WEDNESDAY SEPT. 10,2003 Vol. 125, No. 7
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STUDENT LIFE T H E I N D E P E N D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F WA S H I N G T O N U N I V E R S I T Y I N S T. L O U I S S I N C E 1 8 7 8
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PAGE 12 KIM RAESS 20 QUESTIONS Jeff Novack puts senior soccer Captain Kim Raess to the test with 20 Questions to find out why she views herself as the team’s Maria Von Trapp, minus the lederhosen
PAGE 11 URSA’S NIGHTLIFE
More than 120 people crowded into Ursa’s Café last Friday for the debut of Ursa’s Nite Life. The new program, meant to provide students with alcohol-free entertainment, will be ongoing each Friday at 8:30 p.m. Last week’s event featured Mosaic Whispers, Mama’s Pot Roast, and others. For more on this new event and the renovated café-lounge area in Ursa’s, read on.
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“Woo hah! Got You All in Check!” was just one top ten hit that made this fall’s Walk in Lay Down performer, Busta Rhymes famous. The performer’s appearance at the Oct. 3 WILD was announced this Monday. “We’re really excited about this and we put a lot of thought into it,” said Matt Scheck, co-chair of Team 31. “We like to mix it up between different styles of music. Last spring was rock, and now we’re doing hip hop. We have to go along with what we can get, but we think we got a great performer this time around.” Freshman Megan Osdoby said that she appreciates the mixture of various kinds of music. “I think that’s cool that he’s coming, because he’s a rapper and I like rap,” she said. Busta Rhymes started rapping at the age of 12 in rap competitions, where he met Charlie Brown. This pair won a contest sponsored by Chuck D and the Public Enemy Crew. Since then, Busta Rhymes has also rapped with artists such as Mary J. Blige, Boyz II Men, A Tribe Called Quest and TLC, and made appearances in three
movies, including the remake of “Shaft.” He currently has four albums out, the latest of which, “Anarchy,” was released in the summer of 2000. “We’re really happy with our choice,” said Scheck. For the most part, students said they were excited about this choice as well.
Talk discusses academic freedom By Dan Marx q Contributing Reporter Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, kicks off this year’s Assembly Series today. His lecture, entitled “The Foundations of the Principles of Academic Freedom,” will serve as the School of Law’s Sesquicentennial Lecture. It is one of 14 speeches to be given in the Assembly Series throughout the year. Bollinger is known throughout the legal community as a staunch defender of academic freedom and affi rmative action, and has written numerous articles, essays and books regarding these and other First Amendment issues Although he has also served as provost at Dartmouth College, Bollinger garnered recent national attention during his presidency at the University of Michigan from 1996 until 2002. Bollinger helped to create the university’s affi rmative action program when he was dean of the University of Michigan Law School in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Bollinger was a supporter of afWUSTL.EDU fi rmative action Lee Bollinger.
in Michigan’s admissions policies. He also served as respondent to two affi rmative action cases that reached the Supreme Court. Each school at the University was encouraged to invite a speaker of their choice to honor the Sesquicentennial. Susan Appleton, a member of the Assembly Series selection committee and the Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law, was principle in bringing Bollinger to speak. According to Appleton, due to recent events, Bollinger’s speech is particularly applicable. “Affi rmative action is the number one issue in education today,” said Appleton. “We thought [that] given his role in two Supreme Court decisions he would be a good choice.” Sophomore Joshua Spry has attended the Assembly Series in the past. He values the opportunity to hear lectures from the various speakers. “It’s an additional facet to education here on campus,” said Spry. While many may be familiar with the affi rmative action controversy, some may be in the dark regarding the more general concept of “academic freedom.” Michael Friedlander, a professor in the School of Law, discussed the concept of “academic freedom” in a recent article. “Academic freedom has many dimensions: freedom to select its students, freedom to select its own faculty and to evaluate them; freedom to explore unpopular ideas,” said Friedlander To Bollinger, the affi rmative action cases fell under the scope of academic freedom because they involved a university’s right to select its own students. Friedlander said that the University has a particularly strong history of supporting academic freedom. He currently leads the University’s
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Campus prepares to observe 9/11 Several events commemorate tragedy By Liz Neukrich q Contributing Reporter Members of the Washington University community are planning several events for tomorrow’s remembrance of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. As a result of a student’s suggestion, the bells at Graham Chapel will toll tomorrow morning at 8:59 and 9:29, the respective times that the World Trade Center was hit, in order to commemorate those who lost their lives. In the chapel of the Catholic Student Center, a 24-hour prayer will be held for the first time. “There will be quiet time for prayer and adoration from midnight to midnight,” said Father
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Team 31 announced on Monday that Busta Rhymes will fall WILD on October 3.
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Gary Braun, director of the Catholic Student Center. “It’s an old tradition in the church to come together as a community and pray–in this case for peace and healing.” Students from different religious faiths on campus have pledged times to devote to prayer tomorrow throughout the entire day and night. The intervals will be approximately 30 to 60 minutes. However, all students, faculty and staff within the University community are welcome to stop by as well, said Braun. Also open is this week’s September 11th Memorial Blood Drive, sponsored by Delta Gamma, Sigma Chi, Circle K and Human Resources. The drive is being held in collaboration with the Community Blood Center of St. Louis. Though it began on Monday, the blood drive will continue through tomorrow in Friedman Lounge from 5-10 p.m. A gathering in Graham Chapel scheduled for tomorrow night at 7:00 will bring together students, faculty and other community members for a night of reflection and remembrance. “It’s been moved inside but I think it’s the same idea—to reflect on the events of 9/11 [and] where we are at as individuals as well as a University community,” said Jill Carnaghi, assistant vice chancellor for students. “It’s about the coming together of very diverse groups.” Speakers for the evening include Dean Jim McCloud, Student Union President Michelle Miller and Professor Lester Spence. The University choir, led by John Stewart, director of vocal activities, will perform “In Peace and Joy I Now Depart,” an arrangement by David Fetler with text by Martin Luther. “It’s a piece we frequently end our concerts with [and] we feel it is an appropriate song for this memorial,” said Stewart. PHOTO Following the choir’s performance, Rabbi
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“Busta Rhymes is the best performer to come to campus since I’ve been at Washington University, so I’m really excited about this year’s Fall WILD,” said sophomore Tony Cummins. Other students compared Busta Rhymes positively to past acts. “I saw him in concert a couple of years ago and he was awesome,” said junior Katie Fogertey. “And it’s good too, because he’s not a womanizer. I’m really surprised that we got Busta Rhymes because we got Better Than Ezra last time.” Junior Becky Bernard agreed that she was pleased by this year’s selection. “A friend of mine saw him in concert last year and said he was awesome, so I’m looking forward to it,” she said. Other students were more indifferent. “It’s not really my thing, I usually go away for that weekend, anyway,” said junior Whitney Clark. Sophomore Brian Turner said, “Realistically, I’m going to be hammered regardless.” The opening act for Busta Rhymes has yet to be released.
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New med school dean begins tenure By Adrienna Huffman q Contributing Reporter In his second month as dean of the Washington University School of Medicine and Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, Dr. Larry Shapiro will begin working on the fi rst of three goals he has set out to accomplish during his tenure. His fi rst priority, educational innovation, is centered on the construction of a six-story learning and teaching center. Shapiro hopes that this will be a hub of student activity as well as a nucleus of knowledge and education. The medical school will break ground on the new learning center in late October. “The new building will provide us the opportunity to allow students to meet in small groups,” said Shapiro. “[It will feature] an open atrium and hearth area in the FILE PHOTO hopes of facilitating Dean Larry Shapiro. a gathering place in the center of the medical campus where students can hang out and get to know one another.” The new learning and teaching center will also house smaller classrooms better suited for small group learning. Many of the already existing classrooms on the medical campus are large lecture halls that may not accommodate all students’ learning styles. “When I was a medical student, both the fi rst and second year of the curriculum was loaded with large lecture hall classes, and that works for some people, but other people only learn in environments where they are active learners,” said Shapiro. “We have to provide an array of learning opportunities.” Shapiro’s second priority for the medical school is developing new research initiatives and agendas. “One of the great strengths of our university and our School of Medicine is its enormous prominence in research,” said Shapiro. “But what are some of the next great opportunities in research and how can we build on the strength that we already have?” Shapiro believes that the answer lies in interdisciplinary activities. The University has the largest M.D./PhD training program in the country, so it is uniquely positioned for its students and faculty to work at the interface of medicine and science. An example of this, Shapiro said, is the genome sequencing center on the medical campus, one of three such facilities in the world. It has made major contributions to the unraveling of the biochemical composition of the human genome. According to Shapiro, the challenge now is taking these scientific discoveries and applying them to practical problems in medicine. These research opportunities afforded to the University community by the medical school are available to all students. Sophomore Devon Morrissey works in the molecular microbiology lab in the center for infectious diseases. “It’s unbelievable, the research that goes on here and that undergraduate students are able to participate in it, regardless of their major,” said Morrissey. Finally, Shapiro’s third goal is in the area of service to the community. “We are Washington University in St. Louis, which emphasizes the intimate connection between our university and the community in which we live,” said Shapiro. “We have an obligation to this community to make it a better place.”
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