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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2005

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Coke contract hinders Cheap Lunch

By Margy Levinson Contributing Reporter A 2001 Washington University contract making the Coca-Cola Company the exclusive distributor of soft-drink products on campus is hampering EnCouncil’s efforts to provide low-cost lunch.

Originally, Cheap Lunch bought Coke products from the grocery store, where a 24-pack of 12 oz. cans could cost as little as $5.50.

But sophomore Frank Beling, who is in charge of Cheap Lunch, says that plan was foiled after a chat with the student services chair. “He said we have no choice but to buy Coke directly from the distributor” because of the contract, recalls Beling. “I think it is absurd.”

Through the University’s distributor, a 24-pack of 12 oz. cans goes for $8.25.

As a result, Cheap Lunch, which sells pizza, soda and chips

once a week for two or three dollars to students from all University schools, brings in virtually no revenue.

“It’s going to raise our costs each Lunch,” Beling said. “Sometimes we break even, but even a difference this small, it’s going to make a big difference with our overall budget.”

Just how did Coke products become the exclusive drinks on campus?

“We went through a competitive process, with the big-name drink companies, mainly Coke and Pepsi,” said Alan Kuebler, the University’s executive director for resource management. “We invited both to propose to us, and Coke’s proposal was way more advantageous to the University, much more so than Pepsi’s.”

For the exclusive “pouring rights,” the University receives money from Coke, said Kuebler.

The University also doesn’t have to pay for any of the vending ma-

chines around campus.

“We don’t have to pay for electricity, the product that goes in them, to service them, to refill them, or to get the money out of them,” said Kuebler. The University then splits the earnings from the 105 vending machines on campus with Coke.

Bon Appétit is not so lucky.

It still has to pay for the bottled soda and the syrup to put into its fountains.

“We are limited in what we can purchase to bring on campus, and as far as Bon Appétit [is concerned], it hasn’t really hindered direction. The only concern we have is that the students can’t get some of the products they ask for,” said Kathy Carmody, general manager of Bon Appétit.

Some students don’t like the limited soft-drink options on campus. Freshman Leah Bressler said, “I like Pepsi products better than Coke products. We need more variety.”

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Sophomore Dan Asin buys some Coca-Cola at Bear Mart on Monday, Oct. 24. The University has an exclusive contract to only distribute Coke products on campus.

Chancellor’s salary higher than Harvard, Duke

By Elizabeth Lewis Staff Reporter Washington University Chancellor Mark Wrighton makes more than $600,000 per year, earning more than the presidents of Duke and Harvard Universities, according to fi lings with the Internal Revenue Service obtained by Student Life.

Nennerl O. Keohane, the president of Duke University, made almost $500,000 including contributions to employee benefit plans in 2002, the last year for which data was available. Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard University, also makes close to $500,000.

All non-profit organizations must fi le an IRS 990 form, which contains information on the organizations’ fi nances and salaries. An examination of Washington University’s 990 form reveals that high-ranking administrators earn salaries significantly higher than the national average for comparable positions.

But when the salaries are compared to similar positions at “peer institutions,” the wage

gap narrows.

The average salary for a general council position at a four-year private university offering doctoral degrees was $141,251 in 2002, according to statistics compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The average chief executive at a university offering doctoral degrees made $250,358, less than half of what Wrighton rakes in.

“Averages are skewed. At schools like Wash. U., Emory, and MIT, these schools are more complicated and there is more research going on,” said Anne Prenatt, the vice chancellor of human resources.

She added that doctoral institutions, like Northwestern and the University of Miami, are not as research-driven as a school like Washington University. Salary comparisons between the two types of institutions may be misleading, said Prenatt.

Many factors determine how much money administrators will make. “Whether a school is private or non-private, size, to some degree location, complexity, universities with medical centers, state-

run, and geography all play a role,” said Prenatt. She added that “schools on the east and west coasts have administrators who receive higher incomes.”

The scope of research at a school also “determines how much research money is rewarded to an institution,” said Kim Grobak, the University’s director of compensation.

Comparing how much administrators receive at schools like Washington University to the average amounts that administrators receive at doctoral universities “would be like comparing tuition here with the tuition at UMSL,” said Prenatt.

Among other higher-ranking officials at the University, Michael Cannon, the executive vice chancellor and general counsel, makes over $300,000, including benefits. Anne Taylor, the vice president and general council at Harvard University, made about the same amount, and Beth Harris at the University of Chicago and Richard Zansitis at Rice University both made around $250,000 for the same position of general counsel.

ABS Festival brings astronaut Jemison to campus

By Jessie Rothstein Contributing Reporter Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to travel into space, will deliver this week’s Assembly Series lecture in conjunction with the annual Black Arts & Sciences Festival.

The theme for this year’s weeklong festival, put on by the Association of Black Students (ABS), “Shoot For Your Moon, Break Through Their Stratosphere: Celebrating Black Frontiersman,” aims to celebrate the achievements of black scientists and inventors throughout history.

In her lecture, entitled “Exploring the Frontiers of Science and Human Potential,” Jemison will reflect on her dedication to motivating change and spreading her appreciation for scientific education to others.

She plans to discuss not only her own story, but also the importance of education and the increased participation of women and minorities in science and technology.

Jemison made history when she traveled on the Space Shuttle Endeavor’s STS-47 SpacelabJ flight as the science mission specialist in 1992. A NASA astronaut for six years, Jemison carried out experiments in the life and material sciences on board the Endeavor and also functioned as co-investigator for bone cell research in the Spacelab laboratory module. In addition to her career as an as-

tronaut, Jemison has also held the professional roles of chemical engineer, scientist, physician, and teacher.

Members of ABS have requested Jemison as a speaker for the past several years but had their first opportunity to bring her to campus this year.

Sophomore Michelle Jamison, the programming co-chair for ABS, said, “This year we put all of our efforts into bringing her here and are ecstatic that she is actually coming.”

The speaker selection process, which began last May, was a joint effort of the entire ABS executive board and the programming co-chairs. Her visit to the University marks a monumental event for many students who have looked to her achievements for inspiration in the past.

“She has been my personal role model since I was in the sixth grade and first heard of her,” said Jamison.

Senior Raumesh Akbari, president of ABS, echoes such sentiments as she states that attending her lecture will “be like listening to living history.”

Currently working as a professor-at-large at Cornell University, Jemison’s accomplishments stretch far beyond the professional realm. One of her main enterprises is The Jemison Group, founded in 1993, which is a technology consulting firm that is concerned with technologies’ social, cultural

and economic impact. Among other projects, this company provides needed health care services to developing areas, such as West Africa, where Jemison formerly served as a medical officer for the Peace Corps. In addition, Jemison also founded The Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence in 1994. This nonprofit organization sponsors an annual international summer camp, called “The Earth We Share,” which teaches teenagers problem-solving skills and methods for applying them to current global dilemmas.

Given her wide range of successes, Jemison accurately reflects the theme of this year’s Black Arts & Sciences Festival, which Akbari describes as one that “essentially promotes achievement even in the face of barriers and limits others try to place on you.”

Other events planned for the week include open-forum discussions such as “Ask a Negro Leaguer” with “Prince” Joe Henry, which will discuss the frontiers in sports by speaking with a former player in the Negro Leagues, the baseball league for black players in the years before they were allowed to enter Major League Baseball.

The annual ABS semi-formal, held on Saturday night, will conclude the week. More information about the Festival’s events can be found at ABS’s Web site, w w w.clik.to/abs.

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Students attend an Association of Black Students event discussing minorities and health care in Mudd House on Tuesday night.

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Briefs NATIONAL Evangelical minister praises London bombings A British TV network secretly filmed an American evangelical minister praising the London subway bombings that killed 52 people. Fred Phelps, the founder of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., to an undercover SKY TV reporter: “Oh I am so thankful that happened. My only regret is that they didn’t kill about million of them. England deserves that kind of pun-

ishment, as does this country (America).” He said the London bombing was God’s way of unleashing his wrath at the United States and England for their tolerance of homosexuals. Recently, he and his parishioners have been picketing the funerals of soldiers in Iraq, carrying signs that say “Thank God 9/11,” “God Hates Fags” and “AIDS Cures Fags.”

New Federal Reserve chairman nominated On Monday, President Bush nominated Ben Bernanke, an Ivy League economist and monetary theorist, to succeed Alan Greenspan as the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Bernanke, Bush’s top economic advisor, has worked alongside the White House since June when he was sworn into the economic council, and he previously worked as a governor at the Federal Reserve for

three years. The former chair of the economic department at Princeton University, Bernanke has been praised by friends and colleagues as a good communicator which a modest but intelligent persona.

No date has yet been set for congressional hearings on the matter.

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President Bush announced on Oct. 24 that Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Ben Bernanke will replace Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Rosa Parks dies at age 92 An icon of the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks passed away on Monday, Oct. 24 in her home in Detroit. She was 92 years old. Parks’ refusal to relinquish her bus seat to a white patron in the winter of

1955 became a quintessential part of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

For her act of defiance, Parks was charged a total of $14 in court fees and fines. Her action was the catalyst for a 13-

month boycott of the Montgomery bus system. In recent years, continued to make public appearances while, according to her physicians, suffering from dementia.

3:42 p.m. PARKING VIOLATION—PARKING LOT #4 —On Oct. 20 officers assisted Transportation on Parking Lot #4 with a fraudulent parking permit. Transportation gained access into the vehicle and took possession of the permit and issued the vehicle a $500 fine. Hartmann’s towed the vehicle to their lot. Disposition: Clea red.

stolen from Snow Way Dr. was recovered in Koenig Dorm. Disposition: Pending.

POLICE BEAT Wednesday, Oct. 19 8:32 a.m.

LARCENYTHEFT —MCMILLAN HALL—A staff member reports the theft of her cell phone and cash from her purse. Items were taken from her office between 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. while she was elsewhere in the building. Disposition: Pending.

9:51 a.m.

LARCENYTHEFT —OLIN LIBRARY— Student reported a silver TMobile Sidekick II was taken from the Whispers Café in Olin Library between 8:00 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. Phone had been left on a table in the café. Total loss value of $300. Disposition: Pending.

11:08 a.m. ACCIDENT AUTO—MILLBROOK GA-

RAGE—A student advised that her vehicle had been struck by an unknown vehicle while parked in Millbrook garage between 2:15 p.m. on Oct. 18 and 6:15 a.m. on Oct. 19. Disposition: Pending.

6:39 p.m.

ASSAULT— CHARLES F. KNIGHT EXEC ED—Altercation between employees resulted in one subject being assaulted. Disposition: Under investigation.

4:58 p.m.

LARCENYT H E F T— DA N FORT H DORM—Student responded to the station to make a delayed report of a lost wallet.

He stated that he lost it on or about Sept. 25. Since the loss a credit card has been used without his authorization. Disposition: Pending.

Thursday, Oct. 20

5:15 p.m.

INFORMATION —SMALL GROUP HOUSE #10—Complainant reported an incident that occurred on Snow Way Drive on Oct. 10. Disposition: Informational.

1:53 a.m. FIRE —SIGMA NU—Student overloaded a lightweight extension cord in his room, causing a small electrical fire. Fire was extinguished without injury.

Disposition: Cleared.

12:35 p.m.

FRAUD— MILLBROOK #4—A student reported that his previously cancelled credit card was attempting to be used to order online goods. Disposition: The information was turned over to St. Louis County Police detectives.

Friday, Oct. 21 12:00 a.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—SMALL GROUP HOUSING—Two students found in possession of University property taken from a janitors closet. Disposition: Referred to Judicial Administrator.

1:15 p.m. PROPERTY— KOENIG DORM—Stop sign

4:25 p.m.

LARCENYT H E F T— M A L L I N C K RO D T CENTER—Student reported a lost wallet with unauthorized charges occurring at Wal-Mart in St. Ann and Maplewood. Disposition: Under investigation 8:25 p.m. SUSPICIOUS— WOHL CENTER—Caller reported a suspicious occupied vehicle in Wohl garage. Officers were unable to locate same. Disposition: Cleared.

Monday, Oct. 24 9:46 a.m. PARKING VIOLATION—PARKING LOT #37—Transportation located a fraudulent permit. Disposition: Cleared.

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regions of the world, with a focus on how terrorism and programs designed to combat it alter the state of international relations.

“I’ll discuss the disconnections between European leaders’ and citizens’ support for the Iraq war and the effect that this disconnect has on how we are viewed there...the U.S.Pakistan alliance, which has grown much stronger since 9/11, and how that relationship affects USIndia and India-Pakistan relations,” said Parikh, an assistant professor of political science.

In an Oct. 23 op-ed submission to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “If the Price of Safety is War...We’re Paying Too Much,” Le Vine staked out the position he will expound upon during

forum sponsored by the University’s international and area studies department and the Sigma Iota Rho International Studies honorary. “I hope it’ll foster dialogue in the target community.”

The program is planned to begin with 20-minute speeches by University professors Victor Le Vine, Sunita Parikh and Saint Louis University professor Jean-Robert LegueyFeilleux. A question and answer session will be held afterwards. The discussion will be preceded by a candlelight vigil at 6:30 p.m. in Bowles Plaza, hosted by Amnesty International to mark the death of the 2,000th American soldier in the war in Iraq.

The speeches will cover relevant topics in diverse

Staff Reporter University professors will discuss the “War on Terror” and its implications for relations between the United Nations and the United States at a town hall meeting tonight.

“The upcoming Town Hall Meeting on the ‘War on Terror’ reflects the students’ and faculty’s consciousness that international affairs affect people throughout the world. American foreign policy is affecting not only relations between the United States and political entities, such as the United Nations, but peoples and their lives as well,” said junior Micah King, chair of People Speak, a

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today’s discussion.

“The wrong model for coping with [terror] threats was Homeland Security under Tom Ridge, whose budget allocated next to nothing for better intelligence, and vast sums for politically potent pork,” said Le Vine, who is a professor emeritus in political science.

The International Studies Honorary started its operations at the University at the beginning of the current academic year. A series of similar discussions on topics related to the war on terror are planned for next week, including a student debate on the status of Saudi Arabia as it relates to the war, a film showing and a discussion of women and politics in the context of

Islam. “[The Honorary is] one of the initiatives to foster more of a community with majors and faculty in the department. It’s great—we have an incredible group of students who are really committed to fostering community among themselves and promoting international issues on campus and I find them incredibly inspiring,” said Danielle Silber, coordinator of events and volunteers in the international and area studies department.

The town hall meeting will take place tonight from 7-9 p.m. in Umrath Hall on Hilltop Campus as part of the People Speak Forum.

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President Bush speaks about the “War on Terror” before the National Endowment for Democracy on Oct. 6 in Washington, D.C.

Chinese language classes see increased enrollment

By Alison Curran Contributing Reporter Washington University students have fallen in line with the national trend of rising interest in the study of Chinese language, with enrollment in Chinese language classes spiking over 30 percent this fall. The number of students enrolling in Chinese has risen dramatically and is what Judy Mu, a professor of Chinese language and literature, calls “a major phenomenon in this field.”

On Oct. 15, The New York Times reported that the number of Chinese language programs in the United States, ranging from elementary school to adult programs, had tripled over the past 10 years.

“Chinese is the language of this century. If you want to get into the front lines of the world affairs, you have to know Chinese. China will be in the front politically, economically, and medically,” said Mu. Student interest in Chinese has been steadily growing over the past five years. But this fall presented an unparalleled jump in Chinese enrollment, said Mu. The students enrolling come from mixed backgrounds with different levels of experience with the language. Chinese 101, which is for students with no background at all, is very popular for both Asian and non-Asian students.

“Over the past few years we get students coming in with [a Chinese language] background

in high school,” said Mu, noting the national move to teach the “less commonly taught languages,” such as Chinese, at the high school level.

Professor Mu attributes this year’s significant enrollment increase to several global elements. “It could be multi-factored. Because of the general environment surrounding China, political and economical, students see opportunities for getting on the platform of world affairs,” she said. “The word has got out that the American government needs people educated in the less commonly taught languages, such as Chinese.”

Mu has noticed this trend not just at the University, but at universities everywhere. Many of her colleagues have seen

their Chinese language classes grow anywhere from 25 to 100 percent, she said. Students everywhere have realized the importance of learning the language.

The department encourages students not to stop with the language, but to continue studying Chinese literature, culture, and religion.

“Language is where a lot of students begin. They are fascinated by the characters,” said Beata Grant, a lecturer in women and gender studies. “Our hope is that students see that language is not an end unto itself. You can’t study language without culture.”

The study of Chinese is not something students can learn in one or two years. Rather, it is a major enterprise, said

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Junior Cristina Montero Diez has already had an opportunity to apply her year of Chinese study to her life. As a Pre-Orientation aide, Montero Diez used her Chinese skills to communicate with non-English speaking parents.

“This made them feel welcome,” said Montero Diez.

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“We really want people to make the connection between language and culture. Language embodies culture and opens the door,” explained Grant.

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ore than a hundred seniors got the chance to walk in Memphis this weekend, mostly thanks to the Senior Class Council. Reviews from the weekend are in, and everyone had a great time. Things were well-organized; deadlines for turning information and money in were clear and announced well beforehand. Overall, the trip was a smashing victory.

This is just one event in a string of successes for the Senior Class Council this semester. Thus far, they have done a spectacular job of setting up fun events for seniors and sending out e-mails about them with all the details and plenty of time to plan. Some of the events have included a pool party, nights out at bars and roller-skating parties.

Diversity and a wide range of interests have been incorporated.

Additionally, the council’s Web

site reflects their dedication; it is beautifully designed and updated frequently, allowing seniors to keep on top of events and upcoming deadlines. Aside from the atrocious senior sweatshirt design they came up with, the Senior Class Council is and has been doing a great job serving its class.

In contrast, the Junior Class Council can’t seem to get its act together. Event e-mails are sent out too late for people to plan to attend, publicity for events is poor and little attempt seems to be made to increase attendance at juniors-only events. Overall, this class council seems disorganized and unreliable. Previously planned events have been delayed with little notice given to the participants. Hopefully the junior class can take some cues from their elders and make the rest of the year a bit better.

Put Plan B over the counter

By Rachel Gearhart Op-ed Submission

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mericans are quite hypocritical. They’re hypocritical and unbending. With the Bush administration, and other conservative entities ruling many states, Medicaid and other social services have seen drastic cuts in recent years.

People want to see women off of welfare and having fewer children so they are able to take care of those they already have. These same people wish to end teenage and “excessive” pregnancies, but are often the same persons who push for abstinence-only sex education.

It obviously isn’t working.

What does work is birth control—but one must have access to it and have the knowledge about how to use it for it to be effective. As an employee of a

health care provider, it has become clear to me that one of the most vital tools in preventing unplanned pregnancies is emergency contraception (namely Plan B). Plan B is like an extra boost of typical birth control pills and does not terminate pregnancies.

Plan B is effectively used for rape and incest survivors, women who misused their birth control, and those who may not be fortunate enough to have access to a consistent and effective method.

Nearly five years ago the Center for Reproductive Rights petitioned the FDA to move Plan B from a purely prescribed medication to over-the-counter status. A decision has yet to be made and since this September it has been “indefinitely” put on the back burner. This is very dangerous.

We don’t want abortions to happen, but we won’t let

teens and victims access an important aspect of decreasing abortions. With two FDA officials, Susan F. Wood and Frank Davidoff, having resigned in protest of the ridiculous handling of a decision – a message should be sent that dilly-dallying is unacceptable when it come to women’s lives. Planned Parenthood Federation of America estimates that millions of pregnancies and abortions could have been prevented in the most recent two-year delay.

In some areas of the country it is virtually impossible to access emergency contraception because there aren’t health clinics such as Planned Parenthood (or they’re difficult to access because of transportation or anonymity issues) and misinformed/uninformed doctors rarely prescribe it. If a woman is lucky enough to get a doctor to prescribe Plan B for her, it is even more difficult to find a

pharmacist who is willing to fill it (a pharmacist in Fenton recently refused filling one for a young woman).

The FDA must again revisit the petition to bring Plan B over the counter if we are to attempt to be less hypocritical as a nation. Citizens concerned about teenage and unplanned pregnancies must urge the FDA to take another look at it, and approve over-the-counter status for emergency contraception.

The FDA must look at the value in increasing access to Plan B from a scientific and sociological lens. We must end the hypocrisy that welfare is bad, but preventing pregnancies is worse.

Rachel is a May 2006 MSW candidate in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

She can be reached via e-mail at rgearhart@gwbmail.wustl.edu.

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Don’t ask for donations yet Dear Editor: (Re: “Alumni Association’s approach problematic,” Oct. 24) Thank you for your staff editorial pointing out the disconcerting practice of the Alumni Association soliciting donations from current students.

I am a first year law student here, but as an undergraduate I was very annoyed by this practice. Although I did not go here then, my undergraduate institution (the University of Chicago) turned the senior gift from something tangible that a class did for the school into simply a donation into the general alumni fund, as an underthe-table way for students to begin donating to the alumni fund a year early. At least the Washington University Alumni Association is up-front about getting out there and asking for donations, however futile and shameless an effort that must be.

This is not confined to undergraduates. Now I am already getting e-mail from the Alumni Association here.

They label it “Almost Alumni,” which I think is an awful joke, given that I started at this law school just two months ago. I do not mind the Alumni Association promoting its programs and visiting speakers, but I am not almost an alumna. It seems like a ploy to sell University rings and to make us aware of the Association–and ready us to give them money as soon as possible. Most graduate and professional students are much like undergraduates: it’s that quick donation or that class ring purchase; or it’s having enough money left at the end of the semester for food, rent and utilities.

Financial demands from the school past the tuition we are already paying are unrealistic.

If I continue to be pleased with the education that I am getting here, I will donate then–when I have a job, and money to spare. The Association can foster more alumni giving by making their need

known to alumni of the school; alumni are more likely to have money to give to keep the school going. Students generally do not. The Alumni Association can more effectively foster the goodwill of undergraduates, graduate and professional students alike by not asking us for money when we do not have any, and by marketing their programs for current students as what they are–events for current students--and not blatantly trying to prime us to donate. If they keep us happy now, and honor the financial reality of student life, we will be more likely to help them carry out their mission later.

-Nicolle Neulist Law School, Class of 2008

Plan B article was misleading Dear Editor: I appreciated the article on Plan B in this week’s issue.

However, I was dismayed to find some misleading statements. The article stated, “The active ingredient in the pill, progestin, otherwise known as the hormone levonorgestrel, is not recommended for regular use but will abort a fertilized egg once the egg has implanted itself in the uterus.” While Plan B is not recommended for regular use, levonorgestrel is found in lower concentrations in normal oral contraceptives, which certainly are intended for regular use. More importantly, the hormone will not abort a fertilized egg after implantation. Plan B works by preventing ovulation or the implantation of a fertilized egg, just as regular birth control pills do. It does not have an effect on an established (postimplantation) pregnancy.

-Amanda Rohn Medical School, Class of 2009

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If class were shown like the World Series O

ctober may be the greatest month of the year. Forget months like May, when you get out of school, or even the whole summer in general. Don’t consider the serenity that comes with a nice winter, or the week in March that makes it worthwhile. You only get the World Series in October (and sometimes November, but that’s beside the point).

Unfortunately, Fox is ruining it.

For years, Fox has been finding ways to make televised sports as excruciating as possible. Once they acquired the rights to televise the NHL, they immediately made it even harder to follow, putting light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the puck.

The LEDs would result in a blue glow, only seen on

TV. In theory, the idea was to make the audience able to tell where the puck was, but the result was just a bunch of streaks across the ice and mass confusion.

And in baseball, Fox introduced us Daniel to Scooter, the anMilstein imated baseball who, every other telecast, lovingly describes what a changeup is in an annoying voice. Proving that Scooter is child-friendly, Fox makes him illustrate a “brush-back pitch,” a pitch designed to move a batter away from home player, replete with a black eye. Obviously, this is more important than the live action which Scooter often replaces. There’s also the highly inaccurate

“FoxTrax,” showing where the ball crossed the plate if one doesn’t see the accompanying and usually disagreeing replay, DiamondCam, which doesn’t give a good view of anything except a player’s Nike cleats, and countless shots of the stars of any and every Fox “hit” show.

This got me thinking: what would happen if Fox decided to broadcast one of the classes here? Of course, I’m here to outline exactly this situation for you.

Before the class, Fox would show a montage of the professor’s greatest moments. There would be the professor teaching, in his or her office hours, and talking to other professors.

Then, once the class started, Fox would show Scooter, explaining exactly what a “class” is. This would be played while the professor was making his or her first point.

Later in the class, Fox would start whipping out its impressive statistics, such as “approximately 73.1% of the enrolled students in the class are actually present in the room at 11:14.” This will come on a screen with a pun on the professor’s name, and a picture of the professor. After this, Tim McCarver would opine for a few minutes about the difference between a theorem and an axiom because the professor mentioned the Pythagorean Theorem. While McCarver was doing this, the professor would give an equation that is essential to

the day’s lesson. Joe Buck wouldn’t step in to interrupt McCarver’s over-analysis, instead waiting until the

“Once the class started, Fox would show Scooter, explaining exactly what a ‘class’ is.

This would be played while the professor was making his or her first point.” professor has moved to a new subject so he can talk about the next episode of Prison Break.

As the class moved on, Fox would utilize more and more close-ups. The professor’s face. A student taking notes. Another student sleeping. The guy from Kitchen Confidential. One could really feel the drama as students start to pack their bags.

The professor would then wrap up the class, telling the students about the next homework assignment. Joe Buck would read the names of Fox’s crew, while replays of the class are shown. Now stay tuned for your local news.

Daniel is a sophomore in Arts and Sciences and a Forum Editor. He can be reached via e-mail at forum@studlife.com.

Stunted for social control

By John Hewitt Staff Columnist

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ne day, I sat down in front of my computer and began an online discussion about the mistaken police shooting of Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old Guinean immigrant living in the Bronx. He was shot 19 times for making a little gesture towards his pocket as he reached for his identification card (the police fi red 41 times in total). I capitalized the letters in front of my sentences and used (mostly) correct grammar. I based my opinion on all the articles I had read from the newspapers and magazines that were always laid out on our gray kitchen counter every morning. Dozens of adults participated in that discussion. None of them knew that I was in the sixth grade.

That could never have happened in meatspace. Children in America are walled off into educational ghettos, split up into age-segregated classes and prescribed what to read, how to read it and how to behave. We were fed stories of the dangers of interacting with adults too much – that we would be raped, kidnapped or killed by them; because that’s just what adults are expected to do to children. The man in a van offering lollipops is the monster we were all taught to fear, but one that oddly never materialized during my childhood in Brooklyn.

If you believe what you read in the newspapers about the Internet, the global network is a hive of scum and

villainy populated by pedophiles, gamblers, pornographers, terrorists, lunatics and petty crooks. That’s all true, to some extent. You can make contact with those characters, but only if you should choose to do so. I do not accept the accepted and cruel belief that young humans have no capacity for free will.

The Internet provides us with something we don’t have anymore—the ability to form societies without the difficulties created by artificial class systems. We have

“We have been taught that discussion itself is a crime when not performed during authorized periods and in authorized places.” been segregated into castes of age, academic achievement, race and income.

You can count on the regular appearance of perverse “Hey Everyone, I Just Turned 21!” columns in this section. Why is moving up in the caste system a cause for public celebration? The age requirement in the United States for drinking alcohol is ridiculed around the globe.

It further segregates and is thoroughly ineffective in stopping teenagers from drinking. It only prevents them from going to bars to mingle with the adult

community. Instead, underage drinkers congregate in incestuous parties, walling themselves in from the adult world. We are cut off from our elders in ways that they themselves were not in their younger days.

I do not think that the framers could have conceived of this abhorrent, prim, minced, segregated, stagnant, insane, bootlicking, selfi sh, insular, overprotective, smothering and strange society when they undertook their experiment in the promotion of individual freedom for all men (except negroes and women, of course). It must be destroyed.

We have all been stunted for the purpose of social control. Our educations have been disconnected from the passions of our life by obscene requirements counterproductive to learning. We are expressly told by experts everywhere that youths are not ‘responsible’ enough to make their own decisions.

Even love is suppressed and ridiculed by systematization: are two people ‘dating,’ ‘in a relationship,’ ‘in an open relationship,’ ‘friends with benefits,’ ‘engaged,’ ‘married?’ ‘Is it serious yet?’

We have all been stunted by the things we were told would help us grow. We have been taught to tie our self-esteem to approval from peers and authority fi gures. We have been taught to fear the weird. We have been taught that the only way to succeed in life is to follow instructions and that anything else is not only pointless but shall be actively punished.

We have been taught that

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discussion itself is a crime when not performed during authorized periods and in authorized places.

Why, you bastards? Why have you done this? Why have our own parents been turned against us, by making them terrified that we shall be doomed should we not hammer and cut and bruise and mold and harden and stab our brains into the shape required for approval?

Why has this certification, this segregation into castes determined by examinations

Is ‘Fair Trade’ really fair?

By John Ablan Op-ed Submission

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air trade seems to solve a problem many saturated markets face: the price for a good isn’t sufficient to provide the producer of the good with an adequate income. On the surface, it seems to be doing a good job. Using coffee as an example, here is how it (roughly) works: coffee houses such as Kayak’s Coffee or Kaldi’s Coffee pay a fair trade intermediary more than the market price for coffee. This coffee comes from farmers with small plots of land who would normally be unable to sustain themselves.

The intermediary then pays these farmers more than the market price in exchange for the product meeting certain quality standards which vary from one fair trade intermediary to another. The coffee houses then sell this fair trade coffee at a slightly higher price to the consumer. It seems like everyone wins, the farmers get to keep on farming, consumers can show their support for disadvantaged farmers by purchasing fair trade coffee, and coffee houses get more business since they have a product that appeals to people’s morals. But the merits of fair trade

may not be quite this clear.

I would like to make one point particularly clear. I am not advocating that without fair trade, the status quo is desirable. Forcing farmers with no other marketable skills to abandon their trade because they can’t live on the income it provides is not something I wish to encourage. Yes, this is a problem and something should be done to solve it, but I’m not convinced that fair trade is the best strategy for doing so. We should explore other options.

The objection I have with fair trade is the following: using the coffee example from above, fair trade literature leaves something important out. Fair trade intermediaries have more than just quality standards for who is eligible to participate in fair trade. They also have quantity requirements. That is, if a farmer’s plot of land exceeds certain acreage, the farmer is excluded from the entire process. He/ she is forced to continue trading at the lower market price.

This is a problem because coffee houses such as Kaldi’s or Kayaks, who normally buy from the general population of farmers, buy from the fair trade intermediaries instead.

This means that the farmers who are ineligible for fair trade

now face a decrease in the quantity demanded of their product.

So the question becomes: is the benefit to all the participants of fair trade (farmers, coffee houses, consumers) enough to outweigh the negative effects that excluded farmers have to face? To this I don’t know the answer, but I would venture to say that there aren’t too many people who do. My advice is to get informed on the issue, listen to advocates for and against fair trade. Decide for yourself what you think the merits of fair trade are, and if they’re valid.

What I think should be avoided is one-sided information that is bound to be presented by interest groups representing both sides.

For instance, on Monday, Oct. 17, the Students for Fair Trade held an event designed to educate the student body on fair trade. However, I feel compelled to point out that the panel whose purpose was to answer the audience’s questions was biased. Of the five people, three were owners of retail venues which sold fair trade products, one was a professor of anthropology and one was a professor of economics. On the surface this panel appears to be valuable for ascertaining the value of fair

trade for all parties involved.

I was shocked however when the professor of economics, Dr. Gaetano Antinolfi, stated very bluntly that he hadn’t heard of fair trade until the day of the event! As a result, and by his own admission, he was unable to address some crucial concerns the audience presented.

The merits of fair trade are not by any means clear, the forces that are being meddled with have potentially catastrophic effects; I think it is important that everyone get informed about this issue in the hopes of preventing unintentional damage to the very people fair trade is designed to help.

John is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at jrablan@artsci.wustl. edu.

Correction: The article “Former FDA official Susan Wood speaks about Plan B” (10/24/05) incorrectly stated that Plan B would cause an abortion if taken once a fertilized egg implants itself onto the uterus. In reality, if Plan B does not prevent ovulation, which is its main role, it will help the fertilized egg stay implanted if taken at this point. Student Life regrets this error.

and slips of paper been given so much more weight in calculations of human value than the ability of an individual to work for a productive purpose?

The consequences of the division of our body politic into castes can be seen everywhere. Our political parties no longer answer to the will of the American people in terms of the true issues that have the greatest effects on our lives except in the most superficial ways.

Public debate is cast down

into ideological ghettos of issues guaranteed to have no decisive resolution by stupid pundits. The income gap between rich and poor grows unabated, and shall soon be exacerbated even further by the upcoming energy crises and the wars that shall ensue because of it.

I don’t like it one bit. Do you?

John is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at jkhewitt@wustl. edu.

Just the Facts According to Monday’s (Oct. 24) New York Times, the White House has asked the satirical newspaper The Onion (known by some as the WUnderground of the nation) to stop using the presidential seal on its Web site. Which other publications should expect to receive a cease and desist letter from the White House?

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IN BRIEF: The Washington University men’s and women’s soccer teams each came away from this weekend with a pair of shutout wins. The men defeated UW-Platteville 1–0 before upending Webster University 7–0 on Monday. The women beat Fontbonne University 5–0 and Webster 1–0.

Bears knock off two to Women’s soccer boosts improve record to 8–5–3 offense in 5–0, 1–0 wins

By Joe Ciolli Sports Editor After splitting a pair of University Athletic Association (UAA) games two weeks ago, the Washington University men’s soccer team was back in action this past weekend.

With time off from UAA play, the Bears found themselves matched up against two weaker opponents, the University of Wisconsin–Platteville and Webster University.

The Bears entered these games with considerable conďŹ dence despite losing 2–0 in their Oct. 16 matchup with nationally ranked University of Rochester.

Although the score made the game appear fairly lopsided, the Bears came away from the game feeling good about their performance despite the loss.

This attitude came through against Wisconsin–Platteville as the Bears came out strong in the ďŹ rst half, ďŹ ring seven shots on the opposing goalkeeper while holding the Pioneers to just two. But despite several legitimate scoring opportunities, the Bears were held without a goal going into halftime.

When the second half resumed, the Bears continued to

put pressure on the WisconsinPlatteville defense until they ďŹ nally broke through in the 67th minute. Sophomore midďŹ elder Elie Zenner sent a free kick into the Pioneer penalty area, which was met by forward sophomore Onyi Okoroafor. Okoroafor onetouched the long-ball to fellow striker and sophomore Marshall Plow, who easily ďŹ nished the chance to the far post.

The Bears would hang on to the 1–0 lead to notch their seventh win of the season. Despite tallying 15 shots, Coach Joe Clarke’s squad was held to only one goal, which raised questions about their ability to ďŹ nish scoring opportunities.

These questions were quickly answered two days later during the Bears’ matchup with lowly Webster University. Although they were held scoreless for the ďŹ rst 30 minutes, the Bears exploded offensively after Plow put back his own rebound to make the score 1–0. A mere 37 seconds later, Plow was also involved in the team’s second goal, although this time he provided the assist. The sophomore striker dribbled down the left sideline before crossing the ball to freshman Eric Hill, who streaked to the goal and found

the net for his ďŹ rst tally of the season.

After notching 15 shots in the ďŹ rst half alone, the Bears came out strong after the break as Zenner put his team up 3–0 in the 55th minute. Senior Dave Borton picked out Zenner with a long pass up the middle, and Zenner was able to chip the Webster goalkeeper for an easy goal.

Ten minutes later, Borton nabbed a goal of his own off of a pass from junior Will Cockle.

Okoroafor, sophomore B.J. Heuermann and Cockle also scored for the Bears to give them a very impressive and necessary 7–0 victory. Junior keepers Matt Fenn and senior Eric Moore picked up a collaborative shutout in the resounding win.

With two easy wins under their belt, the Bears resume UAA play this coming Friday against Brandeis University.

Two days later, the Bears will face New York University. Both of the Bears’ upcoming conference opponents are winless in the UAA, so look for Coach Clarke’s team to ďŹ ght hard for two potential victories.

Although the Bears have almost no chance to win the UAA, a pair of wins this weekend would undoubtedly push them up in the standings. And coming off of an impressive offensive showing against Webster, two wins on the road seem very at possible for a tough Bears squad.

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By Justin Davidson Senior Sports Editor After treading water near the .500 winning-percentage mark the past couple of weeks, the Washington University women’s soccer team stepped up their offensive production en route to two key victories over Fontbonne University and Webster University.

On Wed., Oct. 19, the squad slammed cross-Wydown rival Fontbonne at Francis Field for ďŹ ve goals en route to their sixth shutout victory of the season.

The 5–0 score was the highest for the struggling Bears this season and featured a newly invigorated offense in which four different players each scored a goal in the game.

Sophomore Marin McCarthy led the effort, scoring the team’s ďŹ rst two goals late in the ďŹ rst frame. With ďŹ ve minutes remaining in the ďŹ rst half, McCarthy received a cross from sophomore Abbey Hartmann and one-timed the shot past the Fontbonne keeper. McCarthy followed suit and, 48 seconds later, scored once again off a pass over the defense from junior Talia Bucci. The goals were McCarthy’s second and third of the season.

The Bears headed into the second half with a 2–0 cushion and all the momentum in their direction. Four minutes into the start of the second frame, freshman Shirley Lane, who raised high expectations coming into the season, scored her ďŹ rst goal of the year with a shot from 15 yards out.

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Six minutes later, at the 55:24 mark, sophomore Kim O’Keefe increased the Bear lead to 4–0 off another assist from Hartmann.

The one-timer gave O’Keefe her third goal and Hartmann’s teamleading ďŹ fth assist of the season.

Senior Meg Lag rounded out the scoring at ďŹ ve with her ďŹ rst goal of the season at the 78:26 mark.

The game was easily the ďŹ nest game the Bears have played this season, and the victory can be considered nothing less than pure domination of Fontbonne. The Bears did not allow a shot on the goal throughout the entire game, nor did they allow a corner kick.

All in all, the Red and Green outshot Fontbonne 41–0 and owned the advantage in corner kicks 9–0.

On Mon., Oct. 24, the Bears hoped to keep up the winning trend as they took on the threat of 13–2 Webster University in their last home game of the season. As in the game against Fontbonne, the Red and Green controlled the ball offensively and defensively, securing the 1–0 shutout win.

The game was knotted at 0–0 until the 30th minute, when freshman Caitlin Malone’s ďŹ rst career goal came on a cross and onetimer by Hartmann, extending her team-leading assists to seven.

Her ďŹ rst collegiate goal would also prove to be her ďŹ rst game-winning goal as well, as the staunch Bear defense effectively shut down the Webster offense. The Gorloks could only get four shots off, only one of which was on-goal, and it was consequently saved by sophomore keeper Nina Sass.

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Sophomore Kim O’Keefe keeps a close eye on the ball against Fontbonne University. In the 5–0 win, O’Keefe scored her third goal of the season.

The Bears outshot the Gorloks 21–4 and held the corner kick advantage 11–2. Ten different Bears were able to get at least one shot off in the effort, including seven by captain and leading scorer junior Meghan Marie Fowler-Finn.

With the two wins, the Red and Green improved their season record to 9–6–1, with a 1–3 showing in conference play. Next, the Bears travel to Waltham, Mass., to face off against University Athletic Association (UAA) rival Brandeis University on Fri., Oct. 28., after which the squad will vie for a win against UAA rival New York University on Sun., Oct. 30.

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‘Good Night, and Good Luck’: A handsome and unforgiving critique

By Jason Dowd Cadenza Reporter For those who do not know, Edward R. Murrow represented the pinnacle of broadcast news, fi rst on radio and later on television, while he worked for CBS from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s. Among a long list of accomplishments was his 1954 telecast in which he reproved Senator Joseph McCarthy’s methods of flushing out Communism in the United States. The events immediately leading up to and following this episode provide the content of “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

The fi lm is not explicitly about CBS, McCarthy, or even

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Murrow (played by David Strathairn), though the history of all of them is important.

Rather, it details this brief but crucial time in the recent history of journalism. The focus remains tightly centered on the newsroom – virtually no back stories or details of personal lives. The only characters we see outside of the newsroom are Joe and Shirley Wershba (played by Robert Downy, Jr. and Patricia Clarkson), who are married and work together despite CBS policy. The camera follows Joe most closely, providing a few moments of intimacy between him and his wife away from the office. A brief scene in which Joe reflects on their actions in going after McCarthy is perhaps one of only a few instances of exposed sentimentality in the fi lm.

However, “Good Night, and Good Luck” is not merely a documentary. We see the frustration in Murrow’s face when one of his reporters is about to excuse himself from the project because his ex-wife attended communist gatherings before they were married. We see the suppressed anger on all sides when Murrow and coproducer Fred Friendly (played

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by George Clooney) meet with CBS head William Paley (Frank Langella) to discuss the future of the show. We see the tears almost swelling in Don Hollenbeck’s eyes after a particularly scathing review of his show is read aloud.

The heart is there, though it’s more subtle than usual.

Written and directed by George Clooney, the tone of the fi lm is both smart and reserved. Words are the driving force in the story, as the battle is largely one of ideas and influence. Strathairn’s stern and deliberate portrayal of Murrow is captivating – he personifies the myth the way

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that Murrow did himself. The other performances are just as solid, as Clooney convincingly portrays Friendly as the smart, business-driven counterpart to Murrow, and Downy plays a reverent and attentive Wershba.

Ultimately, the fi lm is a critique. It opens with Murrow’s speech before the Radio and Television News Directors Association, in which he excoriates the audience for being “fat, comfortable and complacent.” He criticizes the directors for pampering rather than informing and enlightening the American public, and he criticizes the public for allowing them to do so. In reproducing these pivotal events on screen, Clooney presses the issue to audiences today. We too are guilty of his indictment.

Media attentiveness and public interest have fallen far below Murrow’s standards.

If you fi nd this fi lm merely entertaining, you have missed the point.

Like Murrow’s work, “Good Night, and Good Luck” attempts to both inform and chastise, without apologizing for the inconvenience. It effectively does so, possibly to the chagrin of attentive viewers.

For fans of “One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest” and virtually any twilight zone episode, “Bug” is a blessing of a play. Written by Tracy Letts and directed by Susan Gregg, “Bug” is certainly an experience that keeps its audience—as the title suggests— itching, cringing and disturbed in that ever-sopleasant theatre sort of way.

“Bug” takes place at a run-down seedy motel on the outskirts of Oklahoma in the mid 1990s. The characters resemble a white trash scenario that is at once familiar and yet difficult to relate to.

The main character, Agnus White, lives at the motel and spends most of her time snorting cocaine with her best friend R.C., a motorcycle-riding lesbian. Agnus planned to outrun her exhusband, Jerry, a wife-beater homophobic redneck just released from prison, but never seemed to get around to it.

At the start of the play, R.C. introduces Agnus to a soft-spoken, surprisingly educated hitchhiker named Peter Evans, who ends up crashing in her motel room.

The two form a non-romantic relationship that soon develops into a romantic one.

After a night of not-so-classy fornication, Jerry spots a tiny little aphid on the bed—or so we think. Shortly after, the fi rst act ends with the audience trying to figure out where the hell the play is headed.

By the time the second act rolls around, Lett masterfully creates an infestation by combining psychology and science into a script. At times, the play is too much to handle. Other times, it’s simply unbelieveable. Is this really happening onstage?

With characters reminiscent of a Jerry Spring episode, “Bug” could have been easy not to take them seriously. Having said that, all of the actors give excellent performances. Bernadette Quigley (Agnus White) is particularly successful at portraying a lonely, regretful woman who is hungry for love, yet still empowered and brave. Jay Stratton (Peter Evans) gives a convincing performance of an emotionally disturbed man who is unaware of his instability.

If “Bug” has any potency at all, it will be felt the next time any of its viewers fi nd themselves in a seedy motel room. It’s all there after all: the stench of stale cigarettes, the grotesque bedspread that’s been god knows where, and the curtains that haven’t been replaced since the 1980s. Set designer Marie Anne Chiment, really hit the nail on the head with this one.

“Bug” is currently playing at the Grandel Theater downtown. Performances run until November 6th. Times are Tuesday - Saturday @ 8pm and Sunday @ 2pm and @ 7pm. Student rush tickets are available at the box office on the day of the performance.

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MOVIE REVIEW

WEDNESDAY | OCTOBER 26, 2005

CD REVIEW

Franz Ferdinand:‘You Could ‘Three… Extremes’ is an Have It So Much Better’ extremely disturbing time

By Amy Sapan

By Adam Summerville Movie Editor First and foremost, “Three…

Extremes” is one of the most disturbing pieces ever committed to fi lm. It deals with such topics as coat-hanger abortions, rape, incest, murder, torture, pedophilia and cannibalism of fetuses. All of this being said, it is one of the most stunning fi lms and creative exercises ever created.

Combining the talents of three of Asia’s most prolific directors, “Three... Extremes” is a series of three horror vignettes. These aren’t horror fi lms in the standard slasher or creature fl ick, and they aren’t even that similar to the modern, creepy, mystic child pic popularized by “The Sixth Sense.” Rather, these are stories of true horror, stories that actually infl ict a real sense of dread and disgust. This is accomplished through horribly disturbing situations with even worse imagery, avoiding any of the cheap tactics so common in the horror genre.

The fi rst piece, “Dumplings,” is the most disgusting of the three and will turn people away from Chinese food for a while—maybe even forever.

Mrs. Lei (Maggie Cheung) is an aging actress who goes to a local woman for some dumplings that are supposed to reverse the aging process. It is obvious from the beginning that there is something insidious about the titular dumplings, but the procession of events is more horrifying than one initially expects. The sound design is wonderful, as it perfectly achieves its intended goal of

making one want to vomit.

“Cut” is the second vignette and is somewhat familiar territory for director Chan-wook Park. It is the tale of a successful, handsome, good-natured director (Byung-hun Lee) who is kidnapped by a disgruntled extra from one of his movies.

The extra is upset because the director is a man who is successful in all aspects of life while remaining a good person, while the extra is unsuccessful in everything he does and is a horrible person.

He feels his position in life is hopeless, and the best thing he can accomplish is to bring the director down a few notches into the realm of being a bad person. The extra’s method of doing this is by holding both the director and the director’s wife hostage and cutting off one of the wife’s fi ngers every five minutes until the director kills an innocent girl who the extra kidnapped. This is only the premise of “Cut,” and anyone who has seen Park’s “Old Boy” knows that there will be a procession of twists, each more disturbing, until an ending of pure catharsis. “Cut” is probably the most watchable of the three fi lms but is also the most standard of the three.

The stories are rounded out by “Box”, a fi lm that is very much the odd love child of David Lynch and “The Ring.”

Box follows Kyoko (Kyoko Hasegawa), a writer in her early twenties. Kyoko is romantically pursued by her agent but remains distant because of a series of traumatic events in her past. As a child, Kyoko was in a circus troupe of sorts but gave up that life after an exceedingly disturbing

tragedy. Everything in “Box” is suspect, as the story slips in and out of dreams seamlessly, and the audience is never sure if the events that happen are the work of ghosts, a devious psychopath, a dream or any combination of these. “Box” is sparsely soundtracked and has minimal dialogue, meaning that there are stretches of about two to three minutes that are entirely silent. Combined with the plot, this makes for a cinematic event that truly leaves one feeling cold and alone.

The three short fi lms are masterpieces in their own right; combined, they amount to a cinematic event of unparalleled emotional power.

While they are all wonderfully scripted and acted, they are powerful because of their ability to draw out such raw emotions from the audience.

The fi lm is certainly not for the faint of heart or stomach, which is why it cannot be seen as an unqualified success—but for those who think they can handle it, “Three… Extremes” is a must-see fi lm.

Cadenza Reporter

Don’t buy into the hype. Not all punky, funky, danceable, artsy pop music is doomed to breakthrough albums and disappointing sequels. The more you liked Franz Ferdinand’s self-titled debut for its devious lyrics and knee-jerk percussion lines, the less apprehensive you need be about their much awaited sophomore album, “You Could Have It So Much Better.”

Admittedly, this album took longer to grow on me than the first album. After all, I did badly scratch two copies senior year in high school. But “You Could Have It So Franz Ferdinand Much Better” not only “You Could Have It So Much Better” delivers the sexually charged, confident For fans of: The Shins, Interpol, The follow-up you’d want Fiery Furnaces and expect from the Bottom line: All the confident, highScottish band, it is an album that proves to be energy music you’d expect from Franz far more than a sequel.

Ferdinand wih an assortment of balThe impressively lads you didn’t know you could crave. edited album features Songs to download: “Walk Away,” “This poppy dance numbers Boy,” “Eleanor Put Your Boots On,” fairly reminiscent “The Fallen”

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of the first album as well as love-struck ballads. Lead vocalist Alex Kapranos still sings confident staccatos, says/yells/ drawls “yeah” often, and recites edgy same-sex lyrics, but now he offers moments of genuine contemplation as well. The ballads—“Eleanor Put Your Boots On,” Kapranos’ love-struck dedication to Eleanor Friedberger of The Fiery Furnaces, and “Fade Together”—offer a dimensionality and maturity not seen in the band’s first release.

In fact, the new album doesn’t unravel like the old one.

Both flow almost impeccably, but the difficulty of discerning the tracks on the first album is

absent here. So while you may skip around more than you did with their debut, at least now you’ll be more likely to actually remember the names of the songs.

Finally, don’t let the album’s debut single “Do You Want To,” infectious as ever thanks to a “do-do” (repeat times five) byline in the chorus, steer you away. It might be one of the weakest aspects of the album, especially since it follows “The Fallen”—the album’s dynamic, scratchy, quilted-together opener that demonstrates everything you’ve always liked about Franz Ferdinand and everything you can now have so much better.

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July 25, 1989: The Beastie Boys release their artistic masterpiece “Paul’s Boutique” Critically regarded as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, “Paul’s Boutique” never did quite as well as some of the more standard fare to come from the Beastie Boys. While their debut album “License to Ill” peaked at number-one on the Billboard charts, “Paul’s Boutique” only reached fourteenth, and all of their albums since “Paul’s Boutique” have done better. It’s a shame, however, because “Paul’s Boutique” shows a group that was willing to take a lot of chances artistically, showcasing a wide range of lyrical and instrumental styles. Very few hip-hop albums, the Beastie Boys included, have since shown the creativity of “Paul’s Boutique.”

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OXFORD Sarah Lawrence College at Oxford offers students the unparalleled opportunity to work individually with Oxford scholars in private tutorials, the hallmark of an Oxford education. The SLC Oxford program is a full-year visiting student program through Wadham College of Oxford.

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Italy Sarah Lawrence College sponsors two academic programs in Italy: Florence and Catania (Sicily).

The Florence program is well-suited to students at all levels of language proficiency who wish to spend a semester or an entire year immersed in the culture and history of this city.

The Catania program provides a unique opportunity for students proficient in Italian to experience the culture of southern Italy firsthand during a spring semester of study. In both programs, students live with Italian families and take courses taught by Italian faculty.

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Sarah Lawrence College in Paris provides individually crafted programs of study with total immersion in the academic, artistic and social life of Paris.

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The program is offered in cooperation with the British American Drama Academy.

Information: Office of International Programs, Sarah Lawrence College, 1 Mead Way, Bronxville, NY 10708-5999 (800) 873-4752, slcaway@sarahlawrence.edu or visit us at www.sarahlawrence.edu

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Greater metro area of horrors: the haunted houses of St. Louis and its environs

By Jordan Deam, David Freeman and Adam Summerville

Fear. That base, primal emotion that lurks in the darkest depths of the human psyche. It can be used to punish the guilty or to prey on the innocent. It can drive men to do unspeakable things. Or it can drive them out to the suburbs and make them shell out $15 to get the crap scared out of them for half an hour.

Luckily for Wash. U. students, St. Louis abounds with each of these various horrors.

But since Halloween is fast approaching, Cadenza decided to focus its investigation on the consensual, commodified fear that only a good haunted house can provide. We’ve visited four local haunted houses in an effort to find the most scare for your hardearned dollar, indicated by our proprietary “Scare Score” following each review. Are you more of a traditionalist when it comes to your fear, or do you crave an edgier, more in-your-face kind of horror? The only way to find out is to read on…

Silo-X The Darkness

By Jordan Deam

The Crematory and the Creature

By Adam Summerville Movie Editor

Music Editor

Even from the parking lot, The Darkness beckons you to enter through its fanged inflatable jaws. Once inside, you will be confronted with much darkness, much fog and the assorted haunts therein. Also, expect a curious multiplicity of pianos.

The Darkness features a good array of spooky scenes, which range from an African Congo spirit gathering to a kitchen abattoir complete with a cook and his skinnedface apron. My personal favorite was a bathroom that was de facto soaked in blood. The haunted house alternates between mechanical ghouls and costumed spooks in such a way that you never can anticipate where the next scare will come from. This is a good characteristic, being in the fear business.

On a side note, the real spooks were a bit sexist, as my female compatriot was relentlessly tormented in preference to me. Imagine my chagrin. The overall eerie effect of the multifarious scenes coupled with the sneaking-up-behind-you bogeymen made for a good horror house. I was defi nitely startled frequently—perhaps even frightened at times. And, most certainly, the scariest moment came with the wailing lament of a far-off specter mourning the loss of the Cardinals in game six.

Despite the spartan exterior, long lines and hefty ticket price, Silo-X just might be the best haunted house in the greater St. Louis area—it’s certainly one of the most creative. Combining elements of a nuclear holocaust and war-torn Vietnam with a handful of aborted alien autopsies thrown in for good measure, the production comes off as a kind of hyper-exaggerated, monochromatic Kubrick medley with a bunch of carnies for actors. It might not sound like much on paper, but in practice, it actually gets pretty tense.

This is partially due to Silo-X’s copious fog machines, strobe lights and speakers blaring helicopter chatter and air raid sirens, sometimes all at once. Within the fi rst few rooms you’ll be experiencing sensory overload, and despite your best efforts to reason your way back to a state of calmness, you’ll probably be at least a little on edge for the duration of the course. The “actors” inside defi nitely capitalize on this tension, taking every opportunity to bang on nearby metal objects as you pass and sporadically come charging at you with a revving chainsaw.

While the occasional kitsch-fi lled room will only manage to incite a chuckle, the net effect of Silo-X is exactly what a haunted house should be. It’s reasonably long, well paced and has plenty of variety (at least as far as haunted houses go). If you are at risk for epileptic seizures or vertigo, however, you may want to be the one to stay home and hand out the candy.

As I entered the second half of Silo-X (two smaller haunted houses called the Crematory and the Creature), I was hopeful. However, my hopes were quickly dashed. The continuity of the experience was broken as I waited in line—a local in a sweatshirt guarded the entrance and regulated the incoming groups. I was hoping for someone at least in costume if not in character, but apparently the concept of “theatrical illusion” is lost on some people.

The Crematory was mildly disorienting but never quite scary. For the most part, it was too well lit, and what I can see is not as scary as what I can’t.

One room was pitch black, and the wind howling across the roof unsettled me far more than anything any of the actors did.

While the Crematory seemed like little more than a hasty extension of Silo-X, the Creature was a different beast entirely. Upon entering through the beast’s mouth, I was struck by how innovative the structure was. It was if someone had taken a lot of those inflatable bouncy rooms and stitched them into a disgusting monster. The passages of the throat got narrower and narrower until I was squeezing my way through. Had it been darker and smokier, it might have actually been somewhat creepy. As it was, it was pretty inventive but ultimately disappointing. If going to Silo-X, save the $5 and just stop at the main attraction.

Scare Score: 4/5

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By Jordan Deam Music Editor and Columnist In these modern times, technology has crept into the way we create, acquire and process music in new and disturbing ways. Artists are cutting and pasting together “new” material out of other musicians’ hard work, listeners are stealing songs by the thousands through the anonymity of the Net and robots are beginning to surpass human instrumentalists in sheer creativity and expressiveness.

Okay, maybe not yet…but it’s

The case against the camera phone: or how I learned to stop worrying and watch the show

only a matter of time, people.

One of the most disturbing trends has come about with the advent of the camera phone. Actually, it’s more annoying than it is disturbing.

If you’ve been to more than a handful of concerts in the past couple years, you probably know what I’m talking about.

Let me give you a short history lesson: back in the 1990s, when all people could do at shows was smoke stuff and make out, audiences used to hold up their cigarette lighters as a sign of their approval of the artist’s performance and

to foster a communal atmosphere of love and respect for each other’s lighters. During a particularly moving ballad— for example, Blind Melon’s liltingly sublime “No Rain”—one could gaze back at the crowd and bask in a sea of fl ickering orange lights punctuating the haze of tobacco and cannabis fumes. It was beautiful, man.

Unfortunately, anti-smoking campaigns and nightclub fi res have largely put an end to this phenomenon. This leaves the modern audience with a curious problem: what do I hold up in front of me to signify my connection to the

music? An empty fist is way too Rage Against the Machine, and if you hold up your wallet, you’re begging to get mugged.

For a while, people remedied this by hurling themselves whole onto the audience and subsequently getting dropped on their heads. That got old pretty quickly, however, and concertgoers were once again saddled with the same old problem.

Thankfully, years of advances in cell-phone technology have made this dilemma a thing of the past. Now when the artist plays something slow and boring that you

can’t attempt to dance to, you can turn on your phone’s backlight and flail it around.

Doesn’t it just feel right?

Of course, any phone with a color screen can emit light, but only a camera phone can receive it—that is, take a picture. This can make for a cheap souvenir if you can’t pony up $30 for a silkscreened T-shirt. For example, remember that one part of that song with the guitar solo when the guy made that face? Well, I got a picture of it!

Here…take a look. Yep, right there. No, that’s the bassist.

Nope, that’s a mic stand. Yeah,

I guess it was pretty dark…but trust me, man, it was classic!

Let me offer the same advice to you, the cameraphone-wielding concertgoer, that I tell my mom when she gets a little too shutter-happy on family vacations: Let go, if only for a moment. So what if this is officially the Pixies’ last reunion tour? You’re only a part of the audience once, and no amount of intense inspection of your phone’s display is going to add up to the experience of actually being there.

Now that’s something I can raise my lighter…err, wallet to.