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Matt Wong, Ryland Steen, Aaron Barrett, Scott Klopfenstein, John Christianson and Dan Regan make up Reel Big Fish, who will be playing at W.I.L.D. on April 27. BY SHWETA MURTHI NEWS EDITOR Ska-punk band Reel Big Fish will get reacquainted with Washington University when they play this spring’s W.I.L.D. concert, nearly a decade after performing in the Gargoyle. Their booking agency, The Agency Group, confi rmed that the band would take the stage at the University on April 27, 2007. “I want to make it clear that Reel Big Fish is not the main headliner. I don’t know if we’re having them as co-headliners, or as the main opener, but they will be the second
band of the three slots,” said sophomore Randy Lubin, cochair of Team 31. “We could either get one pretty big band, which would cost between $50,000 to $55,000, or we could go for two bands that were slightly smaller than that. We hope that with two different big groups, it will have the chance of appealing to a larger crowd.” Lubin explained the selection process for choosing Reel Big Fish, which came up as a suggestion several times through Team 31’s online request form. “Team 31 really wants to appease the needs of the students. We strive to have
a balance of rap and rock. I think that was evident in the Guster concert with Rahzel opening for them.” “For the spring, people wanted a concert with more energy, so going into this concert, we looked really hard in trying to meet that. We looked at rapper Jibbs before the offer fell through.” Other bands that Team 31 considered for the spring concert include rap groups Lupe Fiasco and Gym Class Heroes, both of whom were considered before Reel Big Fish. Team 31 is still working on confi rming a hip-hop opener for the spring concert.
“We had a couple of problems with trying to get rap on campus. One of them is that a good rap act costs a lot more than a rock act of the same popularity and it would take up a much more significant proportion of our budget,” said Lubin. “Another problem is not only does the date have to work out, but [the band] has to have enough incentive to route their tours through St. Louis.” Reel Big Fish has released seven albums, starting with “Turn the Radio Off” in 1996. They gained mainstream pop-
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Engineering Week shifts focus BY SARA RAJARAM STAFF REPORTER Today, the annual Engineering Week arrives on campus with an entirely new take. The Engineering Council has removed many old events due to their time-intensive nature, and it has replaced them with programs designed to draw more students. The changes are motivated by the dwindling participation in these programs. “We’ve had events where only EnCouncil members participated,” said sophomore Jessica Alspaugh, EnWeek co-chair along with sophomore Lee Cordova. EnCouncil cut the design competitions and the egg drop, both of which required much preparation time and were not popular to students outside of the Engineering School. “We had lots of prizes, lots of people organizing the events, but at the end of the day nobody came,” said Cordova. Some students agreed that the competitions were unnecessarily time consuming, but felt that EnWeek needs to maintain its focus on science.
“I wish EnWeek had more programs geared specifically towards engineering students,” said freshman Kirthika Vijayakumar, a biomedical engineering student. “Events like the Date Auction and the golden mouse competition are great ideas but they are not unique to science.” According to Cordova, EnCouncil has worked on projects in the past that served as “publicity stunts.” Last year the project was an 8 foot beaver constructed out of duck tape, and it was placed in front of the Bunny. However, EnCouncil has decided to stray away from such large displays this year. “It was cool and it got a lot of publicity, but it was very taxing on time,” said Cordova. “Instead, we want events that could create tradition. We want something simpler.” The only events that will return from past years due to their strong participation are the Golden Mouse scavenger hunt, a duct tape competition, an airplane competition, and capture the flag. In the scavenger hunt, students must follow five clues
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Francis Fieldhouse’s long legacy What do former President Clinton and Spike Lee have in common? Both have spent time in the Francis Fieldhouse. Get the building’s entire storied-history. Sports, Page 8
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An EnCouncil member hangs a pirate flag from Sever Hall to inaugurate EnWeek on Sunday, Feb. 18.
What will you wake up to? You might not have your normal morning at KWUR week. So Many Dynamos (left) will be among the bands hitting campus this week. Cadenza, Page 5
Imagine a molecule so small and sneaky that it can slip into a cancerous cell and deliver a trigger for cell death. The molecule, called TAT, has baffled scientists for a decade, and it comes from HIV. TAT itself does not cause cell death. Gleaned from HIV’s protein envelope, this tiny molecule can drag entire viruses into cells. Researchers can produce stores of TAT (transactivator of transcription) by using protein synthesizers, but although they have decoded its genetic structure, they are unsure of exactly how TAT manages to bypass cell membranes. “We still are at the very beginning of understanding how one protein from HIV is able to perform this amazing task of dragging much bigger molecules than itself inside the cell,” said William Hawkins, assistant professor of surgery at the medical school, Site Cancer Center member and senior writer for the study. TAT can tow molecules up to 1,000 times
its size. The idea for a cancer treatment involving TAT arose when Hawkins met with professor of anesthesiology Rich Hotchkiss, who was trying to use TAT to save cells from apoptosis, or cell death. Hawkins wondered if he could use TAT to destroy, instead of save, cells. Hotchkiss had armed TAT with a domain of BIM, a regulator of the apoptotic pathway. Over-expression of BIM triggers a sequence of events that leads to cell death. If researchers can increase concentrations of BIM in specific cancerous cells, then tumors can be slowed or suppressed. The paper, “TAT-Bim Induces Extensive Apoptosis in Cancer Cells,” published in January’s Annals of Surgical Oncology, is the beginning of a larger research project, said Research Instructor Jonathan McDunn. “What we published so far is a demonstration that this growth helps slow the growth of a tumor. What we’re looking for now is
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B-school dean steps down after 25 years BY TROY RUMANS NEWS EDITOR Gary Hochberg, associate dean in the Olin School of Business, announced his intent to step down from his position in an e-mail sent to the business school community by Dean Mahendra Gupta on Friday. Gary Hochberg has served 25 years at Olin as associate dean for the undergraduate program. Under his leadership, the BSBA program and student body have experienced tremendous growth in quality and diversity. “This program is an incredible source of pride for Olin, its alumni, and indeed, the entire University,” said Gupta, in his announcement. “So, it’s with mixed emotions [that] I announce that Gary has asked to begin transitioning to a new role at the Olin School.” Hochberg will not actually be stepping down for some time, however. He decided that this should be announced early so that a successor could be chosen and brought into the University well before he steps down. “I decided that rather than get to a point where I’d feel I really wasn’t prepared to continue to working fully, that it would make sense to find my successor while I was here full-time so we would be able to have a smooth transition, without any loss of momentum for the program,” said Hochberg. “There are a lot of things going on around the school
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that are exciting but are going to take some length of time to fully implement. I don’t anticipate working all that much longer,” said Hochberg. “One of the funny things that happens when you’ve been in a job 25 years is that you end up being 25 years older than when you started.” Kenneth Harrington, director of the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, has worked closely with Hochberg during his time at the University, especially in building the entrepreneurial program when it was still a nascent part of the school. “He’s been fantastic. He’s really been a major help in terms of our undergraduate entrepreneurial nature, and all the design of that,” said Harrington. “I couldn’t have done it without him, and really getting to meet with other folks on campus. He’s just been great for me.” The search for a successor for Hochberg has just begun, so very little is currently known about the direction it will take. A committee will soon be formed by Gupta to start the search. For his part, Hochberg will still be a figure in the business school. He intends to concentrate more on the specialized master’s programs in accounting and finance. “[Those programs] are, at this stage, new and quite small. We’re enthusiastic about them and think they
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2010 imperative global emergency teach-in On Tuesday, Feb. 20, this event will address global warming and climate change in an interactive web-cast broadcast live from New York, reaching more than 500,000 students, faculty, deans and practicing professionals in the architecture, planning and design communities in both North and South America. The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, with the St. Louis Chapter of the USGBC will be hosting the interactive web-cast in the Gargoyle from 11 a.m. to 2:30pm.
ularity in 1997, with their hit “Sell Out.” Their most recent release, “Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album,” is a double live CD and DVD set. Reel Big Fish currently includes six band members, ranging from a pianist to a trombonist. The Gargoyle’s previous booking of Reel Big Fish drew a crowd of over 900 students, which ended the Gargoyle’s relaxed alcohol policy. The Battle of the Bands this past Thursday marked the fi rst event where the Gargoyle served alcohol since the performance by Reel Big Fish. Junior Sharad Wadhwani was enthusiastic about the spring WILD performance. “I think it’s great. They’re a good live band and have good music.” Senior Alexa Nathanson, president of the Gargoyle Committee, agreed. “I’ve seen them play before around two years ago. They were really good live—really energetic. They sold out the venue where they played in New York City. I think they’ll be a really good show.” Not everyone was equally excited about the ska band’s arrival for spring W.I.L.D., however. Several students said they preferred the tradition of having one rap W.I.L.D. and one alternative rock W.I.L.D. “I prefer hip hop bands like Lil Jon. They’re much more W.I.L.D.,” said sophomore Ryan Cotter. “They should at least mix it up instead of having three low-key bands in a row.” Lubin defended Team 31’s decision to bring in two rock bands in a row to headline WILD. “The supposed tradition of rap one semester and rock one semester is not that big of a tradition. It’s only happened in the past few years. If you look historically, it hasn’t been that big of a trend.” The rest of the spring 2007 lineup will be announced during the Ben Kweller concert in the Gargoyle on Wednesday, Feb. 28.
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Retired justice O’Connor visits St. Louis BY ANDREA WINTER STAFF REPORTER Washington University Law Professor Samuel Bagenstos argued a case before retired Chief Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals last Monday. Bagenstos, Sandra Day an expert in O’Connor disability law and The Americans with Disabilities Act, was an attorney for the plaintiff in the case “Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services v. Carnahan” which challenged the current voting rights of disabled Missourians. Bagenstos spoke before a three-judge appellate court panel, which included the retired Chief Justice O’Connor as a visitor. He argued that
both the Missouri Constitution and state law deny adults who have guardians the right to vote. “The challenge was that many people with guardians are perfectly capable of voting but are nonetheless denied the right to vote,” said Bagenstos. Bagenstos explained exactly which types of disabled individuals Missouri state law prohibits from voting. “It includes any mental or physical disability; disabilities that make someone unable to take care of themselves, whether it’s that they won’t follow doctors’ instructions or that they spend every dollar that comes in their pocket; anything with self care, none of which has anything to do with an election, and making a choice about what party or issue one wants to support,” he said. According to Bagenstos, Missouri’s recent Medicaid cuts have given disabled in-
dividuals an incentive to be interested in voting. Bagenstos’ co-counsels included the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C., the ACLU National Voting Rights Project in Atlanta, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri and the Sonnenschein Law Firm in Kansas City. U.S. District Judge Ortrie D. Smith, Bagenstos’ opponent, claimed that Missouri does allow people with guardians to vote because these people can be individually assessed for competency. Bagenstos, however, argued that this simply is not the case. “We presented evidence from public administrators who said, ‘We would like to give people the right to vote but we are not sure whether [Missouri] law would allow it.’” Now that the arguments have been presented, it is up to the Court of Appeals to decide the case’s outcome.
“The case is still going. The case circuit heard arguments on Monday. It will issue a decision in the next few weeks. Depending on what the appellate circuit decides, it could go back to the district court for a trial,” said Bagenstos. O’Connor, the nation’s fi rst female Supreme Court justice, retired in January 2006 at age 75. Bagenstos does not believe that there is any specific reason why she presided on this case in particular. “She is going around to various courts of appeals and sitting with them, which is one of [the] things retired justices do. How she ended up on this case, I assume was random,” he said. As a University law professor, this type of work is typical for Bagenstos. “I do a few cases a year in either the Federal Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court. I don’t usually do work in the trial courts,” said Bagenstos.
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HIV v FROM PAGE 1 combining that with other approaches to kill the tumor that then may work together,” he said. Cancerous cells resist signals that tip the cell toward apoptosis. In pancreatic cancer, Hawkins’ area of expertise, cancerous cells over-regulate signals that protect the cell from suicide. Every day, millions of cells undergo self-directed death. “Cells undergo death when they become too crowded. They undergo death when the immune system tells them to,” said Hawkins. “Cancers get signals that tell them to die because they’re too crowded, they run out of blood and sugar, and they ignore that and continue to grow.” Hawkins and his crew contacted McDunn, who synthesized TAT with BIM to create the new cancer drug. “Basically we’re telling the cancer cell that it has permission to go ahead and die and respond to these normal signals,” said Hawkins. Doctors can increase signals for cell suicide by prescribing chemotherapy or radiation. Although Hawkins has concentrated on pancreatic cancer, he said there was no reason why the TAT-BIM drug could not be used on other types of cancer. The drug is still in the development phase and being tested
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Students enter Cupples II under a pirate flag that EnCouncil has hung from Sever Hall to inaugurate EnWeek on Sunday, Feb. 18. to the golden mouse, and the winner of the hunt will receive a gift certificate. Entirely new this year is a date auction on Friday from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. in McMillan Café. Engineering students will be auctioned off and proceeds will be donated to Relay for Life. Engineering Week will also feature a demonstration of a 12 foot Styrofoam swing, constructed by civil engi-
neering students. The demonstration will take place tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Bowles Plaza. “This year we wanted to do things that are a lot more visual to attract more people,” said Cordova. “We’re really hoping that more engineers and non-engineers will take part this year.” Professor Richard Axelbaum, associate professor of mechanical engineering, will
conduct one of these visual attractions in the Gargoyle today at 11 a.m. He will perform reactions with the focus of educating students on the physics and chemistry behind fire’s production of light and heat. One demonstration will involve breaking down the structure of a candle in order to enlighten students on how a relatively simple object can produce a complex array of reactions.
Axelbaum hopes that the visual demonstrations and the excitement of EnWeek will encourage students to develop a love for science. “I have no doubt that EnWeek promotes an awareness of engineering and its importance. Hopefully it will foster a greater interest in it,” said Axelbaum.
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can grow to a larger size and be a more significant part of the school’s portfolio and programs,” said Hochberg. “I had some involvement in the development of both of those, so one of the things I will do is devote more time to the development of those programs.” Outside of that, Hochberg noted that many of his responsibilities would tie into what his successor will be best at doing. “I don’t know whether there are some things relating to undergraduate education that it would make sense for me to do even beyond the time my successor is in place,” said Hochberg. “That’s something we’re going to have to wait and see about.”
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on cell lines and mice, but clinical trials are not too far away. “We take cancers from people, make cancer lines, and test the drugs first against those lines. You don’t want to use animals unless you know that your drugs are going to work against the cancer,” said Hawkins. The research team of nine, all from Washington University, is planning next to publish a paper on how the TAT-BIM targets cancerous cells. By working with radiologists, they are using cancer-identifying molecules to hunt tumors. “We’re hooking our molecules, which can get inside the cell, to molecules which know how to find cancer. With the combination of these multi-domain things, the molecules are able to find cancer, get into cancer, and leave normal tissues alone for the most part,” said Hawkins. “Cancer has outwitted us for many years now. The reason we’ve made progress is because we have people from all different specialties that all get in a room and talk about things,” said Hawkins. “Here we are cancer doctors learning stuff from HIV doctors, and some of the newer molecules that we’re working on are from radiologists to label things for X-ray studies.”
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week ago, the Washington University Police Department responded to an assault incident in Myers dormitory. They discovered that the assailant had knocked on a student’s suite door. When the student answered, the assailant entered the suite, proceeding to rob and sexually assault the victim. The incident has resonated on campus throughout the week and it has brought disconcerting security issues to the foreground. Handling this sensitive and troubling incident is an incredibly challenging task. The Washington University Police
Department and Office Residential Life have stepped up to that challenge. The two departments have been consistently transparent in their communications with students and thorough in addressing security concerns. An incident of sexual assault is incredibly troubling to the University community; these organizations have taken appropriate steps to address our concerns. Within hours of the assault incident, WUPD contacted students, informing them of the incident. They took visible steps towards ensuring student security, placing a security guard
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am: Tom, Tommy, Tommy B, Thomas, Thomas McNeal, T, TB, TMB, T-Money, T-Boy, T-Bone, T-Bizzle, TBiscuit, T-Bisc, T-Bag, Butcher, Butch, Dirty Butch, Dirty B, Son, Junior, Binky, Brother, Bro, Hermano, Werner, Eduard, Amerikaner, Tombone, Tombo, Thomas McNeal Butcher, Jr., and, of course, B-tch. Count ‘em up: I have more nicknames than Sean “P. Puffy Diddy Daddy” Combs. Shakespeare might have that famous line about roses, but this is starting to get ridiculous. And yes, in case you’re wondering, I will answer to any of those. But this got me thinking. What is in a name, after all? Do certain names display different parts of our personality? Up until the time I entered middle school, I was Tommy. I went by that name simply because that’s what my parents called me. And so, when people asked for my name, I told them “Tommy.” It seems rather common, nowadays, for children to have nicknames that end in a “y.” You’ve got your Billys, your Rickys, your Jonnys and, of course, your Tommys. I guess that the high-pitched ending confers a certain youthfulness, of some kind or another. When I was ready for middle school, it somehow happened that my popular nickname became “Butch.” I’m not quite sure how this happened, but I believe it was quite organic. Most likely, some kid just happened to call me that one day and it caught on. Of course, at home and on school papers I was Tommy, but for all social purposes, I became Butch. I, however, didn’t really care what people called me. It seemed to me that as long as they were addressing me, and it wasn’t an insult, it was all fi ne and dandy. Perhaps “Butch” carries with it a sense of growing older and tougher, of growing beyond the name my parents gave me. But I never really thought of it that way. I was just who I always was, if perhaps a bit taller and, in my mind at least, I was still Tommy. After middle school, Butch fell out of favor. Nicknames come and go. Throughout my high school years, the default was Tommy, but something interesting happened: many of my friends began to develop their own ways of referring to me. For some, mostly those I had known the longest, I was, and probably will always be, Tommy. But I had one friend who always called me Thomas. I don’t really know why. I had somewhat of a reputa-
tion as a smart guy in high school, so maybe she thought it just sounded more official. Or maybe she just liked the ring of it. Who knows? A fair amount of my friends were rather fond of my nickname, “Tombone.” Perhaps it just sounded silly. I personally liked that one a lot too, probably for the same reason. I had one friend who called me T. Just T. Shortly after I met him, he just said to me, “You know, Tommy, I think I’m gonna call you T from now on.” And so he does, to this day. I think that “T” might be my favorite nickname. It’s just so simple—one letter, and it’s done. Maybe that says something about me too. For a little while during senior year, I was wondering if I would ever change my name to the older-sounding “Tom.” I even set up my Facebook under the guise of “Tom” during that year. And I had a few friends who, perhaps for brevity’s sake, liked to call me Tom already, so it wasn’t that big a change. Still, when I moved into the dorms last year, I began to introduce myself to everyone as Tommy. I guess old habits die hard. But, as you can see at the byline at the end of this article, I did indeed become Tom. The changing point was when I found out that there was another Tommy on my floor—except that she was a Tommie, a girl. This is the sort of thing that can get confusing. “Well,” I thought, “It’s much easier for me to change my name than for her to change hers.” And so, at that point, for the fi rst time in my life, I began to introduce myself to people as Tom. It felt weird at fi rst, but I’ve since gotten used to it. Still, any time someone yells down the hall for Tommie, I always turn my head. So, what’s in a name? I still don’t really know. I know that names are important, a vital link to our personality and part of how we defi ne ourselves to others. Am I Tom, or Tommy or one of those others at the top? Or am I something in between? Over the break, a friend who had noticed my Facebook came up to me. He said, “Hey, what’s with the name change, dude? You’re trying to be Tom now? You’re not Tom, man, you’re Tommy. When I look at you, I see a Tommy.” Personally, I don’t think it really matters. I am me. That’s enough for now. Tom is a freshman in the School of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at tmbutcher@wustl.edu.
to achieve goals in a timely matter, taking concrete steps that move towards tangible goals. Securing a university campus, especially one in a metropolitan area like St. Louis, is by no means an easy task, and responding to an incident of sexual assault in our dormitories makes the matter even more pressing. WUPD and ResLife have been impressive with their immediate and concrete response to campus security flaws. They have set an example for how departments can effectively address student concerns, both security-related and otherwise, in the future.
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to install peepholes across the South 40. We commend WUPD and ResLife for their expedient and fitting approach to addressing serious security concerns, as well as their cooperation. Other University administrators and departments would be well served to follow WUPD’s lead in other problems that surface in the future. Transparent and immediate action can be hard to come by on our campus; many attempts at action become entrenched in bureaucracy that can delay appropriate solutions. WUPD and ResLife showed how departments can work together
South 40 were covered. ResLife recognized a security hazard on our campus and took immediate, direct steps to address it. Furthermore, ResLife instructed Residential Advisors in all ResLife housing, even off-campus apartments, to hold mandatory security meetings to discuss issues of security and safety in response to this incident. The University’s action was quick and transparent; students could observe an immediate, obvious step to assuage security concerns. Moreover, the reaction was immediate, and with sufficient haste, as it took just two days for ResLife
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he crossword puzzle is the most popular part of this newspaper. I have no delusions of grandeur. I see it every time I sit down in class. My fellow students diligently trying to figure out a six-letter word for “confident step.” This observation is always Daniel Milstein made from behind my laptop. A study, whose findings were published here in The Rag on Monday, stated that laptops were not good for students, citing the use of the Internet during class as a main reason for this. I have been using a laptop in class since my junior year of high school. Only three classes here have not had the pleasure of my trusty Inspiron’s radiation: Calc III, Linguistics and Logic, all of which utilized symbols that I could not replicate on my laptop (and I’ve gotten pretty well-versed with the insert symbol tab). For every other class, I’ve used my laptop to take notes. And without an iota of doubt, I know that this has helped me. There are many reasons why the anti-laptop study, which came from Winona College, wasn’t worth the paper or ink
that was wasted on it. First of all, my laptop actually allows me to read my notes. I’d say my handwriting was bad, but that would be a boldfaced lie. My handwriting is awful, horrendous, and calling it chickenscratch is an insult to chickens. Times New Roman size 12, on the other hand, is very easy on the eyes. One could even call it legible, as opposed to my handwriting. When I am going back over my notes to study, I can actually read them, and (gasp!) study. This would not be possible without my laptop. Second, the use of the Internet actually buttresses my learning instead of making the classroom just another place to do crossword puzzles. If a professor talks about something that I do not know off the top of my head, I can either go back in my notes or look it up on the internet. When I’m doing this, I still have my notes just a simple click away. If I were just using pen and paper, I’d have to be going back and forth trying to find page after page, instead of just clicking and being right where I need to be. Maybe it’s just me, but I think that’s downright helpful. Furthermore, when I encounter something I am not familiar with, I can look it up immediately. This is not something that is likely to happen if I have to wait after class. And when I take the extra effort to do this research, I actually remember
what I looked up, while if I didn’t have my laptop, I might never know what the HecksherOhlin Theory is. My laptop has also saved my back from the burden of notebooks and readings. Instead of having a separate notebook for each class, I just have a separate folder. Instead of printing out and carrying all my E-Res readings, I save them to the aforementioned folder. I save my back and I save paper—there’s an environmental benefit too! There’s more. My laptop has prevented me from skipping class on numerous occasions. As may be clear by now, I’m lazy. Instead of working, I’m very happy to just sit at my laptop reading music and Mets blogs. Often, the mood to do this strikes just before I go to class. When I felt like such a…college student…before calc, I just stayed in my room. But for my other classes, I pick up my laptop and go to class because I have no reason not to. I’d do the same thing in my room as I would in class, so why not go to the one that my parents are paying thousands of dollars for me to be in? And though I could spend the entire time trying to do a Sunday Times crossword puzzle, nine times out of 10, I still would glean some useful information out of the class. Without my laptop, I ain’t learning nothing. The study implies also that students who do not use laptops
in class are bastions of studiousness. This is just not true. I often see classmates sleeping, reading for other classes, doodling on their notes, talking to friends and of course, doing crossword puzzles, regardless of how they take notes. Laptops don’t distract students. Students distract students. The most resonant finding in the study is that students with laptops have lower GPAs. Maybe this is because of the note-taking method. But my worst class so far at Wash. U., far and away, has been calc. I don’t remember a thing from that class. And logic is certainly in the running for second. Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that laptops are, in fact, beneficial for students and will raise GPAs. It just means that calc and logic were my worst classes. And that is precisely the point. How students take notes, how they learn, is totally different for each student. A broad generalization about this, like Winona’s study, is 100 percent pointless. Using a laptop has helped me, but it won’t help everyone else. There is one benefit to this study though: if a sixletter word is clued as “college with useless studies,” I’ll know the answer. Daniel is a junior in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Senior Forum Editor. He can be reached via e-mail at forum@ studlife.com.
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KWUR Week: a sneak preview
BY BETH OCHOA MUSIC EDITOR This week, Washington University’s student-run radio station will be hosting KWUR Week. A full week of shows starting Sunday night holds what will be seven days of musical mastery. The week plans to accommodate most tastes on campus, from traditional Indian sitar to Wave. Tuesday night also features a movie night in Ursa’s on the South 40. For more information, check out the Facebook event listing.
Monday – World Show Location: Holmes Lounge Show at 7 p.m.
Imrat Khan, an Indian sitarist, will be playing. Sitar comes from the Persian words for “three” and “string.” Khan was born to a family of musicians who have been well-known sitar players throughout India. Not only a teacher here at Wash. U., he has also taught Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and George Harrison of the Beatles the fi ner points of the sitar. Khan is one of the greatest living and performing exponents of the surbahar. The surbahar, also known as the bass sitar, was invented in 1825.
Wednesday – St. Louis Showcase Location: The Gargoyle Doors at 7 p.m., Show at 8 p.m. The Sex Robots, a band native to St. Louis, will open the show with their pop-punk fi lled songs. “Just Another Drug” highlights the band’s style; the trio is full of spirit. The next band, Perry Went Home, is an indie jazz mix of pure talent and catchy songs. The mellow nature of the tunes is a great change of pace from the upbeat, energetic Sex Robots. Headlining is So Many Dynamos, a great dance-punk band from just across the river. A St. Louis super-group formed from the ashes of Children’s Audio and Saving Boy Wonder, the show promises to be full of energy.
Thursday – Hip-hop Show Location: The Gargoyle Doors at 8:30 p.m., Show at 9 p.m. OneBeLo, known for his commanding stage presence and enviable rhyme styles, will be a great show to see. Best known for his work with Binary Star, OneBeLo takes influences from the likes of KRS-One and Ice Cube. With a more relaxed and smooth style than most hip-hop out there, OneBeLo keeps the listener interested without ever pushing the music into a receptiveness which is all too common. OneBeLo changed his name after a three-year prison stint for armed robbery. He also converted to Islam and adopted a more altruistic personality. OneBeLo’s identity has changed greatly, making him one of the most socially conscious members of the hip-hop world.
Friday – Experimental Location: The Gargoyle Doors at 7 p.m., Show at 8 p.m.
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OneBeLo will be performing at the hip-hop show on Thursday. Th is show boasts one of Wash. U.’s ow n, P rofessor R icha rd O’Don nel l. O’Don nel l w i l l be acti ng as percussion ist for Dave Stone a nd C. Spencer Yeh. O’Don nel l has been the percussion ist i n the St. Lou is Sy mphony si nce 1959 a nd more recently has been teach i ng electron ic music on ca mpus. Yeh, best k now n for h is work w ith Bu rn i ng Sta rt Core, has a n i nterest i n electroacoustics a nd w i l l be play i ng v iol i n.
Saturday – Wave Location: The Gargoyle Doors at 7 p.m., Show at 8 p.m.
Man Man w ith Bun nygrunt w ill fin ish the week off in style. Man Man has been described as a m i x of Tom Waits and Fran k Zappa. A n experimental rock group from Ph illy, they are well-k now n for their live shows, wh ich include each of the si x members wearing wh ite ten n is outfits and war paint. Bun nygrunt, a St. Louis twee pop staple in the ’90s, w ill be in full form as well. Matt Harn ish, the g uy from Vintage Vinyl who made fun of you beh ind your back last week, plays g uitar and sings the fun-filled, slightly off pop that makes the band an im mediate love.
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Man Man will be performing at the wave show on Saturday.
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Senior Sports Editor / Andrei Berman / sports@studlife.com
MONDAY | FEBRUARY 19, 2007
WOMENS BASKETBALL
Lady Bears complete another perfect weekend v Team remains tied for first place in UAA standings with one game left SPORTS REPORTER Winning on the road is never easy. Winning back-to-back games on the road is even harder. The 12th-ranked Washington University women’s basketball team (19-5, 11-2 UAA) did just that this weekend, defeating Carnegie Mellon University (8-15, 2-10 UAA) on Friday, 7255. On Sunday, the Lady Bears upended 16th ranked Rochester (19-5, 8-5 UAA), 66-51. WASH. U. 72, CARNEGIE MELLON 55 On Friday, the host Tartans got off to a fast start and led by as many as five points in the fi rst three minutes of play. The Bears took the lead with just under 12 minutes remaining in the half, however, and held it for the rest of the game. The Red and Green completely found its groove in the second half, leading by over 15 points for the fi nal 17 minutes of play, leading by as many as 26 with just over four minutes to play. The Bears shot just under 50 percent for the day while holding Carnegie to 33 percent shooting. “Our overall athleticism carries our defense and makes it really successful,” said sophomore Jamie McFarlin. Senior Rebecca Parker led the team with her ninth doubledouble of the season, scoring 10 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. Sophomore Jill Brandt also had an impressive performance, scoring all 13 of her points in the second half. McFarlin also boasted impressive stats on the evening, as the second-year tallied 11 point and hauled in nine boards. Leah Feola and Stacie Aleski led the Tartans with 16 and 11 points respectively.
STANDINGS New York University Washington U. Brandeis Rochester U. Chicago Emory University Carnegie Mellon Case Western Reserve
W 11 11 9 8 7 3 2 1
Men’s UAA Championship game set for Saturday in Field House The Washington University men’s basketball team’s loss Sunday at the hands of Rochester does not have league-title-ending implications. In fact, the 66-61 defeat only ensures that next Saturday’s season finale against current league leader Chicago will be for the UAA championship. The UAA has no conference tournament, as the victor of the regular season crown gains the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Maroons currently stand at 11-2 in conference play, with the Bears being one game off the pace at 10-3. When the two teams played in early January in Lincoln Park, Wash. U. emerged victorious, 70-59. That win is the lone reason that Wash. U. remains in the championship hunt in the final week. A win by the Red and Green on Saturday would mean that the teams would each finish the conference season at 113, but Wash. U. would gain the automatic bid to the Big Dance. Official UAA rules turn to head-
BY TRISHA WOLF
WASH. U. 66, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER 51 Wash. U. brought its ‘A’ game again on Sunday. The team jumped out to an 11-0 lead after three minutes of play and never looked back. The Yellowjackets were able to keep the gap in single digits for the following seven minutes, but after that the home team never narrowed the deficit to below 10. The Bears put forth a solid all around effort on the day, as the squad hit 50 percent of its shots in the contest while limiting Rochester to 30 percent. “The team is incredibly balanced. We have great post players, great shooters and a great point guard. We are really covered at each position,” said McFarlin. Parker again led the Bears, as she attained her 10th double-double of the season with
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Senior Rebecca Parker goes up for a lay up at a recent home game against Carnegie Mellon. The Bears beat Carnegie Mellon on the road this weekend 72-55. 20 points and 11 rebounds. McFarlin also scored a career-high 20 points in the victory. Sophomore Julie Marriott led Rochester with 16 points. The Bears return home for their regular season fi nale Saturday at 1 p.m., where they will face the University of Chicago. This game is particularly important, as the Bears are still tied with New York University in league standings and could be the conference champion. “We have fi re in our eyes. The intensity that we bring to the court is so important. This game is huge. We would love for our fans to come and cheer us on,” emphasized McFarlin.
UAA L 2 2 4 5 6 10 11 12
Pct. .846 .846 .692 .615 .538 .231 .154 .077
OVERALL W L Pct. 22 2 .917 19 5 .792 19 4 .826 19 5 .792 18 6 .750 9 15 .375 8 16 .333 9 15 .375
STANDINGS U. Chicago Washington U. Brandeis University New York University Rochester Carnegie Mellon Emory University Case Western Reserve
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to-head match-ups as the first factor to settle a tiebreaker; a season sweep would thus give the Bears the bid. The second UAA tiebreaker, however, is a team’s results against fellow league opponents in descending order of finish. That tie-breaker currently would favor Chicago, since the Bears and Maroons both split the season series with NYU, but Chicago swept both Brandeis and Rochester, two teams which each dealt Wash. U. losses. This means that whichever squad wins Saturday will have the right to call itself the 2006-2007 UAA champion. Game time is set for 3 p.m. at the Field House. Look for coverage of the game throughout the week in Student Life. NOTES: On Friday, the Bears defeated Carnegie Mellon 94-73. Junior big man Troy Ruths tallied a career-high 33 points and became the 16th player in Wash. U. history to eclipse the 1,000 mark.
-ANDREI BERMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
UAA L 2 3 5 5 5 8 11 13
Pct. .846 .833 .615 .615 .615 .385 .154 .000
OVERALL W L Pct. 20 4 .833 19 4 .864 18 6 .750 19 5 .792 17 7 .708 12 11 .522 8 16 .333 4 20 .167
CAMPUS INTRAMURAL UPDATE
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WOMEN’S SPORTS Tennis Thursday, Mar. 8 Langenberg Squash Tuesday, Mar. 20
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8 STUDENT LIFE | SPORTS
Senior Sports Editor / Andrei Berman / sports@studlife.com
MONDAY | FEBRUARY 19, 2007
SPORTS A legend in its own time v Chronicling
the mystique of the Wash. U. Field House BY CARRIE JARKA SPORTS REPORTER I fi rst set foot in the Field House at Washington University my senior year in high school. Before my meeting with women’s basketball coach Nancy Fahey, I walked through the brown double doors to the floor, and my eyes were immediately drawn to the then 11 national championship banners hanging from the rafters (the volleyball team would hang another banner in 2003). Coming from a high school of only 200 students, I was overwhelmed by the 3,000-seat Field House. But four years later, the Field House has become a second home. I have run sprints there; done push-ups there; worked there. I’ve seen countless basketball and volleyball games, concerts, convocations, graduations, pow-wows, career fairs and dinner events as well as the not-so-commonplace record-setting Simon Says game, a gymnastic meet, an NCAA slam dunk/three point contest and even a Presidential debate. But my four years amount to just a slice of the experiences that have come and gone through the Field House. While perhaps most students only enter the Field House for convocation and graduation, even fewer know that the current Field House is actually the second version to grace the Danforth Campus. Originally built in 1928, the fi rst Field House was the second-largest arena west of the Mississippi, holding over 7,000 spectators. With a design similar to the Butler University Field House seen at the end of the classic fi lm “Hoosiers,” the previous Field House floor was 14 feet lower, with the current floor having replaced the then ‘mezzanine’ second level. During their stay in St. Louis from 1955-68 before moving to Atlanta, the NBA’s St. Louis
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A view of the Francis Field House, circa 1910-1920. Hawks hosted several games in the Field House, including a playoff game. In the storied history of the men’s basketball program, the fi rst Field House hosted Illinois, Mizzou, Princeton, Harvard, Purdue and Arkansas as well, being the annual host of the Missouri state high school basketball championships. But as the years wore on, time caught up with the glorious old Field House. “The other [Field House] was outdated and the upper deck was practically condemned,” recalled men’s basketball coach Mark Edwards who took the head coaching reins three years before the renovation. “It couldn’t accommodate a lot of the needs that are commonplace in facilities today.” In 1983, renovation began on the current Field House. Bleachers were ripped out, the floor was elevated and the balcony was redesigned with a more gradual slope. “We had to level it off to come up to code. It was so steep that you could have almost fallen over the railing,” said athletic director John Schael. During construction, Ed-
wards was forced to decide if he would move his team to another location or play in the 80year old Francis gym adjacent to the project. “We decided that since the program was in its infancy and attendance wasn’t that high, we would just invest in some bleachers and play the whole season in Francis. When the bleachers were full, the students would stand outside and watch through the windows and whenever we’d score they’d pound on the windows. It was pretty unique,” said Edwards. With construction complete, the new Field House opened with pomp and celebration in 1985 as sportscaster Howard Cossell, NFL Hall of Famer and former Wash. U. coach Weeb Ewbank and then Cardinals general manager Bing Devine spoke at the dedication. “I remember we brought the team in through the doors closest to the pool and saw the new Field House for the fi rst time, and we had our fi rst practice on the court,” recalled Edwards. “Going into a new facility and being so impressed…and we knew it was ours. That was probably my favorite memory.”
On Nov. 22, 1985, Washington University officially dedicated the new Field House against cross-town St. Louis University, losing 66-50. The Bears rebounded from the opening loss: 286 men’s basketball games, 285 women’s basketball games and 348 volleyball games later, no Bears team has had a losing home record in the new Field House. The Field House has played host to the 1989, ’90, ’91 and ’92 volleyball National Championships and still holds five of the top six attendance records in Division III history, with the top spot being set in the 1991 title game at 3,423. In its 22 years, the Field House has become more than just an arena for basketball and volleyball; it is the central hub for major University events. In addition to the 1992, 2000 and 2004 Presidential Debates, the Field House has hosted everyone from a sitting President to the Dalai Lama. In town one Saturday afternoon, Shaquille O’Neal worked out in the Field House. Cardinals great Lou Brock received his honorary degree in the Field House.
The Olympic Festival brought in hundreds of Olympic hopefuls from around the country to play in the Field House. Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton, Ted Coppel, Spike Lee and Bill Gates have all spoken in the Field House. “It offers an additional gathering place for the University, for anything from graduation or a lecture too big for Graham Chapel,” said Edwards. “It’s for the St. Louis community as well with the debates and the slam dunk contest here. It’s really a resource for the University and the city as a whole.” The Field House is a University and St. Louis landmark and its history has contributed as much to the University as the academics. Today, one can still see remnants of the old Field House as they enter the balcony. The support pillars and roof are still in tact as subtle reminders of a Field House and the events of yesteryear. The facility’s history is displayed proudly in the trophy cases around the balcony, but the true history is in the coaches, athletes, staff and spectators that have made the Field House what it is today. So don’t just admire the Field House during convocation and graduation; appreciate the history that was made there and the greatness that it has witnessed. If those walls could talk, we would certainly appreciate more about where Washington University has been and what the institution has accomplished.
The athletic department is hosting “Paint the Field House RED” day on Feb. 24, 2007 in an attempt to break the all-time basketball attendance record currently set at 2,950 people. In a men’s and women’s doubleheader against the University of Chicago at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., two games that could potentially decide the conference champion, students are encouraged to wear red and come out to support the Bears and be a part of history at the same time.
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A southwesternly view of the construction of the Francis Field House in 1902.