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THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS SINCE 1878 VOLUME 129, NO. 7 WWW.STUDLIFE.COM MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2007 STAFF EDITORIAL| STOP NICKEL-AND-DIMING US!| SEE FORUM, PAGE 5 S TUDENT L IFE NEWSROOM PHONE 314-935-5995 ON THE WEB www.studlife.com E-MAIL US [email protected]ADVERTISING PHONE 314-935-6713 INSIDE: Scene .................... 4 Forum .................... 5 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sudoku . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Courts shots We’ve got the blues If you missed these weekend Volleyball games, you can still catch a glimpse of the action, brought to you by our courtside photographers. Sports, page 8 If you’ve got a hankering for blues tunes and foods, Scene can chase away those blues with a look at St. Louis’ music specialty. Scene, page 4 Blood drive to unite campus on Sept. 11 “One day, 12 locations, countless lives saved,” boast fli- ers posted throughout campus urging students everywhere to donate their time and their blood in the campus-wide drive on Tuesday. Students and faculty alike can give blood at any of the 12 sites, including selected academic buildings on main campus, residential areas such as the Village House and Wohl Center and locations on North and West Campus. This blood drive differs from previous efforts due to its solidarity. In the past few years, roughly six drives, under the control of different students groups, took place on campus, yielding between 600 and 800 units of blood annually. This year’s drive, run almost exclu- sively through the Community Service Office, has already reg- istered over 600 donors online and estimates one thousand pints of blood donated next week. “It’s a unique partnership,” said Stephanie Kurtzman, direc- tor of the Community Service Office. “Historically, [the blood drives] have been very competi- tive...even the fact that we have shared marketing is huge.” The drive is sponsored by both the American Red Cross and the Mississippi River Valley Regional Blood Center. According to Kurtzman, almost all the blood donated Tuesday will be used in local hospitals in and around the St. Louis metropolitan area. How- ever, she also acknowledged that the blood will go wherever the need is greatest. “If there is a crisis some- where else, [the blood will go there],” she said. For a blood drive held on Sept. 11, the sixth anniversary of one of the worst disasters on American soil, the symbolic meaning of donating blood is undeniable. Julie Meyer, a ju- nior who works in the Commu- nity Service office, explains that the date chosen is “slightly stra- tegic” and slightly convenient. Meyer explained that the drive is earlier enough in the year to ensure more opportunities to give later in the year. Drives must be spaced at least 56 days apart, the amount of time a donor must wait to be eligible to donate again. Future blood drives have al- ready been planned for Nov. 6, Jan. 29, and April 1 of the 2007- 2008 academic year, and look to provide many more units of blood to the St. Louis commu- nity than in previous years. A smaller drive will also be held on October 2 for those who are deemed temporarily ineli- gible to donate due to sickness or low iron count. “We don’t want anyone to be disheartened by being turned away,” said Meyer. To inform students about the drive, scores of fliers have Drive offers furnishing and community Last Saturday, new inter- national graduate students gathered in the Millbrook ga- rage to seek shelter from the rain and search for free fur- niture at the second Annual Furniture Giveaway. The In- tervarsity Christian Fellow- ship and the International Friends, a subset of the Asian Christian Fellowship, hosted the event. “We just wanted to bless [the International Students], because we know how hard it is to get furniture when you go to a new place,” said Janet Atkin, a Washington University graduate of the class of 2004, who started the International Friends or- ganization in 2002 and who spearheaded the first Annual Giveaway last year. The Millbrook garage was stocked with over 50 pieces of furniture including sofas, beds, dressers, tables, chairs and other household items that were all donated by St. Louis families. Nearly all of the furniture was given away, with the ex- ception of a few small items. Every item that was given away was delivered to the residence of each interna- tional student. “All the students help to deliver it to each oth- ers’ homes; some of the new students rode around and brought furniture to each other,” said Atkin. “It was a great community event be- cause people worked together and helped each other out.” A barbecue and an infor- mation session on interna- tional activities followed the Giveaway. According to Atkin, the event was a definite success with a turnout of roughly 85 to 100 people. “The amazing part was to see how the older students helped the new students, and new students helped each Facebook opens search listings to public; student reactions mixed The recent decision by Facebook to make user search listings available for public viewing has caused mixed reactions among students, despite the implementation of special privacy features. The online social network- ing giant, based in Palo Alto, Calif., recently added the feature allowing any person with an Internet connection, including people without Facebook accounts, to view users’ profile search list- ings in search engines and in Facebook’s search feature. A user’s profile search listing contains the user’s full name, profile photo and links enabling searchers to send the user a message or to add the user as a friend. According to a Facebook spokesperson, the motive behind the change was to en- able more people to connect with friends. “We wanted to give people who had never come to the site before, or who are not currently registered, the opportunity to find their friends and connect,” she said. “Since anyone can join the site and perform a search, we felt that allowing this lim- ited set of information to be available outside of Facebook would enable more people to connect.” A spokesperson stated that Facebook has implemented privacy settings to give users the option of restricting who can see their search listing. Users can choose to hide their listing from non-friends and they can also choose to have their listings not in- dexed for viewing in search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. “We always encourage people to control their priva- cy on Facebook through the granular settings provided on the site,” said the spokes- person. Most students disapproved of Facebook’s new feature, but they felt more comfort- able about it with the inclu- sion of the privacy settings. “It bothers me, but they set the privacy settings so that you don’t have to have [your search listing visible]… so that’s okay,” said junior Erica Woodruff. “They’re free to do what they want, as long as they give me the option of block- ing my information from be- ing searched publicly,” said junior Doug Horn, a Spanish and history double major. “So I’m not upset over it. I’m just glad they alerted every- one about it.” Geosciences Node software improves planetary data search A new program recently developed by the Geosciences Node at Washington Universi- ty’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) has made searching for images of Mars much more painless. Programmers with the Geo- sciences Node, which is one of several nodes of NASA’s Plan- etary Data System (PDS), cre- ated the program, known as the Mars Orbital Data Explorer (ODE), to allow scientists to use special search filters to pore over terabytes of Martian im- ages stored at the Geosciences Node. The program, according to Susan Slavney, systems pro- grammer/analyst with the Geo- sciences Node, allows users to narrow down their search by providing parameters like a time range, a series of orbital numbers and location on the planet. Another important part of the program, said Slavney, is the preview feature, which al- lows users to preview the imag- es they are interested in view- ing before downloading them. With terabytes of data to sort through, the ODE’s ability to narrow down a user’s search focus represents, according to Slavney, a major innovation in planetary data searching and a shift in the Geoscience Node’s focus from simply saving data to making it easier to find. “That’s a huge step forward,” said Slavney. “It sounds very simple, but it’s not been easy to do.” Keith Bennett, deputy man- ager for operations at the Geo- sciences Node, and Dan Scho- les, software engineer and applications programmer, put the program together in Visual BASIC and released it in early June. They were unavailable for comment. The ODE supports Martian images from several current and past NASA missions, in- cluding from those instru- ments associated with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and the Mars Express spacecraft. Additionally, future plans call for the addition of images from the Mars Odyssey 2001 spacecraft. A new set of data from Com- pact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), an imaging instrument on MRO that has been looking for signs of water on Mars since last No- vember, was added to the ODE on Sept. 7. Data from CRISM will eventually total over 400 gigabytes, which is more data than all previous Mars mis- sions combined. With several future lunar missions in the works through- out the world, Slavney also hinted at the possibility of ex- panding the ODE to include lunar images from those mis- sions. Slavney warned that ODE was designed for use primar- ily by scientists and that novice users may encounter difficul- ties using it. “You might be disappointed if you’re looking for pretty pic- tures,” said Slavney. “You really do have to sort of know what you’re doing, what you’re look- ing for.” NASA’s PDS has a similar Web application for novice us- ers, known as the Planetary Imaging Atlas (PIA), which is hosted at NASA’s Imaging Node at the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the U.S. Geolog- ical Survey in Flagstaff, Ariz. The PIA is located at http://pd- simg.jpl.nasa.gov. The ODE can be accessed at the Geoscience Node’s Web site, which is located at http://ode. rsl.wustl.edu/mars. New international students hunt through furniture at Saturday’s furniture drive hosted by Intervarsity International Friends. The furniture, donated by area families, was raffled off to those international students in attendance. This year’s drive, much larger than last year’s, was the second annual furniture drive put on by the organization. DAVID HARTSTEIN | STUDENT LIFE BY ANDREA WINTER NEWS EDITOR See FURNITURE, page 3 See BLOOD DRIVE, page 3 BY NICK HAWCO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER BY PUNEET KOLLIPARA SENIOR STAFF REPORTER See FACEBOOK, page 3 BY PUNEET KOLLIPARA SENIOR STAFF REPORTER
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THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS SINCE 1878VOLUME 129, NO. 7 WWW.STUDLIFE.COMMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2007
STAFF EDITORIAL| STOP NICKEL-AND-DIMING US!| SEE FORUM, PAGE 5
S c e n e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
F o r u m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Sudoku . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Courts shots We’ve got the blues
If you missed these weekend Volleyball games, you can still catch a glimpse of the action, brought to you by our courtside photographers. Sports, page 8
If you’ve got a hankering for blues tunes and foods, Scene can chase away those blues with a look at St. Louis’ music specialty. Scene, page 4
Blood drive to unite campus on Sept. 11
“One day, 12 locations, countless lives saved,” boast fl i-ers posted throughout campus urging students everywhere to donate their time and their blood in the campus-wide drive on Tuesday.
Students and faculty alike can give blood at any of the 12 sites, including selected academic buildings on main campus, residential areas such as the Village House and Wohl Center and locations on North and West Campus.
This blood drive differs from previous efforts due to its solidarity. In the past few years, roughly six drives, under the control of different students groups, took place on campus, yielding between 600 and 800 units of blood annually. This year’s drive, run almost exclu-sively through the Community Service Offi ce, has already reg-istered over 600 donors online and estimates one thousand pints of blood donated next week.
“It’s a unique partnership,” said Stephanie Kurtzman, direc-tor of the Community Service Offi ce. “Historically, [the blood drives] have been very competi-tive...even the fact that we have shared marketing is huge.”
The drive is sponsored by both the American Red Cross and the Mississippi River Valley Regional Blood Center.
According to Kurtzman, almost all the blood donated
Tuesday will be used in local hospitals in and around the St. Louis metropolitan area. How-ever, she also acknowledged that the blood will go wherever the need is greatest.
“If there is a crisis some-where else, [the blood will go there],” she said.
For a blood drive held on Sept. 11, the sixth anniversary of one of the worst disasters on American soil, the symbolic meaning of donating blood is undeniable. Julie Meyer, a ju-nior who works in the Commu-nity Service offi ce, explains that the date chosen is “slightly stra-tegic” and slightly convenient. Meyer explained that the drive is earlier enough in the year to ensure more opportunities to give later in the year.
Drives must be spaced at least 56 days apart, the amount of time a donor must wait to be eligible to donate again.
Future blood drives have al-ready been planned for Nov. 6, Jan. 29, and April 1 of the 2007-2008 academic year, and look to provide many more units of blood to the St. Louis commu-nity than in previous years.
A smaller drive will also be held on October 2 for those who are deemed temporarily ineli-gible to donate due to sickness or low iron count.
“We don’t want anyone to be disheartened by being turned away,” said Meyer.
To inform students about the drive, scores of fl iers have
Drive offers furnishing and community
Last Saturday, new inter-national graduate students gathered in the Millbrook ga-rage to seek shelter from the rain and search for free fur-niture at the second Annual Furniture Giveaway. The In-tervarsity Christian Fellow-ship and the International Friends, a subset of the Asian Christian Fellowship, hosted the event.
“We just wanted to bless
[the International Students], because we know how hard it is to get furniture when you go to a new place,” said Janet Atkin, a Washington University graduate of the class of 2004, who started the International Friends or-ganization in 2002 and who spearheaded the first Annual Giveaway last year.
The Millbrook garage was stocked with over 50 pieces of furniture including sofas, beds, dressers, tables, chairs and other household items
that were all donated by St. Louis families.
Nearly all of the furniture was given away, with the ex-ception of a few small items. Every item that was given away was delivered to the residence of each interna-tional student.
“All the students help to deliver it to each oth-ers’ homes; some of the new students rode around and brought furniture to each other,” said Atkin. “It was a great community event be-
cause people worked together and helped each other out.”
A barbecue and an infor-mation session on interna-tional activities followed the Giveaway.
According to Atkin, the event was a definite success with a turnout of roughly 85 to 100 people.
“The amazing part was to see how the older students helped the new students, and new students helped each
Facebook opens search listings to public; student reactions mixed
The recent decision by Facebook to make user search listings available for public viewing has caused mixed reactions among students, despite the implementation of special privacy features.
The online social network-ing giant, based in Palo Alto, Calif., recently added the feature allowing any person
with an Internet connection, including people without Facebook accounts, to view users’ profile search list-ings in search engines and in Facebook’s search feature.
A user’s profile search listing contains the user’s full name, profile photo and links enabling searchers to send the user a message or to add the user as a friend.
According to a Facebook spokesperson, the motive
behind the change was to en-able more people to connect with friends.
“We wanted to give people who had never come to the site before, or who are not currently registered, the opportunity to find their friends and connect,” she said. “Since anyone can join the site and perform a search, we felt that allowing this lim-ited set of information to be available outside of Facebook
would enable more people to connect.”
A spokesperson stated that Facebook has implemented privacy settings to give users the option of restricting who can see their search listing.
Users can choose to hide their listing from non-friends and they can also choose to have their listings not in-dexed for viewing in search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
“We always encourage people to control their priva-cy on Facebook through the granular settings provided on the site,” said the spokes-person.
Most students disapproved of Facebook’s new feature, but they felt more comfort-able about it with the inclu-sion of the privacy settings.
“It bothers me, but they set the privacy settings so that you don’t have to have
[your search listing visible]…so that’s okay,” said junior Erica Woodruff.
“They’re free to do what they want, as long as they give me the option of block-ing my information from be-ing searched publicly,” said junior Doug Horn, a Spanish and history double major. “So I’m not upset over it. I’m just glad they alerted every-one about it.”
Geosciences Node software improves planetary data search
A new program recently developed by the Geosciences Node at Washington Universi-ty’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) has made searching for images of Mars much more painless.
Programmers with the Geo-sciences Node, which is one of several nodes of NASA’s Plan-etary Data System (PDS), cre-ated the program, known as the Mars Orbital Data Explorer (ODE), to allow scientists to use special search fi lters to pore over terabytes of Martian im-
ages stored at the Geosciences Node.
The program, according to Susan Slavney, systems pro-grammer/analyst with the Geo-sciences Node, allows users to narrow down their search by providing parameters like a time range, a series of orbital numbers and location on the planet.
Another important part of the program, said Slavney, is the preview feature, which al-lows users to preview the imag-es they are interested in view-ing before downloading them.
With terabytes of data to sort through, the ODE’s ability
to narrow down a user’s search focus represents, according to Slavney, a major innovation in planetary data searching and a shift in the Geoscience Node’s focus from simply saving data to making it easier to fi nd.
“That’s a huge step forward,” said Slavney. “It sounds very simple, but it’s not been easy to do.”
Keith Bennett, deputy man-ager for operations at the Geo-sciences Node, and Dan Scho-les, software engineer and applications programmer, put the program together in Visual BASIC and released it in early June. They were unavailable for
comment.The ODE supports Martian
images from several current and past NASA missions, in-cluding from those instru-ments associated with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and the Mars Express spacecraft. Additionally, future plans call for the addition of images from the Mars Odyssey 2001 spacecraft.
A new set of data from Com-pact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), an imaging instrument on MRO that has been looking for signs of water on Mars since last No-vember, was added to the ODE
on Sept. 7. Data from CRISM will eventually total over 400 gigabytes, which is more data than all previous Mars mis-sions combined.
With several future lunar missions in the works through-out the world, Slavney also hinted at the possibility of ex-panding the ODE to include lunar images from those mis-sions.
Slavney warned that ODE was designed for use primar-ily by scientists and that novice users may encounter diffi cul-ties using it.
“You might be disappointed if you’re looking for pretty pic-
tures,” said Slavney. “You really do have to sort of know what you’re doing, what you’re look-ing for.”
NASA’s PDS has a similar Web application for novice us-ers, known as the Planetary Imaging Atlas (PIA), which is hosted at NASA’s Imaging Node at the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the U.S. Geolog-ical Survey in Flagstaff, Ariz. The PIA is located at http://pd-simg.jpl.nasa.gov.
The ODE can be accessed at the Geoscience Node’s Web site, which is located at http://ode.rsl.wustl.edu/mars.
New international students hunt through furniture at Saturday’s furniture drive hosted by Intervarsity International Friends. The furniture, donated by area families, was raffl ed off to those international students in attendance. This year’s drive, much larger than last year’s, was the second annual furniture drive put on by the organization.
DAVID HARTSTEIN | STUDENT LIFE
BY ANDREA WINTER NEWS EDITOR
See FURNITURE, page 3See BLOOD DRIVE, page 3
BY NICK HAWCO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
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BY PUNEET KOLLIPARASENIOR STAFF REPORTER
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Washington University Earth and Planetary Sciences Lecturer Robert Buchwaldt is bringing his expertise in pe-trology and geochronology to the Ecuadorian Volcanic H a z a r d A s s e s s -m e n t Group.
The As-sessment G r o u p , a multi-n a t i o n a l body of g e o l o g i -cal sci-entists, formed a few years ago to bring state-of-the-art volcanic activity charting systems and volcanic safety education to the third world nation.
“The people of Ecuador need to understand that they are living in a dangerous en-vironment,” said Buchwaldt.
“They need to be prepared for volcanic eruptions.”
Roughly the size of Mis-souri, Ecuador has well over 250 volcanoes and around 10 percent of them are clas-sified as ‘highly active.’ A highly active volcano can erupt daily and is capable of being as destructive as or even more destructive than the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens.
Ecuador is located on a subduction zone where the oceanic Nazca Plate is slid-ing under the South Ameri-can Plate. As the Nazca plate subducts, it melts due to the extreme temperatures of the Earth. This leads to the formation of magma, which works its way upwards, even-tually reaching the surface in the form of volcanic activ-ity.
With nearly 14 million res-idents continually expand-ing out of already packed population areas, more and
more Ecuadorians are living in the shadow of volcanoes. Most of these volcanoes, Bu-chwaldt noted, are already located “within high popula-tion areas.”
In Ecuador, due to numer-ous economic and resource shortages, there are more pressing concerns on the minds of government offi-cials and citizens than vol-canic safety.
“Ecuador is a third world country: more people are concerned with getting the bananas than worrying about a lava flow,” said Bu-chwaldt. “An eruption would be a catastrophe on top of an already-present economic disaster.”
Buchwaldt deals with Geo-spatial Information Systems (GIS)—a tool using 3-D layers of a map to model specific geographic features.
GIS allows scientists to reassess a specific volcanic system and find the recur-
rence interval (the probabil-ity a specific event will be exceeded in a given amount of time) and put that in rela-tion with population.
“This allows us to gener-ate a map of specific hazard zones—to analyze what the Earth is telling us—for use in future development,” said Buchwaldt.
This technology, similar to the technology utilized by MapQuest, allows Buchwaldt to map out pathways where lava flows occur so that these areas can be avoided in the construction of new industries, businesses and homes.
In the early 1990s, the United States Geological Sur-vey (USGS) sent geologists to analyze Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines. Geologists told the Filipino government that a major eruption was immi-nent and stressed the neces-sity of immediate evacua-tion.
“The local politicians dis-agreed with the USGS scien-tists and essentially left the people in place: it was devas-tating,” recalled Buchwaldt. “You have to know the volca-nic system to make a prog-nosis.”
When it comes to Ecuador, Buchwaldt and the Assess-ment Group are working to prevent such a scenario.
“It will be devastating for Ecuador if a serious eruption occurs without these mea-surement systems in place,” he said.
Last spring break, Buch-waldt led an Earth and Plane-tary Sciences field trip of 30 undergraduate and graduate students to see Ecuador first-hand, a trip which he hope to repeat in the future.
“It was a great experience for the students to stand on an active volcano and feel the ground shaking beneath their feet,” said Buchwaldt.
Instructor sits on committee for Ecuadorian volcanic assessmentBY MARK DUDLEYCONTRIBUTING REPORTER
New Missouri gun law intro-
duced, gun sales increase
A new Missouri gun law that eliminates the permit process has caused guns sales in the St. Louis area to increase notably, as gun shop owners and salespeople describe a 20 percent increase in business. Enacted on August 28, buyers no longer require permission from the county sheriff to purchase a gun, nor do they have to pay the $10 permit fee. While opponents of the old gun law described it as needlessly re-strictive, others express concerns of matters of security. Buyers still must pass an FBI back-ground check, except in the case of a private seller.
Stem cell transplant gives
sight to young girl
A six-year-old Missouri girl who was born blind has recently developed limited sight as a result of a stem cell transplant done in a re-mote hospital in China. Three weeks after the July 4 transplant, Rylea Barlett was able to dis-tinguish the light from a penlight and identify the features of her mother’s face. Doctors esti-mate that Barlett’s eyesight is currently 20/400. Although her vision will never be perfect, this is the fi rst instance of sight being restored in modern history.
LOCAL
Claim to founding Facebook
contested
A third party has made claims of founding the popular college-networking Web site, Face-book. Former Harvard student Aaron J. Greens-pan has stated that he came up with the origi-nal networking system during his time as an undergraduate and that Zuckerberg had taken ideas from him. Prior to Greenspan’s claim, three former Harvard students, founders of the networking site ConnectU, argued that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, had stolen the idea from them. Greenspan has also launched his own networking site, CommonRoom. Face-book currently hosts 37 million users, and bids for acquisition of Facebook have reached prices as high as $1 billion.
Oprah Winfrey announces
support for Obama
On Saturday, Oprah Winfrey hosted her fi rst presidential fundraiser for Democratic presi-dential candidate Barack Obama. The event, held at Winfrey’s estate in California, managed to raise $3 million from the party’s guests, which included a number of high-profi le celeb-rities and actors.
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Former Pakistani prime min-
ister returns
After a seven-year exile in London, Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister of Pakistan, is returning to the country to challenge its cur-rent leadership. The current president, Pervez Musharraf, toppled Sharif from power in 1999. Sharif will stay in the Punjab province, Paki-stan’s largest, where he enjoys a large amount of support, and he plans to mobilize his par-ty for the national elections in the following months.
African plant jatropha may
see biofuel use
Scientists are regarding jatropha, a weed grown in Mali, as a potential source for Biofuel. Jatropha, which requires relatively little fertil-izer, is able to produce several times as much biofuel as other sources, such as corn. Capable of being planted beside other crops, jatropha requires little water and no pesticides, unlike a number of other potential biofuels. A number of big oil companies have begun to invest mil-lions of dollars in jatropha cultivation, but its profi tability remains to be seen.
Senior News Editor / Sam Guzik / [email protected] | SEPTEMBER 10, 2007 STUDENT LIFE | NEWS 3
been posted on bulletin boards around campus, but the Com-munity Service Offi ce has also enlisted the aid of a few dedicat-ed students.
Senior Frank Bergh is one of several volunteers who have em-braced wearing a drop of blood costume. With a brilliant white smile and a red cloth exterior, the “Blood Drop” has appeared to inform students about the need for blood when they least expect it.
“It makes it harder to avoid,” said Frank, who, after visiting Africa last year, is ineligible to give. “Having the ‘Blood Drop’ as a reminder, “makes it harder to know about [blood shortages] and not do anything about it.”
The Community Service Of-fi ce has made a special effort to
encourage students who have never donated to give blood for the fi rst time.
“The biggest fear is not hav-ing done it before,” said Kurtz-man. “We understand that not everyone is eligible, but a lot of people have not tried.”
For those who have already signed up, morale is high. Upon registering, students were asked why they decided to donate. Some students shared personal reasons for donating.
According to one anonymous student, intentions to donate are highly infl uenced by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The student wrote, “When I look back on that day, I remember feeling so help-less because all I wanted to do was help...donating blood is a great way to do so.”
other. It was really beautiful to see people caring for each other,” she said.
Seth Waldecker, a gradu-ate student who helped to coordinate the event, agreed that it was a success.
“This year there was a lot more people and a lot more furniture,” he said.
Waldecker explained that new international students are in a tough position be-cause they cannot bring much from their native countries and they do not know where to buy things. As a result, he said that he was motivated to share God’s love with internation-al students.
“The love of God is de-scribed in the Bible and we are to tell others about it and share it. We want to show this love to these new students,” he said.
However, Waldecker point-ed out that the Giveaway’s primary focus was not on recruiting international stu-dents into the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
“Many of these students feel lonely. The Giveaway
was not as a means to make them convert. We just want to show them that we care about them,” he said.
Waldecker said that the only information interna-tional students were given about the religious orga-nization was a flyer about the organization’s free Fri-day night communal dinner meetings, held at a different member’s residence each week.
New international stu-dents who attended the event attested to its success.
“Right now, I feel very welcome in this commu-nity,” said Aswin Mathews, an electrical engineering graduate student from In-dia. “This is my first time in the United States and this has helped me feel comfort-able.”
Lu Jiang, an urban design graduate student from Chi-na said, “The quality [of the furniture] was really good and it is really helpful for the international students.”
—With additional report-ing by Sam Guzik.
On Tuesday, September 11 the Community Service Offi ce will host a cam-pus-wide blood drive. With 12 donation sites and over 600 people already registered, coordinators are hopeful this drive could be the most successful in recent years.
MCT Some students felt that the public search listings were added abruptly and with little notice to users.
“I think everyone should have at least been e-mailed about it,” said sophomore Sunil Iyer.
The public search listing is the latest in a series of new Facebook features over the past year.
On Sept. 5, 2006, Face-book added its controversial News Feed feature, which gave users frequent updates about their friends’ actions on Facebook. Hundreds of thousands of users pro-tested the feature’s addition because of its initial lack of privacy settings and its abrupt implementation. In response to the protests, Facebook eventually imple-mented customizable pri-vacy settings for the News Feed.
On May 4, 2007, Facebook
added the Facebook Plat-form, which allowed devel-opers to create special ap-plications that users could add to their profiles.
With the addition of the News Feed, Facebook Plat-form and the new public search listings, many us-ers feel that Facebook has become cluttered with too many features.
“They all annoyed me at first, but I just grew used to them. They’re really not a big deal,” said Iyer. “The ap-plications can be annoying and can take up the whole page. But the Mini-Feed, I’ve grown used to it.”
“Some of [the applica-tions] are fun, but a lot of them there’s really no point to,” said Woodruff. “And a lot of the things they’ve changed about Facebook without asking people…they’re really kind of irritat-ing.”
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Senior Scene Editor / Felicia Baskin / [email protected] MONDAY | SEPTEMBER 10, 20074 STUDENT LIFE | SCENE
SCENESCENEBlues music has had a long
and storied history in St. Louis, from WC Handy’s “St. Louis Blues” to Chuck Berry’s legendary performances at Blueberry Hill. The modern nexus of blues music in the Gateway City lies downtown on South Broadway, where three standout venues keep the music rolling all week long.
One of the best character-istics of South Broadway is that you can easily visit all of its hotspots in one night—and you can do it without a car. It only takes about fi ve minutes to walk from the closest MetroLink station to the mainstays of this lively neighborhood. Located within a block of one another, BB’s Jazz, Blues and Soups, the Broadway Oyster Bar and Beale on Broadway all have great live music seven nights a week and all are guaranteed to please.
For a relaxed night, head to BB’s Jazz, Blues and Soups for a great meal and a genuine Blues sound. Even the build-ing that houses BB’s has a unique history—since its con-struction in the mid-1800s, it has been used for more than 10 different purposes.
Over the last 30 years, BB’s has used the space to grow its reputation as a local blues stronghold. These days, BB’s
is the principal guardian of St. Louis blues culture. For St. Louisians, BB’s is to blues what the Bistro on Grand is to jazz—a center of cultural activity. The location hosts some of the best blues acts to come through the city (an ex-ample is the Holmes Brothers) as well as solid local bands. BB’s seems to have the most authentic blues-listening atmosphere in town and has a big stage directed right to-ward the audience. The menu also has some great choices, from sweet potato fries and an authentic Southern pecan pie to a famous daily soup selection.
If you’re looking for a new-er take on a blues club, head over to Broadway Oyster Bar. This upbeat venue presents a great mix of both outdoor and indoor atmospheres. The raised outdoor stage hosts modern blues, Cajun and funk bands; recent perform-ers have included national acts Soulive and Tab Benoit. An outdoor bar keeps drinks fl owing throughout the night, and there is plenty of room to sit, eat and even dance.
The marine-themed menu includes some familiar favor-ites and some you might not be as quick to devour: jam-balaya, Cajun voodoo wings and seafood gumbo appear alongside fried alligator, clam strips and buckets of craw-fi sh. Of course, there is also a wide selection of oysters,
including fried oysters, oyster shooters and oyster sand-wiches.
Beale on Broadway reaches out to the French and Cajun elements of St. Louis culture and has an outdoor fenced-in stage that makes you feel like you’re in a Louisiana backyard. The establishment features a good mix of local and national acts, including Johnny Winter and Junior Brown. The kitchen offers up some tasty options like Cajun shrimp and fried catfi sh, which can be accompanied by side dishes like beer-battered onion rings or red beans and rice. If the weather is good, sit outside on the patio and enjoy some good music under the night sky.
No matter what kind of venue you prefer, South Broadway is the place to go for an evening of entertain-ment. Most nights there will be music at all three of the street’s establishments, and you can easily scout the block to fi nd the exact style you’re looking for.
So when you’re in the mood for a night of good music and dancing, look no further than South Broad-way, a testament to St. Louis’ unique local culture.
Getting there: Take the Metro-Link from Skinker to the Busch Stadium stop and walk 1/3 mile southeast to the 700 block of South Broadway.
Singin’ the blues in the Lou BY JAKE LEVITASSCENE REPORTER
BB’s Jazz, Blues and Soups is located at 700 South Broadway.BRITTANY MEYER | STUDENT LIFE
LILY SCHORR | STUDENT LIFE
Beale on Broadway is located at 736 South Broadway.
BRITTANY MEYER | STUDENT LIFE
Broadway Oyster Bar is located at 701 South Broadway.
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Enough already—price increases go too farSTAFF EDITORIAL
We’re sure you know this already, but we’ll say it anyway: It’s getting more
expensive to attend Wash-ington University. For a bit of perspective, consider this: during the 2001-2002 school year, tuition at Washington University was set at $25,700. For the 2007-2008 school year, tuition is set at $34,500. Why is this happening? The Univer-sity administration has raised tuition prices every year for the past several years. And while the annual tuition increases are indeed disconcerting, their conjunction with this year’s fee increases is almost nonsensi-cal. Last March, Chief Financial Offi cer Barbara Feiner men-tioned the following in order to help justify the new tuition increase: “Our philosophy is
to have fewer fees and have the cost of what you’re paying for cover as much as possible.” And yet just a few months after using this line of reason-ing to justify a $1,700 tuition increase and a $456 room and board increase, a new school year has greeted students with a host of new fees.
These fees affect the prices of health insurance, laundry, food and parking. The cost of purchasing a yellow, blue or brown parking pass has risen from $380 to $400. Laundry prices for using washing machines and dryers have also risen from $0.50 and $0.75, re-spectively, to $0.75 and $1.00. The cost of the mandatory student health insurance has also risen from $660 to $679. And the prices of many food items offered at campus eater-
ies have risen since last year.We understand that the Ad-
ministration must perform a diffi cult balancing act when it comes to managing expenses. On the one hand, certain price increases are an inevitable and indeed justifi able action for the University to take, but the problem is perfectly encapsu-lated by a response from Paul Schimmele, assistant to the director of university opera-tions, when asked to comment on the laundry price increases. He reasoned that the new fees were fair because they “put the associated costs with the user.” Unfortunately, the “users” are in fact the student body, and the Administration has found itself all too willing to pass extra costs onto the students.
If this were the only way to alleviate the problem, then
perhaps there wouldn’t be an issue. But when the University has actively sought an ambi-tious physical expansion, complete with a new parking garage, the new University Cen-ter and a new law and social sciences building, it is wrong to turn around and create a campus culture where it is consistently willing to nickel-and-dime its students in order to meet expenses. This admin-istration has repeatedly raised fees and tuition as if it needs more money, yet it acts as if it has more money than it knows what to do with. There is absolutely no justifi cation for spending obscene amounts of money on planting fl owers in order to beautify the campus for prospective freshmen, re-moving them once the prospec-tive freshmen leave and then
claiming that the University budget is strained. If the Uni-versity is unable to handle the costs associated with providing basic services for its students, then perhaps the Administra-tion should reevaluate what it considers to be a prudent use of the school’s fi nancial assets.
What’s more, we have yet to receive any indication that there will be any meaningful end to the annual tuition and fee increases. And until there is such a meaningful end, the University will continue to ap-proach an undesirable scenario where some students, even with fi nancial aid, will simply be unable to afford attending Washington University.
While wealthy students will certainly be able to swallow any additional expenses, and poor students will receive addi-
tional fi nancial aid in order to compensate for the increases, the middle class students who attend Washington University are the ones who will be left out in the cold. These students have family incomes that are too large to qualify them for fi nancial aid, yet they do not have enough money to easily handle these kinds of addi-tional expenses. For them, the only way to deal with an endless cycle of fee increases is to either endure even more sacrifi ce and personal hard-ship or attend a cheaper school somewhere else.
We believe the Administra-tion should seriously consider these consequences because it will indeed be a sad day if Washington University loses qualifi ed students because it is too expensive to attend.
DMITRI JACKSON | EDITORIAL CARTOON
Progress in Iraq? Don’t believe the hype
A Greek dramatist once wrote, “In war, truth is the fi rst casu-alty.” This Tuesday,
September 11, General David Petraeus makes his highly anticipated report to Congress on the progress of President Bush’s recent escalation of the Iraq War—the “surge.” What he plans on saying has already been leaked to the press: the surge is working and a 75 percent decrease in sectarian attacks shows that it is.
This is where truth be-comes a casualty of this war yet again. The statistics backing Petraeus’ claim have been fl agrantly manipulated and cherry-picked to serve Bush’s political agenda and show that his strategy in Iraq has been working. An honest look at the numbers on Iraqi security since the surge shows a starkly different reality.
President Bush, congres-sional Republicans and U.S.
military offi cials continue to proclaim the success of the surge, citing a decrease in the number of attacks last month compared to June. The criteria the military uses to categorize a certain attack as sectarian, combat or criminal, however, is extremely dubious and mis-leading. The bipartisan Iraq Study Group, led by longtime Bush ally James Baker, re-vealed in its 2006 report that, “if we cannot determine the sources of a sectarian attack, that assault does not make it into the data base.” The Pen-tagon also does not include deaths from large bombings in their numbers, including one of the biggest instances of sectarian violence in the war: the bombing last month that killed over 500 members of the minority Yazidi sect in northern Iraq.
The extent to which the Pentagon is cooking the books is downright absurd. One senior U.S. intelligence offi cial said of their methods, “If a bullet went through the back of the head it’s [counted as]
sectarian. If it went through the front, it’s [counted as] criminal.” The result of this artifi cially narrow standard of what defi nes a sectarian at-tack is to paint a picture that is in fact illusory, a picture that shows security in Iraq improving and Bush’s strategy working. Other more reliable statistics directly contradict what Bush wants us to believe. Each month this year, more American soldiers have been killed compared to the same month last year. The number of civilians killed in Iraq like-wise increased to 1,809 in Au-gust from 1,760 in July. This is all months after President Bush urged Congress and the public to reserve judgment until all the troops involved in the surge could arrive in Iraq.
This Tuesday, General Petraeus will use what many experts have agreed are deceptive statistics to per-suade both republicans and democrats on Capitol Hill that Bush’s surge is working and that the continuing pressure to begin withdrawing troops
from Iraq should be relaxed. President Bush and support-ers of the war will champion this distorted image of the situation on the ground and persistently claim success. Many congressmen and regular Americans, without knowing the numbers have been tweaked, will be swayed and support for the war will probably increase.
I urge you all, as Ameri-cans, to take action and write to your respective congress-men, urging them to ask General Petraeus and Presi-dent Bush the tough questions and to fully consider the facts. I believe we can all agree that it is downright wrong to sacrifi ce more American lives based on manipulated statis-tics. Our soldiers deserve, at the very least, that we demand an honest assessment of both what is happening in Iraq and what can be done to actually improve it.
Tony is a senior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
BY TONY LETTOP-ED SUBMISSION
What is this “next year” you speak of?
If my life were a Web site, and it had
a frequently asked ques-tions section, number one on the list would be, “What’s wrong with your face?” Number two, at this juncture in my life, would defi nitely be, “What are you going to do when you get out of college?”
This question confuses me. After college? I have to choose what happens to me after col-lege? People have told me about this after college stuff, but who actually believes them? I always thought that some other part of my brain would switch on and do all of that for me whilst I coasted along spending the sweet money I made from a high-powered job. I mean, I have been in school (I guess I won’t count preschool) going on 17 years now and you’re tell-ing me that I have to re-grease my elbows and get ready to mash my face down on that grindstone next year, even after school? One man can only do so much.
Regardless, the question is asked excessively. I can’t really blame anyone for asking, as it is something to talk about with people my age. However, that doesn’t mean that I enjoy it, or that I have an answer for it, and yet there it lingers on my FAQ at number two, just above number three: “When was the last time you showered?”
I feel as though I should have decent answers for at least the top three of my FAQ (Answer #1: “Don’t worry, it’s a spider bite, it will hatch in a day or so” and Answer #3: “Not since Brit-ney had real hair”), but looming number two is diffi cult mostly because I don’t know. Yet people expect something better than this. Telling the truth to people makes me seem lazy, indecisive and stupid, so the only other option is to lie.
There are several ways to go about this. The fi rst is to make up a believable lie. A sample one may read like this: “Well, I have had an internship at Com-pany X and I think they may offer me a job which would be just tops. If not, they will defi -nitely write me a recommen-dation to Company Y, which would be great because I think I would be happier at Company
Y.” It is important to fi nish with: “So, I’ve got options.” It makes people think you have been at least putting an effort towards working life and that you are a fl exible, go-with-the-fl ow type person.
Another form of lying about your up and coming career life is the over-the-top lie. “Given the way the stock market is fl uctuating these days, I’ve decided it would be fi nancially wise to turn down J.P. Morgan and take the position they’ve offered me at NASA. They want me so badly and I am not sure that I could stand their sad looks of discouragement if I said no.” You don’t really need to back any of this up because if people believe the initial sto-ry it will render them speech-less. Grandpa Roy will leave the dinner table with a smile and a story to tell everyone he knows about his fantastically spec-tacular grandchild.
Finally, there is the under-achieving lie. This is fun. Just seeing peoples’ reactions is worth the effort. Try this with one of your advisors if they ask about your connections: “Yeah, I know some people who know some people who robbed some people, so I’ll be alright.” Whomever you tell this to will either be so put off by the sleaze or will be so confused and worried for your well-being that they will not know what to do. Either way, the incessant questioning will desist.
But who could really have a good answer to what the future holds? Most people I know who are right out of college tried out several careers and jobs before they knew what they wanted to do. Many others travel and do the things they have always wanted to do but never could. Others will think they know where they are going only to fi nd out that they knew noth-ing.
Though this may sound depressing, it isn’t. It’s hopeful. It means that we can really do anything. Now that we are done with our scholastic responsibili-ties we are free to do whatever we want, and if we don’t know what that is right now, it doesn’t matter because we are young, educated and bright, and our small world is full of possibili-ties for people like us.
Christian is a senior in Arts & Sciences and a Forum editor. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
Christian Sherden
Senior Sports Editor / Trisha Wolf / [email protected] MONDAY | SEPTEMBER 10, 2007 6 STUDENT LIFE | SPORTS
Washington University’s women’s soccer team (4-0) con-tinued its winning ways this weekend. The Lady Bears de-feated both Transylvania Col-lege (1-2) and Centre College (2-2) at the Glenn Hyundai College Showcase in Lexington, Ky.
Saturday’s game against Transylvania started off slowly. The Bears recorded only two shots in the fi rst half while senior goalkeeper Carrie Sear also notched two saves. Half-time came with the scoreboard still set at 0-0.
The second half got much more interesting. The Pioneers opened the half with a goal in the 46th minute when sopho-more Whitney Price beat out Sear. The Bears’ scoring woes continued until the 67th min-ute when sophomore Libby Held found the net on a free kick af-ter Transylvania senior Erin Rush received a red card. Eight minutes later, the advantage of the Red and Green’s 8-2 second-half shooting edge was realized when junior Caitlin Malone beat the keeper up the middle. Her goal in the 2-1 victory was the fi fth game-winner of her career. “The red card put them on their heels,” said head coach Wendy Dillinger. “It put more pressure on them and shook them up.”
“It allowed us to move the ball around more,” added Malo-ne. “They were getting tired at
the end and our midfi elders could get a better grip on play.”
Sunday’s game against Cen-tre College featured a new twist:a downpour. Playing in rain for the fi rst time this season also led to a scoreless fi rst half. “It was diffi cult to control the ball,” said Dillinger. “They also played a high pressure defense so they were trying to outnum-ber us all over the fi eld.”
The majority of the second half was also scoreless. The Bears fi nally got on the board in the 82nd minute. Centre’s keeper Rosie McAuley defl ected Held’s free kick. Junior Laura Mehner found the rebound for her fi rst goal of the season and gave Wash. U. a 1-0 win. In the win, Sear recorded her tenth ca-reer shut-out.
“We weren’t putting in as much effort as the other teams,” said Malone of the team’s fi rst-half performances. “In the sec-ond half, everyone played more as a team. We defended and at-tacked as a team. We stepped up and worked as a team.”
“It took a while to get a feel-ing in both games. The other teams came out with fi re and established themselves as the teams to beat,” added Dillinger.
The team takes the fi eld again Tuesday evening for its fi rst home game of the season. Kick-off against Principia Col-lege is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Francis Field. “We want to move the ball up and score in the fi rst half,” said Held.
Lady Bears remain undefeated after weekend matches
BY TRISHA WOLF SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
Washington University football continued its domi-nance with a resounding 34-3 blowout of Westminster on Saturday.
The Bears never trailed, as they opened the game with and 3:34 drive for a rushing touchdown by senior Gabe Murphy. Westminster coun-tered with a field goal, but Wash. U. scored the last 28 points of the game.
The Red and Green rush-ing game controlled the contest, accumulating 233 yards on 37 carries. Murphy
rushed for a career high 128 yards and one touchdown on 17 carries, and freshman Jim O’Brien ran for one TD and 85 yards on just seven attempts. Murphy credits the offensive line for his and O’Brien’s suc-cess, since “they dominated the line of scrimmage and some of our game planning effectively took advantage or our team speed to get to the outside.”
“The defense made our job extremely easy. They gave us several opportunities to score and pumped us up when things weren’t going as well on offense. It’s going to be an exciting season if the
defense keeps this up, and I’m confident they will,” add-ed Murphy.
With the running game so effective, Wash. U. only dropped back to pass 20 times for 137 yards and two TDs. Starting quarterback Buck Smith was 9-17 for 127 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions, and fresh-man backup Bartel Mitchell completed his first pass for 10 yards.
The offensive unit for the Bears was effective, but the defense was overpowering and dominant. Wash. U. held Westminster to 41 rushing yards on 30 carries and only
156 yards in the air. More impressive, the Bears forced five turnovers, all via the in-terception. Sophomore Tim Machan tied a school record with three interceptions, and junior Tommy Bawden picked off two passes.
Senior Captain linebacker Mike Elliot emphasized that run-stopping is the key com-ponent of the Wash. U. de-fense. With the Blue Jay run-ning game held to an average of 1.36 yards per carry, Elliot explained how easy defense became.
Said Elliot, “We knew when they were going to pass, and our safeties could sit back in cover-
age. Timmy had three intercep-tions, Tommy had two, and they both did a really good job of play-ing the ball.”
Preparation also contrib-uted to the Bears’ defensive success. “We had watched a lot of film, so we knew what routes to expect and my reads were all pretty ac-curate. The D-Line put a lot of pressure on their quarter-back up front, which caused him to rush some throws which helped a lot too,” add-ed Machan.
The only low point of last week, the special teams unit, played a clean game and did not turn over the ball. El-
liot did miss two PATs, but Freshman Tim Johnson, who was recruited as a kicker and had been handling kick-offs, made both of his PAT attempts. Punter Tommy Bawden also,“had a couple of great punts that gave us really good field position to control the game,” said Cap-tain Jeff Howenstein.
The Bears will try to im-prove to 3-0 on Saturday, when they host number 10 ranked Wheaton at noon. Members of the team have asked the Wash. U. student body to come to Francis Field to cheer them on in this ear-ly, yet very important game.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Bear defense devours Blue Jays
FOOTBALL
BY JOSHUA GOLDMAN SPORTS REPORTER
WASH. U. 34 w WESTMINSTER 3
WASH. U. 2 w TRANSYLVANIA 1
WASH. U. 1 w CENTRE 0
Caitlin Malone faces off against women’s soccer head coach Wendy Dill-inger at a practice on Sunday.
ALWYN LOH | STUDENT LIFE
Saturday night’s men’s soccer contest against Tru-man State served as a diag-nostic test of sorts for the 12th-ranked Bears. After opening the season with three relatively uncontested victories, Wash. U. faced its first true challenge against the Division II Bulldogs.
The Red and Green lost the game 2-0.
The diagnosis: there is more work to be done before the squad reaches its peak level of performance and Saturday’s game might end up playing the role of ‘mean-ingful wake-up call’ when the history of the 2007 sea-son is written.
Asked if the defeat could be deemed a wake-up call, senior captain Onyi Okora-for said, “Definitely. We were definitely riding a serious high going into this game.”
But he noted that it was important to move on quick-ly, rather than get too alarm-ist about just one early loss which won’t even count against the Bears’ postsea-son chances due to their Di-vision II status. “It’s better than if it happened later on in the year,” added Okora-for.
Truman’s goals came ear-ly and late, with the Bears outplaying the guests for much of the contest’s middle portion. But a few missed second half opportunities coupled with a Bulldogs goal in the 84th minute on the counterattack were a bit too much for even this Wash. U. team to handle.
The Bulldogs set the tone early, when Scott Biggerstaff took a centering pass from
Gavin Kempe and put home what turned out to be the game-winner in the match’s fourth minute. It was the first time all season that the Bears have allowed a goal, ending sophomore John Smelcer’s string of three straight shutouts to open the 2007 campaign.
Okorafor cited Wash. U.’s immediate response to the first goal as slightly discon-certing. “We didn’t respond well after they scored on us. For 10 to 15 minutes, we looked defeated,” noting that the team hadn’t allowed a shot, let along a goal all season and that part of the initial funk was the sheer surprise of allowing a tally.
Wash. U. controlled much
of the game’s remaining ac-tion, however, as senior Mar-shall Plow and freshman Harry Beddo proved notably adroit at creating scoring op-portunities for themselves and their teammates, but nothing ever truly material-ized and Kempe’s unassisted header to the right side with just minutes remaining in the action sealed the Bears’ fate.
Truman packed the box for almost the entire game, making it very difficult for the hosts to sustain any-thing offensively.
Though disappointed with the outcome, many Wash. U. players conceded that Sat-urday’s loss could go a long way in determining how
well the experienced Bears deal with adversity, particu-larly when it inevitably rises throughout the course of the highly competitive, seven-game UAA slate.
The team travels to Prin-cipia College for a match on Tuesday evening, before em-barking on a grueling two-game road trip to Texas next weekend. The Bears will face Southwestern College in ad-dition to a game against na-tional number one, Trinity College.
“It’s just a matter of not letting this [loss] hang in the balance,” said Okorafor. “I think we’ll respond well. We definitely need to make sure we go into Texas and know what we need to do.”
MEN’S SOCCER
Bears suffer fi rst defeat of seasonTRUMAN STATE 2 w WASH. U. 0
BY ANDREI BERMANSPORTS EDITOR
v Team prepares for key road games this week
Sophomore John Hengel slides for a ball Saturday night against Truman State. The Bears suffered their fi rst loss of the season in a 2-0 game.
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Recent top performers:Taryn Surtees
Cross CountryThe freshman recorded the top time for the Bears at the Washington University Early Bird Meet, the season’s opener. Her time of 14:47.56 was good enough for seventh place in her Wash. U. debut.
The sophomore defensive back led the defense as he tied a school record, grabbing three picks in the team’s 34-3 victory over Westminster College Saturday.
Tim Machan
Football
Marshall Plow
Men’s SoccerThe senior has recorded three goals and an assist in the Bears’ fi rst four games. His fi rst goal came in last weekend in Wash. U.’s 3-0 win over Millsaps College. He followed up that effort with two goals and an assist against Westminster College Thursday.
The sophomore defender put the Bears on the board against Transylvania College Saturday when she scored on a free kick after a Pioneer red card. She also assisted junior Laura Mehner in the game-winning goal against Centre College Sunday.
Libby Held
Women’s Soccer
Audra Janak
Volleyball
The junior setter was named to the all-tournament team in both of the team’s opening tournaments. Last weekend, at the Illinois College Invitational, she recorded 22 assists and 22 digs. At the Washington University National Invitational this weekend, she had 91 assists and 22 digs.
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Washington University is the fourth best volleyball team in the country for a reason.
The Bears clobbered the Ohio Northern Polar Bears (no. 15) as well as the unranked Cen-tral College Dutch Friday night at the Washington University National Invitational, winning each game in three sets, before falling to national number two Wittenberg University Tigers on Saturday morning. The af-ternoon of Saturday saw the Bears beat the Concordia Cob-bers (no. 12) in a thrilling 3-1 victory.
The fi rst home game this sea-son at the Field House against Ohio Northern was characteris-tic of most of the tournament. Games were fi lled with high spirit from all players punctuat-ed by loud whistles from Coach Rich Luenemann, high jumps, amazing dives, rolls and balls racing toward the ground. As other teams tried to spike on Wash. U., the Bears were leap-ing to block the ball, diving for the fl oor, or making one handed saves. Sets were generally close with scores seesawing back
and forth. With a strong kill in the second set, junior right side Nikki Morrison clinched a tight match with a score of 30-28 be-fore Wash. U. blitzed to win the fi nal set 30-20.
Showing Washington Uni-versity spirit, the men’s foot-ball team showed up to support the team. Last weekend, the volleyball team initiated the exchange by cheering on their schoolmates when they defeat-ed Lake Forest 41-28.
The freshmen on the team saw extensive playing time during the tournament with Ali Hoffman at the libero posi-tion while Nicole Penwill and Marya Kaminski switched be-tween several positions includ-ing middle and right hitter. “It feels really good and I’m excit-ed to be in our home gym,” said freshman Nicole Penwill.
“The freshmen showed lots of maturity,” added junior set-ter Audra Janak.
Saturday morning was over-cast with a slight drizzle. But inside the gym, all was bright as energy coursed through the room. All players were stand-ing and screaming as Witten-berg University and Washing-ton University fought for the
win. The Bears lost the fi rst two sets. Down by a bundle in the third set but with dogged de-termination, the Red and Green showed why they are number four in the country. In a situa-tion where every point mattered and with all the fans standing to see what would happen, the Bears fought back to win the third. The fourth set was just as intense with the teams sepa-rated by at most two points at any time. The Bears narrowly lost with a score of 30-28.
The fi nal game against Con-cordia was also fast paced and exciting with balls fl ying like bullets. The fi rst set (30-26) was clinched by freshman Marya Kaminski as she smashed the ball right into a Cobber.
“I didn’t even know it was the last point,” said Kaminski. “I just hit it down and was like ‘yay!’ with all that raw emo-tion.”
The next set was even more intense as Wash. U. won by a score of 31-29. The Bears went on to lose the third set 30-28. The fourth set against Concor-dia was tightly fought as teams traded points back and forth before Wash. U. plowed forward to ultimately win 30-23.
Emerging from the locker room with bags of ice strapped to their sore legs and shoul-ders, the girls were tired yet triumphant. Janak and class-mate Alli Alberts were selected as part of the All-Tournament Team with Alberts’ 45 kills and Janak’s 91 assists.
“We played a lot better than last week. Although we lost the game, it was our best match of the season,” said senior outside hitter Haleigh Spencer. “I don’t think anyone was disappoint-ed. We hung in and we are still a growing team.”
Next weekend, every nation-al champion since 2001 will be playing at the Teri Clemens In-vitational in The Field House. The Bears will face off against archrival and reigning national champion Juniata College at 7 p.m. on Friday followed by Sat-urday action against University of La Verne at 9:30 a.m. and University of Wisconsin-White-water at 3 p.m.
Red Alert will be sponsoring the game against Juniata. The entire weekend promises to feature top-notch competition and exciting play.
Bears take three of four in weekend tourney
VOLLEYBALL
BY JOHANN QUA HIANSENSPORTS REPORTER
WASH. U. 3 w OHIO NORTHERN 0
WASH. U. 3 w CENTRAL (IOWA) 0 WASH. U. 3 w CONCORDIA (MOORHEAD) 1
WITTENBERG 3 w WASH. U. 1
Junior Ali Crouch spikes a volleyball in the game against Concordia College on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Bears won the match in four games.
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Marya Kaminski (12) and Haleigh Spencer (10) go up for a block against Concordia.
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Junior Alli Alberts spikes the ball against Concordia College as head coach Rich Luenemann looks on.
Nikki Morrison (16) and Nicole Penwill (7) block a spike attempt against Concordia on Saturday.
