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Storm leaves WU students without power

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THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS FRIGHTFUL

v Over 500,000 St. Louis residents with-

out power after Thursday’s ice storms

BY MANDY SILVER AND TROY RUMANS NEWS STAFF Thursday’s massive ice storm left thousands of St. Louis residents without electricity for a second time since July. While employees of Ameren, the company that supplies St. Louis with power, scramble to restore damaged lines, many, including Washington University students are currently left in the dark.

The University is currently offering Rosedale, University Drive, and other off-campus students sheets, blankets, pillows, and a warm place to sleep in Lopata Multipurpose room. Of the approximately 20 mattresses available to students, only one showed signs of use.

Fontbonne University students displaced by the loss of power were offered housing by the University. Twenty students stayed last night on the 3rd and 4th floors of Liggett and Koenig.

According to Susan Gallagher, media relations for Ameren, the total peak number of people out of power was 510,000, a statistic that includes residents on both sides of the river. Approximately 2,600 individuals from utilities across 14 states arrived over the weekend to help restore power. Ameren has 7,000 field workers—1,700 more than deployed during the July storm.

As of Saturday afternoon, 363,000 residents remain without power. Gallagher said that the numbers do not reflect Ameren’s efforts.

“We’ve restored power to tens of thousands of people, but we’ve also had problems keeping them on. As the ice melted, more and more limbs fell on our lines.”

Gallagher added that the warmer temperatures throughout the weekend have

caused the ice to melt, further hindering workers. “This is one of the most tree-lined cities in the nation. As a result, we are always battling trying to cut back trees. When we got higher temperatures, the tree limbs sprung back up and hit our lines.”

Students have also felt the chill of the power outages.

Senior Sara Oetjen, who lives in the Greenway Apartments, has been without power since Thursday evening.

“We’re pretty lucky that Greenway is pretty well insulated, so other apartments have stayed pretty warm. It’s just starting to get cold now,” said Oetjen. “I know a lot of other people that live on Wash.

Ave. and they’re really cold. A lot of people have just had to go and fi nd somebody else to stay with.”

Junior Jenna Werner, who lives a block away from the University on Forsyth Blvd., had to leave her apartment for the duration of their outage.

Power was restored for her Sunday morning.

“I couldn’t be at home [because] we lost heat. I couldn’t do work, or be in my apartment because it was freezing cold,” said Werner. “We had to come back to run water to make sure our pipes didn’t freeze.”

Oetjen voiced similar concerns over the loss of electricity.

“It’s hard to stay in touch.

I’m used to checking my email every five minutes…and now we’re just kind of cut off,” said Oetjen. “We can’t cook food, we had to throw out everything...it’s a little frustrating.”

Oetjen also noted the favorable University response she has witnessed so far.

“RAs were really good about it. They came by and checked on us and asked us if we needed anything,” said Oetjen.

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Adult education thrives on campus

BY ANDREA WINTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER College may have allowed you to escape from your own parents, but you could be sitting next to someone else’s. Adult students are scattered throughout classes at Washington University.

Adult students study at the University for a diversity of reasons including career development interests and personal enrichment.

“Adult students have several options at the University,” said the Dean of the University College Robert Wiltenburg.

Students age 55 and up can take non-credited courses through the Lifelong Learning Institute. These courses tackle a variety of subject material. Some current courses include “Understanding Terrorism,” “Neurophilosophy Survey,” and “Pursuing Moby Dick.”

Adult students can take credited courses through University College, which is the evening and special-programs division of the College of Arts & Sciences. Students have the option of earning bachelor’s degree, master’s degrees or other certificates.

University College enables students to balance education with work and family commitments.

“Women are often put in the position to balance these things more thoroughly,” said Wiltenburg. The average student age is around 35 and two-thirds of the students are women.

Only under special circumstances do University College students enroll in daytime courses.

Currently 52 University College students out of roughly 1,400 are enrolled in non-University college courses. “If a student were pursu-

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A textbook example v Professors write the book—and then teach it in class

BY MARLA FRIEDMAN STAFF REPORTER A professor’s initiative to write his own textbook will provide students with insight into diagnosing their own health problems.

Biology lecturer Stanton Braude’s recently published textbook, “Case Studies for Understanding the Human Body,” has begun to circulate among classes at the University.

Braude followed other professors’ endeavors to write their own course books because they did not have material that met the needs of their students.

“It’s an incredible amount of work—no one does it for the money—but if the books out there aren’t teaching the way we do, or they’re not teaching it the way we know it’ll work for students, then people go to the trouble of writing a new one,” said Braude.

Thomas Woolsey, professor of experimental neurological surgery who coauthored two editions of “The Brain Atlas,” supports Braude’s reasoning.

“If the course is very unique and/or very popular, then I think some percentage of those professors would benefit from writing

their own book, and their whole field of intellectual and practical knowledge would improve,” said Woolsey.

Braude’s textbook comprises case studies that use fictional stories to detail common diseases, such as “Thanksgiving Dinner Distress,” which focuses on problems in the digestive system. He began writing the stories to help students better understand his lessons in Human Biology, a course geared toward nonscience majors.

“There was nothing else

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Giving the lung that elastic spring

BY PREETHI NALLU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER By the time the lung tries to repair damage caused from smoking, it may be too late. Researchers from Washington University in conjunction with other universities revealed that lungs severely diseased by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) try to repair themselves by creating new alveolar walls.

The lung’s restoration attempt has surprised many.

For many years now the commonly accepted scientific notion is that the air sacs, called alveolar sacs, destroyed by tobacco smoke

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are permanently damaged because the adult lung is incapable of producing new sacs. Until now, COPD has been perceived as a progressive disease with irreversible effects.

Prior to the report entitled, “Evidence for attempted regional elastic fi ber repair in severe emphysema,” medical experts theorized that elastic fibers in alveolar walls were produced only during fetal development and early life.

The researchers, including Jason Woods, Alexander Patterson and Richard Pierce of Washington University, studied ten lungs at end stage COPD and discovered that moderately diseased parts

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of these lungs increased production of a gene linked to elastin fiber proliferation in an effort to repair the destroyed walls.

Elastin fibers allow the lung to expand and contract when inhaling and exhaling.

While COPD is commonly correlated with emphysema, it also comprises chronic bronchitis.

Pierce attributes the success of the research project to the collaboration of the physics and the internal medicine departments at Washington University.

“I’d like to emphasize that our collaboration with Dr. Ja-

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Evals appreciation rap videos aim to entertain

BY MARGY LEVINSON STAFF REPORTER Every semester, students receive countless e-mails from both administrators and professors asking them to fi ll out course evaluations. Easy as it may be to simply ignore this electronic deluge, many students do take the time to comment on their professors of the past semester.

Sophomore Adam Rothman has fi lled out evaluations in the past because of the incentives given in his classes. “[I fi lled them out] mainly for general chemistry and chemistry lab because they gave us extra points,” said Rothman. “Once I was at the Web site I fi gured I might as well fi ll out the rest.”

The administration has been working hard to encourage more students to fi ll out the online evaluations.

there is a wide range of how many professors use the evaluations, with some professors taking them very seriously and others to a lesser extent.

After evaluations are fi lled out, other students who are possibly interested in taking those courses can view them.

“University College, ArtSci and Engineering students can see all of the averages, [but] not the comments,” said Biggs.

“They can see them in great, great detail. You can go and look, down to the last person, and see what the range of responses are and what their averages are as they relate to the whole system.”

Recently, the University’s system has been commended as one of the top evaluation systems in the nation by the online journal Inside Higher Ed. “We were recently honored as ‘the Rolls Royce of course evaluations,’” said Biggs.

“We support any approach that the faculty members feels comfortable and fi nd effective. Course evaluations are important,” said Dean Henry Biggs, head of the evaluation program for Arts & Sciences.

“We encourage [professors] to send out e-mails and talk about it in class.”

Although providing incentives is not the only way to get students to fi ll out evaluations, the administration feels it could be a positive way to get student feedback.

Once students fi ll out the evaluations, they can help both the administration and the overall student body.

“The Evals are looked over by administrators when faculty go up for tenure or when they go up for promotion,” said Biggs. “They are looked at by faculty members to see how to improve a course.”

Biggs also explained that

TEXTBOOKS v FROM PAGE 1 like this book,” said Braude.

“There are case study books that are meant for medical students, but that’s way beyond this course. It didn’t seem fair that we shouldn’t be able to work with case studies just because someone else wrote the cases for medical students.”

Each of Braude’s case studies started out as a handout for class, but after he accumulated about a dozen stories, he decided to apply a case study for every topic and compile them into a textbook.

“Everybody likes stories, and so this is a way to make science more interesting by applying how things work in your body to stories,” he said.

“It puts a human face on the science that we’ve been trying to understand.”

Senior Nadya MacAloon took Human Biology with Braude and read pre-press copies of the case studies, which she said were “wonderful supplements to the class textbook.”

“It was great to have real life illustrations and real world applications of the biological things we were learning,” she added.

Woolsey similarly feels that his own book fosters student’s comprehension of class material. He uses the reference book in multiple arenas,

He explained that this reflected the high degree of student participation every semester.

“We average right around 70 percent and we’re ahead of our pace. It’s all very exciting—it says a lot about the system and a lot about our students, too,” said Biggs.

The University continually tries new tactics to improve the system. Recently, students have received a special thank you for filling out the evaluations in the form of a rap or rhyme performed by various members of the administration, including Chancellor Wrighton and Deans McLeod, Carnaghi and Biggs. The University is also working on getting former Assembly Series speakers such as Cheech Marin and Bill Nye to do their own thank you’s.

The person who came up with idea of the video clips

was Pushkar Sharma, an alumnus who graduated in 2006. Biggs explained that Sharma worked on the Evals as a summer project and even wrote the raps for the administrators.

“If we can come up with engaging ways to encourage more participation, I think it’s great,” said Chancellor Mark Wrighton.

Students have responded in a variety of ways, but for the most part the response appears to be positive.

“They appreciate the effort of the Chancellor to take the time and to have the sense of humor that he did to do that,” said Biggs.

Although Rothman has not filled out his course evaluations this year, he said, “After I heard about them, I was more excited to do them just to see what it was.”

STUDENTS v FROM PAGE 1 dead for decades,” said Larsen. “Before I wrote my book, I reorganized my class to provide up-to-date material, and found that students not only liked the material more than the old theories, but that they also remembered it longer.”

Writing one’s own textbook can also present problems of finding new information for class lectures.

“The challenge for me is to bring stuff into the class that’s not in the book because I used some of my best material to write the book, and now I have to look for new material,” said Larsen. “I don’t want to repeat the material—students can read the books on their own and that would be boring for students.”

Larsen does not encourage professors to write their own textbooks, as it took up all of his discretionary time for five years. Instead, he feels that professors should work to provide students with stimulating information not present in the required textbook.

“Professors need to work on supplementing the book they decide to use—no book is perfect, but they can skip a particular chapter and insert their own material,” he said.

“When I was in college, one professor would read the book to us, as if we couldn’t read it, and that was horrible.

Some professors essentially do the same thing by taking the textbook and making a PowerPoint outline, and I think professors need to be careful not to do that, and to instead add new things to their lectures.”

including his undergraduate classes, such as Principles of the Nervous System, graduate neuroscience courses, and in lessons for his medical school residents.

“We have PowerPoint presentations that use the images from “[The Brain] Atlas” to make points to students about different things we’re trying to convey,” he said.

Senior Puneet Singh is glad she had the opportunity to use Woolsey’s reference book when she took Principles of the Nervous System.

“When professors write their own book, students know they will get the most out of the material because the professor is an expert in the area and knows exactly the perspective that is presented in the book,” said Singh.

But not all students felt pleased at professors using their own textbooks in class.

“I feel like it’s kind of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you know what the book is about, but on the other hand, [the textbooks] are kind of just self-promoting, and don’t really accept any opposing views,” said senior James Smee, a psychology major. “My worry is that they’re too biased and it may not be the best book in the area.”

Randall Larsen, chair of the psychology department, who has authored three editions of “Personality of Psychology,” found that writing his own book helped students to absorb the material.

“The books that were in existence before mine were organized in a way that I found unsatisfactory, around all these theorists who had been

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Adult students, prevalent in graduate level courses, can be found in some undergraduate classes as well. ing an English degree and the University College could not offer a required course in a timely manner, a student might take the course during the day,” said Wiltenburg.

Some adult students from the University College transfer to the College of Arts & Sciences. Suzanne Gates is currently pursing a bachelor’s degree in International and Area Studies as a day student due to practicality. “I’d prefer to take night classes with other older students, but I have other responsibilities so it works better for me to take classes during the day,” she said.

Adult students tend to have different perspectives from traditional students.

“It’s interesting to see how younger students look at life and to remember being at that point in my life. Washington University can be such a small community that I think it can be good for younger students to be with older ones so that they aren’t so closed off from everything else,” said Antoinette Marie Kennedy. Kennedy originally came to the Uni-

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In some circumstances both adult and traditional students benefit from each other’s perspectives.

Dean Wiltenburg said that one University College course in Advance Writing and Public Speaking was comprised of “very bright 20 year olds and very experienced 40 year olds.”

“This synergy can work in such a way that students help to educate each other,” he said.

In reality, this type of synergy is uncommon. Gates said that she rarely speaks with younger students. “It’s really strange because many of the students are the same ages as my kids. There definitely is a networking problem for me,” she said.

Most traditional students report that they have little interaction with adult students.

“Older students don’t necessarily negatively or positively affect the class,” said sophomore Eric Dubs.

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COPD RESEARCH v FROM PAGE 1 son Woods in the Physics department has made it possible to conduct these studies,” he said. Pierce further explained that Woods also played a pivotal role in providing undergraduate students with opportunities to participate in the venture. Kristin Castillo, a 2006 graduate, was among the student contributors who helped decipher which genes were being expressed in the diseased lungs.

“This reshapes our way of thinking about end stage emphysema,” Castillo said.

“There is a possibility that the lungs can make more elastin or try to repair themselves.”

These fi ndings may incite concerns that tobacco companies could claim that the extent of damage caused by chronic cigarette smoke exposure may not be as severe as previously perceived. But, Pierce explained that the diseased lung does not attempt to repair itself until the end stage when “it’s too little, too

late.”

“The lung affected by COPD cannot stop worsening if the person continues smoking,” Pierce added.

Researchers may now focus on why the efforts of some diseased lungs fail while other lungs do not develop emphysema at all. Also, as the American Physiological Society reported, the fi nding “could pave the way to develop a drug to ‘turn on’ key genes to allow the lung to grow new alveoli.”

A remarkable feature of the study was that the scientists studied whole diseased lungs of patients who had already undergone successful transplants.

Pierce marveled at this extraordinary progress of science. “Here I am studying someone’s lung while they have a new lease on life and while we’re provided a new lease on discovery.”

Although “huge” is a term Pierce likes to avoid while

describing the result of any scientific study, he certainly believes that his department is at the “threshold of a new thrust in lab [activity].”

He foresees meticulous focus on genetic, environmental and other factors that affect the lungs of smokers to better understand why different lungs reacts in varying degrees to the effects of smoke exposure. The efforts will be facilitated by a grant awarded to Washington University to establish a specialized center dedicated toward researching treatment of COPD. Following the route of collective efforts of different disciplines, the proposed research will comprise radiologists, physicists, lung biologists and other researchers.

“This fi nding is a strong step forward in our understanding of COPD and toward fi nding therapeutic remedies,” said Woods.

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“There were defi nitely cultural and even language differences, even between people who [supposedly spoke] the same language,” said Traub.

She recalled that it took a while to get used to her English boyfriend’s use of different slang and to understand the relationship he shared with his male friends.

Interestingly, sophomore Gal Ben-Josef and her boyfriend Cesar Lizarraga, a Wash. U. junior and a native of Puerto Rico, haven’t really noticed the effects of their different backgrounds on their relationship. The pair attributed this lack of distinction to Lizarraga’s familiarity with the United States.

“I think [Lizarraga] is pretty Americanized,” said Ben-Josef. “[He] had a year here before [I] even met him to get accustomed to United States culture…it’s not like it’s something new.”

Lizarraga agreed.

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tion and stay in China a while longer. She and Xuewen traveled throughout the country and even visited Xuewen’s parents in south China. When Bigby fi nally had to return to the United States, the pair had no doubts that they wanted their relationship to continue.

Despite the nearly constant state of separation their relationship entails, Bigby and Xuewen are still together today. The distance can be daunting and Bigby mentioned that it is sometimes difficult to see couples displaying their affection around campus.

Yet, Bigby is content with her relationship. What is important, said Bigby, is being able to hear her boyfriend’s voice. She and Xuewen speak every day, mostly in Chinese.

Bigby hasn’t found keeping in touch to be a problem but noted that occasionally cultural differences can serve as minor roadblocks in their conversations.

“There is so much about Chinese culture…that I can’t expect to understand because I wasn’t born there,” said Bigby.

Xuewen tries to bridge the culture gap by paying close attention to Bigby’s remarks about their relationship. For example, he began salsa lessons after Bigby told him she wished dancing like she had experienced in Latin America could be a part of their relationship.

“To me it doesn’t matter… whether he is good at salsa, but it’s the effort that really shows love,” said Bigby.

Traub found that a difference in cultural defaults caused occasional misunderstandings.

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It was New Year’s Day 2005. Sophomore Bobbie Bigby was studying abroad in China. A little homesick, Bigby went to a Daoist temple to reflect. When she left the temple later that day, she had found more than consolation—she also had a date.

Inside the temple, Bigby had met Xuewen, a Chinese student working towards a bachelor’s degree in Daoist philosophy. After talking for a while, Xuewen asked Bigby out and the couple dated for the duration of Bigby’s time abroad.

Many Washington University students have longdistance relationships with students attending other universities in the United States. For some couples, however, distance is calculated by more than just mileage.

Dating someone from another country adds a level of cultural difference that can affect everything from how a relationship begins to how emotions are expressed.

Senior Rebecca Traub dated a native Englishman for several months as she studied at Oxford University her junior year. Traub noted that several of the local English students seemed fascinated

by American girls studying abroad. After they had grown more comfortable together, Traub asked the guy she was dating about her observation.

“I said to him, ‘I’ve noticed that all of your friends are dating American girls— what’s with that?’” said Traub. “He kind of brushed off the comment.”

Indeed, there is a certain allure to dating someone

from another country. Stories of dreamlike romances float in the heads of students as they head off to discover a new culture abroad. It becomes a sort of adventure to date someone who lives in a different nation. In most cases, this adventure and the study abroad experience end simultaneously.

For sophomore Caitlin Park, the adventure didn’t even begin until she had returned home from her study abroad program in Mexico.

While in Mexico, Caitlin developed a strong friendship with Roman, a Mexican student who attends the host university of Park’s program.

Their relationship was strictly limited to friendship for the entirety of Park’s six-week trip. Park stayed in touch with Roman after coming home and the two discussed the possibility of reuniting the following summer.

One day, Roman mentioned that he had a break until school began again, and that he would be able to visit Park before the summer was over.

Shortly thereafter, Roman came to stay with Park at her family home in Portland, Ore. “He came to Portland as a friend and things just sort of developed,” said Park. “He made that effort to come see me [and] that was just a huge thing for me.”

When Ramon left to go back to Mexico, the couple decided to stay together.

“It came down to the fact that we both loved what we had and didn’t want it to end,” said Park.

Bigby and her boyfriend had a similar feeling when Bigby’s academic year in China ended. Bigby elected to skip her high school gradua-

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“I’ve been trained in American culture for a long time,” he said. “And this is my third year [actually] here, so I’ve [really gotten used] to American things.”

If Park and Bigby’s plans work out, their boyfriends will also get a chance to become more learned in American culture. Park’s boyfriend is looking into summer opportunities in Portland and Bigby’s hopes to attend graduate school in the United States.

For now, the girls are focusing on enjoying what they have. Both Park and Bigby attributed much of their success to their parents’ support

and understanding.

“I feel that sometimes some people who don’t know me as well [don’t] have [respect] towards my relationship,” said Bigby. “[But] I feel that our love is so true I don’t need other people to validate it… it is [enough] for me that both of our parents validate it.”

Bigby also stressed the importance of approaching her relationship with a positive attitude.

“I figure all couples have [a] hump to get over,” said Bigby. “It’s just [that the] obstacle we have to overcome is very different from other people’s.”

Park maintains a similar outlook.

“We’re really just having a lot of optimism about [our relationship],” she said. “The fact that he’s so optimistic too is really what has kept us going through this. I [do] wish he was here…but I’m perfectly content otherwise.”

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Arts & Sciences lab doesn’t need to be a headache O S ince the University instituted printing fees in Olin Library on Oct. 20, students have sought out new places to do their printing. The Arts & Sciences Computing Center in Eads Hall, which continues to offer free printing for Arts & Sciences materials, has seen a dramatic increase in traffic.

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the beginnings of classes, when a large volume of students print before leaving.

Students are often faced with the choice of leaving without their documents or being late to class.

The administration should have foreseen the potential effects of printing fees on the ArtSci computer lab and gone about ways to improve its efficiency. The biggest problem is the backup of printing due to the large amount of people printing materials at the same time. The ratio of 27.5 computers per one printer is unacceptably high—we need more printers to accommodate the printing usage.

The University has been successful in decreasing excessive printing at Olin

Library, lowering costs and paper usage; however, the $640 increase in printing costs at the Arts & Sciences lab compared to the same period last year has been enough to increase overall printer usage.

And the problem may still become worse. This semester, since students were aware of the impending printing fees, many printed out their semester’s worth of materials before the fees were installed. Next semester, however, there will not be a way to print out materials in Olin for free—in all likelihood, even more students will be printing in the ArtSci computer lab next semester, creating even longer lines and more of a headache for

students.

The potential increase in printing costs to the University should not be a deterrent to installing additional printers. Printing in the ArtSci computer lab is limited to one copy of class-related materials, and this policy is enforced by lab staff. Because of this restriction, the addition of new printers would not interfere with the University’s goals of limiting wasteful printing and keeping printing costs reasonable.

With winter break looming on the horizon, the administration will have the perfect time to work towards improving the lab, installing more printers and creating a more efficient printing system in time for the spring semester.

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n May 6, 1993, in a small town named West Memphis, Ark., the bodies of three 8-year-old boys were found.

Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore were found beaten, mutilated and tied with their own shoelaces.

By an unfortunate coincidence, a juvenile probation officer was among those in the search party. He implied to authorities that Chelsea Murphy one of his charges, Damien Echols, was the only person who could be capable of a thing like this. Echols had been seeing the probation officer after he ran away from home with his girlfriend and broke into an abandoned house for shelter. Due to his penchant for dark clothing and “satanic” music and books, the authorities didn’t question the validity of the claim. Although there was no forensic evidence, no murder weapon and no connection to either the crime scene or the victims, Damien Echols and his two friends, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, were brought in after Misskelley was coerced into confessing. Misskelley, who has been deemed mildly retarded, was forced to endure a 12-hour interrogation without legal consultation or a legal guardian present, which should have been required due to Misskelley’s age of 17. More frighteningly, despite the lack of substantial evidence, Damien Echols was sentenced to death by lethal injection, Jason Baldwin was sentenced to a life sentence with no parole and Jessie Misskelley was sentenced to a life sentence plus 40 years.

This case is a great black mark on our judiciary system, one that to this day has not been corrected. Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley were victims of a modern-day witch hunt. Due to their interest in paganism, black clothing and heavy metal music, they stuck out like sore thumbs

in the predominately Baptist community. Furthermore, there was a strong belief among the officials running the case that all child murders and mutilations were satanic rituals of sacrifice. It was this belief alone that the prosecutors pushed to prove the three’s guilt. During the process of the investigation, there was an eyewitness report from a nearby restaurant owner that an AfricanAmerican man covered in blood stumbled from the crime-scene area around the three boys’ time of death, but the blood evidence from the restaurant was lost.

You may be asking why this is relevant now. The truth of the matter is that injustice does not have an expiration date. As a nation, we cannot let oversights like this go uncorrected. It corrodes the very fabric of our justice system. No government, whether national or local, should have the power to convict someone just because they think, act or have different beliefs than the greater public. If those boys wore anything but black and listened to something besides heavy metal, they would never have gotten into this position.

If this sounds horrifying, there are actions that can be taken to support the West Memphis Three, as they have come to be called. Supporters have started a Web site to spread awareness and to give those who want to help the opportunity. The Web site is www.wm3.org. By not caring for this travesty, we show a lack of care in a working justice system and are therefore softening the foundation on which our country was founded. So, go out there, buy a T-shirt, write a letter or e-mail your friends; it really doesn’t matter how you choose to help—just as long as you try.

All information from this article came from www.wm3. org and www.crimelibrary. com.

Chelsea is a junior in the School of Art and a Forum Editor. She can be reached via e-mail at forum@studlife.com.

On Evangelism, feminism and men

BY TOM BUTCHER STAFF COLUMNIST

O

ne of the things that Evangelicals seem to talk about all the time is the direction of our country. Coming from a golden and most assuredly sin-free past, they never seem to shut up about the currently decrepit state of our moral affairs and how we’re just getting worse (that is, of course, unless you vote for Bush). Regardless of how accurate their perception of America’s spiritual journey is, the fact remains: America conceives of its society primarily in terms of movement.

The Civil Rights movement, the Women’s Rights movement and, of course, Disco are all great examples of this phenomenon. We constantly defi ne our society in relation to where it was and where it’s going. One of the most recent

of these movements has fi ltered its way into society and is currently enjoying widespread adoption in the hearts and minds of the younger portion of the populace. In the last five years or so, there has been a resurgence of masculinity.

I can fi nd evidence of this resurgence everywhere I look.

Advertising has seized upon this notion and is increasingly producing commercials which are aimed at and celebrate men. The earliest example I can think of is the emergence of Axe into popular culture. With an ad campaign that emphasized the virtues of hooking up, they managed to tap straight into this burgeoning market.

Miller Lite has a series of ads where a group of men adored for their masculinity sit around a table and devise “Man Laws.” One such law: “When requesting that

a buddy help you move into a new house, a six-pack of Miller Lite will be the appropriate compensation for his efforts. Man Law.” Literature has been involved in this movement as well. There now exists a genre known alternately as either “Fratire” or “Dick Lit.” At the forefront of this new category are the authors Tucker Max and Maddox—two Internet idols who have transferred into the world of printed media. Their books “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” and “The Alphabet of Manliness” highlight important trends in this new social movement: humor, self-confidence, friendship, brutal honesty, humor, the disconnection of emotion and sex, alcoholism, the perception of men as distinctly different from women and, most of all, humor—usually in the extraordinarily politically

incorrect style.

Many people see this new masculinity as a reaction against the second-wave feminism of the ’60s and ’70s and the political cor-

“I think it is femininity in men which is discouraged, and that this is often wrongly interpreted as homophobia.” rectness of the ’80s and ’90s, or as some in the movement have instead called it, the “pussification” of our society.

Many men feel that these two movements, though not necessarily bad in conception, created a moratorium on masculinity. The natural

reaction is this movement, composed of men not afraid to be men.

This is correctly called a new masculinity, however, because there are crucial differences between this and the old versions. I mentioned earlier that men are conceiving of themselves as fundamentally different than women. This does not, however, imply that one is better than the other and I believe that most men would agree with me on this point. This doesn’t mean that jokes are off-limits. As a matter of fact, politically incorrect jokes are encouraged. I believe that these jokes reflect a refusal of this new society to take itself or anyone too seriously.

Some have accused this resurgence of fostering discrimination against homosexuals. Although this claim is not entirely groundless, neither do I believe it

to absolutely true. I think it is femininity in men which is discouraged and that this is often wrongly interpreted as homophobia. As proof of this, I will offer up the movie Brokeback Mountain.

Although the movie will be forever remembered as a milestone in the quest for sexual tolerance in America, I also see something else in it.

The two protagonists of the movie are most certainly gay, but they are also cowboys.

They ride horses, brand cattle and kick ass. The movie showed that gay men don’t have to be sissies. In other words, gay men can be men too.

In the ’90s, feminism went through a revolution.

Third-wave feminism began to speak less of a war between the sexes, and more of a general encouragement

See BUTCHER, page 5

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Senior writing assessment inappropriate

BY SCOTT ABRAHAMS OP-ED SUBMISSION Progress halted in writing classes a few weeks ago when the English department forced students to take the Senior Writing Assessment. Not only did the assessment—which at one point asked students to calculate the cost of increasing the college matriculation rate for Americans in the lower three income quartiles from eight percent to 46 percent—fail to measure writing ability, but even if it had succeeded, the results would have been at best unconvincing, biased and unrepresentative of how much or if the school has improved students’ writing.

The prompt for the 50minute essay asked students to reread Mortimer B. Zuckerman’s 1806-word article, “Rich Man, Poor Man,” which some may or may not have browsed the night before, and then analyze its argument. As the article

was more full of arguments than a championship Lincoln-Douglas League debate team, blowing through them just as quickly, albeit without citing sources or logically defending his claims, simply sifting through it required more time than was available to sift, analyze and write a coherent essay. Is the Department then measuring the ability to write—to express oneself clearly and carefully through words on paper—or to read, interpret and critique an article outside one’s field of study in the time it takes to watch an episode of “Lost” without commercials?

Bad: By mandating that the assessment be graded, the English Department violated the contract of the syllabus, altering how our performance in the course was evaluated. This dropped undue pressure on the students and unproductive time demands on the professor.

Worse: One entire session of a class designed to im-

Is a snow day at Wash. U. too much to ask?

BY ANDREW ZENKER OP-ED SUBMISSION

W

aking up Friday morning to learn that classes were, in fact, not cancelled due to the snow storm from the previous night, I admit I was surprised. Why were we seemingly the only school in St. Louis that was open? Considering this was the major topic of discussion in a number of my classes on Friday, I know that others shared my feelings.

But I can’t complain that

“With snow and ice (let alone trees) covering the majority of the paths on the Danforth Campus, walking around proved to be a treacherous venture.” classes weren’t cancelled just because they were elsewhere. If the powers that be at Wash. U. decide that the roads are safe enough for faculty, staff and students to get to campus, then by all means, on with the show.

But what about once people are on campus? With snow and ice (let alone trees) covering the majority of the paths on the Danforth Campus, walking around proved to be a treacherous venture. The University is lucky that despite its inadequate and unacceptable treatment of the storm’s effects by Friday morning, no major incidents occurred as a result of the storm (to my knowledge). This is the bottom line: If the administration decides that classes are to be held as usual, the proper safety precautions need to be taken in order to protect anyone who sets foot on campus.

The trees sure looked beautiful, right? Don’t forget how dangerous it was for us to have been walking below them. Low temperatures this early in the season and trees still full of sap are a dangerous combination, as was seen all over campus, with a number of trees falling down as a result of the weight of the ice on the branches, as well as the frozen sap inside. What’s to say that a tree couldn’t have

fallen down while students were walking to and from class during the day?

And the icicles? It was as if we were lost in a forest of crystal with the glass-like ice reflecting the sun’s light.

How poetic! But of course we forget that those icy daggers could have fallen and hit unsuspecting people in the head or eyes at any time. Residents of the South 40 must have noticed the gauntlet of icicles in the underpass. Those could have easily been taken down so as to not hit someone walking by, but they were left unattended all day any way.

What do you think a visiting prospective student or parent thought upon seeing our campus in this condition? Had it been me, I would have been put off by the horrible maintenance of the paths on campus on Friday. With all this school does to maintain its appearance (we’re all too familiar with the incessant landscaping and lawn care), could efforts not have been shifted to salting and sanding the sidewalks so that the campus was at least somewhat walkable? Imagine taking a campus tour along the icy paths. Now imagine trying to give a tour, walking around backwards. Sounds fun, I know. You would have to be a skier or a magician to stay standing the whole time.

To be fair, I can’t say that the University did nothing to ease the burden of the storm on campus. On Friday, for example, a portion of the sidewalk along Snow Way Drive was nicely salted and in those areas, the ice was completely melted. On Saturday morning, I saw that many paths had been salted overnight, which was a nice improvement, but which unfortunately came a day too late.

I know St. Louis is not used to storms of this magnitude, and I know it was especially early in the season for a storm like this to hit, but if we were unprepared for it, and if the administration was not able to properly facilitate the proper cleanup, then our campus—just like those of schools all over the surrounding area—should have been closed for the day.

Andrew is a junior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at alzenker@wustl.edu.

prove our writing was sacrificed to measure how much the class had improved our writing. This was not at the end of the semester but in

“The effect of the writing assessment was that of taking a calligrapher’s apprentice, blindfolding him, handing him a paint roller and asking him to ink your wedding invitations. In one hour.” the middle, with four major papers yet unwritten.

Worse still: The focus of the class is scrupulous word choice and essay structure with deliberate consideration of audience, message and means of conveyance.

For this class I once spent an hour on five sentences.

The effect of the writing assessment was that of taking a calligrapher’s apprentice, blindfolding him, handing him a paint roller and asking him to ink your wedding invitations. In one hour.

With what will these writing samples be compared? Other hurried essays written freshman year. For the moment ignoring the glaring lapses in applying the scientific method, the results still say little.

Unremarkably, one’s verbal vomit from four years past seems stale next to that of today, especially since the only students taking the Senior Writing Assessment are those who signed up for writing classes, a self-selected group of students who wish to improve their writing. To say that their writing has improved is to say one who has purposefully spent hours on a treadmill has grown leaner. Would we say that is thanks to the treadmill or to the runner?

The treadmill played a part, the vehicle for the runner’s drive to her goal; but any bicycle, any stair master, any jogging path could have done the job. It was the runner who chose the fitness center over the fast food drive thru, who chose to return again and again, each time an ounce leaner, a meter stronger. Progress, then, comes not from the treadmill but from he who sweats upon it.

The English Department is that treadmill; the students choosing, from among the expansive alternatives of the course catalog, to write—the runners. We would not credit the treadmill with improving their fitness, and certainly not without at least weighing those who chose fast food; neither can we meaningfully credit the Department with improving their writing, especially not without looking at those who writhed in freshman writing and Argumentation and have never since put pen to paper.

Just as it makes no sense to say that the student body is in better shape because everyone surveyed in the weight room is stronger than he was four years ago, so too is it silly to comment on the improved writing abilities of seniors by sampling the ones willfully enrolled in writing classes.

Of the three components, “senior,” “writing” and “assessment,” the latter two are inaccurate, with the first accurate but briefly, until the Department chose to make juniors in writing classes participate as well. That a department at this University would interrupt courses to impose an ill-thought, inaccurate bastardization of the very writing its professors implore students to cherish, is, in my opinion, the true cause for assessment.

Scott is a senior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached e-mail at sdabraha@wustl. edu.

U.S. ‘development’ and same-sex marriage in South Africa

BY REYNOLDS WHALEN OP-ED SUBMISSION

I

n international relations, the word “development” gets thrown around without any consensus on what it actually means. This is particularly the case when the Western world discusses Africa. I’m currently studying abroad in Kenya and I hear the word development every day. Someone will say, “we should take advice from the developed world,” or, “Kenya is still developing.”

Views like these make the common assumption that “development” should be viewed solely in terms of economics. A country’s development is directly related to its Gross National Product, exports, currency exchange rates, inflation and place in the world market. Less developed countries are poorer and have less impact on international trade. Thus development is equated with becoming richer.

Economics is certainly an important aspect of devel-

opment, but this approach fails to recognize other important dimensions such as social institutions. We might not like to admit it, but the United States is still “developing” in establishments like welfare, health care, social security and the legal regulation of mar-

“We might not like to admit it, but the United States is still ‘developing’ in establishments like welfare, health care, social security and the legal regulation of marriage.” riage, especially compared to many other countries.

On Dec. 1, 2006, South Africa finalized and passed a law recognizing same-sex marriages. Their constitution was the first in the

world to explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual preference and they now join only four other countries who recognize the marriage of same-sex couples.

These acts are progressive steps toward guaranteeing equal rights for all, a notion continuously stressed in our own constitution. Yet the United States has a federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. While individual states can define the institution on their own terms, 43 still classify marriage as heterosexual. This not only isolates the gay and lesbian community, but denies them basic equality under the law.

According to the United Nations Human Development Index, the United States is the eighth most developed country in the world; South Africa is number 119.

Almost every day, I hear people talking about “underdeveloped” African countries. National organizations like USAID give

generous donations to “develop” the third world and assist those countries who are inferior in the global economy.

These efforts have great intentions and undoubtedly help many people across the world. But it’s time for us to re-examine our definitions. How can we call a nation like South Africa less developed when we ourselves deny our fellow human beings the legal right to share a life together? How can we refer to foreign countries with terms that automatically imply inferiority when we ourselves marginalize a prominent community within our own nation?

It’s time for the “developing” United States to follow the example of South Africa, a “developed” country that provides equal rights for all, not just those of a certain sexual preference.

Reynolds is a junior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at lrwhalen@artsci.wustl.edu.

BUTCHER v FROM PAGE 4 of the virtues of femininity. Previously, it had been considered shameful for a mother to stay at home with her children. She should be out working, to show that she is just as capable as any man out there. Third-wave

feminism redefi ned the spectrum. Motherhood, it said, is one of the crucial elements of the feminine experience and there is nothing shameful about raising your children. Neither is there any problem with going out and

working. There is an emphasis upon personal choice, all surrounded by the virtues of femininity. The new masculinity is a similar movement, but for men. It is a redefi ning of the virtues of masculinity. And it’s here to stay.

Tom is a freshman in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at tmbutche@ artsci.wustl.edu

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Men’s basketball season Women’s basketball back set for something special on the winning track v Young team with high hopes opens season on a roll

BY ANDREI BERMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR The ashy action shots featured on the front and back pages of the 2006-2007 men’s basketball media guide have something particularly peculiar about them: just one senior is shown.

The newest edition of Bears basketball features a highly talented roster which is slightly lacking in collegiate basketball experience, but is by no means short on optimism about the upcoming season. The squad was hit with a major setback in the early going, however, when junior sharp shooter Danny O’Boyle, a captain and key returnee, was lost to a season-ending Achilles injury in the Bears’ fourth game of the season.

But the Red and Green still return three primetime players and a host of key role players from last year’s roster, which narrowly missed an NCAA tournament bid after falling to Chicago in a devastating season ďŹ nale. In junior big man Troy Ruths and sophomore standouts Sean Walis and Tyler Nading, Wash. U. brings back three vital components from last year’s 178 squad.

Head coach Mark Edwards has also brought in a strong freshman class, which includes a number of players who have already seen considerable minutes in the team’s ďŹ rst six contests.

Because the UAA has no conference tournament, it is vital to get off to a strong start and a lack of preparedness in the beginning portion of the season can quickly become a UAA team’s downfall. Edwards, who said this year’s UAA features “the best parity the league has ever seen,â€? has addressed some of the team’s lack of game experience by scheduling difďŹ cult out-of-conference tilts early in the year. The squad opened its season with an exhibition game on the road at nationally ranked and Division I Southern Illinois, an experience which Edwards says has already paid dividends. “Just being put on that stage and having to perform and play through a tough situation, which is what they provided us, I think that’s a great experience for us,â€? said the 26th year coach.

In addition to the SIU trip, the Red and Green have already won a competitive four-team tournament in Boston and traveled to No. 15 Augustana College, where the team was handed its only loss, 75-73. This past weekend, the squad defeated a tough Pomona-Pitzer team in the championship game of the Lopata Classic. That victory moved the Bears’ record to 5-1 on the young season.

Ruths, perhaps the UAA’s most potent big man, has been and likely will see more doubleteams from opponents throughout the season. Lost to graduation was seven-foot center Mike Grunst, so Ruths will face the wrath of opposing defenses without the former center by his

v Bears take

Viking Classic Tourney in Chicago

BY TRISHA WOLF SPORTS REPORTER Washington University’s women’s basketball team began to turn around its season this weekend, winning the Viking Classic in Chicago.

These wins were especially important after the team’s rough start and could prove to be a crucial turning point as play continues.

In its ďŹ rst game, the 12ranked Bears defeated St. Mary’s College 66-62, bringing their season record to 33.

Senior forward Rebecca

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Junior Troy Ruths goes up for a rebound during Saturday’s game against Pomona-Pitzer. The Bears won 81-65, clInching the Lopata Classic championship. side. Thus far, though, the Bears have coped admirably without Grunst as well as without former three-point threat Scott Stone, who averaged over 15 points per game last season. “I think we have really good potential to ďŹ ll in for those guys even though they were so important to the program,â€? said Wallis.

Freshman Aaron Thompson and Cameron Smith have already proven to be signiďŹ cant additions to this year’s roster.

Thompson has taken O’Boyle’s starting spot in the lineup, splitting time with gritty sophomore, Phil Syvertsen. Though it will be difďŹ cult to replace O’Boyle, a tricaptain who averaged 14 points in the team’s ďŹ rst four contests before being injured, Edwards expects a number of players to help overcome his season-long absence as best as possible. “You can’t lose someone that is an integral part of your team without it affecting your team,â€? said Edwards. “How it pans out I don’t know. But I’m conďŹ dent that we have some personnel that can step up and make contributions.â€?

O’Boyle’s loss coupled with the graduation of Stone has led to even more touches for the sophomore swingman Nading, last season’s UAA Rookie of the Year and, along with Ruths, a potential candidate for UAA Player of the Year this season.

Thus far, Nading has relished that opportunity. He is currently averaging 15 points and seven rebounds and took MVP honors

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Sean Wallis takes it to the hoop in Friday’s game against Luther College.

in the Lopata tournament with a tremendous 22 points, 13 rebound performance in the ďŹ nal.

Ruths, steady as always, is averaging 18.7 points and seven boards a game.

Wallis has also upped his offensive game in the early going, averaging 11.5 points in a teamleading 33 minutes of action per game. The steady point guard, who is known more for his passing prowess and ability to control tempo on the court than for his scoring ability, has already recorded a pair of twenty points games. If Wallis can continue to produce at a steady offensive clip and hit shots from beyond the arch, teams will be unable to double and triple team Ruths and the Bears will likely put up points in bunches.

Providing invaluable leadership and experience for the Bears this season will be senior Nick Nikitas, a versatile off-guard who will compliment Nading and Wallis nicely in the backcourt. Junior Moss Schermerhorn and freshman Zach Kelly, both forwards, are expected to be impact players off the bench.

The excitement surrounding this year’s team stems from its combination of proven talent coupled with an abundance of enthusiastic and highly-touted rookies. While some observers around the UAA might expect Brandeis, NYU and Chicago (considered the league favorite) to vie for the crown, no one around the Field House is throwing in the towel. “Winning early in the league is important. Every game in the UAA is important. Absolutely, we’ll be ready for it,� said Nading.

From Edwards on down to his players, the Bears fully expect to compete for the league championship. Indeed, the team’s strong play thus far is already raising eyebrows. In a recent D3hoops.com poll, the Bears garnered seven top 25 votes.

And while the young team is yet to crack the elite, Edwards and his players seem ready to make a run at national glory in the 2006-2007 season. “We set out to win the UAA, that’s always a goal for us because we know the UAA is one of the toughest conferences in the nation for DIII, then getting to the tournament and seeing what we can do,� said Nading. “I think the goal right now is to really get comfortable with each other. It’s one thing to get to the [NCAA] tournament. It’s another thing to win in the tournament. My goal is to win the conference. I don’t see that that’s unrealistic,� said Edwards.

Wallis went even further than his classmate and coach. “We set out with the goal to win the national championship,� he said. “I think that everything’s pretty realistic from this point.

We’ve got a lot of growing to do.

We deďŹ nitely haven’t reached our potential yet.â€?

Parker came up big on Saturday, achieving her third double-double of the season with twenty points and fourteen rebounds. But it was freshman wing ZoĂŤ Unruh who proved to be the Bears most clutch player of the day. Unruh scored 11 of her 15 points in the second half, including three baskets in a row after the Bears experienced a ďŹ veminute scoring drought.

In the championship game, the Bears easily defeated North Park University 58-34, bringing their season record to 4-3. This is the ďŹ rst time all season the Red and Green have had a winning record.

Defense was the story of this game, as the half-time score was only 17-8. The Bears dominated play throughout the entire game. At one point

in the ďŹ rst half, the team held North Park scoreless for over seven minutes.

Parker again led the Bears in scoring with 17 points.

Forward Jamie McFarlin also came up big for Wash. U. The sophomore added a doubledouble, tallying with 13 points and an unheard-of 20 rebounds, the highest of her collegiate career. Sophomore guard Shanna-Lei Decanay helped the Bears pull away for good, scoring nine points in the ďŹ nal four minutes of regulation.

This momentum from this successful weekend should help Wash. U. begin to regain its form from last season.

The team returns home next weekend, facing McKendree College at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Field House.

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MONDAY | DECEMBER 4, 2006

SPORTS Senior athletes speak out after a successful fall season

BY DAVID KRAMER SPORTS REPORTER

MeghanMarie Fowler-Finn

Whitney Smith

Sport

Sport Volleyball—two time All-American, two time First Team all-Central Region, 3-time all-UAA, ranks 2nd single season blocks (206)

Hometown

Hometown

Wichita, Kan.

Majors

Fort Wayne, Ind.

Biology, Spanish

Majors Psychology, Environmental Studies

Adam Goslin

Kevin Gale

Sport Football/Baseball—2006 all-UAA selection(football), hit home run estimated at 450 ft.

Social Thought and Analysis How has playing sport at Wash.

U. shaped your overall experience here?

KG: It helped me take my mind off of my classes, especially during the season. I had to be more disciplined with what activities I did knowing that I was representing the cross country team and the athletes here in general.

BH: Running cross country became the most important part of my undergraduate experience at Wash. U. It was definitely a bigger part of my life than I expected it to be but it was an amazing experience.

TB: Playing soccer defi nitely shaped who my friends were, and I got to travel a lot. Outside of soccer I had never been to New York or Boston. It also made me more well-rounded as far as encompassing a great educational experience with a great athletic experience.

MMFF: It defi nitely made me a better person. I actually learned how to budget my time a lot more, and therefore my grades were actually better

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Whitney Smith spikes the ball past a pair of opposing defenders at a match earlier in the season.

Soccer—four-time All-UAA, three-time All-Central Region

Hometown Palos Park, Ill.

Majors Political Science, Economics, Psychology

Beth Herndon Cross Country—two-time UAA individual champion, two-time All-America, four-time All-UAA

Hometown Fort Wayne, Ind. Biochemistry, Earth & Planetary Sciences

Economics than they would have been.

WS: I agree with everyone else, except that practice was such a great stress relief for me. Meeting athletes here definitely made my college experience much more enjoyable.

AG: My entire experience at school has pretty much been my athletic experience. The teams that I was one were not exclusive to being friends with non-athletes, but when you are very involved in any group it seems logical that you would have a lot of friends from that group.

were a lot of people there and I felt like the whole school was supporting us.

AG: In baseball it would be the trip as a whole to Florida.

Specifically our fun with the tennis ball that involves hitting you somewhere that hurts, thumper-Mcfloppy and Scotty hitting you, and [ Wash. U. baseball coach Ric] Lessmon threatening to give the one driver an “Orlando Sucks!”

Is there one great personal experience you all had as an athlete while at Wash. U.?

WS: I think that playing sports will give me an edge in terms of being a doctor. I have played and experienced pressure situations, and just as far as handling success and failures I think I will be at an advantage.

TB: I have learned a lot about sacrificing things such as social life, and I think that will help me at least with my fi rst year of law school. Also I think it would help with anything I have to do as a team. Sports force you to work with a lot of people that have different personalities or come from different backgrounds and even if everyone does not mesh right away it helps you learn how to work together to achieve a goal.

MMFF: Defi nitely leadership.

This year we had all types of leadership on our team. For me, just learning how to work with anyone in a leadership position will help me with anything I do, including continuing my soccer career.

BH: I anticipate that I will be running for the rest of life. The college running experience has really taught me how to appreciate being able to run. Also, I became very disciplined.

KG: I think that if you can learn to run 5-miles in 100 percent pain, you can to do anything. Cross country is mentally the toughest sport, and that will help with any particular job.

AG: Sports always instill a good work ethic and in my efforts to accomplish common goals it will help me with my daily interactions with people.

TB: The coolest thing I remember does not involve me, it involves Jenny Southworth, who is a senior on the basketball team here. She was in Pittsburgh wearing a Wash. U. soccer sweat shirt because she had played soccer her freshman year and some guy stopped her in the elevator and went on to have a long conversation with her about how he knew how Wash. U. had a great women’s soccer team. The fact that some random person in Pittsburgh knew about our soccer team was pretty cool.

MMFF: The best individual memory I had was sophomore year against Wheaton. We were tied 0-0 the second game of the season, we had lost 5-0 the year before and 30 seconds into overtime I score the game winning goal on a crazy shot.

It was a great feeling to beat Wheaton and score the game winning goal in overtime. The best memories I had were the times our team got together on road trips, I played with so many amazing girls that were a lot of fun.

BH: Every regional and nationals meet I have run, because it’s such an amazing atmosphere. All the members on our team that are not running dress up in crazy clothes and body paint and cheer for us at all parts of the course. My best individual was at regional’s when I fi nished sixth and turned around and immediately saw all my teammates right behind me.

KG: Last year in track we were racing at IUPOI, and it was under the lights at night.

I qualified individually for nationals for the steeplechase. It was really memorable because I pretty much led the whole race and was out in the lead by myself and it was a big confidence booster.

WS: Freshman year after we won the national championship, Red Alert hosted an event during a basketball game and they unveiled the banner in the gym during halftime. There

Sport

Major

Major

Major

Whitney Smith: Next year is up in the air. I know I want to take a year off before I go to medical school.

MeghanMarie Fowler-Finn: I might be playing soccer somewhere, but as of right now the Peace Corps in the Carribean.

Talia Bucci: Right now I am applying to law school, and my number one choice is Notre Dame.

Beth Herndon: Right now I am applying to a few different Ph.D. programs in Geosciences departments.

Kevin Gale: Right now I am trying to get a job in something with fi nance, and I am going to be the assistant coach for the cross country team next year.

Adam Goslin: I do not have official plans as of yet, but I want to do something with community service programs maybe in Oregon, Washington, or Detroit.

Cross Country —two-time national qualifier, two-time all-UAA Minneapolis, Minn.

Rochester Hills, Mich.

Talia Bucci

Sport

Sport Hometown

Hometown

What are your plans for next year or in the future?

Soccer—2006 UAA Player of the Year, D3 Kicks. com National Player of the Year, three-time Academic All-UAA, two time Academic All-District VII, 2006 ESPN The Magazine College Division 2nd Team Academic-American Team, four-time 1st Team all-UAA/all-Central Region, 2003 UAA Rookie of the Year

After one of the most successful fall seasons in recent Wash. U. history, one that featured five out of six Washington University varsity sports finishing the season ranked in the nation’s top 25, Student Life reporter David Kramer gathered some of the top seniors from each sport for a series of end-of-season questions.

How do you think your sport experiences at Wash. U. will help you in your future?

Were D-III sports what everyone expected and do you wish anything were different?

KG: I am really glad I chose D-III, because I had the opportunity to participate in other extracurricular activities as well. I kind of wish we could get more free things, like shoes, clothes, underwear and stuff.

BH: I was not particularly looking for divisions when I was applying for schools. D-III ended up being great and was a great atmosphere while I got an amazing education. I was a

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MeghanMarie Fowler-Finn takes a shot at a game this season. little upset at the recognition D-III athletes got compared to D-I schools when we work just as hard. I did however, learn to love running more for the sake of loving running than for the recognition.

TB: I liked D-III because it was slightly more flexible than a DI, whereas the coaches are a bit more understanding if you have a test. I wish we had more games, and I was upset how people that do not play varsity sports usually think that anyone is good enough to play on a varsity team here, when this is very far from the truth.

MMFF: I visited this school and it somehow fit. With D-III, I played on a team with a bunch of D-I players, but unlike many D-I athletes, we actually love the sport. I would have liked to have a national championship if there was one thing that I could change.

WS: I had already decided to go to Wash. U. before even realizing I wanted to play a sport. I would like to change how the school supports athletics in general. [At] most big D-I schools the entire faculty and neighboring residents support the athletics almost on an equal level as the academics.

AG: I liked how D-III sports do not own you because they are not paying for you to attend their school. I regret that peo-

ple at our school—regardless of the fact that we are D-III— don’t realize that we are a very good D-III program. Anyone that follows sports here would realize that every sport is always in contention for a national championship.

Is there any advice that you have learned and become wise about that you all can give to the young athletes?

MMFF: Make sure that you truly love what you are doing.

It is not as much fun playing a sport here if you do not love the sport. A lot of your college experience is what you make it.

TB: Do not worry about the sacrifices that you have to make to play sports. In the end it will be worth it.

WS: It’s too much work to do if you do not love the sport. So I guess I would say if you do not love the sport, it’s ok to get out.

BH: Just have fun and enjoy yourself.

KG: Do not worry yourself so much freshman year with making so many new friends, because by the time you’re done your closest friends are going to be your teammates.

AG: Work hard, learn from people around you. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, and if you don’t have fun, quit.