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Jan. 25-31, 2012
Revolutionary Webster president remembered
Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, 85, dies in her Florida home
She became executive vice president and eventually president.
Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor Prof. Joe Schuster wrote in an
unpublished history of Webster
Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, University that Wexler, “was, for
former Webster University presi- many, the personiication of Webdent, died in her Florida home ster College.”
Perhaps the most notable and
hursday, Jan. 19. She was 85 years
revolutionary change Wexler
old.
Born Jean Marie Grennan in brought to Webster College was
a small Illinois town, Wexler and the transition from a Catholic
her three siblings grew up on a institution to a secular, lay board
farm. Her parents worked hard school. Webster was the irst Cathto educate both male and female olic college in America to break
children, an uncommon choice in from the Church.
Schuster wrote that Wexler
the 1930s.
wanted to expand general educa“She was very
tion requirements
proud of being a
and said in a 1965
farm girl,” her son,
speech that, “If we
Wayne Wexler, said.
are to educate stu“She said, ‘I’m from
dents whose power
Sterling, Ill. My dad
and drive to search
was a farmer and he
within a discipline
tailed gas during the
both liberates and
depression to get us
compels them to
through school.’ She
search within other
was very proud of
ields, we must crethese things.”
ate opening courses
Ater being the
which are, indeed,
irst girl to take a
open-ended, strucscience class instead
WEXLER
tured
to induce a
of home economics
growing and deepin her high school,
ening
curiosity,”
Wexler went on to graduate Webster College in 1948 with degrees rather than restrict students with
strict theological course requirein English and mathematics.
Wexler joined the Sisters of ments.
“hat was critical to the colLoretto in 1949, taking the name
“Jacqueline” in honor of her de- lege’s future,” Wayne Wexler said.
ceased brother, Jack. She became “he bishops and what not of
a teacher, eventually instructing St. Louis made it very hard on
students at Nerinx Hall, right next her. She had enormous support
door to her alma mater. She fol- from the Sisters of Loretto to get
lowed Sister Francetta Barberis through that.”
It was this transition from the
back to Webster when Barberis
Catholic
Church that allowed
was appointed president in 1958.
Wexler served as the face of Webster to continue as a thriving
Webster College from 1965-69.
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BY aNdRea sisNeY aNd
BRiTTaNY RUess
COURTESY OF CLAUDIA BURRIS
Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, Webster College president from 1965-1969, died in her Florida home on Thurdsday, Jan. 19. She was 85 years old. Wexler
irst came to Webster in the 1940s to major in English and mathematics. One year later, she joined the Sisters of Loretto. She took the name Jacqueline to honor her late brother, Jack. Wexler returned to her high school alma mater, Nerinx Hall, to teach. Before taking the position as Webster’s
president, she irst served as vice president. During her four years as Webster’s president, Wexler helped turn the university from a Catholic institution
into a secular school. Webster was the irst college to do so in America.
MOVING IN
GALE WHITEHEAD /he Journal
Webster University’s Board of Trustees announced the purchase of a $935,000 residence in the Webster Park
neighborhood to serve as home for President Elizabeth Stroble. The home is located at 102 Mason Avenue.
Neighbor expresses concern
over presidential home
BY aNdRea sisNeY
Editor-in-Chief
EVAN MUELLER /he Journal
UPFRONT
Construction is nearly complete on Webster University’s East Academic Building, located across
the street from Garden Park Plaza on campus. The building will be the irst new structure to house
classrooms on the home campus since the 1980s. George Herbert Walker School of Business Dean
Benjamin Akande and other business faculty moved into the building over winter break. The building
will oicially open for classes in the spring semester’s second term.
Kendall Kaul, who has lived
in Webster Groves his entire
life, isn’t pleased about his new
neighbor. In December, the Webster University Board of Trustees announced the purchase of a
$935,000 university residence at
102 Mason Ave., across the street
from Kaul and his family.
“I’ve seen how (the university)
has kind of taken over neighborhoods,” said Kaul, who has lived
on Mason Avenue for the past six
years.
his Wednesday, President
Beth Stroble will meet with Kaul
and other Webster Park residents
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to discuss their concerns.
Kaul and his wife, who graduated from Webster approximately
10 years ago with an MBA, became aware of the university’s
purchase through Webster Today.
Kaul said he believes Webster
didn’t announce that they would
be moving into the Webster Park
neighborhood in hopes that they
could move in quietly to avoid
upsetting residents.
“(Now) it seems they are starting to show concern to what the
neighborhood thinks,” Kaul said.
he main concerns Kaul has
about the university purchasing a
home center around his children.
He said he doesn’t want a traic
problem that could put his kids in
danger.
“Now (Webster University)
is expanding north,” Kaul said.
“Will they want more houses?
Fraternity houses? President’s
houses are oten used for events.
How oten (will Stroble host
guests)?”
Kaul and his wife received a
letter from Webster inviting them
to attend a lunch on Jan. 25 to
discuss concerns ater they, along
with other members of the Webster park neighborhood, called
the university with complaints.
Doug Nissing, president of
the Webster Park Association,
and Maggie Sowash, a member of
See President’s Home
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NeWs BRieFs
WINS gains
partnership with
Northeastern
University
Northeastern University has
been added as a partner to the
Webster International Network
of Schools (WINS) program. It
is the most recent ailiate institution of 25 connected with the
WINS program.
he program allows other
universities to send their students abroad through Webster’s international campuses.
Already sending some students
to Webster’s various locations,
Northeastern University is one
of the institutions promoting
the WINS program partnerships.
he program holds an annual conference for partner
schools and interested schools
to attend the function. he
next conference will be held at
the Webster hailand campus
in Cha-am.
SOC Dean search
update
he job description for the
position of dean of the School
of Communications (SOC) was
inalized this week. he SOC
Dean Search committee, along
with consultants at the executive search irm Witt/Kiefer,
Webster Human Resources
and Webster Academic Afairs
provided input. he search
committee also received input
from students in the SOC via
an open forum held on Dec. 1.
According to Susan Kerth, a
university spokeswoman, Webster plans to advertise the position in print and online. hey
will be posting the job listing in
he Chronicle of Higher Education. he job posting is not
yet on Webster’s job opportunities page.
“Mostly I’m concerned that
there is a good process for hiring a dean that is even close to
how good Debby Carpenter is,”
said Linda Holtzman, communications professor. “It seems
like there are some really good
people involved in the search
and we’ve all been asked for
criteria and things that are important to us.”
he job description on Witt/
Kiefer’s website states:“Review
of candidates will begin immediately and continue until the
position is illed.”
Ater taking a sabbatical in
the fall, Debra Carpenter, current SOC dean, will return to
teaching PR courses in January
2013. Carpenter became dean
of the SOC in 1996.
To read the full job description, visit websterjournal.com
Community Music
School receives new
conductor
David Commanday was announced as the new conductor of the Community Music
School’s Young People Symphonic Orchestra on Monday,
Jan. 23.
Commanday has held many
prestigious positions for orchestras all around the world.
Some of those include the Boston Ballet’s music director, New
Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s
associate director, Peoria Symphony Orchestra’s music director and most recently, New Jersey Youth Symphony’s artistic
director.
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Courtney Turner, sophmore advertising and marketing major, is sworn in as SGA president on
Jan. 24 in the Sunnen Lounge.
Courtney Turner takes
role as SGA president,
ater Raymundo resigns
BY BRiTTaNY RUess
Managing Editor
Justin Raymundo resigned as Student
Government Association (SGA) president
ater holding the position for two-and-ahalf years. He was the irst student in SGA
history to win the presidency three times.
Courtney Turner, sophomore advertising
and marketing major, was sworn in as
president at a SGA meeting on Jan. 24.
Turner was irst informed of Raymundo’s
resignation during her shift at Applebee’s
after missing a call from SGA advisor
John Ginsburg.
“It was a Friday night,” Turner said. “It
was out of the blue.”
Raymundo resigned ater accepting a full-time position at Monsanto as
Wexler:
school. he move helped fund a
inancially struggling institution,
and opened opportunities for
students that had been previously
closed.
Diane Gartland, whose time
at Webster College coincided
with Wexler’s presidency, saw the
change manifest on campus when
the nuns stopped wearing their
habits.
“I remember seeing a couple of
the sisters, and I can’t remember
where but it couldn’t have been on
campus. It was some place where
they were socializing, having
cocktails,” Gartland, class of 1969,
said. “We were all of age and all
that, but I don’t think the younger
women were appalled by it, they
were just amazed.”
Gradually, she said, the entire
institution began to change. Students were given more freedom to
select their classes. As a freshman,
Gartland said she was required to
take theology and religion classes
— traditional to a Catholic education. By her senior year, Gartland
was taking a class called Black and
White Civilization. In the course,
the professor and students spent
several classes discussing the
democratic convention and the
riots during it.
“We discussed, in class, if you
want to get people’s attention you
can’t dress like a hippie — you
have to dress in business wear so
that when the cops come to beat
you up, it will look bad on the
television,” Gartland said. “his
was the type of stuf they were
teaching us in the classroom. To
us, this was very radical.”
At Gartland’s 1969 graduation, she and her fellow classmates walked to a nun playing the
“Pomp and Circumstance” on the
organ. Suddenly, the organ was
disconnected and the music of
Simon and Garfunkel played. he
students danced their way to their
seats.
“hat really said it all,” Gartland said. “We started at Webster
in a very traditional way, and we
ended up in a very kind of expanded, open-minded, anything
goes kind of way.”
Around this time, Wexler also
asked to be dispensed from her
vows. She explained the decision
to remove both herself and Webster from the Church in an interview with Barbara Walters on the
Today Show.
“It was not breaking with the
Church,” Jacqueline Wexler said.
“It was opening doors beyond
that.”
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said. “And, we don’t need igureheads at
Webster, we don’t need images – we need
actual people to make solid decisions and
I never want to be remembered as an image...So, it’s great that people think of me
as someone who brought a new light and
enthusiasm and energy to the position of
student body president. But I think what
Courtney Turner will be able to do more
than me is really do the job and be a hard
worker and make the decisions and not be
swallowed by the image.”
Turner said as SGA Vice-President, she
knew there was the possibility for her to
step up into the presidency.
“I’m not afraid to take on a challenge,”
Turner said. “I’m excited. With my student
government behind me, they’re such great
people, I couldn’t be more excited.”
In her four years at Oakville High School
in South St. Louis County, Turner worked
her way up to president of Oakville’s student council. When running for SGA in
her irst year of college, Turner said she
contemplated eventually taking the presidential seat.
“I made my way up the chain in high
school and it’s awesome to see that I made
it up the chain here too,” Turner said.
Turner said she knows she has big shoes
to ill succeeding Raymundo, but is enthusiastic about the future.
“It’s not one of those jobs in which you
stick to the side,” Turner said. “It’s one of
those jobs where your work shows through
it and people are relying on you and you
want to make a good impression on everybody, and stay on top of things.”
Raymundo and Turner have continuously talked to help Turner transition into
her role.
“He wants to make sure student government goes really well and I don’t blame
him,” Turner said. “He’s been in the position for two-and-a-half years. He wants
what he’s done in student government to
carry on and I plan to do that.”
Turner said she plans to meet with
President Beth Stroble in the near future to
develop her working relationship with the
administration — something Raymundo
worked steadily on during his presidency.
“I feel like our administration is so extremely friendly that it’s one of those things
in which I’m going to feel really comfortable working with them and I feel like a
lot will get done between us,” Turner said.
“Once I get the relationship going, I can see
it progressing quickly.”
Before advocating for certain issues,
Turner said she would like to focus on
creating more orderly SGA meetings and
strengthening the relationships between
SGA members.
“If the student government body themselves doesn’t feel comfortable working together, we won’t feel comfortable working
with the students,” Turner said. “So I want
to improve our relationships and make us
a stronger group of student government
leaders so we can serve the students better.
Once I accomplish that, then I can move
onto the people.”
Turner added that she will see how this
semester goes, but could see herself running for SGA president at the end of the academic year.
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Webster mourns former president who helped transform campus
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manager of corporate responsibility in
which he will collect data and information
for Monsanto’s sustainability report.
He irst interned at Monsanto in June
2010. He stayed on as an intern until earning a part time position in Jan. 2011 and
maintained the position under Maureen
Mazurek, director of Corporate Responsibility. Monsanto ofered Raymundo a fulltime job during the inal week of the fall
semester. He started the job on Jan. 3.
“I knew that it was the right opportunity
to take to ill the position (Maureen) wanted me to and fulill this full-time role, really get serious about where I wanted to be
ater Webster,” Raymundo said. “I looked
at my schedule for the (spring) semester
and I knew that if I wanted to graduate on
time, if I wanted to survive a full-time academic load and a full-time job like many
non-traditional students do, I had to give
something up.”
He then chose to leave SGA. Raymundo
met with University Center (UC) director
John Ginsburg, then Dean of Students Ted
Hoef to resign as SGA president, writing an
informal resignation letter on legal pad.
“I was walking out of the (UC) and it
was the last time I was in the UC as not just
the student body president, but also as a
traditional undergraduate student because,
obviously, I work full-time and am not on
campus as much anymore,” Raymundo
said. “My college life is efectively over and
it hit me, and it was sad.”
As SGA president, Raymundo worked
to strengthen the Delegate’s Agenda. Raymundo created a relationship between
Delegate’s Agenda and SGA through encouraging SGA executives to research and
present issues to the administration.
“Delegate’s Agenda not only advances
those causes by virtue of just facilitating
the Delegate’s Agenda, but also by sinking SGA with those,” Hoef said. “hat always hasn’t been the case. SGA, in the past,
sometimes said, ‘Here are our goals and
there’s Delegate’s Agenda.’ I think Justin did
a nice job of having those all be on the same
page which I think helped advance (those
causes) more.”
Raymundo is not the only veteran SGA
executive to resign. Seniors Abby Bandelow and Erin King, former public relations
and sergeant-at-arms respectively, stepped
down. Junior Nicole King, former secretary
also let SGA before 2012. he positions
were illed as follows:
—Courtney Turner, President, sophomore
advertising and marketing major
—Michael Grosch, Vice-President, sophomore international relations and public relations major
—Katie Maxwell, secretary, sophomore sociology and mathematics major
—Chris Venable, sergeant-at-arms, junior
secondary education and mathematics major
Ginsburg, who advises SGA, feels that
although the timing may be earlier than
expected for these young leaders to take on
higher SGA positions, they are ready for
the responsibilities.
“I think the people who let did a good
job at grooming the younger folks to be
able to step up,” Ginsburg said. “It may
sound strange to say so, but I think the timing was really good because it was a good
thing for Justin and it was a good time for
other leaders to step up.”
When Raymundo ran for the third time
in spring 2011, Ginsburg said he saw Raymundo approach younger students and encouraged them to join SGA.
“I think the conversation a year ago
when I said, ‘Justin, if you run for a third
term, when you leave there could be this
power vacuum.’ I think he took that to
heart to make sure that when he did graduate there would be younger members involved,” Ginsburg said. “I think Michael
(Grosch) is a good example. He’s someone
Justin reached out to and expressed interest
in further roles on SGA since Michael got
started.”
Raymundo said he hopes Turner will be
not only respected as SGA president, but
also for what she does in that position.
“Sadly, at times I really lead as a igurehead as opposed to a leader, as an individual, as a strong decision maker,” Raymundo
First woman appointed to the United Technologies
Corp. board of directors.
Participant in an advisory panel on research and
development in education held by President John F.
Kennedy.
Oversaw the development of the Masters of Arts in
Teaching (MAT) program and the Veterans Accelerated Urban Learning for Teaching program.
Convinced hotel magnate Conrad Hilton to donate
$1.5 million to the university to create the LorettoHilton Center.
Served as President of the World Organization of
Christians and Jews.
Wexler only occupied the
presidency for four years, choosing to leave in 1969 to marry Paul
Wexler, a Jewish businessman
from New York. hey married on
June 11 that year.
“He (Paul) loved her,” Wayne
Wexler said. “None of us will
ever recover from this loss, but
he more than anybody. hey were
life-long friends, and husband
and wife.”
When she met Paul Wexler,
she also met his two children,
Wendy and Wayne. In the early
1970s, she adopted the two children.
“She became mom right away,”
Wayne Wexler said. “She was my
mother much longer than my natural mom. She was always mom.”
She went on to serve as president of Hunter College for almost 10 years. At Hunter, Wexler
opened admissions to all high
school students in the area and
began charging tuition. he new
tuition caused students to riot and
the campus was eventually closed
at one point, Wayne Wexler said.
“She was under enormous
stress,” Wayne Wexler said. “She
walked into that and she was really magniicent and strong and
forth right. She was battling with
the academics — the professors,
the students and the press. But, it
was the right thing to do. She was
a terriic administrator and was
able to work the politics out so it
was a success story.”
Jacqueline Wexler helped expand the Hunter campus with
new buildings like a library, which
was named in her honor. Wayne
Wexler’s son is currently a senior
at Hunter College.
Wayne Wexler said he misses
the fun, laughter and camaraderie he shared with his mother. He
misses their true mother-son relationship.
“I’ll miss that forever,” Wayne
Wexler said. “It’s way too soon.”
A funeral service will be held
for Wexler Saturday, Jan. 28 in
Rockfalls, Ill. Webster Today announced Friday that a memorial
service would take place on Webster’s campus in the near future.
No date has been announced.
Background information on
Jacqueline Wexler was contributed
by Joe Schuster from an unpublished chapter in a history of the
university.
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Muny forms partnership with Conservatory
BY sTePHaNie LeFLeR
Staf Writer
Webster’s Conservatory of
heatre Arts has maintained its
longterm partnerships with he
Rep and Opera heatre of Saint
Louis, and has just added a third
partnership to its list. he Muny
and Conservatory are teaming up
to enhance the opportunities and
experiences for both organizations.
According to Webster Today, through the collaboration
of both the Muny and Webster’s
Conservatory, students will have
the opportunity to audition for
Muny productions, intern at the
Muny and take classes ofered by
the Muny’s choreographers and
directors. Students will also help
with developing processes for the
Muny’s future.
“I am thrilled,” Audrey
McHale, senior musical theater
major, said. “I think there will be
an exciting inlux of Webster students auditioning and being seen
from now on. I am excited to see
where these relations will go in
the future.”
Students can now audition and
perform in Muny shows, and the
2013 Muny season will reserve
two positions in at least one musical for both a male and female.
For many native St. Louis Conservatory students, performing at the
Muny is a desirable goal. Jordan
Parente, a junior musical theater
major feels no diferent.
Parente grew up in St. Louis
and performed on the Muny
stage as a Muny Teen.
“When we found out, everyone was so excited — even
kids who had never been to the
Muny,” Parente said. “It means a
lot, especially from growing up in
St. Louis and doing Muny.”
Lara Teeter, head of Webster’s
musical theater department, is
no stranger to performing at the
Muny.
Teeter said when a student
performs on the Muny stage, they
receive their Equity card. his is a
labor union that represents thousands of performers in the United
States.
“To graduate and already have
an Equity card is a big deal,” Teeter said.
Along with a chance to perform, there will be several kinds
of internships ofered to Conservatory production students.
Starting in January, those selected
will help prepare for the Muny’s
2012 season. Webster Today cited
those who are selected are able to
help with the Muny season planning and casting process, scenic
and costume design, and other
parts of production.
“To know that we will be able
to share the Muny stage with students is great,” Teeter said. “Our
students could be involved in the
process of an evolving show.”
Teeter said Mike Isaacson, the
Muny’s new executive producer,
is the driving force behind this
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A bright sign welcomes visitors into The Muny in Forest Park, one of the nations oldest and largest outdoor theaters.
Webster University and The Muny are partnering up, a irst for both institutions, to train staf and students to help
promote performing arts in St. Louis.
partnership.
“he Muny experience has
always involved Broadway professionals working with inspiring
newcomers,” Isaacson said. “It’s
exciting and rewarding, and terriic energy to have around. he
students from Webster will be
bringing their talents and skills
to assist the Muny with all aspects
of the 2012 production process.
But, along with their skills, they’re
sharing who they are.”
As part of the partnership,
Isaacson will also attend Conser
vatory auditions and portfo-
lio reviews to further assist in
collaboration.
According
to
Isaacson,
through their experiences and
learned skills, Conservatory students will have some of the most
advanced job portfolios for musical theater students in the country
when they graduate.
While the Muny is the largest
and oldest outdoor musical theatre in the nation, Isaacson says
Webster is the only
school that has ever had this kind
of partnership with he Muny.
“he Muny has always had
deep civic roots; the ability to
serve and work with our community is one of the reasons we
exist,” Isaacson said. “My hope
is that through this partnership,
the Webster program increases in reputation and caliber of
students.”
Auditions for Muny productions will be held in February he
Loretto-Hilton Center.
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First Active House in the U.S. to be built in Webster Groves
Environmentally conscience couple plans to construct sustainable home
BY MeGaN FaviGNaNO
Copy-Editor
Ater living in his dad’s childhood home
in Brentwood for eight years, David Smith
is moving back to Webster Groves — two
blocks from where he grew up — with his
wife huy Smith and 4-year-old daughter
Cameron.
he Smiths’ new home, on South Gray
Avenue, will be an “active house,” an environmentally-conscience building approach. Architects involved with the project say the home will be the irst active
house in the United States.
According to he Active House Alliance’s website, an active house is a “green”
building technique that started in Denmark and has since been used throughout
Europe. he Active House Alliance was
established in Copenhagen in 2010 to support the active house building concept.
David Smith said he and his wife hope
to move into their new home by the end
of 2012. For approximately one year, the
Smiths looked for a new house in the Webster Groves and Brentwood areas. David
Smith approached Jef Day, principal architect of Jef Day and Associates, about building a home. Day, who built an addition on
the Smiths’ current Brentwood home, suggested the Smiths get involved with the active house project.
Hibbs Homes will build the Smiths’ new
house.
“We (when building the active house)
give equal weight to the resource eiciency,
the indoor environment, the sustainability
of the environment, as well as the conservation angle,” Kim Hibbs, of Hibbs Homes,
said.
he principles of active house focus
more on what Hibbs called a, “holistic approach.” He said many green building certiications in the U.S. focus on conservation
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Though the architects for the Active House are still in the preliminary stages of planning, the house
will be constructed at this location on South Gray Avenue.
and the building process.
he New East Academic Building will
be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certiied. Hibbs said the
construction process for the active house is
similar to green building certiications such
as LEED.
“he approach is similar. You’re focusing on many of the same items,” Hibbs said.
Day said they will take their plans to
the Webster Groves Architectural Review
Board in February for approval. Day hopes
to break ground on the project sometime in
March.
David and huy Smith have been working with architects to design the home,
which is still in the preliminary design
stages.
“he main idea is smart building and
following guidelines to make sure the house
is as eicient as possible,” David Smith said.
David Smith said the goal is for the new
home to be a zero net energy house. Along
with energy eiciency, the active house
concept focuses on the indoor climate and
environmental efect of the home. As the
Smiths and architects plan the layout of
the new house, they are considering which
time of day each room is most used so the
house can utilize natural light.
he University of Missouri and Laclede
Gas will monitor the house for at least one
year to observe how the house performs.
hey will monitor the electric consumption
and eiciency of the heating and cooling
systems. Hibbs said it’s rare to see monitoring of green veriied homes in the U.S.
“I’m excited to see exactly how well we
build this house to make sure we deliver a
good product for our clients,” Hibbs said.
David Smith said building a green home
isn’t going to cost a signiicant amount
more than they were planning to spend on
a new home.
“he most attractive thing is the cost of
operation,” David Smith said.
By utilizing reusable sources, such as solar energy, David and huy Smith will have
lower monthly costs. Day said he has seen
a similar motivation in other clients.
“My clients that are building green
homes are doing it because it has a positive
impact on their pocket book when they’re
not burning all these utilities,” Day said.
he Smiths and the architects involved
have preliminary drawings for the Smiths’
new home, but don’t yet have an estimated
cost of the new house. he Smiths want
a traditional style home similar to other
homes in the Webster Groves neighborhood.
he Smiths’ bought their current home
in Brentwood from David Smith’s grandmother. When they move, David Smith
will leave his father’s childhood neighborhood for his own. he Smiths plan for their
new home to be slightly larger than their
current house.
“With our daughter getting a bit older,
we are looking for a little more space,” David Smith said.
Matt Belcher, a green construction specialist and consultant at Hibbs Homes, and
Hibbs were searching for a client interested
in this project. Hibbs is excited to be involved in construction of the irst active
house in the U.S.
“I would like to see any kind of home
that takes into account what many of these
green programs take into account,” Hibbs
said. “It’s (green buildings) what has to be
done in order for us to address the longterm issues (regarding the environment)
that we will face.”
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Webster Works campaign
reaches $56.5 million
BY aLex BRaNdT
News Editor
President Elizabeth Stroble
announced during convocation on Jan. 13 that the Webster
Works campaign exceeded the
original goal of $55 million by
raising $56.5 million.
he Webster Works campaign provided 45 new endowed
scholarships. Diana homas,
junior public relations major,
received one of them — the African American Association Collegians (AAAC) Alumni Scholarship of $3,000.
“I deinitely think it’s great
that there’s more money available,” homas said. “An extra
$1,500 a semester is great.”
Faith Maddy, vice president
of development and alumni programs, said the campaign was
originally launched in Jan. 2003,
and was publically announced in
Sept. 2010
Maddy said three goals were
determined – Webster needed
more physical facilities, growing
endowment and increased operational support.
Maddy said roughly $23 million was invested in facilities,
$12.5 million invested in endowment scholarships and nearly
$21 million went to Webster’s
annual support fund.
“Every single git brings us
a step closer (to goals),” Maddy
said.
In terms of facilities, the
much-needed space for more
classrooms, Maddy said, was a
driving force behind the campaign. he New Academic building provides much needed classroom space, Maddy said.
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Residents for Webster
Groves, both said they were
uncomfortable making a comment due to ongoing negotiations between residents and the
university. Residents for Webster Groves has previously spoken out in complaint against
the university’s expanding
master plan, which includes a
proposed acquisition of land
from Eden Seminary.
University spokeswoman
Susan Kerth said in a statement
to he Journal that Webster has
been discussing the purchase of
a residence since 2008, and that
having housing for university
presidents is standard practice.
Stroble is meant to move in to
the house in March 2012 ater
renovations, and will use the
residence to host events for the
school and local community, as
well as dignitaries and donors.
he purchase will eliminate
the housing allowance Stroble
formerly received as part of her
salary. Kerth said the purchase
is an investment expected to
save Webster $265,000 over 30
years. In 2011, the taxes on the
property were $11,140.
When asked about the Webster Park neighborhood’s reaction to the purchase, Kerth did
not comment. he Journal also
requested a comment or interview from Stroble, but received
no response.
Dennis Golden, president of
Fontbonne University, resides
in a home on his Clayton campus. Wydown House was purchased when Golden became
president in 1995. He said the
home has been very beneicial
to the work he does.
“he irst 15 presidents (of
Fontbonne) were all religious
women,” Golden said. “here
was no presidential house.
When I was hired, they were
going to give me a housing allowance, but the board owned
a house on Wydown. he university renovated it and it became our home six months in
(to his presidency.)”
In 1998, the 2,716-squarefoot Fontbonne home was appraised for $264,000. Wydown
House was most recently valued at $293,700 in February
2011 by the St. Louis County
Tax Assessor’s oice. Webster’s
3,430-square-foot
residence
on Mason Avenue was put on
the market in May 2011 with
an asking price of $1,150,000.
he list price was reduced three
times before the university’s
purchase.
Golden said having a home
on campus allows him and his
wife to host annual events such
as the faculty and staf Christmas party, commencement receptions and open houses for
international students. Golden
has even taught classes in the
Wydown House. He said the
home allows him to be visible
on campus, as his front door
is less than ive minutes away
from most campus buildings.
“We’ve become a part of the
community,” Golden said. “Our
neighbors know us personally.
It can lessen (our image) which,
at times, is too institutional.”
When Fontbonne purchased the home 17 years ago,
Golden said the neighborhood
held a reception. hough the
relationship has had ups and
downs as both the neighborhood and the university have
expanded and changed, Golden feels his presence has helped
create a positive relationship
between Fontbonne and Clayton.
“I think Dr. Stroble and her
family will beneit immensely
from having a house owned
by your university,” Golden
said. “No one is more capable
of building a relationship than
she is.”
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NEWS
Opinions
5
The Journal
Jan. 25-31, 2012
The Journal weighs in on the issues
Albert Pujols leaves the
Cardinals for the Los Angeles
Angels of Anaheim.
St. Louis Rams hire
Jef Fisher as new
coach.
Costa Concordia sinks.
hirty-four votes determine Iowa
Caucus.
Joe Paterno
(1926-2012)
Webster buys
$935,000
home for
President
Stroble.
Iraq War
end oicially
declared.
Kim Jong-il
(1941-2011)
GrApHIC by JoSH CoppEnbArGEr
Editorials
American Savage
Single-celled to single-minded
Your vote counts
he 2012 election year kicked
of with a surprising result. Sen.
Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania
won the Iowa caucus. Sen. Gov.
Mitt Romney inished second by
34 votes in the irst race for the
Republican nomination. Yes, 34
votes. Not 3,400, but 34. A small
number decided the irst major
event during an election year.
his is something only seen
in movies. It’s diicult to fathom
an outcome that close, but it happened.
In America, like few other
countries, we have the privilege to
vote for our leaders. Until the 2008
election, younger voters didn’t
punch ballots as oten as their
elders. his probably occurred
for several reasons — they didn’t
agree with any candidate, they
didn’t feel the need to register to
vote or they were simply apathetic.
Another reason, maybe the main
reason one doesn’t vote, is because
they feel their vote wouldn’t count.
he 2012 Iowa caucus is a
prime example of people’s votes
counting. While many Webster
University students could not vote
in the Iowa caucus and impact
that outcome, it doesn’t mean this
couldn’t happen in another election. It could happen in any election that would afect a Webster
student: an SGA vote, the mayoral
vote for Webster Groves, the race
for Missouri governor.
he Journal wishes to remind
all students, faculty and staf that
your vote counts in our democracy. Even though elections can be
decided by hundreds or thousands
of votes, we have seen that just a
few can determine an outcome. In
a time where some people question their vote’s importance, this
month’s Iowa caucus shows you
just how important your choice is.
he Journal encourages its readers,
if they haven’t already, to register to vote and make your choice
heard. Because it really can be that
close of an election.
Wexler’s legacy
Jacqueline Grennan Wexler
came to Webster University at
a tumultuous time. he school,
and the country, were at the
crossroads — old world meeting new in a lurry of change. On
the cusp of the civil rights movement, political revolution and a
radical shit in American ideals,
Wexler helped Webster weather
the storm.
Wexler was ahead of her
time, transforming what began
as a small religious institute
into a nationally recognized and
lauded college. Her charismatic
personality and relentless drive
drew students and instructors to
Webster.
She charmed presidents Kennedy and Johnson, a hotel mogul, and an awarded physicist.
She showed bravery in the face
of criticism and adversity for
what were seen as controversial decisions. She followed her
heart, irst in faith as a Sister of
Loretto, then in love when she
let the order to marry a Jewish
man.
Webster was arguably more
changed by Wexler’s inluential
four years than any other time
in university history. When one
looks at Webster’s groundbreaking programs and global presence that outshines most other
institutions, it seems Wexler
never let.
In three years, Webster will
celebrate its 100th anniversary.
he Journal believes those years
will be again a time of great
change for the university. Some
of those transitions are starting
now, as Webster seeks to create
a new master plan and begins
to consider new international
campuses. he Webster Works
campaign, which raised millions
of dollars for university growth
and development, is only a start
to what looks to be a new era of
change.
Today, Webster owes much
of its success to Wexler. Friends
and family said she was as innovative and dedicated as she was
friendly. She built relationships
and community. he Journal
hopes President Beth Stroble
and Webster administrators
take a page from Wexler’s book
as they move the university forward. Let’s enter the next 100
years in a way itting to Wexler’s
lasting legacy.
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Issue 16
Editor-in-Chief
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Managing Editor
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Over the break, while we were all enjoying
time with family, thinking about the nature
of the holidays and drinking to violent excess
with our old friends from high school, the
Missouri House of Representatives did something rather strange.
hey read and introduced something
called HB 1227, otherwise known as the “Intelligent Design” bill, and oicially known as
the Missouri Standard Science Act. If enacted,
the bill would require, “the equal treatment of
science instruction regarding evolution and
intelligent design.”
he bill literally requires an equal amount
of time and, “teaching materials,” be devoted
to intelligent design wherever evolution is
taught. Now, engaging members of the conservative Missouri House on an argument
of evolution is like driving very slowly past a
group of teenage boys: you’re just asking to be
brutally verbally assaulted.
I was shocked to read such news. Ater
all, I wasn’t aware our curriculum was up to
changes based on preference. But since it is, I
must wholeheartedly support this legislation,
but only if they make a single addition.
he addition? An amendment clarifying
that gravity is only a scientiic theory, and that
equal time must be given to the “Angel Repellent heory.” You see, gravity, much like evolution, is a “scientiic theory.” he bill has an
interesting deinition for scientiic theory: an
inferred explanation of incompletely understood phenomena about the physical universe
based on limited knowledge, whose components are data, logic and faith-based philosophy.
I don’t know much, but I’m pretty sure that
makes gravity a theory. I mean, it’s certainly
not consistent. he gravity on other planets
in our solar system varies wildly, and space
doesn’t even HAVE gravity. I smell something
ishy.
Face it — gravity isn’t 100 percent accurate. But hey, those white lab coat fellas have
been busy mapping the human genome and
all.
Much like the craters of HB 1227, I see the
truth in all these so-called “scientiic theories.”
It is all a cheap con — a magic trick pulled by
vindictive, agnostic, secular humanists in the
scientiic community. hey wanted to cheapen our God and spit on our Jesus, what with
their monkey family trees and carbon dating.
he Angel Repellent heory makes up for
this bizarre “gravity” theory that is so illed
with holes. It essentially says angels play an
active role in keeping people and objects here
on Earth. hey push very hard against anyone
trying to get into space, because that’s where
heaven is, six blocks past the moon and to the
let — you can’t miss it. Now, if you push back
hard enough, i.e. space shuttles, ICBMs, you
can get past, but then you’ll be in a place without angels at all, and this thing we know as
“gravity” will simply evaporate. he angel will
let you loat frictionless and whimsically until
you freeze in the cold vacuum of space.
And since our country is based entirely
on our ability to perceive and know God —or
liberty, whatever — it is essential our children
are protected from the lies of evolution and
gravity, which only remove God from their
lives by giving them fact-based answers to
faith-based questions.
“How did we get here?” is not an invitation
for anyone with a Ph.D. to address the room
— it’s an invitation for someone to read from
Genesis. As the Greeks and Romans taught
us, we need the supernatural world to explain
the way our natural world operates. Just as
the Greeks knew the Earth did not rotate, but
that Mars carried the Sun across the sky in a
chariot, so do American Christians know we
did not evolve from lesser organisms: we appeared out of thin air ater God said a magic
spell.
he journey from single-celled organisms
to single-minded organisms was not a trial of
billions of organisms advancing toward their
potential by mutation and selection: it was a
six-day workweek for the local deity.
Normally we could attribute this kind of
mind-melting legislation to the heavy drinking in the halls of our Capitol Building. But
because this vote was organized and backed
almost entirely by shame-based religions that
view self-indulgence as a kind of Satanic ritual, that won’t work this time.
You see, this is the kind of unnatural indoctrination of our children that can only really be accomplished if it’s draped in a cruciix or an American lag. Remember: laws that
prohibit my deadly weapon or require me to
purchase health insurance are infringements
on my freedom, but laws requiring a speciic
religious creationist theory to be taught to my
impressionable children are patriotic.
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written by Journal contributing writer
Collin Reischman.
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Get of my intellectual property
Recent proposed bills are wrong way to handle copyright
On Jan. 18, the
Internet participated
in a “black out.” Many
websites demonstrated
how limited the Internet would be if Congress passed the Stop
Online Piracy Act
(SOPA) and Protect IP
Act (PIPA).
Images
were
JOSH
censored,
Google
alCOPPENBARGER
lowed users to sign
a petition and Wikipedia redirected users to contact their congressmen about the dangers of SOPA. In all,
the protest worked. Congress suspended both
SOPA and PIPA until further revision was
considered.
he next day, the FBI efectively seized
control of torrent hub Megaupload. All this
efort was based of of the principles of copyright.
Copyright serves the purpose of giving the
respective rights to an author’s creative work
and helps future artists become creative with
their own original work.
As an aspiring ilmmaker, it’s important
for me to copyright my work to prohibit some
random person on the Internet deciding to
claim an idea of mine. I can’t imagine how angered I would be to know that my work and
my ideas could be claimed by anyone other
Web Master
Hilary Rallo
Photo Editor
David Nash
Multimedia Editor
Evan Mueller
Assistant Multimedia Editor
Josh Coppenbarger
Business Manager
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Marketing Manager
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Advertising Manager
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Calendar Editor
Hayden Andrews
than me.
Intellectual property is vital to any artist.
Trying to create something original and new
may take a long time, and to have the ownership of that idea stripped away wouldn’t be
the best feeling. How would it feel to not be
credited for your work?
When the U.S. constitution was drated in
1787, the writers believed in this concept and
thought to add copyright as a power of Congress. In Article II, Section 8, it states, “he
Congress shall have Power … To promote the
Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective
Writings and Discoveries.”
his document we model our government
ater even wants us to protect ourselves with
our ideas. It’s not just a capital gain.
Both SOPA and PIPA wanted to protect
artists and their respective work from other
people trying to steal it.
Under SOPA and PIPA, if an Internet user
shares an image from one site onto another,
such as Reddit, the government could then
bar the U.S. population’s Internet browsers
from accessing the website and all advertisement and endorsements to the site would be
cut of.
he copyright law, however, does have a
limit on when artists have control over his or
her work — it has been changed four times
but currently is 70 years ater the artist’s death.
Staf
Hayden Andrews
Andy Arb
Briana Baker
Victoria Courtney
Victoria Dickson
Eric Fuchs
Julia Gabbert
Akira Komatsu
Stephanie Leler
Haley Luke
Sam Masterson
John Pohl
Tierre Rhodes
Sherrod Tunstall
Photographers
Max Bouvatte
Victoria Caswell
Brittany Ruess
Sean Sandefur
Gale Whitehead
Advisers
Editorial
Larry Baden
Photography
Robert LaRouche
General Manager
Amanda Westrich
hat means Hollywood can’t do a traditional remake of “Star Wars” until 2072 and
“Lord of the Rings” won’t be in the public domain until 2050.
here have been many cases where artists
haven’t had complete control of their work.
In August 2011, many musical artists such
as Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Bob Dylan
all reclaimed their work ater an overlook in
copyright law. For 35 years, these artists had
no complete control of their work because it
belonged to the record companies.
In October 2007, J.K. Rowling sued a small
Michigan-based publishing company for trying to make a “Harry Potter” encyclopedia.
SOPA and PIPA were made to help the entertainment industry reclaim the money they
have lost due to the Internet’s sharing community. Congressmen haven’t gone the right
way to combat against the people who violate
copyright law.
At least the government’s still protecting
what they were sworn to defend — copyright.
Ater all, it’s in the Constitution.
Josh Coppenbarger is a sophomore journalism and ilm production major and assistant
multimedia editor for The Journal.
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LifeStyle
6
The Journal
Jan. 25-31, 2012
Webster graduate acts
in award-winning ilm
project
at home in st. Louis
Webster alum returns to St. Louis to shoot latest documentary
Student stars in “My Bride’s Wedding,”
ilmmaker wins trip to Hollywood
BY JULia GaBBeRT
Staf Writer
Webster graduate Chad Emery sprinted through the streets
of Geneva, donning a tousled
suit. His bride was waiting at the
church they were to be married
in, and Emery was running out of
time. As he rounded a street corner, Webster Geneva senior Amnah Abudawood shouted, “Cut!”
“It’s always kind of a rush,”
Emery, 21, said. “Once, ‘action,’
is yelled, it’s all on you and you
know the camera is going to catch
everything you do. I can’t get
enough of it.”
hough not an acting major,
Emery played the lead role in
Abudawood’s ilm project, entitled “My Bride’s Wedding,” when
he studied in Geneva in the fall
of 2010. Emery graduated from
the St. Louis home campus with a
degree in media communications
last May.
Abudawood, a 22-year-old
senior media communications
major at Webster’s Geneva campus, made the video as part of a
course hosted by Hamilton Watch
Company. Film production is not
ofered as a major in Geneva, but
Hamilton hosts some ilm classes
for students interested in ilm
production. Abudawood, who
said she’s always been interested
in ilm, signed up for the course
as soon as she saw it was available.
Emery’s former acting teacher,
adjunct professor Carrie Houk,
said it is important for students
involved in ilm to understand all
diferent aspects of production,
even when it is not the student’s
major—like in the cases of both
Emery and Abudawood.
See Film Award
Page 7
COURTESY OF MATT SMITH
Phillip Andrew Morton stands in front of his childhood home in Spanish Lake, MO. Morton returned from Los Angeles to shoot a documentary.
BY JOsHUa COPPeNBaRGeR
Assistant Multimedia Editor
Phillip Andrew Morton has
lived in Los Angeles for eight
years. he Webster alum returned
to his hometown to ilm a documentary about the inevitable, as
his hometown slowly crawls to
decline since he let.
Morton is inishing editing
his recent ilm “Spanish Lake,” a
personal documentary about the
social and economic downfall of
Spanish Lake, the northern St.
Louis County community where
he grew up.
“Spanish Lake” begins with the
story of a once prime example of
suburban living — the population
consisted of mostly white, middle-class citizens — and its slow
decline into poverty. Shits in the
economy caused Spanish Lake to
slowly lose its good reputation.
Racism, violence and population
changes have since deteriorated
the image of the community.
Morton saw this decline and
felt the need to tell this story to
the world.
“When I began investigating,
I found some fascinating stories
that clued me in to why this sce-
nario was happening,” Morton
said. “It was like inding out your
heritage — the heritage you grew
up in. It takes you by surprise. It
opens your eyes to what you were
blinded to before.”
he early videos of MTV inspired Morton to pursue a career
in ilm.
“When I was young, I loved
pop music and I loved the combination of dynamic pop songs and
the short ilms attached to them,”
Morton said. “My imagination
was set of by those videos. I wanted to be involved in that process at
some level.”
Ater his parents’ divorce,
Morton moved with his mother to
Kirkwood. here, he discovered
Webster University and began his
studies in ilm production.
While at Webster, Morton’s advisor and professor Kathy Corley
took notice of Morton’s unique
talents.
“He had a level of creativity
and sensitivity to his subject matter that was outstanding,” Corley
said. “It does not surprise me in
the least that he is having a successful career as a documentary
ilmmaker.”
During his studies, Morton
said he gained experience in collaborating with groups.
“When I made my student ilm
at Webster, it was the irst time I
worked with a crew,” Morton said.
“I had to learn to take control of
those environments and to create
your vision. hat was something I
never experienced.”
A couple years ater graduating in 2002, Morton moved to LA
to pursue his ilmmaking career.
He landed a few jobs in editing, including a position as a production assistant at mOcean — a
creative agency — where he organized footage and edited trailers for blockbuster hits such as
“Ocean’s hirteen” and “he Prestige.”
In LA, Morton met his friend
and future producer of “Spanish
Lake,” Matt Smith.
“He started telling me about
his hometown and it sounded so
interesting,” Smith said. “He got
into the research for the ilm and
we started to piece things together.”
Smith recalled how prepared
Morton was on the set of “Spanish Lake.”
“He knew exactly what he
wanted with everything,” Smith
said. “It’s rare to ind a director
who has so much vision. I was
impressed by the work he did.”
Ater the completion of
“Spanish Lake,” Smith said theatrical distribution has begun
to come through. He has high
hopes of the ilm’s outcome.
“We would like to see it ride
the Oscar train because we feel
it’s that powerful,” Smith said.
“We’re shooting high with this
ilm. We think we have something amazing here.”
Morton said he wishes to
continue in ilmmaking, but
wants to pursue feature ilms.
He inished writing a script last
year, which he would like to
make into a ilm.
“More than anything, I
would like more to give back
to the people,” he said. “Having
light bulbs go of in their heads
and make them think and feel.
hat’s what ilm was for me. I
could relate to the people on the
screen and I want to be able to
do that to audiences today.”
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A LABOR OF LOVE
MAX BOUVATTE / he Journal
Collette Cummings, Associate Dean of Students, lines up a swatch of fabric on
what will soon become a large patchwork quilt. Webster students teamed up
with the quilting group Thimbles and Threads on Jan. 18 in the Sunnen Lounge
to construct the quilt, which will be donated to the charity Angel’s Arms when
completed. The event was sponsored by Webster Warmth and was part the
MCISA’s Social Movement Week.
Dorm Room Dishes: New
Year’s resolutions edition
New Year’s resolutions don’t have to mean depriving yourself
BY MeGaN seNseNeY
Copy Editor
BRITTANY RUESS/ he Journal
This New Year, staying healthy can be easy with this delicious pizza-pita recipe.
A Recipe for
Pita Pizza
Try this healthier alternative
to the traditional pizza, made
with whole-wheat pita bread,
low-fat cheese and turkey pepperoni.
To make the pita pictured,
you’ll need:
1 whole wheat pita pocket, cut in half
1/2 cup shredded, 2%
mozzarella cheese, divided in half
12 slices turkey pepperoni
4 tablespoons pizza sauce, divided in half
Place six slices of pepperoni into
each pita half. Add two tablespoons of pizza sauce into each
pita half.
Sprinkle equal amounts of
shredded mozzarella into each
pita half. In the microwave,
heat the pita halves for about 90
seconds, or until the cheese is
melted.
Variations: Any traditional pizza toppings can be added. Try
making a supreme version with
pre-cooked sausage, onions and
green peppers.
If you made a resolution for
the new year, you’re not alone
— the beginning of the year is
the best kind of fresh start there
is. However, for many who start
out the new year on a mission
to eat well, lose weight and get
in shape, the temptation to seek
a quick ix oten results in failure to reach one’s goals.
Out of all the Americans
who make food-related resolutions, 90 percent of them will
break their resolutions within
the irst 15 days of the new year,
according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive. he
going gets tougher for students,
who don’t typically have the
biggest food budgets and are
already too stressed and tired
to even think about working
out. To avoid tossing out your
resolutions along with that ugly
sweater your cousin got you for
Christmas, make the most of
what’s available to you on campus and try these tips.
• Plan hings Out. If your
resolution requires you to set
aside time for a speciic activity,
like working out, take advantage of the free planners in the
University Center (UC). You’ll
be less likely to forget what you
planned and more likely to actually hit the gym if you put it
in your schedule. You can also
write in which date you hope to
have accomplished your goals
by to hold yourself accountable.
• Make Smaller Changes
First . We’ve all been there before — you want to kick a bad
habit so you go cold turkey. You
start out strong but the cravings soon begin and, before you
know it, you’re binging. Instead
of remaking your entire diet
right away, try starting with
small, healthy changes. he
next time you grab a sandwich
at Blimpie’s, have your normal
sandwich on wheat bread instead of white, or try skipping
the mayo.
• Do Research. Put your access to free Internet to good use
and hit the library to igure out
the best ways to accomplish the
things you want. Search for new
healthy recipes or igure out
which workouts will help you
reach your goal. You can also
look up nutritional information
for your favorite WOW Café &
Wingery or Blimpie’s meals to
see if you can it them into your
regular diet or if they should be
eaten sparingly.
• Don’t Be Tempted. Put
yourself in situations that will
be conducive to reaching your
goals. Moreover, try to avoid
putting yourself in situations
where you know you’ll be
tempted to do something you
won’t feel good about. If you
know you’d regret eating a slice
of pizza, try to stay away from
the club giving away free slices
in Sverdrup that day.
• Hit he Gym. he itness
center in the lower level of the
UC is available for all students
to use, not just athletes. he itness center is open every day of
the week and times are posted
on the front door; itness center operating hours can also be
found at www.webster.edu/uc/
itness. he indoor pool in the
UC is also available for students
to use. Operating hours for
the pool can be found at www.
webster.edu/uc/pool.
Before
you dive in, though, check the
detailed pool schedule online to
make sure you won’t be interrupting a practice or class.
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LIFESTYLE
Former Mo. state representative,
civil rights activist shares life story
Film award:
Webster Geneva student
Webster student Kayla hompson moderates discussion in travels to Hollywood, meets
the Sunnen Lounge with grandmother Betty L. hompson
Harrison Ford
COURTESY OF MATT SMITH
Kayla Thompson (right) interviews her grandmother, Betty Thompson in the Sunnen Lounge Thursday night.
Students and staf listened to Betty Thompson as she spoke on everything from her position in the House of Representatives, to her arrest in Washington, D.C., for protesting apartheid in South Africa
BY sHeRROd TUNsTaL
Staf Writer
Betty L. hompson sat down
with her granddaughter Kayla
hompson in the Sunnen Lounge
hursday night, as the junior
anthropology major asked her
grandmother questions about her
life.
“My grandmother has always
been such an inspiration in my
life,” Kayla hompson said.
Former Missouri State Representative Betty L. hompson
spoke about her life as a St. Louis
civil rights activist at the event
“Trials of a Trailblazer: A Discussion with Betty hompson.” he
discussion was held at 7 p.m. on
Jan. 19 in the Sunnen Lounge as
part of the Multicultural Center
and International Student Affairs’ (MCISA) Social Movements
Week, held in honor of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day.
“I wanted to share my grandmother’s legacy with Webster because many students are not aware
that we have civil rights leaders in
St. Louis,” Kayla hompson said.
“My grandmother has always
been such an inspiration in my
life. I remember when I was much
younger I would be with her at
protests, sit-ins and taking trips
down to Atlanta, where she was
friends with the late Coretta Scott
King.”
Betty hompson was born in
a small Mississippi town in 1939,
as one of 13 children. When she
was three months old, her family moved to St. Louis, where
she lived in housing projects including Carr Square Village and
Pruitt-Igoe. Betty hompson described her childhood as a wonderful time.
“Everyone went to school and
played together. It was like one big
family,” Betty hompson said.
She described her mother as
her biggest inluence.
“My mother was a loving
woman. She never drank, smoke,
cursed or messed around. And
I followed her example,” Betty
hompson said.
Betty hompson went to
Vashon and Sumner High School
with music legend Tina Turner.
She oten walked with Turner to
class.
“At the time, Tina — I knew her
as Anna Mae Bullock — was pregnant and not allowed to graduate,” Betty hompson said. “So me
and a few students organized and
tried to ight for Tina to graduate,
but the counselor said no.”
Ater graduating from Sumner
in 1958, Betty hompson attended Harris-Stowe State University.
She received a certiicate in business from Hubbard’s Business
College and a certiicate in management from Washington University.
Despite her own educational
success, Betty hompson said
she saw other African-Americans
who weren’t treated fairly. When
she heard Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. speak at a local church, she began to organize marches, pickets
and sit-ins.
“Dr. King spoke the truth and
things needed to change for the
African-American community,”
Betty hompson said.
But it was her political career
that allowed hompson to change
how St. Louisans saw AfricanAmericans, especially AfricanAmerican women.
While living in University
City, Betty hompson’s husband
Jack was in a car accident. With
his neck badly injured, doctors
advised him to swim to aid his
recovery. When Betty hompson
went to the City Council to get a
permit to build a pool, the council laughed at her.
“hey told me that no black
person on the north side of University City could aford a swimming pool,” Betty hompson said.
“hat fueled me to run for City
Council.”
Betty hompson began her
campaign without any fundraising. She held a parade in University City, which covered approximately 10 blocks. he parade
helped her win the 1980 election
against a white engineer. She was
the irst African-American to be
on University City’s City Council,
and served on the board for 18
years.
In 1988, Betty hompson was
the irst African-American woman to be arrested in Washington,
D.C., for protesting against apartheid in South Africa.
“South Africa was a country that didn’t have rights until
1994, but I believe all people have
rights,” Betty hompson said.
hroughout her career, Betty
hompson won many awards,
including the M.L. King Spirit
Award from the University City
School Board and City Council,
and the Gwen Giles Award.
Currently, Betty hompson serves as the director of the
Kwame Foundation, which provides career assistance to young
African-Americans. She also
supports non-violence through
her organization he Tyrone
hompson Institute for Non-Violence. he organization is a living
testament to Betty hompson’s
son, Tyrone hompson, who was
killed during an attempted robbery in 2010.
Betty hompson closed the
evening by ofering a piece of advice. “You can do anything. Just
put your mind to it and you can
do it.”
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and submitted for judging, Abudawood was hoping for the best
but expecting the worst. Her expectations were exceeded though,
when she learned almost a year
later that her video won the contest.
As a prize, Abudawood was
given a free Hamilton watch of
her choosing and was lown to
Los Angeles to attend the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards
in early November 2011. At the
awards she met famous actors and
directors, like Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas and Chris Weitz.
“he amazing thing is they actually talked to us,” Abudawood
said. “hey didn’t just brush us of
because we’re students.”
“In our industry, the more
well-rounded you are, the better,”
Houk said. “I always encourage
(acting) students to take courses
in other aspects of ilm, just like
it’s really important for anyone
involved with producing ilms to
understand how diicult it can be
for an actor to bring life to a role.”
he irst eight weeks of the
Hamilton video class were focused on developing a story based
on Hamilton’s theme: running
out of time. Abudawood, along
with fewer than 10 classmates,
brainstormed stories, developed a
script and began planning a short
video. he only
criterion for the
videos was the inOnce ‘action’ is yelled, it’s all on you
clusion of a shot of
and
you know the camera is going to
a Hamilton watch.
catch everything you do.
he students
presented
their
video ideas to a
- Chad Emery,
Hamilton repreWebster alum and star of “My Bride’s Wedding”
sentative and four
students’
ideas
were chosen to
proceed onto ilming — including Abudawood’s
Armed with a winning ilm
concept of a groom “running out project for their resumes, Emery
of time” to get to his wedding.
and Abudawood both hope to
“Before actually taking these pursue ilm in the future, either
courses and actually knowing a as a hobby or a career. Emery is
lot about how to shoot a video, settling in to his new home in Ilyou always say, ‘why are they tak- linois, where he works as an Enging so long to shoot one scene? It’s lish as a Second Language tutor
not that hard,’” Abudawood said. at Hartland Community College.
“But just shooting a three minute He said once he gets his feet on
video, it took us like, six hours. the ground, he may look for ophe preparation of that took up portunities to get involved with
two to three weeks, and then the acting. Abudawood, in her inal
editing took two months. It makes semester of school, is searching
you appreciate when you watch for jobs involving video producmovies and wonder how they do tion in her home country of Saudi
that. It’s really interesting and en- Arabia. She said she hopes to ind
tertaining.”
a job producing videos for public
In the second eight weeks of relations.
the video course, students focused
on ilming and editing their videos. Abudawood was introduced
to Emery by a mutual professor,
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and he became the lead in the
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ilm.
“It was deinitely my favorite
project I’ve been involved in,”
Emery said. “Not only did we get
to tour the beautiful city of Geneva, but it was a really professional
environment — from script writing to ilming.”
When the ilm was completed
“
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A night at the opera: Webster’s Opera Scenes
Students perform scenes from four diferent operas at Heagney heatre
JOSEPH BODENBACH/ he Journal
Christian Hendriks and Devin Vogel-Woodall sing in the Webster University Opera Scenes Sunday, Jan. 22.
BY MeGaN FaviGNaNO
Copy Editor
JOSEPH BODENBACH/ he Journal
Emma Sorenson, playing the part of Orfeo, plays her irst male role at The Webster University Opera Scenes at
Nerinx Hall’s Heagney Theatre.
Jean Huber of the music department hugged Emma Sorenson, junior vocal performance
major, outside Nerinx Hall’s
Heagney heatre Sunday night.
Sorenson performed in Webster
University’s Opera Scenes, which
ran Jan. 20-22.
“You sang beautifully,” Huber
said.
Music professor Alice Nelson’s
opera studio class of 29 students
sang in the program. Nelson said
the class gives students the opportunity to improve their acting skills while learning practical
skills such as working with an orchestra and a conductor. Nelson
said students also learn to work
well with each other.
“Being a good colleague, that’s
so important,” Nelson said. “hey
all have really out done themselves with that.”
Sorenson played Orfeo, a
poet and musician, in “Orfeo ed
Euridice.”
Sorenson said she was excited
for the role because it was her irst
time playing a male character. She
said in opera, women oten play a
“trouser role” – a male’s role.
“I had to change all my mannerisms and it’s in a particularly
low range for me,” Sorenson said.
“hat was challenging.”
Huber said the opera studio is
a great opportunity for students.
She enjoyed watching their progress.
“I get to hear the rehearsals. I
get to hear it from the beginning,”
Huber said.
he program also included six
dancers from the dance department and an orchestra of 15 Webster students, faculty and alumni.
he production staf was made up
of students in the conservatory.
he program comprised of
scenes from:
—“he Medium” by Gian Carlo
Menotti,
—“Ruddigore” by William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan,
— “Susannah” by Carlisle Floyd,
—“Orfeo ed Euridice” by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
.
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SPORTS
Gorloks nip Greenville, fall to Fontbonne
BY JOHN POHL
Staf Writer
Webster University’s women’s
basketball team sufered its second loss in the past eight games
when the Gorloks fell 67-59 to
Fontbonne University on Jan. 21
in Clayton. he two teams combined for 47 turnovers in the
sloppily-played contest.
“We had been playing as a
team and much better until we
laid an egg against Fontbonne,”
junior guard Maggie Zehner said.
“When we struggled so much early in the season, it really helped
us get mentally tough. We’ll come
back strong again.”
Despite the loss, Webster
coach Jordan Olufson said his
team is playing with more focus
and now has a solid playing rotation. He said that’s especially the
case since the Gorloks’ loss to
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on Dec. 19. It was the Gorloks’ eighth loss in nine games to
start the season.
“We are now getting scoring
from four, ive, six and seven players we put on the loor,” Olufson
said. “We really focused on following up with our steals with
quicker transition play, and our
defense has been great.”
Against Fontbonne, Webster
played its second consecutive
game without leading scorer — junior guard Gwen Williams — who
has been suspended indeinitely
because her academic standing
falls below the Webster athletic
department’s eligibility guidelines.
Without Williams, the Gorloks have struggled the last two
games. Although they squeezed
out a victory at Greenville, 50-46,
on Jan. 18, Webster committed 23
turnovers. he Gorloks also had
25 turnovers in the loss to Fontbonne.
“Losing Gwen hurts,” sophomore guard Kaliann Rikard said. “It
would be stupid to say it doesn’t.”
Williams is currently the Gorloks’ leading scorer at 9.7 points
per game and is third in the SLIAC in steals with 2.7 per game.
“I think not having Gwen
is hard on everybody, because
she was a big part of our team,”
Zehner said. “She could steal the
ball like no one else can.”
In the loss to the Griins,
freshman forward Cassie Endicott
had nine points and 10 rebounds,
but played only 18 minutes be-
Iowa Wesleyan
submits NCAA
application
BY TiM dOTY
Opinions Editor
Webster University senior guard/forward Megan Willett (32) ires an inbound pass to junior guard Airyn Miller (15). Miller scored a team-high 13 points on 5 of
15 shooting, while Willett scored two points and grabbed ive rebounds, but the Gorloks fell 67-59 to Fontbonne University on Jan. 21 in Clayton.
cause of foul trouble. Junior guard
Airyn Miller led the Gorloks with
13 points.
Against Greenville, the score
was tied at haltime 23-23. With
no team ever leading by more
than three points, the Gorloks inally moved ahead for good when
senior guard/forward Megan Willett hit a pair of free throws to put
Webster up 46-44 with 1:11 let in
the contest. Webster hung on for
the win despite shooting 26 percent as a team from the ield in the
second half.
Zehner led the Gorloks with
13 points and nine rebounds
against Greenville. Endicott had
11 points, grabbed six rebounds
and blocked four shots in the win. “We have made good progress
since the irst of the year,” Rikard
said. “We are inally hitting shots
and playing good defense. In fact,
our defense has played well all
year. Even in the games we lost,
our defense kept us close.”
he loss to Fontbonne ended
the Gorloks’ three-game win
streak and dropped them to
fourth place in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
standings. Webster is behind
third-place Fontbonne, Eureka
College and undefeated Westminster College. he top four teams
qualify for the SLIAC post-season
tournament.
Webster is 5-3 in the SLIAC
and 7-10 on the season. Next, the
Gorloks play at winless Blackburn
College on Jan. 28. hey complete
a four-game stretch on the road
with a contest at Westminster on
Feb. 1.
“We are now used to playing
the other schools in the conference
and the team is coming together,”
Olufson said. “I’ll tell you, we are
doing a lot better than we were in
November and December.”
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suspension from the women’s basketball team
standings
SLIAC
Women’s
Basketball
Westminster
Eureka
Fontbonne
Webster
Spalding
MacMurray
Greenville
Principia
Blackburn*
Conference
Overall
Record
Games
Back
Record
Win %
Streak
9-0
7-2
6-2
5-3
5-5
3-5
2-6
2-7
0-9
—
2.0
2.5
3.5
4.5
5.5
6.5
7.0
9.0
15-2
13-3
9-8
7-10
9-8
6-8
5-11
3-13
0-18
0.882
0.812
0.529
0.412
0.529
0.429
0.312
0.188
0.000
Won 9
Won 5
Won 2
Lost 1
Won 1
Won 1
Won 1
Lost 9
Lost 18
*All statistics as of Jan. 24
Iowa Wesleyan College has
submitted its application to
become a provisional member
of the NCAA. If accepted, the
school will begin its exploratory year for the 2012-2013
academic year. he application
was submitted to NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis on
Dec. 16, 2011.
Iowa Wesleyan was an
NAIA ailiate, but gave up that
status to pursue membership
within the NCAA and St. Louis
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Webster University competes in the SLIAC.
Earlier in December, the
SLIAC Presidents’ Council,
which is comprised of the SLIAC schools’ nine presidents,
approved the Iowa Wesleyan
Tigers as the conference’s 10th
member. Iowa Wesleyan will
participate in 10 conferencesponsored sports. It will be the
newest school to join the SLIAC since Spalding University
in 2009.
he speciic numbers of the
Presidents’ Council vote have
not been revealed. Iowa Wesleyan received a majority vote
of three-fourths approval from
the Presidents’ Council.
“I was present there, but I
have no idea (in regards to the
speciic numbers),” said Linda
Buchanan, Iowa Wesleyan’s
vice president and dean for student life. “hey just welcomed
us to the conference.”
he NCAA’s deadline for
application submittal was Jan.
15. he process for Iowa Wesleyan was “pretty straight forward” and a form was submitted to Indianapolis, Buchanan
said.
he NCAA will inform
Iowa Wesleyan of its decision,
but the approximate timeframe
for the announcement is not
yet known. If Iowa Wesleyan
is accepted into the NCAA,
the newest SLIAC member will
begin conference play in the
2013-2014 academic year.
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SPORTS
Track teams open season at Illinois College meet
BY aNdY aRB
Staf Writer
he Webster University men’s and
women’s track and ield teams began their
seasons at the Illinois College Snowbird
Open indoor meet on Jan. 21, but much of
the team didn’t make the trip. For track and
ield coach Dusty Lopez, the meet wasn’t a
very high priority.
“We had a couple people who were
banged up we didn’t send,” Lopez said. “We
had a couple others who had outside commitments. here were a lot of people who
didn’t make the trip at all, and for the ones
who did it was really just a gloriied workout.”
Webster had eight athletes participate
in the meet. Five freshmen saw their irst
collegiate track and ield action, including Jason Hickson and Kassandra Ochoa.
Hickson inished 12th out of 18 runners in
the one-mile run with a time of 5 minutes,
12.81 seconds. Ochoa inished 13th out of
19 runners in the one-mile run with a time
of 6:33.05.
Like several other members of the team,
some freshmen are competing in track and
ield in the ofseason of another sport they
play at Webster.
“We’ve had really good fortune in having athletes from other teams come out and
decide to do track, which is awesome,” said
Lopez, who also coaches Webster’s men’s
and women’s cross-country teams in the
fall. “We love the multisport athletes.”
For the women, freshmen Ochoa and
Jennifer Scanlon, sophomores Julie Greenough, Heather Heisse, Eroica Stackhouse
and junior Jane McKibben join the track
team ater participating in cross-country
this past fall.
Five of the seven athletes listed on the
men’s track team’s roster were also crosscountry runners this past fall – Hickson,
juniors Daniel Henkey, David Koppelmann and Aaron Oberneufemann and senior Tony Morales.
Unlike the men’s team, the women’s
track team also has several two-sport athletes who didn’t run cross-country. he
volleyball team sends four athletes to the
track team: freshmen Jenny Howard, Kristen McDowell and Jordan Vehlewald and
senior Gretchen Rieger.
he women’s basketball team sends junior Tori Fenemor and seniors Amanda
Arcangel and Tyeila Gant.
he six freshmen on the women’s team
and the two freshmen on the men’s team
will help both squads as returning athletes
like Henkey and McKibben look to improve on great seasons a year ago.
“I got sick over break, so this last week I
was getting back in shape and that’s why I
didn’t participate at the meet,” Henkey said.
“As soon as I got better, I’ve been training
since then.”
Lopez has high hopes for Henkey ater
his breakout year last season.
“(He) really kind of broke through as
a sophomore and ran some pretty good
times,” Lopez said. “He holds a couple of
school records already. he big question
mark with him is can we keep him healthy.
If we can, he should continue to improve
and set new marks.”
he whole team will try to keep themselves healthy as well.
“Our main focus this year is to try to
maintain healthy shape,” McKibben said.
“As a team, we’re really connected with
each other. We tend to have a lot of good
Staf Writer
Ater his alarm sounded at 9:30 a.m. on
Sunday Jan. 22, Jim Rodenbush, the advisor
for he Daily Collegian, Penn State University’s student-run newspaper, learned about
Joe Paterno’s death on Twitter. Paterno, former Penn State football coach, died 65 days
ater his son said he had been diagnosed
with lung cancer.
Rodenbush and he Daily Collegian staf
knew Paterno’s health was deteriorating, so
they were prepared for Paterno’s death.
Rodenbush described the past couple
months as being, “surreal.”
Rodenbush took his position at he
Daily Collegian in the spring of 2011.
Rodenbush, 35, is a 1998 graduate of
Webster University, where he earned his
bachelor’s degree in journalism. He also
worked as he Journal’s general manager
from August 2009 through December 2010.
When Rodenbush irst started at Penn
Welcome, Wesleyan
JOSH SELLMEYER
Members of Webster University’s track and ield teams do warm-up drills on the lower level of the
University Center. From bottom: Jason Hickson, Eroica Stackhouse and Julie Greenough.
training.”
In the fourth year of the track and ield
program, the men look to improve on
back-to-back third place inishes while the
women will try to improve on their backto-back second place inishes in the St.
Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
invitational for outdoor track and ield.
“he women will continue to be competitive at the top of the conference the
way they were the last two years,” Lopez
said. “It’s no guarantee, but I think we’ll be
right at the same level if everybody stays
healthy.”
he men’s and women’s track and ield
teams will participate in the Principia College Indoor Relays on Jan. 27 before ending the indoor season with meets at Illinois
College on Feb. 4 and 17.
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Webster alum advises students during Joe Paterno’s demise
BY viCTORia diCksON
The Sporting Insider
State, he said he was well
“he editors came in and
aware of Paterno’s legendknew it was time to reary status at the university,
spond to it.”
though the two never met
Since the news broke
face to face.
about Paterno’s death,
Paterno started to make
Rodenbush wanted to keep
headlines when the grand
the environment in the
jury reported on Nov. 5,
newsroom
professional,
2011, that former Penn State
but the emotional connecdefensive coordinator Jerry
tion the staf felt with PaSandusky was arrested on
terno was to be expected.
“Since the story started,
several accounts of sexual
it’s still diicult to put into
abuse. Paterno was ired as
words,” Rodenbush said.
head coach on Nov. 9, 2011.
“On the one hand, State
he most important
JIM RODENBUSH
College is now my home
thing to him was for his stuand I feel a certain amount
dents to tell a fair and objecof sadness for everybody
tive story.
Rodenbush said there was no need for involved because this is simply a tragic stohim to tell he Daily Collegian staf how to ry. On the other hand, I’ve been involved
with diferent aspects of covering this story.”
handle this saga.
What Rodenbush said he will miss
“I have a large group of professionals.
here’s no telling them,” Rodenbush said. about Paterno is the large body of work
that the all-time winningest football coach
in Division I history has accomplished in
his 46 years as Penn State’s coach.
“I’m glad to be around it to see it,”
Rodenbush said.
Rodenbush will discuss the news stories
surrounding Paterno in a beginning reporting class.
he Daily Collegian has added a 16page special commemorative edition devoted to Paterno in the Jan. 23 issue.
Rodenbush said the response from the
Penn State community was to the efect of
having a death in the family. People surrounded Paterno’s statue and put candles
and lowers around it in honor of Paterno.
“He is part of the fabric. He is part of
the town, the community, the region, the
proximity, the interest,” Rodenbush said.
“He is the story.”
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Standout women’s
basketball player
Gwen Williams
suspended indeinitely
BY JOHN POHL
could take a week or longer. he
appeal board can look at diferent factors — like if she is close
Webster University women’s to a 1.9 GPA — and the diibasketball junior guard Gwen culty of the classes. It’s out of our
Williams has been suspended hands.”
indeinitely from the team for
According to the handbook,
academic reasons. She has al- students are provided the opporready missed the last two games tunity to appeal in writing rulagainst Greenville College and ings that afect their eligibility.
Fontbonne University, and it Appeals are read by a committee,
is not known if she will be able comprised of Dean of Students
to return to the
Ted Hoef, Directeam this season.
tor of Athletics
Williams,
a
Tom Hart and
junior
college
NCAA
faculty
transfer
from
re pre s e nt at i v e
St. Louis ComLarry Baden. It is
munity Collegeunknown if WilFlorissant Valley,
liams has oicialleads the Gorloks
ly appealed for
in scoring and is
reinstatement.
among the top
“No
comdefenders in the
ment,” Hart said.
St. Louis Intercol“We have a policy
legiate Athletic
of not commentConference. She
ing on a studid not return
dent’s
athletic
GWEN
WILLIAMS
phone calls seekeligibility.”
ing comment.
Williams was
“We
really
an All-American
miss the quickness she gives us junior college player at Florissant
with her defensive pressure,” Valley for two years before comassistant coach Jordann Plum- ing to Webster this past fall.
mer said. “She is a strong leader.
During a Dec. 4 interview
Right now, for the time being, we with he Journal, Williams said
have to play without her.”
her ultimate goal was to receive
Junior guard Maggie Zehner a college education and play bassaid Williams was a key to the ketball.
success the Gorloks have had
“I am the only one in the
this season, and she plays well family who went to college,” Wilboth ofensively and defensively. liams said. “hat includes my
“No one is going to ill Gwen’s mother, father, younger brother
place,” Zehner said.
and two older sisters. My irst
he Webster University stu- priority is to get an education
dent athlete handbook states the and then basketball, in that orrules for academic eligibility: der.”
“Students must maintain a 2.0
Her father, Edward Williams,
grade point average to partici- was unaware of the suspension
pate in intercollegiate athletics at and said he would look into it.
Webster University. All students
“I was not aware she was not
who fall under a 2.0 GPA or are playing,” Edward Williams said. “I
on academic probation are ineli- came to see her play at Christmas
gible for participation.”
and her grades seemed ine. I was
According to Plummer, Wil- unaware she was not playing.”
liams fell below the guidelines
during the fall 2011 semester.
“My understanding is that the
rule is a player must maintain a
cumulative 2.0 grade point average, and Gwen must have fallen
below that,” Plummer said. “She
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Staf Writer
Just a few hours ater the
shocking news that Albert Pujols had signed with the Los
Angeles of Anaheim, the St.
Louis Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference posted a press release on its website that I found
to be nearly as stunning.
On Dec. 8, the SLIAC announced that former National
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics member Iowa Wesleyan College had been voted
into the SLIAC by the conference’s Presidents’ Council.
his news blindsided some
of he Journal’s sports writers
— including myself — because
everything we had heard from
sources close to the situation
led us to believe that Iowa Wesleyan would not garner enough
votes to make it into the SLIAC.
But now that Iowa Wesleyan
has oicially applied to become
a provisional member of the
NCAA, it seems inevitable that
the university will be joining the
SLIAC as its 10th member for
the 2013-2014 academic year.
So the question shits from,
‘Will Iowa Wesleyan make it
into the SLIAC?’ to, ‘Should
Iowa Wesleyan have made it
into the SLIAC?’ he answer is
yes, and no.
First, the good. SLIAC commissioner Will Wolper has told
he Journal several times that
the conference wanted to get
to 10 members. Doing so provides the SLIAC with stability
and makes scheduling a much
easier process.
Wolper also said the move
puts, “the inal peg in our geographic footprint.” If the conference does explore expansion in the future, it won’t be
any further north than Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, where Iowa
Wesleyan is located.
In its academics, enrollment, athletics budget, campus
layout and facilities, Iowa Wesleyan its the SLIAC’s mold. he
university’s campus is compact
and it certainly has the look
and feel of a SLIAC school.
And, like Webster University, the only on-campus athletic
facility Iowa Wesleyan has is its
gymnasium. A majority of the
university’s teams use of-campus, public facilities.
Now for the bad. he SLIAC
is already considered one of the
worst two or three conferences
in the nation, and it certainly
didn’t signiicantly improve by
adding Iowa Wesleyan.
As an athlete at Webster, I
was hoping the SLIAC would
bring in a school that could
compete with Webster, Greenville, Fontbonne and Westminster for SLIAC supremacy. I
don’t think Iowa Wesleyan can.
Instead, Iowa Wesleyan will
likely land in the second tier
of schools, where Principia
College and Spalding University reside. hat’s good news
if you’re an athlete who didn’t
want additional competition
for SLIAC titles. But I would
have preferred a school that
could have pushed Webster and
made its sports teams better.
Granted, it’s not like the
SLIAC had a surplus of options.
here aren’t many schools located near St. Louis that would
it well within the conference.
And it’s true that the Tigers do
have a few programs — baseball, men’s and women’s basketball and possibly sotball and
volleyball — that could compete for SLIAC championships.
But you have to take into
consideration that these programs were successful in part
because they were able to ofer
athletic scholarships as a member of the NAIA. hat won’t be
the case in Division III.
And now, Iowa Wesleyan
will have massive recruiting
competition in the form of the
D-III Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Many of the
IIAC schools have excellent
facilities and strong athletic
traditions, so it will be tough
treading for the Tigers.
In many ways, Iowa Wesleyan makes sense for the SLIAC.
he university its in well with
the conference’s other institutions. But I wish the SLIAC
could have found a school that
stands out.
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column written by Journal sports
editor Josh Sellmeyer
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Look for Journal sports
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column next issue.
10
Sports
The Journal
Jan. 25-31, 2012
Gorloks stay hot, improve to 8-0 in SLIAC play
Junior Roman Robinson scores 19 points in conference road wins over Greenville and Fontbonne
BY aNdY aRB
standings
Staf Writer
Since heading into winter
break with a 1-8 overall record,
the Webster University men’s basketball team has turned its season
around by going 7-1. he team extended its winning streak to seven
games with victories at Greenville
College on Jan. 18 and Fontbonne
University on Jan. 21.
he Gorloks had their sevengame winning streak come to
an end in a loss at Lindenwood
University on Jan. 23. All seven
of Webster’s wins came against
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference opponents.
Webster is 8-0 in the SLIAC
and 8-9 overall, with all nine losses coming against nonconference
opponents. he diicult nonconference schedule has prepared
Webster for SLIAC opponents,
junior guard Cody Bradisch said.
“he nonconference schedule,
as tough as it was and as hard as it
was, has made us better so far and
it’s paying dividends now,” Bradisch said.
Webster also has new players
now comfortable in their roles,
and the team is playing its best
basketball of the season. he Gorloks displayed that in their 87-86
victory at Greenville (4-4 in SLIAC, 9-7 overall).
Webster was down 77-70 with
six minutes let in the fourth
quarter. he Gorloks cut the Panthers’ lead to one with 41 seconds
let, but Greenville had the ball.
Webster forced a turnover with
17 seconds let. With a chance to
win the game, coach Chris Bunch
called a timeout.
Bunch drew up a play for
sophomore forward Stefan Whit-
SLIAC
Men’s Basketball
Webster
Eureka
MacMurray
Spalding
Westminster
Greenville
Blackburn
Fontbonne
Principia
Conference
Overall
Record
Games
Back
Record
Win %
Streak
8-0
7-2
5-3
6-4
5-4
4-4
2-7
2-6
0-9
—
1.5
3.0
3.0
3.5
4.0
6.5
6.0
8.5
8-9
10-7
8-8
9-10
9-9
9-7
5-13
3-13
0-16
0.471
0.588
0.500
0.474
0.500
0.562
0.278
0.188
0.000
Lost 1
Won 4
Won 2
Won 1
Won 1
Won 1
Lost 10
Lost 1
Lost 16
*All statistics as of Jan. 24
Webster University junior forward Roman Robinson lines up a 3-pointer as Fontbonne University junior guard Bryton
Curtis defends. Robinson’s 19 points helped the Gorloks beat Fontbonne 84-69 on Jan. 21 in Clayton.
tingham, who has emerged as one
of the team’s go-to players. Whittingham drove to the basket and
missed his irst attempt. He got
his own rebound and made a layup to give Webster a one-point
lead with seven seconds let.
“hat was one of those times
where they maybe had a little bit
of a slower guy on Stefan,” Bunch
said. “So instead of putting one
of our guards out there that had
a quick guard on them, we were
able to throw it to Stefan. He was a
little bit quicker than the guy who
was guarding him. He was able to
get by him and get to the basket.”
he Whittingham basket was
the game-winner. Greenville
missed a shot at the buzzer to preserve the 87-86 victory for Webster.
“Coach Bunch decided to give
me the ball on the wing and told
me to make a play, and I made the
play,” Whittingham said.
Whittingham recorded a double-double against the Panthers
with 18 points and 10 rebounds.
Bradisch inished with 18 points
and six rebounds and junior forward Roman Robinson scored a
team-high 19 points.
“(he win) was big,” Bunch
said. “It kind of showed the guys
you just got to keep banging away
at it for 40 minutes. When we look
back at the end of the year, if we
win the conference, that’ll be one
of the ones we’d say was an important one to have.”
Webster continued its hot
streak with an 84-69 win at Fontbonne (2-6 in SLIAC, 3-13 overall). Robinson once again led the
team in points with 19. Whittingham had 14 points and nine rebounds. Freshman guard Danny
Zehner scored 12 points in only
13 minutes of the bench.
Lindenwood ended Webster’s
seven game-winning streak on
Monday night, as the Lions defeated the Gorloks 78-57. Robinson led the Gorloks with 15 points
and four steals. Whittingham had
10 points and eight rebounds.
Zehner scored 11 points and
grabbed six rebounds.
Webster was able to even its
record at .500 ater the victory at
Fontbonne, but the loss at Lindenwood drops the Gorloks’
overall record to 8-9.
he loss against Lindenwood
is Webster’s irst since losing to
Austin College on Dec. 11.
“We came back and won the
irst couple of games ater the
start of the new year,” Bunch said.
“I think that gave them some conidence to realize this is what the
tough nonconference games pre-
pared us for.
“I think they’re playing with
more conidence now. You got
to credit the guys. hey hung in
there. It’s tough to do sometimes
when you get of to a tough start
like that. hey’ve done a good job
so far, so hopefully we can just
keep it going the second half of
the season.”
he Gorloks look to remain
undefeated in the SLIAC when
they travel to Blackburn College
(2-7 in SLIAC, 5-13 overall) on
Jan. 28. he Gorloks have a game
at Westminster College (4-4 in
SLIAC, 8-9 overall) on Feb. 1 before returning home to host second-place Eureka College (7-2 in
SLIAC, 10-7 overall) on Feb. 4.
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Former star athlete set to enter Webster Hall of Fame
Soccer defender Ashley Zeier led the Gorloks to a 65-10-4 record during her outstanding four-year career
BY JOsH seLLMeYeR
Sports Editor
It was only appropriate for
Webster University senior Amanda Zeier, a four-year member of
the women’s soccer team, to have
one of the best collegiate games
of her career on senior night with
her cousin-in-law, Ashley (Everett) Zeier, watching in the stands.
Amanda Zeier scored two
goals that night — the 18th and
19th of her career — to help the
Gorloks to an emphatic 5-0 home
win over Westminster College
on Oct. 25, 2011. It turned out to
be the last goals Amanda Zeier
would score for the Gorloks. It
was also the last time she would
play in front of her cousin-in-law
and mentor.
With Amanda Zeier prepared
to graduate from Webster this
May with a degree in early childhood education, things have
come full circle for her and Ashley Zeier, who will earn a major
accomplishment of her own when
she is inducted into the Webster
Athletics Hall of Fame on Feb. 4.
“It’s been really cool to see
(Amanda) play at Webster, and
she wore my number all four
years — No. 7,” Ashley Zeier said.
“hat meant a lot to me, that she
was able to go there and do that.
She’s been an awesome part of
the program. She’s getting ready
to graduate, so it’s been nice to
see the legacy that we started live
on through her. It makes it a lot
closer to home, and just so much
more real, being able to see how
the program has changed over the
last 10 years.”
Ashley Zeier builds Hall of
Fame resume
Ashley Zeier was a captain on
the inaugural Webster women’s
soccer team in 1999 and led the
Gorloks to a 15-4-1 record that
season. It was the irst of four
spectacular years for Ashley Zeier, who compiled a 65-10-4 career
record, including a 44-2-2 mark
in conference play.
She is the only four-year captain in women’s soccer program
history, and she led the Gorloks to
three straight St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles
and NCAA tournament appearances, from 2000-2002. Ashley
Zeier was selected to the All-Conference irst team three times and
the All-Scholar Central Region
team twice. She received the Webster Athletics Presidential Award
in 2002.
Ashley Zeier was nominated
for the Hall of Fame by Luigi Scire, who started the women’s soccer program and has coached the
team in each of its 13 years of existence. For Scire, the nomination
COURTESY OF ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
INFOGRAPHIC BY VICTORIA COURTNEY & JOSH SELLMEYER
Former Webster University defender Ashley (Everett) Zeier is the only four-year captain in program history. She will be inducted into the Webster Athletics Hall of Fame on Feb. 4.
was a no-brainer.
“When I look at the criteria,
one of the things I look at is how a
player from one era comes across
in today’s game,” Scire said. “Certain players wash and wear very
nicely in 1999 or 2011. Ashley is
one of those players.
“It doesn’t matter if she was a
part of the 1999 team or the 2011
team. She would be a leader, an
anchor on defense, and she would
carry us to success … She didn’t
have 2,000 goals and 700 assists,
but what makes that individual
great? And it’s (that) she was an
outstanding player, but a better
person.”
Because she was a four-year
sweeper, Ashley Zeier’s ofensive
numbers aren’t eye-popping. For
her career, she tallied only one
goal and nine assists for 11 points.
But what she helped the Gorloks’
defense accomplish is jaw-dropping. In the 79 games that Ashley
Zeier played, Webster allowed 48
goals total. During that same time
span, the Gorloks shut out their
opponents 49 times.
“Being a defender, you don’t
always get a whole lot of recognition,” Ashley Zeier said. “Weeg
(Luigi Scire) has always been great
about recognizing us. I was somewhat surprised (to be inducted)
because of the stats, but Weeg has
always been someone who wears
his feelings on his sleeve and he
always lets you know how special
you are to him.
“So, I wasn’t surprised 100 percent when (Director of Athletics)
Tom (Hart) called me and told me
(I made the Hall of Fame), just because I know Weeg is one of those
guys that has your back and pulls
for you. If he thinks that’s someplace I belong, I knew he wasn’t
going to stop until he got his way.”
Zeier family gets psyched for
induction day
Ashley Zeier will be inducted
into the Hall of Fame during halftime of the men’s basketball game
against Eureka College, which
is set to tip of at 3 p.m. at Grant
Gymnasium. Ashley Zeier will be
enshrined along with two other
former Webster athletes — sotball and basketball player Laura
(Stuhlman) Peiter and sotball
player Jeanne (Zes) Gilbert —
who make up the Hall of Fame’s
third class.
As proud as Ashley Zeier is
of her Hall of Fame accomplishment, which she called “surreal,”
she said her parents, Curt and LaVerne Everett, and her twin sister,
Amanda Everett, are even prouder. Ashley Zeier said that’s because
the trio only missed a handful of
games — home or away — during
Ashley Zeier’s Webster soccer career.
“Everybody in my family has
been completely devoted to my
career,” Ashley Zeier said. “My
parents are those types; they’re
die-hard fans. I think it means
more to my parents because it’s
almost an accomplishment for
them. My sister was a really big
supporter, so it was a big deal for
her when she heard about this.
hey’re just all really, really proud
of me. I think I ind it more of an
accomplishment because I can see
how much it means to them. So
that’s the biggest thing for me.”
Ashley Zeier, a St. Louis native who attended McCluer North
High School before enrolling at
Webster, said one of the highlights
of her soccer career was playing
SLIAC rival Principia College in
several tight games. She added
that “there’s nothing like playing
in the NCAA tournament.” Ashley Zeier helped the Gorloks earn
one of their two NCAA tournament victories — a 5-1 win over
Edgewood College in 2001.
Ashley Zeier graduated from
Webster in 2003 with a degree in
psychology. She earned a master
of business administration from
Fontbonne University in 2007.
For the past six and a half years,
Ashley Zeier has worked at Pericient, an information technology
consulting irm.
Ashley Zeier lives in Florissant with her husband, Eric Zeier.
hey have a 3-year-old daughter,
Cooper, and an 18-month-old
son, Nolan.
Ashley Zeier will be the sec-
ond women’s soccer player to be
enshrined into the Hall of Fame.
he irst was Niki (Martinez) Tedoni, who was inducted in 2010
and played alongside Zeier from
2000-2002.
“When it comes to the Hall of
Fame, you have Ashley and Niki,”
Scire said. “As I told everybody,
when it comes to the beginning
of the program, there it is, there’s
your heart and your soul — the
two inductees right now. hat’s
how I look at those two. Everything from this point on will build
on those two setting the tone and
foundation for our success. Now I
have the heart and soul in the Hall
of Fame.”
Check out next week’s issue of
he Journal to read about 2012
Hall of Fame inductees Laura
(Stuhlman) Peiter and Jeanne
(Zes) Gilbert.
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