Sustainability: Program evolves

By CHARLES BOWLESStaff Writer

Translated from Spanish as “The House of Wellness,” Casa de Salud, founded and sponsored by Saint Louis Uni-versity, serves as a clinic, epi-sodic health care center and referral agency for patients in St. Louis. Located on the corner of Compton Avenue and Chouteau Avenue, Casa de Salud serves patients who that are otherwise unable to afford quality health services.

“If you have a cold, if you need a flu shot, if you have a toenail that needs to be pulled, if you have a sprained ankle–that’s episodic health-

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SLUCare proposed for Pevely siteUniversity’s latest acquisitions augment real estate holdings

By BRIAN BOYDNews Editor

Saint Louis University an-nounced plans to destroy the Pevely Dairy complex, locat-ed on Chouteau Avenue and Grand Boulevard, and build a new facily for SLUCare, the University’s physician prac-tice.

In his 2011 August mes-sage to the SLU community, University President Law-rence Biondi, S.J., announced the purchase of the Pevely Dairy complex.

At the time, the Univer-sity’s intentions for the St. Louis landmark remained unclear.

According to a University press release, the project is a continuation of SLU’s ef-fort to improve the area sur-rounding the SLU campuses, which includes construction of the $82 million Doisy Re-search Center and the addi-tion of an education union on the Health Sciences Campus. The University “expects to invest millions of dollars” into the property, which is located across from the DRC. A spe-cific amount was not given.

The Pevely complex had been a part of the St. Louis community since 1919. In 2008, the building closed its doors permanently due to downsizing, leaving hun-dreds out of work.

SLU purchased the three buildings that comprise the Pevely complex from Bruce Development and business partner Rick Yackey. The group originally intended to use the space for rental lofts.

Bruce Development also owns the University Heights loft apartments on Laclede Boulevard, located across from SLU’s campus.

According to the press release, SLU’s investment in the building is essential not only for the University, but also the St. Louis community. SLUCare generates more than $250 million in revenue annually and employs more than 550 physicians. The press release stated that SLU-Care has outgrown the cur-

By EMILY DIEHLStaff Writer

Fifteen years ago, profes-sor Michael Garanzini, S.J., said he was concerned that students were more apathet-ic toward intellectual issues than students of his college generation. In an effort to mo-tivate them to learn and dis-cuss intellectually, Garanzini created the Micah Program at Saint Louis University, a program in which students take classes, live and serve together.

Though Garanzini has since left SLU to become president of Loyola Universi-ty Chicago, the Jesuit mission has remained the foundation for the Micah Program, form-ing the four pillars of service, learning, faith and commu-nity, according to the Micah Program’s website.

“The program has changed a lot, but has never lost the core of Father Garanzini’s vi-sion,” Donald Stump, a profes-sor in the English department and the current director of the Micah Program, said.

When the program started, Micah students took classes in the four subject areas of philosophy, theology, psy-chology and English. Stump designed a writing class that

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served as an outlet for stu-dents to reflect on their ser-vice experiences.

Today there are 36 differ-ent majors represented in the Micah Program and more than 200 members. Students are required to take philoso-phy and theology classes dur-ing the fall semester of their freshman year with fellow “Micahs.”

In the spring semester of their freshman year, the

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rent Midtown facility, which serves nearly 500,000 patients every year, and that the pur-chase of the Pevely complex will benefit the health care provider.

Despite SLU boasting its highest population total in history, the building will not be used for student housing, as many members of the Uni-versity community had ideally suggested.

“I am not aware of any plans to expand student hous-ing at this time,” Kent Porter-field, vice president of student development, said.

Sophomore Tavon Wilson said that he thinks the Uni-versity needs more housing

options, but made the right move by not choosing the Pe-vely complex.

“I wish there was more housing selections, but I don’t think the Pevely building would be the best place for it,” Wilson said.

Sophomore physical ther-apy student Mark Ladd said he thinks that using the Pev-ely complex as housing would aid students who have the majority of their classes on the Health Sciences Campus.

“I think that the Pevely building would have been a great opportunity for student housing,” Ladd said. “This could have benefitted the stu-dents that have to shuttle or

carpool every day to get to the medical campus.”

Although the purchase of SLUCare may not directly benefit student residency, the new SLUCare facility may have beneficial effects on the community as a whole.

“A new doctor’s office is critical to meeting the needs of our physicians, our medi-cal students and residents, and, most importantly, our patients,” the University said. “SLUCare strives to provide the best patient-centered care in the region, and a first-class facility with enhanced re-sources will provide the space we need to match the quality of that care.”

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By MARK CAMPOSStaff Writer

Businessmen, attorneys, information technology spe-cialists, engineers and a pro-fessional chef are just some of the students at one of Saint Louis University’s newest and most innovative master de-gree programs. In its second year with a variety of different students, the Sustainability Degree Program in the Cen-ter for Sustainability is the only program of its kind in the Midwest.

Sustainability is not just about “going green.”

The program is intended to train leaders to understand issues surrounding society’s increasing use of decreas-ing resources. The program integrates knowledge on sus-tainable business practices, as well as effective social and policy processes, and inte-grates an innovative design and engineering approach to sustainability.

The program focuses on multiple aspects of sustain-ability. It may address issues regarding real estate and en-vironmental law, or creating more efficient business sup-ply chains in order to have more direct sales and distri-bution of products. The pro-gram also addresses public policy on various environmen-tal and management issues in local and state governments, including protecting water quality in lake and steams, increasing green building standards and lobbying in Jef-ferson City, Mo.

“At first I had a narrow focus on what this program could be, but now I recognize the more broad focus and far reaching possibilities of this

program,” David Webb, a current student and program manager for the center, said.

The Center for Sustain-ability was launched in 2010 as a master’s degree program with a unique collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences, the John Cook School of Business, Parks College of Engineering, Avia-tion and Technology and the College of Education and Pub-lic Service to create a cross-disciplinary degree.

Since its inception, the Center for Sustainability has received more than $7 mil-lion in direct grants. The cen-ter has also given more than $200,000 in grants to collabo-rating faculty, to pursue inno-vative research in earth and atmospheric sciences, dietet-ics and nutrition, and biology and chemistry.

“We are doing a lot of in-novative things and trying to push the envelope what peo-ple think of when they think about sustainability,” Tim Ke-ane, executive director of the program, said.

The program recently hired Tom Tangaro as the new director of partnerships and collaboration. Tangaro worked for Anheuser Busch InBev for 32 years, where he worked as the head of Global Hop and Enzyme Procure-ment, and developed and implemented strategies sup-porting company-wide best practices, supplier partner-ships and vertical integration programs.

“I have connections with a number of companies,” Tan-garo said. “I am excited about all of the possibilities we have in bringing the resources of

Mandatory sexual assault module seeks

to educate entire SLU community

By HANNAH WILEYStaff Writer

Two weeks ago Saint Louis University students, faculty and staff members were emailed a link to a sexual assault education module that goes hand in hand with the newly renovated sexual assault policy and federal guide-lines. The module, “Sex-ual Assault: Recognize It, Understand It, Report It,” was designed to make students aware of the new sexual assault policy and changes that were made, and to increase awareness concerning sexual assault on campus, according to Director of Diversity and

Affirmative Action Jenni-fer Scheessele.

All students are re-quired to complete the module by the time they register for the Spring 2011 semester. If the module goes uncomplet-ed, student enrollment and registration will be withheld.

The education module is divided into three parts: The definition of assault and consent, statistics and behavior regarding sexual assault and actions that should be taken in the event of a sexual assault.

Junior Niel Peterson said he thinks that the module does not com-mand the attention of the

students. “I think students didn’t

really get the point and were just trying to get through it.

When they make it re-quired and give you a [stu-dent account] hold, it just makes people want to get it through it,” Peterson said.

In light of the statistics surrounding sexual as-sault, Scheessele said that the goal of the module is to advocate options for those involved in a sexual assault case and create a safer environment for SLU students.

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The Pevely complex, located on Chouteau Avenue and Grand Boulevard, will serve as a new facility for SLUCare, which currently serves 500,000 patients annually.

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care, and so when patients come to us, we fix them up,” Bob Fox, chairman of Casa de Salud, said. “And then we connect them with long- term continuity of care programs, like a medical home.”

Fox, with his wife Maxine Clark, spearheaded the cre-ation of Casa de Salud after the failure of two previous clinics due to unsustainable funding.

When these clinics did not succeed, Fox said he felt that another clinic would be a necessity to the immigrant community and financially distressed citizens in St. Louis. Instead of just funding the clinic, however, Fox said

he felt that he should take a leadership role in its develop-ment.

“Prior to this, I had not been in a leadership role,” Fox said. “So, being the founder and the chair of the board of this organization has changed my life. It has given me hope that when you roll your sleeves up and go to work, you can ac-complish miracles.”

According to Fox, the clin-ic connects patients to local programs and services in an effort to make them feel more accepted in the city.

Fox said that the clinic also benefited the community by providing a healthy workforce to businesses, which in turn

keeps those employees from both spreading sicknesses and from missing work hours.

“We identify early signs of chronic disease and get people into care, so that they don’t end up severely ill in our emergency rooms and occu-pying our hospital beds,” Fox said.

According to Casa de Salud Executive Director Jorge Riopedre, patients in need will receive services at the clinic, even if they are unable to pay for their visit.

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Saint Louis University President Lawrence Biondi, S.J., has a lot of people work-ing for him, but only one stu-dent has the privilege of walk-ing his golden retriever, Iggy.

“I like to think of myself as the executive dog walker,” se-nior Luke Gatta said.

Gatta was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he said that he loved growing up seeing the New York City skyline.

When he first came to SLU, Gatta said he thought of it as just a school but that his time here has given him a reason to reflect on life and its opportunities.

He said he has tried out dif-ferent student organizations and made a lot of new friends. Now, in his senior year, Gatta said he realizes that SLU is a place he can look forward to attending everyday.

“SLU breeds game chang-ers,” Gatta said. “If I had to invest all my money, I would put it on the students here be-cause I know they are going to do something great in life.”

Gatta is double major-ing in nutrition and dietetics and philosophy. He is also a pre-med student and said he enjoys opportunities to work with medical patients.

“I loved doing clinicals dur-ing this last year,” Gatta said. “It is awesome helping people maintain a healthy diet.”

Gatta said he loves medi-cine because it gives him the chance to build trust with pa-tients in just a few moments.

In addition to his own stud-ies, Gatta is also a teacher’s assistant in the chemistry department and works as a student assistant in the Foun-dation of Medicine class. He is also a teacher for the fresh-man University 101 course.

In his free time, Gatta said he enjoys photography, a hob-by he attributes to the envi-ronment in which he grew up.

“I grew up in a very cre-ative environment,” Gatta said. “My mom worked for National Geographic and my dad was an artist.”

Gatta is the founder of the University program, Photog-raphy for Inner City Students. PICS was started in February of 2010 with the help of grants

from places like the United Way.

The program teaches stu-dents about the value of pho-tography and cameras.

“I love to see the kids smile,” Gatta said. “You put a camera in their hand and it’s amazing how quick a smile comes.”

Gatta is a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, and the chairman of the Great Issues Committee, a student-run organization that brings speakers to SLU to talk about important issues.

Not only is Gatta a very ac-tive person in the SLU com-munity, but he said he is also a very social individual.

“I’m made better from the friends around me,” Gatta said. “I love sitting and talking to them. Having a good con-versation and hearing their story is the best feeling.”

As for his role as executive dog walker, Gatta said that walking Iggy is the highlight of his day. Gatta said that he learns a lot about leadership directly from Iggy’s owner, Fr. Biondi. Gatta met Biondi

after he made a speech at the Academic Commencement Ceremony last summer.

Throughout his four years at SLU, Gatta said that there will be things he will never forget. The Cardinals winning the 2011 World Series, for example, and attending the 9 p.m masses every Sunday will be a fond memories of his.

Perhaps his favorite mem-ories, however, are those with philosophy professor John Kavanaugh, S.J. someone Gatta said he looks up to.

“He is the smartest, most humble person I know,” Gatta said.

After Gatta graduates, he said he hopes to get into the SLU School of Medicine.

“I want to roll up my sleeves and take on social in-justice,” Gatta said. “I could see myself working in urban health care, like the one I grew up in,” Gatta said.

Whatever Gatta wants to do with his life, his experi-ences working with the com-munity and walking Iggy will hopefully guide him to be the game changer he wants to be.

“I think part of the problem is that people do not know what to do or where to go, and we are trying to educate on the variety of resources that are available to the sexu-al assault victims,” Scheessele said.

According to Vice Presi-dent of Student Development Kent Porterfield, who ed-ited the module, the admin-istration does not rely on the module as the only means for sexual assault education, but it is an effective tool for dis-seminating information to the campus.

“There are a small amount of options because people are so busy. The module allows them to be educated on their own time,” Porterfield said.

Scheessele said that the module will be launched for all incoming students and that faculty and staff will have a module geared toward re-porting and taking action on a sexual assault case, if a stu-dent comes to them for help

after an incident.“The module represents

what we expect from our Uni-versity,” Scheessele said. “We care about everyone’s well be-ing.”

The module also address-es alcohol awareness in an attempt to explain how to be an effective bystander in the case of an intoxicated sexual assault.

The long-term educational efects are focused on pre-venting sexual assaults and lowering statistics, not only nationally, but also in the SLU community.

“This is the first step of many in a long process. We’re looking at how to build a cam-pus that responds to and pre-vents sexual assault on cam-pus,” Scheessele said.

Porterfield said he agrees that the education module should only be the first step of many.

Third-year SLU law stu-dent Simon Taft said that the module is a step towards raising awareness and that it shifts the community mental-ity toward sexual assault.

“It’s good that we’re mov-ing from a ‘no means no’ per-spective to a ‘yes means yes’ one,” Taft said. “It shifts from a victim-blaming mentality to holding the community as a whole to a higher standard.”

According to Porterfield, the response rate has been satisfactory, and SLU stu-dents have impressed staff members by responding quickly and positively. He said that he is encouraged by the student reactions.

“I really appreciate the cooperation by the students right now,” Porterfield said. “It’s very important. It may not be something that they want to do, but I think they recognize its importance.”

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News 3Volcanic dance erupts in Simon Rec

Some students argue that a glitter-spewing volcano would be a great addition to Simon Recreation Center as a perma-nent fixture.

It was a hit on Saturday, Nov. 7 during the fourth an-nual Homocoming Dance, hosted by the Rainbow Alli-ance held at Simon Rec. As a feature of the “Volcanic Blow-out” theme, the student-built volcano had smoke coming out of it throughout the night, as well as a few glitter erup-tions.

“The volcanic theme stemmed out of a luau theme,” Rainbow Alliance President Teresa Wink said. “Last year’s theme had a Northern Lights element, and this year the club wanted the theme to be able to incorporate their namesake, the rainbow.”

Sophomore Stephen Rus-sell, a member of Rainbow’s Homocoming Planning Com-mittee, handled the planning for the volcano and accompa-nying glitter canon. He said the committee wanted to see something different than last year’s theme.

“We wanted the theme to be the sexy opposite of arc-tic lights,” Russell said. “A volcano that erupted glitter seemed like a funny idea.”

In addition to the volcano, the event featured a large rainbow balloon arch, allow-ing people to walk through it and onto the dance floor.

“Simon Rec is wonderful to work with. The director of fa-cilities was helpful every step of the way, and they donated leftover decorations from a past event,” Wink said.

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dances have historically been about couples and social groups, Wink said.

“The event is important because it gives everyone a chance to have that all- Ameri-can experience of a high school dance,” Wink said. “For the Rainbow Alliance, it is a diverse event and a good way for us to express our-selves on campus. First and foremost, it brings together people from different commu-nities.”

The event brought togeth-er not only people from dif-ferent communities, but also people from different campus-es. Rainbow Alliance reached out to gay-straight alliances from Fontbonne University, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Maryville University, Washington University and Mizzou, and invited members of their respective communi-ties to attend the dance.

“People from all those schools are here tonight to build bonds,” Russell said at the dance. “We are trying to

build community among the intercollegiate GSAs.”

Preparation for Homocom-ing began midway through September, and the com-mittee consisted of about 15 people. As word spread about the event, the schools invited expressed interest in getting involved, Wink said.

The event was open to the SLU student body with a sug-gested donation of $5, and to members of other universities and the St. Louis community, with a suggested donation of $10.

All the proceeds benefitted Growing American Youth, an organization that serves as a center of support for queer youth in St. Louis.

“We love this event be-cause we get to build com-munity,” Growing American Youth Volunteer Advisor Scott Emanuel said. “We get SLU students to come to our meet-ings and events and now we can bring high schoolers to this event and show them the social side of college.”

Emmanuel explained that his organization provides programs that support their infrastructure of support for queer youth in St. Louis, and that Homocoming feeds to the same kind of thing.

“We want young people to feel good about the way that they are,” Emanuel said.

More than 300 people at-tended Homocoming, includ-ing SLU alumnus Matthew Gonnarman, who returned to campus to attend the dance.

“This is definitely bigger than it has been in the past,” Gonnarman said. “I like the energy supporting the people and the community.”

Amid the glitter in the air, music and dancing, Rainbow Alliance said the Homocom-ing dance sought to foster an atmosphere of support and fun, complete their mission with a wheelchair-led conga line, photo booth and luau themed party favors.

“This may look like just a dance, but we see it as sup-port,” Emmanuel said.

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The second annual Newman Convocation to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the Second Vatican Council was held in St. Francis Xavier Church on Wednesday, Nov 9. The ceremony, which was presided over by Archbishop Robert Carlson, featured a speech given by Randall Rosenberg of Fontbonne University addressing the pastoral vision and accomplishments of Pope John XXII. It was followed by responses and prayer.

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the center to these companies and forming new partner-ships to take sustainability to the next level.”

Tangaro’s first initiative is known as the Reality-Based, Efficient, Action Learning Partners program. The REAL Partners program accepts applications from companies who are looking for exper-tise from graduate students to solve “real world” sustain-ability challenges that the or-ganizations are facing in the marketplace.

Some of the REAL Partner collaborations have included projects with Antea Group, BioMerieux, Great River Gre-enways and the City of St. Louis.

A recent collaboration with the City of St. Louis is the STAR Community Index soft-ware platform. St. Louis was chosen as one of 10 cities na-tionally to participate in this program, due to the support from the Center of Sustain-ability. This software platform is a tool that local govern-ments across the globe will use to help create the sustain-able cities of the future.

“Tools like the STAR Com-munity Index help quantify the urgency and support ac-tions to replenish, not deplete, our ecosystem resources,” Keane said.

This data will be used to help the city plan and focus its resources on the sustain-ability issues it will be facing in the future. Students in the program are tagging sustain-ability resources in the city of St. Louis like MetroLink, the city’s power grid and the metropolitan sewer district, to establish a baseline for sus-tainability data in the city.

Currently, the program has 31 students from various professional fields. All of the students have an average of 12 years of professional ex-perience in their respected fields.

Sustainability student Da-vid Webb received his bach-elor’s degree in business administration and Spanish from SLU. He spent 12 years as an information technology consultant and one year pur-suing a professional acting career in Los Angeles.

Webb returned to St. Louis and said that his time in LA confirmed his interest on is-sues about sustainability in the environment and that he is “living a personal passion,”

“I want to have an oppor-tunity to formalize my educa-tion,” Webb said. “After some research, it was a no-brainer to join this program.”

Webb said he joined the program in 2010, hoping to combine his passion and learn through multiple oppor-tunities in the St. Louis com-munity.

During the past 15 months, Webb took his professional experience and his passion and combined it into one ma-jor project. Webb compiled research and data to create a

report known as the Sustain-ability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System report for the University.

The STARS report is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. The STARS report is a prod-uct of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainabil-ity in Higher Education. This report has replaced the pre-viously used Green Report Card and has become the de facto sustainability rating agency for higher education.

Webb compiled data from different departments, creat-ing a rating about different aspects of SLU’s sustainabil-ity. Webb developed a pro-gram to track all of the data he received from multiple de-partments and sorted it into the different elements in the STARS report.

Webb said that SLU re-ceiving a bronze rating from AASHE was a “major accom-plishment.” There are 132 schools that have completed the STARS report. In Octo-ber, Webb went to Pittsburgh to present his research and findings at AASHE’s annual conference.

Students in the sustainabil-ity program start with founda-tional core courses that cover general sustainability topics across the degree’s integrat-ed disciplines: business, en-gineering, technology, public policy, social work and envi-ronmental sciences.

During their second and final year of the program, stu-dents have the option to build a sustainability generalist, a custom curriculum that sup-ports a broad sustainability practitioner career path, or a sustainability career track, a specific discipline-oriented focus. 

The second year con-cludes with a field experience designed to immerse the candidate into a practitioner role inside an organization or group that connects to their respective discipline or area of interest.

“You get what you put into the program,” Webb said. “I have put a lot into the pro-gram and have had a great experience.”

Students said that educa-tional benefits of the program include free books for select courses, exclusive invitations to regional sustainability events, including tickets and travel, and leadership oppor-tunities with external part-ners and internships.

Beth-Ann Mason Yakubu, associate director of the Cen-ter for Sustainability said that the program is focused on meeting the needs of today’s society, while also enabling future generations to thrive.

“The common thread that holds our students together is sustainability,” Yakubu said. “Our program provides a way for students to connect with their passions, gain working experience in this field and create networks that will last a lifetime.”

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Casa: Driven by volunteers

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Casa de Salud is a free clinic which serves the St. Louis area.

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services,” Riopedre said. Riopedre said that the clin-

ic is “monumentally impor-tant,” due to the number im-migrants in the country who do not have health insurance. He said that, when sick, eco-nomically underprivileged im-migrants are often faced with the choice of taking a severe financial hit to receive treat-ment or receiving no treat-ment at all.

“If that person remains sick, when that disease runs its course and gets to its end stages, they must go to the hospital. They must go to an emergency room,” Riopedre said. “And we, who are in-sured, pick up the tab for that. So, anyway you shake it, it’s a bad situation.”

Although Riopedre said the clinic was “branded for the Hispanic community,” anyone in need of health care is welcome to receive treat-ment at the clinic.

“Anyone who doesn’t have insurance, which is then a barrier to accessing care, has a place in Casa to come and get high-quality low-cost care,” Ripoedre said. “We are open regardless of ethnicity, race, creed, color, anything.”

According to Riopedre, in order to better serve the patients attending Casa de Salud, the building will be ex-panded by 4,000 square feet by the beginning of Decem-ber. The expansion will divide

the clinic between patient care services and administrative services, making the building more privacy compliant.

Besides the staff, everyone that works at Casa de Salud is a volunteer.

Volunteers include 30 physicians and 100 students, many of whom are SLU stu-dents. The SLU School of Medicine offers students an opportunity to volunteer at the clinic as an elective course.

Riopedre said that al-though Casa de Salud is ca-pable of allowing more vol-unteer students, applying is selective.

“We see it, frankly, as a privilege to be able to work here,” Riopedre said.

In order to volunteer at Casa de Salud, an applicant must fill out an application, submit to a background check and take a Spanish language

proficiency test. So far in 2011, the 100 stu-

dent volunteers at Casa de Salud have contributed nearly 3,000 hours to the center. The 30 medical volunteers have provided 40 hours a week of service between them.

“Without that participa-tion, we would not be able to stay open. We are absolutely dependent on the generos-ity of our volunteers. The Saint Louis University volun-teer [program], in particular, has been crucial to Casa de Salud,” Riopedre said.

SLI President Father Law-rence Biondi, S.J., acknowl-edged the impact of Casa de Salud in his September 2011 message to the campus.

“It is gratifying to see the increasing difference Casa is making in our community and to see support for its mission continuing to grow,” Biondi said in the message.

students are required to take a course that incorporates the vision of the Micah Program.

Ian Paetow, a sophomore Micah student, said that the program’s class style has giv-en him a positive experience.

“I remember during my freshman year we would all at-tend class together, in which we would have honest, heart-felt conversations about what we were each doing at our service sites,” Paetow said. “It was service learning in its purest form.”

Students participate in 30 hours of service throughout the semester and have week-ly reflection groups where discussion is lead by fellow members not only about their service experiences, but also students’ lives in general. The Micah program involves its students with organizations

close to campus that are en-gaged in long-term efforts to change the cycle of poverty.

In addition to working with service sites, the Micah Pro-gram has also adopted the Historic Shaw neighborhood just south of the Health Sci-ences Campus, where 25 per-cent of the community mem-bers live in poverty.

Students became very in-volved with the neighborhood and went so far as publishing an online book, “Students and the City: Essays from Saint Louis University’s Micah Pro-gram on the Revitalization of the Historic Shaw Neighbor-hood”, featured on the Micah Program website.

The book seeks to educate others on the cycle of poverty that is present in the Shaw.

“The Micah Program’s af-filiation with the Shaw com-munity not only benefits the members of the neighbor-

hood, but also the students working with the community as well.

“We wanted to help stu-dents learn so that when they go on to be doctors, teachers, social workers, what have you, they will have an under-standing of how the neighbor-hoods of poverty work and be able to incorporate that knowledge into their occupa-tion,” Stump said.

Scott Hessel, a junior Mi-cah student, said the program is a hodgepodge of people united under love for human-ity.

“People who are not Mi-cahs should know that they are always welcome to be a part of it,” Hessell said. “It is more than just a learning community. It is one that re-ally strives for the community feel and, in order to be a good community, you can’t exclude people.”

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The epitome of American pride, the U.S. Constitution, was based on a series of com-promises. And with the purchase of the Pe-vely building, members of the Saint Louis University community are hoping for the same kind of compromise from the admin-istrators in the utilization of the building.

On one hand, the University will use the Pevely building for SLUCare, while there is a housing crisis that will continue to be a problem if not taken care of. On the other hand, replacing a building that is an indus-trial landmark of the city creates nostalgic resistance.

At this point, it is important for the ad-ministration to be clear about their inten-tions in using the Pevely complex. Stu-dents should remain a priority in any new facilities added to campus. There is a need for campus housing to accommodate the growing size of the student body at SLU.

FrontDoor, LLC leases about 70 apart-ments on the health sciences campus, which is not nearly enough to house the students who want to live within walking distance from their classes.

Creating housing in the Pevely building will benefit both graduate students in the

School of Medicine, as well as undergradu-ate students who prefer to be housed clos-er to their classes on the health sciences campus.

While this separate housing may iso-late the School of Medicine students from the rest of the campus, it will shorten their commute and make their demanding course of study more accessible.

Furthermore, creating lofts in the Peve-ly building can be incorporated into the his-toric infrastructure of the building, without having to change it or demolish the struc-ture completely.

This will serve as a thoughtful courte-ous gesture toward the city of St. Louis, its history and valuable landmarks, from a university that claims to be an integral place in the city.

If there is need for SLUCare office space, there is still the possibility of incor-porating office space on the bottom level, and lofts on the top of the building, while at the same time preserving the historic in-frastructure. Should the University decide to adopt such a compromise, it will certain-ly go down among the greatest since the Great Compromise.

Few experts, beside Thomas Friedman, can be found arguing that the world is flat. Somehow, however, a revival of an old de-bate has taken off among self-proclaimed experts about whether Shakespeare actually wrote any of his plays.

Aside from the entertainment that this sudden skepticism provides for people who have nothing better to do, it also leads to a lot of discomfort and insecurity, especially where trust in the ex-perts is concerned.

While the idea it-self might seem ab-surd, even more out-rageous is that it gets around. People buy it. But why?

There is no reason to reinvent the wheel, even if this wheel happens to have tor-tured us through mid-dle school and high school literature. If you ask almost any literary expert, you are not likely to find anyone second-guessing the authenticity of Shakespeare.

Unfortunately, experts do not control the conversation on this issue. It makes us think: Are people really lazy enough to support such a claim simply to see a bunch of under-dogs triumph in proving the experts wrong?

Seriously, people. Educate yourselves. Few reliable media outlets have attempted

to bring factual information into the debate. This can become dangerous, considering that people do not always exercise intellectu-al responsibility, as can be seen by the quick diffusion of rumors and the mere existence of social stereotypes.

Believing that they are thinking outside the box by challeng-ing traditional values and beliefs, people enter the illusion of making sound intel-lectual choices. They do not realize that thinking critically and being gullible are very different things.

If they did not learn Shakespeare in high school, they must have at least learned that not ev-ery voice carries the same weight.

They must criticize the source, the mes-sage and everything about the things they hear and read, but the audience should not be easily swayed by every wave that disturbs the waters.

Education and knowledge are what give weight to opinions. To learn or not to learn, that is the question.

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With baseball over, soon will come the pounding of the hardwood by basketball Billikens. I’m conflict-ed. I love the Bills, but I’m somewhat sickened by the path they’ve taken the past few years.

The administration has hired a million-dollar-a-year coach and built an $80 million stadium that hosts Sarah Palin and Barry Manilow to generate ex-tra revenue. SLU is in a conference that is nowhere near the “Atlantic” and the team has to spend a week in Philly because of a snowstorm. To compete in this conference, they’ve admitted players with “character issues.”

They should just join the Missouri Valley Confer-ence and enjoy bus-trip rivalries with SIU-C and Mis-souri State. It would mean a hometown conference tourney and an easier path to the “big dance.” Sell the Chaifetz to Grand Center or Harris-Stowe and lease it back for games. Scour the local high-school coaching ranks and hire the next Rich Grawer.

Maybe then tuition wouldn’t be north of $30K and out of reach of middle class families. Maybe then they could hire some more good teachers. Maybe then the school would better emulate the values of St. Ignatius. Oh wait, that’s right... it’s a Catholic school only when convenient.

- Jeff Fister is a 1981 graduate from the College of Arts and Sciences.

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“I was lucky to be a part of the team and the coaching staff, and I love it when my wife gets a chance to see those guys and meet them more because they’re all such first-class people and great people to have in my life.

”- Brian McBride, former SLU soccer player.

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Few beings, outside of religion and fiction, can be justifiably de-scribed as omniscient and omnipres-

ent. That is, how-ever, just what Google is. Few situations in life are untouched by this multina-tional corporate giant. From the m o n s t r o u s —communication, journalism, the propagation of knowledge to the mundane—com-parison shop-

ping, stalking, awareness of lesser-known holidays through its logo designs—Google touches and influ-ences all. But what happens when this unseen, yet constant, interven-tion becomes too close for comfort?

The agents of Google have been outside my house. They have also been above it. I only need to search my address in Google Maps to see evidence of this. What’s more, they also know how much it is worth and how to get to it from virtually any-where. The algorithm is capable of sorting and serving this information instantaneously to anyone who re-quests it.

The most frightening aspect is that I never asked Google to do any of this.

By using Google and signing up for any of its many services, a “Googler” agrees to the company’s privacy policy and terms of condi-tions—most of the time without reading it. Unknowingly, we agree to this privacy invasion and acquiesce to Google’s complete integration into our lives, forever.

Imagine, if you will, a future in which we have even less privacy than we do today. Imagine if a future employer, significant other or friend could simply “Google” your name and find out everything about you, everything you have ever posted on-line and everything that anyone else has ever published about you.

One attempt to protect privacy in the Age of Google is the Online Pri-

vacy Protection Act, a California law which went into effect in 2004. Faced with stricter regulation, Google was forced to change its privacy policy.

For the first time in the compa-ny’s history, the language of their new policy made it clear that they would be pooling all the information they collect from individuals from all of their various services.

Moreover, they may keep this in-formation indefinitely and give this information to whomever they wish. The only requirement is for Google to “have a good faith belief that ac-cess, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably nec-essary to protect the rights, prop-erty or safety of Google, its users or the public.”

Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t be evil,” so is all the criticism undeserved?

Well, for now, perhaps. In spite of the startling ubiquity of Google, the company has indeed maintained its good faith effort to protect its us-ers’ privacy. Faces and license plates are blurred in Google Maps’ street

view, and one can opt out of most of Google’s data mining should he or she choose. To do so, however, immediately demonstrates just how much the average user is dependent on Google in his or her daily life.

If a person truly wants to be free of Google, he or she must stop us-ing every one of its many apps and services.

To remove oneself from Google is harsh disenfranchisement. A tough predicament. Is giving up one’s right to privacy a fair cost for being able to utilize Google’s latest online tech-nologies? Probably not. And if the intrusion continues to pry deeper, definitely not.

Our generation shares more on-line than ever before, from our bank account information, addresses, phone numbers and relationships. If all of this passes through any of Google’s numerous nets, the com-pany can hold on to it for good.

Just because Google can col-lect every minute detail of our per-sonal lives does not mean that they should. Why can’t Google create

products and services which do not depend on an intimate knowledge of their users in order to be successful? The short answer is that there is no money in it.

Though Google makes the claim that by learning more about us they can serve us better and tailor their services to provide a more individu-alistic experience, those who truly benefit from this pooling of informa-tion are advertisers, who will pay larger and larger amounts of money in order to target users with even more specific advertisements.

So what should be done? To start, an educated populace must turn the same prying eye to Google as Google applies to its users. By de-manding to know exactly how and when Google discloses personally identifiable information, we can en-sure that the closest thing the world knows of omnipresence and omni-science is stopped from fully achiev-ing such control on our lives.

Vinnie Schneider is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Checking on privacy: Google is always watching

Twenty Missouri universities, including Saint Louis University, have collaborated to create male

and female spe-cific pamphlets designed to educate about the dangers of alcohol. While it is important to know that there are physiological differences be-tween the sexes and how they handle alcohol, the pamphet “Women in Alco-

hol” is a little offensive. It puts a lot of emphasis on the

nutrition of alcohol, or lack of it. However, it does so in a way that makes me feel like I could never have an alcoholic drink without gaining weight.

These pamphlets that empha-size educating the consequences of drinking are an excellent resource and very informative. What I do not like is the attention being given to the effects of alcohol and relating it to student’s body images.All high school and college students, not just women, struggle with personal self-image. Using it as a scare-tactic to turn women away from drinking generally has more negative results than positive.

It would be hard-pressed to find a col-lege student who enjoys socially drink-ing and would be willing to give it up just because of the effect it has on his or her weight. Since middle school, students have been educated on the negative effects drinking has on other parts of the body, and it rarely stops anyone from enjoying a drink now and again. The most successful effect this sort of education proba-bly has is creating smarter drinkers who know when to stop drinking.

“Smarter drinking,” in terms of avoiding weight gain, means not eating or eating significantly less in order to “save calories” for alcohol.

News networks such as Discov-ery News, The Huffington Post, and USA Today use the term “drunkore-xia” to describe this phenomenon. While this is not an actual medical term, it is fairly accurate. More and more young people, especially wom-en, are combining anorexic behav-ior with alcoholism. If you follow the idea that you burn 2,000 calories a day, knowing how many calories are

in alcohol can be scary, especially if you are trying to watch your weight.

However, that number is an aver-age and does not take into account height, muscle mass and daily physical activity. So, when men and women attempt to maintain weight or lose weight, they often have a mindset that they can only consume a certain amount of calories every day. This will often lead to people eating less so they can drink more later in the night or get drunk faster and on less alcohol.

For this reason, the use of weight and body image as a scare tactic in educational pamphlets has the oppo-site effect on women and is insulting because it shows that the writers of these pamphlets assume that we will put our body image above all else.

The men’s pamphlet briefly men-tions the amount of calories, but it is on the last page, and there is much less emphasis on it.

Unfortunately, this does not de-fer women from drinking. Rather, it discourages people from eating, so they can feel comfortable drinking. When this occurs, whether once in a while or frequently, it lowers a per-son’s tolerance, gets them drunker, prolongs the effects of alcohol and, of course, does more damage to the body.

The stress placed on body image in our society has been the cause

of so many social and psychological problems in ado lescents over the de-cades. Only recently have forces begun to combat the negative as-pects of being too thin, main-ly because it has incredibly

horrible effects on the body and is nearly impossible for most people to attain that “perfect look” without taking extreme measures.

Many men and women have been told since a young age that they are not perfect, and using this mentality of physical imperfection to suppress drinking is wrong.

Yes, it is encouraged to inform people that alcohol is unhealthy, but the amount of calories in a drink is the least of someone’s troubles when they are too drunk to handle themselves.

If you are going to drink, be con-scious of how much you consume and know your limits. However, don’t be afraid to enjoy yourself now and again.

Liz Kiefer is a junior in the School of Public Health.

The fear-appeal in alcohol awarenesspamphlets encourages bad dietary habits

As most should know by now, the St. Louis Cardinals won the 2011 World Series. This does not happen

very often, so it is a huge deal and very excit-ing.

It was fun to look around campus and see so much red during the fi-nal week of the World Series. St. Louis definitely has many truly devoted baseball fans.

What was most interesting about this year’s World Series was how many Cardinals fans appeared on campus out of nowhere.

Although there are many stu-dents who are from St. Louis, there are also many others from all around the country.

With all this diversity, you would think that people, although not able to cheer for, would at least stay loyal to their hometown team.

The number of fans on campus seemed to multiply after every St. Louis victory. It was not only inter-esting, but also very amusing to ob-serve this huge increase in Cardinal pandemonium.

As a native of the northern sub-urbs of Chicago I have always been a huge Cubs fan. I acknowledge that they have not been doing very well recently and have been told count-less times (trust me) that they have not won the World Series in more than one hundred years, but I am still a fan.

No one will ever be able to call me a bandwagon fan for the Cubs, as so many people are inclined to do for sports teams these days.

So this year, when the Cardinals made it to the World Series final, I had a dilemma. Do I cheer for the Cardinals because I’m here in St. Louis, or do I stay loyal to my team, who happens to be the Cardinals’ biggest rival, and choose not to par-ticipate?

It was very fun hearing about all the games, but I do not feel guilty for choosing not to attend any of the

festivities. It is a fun experience to be among all of the fans at school, and while some students might take the “while in Rome” route, and get the most out of their school’s city, others might say they will not cheer for a team just because they go to school in its city. Talk about a bandwagon fan!

It’s exciting and easy to get sucked into “Cardinal nation,” but you have to ask yourself, If you were at home during the series would you be cheering for the Cardinals? Would you feel the need to drop ev-erything and run out into the streets of your hometown to celebrate the Cardinals’ victory?

It makes sense that so many people wanted to be a part of the cel-ebrations, but I also understand why people did not.

Why go out and celebrate among all of the fans when you are not one? Either way, whether you chose to cheer for the Cardinals because you are a fan or because we live in St. Louis, or if you chose not to par-ticipate at all, it was up to you. While some people are fans of certain teams, others are purely baseball fans, and therefore enjoy just watch-ing the game.

Students can be happy for the team and the fans, but I know I am not about to switch sides on the Cubs v. Cardinals rivalry just be-cause of where we go to school.

There is a reason it is called a die-hard fan. I will forever be a devoted Cubs fan, no matter how long it takes them to win the World Series again.

Like all of the Cardinals fans here, everyone feels a special connection to their hometown team, and they should not give that up. It does not matter how many times people say it is not worth cheering for the Cubs–I will forever be a fan of them and their Chicago tradition.

Now, we will let all the Cardinals fans celebrate for a little while lon-ger because, in the end, the Cardi-nals truly deserved this win.

However, it is starting to get cold and it’s time for a new sport. That be-ing said, let’s go Blackhawks!

Maeve Donohue is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Staying true to your team’s colors

A humble man is David Freese. As the Most Valuable Player of the National League Championship

Series and the World Series, this man has two very big reasons to get a big head.

But he hasn’t. This is some-

thing that some many profes-sional ball play-ers of all sports should take from Freese’s cues and put into their own behavior–on

and off the field. Freese is tied for the second-low-

est salary on the Cardinals roster, along with Jon Jay at $416,000 for the 2011 season.

We will have to wait and see how long this will last. He had quit base-ball for three years in high school before returning to play ball his se-nior year to just “be a kid,” he said to Jay Leno in an interview on Oct. 31.

Then, he turned around and took another break for a year while he at-tended Mizzou and did the college thing, earning the “subpar GPA” and joining a fraternity.

It was not until he realized some-thing was missing that he came back to the game at St. Louis Community College-Meramec, followed by the University of South Alabama, before progressing to the major leagues.

Freese is arguably one of the most attractive major league base-ball players. With girls screaming his name, making signs and telling him how much they love him ev-erywhere he goes, especially in his hometown of St. Louis, it would be easy to see him turn into a “player” beyond the baseball diamond. But he hasn’t.

In spite of all of these things – his talent, his stats, his two post-season titles as MVP and his natural good looks – he does not act as if he were better than any other player on the field. He played the game, and quite well, and enjoyed it, as could be seen in his celebration of hitting the game-winning walk-off home run in Game 6 of the World Series when he ran toward home plate and his teammates, to revel in a game well played.

It seems he is always willing to share the spotlight with his team-mates and his now former manager, Tony La Russa, as can be seen in the interviews of him on Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show and the Ellen DeGe-neres Show.

Ever a gracious winner, he is also a good sport off the field.

After the World Series, he was shipped all over the country for in-terviews, which he planned around a previous booking at the Saint Lou-is Galleria on Wednesday, Nov. 2.

A man of his word, Freese trav-elled from Los Angeles to St. Louis, to make it back to Macy’s in the Gal-leria - twice! Fans lined up outside the doors waiting for the store to open in the hopes that, upon enter-ing, they could make a purchase of at least $50, receive their “golden ticket” – a red wristband – and meet David Freese.

That same evening he came back for two hours from 6 to 8 p.m.,where he met fans, took pictures and auto-graphed 275 baseballs. Throughout the evening, Freese kept a smile on his face, interacted with the fans as he gave them his autograph. At one point, he even blew a kiss to a young woman who called out for him to do so.

As an eye witness to the majority of the signing at Macy’s, I can attest firsthand to the humility this man evokes. Never once did he act tired or as if he did not want to be there, or like he was “too good” to interact with the “little people.” Freese is a hometown hero – a fact he seems to understand, relish and appreciate for all that it is worth.

Regardless of how good-looking he is or what awards he has won, what team he plays for or the perks that come with being a major league player, the man underneath all of the trappings is someone a kid can look up to, a parent can be proud of and a town can rally around without a qualm.

When he plays the game for the enjoyment and fulfillment he gets from it, when he steps off the field and onto the streets of whatever town he is in, and when he takes the time in an interview in his honor to mention all the hard work and tal-ent and support of his team, Tony La Russa, and his parents, it says a great deal about his character.

A man who can be confident in the fact that he is good at what he does without becoming arrogant be-cause of that kind of self-assurance is one to admire. It is a man like David Freese that the men of every professional team, perhaps every profession, should strive to emulate.

Who knew humility could look so good?

Kaylin Ielase is a senior in the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences.

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Andrew Jenks, of the MTV series “World of Jenks,” paid a visit to Saint Louis University after being chosen as the Student Activities Board’s fall entertainer.

By GINA CASSAROStaff Writer

It is entirely commonplace to see MTV playing on the televisions in the Fusz Food Court. On Tuesday, Nov. 8, the pop culture TV station came to Saint Louis Universi-ty’s campus in an entirely dif-ferent fashion when Andrew Jenks, host of MTV’s “World of Jenks,” paid a visit.

The MTV star was chosen as the fall entertainer by the Student Activities Board.

According to Jenks, whose documentaries and television show have been popularly re-ceived, reaching fame takes strategy.

“I heard somebody say once that you have to be in the right place at the right time,” Jenks said. “But it’s more than that, because you also have to realize you’re in the right place at the right time, jump on board, and throw ev-erything into it.”

Jenks spoke to students about his recent success in the entertainment industry, with documentaries on both HBO and ESPN and, most no-tably, “World of Jenks.”

Presenting in the Wool Ballrooms in the Busch Stu-dent Center, Jenks disclosed stories about his emergence into the public eye and in-spired students with his “don’t take no for an answer” philosophy.

The award-winning film-maker and activist was just 19 years old and said he had no connection to the enter-tainment industry when he entered New York University as a freshman. He was living with 300 other students in a typical dormitory but was nei-ther enjoying his experience, nor making many friends. At the same time, his grandfa-ther was living in a nursing home nearby and, using this as inspiration, Jenks dreamt up an idea that would change his life.

The young NYU student said he always knew that he wanted to make movies, but upon receiving creative in-spiration when lying in bed staring at the ceiling in his dorm, he determined that he would move into a nurs-ing home and film the expe-rience.

“I wanted to see what life would be like on the other side of the spectrum,” Jenks said.

After calling around 30 nursing homes in the New York area that refused his re-quest to move into the facility, Jenks was granted permission from a nursing home in Flori-da. The only costs for the proj-ect were transportation, tapes and the film. “Andrew Jenks, Room 335” was a low-budget documentary that eventually launched his career as a film-maker.

To create the documen-tary, Jenks pretended that he was part of a real produc-tion company when speaking with personnel at the nursing home. He continued with this lie while striving to get expo-sure for his film. Jenks said he credits his bank of lies as one of the crucial techniques he used in order to qualify for opportunities he may other-wise not have had.

Jenks entered the film into

anywhere else,” Jenks said. But Jenks did not give up.An HBO executive even-

tually saw “Andrew Jenks, Room 335” at one of the film festivals and bought it from Jenks. Subsequently, he made a documentary with Bobby Valentine. The project led to MTV’s interest in Jenks, land-ing him his own TV series.

“He is incredibly inspiring. He has accomplished more than you would think some-

body his age could,” senior Laura Beddor said.

The 25-year-old MTV star has dreams of eventually producing scripted films.

“Documentary is a prac-tical, low-cost way to break into the industry and story-telling,” Jenks said. “Also, with the availability of cam-eras to the public at low costs, it is becoming easier to gain recognition for cre-ative talents.”

“World of Jenks” focuses on different subcultures

in the United States, and an MTV camera crew follows Jenks as he lives with differ-ent people from various sub-cultures, including episodes with a rapper, a homeless girl, a high school football star and an uprising comedian.

“I think it’s cool what he’s doing because he’s showing these subcultures that many of us don’t know much about,” senior Maura Fahey said.

Jenks said he is able to

develop storytelling skills through filmmaking.

“Filming is often excruci-ating because the filmmaker is always looking back and making sure everything tells a story,” Jenks said. “Filming often does not go according to the plan. Sometimes I am fol-lowing somebody around and feeling like I could get more from a blade of grass than this person, but you have to adapt.”

Jenks made it a point to emphasize the need for adapt-ability in the workplace. He said that without the ability to adapt to surprising or disap-pointing situations, he would not be as lucky as he has been in his career. In his line of work, Jenks said he finds where “the juice” is and runs with it, regardless of whether or not it is what he proposed in the beginning.

“I really liked his message. He is very relatable to peo-ple our age,” SAB President Christi Thieben said.

Amid his anecdotes and jokes, Jenks said his under-lying message is that anyone could be where he is and can achieve what he has achieved.

These are Jenks’ secrets to success, which he shared with SLU students in atten-dance on Tuesday evening:

“Students need to believe in themselves, never take ‘no’ for an answer, be adaptable and ‘fake it ‘til you make it.’”

What’s in a name? Panel discusses Shakespearean authorship question

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Rhys Ifans stars as Edward de Vere (the Earl of Oxford) in Roland Emmerich’s “Anonymous,” now playing in theaters.

By T.J. KEELEYAssociate Arts Editor

He is considered the great-est writer in the English lan-guage and the world’s great dramatist. He survived the Black Death. He invented the word “assassination.” His 37 plays and 154 sonnets appear on high school reading lists across the western world. Yet, what if William Shakespeare never wrote a single word?

That is the claim that di-rector Roland Emmerich (“Godzilla,” “2012”) makes in his new film, “Anonymous.” Emmerich, however, is not the first to question the dra-matic poet’s genius.

While there was no author-ship dispute until roughly 200 years after Shakespeare’s death, skepticism arose in the late 18th century.

“Shakespeare doesn’t fit the Romantic definition of genius,” Jonathan Sawday, professor of English at Saint Louis University, said.

According to Sawday, con-spiracy theorists posited Sir Francis Bacon as a candidate for authorship. Bacon was bet-ter educated and came from a more elite class and pres-tigious family, making him a more appeal-ing ideal of artistic genius than a glover’s son. However, Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, has become the favorite of the more than 80 names credited to Shakespeare’s work.

Emmerich and his produc-tion company, Centropolis En-tertainment, have distributed

a study packet as a compan-ion to the film, which claims to invite the audience to “take a second look at our assump-tions about Shakespeare and the nature of literary genius.”

“There is no debate among Shakespearean scholars,” Sawday said. “What we’re

d e a l i n g with here is a con-s p i r a c y theory.”

In re-sponse to the film’s c l a i m s , S a w d a y has coor-d i n a t e d a dis-c u s s i o n panel on the au-

thorship question. At 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, in the Il Monastero Sanctu-ary, Sawday, English depart-ment Chairwoman Sara van den Berg, Sarah Dunnant, historical novelist and BBC

presenter and Billy Shebar, writer of “Dark Matter,” star-ring Meryl Streep, will dis-cuss both sides of the theory. Sawday invited Emmerich, but the director declined the invitation because he said he has started pre-production on his next film.

Enthusiasts of the theory point to Shakespeare’s bi-ography and the Victorian political climate as evidence that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Because only his poetry survives and none of his plays, some be-lieve that his plays became attributed to Shakespeare and that de Vere’s political office would have made it impossible for him to claim authorship of his own plays. De Vere would have visited some of the places described in Shakespeare’s work, like Verona in “Romeo and Juliet,” or Venice in “The Merchant of Venice.” Furthermore, they

I heard somebody say once that you have to be in the right place at the right time.

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-Andrew Jenks, MTV personality

‘Anonymous’ is full of villainous fools

To see or not to see “Anon-ymous” is not the question. For it is not worth it to suffer

the slings and ar-rows of this out-r a g e o u s film.

I n the first scenes of R o l a n d E m m -e r i c h ’ s newest as-sault on

the Western World, Shake-spearean thespian Derek Jacobi delivers a monologue to a theater audience, telling them that poet and playwright William Shakespeare was a fraud.

Emmerich has made a ca-reer from churning out visual spectacles involving the de-struction of Western icons: New York City in both “The Day After Tomorrow,” and “Godzilla,” the British empire in “The Patriot” and the Vati-can in “2012.” So, one would think that an attack on the greatest pen in the English language would offer a more intelligent effort from the doomsday prophet.

Well, we’ve all been played. “Anonymous” dramatizes

the theoretic “what if” that English departments across the country loathe.

What if Shakespeare never wrote a word?

The film picks up on the theory that the Earl of Ox-ford, Edward De Vere, actual-ly wrote the 37 plays and 154 sonnets assigned to Shake-speare, but remained anony-mous for political reasons. “Anonymous,” then, becomes a muddled, epic, time-travel-

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ling exposé on what such a conspiracy theory would look like.

Though Emmerich’s films are often ridiculous, they also usually look really sharp. But “Anonymous” is too dark to see clearly. It’s hard to tell if Emmerich was trying to aestheticize a politically-am-biguous climate, but the film took on the dark tint associ-ated with gazing through 3-D glasses.

Actually, it might have helped “Anonymous” to be shown in 3-D, which would have added another layer or two to the characters in the film. Over the 130-minute run-ning time, actors of varying prestige wrestle with clunky lines and convoluted plot points. Unfortunately, most scenes that do not involve Rhys Ifans (Earl of Oxford) or Vanessa Redgrave (Queen Elizabeth I) play like “Days of Our Lives” in britches and corsets.

Ifans (“Greenburg,” “The Replacements”) and Redgrave (“Atonement,” “A Man for All Seasons”) are bright spots in a murky mess of a film. Ifans has fun with the Earl of Ox-ford, the supposed secret pen behind Shakespeare’s name. He plays Edward De Vere with a swash-buckling flam-boyancy that suggests he saw the potential for comedy and camp that Emmerich never picked up. Here, player and maestro appear to be on dif-ferent pages, and I, for one, would much rather have fol-lowed Ifans.

Redgrave, on the other hand, offers the most accom-plished performance of the film. Her presence, while the

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There is no debate among Shakespeare scholars. What we’re dealing with here is a conspiracy theory.

“”-Jonathan Sawday

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as many different film festi-vals as he could. However, after one festival accepted the submission, Jenks was told that his film would not get into the festival, and that it was recommended that he not try to submit it to any oth-ers.

“That’s like being told ‘we received your college applica-tion and, not only did you not get in, but we recommend that you not even try to apply

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Fall is here, and that means it is time for delicious treats that will warm you from the inside out.

As any good student would do, we left our home-work behind and hit the road this Fall Break. In preparation for our adven-tures, we spent the previous week cleaning out the fridge until all that was left were some hard-boiled eggs and butter. As refreshing as Fall Break was, we all know how unrefreshing post-midterms papers and homework are. Who has had time to go gro-cery shopping since we’ve come back from break? Not us! Luckily, we have the cure: Take-out.

When the weather is chilly and windy, all anybody wants is something warm and comforting to eat. South Grand Boulevard, in all its glory, has the answer! From spicy Ethiopian lentils to steaming hot Thai noodles, South Grand has it, and has it affordably and convenient-ly. Located a mile or so from the Health Sciences Cam-pus, it is easily within biking or walking distance, if you have friends and a scarf. You may be overwhelmed by the many options of restaurants with food from all over the world, but do not fret–we’ll share our favorite spots with you.

The first place is truly a little hidden, and certainly a treasure. Meskerem Ethio-pian Restaurant is tucked away in a corner nearing the end of “restaurant row” at 3210 S. Grand Blvd. If you aren’t looking, you will miss it—I still do, sometimes.

Immediately when you enter, the smell of lentils and stewed lamb hit your nostrils, and your mouth will instantly water. The portions are enormous and perfect for sharing. We recommend sharing one of the combo plates to try a bit of every-thing.

If you are dining in, you can always ask for more

of whatever “yellow or red stuff you would like.

The best part of the whole dining experience at Meskerem is the bread, an Ehtiopian specialty called “injera,” the perfect vessel for everything on the plate. Whether enjoying this deli-cious food from the comfort of your own dorm or from the warm and authentic din-ing room of Meskerem, we guarantee you will enjoy try-ing something new.

Our next favorite takes us cross-continents to Thai-land for some of the best Thai food in the city. The King and I, located at 3157 S. Grand Blvd., is a great place for carryout or dining in and is especially good for warming your insides on a chilly fall night. The King and I offers everything from class Pad Thai to curry in every color, and even more traditional dishes. Each dish comes with an assortment of sauces, from sweet and sour to spicy pepper, that adds even more flavor to your noodles or rice.

The King and I is espe-cially friendly for vegetar-ians and offers the choice of tofu, chicken, veggies, pork, shrimp or beef to practically any dish, with the added bo-nus of an all-vegetarian sec-tion of the menu. One of our favorites is The King and I Special, which has a little bit of everything Thai and is big enough to split, but we doubt you will go wrong or-dering absolutely anything on this menu.

Have you tried these treasures already? Check out some of our other South Grand neighborhood favor-ites, such as Café Mochi for some of the best sushi you will have (especially the spider roll) or The Vine for some delectable Mediter-ranean and baba ganoush that you will literally dream about, or go shopping at Jay’s International grocery store to make your own in-ternational creation.

By CASSIE ROHLIK and LINDSAY NOESENColumnists

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Singer-songwriter Ben Folds performed to a sold-out crowd at Powell Hall on Sunday, Nov. 6.

Ben Folds dazzles a sold-out Powell HallMakes debut performance with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

By STEPHANIE MUELLERStaff Writer

Nine times out of 10, the phrase “it gave me chills” is a complete and blatant lie.

Ben Folds’ debut with the St. Louis Symphony Orches-tra has provided the ever-elusive single exception to the rule, though, spreading goosebumps like a disease in a sold-out Powell Hall.

On Nov. 6, Folds collabo-rated with the symphony to infuse an alternate life into songs that have already taken on a life of their own in Folds’ inexhaustible career.

“Zak and Sara” began the night with an outpouring of crowd appreciation, with the stiff environment of Powell Hall dissipating as Folds’s signature voice and spirited stage demeanor softened the expectant audience of more than 2,500 people.

Sold out weeks in advance, Folds’ faithful fan base lined the wall with standing-room-only tickets, all for the chance to experience the artist in relatively uncharted waters. Without the frills of an open-ing act or the distraction of an overly-vocal audience, the focus fell to where it truly be-longed— the music.

Enhanced by the stirring strings and subtle percussion of the symphony, which Folds said is “one of the best sym-phonies in the nation,” the audience was brought into an atmosphere reminiscent of a Disney production, the magic of the movies coming to life in the packed hall.

T h e cinematic sound was rooted in the com-b i n a t i o n of Folds’ high-pow-ered tal-ent on the piano and lyrics that became all the more p o t e n t when sung with heart-wrenching convic-tion, each word dripping with unrivaled emotion.

No longer untouchable and impersonal, Folds explained the origin of each song to the audience with engaging

awkwardness, bringing them into his beautifully tattered, and unexpectedly hilarious, world.

Prior to “Gracie,” an ode written for his daughter, Folds told the story of his children, an initial peak into the tu-multuous personal life of the singer. As the starting notes were played, a hush swept the theater, every father and daughter rapt with attention

to words of growing old-er.

“ L i f e flies by in s e c o n d s , you’re not a baby Gra-cie, you’re my friend,” Folds sang.

M a j o r mi les tones were not the only motiva-tions that

Folds shared, prefacing “Jesu-sland” with a tale of wander-ing through Nashville streets and contemplating the argu-able beauty of the world.

Folds’ talent lies in this sto-rytelling, morphing mundane

aspects of the world into phil-osophical quests for truth and explanation. His songs are not diabolical in and of them-selves, but they are honest— an anomaly among modern musicians.

His honesty drew in the au-dience with a mutual respect palpable between an artist and his audience. The rela-tionship was highlighted in “Not the Same,” in which the audience banded together to create a near angelic choir as background for Folds.

And the goosebumps re-turn.

The self-deprecating Folds seemed unaffected by his obvious fame, noting that he does not see an episode of VH1 “Behind the Music” in his future, as if it were the only sign of true success. The respectful audience laughed off the subjective standard, a show of an artist’s true suc-cess becoming obvious in the belief that the fans hold in him.

After a strung-out transi-tion between songs, Folds apologized profusely for the rambling, even telling him-self to, “just shut up,” the man

behind the piano instantly be-coming the audience’s friend and the audience, in turn, seeking his approval.

Relentlessly called for an encore, and eventually a hope-ful second, Folds pranced onto the empty stage with a childish abandon. Playing a brief jingle on every instru-ment he could find, Folds’ surfacing genius was endear-ing, if not slightly mystifying.

After graciously conceding to the “more cowbell” request from the audience, Folds moved back to his piano, at-tempting to cover Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” with little lyrical success. An on-the spot St. Louis-inspired song following that, while less-than-impressive lyrically, brought laughs to the crowd.

Finishing the night with the rousing “Annie Waits,” the audience was notably sad to see him go, and rightfully so, following a performance that would be difficult to rec-reate.

“The clock never stops, never stops, never waits,” Folds sang.

We’ll be waiting for your return, Mr. Folds.

His honesty drew in the audience with a mutual respect palpable between an artist and his audience.

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Owl City charms audience despite sickness

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Adam Young’s Owl City made a stop in St. Louis on his latest album’s world headlining tour.

By ERIN EVERETTArts Editor

For the third time, musi-cian Adam Young made a trip to St. Louis feeling under the weather.

Young, 25, of the mega-plat-inum electronica sensation Owl City, had a difficult week-end. After a performance on Sunday at Carroll University in Wisconsin was postponed due to the advice of Young’s doctors, St. Louisans waited anxiously for a Tweet or press release that might postpone yet another night of the “All Things Bright and Beautiful” world headlining tour.

Young, scheduled to per-form on Nov. 7 at The Pag-eant, posted a Tweet Monday afternoon:

“Dear St. Louis, the evil sea witch/sorceress known as Ursula has stolen my melodi-ous voice. However, the show must go on. See you tonight.”

Owl City performed with opening band Days Differ-ence, and, for being as sick as he was, Young and his sup-porting band made a valiant effort to come out on a high note.

The group of six walked onto a dark stage, with the quiet hoots of a forest owl playing in the background. This launched into Owl City’s opening song “Reality” off of their latest album, “All Things Bright and Beautiful.”

“Me and the Midwest, we just have this thing,” Young said to a crowd of young fans. “The first time I came to St. Louis, I had a kidney stone. The second time, some bro threatened to kill me—we’re talking, hands wrapped around my throat tried to kill me. So, yeah.”

Clad in a green sweater-vest and a pair of ripped denim jeans, Young is easily one of the most “adorkable” faces of today’s music indus-try. The ultra-shy technical genius rarely agrees to me-dia interviews, and has often mentioned that performing onstage has helped him to overcome extreme introver-

sion. Yet, with a big smile, a lot of awkward dancing and a full tin of cough drops, Young appeared determined not to let his illness get the best of his charming personality.

“Hello Seattle,” from Owl City’s debut album “Ocean Eyes” with Universal Re-public, was a crowd favorite, and audience members sang along as several bright green lights were popping in the background to the tune of the synthesizer. As the night wore on, though, the crowd started to get impatient, demanding the group’s quadruple-plati-num hit “Fireflies.”

“This is a song you might know, but it’s got a new intro,” Young said, with suspense building as the audience col-lectively held their breath. “Here’s one that goes out to my kidney stones. It’s called ‘Fireflies.’”

What better way could there be to introduce the group’s Billboard chart-top-per—the same song that is the 20th most downloaded

song of all time in the United Kingdom?

The new intro to “Fireflies” began with the low chirps and hums of fluttering wings, akin to that which might be heard from an actual swarm of fire-flies on a dark summer’s night in the country. This gracefully segued into beloved and fa-miliar synths and sounds of the single that put Owl City on the global music radar.

Young, who had been pop-ping cough drops into his mouth and drinking hot tea onstage, finally had a chance at relief when the 38-second track “January 28, 1986,” a tribute to the memory of the Challenger space shuttle di-saster, began to play. The track, which features an ex-cerpt from President Ronald Reagan’s commemorative speech with an instrumen-tal overture, afforded just enough time for Young to walk offstage, and, just when “Galaxies” began and it seemed that he had thrown in the towel to sickness, he

remerged with another huge smile on his face.

“Let me see your tentacles in the air,” Young said, yelling, encouraging the audience to dance along as he awkwardly, although adorably, swayed in a truly Adam Young fashion.

The best part of Monday night’s performance was the revelation that Young—rather than a mere techie, confined to a desk chair and a dashboard of buttons and levers and doodads—is a versatile and talented musi-cian. Throughout the night, Young alternated between keyboards and guitars, and, in the bass pumping “Kamika-ze,” he even took a turn at the drums, all while delivering true-to-the-track vocals. Still, Young said he is hesitant to consider himself a musician.

“I’m not really a musician,” Young said. “I’m a Coca-Cola employee. I’m a skinny little punk from Nowhere, Minn. And I’m here because of my fans, because of all of you. God bless you guys.”

By AMY VERMEERSCHStaff Writer

The “Time Travel” tour made its final stop in time in St. Louis last weekend.

There were three warm-up acts before the headlining pop-rock group, Never Shout Never, took stage at The Pag-eant on Sunday, Nov. 6. First up was a half-hour perfor-mance from Carter Hulsey. His five-man band’s music had a very organic feel—pure, without any noticeable special effects. The lead sing-er had a calming tone to his voice that made certain mem-bers of the audience instantly sway along.

Next to perform was Fake Problems, which was fortu-nate, since they have only performed on select nights during the tour. Fake Prob-lems had a hard-rocking and alternative vibe, and the band’s voices fit well together. Each of their songs provided a showcase for the band mem-bers, whether it was a guitar breakout or belting vocals.

About halfway through the performance, Fake Problems announced that Mr. Goose, one of the guitar players, was celebrating his 19th birthday. All four of the touring bands came onstage with a birthday cake, complete with a clump of candles, birthday party hats and drinks.

Mr. Goose continued to play his guitar as he was hoist-ed onto a fellow band mate’s shoulders.

All of this created a fun at-mosphere for the audience, and at the end of their set, Mr. Goose said, “Best band ever!” screaming into his mi-crophone as loud as he could. The audience chanted along with him, pumping their fists and jumping up and down in agreement.

After a 15-minute break, A Rocket To The Moon took the stage. The audience seemed much more familiar with this band. Their music had a coun-try sound, and a more profes-

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sional appearance, since they were not drinking while they were performing like the pre-vious acts. A majority of the parents in the audience prob-ably felt more comfortable watching A Rocket To The Moon. One of the most well received songs they played was a cover of “Free Falling,” originally by Tom Petty.

The fourth and final act was the Joplin, Mo. native Never Shout Never. As lead singer-songwriter Christofer Drew walked onstage in his black top hat and bare feet, lighting a cigarette, I had a near flashback to Willy Won-ka from “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” Once the group had gotten into their positions, Drew placed his cigarette at the end of his gui-tar strings.

Drew had previously men-tioned that he wanted the band to have a more rock-n-roll sound, which was appar-ent in their new songs. Never Shout Never had harsher vo-cal tones and an overall loud-er volume.

At one point, Drew asked to have the house lights turned on, so that he could see the audience.

“If everyone smiles, it gives off serotonin in your brain that gives you a natural high,” Drew said.

After Drew finished his first cigarette, he asked if anyone in the audience had a cigarette he could smoke. Many were tossed onto the stage and, throughout the rest of the group’s perfor-mance, cigarettes were ran-domly thrown up to him. Drew would pick one up off the ground at the beginning of nearly every song, stick it in his guitar while he was playing, and take a few puffs.

“Go crazy and just do what you do,” Drew said to the au-dience, encouraging them to start mosh pits and crowd surf.

And, just like that, Never Shout Never just did what they do best.

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THE VERDICT

Vanessa Redgrave, and the film does in fact end,

eventually.

A cacophony of bad lines, a horror show of bad acting and so long!

Roland Emmerich should issue an apology to the Academy for this cinematic disaster.

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best part of the whole mess, is rather puzzling. What is she doing in such a silly affair? Furthermore, why is a veter-an of the Royal Shakespeare Company fooling around in this ridiculous costume dra-ma?

It is not worth it to harp on the historical inaccuracies of the film. To do so would be to miss the point, to some de-gree. “Anonymous” is a piece of revisionist history, a long “what if” or a loud propagan-da. Where “Anonymous” runs out of ink, though, is when it starts to take too seriously its task of convincing the audi-ence of its conspiracy theory. Again, regardless of the valid-ity of its philosophy, “Anony-mous” needed a little more whimsy, a little more fun, a lit-tle more of Michael Moore’s or Oliver Stone’s voracity.

Dramatizing the Shake-speare authorship question is no simple task. I imagine it would amount to dramatiz-ing string theory. However, “Anonymous” needed more style and more of Ifans’ swag. The story and its historical subjects are much too rich for such a bland, costume-filled period piece. John Orloff’s screenplay needed a rewrite by Shakespeare, Andrew Marvell, Ben Johnson, De Vere or really anyone else.

To see or not to see “Anon-ymous” is not the question. Read the books. I hear they are better.

claim that some of the plots in Shakespeare’s plays resem-ble events de Vere’s life.

Shakespeare experts and British literary scholars dis-agree.

“[Shakespeare] builds from one play to another. The kinds of things he does in a tragedy, he flips into a comedy,” van den Berg said. “There is a continuity. You know Shakespeare when you see it.”

The authorship ques-tion continues to surface in pop culture, especially in America. Its most recent re-surgence emerged after the 1930s when Thomas Looney first posited the Earl of Ox-ford as the true author.

The Earl of Oxford’s writ-ing skill has been questioned, however.

“There is no question that [the Earl of Oxford’s poetry] was second-rate poetry. So, unless he was playing dumb, it’s hard to believe that the same mind produced ‘Ham-

let,’” Donald Stump, professor of English, said.

Like van den Berg, Stump is teaching a course on Shake-speare this semester, but they said that neither of them has been asked about authorship by a skeptical student.

Even though students do not seem too concerned with the theory, SLU is not the only university to take an effort to set the record straight. Eng-lish professors at Washington University have encouraged their students to attend the panel. Academia is making a large-scale effort to counter this theory, even if “Anony-mous” is just a movie.

“It’s a bit like denying cli-mate change, or like arguing that the world is flat,” Sawday said. “It is deeply and pro-foundly anti-intellectual.”

Stump, Sawday and van den Berg said they have en-couraged their students to see the film and attend the panel.

“It does raise interesting questions about how people use evidence to rise to con-

clusions. In this case, though, there’s not much evidence,” Stump said.

Bridget Bergin, a sopho-more in the College of Arts and Sciences and an English major, first heard about the controversy, the film and the panel in Sawday’s class.

“I will be attending the pan-el because I am excited to see what Mr. Shebar will bring to the discussion as a filmmaker, and I am interested in the idea of disputed authorship as a conspiracy theory,” Bergin said.

Sawday is planning to see the film, and van den Berg has already seen it. While both recognize that movies often alter reality for aesthetic or narrative reasons, they said they see “Anonymous” as a missed opportunity.

“It’s sad because Shake-speare is for everybody,” van den Berg said. “He wasn’t writing for the elite. He was popular culture.”

While “Anonymous” has been largely panned by film critics, it has been success-

ful at the box office in limited release, averaging $3,856 per theater.

Jennifer Rust, professor of English, said that when she saw the film, the audience ap-plauded at the end.

“I was sitting there laugh-ing at it, and everyone in the audience was taking it seri-ously,” Rust said.

Perhaps part of the attrac-tion comes from a general in-terest in conspiracy theories, but there is also an air of dis-trust of experts that is adrift.

“It doesn’t matter what the experts are saying,” Saw-day said. “It’s what the media picks up. The story is just too good.”

The panel will discuss the evolution of the conspiracy theory, historical knowledge of Shakespeare and the role of popular culture in influenc-ing discourse. “Anonymous” has been marketed strongly to students, appearing on SparkNotes, for instance, so the discussion will examine the status of “experts” in our culture and the implications

of knowledge in the media. Rust said she has encour-

aged her graduate students to attend the panel because many plan to become English teachers.

“As teachers, they will have students who bring these questions up, so they should hear different ways to answer those questions,” Rust said.

Rust said that she sel-dom is asked the question of Shakespearean authorship from undergraduates. In-stead, she said, there are far more interesting questions to explore about Shakespeare.

“The Shakespeare we get in the text is more interesting than the conspiracy theory,” Rust said. “Learn about the real story because the history is more interesting than the fiction.”

Sawday said that he hopes the panel will teach students to be aware that there is such a thing as expert knowledge.

“There are some ways of understanding evidence that are better than others,” Saw-day said.

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Dance into ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’ at the Fox Theatre By BRETTON DELARIA

Contributor

The world is finding it-self in difficult times. There is great division about the future of the nation, strikes are breaking out and families are finding themselves fini-cally strapped. Amid all this turmoil, there does not seem to be any bright moment to show that everything is going to work out fine in 1984-era England. These very events are taking center stage at The Fabulous Fox Theatre as it welcomes “Billy Elliot the Musical.”

The story of young Billy Elliot is one that is sure to touch the hearts and minds of all ages. Set during the coal workers’ strike for control of the industry between the con-servative British government, “Billy Elliot” illuminates and transcends the period to cor-relate with modern-day is-sues.

The story of Billy is one of struggle, soul-searching and acceptance. The plot follows the Elliot family, composed of Billy, his dad Jackie, his older

brother Tony and their grand-mother, living together dur-ing the turmoil of the strike. The family is no stranger to suffering after enduring the death of Billy’s mother, Jenny.

The musical takes us through the journey of young Billy, from being forced to participate in boxing, some-thing he hates, and eventually finding freedom through bal-let dancing.

Billy struggles to keep this passion for dance a secret from his father, all while de-veloping into a talented danc-er. More importantly, Billy fi-nally finds the maternal touch that he has been missing in his teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson. Throughout the musical, the audience enters into senti-mental moments with Billy, imagining time with his moth-er. A break from the usual merriment, fast-paced music and dance, we feel the affec-tion and love that Billy and his mother once had.

It is ballet and the arts which help Billy rediscover the love for his mother, and now his love for Mrs. Wilkin-son, and it is ballet that brings

closure to his tragedy.With wonderful ballet

movements from “Swan Lake” to modern tap, the en-tire show highlights the beau-ty and the power the arts have to transform people. For Billy, the gift of the arts is an es-cape from difficult times and a power to transform relation-ships. Ballet brings together his family amid turmoil, helps him define who he is and pro-vides the foundation for rela-tionships to be transformed. Moreover, the arts allow Billy to befriend his best friend Mi-chael, despite his homosexu-ality.

“Billy Elliot” is more than just a performance with ex-quisite dance and toe-tapping music by Elton John. Rather, it is a story of encouragement that resonates with our mod-ern time and struggles. In an age where it seems there is no light at the end of the tun-nel, “Billy Elliot” reminds us of the power the arts have to take us away from the difficul-ties of life.

In a time when it seems like more and more of the youth have committed sui-

cide because of sexuality-spe-cific bullying, Billy Elliot and Michael reminds audiences of the need for acceptance of individuals, as well as of the power of friendship.

The lesson of “Billy Elliot” is that, despite how difficult times may seem, it is the simple things that bring us together: the acceptance of a friend’s sexuality, following your dreams and hopes de-spite the constraints, the ral-lying of a community around

someone with a chance for greatness, the gift of confi-dence in talents, the tran-scending love of a family and the healing power of the arts.

“Billy Elliot” is a musical that is going places because it is a story about each of us. The musical will have you laughing, crying, singing and applauding.

Running through Nov. 13 at the Fox, “Billy Elliot” is one performance that you do not want to miss.

Photo by Kyle Froman

Kylend Hetherington stars as Billy in “Billy Elliot the Musical.”

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Volleyball awaits conference leaders

The Saint Louis University volleyball squad (13-10, 9-4 A-10) concludes their Atlantic 10 Conference regular season by hosting the league’s top two teams.

The Billikens take on second-place Xavier (18-9, 10-3 A-10) Friday, Nov. 11 at 5 p.m. First-place Dayton (20-6, 12-1 A-10) is the opponent Sunday, Nov. 13 at noon. Both matches will be played at Chaifetz Arena.

Billiken seniors Alys-sa Deno, Ashley Gaillot and Amelia Karges will be honored at Sunday’s match.

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Women’s Basketball Head Coach Shimmy Gray-Miller announced that two high school student-athletes have signed a National Letter of Intent to attend Saint Louis Univeristy and play for the Billikens beginning next season.

The 2012 SLU re-cruiting class is com-prised of 5-foot-7 guard Rachel Mendelsohn (Portland, Ore./Jesuit) and 6-foot-2 forward Denisha Womack (Peo-ria, Ill./Central).

“Rachel and Denisha are the total package,” Gray-Miller said. “They have talent, skills, aca-demic prowess, work ethic and, most impor-tant, character.”

The women’s team tip off their season this Friday on the road at Memphis.

>> Men’s Soccer

Time runs out on Billikens’ fall campaignBy CHARLES BOWLES

Staff Writer

Billikens men’s soccer has ended after a 2-1 double-over-time loss to No. 10 Charlotte.

The Bills (6-10-1, 4-5 A-10) concluded their season after-facing ups and downs. The Bills came into the game with an outside chance of making the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament, but they ended their season on a sour note.

Robbie Kristo scored in the 26th minute. Nick Maglasang started the scoring play when he banged a drive off the Bills Alex Johnston on a free kick. Kristo gathered the rebound and fired into the upper right section of the goal.

The score remained 1-0 until Charlotte’s Aidan Kirk-bride scored his first goal of the season in the 55th minute.

Bills goalkeeper Nick Shackelford, who recorded

10 saves on the night, kept it a 1-1 game with several amaz-ing saves near the end of reg-ulation. The score remained 1-1 until the second overtime.

Kirkbride, however, buried the game winner off a corner

kick five minutes into the sec-ond overtime to lift Charlotte to the victory.

It was the third double-overtime loss of the season for the Bills and their second straight double-overtime loss

>> Fitness

SLU’s great exercise divide

Curtis Wang / Multimedia Director

Upon entering the Simon Recre-ation Center weight room, exercise enthusiasts are immediately greeted by an expanse of weight machines and racks of free weights.

The different types of people that use the facility are immediately ap-parent: There are the bodybuilder types, or as some like to call them “meatheads,” the runners, the “aver-age joe” and the girls on the ellipti-cals.

All have their different ways of working out, and, more interesting-ly, they also have their own opinions of the others that use the weight room.

Generally, the most noticeable group in the weight room, due to the size of their muscles, is the body-builders.

Vince DiRenzo, a fifth-year going for his masters in athletic training, is a competitive body builder who works out five days a week to try to improve his physique so he places well at every competition.

“The last thing I want to know is that someone worked harder than me,” DiRenzo said.

As a body builder, Vince takes a daily multivitamin, fish oil and cre-atine monohydrate pre-workout and whey protein isolate post-workout.

As for the term meathead being used to describe people like himself, DiRenzo isn’t too concerned with people using it. “The people who use it are generally the same people that will ask for advice in the gym,” he said.

“A lot of people don’t understand all of the sacrifices it takes to be-come a competitive body builder, so people use the term to define any-one who lifts hard and takes supple-ments.”

Some people may think that there is some sort of unspoken competi-tion between the body builders as to who can lift more, but according to DiRenzo, that may not be the case. “I can’t speak for everyone, but for my-self, I would say no. The only thing I can control is what I do in the gym so why should I care what anyone else is doing,” he said.

Of all the different people in the weight room, the majority are like ju-nior Francisco Hohn--in pretty good shape. but not a bodybuilder by any stretch of the imagination. They go three to four times per week and generally don’t take any supple-ments.

However, Hohn did say that he tries to eat the right foods before and after his workouts.

Before his workouts, Hohn said he eats “carbs, like bread and pasta,” and after his workouts, he eats “pro-tein, like chicken and pork.” Hohn uses free weights because, unlike the machines, they utilize your sta-bilizer muscles as well.”

Senior Nick Robertson, a sum-mer weight coach for his former high school football team, agrees that free weights are better than ma-chines.

“When you’re working on a ma-chine, you’re confined to that simple movement on that machine, and it stabilizes the weight for you instead of you doing it yourself,” he said.

Not all bodybuilders work out the same way. “I’ve always heard that the gym is a place to be seen, but do you really have to check yourself out in the mirror every 10 seconds?” Francisco said. Hopefully he doesn’t run into any of those “meatheads” anytime soon.

The weight room is not just a place to workout and get huge; it can be used for any number of things.

Junior Fallon Lott says that about two to three times per week when she needs some stress relief or to clear her mind, she uses the ellipti-cals or dumbbells to blow off some steam and clear her mind from a stressful day. “When I workout I get ‘pumped up,’” she said. “It gives me energy while helping me get relaxed as well.”

Clearly, the weight room at the Simon Rec is a very diverse place with many different people doing many different exercises. Next time you go, take a minute to look around at all the different people, and then proceed to your workout.

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Freshman Robbie Kristo (18) evades a Charlotte defender in Saturday night’s action.

after losing to Xavier last Sun-day.

The Bills’ had a rollercoast-er season. They beat nation-ally ranked Notre Dame and South Florida, which were two of the high points of the season, and they also won three straight conference games.

However, the Bills also had their low points this season. The Bills lost three straight games. Two of those were at the open of the conference season, followed by the Akron game where the Bills lost 4-0. Then they lost two straight games in double overtime to conclude their season and missed the A-10 conference tournament.

Injuries also plagued the Bills this year. Alex Sweetin missed the season with a par-tially torn ligament in his leg,

Former star returns to old stomping grounds

>> Men’s Basketball

All-time great passes away

By DERRICK NEUNERAssoicate Sports Editor

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Athletic Director Chris May (left) honors Brian McBride for his athletic accomplishments while at SLU.

Billiken fans in attendance for Saturday night’s men’s soccer contest against Char-lotte were treated to a 2-1 double-overtime thriller in ad-dition to an appearance from one of Saint Louis Univer-sity Athletics’ most esteemed alumni, Brian McBride.

McBride starred in his time spent in a Billiken uni-form, which lasted from 1990-1994, and he left his mark on the SLU record books.

The striker tallied 72 goals and assisted on 40 more en route to setting the all-time mark for points in SLU his-tory (184). McBride earned spots on numerous collegiate All-American teams in his four-year career at SLU.

After stints in the Eng-lish Premier League, Major League Soccer and on the United States National Team, McBride opted to retire from

By MICHAEL JOHNSONSports Editor

the game of soccer earlier this year.

McBride’s first trip back to campus since retiring con-jured up more than just mem-ories of his dazzling goals and pinpoint passes on the pitch.

“I think probably some of things I took away were the fact that school was very much on the front burner,” McBride said. “Even though soccer was a large part of what I was doing here, I put a lot of focus on the class side of things.”

McBride recalled the small class setting, with sometimes as few as four students in them, as one of the reasons why he flourished academi-cally and was able to earn his degree in secondary educa-tion from SLU.

Clearly, it was not all books and no soccer balls for Mc-Bride.

He did not reach the

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“Easy” Ed Macauley, the greatest player in Saint Louis University basketball history, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 9. He was 83.

Macauley, the only Bil-liken to be enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, led SLU to the 1948 NIT championship when it, and not the NCAA, was col-lege basketball’s premier event, and was named MVP. SLU beat New York Universi-ty in the championship game at Madison Square Garden. Three days later, the team ar-rived at Union Station by train and was greeted by 15,000 fans for a parade.

Macauley still ranks 10th on the Bills’ all-time scoring list with 1,402 points.

Professionally, he was the top draft pick of the St. Louis Bombers in 1949 but joined the Boston Celtics in 1950, where he played six seasons before being traded to the St. Louis Hawks. Ma-cauley played three seasons there and helped St. Louis win the NBA title in 1958-59. He scored more than 11,000 points in 10 seasons, playing in seven NBA All-Star games.

His No. 50 is retired by SLU, and the Celtics retired his No. 20. When he got his star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 2003, Macauley told the story about how he got his nickname when he was a sophomore at SLU.

“It was the first time I was appointed captain,” Macauley said. “We dressed in the base-ment of West Pine Gym and it was my role to lead the team from the basement locker room through the door.

“But nobody followed me when I ran down the court and made a layup. Then I heard people shout, ‘Take it easy, Ed.’ I didn’t realize it, but they were playing the na-tional anthem. That ‘Easy Ed’ nickname helped me get a lot of attention.”

By ALEX KOZICHStaff Writer

Treadmills are popular forms of exercise for students.

Kelly Hinderberger / (Associate Photo Editor)

Students pick from diverse dozen of Simon Rec’s offerings

By ANDRIA LAMPEStaff Writer

Although they may not know it, pa-trons of the Simon Recreation Center have a wide variety of physical activi-ties to choose from.

In addition to the treadmills, ellip-ticals, weights and bikes, the SRC is offering 12 different classes for those who want a change in their workouts. Classes are categorized into group exercises, mind/body exercises and dance, and all of these cover a wide range of activities.

One of the latest additions to the list is the kettlebell, a cast iron weight with a handle on it. The kettlebell is used for cardio, strength and flexibil-ity training and is a gaining popularity on campus.

Another popular program is Zum-ba, a Latin-inspired dance workout. Laura Asp participates in the Zumba program and looks forward to every workout.

“It focuses on cardio, so we get a good workout, but with the music and the dancing you aren’t thinking about how tired you are,” Asp said.

Spinning, group aerobics and yoga are also student favorites.

Though all programs draw a di-verse crowd, the class makeup tends to be predominately female.

Dancing programs such as salsa also have participants excited. Not only do the instructors teach tech-nique and moves, but they also focus on the history and background of the music. Eric Disanza was new to the

class and was pleased with his experi-ence. “[My teacher] was very friendly and gave me many useful tips,” Dis-anza said. “He was dedicated to our improvement at each session.”

Alterations have been made to certain programs as well. The yoga program now offers a power-flow ses-sion, which targets cardio and core strengthening, and a lunch time ses-sion, which is an intro class more fo-cused on beginners. Kickboxing is also attracting a crowd with its high-intensity aerobic workout.

Lesser-known programs at SRC are the aquatic classes which are offered at four adult levels, a conditioning level and an experienced adult level.

“The classes are designed for ev-eryone, whether they are looking for a workout or just a learning experi-ence,” Khannie Dastgah, organizer of the swimming programs, said. She encourages people to get involved in not only swimming but all programs at SRC.

The programs at SRC are a great way to stay in shape, meet fellow pa-trons and maybe even get in touch with your cross-cultural side.

Whether you are sweating bullets on a stationary bike, stretching your body into pretzels or dipping your partner to the floor, there are classes to fit all tastes.

Every week from Monday to Fri-day, the all-purpose rooms are bustling with patrons looking for healthy alter-natives to their workouts, and with these programs, they are finding that the possibilities are abundant.

Kelly Hinderberger/ Associate Photo Editor

The spinning class is one of the most popular courses offered by the Simon Recreation Center. The Rec offers courses for all types of physical activities.

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Contrary to popular belief, the Grand Bridge is not the only bridge under construc-tion at Saint Louis University. Medical students, have no fear. This one will not cause you any further delays.

Throughout Darin Hen-drickson’s five-year tenure as head baseball coach at SLU, he has been building up a bridge of his own between his program and Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardi-nals.

“The connection between Saint Louis University and the St. Louis Cardinals has been just unimaginable,” Hendrick-son said. “You can’t put a price on it. It’s been wonderful for our team, our university and all our athletes to be around such a first class organiza-tion.”

Hendrickson cultivated this relationship 16 years ago—when he was the skip-per of another collegiate pro-gram— after earning a spot in the Cardinals organization as one of their five batting prac-tice pitchers. The only prereq-uisite for the job was the abil-ity to throw the hide down the strike zone, and Hendrickson, a former pitcher, fit the bill perfectly.

Since coming aboard at SLU, he has put a great em-phasis on strengthening this bond between the two programs, whose home dia-

monds sit a mere 3.5 miles apart from each other.

Hendrickson’s role with the Cardinals creates a num-ber of opportunities for his squad at SLU. In his first year as head coach, his team took on the Cardinals in an exhi-bition match at their spring training facilities in Jupiter, Fla. Busch Stadium was also home to a fundraising home-run derby for the Billikens.

This past August, recently retired Cardinals manager Tony La Russa hosted an in-timate dinner for Hendrick-son and 24 other guests and friends of the Billiken base-ball program. All proceeds from the dinner were put to-ward the team.

“The Cardinals have em-braced us,” Hendrickson said.

Not all of the benefits of the relationship are tangible. In Hendrickson’s case, he has had a front row seat to witness one of the premier manag-ers in the game go about his business. He has been sure to soak up his time with the Cards, taking back both per-sonal memories and attitudes he can share with his team.

When La Russa is men-tioned, Hendrickson immedi-ately brings up and stresses his unparalleled “respect for the game.” The SLU coach also cited La Russa’s uncanny ability to motivate and get the best from his players as traits he continues to strive for when he takes his post in the Billiken dugout.

By MICHAEL JOHNSONSports Editor

“It inspires me, especially this year when I’ve been in an intimate setting and watching [La Russa] from afar,” Hen-drickson said. “In my profes-sion, I’m pretty darn lucky to experience all that up-close.”

Hendrickson’s run with the Cardinals has included three World Series appear-

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ances, one shattered single-season homerun record and a chance to throw batting practice to the likes of Derek Jeter and Ichiro Suzuki after being “traded” to the Ameri-can League when St. Louis played host to the 2009 All Star Game.

Despite the struggle to bal-

ance his family life, oversee-ing all 33 of his players and survive the constantly chang-ing landscape of the recruit-ing trail, Hendrickson contin-ues to loan his right arm to the Cardinals in the summers in hope that his SLU team will continue to grow because of this relationship.

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SLU’s Head Baseball Coach Darin Hendrickson has put recent emphasis on strengthening his program’s ties with the St. Louis Cardinals.

pinnacle of the game’s com-petitive level by sitting in a classroom all day, and it cer-tainly was not an individual effort.

“The best thing when you talk about memories at SLU are the friendships and the people that I met,” McBride said.

“I was lucky to be a part of the team and the coach-ing staff, and I love it when my wife gets a chance to see those guys and meet them more because they’re all such first-class people and great people to have in my life.”

Now that he has hung up the spikes from the profes-sional ranks, McBride has had a chance to relax and spend more time with his fam-ily.

He and his wife have set-tled back in their hometown in the northwest suburbs of

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Continued from Page 10 Chicago with their family. While soccer has played

such an influential in Mc-Bride’s past, it looks like it will continue to do so in his future. He has his sights on coaching at some capacity, ideally at the professional level.

“At the moment, I’m feel-ing things out, looking at each situation and trying to make the best decision,” McBride said.

He returned back to the fa-cility where he once trained to coach a camp for 8 to 12 year olds. He enjoyed the experi-ence and got a lot of positive feedback, but he wants to have a steadier day-to-day in-fluence his pupils, as opposed to coaching them in hourly spurts.

With a degree in educa-tion, a grade-A soccer pedi-gree and an emphasis on the building meaningful relation-ships, McBride has all the credentials to coach.

and Mike Roach missed a few key games with a hamstring injury.

The Bills will lose five se-niors and a few key contribu-tors. Mike Roach, Alex John-ston, Chadd Vandergriffe, Blake Schneider and Beau Bellomy have all played their final games as Bills. Roach had 8 points this season with 2 goals and 4 assists, and Roach concluded his career with 14 goals and 9 assists. Johnston had 1 goal and 1 assist this season, and he concluded his career with 6 goals and 6 as-sists.

While the Bills will lose these veterans , the Bills have some positive building blocks to build on for next year.

Freshman forward Robbie

Soccer: Season over, all eyes to next fall

Kristo burst onto the scene with 6 goals and 2 assists this season, and freshman mid-fielder Raymond Lee finished the season with 4 goals and 1 assist. Kristo led the team in points, and Lee was second.

Freshman midfielder Wil-liam Hidlago contributed 2 goals and 3 assists, and fresh-man midfielder Kingsley Bryce contributed 2 goals and 1 assist. The four freshmen certainly have bright futures with the Bills soccer squad.

Sophomore goalkeeper Nick Shackelford ends the season with a 1.28 goal against average and a .798 save percentage.

The Bills have a bright future but a dismal and dis-appointing present as their bumpy season came to a trag-ic end against Charlotte.

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>> Club Sports

Water polo knocks off local rival, swims onto NationalsBy MICHAEL JOHNSON

Sports Editor

All roads lead to Atlanta for Saint Louis University’s men’s club water polo squad. The Billikens are Peach State- bound after clinching a berth in this weekend’s National Collegiate Club Champion-ship.

The Bills, coached by Dan Goeddel, are seeded sixth in the 16-team bracket. The action will take place in the

pools of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

“All the hard work we’ve put in the pool this fall is final-ly starting to pay off,” junior utility player Craig Borkovec said. “All the extra laps in the pool and time in the weight room was like putting money in the bank. We’re going to put it all on the line this week-end. Nationals is going to be the time when we cash out.”

SLU had to overcome pe-rennial nemesis Lindenwood

University in the Missouri Valley Conference champion-ship game on Oct. 28 in order to secure their place in the na-tional tournament.

The Billikens had come up short against the Lions of Lindenwood the previous two seasons--- two years ago in a double-overtime thriller and last season at the hands of a last minute goal from the Li-ons.

These crushing defeats served as a motivational tool

for this year’s team.“We all hyped up the game

this year against them,” Bork-ovec said. “The older guys still felt the sting from those two losses, and we made sure the younger guys on the team knew about our history with Lindenwood.” When the clock expired in their 12-10 victory over the Lions, Borkovec de-scribed the team’s emotions as “pure elation.”

Players launched them-selves into the pool to cel-

ebrate while the Lindenwood players swam off in a frustrat-ed, dejected manner.

Shortly after collecting their hardware for the con-ference championship, the team’s focus shifted to their first round opponent, the Uni-veristy of Illinois-Chicago.

“We have team that’s an-chored with veterans,” Bork-ovec said. “That’s one of our biggest assets. We’re taking it one game at a time with our eyes fixed on the prize.”

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The Billiken point guard has faced his fair share of criticism over the past year. However, he quietly accepted his penalty for his role in last year’s scandal and is ready to play. Almost all juniors and seniors remember how much fun it can be to watch Mitchell play, even though many of them have already forgot-ten much of what they learned in their freshman classes.

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The self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports” did not include the Billiken’s men’s basketball team in the top 60 teams in the country in their 2011 preseason rank-ings. Not cool, ESPN. Not cool.

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ESPN

There is a buzz around campus, to borrow a term from anyone who has ever covered college sports, surrounding the men’s basketball team this season. But with such lofty goals, Billiken fans have to avoid being prisoners-of-the-moment who get down on the team after any loss. With a team that has the potential to only get better as the season goes on and free season tickets to all students, it is impor-tant that the whole campus comes out to support the team.

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