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Ervin and Rodriguez: one year later

By Elizabeth Lewis Staff Reporter The conclusion of the upcoming spring semester will mark the end of the first year that the John Ervin and Annika Rodriguez scholarships became open to students of all races. Originally, the programs were only open to students of African-American and Hispanic descent.

James McLeod, the dean of Arts and Sciences, is the director of the Ervin scholarship program and has worked extensively with the Rodriguez scholarship program as well. “[Opening the programs to

everyone] has gone extremely well. We have a terrific class of wonderful young people working well together, and it has been a joy to get to know them,” said McLeod.

The change came after a private group, the Center for Equal Opportunity, put pressure on Washington University in St. Louis to open the scholarship programs to all students, regardless of their ethnic background. The group filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Education against the University, as well as against more than 100 additional schools nationwide, asking the U.S. Office of Education to institute an in-

vestigation at schools with minority scholarship programs.

“At that point, the University decided that it could continue its objective with programs open to all groups,” said McLeod.

When the idea of opening the programs to all races was introduced, it was met with hesitation.

“There were a lot of discussions and questions. [Students] were trying to understand the need for the change, how it came about, and to understand the impact on the priority of the programs,” said McLeod. “We took time with the discussions, and they were valuable.”

These discussions helped to

facilitate an easier transition for this year’s freshman class, the first scholars to experience the impact of integrated programs.

Kavya Naini, an Indian Rodriguez scholar, felt that there were no racial divides or resentment from previous scholars who might have regretted the change.

“I always felt really welcome, and since the beginning, I have felt like part of a family. They were accepting of anything I had to contribute about my own culture,” said Naini.

Tiina Luning, a caucasian Ervin scholar, also feels as if she has joined a supportive group of people.

Gender-bending roadshow, ‘Tranny,’ visits Wash. U.

By Shweta Murthi Contributing News Editor The second annual Tranny Roadshow, a multimedia showcase of art, poetry and song by “transpeople,” came to Ursa’s Café on Wednesday night to a crowd of over 100 students.

The event, hosted by Pride Alliance, aimed to encourage students’ discussion of gender boundaries and demonstrate the talents of the transgender community.

The Tranny Roadshow, almost entirely self-funded, is touring at several universities and theatres. All the performers self-identify as transgender—an umbrella term for transgender and transsexual people. Dylan Scholinski, author of “The Last Time I Wore A Dress,” addressed a common misconception about the transgender community.

“One of the biggest misconceptions about transgender people is that you need to be one [gender] or the other—that you have to pick sides,” said Scholinksi.

Scholinski is committed to challenging people to think and to entertaining his audience.

“I’ve been speaking about issues around trans/ queer identity for over ten years. I feel it necessary to expose people to how talented we can be,” said Scholinski. “Transgender people are considered the freaks of the queer movement.”

Guitarist Adhamh Roland said, “I try to be really intentional with my music.

I feel like the Tranny Roadshow is an educating and empowering tool. I like the format with storytelling and multimedia.”

“The entire community has been awesome and has entirely embraced the integration of the program. Some of my best friends are in the Ervin program, and there has never been any effort to leave anyone out,” said Luning.

Though there are many upbeat sentiments surrounding the openness of the programs, there are still some people who have not embraced the changes.

Olivia Petitt, an AfricanAmerican Ervin senior, expressed her thoughts concerning the integration of the Ervin program.

“I was thinking that [this]

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Student-run website offers place to buy, sell and trade

By Helen Rhee

Roland, a St. Louis native, noted that although the transgender community is smaller in St. Louis than in other cities, it still maintains a strong sense of identity.

As one of the first performance-based events held

by Pride, Co-President Tom Giarla said, “[The turnout] exceeded my expectations. It was nice to see a lot of people from Wash. U. as well as the outside community. It was a diverse, eclectic group.”

Several members of the audience came from the greater St. Louis area to experience the Tranny Roadshow and cheer on the performers.

Shannon Knox, a resident of South City, said about the show, “There was more spoken-word than I had expected, but I think that gender is a complicated issue and people really do create these dichotomies.”

Students agreed, as issues about campus inclusiveness came up during the show.

Some performers cited the lack of gender neutral bathrooms as a problem that needed to be addressed.

“I think that [the University] is trying to be more inclusive with the e-mail they sent out about the task force.

I think the plan for a community center is a good idea.

I think they’ve finally gotten on the bandwagon,” said sophomore Yetunde Ogunfidodo.

The Tranny Roadshow will continue touring the East Coast until the end of this month. Wednesday’s event was co-sponsored by the Congress of the South 40, the Social Justice Center, and the Performing Arts Department.

year, we would have more Latino students and more Asian American students, but it was just white people and black people. I have white friends, but it is clear that the school system for higher education is privileged for them. I will support the Ervin program because it was good for me, but so far as the integration aspect, I do not agree,” said Petitt.

Freshman Steven James, an African-American Ervin scholar, shares Petitt’s sentiments.

“Since it happened, it seems that everyone has nothing but good things to say, and it all

Staff Reporter

Like many of his fellow students, senior Niarcas Jeffrey knows the frustration that often comes with seeing the price tags on course books at the University’s bookstore.

After being told that one of his course books could only be sold in bulk with other pricy books, Jeffrey began to wish for an easier and less expensive way to get required course materials—and then created it himself.

“At that time, I wished I knew somebody who had just that book,” said Jeffrey. “That led me to think of the site.”

Jeffrey went on to create an online community, www.Srade. com (which stands for “student trade”), where students can sell anything from posters to C++ programming textbooks.

The student-run Web site allows students from Washington University, Fontbonne University, St. Louis University and University of Missouri-St. Louis to post and trade items

with fellow students within their respective Universities.

Users log in using their school e-mail addresses. Once registered, they can post or buy items such as textbooks, used computers and furnishings.

“The Web site was created at fi rst to help students save money by allowing students to share and trade items that they have,” said Jeffrey. “It actually is a lot like eBay and Craig’s List in a sense that it’s only for university students and every section of the site has its own portion catered to that university.”

Registration is free for university students. They can create a user profi le, which may include courses they have taken in the past. The Web site then links the students who are selling used textbooks with students looking to purchase those books. The concept is similar to Facebook.com, which links students enrolled in a particular course.

In addition to trading items, users can search for places to

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Roosevelt Institute raises social justice awareness on campus

By Shweta Murthi Contributing Editor

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A member of the Tranny Roadshow talks to the audience at Ursa’s about his life’s trials and tribulations.

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A bass player performs as part of the Tranny Roadshow in Ursa’s Cafe on Wednesday night.

Students on campus are tackling the age-old problem of slavery in a new way with fi lm screenings, conferences and policy papers thanks to the Roosevelt Institute. S t u dents gathered last Wednesday to watch and discuss a documentary titled “Dreams Die Hard” about slavery in the United States. As part of the International Film Festival, the fi lm educated students on the reality of human trafficking even in developed countries.

“I’m really happy with the turnout. I think a lot of people–-students included—think slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln,” said sophomore Landen Romei, a member of the Roosevelt Institute.

Kelsey Buchanan, a graduate student in the Brown School of Social Work, said, “We’re going to be training graduate students to go to the different professional schools and talk about human trafficking. A lot of our projects are applicable to domestic violence and economic development.”

The Roosevelt Institute is a national progressive “think

tank” for students. Members generate policy papers that are published and distributed to members of Congress.

The Roosevelt Institute was founded in 2004 at Stanford and Yale Universities and has since grown to include 24 universities. It recently expanded to include Washington University in St. Louis, and has begun hosting public events in order to educate and raise awareness on campus on a range of issues from human trafficking to health policy.

The Roosevelt Institute at Washington University includes five independent centers: the Center for the Economy, the Center for the Environment, the Center for Health Policy, the Center for Gender and Sexuality and the Center for International Diplomacy.

Ten students from the University, including members of both the Roosevelt Institute and the Social Justice Center, attended a national conference on human trafficking and slavery at Northwestern University this past weekend.

Sophomore Rena Stern, a member of the Roosevelt Institute, said, “We attended sessions with experts in all different forms of trafficking

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Gayla 2006: Cirque du So-Gay!

Compiled by Natalie Wolfson

Wash. U.’s Pride Alliance presents its annual Gayla tonight. The event includes dancing and an open bar and food. It should be a gay ole time! Open to everyone.

FRIDAY, APRIL 14 Happy Earth Day!

E-mail pridewu@gmail.com for more information.

Get outside today and hug a tree…or at least do something environmentally friendly like recycle or join Greenpeace.

Tickets are $8 9 p.m.–midnight in McMillan Café and Courtyard

AST presents “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead”

“Dames” at Webster

Tickets are $5 Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m. in Brookings Quadrangle “Shanghai Express” at S.L.A.M. Trek up the hill for the Saint Louis Art Museum’s Film Series, tonight featuring Josef von Sternberg’s “Shanghai Express” (1932). Starring Marlene Dietrich, the fi lm takes place on a train between Peking and Shanghai, where the notorious Shanghai Lily draws the attention of her fellow passengers, including a prostitute (Anna May Wong), an ex-lover (Clive Brook), and a rebel leader (Warner Oland).

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Chocolate Seder 7-8 p.m. at Hillel: Celebrate Passover the best kind of way…with chocolate (you can allow yourself the indulgence since you’ve pretty much been on the Atkin’s diet all week, anyway)!

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SRADE v FROM PAGE 1 was opened August 2004. The current version was launched August 2005. Jeffrey expressed plans to expand the site to include other schools and additional features, which would allow students to exchange information.

“In the future, I want it to be a site where they can trade information as well as items,” said Jeffrey. “I want to implement ways for students to leave comments about professors so that older students can tell younger students about good teachers and teachers who need to improve at the University.”

He added that the site is designed “for students and will be always be free for students.”

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Happy Easter and Passover!

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it is important to have that voice in the Wash. U. community,” she said.

Despite some feelings of hesitation, the members of both groups try to maintain a supportive atmosphere for all races.

Cory Bradford-Watts, a mixed (black and white) freshman who has been accepted to both programs, has enjoyed his dual membership and the feelings of support that he has garnered.

“I have felt very at home in both, and they are like my home away from home. They are one of the reasons why I came to Wash. U.”

For more information check out the Webster Film Series Web site at www.webster.edu/ filmseries.html.

It’s also an excellent opportunity to view the special exhibit Impressionist Camera, which is free on Fridays, when the museum is also open late.

Tickets are $5 7 p.m. in the Auditorium

seems very put on. I think it’s ridiculous that they do it in the name of equality. I don’t think we are at the point where we can have it completely equal,” said James.

Denise Umpierrez, a Hispanic junior who is a Rodriguez scholar, supports those of other races who have become Rodriguez scholars, but she does not want to see the Hispanic acceptance rate diminish.

“We have had some really good freshmen, and they blended in well. However, I felt that this year, there were a lot fewer Hispanics than in the past, and I think this is a bad thing because

In “Dames,” a multi-millionaire (Hugh Herbert) starts up an organization to stamp out the fi lth in the entertainment industry— like Broadway musicals. He gets his cousin (Guy Kibee) and wife (Zasu Pitts) to help.

But their daughter (Ruby Keeler) wants to be a dancer and is in love with a man (Dick Powell) who wants to put on a show. What’s a girl to do? Why, dance, of course!

7 p.m. in Moore Auditorium at Webster University Tickets are $5 for students, $6 general admission Moore Auditorium 470 East Lockwood Webster Groves, MO 63119

And since you’ve already made the journey to the museum, check out Currents 97: Cameron Martin in the contemporary art exhibition space, as well as the Monet and Paul Klee exhibitions which recently went on view.

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go in the St. Louis area, including restaurants and clubs. Jeffrey noted that users can add and change information about each place similar to wikipedia. org, which allows users to add or edit information online.

“I wanted to make it easier for students to fi nd out what is out here,” said Jeffrey. “I know in Wash. U. especially, only 20 percent of the students are from St. Louis. Everyone else is from out of town. As a freshman or even a sophomore you don’t know where to go. I am a senior and I still don’t know the city as well as I’d like to.”

The site is currently only open to universities in the St. Louis region.

The fi rst version of the site

Get gussied up and head over to The Webster University Films Series “The Twirling World of Busby Berkeley,” to catch its presentation of the Busby Berkeley and Ray Enright fi lm “Dames” (1934). The series is also showing “42nd Street” on Friday.

This weekend in Brookings Quad, All Student Theatre presents Tom Stoppard’s comedy “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead.” The play follows two minor characters through their confused wandering behind the scenes of Hamlet.

FRIDAY | APRIL 14, 2006

Easter Mass in Graham Chapel at 9:30 a.m. and again at 11:30 a.m.

in East Asia and Eastern Europe. One guest speaker was John Miller, the Senior Advisor to Condoleezza Rice and an expert on U.S. trafficking.”

Stern looks forward to several future collaborative projects including working with Amnesty International and the Jewish Progressive Action Committee (JPAC).

“We’re doing a campaign with JPAC on their antislavery initiative. Especially since Passover is a religious holiday about freedom from slavery, it is an important time to reach out to the Jewish community.”

Stern added that the Roosevelt Institute was also considering requesting that the

University provide more social justice classes.

“We want to add more classes to the curriculum like ‘Slavery and Trafficking,’ as it would be able to combine economics and international studies and women’s studies and a lot of other disciplines,” said Stern. “It could start out as a student-run seminar and we could add guest speakers.”

In the meantime, the Roosevelt Institute is recruiting members to continue to raise awareness within the University and St. Louis communities.

“While we do a lot of policy, it is also important to do things that affect community as well,” said Stern.

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SCENE Hidden Treasure: Missouri’s Wine Country Scene Reporter As spring begins to show its face, it’s time for college students buried in books at the library to emerge from hibernation. Missouri has more to offer than you may think. Who knew, for instance, that Missouri has its own wine country?

I’ve noticed that Missouri’s “wine country” has been gaining attention recently in an effort to encourage tourism throughout the state. I decided to check it out for myself and find out what all the fuss is about. I was shocked to learn that tucked throughout the state’s rolling hills are over 50 wineries - a few even date back to pre-prohibition days when Missouri first gained worldwide attention for its wine production.

Whether you’re seeking a getaway from the stresses of campus, a memorable date or a higher knowledge about America’s viniculture, the Missouri wine country is a promising adventure.

In 2003, the Norton/Cynthiana was named the official state grape, and the region’s wineries are working hard to realize their vineyard’s full potential.

The best way to begin the journey is to take the 64/40 West until it meets highway 94, right before Wentzville. Highway 94 follows along the Missouri river for about 100 miles. Known as the Katy Trail, this highway is an authentic one way country road that twists through cliffs and hills, small towns, farms, blossoming trees and, of course, many wineries.

Just 10 miles down the road is Sugar Creek Winery and Vineyards, and you don’t want to miss it. The winery is set on a hill overlooking

the river in a turn-of-the-century home. Cheeses, sausages and other wine accompaniments are available and there is live music every weekend to set the mood.

Next, your adventure will lead you into the to the small town of Augusta, the first area in America to be granted an AVA in 1980, a title that highlights wine growing locations which possess rich soils and climate conditions complimentary to wine making. This title ensures that wine from this region is of the highest quality.

Next stop is the Montelle Winery (1.5 miles east of Augusta), where you can sit on their patio and enjoy the views 400 ft. above the river. Montelle offers live music on weekends from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and boasts a delicious menu at their Klondike Café.

As you enter Augusta keep an eye out for the Augusta Winery and Mount Pleasant Winery. The Augusta Winery not only offers a wine terrace, locally produced cheeses and a tasting room but also has a gift shop to bring home some of Missouri’s own and offers custom-labeled wine for special occasions. Mount Pleasant Winery is one of the biggest wineries in Missouri, with 80 acres of vineyards.

Here you can tour their limestone cellars dating back to 1881 and picnic on the terrace.

Interested in delving deeper into what Augusta has to offer? Stop by Centennial Farms where there is always fresh fruit and vegetables to pick right off the vine. Soon after you leave Augusta behind and head towards Marthasville you will hit the Louis P. Balducci Vineyards.

Stroll through the restored farmhouse, barns and tasting room on the premises and then enjoy a dozen European-style wines and selections from the family’s res-

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Wineries just an hour or less from campus offer a great opportunity to try some of the best wine Missouri has to offer. taurant in St. Louis.

The perfect place to spend the late afternoon hours is at the Blumenhof Vineyards in Dutzow.

This vineyard is proud to share its German heritage while offering beautiful picnic grounds and a large tasting menu. Bring along a blanket and a picnic to wind down before the hour’s drive back to St.

Louis.

Haven’t quenched your thirst for wine? If this trip only whets your appetite, there are also great wineries in St. Genevieve, the last original French settlement in the U.S. just south of St. Louis on the Mississippi river, in Southern Illinois and along the Hermann Wine Trail, a region of German settle-

ments, just off the I-44 at Highway 100 (the Washington Exit).

And to leave you with a few words of advice for while you’re out tasting this weekend—remember your 5 “S’s”: see, swirl, smell, sip and swallow.

FRISBEE n FROM PAGE 8 school made a post to a wellknown Ultimate message board saying, “The fi rst team to shut down George HughesStrange shuts down Wash.

U.” From that grew the ‘IsoGeorge’ defense.

Despite this, however, it was none other than HughesStrange that came down with the disc in the endzone for the Sectionals-clinching touchdown. Trailing 8-4 at one point, the team held on and persevered to catch back up and tie it at 11 apiece. Senior co-captain Ian Orland sent a downfield huck into the endzone where HughesStrange, and his 6-foot 6-inch build leaped over an Arkansas defender to pull it in.

With the Sectionals Championship in their pocket, the team will head to Regionals in Tulsa, Okl., on April 29 and 30 as one of the top three seeds for a chance to earn their place in the 16-team National Championships.

For now, the team is focusing on Nationals and preparing for fierce competition.

“We just need to keep on doing what we do,” said Parker. “Our big weakness is that we’re not as naturally athletic as all these other guys at big schools, so we have to overcome that with smart playing and playing with heart. That’s really what we do best—give it our all and never give up. We bust ourselves for the team

and really put a lot into it.

We’ve been the comeback kids all season long and we don’t plan on stopping.”

Regardless of what happens at Regionals and Nationals, the team’s future is looking bright.

“We’re losing George [Hughes-Strange] and Ian [Orland], who are two big leaders to the team. George has been captain for two years now, and it will be hard to get by without them, but we have a bunch of returning players and we’ll have a whole bunch of new guys ready to step up.

We’re getting more and more freshman recruits every year so the future’s looking pretty damn good.”

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STAFF EDITORIAL

We want....a shrubbery I

t’s true that to some extent people judge books by their covers and universities by their aesthetic appeal. Clearly the student body is not entirely apathetic regarding the campus’s appearance, as two Wash. U. facebook groups advocating campus fountains have amassed over 500 members.

Though Wash. U. has still failed to procure a fountain, it has by no means neglected campus beautification. Rather, the administration’s obsession with Wash. U.’s physical appearance transcends normal

landscaping expectations and borders on absurdity.

While maintaining a nice landscape is important to the school’s “feel,” no student or prospective student will really change his or her opinion of the University based on its extra tulips or weekly changes of daffodils. Just like no prospective student has changed her college criteria to good reputation, excellent education, and best landscaping, no current student experiences enough joy and elation at the sight of this week’s new shrubbery to justify spending a large

amount of money.

The University has refused to disclose the exact amount of money spent on landscaping –-a change from the administration’s usually informative nature that proves suspicious.

Even without specific budget information, this month’s almost constant presence of new shrubbery leads us to believe the school must be spending a significant amount of money on its landscape (and this while the fi nancial aid office remains full).

Not only is the quantity of campus vegetation excessive,

Four years spent building a life

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aving taken great pains to keep details of my personal life out of what I write, these words are difficult for me to express to such a large audience. However, because I know what I have gone through at this school is not a unique story, I want to share it with everyone that is in the process of writing their own.

Coming out of high Joshua Trein school I was extremely depressed, due mostly to the stingy love of a single-parent family and suffering under a bowl-style hair cut for so many years. My fantasy of leaving that part of myself behind when I left for college was quickly dashed— the change of scenery provided no mitigation for how achingly hollow I felt. I had no sense of wonder towards college because I was too busy

but the timing of the planting seems odd as well. Why is it that new flowers are appearing on campus now though the weather has been sufficiently warm for a few weeks? If the goal of the landscaping is to create a beautiful environment for students, it makes little sense to decorate the campus with less than a month of school remaining.

It seems more likely that the excessive landscaping occurs to try and convince prospective freshmen, who visit the campus in the largest numbers during April wel-

come, to commit to Wash. U. If the university’s landscaping goal is to attract prospective freshmen, it seems the money would be better spent improving the school facilities, which would benefit all the students, or doing something that actually benefits prospective students, like increasing fi nancial aid packages. If the University’s goal actually is to make the atmosphere more pleasing to students, staff, and faculty, it should re-think its planting calendar so that students can actually enjoy the landscape for a significant amount of

time, but also re-evaluate the benefits of the landscaping compared to the costs.

Though the University certainly has an interest in maintaining an attractive campus, with so many student needs and increasing tuition, it seems the administration may be over-estimating the marginal benefit of the last patches of flowers. After considering the significant expense for less than a month of campus flowers, maybe the fountain advocates have a legitimate complaint.

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struggling with my depression, and I limped into my first year with nary a lick of dating experience or self-confidence. Yet, I was adamant that I was going to start enjoying all the things I hadn’t been for the last eighteen years. Within a month of starting school, I started seeing a therapist.

The reasons I decided to get help must be commented on, as this was the most difficult step for me. Although I had for years made excuses to avoid the shame and embarrassment of a public display of my struggles with depression, I had finally become fed up with being sad every day. I began to think I would rather be dead than live another year, let alone four more. The unyielding force of that thought was what got me to change. I accepted that I knew nothing about how to be happy.

My search for meaning showed me that people rarely disappear from life, in the sense of losing all their connections

See TREIN, page 5

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CCTV abuse should not be a concern Dear Editor: As one of the co-sponsors of the Student Union Senate’s CCTV resolution, I would like to clarify several of the points made in Monday’s forum editorial, “Increase Off-Campus Security.” The editorial stated, “the potential for abuse of the [CCTV] system is somewhat disconcerting.” However, it is worth noting that in passing this resolution, the Senate endorsed the implementation of CCTV by creating an oversight committee that would ensure that student privacy is a primary guideline and concern.

Therefore, there is no potential for the “abuse of the system,” as stated by the editorial.

In addition, the editorial noted that the “Student Union Senate decided that CCTV is important enough to implement to some extent, but did not specify any details regarding the cameras, the system or the guidelines.” I would like to clarify that the role of the Senate in passing this resolution was not to determine the

specific policies or procedures governing the implementation of CCTV. Rather, the purpose behind the Senate resolution was fi rst and foremost, to express student support for the potential implementation of CCTV, and above all, to ensure that there would be significant student representation on the committee. The reason behind creating the advisory and oversight committee was for an informed group of individuals, composed of student leaders and members from various parts of the Washington University community, to create those policies, therefore preventing the potential abuse of the system.

Lastly, in response to the argument that “crime on campus [is] seemingly at a consistently low level,” I would argue that with the addition of MetroLink next semester and with the creation of on-campus underground parking as a result of the University Center, there will be a legitimate need for CCTV on campus. Washington University will become

significantly more prone to safety issues, and on-campus security will undoubtedly become a primary concern in the very near future.

- Daniel Minot Class of 2009 Student Union Senator, Arts and Sciences

Establishing good credit is critical Dear Editor: Responding to Michael Mendenhall’s (“Encourage Responsible Uses of Credit”) letter in the April 12 issue of StudLife, I would just like to point out that buying things on credit is not always a bad thing. In addition, the service that Alpha Kappa Psi is offering is quite beneficial for many students. Labeling their ad campaign as ‘propaganda’ is at best reckless and irresponsible. The references to

furniture and stereo equipment are very relevant when it comes to credit awareness.

Most people do not realize that it is difficult to gain fi nancing on consumer products because of the difficulty in repossessing them, should the borrower default. As such, having a good credit history is essential.

Mendenhall asserts that if someone cannot afford something, he/she should not purchase it. I agree completely; however, Mendenhall ignores the possibility where buying on credit is actually beneficial.

Take for instance, my purchase of a Sony Vaio laptop early last year. Due to my credit history, I was able to buy it on credit with no payments and no interest for 1 year. I could afford to purchase the laptop outright, but why should I give up a year’s worth of interest from a bank CD or similar stable investment? At the end of the year, I paid off the balance of the laptop without any additional costs. That’s not an example of “submitting to consumerism,” but rather

being smart with your money.

It is also important to remember that this option was only available because I already had a good credit history, and having a good credit history is only possible by using credit.

This is just one example of the benefits of establishing a good credit history. As a graduating senior in the process of securing a mortgage for a condo, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of establishing credit early and learning to use it responsibly.

I wish Mendenhall would have focused his letter on these issues rather than attacking a student organization whose main message is credit awareness and fiscal responsibility.

- Matthew Peck Class of 2006

Student Life must miss Roman Goldstein

Dear Editor: Often annoyed, and even harangued by the grueling process of changing a forum article to fit the former forum editor’s moods, a recent article makes me appreciate his work.

Chrissie Skelley’s contribution (4/10) is littered with untruths, both implied and explicit. Her claim that condom availability leads to an increase in unplanned pregnancies is in dire need of a source and further explanation. If there was not space or she was unable to expand then it should be expunged from the article. In a such a complex philosophical and moral debate as abortion, it is especially imperative that any empirical statements be verifiable.

- Elliott Weiss Class of 2005 Wash U Med School, ‘06 Matriculant

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What are you committed to?

By Matt Klasen Op-ed submission

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s we quickly approach the middle of April, I’m sure that the majority of the undergraduate population--three-quarters, to be exact--is becoming quite perturbed at the other quarter’s continual reminiscences about the last four years of their lives. We seniors are only too happy to share our lessons (and regrets) with just about anyone willing to listen. It’s time for many of us to leave, and hopefully in our stories about the past we have found our own directions as we set out on our journeys. It’s a logical time of year to determine whether we’ve each discovered our own true sense of commitment, the sense of knowing how each of us can make a concrete difference in our world.

This questioning of commitment comes to my mind most vividly with the campus visit this past week of Ahmed Kathrada, a veteran of South Africa’s anti-Apartheid struggle. Last spring I missed the on-campus commitment of the Student Worker Alliance to picket the admissions office for workers’ living wages, and the extraordinary national commitment of conservative Republicans to guard Terry Schiavo’s life at all costs.

Rather, I spent the semester in South Africa, learning what sometimes seemed to be frivolous lessons about ecology and conservation while the country around

me monumentally transformed itself into an African bastion of freedom and democracy.

I learned about Kathrada (or “Kathy,” his nickname featured prominently in Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom) on a trip to Robben Island, a desolate and foreboding place in the shadow of beautiful Cape Town, Table Mountain, and the Atlantic Ocean. For Mr. Kathrada, a child of Indian immigrants, commitment to the African National Congress (ANC) meant spending 26 years in prison, subject to the dominance of the brutal Apartheid state. His Indian heritage gave him a somewhat tenuous position within South African society, almost halfway between the privilege of European whites and the systematic exclusion of African blacks. Despite his somewhat “favoured” racial position compared to his black friends, Mr. Kathrada wholeheartedly joined the ANC’s struggle for a unified, free South Africa.

This total commitment to the ANC – led by Nelson Mandela – meant 18 years on Robben Island, at times up to a year without visitors, and up to six months without permission to write or receive letters (letters, in fact, that typically could not exceed 500 words, or shorter than the length of this article). All that was available for entertainment were study materials, and even then only sometimes.

Imagine, for us students, being offered the choice of either being bored in our drab, barred dorm rooms

(i.e. jail cells), or undertaking years of self-directed learning, again fully confined within our jail cells.

The only respite from Robben Island’s cell-bound drudgery was work at an outdoor lime quarry, but the quarry’s blindingly white cliffs and persistent dust ruined prisoners’ eyes, and the magnificent nearby views of glittering Cape Town miles away must have created more despair than hope.

But despite the brutal memories from Robben Island, Mr. Kathrada remained committed to the cause of justice and reconciliation far after his release. He most recently directed the Robben Island Museum Council, teaching others about the past and doing his part toward making the island “a triumph of the human spirit against the forces of evil.”

It’s understandably difficult to imagine an experience like Mr. Kathrada’s here on our idyllic Wash. U. campus in the middle of an upper-middle-class section of our somewhat struggling city. The overt and aggressive struggles of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Apartheid struggle’s most recent American analogue, seems long gone. But we still see a world filled with problems needing to be solved, many of which could use an extreme amount of commitment from each of us. Whether it’s fighting to expose and halt the continuing genocide in Darfur, or pressuring international leaders to acknowledge the sub-40-year life expectancy in dictatorial Zimbabwe, or

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engaging diverse groups in the contemporary American conflict over immigration, much work remains to be done. And though we need not spend a quarter of our lives in prison to make a difference, it will take more than attending meetings, being one of 120 million voters in the next Presidential elec-

tion, or donating to charity to see results.

In light of Mr. Kathrada’s visit, I’d encourage all of you to at least consider, particularly you soon-to-be-graduates, what commitments your education and experiences here have instilled in you. What will be even more important in the com-

ing years, as a quarter of us prepare to scatter into the uncertain “real world,” is how we can live our lives to instill commitment in those around us.

Matt is a senior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at mnklasen@ wustl.edu.

Charles Newman, a man of words

By Aaron Cohn Op-ed submission

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eing in a room with Charles Newman was like sitting in a lame tiger’s cage: he was pitiless, but his utterances could freeze the heart.

You knew he couldn’t kill you but you feared for your life. But far more than his much pipe-gnawing, whiskey-throated persona, it was his mind that intimidated.

He could crack nuts with it. His writing scintillated with intelligence. He could launch hyperbole like bottle rockets, and land them as effortlessly as Canadian geese settling into the water.

Hyperbole above all characterized Charlie. A delicious unreasonableness was his specialty, a flamboyant and reckless reductionism that

allowed him to call Poe, in The Post-Modern Aura, “brainless.” But the tiger, for all the flash of his stripes, was lame. His machismo was performance. He knew it, and knew intimately the weaknesses that were his downfall.

“It’s so fucking controlled,” Charlie once said of my fiction. I never knew what that meant until I asked him about it a few years later; he thought I was a closeted homosexual, a notion which would certainly amuse my entire family; I must have tried to butch it up in his presence. From Charlie I had to learn directness, the courage of loving the truth for its plainness, vulgarity, and perversity.

Literature is a war for truth, and you’re going to get your hair mussed. “Poetry must not become a hospital,” said

Wallace Stevens, and the two are now elegantly breaking each other’s chops in the ectosphere.

But we are made of words and words can harm.

Charlie intimidated some of his students, hurt their feelings, and he alienated many of his colleagues. Nor was I spared—Charlie could wound me deeply, and yet, with a dash of masochism, I cared about him. I worried about him for many reasons—his alcoholism, his diabetes, his chronic misanthropy. I ordered some of his out-of-print books and read them, found much in them to love, and I made sure to tell him, for what it was worth.

It felt easy to get to know Charlie through his books.

Like children, the books bore uncanny resemblances to the man: outlandish

claims, intolerance for average human fatuity, but most of all a hope, long-cherished and utterly forlorn, of a world he might have felt at home in—a world of hearty candor and intellectual splendor. A world that gave artists and intellectuals world enough and time to be themselves. He hoped the university could give him this, and he never relinquished his bitter disappointment.

Charlie will be remembered with profound ambivalence. The man who founded TriQuarterly and goaded it to greatness also succumbed to demons that silenced him for almost a third of his life. For a brief moment he headed the legendary Johns Hopkins Seminars, only to abandon it for an unsuccessful attempt at dog-raising and proscuttio-

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making in a Virginia farm.

Only after the New York Times noted Charlie’s death did the English Department website seem to notice it, and it describes him, as though to apologize for the delay, as “a major figure in American fiction,” which Charlie would have called an overvaluation. I know, because I asked him about what I called his “subterranean presence” throughout the past several decades of American literature, and he could only scoff. To whatever extent we short-sell his literary-historical stock, we must admit his talent for scaling the heights the American literary establishment, only to spring from the summit once he had reached it. I think he rejected the best the establishment had to offer so often because, frankly, its

best wasn’t good enough.

So much was disappointing to him. So much, it would seem, that we are called to understand the serene nobility behind the flash of his books—the ideals beside which the world seemed to pale in comparison.

And so, despite his imperfections, and because of them, I will miss Charlie, and so will many of his students who basked in his glamour or hardened themselves in his fire. With his death Charlie now fades into the background of the deliciously unreasonable, dazzlingly hyperbolic, rough-and-tumble universe.

I imagine it will be for him a good and familiar dream.

Aaron is a nonresident doctoral student in English.

He can be reached via e-mail at ascohn@artsci.wustl.edu.

TREIN v FROM PAGE 4 to society at once. There are so often moments in life when you can stand in the background that, after a while, you start to think you’re supposed to keep your head down and not have anyone to hang out with on a Friday night; that this is your lowly place and you deserve it.

Your emotions become landmines that you force yourself to walk upon because the pain is all you know how to feel. After reaching this point, any attempt at dating or maintaining a small circle of friends becomes a mess of overcompensation and forced effort. You learn to keep to yourself, because at least your crappy life is familiar and manageable. And you slowly fade away.

After two difficult years of piecing myself together in therapy, I slowly began to find that life hid pleasures behind its rough edges. Smiling, something I had never done too much of, began to fill the little spaces in my life. This became an area I had to learn to control as well—because I had never done it before, I had so much energy to put into living happily that it freaked people out. I wanted to experience everything I had missed out on, but I didn’t know where to start except by loving someone. Because of this I lost a friend, Meredith: although I knew the rough outlines of what love was supposed to look like, love requires stability and an unselfish heart, skills I had not perfected when I started my

junior year. Learning these rules cost me a close friend, but I never expected love to come easily. I had learned that lesson from my parents a long time ago.

As I settled down and searched for friends, lovers, and meaning to my life, I was shocked to find them all so easily. I discovered that the same places I had previously marked off as bereft of enjoyment now provided me with everything I had been longing for my entire life: people actually wanted to be my friend now that I had lightened up; I was comfortable when alone instead of feeling anxious; perhaps most importantly, I had a deeply satisfying relationship with a woman I am proud to say that I truly loved, Sara. I did these things, and they were hard, but I am not special.

I just wanted them bad enough, and worked hard to get them.

I want those students who desire a life worth living to know that you don’t have to wait—you can start a good life at Washington University. I will not end with my personal understanding of life. After all, meaning is easy to find— you just have to do it yourself.

This was one way a life was built at Washington University.

I wish you luck building your own.

Joshua is a senior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at jctrein@artsci.wustl. edu.

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

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20 Questions with four baseball studs Compiled by Katie Benson Sports Reporter Men’s Varisty Baseball jokesters Ryan Corning, Alan Germano, Arden Farhi and Andy Shields get personal as they share their views about baseball, relationships and girls.

Quick Player Profiles: Alan Germano is a senior captain from Atlanta, GA. The twenty-two year old catcher is majoring in finance. A member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, he is currently single and has been said by some to be the best looking man on campus! Ladies are suckers for his casual wear consisting of unpredictable khaki shorts, polo shirts and tennis shoes.

It’s his nightlife wardrobe, however, that truly wins the women over.

Ryan Corning is also a senior captain. He hails from Brown Deer, WI. The twentyone year old shortstop is, like Germano, majoring in finance. He’ll be moving to New York City after graduation. Although he is currently involved in a long-distance relationship with his high school girlfriend, many of his teammates have pondered his current status with teammate Arden Farhi. The personal relationship of Corning and Farhi resembles that of freshmen basketball stars Tyler Nading and Sean Wallis, two men who “truly complete each other” (see: Student Life article from 3/3/2006).

Arden Farhi is a junior from Rockville, MD. The outgoing ladies man is currently single, but looking for a girl to fill Ryan Corning’s place next year. The infielder is known for his witty comments and his impressive broadcasting skills as the host of the WUTV series “Around the WU.” Now that Arden is twenty-one, the social butterfly has no limits on which party/bar to attend or on whom he will bring home for a long conversation.

Andy Shields is a twentyone year old junior captain from Elmhurst, Ill. The pitcher and outfielder is known for his athleticism but more importantly his irresistible dimples. But don’t get too excited, because Andy is taken. Megan Delcourt and Andy have been dating since Shield’s first appearance at a varsity women’s volleyball game. The couple spends seemingly every waking moment together!

StudLife: Your predictions for the rest of the season?

AG: Kent Wallace shuts out the cardinals with a 97 mileper-hour, two-seam fastball.

AF: We go 69-5, win the [college] World Series and play a few exhibition games against the cardinals AS: and the Cubs win the Pennant SL: Favorite thing about playing ball at Wash U? RC: The relationships formed with the wily gents on the team.

AF: And free Wendy’s after every road game is clutch.

AG: I really love getting daily life lessons from the Ric

There’s nothing better with a night ending with an Apple Pie Concrete.

AS: Thursday night at McLain’s Corner with buffalo wings and Karaoke with the townies. Also, a night cap of some good spooning.

RC: I mean McDonalds still has a ‘Dollar Menu,’ right?

AS: Nah, man. Coach says Wendy’s has a little something for everyone.

(Baseball Head Coach, Ric Lessmann).

AS: It’s comforting to know that if I throw a belt high fast ball that gets crushed, it’s still going to be Germano’s fault.

AG: Yeah, shoulda called a curve ball. Everything is my fault.

SL: Do you have nicknames for each other?

RC: Germano is the hairy bagel, but he almost shaved it and made it the plain bagel.

AF: RyCo, it’s like MeghanMarie (Fowler-Finn) . . . one word RC: Shields is Andy Joe like the two girls from Dawson’s Creek SL: Rumor has it that Ryan and Arden share a “special” relationship. Explain.

AG: Ryan only has two classes this semester but still schedules his life around Arden’s classes.

AS: They do yoga together . . . its yoga for athletes or couples and they do it half-naked with Arden’s bedroom door locked.

RC: Is that not normal?

SL: Favorite thing to do together?

AS: We like to play frolf (Frisbee golf).

RC: There’s nothing like a good game of shuffle puck (at McLain’s corner).

AG: Yeah, nothing like a good game of loaded questions or nut ball on road trips, either.

AF: We also like a certain game we learned from the movie “Waiting.”

SL: If you two could ask any one Bear athlete 20 questions who would you choose?

Why? AG: Eric Triebe. He’s a National Champion (in swimming) and he can teach me so much about his game.

AS: Chaz Moody (place kicker on football team), and how he swung a certain Wash. U bballer. And his ball kicking skills.

RC: Mike Grunst (center on the men’s basketball team), for sure. Because I am the only person that can probably get 20 answers out of him.

AF: Megan Delcourt, so I am the first person to propose in Stud Life.

SL: What girls sports team has the most to offer?

AG: Girls soccer pulled a great freshman class, a lot of talent.

RC: Women’s basketball.

There’s nothing like being led by fellow cheese head, Nancy Fahey (women’s basketball coach).

AF: Girls soccer, cause anything that Wendy Dillinger (women’s soccer) touches turns to gold.

AS: Volleyball. Any sport that draws spectators to watch attractive girls jump around in spandex.

SL: Speaking of the opposite sex, it has been said more than once that Arden is a ladies’ man. In your opinion, are the rumors true?

AG: He can’t seal the deal though.

RC: If you compare his love life to baseball, he’s a great starting pitcher, but he’s never going to go the distance.

SL: Ryan, You are batting a remarkable .496. Wow! Explain your reactions to his strong season.

RC: Ryan Corning is only one man. I just want to thank God and my teammates.

AG: Let’s just say he and our Sports Information Director are close to quite close.

AS: He’s blacked out right now.

AF: I attribute his success to our yoga sessions.

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The fantastic foursome of Ryan Corning, Alan Germano, Andy Shields and Arden Farhi lounge out by home plate, a place the four of them have been crossing a lot this season.

Things normally slow to a halt around the seventh inning stretch.

SL: If Arden were to ask a girl out on a date, what would his pickup line be?

RC: I am really in like with you. Want to go the Cheesecake Factory, I’ll pay half.

AS: You’re a really great person, let’s go back to my room and talk for 4½ hours until your too tired to make out with me.

SL: If you guys could go on a quadruple date with any four celebrities, who would you pick?

AG: Jennifer Aniston, I have been in love with her since Friends started.

AS: Kiera Knightley, because Bend it like Beckham is the single greatest movie of all time.

AF: Oprah. All I need is someone to talk to.

AG: What about Dr. Phil?

RC: Yeah, I wanted Oprah.

You can take Dr. Phil.

SL: Alan, what type of girls do you go for?

RC: Any type that will go for

him AG: Yeah, about that.

AG: Yeah, got to be athletic and funny. That’s about it, what else do you need?

RC: C’mon, let’s get serious.

You’re not going to date an ugly chick.

AG: Well, that goes without saying.

AF: But what if they’re beautiful on the inside?

SL: Describe each other’s best quality?

RC: Alan Germano is the funniest character I have ever met. Not to mention the best looking man on campus.

AG: Ryan is really nice.

AG: I really like how Andy is overly sensitive about everything and it’s really easy to get under his skin.

AF: But I don’t even really like Andy. I have nothing nice to say about him. Ryan’s OK. RC: My favorite thing about Arden is his well-manicured toes.

SL: are AS: age

Do you think you guys immature?

Absolutely. On an averday, I act like a mature 21

year-old for 20 minutes.

AF: I am probably the most responsible of the group, but I am no more mature than Ryan.

RC: Arden’s life is one big post-it note.

AS: When I walk into Arden’s room and see all the post-it notes, it really makes me feel bad about how cool he is.

AF: Actually it’s not post-it notes, it’s a legal pad SL: Favorite Wash U women athlete?

AS: Obvious answer, Wash U volleyball setter Megan Janae Delcourt. She’s kind of a big deal.

AF: I hunger for Munger (referring to Jessie Munger of the women’s soccer team).

RC: Me and mano (Germano) are more in love with ourselves.

AG: Basketball alum Alicia Herald. We got a date on the East Side in two weeks.

SL: Ideal Dates?

AF: Home-cooked meal . . . literally. My mom would make us something delish.

AG: Any date that ends at Ted Drews is pretty okay with me.

SL: Describe balancing athletics and academics.

RC: I don’t have to. Second semester senior year is weak sauce.

AF: Not difficult balancing school and baseball. It’s more difficult balancing Ryan, school and baseball.

AG: Whatever SL: Who’s the best dressed of you four?

RC, AF, AS: Germano.

AG: But I can also dress the worst. I have a standard wardrobe during the day that includes only wash u baseball gear, and then at night, I mean, just look at me.

SL: Best smile?

AF: Andy’s single dimple.

AG: Tough question to answer but all girls like the dimple.

AS: I think we all have great smiles.

SL: Best overall athlete?

AG and AF: Probably Shields, but it pisses us off.

RC: Yeah, he’s ok.

SL: Best Dancer?

AG: I can tell you who the worst Dancer is, me.

AF: Ryan. In the locker room.

Notable athlete performances Compiled by Andrei Berman Senior Sports Editor Laurel Sagartz, a junior pitcher on the University softball team, continued to prove why she is arguably the best Division III player in the nation this past weekend.

She picked up three key wins at the Illinois Wes ley a n T o u r n a - Sagartz ment over the weekend, keeping the Bears in the hunt for an at-large NCAA tournament

berth. In a 1-0 win over the hosts of the tournament, the flame thrower from Albuquerque, New Mexico, recorded an astonishing 17 strikeouts and yielded just two hits. For the season, Sagartz has an ERA of 0.25, which is tops in the nation.

Sagartz has also been putting up uncanny numbers at the plate, hitting .303 with two round-trippers and 21 RBI in 25 contests. For her recent accomplishments, Sagartz was recognized by Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III national player of the week. It is the second time that she has been honored with this award.

Monica Hanono, a senior infielder on the University softball team, upped her already impressive batting average to an almost unheard-of .451 this past weekend. The Chula Vista, California, native had hits in each of the Bears’ four victories at the Illinois Wesleyan tournament, going 7for-11 on the weekend.

Ari Rosenthal, the number one singles player on the eighth-ranked men’s tennis team, won six matches over the course of five days to improve his overall season record to 20-3. Rosenthal, who hails from Pacific Palisades, California, easily

defeated his number one singles counterpart from Wheaton College on Saturday. Later he partnered with rookie Charlie Cutler to defeat Wheaton C o l l e g e ’s first doubles team.

Rosentha l and Cutler repeated this feat twice durRosenthal ing the week, decisively handling the competition from both Lindenwood University as well as McKendree College.

Rosenthal also won both matches in singles.

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FRIDAY | APRIL 14, 2006

SPORTS

The Ultimate Victory: Contrabears stun Kansas, Arkansas at Sectionals

By Justin Davidson Managing Editor As senior captain George Hughes-Strange leaped over a University of Arkansas defender on Sunday, April 9, to pull down the winning touchdown catch, it only meant one thing for the men’s club Ultimate Frisbee team: a 2006 Sectionals Championship. For the fi rst time since 2002, the 34th-ranked team in the nation (out of 392 teams) walked away from the Ozark Sectional Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., with a win, upending perennial powerhouses Kansas University and the University of Arkansas.

“We were absolutely pumped with the Sectionals win,” said junior Stan Parker.

“To go in there and take it home is huge, especially heading into Regionals.”

The Sectional Championships are the fi rst of a threepart series of tournaments leading to the National Championships, whereby each team plays against other teams in their given Section, then the top six teams in the Section compete in the Regional Championships, and the top two teams of Regionals are invited to the National Championships. The Contrabears, as they are called, belong to the Ozark Section and South Region.

“When we’re playing against Division I schools like Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, we’re defi nitely at a disadvantage coming from a D-III school,” said Parker.

“It’s tough sometimes, but we don’t let it get to us. We just need to keep on doing what we do.”

As it stands now, there is no break up between schools

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Sophomore Gareth Marshall takes to the air as he pummels over defenders in the club Ultimate Frisbee team’s home tournament, Huck Finn, on March 25. The team won the Sectional Championships this past weekend with a pair of wins against Kansas and Arkansas. based on size of school, Division, or level (varsity or junior varsity, or, ‘A’ and ‘B’). So, the Contrabears play with a number of large Division I schools, such as University of Texas, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Michigan, and the list goes on.

“There’s been a lot of talk in the past couple of years about splitting them into different divisions based on school size,” explained Parker. “I mean, Texas, for example, is huge. They have four

legitimate teams—A, B, C, and D—that all have tryouts and everything. And then we have to go up against these guys—we’ve done pretty well against them in the past. I think that after winning Sectionals it’s really showing the critics what’s what and that the little guy can play with the big boys.”

Despite all these odds against them, the team was able to head into last weekend’s Sectionals with confi-

dence.

“We knew it’d be tough, but we knew we could do it.

We just had to play smart and stick to our game,” said Parker.

They stuck to their game alright, and their stellar play gave them three convincing wins in Saturday’s pool play.

Winning all three of their games on Saturday, the team upended Missouri State 15-7, Missouri-Rolla 15-7, and Arkansas B 15-4.

Their commanding play on Saturday earned the Contrabears a No. 4 seed for Sunday’s bracket play, out of 19 competing teams. They had a fierce adversary in their fi rst game in Kansas University, arguably the best team in the Section. Kansas was ranked No. 1 in the UPA Section Poll and No. 2 in the UPA South Region Poll.

“We haven’t beaten Kansas in three years, so we came out hungry,” said Parker.

To gear up for a pair of tough Sunday match-ups, some players dug down deep and brought out all the tricks in the book, especially junior Brian Stowe, who completely shaved off his golden locks.

“I did it so I’d be more intimidating,” said Stowe.

“Clearly it worked because teams were running for their lives away from me. The next step is Regionals and I’m trying to get the whole team to join me in my hairless escapade.”

The Kansas match was a hard fought one that witnessed a number of fl ip-flops and lead changes leading up to an incredibly exciting fi nish.

“There were a number of momentum shifts during the game,” explained Parker. “At fi rst both of us were playing even, then we scored five straight points, then they scored six. The next thing we knew it was tied 11-11 and time had run out, which meant next point wins. It was killer.”

According to UPA rules, each game is either to 15 points or two hours.

With the disc in their possession to start the semi-fi nal overtime, the team couldn’t capitalize on their advantage and turned it over on a

dropped pass. Kansas barreled their way down the field and threw a hammer that sailed just out of the end zone, turning it back over to the Contrabears. Another dropped pass gave Kansas the disc back, and it looked like they had the win sealed until junior Jake Levitas came up with a monster leaping D (defensive stop to turn it over) at the 10-yard line to get it back.

They scored on the ensuring possession and upset their biggest rivals 12-11.

“We were going nuts. Jake’s play totally saved us the game,” said Parker.

With the win against Kansas, the Contrabears moved into the Sectional Finals against the home squad in the Arkansas Razorbacks. In the end, through a string of critical plays and solid defense, the Contrabears squeaked out the close victory by a 12-11 margin once again.

“Both Kansas and Arkansas were running a special defense throughout the whole game to stop George [HughesStrange]. We called it an ‘IsoGeorge’ defense and a bunch of teams do it to shut him down and keep him out of the game. In this ‘Iso-George’ defense six people play the zone, with three defenders around the disc while another person plays George man-to-man.

He’s considered one of the best players in the Region and without a doubt the backbone of our team. It was hard for us because we were losing a big weapon, so we had to get the young players to really step up and play their game,” said Parker.

Early on in the season, an Ultimate player from another

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The true Opening Day experience v Playing hookey

to experience opening day at the new Busch Stadium

By Carrie Jarka Sports Reporter “This is not just a stadium; it’s our home. This is not just a baseball town; it’s baseball heaven.” At that moment, the thousands of people jammed in front of Gate One exploded in a thunderous cheer. Bud

Selig, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, had just perfectly described what the ‘Cardinal Nation’ has felt for so long. And the long wait for heaven had finally paid off. I stood there, dwarfed by the new Busch Stadium while tears started to fill a grown man’s eyes nearby, and thought: “I should be in Arabic class right now.”

Opening day is a holiday in the city of St. Louis, with this year being especially important due to the opening of the new Busch Stadium. I had decided long ago that if I could not be at the game,

COURTESY OF CARRIE JARKA

Sport’s Carrie Jarka happily skipped class to go to the Cardinal’s opening game at the new Busch Stadium on Monday, April 10, 2006.

I would be at the rally. Not only that, but I convinced one of my friends to skip class and join in the party. I only have two classes on Monday, so it’s not that big of a deal, right? Seeing one of my professors on my way to the car was probably not a good start to the day.

After passing up on the unbeatable deal of $20 to park eleven blocks away from the stadium, I parked my car in Union Station and we began the long walk towards the stadium. The old stadium used to fill the end of Clark Street and I could now see the stairs from the parking garage to the old Busch still stood, pointless and naked in the empty space.

The city was abuzz after the Cardinal front office announced the new stadium would again feature the name of the beer barons, so I could only imagine what the opening day rally would be like. Before we arrived at 10 a.m., live bands played and tailgaters were already in full party mode. Beads, banners, bags, and baseballs— anything and everything with the Cardinal symbol was handed out. The official dedication of the stadium began with Stan Musial and Willie McGee simultaneously throwing out the ceremonial first pitches. The Cardinal fans always embrace their elders.

After the unveiling of Stan the Man’s statue, relocated to the front of the new stadium, local officials, players, and others in the Cardinals’ organization gave speeches about the new stadium. Bud Selig, a man of few words and even worse decisions when it comes to All-Star games, uttered the words mentioned at

the outset of this story. I was suddenly his biggest fan.

This was just the beginning. After a short walk to Keiner Plaza, we were engulfed in a wave of red. The group of spectators in front of the stadium was a fraction of the crowd flooding the streets and sidewalks of downtown. While some were taking in the stadium and the festivities, plenty of diehards were taking in the new stadium’s namesake. Being drunk at 10 a.m. is what Cardinal spirit is all about!

Bands performed everything from Dave Matthews to Aretha Franklin. The air was filled with pride as complete strangers high-fived.

Cars honked their horns at groups covered in red and white.

Virtually every local radio station sent a truck to play music, give away free stuff, and give the drunken people a hard time. It would not have surprised me to see the classical station playing “Take me out to the ballgame” with a full orchestra.

After an hour of wandering around Keiner plaza and jamming to a band called “My Friend Bill,” we decided to walk back towards the stadium and catch up with a group of tailgaters. As we walked by the majestic red brick building, the crowd chanted, “5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Play ball!” The gates opened for the first time and hundreds pushed forward. The game would not begin for another three hours and fans were lined up 40 rows deep.

We wandered towards Al Hrabosky’s (a.k.a. the tailgate capital of St. Louis). Washers flew through the air. Competitive corn hole players screamed at each other. The smell of smoked pork and

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On April 10, Cardinal fans begin to aggregate outside the new Busch Stadium for the opening day game against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Cardinals outplayed the Brewers with a 6-4 win. hamburgers wafted about.

Two guys were painting their faces.

After a quick lunch of the best pulled barbeque pork, (courtesy of five strange guys) and then a game of washers, we accepted the fact that no single, nice, old man was going to walk up and hand us tickets.

Still, Monday further con-

firmed that heaven is officially located between Market Street and highway 40. It is where Albert the archangel and Scott the cherubwill reside for years to come. Granted almost anything is better than being in class, but add perfect weather and Cardinal fever and you have heaven.