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Thursday’s massive ice storm left thousands of St. Louis residents without elec-tricity for a second time since July. While employees of Ame-ren, the company that sup-plies St. Louis with power, scramble to restore damaged lines, many, including Wash-ington University students are currently left in the dark.

The University is currently offering Rosedale, University Drive, and other off-campus students sheets, blankets, pillows, and a warm place to sleep in Lopata Multipurpose room. Of the approximately 20 mattresses available to stu-dents, only one showed signs of use.

Fontbonne University stu-dents displaced by the loss of power were offered housing by the University. Twenty stu-dents stayed last night on the 3rd and 4th fl oors of Liggett and Koenig.

According to Susan Gal-lagher, media relations for Ameren, the total peak num-ber of people out of power was 510,000, a statistic that includes residents on both sides of the river. Approxi-mately 2,600 individuals from utilities across 14 states ar-rived over the weekend to help restore power. Ameren has 7,000 fi eld workers—1,700 more than deployed during the July storm.

As of Saturday afternoon, 363,000 residents remain without power. Gallagher said that the numbers do not re-fl ect Ameren’s efforts.

“We’ve restored power to tens of thousands of people, but we’ve also had problems keeping them on. As the ice melted, more and more limbs fell on our lines.”

Gallagher added that the warmer temperatures throughout the weekend have

caused the ice to melt, further hindering workers. “This is one of the most tree-lined cit-ies in the nation. As a result, we are always battling trying to cut back trees. When we got higher temperatures, the tree limbs sprung back up and hit our lines.”

Students have also felt the chill of the power outages. Senior Sara Oetjen, who lives in the Greenway Apartments, has been without power since Thursday evening.

“We’re pretty lucky that Greenway is pretty well in-sulated, so other apartments have stayed pretty warm. It’s just starting to get cold now,” said Oetjen. “I know a lot of other people that live on Wash. Ave. and they’re really cold. A lot of people have just had to go and fi nd somebody else to stay with.”

Junior Jenna Werner, who lives a block away from the University on Forsyth Blvd., had to leave her apartment for the duration of their outage. Power was restored for her Sunday morning.

“I couldn’t be at home [be-cause] we lost heat. I couldn’t do work, or be in my apart-ment because it was freezing cold,” said Werner. “We had to come back to run water to make sure our pipes didn’t freeze.”

Oetjen voiced similar con-cerns over the loss of electric-ity.

“It’s hard to stay in touch. I’m used to checking my e-mail every fi ve minutes…and now we’re just kind of cut off,” said Oetjen. “We can’t cook food, we had to throw out ev-erything...it’s a little frustrat-ing.”

Oetjen also noted the favor-able University response she has witnessed so far.

“RAs were really good about it. They came by and checked on us and asked us if we need-ed anything,” said Oetjen.

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College may have allowed you to escape from your own parents, but you could be sitting next to some-one else’s. Adult students are scat-tered throughout classes at Wash-ington University.

Adult students study at the Uni-versity for a diversity of reasons including career development in-terests and personal enrichment.

“Adult students have several options at the University,” said the Dean of the University College Rob-ert Wiltenburg.

Students age 55 and up can take non-credited courses through the Lifelong Learning Institute. These courses tackle a variety of subject material. Some current courses in-clude “Understanding Terrorism,” “Neurophilosophy Survey,” and “Pursuing Moby Dick.”

Adult students can take cred-ited courses through University College, which is the evening and special-programs division of the College of Arts & Sciences. Stu-dents have the option of earning bachelor’s degree, master’s degrees or other certifi cates.

University College enables stu-dents to balance education with work and family commitments. “Women are often put in the posi-tion to balance these things more thoroughly,” said Wiltenburg. The average student age is around 35 and two-thirds of the students are women.

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BY MARLA FRIEDMANSTAFF REPORTER

A professor’s initiative to write his own textbook will provide students with insight into diagnosing their own health problems. Biology lecturer Stanton Braude’s recently published textbook, “Case Studies for Understanding the Human Body,” has begun to circu-late among classes at the University.

Braude followed other professors’ endeavors to write their own course books because they did not have material that met the needs of their students.

“It’s an incredible amount of work—no one does it for the money—but if the books out there aren’t teaching the way we do, or they’re not teaching it the way we know it’ll work for students, then people go to the trouble of writing a new one,” said Braude.

Thomas Woolsey, profes-sor of experimental neu-rological surgery who co-authored two editions of “The Brain Atlas,” supports Braude’s reasoning.

“If the course is very unique and/or very popu-lar, then I think some per-centage of those professors would benefit from writing

their own book, and their whole field of intellectual and practical knowledge would improve,” said Wool-sey.

Braude’s textbook com-prises case studies that use fictional stories to detail common diseases, such as “Thanksgiving Dinner Dis-tress,” which focuses on problems in the digestive system. He began writing the stories to help students better understand his les-sons in Human Biology, a course geared toward non-science majors.

“There was nothing else

BY PREETHI NALLUCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

By the time the lung tries to repair damage caused from smoking, it may be too late. Researchers from Wash-ington University in conjunc-tion with other universities revealed that lungs severely diseased by Chronic Ob-structive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) try to repair them-selves by creating new alveo-lar walls.

The lung’s restoration at-tempt has surprised many.

For many years now the commonly accepted scien-tifi c notion is that the air sacs, called alveolar sacs, destroyed by tobacco smoke

are permanently damaged because the adult lung is incapable of producing new sacs. Until now, COPD has been perceived as a progres-sive disease with irreversible effects.

Prior to the report entitled, “Evidence for attempted re-gional elastic fi ber repair in severe emphysema,” medical experts theorized that elastic fi bers in alveolar walls were produced only during fetal development and early life.

The researchers, including Jason Woods, Alexander Pat-terson and Richard Pierce of Washington University, stud-ied ten lungs at end stage COPD and discovered that moderately diseased parts

of these lungs increased production of a gene linked to elastin fi ber proliferation in an effort to repair the de-stroyed walls.

Elastin fi bers allow the lung to expand and contract when inhaling and exhaling.

While COPD is commonly correlated with emphysema, it also comprises chronic bronchitis.

Pierce attributes the suc-cess of the research project to the collaboration of the phys-ics and the internal medicine departments at Washington University.

“I’d like to emphasize that our collaboration with Dr. Ja-

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Trees fell on some cars parked on Melville Ave. outside Greenway Apart-ments during the storm on Nov. 30. Some residents of the University-owned apartments have been without power since Thursday night. They are among the 510,000 St. Louis residents who still have not had their power restored.

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Snow falls on the South 40 in the wee early hours on Dec. 1. The large storm dropped temperatures over 50 degrees in two days and knocked out power throughout the city.

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BY MARGY LEVINSONSTAFF REPORTER

Every semester, students receive countless e-mails from both administrators and professors asking them to fi ll out course evaluations. Easy as it may be to simply ignore this electronic deluge, many students do take the time to comment on their professors of the past semester.

Sophomore Adam Rothman has fi lled out evaluations in the past because of the incen-tives given in his classes.

“[I fi lled them out] mainly for general chemistry and chemistry lab because they gave us extra points,” said Rothman. “Once I was at the Web site I fi gured I might as well fi ll out the rest.”

The administration has been working hard to encour-age more students to fi ll out the online evaluations.

“We support any approach that the faculty members feels comfortable and fi nd effec-tive. Course evaluations are important,” said Dean Henry Biggs, head of the evaluation program for Arts & Sciences. “We encourage [professors] to send out e-mails and talk about it in class.”

Although providing incen-tives is not the only way to get students to fi ll out evalu-ations, the administration feels it could be a positive way to get student feedback.

Once students fi ll out the evaluations, they can help both the administration and the overall student body.

“The Evals are looked over by administrators when fac-ulty go up for tenure or when they go up for promotion,” said Biggs. “They are looked at by faculty members to see how to improve a course.”

Biggs also explained that

there is a wide range of how many professors use the eval-uations, with some professors taking them very seriously and others to a lesser extent.

After evaluations are fi lled out, other students who are possibly interested in taking those courses can view them.

“University College, ArtSci and Engineering students can see all of the averages, [but] not the comments,” said Biggs. “They can see them in great, great detail. You can go and look, down to the last person, and see what the range of re-sponses are and what their averages are as they relate to the whole system.”

Recently, the University’s system has been commended as one of the top evaluation systems in the nation by the online journal Inside Higher Ed. “We were recently honored as ‘the Rolls Royce of course evaluations,’” said Biggs.

He explained that this re-fl ected the high degree of student participation every semester.

“We average right around 70 percent and we’re ahead of our pace. It’s all very ex-citing—it says a lot about the system and a lot about our students, too,” said Biggs.

The University continually tries new tactics to improve the system. Recently, students have received a special thank you for filling out the evalu-ations in the form of a rap or rhyme performed by various members of the administra-tion, including Chancellor Wrighton and Deans McLeod, Carnaghi and Biggs. The Uni-versity is also working on getting former Assembly Se-ries speakers such as Cheech Marin and Bill Nye to do their own thank you’s.

The person who came up with idea of the video clips

was Pushkar Sharma, an alumnus who graduated in 2006. Biggs explained that Sharma worked on the Evals as a summer project and even wrote the raps for the administrators.

“If we can come up with engaging ways to encourage more participation, I think it’s great,” said Chancellor Mark Wrighton.

Students have responded in a variety of ways, but for the most part the response appears to be positive.

“They appreciate the effort of the Chancellor to take the time and to have the sense of humor that he did to do that,” said Biggs.

Although Rothman has not filled out his course evalua-tions this year, he said, “Af-ter I heard about them, I was more excited to do them just to see what it was.”

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like this book,” said Braude. “There are case study books that are meant for medical students, but that’s way be-yond this course. It didn’t seem fair that we shouldn’t be able to work with case studies just because someone else wrote the cases for medi-cal students.”

Each of Braude’s case stud-ies started out as a handout for class, but after he accu-mulated about a dozen sto-ries, he decided to apply a case study for every topic and compile them into a text-book.

“Everybody likes stories, and so this is a way to make science more interesting by applying how things work in your body to stories,” he said. “It puts a human face on the science that we’ve been try-ing to understand.”

Senior Nadya MacAloon took Human Biology with Braude and read pre-press copies of the case studies, which she said were “wonder-ful supplements to the class textbook.”

“It was great to have real life illustrations and real world applications of the bio-logical things we were learn-ing,” she added.

Woolsey similarly feels that his own book fosters stu-dent’s comprehension of class material. He uses the refer-ence book in multiple arenas,

including his undergraduate classes, such as Principles of the Nervous System, graduate neuroscience courses, and in lessons for his medical school residents.

“We have PowerPoint pre-sentations that use the im-ages from “[The Brain] Atlas” to make points to students about different things we’re trying to convey,” he said.

Senior Puneet Singh is glad she had the opportunity to use Woolsey’s reference book when she took Principles of the Nervous System.

“When professors write their own book, students know they will get the most out of the material because the professor is an expert in the area and knows ex-actly the perspective that is presented in the book,” said Singh.

But not all students felt pleased at professors using their own textbooks in class.

“I feel like it’s kind of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you know what the book is about, but on the oth-er hand, [the textbooks] are kind of just self-promoting, and don’t really accept any opposing views,” said senior James Smee, a psychology ma-jor. “My worry is that they’re too biased and it may not be the best book in the area.”

Randall Larsen, chair of the psychology department, who has authored three edi-tions of “Personality of Psy-chology,” found that writing his own book helped students to absorb the material.

“The books that were in ex-istence before mine were or-ganized in a way that I found unsatisfactory, around all these theorists who had been

dead for decades,” said Lars-en. “Before I wrote my book, I reorganized my class to pro-vide up-to-date material, and found that students not only liked the material more than the old theories, but that they also remembered it longer.”

Writing one’s own textbook can also present problems of finding new information for class lectures.

“The challenge for me is to bring stuff into the class that’s not in the book because I used some of my best mate-rial to write the book, and now I have to look for new materi-al,” said Larsen. “I don’t want to repeat the material—stu-dents can read the books on their own and that would be boring for students.”

Larsen does not encourage professors to write their own textbooks, as it took up all of his discretionary time for five years. Instead, he feels that professors should work to provide students with stimulating information not present in the required text-book.

“Professors need to work on supplementing the book they decide to use—no book is perfect, but they can skip a particular chapter and insert their own material,” he said.

“When I was in college, one professor would read the book to us, as if we couldn’t read it, and that was horrible. Some professors essentially do the same thing by tak-ing the textbook and making a PowerPoint outline, and I think professors need to be careful not to do that, and to instead add new things to their lectures.”

TEXTBOOKS v FROM PAGE 1

ing an English degree and the University College could not of-fer a required course in a timely manner, a student might take the course during the day,” said Wiltenburg.

Some adult students from the University College transfer to the College of Arts & Sciences. Su-zanne Gates is currently pursing a bachelor’s degree in Interna-tional and Area Studies as a day student due to practicality. “I’d prefer to take night classes with other older students, but I have other responsibilities so it works better for me to take classes dur-ing the day,” she said.

Adult students tend to have different perspectives from tra-ditional students.

“It’s interesting to see how younger students look at life and to remember being at that point in my life. Washington University can be such a small community that I think it can be good for younger students to be with older ones so that they aren’t so closed off from everything else,” said Antoinette Marie Kennedy. Ken-nedy originally came to the Uni-

versity in the early ’90s to study architecture, but has returned to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Af-rican American Studies.

In some circumstances both adult and traditional students benefi t from each other’s per-spectives. Dean Wiltenburg said that one University College course in Advance Writing and Public Speaking was comprised of “very bright 20 year olds and very experienced 40 year olds.” “This synergy can work in such a way that students help to edu-cate each other,” he said.

In reality, this type of syner-gy is uncommon. Gates said that she rarely speaks with younger students. “It’s really strange be-cause many of the students are the same ages as my kids. There defi nitely is a networking prob-lem for me,” she said.

Most traditional students report that they have little in-teraction with adult students. “Older students don’t necessar-ily negatively or positively affect the class,” said sophomore Eric Dubs.

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son Woods in the Physics de-partment has made it possible to conduct these studies,” he said. Pierce further explained that Woods also played a piv-otal role in providing under-graduate students with op-portunities to participate in the venture. Kristin Castillo, a 2006 graduate, was among the student contributors who helped decipher which genes were being expressed in the diseased lungs.

“This reshapes our way of thinking about end stage emphysema,” Castillo said. “There is a possibility that the lungs can make more elastin or try to repair themselves.”

These fi ndings may incite concerns that tobacco com-panies could claim that the extent of damage caused by chronic cigarette smoke ex-posure may not be as severe as previously perceived. But, Pierce explained that the dis-eased lung does not attempt to repair itself until the end stage when “it’s too little, too

late.”“The lung affected by COPD

cannot stop worsening if the person continues smoking,” Pierce added.

Researchers may now focus on why the efforts of some diseased lungs fail while other lungs do not develop emphysema at all. Also, as the American Physiological Society reported, the fi nding “could pave the way to develop a drug to ‘turn on’ key genes to allow the lung to grow new alveoli.”

A remarkable feature of the study was that the scientists studied whole diseased lungs of patients who had already undergone successful trans-plants.

Pierce marveled at this ex-traordinary progress of sci-ence. “Here I am studying someone’s lung while they have a new lease on life and while we’re provided a new lease on discovery.”

Although “huge” is a term Pierce likes to avoid while

describing the result of any scientifi c study, he certainly believes that his department is at the “threshold of a new thrust in lab [activity].”

He foresees meticulous fo-cus on genetic, environmental and other factors that affect the lungs of smokers to bet-ter understand why different lungs reacts in varying de-grees to the effects of smoke exposure. The efforts will be facilitated by a grant awarded to Washington University to establish a specialized center dedicated toward researching treatment of COPD. Following the route of collective efforts of different disciplines, the proposed research will com-prise radiologists, physicists, lung biologists and other re-searchers.

“This fi nding is a strong step forward in our under-standing of COPD and toward fi nding therapeutic remedies,” said Woods.

Senior Scene Editor / Erin Fults / [email protected] | DECEMBER 4, 2006 STUDENT LIFE | SCENE 3

SCENESCENEIt was New Year’s Day

2005. Sophomore Bobbie Bigby was studying abroad in China. A little homesick, Bigby went to a Daoist temple to refl ect. When she left the temple later that day, she had found more than consola-tion—she also had a date.

Inside the temple, Bigby had met Xuewen, a Chinese student working towards a bachelor’s degree in Daoist philosophy. After talking for a while, Xuewen asked Bigby out and the couple dated for the duration of Bigby’s time abroad.

Many Washington Uni-versity students have long-distance relationships with students attending other universities in the United States. For some couples, how-ever, distance is calculated by more than just mileage. Dating someone from an-other country adds a level of cultural difference that can affect everything from how a relationship begins to how emotions are expressed.

Senior Rebecca Traub dated a native Englishman for several months as she stud-ied at Oxford University her junior year. Traub noted that several of the local English students seemed fascinated by American girls studying abroad. After they had grown more comfortable together, Traub asked the guy she was dating about her observation.

“I said to him, ‘I’ve no-ticed that all of your friends are dating American girls—what’s with that?’” said Traub. “He kind of brushed off the comment.”

Indeed, there is a certain allure to dating someone

from another country. Stories of dreamlike romances fl oat in the heads of students as they head off to discover a new culture abroad. It becomes a sort of adventure to date someone who lives in a different nation. In most cases, this adventure and the study abroad experience end simultaneously.

For sophomore Caitlin Park, the adventure didn’t even begin until she had re-turned home from her study abroad program in Mexico. While in Mexico, Caitlin developed a strong friend-ship with Roman, a Mexican student who attends the host university of Park’s program. Their relationship was strict-ly limited to friendship for the entirety of Park’s six-week trip. Park stayed in touch with Roman after coming home and the two discussed the possibility of reuniting the following summer.

One day, Roman mentioned that he had a break until school began again, and that he would be able to visit Park before the summer was over. Shortly thereafter, Roman came to stay with Park at her family home in Portland, Ore.

“He came to Portland as a friend and things just sort of developed,” said Park. “He made that effort to come see me [and] that was just a huge thing for me.”

When Ramon left to go back to Mexico, the couple decided to stay together.

“It came down to the fact that we both loved what we had and didn’t want it to end,” said Park.

Bigby and her boyfriend had a similar feeling when Bigby’s academic year in China ended. Bigby elected to skip her high school gradua-

tion and stay in China a while longer. She and Xuewen trav-eled throughout the country and even visited Xuewen’s parents in south China. When Bigby fi nally had to return to the United States, the pair had no doubts that they wanted their relationship to continue.

Despite the nearly con-stant state of separation their relationship entails, Bigby and Xuewen are still together today. The distance can be daunting and Bigby mentioned that it is some-times diffi cult to see couples displaying their affection around campus.

Yet, Bigby is content with her relationship. What is im-portant, said Bigby, is being able to hear her boyfriend’s voice. She and Xuewen speak every day, mostly in Chinese. Bigby hasn’t found keep-ing in touch to be a problem but noted that occasionally cultural differences can serve as minor roadblocks in their conversations.

“There is so much about Chinese culture…that I can’t expect to understand because I wasn’t born there,” said Bigby.

Xuewen tries to bridge the culture gap by paying close attention to Bigby’s remarks about their relationship. For example, he began salsa les-sons after Bigby told him she wished dancing like she had experienced in Latin America could be a part of their rela-tionship.

“To me it doesn’t matter… whether he is good at salsa, but it’s the effort that really shows love,” said Bigby.

Traub found that a dif-ference in cultural defaults caused occasional misunder-standings.

“There were defi nitely cultural and even language differences, even between people who [supposedly spoke] the same language,” said Traub.

She recalled that it took a while to get used to her Eng-lish boyfriend’s use of differ-ent slang and to understand the relationship he shared with his male friends.

Interestingly, sophomore Gal Ben-Josef and her boy-friend Cesar Lizarraga, a Wash. U. junior and a native of Puerto Rico, haven’t really noticed the effects of their different backgrounds on their relationship. The pair attributed this lack of distinc-tion to Lizarraga’s familiarity with the United States.

“I think [Lizarraga] is pretty Americanized,” said Ben-Josef. “[He] had a year here before [I] even met him to get accustomed to United States culture…it’s not like it’s something new.”

Lizarraga agreed.

“I’ve been trained in Ameri- can culture for a long time,” he said. “And this is my third year [actually] here, so I’ve [really gotten used] to Ameri-can things.”

If Park and Bigby’s plans work out, their boyfriends will also get a chance to be-come more learned in Ameri-can culture. Park’s boyfriend is looking into summer opportunities in Portland and Bigby’s hopes to attend graduate school in the United States.

For now, the girls are fo-cusing on enjoying what they have. Both Park and Bigby attributed much of their suc-cess to their parents’ support

and un-

der-stand-

ing. “I feel that

sometimes some people who don’t

know me as well [don’t] have [respect] towards my

relationship,” said Bigby. “[But] I feel that our love is so true I don’t need other people to validate it… it is [enough] for me that both of our par-ents validate it.”

Bigby also stressed the im-portance of approaching her relationship with a positive attitude.

“I fi gure all couples have [a] hump to get over,” said Bigby. “It’s just [that the] obstacle we have to overcome is very different from other people’s.” Park maintains a similar outlook.

“We’re really just having a lot of optimism about [our relationship],” she said. “The fact that he’s so optimistic too is really what has kept us going through this. I [do] wish he was here…but I’m perfectly content otherwise.”

Dating internationally: couples without bordersBY FELICIA BASKIN SCENE REGULAR FEATURES EDITOR

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On May 6, 1993, in a small town named West Memphis, Ark., the bodies of three

8-year-old boys were found. Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore were found beaten, mutilated and tied with their own shoelaces. By an unfortunate coinci-dence, a juvenile probation offi cer was among those in the search party. He implied to authori-ties that one of his charges, Damien Echols, was the only person who could be capable of a thing like this. Echols had been seeing the proba-tion offi cer after he ran away from home with his girlfriend and broke into an abandoned house for shelter. Due to his penchant for dark cloth-ing and “satanic” music and books, the authorities didn’t question the validity of the claim. Although there was no forensic evidence, no murder weapon and no connection to either the crime scene or the victims, Damien Echols and his two friends, Jason Bald-win and Jessie Misskelley, were brought in after Misskel-ley was coerced into confess-ing. Misskelley, who has been deemed mildly retarded, was forced to endure a 12-hour interrogation without legal consultation or a legal guard-ian present, which should have been required due to Misskelley’s age of 17. More frighteningly, despite the lack of substantial evidence, Damien Echols was sentenced to death by lethal injection, Jason Baldwin was sentenced to a life sentence with no pa-role and Jessie Misskelley was sentenced to a life sentence plus 40 years.

This case is a great black mark on our judiciary system, one that to this day has not been corrected. Echols, Bald-win and Misskelley were vic-tims of a modern-day witch hunt. Due to their interest in paganism, black clothing and heavy metal music, they stuck out like sore thumbs

in the predominately Baptist community. Furthermore, there was a strong belief among the offi cials running the case that all child mur-ders and mutilations were satanic rituals of sacrifi ce. It was this belief alone that the prosecutors pushed to prove the three’s guilt. During the process of the investigation, there was an eyewitness report from a nearby restau-rant owner that an African-American man covered in blood stumbled from the crime-scene area around the three boys’ time of death, but the blood evidence from the restaurant was lost.

You may be asking why this is relevant now. The truth of the matter is that injustice does not have an expiration date. As a nation, we cannot let oversights like this go uncorrected. It cor-rodes the very fabric of our justice system. No govern-ment, whether national or local, should have the power to convict someone just be-cause they think, act or have different beliefs than the greater public. If those boys wore anything but black and listened to something besides heavy metal, they would never have gotten into this position.

If this sounds horrifying, there are actions that can be taken to support the West Memphis Three, as they have come to be called. Support-ers have started a Web site to spread awareness and to give those who want to help the opportunity. The Web site is www.wm3.org. By not caring for this travesty, we show a lack of care in a working jus-tice system and are therefore softening the foundation on which our country was founded. So, go out there, buy a T-shirt, write a letter or e-mail your friends; it re-ally doesn’t matter how you choose to help—just as long as you try.

All information from this article came from www.wm3.org and www.crimelibrary.com.

Chelsea is a junior in the School of Art and a Forum Editor. She can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

One of the things that Evangelicals seem to talk about all the time is the direc-

tion of our country. Com-ing from a golden and most assuredly sin-free past, they never seem to shut up about the currently decrepit state of our moral affairs and how we’re just getting worse (that is, of course, unless you vote for Bush). Regardless of how accurate their perception of America’s spiritual journey is, the fact remains: America conceives of its society pri-marily in terms of movement. The Civil Rights movement, the Women’s Rights move-ment and, of course, Disco are all great examples of this phenomenon. We constantly defi ne our society in relation to where it was and where it’s going. One of the most recent

of these movements has fi l-tered its way into society and is currently enjoying wide-spread adoption in the hearts and minds of the younger portion of the populace. In the last fi ve years or so, there has been a resurgence of masculinity.

I can fi nd evidence of this resurgence everywhere I look. Advertising has seized upon this notion and is increas-ingly producing commer-cials which are aimed at and celebrate men. The earliest example I can think of is the emergence of Axe into popular culture. With an ad campaign that emphasized the virtues of hooking up, they managed to tap straight into this burgeoning market. Miller Lite has a series of ads where a group of men adored for their masculin-ity sit around a table and devise “Man Laws.” One such law: “When requesting that

a buddy help you move into a new house, a six-pack of Miller Lite will be the appro-priate compensation for his efforts. Man Law.”

Literature has been involved in this movement as well. There now exists a genre known alternately as either “Fratire” or “Dick Lit.” At the forefront of this new category are the authors Tucker Max and Maddox—two Internet idols who have transferred into the world of printed media. Their books “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” and “The Alphabet of Manliness” highlight impor-tant trends in this new social movement: humor, self-con-fi dence, friendship, brutal honesty, humor, the discon-nection of emotion and sex, alcoholism, the perception of men as distinctly differ-ent from women and, most of all, humor—usually in the extraordinarily politically

incorrect style.Many people see this new

masculinity as a reaction against the second-wave feminism of the ’60s and ’70s and the political cor-

rectness of the ’80s and ’90s, or as some in the movement have instead called it, the “pussifi cation” of our society. Many men feel that these two movements, though not necessarily bad in concep-tion, created a moratorium on masculinity. The natural

reaction is this movement, composed of men not afraid to be men.

This is correctly called a new masculinity, however, because there are crucial differences between this and the old versions. I mentioned earlier that men are conceiv-ing of themselves as fun-damentally different than women. This does not, how-ever, imply that one is better than the other and I believe that most men would agree with me on this point. This doesn’t mean that jokes are off-limits. As a matter of fact, politically incorrect jokes are encouraged. I believe that these jokes refl ect a refusal of this new society to take itself or anyone too seriously.

Some have accused this resurgence of foster-ing discrimination against homosexuals. Although this claim is not entirely ground-less, neither do I believe it

to absolutely true. I think it is femininity in men which is discouraged and that this is often wrongly interpreted as homophobia. As proof of this, I will offer up the movie Brokeback Mountain. Although the movie will be forever remembered as a milestone in the quest for sexual tolerance in America, I also see something else in it. The two protagonists of the movie are most certainly gay, but they are also cowboys. They ride horses, brand cattle and kick ass. The movie showed that gay men don’t have to be sissies. In other words, gay men can be men too.

In the ’90s, feminism went through a revolution. Third-wave feminism began to speak less of a war be-tween the sexes, and more of a general encouragement

BY TOM BUTCHERSTAFF COLUMNIST

Since the University instituted printing fees in Olin Library on Oct. 20, students have

sought out new places to do their printing. The Arts & Sciences Computing Center in Eads Hall, which continues to offer free printing for Arts & Sciences materials, has seen a dramatic increase in traffi c.

The facility has been struggling to keep up with enormous demand for stu-dent printing. With only two printers in service for 55 total computers, of which 39 are PCs and 16 Macs, it has become increasingly diffi cult and laborious to print out materials, with printing wait times reaching 20-30 min-utes. This problem becomes especially pronounced before

the beginnings of classes, when a large volume of stu-dents print before leaving. Students are often faced with the choice of leaving without their documents or being late to class.

The administration should have foreseen the potential effects of printing fees on the ArtSci computer lab and gone about ways to improve its ef-fi ciency. The biggest problem is the backup of printing due to the large amount of people printing materials at the same time. The ratio of 27.5 computers per one printer is unacceptably high—we need more printers to accommo-date the printing usage.

The University has been successful in decreasing excessive printing at Olin

Library, lowering costs and paper usage; however, the $640 increase in printing costs at the Arts & Sciences lab compared to the same period last year has been enough to increase overall printer usage.

And the problem may still become worse. This semester, since students were aware of the impending printing fees, many printed out their semester’s worth of mate-rials before the fees were installed. Next semester, however, there will not be a way to print out materials in Olin for free—in all likeli-hood, even more students will be printing in the ArtSci computer lab next semester, creating even longer lines and more of a headache for

students.The potential increase in

printing costs to the Univer-sity should not be a deterrent to installing additional print-ers. Printing in the ArtSci computer lab is limited to one copy of class-related materials, and this policy is enforced by lab staff. Be-cause of this restriction, the addition of new printers would not interfere with the University’s goals of limiting wasteful printing and keep-ing printing costs reasonable.

With winter break looming on the horizon, the adminis-tration will have the perfect time to work towards improv-ing the lab, installing more printers and creating a more effi cient printing system in time for the spring semester.

Arts & Sciences lab doesn’t need to be a headache

BRIAN SOTAK | EDITORIAL CARTOON

STAFF EDITORIAL Support the West Memphis Three

Chelsea Murphy

On Evangelism, feminism and men

“I think it is femininity in men which is

discouraged, and that this is often

wrongly interpreted as homophobia.”

See BUTCHER, page 5

Senior Forum Editor / Daniel Milstein / [email protected] | DECEMBER 4, 2006 STUDENT LIFE | FORUM 5

Progress halted in writ-ing classes a few weeks ago when the English depart-ment forced students to take the Senior Writing Assessment. Not only did the assessment—which at one point asked students to calculate the cost of increas-ing the college matriculation rate for Americans in the lower three income quar-tiles from eight percent to 46 percent—fail to measure writing ability, but even if it had succeeded, the results would have been at best unconvincing, biased and unrepresentative of how much or if the school has improved students’ writing.

The prompt for the 50-minute essay asked stu-dents to reread Mortimer B. Zuckerman’s 1806-word ar-ticle, “Rich Man, Poor Man,” which some may or may not have browsed the night before, and then analyze its argument. As the article

was more full of arguments than a championship Lin-coln-Douglas League debate team, blowing through them just as quickly, albeit with-out citing sources or logi-cally defending his claims, simply sifting through it re-quired more time than was available to sift, analyze and write a coherent essay. Is the Department then measur-ing the ability to write—to express oneself clearly and carefully through words on paper—or to read, inter-pret and critique an article outside one’s field of study in the time it takes to watch an episode of “Lost” without commercials?

Bad: By mandating that the assessment be graded, the English Department violated the contract of the syllabus, altering how our performance in the course was evaluated. This dropped undue pressure on the students and unproductive time demands on the profes-sor.

Worse: One entire session of a class designed to im-

prove our writing was sacri-ficed to measure how much the class had improved our writing. This was not at the end of the semester but in

the middle, with four major papers yet unwritten.

Worse still: The focus of the class is scrupulous word choice and essay structure with deliberate consider-ation of audience, message and means of conveyance.

For this class I once spent an hour on five sentences. The effect of the writing as-sessment was that of taking a calligrapher’s apprentice, blindfolding him, handing him a paint roller and ask-ing him to ink your wedding invitations. In one hour.

With what will these writing samples be com-pared? Other hurried essays written freshman year. For the moment ignoring the glaring lapses in apply-ing the scientific method, the results still say little. Unremarkably, one’s verbal vomit from four years past seems stale next to that of today, especially since the only students taking the Senior Writing Assessment are those who signed up for writing classes, a self-select-ed group of students who wish to improve their writ-ing. To say that their writing has improved is to say one who has purposefully spent hours on a treadmill has grown leaner. Would we say that is thanks to the treadmill or to the runner?

The treadmill played a part, the vehicle for the runner’s drive to her goal; but any bicycle, any stair master, any jogging path could have done the job. It was the runner who chose the fitness center over the fast food drive thru, who chose to return again and again, each time an ounce leaner, a meter stronger. Progress, then, comes not from the treadmill but from he who sweats upon it.

The English Department is that treadmill; the stu-dents choosing, from among the expansive alternatives of the course catalog, to write—the runners. We would not credit the tread-mill with improving their fitness, and certainly not without at least weighing those who chose fast food; neither can we meaningfully credit the Department with improving their writing, especially not without look-ing at those who writhed in freshman writing and Argu-mentation and have never since put pen to paper.

Just as it makes no sense to say that the student body is in better shape because everyone surveyed in the weight room is stronger than he was four years ago, so too is it silly to comment on the improved writ-ing abilities of seniors by sampling the ones willfully enrolled in writing classes.

Of the three components, “senior,” “writing” and “as-sessment,” the latter two are inaccurate, with the first ac-curate but briefly, until the Department chose to make juniors in writing classes participate as well. That a department at this Univer-sity would interrupt courses to impose an ill-thought, inaccurate bastardization of the very writing its profes-sors implore students to cherish, is, in my opinion, the true cause for assess-ment.

Scott is a senior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached e-mail at [email protected].

Senior writing assessment inappropriateBY SCOTT ABRAHAMSOP-ED SUBMISSION

Waking up Friday morning to learn that classes were, in fact, not can-

celled due to the snow storm from the previous night, I admit I was surprised. Why were we seemingly the only school in St. Louis that was open? Considering this was the major topic of discus-sion in a number of my classes on Friday, I know that others shared my feel-ings.

But I can’t complain that

classes weren’t cancelled just because they were else-where. If the powers that be at Wash. U. decide that the roads are safe enough for faculty, staff and students to get to campus, then by all means, on with the show.

But what about once people are on campus? With snow and ice (let alone trees) covering the majority of the paths on the Danforth Campus, walking around proved to be a treacherous venture. The University is lucky that despite its inad-equate and unacceptable treatment of the storm’s effects by Friday morning, no major incidents occurred as a result of the storm (to my knowledge). This is the bottom line: If the adminis-tration decides that classes are to be held as usual, the proper safety precautions need to be taken in order to protect anyone who sets foot on campus.

The trees sure looked beautiful, right? Don’t for-get how dangerous it was for us to have been walking be-low them. Low temperatures this early in the season and trees still full of sap are a dangerous combination, as was seen all over cam-pus, with a number of trees falling down as a result of the weight of the ice on the branches, as well as the frozen sap inside. What’s to say that a tree couldn’t have

fallen down while students were walking to and from class during the day?

And the icicles? It was as if we were lost in a forest of crystal with the glass-like ice reflecting the sun’s light. How poetic! But of course we forget that those icy dag-gers could have fallen and hit unsuspecting people in the head or eyes at any time. Residents of the South 40 must have noticed the gauntlet of icicles in the un-derpass. Those could have easily been taken down so as to not hit someone walk-ing by, but they were left unattended all day anyway.

What do you think a visit-ing prospective student or parent thought upon seeing our campus in this condi-tion? Had it been me, I would have been put off by the horrible maintenance of the paths on campus on Friday. With all this school does to maintain its appear-ance (we’re all too familiar with the incessant landscap-ing and lawn care), could ef-forts not have been shifted to salting and sanding the sidewalks so that the cam-pus was at least somewhat walkable? Imagine taking a campus tour along the icy paths. Now imagine try-ing to give a tour, walking around backwards. Sounds fun, I know. You would have to be a skier or a magician to stay standing the whole time.

To be fair, I can’t say that the University did nothing to ease the burden of the storm on campus. On Friday, for example, a portion of the sidewalk along Snow Way Drive was nicely salted and in those areas, the ice was completely melted. On Sat-urday morning, I saw that many paths had been salted overnight, which was a nice improvement, but which unfortunately came a day too late.

I know St. Louis is not used to storms of this magnitude, and I know it was especially early in the season for a storm like this to hit, but if we were un-prepared for it, and if the administration was not able to properly facilitate the proper cleanup, then our campus—just like those of schools all over the sur-rounding area—should have been closed for the day.

Andrew is a junior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

BY ANDREW ZENKEROP-ED SUBMISSION

In international rela-tions, the word “devel-opment” gets thrown around without any con-

sensus on what it actually means. This is particularly the case when the Western world discusses Africa. I’m currently studying abroad in Kenya and I hear the word development every day. Someone will say, “we should take advice from the developed world,” or, “Kenya is still developing.”

Views like these make the common assumption that “development” should be viewed solely in terms of economics. A country’s development is directly related to its Gross National Product, exports, currency exchange rates, inflation and place in the world market. Less developed countries are poorer and have less impact on interna-tional trade. Thus devel-opment is equated with becoming richer.

Economics is certainly an important aspect of devel-

opment, but this approach fails to recognize other important dimensions such as social institutions. We might not like to admit it, but the United States is still “developing” in establish-ments like welfare, health care, social security and the legal regulation of mar-

riage, especially compared to many other countries.

On Dec. 1, 2006, South Africa finalized and passed a law recognizing same-sex marriages. Their constitu-tion was the first in the

world to explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual preference and they now join only four other countries who recognize the marriage of same-sex couples.

These acts are progres-sive steps toward guarantee-ing equal rights for all, a no-tion continuously stressed in our own constitution. Yet the United States has a federal law defining mar-riage as a union between a man and a woman. While individual states can define the institution on their own terms, 43 still classify mar-riage as heterosexual. This not only isolates the gay and lesbian community, but denies them basic equality under the law.

According to the United Nations Human Develop-ment Index, the United States is the eighth most developed country in the world; South Africa is num-ber 119.

Almost every day, I hear people talking about “underdeveloped” African countries. National orga-nizations like USAID give

generous donations to “de-velop” the third world and assist those countries who are inferior in the global economy.

These efforts have great intentions and undoubt-edly help many people across the world. But it’s time for us to re-exam-ine our definitions. How can we call a nation like South Africa less developed when we ourselves deny our fellow human beings the legal right to share a life together? How can we refer to foreign countries with terms that automati-cally imply inferiority when we ourselves marginalize a prominent community within our own nation?

It’s time for the “develop-ing” United States to follow the example of South Africa, a “developed” country that provides equal rights for all, not just those of a certain sexual preference.

Reynolds is a junior in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

BY REYNOLDS WHALENOP-ED SUBMISSION

U.S. ‘development’ and same-sex marriage in South Africa

“With snow and ice (let alone trees)

covering the majority of the paths on the Danforth Campus,

walking around proved to be a treacherous

venture.”

Is a snow day at Wash. U. too much to ask?

of the virtues of feminin-ity. Previously, it had been considered shameful for a mother to stay at home with her children. She should be out working, to show that she is just as capable as any man out there. Third-wave

feminism redefi ned the spec-trum. Motherhood, it said, is one of the crucial elements of the feminine experience and there is nothing shame-ful about raising your chil-dren. Neither is there any problem with going out and

working. There is an empha-sis upon personal choice, all surrounded by the virtues of femininity. The new mascu-linity is a similar movement, but for men. It is a redefi n-ing of the virtues of mascu-linity. And it’s here to stay.

Tom is a freshman in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected]

BUTCHER v FROM PAGE 4

“The effect of the writing assessment was that of taking a calligrapher’s

apprentice, blindfolding him, handing him a

paint roller and asking him to ink your wedding

invitations. In one hour.”

MCT CAMPUS | EDITORIAL CARTOON

“We might not like to admit it, but the

United States is still ‘developing’ in establishments like

welfare, health care, social security and

the legal regulation of marriage.”

The fl ashy action shots fea-tured on the front and back pages of the 2006-2007 men’s basketball media guide have something particularly peculiar about them: just one senior is shown.

The newest edition of Bears basketball features a highly tal-ented roster which is slightly lacking in collegiate basketball experience, but is by no means short on optimism about the upcoming season. The squad was hit with a major setback in the early going, however, when junior sharp shooter Danny O’Boyle, a captain and key re-turnee, was lost to a season-end-ing Achilles injury in the Bears’ fourth game of the season.

But the Red and Green still return three primetime players and a host of key role players from last year’s roster, which narrowly missed an NCAA tournament bid after falling to Chicago in a devastating season fi nale. In junior big man Troy Ruths and sophomore standouts Sean Walis and Tyler Nading, Wash. U. brings back three vital components from last year’s 17-8 squad.

Head coach Mark Edwards has also brought in a strong freshman class, which includes a number of players who have already seen considerable min-utes in the team’s fi rst six con-tests.

Because the UAA has no con-ference tournament, it is vital to get off to a strong start and a lack of preparedness in the beginning portion of the sea-son can quickly become a UAA team’s downfall. Edwards, who said this year’s UAA features “the best parity the league has ever seen,” has addressed some of the team’s lack of game expe-rience by scheduling diffi cult out-of-conference tilts early in the year. The squad opened its season with an exhibition game on the road at nationally ranked and Division I Southern Illinois, an experience which Edwards says has already paid dividends.

“Just being put on that stage and having to perform and play through a tough situation, which is what they provided us, I think that’s a great experience for us,” said the 26th year coach.

In addition to the SIU trip, the Red and Green have already won a competitive four-team tournament in Boston and trav-eled to No. 15 Augustana Col-lege, where the team was hand-ed its only loss, 75-73. This past weekend, the squad defeated a tough Pomona-Pitzer team in the championship game of the Lopata Classic. That victory moved the Bears’ record to 5-1 on the young season.

Ruths, perhaps the UAA’s most potent big man, has been and likely will see more double-teams from opponents through-out the season. Lost to gradua-tion was seven-foot center Mike Grunst, so Ruths will face the wrath of opposing defenses without the former center by his

side. Thus far, though, the Bears have coped admirably without Grunst as well as without for-mer three-point threat Scott Stone, who averaged over 15 points per game last season.

“I think we have really good potential to fi ll in for those guys even though they were so im-portant to the program,” said Wallis.

Freshman Aaron Thompson and Cameron Smith have al-ready proven to be signifi cant additions to this year’s roster. Thompson has taken O’Boyle’s starting spot in the lineup, split-ting time with gritty sophomore, Phil Syvertsen. Though it will be diffi cult to replace O’Boyle, a tri-captain who averaged 14 points in the team’s fi rst four contests before being injured, Edwards expects a number of players to help overcome his season-long absence as best as possible.

“You can’t lose someone that is an integral part of your team without it affecting your team,” said Edwards. “How it pans out I don’t know. But I’m confi dent that we have some personnel that can step up and make con-tributions.”

O’Boyle’s loss coupled with the graduation of Stone has led to even more touches for the sophomore swingman Nading, last season’s UAA Rookie of the Year and, along with Ruths, a potential candidate for UAA Player of the Year this season. Thus far, Nading has relished that opportunity. He is current-ly averaging 15 points and seven rebounds and took MVP honors

in the Lopata tournament with a tremendous 22 points, 13 re-bound performance in the fi nal. Ruths, steady as always, is av-eraging 18.7 points and seven boards a game.

Wallis has also upped his of-fensive game in the early going, averaging 11.5 points in a team-leading 33 minutes of action per game. The steady point guard, who is known more for his pass-ing prowess and ability to con-trol tempo on the court than for his scoring ability, has already recorded a pair of twenty points games. If Wallis can continue to produce at a steady offensive clip and hit shots from beyond the arch, teams will be unable to double and triple team Ruths and the Bears will likely put up points in bunches.

Providing invaluable lead-ership and experience for the Bears this season will be se-nior Nick Nikitas, a versatile off-guard who will compli-ment Nading and Wallis nicely in the backcourt. Junior Moss Schermerhorn and freshman Zach Kelly, both forwards, are expected to be impact players off the bench.

The excitement surrounding this year’s team stems from its combination of proven talent coupled with an abundance of enthusiastic and highly-touted rookies. While some observers around the UAA might expect Brandeis, NYU and Chicago (considered the league favor-ite) to vie for the crown, no one around the Field House is throw-ing in the towel.

“Winning early in the league is important. Every game in the UAA is important. Absolutely, we’ll be ready for it,” said Nad-ing.

From Edwards on down to his players, the Bears fully expect to compete for the league cham-pionship. Indeed, the team’s strong play thus far is already raising eyebrows. In a recent D3hoops.com poll, the Bears garnered seven top 25 votes. And while the young team is yet to crack the elite, Edwards and his players seem ready to make a run at national glory in the 2006-2007 season.

“We set out to win the UAA, that’s always a goal for us be-cause we know the UAA is one of the toughest conferences in the nation for DIII, then getting to the tournament and seeing what we can do,” said Nading.

“I think the goal right now is to really get comfortable with each other. It’s one thing to get to the [NCAA] tourna-ment. It’s another thing to win in the tournament. My goal is to win the conference. I don’t see that that’s unrealistic,” said Ed-wards.

Wallis went even further than his classmate and coach. “We set out with the goal to win the national championship,” he said. “I think that everything’s pretty realistic from this point. We’ve got a lot of growing to do. We defi nitely haven’t reached our potential yet.”

Senior Sports Editor / Andrei Berman / [email protected] MONDAY | DECEMBER 4, 20066 STUDENT LIFE | SPORTS

Women’s basketball back on the winning track

Washington University’s women’s basketball team be-gan to turn around its season this weekend, winning the Viking Classic in Chicago. These wins were especially important after the team’s rough start and could prove to be a crucial turning point as play continues.

In its fi rst game, the 12-ranked Bears defeated St. Mary’s College 66-62, bring-ing their season record to 3-3.

Senior forward Rebecca

Parker came up big on Satur-day, achieving her third dou-ble-double of the season with twenty points and fourteen rebounds. But it was fresh-man wing Zoë Unruh who proved to be the Bears most clutch player of the day. Un-ruh scored 11 of her 15 points in the second half, including three baskets in a row after the Bears experienced a fi ve-minute scoring drought.

In the championship game, the Bears easily de-feated North Park University 58-34, bringing their season record to 4-3. This is the fi rst time all season the Red and Green have had a winning re-cord.

Defense was the story of this game, as the half-time score was only 17-8. The Bears dominated play throughout the entire game. At one point

in the fi rst half, the team held North Park scoreless for over seven minutes.

Parker again led the Bears in scoring with 17 points. Forward Jamie McFarlin also came up big for Wash. U. The sophomore added a double-double, tallying with 13 points and an unheard-of 20 rebounds, the highest of her collegiate career. Sophomore guard Shanna-Lei Decanay helped the Bears pull away for good, scoring nine points in the fi nal four minutes of regulation.

This momentum from this successful weekend should help Wash. U. begin to regain its form from last season. The team returns home next weekend, facing McKendree College at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Field House.

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Junior Troy Ruths goes up for a rebound during Saturday’s game against Pomona-Pitzer. The Bears won 81-65, clInching the Lopata Classic cham-pionship.

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Senior athletes speak out after a successful fall season

What are your plans for next year or in the future?

Whitney Smith: Next year is up in the air. I know I want to take a year off before I go to medical school.

MeghanMarie Fowler-Finn: I might be playing soccer some-where, but as of right now the Peace Corps in the Carribean.

Talia Bucci: Right now I am applying to law school, and my number one choice is Notre Dame.

Beth Herndon: Right now I am applying to a few different Ph.D. programs in Geosciences departments.

Kevin Gale: Right now I am trying to get a job in something with fi nance, and I am going to be the assistant coach for the cross country team next year.

Adam Goslin: I do not have offi cial plans as of yet, but I want to do something with community service programs maybe in Oregon, Washington, or Detroit.

How has playing sport at Wash. U. shaped your overall experi-ence here?

KG: It helped me take my mind off of my classes, espe-cially during the season. I had to be more disciplined with what activities I did knowing that I was representing the cross country team and the athletes here in general.

BH: Running cross country became the most important part of my undergraduate ex-perience at Wash. U. It was defi -nitely a bigger part of my life than I expected it to be but it was an amazing experience.

TB: Playing soccer defi nitely shaped who my friends were, and I got to travel a lot. Out-side of soccer I had never been to New York or Boston. It also made me more well-rounded as far as encompassing a great educational experience with a great athletic experience.

MMFF: It defi nitely made me a better person. I actu-ally learned how to budget my time a lot more, and therefore my grades were actually better

than they would have been. WS: I agree with everyone

else, except that practice was such a great stress relief for me. Meeting athletes here defi -nitely made my college experi-ence much more enjoyable.

AG: My entire experience at school has pretty much been my athletic experience. The teams that I was one were not exclusive to being friends with non-athletes, but when you are very involved in any group it seems logical that you would have a lot of friends from that group.

Is there one great personal expe-rience you all had as an athlete while at Wash. U.?

TB: The coolest thing I re-member does not involve me, it involves Jenny Southworth, who is a senior on the basket-ball team here. She was in Pitts-burgh wearing a Wash. U. soc-cer sweat shirt because she had played soccer her freshman year and some guy stopped her in the elevator and went on to have a long conversation with her about how he knew how Wash. U. had a great women’s soccer team. The fact that some random person in Pittsburgh knew about our soccer team was pretty cool.

MMFF: The best individual memory I had was sophomore year against Wheaton. We were tied 0-0 the second game of the season, we had lost 5-0 the year before and 30 seconds into overtime I score the game winning goal on a crazy shot. It was a great feeling to beat Wheaton and score the game winning goal in overtime. The best memories I had were the times our team got together on road trips, I played with so many amazing girls that were a lot of fun.

BH: Every regional and na-tionals meet I have run, be-cause it’s such an amazing atmosphere. All the members on our team that are not run-ning dress up in crazy clothes and body paint and cheer for us at all parts of the course. My best individual was at region-al’s when I fi nished sixth and turned around and immediate-ly saw all my teammates right behind me.

KG: Last year in track we were racing at IUPOI, and it was under the lights at night. I qualifi ed individually for na-tionals for the steeplechase. It was really memorable because I pretty much led the whole race and was out in the lead by my-self and it was a big confi dence booster.

WS: Freshman year after we won the national champion-ship, Red Alert hosted an event during a basketball game and they unveiled the banner in the gym during halftime. There

were a lot of people there and I felt like the whole school was supporting us.

AG: In baseball it would be the trip as a whole to Florida. Specifi cally our fun with the tennis ball that involves hit-ting you somewhere that hurts, thumper-Mcfl oppy and Scotty hitting you, and [ Wash. U. base-ball coach Ric] Lessmon threat-ening to give the one driver an “Orlando Sucks!”

How do you think your sport ex-periences at Wash. U. will help you in your future?

WS: I think that playing sports will give me an edge in terms of being a doctor. I have played and experienced pres-sure situations, and just as far as handling success and fail-ures I think I will be at an ad-vantage.

TB: I have learned a lot about sacrifi cing things such as social life, and I think that will help me at least with my fi rst year of law school. Also I think it would help with anything I have to do as a team. Sports force you to work with a lot of people that have different personalities or come from different back-grounds and even if everyone does not mesh right away it helps you learn how to work to-gether to achieve a goal.

MMFF: Defi nitely leadership. This year we had all types of leadership on our team. For me, just learning how to work with anyone in a leadership position will help me with anything I do, including continuing my soccer career.

BH: I anticipate that I will be running for the rest of life. The college running experience has really taught me how to appre-ciate being able to run. Also, I became very disciplined.

KG: I think that if you can learn to run 5-miles in 100 per-cent pain, you can to do any-thing. Cross country is mental-ly the toughest sport, and that will help with any particular job.

AG: Sports always instill a good work ethic and in my ef-forts to accomplish common goals it will help me with my daily interactions with people.

Were D-III sports what everyone expected and do you wish any-thing were different?

KG: I am really glad I chose D-III, because I had the oppor-tunity to participate in other extracurricular activities as well. I kind of wish we could get more free things, like shoes, clothes, underwear and stuff.

BH: I was not particularly looking for divisions when I was applying for schools. D-III ended up being great and was a great atmosphere while I got an amazing education. I was a

little upset at the recognition D-III athletes got compared to D-I schools when we work just as hard. I did however, learn to love running more for the sake of loving running than for the recognition.

TB: I liked D-III because it was slightly more fl exible than a DI, whereas the coaches are a bit more understanding if you have a test. I wish we had more games, and I was upset how people that do not play varsity sports usually think that any-one is good enough to play on a varsity team here, when this is very far from the truth.

MMFF: I visited this school and it somehow fi t. With D-III, I played on a team with a bunch of D-I players, but unlike many D-I athletes, we actually love the sport. I would have liked to have a national championship if there was one thing that I could change.

WS: I had already decided to go to Wash. U. before even realizing I wanted to play a sport. I would like to change how the school supports ath-letics in general. [At] most big D-I schools the entire faculty and neighboring residents sup-port the athletics almost on an equal level as the academics.

AG: I liked how D-III sports do not own you because they are not paying for you to attend their school. I regret that peo-

ple at our school—regardless of the fact that we are D-III— don’t realize that we are a very good D-III program. Anyone that fol-lows sports here would realize that every sport is always in contention for a national cham-pionship.

Is there any advice that you have learned and become wise about that you all can give to the young athletes?

MMFF: Make sure that you truly love what you are doing. It is not as much fun playing a sport here if you do not love the sport. A lot of your college ex-perience is what you make it.

TB: Do not worry about the sacrifi ces that you have to make to play sports. In the end it will be worth it.

WS: It’s too much work to do if you do not love the sport. So I guess I would say if you do not love the sport, it’s ok to get out.

BH: Just have fun and enjoy yourself.

KG: Do not worry yourself so much freshman year with mak-ing so many new friends, be-cause by the time you’re done your closest friends are going to be your teammates.

AG: Work hard, learn from people around you. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, and if you don’t have fun, quit.

BY DAVID KRAMER SPORTS REPORTER

After one of the most successful fall seasons in recent Wash. U. history, one that featured fi ve out of six Wash-ington University varsity sports fi nishing the season ranked in the nation’s top 25, Student Life reporter David Kramer gathered some of the top seniors from each sport for a series of end-of-season questions.

MeghanMarie Fowler-Finn takes a shot at a game this season.ALWYN LOH | STUDENT LIFE

Whitney Smith spikes the ball past a pair of opposing defenders at a match earlier in the season.

ALWYN LOH | STUDENT LIFE

Whitney Smith

Kevin GaleBeth Herndon

Talia BucciSportVolleyball—two time All-American, two time First Team all-Central Region, 3-time all-UAA, ranks 2nd single season blocks (206)

Wichita, Kan.Hometown

MajorsBiology, Spanish

Adam GoslinSport

Football/Baseball—2006 all-UAA selection(football), hit home run esti-mated at 450 ft.

Rochester Hills, Mich.Hometown

MajorSocial Thought and Analysis

MeghanMarie Fowler-FinnSport

Soccer—2006 UAA Player of the Year, D3 Kicks.com National Player of the Year, three-time Aca-demic All-UAA, two time Academic All-District VII, 2006 ESPN The Magazine College Division 2nd Team Academic-American Team, four-time 1st Team all-UAA/all-Central Region, 2003 UAA Rookie of the Year

Fort Wayne, Ind.Hometown

MajorsPsychology, Environmental Studies

SportCross Country —two-time national qualifi er, two-time all-UAA

Minneapolis, Minn.Hometown

MajorEconomics

SportCross Country—two-time UAA indi-vidual champion, two-time All-America, four-time All-UAA

Fort Wayne, Ind.Hometown

MajorBiochemistry, Earth & Planetary Sciences

SportSoccer—four-time All-UAA, three-time All-Central Region

Palos Park, Ill.Hometown

MajorsPolitical Science, Economics, Psychology

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