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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

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Engineering dean to step down

By Sarah Kliff and David Tabor News Staff Christopher Byrnes, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has announced his resignation from that position, effective June 30, 2006. He will continue to teach as the Edward H. and Florence G. Skinner professor in systems science and mathematics and will take a sabbatical during the 2006–’07 academic year.

Byrnes has served as dean for 15 years, the third-longest tenure the engineering school has seen in the last century. He led the school through a series of expansions that included the addition of a department of biomedical engineering in 1997, as

well as an environmental engineering science program in 2000.

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has experienced a dramatic rise in the number of undergraduate applications during Byrnes’ tenure. More than twice as many students applied for admission in 2005 as in 1994.

Chancellor Mark Wrighton praised Byrnes’ work during his long tenure as dean.

“Chris Byrnes has made lasting contributions to the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Washington University and to the greater St. Louis community during his tenure as dean,” said Wrighton.

Byrnes’ academic career has

been highlighted by a series of prestigious awards and appointments, and his work has garnered him an international reputation among those in his field. In 2005 he was awarded the W.T. and Idalia Reed Prize, one of the most prominent awards available in the field of differential equations and field theory.

William Darby, dean of the engineering graduate school and vice dean of student affairs, described Byrnes’ impact on the school as “phenomenal.”

“There have only been eight deans in the history of the engineering school, and I think if you would look at the deans who are going to go down in history of the engineering school, of

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the University, of St. Louis and of the field, Chris Byrnes is going to stand near the top of the heap,” said Darby.

While Darby was surprised at Byrnes’ resignation, he did see it as a natural progression in his career path.

“I think it was a surprise but not a bolt out of the blue,” said Darby. “I think that for some time Dean Byrnes has missed doing research and missed teaching. And if you’re dean you don’t get much time to do that.”

Darby noted that Byrnes’ recent Reid Prize recognizing his lifetime achievements could have been a catalyst for the announcement of his resignation.

“I think if you receive a life-

time achievement award, you ask if that means I’ve achieved e ve r y t h i n g I want to achieve in my lifetime,” Christopher said Darby.

Byrnes “He works with colleagues around the world in Rome, Stockholm and Texas. I think he’s seeing that the opportunity to work with these collaborators is getting smaller and smaller.”

Byrnes joined the faculty of Washington University in 1989 as chair of the department of systems science and mathemat-

Mentor program grows

By Helen Rhee Staff Reporter

DAVID BRODY | STUDENT LIFE

After having his own bushy hair cropped short, Associate Professor of Mathematics John Shareshian shaves the head of John McCarthy, professor of mathematics, in front of a crowd of 40 students and faculty in Cupples I on Mon., Sept. 19. The professors agreed to have their heads shaved as part of a hurricane relief fundraiser organized by math students that raised $1,885.50. “We kicked Subway’s butt,” said third-year graduate student Brad Henry.

ics after previously teaching at the University of Utah, Harvard University and Arizona State University. He also has held visiting appointments at universities in Europe, Japan and the former Soviet Union.

In 1998 the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology awarded Byrnes an honorary doctorate in technology, one of engineering’s highest honors. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and in 2003 was awarded a best-paper award from that organization.

Chancellor Wrighton will soon appoint an advisory committee to begin the search for a successor to Byrnes’ position.

Washington University’s Residential Peer Mentoring program, which places residential tutors in dormitories, has recently expanded to three residential colleges. Freshmen living in the Brookings, Eliot and Crow Residential Colleges can now seek academic help just steps from their front doors.

“The first year, the program started in Brookings Residential College. We started off with two residential peer mentors. They were for chemistry and calculus,” said Jill Stratton, assistant dean of students for faculty programs and academic initiatives at the Office of Residential Life (ResLife). “[The] second year, we expanded to Crow Residential College [and] this year we added William Greenleaf Eliot Residential College.”

Upperclassmen mentors, who are chosen through a rigorous selection process, live among underclassmen and offer help to freshmen who are taking classes in their areas of expertise. Currently, nine mentors provide assistance in general science courses, mathematics and writing.

“There are activities to help you grow personally, but there are also programs to help you grow academically,” said Stratton. “The whole idea of the program was that students

will seek out mentoring work groups [for] convenience.”

Stratton emphasized the importance of integrating peer mentoring services into the lives of South 40 residents.

“We want to make the Residential Peer Mentoring program the fabric of the South 40 community,” said Stratton.

“From the very beginning, freshmen [have been] joining study groups. They have access to the people who can help them enhance their learning.”

Mentoring services are only available to freshmen living in these three residential colleges. Although mentors are primarily designed to help freshmen residents in their own residential college, they are available for students who live elsewhere.

The program began three years ago with an initiative

by Harvey Fields, an assistant director at Cornerstone who has been the forefront of their academic mentoring program.

Stratton, who is also responsible for running faculty programs on the South 40, joined with Fields to create a program that would enhance the academic environment within the South 40 residential area. The Residential Peer Mentoring program is one of the ways in which the University has tried to expand the philosophy of community learning throughout the campus.

“The Residential Peer Mentoring program is a result of

collaboration between Residential Life and Cornerstone,” said Fields. “It comes out of the primary philosophy of Washington University: We want all of our underclassmen to succeed academically.”

ResLife and Cornerstone continue to collaborate on the program today. Cornerstone pays the tutors based on both the hours they put in each week and how many workshops they hold. ResLife takes care of the housing process, allowing mentors to select suites in their designated building before the general housing lottery.

According to Fields, a yearend assessment indicated that students who did utilize the Residential Peer Mentoring service really found it helpful.

Senior Lindsey Brodell is a second-year residential mentor for the Brookings Residential College. She is responsible for general chemistry and biology.

“I personally found it helpful for myself. In order to help other students, I must reiterate the information that I learned from freshman chemistry. It is a great review for the MCAT,” said Brodell. “I think that once you become an upperclassman, you lose the importance of basic science, but mentoring has allowed me to relate the importance of basic science to advanced science.”

“They can’t escape from getting help,” she said.

Emory, WU officials make light of rivalry

By Mandy Silver Contributing Editor Both Emory University and Washington University administrators are chalking up this weekend’s incidents to unrefined college humor rather than vandalism.

Washington University’s Assistant to the Chancellor, Steve Givens, and Emory’s Vice President and Deputy to the President, Gary Hauk, have confirmed brief and informal discussions between the two schools about the initiation of a “special rivalry.”

“The proposal for the socalled ‘Department of War’ came up last spring,” Hauk said. “It was proposed by the president-elect, now Student Government Association (SGA) president. His idea was something we felt we wanted to support to try to generate spirit on campus.”

When asked his opinion concerning the Department of War’s “attack” on the University’s campus, Hauk reprimanded Emory students for their lack of creativity rather than the act itself.

“Whenever I’ve tried to talk about pranks or practical jokes with students, I’ve tried

to suggest that there are ways to do those [pranks] that are imaginative, creative, intelligent and suggest the high intelligence of college students, rather than merely the low intelligence of pranksters,” Hauk said.

Givens, though less lighthearted than Hauk, expressed a similar opinion of the events.

“We don’t view it as vandalism—it’s prankish,” Givens said. “If they had painted on a wall we don’t normally paint on, that would be something different. This is something we will overlook.”

While Hauk and Givens both viewed the rivalry as a positive addition to campus spirit, they had different thoughts on the “war” terminology that students have used.

“We haven’t heard of anyone around here who is interested in continuing this ‘war.’

We don’t like the whole imagery of war anyway,” Givens said. “War is a little strong.”

Like Givens, Hauk endorsed the idea of beginning a rivalry, but he was unenthusiastic about the SGA’s choice of creating a “Department of War.”

“When [SGA President Amrit Dhir] mentioned that he wanted to call this the Department of War both President Wagner and I tried to deter him from using that nomenclature because we are in the middle of a war,” Hauk said.

“Men and women are dying— men and women the same age as many students. It seemed to be in some ways a tactless approach to what could be a fairly spirited and otherwise harmless endeavor.”

Yesterday afternoon, University Police Chief Don Strom said that a police report had not been filed with WUPD regarding the painting of the underpass. However, if a report were to be filed, he noted, those involved could face significant consequences.

“Depending [on] who is involved, there’s a number of options that could be pursued,” Strom said. “If it was someone affiliated with our campus, it could range from the Judicial Administrator to a prosecutor in an off-campus setting. If it was somebody involved from another university setting, we could work a similar process with them.”

DAVID HARTSTEIN | STUDENT LIFE

Off the Row, a student-run business on campus, took a cue from the war with Emory in its advertisement along the underpass. At the top of the advertisement, Off the Row claims, “Emory was my safety school.”

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WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

Gephardt Institute hosts inaugural event

By Elizabeth Lewis Staff Reporter Washington University’s Richard A. Gephardt Institute for Public Service, created to promote public service, political participation and civic engagement, held its inaugural event on Monday, featuring remarks

by Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto.

Also speaking were James Davis, director of the institute, and Richard Gephardt, a St. Louis native who represented Missouri’s third district for 28 years in the House of Representatives and ran for president of the United States twice.

The institute opened in February 2005 with a major financial gift from Gephardt. According to its mission statement, the center “is a nonpartisan institute created to conduct programs and events that will encourage people, especially students and older citizens, to become involved in public service, includ-

ing through work that will be facilitated, enhanced and recognized by the institute.”

“The institute has a broad view of public service. It does not just include nonprofits, government agencies and community service in St. Louis,” said Davis.

The institute aims to increase voluntary public service among graduate students, undergraduate students and retirees who want to make a fresh contribution to society. On its Web site, www.gephardtinstitute.wustl. edu, students can find listings of volunteer and internship opportunities.

“We want students to consider public service as career and internship opportunities,” said Davis. These career opportunities include those in public or in nonprofit sectors.

Davis said that the institute will promote its mission by having “intermittent brown bags and workshops to talk about public problems,” adding that

people who are interested in learning more can visit its headquarters in Eliot 200A. Gephardt also has goals for the direction of the institute and its impact. He says that his main hope is to “get more young and old to volunteer.”

He would like to see public service happen both here and abroad.

“Democracy always needs renewal. It needs to be started in other countries as well,” said Gephardt.

He said that the institute will try to impact the public by running “a series of events that will try to motivate others to do public service.”

Gephardt and members of the institute will do some teaching to encourage people to get involved. There will also be lectures and occasional conferences.

Gephardt is excited about the institute and will be able to devote time to it because he “is done with politics. I had a great

Transportation employee on the northeast corner of Parking Lot #4. Permit retained as evidence

by Transportation. Disposition: Owner fined, cleared.

could be located. Total loss valued at $2,000. Disposition: Under investigation.

9:11 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT, SIMON HALL—Student had his bike stolen from east side of Simon Hall between 4:45 and 9:00 p.m. Bike was locked to bike rack with metal cable. $90 value. Disposition: Pending.

2:54 p.m. LOST ARTICLE, HURD DORM—Student reports a missing mp3 player within a few minutes time frame on 09/13/05 from the first floor of Hurd. Student believes that she lost it in the hallway and when she backtracked to locate it, it was gone.

Student checked with lost and founds to no avail. Estimated value of loss is about $200.00.

Disposition: Pending.

ALWYN LOH | STUDENT LIFE

Former Congressman Richard Gephardt spoke Monday at the inaugural event for the Gephardt Institute for Public Service. time, but I want to do other things. I have taken advantage of being out of public service to see my family more.”

However, he smiled and said,

“I will always vote.”

The event coincided with the newly formed Constitution Day, which was Sept. 17.

POLICE BEAT Tuesday, Sept. 13 8:36 a.m. PARKING VIOLATION, PARKING LOT #4 —Transportation reported a fraudulent parking permit on vehicle parked on Lot #4. Disposition: Permit seized and vehicle towed.

10:27 a.m. PROPERTY DAMAGE, SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON —The fraternity reports that someone unknown forced entry to the chapter room on the first floor and vandalized a laser-jet printer valued at $1,781.00. Incident occurred following a party.

Disposition: Under investigation.

3:10 p.m. AUTO ACCIDENT, WOHL GARAGE LEVEL 1—Student reports that his parked vehicle was struck by an unknown vehicle. Disposition: Under investigation.

4:26 p.m. AUTO ACCIDENT, PARKING LOT #9—Parked vehicle struck by unknown driver who left the scene. Disposition: Under investigation.

Wednesday, Sept. 14 10:19 a.m. PARKING VIOLATION, PARKING LOT #4 —Fraudulent daily orange construction parking permit taken by

Thursday, Sept. 15 3:02 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT, SOUTH 40 RESIDENCE AREA —Two wheel dollies lost or stolen belonging to ResTech; item last seen in the lobby of Shepley dorm. Item found in Rubelmann later in the watch. Disposition: Unfounded.

3:55 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT, SMALL GROUP #4—Cell phone stolen between 9/8/05 at 11:30 p.m. and 9/9/05 at 11:00 a.m. Total loss valued at $250.00. Disposition: Pending.

6:45 p.m. MEDICAL, VILLAGE—Sick case. Disposition: Cleared.

8:03 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT, GIVENS HALL—Student laptop stolen between 9/14/05 at 9:00 p.m. and 9/15/05 at 1:00 p.m.

Person(s) unknown took a gray Dell Inspiron laptop computer, which was located on top of a studio desk in the common area in Givens Hall.

No suspects or witnesses

Friday, Sept. 16 3:05 a.m. LARCENY-THEFT, LOPATA HALL (G122)—Complainant reported his bike was stolen between 2:00 a.m. and 7:15 a.m. from between Jolley and Lopata Halls. Bicycle was secured to a handrail by thin metal cable. Blue bike, possibly Raleighbrand 21 speed, M-20 model. Disposition: Under investigation.

11:46 TRESPASSING, MILLBROOK SWIMMING POOL— Four students swimming and/or skinny-dipping in pool. Disposition: Referred to JA. 11:48 p.m. FALSE ALARM, MYERS DORM—Unknown person or person(s) pulled the fire alarm station outside of suite #22 of the building. No one was found in the area. A search of the building for smoke or fire met with negative results. Disposition: Pending.

Saturday, Sept. 17 2:12 a.m. DAMAGED PROPERTY, FRATERNITY ROW—Reporting party stated that he parked his vehicle in lot #32 at about 11:30 p.m. When he returned at about 2:10 a.m., he found his rear windshield broken out. Disposition: Pending 8:02 p.m. FALSE ALARM, BROWN HALL—During an event at Brown Hall, an investigation into a fire alarm resulted in finding the alarm had been pulled by a child playing. Maintenance reset the fire alarm. Disposition: Cleared.

Sunday, Sept. 18

5:40 a.m. PROPERTY DAMAGE, MALLINCKRODT CENTER—Glass shattered on lower door discovered between 1:37 a.m. and 5:40 a.m. Disposition: Pending.

12:47 p.m. AUTO ACCIDENT, SIMON HALL—E.S.T. struck a bollard on the north side of Simon Hall. Disposition: Cleared.

3:59 a.m. LARCENY-THEFT, THROOP DR—Bike stolen between 2:30 a.m. and 3:50 a.m.

Unsecured bicycle taken from the area of Old Mac. Total loss valued at $30.

7:04 p.m. LOST ARTICLE, UNKNOWN—Lost wallet sometime between 9/17/05, 11:00 p.m., to 9/18/05, 1:30 a.m., from unknown location on campus. Disposition: Pending.

5:10 a.m. LARCENY-THEFT, EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCES—Bike stolen between 5:00 p.m. and 5:10 p.m. from the eastside bike rack. Bike was secured with a cable lock. A search of the area for the bike met with negative results. No witnesses or suspects could be located. Total loss valued at $150.00. Disposition: Under investigation.

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WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

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Incumbent prime minister wins Japanese election

Emory legislature dissolved On Monday, the Emory Student Government Association (SGA) President Amrit Dhir dissolved the SGA Legislature and issued a declaration of war against Washington University. Speaking to the legislature, he said, “Your services are no longer needed. Democracy can do nothing for us now.”

Accompanied by fourteen uniformed members of the SGA’s Department of War, Dhir proceeded to name himself “supreme ruler.” Last semester, Dhir created the Department of War, which is aimed specifically at starting a rivalry with Washington University.

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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi makes a speech during the war memorial service at Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on Aug. 15. About 6,300 people, including the Emperor and Empress, came to honor about 3.1 million war dead at the service held at the Nippon Budokan hall in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.

The Liberal Democratic Party won the September 11 Japanese National elections.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, along

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with its coalition partner New Komeito (also known as the Clean Government party) won 282 seats, while the opposition parties held 81.

The LDP has been the majority party in Japan since its creation in 1953 as a conservative coalition with its political roots among the rural Japanese citizens. The LDP under Koizumi has shifted its focus from rural voters in recent years in response to a changing political and economic balance of power in the country and in the LDP, said John Haley, a professor in the law school. Haley, who previously served as the director of the University of Washington’s Asian Law Program, has written extensively about Japanese law and contemporary society.

According to Haley, political upheavals in the early 1990s led to reforms in 1994, when districts had one representative in the lower house rather than several.

At that time, many politicians defected from the LDP to form the current major opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). “[DPJ] seemed to be a coherent party that could challenge the LDP as a moderate, conservative party... so that Japan would have a two-party system. The difficulty with the DJP is that it’s filled with dissidents from the LDP and some leftovers from the Socialist Party, so it’s not been able to develop a coherent program, but its strength has been in the urban and suburban communities,” said Haley.

The LDP succeeded this month by winning elections in urban areas thought to be sympathetic to the DJP. The Prime Minister called for the Aug. 8 election in response to the rejection of a bill by the upper house that would have privatized Japan Post, a government-operated postal and banking system that has assets of $3.2 trillion in insurance policies and savings accounts.

The postal service functions as a bank for many citizens, especially those in rural regions where there are no local bank branches.

Koizumi is perceived to have gained the political mandate for auctioning off Japan Post to increase government accountability and reduce economic stagnation.

“There’s a huge incentive from the rural population to keep the postal service public,” said Haley.

Junior Yoshikazu Iijima, originally from a suburb south of Tokyo, disapproved of Koizumi’s attempt to privatize the post office. As an abroad student at Waseda University in Japan this semester, he does not affiliate himself with either party.

“I don’t support any parties,” said Iijima. “I don’t like Koizumi’s ideas...I don’t like the idea of privatizing the post office. They might have to close post offices in rural areas because they won’t have enough money to keep them open.”

Iijima characterized his country as mostly interested in political stability, and considered many voters apathetic about politics. According to the Japanese government, 50% of those eligible voted, up from 47.4% in the last general election, held in 2003. “Generally, most people say that Koizumi is Prime Minister because we don’t have any other people, we just stand by the Prime Minister,” said Iijima.

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WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

STAFF EDITORIAL

It’s time to take on Harvard F

irst of all, of course, Emory, we gleefully accept your invitation to war.

We’re already planning our next eight-hour road trip to your campus where we can throw flyers with ill-conceived slogans on them (how about “Wash. U. is tops?”). Additionally, we’d like the opportunity to slop some paint somewhere on your campus. Can you give us the name of the three-yearold you guys hired to fi nger-

paint our underpass?

In that same vein, we’d really like to thank you for that vital wake-up call. The girls on our campus are ugly? We’ve already got a handle on that.

In fact, recent studies show that the guys aren’t that great looking either. Also, a quick look in the obituaries from 1799 confi rmed that George Washington is, in fact, deceased. Further research also alerted us to the fact that John

Emory is also six feet under, so I guess we’re in the same boat.

Another thing: the mascot battle is no contest. The bear may be cliché, but the eagle?

Please. If your mascot is so great, why is it practically extinct? Speaking of us kicking your ass, who’s number 20 and who’s number 11 in the rankings? Oh, right. And we know that no one from our school could have possibly made the long journey to trash

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your campus because unlike you, we have work to do and tests to study for. It’s this little trip called an education, and maybe if you went to a real school, you’d be getting one.

While we’re all declaring war on schools that are completely out of our league, the editorial staff at Student Life would like to declare war on Harvard, and we’re asking everyone on campus to join in. We’re the “Harvard of

the Midwest,” so let the best Harvard win. We can handle a war on two fronts. (All the really smart kids are good at multi-tasking.) We’re instituting a draft and looking for other universities to ally with.

We need hot girls and whiny people with a lot of time on their hands willing to drive long distances to complete asinine tasks.

Emory, we salute your attempt at attacking us. But had

you really done any research about our university, you would have learned that the real way to get our attention would be to sit inside Brookings Hall with 10 of your friends and refuse to eat for a couple of days. Or maybe kidnap the Bunny. That would really piss people off. Perhaps before you attempt a rivalry with us, you should grow up and stop copying vandalism scams from Bart Simpson.

BRIAN SOTAK | EDITORIAL CARTOON

Kill Emory with kindness Dear Editor: I have heard a wide variety of reactions to the recent “attacks” on our campus. Some peers have condemned Emory University for the atrocious graffiti, and some simply shrug it off. I have my own reaction to offer.

One thing I learned from my mother when I was a wee lad, was what to do when faced with a potential confl ict like this one. “Kill them with kindness,” she used to say. It took me a few years to understand that kindness is not a heavy, blunt object, but now I think I fi nally know what she meant.

Perhaps the Emory Student Government Association meant to offer us some constructive criticism. I think we ought to assume the best of our collegiate colleagues, and thank them for watching out for us.

Our girls are ugly, you say?

Well, Emory University, we will keep an eye on that situation, and let you know of any developments.

The message on the other side of the underpass proposes that, “George Washington is dead.” After digging through the deep archives of the Olin Library, I did, in fact, verify that on December 14, 1799, our nation’s fi rst president passed away. In addition, I learned that this fi ne institution is indeed named after George Washington himself!

As you can see, it might be worthwhile for you to rethink how you feel about those comments. For many people, the default reaction is disgust, but upon inspection, it becomes clear that, in the spirit of the love of learning, Emory University merely sought to educate and enrich the students of Washington University.

So, next time you walk through the underpass, look towards the southeast, and salute our esteemed allies in the quest for wisdom. It’s the least you could do to repay all that they have done for us.

-Matt Denny Class of 2009

Emory is not a worthy rival Dear Editor: I fi nd Emory’s declaration of war titillating. They claim that we should foster a rivalry as neither school has one. They of course forget Northwestern, our natural enemy. They fail to understand that Washing-

ton University aligns herself against sharks, not minnows.

It is a bit as if we have been assailed by Leichtenstein, whilst already locked in war with the Third Reich. Let them come.

Lambs to the avatoir.

-T. Eugene Day Graduate Research Assistant

Rivalry needs blind, consuming hate Dear Editor: After reading the article on Monday, Sept. 19 on Emory’s declaration of war on our school, I got the feeling that this rivalry will not last long.

Why? Emory is being entirely too reasonable about the whole thing. A proper rivalry needs ingrained, irrational hate to fuel it. Emory’s facile attempt is too manufactured, and definitely lacking in proper hatred.

I mean, they’ve got a ton of reasons to dislike our school.

We frequently defeat them on the sports fields, our yearly academic ranking in U.S. News and World Report is consistently above theirs, and no matter how cliché a mascot bear gets, it’s still better than a mascot eagle. These are all perfectly valid and reasonable reasons for them to dislike us—which means this rivalry is doomed to fizzle. Justifications come and go, but nothing makes you hate someone like the fear of losing face when you admit that you didn’t have a good reason to feud to begin with.

Rivalries don’t get manufactured in a “Department of War.” They spontaneously spawn when a significant percentage of a school’s population decides that they hate another school for no good reason. Hate begets hate and pretty soon you get a decent rivalry brewing with both sides completely satisfied in the fact that they hate each other, not because of “their girls are ugly” or “they called our girls ugly” or some such, but simply because the other guys are there. That’s the way things should be, blind and consuming hate, instead of this wishywashy charade.

Besides, there’s the matter of geographical inconvenience to think about. Emory is two states away, a good 10-hour drive. Rivals generally have the decency to live close by, so you can drop by and heckle or vandalize on whim. They shouldn’t

be a 10-hour drive away, resulting in elaborate schedule planning months ahead of time just for some petty graffiti.

And who really has the energy to hate someone after traveling for so long? Come on.

All in all, we shouldn’t really waste our time on this silly thing, and instead we ought to fi nd someone we can properly hate. For you Emory kids… have you tried the Atlanta Technical College? I heard they’re close to where you guys are.

As for us, we’ll always have Fontbonne. Now there’s a school we can hate for no good reason, them and their architecture that looks like ours. Grrrrr.

-Hubert Cheung Class of 2007

Not “Hammer” time Dear Editor: Re: “The Hammer” (Sept. 14) John Hewitt’s editorial review of David Horowitz’s Assembly Series speech employs a curious rhetorical technique: deflecting our attention away from the issue that the speaker spoke on, the need to protect academic freedom and promote intellectual diversity. It is clear that John Hewitt hates David Horowitz. Who cares?

Hewitt advocates reporting professors’ thought crimes.

Was this a satirical comment? Horowitz and his

academic freedom document aim to stop actual politically influenced grading, ridicule of political or religious beliefs, and unprofessional political activism within the context of a professor’s professional responsibilities. These are not thought crimes, they are hate crimes.

Hewitt is rankled at Horowitz’s assertion that professors at our university are politically biased. Last year, one of my English literature professors started class the day after the 2004 elections by saying, “This is a sad day for America.”

This contemptuous comment was made in a non-scholarly fashion, and more importantly, conservative students in that class were alienated. What does that have to do with the study of English literature?

David Kirk, a professor of biology, has bumper stickers on his office door (McDonnell 232) openly deriding John Ashcroft, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Are conservative students welcome to seek his help and knowledge in his office? The Academic Bill of Rights would stop any professor from “indoctrinating [students] with the teacher’s own opinions.” University professors have a right to free speech, but they don’t have a right to force others to pay for their pulpit.

Professors: pursue political activism on your own time, and don’t expect your students to foot the bill.

Horowitz talk disappointing

Corrections to “Hammer” article

Dear Editor:

Dear readers:

Having attended David Horowitz’s Wednesday Assembly lecture last week, I was disappointed at the official endorsement of his presentation implied by the introduction given by James Davis, director of the new Gephardt Institute for Public Service.

Among many other assertions of comparable validity, Horowitz told WU students that they were receiving a bad education if their professors didn’t tell them that President Roosevelt lured Japan into World War II and that the miserable Katrina response was due to New Orleans having a black mayor.

According to Horowitz, the low quality of WU education is the result of a conspiracy to prevent the hiring and promotion of conservative faculty.

Horowitz’s performance was shameful and makes me wonder if that is the sort of thing regarded as “public service” by the Gephardt Institute.

Re: John Hewitt’s “The Hammer” (Sept. 14) Thank you for pointing out my careless mistakes in my Wednesday column, which were unintended and uncharacteristic of my usual attention to accuracy. They should not have happened, and I will not insult my readers by inventing excuses for them. I’m ashamed, and I deserve your scorn and will deserve it still for whatever mistakes I might make in the future.

I made two other mistakes in addition my misnaming of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) as a Senator from Illinois that discussed in the letters to the editor published on Friday.

I stated that Joe Scarborough is affiliated with Fox News. He is not. He works for MSNBC and Westwood one radio.

At the end of the article, I sloppily inferred that the draft lottery that began in 1969 included college deferments. The draft lottery was so significant in that it ended many opportunities for draft deferments, including those justified by educational commitments.

-Peter Gaspar Professor of Chemistry

-John K. Hewitt Class of 2008

-Steven Hoffmann Class of 2007

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Obituaries: George Washington

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ohn Adams is still going strong. Thomas Jefferson had a scare in Louisiana unrelated to Hurricane Katrina, but survived. Unfortunately, George Washington was not so lucky.

According to rumors twirling around campus, Washington, our nation’s first president, died early Sunday morning.

He was 273 years old. Sources within the University and the White House have confirmed the death.

Wash. U. students first learned about the death through a message painted on the underpass. Next to the line “Emory owns U” (ad-

Milstein ministration officials have speculated that this was alerting students that Emory University has obtained the world’s supply of uranium), somebody wrote, “George Washington is dead.” Throughout Sunday

afternoon and into the night, students crowded the overpass mourning and reading the various messages left by Emory enthusiasts.

Washington first became famous for leading the American troops in the Revolutionary War, and then for becoming the nation’s inaugural president in 1789. In 1853, under the guise William Greenleaf Eliot, he founded what would become Washington University in St. Louis. Not content to simply be the founder, Washington was the first person to don a bear costume at football games.

Unfortunately, the exuberant Washington had to retire his

bear costume in 1990 after his 258-year-old body could no longer stand the rigors of dancing around in a heavy bear costume for the duration of a football game.

He then devoted his time to attracting new students and a greater reputation for Washington University. He accomplished this by trying to improve Wash.

U.’s rankings in what has been described as the “facile rubric that is the U.S. News and World Report rankings” by some observers, most notably at Emory.

Washington’s ideal finally came to fruition in the 2004 rankings, when the University cracked the top 10 for the first

time.

While this plan has come into much criticism, it is undeniable that the cachet of coming to such a highly ranked school (we have been ranked #11 for each of the past two years) has attracted a record number of applicants. This year, over 22,000 college seniors applied to be one of just under 1,400 freshmen to matriculate at Wash. U., setting yet another all-time high for Wash. U. applicants.

Some may argue that it is better to use this money that Washington pledged for improving the school’s ranking for research instead, but with

the University’s new prestige, it is very possible that the quality of research that is done at the University from now on will be superior to that of the University before Washington’s plan was put into action, provided that the money is indeed used for research.

A memorial will be held at Graham Chapel some time in the immediate future. Washington is survived by his greatgreat-great-great-great grandson David Ader.

Daniel is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences and a Forum editor.

He can be reached via e-mail at forum@studlife.com.

A house divided; a bitter ‘rivalry’?

By Melissa Miller Staff Columnist

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ow that Emory has declared war on Wash.

U., I feel that I must do whatever is necessary to uphold the honor and reputation of my beloved Alma Mater, even if that means waging war against my own family. My little brother, Nick, is a freshman at Emory University. Why would I do this? Because I fart in Emory’s general direction.

I hereby pledge to face my brother in only the most ferocious forms of sibling-esque combat. We will face each other in “Sumo,” a game in which opponents stuff their clothing with pillows and run savagely towards each other to collide in the middle of the living room and ricochet violently off each other—the winner remains standing.

We will fight each other in “Bat’leth,” a game named after the brutal Klingon war weapon where opponents meet each other on the steps of a pool and proceed to batter each other with foam noodles until the weaker competitor falls into the pool. We will battle in the game “Banshee,” a more complicated game in which competitors place their right hand on the top of their head and stick their left arm through the circle created by their right arm.

Competitors then begin to swirl their left arm around in circles while screaming and chasing their opponent, trying to whack them with the whirling arm.

This game can last for days because it is not yet clear how

one wins.

We will also wage intellectual war. We will play the “Who can come up with more arcane 19th-20th century words that mean ‘prostitute’” game. I will yell, “Hoosie, hussy, harlot, strumpet, trollop, round-heal, Carmen, lady-of-the-night, Hester, Scarlet Lady, floozy, jade, adulteress, fornicatress, slovenly women!” and he, with his feeble only-ranked-20th-inthe-U.S.-News-and-World-Report brainpower, will stammer and concede victory.

“When David Ader warns us not to do anything rash in response, in my mind he’s saying, ‘Don’t do anything unoriginal.’”

But then he shouts, “You are ugly! You ugly Wash. U. girl!”

And this, sadly, I cannot deny.

Since I have matriculated here, I have undoubtedly grown quite hideous. I’ve sprouted thick black facial hair and several pus-filled moles now cover my visage. My eyes have crossed, my teeth bucked, my limbs become asymmetrical, my toes webbed and my breasts concave.

Then he says, “George Washington is dead!” I begin to cry.

He says, “Why are you crying?” to which I respond, “Because shut up is why!” …And then

we’ll start laughing because neither of us is actually fighting or crying. Because neither of us actually cares. Why fight because some bored Emory student decided to contrive—fabricate—a rivalry between our schools?

Furthermore, the “rivalry” between Emory and Wash. U., my brother and I agree, is only real when it involves cleverness and wit worthy of respect and crafty retaliation. When David Ader warns us not to do anything rash in response, in my mind he’s saying, “Don’t do anything unoriginal.” An example, a true, clever, but harmless prank was pulled off last year by the students at Caltech.

They visited MIT during MIT’s prospective student weekend and, posing as MIT student ambassadors, handed out approximately 800 MIT t-shirts to potential freshmen.

The catch was that while the shirts read “MIT” on the front, when people began to unfold them, they read, “Because not everybody can go to Caltech,” on the back. It doesn’t damage property or impede student life, it does, however, “zing” MIT pretty badly. A prank worthy of the word “rivalry.”

Graffiti, on the other hand, I can find in most places. Not particularly clever or difficult to do; if I want it, I’ll go downtown. The graffiti’s message, neither particularly inspired nor imaginative.

Something creative, funny, in the spirit of competition, but harmless: that’s rivalry—something like singing the lyrics to that really annoying Coke commercial with the pseudo-hip-

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pies singing and holding their Cokes in the air on a rooftop (Coke being their main benefactor)—singing that song at them the next time we play them in sports.

I’d like to buy the world a home and furnish it with love, Grow apple trees and honey

bees, and snow white turtle doves.

I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, I’d like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company.

[Repeat the last two lines, and in the background:] It’s the real thing, Coke is what the world wants today.

As it is now though, my house isn’t going to be divided or even bothered by the Emory vs. Wash. U. “rivalry.”

Melissa is a senior in Arts & Sciences. She can be reached via e-mail at mjmiller@artsci.wustl. edu.

No time to be political Wash Who? Wash. U.!

By Rebecca Emshwiller, Megan Sheridan, and Kelly O’Shea

The Bear Spirit Act (The BS Act):

Op-ed Submission

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o the proud citizens of Washington University, We are at war. In light of Sunday’s attacks, we are shocked and appalled by the lack of security on campus.

To better allow Commandant Ader, the Congress of the South 40 and our illustrious Senate to track down the terrorists and destroy them, we are proposing the following act to be implemented immediately. Ladies and gentlemen, this is no time to be political. Desperate times call for desperate measures. We all need to put our political views aside…well, actually just the liberal ones.

For too long, we as students have been overzealous in our attempts to help humanity.

This is no time to Teach for America or build Habitats for Humanity. We need to focus on what’s really important…us.

We are not just protecting Washington University, but the fate of peaceful campuses across America, and Poland.

Just think—what is Fontbonne going to do without the support of a stronger, and intellectually more diverse school?

We could tell you. But we can’t because children might be reading this.

Outlined below are the necessary steps to ensure the destruction of the Axis of Weevil—Emory, Rice and Juanita College. Please understand that in order to keep our civil liberties, we have to temporarily remove them.

1. All meal plan information is henceforth confidential. The only way to determine your point balance is when you run out.

2. All taxes originally taken away for food products will now be reinstated. (If Bon Appetit fails, we all are doomed.)

The proceeds will be appropriated for war uses, determined

by Brother Wrighton.

3. The use of the Duncker— January Tunnel is now closed.

This law must be enforced because this is a prime location for terrorist cells to hide on campus.

4. All buildings will, from this point on, be referred to as “Cupples.” This is to confuse the enemies, disorienting them from the easily navigated, rectangular campus we call home.

5. All freshmen will be drafted for a standing army.

Drill practices will be held on Mudd Field, following IM Frisbee.

6. The campus bookstore will be selling magnetic ribbons, which can conveniently be placed on cars, bicycles or metal backpacks. Obviously, all people not wearing the ribbon are terrorists. This will make it easy for us to identify the perpetrators.

7. All students and faculty will need to buy a metal backpack.

8. Work-study is no longer a paid process. You are here because you want to be here.

Get used to it.

9. Anonymous officials will track all books checked out from the libraries. If you want to read “Destroying Wash. U.

for Dummies,” you will be visited. Let’s not elaborate.

10. The Bunny will be moved to a more secure location—an undisclosed secure location.

11. Finally, three computer science majors will be reading all of your email.

Washington University should enact the Homeland Security Council, under the supervision of Brother McLeod.

Please check the flags on top of Brookings hourly to monitor our security alert status. The color schema is below: Aquamarine: We are really happy.

Lavender: We are experiencing minor difficulties.

Maroon: Lock yourself in Eliot Hall.

Periwinkle: It’s really not looking good.

Yellow: Emory has invaded the campus, and we are currently under siege.

Blue: It’s getting close to election time, so go vote on WebSTAC. Oh, by the way, we are getting our butts kicked.

Pirate flag: It’s over. Go home.

Thank you for your understanding, and for your campus pride. Go Bears!

P.S. All sports have been cancelled for security purposes. Red Alert members are being transferred to the WUPD terrorist reconnaissance team.

Rebecca, Megan and Kelly are seniors in the schools of Arts & Sciences and Engineering. They can be reached via e-mail at editor@studlife.com.

By Joseph Goodman Op-ed Submission “If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.” These timeless words spoken by our esteemed namesake, President George Washington, are as true in our time as they were in his. In the last few years, we at Washington University in St. Louis have been blessed by peace and prosperity. Under the reign of Chancellor Wrighton, Wash.

U. has enjoyed a rapid and unparalleled rise through the college rankings. But success breeds jealousy, and so today, my fellow WUers, war has been thrust upon us, and we must react!

You all know by now that Emory’s so-called “Department of War” has declared war. What you might not know is that their Department of War’s Ministry of Propaganda published an op-ed piece last week in the Emory Wheel, entitled “Wash Who?” In it they declared that their purpose in life is “to crush the hubristic Washington University students.” Being an Atlanta native and both the sibling and the child of Emory alumni (Note to Emory: those are different alumni), and skipping past their pathetic lack of purpose in life, I have a few thoughts.

First off, they criticized our very respectable bear mascot, while Dooley, their unofficial mascot, is a more than 100year-old skeleton that started

as a specimen in a biology lab who wears black and walks with a limp he got playing a girl in handball. They criticize us for being named after a great historical figure. Yes, he is dead, but so what? Don’t they realize that their school was named after a Methodist bishop, and yes, he was mortal too?

The article also brags about Emory’s new AIDS drug discovery. While it is true that this is one victory for them, Wash. U. is still a much more successful research institution. While Wash. U. played a vital role in the Human Genome project, Emory still proudly displays a monument for its participation in the Gravity Research Foundation—a failed program shut down 40 years ago, designed to find ways to block the effect of gravity. Lastly, among other unfounded conjectures in that article, it appears that Emory inanely believes itself not just our equal, but in possession of the faculties to crush us.

Is this a joke I have failed to understand? Do they really think they have a chance? How could their Coca-Cola College compete with our Budweiser University?

At the highest level our student government has failed to appropriately respond to the unfounded allegations against our school’s superiority, so we students must stand up.

President Ader says take the high road, but I say forget the high road; Wash. U. has been insulted. We must protect her honor by any means necessary.

Kudos to Emory. It has done a fine job of trying to marry up. I understand why it would want us as a rival, but the sim-

ple fact remains that Emorites cannot compete. If, however, they senselessly persist in trying to start a war with us, I say we take it to them. Just as St. Louisans General William Tecumseh Sherman and General Ulysses S. Grant burned down and defeated Atlanta during their 1864 March to the Sea, so too should we mercilessly put down our generation’s Southern Uprising. To Emory, I apologize in advance for the humiliation we are about to cause you, but, hey, you asked for it.

And finally, to those of you Wash. U. students who still don’t care, who just aren’t interested, who think that Emory has had its little fun, but now it’s over; to you I say, “Over?

Did you say ‘over’? Nothing is over until we decide it is!

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!?” (“Animal House.”) Are you going to let this secondrate university walk all over us? Are you going to let them think that they can compete with us; that we are afraid of them; or that they are at out level!? Absolutely not!

“We will never surrender.

We will never give up. We will fight them on the beach. We will fight them in the country.

We will fight them in the city.

We will fight them in the alleys.

We will fight them to the edge of the empire, but we will never, never, Never, Never, NEVER SURRENDER!” (Churchill.)

Joseph Goodman De Facto Secretary of War Joseph is a junior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via email at jhgoodman@wustl.edu.

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WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

IN BRIEF: The fifth-ranked women’s soccer team lost a heartbreaker to No. 6 Denison University 1-0 on Sunday while the men’s squad tied Centre College 0-0 after double overtime. It was the third game that the team could not score a goal.

Scoring woes continue for the Bears

By Joe Ciolli Sports Editor It has long been said, in the context of team sports, that defense is the best offense.

If one team keeps the other from scoring, it has no chance of losing. But for its past several games, the Washington University men’s soccer team has taken this motto almost too literally. With one goal scored and no goals conceded in their last three games combined, the Bears can’t seem to fi nd offense anywhere.

While a glaring lack of goals may be hurting the team this season, this is certainly not a new problem.

Since the current Bears seniors were freshmen, the team has struggled to fi nd the net, relying on impenetrable defense to keep them close to their opponents.

On Tuesday, Sept. 13, head coach Joe Clarke’s squad made the trip to Principia College hoping to notch another win

before University Athletic Association (UAA) competition begins. The Bears came out strong in the fi rst half, fi ring 10 shots on the Principia goalkeeper.

Unfortunately, the team could not get on the scoreboard before halftime, despite turning in a dominant performance.

The second half started the same way, with the two teams deadlocked at 0-0. Then, in the 61st minute, sophomore Marshall Plow was able to maneuver around his defender along the end line before slotting in a perfect cross. With Plow having drawn the goalkeeper out of position, sophomore Onyi Okoroafor was able to connect with the pass and send it into the goal. The tally was Okoroafor’s second of the season, good for most on the team. Okoroafor also leads the Bears in assists with two.

While the Bears tried to build on their 1-0 lead, they had no luck as the lopsided

game ended up looking fairly close on paper. Junior goalkeeper Matt Fenn picked up his second consecutive shutout in the victory, his third overall on the season. Clarke’s team was certainly satisfied with another notch in the win column, but the lackluster play of the Bears’ forwards raised concerns going into their match-up against Centre College.

Back at Francis Field against Centre on Sunday, the Bears hoped to turn in a more inspired performance against arguably their strongest opponent yet. The match was physical from the fi rst whistle as the two teams tried to gain the advantage in what was mostly a midfield struggle.

For much of the fi rst half, Centre appeared to create more scoring chances.

At one point, a Centre forward muscled a Bears defender off the ball before fi ring a hard, low shot that almost gave his team the advantage. The

shot hit the inside of the post squarely and came back out of the goal mouth, just inches from being a goal.

However, the Bears hung in the game and made it to halftime with the game still scoreless. In the second half, Okoroafor provided the Bears with their best scoring chance in regulation as he volleyed the ball off the top of the crossbar. However, the real standout for the Bears was Fenn. Having made several key saves in the fi rst half, Fenn made two particularly spectacular stops in the second half to preserve a scoreless regulation period. Perhaps the most jaw-dropping moment came with just minutes left when a Centre player fi red a hard shot to the upper right corner. Fenn, anticipating the placement, power dove to his left to redirect the shot out of the goal.

After a scoreless 90 minutes, the two teams squared off in sudden death overtime.

The two 10-minute periods provided the Bears with several strong chances, most coming from corner kicks. A central defender, senior John Horky came up and had a few dangerous headers go toward the Centre goal, but a congested penalty box kept him from netting one.

The game ended 0-0 after two overtimes, moving the Bears’ overall season record to 3-0-3, and giving Fenn his fourth shutout in six games.

Fenn received the UAA Defensive Player of the Week award for his three consecutive shutouts.

The Bears will take on Illinois Wesleyan University this week before heading to Oshkosh, Wisc. to play two games against tough competition. The Bears will likely use the Illinois Wesleyan game to work out some of their offensive problems before the more difficult portion of the season begins.

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Sophomore Onyi Okoroafor runs with all his speed after the ball against Centre College on Sunday.

The team could not score a goal, extending their scoreless streak to three games.

Women lose heartbreaker to Denison

By Justin Davidson Senior Sports Editor After a solid victory over the No. 3 team in the nation, Wheaton College (MA), last week, the fi fth-ranked Washington University women’s soccer team wasn’t given a break in their tough schedule. On Sunday, Sept. 18, the team was set to face sixth-ranked Denison University at home on Francis Field.

In a hard-fought battle dominated by strong defense

on both sides of the ball, Denison was able to snap the Bears’ three-game win streak with a 10 win in front of a crowd of 175 Bear faithfuls.

It didn’t take long for Denison to score their lone goal and get their name on the board.

Two minutes into the game, an explosive Denison offensive player got past the Bear defense and, with the breakaway, Denison was able to chip the ball above sophomore keeper Nina Sass for the score.

After letting in the fi rst goal, Sass played the remainder of the game, saving one shot on goal.

Despite owning the advantage in shots, 9-6, throughout the game, the Bears couldn’t get the ball through the pipes. And as time expired, they walked off the field scoreless and winless.

Sophomore Marin McCarthy led the Bear offense, getting four shots off on goal, although none were able to connect with

the net.

The big difference in the game came from the mistakes that the squad forced. The University could not capitalize on corner kicks, where Denison had six corner kicks to the Bears’ one. More important, fouls killed the Bear effort. Thirteen fouls contributed greatly to losing possession of the ball and the opportunity to score goals. Denison, in comparison, only committed three fouls.

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Sophomore Sara Schroeder nearly gets past the Denison goalkeeper in Sunday’s 1-0 loss. The Bears outshot Denison 9-6, but could not score.

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By Robbie Gross

By Emily Joshi-Powell Cadenza Staff The Repertory Theatre is one of the premier professional theatre companies in the St. Louis area. Consistently impressive, “the Rep” is a real local treasure, and, this month, Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” hits their Mainstage. The action takes place over the course of one warm summer evening in 1950s Mississippi Delta. The locale is Big Daddy’s sumptuous plantation estate, which sits on 28,000 acres of the most sought after land in the South.

What goes on inside the walls, however, does not echo the beautiful exterior.

Within the gorgeous mansion a thick, tangled web of lies, deceit, and avarice looms over the household and everyone in it. The metaphor that drives the play becomes increasingly appropriate. Like cats on a hot tin roof, the characters are at once stuck somewhere very uncomfortable, and yet do all they can to stay where they are. The emotions inside the house mirror the hot, humid evening, offering a virtual smorgasbord of upper class plight. The play encompasses failed marriage, dysfunctional families, sexual frustration, repressed homosexuality, human mortality, greed, and futility.

The Repertory Theatre’s production modernizes

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the play. There are some substantial changes to the original script, and minor characters that appear in the original text are excluded.

The technical elements of the production – the scenic design, lighting, and sound – are fl awless, presumably just as Williams would have wanted. Over the course of the two-hour play the sun is setting, creating a lovely physical backdrop for the drama, whose entirety is set in the bedroom/sittingroom of the great plantation house. The audience, meanwhile, sits on three sides of the round thrust stage. The space is well used, and the set is simple and elegant.

That the play is supposed to be set in modern times, however, does not translate very well. Modernizing a play often opens it up to a wider audience, and the themes and ideas of Williams’ plays are no doubt timeless. Still, some thematic elements are meant to remain time-specific.

For one, there are no longer real plantations in the South, and the modern props that were thrown in do more to confuse than to tastefully appropriate and adapt. The addition of a mini-radio and remote, bottled water, cell phone, and modern looking cast appear as a mistake since nowhere was it clearly stated that this was a modernized version.

The direction and performances were impressive.

Michael McCarty, as the

vulnerable patriarchic Big Daddy, gives an exceptionally truthful, outstanding performance. Jason Kuykendall’s performance as the depressed and alcoholic Brick is equally powerful, especially during the pivotal and climactic confrontation with his father, Big Daddy, at the end of Act One. Molly Schaffer, meanwhile, gives a more than acceptable performance as the lustful Maggie, no doubt a difficult role to play exceptionally well. Shaffer’s only fault is that she fails to convince us of Maggie’s transformation into a hard and desperate woman.

One of the play’s key features is its comedic elements.

The comic delivery throughout the play was right on and just as it was written – sometimes subtle and often not.

It can be difficult to create depth in shallow characters, but the cast was strong and gave real credit to the essence of Williams’ timeless characters.

This play is quintessential Williams – total tragedy with a real comic tone. It leaves you feeling depressed, or at best empty, and defi nitely does not answer all your questions. This is part of the brilliance, of course, though for fans of stories with clear-cut endings or closure this might be a frustrating choice.

“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” continues through October 7th [2005] at the Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Road in Webster Groves. For information call 968-4925 or visit www.repstl.org.

Theatre Editor Released four years after September 11th, John Vanderslice’s “Pixel Revolt” is by no means the first sophisticated pop album to explicitly discuss American politics and foreign relations. Bruce Springsteen did it with “The Rising,” and Steve Earle with “Jerusalem,” to name a couple.

Where these albums focused more on New York City and Afghanistan, respectively, Vanderslice’s newest moves on to the new battlefield -- Iraq. The result is an expansive album that shows his range as an artist: condemnatory in its politics and often lovely in its harmonies.

Vanderslice, who is a producer as well, gained significant acclaim for his 2004 album “Cellar Door,” an album that also explores themes of violence and war.

In “Pixel Revolt,” though, Vanderslice has produced a much tighter album, lyrically and musically. The album vacillates between his more customary sound of drum machines and loud acoustic guitars and an uncharacteristic sparseness.

Whereas in “Cellar Door,” angry lyrics were met with equally angry vocals and loud instruments, “Pixel Revolt” exhibits mixtures of volume and theme. In the musically gentle “Plym-

outh Rock,” Vanderslice analogizes 17th century British settlers thrown into war with Native Americans with the war in Iraq. “When we jumped off the deck / white bullets tore right through my neck,” one lyric goes. “I lost the reason / I lost the reason, I’m here,” Vanderslice sings in the chorus.

References to Iraq are frequent throughout the album. “Trance Manual,” another musically spacious song, is about a journalist soliciting an Iraqi prostitute (“I’ll have my editors arrange for payment”).

In “Exodus Damage,” one of the stronger tracks on the album – and one that includes a very tasteful use of a vibraphone – he goes back to September 11th with one of the more potent lines of the event in pop music yet. “So the second plane hit at 9:02,” the second verse begins. “I saw it live on a hotel tv, talking on my cell with you / you said this

would happen, and just like that, it did / wrong about the feeling, wrong about the sound.”

The lively, energetic songs like “Exodus Damage” are where the album truly becomes exceptional.

“Radiant with Terror,” a track based on a Robert Lowell poem, is a short and powerfully apocalyptic statement about life in the post-September 11th age. On “Continuation,” Vanderslice proves he can do apolitical indie-rock just as well as anyone else.

Indie-rock is a good thing and the one shortcoming of the album is that there is not enough of it. Though the slower, mood-setting songs are often the ones with the most potent lyrics, they unfortunately are also the most boring. Vanderslice is a dynamic producer of sound, and a proven, excellent lyricist. It is when he puts the two together that “Pixel Revolt” really shines.

Pixel Revolt Grade: 3½ stars Bottom Line: An expansive album that soars when it rocks.

Tracks to Download: “Exodus Damage,” “Radiant with Terror,” “Continuation

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September 21, 1993: Nirvana releases its third and final studio album “In Utero.”

After the huge commercial success of their second album, and the unexpected superstardom that accompanied it, Nirvana and lead singer Kurt Cobain recorded this album in an attempt to re-embrace their punk fan-base. Endeavoring to prove to their listeners that they had not sold out to the mainstream pop world, Nirvana recorded “In Utero” in just 12 days, for a mere $24,000. Featuring hit singles, “Heart-Shaped Box,” “All Apologies,” and “Rape Me,” “In Utero” debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 despite its more abrasive content. “In Utero” was nominated for a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album, but the award was claimed by U2’s “Zooropa.” Nirvana would eventually receive the Grammy two years later for their posthumous release “MTV Unplugged In New York.”

Sufjan Stevens? Cheerleaders? This is heaven, at least for some music connoisseurs.

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Sufjan Stevens is what you might call a “college degree” rocker. Not only did the gentlevoiced Michigan native receive a degree in creative writing from the New School in New York, but he fi lls his songs with sly historical references and brilliant turns of phrase in the manner of a grade-A essay.

That doesn’t mean he lacks emotion, however; his best songs are likely to move the listener to tears. It’s this special blend of intelligence and songcraft that young Sufjan (pronounced “Soof-yahn”) is

bringing to Mississippi Nights this Thursday, September 22.

Stevens is currently touring in support of his new album “Illinois,” out on Asthmatic Kitty Records. For those who don’t know, the record is part two of a presumably fi fty-part endeavor in which Stevens plans to devote an album to each of the fi fty United States.

Judging from the excellence of the fi rst two, “Illinois” and the earlier “Greetings from Michigan,” we could use forty-eight more. “Illinois” effortlessly combines sparse piano ballads, exuberant bells-and-whistles celebrations, and banjoplucked love songs. Particular-

ly outstanding is “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.,” an ode to the serial killer that is neither condoning nor entirely condemning.

When Stevens sings of his victims, “Even more, they were boys / With their cars, summer jobs, Oh my God,” it’s hard not to get goosebumps. There are also Illinois references galore, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Carl Sandberg, the Sears Tower, and the lyric “Stephen A. Douglas was a great debater, but Abraham Lincoln was the great emancipator.” The guy’s apparently done his research.

In addition to so much intellectual name-dropping, Stevens isn’t afraid to explore another, decidedly non-rock ‘n’ roll, aspect of his life: his Christian faith. His 2004 acoustic album “Seven Swans” addressed the issue directly, but religious references pop up all over “Illinois” as well.

However, Stevens has said in interviews that it’s simply the background he brings to the table and he can’t be held responsible for all of Christianity. And that’s a reasonable request: we often enjoy musicians despite their political or social views, so why should religious views be any different? Stevens isn’t here to proselytize; he’s not exactly Creed or P.O.D. He is one of the best young artists in the country, with a style completely his own. His show at Mississippi Nights on Thursday will be part history lesson, part school pageant, part religious testimony, and wholly excellent.

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The rhythm of the Loop Part 2 of a series On a Sunday evening, while strolling through the Loop, one hears the unmistakable thud of a palm on a taut drum head. The drum circle in the Loop has been convening every Sunday in good weather for the past ten years, and shows no sign of stopping. The group plays in the plaza near the Market, in between Racanelli’s and Hot Pink, and is quite hard to miss. Consisting of a circle of approximately eight musicians, the drum circle draws a sizeable crowd of specta-

tors.

The drummers play everything from congas to bongos to upturned buckets and trash cans. Also present are dancers and other percussionists. Rick, a young member of the circle, plays an overturned five-gallon plastic bucket with drumsticks to produce “something different, a different sound” in contrast to the drum’s thuds.

The bucket, when struck, resonates differently than the heads of traditional drums.

Rick says that he drums in

As a native of a small town in southern Kentucky growing up, the music scene in my hometown was anything but thriving. My town’s one musical claim to fame: being the home to one or more members of WILD’s most recent headlining disappointment, the Nappy Roots. Situated just an hour north of Nashville, Tennessee, friends would often make trips south, searching for musical greatness, or anything that resembled a live music venue.

Hopes were often crushed, however, upon realizing that the Nashville music scene is inundated, now as much as ever, with a host of pop-country wannabes toting their guitars up and down the Row. And while great country music should be held in high regard, its current twangy bar-ballad style, did little

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the circle because drumming “is always in my genes. My old dude plays [in the circle] too.” A former factory worker, Rick has been playing with the drum circle on the Loop for approximately four years and plans on continuing for years. A native of St. Louis, Rick still lives in the area and now drives trucks when not drumming.

His best advice for young adults such as ourselves is to “not do drugs. It’ll mess up your life. That’s my advice: no drugs.”

The Gabe Dixon Band

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to excite my young ear.

My hopes were revived, however, when my older brother, a DJ at the Vanderbilt radio station at the time, turned me on to a Nashville band with true promise; a group far removed from its country counterparts; one with originality, talent, and the hint of an experimental edge.

The Gabe Dixon Band is a jazz-inspired, pianorock trio with frontman and Nashville native Gabe Dixon at the helm, accompanied by bassist Winston Harrison and drummer Jano Rix. Dixon’s laid-back vocals and rhythmic piano stylings provide the soul of their sound—which is at times blues, at times poppy, and at times completely unexpected.

Their latest release, “Live at World Café,” a six-song EP, is a perfect representation of their fl awless performance ability and the diversity

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of their eclectic, soulful sound. Featuring four new Dixon creations, as well as a bluesy version of the Hendrix classic “Hey Joe” and a Gabe Dixon Band favorite “More Than It Would Seem,” this new release is an ideal introduction to a band breathing life into the Nashville (and national) music scene.

Information about the band, song clips, and touring information is available on the band’s website www. gabedixonband.com

Check it Out: The Gabe Dixon Band Live at World Café For Fans of: Ben Folds, Jack Johnson Downloads: Hey Joe, All Will Be Well, More Than It Would Seem

“Lord of War” is a tricky movie to pin down. It isn’t so much a movie as it is an idea wrapped in a movie’s clothing, but it is a good idea and the trappings are all very pretty and well done. An amazing opening scene that follows a bullet from its creation, through its transport to rebels, and fi nally into the forehead of an African teenager, tells the entire message of the movie beautifully and with no words. Unfortunately, the movie goes on for another hour and fi fty-nine minutes.

The movie takes us through the rise, fall, rise, and fall of Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage), a Ukrainian immigrant who takes up gun-running after watching a hit occur at a local restaurant and realizing that because there will always be killing, the world will always need arms dealers. He starts out selling Uzis from a contact made through his temple and gradually works his way up through the world of arms dealing after deciding that despite all of the gang violence, the profit margins

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Along the way, he watches his brother (Jared Leto) fall apart, tricks and wins the love of his dream girl (Bridget Moynahan), ruffles the feathers of a rival arms dealer (Ian Holm), befriends an African warlord (Eamonn Walker), and butts heads with an Interpol officer (Ethan Hawke). The only one of these characters that is particularly engaging is that of the African warlord, a soulless creation, who lets the viewer glimpse the face of pure sadism. It is through this character that we are able to see how truly horrible Yuri has become.

However, the movie is a bit too preachy about a subject that is a bit of a non-issue.

The average viewer is not going to come into the movie thinking, “Hmm…I am not sure where I stand on people supplying AK-47’s to tribal warlords who are going to use children to exact their horrific plans of genocide,” and that is where the movie hits its largest stumbling point. Writer and director Andrew Niccol has made numerous fi lms in which the idea behind the fi lm was larger than the fi lm itself, but it worked because the concepts were fascinating, whether they were strangely prophetic visions of the future of television (The Truman Show) or possibly prophetic visions of the future of

childbirth (Gattaca).

Unfortunately, here the very quintessence of the fi lm is not so grand, and the poor characterization and pacing come to the forefront. The movie suffers from not being sure of what it wants to be, vacillating between biting, dark political comedy and standard spy vs. spy adventure/drama, being far more effective as a dark comedy than as an adventure fi lm.

It also suffers from far too much narration and sly winking to the camera. At times, it seems that the movie itself is unaware of the underlying motives behind its characters’ actions, so it resorts to telling us through narration that their motives were unknowable rather than try to support them with some actual reason.

“Lord of War” isn’t a bad movie for these reasons, just a misdirected one. The actors do a good job with what little they have, and no one other than Nicolas Cage could have played Yuri. The cinematography is beautiful, although not quite as stunning as the other recent African-centric, political commentary riddled movie, “The Constant Gardener.” The movie is too preachy for its own good and works better as a two-hour public service announcement than it does as a piece of cinema.

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Gettin’ crunk with Lil’ John at WILD doesn’t exactly denote taste, class, and decorum; at least not as much as it promotes getting wasted on a couple of forties. So, if you’re more wine and cheese than beer and buffalo wings, perhaps WILD is not your ideal Friday night destination. But if you are instead in the market for a class-fi lled musical outing, be sure to stop by the Saint Louis Symphony’s Opening Weekend and Musical Director David Robertson’s inaugural performance in Powell Hall. Friday’s concert will feature works by Bach, Stravinsky, Mozart, Vivier, and John Adams, as well as a performance by soprano Dawn Upshaw. Student tickets are available for half price, providing a classy and affordable evening of fi ne entertainment.

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Nalgene bottles are being rinsed, handles of Smirnoff are being purchased, and the mechanical bull is being prepared. This Friday WILD will once again lay claim to the Wash. U. campus, and as Lil’ John and the East Side Boyz prepare to take over the Quad, a group of Wash. U. students are preparing to vacate the campus; at least for the Friday night event. Whether they’re fifth year seniors bored with the tradition or freshmen lacking desire to take part in the drunken festivities, there are many students looking for an alternative to the WILD event. As a result, Cadenza has compiled a guide to substitute WILD events, so hopefully each type of non-WILD participator has a refuge from the storm.

For The Academic Mechanical bulls, pie-eating contests, and inflatable games aren’t exactly forms of intellectual entertainment. So, the academic, who prefers his leisure time to be both educational and entertaining, may not fi nd WILD to be the ideal atmosphere for acquiring knowledge—excluding the knowledge of a more sordid nature that can be attained at almost any WILD event. However, this Friday night there is hope for our academic friends to still hear live music while simultaneously managing to utilize one of St. Louis’ fi nest educational facilities. This Friday, the St. Louis Science Center will host the fi rst in a series of free concerts from 6 until 9:30 pm. Jupiter Jazz, a spoken word and hip-hop group will perform, followed by Floating City, an experimental group that utilizes unpredictable lyrics paired against “unorthodox melodies.” Food and drink will be on hand, as well as alcoholic beverages that will be sold for a small price.

So, for science buffs and music fans alike, the SciOLIVER HULLAND | STUDENT LIFE ence Center offers yet another escape from the educationally-devoid WILD festivities.

For The homebody Even though the college social scene often consists of trips to frat-house basements and regular visits to Blue Hill, there are those who prefer PJs and popcorn to tube tops and bar-hopping. So for the homebody who would prefer a quiet night in, to a raucous night out, we recommend staying in this Friday, with a stock of Orville Redenbacher’s, the door locked, and a new release in hand. While September isn’t the peak of movie season, there are several new fi lms available at your local video retailer: Adam Sandler’s “The Longest Yard” and the independent fi lm Winter Solstice, featuring Anthony La Plagia as a troubled widower, are both recent releases. So whether you’re in the mood for a slapstick comedy or an artsy drama, tuck yourself away with a new fi lm or an old favorite, wellhidden from the mayhem that is sure to be occurring just down the hall.

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For The fashionista The rain-soaked quad is defi nitely not the ideal location for strutting your stuff on a Friday night.

In the course of a WILD concert, flat-ironed hair becomes a tangle of curls and brand new shoes become indiscriminant brown clods. So, if you fear that your new Gucci shoes may get ruined in the WILD debacle, it may be wise to pursue Friday night entertainments elsewhere. For the Wash U fashionista, a trip off-campus to a swanky bar or club may be preferable to the wet t-shirt contests that are sure to pervade the WILD festivities. A trip to the up-and-coming Park Ave. of Lafayette Square may be the perfect escape. Located at 1913 Park Ave, 33 Wine Shop and Tasting Bar is so chic that it doesn’t even need a sign over the door; with a variety of wines and beers to choose from, this South-Beach style bar is the perfect destination for a burgeoning social climber. Just next door, you will also fi nd Bailey’s Chocolate Bar, the carrier of “fi ne desserts, cheeses, and aphrodisiacs.” Between a Thin Mint Martini and a decadent crème brulée, any fashionista will surely enjoy the swanky atmosphere and delicious treats.

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“While you’re at WILD…”Franz Ferdinand concert preview

By Jennifer Lee Cadenza Staff This Friday over half the Wash U student body will pack the Quad to get a live sample of crunk hip hop courtesy of Lil’ Jon and the Eastside Boyz. Of the remaining students, a handful will choose to skip crunk for a taste of post-punk instead.

Just a few blocks north of Brookings, Franz Ferdinand will rock The Pageant on the day of WILD, along with special guests Pretty Girls Make Graves and Cut Copy.

Franz Ferdinand, the four-piece band from

Glasgow, Scotland, has made the cross-Atlantic trek to spread their contribution to the post-punk revival fueled by contemporaries such as Hot Hot Heat and Interpol.

The night will feature the group’s self-titled debut released last September, an assortment of charged, upbeat tracks characterized by almost grating but not unpleasant guitar melodies and pounding drum beats that make you want to stomp your feet. Judging by the high energy of the album, the stakes are high that the show will turn into a full-blown rock-and-roll dance party. The most an-

ticipated performance of the night will be “Take Me Out,” the edgy single which has received plenty of airplay and put the band on the map of mainstream rock. Fans will also have their ears perked for the group’s new single “Do You Want To,” off the upcoming sophomore album “You Could Have It So Much Better,” due out in stores Oct. 4. Before Franz hits the stage, co-ed opener Pretty Girls Make Graves will warm up the audience by churning out angry, angular tunes to the likes of The Pixies and At the Drive-In, while Cut Copy will alter the mood with a hybrid of 80’s

electro-pop and retro dance that should please fans of Daft Punk.

Those torn between attending the semi-annual all-school campus party and the Pageant show this Friday can compromise using the following strategy: head over to the Quad around 4:30, chow down on free barbecue and hear all the first stage bands, including part of the headliner, then mosey on down to the Loop just in time to catch Franz Ferdinand’s opening song.