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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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Vol. 125 No. 3
Holy Moly! Talib Kweli to play at fall W.I.L.D.
Organizers hope
opening performers
also draw sizeable
crowds
Ben Sales
Senior News Editor
Brooklyn hip-hop artist Talib
Kweli will be the lead act at fall
W.I.L.D. on Oct. 11, officials from
Team 31 confirmed Tuesday.
Kweli, best known for his song
“Get By,” will be the second hiphop artist in a row to perform at fall
W.I.L.D., following Lupe Fiasco
last year.
Also appearing at the show
will be rappers Little Brother, David Banner and Kid Sister. Little
Brother and Banner will be on tour
with Kweli in October, along with
The Rhythm Roots All-Stars, their
backup ensemble.
The prospect of Kweli’s performing at Washington University attracted attention last year
when 600 students joined a Facebook group entitled “GET TALIB
KWELI TO WASHU FOR FREE.”
Although the initiative did not succeed, Team 31 Co-chair Jordan
Roberts said that the effort generated excitement around Kweli that
led Team 31 to consider the artist as
a possibility.
“There was a big push to get
Talib to perform for free at Wash.
See W.I.L.D., page 3
Students get into the groove at last spring’s W.I.L.D. performance; on October 11, Talib Kweli will headline fall W.I.L.D along with three other rappers.
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JENNY SHAO | STUDENT LIFE
New act to make college financial
process more transparent, affordable
Act gives students
more financial aid
options
Perry Stein
News Editor
Ending a decade-long wait,
President George W. Bush signed a
bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, an act aimed at
making education more accessible
and affordable to students.
Passed on August 14, the College Opportunity and Affordability
Act of 2008, the extension of the
Higher Education Act, will govern
most federal financial aid policies
and will work to make the financial aid process more transparent
to students.
While the act contains more
than 100 amendments, two of
the provisions most applicable to
Washington University students,
according to Director of Student
Financial Services Bill Witbrodt,
are the year-round availability of
Pell Grants and the increase in the
monetary amount of the grants.
Pell Grants, part of a federal
grant program sponsored by the
Department of Education, will increase from $4,800 to $6,000 in
2009 and will increase to $9,000
through the 2013-2014 academic
year.
The provision also enables Pell
Grants to be used toward summer
school, which can help students
graduate earlier and ultimately alleviate student loans.
“We don’t have financial aid in
the form of scholarships for summer, so people who are eligible for
Pell Grants can use these,” Witbrodt said.
Although the exact numbers are
not yet known, due to the change
in the University’s financial aid
policy last year, there are more Pell
Grant recipients this year than last
year. The University’s new policy
enables students from families
earning less than $60,000 a year
not to take out student loans. In-
See FINANCE, page 2
Makeover for Mallinckrodt?
With DUC
presence, future
of the building
is currently
unsure
Jeremy Rogoff
Staff Reporter
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BJ Novak of “The Office” fame spoke to an overflowing crowd of students in the Athletic Complex on Sunday night.
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Center will attract a large part of
the student body this year, fewer
will pass through Mallinckrodt
Center for a midday break.
However, with a loading dock,
kitchen facilities, an expanding
bookstore and the Edison Theatre, Mallinckrodt will remain
as it is for the foreseeable future.
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administrators plan to meet within
the next few months to construct
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The
Danforth
University
Center (DUC), complete with a
diner, café, bistro and cafeteriastyle food, will take over as the
main on-campus dining option.
The DUC also houses the offices of several student groups,
the Career Center, the Graduate Center and Student Union.
Aside
from
Hilltop
Bakery, which will remain on the
first floor for pre-made sandwiches and pastries, Mallinckrodt will no longer offer lunch.
Steve Rackers, the manager of
capital projects markets for the
University, says that while no formal decisions have been made, the
open space in Mallinckrodt could
be used to expand the bookstore.
“We want to maintain the viability of the bookstore,” Rackers
said, adding that with less daily
foot traffic, the bookstore will
need to become more visible to
people who pass by. “There is a desire to keep pedestrians coming to
the building.”
At present, the University
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has no formal timetable for a redevelopment of Mallinckrodt,
Rackers said, because most resources are focused on a smooth
beginning to the school year.
“As always, when something new
opens up, there is a desire to wait
for people to settle in,” Rackers
said.
He anticipates that the basement
in Mallinckrodt may be needed for
temporary overflow seating, as the
DUC will likely not be able to accommodate the rush of customers
in the onset of the academic year.
Rackers predicts that the crowds
at the DUC will subside as the
novelty of the location wears off.
While the space may be vacant
now, students saw the need for a
change last year.
“I think the space was depressing and somber,” sophomore Jaspur
Min said, referring to the condition
of the basement cafeteria as it was
last year. “If they created a nice
atmosphere—brighter and more
welcoming—for reading and hang-
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THE FLIPSIDE
WEDNESDAY 27
A Cappella Dorm Storming
Various campus a cappella groups will
be “storming” freshman dorms on the
South 40 between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on
Wednesday and Thursday. The groups
will be giving free performances in the
dorm lobbies.
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National
The Young Democrats of Greater St.
Louis will be at the Moolah from 7-11
p.m. to watch Barack Obama deliver the
closing address of the Democratic National
Convention.
Performing Arts Auditions
Auditions for the Performing Arts
Department (PAD) will be held at 7 p.m. in
the Edison Theatre on both Thursday and
Friday. Sign-up for time and location on the
bulletin board across from the PAD office,
Mallinckrodt 312.
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“I would also be open to
the idea of putting retailers
like J. Crew down there.”
Senior David Yanofsky on the
future of Mallinckrodt
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NASA Phoenix mission nears finish
A communication failure at a Georgia facility that processes fl ight
schedules for the eastern half of the country has resulted in fl ight
delays around the country.
While there are no safety issues involved with the failure, the Tuesday afternoon problem involved failure in a communication link that
sends data from the Hampton, Georgia facility to a facility in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Although an exact number of how many fl ights were affected nationwide has not been determined, officials at the Atlanta airport are
said to have inputted data manually to expedite the process.
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Campus cont.
The Democratic National Convention began Monday in Denver,
Colorado, with Senator Ted Kennedy and presidential hopeful Barack
Obama’s wife Michelle delivering the opening night’s speeches.
The two-act evening was highlighted by Senator Kennedy’s appearance, focusing on his current struggle with brain cancer. Michelle
Obama’s speech was characterized by personal narratives intended
to portray the Obamas as a family symbolic of the American dream.
“Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values,” said
Michelle Obama. “That you work hard for what you want in life; that
your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do;
that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know
them, and even if you don’t agree with them.”
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was the principal speaker on
Tuesday evening, delivering a speech many political analysts considered to be key in bringing together a party still tense from division
during the primaries.
Young Dems screening of Obama
STUDENT LIFE | NEWS
Dean appointed dean of Architecture grad school
Effective this fall, Kathryn Dean was appointed dean of the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of
Design and Visual Arts at Washington University on August 26.
Dean, who previously was on faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, started the acclaimed architecture fi rm
Dean/Wolf in 1991 with her husband Charles Wolf.
Hailing from North Dakota, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree
in Architectural Studies from North Dakota State University in 1981
and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Oregon
School of Architecture and Allied Arts in 1983.
“Kathryn brings incredible experience that spans practice and education to this important new position,” Bruce Lindsey, the E. Desmond
Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and dean of architecture in
the Sam Fox School, who made the announcement, said in an interview
with The Record. “She will maintain her innovative architectural practice in New York City, while building on her extensive teaching experience at Columbia University to help us envision, design and develop
the future of our school.”
Though its primary mission came to a close on Tuesday, the
Phoenix spacecraft will embark on an extended mission for NASA
through the end of September as it continues its quest to learn more
about composition of the icy Martian soil and its implications for
the possibility of microbial life on Mars. Since late May, the lander
has successfully dug up several Martian soil samples and detected
water ice in the soil, and in its fi nal primary mission days it has collected soil from a mid-depth layer at about seven centimeters deep
and the deepest point yet, 18 centimeters, to determine the composition of the ice and soil at those depths.
In a recent Science Daily article, Washington University Professor
of Earth and Planetary Sciences Ray Arvidson, primary operator of
the Phoenix robotic arm, said, “We want to know the structure and
composition of the soil at the surface, at the ice and in-between to
help answer questions about the movement of water—either as vapor or liquid—between the icy layer and the surface.”
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Summary: Complainant’s vehicle was
damaged between the hours of 3:10
p.m. and 6 p.m. with what appeared to
be a key. The damage was a scratch that
went from the front bumper down the
passenger side of the vehicle to the rear
bumper. Disposition: Pending.
AUTO ACCIDENT Aug. 22 at 4:30
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Summary : One vehicle, University
owned. No injuries. Disposition:
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that an unknown vehicle struck her
parked vehicle, and that they left a note
and name to contact in regards to this
incident. Disposition: Cleared.
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the ZBT House. Group dispersed from
the building and yard area. Disposition:
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FINANCE from page 1
stead, the students receive a grant
from the University that does not
have to be repaid.
“That enabled a lot more needy
students to enroll here,” Witbrodt
said.
According to Witbrodt, because
the University is a top-tier private
university with a generous financial
aid program already in place, many
of the provisions will not have an
impact on the University’s students.
“Wash. U. already has such a
generous financial aid program that
even if the Pell Grants didn’t increase we would still make sure our
students receive the necessary aid,”
Witbrodt said.
The Higher Education Act will
also enact laws to help regulate
the costs of textbooks by ensuring
that professors have all the necessary information available to them
when choosing textbooks for their
students.
Publishers will now have to release not only the price of the book
but also the copyright dates of the
last three editions and a description
of any significant changes made between editions.
“It will make sure that professors have the information they need
to choose the textbook that will be
best for students in terms of both
their education and their wallet,”
Pedro de la Torre, an organizer for
education advocacy group Campus
Progress, said in an e-mail to Student Life.
“The changes between editions
are almost always extremely small,
but coming out with new editions
allows the publishers to reduce
competition from the used book
market, which is much cheaper for
students.”
In addition, de la Torre says the
bill will require books and supplemental materials that are sold together to be available for sale separately as well.
“These ‘supplemental materials’ are rarely used in classes, and
in many cases are little more than
an attempt to get more money out of
students,” de la Torre said.
While the act is intended to
eliminate conflicts of interest between financial aid offices and student loan companies, de la Torre
says that a drawback of the act is
that it does not require universities
to report which students are receiving scholarships or financial aid
provided by the school.
“Over the past couple decades,
schools have been giving a smaller share of these funds to students
with documented financial need,
and more to students from higher
income backgrounds,” de la Torre
said.
One of the act’s weaknesses is
MALLINCKRODT from page 1
ing out, I think it would be a great
place to meet up with your friends
and relax in the middle of the day.”
As is customary with most oncampus space considerations, students will be given the chance to offer
their own ideas to the University before any final decisions are made regarding the open area, Rackers said.
Rackers added that a major redevelopment project, which would
involve a restructuring of the bookstore and the possible addition
of several offices to the building,
was put on hold for the start of the
school year.
Currently, the Mallinckrodt
kitchen is being utilized for food
preparation for the University Center.
Senior
David
Yanofsky
thinks the space provides room
for the return of an on-campus favorite of students—a bar.
“That space could best be used as
a bar, as a replacement to the old
Rathskeller,” Yanofsky said, referring to the old on-campus pub that
once sat in the basement of Umrath
Hall. “I would also be open to the
idea of putting retailers like J. Crew
down there.”
Paying for college
The credit crunch may make getting college
loans more difficult. Where to start:
about all forms of assistance – grants,
scholarships and loans
The numbers
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college loan
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$17.1
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Fill out the online FAFSA (Free
Application for Federal Student Aid at
www.fafsa.ed.gov), regardless of your
income level; many schools use the FAFSA
for institutional, state and private sources
of aid, as well as federal loans
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Ask the school if it participates in the
U.S. Education Department’s Direct Loan
Program, which enables students to borrow
directly from the government rather than
through banks and other lenders
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that it does not require loan companies to report their potential recipients to the appropriate universities,
making it more difficult for respective financial aid offices to counsel
their students, de la Torre said.
Other clauses of the act include
a program on the Department of
Education’s Web site that will allow
students to compare tuition prices
and financial aid policies for different schools.
Witbrodt says that he and the
financial aid office are still sifting
through all the information of the
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amendments, but that the Higher
Education Act is an overall positive
movement for higher education.
“Everything about the act is done
in a positive way for the benefit of
students,” Witbrodt said.
“This is another step in the right
direction; it’s a very small step,
but at least we are still waking in
the right direction. It is important
for the students to remain engaged.
Some of the best provisions of the
bill are there because students have
remained involved,” de la Torre
said.
Bill Witbrodt, director of Student Financial Services
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W.I.L.D. from page 1
U.,” Roberts, a junior, said. “He
was one of the top people requested [for W.I.L.D.]. Students wanted
him.”
Roberts added that another significant factor in Kweli’s selection
was the logistics of the performance, which place limits on who
can appear at W.I.L.D.
“[For] a lot of artists, their
prices are way too high or they
have another engagement or
they’re recording or they’re not in
the Midwest,” he said. “Usually
we have 10 options and only one
of those options works out.”
Though Kweli is the second
rapper to highlight W.I.L.D. in
three semesters, some involved in
campus live-music performances
noted the extent to which Kweli’s
musical style differed from that of
Lupe Fiasco.
“Talib Kweli is a great emcee,”
sophomore Andrew Warshauer,
a DJ on KWUR, said. “I like the
way they’ve been doing the hiphop this year. They had more
mainstream rap last year. Talib
Kweli represents a more alternative side.”
Roberts
also
appreciates
Kweli’s potential to energize the
student body.
“Talib’s a bit more experienced
[than Lupe Fiasco],” Roberts said.
“Lupe Fiasco is smooth and cool,
and Talib goes after you and hits
you hard. Talib is a better performer, and hopefully he’ll show that in
October.”
Team 31 hopes that Kweli’s
assertive style will serve to make
the musical performance once
again the focus of W.I.L.D., which
Roberts says has shifted to drinking and partying earlier in the day,
leading to students being too tired
or drunk by time the concert starts
to appreciate the acts.
“We need to get people more
excited about the music aspect,”
Roberts said. “Regardless of
whether they make it [to the show]
or not, they have a good time but
tons of kids don’t make it or leave
early. [We need to] let people
know and get the word out about
the opening [acts].”
Junior Dione Drew, Team 31
co-chair, also credited the University’s evolving alcohol policy for
taking the focus of W.I.L.D. off
alcoholism.
“It’s been lost in the last several years, but there’s always been
a strong camp to get people to act
more responsibly,” Drew said.
“It’s not going to be overnight, but
[less drinking] would definitely
be something we would appreciate and look forward to in the fu-
ture.”
While Roberts said that Team
31 can do little to influence the
University’s alcohol policy, the
group is looking forward to an increased publicity campaign leading up to the event that will aim to
highlight the lesser-known opening acts and a local act that has yet
to be determined.
Among the initiatives that
Team 31 is working on are an updated Web site for the concert and
the opportunity to play some of
the openers’ songs in central campus areas during the week of the
concert.
“In the past, [W.I.L.D] has been
announced, people know the date
and they show up,” Roberts said.
“Hopefully some of those things
will encourage people to listen to
a song or two.”
A third factor in W.I.L.D.’s
new publicity plan is that this
is the first time that the concert
will be sponsored. FloTV will be
contributing to the event, with
several other sponsors yet to be
determined. Although nothing has
been set up as of now, Team 31 expects the sponsors to hold events
throughout the day of the concert
to attract students.
Another advantage of sponsorship is the reduction in artists’
prices, allowing W.I.L.D. to save
its money for its show next semester.
“You shouldn’t expect anything much more than in past semesters, but they’ll have a little
more to spend than last semester,”
Roberts said.
Though discussions for next
semester have yet to start, Roberts
expects a rock band to be the leading act, continuing the alternation
between rap and rock arranged in
past semesters. Either way, Roberts expects some on campus do
disapprove of Team 31’s selection.
“It depends on timing, but I
think they’re going to try to get
a rock-inclined lineup,” Roberts
said. “No matter who is playing,
there’s always someone that isn’t
pleased, and those people make
the most noise about it.”
But Warshauer said that despite the criticism, the alternation
between genres works well for
students.
“Last semester was funkadelic
but it was a great balance,” he said.
‘That’s one of the most unique
things on campus. I don’t know
other campuses that have two big
festivals: one that’s catered toward
hip-hop and one that’s catered toward music.”
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New DUC eating options offer more choices, less seating
CLAIRE HENDERSON | STUDENT LIFE
Even before the school year began, the DUC proved to be a popular eating location. Many students are concerned that the DUC’s eateries are not large enough to accommodate the lunch rush.
Eliza Adelson
Staff Reporter
As students pour into the newly
constructed Danforth University
Center and explore its various op-
tions for dining, they may discover that the seating area seats only
about two-thirds of the people that
Mallinckrodt Center could accommodate.
Although the new building offers seven new dining options, a
“fun room,” ample gathering space
for students and new spaces for
media and other University organizations, frustrated students find
themselves with less than adequate
eating space.
Sophomore Allison Block expressed frustrations over on the
space in the Danforth University
Center (DUC).
“I just wish they could find a
way to fit us all into the building.
The space is going to get so crowded once the year gets going, and I
can already tell it’s going to be difficult to move in and out quickly.
This isn’t the mall food court,”
Block said.
Bill Darby, director of the DUC,
responded to the problem by justifying the demands that University
students had made prior to the construction of the DUC. At the same
time, Darby acknowledged difficulties with the building that would be
resolved in time.
“Students really preferred several different dining areas, so that’s
what this building provides,” Darby
said. “Part of the opening celebration for the building is going to
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Two weeks ago, Vice Chancellor of Students James McLeod
stood in front of a group of University student leaders to present
a strategic plan for excellence in
the undergraduate experience, an
initiative that was first released in
March of 2008.
The strategic plan, according
to McLeod, emphasizes the importance of the University’s long-term
and higher-budget aims in establishing academic excellence.
“Periodically, universities participate in a long-range planning
process,” McLeod said. “We think
about what we need to do in the
future. What are the challenges?
What are the opportunities? What
should be our priorities?”
The administration is currently
seeking to begin with a strategic
planning initiative within each unit
of the University, some of which
include Olin Library, all the undergraduate and graduate schools
and the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. The goal is
to eventually combine all the unit
initiatives into a University-wide
strategic plan.
Project 21 is the title of the administration’s previous strategic
planning initiative that began in
the late 1990s and has already been
completed.
Named for its mission to launch
the University into the 21st century, Project 21 concentrated on improving areas such as the campus
community, undergraduate life and
study, cross-disciplinary activity,
international involvement and student recruitment.
While the University is already
successful in its transition into the
next century, McLeod stressed that
the goals in the new planning initiatives have altered very little.
“Fundamentally, our mission
does not change,” he said. “Fundamentally, we are still about you,
[the students], and we are still
about creating new knowledge and
solving problems for society.”
In addition to academic excellence, the new initiative also focuses on the issue of need-based
financial aid, according to Assistant Dean of Arts & Sciences Shel-
ley Milligan.
“The University as a whole is
really concerned about financial
aid. It is among, if not the top of,
our priorities, both for undergraduates and graduates,” Milligan said.
McLeod said to this year’s residential advisor staff that the estimated gap between provided and
requested need-based aid at the
University was $17.7 million.
“I consider them a kind of a
group that needed to see [the expenses],” McLeod said. “What I
wanted to communicate was that a
substantial amount of resources are
needed to do this.”
McLeod said he has been reluctant to present the expenses for the
initiative in a more public manner,
since the expenses are only rough
estimates.
“[The numbers] are so soft. The
soil in which soft numbers grow is
pretty tricky,” McLeod said. “No
one knows how much something
will cost in the future. Who thought
I would be paying four dollars for a
gallon of gas this year?”
McLeod calls the $17.7 million
estimate a “moving target” in the
University’s goal of meeting the fi-
nancial needs of undergraduate and
graduate students.
“We are well aware of what our
peers are doing and [are] anxious
to be in that group,” Milligan said.
“Financially, we are not in the same
spot as some of them, but we are in
a better spot than others.”
Whether an estimated $17.7
million will be enough to address
the financial concerns of University students has yet to be determined. However, McLeod and
Milligan both agree that the University has taken new, competitive
steps through its strategic planning
initiatives to continually improve
the student experience.
“For universities, doing new
things is a new concept. It was
important for our university to be
doing the same things it was doing
last year, or last century,” McLeod
said. “But now, our concept has
completely changed. The University is trying to put in something
new. Let’s put it out there and work
with it. Let’s improve it and then
roll it out to everyone. And this
year, we will be able to roll out a
planned concept.”
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be a produce mart, that will have
a number of seats out there, so is
it going to be tricky at the beginning.”
Seating difficulties in the beginning of the semester, however,
may represent a relatively easy
stage before even more students
attend the DUC to eat.
“I think we are going to face
the issue of induced demand,”
Darby added. “There are going to
be a whole bunch of people at the
beginning [of the semester] who
are going to want to try the University Center, [and] who might
have gone elsewhere for lunch.
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When designing the Center,
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be overstated.
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much every day, but the crowds
are moving through,” he said. “I
won’t tell you there are a lot of
empty seats, but I won’t tell you
people are having fist fights to get
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Change our name
to Eliot University
Dennis Sweeney
Forum Editor
There are many reasons why our
name, “Washington University in
St. Louis,” is a good one.
The refreshing opportunity
for unashamedness is one. My
friends who go to big-name
schools like Harvard and Yale are
generally embarrassed to say the
short, pointed, epic names of their
universally-recognized universities.
You sound like a jerk if you say,
“I go to Yale” with any kind of
conviction. You also sound like a
jerk if you say, “I go to Yale…?” as
if no one has ever heard of it.
But you can say “I go to
Washington University in St.
Louis” with any inflection you
want and you will get one of two
responses, depending on with
whom you are conversing. The
person in the know will say, “Wow,
that’s a great school. How do you
like it?” And then you can say, “Oh,
a lot of people haven’t heard of it.
It’s great,” with total honesty. Or
there is the “Oh” response, plus
head nod. You either look like a
smart kid to those in the know or
like a weirdo to those not—but you
don’t ever look like a jerk.
Our terrible name also promotes
modesty. When 80 percent of the
people in the world have no idea
what your school is, you can’t even
begin to think that you are better
than anyone. It is too easy, when
your school name is synonymous
with “everything that is good
in the world,” to get a big head.
“Washington University in St.
Louis” keeps us grounded. You’re
getting a great education, but
nobody knows who you are. We
can’t rest on our laurels, because
nobody knows they even exist.
These are great personal
advantages. I’m sure we’ll all
Transparency needed in strategic planning
emerge from college better human
beings because we’ve had to deal
with this obscure name for four
years. But there are reasons to
change it. Big reasons. And these
reasons ought to appeal most to the
University and especially to our
leader, Chancellor Wrighton.
Eliot University rings. It does
the same thing Harvard, Yale,
Duke and Cornell do. It sticks. It
fits on a sweatshirt. It beats you
over the head with its prestige. Our
“Strategic Plan for Undergraduate
Success” covers a lot of bases—
new academic buildings, new
student center, a soon-to-be
revamped residential living area,
the hardcore pursuit of academic
excellence over the last decade or
so.
But if the name doesn’t stick,
the impact of all these good
qualities will not either. We will
forever play second fiddle to
the Ivy League with our current
moniker. We will forever be an
obscure Midwestern school, lucky
to be recognized by the average
Joe. We will forever languish in
mediocre excellence.
And the transition? The
transition would start our real rise.
We hand the name of the University
over to a former chancellor of the
University too modest to originally
accept its dedication in his name.
We idolize him. He becomes the
face of our university, and suddenly
our university has a face. Change
is glorious. Eliot University is
suddenly on the map.
The appeal of the greats is that
even those who do not understand,
know. We’ve got the intelligentsia.
Any good “strategic plan” would
now call for the winning over of the
plebes.
The Strategic Plan for Excellence is a forward-thinking plan for
improving the Wash. U. experience
is substantial ways. It was released
over the summer and the administration is currently presenting it to some
students as well as members of the
University community. The plan has
the potential to be on the cutting edge
of transforming higher-education
in the United States and would also
radically improve the University itself.
With the unveiling of this plan, the
University has publicized all kinds
of wonderful goals that range from
increasing financial aid to renovating the Athletic Complex, but it has
refused to mention one critical aspect:
specific funding details for the various
parts of the plan.
Though the University does have
set amounts of money it would like
to allocate to the different goals listed
in its plan, it has refused to make this
information public, which makes it
difficult to know how seriously the
University will pursue each of its
listed goals. For example, one of the
goals of the plan is to “allow students
to graduate debt-free.” This alone
would radically change the composi-
tion of the University’s student body,
making its education open to a larger
variety of students with different
economic backgrounds. The increased
diversity would enrich the education
of Wash. U. students and if several
universities took steps like this, the
American dream of equal opportunity
would start to become more of a reality. The possibility of debt-free graduation is only one of several lofty goals
embedded in the plan. Looking at the
plan’s goals, it’s easy to start dreaming
of a significantly improved University
that truly fulfills the ideals of highereducation. However, it’s questionable
what the priorities of this plan really
are and how the different goals will
be fulfilled, given the administration’s
silence and secrecy about the specific
details of the plan.
The University refuses to release
budgeting numbers, which are the only
way to discern which parts of the plan
are real priorities. For example, the
University could be mainly focused
on renovating the Athletic Complex
and thus only make a few changes
to financial aid and still claim it has
executed the plan. Since we don’t
know what type of money Wash. U.
plans to put toward increasing aid,
it’s difficult to know if Wash. U. will
actually be significantly increasing the
amount of money it offers students in
aid. Even without making the changes
necessary for students to graduate
debt-free, the University could claim it
allowed a student to graduate debt-free
if she worked many hours a week at
work study and her family also had to
take out loans to be able to meet the
family’s expected contribution. This
is all possible because we don’t know
how the University will calculate need
under the plan. And though it’s too
much to ask the University how they
plan to calculate need for a plan that
hasn’t fully been developed, it is not
too much to request that the University
disclose the amount of money it actually plans to contribute toward the goal
of debt-free graduation.
The Strategic Plan for Excellence
has the potential to really transform the University by altering the
composition of its student body and
offering students the ability to engage
in different types of experiences. For
example, the plan seeks to increase
stipends for unpaid internships and
volunteer opportunities over the sum-
mer. Furthermore, it has the possibility
of playing a progressive role in our
country’s offering of higher education.
Because the plan has the potential to
do so much good, it’s important that
the University truly achieve its listed
goals. And if it is going to claim to do
something as incredible as allowing
its students to graduate without debt,
then it needs to show them how it is
working toward that goal. Additionally, if the University really has a set
plan to achieve these goals, why keep
the specifics of the plan secret from
the student body? This plan is the type
of program the students would readily
support. Students could play a role
in helping to fundraise and bring this
plan about if they really understand the
plan’s vision and how the University
plans to execute it.
The Strategic Plan for Excellence could offer students a radically
different university experience, but
the plan could also simply be a façade
for raising money to build a new Athletic Complex. The University has an
obligation to be transparent about the
details of the plan’s funding and execution since the University has stated
it will work toward such lofty goals.
GODIVA REISENBICHLER EDITORIAL CARTOON
Dennis is a junior in Arts & Sciences and
a Forum editor. He can be reached via
e-mail at [email protected].
The
drinking
debate
Tom Butcher
Staff Columnist
As a general rule, I don’t usually
like to write my Student Life columns
as the “Call-to-Arms” sort of
articles. Such essays, for this lowly
humanities student, tend to display an
unsettlingly large level of disconnect
with the real world. However,
occasionally there is an issue so large,
so important, that I feel it is my duty
as an unpaid non-journalism major
to properly address it. The subject of
today’s article is such.
You might have heard of the
Amethyst Initiative—it’s been making
the rounds of all of the big corporate
news outlet lately. I first read about
it last Wednesday in an Internet
article from the Baltimore Inquirer,
but scarcely 24 hours had passed
before ABC, NBC and CNN were
all echoing the story, as well as any
other network which three otherwise
unassuming letters could get their
hands upon. The issue: alcohol.
The Amethyst Initiative is a
petition signed exclusively by
university presidents and chancellors
who wish to express their support
for lowering the drinking age to 18.
There are many good reasons why the
drinking age should be lowered. Some
have previously been expounded
by this writer, and others have been
elaborated much more convincingly
by others. This article does not set
out to convince the reader that the
drinking age ought to be lowered;
rather, it assumes that this viewpoint
has already been reached, and it hopes
to assure the proponent of such a
change that the Amethyst Initiative is
the beginning of our eventual success.
Allow me to explain: The
Amethyst Initiative, in the present
day, is almost certainly and
inexorably doomed to fail. This is
no mere prediction, but rather a fact
of life. The simple truth is this: 95
percent of the people in America
would find it hard to give even two
lowly darns about what more than
100 presidents of the most esteemed
colleges in America have to say. This
is the sort of country we live in, and I
would hope that, at this point, such an
observation takes no one by surprise.
So when Harvard and Yale say to
lower the drinking age, the rest of the
country is lucky if it manages to sober
up long enough to grab the message.
If anyone thinks that this current
effort will yield results, then they
must be an optimist of such strong
credentials that they think that Ron
Paul might still take the presidency.
But I digress.
As I said, the Amethyst Initiative
is doomed to failure. This is cold
hard fact, with which I will never
disagree. But here is the beauty
of the movement: Failed political
initiatives, when founded on at least
vaguely populist notions, have the
wondrous tendency to give birth to
buoyant new sentiments, aflame with
the desire for magnificent change to
finally occur. Even as the Amethyst
Initiative is buried prematurely in a
shallow grave, a magnificent phoenix
of public opinion may yet soar above
Question honorary degrees
Norman Pressman
Op-Ed Submission
See BUTCHER, page 7
During the campus turmoil
of the late 1960s, Washington
University Chancellor Thomas H.
Eliot dismissed student protests by
claiming that Wash. U. students
were “birds of passage” who
would strut and fret their four
years on the academic stage and
then be heard no more.
While I have many faults, I
still have a good memory and
that phrase has stuck with me
for almost 40 years. Chancellor
Eliot started transforming Wash.
U. from a commuter-school for
the wealthy scions of St. Louis
families, not smart enough to be
admitted to the Ivy Leagues, to a
top-ten school under the vaunted
U.S. News & World Report
standings. Furthermore, he was
also a former U.S. Congressman
who is credited with co-authoring
the Social Security bill in the
1930s.
While many of us (who are
now of course nearing Social
Security status ourselves) were
offended by Eliot’s “birds”
comment, he was probably correct.
Only a few alumni from my era
are modest givers and show up at
reunions. An even smaller group
cares about what happens on
campus. That’s why the University
generally reacts to student protests
and complaints with a “rope-adope” strategy, figuring it will do
nothing until the year’s flock takes
wing.
That’s what the administration
did and will do with last spring’s
embarrassing Phyllis Schlafly
honorary degree fiasco, when
Wash. U. honored someone who
not only took actions that are
anathema to the University, but
who has also shown contempt
for the very idea of a liberal
university. The previous year,
Wash. U. honored Paul Harvey,
who advocated using nuclear
weapons in Iraq.
The Schlafly incident was
particularly maddening because
the cowardly nominator hasn’t
even confessed his or her action.
Two of my classmates who’ve
amassed fortunes large enough
to be elected to the Wash. U.
Board of Trustees responded to
my inquiry about how Schlafly
got nominated with the Sergeant
Schultz defense (“I know nothing,”
for those who missed the Hogan’s
Heroes era). It’s as if Schlafly
nominated herself.
So here’s hoping that the
class of 2012 doesn’t just suck
up the fine education Wash. U.
has to offer and fly away. There
is more to life than getting into
professional school or moving
back to your parent’s basement
and working at Starbucks. Get
involved and for your first
task consider demanding, not
necessarily the end to awarding
degrees to every right-wing nut,
but making the honorary degree
process transparent so that there
can be a true debate about what
Wash. U. stands for and who
should be recognized.
Norman is a Washington University
alumnus and was editor of Student Life
in 1969. He can be reached via e-mail
at [email protected].
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Vote in Missouri
Charlie Bohlen
Staff Columnist
Welcome back. You may have
noticed there’s an election in November.
If you took a cab from the
airport, you probably talked it over
with your driver on the way here.
It’s not because you have nothing
else to say to each other—rather,
it isn’t just because you have nothing else to say to each other—but
because this year, maybe, we might
finally be getting an election worth
the 18 months of preceding hype.
You may have also noticed the
signs around campus urging you to
register to vote, and moreover, to
register to vote as a Missouri resident. Why as a Missouri resident?
Because unless you’re from Michigan, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania or
a few other lucky states, your vote
as a Missourian pretty much counts
double. This is because Missouri,
like the states mentioned above,
is a probable “swing state.” This
in no way refers to a given state’s
population of sexually uninhibited
couples, thank God, but to their ability to “swing” the momentum of the
election toward whichever candidate
manages to win in that state.
All it really to takes to be a
swing state is a population with a
diverse enough voting record to
ensure that neither (yes, neither,
Ralph Nader) candidate has an
obvious advantage, hence their other
nickname, “battleground” states.
Since the presidency is decided by
a state elector system rather than
by the popular vote, votes in these
states are crucial. Other states, such
as California or Texas, though more
populous, tend toward overwhelming majorities for a single party.
These states are so predictable that
their results are figured into the
outcome. This is but one reason you
don’t see Barack Obama anywhere
near Texas.
This can put you in a unique
position if, like me, you come from
a state whose votes are a forgone
have yet to find a university with a more
realistic and successful alcohol policy
than our own. The fact that the de facto
leader of this university has not joined
the ranks of the rest of the nation’s
brightest and signed the Amethyst
Initiative is despicable, and we should
direct all of the scorn we can muster
toward our Chancellor, in the hopes that
he might one day see the light—for a
single signature can inspire a thousand
voices, and one day, a thousand voices
might just allow for one legal 18-yearold brewski.
Tom is a junior in Arts & Sciences. He
can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
If I still haven’t convinced you,
please consider that just down the
road, this process is not so simple.
Rare is the Missouri election that
does not feature rampant allegations of disenfranchisement, fraud
or both, and rarer still is the St.
Louis polling place that isn’t made
to stay open later as the result of an
emergency injunction. Considering
how hard it is for most of this state
to get its votes in, you really have no
excuse. The deadline is Oct. 8.
Get it done.
states—that is, if a bellwether is for
what I think it’s for.
So now you see the importance
of your vote as a Missouri resident,
but you fear the hassle of the registration process. Don’t. It is a simple
procedure made even easier by the
very institution to which you now
return. You could always google
“Register to vote in Missouri,” click
on the top link and fill out your voter
registration form online, print it out
and mail it yourself. But you could
just as easily walk into the Campus
Y, Res-Life or any other number
of places and ask to get registered.
They’ll even mail it for you; all you
need is a driver’s license or your
social security number.
Charlie is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at
[email protected].
Letter from the editor
AMETHYST from page 6
the realm of MADD-enforced highway
funding. The students of the future
will think to themselves: “Why, yes,
efforts to lower the drinking age may
have failed in the past, but look who
supported the last attempt! All of the
official smartest people in America! If
they can try and fail, then perhaps this
new generation can try and succeed.”
And it is for such a reason, my dear
and fellow students of Washington
University in St. Louis, that I must bring
to your attention a very notable absence
from the Amethyst Initiative signers:
one Mark S. Wrighton, Chancellor of
our supposedly noble university, has yet
to lend his John Hancock to this piece
of revolutionary parchment. I don’t
quite know about you, my readers, but I
conclusion. Being from L.A., my
vote hasn’t counted since Reagan.
But here in St. Louis, regardless of
which candidate you support, your
vote holds power. This is why I
highly recommend you register to
vote as a Missouri resident, unless
of course, you hail from one of the
other swing states mentioned above.
Swing states are so powerful that
they tend to be effective predictors
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WOMENS SOCCER
Games not to miss:
Women’s soccer looks toward
another strong season in 2008
Trisha Wolf
Managing Editor
The biggest change for Washington University’s ninth-ranked
women’s soccer team this year
will not be on the field, but on the
sidelines. First year Head Coach
Jim Conlon takes over the reins
this season following former Head
Coach Wendy Dillinger’s resignation in January. The former Wartburg College men’s and women’s
head coach will have big shoes to
fill, as Dillinger was the winningest
women’s soccer coach in school
history.
“He wants to take care of his
players,” senior Shirey Lane said.
“He knows soccer and is a good
guy. He wants to know us and is
big on communication. He wants
to make sure everyone understands
things from all angles.”
Conlon’s coaching strategy
should work well at his new job as
he tries to create families out of all
of his teams. This spirit is unifying the team after it faced cuts for
the first time in several years. The
28-player roster is still considered
to be large at any level, but will, according to Conlon, allow for much
more effective practices than would
have been possible on the original
team of 37 players.
The team returns much of its
strength from last year. Led by tricaptains Lane, Becca Heymann and
Caitlin Malone, the team is poised
to defend its UAA title. Junior
Caryn Rosoff, an All-American
last season, will again lead the offense. After notching 10 goals and
28 points last season, she now sits
in eighth place on the all-time leaders lists for both goals scored and
total points after just two seasons
played at the Danforth Campus.
Malone, a senior, and Heymann, a
junior, finished second and third in
last year’s points standings with 22
and 20 points, respectively. Malone
also notched five game-winning
goals last season, bringing her career total to nine, which ties her for
fourth in the all-time standings and
second in the single season standings. Freshman Lee Ann Felder has
also come on strong during preseason and is a strong candidate to
make an impact upfront.
The core defensive line-up,
composed of Lane and juniors Libby Held and Cassie Scaman, also
looks to make an impact as they
play together for the third straight
season. Three freshmen also look to
add depth to the defensive rotation.
Senior Amanda Boe will anchor the
team in goal, after serving as Carrie
Sear’s back-up for two seasons.
Sear proves to be the biggest
loss from last season’s roster, after
posting a 0.55 goals against average over the course of her career.
The graduation of Kim O’Keefe
also left big shoes to fill leadership-wise, though the team was
forced to replace her on the field a
year early when she missed her entire senior season with a torn ACL.
Both of last year’s starting outside
midfielders Abbey Hartmann and
Marin McCarthy also graduated,
as did key defensive sub Jessica
Deneweth. Therese Fox, a starting
forward last season, has also opted
not to play this fall.
“We have a really deep team and
a lot of girls are fighting for those
positions,” Heymann said.
Overall, the freshman class
looks very strong this fall, as do
several of the returning players.
Three other players who saw starting time last year also return, highlighted by all-UAA selection and
senior Carly Anderson.
“I have to give a lot of credit to
our seniors and captain,” Conlon
said. “They have been great leaders. The freshmen are also showing
good ability, though they have not
handled the pressure of being student athletes.”
“We have several freshmen that
play more than one position. Their
versatility helps us in the long run,”
Malone added.
For the first time in several
years, the team will have the opportunity to start the season at home.
Calvin College: 8/29, 8 p.m. The team starts
The Washington University Classic is scheduled for this weekend
at Francis Field, with the Red and
Green facing Calvin College at 8
p.m. on Friday and Hope College at
the same time Saturday.
As always, the team has lofty
goals for the season. “We want
to win a national championship,”
Malone said. “We really want to
establish Wash. U. as a power in
soccer.”
the season against the 19th-ranked team in the
country.
Emory University: 10/12, 11 a.m. The Bears
open UAA play against the rival Eagles,
the preseason pick to win the UAA despite
beginning the season ranked 14th nationally.
University of Chicago: 11/8, 11:30 a.m.
Wash. U. ends the season at home against the
Maroons, their arch-rival, who are picked to
finish second in the UAA.
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FOOTBALL
Football to rely on shutdown defense
Alex Dropkin
Sports Reporter
Even with a 7-3 record, the
Washington University football
team was unable to make the playoffs last year and finished third in
the UAA. With a completely new
look, the team expects a great season in 2008.
“This team will be very different
than last year’s squad,” Head Coach
Larry Kindbom said. “We feel our
defense is solid and has big play
capabilities. Our offense is young,
but we have some strong returning leaders in some key positions,”
Kindbom added.
“I think the defense is going to be
spectacular. Our secondary is going
to be amazing. We’re going in with
the mindset that we have a top-five
defense in the country,” senior cocaptain Adam Hartzler said. “We’re
going to leave our mark. This year,
we might be the best defense in
four years,” Hartzler added; he and
classmate Brent Sensenich, who is
also a co-captain, lead the defense.
Kindbom said of the defense,
“We have several ‘veterans’ that are
exerting a strong, positive leadership to the talented underclassmen.
More than just being good encouragers, though, they are making
plays in practice every day.”
A strong defense truly empowers
the offense as well. “We’re practic-
ing against a Top-15 defense,” senior quarterback Buck Smith said.
“It’s definitely great to play behind
such an opportunistic defense. It allows you to step onto the field and
take risks.”
As a junior, Smith threw for
1,891 yards with 13 touchdowns, a
personal best. Now in his final year,
Smith will have a completely new
receiving core. To improve on last
year’s season, he will need to establish a connection with these players
immediately.
Getting an early start, Smith
spent his summer at the University,
running plays with the new starting receivers and trying to establish
familiarity. “It’s a growing process
for the wide receivers, a comfort
level that will build through practice,” Smith said.
This inexperience shows heavily
in the offensive line. “We lost two
really good seniors from the line,”
Smith said. After being sacked 24
times last year, Smith will need to
trust in an offensive line with little
experience. However, the trust and
confidence will come, he believes,
in practice.
The road to the playoffs will not
be easy for the Bears. Being a Pool
B team, winning the UAA conference does not automatically earn
Washington University a playoff
spot. In fact, even with a perfect record, there is no guarantee that the
team will get a spot in the postsea-
The Bears football team during their annual scrimmage on August 22.
son.
“It’s all about who you beat and
how you beat them,” Smith said
bluntly. With a tough schedule featuring ranked teams such as Wabash
College, Wittenberg University and
Case Western Reserve University,
the Bears should have plenty of
opportunities to make a case for a
playoff bid.
“I’m excited for the challenge.
We’re going to go out there and
compete with them. To be honest,
it’ll be a fun way to end out my career,” Hartzler said.
The team’s first game is Sept. 6,
at home against Greenville. When
asked about this game, Hartzler
said, “There’s nothing quite like
that feeling of getting ready for that
first game of the season. The first
play of the game. Knowing that this
is my last go-around, it will be an
emotional time. It’s going to be
awesome.”
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CROSS COUNTRY
Cross Country running strong
Josh Goldman
Senior Sports Editor
Washington University cross
country will look to continue its recent string of success. The women
placed third at the NCAA Championships and won the UAA title
while the men finished sixth in conference.
“Last year’s team left us with a
lot to live up to, but the team obviously has a very different dynamic
this year. We are not necessarily better or worse than last year’s team,
but we have different strengths and
weaknesses. I think that we are more
concerned with running to the best
of our abilities, rather than coming
in a certain place,” senior Hillary
Superak said.
Both teams are very young this
year, as the men’s team features
nine freshmen out of 30 runners
while five of the 17 members of the
women’s team are freshmen. There
are only five seniors on the men’s
and women’s teams combined.
“This year’s team is very young,
and we do not have a whole lot of
experience running at the collegiate level. Four of our top runners
graduated last year, so we lost a significant amount of talent and experience. However, this year’s team is
very talented and capable of doing
well at big meets,” Superak stated.
“It is a huge adjustment for every freshman whether they are in
sports or not. I always try and take
that into account in our training, as
there is stress in their life of Wash.
U. academics that is hard to quantify
as a coach. We have a very talented
group on both sides [men and women]. I think there is a good chance
that a freshman could make the varsity on both teams. Only time will
tell,” Head Coach Jeff Stiles said.
Stiles added that he views cross
country as a team sport since “the
team is why they are meeting at 6:30
a.m. four days a week and running
40-80 miles per week all summer. It
is their family at school.”
“As a team, we are very close,
and we spend a lot of time together.
For a lot of people, races become
more meaningful when you know
that you have teammates who are
depending on you to perform at
your best,” Superak added in describing the importance of running
for a team and not solely as an individual.
The team begins the season Saturday with the Big River Running
Early Bird in Forest Park, and while
Stiles is relieved to get his planned
meet out of the way early, he also
cannot wait to “watch which upperclassmen for men and women step
up as leaders. I believe both teams
will be much better in October and
November than we seem in August,
and that is exciting.”
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MENS SOCCER
Soccer to rely on depth and speed this season
Josh Goldman
Senior Sports Editor
The Washington University
men’s soccer team will be looking
to match or exceed last season’s
NCAA Elite Eight appearance.
Last season, the team finished 165-2 (4-1-2 UAA), third in the tough
University Athletic Association
conference.
“On the outside of the field
and up top, we are returning a lot
of players, but we graduated both
of our center backs as well as key
central midfielders. The players
that are filling in those roles are
playing well, and I expect them to
pick up where last years’ seniors
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Kevin Brege said.
The Bears are ranked sixth
in Division III in the preseason
NSCAA (National Soccer Coaches
of America Association) poll, and
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champion University of Rochester
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“The rankings are not important
to us, especially at this point in the
season. Right now we are focusing
on preparing for Sewanee and Birmingham Southern,” Brege said.
“I think it puts a target on your
back. I don’t actually think that
we’re the number five or number six team at this point. I think
we’re capable of getting there, but
I don’t think that we are there. We
do have a target on us, so it will be
interesting to see how we’re going
to handle that,” Head Coach Joe
Clarke said.
In order to get the team to a
level worthy of sixth in the nation, Clarke has been working with
the starters and reserve players to
improve two vital aspects of the
game: downfield passing and physical play. These two key areas have
been emphasized due to the difference this team presents over last
year’s team.
“We might actually have a little
more depth than we had last year.
We haven’t replaced the physicality of the three players that left that
were starters. But we picked up
more speed and quickness throughout the team,” Clarke said.
Part of this depth has been attributed to a talented freshman
class competing for the final spots
on the squad.
“Having so many quality freshmen not only helps this year’s team,
but it also establishes a program
that will continue to succeed years
into the future,” Brege added.
“They’re going to raise the
practice level and some of them
are going to be able to step up and
grab important playing minutes
during the course of the year and
help make our team better,” Clarke
said about his freshman class.
The team opens its season on
Friday against the University of
the South during the Birmingham
Southern College Labor Day Classic in Birmingham, Ala. The first
home game will be on Sept. 9
against Principia College at 7 p.m.
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Brooke Genkin
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Through different diet trends,
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The plastics used in the production of these water bottles,
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defects, miscarriages and prediabetes conditions.
The endocrine system is comprised of several organs responsible for regulating metabolism,
growth, development, tissue function and mood through the secretion of hormones. In 2006, it was
discovered that BPA has the ability
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In studies conducted with animals,
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Bunny
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Michelle Stein
Senior Scene Editor
Just outside of Mallinckrodt, but
before you hit the library, hulks a thin
and pensive piece of bronze known affectionately by Washington University
students as “the Bunny.” Thought by
many to be a Wash. U. original—after
all, how many bronze bunnies does one
see?—this piece is just one of many
emaciated bunnies placed throughout
both the country and the world.
Covered throughout the school
year in glow sticks, wreaths and other
decorations, the Bunny is one of the
most recognizable aspects of campus.
Programs, student groups and trips off
campus all use the Bunny as a meeting
spot everyone will recognize. But the
Wash. U. icon, referred to by some as
the Donnie Darko bunny, joins its fellow bunnies as a set of sculptures by the
famous British sculptor Barry Flanagan.
Some of the other bunnies even dance
and play instruments.
Beginning in 1979, Barry Flanagan
began casting his bronze hares. While
one jumps over a pyramid, another happily bangs its left-handed drum. A third
sits sadly with a guitar at its side. Be
particularly careful of the boxing hare
atop his anvil. Yes, the bunnies do more
than merely sit on a rock.
As a “Thinker on a Rock,” the
Wash. U. Bunny appears less ac-
tive than some of his other bunny
playmates—except of course for the
“Thinker on a Large Computer.” Even
with all of that thinking, somehow he
and the other hares sure know how to
travel. Hopping around the globe, these
hares have been displayed as brilliant
works of art everywhere from Grant
Park in Chicago and Union Park in
New York all the way to London. The
“Thinker” himself made a visit to the
Netherlands in 2005.
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at the University, how could he be in
the Netherlands? Apparently, there are
multiple thinkers. While one pensive
bunny resides here on Hilltop Campus,
a second is thinking in the National
Gallery of Art at another Washington,
in D.C.
As you walk past the Bunny on your
way to class, take time to stop and appreciate the creepy statue, which casts
its long eared shadow on us all. While
some of Flanagan’s bronze hares are
getting admired as works of a master
artist, Wash. U.’s Bunny will be going
through his yearly wardrobe change.
Students will meet at its base before
they go to lunch. And the student body
will continue to remark on just how odd
the Donnie Darko bunny really is when
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Grading Wash. U.
Sam Baier
Scene Reporter
We’ve all been there—the
wide-eyed prospective freshman stage, where all the colleges in the world are open to
you and they all seem better
than high school. After the
initial elation wears off, most
people sober up with the notion that they can only attend
one school out of the dozens
they’ve considered.
This decision is scrutinized
more thoroughly than an NFL
draft pick, a sitting president,
or a tacky dress at the Oscars.
Most people expect a lot out
of their college —they want
to find their true friends, they
want to find a deeper understanding of the world, they
want to find out why their
parents laugh so hard when
they watch “Animal House.”
When considering their academic future, students want
Shayna Makaron
Scene Special Features Editor
So you’re in college now—the
big leagues. Between drinking and
dorm rooms, university life contains
a hook-up culture that you won’t
find anywhere else. Whether you’re
planning on keeping your sexual
morals or leaving them at home to
make room in your suitcase for new
lingerie, things are going to change,
and it’s important to be prepared.
Most people are not qualified
to tell others what to do in the bed-
all the information they can
get.
Perhaps that is why YouTube’s theUrocks videos (located at www.youtube.com/
user/theUrocks) get hundreds
of thousands of views each
spring. The videos, about
one minute each, provide a
condensed snapshot of some
of the nation’s finest universities. Our very own Washington University in St. Louis is
among the featured institutions, and theUrocks provides
an engaging (if debatable)
picture of campus and academic life.
Each of the eight videos is
highly complementary of the
faculty, teaching assistants,
students and the institution
in general. Classes are described as a grind, and even
the B-school earns praise
for its rigorous curriculum.
The Pre-med and Psychology departments are singled
out for their reputation and
room. Everyone has different styles,
and what works for one person may
not necessarily work for another.
But just like that show “What Not to
Wear,” there are definitely acts that
fit under the category of “What Not
to Do While Hooking Up.” So here
is the Wash. U. Guide to Hookup
Don’ts:
Don’t hook up in your roommate’s bed. You might have gotten
away with going at it in a friend’s
bed at a party in high school, but
that’s not very nice either. You have
no excuses now, so stay on your own
intensity, but the videos also
showcase a wide variety of
available majors. Students
are portrayed as involved,
hard-working and perpetually protesting. The only
misstep is when Wash. U. is
described as “the Harvard of
the Midwest”—an obvious
inversion.
Housing and food also earn
accolades. While on-campus
housing is dubiously described as “spacious,” students gave off-campus abodes
a favorable A-. The variety
and availability of food is
heavily lauded, and the narrators positively rave about the
quality. “We’re not talking
good by college food standards,” says one, “we mean
good.”
The overall size of the
campus is portrayed as sizeable but not sprawling, and
students describe the feel as
walkable and secure. The
interiors of buildings—labs,
side of the room.
Don’t give in to the convenience
of floorcest. You’ll hear this over and
classrooms, and cafeterias—
are presented as well-furnished and roomy, and the
exteriors are noted for their
comfortably classic architecture (although the façade of
Eliot Hall is conspicuously
absent from any available
footage).
When the discussion turns
to the social scene, though,
the narrators hate harder than
Silky Johnson. An institution where one “spends more
time studying brain cells than
killing them,” Wash. U. is not
only “a weak party school”
and “a weak greek school,”
but it suffers from “a lame
hookup scene.”
The plus side, according to
one student, is “lower disease
transmission.” “It’s not really
a party school,” says another,
“at least not in the classical
sense.” All of this appears to
be a symptom of the students
themselves. The videos show
the results of a poll in which
Don’t leave your socks on. It’s
just weird.
Don’t say “I love you” for the
What not to do while hooking up
over because it’s that important. If
that means hooking up with a semirandom person instead, so be it. It’ll
probably be less awkward in the end.
first time while your partner is…
pleasing you. It’s just about as genuine as typing “ILY” on AIM. And
don’t say it if you don’t mean it.
the student body rated the appearance of the opposite sex;
guys were given a generous
B-, while girls scored a harsh
C+.
Overall, the videos present
a dearth of statistics and ratings along with a few anecdotes from campus events.
However, the videos all
appear to be shot on the same
day and in the same locations,
resulting in a surface-level
view of the more intangible
aspects of the University. Although theUrocks is far from
the end-all-be-all of college
information, its videos give
the viewer a relatively honest
sense of the featured institution that is designed to make
the toughest of choices a bit
easier. And after watching
the videos and attending the
University, Wash. U. students
may conclude that theUrocks
is a hair more honest than we
may prefer.
Don’t break out the fuzzy handcuffs for the first hookup. Those are
for special occasions with someone
who already knows and is comfortable with how freaky you are.
Guys: Don’t ask how you
compare to other guys that a girl
has been with, especially in terms of
size. It will undoubtedly make her
uncomfortable and make you look
like you need to affirm your masculinity. Be proud of what you’ve got!
Girls: Don’t steal a guy’s shirt the
morning after, unless he takes yours,
in which case it’s totally fair game,
but you might want to end things
with him anyway.
Don’t hook up on the Bunny. Not
only is it dangerous, but the Bunny
is also not into threesomes.
Don’t hook up in the common
room. You may be an exhibitionist,
but not everyone is prepared to be a
member of the audience.
Well, there you have it. There are
probably many other things that you
can do wrong, but at the very least,
people won’t be telling stories with
you playing the role of “that guy” or
“the crazy chick.”
Cadenza Editor / Cecilia Razak / [email protected]
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Summer’s party music:
still good for the fall!
David Kaminsky
Music Editor
T
he clear winner of the
battle to be on this fall’s
party mix is the entirety
of Girl Talk’s “Feed the
Animals.” As previously discussed,
the album is perfect party music.
However, the summer saw many
other albums geared toward getting
drunken kids dancing at a party.
Ratatat, who will be playing the
Gargoyle on August 30, released
their third LP (appropriately titled
“LP3”). While “LP3” is not their
best work, it is a solid record that
further builds upon the group’s
knack for writing songs for the
soundtrack of anything you can
think of (whether that be a Hummer, Zune or a TV show or movie).
The Faint released their first
album in four years to much
disappointment. The new songs are
slower, with lyrics that are lame
interpretations of typical science
fiction themes. In doing this, they
moved away from their older,
overtly sexual and downright silly
electo-theatrics. Unfortunately for
them, they’re better at being silly
than serious. Another Omaha band,
Tilly and the Wall, released their
third album (which is technically untitled but often referred to as
MCT CAMPUS
“O”) this summer. “O” is Tilly’s
best work yet. Like all other Tilly
albums, the music is carefree and
fun, inspiring listeners to dance and
chant along. “O” is different in that
at times it adds an intensity not seen
in any other album, an intensity that
pleasantly does not detract from
Tilly’s carefree attitude.
Formerly Pitchfork’s next big
thing, Black Kids, released their
first LP “Partie Traumatic.” In a bizarre move, Pitchfork (best known
for giving music as an entity a 6.5)
gave the album a low rating without
any explanation. More puzzling
is the fact that half the songs on
the album are rerecorded versions
of songs on the EP that inspired
Pitchfork to call them the next big
thing. That said, “Partie Traumatic”
is hilariously stupid and fun. It’s an
easy listen and an easy dance with
lyrics that will make listeners snap,
crackle and pop the whole album
through. Finally, the Medic Droid’s
first album, “What’s Your Medium”
is similarly stupid and fun. All of
the songs are synth-heavy with
sexual tones. It’s dancey and lighthearted with original lyrics that talk
about scene girls and having sex in
the back seat of the car.
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David Kaminsky
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Long days... warm weather… being in, on and around large bodies of water...no school...not to mention Shark Week. We associate all of these
pleasures with the summer season, arguably the most romanticized season of the year. It is a well-known fact that all seasons, particularly summers,
have a soundtrack, and this year’s was no exception: It saw many high and low profile releases.
While every summer has its share of hits and misses, this one had more than its fair
share of hits. Thus, instead of highlighting some arbitrary number of “best” releases, we
here at Cadenza have provided you with something different. While you were enjoying
summer’s niceties, we worked tirelessly (okay, so we did take a break for Shark Week),
stealing (errrr—legally purchasing) and listening to the summer’s offerings. We are now
proud to present to you our finished work: a complete(ish) guide to this summer’s music.
The big names of summer
Death Cab for Cutie opened
the summer by releasing “Narrow Stairs,” a darker album
than previous releases. It features the single “I Will Possess
Your Heart,” a gutsy choice at
more than eight minutes long.
The album was a welcome
improvement over “Plans” and
even rivals their breakout album “Transatlanticism.” Also
in May, Lil Wayne released
“Tha Carter III” after months
of hype and countless delays
due to leaks. The album sold
more than one million copies
in the first week, making the
mixtape boatloads of cash and
proving that even during the
summer of digital downloads
people still buy CDs.
The further rise of the digital release
The summer of 2008 was the summer of the digital release. Ace Enders,
the former lead singer/songwriter of the Early November opened the
summer releasing “The Secret Wars,” his first solo effort under his own
name (plus “A Million Different People”) on the music television station
Fuse’s Web site for free. While at first the eight-track album made waves
within the music community for its method of distribution, it was also noted
for being some of the best material Ace has written.
Tracks such as “Reaction” and “Why Do You Run” are as infectious and
poppy as anything he’s put out with the Early November, while “Bring Back
Love (Year 2020)” is a track that is somehow truly touching and inspiring
while simultaneously embarrassingly campy.
Girl Talk followed Enders’ big digital release with what could be argued
was the second biggest hit of the summer (after “Tha Carter III” of course).
“Feed the Animals” was released through the Illegal Art’s Web site using
the “pay-whatever-you-feel-like-paying” scheme Radiohead debuted last
October.
The album, like its predecessor “Night Ripper,” is an instant party starter
with clever mash-ups of the biggest pop artists of our time. While the
entire album is dance party gold, the mash-up of Ace of Base’s “All That
She Wants” with Cassidy’s “My Drink n My 2 Step” is the clear winner,
standing alone as the best on the album.
Finally, in mid-August, Bloc Party announced to the world that they
had completed their third album, “Intimacy,” and just days later released it
digitally. The album came as a huge surprise to fans and journalists as its
release was not expected until early 2009. A full review of “Intimacy” will
appear in a future issue of Student Life.
This summer’s “summer music”
We all know what summer music is: more fun, geared primarily toward high
school kids, and it sure isn’t serious. In the past, summer music was traditional
pop—the latest single from Britney, Jessica, Christina or any other pale-skinned,
large-chested, highly choreographed pop “artist.”
However, the kids’ tastes have changed, and now it’s largely dominated by
the current “scenes” emo/screamo/pop-punk, or whatever you want to call it.
This summer saw the release of an immense amount of summer music.
Bands that are relatively new to the scene and blend together to the point of
being indistinguishable released much of it. Cute is What We Aim For, Hit
the Lights, Rookie of the Year, There for Tomorrow, the Maine and a slew of
other similarly poorly-named emo/pop-punk groups are all examples of bands
that released albums this summer as part of the “new scene.” While all of their
albums were definitely similar, the Maine did it the best.
Big names from older scenes also debuted new albums. Alkaline Trio
released “Agony & Irony,” a clear departure from the production value that had
steadily increased starting with “From Here to Infirmary” and culminating in
their last album, “Crimson.”
While not their best material, the album is solid, catchy and distinctly
Alkaline Trio. Weezer released their third self-titled album (sporting a red cover)
this summer. While the album is unquestionably terrible, it is so much better
than their last release, “Make Believe” that it has allowed fans of old Weezer
to admit their love again. Anthony Green (best known for his main gig as the
singer in Circa Survive) released a solo album this August. Unfortunately, the
album is mind-numbingly mediocre and will likely only make it into a true fan’s
album rotation.
Finally, this summer saw releases from a slew of screamo/hardcore bands,
particularly those of a specific subgenre recently (and hilariously) dubbed
“lolcore” which can be best described as having both melodic and screaming
vocals, mind-numbingly catchy hooks and dumb lyrics that take themselves
way too seriously.
The best release from this subgenre this summer is A Skylit Drive’s “Wires…
And the Concept of Breathing.” The album sounds a bit different; it’s their first
with new singer Michael “Jag” Jagmin, but maintains the ridiculous lyrics and
infectious intensity that made their first EP, “She Watched the Sky” so fantastic.
While not as good as “Wires… And the Concept of Breathing,” Dance Gavin
Dance, Alesana, and Emarosa also all put out new records full of solid lolcore
summer music.
Alanis Morissette released her first album
since her break-up
with Ryan Reynolds
and showed the world
that she’s best when
depressed. While it’s
no “Jagged Little
Pill” (which is to be
expected, since Ryan
Reynolds is no Dave
Coulier), it’s definitely
her best work in years.
Coldplay released
their Spanish-influenced, Brian Eno-produced “Viva La Vida,”
and while it is a significant improvement
from “X & Y,” it’s still
clearly a Coldplay album. The album casts
itself into the purgatory that is the listener’s
indifference.
Another surprise release this summer was Beck’s latest, “Modern
Guilt.” Produced by Danger Mouse (best known for his work as the
half of Gnarls Barkley that doesn’t sing), the album is surprisingly
boring. Fortunately it’s only a half hour in length so trying to make
oneself like it isn’t too much of a time-waster. Sigur Ros, everyone’s
second favorite Icelandic artists (sorry guys, but Bjork really is that
good) released their latest, which includes their first song written
entirely in English. While the album is one of the best of the summer, it’s still not quite as good as “( )” and it’s shown us that it’s
more fun not knowing the meaning of their lyrics, if you don’t speak
Icelandic, that is.
Conor Oberst,
the prolific
singer-songwriter who
leads the
band Bright
Eyes, released
his first solo
album in 12
years. The selftitled release
is a folk album
that focuses on
the theme of
escape. While
it’s not his best
work overall,
the self-titled
release is a
welcome return from
the terrific
flop that was
Bright Eyes’
last album,
“Cassadega.”
Finally, after
months of conflict over the name of the album, Nas released his latest without a title.

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