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MELANCHOLY PLAY All Student Theatre shows Melancholy Play in Brookings Quadrangle. (Cadenza, pg 3)

TRACK AND FIELD Track and Field went to the Greenville Select and swept the competition. (Sports, pg 8) THE LOOP TROLLEY WITH JOE EDWARDS

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Treasury selects Trending Topics speakers SU allocates $225,000 for speakers for 2019-2020 academic year

Janelle Monae$95,000

Leana Wen$25,000

Majora Carter$30,000

Stacey Abrams$30,000

Aly Raisman$45,000

• Singer, song-writer and actress

• Nominated for 2019 Best Music Video and Al-bum of the Year

• Starred in the 2016 film “Hid-den Figures”

• In 2018, during an interview for Rolling Stone, Monae came out as pansex-ual

Proposed by Pride Alliance

• Alumna of Washington University Medical School

• Current president of Planned Par-enthood

• Formerly the Baltimore Health Commis-sioner, helping stymie the city’s opioid overdose epi-demic

Proposed by MedX and Chinese Stu-dents Association

• Leading urban revitalization strategy consul-tant and real estate devel-oper

• Helped convert Hunts Point Riverside Park from an ille-gal dumping ground to first waterfront the South Bronx has had in over 60 years

Proposed by Stu-dent Environmental

Council

• First black, female guberna-torial nominee for a major party, losing the Georgia gover-nor’s mansion in 2016

• Voting-rights advocate

• Delivered the Democratic rebuttal to Pres-ident Trump’s 2019 State of the Union

Proposed by T.R.U.T.H. and Col-

lege Democrats

• Captain of the 2012 and 2016 U.S. women’s Olympic gym-nastics teams

• Celebrated as an advocate for sexual assault survivors

• Testified against former U.S. gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar in his 2018 sexual assault trial

Proposed by LIVE

PHOTO: Marcus Yam PHOTO: Kim Hairston PHOTO: Majora Carter Group

PHOTO: Alyssa Pointer PHOTO: Dennis Van Tine

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Title Mine commemorated its first anniversary with “Title Mine and Beyond,” a panel, followed by a rally outside the Danforth University Center Thursday.

The panel was represented by Title Mine President sophomore Candace Hayes, Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGA) President senior Sophie Elliott, Leaders in Interpersonal Violence Education (LIVE) Co-President senior Monica Sass, Co-Founders of LIVE Sport junior Olivia Emanuel and junior AJ Dunham, LIVE Greek President junior Jimmy Abraham and the Women’s Panhellenic Association (WPA) Community Outreach Chair junior Anna Konradi.

Title Mine’s first rally was held on April 26, 2018 in response to a series of op-eds published in Student Life regarding the University’s treatment of sexual assault cases and federal investigation into the University’s Title IX process. Since then, the group has organized to demand changes to the process.

“[When] it all came together, there was so much anger, so much passion and so much bite, and then a lot of that momentum fizzled out,” Hayes said. “But at the same time, we still know that there are so many students on our campus that care.”

At the panel, Title Mine provided a list showing the progress made towards their original demands. Demands that have been met already include hiring additional staff in the Title IX, RSVP and SHS offices and providing students with a 24-hour counseling service. Demands that have been rejected by the adminis-tration and will not be met include firing Title IX Coordinator Jessica Kennedy and offering University-provided lawyers for cases. Among the demands still in progress are con-structing a peer consultant program and redesigning the Title IX website.

“We’ve been very happy with working with the administration,” Hayes said. “95% of our demands have been met, and in terms of work-ing with them in the future, we just want to keep hammering out the last couple of our demands that haven’t been met and the works-in-progress.”

According to Hayes, the panel fea-tured groups other than Title Mine to address student activism on campus

‘Title Mine and Beyond’ honors one year of progressJAYLA BUTLERSENIOR NEWS EDITOR

Student Union (SU) Treasury selected next year’s guest speakers for the 2019-2020 Trending Topics series on Sunday.

With a budget of $225,000, SU nominated an all-female ballot: singer and songwriter Janelle Monae; for-mer Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams; Olympic gymnast and advocate for survivors of sexual abuse Aly Raisman; environmental justice advocate Majora Carter and president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America Leana Wen.

Although Treasury selected five speakers for their final ballot, none of the speakers selected are guaran-teed to appear on campus until their contracts are signed. The waitlist for speakers, in the case that others may not be able to appear, includes names such as actress Sandra Oh, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, author Neil Gaiman and president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee David Miliband.

SU representatives had to weigh the price of the speaker, the potential for student engagement, the insight and longevity of the conversation these speakers would bring to campus and the political environment of an elec-tion year to select a well-rounded roster of speakers.

“I’m pretty satisfied with how the final ballot looks,” Speaker of the Treasury junior Agneesh Dasgupta said. “Just in terms of the resources that we have, like a limited amount of money and this number of quali-fied speakers, I think Treasury really took their time and did their best to cover the best range of topics that we thought were trending and relevant to the student body on campus and rep-resenting our constituents’ interests.”

Janelle Monae, the most expensive of the proposed speakers, was sug-gested by Pride Alliance. Although Treasury members had a contentious debate over inviting Monae or two less expensive speakers Bharara and Miliband, Monae was eventually approved for the final ballot.

Treasury members selected Monae due to her name recognition and her ability to speak to intersec-tional identities as a black woman in the LGBTQIA* community. SU Activities Committee Chairs sopho-more Alexa Jochims said Monae has the ability to “reach a variety of mar-ginalized identities on campus.”

“I think this is a very tangible way to provide those students who don’t feel SU is representing them well a chance to feel represented on cam-pus,” Jochims said.

Stacey Abrams was proposed jointly by College Democrats and Teaching Racial Understanding Through Honesty (T.R.U.T.H.).

Abrams was the first black, female gubernatorial nominee for a major party, narrowly losing the Georgia governor’s mansion in 2016. She has since become a voting rights advocate and delivered the Democratic rebuttal to President Trump’s 2019 State of the Union.

College Democrats president sophomore Arik Wolk stressed that Abrams’ appearance would take place during an election year and said Abrams “would be able to talk about the importance of voting and the dem-ocratic process.”

T.R.U.T.H. member freshman Kirk Linam said with Abrams on campus, he could anticipate collabo-rations with campus entities, like the Gephardt Institute, centered around voter turnout.

Linam said that inviting Abrams to campus would be a valuable way for the student body to demonstrate its allyship with students of color and “have a conversation about social justice.”

“Recently there has been a lot of discourse about how we can best sup-port marginalized groups,” Linam said. “I think this is the best way to do it.”

Majora Carter, who was pro-posed by the Student Environmental Council (SEC), was described by SEC president senior Sydney Welter as a “world-renowned urban revitalization strategist.” Carter spearheaded the

push to convert Hunts Point Riverside Park from an illegal dumping ground to the South Bronx’s first waterfront in over 60 years.

SEC Chair senior Hannah Schanzer highlighted Carter’s “intersectional and interdisciplinary appeal.”

“She’s a woman of color in the environmental movement and urban planning movement, both of which have been white-male dominated for all of history,” Schanzer said.

Welter said Carter’s presence would stimulate discussions about environ-mental justice that “students have become more and more interested in having.”

“St. Louis faces a great degree of environmental injustice, and we need to get students on campus outside of our Wash. U. bubble and thinking about and engaging with our greater St. Louis community,” Welter said.

Welter said SEC is considering several green community events in conjunction with Carter’s speech, including volunteering at the urban farm EarthDance in Ferguson, or touring a rooftop farm in downtown St. Louis.

Aly Raisman was proposed by Leaders in Interpersonal Violence Education (L.I.V.E.). Raisman was the captain of the 2012 and 2016 women’s Olympic gymnastics teams, leading both to overall team gold medals. She

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Washington University part-nered with the mental healthcare organization Provident to provide a 24/7 mental health support line for students.

Students can call the line throughout the year to connect with a licensed professional from Provident to discuss mental health concerns. If students require further psychiatric assistance, Provident will then connect them to Habif Health and Wellness Center at the University.

The partnership began March 4. In March alone, Provident received 20 calls from University students.

According to Habif Health and Wellness Center Director of Mental Health Services Thomas Brounk, the partnership was a result of requests made by Title Mine to expand mental health care options for students. The partnership will replace what Brounk said was an inefficient after-hours mental health support line that previously existed through Habif.

“I’ve been very happy in terms of [seeing] what we would like to have happen, in terms of the phone

being answered quickly, that accu-rate information is being conveyed, that the right people and the right resources are being referred to,” Brounk said. “I think that’s been working very well.”

Peer Health Educator senior Lisa Gorham describes the service as a “warmline” rather than a hotline. Students can call for any reason related to mental health, even if it isn’t a crisis.

“I think it’ll fill in a missing gap, which I think is really important,” Gorham said. “I think sometimes

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MONDAY 15 Lessons in Leadership: ‘The Art and Science of Diagnostic Thinking’Eric P. Newman Education Center, Rm: Seminar A, 10:00 a.m.Jackson Nickerson, Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy at Olin Busi-ness School, will present new insights into how individuals and teams can solve the right problem the first time. Sponsored by The IT@WashU Leadership Committee and the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).

TUESDAY 16 ICHAD & SMART Africa Speaker Series: Red Cross International Humanitarian Law WorkshopBrown Hall Lounge, 12:00 p.m.This speaker series event features Kimberly Johnson, chair of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics specialization in the Brown School’s Master of Public Health program. She will speak on addressing pediatric cancer survival disparities in low and high income countries. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Using Community Based Participatory Research in Indian CountryTaylor Avenue Building, GMS Classrooms, 11:15 a.m.The Know Your Level of Community Engagement series presents this lunch and learn by Jenifer Van Schuyver, an MSW candidate and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Sponsored by Center for Community Health Partnership and Research at the Institute for Public Health.

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The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering (EECE) now offers a bach-elor’s degree in Environmental Engineering.

EECE previously only offered Environmental Engineering as a minor in addition to their current Chemical Engineering major programs and minors, which include Energy Engineering and Nanoscale Science & Engineering.

The first four-year cohort of students in the Environmental Engineering program will be the class of 2023, but current students can switch into the program.

“[For] a student who is fin-ishing up their first year right now, it is very easy for them to move into [the Environmental Engineering major],” the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering Daniel Giammar said. “And then [the] class of 2021, so stu-dents finishing up their second

years right now, it is also pos-sible for them to do that. There may be a couple of additional courses that they would need to take, so with a slight over-load in one or two semesters they could still do it.”

According to Chairman of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering Pratim Bismas, EECE had several motivations to introduce the program.

“There are several faculty working in [Environmental Engineering] and doing cut-ting-edge research, [there’s] significant student interest – we have a minor currently in Environmental Engineering – and third, programs that are ranked nationally ... rank Environmental and Chemical separately,” Biswas said.

“Another big motivation was the world actually needs environmental engineers. There are plenty of problems out there that environmen-tal engineers are going to be well-qualified to go and solve,” Giammar said.

Giammar said that EECE had been thinking about offer-ing a major in Environmental

Engineering for about a decade, but the department needed the resources for it to happen.

“If we’re going to offer two degrees in one department, we have to have the people to teach all of those classes, so our numbers of tenured and tenure-track faculty have increased a little bit, Giammar said. “We’ve made some very good hires. We now have three full-time lecturers or teaching faculty who were recruited here because they’re outstand-ing instructors. Two of them are chemical engineers, [and] one of them is an environ-mental engineer. So with that group of people here now, we can robustly offer two degrees, not doing it on a shoestring, but really doing it and know-ing that we have confidence to offer, year after a year, a strong curriculum in both Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering.”

In contrast to universities that group Environmental Engineering with Civil Engineering, Washington University’s Environmental Engineering program will have

similarities to its Chemical Engineering program.

“As we were designing [the Environmental Engineering major], we talked about it sometime as a tree with a trunk and branches,” Giammar said. “So the trunk is the com-mon curriculum between Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering. There’s a lot of overlap for the first two years of study, which is actually nice, so a student could keep options open for chemical or environmental in the department for about two years. And then, by needing to start taking certain courses in their third and fourth year, they would go off to do Environmental Engineering or Chemical Engineering.”

Bismas said the Environmental Engineering major will also include inter-disciplinary training for students.

“While we are in the School of Engineering, we would have connections to Arts & Sciences of course, but also Social Work and Law and even Business, so pretty interdisciplinary,” Bismas said. “There would

be some courses which would create teams of students in these areas … Sustainability Exchange is one example, Climate Change is another that we already offer, and these would become elements of the degree program”

Outside of the major pro-gram, students can engage in research and activities related to Environmental Engineering.

“We have a very robust research program in this department which is legiti-mately energy, environmental and chemical engineering. So students can get involved in environmental engineering research; they’re already doing that,” Giammar said. “There are different extracurriculars, or I would say professional societies, that we’re affili-ated with, like the Water Environment Federation. We have a student chapter. It hasn’t been particularly active, but I think with an Environmental Engineering program we’ll have more students getting involved in that.”

Students will also have off-campus experiences through global programs and

internship opportunities. “We have a very strong

international network through the McDonell Academy, a program called MAGEEP (McDonnell Academy Global Energy & Environment Partnership). There are 34 other universities,” Bismas said. “So we could give them an option of global, hands-on experience through one of our partners. Their faculty would take a group of students and expose them to some global challenge issue and maybe address it on the ground, so that’s another unique aspect… We would, of course, have ties to industries for internships in the summer, in addition to research internships with us.”

Sophomore Madison Larkin, an Environmental Engineering minor, said that the introduction of the Environmental Engineering major is a great addition to the School of Engineering.

“I think it is essential for the future of engineering to have such a major, and I’m excited to see the school opening out to bigger things,” Larkin said.

has recently been celebrated for her role as an advocate for sexual assault survivors, hav-ing testified against former U.S. gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar in his 2018 trial.

L.I.V.E. member junior Olivia Emanuel says Raisman can kickstart much needed conversations about sexual assault-prevention on campus.

“As a survivor of sexual abuse, a prominent figure in both the #MeToo movement and the case against Larry Nassar and a three-time gold medalist, she will bring a fresh perspective to the campus con-versation,” Emanuel said.

Raisman launched the “Flip the Switch” campaign in 2018, which focuses on training adults involved in athletics to recognize the signs of sexual abuse and intervene.

“Her position at the intersection of violence pre-vention work and athletics, combined with her success on the Olympic stage, has gar-nered attention from many student groups on campus,” Emanuel said.

Emanuel also read aloud a statement from the Sexual Assault and Rape Anonymous Hotline (S.A.R.A.H.).

“We think that hearing a firsthand survivor narrative will not only be empowering and impactful for survivors them-selves, but also vital to create a campus culture of empathy…

for survivors of sexual abuse,” the statement read.

Leana Wen was proposed jointly by MedX and the Chinese Students Association (CSA). Wen, an alumnus of Washington University Medical School, is the cur-rent president of Planned Parenthood. She was for-merly the Baltimore Health Commissioner, where she was lauded for helping sty-mie the city’s opioid overdose epidemic.

The presenters highlighted her compelling life story as a draw for the event. Wen came from humble roots and grew up with a severe stutter, yet enrolled in college at the age of 13 and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship at 18.

CSA member sophomore Annie Zhou said Wen would be able to bridge the gap between students with differing views on abortion, while also starting a conversation about Planned Parenthood’s role in immigrant communities.

“Abortion rights and Planned Parenthood affect everyone, no matter who you are,” Zhou said. “So we really think by having her on campus, no matter what your stance is on the issue, she’ll be able to bring the conversation back into the limelight.”

Although SU was eventually able to agree to a final ballot proposal, VP of administration

sophomore Nia Plump and Dasgupta intervened when the discussion got heated to set some discussion rules for the legislative session.

The guidelines included directives like “avoid[ing] ‘checkboxes’ in ballot discus-sion,” and acknowledging “nuance in speaker compari-son” to combat language from some representatives that some topics had already been “cov-ered” due to the racial and gender identities of the pro-posed speakers.

This intervention highlighted patterns in SU legislative ses-sions, like members objecting to votes in order to jump the line and speak before other members, and perceptions of tokenization when it comes to representation of different iden-tities on campus.

“In the future, just having, evaluating, those processes again, getting more stake-holders’ voices in the room and outside of the room to get more feedback on how the process can be improved is that something that I defi-nitely want to look at, look for the next year, for the next session,” Dasgupta said.

“We are not here for our-selves. We are not here for our egos. We are here to rep-resent our constituents. This is not about us; this is about Wash. U. as a whole,” Plump said.

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students can feel like, if they don’t have an absolute crisis, it doesn’t have a high enough priority to go talk to somebody. This is a way to encourage people who have anything going on to go talk to someone.”

Gorham says the helpline

also gives students more flexibility in seeking mental health help. For example, stu-dents can call if they want to speak to someone over break or at night.

“This will be a good option for people to have someone to talk to when they

otherwise wouldn’t be able to see someone at Habif,” Gorham said.

According to Supervisor of Life Crisis Services at Provident Jessie Vance, one advantage of the University partnering with Provident is that it’s a local organization.

Because Provident is in St. Louis, she says they can provide students with local services and resources, unlike a national helpline on cam-pus, which many colleges and universities have.

Though the helpline, which can be reached by

calling 314-935-6666, is intended for students, they will also accept calls from other people, such as parents or professors.

“It’s been a really posi-tive experience working with Wash. U.,” Vance said. “We’ve really enjoyed the

collaboration and work-ing with the Habif Health and Wellness Center staff, because they obviously care about the students and we care about the students, so it’s been really nice working with a like-minded group of people.”

McKelvey School of Engineering introduces Environmental Engineering majorKATHLEEN WHITESENIOR NEWS EDITOR

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as a whole and feature a vari-ety of voices.

“It was a great opportunity for us to have all these voices in the same space, and learn from each other, but also to give all of the groups a platform to reach out to the student body,” Hayes said.

Abraham spoke to the perceived lack of engage-ment with issues of gender-based violence within the Interfraternity Council and its potential for improvement.

“There’s a large major-ity of people that are pretty apathetic to these issues, who kind of nod their head and go ‘Yeah, that makes sense,’ but they won’t actually

devote themselves any further than that,” Abraham said. “Something that we’re really trying to work on is to allow general members to have the ability and the drive to actu-ally buy in to these topics and actually become engaged on every level and not just check the boxes.”

Sass discussed how stu-dents can get involved in issues surrounding gender-based violence.

“One opportunity for growth is reflecting the differ-ent experiences that folks are having on our campus,” Sass said. “I think many folks in leadership, myself included, have been very into this work

for a long time, so it’s very important to really think intentionally about how we’re engaging folks who aren’t nec-essarily coming from the same backgrounds.”

Sass further emphasized the importance of keeping students engaged even when there isn’t much attention sur-rounding conflict.

“Last spring there was incredible momentum regarding Title Mine, and it’s incredible that most of the demands have been met, but I think now, something I’ve seen is people are like ‘Okay, we’re dealing with this, why do we need to keep talking about it?’” Sass said. “I think

really keeping that conversa-tion relevant and reminding folks that yes, things are getting better, but that these issues are still extremely prevalent on our campus and we really need to be constantly evaluating how we can make campus a safer community for everyone.”

After the panel, Title Mine member sophomore Rachel Pleake opened the rally with a speech before members read anonymous survivor story submissions and allowed a moment of silence.

Described by Hayes as “a memorial of the year’s work,” Hayes said the atmosphere of the event was very different from the previous year’s.

“Last year was heavily moti-vated by anger, and it was very high-paced, very emotional,” Hayes said. “I think [this year] there was a much different energy, not better or worse, just drastically different. [In the past year], a lot of change has happened, in part because of Title Mine, in the work that we’ve been doing with the administration. It was more of a somber commemoration event looking back at the past year.”

Hayes also said that the focus of the event was shifted to survivorship this year.

“We wanted to take the time to recognize the strength and the courage of survivors

who each and every day decide ‘I’m going to get up and keep going’ in spite of the pain and the trauma,” Hayes said. “[Last year] we really high-lighted the violence and the pain, and while those are very valid feelings, we wanted this time to flip it around and high-light surviving in numbers, and just how we as a Wash. U. community, need to link arms … with the survivors in our community, ... rather than looking at them with sympa-thy and pity and viewing them as a victim, if they’re choos-ing to identify themselves as a survivor and choosing to stay calm and keep pushing through.”

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Do you ever feel melan-choly? It’s like sadness, but not exactly. It’s the feeling you get when you look out the win-dow in the afternoon or when you see raindrops on a flower in the springtime.

All Student Theatre’s (AST) production of “Melancholy Play,” which ran from Thursday, April 11 to Sunday, April 14, explored that feel-ing. In an exaggerated style that ranged from comedic to impactful, sometimes in such short succession that I got emotional whiplash, “Melancholy Play” show-cased the beauty and necessity of sadness.

The play follows Tilly (sophomore Emma Flannery), a bank teller whose sadness is so beautiful anyone who speaks to her falls in love. That love inspires them to share their pain with her. The concept of therapy is strangely inverted in the play

as Tilly’s therapist, Lorenzo the Unfeeling (freshman Emma Thorp), falls in love with her and tells her about his childhood abandonment at a candy shop in “an unspecified European country.” Frank (senior Nathan Wetter) and Frances (junior Sarah James), who meet Tilly while hem-ming her pants and cutting her hair, respectively, share monologues about their lives and sadness, speaking over each other as their confessions create a single story. They too share a love for her. Tilly’s circle of admirers is complete when Frances’ wife Joan (senior Jessy Martinez) falls in love with her while the three of them are having tea.

None of them truly love Tilly—they love how beautiful her melancholy is, and, to paraphrase Frank, how she looks as she cries over life’s impermanence. Thus, when she finally becomes happy, those who loved her become melancholy themselves. Eventually, their melancholy

becomes so concentrated that it turns them into almonds.

Now, if you think that sum-mary sounds a little ridiculous, you’d be right. So is nearly every line of Tilly’s dialogue and seeing Joan cry over a three-inch-long almond prop.

The over-the-top acting was probably the only way to hit the genuinely emotional beats behind the humor, but sometimes the humor and emotion didn’t connect. It’s hard to truly feel sorry for Lorenzo when you’re too busy laughing at the holes in his story (he is not from a country, simply from Europe) and his obviously fake accent. Some of Tilly’s monologues that would make other charac-ters fall for her were so out there that they just gave me secondhand embarrassment despite Flannery’s emotional delivery. That, combined with a personal dislike for instant love, made some of the char-acters’ relationships fall flat in my opinion.

“Melancholy Play” set

its sights high, and, for the most part, it reached its goals. Despite my issues with other parts of the play, each individual performance was genuinely successful and emo-tional. James’ performance truly embodied the listless melancholy Frances felt after seemingly losing Tilly, and her chemistry with Martinez perfectly showed Frances and Joan’s troubled but loving

marriage. Flannery allowed just enough of Tilly’s fear of her manic happiness to show for the audience to be scared with her—how was her hap-piness legitimate if it refused to leave even on truly sad occasions? Despite Lorenzo’s general ridiculousness, Thorp made sure that the character’s pain showed every time she was on stage.

AST’s decision to stage

the play outdoors on the Beaumont Stage, while encountering some issues with the weather—I attended the Thursday performance, which was pushed back over an hour as the audience hid in Cupples I from a thunder-storm—worked perfectly with the show’s general idea. There

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Washington University a cappella groups the Greenleafs and the Pikers perform at their annual concert in Graham Chapel Friday. The concert was full of laughs and outstanding performances.

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GRACE BRUTON | STUDENT LIFEActors perform a song in All Student Theatre’s production of “Melancholy Play” on the Beau-mont Stage in Brookings Quadrangle. “Melancholy Play” ran from Thursday to Sunday night.

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Have you ever had the burn-ing desire to see two bumbling con-men, a dysfunctional fam-ily and a water gun share the same stage? Well, if you were in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre over the weekend, you got to see just that on the stage in a hilarious, touching performance of “Florida.”

“Florida” is a comic play written by recent Wash. U. alumnus Lucas Marschke, workshopped this past fall as a part of the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival and staged this past weekend by the Performing Arts Department. The play tells the interwoven

story of three groups of people all travelling to Florida for the holidays: two actors-turned-failed-kidnappers and their unsuspecting victim, a mother and her three kids navigating a tense family dynamic and their father driving with his mistress.

This production was a lot of fun. The set design for the show was striking—the crew had constructed two car skeletons and half of an RV, as well as piles of fake snow, to create a truly impressive ambiance for the piece. The first group to appear onstage, two kidnappers named Oscar (sophomore Dennis Murray) and Reg (freshman Nathaniel Holmes), who accidentally

kidnapped Seth (sophomore Camden Sabathne), the room-mate of their target, serve as the primary comedy of the piece. Murray and Holmes were hilarious as a pair of incompetent actors-turned-thugs, alternatingly intense and ambivalent alongside the perpetually nervous Sabathne, whose Seth remained terrified and complacent no matter how many times his kidnap-pers messed up the plans mandated by their elusive “boss.”

Though it’s been catego-rized as a road trip comedy, the play is quite well-balanced, featuring some crucial dra-matic moments between jokes. The family dynamic elicited

some touching, tear-jerking drama, with mother Barbara (senior Ebby Offord) trying to hold her family together for one last trip before their father, who tells his family that he is out on a business trip for the holidays, confesses to having an affair. The three kids, Pete (junior Dwayne McGowan), Maddy (freshman Sarah Willis) and Bridget (senior Carly Rosenbaum), have an all-too-familiar dynamic, with Pete, the epitome of teenage angst, clashing with his egotis-tical sister, Bridget, while the youngest sister, Maddy, tries her hardest to keep everyone on speaking terms and her mother sane. Rosenbaum’s Bridget becomes increasingly

more nuanced and caring as her brother, Pete, inches closer to going off the rails despite the efforts of the sweet, under-standing Maddy. This sibling dynamic was impressively rendered by all three actors, with Offord’s conflicted and frustrated mother character serving as the emotional touchstone of the piece.

The third and final car contains the patriarch of the family, Rudolph (sophomore Marek Rodriguez), and his sweet, considerate girlfriend, Charlotte (senior Annie Butler). Butler’s Charlotte is strikingly loveable; she is patient, funny and helpful, even alongside the tempera-mental Rudolph. Just as the

family’s tension reaches its boiling point, Charlotte and Rudolph are shoved into the mix as they are discovered by Maddy, and Oscar takes matters into his own hands by deciding to give Pete a good scare in front of his enraged family. Finally, everyone’s secrets are out in the open, and Florida is still nowhere in sight.

I had a great time watching “Florida,” and I congratu-late the Performing Arts Department on their funny, emotional and nuanced performance of a family on the brink of a breakdown and the three bozos who make absolutely sure that they tip over the edge.

‘Florida’ pushes its characters’ buttons in a humorous yet meaningful wayKIVA RUNNELSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

On a Monday evening in March, I received an

email that I’m sure will be familiar to many students: “Reminder to Complete the Campus Climate Survey.” I hovered over the link, then decided to close my email. Two days later, I’d gathered the will to disclose some uncomfortable details of my life. I opened the email, clicked on the link, and began to fill out the survey. I was asked a seemingly-endless stream of questions. Yes, I’ve seen that. Yes, I’ve felt that. Yes,

I’ve experienced that. And then, shockingly, the survey crashed. Same.

I thought about that error code for a long while, debating over whether or not to retake the survey. Ultimately I decided not to.

That survey made me feel like a number, like a statistic. But not in an empowering way—I didn’t feel like my voice counted. I felt like my voice, my number, my part of those statistics, was going to be looked at without empathy. I could hear it, adminis-trators and students alike shocked at how surprisingly few people at Washington University were actually

harassed, assaulted and raped. I could see our statistics being used as the same old protection they’ve always been, almost like someone was saying to me, “See? It doesn’t really hap-pen here.” I know it because that’s the reality I lived in for my first couple of years at Wash. U., before survi-vors started to take control of the narrative en masse.

In a university that prides itself on knowing students by name and story, I have often felt proud of how much our faculty and staff care. I have benefitted so much from their care. But not all of my friends have. I have known people who

had to leave for semesters or leave the university altogether because they felt unheard.

So I’m left wondering, are administrators going to return us to the same situa-tion we were in before Title Mine? Before the op-eds cluttered their inboxes with notes from upset parents? Are they happy with the lull, hoping for a return to the silencing culture that allows rape to happen? Are they going to use our responses about alcohol to justify a focus on the tools assailants use rather than the assailants themselves?

I’m worried, Wash. U. I want someone to listen

to our stories and take us seriously, without trying to undermine, minimize or

erase us. And I don’t feel like we’re going to get the respect we deserve just yet.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

If you have ever met a Washington University student, you will find that they

have some strong opinions about the school they call home. From how good the food is and how quickly it gets boring to how there is always construction, yet no significant increase in the amount of usable student space, to how we seemingly have to toil in obscurity compared to peer institu-tions but go through a curriculum just as difficult. I have had many of these same opinions and much stronger ones about the University, but there is one thing that I believe more than anything else.

Wash. U. is the best school in the country.

Why on Earth would I say such a thing? Have I lost my mind with the constant grind that defines the Wash. U. experience as

much as a half and half ? Quite the opposite. Having spent the better part of eight years here, I can confi-dently say that Wash. U. is the best place for students to be in order to lead, before and after graduation.

But what about rankings? Isn’t Wash. U. barely in the top 20? Yes, but rankings only matter by what the rankers deem most impor-tant. For example, U.S. News and World Report lays out its methodology for ranking colleges every year and how it changes. Expert opinion accounts for 20% of the score, with peer assessment making up 15% and high school counselors making up another 5%. Now, since rankings are so important with high school students in determining where to apply, it would make sense for administrators at a univer-sity to weigh competitors lower than what they actually believe. It is also impossible for everyone

who was sent a survey to know enough about each university they were ques-tioned about to provide an accurate picture of how the university operates. High school counselors are an even less reliable source for this assessment, since they are not fully a part of the college world and may be swayed by what col-lege they went to and its relationship between others (a Duke fan may have rated University of North Carolina lower because of a basketball game they lost 20 years ago). Or, they may simply go off what col-lege they have heard most about. Standardized testing is also a significant portion of the score, but test scores are more indicative of a student’s level of income rather than genuine ability. Rankings change yearly and mean less and less as schools try and game the system to inch up a little so alumni can gloat to their friends.

While I don’t put any stock into rankings, I can still say Wash. U. is the best university in the country by how much influence and power the student popula-tion has compared to peer institutions. We haven’t been a national academic powerhouse for very long. Much of that advancement can be attributed to the growth, especially finan-cially, under Chancellor Mark Wrighton. Since the 1980s, Wash. U. has been a leader in fundraising, elevating it into the national spotlight. My feelings on him are well known, but no one can deny his ability to grow our campus into what it is today.

The short time Wash. U. has spent on this level means that procedures, traditions and other things are not fully set. Take a school that has been at this level longer than us, and it’ll have traditions on how things are done, who has the power on campus, who

gets into the school (looking at you, legacy admissions) and the power structure that determines if anything happens. We’re still figur-ing out who we are, which leaves a lot of room for stu-dents to express themselves in meaningful ways. The protests about socioeco-nomic diversity, divesting from fossil fuels and union-ization are taken seriously, even if they don’t always immediately succeed. There are not many barriers to a student starting a new club that will have an immediate impact on campus: Black Men’s Coalition was started this year by senior Jamar McDonald and has been a constant bright spot for the community it serves. Greek life, a notoriously exclusive system, has been made much better with the recent additions of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and Alpha Psi Lambda provid-ing desperately needed spaces for people of color. All of these things were

made possible by students taking advantage of the open spaces in campus life to make a change them-selves, instead of waiting for the administration to do it.

But this freedom won’t last for long. Eventually, traditions will be set, a definite power structure will be established and the reputation of Wash. U. will be strong enough that changing it will be much more difficult. Until that time comes, Wash. U. pro-vides top-level resources for its students to compete with any other elite university, while having enough space that those same students can have an active hand in determining what Wash. U. will be known for. So, look past that feeling of doubt when people have no clue of the caliber of school you go to, and be proud that you can leave your mark on the history of Wash. U. in a way no other university can offer.

Wash. U. is the best school in the countryMATTHEW WALLACESTAFF WRITER

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STAFF EDITORIAL

This month, Title Mine will mark its one-year anniversary

on campus. It is fitting that the anniversary falls within Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The organization started as a movement responding to multiple failures of the Title IX reporting and investigation processes. A year later, it has developed into a consistent force demanding change around campus.

We would love for this editorial to be a strictly laudatory piece about everyone who has been involved in Title Mine. Unfortunately, while progress has been made since the organization’s

founding, there are still measures that need to be taken to strengthen our Title IX processes. Now is a time for reflec-tion about both where progress has been made in the last 12 months and where improvement is still necessary.

The University has clearly taken the demands of Title Mine seriously. In response to Title Mine’s requests, the University created a committee to discuss ways to strengthen the Title IX process. A 2018 report commis-sioned to improve the Title IX response of the University laid out a timeline for what changes they expected to be made over the last year. It is

clear that the university has kept to that timeline. Recently, the University announced that it will be training a new Title IX investigator. This is a promising change, as it directly meets one of the requests made by Title Mine. We applaud the University for keeping its word on these demands.

However, other demands, including access to free additional therapy for survivors and on-cam-pus medical care (such as rape kits and emergency contraceptives), have not been satisfied. Continued reforms to Wash. U.’s Title IX policies need to be considered as well. Next week, Title Mine will meet with Dr. Lori White

to discuss Title IX policies at the University. We urge Dr. White to approach this discussion with a willing-ness to listen to student concerns. Furthermore, we urge Wash. U. admin-istration as a whole to outline further steps they intend to take to meet the demands of Title Mine.

A good next step for the University to consider would be releasing an updated commission on its diversity and inclusion report. The University last released a report in December of 2016. It is important that we see what progress has been made since then, espe-cially considering the rise of Title Mine since the release of the last report.

It is the responsibility of students to hold the uni-versity accountable. The push for progress is not over just because the Title Mine rally has taken place or because the University has made some progress. And students should still be striving to support survivors of sexual assault in every way we can.

At the Title Mine com-memoration panel and rally last Thursday, there was a turnout of about 40 people. This is a stark difference compared to the numbers last year. It is disheartening to see such a decline. Students cannot lose interest in an issue as important as preventing sexual assault. It is easy to check out when there

is not a rush of news or opinion pieces around Title Mine, but, when students choose to do so, they do it at the expense of their peers, co-workers and the Wash. U. com-munity. In a staff editorial in Student Life on the eve of the Title Mine rally last year, we stated, “no one goes to college knowing if they will need to report an assault; however, all students should go to a college that supports them in doing so.” We meant those words when we pub-lished them a year ago and we stand by them now. Students should continue to support Title Mine and its goals by going to events and staying engaged with the process.

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Wash. U.’s food is the most overhyped aspect of this campus. Some of the items are mediocre: the pizza crust is like burnt cardboard. Some of the food really is great but becomes repetitive when consumed almost every day for a semester. The first time I had Wash. U.’s stir-fry, I was hooked. But after two semesters of it, I needed something new.

There are rare dishes that strike the perfect bal-ance between quality and regularity; they’re served often enough to keep you satisfied, but not enough to bore you. The chicken tikka masala is one of those. Tikka Tuesday is a celebra-tion for underclassmen and for good reason. It’s the kind of excellent dish that makes you look forward to the next time you get it. The Philly steak sandwich at

Bear’s Den is in that same category. In short: It slaps.

People from Philadelphia will say this is blasphe-mous – and they’re not wrong. The idea of a Philly cheesesteak sandwich made outside the city of Philadelphia just doesn’t sit right with them. I admit, I was skeptical of the Bear’s Den Philly when I first got it. That skepticism faded away two bites in.

The Philly steak sand-wich is flavorful and fresh. It is carefully crafted to emulate a real Philly chees-esteak. It is made at the grill, but it is the epitome of comfort food. Greasy, cheesy and satisfying, there is no better sandwich made at Wash. U. Only the carv-ery sandwich at Holmes can even think to challenge it for the crown of King Sandwich, but the flavor potency of the Philly steak sandwich elevates it to an untouchable level.

If allowed, I would eat

the Philly steak sandwich twice a day, every day. I know I would get sick of it after a month. Too much of any good thing grates on you. But the Philly steak sandwich is a special at Bear’s Den. It is served occasionally. Seeing the sign that heralds the coming of the Philly steak sandwich lights up my day like the sound of an ice cream truck does for a child in the summer. No matter what kind of day – or week – I’m having, the Philly steak sandwich is a wel-comed pick-me-up. It is my panacea for the ailments of everyday life. Hard test? Get a Philly. Overworked? Go grab a Philly. Relationship problems? A Philly won’t fix it, but it will definitely help you feel better.

I urge you to treat your-self this month. Pick up the Philly steak sandwich. You may regret it in the long run, but it’s all golden going down.

The Bear’s Den Philly steak sandwich is the real deal

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Mr. Edward’s neighborhood: Riding the Loop Trolley with Joe EdwardsJADEN SATENSTEINSENIOR SCENE EDITOR

JADEN SATENSTEIN | STUDENT LIFETOP: Joe Edwards stands in front of the blue and cream Delmar Loop Trolley car as it travels east along its 2.2-mile-long line. BOTTOM: Edwards purchases two tickets for the Loop Trolley.

I was a bit surprised when Joe Edwards purchased our $2 Delmar Loop Trolley tickets from the Leland Avenue stop ticketing machine rather than simply walking onto the trolley car, which I assumed he would be able to do for free.

Edwards, owner of numerous Loop establish-ments including Blueberry Hill, the Peacock Diner and the Moonrise Hotel, spearheaded the $51 million dollar Loop Trolley project. He told me that he always makes sure to buy a ticket.

“I still try to be above board,” Edwards said.

We boarded the cream-and-blue-colored trolley car and sat on the wooden seating alongside one of the vehicle’s walls. As the trolley began to chug Eastward along the 2.2 mile line, I likened the feeling of its slightly bumpy, rocking motion to that of an amuse-ment park tram. Edwards remarked that this move-ment was one his favorite aspects of the Trolley.

“A combination of the motion and the beauty of these gorgeous cars – it relaxes me,” Edwards said. “Both aspects: the visual part and the motion part.”

It really was relaxing. The windows lining the car allowed the bright sunshine in and provided a clear view of Loop storefronts, includ-ing many of Edwards’ businesses. His next Loop project is the Magic Mini

Golf course, which will open in the fall.

“I love filling in places on the streetscape,” Edwards said. “Anything I can do to create a place where people can put their worries behind them and their troubles behind them for at least two hours. That’s a good thing.”

Edwards views the Loop Trolley as a perfect example of that kind of place, describing public transit as a way for different members of the St. Louis commu-nity to come together in an environmentally friendly, inclusive way.

“It really is back to the future,” Edwards said. “It makes sense. Communities like to have public transit. The reason public transit is so important is that everybody can afford it. You don’t have to be rich and have a fancy car if you live in an area near public transit, and that’s really important to have that inter-action with everybody.”

Walking and riding along the Loop with Joe Edwards is a fascinating reminder of just how well-known he is in the neighborhood. We were stopped countless times by passersby, both those whom he knew personally and strangers, saying hello and complimenting him on the trolley.

However, not everyone in the St. Louis community has such favorable thoughts of the project. Throughout the trolley’s construction, multiple Delmar Loop store and restaurant owners complained about the effect

of the process on their busi-nesses. Edwards disputed claims that the construc-tion process directly led to the closing of Loop establishments.

“I can guarantee there’s not one business that can prove they went out of business because of con-struction,” Edwards said. “It only lasted a year and a half for one thing. That’s only three to four weeks in front of one store.”

The Trolley has been involved in multiple accidents over the past few months, such as when a car struck the red and cream trolley car just this past Saturday, April 13.

Edwards has also faced criticism due to the Trolley’s ridership not meeting expec-tations; however, he stressed that once the Trolley, which currently runs four days a week and includes two cars, adds its third car in the coming months and begins a seven-days-a-week schedule, ticket sales will rise significantly.

“It’s not up and running the way it’s designed to do,” Edwards said. “Once that third car is there and it’s seven days a week, then start judging it. It’s still in the early stage. ... You open a new business and it doesn’t just start operating perfectly right away.”

Since the Trolley has only run in winter weather so far, Edwards projects that the rising temperatures and increased sunshine will draw more riders to it.

“Let it go through spring,

summer, fall and winter and then judge how you feel about it,” Edwards said. “Everybody who rides the trolleys love them, and I think it’s just gonna pick up immensely. … For every four people that have their doubts about it, there are

4,000 totally in favor.”Edwards hopes that one

day the Trolley will expand across the city and county, with lines going both into Clayton and through Forest Park. He sees the project as a way to make St. Louis greener and less congested

with vehicles while connect-ing its residents.

“The future is the key,” Edwards said. “Keep bridging – especially the eastern part of the Delmar Divide – and bringing people together of all backgrounds.”

The Washington University softball team bounced back after a tough weekend against Emory to take 3 of their 4 games against Carnegie Mellon University this week-end. After sweeping the double header on Friday, the Bears split with CMU on Saturday.

First on the docket was Wash. U.’s freshman pitcher Madison Denton (6-4) squar-ing off against Carnegie Mellon’s freshman pitcher Scotty McGee (5-4) on Friday morning.

The action would not take long to start as Wash. U.’s leadoff hitter, freshman utility player Katie Gould, managed to single down the left side to start her team off. Gould would advance to second on the groundout by junior out-fielder Amy Walsh. After a swift steal by Gould, a walk to senior infielder Taylor Arends put runners on the corners with only one away. With junior utility player Mikaela Arredondo up to bat, a bold double steal by Arends and Gould allowed Gould to score and give Wash. U. the early lead, 1-0.

Carnegie Mellon was quick to respond in their half of the inning. They managed to put themselves in the same posi-tion as Wash. U., with runners on the corners and one out. To add on to the coincidence, Carnegie’s Io Jette-Kouri stole second, and off the throwing error by sophomore catcher Julia Flores, Carnegie’s Emily Song would come in to tie the game at one a piece.

Carnegie Mellon would go on to score a run in the third off an error by Arends when trying to stop a double steal. Carnegie scored another run in the fifth off a groundout. Wash. U. would get their chances to come back, such as

when they had runners on sec-ond and third in the sixth with two down, but a key strikeout by the starter McGee kept the score at 1-3.

At the top of seventh and down two, Wash. U. needed to get something going as they prepared to take their swings. A leadoff walk drawn by sophomore pitcher/outfielder Kendall Schwartz put the tying run at the plate. A subsequent error by Song put runners on the corners with nobody out. Then, a bunt single by Gould scored utility player Nicole Hay—who pinch ran for Schwartz—and put Flores on third with still nobody out. After a pop out by Walsh and a second stolen base by Gould, a single to the right side by Arends brought in Flores and Gould to give Wash. U. a 4-3 lead. Wash. U. would add a handy insurance run off a sac-rifice fly by freshman infielder Kirsten Drabek, bringing their lead to two heading to the bot-tom of the seventh. Denton finished the game, earning her seventh win and sixth com-plete game of the season.

The second game on Friday pitted Wash. U.’s sopho-more pitcher/infielder Abby Graegin (1-5) go up against Carnegie Mellon’s freshman pitcher Gwen Delacruz (2-5).

Like in game one, each team scored a run in the first inning. For Wash. U., a two-out triple by Arends down the left field line set up Arredondo, who batted in Arends for the early score. For Carnegie Mellon, a single, error and wild pitch got Song on third base, where she was brought in by an RBI groundout by freshman middle infielder Megan Hu.

As in game one, Carnegie Mellon took on a two-run lead. After the Tartans scored two runs in the second, freshman pitcher Holly Stoner would come in to relieve Graegin with a runner on base. Stoner

escaped the inning with no more damage done.

Wash. U. erased the defi-cit in the third, letting the floodgates open for five runs. Following a single, Gould got on second off a throwing error by the second baseman Audra Scheinman. An RBI double by Walsh brought Gould in to cut the lead in half. The Red and Green took the lead off the next batter as Arends hit an RBI single to bring in Walsh and eventually her-self off an error by the right fielder Rae Lasko. A couple of batters later, Drabek and soph-omore utility player Natasha Ramakrishnan hit back to back triples to score another. Flores added one more run off an RBI groundout, as Wash. U. found themselves with a three run lead, 6-3.

Wash. U. padded the lead further off an RBI single to centerfield by Arredondo to bring the score to 7-3. This would end up being the final score, as the umpires decided to call it after just six innings.

Saturday opened with Denton (7-4) up against Delacruz (2-6).

After a scoreless open-ing inning from Wash. U., Carnegie Mellon loaded up the bases with no outs in the bottom of the first. Freshman catcher/third baseman Piper Johnson hit a three-run triple to clear the bases and push the score to 0-3. Denton pulled it together after that and got out of the innings with no further damage. Carnegie added two more runs in the fourth inning to go up five runs heading into the final frames.

The Bears tried to claw back starting in the fifth inning. They scored two off an error and an RBI groundout. Wash. U. then added another in the sixth via an RBI single by Arredondo to cut the lead to 2, 3-5. However, their effort was not enough to overcome the

five run hole they had found themselves in. Delacruz com-pleted the game, earning her third win of the season head-ing into the last game of the series.

Wash. U’s Stoner (2-0) faced off with CMU’s McGee (5-5) to close the series.

The hitting commenced early for the Bears as Walsh got Wash. U. started with a single up the middle. Walsh advanced to second after Gould reached on an error by shortstop Hu. A fly out to right would get Walsh to third, but keeping the double play opportunity an option for McGee. However, despite the defense’s position, Arredondo managed to line one up the middle past McGee to bring in Walsh, making the score 1-0.

After a 1-2-3 inning by Stoner, Wash. U. would add another run off of Walsh’s single to the left, increasing the lead to 2-0.

Carnegie cut the lead down to 2-1 in the bottom of the sec-ond, but Wash. U. would get a run right back off a sacrifice fly by senior infielder/catcher Josi Elder, reestablishing the two-run lead in the third inning. Wash. U. sprinkled in two runs in each of the sixth and seventh innings to end with a score of 7-1.

The name of the game was Stoner’s stone-cold outing, as she only allowed five hits, one run (unearned), and racked up a total of eight strikeouts. She received her third win and her first complete game of her young career.

Notable achievements include Walsh and Arends moving into a two way tie for second place for total triples in Wash. U. history (only behind alumni Hannah Mehrle), Elder now being ninth all-time in walks. Walsh now is fourth in the UAA conference in batting average (.418) and Gould is now second in the conference in stolen bases (17).

The Bears ended the sea-son over .500 with a 12-11 overall record and a 4-4 UAA conference. They will look to continue this roll in home match against Fontbonne University Tuesday, April 16th at 4:00 p.m., followed by a four-game set against New York University next weekend in Purchase, New York.

The No. 10 Washington University baseball team split its series with the New York University Violets this week-end, picking up two wins on Friday and two losses on Saturday to move to 22-5-1 on the season. While the Red and Green lost their winning streak at 13 games, the Bears are still in position to finish the spring strong and go deep in the playoffs.

The first game at Wash. U.’s Kelly Field was a big one for the Bears, as they drove in 12 runs to mercy New York 12-2 in just seven innings. Despite the Red and Green’s strong finish, the game started out with the Bears coming from behind, as New York drew first blood with two runs in the top of the first inning off Wash. U.’s starting pitcher, senior John Howard. Howard settled down after the first inning, holding the Violets scoreless the rest of the game and strik-ing out 10 batters.

The Bears soon pulled ahead thanks to a solo homer from junior John Brinkman in the bottom of the first and three runs in the bottom of the fourth—courtesy of a Thomas Gardner RBI groundout and an errant throw by the NYU shortstop. The Bears then added eight more unanswered runs, capped off by a walk-off grand slam by senior Evan Nagel in the seventh inning to seal the deal.

Friday’s second game proved to be much closer, as

NYU was determined to put in a better showing after going six straight innings without a run during the previous game. The second game began very similarly to the first, as NYU got out to an early lead with an RBI from shortstop Jack Elias. Both teams kept each other at bay for a good part of this game, as the next score did not come until the top of the fifth inning, when NYU’s Ryan Mclaughlin drove in an RBI single, putting the Violets up 2-0. The Bears responded in the bottom of the fifth: a dou-ble from Brinkman brought in three runs before freshman outfielder Brendan Hall scored him with an RBI single, put-ting the Bears ahead 4-2. NYU fired back with two more runs of their own in the top of the seventh, as Jack Walter and Colman Hendershot both fired off solo homers.

With the scores tied at four heading into the bottom of the seventh, the Wash. U. offense stepped up. After freshman Zac Styka was hit by a pitch, Gardner stepped up to the plate and fired off a laser down the left side, allowing Styka to make it home for the go-ahead run. The Bears retained their one-run lead heading into the top of the ninth, putting the game in the hands of their reli-able closer, Brinkman. Despite a crazy inning of wild pitches and stolen bases, Brinkman kept his nerve and struck out NYU’s Chris Cassandra to secure the 5-4 win for the Bears. Freshman Matt Lopes, who bridged the gap between starting pitcher sophomore

Ryan Loutos and Brinkman, held the Violets to just one hit over his inning and a third in relief, securing his second career victory. Lopes has not allowed a run over his last five appearances and has a 1.06 Earned Run Average.

After Friday night’s nine-run thriller, both teams took the field on Saturday for Alumni Day. Just like the pre-vious two games, NYU started out the third game on top. However, this time they were able to build a bigger cushion, as they shot out to a 4-0 lead in the first two innings. Then in the third, RBIs from Nagel and Hall got the Bears back in the game, as they cut the NYU lead to 4-3 before tying the scores in the fourth inning on sophomore Collin Kahal’s RBI single. In the fifth, NYU retook the lead with RBIs from Mclaughlin and Hendershot, making the game 6-4. The Red and Green tied the game again in the sixth, as fresh-man Jackson Gray scored on a wild pitch and freshmen Caleb Durbin drove a ball into right center field for an RBI single. Still, NYU was not giving in as easily as they had Friday. Elias singled, and a rare throwing error from Durbin put NYU up 2 runs. The scoring then came to an abrupt halt, as both teams held each other score-less for the remainder of the game and the Bears fell in their first loss since March 17, 8-6. Errors harmed the Bears again late in the afternoon game when the Violets scored two unearned runs in the eighth inning to steal a series split

with a 4-2 victory.Next weekend, the Bears

will host another University Athletic Association rival, Emory, with games on

Saturday and Sunday. Since the Eagles are the only team ahead of the Bears in the conference, the series will be an important one for the Red

and Green. The Bears will also acknowledge their graduating seniors, as next Sunday will be their last game of the regular season at Kelly Field.

DORIAN DEBOSE & MATTHEW FRIEDMAN | SENIOR SPORTS EDITORS | SPORTS@STUDLIFE.COM STUDENT LIFE 7MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2019

SPORTSBaseball splits series with NYU despite promising start

GRACE BRUTON | STUDENT LIFETOP: Sophomore Ryan Loutos pitches in the second game of the Bears’ four-game series against New York University. BOTTOM: Senior second baseman Evan Nagel scores a run against NYU.

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WU softball rebounds to take three of four against Carnegie MellonMIGUEL CAMPOSSTAFF REPORTER

GRACE BRUTON | STUDENT LIFETOP: Taylor Arends swings at an Emory University pitch on Apr. 6. BOTTOM: Katie Gould hits against Emory. The Bears won three games against Carnegie Mellon University this weekend.

The No. 2 Washington University women’s track and field team and No. 10 men’s team lived up to their national billing, each finishing first out of 12 schools at Saturday’s Greenville Select.

The women lapped the field with 228 points, nearly tripling the total of the second-best team. Six first-place finishes paced the Bears, including sophomore Julia Dannenbaum’s 3.80-meter pole vault, good for fourth-best in Division III.

Dannenbaum also owns the second-best mark in the nation.

Senior Jay Pittman had a strong day on two fronts. She ran the 100-meter hurdles in 14.89 seconds, the 21st-rank-ing time in DIII, still a hair slower than her previous 12th-best time. Pittman also led the four-by-100-meter relay team to victory in 48.79 seconds, another top-25 nationwide time.

Rounding out the Red and Green’s top finishers were a trio of upperclassmen: junior Payton Fors (3,000-meter steeplechase) and seniors Lisa

Gorham (5,000-meter race) and Molly Shepherd (1,500-meter race).

The Bear men got seven first-place finishes of their own, also winning by a wide margin with 190 points ahead of Monmouth College’s 116.5. Host Greenville fin-ished third with 86 points.

Junior Collis McKenzie delivered one of those first-place finishes with a personal-record 2.00-meter high jump. Like the women, the men also had one Bear contribute to two first-place events: sophomore Andrew Whitaker, who finished the

100-meter hurdles in 15.32 seconds and ran in the four-by-400-meter relay. That relay team was only slower than its previous DIII-leading time at 3:15.81.

The Bears also cleaned up in the 3,000-meter steeple-chase, 5,000-meter race and 1,500-meter race, courtesy of junior Marco Quaroni, senior Chas Warden and sophomore Tucker Cera, respectively. Sophomore John Harry Wagner added a 400-meter win for good measure, pro-ducing the eighth-best mark in the country (to add to his previous fourth-best).

Wash. U. will spend the latter portion of the week traveling to La Crosse, Wis. and Terre Haute, Ind. for

two final tune-ups prior to the University Athletic Association Outdoor Championships in Atlanta.

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The Washington University men’s and women’s tennis teams each took a split this weekend, defeating Case Western Reserve University Saturday, April 13 before falling to the University of Chicago on Sunday, April 14.

The No. 6 men’s team beat No. 12 Case 6-3 and fell to No. 2 Chicago in a tight match 5-4 to move to 13-5 on the season. While the Bears lost their six-game winning streak, the fact that they held their own against the Maroons

demonstrated that the Bears will be a team to be reckoned with at the University Athletic Association championships in two weeks. This result is also an improvement over last season, when the Bears lost to Chicago by a much wider margin, 7-2.

The No. 15 women’s team won against No. 33 Case, 6-3, before losing a blowout to Chicago, 8-1. The victory against Case was the team’s third win straight, an encour-aging sign as the Bears had lost eight of their last ten matches going back to the end of February. Sunday’s

loss brought the team to 8-10 on the season, leaving the Red and Green in seventh place in the UAA.

Strong singles play against Case helped the men’s team recover from two early doubles losses. Sophomore Ethan Hillis, Division III’s sixth-ranked singles player, fell behind quickly in the first singles match, losing the first set 6-4. Hillis came close to losing in the second set before prevailing, 7-5, and storming back in the third set, 6-1, to win an exciting match. At sec-ond singles, junior Bernardo Neves followed with a domi-nant straight sets victory, 6-4, 6-3, while sophomore Daniel Li won an exciting three-set match, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3), put-ting the Bears in position to secure the victory in the last three singles matches. Senior Konrad Kozlowski and soph-omore Koki Takabatake each won their singles matches, adding to Kozlowski and Neves’ doubles victory—their eighth straight this season—to seal the deal.

Two three-set victories in singles capped the women’s balanced victory against Case.

After doubles wins from pairs sophomores Laurel Wanger and Ashley Lessen and fresh-men Stephanie Ren and junior Sanjna Tripathy, Wash. U. dropped the first two singles matches, putting pressure on the second half of singles. Senior Brigitte Hodge won the third singles match, 6-7 (7-9), 6-3, 10-6, while Lessen won the fourth, 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 10-8. Wanger and junior Zoe Park completed the victory with wins of their own.

Park had the lone victory in the women’s team’s loss on Sunday, defeating Chicago’s Annika Pandey, 6-4, 6-4, at the sixth doubles slot. The women take on DII University of Missouri-St. Louis on Wednesday afternoon, as they look to finish strong in their last three matches before UAA championships at the end of April.

In the weekend’s most excit-ing match, the men’s loss to Chicago, Wash. U. kept things close till the very end. Though Neves and Kozlowski had their doubles winning streak snapped, losing to Chicago’s top doubles pair, 8-5, Hillis and doubles partner sophomore

Benjamin van der Sman won the third doubles match, 8-5, saving the Bears from a doubles sweep. Hillis, van der Sman, and Kozlowski each won their singles matches, leaving the match tied 4-4 as Neves took on Jeremy Yuan, the 16th-ranked player in DIII. Neves came back from a first set loss to force a third set, but

fell, 6-4, keeping the Bears from an upset victory over the Maroons.

After staying competitive against a tough opponent, the men’s team will look to build off of that momen-tum in their three matches this week, against Principia, UW-Whitewater and Northwest Missouri State.

Tennis teams defeat Case, fall to University of ChicagoMATTHEW FRIEDMANSENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

GRACE BRUTON | STUDENT LIFEAlly Persky hits a backhand against Principia College on Apr. 9. The No. 15 women’s tennis team beat Case Western Reserve University and lost to University of Chicago this weekend.

GRACE BRUTON | STUDENT LIFESophomore Ethan Hillis hits an approach shot against UW-Eau Claire on Apr. 5. The men’s team lost to University of Chicago this weekend after beating Case Western Reserve University.

Track and field sweeps Greenville Select with numerous first-place finishesROHAN GUPTASTAFF REPORTER

GRACE BRUTON | STUDENT LIFETim Goblirsch pole vaults at the WashU Invite on Mar. 30. The track and field teams both finished first at Greenville Select.