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2008 housing University denies process will allow genderrequest for Obama neutral dorms for upperclassmen BY TEDDY WHITE NEWS MANAGER

BY DAN WOZNICA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Upperclassmen living in the Village and Greenway Place Apartments next year will have the option of living in genderneutral housing as part of a pilot program being implemented by the Ofﬁce of Residential Life. According to Cheryl Stephens, associate director of residential life, the security and comfort of all students is one of the main reasons that the program is being instituted. “A housing arrangement based solely on students’ biological sexes may be unsafe for some students,” said Stephens. “We hope these students will feel they have safer housing options now.” In particular, the new housing policy will aim to create a secure environment for transgender students. “Gender-neutral housing provides students with more options to determine how they want to live and learn on campus,” said Mike Brown, coordinator for LGBT student involvement and leadership in Student Activities. “It creates space for individuals on campus who have very little—namely, individuals who self-identify outside of the gender binary. This conceivably includes many transgender and gender-queer people.” Because the policy has only recently been approved, many issues relating to the pilot have yet to be addressed in the upcoming weeks before housing selection. “We still have a lot to put into place,” said Stephens. “But interested students will be able to apply for the pilot through the regular housing processes.” A majority of students on campus seems to favor the policy; according to a 1,300-student poll conducted by Residential Life, 64 percent of students said they were in support of genderneutral housing as an option and 74 percent said they would consider it. Student Union has endorsed gender-neutral housing in a Senate resolution.

“We’re fully in support of it,” said sophomore Kayla Brinkley, an SU senator. In February of 2007, Student Union passed a resolution urging Residential Life to create gender-neutral housing. “Students within the Washington University community are limited by the binary notion of gender present in current residential policy,” said the resolution. According to the resolution, a gender-neutral housing policy would serve to “promote the University’s goal of fostering equality.” Stephens said that genderneutral housing was also recommended by the GLBTQIA Task Force, which was comprised of students, faculty, and administrators. “Gender-neutral housing is not simply an LGBT issue, though,” said Brown. “There are presumably lots of students who do not identify as LGBTIQA who ﬁ nd it frustrating that they

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After learning that Washington University recently missed out on an opportunity to host a visit by presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., students are expressing frustration with the University policy that prohibited the event, which would have taken place this Saturday. Last week, the Washington University chapter of Students for Barack Obama learned that Obama was planning to make an appearance in St. Louis on Feb. 2 and that the campaign was considering the University as a possible location for an event. Three students in the organization then met with Vice Chancellor for Governmental Affairs Henry Weber to request permission to have Obama speak on campus in the Athletic Complex. “The Vice Chancellor told us that because the University could not offer the same opportunity to every candidate and because of tax concerns, the University could not host Obama,” said senior Ben Kastan, one of the students involved in making the request. According to the IRS Web site, under current tax code the University would need to provide

“equal opportunity to the political candidates seeking the same ofﬁce,” could not “indicate any support of or opposition to the candidate” and could not allow any political fundraising at the event. “In order to open our doors to one candidate, we are obligated to open our doors to all candidates,” said Rob Wild, assistant to the chancellor. “In order to minimize disruptions, the University has made the decision [not to invite any candidates].” Some students were skeptical about the University’s justiﬁcation in the tax code. “From what I’ve read, I don’t see any general restriction that prevents a private university from allowing a candidate to speak,” said sophomore Jake Laperruque, another student involved in the appeal. “Many public and private universities have hosted candidates in the last year.” Among the many private universities that have hosted presidential candidates and have not lost their tax-exempt status are Brown University, Wellesley College and Boston University. “[Those universities] are willing to open their doors to any candidate when they request it,” said Wild. “We encourage other means of political involvement

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STAFF REPORTER Washington University, Chrysler LLC and Ameren Corporation are teaming up to see if burning solid paint residues leftover from manufacturing cars can reduce highly toxic mercury emissions from electric power plants. The project originated with the research of Pratim Biswas, chair of the Department of

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Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a rally last semester at Union Station in St. Louis. Students are expressing frustration this week with the University policy that prohibited Obama from coming to campus this weekend as a part of his upcoming St. Louis visit. than inviting candidates.” After the initial request was turned down, the students sent

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Chelsea Clinton, daughter of presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. and former president Bill Clinton, speaks Monday afternoon at Kayak’s Coffee just northeast of campus. Clinton spoke to a packed house of members of the area community at the town hall event. Ben Guthorn, the president of College Democrats, looks on (left). For full coverage, check out the Political Unit blog on studlife.com.

Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering. He demonstrated in the lab, and recently at Meramec Power Plant, that titanium dioxide can be used to control mercury emissions. Titanium dioxide can be found in any paint. It is a benign compound, and burning it has no adverse side effects. Burning the paint residues uses the titanium dioxide in the paint without affecting other processes in the

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plant. “[Chrysler] doesn’t have to dispose [the paint], and we get all the heat value,” he said. “There aren’t any drawbacks. [Ameren] saves coal, and gets more heat and less mercury.” Additionally, because the process is based on retroﬁtting existing plants, power plants do not have to invest deeply in new equipment to adopt this method on a large scale.

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In contrast to 2004, students campaign actively in 2008

Wash. U. team looks to lower mercury emissions BY ANN JOHNSON

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“Our ‘Paint to Power’ program in St. Louis is a recycling success story,” said Deb Morrissett, vice president of regulatory affairs at Chrysler. “Rather than ﬁ lling up scarce landﬁ ll space, we are using these paint wastes to produce power for St. Louis residents and businesses.” For the past year, Chrysler has recycled paint residues

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Looking around at the campaign trail in the 2008 election, one cannot help but notice marked differences from previous elections. Instead of the impassioned doctor Howard Dean challenging the staid Massachusetts senator John Kerry, an AfricanAmerican senator is competing with a former ﬁ rst lady and fellow senator for the Democratic nomination. And rather than a politically inactive youth demographic, this election students across the country are becoming more involved than ever before, and the 2008 presidential candidates are relying on their energetic support. “We are brimming with optimism and excitement at the fact that it is us who are choosing the next president of the United States. This year is something unique in that we’re not voting against someone, we’re voting for something: an idea and a platform much bigger than any one person,” said senior Matt Adler, one of the leaders of the Washington University chapter of Students for Barack Obama (SFBO). From the beginning of 2007 when bids for the candidacy were emerging, students were already being enlisted to help with the various campaigns. As early as March 2007, Republican

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candidate Mitt Romney offered “Students for Mitt” a 10 percent commission on any fundraising they accomplished over $1,000. “[This offer is] for the kids that want to get involved in a political campaign and they don’t want to spend their summer painting houses,” said Romney spokesman Kevin Modden in a March 27, 2007 MSNBC article. Democratic candidates have also made signiﬁcant efforts toward enlisting youth support, with and without monetary reimbursement. Especially for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the 17 to 24 age bracket is both crucial and sought after. According to a Jan. 23 issue of The Politico, 57 percent of Democratic voters in Iowa between the ages of 17 and 24 support Barack Obama. At such a close margin, however, the race for the Democratic nomination is what sophomore Annie Rushman refers to as “anyone’s game.” On the University’s campus, and even in the dorms, one is bombarded with press, paraphernalia and propaganda for the various candidates. Because of the University student body’s overwhelmingly liberal leanings, as the recent Student Life campus political poll indicates, an especially large group has come together to support Barack Obama for the demo-

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After completing its first semester with its newly offered 4 p.m. time slot, the Assembly Series has experienced a significantly higher turnout of undergraduate student attendees. “The staggered times brought increase in turnout and especially greater diversity among the students,” said Student Union President Neil Patel. According to Barbara Rea, director of major events and special projects for the Assembly Series, Washington University instituted this change for the fall 2007 semester in order to increase attendance by finding more convenient times for students. Last year an estimated 15 to 20 percent of undergraduates were unable to attend because of 11 a.m. classes on Wednesdays, and their frustration prompted Student Union executives to request new hours. The fall 2007 schedule offered speakers at either 11 a.m. or 4 p.m. across all days of the

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Leon Kass, a University of Chicago biochemist chosen by President George W. Bush to head a new commission on stem-cell research will speak at the Assembly Series on Wednesday, Feb. 6. school week so that students could ﬁt at least some lectures into their schedules.

Students said they feel that the Assembly Series’ new flexibility enables them to fit more lectures into their schedules. Junior Vicki Crago said she welcomed the change. “I’ve found it hard to go to the series in past years because I couldn’t arrange my classes around it. I think this is better,” said Crago. While the varied weekdays and hours enabled a greater range of students and community members to attend some Assembly Series lectures, people have been attending with less consistency. Rea also said that although more undergraduates attended the events held at 4 p.m., the number of older community members attending decreased. Danforth and Honorary Scholars, who are supposed to attend all the programs, also found the varying times more difficult. Freshmen in these scholarship programs are expected to hear the speakers and then participate in discussion as part of a one-unit course. After the change, they attended less consistently and their discus-

sions lost focus. “My freshman year, we used to go as a group at 11 [a.m.]. Our evening discussions were a great way for our group to talk about the issues in greater depth,” said sophomore Priya Sury, a Danforth Scholar. This year’s freshmen, who cannot build their class schedules around any set hour, said it is now hard to experience the Assembly Series as a group. Sophomore Martha Elster, a transfer scholar whose ﬁrst year straddled the scheduling change between spring and fall 2007, said she disliked how the schedule change affected lecture attendance and discussion quality. “At 6:30 [p.m.], we still discussed the speaker’s topic, but it’s not engaged to the same extent,” she said. Instead of discussing the day’s speaker, the Danforth Scholars talked about more general topics, such as leadership, so that all could contribute whether or not they were present for the lecture. Honorary Scholars expressed similar concerns. Emily Lebsack,

OBAMA v FROM PAGE 1 Chancellor Mark Wrighton, with similar results. “The e-mail response cited concern over overall fairness and logistical issues in allowing a candidate to speak on campus, but also nervousness about any perceived favor prior to the vice presidential debates that Wash. U. will be hosting,” said Kastan. “Because the University cannot equitably accommodate all such requests for the use of its facilities for candidate campaign rallies without disrupting academic and extracurricular operations, the University has decided that it cannot sponsor these types of events,” wrote Wild in an e-mail to Student Life. “To make an exception for one or two campaigns would be to

give the appearance of favoritism or partisanship, especially given the literally dozens of declared candidates currently seeking the nomination by several political parties.” This is not the ﬁrst time that the University has refused to allow political candidates to speak on campus. One prominent example was in 2004 when students unsuccessfully pushed to get approval for Democratic candidate and current Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to speak at the University. Former President of the College Democrats Aaron Keyak, a 2007 alumnus said that this decision is a testament to the University’s failure to foster an environment for healthy politi-

cal discourse. “[Wash. U.] encourages open discourse when it comes to educational matters, but not when it comes to political issues,” said Keyak. Keyak cites his failed effort to get the administration’s approval to host the National Convention for College Democrats in 2006, which instead was hosted by St. Louis University. An ofﬁcial petition to bring Barack Obama to St. Louis has been created on Facebook by senior Matt Adler. As of the print deadline, over 1,000 students have joined the petition group. “The idea behind the petition is much broader that just Barack Obama,” said Adler. “It is about informing students that a great

opportunity has been lost.” Adler hopes that the event will help facilitate student contact with the administration about the decision. Currently, there is a mixture of anger and frustration among students on campus. “I understand there are logistical hurdles and concerns about neutrality,” said Student Union President Neil Patel. “But at the same time, I was disappointed when I heard the decision. Hosting Barack Obama could have been a great opportunity for both the school and the students.” —With additional reporting by John Scott

Barack Obama is set to speak at the Edward Jones Dome on Saturday, February 2 at 9:00 p.m. Admission is free and attendants are encouraged to RSVP at missouri.barackobama.com.

Students connect on religious diversity BY ANN JOHNSON STAFF REPORTER A recent town hall-style forum in MacMillan Café open to all students explored the topic of religious diversity. The Jan. 22 event, called “Connect4 Town Hall: A Different Kind Of Conversation about Religious Diversity,” was cohosted by Connect4, a student group led by sophomore Fernando Cutz and was devoted to giving Washington University students a safe place to talk about their differences, and Interfaith Youth Core, a religious diversity group not afﬁ liated with Washington University. Connect4 is the newest incarnation of the Student Diversity Initiative, which Cutz started in response to personal experiences with intolerance. The Student Diversity Initiative recently merged with Campus Week of Dialogue to form Con-

nect4. “[Before SDI] there was nowhere on campus where you could go to express these things,” said Cutz. “People assume Wash. U. is this perfect place, but there was nowhere to go to make it better.” The Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) is a nationwide group dedicated to helping young people build “religious diversity and pluralism.” The group deﬁ nes pluralism as “not diversity, but engaging that diversity.” Representatives from IFYC structured the evening, which started with a look at how religion is portrayed in the media. First, attendees were shown the trailer for “God’s Warriors,” a CNN special on Christianity, Judaism and Islam and were asked to analyze critically how religions were being portrayed. Then, the IFYC showed the trailer for a short ﬁ lm called

“Exchange,” which follows a group of young people from the United States and from Jordan exchanging places. This led to a discussion of the religious environment on campus. Students were given an open ﬂoor to address religious issues, “no matter how extreme,” said Hind Makki, a member of the IFYC. Students from around the room began talking about being tolerated and about feeling sidelined. Freshman Aaron Samuels said that he felt pressure to “be deﬁ nitive in what [he] believed.” He felt one had pressure to “stake [one’s] claim in a religion or mark [one’s self] as an atheist.” Senior Michael Morgan, another student, talked about how he had faced misconceptions about his religion many times, even in classes. As a Christian Scientist, he said he often dealt with people who assumed he was a Scientolo-

gist or that his religion was not compatible with the theory of evolution. Once, he said a professor taught in a class that Christian Scientists were not allowed to receive blood transfusions, because they considered it to be “eating blood,” which is not true. “It’s difficult to feel like a one-man army,” said Morgan during the town hall. “It’s really difficult to start discussions with people, but once I do they’re really interested.” Senior Frank Bergh, an RA for Lee 3, talked about not being sure of how to start a conversation with his residents about religion without offending or alienating them, a topic that interested several others as well. “Freshman floors are the most diverse communities on our campus by far. These [religious] conversations are what will really propel people to be diverse later in life,” said

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Bergh. Frank also said that he’d had difﬁculty with starting conversations in the past, and shared that he’d received one RA evaluation that had the comment “Too religious for my tastes.” Cutz stressed the importance of having a place to be open with complaints. Connect4 has many other ideas for raising student awareness about issues of social justice; the group is planning a socioeconomic diversity event and has tentatively planned a large service project involving all service groups at Wash. U., to take place some time in April. Cutz counted the town hall on religious diversity a success. “I thought people were able to express themselves in a supportive environment where we could all learn from each other,” said Cutz. “I look forward to more dialogue on campus.”

a sophomore with a Compton Scholarship, conﬁrmed that nonuniform scheduling was hard for the freshmen in her program. Moreover, she said afternoon and evening times are not necessarily more convenient for students because students who have class throughout the morning are tired by late afternoon and are unlikely to trek back onto Danforth Campus for the Assembly Series. Rea recognized that there is “no magic time for all,” and that lectures are put online when possible so that students unable to attend can listen. When the speaker does not allow his or her lecture to be audio streamed, Dean Richard Harrison distributes CDs of the program to the scholars. “The assembly series is committed to holding events at a time when most students are able to attend. That time has been established as 4 p.m. or later,” said Rea. The spring 2008 schedule, which offers 16 speakers, is online at assemblyseries.wustl. edu.

MERCURY v FROM PAGE 1 from its two St. Louis assembly plants to use as fuel in Ameren’s nearby Meramec electric utility plant. Before this project, it was sending one million pounds of dried paint residue to landfi lls each year. Even though the amount of paint used is much lower than the amount of coal (about .01 per load burned), the paint solids now replace about 570 tons of coal per year in the Meramec plant. Paint solids supply enough power for 70 homes a year. When coal is burned, it releases trace amounts of mercury as a waste product. This mercury enters the atmosphere, where it then falls as precipitation and enters the water. From there, it is absorbed by fi sh and then passed on to humans when they eat the fi sh. If too much mercury accumulates in a person’s system, the central nervous system, endocrine system, kidneys and other organs are adversely affected. Mercury is also particularly toxic to children and pregnant women, and serious birth defects have been linked to exposure to mercury. To control mercury emissions, Ameren is burning paint solids with their coal. Titanium dioxide in the paint solids bond to mercury molecules, making them easier for the power plants to trap in their particulate catchers, called “scrubbers.” The process improves efficiency in catching mercury by up to 96 percent. “The challenge now is to make sure that the results Washington University and Chrysler have seen in the lab can be translated to a power plant,” said Ken Anderson, Ameren managing supervisor for Air Quality Management, in an Ameren press release. “This has both fi nancial and environmental benefits for our customers.”

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Members of Students for Barack Obama watch the Monday, January 21 debate at Obama Headquarters. Students are becoming involved in the campaigns of all candidates. cratic nomination. Like many other liberals on the University’s campus, Adler said he initially was not sure which candidate he wanted to support. “I wasn’t sure who I was going to support before [winter break], but when I saw that the race was so close and that Obama really needed my support, I stepped forward and starting making calls for the campaign from my home to college students in Iowa,” said Adler. Adler and his fellow students have banded together to form a sort of political powerhouse on campus, and his passion for the Obama campaign is similar to that of many other students at the University as well as throughout the nation. “We’re savvy, smart and sophisticated, and Barack Obama has valued us since day one, not just since other politicos started realizing our generation was voting in numbers unheard of for decades,” said Adler. Even though the conservative side of the campaign has appeared far more muted on the University campus, President of

the College Republicans Charis Fischer said she still sees considerable potential for Republican student involvement. “I don’t think it’s harder for Republican students to get involved, but for some it may be intimidating. It can be a challenge to put yourself out there in the face of so many students and professors who disagree with your views, but in my opinion it’s always worth it. I think most Republican students are actually excited about the opportunity to challenge the liberal politics that dominate this campus,” said Fischer. On both sides of the political spectrum, from liberal to conservative, many campaigning activities remain the same. Besides researching a candidate to support on the Internet, canvassing, phone banking and coordinating activities all provide easy outlets into the campaign trail. Rushman spends many of her extracurricular hours campaigning for Hillary Clinton, and acts as one of the main liaisons between Clinton and the Washington University campus. Even though the students

for Barack Obama seem to have more visible campus presence, Rushman said she believes that this has to do with the timing and coordination of the campaigning. “Hillary’s ofﬁce in St. Louis just opened over winter break, and ﬁeld organizers and press directors have come from New Hampshire to increase the student involvement. The race is still open: there’s no right or wrong way to get involved,” said Rushman. Rushman also said the Hillary campaign on campus will begin tabling the week of Jan. 28, and the end of primaries will provide a bigger presence from the Clinton campaign. Also, Fischer mentioned ways for conservative students to become more involved in the campaigning. While the College Republicans do not endorse any one candidate at the moment, Fischer said, “Once the nominee is chosen, (the College Republicans) will be very active in doing what we can to help them get elected. At that point we will welcome any volunteers who would like to contribute their time.”

HOUSING v FROM PAGE 1 from the Transgender Law and Policy Institute. The schools that have adopted gender-neutral housing policies range from small, private institutions such as Oberlin College to large, state universities like the University of

Michigan. As of this semester, Harvard University has also instituted a limited gender-neutral housing policy. Students seeking more information about gender-neutral housing on campus should visit housingselection.wustl.edu.

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had damaged the krypotonite lock. Disposition: Pending.

10:11 a.m. INFORMATIONAL REPORT—OFF-CAMPUS—Student reports she was threatened by a subject on MetroLink. Student got off without incident. Disposition: Under investigation.

9:35 a.m. LARCENY—EADS HALL—Teaching Center staff member reported the theft of a black HP laptop computer from a rolling cart in Eads 112. Theft occurred sometime between 12-21-07 and 1-22-08. Total loss value of $2200. Disposition: Pending.

can’t live with the individual they believe to be the best ﬁt unless they move off campus.” The University is one of about 25 colleges and universities nationwide to institute some kind of “gender-neutral housing option,” according to data taken

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6:39 p.m. LARCENY— MALLINCKRODT—Report of credit cards stolen from the dressing room in the lower level of Mallinckrodt. Items were unsecured from 1800-2000 hours on the 21st. Disposition: Pending.

Saturday, Jan. 26 12:53 a.m. FIREWORKS— SHEPLEY DORM—Several subjects reported as ﬁ ring ﬁ reworks outside of Shepley Dorm. Disposition: Referred to JA. Tuesday, Jan. 29

4:14 p.m. PROPERTY DAMAGE—KOENIG DORM—Complainant reported that his bike was on the bike rack located on the northside of Wohl Garage. between 12-17-07 1500 and 1-1708 1600 hours. On 1/17, he discovered that the lock would not work and looked as if someone

1:11 a.m. WARRANT ARREST—OLIN—Security reports several suspicious individuals looking at porn in the library. A check of the individuals revealed two of them to have numerous wants/wanteds. Disposition: Cleared by arrest.

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residential candidate Barack Obama could have spoken at Washington University on Saturday, for free, had the administration not denied such a venue by invoking a policy that forbids political candidates from speaking on campus. On the surface, at least, this policy makes sense. After all, it is surely the case that maintaining the appearance of neutrality will affect the University’s ability to win and host future presidential debates. Given the University has violated its own policy in the past, however, we believe that there should be some ﬂexibility on this decision. As a result, we are deeply disappointed in the University administration’s decision to ban Obama from speaking on campus. In order for students to become motivated to take on their government and civic responsibilities, Washington University has a speaker series that seeks to bring current academics, activists and political ﬁgures to campus. The University has not shied

away from allowing and paying controversial figures to share their ideas with the student body. Notably, the University, in conjunction with the College Republicans, will welcome (and pay generously) former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in a few weeks. Mr. Gonzales’ appearance will not violate the Washington University neutrality policy because he is not a candidate seeking office; paying him to speak will showcase the University’s belief that partisan political figures can provide educational benefits to students. Such benefits outweigh the negative side effects of potentially creating an image that the University supports one particular speaker. More importantly than its decision to pay Alberto Gonzales to speak on this campus was the University’s decision to allow Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, to speak. Gov. Huckabee spoke at the Washington University Assembly Series on April 4, 2007 as a guest

of the College Republicans. Governor Huckabee had already declared his intention to run for president on Jan. 28 of that year. After allowing a representative of one political party to speak on campus in violation of a selfdeclared neutrality policy, the only way to remain neutral is to also open the space to all other candidates who would like to use it. Otherwise, any further declarations of maintaining nonpartisanship are empty. The University allowed one presidential candidate to speak on campus—neutrality would require the University to allow other candidates equal access. The beneﬁts of allowing Sen. Obama to speak would be numerous. The student body has been working hard to bring more provocative and passionate speakers to campus, in order to motivate students. This has been the rationale behind Student Union’s reform of the Assembly Series. The entire point of bringing political speakers to campus is to educate students about the political process while simultaneously promoting discussion and debate. Bringing

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Sen. Obama to campus would accomplish these goals and help combat the stereotype of the apathetic college student. As students, we are asking for a chance to be educated, and we are asking for the sort of chance we envisioned a prestigious school like Washington University would be able to provide. At Student Life we believe that a fair policy has consistent standards. The policy the administration has invoked to deny Sen. Obama access to our school has been applied inconsistently and unfairly. The senator has been turned away from our campus and consequently been forced to ﬁnd a new venue. Particularly in light of the rare opportunity lost to host one of the nation’s leaders, we are embarrassed by our school’s decision. A protest of the University’s decision and policy is currently in the planning stages. We encourage students to make their voice heard with the administration so that future leaders’ voices can be heard by the University community.

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The unfair Arts & Sciences cluster system BY JARED FUCHS OP-ED SUBMISSION

was reading Monday’s Forum in Student Life when I found an article which truly hit home with me. Christian’s article arguing against distribution requirements reminds me of my hard time with the system. Specifically, I feel that the cluster system is unfair to transfer students and biased against certain majors. As a junior transfer student who just arrived this year, I had the distinct pleasure of realizing that my schedule for the next two years would be dictated by the cluster system. Granted, I opted to finish two majors in mathematics and physics, but I was hoping that some of the distribution requirements that I had from my previous school would have let me focus almost solely on my majors. Unfortunately, I was hit with a barbed wire fence when it came to transferring credits into the cluster system. As a junior, I am allowed to waive up to two clusters, but only at the approval of the Arts & Sciences deans (or whomever determines this sort of thing). I was able to waive the textual and historical studies cluster, but the administration did not give me any other clusters. Why? Although I had taken three semesters of a required seminar, which was a hybrid English/textual and historical studies system, I only had one semester each of musical composition, French and Gospel music; the last class specifically for cultural diversity (another requirement that cannot be waived). Since these classes are not in a strict, dictated, Wash. U. approved sequence, I was only able to waive one cluster. Also, in the infinite wisdom that the system contains, I was able to waive my quantitative analysis course. I was very grateful that this was waived since

almost every one of my math classes contains that label, and who knows what I would have done if I had to take another class for my major? Furthermore, this system does not allow people to waive the extra three credits required for each area on top of the cluster. So, as an incoming junior, I am set up to take three language and arts classes, three social sciences, another in textual and historical studies, one social differentiation course and a cultural diversity class. Using clever scheduling, I was able to reduce this to seven to eight courses (assuming no scheduling conflicts, another story entirely), which will require a large chunk of my time, given that I also have to complete two majors. As I mentioned earlier, this system is also set up to help out certain majors and shun others. I wish I could be an East Asian Studies major since that would get me out of two clusters (TH and LA), whereas a Math and Physics major can only fall into the natural sciences division. As a Psychology major and French minor, I would be done with everything! Why is it that someone who happens to enjoy a major with two cluster headings is allowed to take fewer requirements than a student taking two majors with the same cluster heading, especially when the double major would need more leeway to schedule his/her major classes? In short, this system doesn’t make any sense and should be revised heavily. I am all for a balanced education, but at least make the system fair and balanced and with enough leeway to forgive perceived offenses such as an English major not finishing his writing intensive requirement. Jared is a junior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at jsfuchs@artsci.wustl.edu.

Saving our beautiful souls BY STEVEN S. HOFFMANN OP-ED SUBMISSION

hen was the last time a political controversy—other than the prepackaged presidential debates— raised the blood pressure of the Wash. U. student body a single millimeter of mercury? As Alberto Gonzales is fond of saying, “I can’t recall.” The impending visit by our disgraced former Attorney General has provoked an array of objections. His $30,000 fee is much too large, his abuses of power too stomach turning. Student Life weighed in with an editorial entitled “Let Alberto Gonzales Speak.” Obviously I agree, but it is a cowardly defense of free speech that has to keep distantiating, reminding us how much it hates the speech itself. There is something vulgar in stating the obvious: We

should let everyone speak. I’m not worried about Student Life editors, who occasionally get things right, as they did on Friday in an eloquent smackdown on antiintellectual crazy-Christian legislators. Of course, they ignore the obvious solution to the whole problem: privatize the public universities. But that’s not the point. The vast majority of your fellow students don’t even care about THAT. To them, the most exciting development of the year is the new green wool Banana Republic top coat. Regardless of the false sense of political involvement that Friday’s political poll claims, the majority of us should have checked the box marked “I am disturbingly apathetic.” The subtle political minds overheard in Bear’s Den remind me of the vast right wing conspirator Paula Jones who once asked, “The Repub-

licans? Are they the good ones or the bad ones?” Fortyeight percent of our network’s Facebook users do not even express a political view. Although I am usually loathe to quote Ann Coulter, “the swing voters [are] the idiot voters because they don’t have set philosophical principles. You’re either a liberal or you’re a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster.” That’s true Ann, but if your IQ is above that of a jackass or an elephant, you’re either a libertarian or a socialist. This article is an appeal to those very few to reconsider what a protest of Gonzales really means. The supreme irony of students protesting Gonzales is that our “right” to protest is the exact justiﬁcation for the government’s response to 9/11, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, illegal detention, wiretapping,

the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the use of torture, etc. Gonzales will say, “Look, this is why we have to torture enemy combatants, why we are above the law: so that American citizens can be free to protest our actions here at home.” My view of protesting has been deeply inﬂuenced by the anarchist Peter Graeber, a professor of anthropology at Yale who was denied tenure for purely political reasons by the liberal staff. (He was too far left for them, adding to my bafﬂement at Neoconservatives who talk about a Marxist conspiracy in Academia. Very few academics are really radicals—they’re just left of center cheerleaders for State Power. To real radicals, Bush, Clinton and Obama are all the same.) His view is that participating in protest tacitly acknowledges that the State is the legitimate

holder of power and user of force. By protesting, we beg our oppressor to be nicer to us, to treat us kindly. Instead, Graeber advocates a policy of “direct action, with its rejection of a politics which appeals to governments to modify their behaviour, in favour of physical intervention against state power in a form that itself preﬁgures an alternative—all of [which] emerges directly from the libertarian tradition.” What would using direct action mean in the situation of Gonzalez? Firstly, it means that speech is not even an issue. The use of torture and illegal detention is the problem. Government has failed, and American citizens have a moral mandate to physically stop the abuses that are occurring at the detention center in Guantanamo Bay. That is why Clinton and Obama represent the same

position as Bush: The fi rst one of them to reject the appropriation bills that pay for war and for torture will be the anti-war candidate. As far as I know, the only candidates who voted against paying for war, and thus, are anti-war, are Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul. As Robert Byrd once remarked, “there are few men of great courage.” Student Union’s use of student funds to fi nance a speaker who most students fi nd morally objectionable adds a delicious layer of irony to the debate. SU practices a smaller version of the exact same system advocated by our national government: wealth redistribution. Instead of allowing students to make their own decisions about how to use their dollars, SU knows better than we do. Not unpredictably, if you scruti-

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was killed? ere’s a story (hyWe know the answers pothetical): Kid here. It’s a tragedy that is writes stupid, no one’s fault. A few people sexist, racist or getting together and acting whateverist letter to the edistupidly. First of all, nobody tor to Student Life because deserves to die for that kind he thinks it is funny. It gets of stupidity, although the laughs from some of the reason that it is stupid is bemore cretinish persons on cause death is possible, and campus. Kid goes to class second of all, nobody and acts dumb deserves the blame for a couple of for collective stupidyears. Kid gets ity like that. None to senior year, of these kids needs graduates,\ and to be held accountstarts looking able for their stupid, for a job. Kid momentary decision Googles himwhich nobody wanted self and finds to turn out the way it this ridiculous Dennis Sweeney did. letter to the The distinction editor he wrote between this situation a couple years and the letter to the ediago. Kid thinks said letter tor writer is this: The kids is a poor way to represent playing with fire were being himself to the employing stupid, but only because community and tries to get Student Life to take it off the there was a risk of a really bad result; the letter writer Internet. was being stupid and not Poor kid, right? Similar situations have been brought just risking a comparatively up in the Sweeney household less-bad result for the future but confirming it. The kids back in Cincinnati, and my with the bomb were taking a dad makes this argument: stupid risk; the letter writer People change; a person was being purposefully shouldn’t get destroyed for idiotic. His stupidity comes the things they do when from the fact that if he had they are stupid and young. any kind of foresight at all, His case in point is a good he wouldn’t have written the one. Some kids like playing letter. You should be held acwith fire (don’t we all), so countable for your decisions they decide to build a small that will clearly have future bomb and blow up some implications if you totally playhouse in one of the kids’ fail to take those future imbackyards. They videotape plications into account. it. Two of the kids hide beBut it doesn’t matter if hind a tree and the other kid you should be held accounthas the camera. The playable or not. It matters that house explodes. The kids you will be. Most of us in behind the tree are fine, college act as if we are totalbut the kid who is trying to ly immune to the real world. film it is killed. In the final And it’s true that we are not analysis, the kids doing this actually there yet, but it is a with him actually have to mistake to think that there go to jail for being a part of is not a bridge of causation their friend’s death. that goes from college to The question is: Aren’t real life. We don’t suddenly the kids going to feel get a new body and a new enough regret for the rest of history when we graduate— their lives about doing this we remain accountable for one, stupid thing that killed everything we did in college, their friend? Isn’t it going to even if at the point when we haunt them beyond any pundid them we were livin’ free ishment law could provide? and not thinking about the Was it their fault any more future. than it was the kid’s who

RACHEL HARRIS | STUDENT LIFE

I hate to be Negative McNegativity over here, but the decisions we make now—both the good decisions and the bad ones—are decisions that have implications for our real life, even if we’re not actually living that real life yet. Drinking a

lot now has implications for the liver you will have your whole life. Being a jerk affects what a lot of people are going to think of you until they die. Slacking off now has actual effects for you in the real world, not through grades but through its influ-

ence on your ability to think and work. And of course, writing stupid letters to the editor now gives the whole future an insight into stages you won’t be proud of. So, it’s not always bad policy to do stupid stuff while you are in college,

but don’t be selfish—think about how your future self will feel about what you’re doing, too. Dennis is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences and a Forum Editor.. He can be reached via e-mail forum@studlife.com.

New Hampshire is not what’s wrong with the electoral process BY ERIN KANE OP-ED SUBMISSION

s a New Hampshire resident and voter, I take issue with Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld’s editorial regarding the electoral system. Yes—something is fundamentally wrong with the way our country votes. However, I don’t think that my “colder, whiter” state (as both Steinert-Threlkeld and Jon Stewart noted) is the root of the problem. When I was home for the summer, I had the opportunity to see three candidates speak (Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama and Governor Bill Richardson) and could have seen several others. The buzz about Richardson was on equal

footing with the other candidates—no one really knew who was going to be the nominee. Until the debates and intense media coverage began, that is. The media and debate moderators directed the vast majority of their attention to the “big three”—Clinton, Obama and Edwards. The remaining candidates had to fight to answer debate questions, and they were scarcely mentioned in the press. Ridiculous coverage of ridiculous events dominated the political news and entirely distracted people from the main campaign issues. (A female candidate has cleavage? Is Obama really black enough? How much does Edwards’ hair really cost?) Did it matter to CNN that Sena-

tor Biden had an entirely original plan for Iraq? Did it matter that Richardson had successfully negotiated with Saddam Hussein and between Israelis and Palestinians? Did it matter that there was far more to Congressman Dennis Kucinich than being a goofy liberal? Apparently not. So, what I knew when the time came for me to vote over winter break was that Richardson was far behind in the polls and that Obama, Clinton and Edwards were extremely close. Shortly after the Iowa caucus, I had an interesting conversation with a Kucinich campaign worker that may shed light on the way New Hampshire votes. When he asked about my voting plans, I explained

that, in light of the probable distribution of votes, it was more important to me to try to keep Clinton from being the nominee (with a vote for Obama) than to cast a vote for Richardson which would be essentially useless. The campaign worker laughed, and said, “I figured I would work for the candidate I prefer and vote for the candidate I think is electable.” Had the media and polls stayed out of the race, I think results in Iowa and New Hampshire could have been very different. If all of the original candidates had been given equal respect by the news, perhaps they ALL could have emerged from the New Hampshire primary as “electable.” Steinert-Threlkeld offers several alternatives to our

Wash. U.: fair and balanced? BY WILLIAM RONKOSKI OP-ED SUBMISSION

ver the past week, there has been controversy over the school denying Barack Obama access to campus for a rally this Saturday. I spoke to Jill Carnaghi, assistant vice chancellor for students and director of campus life, brieﬂy today when I saw her in Whispers in order to get a feel for the situation and to squash any rumors. She told me the school was concerned about being fair to all of the candidates. The school felt they could not logistically provide the opportunity to speak on campus to all of the candidates. OK, great, sounds like a good policy, but what about all the times the school hasn’t been fair and balanced? I remember watching the election returns in November 2006 and looking for the results for

the stem cell research ballot measure. I noticed as they were interviewing people who supported the measure, the reception for supporting Amendment 2 was at the Knight Center. That’s right, on campus. Did they anticipate the opposition wanting to reserve space? Hmm, probably not. OK, you say, the University had a special interest in stem-cell research because it would greatly help our medical research. Correct, but that isn’t the only time the school has been involved with political endeavors. According to opensecrets.org, in the 2006 Senate campaign, the school gave $30,600 to Claire McCaskill, a Democrat. Also, in 2002, the school gave $35,400 to Democrat Jean Carnahan in her Senate race. Poor Republican Jim Talent; he ran in both races and even went to Wash. U. but was given nothing. Too bad I didn’t dig deeper, I’m

sure I would have found tons of other donations. So, we’ve established that the school is uber-excited about giving Democrats money, but that still doesn’t change the fact that the school doesn’t want to get involved this round because they may have to provide a facility to everyone. On Monday, Chelsea Clinton paid a visit to St. Louis by visiting a site at UMSL and stopping by Kayak’s at the corner of Skinker and Forest Park Parkway for a campaign rally. According to the school’s Web site, they own the building that Kayak’s is in: www.wustl.edu/tour/ danforth. In case you didn’t catch that, I just told you that the Clinton campaign made a stop on the property of Washington University in St. Louis, not to be confused with University of Washington or the George Washington University. The event on Monday has opened the Pandora’s Box of

opportunities for candidates to speak on campus, the same box the administration was trying not to open. What happened to the days when the school was concerned for educating its students politically? This year’s election is important to hundreds of students on campus, so why not open the dialogue for students to compare the candidates? What happened to the days of canceling ﬁ nals for the students to protest Vietnam in Forest Park? I hope each and every one of you who is outraged contact the administration. I look forward to seeing Barack Obama on Saturday, regardless of the venue he ends up eventually choosing. Hopefully, the school will realize its mistake and make our lives easier. William is a junior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail billronkoski@gmail.com.

current system. I have a few more. First, spread the primary out more. Don’t make people cast votes for a candidate 10 months before the actual election. This gives all candidates time to articulate their stances, gives the media ample time to report these stances and gives voters the necessary time to mull them over. Second, get polls out of politics. As we all saw after New Hampshire—the polls were (and are frequently) wrong. I answered questions for polls back in July—I changed my mind in the intermittent six months. My father didn’t decide on his candidate until the day before the primary. There is simply too much power given to statisticians playing the number game, and

they shouldn’t get to choose who the president is. Finally, the way we actually cast votes is flawed. Having the ability to rank candidates on a ballot would have allowed that Kucinich campaign worker to support his candidate of conscience and someone “electable.” New Hampshire voters are generally very well-informed and have listened to or interacted with a startling array of candidates. The electoral system may be flawed, and New Hampshire voters may have an exaggerated voice in the country’s election, but that voice is one we take very, very seriously. Erin is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences. She can be reached via e-mail eekane@artsci.wustl.edu.

HOFFMANN v FROM PAGE 4 nize the funding patterns of student groups, the rich tend to get richer and the poor get poorer. The Budget committee gets to practice petty favoritism, fully funding their friends’ groups, and the officers get to flesh out their curricula vitae with real technocrat experience. No doubt, there is more than a typological difference between the SU and the US; the activities fee is consensual, taxes are enforced from the barrel of a gun. If I found the fee vehemently objectionable, I would have gone elsewhere. My point is that the same inefficiencies in a miniature command and control economy persist, and occasionally, in situations like the Gonzales visit, the moral objections to wealth redistribution emerge. Part of my activities fee is now going to support a supporter of state-sponsored terrorism. We all should be placed on the no-fly list. For all of my sound and fury, I will always stand with the people of the street. At

6 p.m. on Feb. 19, students who care about our country and abhor torture will come together at 560 Delmar with our peace signs, our megaphones and our witty chants. Mostly, it will be an exercise in hipster fashion and the desire for an “authentic” counterculture experience. Some words of wisdom will be spoken; lots of stupid things will be said. You might even be able to tell your children one day that you have an FBI ﬁ le. Look for me there. I will be wearing my Ron Paul shirt and my tin-foil hat. One side of my sign will protest Gonzales and torture; the other side will protest the protesters who every day, through our benevolence and liberal hearts, tacitly agree that State is King. We perpetuate our subservience, speed up the loss of liberty, enable torture. Steven is a senior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail hoffmann@wustl. edu.

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SPORTS Wash. U. softball players help Team USA win gold v Senior Karli Stander and sophomore Caitlyn Hoffman contribute to teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success at the Maccabi Pan American Games in Buenos Aires in December

Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoops regains No. 1 ranking v Set to be tested right away this Friday at No. 3 Rochester BY ANDREI BERMAN SPORTS REPORTER

BY BRITTANY BERNACCHI SPORTS REPORTER While many people vacationed and unwound over winter break, senior Karli Stander and sophomore Caitlyn Hoffman won gold medals playing softball for Team USA in the 11th annual Pan American Maccabi Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Maccabi World Union dedicates itself to providing a means for Jewish educational, cultural, social and athletic activities. Stander and Hoffman joined Washington University graduates Jamie Kressel and Monica Hanono on Team USA, along with other college students, college graduates and high school students from around the country. Although the team beat host country Argentina 6-0 in the final game, the beginning of the tournament was rocky. The team played together for the first time just before the tournament, and the team lost its opener to Israel 6-1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to bring a group of girls together who have been coached by so many different people and blend them into one in a very short time,â&#x20AC;? explained Hoffman. Even though the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first game did not fare well, its second game began a turnaround, as Team USA defeated Argentina 6-0. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we realized that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here to have fun, not to

necessarily win, we started playing much better,â&#x20AC;? added Hoffman. Both Stander and Hoffman described the tournament as a very unique experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;International play was like nothing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever experienced before. Usually, we can talk to the umpires and hear what the other team is saying,â&#x20AC;? recalled Stander. In this tournament, however, both the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opponents and umpires were speaking different languages. The atmosphere was also very different since softball players could see the Mexico and Brazil teams playing soccer on an adjacent field. Another unique aspect of the tournament was its atmosphere. Hoffman added that the tournament was, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the most friendly competition Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been a part of.â&#x20AC;? Despite the friendly atmosphere, both girls agreed that the championship game against Argentina was very intense, even though Team USA had beaten Argentina twice in the tournamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earlier rounds. Since Argentina was the host country, their team had many more supporters in the final game. However, all of the USA male players came to cheer for the women, leveling the playing field slightly. Unfortunately, Hoffman injured her hamstring early in the tournament and could not play in the championship game.

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Team USA at the Maccabi Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Washington University had its own representatives thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Karli Stander and Caitlyn Hoffman. threw it to first base, I ran for home. [There was] a big play at the plate, [and] I made a diving slide, and people were going crazy,â&#x20AC;? said Stander. Wash. U. players had many shining moments throughout the tournament, and Stander earned the Offensive Most Valuable Player award while Kressel garnered the Most Valuable Player of the tournament award Wash. U.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence throughout the entire tournament was strong. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By the end of the tournament, we had [Team USA] yelling, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yeah Bears!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? added Stander.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every time someone would make a play or get a strikeout, the crowd would go crazy. Every play was a huge rush. The way the stands were set up, the fans were right around our dugout, so you werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just returning to your team. Fans were very close and loud and intense. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d all cheer when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d come back to the dugout,â&#x20AC;? Stander remembered. Standerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most memorable moment of the championship game was when she scored her first run after having been stranded on third two times before. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Someone hit a dribbler to shortstop, and when she

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With its Sunday afternoon road victory over then-No.2 Brandeis, the Washington University menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team ďŹ nds itself in a familiar position: number one in the nation. The weekly D3hoops.com Top 25 poll, released Monday evening, rewarded the Bears for their two road wins last weekend over New York University and Brandeis. Wash. U. received 11 out of a possible 25 ďŹ rst place votes in the Web siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tenth poll of the 2007-2008 campaign. It is the 14th time in the pollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nine year history that Wash. U. has held the top spot. Having returned four starters from a squad which reached last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Division III Final Four, Wash. U. earned the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s number one ranking in the websiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pre-season poll, but a loss to Calvin College on the ďŹ rst weekend of the regular season dropped the Red and Green from the top spot. The season-ending injury of All-American point guard Sean Wallis three days later had prognosticators doubting Wash. U.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s post-season chances and a loss to Augustana College on Nov. 24 only helped conďŹ rm such suspicions. The Bears fell to eighth in the ďŹ rst regular season poll and later dropped to 12th. But Wash. U. has yet to lose a game since the Augustana setback, having run off 12 straight wins, including their ďŹ rst ďŹ ve league contests. The Bears are the only UAA team to open the grueling league schedule undefeated, since previously undefeated and national number one Rochester was shocked in overtime by an upset-minded Emory team last Friday in Atlanta. The Yellow Jackets slipped two places in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poll to No.3. Brandeis, who, in addition to losing to Wash. U. was stunned at home by the University of Chicago last Friday, fell all the way to ninth in the poll. The UAA is the only conference in Division III with more than one member school holding a spot in the national top ten. Ironically, the Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; next game is against last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 team and current No. 3, Rochester. Tip off is set for 8 p.m. Eastern time in upstate New York. Regardless of Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s result, Wash. U. will get another crack at Rochester the following weekend when the Yellow Jackets come to St. Louis for an early-afternoon affair on Sunday, Feb. 10 at the Field House. Should Wash. U. be defeated on Friday, Rochester would likely regain its number one ranking and Wash. U. would almost assuredly not fall past third in the poll. The chance of a No. 1 vs. No. 2 match-up in the Field House a week from Sunday looms as a legitimate possibility.

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SCENE Alternative spring breaks, alternative fun BY LANA GOLDSMITH SCENE FEATURES EDITOR Spring break is on its way. This nine-day vacation has always been thought of as a highlight of the collegiate experience. The ﬁ rst thoughts that come to mind are probably beaches, bathing suits and generally bumming around. But some Wash. U. students have decided to go with alternative spring break plans that are not your typical week of fun in the sun. These students have found ways to make a difference over break and to have a great time doing it. Junior Tammy Balick is taking her week of vacation and running with it—all the way to Madagascar. This semester, she has been participating in a program called the Madagascar Community Development and Problem Solving Initiative, a community service project to help raise the standard of living of the people in the Mahabo village of Madagascar. Come spring break, she will take two weeks to travel to the village and implement several programs there, with the help of program founders at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Primarily, Balick’s group will be working with the Blessing Basket project, which is designed to give women weaving jobs. While in Madagascar, Balick will be conducting interviews to see if the project she worked on all semester was successful in improving the villagers’ standards of living. She is

particularly interested to see if there will be a transfer of power in this traditionally patriarchal society because women in this project are now the ones earning the wages. For Balick, this alternative spring break promises several benefits. “It’s basically international consulting, which might be a long-term life goal of mine,” she said. She added that she has always had a fascination with Africa and a love of travel, so this was the perfect destination for her spring break. A 36-hour plane ride and six inoculations didn’t daunt her at all. “It’s nice to be cut off and immersed in a different culture,” said Balick. Many other students have also traveled to participate in service trips for past spring breaks. Two years ago, just after Hurricane Katrina, junior Mark Kieffer decided to spend his break volunteering with Overflow, a religious student group on campus. The group drove from St. Louis to New Orleans, where they were housed for free in a previously flooded hotel that was open only for volunteers. Kieffer and fellow volunteers were responsible for gutting houses so that they could be rebuilt. The process of gutting houses is expensive, so his team’s work was a sizeable relief for the homeowners—and it also proved to be a stress reliever for Kieffer and other volunteers. “You’re destroying some-

thing to make it better,” he said, adding that taking a sledgehammer to a wall can be very relaxing. A homeowner showed her gratitude to the volunteers in one of the few ways she could: by cooking a meal for them. Not only did the trip provide a chance for students to do community service, it was also a means by which they could experience the city and culture of New Orleans during their time off. Kieffer described his search for some good jazz music, one of the city’s claims to fame. “Downtown [New Orleans] was cool,” said Kieffer. “You got a feeling for how beautiful it was.” Sophomore Danielle Hayes has been on a number of service trips in the past, including a student-run Campus Y trip last spring break to Belize that was focused on ecotourism. She noticed the tension there between ecological interests and the well-being of the people who lived there. “There’s a lot of complexities that you don’t see until you’re there,” said Hayes. For this spring break, Hayes is the program leader for a Campus Y service trip to a Native American reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. There, the group will be teaming up with other volunteers, and their task will be to make bunk beds for children at the reservation. Hayes ﬁ nds that these service trips provide a great way to learn about herself and about a new place.

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Students on a service trip to New Orleans for spring break 2006 strike their best hardcore poses. “I’m interested in hearing the real story,” she said with regard to life on a Native American reservation. Additionally, she feels these trips are a great way to do something productive in her free time and meet great people along the way. “Those four weeks [of past

service trips] were some of the best weeks of my life,” said Hayes. I once had a discussion with a teaching assistant about whether or not people—and particularly students at Wash. U.—have a social obligation to give back to their communities. Whether

or not you believe we should, it’s something worth considering while you still have the luxury of free time. You can’t change the world in a week, but you can do something meaningful and still have a great time. As Hayes said, “You come back inspired.”

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BY BRIAN STITT SENIOR CADENZA EDITOR Do you ever read one of Cadenza’s stellar movie reviews, sprint over to your local theater for the next showing, only to ﬁ nd that you don’t have any money? No? Well, why not? Movies are fantastic, especially when observed in their natural habitat, the darkened theater. Sure, ticket prices have gotten ridiculous in recent years and the ease and convenience of DVDs are tempting, but come on people. Movies are meant to be seen on the big screen in 35 mm prints backed by booming soundtracks while sitting among the unwashed masses. I understand that it can be tough to spend upwards of eight dollars for a ticket to a movie you haven’t seen yet (I mean, if for some reason

you are unable to read the informative and entertaining reviews Cadenza puts out). But what about the classics? Movies you know are not just good, but life-altering. Sure, you can watch your HD-DVD copy of “Casablanca” on your 46 inch plasma widescreen TV, but if you do, everyone will think you’re an idiot for buying an HD-DVD player and a jerk for bringing a giant TV to college. So don’t do that. Get out of your dorm room and watch “Casablanca” on the big screen with fellow students who share your love of classic ﬁ lm. When, where and how can you possibly accomplish seeing “Casablanca” or even other movies for free with the convenience of never leaving campus? Sneak into a ﬁ lm class. They are constantly holding screenings in Brown 100 for students who

have “signed up for the class” and are “getting credit.” Why not enjoy such classics of cinema as “The Apartment” or “Night of the Living Dead” on the big screen without ever having to write a paper about it? As for when these screenings are, well, that’s where Cadenza comes in. Now that we run three times a week, every week, Cadenza will be able to update you on all the free movie screenings coming up on campus, and maybe even throw you some advice on which ones aren’t to be missed. We at Student Life understand and appreciate that being a poor ﬁ lm fan while in college can be frustrating. We also understand that being a poor ﬁ lmmaker while in college can be even excruciating. But Cadenza has love for you all as well. In fact, we suggest that both fans and

artists alike make their way to Steinberg Auditorium this Thursday because at 7 p.m. the Department of Film and Media Studies is sponsoring a screening of the 2007 Student Academy Award winners. The program consists of six short ﬁ lms made by college students from around the world that excel in the areas of narrative, documentary and animated ﬁ lmmaking. Below is our inaugural Free Movie Calendar, consisting of all the sweetest free movie events on campus this week. Know about a movie event going down that hasn’t made it onto this list? Well, show up and enjoy it, but also drop us a line at cadenza@studlife.com so we can help all the socially awkward kids to get there. We’re all in this together folks; let’s enjoy the campus while we can.

Cadenza Free Movie Calendar “Casablanca” “Transport from Paradise”

Wednesday 1/30 4 p.m. Brown 100

Wedneday 1/30 7 p.m. Brown 100

Do you really need any more info than that? One of the greatest movies of all time in gorgeous 35mm. Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart and even some sweet Peter Lorre action! What more can you say about Michael Curtiz’s wartime classic? Experience this amazing picture for yourself and see what it means when old folks say they don’t make ‘em like they used to.

This Czech film from the 1962 is not exactly the most popular movie around, (it boasts only 26 votes on IMDB) but don’t let that deter you. That just means you can impress all your Werner Herzog loving hipster friends by referencing something even more European and obscure. The story, about a Nazi concentration camp where the lax guards allow the Jewish prisoners to do what they please, is certainly a unique one and is supposedly based on a true story. If you actually want to expand your worldview you won’t miss it.

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Upcoming theatrics BY MICHELLE STEIN THEATER EDITOR The Washington University spring theater season opened to stunning applause last week with the Performing Arts Department’s “Trestle at Pope Lick Creek” and the improv group K.A.R.L.’s “Stache Bache.” Preparations also started with All Student Theater’s auditions for their upcoming show, “Urinetown.” Once started, this season is picking up speed, opening one show after the other. This weekend, the Black Anthology student groups open their annual “Black Anthology” show at the Edison Theater at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 1 and Saturday, Feb. 2. If the “Black Anthology” leaves you thirsting for more theater, check out this weekend’s big comedy show, as Suspicious of Whistlers performs its ﬁ rst show of the semester at 8 p.m. in Brown 100 this Saturday, Feb. 2. Between last weekend and this coming weekend, theater at Washington University is booming. It’s no surprise, considering all of the student theater opportunities. Behind the basketball, the biology review sessions and the student political activism, the Washington University theater scene has blossomed. The school has the Performing Arts Department (PAD), with shows directed by professors in the performing arts. It also has Thyrsus, All Student Theater and Cast’n’Crew, which are student-run theater groups, all performing on

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The Mars Volta: ‘The Bedlam in Goliath’ BY STEVE HARDY CADENZA REPORTER

Student Academy Award Winners Program Thursday 1/31 7 p.m. Steinberg Auditorium See some of the best student films from around the world. A character from a painting explores her museum, a robot tries to stay alive, a TV reporter witnesses a hit and run, a group of developmentally disabled artists find a voice, a man begins to see himself as a work of art and a 10-year-old boy loses his father at sea. Now maybe all of those don’t appeal to you but one of them has to. Support student filmmakers from other schools by seeing their work for free.

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Chris Walla: ‘Field Manual’ BY ELIZABETH OCHOA MUSIC EDITOR Chris Walla has long been known for his mad production skills. The guitarist for Death Cab for Cutie has produced albums for some big names including The Decemberists, Tegan and Sara, Nada Surf and even St. Louis’ own So Many Dynamos. Unlike Death Cab bandmate Ben Gibbard whose side project, The Postal Service, has become hugely popular, Walla’s own side band, Martin Youth Auxiliary, never reached the masses. Walla’s talent, though, has been inﬂuencing pop music for some time, and it’s high time he gets some name recognition. Walla follows in the footsteps of greats like Prince and Beck (maybe he should drop the Chris and join in on the one name glory) by play-

ing all of the instruments on all of the tracks except drums. Death Cab’s Jason McGerr and Kurt Dahle of the New Pornographers split time behind the set. The ﬁ rst song on the album “Two-Fifty” is Walla’s attempt at a melodic synthdriven song. It doesn’t work. It lacks the visceral emotion that made the Postal Service so popular and seems oddly out of place with the rest of the album. Walla’s voice seems over-produced, as if he set his vocoder to angel setting. The album redeems itself with “Sing Again,” an upbeat 2:30. The vocals are softer so as to let the music itself take a more prominent role in the song. Not to say the lyrics aren’t needed. Quite the contrary, Walla puts in this album the same songwriting skills that have made Death

Cab so popular. “Geometry & C” is a very Death Cab-sounding track, even featuring McGerr on drums. The guitar line stands out and is complimented nicely by Walla’s voice and the repetitiveness of the chorus line. Walla sings, “Let your heart keep the time, keep the time, keep the time.” A side note but an interesting story: while traveling between Canada and

the U.S., the hard drive that contained the master copies of all songs on the album was conﬁ scated by Homeland Security. If you already like Death Cab for Cutie or have the need for a new album to listen to while walking slowly or doing math homework, this is for you. Just don’t think you’re going to ﬁ nd dancy upbeat tracks that will be stuck in your head for weeks.

campus. The improv scene is hard to miss; as a student, you might very well get hugged by a giant panda on campus representing KARL, or stumble into an improv show at Ursa’s. There are three improv groups on campus that perform separately and in larger shows together, like the ComedySportz Battle on March 27, which features KARL, Mama’s Pot Roast and Suspicious of Whistlers. The University also boasts two dance teams, the WUStyle step team and Jive. All of these groups on campus mean one thing: lots of theater, lots of performances and lots of chances to watch fellow students perform. This semester boasts four PAD productions, numerous improv shows, All Student Theater in the Quad and much more. Professionally, “Avenue Q” is coming to the Fox Theatre. It’s not every day that St. Louis hosts a Tony Awardwinning show complete with a parental advisory and a commercial that speciﬁcally says, “If you are in college…this show is for you!” The show will be running from Feb. 12 thru Feb. 24. Also, if you have not yet had a chance, this weekend is the last opportunity to see David Hare’s “The Vertical Hour” at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. The arts are all around you. They’re funny, they’re dramatic, they sing, they dance. This is a semester full of Washington University theatrics.

As if The Mars Volta (TMV) weren’t cryptic and bizarre enough, their new album is based on the band’s Ouija Board conversations with lusty spirits from the other side, and “The Bedlam in Goliath” captures all the frenzied creepy fun. Congratulations, listeners, The Mars Volta are back to form. Vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala inhales sharply in the fi rst instant of the fi rst track, “Aberinkula,” and the music doesn’t take a breath for the next two tracks. Regrettably, the album cannot match the adrenaline rush of these fi rst two songs, but nothing on the album disappoints. TMV has abandoned its half-hour space opuses of “Frances the Mute” (which had its moments) and “Amputechture” (which didn’t) and sound more like their earliest work and even occasionally channel their former ensemble, the post-rock At the Drive-In. Another notable change, longtime drummer Jon Theodore quit in 2006 and was replaced by precocious Thomas Pridgen. His drumming is every bit as busy and stunning as Theodore’s, but he and the rest of the band have abandoned most of the AfroCuban breakdowns and salsa beats that were integral to earlier records. On the upside, if you love gratuitous cymbal work, you’ll love Pridgen. “Ourobrous” is a great showcase, as is his work behind guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez on

“Askepios.” While Rodriguez-Lopez has mostly abandoned atmospheric tri-tones (no song on “Bedlam” even reaches 10 minutes), his style has become distilled, a fuzzy, reverberating and otherwise affected complement to Bixler-Zavala’s furious, often stratospheric vocals. Like Pridgen’s, Rodriguez-Lopez’s is a busy, ripping style, but he makes it work well in the band’s new short form, lyric-oriented form. Of course, this does not mean that TMV won’t throw in some mixed meter or a rabid saxophone along the way. Bixler-Zavala has also kept alive the TMV tradition of crazy, cryptic lyrics chronicling the lives of apparitions and weirdos. Allegedly, the lyrics (all in English this time) recount the story of a love triangle between a man, a mother and her daughter, as related by their spirits in the form of one being, Goliath. Bixler-Zavala sings their words with an impressive unsettlingness. He uses every bit of his substantial range to give variety to his performance and can be heard spitting the lyrics, bending into notes and affecting his voice to eek every bit of emotion out of the words. Listen to “Agadez” and “Metatron” and listen to a method singer. Bedlam puts TMV back in its element. Sure, RodriguezLopez and Co. are prog prodigies, but they’re really punk rockers at heart who just got sick of playing by the rules. They’ve found their balance on this album between smart and fun.

Chris Walla Field Manual

The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath

Rating: ★★★✬✩ For fans of: Death Cab for Cutie Tracks to download: “Sing Again,” “Archer V. Light”

Rating: ★★★★✬ For fans of: At the Drive-In, De-Loused in the Comatorium, Frank Zappa Tracks to download: “Aberinkula,” “Metratron,” “Cavalettas”

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