Engineers’ Vertigo dance fl oor to light up Contemporary Art Museum on Thursday THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSIT Y IN ST. LOUIS SINCE 1878 In today’s back-page feature, Cadenza moves beyond indie to take a look at the most popular music on the world scene. See Page 10. Women’s basketball is tearing up the UAA conference, upending Rochester and Carn- egie Mellon over the weekend. Page 5.
With many of the smaller details beginning to fall into place, plans are progress- ing for the new University Center, which is slated for completion in the summer of 2009. The latest develop- ments include a tentative layout of the interior areas and distribution of space to the various groups that will occupy the building. The new Center will span approximately 90,000 square feet and occupy the location where Prince Hall currently stands. It will be home to myriad groups and multi-purpose spaces. Jill Carnaghi, assistant vice chancellor for students, de- scribed three of the spatial zones in the plans for the new building. “The western [zone] on the first and second floor is Campus Life: it will be stu- dent groups, Student Union, student programming groups, community service, the Rodriguez program, and Greek Life…the middle part is a lot of common area where students can lounge, hang out, eat, and then the southeast pod is the Career Center,” said Carnaghi. David Ross, Freshman Class Council president, was enthusiastic about the plans and felt that the Student Union (SU) space in the new Center will be an improve- ment over their current space. “I like [the new space that Student Union will re- ceive] because it will be easy to organize, especially when planning events,” said Ross. “It will be better when every- thing is consolidated.” Ross identified problems with the current setup in which class council execu- tives keep their files and information in their own rooms because there is no central office. In the current setup, only SU’s executive officers have their own of- fices. The University Center’s third floor will consist of student media groups, in- cluding Student Life, WUTV and KWUR, as well as facili- ties for the Arts & Sciences graduate school. Although plans for the exact location of facilities for graduate students within the new Center are tentative, according to James McLeod, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, accommodat- ing undergraduate and grad- uate students in the same building makes sense. “We want the University Center to be welcoming to all of our students—under- graduates and graduates,” said McLeod. “We want fac- ulty and staff to be comfort- able coming in and using the space, relaxing there, eating there, meeting there… Un- dergraduates have a special relationship with campus, which is different [from that of graduate students]. They [undergraduates] live on campus, and this is their home, and we recognize that. But the University Cen- ter should be for everyone.” Not all groups are happy with the current space that has been assigned to them. One specific concern men- tioned by Chris Grabau, coordinator of student me- dia groups, was WUTV and KWUR’s need for soundproof studios. According to Grabau, the plans for the Center are still in their infancy, and the ar- chitects want to work with the students to alleviate any concerns. “I think it’s been encour- aging to see the groups ac- tually inserting their own input into what they want to see in the building and being articulate as to what their needs are,” said Grabau. In addition to the indoor spaces, Carnaghi is enthusi- astic about the building’s ex- terior design and its relation to the outdoor environment. There will be a new quadran- gle in the northeast corner, where the University Center is adjacent to Umrath. Part of the quadrangle will have seating for students to eat or socialize. Eateries will fill a large segment of the first floor. The administration is plan- ning several different food areas which will replace the food court in Mallinckrodt. The new dining area will have multiple eating sta- tions in one area, a bistro in another, and a café in a third area. The food court will seat approximately 450 students, 100 more than Mallinckrodt S TUDENT L IFE THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS SINCE 1878 East Coast Express is shady bordering on criminal, says one alum. Peer advising and Ariel Sharon are also under fire. See Forum. Page 6. The U.S. faces an energy crisis—we feel it here as WU raises tuition due to energy costs. How can we combat this? Page 7. Women’s basketball is tearing up the UAA conference, upending Rochester and Carn- egie Mellon over the weekend. Page 5. In today’s back-page feature, Cadenza moves beyond indie to take a look at the most popular music on the world scene. See Page 10. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2006 WWW.STUDLIFE.COM VOLUME 127, NO. 47 When informed that the new key card system records the times that students enter their rooms, most students living in Shepley House—one of the dorms where the new key card system is installed— were surprised. Just like students’ Univer- sity identification card, the new key card locks, which are currently installed in the Millbrook Apartments, Village Houses 9 and 10, and Shepley, Gregg and Wheeler Houses, re- cord the times and buildings that students enter. Almost 89 percent of the 30 students surveyed infor- mally by Student Life had no idea their key cards could record their comings and go- ings. Fifty-two percent of stu- dents surveyed would prefer a regular key to the key card that they have. And over 81 percent of students surveyed would want the Washington University Police Department (WUPD) to have a master key so that they could easily gain access to their rooms in the case of an emergency. WUPD has no such existing universal key or key card. The existing protocol is to break doors down, should an emer- gency arise in which entering a locked room is necessary. Unlike the University iden- tification cards, the informa- tion recorded by the new key cards is stored at ResLife, not by the Facilities Office. Police Chief Don Strom insists that if WUPD ever at- tempts to access the records from the new key card system, it will need to adhere to the same “strict guidelines” that are in place for accessing oth- er records. WUPD may only access such information when it is needed for a serious investigation. Al- though the records made by the University’s identification cards have helped to resolve investigations over the years, By Austen Faggen Contributing Reporter Key card tracking surprises students This Thursday, students will be able to see a Washington Uni- versity creation at the Contem- porary Art Museum St. Louis as well as test it out. The Vertigo dance floor, the feature attraction at the Engi- neering School’s annual dance party last fall, will be making its second appearance as part of a monthly cocktail party held by the museum designed to fos- ter appreciation of the arts for the Y generation. “We saw it in the [St. Louis Post] Dispatch, and it looks re- ally fun and really exciting, and we’re looking forward to bringing it here,” said Jennifer Gaby, director of public rela- tions for the museum. “When I talk to my colleagues about the dance floor, everybody is really thrilled to have something of that magnitude here. It’s going to be an exciting night.” Gaby noted that the cock- tail parties have succeeded in bringing a wide range of people to the museum. She hopes that the inclusion of the dance floor this month will make Wash. U. students interested in attend- ing. “It’s been huge. We’ve had up to 750 people come here per event,” said Gaby. “It’s culturally diverse, age diverse, income di- verse...it’s a very eclectic crowd. You see young professionals, students, artists, people from all walks of life that are in their 20s and 30s that come out for either a happy hour after work, a way to have a good time, or to see exhibits that they couldn’t see otherwise.” Construction of the dance floor itself was a daunting task led by the University’s mem- bers of the Institute of Electri- cal and Electronics Engineers. Spanning over 100 square feet, the floor has 512 unique “pix- els” which light up to produce the color of the floor. Each pixel can make any one of 4,096 dif- ferent shades of color. “We built the floor during the months of September to Novem- ber 2005,” said sophomore Pehr Hovey, president of the IEEE. “It took more than 30 students and a few professors, 60-plus peo- ple, hours to construct...We had ‘solder’ parties in our student lounge where kids hung out and helped work on the project.” The dance floor is based on a similar one designed by MIT students, with a few notable improvements. The Wash. U. adaptation allows for the user to create a list of animations, scrolling text messages, and control the dance floor over the Internet. The University’s chapter of the IEEE focuses on doing projects aimed at getting stu- dents involved and interested in hands-on engineering. Hovey plans on making further im- provements to the dance floor, as well as bringing other proj- ects to the University campus. “IEEE is working on a new de- sign for the dance floor concept that will make many improve- ments over the original, such as increased portability and more rugged construction,” said Hov- ey. “Our second project this se- mester is an arcade machine, built from scratch.” The dance floor will be on display throughout the cocktail party from 6-9 p.m. on Thurs- day, with DJ Randall Roberts spinning. Entrance is free, but guests must be 21 to attend. Engineers’ Vertigo dance floor to light up Contemporary Art Museum on Thursday By Troy Rumans Staff Reporter The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) dance floor, seen here at the Vertigo dance this past fall, will be part of a Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis event on Thursday. University Center plans move forward By Randy Lubin Contributing Reporter A VISIT FROM THE TIN...ER, ALUMINUM MAN See UNIVERSITY CENTER, page 4 See KEY CARDS, page 4 Sophomore Tim Ingalls sits with one of the “can people” in Bowles Plaza yesterday. About a half dozen of these aluminum can people can be found around Bowles Plaza with recycling information written on them as part of Recyclemania 2006, a competition among 50 colleges that began January 29. As noted on this little guy’s stomach, the University has placed last in the competition for the past three years. RACHIT PATEL | STUDENT LIFE ARCHIVES GEORGE GENNIS | STUDENT LIFE
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With many of the smaller details beginning to fall into place, plans are progress-ing for the new University Center, which is slated for completion in the summer of 2009. The latest develop-ments include a tentative layout of the interior areas and distribution of space to the various groups that will occupy the building.
The new Center will span approximately 90,000 square feet and occupy the location where Prince Hall currently stands. It will be home to myriad groups and multi-purpose spaces. Jill Carnaghi, assistant vice chancellor for students, de-scribed three of the spatial
zones in the plans for the new building.
“The western [zone] on the first and second floor is Campus Life: it will be stu-dent groups, Student Union, student programming groups, community service, the Rodriguez program, and Greek Life…the middle part is a lot of common area where students can lounge, hang out, eat, and then the southeast pod is the Career Center,” said Carnaghi.
David Ross, Freshman Class Council president, was enthusiastic about the plans and felt that the Student Union (SU) space in the new Center will be an improve-ment over their current space.
“I like [the new space that Student Union will re-
ceive] because it will be easy to organize, especially when planning events,” said Ross. “It will be better when every-thing is consolidated.”
Ross identified problems with the current setup in which class council execu-tives keep their files and information in their own rooms because there is no central office. In the current setup, only SU’s executive officers have their own of-fices.
The University Center’s third floor will consist of student media groups, in-cluding Student Life, WUTV and KWUR, as well as facili-ties for the Arts & Sciences graduate school.
Although plans for the exact location of facilities for graduate students within
the new Center are tentative, according to James McLeod, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, accommodat-ing undergraduate and grad-uate students in the same building makes sense.
“We want the University Center to be welcoming to all of our students—under-graduates and graduates,” said McLeod. “We want fac-ulty and staff to be comfort-able coming in and using the space, relaxing there, eating there, meeting there… Un-dergraduates have a special relationship with campus, which is different [from that of graduate students]. They [undergraduates] live on campus, and this is their home, and we recognize that. But the University Cen-ter should be for everyone.”
Not all groups are happy with the current space that has been assigned to them. One specific concern men-tioned by Chris Grabau, coordinator of student me-dia groups, was WUTV and KWUR’s need for soundproof studios.
According to Grabau, the plans for the Center are still in their infancy, and the ar-chitects want to work with the students to alleviate any concerns.
“I think it’s been encour-aging to see the groups ac-tually inserting their own input into what they want to see in the building and being articulate as to what their needs are,” said Grabau.
In addition to the indoor spaces, Carnaghi is enthusi-astic about the building’s ex-
terior design and its relation to the outdoor environment. There will be a new quadran-gle in the northeast corner, where the University Center is adjacent to Umrath. Part of the quadrangle will have seating for students to eat or socialize.
Eateries will fill a large segment of the first floor. The administration is plan-ning several different food areas which will replace the food court in Mallinckrodt. The new dining area will have multiple eating sta-tions in one area, a bistro in another, and a café in a third area.
The food court will seat approximately 450 students, 100 more than Mallinckrodt
STUDENT LIFETHE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS SINCE 1878
East Coast Express is shady bordering on criminal, says one alum. Peer advising and Ariel Sharon are also under fi re. See Forum. Page 6.
The U.S. faces an energy crisis—we feel it here as WU raises tuition due to energy costs. How can we combat this? Page 7.
Women’s basketball is tearing up the UAA conference, upending Rochester and Carn-egie Mellon over the weekend. Page 5.
In today’s back-page feature, Cadenza moves beyond indie to take a look at the most popular
music on the world scene.See Page 10.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2006 WWW.STUDLIFE.COMVOLUME 127, NO. 47
When informed that the new key card system records the times that students enter their rooms, most students living in Shepley House—one of the dorms where the new key card system is installed—were surprised.
Just like students’ Univer-sity identifi cation card, the new key card locks, which are currently installed in the Millbrook Apartments, Village Houses 9 and 10, and Shepley, Gregg and Wheeler Houses, re-cord the times and buildings that students enter.
Almost 89 percent of the 30 students surveyed infor-mally by Student Life had no idea their key cards could record their comings and go-ings. Fifty-two percent of stu-dents surveyed would prefer a regular key to the key card that they have. And over 81 percent of students surveyed would want the Washington University Police Department
(WUPD) to have a master key so that they could easily gain access to their rooms in the case of an emergency.
WUPD has no such existing universal key or key card. The existing protocol is to break doors down, should an emer-gency arise in which entering a locked room is necessary.
Unlike the University iden-tifi cation cards, the informa-tion recorded by the new key cards is stored at ResLife, not by the Facilities Offi ce.
Police Chief Don Strom insists that if WUPD ever at-tempts to access the records from the new key card system, it will need to adhere to the same “strict guidelines” that are in place for accessing oth-er records.
WUPD may only access such information when it is needed for a serious investigation. Al-though the records made by the University’s identifi cation cards have helped to resolve investigations over the years,
By Austen FaggenContributing Reporter
Key card tracking surprises students
This Thursday, students will be able to see a Washington Uni-versity creation at the Contem-porary Art Museum St. Louis as well as test it out.
The Vertigo dance floor, the feature attraction at the Engi-neering School’s annual dance party last fall, will be making its second appearance as part of a monthly cocktail party held by the museum designed to fos-ter appreciation of the arts for the Y generation.
“We saw it in the [St. Louis Post] Dispatch, and it looks re-ally fun and really exciting, and we’re looking forward to bringing it here,” said Jennifer Gaby, director of public rela-tions for the museum. “When I talk to my colleagues about the dance floor, everybody is really thrilled to have something of that magnitude here. It’s going to be an exciting night.”
Gaby noted that the cock-tail parties have succeeded in bringing a wide range of people to the museum. She hopes that the inclusion of the dance floor this month will make Wash. U.
students interested in attend-ing.
“It’s been huge. We’ve had up to 750 people come here per event,” said Gaby. “It’s culturally diverse, age diverse, income di-verse...it’s a very eclectic crowd. You see young professionals, students, artists, people from all walks of life that are in their 20s and 30s that come out for either a happy hour after work, a way to have a good time, or to see exhibits that they couldn’t see otherwise.”
Construction of the dance floor itself was a daunting task led by the University’s mem-bers of the Institute of Electri-cal and Electronics Engineers. Spanning over 100 square feet, the floor has 512 unique “pix-els” which light up to produce the color of the floor. Each pixel can make any one of 4,096 dif-ferent shades of color.
“We built the floor during the months of September to Novem-ber 2005,” said sophomore Pehr Hovey, president of the IEEE. “It took more than 30 students and a few professors, 60-plus peo-ple, hours to construct...We had ‘solder’ parties in our student lounge where kids hung out and
helped work on the project.”The dance floor is based on
a similar one designed by MIT students, with a few notable improvements. The Wash. U. adaptation allows for the user to create a list of animations, scrolling text messages, and control the dance floor over the Internet.
The University’s chapter of the IEEE focuses on doing projects aimed at getting stu-dents involved and interested in hands-on engineering. Hovey plans on making further im-provements to the dance floor, as well as bringing other proj-ects to the University campus.
“IEEE is working on a new de-sign for the dance floor concept that will make many improve-ments over the original, such as increased portability and more rugged construction,” said Hov-ey. “Our second project this se-mester is an arcade machine, built from scratch.”
The dance floor will be on display throughout the cocktail party from 6-9 p.m. on Thurs-day, with DJ Randall Roberts spinning. Entrance is free, but guests must be 21 to attend.
Engineers’ Vertigo dance fl oor to light up Contemporary Art Museum on ThursdayBy Troy RumansStaff Reporter
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) dance fl oor, seen here at the Vertigo dance this past fall, will be part of a Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis event on Thursday.
University Center plans move forwardBy Randy LubinContributing Reporter
A VISIT FROM THE TIN...ER, ALUMINUM MAN
See UNIVERSITY CENTER, page 4
See KEY CARDS, page 4
Sophomore Tim Ingalls sits with one of the “can people” in Bowles Plaza yesterday. About a half dozen of these aluminum can people can be found around Bowles Plaza with recycling information written on them as part of Recyclemania 2006, a competition among 50 colleges that began January 29. As noted on this little guy’s stomach, the University has placed last in the competition for the past three years.
RACHIT PATEL | STUDENT LIFE ARCHIVES
GEORGE GENNIS | STUDENT LIFE
After being con-firmed by the Senate in a 58-42 vote, Sam-uel Alito was sworn in as the 110th Su-preme Court justice Tuesday—a day after a failed attempt by some Democratic senators to block his nomination. Alito, who has been both praised and criti-cized for his conser-vative judicial views, will replace retiring
swing justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Justice Alito re-ceived four votes from Democrats: Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Kent Con-rad of North Dakota, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska. He will be formally sworn into office at a ceremony in the White House today.
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4:02 a.m. WARRANT/AR-R EST—A N H E USE R-BUSCH HALL—Upon arrival for a disturbance call, a record check indicated several outstanding warrants. War-rants were verified and subject was arrested. Disposition: Cleared by ar-rest.
Thursday, Jan. 26
1:36 p.m. LARCENY/THEFT—MCMILLEN LAB—Cell phone and watch stolen from complainant’s desk. Loss: $625. Disposition: pending.
5:06 p.m. LARCENY/THEFT—ELIOT HOUSE—Complainant reported the theft of Microsoft Xbox from common area of suite between Dec.
23 and Jan. 15. Value: $200. Disposition: Pend-ing.
Friday, Jan. 27
2:13 a.m. PUBLIC INTOXI-CATION—SOUTH 40—Intox-icated subject was observed urinating in public. Subject was detained by officers for additional offenses. Disposition: Referred to JA.
10:34 a.m. THEFT UNDER $500—PRINCE HALL—A staff member reports the theft of a coat rack from a copy room (room 116) in Prince hall. The item, which had just been purchased, was taken between 1 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26. Disposition: Pending
Saturday, Jan. 28
12:54 a.m. DRUG OF-FENSE/POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE—SNOW WAY DRIVE—Subject arrested for possessing con-trolled substance. Disposi-tion: Cleared by arrest.
Monday, Jan. 30
12:48 p.m. PARKING V IOL AT ION—M I L L BROOK GARAGE—Officer assisted Transportation Dept. with a vehicle displaying a fraudu-lent permit. Disposition: Cleared.
5:08 p.m. PROPERTY FOUND—WOHL CENTER—Bon Appétit Management turned in a bag of mari-juana that had been found. No suspects. Substance will be released to St. Louis County Lab for destruction. Disposition: Cleared.
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Bono, lead singer of U2, kisses Coretta Scott King after receiving a humanitarian award from The King Center on Jan. 17, 2004 in Atlanta, Ga. King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., died in her sleep on Monday.
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Images of four police of-ficers kicking and punch-ing a suspect who had been pushed to the ground shocked television viewers on Monday night.
As of Tuesday, the FBI had responded to allegations of police brutality and began to investigate the possible violations of the suspect’s civil rights.
The officers, one from St. Louis and three from Maplewood, had respond-ed to a report at 7:01 a.m. about a suspicious van at the QuikTrip located on Big Bend. The suspect, Edmon
Burns, 33, then drove off, leading to a car chase on Kingshighway and Martin Luther King Drive.
After the officers man-aged to box in the van, Burns fled his vehicle, and the officers pursued him on foot.
The broadcasted images show the officers pushing Burns to the ground and beating him for several sec-onds before escorting him to a patrol car.
Paramedics treated Burns at the scene. He is now being held at the St. Louis Justice Center.
Police beat suspect following car chase
Cars with more than 10 speakers could become ille-gal within St. Louis city lim-its if Mayor Slay signs an or-dinance that was approved by the St. Louis Board of Aldermen last Friday. The legislation would make it il-legal to “possess or operate” cars like the Lexus LS sedan, which offers an 11-speaker system.
Introduced by Alderman Craig Schmid to prevent loud music on highways, the ordinance authorizes police to seize a car upon learning it has more than 10 speakers and to hold it until it is “no longer necessary for pros-ecution.” The owner must then pay towing fees and fi nes before the car is re-leased.
Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., died on Monday at age 78. In failing health since a stroke and a heart at-tack last August, Mrs. King was admitted to a holistic hospital in Mexico last Thursday.
Mrs. King worked alongside her husband throughout his career as a civil rights leader. After her husband’s assassination in 1968, Mrs. King continued advocating non-violent social change toward racial equality, found-ing the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change in Atlanta and signing legislation to establish
a national holiday in her husband’s name.
In 1985, Mrs. King was arrested for lead-ing sit-in protests against South Afri-can racial segregation that inspired nation-wide demonstrations against apartheid and later shaped President Reagan’s policies re-garding South Africa. During her life, she received honorary de-grees from Princeton University and Bates College.
Flags are fl ying at half-staff in Georgia, and Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has of-fered to have her body lie in state at the capitol building in Atlanta.
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Since September 2005, lo-cal K-2 schoolteachers have been delighted to present their students with a field trip waiting just outside their classrooms.
It’s called the MySci Inves-tigation Station, a mobile sci-ence lab funded by the Mon-santo Fund. Its development was a cooperative effort of Washington University, the St. Louis Zoo, Missouri Bo-tanical Garden, and the St. Louis Science Center.
Washington University art students helped design both its interior and exterior, carefully collaborating with
biology experts to ensure its accuracy. Each section of the vehicle contains a different hands-on exhibit that allow elementary school students to discover the parts of a tree; learn about prairies, oceans, and deserts; or study plant animal specimens un-der a microscope.
The Investigation Station also includes a replica of a Missouri cave, complete with stalactites, stalagmites, in-sects, and rocks waiting to be discovered by small sci-entists.
Washington University’s Director of Science Outreach Victoria May has been work-ing with others to make the Investigation Station a real-
ity since January 2004 and says she is very pleased with the results.
“We want to encourage students to develop an ear-ly interest in science,” said May. “To that end, another goal of the program is “to encourage teachers to go the extra mile to do science proj-ects [with their students]. They are often not confident enough in certain fields . . . [but] are more excited to do something if they know the material really well.”
In addition to a four-day visit at each school, teachers are first provided with cur-riculum books and in-class
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Children’s Studies minor launches this semesterBy Helen Rhee Staff Reporter
Students interested in studying childhood now have the opportunity to reg-ister for the new children’s studies minor, which was launched at the beginning of this semester.
“Children are [an] inter-esting class of people be-cause they are a class of people who don’t have full rights legally,” said Dr. Ger-ald Early, the director of the Center for Humanities and a co-founder of the program.
Others who collaborated in the planning of the program include Associate Professor of Psychology Desiree White and Associate Professor of Education Margaret Finders. All study children in their respective disciplines, so each had something unique to offer.
The interdisciplinary mi-nor offers students the op-portunity to take a wide variety of courses relating to children. Departments participating in the minor include education, English, history, psychology, Afri-can-American studies, and American culture studies.
Although the program has been in the planning stages for a while, the minor was officially announced last November at an event fea-
turing leading children’s lit-erature expert Anita Silvey, who wrote “100 Best Books for Children” (2004).
“The program was some-thing that was a couple years in the making. It was meant to be an interdisciplinary look at how various fields study children and child-hood,” said Early. “So it was meant to bring together dis-ciplines of education, his-tory, English. Those are the major fields, but we even have courses in anthropol-ogy and political science.”
Students who wish to reg-ister for the Children’s Stud-ies minor are required to take 15 units of course cred-it from various departments. One course must be the in-troduction to the Children’s Studies, which will be of-fered for the first time next fall, although students can pre-register for the course beginning in April.
According to Dr. Early, the introductory level course will be taught by a number of professors and experts from different fields. Each week, there will be a new speaker who will discuss the way he or she studies children.
Early suggested that the minor will be especially use-ful for students who are in-terested in pursuing child psychology or for students studying education who
might want to become teach-ers. Early also mentioned other fields that Children’s Studies might complement, including African-American history.
“For those students who want to go into the history of African Americans, these are fields where there is more emphasis on race and gender,” said Early. “[The] Children’s Studies minor can give a person an opportunity to study how people are af-fected according to how old you are in the culture of African-Americans. I would think for instance with all the interest in Islamic Stud-ies, it would be very help-ful for us to have [a] better understanding of childhood in Islamic societies, such as how children are raised.”
Some of the courses in-cluded in the minor are “In-troduction to Psychology,” “Children & Censorship: What We Permit Children to Read and Why,” “Education, Childhood, and Society,” “History of the Golden Age of Children’s Literature,” and “Developmental Psychol-ogy,” among others.
More information on the new minor can be found at the Center’s website, cenhum.artsci.wustl.edu/chi ldrens-studies-minor.htm.
Students get hands-on with the MySci programBy Andrea StrandContributing Reporter
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KEY CARDS v FROM PAGE 1
the Department has not yet needed to access the key card system’s records.
Despite most students’ wishes that the University had explained more fully the recording function of the key cards, most students are okay with the system’s recording information and would want the information to be released to police if an investigation was in full swing.
Owing to ResLife’s seeming-ly improved response times, Scott Wagganer, director of facilities and services for Re-sLife, is proud of the system’s success.
“It seems like it’s really working out well,” said Wag-ganer.
In fact, Wagganer noted that the University’s system has become “a model for oth-er Universities” interested in making the switch from tradi-tional keys to the key card.
Although a handful of stu-dents have been locked out because of dying batteries or malfunctioning key cards, most students have only had problems with the new key card system after misplac-
ing the card themselves. The vast majority of all students who have been locked out, re-gardless of the cause, have re-gained access to their rooms within a few hours.
Yet the informal survey conducted suggests that a ma-jority of students (52 percent) are still dissatisfi ed by the key cards and would prefer a key. Thirty-seven percent surveyed are satisfi ed; 11 percent are indifferent.
Most students are still unacquainted with the card locks’ warning system, which communicates error messages to trained technicians, should the lock malfunction. Of stu-dents surveyed, 61.5 per-cent were not sure what they should do if a warning light were to fl ash on their lock. (They should contact ResLife or their RA.)
Students also complain that the doors now auto-lock—there is no way to keep the doors unlocked when they are closed—and wish the new key cards could be combined with the University identifi cation cards.
UNIVERSITY CENTER v FROM PAGE 1
holds. The bistro will offer additional outdoor seating, as well as waited dining. It will also serve alcohol, in-cluding wine and beer.
Carnaghi described the first-floor eating area as very open, while at the same time having different zones. This would allow students seeking a quiet area to find their own private space, whereas other students can find a more energetic, public space near the food court.
According to Carnaghi, one of the distinguishing aspects of the University Center will be the reduction of individual group offic-es. Whereas many student organizations currently
have their own offices and meeting areas, the Univer-sity Center will have group meeting rooms which will be available for use by all groups in addition to indi-vidual offices.
These common spaces in-clude a business center in which students will be able to fax documents, make cop-ies, and print flyers. There will also be a “project room” on the second floor where groups can make banners or engage in other creative activities.
Carnaghi emphasized the value of a system in which students who come to the area looking for one organization can discover a
different one that they may not have known about oth-erwise.
After workers demolish Prince Hall this summer, work will commence on the parking garage beneath the Center. The parking garage, which is scheduled to be completed before construc-tion on the Center begins, will have a capacity of about 400 cars.
Two stairwells and an elevator will lead from the garage up to the first floor. Additionally, there will be a tunnel connecting the underground garage with Mallinckrodt so that food services can still use the Mallinckrodt service en-
trance. In addition to providing
much-needed parking spac-es, the garage will provide a location in which visitors can park and be closer to the center of campus than the current lots allow.
Only the super-seniors of the current freshman class, however, will be able to en-joy the University Center’s benefits—construction is not slated for completion until the summer of 2009. Construction on the under-ground garage is scheduled to commence this summer, while construction on the Center itself is slated to be-gin in the summer of 2007.
Freshman Matt Odenwald uses his door’s card swipe card lock to get into his room in Koenig House on Monday.
MEGHAN LUECKE | STUDENT LIFE
MYSCI v FROM PAGE 3
learning materials related to each exhibit.
“We even provide sug-gested experiments and seeds for the kids to grow their own plants,” said May. “The teachers love it.”
What is the kids’ favorite part?
“They love the micro-scopes and the viewing area because they can be independent, and you see all these little scientists working, just enthralled,” said May with a smile.
Others prefer the in-trigue of the cave.
“There is a slide on it and the kids get to wear little hats with lights on
them and slide down,” said May.
The Investigation Station has been a success, espe-cially in under-served St. Louis-area school districts such as Wellston, Riverview Gardens, University City, and Ladue.
“For qualifying school districts, visits [from the MySci Investigation Sta-tion] are free,” said May, adding that 75 percent of the mobile lab’s visits are to these and four other un-der-served districts. The other 25 percent of the vis-its are available to other schools on a “first come, first served” basis, accord-
ing to May. Principal of Old Bon-
homme Elementary Cheryl Kirchgessner was delighted with the lab, which visited her school in November.
“The hands-on science lessons that culminated with visits to the Investi-gation Station were an in-credible opportunity for our students to experi-ence high-quality science instruction in fun and in-teractive ways,” said Kirch-gessner.
She added that parents and younger siblings of students at Old Bonhomme Elementary School also had the chance to visit the lab
and “were impressed with the whole experience.”
To date, the Investi-gation Station is booked through the end of this school year and plans are already in motion to have a second mobile lab roll out to elementary schools next December.
Also on the agenda are tentative plans to let col-lege students at Washing-ton University take a tour of the vehicle on campus.
“To see something come together that was just a dream...is fascinating,” said May. “It has been a wonderful experience.”
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Despite the injuries suf-fered by several key members of the women’s basketball team and the loss last week-end to University Athletic Association (UAA) rival NYU, the No. 3-ranked squad was able to defeat UAA opponents University of Rochester and Carnegie Mellon University this past weekend.
“In my opinion, the Brandeis game was pivotal. The loss to NYU hurt, but we rebounded well,” said head coach Nancy Fahey.
The Bears not only re-bounded well, they made a statement, defeating No. 24 Rochester, 73-49. With an in-jury to junior Rebecca Parker in last Sunday’s game against Brandeis, freshman Jaimie McFarlin got the start.
“Opponents don’t care what year you are. The fresh-men have stepped up; they have to help the others,” said Fahey.
The seniors were not to be outdone, however. Se-niors Danielle Beehler, Kelly Manning, and Katie Benson all scored in double-digits. Beehler led the way with 20 points and 11 rebounds, while Manning and Benson each added another 15 points. Ju-nior Sarah Schell also had a big night with 12 points and 13 rebounds.
Shooting over 45 percent from the fi eld, the Bears held the Yellow Jackets to 23 per-cent from the fl oor while col-lecting 12 steals.
“With the absence of Park-er, we had a combination of people step up. We never try to replace people. We let ev-eryone be who they are. We gathered the troops, and be-
ing successful only makes us stronger,” said Fahey.
The Bears started out fall-ing behind in the early min-utes of the game before scor-ing 21 unanswered points. They never looked back, tak-ing a 35-21 halftime lead and the eventual victory.
Unfortunately for the Tar-tans of Carnegie Mellon, the Bears continued to show off their abilities by doubling the Tartans’ point total on Sun-day, 74-36.
“Teams key in on Beehler and Manning and they can’t stop them both in the same night,” explained Fahey. “We are a committee, not individ-uals. The experience is show-ing.”
The experience showed, indeed, with all three seniors once again scoring in double-digits. Beehler led all scorers with 20 points, while Manning and Benson each added 11. The defense was tough for the second game in a row, hold-ing the Tartans to 21 percent from the fi eld with 15 steals. Nevertheless, the difference in the game was on the glass; the Bears out-rebounded the Tartans by the wide margin of 51-38.
The Bears now sit atop the UAA conference at 6-1 (16-2 overall). No. 12 NYU, who de-feated the Bears the previous weekend, was defeated by Em-ory University this weekend, dropping them seven spots in the national rankings. With seven games remaining in conference play, the Bears are in a position to win the con-ference for the ninth consec-utive season and move on to the NCAA tournament.
“This conference is tough, everyone knows it. They are confi dent and ready to take care of business. They have
resolve and control,” said Fa-hey.
Beehler was named the UAA Player of the Week for the second straight week for her performances over the week-end. She averaged 20.0 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, while shooting .609 from the fi eld. She tallied her seventh
double-double of the season (20 points, 11 rebounds) in a 73-49 win against then-No. 23 Rochester. On Sunday, Bee-hler netted 20 more points, her sixth 20-plus point game of the season. For the season, she is averaging 16.6 points, good for third in UAA stand-ings, and 7.9 rebounds per
game, while shooting a UAA-best .600 (120-of-200) from the fl oor.
The No. 3-ranked Bears will go on the road this weekend to face Carnegie Mellon and Rochester once again before returning for their two re-maining regular season home games.
UPCOMING GAMES AND EVENTS
FRIDAY, FEB. 3
Men’s Basketball at Carnegie Mellon University
8 p.m. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Women’s Basketball at Carnegie Mellon University
6 p.m. Pittsburgh, Pa.
SATURDAY,
FEB. 4
Track and Field
Titan Open—Bloomington, Ill.Hosted by Illinois Wesleyan University
SUNDAY, FEB. 5
Men’s Basketball at University of Rochester
Noon; Rochester, NY
Women’s Basketball at University of Rochester
2 p.m. Rochester, NY
THURS.-SAT.,
FEB. 9-11
Swimming and DivingUAA Championships—Atlanta, Ga.Hosted by Emory University
By Carrie JarkaSports Reporter
Two wins put women’s hoops atop UAA standings; team eyes NCAAs
Freshman Shanna-Lei Dacanay halts to look for a pass as a Carnegie Mellon player rushes in to cover Dacanay. The women trounced Carnegie with more than double their score, fi nishing at 74-36. They also claimed a sound defeat of 73-49 over University of Rochester last weekend.
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IN BRIEF: The No. 3-ranked women’s basketball squad up-ended UAA rivals Rochester and Carnegie Mellon this past weekend, 73-49 and 74-36. The team now stands atop the UAA conference with a 6-1 record and 16-2 overall record.
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Among the many sup-port systems that Washington University advertises for incom-
ing students, in addition to aca-demic advisers, major advisers, minor advisers, resident advis-ers, the Career Center, Corner-stone and the Writing Center, is the peer advising program. As every student who has been a freshman here knows, at the beginning of freshman year, each student is assigned a peer adviser, who holds program-
ming for him/her and a small group of other freshmen dur-ing the academic year. Sadly, this program frequently does not live up to expectations, and its questionable fi nancial accountability should bring the program under further scrutiny.
Often, peer advisers seem to disappear after the fi rst event or two, leaving students who were counting on their availability high and dry. Our thought: if the adviser doesn’t
want to spend time with fresh-men that badly, perhaps she shouldn’t have signed up for the program in the fi rst place. But then, part of the problem is that freshmen, overwhelmed by all the activities on campus, often become overinvolved, as University students are apt to do, and become diffi cult to get ahold of for peer advising programs. Others just aren’t that interested.
Given those issues, the way the program is funded
is unusual at best. A former peer adviser reports that each adviser is allotted a certain amount of money for each stu-dent that attends an event. Yet the only proof an advisor must provide to show that those students attend events in order to receive reimbursement for a program is a list of the stu-dents who were in attendance. Cynical readers might note that this might make it easy to receive additional funding for a program just by saying all stu-
dents were in attendance—an occurrence that seems unlikely for a peer adviser program, especially as the year goes on.
This former peer adviser also noted that even the best peer advisers get, at most, 60 percent of their assigned students to attend any given event. It seems that freshmen are voting with their feet. These results suggest that with all the layers of support available here, perhaps the peer advising pro-gram is overkill. With so many
different places for students to turn to if they need help, an upperclassman who they barely know and see perhaps once or twice a month is probably low on the list of resources for the average freshman. Either the program should be fi xed so that advisers hold interesting programming with legit fi nan-cial accountability, or the fund-ing for the program should be assimilated into another of the many resources provided to new students.
As a leader in the Wash. U. Jewish community, I’d like to make clear that from a Jewish perspective, I think Ariel Sharon is a war criminal. Anyone who promotes and uses violence as a solution to confl icts is morally wrong. I cannot condone a politi-cal leader who sees the destruc-tion of families’ homes and the aerial bombing of villages as reasonable means to achieve any ends. In my tradition, human life is the highest value. For this reason, I can never excuse the killing of others. In the Judaism I know, the morality of the means must match the morality of the ends. The question here is not whether people such as Sharon commit crimes in war, the real question is whether there is such thing as a war that is not a crime.
-Matt AdlerClass of 2008
Sharon article fi lled
with inaccuracies
Dear Editor:
I just wanted to say how
shocked I am that Student Life printed the “Sharon is a war criminal” article. I have decided not to write an op-ed piece in response because I think Ben Yungher said it all and did a fantastic job at responding to the obvious lies and propa-ganda that were spread. Student Life should be ashamed of themselves for printing an ar-ticle with so many clear factual and historical fallacies (which could easily have been re-searched to check for accuracy). This is libel and the newspaper itself is accountable and respon-sible for it.
-Dana SchwarzClass of 2008
Keep politics and
fi nances separate
Dear Editor:
While reading Bill Maas’ op-ed (Jan. 30), I couldn’t help but nod along to some of his points. I know plenty of people on cam-pus who would not be attending Wash. U. if not for some sort of fi nancial aid from the University, including myself. I also know people who pay their own cell phone bills, buy their own cloth-
ing and pay for gas and insur-ance on their cars. I am fortunate that my parents do still provide me with the funds for necessary items, though I am responsible for paying for entertainment. I do not have a credit card whose bill gets sent to Daddy, and believe me when I say that I suffer the fi nancial losses of every single parking ticket I get on this WUPD ridden campus. I know that I will probably not be fi nancially in-dependent after graduation, but hope that I do not have to turn to my parents Loewenberg-style in order to pay an electric bill that I blew on an overpriced tank top.
BUT—and this is one huge but—I had to stop dead in my tracks when Maas referred to the “bleeding-heart liberals on cam-pus who exhibit [the] qualities” of fi nancially dependent brats. He is entitled to his political beliefs, and though I disagree with his, it does not excuse dragging politics into what otherwise would have been a well-written article about the fl ip side of “True Life.” Maas should be reminded that there are members of every political party that have more money than they could ever need, and that one’s political view does not determine how much “allow-ance” their parents give them.
-Laura WilsonClass of 2007
East Coast Express
failed to fulfull its
contract
Dear Editor: I am writing to complain
about East Coast Express, a Washington University-spon-sored student-run company that does summer storage.
I graduated from Wash-ington University in May of 2003. As I did every summer in college, I stored my belong-ings with East Coast Express. My belongings consist of ap-proximately three big brown boxes and one maroon hard-cover luggage. I’ve been their customer since the summer of 2000 and I trusted them to take care of my storage items properly. I signed the contract and paid the bill in full before I left St. Louis. The agree-ment is that the items will be shipped to me after summer.
I went to China for the summer and moved to San Francisco, Calif. in November of 2003. And immediately I contacted East Coast Express both by e-mail and phone to ask them to send my stor-age items to my permanent
address in California. I was shocked when I couldn’t get a hold of anyone in the company. I called the headquarter of the company, which was in Florida, and they claimed that the East Coast Express on Wash. U. campus is no longer owned by them. Then I tried the offi ce of the East Coast Express on campus and always got the voicemail. They never called or wrote me back until the beginning of 2004, at which point I was very frustrated but was happy they fi nally called back. I don’t remember the caller’s name but he said he would send my storage items out promptly after I gave him my address.
I never received the stor-age items. And East Coast Express disappeared again. I tried my best to keep calling and e-mailing them. But with a job that requires at least 50 hours a week and preparation for the LSAT on the side, the continuous effort was very tiresome. In 2005, I fi nally called Julie Thorton at the Offi ce of Student Activities, hoping she could help me contact East Coast Express and fi nd out what happened to my stuff. Julie gave me the phone number of Brian Clary, one of the chief offi cers for East Coast Express. I of course contacted
him many times and left him numerous voicemails. Nor surprisingly, Brian never called me back. Until this day, I have not been able to talk to him on the phone. I talked to Julie again at the beginning of 2006 and she informed me that my stuff has been liquidated because East Coast Express supposedly didn’t have my current address.
I am extremely frustrated by this event. I am a customer and had paid for my storage items. I am also proactive in seeking out the company every chance I get. East Coast Express failed to fulfi ll its ob-ligation under contract. I can’t believe a University-sponsored student-run company can just dump a customer’s prop-erty so callously and without consequence. As I mentioned to Julie on the phone, most of my belongings hold senti-mental value and they are now lost forever. I don’t think it’s too much to ask if I demand appropriate compensation for this loss. Also I would like the University to take action against East Coast Express so they don’t cheat other custom-ers in the way they cheated me.
-Rui Di
Class of 2003
From a Jewish perspective, Sharon still criminalLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Correction:
In our Jan. 25 staff edito-rial, “‘Bon Appétit Asian’ fare unsatisfying,” we incorrectly stated that Bon Appétit’s Asian Concept in the Mallinckrodt Food Court does not carry crab rangoon. In fact, the Asian Concept stand has plentiful crab rangoon. Student Life regrets the error.
Senior Forum Editor / Molly Antos / [email protected] | FEBRUARY 1, 2006 STUDENT LIFE | FORUM 7
We all already know that Stu-dent Life loves to hate pretty much
everything (especially facts). Just read all the past letters to the editors for a full, extensive list. It’s time to add another group to the list: religious people.
It doesn’t mat-ter what religion, or even how religious. The only thing that mat-ters is that they believe in God. If you do, then StudLife hates you (in the unlikely fact that we didn’t before). This fact is exposed in Monday’s article, “Alternate identities abound on the Facebook.” The article starts by ex-plaining how God is on the
ever-increasingly stalker-ish Web site. Then, in the fifth paragraph, when the author is starting to fully delve into the world of fake Facebook accounts, she
drops this bombshell: “Clearly, fictional characters and states do not actually attend this fine institution.” God’s not a state (al-though I have heard that Pat Robertson is trying to petition the Alabama government to change the state’s name to Jesusland), so that must mean…
God’s a fictional character!The author, Felicia
Baskin, does specifically refer to God specifically as a “religious figure” in the paragraph before. But the “fictional character” overarching generalization
does not include anything about real things, except for states. Further, Jesus Christ also has his own ac-count, and he’s been dead for years, so it must be an alternate identity. As most religious people will tell you, both God and Jesus are indeed real. So is the implication that as far as StudLife is concerned, reli-gious figures aren’t real?
As someone who doesn’t really buy into religion, I have to say, I had never been more proud of be-ing a member of this fine newspaper. That is, until, I had my weekly revelation. Bill Clinton is also on the Facebook. I’m pretty sure Clinton doesn’t go here. He might have one at Yale or Oxford, but I’m not sure how he would go about obtaining a Wash. U. e-mail
address, needed for a Wash. U. Facebook account. That means it must be an alter-nate identity and like God, Clinton is either a fictional character or a state. God and I don’t really get along, but I like Papa Bill. Among other real people that are likely alternate identities on the Facebook at Wash. U.: former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Gen-eral George Patton, John Kerry, Chuck Norris and Chancellor Wrighton (who is mentioned in the article). I always had a feeling Chan-cellor Wrighton was a robot, but StudLife doesn’t even think that Chuck Norris is real? I think I might have to quit. (For those who got ex-cited after reading that, I’m sorry, but much like the rest of this column, that was a joke. Sorry for getting your
hopes up.)The most incredible item
learned from that article is that, according to StudLife, Wash. U. isn’t even real! Mentioned prominently in the article, there is a Face-book account for Washing-ton University. But there is nothing saying that colleges have alternate identities. This is more ambiguous, though. Wash. U. may not be a fictional character—it may very well be a state. It is pretty big, and many people do not leave the Wash. U. bubble until growing up and either getting a car or moving off campus, or as it perhaps should be known, out of state.
One thing that Student Life does not hate is irony. The article quotes Blair Mc-Namara, creator of the God account, saying that she
and her friends “don’t take Facebook that seriously.” This is immediately after an anecdote about how one of her friends decided to look through course listings to find classes that her alter-nate identity would enjoy. That seems to be taking the account pretty seriously to me. A person can “not take Facebook seriously” while being incredibly detailed and serious about a Face-book account? That seems perfectly plausible, since the account is fake, but the dichotomy is still a little odd. At least it’s pertain-ing to an actual fictional character.
Daniel is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences and a Forum editor. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
Student Life hates religion, Clinton, Wash. U.
Daniel Milstein
My observations over this winter season have led me to conclude that
the female student popula-tion of Washington Uni-versity is divided into two distinct groups: those who wear Ugg boots and those who do not.
I am of the opinion that you can tell a lot about a person by the kind of shoes they wear, especially when that person is a woman. A stereotype, popularized by Sarah Jessica Parker’s shoe-obsessed character on “Sex and the City,” is not entirely unfounded: women love shoes. I admit, I am a part of this collective fashion fetish, but I also don’t consider my-self particularly girly, as the shoe-loving female stereo-type often suggests.
I also do not wear Uggs.Over breakfast this morn-
ing, my friend told me about how sometimes when she is bored at work, she looks at the shoes of every girl who walks by and judges them for them. While this may sound upon first hearing like a terrible thing to do, further reflection leads to the fact that this is some-thing many people do, whether they realize it or not. Whether we like it or not, we judge other people by their outward appear-ances, and in my opinion a woman’s shoes tell a lot more about her than almost anything else about her ap-pearance.
The women who wear Uggs tend to be highly fash-ion-conscious. Uggs, whether truly reflecting their wear-er’s personalities, give an impression of femininity and a hint of prissiness. How did a sheepskin boot meant for keeping feet warm in extreme cold and traipsing around in the snow become
such a fashion statement?The answer: a brand name
and a $150 price tag. On shoe Web site Zappos.com, a pair of Ugg Essential Short boots cost $143.95. Right next to it is a pair of nearly identical Gabriella Rocha Koalas for $45.95. On aver-age, Ugg brand boots cost $164 and all other brands listed on Zappos.com under the “Fleece-lined boots” cat-egory cost $83, nearly half as much as Uggs.
The conclusion? Part of the appeal of Uggs is their “designer” image. Their higher price means that not everyone can buy them, which makes the wearer seem hipper and wealthier.
Uggs as a concept are not entirely a bad idea. A trendy boot that is warm as well unites two often competing forces: warmth and fashion. However, the Ugg is often abused. I have seen three major ways of wearing them: respectably and understated-ly underneath jeans or other pants, proudly displayed with jeans tucked into them, or (horrifyingly) garishly paired with the infernal miniskirt.
It is abuses such as the Ugg-and-miniskirt combo that helped to bring about the often-made pun “Uggs are ugly.” Uggs on their own are not particularly repul-sive. However, variants like boots covered with long faux fur or with puff balls dangling off of them, or mis-guided outfit construction make the average consumer such as myself lose respect for the Ugg brand. And while some people do know how to do them right, I can’t help but think whenever I see someone wearing Uggs, “Oh. She’s one of them.”
Anna is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences. She can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
It is amazing how per-fectly well the United States appears every January when president
after president delivers the uplifting, hopeful, reas-suring State of the Union address. The economy is always good and always im-proving, the country is safe and secure, everyone has a job that pays them suffi-ciently well and Americans can ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after by re-electing the party giving the address. Rather than honestly convey-ing the actual state of the union, these addresses have become propaganda devices that do little to tell Ameri-cans about the realities
facing their country. When the president does attempt to address a serious issue, the Congress drowns out the grave state of the affair with applause that makes the issue seem to already be solved, even when the government has spent little time or has no workable solutions to the problem.
In 1930, Herbert Hoover painted the Great Depres-sion as minimal and less concerning than previous depressions, noting that “our major financial and industrial institutions have come through the storm unimpaired” and that “our country is today stronger and richer in resources, in equipment, in skill, than ever in its history” as if these simple facts mitigated the country’s devastating economic condition. A few
weeks after the address the government announced that between four and five mil-lion Americans were with-out a job.
In 1943, Franklin D. Roos-evelt said that “if the secu-rity of the individual citi-zen, or the family, should become a subject of national debate, the country knows where I stand.” To achieve this security, the United States placed more than 100,000 citizens in intern-ment camps where many of them died. The State of the Union address fails to men-tion these camps but instead apologizes for extra paper-work some citizens may have to fill out as a result of America fighting a war.
In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower related to the country that “The great economic strength of our
democracy has developed in an atmosphere of free-dom. The character of our people resists artificial and arbitrary controls of any kind” and “the safety of America and the trust of the people alike demand that the personnel of the federal government be loyal in their motives and reliable in the discharge of their duties.” While Eisenhower spoke these words, Senator Joseph McCarthy stifled any type of dissent from his policies, clearly disallowing the dis-course regarding economic policy to be truly free. The address makes no mention of the internal communist scares that dominated this era.
In 2002 our president told us through his State of the Union address that our nation has “rallied a
great coalition, captured, arrested and rid the world of thousands of terrorists, destroyed Afghanistan’s terrorist training camps, saved a people from starva-tion and freed a country from brutal oppression. [Ap-plause.] The American flag flies again over our embassy in Kabul. Terrorists who once occupied Afghanistan now occupy cells at Guan-tanamo Bay. (Applause.) And terrorist leaders who urged followers to sacrifice their lives are running for their own. [Applause.]” In 2006, the United States’ coalition consists primarily of the United States, Tony Blair and Poland. The CIA recently confirmed Osama Bin Laden’s voice was the voice speaking to the world Jan. 19, warning the United States that Al Qaeda was
planning more terrorist at-tacks on the United States; people continue to starve, and nobody claps when they hear the words Guantanamo Bay.
The State of the Union does little to discuss in realistic light the policies and problems that exist within our borders. Instead, the political party in power uses the free media time to give the nation a great story about its political achieve-ments and provide people with the unrealistic percep-tion that the government re-ally knows how to solve all the nation’s problems. Take last night’s address without any salt.
Jill is a freshman in Arts & Sciences. She can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
By Anna DinndorfStaff Columnist
By Jill StromingerStaff Columnist
State of the Union: never the whole truth
‘Uggs are ugly!’ Yeah, I said it
Subsumed by more recent geopolitical news—elec-tions in Bolivia, Canada and Palestine, crisis in
Georgia, and Bush’s State of the Union—is a trend, a collection of slightly disparate events, which are much more subtle, momen-tous and dangerous for the U.S. As America concerns itself with more noticeable happenings, it has been ignoring the most pertinent of all: the increasing danger its hedonistic energy policy poses to its national inter-ests. At the same time, by help-ing maintain infl ated energy prices, whether consciously or not, America indirectly supports some of its greatest enemies.
I am referring to the new energy system, where the price of a barrel of oil ($69) has tripled in three years and the price of natural gas has doubled in the last year. As a result, it has become prohibitively expensive to buy a gallon of gas or, more pertinent to students, heat a university. Everyone feels the effects: airlines, soccer moms, anyone who drives and students who have to pay more for tuition to keep the school warm. As most of America’s energy supply is imported, the higher price of energy represents an enormous wealth transfer abroad. And it is who this wealth is going to, countries like Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, that should worry Washington.
Here is how Washington should see it: each barrel of oil bought from Saudi Arabia is only postponing the moment when that country must con-front its structural imbalances or risk collapse; each dollar sent to Iran could be another dollar spent on a nuclear program seen as threatening; each shipment of natural gas from Russia is more power for Putin to shut down civil society; and each barrel of oil sold by Venezuela is more capital for Hugo Chavez
to win infl uence and spread anti-Americanism. The longer Americans support higher energy prices, the greater, and more problematic, these prob-lems become.
When oil runs out, Saudi Ara-bia will have no economy, and it is almost axiomatic that pov-erty breeds terrorism. In three years, Iran could have nuclear weapons. In fi ve years, Russia might have no democracy. In 10 years, Chavez may be the new Castro. As long as energy prices remain unprecedently high, these trends will continue, and America will continue to, inadvertently, support regimes counter-productive to its own interest.
For an administration devot-ed to spreading democracy and freedom, this policy represents a suppression of those ideals. No energy producing country of any magnitude—save Norway, Qatar and Canada—is a friend of America’s. (Russia is the excep-tion, though that relationship is built more on Bush-Putin than strategic interests.) Moreover,
the massive infusion of wealth through energy into these coun-tries (over half of the govern-ment of Venezuela’s revenue is from energy exports) allows the pernicious continuation of governments which should not be viable. Though Hugo Chavez enjoys support from a large swath of the population, his government is built on a 25 percent election turnout and dirty election tactics. The same is true for Iran and Russia, and Saudi Arabia does not hold national elections; the House of Saud maintains power through a variety of opaque methods.
Obviously it would be insane to instantaneously reduce Amer-ica’s energy demands by not driving, never turning on the lights and not warming one’s living quarters. But there are certain things that we, as world citizens and Washington Univer-sity students, can do. Starting in the dorm, one should not leave lights on when not in the room, leave a computer running unattended for long stretches of time, or have the window open
in the middle of winter. On cam-pus, one can recycle (especially plastic) as much as much pos-sible, pressure the administra-tion to turn off the library lights after closing time, demand that all new buildings be as energy effi cient as Earth & Planetary Sciences, or, most important, insist that the administration modernize its heating facilities, which are woefully ineffi cient.
The new energy system per-vades every facet of Americans’ lifestyle and directly or indirect-ly infl uences much of the news. It requires a lifestyle change at all levels; this, however, does not mean a decrease in lifestyle quality. It is in everyone’s long term interest, Washington’s and Washington University’s, to wean ourselves from this system. Steve Forbes likes to say, “With all thy getting, get understanding.” I say, with all thy getting, get independent.
Zachary is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
By Zachary Steinert-ThrelkeldStaff Columnist
Energy independence
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Senior Cadenza Editor / Laura Vilines / [email protected] WEDNESDAY | FEBRUARY 1, 20068 STUDENT LIFE | CADENZA
“This is a true story,” the narrator of the Performing Arts Department’s latest production “Ipi Zombi?” reminds us again and again. A South African play written by a white man (Brett Bailey) about a black community and for a Western audience, “Ipi Zombi?” (translated as “Where are the zombies?”) announces itself as so different as to be incredible. Indeed, there are few plays like it. The drama runs only an hour long, spas-tically transforming itself from drama to musical, dance theatre to game show. The result is a suffi ciently diffi cult performance, one more befud-dling than challenging.
The basic plot is simple enough. A bus full of school children crashes, and when one of the injured boys mentions the possibility of a superstitious cause, the town’s reactionary students begin a witch hunt. This kind of theatrical social hysteria
has its precursor, of course. The great Western witch hunt play, Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” has already been written. Quite aware of this development, Bailey and the production’s director, Push-kar Sharma, want to give us something new, different and altogether “non-Western.”
Unfortunately, the play fails exactly where it intends to succeed. While the “The Crucible” is a sustained effort, slowly building up tension and meaning, “Ipi Zombi?” takes a rather per-verse pride in its informality. Literally and fi guratively, the play jumps around all too much. Instead of maintaining the intensity of its dramatic moments—and there are more than several—Bailey’s play and Sharma’s direction take us through one exceedingly unexpected turn after an-other. Right when we become drawn into the immense severity of the plot, the tone shifts. The palpable terror of the student gang quickly morphs into a game show. Suddenly, a feminized devil
appears onstage, seductively playing games with the audi-ence. Soon thereafter, the actors are doing a show tune. The pace is too fast and the tone too uneven; the audience, meanwhile, is left out to dry.
While the idea may be to force a passive audience into activity by throwing them curveballs and upsetting their sense of rhythm and dramatic development, in practice we get something quite different. More confused than uncom-fortable, more exhausted than tense, viewers of “Ipi Zombi?” will feel little different about the play’s themes after the play than they did before it.
That the play never truly takes off is a shame, if only because there are many out-standing moments, the effects of Sharma’s often compelling production.
Several actors, in par-ticular, stand out. Chauncy Thomas proves to be the production’s most valuable performer, taking on mul-tiple roles, multiple genders and multiple costumes in a truly fi ne display of artistic
versatility.Shewan E. Howard, a 2001
graduate, is perhaps the big-gest surprise. As the leader of the student gang, his onstage ferocity—aided by a body that has surely spent some time in a weight room—is unmatched by anything to come through the PAD in years.
Monica O’Malley is equally impressive in the sheer force of her performance. As one of the victims accused of witchcraft, her dying scene is of high cinematic quality.
Finally, Cory Coleman deserves credit as the play’s narrator. Her commentary, especially in the play’s closing minutes, gives the perfor-mance’s jaggedness some direction and shape.
As for Sharma, the direc-tor’s effort should not go unmentioned. Faced with limited resources—one can only imagine a production in which the African dance and song were delivered by actors seriously trained in African dance and song—and an exceptionally diffi cult script, he still manages to
deliver a production that at least follows through on its promise to be different from the traditional sort of theatre. The direction falls short only because the director’s ambi-tion in choosing the play was perhaps too great. Hopefully, the next play that this tal-ented director—still only an undergraduate—chooses will be a bit more digestible.
By Robbie GrossTheatre Editor
This Saturday, Feb. 4, The Pageant hosts moe., a band thriving on its combi-nation of unpredictability and familiarity. The group formed in 1991 and has been widely known in the jam-band scene for years. The breakup of Phish placed an even brighter spotlight on moe. and increased it devoted following of “moe. rons.”
The band’s fi ve mem-bers, Rob Derhak (bass and vocals), Al Schnier (guitar, vocals, keyboard), Chuck Garvey (guitar), Vinnie Amico (drums) and Jim Loughlin (percussion), truly utilize their range of instru-mental talent. The upbeat, islandlike sound heard in songs such as “Buster” and the conversely harder rock developed in “Meat” verify that moe. effectively incor-porates a variety of styles in their jams, which last from fi ve to 45 minutes.
When it comes to lyrics, however, moe.’s choruses tend to be recognizable and catchy. But this seemingly pop quality only adds to the positive atmosphere as fans consistently sing along. Chances are that even strangers to moe. can learn their effective lyrics within the time allotted for a song, allowing for varying levels of moe.-showgoers to add to the enthusiastic nature of Saturday’s crowd.
Listeners’ impulsive dance style, which involves loosely moving to the music however one pleases, further adds to the total energy of the mass. A moe. concert is a place of release, a place to alleviate tension that may have resurfaced with the onset of school.
The beauty of the jam band is the overall envi-ronment of spontaneity, a description applicable to its stage presence as well. From chugging beers in the middle of a song to includ-ing a drum solo by a young boy titled “mayor of moe.ville,” moe. has been known to induce a good time both onstage and off, always playing a unique show.
For more information about moe., visit their Web site at www.moe.org and check out the “wmoe radio” feature that allows visitors to listen to a selected group of songs for free.
THEATRE REVIEW CONCERT PREVIEW
moe.
moe.Sat., Feb. 4, 8 p.m.at The Pageant:tickets available at the box offi ce
By Andrea FineCadenza Reporter
Long ago in 1471, the War of the Roses fl ared in Britain, and the Battle of Tewkesbury ended the fi rst phase of this bloody struggle. On this noteworthy day, Edward IV and his compatriots defeated an entire Lancastrian Army and killed Edward, Prince of Wales. By co-incidence, more historical confl ict occurred on this date, as even longer ago, another war in a galaxy far, far away concluded its hostilities in its Endor theatre. May the fourth be with you.
On this date:May 4, 1471
-David Freeman, Cadenza Reporter
The Lancastrian Army is defeated
FRESHMAN FIFTEEN
JASON ANDERSON
“Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones” continues the story of the impetuous, time-con-trolling prince. Previously, in “The Warrior Within,” he traveled the Island of Time, where he defeated the formi-dable Dahaka, an incarnation of Fate resulting from his temporal exploits in “The Sands of Time,” the fi rst game of this series.
As the prince returns to his hometown of Babylon at the outset of “The Two Thrones,” he fi nds that his actions have brought dev-astation there that he must remedy. How surprising.
The noteworthy and eponymous aspect of the game is the two versions of the prince: normal and dark. The cocksure prince from “Sands of Time” is back with his pithy one-liners that made him the heartthrob of gam-ers back in 2003, and that personality is contrasted with the Dark Prince, a malevolent sand monster whose thirst for carnage is reminiscent of the merciless prince of “Warrior
Within.” Combat with either prince is fl uid and stylish, involving many dial-a-combos that will make short work of the various enemies. The chainlike daggertail weapon of the Dark Prince can be utilized for vicious attacks and even as a rappelling implement in the platform-jumper parts of the game. A novelty for this iteration of the “Prince of Persia” series is speed kills. If you manage to sneak up on an enemy unde-tected, an interactive cutscene will result, during which (if you time the hits correctly) the prince will quickly slay the enemy in sleek ninja fashion.
When he is not fi ghting myriad sand monsters, that wacky prince is always jump-ing around on the ruined fa-çades of Persia. The platform-jumper aspects are all intact from the previous games, including sword/curtain slides, wall jump after wall jump and the prince’s signa-ture wall run. The developers of “Two Thrones” did their job well when designing the unique and sometimes dif-fi cult settings for the prince to frolic through. Gamers will
be frustrated, though, when at times an unexpected cam-era shift will send the prince leaping into a vast nothing-ness. Fortunately, the rewind-time power has returned to correct all of your errors of judgment.
Story? There’s a story? Strap on your jumpin’ boots and slashin’ gloves, be-cause that is what “The Two Thrones” is all about. There isn’t much new stuff in the game, but if you are a fan of this series, you won’t mind this well-polished retread.
Grade: ★★★★✩Worth it for: often hilari-ous, melodramatic argu-ments between the prince and Dark Prince; speed killsThe main drawback: You get the idea of the whole game quickly.Should be played by: “Prince of Persia” fans, time-control enthusiastsFinal word: A standard entry in the “PoP” series with enough innovation to be fun.
By Adam SummervilleMovie Editor
‘Prince of Persia’VIDEO GAME REVIEW
Despite their complete lack of respect for the standard laws of English punc-tuation, Portugal. The Man’s fi rst release is interesting and shows a lot of promise. The band is comprised of former mem-bers of Anatomy of a Ghost and sounds something like a cross between current prog stars The Mars Volta and Thursday, ever popular amongst the emo crowd. Lyrics that make no sense, interesting instrumentation, falsetto combined with relatively standard song structure, guitars that are comprehensible by stan-dard humans and a slightly whiny emo tinge defi ne Portugal. The Man.
The songs are pretty good for the most part, starting off strong with “How The Leopard Got Its Spots” and “Gold Fronts.” Both combine indie-esque rock with some electronic fl air and the odd hip-hop beat, making for some very interesting songs. The trouble is that all the songs are essentially the exact same
thing, despite being unlike most other muscians’ work. This general problem plagues most of the songs on the album, save “Waiter” and “Kill Me. The King.” “Waiter” is kept at a whisper for most of the song, and the tension builds in a crescendo to the very end. While such dynamics are common in many realms of music, they are often forgotten in rock music. On the other hand, “Kill Me. The King” is the rockingest song on the al-bum, with catchy guitar riffs and driving drums and a caterwauling reminiscent of Hot Hot Heat. There are a couple songs that try to be too quirky and experimen-tal and just wind up failing entirely, and while they are few and far between, they entirely ruin the fl ow of the album.
For people looking for a fi x of indie rock to tide them over until the upcom-ing Flaming Lips album, there are worse places to look than “Waiter: You Vul-tures!” It is a bit more ambitious than the band is able to handle, but there are some interesting songs to be found, and with time the band could defi nitely become something very worthwhile.
Tony Hussle, while generally un-known to the public, has been hailed by some in the music industry as a musical genius. On the fi rst track of his fi rst EP, his mother provides us with this information on a track where she describes how her son started playing piano in the church choir at the age of three.
Self-promotion aside, Hussle, born Anthony Pearver, delivers a solid set of six songs, mixing the soul vibes of Al Green with a raw sexuality and instrumentation in debt to Prince. And like the Purple One, he has no problem putting his lyrics out on the line—especially in the fi rst song, “Come Again,” in which he tells his bedmate to come back for another round: “After your body shakes/we’re gonna take a break.” With his tongue sliding back and forth from cheek to cheek, Tony Hussle gives us
a smooth, sexy slow jam with enough wit to keep us interested.
The rest of the EP plays out like an ode to the greats of R&B and soul, but with such a stagnant feel in the genre these days, it almost feels dar-ing. Unfortunately, Hussle keeps ev-erything at a slow boil when the heat desperately needs to be turned up.
All of his songs are slow and sensual, and while his lyrical topics range from women dictating the pace of a relationship in “Wait” and “She’s a Virgin Too” to building a better relationship in “In this House,” he never strays from sex as his main theme. This is nothing we haven’t heard before, but Tony Hussle is a talented individual, serving as performer, songwriter and producer, and he defi antly deserves a listen. He describes his perfect woman as be-ing “thicker than a pot of cold grits,” and sometimes his album resembles just that. Heat them up and throw on some salt, and I’ll be back for seconds.
Portugal. The Man“Waiter: You Vultures!”
Grade: ★★★✬✩
Songs to Download: “How The Leopard Got Its Spots,” “Gold Fronts,” “Waiter,” “Kill Me. The King”
For fans of: Anatomy of a Ghost, The Mars Volta, The Flaming Lips
Tony Hussle“Sexy Freaky Electric”
Grade: ★★★★✩
Songs to Download: “Come Again,” “In This House”
For fans of: D’Angelo, Prince
Bottom line: Shows a lot of promise—look-ing forward to more from him.
By Adam SummervilleMovie Editor
By Brian StittCadenza Reporter
ALBUM REVIEWS
Tony Hussle: ‘Sexy Freaky Electric’
Portugal. The Man: ‘Waiter: You Vultures!’
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I-Tunes: Music from the international arena
CADEN CCADENADEN entertainment
n. a technically brilliant, sometimes improvised solo passage toward the close of a concerto,
an exceptionally brilliant part of an artistic work
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Music exists outside of indie rock and jam bands. Here at Cadenza, however, we often forget
that, due to our overwhelming personal preference for the former. So in this new year, we have
resolved to put our predilections to the side and to explore other musical stylings. We begin by
leaving not only our personal preferences behind, but also the entire U. S. of A. What’s happening
in the wide and diverse world music arena? We’re here to fi nd out. We begin with the music of our
almost-American “we don’t have to pay taxes” neighbors to the south and their punked-out friends
in the East. We give you the reggaeton style of music and the music of the Asian Music Association.
Part 1 of a series
By Pat KennedyCadenza Reporter
If you haven’t heard of Reggaeton al-ready, you are sure to in the near future. With hits like “Gasolina” having success in the States as well as internationally, this Latin hip-hop meld that originated over 10 years ago is now gaining an international audience. We turn to the resident expert on Reggaeton, Wash. U. student Daniel Pagan, to get some answers.
Cadenza: So where exactly does Reggaeton originate?
Pagan: It all started in Puerto Rico around ‘94. Back then it was called “under-ground,” and you could only fi nd a few CDs here or there. The tapes you could get had more basic sampling and beats on them, just rough cuts without the studio polish and more complexity of the songs put out today.
Cadenza: How exactly would you describe the music’s style and sound?
Pagan: It’s a combination of many infl u-ences. Mainly, it could be considered rap or hip hop, but there are strong infl uences of dancehall reggae, salsa and merengue
music. You’ll hear horn samples as well as conga drums on top of the strong bass of a hip hop beat. Also, about 95 percent of reg-gaeton is rapped in Spanish, although some English is starting to creep into the songs in recent years as it has gained popularity.
Cadenza: Who are some of the style’s big-gest, most well-known artists?
Pagan: Probably the biggest names, or the fathers of reggaeton, are Daddy Yankee, Tego Calderón, and Don Omar. Daddy Yan-kee just signed with Interscope Records in August, and Calderón signed with Atlantic in June. These guys all performed together at the MTV Music Awards this year, and Daddy Yankee just had a huge hit with “Gasolina” on his album Barrio Fino. Also, the producers Luny Tunes have played a major role in creating the beats for all these guys and other artists.
Cadenza: Where can you find this music?Pagan: You can fi nd the major albums at
most record stores and they have a show on MTV2 now called “Rhythm and Reggaeton.” Also, reggaeton is starting to infl uence oth-er popular artists like R. Kelly and Shakira, who did a reggaeton remix of her hit song “La Tortura.” It’s easy to fi nd today.
Reggaeton
The AMABy Jordan DeamMusic Editor
The Asian Music Association is prob-ably the best place on campus to fi nd the latest Eastern music. With a KWUR radio show in the works, karaoke nights, and an annual contest, the AMA is looking to bring all types of Eastern music to the forefront of the Wash. U. music scene. Below is an interview with Nelson Hui, last year’s AMA president and current “honorary member.”
Hui: So obviously, because the culture is different, the music is going to be dif-ferent, too. I feel like, at least within the Chinese music scene, a lot of it seems pretty homogenous: there’s not much of an indie scene going on. It’s all very mainstream. But, even so, it still sounds different than American music. I guess it’s mainly ballads and dance tracks in the Chinese music scene. I don’t know much about Korean, because I don’t listen to it, but Japanese music has more variety. It’s not as homogenous as Chi-nese music, I feel, and, even compared to American music; it’s different that way. But I guess I’m kind of into the indie scene in Japan, because I guess they’re not really motivated by monetary con-cerns, they’re just out there to produce whatever music they want to do, so...
Cadenza: Do you listen to any popular music from Japan?
Hui: I do, yeah. I guess my taste is pretty eclectic…as long as it sounds good. It’s not like, “It’s mainstream, so it sucks.” I think a lot of mainstream music in Japan is really good. I guess in any kind of music there’s obviously going to be shitty artists that release shitty music and then complain about how people don’t buy there albums…but one of the main differences between mainstream music here and in Japan is, in Japan, a
lot of the artists compose and write the lyrics themselves…well, they do everything themselves. Like, there’s Utada Hikaru… she actually debuted an album in the U.S. just last year in September, and so she arranges, composes, and writes lyrics to all of her songs, so she basically does everything, and she’s involved in producing the album.
Cadenza: But she’s still consid-ered a pop star?
Hui: She is a pop star, most defi nitely. She’s probably one of the most popular ones there. It doesn’t sound really unique by Japanese standards, but when you compare it to music here, it’s still very different. In Japan, I feel like the most popular artists either write their own lyrics, compose their own music, or both. Of course…there’s this group called Morning Musume…it’s like a bunch of little girls jumping around, and a few of them sing, and the rest just kind of fl op around on stage. They get pretty good sales for whatever reason, but if you listen to it, it’s complete garbage. But I feel like there’s going to be artists like that in any country, where, for whatever reason, they just happen to luck out. Usually, in general, most of the artists in Japan really need to have talent in order to succeed.
Cadenza: Is there anything that re-ally separates Chinese pop music from Japanese pop music, or are they pretty similar?
Hui: They’re not similar at all. I feel like Chinese artists likewise do not compose their music most of the time, and they just rely on other composers, and…at least in the Hong Kong scene, the entertainment industry is based on looks
more than anything else. It almost seems like a disrespect to music, I feel, at least in the Hong Kong scene. If you try to listen to any Cantonese music, I think it’s quite apparent that a lot of it is garbage. They all sound so similar that it’s like anyone could have composed it.
Cadenza: Can you talk about the AMA a little bit...like, is there any common ground in tastes that people share that kind of brings them together, or…how do you participate in the AMA? I know you’re the “honorary member” but…
Hui: I guess the music at this point is mainly Chinese music because the AMA fi rst started off as the CMA, Chi-nese Music Association. When I became president, I wanted to expand it to incorporate more variety, so at this point it’s mainly Chinese music, and even so, people who are going to come to the
karaoke nights to sing anything…I guess they appreciate mainstream music more, you know? It is mainstream, so a lot of the population tends to appreciate that more than anything that sounds a bit more novel.
Cadenza: So it might be less about the music than it is just coming together with your friends?
Hui: I don’t think I would say that…a lot of people go there to sing with their friends. And last year, we actually had a singing contest that we hosted in May Auditorium. But I think the radio show is where we can actually broadcast a more diverse collection of music, but we’re kind of on break now. But hopefully the radio show will be up again [this] se-mester. That’s where we broadcast more variety of music to expose the Wash. U. community to.
