M O N D AY FEB. 16, 2004 Vol. 125, No. 51
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STUDENT LIFE T H E I N D E P E N D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F WA S H I N G T O N U N I V E R S I T Y I N S T. L O U I S S I N C E 1 8 7 8
INSIDE Grads get hands-on with crafts THE DREAM IS OVER
Former business school sisters start MadeByMe Craft Studio By Helen Rhee qContributing Reporter
Cadenza grieves at the break-up of another super couple, Barbie and Ken. Also, Foodnatic tries death by chocolate, Mike Fabos weighs in on The Fog of War and more albums are reviewed.
PAGE 5 SWIMMING & DIVING
The swimming and diving teams paddled their way to success at the UAA Championships while basketball once again hit the road. Also inside: a new Joe Mama.
PAGE 9 STUDENT SNAPSHOT
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What is your favorite Valentine’s Day activity? A. 17%
B. 17% C . 19% D. 47% romantic night out with A: A.myAsignifi cant other. I love Valentine’s Day, and I’ve had everything planned for weeks. B. I like to use lots of alcohol—both for making my cares going away and igniting the fire to burn my ex in effigy. C. I like to spend it weeping while I watch Julia Roberts movies and ingest chocolate until I vomit. WHEN WILL I FIND LOVE? WHERE THE #@$& IS MY PRINCE CHARMING? D. I don’t really care about Valentine’s Day. It’s such a waste of time, and I refuse to worship the gods of Hallmark. Results are unscientific, based on 114 votes cast.
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Bubbly pre-teen girls and do-it-yourself crafts are commonplace sights for Washington University graduates Jenny Oberschelp and Chris Krone. The sisters are co-owners of MadeByMe Craft Studio, which they founded and opened this past March. The store allows customers to design their own craft projects while eliminating the hassle of picking and choosing supplies from another arts and crafts store. “It is a walk-in craft store—we make everything easy,” said Oberschelp. “We figure out the project and [the customer] figures out other things such as colors and fabrics. We give a lot of options, but it is more structured than going to a Michael’s store to pick out a project from scratch. We only help [with] set up: the person does 90 percent of the work.” Both Oberschelp and Krone received MBAs from the University’s School of Business. They came up with the idea for the studio when they visited an arts and crafts camp in Colorado several years ago. “It was a huge generation thing—everyone could find something to do [and] was having such a blast,” said Krone. “We thought that everyone should have [access to] this in every state.” A few months after visiting the camp, the sisters quit their jobs to devote their time to making their concept a
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Washington University graduate and co-owner of MadeByMe Craft Studio Chris Krone assists Jennifer FitzGibbon and Catherine Niemann with constructing their own custom-designed purses.
Humanities center takes up comic book collecting
New group helps man’s best friend By Kristin McGrath q Staff Reporter
Menagerie encompasses classics and porn By Shara Siegel q Contributing Reporter X-Men, Flash and Tits and Clits will soon fill the shelves of the McMillan Library. These comics will be part of a larger comic collection, proposed by Director of the Center for the Humanities Gerald Early as a way to spur research in children’s literature and children’s culture. The collection, sponsored by the Center itself and donations made by Early and friends, consists of a wide range of comics. Alternative and highly pornographic comics, feminist comics and war comics are a few genres one can expect to find in the collection. Cara Johnson, a sophomore who works at the Center, said that the collection will have a broad focus. “The collection is more then just Superman and Batman, though we do have that, too,” said Johnson. The Center for the Humanities inherited the small library from the International Writers Center. “Once I made the decision to keep the library, I also had to think about ways to make it truly useful,” said Early. Early has several goals for the comic collection, which is due to open next fall. “[We want] to have a comprehensive collection of mainstream and alternative comics that would make it possible for people to seriously study this art form,” said Early. Subcategories of this larger field of study include the study of the depiction of African Americans, women and children in the comic books, for example.
Several of the comics from the University’s comic collection. “As an African-American scholar I have long been fascinated by how African-Americans have been depicted in comics and have been interested in the movement in the last 20 or more years by black writers and artists to create black-themed comics,” said Early. Early explained that the Center is working to collect all comic books and comic images of African Americans and all comics that were written or drawn by blacks. The collection focusing on the images of women in comics and the work of women artists consists of comics ranging from Trina Robbins to Roberta Gregory to Debbie Drechler. In addition, Early wants to collect comics directed towards small children such as Casper, Little Lotta, Wendy the Witch and Richie Rich, to name a few. In time, the collection will also contain a complete run of the Classics Illustrated Junior series. Eventually, Early noted, he expects the collection to be digitized to allow greater accessibility to students while protecting the comics, which are often quite fragile.
Like many students, freshman Laura Grauer had to leave behind a special someone when she left home for college. “I have a dog Riley at home, who is literally my best friend,” said Grauer. “He was just a mutt I got at a farm two years ago, and missing him motivated me to do something with animals here.” Grauer wasted no time making Riley proud, spending her fall semester creating “Working So Animals Get Support” (WAGS). She has now begun recruiting members who will work to get dogs out of shelters and into homes. WAGS, which will likely meet Mondays at 7:00 p.m. in the Campus Y, works with the Animal Protection Association (APA). Members of WAGS must undergo the training provided on campus by the APA that is required for hanPETFINDER.COM dling the dogs at the shelter. A cute pooch, Bandit, who is in “We’re trying need of a new home. to make it more likely that they’re going to get adopted by making them more used to people,” said Grauer. “When you walk into an animal shelter looking
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Motorcycle curator to speak about art, optics a motorcycle I don’t like. I ride on the street, dirt bikes, all kinds.” Falco’s love of motorcycles, however, Whatever your stereotypical image is is not driven by a childhood lust for of motorcycle riders, it probably is not speed or freedom. Rather, it’s an inof Charles Falco, Chair of Condensed tellectual interest, which he relates to Matter Physics and his laboratory rea Professor of Optisearch. In the Optical Sciences at the cal Sciences Center This Week’s Assembly Series Speaker University of Ariat the University of zona. Yet Falco is a Arizona, Falco uses v Charles Falco, chair of condensed matter physics die-hard motorcyvacuum chambers and professor of optical sciences at the University of cle aficionado and to put down fi lms Arizona, is co-curator of “The Art of the Motorcycle” co-curator of the made of a single at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Solomon R. Gugatomic layer in genheim Museum’s order to study a v “The Science of Optics; History of Art,” Steinberg “Art of the Motormaterial’s given Hall Auditorium, 3 p.m. cycle” exhibit who properties. Some enjoys all types of of his research, for v “The Art of the Motorcycle,” Graham Chapel, 7 p.m. motorcycle riding, instance, examines from touring to how a given matedirt bike racing. rial reflects x-rays. “I had my fi rst ride on a motorcycles He noted that this research—like his when I was eight years old, and I have motorcycle riding—is driven by an inbeen hooked on them ever since,” said terest in technology. Falco. “I have been riding cycles since “My interest in motorcycles has I was 15 years old. I have yet to meet
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