news 1-4

VOTE FOR PEDRO | NEW FILM FESTIVAL AT THE TIVOLI | CADENZA, PAGE 10

STUDENT LIFE

THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS SINCE 1878 VOLUME 128, NO. 7

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

WWW.STUDLIFE.COM

Facebook to open to the public

BY MANDY SILVER AND DAVID TABOR STUDENT LIFE STAFF Just as the cyber dust settles on the Facebook “news feed” controversy, a new change to the online networking Web site could lead to further user backlash.

Facebook planned to open its site to all individuals with a valid email address on Monday, but postponed the announcement, according to a USAToday article published on Monday, Sept. 11.

Facebook does not currently have a date for the expanded registration. Facebook’s communication to its user-base about the change has been cryptic, with a single post stating, “In the future, people will be able to register for regions. But not

yet.”

Mark Zuckerberg launched the Web site in 2004 as an exclusive social networking site for college students. Since last September, Facebook has extended membership to include high school students and selected company networks.

According to some students, Facebook risks losing its unique identity from MySpace with its future plans to transition from an exclusive to public network.

Sophomore Hannah Cowan said she has felt comfortable posting information on Facebook she has not posted on MySpace.

“For MySpace, it’s keeping in touch with people from work who aren’t in school,” said Cowan. “Most of my pri-

vate stuff is on Facebook like my contact e-mail, screen name, and dorm. I would have to change my profile if the change happened.”

Facebook’s new features continue to generate discussions of privacy among users, particularly following last week’s additions of a “news feed” and “mini feed.”

The change prompted widespread user protest.

The decision to open Facebook to a wider audience only compounds users’ privacy concerns, said Professor Charles Ess of Drury University. In addition to his position as professor, Ess is vice president of the Association of Internet Researchers, an interdisciplinary academic collaboration.

Ess explained that stu-

dents have been using Facebook under the false assumption that their profiles are private. On the contrary, parents, teachers, and employers have all found ways to access information on Facebook.

“People need to realize that there is almost no such thing as privacy on the Internet,” said Ess. “In my mind, the positive side of this is that [current users] will realize this is not a private domain.”

Given these concerns, said Ess, he expects current users to react negatively. “My hunch is that they’re going to feel betrayed.” Because Facebook has been the domain of students for so long, they are likely to see new changes such as “an invasion of what

See FACEBOOK, page 3 RACHEL HARRIS | STUDENT LIFE

Barnes leases Forest Park property

BY ELIZABETH LEWIS STAFF REPORTER The extended lease on part of Forest Park requested by Barnes-Jewish Hospital has led to a public outcry from residents throughout St. Louis.

The land leased by BarnesJewish Hospital, known as Hudlin Park, currently encompasses 9.4 acres of Forest Park and houses an underground parking complex for the University. With the extension of the lease, the hospital would be able to build more on this land. BJC healthcare, which is affiliated with the hospital, and St. Louis officials have tentatively agreed to this extension.

This proposal, however, has been met with vast opposition.

Dr. William Landau, professor of neurology at the Washington University School of Medicine, thinks that there are plenty of older buildings that the hos-

9/11’s impact on college students

BY DAVID SONG STAFF REPORTER

pital already owns that can be knocked down and rebuilt.

Landau said, “There is ample room for redesign and restructuring without having to steal land from the park. Park land can not be disposed of or prostituted.”

June Fowler, vice president of corporate and public communications for BJC Healthcare, thinks the construction is absolutely necessary.

“We need more hospital beds to meet the needs of the aging baby boom population,” said Fowler. “Unlike other large metropolitan areas, the city of St. Louis does not have a public hospital. We are the only hospital in the city limits that still delivers babies…hospitals are not like other [buildings]. [You] cannot tear down a hospital to build another hospital. Beds are already being used, so you have to build the new ones first.”

LIONEL SOBEHART | STUDENT LIFE

Barnes-Jewish Hospital wants to lease a section of Forest Park to build a new wing for the hospital. The land is currently home to tennis courts and See FOREST PARK, page 4 other recreational facilities.

Q&A: Bill Nye, the Science Guy

BY ELLEN JONES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With Bill Nye speaking at today’s Assembly Series, Student Life sat down and picked the brain of the famous science guy.

What are some fun experiments I can do in my dorm room?

I can’t say enough good things about vinegar and baking soda and making a balloon inflate.

How many times have you burned, cut or otherwise injured yourself in the name of science?

I’ve actually hurt myself very few times, just a few blisters or burns here and there. But that’s not to say that tomorrow, as a

homeowner, I might cut myself somehow.

How much has your approach to teaching changed since switching from a program that caters to children to a program aimed more at adults?

The approach is essentially the same: you want to show, then tell. The “Eyes of Nye” is more about the issues that are affected by the choices that society makes rather than scientifically accepted facts. Genetically modified food, for example, has some people’s support, while others are against it... It isn’t a clear answer show, whereas the kids’ show is straight.

What’s your perspective on Global Warming?

Crazy cartoon double feature!

What do Fidel Castro, Red Alert, and poaching have in common? A joint appearance in today’s editorial cartoons. Forum, Page 6

The situation with Global Warming is a very serious one and what people don’t u ndersta nd is that every- Bill Nye thing they do affects the situation. If I throw away this magazine, for example, it’ll affect someone in India.

This is a large part of what I’m going to be talking about tomorrow in my lecture. You can change the world.

Can you think of any things that need to be done to educate the world about Global Warming that hasn’t already been done?

What we need is leadership.

And our nation, the supposed global superpower, is lacking that right now. Our government and politics are focused in a way that has been marginalizing science and the public’s understand of science. And to me that’s very important. I don’t know if that’s as important to everyone else, and therein lies the problem.

How has university level science changed since you were an undergraduate?

The great thing about education now is that information is so easy to get. The World Wide Web allows us to have access to information and that’s got

See NYE, page 4

Fierce football showdown Talk about a way to kick off the season - football shut out Westminster with 61-0 win at their first home game. Sports, Page 5

A Washington University study of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 may reveal insight into the minds of the “millennial” generation.

The study, conducted by Patricia Somers at the University of Texas and by Rob Wild, the associate director of the Office of Residential Life and a University alumnus, revolved around interviews of 120 students, which were mostly conducted in 2004. Fifty of the interviewed students attended the University.

Wild’s study primarily concerned the generational theories of writers William Strauss and Neil Howe, which posit a cycling of values throughout history. The generation whose college-age students experienced the 9/11 attacks, said Wild, could potentially direct their effort in more positive ways. “[The study] wasn’t so much looking at emotions as it was at generational theory,” he continued. “[The current] generation has... an outward focus… on improving the lives of other people.”

In his study, Wild proposed that each generation would experience a societal event that would signal a shift in values.

“I asked students their political views, level of patriotism, major and career plans.

I came to the conclusion that there was a generation of more civic-minded college students.”

Wild referred particularly to a number of students who had, after the attacks, changed their concentration from premedical studies to social work or education. Other students began getting involved in extracurricular groups such as the Social Justice Center and socially- and racially-oriented activities. Similarly, the attacks precipitated a shift towards a nuanced but patriotically political outlook.

“Students showed what I called ‘skeptical patriotism’,” he explained. “They were… questioning the role of the United States in [places like] Iraq and Afghanistan.”

INSIDE: Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Cadenza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Sudoku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

“I liked to look at patriotism versus anti-patriotism,” continued Wild. “There was a lot of middle ground of people who really questioned the role of their own government and their own values.”

Wild said that he was moved by student responses to the attacks, even as a University alumnus.

“The night of 9/11…there was an impromptu candlelight vigil on [Brookings Quadrangle]. There was a sense of solidarity I’d never seen at Washington University; there was a feeling to give back to the community.”

Both Muslim and Jewish students, as well as Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, spoke about the attacks during the vigil.

The responses of the Muslim students at the University differed from the general response to the attacks; ten percent of the students Wild interviewed were Muslim.

“Muslim students felt a strong sense of disenfranchisement,” said Wild. “Muslims talked about feeling a greater sense of oppression.

[However], they became more civically engaged than most other students.”

Thomas Brounk, Associate Director and Chief of Mental Health Services, commented on the student psychological response to the 9/11 attacks.

“We saw a 20 percent increase in students coming into the counseling service,” said Brounk. “They weren’t directly affected by the attacks, but rather by the climate of fear.

There were a wide variety of concerns [such as] getting onto public transportation. There were students who did not know the status of their family members.”

However, Brounk said that the negative impact of the attacks did not cut extremely deeply into the University.

“We were very fortunate as a community—we were not touched directly,” said Brounk, referring to the fact that no University students had lost close relatives in the attacks at the time.

See 9/11 STUDY, page 4

NEWSROOM PHONE 314-935-5995 ADVERTISING PHONE 314-935-6713 E-MAIL US editor@studlife.com ON THE WEB www.studlife.com

2 STUDENT LIFE | NEWS

Senior News Editor / Mandy Silver / news@studlife.com

STUDENT LIFE

POLICE BEAT

One Brookings Drive #1039 #42 Women’s Building Saint Louis, MO 63130-4899

Thursday, Aug. 31

News: (314) 935-5995 Advertising: (314) 935-6713 Fax: (314) 935-5938 e-mail: editor@studlife.com www.studlife.com Copyright 2006 Editor in Chief: Sarah Kliff Associate Editor: Liz Neukirch Managing Editors: Justin Davidson, David Tabor Senior News Editor: Mandy Silver Senior Forum Editor: Daniel Milstein Senior Cadenza Editor: Ivanna Yang Senior Scene Editor: Erin Fults Senior Sports Editor: Andrei Berman Senior Photo Editor: David Brody News Editors: Troy Rumans, Laura Geggel Contributing Editor: Shweta Murthi Forum Editors: Tess Croner, Nathan Everly, Chelsea Murphy, Jill Strominger Cadenza Editors: Elizabeth Ochoa, Brian Stitt Scene Editors: Sarah Klein, Felicia Baskin Sports Editor: Scott Kaufman-Ross Photo Editors: David Hartstein, Meghan Luecke, Jason Hubert, Carolyn Goldstein Online Editor: Matt Rubin Design Chief: Laura McLean Production Chief: Anna Dinndorf Copy Chief: Mallory Wilder Copy Editors: Willie Mendelson, Troy Rumans, Josh Hantz, Ellen Jones, Emily Fridman, hannah draper, Indu Chandrasekhar, Jessica Trieber, Paige Creo, Meghan Luecke, Erin Fults, Jonathan Baude Designers: Ellen Lo, Jamie Reed, Elizabeth Kaufman, Kate Ehrlich General Manager: Andrew O’Dell Advertising Manager: Sara Judd Copyright 2006 Washington University Student Media, Inc. (WUSMI). Student Life is the financially and editorially independent, student-run newspaper serving the Washington University community. First copy of each publication is free; all additional copies are 50 cents. Subscriptions may be purchased for $80.00 by calling (314) 935-6713.

Student Life is a publication of WUSMI and does not necessarily represent, in whole or in part, the views of the Washington University administration, faculty or students. All Student Life articles, photos and graphics are the property of WUSMI and may not be reproduced or published without the express written consent of the General Manager. Pictures and graphics printed in Student Life are available for purchase; e-mail editor@ studlife.com for more information. Student Life reserves the right to edit all submissions for style, grammar, length and accuracy. The intent of submissions will not be altered. Student Life reserves the right not to publish all submissions.

If you’d like to place an ad, please contact the Advertising Department at (314) 935-6713.

If you wish to report an error or request a clarification, e-mail editor@studlife.com.

3:30 p.m. LARCENYTHEFT—COMPTON HALL— Complainant walked away from his unsecured property for a short time and found his laptop and cell phone stolen when he returned. Time of occurrence: Aug. 31 from 2:45 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Disposition: Pending.

10:21 p.m. LIQUOR VIOL ATION—A NHEUSER BUSCH HALL OF LAW—Minor in possession of alcohol on campus was issued a summons to appear in court. Disposition: cleared.

Friday, Sept. 1 3:09 p.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—MILLBROOK GARAGE—Victim reported a break-in and theft of a car stereo. Time of occurrence: Sept. 1 from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Disposition: Pending.

7:35 p.m. LOST ITEM—URSA’S CAFE—Complainant reported a lost wallet. Time of occurrence: Aug. 31 to Sept.

1. Disposition: Pending.

Saturday, Sept. 2 5:30 p.m. BURGLARY— UMRATH DORM—Student reported the theft of his wallet from his unsecured dorm room. Time of occurrence: Sept. 1 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Disposition: Pending.

7:33 p.m.

AUTO ACCIDENT—OLYMPIAN WAY— Two vehicles, no injuries.

One vehicle left scene.

Disposition: Pending.

Sunday, Sept. 3 10:02 a.m. AUTO ACCIDENT—ANHEUSER BUSCH HALL OF LAW—Bollard struck the front left corner of the vehicle causing minor damage to the vehicle.

No damage observed to bollard. Disposition: Cleared.

Monday, Sept. 4 12:12 a.m.

PROPERTY DA M AGE —S H A N E DL I NG DORM—Student accidentally

broke RA’s window. Disposition: Cleared by referral.

2:19 p.m.

PROPERTY DAMAGE—MILLBROOK GARAGE—Vehicle window broken out. Nothing disturbed in vehicle. Time of occurrence: Sept. 4 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Disposition: Pending.

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

Wednesday, Sept. 6 9:35 a.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—REBSTOCK HALL— Biology lab staff member reported her wallet was stolen from her duffel bag sometime yesterday between 1:20 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. in Rebstock. Total loss value of $66. Disposition: Pending.

WORLD U.S. Syrian Embassy assaulted

Tuesday, Sept. 5 8: 41 a.m. PROPERTY DAMAGE—SNOW WAY GARAGE— Unknown subjects threw several glass blocks into the construction site, striking the crane parked at the bottom of the construction site, denting the right front quarter panel of the crane.

Several other items were also discovered inside the site. Disposition: Pending.

9:54 a.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—700 ROSEDALE, NORTH CAMPUS—Victim reported that on Sept. 1 between 7:50 a.m. and 5 p.m., persons unknown removed his license plate tabs from both front and rear license plates, while his vehicle was parked at North Campus. Disposition: Pending.

11:23 a.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—MILDRED LANE KEMPER ART—A laptop computer was taken from Room 010A of the new Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum between 11:05 a.m. and 11:23 a.m. A suspicious subject was reported in the building.

The computer was valued at $2,500. Disposition: Pending.

3:18 p.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—ATHLETIC COMPLEX—Bicycle stolen from bike rack. Time of occurrence: Aug. 24-25 from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. Bike was secured with a cable lock.

Disposition: Pending.

4:21 p.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—ELIOT HALL—Victim reported that between 7:30 a.m. and 4:20 p.m. on Sept. 5, unknown person(s) entered his ofďŹ ce in Eliot Hall and stole his palm pilot and XM radio. The ofďŹ ce was not locked. Disposition: Pending.

8:41 p.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—MONSANTO HALL— Victim reported her wallet and contents had been stolen from Monsanto Lab between 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. on today’s date. The door to the lab was not locked.

Disposition: Pending.

11:29 p.m. LOST ARTICLE— UNDESIGNATED AREA ON CAMPUS—Student reported that he lost his wallet sometime between 2 a.m. and 12 p.m. somewhere on campus. Disposition: Pending.

Thursday, Sept. 7 9:36 a.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—GIVENS HALL—Student reported unknown person(s) stole his laptop computer and digital camera from an unlocked storage area underneath his desk on the third oor of Givens Hall.

Theft occurred between 6 p.m. on Sept. 6 and 9:36 a.m. on Sept. 7. Total loss value of $2,350. Disposition: Pending 12:36 p.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—EADS HALL—A construction worker reports that two female magazinesales solicitors took money from him. Individuals were located and dispute was resolved, solicitors were warned from campus. Disposition: Cleared, issued St. Louis County summons.

9:04 p.m. BURGLARY— HURD DORM—Student reported upon returning to her room she noticed items out of place. Further inspection revealed a ring and her Nintendo Game Cube were missing. Her dorm room and her suite room were not secure.

Time of occurrence: between 3:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Disposition: Pending.

Islamic militants attacked the U.S. embassy on Tuesday using automatic ries, hand grenades and at least one explosiveladen van. Four people were killed, including three of the assailants. One of Syria’s anti-terrorism forces was killed, with 11 others wounded. An Al-Qaeda satellite group called Jund al-Sham carried out the attack. The group is responsible for a number of attacks in Syria over the past few years. The attack came amidst high tension between the United States and Syria over the recent Israel-Hezbollah War in neighboring Lebanon, particularly in Damascus.

CAMPUS National College Scouting Association announces 2006 collegiate power rankings New ranking released by the National College Scouting Association (NCSA) ranks Washington University 4th in the NCAA division III and 6th in overall category in the 2006 Collegiate Power Ranking. The rankings are based on academics, athletics, and student-athlete graduation rates. According to NCSA Founder, Chris Krause, the purpose of the ranking is to give a comprehensive overview of the schools, helping student-athletes and parents make better college choices. Duke University ranked #1 in the Division I category.

NATIONAL Washington University and China’s ShanDong University will collaborate on moon data The Washington University Department of Earth and Planetary Science and ShanDong University at WeiHai in Mainland China have agreed to cooperate on scientiďŹ c research and joint training of students in the two institutions. The agreement comes in anticipation of the launch of Chan’E-1, the Chinese lunar probe project, in April 2007. China hopes to place a satellite into orbit around the moon in 2007, followed by unmanned landings on the Moon by 2010 through 2020. The collaboration stems from the agreement that president Zhan Tao and chancellor Mark S. Wrighton signed in 2001. Student exchange programs, as well as professor collaboration, are also a part of this wider cooperation.

ated

What do you want to do next?

rning hing

Not just a first job — a first step toward the most comprehensive career training in the industry.

Bain & Company is a leading global business consulting firm. We help management make the big decisions: on strategy, operations, mergers and acquisitions and organization. Our business is making companies more valuable; our clients have historically outperformed the stock market by 4 to 1. sionate

Come learn about what Bain has to offer

ople

“Ace the Case� Interview Workshop th

Thursday, September 14 6:00-7:00 p.m.

Room 220, Knight Center

Company Presentation th

Thursday, September 14 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Room 220, Knight Center

Resume Submission Deadline Wednesday, October 4th by 11:59 pm

WorleyParsons is renowned for developing complete professionals – people who not only excel in their craft, but who have been groomed and mentored to manage time and business relationships with the confidence and skill that mark those who rise to the top.

We are a global provider of support services to the energy, resource and complex process industries, with a management style based upon empowerment and a philosophy based upon an absolute aversion to bureaucracy.

If you’re good at self-management within a strong, collaborative team culture, this is the place where your creativity will have an open field.

We are now hiring dynamic, entry-level candidates to work at locations throughout the US. Desired in major coursework per discipline is as follows: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Materials Engineering CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Mass Transfer, Reaction Kinetics CIVIL ENGINEERING: Hydrology, Hydraulics, Soil Mechanics, Transportation and Geotechnical engineering, Surveying, Construction, Engineering/Management, Land Development, Transportation Engineering, Water and Wastewater Systems STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING: Structural Analysis, Concrete Design, Steel Design, Masonry Design ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: Power System Analysis (short circuit and voltage drop), Electric Machinery and Drives, Energy Conversion, Symmetrical Components, Fundamentals of Power System Stability.

CONTROL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING: Programmable Logic Controllers, Process Automation, Control Systems, Digital Systems ENGINEERING SYSTEMS: ComputerAided Design Systems, Database Development, and Web-based technologies

PROJECT CONTROLS ENGINEERING: Engineering or Construction Management, Statistics, General Mathematics, Basic Accounting, Project Planning, Performance Measurement, General Business, MS Project, Primavera ESTIMATING: Excel, Cost Estimating, Engineering or Construction Management Successful candidates will possess: • Bachelors (or Masters) degree from an ABET accredited college or university • Cumulative GPA of 2.75 or above • Related Co-Op/Internship experience in power, refining, chemical, or oil & gas industries • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, & Access; AutoCAD; Tech Writing & Public Speaking • Engineer in Training/Fundamentals of Engineering Certification • Participation in Engineering Professional Societies preferred (i.e. ASME, ASCE, IEEE, etc.) • Extra-curricular activities, intramural sports, fraternity/sorority membership a plus

We offer excellent salaries and comprehensive benefits. To learn more about opportunities in each discipline and submit your resume online, visit www.MonsterTRAK.monster.com. Learn more about us at www.worleyparsons.com.

And expect the energy that moves projects – and careers – ahead.

EOE

Senior News Editor / Mandy Silver / news@studlife.com

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

STUDENT LIFE | NEWS

$13 million orthopaedic center planned

BY RACHEL MCMILLAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Patients recovering from hip fractures and anterior cruciate ligament tears will soon have a center dedicated solely to recovering from orthopaedic injuries. Washington University and Barnes Jewish Hospital are working together to establish a $13 million orthopaedic center to better serve outpatients.

“We’ve outrun our space, and it was our vision to develop one of the leading orthopaedic departments both nationally and internationally,” said Dr. Richard Gelberman.

Dr. Richard Gelberman is the head of the department of orthopaedic surgery, chief of orthopaedic surgery at BarnesJewish Hospital and the Fred C. Reynolds professor.

The new facility will have outpatient care, MRIs, all kinds of therapy services, four operating rooms and 32 exam rooms, said Gelberman.

The outpatient center will offer many services to patients and offer a plethora of opportunities for those studying to become doctors.

“This will be a facility in which we can train fellows and

residents, as well as students, in a modern outpatient facility,” said Gelberman.

The new 60,000 square foot facility has been under discussion for the past three years but the decision to actually build it only took place nine months ago.

Barnes Jewish already has one of the largest academic departments in the area, according to Gelberman, with 31 clinical faculty members and eight post doctorates. The new center will require an increase in faculty and will offer “one-stop shopping” for patients.

The University and Barnes Jewish Hospital are working in a partnership, but if University administration had not agreed to the new center, “I think we would have sought other ways to achieve our goal,” said Gelberman.

A strong advocate of the outpatient orthopaedic center, he said that other similar facilities are “highly effective in delivering efficient care. Doctors like working in them, and patients like coming to them.”

Emory, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and the University of Minnesota have also built similar outpatient centers, but not quite to

the same extent as the one here in St. Louis.

“Our goal is to minimize patient morbidity,” Gelberman said, emphasizing that Barnes Jewish Hospital is offering the latest technological developments to its patients and constantly pushing for advancements.

“We will use the best facility for the patient given the problem for which they present,” said Gelberman. Other benefits at a center like this include lower cost and higher efficiency.

The facility also offers audiovisual links to interactive conferences and curriculum lectures.

The term ‘outpatient’ refers to procedures that do not require a patient to stay at the hospital overnight. These include foot, hand or shoulder surgery and physical medicine.

However, the more intensive procedures such as spinal fusion or treatment of a skeletal muscle tumor will still be done at Barnes Jewish Hospital.

The new orthopaedic center will be centered along South Outer Forty Drive. The new facility is highly visible and easily accessible off the highway, and completion of this project is expected to take place in 2007.

FACEBOOK v FROM PAGE 1 they consider their territory.”

John Monberg, assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas, expressed a similar outlook. To him, Facebook appeals strongly to students in a way it might not to society at large.

“The real strength that Facebook has had is that it fits so well with the social expectations of its users,” said Monberg. “As it moves away from the university [setting,] a lot of the social expectations that were designed into the technology will rub other users the wrong way.”

From a business perspective, creator of “Students

Against the Facebook News Feed (Official Petition to Facebook)” Ben Parr said he can’t fault Facebook for wanting to expand its Facebook user base.

“I don’t plan to support or make any groups against Facebook’s plan to go public,” said Parr, who mobilized over 740,000 users last week to protest the “news-feed” and “mini-feed” features.

But business concerns seem far from the minds of students. Just yesterday Melissa Click, a communications professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, discussed the upcoming changes with her New Technologies and Communication class.

“My students felt like Facebook should only be for folks in college and high school,” said Click. “I think students have gotten used to the idea of Facebook as exclusively theirs.”

It is an idea students will soon have to reconsider.

$3500$5000 PAID EGG DONORS Plus Expenses Non-smokers, ages 19–29, SAT > 1100/ACT > 24/GPA > 3.0 reply to: Info@eggdonorcenter.com

Leading Lady "Hepburn" In bronze patent, black leather or black patent.

Sizes 6-10M. $59

157 Umrath Hall * 204 Lopata Hall * 110 Givens Hall E-mail: careers@wustl.edu www.careers.wustl.edu Tel: 314-935-5930

a SAINT LOUIS GALLERIA • CHESTERFIELD

For Your Convenience We Accept Your Dillard’s, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Carte Blanche Or Diner’s Club Card. Shop Mon. - Sat. Chesterfield 10 a.m. - 9 p.m..; St. Louis Galleria 10 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.; Shop both stores Sunday 12 noon - 6 p.m.

3

4 STUDENT LIFE | NEWS

Senior News Editor / Mandy Silver / news@studlife.com

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

Finding peace through cooperation and the environment

BY SAM GUZIK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Monday, Sept. 11, alumni from the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Israel visited the South 40 with a message of peace and understanding. Approximately 50 students came to listen and participate in the forum in Northwest Wohl.

The alumni, Mohammed Atwa of Gaza and Rina Kedem of Israel, told the story of their experiences learning and growing on the Institute’s campus on Kibbutz Ketura in the Arava desert in southern Israel. Rabbi Michael Cohen, the director of special projects for the Institute, joined the pair as a representative of the program.

Atwa and Kedem spoke about the unique challenges of living together in such a diverse community for an extended period of time, an experience, which as Rabbi Cohen described, helps students to “transcend [the] differences and borders” of the region through an environmental perspective.

Among the challenges the students faced were the personal

biases they entered the program with and the skepticism of their relatives and friends.

Atwa detailed the difficulties of adjusting to life in Israel and living with a Jewish roommate.

As he adjusted to Arava, he was confronted by criticism on all sides. “People said I was crazy, people said I was a spy, and people said I was a traitor. People said all kinds of bad things.”

Despite all this and worse— Atwa was wrongfully arrested as a suspicious person at an environmental protest because of his Palestinian features—he persisted and built upon his previous knowledge of life in the Middle East. Upon leaving the program, he had come to the understanding that “the answer is building peace.”

Kedem expanded upon the idea of creating peace, sharing how Arava had helped her to see how sustainable change would be possible through “change on the grassroots level and on the management level.” She also explained that the Arava Institute allows students to work at both of these levels.

Students were impressed by

the pluralistic attitudes of both participants. “That’s what [the forum] is about,” said junior Aviva Joffe, president of Students for a Peaceful Palestinian-Israeli Futre. “Bringing people together in any kind of setting [for dialogue].”

Senior Aisha Sabar, the Muslim Student Association event coordinator, added that the event hoped to, at a more basic level, provide the context for an informed discussion of the Middle East conflict.

The forum was co-sponsored by the International and Area Studies department, the Muslim Students Association (MSA), and Students for a Peaceful Palestinian-Israeli Future (SPPIF).

The program strove to reinforce the values of diversity, communication and understanding that are central not only to MSA and SPPIF, but to the mission of the Arava Institute.

The Arava Institute presents a unique blend of environmental studies and international coexistence. Rabbi Cohen also encouraged Washington University students to actively investigate the possibility of studying at Arava.

EITAN HOCHSTER | STUDENT LIFE

Rina Kedem, an Israeli graduate of the Arava Institute, speaks alongside Palestinian graduate Mohammed Atwa (right) and Rabbi Micheal Cohen (left), at a SPPIF function in Wohl Center on Monday night.

Kedem went on to explain the ultimate goal behind studying at Arava.

“If we can prove that there is one issue that we can work to-

FOREST PARK v FROM PAGE 1 With the existing lease proposal, BJC pays $180,000 a year, which does not include permission to build. With the new lease proposal, the hospital would pay $1.6 million a year. In hopes of appeasing some of the opposition, all of the $1.6 million would be donated to the park for maintenance and upkeep.

BJC has also agreed to maintain 10 percent of open space in the new building complexes.

With these concessions, Fowler insists that everyone will win with the new deal. “Lease payments we make would replace what money is being put into Forest Park, and [this money] could be put towards other parks. It is a win for Barnes- Jewish, a win for Forest Park, and a win for the citizens of St. Louis,” said Fowler.

Landau, however, believes that other options should be explored before using parkland. Carla Scissors-Cohen, one of the leaders of the Citizens to Protect Forest

Park campaign, agrees with Landau. Scissors-Cohen thinks the lease actually denotes the sale of parkland. “[They are] putting up a building on the section and leas[ing] it for 90 years. Any time something is changed this dramatically, it is really the same as a sale. Parkland will cease to be parkland.”

Scissors-Cohen explained that the deal that BJC and the city made, infringed on the Forest Park Master Plan, which was put into action in the 1990’s to improve and protect park space.

One of the principles was no net loss of green space. For example, if a road needed to be moved to another space, its former spot would be covered with greenery after it moved to its new location.

When BJC submitted a proposal to extend its lease for the purpose of building, the Forest Park Advisory Board voted to amend this plan.

“The vote was not unanimous,

CLOSEST SALON TO CAMPUS! • OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK!

should be up to the citizens, not to the folks at City Hall.”

Scissors-Cohen said that the current solution, to use lease money to maintain the park, is “short-sighted and simplistic”.

“What happens in thirty years when we need more money? Are we going to slice off more land until there is none left? We need to come up with a solution for funding that does not put the park at risk.”

She and members of her campaign are working to introduce a future proposal that would keep the city from selling, leasing, donating or disposing of any parkland without the vote of residents. The initiative currently has 5,000 out of 22,000 needed signatures.

In the end, Scissors-Cohen remains undeterred. “When [the proposal] appeared in the paper, it seemed like a done deal,” said Scissors-Cohen. “Our message is that this is not a done deal. We do have a voice, and we can affect change.”

and it disturbed me that it was able to be changed so quickly,” said Scissors-Cohen.

Scissors-Cohen related that in 1973, the city gave the hospital permission to build the underground parking garage in exchange for improving the land.

“They want to break that promise made to citizens that they would maintain this section of Forest Park as parkland. [I] do not think citizens voted to put up a building.”

Scissors-Cohen thinks that the city underestimated the citizen’s concerns when they tentatively decided to let BJC extend its lease. Instead, she believes that St. Louis residents should determine the issue. She also fears that a precedent will be set, leading to other businesses thinking that they have license to build in Forest Park.

“Hilltop campus might be running out of room,” said Scissors-Cohen. “What if Washington University wants to build a dorm on Skinker? It is not a risk I think we should take. [Those decisions]

Corner of N Big Bend & Forest Park Parkway

STUDENT DISCOUNTS! 726-2004 WALK INS WELCOME! NO MEMBERSHIPS • NO HASSLES

Park 44 Apartments Park 44 offers a quiet retreat in the CWE for those who value style.

Studios from $535 One bedroom lofts from $750 Heat, a/c, hot water included in rent Dishwashers in each unit Laundries on each floor

Generous closets Central courtyard Residents Lounge Recycling program Sorry, no pets

Call 314.371.3544 for an appointment. Drop-ins welcome!

Park 44 Apartments 444 West Pine Blvd.

St. Louis, MO 63108 M-F: 9:30am6:00pm

For more information on the Arava Institute, visit http://www. arava.org/

NYE v FROM PAGE 1

9/11 STUDY v FROM PAGE 1

to eventually help increase people’s understanding of science. I would like to see more science requirements for people who are not science majors. Science literacy is essential for our future because we are all so dependent on science and technology.

Wild, however, was not wholly sure how current undergraduate students reacted to the attacks, primarily because his study applied to students at college.

“It’s very different in the home environment,” explained Wild, “trying to process 9/11.”

The real, long-term effects of the 9/11 attacks on the people who experienced them in college, however, have yet to be fully seen and understood.

Wild suggested parallels between the current generation—the so-called “Generation Y”—and the generation that fought and worked during World War II, who returned from the war capable of developing and building the nation.

“I think only time will tell whether this generation will become civically-minded,” said Wild. “There are parallels that make me feel optimistic.”

On a local level, what are you looking forward to doing while in St. Louis?

I’ve been to St. Louis a few times but I’m really looking forward to visiting the lab of [Washington University professor] Dr. Ray Arvidson, deputy principle investigator on The Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. I’ve met him several times before, but I’ve never spent that much time with him.

Any last words for the WU community before you address them in the lecture tomorrow?

Don’t miss it if you can!

WELCOME BACK WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Full Service Hair & Tanning Salon

gether [on],” she said, “then that is a model to work on other issues together; that is the inspiration, that is the tool [that Arava provides].”

Large 1-Topping Pizza Buy One Get One Free

15% DISCOUNT for WU students & faculty on all auto repairs

Foreign & Domestic Auto Repair

Can not be combined with other offers.

FREE SHUTTLE TO CAMPUS

Add breadstix for only $2 or cheesestix for only $4 Don’t forget to add an ice-cold Coca-Cola

STEVENSON'S HI-POINTE

Delivery Charges Apply • Offer expires 9/28/06

“Serving our community honestly for over 60 years.”

Mon-Fri 7:30a-6:00p Call Alan for Appointment

Mon-Thur 10am-1am • Fri-Sat 10am-2am • Sun 11am-12am

CALL: 367-PAPA (7272)

981 S. Skinker at Clayton Rd.

UNDER THE BIG SIGN •

25% Off services with School I.D. Central West End 4484 W. Pine Blvd.

314-531-0400 Salon & Spa www.utopiahairstyling.com

New Fitness Center in Spring of 2006 City living at its best, total convenience, and charming, friendly streetscapes you'll remember forever. Surrounded by fine restaurants, shops, sidewalk cafés, and a vibrant night life, the Fairmont gives you an affordable 21st century lifestyle with your choice of stylish studio and one-bedroom apartments.

A Location You'll Love!

In the heart of Maryland Plaza and the bustling Central West End. A short stroll from the Washington University Med Center, the renowned BJC Healthcare campus, and beautiful Forest Park. By MetroLink or highway just minutes from Washington University, St. Louis University, Clayton and Downtown.

Directions: I-64/MO-40 to Kinghshighway, right on Lindell, left on Euclid and left into Maryland Plaza. 7 Maryland Plaza, St. Louis, Missouri 63108

Features You'll Enjoy! n n n n n

Available lighted off-street parking Electronic intercom On-site laundry facilities Cable ready All electric kitchens

(314) 454-3515

www.fairmontapts.net

314-647-5005

Senior Sports Editor / Andrei Berman / sports@studlife.com

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

STUDENT LIFE | SPORTS

5

SPORTS Football coasts to easy win in home opener

BY ANDREI BERMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR It looks like Westminster forgot to bring the varsity.

In an utterly dominating performance, the Washington University football team trounced visiting Westminster College 61-0 Saturday before a large Francis Field crowd. The Bears are now off to a 2-0 start on the young season and have won six straight games, dating back to last year.

The game began auspiciously for the red and green, as senior quarterback Pat McCarthy connected with junior wide receiver Dan Cardone on the ďŹ rst play from scrimmage for a 64-yard touchdown. But the blowout was not truly on until the second quarter, as Cardone’s score was the lone University touchdown in the opening frame. “They’re not that bad of a football team,â€? said Bears coach Larry Kindbom of Westminster. “We didn’t expect that [result].â€?

The crowd of over 2,800 (Francis Field’s capacity is 3,100) witnessed absolute domination by the home team during the second quarter of play. Senior running back Robbie Sutkay

rushed for a pair of one-yard touchdowns and senior running back DaRonne Jenkins rushed for one from a yard out as well, as the Bears took an insurmountable lead.

The three rushing scores were complimented by a 16yard interception returned for a touchdown by senior captain and All-America candidate Drew Wethington. Wethington, a defensive end and all-league selection last year, scored the Bears’ second TD of the quarter.

It was the ďŹ rst touchdown of his storied collegiate career.

With the Bears leading 34-0 at halftime, Kindbom was able to insert a number of reserves into the lineup. It also allowed the 18-year coach to continue playing two senior quarterbacks, a pattern which Kindbom foresees as being the case for the whole season.

McCarthy ďŹ nished the home opener eight for ten with 130 yards passing, while Nick Henry went ďŹ ve for six for 85 yards.

Sophomore Buck Smith also saw time under center.

The University defense was perhaps even more impressive than the offense. For the second consecutive week, the Bears

held the opposition to fewer than 100 yards of total offense.

Westminster gained just 73 yards on the evening and accumulated a mere ďŹ ve ďŹ rst downs.

Wethington, fellow senior captain Joe Shaughnessy, and senior Matt Balthazar all had interceptions for Bears, while juniors Chris Rhodes, Bob Pine and Mike Elliott each recorded a sack. “Our guys play so hard. They just don’t let up. As a group, our defense ies to the football,â€? said Kindbom.

Kindbom also identiďŹ ed the squad’s terriďŹ c special teams play as one of the reasons why the Bears are off to such a strong start.

He speciďŹ cally cited senior punter Chaz Moody’s 39.2 yards-per-punt average as a crucial factor in limiting the ďŹ eld position of the opposition.

Also scoring touchdowns for the Bears in the home opener were junior Scottie Guthrie, who caught a 28-yard touchdown pass from Henry, juniors Nick Buckvar (12-yard run) and Ian English (48-yard run) and freshman David Williams. Williams’ run came from eight yards out and was the sole fourth quarter

Monday Night Happy Hour 3pm-1am

NCJW Resale Shop

Tuesday Night College Night 3pm-1am Industry Night, Monday-Thursday 10pm-1am, Sunday all day

Still, Kindbom views this match-up no differently than any others, saying that because he has turned the goals for this season over to the seniors, all he has to do is worry about coaching. He expects the motivation for this marquee match-up of

Division III programs to come from the 26 University seniors, the largest senior class he has ever coached. “I have no concern of a letdown. This is a very mature group.�

City Coffeehouse Creperie ˆ &/+0: ? 456%&/5 %*4$06/5 5)306() 4&15&.#&3

European cafe, specialty breakfast, luncheon and dessert crepes (prepared with white flour or 100% Buckwheat organic flour), homemade pastries, sandwiches, salads and soups.

National Council of Jewish Women--St. Louis Section

Live Music Friday and Saturday Nights

4747 McPherson Ave 361-3003

touchdown for the University.

The Bears return to action Saturday against a far tougher opponent, Wheaton College (Ill).

Wheaton is currently ranked 25th in the nation and routinely draws upwards of 5,000 fans to home games.

Couturier 2006 October 19, 20 & 21

Specials On Every Day That Ends in “Y�!

LLyWELyN’S PUB

ALWYN LOH | STUDENT LIFE

Junior Bob Pine slams a Westminister lineman during last Saturday’s game. The Bears shut out Westminister, 61-0.

Helping women, children and families since 1895 • www.ncjwstl.org

?QI ?@MSR MSP APCNC AMDDCC AJS@Q

#SW ECR RFC RF DPCC

Visit us at www.couturier2006.com

.ML 'PG ?K NK 4?R 4SL ?K NK

L @PCLRUMMB AJ?WRML KM $*5:

Yes, you.

It isn’t always clear to people at ďŹ rst that they’re

grown into a number of closely related entities and

unusual opportunities for growth. And we compensate

right for the D. E. Shaw group. Like the poet we hired

managed accounts with approximately US $23 billion

extraordinary people extraordinarily well.

to head an automated block trading unit. Or the

in aggregate capital by hiring unusually smart people

woman who designs solar-powered race cars; we

from a wide range of backgrounds. A robotics guru.

hired her to help launch a new venture in computa-

A nationally ranked blackjack player. An operatic

tional chemistry. They didn’t think of themselves as

mezzo-soprano. And a lot of people who are just

â€œďŹ nancial types,â€? and neither did we. We thought of

incredibly strong in CS, EE, math, and ďŹ nance.

them as people with extraordinary talent.

The D. E. Shaw group is a highly successful investment and technology development ďŹ rm with an international reputation for ďŹ nancial innovation and technological leadership. Since 1988, we’ve

Information session September 18, 6:00 pm Guller Lounge in the Knight Center On-campus interviews October 4 To apply for an interview, log on to http://olin-wustl.erecruiting.com/er/security/login.jsp.

The ďŹ rm currently has openings in quantitative analysis, software development, information technology, computer architecture, business development, computational chemistry, accounting, ďŹ nance, and trading. We’re looking for creative but pragmatic people:

If this isn’t possible, please send a resume and cover letter stating your GPA and standardized test scores, broken down by section where applicable, to jobs@deshaw.com. All applications must be received

by September 21.

articulate, curious, and driven. Our working environment is intense but surprisingly casual. We provide

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

jobs@deshaw.com

6 STUDENT LIFE | FORUM

Senior Forum Editor / Daniel Milstein / forum@studlife.com

FORUM

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

Our daily Forum editors: Monday: Chelsea Murphy cemurphy@art.wustl.edu

Wednesday: Nathan Everly Friday: Tess Croner neverly@wustl.edu tacroner@wustl.edu

To ensure that we have time to fully evaluate your submissions, guest columns should be e-mailed to the next issue’s editor or forwarded to forum@studlife.com by no later than 5 p.m. two days before publication. Late pieces will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

We welcome your submissions and thank you for your consideration.

STAFF EDITORIAL

Leasing park land for hospital: a fair trade S t. Louis’s Web site boasts that Forest Park “is the very heart of our community and its destiny is closely tied to the future of our city.” It is easy to see why St. Louisans are worried about Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s initiative to lease 12 acres of Forest Park east of Kingshighway and build a patient care center on top of that land, but the needs of Barnes-Jewish outweigh the desire to keep the park completely free of corporate building.

The hospital is a necessary resource to the city of St. Louis. Described on its Web site by CEO Steven Lipstein as “a nonprofit community benefit organization [whose] primary responsibility is to community,” it employs 16,000 people and provided $79 million in healthcare to those who could not afford it in 2005.

The hospital’s contribution to St. Louis is important enough that its needs must be considered with utmost seriousness.

Barnes-Jewish claims that it needs to expand—namely it asks to extend its lease on land under Forest Park and to change the stipulations of that contract so that it could build its patient center above ground. Barnes-Jewish claims building in Forest Park is a necessity as the area in question, under which there is already an outpatient parking garage for Barnes-Jewish, is the only available land between the hospital and the interstate.

As part of the lease, Mayor Francis Slay wants Barnes-Jewish to build two playgrounds for the residents of the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood Central West End and also another set of tennis courts to replace the old ones. The at least

move, the group is circulating a petition calling for legislation that would allow citizens to vote on any decision about corporate use of Forest Park.

While allowing BarnesJewish to build on park land could set a dangerous precedent, that argument does not provide sufficient justification for stopping this specific initiative. Any future proposal to build in the park will go through a similar process and if at that time citizens feel the specific building is not justified or is taking over too much park space, then they will always have the option to oppose that proposal. If the Barnes-Jewish proposal is going to be rejected, it should be rejected on its own merits and not the merits of potential future proposals.

Barnes-Jewish also should have been more forthcom-

$1.8 million that the hospital will likely pay annually for the lease will go into a trust fund that will be used for park maintenance, a resource that has proved difficult for the city government’s stretched funds to pay.

Citizens to Protect Forest Park, a group opposed to the proposal, argues fi rst that there has been a long history of businesses attempting to gain land in the park and that if the city grants land to Barnes-Jewish, it will set a precedent that will allow other businesses to gain access to park land in the future. They then argue that Barnes-Jewish has not presented a compelling argument as to why the Forest Park plot is necessarily a last resort for the new building or as to why the center is a vital hospital resource. In response to the Barnes-Jewish

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

ing with the public about its plans, which were kept out of the public’s knowledge during the formation of most of the deal, this does not mean that Barnes-Jewish should not be allowed to proceed. Because the land is the only available plot between the hospital and the interstate and no other group has been able to suggest a specific feasible alternative, it seems that the hospital should be allowed to build on the 12 acres of Forest Park.

Citizens to Protect Forest Park’s initiative to hold a citizen vote each time there is a business proposal to build on the property is noble, but impractical. The complexity of the issues surrounding each individual proposal requires research that most citizens do not have the time or resources to complete. City officials, in this case the members of the

Board of Aldermen and the Board of Estimates and Apportionments, are elected to make decisions like this on behalf of the people. If citizens feel strongly about the proposal, they have the right, if not the duty, to tell their specific alderman, and that alderman should consider his or her constituents’ beliefs when voting. But opening the vote to citizens would result in an uninformed electorate making a complicated decision.

If Barnes-Jewish follows through with their agreement, the citizens of St. Louis stand to benefit not only from the ability of Barnes-Jewish hospital to continue providing the best possible medical service to the community, but also from the assurance that their park will be maintained without the loss of any current facilities.

RACHEL TEPPER | EDITORIAL CARTOON

Media overdoses on 9/11 coverage Dear Editor: I am sick of 9/11 coverage. I understand it’s the fi fth anniversary and we should remember what happened, but we shouldn’t have to re-live it. I was watching something on the History Channel about the construction of the buildings. It was interesting and I figured they were showing this in honor of the Twin Towers, but then it started focusing on the attacks, practically minute by minute. I know what happened. I don’t need to hear the distress calls. What happened was bad. I don’t need to see the towers collapsing over and

over again.

What really distresses me is the way the media is capitalizing off of the overall sadness of 9/11. There have been two movies in the last year, and the recent mini-series. The media knows we are emotionally attached to 9/11, so they figure they are guaranteed our attention.

And the money made off the tragedy of 9/11 should go to some charity. How about that money goes to body armor for soldiers?

-Seth Feinstein Class of 2008

Just the Facts In the wake of the Facebook News Feed scandal, it is clear that Facebook has an inordinate amount of influence on college campuses throughout the country. What’s next for Facebook?

◆ 2. ◆ 3. ◆ 4. ◆ 1.

◆ 5.

A favorite food listing. And the ability to buy that special someone their favorite food… anonymously.

Turn-ons and turn-offs.

Amount of time users spend on the Hello Kitty Web site.

Last songs played on iTunes (I actually do think that would be cool - get to work Zuckerberg).

A run for office. After all, students care more about Facebook than the War on Iraq, healthcare reform, immigration reform, net neutrality, Social Security, etc.

-compiled by Daniel Milstein

The rise of the “isms” F

ew may remember this, but it was only eight months ago when a Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration ceremony touched off a firestorm of Nathan controversy on campus. It began when a student named Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld, who was in attendance at the event, noticed that two songs performed by the ceremonial choir contained overt references to praising Jesus Christ. Threlkeld would later write in Forum that the performance was “disrespectful to non-Christians on campus.”

Another problem then developed when coverage of the ceremony in Student Life was limited to a front page picture with a cap-

tion. One reader who was incensed by this perceived slight declared that Student Life was a “racist publication” that had “insulted the black race.” And suddenly the merits Everly of the commemoration ceremony were almost entirely forgotten. The debate was no longer over the quality of the songs that were performed or the level of news coverage for the event.

Instead, it had devolved into a heated argument over whether the ceremony planners were prejudiced against non-Christians and whether Student Life was actually staffed with racists. It was a shameful episode.

This is why there is something troubling about the new publications by the

Social Justice Center that highlight what are known as the “isms.” The “isms” are a collection of prejudices such as Racism and Sexism that

“And in particular, the ‘isms’ have a nasty tendency to produce incidents like the two involving the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.” the Social Justice Center has decided to focus on fighting during the school year.

And while the list contains many of the usual suspects, it also includes some unusual “isms” such

as ageism (the oppression of people based on age), classism (the assignment of human value based on socio-economic status), and heterosexism (the belief that heterosexuality is the only normal sexual orientation).

It is important to emphasize that much of today’s social progress exists thanks to organizations like the Social Justice Center. It is also important to clarify that there is nothing wrong with the center’s attempts to eliminate any verbal or physical harassment that is motivated by prejudice.

That said, these attempts at multiculturalism can go too far by compartmentalizing students into various social groups that strangle any controversial dialogue on campus. And in particu-

See EVERLY, page 7

YOUR VOICE: LETTERS AND GUEST COLUMNS

OUR VOICE: EDITORIAL BOARD

OUR WEB POLICY

Student Life welcomes letters to the editor and op-ed submissions from readers.

Editorials are written by the Forum editors and reflect the consensus of the editorial board. The editorial board operates independently of the newsroom.

Once an article has been published on www.studlife.com, our Web site, it will remain there permanently. We do not remove articles from the site, nor do we remove authors’ names from articles already published on the Web, unless an agreement was reached prior to July 1, 2005.

Letters to the Editor One Brookings Drive #1039 St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

News: (314) 935-5995 Fax: (314) 935-5938 e-mail: letters@studlife.com

All submissions must include the writer’s name, class, address and phone number for verification. Student Life reserves the right to edit all letters for style, length, libel considerations and grammar. Letters should be no longer than 350 words in length. Readers may also submit longer articles of up to 750 words as guest columns. Student Life reserves the right to print any submission as a letter or guest column.

Editor in Chief: Sarah Kliff Associate Editor: Liz Neukirch Managing Editors: David Tabor, Justin Davidson Senior News Editor: Mandy Silver

Senior Photo Editor: David Brody Senior Forum Editor: Daniel Milstein Forum Editors: Tess Croner, Nathan Everly, Chelsea Murphy, Jill Strominger

Why do we do this? Because Google and other search engines cache our Web site on a regular basis. Our thought is this: once an article has been published online, it’s too late to take back. It is irrevocably part of the public sphere. As such, removing an article from our site would serve no purpose.

Senior Forum Editor / Daniel Milstein / forum@studlife.com

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

STUDENT LIFE | FORUM

7

The U.S. government’s shameful double standard

BY REYNOLDS WHALEN OP-ED SUBMISSION

I

recently started classes at the University of Nairobi in Kenya to study culture, environment, and development in one of the most beautiful countries I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, if you wanted to come visit me, the U.S. Government would say no.

The State Department issued a travel warning against Kenya following a 1998 bomb blast at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. In 2002, terrorists bombed a hotel in the coastal city of Mombasa, killing 15 people. However, the past four years have been incident-free. Even with a fairly elected democratic government and one of the most thriving economies in East Africa, Kenya remains on the U.S. State Department’s travel warning list.

I understand the need to warn Americans of danger when traveling abroad. I even partially understand why over one third of the countries on the list are in Africa. Sure, parts of Africa have problems. Here’s what I don’t understand: where’s the United Kingdom?

Several weeks ago, I spent

fi ve hours in a tent outside Heathrow airport in London with hundreds of other people just to see if my fl ight was going to leave that morning. The night before, dozens of stranded people had spent the night in the lobby of my airport hotel buying food and drinks so they would have a place to stay. Earlier

“I have yet to hear a convincing reason why Kenya should be on the travel warning list and the United Kingdom should not.” that day I had taken the Eurostar (Chunnel) from Paris to London amidst the longest lines they had seen in years.

People were sleeping on the floor of the station, and every train was full.

The cause of this chaos was that terrorists had targeted nearly ten planes traveling to the U.S and possibly even my train to London, according to some sources. The terrorists planned to trigger liquid explosives on board and kill over one thousand

EVERLY v FROM PAGE 6 lar, the “isms” have a nasty tendency to produce incidents like the two involving the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.

The problem with the “isms” lies in the way they have been defined by the Social Justice Center. To take an example, the definition of racism acknowledges that it is indeed possible to “unintentionally oppress a person.” In fact, this is implicitly implied in all of the other “isms” as well. This statement may be true from time to time, but it makes a very profound and ultimately self-destructive concession that oppression should be measured purely on whether a person perceives a threat to their identity.

It doesn’t really matter whether you’re actually a racist or whether you even meant to oppress someone.

The “isms” make it clear that what is really important is whether your actions or words made someone feel uncomfortable. In his column describing the King ceremony, Threlkeld noted that the Christian-themed songs made him feel “alienated and unsettled.” But was there anything inherently bigoted about including them?

It’s a fair question but the answer is no. Yet the “isms” would foolishly agree with Threlkeld on the matter.

Perhaps the most worrisome flaw of the “isms,” however, is that they encourage any dissent to be construed as prejudice. When people attempt to define themselves, they usually regard their own opinions as a crucial aspect of their identity. Disagree with their opinions, and it follows that you are disagreeing with

who they are as a person. A good example is when the Reverend James Dobson, a well-known conservative evangelical Christian, labeled Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy a “God’s people hater.” When asked to explain why he believed such a thing, he replied that it was because Senator Leahy “has been in opposition to most of the things that I believe.”

The problem with this line of reasoning, as author Peter Beinart notes, is that criticism is not inherently disrespectful. Quite the contrary, it lets people assert themselves by forcing them to justify their beliefs in concrete ways that can convince other people. But playing the victim card effectively blocks that from happening by preventing anyone from disagreeing for fear of being labeled a bigot.

It is, in essence, a form of silent intimidation.

Author Alan Wolfe once argued that diversity is not desirable in and of itself. Rather, it is desirable because it contributes to something higher such as exposing college students to various points of view. That’s difficult to do, however, when the “isms” define which perspectives are appropriate for debate.

Organizations like the Social Justice Center should fight these “isms” in a way that guarantees that everyone has certain freedoms. That includes the freedom to be offended.

passengers. Fortunately, British law enforcement just barely stopped the plot.

Unfortunately, they didn’t stop a plot last summer that blew up three subway trains and a tour bus, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.

In both incidents, dozens of London citizens with links to Al-Qaeda were arrested in connection with the attacks and charged accordingly.

Kenya’s most significant terrorist attack in the last decade happened in 1998 and the targeted building was technically U.S. property on U.S. soil.

I have yet to hear a convincing reason why Kenya should be on the travel warning list and the United Kingdom should not. Even if the U.S. Government claims that Kenya may have “limited ability” to detect and to deter a terrorist attack, we know Great Britain’s limitations.

Sure, maybe they stopped the plane bombings last month.

But they didn’t stop the train blasts last summer and they may have “limited ability” to prevent such acts in the future.

Blatant and unwarranted discrimination is apparent here. Obviously, the U.S. can’t post a travel warning

TEMU BROWN I STUDENT LIFE

against Great Britain. That would be devastating to our crucial partnership in the war on terrorism. Plus, we have too much interest in their economy and the commerce between our two great nations. Most importantly, Great Britain is too “civilized” to warrant a travel warning.

Kenya, on the other hand, is just an insignificant little

country on a continent that exists primarily for our exploitation and to make us feel better when we can afford to give a little money away. Indeed, our buddies at the World Bank and IMF have devalued their currency to a point where even the smallest scraps of change go a long way and make us feel great about being charitable.

What I’m not saying here

is that Kenya is immune to terrorism or terrorist activities. What I am saying is that maybe the U.S. government should re-evaluate the criteria they use to impose travel warnings. For a country that relies on tourism as the biggest sector of the economy, Kenya suffers from our arrogant discrimination.

When Illinois Senator Barack Obama toured the country a few weeks ago, Kenyan politicians pleaded with him to urge the U.S. government to lift the travel advisory. They pointed out that the only reason Kenya would be targeted for attacks in the fi rst place is their partnership with the U.S. I’m having the time of my life over here, and I feel safe everywhere I go. It’s time for our government to grow up and end this shameful double standard by either lifting the travel ban on Kenya or imposing one on Great Britain. It’s time to stop labeling Africa as a dangerous place to go simply because it’s Africa.

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

Cream cheese crêpes and the sophomore slump T

earlier than the 2 A.M. he to 3 A.M. time frames unique I’ve been hitting redifficulcently). Freshman year, I ties of even tried to eat healthy freshman year for about a month. The are overrated. beginning of freshman Freshman adviyear, I was at the top of sors tell their my game. advisees that Jill Strominger This year is a little first semesdifferent. I’ve been here ter freshman since whenever move-in year is espeday was, and I still haven’t cially hard because, as Dean unpacked my clothes. Nor Killen explained, you’re have I completely finished carrying around an extra buying my textbooks. It’s course called Freshman 101. not that I have a specific Freshman 101 includes the hatred of putting clothes likes of figuring out how to on hangers or that I dread get to the frats and how to the bookstore (although a write papers. I’m not saying healthy fear of the bookthis stuff isn’t difficult; it’s store might be wise). It’s definitely an advanced chalthat something, besides lenge in living and arguably the level of courses I’m atone of the most difficult tempting, changed over the emotional transitions in summer: I either became your entire life. But assumunjustifiably cocky or lazy. ing you manage, the mental Or maybe it was some lethal struggles of sophomore year combination of the two. are far more potent.

I blame my excess confiFreshman year, my nerves dence on the fact that I’m and insecurity forced me a sophomore—the ultimate into living patterns that claim to coolness. Being promoted collegiate success. a sophomore means that I kept my part of the triple I have some vague plans clean, started studying apfor fulfilling a major and I proximately as soon as class know how to order a creamended, and worked hard to cheese-only crepe at Ursa’s foster relationships with without being made fun people by doing things like of too badly. I even know going to bed at the same time as my roommate (which the best place to study or sleep in the library (level was some time significantly

2). Right now, I’m satisfied with thinking that my basic knowledge of how this college thing works means I know absolutely everything, which, of course, means my life will automatically fall into place whether or not I actually put effort into it.

This mindset is far more

“Being a sophomore means that I have some vague plans for fulfilling a major and I know how to order a creamcheese-only crepe at Ursa’s without being made fun of too badly.” dangerous than any combination of typical freshman year mistakes. Despite the fact that a general lazy carelessness is far more likely to cause me to fail out of school or alienate my friends, it’s so much harder to recognize as problematic, because it rests on my previous successes.

Not only is this confidence unjustified by doing well in a few intro level courses—I honestly have no

idea past fulfilling clusters and cultural diversity requirements exactly what I need to do to survive past graduation—but it comes at a time when I should really be focusing on doing well in the first higher level classes that will form the basis for the GPA of my major and paying attention to all those e-mails about study abroad and finding internships for next summer.

All of this may be entirely my own fault. Theoretically, I should be able to take all these realizations about risky laziness and transform them into a motivation to work again.

There are definitely plenty of sophomores who have not fallen into the same trap I have. I’m not sure if people are saved by the terror of organic chemistry or if it’s simply personal strength and willpower, but whatever it is, given the fact that I survived last year, this year the magic motivator seems almost impossible to find. I wish I could be as nervous and confused as I was freshman year.

Jill Strominger is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences and a Forum editor. She can be reached via email at forum@ studlife.com.

Nathan Everly is a junior in Arts & Sciences and a Forum editor. He can be reached via email at forum@ studlife.com.

KAYLA DALLE MOLLE | EDITORIAL CARTOON CORRECTIONS v In “Plans to renovate Chabad in the near future” (Sept. 6, 2006), two names were misspelled.

Rabbi Hershey Novack’s name was incorrectly spelled as “Novak” and Stuart Greenbaum’s first name as “Stewart.” Student Life regrets this error.

v In “Making a racquet: life on the squash players” (Sept. 8, 2006), students were incorrectly identified as playing squash. The students were playing racquetball, not squash. Student Life regrets this error.

v The name of a Student Life photographer whose

pictures accompanied “Competition proves no match for volleyball squad” (Sept. 11, 2006) was misspelled. The photographer’s name is Lionel Sobelhart, not “Sobehart.” Student Life regrets this error.

8 STUDENT LIFE | CADENZA

Senior Cadenza Editor / Ivanna Yang / cadenza@studlife.com

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

MOVIE REVIEW

‘The Protector’: Thai Comfort Food

BY DANIEL HAEUSSER CADENZA REPORTER Prachya Pinkaew’s last film, “Ong-bak: The Thai Warrior,” has its devoted followers, but it didn’t impress me much. I went to his new martial arts film, “Tom yum goong” (aka “The Protector”), with low expectations, because it promised to be more of the same.

Both films feature Panom Yeerum (Tony Jaa), the martial arts star du jour.

The plot of each film is also basically the same: innocent hero from rural village goes to city to recover an object stolen by very bad people.

Yet, even with the recycled plot and players, I found “The Protector” rather entertaining.

Often, it was like watching “Double Dragon” on Nintendo. Two street thugs come out and the hero quickly dispatches them.

Five more come out – this time with weapons – but our hero again prevails. And as the character progresses to the end of the level, you just know there’s going to be an absurdly gigantic boss with a special weapon, and a secret vulnerability.

Yes, it may be unsophisticated, B-movie action fluff, but it’s fun!

The exact plot of the film doesn’t matter, and at times it isn’t even coherent. This may be due to the loss of 25 minutes from the original Thai cut.

Wait, did I really say the plot didn’t matter? Doesn’t a story need plot to be entertaining?

In this case, no. Like Hitchcock’s MacGuffin, Pinkaew uses plot as a mere catalyst, in this case to showcase the martial art abilities of Jaa. Like watching a complex dance, you become enraptured by the movements, not the story.

KRT CAMPUS

Thai actor Tony Jaa stars in “The Protector.”

Kham (Jaa) is born into a family that serves as protectors of Thai royal elephants.

The elephant in Thai culture is a sacred symbol. Historically, elephants bore kings into battle, bringing their riders success. To the Thai, elephants are spiritual and dearly precious creatures.

Kham’s father is killed, and two of his elephants are stolen by gangsters from Bangkok. The gangsters plan to use the elephants in a restaurant that serves as a front for their activities while it serves up exotic meats in the rear VIP chambers. The leader of the gang, a whip-yielding woman who is written to be more evil than the Republicans paint Hilary Clinton, hopes to gain the powers of the kings by

having a royal elephant of her own.

The film is populated with many flat characters, including Kham, the naïve warrior. Early on, we see

Jaa wearing nothing but some tattered cloths about his waist. He comes off as a young “pretty boy,” virginal and fragile. Once in the city, his character unleashes the

SOPHOMORE SLUMP

lethal power of Muay Thai (a fighting style), normally kept hidden beneath his docile exterior.

Jaa is made for this role and does little acting. He simply has to appear on camera and show off his moves. Jaa performs all of his own stunts, and often attempts new moves based on CGI effects he sees in other films.

The audience’s sense of wonder as film spectators has been dulled by CGI and its infernal ilk. Watching “The Protector,” one realizes that everything before one’s eyes was done without any “special enhancements”.

This alone makes the movie enjoyable, particularly in one scene where Kham fights upward through a building, the action spiraling from floor to floor around an open lobby, all in one take. No camera cuts, no edits. No room for error.

“The Protector” is superior to Pinkaew’s previous film for three reasons. Unlike “Ong-bak,” every action shot isn’t shown in slow motion replay from various camera angles. Jaa no longer has to play the unwilling fighter: his “Muay Thai” is unrestrained. Finally, some attempt at a complex spirituality is placed in “The Protector” to highlight the

The Protector Rating: ★★★✩✩ Directed by: Prachya Pinkaew Starring: Tony Jaa, Johnny Nguyen, Nathan Jones, Phettkai Wongkamlao Now playing at: Esquire

Buddhist beliefs dear to Jaa’s heart. The spirituality could have been more developed, but then it wouldn’t have been a great B movie.

My major gripe with “The Protector” is the infuriating shifts between dubbing and subtitles. This film is a “presentation” of Quentin Tarantino and I appreciate his help in getting movies shown in the US that would otherwise be difficult to find. However, I wish he could get them in a more original format.

The bottom line is this: If you enjoyed “Ong-bak” you’ll like this too. If you liked “Kill Bill,” but haven’t seen the varied genre films that inspired Tarantino, go rent some DVDs and see this picture.

BY JASON ANDERSON

www.studlife.com

©2006 Callard & Bowser Inc.

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

STUDENT LIFE | ADVERTISEMENT

9

10 STUDENT LIFE | CADENZA

Senior Cadenza Editor / Ivanna Yang / cadenza@studlife.com

CADEN Z A

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

n. a technically brilliant, sometimes improvised solo passage toward the close of a concerto, an exceptionally brilliant part of an artistic work

arts & entertainment

¡ VIVA PEDRO!

Spanish director takes center stage at Tivoli festival

BY DANIEL HAEUSSER & IVANNA YANG CADENZA STAFF WRITERS Pedro Almodóvar films defy classification. Romance, crime, comedy, parody and kitsch: his films contain all these genres yet belong to none.

They are profoundly artistic, reflecting gender and religion in modern, urban Spain. Yet they prioritize storytelling, remaining entertaining and accessible.

Almodóvar achieved mainstream American recognition with the 1999 Academy Award winner, “Todo sobre mi madre” (“All About My Mother”).

Starting Sept. 15, the Tivoli Theater hosts a festival of Almodóvar films, offering you a chance to discover his past work on the big screen before his new film, “Volver,” debuts.

An autodidact, Almodóvar was born in rural La Mancha and lived in the underground social currents of Madrid during the oppression of the Franco regime. Amidst this transgressive scene of drugs, music and sex, he began making Super 8 movies. Influenced particularly by American comedies and the French New Wave, his work gained respect and he soon produced successful films that won international acclaim.

The common thread in Almodóvar’s films is desire. He employs a host of fascinations from his life and diverse techniques from genre to form a complex story that gives flesh to the abstract. To Almodóvar, desire is an emotional necessity, “something that’s both very hard and very human. […] One of the tragedies of the human condition” is that, “in the interplay of desires, it’s rare that two desires meet and correspond.”

Remarkably, his films attain deep significance without any air of intellectual superiority or artifice. Never aspiring for a precise social commentary, he shows his audience raw and frequently disturbing facets of humanity and invites viewers to form their own conclusions.

This rawness has often led to controversy and the occasional labeling of his films as incendiary and exploitative. Given the influence of John Waters and Russ Meyer on his work, this is understandable, but unfair and inaccurate. His films do deviate from the orthodox, particularly in the themes of homosexuality, transexuality, blasphemy and the powerful female. But, his non-judgmental use of complex personages makes

provocative cinema that inspires honest discussion of realistic topics.

It stimulates in a positive way.

Nonetheless, he has faced frequent “unofficial” moral censorship.

In the U.S., the MPAA has slapped many of his films with the dreaded X (now NC-17) rating, due to abnormal sexuality.

“I’m considered a scandalous phenomenon, almost a danger to the American people,” said Almodóvar. “I always get the impression I’m laying bare their contradictions. Without wanting to, my sense of freedom brings out the lack of freedom in American cinema. And the absence of prejudice in my characters only serves to show the enormous prejudice extant in America.”

This brings up a good reason for seeing his films at the Tivoli, and not renting them from a local chain that edits their films to be “family friendly.” If you are particularly poor, most of his recent films are available to rent, and his older work is on video in Olin. I recommend “Entre tinieblas” (“Dark Habits”) and “¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?” (“What Have I Done to Deserve This?”) as excellent representatives of his earlier work.

Friday, Sept. 15–Monday, Sept. 18 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown All About My Mother

(R) (R)

2:30 p.m. on Sat./Sun.; 7:10 p.m. all days 4:45 and 9:20 p.m. all days

(R) (R)

4:45 and 9:20 p.m. all days 7:10 p.m. all days

Tuesday, Sept. 19–Thursday, Sept. 21 Talk to Her The Flower of My Secret

Friday, Sept. 22–Monday, Sept. 25 Law of Desire Matador

LAUREN JONES I STUDENT LIFE

(NC-17) (NC-17)

4:45 and 9:20 p.m. all days 2:30 p.m. on Sat./Sun.; 7:10 p.m. all days

(R) (NC-17)

4:45 and 9:20 p.m. all days 7:10 p.m. all days

“Viva Pedro”, a film festival that features the work of Pedro Almodóvar, debuts this weekend at the Tivoli Theatre on the Loop.

Tuesday, Sept. 26–Thursday, Sept. 28 Live Flesh Bad Education

“Matador” (1985-6) ★★★★✩ Following the farce “Laberinto de pasiones,” the symbolic dark comedy “Entre tinieblas,” and the somber neo-realist “¿Qué he hecho…?”, Almodóvar constructed a simple fable with characters drawn “straight out of myth and legend” to embody sexual desire and death.

Angel (Antonio Banderas) is an emotionally troubled pupil of Diego Montes (Nacho Martínez), a former matador who now runs a bullfighting school. Repressed by his überCatholic mother and craving the masculinity of his mentor, Angel tries to rape his neighbor, Eva (Eva Cobo).

Eva does not press charges against Diego, so Diego falsely confesses to four recent serial killings in his unresolved guilt and desire for atonement. An intense relationship develops between Diego and Angel’s defense attorney, Julia (Carmen Maura). Diego and Julia fi nd they share an intense, secret passion.

“Matador” is an oddity in the Almodóvar opus in its blatant composition of story around a central theme, rather than vice versa. For that reason, it is among my least favorite of his fi lms. As a fable, “Matador” lacks the subtlety found in his other fi lms and instead is heavy handed in its personification of death and sex. The blur between masculinity and femininity in Diego, Julia and Angel is particularly well written, as is the contrast between Angel’s conservative mother and Eva’s open-minded mother (the always enjoyable Chus Lampreave).

“La Ley del deseo” (“Law of Desire”) (1986) ★★★★★ One of Almodóvar’s best fi lms, “La Ley del deseo,” was originally difficult to fi nance after the moral controversy of “Matador” (bullfighting is sacred in Spain, and suggestions of the inherent sensuality in its violence broke a national taboo).

The provocative themes found in his new script didn’t help. However, the project eventually found funding, and the result was the fi rst fi lm where Almodóvar enjoyed complete artistic independence.

Pablo (Eusebio Poncela) is a fi lm director in love with Juan (Miguel Molina), but the desire isn’t reciprocated. Still yearning for Juan, Pablo discovers a pseudo-replacement in Antonio (Antonio Banderas), a virgin to homosexual experience who quickly becomes obsessively enamored with Pablo. The characters, including Pablo’s brother Tino (Carmen Maura) who had his sex changed to become his father’s lover, fall together into messy intrigue as each person’s desires come into confl ict.

“La Ley del deseo” develops Almodóvar’s continuing theme of desire more fully than any other fi lm and does so with amazingly captivating performances. As you may have noticed, he tends to use the same cast of actors in each movie. This produces a familiarity with the characters, no matter how absurd or unconventional they are.

Highlights of this fi lm include the haunting use of Jacques Brel’s “Ne me quitte pas” and Jean Cocteau’s “La voix humaine,” and Carmen Maura’s stunning performance. It is notable that the fi lm has a “natural” woman (Maura) playing a man changed into a woman, and a man changed into a woman (Bibi Andersen), playing a ‘“natural” woman.

“Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios” “Todo sobre mi madre” (“All About (“Women on the My Mother”) (1999) Verge of a Nervous ★★★★★ Breakdown”) (1987) ★★★✬✩ This is unfortunately Almodóvar’s fi nal fi lm with Carmen Maura. (They split after personal complications.) She returns in this short fi lm to reprise the character type she played in “¿Qué he hecho…?”, a sleeping-pill addicted woman living an exhaustible existence defi ned through servitude for others. In this case, the fi lm is outright comedy, and her life is defi ned by her relationship with her lover.

Ivan, a fi lm-dubbing artist breaks up with Pepa (Maura), his coworker and mistress. Worse, he delivers the break-up via the answering machine. Furious, Pepa tries to regain control of the relationship and force a confrontation with Ivan.

Trying to rent out her apartment that is now full of bad memories, Pepa shockingly discovers Ivan has a son named Carlos (Antonio Banderas), born by Lucia (Julieta Serrano), Ivan’s former lover. Carlos and his fiancée (Rossy de Palma) are interested in renting the apartment from Pepa and discover her relation to Ivan. Adding Pepa’s friend Candela (Maria Barranco), who just found out her boyfriend is a Shiite terrorist, a pair of cops, a homicidal Lucia and a blender full off barbiturate-spiked gazpacho, a nervous breakdown seems inevitable for poor Pepa.

“Mujeres al borde…” is the most standard comedy by Almodóvar, and it is an absolute pleasure. This was the fi rst of his fi lms to gain a semi-wide audience in the U.S., particularly with its appeal as an intelligent “chick fl ick.” Along with “Todo sobre mi madre,” this is the most accessible fi lm in the retrospective for someone that is unfamiliar with his style.

A pregnant nun, a grieving mother, an aging actress and the transvestite that connects them all make up the colorful cast of characters that populate Almodóvar’s “All About My Mother.” The fi lm was the director’s breakthrough in the United States and garnered him an Academy Award for best foreign fi lm.

Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is a single mother working as a nurse to support her son Esteban (Eloy Azorín) who dreams of becoming a writer.

On the night of her son’s birthday, Manuela takes him to see his favorite actress, Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), but he is killed in a tragic car accident while waiting to get the star’s autograph. Thus begins Manuela’s search for Esteban’s father that leads her to Barcelona. There, she discovers that her ex-husband, also named Esteban, has become a transvestite, and meets Sister Rosa (Penelope Cruz) who is carrying his unborn child. The two women form a friendship that culminates in a very unlikely family.

The fi lm is shot in vibrant colors, leaving the screen saturated in blood reds, turquoise blues and neon yellows. This technique employed by Almodóvar perfectly captures the vibrancy of Barcelona as well as provide the chaotic backdrop to the events unfolding on screen. Ultimately, “All About My Mother” is about family: the secrets, the pain and the past that bonds them together.

“La mala educación” (“Bad Education”) (2004) ★★★✩✩ When life begins to imitate fiction, which one is more believable?

“Bad Education” begins with a script delivered to the famous director, Enrique Goded (Fele Martínez).

Titled “The Visit,” the script details events known only to one other person: Enrique’s childhood friend, Ignacio (Nacho Pérez). Their experiences in a 1960s Catholic school for boys include a forbidden love affair and torment under Father Manolo (Daniel Giménez Cacho), the school principal.

Now in present-day Spain, Enrique must unravel the mystery of the man who claims to be Ignacio and whose changing guises include Zahara, a transvestite showgirl, and Juan, a struggling actor. When the fi nal layer is peeled away from this carefully styled fi lm noir, what is revealed is both startling and tragic, leaving the audience with more unanswered questions. With sudden shifts in time and location, the audience is continually questioning what is real and what is being acted out. For example, what the audience takes for a memory is actually a stage in which actors are playing out a crucial scene from “The Visit.”

With autobiographical elements woven into his most complex fi lm, “Bad Education” is also Almodóvar’s homage to growing up in Francoera Spain where sexuality—much less homosexuality—was a subject neither talked about nor displayed openly. The repercussions are at the heart of the movie, with each character paying the price for previous actions and crimes, never able to fully atone for the bad educations of the past. * Quotations taken from: Strauss, Frédéric, ed. (Yves Baignères, tr.)

Almodóvar on Almodóvar. Faber and Faber. Boston. 1996.

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

STUDENT LIFE | CLASSIFIEDS

CLASSIFIEDS FREE Classifieds

Classified ads are free to students, faculty and staff in most instances.

To place your FREE 25-word ad, simply email us from your WU email account.

Classifications Help Wanted For Rent Roommates Sublet Real Estate For Sale Automotive

Wanted Services Tickets Travel Spring Break Lost & Found Personals

Line Ad Rates

Placing Your Ad

Deadlines

Rates listed below are for businesses or individuals not affiliated with WU.

http://www.studlife.com

In order to be published, all ads must be placed and paid for by:

1-5 issues: 50¢ per word, per issue 6-9 issues: 40¢ per word, per issue 10+ issues: 30¢ per word, per issue

For the fastest and easiest service, place and pay for your ad online!

Click on the “Classifieds” link on our website to get started!

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Don’t forget to include a contact number so we can confirm pricing & payment!

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Terms & Conditions

Phone: 314.935.6713

!BARTENDING! UP TO $300/day.

No experience necessary. Training provided. Call 800-965-6520 ext. 176.

CLAYTON, U. CITY LOOP, CWE and Dogtown. Beautiful studios, 1, 2 bedrooms. Quiet buildings. $365$750. Call 725-5757.

BE YOUR OWN boss. Make an extra $500/month part-time.

Visit www.earnincomenow.com/ stephena or call Steve at 800310-6217.

CLEAN, QUIET, SPACIOUS 1 bedroom apartment. Near University City Loop, Washington University, Clayton. Central Air, hardwood floors, dishwasher, washer/dryer, Garage avail., smoke free, no pets. $585/month. Please call 369-1016.

CHILD CARE NEEDED: We need help with supervision and transportation of 2 teenaged girls. Hours are negotiable, but between 3 and 6 PM on weekdays. We live close to WashU. $10 per hour. Call 863-3013.

EARN $10+/HR - CHILDCARE. Babysitters needed for local families: www.SitterCafe.com.

EGG DONOR NEEDED: Generous Compensation! Married couple in need of egg donor. Seeking very healthy, intelligent, attractive, and compassionate woman. Must be non-smoker, 21 to 30 years old and at least 5’5” in height. VERY GENEROUS compensation will be offered/all compensation requests will be seriously considered. To apply, contact Tiny Treasures, LLC at info @tinytreasuresagency.com or 781-279-1325 and refer to ad #LW761.

SEEKING BABYSITTER FOR oneyear-old boy. Approximately one evening a week. Flexible hours.

935-4782.

422 S. HANLEY. 2 BR. 1 BA. Garage. 1200 sq. ft. $850/mo.

353-4192.

444 S. HANLEY. 2 BR. 1 BA. W/D. Garage. 1800 sq.ft. $1050/mo.

353-4192

2 pm Thurs.

2 pm Mon. 2 pm Tues.

Payment All classified ads must be prepaid prior to first insertion by credit card, cash or personal check.

Checks should be made payable to

Prefer to speak with someone? Call us to place your ad by credit card!

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

There is a 15-word minimum charge on all classified ads.

The first three words (max. one line) are bold and capitalized.

All ads will appear on studlife.com at no additional charge.

Please check your ad carefully on the first day of publication and notify Student Life of any errors. We will only be responsible for the first day’s incorrect insertion.

Mon. edition: Wed. edition: Fri. edition:

Email: classifieds@studlife.com

WU Student Media, Inc.

Fax: 314.935.5938 Don’t forget to include a contact number so we can confirm pricing & payment!

REAL ESTATE

CHILD CARE NEEDED: Night student seeking caregiver for fall semster for 4 year old and 9 year old.

Monday and/or Wednesday from 6: 15-9:15 PM. $10 per hour. Please call 314-607-5627.

11

TOTALLY UPDATED 2 BED, 2 full bath house in Maplewood for sale at $189,900. Minutes to Maplewood downtown, WashU, Loop.

Owned by WashU alum. Perfect for young couple!

See http: //maris.rapmls.com/scripts/mgrgi spi.dll?APPNAME=Gstl&PRGNAM E=MLSLogin&ARGUMENT=TrDO5 mXdg4REllivewPdmw%3D%3D for listing. Call 314-458-6494

M[Z#IWj ''0)&Wc#'0)&Wc

>Wffo >ekh if[Y_Wbi Jk[i *fc#Ybei[ ( If[Y_Wbi m[Z#iWj (#,fc ( if[Y_Wbi

-)), CWdY^[ij[h heWZ CWfb[meeZ" Ce ,)'*) )'*#,*-#:;7: ))()

Sudoku

By Michael Mepham Level: 1

2

3

4

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

Solution to Monday’s puzzle

1 BEDROOM IN 3 BEDROOM Horseshoe apartment on Waterman for spring semester. Great location, close to Kayak’s and campus. Furnished common room and kitchen. $300/month plus utilities. Please contact Lisa at lisapelcovits@wustl.edu if interested!

517 KINGSLAND AVE. LARGE 1 bedroom in 2 bedrrom apartment.

Fully furnished. $450/month - negotiable. 5 minute walk from WashU, 2 minutes from loop. Available January - May. Call Alex at 254-681-8679.

REAL ESTATE 2 BEDROOM/1 BATHROOM BRENTWOOD Forest Condo. Clean, quiet and conenient location. Central Air, W/D, Woodburning fireplacce, 2-balconies.

Swimming pools, clubhouse, and tennis courts. $875/month. Please call 314229-6952.

2-FAMILY HOME FOR SALE at 7033 Amherst Avenue, University City.

Updated 2-bedroom home with wood floors, fireplace, open kitchen, deck, family room, garage, fenced yard. Central air conditioning, high efficiency furnaces, newer roof, wiring and plumbing. 2 bedroom rental apartment upstairs! A few blocks from the Loop. $270,000.

Email kary1@swbell.net for photos or call Kary at (314) 750-KARY for a private showing!

CHEAP TEXTBOOKS! SEARCH 24 bookstores with 1 click!

Save!

Why pay more? http: //www.bookhq.com.

RFRIGERATOR, PRINTER AND microwave for sale. Good condition. Prices negotiable. Email malabadi@wustl.edu if interested.

AUTOS 2002 BRONZE BUICK LESABRE custom sedan, loaded. 20K miles.

Excellent Condition. $11,500.

Please call 863-6249 if interested or for more information.

SERVICES

Sudoku on Mobile. Enter 783658.com in your mobile web browser. Get a free game!

Some carrier charges may apply.

9/13/06

© 2006 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.

Call To Activate

5 Days Guest Access For You & A Friend

www.WellbridgeAC.com

314.746.1500

7620 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton

*Restrictions may apply. Must be local resident, age 18 and over with valid photo ID. One pass per person. First time guest only. Pass expires September 26, 2006. ©2006 Wellbridge

HAVE EXTRA STUFF? Campus Easy Sales will sell it on eBay and send you a check. Call 314.935.2536 or visit ust at http://campuseasysale s.brinkster.net.

SPRING BREAK CALL STS FOR the best deals to this year’s top 10 Spring Break destinations! 1-800-648-4849. www.ststravel.com. Ask about group discounts!

ANNOUNCING KAPLAN USMLE LECTURE notes. Steps 1 & 2. 2005/ 2006. For more info contact kassyd2006@hotmail.com.

rent. buy. sell. free.

WU students, faculty & staff may place free classified ads in most categories.

Just email your ad (from your WU account) to classifieds@studlife.com

classifieds

314.935.6713 • classifieds@studlife.com

12 STUDENT LIFE | ADVERTISEMENT

WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2006