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SU Treasury approves funding for
Legend, Vergara and Chua
WU
professor
leads Mars
Rover
to new
terrain
AMANDA HAYES
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Perched on the rim of an ancient
22,000 meter-wide crater, the Mars
rover Opportunity has reached
a new type of rock that scientists
believe may contain evidence that
the planet was once capable of sustaining life.
Washington University professor Raymond E. Arvidson is the
mission’s deputy principal coordinator. He works on the project
SEE MARS, PAGE 3
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF MCT CAMPUS
(L-R) Sofia Vergara, John Legend, and Amy Chua
ALAN LIU &
MICHAEL TABB
STUDENT LIFE EDITORS
Student Union Treasury voted
to allocate $105,569 to bring
John Legend, Sofia Vergara
and Amy Chua, a professor at
Yale Law School and author
of “Battle Hymn of the Tiger
Mother”, to campus in a meeting
flooded by about 100 students
Tuesday night.
The Association of Black
Students appealed to bring
Legend, the Association of Latin
American Students appealed for
Vargara and Lunar New Year
Festival appealed for Chua.
Appeals for Sanjay Gupta,
Garry Kasparov, Ashley Judd,
Djimon
Hounsou,
Chris
Gardner, Patch Adams and Bill
McKibben were not funded.
Treasury representatives deliberated until close to 3 a.m. and
members of the different groups
waited until then for the final
decisions. Emotions ran high as
student groups stayed to voice
support for their own appeals
and other speakers they also
hoped to see funded.
Treasury’s initial strategy to
SEE TREASURY, PAGE 3
Slate Louis beats five-slate field, elected to
Freshman Class Council
CHLOE ROSENBERG
SENIOR NEWS EDITOR
Emma Tyler will be the next
president of the Freshman Class
Council after earning more than
30 percent of the votes in the
election.
The results were announced
Wednesday evening.
Tyler’s entire slate, “Slate
Louis,” was elected. The slate
includes External Vice President
Andy Lee, Internal Vice President
Jodi Small, Secretary Kara Chung
and Treasurer Andrew Hausdorf.
Five slates ran in the highly
competitive election. Michelle
Winner, of the “Fun to the Fifth”
slate, came in second place in the
election for president with 26.9
percent of the votes.
“I’m excited to meet more
members of the class of ‘15 and
to hear their ideas…and make this
the best freshman year possible for
everyone,” Tyler said.
The Freshman Class Council
will work with the other branches
of Student Union, including
Senate and Treasury, to advocate
on behalf of the freshman class
COURTESY OF CHRISTINE PAVIA
Members of the newly elected Freshman Class Council: (L-R) President Emma Tyler, Internal Vice President Jodi Small,
Treasurer Andrew Hausdorf, Secretary Kara Chung, External Vice President Andy Lee.
and to program activities for the
class.
“I was happy to see so much
enthusiasm. It was impressive to
see how much time and thought
went into it. I am excited to
work with them,” Student Union
President John Harrison York
said.
A total of 699 freshmen voted
in the election. This is almost 47
percent of the 1,497-person class.
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Q&A with the new Freshman Class Council President
CHLOE ROSENBERG
SENIOR NEWS EDITOR
Student Life sat down with
newly elected Freshman Class
Council President Emma Tyler
on Wednesday. Here is what we
learned about her and her goals for
her new position.
SL: Where are you from?
ET: New Orleans, Louisiana.
SL: How is freshman year? What
else are you doing on campus?
ET: I’m taking class. I’ve tried to go
to a few club meetings, but the campaign has kept me really busy.
SL: What are you studying?
ET: I’m in ArtSci. I think I’m going
to major in political science, but I’m
taking some classes in urban studies
and environmental policy to look at
those as other possibilities.
SL: What is one word that describes
you best?
ET: Dedicated
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Student
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stages of
campaigns
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NEWS EDITOR
As the 2012 election season gets
underway, Washington University
students are already leading the
charge in promoting their favorite
candidates.
Although
both
College
Democrats
and
College
Republicans have yet to start
their campaigns, individual members from both groups have been
working with national campaign
organizations.
Junior Michael Rosengart, a
member of Students and Young
Professionals for Jon Huntsman
(GenH) is working on Huntsman’s
campaign for the Republican presidential candidacy.
“[Huntsman] has a lot to offer
for voters of various political
denominations,” he said.
GenH, chaired by Jeb Bush, has
139 campus chapters in 42 states,
including four in Missouri.
“Governor Huntsman is a candidate who isn’t attached to talking
points but to reality. Personally,
that’s why I support him,”
Rosengart said. “I interned in both
the House and the Senate this summer, and there is nobody willing to
tell it straight. Governor Huntsman
will. It’s why he understands the
threats of climate change and supports civil unions.”
Rosengart has been reaching
out to the other members of the
College Republicans about supporting Huntsman as the GOP
candidate.
“We are planning to watch the
next GOP debates [as a group],”
junior Joel Yambert, president of
the College Republicans, said. “As
a College Republican, I cannot tell
you who we are supporting yet.”
Sophie Schuit, the College
Democrat campaign coordinator
SEE CHAMPAIGN, PAGE 7
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“The solidarity
of other groups
who maybe didn’t
receive what they
wanted—and
being mature and
standing up for
others who they
believed deserved
the chance—was
impressive”
Ted Drewes Custard Sale
The DUC Courtyard, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Club Running is sponsoring a frozen custard
sale. Cups of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry
are $3 each. Campus card is accepted.
Bear Mitzvah
McMillan Café, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
First-year students of Hillel are holding a
throwback to the classic Bat/Bar celebration.
The event will feature a live DJ, “old-school
games” and a dessert bar.
FRIDAY 23
Free STI Testing
DUC, 12 p.m.
Students can be tested for gonorrhea,
chlamydia, HIV and syphilis in the DUC in
order to remove the stigma that is attached
with getting an STI test. Student Health
Services, Washington University School of
Medicine, Project ARK, the SPOT, LGBT and
Phi Lambda Psi are sponsoring the event.
Gunther von Hagen’s Body World
College Night
St. Louis Science Center, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Students will be able to view the exhibit
illustrating details of the human body at a
reduced rate of $9. Those attending will see
which muscle groups are actually involved in
swinging a baseball bat, shooting a bow and
arrow, ice skating and even having sex.
SATURDAY 24
Alpha Phi’s Phi Ball
The Swamp, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Come play in the all-Greek kickball
tournament with your chapter, or just come
eat, listen to music and cheer on your friends!
First 40 Days – Saturday in the Park!
Forest Park, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Free trollies will take new students to explore
fun and free venues located in Forest Park,
including the St. Louis Zoo and St. Louis
Art Museum. Trollies will leave from the
Clocktower every 15-20 minutes.
–Zachary Romo,
outreach chair for
ALAS
POLICE
BEAT
Sept. 17, 2011
Informational—At 3:14 p.m., a student
reported that he was injured while
“crowd-surfing” during W.I.L.D.
Disposition: Pending.
Larceny—At 5:30 p.m., a complainant
reported 9 unauthorized purchases on his
student account after losing his wallet at
W.I.L.D.
Disposition: Pending.
WU to join peer institutions in
addressing alcohol education
on campus
DILI CHEN
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
School administrators are taking a
new approach in addressing alcohol education and culture on campus.
Washington University is joining 31 other institutions—including
Dartmouth, Princeton, and Vanderbilt
Universities—in the national Learning
Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking,
a program intended to tackle alcoholrelated problems among college students.
The program was launched in
April by the National College Health
Improvement Project (NCHIP). It aims
to improve the health and well-being of
college students through the collaborative effort of peer institutions.
The University paid approximately
$20,000 to join the program. The cost
covers administrative expenses and
training and maintains NCHIP’s support team of public health and clinical
research experts. The amount does not
include the travel expenses for administrators to attend the semiannual
meetings.
Numerous colleges involved have
already begun to implement the program. Parents of this year’s freshman
class received a letter during the summer
from Chancellor Wrighton encouraging
them to discuss alcohol use with their
sons and daughters.
“We decided to participate in the
NCHIP program because we believe
it is important to continue to work to
avoid alcohol abuse at Washington
University,” Wrighton said.
The letter highlighted the “life-altering
consequences” that may result “because
of a poor decision made while under the
influence of alcohol.” It encouraged students to drink moderately or refrain from
alcohol use altogether.
In addition to administrators, Student
Union members are also involved in the
program. SU President John Harrison
York and Senator Josh Aiken represent
the student body as members of the
steering committee of NCHIP.
“Student Union has joined the committee to ensure that student input is
involved and at the center of any measures taken,” York said.
According to York, administrators
are thinking of forming a larger student
advisory committee to serve alongside
the steering committee.
The Learning Collaborative is an
18-month program in which leading
experts and representatives from participating colleges meet twice a year to
discuss ideas for tackling alcohol-related
university issues. The first “learning session” was held at Dartmouth College
from June 29 to July 1, and a second
session will be held in Austin, Texas, in
January.
Each learning session will focus on a
specific aspect of college high-risk drinking, including “The Individual,” “The
Environment” and “The Policy System.”
NCHIP also holds virtual meetings
every month for school officials to share
the outcomes of various approaches they
have tried on their campuses.
One strategy proposed at the last
learning session would involve students’ primary physicians in the process,
according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations at Dartmouth
College.
In the plan, physicians would be
required to hold “pre-interventions”
with students who show signs of alcohol
abuse.
The Chancellor acknowledged that the
new program will take a long time to be
fully implemented.
“[The program] requires new effort
every year, as we work with a new group
of entering students,” Wrighton said in
his letter.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
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TREASURY FROM PAGE 1
choose speakers was to divide the speakers into packages. Treasury members
nominated over 30 packages consisting
of different combinations of speakers.
Several rounds of voting were conducted to shorten the list, but Treasury
members still struggled to reach a consensus even after narrowing the docket
to two packages.
Attempts were made very late in the
process to add new speakers to existing
packages or to add entirely new packages. Ultimately, Treasury decided
to vote separately on Legend and
Kasparov, both speakers with price tags
of over $50,000.
Treasury voted unanimously to fund
the Association of Black Students’
appeal for Legend. The Washington
University Chess Club’s appeal to bring
Kasparov was rejected by a vote of 8 in
favor, 9 against.
“I think chess still carries a stigma
even at the university level,” junior
Jacob Zax, president of the University’s
Chess Club, said. “I think it would’ve
been good for Student Union to have
a speaker like this…and it’s too bad it
didn’t happen.”
Ashoka’s request for $50,000 to bring
Gupta to campus was rejected in the
first round of voting. Members of the
student group felt that Gupta’s similarity to Dr. Joia Mukherjee—who was
funded last week—hurt their cause.
“It’s almost a pick of the draw
whether the small speakers go first or
the big speakers go first; we just never
got a say. We think Sanjay Gupta would
have brought something different to the
MARS
table and have a lot more name recognition,” Ajay Kanakamedala, Ashoka’s
treasurer, said.
The appeals for Vergara and Chua
both made it through on individual
votes. LNYF’s appeal for Chua had
been eliminated earlier in the package
system but found new life when considered separately.
“I think the whole system with packaging made things really complicated.
I almost left because I thought she was
out,” Rina Matsumoto, co-executive
director of LNYF, said. “Amy Chua
addresses a lot of issues not covered by
the other speakers. She is a superstar
because of her issues, not because of
her name.”
Beyond the few procedural complaints, some students said they
appreciated
the
support
they
received from students outside their
organizations.
“The solidarity of other groups
who maybe didn’t receive what they
wanted—and being mature and standing up for others who they believed
deserved the chance—was impressive,”
Zachary Romo, outreach chair for
ALAS, said.
Dates for most of the speakers have
yet to be set.
SU Treasury allocated funding for
Al Gore, Daphne Kwok, Mukherjee,
Deanne Bell and Jess Weiner last week.
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FROM PAGE 1
“Opportunity drives much, much slower
than a car would—something like a centimeter per second,” graduate student Amy
Shaw said.
As a result, the team is meticulous in
choosing a site before taking the risk of
investigating it.
“The problem is we think the outcrops
that contain these minerals are very small,
so it’s really hard to get a good signature and
figure out exactly where they are,” Fraeman
said.
The team also has to keep in mind that
Opportunity is operating well past its expiration date—it’s on day 2,725 of what was
projected to be a 90-day mission.
“It’s going to take a while because it’s an
ancient rover,” Arvidson said. “Some of the
instruments aren’t working as well as they
used to.”
Arvidson said that although the rover continues to function, the craft now takes almost
two weeks to analyze data that could previously be studied in three hours.
An updated model named Curiosity will
be launched in November and will join
Opportunity next August. At five times the
size of its predecessor, the new rover will
have the capability of identifying organic
molecules, which will allow it to explore
ancient lakebeds that have been located by
an orbiter.
with a team of graduate students and freshman undergraduates from the Pathfinder
Program in Environmental Sustainability.
Scientists involved in the program hope
that incoming data from the new site, which
contains rocks older than anything the rover
has yet explored, will reveal an extraterrestrial environment once suitable for life.
“We’re trying to understand what the
environment was like when the ancient crater terrain was forming and being modified,”
Arvidson said.
The new site, the rim of the crater called
Endeavour, is spurring hopes that researchers are getting closer to locating where life
may have once been possible.
“What’s really exciting about where
opportunity is now is we think we see the
signature of clay minerals, [which] form in
an environment that has much more neutral
waters,” graduate student Abigail Fraeman
said.
New data in the coming days will give the
team a better idea of whether to continue
analyzing the current site for clay minerals or to move to a different location along
Endeavour’s rim.
Opportunity stayed in the same area for its
entire mission before moving to Endeavour
in early August.
The crater formed recently and represents
a late geologic period when the planet transitioned from wet to dry.
Although recently developed high-resolution imaging has helped the team locate clay
minerals from orbit, locating them with the
rover is still painstaking work.
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STAFF EDITORIAL
O
n Tuesday night,
a multitude of
student groups
submitted appeals
to Student Union Treasury to
bring speakers to campus. That,
combined with last Tuesday’s
voting, brings the list of funded
speakers to: Al Gore, Daphne
Kwok, Mukherjee, Deanne Bell,
Jess Weiner, John Legend, Amy
Chua and Sofia Vergara.
We think it is a great thing
that so many student groups are
involved in bringing speakers to
campus, and that Student Union
is open to the idea of bringing
important thinkers, writers, artists and politicians to offer their
experiences to us.
But at the same time, there
are no appeals for anything
other than speakers. Treasury
A need for different appeals
has done all it could so far (and
spent quite a bit of money in
the process), but we believe
that something more could be
offered.
This university has a few traditions, the Nerf-gun fight in the
engineering school, Bauhaus,
Vertigo, W.I.L.D., etc. These are
all great events that make Wash.
U. a much more enjoyable place
to live (on top of the great amenities we are offered).
Outside of those events, there
aren’t many traditions at this
school. ResLife tries to manufacture them on occasion, with
the ResCollege Olympics and
ResCollege dinners, but those
don’t really have any push to
them, no sense that you are
missing out if you don’t attend.
We believe that this school
needs more traditions, and it is
up to the student body to start
them. It isn’t easy to make a
tradition, an event that every
student goes to just because it
is something that every student
does, but W.I.L.D. didn’t miraculously appear. Architecture
students didn’t randomly decide
to pitch tents during Halloween,
Engineers didn’t create a lightup floor in Lopata for their
health. Someone, or a group of
someones, had the drive and
vision to make these events
what they are today.
Speakers are wonderful, and
we are glad that so many big
names are going to be coming to
campus, but listening to people
talk isn’t all there is to being a
college student. Students should
appeal for funds for all sorts of
reasons, not just for speakers, to
create the traditions that other
schools have.
It will obviously take a lot
of work. You can’t go in to a
Treasury appeal without an
exact idea of what the event will
be, what it will cost, how it will
go down, etc. But if you truly
want to make an event happen,
it is definitely possible.
And once those appeals
start, Treasury should consider
approving them. We understand
that many of the students on
Treasury have an aversion to
spending money, especially for
new events, but the only way to
try something different is to take
a chance. Every year Treasury
has a large amount of carryforward funds, money that they
didn’t spend the year before.
If our Student Activities Fee
isn’t being spent solely on speakers and groups, we could try to
start events that students will
remember when they leave. We
can try to start new traditions
that will continue long after we
have moved on.
It is something the entire student body would need to work
on doing. But we believe there
is no reason the next Vertigo,
or the next W.I.L.D., the next
Wash. U. tradition, isn’t out
there, waiting to be created. All
you need to do is appeal.
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Pro-Israel but anti-David Horowitz
MATTHEW CURTIS
STAFF COLUMNIST
I
support Israel wholeheartedly. I recognize that
it has flaws—building
illegal settlements and
populating them with ultrareligious far-right zealots—and
whether it should have been
established in the first place is a
question for the ages.
But as a whole, it’s a respectable nation, certainly when
compared to its neighbors Egypt
and Syria, which are in the
process of jailing and massacring their people, respectively.
If nothing else, Israel’s actions
aren’t any more reprehensible
than those of the Palestinians,
who have elected terrorist
groups in both the Gaza Strip
and the West Bank that insist
on lobbing rockets into Israel,
call for Israel’s total destruction
and conveniently ignore the fact
that much of “Palestine” is, in
fact, in Jordan. But even I take
issue with the David Horowitz
Freedom Center advertisement. I agree with much of
what it says, but its language
is so outrageous that I find it
impossible that its aim is to win
anyone over at all. Reading it,
I find it hard to not take the
side of the Palestinians against
an obviously black-and-white
pro-Israel portrayal of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
My main problem is with the
headline: “The Palestinians’
Case Against Israel is Based
on a Genocidal Lie.” It illustrates the extreme right’s goal
to correlate Israel with the
world’s Jewish population and
to make anti-Israel sentiments
synonymous with anti-Semitic
ones. The two are nowhere
close to the same: Israel is a
heterogeneous society, composed of Jews, Arabs and a
grab-bag of other nationalities,
but even if its population were
100 percent Jewish, hating a
government has rarely been
the same as hating its people.
Even those who call for Israel’s
destruction say little about a
genocidal rampage. The president of Iran, whose anti-Israel
blustering frequently makes
headlines, would support its
relocation to Europe or North
America.
Several more issues arise in
the last paragraph. The advertisement states that the Arab
League is responsible for the
Palestinian bid for statehood.
This is simply misinformation: The Arab League, while
it may have officially endorsed
the Palestinian bid for statehood, is not responsible for it.
The Palestinians are doing this
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of their own volition, without
outside pressure, and certain
members of the Arab League—
notably Jordan—are opposed to
the move.
The last paragraph also refers
to Jews as “the indigenous
people of the geographical
region called Palestine.” It is
true that a Semitic people once
lived in the region and that, over
the centuries, it has developed
a Jewish identity. However, for
nearly 2,000 years preceding the
establishment of the modern
state of Israel, the region was
almost entirely without a notable Jewish population. In that
time, Greeks, Arabs, Western
Europeans and Turks all contributed genetic material to the
area, and the claim that modern Jews—who, incidentally,
have also changed a great deal
in the past two millennia, and
now include several thousand
blacks—are the native people of,
for lack of a less unwieldy neutral term, the British Mandate
of Palestine, is ludicrous.
The advertisement does
make some good points. Until
the twentieth century, there
was never a Palestine, or an
ethnic group that identified as
“Palestinian.” No one complained when Palestine was
annexed by Egypt and Jordan,
only when, in a war of selfdefense, Israel wrested control
of it from them. But the kernels
of reason are couched in irrational, fear-mongering rhetoric
and it is nearly impossible for
anyone, even staunch supporters
of Israel, to agree with how the
message is presented.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
STUDENT LIFE 5
An unpaid response to an
advertisement
BRENDAN LIND
OP-ED SUBMISSION
I
believe the PalestinianIsraeli conflict is an
inter-subjective debacle, at
once complex, dynamic,
and grounded in human experience, phenomenology, and
history. Undoubtedly, Student
Life published the recent
advertisement from the David
Horowitz Freedom Center with
the best intentions of fostering
debate and giving an organization the opportunity to exercise
its free speech rights. I personally have no interest in having
a serious debate on the issues
with the Horowitz Freedom
Center. Rather, I want to question Student Life’s rationale for
allowing the advertisement to
appear in our newspaper.
The conflation of free speech
with money is a modern travesty. A right is only so valuable
(or so real) as are the occasions
of its exercise. When the right
to freedom of speech is sold by
news outlets under the guise of
the opinion page, marginalized
people stand silent and voiceless as the ability of the wealthy
and already well-heard to share
their opinions grows without
restraint. Student Life endorses
the Freedom Center’s right
to free speech and says that
while controversial, the Center
“paid” for its opinion and “has
a right to be heard.” Of course
the line between opinion and
standard advertisements is not
black and white, but I do not
think paid opinions of this sort
should appear in our student
newspaper.
Even if one was to endorse
the idea that political propaganda is something we can,
for the right price, publish as
free speech, it should be obvious that the editorial board
of Student Life should have
chosen not to publish the
Freedom Center’s piece. The
Center’s advertisement places
sole blame for Palestinian suffering upon the Palestinians.
It denies Palestinian identity,
suggesting that an Arab is an
Arab. It accuses the Palestinian
people in general—not extremists specifically—of waging a
genocidal war against Jews. And
it consistently dehumanizes an
entire group of human beings—
the antithesis of everything we
are taught and encouraged to
believe at our university.
Should there be any doubt
about the Freedom Center’s
beliefs, the Southern Poverty
Law Center has identified
the David Horowitz Freedom
Center as a leading organization
“support[ing] efforts to make
bigoted and discredited ideas
respectable.” Among other
things, the Freedom Center has
described the Palestinians as
leading the “second holocaust
of the Jews,” and has said “the
Palestinians are Nazis,” falsely
comparing a people to a tyrannical political party. Would
we allow such an advertisement if these comments were
directed towards some other
historically marginalized group
such as homosexuals, AfricanAmericans or Jews? Would we
sanction as an exercise of free
speech an advertisement that
suggested that any of these
groups were to blame for their
own suffering or that accused
them of leading “genocidal
campaigns?” Would we publish
an advertisement that openly
dehumanized any of those
groups? I think not. The fact
that Student Life permitted the
publication of something so
condemning and slanderous
toward the Palestinians is a sad
commentary on how marginalized they are, as a people, in the
eyes of the western world.
Student Life seeks to foster
debate over the PalestinianIsraeli conflict. Let this
discussion be heard! But let it
be heard publicly and genuinely.
Let it be heard in published columns and submissions that may
be responded to directly through
the StudLife website.
The debate I feel we need to
have is why marginalization is
still okay, so long as it pays the
bills? I want to question why
money is the doorway to free
speech, why we have a newspaper that needs to fund itself
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR
by accepting such ads, and
why academic priorities follow
the money and not the need? I
want to debate why irrational
and hateful views set the tone
for our public discourse, here
and nationally, and why it is
so difficult for members of our
campus community, our nation,
Israelis and Palestinians to hold
opinions and engage in debate
without marginalizing each
other.
I’m not an expert on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But
I believe with conviction that
continued reasoned discussion
that seeks to find humanistic
responses to the conflict is the
right way forward, that free
speech and money should never
be mistaken as the same thing,
that bigoted speech against a
marginalized people is unacceptable no matter the target
of the speech or the identity of
the speaker, and that to accept
such speech as ordinary opinion is a sign of our own passive
prejudices.
Brendan Lind is a senior in Arts & Sciences. Write to Brendan at
LINDB@WUSTL.EDU
Dear Editor,
I was very disappointed this past
Monday when I read “The Real
College Rankings” article in the
most recent issue of StudLife. It
should be an embarrassment to the
publication, and I felt personally
embarrassed for the school at large
as a member of the Wash. U. community. To an outsider (e.g. a visiting
high school senior), the article made
the school seem not only rankingsobsessed, but also petty and insecure,
and said far more about Wash. U.
than it did about the schools it was
“ranking.”
I am a proud member of the
Wash. U. community. I chose
Wash. U., due in major part to the
community that I observed while
I was visiting and the testaments
of students who went here. I have
been surprised only by how well the
school lived up to its reputation during the little over a year that I have
been here. The article was a better
example of the Wash. U. community’s insecurity than it was of its pride.
If we are so concerned with the US
News and World Report’s rankings,
we should work to improve our own
school rather than superficially tear
down others.
While the article was intended
to be ironic, its jokes were less
witty than mean and its tone more
arrogant than proud. I believe the
Wash. U. community is better than
the article portrays us. I encourage
Student Life to show more discretion
in its future articles and consider the
portrait it paints of our community.
Gabe Hassler
Horowitz ad full of holes and pitfalls
SEAN JANDA
OP-ED SUBMISSION
This Monday, Sept. 19, Student
Life chose to publish an advertisement, titled “The Palestinians’
Case Against Israel is Based on a
Genocidal Lie,” sponsored by the
David Horowitz Freedom Center,
a group that, according to its website, is “dedicated to the defense of
free societies whose moral, cultural
and economic foundations are
under attack by leftist and Islamist
enemies at home and abroad.”
In particular, the Center aims to
combat what it perceives is a leftist
and anti-Semitic trend on college
campuses.
In the advertisement, the Center
makes two main claims. First, it
argues that Israel does not occupy
Palestine because “when Israel
was created in 1948, there was
no Palestine to occupy. There has
never been a political entity, state
or country called Palestine in the
Middle East.” Second, it places the
blame for the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict squarely on the shoulders
of the Palestinians, as it claims
that “there is one reason and one
reason alone that there is no peace
between the Arabs and Israel, and
this is because since 1948, the Arab
aggressors have refused to live side
by side with a non-Muslim, nonArab, Jewish state.” Unfortunately,
upon further examination, both of
the Center’s points appear extraordinarily problematic, as does the
presentation and rhetoric of the
advertisement.
The advertisement goes on to
argue that when Israel was created,
there was no Palestine to occupy,
so any arguments that Israel is
occupying Palestine are founded
on a lie. Palestine, however, was
a political entity before Israel was
created in 1948. In fact, Palestine
has continually existed, in some
form or another, since at least
1922, when the League of Nations
passed the Mandate of Palestine.
In addition, Palestine had
existed as a political entity at
various points in history over the
course of thousands of years, even
if the land had been under the
reign of the Ottoman Empire in
the years before 1922. In fact, the
vast majority of the nations (both
Arab and non-Arab) that constitute
the Middle East today were part
of the Ottoman Empire until the
early part of the 20th century, as
the Empire had spent hundreds of
years conquering land. Their inclusion in a larger empire, however,
has no impact on the legitimacy of
the nationalistic tendencies among
the various populations just as, for
example, the nationalistic tendencies of the Lithuanian populace
were not illegitimate because that
land was included in the USSR in
the late 1980s.
Finally, the advertisement’s argument here is built on a semantic
Finally, the advertisement’s argument here
is built on a semantic
house of cards.
house of cards. Even if the land
used to create Israel did not have
a centuries-long tradition as
“Palestine,” the simple fact remains
that there were Arab (and other)
individuals living on that land in
1948 who now feel as if their land
has been unfairly taken. In fact,
prior to the creation of Israel, there
was nothing other than a set of
fairly arbitrary borders separating
Palestine from the surrounding
Arab countries; therefore, it is
certainly logical that, at the time,
the population may have identified very strongly with the citizens
of those countries rather than as
a separate political group. The
shared experience of perceived
Israeli occupation and oppression
over the past 60 years, however,
has certainly reinforced (if not
created) a Palestinian identity that
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is separate from the identity of
the other Arab states, and there is
no reason that this identity is any
less valid if it is only 50 years old
instead of 70.
The advertisement’s second
main argument is that the sole
reason for the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict is the refusal of the “Arab
aggressors” to live side-by-side with
the Israeli state. The truth, however, is that both the Palestinian
and Israeli sides have contributed
to the fighting in a variety of ways,
going back to 1948. In fact, at the
beginning of the conflict, up to one
million Palestinians were displaced
from their homes in the ArabIsraeli War, and many of them
have still be unable to return to
their homes or claim their property.
In addition, throughout the
entirety of the conflict, Israel has
established hundreds of settlements in Palestinian territories. In
fact, even today, Israel maintains
those settlements, despite over 30
years of U.N. resolutions affirming the fact that they violate the
Geneva Convention. Moreover,
and perhaps more practically,
any settlements legitimately hurt
the chances of a lasting peace in
the area, as they establish Israeli
boots on the ground in areas that
Palestine would probably claim in
any two-state solution, leading to
a fractured Palestine crisscrossed
with Israeli checkpoints, which
would appear to be unacceptable to
Palestinian leadership.
Furthermore, Israel has more
recently pursued a blockade of
the Gaza Strip that has contributed to an extraordinarily high
rate of poverty and unemployment in the area. In fact, the U.N.
High Commissioner for Human
Rights Navi Pillay, has specifically
declared this blockade a human
rights violation, as it restricts vital
supplies from the Gaza Strip, a
classic (and illegal) example of
collective punishment. Recently,
Israel has eased the blockade
somewhat, but a U.N. assessment
completed this year concluded that
the humanitarian impact of the
blockade is still unacceptable, as
close to 40 percent of inhabitants
are unemployed and more than 50
percent have food insecurity issues.
Finally, not only has Israel
participated in a number of initiatives that have indirectly hampered
the peace process, but Israel and
...Both parties to the
conflict have committed a variety of acts
that have stalled the
peace process.
Israelis have also killed a large
number of Palestinians. In fact,
according to B’Tselem, an Israeli
humanitarian group founded by
a number of prominent Israeli
citizens, including members of the
Knesset, since 1987, Palestinians
have killed 1,503 Israeli individuals, while Israelis have killed 6,385
Palestinian individuals.
Obviously, both of the death
tolls cited in the preceding paragraph are far too high, and it is
certainly not true that Palestine
can claim pure victim status in
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as
there has been a litany of incidents
of state-sponsored terrorism and
other humanitarian violations over
the past 60 years. That being said,
it is also impossible to find Israel
blameless in this conflict. Instead,
both parties to the conflict have
committed a variety of acts that
have stalled the peace process.
In addition, the highly charged
rhetoric and one-sided viewpoint
of the David Horowitz Freedom
Center advertisement will only
lead to equally charged backlash,
with any constructive dialogue
crushed as a result. Instead of
trying to assign blame to one side,
the Center (and others) should be
working to identify the best way to
find peace in the region.
Although the exact nature of the
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict is not yet certain, what
is certain is that bold headlines
declaring the other side’s position a
“genocidal lie” and advertisements
crammed with hate-filled rhetoric
will only perpetuate violence in the
region.
1. http://www.mfa.gov.
il/MFA/Peace+Process/
Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/
The+Mandate+for+Palestine.htm
2. Crenshaw, Martha.
The Consequences of
Counterterrorism. Russell Sage
Foundation. 2010. Pg. 356.
http://books.google.com/books?i
d=eqrbWrjrvDAC&pg=PA356#v
=onepage&q&f=false
3. United Nations Security
Council Resolution 465. 1 March
1980. http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/3822b5e39951876a85256b
6e0058a478/5aa254a1c8f8b1cb85
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4. Associated Press.
“U.N. Human Rights Chief:
Israel’s Blockade of Gaza
Strip is Illegal” 14 Aug 2009.
http://www.foxnews.com/
story/0,2933,539363,00.html
5. “Easing the Blockade.”
United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs. March 2011. Special
Report. http://www.
ochaopt.org/documents/
ocha_opt_special_easing_the_
blockade_2011_03_english.pdf
6. B’Tselem – The Israeli
Information Center for Human
Rights in the Occupied Territories.
http://www.btselem.org/statistics
Sean Janda is a sophomore in Arts &
Sciences. Write to Sean Janda at
SEANJANDA@WUSTL.EDU
Thumbs up to Treasury approving new speakers of all sizes.
Thumbs down to the louder fire
alarms. We’re trying to sleep!
Thumbs up to the new freshman
class council and contested elections
Thumbs down to Mike Posner
covering Rolling in the Deep.
Thumbs up to the louder (lifesaving) fire alarms.
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down
Thumbs down to unclear new alcohol programs, especially ones
that cost $20,000.
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6 STUDENT LIFE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
Taking a leave for gain
JUNSOO PARK
STAFF COLUMNIST
So we are off and onto
another year. Oh, too belated?
The first midterms have already
gnawed some of us, so maybe
summer is long gone. But really,
now the mandatory kickoff
butterflies have calmed down
in those stomachs, and some
of you have risen in experience
from hunting the midterm.
What can you say about the
year? High marks, W.I.L.D.,
happy smiles overall? Still some
lingering thrill of emancipation
from parents? Or, if your days
resemble my freshman ones,
you might be feeling a stirring
uncertainty: Am I heartily ready
for college or for another year
in it?
My first year uncovered my
poor understanding of self,
which I had never before fully
realized. A good amount of my
thoughts that carried over from
high school—on career goals,
academics, extracurricular and
social engagements—failed.
Certainly I was given more
freedom, but I didn’t know what
to do with it. I knew myself far
too insufficiently to live by any
self-begotten values. The ones
the 12 grade-school years and
the practically domesticated 17
years of life had indoctrinated
in me (and my naïve self had
taken without doubt) began to
unveil ineptness as they hit their
limits in the face of freedom.
Freedom required me to search
myself, but I only knew to cling
to the fixed values that had
previously been instilled in me.
Even though life was clearly
indicating their inadequacy, I
couldn’t do much as school kept
dragging me on forward. I felt
a need for a stop, and in May
2009, I decided to leave school
and do my constitutionally
required two-year service in the
Korean military.
Skipping the portrayal of the
service, it changed me in ways
I find school could not have.
Now I have a much clearer idea
of who I am. As a by-product,
I am a better student, with a
comprehension of what I need
and want from school and
what I want to do, study and
why—all for my bigger selfdiscovered purposes in life. The
social mainstream had shoved
me into college in 2008, but no
one other than myself brought
me back here after two years.
College trains dutiful students
who are capable of achieving
good grades, but it tends to
prevent them from realizing that
the dominant propellant behind
their study and schooling is
often the silently conveyed and
enforced expectation from parents and society. Only now do
I feel I merit a college student’s
standing.
Should my story sound relevant to you, consider taking a
leave. We are three-time graduates waiting for our fourth one.
If there’s something other than
a merely expectation-driven
student in you, buried and desperate to be excavated, a leave
might help guide your way. The
thought of digressing from the
academic continuum might
sound daunting, but it is hardly
a digression. Your studenthood
can benefit from it upon your
return. College surely offers us
many things, but without proper
preparedness we cannot relish
its benefits as well as we should.
That fear of leaving is itself the
very indication of the oversized
hold that outside expectations
exert on us. What then? Take
the courage to leave. Think
about it: You have walked along
the rather forward-focused,
laterally limited and narrow
funnel of concentrated academics for at least 12 straight years.
No surprise if you want a bit of
pause, lateral drift or broader
inspection of life.
If you hear inside yourself a
call for a break, don’t be afraid
to answer it. Work, read, go
abroad or simply rest, observe
and contemplate. Those feeling
perfectly fine at school could
also benefit from a leave, for
it will always project a bigger picture of self, or even an
altogether new one. If you are a
Korean student yet to fulfill the
military duty, try doing it early.
Though admittedly overwhelming, it can be one “step back”
that becomes multiple steps
forward. Promise your few
gem-like undergraduate years
happier smiles and higher quality. And who knows? You might
find a more propitious place to
flower your potential.
Junsoo Park is a sophomore in Arts &
Sciences. Write to Junsoo Park at
CSPARK@WUSTL.EDU
The price of eating well
HANNA XU | STUDENT LIFE
CASEY FEDERBUSCH
STAFF COLUMNIST
W
hen I came to
Washington
University,
I promised
myself I’d try to be healthier.
Walk everywhere. Go to the
gym. Eat better. The usual stuff.
Of course, once I realized that
the walk to the art school while
trying to manage an unwieldy
portfolio was next to impossible
at 7:30 in the morning, I started
taking Campus Circ. And while
I walk by the fitness center on a
daily basis, I have yet to actually
make it inside.
The one thing I really made
an attempt to do was to eat
healthily. And I did, avoiding
pizza and half-and-halfs in favor
of sandwiches on whole wheat
and salads from the salad bar.
But of course, you have to give
in sometime—just last week
I caved during my lunch run
and bought a burger and fries.
Carrying it to the cash register, I expected it to be a little
more expensive than my usual,
because it was a burger and
fries, after all. Imagine my surprise when it rang up to nearly
a full point less than my normal
Paws & Go salad.
Here at Wash. U., healthy
living is promoted all over the
place. The gym runs free trial
classes for students. Bear Bikes
rents out bicycles to students
who want to get some extra
exercise in on their way to and
from class. I dare you to go on
a quick walk to main campus
at any time of day and not find
at least one person out on a
run. You would think that eating well would factor into the
equation somewhere. Without
a healthy diet, all that exercising won’t do you much good.
You may lose a few pounds, but
actually being healthy is about
more than that.
The worst part of this seems
to be that the higher pricing is
restricted solely to the South40 eateries. Students entering
college hear horror stories about
the freshman 15, and many
will try as hard as they can to
subvert the 15 pounds they’ll
supposedly put on before the
end of the year. And while
options such as the DUC dining
facilities or the Village Café
might offer cheaper options
for healthier food, when your
stomach is rumbling on the way
...When your stomach
is rumbling on the way
back to your dorm, it’s
just that much easier
to swing through
Bear’s Den rather than
walking back across
campus.
back to your dorm, it’s just that
much easier to swing through
Bear’s Den than it is to walk
back across campus.
Everyday, WebSTAC shows
a suggested amount of meal
points to have on your card,
and more often than not, the
actual amount is far below the
suggested number. It’s funny,
because everyone tells you to
purchase the smallest meal plan
possible. Maybe that should
be amended to “purchase the
smaller meal plan if you aren’t
planning on eating a salad this
semester.”
While I’ve managed to get my
meal points back under control
through some careful crafting,
I don’t want to have to think
about my meal points every time
I consider passing over the fries
in favor of greens. I’m relieved
to know that, should my meal
plan run out, my parents would
gladly put some extra money on
my Bear Bucks account, but I’m
lucky. For many students it is:
“If you eat through your meal
plan, you aren’t getting any
more.”
Maybe I could go exercise so
that I can have that delicious
greasy meal (after all, joining
the fitness center here is far
less expensive than joining a
gym almost anywhere else off
campus), but I’m already spending hours holed up in a studio
or my room working hard. The
least I could hope for would be
a not-too-expensive, quick and
healthy fix on one of my short
breaks.
Or maybe that’s too much to
ask for.
Casey Federbusch is a Freshman in
the Sam Fox School of Art. Write to
Casey Federbusch at CASEY.FEDERBUSCH@STUDLIFE.COM
Ad-ing
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J STREET U &
WASH. U. STUDENTS FOR ISRAEL
OP-ED SUBMISSION
A
s many students
are aware, in its
last issue, StudLife
decided to print an
inflammatory paid advertisement
by David Horowitz entitled,
“The Palestinians’ case against
Israel is based on a genocidal
lie.” As representatives of the
leading pro-Israel groups at
Washington University, we
would like to respond to that
decision.
We certainly recognize David
Horowitz’s right to express his
opinions, no matter how abhorrent we may find them. We
also recognize StudLife’s right
to print the advertisement. We
believe, however, that it was inappropriate for the paper to choose
to do so. We emphasize the word
choose because there is ample
legal precedent indicating that
it would have been within the
paper’s rights to refuse to print
the ad. We seek to advance the
argument that just because printing the ad was the paper’s legal
right, it does not mean that it was
the right decision.
In the disclaimer published
four pages away, StudLife
exhibited several deficiencies
in its justification for printing
its ad. The paper claims that it
ran the ad in order to “generate
a conversation that this community should have.” To achieve
this goal, StudLife could have
requested that Wash. U. Students
for Israel or J Street U submit
op-eds explaining our opinions
on the situation. However,
StudLife instead chose to import
a radical opinion on the conflict
from outside our community.
This demonstrates that StudLife
attempted to create a controversy where none had previously
existed. It is our position that,
from a journalistic perspective,
it should be the task of a newspaper to report on controversy
rather than manufacture it.
Even assuming that fostering
debate is a legitimate journalistic
pursuit, it was still inappropriate
for StudLife to publish the ad.
First, and most fundamentally,
the ad was blatantly racist and
the use of the label “genocide”
was extreme and malicious,
especially coming from an individual who has made previously
problematic statements. StudLife
suggests that the ad will “cause
anger in some people while
eliciting admiration and respect
in others.” If we, the pro-Israel
groups on campus, find this
ad offensive, who exactly does
StudLife believe will “admire”
the opinions of the ad? The
StudLife disclaimer does little
to assuage our anger—do the
benefits of creating controversy
or debate outweigh the deficits
of offending a strong majority of
the student population?
Furthermore, the printing of
this advertisement is counterproductive to StudLife’s stated
goal of fostering campus discussion. As previously mentioned,
StudLife could have asked the
pro-Israel community for its
responses to the Palestinian effort
to seek recognition of statehood
at the U.N., which would have
fostered a respectful and reasonable debate. Instead, StudLife
chose to expropriate the voice of
the campus pro-Israel community
for the radical, racist and outsider opinion of David Horowitz.
As a result of this usurpation, the
campus pro-Israel position has
been misrepresented as unfairly
extreme. By printing the ad,
StudLife has forced us to write
this op-ed distancing ourselves
from the bigoted opinions of
Horowitz, in the hopes that
the general student body will
understand that his position
does not reflect the position of
our community. By radicalizing
the issue, StudLife has detracted
from the fairness and dignity of
our campus debate.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
STUDENT LIFE 7
Q&A FROM PAGE 1
Orleans, so I was excited to experience a new culture and new people
and new experiences.
SL: What is your favorite thing you
have done on campus so far?
ET: There have been so many…I
really enjoyed all the orientation
activities where the whole freshman class got to be together. I look
forward to planning more of those
throughout the year.
SL: What is your favorite place on
campus?
ET: Whispers. It is a great place to
study, but also you get to see people
and talk to people as they are walking through.
SL: What prompted you to run for
freshman class council?
In high school, I was the class president all four years, and I became
very close to my class…[and] my
city so I wanted the same experience
here at Wash. U. and in St. Louis. I
also did the Leading Wash. U. Style
pre-o where I got to meet a lot of the
Student Union…members. I thought
Wash. U. Student Union sounded
really interesting and wanted to get
involved.
SL: What were you excited for
before coming to Washington
University?
ET: I was most excited to become
part of a new community. I’ve
never lived anywhere else but New
SL: Like what?
ET: We named our slate Slate Louis
because we wanted to unite our class
through on campus programming
but also a lot more off campus programming to get the class unified
and spirited about Wash.U. but also
about the city of St. Louis.
SL: What are some ideas that you
have?
ET: We want to do more events
like the Big Bang, taking the entire
class out into the city, but we want
the class to have input and be able to
vote and tell us where they want to
go.
SL: How is it for you to have just
won this election?
ET: I’m excited to meet more members of the class of ‘15 and to hear
their ideas…and make this the best
freshman year possible for everyone.
SL: Tell me a little bit about your
slate.
ET: Our slate is called Slate Louis
because our main platform was we
wanted to get our class united not
only on Wash. U.’s campus and
SL: Tell me a little bit about yourself.
ET: I have lived in New Orleans my
entire life, and I have a deep-rooted
pride in my city. I really want to
transfer that pride to St. Louis…I
think a lot of people come to Wash.
U. and like they say, the infamous
Wash. U. bubble, they don’t really
get to know St. Louis, and I’d really
like to get to know St. Louis as a city
in addition to getting to know Wash.
U.
Democrats are still planning their
campaigning strategies, they will
support President Obama in the
upcoming election.
“While Obama hasn’t executed
on the innovation of government
we expected, he has done a solid
job at keeping the nation moving
forward, considering the truly difficult circumstances the economy
and wars abroad have left him in,”
Mashayekhi said. “His speech to
Congress on the American Jobs
Act was invigorating and demonstrated that he still knows when
push must come to shove when
it comes to the tragic comedy we
call American politics.”
Difference in politics aside,
most students working on
campaigns are enjoying the
experience.
“The Governor says it himself all the time. Most candidates
will run away from their record.
Governor Huntsman is running
GENEVIEVE HAY | STUDENT LIFE
Freshman Emma Tyler, a member of Slate Louis, was elected President of
Freshman Class Council on Wednesday.
more prideful for Wash. U. but also
in the city.
SL: You won with about 30 percent
of the vote. What does it mean for
you to have won in such a competitive environment?
ET: I am really grateful for all of our
supporters and all the people who
helped us campaign. All the other
slates did a wonderful job campaigning. It was very competitive…but
everyone was very respectful to each
other, and all the other slates ran a
very clean campaign, and they were
all very worthy candidates themselves, and I am very grateful to have
won by the margin that I did.
SL: What are you most excited
about for the next year?
ET: I am most excited to get to meet
the members of my class and for us
to be unified and to get to know the
city of St. Louis.
SL: What will be your role as
President?
ET: Since the Freshman Class
Council is a programming body, my
role is to plan creative and innovating programming that unites the
freshman class, but also to advocate
the freshman class needs to the other
bodies of the Student Union.
SL: Tell me one thing about yourself
that most people don’t know.
ET: When I was little I wanted to be
an F.B.I. agent, but you have to be
5’1”
I’m Rosenberg
only five feet
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at tall.
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and a member of the Organizing
for America (OFA), has actively
campaigned for President Obama.
Organizing for America is
a community-organizing project of the Democratic National
Committee and is present on
three campuses in Missouri. On
Sept. 17, OFA led a phone-calling
campaign, encouraging residents
of University City to reelect the
president. On Tuesday, the organization held a conference call
among all the different university
campuses across America to celebrate the DADT repeal.
Schuit was unavailable for
comment.
“We haven’t started our
campaigning yet, but we are supporting [Schuit] by telling our
members about the phone bank,”
College Democrats President
Sherveen Mashayekhi, a junior,
said.
Although
the
College
on his record. That’s refreshing
and as a young Republican, it’s
exciting,” Rosengart said.
The College Democrats and the
College Republicans will meet
head-to-head in the upcoming
Campus Crossfire on Oct. 18.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
sports
Wash. U. hosting 2011 ITA Central Regional Tournament
SAM CORNBLATH
SPORTS EDITOR
While
the
rest
of
Washington
University
enjoys
another
typical
weekend, the school’s tennis programs gear up to
host the Intercollegiate
Tennis Association’s Central
Regional Tournament.
Men’s tennis head coach
Roger Follmer and women’s
tennis head coach Kelly
Stahlhuth worked diligently
to prepare for the arrival of
30 different schools.
“Kelly has taken on as the
main head of the tournament,” Follmer said. “In the
past, the school has hired an
outside tournament director but this year because of
knee surgery she is unavailable. It’s strange after having
someone else run it for thirty
plus years and now Kelly and
I are really running it all.”
With teams coming from
across the nation, Follmer
and Stahlhuth booked courts
at three different locations
across St. Louis, and had to
arrange scheduling for each
team.
“We have 192 matches to
put on Friday and we have
access to 28 courts,” Follmer
said.
Both coaches have made
the draw and coordinated
with trainers, officials and
other schools making sure
the teams know where to be
and when.
Many reputable teams
will join the Bears this weekend for the tournament,
including ranked teams
Denison University, DePauw
University, Kenyon College
and Kalamazoo College. In
addition, University Athletic
Association
competitors
Case
Western
Reserve
University and University of
Chicago will participate.
“These are all teams with
a lot of depth and a lot of talent,” Follmer said.
The ITA, which according
to its website is “the governing body of college tennis,”
plans a total of 88 regional
events hosted throughout the
country during September
and October. Over 1,200
institutions belong to the
ITA with over 15,000 student-athletes participating
yearly in its events.
The fall ITA tournament is very important, as
it is an individual tournament with both singles and
doubles winners automatically awarded All-America
honors.
“This is the biggest tournament of the fall season,”
junior Adam Putterman
said. “It has a huge amount
of influence on individual
rankings in the spring and is
the last fall tournament.”
In recent years, a few
Bears have made it to this
status. Alumnus John Watts
captured the singles title four
years in a row, only losing
one set throughout all four
tournaments in the process.
“It’s quite a test of talent,
will power and good fortune,” Follmer said.
As the tournament is very
significant, the strain for
the players can prove overwhelming. Each person plays
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
multiple times, moving locations if necessary. Although
the Red and Green do have
the home-court advantage,
stress is still on Follmer’s
mind.
“We want to bottle up the
stress and anxiety and not
get too high or too low,” he
said. “If we do that we have
a good chance of winning.”
This weekend is the
capstone to the teams’ fourweek-long tournament and is
an opportunity for players to
show coaches their talent.
“We have a few guys playing well but this tournament
will tell me who is ready to
play,” Follmer said.
At last year’s tournament,
held at Kalamazoo, Mich.,
the Bears came out weak
in doubles, and have been
working in practice to avoid
the same mistake.
“I really hope that we can
have a lot of players go really
deep into the tournament,”
Putterman said.
With all other details
worked out, Follmer and
Stahlhuth
are
banking
on beautiful weather for
the weekend. Otherwise,
teams will have to travel to
Southern Illinois and South
County St. Louis to play on
rented indoor courts.
“What makes the tournament best is Wash. U.’s
beautiful campus,” Follmer
said.
The 31 teams, including the Bears, begin play on
Friday morning.
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Buck breaks record en route to tournament victory
SAHIL PATEL
SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
The records keep falling
for the No. 7 Washington
University women’s golf
team.
One week after freshman
Olivia Lugar broke the singleround record with a 71 at the
O’Brien Invitational, junior
and previous record-holder
Hannah Buck took it right
back with a 69 in the first
round of the Illinois Wesleyan
University Fall Classic.
“At the beginning, I really
wasn’t thinking too much.
I didn’t really put a lot of
pressure on myself and was
playing one hole at a time,”
Buck said. “It wasn’t until the
front nine was over that I realized that this was actually a
good round I had going.
“I don’t know that I’ve ever
felt more confident on the
golf course before. Standing
over every shot and every
putt, I just had a really good
feeling about it, especially
with my putting. It was the
best I’ve ever putted; I don’t
think I missed a putt less than
10 feet all day. ”
Buck led a Wash. U. attack
that broke the record for team
score with a first-round 300,
paving the way for the team’s
second victory in three tournaments this fall. This was
Buck’s first tournament victory of the season and eighth
of her career.
“To me, the biggest thing
was to go into that clubhouse
after day one, have a lead, and
then come back for day two
when it’s windier and raining
and just not pleasant conditions to be outside for 7.5
hours and to hold off a team
that is without a doubt going
to make a run at you,” head
coach Sean Curtis said. “[No.
2] DePauw [University] is a
veteran team that has had a
lot of success, they have been
there before, and so for us to
hold them off and win that
tournament is a huge plus for
us.”
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DePauw has been a familiar foe this season, appearing
in each of the Bears’ three
tournaments. The Red and
Green improved its overall
head-to-head record against
the Tigers to 2-1, shooting 16
strokes better combined over
all three tournaments.
“[Beating DePauw] is huge.
I really feel like we can go
out and beat any team in the
country, and I don’t feel like
we could ever say that before,”
Buck said. “Nationals is a
long time away, but we are
certainly in the running, and
although last year we dreamt
about it, we could never say
that we are one of the few
teams who could win nationals. Beating DePauw twice is
definitely a big part of that.”
The second round of the
tournament saw a dip in
scores due to poor playing
conditions. Withstanding the
rain and wind that picked
up right before the team was
scheduled to begin play, the
Bears salvaged a 317 to hold
onto their lead.
“The second day, really
right as we were about to go
out to the holes, it starts raining. It rained on and off and
really all day,” Buck said. “It
makes things tougher. Not
only are your drives not rolling and the greens are slower,
but also mentally, it is not
enjoyable to be outside. It
makes things hard to focus on
the golf. We still shot a 317,
which is a great score.”
Lugar finished tied for second, just two strokes behind
Buck with a 150 (76-74).
Sophomore Andi Hibbert
also broke into the top-10 as
her score of 156 (77-79) was
good for a tie for seventh
place.
“I think we’re finding ways
to win. I look at this weekend
as another eye test for us early
in the season,” Curtis said.
“Obviously, the scores were
tremendous, just so wonderful
to see players go out and just
play a lot of error-free golf
and the scores reflected that.”
Although Buck struggled
on day two and shot a 79,
the IWU tournament was a
breakthrough of sorts for her.
“I appreciate that [Lugar]
has come in and played so
well because it has pushed
me and improved my game
because of it,” Buck said.
“I had the record before at
72, and I felt like that kind
of put a limit as to how low
I could go. I didn’t even see
shooting under par as a real
possibility. I think that kind
of hindered what I thought
I could do. Once she broke
that, I thought, okay, maybe
I can do better than that. She
took that wall away.”
For the first time this season, Buck found herself in a
familiar position: leading the
way for the Bears.
“Hannah is a stabilizing
force for the team. Because
she has been so consistent
and her scores have been, usually the lowest on the team in
almost every event that she’s
played in, I think that the
other players watch how she
goes about her business and
what she does,” Curtis said.
“She is certainly in any conversation that you’re going
to have with any coach in the
country about ‘Player of the
Year’ or top-five players. That
is a credit to her because she
works at it. She will will her
way into playing well.”
But in a game known for its
individual aspects, the Bears
have come together and not
let records come between
them.
“Everyone on our team is
playing well right now, and
I think it just takes the pressure off knowing that I don’t
need to go out there and shoot
a great score,” Buck said.
“We’re definitely helping each
other out. During the practice
round, [Olivia and I] were
paired together, and since I
had played the course before,
we were driving around and
I was telling her about all the
holes. We’re rooting for each
other.”
Wash. U. looks to continue its winning ways at
the Millikin Fall Classic in
Decatur, Ill. This will be the
first tournament this season
in which the Bears will not be
competing against DePauw.
“We competed in their
spring tournament and actually won that, but this is
going to be a new course that
we haven’t seen before, so it
will be a new and interesting
perspective,” Hibbert said.
“I think that we just have to
go in knowing that we are
capable of playing with anybody, especially after beating
DePauw these last two times.
We can be perceived as a
powerhouse, so if we continue with that confidence,
I think that we’ll continue
to thrive in this tournament
environment.”
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
STUDENT LIFE 9
scene
The biggest trends for women this season:
what they are and how to style them
GINIKA AGBIM
FASHION COLUMNIST
From time to time a new trend appears, but it is more common for old trends to return. Layering and wearing leather
jackets and shades of brown have always been associated
with fall fashion. Spring 2011’s shift toward the 1940s femme
and the 1970s bohemian have persisted into the colder parts
of the year, as designers turn to these two powerful decades
of fashion. Here are the most talked about trends coming our
way this season, from outerwear to accessories:
Outerwear
Capes and ponchos
Pea coats are nice but a tad stale. This season, take inspiration from Sherlock Holmes when choosing a fall coat. Capes
and ponchos in tartan, patchwork and solid colors were hot
both on runways and store racks. This style of outerwear is
easy to throw on and can be worn in both formal and informal settings, depending on what’s underneath. For a more
formal look, pair a cape with a pencil skirt, ribbed stockings
and ankle boots, keeping the bottom half of your outfit slim
and sleek. For a more casual look, pair a cape with skinny
jeans or riding pants and add flat boots or an ankle boot.
Apparel
Lady-like tweed in new colors
Alice + Olivia showed tweed skirts, blazers and overcoats
in shades of red, pink, black and, of course, white. The trick
to making tweed not seem dated or too “old-lady” is to mix
it in with looser-fitting fabrics or unexpected materials. Pair
a loose-fitting blouse with a structured tweed skirt to make
the look more modern. Or wear skinny jeans with your fitted
tweed blazer to make the effect more age-appropriate.
Leather in unexpected places
While we’re all familiar with leather jackets and small
accessories, this season, designers have created novel ways
for fashionistas to don the edgy material. Acne even dared
to design leather overalls. If you’re considering this trend,
start with a mod leather mini skirt in a classic color like
camel or black. Vince and Rachel Comey created skirts in
an A-line silhouette, which flatters a majority of body types.
Unfortunately, many retailers charge at least three figures for
a few strips of cloth. Check out vintage and thrift stores for
the best bargain. Once you’ve found your skirt, add a thick
sweater and ankle boots and you’re set for the day.
In the jungle
Snakeskin skirts, leopard print clutches, fur vests and feathery collars all populated fall’s runways. Elie Tahari surprised
everyone with a snakeskin skirt. For the average college
student, however, these wild pieces may be too “out there”
to be worn to class. To make these prints more accessible,
perhaps use the colors found in nature as a guide for creating
a cohesive outfit. Peacock feathers, for example, contain
shades of blue, green, brown and black. Create a look using
like-colored pieces you already own to enjoy the trend. If
you’re ready for a full-on print, consider making that print
your accent item and keeping the remainder of your outfit
neutral. The fact that leopard print is in doesn’t justify looking like a leopard.
Corduroy 2.0
Designers have updated this classic material for a sleeker
silhouette when used for skinny pants or flared pants. J
Brand, a popular denim label, offers both options for its
clients and for the more price sensitive, check out J.Crew
or Kut from the Cloth, a brand sold at Nordstrom. When
selecting colors, keep in mind the shoes and coats you plan
to wear with your slim pants. If you purchased a new camel
coat, don’t pair it with your camel-colored corduroys, unless
you’re confident enough to pull off the monochromatic look.
Footwear and accessories
The wedge
One trend continuing on from spring and summer is the
wedge, now styled on the soles of many oxfords and ankle
boots. Though the wedge is not for everyone, the great thing
about this heel is that it is not only highly versatile, but it also
provides stability and instant height.
Boxy handbags
Gone are the days of the slouchy boho bag, for now.
Following the femme trends of the 1940s, this year’s “it” bag
is stiff and structured. For a romantic look, pair this bag with
a wispy floor-length skirt and ankle boots. Or wear a structured bag with a pencil skirt for a more classic ensemble. Jil
Sander and other designers created boxy bags in a variety of
colors and textures. Feel free to experiment with this classic.
Long leather gloves
A few seasons ago, short motorcycle gloves were all the
rage. Everyone from celebrities to fashion models wore them.
This season, however, gloves are foraying into longer, more
feminine lengths. If you’re looking for an edgy way to pull
off this trend, look for long gloves in surprising colors; white
was Elie Tahari’s choice for fall. Consider wearing these
gloves with coat styles ranging from capes during the fall to
floor length dusters in the winter.
-Stay stylish and get shopping!
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Why you can’t get the girl (or guy)
Fashion 101 for the average Wash. U. guy
ABI SAXENA
FASHION COLUMNIST
Have you ever wondered why that girl or guy in your
chemistry class never remembers your name? Or why
they never seem to notice your wave while in line for
stir fry? Or maybe why people in general aren’t that
welcoming to you? Well, look in a mirror and scrutinize
your reflection. The problem could be an extremely
simple one: bad fashion choices.
In the past, fashion was more of a female domain,
but today the everyday male’s fashion consciousness is
becoming increasingly important. “Fashion” doesn’t
mean purchasing certain designer brands or fretting
about whatever is in season. Instead, fashion simply
concerns how one presents his exterior image to the
world. As superficial as that sounds, image is a form of
expression, one with very tangible benefits.
Fashion is an art, and you are both the artist and the
canvas. So the seemingly pointless choices you make
assembling a wardrobe are actually crucial signals to
how others will perceive you. This not only applies to
attracting that certain someone’s attention, but has a
marketable quality as well. I recently read an article in
which consultants helped small business leaders and
mid-level employees choose how to dress and present
themselves in order to be taken more seriously and look
more confident and approachable.
Here are my two cents on how you can make simple
changes that don’t change who you are in order to help
you make a positive impression on everyone you meet
and hopefully that guy or girl.
The first step to fashion success is reserving time to
make decisions. Twenty extra minutes in the morning
can make all the difference. This time allows you to
weigh options and execute your image for the day. This
includes hair, facial hair, clothes, smell, teeth and much
more. These variables concern three of the five senses:
touch, smell and sight. These extra 20 minutes can
considerably affect another’s entire perception
of you, usually favorably.
For these 20 minutes, let’s focus on simple
decisions, rather than other details. As stupid
as this may sound, making the decision to
brush your teeth (floss, too!) and showering are
the most underrated actions of getting ready. A
yellowed smile and any hint of body odor will
never help anyone. Always brush your teeth
and shower.
Next, hair. It’s my belief that only a few guys
can pull off long hair or facial hair. Be honest with yourself. To be safe, shave whenever
stubble appears, and cut your hair before it
becomes unruly.
Lastly, choose to wear clothing that doesn’t
have holes or stains. Avoid anything that resembles
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in chemistry in high school is not attractive, ever.).
Instead, make sure you wear clean clothes without any
blemishes and with a sense of maturity.
Hopefully you’ll find that the simplest of steps will
make others more willing to approach and remember
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
As Seen on Campus
GINIKA AGBIM
FASHION COLUMNIST
WHO WE SPOTTED: Eden Lewis
YEAR AND MAJORS: Freshman, Communication
Design and Film & Media Studies
WHY WE STOPPED HER: We noticed her casual-chic
outfit, complete with earrings from Apparel Mart in
Atlanta.
EDEN’S FAVORITE PLACES TO SHOP: Mostly online.
She’s currently really into Christian Francis Roth.
HER PERSONAL STYLE: “Very eclectic. I work in
fashion merchandising and end up meshing a lot of
the styles I see together.”
WORD OF ADVICE FOR WU STUDENTS: “Invest in
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with bargain pieces. You don’t have to spend a lot of
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It’s been a tough year for Disney
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her father to “put the bottle down.”
Elsewhere, Demi switches genres
and soulfully belts on “In Real
Life” and “My Love Is Like a Star,”
showing her versatility. The biggest
problem arises when she regresses
to her Disney roots, like in “Who’s
That Boy” with current sensation
Dev and “You’re My Only Shorty”
with Iyaz. Both songs, while possibly appealing to the Radio Disney
crowd, fail to impress musically.
“Unbroken” proves that Demi
Lovato has a voice and a song to
sing, but her vocal adventurousness
coupled with a fear to placate her
core audience lead to a somewhat
scattered album.
Write to Alex Terrono at
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ALBUM REVIEW
‘Sweeter’
Gavin DeGraw
for fans of
Jason Mraz and Maroon 5
singles to download
“Not over You,” “Spell It Out,”
“Run Every Time”
COURTESY OF RCA
COURTESY OF HOLLYWOOD RECORDS
ALIEZA SCHVIMER
CADENZA REPORTER
Thankfully, Gavin DeGraw
has returned to his musical home
in “Sweeter.” After the failed
indie effort that was “Free,”
DeGraw has gone back to the
older style that is more characteristic of “Chariot.”
Unlike many of his past
albums, “Sweeter” provides
much more diversity in the music
behind his improved, rough yet
comforting voice. DeGraw’s voice
remains at the forefront of every
track, but the music sometimes
distracts from his voice, as it all
of a sudden sounds like we’re
thrust into an empty bar where
a guitarist is trying too hard.
Up until the last 30 seconds of
“Candy,” DeGraw’s voice is at
its best, with a fuller sound than
we’ve heard from him in years.
Songs like “Not Over You,”
which is the album’s first single,
would sound better if the music
behind DeGraw was stripped out.
Upbeat back tracks combined
with a more soulful DeGraw
work well on “Soldier” and
“Sweeter,” which seem to mirror
their titles. Not every song on
the album has an up-tempo beat
behind it, though, and DeGraw
demonstrates his true growth on
“Spell It Out,” which combines
both a soft acoustic sound from
the piano and Gavin’s recognizable voice. “Spell It Out” takes
the indie feel of “Free” but combines it with raw, more relatable
lyrics to form a truly beautiful
song.
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greenery
9 Channel covering
Capitol Hill
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15 Queen Boleyn
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17 Partner of willing
18 Like tilted ltrs.
19 Moderated, with
“down”
20 Hullabaloo over a
sudden policy
reversal?
23 Ball supporter
24 Little mischiefmakers
25 Legendary
Chicago cow
owner
29 Attack from
above
31 __ Grande
32 Co. bigwig
33 Sign of table
tennis tendonitis?
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play
41 Inventor’s germ
42 Bit of applause
for an equestrian
event?
47 Big thing at
McDonalds?
48 Samaritan’s offer
49 Game one
53 Meditation
instruction
55 Crossword hint
57 Inventor Whitney
58 Cry of frustration
about a Hostess
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61 Montezuma, e.g.
64 Snug ... bug in ___
65 “Exodus” author
66 Musical pace
67 Easy pace
68 Waiter’s handout
69 Cuts and pastes,
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3 More greasy
4 Make ready,
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5 Letter carriers
6 Winning
7 Velcro
alternatives
8 Note to __
9 Book of available
products
10 Hillside
11 Exemplar of
neatness
12 Hail, to Maria
13 Composer
Rorem
21 Fido’s poodle
amie
22 Pork cut
26 Military sch.
27 Actress Russo
28 Class using mats
30 For each one
31 Campus military
gp.
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35 Little Lab
36 Organ whistle
37 High point
38 Source of linen
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fattening
43 Parti-colored
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44 Bank’s claim
45 Sprawls, as by
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46 Take down __:
humble
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51 Cause of odd
weather
52 Equips for use
54 Highly capable
55 PC data disk
56 Gem grader’s
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59 Festive event
60 Trash destination
61 Ended a fast
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MOVIE REVIEW
‘Moneyball’
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directed by
Bennett Miller
and starring
Brad Pitt, Robin Wright and
Jonah Hill
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
GEORGIE MORVIS
MOVIE/TV EDITOR
I must begin this review by saying
one thing: I am not a baseball fan.
It’s the only major American sport I
don’t watch. I even find curling to be
more interesting than baseball. But
“Moneyball,” an inside movie about
baseball, does not require you to
care about baseball. It’s the quintessential American underdog story
of a workingman fighting the status
quo. It goes without saying that
“Moneyball” is a crowd pleaser. Best
of all, it’s a good—and true—sports
movie.
Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane,
general manager of the Oakland
Athletics, a baseball club that is one
of the poorest in MLB. He realizes,
with the help of Assistant GM Peter
Brand (Jonah Hill), that many MLB
players are grossly undervalued for
frivolous reasons. Using a formula
based on the club’s need for one
thing only—getting on base—Beane
replaces much of their roster with
a team of cheap, statistically sound
players that Brand memorably calls
“an island of misfit toys.” Naturally,
the sports community resists this radical change. The Oakland Athletics’
coach, Art Howe (an underused
Phillip Seymour Hoffman), lacerates
him on radio shows while commentators call for his firing. Yet Beane
persists, and slowly his moneyball
strategy starts to work.
With any other actor in the title
role, I doubt that “Moneyball”
would work as well as it did. Brad
Pitt elevates the role in a way only
a true movie star can, letting his
natural charisma guide him through.
It’s some of the best work of his
career, and he is deservedly generating Oscar buzz for it. And any movie
that makes Jonah Hill likable is a
winner in my book. He works surprisingly well as a foil for Pitt. Aaron
Sorkin and Steven Zaillian’s script
is sharp, snappy and economical.
At times it approaches the brilliance
both writers have had, Sorkin with
“The Social Network” and Zaillian
with “Schindler’s List.” One scene
in particular, in whcih Beane and
Brand are working to make a deal
happen before the trade deadline, is
classic Sorkin.
It is not without its flaws, though.
“Moneyball” sometimes came
across as a made-for-TV movie, with
its weird montage sequence of edited
footage from the actual Oakland
A’s run for the AL consecutive wins
record (I will admit that I teared up)
or its strange slow motion shots,
straight out of Discovery Channel’s
“Time Warp.” Bennett Miller is an
adequate director, but he plays it safe
too often. The only real plot misfire
is the inclusion of Beane’s ex-wife
and her new husband. It’s a weird
distraction from the central story and
did nothing to develop Beane’s character. Other than that, “Moneyball”
tells a great story that avoids the pitfalls of most sappy sports movies. It’s
well-told and well-acted, and it will
unite baseball fans and haters alike.
Write to Georgie Morvis at
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TV PREVIEW
Sick of homework? Here’s even more TV!
Clockwise, from top left: Grey’s Anatomy, Community, Parks and Recreation, Supernatural, Pan Am, Fringe, Whitney.
CADENZA STAFF
THURSDAY
Community
NBC, 7 p.m.
“Community,” returning
for its third season, centers on
self-obsessed fake lawyer Jeff
Winger (Joel McHale) and the
group of friends that he meets
when forced to attend community college. The show is great
at its portrayal of classic TV
tropes while managing to turn
them all on their head. Also,
Donald Glover (of performingat-Wash. U. fame) is on the
show, so go watch it. Viewers
can expect Abed and Troy to
move in together, as well as some
fun guest spots from Michael K.
Williams (“The Wire”) and John
Goodman (“Damages”). –Daniel
Deibler
Parks and Recreation
NBC, 7:30 p.m.
This year, “Parks and
Recreation” looks to build
upon its success from last year’s
Emmy-nominated season,
which ended with Leslie deciding to run for office and Tom
leaving the department to run
Entertainment 720. But, more
importantly, it was the first time
viewers saw Ron’s first ex-wife
Tammy One (Patricia Clarkson),
albeit only from behind. In
season four, we will officially
meet both Tammy One, and
the ridiculously named Tammy
Zero, Ron’s mother. And, for a
short arc, Mark Brendanawicz
is back! Yeah, that’s actually
how you spell his name. –Greg
Herman
Person of Interest
CBS, 8 p.m.
The only thing that’s giving me pause about “Person of
Interest” is its network—the #1
in procedurals, CBS. Everything
else about the show (on paper)
is mindblowing, though.
Jonathan Nolan created it. J.J.
“Midas Touch” Abrams is the
executive producer. The former
Benjamin Linus of “Lost,”
Michael Emerson, is one of the
stars. Movie star Jim Caviezel
(“Passion of the Christ”) is the
other. The premise, in which
Emerson’s mysterious billionaire
creates a computer program that
can predict crimes so Caviezel’s
cop can stop them before they
happen, is rich with potential for
a great, “Lost”- or “Alias”-like
mythology. We can only hope it
lives up to all of this. –Georgie
Morvis
Grey’s Anatomy
ABC, 8 p.m.
The uneven seventh season
ended on a roll, with both a
musical episode and a dramatic
finale that didn’t feel overwrought for once. There was a
disaster with a high death toll
(this time, a plane crash), but
it finally was about the disaster
victims instead of being about
the hospital staff. This is not
to say there wasn’t any drama
with the staff; of course, there
was tons of it. Cristina discovered she’s pregnant, but Owen
opposed her idea for an abortion…and then kicked her out.
Teddy chose the patient she
Green Card-married over her
psychologist beau. Sloan finally
let go of Lexie. The annoying
April somehow won the chief
resident position. Karev finally
revealed that Meredith tampered with the Alzheimer’s trial,
ruining the MerDer Post-It marriage. To top it all off, Meredith
was finally cleared for adoption
and took her new daughter
home. All of these cliffhangers,
plus the return of Bailey’s old
boyfriend, should make for an
exciting eighth season. –Georgie
Morvis
Whitney
NBC, 8:30
The new show in the
Thursday night comedy line-up
made possible by Tina Fey’s
maternity leave, “Whitney”
looks like an even bigger disaster than “Outsourced.” Despite
questionable racial issues,
“Outsourced” at least looked
like it belonged on NBC this
decade. “Whitney” has multiple cameras (What is this…
CBS?) in front of a live audience
(What is this…the 90s?!) and
features star/creator Whitney
Cummings making predictable jokes about her live-in
boyfriend. I don’t understand
why it was picked up for a
season. Cummings is a boring
shock comedienne—a brunette
Chelsea Handler without the
ability to make fun of celebrities. Hopefully, “Whitney” will
be canceled by midseason and
“30 Rock” can return to its
rightful place. –Georgie Morvis
Secret Circle
CW, 9 p.m.
“Secret Circle,” the new show
by Kevin Williamson, creator
of “The Vampire Diaries,” has
elements that allow for easy
comparisons to its predecessor.
First, it’s set in a small town,
though “Secret Circle” takes
place in Washington state. Next,
the main character, Cassie, is
a teenage girl who has recently
found out about her family’s
connection to the supernatural. Oh, and did we mention
she’s recently orphaned? When
Cassie’s mom gets murdered
in the opening minutes of the
pilot, she is forced to move in
with her grandmother. In her
new town, she discovers she is
the sixth and final member of
a coven comprised of her new
classmates. The completion of
the secret circle makes Cassie
and the rest of the witches even
more powerful. The pilot aired
last week, but it seemed like a
fun show that’s easy to follow—
one worth checking out. –Andie
Hutner
FRIDAY
Fringe
FOX, 8 p.m.
The season-one finale introduced another universe. Season
two ended with our Olivia
trapped over there and with
Fauxlivia living her life. When
we last left “Fringe,” Peter
Bishop disappeared from not just
one, but both, universes but luckily left them both intact. When
the show picks up, our non-Peter
characters will be living in an
“It’s a Wonderful Life”-style
world into which Peter was never
born. Walter’s even crazier, and
Olivia’s much less fun, but they
don’t know what they’re missing.
The Observers have promised to
keep Peter’s existence a secret,
but with Joshua Jackson still
signed as a season regular, we
have a feeling the secret won’t be
kept for too long. –Andie Hutner
Supernatural
CW, 8 p.m.
Another year, another crazy
ride for the Winchester brothers. Last season’s finale left
viewers reeling, and this year
promises to keep fans on a roller
coaster. Castiel, the boys’ former
shoulder-angel, is no longer
an angel. After absorbing the
souls of purgatory, Cas has now
become the world’s newest God,
and his demand that the brothers
bow down to him is sure to bring
tension and turmoil. Expect to
see a variety of past characters
both beloved and hated. Death
makes a triumphant return in the
first episode, and the previously
killed Jo Harvelle will make an
appearance as well. In addition
to the old characters, “Buffy”
and “Angel” fans will rejoice
when Charisma Carpenter and
James Marsters show up later in
the season. Behind the camera, series star Jensen Ackles is
stepping back into the director’s
chair. This is also Sera Gamble’s
second season as showrunner
after creator Eric Kripke stepped
down, so expect her to hit her
stride building on last year’s
solid season. –Casey Federbusch
SUNDAY
Desperate Housewives
ABC, 8 p.m.
The eighth and final season
will pick up after an intense seventh-season finale. With Felicia
Tilman no longer a problem, Paul
finally left and gave Susan her
home back. A progressive dinner
party welcomed Susan back, but
it didn’t go very happily. Lynette
and Tom’s marriage fell apart
over salad. Bree and Detective
Chuck’s relationship intensified
during the main course. Dessert
ended in catastrophe when Carlos
killed Gabrielle’s stepfather. The
housewives hid the body. Fun
night, right? The new season will
be full of surprises. We will find
out more about the Young family’s past and experience a major
time jump. –Abi Saxena
Pan Am
ABC, 9 p.m.
Compared to “The Playboy
Club,” “Pan Am” seems to
win the “Mad Men”-wannabe
contest with its insider look
into the lives of 1960s Pan Am
stewardesses. These women
live a cosmopolitan life—globetrotting, though not without
complications. Laura (Margot
Robbie) takes to the sky after
running away from her fiance,
whereas Maggie (Christina
Ricci) has disciplinary issues
and only ends up flying again
under mysterious circumstances.
And what would a drama set in
the early 1960s be without some
Cold War-style espionage? Kate
(Kelli Garner) uses her connections to spy while she flies. If
you like “Mad Men” but want
to see women better represented,
then this show is probably for
you. –Andie Hutner