He goes out to drink ev- ery weekend (and sometimes weeknights, he admits). He’s 20, a junior, and a solid B+ student at Washington Uni- versity. He has also never needed University assis- tance due to intoxication. Unfortunately, this stu- dent—whose name has been withheld due to his age—is becoming a part of a new minority at the University. Not because of his regular habits, but because of the rapidly growing number of severe alcohol-related inci- dents throughout the cam- pus. “I’m not going to say I never did anything stupid, but nothing that ridicu- lous,” he said. According to the Wash- ington University Police De- partment, there were 131 al- cohol referrals during 2004, almost triple the number of the previous year. Many more events that could be linked to alcohol abuse were not reported, since WUPD does not note if a student is intoxicated in cases of sick- ness (such as during WILD or other events). Chancellor Wrighton and Dean McLeod noted the same growing dilemma at the close of last semester in an e-mail notice sent out to all students. In the e-mail, he cited two separate inci- dents of students narrowly avoiding serious injury or death in falls, student-on- student assaults resulting in serious injuries, and irre- sponsible and risky sexual behavior of students. In sum, the University seems to have failed to curb the growing abuse of alco- hol on campus in the previ- ous year. “All colleges and univer- sities face challenges stem- ming from the abuse of al- cohol…It is frustrating, of S TUDENT L IFE THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS SINCE 1878 The women’s basketball team won three straight games to kick off their season, and the men broke several records over break. Page 5. Cadenza has all new movie reviews, video game reviews, and a Freshman Fifteen comic to kick off the new semester. Page 10. Forum has talk about alcohol on campus, the University’s student health plan, equality, campaign contributions, and more. Page 6. Cadenza reviews the arts & entertainment events of 2006—in advance! Page 12. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2006 WWW.STUDLIFE.COM VOLUME 127, NO. 41 WILSON SPEAKS AT MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY CELEBRATION ALWYN LOH | STUDENT LIFE Margaret Bush Wilson, a civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first female chair of the board of directors of the NAACP, speaks at the University’s annual Martin Luther King Day commemoration in Graham Chapel on Monday, Jan. 16. This year’s theme was “One Woman’s Action... One Man’s Effort,” and featured student speakers and a skit reenacting Rosa Parks’ refusal to vacate her bus seat. The University has held a special MLK commemoration every year since 1987. SAE’s housing contract cancelled Individual housing con- tracts for the Washington University chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity have been cancelled, and the chap- ter house has been closed for a period of 18 months follow- ing a search of the house on Dec. 10. According to Chief of Police Don Strom, University police were called to the house after an employee “smelled what appeared to be marijuana.” Searching the house, po- lice found that “a particular section of that building had that smell more than the rest of the building,” said Strom. Police found and seized marijuana at the house and took three students into cus- tody. No formal charges have been filed against these stu- dents. University employees are required to report illegal ac- tivities they observe in any building on campus, accord- ing to Patrick Biddix, coordi- nator for Greek housing pro- grams. Although the Greek Life Office handles each case differently, drug or alcohol violations in fraternity hous- ing can constitute grounds for the immediate cancella- tion of housing contracts. “In a lot of cases when drugs or anything else that’s illegal as far as [a fraternity’s] statute is concerned, the Uni- versity takes the stance that we prohibit the illegal posses- sion, use or transfer of any controlled substance or para- phernalia, defined by the fra- ternity statute,” said Biddix. “From that, as well as through our [housing] contract…it’s within our contractual rights to suspend housing, at least in terms of individuals.” Biddix himself does not perform searches of frater- nity houses unless he deems it necessary, he said. “One of the things I tell my staff to pass along to their brothers is that I won’t come into your house unless I’ve been called or I need to be there,” said Biddix. “I do walk Fraternity Row, but not every day, just to see outside how things look. But unless there’s some reason…I don’t go in the house.” Biddix said that students’ safety influences his deci- sions regarding searches of fraternity houses and the con- sequences of what he finds. “I really feel an obligation to the students for safety and well-being,” said Biddix. “For example, if it looks like stu- dents have been smoking— and it has to be pretty clear— [or] if it looks like they’ve tampered with safety equip- ment or have covered up the smoke detectors, at that point I think I take a pretty strong stance.” Although the fraternity has lost its house, it has not been suspended from campus and will continue to function as a Greek organization. “The University looks for- ward to [Sigma Alpha Epsilon] functioning as a fraternity without a house and to work- ing with student leaders and alumni,” said Vice Chancel- lor for Students Jill Carnaghi. “I think [the members of the fraternity] can be a very By Kristin McGrath Senior News Editor Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s housing contract was terminated after WUPD, acting on a tip from a University employee, found mari- juana in the fraternity house. GEORGE GENNIS | STUDENT LIFE Risky drinking on campus may be on the rise By Troy Rumans Staff Reporter See SAE, page 4 Alcohol statistics don’t justify ‘Just the Facts’ criticism, say of fi cials By Jessie Rothstein Staff Reporter Program coordinators for the Just the Facts campaign reasserted its effectiveness this week despite the rash of serious alcohol-related inci- dents last semester. The campaign, which consists of a series of in- formational posters hung throughout the Washington University campus, aims to curb excessive alcohol use. The Just the Facts program is coordinated by a group of students, staff and faculty that worked together for two years developing and mount- ing the campaign. Although research has not been conducted on the effect of Just the Facts, stud- ies on similar campaigns has shown them to have a helpful protective influence. The goal of such campaigns is to correct misconceptions that may be leading to high- risk behavior, said Dr. Alan Glass, director of Student Health and Counseling Ser- vices (SHCS). Campaigns with similar goals, often called social- norming campaigns, “have a protective effect in that they might not make students drink less than they already do, but they keep them from drinking more,” said Glass. Yet a surge in alcohol-re- lated incidents in the past few months has created some doubt as to the cam- paign’s effectiveness. Ac- cording to University Police Chief Don Strom, there were “several episodes that were certainly close calls, where people could have suffered very serious or life-threaten- ing injuries.” But Melissa Ruwitch, chief of Health Promotion and Wellness and the coordina- tor of the Just the Facts com- mittee, said that those who deem the program ineffec- tive “might not understand the intent of the campaign.” According to Glass, so- cial-norming campaigns are meant to change the campus culture. “You can’t really go by whether you’ve had an in- crease or a decrease in al- cohol-related incidents on a year-to-year basis,” said Glass. Additionally, Ruwitch is quick to point out that de- spite the incidents of last semester, “what you’re not hearing about is someone who learned something from the poster…and didn’t have an incident.” She does not expect these efforts to eliminate all of the experimental behavior on campus, but hopes that people are learning impor- tant facts through them. “We understand that it takes time, and that we need to continue with what we know are promising practic- es,” said Ruwitch. At the same time, Just the Facts coordinators under- stand that it does not make sense to put all of their hopes on one approach; rather, it is one of several strategies being used. One such strategy that began in 2005 is an online interactive program required of incom- ing freshman called Alcohol EDU, which was designed by some of the leading experts in alcohol prevention. Betsy Foy, assistant direc- Chancellor Wrighton issued a statement at the end of fall semester stating that alcohol consumption on cam- pus has reached an abusive level and that steps should be taken to curb what he sees as dangerous behavior. STUDENT LIFE ARCHIVES See JUST THE FACTS, page 4 See RISKY DRINKING, page 4
Transcript
He goes out to drink ev-ery weekend (and sometimes weeknights, he admits). He’s 20, a junior, and a solid B+ student at Washington Uni-versity. He has also never needed University assis-tance due to intoxication.
Unfortunately, this stu-dent—whose name has been withheld due to his age—is becoming a part of a new minority at the University. Not because of his regular habits, but because of the rapidly growing number of severe alcohol-related inci-dents throughout the cam-pus.
“I’m not going to say I never did anything stupid, but nothing that ridicu-lous,” he said.
According to the Wash-ington University Police De-partment, there were 131 al-cohol referrals during 2004, almost triple the number of the previous year. Many
more events that could be linked to alcohol abuse were not reported, since WUPD does not note if a student is intoxicated in cases of sick-ness (such as during WILD or other events).
Chancellor Wrighton and Dean McLeod noted the same growing dilemma at the close of last semester in an e-mail notice sent out to all students. In the e-mail, he cited two separate inci-dents of students narrowly avoiding serious injury or death in falls, student-on-student assaults resulting in serious injuries, and irre-sponsible and risky sexual behavior of students.
In sum, the University seems to have failed to curb the growing abuse of alco-hol on campus in the previ-ous year.
“All colleges and univer-sities face challenges stem-ming from the abuse of al-cohol…It is frustrating, of
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The women’s basketball team won three straight games to kick off their season, and the men broke several records over break. Page 5.
Cadenza has all new movie reviews, video game reviews, and a Freshman Fifteen comic to kick off the new semester. Page 10.
Forum has talk about alcohol on campus, the University’s student health plan, equality, campaign contributions, and more. Page 6.
Cadenza reviews the arts & entertainment events of 2006—in advance! Page 12.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2006 WWW.STUDLIFE.COMVOLUME 127, NO. 41
WILSON SPEAKS AT MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY CELEBRATION
ALWYN LOH | STUDENT LIFE
Margaret Bush Wilson, a civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the fi rst female chair of the board of directors of the NAACP, speaks at the University’s annual Martin Luther King Day commemoration in Graham Chapel on Monday, Jan. 16. This year’s theme was “One Woman’s Action... One Man’s Effort,” and featured student speakers and a skit reenacting Rosa Parks’ refusal to vacate her bus seat. The University has held a special MLK commemoration every year since 1987.
tracts for the Washington University chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity have been cancelled, and the chap-ter house has been closed for a period of 18 months follow-ing a search of the house on Dec. 10.
According to Chief of Police Don Strom, University police were called to the house after an employee “smelled what appeared to be marijuana.”
Searching the house, po-lice found that “a particular section of that building had that smell more than the rest of the building,” said Strom.
Police found and seized marijuana at the house and took three students into cus-tody. No formal charges have
been filed against these stu-dents.
University employees are required to report illegal ac-tivities they observe in any building on campus, accord-ing to Patrick Biddix, coordi-nator for Greek housing pro-grams. Although the Greek Life Office handles each case differently, drug or alcohol violations in fraternity hous-ing can constitute grounds for the immediate cancella-tion of housing contracts.
“In a lot of cases when drugs or anything else that’s illegal as far as [a fraternity’s] statute is concerned, the Uni-versity takes the stance that we prohibit the illegal posses-sion, use or transfer of any controlled substance or para-phernalia, defined by the fra-ternity statute,” said Biddix. “From that, as well as through
our [housing] contract…it’s within our contractual rights to suspend housing, at least in terms of individuals.”
Biddix himself does not perform searches of frater-nity houses unless he deems it necessary, he said.
“One of the things I tell my staff to pass along to their brothers is that I won’t come into your house unless I’ve been called or I need to be there,” said Biddix. “I do walk Fraternity Row, but not every day, just to see outside how things look. But unless there’s some reason…I don’t go in the house.”
Biddix said that students’ safety influences his deci-sions regarding searches of fraternity houses and the con-sequences of what he finds.
“I really feel an obligation to the students for safety and
well-being,” said Biddix. “For example, if it looks like stu-dents have been smoking—and it has to be pretty clear—[or] if it looks like they’ve tampered with safety equip-ment or have covered up the smoke detectors, at that point I think I take a pretty strong stance.”
Although the fraternity has lost its house, it has not been suspended from campus and will continue to function as a Greek organization.
“The University looks for-ward to [Sigma Alpha Epsilon] functioning as a fraternity without a house and to work-ing with student leaders and alumni,” said Vice Chancel-lor for Students Jill Carnaghi. “I think [the members of the fraternity] can be a very
By Kristin McGrathSenior News Editor
Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s housing contract was terminated after WUPD, acting on a tip from a University employee, found mari-juana in the fraternity house.
GEORGE GENNIS | STUDENT LIFE
Risky drinking on campus may be on the riseBy Troy Rumans Staff Reporter
See SAE, page 4
Alcohol statistics don’t justify ‘Just the Facts’ criticism, say offi cialsBy Jessie RothsteinStaff Reporter
Program coordinators for the Just the Facts campaign reasserted its effectiveness this week despite the rash of serious alcohol-related inci-dents last semester.
The campaign, which consists of a series of in-formational posters hung throughout the Washington University campus, aims to curb excessive alcohol use. The Just the Facts program is coordinated by a group of students, staff and faculty that worked together for two years developing and mount-ing the campaign.
Although research has not been conducted on the effect of Just the Facts, stud-ies on similar campaigns has shown them to have a helpful protective influence. The goal of such campaigns is to correct misconceptions that may be leading to high-
risk behavior, said Dr. Alan Glass, director of Student Health and Counseling Ser-vices (SHCS).
Campaigns with similar goals, often called social-norming campaigns, “have a protective effect in that they might not make students drink less than they already do, but they keep them from drinking more,” said Glass.
Yet a surge in alcohol-re-lated incidents in the past few months has created some doubt as to the cam-paign’s effectiveness. Ac-cording to University Police Chief Don Strom, there were “several episodes that were certainly close calls, where people could have suffered very serious or life-threaten-ing injuries.”
But Melissa Ruwitch, chief of Health Promotion and Wellness and the coordina-tor of the Just the Facts com-mittee, said that those who deem the program ineffec-
tive “might not understand the intent of the campaign.”
According to Glass, so-cial-norming campaigns are meant to change the campus culture.
“You can’t really go by whether you’ve had an in-crease or a decrease in al-cohol-related incidents on a year-to-year basis,” said Glass.
Additionally, Ruwitch is quick to point out that de-spite the incidents of last semester, “what you’re not hearing about is someone who learned something from the poster…and didn’t have an incident.”
She does not expect these efforts to eliminate all of the experimental behavior on campus, but hopes that people are learning impor-tant facts through them.
“We understand that it takes time, and that we need to continue with what we know are promising practic-
es,” said Ruwitch.At the same time, Just the
Facts coordinators under-stand that it does not make sense to put all of their hopes on one approach;
rather, it is one of several strategies being used. One such strategy that began in 2005 is an online interactive program required of incom-ing freshman called Alcohol
EDU, which was designed by some of the leading experts in alcohol prevention.
Betsy Foy, assistant direc-
Chancellor Wrighton issued a statement at the end of fall semester stating that alcohol consumption on cam-pus has reached an abusive level and that steps should be taken to curb what he sees as dangerous behavior.
STUDENT LIFE ARCHIVES
See JUST THE FACTS, page 4
See RISKY DRINKING, page 4
As of Jan. 1, Washing-ton University students can no longer buy meals from on-campus dining services without a Univer-sity identification card in hand. The change, accord-ing to Assistant to the Di-rector of Operations Paul Schimmele, stems from concerns about inefficien-cies within Bon Appétit, the University’s dining service.
“What we are trying to do is speed lines up, have an accurate system, and keep the costs down,” said Schimmele. “This helps keep things more effi-cient.”
Before the change, stu-dents were able to pur-chase meals without their cards by giving either their Social Security number or their University identifica-tion number to a cashier. The students’ meal plans would subsequently be charged.
“[This happened] three to four hundred times a week,” said Schimmele.
“At that point, the line stops and some other form of ID has to be found and manually written down. Then someone is spend-ing the better part of the day Monday trying to put those transactions in. It is just inefficient.”
Schimmele added that Bon Appétit stopped ac-cepting Social Security numbers “for…reasons of personal privacy and per-sonal security.”
Due to the change, a student without a card will have to either purchase a new one or acquire a tem-porary replacement from Residential Life Services or his Residential College Director.
But while University dining services will be saving money due to this change, that money will not necessarily find its way back to the students’ pockets.
“When the costs of ad-ministering the meal plan are put together, there is a host of things that go into that,” said Schimmele.
Each week, you will have a rare opportunity to hear – in person – some of the best experts today on a number of critical interests, such as:
Marriage: The way we never wereStephanie Coontz, Feb. 1
The Martian Chronicles: The Rovers expeditionSteven Squyres, Feb. 8
Public education: Too many children left behindJonathan Kozol, Feb. 22
Intelligent Design: The evolution of creationismEugenie Scott, March 22
Super Size Me: America’s love affair with fast foodMorgan Spurlock, March 29
African-Americans: Succeeding in business by really tryingEarl Graves, Jr. , April 5
Childrens’ rights: Speaking for those with no voiceMarian Wright Edelman, April 19
And there’s much more. The Washington University Assembly Series’ Spring 2006 schedule is available at:
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Tuesday, January 3
8:26 a.m. BURGLARY 2ND DEGREE—HEALTH SERVICES—An employee reported the theft of $220 in cash from the cash drawer in the pharmacy area. No forced entry. Oc-curred between 3 p.m. on Dec. 30 and 10 a.m. on Dec. 31. Disposition: Under in-vestigation.
11:27 a.m. UNIVERSITY DRUG/ALCOHOL POLICY OPEN CONTAINER VIOLA-TION—FRATERNITY HOUS-ING—During safety inspec-tions of the frat houses, several items of contra-band were found in Frater-nity No. 7 and No. 11. Items were seized. Disposition: Incident to be referred to Greek Life for judicial vio-lations.
Wednesday, January 4
2:51 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT FROM MOTOR VE-HICLE—PARKING LOT NO. 59—Student reported that between Dec. 26 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 4 at 2:51 p.m. un-known person(s) punched into the drivers side door of his vehicle which was on the second level on the south side of Wohl Garage. Nothing was missing from vehicle, and no other dam-age was noted. Disposition: Pending.
7:05 p.m. PROPERTY DAMAGE—SNOW WAY GA-RAGE—A student stated that he parked his vehicle in the Snow Way Garage on Dec. 23 at 12 p.m., and when he returned on Jan. 5 at 12 p.m. he noticed that the lock on his black Lexus was damaged. Disposition: Pending.
Sunday, January 8
4:54 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT FROM MOTOR VE-HICLE—SNOW WAY GA-RAGE—Victim reported she discovered her driver’s side door lock damaged and her rear hatch unable to be se-cured. Victim also reported that a portable silver ste-reo was missing from her cargo area. Her vehicle was left secure in the Snow Way Garage while she was out of town on winter break from Dec. 18 through Jan. 6. Disposition: Pending.
Monday, January 9
8:41 a.m. DAMAGED PROPERTY—PSYCHOLOGY BUILDING—A construction crane fell into the Psychol-ogy Building, damaging rooms 452 and Penthouse 54A. No injuries were as-sociated with this incident. Disposition: Cleared.
Wednesday, January 11
7:45 a.m. LARCENY-THEFT—COMPTON HALL—Large commercial floor scrubber discovered miss-ing from basement storage closet in Compton at the beginning of December. A search of the other stor-age areas on campus did not reveal the equipment. It is unknown when the the equipment had last been used. Disposition: Pend-ing.
1:22 p.m. LOST PROPER-TY—MILLBROOK GARAGE—A student reported that on Jan. 10 at 4 p.m. while in the Millbrook Parking Ga-rage, she accidentally left her laptop laying on the ground near her vehicle. The student left the garage, and when she returned the laptop was gone. Occurred between 4 and 4:15 p.m. on Jan. 10. Disposition: Pend-ing.
Thursday, January 12
10:16 p.m. NONCRIMI-NAL/INFORMATION ONLY
REPORT—SMALL GROUP NO. 3—Reporting party stated that while checking card access on rooms she discovered a bong in one of the common areas of a suite. Disposition: Referred to Residential Life and JA.
7:04 p.m. INSTITUTION-AL VANDALISM—PARKING LOT NO. 35—Parking lot control arm found lying on the ground. Maintenance made repairs. Disposition: Pending.
8:55 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT, MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS AND ACCESSO-RIES—PARKING LOT—Vic-tim stated that when he returned from vacation he discovered his vehicle to be unsecured with approx $5 in miscellaneous change missing from vehicle. The passenger-side front door had a small “punch” hole located under the locking mechanism. Disposition: Pending.
Friday, January 13
10:55 a.m. BURGLARY, NO FORCE—LEE DORM—Victim stated that person(s) unknown took a purse con-taining her jewelry from the top of a dresser just inside her dorm room. Vic-tim does not know if she had locked her dorm room or not, as she has a tenden-cy to leave the room un-locked. Time of the crime between 10 p.m. on Jan. 10 and 7 p.m. on Jan. 11. Dis-position: Pending.
1:28 a.m. PEACE DISTUR-BANCE—UMRATH DORM—Intoxicated male damaged University property at Umrath Dorm. Subject was taken into custody. Dispo-sition: Referred to JA.
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Tragedy struck on the afternoon of Dec. 21, 2005 when a 66-year-old man was fatally shot in the head in what appears to be a drive-by shooting on the corner of Skinker and Wydown. The victim, Edward Bibb, was found by St. Louis Police af-ter his SUV had overturned and crashed into a parked car. Although gun shots were heard around 4 p.m., police were unsure that they lead to the crash until a second in-vestigation.
Although there are no suspects yet, a search is un-derway for witnesses and a
gold Ford Taurus with a rear spoiler that was reported to have traveled in a parallel lane to Bibb’s SUV. The Ford appeared to have turned into Forest Park shortly after the SUV crashed.
No motives have been found for the case, and it appears to be an isolated incident. A $5,000 reward has been posted by Bibb’s coworkers at the law firm of Gallop, Johnson and Neuman for any critical information regarding the incident.
“There is nothing to sug-gest that this incident was in any way linked to our cam-pus and I know their investi-gation is actively continuing and at this point in time it
seems to be a random act,” said Washington University Police Chief Don Strom.
While the Washington Uni-versity Police Department has not increased any patrols in that area due to the nature of the case, Strom said, “I meet regularly with the St. Louis Police Department, and if there was anything that sug-gested there should be more patrols, I would be willing to cooperate.”
In the meantime, students are encouraged to be alert and take standard precau-tions such as not walking alone at night. At this time, an investigation is still un-derway to find a clear cause of the incident.
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SAE v FROM PAGE 1
JUST THE FACTS v FROM PAGE 1
RISKY DRINKING v FROM PAGE 1strong and positive organi-zation and need to reform on leadership, scholarship, and, as individual brothers, on behaving in a respon-sible manner and holding each other accountable for their actions.”
University administrators plan to work with the frater-nity to develop guidelines for their continued pres-ence on campus, according to Carnaghi.
“We want to develop—in conjunction with the frater-nity’s leadership, alumni, and any interested mem-bers—a plan of action for a stronger organization,” said Carnaghi. “And because these groups will be part of the creation of these guide-lines, nothing will be placed upon them without their in-put.”
Because the incident took place shortly before stu-dents left for winter break, the Greek Life Office hopes to continue discussions with the fraternity as the students return to campus.
“We’ve had numerous conversations with the fra-ternity leadership and the alumni as well as the na-tional organization, and cer-tainly, we intend to have a lot of future conversations,” said Karin Johnes, director of Greek Life.
The University will make housing available elsewhere on campus for those fra-ternity members who must now vacate the house.
“Fortunately, in that situ-ation, the University has al-ways been willing and able to provide housing for those individuals on campus,” said Johnes. “For people who don’t want to live on campus, they would obvi-ously be on their own.”
The fraternity’s hous-ing contract was cancelled before lengthy discussions with the University could take place in order to secure housing for its members, ac-cording to Carnaghi.
“Based on the timing of the incident, we did not have an opportunity to meet with
all the members,” said Car-naghi. “This matter would have been disruptive enough without the students’ finals and final projects, so we decided to wait until after break. We wanted to make sure that housing was tak-en care of and that all the residents of the house were offered alternative housing. That was our first priority. Now that the semester has started, we hope to have as many meetings with mem-bers as possible.”
In cases where actions of individual brothers result in a collective penalty for a fraternity, members must take into account the sense of solidarity that comes with joining a Greek organi-zation, said Carnaghi.
“When an individual of an organization misbehaves, it becomes important for oth-ers in that organization to hold them accountable, be-cause the actions of each member reflects on the or-ganization,” said Carnaghi.
course, that we have not been as successful as we would like,” stated Wrighton in an e-mail to Student Life. “Clearly, we need to be more creative in our efforts, and we hope that we can make better progress.”
To that end, Wrighton and McLeod’s letter announced a new commission being formed concerning alcohol abuse on campus. Wrighton hopes the solutions devised by this commission, which will be composed of both faculty and students, will be more successful than previous attempts made by the University.
“It will be essential to have student input on how best to eliminate alcohol abuse on campus,” noted Wrighton.
One common criticism made of previous alcohol policies stipulates that in-stead of curbing alcohol abuse, such policies only encouraged its use behind closed doors. In Wrighton’s opinion, much of this prob-lem stems from the great quandary of creating a suit-able set of policies regard-ing alcohol on campus.
“It is important to recog-nize that the legal drink-ing age is 21 years of age, and yet it is obvious that with some students above and some below this age there will be complications in applying the law,” wrote
Wrighton. “A ‘dry’ campus does not seem to be the best solution, because that will likely exacerbate problems in off-campus locations.”
Chief of Police Donald Strom also sees the height-ened seriousness of alcohol abuse on campus today as a problem.
“There have been sev-eral instances this fall—relatively high-profile in-cidents—that resulted in situations that could have led to either very serious injuries or could have been life-threatening. In each of these issues, alcohol could have been a part of it,” said Strom.
Strom noted, however, that the increased visibility of alcohol abuse on campus helps to galvanize the Uni-versity populace at large into action.
“I don’t know if we have an answer to policies but I do know that these inci-dents have been red flags as opportunities to address the issues of alcohol abuse on campus…It would be negligent on our part if we didn’t recognize there was an issue here, and we didn’t see what we as a group could try to do,” said Strom.
Strom also mentioned that this issue is far from Washington University-spe-cific. Most campuses with which he has been involved have had significant prob-
lems with alcohol abuse.“I’ve been around this
business for almost 30 years, and worked with a lot of settings where alco-hol is present, and I think the problem here is that no-body has the magic fix for it,” said Strom. “You go to college campuses that pro-fess to be dry campuses, and then students point out to you the areas where the drinking really occurs.”
In Strom’s opinion, re-sponsible behavior ulti-mately comes down to the students themselves.
“The people we bring to campus have demonstrated a high level of responsibil-ity and commitment, so, when they’re brought here, we adopt the approach that we are going to treat you as responsible adults,” said Strom. “We’re not going to be searching rooms for signs of alcohol use.”
Our anonymous junior agrees.
“If [my friends] see some-thing going on, they have al-ways jumped in and stopped it,” he said. “If you’re gonna [drink], do it responsibly. Know your limit. If the room starts to spin, I take a break.”
tor of SHCS, explained that other educational initiatives are in place as well.
“Residential Life pro-gramming in both the fall and spring specifically ad-dresses alcohol use…we are further developing our alcohol peer educators that began with the Our Choices grant three years ago, and we have an early individual intervention program for students who have engaged
in high-risk drinking,” said Foy.
Since high-risk drinking on college campuses is con-sidered a national health crisis, and the University is constantly implement-ing new prevention meth-ods. Ruwitch and others involved with the Just the Facts campaign plan to con-tinue using the posters and then reevaluate at the end of the year.
“We certainly don’t think that social-norming or the Just the Facts campaign is the total solution to a very complex problem,” said Glass. “The solution will involve a lot of pieces, but we’re comfortable that so-cial-norming should be one of those pieces.”
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The Washington Univer-sity men’s basketball team continues their success as the Bears currently hold a 10-4 overall record while also posting a 2-1 Univer-sity Athletic Association (UAA) conference record. After three conference games over winter break, the Bears find themselves in a three-way tie for sec-ond place with University of Chicago and New York University.
The Bears host two con-ference games this up-coming weekend, tipping off against NYU Friday night and then returning to action Sunday against Brandeis University at 11am.
After some time off to recoup and gear up for the rest of the season, the University began UAA con-ference play on Saturday, Jan. 7, with an impressive 74-68 overtime victory against the University of Chicago Maroons. Senior guard Scott Stone led the Bears with 22 points, eight rebounds, four assists, and four steals. Freshman standout Tyler Nading add-ed 14 points, and sopho-more Troy Ruths had 13 points and 11 rebounds in his return from surgery.
Conference action con-
tinued last weekend as Coach Mark Edwards’ squad hit the road to play UAA ri-vals Emory University Fri-day night and Case Western Reserve University Sunday afternoon. Despite their 22-point comeback during the second half against Em-ory, the Bears lost a tough 71-74 battle. Ruths led the Bears with a game-high 23 points, which marked his 18th consecutive game dat-ing back to last season in which he scored in double figures. He also added a career-high 12 rebounds in the loss.
The Bears bounced back Sunday to defeat Case Western 86-69. The Univer-sity had a season-high 25 assists and nine blocks in the win. Senior center and seven-footer Mike Grunst finished with a season-high six blocks for the Bears, and freshman point guard Sean Wallis added a career-high six assists. Stone had seven assists and scored 12 of his team-high 17 points in the second half, as he surpassed 800 points for his career.
A large factor to the Bears’ success this season has been due to senior cap-tain Scott Stone. He has been an offensive catalyst for the team, averaging 23.8 points in the Bears’ last five games. The shoot-ing guard truly made his mark Dec. 17 against Font-bonne University, scoring a career-high 46 points. Stone connected on 16-of-23 from the field, includ-ing a single-game, school-record 14 three-pointers in the Bears’ 104-69 win. He shot 67 percent (14-of-21) from three-point range and moved into third place on the Bears’ career treys list with 164. Edwards’ squad also broke a school-record 17 three-pointers against Fontbonne.
Stone’s record-breaking performances involve more than just scoring. On Janu-ary 4th, Stone’s four assists in the Bears 84-59 win at Maryville University moved
While many Washington University students have nothing to show for their winter breaks other than a few funny stories and a little less cash after the holidays, the women’s bas-ketball team has shown why they are ranked third in the Division III national rank-ings. Over break, the squad participated in three-hour practices to keep them on top of their game, and the hard work has paid off. The Bears are ready to make a run through one of the toughest conferences in the nation.
At 13-1 overall and 3-0 in the conference, the Bears beat their cross-Wydown ri-vals Fontbonne University on Dec. 17 by a score of 87-52. Senior forward Danielle Beehler, who is having an outstanding season, was once again the focus of the game with her game-high 26 points and 13 rebounds. Senior captain Kelly Man-ning contributed 20 points of her own, shooting two-for-four from beyond the three-point arc.
Unfortunately, the new year started poorly for the Bears, who forfeited their first loss of the season coming against Maryville University 63-56. Down by 16 points at halftime, the University stepped up their play and were able to rally in the second half behind
Manning’s 21 points and Beehler’s 16. Junior forward Rebecca Parker led all play-ers with 15 rebounds.
After the loss, the squad worked to rectify their mis-takes before the team start-ed up University Athletic
Association (UAA) confer-ence play. They rose to the challenge, winning all three of their UAA games since the loss to Marymount. In a conference that features fou top 25 teams, the Bears defeated No. 22 Chicago 83-59 on Jan. 7. While the Maroons shot 40 percent from the field, they were no match for the Bears, who had four players in double-digits. Led by Manning’s 19 points, Parker added 18, Beehler 13, and senior Ka-tie Benson added another 10. Parker also collected 13 boards for her second-straight double-double. Ju-nior Sarah Schell was also a key factor in the victory with seven assists and only one turnover.
Continuing conference play, the Bears defeated a much-improved Emory team 71-55 on Jan. 13. The Eagles could not stop the Bear offense that shot 52 percent from the field and 40 percent from three-point range. Manning again led all scorers with 22 points, Bee-hler added 16, and Schell and Benson each tallied 11 points.
In their most recent game on Sunday, the Uni-versity faced Case Western Reserve University. Up by as much as 44 points at one point, the Bears defeated Case Western 77-47. The game was highlighted by staunch defense and forc-ing turnovers. Holding Case Western to only 27 percent shooting, the Bears collect-
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No. 3 women’s basketball wins three straight to begin seasonBy Carrie JarkaSports Reporter
Junior Rebecca Parker fakes out a defender and gets an open jump shot from behind the free-throw line on Nov. 19 against DePauw University. Parker has helped the No. 3 Bears get off to a 13-1 overall mark on the season.
PAM BUZZETTA | STUDENT LIFE
See WOMEN’S B-BALL, page 8
See MEN’S B-BALL, page 8
IN BRIEF: The No. 3 women’s basketball team faltered for the fi rst time this season on Jan. 4 against Marymount Uni-versity but followed up with three straight UAA wins over winter break. Junior Scott Stone made the record books with 46 points against Fontbonne on Dec. 17 as he and the men’s team won four of fi ve games over the break.
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As much as the Stu-dent Life editorial board would like to jump headlong into
2006, there are still one or two loose ends left over from last year. As far as the Wash. U. campus is concerned, perhaps the most notable of these loose ends is the way the administration chose to close out 2005. On Dec. 21, Chancellor Wrighton and Dean McLeod sent out an e-mail addressed to under-graduate students regarding “the use and abuse of alco-hol” on campus.
Among the problems listed in the e-mail were
“student-on-student assaults resulting in serious injuries,” “irresponsible and extremely risky sexual behavior by students” and “off-campus student behavior resulting in complaints to the Uni-versity.” While these issues are certainly concerns, it would probably be diffi cult to fi nd a semester at this or any school in which these three complaints were not reported. Other than these admittedly not great but unremarkable problems, the only other issue listed for consideration is two inci-dents where students fell and hurt themselves. While these
incidents are regrettable, it seems slightly presumptuous to extrapolate a campus-wide drinking epidemic because of a few dramatic incidents. This sort of overreaching action regarding alcohol has been seen before from the administration, though not regarding the student body at large. It is fairly reminis-cent of past policies regard-ing alcohol use and Greek Life. Chancellor Wrighton and company cannot hold the entire community re-sponsible for the actions of a few individuals, as much as they’d like to avoid the bad press that can result from
a poor decision made while drinking.
As absurd as the prob-lems presented in the e-mail are, the solutions suggested are equally silly. Though students are encouraged to take part in campus dialogue regarding alcohol, the only action taken by the Univer-sity in light of this self-di-agnosed drinking epidemic is to continue the University Committee on Alcohol (UCA), an already established body of both University staff and students. If any students on campus need to talk more about alcohol use, the mem-bers of the UCA are probably
not among them. This is not to say that more dialogue among the wider community is desperately necessary, but rather to note that if the University is so convinced that campus dialogue about alcohol is lacking, the dearth of new ideas or programs is confusing.
It seems sad that 2005 had to close on such an un-necessary and arbitrary note from the administration. The concerns presented in the e-mail were overstated, and the solutions suggested were minimal at best. Perhaps in the future the University could stop pretending that
students drink too much because they’re uninformed about drinking. Generally, students at Wash. U. have some intelligence (window problems notwithstanding) and choose to drink a lot be-cause that’s how they choose to have a good time, not because they don’t know that one beer equals one glass of wine equals one shot. Rather than thinking the worst of its student body, the admin-istration could try a more constructive approach and eschew e-mails like the un-necessary scolding that was dished out a few weeks ago.
University’s approach to alcohol misguidedSTAFF EDITORIAL
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1. Stop arguing about football: This came about because I spent a lot of my winter break watching football and, consequently, arguing about the outcomes of various games. One thing I’ve learned this NFL season is that that seems to be pointless. Two teams close to my heart and upbring-ing, the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins, fi-nally made the playoffs, and I for one never could have predicted that happening. There’s no use in getting riled up over it because you just never know. Hey, even the San Francisco 49ers could return for another turn at the top.
2. Read more outside of
classes: This is tough be-cause I’m already an English major, and I have a lot of assigned reading for class. But with all the free time I had in the past month, I polished off some fabulous extracurricular reading. I recommend “A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey.
3. Cook more: Sure, the kitchen is small, and I have to buy my own food, but to be honest, I’m getting a little sick of having Pizza Bagels for dinner every night. I bought some new cookbooks, and now it’s time to branch out!
4. Graduate and get a job: Hopefully the second part of that deal won’t involve serving anyone chicken or
wearing a drive-thru head-set.
5. Go out more on Thurs-day nights: I quickly real-ized last semes-ter that this is the best time all weekend to go out. There are great drink specials and fun people to be found everywhere! I’d much rather go out on Thursday and then make up for whatever I need to do on a Saturday afternoon.
6. Watch more “Daria,” model my life after Quinn and create the Fash-ion Club: Okay, this one’s a joke, but that was seriously
a great television show that everyone should indulge in from time to time.
7. Take more interest in current events: Since I will soon be rudely pushed from the friendly bubble of Wash-ington University, it might behoove me to take a more active interest in the goings-on of the world. You cannot ever know too much about what is happening around you.
8. Do more volunteer work: There are a lot of re-ally great causes right here in the St. Louis area that
could use more student at-tention, and I guess if I can make the time to party on Thursday nights, I should spend some of my free time helping others.
9. Organize my life: Any-one want to clean my room? I would do it, but every time I do, it just gets messy again a few minutes later. Actu-ally, my whole apartment could use a little assistance.
10. Spend as much time as possible with those who have made my college experience great: I only have one semester left when I know for a fact that the closest of my friends will be just an instant message away—where everyone will gather at Blue Hill until 1
a.m. when they will trek down to Pin-Up or where all my upperclassmen friends will live on the “North 40.” A few very important people will be close to me no mat-ter where I am, but this is my last chance to take advantage of the wonderful group of people I’ve come to know and love over the past three and a half years, and I want to enjoy our last few months together.
Molly is a senior in Arts & Sciences and the senior Forum editor. She can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
My top ten New Year’s resolutions
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Correction:
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We all know how liberal Wash. U. is—essentially, it’s a bastion of
communism in the Mid-west. That’s our reputation. Apparently, the only thing truer is that we’re all nerds who spend all of our time studying.
I never found this to be en-tirely accurate. (I mean, I don’t really study that much…oh wait, I’m supposed to be talking about the other thing.) At my high school, there were approxi-mately two open Republicans in my graduat-ing class of 71, as well as an overwhelmingly liberal fac-ulty. So to me, it seems like Wash. U. epitomizes political diversity. Given my obvious inability to detect the full truth, I decided to see for myself how liberal the Wash. U. community actually is.
While it is impossible to see how each member of the Wash. U. community voted, it is incredibly easy to see where those who donate like to throw their money. I just went to the Federal Elec-tion Commission’s Web site
(www.fec.gov), and when that was painfully slow, I went to opensecrets.org and just searched through donors from the last three election cycles (2002, 2004 and 2006) who considered themselves to be employed by Wash. U. Of course, this pretty much
eludes my original mission, as the vast majority of donors are mem-bers of the faculty or administration of the University. But it is interesting to see how those people lean politi-cally.
There were explanations for the donations to
favor either side. Given the University’s connection to the Danforths and the revelation that a contributor known simply as “Washing-ton University in St. Louis” gave $1,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Com-mittee in 2001, sizable dona-tions to Republicans would not have been out of the ordinary. But considering the University’s large stake in the future of stem-cell research, which is usually championed by more Demo-crats than Republicans, as well as the general liberal
tendencies of college profes-sors, I was expecting there to be a slight Democratic leaning. Oh, how wrong I was.
Before I get to the charts, I should note that there were a few names that I recognized as professors’, and I had no idea from their classes about their lean-ings. So this isn’t trying to say that all of us are being taught liberal talking points. It is more of an exercise in intellectual curiosity.
Of the two candidates that have ties to the Univer-sity and have run for of-fice recently, Democrat Jeff Smith got a little more help from Wash. U. than Repub-lican Jim Talent (reports that Talent got an inflated salary as a means of an under-the-table contribution to his campaign excepted). Thirteen separate people donated to Smith’s cam-paign, constituting a total of $13,653. Talent, meanwhile, got $9,150 from ten donors ($6,200 from one in particu-lar). The total results weren’t even that close.
Daniel is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences and a Forum edi-tor. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
DanielMilstein
How Wash. U. donates: an op chart
As parents of an engi-neering freshman, my wife and I like to have a concept of what is
actually going on in our son’s environment, so we subscribe to Student Life (SL).
The recent battles between SL and Student Union (SU) are dis-heartening. We pay over $40,000 annually to see your two organi-zations publicly debate adver-tising rates and publication policies on student government candidates. GET REAL. This squabbling is unproductive, even in a free-speech society.
SL and SU need to be working together to solve problems and fi nd opportunities that benefi t the University as a whole, work-ing in conjunction with the staff and administration. You are the voices of the students and (to a lesser extent) their parents—or at least you should be. Wash. U. is No. 11 nationally—how can you fi nd ways to help move it to No. 8 or No. 5 or even No. 1?
How would you feel if stu-dents were REQUIRED to pay for the most expensive meal plan, even if the student lived off campus? Would you work together to fi x the problem?
How would you feel if you were REQUIRED to buy all of your textbooks through the bookstore, even though there
were much less expensive alter-natives for some of the books? Would you work together to fi x the problem?
How would you feel if you were REQUIRED to pay for health insurance through the University, even though you had much better coverage and reim-bursement under your parents’ plan? Would you work together to fi x the problem?
Hopefully, you would—you are great young adults who need to learn to jointly channel your power positively. Why, you ask, do I pose the three ridiculous questions above (meal plan, books, health coverage)? Here is the answer.
Did you know that your parents are REQUIRED to pay an additional $631 per year for your health care coverage (the Chickering Plan), which is often inferior to that of your family’s insurance providers? Having this policy is a waste of your parents’ scarce fi nancial resources—$3,407,400 annually (based on 5,400 undergrads). Containing costs benefi ts every-one.
Wash. U. is the ONLY uni-versity informally surveyed that does not allow a waiver of coverage with proof of health in-surance. Northwestern, Emory, Yale, NYU, Columbia, Vander-bilt, Syracuse, Case Western, Carnegie Mellon, Rice, Penn, Ohio State and Cincinnati (in my hometown) all have waiv-
ers. They also all have student health fees of about $150 annu-ally to run the student health services. They also all mandate health insurance (at about $1,100 on average) to those few students who aren’t covered elsewhere.
In a letter, Dr. Glass, director of Student Health and Counsel-ing Services, indicated that the plan was implemented in 2001 to accomplish the goal of pro-viding excellent health and well-ness services to the Washington University student community. He states that the advisory group found it was the only way to ensure 100 percent coverage for the Hilltop campus.
It’s outrageous! Other uni-versities don’t seem to have this problem. I challenge you, as student leaders, to proactively and communally review this policy on its fi fth anniversary to see if it is a wise use of your par-ents’ money. What could you (or your parents) do with the extra $2,500 that would be saved per student over four years?
You have chosen to be lead-ers in this magnifi cent Wash. U. community, and leadership is a noble endeavor. However, leader-ship comes with the responsibil-ity of accountability. Be account-able to your constituencies.
Rick is a parent of a student in the class of 2009. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
By Rick FriedmanOp-ed submission
A parent’s perspective
Though we would like to believe that our country has moved beyond the
evil of racism within the past century and a half, as we celebrate this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we cannot pretend his dream has been realized or rest knowing that the immoral racist nightmares that plagued our country have been removed. The South-ern Poverty Law Center is in the process of prosecut-ing five individuals who the center believes beat and maliciously ridiculed, using racially charged language, a mentally chal-lenged African American man until he was uncon-scious and had entered into a coma. In this case, Johnson v. Amox et al, Johnson alleges that de-spite the victim’s desper-ate state, the defendants refused to take the man to a hospital for fear that his blood would stain their cars. They left him by the side of the road for hours before calling police. The victim, Billy Ray Johnson, sustained permanent inju-ry to his brain. This act is
appalling. While Billie Ray Johnson continues therapy in a nursing home, we celebrate the end of racism in America. It would be nice to pretend that this type of hate crime is a rare occurrence. Unfortunately, this perception is inac-curate.
The U.S. Department
of Justice said that 9,035 reported hate crimes oc-curred within the United States in 2004, accord-ing to a publication from this past November. The hate crimes ranged from intimidation and property damage to forcible rape and murder. Motivation for these crimes included bias against the victim’s race, sexual orientation or religion. It is against this backdrop that most of America celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s contri-butions to ending racism while denying that racism and other forms of dis-crimination still exist in a serious and real fashion.
While we are lucky to attend a socially conscious and academically adequate (okay, maybe Wash. U. is a little bit better than adequate) college, it’s easy to forget that others don’t have the same opportu-nity. A large percentage of United States citizens receive education so insuf-ficient that they’re unable to read by the time they graduate high school. Most of the failing school dis-tricts are in areas largely
populated by minorities, and most of the failing students are of a minority race. This is not to imply that no Caucasian students face similar problems, but simply to state that mi-norities are disproportion-ately affected by failing school systems.
Inadequate school dis-tricts are not the product of outright racism in the same way that hate crimes are, but these issues both call into question the equal status of every individual in American society. If all races are biologically equal and have equal opportunity within society, then they should be equally successful and equally financially secure. If the United States were truly an equal society, it would only make sense that the demographics of Congress and CEO posi-tions accurately reflected the demographics of the United States.
I think we all know that our country has not reached a state of true equality. We learn about inequality in class and hear about it on the news. Sometimes, though, while I attend Wash. U. and enjoy the company of a success-ful, diverse student popu-lation, I feel like we must have overcome racism. Because I don’t see lots of racist acts where I am now, I forget that it still affects real people in very real ways. The statistics of hate crimes and poverty speak for themselves. So, when we think about the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebra-tion, it’s important that we celebrate his accomplish-ments and the progress we have made as a country but do not lose sight of the present-day problems and the fight that still contin-ues.
Jill is a freshman in Arts & Sciences. She can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].
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ed 13 steals along with an astounding 29 assists with Schell leading the way with 12. Beehler scored 20 points while Manning collected 16. On a perfect shooting night, Ben-son was 5-5 from the fl oor and 1-1 from the charity stripe.
In one of the toughest match-ups all season, the Bears will continue conference play against No. 20 New York University this Friday night at 6 p.m. and No. 2 Brandeis
University on Sunday at 1 p.m. Both games are home at the University’s Field House. A perennial throw-down, the games this weekend could sig-nifi cantly alter the national rankings and NCAA berths is-sued in the upcoming weeks. In the televised contest against NYU, the Bears look forward to a large crowd for the Red Alert Pack-the-Place Night and Fam-ily Night.
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him to fifth place on the all-time assists list with 300 in his career. He is currently averaging 16.2 points, three assists, and 3.6 rebounds per game, firmly displaying his all around game.
Coach Edwards is very pleased with Stone’s play this year.
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In 1899, thirteen-year-old A. E. J. Collins begins a four-day turn at bat in which he achieves the highest score ever recorded in cricket: 628 not out. His reputed brilliance and reckless-ness on the fi eld have made him a fi gure of legendary stature, so that to the present year no able-minded schoolboy neglects thinking of him on the 22nd. Also of note: in 1996, “Quake” is released for the PC.
By Robbie Gross, Theatre Editor
MOVIE REVIEW
When studying abroad becomes torture
Eli Roth films, sadistic and gory, make for particu-larly good fun with college students in mind. After all, it is this demographic, the pleasure-seeking, middle-class university student, that receives the brunt of the punishment in Roth’s films. His previous offer-ing, 2001’s “Cabin Fever,” saw five college students’ vacation to a secluded cabin result in an especially grue-some infectious disease, whose symptoms included bleeding to a degree most horror movies shy away from.
Roth’s latest, “Hostel,” is equally collegiate and far bloodier. Whereas his previous film focused on the bourgeois college student’s fear of the backcountry and all its dangers, “Hostel” hits the undergraduate student right where it hurts: the
study abroad experience. The film follows Ameri-
cans Paxton (Jay Hernandez), Josh (Derek Richardson), and the Icelandic Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson) as they travel the European continent, one by one planting the seeds to their eventual dismember-ment. Their trouble begins in Amsterdam, when a stranger tells the three sex-craving boys about a hostel in Slovakia that features beautiful women who love foreign men. Horny, misogy-nistic and stupid, the boys travel to the town. After a first night that resembles the stranger’s description, things soon begin to fall apart for the tourists.
First Oli goes miss-ing, and then Josh. When an increasingly unsettled Paxton goes looking for his friends, he is led to a distant abandoned building, where the truth of his colleagues’ fate becomes revealed. They, and now Paxton, have been slowly and creatively tor-
tured by a local business that sells gullible tourists to sadistic buyers. The contract is simple: pay money and you will be provided with a live human body and count-less instruments of torture.
The viewer will soon dis-cover that the second half of the movie will succeed when it is bloodiest, not scariest. Indeed, the film offers few if any genuinely scary mo-ments. Rather than make the audience jump in their seats as they watch Paxton make a daring escape from the torture corporation, Roth attempts a far more reward-ing feat: he makes us cheer with every gratuitous and impossible act of violence. The main characters are not typical horror victims. Quite deliberately, Roth makes us hate his characters. He wants us to think their jokes are not funny, and that their idiocy is not pitiable but punishable. When they are punished—an estimated 150 gallons of fake blood
were used in the making of the movie—the result is a catharsis exactly the opposite of what Aristotle had in mind. The demand is for more tragedy and more senseless (and quite humor-less) torture of the “good guys,” not an end to their suffering.
The movie falls short of expectations only because it does not follow through on this quite reasonable demand. Except for two brief moments involving an eyeball and a pack of violent street urchins, the film’s last half hour disappoints. Whereas “Cabin Fever” ex-celled because of an ending that included the destruc-tion of every character worth a drop of sympathy, “Hostel” becomes a victim of its desire to move into the mainstream. Its final scenes are predictable, and the viewer is left wanting.
For the college student, however—especially the one who has been abroad—”Hos-
tel” will be a certain delight. How can art, after all, truly capture that unique sen-sation that occurs while abroad, where everyone is staring at you seemingly because they somehow want to kill you? In “Hostel,” the answer is simple. They do want to kill you.
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Hostel
Grade: ★★★✬✩Starring: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor GodjonssonDirected by: Eli RothNow playing at: Esquire, West Olive
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VIDEO GAME REVIEW
The Dead or Alive series of fighting games is not exactly a venerable one. The first was a subpar Virtua Fighter clone that intro-duced a ridiculous jiggle to the female characters. The second is probably the most important in the series. It created a whole new aes-thetic design that has been refined by the following 4 games (DoA 2: Hardcore, DoA 3, DoA Ultimate, and now DoA 4). The third advanced the game to a whole new level, finally put-ting it within range of the top tier of fighting games: Soul Calibur II, Tekken 5, and Virtua Fighter 4. Dead or Alive 4 continues what DoA 3 started, but except for improved graphics and some new characters, it is very much the same game as DoA 3.
For novices of the Dead or Alive universe, the game follows the classic mys-terious tournament, evil corporation, etc. plot that has been a staple since the earliest Tekken and Virtua Fighter games. The game-play itself is very fast and flashy, which goes very well with the beautiful visuals. The game is counter-in-tensive, and the watchful, patient player is rewarded with unblockable moves that stop an oncoming play-er in their tracks and deal
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The game is certainly the best looking for the Xbox 360, but because it doesn’t add any real depth to DoA 3, the game just feels very stale. For fans of the slowly dying genre, DoA 4 is cer-tainly a welcome addition to the family that will tide people over until the com-ing of Virtua Fighter 4. For people new to the world of fighting games, the pretty graphics and easy to learn system should provide a nice starting point. Unfor-tunately, not much more can be said on behalf of Dead or Alive 4.
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Dead or Alive 4
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Worth it for: The amazing graphics and fl uid anima-tion.
The main drawback: It’s better to watch than play.
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Nintendo Revolution
Nintendo has promised that their new system would be revolutionary, and all signs seem to suggest that they are correct. Eschewing the standard view of making a new console, they are making a console with marginally improved technical speci-fications but with entirely new features. The first is completely backwards compat-ibility with the Gamecube, a welcome if not exactly stunning feature. Similarly, they are going to make the entire library of Nin-tendo-produced NES, SNES, and N64 games available for download, and other com-panies are expected to follow suit. Along with this is an entirely new control scheme. The main aspect is a remote control-esque unit that is motion sensitive. Have you ever moved the controller up in the attempt to get your character to jump? Instead of just being disappointed with the result, you will now actually see the desired action occur. While it is unknown if this new control scheme will work as promised, there is the potential for some amazing gaming.
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
This certainly seems to be the year of Nintendo. Not only do they have the launch of the Revolution, but they also have what seems to be the biggest game of the year. Taking a drastic departure from the love-it-or-hate-it Disney-esque graphics of Wind Waker, Twilight Princess has an art design that looks like the love child of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Along with this comes the amazing gameplay that people have come to expect, with a few new twists. Taking a cue from fan-favorite Zelda: Majora’s Mask, Link will have the ability to transform into a werewolf. Given the amount of polishing this game is going through, and the high standards that Nintendo holds for their flagship series, this game is going to be amazing.
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Here at Cadenza, we have long been tempted to review movies, albums and books with-out ever seeing the fi lms, listening to the CDs or reading the novels. We have even gone so far as to develop a method for this ultimate act of journalistic lethargy: writing movie re-views based solely on the trailer, writing album reviews based solely on the cover art, and writing book reviews based solely on the quality of the author’s last name. Unfortunately, until now, our staunch morals and strict journalistic integrity have prevented us from acting on these hidden desires. But fi nally, the time has come for us to put our section to shame with a whole year of reviews in advance. So please, dear readers, take part in our careless rebellion and enjoy our take on the best movies, music, fi lms, videogames and pop culture of 2006.
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Best Political Madness
—Best Academic Conference—
Iran takes on the Holocaust
—Best Supreme Court Decision—
The long-awaited overturn of Roe v. Wade
Best Music
—Best Album—
—Best Movie Soundtrack—
Iranian officials have recently an-nounced that the country will host a conference on the scale and conse-quences of the Holocaust. Still uncertain is whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who in December spoke of “the myth of the genocide of the Jews,” has approved of the conference. If the occasion has his blessing, then it will be the first conference in recent memory where a governing body has authorized an inquiry into an event that it officially does not believe happened. Expect some fireworks!
Once Samuel Alito finally makes it into the Supreme Court, something long over-due shall occur. Finally, the age of sin in which we are living will come to an end. Only the overturning of Roe v. Wade will be able to accomplish this. People will see how horrible their lives had become and will turn back to the loving embrace of Jesus, praying to him to bless them with many, many children (all conceived in wedlock of course). 2006 promises to be a great year for all true Americans.
This year we have a couple new re-leases that will be sure to top the crit-ics beginning-year lists. Radiohead are recording their next album to be issued this fall and are planning a tour to take place across the US this summer. The album, already in post-production, features frontman Thom Yorke sneezing into a microphone for 74 minutes. While not particularly innovative, the delicacy and precision of these sneezes will move listeners to tears.
The Flaming Lips also have a new album due this spring, which will likely be remastered and reissued by the year’s end. It has also been confirmed that they will be recording the “unofficial” soundtrack to the upcoming Will Ferrell/Drew Barrymore adaptation of “Curious George” which hits screens this summer. Not since “The Graduate” will we have seen such movie soundtrack mastery.
Best Movies—Best Film—
‘Snakes on a Plane’
—Best Disappointment—
‘The Da Vinci Code’
—Best South Korean Film About A Mutant—
‘The Host’
—Best Self-Refl exive Meta-Film—
‘Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story’
It’s a movie about snakes, but get this: they’re on a freaking plane. Take a mo-ment to let that sink in. The publicity photo for this is Kenan Thompson on a plane looking at a big snake, and it seems only one of an infinite possible number of moments of snake-related aviation terror. True story—the studio tried to change the title to something less awe-some, but star Samuel L. Jackson insisted that the title, with its honest yet tantaliz-ing combination of snakes and planes, was the only reason he had taken the job. “You either want to see that or you don’t,” he said in a collider.com interview. What kind of person wouldn’t?
We all can’t wait to be crushed when we discover that “The Da Vinci Code” doesn’t live up to the hype. Somebody in the dorm will tell me how interesting it is, then Roger Ebert’s positive review will feed a vague, hopeful feeling. Then the film will come out, all overstated and hu-morless, though not without a comforting air of expensiveness.
The long-delayed horror film “The Host” will allegedly surface some time in June. It seems to be about some kind of huge mutant monster that comes out of a river and kills things. If you haven’t seen director Joon-ho Bong’s previous movie, “Memories of Murder,” you prob-ably should; it’s a clever black comedy/real-life serial killer mystery that turns all introspective late in the game. Though if you weren’t on board at “huge mutant monster,” the movie probably won’t work for you no matter what Joon-ho does.
A.k.a. the winner of the Charlie Kaufman award for excellence in di-gression and self-indulgence, Michael Winterbottom’s film about the making of a film adaptation of a book that was itself a self-reflexive fictional biography looks promisingly convoluted and sarcastic, and it could even be good.
