October 13, 2011

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Tentative plans to demolish
the ‘eyesore of Eliot Hall’
unofficially unveiled
MICHAEL TABB
NEWS EDITOR
they are fairly well developed.
“It wasn’t a secret, but we weren’t
quite ready to announce,” said Steve
Givens, associate vice chancellor
for Public Affairs. “Basically, until
the Board of Trustees makes a final
decision and approves the whole
project, we just don’t talk about what
might be. Yes, there’s plans for a new
building and there’s a formal process
going on right now, but generally we
don’t talk about that process until it’s
finalized.”
Givens said that the business
school has been looking to expand its
square-footage for a long time.
“It’s part of the business school’s
longer-range strategic plan to add a
needed facility,” Givens said. “It’s
a school that’s experienced a lot of
growth in students and programs
since Simon Hall was finished, and
they’re just looking for more space
so they can deliver those programs to
their student body in a better way.”
Some students are heavily in favor
of the construction plan.
“It’s wonderful that Olin is expanding on campus and tearing down the
ugly eyesore of Eliot Hall,” senior
Daniel Bernard said. “It’s the worstkept secret.”
Although an announcement hasn’t
been made, many business school students said they have heard about the
construction plans.
“Rumors started last fall…people
I’ve talked to about this are mostly
upperclassmen, professors, faculty members and students that are
employed in the business school,”
junior Cassie Rowland said. “We are
kind of outgrowing this space, having
more space will allow professors to
have classes at better times.”
Other students noted that while
the school could definitely use more
space, the tentative location is not
optimal.
“We definitely need more space,
Top: A series of images posted in McMillan Hall show tentative plans for the
demolition of Eliot Hall. Bottom: The university plans to demolish Eliot and part
of McMillan to create the new “Throop Building,” which would become part of
the Olin Business School.
Architectural prints detailing
plans for the Olin Business School
to expand into the location currently occupied by Eliot Hall have
been posted on a bulletin board in
McMillan Hall.
Washington University has not
officially announced the changes, but
many students claim to be aware of
them.
The renderings by Mackey
Mitchell Architects detail tentative
plans for a partial demolition of
McMillan Hall and a full demolition
of Eliot Hall to create room for Olin’s
new “Throop Building.”
Members of Facilities Planning
& Management were reviewing
schematic designs at a meeting
Wednesday night, Project Manager
Frank Freeman said.
University officials stressed that the
plans are not yet complete, though
Committee to choose
new sorority for WU
Carnahan will not run for office
in 2012, to work in private sector
MICHAEL TABB | STUDENT LIFE
COLE BISHOP | STUDENT LIFE
BECKY PRAGER
STAFF REPORTER
Move over AOPi, there’s going to
be a new newest sorority in town.
The
Women’s
Panhellenic
Association and the Office of Student
Involvement and Leadership (Greek
Life) have announced the addition
of a new sorority to the Washington
University campus.
The decision was prompted by
the steady increase in the number
of women registering for formal
recruitment and the need to compensate for growing chapter size, said
Coordinator for Student Involvement
and Leadership (Greek Life) Lucy
Morlan.
“Having 150 women in a chapter
makes it difficult to get to know people—having numbers come down
would make it more intimate for
members,” Morlan said.
She says that it has also become difficult to find rooms large enough for
sororities to hold chapter meetings.
A Panhellenic extension committee has been formed to review the
applications of interested sororities
and narrow it down to one organization to recommend to the Panhellenic
board, which will vote on whether
or not to accept the addition. The
University will sign off on the final
decision.
The committee is made up of one
delegate from each of the University’s
seven sororities, a fraternity male, a
non-Greek University student, the
Panhellenic president and one staff
member.
According to Morlan, the reason
for the diverse committee is to make
sure that all opinions on campus
can be heard, not just those from the
Panhellenic community.
She said that having the chapter
representatives is important because
the addition of a new sorority will
have the most impact on the existing
chapters on campus.
“The sororities here rely on and
work closely with each other” Morlan
said. “We want to bring in someone
who will work with the others, not
just compete and be a stand-alone
chapter.”
The non-Greek member and the
male fraternity member were chosen
to provide different perspectives.
Morlan emphasized the importance of finding an organization
that will not only contribute to and
improve the Panhellenic community,
but also to the Washington University
community as a whole.
“The impact will not just be on
the Panhellenic community but also
on the fraternity community and
the larger community in terms of
the non-Greek student,” Morlan
said. “It’s important to take into
account the academic standpoint or
things that are important from the
University’s mission standpoint.”
The committee reviewed applications from eight different sororities
and graded them based on elements
like programming, future national
goals and alumni strength.
It focused on whether the organizations would bring programming
that is relevant to members and to
the larger student community and
whether their policies would mesh
with the religious and cultural diversity on campus.
JACK MARSHALL
STAFF REPORTER
Secretary of State Robin
Carnahan, D-Mo., announced she
would not seek re-election on Sept.
30, leaving her seat open for the
2012 election.
Carnahan, sister of Rep. Russ
Carnahan, and daughter of former
senators Mel and Jean Carnahan,
was elected to the post in 2004 and
re-elected in 2008. She ran for the
United States Senate in 2010 but
lost to republican Roy Blunt by 14
points.
Although the Secretary of State
position does not have term limits,
SEE PLANS, PAGE 2
Carnahan decided to return to
working in the private sector. In a
statement released on her website,
she cited her father’s work outside
of state politics as an inspiration
for her stepping down.
“I watched as my father…served
SEE CARNAHAN, PAGE 2
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FRIDAY 14
SATURDAY 15
SUNDAY 16
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SUNNY
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PLANS FROM PAGE 1
QUOTE
OF THE DAY
THURSDAY 13
Pastors Under Pressure
Eliot Hall, Room 102, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Grace Fellowship is hosting an event
called Pastors Under Pressure. A panel of
Christian pastors will be present to take
attendees’ most challenging questions
on God, Christianity and the Afterlife.
Topics will be discussed in an informal,
conversational atmosphere. Students of all
different beliefs are welcome.
The Musical Brain of David Robertson
St. Louis Science Center, Exploradome, 5050
Oakland Ave., St. Louis, MO, 63110, 7 p.m.
This event is presented by the St. Louis
Science Center in partnership with the St.
Louis Symphony, the Mallinckrodt Institute
of Radiology and the Washington University
School of Medicine. The presentation
focuses on the legitimacy of the musical
brain. Results of brain scan studies will be
presented by Marcus E. Raichle, professor
of radiology, neurology, neurobiology and
biomedical engineering at the University.
The event is free and open to the public.
Seating is limited, but a live broadcast on
HEC-TV begins promptly at 7 p.m.
“It’s wonderful
that Olin is
expanding on
campus and
tearing down
the ugly eyesore
of Eliot Hall.”
- senior Daniel
Bernard
FRIDAY 14
FALL BREAK
Performing Arts Department: Hairspray
Mallinckrodt Center, Edison Theatre, 8 p.m.
The show is directed by Ron Himes,
the Washington University Henry E.
Hampton, Jr., Artist-in-Residence. Weekend
performances will take place through Oct.
30. Tickets: adults, $30; WUSTL faculty &
staff, $20; children, students, seniors, $10.
SATURDAY 15
WUSTL Football Game
Francis Field, 1 p.m.
The Washington University Bears will play
the College of Wooster’s Fighting Scots.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
NEWS EDITOR | CHLOE ROSENBERG | [email protected]
POLICE
BEAT
Oct. 7, 2011
Fire—At 2:43 p.m., in the DUC, during
the filming of a student-made movie
in Ibby’s Bistro, diffuser paper placed
over a spotlight caught fire. The fire was
extinguished with no damage or injuries.
Emergency Management was contacted.
Disposition: cleared.
WUSTL 2011 Fall Festival
DUC, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m
Join alumni, students and friends on
campus for a fun-filled afternoon including
a BBQ lunch and children’s activities before
the Bears football game. This event is cosponsored by the Alumni Association, the
Eliot Society, the Department of Athletics,
the Student Alumni Ambassador Program
and the Danforth University Center. The
cost of the event includes both lunch and
game tickets: adults, $15; WUSTL students,
$10 (meal points accepted); children 6-12,
$10/under 6, free.
teachers are on top of each other for office hours,” sophomore Imani McKenzie said. “I think it
sounds good in theory, first of all because Eliot’s a really ugly building, but it’d be really nice if it
was next to where the B-school is now, and it loses the exclusivity of the B-school. But we definitely
need more space.”
Several upperclassmen said that numerous deans in the business school have said the plans are
only awaiting an official sign-off from the board of trustees, and that the University is hoping to
break ground in January.
None of the business school deans could be reached for contact.
Members of the Department of Anthropology, which would be required to relocate many of its
classes according to current renderings, echoed that the plans have not been confirmed, and said the
images were posted for faculty to see what the changes may look like.
Mackey Mitchell Architects have a history of working for the University, recently designing the
South Forty House, College Hall and Umrath Hall.
SORORITY FROM PAGE 1
The committee also investigated the organizations on the national level, looking at what their
decision-making processes and officer structures are like, which Morlan said can provide a lot of
insight into how the sorority would operate on campus.
Sophomore Reyshma Cragg, the committee delegate from Delta Gamma, is excited to be a part
of the decision-making process.
“We may need another sorority to control numbers, but adding a new chapter will add so much
more to our community through philanthropy and their energy,” she said. “It’s exciting to have a
say [in] how Greek life is going to be shaped for the future.”
Morlan agrees that the decision making process is important for the sorority delegates not only
because it will greatly impact them, but also because they get the chance to learn about how other
organizations work.
“When they see what other organizations are doing, they can maybe take some of those ideas
back to their own chapters,” Morlan said. “The process infuses some really cool ideas.”
According to Morlan, the process will differ from the colonization of Alpha Omicron Pi in 2009,
because the new sorority will have over a year to prepare before doing any actual recruiting. AOII
had much less time.
“After Formal Recruitment in 2013, they’ll bring in a lot of volunteers and do info sessions about
philanthropy, programming, etcetera,” Morlan said. “Their alumni and national office staff will be
doing one-on-one interviews to start with their initial class.”
According to Morlan, after the sorority’s initial class is chosen, its members will be eligible to
participate in formal recruitment.
The committee has narrowed the pool down to three organizations: Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha
Delta Pi and Kappa Delta. Each will be coming to campus for day-long presentations about their
respective organizations. The presentations will be open to all students.
“The Panhellenic community the past couple of years has focused on not resting on the fact that
we’re a solid community, but really trying to push ourselves,” Morlan said. “Bringing a new chapter
brings new people, new ideas and new perspectives, something that’s important to the community
as a whole.”
CARNAHAN
FROM PAGE 1
on church boards, the local school board and
helped the Red Cross and countless other
causes—every day committed to helping a
neighbor and making the community better. Dad always thought his experience as
a private citizen helped make him a more
effective public servant and a better governor,” she said in the statement.
Carnahan said that while she has chosen
not to run for re-election, she is proud of
her accomplishments—which, she noted,
include digitizing Missouri’s historical
resources, protecting voter rights, helping
victims recover $10 billion in consumer fraud
and reducing red tape for small businesses.
Junior Sherveen Mashayekhi, president of
the College Democrats, said he had hoped
Carnahan would run again, given her political history.
“We are disappointed with her decision
not to run, because she is a candidate we
have supported in the past,” Mashayekhi
said. “We are sure that she will throw her hat
back into public office eventually.”
Mashayekhi added that holding onto all
state democrat seats is especially important
in light of the Republican Party’s national
gains in the 2010 midterm elections. He
said that the College Democrats plan on
supporting every democrat who runs in
2012—especially Carnahan’s brother Russ,
who narrowly won re-election over Ed
Martin 2010.
“We have supported Russ Carnahan in
the past and really like his stance on a lot of
issues,” Mashayekhi said. “We are looking
to see what he does, especially after the gerrymandering of the district.”
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Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, D-Mo., has
announced that she will not be running for reelection in 2012.
Mashayekhi offered his opinion on which
candidate the College Democrats would
support.
“We will be supporting the democratic
candidates that end up running, and we will
support any candidate that reaches out to us
for support,” he said.
While Robin Carnahan may not be on the
2012 ballot, she ended her statement by saying that she plans to continue being involved.
“I plan to stay engaged and involved,”
Carnahan said in the statement. “For me,
that could include running for elected office
again, but it will certainly mean speaking out
and working hard for the values we share
and the candidates who stand up for them.”
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NEWS EDITOR | CHLOE ROSENBERG | [email protected]
New FYC
program
aims to
acclimate
freshmen to
St. Louis
DILI CHEN
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
St. Louis by the Dozen, a new program
launched by the First Year Center this fall,
aims to integrate Washington University
freshmen into the greater St. Louis
community.
As part of the program, faculty members
take groups of 12 freshmen to various attractions and public events around the city to
familiarize the students with local culture
and traditions.
The program is an attempt to help new
students transition into college life in St.
Louis and build positive student-faculty
relationships early in the year, said Kirsten
Smith, administrative coordinator for the
First Year Center.
Multiple events have been held so far
this year: Students went to Busch Stadium
for a Cardinals baseball game against the
Cincinnati Reds with Professor Henry
Schvey, visited the Cahokia Mounds with
Professor John Kelly, biked along Grant’s
Trail with Professor Mitch Sommers and
explored downtown St. Louis with Professor
Tim Bono.
Bono noted that the activities are flexible
and tailored to students’ interests.
“The events are very much student-dependent,” he said.
While the new opportunities do not
allow as many students to be involved as
those in the past, Smith said the 12-student
limit is likely to remain. She said the center
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Students explore downtown as part of St. Louis by the Dozen. St. Louis by the Dozen is a new program run by the First Year Center that takes twelve
person groups of freshmen off campus to explore local landmarks.
hopes the smaller student groups will allow
freshmen to make closer bonds with their
professors and other students in a less intimidating environment. She added that smaller
groups make students more likely to attend
the events after signing up.
Coordinators of the First Year Center said
they based the program on other universities’ off-campus programs, such as the one
at Regis University that holds similar events
every month.
General faculty and student reactions to
the program have been enthusiastic so far,
said junior Paul Roth, community relations
chair for the First Year Center Executive
Board. Roth helped organize the program
with Danielle Bristow, the director of First
Year Programs.
Roth said the program was something
SUp
he would have wanted as a freshman, as it
allows new students to learn more about St.
Louis through physical experience while
helping them find a balance between work
and fun during the transition to college.
Roth said the center hopes the number
of trips will increase to compensate for the
small size of the groups.
Freshman Tejas Shekhar had lunch with
Professor Jay Turner in conjunction with the
program.
“He told us about his work, about chemical engineering and asked us about our
interests…I think it was good to get to know
a professor better. I had a good experience,”
Shekhar said.
Many upperclassmen wish that the First
Year Center had sponsored the program
when they were freshmen.
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“I think it would be an interesting experience. It would have added to the college
experience. Now I’m sad I was never able to
experience that,” junior Megan Yu said.
Junior Rina Matsumoto says that the
program would have helped her to explore
St. Louis beyond the boundaries of the
University.
“As freshmen, we can’t get off campus—
we don’t know where to go and we don’t
have transportation. If there was an opportunity like that, I would have taken advantage
of it,” she said.
St. Louis by the Dozen events are open to
all freshmen and are free of charge. Plans for
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FORUM EDITOR | DANIEL DEIBLER | [email protected]
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STAFF EDITORIAL
H
ow should a nonprofit
decide from whom to
accept money? The answer
is not always obvious.
Dance Marathon, a yearly charity event
at Wash. U. that benefits Children’s
Miracle Network, is currently participating in Monsanto’s “Grow St. Louis
Contest.” The organization with the
largest number of online votes by the
end of the voting wins $15,000, with
$10,000 and $5,000 going to the first
and second runners up. As Dance
Marathon participants and students at
a school that also receives significant
funding from Monsanto, we are concerned about the possible ethical issues
surrounding accepting funding, even
charitable funding, from influential
corporations.
The monetary relationship between
Monsanto, a Missouri-based biotech
company, and Washington University
The ethics of charity
is hardly a secret. Wash. U. is the home
of Monsanto Hall, and the company
has a history of contributing money to
Wash. U. The president of Monsanto
even serves on the University’s board
of trustees, but the knowledge that
the company engages in ethically
questionable practices is far from new
information.
Concerns about “greenness” aside,
the company’s troubling seed patenting practices, bullying of farmers and
investigation by the SEC are well documented. Monsanto is only one among
many large corporations that has ties
to Washington University. Other board
members include the CEOs of Peabody
Energy and Arch Coal, Inc. Very few
entities, corporations or otherwise,
fit neatly into the binary categories
of “good” and “evil,” but Monsanto
does have a somewhat tainted ethical
track record. By accepting money from
such institutions, Wash. U. and Dance
Marathon are expressing tacit approval
for those corporations and a willingness
to be associated with them.
This is not to say that Dance
Marathon itself is tainted in any way
by its participation in the contest. DM
is a worthy cause, and we have no wish
to hurt its chances of raising as much
money as possible. Many St. Louis-area
nonprofits are also taking part. It’s not
as though Monsanto is paying off these
groups to do its will or skew scientific
research in its favor, only attempting to
ameliorate its image as a corporation by
“giving back.”
The combined payout to contest winners is peanuts for a company as large
as Monsanto. However, even the third
place prize money would allow Dance
Marathon to cover a substantial portion of its operating costs and donate
even more money to Children’s Miracle
Network. There is no question that the
money, no matter how questionable the
source, would benefit a good cause. The
Dance Marathon Executive Board itself
had qualms about taking part in the
competition, but ultimately decided to
do so. Research institutions like Wash.
U. face similar conundrums. Scientific
research can lead to innovation and
progress, but money is always a necessary factor. Corporations can provide
funding, but there might be a push
to publish research favorably skewed
toward the donor.
Dance Marathon is a worthy cause
and a Wash. U. tradition. Whether you
choose to vote for Dance Marathon in
the competition or not, the key is to
make a conscientious decision about
where the money is coming from and
whether Monsanto’s reputation outweighs the need of an institution like
Dance Marathon.
EDITORIAL CARTOON
GODIVA REISENBICHLER | STUDENT LIFE
Death and you
LARA SICHI
STAFF COLUMNIST
T
here’s nothing quite like having your midterm-induced
panic interrupted by the news
that a man who made the personal computer shiny is dead.
Plenty of things have been said about
Steve Jobs’ death, and plenty of things
remain to be said; all else aside, it’s hard
to get an idea of what a person’s impact
really was until you’ve seen what happens in their absence. For me, though,
his passing and the reactions thereto
were a stark reminder that the things
we do here are only as important as we
make them.
After the first rush of excitement over
having gotten into Wash. U. and three
months of anticipation, it was easy to
forget that. It was easy to forget that simply being accepted to an extraordinary
school was not, on its own, any kind of
guarantee that my future would matter.
Even in the first few weeks of college,
when I was still riding the thrill of new
experiences and discoveries, I thought
success would come easily. I imagined
that I could plug some numbers into a
certain formula and come out knowing
something important, something new. It’s
a hard conviction to shake, when you’re
as young and smart and lucky as we are.
Besides, who really wants to shake it? It’s
probably one of the best feelings in the
world, the sense that you’re on the cusp
of being quite important.
But this feeling is hard to sustain,
when a person who was such a huge part
of our generation’s world disappears
overnight. This is not to suggest that
Steve Jobs was some looming cultural
hero: he wasn’t, really. He was just
inextricably tied to a brand that, for the
young and smart and lucky, is ubiquitous, and has been that way for years.
He didn’t need to be a legend or a moral
inspiration when he was busy enough
being a genius, which kept him occupied
right up until he died. He is quoted as
having thought that death is a catalyst of
change, a necessary condition of birth,
but the fact is that death’s potential to
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stir revolution is only comforting when
you are thinking about the deaths of
other people. Some of us, certainly, can
hope to scramble to fill some part of
the void that he left, by innovation or
by leadership. For the rest, though—
the people who have no interest in his
industry or no talent for his kind of
work—what is there to think about, in
the wake of his death, and by extension
the wake of his life?
Steve Jobs’ only other notable remark
on mortality was this: “Almost everything—all external expectations, all
pride, all fear of embarrassment or
failure—these things just fall away in
the face of death, leaving only what is
truly important.” This is a sentiment
that applies to journalists as much to
entrepreneurs. As nice as it is to think
that by concentrating on the knowledge
that your time is finite will make you use
your time more wisely, it’s pretty difficult
to keep thinking about your own end
without wasting more time than you gain
on fear and frustration. So where does
that leave you?
Perhaps the most reasonable thing that
can be done with the reality of death and
our own comprehension of it is to keep
in mind not death itself, but what follows
logically on the fact of death: the fact
that every moment is a choice, and every
choice removes the possibility of ever
taking the other option, because one day
we will all run out of choices. Steve Jobs
did a lot in his life, and that’s over with.
What are we going to do? The smallest of decisions gain weight, when you
consider that every decision represents a
quantifiable fraction of all the decisions
you will ever make. And not all of the
decisions we are facing in the next few
years will be small.
On which note, I choose to wrap up
this article and get back to preparing for
my upcoming exams—with, I hope, a
little more thought than I had been putting in, before a man died and we paused
for a moment to remember.
Lara Sichi is a freshman in Arts & Sciences.
Write to Lara Sichi at LARA.SICHI@STUDLIFE.
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Nothing is set
Groceries on the Loop
MATTHEW CURTIS
STAFF COLUMNIST
I
n their second year at Wash. U.,
some students begin the process
of moving off campus. Many will
remain on campus for their four
years; however, 21 percent of the student
body does live off campus. This figure
only takes into account off-campus
living situations that are unaffiliated
with Wash. U.; many more students
live in Greenway, U-Terrace and other
University-owned off-campus housing.
Those who live off campus are clustered
in the general vicinity of the Loop/
Kayak area and along Forsyth; the former is much more populated.
The lucky few who live along Forsyth
have one key advantage over their counterparts on the other side of campus:
Schnucks. The grocery store is only a
15-minute walk from the South 40, and,
while those who live close to Clayton
may have to suffer a little over half an
hour, it’s not significantly longer than
the walk to some of the buildings on
campus.
The Loop, or that general area, needs
an equivalent. From U-Terrace, where
I live, the walk to Schnucks is easily an
hour, and presumably much longer when
one is weighed down by any significant
amount of groceries. Biking is, of course,
out of the question, as anyone who has
attempted to bike with bags swinging
from the handlebars can confirm: In
addition to being difficult, it’s a good
way to see your recent purchases spread
across the pavement. In a cruel twist
of fate, the route to Schnucks for those
who do not live on Forsyth is also almost
entirely uphill.
One’s woes are obviously solved by
car ownership, but to suffer without one
is the more frequent occurrence. Some
of us are additionally inconvenienced by
not living with anyone who owns a car.
My friend who lives next door is down
to only a gigantic box of Cheerios for
sustenance, and when I asked him when
he was going shopping, he responded,
“Whenever you get a car.” To rely on
anyone else gives rise to unsettling feelings of guilt, as at least I hate to make
others feel as if they are valued only as a
chauffeur service. At any rate, rides from
friends are far from certain, and one is
often completely unsure as to when the
next opportunity will present itself.
Currently, the only (relatively) convenient alternatives to Schnucks are
shopping in the Village and dining on
the Loop or at nearby restaurants. The
former is an expensive habit that will
burn through all of one’s meal points in
a fraction of the time they are meant to
last, and the latter can be just as expensive with a markedly inferior quality of
food; it’s a great way to fatten up.
This isn’t to say that a Schnucks needs
to open near the Loop—it probably
doesn’t make any sense economically—
but a small convenience store in the vein
of 7-11 or a Walgreens with a grocery
section would have a captive market.
Obviously, trips to Schnucks would be
preferred, but with the exception of
frozen meat, I can’t think of a single
dietary necessity of mine that a 7-11 or
Walgreens grocery section could not
provide. It would make my life and the
lives of hundreds of Wash. U. students
far easier, and I look forward to the
day, even if it is just a pipe dream, that
I no longer have to send ashamed texts
requesting rides.
Matthew Curtis is a junior in Arts &
Sciences. Write to Matthew Curtis at
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STUDENT LIFE 5
DANIEL DEIBLER
SENIOR FORUM EDITOR
L
ast week, course listings for the
Spring 2012 semester came out.
There was a wide variety of
responses to this momentous
occasion. Some were excited to see what
was being offered; some were worried
about what classes they would be taking.
After that initial wave, everyone’s reactions boiled down to the same general one:
How am I best going to plan out my life?
There are a few types of people at this
school. One is the person who knows what
he wants to do the second he gets here. He
starts taking his major classes and knows
all the requirements like the back of his
hand.
The next type is the person who gets
here without any understanding of what
he wants to learn but ends up figuring it
out eventually.
The final type is the person who never
knows what he wants and ends up graduating with a major in…something, because
he keeps searching.
But no matter what class of person
you are in when you start, your personality and your interests change over time.
I think that we should take that into
account when searching for classes. We
should try to make sure that when we are
deciding what we want to take, we don’t
just look towards our present goals, but we
legitimately take what we are interested in.
That doesn’t necessarily mean you
aren’t interested in the major(s) you chose,
but everyone gets tired of taking the same
subject over and over again. This is why
the University introduced distribution
requirements. It isn’t because they are evil;
it is because they understand the value of
learning other things beyond just the narrow scope of whatever major we choose.
This is why we have the option to take
a class pass/fail. It is because we might
be interested in something else; we might
want to learn something else, even if we
“know” what our ultimate career goals
are.
I haven’t met many people who have
kept up with what they originally came
here intending to learn. Some were
brilliant pre-meds who decided that
anthropology might be more their thing.
Some were economics majors who
decided that math or music might be a
more interesting course of study.
When choosing your courses for next
semester, remember that you are always an
evolving, changing person, and what you
do in the future might not have anything
to do with what you are learning now,
because you can change at any point.
The things you choose to do here are
not written in stone, and the University
has designed its offerings to allow for such
flexibility. We should take advantage of all
there is to offer here, because we have the
opportunity and the ability.
Don’t think of it as learning something
because you want a “well-rounded liberal
arts education.” Think of it as learning
because expanding your horizons—and
understanding that you might see something beyond them better than what you
have now—is better for you in the long
run.
Take a class pass/fail, try glassblowing
or music lessons, and don’t assume that
your future is written for you. There is
nothing wrong with trying something new
or abandoning something old. You can
always walk a different path than the one
you set out on.
Unless you are a senior…then you are
probably going to have to wait until after
graduation.
Daniel Deibler is a sophomore in Arts
& Sciences. Write to Daniel Deibler at
[email protected]
Cluster &@(#ed (the cluster needs to go)
AJ SUNDAR
FORUM EDITOR
I
have no problem with the cluster system
in theory. It ensures that our curriculum
is at least somewhat balanced without
forcing students into specific “core”
classes that half are bound to hate. It supports
depth through related courses and encourages
students to explore intellectual areas outside
of their comfort zones. It sounds great, and
it is great—for some. For everyone else, it is
vestigial at best and overkill at worst.
Perhaps the most revealing sign of the
University’s attitude towards the system is
how horribly outdated it is. The system was
originally introduced with the promise that
every class would be part of some cluster or
another. While that may well have been the
case in 2001, it has yet to be fully updated
since then, and several interesting classes get
passed up because they contribute nothing to
one’s distributions. Contemporary Chinese
Culture and Society; Cold War Culture:
Aesthetics and Politics 1945-2005; Infectious
Diseases: Past, Present and Future…If any
of these classes gets you excited, sit back
and relax, because none of them is offered
in a cluster. Granted, this would be a minor
concern if students could create their own
clusters, but seniors simply can’t, and underclassmen must individually petition for up to
one created cluster. In practice, this leads to
several frustrated students who must relegate
their last year to filling out clusters that have
little relevance to them. If someone happens
to be interested in all of the classes in a given
cluster, fulfilling these distribution requirements is a breeze. But most students simply
don’t find the arbitrary listing of clustered
classes to be classes they are truly interested
and engaged in, and, for many, they end up a
pointless chore.
But perhaps I’m being unfair—surely
Wash. U. gives enough time for students to
take elective credits in addition to their distribution requirements. This is admittedly true
for some students, but it depends heavily on
one’s major. While a literature major requires
only 30 credits for completion, a biology
major requires virtually as many credits in
the first year alone. This is the biggest failure
of the cluster system: It disproportionately
hurts some students more than others. Most
students with lenient majors will have plenty
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of time and space to easily fill out their cluster
requirements and still have room for elective classes. Yet an equally large number of
students with more intensive majors are left
struggling to meet the minimums by their last
semester, and the cluster system makes no
distinction between the latter and the former.
Of course, plenty of loopholes exist to
make this process slightly more tolerable.
For example, under the Shared Attribute
Principle, whichever distribution area applies
to the cluster can also apply to one class
within the cluster. This means that a cluster
with two NS courses and one TH course
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can have the TH count as an NS. Problems
in Philosophy suddenly counts as a natural
science class as much as Physical Chemistry I
and II do, which begs the question: If clusters
can be so easily defeated by loopholes, why
have them at all?
Wash. U. is slated to remove the cluster
system starting next year, so most of my
worries are moot. Beginning in the fall of
2012, incoming students will be spared having
to deal with the obtuse, convoluted cluster
system. Hopefully the University will have
the foresight to pick a simpler, less-confusing
system or ideally do away with distributions
altogether. Because, at the end of the day, we
just don’t need a regimented system to help
us balance our coursework. We don’t need a
Shared Attribute Principle, or eight required
“Language & the Arts” credits. We are all
capable as students to determine what intellectual territories we want to explore outside
of the boundaries our major. We’re smart
kids; we can figure it out ourselves.
Aj Sundar is a senior in Arts & Sciences. Write
to Aj Sundar at
[email protected]
Thumbs up to the new flowers
outside of Holmes because they
actually smell good.
Thumbs down to crickets everywhere- keep that racket down
you punk a-- insects.
Thumbs up to warm weather in
the fall.
Thumbs down to walking into
those swarms of bugs that stick
on your clothes.
Thumbs up to fall break. Too bad
we still have a paper to put out
on Monday.
thumbs
down
Thumbs down rain predictions
but no rain. We’re sick of wearing
goulashes for no reason.
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SCENE EDITOR | DAVIS SARGEANT | [email protected]
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
scene
Introducing: Professor Guido Weiss
Dr. Guido Weiss, the Elinor Anheuser Professor of Mathematics, in his office. Weiss is the oldest serving professor at the University.
ALANA HAUSER
SCENE REPORTER
When you hear the word guido,
the first things that probably come
to mind are gym, tan, laundry,
grenades and Snooki. However,
when it comes to Washington
University, guido should hold an
entirely different meaning. Guido
Weiss, the oldest serving professor at
Washington University and former
chair of the math department, is
much more than a meathead in a
tank top. Perhaps the only things
he has in common with the Jersey
Shore cast are his Italian origins and
his knack for being fit, even at 83
years old.
“You may wonder why I was not
in the U.S. Open,” Weiss said, smirking. “I actually did something very
foolish, I hurt my left leg on a backhand and played for five days when I
shouldn’t have, I had torn the biggest
muscle in my leg and the tendon and
I’m still healing. So I’m out of tennis
now, but I’ll be back in shape for the
Australian open.”
Weiss’ office is cluttered with
stacked papers and books, and family pictures hang from every wall.
Proudly pointing to the trophies
in the corner of the room, Weiss
explained that he is a three-time
champion of the Herman Open, a
lesser-known tennis tournament here
in St. Louis. However, before Weiss’s
athletic career blossomed, he was an
Italian boy living in Europe during
the pre-World War II turmoil.
“In 1938 Mussolini enacted
some anti-Semitic laws when he
was aligned with Hitler,” Weiss
explained. “My father was a rather
well known psychoanalyst. He
formed the Psychoanalytic Society,
and he was a well known student
of Freud and essentially all of these
things were pretty much ruled
against by the powers that be and
many people fled Italy.”
His father was invited to the
Menninger Clinic, a prominent psychiatric clinic in Topeka, Kan. Weiss,
his father, mother and older brother
fled from Italy to the United States
in 1939. Although Weiss eventually
became “a Topeka boy,” he had
previously served in the youth army,
the Balilla, where he was in the same
platoon as Mussolini’s son.
After a few years in Kansas, Weiss
moved to Chicago where his father
joined the Chicago Psychoanalytic
Society. In Chicago, he started high
school, and his athletic career continued to thrive.
“I was a pretty good athlete,”
Weiss said modestly. “You name it,
I played it. I was an All-City football
player in Chicago. I played basketball, ran track, played baseball. I
was also a canoe racer and a pretty
fast runner, about second best in
Chicago. I had football scholarships
offered from Purdue, Northwestern
and a couple other places.”
Although sports dominated his
life throughout his high school
years, Weiss knew he wanted to
have a career in academics. He
was accepted to the University of
Chicago; its enrollment at the time
consisted mostly of veteran students
thanks to the GI Bill. Before rejecting
his sports scholarships and committing to Chicago, Weiss trained with
Otto Graham, member of both the
College and Pro Football Halls of
Fame.
“Otto came back from the war
and for that summer he ran a camp
at Northwestern for people who
were going to be on the team,” Weiss
recalled. “He called me and asked
me if I would change my mind.
And I did spend quite a bit of time
with him, caught more passes from
Graham than almost anybody, and
I do remember that I enjoyed it. But
the last week he asked me whether
I changed my mind, and I said ‘Not
really, Chicago is such a fantastically
good school, I really want to go.’”
Graham assured Weiss that he
cocktail
corner
GEORGIE MORVIS
SCENE COLUMNIST
Today in Cocktail Corner,
we explore an exciting kitchen
appliance known as The
Blender. You’ve probably heard
of it. It’s usually used to make
smoothies and milkshakes. But
why not put alcohol in your
blender? There are no compelling reasons to avoid putting
alcohol in your blender. It opens
up a world of possibility in
your exploration of the lands
of liquor and liqueur (there’s
a difference, dammit). Even
if you don’t have a blender,
a quick search on Amazon
yields models priced around 20
bucks—a great investment for
the young, wannabe imitators
of Jay Gatsby or Mrs. Dalloway,
two master party planners. And
to think, they didn’t even have
blenders in their days.
We’ll begin our blend-venture
was making the right decision, as
he was probably too small at 185
pounds to have a career in the professional leagues. Weiss attended the
University of Chicago for all four
years, where he continued to play
basketball and baseball and participate in track while also pursuing
various studies and working with
world-renowned individuals.
“Among many things, University
of Chicago had a very good math
department,” Weiss said. “But I studied many things. I started off in both
chemistry and physics. I worked
with [Enrico] Fermi. He is the father
of the atom bomb, a Nobel Prizewinning, very famous physicist also
from Italy. I probably would have
become a physicist and worked with
him, but he died of cancer.”
Although Weiss worked closely
with Fermi, it was not Fermi’s
influence that led him to a career in
mathematics. Rather, a dog and an
unexpected turn of events resulted
in Weiss’s lifelong commitment to
math.
“Actually, I used to be a canoe
guide in the aquatico-Superior
regions in Minnesota if you know
where that is,” Weiss said. “You
could probably drop me in a large,
very wild region there and I could
probably tell you within a few minutes where I am.
“I used to take parties there and
one late August I took a party out,
and I had a bad case of mononucleosis and then a dog bit me. I didn’t
have an ounce of fat in me at the
time and I took rabies shots in the
stomach, which was all muscle, so
I was bedridden when I got back to
Chicago. My fiancee, who became
my wife, was taking some math
courses and it was agreed that I
could take some courses and she
would report back to me. I had to
stay home most of the time and I
found reading these math books
very interesting, so I very much got
interested in it.”
“But I was interested in many
other things too,” Weiss added, as
if it wasn’t already clear that his
activities were not limited solely to
mathematics.
He finished school and married
his first wife, Mary, whom he refers
to as “one of the best mathematicians in the U.S,” then the two of
them searched for a place where they
could both find jobs. After briefly
working at DePaul University, Weiss
and Mary were offered teaching
positions at Wash. U., where Weiss
has remained ever since, aside from a
few sabbaticals.
In keeping with his diverse
interests, Weiss is fluent in Italian,
Spanish, French, German, English
and a little Mandarin. Out of his
home he teaches an Italian literature class to a group of 12 adults,
including a former interim dean of
the engineering school. Throughout
his educational career, Weiss has also
had the opportunity to broaden his
teaching environment beyond the
American classroom.
“I have taught almost everywhere
in the world,” Weiss said. “You
name it. I have an Italian mafia, a
Chinese mafia of Ph.D. students, a
Spanish mafia, even an American
mafia. I now am having my 42nd
Ph.D. student throughout the
world.”
Weiss’ first wife died in the early
’60s and he married his current
wife, Barbara, a molecular biologist
and ceramicist, in 1964. They have
two sons. One owns the Big Shark
Bicycle Company here in St. Louis,
while the other runs an athletic and
training center in Manhattan. Both
have inherited their father’s love of
sports.
In addition to teaching as a
professor, Weiss is responsible for
revamping the athletics department
of Wash. U. in the 1970s, a sign that
athletics follow him wherever he travels. Throughout his life, Weiss has
also written over 150 publications on
COLE BISHOP | STUDENT LIFE
his specialty, harmonic analysis and
wavelets, received honorary degrees
in multiple foreign countries and
worked with thousands of undergraduate and graduate students.
“I find math fascinating,” Weiss
reflected. “It’s very different from
what most people think it is. Well,
it helps you understand the world.
You have to become a mathematician, you have to become one of my
students in order to understand the
world.”
Atop his file cabinets in the corner
of the office sits a small blue and
white ceramic jar labeled “Ashes
of Problem Students.” No worries, there are no real ashes in the
jar. Weiss, an athlete and academic
with a love for jokes, said he creates
interminable bonds with many of his
students, even the problematic ones.
Once a scholar graduates, they do
not cease to be a student of Professor
Weiss, as his fondness for teaching
both undergraduates and graduates extends beyond the classroom.
When asked if he continues to communicate with previous students,
Weiss said affectionately, “Oh yes,
I still stay in close contact with my
whole caboodle.”
© GUIDO WEISS
Guido Weiss draws a tufted Guidobird, which bears a striking resemblance to him.
Will it blend?
with a couple of basic tropical
drinks that can be made simply
with store-bought drink mix,
ice and liquor. The margarita is
traditionally made with tequila.
Remember, when you’re
mixing, always cut costs by purchasing the cheapest available.
If you want to be especially
fancy, you can salt the rims.
Margarita mix comes in many
flavors, and I encourage you to
try them all. Daiquiris are also
great, and again, store-bought
drink mix is best here. Just add
cost-effective rum and ice, and
you have a party. You can garnish the glass with fresh fruit in
lieu of a salted rim. The strawberry daiquiri is a Caribbean
classic that is extremely popular
on American shores.
Next, it’s time for a gamechanger: ice cream! Adding ice
cream to your blended alcoholic
drinks makes them more like
milkshakes in texture. And,
everyone loves milkshakes.
Why not have the best of both
worlds? One great ice cream
infusion drink is a twist on
a classic drink made famous
by a classic movie: the White
Russian. The drink of choice
of The Dude (from “The Big
Lebowski,” but I shouldn’t
have to tell you that), a White
Russian, is traditionally made
with vodka, coffee liqueur and
cream. We’re throwing out
normal cream and using ice
cream instead! Put two shots of
vodka, 2.5 shots of Kahlúa and
two scoops of ice cream into a
blender. Then, blend and serve.
If you make it with light rum
instead of vodka, you’ve just
made a Hummer.
Happy drinking!
BILL HOGAN | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | MCT
Made with white rum, freshly squeezed lime juice and simple syrup, the
traditional daiquiri is among the classic cocktails enjoying a retro renaissance.
Blended daiquiris are a great way make a simple, yet delicious drink.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
SCENE EDITOR | DAVIS SARGEANT | [email protected]
STUDENT LIFE 7
Unearthing the deep Web
DAVIS SARGEANT
SENIOR SCENE EDITOR
Curiosity is not a sin, but it’s a
weakness. Thanks to the World
Wide Web, many of us have sat
in front of computer monitors for
hours to satisfy our inquisitiveness.
The Age of Information is a click
away. But have you ever wondered
how the stranger stories about the
Internet arise? For example, how
does Wikileaks, the controversial
source of leaked information,
obtain classified documents? How
do the Taliban and other terrorist
organizations host websites that
the U.S. cannot shut down? The
answers lie at least partially in the
deep Web, the virtual frontier. And
what a risk it is to explore it.
Let’s say we could print a book
containing every single website
indexed by Google. It’d be a pretty
hefty volume, and the data within
would far exceed all the information in the Library of Congress.
These indexed sites constitute the
surface Web. In contrast, the deep
Web, also known as the Invisible
Web, the Hidden Web or DarkNet,
comprises all the websites that a
search engine like Google cannot
index. It’s big. Really big. If we
were to print off the Dark Web, it
would be about 400 times thicker
than the surface Web.
Most of the deep Web is boring, raw, uninterrupted data sans
hyperlinks. A regular computer
cannot gain access to most of the
information, as the data are stored
in private databases. Yet, other
parts of the deep Web contain
private sites, and many are similar
to familiar surface websites. The
most easily accessed sites reside in
the Tor Network. Tor is a program
that allows a user to browse the
Web privately and, most importantly, access the Tor Network, a
hidden network within the deep
Web.
Tor assigns the user a “false
identity” for browsing the web.
When the user requests a website,
Tor relays the data between lots of
different computers also connected
to the Tor Network. In theory,
someone monitoring the Internet
could not determine the identity
of the server and the requester.
The many blankets of security are
often compared to the layers of an
onion, and they guarantee virtual
anonymity. This is partially the
reason why the government cannot
shut down terrorist sites; they do
not know the identity of the server.
Unlike the URLs of surface websites that commonly end in “.com”
or “.org,” websites of the Tor
network often contain “.onion.”
In an even further departure from
surface Web convention, the URLs
of Tor websites are never easy
words to remember like “studlife.
com” or “wustl.edu.” Rather, they
are a randomly generated string of
letters and numbers, like “http://
ci3hn2uzjw2wby2z.onion.”
After installing Tor, the first
.onion website I visited was a
THE INTERNET
Silk Road is one of many sites accessible only through the Deep Web, the part of the Internet that is neither indexible nor
searchable. Silk Road essentially acts as an Amazon-like marketplace specializing in drugs.
forum, and I immediately clicked
on a discussion labeled “What
brings you to Tor?” The anonymous responses varied, but a single
theme persisted. One poster wrote
“To me, Tor is freedom of speech.
It makes me able to speak freely,
and I live in an occident country.”
Another poster who identified
himself as a schoolteacher also
praised the freedom. “Tor helps
me keep up an anonymous blog
where I can be free to criticize
anything, including things about
the California education system,
without fear of reprisal. THANKS
TOR!!!” the teacher said. Other
remarks about personal liberty
were more unusual, even paranoid.
“[I use TOR for] protection from
the new world order people. I don’t
think the outer world is dangerous
yet for people that are merely interesting to the NWO, but better be in
security,” the user attested.
The slightly less-crazy posters have a point: The anonymity
afforded by the deep Web is
an invaluable resource. During
the Arab Spring, revolutionary
Egyptians used Tor to circumvent
the interference of Mubarak’s
government. Whistle-blowers rely
on Tor as well, especially if relaying information to Wikileaks.
The frequenters of the deep
Web have a strange camaraderie. Another post of the forum
explored the possibility of an
anonymous social network. The
community is an anti-Facebook
of sorts; Zuckerberg’s brainchild
learns more personal details every
day, and the deep Web clique is a
reaction to that invasion.
Fascinatingly, this society
has developed a hidden and
wholly unfettered economy, a
Libertarian’s dream. Of course, the
deep Web provides ample opportunity for piracy. I stumbled upon
a sizable library of books. It was
a little jarring to find the “Harry
Potter” series just a few rows away
from books about Sept. 11 conspiracy theories or instructions on
how to make crude explosives.
But not everything on the deep
Web is completely free. Using
Bitcoins, an anonymous and
encrypted currency, users are free
to buy and sell whatever they
wish. Money is arguably the root
of all evil. Once I found sites with
prices in Bitcoins, the deep Web
grew seedier. Since .onion websites
are hard to find, I was lucky to
stumble into a hub of hyperlinks
to other sites on the deep Web,
called the Hidden Wiki. This wiki
not only provides links to other
.onion sites but short descriptions
as well, so fortunately I avoided
any pornography. It proved a good
jumping-off point, especially for
discovering the more unusual sites.
The Silk Road, an anonymous
marketplace specializing in controlled substances, is probably the
most notorious site of the deep
Web. It’s eBay for drugs. And
everything is priced in Bitcoins.
The value of Bitcoins varies per
day; during my visit, one Bitcoin
equaled $4.04. Five grams of
ecstasy? 85.27 Bitcoins, please.
A fake Illinois Driver’s License?
That’ll cost you 38.53…Bitcoins,
of course. Like on markets of
the surface Web, patrons publish
reviews of the vendor’s service.
Quick deliveries and discrete
packaging are a must for a five-star
rating.
There were other sites of questionable repute as well. One site,
run by the “Buttery Bootlegger”
offers to steal goods for a reduced
price. The Buttery Bootlegger
specializes in snagging remotecontrolled helicopters from Toys
“R” Us. Other sites promised
to launder money for a small
Bitcoins fee. The deep Web is an
ungovernable domain, with no
consequences for the anonymous.
Before I knew it, things got scary.
I wound up on a site about
human experimentation. Like the
Nazi experiments. A site reporting
the progress of several experiments
on unconsenting men, women and
children. Experiments like a fetus’s
tolerance of bleach. Experiments
like the deprivation of food, water
or medication. “Not all humans
are equal, for some of them were
born superior to others,” proclaimed the site’s banner. The
victims are homeless and unregistered citizens. Welcome to your
first time on DarkNet.
That first forum, the idealistic
one about freedom and anonymity, had another theme on a
second consideration. A lot of
commenters were interested in
“CP” or “JB.” Thanks to the
descriptions on the Hidden Wiki, I
learned that these stand for “Child
Pornography” and “Jail Bait,”
which is pornography concerning subjects below age 18. As an
entirely different poster explained,
“The age of consent in my country
is 14 but porn involving these girls
is illegal. You can f--- ‘em but you
better not film it cuz the party van
gonna come for ya. Stupid law.”
Not everyone below the surface
is a drug dealer, a terrorist or a
pedophile, but there’s definitely a
supportive community for the lawless in DarkNet.
I’ve seen things you would
not believe. Personal ads by
20-something males “experienced
with sex and [looking] to share
with young girl.” I felt sick to
my stomach after encountering
online-gambling tables in which
players bet on the death of an
individual. Supposedly, the players
hire assassins to ensure their bets
are won. The prize is awarded in
Bitcoins. There are markets on
DarkNet, some claim, where they
sell human flesh by the pound. For
Bitcoins, of course.
Curiosity is vanity. I went to
the deep Web to find the story
about anonymity and anarchy, to
write of freedom and unfettered
capitalism. The story that grabbed
me, though, was the underbelly
of the Web. The Hidden Web is a
box of secrets, waiting for a fool
like me to witness its chaos. It’s
possible of course, that some of
the more awful sites are a result of
an unhealthy sense of humor. That
they are sites designed for some
evil purpose to elicit a horrified
response. It’s a lesser evil, sure, but
exploitation is no laughing matter.
My eyes are opened now, knowing
good and evil. I am naked.
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SPORTS EDITORS | KURT ROHRBECK & SAHIL PATEL | [email protected]
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
sports
Confidence grows as women’s
golf continues to win
SAHIL PATEL
SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
As another week passed,
another quality victory came for
the No. 3 Washington University
women’s golf team.
The Bears (304-306, 610)
led from beginning to end at
the Pat Clouse Invitational
in Springfield, Ohio, as they
defeated
No.
2
DePauw
University (316-317, 633) by
23 strokes. Rounding out the
top five teams of the competition were No. 25 Wittenberg
University (309-333, 642), No.
9 Allegheny College (325-321,
646) and NAIA No. 22 Walsh
College (324-325, 649).
Freshman Olivia Lugar won
her fourth tournament of the
season with a two-day score of
147 (73-74). Lugar lowered her
scoring average to 74 and her
versus par average to 2.20, the
best marks in Division III.
“I was striking the ball very
well, and my management was
pretty good. I was shooting for
space on the green, but I was
able to get up and down on the
second day,” Lugar said.
Junior Hannah Buck (73-78)
and freshman Taylor Fagan (7576) tied for third with a score of
151. It was a career-best tworound score for Fagan.
The win marks the third
time this season that the Bears
have defeated DePauw in a
tournament.
“I think that after seeing the
rankings and having been third,
I think it motivated some of us
to work harder and come back
and beat them,” Lugar said.
“When we feel like we are better as far as the rankings, we just
went out to prove why we are up
there and why we’re going two
be contenders.”
In six tournaments this season, the Tigers have finished
first once and second five times,
including three times to the
Bears.
“Beating DePauw is a big deal.
They are a great team, and they
have been for the past few years,”
Buck said. “The past two years
I’ve been here, we’ve always
looked at them as being [out of
reach]. If we played really well
we could beat them, but beating
them three times shows how far
we’ve come the last year. They
are ranked second in the country and were a favorite to win
nationals last year, so us being
able to beat them definitely gives
us some confidence.
With the fall season coming to
a close, the victories over ranked
opponents should give Wash. U.
some confidence and momentum
heading into the off-season.
“I hope it helps our team; our
players understand that they
can compete at a high level like
[DePauw,] a team that we’ve
been watching the last couple
years,” head coach Sean Curtis
said. “The fact is that they’ve
all been good contests [this fall].
They’ve been close. They’ve got
a veteran team that came back
from an outstanding team last
year. The important thing is we
carry that forward and remember
what that felt like later on.”
The Bears’ next tournament
will be the Northern Kentucky
Spring Invitational in Perry Park,
Ky. The team will have almost
five months between action, but
as Curtis put it, the spring season
is like starting over.
“Golf is pretty unique in that
both seasons count equally as
much towards statistical rankings
and polls. Obviously, it’s great
to get off to such a good start,”
Curtis said. “In golf we almost
have to start over when we get
into the spring. Now we’ve got to
do it all again come springtime.
The last couple years, it’s gotten
better every spring. We are learning how to just get ready faster
and prepare ourselves for what’s
going to happen in the spring.
“I think its going to be much
of the same, and hopefully we’ll
COURTESY OF KEN CHEE
Junior Hannah Buck competes at the NCAA Fall Preview Tournament over
Labor Day Weekend. Buck finished in a tie for third place (73-78) at the Pat
Clouse Invitational this past weekend.
get a bid at the end of the spring
and we’ll get to go back to the
national championship, and all
these good experiences we had
in the fall and leading up to it are
going to help us be ready to play
that very first day. We know that
we can go out there and we can
compete with anybody there.”
Former soccer players find bearings in broadcast booth
SAHIL PATEL
SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
Cris Collinsworth. Charles
Barkley. Barry Melrose. All former athletes staying with the game
they love by transitioning from the
field, court or rink to the broadcast
booth. Add Washington University
sophomore Zev Powell and junior
Eric Walls to that list.
Powell and Walls both came to
the school to join the men’s soccer
team, but injuries led both to leave
the team this season.
“I was on the soccer team freshman year. I traveled to Spain this
summer, and when I got back, I
found out I had mono,” Powell
said. “Preseason time is really
important for any sport, and the
fact is that if you can’t make the
tryouts and preseason play, you
can’t really be gauged and can’t be
a part of the team that season.
“[Head coach Joe Clarke] told
me at one point that they were
looking for people to do this,
and I’m assuming they picked
us because we’re so ingrained in
the team, and it really is a close
community. We know things that
people on the outside probably
wouldn’t know. It is a cool perspective to have as a broadcaster.”
Walls was in a similar situation
after undergoing nasal surgery on
his birthday over the summer.
“Over the summer, I had surgery
for my allergies. Over the years,
they have severely limited my
endurance and breathing,” Walls
said. “I knew that by the time I
would be back in soccer shape, the
team would be well into the season, so I decided to take a year off.
Overall, I’m feeling a lot better and
am excited to be playing again next
year, breathing much better and
able to run faster and for longer
periods.”
Sports Information Director
Chris Mitchell approached the
pair about broadcasting the Bears’
home soccer games online. One
month, and 13 games, later, both
are comfortably working together
to voice the games live on BearTV.
“The fact is I’m in charge of
doing the PA and stats and making
sure the broadcast goes smoothly,
and it’s a lot on my plate for one
person. I just talked to Coach
Clarke to see if he had anybody
who would be interested in broadcasting soccer, and he mentioned
those two guys,” Mitchell, who
broadcasted soccer the previous
two years, said. “Now they do
every game, and I think they’ve
done a tremendous job.”
In their first year of broadcasting, Powell and Walls have already
built up a following. A combined
1,003 unique connections have
tuned in to listen to their broadcasts on BearTV.
“I have gotten tremendous feedback that says they have done a
tremendous job,” Mitchell said.
“Hopefully they can continue to
do this. [I’ve gotten] great feedback from the parents [and] the
fans. They’ve done a great job and
I think it adds a lot to our soccer
games.”
Their work this season has been
an asset not only to fans and parents but also to student workers like
sophomore Lucy Montgomery,
who manages the live stats online
during soccer games.
“Oftentimes it is hard to see who
took a shot or things happen so
quickly that you don’t see the number,” Montgomery said. “They
always know who took that shot or
who made the save or who had the
assist, so as a stats person, I rely
on them a lot as a back up. Their
knowledge of the game is really indepth, and they understand what is
going on and do a good job putting
that into words.”
Despite the success, Powell and
Walls had their share of growing
pains. However, they have worked
through it together.
“At first, Eric and I didn’t really
know who was going to do play-byplay and who would do color, and
we sort of figured that out based
on our personalities,” Powell said.
“For the most part, I do some sort
of color commentating, and he
does most of the basic play-by-play
stuff. It was a challenge at first, and
I think we sort of got used to it,
and that chemistry came to be.”
“Zev is the perfect co-broadcaster. We work really well
together and are able to bounce
ideas off each other frequently,”
Walls added. “We cover each other
well if the other loses his train of
thought, which has happened a
few times.”
Moving from the field to the
booth took some getting used to
for Powell, in terms of perspective
and attitude. He used his training as a goalkeeper to adjust to
broadcasting.
“I was a goalie, and I had to
talk and communicate a lot, so
I knew how to communicate in
a commanding way. I just had to
translate that into broadcasting,”
Powell said. “I think you have to
be conscious about completely different things when you’re on the
field or off the field. You have to
try and be impartial; we’re broadcasting to people from all over the
country and from the opposing
university. On the field, you can’t
have any sort of sympathy for that,
whereas you have to when you’re
broadcasting, and that is definitely
a huge difference.”
Tune in to Powell and Walls’
next broadcast on Wednesday,
Oct. 19, as the men’s soccer team
battles Illinois Wesleyan University
at Francis Field. They go live on
BearTV at bearsports.wustl.edu at
7:30 p.m.
“I enjoy all of it,” Walls said.
“Watching the game, sitting in the
box with all of the team’s facts in
front of me, knowing that when
I talk people are listening to my
voice. This job has been all that I
was hoping for and more.”
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ALEXANDRA BLASCH
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
In an attempt to provide
students with fresh produce
year-round, Dining Services has
spearheaded a program called
Guaranteed Cash, Guaranteed
Crop,
where
Washington
University pays nearby farmers
upfront for their crops.
Resident District Manager of
Bon Apétit Nadeem Siddiqui is
currently working with 25 farms
within a 150-mile radius of St.
Louis.
In the program, the University
provides farms with money
upfront, to make farmers confident they won’t back out of the
deal and to enable them to take
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“The weather in St. Louis is
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winter, therefore it is even more
important that we give farms
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and green houses. This will help
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give the farmers the confidence
they need so that we will continue being able to provide these
options to students.”
Siddiqui said that Dining
Services is organizing a trip to
Double Star farms in Bluford,
Ill. this spring for students who
would like to see one of the
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“Students will be able to recognize the quality of Double
Star’s produce when they visit,”
he said.
Siddiqui also said that though
the produce is high quality,
Dining Services has managed
to keep the cost of food at a
low price by signing contracts
directly with the companies.
“Through this program, Wash.
U. will be one of the models for
the nation,” he said. “We are
always looking to do more and to
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Double Star Farms sell fresh produce outside Steinberg Hall. The University helps support the local farm by paying the
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do better for students, the environment and the community.”
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“Last time I was here it was
raining/It ain’t raining anymore,” opens Ryan Adams’
latest album, “Ashes & Fire.”
After Adams’ two-year hiatus
from making new music and a
lengthy period of toying with
every style from heavy metal
to hip-hop, “Ashes & Fire”
represents his long-awaited
return to his solo alternativecountry niche. This opening
lyric, then, found in the song
“Dirty Rain,” works as Adams’
little shout out to his own return
to form. The instrumentation on
“Dirty Rain” immediately lends
credence to the reestablishment
(Ryanstablishment?) of Adams’
alt-country identity, evoking the best of Willie Nelson
alongside earlier Adams songs
like “Please Do Not Let Me
Go.” Nowhere else on “Ashes
& Fire,” however, does Adams
rekindle his old country beauty
as well as on “Dirty Rain.”
It’s not that the remainder
of the album is lacking, as
tracks like “Chains of Love”
and “Kindness” round this out
as the best Adams album since
“Cold Roses.” It just seems
a bit…sedated. Adams’ 2000
debut album, “Heartbreaker,”
was break-up beauty co-written
by Mr. Jack Daniels, and
though “Ashes & Fire” aims to
sound like its predecessors, the
drunken, depressed honesty of
“Heartbreaker” created a legacy
that none of his other albums
has come close to touching.
Lyrically, the topics are slim:
The subjects basically range
from losing at love to reflecting
upon said loss. Of course, this,
too, is reminiscent of classic
Adams. Still, the despaired
near-poetry of Adams’ classic tracks, like “Come Pick Me
Up,” is nowhere to be found
on “Ashes & Fire.” Maybe his
metaphors are just a little less
booze-soaked, a little less fiery
and a little less biographically
honest. “Ashes & Fire” is a worthy shout-out to Adams’ earlier
albums, but don’t expect to find
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Jonas falls short of differentiating
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drink
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tween fans happy. This unattainable
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“See No More” and “Just in Love,”
both of which sound like bad covers
of songs we’ve already heard. The
pop album is filled with the clichéd
songs of love and heartbreak and
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his dancing chops
ANDIE HUTNER
SENIOR CADENZA EDITOR
It seems that Hollywood’s been
working too hard to release sequels,
reboots and remakes these days. To
the uneducated, it seems that the
new “Footloose,” starring newcomer
Kenny Wormald and “Dancing
With the Stars” pro Julianne Hough,
is a mere member of the pack. The
new film, however, modernizes the
story enough to make it current,
while still staying true to the original.
“Footloose” takes place in a small
Southern town called Bomont, in
which a town tragedy causes the
reverend to outlaw anything that
encourages rebellious teen behavior,
including dancing. Newcomer Ren
McCormack has two problems: He’s
smitten with the reverend’s daughter,
Ariel, and he absolutely loves to
dance. We spoke with director Craig
Brewer to debunk the myth that a
remake has to feel stale.
Brewer, the director of “Hustle &
Flow” and “Black Snake Moan,”
refers to the original “Footloose” as
the movie of his childhood. It came
out when he was 13 and changed the
course of his teenage life. After seeing the film, he wanted to be Kevin
Brewer views his “Footloose”
as a film for the next generation of
teenagers, just like the original was
for him. He intertwines music as
a part of the story, instead of just
including songs for the soundtrack.
When speaking about the old songs,
he mentioned that he included both
new and old versions of the songs
from the original film to both keep
it fresh and make it feel nostalgic.
He wasn’t afraid to include hip-hop,
as anyone can tell from the trailer.
Music-wise, there should be something for everyone.
Though his leads are relatively
new to acting, Brewer speaks
highly of Wormald and Hough. He
promises that their characters don’t
look like professional dancers (even
though their portrayers are) and
embody the feel he was trying to
present. The movie comes to its climax during a town hall meeting, and
though I won’t spoil what happens
during the scene, Brewer guarantees
that Wormald earns his acting chops.
According to Brewer and what
we’ve seen from the film, the new
“Footloose” will provide the viewers
with a fun opportunity to cut loose.
Bacon. When given the chance to
direct the remake, Brewer initially
turned it down—twice. The reason
he declined? The team from “High
School Musical” was attached to the
project.
“I was worried it was going to be
a dance movie,” Brewer said. “It was
just going to be like a dance movie
that somebody threw the name
‘Footloose’ on the front of it and
called it a day.”
When the “High School Musical”
team left the project, the head of
the studio called Brewer once more,
asking him again if he’d be willing
to direct. This time, Brewer agreed,
but if only he could make it his way,
the way of the original film. Brewer’s
vision, however, was racier than
the studio expected. In the remake,
teenagers drink and smoke and do
drugs, because that all happened
in the original version. It was just
hidden more neatly. Brewer is not
afraid to show the life of the teenager
realistically, even in a PG-13 film.
“There was a time where teenage
movies actually dealt with teenage
problems,” Brewer said when discussing his vision. “And they didn’t
necessarily just throw it under the
guise of ‘Glee.’”
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Whatever Happened to... Chris Kirkpatrick?
ANDIE HUTNER
SENIOR CADENZA EDITOR
Justin Timberlake has had an
amazing career since breaking up
with *NSYNC. He has hosted the
ESPYs and “Saturday Night Live,”
and starred in movies like “The
Social Network” and this month’s
“In Time.” Obviously, JT was the
most popular member of the boy
band, but we’ve heard from most of
the rest of them. Lance Bass tried to
be a cosmonaut, because apparently
cornrows and/or bandana, the one
whose name nobody could remember other than the diehard fans.
Poor Chris, as he was the one who
formed the band in the first place.
*NSYNC originally became famous
in the faraway lands of Sweden and
Germany, but we all know what
happened when they came back to
the States.
The band enjoyed widespread
popularity through the early years of
the millennium, but fell out of the
public eye when Timberlake decided
he’s too good for NASA. Joey
Fatone now has a career in stage acting and TV hosting. JC Chasez has
turned into a songwriter, and he now
also judges “America’s Best Dance
Crew.” Okay, that’s four of them…
there was a fifth. Going through the
ranks of the *NSYNC-ers, we have
just one question: whatever happened to Chris Kirkpatrick?
Unfortunately for Chris, people
barely even knew who he was back
in *NSYNC’s heyday. He was the
fifth member, the one with the weird
to pursue a solo career. Chris was to
be forgotten.
Chris reappeared in 2008 as a
cast member on CMT’s “Gone
Country,” a show dedicated to trying
to turn pop musicians into country
stars. Though he was successful
on the show, “Gone Country” did
nothing to revamp Chris’s career. He
has also been a member of the bands
FuMan Skeeto, Little Red Monsters
and Sureshot, all of which are now
defunct.
The former boy band member has
sadly fallen by the wayside. He is
currently a member of a five-person
band called Nigels 11, but by the
looks of their website, things aren’t
looking too well for them, either.
They have no scheduled appearances, and Chris has only tweeted
twice since the beginning of the year.
Maybe after years of stardom, Chris
has become content with a quiet
life. We won’t know, though, and
will probably always be left wondering whatever happened to Chris
Kirkpatrick.
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1 Its “fleece was
white as snow”
5 __ Sutra
9 Go with the flow
14 Pastoral verse
15 Pink-slipped
16 Ladies’ man
17 Nicolas of
“Adaptation”
18 Got one’s uniform
dirty, maybe
19 Mississippi, e.g.
20 Understand how
things are done
23 Many frozen
dinners are high
in it
24 Taker of vows
25 Def Jam genre
28 Native American
group
31 As plain as day,
e.g.
33 Tax pro
36 Places to see
links
38 Friend
40 Cancún uncle
41 36-Across
opening
42 Simple floral
garlands
47 Fair-hiring initials
48 Forensic facility
49 Spy wear
51 Sí or oui
52 Do-favor link
54 Broadsided
58 Stage name of
Ehrich Weiss, for
whom the ends
of 20-, 36- and
42-Across were
props
61 Wife of Abraham
64 Long, long time
65 “__ Three Lives”:
TV oldie
66 Michelangelo
figure
67 Pear variety
68 Charity
69 Suisse peaks
70 Like an animated
Pea?
71 Cold-cock
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1 The home team
gets the last ones
2 Hersey’s “A Bell
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3 “Nearer, __, to
Thee”
4 Messed up
5 Former Asian
state known for
goat wool
6 Wheel holder
7 Golda of Israel
8 Supplement
9 Poison in some
whodunits
10 Kids’ book
connectables
11 GP’s gp.
12 Gently stroke
13 Place for a ring
21 Racetrack
surface
22 Door sign
25 Go through
energetically, as
drawers
26 1966 Michael
Caine title role
27 Pasta topper
29 “Little Women”
woman
30 Pioneering
computer
32 Letters before
nus
33 Tea leaves holder
34 Wood shaver
35 Fake name
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37 Slinky’s shape
39 Fashion
monogram
43 Steinway
alternatives
44 Trucker with a
handle
45 Never
46 “Elephant Boy”
actor
50 Alaskan brown
bear
53 Iraqis, usually
55 Nabisco brand
named for its
flavor
56 The Penguin, to
Batman
57 Playground
retort
58 Can’t stand
59 “Ouch!”
60 Fire truck item
61 Mineral spring
62 Feel sick
63 Workout unit
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
Beirut puts
‘A Sunday Smile’
on Pageant-goers’ faces
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1) From left to right: Perrin Cloutier, Zach Condon, Kelly Pratt and Ben Lanz of Beirut perform to a full house at the Pageant on Oct. 9, 2011. 2) Zach Condon sings to the Pageant crowd at the show. 3) Ben
Lanz plays his sousaphone for concert-goers during the Sunday-night show. 4) Zach Condon signs his ukulele, one of his signature instruments.
GEORGIE MORVIS
MOVIE/TV EDITOR
Who knew that trumpets could
be so exciting? This past Sunday,
indie-folk band Beirut stopped by
The Pageant to prove that they
can in fact be. Beirut originally
began as a solo project for Santa
Fe-native Zach Condon. While
spending time abroad in Europe,
Condon discovered Balkan folk
music and fell for its eclectic style.
He teamed up with fellow folk
band A Hawk and a Hacksaw
to record Beirut’s first album,
“Gulag Orkestar.” Since then,
new band members have come
and gone, but Beirut has stayed
strong, releasing two albums,
including their newest, “The Rip
Tide.” Beirut is fresh off a summer of music festivals, including
Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, and
this domestic tour is just capping
off what is probably the best year
for the band yet.
I missed the opener of the
concert, because I had never
heard of her, but I got there
just in time for the beginning of
Beirut’s set. The stage decorations were pretty simple, with
lights strung overhead that lent
the atmosphere of a café in Paris’
Montmartre district or in Vienna,
Austria, to the stage. Beirut’s
set lasted about an hour and 20
minutes, with two (!!!) encores.
Every musician was on double
duty, with Condon playing both
the ukulele and the trumpet. His
band mates played instruments
as varied as the sousaphone, the
accordion, the trombone, the
piano, the bass, the melodica and
the cello. They played songs from
all three of Beirut’s full-length
albums and some of its EPs as
well, with highlights including
“Postcards from Italy,” “Santa
Fe” and “Forks and Knives.”
The biggest cheers of the
night were not even for Beirut’s
most popular song, “Nantes;”
rather, they came during the
second encore when Condon and
bandmate Kelly united for an epic
trumpet duel. Beirut has proven
time and time again that there
really is nothing like live music.
Recordings of the impeccable
harmonies of their horn section
do them no justice. It has to be
heard to be experienced, so the
next time Beirut is in town (and
it should be soon, as Condon
apparently has relatives in the St.
Louis area), you should be first
in line.
ANDIE HUTNER
SENIOR CADENZA EDITOR
A trio of musicians at Louisiana
State University formed the band
Better Than Ezra over two decades
ago. While the band’s membership has changed over the years,
the alternative-rock music has aged
well enough. Songs like “Good,”
“A Lifetime” and “Desperately
Wanting” have kept them current. The trio will be performing at
the Lumière Theatre at St. Louis’
Lumière Place this Saturday night,
playing both new and old hits.
Better Than Ezra is only playing sporadic tour dates this fall, so
those with the chance to see them
play at the Lumière Theatre this
weekend are some of the lucky few.
On Tuesday, the band will release an
EP, “Death Valley,” inspired by an
unlikely theme—LSU football. The
new EP will include covers of fight
songs as well as original songs based
on the band’s college days. Maybe
the football-inspired songs will show
up at the alt-rock concert. Maybe
not, but it should still be a good time.
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Than
Ezra
where Lumière Theatre
when Saturday, 7 p.m.
price $25
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From left to right: Tom Drummond, Kevin Griffin and Michael Jerome of Better than Ezra. The band
will be playing at the Lumière Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011.