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1100! ! -- ~------Your source for campus news and information tJJie C'ummt cefe6rates its 1100th issue this wee~ 11ianR,§ to a[[ who have fz.efpecf tJJie C'ummt over (fz.e years. Guerilla Theater takes the stage. THECURRENTONLINE.COM U NIV ERS ITY OF MISSOURI - ST. LOUIS Fraternity lends UMSL celebrates its 40th Man-eaters among us? annIversary• Biologist discusses book on large predators helping hand to at annual leTE lecture at Botanical Garden BY CATHERINE MARQUIS Stevens. "Writers like David shape our H OMEYER general view of science." . __ ...... _--_ ...... _...... The evening's presentation local hospital SCience Columnist included the author reading excerpts BY PATRICIA LEE patients and their farnilies. They did from his book, .as well as discussions Staff Writer not leave until nearly 6:30 p.m. Humankind is the dominate species of the book's topic. Quammen is an "It took a lot of effort and a lot of on earth, yet a spate of recent events award-winning science and nature time, and the boys did a great job. The have reminded us that we are not author. He was educated at Yale and On Sunday, Sept. 28, members of patients loved it," said Comer. ''We above becoming prey for the largest of Oxford, receiving a degree in English Pi Kappa Alpha, a social fraternity, got a lot of compliments from the earth's creatures. literature. His bestseller nonfiction held a tailgate party for bone marrow patients and their farnilies." Author Da\~d Quamrnen knows book, "Song of the Dodo," has been transplant patients at Barnes Jewish ''1 think it was a learning lesson for something about such creatures. As the desclibed as both scholarly and Community Hospital. my brothers," said Renner. ''They guest speaker of the annual Jane and readable. He has covered several The event took place in the patient know about my job, but they've never Whitney Harris Lecture on Oct. 22, topics in his work, including family room at the hospital, where seen firsthand what some of these Quarnrnen discussed large predators biodiversity, evolution and extinction. parties are held people · go as the topic of his new book, "Monster Besides writing a great deal of books, periodically . through." of God: The Man-Eating Predator in Quammen was also published in Transplant patients Pi Kappa Alpha the Jungles of History and the Mind." "Outside" magazine and received two --"-- The thirteenth arrnual lecture was usually stay in the The patients loved frequently National Magazine Awards for his hospital for 30 to 60 it.•• We got a lot of participates in sponsored by UM-St. Louis' science essays and columns. International Center for Tropical "I will talk tonight about big days. "So we try to compliments from community do stuff for the activities. Recently, Ecology, an association of the predators, the 'Monsters of God,'" patients once in a the patients and they worked with university's Biology graduate said Quammen in his opening while," said Holly their families. Habitat for program, the Missouri Botanical remarks. Quarnrnen explained that he Comer, assistant Humanity to build Garden and the st. Louis Zoo. Each had derived the phrase "Monsters of nurse manager. a house. They also year, the lecture brings a noted God" from the King James version of Todd Renner, - Holly Comer, asst. nurse work with Fr. Bill scientist or science writer to the St. the Book of Job, where God says that junior, nursing, and manager at BJC Hospital Kemp, director of Louis area for an entertaining and man is third on the scale of creatures, former chairman of , , the Newman informative presentation accessible to with God himself as first, followed by philanthropy for Pi Center, on various biologists and the general public. the "monster of God" Leviathan. This Kappa Alpha, works on the bone projects. The tailgate party was one of The evening's program kickeD off Leviathan was not a whale, but a large, marrow transplant floor of the the largest events they have helped to with a few words from Chancellor fire-breathing, predatory dragon-like hospital. He and the other staff at sponsor. Thomas George. ''The Jane and creature. The story was intended as a BJCH carne up \\~th the idea of a Pi Kappa Alpha is no longer Whitney Harris lecture brings our reminder to be humble, the author tailgate party, so he decided to ask his recognized on campus, but Renner educational program to the wider St. saici fraternity to help out with food and the hopes that their community-oriented Louis audience," said George. "AJso, ''It tells us where we stand on the big screen. "It gets kind of old [for the activities will help dispel stereotypes it highlights our International Center food chain of power and glory," said patients] being in the same room, not about fraternities. "A lot of people for Tropical Ecology and our Quarnrnen. ''We are not at the top but doing anything day in and day ou(," have a stereotype about us and Mike Sherwin/ The Curmll connection to the Garden," referring to an intervening link in the food chain said Renner. fraternities in general, that we're "Mark 1\vain" narrates "UMSL: The First 4 billion years," the Missouri Botanical Garden. around the world." Pi Kappa Alpha donated food for a useless, that we do nothing but dramatizing the history of UM-St. Louis from pre-Columbian After the chancellor's remarks, Quammen said that the story barbecue, as well as the use of their partying," he said. 'That's so not the times to the present day. The play was part of "Serendipity Peter Stevens of the JCTE introduced "reminds us of a crucial thing-that we big-screen TV for watching the Rams case and I'm trying to get people to Day," which featured a wide spectrum of interactive events, the guest speakeJ.~ "Most scientists, are a part of the natural world too, a game. They started cooking around realize that my brothers are totally not demonstrations, and discussions. who think they are pushing the step on the food chain." 10:30 a.m. for a noon lunch, then like the way the rest of the University advance of science, have little impact for AOOITIONAL PHOTOS OF SERENDIPITY DAY, see page 3 on the public's view of science," said stayed and watched the game with the sees them." see BIOLOGIST, page 3 Drunk driving's human cost Circus delights at PAC
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Catherine Perrine speaks In the Pilot House Wednesday night about her experience losing her youngest son, Redford, to a drunk driver on Jan. 14, 2000. She now volunteers with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), and speaks to students and rehabilitation groups about the dangers of mixing alcohol and motor vehicles. Her appearance was sponsored by University Health Services as a part of National Alcohol Awarenesss Week. MADD mother hopes students learn from story of son's tragic death
BY MIKE SHERWIN C McGilley, 23, of Leawood, Kan. really, truly deaci" to go to the first parole hearing," - - - Staf!Writer McGilley and Redford Perrine were Almost one year after the crash, Perrine said. "Despite a 14-year both killed when a car driven by Marla McCray was sentenced to two sentence, this person who willingly got McCray sideSwiped their vehicle in a consecutive 7-year terms for the in a motor vehicle and sped without Kansas City suburb at approximately 2 involuntary manslaughter of Rayrnond headlights, while drunk, was eligible In the year 200), 16,653 people lost a.m. on Jan. 14, 2000. Perrine and McGilley. for parole after one year. That's our their lives in alcohol-related crashes in ''The two automobiles met at an Although Perrine says she feels criminal justice system. Luckily, we the U.S., according to statistics from intersection . on a quiet street," said lucky that McCray was given the had enough people writipg letters that Michael Pelikan! The Current the National Highway Traffic Safety Perrine. ''We're not talking an maximum sentence allowable by law, parole was denied, but now every two Claiming a unique use of the common bicycle, performers years we have to go back for more Administration (NIITSA). Catherine interstate, we' re talking about a she is still frustrated about the from the Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats command the Perrine's son, Redford, was one of residential neighborhood street" possibility of parole for McCray. parole hearings." stage on Wednesday night. The event featured contortionists, those 16,653. The Kansas City Police "After only one year in jail, we had see DRUNK DRIVING, page 3 jugglers, acrobats, dancers and even a yo-yo exhibition. Perrine, a member of Mothers Department's reconstruction tearn and an independent team hired by the Against Drunk Driving (MADD), ADDITIONAL COVERAGE, page 6 spoke to a group of students Perrines found that Matthew Wednesday in the Pilot House. She McGiIley's car was traveling at 38 cautioned that drinking and driving m.p.h. when it was struck on the could lead to disastrous results. driver's side by McCray's automobile. INDEX Perrine read a prepared statement McCray's Mazda Miata was going Bulletin Board 2 above 80 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone ~ --_. - _. --- ,...,....,~.-, ---,~ recounting the loss of her son and her _._---_. _------...... --.-.- ...... - - .. ----.--~ .. .- .. - -~-~----... ~-.- . -.• . family's struggle to recompose itself in with her headlights MIled off, the the face of trage <'fits Current Jason Granger • Editor·in·Chief Nichole LeClair· Managing Editor Anne Bauer· Ad Director Mindaug~. Business Manager Adamonls Judi Linville • Faculty Adviser Becky Rosner. Nf!WS Editor Mike Sheftvin. Plx;to Director/Prod. A'0i.stLlTlt Stanford Griffith· Copy Editor Thna Nov. 18 Mon 27 (cont.) Tues 28 Wed 29 (cont.) Sun 2 Steve HarTell • Sports Editor Public Policy Research Center for International Career Services Concert dance University Singers Casey Schachero A & E Editor ''The Price of Progress: The Page Studies A resume writing sk.ills workshop is An evening of concert dance is on "Music of Grandem and Natme," a February 20 & 21 , 2004. Performances Kate Drolet • Features Editor Avenue Extension," photographs by "Greek Foreign Policy: Post-Cold War from 4 p.rn. to 5 p.rn. in room 278 choral concert. The University will . be in the Lee Theatre of the Elliott Reed • IlIustrat01· Michael Miles opens on Sept 17. and Post-September 11 Setting" fea- MSC Make a positive first impre.ssion Singers perform at the Touhill Performing Arts center. Open dance Melissa McQoary • Features Associate The opening reception will be held tures Theodore A Couloumbis. It is at with employers - polish your resUIlle in PelformingArts Center at 3 p.m. The auditions are today at 7:30 p.rn. in the from noon to I p.rn. on Sept. 17 in 3 p.m. in room 331 of SSB. For more this free workshop. Registration is event is free and open to the public. Sarah WeilYnan • Proofreader Rehearsal Hall of the PAe. For more the Public Policy Research Gallery, information, call 516-7299. required. Call 516-5111 for info. For more infonnation, call 516-5980. Shannon Hoppe • IVeh Editor/Prod. 362 SSE. This event is free. information, contact Alicia Okouchi Jlanager 28 Guy at 516-4852 or [email protected]. Rudy Scoggins • lIluS/rator 27 CRlsade for Christ Mon3 Amy Gonwa • Music critic Mon27 Chemistry and A Bible study is from noon - 1: 15 p.rn. Monday Noon Series Catherine • Science columnist! Thur30 Marqu Monday Noon Series Biochemistry colloquia in room 314 of the MSe. Join Canlpus ''The Aesthetics of Water" - a slide is-Homeyer staffll'riter Crusade for Christ for fellowship and Counseling Services "Restoring the Missouri Rivel>' is the The Chemistry and Biochemistry collo talk, is the title of the Monday Noon James Daugherty • Distrii;utiOll prayer. Do you know what "achluophobia" is Managrr title of the Monday Noon Series. Jane quia begins at 4 p.m. in 451 Benton Series. Stephanie Ross, professOI of Ledwin, fish ,md wildlife biologist, the fear of:' Come find out and eam a Philosophy at UM-St. Louis, Joe Richardson· PIUd. AssodaJe Hall. The title of the lecture is chance to win tickets to a movie, by outlines her efforts as a federal pro "Glycosyl Iodides in Organic explores various aesthetic roles jects biologist, working with states, 28 stopping by Counseling Services played by water, as in paintings of Staff Writers Synthesis." The event is free and open Halloween Table in the Nosh. Paul Crutcher, Carrie Lewis, Gretchen other federal agencies, and private Intern. Business Club water, reflections of water, water in to the public. For more infromation, call Moore, Brian Ireland, Patricia Lee, interests to restore some of the ecolo With the increasing globalization of gardens, moving water and musical 516-7995. Coffee is served. at 3:45 p.m. commerce, the ulilization of a timely Angela Ashley, Jud Dieffenbach, gy of the Big Muddy.The program is 30 portraits of water. The program is Monica Martin, Charlie Robinson fium 12:15 to 1:15 p.rn. in room 229 and accurate transportation and logis from 12: 15 to 1:15 p.m. in room 229 Staff Photographers of the J.e. Penney Conference 27 tics services company has never been Pre-Vet Club of the J.e. Penney Conference Concert dance more important to the business COlTill1U Kevin Ottley, Lishu Qu, Michael Center. An Open Mic Night/Costume patty is 6 Center. Pelikan, Jesse Gater, The Department of Theatre, Dance, nity. Learn about these services and p.rn. to midnight in the Pilot House in Robert Johnson and Media Arts is sponsoring an their importance. The mc hosts UPS at the MSC Amateur and are welcome to Advertising Rep 27 evening of concert dance on February 2 p.m. in Century Room B, located on come, though need to make reserva Mon3 Shaun Kennedy Center for 20 and 21,2004. Pelformances will be the 3rd floor MSC This is a free event tions in advance. To make reservations, Gallery 210 in the Lee Theatre of the Performing open to all. email [email protected]. Poet Adtian Matejka is presenting his 388 Millennium Student Center Intemational Studies 8001 Natural Bridge Road Arts Center. Open dance auditions are poetry at 7:30 p.m. in GallelY 210 "China's Growing Economic Power St. Louis, Missouri 63121 today at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehearsal Hall (210 Lucas Hall). Matejka will read and Its Currency" i~ presented by Wed 29 Newsroom • (31·!) 516,)l i~ of the PAe. Dancers interested may from his debut collection of poems, Gene Chang of the department of Counseling Services Fri31 Advertising • (3l~} 516-5316 attend either audition. TIle concert will ''The Devil's Garden,'· which was econoilllcs at the University of Stop procrdStinating! Workshop - If you Pre-Optometry Club Business. (3l ..) 516-51 ,75 feature choreography from dance fac released in October by Alice James Toledo. The presentation is at 11 a.m. are not happy with the grades y u are The Pre-OptometIy Club is having a Fax. (31-1) 516-6811 ulty Alicia Okouchi-Guy and selected Books. The collection has gamered in room 342 of the Social Sciences getting, Counseling Services can help meeting from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in guest choreographers from St. Louis. praise from aitics and poets alike. and Business Building. The lecture is make changes. Learn. to stop procrasti mom 434 Marillac · Hall on South campus For more infolTnation, contact Alicia The event is free and open to the pub sponsored by the Center for nating and complete the work you need.. Campus. For mOIe intonnation, con 388 .lIillenlliulIl Student Centrr Okouchi-Guy at 516-4852 or ali lic. For more information, call 516- email International Studies. The workshop is today fmm 6 p.m. to 7 tact Barb Brown at 516-6030. [email protected]. p.m. Call to register at 516-5711. 6845. Cltm>[email protected]:. ItIlls/.edu website http://wwu·.tbecu ITelUOll lille.colll he Current is published weekly on T I.'aldays. Advertising rates are available Call1P''S Cr upon req..oest; terms, candiI:ioos and restric tions apply. The Current, financed in part Oy student activities fees, is not an official p<.b!i Th e follOlring eriminnl incidenIs were reponed was kicked in and a television was. tolen. [n parking I T. an e.~terior door lock to a vehi October 23 - BurglaJ)'/steaIing over $500 left unattended inside the Music Building. ccOOn of UMcSt. Louis. The Un~ is not to the Ullil'ersito; of Missouri - St. Louis Police Ie was damaged and a jacket was stolen fro m At 78·_0 South Aorissant Rd.. unknown per respon51b!e fa" the c qql($Tq~~ Need to & Computet Shop advertise an event? Got a hot ne~ tip? Give us I I a call at the office. Call The Current advertiSing u en recla Ion a 314.516.5174. Ask for Becky department at Rosner, news editor. 516-5316 for details. Thursday, October 30th 2003 8:00 - 7:30 ·You can also e-mail us at [email protected] * Register To Win Free Prizes * Attention UMSL Students! will oe nalfnouf Of to if fOU Name~ Grawn ever1 l ~top often m are aoi~ winner e Traffic Sto . *~top ByAna PiCK Up AT riCKOr Treat Ba~ * The One Stop For All Your Traffic Neeclls! 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A woman and trappers of the Russian Far East hampers, but "Beowulf' and "Ginghams." told him about bow her mother bad who co-exist with them; the Quammen also cited ancient survived an attack by a Komodo Australian aboriginals who co-exist Egyptian texts that would extol a dragon. "It gave me the idea of being with the salt-water crocodile in king's greatness by listing how many prey," he said. "It reminds us of the northern Australia and the brown doesn't spoil lions he killed. importance of humility to see oneself bears of the Romania mountains, Religions vary in how they view as prey." who co-exist with the Romanian these large predators. For the west One of the areas Quarnmen chose sheep herders of the area. Serendipity Day emer, Biblical references put man as to focus on for his book was Gir, an The Romanian Carpathian Audience member Bob Reid dances before a the ruler over animals, while eastem area of west India, which is the last Mountain forest preserves is home to young audience at the behest of storyteller Papa and other cultures more often see refuge of the Asiatic lion. The forest 5,000 bears, while Yellowstone PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKE SHERWIN Wright in the third-floor lobby of Lucas Hall. them as something with which we ed area is inhabited by the National Park, at about the same must share the world. Maldharis, a people who live by size, has only 500. Quammen said As for the term "man-eater," the that most Americans think of author acknowledged that the term Romania as a post-Soviet indusoial was perhaps provocative. ized place, while in fact it contains "1 could have more COlTectly said --"-- large forests that serve as nature pre 'intermittently anthrophageous serves. These areas actually serve as opportunist'i,'" he said, ''but no pub game preserves, fueled by hunters' lisher would put that in the subtitle." I was interested in a fees rather than wildlife refuges. The In the book, he refers to them as the category of animals bears are fed at troughs and the "alpha predators." that are solitary and hunters pay to shoot them at their In his studies, the author chose to in which an individ feeding areas and take home the define man-eaters in a particular pelts. \Vhen Quamrnen asked who way. "1 was interested in a category ual animal could kill would pay to shoot bears at feeding of animals that are solitary and in a human. troughs, he was told "the hunters which an individual animal could come from foUl" countries: Gemlany, kill a human." This definition Switzerland, Spain and Texas." - Biologist David Quammen excluded pack animals like wolves With the possible exception of or piranhas, which would never the Nile crocodile, none of these bring down a person by attacking as predators routinely put people on a single individual. The group --,, -- their menu. Still, the people who includes lions, tigers, leopards, live in close proximity to the preda brown bears (including grizzlies), tors pay a higher price for the big polar bears, Nile crocodiles, jaguars, species' survival than the rest of the cougars, great white sharks, Ganges choice as traditional cattle herders, world. sharks, Komodo dragons, reticulated "much as the Amish live in a tradi "Generally it is the poor and rural pythons and a few more. The author tional way here," Quammen said. people who share the space and pay noted that none of these animals gen Because the Maldharis live in the the cost to live with these creatures," erall y consider man as their main forest without weapons more threat said Quarnmen. He also noted that prey, but that they become "man ening that an axe, they are some these large creatures in particular are ABOVE: Beth Landers (at right), lecturer, French, greets visitors to the French department's eaters" through OppOltunity or SlU" times the victims oflions. Quarnmen pressed because they require large Serendipity Day production "The Proust Project," in Clark Hall on Saturday. Francophiles lis vi val pressUl"es. emphasized that the lions that killed territories in which to live, and, with tened to a bilingual reading of Marcel Proust's masterwork "A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu." Quammen's book focused on four people were the sick or hungry indi out enough space, they are threat Landers offered guests small madeleine cakes (which are featured in the Proust novel). areas in which mankind lives in close viduals who came to prey on the ened with extinction. proximity to the predators, where it livestock and that humans were "My book is a meditation," he is close enough to become the occa killed when tbey got in the way. said, "on whether that is unavoid sional victim. His inspiration for the The other predatorcpeople pair able; and if it is unavoidable, what book came when he was working on ings that Quammen looked at includ- will be lost." DRUNK DRIVING, from page 1 RIGHT: Willie Smith listens to Catherine Perrine speak Wednesday night in the Pilot House. Perrine, a speaker with ABOVE: Mothers Against Elizabeth Eckelkamp (at left), lecturer, Japanese, Drunk Drtvlng, told demonstrates origami t echniques t o Catherine t he audience about Daniels, Elizabeth Lee, and Beth Grindstaff. her experience los Eckelkamp was also promoting a study tour in ing her son t o a Japan, which she will lead in May 2004. Students drunk driver in who are interested may call 51 6-6517 for more 2 000. Her appear information. ance, during National Alcohol LEFT: Awareness week, Serendipity Day did not live up to its name, due to was sponsored by the drenching downpours throughout the day on University Health Saturday. Here, a couple strolls t hrough t he campus Services. on a walkway beside Thomas Jefferson Memorial Library. Mike Sherwin! Tbe CUT7l!1II Since her son' de.1th, Catherine not do this for me. I do this for other rather than bury you." PeITine volunteers as a member of mother'>, fathers, sisters, brothers, Amanda Jenkins, sophomore, Grocery strike continues MADD. She speaks to groups of stu friends or children. I don't want any antill·opology, attended the lecture dents and at rehabilitation programs of you to be like my son who lost his and said that although she is already Striking for drivers caught driving under the life to a dnmk driver. In other words, careful not to drink and drive, listen w orkers and influence. However, Perrine dismiss I don't want an) of you to be like ing to Perrine had given her a greater f amily mem es the idea that volunteering brings me." understanding of the human, emo bers Louis closure to her family's loss. PeITine says she understands that tional costs of drinking and driving. make a pres Perrine says that three years after students will drink alcohol. noting "You always hear about these ence at the her on ' 5 death, her family is still that her son loved to pa.rty-and that kinds of cases,"' said Jenkins, "but it's Schnucks learning to cope. "Wp're still in he drank, too. "Some people say, different to listen to someone who has grocery store shock. We miss our son . ... For me, I 'Don't drink. , .. ~ays Perrine, "I don't had to deal with that kind of tragedy. on Florissant served as a nurse in Vietnam during care about drinking. Just don't drink I definitely have a greater understand Rd. just north the war. I know about death. But now, and drive. Don't let your friends drive ing of the position that mothers, and of UM-St. mostly Ijust cry. I cry when I hear an drunk. If you're going to drink or get family in general, are put in when Louis last ambulance go by; I cry when I see my dnmk., have somebody who is sober someone is killed." . Saturday son's picture. I can't even look at all with you.'· Approximately 20 students attend ~mornin g . the videos of him we have. I cry Perrine CEded her talk with practi ed the lecture. Michelle Russell, alco .. because I can't remember his weet cal adyiL'(' i··Jf those who wish to hol and drug prevention coordinator III'" ':r CI> smile or his beautiful blue eyes." drink: ·'Call a fiiend or a family mem for University Health Services, said i So, why does Penine want to tell ber if you're dr-inking or if you're she wa, pleased despite the small ~ the story of her son? She says that unSUl"e about the sobriety of the driver tumout. "1 would have been happy if it more than anything, she wants to pre you're with. I'm SlU"e that yOUl" fami only one student showed up. This was vent other families from having to ly or Y0ul" friends would rather lose one stOlY that needed to be heard." deal with tragedies such a, hers. "I do two hours of sleep to give you a ride BY C ..... ROBINSON worker at a South City Schnucks. favor. The UFCW endorsed him for Staff Writer Though attempts were made to inter president, and the union has 14,000 view other strikers at the South City members in Iowa. Shop 'n Save, they said that they were The three supermarket chains mad... Cust. ServicelRetail Sales In August, negotiations began not supposed to speak v.'ith the press. the following offer, which v;as voted between the United Food and "I think some workers are afraid of the down 4,252 to 1,610, according to Commercial Workers Local 655 repercussions once they go back to UFCW website. (UFCW) and Schnucks, Shop· 'n Save work:' said Steenberg. TIlere would be a 25-cent per hoUl" Although empJoyees are on strike raise. reserved for clerks who earn ALL STUDENTS a.nd Dierberg's supermarket chains. Members of Local 655 voted against and locked out, they will soon receive more than $9 an hoUl". There would not accepting the companies' new con $100 a week from the day the strike be increases for clerks making less. $1 3.75 base-appt. uacts. and lockout began, said Jim Baggers would receiVe a five-cent According to the UFCW website, Dougherty, director of collective bar raise. New employees would not No door to door canvassing or telem:::.rket1ng . great in September Local 655 filed a lawsuit gaining. He said that the public has receive raises during their first yea.r of with the National Labor Relations shown strong support for the workers, employment. Instead, they would earn resume expenence. Board because temporary employees but that he did not know when the a one-rime, 20-cent bonus per hoUl" were receiving higher hourly wages strike would be over. worked last year, Or the previous year. than permanent employees. Though similar suikes are occur Out'iide vendors would be contracted Protesters picked up their picket ring in CaJifOlma, politicians are tak for various j bs, health inslU"ance rates signs, propped up their picket Jines ing a hands-off approach. According would be raised and there would be euls in both health and retirement ben $13.75 base-appt and went on strike Oct 7. Originally, . to David Robertson, professor of polit Shop 'n Save was the only store tar ical science, politicians stay away efits. geted for strike, but later that day from strikes because they conside.r Though the strike is an o ft~cru.npus Flexible hours. Dierbergs and Schnucks employees them private matters. situation, it continut"N to arret! UM-St. were locked out by their labor union. How·ever, Congressman Richard Louis . ludents who work 'l.nd sbop at Scholarships available - conditions exist "Everything in St Louis is going hay Gerhard (D) of MissoUli, a possible these. supelma.tkel~. \¥'nether due to wire," said Lillian Hill. junior, MIS. presidential candidate., may be drawn income, inconvenience or ethical con For details call M-F 10 am-4pm: 314.. 991 .. 2428 "We are locked out," said Karl into this disagreement. According to siderations. most students ha e had to Steenberg, UM-St. Louis alumni, Robinson, Gerhard is touting a health take a personal interest in this ongoing picket captain and produce department care plan and can use the. strike in his issue. www.workforstudents.CODl Page 4 cJlte Current October 27,2003 OUR OPINION ..... -:"L.. or • Where has all the Board of Curators: It's parking gone? Okay, so I have avoided talking reserved in quotes because faculty about time you added about parking this year. mainly and staff can park in student parking because I think it has been overdone, and not get ticketed, but if students but I can hold my tongue no longer. park in faculty and staff parking, they sexual orientation No, the silence must be broken, for I get a $50 ticket. Ah, balance at its have grown tired of losing parking best. Four \vords for the Board of think there were no qualified gay and over and over again. Unfortunately for University offi Curators: It is about time. \Vhat is it le.sbian candidates? That is an insulting The issue This is a topic that cials, they seem to be a about time for') Including sexual Olien JXlsition to take. Hindsight being 20/20 never seems to go little out of touch with tation in the anti-bias JXllicy. Kudos to as it is, we can now all look back and The University of away on this campus. reality. 'W'hen they do them for taking this step in the light smack alIT collective foreheads and Just when you think it things like this, trivial direction; it was the right thing to do. consider who is not contributing their may have gone away, as it may seem to them Now the question has to be asked: talents to the University of Missouri .... Missouri Board of it rears its ugly head (as they have their own "What took S(J long'!" When one thinks about the difference once again to tOlture nifty parking spots), .it This wa, not the first time this sub those people could have made, well, it the sanity of the fair just lends more cre ject has been brought up. In the last 10 is somewhat discouraging to think that Curators finally ~tudents of this dence to the opinion years, it has been proposed at least they are now working for some other University. What has many on this campus twice, going down to defeat every time. college. gotten me upset this have come to hold: It is somewhat staggering to think However, let us not dwell on the added homosexuali- time? The fact that students are second about, and somewhat nauseating that negative here. This is a great milestone students (who pay for class citizens at this the Board of CLU'ators would bow to the for the University of !vllssouri and has parking by the by) are schooL Granted, it has pressure of olllSide influence. taught valuable lessons as a whole. Not ty to the anti-dis- losing their parking " ASON GRANGER gotten a little better in The problem they could no longer only has this JXllicy now been imple spots to performances Editor-in-Chief the time I have been ignore was the double standard the mented, it ha~ helped teach that bias at The Blanche and here, but it is still a anti-bias policy presented. By not pass (prejudice?) of any kind is unaccept they are not being rep lac en anywhere. long way from great. ing the measure in previolls years, they able, especially in a college environ crimination clause I want someone to explain to me how What the administration seems to were publicly saying tbat the ment Colleges and universities are this is fair, how this makes sense to forget is that universities and colleges University of Missouri a state organi supposed to be areas of unfettered aca knowingly take away student parking. are supposed to be here for the stu zation, disapproved of the homosexual demic challenges and learning. If prej of the UM-System This is not to take away from The dent~, so they can get their educations. lifestyle and the be.st way to punish udice i5 practiced, then it cea,es to be Blanche. I think it is a pretty cool How are we supposed to do that when homosexuals was to not include them an institution oflemning. Bias is illogi place, and John Kennedy, director of we cannot even find a place to park so in the anti-discrimination clause. cal; therefore the learning curve dips constitution, but it The Blanche, is a great guy: but why, we can get to our classes? It is a The University System had already dramatic-ally. Now the University of during normal school hOllIS, do stu quandary' indeed. Of course the decided gender and ra e discrimination !viissouri can focus on getting back to dents have to anive only to fmd their answer is quite simple: stop making was unacceptable, but homosexuality what re-ally matters, having the best took t oo long to parking spaces roped off so some us sacrifice every time. Perhaps is a marc taboo subject. It is socially qualified person fill the JXlsition, no snooty people can have valet parking? patrons of The Blanche should be acceptable to say the University cannot matter the position. I do not get valet parking during the granted parking in the administra discriminate against a black man or So what lesson can be gleaneD from day, why do they? tion's parking spaces. If that hap working woman: after aU, this is not the this siruation? Simply put, when a situ happen. This is yet another example of stu pened, maybe they would understand 194D . But there is still so much fear, so ation like this arises, rectify it as soon as dents being forced to sacrifice against how incredibly frustrating it is to have much discrimination against the gay possible. That way, the students, facul We suggest their wills so the University can look to search for so long to find some and lesbian JXlpulation, that it took ty ,md ~taif are not rnade to suffer the good. Of comse, we have all seen where to park. Maybe they would them this long to pass this much-need elTors of fools or foolish decisions. Next time a deci- parts of the Millennium Student understand the anger students have ed addendum to the anti-bias policy. Granted, people are entitled to their Center parking lot coned off before, when they arrive on campus just to Of course, this now raises the ques own op1l1JOns but that is at most 50 to 60 spaces. see their parking tumed over to some tion of how many excellent, hyper about what is sion of this magni- \Vith the PAC, this is more like 200 or interlopers on campus. Then maybe qualifi ed candidates were either morally right 250 spaces, spaces that are supposed they would chfulge policy to better the deterred from applying or simply or morally to be "reserved" for students. I put experience of students at this schooL bypassed because they were homosex ual. Did the Board of Curators actually it is not t ude and impor- okay for a university It's a family holiday to make a sweeping tance arises, they I often get a questioning look when I feel that this is the point. You are free moral judg I say that Halloween is my favorite hol to your own interpretations, of course, ment, so iday. Tltis is especiaUy so when I but please consider the tastefulness of this policy need t o t hink about espouse my belief that it is a family hol your decisions in light of who you Vvill the iday on a par with Ouistmas. be coming in contact \\·lth. There is also As Ollistmas hold~ a strong reli no reason to indulge prejudices through the ramifications of gious significance for many fthough costmning or decorating choices. not all), I can understand some distaste Hallo\'J een is not an excuse to lose all at my preference. However. I am not tact and consideration. As this is a pri ranking importance of holidays, just marily secular holiday, it does eall on us EDITORIAL bowing to social their personal interest to me, as well as to use our hLUnanistic ethics, if not am their family appe - e s"el'win by tJllk hy Director Photograp . Keith Brown Letitia Pippens JoAnne Tinsley John Reap Senior Senior Sophomore Senior Sbould profeSSOrs Criminology Finance Music English ----,,------" "----- ~--,,---- \ Any-----:--,,--- way that professors can We frequently talk about politi When professors give out their I sometimes prefer they bring leave personal politicS cal issues in criminology. But, I personal political opinion it is stimulate class discussion and their politics to the classroom. make us question our own can't think of any professor confusing for students. We That way, you can get a sense roOUl beliefs is good - and it usually out of the clas • who has harped on their per have to think, "Is this going to of their real passion for what only strengthens our own they have to say and go sonal political beliefs. be on the exam?" __--'be,.,.lief"'s"" '-___ beyond simply learning facts. " " " " October 27, 2003 Page 5 Microscopic stalkers Are there little prions in your soup? The best al urn t t are acquired by eating the nervous function is in the shape, so how pro system tissue of affected animals, pri teins are folded is crucial to their abil marily beef. Since both BSE and ity to function properly or at all. vClD are diseases that take a long According to the study, in the test you've never heard time to develop, it is not obvious tube, rat RNAs aided priODS in the which animals are infected and the misfolding of normal proteins. victim may not develop symptoms Previous studies had indicated that This week: Cream's "Disraeli Gears" for years. There is no test for prions in the prions had paired with normal BY .JASON GRANGER American Blues musicians like Muddy have to look at the lyrics to see how 3 symptom-free animals. The disease proteins and then converted them to Waters, B.B. King and Lead Belly. It is song that is seemingly just about the has only been confirmed when symp their tangled shape. The new discov Ediio:;:Zri-:ChTe! reflected in the opening track, "Strange Greek legend Ulysses. But as witb toms develop, so prions can get into elY has yet to be shown in living Brew." This psychedelic-Blues romp most everything in the 1960s, there is the food source long before they are organisms, but if true, it has enor There is some confusion as to why was penned by Clap ton_ It is about a more to this song than meets the eye. detected. mous significance. Discovering how Cream is called Cream. Well, I would dangerous woman who can "kill Take, for instance, the line about the The outbreak of "mad cow" in prions work can lead to tests to detect like to take this time to put that confu what's inside of you." Or so it would siren's sweet song. " .... How his naked Britain was the first event to bring the disease before symptoms appear, sion to rest Cream is called Cream seem. This ears were tOltured by the sirens sweet prions to our attention. It generated a which would mean better screening because its three members, Jack a ly singingIFor the sparkling waves are BY CATHERINE MARQUIS scramble to undo the livestock feed for affected animals and early diag Bruce, Ginger Baker and calling you to kiss their white laced HOMEYER ing habits that led to it. Science was noses in people. More than that, ...... _" ..... _.. _ .. __ .- Eric Clapton were con lips." And it goes on to say "And when already aware of the rare Creutzfeldt knowing prions' pathway could lead Science Columnist sidered the cream of your fingers fmd her/She drowns you Jakob (CJD) disease, the human to treatments that would interfere the crop in England in her body." A metaphor for the equivalent of "mad cow." This dis There are a few diseases that with the RNA's role in this action. By at that time. glory propaganda of the Vietnam ease was an uncommon bnt fatal syn determining which of the RNAs in sound so scary you don't want to Hence the name War era, it talks of the seduction drome that sometimes OCCUlTed the brain assist in creating more pri think about them. While messy dis Cream. of heroism in a war, and the among peoples who practiced canni ODS, that RNA can be targeted by eases such as Ebola and flesh-eating Clapton ultimate death that awaits balism. The livestock feeding practice drugs that block the effect. bacteria might inspire horror movies (guitar), those drawn in by the siren', in Britain that contributed to "mad The study points to a way to detect and news reports, another modern B a k e r sweet song.1;his song gave 3 health plague is scary, not because of cow" was the use of sheep meat and the presence of the prions early, so (drums) and glimpse into what would bone meal, contaminated by Scrapie treatments can be started to stop or how contagious or how common it is, Bruce (bass) become "White Room" on (a disease related to BSE) in cattle slow the disease. A sample suspected but because of its unusual cause. were consid the "Rooms of Fire" album. feed. Compounding this problem was of containing the prions can be mixed "Mad cow" or bovine spongiform ered the best The most popular and the practice of feeding bovine meat with normal proteins and RNA and encephalopathy (ESE) and the human at their famous track on this album and bone meal (which may have been then assayed for prions. While the test equivalent, variant Creutzfeldt Jakob respecti ve is the legendary "Sunshine infected via the sheep meal) to young needs to be refrned before it can be (vCJD) disease, are not caused by instruments Of Your Love." This song calves. was quickly determined that used, the concept is promising. Other viruses or bacteria like other diseases, It and they came really needs no introduction consUllling the neural material of studies point to possible treatment of but by rogue proteins known as pri together to form a and 1 cannot really do it justice affected animals was the source of the vOD with antibodies. In an April ons. Prions do not obey the usual laws highly influential by trying to do so. So I will just say disease. 2003 study, mice were injected with of infection because they are not band. They also that this song is one of my all time As scary as it is, vOD is rare. antibodies designed to attach to pri infecting organisms like microbes. released the classic favorite songs. "Sunshine" is a chance However, one of the difficulties with ons. The results were that the disease They have no DNA, they have no album "Disraeli Gears." for the members of Cream to really lei Was slowed in animals already show RNA; they are just misfolded pieces this unusual disease is the lack of tests That is the album we will look not everything they have hang out or treatment. Luckily, recent studies ing symptoms of the disease. of protein. It took science a while to at this week. quite so Clapton gets to wail on guitar, Bruce', point to hope for both. Although at present there is no realize that simple pieces of protein Released in 1968 on Polydor cleverly veiled bass work is flat out incredible ane A study published in "Nature", in treatment and no cure for vCJD, these could have these effects. Records, this is a legendary albunl that drug reference to acid. Much in the Baker's stuttering drum work is truly October this year, points to the role of results hold promise for a change in Prions settle in the brain and mis few people know the album, other than same way Jimi Hendrix tied in "Purple innovative. I have yet to meet anyone our own RNA in the action of prions. that dim situation. Many researchers fold other proteins they encounter, rock and roll purists. That is a shame, Haze" '""ith a woman, Clap ton does the who does not like this song, and plUb· RNA is the single-stranded genetic in Europe fear that the rate of infec which then form twisted clumps. The because on the whole it is a landmark Sanle. Ironically, perhaps tlle biggest ably never will. material that acts as the working copy tion with vCID-causing prions has results are, of course, devastating - in Cream's brief but amazing catalog. debate in rock ar1d roll history is who Cream is one of those bands thai of DNA. RNA provides the transcript been severely underestimated due to the proteins affect the nervous sys Unfortunately, Cream has very much was a better guitarist, Hendrix or sits atop the Mount Olympus of lUeb for the translation of the DNA mes the lack of testing and long, symp tem, causing it to develop large holes become a greatest hits band, which is Clapton, and they usually battle it out and lUll. If The Beatles are the Zeus oj sage into protein and RNAs also have tom-free period before the disease is as neurological function fails. Instead unfortunate, because "Disraeli Gear-s" for the top spot of many a countdown. rock, Cream is definitely the Apollo 0] functional roles within the cell. One noticed. The race is on for a treatment of contracting this disease by the is a great psychedelic landmark that For my money, it is Clapton. Poseidon. "Disraeli Gears" is thei] of the roles has to do with guiding the before the effect of this spread of usual routes of infection, the prions full can be listened to beginning to end. Next up on our list is the crov.'Iling achievement, and their leg folding of proteins. With proteins, the prions can be seen. Cream was heavily influenced by e.uphemism-frlled anti-war track end continues to grow amongst rod 'Tales Of Brave Ulysses." You really and roll fans to this day. Ethnic organizations should exist ;Was Board of Curators vote necessary? Dear editor, minorities. If the majority group \".111 their distinctiveness while peacefully Dear editor, concerned. Somehow. I missed the policy change affect faculty, staff anc As president of Barnes College not speak for the minorities, then who li\'ing together as a whole. However After reading in Oct. 20, 2003 issue announcement that this particular students? Black Student Nurses Association, will? Our organization was founded we do not live in a pluralistic society. of The Current that the UM Board of issue Wal scheduled to be voted one the article [Segregation making a to address the health issues that affect The harsh discrimination against Curators voted unanimously to by the Board. Also, I am nnceltain as I Stephens comeback] offends me. To state that the African American community. We minorities has lingered for centuries. ! include sexual orientation in the anti- La why the Board, and others, felt this Senior ethnic-specific groups should not do not have the SanIe goals as Student As long as minorities are being reject bias policy. I am a bit c nfused and move necessary. How will this new Computer science exist is inappropriate. The African Nurses Association. Also, we do not ed because of their uniqueness, segre American and Latino based organiza display discrimination toward~ any gation will remain in the US- It is tions were targete.d in the article as if potential members. We consistently time for tlle nation to reject the social- I other ethnic specific organizations do advertise the fact that we are open to ly constructed concept of racism, not : What do the readers think: I not exist. everyone, regardless of ethnicity, age just UM-St. Louis. Why are ethnic-specific organiza or socioeconomic status. tions formed? The organizations that Yes, it would be wonderful if seg Sincerely, Results from the weekly web poll: are dominated by the majority group regation did not exist. In a pluralistic Tanika Joi Prowell do not focus on issues that concern society, every culture can lllaintain Nursing student Do you support the new sexual orientation clause in the anti-bias policy? Yes 9% nter point misses ma k with sarcasm and rudeness No ------4.~90~ First of all, the counterpoint started Why are these people getting away that genuinely believes it or not If they off sounding rude and sarchastic. with ripping everyone off? I need do, then tbey need to sit down and seri I wish someone would have some answers here. ously think about this issue some more. explained why it was the labor union Oh, the poor little customers who If it was written by someone who Don't know ------....~ O~ who locked out the employees, not the have to go elsewhere. Um, no. Those wrote what they think someone against actual employers. It seems like a good customers choose to do so and when the strike would write, then that is not a point, but I don't understand why. the grocery stores wise up, we will fair judgment People for the strike Yeah, jobs are so abundant. I'm return to our beloved stores. (And wouldn't know what someone against sure all those people either locked out maybe go back to those neat indepen it truly felt if that were true. But maybe Indifferent ------....~ 1% or striking will be able to find these dent grocers every now and then!) those against it re BY MELISSA M CCRARY Features Associate 111e Chinese Golden Acrobats per formed at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 22. Once the lights dimmed and the excited audience took their seats , a woman set the atmosphere for the evening by contorting her body and balancing a total of eight trays with glasses of water on her feet, hands, head and back. The five-act pelforrnance included juggling umbrellas, t\virling plates, flying spheres, bicycle stunts, tum bling, a human jump rope and climb ing stunts. For the past 27 centuries, the Chinese Acrobats have toured all over the world, amazing crowds with their unique brand of talent. ··The Golden Dragons have per formed in numerous cities like Memphis, Dallas, Charlottesville, Virginia Beach and Six Flags in San Antonio," said Company Manager Eric Huang. It takes these individuals many years of vital u·aining and dedication to learn flexibility techniques. The performers begin practicing this craft Michael Pelikan! Tbe Cumn! at very young ages and continue train The Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats "construct" a human "Great Wall" on Wednesday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing ing up to fi ve homs per day, six days a Arts Center. The appearance was sponsored by the Office of Student Life. week. "The youngest one in om group is One of most dangerous of the seemed nervous as the tower began to tems. "I was wondering how many After an hom of acrobatic moves 18. and the oldest is 32," said Huang. stunts was the Tower of Chairs. For wobble and the man acted like he was people they could possibly fit on one and amusement, the Dragons conclud The acrobats focus on and under this stunt, a man stacke.d chairs over going to fall. Laugher filled the audi bicycle." ed the show with a group tumbling act tand the necessity of inner strength ten feet high. balance.d them on wine torium once the audience realized that Each acrobat wore different bright and made their final bows to the and physical fimess. bottles and then limbed to the top to the "joke" was part of the routine. ly colored costumes to go along with crowd. For more information about After a brief intem ri sion, the com do a handstand. "I really enjoyed the bicycle per the next act. Besides the talent and upcoming shows at the PAC, call5l6-. pany howed off more daring tricks, The acrobat took his time amusing fomlance with everyone piling up on vivid outfits, Chinese instrumental 4949 or visit the official website at while the announcer reminded the the audien e with a few gymnastic the bike,'· said Frederick Eccher ill, and orchestra music were played in www.touhill.org. audience not to try the stunts at home. moves on top of the chairs. Everyone senior, management information sys- the background Knowledge battles AIDS in a fight to the death BY KATE D R OLET For older UM-St Louis students, sexual orientation can be affected Areas containing high amounts of the pIe blotches inside of the mouth, or on AIDS has not always been a problem. HIV is most often contracte.d T4 cells, such as in the case of an STD, the nose or eyelids. Features Editor They can remember a time when this through high-risk behavior. This are at a higher risk for contracting my. The only way to determine an HlY fatal disease Was not a conunon worry. behavior includes unprotected sexual HIV affects the body by destroying presence is through testing. All of the Tom Hanks gave AIDS a face in the However, for younger students, HIV acti vity, including oral sex, sharing T4 cells, thus weakening the immune symptoms associated with the disease movie "Philadelphia." We wat hed, and AID have plagued ociety for as needles for drugs and body piercing system. Those with HIV who catch an can be attributed to other illnesses, so we ried, and we even learned a 1it11e far back as their memory goes. with unsterile equipment HIV can be illness as cornman as the flu face death testing is essential. bit. Since the movie's debut in 1993. October is AIDS Awareness passed from mother to child through due. to their inability to fight the virus. HIV progresses in. four stages. The we all educated ourselves on the dan Month. and the first stage is known as the window University Health gers of the disease, right? We took the HIV/AIDS IN MISSOURI Throughyear·end2001 period, lasting anywhere from seven message to heart and el.inrinate.d am Services has provid days to SL'i. months. During this time, Livi CumUlative Cases high risk behaviors, didn't we? ed useful information HIV antibodies are not detectable in Apparently the movie, touclring as to increase "tude.nt the bloodstream. If an individual is it was, did not affect reality as much as knowledge and tested dming the v.-indow period, the it did the popcorn ale . understanding about 8,000 result is likely to come back negative. Ac ording to the Centers for this rapidJy spreading Antibodies usually develop within six Disease Control, between 850,000 and disease. months of contracting the disease. 6,000 950,000 United State' citizens are li v The Human During the second stage, serocon ing with HIV, and one-quarter of them Immunodeficiency version, the body fights the virus. Flu are unaware of their infection. Vmls, or HIV, is 4,000 like symptoms and swollen lymph Roughly 40,000 people are infected what the majority of nodes are often present during the sec with mv every year in the United infected individuals ond stage. A person is highly conta 2,000 EDITOR States. li ve with. Advanced gious during seroconversion. Of those who contract the disease, I mmun odeficiency Once in the third stage, people are KATE DROLET 70 percent are men and 30 percent are' Syndrome, cornmon- Source: www.aidsaction.org generally symptom-free. This period Features Editor women. Half of these individuals are 1y. referred to as can last from 6 months to 10 years. under 25 years old. Of the newly AIDS, is the final result of HIV. pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. "It's important for college students The virus continues to weaken the infected men, 50 percent are black, 30 HlV is transmitted through sexual According to HIVcom, research to be aware of AIDS . ..because many immune system dming stage three. phone: 516-4886 percent are white, 20 percent are contact with infected persons, as well has also shown that "persons already are sexually active. It's a matter of per In the fourth and final stage of HIV, fax: 516-681 1 Hispanic, and a small percent affects as through sharing nee.dles and blood infected with sexually transmitted dis sonal responsibility to get tested.," said symptoms usually return because of those of other ethnic groups. The transfusions. The virus can not be con eases are more susceptible to acquiring Sean Gold, junior, special education. the substantial destruction ofT4 cells. newly infected women are approxi tracted through sharing utensils, bed HIV dming sex with an infected part Symptoms of HIV include rapid Once a person develops AIDS, his mately 64 percent black, 18 percent ding, towels, telephones or toilet seats. ner." Because most sexually transmit weight loss, dry cough, recurring or her immune system is extremely white and 18 percent Hispanic. Though kissing, mosquito bites, sweat, ted diseases affect reproductive fever, intense night sweats, swollen weak. Those with AIDS often die of ROTC Between 1985 and 2001, the num tears and urine seem to be possible organs, these areas contain high lymph glands in the armpits, groin and complications related to cornman ail ber of adult and young adult AIDS transmitters, scientific research has amounts of CD4+T cells, also called neck, extended periods of diarrhea, ments and communicable diseases. cases in women increase.d from 7 per found no evidence that these fluids or T4 cells, wlrich are the body's main white spots or unusual marks on the cent to 25 percent. AIDS is now the activities can lead to HIV infection. infection fighters. When an individual tongue, mouth and throat, pneumonia, creates leading cause of death for black men The virus does not discriminate, mean- is infected with HIV, the virus is car memory loss, depression, neurological see AIDS, page 7 ages 25 to 44. ing all people of all races, religion and ried tlrrough the body via the T4 cells. disorders, and red, brown, pink or pm- leaders Thi k Pink takes on reast cancer BY ANGELA ASHLEY Sta.!fWriler BY KATE D ROLET Thursday, the women hosted their third annual Think Pink Lip Sync. A free college education and a Features Editor Contestants were charged an entry fee, junior executive-level position which also went toward the Susan G. upon graduation are real benefits Kamen foundation. First place win of a program offered here at UM ners received $75 in gift certificates to St Louis. TIle Almy's Reserve Ribbons adorned campus, loud the Galleria Mall, two gift certificates Officer Training Corps program, music blared from The Nosh, and stu to the Smoothie King, a silver watch, a or ROTC, offers the above men dents proudly wore pink ribbons dm set of dishes and a free month's mem tioned benefits and much more. ing Zeta Tau Alpha's Think Pink bership to Gold's Gym. Michelle Henderson, senior, week. 'The acts were all very creative and clirninal justice, joined the pro UM-St. Louis celebrated survivors fun to watch. Even the contestants that gram for those reasons. "HonestJy, and remembered those who did not entered at the last minute pulled I needed a way to pay for school, during Breast Cancer Awareness through," said Taz Hossain, sopho and my dad was military, so I month. Zeta Tau Alpha supports the more, psychology,. service chair thought it would be a good idea," cause through their philanthropy, the woman for Zeta Tau Alpha. she said. Henderson joined during Susan G. Kamen Breast Cancer Fom groups entered into the com her freshman year and said the Foundation. petition. The team made up of mem experience has been helpful in Starting on Monday, the sorOlity bers of the cheerleading squad and the many ways. ''I've been in classes handed out pink ribbons and accepted Flames dance team won the competi with the same people for three charity donations in The Nosh. The tion with their rendition of Beyonce years, so we've gotten vely close. pink ribbons were attached to cards Knowles' "Crazy in Love." It's like a big family. They're there with breast cancer infonnation. Competition judges included Joe for me no matter what the situa Outside, pink ribbons were tied around Flees, Todd Taylor, Shae Williams and tion," she said. several trees, and facts about breast Allyson Wilson. After the scores were In addition to being a somce of cancer were Wlitten in chalk on the tallied, the judges performed their own suppOJ1. the ROTC program intro cement. lip sync to the Jackson Five classic, '1 duced more di scipline into One woman is diagnosed with Want You Back." Hend ;[son '8 life and sped up her breast cancer every two minutes. Last Hossain believes that the Lip Sync maturation process. As far as her year, 4,000 women in Missouri alone was a success. "We're really excited classes at UM-St. Louis are con were diagnosed with breast cancer. In about it," she said. "Even though some cemed, tJle program has helped her 2002, 1,300 men in the United States people couldn't stay, become at ease with public speak were also diagnosed with breast can ing and cured her of her procrasti cer. nation. Zeta Tau Alpha members contin ------~ ~. - ... -. -...... - ...... ' .... -.. ~ ., ued to pass out ribbons and take dona see ROTC, page 12 tions on Tuesday and Wednesday. On see THINK PINK, page 7 Dancers perform to "Crazy in Love" by Beyonce Knowles during Zeta Tau Alpha's "Think Sync" contest that raised money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. October 27,2003 ~he Current Page 7 The Showdown: Men and Seatless Unicycle Rides well BY ANGELA ASHLEY Women Face Off Staff Writer On Thursday, Oct23, over 75 stu dents and faculty gathered in the Benton Hall theatre with one common goal: to laugh. The audience came to the event to view a special perfor mance by the group Guerilla Theatre. The title of the show, ''The Art of Riding a Seatless Unicycle, Part II," piqued the interest of the theatre-goers without giving them any idea what kind of show they would witness. The night began with a multimedia presentation that introduced the per fanning group, briefly highlighting each individual to the theme song of the movie "Snatch." Guerilla Theatre is comprised sole ly of UM-St. Louis students including Brijul Bhakta, Kate Drolet, Nicole Cusimano, Levi Locke, Gary Sohn, Lottie Bergstrom, Melissa WeI dele, Sara Miming and Laurie Bainter. Having done UM-St Louis theatre with each other before, these individu als recently decided to form a sketch Todd taylor, admissions counselor for the Honors College, mediates between the genders during comedy group. "The Showdown," held in the MSC on Wednesday night. Sketch comedy is a concept made BY KATE DROLET to be perfect Society expects women keeps them from sharing their emo famous by shows such as "Saturday ._- - - ...... _. .._-_ •.._, ... Night Live." Features Editor to be perfect." tions. Society's definition of a "real The next question focused on man" was considered, as well as the '1 think a lot of their ideas were women's inclination to be selectively ingrained belief that showing emotion better than SNL," said Laura Hepbum, Two rows of chairs faced each independent. One of the main male gives another person control. sophomore, mass communications. other from across Century Room C. complaints was that females want The phrase ''Men can't whine" Sbe came to the event to show support Students attending ''The Showdown," men to make "old fashioned" gestures illustrated the difference between men for fellow students. 'They were very a relationship discussion fOLUm , sepa such as opening doors and paying for and women's emotional outlets. funny and qefinitely creative. You can rated into male and female groups in .dinner. The men felt like there was a Commitment also came up in tell a lot of hard work went into their their respective rows. double standard surrounding that issue question form. Women wanted to performances." The event, sponsored by the and commented that when it comes to know why men were "afraid of mar Two of the skits dealt with charac Brijul Bhakta performs with the Guerilla Theater group as "Dr. Barnes Black Student Nursing women making such moves, the liage and commitment." ters named Dodgeball Man and Dr. Shithead" (pronounced Shih-they-ad, obviously) during a night of Association, Helping Hand women proclaim that they are "inde "You have to realize what you're Shithead (pronounced Shih-thay-ad). sketch comedy in the Benton Hall theater on Thursday. Organization and the St Louis chapter pendent." One woman commented, giving up," said Aldosia Bridgman, ''Those two were definitely my with a bad Austrian accent who uses songs, such as Jennifer Lopez and Ja of the NAACP, began at 7 p.m. on 'Those aren't women. Those are junior, marketing. "If that person isn't favorite. They were so funny," said highly unorthodox methods to treat his Rule's song ''I'm Real" and turned .Oct 21. girls." willing to give up the same amount, Maartje Van Lakerveld, freshman, patients. them into mini-dramas , reciting only Tanika Prowell, junior, nursing, The next issue dealt with men pro it's not worth it" undecided. Other topics addressed were terror the song l)'Iics. and Davida Skannal, junior, criminol fessing their love, and then cheating The men agreed that males are not Dodgeball Man was a skit about ist profiling, fiJmmaking, battles with ogy, both members of the Helping on girlfriends. One person defined necessarily afraid of commitment, but Superman's untalented younger broth cell pbones and teacher-student rela Hand Organization, opened the love as "respect, honor and giving that some just are not ready for mar er who finds power in the game of tions. The group also took popular see UNICYCLE, page 12 evening by asking members of the your all to the other person." Another riage. dodgeball. Dr. Shithead is therapist three sponsoring organizations to individual said that love is a sacrifice. Another major question that the stand and introduce themselves. The conversation expanded to the women asked was, "What keeps men After introductions, the partici dangers of sexual promiscuity, specif faithful?" pants wrote down questions for the ically concerning AIDS and other sex One person replied., "A backbone. opposite sex on note cards. Prowell ually transmitted diseases, such as the If I have a pearl at home, I won't look and Skannal read the questions and human papilloma virus, which causes for rocks in the street." opened the floor for discussion. a number of conditions and serious Other debated topics included how The first question. "How come afflictions. Taylor related biology and to handle girlfriends who are jealous history to the male inclination to offemale friends, spirituality and dat LEGISLATOR men expect women to be pelfect, but LUNCH~A women get the bottom of the barrel cheat, saying that the male species ing, the emotional strings that go R.EPRESENT AllVE MATT MU(](lER \v1th guys')" got a loud response from was designe.d to reproduce, while along with sexual behavior and wan themeB. females are made to bear children and ton dl'l~ssing. The solution to many of Jason Piggee. student and member nurture a family. The excuse of "ani the pmblems was to simply discuss of NAACP-St Louis, swmned up the mal instinct" did not excuse unfaithful boundaJies. Everyone agreed that cou overall male reaction by saying, "We behavior, and the gmup agreed that it ples should understand certain bound all strive for perfection. It's your prob is up to the new generation to set stan aries when it comes to relations ""ith RAZING'EHE lem if you settle for a guy with no job dards for male and fenwe roles in the opposite sex, and that these guide and fi ve kids." society_ lines are not inherently understood. Todd Taylor, admissions officer for The group also discussed the "When you leave here tonight, I the Pierre Laclede Honors College, importance of looks and personality. hope you realize what you're looking and Tracy Carpenter, Multicultural A female said that she wanted a man for in a relationship now," said Taylor. Relations associate, facilitated the dis who held his head high and impmved "Hopefully you can talk in the rela cussion. Taylor brought insight to the himself for his own reasons. tionship instead of just playing the debate and supported the men. One question dealt \vith the com gmne." '1 don't think men expect women mon charactelistic present in men that o OBER 30, 2003 THINK PINK, from page 6 ._ .•. _--_ ._. CENTURY ROOM C 12:00 PM I think it's great that we got their read facts about breast cancer. seemed to have a blast, and we can't attention. I also think we did really "I was really proud to be a part of wait until next year." well in getting our point across about such an awesome event that raises All donations and proceeds of the breast cancer awareness, and that's money for such a good cause," said week's events went to the Susan G. FRE BU ·FET LUNCH!! the most important thing" Katie Gierse, junior, nursing, a mem Kamen Breast CarIcer Foundation of Between acts, Hossain and Zeta ber of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. St. Louis. If you would like to learn Tau Alpha member Martha DeBuhr "All the sisters and participants more, stop by the web site. CALL LANA @ 516-5835 r • h n , 2• The College of Optometry offers all UM-St, Louis students eye exa ms for only • It gets bett students also get an automatic discou nt esigner/ top-of-the-lin on all on lenses, frames [ les/ nome brands ] and conta cts. r ---'~nive,sity Eye Center (314) 5 16 .. 5131 3 other locatio FRAMES BY: n Klein 1 OKNY I Nautica I Benneton I Marchon . . . [more] Page 8 ~Ire Current October 27,2003 Midfielder Jason Barclay battles Northern Kentucky's Nathan Rudolph during play Oct. 3 at Don Dallas Memorial Field next to the Mark Twain Athletic Building. Rivermen are put to test in three losses STEVE HARRELL Men's soccer faced Quincy, sports Editor phone: 516-5174 Gannon and Truman State fax: 516-6811 BY GRETCHEN MOORE "We played better in this game; we Questions Staff 'o)?riter just couldn't '.vin," Seckman said or While trying to hold offthe Knights Comments? The Rivermen soccer team has had attacks, the Rivermen tried to rally. Late a busy week, facing up against Quincy, in the half, Jeff Menke scored off an Send me an e-mail: Gannon and third-ranked Truman assist from Adam Bimslager to avoid State. Each game was a close loss; the shutout. invincible_ [email protected] however, the llivermen stand at .500 "We dominated the second half but with a record of 4-4-1. had a few lucky breaks in the first," The Hawks of Quincy University Meyer said. faced the llivermen on Oct 15. The Coming off 1\'10 consecutive losses, WEB Hawks took control early and capital the Rivermen now faced Truman State, izedon their shots at 4:25 with a goal by which is ranked third in the nation. Check out the R-men Josh Worth off of a penalty kick. Neither team could score in the first half and R-women sports at Quincy out shot UM-St Louis 10-0 in despite many tries by the Bulldogs. www.umsl-sports.com the first half. At the break the Hawks Truman State attempted an overwhelm led 1-0. ing 21 shots on goal without capitaliz ''We played well; we just couldn't ing on any. score and got off to a slow start," junior Senior goalkeeper Campbell R-women midfie1der Dave Seckman said. McLaruin saved eight goals to keep the The second half resembled the first llivermen tied 0-0 at halftime. For the with the Hawks outshooting the game, Truman outshot UM-St. Louis Goalkeeper llivermen 7-3. Quincy found the back 34-6, but the llivelUlen were kept in the of the net once again at 53:01. Ryan game by McLaurin who recorded 14 VanDillen scored for the Hawks to saves on the night. Cannody improve their lead to 2-0. The The only goal of the game came Rivermen couldn't avoid the shutout early in the second half when Tluman and lost to the Hawks. State got a penalty kick goal from given GLVe ''We started off slow and didn't Martin Clayes for. a 1-0 win. bring it the whole game," junior "It was a really tough game. We had defender Mark Meyer said. some chances to score but played the award Two days later the Rivermen played best game of the year against Truman," a non-conference game against Gannon Seckman said University. UM-St. Louis went for their "We played a heck of a game ...... - -- ...... -.----.- .. ~-.---- Courtesy sports Infonnation last home game of the regular season . against a really good tearn," Meyer The Rivermen carne out strong and said. Office got an early shot on goal. Gannon soon UM-St. Louis fell to 6-11-1 on the took control as they scored eight min season with the loss and lost by one utes into the game. Parbai Bowen goal to a nationally ranked team for the UMSL freshman goalkeeper scored for the Knights. Before the end second consecutive game. The Courtney Carmody (Wildwood, of the first period Gannon put a securi Rivermen will WTap up the regular sea Mo.!Lafayette) was named Great ty point on the board by Morgan Knipe. son this weekend when the team travels Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Mid-fielder Scott Wittenborn jumps high to meet a header during the Oct. 3 game versus the At the half, Gannon led 2-0. to play at Southern Indiana on Satmday. Week today by the conference office. Northern Kentucky Greyhounds. Carmody is the first UMSL student athlete this school year to earn player of the week honors. This past week, Carmody helped Rivenvonien soccer shuts down Quincy Lady Hawks 3-0 UMSL notch two wins with shutout BY GRETCHEN MOORE Sophomore defender Lama victories over William Woods in over Staff Writer Fredrickson got a pass from Hauan time and a big conference win over from across the box and found the back Quincy. Against William Woods, The illvf-St. Louis women's soccer of the net to improve the lead to 2-0. Carmody had six saves in the 1-0 team shut out the Lady Hawks of That was Fredrickson '8 first goal of the overtime win. She then recorded six Quincy to pull out an important win, season. more saves in a 3-0 victory over sending them to 5-3-1 in the confer At 52:20,junior forward Mary Kate Quincy. The WID over Quincy secured ence. The lliverwomen kicked off the McDermott scored once again for UM illvISL a spot in the upcoming GLVC game with a goal in the fITst 1\vo min St. Louis. Hauan recDrded the assist for TOUlTIament and gave the utes. a total of seven for the season and lliverwomen a chance to host a first Junior forvvard Sonya Hauan scored McDermott totaled six goals for the round tOUlTIament game depending on her 12th goal of the season at 1:29 off Rivelwomen. the outcome of this weekend's match an assist by Katie Huelsing. Huelsing 'They were aU over us after those es. passed from the middle to the left side two goals. Courtney [Carmody] had a On the season, Carmody has start to Hauan, giving her 12 assists on the lot of good saves to protect the ed in all 17 games for UMSL on the season. shutout," Coach Goetz said. season, playing in 1,555 minutes. She ''We played with good intensity the The scored stayed locked at 3-0 until has recorded 75 saves on the year, first half. Quincy is a really good team the final bt=er to record the win for the with a goals against average of less so we had to come out strong," coach lliverwomen. than a goal per game at 0.98. In addi Beth Goetz said Courtney Carmody, the tion, Carmody has recorded nine The lliverwomen held off the Lady lliverwomen goalie, was named the shutouts on the season, including each Hawks for the rest ofthe period and led GLVC player of the week by the con of the last four games. Her nine into thehalfat 1-0. The second halfwas ference office for the week of Oct. 21. shutouts rank fourth on the school's dominated early by the Riverwomen all-time single season list with at least who scored two more goals withID a Riverwomen soccer coach Beth Goetz has led her team to a 12-5-1 finish for the season, and 6-3-1 one more game remammg .. minute of each othe[ see SOCCER, page 9 in the GLVC. The Riverwomen will host a GLVC first round tournament on Nov. 2. October 27,2003 SOCCER, from page 8 ------..------_._--_._-_ .. _---- Cannody's assistance in the win more game remaining. Those nine easy with the Lady Eagles, currently 3- against Quincy helped to secure the shutouts also put her in sixth on the 6, fighting hard-to-avoid exclusion Riverwomen a chance to host a first Urn-St. Louis career shutouts list as from the tournament if they lose the Spiking round tournament game depending on well. game. . the outcome ofthis weekend's matches. The Riverwomen will hit the road ''We're kind of worried about it Carmody has 75 saves on the year for their final game against Southern because ,we want the home court the night and has recorded nine shutouts includ Indiana on Oct 25. In order to secure advantage. They have a new coach ing the last four games. Her nine hosting a first round tournament game, which usually motivates a team; and if shutouts rank: fourth on the school's all the Riverwomen must defeat Southern they lose this, their season is over. time single season ~t with at least one Indiana However, the fight won't be They're not going to go down without away RIGHT: Riverwomen middle hit ter Nikki Pagels spikes against the St. Joseph's Pumas' Breanne Evans during play Friday night. The Riverwomen were victorious, winning 3-1. BELOW: Setter Ashley Richmond . dives, but can't quite come up with the ball during Friday night's game against the St. Joseph's Pumas. Richmond had 22 assists in the game. Mike Sherwlnl The CUrmJl Riverwomen midfielder Sonya Hauail competes for the ball with a Quincy Lady Hawks player during the game Friday, Oct. 17 at Don Dallas field. Sharpen the skates Cusumano's Pizza Ice hockey starts lip the season Sunday - Thursday lOpm til Midnight BY GRETCHEN MOORE the East Alton Tourney against SID-E, some trip with a lot of fans," captain Lindenwood University two years ago 2 for 1 Rail Drinks ---.. Staff Writer Lindenwood and SLD. The Rivermen and president Craig Hoosman said. when Lindenwood ga e a $100,000 placed third in the toumament The Rivermen's big conference budget to the newly recognized ice Wednesday & Thursday lOpm til Midnight The Rivermen ice hockey team has Captain and treasurer Mike V{mkler rivals for the season include SLU, SMS hockey team started its season. The team practices hopes the team ""ill do well this year. and Northern illinois. Hoosman This loss left the Rivermen search every Wednesday flight at the St ''We want to make it to the le~oue tour revealed that the team had a rough Start ing for an entire team to keep their team $lJ)() pitcher refills (natural lite beer) Peter's Rec Plex and has games Friday narnent We placed second last year and 'Nith the losses in the tournarnent and alive. They finished second in the and Satnrday nights. The men of the want to do even better this year." against Milw-aukee but said everything MACHA conference last year. which must be 21 to enter - must have Missouri ID hockey team compete against such The Rivemlen faced" Kentucky Oct will start to click like it does every year. was the best finish ever in UM-St other teams like SID-E, SLU, 2 and 3 on the road and won both Under new coaches Neil Louis history. The Ri verD1en would 7147 Manchester Rd in Maplewood University of Wisconsin, Bradley, games. 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Tct .~-: t il~ .. 4IAIri!itIlI!M • -Ma.tcri.ibS~D$~- Ml!. tbeiJiati l:... - M. . ·Cl - N'fU:rjl&A()piCldSdeliCf ~Ite Current October 27, 2003 'Sylvia' has all Plath's t ragedy, not en,ough IPoetry BY CATHERINE MARQUIS tography and sets are flawless, and every visual element has the look of HOMEYER invested effort and expense. Film Critic illtimately, the visual elements of the film do not draw attention to them Sylvia Plath, a quintessential tragic selves but only serve to create the per female confessional poet, became an fect setting for the jewel of the actor's icon for feminists. Her death by sui perfonnances. cide occWTed almost at the same time Paltrow stars in a role most actress as the release of her acclaimed book es would die for, and she picks up the of poems, "ArieL" Countless people, opportunity and lUilli with it. Indeed, particularly young women, were Paltrow's perfonnance may win introduced to and moved by the pow Oscar consideration. AB the iconic erful, dark worldview presented in her Plath, she gets to portray a conflicted novel, 'The Bell Jar." Yet what led but beloved soul, a multi-layered artist directly to her suicide and to the who has already won hearts with her nature of her relationship 'With her savage, clark poems but whose per husband, British poet Ted Hughes, sonal unhappiness finally overwhelms remained a mystery for years. her. The whole film has a half-lit sort "Sylvia," a new biographical film of beauty, with all the photographic starring Gwyneth Paltrow, aims to tell elements needed to evoke the time the story of Plath's life and of her rela and the emotion. tionship with Hughes. Shortly before In a film about Sylvia Plath, happi his death, Hughes broke his long ness cannot .be expe{:ted. The film silence about Plath with the publica covers Plath's struggle for recogni EDITOR tion of a collection of letters. These tion, her early experiences with letters were the inspiration for the depression and her unresolved fee17 film. ings about her father's sudden death CASEY ScHACHER "Sylvia" is a darkly lush fibn, set that occurred when she was a child. A&EEditor mostly in 1950s Britain, which Given less attention by the film are weaves the tale of a love affair Plath's rages against the sexual double p hone: 516-5174 between t\vo gifted but fiery poets. standards of the '50s and the roles to They meet at Cambridge, when Plath which women were confined. ill the fax: 516-6811 marches into a literary society meet film progresses it becomes unrelent ing to confront Ted Hughes (Daniel ingly sad, especially at the inevitable Craig) about a bad review he had end. Unfortunately, "Sylvia" gives us given her poem. Sparks flew bet\veen too little of the subject's work, with the two, generating a kiss, a bite and only a few snippets of her poetry. A&E the taking of a single earring as a sou Therefore it misses the chance to give Calendar venir. The tempestuous meeting sets a lift to the audience's spirits by letting the tone for their up and down rela us experience the artistry that made tionship. her loss so tragic. What little poetry This highly polished, period we hear is glorious and does make brow movies that fill most theaters. usual ones of biopics: not enough of often aimed at fans than as slices of . piece/art film is gorgeous to look at. It some of the gloom more bearable. The actors' performances, . especially the work that made the artist great and history. To its credit, "Sylvia" strives Movies is not an art film in the low-budget, Despite the sadness, "Sylvia" can Paltrow's, are marvelous and this a viewpoint that is skewed to favor the to be accurate and perhaps that makes indie fUm sense, but in the sense of rightfully be called a good, serious aspect, along with the visual beauty of artist rather than the barefaced truth. it all the more sad to watch. What *Film openings are subject to what studios in the classic Hollywood fi 1m and a needed slice of intelligent the film, are the greatest strengths. This last aspect matters less, as these other kind of movie would you expect change. era called "prestige films." The pho- fare to counter the usual juvenile, low- The film's shortcomings are the kinds of biographical films are more about Sylvia Plath? Weekof Oct. 27 Apart from the Alien: The Director's 'Mystic River' blends Cut- A restoration of group, attempting the 1979 sci-fi horror mystery, tragedy in tale film that stars separation Sigourney Weaver. of three lives The Human Stain acting proves to be the real reason to Starring Anthony see this film, as Penn, Robbins and Bacon all sink. their teeth into meaty Hopkins, Nicole . roles, characters that are complex Kidman and Ed and multidimensional the way they are in good theater more often than in Harris. A college pro film. You can easily see Shakespeare fessor's affair sparks in the grand tragedy of their work ing-class lives. Of course, Eastwood controversy in this assembled a great cast that also includes Laura Linney as Jimmy's adaptation of the Lady MacBeth wife and Marcia Gay Philip Roth novel. Harden as Dave's disloyal one. All the perfonnances by this stel lar cast are firSt rate. Bacon does a Die Mommie Die wonderful job as Sean, whose job brings him back to a world he Conspiracy and thought he had escaped and forces romance abound in him to deal with unresolved fears. The references to Shakespeare that . this film, set in 1967, one is likely to see in reviews of this Boyd Tinsley of the Dave Mathews Band about aging singer film stem in large part from Penn's portrayal of Jimmy. Penn nails cold BY AMY GONWA Throughout "True Reflections," Angel Arden (Charles the range of emotions Jimmy experi Music Critic sounds ofthe Dave Mathews band Busch), who finds . ences, giving an astounding perfor can be heard, which is inevitable. The mance. His scene with Robbins, Dave Mathews band is not Tinsley's herself caught in the when he breaks down and cries out only accomplishment in the world of middle of the scan his grief over his lost daughter, is After collaborating with the Dave music. Tinsley co-founded the classic. On the surface, Robbins' Mathews Band for over a decade, Charlottesville-Alberrnarle Youth dals of a chaotic Dave is a gentle soul who seems to violinist Boyd Tinsley has set off on Orchestra as a teen. As a college stu household. dote on his son but also has a ner his own. "True Reflections" is the dent at the University of Vuginia, vousness about him that raises ques product of Tinsley's lifetime of creat Tinsley was already headlining tions in everyone's mind. Seemingly ing music. In his debut solo album, shows with his inherent talent on his trusting and dim, he tells conflicting Tinsley showcases his other musical violin. It was at college where the Girlhood talents, separate from the Dave young Dave Mathews met Tinsley, BY CATHERINE MARQUIS deeds. The boys are urieasy but stories to various people, and then Documentary about Dave, who lives one block away, becomes surprisingly streetwise and Mathews Band man whom you all and they have been working together H OMEYER know so well. ever since. reluctantly climbs into the car with cagey when talking to the police. the effects of broken Movie Critic Surprisingly enough, Tinsley per the two strangers. Dave eventually That Dave's life has been overshad- Tinsley continues pursuing his . homes, drugs, rape escapes but his experience scars him , owed by his childhood abuse never forms very little violin work in the career as a vital part of the Dave album; the string section is fairly Mathews band and currently bal and murder in the for life and leaves a pelmanent mark leaves anyone's mind. The character "Mystic Rivel)' is director Clint on them all. of Dave was originally meant to be a nonexistent This certainly.works to ances his national solo tour with the lives of Baltimore Eastwood's murder-mystery -as-char The three childhood friends are small man, but Robbins' posture and TInsley's disadvantage. His' voice is band's demands on his time. Band not strong and does not even compare members commonly separate to frod teens. acter-study fIlm about three boys brought together years later by the carriage express the emotional from a working-class neighborhood murder of Jimmy's 19-year-old fragility of the character, so that the to his string instrument skills. The their musical selves so Tinsley is cer whose lives are forever changed by a daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum). fact that he is the tallest of the three background vocalist on a few tracks, tainly not alone here. Unfortunately childhood tragedy that echoes into Sean, now a cop, investigates the main actors becomes irrelevant. Lisa Gennano and Dave Mathews for him, Tinsley's talents are more Ongoing ... adulthood. With astounding acting, mystery along with his partner Likewise; Marcia Gay Harden as outdo Tinsley and distract the listener productive and be~r defined as a the film reaches for Shakespearean Whitey (Laurence Fishbume). Dave's suspicious wife Celeste turns from the lyrics. part of the Dave Mathews Band. Scary Movie 3- Last proportions and nearly makes it. It Jimmy, an ex-con who still lives in in a great perfonnance unlike any The words that Tinsley writes are Tinsley's vocal projection and well-constructed ideas put forth in a songwriting are okay but certainly weekend's box may be Eastwood's best film of the old neighborhood, owns a market thing she has done before. Laura recent years, maybe since and has made a life ' for himself. Linney is great as always as Jimmy's simplistic manner: As a lyricist, nothing great He is comparable to office champ "Unforgiven," although it doesn't Dave, a retiring and marginally wife Annabeth, who keeps her head Tinsley marginally passes. Most of Lenny Kravitz, as they both write the eleven tracks on "True those songs that repeat one idea over grossed almost $50 quite reach the level of that master employed man . who never really and keeps her husband focused on work. recovered from his childhood abuse, what he must do for his family, in a Reflections" are about love. Tinsley and over, leaving you to wonder why million. Starring Jimmy (Sean Penn), Sean (Kevin also still lives in the old neighbor role. of self-preservation and ambi talks of yearning, searching and you are not a famous songwriter. falling into something that he does Still, Tmsley has obvious respect for Charlie Sheen, Bacon) and Dave (Tim Robbins) are hood. As Sean tries to solve the case tion inspired by Lady MacBeth. the three men who are forever linked one step ahead of the vengeful The mystery almost holds up until not completely understand. Who the classical lyricists. He does a pow Peter Boyle, Anna by a childhood tragedy. As children Jimmy, all the men have to come to the end of the film, where the logic really does? erful rendition of Neil Young's in a blue-collar section of Boston grips with their shared history and and psychology of it start to falter a 'True Reflections" carries a vari "Cinnamon Girl." 'True Reflections" Harris, Pamela near the Mystic River, their unevent the paths their lives have taken. bit ~ The film doesn't quite reach the. ety of musical influences from innu is an okay collection of songs. Boyd Anderson,Jenny ful days are altered when the three The murder mystery provides a heights that Eastwood achieved with merable genres of sound. The first Tinsley, a wildly talented . violinist. boys are caught Wliting their names backdrop for the real story, which is "Unforgiven," for the story is Dot track, "It's Alright," has a pop-like does not equally shine as a solo McCarthy, Leslie in fresh sidewalk cement by two men about the characters and their con quite as strong or as well realized. repetitive beat and chorus, while vocalist. For a debut album, 'True Neilsen and George in a passing car. The men claim to be flicted relationships. Director However, the film, well worth seeing tracks like "Listen" and "Long Tillle . Reflections" is not too bad, though a cops and demand that the boys get in Eastwood takes a straightforward for the splendid performances, will Wait" echo blues and bluegrass tones. dazzling solo career as a lead man is Carlin. the car so they can take them home to approach to his storytelling and lets likely lead to some Oscar nomina Then "Cause It's Time" shocks with a probably not in Boyd Tinsley's talk to their parents about their mis- the fme cast take center stage. The tions. classical reggae flair. future. October 27, 2003 CONCERT REVIEW Humor Sheds Amplified Tyranny: an Dark, True-life evening with KMFDM with the crowd. They were okay in all sometimes harder to understand than BY A M Y GONWA BY PAUL CRUTCHER brilliantly, boldly and simply what a actors. The dialogue between Dave eerily frightening way, the other vocalist, but his intimidating ...... ------.. __ ..... - ---.. --_._- Music Critic Staff W17'ter great thing it was. I picked it up, and his sister Beth when the mother's When the back-porch bluegrass stature kept aIlyone from complaining. opened randomly to a page, read, nosebleed will not stop manages to be interlude from the first track of KMFDM is much more definitive There are hWldreds of thousands laughed, flipped to another random deadly serious and genuinely funny at KMFDM's new album began, the live than in recordings. Their theatrical of books to browse at your local page, read, laughed and repeated. the same time. When Dave must take crowd was more than ready. After mechaIlized performance best portrays bookstore. KnOv.ring that massive sec illtimately, I bought the lC!fty promise Toph, his younger brother, to Open Since 1984, KMFDM has been mere seconds of this calming serenity, their lyrical messages and standpoints. tion called "Literature" is, well, mas made by Dave Eggers, the author. My House at Toph's new school, their making electronically infused rebel pulsating noise sprang onto the stage, Dmmmer Andy Selway, along with sive, you might focus only on the new copy from that Tokyo bookstore collective incompetence and immatu lious music in a process that vocalist and the show beg all. As Konietzko two guitarists and one bassist, work releases propped up at the front dis remains pristine despite being paper rity pulls at the rest of us who didn't Sascha Konietzko calls their, "constant chaIlled "I declaI'e war on the world," well to create all enteltaining rhythm play table, reveling in their time in the back, read through thlice and trans have these problems. Yet they escape evolution." The group begaIl in Paris, the rest of the group ripped through the to fit with KMFDM's lyrics. The spotlight. None of us has time to scm potted four times in the' proverbial with grins and "dork" comments and combining Konietzko aIld several sound banier of the small St. Louis whole group truly grabs aIld pulls the tinize each of those new releases. moving van. their lives shine brightly. painters and sculptors from GermaIly. nightclub. KMFDM's first song put roots of all of your attention, What draws you to a certain 'book Eggers keeps his promise. His Dave and Toph set off on an Since then, KMFDM has been a the echo into silence and set the stage KMFDM's music is a bending, then? In my experience, there are two autobiographical novel opens in a orphaned journey around California "revolving member cast," according to for one powerful set of industrial stretching and ripping of raw hmuaIl primary elements that answer that somber and outdated living room, a following the death of their parents, Konietzko. The seven-piece industrial music. emotion based upon an electronica rock setup seems to be a productively KMFDM's set was full of inven core. Their strong following is evi energetic unit. KMFDM's enthusiasm tive rhythmic discourse and outra dence that they break through the aIld engaging stage performaIlce has geous tone. Colorful lights shone plight of many young people's oppres- earned no less thaIl a cult following through the group's Mohawks and sian. Although their words may prove here in the States; many of whom were leather, making the scene quite aes controversial, KMFDM does not feaI' in attendance on the evening of Oct. thetically exciting. Each member had a rejection from the mainstream. When I 22, at Mississippi Nights. mesmerizing appeaI'aIlce on sta¥e, asked Konietz.ko if he was concerned Kein Mehrheit Furh Die !vlitieid is backed by pristine talent. about receiving criticism for his p liti tr1lIlslated from GennaIl to English as Female vocalist Lucia Cifarelli cally-infused messages, he smiled aIld "no pity for the majority." Their name alternated between lead and back remarked, "FraIlkly, I don't gi ve a sake has spawned some heavily defi ground vocals throughout the set. shit." So, the group continues with the ant songs and albnms that have been When Cifarelli made her noise, she same drive that forced its initial begin KMFDM's tools for spreading their demanded attention, with a stJ'Ong ning. words. With tileir CUlTent .s. tOlli, willed pre cnce comparable to th at of KMFDM 's visit to St. Loui KMFDM is promoting their newest o D ubt's Gwen StefaIu . Fellow proved to be an exhibit of enthus iastic CD release, ''WWIII.'' St. Louis was attention grabber and vocalist rebellion. Their industrial syncopation their sixtil performance in 36 shows n Raymond Watts also delivered a . and high regard for rock and elas ical a 4O-day intensive musical tOlli. unique musical curve ball, Long element~ made for one creepy sY Ill Bile, a thl'ee-piece demonic rock legged Watts casually strolled onto the phony. KMFDM's shatteri ng, elec group, opened the show with one loud, stage dres ed in a long platinum trench tronically-infused eighties sound is thrashy set. Grotesque aIld overcom coat and a straw cowboy hat. Watts, sure to keep them going strong for plicated, the group did not fare Ivell who SaIlg in a low taunting tone, was more years to come. AVE EGGERS The Current is hiring for a new Sports question: the cover and the title. There seedy freak show of sorts, where he all occurrence that drives the body of are, of course, those books that list the mns through the daily routine of car the novel. 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