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THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSIT Y IN ST. LOUIS SINCE 1878 UTF—a unified technology fee, or an unnecessary one? Daniel Milstein discusses this recent Student Union proposal in Forum. Page 7.

Sports over break: softball won the UAA title for the third year running, while women’s hoops ended their season in heartbreak. Page 8.

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Inside News: Non-art majors looking for graphics experience need look no further than the new VisComm minor. Page 3.

The Go! Team, Flaming Lips and other hot acts rocked the South

by Southwest festival over break. Cadenza’s Cody Elam was there. See Page 10.

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Cleaning up after Katrina Sigma Chi to v Student volunteers storm the Gulf Coast during Alternative Spring Break

By David Song Contributing Reporter Along with thousands of other students from around the nation, freshman news reporter David Song spent his spring break on the Gulf Coast helping to rebuild areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. While there, Song documented his experiences and those of the students who accompanied him. Student Life will run their stories as a twopart series that concludes on Friday. In today’s installment, work teams from Washington University arrive in New Orleans and begin their first day amidst the wreckage many of them had only seen on the news.

By Shweta Murthi and Kristin McGrath News Staff

Before spring break Two weeks before spring break, I had no idea that I would be living in abandoned hotels, with eight people to a room, or that I would be smashing apart the walls of once-flooded houses with crowbars. All I knew was that I was signing up for Alternative Spring Break—a Campus Y program that recruits students to provide volunteer relief. This year’s trip was to New Orleans. Despite having signed waiver forms and

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Sophomore Austin Thompson helps clear rubble in New Orleans during Spring Break. having received numerous e-mails about the volunteer effort, many of us had little idea what providing aid to a city devastated by Hurricane Katrina would be like.

Campus Crusade for Christ, the group with which I worked, left for New Or-

leans on Friday night. There were around 150 volunteers, and simply organizing how to get down to the city seemed something of a chore. Nonetheless, expectations for the volunteer effort seemed high.

“I think it’s going to be an

awesome experience to serve people,” said Chris Allen, a junior. “Most people in college think spring break is going down to the beach.”

The drive lasted about 12 hours. On the way, we met

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Writing 1 veterans to present work at new research symposium this Friday

By Marla Friedman Associate Reporter Current Writing 1 students preparing to spend hours at the library for their fi nal research projects might fi nd the motivation to do so after encountering those who have already survived the process.

This Friday, Writing 1 will be holding its fi rst annual Research Symposium at Olin Library. Four former Writing 1 students will host informal presentations about their research projects, discussing how the projects evolved throughout the semester and offering advice to current Writing 1 students.

Dr. Debra Rudder, coordinator for Writing 1 in the English department, said one of the research symposium’s goals was to promote a sense of community among students.

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“We wanted an opportunity for students to see that the work they do in Writing 1 is part of a larger university community, that it’s a scholarly activity that leads into all the other work they do,” said Rudder. “Having a symposium like this means that they’ll have a larger audience for their work.”

Many students often complain that requiring students to take Writing 1 as a mandatory course during freshman year adds an unwanted burden to their course loads. Rudder believes, however, that the symposium will still fi nd much student support.

“I think it’s possible that the current students would be interested to see how other students have dealt with the problems that come up while writing research papers,” said Rudder. “I think the incentive

may have to do with the fact they are working on similar kinds of projects right now.

The fact that the presenters are willing to do it is a testament to the discoveries that students can make in Writing 1.”

Sophomore Benjamin Blum, one of the presenters, wrote his research paper about influences on Israeli musical culture throughout time. He feels that the symposium will offer guidance to current Writing 1 students.

“I think it’s a good opportunity to learn about other people’s research projects and help students work on their own,” said Blum. “I know my research paper didn’t come together until the end because it took me awhile to figure out what exactly I wanted to do. I think the symposium will be a good opportunity for people to see what can be done with the

research project.”

Like Blum, Rudder expects that students working on their own research projects might fi nd inspiration in their classmates’ projects.

“The symposium can teach students about the variety of kinds of projects that they can work on, the wide range of primary and secondary sources that is available, things like that,” said Rudder. “These projects will provide students with a kind of a model for different ways they can go about doing the project.”

Following the symposium, students will be able to review the presenters’ project materials, including primary and secondary sources, abstracts of the papers, and pages of the paper drafts. The symposium will take place this Friday at 11 a.m. in Olin Library’s Special Collections section.

Unplugged students concern WU officials

By Troy Rumans Staff Reporter

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Many students use cell phones instead of dorm phones, leaving their room telephones to collect dust or serve as paperweights.

You know that University telephone that’s been collecting dust in your closet all year? The administration knows, and they worry that this neglected connection to the greater University community could create problems.

In a recent interview, Chancellor Wrighton emphasized that the University has made it a priority to maintain an information technology infrastructure that is “both nimble and resilient” during a time of rapid technological development. Wrighton bemoaned the fact that students only pick up their dorm phones sparingly, and sometimes do not even bother to plug them in at all.

“What’s evolved…is many of you come to college with a cell phone,” said Wrighton.

“And so if, for example, you were a person we would like to contact, we would like to know your phone number.

And maybe you gave it to

us, but, oftentimes, people will get that [cell] phone as a gift from their parents when they’re leaving, and we don’t have that phone number.

You unplug the phone in the room, and there’s no way to get in touch with you.”

The two primary avenues the University uses to keep students informed are the oft-maligned telephones and e-mail services. Immediately following 9/11, the University recognized the need for an improved server that would allow the University to reach students simultaneously and quickly. The server at the time queued e-mails, sometimes leading to delays of up to several hours. Wrighton cited difficulties with reaching students via e-mail as well.

“I receive e-mails [from people] who I know are in residence here and they’re not using the Washington University e-mail account they’ve been given,” said Wrighton.

“They’re using AOL, Yahoo, or some other [account]. They

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After receiving confirmation from the Chancellor during spring break, members of the Sigma Chi fraternity can look forward to moving back into their house this fall.

“We’ve been waiting a long time, and it’s just a great feeling to know we are getting it back again,” said senior Cory Zimmerman, Sigma Chi’s pledge educator.

The fraternity was forced to leave its house in May 2004, when the Greek Life Office, the fraternity’s Alumni Advisory Board, and the Sigma Chi International Office determined that initiation activities which took place at the house during March and April 2004 were in violation of the University’s judicial code.

Videos obtained of the activities in question included pledges submerging their heads in ice water and being pelted with beer cans while performing skits in front of the brothers.

Jill Carnaghi, assistant vice chancellor for students, affirmed that the University has formally allowed the Sigma Chi fraternity to regain their house on campus.

“I think when Sigma Chi was allowed to keep a chap-

ter on campus without a house, they were working for a greater foundation for stability within a fraternity chapter,” said Carnaghi.

“Sigma Chi has done an excellent job with meeting those expectations. They are given their full rights as well as the responsibilities and opportunities back to them.”

Carnaghi remained optimistic about Sigma Chi’s performance for the following academic year.

“I have every expectation that they will be an exemplary fraternity with a house next year,” said Carnaghi.

“They have been a fraternity during this entire time, but now they have housing.”

The fraternity will remain on probation for another year, a status that requires it to submit monthly reports to the University, which documents the fraternity’s daily operations and summarizes the month’s social and philanthropic events.

The 22 available beds in the house will be given based on seniority, according to Zimmerman.

“We polled the house and we have just about the right number, and it’s a pretty good mix of sophomores, juniors and seniors next year,” said Zimmerman. “We thought it would be over-

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High school grads may not make the grade with college writing

By Josh Hantz Associate Reporter Are students prepared for college writing? According to a survey conducted

by Maguire Associates, a Boston-area research and consulting company, college professors and high school teachers disagree about the writing quality of rising college freshmen.

The results published in the March 10 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education show that 44 percent of college faculty members say students are not prepared for college-level writing, compared to only 10 percent of high school teachers who say the same thing. Also, six percent of college faculty members, compared to 36 percent of teachers, feel students are very well-prepared for college writing.

Stephanie Pippin, a Writing 1 instructor at Washington University, and her husband Andy Gallagher, a St. Louis high school English teacher, weigh in on these differences in perspective, some of which are inconsistent with their personal views.

“There are differing expectations for what a good paper is,” said Pippin. “High school teaches organization and clarity—the five-paragraph essay. College teaches

a more sophisticated, more stylistic level of thinking.

It takes the five paragraphs and builds on them. It’s more structured around ideas and voice.”

Pippin also feels teachers give a lot of attention to standardized tests like the Advanced Placement (AP) exam and to college admission essays.

“There’s less attention on the large essay,” she said.

Gallagher, who teaches juniors and seniors in St. Louis public schools, argues this is not usually the case.

“It is this way in some realms and wealthy highperforming districts but not in general,” said Gallagher.

“Writing is only now starting to trend toward teaching to tests, but in the past it hasn’t.”

Gallagher says teaching to AP exams is not wrong, but that it is too limited.

“In most cases they test good things,” said Gallager.

“But you have to go beyond the test to make sound, intellectually rigorous students. Otherwise they become automatons.”

Gallagher adds that teachers should emphasize formal writing to better prepare students for college rather than deal too much with informal writing like

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COLLEGE WRITING v FROM PAGE 1 journals. “I try to get students as clearly adjusted to the rigors and format of paragraph structure as possible,� said Gallagher. “A misperception is that teachers think that by assigning great numbers of papers, they are preparing students. I try to demand as many formal papers as I can, but you don’t want to overkill. There’s a careful balance.�

Another reason for the disagreement about readiness may be the simple one. “There has always been a perception gap,� said Heidi Kolk, head of Writing 1. “It comes from all sorts of obvious causes. High school teachers have different priorities and tasks. There is a significant difference between the demands we have here that are a function of the discourse in the university.�

These differences in perception may not be entirely harmful, however, as they encourage college instructors to prepare an effective transition process into the demands of college-level writing for students. “There is something very healthy about that gap,� said Kolk. “We think about it in terms of preparing students to meet the new demands. Students have been very well-prepared in some key areas.�

Freshman Zach Gong, currently in Writing 1, compares his own high school writing experience to his current one at Washington University. “In high school we did a lot of exercises on how

to gain perspective,� said Gong. “Here my teacher emphasizes experimenting in our writing. It’s an expansion on high school.�

Gong also notes that his class didn’t focus on the AP exam until the end of the school year.

Kolk, however, says that all high schools are different, and that many don’t provide room for students’ writing to grow. “Writing in high school doesn’t give students the opportunity to develop certain muscles as writers,� said Kolk. “There’s not an opportunity to write a 15-20 page paper where they fully investigate a topic.�

Enter Writing 1. “It has been set up to address a lot of change,� said Pippin. “It emphasizes ideas and intellectual roads and title as part of the process.�

Pippin knows the jump from high school to students’ first writing class at college can be daunting, but said students almost always adapt and grow. “They start out timid that they’re not writing to show their voice and they withhold a little,� said Pippin. “The first papers are always more reserved, but the final result of Writing 1 is what makes it worth teaching.�

Kolk agrees. “There simply are built-in constraints in high school,� said Kolk. “It is geared too much toward writing to formula, and many become uneasy when their formulas are taken away. But it makes them better writers. It gives them a flexibility and consciousness that they didn’t

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Freshmen attend a Writing 1 class on Monday. A new study reports that many college professors say that incoming undergraduates are not adequately prepared for college writing. have before.�

Kolk says many students come in to the class with the wrong approach, though. “A lot of students have been told that academic writing lacks personality, that it is shaped to a particular expectation rather than to a particular argument,� said Kolk. “They come in thinking ‘What do you want from me?’ rather than ‘What do I need to do to communicate effectively?’�

Gallagher has noticed this mindset with his students, too. “They tend to look at writing as a means to an

end and not as a mechanism for something a little bit beyond just communicating,� said Gallagher. “They don’t appreciate the idiosyncrasies.�

Gallagher feels that the best way to fix this problem is to help students experiment, especially with creative writing. “It has a very different sense of syntax and form and structure and what those things are capable of doing,� said Gallagher. “Attention is constantly drawn to that.�

But ultimately, like his peers, Gallagher thinks

students who complete the advanced programs in high school or pass with a B or better will be fine. “I trust America’s teachers enough that [students] will be ready for college writing,� said Gallagher.

The survey in the Chronicle found consistent discrepancies among faculty members and teachers across several disciplines including math. Regarding students’ overall preparation for college, about 25 percent of faculty members and 12 percent of teachers feel graduates are completely unprepared.

rapidly withdraw from one system and move to another without the capital to do it,� said Wrighton.

Junior James Smee uses his dorm phone, but only once in a while. He’s generally dismissive of the service the University provides. “I don’t use the dorm phone much, just to talk to my mom. Many a time, a telemarketer has woken me up at nine in the morning. It’s very annoying,� he said.

When asked about the

built-in costs of having the phone, Smee was somewhat apathetic. “I don’t really know how much it costs, so it’s not really a big deal for me,� said Smee.

In the end, of course, students are still generally responsive to their e-mail accounts, though many have cited frustration at its intermittent breakdowns. Dormitory phones, however, will continue to collect dust and unanswered messages.

COMMUNICATION v FROM PAGE 1 may be checking their Washington University e-mail, but in talking with faculty members, they’re ďŹ nding it difďŹ cult because students aren’t picking up their e-mail from the Washington University address. [Students] don’t have a problem communicating with us, so they probably don’t notice it.â€?

According to an ongoing survey sent out to all Webmail accounts, however, 70 percent of users check their e-mail at least three times

a day, and 85 percent check their mail at least a few times every week. According to Ken Keller, director of Arts & Sciences Systems and Operations, they see about 22,000 hits per day on the mail servers.

In other words, the majority of students do at least check their University accounts regularly, though they may not be using that account as their primary email address.

Unfortunately, there is

no panacea for the issue.

Methods of encouraging the use of University sponsored technology have been proposed, but nothing concrete has been agreed upon yet. “Another very important area is the use of wireless technology, and we don’t have a ubiquitous wireless environment yet,� said Wrighton. “A lot of people think it’s free, and yet it all needs to be backed up by hardware commitments that do cost money. We can’t

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Revamped VisComm minor no longer just for art students expansion and an extension of what we did before.”

Next semester, this minor, which has existed as an art school program for about 10 years, will offer several electives that cover the range of applications involved with the field of visual communications, including a few entirely new courses.

According to Oros, visual communications consists of “anything that you see that carries information,” from a simple object such as a business card to an entire art exhibit.

“It’s all about word and image relationships and how the two work together to deliver information,” said Oros.

As the various means of communication have been quickly evolving in recent years, the demand for the skills and the creative innovation associated with the field of visual communications has been growing as well.

“With the rapid expansion of media forms and the glut of info, everybody from every professional area needs—practically requires—the ability and skills to communicate effectively visually using words and images,” said Oros. “In essence, familiarity with vi-

sual communications lends an understanding of how to break through the mass of information that constantly surrounds us in order to become paramount in someone’s landscape, which is a skill that has become more and more pertinent to everyone, from engineers to doctors.”

Students minoring in visual communications will be required to take Visual Communications 1, and will then be able to choose from a wide variety of electives, including 2-D Design; Sound Design, which covers the means of enhancing a story with sound; and Typography and Letterform, which concerns the use of the letter form to communicate not only as text but as an image.

In addition, the minor program will offer Visual Communications and Business, which is meant to teach business school and Arts & Sciences students the art of visual communications as applied to internal communications, such as presentations, as well as external communications like logos and advertising.

New courses include the advanced Visual Communications 2 as well as Basic Illustration.

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3:22 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT STEALING UNDER $500—STEINBERG ART GALLERY—Complainant reported that a camera had been stolen from Steinberg Hall on March 6. A suspicious person was observed in the area. Disposition: Pending.

8:44 a.m. SICK CASE, AMBULANCE—HILLTOP CAMPUS—Sick case.

9:21 a.m. PROPERTY DAMAGE, INSTITUTIONAL VANDALISM—BUSCH HALL—Complainant reported vandalism to his office door in Busch Hall. Incident occurred between 10 p.m. on March 7 and 9:21 a.m. on March 8.

Disposition: Pending.

1 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT, STEALING OVER $500— PARKING LOT NO. 2—McCarthy project manager for the new Art School reported unknown person(s) stole two gray metal tanks containing foam insulation.

Theft occurred between 7 p.m. on Friday, March 10 and 7 a.m. on Monday, March 13.

The tanks were valued at a total of $700.

Friday, March 10

Saturday, March 18

12:51 a.m. INFORMATION NONCRIMINAL OR INFORMATION-ONLY REPORTS—POLICE DEPARTMENT—Subject acting in a suspicious manner in the campus police department lobby was found to be wanted on outstanding warrants.

Subject was later released due to lack of extradition from the out-of-state agency.

Subject was issued a no trespass warning. Disposition: Cleared.

11:12 p.m. PEACE DISTURBANCE—LOPATA HALL— Complaint received of students playing with Air Soft guns in the basement of the dorm. Upon arrival officers observed two students in the hallway and four BB guns on a table nearby. The guns were seized and placed in evidence. Disposition: Referred to JA.

By Jessie Rothstein Staff Reporter A revamped visual communications minor program will be available to students in every school of the University next semester. Frank Oros, the coordinator for the visual communications department, described the evolution of the minor program as “a response to not just academic needs but industry needs,” in light of the rapidly expanding world of communication technologies, The expansion of this program stems from a growing awareness that the skills offered by visual communications are not only useful but essential to people in a variety of disciplines and professions. “[To be familiar with visual communications is] to know not just the tools of technology but also how to use images and words effectively, to bring meaning to objects or ideas that either never had meaning or had complex meaning previously,” said Oros.

Thus, starting in fall 2006 students in all schools of the University will have access to a restructured visual communications minor, which Oros describes as “an

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Tuesday, March 7 1:52 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT, STEALING OVER $500—JANUARY HALL—Complainant reported losing his wallet sometime between 7:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Total loss valued at $217. Disposition: Unfounded, wallet found and returned to owner intact.

4:05 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT, STEALING UNDER $500— GREGG DORM—Complainant reported that someone unknown had stolen some articles of clothing from the laundry room washing machine between 10:30 p.m. on March 6 and 1:30 a.m. on March 7. Disposition: Pending.

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WEDNESDAY | MARCH 22, 2006

KATRINA v FROM PAGE 1 a group of volunteers from New York University; it was good to see students from other schools already going to New Orleans to help out.

Weekend in New Orleans Our carpool group arrived in New Orleans around noon on Saturday. I had seen pictures of the damage Hurricane Katrina had brought upon the city, but seeing the devastation here firsthand was far different from seeing it on the news.

Jeff Segal, a junior in the Jeep with me, had the same reaction.

“This place is terrible,” he said. “It’s a mess for miles around. This is really demolished.”

The buildings on the outskirts of New Orleans looked broken. Some of the houses were entirely torn apart, and nearly all of them were abandoned. The flooding had left watermarks halfway up most of the homes, and the traffic lights were defunct. Even the largest trees had been uprooted, and piles of debris and trash were lying out in the open.

The buildings downtown were in better condition, but many of them were still damaged.

Sandbags and rubble were lying throughout the streets, and most of the businesses were empty and boarded up. Despite the wreckage throughout the city, though, our attitudes remained positive.

“I think it’s good that we’re here,” said freshman Matt Nordman. “I’m just realizing that people need our help down here. [The condition of New Orleans] is just

progressively getting worse [as you go into the city].”

Sophomore Austin Thompson, my work group leader, had similar feelings.

“I’ve been feeling energized since I’ve come down here, as far as realizing our work here,” said Thompson.

“There is a lot of destruction. It was really bad in the Ninth Ward; there are piles of cars destroyed. It’s just like [Katrina] just happened yesterday. It’s crazy, just seeing this.”

All of the volunteers from Washington University stayed at the Grand Place Hotel for the week. The hotel had been abandoned for several years, but it was comfortable compared to other volunteer shelters. Of course, conditions in the hotel were not totally agreeable, but we had no reason to complain, as there was running warm water, bottled water in abundant supply and electricity to charge our cell phones.

Eight people slept in rooms built for two.

Some of us were already excited about opportunities to work, which would not begin until Monday. Rebuilding the city, I learned, was estimated to take 10 years.

Senior Conor Lucas-Roberts, a work group leader, acknowledged that there was “still much work to be done.”

“Expectations just are that the work is something that’s needed, but it’s a multi-year progress,” he said.

On Sunday, I went with some students to look at the damaged suburbs. A few of the residents of New Orleans were living in Federal Emergency Management Agency

trailers, but the area was otherwise void of residents.

Continuing to witness the devastation throughout the city allowed us to appreciate what we had back in St. Louis.

Although surprised at the damage in the city, sophomore Kristina McKay was nonetheless content with the conditions in which we would be staying for the week.”

“I’d have to say our conditions are nice,” said McKay. “It’s a shock seeing the state of things here, though…I was taken aback by the severity of the damage. But it’s really cool how many are down here to help. Everyone’s been supportive. It’s been a really humbling experience that makes us really appreciate what we have at home.”

The first day of work We began our work on Monday morning; all of the University volunteers were divided into work groups of about 10. While some groups worked with other groups, ours worked alone in cleaning and gutting out the house of Mrs. Charlen Campo.

Like the rest of the University volunteers who were with Campus Crusade, our group was working in St. Bernard Parish, the parish damaged the most because of its proximity to the burst levees. Here, no house had been untouched by the hurricane; the only open businesses I saw were a Wal-Mart and a Home Depot.

While the devastation was prevalent throughout the city, Austin kept an optimistic mindset.

“I thought I’d seen a lot of

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Debris is pushed to the curb of the street in New Orleans. Several dozen Washington University students ventured down to New Orleans over spring break to help clean up the city. devastation,” he said, “but utter devastation is not even good enough to describe this. The word disaster in my vocabulary is redefined. It’s sad and moving to see lives utterly wrecked. But it’s good to help these people out…my expectations are sky high right now.”

Going into a house that had been flooded required precautions, foremost being to avoid the black mold that had grown inside. All volunteers were to wear work gloves, goggles and masks designed to keep the mold

out of the air we breathed.

Throughout the week, however, no one was reported to have suffered any serious problems.

Our work during the first day consisted of first clearing out all of the possessions in the home: toys, books, TV’s, shelves, beds, old food, bicycles. The flood had made everything useless; cardboard boxes did not hold, books stuck together, and one of the tables we attempted to lift broke in two.

By late afternoon, we had placed nearly all of the

home’s possessions into one large pile in the front yard.

Austin predicted that our work on the Campo house would last until Wednesday.

By the time our work was finished, everyone was exhausted, but there seemed to be a sense of satisfaction among many volunteers.

“There’s a lot of unseen problems, but we’re doing what we think best,” said Shannon Roper, a freshman in my work group. “I feel pretty good, but it’s tiring.

But we’re helping. I’m still feeling pretty good.”

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WEDNESDAY | MARCH 22, 2006

SIGMA CHI HOUSE v FROM PAGE 1 crowded with seniors, since this would be their only opportunity [to live in the house], but I actually think it’s going to work out perfectly.�

Chapter Advisor Rob Salyer, who graduated from Washington University in 1995, remembers fondly the three years he spent living in Sigma Chi’s house. “I had 30 of my best friends around me all the time,� said Salyer. “Back then we had a cook, so even the guys living off campus could stop by for lunch. Any time during the day you could find a friend.

You could find somebody to study with, or catch a movie.

There was always someone around.�

Without a house, the fraternity has faced challenges, including finding a central meeting place to plan its events.

For example, Derby Days, Sigma Chi’s annual fundraiser for Children’s Miracle Network, has been postponed until early next semester when the fraternity can better prepare for the week-long event. “We wanted it to be more well-planned, and it would be in conjunction with getting our house back and being able to use our house for Derby Days,� said Zimmerman.

While losing the house has caused inconveniences for the fraternity, the twoyear suspension created opportunities for growth, said Salyer. Increased interaction

between current fraternity members of the Alumni Advisory Board, which was created during the hazing investigation, may have helped the fraternity to gain perspective and rediscover the ideals upon which its brotherhood is based. “[The Advisory Board has] helped everyone focus on what the fraternity is really about,� said Salyer. “Silly degrading things like hazing have no place in the fraternity. They just damage relationships and belittle everyone involved. There are guys, especially older guys, on the board who didn’t even understand the concept of hazing, because that sort of thing wasn’t even around then.�

In addition to help from its alumni, Sigma Chi has received backing from the University, said Salyer. “The University has been a tremendous source of support through the whole thing,� said Salyer. “In light of how we embarrassed them, they stood behind everything we needed to do to succeed. Some fraternities might view the University as the enemy. But that was definitely not the case.�

Two years of soul-searching has yielded an improved Sigma Chi, Salyer noted. “This started out as a horrible situation, but it turned out to be for best,� said Salyer. “We’ve centered back on our ideals and what the fraternity is supposed to stand for. It f lushed out a lot

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FAIR fight should not trump other battles O n March 6, the Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Defense had the constitutional right to deny universities federal funds (including research grants) if they prevented military recruitment on campus. The ruling in the case, Rumsfeld v. FAIR, was a particular blow to the United Faculty of the Washington University School of Law. The United Faculty of the Law School is one of 24 known members of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a plaintiff in the initial suit against the Department of Defense. While the Editorial Board of Student Life appreciates the spirit of the United Faculty of the Law School’s efforts, it believes that this fight was not worth taking up.

The Law School enacted a nondiscrimination policy in 1990, proclaiming “only employers who sign a statement affi rming that they do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, handicap or disability, age, or sexual orientation” would be allowed access to the Law School Career Center. The majority of law schools have similar policies. Meanwhile, the military famously enacted the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” rule, which forbids openly gay individuals from being employed by any branch of the military. This abhorrent rule clearly violates the nondiscrimination policy of Wash. U.’s law school and many others, and as such, law school campuses across the country forbade the military to recruit on their grounds.

That is, until the Solomon Amendment. Passed in 1996 and commonly known as the Solomon Amendment, federal law Title 10 United States Code § 983 states, “No funds…may be provided by contract or by grant (including a grant of funds to be available for student aid) to an institution of higher education (including any subelement of that institution) if the Secretary of Defense determines that that institution (or any subelement of that institution) has a policy or practice (regardless of when implemented) that either prohibits, or in effect, prevents” the ROTC or military recruiters on campus. In other words, the Law School’s commendable nondiscrimination policy could cost the entire University federal grant money (until 1999, fi nancial

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Dr. Glass thinks the mandatory health fee protects students from common colds, TB and SARS. But he cannot cure a cold, TB is rare and not transmitted by occasional casual contact and SARS has disappeared. His defense of the indefensible fee (don’t forget, it pays his salary) makes even less sense because almost all undergraduates are covered by their parents’ insurance.

Refusing to accept outside insurance for pharmaceuticals shows callous indifference to students’ genuine needs. Even if he wrote a prescription for a contagious disease, the supposed benefit of a “totally insured’’ population disappears because a student might not get it filled—you’re not insured at his pharmacy.

Further, SHCS is not doing the one thing students and faculty depend on it to do—to write “sick letters’’ to excuse

battle. The Budget Reconciliation Bill, passed on Feb. 2, increases interest rates on Stafford and PLUS loans. The Perkins Loan program is set to be fully eliminated, and Pell Grants are to be frozen at their current levels. In a Dec. 7, 2005 Student Life article, Director of Student Financial Services Bill Witbrodt voiced his opposition to the legislation, saying, “I’m against any legislation that diminishes the possibility of providing excess to kids.” Instead of using its time and money to fight the Solomon Amendment, the University, including the United Faculty of the Law School and other members of FAIR, should try to be on the forefront of combating these harmful fi nancial aid cuts.

Witbrodt also stated that the new legislation “impacts

students everywhere of every type.” These budget cuts hurt students both gay and straight. It is more pressing for universities everywhere, including Wash. U., to fight to give lower-income students the opportunity to receive higher education than to fight a largely futile war against the military’s discriminatory policies. It’s hard to imagine that the military would change their policy even if they lost the case, and simply allowing military recruiters is not a sign of endorsement.

In his opinion, Chief Justice Roberts wrote “A military recruiter’s mere presence on campus does not violate a law school’s right to associate, regardless of how repugnant the law school considers the recruiter’s message.” Roberts is completely right.

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Mandatory fee indefensible Dear Editor:

aid was also included). In fact, Vermont Law School, New York Law School and William Mitchell College of Law have all already lost federal funding because of their nondiscrimination policies.

While the fight against the Solomon Amendment is a good one, it is not worth the substantial risk. For starters, law students are wise enough to make their own decisions.

If the military wants to recruit them, they can protest on their own by simply saying no. Further, if law students are willing to be lawyers for the military despite “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” they should have the same access to the military as they would other employers.

Further, there are more important issues for law schools and universities to

sick students from exams and deadlines. As a professor, I depend on such letters, so that I can verify a student’s illness in order to waive requirements when appropriate. In my experience, SHCS refuses to write such letters, and won’t reply to my telephone inquiries. All other medical providers write such letters, but not SHCS. -Jonathan Katz Professor of Physics

Empty advocacy won’t help students help Darfur Dear Editor: I was disappointed by the content of the Darfur crisis

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Building and thinking in green

By Lydia Anderson-Dana Op-ed Submission

W

ith all the construction of new dorms, apartments and academic buildings, Wash. U.’s campus is constantly undergoing change.

One major change yet to be undertaken, however, is the move towards creating a more environmentally friendly campus. In this spirit of progress, we commend the March 1 staff editorial promoting energy conservation, and write in hopes of continuing this vitally important discussion.

Universities such as Harvard, Duke and Emory are already leading the charge towards renewable energy, pollution reduction and green buildings on college campuses. With your advocacy and support, Wash. U. can join this elite group to become a leader in

the implementation of sustainable projects that are both energy and cost-efficient.

As mentioned by the editorial board, Wash. U. has implemented several programs to save energy, including lighting and cooling changes, according to a 2001 report from the Office of the Chancellor. These smaller changes add up in terms of energy and money saved: the report states that in the nine years leading up to 2001 the University’s utility costs remained constant while physical building space increased 25 percent. By retrofitting old buildings, the University has created a campus that is more energy efficient, more cost effective and better for the environment. Wash.

U. has also chosen to design new buildings with energy saving features, such as the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, which will have a reflective roofi ng component

to conserve energy.

One of the biggest environmental accomplishments at Wash. U. is the Earth and Planetary Sciences Building, certified last year under the LEED standard. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard is a national system that awards points for incorporating different sustainable features into buildings. Points are given for features such as light pollution reduction, water efficient landscaping, and site selection. The Earth and Planetary Sciences building is one of only three LEED-certified buildings in St. Louis. Although this is certainly an accomplishment, Emory University alone has 11 buildings that are or could become LEED-certified. By constructing more LEED-certifiable buildings, Wash. U. can become a leader in environmentally sound practices both

among universities and in the St. Louis community.

The above changes, while certainly commendable, all relate to the administration’s building decisions. The Campus Climate Challenge, a campaign to reduce pollution and encourage energy independent campuses, and the Apollo Alliance, a coalition for energy independence, recommend several reforms for campuses, including upgrading old buildings for energy efficiency, implementing environmentally sound aspects into new buildings, and establishing a tradition of environmental conservation on campus. Even without formally taking up the Challenge, Wash. U. can accept the ideas and inspiration from these resources in creating progressive energy policy.

Although Wash. U. has made considerable progress in the fi rst two areas, the last reform cannot be implemented with-

out a transformation in the attitudes of both the administration and the student body.

Creating environmental awareness on campus will require student dialogue, action and involvement. Some students already are committed: campus groups like Green Action and the Committee on Environmental Quality continue to advocate for renewable energy and a more green-friendly campus.

Everyone can get involved by going to a meeting, actually recycling those bottles or lobbying the administration for environmental change.

Without the advocacy of their largest constituency—the student body—the administration will not be motivated to make real environmental changes on campus.

Why care about these reforms? Energy efficiency reduces the cost of operating buildings. Since our tuition

reflects the University’s operating costs, efficiency is fi nancially beneficial to both the students and the University. Environmental reforms also set an example for the community and encourage future progress. Finally, it is the right thing to do for a forward-looking university focused on educating future leaders. Decisions about the environment are never easy, and education is imperative in making the best possible choices. By opening up a dialogue about environmentally friendly buildings, Wash.

U. can begin this important educational process.

Lydia is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences and a member of Project Democracy. For more information about Project Democracy’s environmental initiatives or to get involved, contact Rachel Cohen at rbcohen@wustl.edu.

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‘UTF’ stands for ‘unnecessary technology fee’ L

ast year, Student Life took some flak for failing to be proactive in our criticisms, especially of Student Union. Well, now that it’s spring, it’s time for a change.

So Student Union’s proposed “unified technology fee?” Let’s just say that I’m not a big fan.

In the SU Senate minutes from Feb. 8, President/Saint David Ader introduced the idea of a unified technology fee (UTF). If implemented, the UTF would replace the separate fees for Internet, cableand room phone with one single—possibly mandatory—fee for all three services. This would require the cooperation of eight departments that are responsible for all technology on campus. According to Ader, some of the resulting benefits of the UTF and this cooperation could be VOIP phones and universal wireless,

to name a few. In other words, the UTF would bring the future to Wash. U. Next up—hovering golf carts!

The UTF isn’t all good, however. As some senators pointed out, students who live off campus already pay for their own Internet and phone. Having just signed a lease for a Wash. U.owned off-campus apartment, I can say that at least in my case, this is incorrect; I’ll be paying for my own cable, but Internet and phone will still run through Wash. U. Regardless, the nature of the question is still important. If the fee is mandatory, why should students who live off campus have to pay a fee for services that they would not even be able to take advantage of? If possible, the UTF would have to distinguish between on- and off-campus residents.

And it would not be too hard

When an education isn’t

By Dan Lilienthal Op-ed Submission

A

mericans generally accept on faith that this country has the best higher education system in the world,” goes the opening line of a recent New York Times editorial piece, “Proof of Learning in College.” Although the rest of the article fails to address this comparative belief, it does address the belief that this country has a higher education system that adequately prepares

literacy that fi nd less than one third of college graduates can “proficiently” read and understand “lengthy” passages. The Times warns us of an alarming number of students incapable of “the simplest tasks.” Maybe Larry Summers would have kept his job as president of Harvard had he made shoe-tying a part of the curriculum.

While the mainstream media and policy experts fail to tackle the real problems of higher education head on, I was pleased when Student Life covered this

dents from rampantly to keep the current stealing it. Yet if more system in place and students are moving offer separate fees only off campus because to people like me who of these higher fees, would need one or wouldn’t that go two, but not all of the against a point of the services. It could be fee? like meal plans—only Another problem students who live off Daniel Milstein with the UTF is its campus would have inclusion of the room the option to purchase phone. When I got into such a plan. my room this year, one of the But that leads to another first things I did was remove problem. Many people move off the phone from the room. Nearcampus because it is purportly every call we get on our room edly cheaper. Instituting a phone is a telemarketer. We higher fee for students living didn’t pay for long distance. The on campus will just give them only use our room phone has a greater incentive to move off gotten has been when people campus. And unlike me, they lose their cell phones. If we had might not go to Wash. U.-owned to pay a fee for using the phone, apartments. It seems like a goal we would be getting ripped off, of the UTF is to help ResTech plain and simple. (Currently, the recoup the costs it currently cost of the phones is included in incurs in having to turn off the tuition, and is thus covered by cable in old dorms to stop stu-

scholarships. But would scholarships cover the unified fee?)

And apart from that problem, the advent of nationwide plans on cell phones (which are quite necessary to have in a place where people are from all over the country) has made room phones archaic. I know more people who don’t pay for the “necessary” (according to the Senate minutes of Feb. 8) Internet in the dorms than who use the room phones. If a goal of the UTF is to make campus technology more current, room phones should be phased out, not highlighted in a unified fee.

My last problem with the UTF has to do with cable. Pretty much everybody in old dorms steals cable, and that probably won’t stop unless ResTech decides to turn off cable—which “[takes] a lot of time or money” (from the Feb. 8 minutes)—or if

the old dorms are torn down.

And if I’m not mistaken, the latter is exactly what is happening. I don’t support building new dorms in favor of renovating old dorms. But it is a hell of a lot harder to steal cable in new dorms. Most people who want cable in new dorms have to buy it anyway. If they don’t want cable, why should they be forced to pay for it in the UTF? I like the future. But the UTF is a bad way to bring the future closer. Instead of having to pay for a mostly useless service like room phones, why not spend the money on something like universal wi-fi? Or hovering golf carts? Those would be pretty awesome.

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

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

Wash. U. is not so rosy itself

By Alexander Mueller Op-ed Submission

I

am a St. Louis native, and it bothers me how insulated Wash. U. students are form the surrounding community. I often hear opinions of Wash. U. students on local issues that I feel are unashamedly uninformed, and based mostly upon prejudices formed in other cities under different circumstances. Jeff Stepp’s March 6 article about the woes of St. Louis public schools is an example to which I took particular exception.

Although I agree that too many people have been left behind in St. Louis, Stepp’s arguments were uninformed and, in many cases, just plain arrogant.

My objections begin with Stepp’s method for evaluating public schools. The one St. Louis high school Stepp picked out as a high performer was Metro Academic and Classical, a school that selectively admits students in much the same manner as a private school, although it is publicly funded. If Stepp’s recommen-

dation for improving public education is to grant it only to high-performing students, that is a much more controversial position, and he should have made it explicit. Furthermore, the rating Stepp used was based solely on the number of students taking AP and IB tests. Many states or districts mandate that certain groups of students take these tests, and there is considerable regional variation in preferences between offering AP programs, IB programs, or both. These factors combine to make the measure a poor standard for comparing performance of schools under different regulation. I do not by any means intend to disparage Metro Academic and Classical, but someone in the know about St. Louis metro area public schools would know that there are other public high schools of comparable caliber.

Stepp also touted the performance of several high schools in the greater D.C. area, which is also coincidentally where he is from. I cannot claim great familiarity with that area, but I

did look up the demographics of those top schools. In terms of mean income, rates of single parenting and other factors that tend to determine student performance, they are more similar to schools in the upper middle class St. Louis suburbs than to the districts serving the people Stepp believes have been left behind. So if Stepp’s implication was that St. Louis could improve its public schools by making all of its citizens more affluent, I agree.

I think it is clear, however, that things are not that simple.

I also took issue with Stepp’s question, “Where would our community be without the University?” To a St. Louis native, statements like these are compelling evidence of how insular the University community is, and how this insularity distorts perspectives on local issues. The University is a self-interested institution, and although in the past it has been a stabilizing force in the community, its influence is not entirely positive and not everyone who lives in its vicinity regards it as a good neighbor.

For example, the University has bought considerable amounts of housing in University City.

As a non-profit organization, the University is not obliged to pay property tax, and it has therefore been meaningfully eroding the tax base of the University City public schools, which many already regard as marginal. Stepp seems to imply that the University is a savior of the community, and I challenge him to reconcile that image with the reality of its behavior.

It is not my intention to portray the University as a villain, nor is that my belief.

My argument is that in Stepp’s rosy characterization of the University, he fails to attain any real perspective on the issues facing the community.

I know Stepp wrote with good intentions, but he seemed almost totally uninformed about the nuances of the problems he was discussing.

Alexander is a junior in Arts & Sciences and can be reached via e-mail at acmueller@artsci. wustl.edu.

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students for the real world.

Of this claim, the business community, meaning employers who hire college graduates, has expressed its belief that a large number of college-educated students have not been educated in the things that matter for real-world jobs.

This fact should have educators, journalists, politicians, parents and students engaged in discussion about why colleges have been unsuccessful in preparing so many students for real-world work. Thankfully, some of the people who shape educational culture and policy have been quick to remind the rest of us why we need to dust off our own thinking caps. For starters, the chairman of the Bush Administration’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education recently suggested that standardized tests be used to determine how much college students are actually learning, in an effort to remedy the problem. In other words, they aim to further water down the college experience in the name of accountability and test statistics that may or may not tell us what we already know about the shortcomings of a college education.

Many of the beliefs surrounding higher education that shape both public policy and thought are created by journalists and educational “experts.”

Bolstered by their degrees and backed by the motto, “all the news that’s fit to sell,” the two successfully mislead us with a barrage of meaningless statistics about education while ignoring the destructive trends that are evident to all but those with the loudest microphones. Articles report on irrelevant studies fi nding that students are unable to calculate the miles left in a tank of gas. They report vague results about adult

story last month. On Feb. 3, they quoted one of my most memorable teachers, Professor Gordinier, who is known for his teaching of personal fi nance and statistics, as well as his strong views about limited government and personal responsibility.

He was right to note that “in terms of real fundamental things about the basics of how the world works, [students] don’t have a clue.”

While I do not personally agree with all his views on the role of government, we should all be concerned with the possibility that the federal government will butcher higher education as they are currently doing in schools at the K-12 level with their “No Child Left Behind” legislation. We need more voices like Professor Gordinier’s to speak out about the problems in education, and the harmful effects this has upon the effort to prepare students for the real world.

For those of you reading this article, I propose a simple challenge. Write.

Take a few minutes to write down what you think is wrong with higher education. Identify the problems.

Offer solutions. Then submit them to Student Life, a paper whose content is not driven by corporate profits, but rather by the voices of this educational community.

This is an issue that crosses the lines drawn between faculty, students and the administration, so all should write, and do so with respect for the others. The recent episode at Harvard revealed to us all how these parties can be so out of step with one another. Now is a good time for Wash. U. to remove the label “Harvard of the Midwest” and fi nd a worthy identity of its own.

Dan is an alumnus of the class of 2003. He can be reached via Dan_Lilienthal@ yahoo.com.

piece published in the March 3 issue of Student Life. Despite the detailed coverage of the town hall-style meeting, there was a lack of substantive information. The article did not describe how students from Washinton University could actually get involved in the grassroots campaign.

The only suggestion made was for students to write a letter to their senators. But what can students get their hands on—how can they directly be involved? Did Dr. Ruth Iyob give any other suggestions for the students, or was it a call to action with no direction?

For this University to make such a statement about student involvement, they need

to be able to follow through with it. It was lacking in substance for Dr. Iyob to rally the students to action but then leave them with nothing more than one suggestion. Educating students about the crisis in Darfur is a worthwhile action, but asking them to help takes more than a summary of the problems. If the objective of the meeting was to motivate students to use their resources and actually make a difference in the lives of the Sudanese people then I suggest that the students be given guidance and structured outlets.

-Victoria Holekamp Class of 2008

Sports section’s focus should be on Wash. U. athletes Dear Editor: Before break, you printed a half-page article about the Duke-UNC game. I’m sure some people would like to hear about that game, but they’ve probably already watched ESPN SportsCenter and seen all the highlights from it. Instead, why couldn’t you have printed an article about a Wash. U. sports team? So many of our athletes put so much hard work into their D-III sports and receive

so little acknowledgement. The women’s basketball team was cleaning up in the post-season then. Men and women’s track & field won the UAA conference meet convincingly (for something like the second and eighth time in a row, respectively). The crew team held an Erg-a-thon with some participants rowing for as much as three hours at a time. All of these are worthy of more recognition than a college sports team halfway across the nation, playing some random mid-season game. Let’s keep the focus of the Wash. U. sports section where it belongs: on Wash.

U. sports and athletes.

-Brian Robertson Class of 2008

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SPORTS

WEDNESDAY | MARCH 22, 2006

IN BRIEF: The third-ranked women’s basketball team lost 92-89 to No. 4 Hope College, the eventual NCAA Champions, in the NCAA Sweet 16 on March 10. Senior Kelly Manning was named a first-team All-American. The No. 7 softball team upended all competition at the UAA tourney over break to take home their third straight UAA title.

Softball wins Bears fall 92-89 to end the season third straight UAA tourney

By Carrie Jarka Sports Reporter

By Scott Kaufman-Ross Sports Reporter The Washington University softball team kicked off their 2006 campaign right where they left off from last season, when they finished with a school-record 47-3 mark. Competing in the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships over spring break in Altamonte Springs, Fla., the squad upended all competition, winning all eight games en route to their third consecutive UAA crown.

Junior pitcher Laurel Sagartz threw three complete-game shutouts, and has not allowed an earned run in UAA play in 71 innings. The Bears have won 27 straight UAA contests, and 39 straight regular season games.

The Bears started their run on Tuesday with wins over the University of Rochester and Brandeis University. Sagartz pitched her first shutout of the week, in which she struck out 15 batters. Coupled with two RBI performances by junior Jamie Kressel and freshman Lindsay Cavarra, the Bears went on to score a 7-0 victory over the Yellow Jackets of Rochester. The Bears then pounded Brandeis with 19 runs on 20 hits en route to a 19-1 victory. Freshman Susan Gray allowed just one hit over four innings, and junior Monica Hanono, senior Amanda Roberts, sophomore Amy Vukovich and sophomore Laura D’Andrea all added three hits apiece.

On day two, facing Sagartz’ sister, Ruthe, the Bears defeated Case Western Reserve by a score of 8-0. Sophomore Kaylyn Eash allowed no runs on two hits in five innings, and senior Amanda Roberts went three-for-four with three RBI as the University improved to 3-0 in UAA play.

Thursday’s doubleheader began by pitting the Bears against their toughest competition, the Emory University Eagles. Once again, the Lady Bears rose to the occasion, defeating their 11th-ranked rivals 4-0. Sagartz pitched her second shutout, giving up just two hits and striking out nine, and Kressel and D’Andrea added two RBI each. In the second half of the double dip, the Bears knocked off Rochester again, this time by a score of 6-3.

Kressel went two-for-three with three RBI’s, and Vukovich added two RBI’s of her own as the Bears improved to 5-0 in tournament play.

On Friday the Bears took out Brandeis for the second time, knocking off the Judges 11-3.

Kressel hit a lead off home run in the second inning as part of a four-run second inning. The Bears added six more in the fourth, highlighted by a threerun D’Andrea homerun.

During the final day of the tournament, the Bears needed a win over Emory to clinch the UAA title, but would have to wait until the second game. In the first game, the Bears downed Case Western 10-2, thanks to excellent performances by Sagartz and Vukovich, who both went two-forthree at the plate with three RBI’s apiece.

The second game against Emory would prove to be the first tough test for the University. A true pitchers duel, the Bears managed only one hit in the game.

After a scoreless first inning, the Bears got on the board in the second without even getting a hit.

D’Andrea walked to lead off the inning and was sacrificed to second by Sagartz. After a Vukovich groundout advanced D’Andrea to third, she finally scored when Cavarra reached on an error to give the Bears a 1-0 lead. With Sagartz on the mound, this would be all the squad needed to prevail. She struck out eight batters and surrendered just three hits, as the Bears held off the Eagles to clinch the UAA title.

“It was great to start the season off by winning the UAAs,” said D’Andrea. “But winning the conference is just one step towards our goal of winning a na-

tional championship.”

With the UAAs behind them, the team now looks to the rest of the season with promise and enthusiasm.

“I think we have a promising season ahead of us. We have a strong offensive lineup from lead off to ninth, so if we continue to be aggressive at the plate and clean up our defense a little we’re good to go,” said Hanono. “Our strongest opponent is ourselves.”

The Bears started their trip in Kissimmee, Fla., at the Rebel Spring Games. The Bears took all four games, winning both the first two games by a 4-1 mark over Manhattanville College and Wittenberg University, respectively. They followed these up with a 4-0 blanking of William Patterson University and an 8-4 victory over the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

The Lady Bears return to action this weekend when they host the Midwest Region Invitational.

The first matchup takes place Friday night at 7 p.m., as the Bears take on the College of St. Scholastica.

The third-ranked Washington University women’s basketball team ended its successful season on March 10 with a loss to fourth-ranked Hope College in the NCAA Sectionals. The 92-89 loss was only the squad’s third of the season, but it came at the hands of the eventual 2006 NCAA champs. The Bears ended the season with a 25-3 overall mark.

“Since we won the championship [in 2001], we’ve run up against four of the last five [teams] who won the title,” said head coach Nancy Fahey. “I think it’s a reflection of a good level of play and it’s better to be in that company than not.”

The Flying Dutch came into the game ranked 11th in Division III scoring average (76.9 ppg), so the Bears knew defense would be a key to the game.

“The keys for the Hope game were that of every other game,” said senior captain Danielle Beehler. “We just didn’t get a hand in the face of their shooters and they came out on fire from the field.”

Hope came out strong, hitting 13 of their first 15 shots, including five-of-six from three-point range. The hot shooting continued, as Hope shot 60.6 percent from the field in the first half.

“Strategically, we run and they run, and the score showed that,” said Fahey.

The Bears fell behind 34-15 midway through the first half before mounting an 18-2 run behind senior captain Kelly Manning’s nine straight points, cutting the lead to 55-45 at halftime.

“We knew they were an aggressive defensive team and it took us the first 10 minutes to respond, and that’s why the game was so tight,” said Fahey.

Manning tallied 18 points in the first half, while junior Rebecca Parker added 10 of her own.

The Bears continued to rally into the second half, holding Hope scoreless for the first six minutes, while collecting a 13-0 run to take the first lead of the game 60-59. After rallying several times in the game, the Bears fell behind 88-82 with two minutes remaining before pulling within two with a minute left. Manning, who posted a .429 average from beyond the arc this season, took a three-pointer from the corner, but missed with 40 seconds remaining. Forced to foul, the Bears ended up falling in a high-scoring struggle that they could not overcome.

“It was a great basketball game as a spectator, but unfortunately we were on the losing end. When that many points are scored you want to look at the defensive end, but at that time of year, you put two teams who are good teams and that’s the nature of the game,” said Fahey.

The Bears had four players in double digits. Led by WBCA All-American Kelly Manning’s 31 points, the Bears shot 50 percent for the game. Manning’s 31 points move her into third place on the University’s single-season scoring list with 560 points. She finishes her career with 1,580 points, the third most in school history.

Beehler added 12 points and eight rebounds and moved into eighth place on the all-time rebounding list with 582. She was also named a WBCA All-American Honorable Mention. Senior captain Katie Benson added 12 points as well.

“Throughout the season they stepped up. They played like seniors and we never wanted their season to end,” said Fahey. “They played with heart, determination and they gave themselves to that game and to the team, so we all wanted to see them play one more game.”

Juniors Rebecca Parker and Sarah Schell contributed greatly in the game. Parker collected her fifth double-double with 19 points and 12 boards.

Schell added five points and 10 assists, which moves her into second place all-time on the career assists list with 317.

Looking to the future, the graduating seniors and the coaching staff are optimistic.

“Next season now falls to the leaders of the upcoming senior class. They all know our traditions, and I am sure that they will push the team to

bring about another successful year,” said Beehler.

“As a whole, I think the underclassmen can continue the tradition. We look forward to people stepping up and doing it in their way. We don’t replace seniors. We try to let the new team take its natural form. We feel like we have a good nucleus back, but we feel the incoming class will inspire competitive practices,” added Fahey.

Even with the loss, the Bears saw great success this season.

“This team is well focused on what they wanted to accomplish. We had enough tough games this year that they already demonstrated their resolve,” said Fahey. “I’m proud of their composure and their ‘never quit’ attitude. The best part of the season has to be winning conference, getting to the tourney and advancing, but also having fun while doing it.”

With more awards yet to come, the senior class leaves an impressive mark on the program. “There are so many people that have made my time here so special, and I hope I was able to give a little of that experience back in how I handled myself on and off the court,” said Beehler. “It has been so special these past few years and it is something I will never forget.”

Even with the loss in the post-season, the marks left on the record books—and all the accolades collected—make this senior class hard to forget.

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CAMERON MARTIN March 24 – June 18, 2006

Cameron Martin, Remission, 2006; acrylic on canvas; Courtesy of the artist and Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York

Artist’s Lecture and Exhibition Preview Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:00 pm Currents 97: Cameron Martin, presents five monumental canvases that explore complex relationships between visual culture and the natural environment. Utilizing imagery from sources including a dormant volcano, a tropical rainforest, and a dead lake, Martin investigates the post-industrial condition of the planet.

Currents 97: Cameron Martin is part of a series of exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary artists.

It is supported by the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Endowment Fund.

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Destroyer: ‘Destroyer’s Rubies’ The Veronicas’ ‘The Secret Life

By Robbie Gross Theatre Editor Admittedly, comparisons to Bob Dylan occur far too frequently in music criticism. What about contemporary artists like Bright Eyes sounds like Dylan, except for a vaguely rebellious tone? In Destroyer, the band name for Vancouver singer-songwriter Dan Bejar, critics might actually have the beginnings of a reasonable comparison. Bejar’s sixth album, “Destroyer’s Rubies,” continues in a tradition of bizarrely engrossing lyrical content amidst sprawling musical backdrops. Such a tradition is without a doubt nonconformist. His lyrics are dense, filled with literary allusions and obscure narratives, while the songs themselves often surpass six minutes. Like Dylan’s best offerings, Bejar’s albums require multiple listens—a mix of yelpy vocals and few harmonies makes him at first sound like dissonant nonsense.

While Destroyer barely resembles Bejar’s other band, the much more pop-infused New Pornographers, “Destroyer’s

Rubies” is not as unpleasant to the ear as some of his earlier albums, no doubt helped by the fact that Bejar allowed his band to produce actual melodies. On “Your Blood” and “European Oils,” Ted Bois’ piano (yes, there is Canadian rock music without electric keyboard) and Nicolas Bragg’s guitar pave the way to Destroyer’s best moments yet. The result is a sound not unfamiliar to listeners of classic rock radio.

Tightly constructed and climactic, the musical accompaniment effortlessly meshes with Bejar’s voice while never overshadowing it. On “Looters’ Follies,” Bejar lends repeated cadential vocal chords to a humorously cynical narrative. “I lifted the veil to see nature’s trickery revealed as pure shit,” he sings, “From which nothing ever rose, ‘cause nothing ever could.”

“Destroyer’s Rubies” might sound good at times, but its lyrics are what truly stand out.

The literature student will be particularly impressed. Amid the bluesy sound of “Your Blood,” Bejar fills his chorus with allusions to Camus novels. In “3000

Flowers,” he references Aeschylus’ female protagonist, singing how he “was Clytemnestra on a good day, dispensing wisdom to the uninitiated.” What this lyric actually means, like much of the rest of the album’s lyrical content, is up for grabs. Vague references to the “American Underground” in several songs as well as to the “Founding Fathers” in the album’s concluding track make his poetics all the more intriguing. What is this man from Vancouver saying about these United States? If the answer were clear, the comparisons to Dylan would be less apt, of course.

Destroyer “Destroyer’s Rubies” Rating:★★★★✩ Tracks to Download: “Your Blood,” “European Oils,” “Looters’ Follies” For fans of: Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Silver Jews Bottom Line: Obscure Dylanesque vocals harmonize with classic rock—and more

of…’ would be better kept secret

By Adam Summerville Movie Editor

In the 1960s, Bell Laboratories was conducting research on computer speech simulation. A common problem that plagued researchers was that it sounded to them as if the computer was perfectly emulating human speech, while to everyone else it would sound like random noise and static. This happened because the researchers had gotten so used to the noises made by the computer that they had trained their ears to think it was emulating perfectly.

A similar problem is now coursing through the veins of the pop music industry. Sound engineers have become so attuned to washed-out, toneless pitch correcting that they now actually think that that is what voices should sound like. The Veronicas are a prime example of this computational perversion. Their voices sound like pure tones, lacking any sort of texture. Supposedly, the band is

comprised of a pair of Australian twins, but even twins have some sort of variation in the way they sing—differences in breathing, timing or random imperfections. Some differences must inevitably arise.

However, in “The Secret Life of…” both twins have exactly the same computer-created voice, and the only reason the listener can tell there are two separate voices is because someone played around with fast Fourier transforms.

The voices are bland and the song structure and lyrical content do not fare much better. The girls sound like an amalgamation of most female pop artists from the past five years. We have Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne, Ashley Simpson, Michelle Branch and a little Vanessa Carlton thrown in for good measure. Similarly, The Veronicas’ songs sound as if they were written by a group of boardroom executives and focus groups. Supposedly, the girls wrote 60 songs

before being signed to a record label—but unless they sat by a radio that constantly played Top 20 lists and cribbed from the songs that came on, I refuse to believe it.

Besides having a singular mildly hummable song, there is absolutely no redeeming quality to this album. Odds are that the 13-year-old girls that this album should be marketed to are still screaming along to Ashley Simpson and Avril Lavigne and won’t notice this entirely unremarkable effort—and it is not as if anyone else is going to find it worthwhile.

The Veronicas “The Secret Life of...”

Rating:✬✩✩✩✩ Tracks to Download: None.

For fans of: Avril Lavigne, Ashlee Simpson Bottom Line: Pop music written in the boardroom

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This year’s full season of music festivals It’s now officially the third day of spring, and along with blistering winter weather, the music festival season is upon us.

The first big festival has already passed (South by Southwest descended upon Austin, Texas over spring break), but there is an upcoming festival for every genre, artist and obscure indie band out there. So gather up your pup tent, grab your sunscreen, and start prepping those dredlocks. Festival season has arrived.

Excess in Texas at South by Southwest

By Cody Elam Cadenza Reporter For four days, the nexus of the music universe could be found in Austin, Texas. From March 15-19, with over 1,400 bands performing at 60 bars and clubs, live music blew like the wind, day and night. Strolling down Sixth Street in downtown Austin, the key changed every nine yards and 4/4 beats paced passersby. It was the 20th annual South

by Southwest Music Festival (SXSW), and the streets buzzed with distortion pedals and thumped with bass drums. This year drew the festival’s biggest crowds ever, leaving the city littered with music snobs and raging hipsters.

Groups of young men walked coolly down the street, sporting shaggy hair,

tight pants and Converse shoes while bearing guitars and rock attitudes. You knew they were in a band. There were dishevelled press geeks, hurriedly toting their bags and pens, with shiny yellow badges dangling from their necks.

They were the ones, along with the big-city talent-seekers, who could turn these bands from local blogabouts into college radio darlings. And then there were the fans, living out their musical wet dreams, sweating through ass-toelbow packed clubs and fighting their way to the front to get an earful of their favorite bands.

The story of this year’s SXSW was about the masses. Mobs of people crammed their way into tiny clubs, and even the bigger venues with balconies had block-long lines out the doors, with

eager fans praying they could make it in. It was up to the bands to harness the heat and energy from the swarms of people, distract them from their sweating heads and make them bob to the music. The Flaming Lips may have done it best, asking everyone repeatedly to sing as loud as possible. It worked, since the band opened with Queen’s anthem “Bohemian Rhapsody” and sing-along favorites like “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.”

The scene was overwhelming for some groups, like Rodeo Carburetor, a tight emo-core group from Japan that finished its first song by saying, “We are all very nervous because that was the first song we’ve ever played in America.”

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Dungen, a Swedish psychedelic rock band, announced that “we are all so very tired because we just got off of the plane 20 minutes ago, and we haven’t slept in 48 hours.â€? Dirty Pretty Things, a ďŹ ery new band from England, scufed with Austin police after their set was cut short to a mere 20 minutes and had to be forced offstage.

There were also the spoiled festival favorites, big bands on the small indie scene that only had to play their songs to please crowds. Among them were New Yorker newcomers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah who sang lazy melodies over dancerock rhythms, the poppy beats of The Go! Team and, of course, everybody’s new favorite band Arctic Monkeys.

But SXSW wasn’t so much about complimenting the already-praised as it was a chance for smaller acts to strut their

musical stuff. Keisho Ohno, a jazz-funk quartet featuring the shamisen, a Japanese folk instrument, improvised like a jam band. Die Die Die! didn’t mind playing the New Zealand showcase to a smaller crowd, with the lead singer crawling across the oor and screaming while the drummer drenched himself with sweat. Japan, Scotland and Australia all offered showcases that gave American fans a chance to catch bands that can’t make it overseas.

Bands didn’t play feature concerts but rather short sets, a sampler platter of their best music. Up-and-coming bands like Tapes ‘N Tapes, Octopus Project, and the Spinto Band had to prove that they belonged among the elite of indie rock. Bands played not only to win new fans but also for the recognition of magazine writers and record execs.

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thrown from trucks. Corporate sponsors sought the attention of the indie crowd like a rich kid trying to party with the high school dropouts. The venues and streets were a collage of advertisements, with parties catering to trendsetters and sponsored by hip brands like Fader and Jane magazines, Levi’s Jeans and DKNY. If there was one trend that was set at this year’s festival, it was in the music. Every other band played songs with rock guitars and dance beats. It’s as if bands are collectively realizing that it might be better for fans to move their own bodies and not push each other with fury. Bands also seemed happier, given the likes of sugary pop groups such as Of Montreal, Mates of State and The Magic Numbers. The music of the festival was in many ways the same as when the event was founded 20 years ago, with chipper melodies, fuzzy synthesizers and danceable drumbeats.

It’s a welcome change for rigid hipsters: music that can spring a bit of pep into their legs.

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Coachella

Dates: April 29-30 Location: Indio, Calif.

Price: $85 (+ $1 to charity) for one-day pass; $165 (+ $1 to charity) for two-day pass Artists: Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, My Morning Jacket, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cat Power, Massive Attack, Madonna, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Go! Team and more Buy Tickets: www.coachella.com/tickets

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Dates: June 16-18 Location: Manchester, Tenn.

Price: $184.50 for a three-day pass Artists: Radiohead, Tom Petty, Beck, Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Bonnie Raitt, Death Cab for Cutie, moe., Bright Eyes, Bela Fleck, Ben Folds, Matisyahu and more Buy Tickets: www.bonnaroo.com/2006

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Dates: May 5-7 Location: Memphis, Tenn.

Price: $20 for one-day pass; $49.50 for three-day pass (in advance) Artists: B. B. King, Train, Cake, Huey Lewis and the News, George Clinton and Parliament/ Funkadelic, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Blues Traveler, James Brown and more Buy Tickets: www.memphisinmay.org

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MOVIE REVIEW

The ‘V’ stands for vonderful

By Brian Stitt Cadenza Reporter Alan Moore hasn’t had a lot of luck with the movies.

The British comic book writer was livid with the outcomes of “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” and “From Hell” and refused to even put his name on the latest adaptation of his work, “V for Vendetta.”

It couldn’t have helped that they handed the screenwriting duties to the “Matrix” trilogy’s Wachowski brothers, who had trouble adapting their own ideas into movies. Add to this equation the fact that they changed stars halfway through fi lming and the release of the movie was delayed four months, possibly to change some of the incendiary politics within the fi lm, and we fi nd that there is a giant question mark hanging over Warner Bros. Studios.

Yet we true believers needn’t worry about all that—“V for Vendetta” is the fi rst big movie of the year.

It’s 20 years into the future, and the United States has become the worst place in the world after a devastating civil war. In jolly old England, all is well because its citizens elected Adam Sutler, a despotic, über-Christian tyrant who keeps the public in check with secret police and colorcoded curfews. Every fanboy’s wet dream, Natalie Portman, stars as Evey, a production assistant (read: “coffee girl”) at the propagandist BCN. After breaking curfew one night, she gets attacked by some government Finger-men and is saved by a man in a cape and a Guy Fawkes mask, who spouts Shakespearean quotations and V-based alliterations from the moment we fi rst meet him.

(For our less anglophilic readers, Guy Fawkes was caught with 35 barrels of gun powder trying to blow up Parliament and hopefully King James I on Nov. 5, 1605, all with the hope of bringing Catholicism back to England. Every year since, the British burn Guy Fawkes in effigy in order to “remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot.”) V, as the man behind the mask calls himself, takes Evey up to the rooftops to see the result of his gunpowder treason as he blows up the Old Bailey. The government covers up the story, claiming it was a planned demolition, but V refutes their claims by strapping a bomb to himself and going into the television station to broadcast a message of revolution to the people. Evey is caught up in all this, since she was spotted by the Finger-men’s cameras and is the only one of the two not wearing a mask.

As we get caught up in the story of Evey and V fighting the government from which they are hiding, we learn more about these despots and how they have banned anything “different,” including most art, Muslims and homosexuals. We also fi nd that V is not quite the hero we might expect him to be, and we wonder if we should be rooting for him or not. Any conclusions that this is a tirade against the Bush administration must be met with the qualification that the screenplay was written under Margaret Thatcher’s

rule as prime minister, and it defi nitely retains the ‘80s anarchy-in-the-UK feel that the comic book had. The story moves along briskly, but it is not the action movie many might expect. There are a few fight scenes, and they are done well, but they are certainly not the highlight of the fi lm.

Hugo Weaving is wonderful as the man behind the mask, playing the part only with his body and voice and capturing a mild insanity that is infectious. Natalie Portman does slip in and out of her British accent from time to time, but we get so caught up in the emotional truth she brings to the role that we forgive and forget. James McTeigue is more than sufficient as a fi rst-time director, giving us solid visuals, fantastic colors

and a quick pace that hides the fi lm’s two-and-a-half-hour running time. The Wachowskis don’t fail us as they did with the “Matrix” sequels, but many of the changes from the comic book did seem unnecessary.

The real key to this movie is the metaphor that V is not a man but a representation of all men’s ideas. The conversation about terrorism as a patriotic act that naturally presents itself after you view the movie is not an easy one to have, especially in mixed political company. But the point is not to encourage all those interested in freedom to blow up the Capitol building, but rather to allow all ideas to come to light.

Some might be upset with the movie because it gives us no answers or no political leanings other than the very

simple “despotism is bad.” But the movie does have balls to present its questions in the way it does, and while it never quite achieves greatness, it has few weaknesses. Almost assuredly, many people will see this movie, and this may well be one fi lm that sparks the questions necessary to start a conversation, instead of pretending that it can answer them.

“V for Vendetta” Rating: ★★★★✩ Final word: Even if it isn’t the most intelligent political debate you will hear all year, it just might be the gutsiest.

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