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Gunfire exchanged near north end of campus

BY LAURA GEGGEL NEWS EDITOR Four young men leaving a St. Louis nightclub were shot at early last week near campus, according to a press release from the University City Department of Police. The men, who were attacked by unknown assailants, attempted to escape in their vehicle, but were chased west down Forest Park Parkway and shot at as they neared the intersection of Forest Park Pkwy. and Big Bend Blvd.

University City Police would not say if any arrests were made. The shots were fi red at 2:07 a.m. on March 12.

“I saw a white, four-door Sudan driving past my window and make a U-turn,” said junior Erin Beck, who saw the incident fi rsthand. “As it went into the intersection someone came out of the sunroof, pulled a gun, and fi red six or seven shots at where I imagine there must have been another car off towards the Hi/ Tec Copy Center.”

Beck immediately called 911, heard three more shots while she was still on the phone, and saw the white car turn around

and drive southbound down Big Bend.

Two of the victims fled on foot, and University City Police apprehended the other two near the scene of the shooting, said Beck.

“There were two or three shots that had hit the car door and others hit the window on that salon,” said Beck, who went down to speak with police once they arrived. “Other than that we didn’t really see where things had hit.”

The nightclub, located on Olive Street and North Compton Avenue, is approximately 6.5 miles away from the intersection where the shooting occurred. No injuries have been reported from this incident.

University City Police said that the suspects were driving a white Monte Carlo occupied by several males. Beck said police told her that they had apprehended the Monte Carlo soon after the shooting, but she did not know if there were people in it at the time.

University City Police Captain Michael Ransom would not comment further on the investigation or say if police knew

whether the guns used were legally registered. He called the incident “unusual” and said that “students should not have to worry” about a repeat episode.

Director of Campus Police, Don Strom, also emphasized the arbitrary location of the shooting in regards to the University.

“It was a coincidence that the episode happened there as much as anywhere else,” he said.

“The cars slowed down there for whatever reason. The shots had started somewhere else. It’s a very isolated episode.”

Junior Brendan McCarthy was awake and doing homework when he heard the squeal of car tires early Monday morning and saw a volley of shots fi red from the Monte Carlo. “Initially I was just shocked,” said McCarthy.

“It’s not something you expect to happen outside your dorm window.”

Within seconds, several police cars and three ambulances rushed to the scene and began collecting the discarded bullet casing and examining the

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See SHOOTING, page 3 Students cross the Big Bend and Forest Park Parkway intersection as they exit the Metrolink station on Tuesday, March 20. This was the site of a drive by shooting last week on Monday, March 12.

African film festival hits LGBT lobbyist hits campus advocating campus for second time new statewide rights legislation

BY BEN SALES

SENIOR STAFF REPORTER Pride Alliance will be hosting Julie Brueggemann, Executive Director of an LGBT lobby group, tonight. The speaker, who comes from an organization called PROMO, comes a week before Missouri’s statewide LGBT lobby day.

Pride Alliance, Washington University’s student LGBT advocacy group, is calling the event “Fight for Your Rights: Out in Missouri.” Brueggemann will be speaking about two pieces of legislation that PROMO will be trying to push through the Missouri houses of congress next week in Jefferson City.

Maryse Pearce, Pride Alliance’s community outreach director, said that Brueggemann’s appearance provides the group with an opportunity to widen their activity outside of the University.

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Entering its second year on campus, the African Film Festival will feature eight films from African filmmakers. The films’ subjects range from the identity of African women to the construction of African identity.

BY DAVID SONG STAFF REPORTER The Washington University African Film Festival will be screening eight films—four short films and four feature films—from African filmmakers this weekend. The festival, taking place for the second time, is sponsored by the African Students Association, the African and African American Studies program and the Film and Media Studies program.

Wilmetta Toliver-Diallo, Assistant Dean and Academic Coordinator in the College of Arts & Sciences, organized the first film festival last year to initiate discussion about Africa among university students and the St. Louis community.

“The first time [for the festival] was last year, when I was teaching a cinema class,” said Diallo. “I wanted to find something to expose people in St. Louis to a different kind of film

history, and to bring a serious conversation about Africa without the contexts of charity or romanticization. It was also a way for African filmmakers to showcase their work.”

This year, the African Film Festival will cover a variety of themes, including the role and identity of the African woman.

Female filmmaker Fanta Régina Nacro’s “The Night of Truth,” for instance, will be among the featured films, as will films by Mehdi Charef and Shelley Barry address issues of women and sexuality.

“A lot of our films are womanfocused. “The Night of Truth” is the first feature film by a woman, and there will be conversations about women and global standards of women, questioning standards of beauty and the assumption of what authority is in Africa along the lines of gender.”

Despite the popularity of last year’s festival, Diallo suggested

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some skepticism over whether the University would be able to have the event every year. The frequency of the festival, which may change to once every two years, depends on local interest in Africa and African film.

“Last year, we exceeded the expectations of [attendees].

There were a lot of Washington University students, but also a lot of St. Louis citizens there. We needed to see if there is a continuous interest, and I think every other year is best, but there is an interest.”

Diallo added that the film festival could aid students enrolled in African studies courses. She noted, however, that discourse about Africa would have to extend beyond war and infighting and into reconciliation and the construction of African identity.

“We could complement a lot of the classes here. When I was teaching African history, it

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rights group and we have been wanting to network with them for a while,” said Pearce, a freshman. “We wanted to get involved in more community based things.”

The first proposed bill, called the Missouri Non-Discrimination Act, would generally prohibit discrimination in the state. The second, called the Comprehensive Safe Schools Bill, would expand the current school bullying policy in the state to provide added protection for students who are more likely to be bullied due to race, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic.

Brueggemann said the Safe Schools Bill gives students adequate protection, safeguarding them from any kind of negative social pressure.

“We want the state to create a model policy,” she said. “It expands the definition of bullying to include harassment, discrimination and intimidation. It is a broad bill, so it would cover all

of Missouri students.”

Although PROMO’s activity centers on the LGBT issues contained within the bills, their staff has been working with several other anti-discrimination coalitions around the state to push the legislation through.

“Obviously our concern is LGBT issues, but we are concerned about other constituencies that are served by this legislation,” said Brueggemann. “We have always been an organization that strives to build strong relationships with allied organizations.”

Brueggemann said that the allied groups have supported PROMO’s part in the legislation for a long time, and have had a general interest in the advancement of LGBT rights.

“We have found that the majority of organizations are in favor of including gender identity in the list of protected clauses,” she said. “It has been many years

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Controversy over finances continues as Thurtene prepares for carnival

BY SAM GUZIK ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR As the Thurtene Honorary prepares for the Thurtene Carnival in just over a month, a WUTV documentary examining the fi nances of the Thurtene Honorary and the carnival bearing the same name has begun to generate discussion on YouTube.

“I would like for the fi lm to generate discussion on campus,” said senior Evan Susser, the director and co-executive producer of the documentary.

“People should talk about... how they feel about Thurtene and how its money is spent.”

Although the fi lm’s original release was largely unnoticed by the campus community, the fi lmmakers hope that by making it available on YouTube there will be a greater response.

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The fi lm contends that the Thurtene carnival does not effectively raise money for the selected charity because its finances are not accountable to the community.

The documentary, produced in 2005 and entitled “Thurtene: The Carnival and the Controversy,” examines Thurtene’s claim that the Carnival’s proceeds go to charity and criticizes Thurtene for maintaining the secrecy of its fi nances- –a holdover from the honorary’s days as a secret society.

“Officially, Thurtene would not give a response for our documentary; however at the same time some members of the honorary acknowledged privately that the donation was not very large,” said Susser.

According to the documentary, despite the attendance of over 100,000 people from the

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St. Louis Community, Thurtene’s donation to charity was as low as $8,500 one year.

In an official statement, Thurtene responded by saying that by keeping fi nancial information private, it prevents the Carnival from being judged on solely monetary terms. Because Thurtene is not a Student Union recognized group, it is not bound by the same fi nancial disclosure as other groups.

“This is the ultimate community event and that’s the most important thing,” said junior Sydney Schneider, Thurtene public relations cochair. “In the end, the charity is not the main purpose.”

Schneider did acknowledge, however, that student groups participating in the Carnival are not required to donate

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WEDNESDAY | MARCH 21, 2007

POLICE BEAT Tuesday, March 6 11:47 a.m.

LARCENYTHEFT—GIVENS HALL— Complainant had her iPod stolen from her desk between 3:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. Value $300. Disposition: Pending.

7:14 p.m. WARRANT ARREST—SNOW WAY & THROOP—Traffic stop by officer of a suspicious vehicle observed in the Snow Way Garage resulted in the arrest of one subject on an outstanding warrant. Disposition: Cleared by arrest.

2:51 a.m. FALSE FIRE ALARM—SIGMA NU— Person(s) unknown pulled the fire alarm. No fire or smoke. Disposition: Pending.

ject to leave and he did so.

The student described the subject as a black male, 5’6�, between 20-25 years old, wearing a black puffy coat, black hat, and black pants.

The subject was apprehended just east of the Millbrook overpass. Nothing was taken from apartment. Disposition: Cleared by arrest.

11:38 a.m. LOST ARTICLE—SOUTH 40 RESIDENCE AREA—Complainant lost passport somewhere on campus on March 7 between 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Disposition: Pending.

8:30 p.m.

BURGLARY— POWER PLANT—Suspect in above arrest had an employee shirt in his possession taken from the power plant on this date. Disposition: Cleared by arrest.

12:26 p.m. ASSAULT—SIGMA NU—Disturbance escalated into an assault between fraternity brothers between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

All parties involved refused prosecution. Disposition: Cleared by referral.

10:31 p.m. DRUG VIOLATION—ELIOT HOUSE—Officer responding to a fire alarm at Eliot House located a student smoking marijuana at this location. Disposition: Cleared by referral to JA.

this area. Unknown damage amount at this time. Disposition: Pending.

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ed to extinguish the fire.

Four white males were seen fleeing from the fire. Disposition: Under investigation.

Tuesday, March 13 2:09 p.m. INFORMATION ONLY REPORTS—OFF CAMPUS—Student reported receiving unwanted e-mails from a prior acquaintance that, she felt, bordered on harassment.

Student was given instructions on the steps to take prior to filing a harassment report. Disposition: Cleared.

7:51 p.m. AUTO ACCIDENT— PARKING LOT #37—While on routine patrol, officer backed into the base of a light pole causing minor damage to a patrol car. Disposition: Cleared.

Wednesday, March 7 8:17 a.m. LEAVING THE SCENE VEHICLE ACCIDENT— MILLBROOK GARAGE— Staff member reports an unknown vehicle struck his while it was parked in Millbrook Garage, between 8 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. on March 6.

Disposition: Pending.

8:23 a.m. INFORMATION ONLY REPORTS—PARKING LOT #23—Report of a verbal confrontation between two subjects in the parking garage. Disposition: Cleared.

4:54 p.m. LOST ARTICLE— GIVENS HALL—Complainant reported a lost cell phone somewhere between campus and the city of Wellston between 1:45 p.m. and 4 p.m. Disposition: Pending.

Friday, March 9

3:15 p.m. PROPERTY DAMAGE—SNOW WAY GARAGE— Staff member reported unknown person(s) wrote something obscene on his car in the dirt on the rear trunk and believes the car may have been scratched in

Wednesday, March 14 Monday, March 12

4:52 p.m. BURGLARY— MILLBROOK #4—A call was received from Millbrook #4 regarding a suspicious male who had entered a student’s apartment at this location.

The student asked the sub-

10:12 a.m. DAMAGED PROPERTY—ANHEUSER BUSCH HALL OF LAW—Complainant reported damage to a door that occurred sometime within the last three years. Disposition: Pending additional information.

11:17 a.m.

INFORMATION ONLY REPORTS—700 ROSEDALE, NORTH CAMPUS—Post Office reported a suspicious letter from the incoming mail. Letter was seized and turned over to the Postal Inspectors. Disposition: Turned over to other authority.

3:30 a.m. ARSON—MCMILLEN LAB—Caller reported a fire in a large trashcan outside the above location.

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THURTENE v FROM PAGE 1 their proceeds to charity.

As a result, the total funds donated to charity are substantially larger than Thurtene’s donation–-each student group may donate to either Thurtene’s selected charity or a charity of its choosing.

According to an ofďŹ cial Thurtene statement, “There exists no regulation requiring any student group to donate to Thurtene’s chosen charity.

It is the responsibility of each group to determine its own goals for participation in the Carnival. In this spirit, Thurtene has never required donations from individual groups.�

Schneider reinforced this statement, explaining that the community sees the Thurtene Carnival as a community event.

This year, in an attempt to reach out to the St. Louis community, Thurtene is moving to bring together other forms of social action in addition to monetary donations.

In coordination with the Anheuser-Busch, Thurtene will be subsidizing ride tickets and bussing approximately 250 local children to the carnival.

Additionally, this year’s selected charity is the George Washington Carver House, a St. Louis based charity organization that focuses on raising the quality of life for local residents.

Health Services monitors campus flu outburst

BY ERIN FULTS AND SARA RAJARAM NEWS STAFF Alan Glass, director of the Habif Health and Wellness Center, sent an e-mail to students on March 6, alerting them to several cases of viral gastroenteritis. “Anytime we have things come up all at once like this, we look into them more critically,� said Glass.

Twenty students were tested prior to spring break for exhibiting possible symptoms of gastroenteritis. Glass stated that the exact number of students

with the illness is difďŹ cult to assess because its symptoms are not readily identiďŹ able.

Glass noted that the majority of students were aficted between Sunday and Tuesday and that Student Health Services saw an encouraging decrease in affected students within the following 24 hours. No new cases have been reported since before spring break.

All 20 students are residents of the residence halls on the South 40.

The cause has been linked to viral gastroenteritis, a viral infection of the stomach and

intestines. Symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, fever and general weakness. Glass reports patients improving within 24-48 hours of symptom onset. Glass is not linking the virus to a foodborne source. “Realistically, gastroenteritis happens all the time, in what is commonly called the ‘stomach u,’â€? said Glass. “The virus is not particularly dangerous to young, healthy people.â€?

Student Health Services worked with the Washington University School of Medicine and the St. Louis Coun-

ty Department of Health to investigate the illness.

The St. Louis County Department of Health collected and examined stool samples from the affected students in order to determine the illness’ viral nature. The department also interviewed students to assess whether or not they had the virus and to determine its cause.

The St. Louis County Department of Health found no speciďŹ c cause for the virus.

However, the virus is spread by contact with excreted viral material, and Glass is encouraging students to wash their hands

to prevent the spread of the illness. “It seems trivial that the instructions would be to just wash your hands, but it is the primary way to keep [the virus] from spreading,� said Glass.

According to Glass, sharing common bathrooms in the residence halls facilitated the spread of the virus. The facilities department responded to the virus through enhanced cleaning efforts in bathrooms prior to and over spring break.

Common bathrooms are now cleaned more frequently and with a stronger cleaner.

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WEDNESDAY | MARCH 21, 2007

Staying in shape: Kappa Sig hosts first annual Fit Week

BY ANDREA WINTER STAFF REPORTER This week, Kappa Sigma Fraternity is hosting its first annual Fit Week. The philanthropy event’s activities are aimed at raising students’ awareness of two central health topics: exercise and nutrition.

Bill Ronkoski, a sophomore and the philanthropy co-chair of Kappa Sigma, spearheaded the event along with fellow co-chair senior Thomas Zeitzoff.

“We are trying to raise awareness on campus about the importance of having a healthy mind and body,” said Ronkoski.

“We are pretty much focusing on eating well and physical fitness as the two most important things.”

The fraternity kicked off the event Monday morning with a mini jog. All week there will be fraternity brothers tabling in Mallinckrodt offering nutri-

tional information as well as samples of green tea, carrots and granola. A class in “Laughing Yoga” will be offered tonight and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Pumping Iron” will be aired tomorrow night on the swamp. All events are geared toward the entire campus body.

Health Promotion in Student Health Services considers both nutrition and exercise as two important concerns for students.

According to the Coordinator of Health and Wellness, Melissa Ruwitch, research indicates that the positive benefits of exercise include decreased blood pressure and muscle tension, increased quality of sleep, better resistance to the flu and colds, improved self-esteem and decreased susceptibility to stress and depression.

Ruwitch said that the last National Health Assessment Survey from 2004 indicated that fewer than 35 percent of univer-

sity undergraduate and graduate students reported that they get sufficient exercise. In the survey, sufficient exercise was defined as vigorous activity for 20 minutes or moderate exercise for 30 minutes most days of the week.

The National Health Assessment Survey, which the University conducts every three and a half years in order to pinpoint the health needs of students, was emailed to 4,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students in February. Kappa Sigma reported that it did not contact Health Promotion for information concerning the specific health needs of students.

Zeitzoff, philanthropy cochair and the former president of Kappa Sigma, came up with the idea for “Fit Week.” Last year, while he was working in the South 40’s fitness center, he was

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SHOOTING v FROM PAGE 1 crime scene.

“You certainly don’t like this stuff happening so close to campus, but it started at a nightclub, so there’s no security steps the campus could have really helped to prevent this,” said McCarthy.

Beck said that while she felt unfazed when she fi rst heard the shooting, she is now taking extra safety precautions around

campus.

“The fact that it happened right outside my window was not that unsettling, but as the days have gone on I have found that I feel increasingly less secure on campus. I’ve been driving my car everywhere. I feel very nervous anytime I’m walking around campus after dark, sometimes even if I’m in a building,” she said.

Strom doubted the likelihood of a similar incident occurring close to Washington University, but said, “If you appear to hear gunfi re, get away from that area and contact the police immediately.”

Captain Ransom encouraged anyone with more information regarding the shooting to call the University City Police Department at 725-2211.

LGBT v FROM PAGE 1 that we have had support.”

The support, however, is not as widespread among legislators, despite the fact that recent surveys have shown a majority of Missouri’s population desirous of LGBT rights.

“In 2004 we did a poll and 70 percent of Missourians do favor non-discrimination legislation,” said Brueggemann. “We do not have the support of the majority of legislators.”

The University, though, has been helpful in expanding LGBT

rights, said Pearce, although there is still work to do.

“Wash. U. has been very helpful about issues of sexual orientation,” she said. “The mixed gender housing is something we have been working for. The school has more to do in terms of gender issues.”

She added that the student population has been supportive of Pride Alliance’s efforts, and she hopes that students outside of the LGBT community will attend Brueggemann’s speech.

“Hopefully students who are not just LGBT but are interested in issues of human rights [will come],” said Pearce “I have come across people that are opposed to LGBT rights, but on the whole, people have been in support of this.”

Although Brueggemann’s focus will be on the finer points of the legislation and the statewide climate for LGBT political issues, she said she is open to discussing a variety of topics.

“I am open to anything re-

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WEDNESDAY | MARCH 21, 2007

SPORTS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Bears complete stunning tournament run with loss in national championship vWomen’s basketball falls just short against DePauw

BY TRISHA WOLF SPORTS REPORTER This was not supposed to be the team to bring the Washington University women’s basketball team back to the Final Four. The losses of standouts Kelly Manning and Danielle Beehler were supposed to be too much to cope with.

At the beginning of the season, the Bears did everything to prove the critics right. They opened the year with a 1-3 record and fell out of the D3hoops.com Top 25 rankings for the first time in the poll’s existence. It looked like their season was done practically before it had begun.

Instead of caving in, however, the team turned its season around in a big way. They won 24 of their next 27 games, unexpectedly making it all the way to the national championship game last weekend in Springfield, Mass. Despite losing to DePauw University (31-3) in the title bout, 55-52 in, the Bears (25-6) made their November performance an afterthought.

“During the beginning stage of this season, we were all just getting to know each other,” ex-

plained sophomore Halsey Ward.

“We weren’t meshing yet. As the season progressed, we came to realize who we were as a team.

We each became aware of the role we needed to fill to have this team succeed.”

To get to the championship game the Lady Bears easily defeated archrival NYU the previous afternoon, 72-53.

Both teams came out of the gates tentatively Saturday, leading to a slow and low-scoring first half. The game remained very close for the first 11 minutes of play, but with 8:30 left in the half, the Tigers began to find their groove and jumped out to a six point advantage thanks to senior Liz Bondi who scored six points in just over a minute. Wash. U. sophomore Jaimie McFarlin was quick to respond for the Lady Bears, scoring six points and grabbing three rebounds in the next two minutes to bring the Bears within two. The game remained close throughout the half, with the Tigers leading at the break, 24-20.

Wash. U. came out of the gates cold to start the second half, while the Tigers simultaneously

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found their groove. In the opening eight minutes of the half, they outscored the Bears 13-2, giving DePauw a cushy 15 point advantage.

“DePauw took a big lead, and we didn’t respond quickly enough.

We needed to have a greater sense of urgency. Our offense took too long to develop, and that is what hurt us,” said Ward.

But the Bears refused to go down without a fight, as a lay-up by senior Rebecca Parker closed out a 19-5 Wash. U. run midway through the second half, cutting the Tigers lead to one at 42-41 with six minutes to go.

DePauw’s lead fluctuated between two and six over the game’s final moments, but clutch free throw shooting down the stretch ultimately sealed the fate of the Lady Bears, as a Wash. U. three-point attempt fell short just before time expired.

Ward led the Bears with 16 points while McFarlin, who represented Wash. U. on the Final Four All-Tournament Team, added 12 points and 11 rebounds. The title game performance gave her 12 double-doubles on the season.

Parker added nine points and 10 rebounds in the loss.

Even in defeat, the Bears still found the overall experience of playing in the Final Four to be an incredible one. “It was all unreal. Surreal. Unbelievable,” said Parker.

After the loss on Saturday, players were quick to attribute their success this season to the team as a whole and found advantages to lacking a star in the line-up. “Teams never know who will be hot that night. There is no one person to shut down and make our team crumble,” said freshman Janice Evans.

“Other teams never knew who they would need to stop on offense and we were able to build our defensive system on all of our athletic abilities,” added McFarlin.

Even with the impending loss of Parker, Southworth, fellow starter Sarah Schell, and Nicky Huels, the team has the potential not to miss a beat next season.

The Lady Bears return two starters in McFarlin and classmate Jill Brandt, along with Ward who served as the team’s staple sixth-

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Senior Jenny Southworth charges past a DePauw defender during the championship game of the NCAA tournament on March 17. DePauw defeated the University, 55-52. man. Sophomore and former UAA Rookie of the Year ShannaLei Dacanay is expected to return after suffering a torn ACL nine games into this season.

The Bears also return a strong group of current freshmen who appear to be more than ready to step up to the challenge of being team leaders. Zoë Unruh scored 11 twice in the tournament, once against Luther College in the Sweet 16 and again against NYU in the national semi-finals, averaging 8.1 points per game on the season.

Evans proved to be an aggressive defender, notably blocking two shots against Luther. She also

established herself as an accurate shooter throughout the season, hitting nearly half of her attempts from the floor. Laura Lane-Steele has also shown an ability to capitalize on limited playing time, scoring seven points in eight minutes of playing time against Luther.

“The youth movement continues (into next season) and the effect of the Final Four experience on our current freshman and sophomores will shine through to next season,” said McFarlin.

“We will be young, but fast and hungry for what we just had a taste of,” added Evans.

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WEDNESDAY | MARCH 21, 2007

BASEBALL

Diary of a collegiate spring training

BY ARDEN FARHI SPORTS REPORTER Senior infielder Arden Farhi, who doubles as a Student Life reporter, chronicles the Wash. U. baseball team’s annual spring break trip to Florida.

Less than 12 hours after the conclusion of a four-game weekend series, my body still aching from the 28-inning marathon, I met my teammates at the AC at 4:30 a.m. on the first Monday of spring break. Still half asleep, we boarded the first Metrolink train of the day en route to the airport.

Destination: the UAA tournament in Orlando, Fla. We were greeted in Orlando with perfect baseball weathersunny skies and 80 degrees.

After checking in to the Holiday Inn, we headed to Boston Market to, as veteran Coach Ric Lessmann says, “Slop the hogs.”

Besides baseball, eating might be our team’s favorite pastime (heck, it’s probably America’s second favorite as well). Then it was off to practice at the Sanford Memorial Stadium complex.

Tuesday: Our first test of the week: Case Western Reserve University. The Spartans are the kind of team we love to beat, but hate to play. On paper we should beat them every time. But in baseball it never works out like it should on paper. After falling behind 3-2 early on, we stormed back to score five runs in the sixth inning, three more in the seventh and four more runs in the eighth inning. We went on to win in a 15-6 rout, but it took our offense a while to get going. Ted Engelhardt highlighted the box score, going 3-5 with three runs batted in and two runs scored.

We didn’t leave the stadium until after 9 p.m., so we went to McDonald’s for dinner. The new snack wraps aren’t that bad.

Wednesday: Andy Shields got the start on the mound versus Emory on day two of the tournament. Andy has pitched against the Eagles the last three years and has always done a heckuva job. Wednesday was no exception. Andy gave us nine great

innings on the hill and also hit a three-run homer. We took a 43 lead into the ninth but we just couldn’t finish them off. Emory scratched for three runs in the final inning and we went back to the hotel with one win and one loss.

Despite the loss, dinner was superb. My parents made the trek down to the Sunshine State and we went to a really good restaurant with sophomore outfielder Zander Lehmann and his mom. Zander ordered a beautiful aged steak medium rare, and I had the seafood platter.

Thursday: As much as we wanted to beat Emory, we knew we couldn’t dwell on the loss for very long. Thursday morning couldn’t turn into Thursday mourning. We had another game to play, this time versus Brandeis.

In the second inning we had the bases loaded with one out and Ted at bat again. Teddy smoked a ball back up the middle, one of the hardest balls he’s hit all year. Unfortunately the Brandeis pitcher stuck his glove in front of his face, caught it, and threw to first for the double play.

Trailing 4-2 in the bottom of the ninth, Zander singled up the middle with two outs. Andy hit a ball between first and second which should have been the last out of the game, but the Brandeis first baseman’s throw to the pitcher covering the base sailed past the bag and nearly rolled into our dugout. Zander made it to third and Andy was standing safely on second when it was all over.

Eddy Hoering, our clean-up hitter, smoked the first pitch he saw into right field. Zander trotted home easily, tying the game.

Andy trucked around third base as the right fielder sent a no-hop, laser-guided missile of a throw toward home. Andy was hosed.

Ballgame.

Friday: Losses affect every player differently. Some pout, some get mad, others read. Our second baseman, David Kramer, fits the latter category. Kramer spent the wee hours of Friday

of singles and an extra base hit later, Emory had put up 4 runs.

And that was all she wrote. We couldn’t get anything going in the ninth and went down 5-1.

As frustrated as we all were, we bounced back against Rochester. Andy threw a complete game, allowing one run and five hits. Our offense strung together 4 runs and that was good enough for our third win of the tournament.

Case did help us out, beating Brandeis in the night game, but that only meant there wouldn’t be two UAA champions. At 4-2, Emory took home the title. We tied with Brandeis and Rochester for second place and Case finished fifth with a 2-4 record.

Sunday: We made a morning visit to Perkins for brunch before checking out of the hotel.

Then we headed to the airport, bound for St. Louis. We got to Orlando International at 1:30 p.m. for our 7:25 p.m. departure. A bit early, yes. We couldn’t check our luggage until 3:30 p.m., so the freshman watched our bags while the rest of the guys went into the airport hotel lobby.

Luckily the March Madness games were on and a couple of games of euchre later it was . . . well, it was 4:30 p.m. Then after a few more card games, a couple slices of pizza, chatting with the softball team and going through security, it was time to wait in line to get on the plane. You bet we had “A group” boarding passes.

We got back to St. Louis after going 3-3 in Florida. A couple of breaks here and there and we could have been 5-1 or 60. That’s just the way baseball goes, I suppose. Can’t dwell on it now, though. There’s another ballgame tomorrow.

morning reading not just some, but all of Harry Potter. I, on the other hand, slept off the loss.

Luckily Case was on our schedule again Friday afternoon and we got to take out some of our frustration on the Spartans.

Freshman pitcher Zach Richter threw a complete game gem, yielding just three hits over seven innings. Another frosh, Nick Vom Brack, went 4-4 with three doubles. The game was called after seven innings because of the ten-run mercy rule.

Since we took care of business in an hour and forty five minutes, we got a chance to hang out by the pool at our hotel in the afternoon. As per WU baseball tradition, we went to the pizza buffet in downtown Sanford for dinner. Andy and I (and eventually most of the team) spent half an hour trying to remember the name of Peter Gibbons’ neighbor in Office Space. Turns out it’s Lawrence. Who knew?

Back at the hotel about 10 of us crowded around a laptop and listened to the WU men’s basketball Final Four game. Unfortunately they came up just short in the national semifinal, but what a great season. The same goes for the women—an awesome showing by both squads this year. It was a pleasure watching (and listening to) both teams this year.

Saturday: Even though we went into Saturday with a 2-2 record, we knew that if we could sweep our doubleheader versus Emory and Rochester we would at least share the UAA crown.

And if we could get a little help from Case, we could win the tournament outright.

Things were going somewhat to plan until the bottom of the eighth against Emory. We were locked at 1-1. Brian Williams, our stud sophomore pitcher, hadn’t allowed an earned run.

Then, a flare hit to left, a couple

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FILM v FROM PAGE 1 was good [for students] to connect to a visual image. At some point, you have to talk about reconciliation and forgiveness with neighbors, with families, with ethnic groups and with generations. We need to talk about building a nation and an identity.”

In addition to the eight films, a discussion with Senegalese filmmaker Ben Diogaye Beye will be held after the screening.

“Beye’s exciting because he can talk about his film and his experience,” said Diallo. “He has a lot of experience in the whole African film genre, and I think it’s important to talk about problems filmmakers encounter in West Africa; he...can talk about the challenges for

filmmakers.”

In a press release for the festival, the African Students Association President Olawale Hassan endorsed the event to the student and St. Louis community.

“The African Film Festival provides a unique opportunity for the St. Louis community to share in the experiences of African peoples and cultures. We get to look beyond the superficial images that pervade the mainstream media and develop a more dynamic understanding of what the multifaceted African experience is really like.”

The African Film Festival will take place over three days, from March 22 to 25 at 7 p.m., in Brown 100. Admission is free.

FIT v FROM PAGE 3 struck by one statistic which reported that only one third of University students exercise in regularity.

For a Greek philanthropy event, “Fit Week” is unusual in the sense that it does not involve raising money for an outside organization. “We tried to have a different dynamic. We are focusing on the Wash. U. community instead of focusing on an outside organization,” said Ronkoski.

“It’s not about how much money we can raise. It’s more about education and the participation of the wider community.

We wanted to do something everyone on campus could participate in,” said Zeitzoff.

According to Zeitzoff, “Hottubathon,” Kappa Sigma’s philanthropy event from last year, was a disaster. For the event, the fraternity brought a hot tub onto the swamp. Students could pay $5 to sit in the hot tub with a fraternity brother. The fraternity was unable to benefit a charity because it did not raise enough money to offset the

costs of the hot tub. “I thought there was a need for a philanthropy event that did not lose money,” said Zeitzoff.

Karen Acton, a Greek Life office assistant, said that awareness is a central component of philanthropy.

“It’s not odd for them to do.

I think they are trying to make a statement,” said Acton. “Being proactive is not just about raising money. It is important to participate in events that are good for the entire campus body. It’s a fraternity living event which shows that everyone can participate in being healthy and being aware of positive things about the body.”

Acton said that Zeitzoff worked closely with the Greek Office in order to gain its support for “Fit Week.” She said that she would like to see fraternities and sororities place more emphasis on raising awareness.

“I think it has been great and successful so far. I think the guys are having a great time doing it and that it’s a wonderful idea,” she said.

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Cross-Enrollment should grow S

tudents attending Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College or the University of Massachusetts have the ability to cross-enroll in courses at the other schools and receive academic credit at their home base school. The system is set up in such a way that students can search all the course catalogs at once and request enrollment at the other schools within the fivecollege consortium. While the system is not perfect and class requests have limited availability and are not confi rmed until the fi rst week of classes, this type of set-up offers students the ability to choose from a wider range of courses, and is beneficial by allowing students to take courses more specific to their personal goals or interests. Washington University should look into providing its students benefits by fostering relationships with surround-

ing universities and allowing students to cross-enroll in courses at other schools.

Currently, the University offers two types of intercollegiate courses. The fi rst set is run through the ROTC program and University students receive some of their instruction through the United States military. The second set is available to students only if there is some reason they cannot take a required course at the University, and students may not be approved. Clearly, the cross-enrollment options that the University offers are not available in order to enhance the options of available courses to the student body at large, but instead to help some students meet specific burdens.

This program should be expanded in order to take advantage of the resources of all the schools within the area. Though different schools within the city have differ-

ent educational purposes and some may not be considered as strong as the University in some areas, this does not mean that they have nothing to offer University students and that creating some sort of crossenrollment program would not strengthen the school.

While the University can boast an excellent education within the subjects it has chosen to pursue, it cannot offer the same range in course options as larger schools like SLU or the specialty in specific types of knowledge as schools like Fontbonne. While the University offers a degree in political science, SLU is able to offer entire degree programs or majors that provide indepth instruction in areas of political science such as Urban Affairs, Public Policy and Community Service, Social Justice.

Being able to offer students the advantages of taking these specific courses while being enrolled at the University will

help them receive the education most pertinent to their career plans or their passions.

Just as the five-college consortium limits the enrollment of students from other schools, the University could set caps and give its students fi rst preference for its courses. The University could also set specific requirements about what courses could be taken at other institutions in order to avoid the problem of students taking notoriously difficult courses at other schools in attempt to earn a higher grade, and the University could also place restrictions on the number of credits students could earn at other schools. In this way, the University can ensure that its students are evaluated fairly against each other and that students still have the same access to the University courses, while offering students a potentially better education that will better prepare them for their futures.

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Looking for discourse

BY DAVID SONG STAFF COLUMNIST

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’m a little jealous of the people who are going to the University of Maryland at College Park, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the university being one of my choices during college applications—to say nothing of how much closer it is to home. About a week ago, I noticed on Facebook that there was a protest at UMCP on March 12 over the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq, and I wish there were something like that here at Washington University.

There was indeed a protest on campus over the war by the Washington University Peace Coalition on March

5. I didn’t see it in person and I didn’t see it covered in Student Life and with reasonable sense; the Facebook event for the protest had 13 confi rmed guests. Heck, the only event about the Iraq war about which I’ve found out without actively searching Facebook is a memorial vigil in Kaufman Park; that’s not even a student event. It suggests that—at least in my experience—if I’m looking to protest the war (for example) I’d better look somewhere off campus. There is, I think, a certain political inertia among the students at Wash.

U., and although that doesn’t necessarily imply inertia in other respects of university life, it does mean limited discussion and understanding.

Like Daniel Milstein in

his article, “On ‘Find the Illegal Immigrant” in the Feb. 26, 2007 issue, I want to see something politically motivated here at Wash. U. I’m not asking for anything as outrageous as that stunt by New York University’s College Republicans, but I want to see something provocative, something that will confront students and make them think. I like to think that that is part of a protest’s purpose—not simply to declare opposition to this or that to the entire community (how much can a single campus protest really do?), but to demand discourse and free thought.

If discourse over something as major as the Iraq war isn’t happening physically on campus, I’m at least

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somewhat glad to see it in Student Life. There’s been some in the March 7 issue op-ed “Out of Iraq, Hands of Iran,” and there’s been some in the March 1, 2007 issue’s College Democrats’ response to Milstein’s article. But discourse on the level of the student newspaper doesn’t seem nearly enough; until there is significant political action by the student body—and that will require a change in the student body itself—I may fi nd myself looking at UMCP, and even NYU. David is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at dssong@ artsci.wustl.edu.

So your parents are on Facebook...

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veryone knows about the risks associated with managing a Facebook account. For starters, a mounting number of job recruiters are using the social networking website to gain insight into the character of potential employees. This isn’t new or shocking. Student Life ran a front-page story last year titled, “Students cautioned as recruiters and police log onto Facebook,” which elaborated on a message from the University’s Career Center that warned students Nathan to avoid “putting racy images and salty language in their profiles.”

Of course, everyone knows that a taboo profile can cost someone a job offer. After all, nothing puts a damper on post-graduation celebrations quite like a revelation that your job offer at Goldman Sachs was revoked because you were under the mistaken impression that creating a profile picture of you doing a keg stand was a good idea. But there are also very serious legal implications to consider as well.

Many police officers have not hesitated to check social networking Web sites for incriminating evidence.

And just across the Mississippi River, Ill. lawmakers are now considering a resolution that would hold students legally accountable for written threats made on Web sites like Facebook.

But while much of the news reporting on Facebook tended to focus on its prevalent use among job recruiters, police officers and school administrators,, relatively little seemed to be devoted to reporting on the many parents who use it to check up on their own lovable Bobby Teenager.

This isn’t surprising if you think about it. College students are naturally more worried about a court summons than an angry phone call from home (although some students who have very controlling parents might disagree). But this media trend is also beginning to change. A March 19 article written by Dan Gibbard in the Chicago Tribune highlighted the tension on Facebook between a parent’s right to know and a son or daughter’s right to privacy. “I don’t need anyone’s permission,” answered one mother when asked whether she felt justified in looking up her son’s Facebook profile, “and if I could figure out how, I’d (look at) all his friends’ pages.”

The article presents a compelling message: social networking Web sites can broadcast warning signs for troubled teenagers. For example, an 18-year-old who died from an opiate overdose maintained a Facebook profile where he boasted that he used drugs. And just in case you had any doubts about where the article was head-

ed, there was also a convenient section titled, “How to look up your child’s profile online,” which gave step-by-step instructions detailing how to set up a Facebook account.

So what happens if you suddenly receive a parental friend request? Friendbomb them. “Friendbombing” is a term invented

by John Schwartz, a New York Times science writer who decided to open up a Facebook account on his company network so that he could check in on his 16-year-old son’s profile. His son certainly could have just rejected Everly the parental friend request, and then dealt with the “what are you hiding?” questions at a later time. Instead, he simply accepted the request and then formed a “Friend My Father” Facebook group.

Soon afterwards, Schwartz was being bombarded with friend requests from teenagers who went to his son’s high school. You can almost hear Homer Simpson saying, “Stupid poetic justice.”

The point I’m getting at is one that was echoed by author Marion Franck.

Facebook has now reached the point where “many students can’t imagine a future without it any more than their parents can imagine the demise of e-mail.” It is a “mixed bag” filled with risks. It always has been. But it is still an

“After all, nothing puts a damper on postgraduation celebrations quite like a revelation that your job offer at Goldman Sachs was revoked because you were under the mistaken impression that creating a profile picture of you doing a keg stand was a good idea.” “innocent pleasure” for most students, and it is capable of producing more than rescinded job offers.

Hell, presidential candidate Barack Obama managed to organize a 3,000-strong political rally at George Mason University entirely through Facebook. So while parents aren’t necessarily wrong to view their son or daughter’s Facebook profile with at least some suspicion, they do miss out on understanding the benefits of the phenomenon if they simply resort to developing what Franck calls an “adversarial relationship with social networking sites.”

Nathan is a junior in Arts & Sciences and a Forum editor. He can be reached via e-mail at forum@studlife. com.

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An ode to scheduling classes

BY JOSHUA MALINA STAFF COLUMNIST

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t’s been a roller-coaster kind of year. Not in a social sense, fortunately; I’ve never had trouble with friends. Housing arrangements? The roommate and I have had our share of problems, but what can you expect when living with a computer science major anyway? No, the real problem this year has been classes, and it all started fi rst semester.

Well, let’s step back even further, into summer 2006, the anxious time preceding freshman year. I attended an ArtSci Weekend (#3), where I hung out on a swamp, ate in a Bear’s Den and chose my classes early. Gosh, was I excited. My schedule was going to include Writing I, two freshman seminars—one literature, one economic—some other social science and a philosophy class. I was going to be gaining so much knowl-

edge, reading the greats, not doing math; I really couldn’t wait.

And then classes started and it was better than I had ever expected. Two days a week I was taught by a Nobel Prize-winning economist, learning theories of property rights. Three days a week I was in a four-person class, discussing the emergence of capitalism. It was at 9 a.m., but I didn’t care. This was the kind of broad, liberal arts education that I had craved since middle school.

Yet it was too good to be true.

In these classes that I was taking, there was understandably going to be a lot of reading and writing. This is great, since I love that stuff.

Yet there was an especially taxing competition between the “capitalism” class and the philosophy class, which demanded I read hundreds of pages of Ayn Rand and the Ancient Greeks, respectively, each day. In some cases, it

seemed impossible to get done, and I freaked out.

Here I was, living at one of the most important times of my life, with access to such amazing resources for learning, and I wasn’t even doing

“Here I was, living at one of the most important times of my life, with access to such amazing resources for learning, and I wasn’t even doing the homework.” the homework. I’d be sitting in my philosophy class, not having done the reading, feeling like a jackass, a fool, with nothing to say or to show my comprehension of the material. This was

not the liberal arts education I had dreamed about, I thought. This is not the way learning was supposed to be.

This is terrible.

So, after a few conversations with my advisor, a few weeks of nervous indecision, I dropped the class one night at 2 a.m. on WebSTAC. I thought I was free; I could now learn the material at my own pace, take the class when I was less busy in a subsequent semester. Big mistake. My classes slowed down, not to mention I now had no reason to get up on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I was miserable. Not considering that a friend of mine who stayed in the class had gotten an A without too much effort (which shouldn’t have mattered, and still doesn’t really, considering I was there for the learning and not the grade), I was still haunted by my decision, by my “W.” But I got through the semester and vowed to not make the same mistake

again, as a dean of the day told me during that time, “Be careful of walking away from the things you love.”

Yet the legacy of my mistake did not stop there.

Choosing a schedule for the spring, I thought I would take some classes that were more practical: mathematics or a language, or both, and less reading and writing of course, but fields in which I thought I’d still gain from and have to work hard in to do well. (In Spanish III in high school I failed both the midterm and the fi nal.) So I tried not to bite off more than I could chew, took four real classes (with Spanish, that was already 14 credits), and a mildly interesting onecredit lecture series. Needless to say, it was a big mistake. Math turned out to be not as hard as I thought, and Spanish, while still tough, was boring. Sure, I had some good social sciences on the schedule, a political theory class, some more econom-

ics, but other than that, I felt empty. I wanted to read and write more, I wanted to understand obscure books and references and fi ll my head with, well, less practical things. So afraid of that fi rst semester “W,” I turned away from learning the things I loved toward more tangible arts, which, though nice analytical supplements to my idealized liberal arts education, didn’t satisfy me in the least.

So here’s to history and literature, political theory, philosophy and the good parts of science, which I hope to fi ll my life with next semester.

Until then, however, I’ve got this math test to study for and a stubborn integral that just won’t simplify. Can someone remind me how to do those again?

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

Too busy today? Get over it

BY DENNIS SWEENEY STAFF COLUMNIST

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n high school, I stopped reading books, because, damn, I was already reading enough books. When you’re tossing down large portions of Faulkner, some psychology reading and 20 pages of R.R. Palmer’s “History of the Modern World” every night, the last thing you have the energy to do is nab a novel of your choice and work your brain more. Right?

Wrong.

I can barely remember the feeling books gave me back in the younger years, but I know cognitively that I read constantly, often whole books in a day, and that I really, really liked doing it. It was one of those things about which you ask yourself: why would I do anything else? I read every nutso Bruce Coville book from “Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters” to “My Teacher Flunked the Planet” and then grew up a bit and read the entire Ender’s Game series and then grew up a bit and kept on reading crazy science fiction and then grew up a bit and stopped reading. Maybe I should have stopped growing up a bit earlier.

And I stopped doing that because I was stressed out about school. Understandable decision at the time: doesn’t fully grasp the meaning in each part of his life yet, is just trying to survive with this new level of schoolwork, not the best at managing his time.

I can’t blame my 14-year-old self. But if I keep with that decision, if I don’t question a 5-year-old sentiment, I can blame my present self.

Here’s what I realize now: There are only so many things you are sure to enjoy in this life. Just because you “are doing something else”—i.e. going to high school, going to college, working—doesn’t mean you should stop doing those things. We will always

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“be doing something else.” We will always “be too busy.” But we cannot allow those feelings—because they are just feelings—to prevent us from doing something we love.

“I don’t have time” is a common expression around here, and I can’t blame people for using it. But inherent in the expression is an evaluation of priorities. By saying “I don’t have time,” you make a value judgment and say that whatever you are pushing aside is less of a priority for you than all those things you are going to have time to do.

But often, I’d say, we make an instant value judgment without giving the thought to it that god might like us to give. Often, we shove aside things just because of the label attached to them: almost always, we’ll do less of what we “want to” do in favor of what we “have to” do, just because of the apparent value that those terms convey.

But the value those terms convey isn’t always the right one. I’d say, presumably safely, that happiness is a somewhat high priority for people at Washington University. I’d

even go out there on a limb and ask what the hell the point is of anything if you are going to be miserable while you’re doing it. If you can accept any of that, you can see that “want to” has a lot more value than it at fi rst glance gets credit for.

And another truism about time here in college makes it so that we don’t even have to cheat ourselves out of the things we are supposedly here for, the things we “have to” do, in order to do the things we “want to” do. The truism is that, no matter how squished

you feel, if you really want to do something, you can make time for it. Physically creating time seems like it defies the laws of physics, but time exists only in our minds anyway. We won’t have time to give ourselves the pleasure of reading or doing whatever else we like to do only if we believe we don’t have the time for it.

Because if you sit down with a book and start reading it, you’ve just made time for reading. You make time by doing things, and as far as you believe in the happiness and

Coach Edwards: always a champion to his boys

BY WAYNE DRASH OP-ED SUBMISSION

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lass, integrity and leadership. Those three words are what define Coach Mark Edwards.

He instills those traits in all the young men who come through his program. They are drilled into his players, even more so than sticky defense, free throws or the perfect skip pass.

He teaches discipline, self-confidence and maturity, as evidence by the quality teams he’s turned out over the last three decades.

Consistency and team unity also come to mind.

These are qualities that aren’t just confined to the basketball court.

They are life lessons that we carry with us long after we’ve graduated from the Hilltop Campus—guidance

that has helped shape our everyday lives, even as we’ve entered the professional world and gone on to become fathers of our own.

I became part of Coach Edwards’s family in 1990.

It was by chance really. A couple weeks before I began my freshman year, I received a slip of paper from Wash.

U. detailing my work study job. “Basketball manager,” it said.

It would turn out to be one of the coolest jobs ever. I traveled the nation, watched great basketball and got paid for it. (In my case, I also learned how to fold clothes!)

But it was becoming a member of Coach Edwards’s team that sticks with me to this day, though I never even donned the red and green jersey during a game.

When I first met Coach, I was greeted by his towering frame, a firm handshake and

a welcoming broad smile.

From day one, he included me as part of the team. If I saw players loafing, get on their butts, he said. Just the same, if they were doing a good job, continue to motivate them.

That year, I witnessed a coach who commanded the respect of his team. He never yelled at his players. He didn’t have to. You always knew when you had disappointed Coach. The only anger we ever witnessed was his patented foot-stomp during games, always provoked by some awful call by a UAA official.

Coach was also always there for his players, and even us managers. My parents nearly divorced my freshman year. At a time when I needed guidance most, Coach offered it to me.

He gave me strength. Most of all, he encouraged me

to channel my energy, find something I was passionate about and go for it.

Thanks to his support, I applied for a sports editor job at Student Life and got it. I didn’t know it at the time, but it was the start of a lifelong career in journalism.

Funny how life works, isn’t it?

And I’m just one of his many disciples. You see, Coach is more than just a coach to the hundreds of us boys who have gone through his program. He is a mentor and friend, and so much more.

There have been great teams over the years, including the one from 1990-91.

Each had the dream of making the Final Four, but in the crazy world of basketball, dreams often fall short.

Now, one team has finally reached that magic mark.

“I told the guys that there are many alumni across the country who were pulling for them to live their dream.

That is what it means to me,” Coach Edwards said after Saturday’s landmark win.

Indeed. Indeed. We’re now living the dream, through one great team and one fantastic coach.

It’s time to bring the championship to the Field House—home to a coach who is long overdue.

Wayne Drash is a 1994 Universtiy alumnus who managed the WU basketball team in the 1990-91 season and worked as sports editor and columnist for Student Life in subsequent years. He is now a senior producer at CNN.com. He can be reached at wayne.drash@turner.com.

the peace of mind you can get from the thing you are doing, it benefits you. You can’t make time for everything, of course, because it will then be poorly made.

But happiness is a priority.

I can’t see any reason to be miserable while doing what you “have to” do. So identify a “want to,” and then make time for it. Or just, in other words, do it.

Dennis is a freshman in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at djsweene@artsci. wustl.edu.

CORRECTION The March 7, 2007 opinion submission “Out of Iraq, hands off Iran” was written by Howard Brick, Julia Baksin and Ahmet Karamustafa, not just Mr. Brick. Student Life regrets the error.

CLARIFICATION A news articled titled “Students establish fi rst WU African American sorority” (Feb. 21, 2007) indicated to some readers that Sigma Gamma Rho was the only African American sorority available to Universtiy students. While Sigma Gamma Rho is the fi rst African American sorority available exclusively to University students, it is one of many, city-wide African American sororities. Student Life regrets this misunderstanding.

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MOVIE REVIEW

Heroes in a half shell fail to dazzle and hockey-mask-wearing vigilante Casey Jones.

I grew up a huge fan of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (TMNT) cartoon and I approached their new “animated” fi lm by novice director Kevin Munroe with trepidation. I haven’t watched the recent cartoon series and I am not a fan of CGI. When properly and precisely used as a tool it can be amazing, but all too often it is used as a crutch by hacks.

The latest movie, simply titled “TMNT,” continues the turtles’ story from the previous theatrical releases (though only gives passing visual reference to the muchderided third installment).

BY DANIEL P. HAEUSSER CADENZA REPORTER Is there anyone out there who doesn’t know the Ninja Turtles? Details varied slightly between their incarnations in comics, on the TV and onscreen, but the basic story has stuck true.

Four turtles, mutated into speaking bipeds, become ninjas under the tutelage of a similarly mutated rat named Splinter. He teaches them to work as a team to fi ght crime, particularly their arch-nemesis the Shredder and his ninja Foot Clan. They are helped by reporter (or antiques dealer, depending on the incarnation) April O’Neil

The Shredder is defeated and presumed dead, and his Foot Clan thought disbanded. Leonardo (James Arnold Taylor) is away training to become a better leader at Splinter’s (voiced by Mako) request, and in his absence the other turtles are lost and without purpose. The scientifically and technically-minded Donatello (Mitchell Whitfield) works for a computer help line, Michelangelo (Mikey Kelley) is damned to wearing a big foam turtle head at birthday parties and Raphael (Nolan North) is dark and brooding, spending his days sleeping and his nights dishing out vigilante justice. Meanwhile,

Casey (Chris Evans) is living with April (Sarah Michelle Gellar) but is concealing his continued night-time forays with Raphael.

Unable to act as a team of unified brothers, the Turtles are faced with an untimely crisis when monsters start attacking the city and the Foot Clan returns under the leadership of Karai (Ziyi Zhang). These monsters are remnants from an extra-dimensional portal that was opened 3,000 years ago to give an ancient warrior king power and everlasting life.

That king is now entrepreneur Max Winters (Patrick Stewart) who has hired the Foot Clan to retrieve the

monsters for a ceremony that will reverse his curse of immortality. Unfortunately, Winters’s brother and former generals do not want to relinquish their immortality and would rather take over the world.

Does that plot sound complex and absurd? Well it is, and it is the biggest failing point of the fi lm. I expect the convoluted plot was lost on many children in the audience, despite the fi lm starting with shoddy storytelling in an extensive narration by Captain Exposition (Laurence Fishburne). (No, he’s not really called that.)

Parts of the fi lm are fastmoving CGI action designed

to keep the audience’s attention, but this obscures not just the details of animation, but also the details of storytelling. Whereas the plot and relationship of Winters and

See TMNT, page 9 TMNT Rating: ★★★✩✩ Directed by: Kevin Munroe Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chris Evans, Mako, Patrick Stewart Theatrical release date: March 23, 2007 Showing at: Galleria 6

ALBUM REVIEWS

Andrew Bird: ‘Armchair Apocrypha’ thought provoking, the lyrics are more like literature than poetry. For all you pre-meds, the song “Imitosis” (which is actually a reworking of a song from his album Weather Systems) follows with a slight comparison of cell behavior to human interaction: “What is mistaken for closeness/Is just a case of mitosis.” It is seemingly silly, but with thought, the listener knows exactly what he is trying to say. Later on, “Scythian Empires” considers apocalyptic horsemen and obscure historical facts to apply to lush melody. Bird is intrigued by obscure corners of history and combines his present state of mind with other universes of time. “Offering views of exiting empires/ such breathtaking views Scythian Empires.” He is trying to resurrect that empire through the song, relating to the seemingly random group.

Each song is purely Bird: layers of sound, gorgeous and unique melodies and off-kilter brilliance.

Listening to the album casually, the songs blend together a bit, but upon more listens, the songs’ intricacies are revealed. “Playa hatas” would challenge Armchair Apocrypha, stating that with additional guitar and more indie-norm of a song like “Heretics” on the album, Bird is leaning toward the typical indie rock. But beware. What these anti-mainstream music

BY REBECCA KATZ CADENZA REPORTER First things fi rst: an apocrypha is a collection of writings “of questionable authorship or authenticity” according to dictionary.com.

Andrew Bird’s new album, Armchair Apocrypha seems to follow the norm of titling albums with phrases that make absolutely no sense, but his lyrical masterpieces of songs more than make up for the absurd title. With often silly but sensible lyrics, Bird incorporates guitar, pizzicato violin, whistling and folksy vocals into his own truly unique style.

The unusual sound Bird creates is a mix between Spanish-influenced guitar and charming folk, but not to the point of Woody Guthrielike intent. As a solo artist, Bird’s version of indie-rock is combination of guitar and violin, with occasional whistling flute sound. The resulting tunes are emotive and absolutely sublime: Armchair Apocrypha is an advance in Bird’s romantically poetic lyrics combined with layers of sound and melodies that are anything but monotonous.

Too clever? No word combinations, analogies or imagery is too sharp for Mr. Bird. The album opens with the song “Fiery Crash,” where his bemused singing of protection from a plane crash haunts the listener. Naïve yet

snobs are preaching is just unsupportable: if a new album is the same as the previous ones, it is considered repetitious, and if it dares to be different, it is not as good as the artist’s “old stuff.” They just cannot be pleased. Bird established himself as crafty with his folksy albums, and Armchair Apocrypha gives the listener a little taste of pop along with that organic sound. He is not exactly on his way to being on a “Garden State II” soundtrack. The album is anything but standard indie droning.

In short, Armchair Apocrypha is intoxicating. The unsophisticated yet daringly fastidious melodies, the mind-twisting lyrics and the bizarre charm form beautiful musical vignettes that anyone could settle into their comfy armchair and fi nd soothing and challenging. And just in case an armchair with fastened cushions does not do the trick for you, Andrew Bird will be at the Pageant on April 17, if you are looking to see the master at work.

Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Rating: ★★★✬✩ Tracks to download: “Imitosis,” “Heretics,” “Cataracts,” “Yawny at the Apocalypse” For fans of: Sufjan Stevens, Wilco

Modest Mouse: ‘We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank’

BY ELIZABETH OCHOA MUSIC EDITOR The fi fth album by Modest Mouse greets listeners with fresh material, a new member and guest vocals from James Mercer of The Shins fame.

Johnny Marr from The Smiths joined Modest Mouse for a couple of shows in Portland, and worked so well with the rest of the band that lead singer Issac Brock invited him to join in writing and recording the album as well as touring. The pairing seems very natural as Marr doesn’t overpower the lyrics or music. The sound is still very much Modest Mouse.

Brock described the album as a “nautical balalaika carnival romp.” This is most obvious in the fi rst song, “March Into the Sea.” It sounds like a demented pirate and a French mime are about to escape from your speaker and make you attend an old fashioned freak show, but in a bad way.

Marr isn’t the only interesting addition on this album. James Mercer sings backup on three of the album’s 14 tracks. Most prominently on “Missed the Boat,” Mercer sings softly into your right ear while Brock’s trademark voice overpowers your left. The effect is interesting and pulls the lyrics clearly to

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the front of the music.

Don’t expect this album to have a hit as big as “Float On.” While the lyrics of “Float On” offer the hope that everything will end up fi ne, the lyrics of this album have a bit more hostile outlook with only questions.

In “Missed the Boat” Brock sings, “Everyone’s unhappy/ Everyone’s ashamed/ … / Was it ever worth it?/ Was there all that much to gain?”

“We’ve Got Everything” has real promise as a single except for one factor. The backup vocals are whispered. Unlike Mercer’s addition to earlier tracks, this just makes the listener feel uncomfortable. That and the lyrics just aren’t good. Not that good lyrics mean much to popular music—I’m looking at you, Fergie.

“Little Motel” delivers as the fi rst slow song halfway through the album. “And I don’t think that there was an insult that was missed/I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and/I’m very sorry,” Brock sings slowly.

Modest Mouse fans, recall “Interstate 8.”

“Steam Engenius” is wretched. I’m not quite sure what effect Modest Mouse was going for, but if it was crack addict lyrics it worked.

It’s hard to listen to, and once you hear the lyrics it only gets worse.

“Spitting Venom” is over eight minutes of what starts as acoustic rock and ends with horns ushering in a new psychadelic jam band portion of the song. It’s interesting, to say the least. The only lyrics in the second portion are the oft repeated, “Cheer up baby it always wasn’t quite so bad for every/Venom then that came out the antidote was had.”

After four releases it’s good to know that Modest Mouse hasn’t grown stale.

The topics broached are similar to those in past albums. Their attitude is still “Things kinda suck, but what can you do?” It’s interesting that the simple change of one member is enough to revitalize the band. Sadly, like many albums, there are a few tracks which should have been scrapped and put onto a b-sides album years later, but what can you do?

Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Rating: ★★★✬✩ Tracks to download: “Fire It Up,” “Dashboard,” “Little Motel” For fans of: Built to Spill

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Daughter Of Keltoum’ leads off African Film Festival

BY DANIEL P. HAEUSSER CADENZA REPORTER The African Film Festival begins on Thursday evening in Brown Hall featuring “Daughter of Keltoum,� a powerful Algerian film by Mehdi Charef. The traveling festival continues through the weekend, showing one short film followed by one feature each night beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is free, so the mini festival provides an excellent opportunity to see a range of African cinema and the distinct cultures they portray, all of which you might otherwise never discover. “Keltoum� is Thursday’s feature and it tells the story of Rallia, a 19-year-old woman raised in Switzerland, who returns to her birthplace of the barren North African Atlas Mountains to

find her mother, a Berber named Keltoum. She arrives furious and stubborn, eager to understand why her mother abandoned her while simultaneously certain that no excuse could warrant such a reprehensible act.

Raised in Europe and ignorant of the harsh, oppressive environment and strict religious culture of Algeria, Rallia is immersed into culture shock in this land where finding water and food are a daily ordeal.

She locates her mother’s home village, where she meets her gentle grandfather and crazy aunt. They explain that Keltoum works in the city at an expensive hotel, and that she will be back to visit for the weekend bringing a load of treats with her, including fresh bread. But Keltoum doesn’t arrive and Rallia realizes her family

of the land. The audience soon realizes the arduous and suffering existence that the characters live, and like Rallia, begin to see how these conditions would drive a woman to abandon her child.

Charef, born in Algeria but a resident of France, also uses the film to portray oppressiveness in the strict gender relations in the Arab world. Women in the film are forbidden from eating in the same space as men and from speaking out of turn. They are tossed aside and publicly scorned so their husband can marry a younger woman, and they are brutally beaten for flaunting their sexuality by uncovering their heads (although I should note that no violent beatings occur onscreen, for those who would be disturbed by such images).

is deluded with the hope of Keltoum’s return.

Despite the hospitality and affection of her relatives and their neighbors, Rallia remains alienated.

Solely focused on finding her mother, she departs for the city, but finds that her crazed aunt is following close behind, intensely curious about Rallia and concerned for her protection and safety.

For Rallia, the journey to the city becomes a jarring lesson in the culture of her native land, the building of a strong relationship with her aunt and a period of painful self-discovery.

The film is most effective in its use and depiction of environment. Filmed in Tunisia, the wide, prolonged shots of the desolate landscape pronounce the isolation and malevolence

Another theme contained in the film is Western material obsession, portrayed in Rallia’s aunt, who collects old magazines, boxes, soda cans and the like, and displays them reverently in an abandoned shrine.

These themes of feminism and material obsession are held entirely secondary to the core exploration of Rallia and her aunt. The film is an effective and emotional portrait of, and between, these two ladies. While it touches on deeper sociopolitical issues, it does not fully explore them.

The African Film Festival continues through Sunday with films from Burkina Faso, Senegal and South Africa. I have not seen the other films, but I intend to.

I will briefly note that the feature on Saturday, “UCarmen Ekhayelitsha� by

Mark Dornford-May, was a popular feature at this past year’s Saint Louis International Film Festival and that Sunday’s feature, “A Child’s Love Story� will include a post-film discussion with director Ben Diogaye Beye.

The festival is held in Brown 100 and further information can be found at: http://www.wupa.wustl. edu:16080/africanfilm/.

tinues to make some classic “funnies,� such as professing his love for “Gilmore Girls.�

Ultimately, one has to realize this is a children’s movie, and the absurd plot and poor villain development are a simple limitation of time and the genre. Similar problems are also evident in the best of the “Batman: The Animated Seriesâ€? episodes and ďŹ lms—or even live-action superhero ďŹ lms that need to balance the development of

so many characters. “TMNT� could have been better, but it is a satisfying and enjoyable entry for any fan of the Turtles. It exceeded my expectations.

Any of you Turtle-heads out there want to see the  ick for free? Filmboard will be hosting a midnight showing for free this Thursday night (March 22). Get your ticket at the clocktower at 7 p.m. Buses to the Galleria at 10:30 p.m. WU ID required.

The Daughter of Keltoum Rating: ★★★✊✊ By: Mehdi Charef Showtime: Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 7 p.m.

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TMNT v FROM PAGE 8 realize this is a cartoon, but these subliminal depictions of ideal body forms disturb me nonetheless.

A large staple of the ’80s cartoon was comic relief, and “TMNT� continues that tradition, not to take a children’s movie too deeply into the dark brooding of Raphael or cartoon violence. Michelangelo keeps his surfer’s slang and has a number of lines that cracked up the children around me. Splinter also con-

his family is glossed over, the director luckily slows down enough to completely explore the relationship between Leonardo and Raphael.

My other comment on the animation is on the depiction of the human form in CGI. The women look like they could be snapped like a twig, with their wide hips and bulging breasts. The men have gigantic shoulders and broad chests, perched atop a thin waist and tiny legs. I

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BY REBECCA KATZ CADENZA REPORTER Surprise!

I have managed to feature yet another indierock band. But this time, they are actually talented. The Arcade Fire, a Montreal-based group, was an instant success with the release of their fi rst album, “Funeral,” in 2005 and released their new album, “Neon Bible,” on March 6. The music is undoubtedly a mix of loud and soft, guitars and synthesizers… truly no one characteristic unites the songs aside from innovative mixes of sound and instruments and extremely inimitable lyrics that leave you wanting to know more and more about the emotions behind the songs.

Open to interpretation, strange and without a doubt duly at the illustrative of indie-rock genius, the Arcade Fire’s music truly reveals emotion and experience behind production,

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rather than the typical indie whining and droning about nothingness.

The band is composed of Win Butler, his wife Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld, Jeremy Gara and Win’s brother, Will Butler. Win and Régine wrote and performed songs together with the help of various little musical elves, gradually forming the Arcade Fire with the collaboration of dozens of instruments and dozens of helpers coming in and out along the way. Their tours have been infi nitely successful, and with the release of “Neon Bible,” the band sets off on a European tour (have any friends abroad?), returning to North America in late April to tool around in such areas such as California, Georgia, North Carolina, D.C., New York, Illinois and

Ontario. If you’re interested in praising Arcade Fire publicly, check for dates around your area this summer.

But, you don’t have to wait until summer if you just can’t stand it any longer.

Those cravings for interaction with the band can be satisfied here and now. Sweet hook-ups have allowed for an interview with Will Butler himself, the infi nitely talented bass, percussion and guitar player for the band. Now, usually I cannot bring myself to elevate modern musicians to god-like status, but I would venture to say he could be on his way to the high heavens. Where did the conversation go?

MCT DIRECT

“Neon Bible,” Arcade Fire’s latest album, was released March 6.

A conversation with Will Butler -Interview by Rebecca Katz Student Life: So, your newest album is absolutely phenomenal. Reviewing it was a pleasure. After listening to it a few times over, I have been curious to know about the religious inspiration behind the whole piece.

It seems to be overflowing with political connotations as well, but with the organ sounds and the choirs, it sounds religious at certain points.

What was the group’s intent by adding the religious undertones?

Will Butler: Thank you. There wasn’t really a point in adding religious undertones—it just happened.

SL: I saw the title of the album as almost a mockery of traditional religion. What is the meaning of the title “Neon Bible?”

WB: I suppose we’re in the business of making the music, and listeners and readers and what-all are in the business of interpreting. We chose “Neon Bible” as a title because intellectually, it’s open to all sorts of meanings, but physically—well, it’s an obvious image. When you think “neon bible,” you think of a big neon sign in the shape of a bible. But you also think of how that sign betrays traditional religion. Or perhaps you think of it as a beacon for salvation. Or maybe you think of it as a sign for a pornographic bookstore on Coney Island that someone just happened to take a picture of and someone else thought it was a bible.

SL: I know your brother took scriptural interpretation classes at university, but do you personally have any ties to religion? Were there any

times where your opinions clashed with those of other members of the group?

the heck did you people get into a band from thousands of miles away?

It’s a mysterious, pleasant feeling.

WB: You’re not supposed to talk about religion or politics at the dinner table, though we do quite often.

Hasn’t been a problem thus far.

SL: You guys have had the opportunity to work with musical gods such as David Byrne and David Bowie.

What bands/performers have influenced you most? What music do you listen to now?

SL: Did “Neon Bible” give you the opportunity to play any instruments that you’d never played before or never performed songs with?

WB: We got a few new toys when we recorded Neon Bible. I bought a Moog Taurus II bass synth—you play it with your feet and it can make all sorts of rumbles and hisses. The band got a set of bass steel drums— four big chrome drums that sound warm and natural, but not quite like any bass instrument that would pop into your mind. Régine’s been playing a lot of hurdy-gurdy—basically a bagpipe-violin that you play with a crank. And it’s rare to play a huge church organ. It’s fun.

SL: Your shows are absolutely astounding. After hearing your albums, you think that it can’t get any better, but hearing your music live was almost a religious experience for me. Have you had any problem with the Arcade Fire getting its name out there and really fi lling your shows? I guess the question really is, how do you feel about the hype?

WB: It’s bizarre to come to a foreign land (I’m in Glasgow right now) and have a couple thousand people cheering and clapping for you—how

WB: As far as new music goes—this band Electrelane is going to open for the second half of our European tour. They’re amazing—on record at least. I can’t wait to see them live. Their new album No Shouts, No Calls comes out in April, I think.

And Kelly (one of our horn players) plays in the band Beirut, who are amazing live. I listen to a lot of oldies. I watch a lot of TV. TV is so good right now! It’s exciting. I mean, Lost, 24, Friday Night Lights, Project Runway. There’s lots of crap to download and waste time with.

SL: What are you looking forward to most about your upcoming tour? Do you have a favorite place to visit? Is there somewhere you’d like to visit that you haven’t had the chance to go?

WB: I’m excited now that the record is fi nally out. It’s been a long time coming (I mean, not too terribly long—but we fi nished it in December and it’s just coming out now. So I’m glad that people can fi nally hear—it makes the shows better too). Tour is tricky—you don’t necessarily see a lot of the place where you’re playing, unless you have a day off to wander around (and you’re not sick). I like

eating—so any place with a good restaurant is all I want in life. And there are good restaurants pretty much everywhere, though sometimes hard to fi nd.

SL: Now for the real question: do you like Canada or America better?

WB: Oh man, the ideal of America is amazing. It’s about the most exciting idea the world has come up with.

There’s plenty of bad stuff—plenty of breakdowns between the ideal and putting that into practice. Once you travel around you really start seeing how messed up America is, but also how messed up every place is, right down to their cores. So I like that America at least has an amazing idea behind it.

So the musician is down-to-earth, friendly, and he may or may not have seen a neon sign for an adult bookstore on Coney Island that inspired the title of a new album, “Neon Bible.” Note that he said nothing in response to a question about solo work. Is he hinting at the possibility?

In sum, girls, Will likes oldies, he likes food, he is open to controversial political and religious debates and his fame has totally resided in his heart and not his head. Perfect?

Perhaps. Married? Most defi nitely.

But, we can all dream. In the meantime, be sure to check out his mad skill on that bass synth in the Arcade Fire’s new album, “Neon Bible,” and fi nd your own meaning in the title. Maybe it will coincide with the porn shop of Will’s dreams.

Arcade Fire: ‘Neon Bible’

BY REBECCA KATZ CADENZA REPORTER Arcade Fire did not let us down with “Neon Bible”—it is no sophomore slump. The 11-track disc is electrifying, making you want to get up and do something, with stirring sounds that demand to be heard. This album was recorded in a small church outside of Montreal where the band members simply moved in their equipment with the intention of working on a new record, but not knowing anything else. The songs came together amidst the addition of a pipe organ and a multitude of horns, a trip to Budapest to record an orchestra and a military choir, and various musical helpers to aid in the sonic weirdness of it all. And there landed “Neon Bible.”

My main respect for Arcade Fire holds because of the diversity of instruments used in their melodies; the typical indie-rock band prides itself on independence and control of their own music, yet produces a pretty standard archetype indistinguishable from most other music of its kind. Arcade Fire actually takes advantage of as many instruments as possible

to create unique sounds, making use of everything from the pipe organ to the double bass, violins, violas, harps, xylophones, French horn and even an accordion. And even better, the band members can actually play the instruments.

Immensely talented in the integration of sound, the album reveals layers of sound that instead of being overwhelming, challenge the senses to pick out the lines of melody.

“Neon Bible” is altogether a bit haunting – it begins with more upbeat songs, heavy on piano with intense crescendos that scream “thriller” and pump through steady beats. The song “Neon Bible” changes the direction of the album with a slower, more downbeat song that delivers a relaxing and almost reflective tone. I loved how apparent the track changes were on the album—the sounds, instruments, even the pace of the lyrics varied with each tune.

With the increased use of crescendos, all of the melodies hit at full force: “Intervention” begins with full booming of the organ with intermittent notes emerging on the xylophone, delivering an addictive melody with heart-

wrenching lyrics as the layers of sound emerge with the addition of the synthesizers and percussion.

The martial beat alongside suggested fanfares, but the lyrics have wild political vigor: “Every spark of friendship and love will die without a home/Hear the soldiers groan, ‘We’ll go at it alone.’”

The album captures human emotion by creating a sound that envelopes the listener. Though “No Cars Go” is actually a revamp of a song already released on an EP, it exemplifies the surround sound of the record. Without that all-encompassing sound, the darker lyrics would not be nearly as resonating.

“MTV, what have you done to me?/ Save my soul, set me free!/Set me free! What have you done to me?/I can’t breathe! I can’t see!/World War 3/When are you coming for me?” sings the track “Windowsill,” in an eerie and almost menacing voice. While the album’s title suggests religious implications, the political implications are rampant.

Take “Neon Bible.” Its lyrics combine this social critique with religious undertones: “Take the poison of your rage/To lick your fingers when you turn the page/ What I remember is what you know

is right/In the city you see only lies/It’s the Neon Bible/Not much chance for survival/If the Neon Bible is right.” The lyrics scream of salvation and hope, with characters constantly searching for what they desire when they should be questioning what they truly want.

Gradually, the characters understand what prevented others from achieving happiness and get what they truly need.

All I can say is phenomenal. If you’re looking for an album you can listen to three times over and notice new instrumentals and quotable lyrics each time, pick up a copy. It is sure to be an experience. And hey, maybe the Montreal natives will help us to stop hating Canada so much.

Arcade Fire Neon Bible Rating: ★★★★✩ Tracks to download: “Neon Bible,” “Windowsill” For fans of: Interpol, Neutral Milk Hotel

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