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FEB. 15PINK GOES RED BLOOD DRIVE
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FEB. 16LAVENDER LANGUAGES CONFERENCE
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. / The conference explores LGBT themes in spoken language, vocabulary, literature, religion, music, cinema, visual arts and politics. / Anthropology Department / Wil-liam Leap / [email protected]
FEB. 19PRE-MED INFORMATION SESSION
4 to 5 p.m. / The AU director of premedical programs will be holding an information session for students to learn how to complement your degree and enhance their chances of being ac-cepted into medical school. / CAS Dean’s Office / Emily Jones / [email protected]
FEB. 21THE AMERICAN STORY: HISTORY ALL AROUND YOU
4 to 5:30 p.m. / In honor of Founders’ Day, the AU Archives and the Student Historical Society invite students to explore unique moments in University history and have informal conversa-tions with University Archivist Susan McElrath. This interactive exhibit features items from the AU archive. Cookies will be served while sup-plies last. / SIS Lobby / Student Historical Soci-ety / [email protected]
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Cement truck, shuttle buscollide near Tunnel
By HEATHER MONGILIO AND
SAMANTHA HOGAN
EAGLE STAFF WRITERS
A shuttle bus hit a cement truck on Feb. 13 between the Tunnel and Hughes Hall around 3 p.m., according to Alex Bradley, a freshman in the School of Pub-lic Affairs who was on the shuttle during the collision.
Around 15 students were on the shuttle when the bus struck a stationary cement truck. No one was injured, Bradley said.
Tony Gonzales, a construction worker who witnessed the acci-dent, was flagging a tractor-trailer truck on the north side of cam-pus when the shuttle came up the
hill from South Side and tried to pass the stationary cement truck, Gonzales said.
The cement truck, which had an Aggregate Industries logo, stopped in the direction of the Tunnel when the accident oc-curred, Gonzales said. The Blue Line shuttle was driving toward Hughes when the backend of the bus, behind the back right wheel, came in contact with the front bumper of the cement truck.
Students did not appear to feel the collision, Bradley said.
“The bus just stopped,” Brad-ley said. “It was kind of awkward.”
The shuttle and truck did not look like they suffered significant damage during the crash.
Public Safety blocked off the road between the Tunnel and Massachusetts Avenue, while the two vehicles completely blocked the road. However, stu-dents were still able to walk past the scene while the investigation took place.
All of the students exited the bus and most went to the Red Line shuttle stop across from the Katzen Arts Center, Bradley said. Other shuttles continued to run while the accident was being investigated by Public Safety, he said.
“[That is] how you want these things to happen, [with] no one getting hurt,” Bradley said.
SG Senate calls for ban of “offensive” clothing in
University fitness centers By KIERSTYN SCHNECK
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
The Undergraduate Senate passed a resolution on Feb. 10 to ban offensive items in University fitness centers in response to a Phi Sigma Kappa shirt worn in Ja-cobs Fitness Center encouraging sorority girls not to eat.
The shirt read, “Please don’t feed the sorority girls” on the front and “Campus Beautifica-tion” on the back, according to second-year Washington College of Law student Kendra Lee’s op-ed published in The Eagle Feb. 7.
The shirts are five years old, and current Phi Sigma Kappa brothers do not own them, Phi Sigma Kappa President Darius Hedayati said in his letter to the editor.
SG’s resolution will ask Jacobs Fitness Center and dorm fitness facilities to ban items that violate University Discrimination and Sexual Harassment policy by creating a hostile or offensive en-vironment, train gym staff to en-force appropriate dress codes and inform students of the rules.
Class of 2015 Sen. Kim Tru-ong, the president of Alpha Chi Omega, wrote the resolution after she read Lee’s op-ed, she said.
“I was disappointed as a wom-an in Greek life,” Truong said. “I was frustrated with what hap-pened and how it appeared as if nobody in the Jacobs Fitness Center had addressed the issue.”
The resolution recommends a clearer dress code policy to ban offensive items. SG will ask the Fitness Center to post these
banned items on the Fitness Cen-ter website and bulletin boards in all University fitness centers, according to the resolution. The resolution does not aim to restrict students’ rights, but to create a safer workout space, Truong said.
The Jacobs Fitness Center’s dress code currently prohibits clothing with offensive language or graphics, according to the stu-dent registration form. The dress code is also posted in the center’s strength area, according to Direc-tor of Recreational Sports and Fit-ness Jocelyn Hill.
“While I respect the right for students to have freedom of ex-pression, I believe spaces, par-ticularly like the Jacobs Fitness Center, should be a safe and respectful place where people should be able to exercise free from judgment and free from of-fense,” Truong said.
“While I respect the right for students to have freedom of expression, I believe spaces,
particularly like the Jacobs Fitness Center, should be a safe and respectful place...”-Student Government Sen. Kim Truong
By KIERSTYN SCHNECK
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Student Government’s cur-rent structure will remain after the SG constitutional reform ref-erendum failed to pass on Feb. 12.
If passed, the referendum would have allowed SG to dis-mantle itself and create a new Student Association.
597 students voted “yes” while 409 voted “no.” A two-thirds majority was required for the reform to pass, according to an SG press release.
The referendum results saw an increase of 408 student votes, compared to the last ref-erendum vote in Dec. 2008, ac-cording SG Board of Elections Chairwoman Chloé Profit. Prof-
it resigned from the BOE after releasing the vote results.
“To say that we got over 1,000 votes makes me really proud to be an AU student,” said Alex Hoffman, SG senator for the campus at large and cam-paign manager for “Students for Transparency,” a group of AU students who opposed the con-stitutional reform. Hoffman was the only senator to vote against creating the referendum.
The reform would have re-placed the Undergraduate Sen-ate and the Judicial Board with a Board of Representatives and created four vice president seats for advocacy, programming, communications and finance, The Eagle previously reported.
The four vice president seats would have been automatically
filled without reelection by the student body, Hoffman said.
AU Dems opposed the refer-endum because it would have cost students through tuition and student fees, according to AU Dems’ Jan. 23 statement.
LOOKING AHEAD FOR SGThe Senate members who
supported the referendum will continue to work for reform, ac-cording to the “AU for SA” Cam-paign Manager and SG Comp-troller Joe Ste.Marie.
“It’s time to actually do some advocating, because students are facing bigger issues than ever before, and that has to be our priority,” Ste.Marie said.
The failure to pass the ref-erendum will also allow the re-form to be discussed more pub-licly, according to Hoffman.
“Even though we [Students for Transparency] won, almost
By TORI DALCOURT
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
AU students are forming a committee to evaluate the dis-tribution of student activity fee funds and suggest changes to the University administration, af-ter years of leftover funds.
“Changes need to be made,” committee co-chairman and for-mer SG Comptroller Eric Reath said. “We are getting major stu-dent leaders to the table to take a closer look at how student activi-ty funds are spent, and we will be making recommendations to the University for future improve-ments.”
The committee will have rep-resentatives from the Student Government, Student Media Board, the AU Club Council and Graduate Leadership Council, according to an outline of the committee’s goals written by its co-chairmen. These four organi-zations are all funded by student activity fee funds. The Eagle’s editor-in-chief, Zach Cohen, will also serve on the committee.
The organizations are respon-sible for allocating funds to about 240 student organizations, ac-cording to the co-chairmen.
The committee’s purpose will be to research the financial data
of the four organizations and make recommendations to the University on raising the fee or changing the allocation struc-ture, Douglas Bell, a senior in the School of Communication and co-chairman of the commit-tee, said in an email.
The committee will be ad-vised by Adell Crowe, Student Activities’ assistant director for student media, according to the document.
STUDENT ACTIVITY’S CUR-RENT GROUP ALLOCATIONS
The Graduate Student Activ-ity Fee funds are split 86 per-cent to the Graduate Leadership Council and 14 percent to the AU Club Council, The Eagle previ-ously reported.
Additionally, the committee in-tends to analyze how the Student Media Board’s funding could be adjusted to account for the pos-sible addition of The Eagle to the Board, Reath said.
However, the student activity fee cannot change for the next two years. In order to change the fee charged to each student, it must be voted on by students and be included in the Univer-sity’s biennial budget proposal, according to Reath.
By SAMANTHA HOGAN
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Two female students were struck at the same time by a white Prius between 8:45 and 8:55 a.m. outside of Katzen Arts Center on Feb. 11.
The girls were hit when they attempted to cross Massachu-setts Avenue without a walk sig-nal, said Annie Regan, a witness to the accident and a sophomore in the School of Public Affairs.
The female driver of the Prius hit the students on the crosswalk when the girls alleg-edly jaywalked across the Mas-sachusetts Avenue crosswalk, said Brooke Loving-Bagwell, another witness to the accident and freshman in the School of International Service.
After the impact, both victims fell down on the inner two lanes of the four lanes of traffic on Mas-
sachusetts Avenue in front of the Prius, where a gray Mercedes coming from the opposite direc-tion almost ran the girls over, Lov-ing-Bagwell said. However, the male driver of the Mercedes was able to avoid hitting them, Loving-Bagwell said. All traffic stopped after the girls were hit.
Soon after the accident oc-curred, the woman in the Prius got out of her car and started yelling at one of the girls on the ground, the girl got up and went into the Katzen Arts Cen-ter, Loving-Bagwell said. The Prius driver then left the scene, Loving-Bagwell said. Metropoli-tan Police Department listed the incident as a hit-and-run.
The first victim, who left the scene, suffered only minor inju-ries on the side of her body, Re-gan said. However, she stayed on the ground about 30 seconds longer than the other victim,
Loving-Bagwell said. The man driving the Mercedes initially told the students not to move the victim when she did not get up, Loving-Bagwell said.
The second victim’s foot and ankle were badly bruised and looked as if they had been run over by the Prius, Loving-Bagwell said. The victim’s shoes flew off when she was hit by the Prius, Loving-Bagwell said. She was also crying hysterically, Regan said.
The man in the Mercedes called an ambulance, Loving-Bagwell said. Meanwhile, a female doctor approached the scene and offered to drive the injured girl to the AU Student Health Center, Regan said.
The second girl was taken by ambulance to the hospital, Lov-ing-Bagwell said.
MPD could not be reached for comment in time for publication.
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Car strikes two students on Massachusetts Avenue
SG structure will remain intact following student vote
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14% for Student Media Board
72% for Student
Government
SG takes the majority of student activity fee money
14% for AU Club Council
New committee to examine student activity fee distribution
theEAGLE NEWS FEBRUARY 14, 2013 | 5
New master’s program teaches sustainable business management
Tenleytown candidate for D.C. Council outfunds his opponents
By PATRICIA YACOB
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Kogod School of Busi-ness has created the first interdisciplinar y and busi-ness-based sustainable man-agement master’s program in the countr y.
The Master of Science in Sustainable Management de-gree of fers specializations in business, science and public policy, according to the Ko-god website. The program aims to equip students with the skills needed to fuse business knowledge with methods to maintain green business standards, the web-site said.
“We see the need to fill a vacuum, par ticularly in the business community, of qual-ified sustainability profes-sionals,” Program Director Daniel Jacobs said.
The program is designed to prepare graduates to work at corporations, non-govern-mental organizations, gov-ernment agencies, founda-tions and secondar y schools, Jacobs said.
There are 28 students in
the master’s program, ac-cording to Assistant Director Nichole Wood. The program enrolled its first class in fall 2012.
Courses in the program in-clude “Environment and Pol-itics,” “Environmental Sus-tainability and Public Policy” and “Sustainability Strategy and Management.”
Professors from Kogod, the College of Ar ts and Sci-ences, the School of Interna-tional Ser vice and the School of Public Af fairs instruct students in the program, ac-cording to the website.
The idea for the program came from former Kogod Senior Associate Dean Kath-leen Getz, Jacobs said. Ja-cobs designed its current curriculum.
“We are uniquely situated to of fer our students access to government agencies, Congress, the cour ts, NGOs, international organizations and local industr y,” Jacobs said. “We are also proud to be able to bring in ver y high-profile [DC-based] guest speakers.”
By LINDSAY SANDOVAL
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3E Commissioner Matt Frumin, who represents the Tenleytown area, raised more than twice the funds of his fellow city council candidates, giving him an early edge in a spe-cial city council election slated for April 23.
The former Clinton staffer has collected around $82,000, with more than $75,000 coming from 250 individual donors, ac-cording to a January 31 press re-lease from Frumin’s website. His closest competitor, Elissa Silver-man, trails by nearly $46,000, ac-
cording to The Washington Post.“I feel very good about the
direction of our organization, but we’re at the beginning of a sprint,” he said.
In a phone interview, Frumin said his staff set aggressive goals for the early stage of the race. His campaign collected more than 6,000 petition signatures to officially launch his campaign, twice the number required by the D.C. Board of Elections.
Frumin said his team will concentrate on its ground game. Voters may need an extra push to participate in a non-traditional election, Frumin said.
“You have to give them the reason [to vote], and to do that
you have to contact them in a number of ways,” he said.
The special election will fill the at-large seat of former city councilmember Phil Mendelson, who replaced Kwame Brown as council chairman earlier this year. As of Feb. 13, the D.C. Board of Elections has approved eight candidates for the race.
Frumin will enjoy his front-runner status for now, but he ac-knowledges the race is far from over.
“My chance to win this race depends on the amount of effort I put in and I’m going to put in an enormous amount of effort,” he said.
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Matt Frumin$82,000 total
Elissa Silverman$46,000 total
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60 percent of people voted for the constitution, meaning they want to see change in SG,” Hoff-man said. “We agree that SG needs to change and we agree that it’s broken, but we just want to do things differently.”
SG will return to focusing its attention on advocating for stu-dents, despite the failure to pass the referendum, according to former SG President and Class of 2013 Sen. Sarah McBride.
“Let’s get back to work,” Mc-Bride said.
The next election for SG is its spring nomination convention
for president, vice president, comptroller, secretary, class councils and school councils on Feb. 27, SG Communications Director Rosemary Cipriano said in a press release.
Staff writer Zach C. Cohen contributed to this report.
Reform vote fails, leaving SG unchanged
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By EMILY CLAPP
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A new political club called AU College Moderates seeks to bridge the gap between the polarized views of Democrats and Republicans.
The club meets once a month to discuss politics, but there are no “left” or “right” biases during the discussions to sway people’s opinions, said Terrence O’Connor, the club’s president and a sophomore in the School of Public Affairs.
“I felt the need to form the club for moderates with no liberal or conservative end,” O’Connor said.
O’Connor formed AU Col-
lege Moderates last spring with Dan Giles, a sophomore in the Kogod School of Busi-ness and vice president of AU College Moderates, O’Connor said. The group was officially recognized as a club by Stu-dent Activities in fall 2012.
AU College Moderates plan to host mock debates and speakers that will discuss dif-ferent social and economic is-sues this semester, according to O’Connor.
“We’re a political organi-zation that’s welcome to all voices and we always welcome more to differing opinions,” Giles said.
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Politics at AU seekshift to center
By DEVIN MITCHELL
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
The School of International Service now houses the 100,000 Strong Foundation, which aims to encourage more students to study abroad in China.
The foundation needed a home after it became an entity independent of the government, SIS Dean James Goldgeier, who serves on the foundation’s advi-sory council, said.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the establishment of the organiza-tion at the State Department last month.
“We hope by having 100,000 Strong here, it will help Ameri-can University become more
visible in China and that it will increase opportunities for our students,” Goldgeier said.
100,000 Strong aims to strengthen ties between the two countries and reduce the gap in students who study abroad in each country.
Twelve times as many Chi-nese students study in the U.S. as American students study in China, according to the founda-tion’s website.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaragoisa and hip-hop artist will.i.am announced in a press release last week that the or-ganization would be donating $100,000 to send at least 10 stu-dents to China over the next two years.
SIS houses foundation supporting study abroad in
China
COURTESY OF MAKANANI BELLThe AU College Moderates seek to challenge the school’s right-left politics.
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State Dept. activist talks youth
empowerment
Firelake Grill to replace Ruby Tuesday’s space
on Van Ness StreetBy SARAH PRESTON
EAGLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Firelake Grill, a new res-taurant in Tenleytown located in the former Ruby Tuesday’s spot next to the Greenberg Theater, will open in April.
Long-time restaurant en-trepreneur Robert Slade said he hopes to attract both AU students and members of the Tenleytown community by cre-ating a comfortable yet sophis-ticated dining experience.
The Firelake Grill will join
Slade’s other restaurants, including Slade’s American Grills, Pargo’s, Maverick and taverns in over 20 different locations in the mid-Atlantic region.
“I like to refer to our menu as ‘classic American cuisine with contemporary tweaks,’” Slade said. He plans to be dis-tinct in using a live wood-burn-ing grill to prepare flavorful American dishes of meat and seafood.
The restaurant will feature “upper casual dining,” above
frozen and pre-prepared foods but not quite “white tablecloth” dining.
“The construction will focus on keeping the space warm and inviting, yet injecting light and space to encourage people watching and customer inter-action,” Slade said.
The overall space will seat approximately 200 patrons plus the outdoor seating. Slade also plans to designate space to ac-commodate a private dining area for parties and events.
By TORI DALCOURT
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
About 30 AU students and faculty attended a lecture that focused on the important role that young people play in civil and political activity, given by a U.S. Department of State youth activist on Feb. 5.
During her lecture, Zeenat Rahman, special advisor of global issues at the U.S. De-partment of State, recognized the role of youth as positive agents of change and elaborat-ed on the State Department’s efforts to empower and el-evate global youth initiatives.
Over 50 percent of the world’s population is under the age of 30, a phenomenon com-monly known as the “youth bulge,” according to Rahman. This large portion of the popu-lation is sometimes seen as a source of instability, Rahman said.
Specifically, Rahman works closely with young Muslims to increase civic and political engagement by teaching them the skills and resources that they need to become leaders in their communities.
The State Department’s purpose in addressing these issues is to help young people to be able to continue to play a significant role in civil engage-ments by fighting youth unem-ployment, helping youth find a productive outlet to make posi-tive change and keeping them safe.
The event was hosted by the Office of the University Chaplain and the Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church.
“I think of young people as positive agents of change, as opposed to a threat,” Rahman said.
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By MARK LIEBERMAN
EAGLE COLUMNIST
With an epic narrative that encapsulates the Ice Age, an apocalyptic rainstorm and a dev-astating war, the Department of Performing Arts’ production of Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” is not a casual trifle.
This ostensible comedy is an artistically ambitious under-taking, especially since it is in conjunction with the group of AU students performing the one-act play “The Long Christ-mas Dinner” at Ford’s Theatre’s 75th-anniversary celebration of Wilder’s “Our Town” on Feb. 11.
Director Carl Menninger, a theater professor at AU, has helmed “The Skin of Our Teeth” once before, but he said this new production is “much darker.”
During the development pro-cess, Menninger noticed that several events in the play were “eerily similar to recent world
events” including global warm-ing, the 9/11 attacks and even Hurricane Sandy. Although the play was written in the 1940s, he said that the themes are fright-eningly more relevant to audi-ences today.
The epoch-spanning narra-tive follows an outwardly ordi-nary nuclear family as they navi-gate some of the world’s most imposing disasters. Each act adopts a different aesthetic style that reflects pertinent themes.
The first act, which depicts a suburban version of the Ice Age, looks and feels like a ‘50s sit-com, complete with black-and-white lighting, old-fashioned cameras and a laugh track.
By the second act, though the apocalypse has arrived in the guise of an ‘80s sitcom, the brightly colored Las Vegas casi-nos hide the underlying turmoil.
The show’s final act, which depicts a desolate postwar land-scape, deviates from the TV
show format entirely, stripping away the pop culture artifice to reveal the family underneath.
“Families can survive any-thing,” Menninger said, qualify-ing Wilder’s assertion that his play is about the ability of hu-mankind to survive.
Naturally, such extravagant settings presented numerous challenges. Rather than close the curtain between acts, the ac-tors and crew members conduct the set changes in full view of the audience. Menninger explained that this decision strengthens the metaphor implied by the TV show aesthetic because “it has the feel of a soundstage.”
In addition to the three dif-ferent settings, characters like housemaid Sabina (College of Arts and Sciences senior Amy Wilson) frequently interrupt the flow of the dialogue to address the audience directly, ridiculing and punctuating Wilder’s poten-tially ponderous symbolism.
“They have to live in a bunch of different worlds at once,” said assistant director Megan West-man, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Stage manager Dorothy Trigg, a junior in the School of Communication and CAS, cher-ished the opportunity to watch the progression in real time.
“It was great to see the actors grow in their roles,” Trigg said.
Because of the complexi-ties of lighting to evoke differ-ent eras, Menninger decided to break the mold in choosing a lighting designer. As a result, Xena Petkanas, a senior in CAS who previously served as Men-ninger’s lighting designer in a Katzen Arts Center production of “Bare,” became the first AU student to serve as lighting de-signer for a show in the Green-berg Theatre.Petkanas said even a concept as seemingly simple as a black-and-white glow proved difficult to at-
tain. With the help of her “really talented design team” and Men-ninger’s confidence in her abili-ties, Petkanas said her first ex-perience as a lighting designer in this venue was a success.
“I feel really lucky,” Petkanas said.
Menninger said the student actors and crew members al-lowed him to assume the role of “collaborator” rather than “dictator.” The most rewarding aspect of the production was the opportunity to watch these ac-tors complement his vision with their own, he said.
“I am so grateful for their artistry and intelligence,” Men-ninger said.
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AU’s Department of Performing Arts takes dark look at epic comedy “The Skin of Our Teeth”
JARED ANGLE / THE EAGLE
JARED ANGLE / THE EAGLE
Kendall Helblig (left) and Matthew Ingraham (center) fight during a scene in “The Skin of Our Teeth.”
Emily Goddell, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, bares her teeth during a scene.
“THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH” WILL
BE PERFORMED FEB. 14
THROUGH FEB. 16.
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EAGLE STAFF WRITER
The elephants living in Mo-zambique’s Gorongosa National Park experienced war trauma, much like any human would. Their flesh was hunted to feed soldiers, while their tusks were sought as ammunition.
As an introduction to the Center for Environmental Film-making’s spring 2013 film series, National Geographic’s David Hamlin featured clips from the television film “War Elephants” in Wechsler Theater on Feb. 5 to discuss the condition of dysfunc-tional, hostile elephants trauma-tized by ivory poaching and a civil war that lasted almost two decades.
Even though the area is now at peace, the elephants exhibit vio-
lent, aggressive behavior toward humans, signs that are similar to post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the documentary. The elephants who grew up dur-ing the war were most likely left
as orphans, unable to learn the proper ways of parenting and herd leadership. Now, the matri-archs, malfunctioning elephants that lead dysfunctional herds, have instilled fear and hostility within their families.
“We’re not here to make them
forget, but to teach them that not all people are bad,” head expert elephant researcher Joyce Poole said in the film.
This is not the first time el-ephants have been affected by
war. In December, The New York Times released an article about a South African conservation-ist who worked with a group of wounded, dangerous elephants who would have otherwise been killed, learning to calm them and gain their trust.
“The broadcasters wanted unique access, never-before-seen behavior and charismatic person-alities,” producer and writer of the film Hamlin said in a panel after the screening. “We delivered Bob and Joyce, charging elephants and a cool and crazy place.”
The journey, for the most part, was a smooth experience for the production crew once they ar-rived in the field. Getting there, on the other hand, took a bit of work.
When they pitched the idea, the team’s motto became “fingers crossed, we’ll survive.”
Led by Poole and her filmmak-er brother, Bob, the production team approached the disturbed elephants on a daily basis in an attempt to neutralize their ancient yet vivid and traumatizing memo-ries.
Each day, Joyce would cau-tiously approach the elephants in her Jeep and whisper to commu-nicate reassurance. The sounds of her truck set off flashbacks for the elephants, forcing them to be-
come alert and defensive.On one occasion, Joyce played
an old elephant recording, the sound of a baby elephant in dis-tress under attack by a lion, to see how the mother matriarch would respond.
A member of the audience challenged Poole’s technique, pointing out that her actions seemed more like a provocation than of sympathetic nature.
“There was a lot of controver-sy against Joyce in the scientist research community,” said Chris Palmer, a professor in the School of Communications and founder of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking. Joyce was accused of deliberately harassing the ani-mals, Palmer said.
However, members of the Poole team had full faith.
“Joyce dedicated her life to this,”Hamlin said. “Nobody said she was doing the wrong thing. What we want people to take away is that the place is being given a second chance.”
TV film reveals trauma of elephants exposed to civil war in Mozambique
The production team approached the disturbed elephants on a daily basis in an attempt to
neutralize their ancient yet vivid and traumatizing memories.
SCENE
Ah, the sweet sound of romantic revenge. Cee Lo’s fun and flashy song “F**k You” (and that’s the original, not the censored version) is the perfect anthem for the jilted lover on Valentine’s Day, acting si-multaneously as a pump-up and a self-empowerment song.
The funky guitar and high-pow-ered saxophone solos make the song irresistibly catchy and, despite its cheesy lyrics, oddly relatable.
-Hoai-Tran Bui
As the ultimate queen of seduc-tion and intimacy, Sade has an entire catalogue of songs that would fit perfectly on any couple’s Valentine’s Day playlist. But her 2000 single “By Your Side” is the best of all.
“By Your Side” is one of the most genuine and heartfelt love songs ever. When Sade softly croons “I’ll be there / By your side,” you believe it.
Some love songs are about heap-ing praise upon someone and some are geared more toward the bed-room. But “By Your Side” is perfect for both.
-Sean Meehan
Lead singer Brittany Howard is more than just the best-dressed person at the Grammys this past weekend. She’s also the incredibly powerful voice behind one of 2012’s best songs for singles (or anyone for that matter): Alabama Shakes’ “You Aint Alone.”
Anybody who’s feeling lonely on Valentine’s Day should grab a box of tissues and play this song.
The song opens with Howard’s soulful, pained voice saying “You aint alone / so why are you lonely.”
And there goes the first tissue. -Sean Meehan
When someone has truly fallen in love, they have no way of actually explaining it.
They can feel it in their heart and soul. Love is something pure and true. It’s real.
This song conveys that message in such a simple manner, whereas the concept of love is overwhelm-ingly complicated, and that’s why I like it so much.
“When I tell you how I feel/be-lieve me when I say/it’s real.”
-Sydney Gore
It’s a super fun, flirtatious tune that guides ladies on how to prop-erly break hearts in order to avoid becoming the victims of heartache.
Marina has a darker approach in the love game, but she is a bubble-gum babe who doesn’t let any man burst her bubble.
This song will make any woman feel empowered as well as reas-sured that she can have her cake and eat it, too. Cheers to us!
-Sydney Gore
This famed Paul McCartney track is the ultimate Valentine’s Day number. It’s the type of song that if two lovers were to hear it, they’d in-stantly look at each other and think the same thing: This is our song.
McCartney’s sweet cooing vo-cals gently toss beautiful little lyrics at the listener, like “I want her ev-erywhere / And if she’s beside me / I know I need never care.”
It’s enough to turn anyone into a hopeless romantic, even if only for a few moments.
-Yohana Desta
It’s a classic for a reason. The title alone of this 1979 track by ev-eryone’s favorite post-punk band really drives the message home: love will tear us apart, over and over and over again.
Let quickly-strummed riffs and deep vocals wash over you and slowly quash any fleeting hope you have about relationships. Despite their beautiful beginnings, they can quickly flounder and breed dysfunction, a message you remind yourself of when everyone around you is paired up and holding hands.
-Yohana Desta
Ingrid Michaelson has made a career out of twee love songs, and “You and I” is no exception.
Michaelson croons alongside her producer Dan Romer to the notes of a sanguine acoustic gui-tar. The song is short and sweet, progressing into a communal sing-along alongside Michaelson’s flut-tering vocals.
The song’s simple message makes it easily relatable, and thus a top pick for any couples looking for “their song.”
-Hoai-Tran Bui
CEE LO GREEN“F**K YOU”
SADE“BY YOUR SIDE”
ALABAMA SHAKES“YOU AINT ALONE”
REAL ESTATE“IT’S REAL”
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS“HOW TO BE A
HEARTBREAKER”
THE BEATLES“HERE, THERE, EVERY-
WHERE”
JOY DIVISION“LOVE WILL TEAR US APART”
INGRID MICHAELSON“YOU AND I”
SONGS, MOVIES
FOR... V-DAY
LOVERSV-DAY
HATERS
There’s no quicker way to melt a heart than with
a love song. Here’s a Scene staff playlist to
keep you bubbling with romantic anticipation on
this Valentine’s Day.
If on this most romantic of holidays you find yourself surrounded by blisteringly adorable couples, cooing
breathy allegiances of love to one another, plug
in those earbuds and get a dose of the Scene staff’s favorite anti-Valentine’s
Day tracks.
An unabashedly romantic film set in one day in Vienna, “Before Sunrise” is the intellectual response to the prototypical rom-com.
The film stars Ethan Hawke (“Sinister”) in his ‘90s hey-day and Julie Delpy (“2 Days in New York”) as two strangers who meet on a train in Europe and impulsively de-cide to spend the day together in Vienna.
Little happens in the movie ex-cept for the two of them walking throughout the quaint European streets and alleyways, but the pair’s optimistic, romantic and poignant musings on life and love have the ability to resonate with any viewer, no matter how cynical.
-Hoai-Tran Bui
“Blue Valentine,” directed by Derek Cianfrance, and starring Mi-chelle Williams (“My Week With Marilyn”) and Ryan Gosling (“The Notebook”), can be described as the ultimate Anti-Valentine’s Day film.
Following two sides of a relation-ship from its lovely beginning to its bitter end, “Blue Valentine” is a dreary, albeit satisfying, look into the lives of down-to-Earth people with normal travails who simply be-come tired of each other.
Also, proving that Gosling can be more than a male lead with boyish charm, vis-a-vis “The Notebook,” his performance as the damaged Dean is one of his best.
-David Kahen-Kashi
“BEFORE SUNRISE”
“BLUE VALENTINE”
There is no better a choice for a date night flick than the Rob Reiner-Nora Ephron 1989 collaboration of “When Harry Met Sally.”
Riveting dialogue, an incred-ibly strong screen couple in Billy Crystal (“City Slickers”) and a then perky and jovial Meg Ryan (“You’ve Got Mail”), in a role which solidi-fied her as a solid and smart roman-tic lead for many films over, and one of the most memorable scenes in film history.
“When Harry Met Sally” is one of the best New York romantic films out of the ‘80s.
-David Kahen-Kashi
Aside from just being one of the best movies period, “Being John Malkovich” is a great movie for singles on Valentine’s Day because it reminds you how much easier be-ing single can be.
As a showcase of dysfunctional relationships and selfish behavior, “Being John Malkovich” is just the kind of movie to put relationships in perspective.
-Sean Meehan
“WHEN HARRY MET SALLY”
“BEING JOHN MALKOVICH”
It’s the quintessential date night movie that will please almost any woman who worships Audrey Hep-burn. She’s the classiest call girl of all time and makes us all wish we could lead fabulous lives as single women in New York.
This film is a classic and should be embraced by lovers as they cud-dle in each other’s arms.
-Sydney Gore
This star-studded flick (Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen and Jude Law) follows two couples and the story of how their lives become completely intermin-gled.
The film shows the unrelent-ingly cruel side of relationships and examines just how ugly love can be.
Full of twists and turns, “Closer” takes you down familiar roads, then completely flips the script, proving in the simplest ways that you can never really know someone.
It just goes to show that if love doesn’t tear us apart, secrets defi-nitely will.
-Yohana Desta
“BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S”
“CLOSER”
Some films don’t need to have that happy ending in order to fill you with a blissful feeling.
That’s what Woody Allen’s ro-mantic comedy “Annie Hall” does. It offers odd, yet touching, glimpses into a relationship that are both re-latable and romantic.
There’s no need for the grand gestures, like standing outside of a window with a boombox or meet-ing at the Empire State Building. All that’s needed is a few fond memo-ries of some happy nights togeth-er and a forlorn, neurotic Allen breaking the fourth wall.
This 2010 adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel is a heartbreak-ingly beautiful love story that plays with all the emotions as viewers are swept into the tragic world of Kathy H (Carey Mulligan, “Drive”), Tom-my (Andrew Garfield, “The Amaz-ing Spider-Man”) and Ruth (Keira Knightley, “Anna Karenina”).
Warning: Viewers will be hit with a wave of severe depression from beginning to end and will probably sob uncontrollably for hours. Grab a box of Kleenex. This film turns the darkest soul into an emotional wreck.
-Sydney Gore
“ANNIE HALL”
“NEVER LET ME GO”
Valentine’s movies can be kind of tricky. You want something cute to cuddle up with but run the risk of being too cheesy.
That’s where “Scott Pilgrim” comes in. It’s a love story told in a completely different way. Not as cliché as “The Notebook” or other romantic cry-fests and not as nau-seatingly twee as “(500) Days of Summer”; “Scott Pilgrim” works a cute love story into a movie excit-ing enough to actually hold your attention.
There’s plenty of action scenes to keep you interested and plenty of quirkiness in the main characters to fit any couple dynamic.
If ever the sickeningly sweet Val-entine’s Day has ever got you down, let out your pent-up rage with a view-ing of “American Psycho.” Christian Bale’s (“The Dark Knight Rises”) psychotic turn as Patrick Bateman is at times disturbing and at times glee-fully entertaining.
This film’s blood-stained, satiri-cal view of Wall Street culture and abject consumerism is sure to take your mind off of the greeting card-based holiday and just relish the horrors that materialism can bring to humanity.
-Hoai-Tran Bui
“SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD”
“AMERICAN PSYCHO”
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Crisp, quasi-clear and unhurried.“True Hallucinations” is Ex-
Cops’ first full-length album to drop, and it’s a concrete founda-tion for future efforts.
Each song, an intricate con-glomeration of wispy vocals and swinging guitar, stands out from
the pack. A balance is struck from tracks 1-11, and there’s no overreliance on lyrics, drums or psychedelic guitar to do the work and carry the tune.
Brian Harding’s vocals are lackadaisical and effortless. With help from Amalie Bruun,
the layers are infinite. The Brooklyn band puts out easy-going and fun harmonies, but the autumnal efforts stop be-fore carefree becomes careless.
“You Are a Lion, I Am a Lamb” and “Broken Chinese Chairz” are deliberately light and flimsy. There’s no point in overanalyzing the tunes; they’re made for enjoyment.
RIYL: Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing
By MANDI RAY
EX-COPSTRUE HALLUCINATIONS
A dazzling album with a slight identity crisis
On their 2010 debut “Gorilla Manor,” Local Natives drew bits from Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes and Arcade Fire to create a lovely, albeit not particularly unique, record.
The same issue is present on this follow-up, which continues the strong songwriting and soar-ing vocals, but with a few sonic
differences. These come courtesy of pro-
ducer Aaron Dessner, who also serves as the guitarist for The National. That band’s love of moody chord progressions and busy percussion are prevalent here, particularly on singles “Heavy Feet” and “Breakers.”
Elsewhere, lead vocalist Kel-cey Ayer delivers a falsetto on “Three Months” that possesses
the emotional depth of Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon.
Therein lies the main prob-lem with Local Natives: Every-thing they do can be compared or traced to another artist.
At least Local Natives is bor-rowing from some of the best bands of the last decade, and if they start to experiment a bit more, they might be ready to join that class themselves.
Recommended If You Like:
Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, !e National
By CAMERON MEINDL
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Crisp, energetic album brings in wide variety of influences
You’ll get chills and feel fresh from the spectrum of warm sounds sprouting from every inch of this vibrant new release.
Thao Nguyen’s youthful vocals and witty lyrics meshed with TGDSD’s experimental folk make this record grow and grow.
Like sedimentary rock, each listen uncovers condensed intricate layers of jazzy bursts, orchestral hymns, personified bass playful synths and sum-mery pop melodies.
Opener “We The Common” starts off strong with acoustic banjo melody, added by pulses of bass. Suddenly a crescendo to a climactic burst arrives with
cymbals, fuzzy electric guitar along with everything else. The Charlie Brown piano and com-plementary saxophone in “The Feeling Kind” energizes like a crisp sunny day while Joanna Newsom’s duet on “Kindness Be Conceived” perfects the light hearted folk melody. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down are truly intense (“Move”) but so beautifully.
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“Happy Endings” takes the traditional TV sitcom and turns it on its head.
The show follows a group of friends that are controlling, vengeful, selfish and downright hilarious. Other than using the orthodox formula where the friends work around a situation, the group in “Happy Endings” usually ends up causing the problems themselves. The show is all about mischievous pranks, bad decisions and forgiveness.
The atypical cast breaks the traditional sitcom norms. Max’s (Adam Pally, “Californication”) sarcastic and mischievous per-sonality defies the usual por-trayal of gay men in popular
culture. Additionally, the marriage
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Eagle Rants Go ahead, speak your mind. We’ll probably print it.
just wanted to put it out there that a lookalike of BooBoo Stewart (he played seth clearwater in Twilight) goes to our school..nbd
Always the Mcbrides-maid, never the Sarah McBride. #Terrific #ICECREAMKONY2013
This plea is in vain, but for the love of all that is good and holy, PLEASE don’t feed the troll
Hello! You are all lovely people and should smile today
the right to free speech means the government will not throw you in jail if you say something. the right to free speach DOES NOT mean you are pro-tected from people telling you when you’re being an insensitive, triggering jerk
Okay, seriously, who really cares about found-ers day enough to spend three hours of their lives waiting in line for a ticket. It’s like watching lem-mings.
If I’m studying alone at the silent floor, I’m trying to get work done. I don’t want random people com-ing up to me and trying to telepathically flirt with me.
I wanna know…have you ever seen the rain? [Editor’s Note: “Comin’ down on a sunny day?”]
Women’s Only Gym Hours = Campus Beautifi-cation Time
The maintenance man is here and I can’t fart
freely. I feel like I’m in Gitmo.
why did everyone only take away “omg women’s only gym hours” from that op-ed? you’re ignoring the important parts of the piece. p.s. sexism against men doesn’t exist plz cry more
Dying for some stress relieving sex, like actually dying
ATV news anchor you’re so sexy
In love with my awk-wardly adorable TA #help
Is this the Krusty Krab? [Editor’s Note: No, this
is Patrick.]
kevin sutherland claims no one reads rants anymore, what kind of AUSG secretary is that?! im calling BS
Would other people be interested in starting a Dance Marathon at AU? Basically, like THON at Penn State and tons of other schools around the country. We need some school spirit, y’all!
If I ever meet someone who expresses the misog-ynistic, despicable opin-ions which are appearing on the article about the shirt, I will literally cas-trate them, regardless of gender.
Hey, wanna hear a joke?AUSG
....I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Who else is going to the protest against found-
ers day ball
Honestly, I’m only in this class because I get to look at you for an hour.
I feel like ever since the op-ed about the sexist frat shirts was posted that even MORE blatantly sex-ist things have been ap-pearing on eagle rants….
I feel like I am wearing pantaloons. :/
Breaking news—A few frat boys act like imma-ture douchers who don’t respect women. Up next we have another surpris-ing story: “Water—is it wet?”
SAVE THE EAGLE! I NEED TO USE SOME-THING AS TOILET PA-PER!
Single ladies, who wants a no strings at-tached hookup this valen-tines day?
it’s looked down up-on….I’m sensing a double standard
...we can leave your friends behind. ‘Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance well, then they’re no friends of mine.
SAVE THE EAGLE! I NEED TO USE SOME-THING AS TOILET PA-PER!
Georgetown still prints broadsheet and GW is looking for a new office in a townhouse but The Eagle can’t afford print?? Let’s go AU, #SaveTheE-agle
The student activities fee is just another example of AU mis-using our money.
AU students are forming a new committee to reevaluate the distribution of student ac-tivity fee. Since 2002, the funds have been allocated in the same way: 72 percent to Student Gov-ernment, 14 percent to the AU Club Council and 14 percent to the Student Media Board.
With this breakdown, SG gets $630,000 a year to spend while the AUCC and the Media Board are each forced to fight over $120,000 apiece.
Anyone involved with a stu-dent club on campus under-stands how little money there is to go around.
The AUCC is in charge of al-locating $120,000 to about 170 student clubs. Over the years, frustration with Student Activi-ties has built up because there never seems to be enough mon-ey for everyone. There are 170 clubs, with 170 different mis-sions and only $120,000 to make
it all happen.The Media Board is made
up of seven (possibly eight if The Eagle joins next semester) media organizations on cam-pus. Like the AUCC, it only has $120,000 to divide between each other. Each year the lack of funds is seen more clearly. The ATV equipment is extremely outdated; AWOL and Am-Word are only able to publish once a se-mester; The Eagle is now struggling to secure a print issue.
Media organi-zations at AU are struggling, ironically at the same time as AU is renovating its School of Communication. With SOC on the rise, shouldn’t the media organizations on cam-pus be given more than the min-imal amount of attention?
And then there’s SG, working tirelessly to spend their entire budget.
Each year SG has money left over. This year they have made it a point to spend as close to zero as possible.
Clubs consistently ask for more money, but Student Ac-tivities will not raise the student fee because the funds allocated
each semester are never entire-ly used.
On top of this, there is almost no accountability in the budget system. Student organizations receive money at the beginning of each semester for events. However, there is hardly any follow-up on where that money goes after the initial allocation of
funds. For all we know, students could be taking your money and using it for their own purposes. With more accountability, Stu-dent Activities will be able to see where more money or less money is needed.
This applies especially to SG. T h r o u g h o u t this year, SG has not been as visible in years past. Kennedy Political Union brought Nick Kristof and Frank Abag-nale Jr., but other than that, much of
this year has been consumed with the debate over the new referendum. The campaign for or against AUSA cannot possi-bly use all $630,000. But who’s checking?
There is one exception: the Student Media Board. Each year, the Media Board goes through extensive budget meet-
ings to show how they use their funds. Although it is a frustrat-ing system, it’s a beneficial one. The follow-up on the budget cre-ates a sense of accountability for the Media Board, and this pushes students to spend their money efficiently.
The proposed committee needs to do more than research the reallocation of funds. AU students deserve the right to know that every dollar of their Student Activity fee is being spent effectively. This commit-tee needs to entirely reevaluate how Student Activities func-tions, but we cannot leave it up to them. AU students need to take their finances into their own hands. Information on SG’s budget can be asked for and, if demanded, can be changed by students. The AUCC can be pressured into holding clubs more accountable, but only if we take action.
Our money is being misused. Let’s change this. .! E
This letter is in response to recent articles pertaining to Stu-dent Government shortcomings and lack of efficiency.
There is no doubt that SG is not perfect. However, it is neces-sary to note that the SG execu-tives and Senate are not the only part of SG. Recently, the other branches and bodies of SG have been ignored and unrecognized for their success and positive contributions to the AU commu-nity.
The current struggles facing SG, such as the constitutional
referendum and the budget, do not holistically represent the ini-tiates of all of its many offices. There are other important issues facing SG bodies. Yet, even as SG struggles to resolve these issues, many of its departments contin-ue to provide valuable services to students on a daily basis.
As administrators of the Student Advocacy Center, a department within the presi-dent’s cabinet, it is frustrating to read articles that simply omit the many benefits SG brings to the AU community.
Our office, for example, pro-vides expert advising to stu-dents who have allegedly vio-lated University policy. Many of our clients come to us in a time of crisis, as they face life-altering sanctions such as removal from University hous-ing, suspension or dismissal from the University entirely. We provide each of our clients with a system of support and dedicate ourselves to ensur-ing that they are treated fairly throughout the disciplinary process.
Our office is staffed 40 hours a week by 10 volunteer advo-cates and one paid administra-tor. Each of us undergoes ex-tensive refresher trainings to guarantee that we are providing our clients with the most ac-curate information. We aren’t involved with SG to engage in petty disputes or politics, nor do the commonly reported issues hold us back.
Do not stop reporting on the obstacles facing SG. In doing so, you hold us all to higher stan-dards and demand that officials
operate with transparency. But as you report, do not forget the many accomplishments we have achieved and the services we provide. Continue to inform the AU community of what their SG is doing, but do not sacrifice bal-ance for the sake of conflict.
Annie Baldauf, CAS 2012 Director, Student Advocacy Center
Adam Garret, SOC 2015Deputy Director, Student Advo-cacy Center
OPINIONStudent activity fee leaves clubs scramblingSTAFF EDITORIAL
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
There’s more to SG than petty politics
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For all we know, students could be taking your money and using it for their
own purposes.
Through contacts in the Stu-dent Worker Alliance, I had the opportunity to chat with Antho-ny Randolph about Bon Appé-tit’s recently negotiated contract with its employees. Randolph has been a utility worker at AU for 11 years. Our discussion ranged from administrative de-tails to an evaluation of student-worker relations on our campus.
In order to understand what these union victories mean to us as students, we must reframe the way we understand student-worker relations.
An eight-member commit-tee of workers, including union representatives and negotiators, are responsible for the language of the contract. Highlights in-clude stratified wage increases through 2015, important im-migration clauses that will pro-tect the security of employees (moreover, the day a worker be-comes a citizen counts as a paid holiday!), health benefits and mandatory training.
Truthfully, however, most of us are not emotionally invested in Bon Appétit employees. We may justify these detached re-lationships by understanding them as business transactions. In other words, because our tu-ition pays their salaries, we may wonder what else we could pos-sibly “owe” them.
But not everything can be
measured in dollars and cents. Bon Appétit employees have names, faces and stories. Some-where along the line, between friendly conversations as they swipe us into TDR, they become much more than the sum of their “services.”
In our conversation, Ran-dolph joins my critique of a busi-ness model. “We see it another way,” he said. “We have a pas-sion for what we do. You all are away from home, so we try our best to treat you like we treat family.”
Randolph praises the new contract for its flexibility and the voice it provides to Bon Appétit employees. For him, it’s never been about challenging the management, but rather about creating a system that respects workers, removes unnecessary stress and gives them the tools to do their best work.
“We’re a team,” Randolph said, describing students and Bon Appétit employees. He explained that the contract re-moves obstacles that had pre-vented workers from making administrative suggestions that would benefit students. Capi-talizing on student input and worker initiative, Bon Appétit can better pursue its goals of sustainability and excellence.
If students and workers are a team, however, then the value
of Bon Appétit’s new contract shouldn’t be understood solely in the context of how students will benefit. Instead, students should celebrate the new chang-es for the many ways they will enhance the quality of workers’ experiences.
We are responsible for one another. AU isn’t sectioned off into separate spaces for stu-dents and for workers. We are one community, which means that there shouldn’t be distinc-tions between “worker issues” and “student issues.”
As Bon Appétit employees advocate for the enforcement of these new regulations and rally for the respect that they deserve, students have an obli-gation to join them. Removing the walls that we put up between “us” and “them,” it’s time that we understand ourselves as united members of an inclusive AU community.
Justice for workers must be part of our campus discourse. So while matters are not com-pletely resolved, the new con-tract should be seen as a victory for all of us, students and work-ers alike.
Derek Siegel is a sophomore in
the College of Arts and [email protected]
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DEREK SIEGEL | ETHICS WITH A SIDE OF TOAST
On Jan. 30, food service work-ers here at AU, represented by UNITE HERE Local 23, signed a new contract with Bon Appétit Management.
This historic union contract, in addition to greatly improving wages and benefits, guarantees workers a full 40-hour workweek and gives them a significant voice in sustainability efforts in TDR and other campus dining options.
This victory comes after a se-mester of organizing by students who knew that workers were not being respected in the dining facilities on campus. Before the end of last semester, the cam-paign peaked with a 120-person march and delegation to Bon Ap-pétit management.
Why should we care? Several people who we talked with over the course of the campaign told us: “This is a worker matter, not a student matter; it’s none of our concern.” We strongly disagree.
Workers are an important part of the AU community The fact that some Bon Appétit workers have been forced to take out food stamps because they’re paid so little is not only mind-boggling, it’s unacceptable. Especially when you consider that meal plans can cost nearly $13 per swipe.
Thanks to UNITE HERE as well as the students and workers who worked on this campaign to make their voices heard, we man-aged to convince Bon Appétit that our workers are worth more. Not only in terms of money, but in terms of respect.
As students, we need to hold all parties accountable to this agreement going forward and make sure that slick words turn into meaningful action.
Nonetheless, the new contract is a massive step forward for workers’ rights and sustainability here at AU.
Of course, Bon Appétit work-ers are not the only group on campus struggling with unaccept-able working conditions. You may remember that last February, adjunct professors here at AU overwhelmingly voted to form a union.
The average part-time pro-fessor at AU receives $3,700 in compensation for teaching a three-credit course. If an adjunct professor teaches five courses a year, they would have a yearly salary of $18,500. Compare this to the adjusted poverty line for D.C.: $16,151 for a single-person household.
Do our professors, who hold advanced degrees, teach up to 45 percent of courses at AU and have dedicated their lives to our education, deserve this kind of treatment?
The answer is pretty clearly no. Just as we have a responsi-bility to stand with food service workers on our campus, we have a responsibility to stand with our professors. We believe that pro-fessors who are not exhausted from running from school to school in order to pay their rent are far more likely to deliver a positive academic experience.
After negotiating with the Uni-versity for nearly a year, adjuncts and the administration have been unable to agree on the most important issue: compensation.
If you, like us, find it unac-ceptable that students pay nearly $4,000 for a three-credit course but half our professors live bare-ly above the poverty line, then do something about it.
Ethan Miller is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and Sean Reilly Wood is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Scienc-es. Both are members of the Stu-dent Worker Alliance.
OP-EDContinue the fight
for AU employee justice
Now, it’s time to reframe the student-worker relations
New Bon Appétit contract is a victory for
AU community
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SAMUEL MENDELSON | SPORK
Don’t fear the horse meat, fear the industry
A hamburger is a bun, beef patty, cheese, lettuce, tomato, ketchup and mustard, except when the patty is, in reality, horse meat.
This stomach-churning sto-ry has been the reality for mil-lions across Europe who have consumed products that were, in some cases, 100 percent horse meat. The use of horse meat in products represents a fundamental breakdown on the food system and exemplifies the politics of dis-gust: the moral, political and taste aversion to what is perceived as disgusting.
Much of the outrage sur-rounding the horse meat scan-dal surrounds the issue of horse meat itself. Horse meat is in fact no more morally outrageous or disgust-ing than chicken, beef or pork.
Britain is quite ruffled by the thought of horse meat in their Burger King meal (where the scandal started) or their prepackaged lasagna. Americans too would be quite repulsed by the thought of eat-ing Seabiscuit. Since President Barack Obama signed a bill lift-ing the ban on horse slaughter in 2011, there has only been one application to open a horse meat factory.
The disgust for foods such as dog and horse meat, organs and foie gras is extremely strong (strong enough to put political pressure on countries that consume such foods).
Yet Americans seem perfectly comfortable gorging them-selves on ambiguously shaped chicken nuggets from factory-farmed chickens and slabs of greyish beef from cows that spend their lives packed so closely they cannot turn around.
Our cultural and moral ab-horrence toward certain foods ignores the uncomfortable truths of our food system. It
is easy to crucify the failure of meatpackers to prevent horse-meat from entering burgers. It is much more difficult, howev-er, to hold a mirror to our own eating practices.
The meat industry has un-dergone little change since Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.” Instead, slaughterhouses have merely moved inside clean, closed-door processing facili-ties. Mostly poorly paid im-migrant laborers work long hours in jobs with extremely high injury rates. Alongside are millions of animals that are raised in tight quarters, fed cocktails of drugs and often pass on foodborne diseases to consumers. The multiple food recalls each year are a testa-
ment to a system that is slow to change.
The thought of eating man’s best friend is shocking, dis-gusting and unpalatable (even for me). We treat dogs, cats and horses with respect and even admiration for the ways they benefit our lives. Yet we show none of that same regard for cows, pigs, chickens or sheep (usually lambs).
This is not a vegetar-ian manifesto, though I hold those who choose veg-etarianism in high regard. Our moral outrage at the thought of eat-ing a dog or a horse should be translated to the compas-sion of Fern for Wilbur the
Pig in “Charlotte’s Web.” Ani-mals must be treated humane-ly, raised naturally (this means cutting high-corn diets) and be viewed as biological creatures, not merely food capital.
This factory farm-to-slaugh-terhouse system is mechani-cal (and brutal) in nature, and also is seemingly able and will-ing to slip horse meat into beef patties or pink slime into just about everything else. The perversion is not in what is killed, but instead the system that simply doesn’t care.
Samuel Mendelson is a soph-omore in the School of Interna-tional Service.
It is easy to crucify the failure of meatpackers to prevent horsemeat from
entering burgers. It is much more difficult, however,
to hold a mirror to our own eating practices.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Student Media Board is a solution for The Eagle, not a
punishmentI, along with many other AU
students, greatly value The Eagle in its print form and was surprised when we learned of the print edition’s possible demise. I understand the im-petus for the paper’s staff to seek support for its flagship publication.
But as a student media lead-er, I must make an exception to the manner in which the ed-itorials published in the Feb. 7 issue chose to portray the Student Media Board, even as The Eagle seeks to join and be funded by the Media Board.
In fall 2011, I became chair of a largely dysfunctional Media Board. I worked hard alongside all of the student media leaders to remake the board and firmly establish it as the strong organization that it is today.
Even though each of AU’s student media organizations produce vastly dif ferent prod-ucts, the Media Board now serves as a vibrant, collabora-tive body that strengthens the work of each of our organiza-tions. It provides a forum for us student media leaders to support each other.
It is disingenuous to por-tray the Media Board as an organization that wants to strip The Eagle of its editorial independence. That depiction goes against the very nature of how the Media Board oper-ates as a governing body.
The Media Board is not re-
sponsible for The Eagle’s past bad financial planning that led to these circumstances. The Media Board is not responsi-ble for AU cutting off further financial support to The Ea-gle, thus forcing their hand to join the board. Furthermore, I and many other student me-dia leaders are outraged at the AU administration for making no provision to increase the Media Board’s already inad-equate funding, even as they direct us to take on the new obligation of supporting The Eagle.
But we can, and we will, fig-ure out a way to work through these financial challenges.
Even so, The Eagle needs to overcome their hubris that causes them to act as if they are the most important stu-dent publication at AU and makes them suspicious of ceding any control to another governing body.
The Media Board works because all of us operate on a level playing field with each other. This is how we maxi-mize our collective value to the AU student body. If we can get past this posturing and work together, we can build a strong symbiotic relationship with The Eagle.
Douglas Bell is a senior in the School of Communication, the general manager at ATV and a former chair of the Stu-dent Media Board.
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Dear Mr. Kerwin, As an AU alum, I was
disappointed to see my alma mater partner with Ringling Bros., a company with not just a lengthy history of animal abuse but also a $270,000 USDA fine for cruelty.
I’m writing to ask that you cancel the planned Ringling Bros. AU alumni promotion on March 22 to promote Ringling Bros.’s sad spectacle at the Verizon Center. I was in AU’s class of 1985 and went on to become a senior vice president at PETA. You will also be hearing from many of our D.C.-area members and may well see them in person at your event should this promotion continue.
At Ringling Bros., elephants are beaten, hit, poked, prodded and jabbed with sharp hooks, sometimes until bloody. Alec Baldwin recently narrated this exposé, which shows how Ringling Bros. routinely beats
the animals backstage to force them to perform the physically unnatural tricks during shows.
In late 2011, Ringling Bros. was fined $270,000 for various violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, including several complaints stemming from elephant beatings and forcing at least one elephant to perform in shows despite being ill.
The USDA is currently investigating Ringling Bros. for abuse after an arena worker reported in a sworn affidavit that he witnessed a Ringling Bros. employee strike an elephant, who was chained, with a sharp metal-tipped bullhook “with full force” at least six times in a manner that was “violent,” “excessive,” “angry” and “without warning.”
The circus is known for going to great lengths to hide all signs of abuse and illness from authorities and the public, and it’s knowingly forcing two crippled, arthritic elephants to perform in shows now despite
recommendations from an elephant expert to pull them from the road immediately. A Los Angeles Times editorial gives greater insight into modern public opinion about the circus’s needless use of animals.
I hope you will see that Ringling Bros. is not a company that AU wants to align with. Many schools, including Neumann University, have ended official partnerships with the circus and numerous public figures like Cloris Leachman, Pink and Jada Pinkett Smith have spoken out against Ringling Bros.’s abusive ways. Companies like MasterCard, Denny’s, Sears and dELiA*s have even dropped corporate sponsorships. I hope you will join them and end this promotion immediately.
Dan Mathews graduated in
1985 in from the College of Arts and Sciences and is the senior vice president of PETA.
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Megan Rosburg (second from right) celebrates on the field of the Superdome in New Orleans with her family, including her father and
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By JOSH PAUNIL
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Standing teary-eyed under a shower of confetti as she hugged her dad on the field after the Su-per Bowl, it was just like what Megan Rosburg had seen on TV growing up.
Except this time it was hap-pening to her, after the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers and her lifelong wish of being a Super Bowl champ came true.
“It was everything I’ve ever dreamed of,” Rosburg said. “Ev-ery birthday wish, every coin you throw in the well since my dad made it to the NFL in third grade; that has been my wish forever. To see that all come true and see all of my dad’s hard work finally payoff is unbelievable. It was the best day ever.”
Rosburg’s dad, Jerry, is the Ravens assistant head coach/special teams coordinator and is the one who coached a unit that recorded the longest kick return for a touchdown in Super Bowl history. He also thought of the idea for punter Sam Koch to run down the clock at the end of the game and take a safety instead of kicking it away and giving the 49ers’ offense a chance to win the game.
“At first we’re all like oh my gosh, oh my gosh, what is he doing?” Rosburg remembered thinking when the Ravens took that safety. “And then we were like, ‘This is genius! Way to go dad!”
For Rosburg, as someone who refers to the Harbaugh brothers as Jimmy and John and calls Ravens linebacker and special teams ace Brendon
Ayanbadejo “B.A.”, the script was flipped. A sophomore out-side hitter/defensive specialist on the AU volleyball team, she’s used to having complete control over the outcome of games. But this time, all she could do was sit and watch.
“It’s weird because all you can do is cheer, and I have no impact on the game,” she said. “But it’s awesome. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. It’s funny because there’s nothing you can do but I really enjoy it.”
Rosburg spent nearly five days in New Orleans and said she was nervous for practically the whole time. In the days lead-ing up to the game, Rosburg and her family walked around the city and saw sites like the Saint Louis Cemetery. They also enjoyed a Super Bowl Fan-Fest inside the Ernest N. Mo-
rial Convention Center where Rosburg participated in differ-ent competitions that involved kicking field goals and throwing footballs through targets.
However, the most memo-rable moment was the game ex-perience. Although certain mo-ments like the blackout, Jacoby Jones returning the second half kickoff for a touchdown and the final play stand out, there’s one memory in particular that Ros-burg will always cherish.
“The thing I’ll carry with me forever was when I hugged my dad,” she said. “Seeing him and hugging him for a long time, I’ll hold that moment forever. He just told me how much he loved me and how everything we’ve sacrificed to get to this point was all worth it now. It was really, re-ally amazing.”
The Ravens call him ‘Coach.’ AU’s Rosburg calls him ‘Dad.’
Wrestling wins one, drops two
heading into regular season
finaleBy CHRIS HALL
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
In an up-and-down weekend, the AU wrestling team lost a tough match to Navy Feb. 9 be-fore splitting a pair of duals Feb. 10 by beating Boston University and falling to Army.
The Eagles kicked off a week-end of wrestling by heading to Annapolis Saturday night. Navy, an Eastern Intercollegiate Wres-tling Association conference op-ponent, jumped off to a quick lead with a pin in the first match. However, AU’s Blake Herrin and David Terao came back to win their respective matches in the heavyweight and 125-pound divi-sions to tie it up.
It wasn’t enough though, as Navy won the last four matches. The Eagles went on to fall 32-9 with the hope of bouncing back the next day.
On Sunday afternoon in West Point, N.Y., AU kicked off the day with a big win over Boston University 22-14. Terao started the match with a victory for the Eagles with a 16-2 major deci-sion over BU’s Bubba McGinley at 125 pounds, and the Eagles never let up.
Esteban Gomez-Rivera, Tao and Phillip Barreiro won by deci-sion at 133, 149 and 165 pounds, respectively. AU’s Keithen Cast
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By ERIC SALTZMAN
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Even though the East Coast has been hammered by the snow, pitchers and catchers have start-ed reporting for spring training.
Yes, baseball fans, opening day is almost here.
For the first time in a long time, Beltway baseball is quite relevant entering spring training as the Nationals are likely the fa-vorite to win the NL East.
The Nationals’ biggest battle in spring training will be at catch-er. Entering 2012, youngster Wil-son Ramos was projected to be the Nats’ starting catcher, but his season ended early when he tore his ACL in May.
After the platooning several catchers between May and Au-gust, the Nats acquired Kurt Suzuki from the Oakland Athlet-ics. Suzuki ended 2012 on a high note, hitting .301 over his final 26 games in D.C.
At the moment, Suzuki is set to be the starter, according to the Nationals’ depth chart.
But don’t count out Ramos. He is younger and has substantially more upside. If Ramos can show he is fully healed from his injury, don’t be surprised if he is the Na-tionals’ opening day catcher.
Last year, the Nationals signed Edwin Jackson on a one-year “flyer” with hopes Jackson could help solidify the backend of the Nationals rotation.
The Nats are taking the same approach this year with Dan Har-en, who signed a one-year, $13 million contract over the winter.
Haren is coming off of one of the worst seasons in his career, where he posted his lowest in-nings pitched and strikeouts in his last seven seasons. Haren will benefit from no longer having to pitch in the hitter-friendly American League.
The two keys to look out for in the spring are Haren’s health and his velocity. 2012 saw Haren go on the DL for the first time with a back injury, and some teams were concerned about his hip. Haren also had a drop in his fast-ball velocity for his third straight year. If both health and veloc-
ity are in question during spring training, it could project a season-long struggle for Haren.
Frequently, spring training is a time to discover youngsters who may have an impact down the road. Thankfully (or unfortunate-
ly depending on how you look at it), the Nats’ opening day roster is almost fully set entering spring training.
However, this does not mean that there aren’t players to look out for. The headliner for the
Nationals is 2011 first-round pick Anthony Rendon. He is a great hitter who shows good plate vi-sion. He also has good range and potentially good power. But Ren-don was drafted as a third base-man (currently occupied by all-
star Ryan Zimmerman) and has a very bad injury history. Scouts project Rendon to play second base, and he could make the Nation-als squad out of spring training if he shows enough ability.
The most important part of spring training for the Nats is staying healthy. If the Nats want to have any chance of repeating as division champs, their key players need to stay healthy.
Key to Nationals’ spring training is health
Saltzman On Sports
Six Eagles win as wrestling picks up 22-14 victory over Boston University
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pounds and Thomas Barreiro accepted a forfeit from Boston University at 184 pounds. The Eagles finished the match with the 22-14 win.
Riding high after their win, the Eagles couldn’t sustain their momentum against Army as they fell, 34-8. Terao again started the match off in style for the Eagles, defeating Army’s Hunter Wood by 16-1 technical fall at 125 pounds.
However, AU fell off after-ward as Army won the next eight matches by decisions, major decisions, technical falls and pins. Blake Herrin was the only other Eagle to win his match, beating Army’s Chris-tian Botero in an 18-6 major de-
cision in the heavyweight class.“The results today did not
show our effort,” AU Head Coach Teague Moore said to aueagles.com after splitting their two matches. “In the Bos-ton match we outwrestled our opponents and earned many late period points. The Army match was lost on a number of close calls. David pushed him-self to a different level today. He forced himself into new scoring positions that allowed for big scoring and match control. He needed a weekend like this.”
The Eagles will conclude the regular season against Buck-nell Feb. 16 at 7 pm for Senior Night before the EIWA confer-ence championships Mar. 8 and 9 in Piscataway, N.J.
If [Wilson] Ramos can show he is fully healed from his injury, don’t be surprised
if he is the Nationals’ opening day catcher.
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By GENNARO FARONE
EAGLE STAFF WRITER
Watching Blake Jolivette blow by a defender after an ankle-break-ing crossover is jaw-dropping. The fact that he’s played in any games this season is even more jaw-drop-ping.
Six months after tearing his ACL, spraining and partially tear-ing his MCL and bruising and dis-locating his knee cap, the senior made his season debut Dec. 11 at practice. Only six months and sev-en days separated the day Jolivette had surgery to repair his knee and the day he stepped on the floor against Hampton University.
The originally scheduled time-table for him to come back was six to eight months. However, AU Head Coach Jeff Jones said in a December interview that the time-
table for his guard’s return looked bleak when the in-jury first occurred.
“When the injury initially occurred and when he first started in the rehabilitation pro-
cess, I don’t think there was any thought on my part, or on his, that he would be back in the fold as early as he is, that he would be rejoining us this season on the court,” Jones said.
The first time Jolivette re-joined his team on the court
for a game came only a week after his practice debut. He
played 26 minutes in his season debut.
“Originally, I was sup-posed to play only 12
or so minutes,” Jolivette said.“Physically, I was a little wind-ed, but mentally, I was glad to be back out.”
The senior credited his im-pressive comeback to the people around him, the support from his girlfriend Kristianna, his par-ents Annette and Brian, friends, teammates and AU Head Athletic Trainer Sean Dash.
“He’s earned an awful lot of respect from me,” Jones said a couple of months ago. “To see how hard he’s worked to get back as quickly as he has. And he’s cer-tainly made a positive impact on our team.”
That positive impact can be seen both on and off the court. On the court, Jolivette gives the Eagles another ball handler and a player who can drive the ball to the
basket, two things the Eagles were painfully lacking. He also gives AU the ability to play more man-to-man defense, something AU was unable to do before his return.
Jolivette also brings valuable attributes to the locker room, like leadership, the ability to lighten the mood and, as Blake puts it, “unprecedented dance moves.” When he was injured, it was hard-er to share those qualities with the team.
“I was obviously still a part of the team,” Jolivette said. “But I wasn’t out there going through what they were going through. So it was kinda me looking from the outside in, and now that I’m actu-ally in the trenches with the guys, I have more of a say.”
Jones has noticed a new aspect this season that his senior guard has brought to the team off the court.
“I think this particular year the thing that Blake has done is shown the guys what it means to care,” Jones said. “He could have very easily kind of been discouraged and not really pushed forward in terms of his rehab.”
The guard with the knee-high socks and flashy moves has brought more to the Eagles this season than any box score can cover. He’s brought skill, an ag-gressive mentality and of course the dance moves. In just six months, he’s gone from having a injured knee to making defenders’ knees quiver.
Jolivette overcomes injury to help Eagles on and off court
SCHEDULE PATRIOT LEAGUE STANDINGS
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Lehigh 17-5, 7-1 PLBucknell 20-4, 7-1 PLLafayette 12-13, 5-3 PL! American 9-14, 4-4 PL
Colgate 9-16, 3-5 PLArmy 10-13, 3-5 PLHoly Cross 10-13, 2-6 PLNavy 7-17, 1-7 PL
Navy 14-9, 7-1 PL! American 13-9, 6-2 PLArmy 17-6, 6-2 PLBucknell 13-10, 4-4 PL
Holy Cross 12-11, 4-4 PLLafayette 10-13, 3-5 PLLehigh 10-13, 2-6 PLColgate 6-17, 0-8 PL
WOMEN’S BASKETBALLFEB. 14, 18, 19No games scheduled
FEB. 15Track and Field @ Patriot League Indoor Championships
FEB. 16Track and Field @ Patriot League Indoor ChampionshipsWomen’s Lacrosse vs. UMBC 12pmWomen’s Basketball @ Holy Cross 3pmWrestling vs. Bucknell 7pm
FEB. 17Track and Field @ Patriot League Indoor ChampionshipsMens Basketball vs. Holy Cross 12 pm
FEB. 20Women’s Basketball vs. Navy 7pmMen’s Basketball @ Navy 7pm
Jen Dumiak dribbles by a Lehigh defender. The Eagles dropped their game against the Mountain Hawks, 71-55. Full recap at theeagleonline.com/sports.
Corkery denied win No. 100
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