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BY PERRY STEINCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Once again, the University is fi lled with excitement after the announcement that Washington University will host a presiden-tial debate for an unprecedented fi ve consecutive times. The Com-mission on Presidential Debates announced that the University will host the vice presidential de-bate on Oct. 2, 2008.

“It is a privilege to play an important role in the American electoral process and to be cho-sen from among 19 applicants to be one of the hosts,” said Chan-cellor Mark Wrighton at a press conference announcing the de-bate.

The University of Mississippi at Oxford, Belmont University in Nashville and Hofstra University in New York were chosen to host the three presidential debates.

According to an Associated Press report, Washington Univer-sity was offered the debate after Washington State University de-clined the offer to host the vice-presidential debate.

“We had an offer to host the vice presidential debate,” said Vice President of Equity and Di-versity Michael Tate at Washing-ton State. “But we decided, with the focus we had right from the beginning of getting one of the three presidential debates, that

we were just not in the position to accept the vice presidential debate.”

According to Steve Givens, executive director of university communications, the University is in the preliminary stages of

preparations and has started to create a steering committee that will oversee the planning of the debate.

Givens, who served as the committees chair the last two debates, said the committee is

comprised of faculty that rep-resent different aspects of the University and student represen-tatives.

“We try to keep the students

BY PUNEET KOLLIPARASENIOR STAFF REPORTER

A fi re broke out on Monday morning in a lab on the School of Medicine’s campus, prompt-ing an evacuation of the building and causing minor structural damage. No one was injured.

According to John Ursch, di-rector of protective services at the School of Medicine, the fi re started at approximately 8:53 a.m. in room 361 of the McDon-

nell Science Building when a contract welder’s acetylene tank fell over and ignited, engulfi ng the room in fl ames.

The worker began fi ghting the fi re with a dry chemical fi re extinguisher but soon evacuated and pulled the fi re alarm. A pro-tective services dispatcher called 911, and protective services used fi re extinguishers to control the fl ames until help could arrive.

BY GREGG RECONTRIBUTING REPORTER

A new online tool developed by the Washington University School of Medicine is now help-ing users identify and reduce their disease risk.

Professor Graham Colditz of the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine developed the site at the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention. Colditz moved to the University in 2006, and the tool has continued to develop under his direction. A team of six University staff and researchers maintain the site.

In 2000, researchers called the project Your Cancer Risk because it assessed users’ risk for 12 different types of cancer, including prostate cancer, mela-noma and breast cancer. Four years later, the team added ad-ditional functionality to the tool by allowing users to assess their risk of diseases, stroke, diabe-tes and osteoporosis. The proj-ect was renamed Your Disease Risk.

Hank Dart, the project leader for Your Disease Risk, says the transition has been seamless and the project is progressing well at the University.

“We’re very excited about the future of the site and the sup-port and feedback we’ve gotten

from Siteman and the larger University,” he said.

Dart explained that the team that developed the tool used es-tablished medical fi ndings and literature to identify probable risk factors for each of the dis-eases on the site. Because new research is in the fi eld always ongoing, Dart said the team will regularly update the site every 18 months.

“In between the detailed re-views, we also keep a close eye on the science and make up-dates as needed,” said Dart.

The site fi rst asks users to identify an area of concern; op-tions include cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis or stroke. Then, users input basic information such as their height, weight and cholesterol level. A questionnaire follows, asking users multiple-choice questions about their diet, smoking habits and family history of disease.

Once this short question-naire is completed, users are presented with a graph indicat-ing their risk of cancer relative to a typical individual of their age. The site also provides sug-gestions for how to lessen the user’s risk of the disease, and even praises positive habits that users indicated on the question-

BY TEDDY WHITECONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Campaign donation records show that Washington Univer-sity employees fi nancially sup-port Barack Obama while the Board of Trustees back Mitt Romney.

University employees have donated more than $15,000 to presidential campaigns in the last year—almost half to the Obama campaign. Members of the Board of Trustees have contributed more than $54,000

with Romney receiving the most from among the Republican candidates and Hillary Clinton receiving the most of the Demo-cratic candidates.

The donations from mem-bers of the University communi-ty are a part of $372,517,276 that has been donated nationwide and more than $2.7 million in the state of Missouri.

Campaign donation informa-tion is publicly available from the Federal Election Commis-sion (FEC) and is regularly re-leased online.

As a result of the FEC’s ef-forts to make campaign fi nan-cial records more easily accessi-ble, viewing how much money a specifi c person has contributed to the various presidential cam-paigns is no more diffi cult than checking e-mail.

Federal law provides that individuals can donate up to $2,300 per candidate per elec-tion cycle; additional money may be donated to the national committee for each political

BY DAVID SONGNEWS EDITOR

Students taking Hindi will be able to declare it as a minor beginning next fall. The Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee approved the Hindi minor last Monday.

For Mohammad Warsi, lec-turer in South Asian languages, who initiated the conception of the Hindi minor, the approval marks an expansion of the study of foreign language and litera-ture at Washington University.

Currently, the University of-fers 100- and 200-level courses in Hindi, but will offer 300-level courses in advanced Hindi along

with the minor next semester. The minor will be comprised of 18 credits, twelve of which will come from language courses.

“The rest [of the credits] would be from courses in politics, reli-gion, music—courses taught in the history department, the in-ternational area studies depart-ment,” explained Warsi.

The inspiration for creating a minor at the University stemmed from Warsi’s previous work at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of California at Berkeley.

According to Warsi, there has been a growing demand among

WU accepts bid for Vice Presidential debate v Wash. U. chosen as debate site for fi fth time

THE “GOLD STANDARD”

History of Debates

Washington University has hosted three presiden-tial debates and has been selected in fi ve consecu-tive election cycles, leading Commission on Presiden-tial Debate executive direc-tor Janet Brown to name the University the “gold standard” for debate sites.

In 1992, the University was chosen as an alternate site and received the debate on one week’s notice. The debate on Oct. 11 was the fi rst nationally televised three-person presidential debate, between President George H. W. Bush, then-governor Bill Clinton and independent candidate Ross Perot.

In 1996 the University was selected as a debate site; however, then-Presi-dent Bill Clinton pulled out of the debate because of a disagreement about which candidates would be in-cluded in the event.

In 2000, the third presi-dential debate between Vice President Al Gore and then-Governor George Bush was held at the Uni-versity. On Oct. 17 the two candidates discussed ques-tions posed by undecided voters in a town-hall style.

In 2004, the third de-bate at Wash. U. featured President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry. Like the 2000 debate, the Oct. 8 event was held in a town-hall style.

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Fire breaks out in medical school science building

Hindi minor to be offered next fall

Romney and Obama lead fundraising within University

Medical school Internet project helps reduce risk of cancer

Obama (50.2 %)

Romney (30.9 %)

Richardson (4.2 %)

Dodd (4.2 %)

Obama (6.4 %)

Clinton (22.4 %)Romney (13.0 %)

McCain (21.7 %)

Edwards (15.1 %)

McCain (17.3 %)

Giuliani (14.5 %)Tancredo (0.1 %)

WU Donations to Political Campaigns

Employees(Total Donations: $15,437.64)

Board of Trustees(Total Donations: $54,400.00)

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Chancellor Wrighton, fl anked by Jennifer Sisto, Speaker of CS40, and Neil Patel, Student Union President, an-nounces that the University will host the 2008 Vice Presidential Debate. Wash. U. has hosted three presidential debates and has been selected in fi ve consecutive election cycles.

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BY JOHN SCOTTCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The Washington Univer-sity Environmental Health and Safety Department is respon-sible for making sure that the University makes every effort to avoid an emergency, or, if an emergency does occur, that the University is prepared to deal with it.

Mark Bagby, the University disaster coordinator, said that the department has several procedures regarding emer-gency situations that could oc-cur at the University. In order to communicate the procedures to students, the department utilizes postings, on-campus publications, the Internet and the Public Affairs Offi ce.

Bagby is also working with each school in the University to review emergency plans and make sure they are able to communicate them to stu-dents. Safety in the labs is also addressed. According to Bruce Backus, assistant vice chancel-lor of Environmental Health and Safety, the labs on campus also require attention to be safe.

“There are a number of labo-ratory safety and clinical safety procedures and guidelines for the lab occupants,” said Back-us. “Specifi cally, for the labs we do have an inspection process, so we get out and inspect those areas anywhere from two to up

to six times per year depending on the materials that are out there.”

The Disaster Preparedness Planning Group is meeting to review plans and procedures on a regular basis, according to Backus. Its current focus has been to develop a strategic plan to improve the campus’s over-all disaster preparedness.

Bagby said that there are many things that students can do to make sure these plans work, especially with fi re safe-ty.

“In regards to what can stu-dents do and what they should be doing, one, try to keep the amount of clutter down to a minimum, not blocking door-ways, exit stairs, things along those lines,” he said. “We’ve got multiple policies out there [regarding] no use of candles, incense [or] cooking in the dorms.”

Bagby added that planning safety for a university campus is different than other situa-tions because people live on the campus at all times. According to Bagby, the University relies heavily on the campus smoke and fi re alarm systems and the Washington University Police Department (WUPD) foot pa-trols to make sure the campus is safe, especially at night.

“It really just comes down to all the individuals on campus being aware of things like this

and doing their duty of when they see that, call the campus police so they can get the fi re department there [and] get out of the building to their assem-bly point,” said Bagby.

One diffi culty faced by the University is that it is spread out between six different locations and falls into fi ve jurisdictions. According to Bagby, this results in differences in the code that must be considered.

“We try to keep it as consis-tent as possible. We just look at the different functional areas. [The North Campus] is all of-fi ces and administrative, so it’s a little bit different than when we look at the dorms. At the dorms, we have fi re drills once a semester instead of once a year like we would in an offi ce building,” said Bagby.

Each building has a desig-nated assembly area, which, ac-cording to Backus will soon be more obvious.

“[We are] looking at stan-dardized signage for buildings to help more clearly identify where those assembly points are,” said Backus.

According to Bagby, the Uni-versity has many resources at its disposal in order to deal with various types of emer-gencies on each campus. The Danforth Campus is served by WUPD and the facilities staff and Emergency Support Team are capable of responding.

The Medical Campus utilizes protective services, which is similar to WUPD. The Environ-mental Health and Safety De-partment provides assistance in cases that involve chemical spills and radiological or bio-logical emergencies.

In general, students said that they felt confi dent that the Uni-versity can respond to emergen-cies. However, freshman Nicole Gong expressed concern about not feeling as safe in some ar-eas of the campus.

“People [coming from the Medical School] make a point to go to the Skinker metro stop rather than Big Bend because Big Bend is not well lit,” said Gong. “I feel safer walking on campus.”

A committee on campus is responsible for examining ar-eas to make sure the campus is well lit and to reduce personal safety risks.

Backus said that emergency preparedness takes coopera-tion between several depart-ments on campus.

“There’s a whole team, actu-ally, that responds,” he said. “It ranges from Residential Life, human resources, public af-fairs, police, Protective Servic-es, Environmental Health and Safety, health services, infor-mation systems and transpor-tation. We actually have a team that’s designated to help come and respond.”

Washingtong University prepares for emergency situations

party—for example, the Demo-cratic National Committee or the Republican National Committee.

Student Life made use of data made available directly from the FEC and aggregated data from the New York Times Web site.

The FEC data showed 22 fac-ulty members making donations since the offi cial start of the elec-tion cycle earlier this year. There were also 22 donors recorded amongst the 55 members of the board of trustees.

University employees have contributed nearly $8,000 to Obama’s campaign.

While this amount seems insignifi cant, due to strict cam-paign fi nance laws that limit individual donations, fi nancial support for Obama is by far the

strongest amongst the candi-dates. The biggest fundraiser af-ter Obama is John McCain, who has received around $3,500.

“I believe Barack Obama has the character, intelligence, judgment and leadership skills to move this country in a posi-tive direction again after the foreign and domestic disasters of the current administration, and to make our country once again respected throughout the world,” said Claude Bernard, a professor of physics who is among the largest contributors to the Obama campaign.

Nationally, Obama has the second highest level of fund-raising, raising $79.4 million. He trails Clinton by almost $10 million.

In terms of campaign dona-tions, however, Board of Trustees members are signifi cantly less fond of Obama. According to the records, the Board has donated the least to Obama, $3,500, but has contributed almost $17,000 to Romney. Even so, trustees do-nate to Democrats and Republi-cans alike.

President and co-Vice Presi-dent of the Board of Trustees were both among the contribu-tors to the Mitt Romney cam-paign, however the declined to comment on their reasons for supporting the Massachusetts governor.

Nationally, Romney has raised the most of any Repub-lican candidate, weighing in at $61.6 million.

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According to Kim Bacon, public information offi cer for the St. Louis Fire Department (SLFD), a 911 call was received a few minutes after 9 a.m. report-ing the fi re.

The fi re was confi ned solely to the lab room. Firefi ghters with SLFD arrived on the scene and extinguished the fi re by 9:10 a.m., said Bacon.

“Visually inspecting it, the room was well scorched,” said Ursch. “In terms of the bigger picture…the damage was mini-mal.”

According to Joni Wester-house, executive director for medical communications, Mc-Donnell 361 is currently an

unoccupied laboratory. The building’s third fl oor has been undergoing renovations and, according to Ursch, the affected room will house a new pharama-cology lab.

The building, located at 4566 Scott Ave., and the surrounding area were evacuated for safety purposes.

Because the fl oor was under renovation, the lab room where the fi re occurred was essential-ly barren and the damage was mostly structural.

According to an e-mail sent out by Bruce Backus, assistant vice chancellor for environmen-tal health and safety, damages included a burnt cart, a dam-

aged pneumatic line and water damage to fl oors, walls and the ceiling.

The third fl oor of the build-ing currently has a heat-trig-gered sprinkler system. Ursch said that at the time of the in-cident, many ceiling tiles were not installed, and as a result, the opening in the ceiling prevent-ed a buildup of heat suffi cient enough to trigger the sprinkler heads.

“Had the ceiling tiles been in place it may very well have set the sprinklers off, but it also may have caused a much big-ger fi re, because the ceiling tiles would have also ignited and the fi re would have started to spread much quicker,” said Ursch.

Interface Construction Com-pany (ICC), a general contractor, has been working on the McDon-nell third fl oor renovation. ICC Project Manager Carl Turek said that the welder who was work-ing in the lab room and who

took initial safety measures to fi ght the fi re was a mechanical subcontractor installing piping in the room.

According to Turek, workers with the company receive exten-sive safety training, including regular meetings to cover im-portant safety topics. Addition-ally, at the start of each project, the company holds a safety ori-entation meeting with all work-ers to review safety measures and to distribute important phone numbers in the event of an emergency.

“Everybody involved with the project gets the same informa-tion and knows ground rules before they begin working,” said Turek.

Turek said that the company held a debriefi ng Tuesday to dis-cuss the incident, and he said that the safety measures that were in place worked properly.

“The fi re marshal had com-pliments for the way the con-

tractor and Wash. U. reacted to the event,” said Turek. “I can’t say there was a good thing about a fi re, but what happened yester-day proved that the system in place worked to a ‘T’.”

Ursch said that the situa-tion could have been worse, but thanks to the actions by the worker, the protective service offi cials’ response and the quick arrival and large presence of the fi re department, the fi re’s ef-fects were minimal, and the fi re probably looked worse than it actually was.

“When you put it all together, we were probably very lucky in that regard,” said Ursch. “All and all, despite the smoke and despite the consternation, it was still a relatively minor fi re.”

“A lot of factors have to be in place for [the fi re] to have ended up as good as it did,” said Turek. “Everyone involved…worked to-gether to get it contained and brought under control.”

naire.Though the tool is especially

useful for older individuals who are more at risk for diabetes, stroke and disease, Your Disease Risk also allows young adults to assess their risk factors for po-tential complications.

The site also offers advice for how to remain healthy, a calen-dar of events and health classes available to the community and long-term programs for quitting smoking and eating right.

“Leading a healthy lifestyle as a young adult and keeping up those habits through the years can have big health payoffs,” said Dart.

Dart added that regardless of a person’s age, regular exercise, protection from the sun and a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and grains are easy and effective ways to reduce the risk of devel-oping a disease. He also urged young people and adults to avoid smoking and to seek regular health screenings.

Dart mentioned that the team is currently working on another version of the site aimed specifi -cally at young adults. The cur-rent version of Your Disease Risk is also continuing to develop.

“We’re looking to provide more online tools to better help people take the next step and ac-tually make healthy changes to their lives,” he said.

The questionnaire is now available online at www.yourdis-easerisk.wustl.edu.

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students for the minor because of India’s recent increase in eco-nomic activity, which is compa-rable to the growing internation-al interest in China.

“Recently it has been seen that there are growing busi-ness and technology in India,” he said. “There are people eager to learn the language and go there not only for education and research, but also for business purposes. It is one of the major factors in the demand for the language.”

The students who study Hin-du come from a variety of aca-demic backgrounds.

“Some of them are in the business school, are engineers, in the social sciences, in history and international area studies. So there really is a growing in-terest in these courses we have. It’s a mixed set of students,” said Warsi.

Students taking Hindi will also learn Urdu. “In most uni-versities Hindi and Urdu are taught together. Basically, the grammar and the structure are

the same. As you go higher and higher toward Hindi, you are go-ing to become more profi cient in Urdu,” said Warsi.

Beata Grant, professor and general ad-ministrator in Arts & Scienc-es, stated that in past years students often had diffi culty fi nding oppor-tunities to study Hindi.

“Hindi was offered several times through University Col-lege, but it was sporadic,” said Grant. “It wasn’t every year and not connected to the University. Students had been asking for Hindi for years, and we’ve had mixed results with having peo-ple to teach. Finally, we’ve gotten Dr. Warsi since 2006 and we’re hoping to build up from there.”

Neehar Garg, a sophomore and prospective Hindi minor, said that his older sister, class of 2006, took Hindi, but had to cre-ate her own minor—Hindi lan-

guage and culture studies. Now, however, Garg is able to take courses in Hindi and graduate with a standardized minor.

“For me, it shows that they’ve been speaking about expansion of the program, and this seems like a clear demonstration of it,” he said. “[Hindi] is a language spoken by an enormous number of people, and U.S. trade with In-dia has been getting bigger and bigger. It’s a great idea for the University.”

While there are no immedi-ate plans to initiate a major in Hindi, Grant said the minor will serve as a starting point for the creation of a major.

“As soon as we have enough variety of courses, then certain-ly,” said Grant. “But for all of our languages in this department, there is that literature compo-nent. We don’t have that; we have history now, but we don’t really have someone who does culture and literature courses. I have great hopes for it.”

involved by having their repre-sentatives involved,” he said.

Givens said he anticipates the planning to run smoothly be-cause many of the steering com-mittee members have worked on the committee for previous debates.

“The great thing about this is that we have a great number of people here that have been through this numerous times. That doesn’t mean it’s not differ-ent, but we have been through this enough that we know what we have to do and if there are changes that we have to do, it is easier for us to adapt to chang-es,” he said.

The steering committee, ac-cording to Givens, can be consid-ered partially responsible for the Commission on Public Debates (CPD) choosing the University for an unprecedented fi ve consecu-tive times.

“We have a strong team which is certainly why the commission chose us again. They know our team,” said Givens.

In order to host these debates, the University paid a $1.35 mil-lion fee up front to the CPD, who then uses this money for the operating costs of the actual de-bate.

Based on past experiences, the University anticipates spend-ing an additional $500,000 on miscellaneous expenses such as

facilities upkeep and amenities. According to Givens, the Uni-

versity hopes to do the same as in past debates and partially raise these funds through dona-tions by local corporations.

“We always felt like it’s a worthwhile investment in bring-ing this to the University. We think it’s a tremendous oppor-tunity for our students to see an event of historic signifi cance right here on campus,” he said.

Although this is a vice presi-dential debate, Professor of Po-litical Science Randall Calvert said that because of the tremen-dous amount of power that Vice President Dick Cheney has had during his two terms, the debate will likely garner more public at-tention than usual.

“Cheney has played an un-precedented role in this ad-ministration so I would assume people are going to take an inter-est in the vice presidential role as a result of that,” said Calvert. “People have a whole new idea of what a vice presidential role will and can do. I think the questions that they will ask the vice presi-dent will refl ect that.”

All three debates that have taken place at the Universi-ty—and the vice presidential debate that will take place next year—have occurred in the Field House.

Senior Ian Pearson was on

campus for the 2004 presidential debates and said that it is an op-portunity that students should take advantage of.

“Don’t watch it on TV, [but] actually go and live it,” said Pear-son. “It was probably the most politically active I’ve seen people on campus.”

Underclassmen are also look-ing forward to the prospect of being part of such a highly pub-licized event.

“It will defi nitely raise my awareness about the presidential election and the issues that the candidates are handling,” said freshman Jerry Porter.

Despite the anticipation, only three hundred students will be able to attend the debates. Simi-lar to the previous debates, tick-ets will be distributed through a lottery system for which stu-dents register online.

Even though Washington University was not chosen for a presidential debate, Givens said the University is excited to host the vice presidential debate.

“The fact that it was a vice-presidential event and not a pres-idential debate did not dampen our excitement at all,” said Giv-ens. “At the end of the day it’s not just the debate that happens on campus; it’s all the excitement that leads up to it.”

—With additional reporting by Sam Guzik

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STAFF EDITORIAL

Consider some changes

SAM WASHBURN | EDITORIAL CARTOON

Focus pressure on holding

down college costs

Take this, haters. Th-th-that that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger.

I need you to hurry up now cause I can’t wait much longer.”

Man, that Kanye West can write a catchy song. We need to take these lyrics to heart, though, and redouble our ef-forts to convince the Wash. U. administration to make attending school here more affordable. There are several ways the administration has failed to make Wash. U. more fi nancially acces-sible to the vast majority of students, but as students we have protested some of the smaller price increases in the hope that we could have at least some infl uence over the cost of our education.

At the beginning of the school year, we protested a policy that forced stu-dents to purchase Internet access (an academic neces-sity) with cable (a luxury), a move by the administra-tion that sharply increased the cost of living on cam-pus for many stu-dents. Recently, students were sent an e-mail from Student Technology Services (STS) telling us that the Internet/cable bundling and price increases will go into effect next semester

(this notice can be found at http://sts.wustl.edu/fi les/student_tech_costs_ex-plained_07.pdf). Future costs are still in the process of being determined.

Currently, STS plans to have students pay a 240 dol-lar technology fee that cov-ers both cable and Internet and will eliminate the tech-nology fee beginning in the fall of 2008. This will likely be accompanied by a price increase in residential hous-ing rates, but there is no specifi c information yet on how eliminating the tech-nology fee will affect them. STS says that information will be announced some-time after winter break. We will have to evaluate the price increase when it is an-nounced, but we should con-tinue to apply pressure to the University, even though the original protest against the extra fees seems to have been mostly unsuccessful.

The decision to roll the technology fee into housing costs provides some help to students who pay their room and board with schol-arships, but it fails to help

other students who struggle fi nancially even after receiv-ing Wash. U. scholarships and those who depend on outside scholarships with fi xed awards in order to attend Wash. U. Rolling the technology fee into room and board is a good start, but it doesn’t completely solve the fi nancial problems that face many students.

Since it always seems like we’re surrounded by students who can easily afford their education, it’s easy to forget that there are lots of prospective students who couldn’t attend Wash. U. because they couldn’t afford it even with their fi nancial aid packages. I had a friend in high school who was extremely interested in attending either Wash. U. or Stanford. He was admit-

ted to both schools, but even after long phone conversa-tions with fi nancial aid offi cers at both schools, he could not fi nd a way to af-ford either of them. He was fortunate enough to be able to attend Kansas Uni-versity instead.

As an educa-tional institution,

we should be able to clearly see that we are dangerously close to making a Washing-ton University education out of reach for some prospec-tive students. This should not imply that there aren’t any Wash. U. students who make sacrifi ces in order to attend this institution, but it does mean that some quali-fi ed students will have to look elsewhere for fi nancial reasons. And while Wash. U. certainly offers fi nancial aid packages to many students, it hasn’t taken all the steps it could to ensure that it doesn’t outprice itself for students.

Reworking the policy of bundling Cable televi-sion and the Internet will obviously not solve the deeper problems associated with ensuring affordable education. But it is one step toward worsening those problems, and it, along with the other tuition, food and other fee increases, needs to be treated as such. It’s part of an institutional mindset that tacking on fees doesn’t matter that much. For this reason, despite essentially losing the bundling battle, we need to keep applying pressure to keep costs down as Wash. U. evaluates how technology should infl uence housing fees and as it imple-ments future fee increases.

If we continue to remind the administration how im-portant a seemingly small fee increase can be towards infl uencing the larger fi nancial picture of attend-ing Wash. U., we can make a difference.

Listen to us Wash. U., we “need ya right now. Don’t act like [we] neva told ya.”

Jill is a junior in Arts & Sciences and a Forum editor. She can be reached via e-mail at forum@studlife.com.

Jill Strominger

“We need to take these lyrics to heart, though, and redouble our efforts to con-

vince the Wash. U. ad-ministration to make attending school here more affordable. ”You know you want me

Sometimes it is hard, even for a good-looking stud such as myself, to meet a suitable woman. I’ll

go to parties and fi nd that my well-timed witticisms land on less than cultured ears. Or sometimes, girls with their heads buried in books at the library want nothing to do with me. I even tried eharmony.com, but they removed me from their server for supposed “lewd mis-conduct,” whatever that means.

So I’ve decided to abuse my position of Forum Editor (you hear that ladies? That’s right, editor. That means power. That’s sexy, right?) to place an extended personal ad that is sure to make it to the presses.

I’ll start with me. Currently, I am unemployed, which allows me enough free time to lavish the right woman with as much (or more) attention as she could possibly want. As to my future plans, I have none.

You could say that I am a dead beat with nothing to look forward to, but I like to think

positively: My life is wide open to possibilities and whatever may come my way.

I assume that at this point, most of you young women are dying for a physical descrip-

tion. On a good day, I am six feet tall, 185 pounds, rippling with muscles, sporting 17-inch biceps. On a bad day, I am 5’ 9’’, 166 pounds and skinny like Screech from Saved By the Bell (I have a lot of bad days). You know

what? All you need to do is look at my picture that accompanies this article. Even though it was taken almost four years ago before I even started college, it is dead on. So please try to keep it together ladies.

I enjoy long walks (mostly because I don’t have a car…so I’m saving the environment) to the comic book store, where we can have long discussions about who would win in an unprecedented Marvel/DC crossover: Superman or the Silver Surfer. (This is actually a trick question; they are both pretty much invincible, so it’s a

draw). As for hobbies, I would like to say that I am the best Super Smash Bros. player in my entire fraternity (that’s right, it’s a challenge to whoever dares confront me). Impressed yet?

I think it is important for two people to have similar backgrounds. Religiously, I am a militant, spiritual atheist. I am tolerant of all religions, though they are all a sin in my eyes, and secretly I will think less of you for your beliefs. Po-litically, I believe in the status quo because if it ain’t broke, don’t fi x it, right? Ethically, I’m a ‘do whatever feels good’ kind of guy. If you want to sit on the couch in bright red hot pants drinking bourbon and watch-ing whatever comes on the CW while scratching yourself, that’s great. That’s what I do too.

As far as what I am look-ing for in a potential partner, I don’t care too much about looks. Any old gal will do. How-ever, I have two stipulations: no bayonet wounds or napalm burns. There’s just too much bad history involved there. I do like a girl who is willing to color coordinate all her outfi ts

according to what I am wearing though. I think it’s cute to know that two people are a couple based solely on their matching purple and orange pantaloons.

But what I really need is a woman who is independent, or at least independent enough so that she will pay for most (if not all) dates. Strong women who pay for things are sexy (especially when your bank account has approximately negative thirty dollars). I want a woman who will defend me to the end, especially when I am wrong. If I am arguing with a police offi cer over what is and is not indecent exposure, I want my girl right there spraying said offi cer in the face with her concealed can of mace.

I don’t think that this is too much to ask for. If you are in-trigued and willing (and I know you are) you know where to fi nd me. I’ll be at the local peep show, begging the bartender to extend my tab just a little further.

Christian is a senior in Arts & Sciences and a Forum editor. He can be reached via e-mail at forum@studlife.com.

Christian Sherden

Last week, we celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday by mentioning what we were thankful for. Now

that classes are back in full swing, we believe that an ap-propriate continuation of last week’s staff editorial would be for members of the Student Life editorial board to mention what could be improved at Wash-ington University. Admittedly, some of our suggestions are fo-cused on very minor problems. Some of them, however, touch upon very serious issues that this campus needs to address.

David BrodyExecutive Editor

1. Tuition that rises every year at a rate signifi cantly higher than infl ation, with little justifi cation.

2. A lack of diversity, espe-cially socioeconomic diversity, amongst the University com-munity.

3. An apathetic student body

that won’t take action until someone holds a gun to their GPA.

Trisha Wolf Senior Sports Editor

1. The lack of school spirit. The fact that the Athletic De-partment could not fi nd enough students to fi ll a free bus going to volleyball nationals was re-ally telling.

2. The uneven distribution of tampons in women’s restrooms on campus. While all have pads, only some have tampons.

3. The fact that classes start seven minutes after their sched-uled time. They should end seven minutes early to teach promptness.

Jill StromingerForum Editor

1. The strict printing policy in the Arts & Sciences computer lab.

2. The parking situation on campus.

3. The administration’s lack of responsiveness to student and faculty concerns. At times, Brookings Hall really does seem like an ivory tower that locks the administration away from the school.

Sam GuzikSenior News Editor

1. Being politically active and aware on campus should not distinguish students, it should be the norm.

2. Lighting in the sophomore suites; the built-in lighting leaves most of the room dark.

3. Needing to fl y in order to get home. The midwest isn’t perfect.

Altin SilaSenior Staff Columnist

1. Lazy professors. 2. My enormous amount of

debt.3. Having to go to class on

the Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving break.

Shweta MurthiManaging Editor

1. The high crime rate, espe-cially near off-campus apart-ments.

2. The low level of school pride at Wash. U.

3. The lack of on-campus eateries that are open at night.

Brian StittSenior Cadenza Editor

1. Midnight bicycle rides on Forest Park Parkway without a posted route with uninformed volunteers who rudely give the wrong directions as to how I should drive around it.

2. Student’s general igno-rance of, and apathy toward, the few cool things that this city does offer.

3. No on-campus bar; happy hour is great, and I can’t wait for the Battle of the Bands but that is not enough over-21-on-cam-pus-intoxication for me.

Senior Sports Editor / Trisha Wolf / sports@studlife.comWEDNESDAY | NOVEMBER 28, 2007 STUDENT LIFE | SPORTS 5

SPORTSSPORTS

The seventh annual McWil-liams Classic ended with a blast as no. 9 Washington University (4-1) beat Carleton College for the title, while Head Coach Nancy Fahey celebrated over 500 career wins.

It was a rocky road to the championship as the Bears fought off the Kenyon College Ladies (2-3) in two overtimes on Saturday night and nearly went into overtime again as the Car-leton College Knights (1-1) tied the game at 46 with 7:06 left in the second half.

In both games, the Bears had double digit leads before their opponents fought back to tie the game in the second period.

“We need to develop a killer instinct,” said junior guard Jill Brandt. “We need to learn to put things away.”

WU 78 w KENYON 75

With only 21 seconds left and two points behind, Kenyon fouled Wash. U. four times to pre-vent the Bears from killing time. The Ladies were able to force the game into overtime with a layup that tied the game at 61 points.

The Bears put more points on the board in the fi rst overtime, and the Ladies answered back with an equal amount. With only a few seconds left in the fi rst overtime and the score tied at 65, junior guard Halsey Ward, who had moments before fell into the bleachers hard to save the ball, had an opportunity for a three. Her shot hit the rim as the buzzer sounded to end the overtime.

Junior forward Jaimie McFar-lin won the tip-off in the second overtime and buried a jumper. Coming out of a timeout with only a second left on the shot

clock, McFarlin fought off a de-fender and nailed the fi rst three pointer of her career. The Ladies responded to tie up the game.

A jumper from inside the paint by sophomore forward Zoë Unruh was the game winning shot.

“I don’t even think about it,” said Unruh. “I just have to take it.”

With the score at 76-75, Ward was fouled. She made both of her free throw shots for added insur-ance to put the score at 78-75.

“I missed the shot in the fi rst overtime so I had to make it,” said Ward.

Kenyon was not out of it yet and nearly made a three pointer that hit the rim. Unruh grabbed the rebound and held onto the ball for the win.

After the game, the team pre-sented Fahey with a bouquet of red fl owers wrapped in green paper.

“She’s going to go down in history,” said Brandt. “She has a great legacy at Wash. U.”

With 501 wins and only 86 losses, Fahey has the fourth highest winning percentage in NCAA women’s basketball his-tory in all divisions. Fahey is only the ninth coach in Division III history to achieve the 500th victory milestone.

“This really is just a statement to the many players that have played over the last 22 years,” said Fahey. “It’s more my thank you to them.”

WU 58 w CARLETON 51

It was a tooth and nail fi ght throughout with the fi rst half ending 23-19 in favor of the Red and Green after sophomore guard Laura Lane-Steele hit a three pointer with three seconds left.

For several minutes in the second stanza, the only Bear

points came from junior guard Shanna-Lei Dacanay, who drilled a three pointer, drew a foul and nailed the free throw. Minutes later, Dacanay added another three points.

“I was glad I fi nally contrib-uted offensively,” said Dacanay, still in the process of coming back from an ACL tear last sea-son. “It came when we needed it.”

But several Bears contributed points and intense defense in the team effort. “My teammates are all awesome, day in and day out,” said freshman forward Kelsey Robb.

McFarlin pitched in the game winning point with a free throw. A combination of three points from McFarlin, a lay-up by Un-ruh and two free throw shots at the end by Ward sealed the deal with Wash. U. prevailing 58-51.

Unruh and McFarlin were named to the Seventh Annual McWilliams Classic All-Tour-nament Team with McFarlin garnering Most Valuable Player accolades. “It is an honor,” said Unruh. “I couldn’t have done it without anyone else.”

Unruh and McFarlin were consistently penetrating the de-

fense and making points from the paint. “[They] made a big difference for us,” said center se-nior Sarah Tibesar. “I’m glad we came out on top.”

The Bears will now travel to Ohio to play Denison University on Dec. 1st followed by Capital University on Dec. 2. “There’s no rest for us,” said Fahey. “Game after game, they’re going to have to come out and play.”

“It’s going to bring out the best in us,” said McFarlin.

BY JOHANN QUA HIANSEN SPORTS REPORTER

Bears take thrillersv Fahey Wins 500th and 501st of career

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Junior Jaimie McFarlin battles for a jump ball call Saturday afternoon in the Bears’ fi rst round game against Kenyon College in the seventh annual McWilliams Classic. The Bears won the game in the second overtime and went on to defeat Carleton College on Sunday to win the tournament.

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Coach Nancy Fahey waves to the crowd as her team cheers her 500th career victory. For more on Coach Fahey, see tomorrow’s edition of @Press online at www.studlife.com.

For the fi rst time in Wash-ington University’s running club history, team members participated in regional and na-tional cross country competi-tions, with the club sending six runners to regionals and three runners to nationals.

The team’s membership has skyrocketed over the past few years. When junior Lee Cor-dova fi rst joined the club in his freshmen year, team runs “practically stopped in winter, so we’ve defi nitely come a long way.”

The club is relatively new and started only four years ago, but more and more mem-bers are joining because the team has a “great atmosphere for providing competition for people who might not want to do varsity sports.”

Contributing to this atmo-sphere is the combination of events that the runners partici-pate in, from the regional and national championships to lo-cal scavenger hunts and fun runs. According to Cordova, the team has an “interesting mix of people who are super-competi-tive and train to race and…peo-ple are doing it for fun and to

run with others.” Last year the team had a mismatched tights run, and everyone “wore their ugliest 1980s bright, fl uores-cent tights.”

Although the club always makes an effort to have fun runs, it also focuses on stepping up the level of competition.

“[It has a] good dynamic of fun team spirit with good work ethic, while still satisfying the people who want to be competi-tive,” said Cordova.

The team’s entrance in the regional and nationals competi-tions this year refl ects the new focus on the team’s increased competitiveness.

What was different about entering these regional and na-tional competitions was any one could compete. Performances at regionals did not determine whether or not a runner could participate in the national championship.

“Right now, anyone can go to nationals. That’s what’s so much fun about this club,” said Cordova.

Ball State University hosted the regional competition. Cor-dova described the atmosphere as competitive but very sup-portive.

“[There was] a sense of com-petition, but when we got there

the night before, we met up with another team. We knew everyone on their team, and we were cheering each other on throughout the day. Everyone was really supportive,” he said.

Although the team was dis-appointed with their regionals results, they faced stiff com-petition from Big 10 schools that could fi eld much deeper squads.

Only three runners could attend the National Intercol-legiate Running Club Associa-tion’s (NIRCA) national champi-onships at Indiana University. Though they needed fi ve run-ners to actually be able to score, it was still a fun experience. 31 clubs from 15 states competed in the championships, with Or-egon winning both the men’s and women’s races.

What also sets this club apart from other Wash. U. sports is its connection to the St. Louis com-munity. The team runs not only in intercollegiate races but also in local races in St. Louis. The St. Louis runs are particularly interesting because runners of all ages and from all areas com-pete.

“Running isn’t just a sport for high school or college stu-dents,” said Cordova. “It’s really a lifelong passion.”

Running club competes for the fi rst timeBY BRITTANY BERNACCHISPORTS REPORTER

Around the WU:THIS WEEK IN SPORTS

MEN’S BASKETBALLLopata Classic at the Fieldhouse

6 PM Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

Colleges vs. Babson College

8 PM Earlham College vs.

Washington University

FRIDAY

Championship Game

6 PM Consolation Game

8 PM

SATURDAY

Jaimie McFarlin, BasketballThe junior forward set a new

career high, scoring 28 points against Kenyon College in the Bears’ 78-75 overtime victory Saturday. In the same game, she had 18 rebounds, recording her second double-double of the season, four blocked shots and the fi rst three-pointer of her career. In the McWilliams Classic championship match against Carleton, she recorded ten points, seven rebounds and three blocked shots, again helping to lead her team to a 58-51 victory. Her strong per-formance was rewarded as she was named MVP of the tourna-ment and UAA Athlete of the Week.

Tyler Nading, BasketballThe junior swingman led

his team this weekend at the Washington U./Webster tour-nament. In a 66-60 loss to Au-gustana College, he recorded his fi rst double-double of the season with 20 points and 12 rebounds. He went on to set a career high, scoring 31 points as the Bears defeated the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Platteville 87-76 Sunday. He also tied a school record with seven steals in the same game and grabbed eight rebounds. For his efforts, he was named UAA Player of the Week.

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SLAM DUNK FOR BEARS

Senior Troy Ruths dunks the ball during the March 3 game vs. Whitworth. The team will have their fi rst home game of the season Nov. 30 at the annual Lopata Classic.

The Wash. U./Webster Tournament Results #5 Augustana College 66 w #1 Wash. U. 60#1 Wash. U. 87 w #53 University of Wisconsin-Platteville 76Wash. U. is now 8, Augustana 4, and Platteville 44.

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Senior Cadenza Editor / Brian Stitt / cadenza@studlife.com WEDNESDAY | NOVEMBER 28, 20076 STUDENT LIFE | CADENZA

CADEN CADEN entertainment

n. a technically brilliant, sometimes improvised solo passage toward the close of a concerto,

an exceptionally brilliant part of an artistic work

arts &ZAAZZ

BY BRADFORD YATESCADENZA REPORTER

Cadenza interviews Todd Haynes, director and co-writer of “I’m Not There,” a new fi lm on Bob Dylan.

Dylan was reported to have a relationship with a model, which was symbolized in the movie, and we had trouble fi guring that out, if that was Charlotte Gainsborough or who that was…

Well, Edie Sedgwick was a famous model of the underground ’60s scene in New York, and yes, there’s been a lot of mythology and speculation about their relationship. They knew each other, they spent time together, and the extent of that relationship will remain a mystery, but many of Dylan’s songs from the ’65-’66 years have been interpreted as having something to do with her, and I wanted that evoked in the fi lm.

How did you work with so many actors, each evoking different aspects of the same man?

With all the actors in the fi lm, I shared my own source

material, of research of what I used to conceive of and write the stories. And there’s so much great stuff I could share with them, starting with the music. I made mix CDs for each one tailored to their story or character, then I gave them all the still images and collage books, and then I gave them all the fi lms…. All actors make a great use of that concrete source material, but everyone does it in their own way. We never wanted to do outright impersonations of Dylan from the outside in, but I think these materials and the conversations we had encourage the actor to work from the inside out but still have a lot of concrete references to incorporate.

Why did you choose Christian Bale to represent two phases of Dylan, both the protest singer and the born-again Christian?

The reason I put the two characters together, two very different phases of his life, is because I found a lot of similarities in the kind of moral and ethical searching, and solution-fi nding that characterize both the civil-rights period and later his Christian era. In both of these times in his life, he felt he had the answer to social issues and also his personal perspective on the world, and this became incorporated into his music and also into the kind of followings that would manifest in each era. And yet, he would reject those answers, or any way those answers get consolidated into movements or political or religious convention… but I found that [combining the characters] was a way to convey some surprising similarities.

Why did Dylan withdraw from public life in the late

‘60s? He was less enigmatic, less ambivalent; he simply seemed to pull away.

I think that’s a good way of describing it. I think he reached a creative point of, um, danger, to the degree that he immersed himself in the fi rst half of the ‘60s era, that reached a critical mass in ’66 with the electric period. And it’s one of the most amazing parts of his life creatively, but he was also pushing himself physically and there was a great deal of famous, um, antagonism and hostility that surrounded him which kept going until it peaked with this [motorcycle] crash, which many people think saved his life. And I think this forced a new phase of life, not necessarily ‘refl ective’ but a more radical shift in his creative and personal life, and basically he just checked out of public life, and in my view of modern life, for many years there. He stayed in Woodstock, raised a family, he went to the basement with the band and went back to the roots of American music which have always been a source of nourishment for him as a creative person. And he literally looked like he was living in the past in those photos. And all the references were being taken from American folklore, and I felt that all this needed to be in the fi lm. And in many ways, Dylan continues to live in this semi-accessible way in public, it’s still on his own terms.

Those people familiar with Dylan’s actual biography may be confused or frustrated by artistic license you take in mixing fact with fi ction.

Obviously none of the fi lm follows the exact biographical events of

Dylan’s life in any objective or literal way. It takes the emotional through-line and makes that the narrative component of each of the stories, which is really what

all biopics do too. They blend fact with fi ction all [the] time. And in most cases in this fi lm, we do it in broad daylight. You know that Dylan wasn’t a little black kid named Woodie. But that serves to make a point about what Dylan was doing at that time. I paid as much attention to his songs and his creative imagination as I did to his actual biographical data, and the fi lm tries to use only things where the two marry.

What has Bob Dylan’s reaction to the fi lm been?

He has not been involved in the details. Back in 2000, I sent off my concept and some DVDs of fi lms I’ve done, and I had no expectation he would say yes, he never had before, but he did. He granted life and music rights, but from that point on Dylan is being Dylan. All we know now is that he has a copy of it in his suitcase on tour. We don’t know if he’s watched it.

Where are you then?‘I’m Not There’ explores Bob Dylan’s music through fi lm

Todd Haynes

BY BRADFORD YATESCADENZA REPORTER

Todd Haynes has got a lot riding on this one. After seven years of toil, it has come to this.

Has he done it? Has he succeeded in summing up the man and the myth that is Bob Dylan?

In any complete sense, no. The mystery remains. Not that that’s a bad thing. Any-one expecting the ‘full story’ is going to be waiting for a train that just isn’t com-ing. And as Robert Sullivan noted in his recent New York Times Magazine cover story, this film is as much about Todd Haynes ‘the filmmaker’ as it is about Bob Dylan.

In the case of “I’m Not There,” Dylan is the subject, Haynes is the artist.

Rather than taking the “Walk the Line” or “Ray” ap-proach of choosing one actor to represent ‘childhood,’ and then one star to carry on with the highs and lows of life as a unique musical genius, Haynes has chosen a fragmented, non-linear, I would say musical approach. This is a wise choice, con-sidering the enigmatic and shape-shifting nature of his subject. In order to approach whatever the ‘essence’ of Dylan might be, Haynes

has fractured one man into many; six to be precise. And he’s given himself some rules. Strict ones. For in-stance, the words ‘Bob’ and ‘Dylan’ are never uttered.

Each incarnation has a different moniker (the little black boy represent-ing Dylan’s childhood has the guts to call himself Woody Guthrie), and his true voice, guitar and harmonica remain relegated to the soundtrack. All this is in the service of evocation.

The film, like Dylan, oper-ates intuitively, its poetic logic allowing for repetition, jumps in time, unanswered questions and uncalled-for answers. Anything is al-lowed if it rings true. And don’t expect to ‘get it’ all right away. I still don’t.

Why does Haynes flash the six ‘Dylans’ still pho-tos back to back with six gunshots ringing out on the soundtrack, as if each were a bullet from a revolver? Why does Haynes create Riddle, Mo., a town with no apparent economy save for a zoo and a Halloween store, as the site of the ‘reclusive’ period? Did Dylan really do all the things these characters are doing?

Perhaps these are ques-tions I should direct towards my dad, who had the luck of

being a college student the first time around.

Outside Haynes’ grand vision of his brilliant and willfully contradictory subject, he is still depen-dent on the real world (i.e. actors, budgets, production schedules) in order to real-ize his dream. I would say he’s pulled off quite the feat, albeit not without hitches and flaws.

Cate Blanchett is ideal as the drug-fueled, cynical and paradoxical ‘Dylan’ of the swinging sixties, doing his/her best to keep the press guessing while avoiding the sorrows that threaten from the inside and out. This is the Dylan at the apogee of hype, and Blanchett per-forms like a true star, giving an undeniably ‘Dylanesque’ performance. Although this is a loaded statement, the person we think we know is only what has been recorded, kept and recycled from that era, something that Haynes foregrounds by employing vintage black and white film stock for these sequences.

Richard Gere plays the recluse, the ‘Dylan’ we don’t know. As such, I was frus-trated with his performance and yearned to get back to the more exciting highs and lows of the career as such.

But surely Haynes is making a point here: Maybe we don’t know, and wouldn’t even like, all that is Dylan.

In sum, “I’m Not There” is ambitious and engaging, not nearly as frustrating or am-biguous as you would think once someone tells you it has ‘no narrative arc’ or that one of the ‘Dylans’ is black boy and one (the best one) is a woman.

Its beauty and poetry qualify it as a true ‘art film,’ but I suspect anyone with a curious eye and an open ear could find much to take away from it.

And for you contemporary scenesters out there, look out for fantastic cameos from David Cross and Jim James.

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Relentless. Nights Like These’s second album, “Sun-light at Secondhand,” can best be described as relent-lessly rocking. Though their crunch guitars and scream-along vocals will turn off non-metal listeners, fans of the genre should check out this up-and-coming band.

The group delivers a fairly solid album. While rhythm driven, Nights Like These does not bring the qua-druple-time frenzy typical of many metalcore bands. They may count themselves as a newer breed of rock known as Sludge. The title, and all the heavy, viscous and consciously disgusting connotations which ac-company it, aptly describe this band. To get a sense of their sound, try to imagine a combination of Sabbath, The Acacia Strain and Mastodon. Though basically competent, the ensemble still has a ways to go before they can count themselves as members of this echelon.

Perhaps I’m just old-fash-ioned, but the band has a few too many death marches on “Sunlight.” This is not to say that there are not high-octane rockers, just that the low-tempo stuff at times becomes overwhelming. They pull off the simultaneous angry and brooding sonorous assault well, yet the glimpses of melody make me want more. Unlike much of death metal, this group places some melodic riffs but is still not quite heavy enough to sate that crowd of metal

listeners. As is, the tracks on “Sunlight at Secondhand” are too often comprised of guitar power chords, bass and drums all playing in unison.

While this plain style does give many of the songs a strong pulsing feel, it also leaves the listener want-ing more. The twin guitars of Derren Saucier and Matt Qualls seem, from the in-stances when they do play melodically, more capable than the playing displayed on some tracks on this album.

That being said, the band’s death marches are more fun on second listen. For metal, there is a sense of shape to several of the songs, which is good and helpful because I can never understand what the hell lead singer Billy Bottom is screaming. Metal listeners raised on an all-heavy-all-the-time mentality should see for themselves how musical direction can rock.

If you don’t like heavy metal, don’t buy “Sunlight at Secondhand.” If you’re a fan looking to branch out, give Nights Like These a spin, then give it another spin, and see if it grows on you. There are some holes in the melody, and the overall, well, Sludgi-ness of the sound sometimes slows the group down, but they are willing to try taking typical metal music to new places. The simultaneous gui-tar wail over a death march on “Claw Your Way Out” is of particular note. The band has matured a great deal since their debut, “The Faithless,” and I look forward to seeing where they go next.

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After arranging a meet-ing with Victoria through guitar-player and Wash. U. psychology graduate student Chad Rogers, I was excited to see what these guys were like in person, but primarily, I was somewhat speculative as to how I would pick them out of the hustle and bustle of Whispers. Luckily, Chad informed me that he’d be “the guy with the mustache,” and I should look for him around seven. What a guy.

Sure enough, the man with the ‘stache sits waiting for me at seven sharp. He begins telling me about how he became involved in music in St. Louis. As a graduate of the University of Florida but a San Diego native, he explained the difficulty of finding communities of peo-ple that rock out. “In college I was in, like, five bands,” he said, “and at one point, like, three at the same time.”

When Chad got to St. Louis, he was intrigued that a city so alive with rock ‘n’ roll sixty years ago could be so deficient now. He expected more of a burgeon-ing rock community, but

instead, Chad met drum-mer David Moore through a Craig’s List advertisement and defied the norm of type-casting local music in St. Louis as dull.

At this point, Chad sees David walk into Whispers. He does not, however, mo-tion for him to come sit with us in the booth, but instead decides he will watch David wander aimlessly. Eventu-ally, he summons David, who sits down and joins the conversation.

When asked “what’s good here” musically, a typical scene-ster (who may claim to know a lot about the St. Louis music scene) might say “nobody,” according to Chad. David’s eyes bugged out a bit as he burst out with “WHAT?!” Both musi-cians claimed that not fully understanding or involving yourself in the local mu-sic community is a shame; pretentious scene-sters are missing out.

At the party this Satur-day celebrating the release of their new album “Ghost-town,” three St. Louis groups will perform along with Victoria: The Hibernauts, Jumbling Towers and Berlin Whale. Chad spoke highly of

The Hibernauts as influen-tial to him personally, stat-ing that they have “really, really good jams.” Jumbling Towers reminds him of Da-vid Byrne with the Talking Heads, combining with Ber-lin Whale to create a “decent cross section of what [they] thought was good.” In the beginning, Chad viewed St. Louis as a “ghost town” in regards to music, leaving the legacy of Chuck Berry, Ike Turner and other notable St. Louis native rockers to rot. Their album with that same title seeks to enliven that rock influence.

When I asked them delicately whether they are musically pretentious and discriminatory, Chad de-tailed his primary devotion to punk rock and ska, citing They Might Be Giants as his all-time nerdy rock favorite. He eventually ventured into indie-rock, stating “I have so many guilty pleasures.”

David immediately responded with an abrupt “I am.” He told me Chad is more open-minded that he is. In accordance with Victoria’s values, David esteems originality in music. He wants to feel in music “something that is real.”

Naturally, I was tempted to ask what about Victoria he feels is original and valuable to the musically pompous.

“Victoria is filtered through our love for older rock ‘n’ roll,” said Chad. They experiment with influ-ences from the Beatles to an even more primitive rock sound. “We’re stepping into our originality,” continued David. “We try something different…if we get bored, then why are we doing it?”

Their sound certainly changes, but in their minds, that is the beauty of creating music.

The conversation is de-lightful. Although they are technically preaching to the choir (or the soloist in my case, maybe?), these guys just love music and want their listeners to live and love it too.

“The coolest thing about music,” began Chad, “is that when you’re massively stressed, you can forget about everything going on in your life and just totally rock out.” You can take your thoughts and “channel them through music. Forget what-ever hopes and fears you have and lose yourself in the music.”

“A commonality of all human beings is that we all have a connection with music,” continued David. “We can express ourselves in raw rock ‘n’ roll and hope that it strikes a chord in other people too.” They take full advantage of the lack of rules in rock with an open and liberated sound that reflects not what is formu-lated, but rock “is what it is” (in the words of David).

We finished the Whis-pers date by discussing our

emotional connections with music, and David expressed that he feels listeners should “let a song in [their] lives…it can be more meaningful than a best friend.” A con-nection with a song can be stronger than a verbal con-nection with another human being. “There are things songs relate to that no one can speak in person.”

So will you “let a song in your life?” Maybe start with some tracks from “Ghost-town.”

Educating yourself in the local music scene is always fun, especially when the bands are more than decent, the music is wildly accessi-ble, and it is actually possi-ble that your psychology TA is a member of said bands. You may know them as the kick-ass band that dominat-ed Battle of the Bands last year, or the energetic trio that opened for Ben Kweller at the Gargoyle last semes-ter, but then St. Louis group Victoria is definitely worth a listen (and actually includes a member that is a Wash. U. psychology graduate stu-dent). Victoria is a “band of twenty-somethings,” three guys claiming to be “some-thing simple, something true.”

Their new album “Ghost-town” undoubtedly reflects just that: Victoria goes

back to classic rock ‘n’ roll. Not Led Zeppelin, not Jimi Hendrix but the originals. The clear influence of rock is reflected in deep guitar riffs, drum accents and backbeats and, remarkably, blues rhythms.

In the opening track, “Always Be,” Victoria full-fledgedly introduces us to the album by asking us to “come on and take a ride” with them. The rhythm is repetitive yet catchy with the lyrics that accompany it: “You’ll be free/See some things you’ve never seen.” The track establishes a re-lationship with the listener, as Victoria advocates an active connection between the music and the listener. On the band’s MySpace page, they write, “When you hear us, we want you to feel as free as we are when we play.” “Always Be” establishes that emotional connection with the listener, as they sing

“You are my everything/in every way/it will always be.” They are speaking of the music’s relationship to them as the band, and to you, the music devotee.

The rock influence is undeniable in the second track, “Blue.” Right off the bat, the increased percus-sive involvement, and the Billy Preston/Chuck Berry/Elvis Presley vocal rhythm are apparent. “Holy Roller Derby” also reflects more of a rock feel, as the entire last section of the track is all intense and intricate guitar playing.

The last track, “Thunder,” is both the climax and dé-nouement of the album: The

drum begins unhurriedly in a melodic striptease, the guitar soon involves itself in the melody and then progressively becomes overpowering. Analogous to a thunderstorm, it winds down at the end of the track, concluding the album with a literal and figurative crash.

Though “Ghosttown” is a mere seven track collection, Victoria undoubtedly rebels against the conventional and goes back to the roots of rock, adding simple twists along the way.

Their site reads: “We have tremendous respect for our heroes of the past and present, and from them we gleam the courage to show

you what is in our hearts.” While the tracks can be overpowering in the way that the energy spills out repetitively in the melody, Victoria is well on their way to defying the mistaken view that St. Louis has no “scene” and helping us to break that

naïveté one scene-ster at a time.

The album will be re-leased officially on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 9 p.m. at The Blue-bird. Victoria will perform, along with The Hibernauts, Berlin Whale and Jumbling Towers.

Rating: ★★★✬✩For fans of: Old rock ‘n’ roll, embracing non-whiny inde-pendent rock artistsTracks to download: “Always Be,” “Blue”

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Disney’s new “Enchanted” captures all the delight of the classic Disney princess movies while deftly moving the genre into the 21st century with mod-ern-day princes, urban settings and wit.

When Giselle, an animated character from the land of Andalasia played by Amy Adams, ends up in the real world of downtown Manhattan through the schemes of an evil queen, a lawyer and his young daughter fi nd themselves forced to help this enigmatic stranger. Eventually, she is followed by Prince Edward, the evil queen’s sidekick, and the sorceress herself. The ensuing romp through New York City has some attempting to murder Giselle, some trying to save her and others simply trying to understand her. Meanwhile, she discovers ways of life and love much different from her own.

The fi rst 15 minutes are gold. The perfectly illustrated 2-D animations elicit a deep nostalgia for earlier Disney classics such as Snow White and Cinderella. The scenes

abound with all the best overly saccharine Disney kitsch, from cute-as-hell singing animals to love-seeking princesses, to ogre-hunting princes with horses named Destiny. Heav-ily reminiscent of Barbie in Wonderland, the introduction provides a hilarious, lightly mocking tribute to Disney’s best.

Amy Adams is undoubtedly the star of the show. Utterly confused, idealistic and simple-minded, she is truly a prin-cess lost in the real world. Yet somehow, her childish concepts of love and, at times, pure stupidity never feel contrived. Whether she is spontaneously bursting into song or trying to summon pigeons from a Manhattan apartment window, Adams displays an unfl inching charm that doesn’t get old.

James Marsden plays Prince Edward of Andalasia with similar charisma as he dashes through New York City in full-blown Andalasia regalia in search of his princess. His sonorous singing voice is particularly enjoyable. Sadly for Marsden, he is once again type-cast as second best man, as he was in “X-men,” “The Notebook”

and “Superman Returns.”Unfortunately, perhaps over-

shadowed by their fantastical counterparts, the “real world” characters are not nearly as interesting and sink into time-worn clichés; Patrick Dempsey, newcomer Rachel Covey and Idina Menzel take on the respective roles of the hand-some lawyer dad beset by the hackneyed marry-girlfriend-or-please-daughter dilemma, a daughter who still believes in fairy tales and the catty disgruntled girlfriend.

Keep in mind that this is a Disney movie—a family movie—which comes with all the baggage of fi tting into such a role. Yes, it is hindered by relatively simplistic charac-ters, self-solving problems and the necessary happy ending. In fact, the ending comes off as messy and rushed as the writers attempt to tie off each character’s plotline neatly and comfortably.

Nevertheless, “Enchanted” manages to capture its audi-ence through pure charm. It doesn’t matter that the plot follows a predictable and unbelievable path—that Giselle arbitrarily gathers a mob-sized

following as she sings and prances through Central Park. The real treat is simply watch-ing these caricatures deal with the real world in their own eccentric ways.

“Enchanted” tries to bridge the gap between classic anima-tions of a bygone era and the modern day. For such a novel take on the classical princess model, the fi lm is extremely nostalgic, with many references to beloved Disney classics, bol-stered by the sweeping music and syrupy sweet songs of Alan Menken, composer of “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin.”

For Disney lovers and the young at heart, “Enchanted” brings a warming dose of magic and humor.

In today’s world of cyni-cism, a movie has to work up credit to spend on sap in order to be taken seriously. Without building up this credit—which is usually done by crafting believable characters, plausible story lines or effective human interaction—no sensible movie-goer is given the slightest chance to aban-don their disbelief when it is requested of them. Only when the film has done the hard time and stashed up enough ‘oh-please’ points, can it rush headlong into a free-for-all frenzy of heart-string-tugging. Director Kristen Sheridan’s “August Rush,” however, starts out with the free-for-all and never backs down, leaving it no room to work up any points at all. What we’re left with is a near-fairy-tale that is at times exhilarating, but more often exhausting, and completely without credit to burn.

Young Evan, alias August Rush, is a musical prodigy whose parents have no idea he exists. He grows up in an orphanage, convinced that if he “follows the music,” he will be reunited with his family, and so travels to New York City, where a world of sound awaits him. Freddie Highmore (the epon-ymous Charlie from the chocolate factory) is con-vincingly bedazzled, awed and delighted as August and is endearing enough to carry the movie, but not to save it. He is appropriated by a band of musical mis-creants led by the “Wizard” (Robin Williams), who rec-ognize his genius and train him to play the guitar on street corners. Meanwhile, his parents (Keri Russell and John Rhys-Meyers, both fine but unremark-able) are leading their own lives, successes both, but still doleful, 11 years later, over the one that got away. Through twists of fate, they

are brought from opposite coasts to New York, where one can only guess what will happen next. I shan’t spoil it for you.

The two most musically talented individuals in this production both happen to be African-American and under the age of twelve. One wonders what happened 12to the rest of the music, since it’s so schmaltzy and overwrought. A film based so heavily on music, which references Mozart and Beethoven in the same breath as its protagonist, would benefit from a top-notch composer, but Mark Mancina seems content to follow Sheridan’s lead and grab for our heartstrings without actually earning them. Accordingly, many of August’s compositions seem rather pop-alternative-y, though for some unfathom-able reason, his magnum opus sounds a lot like a film score.

‘Enchanted’: a novel take on a classic Disney model

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Enchanted

Rating: ★★★★✩

Directed by: Kevin LimaStarring: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Susan Sarandon

Amy Adams stars in “Enchanted,” from Walt Disney Pictures.

‘August Rush’ is too sugary to swallow

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Rating: ★★✬✩✩

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