,
with Greek
organizations
playing a
prominent role for
the first time.
RORY MATHER
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
This year, the ThurtenE
Honorary
selected
Ready
Readers, a St. Louis based nonprofit that aims to inspire a love
of reading and establish the
foundational literacy skills of
preschool age children from lowincome families as they transition
to Kindergarten.
Rickeman believes the pairing
with Ready Readers will expand
the reach of the carnival, which
was a goal of this year’s honorary
from the start.
“We want to reach out to new
areas of St. Louis that haven’t
participated or really come to the
carnival,” Rickeman said. “I think
Ready Readers is really a great
resource for us in that aspect.”
Smith added that the overarching goal of Ready Readers
is to foster intellectual curiosity
amongst younger generations
across St. Louis, a key step for
progress in any community.
“That’s sort of the long-term
cause for change,” Smith said. “A
lot of it is just giving kids stuff to
realize that reading is something
that is really cool thing for them
to be able to do.”
While the ThurtenE Honorary
selects one organization as the
Washington University students
raised a total of $175,546.81 at this
weekend’s 14th annual Relay For
Life event, which is an increase
from last year’s total and a step
forward after a few years of a
downward trend in donations.
Relay, the second largest event
on campus after WILD, began at 6
p.m. Saturday night and ended at 6
a.m. Sunday morning.
The event, which culminates
the fundraising efforts of the participants with a variety of activities
and entertainment, raises money
for the American Cancer Society
(ACS). This year, it garnered 1,339
registered participants, and in
doing so aided research efforts to
combat the disease.
Kanna Rook, senior community manager for ACS, noted that
the 12-hour event, held on Francis
Field, is meant to give participants
the sense that cancer is a disease
that never sleeps.
“When it’s 3 a.m. and I think
about quitting and giving up, I
think about my dad battling cancer
and how what I’m going through is
just a one-time thing,” Rook said.
As in previous years, the festival included a silent rave, the
Luminaria Ceremony and many
performances by a cappella groups,
dance groups and new this year, a
hypnotist.
For many, one of the most memorable parts of Relay For Life is the
Luminaria Ceremony. By dedicating an illuminated luminaria bag
decorated with personal messages,
photos and memorabilia, participants can honor their loved ones
and celebrate the memory of those
who have lost the battle to cancer.
Freshman Alex Kramer said that
this was her favorite part of the
entire festival.
SEE THURTENE, PAGE 3
SEE RELAY, PAGE 2
1962
1949
The festival
is moved to
the parking
lot by the
tennis courts.
Facades exploded in popularity over the
years. In 1962, heavy winds caused
several of the structures to collapse,
injuring two people and almost causing
the Carnival to be canceled. Building
restrictions were soon implemented,
limiting the size and scope of the
facades.
GRAPHIC BY MADDIE WILSON
KATIE MARCUS
SENIOR NEWS EDITOR
Participants in this year’s
ThurtenE Carnival are moving away from the construction
of full facades and towards a
diversification of philanthropic
organizations in an effort to
expand community engagement.
ThurtenE, the largest and oldest student-run carnival in the
nation, has drawn large crowds
from the community since its
inception in the early 1900s. The
name, nature and style of the carnival have shifted over time along
with the growth of Washington
University.
This year, organizers have
noted a new trend amongst participating student groups, as more
Greek life organizations have
opted to construct half-facades
over the traditional full facades.
Typically, Greek organizations
that choose to construct any sort
of facade pair one sorority and
one fraternity to work together.
Full facades stand at around
12-15 feet tall and feature live
student performances that attract
carnival goers in the hopes of
raising funds for the groups’ chosen charities. Half-facades require
less physical construction and
offer the groups the ability to
experiment with other fundraising techniques.
Three pairs of Greek organizations will be constructing full
facades this year, compared to
the five constructed last year and
six or more in previous years.
Although this means fewer student plays, organizers believe this
shift will be an overall positive
one.
“It isn’t detrimental to our carnival that we have fewer facades
this year because not every family
would go see all six plays if there
were six full facades, but now
that there are three there’s actually a pretty good chance they’ll
see all of those plays,” ThurtenE
public relations officer and junior
Jackson Smith said. “Then there’s
also kind of room to break up
the day with the more interactive
offerings that they haven’t seen.”
This year’s ThurtenE Honorary
decided to emphasize the accessibility of the carnival to all student
groups that might be interested in
participating in the event or fundraising for a particular cause.
ThurtenE public relations officer and junior Abby Rickeman
noted that by increasing the
variety of the groups involved,
the carnival might attract a
larger population of community
members.
“I think having more student
groups and a more diverse spread
and variety of groups will bring
new ways to engage with people
not just on Wash. U.’s campus but
in the St. Louis community, and
that’s a huge draw for people all
over St. Louis,” Rickeman said.
Smaller groups that may be new
to ThurtenE are also less likely to
spend as much time and resources
in construction, which may also
play a role in the trend away from
full facades—which require intensive setup and takedown.
This doesn’t, however, take
away from the value of full
facades,
which
Rickeman
believes will remain a meaningful
tradition.
“They’re cool things and they
have groups get together to build
them, and it’s basically like a
small house,” Rickeman said.
“It’s a cool tradition, but I think
also having half-facades, it’s kind
of a new tradition as well that we
want to definitely promote.”
A diverse spread of student
groups may mean more offerings to carnival goers, but it also
allows for a more expansive and
comprehensive scope of charity
recipients from carnival revenues.
Relay
For Life
raises over
$175K, ends
downward
trend
Board of trustees selects undergraduate representatives for 2016-2017 year
NOA YADIDI
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The Washington University
board of trustees has chosen
juniors Rohan Khazanchi and
Norah Rast to serve as the undergraduate student representatives
to the board for the 2016-2017
school year.
The two newly chosen representatives are looking to use the
platform to increase and facilitate discussions between students
and student leaders, especially in
communities that they haven’t
had as much exposure to, in
hopes of providing a more holistic representation of the student
experience.
“It’s quite an honor to be able
to represent the student body on
something like this. The board is
the main policymaking entity of
the University, and I think that’s
really amazing to be able to work
with those change agents that are
on the board,” Khazanchi said.
“I think that’s going to be really,
really cool to be able to see kind
of how that works and be able to
have our own voices be something
that has an influence on that.”
Undergraduate student representatives have sat on the board
since 1970. At the end of each
year, during the May board
meeting, the two representatives
present their culminating project—a recommendation to the
University—that they’ve worked
on throughout the year. Current
representatives, seniors Shyam
Akula and Scotty Jacobs are set to
announce and present their project in the coming weeks.
Justin Carroll, associate vice
chancellor for students and dean
of students, chaired the 14-person
committee devised of students,
faculty and administrators tasked
with making students aware of
the opportunity, reading applications, performing the first round
of interviews and, ultimately,
narrowing down the pool to four
finalists.
Carroll said a total of 31 students applied for the position. The
committee selected eight students
to interview and then narrowed
down to four who were chosen
and interviewed by the Vice Chair
of the Board David Kemper.
Ultimately, the board made the
final decision.
Khazanchi and Rast, who
were co-Washington University
Student Associates and are now
both resident advisers, both said
the opportunity to be a voice for
students to affect lasting change
attracted them to apply for the
position.
“I had this impression that the
student representative was a position that really allowed you to be
kind of like a translator between
the experiences of being a member of the board of trustees and
being a Wash. U. student,” Rast
said. “I think a lot of the individuals involved in the selection
process really expressed to us that
the trustees want a student perspective, and so I think just from
my involvements around campus
I felt like that would be a really
unique opportunity and interesting challenge.”
Khazanchi also took part in the
student-trustee visit days spearheaded by Akula and Jacobs this
JUNIOR
ROHAN KHAZANCHI
MAJOR Biology (Neuroscience)
MINORS Psychological &
Brain Sciences; Music
JUNIOR
NORAH RAST
MAJOR Global Health
and the Environment
MINOR Biology
GRAPHIC BY MADDIE WILSON
year in which trustees met with
different students to facilitate
more interaction between the two
groups.
“Norah and Rohan are interested in continuing [this], and
I think it’s important they continue to find different ways for
trustees and students to engage
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with each other,” Jacobs said. “I
think what’s really cool about this
is that each pair of student trustees really has the opportunity to
make their own mark in whatever
way they want and so my hope
for them is that they find success
in however they define their own
success.”
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EVENT
CALENDAR
MONDAY 11
Seminar: “Making Advance Directives:
How Should We Think about Our Future
Selves?”
Danforth University Center, Room 276, noon
Professor Rebecca Dresser will offer this talk
as part of the Issues in Aging seminar series.
Assembly Series: “An Evening in Eddie’s
World”
Graham Chapel, 7 p.m.
Speech by Eddie Huang, a bright, brash and
hardworking Taiwanese kid who never let
race define who he was or who he could be.
TUESDAY 12
Tuesday Tea @ 3
Danforth University Center, Tisch Commons,
3 p.m.
Every Tuesday that school is in session –
free hot tea and treats. Hosted this week by
Marrow Registry.
The Global Citizenship Program presents: “The Illusionists — Exploring Beauty
Standards Around the World”
Danforth University Center, Room 276, 4:30
p.m.
Film and discussion with free movie snacks.
Sponsored by International and Area Studies.
WEDNESDAY 13
Conference: “Achieving a Sustainable
Energy Future”
Hillman Hall, 9:30 a.m.
Two days of learning about a low-carbon
energy future from the perspective of thought
leaders in the energy sector. This knowledgesharing event brings together leaders from
industry, academia, and government to open
the dialogue about sustainability and our
energy future.
Lecture: “Sudden Justice: America’s Secret
Drone Wars”
Steinberg Hall Auditorium, 6:30 p.m.
Investigative journalist Chris Woods will discuss his recently published book “Sudden
Justice,” an expose of the world of drone warfare. Reception precedes talk.
MONDAY 11
RAIN
55 / 36
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
TUESDAY 12
SUNNY
57 / 35
WEDNESDAY 13
SUNNY
63 / 40
FoodShare wins RECESS tour campus
qualifier, advances to national semifinals
SAM SEEKINGS
NEWS EDITOR
FoodShare, a start-up
company and app, will
move on to the semifinals
of the RECESS competition, having won the
Washington
University
campus
qualifier
last
Thursday.
RECESS, a nationwide
entrepreneurial presentation tour, held its Wash. U.
qualifying round in Bauer
Hall on Thursday, pitting
five student owned startups against each other
in a style similar to the
popular television show
“Shark Tank.” The competition was organized
collaboratively by Social
Programming Board and
the Olin Business Council
(OBC) and funded primarily by the RECESS tour.
FoodShare,
which
allows users to donate a
meal to those in need by
taking a photo of their
food at any of the company’s partnered restaurants.
The company will now
advance to the semifinals of the competition,
which will be held April
26 at the Pageant Theatre
and be followed by a free
musical
performance
by rapper Tory Lanez.
Should FoodShare win in
this round, it will advance
to the RECESS national
championship on June 9
in Los Angeles.
The
Washington
University
competition
was presided over by three
judges: co-founder and
CEO of BazaarBoy and
alumnus Eric Hamblett,
founder of Build-A-Bear
Workshop Maxine Clark
and chief investment officer for the Washington
University
Investment
Management
Company
Kim Walker.
While
these
judges
asked the teams questions
about
their
companies, however, the
winner was decided by
an audience vote at the
competition, and many
felt that FoodShare’s wellestablished infrastructure
gave them an advantage
over the other companies
presenting.
“I think they have a very
strong plan for implementation. They’ve had the
most success implementing their ideas so far,”
Student Union special
projects coordinator and
senior Jessie Bluedorn
said. “I think they have
a really specific plan for
how they would use the
money that they could
potentially win in this contest and how it could take
their company to the next
level.”
Junior
Andrew
Glantz and senior Jacob
Mohrmann, the company’s co-founders, made
the pitch to the RECESS
judging panel and have
helped guide the company
through a complete change
in business model after its
founding in July 2014.
“We launched in April
2015, and more or less
immediately pivoted two
months later to the current business model of
eat-one-give-one,” Glantz
said. “Since then it’s been
a lot of experimentation
and trying to adapt to user
and restaurant needs and
receiving funding. At this
point, we’re really trying
to figure out how we can
scale.”
SPB
president
and
junior Rahool Bhimani
said he thought the event
was a success, as both
OBC and SPB receiving
positive feedback about it.
“We received a lot of
positive feedback from all
who were involved, including the judges, participants
and audience members,”
he said. “I think the event
was a great way to support
Washington
University
students and can definitely
see RECESS coming back
to campus in the future.”
The
winners
were
also
impressed
with
their fellow competitors.
Memento, a company
which develops software
to streamline dementia
clinics, finished second
at the event, followed by
MediMeld, a company
which gives patients technology which assists them
in medical recovery after
leaving the hospital.
“It was really exciting
both to pitch and to hear
everyone
else’s
ideas,
which were great,” Glantz
said. “So when they called
us up for the top three and
told us we won, it was
really something we were
grateful for, and we’re
really excited to go to the
next round.”
Olin Business Council
president
and
junior
Jimmy Soldati added that
he is hopeful for the team’s
chances.
“I’m hopeful our Wash.
U. winner advances to
the national final in Los
Angeles to continue to
show the nation the great
talent that Wash. U. has to
offer,” he said.
RELAY FROM PAGE 1
POLICE
BEAT
April 5
Auto Accident - Two cars involved in an accident in Millbrook Garage with no injuries.
Disposition: Cleared
April 7
Destruction of Property - Student struck and
broke a window in Givens Hall.
Disposition: Cleared
QUOTE
OF THE DAY
“Want to avoid
all the sweat,
smells and
stains? Slip on
some socks.
Some top-ofthe-line white
Nike socks will
do. Preferably
the kind you
bought five years
ago when you
tried out for
junior varsity
basketball (Your
mom still says
they should have
picked you over
Brad Garkowski
as the starting
point guard).
They should
cover most (if
not all) of your
shin.”
- Noah Jodice,
Senior Editor
JANE ZANKMAN | STUDENT LIFE
Relay for Life co-directors Jessica Gates and Rachel Goldberg, both seniors, open the event with speeches commemorating those who
have died of cancer. The event began at 6 p.m. Saturday night and lasted until 6 a.m. the next morning.
“I made a bag for my
grandmother and my dad.
Just the idea that I’ll be able
to see my family members
supported by so many people
is amazing,” said Kramer.
Funds raised through the
event are utilized to help support cancer patient services,
cancer research and prevention programs both across
the nation and specifically in
the St. Louis area.
“Some of the money
raised by Relay For Life goes
back to the Wash. U. medical
school to help fund cancer
research right here in the St.
Louis area,” senior and event
co-chair Jess Gates said.
Senior and event co-chair
Rachel Goldberg noted that
fundraising totals for the
event surpassed those of
recent years. The group has
already beat last year’s number by $15,000 dollars and
expects to raise even more.
Event organizers added
that one of the driving
forces that helped break the
decreasing trend in fundraising was fraternity Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
This year, SAE created
the Walk for Jacques team
to honor Jacques de Villiers,
a fraternity brother who
died from cancer this past
summer.
“Relay for Life was one of
the most powerful events I’ve
ever been to. It is heartbreaking that cancer has affected
so many people’s lives, but
it is standing on that track
with 60 of my fraternity
brothers surrounding me
that makes me truly thankful
for how many people care
about fighting back,” freshman SAE brother Michael
Kaushansky said.
SAE made it an internal
goal to raise $100,000 in
de Villiers’ memory, and
has already raised just over
$40,000 through different
fundraising efforts—including last weekend’s 5K
memorial run—a portion
of which will be donated to
Relay for Life, Rook said.
Although Relay For
Life occurs once a year,
Goldberg emphasized that
event organizers want the
purpose of Relay For Life
to be on students’ minds
throughout the year.
“Relay For Life is a
year-round effort,” said
Goldberg, “We’ve been
working since last April to
coordinate the fundraising events, and we want
students to know that the
battle for cancer should also
be a constant idea in their
minds.”
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
STUDENT LIFE 3
KATIE MARCUS | SENIOR NEWS EDITOR | [email protected]
Speaker calls for male involvement in ending sexual violence
PRAJWAL KERANAHALLI
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Feminist activist Jackson
Katz spoke to a nearly
full Graham Chapel last
Thursday on the importance of the feminism and
gender equality for all.
Katz’ talk, “Taking It
Personally: Why Gender
Violence Is an Issue for
Everyone,” focused on the
need to eradicate violence
against women and the role
of men in advocating for
gender equality.
The event, organized by
the Leaders in Interpersonal
Violence Education (LIVE),
was the second event in
the group’s Sexual Assault
Awareness Month program.
Katz is well known for
his work in the field of
gender violence prevention education. His TED
Talk, “Violence Against
Women—It’s
a
Men’s
Issue,” has been viewed
more than two million
times. He is a published
author who works to make
films and implement programs that incorporate men
into the feminist movement by drawing attention
to the personal stake that
all men have in the movement. He also pioneered the
“bystander approach” in
relation to gender violence
prevention.
“I think men and boys’
lives have been profoundly
affected by, in a positive
way, feminist women’s leadership in all of these areas,”
Katz said.
He went on to draw
attention to the amazing
feats of advancement displayed by leaders of the
feminist movement.
“It wasn’t until the 1970s
that there was a such thing
as a rape crisis center, or
trained counselors on college campuses, or police
that were trained to deal
with these issues professionally,” Katz said. “I
mean none of that was in
place until strong empowered women, and some
male allies, built the rape
crisis movement in the
1970s.”
Katz noted that two
specific areas in which
men have benefitted from
feminist involvement are
domestic violence and sexual assault, both of which
have profound impacts on
men.
“If you are a sevenyear-old kid cowering in
the closet as your father
or another man is raging
against your mother you
are not a witness—you
are a victim.” Katz said.
“You are not observing
something happening to
someone else, you are experiencing it happening to
yourself. The experience
of trauma is much more
immediate and profound
than suggested by the passing word.”
Katz added a slogan for
the struggle to eliminate
domestic violence.
“There is no peace on
the streets if there is no
peace at home. There is no
peace in the community
if there is no peace in the
family.” Katz said. “There
is no peace in the world if
there is no peace at home.
Feminists have been saying
this for fifty years.”
Katz recognizes that men
are the primary perpetrators
of sexual violence, but he
also want to emphasize that
fact the men are also a significant portion of sexual
assault victims.
“Men have been sexually
assaulting other men and
boys for many thousands
of years, and we are only
now recently talking about
it which is a very positive
development. But who do
you think were the first
people to talk about male
sexual victimization? It
was feminists in the 1970s,”
Katz said.
Co-president of LIVE
and junior Norah Rast
noted how Katz’s visit
to campus was the culmination of one of the
organization’s goals and a
stepping-stone to a greater
conversation on campus.
“One of the main things
we’ve thought a lot about
in creating our organization is getting more men
involved in our campus and
getting everyone involved
in the conversation about
gender violence,” Rast said.
“So I think Jackson Katz
has been an inspiration for
a lot of us in our course
work and getting conversation getting started with
these issues. We definitely
wanted to engage more of
the Wash. U. population.”
She added that another of
the group’s goals is to gain
more structural support
from within the University
and administration.
Freshman
Celeste
Bleiberg said she was
attracted to the talk from
what she’d heard of Katz’s
activism.
“I thought he made
some very powerful points
and interesting perspective,” Bleiberg said. “I
really appreciated his call
to action for men and his
recognition of the contributions women have
made to combatting gender
violence.”
THURTENE FROM PAGE 1
STUDENT LIFE ARCHIVES
An overhead view of the 1991 ThurtenE Carnival depicting some of the facades and other attractions brought in. This year, only three
full facades will be constructed as many student groups opted to create a less traditional structure.
STUDENT LIFE ARCHIVES
Patrons at the 1993 ThurtenE Carnival stand in line outside of
the Tilt-a-Whirl. The event marked the 10th anniversary of the
carnival moving to the front of Brookings Hall.
recipient of its resulting
funds from the carnival,
individual groups have the
freedom to decide which
causes are most meaningful to them.
Another group that’s
looking to extend its reach
further into the St. Louis
community this year is the
pairing of Chi Omega and
Beta Theta Pi, who are
building a six-hole mini
golf course instead of the
group’s traditional full
facade. The group is also
partnering with the North
Side Community School,
a small K-5 public charter school in northern St.
Louis.
Philanthropy
overall
for the group and senior
Hannah
Raskin-Gross
said that their decision to
depart from the facade tradition was part of an effort
to refocus on the philanthropic aspects of the
carnival.
“What we really wanted
to do is shift our focus. We
always put a huge focus
on our facade and what
we’re building, which is
really important and really
great, but I think that with
the carnival itself there is a
big focus on philanthropy
and where the money
is going, and we always
raised a decent amount of
money for a charity, but we
wanted to do something
more,” Raskin-Gross said.
“There was a big push for
that within our chapter and
Beta as well.”
Similar
to
Ready
Readers, the North Side
Community School is
working to enhance and
expand the literacy of
young readers in St. Louis.
Donations from Chi Omega
and Beta will go towards
establishing a leveled reading program throughout
the grade levels to provide
students clear reading goals
and a variety of suitable
books to accomplish them.
Delta Sigma Pi (DSP)
will sell funnel cakes at
the carnival like they
have in previous years, a
fundraising effort alongside
sponsorships
and
a
GoFundMe
page,
which will all go towards
another St. Louis organization called Footprints
that supports families of
sick children at Cardinal
Glennon
Children’s
Hospital.
“It’s an extra offshoot of
the hospital that has funds
for families that really can’t
pay for a lot of the everyday things, more focused
on quality of life instead
of medical bills,” Leah
Bhambri, sophomore and
DSP overall said. “My
brother was taken care of at
that hospital, so it’s really
special to me.”
Senior and Delta Gamma
overall Hailey Durno noted
that her experiences building full facades in past years
have been positive, resulting
in lasting friendships and a
great campus tradition. But,
like Smith and Rickeman,
she feels the diversification
will be a welcomed change.
“It looks sort of intimidating to have six or seven
huge 12-16 foot structures,”
Durno said. “So I think this
will increase a lot of community involvement.”
She also noted that DG—
who is building a full facade
with
fraternity
Sigma
Alpha
Epsilon—decided
to contribute its proceeds
to the de Villiers memorial
fund, set up in memory of a
SAE brother who died last
summer, which will go to
cancer research and patient
support.
“We as DG voted to put
our portion of the proceeds to that cause as well
because a lot of our sisters
and the girls in our chapter
felt very strongly about it,
almost a unanimous vote to
put our funds behind that
cause,” Durno said.
Editor’s Note: Editorin-Chief Noa Yadidi is a
member of Delta Gamma
and Associate Editor Wesley
Jenkins is a candidate of
Beta Theta Pi. They were not
involved in the reporting of
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MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
Carnaval highlights mixture of serious dialogue, cultural fun
LINDSAY TRACY
SENIOR CADENZA EDITOR
Underneath the colorful
dances and intermission
churros at this year’s
Carnaval, there remains a
deeper, more fundamental
call from the Association of
Latin American Students
(ALAS), which runs
Carnaval, for increased
engagement from students
on campus in Latinx culture and issues.
In terms of the diversity
of dancers and the packed
audiences during each
performance, Carnaval
certainly succeeded in
spreading a message of
inclusivity, awareness
of vibrant culture and
education of an issue often
pushed aside.
The more serious
tone began with the skit,
which focused this year
on Argentina’s Dirty War
and the fate of the children kidnapped and given
to military families from
1974-1983. The skit takes
place in 2000 in coordination with Carnaval’s
founding at Washington
University and the theme
Origenes (origins). It follows Wash. U. marketing
major Marcela, played by
sophomore Drea Gonzalez,
as she returns to Argentina
following her first Latin
American studies class and
begins to ask questions
about the Dirty War. Soon,
she discovers that she is one
of the desaparecidos from
the Dirty War and attempts
to grapple with the changes
in her identity.
The skit ends with a
cliff-hanger, as Marcela’s
biological grandmother
appears at the door of her
adopted parents’ house.
“I think we chose to end
in a cliff-hanger because
there really is no way you
can deal with finding out
that your parents aren’t
your real parents. There’s
a lot of internal struggle in
how you deal with that,”
Alejandro Martinez, junior
and Carnaval co-chair, said.
“In the video we showed
about the children who are
desaparecidos, they don’t
really go into detail about
what it was like to find
out,” Madison Felman,
senior and Carnaval cochair, added. “I think that’s
a really private thing, and I
didn’t want to try to trivialize it for the stage.”
This conflation of identity isn’t the only one that
Carnaval planners aimed to
spotlight without belittling.
Marcela, as we discovered
when she returned home,
is a lesbian in a loving,
committed relationship
with Catalina, a girl from
her hometown, played by
freshman Jordan Sligar.
The performance, however,
treats their relationship as
any other and refrains from
making it a focal point of
the dialogue.
“Many times I think
when shows tackle [lesbian relationships], it’s
the issue,” Martinez said.
“And it’s very trivialized or
fetishized for theater, and
we didn’t want to do that
at all.”
The dances, too, incorporated gender and sexuality
progressivism, with many
dances implementing liquid
leading, which is where the
lead of the moves, traditionally the male, switches
back between partners
frequently.
Inclusion in the dances
also spread to the types
of dances featured. With
representation from a wide
array of Latin American
dances, like folklorico,
bachata and tango, as well
as non-traditional Hispanic
dances like West African
and hip-hop, the choreographers spread a message
of cultural diversity and
Latinx universality.
“I don’t think people
really realize how diverse
the Hispanic culture
is. Even in the news or
especially with the election going on right now,
everyone just focuses on
Mexico,” sophomore and
skit lead Drea Gonzalez
said. “Each country has
its own different language.
Carnaval really brings that
out because it’s the only
outlet that Wash. U. has for
the Hispanic community to
show everybody that we’re
all here, [and] we’re all
different.”
The vibrant array of
costumes and almost
flawless—save a couple
missteps—execution of
dances were incredible to
take in, and the audience’s
stream of supportive yells
and shouts in between
performances created a
close community environment within the confines
of Edison Theatre. Each
dance was purposeful and
unique in its movements
and song choices, which
struck a balance between
traditional music and
modernized remixes. The
audience clearly reveled in
the dances, and the line in
the lobby of Mallinckrodt
during intermission for
empanadas and churros
was so long that many people didn’t reach the front of
the line before intermission
was over.
For ALAS, this cultural admiration of Latin
American dance and food
is a double-edged sword:
while food and dance are
an important part of Latinx
identity and heritage, there
is much more that people
of other ethnicities tend to
ignore or de-emphasize.
This balance is epitomized in the first dance,
Folklorico. The dancers’ names remained
anonymous in the playbill.
Instead, there was a message commemorating the
43 students who disappeared from Ayotzinapa
Rural Teachers’ College in
September 2014 en route to
commemorating the 1968
Tlatelolco Massacre.
“Everyone chose right
away not to put our names
in the program,” Ignacio
Rabadan, Folklorico
choreographer and ALAS
president, said. “Even
though this happened a
year ago, it’s still fresh on
our minds and shows how
even though the government is supposed to serve
the people, sometimes it’s
not always that way.”
“Those 43 people were
students; they were college
students. That could be like
us—our circumstances were
just different,” Rabadan
added. “We want to show
people that this happens,
not just south of us: it
happens everywhere in the
world, and we want people
to know that. So we want
to dedicate the fun to them,
because God knows what
happened to them.”
Though much of the
message of Carnaval, especially in the skit, is tragic
and thought-provoking,
HOLLY RAVAZZOLO | STUDENT LIFE
Belly dancers at Carnaval perform traditional dances, which originate from the Middle East.
Rabadan emphasizes the
importance of humor.
“It’s only evolved and
gotten more serious, but
still keeping some humor
attached to it, I think, is
very important,” Rabadan
said.
This humor, beyond
the delight of the dances,
mainly came in the form of
Marcela’s friend Fernando,
played by Mario Davila,
whose petulant behavior
and boyish charm had the
audience laughing at the
breaks of more serious
moments.
“Anything bad that has
ever happened, people tend
to try to forget about it
and move on,” Gonzalez
said. “Whenever I hear
about any Hispanic news,
it’s always either in the
election or the drug war in
Mexico…but the fact that
the Dirty War ended in
1983 and that the consequences are still present in
Argentina’s society today—
that’s really scary.”
The topic, which has
been covered up in many
retellings of history, reflects
an invisibility that ALAS
administrators feel exists
about Latinx issues on
campus, given that only
5.98 percent of Wash. U.
students are Hispanic or
Latino, according to the
most recent polls available.
Carnaval, ALAS president
and Carnaval co-chairs both
tell me, is the only Hispanic
cultural event that most
students go to during the
year, and attendance has
traditionally always been
low at their other events.
“Wash. U. wants to talk
about how it’s so diverse
but has one Hispanic
Club,” Gonzalez said of
the campus climate. “And
not saying that’s Wash. U.’s
fault…but they play it up to
something that it’s not.”
“We can’t just sit here
and be sad about how
nobody comes to the
events,” she added. “But
sometimes you would think
that we would push—or
somebody would push—for
the Hispanic community
to have a bigger voice on
campus, or something,
something to get people
more involved.”
Rabadan and Felman
seconded this opinion,
emphasizing that engaging
with events like Carnaval
and dialogues about
Latino heritage and culture
on campus is especially
important right now, as
immigration and xenophobia have become staple
topics of news outlets.
“I think this year, since
the elections are so close
and the Latino vote is very
important, I think that
influences our show a lot
in how we advertise it and
how we hope people realize
that even though we’re putting on this big dance show,
that’s not all the ALAS
is—that’s not all we have to
offer,” Rabadan said.
The show’s emphasis
on inclusivity of dancers
and audience members of
all backgrounds resonates
with the Carnaval showrunners’ perceptions of a
hostile time towards people
of different heritages.
Each emphasized that the
engagement of majority
populations in the struggles
of marginalized groups on
campus and groups with
traditionally overlooked
voices is more important
now than ever.
“I feel like everyone sees
these events that ALAS
puts on or these speakers
that we bring, and they
think, ‘Oh that’s really
interesting,’ and never
go,” Gonzalez said. “If
everybody thinks like that,
nobody goes. You shouldn’t
think that just because it
says ALAS—just because
you’re not that ethnicity—
that you can’t also go there
and learn things about the
country.”
Highlighting the Dirty
War, an issue with everpresent, but overlooked,
modern sociopolitical
ramifications, is an effort to
create dialogue about facets
of identity and struggle
that all Wash. U. students,
regardless of their heritage
and ethnicity, can relate to
and contextualize.
“Talking about stuff like
that is not easy. It’s not
stuff you bring up in casual
conversation, Rabadan
said. “It will help people
to see that this is an actual
problem, [and] to see that it
occurs to people in the U.S.,
like in our skit. And I think
it’ll get people to think that
this is a serious problem
[and] that it happened to
multiple people.”
“Our dance is very colorful,” he added. “But our
message is surreal. This can
happen.”
Sound and color:
A trip through experimental films with jazz improv
ALBERTO DE LA ROSA
FILM EDITOR
Long gone are the days
when films were accompanied by live orchestras
inside theaters. It may
be hard to imagine, but
before the age of recorded
sound in motion pictures,
a pianist, for instance,
would be given a sheet of
music to play along with
silent films. “Sonic Visions:
Experimental Film + Live
Jazz” took us back to that
era, but with a provocative twist: It was entirely
improvised.
Hosted by the Film &
Media Studies program,
this experimental event
featured a lineup of eleven
short avant-garde films
from prominent filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Walter
Ruttmann and Tomonari
Nishikawa. All films
were projected without
sound. Instead, a jazz trio
of renowned musicians
improvised a music score
as they watched these films
for the first time. The trio
consisted of percussionist
Thurman Barker, bassist
and Washington University
Assistant Professor of
Music Paul Steinbeck
and saxophonist Joel
Vanderheyden.
The result of this extemporaneous program was
surprisingly organic. For
one, the absolute abstract
imagery of the films lent
to a certain flexibility that
allowed the musicians to
experiment freely with
their instruments. This
is because Brakhage’s
films, such as “The Dante
Quartet,” implement fastcutting techniques and
scratched, hand-painted
frames. Every short film in
itself is an intense, colorful experience that can
accurately be described
as a moving Jackson
Pollock piece. Similarly,
Ruttmann’s “Lichtspiel
Opus 1-4” was purely
abstract animation: bits of
definitive patterns, shapes
and rhythm that demanded
sound.
Undoubtedly, the uniqueness of this experiment
laid on the improvisational
aspect of the live music.
Although the event was
described as “live jazz,” the
end result of the performance went beyond what
one would expect jazz to
sound like. The sounds
were both ethereal and
ambient.
In addition to the
saxophone, Vanderheyden
played the flute through a
synthesizer, which added
an atmospheric, lingering
and distorted melody that,
at times, perfectly synced
with the pacing of the film.
All three musicians
admitted that this experiment was more challenging
than expected, yet fully
rewarding. When deciding what specific sounds
to perform along with the
film, Joel Vanderheyden
said it essentially came
down to instinct.
“For something like
[these films], it’s about
engaging intensively
with the visual material
and finding a point to be
intuitive. It’s a play of
light,” Vanderheyden said.
“What’s the light doing? Is
it moving in this direction?
Is it vibrating? Is it pulsating? What kind of color is
happening? All these things
have analogues to things
that happen in music.”
Part of the challenge
derived from the pressure
to organically complement
each other’s performances,
since the performance was
fully unrehearsed.
“This type of setting,
for me, feels like trying to
have a very dense conversation with people that don’t
speak your language and
trying to be creative in
ways that you can represent
things so that [the audience] can understand. And
your point can come across
in very abstract ways,” Paul
Steinbeck explained.
Thurman Barker
explained to the audience
that he had to remove jazz
knowledge from his mind
during the performance in
order to fully immerse to
the visual experience that
the films provided.
“I didn’t know what was
coming next [in each film],
and I had to use my own
judgement on whether to
pause, play, what instrument to use.” Thurman
Barker said about the difference between a regular jazz
trio performance and this
experiment. “If I was in a
[regular] jazz trio, I would
know all these things—how
it was going to come about
and what was around the
corner.”
This use of judgment
was evident in Barker’s performance when, in certain
moments, he switched his
drum kit for the xylophone
for a more esoteric sound,
especially during Tomonari
Nishikawa’s film “sound
of a million insects, night
of a thousand stars.” This
two-minute film was created after the filmmaker left
film buried overnight in an
area 15 miles away from
the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Station.
The result was a series of
aggressive blue-colored film
frames filled with scratches
and dirt.
Although at times there
was a clear mismatch of
music and images, the
seamless cohesiveness
of each instrumental
performance made these
films a natural pairing of
sound and color. It was
an ultimate experience of
senses that required audiences to be fully present
and to indulge in the visual
dynamism that the musical
performances created.
SPORTS
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
AARON BREZEL | SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR | [email protected]
STUDENT LIFE 5
Arends’ redemptive double pushes softball past DePauw
AARON BREZEL
SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
When
Taylor
Arends
stepped up to the plate with
two-on and two out the top
of the ninth tied 4-4 against
DePauw University, she did so
while mired in a mini-slump—
or whatever counts as such for
a freshman shortstop who currently ranks fifth or better on the
Washington University softball
team in just about every meaningful offensive category. In that
final at-bat, however, Arends
gave herself a dose of redemption, stroking a two-RBI double
to left field, snapping a zero for
seven skid and lifting the Bears
to a 6-4 Saturday night victory
over the Tigers.
“I knew that it was going to
come down to that because in
softball, it always happens—
you’re having a bad day; you’re
always going to end up in those
clutch situations, so for me, I
just wanted to right my wrong,”
she said.
After Arends’ hit, senior
Annie Pitkin retired the side
with a pair of strikeouts and a
pop-up to ice the victory.
With the win, the Bears
improve to 26-8 and cap off a
3-1 weekend in Bloomington,
Ill., where the Bears picked up
4-0 and 8-0 shutout victories
against Hope College and the
University of Wisconsin—Eau
Claire, respectively, on Friday
before being edged out by
University of Wisconsin—La
Crosse 2-1 the next day.
Against DePauw, the Bears
were hitless through the first
five innings, while DePauw
scored a run in the second,
fourth and fifth to build a 3-0
lead. The Red and Green
evened the score in the top
of the sixth, however, taking
advantage of two Tiger errors
to score three unearned runs.
With one out, junior center
fielder Janet Taylor initiated the
rally with a single down the left
field line, advancing to second
on an errant throw by the left
fielder. After Arends popped
out to the catcher—one of
her two unproductive outs
with runners in scoring position before her game-breaking
double—senior first baseman
Brooke Hofer drove in Taylor
with a two-out single to right
field. After a walk by junior
catcher Halle Steinberg, sophomore starting pitcher Maggie
Clapp reached on an error by
the shortstop, allowing Hofer
to score. Steinberg then came
around to score on an infield
single by sophomore right
fielder Ashley Madsen.
In the bottom half of the
frame, senior Annie Pitkin
came on to relieve Clapp who
surrendered a season-high nine
hits, two earned runs and one
strikeout. DePauw and Wash.
U. traded runs in the eighth
inning, and in the top of the
ninth, with Madsen and Taylor
on base, Arends delivered her
decisive double.
In four innings of relief,
Pitkin notched seven strikeouts,
allowed two hits, gave up one
unearned run and earned the
win. She improved to 16-4 on
the season.
While
Arends
played
hero against DePauw, she
was unable to fill the same
role against La Crosse. With
Madsen and Taylor on base
again with two outs, Arends
grounded out to shortstop, sealing the one run loss.
Arends was not the only
Bear at fault this game. The
Bears outhit the Eagles nine to
five, but went 2-10 with runners
in scoring position during the
game, with both hits coming in
the bottom of the third.
The Red and Green’s lone
run came in that inning when
a single by Clapp, now playing
third base, and a double by
Steinberg put runners on second and third with no outs.
Three batters later, Taylor
delivered a two-out single
through the right side of the
infield that scored Clapp from
third. Steinberg, however, was
thrown out at home to end the
inning.
The Eagles evened the score
in the next frame with a leadoff home run and then pulled
ahead with a two out triple
followed by an infield single.
It was enough of a cushion to
stave off a Bears’ offense unable
to muster a clutch hit.
Pitkin took the loss after
pitching a complete game with
two earned runs and seven
strikeouts.
Against Eau Claire, the
Bears capitalized on four errors
to score five unearned runs
in the win. Junior right fielder
Kenzie James and Hofer paced
the Bears’ offense with three
hits a piece. Clapp earned the
six inning victory to improve
to 8-4.
In the Hope game, Taylor
provided the big blow; a two
run home run to left field
that scored junior left fielder
Hannah Mehrle in the bottom
of the first. Mehrle then delivered a two-out RBI single in
the next inning to score Clapp.
Hofer hit a sacrifice fly to plate
Arends in the third to round out
the scoring for the Bears. Pitkin
twirled six shutout innings with
six strikeouts to earn the win as
the starter, while Clapp came in
for the seventh inning to shut
the door.
Next up, the Bears have an
exhaustive six game slate from
Thursday to Sunday, with pairs
of games against Greenville
College, Principia College
and Blackburn College. The
Principia doubleheader on
Friday will be the only games
the Bears will host.
BY THE NUMBERS: Men’s and women’s tennis steam roll Case Western, fall to Chicago
Just two weeks before the University Athletic
Association Championship tournament, the
Washington University men’s and women’s
tennis teams faced off in a pair of games
against two conference opponents: Case
Western Reserve University and the University
of Chicago. With identical opponents both
Bears’ teams delivered near identical results,
securing wins over the Spartans before falling
to the Maroons the next match. With the split
weekends, the men’s and women’s teams
now sit at 11-3 and 11-7, respectively.
NO. 13 MEN’S
TENNIS DEF. NO. 6
CASE WESTERN 7-2
NO. 5 CHICAGO
DEF. MEN’S TENNIS
8-1
● The Bears led 2-1
after doubles play.
● Sophomore Jason
Haugen and senior
Josh Cogan earned
three-set victories at
fifth and sixth singles,
respectively.
● The Bears were swept
in doubles play for
only the second time
all season.
● The Bears’ lone victory came at second
singles with a three
set 6-2 3-6 6-2
victory from sophomore
Johnny Wu.
NO. 9 WOMEN’S
TENNIS DEF. NO. 22
CASE WESTERN 7-2
● Sophomore Grace Deering and senior Jaime
Silverberg eeked out a 9-8
(8-6) win over the No.
18-ranked doubles pair.
● Junior Rebecca Ho and
Silverberg both won
singles matches against
nationally ranked opponents.
NO. 15 CHICAGO
DEF. WOMEN’S
TENNIS. 6-3
● The Bears led 2-1
after doubles play.
● Ho defeated Ariana
Iranpour, the
number four-ranked
singles player in the
country in straight
sets 62-61.
Baseball records 4-0 weekend behind strong hitting, timely pitching
NICK KAUZLARICH
STAFF REPORTER
A 15-run inning, an insidethe-park bunt home run and
a walk-off single were just a
few of the unusual moments
in a four-win weekend for the
Washington University baseball team.
The Bears began the
weekend with a whopping 21-2 victory against
Greenville College on Friday
before defeating Fontbonne
University 2-1 and 13-3,
respectively, in a Saturday
doubleheader. To complete
the spotless weekend, Wash.
U. trounced Iowa Wesleyan
University 15-5 on Sunday.
“Top to bottom, everyone
is hitting the ball really well.
We’re barreling baseballs,
we’re getting guys [on base]
and we’re finally hitting with
some power which we haven’t
done up until this point,
but this weekend we kind
of broke out of that shell,”
senior Max Golembo said.
In their only road game of
the weekend, the Bears belted
11 hits in a 15-run fourth
inning to break open a 2-2 tie
against Greenville. Junior Ben
Browdy (4-for-4, four RBIs)
smacked an RBI triple and a
three-run double in the inning
as he fell just a home run shy
of the cycle for the game.
On the mound, senior
Julian Clarke (3-3, 4.46 ERA)
secured the victory after
allowing two earned runs on
four hits in four innings of
work before being taken out
with the game well in hand.
Back at the friendly confines of Kelly Field, the Bears
offense took a short break in
the middle of a high octane
weekend. Fontbonne pulled
ahead 1-0 as the Red and
Green produced just two hits
in the first five innings. But
junior Austin Darmawan got
the Bears on the scoreboard
with a little bit of luck and
a whole lot of speed. After
successfully reaching on a
bunt single, Darmawan took
advantage of two throwing
errors to come all the way
around to score in an insidethe-park homerun.
The game remained in a
1-1 deadlock until the bottom of the ninth. Sophomore
Conor O’Hara belted a leadoff single and senior Kyle
Kozak drew a walk to put two
runners on base with nobody
out. Junior Spencer Egly laid
down a perfect sacrifice bunt
and Darmawan was intentionally walked to load the
bases with one out. Golembo
then delivered a walk-off single into center field to give the
Bears a 2-1 victory.
While Golembo may have
provided the game-winning
hit, junior Brad Margolin
(4-1, 3.81 ERA) fired a
complete-game one-hitter on
the mound and retired the
final 22 batters in a row to
put the Bears in position to
win. Margolin allowed one
unearned run, notched nine
strikeouts and didn’t allow
a walk, all in an efficient
98-pitch performance.
It was a bounce back start
for Margolin, who allowed 11
earned runs in 13 innings in
his previous two starts. To try
to reverse course, Margolin
focused on hitting his spots
and keeping the arm slot the
same for his slider and his
fastball in order to baffle hitters at the plate.
“Obviously the results
were pretty great to have, but,
I mean, having the outings
before kind of made me work
a little bit harder and try to
throw a little bit better in my
bullpen work building up to
this game,” Margolin said.
“My slider was sharper than
it had been in the past couple
games and I was spotting it up
pretty well.”
For head coach Pat Bloom,
Margolin’s start was exactly
what the Bears needed after
the pitching staff allowed
31 total runs in three games
to Grinnell College last
weekend.
“He was in total command
all day, and we really needed
that because as a pitching
staff we’ve been underperforming relative to our ability
lately,” Bloom said. “It takes
high-end, quality starts from
our veteran arms like Brad
[Margolin] to be able to help
us get on the right track.”
In the second game of the
doubleheader, the Bears fell
behind 3-1 heading into the
bottom of the third inning.
Unlike the earlier game, however, the Red and Green’s
offense exploded, scoring one
run in the third and fourth
runs in the fourth to build a
6-3 lead. The Bears added
four runs on three hits in the
sixth inning to put the game
away as they nabbed a 13-3
victory.
Overall, Wash. U. clubbed
16 hits behind a balanced
offensive attack, with nine
players recording at least
one hit. Meanwhile, junior
SKYLER KESSLER | STUDENT LIFE
Brad Margolin pitches in the Bears’ game against Fontbonne University on Saturday afternoon.
Margolin only gave up one hit on nine innings pitched in nine innings.
Scott Nelson (4-4, 4.91 ERA)
pitched the second completegame of the day for the Bears,
conceding just four hits and
one walk while firing seven
strikeouts.
On Sunday afternoon,
the Bears maintained the
momentum on offense with
a 17-hit performance as part
of a dominant 15-5 win over
Iowa Wesleyan. Browdy
continued his torrid stretch
of hitting with two threerun homers and eight RBIs
to add to his team-leading
51 RBIs this season. The
power surge wasn’t limited to
Browdy, however, as junior
Tate Maider connected on a
solo homerun, his third of the
season.
After posting four consecutive wins this weekend, the
Bears improved their record
to 20-11. Next up for the Red
and Green is a road game
at Webster University on
Tuesday before a three-game
series at home against the
University of Chicago.
Additional reporting by Aaron
Brezel.
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Choreographed by Ignacio Rabadan, the folklorico dance is usually seen in poor regions of Mexico, but has recently become more
popular as a way to showcase traditional clothing and dance.
PHOTOS BY HOLLY RAVAZZOLO | STUDENT LIFE
The West African dance, included because of its tremendous influence in Brazilian Carnaval,
stood out with muted tone costumes and wide, leaping movements.
Partner dances, like Cumbia, featured extravagant maneuvers and lifts that astonished the audience.
CARNAVAL For story see pg. 4
PHOTOS BY JANE ZANKMAN | STUDENT LIFE
Candles line the track at Francis Field this weekend for Relay for Life. The event, benefiting the
American Cancer Society, featured student performances, a dunk tank and more.
Members of the Relay for Life team sit on the track on Francis Field for the opening ceremonies.
The event featured several events such as a Luminaria Ceremony and a silent rave.
RELAY FOR LIFE For story see pg. 1
PHOTOS BY SKYLER KESSLER | STUDENT LIFE
Mosaic Whispers alumnus Aaron Winkler sings “Only in
Dreams.”
Soloist sophomore Eden Diamond preforms “Tremors,” part of
the group’s International Championship Collegiate A Capella set.
Junior Hannah Lacava reads a speech in honor of senior
Kevin Thomas.
MOSAIC WHISPERS performed in their 25th annual Splash of Color concert
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8 STUDENT LIFE
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
STAFF EDITORIAL
Worried about registration? Consider these classes for the fall
I
t’s time to register for classes
once more, so we at Student
Life have compiled a list of
our favorite options offered
for the fall of 2016. Pray that you
have a good time slot lest you be
stuck with Management 100.
Computer Science I
Before coming to
Washington University,
I thought all computer
scientists were nerds. After
being strongly encouraged to
try it out, I took Computer
Science I (CSE 131) in the
fall of my sophomore year.
Update: I’m now a second
major in Computer Science.
This course teaches you some
basic Java coding skills, and
while it may not fulfill any
of your graduation requirements, basic coding skills are
going to be essential in our
futures as our world is becoming increasingly digital and
technological.—Noa Yadidi,
Editor-in-Chief
American Democracy, from
Tocqueville to Trump
As we all well know, two
presidential candidates will be
coming to our lovely campus
on a hill this fall—unless of
course one candidate who
shall not be named decides
to just not. With questions
swirling around this entirely
atypical election cycle, no one
quite knows where the future
of this country is heading. Is
American democracy still the
ideal form of government?
Was it ever? Take this intro
to American Culture Studies
class to fully understand the
State of the Union. —Wesley
Jenkins, Associate Editor
Rhetoric and Power
Do you think the name
sounds sexy? Well that’s what
this class is all about. Well...
not about being sexy—it’s
about using the written word
to communicate and to influence. For those who swore
they’d never take a college
writing class after Writing
1, this recommendation
probably won’t make you
reconsider, but for everyone else who’s on the edge,
Rhetoric and Power will make
you think hard about the
way sentence and paragraph
structure interact—with
grammar serving as the glue
holding it all together. In my
opinion, that sounds pretty
sexy.—Aaron Brezel, Senior
Sports Editor
Management
Communication
They say that in business, you learn 95 percent
of what you need for the
job on the job. If I could
pinpoint the class where
I’ve learned the other 5
percent, it’s Management
Communication. Taught by
Staci Thomas, a former marketer in the biotech industry,
the class is fun, engaging
and always a good time. The
class includes a project with
a local client (my class did
Hollywood Casino St. Louis
this semester) and you come
away with experiences you
will be able to apply to interviews and internships.—Peter
Dissinger, Forum Editor
History of the English
Language
I never thought I could
write a 15-plus-page paper on
a single word, but History of
English proved me wrong.
That may sound dull, but
it’s anything but. Professor
Arch is probably one of the
most knowledgeable and
enthusiastic professors I have
had in any department, and
you’re guaranteed to walk out
of this class with way more
information than you know
what to do with (in a good
way).—Sarah Hands, Senior
Forum Editor
While the three essays can be
challenging, the course fills the
writing-intensive requirement
and the readings aren’t too
heavy, so you’ll be able to get
a good grade if you put in the
effort.—Nick Kauzlarich, Senior
Scene Editor
The Theory and Practice
of Justice: The American
Historical Experience
Theory and Practice, unlike
some history classes, strikes
the right balance between
lecture, readings and discussion. It also provides a great
perspective on some of
the major justice battles in
America, as well as the gaps
between our nation’s founding
ideologies and the practice of
their implementation.—Noah
Jodice, Director of Special Projects
Stars, Galaxies, and
Cosmology
To infinity and beyond!
Or so I thought, until taking Stars, Galaxies, and
Cosmology. Now, I know that
infinity—or the edge of the
visible universe—is more like
13.8 billion light-years away.
While intended as a “general
survey for the non-science
major,” this course appeals to
any student—even a science
nerd like myself. Professor
Henric Krawczynski,
described as “the most
adorable man in the entire
world” by an enthusiastic
RateMyProfessors.com fan,
makes topics like black holes,
neutron stars and supernovae
accessible and engaging. To
top it off, this course can also
be applied to fulfill a College
of Arts & Sciences math
requirement.
—Aidan Strassmann, Copy Chief
The New Inequality
Don’t let the fact that the
sociology department is brand
new scare you from taking this
course. Taught by professor
Jake Rosenfeld, this upperlevel seminar is an intriguing
course about the causes and
effects of economic inequality, one of the most pressing
political issues of our time.
Microeconomics (MEC 290)
I took Arts & Sciences
Intro to Microeconomics last
semester, and I thought about
swearing off economics (and
maybe even business) altogether. But this semester, when
I took the business school
version (which is open to anyone!), instead of sitting in the
back of lectures halfheartedly
scrolling through BuzzFeed,
I found myself engaged in a
class that will have real world
application. Can you say
postgraduate employment?
Well, you’ll be able to after this
class.—Lindsay Tracy, Senior
Cadenza Editor
Applications in GIS
I love a good map.
Applications in GIS will teach
you how to use cutting-edge,
disturbingly powerful software
to make maps until you’re
blue in the face. These are not
your mother’s maps, either.
These are maps packed with
data—everything from cities
and roads to animal populations to temperatures and air
pressure. Very baller stuff. Go
forth and grow your mind.
—Maddie Wilson, Managing
Editor
University should institute adviser procedure, optimize student benefit
JEFF KANG
STAFF WRITER
C
ollege is an educational institution
with a purpose to
give students—
both young and old—a chance
to discover their strengths
and further their interests in
specific areas of study. Yet, not
everyone can pay for college. It
is a luxury that only those with
financial stability, like our fortunate Washington University
students, can afford. All Wash.
U. students should strive to
take advantage of various
opportunities that the school’s
major departments offer.
Nevertheless, many graduate
without making use of these
opportunities because major
departments do not always
effectively advertise them.
Students often unintentionally overlook such valuable
assets because they have never
heard of them. Although most
students have a clear understanding of major classes and
requirements, only a few know
about the various internships
and undergraduate research
opportunities that departments
provide. Moreover, students
may find it difficult to learn
more about these opportunities because they do not know
where to look and who to ask.
For instance, I had no
clue that history majors can
choose to do a Undergraduate
Internship in History under a
professor until the first semester of my junior year. Also, I
still do not really understand
what “History 4001” (Directed
Fieldwork in Historical and
Archival Professions) is and
how it differs from the rest
of the major’s Capstone
Experiences.
While there are countless
ways to tackle this issue, I
believe that the problem can
be largely solved by creating
a systematized procedure for
advisers to follow on notifying
advisees of optional major
opportunities.
When you declare a major,
the major department assigns
you to an adviser who you
have to meet to finalize the
declaring process. Also, you
are required to contact and
see your adviser at least once
a semester for registration
whether you want to or not.
These meeting sessions could
be a good chance for students
to hear a general overview
about major opportunities.
Moreover, while they are
not your parents, most advisers
care about their advisees and
are willing to help them make
the best out of their majors:
My adviser was the one who
offered me an Undergraduate
Internship in History as the
student writer for the department newsletter.
Some may oppose this proposal, arguing that students, as
adults, have the responsibility
to make their own decisions
and build their own futures.
While I wholeheartedly agree
with this viewpoint, I still
believe that many underclassmen do not know enough
about their majors to ask the
right questions and make use
of all the available resources.
Others may claim that
the relationship between an
adviser and an advisee should
not be so rigid. Although this
is a reasonable perspective, the
ability to build personal relationships varies between every
human being. Naturally, some
advisers will be more conversational, engaging and organized
than others. I get along very
well with my adviser and
respect her as a history professor, yet it would be wrong for
me to assume that all Wash. U.
students feel the same way I do
about their advisers.
I know that Wash. U.’s
greatest strengths are its low
student-to-professor ratio and
its motto to actually care about
the students. I chose to apply
to Wash. U. because it gave
me an impression that it tries
very hard to make sure that
students get the most out of
their educations. While I am
neither a department head nor
an expert on school administration and policy, I believe that
introducing a simple procedure
for advisers to follow on sharing information with advisees
could help students accomplish much more through their
majors.
OP-ED SUBMISSION
Wash. U. must turn attention toward underpaid adjuncts
ERIK STROBL
COLLEGE WRITING
INSTRUCTOR
A
fter years of
earning negative press as “the
nation’s least
economically diverse top college,” Washington University
has recognized that increasing socioeconomic diversity
is both integral to fulfilling
its mission and good for its
student body. We laud the
chancellor and provost’s
push to double the number
of low-income undergraduates receiving Pell Grants (the
standard measure of underprivileged college students) for
its noble aims. Because Wash.
U. and elite schools like it are
stepping stones on the path of
upward economic mobility,
they should be accessible to
smart, qualified people who
benefit from that mobility the
most.
Chancellor Wrighton
knows this personally; a
2015 Post-Dispatch editorial
quotes his belief in Wash. U.’s
“important responsibility to
serve talented people, independent of their background,”
saying, “I’ve lived the life I’d
like to encourage for other
people.”
That’s a tall order, though,
considering his own historical
luck. The editorial explains
that “a year’s in-state tuition
and fees at a four-year public
university averaged less than
$400 (about $2,580 in 2015
dollars)” when he was an
undergraduate, and rightly
points out that Wash. U.’s
current lofty “status was won
at the expense of expanding
financial aid to more low- and
middle-income students.
Given that history, the
university’s chancellor, Mark
Wrighton, might not have
been able to attend the very
college he now heads.”
I feel that irony every
time I step into my College
Writing classroom. You’re
not very likely to qualify for
low-income assistance as a
student here, but the odds
get pretty good if you’re an
adjunct professor. And if you
teach at a university in 2016,
you probably are an adjunct:
About 75 percent of instructors nationally are classified
as adjuncts, compared to 40
years ago, when the numbers
were flipped and Chancellor
Wrighton’s “first job out of
graduate school was as an
assistant professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.”
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editorial board. The editorial board operates
independently of our newsroom and includes
members of the senior staff and forum section
editors.
Editor-in-Chief: Noa Yadidi
Associate Editor: Wesley Jenkins
Managing Editors: Maddie Wilson
Senior Sports Editor: Aaron Brezel
Senior Scene Editor: Nick Kauzlarich
Senior Cadenza Editor: Lindsay Tracy
Senior Forum Editor: Sarah Hands
Copy Chief: Aidan Strassmann
Director of Special Projects: Noah Jodice
Forum Editor: Peter Dissinger
That’s all but unheard
of today, as tenure-track
academic jobs were converted
to contingent positions—
“gigs,” Wash. U.’s lawyer calls
them—to save money. This
race-to-the-bottom mentality
runs contrary to Washington
University’s values, and so
does the compensation model
that goes with it.
While Henry Ford
famously created the
American middle class by
paying his employees enough
to buy the cars they made,
Wash. U. adjuncts can’t hope
to pay Wash. U. tuition, and
rich universities turn to lowpaying jobs prevents academia
from being the means to a
better life for teachers and
their families. A prospective
undergrad from a household
headed by a Wash. U. adjunct
teaching full time—four fall
semester classes and four
more in the spring—is eligible
for a low-income Pell Grant.
In fact, that breadwinner
would have to teach more
than 11 courses per academic
year at the university’s proposed rate—nearly full time
and a half—to NOT be Pell
Grant eligible; that is, to be
middle-class.
It’s good to finally see socioeconomic diversity among
Washington University students—that means Wash. U.
is helping low-income smart
people. It’s equally deplorable,
though, to see so much socioeconomic diversity among
Washington University
faculty—that means Wash. U.
is creating low-income smart
people. We know that attending Washington University
should be a path out of poverty; let’s hope administration
learns that teaching here
shouldn’t be a path into it.
Chancellor Wrighton, the
best way to encourage a life
like yours for others is to stop
paying your adjunct faculty
poverty wages.
Washington University
administration hasn’t proposed anything close in a year
of bargaining. Wash. U. has
one of the largest endowments in the nation, yet denies
adjunct faculty livable wages.
Adjuncts, students, staff and
allies have teamed up with
the Fight for $15 movement
and will walk out of classes
on April 14 to protest current
working conditions unless
administration agrees to a
fair contract. Please join us in
front of Olin Library at noon
and show your support as we
rally for policies that prioritize
students and their instructors.
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or op-ed. Any submission
chosen for publication does
not necessarily reflect the
opinions of Student Life,
nor does publication mean
Student Life supports said
submission.
SCENE
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
NICK KAUZLARICH | SENIOR SCENE EDITOR | [email protected]
STUDENT LIFE 9
From food truck to restaurant: Guerrilla Street Food
successfully offers original, Filipino-inspired dishes
3559 ARSENAL ST., ST. LOUIS, MO.
DRIVING TIME: 18 min
UBER COST: $14-$19
BROCK WORKMAN
FOOD EDITOR
As Washington University
students, we are fortunate
to be within arm’s length
of some convenient and
flavorful food choices. It is
easy to be content with a beef
Gogi bowl from Seoul Taco
or a meaty burrito covered
in ancho chile tomato sauce
from Mission Taco. However,
just as St. Louis itself seemingly spans endlessly in each
direction outside of campus,
so does the range of exceptional and unique eateries.
You may have never heard
of Guerrilla Street Food
(GSF), and that’s perfectly
reasonable. Up until recently,
the only way to dig into one
of their Filipino-inspired
dishes was to find their food
truck posted throughout
the city—which isn’t so
convenient for a Wash. U.
student with only an hour to
grab lunch between General
Chemistry and Calculus III.
But, now, GSF’s popularity
has funded an expansion
into a permanent home off
of South Grand Boulevard
in Tower Grove East.
Open nearly all day and
late on weekends—except
Sundays—it is now much
easier to access the distinctive fare that made GSF the
Riverfront Times’ Best Food
Truck in St. Louis in 2012.
The restaurant itself is very
simplistic and unintimidating.
It hosts around 10 tables and
sticks to the staple GSF color
scheme of yellow on black—
from its menu to the colors
on the wall. Aside from a few
additional decorations and
shelves with miscellaneous
collections and shirts for sale,
GSF sends one message—it
is all about the food.
The food is what built this
restaurant into a local favorite. Evident from the giant
menu board with removable
meal tiles, GSF’s offerings are
ever-changing. The owners
focus on using fresh seasonal
ingredients, so some meals
slide in and out of availability.
It is hard to be devastated
if your favorite meal is
removed, though, as the item
that takes over its menu slot
will probably be just as original and just as tasty.
On my first trip to GSF,
a friend and I split two
different entrees: the 800pound Guerrilla and the
Aporkalypse Now Redux.
Yes, some of the menu names
might seem like Guy Fieri
whipped them up, but the
BROCK WORKMAN | STUDENT LIFE
The brick-and-mortar location of Guerrilla Street Food serves Filipino-inspired cuisine. The business, known for their food
truck, is owned by entrepreneur Joel Crespo and chef Brian Hardesty.
food is worthy of its outlandish monikers.
The Guerrilla is a rice
bowl with chicken adobo and
slow roasted pork tossed in
with an egg and a range of
spices. The pork melted in
my mouth, and the egg and
spices perfectly blended with
the rice to pack a balanced
flavor in each bite. The Redux
is a loaded nacho plate GSFstyle—with plenty of spice in
the form of jalapenos and a
drizzle of tofu “cheese.”
The tortilla chips are a
bit funkier than a standard
nacho, but they still balance
well enough with the rest
of the toppings. My sole
grievance might be that just
one entree on its own is not
enough food for hearty eaters such as myself, but that
problem is easily remedied by
choosing one of the variety
of side dishes available as
well.
Each dish has its own identity—ranging from burritos
and burgers to rice bowls—
but each blends Filipino
inspirations with local
offerings in a unique way that
makes GSF unlike almost
anything else in Greater St.
Louis.
Tower Grove might be a
BROCK WORKMAN | STUDENT LIFE
The 800 Pound Guerilla dish features both pork and chicken on a
bed of jasmine rice. Guerilla Street Food offers a rotating menu of
Filipino-inspired cuisine.
bit far from campus to be
a true Wash. U. hangout,
but it would be a mistake to
not take a few trips down
to Guerrilla Street Food to
experience one of the most
fascinating dining experiences St. Louis has to offer.
A WHITE GUY’S SPRING FASHION GUIDE
want to scream out “Stop
it Mr. Cheney, this is torture!” Now, you’re ready
for whatever life throws at
you, except for any movement faster than a brisk
walk.
—Noah Jodice
A PLAIN SHIRT
FROM A T-SHIRT
CANNON
ILLUSTRATION BY NOAH JODICE
SCENE STAFF
Ah, spring: The smelly
trees are flowering, the overwatered grass is green and
the salmon are spawning.
Salmon shorts, that is. With
an onslaught of salmon-colored shorts expected to take
campus by storm next week,
we at Student Life feel it’s
important to offer our best
fashion tips for white guys
this spring season.
SPERRY DOCKSIDERS
Spring weather means
no snow. And no snow
means you can finally
break out your fresh
kicks without the fear of
road salt eating away at
your soles. The kicks you
choose depend on where
you’re headed. Going to
the dock for an afternoon
sail? Slip on your Sperry
Docksiders. Gonna play
a round on the green?
Slip on your Sperry
Docksiders. Heading to a
formal event and need to
impress your date? Slip on
your Sperry Docksiders.
They’re the perfect shoes,
because they let your
feet breathe in that fresh
spring air, and the only
by-product is the release
of noxious fumes coming from your un-socked
feet sweating and rubbing endlessly against
low-grade brown leather.
Oh, and that beautiful
squeak that they produce
after a spring shower.
But don’t let the rain stop
you, because that same
leather—now wet—will
stain your soles a healthy
brown.
Want to avoid all the
sweat, smells and stains?
Slip on some socks.
Some top-of-the-line,
white Nike socks will do.
Preferably the kind you
bought five years ago
when you tried out for
junior varsity basketball
(Your mom still says they
should have picked you
over Brad Garkowski as
the starting point guard).
They should cover most
(if not all) of your shin.
Then, stretch them so
tight that the elastic bands
On the rare day that
you aren’t wearing a
short-sleeved, buttondown shirt from J.Crew,
put on a shirt that you
won from a T-shirt cannon at, say, a St. Louis
Rams game. This shirt
will be an immediate
conversation starter, even
if it is just a plain white
T-shirt sponsored by Papa
John’s, because of its hideousness and symbolism
of American capitalism
gone wrong. People will
understand that you are
wearing it ironically, of
course.
If this isn’t quite your
style, don’t worry—you
can choose instead to
wear the free T-shirt you
got after participating in
a 5K to raise money for
a charity. Sure, you may
have walked the whole
time and only raised $50,
but nobody has to know
that.
—Nick Kauzlarich
SALMON-COLORED
SHORTS
The charm of this wardrobe staple stems from its
ubiquity. Don’t be afraid
to wear the exact same
pair of shorts as literally half of the guys in
your General Chemistry
lecture! There’s just
something magical
about walking through
the Danforth University
Center and spotting a
group of friends with
their thighs all sheathed
in the same shade of
faded pinky-red.
If you want to branch
out, though, there’s a
whole pastel color palette
to choose from. From
lemon yellow to sky blue,
the legwear options are
endless, as long as your
shorts are crisp, Bermudalength and in a color that
you wouldn’t wear on any
other article of clothing.
For a more adventurous
style, try Chubbies. These
pint-sized shorts give off a
humble, definitely-not-adouchebag vibe. You can
feel secure in your masculinity and superior to your
long-short-wearing friends
as you proudly proclaim
“Sky’s out, thighs out.”
­— Hanusia Higgins
A SNAPBACK
BASEBALL HAT
With the sun shining for the seemingly
first time in months, you
might think it’d be smart
and cool to purchase a
snapback to protect yourself from the sun. Except,
you won’t use this hat
for any practical reasons,
because you have to wear
this hat backwards.
Perhaps, you could get
a Washington Nationals
snapback that prominently displays a “W” to
demonstrate an ounce of
pride in your University’s
namesake. You could also
wear a St. Louis Cardinals
hat to fit in with everyone
else, or, if you want to be
“different,” you could don
a Chicago Cubs hat while
pretentiously sipping tea
at Tuesday Tea at 3.
No matter what
baseball hat you choose,
though, the most important part is to keep the
shiny New Era sticker
on the flat bill of the hat.
Trust me, you don’t want
to know what happens if
you take this sticker off.
—Nick Kauzlarich
ROPE BRACELET
Now that you’ve assembled your wardrobe, you
need that one accessory to
pull the outfit together. I
suggest the rope bracelet,
because it is the perfect
way to wear a bit of jewelry while still asserting
your rippling masculinity.
The rope bracelet harkens
back to a time of yore,
when men stared into the
black maw of a sea in
storm and cried defiantly,
“Not today,” all while
repairing a sail with a
length of hemp salvation
they had conveniently tied
to their wrist. You don’t
even have to step foot into
a boat to get one, as J.
Crew sells a circular dose
of salty calluses for $9.50
on its website.
—Aaron Brezel
THE FADE HAIRCUT
The days of Justin
Bieber’s “Baby” haircut have passed, and
if you’re no longer in
middle school, you probably (read: definitely)
shouldn’t have perpetually greasy sweeping side
bangs anymore. So what’s
in style these days if the
wannabe skateboarder
look no longer flies? The
fade. Especially if it’s
longer on top, buzzed
on the sides and gelled
up just the right amount.
Even Bieber has hopped
on this trend as part of
his rebranding, and no
one does basic white boy
hair quite like the Biebs
(except maybe Justin
Timberlake’s ramen
noodle *NSYNC hair).
The only problem with
the fade: your hair might
get a little bit smashed
under your snapback.
—Ella Chochrek
10 STUDENT LIFE
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
Alyssa Carrubba
2016 | Mathematics &
Minor in Marketing
I worked for Abercrombie
& Fitch in Columbus,
Ohio as a Merchandise
Planning intern.
This internship definitely affirmed that I want to have a
future working in the retail industry – I loved the company’s fast-paced
nature and really enjoyed the product-facing aspect of my role.
My goal:
Getting started...
Upon arriving at WashU, I
became interested in both math
and marketing classes, which
was indicative of me having
an analytical side as well as a
creative one. After speaking with
Abercrombie & Fitch at WashU’s
career fair last fall, I knew that
working in the retail industry, as
a merchandise planner was the
perfect way to marry my two
interests.
Bringing my story to life...
In general, the hardest part about
searching for an internship was
allotting large amounts of time
to complete many applications
and their supplements. I spoke
with A&F at the career fair and
expressed my interest in retail
and the planning role specifically.
I reached out to WashU alumnae
who currently work at A&F and
asked about their experiences.
And I applied through
CAREERlink and kept in contact
with the campus rep throughout
the interview process. I spoke with
Jingy Yen at the Career Center a
couple of times regarding how to
conduct myself in an interview as
well as asked her questions about
A&F specifically which was very
helpful in continuing to develop
my knowledge of the company
prior to interviews.
My internship take-away...
I absolutely loved the productfacing attribute of my role as a
planner. It was so cool to be able
to make decisions in regards to
certain clothing items based on
trend and how previous like-items
have performed historically. It
was awesome to get a glimpse
at future assortments and be
able to give my opinions on
their potential success and
consumer response. At the end
of my internship I was offered a
full-time position as an Assistant
Merchandise Planner! I accepted
this offer and cannot wait to be
back in Ohio working for such a
great company!
Alyssa’s advice: “Know
the company you are interviewing with prior to speaking with
them. Go talk to them at the career fair! Get the contact info of our campus rep and
make sure you keep in contact with him or her during the interview process.”
FROM PASSION SPRINGS PURPOSE
This Week’s Opportunities
Stephen Ministries
The Siden Group
Renaissance Capital
Reynolds & Reynolds
U.S. Geological Survey
AEI
OrderAhead
Spencer Stuart
RiverVest Venture
Partners
Overland Partners
Kaiser Permanente
Georgetown Learning
Centers
New York City Council
SupplyHouse.com
Events
APR. 14
Info session with University of
Missouri- KC Medical School
APR. 15
Global Health and Infectious Disease
Conference
APR. 15
Careers in Management Consulting
and Tax
MAY 12
Junior Jumpstart
For more information visit careercenter.wustl.edu