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‘They will still be involved with the process, Shanghai having fun, a part of the house’: Kappa study abroad Sigma places two pledges on suspension program in danger of early cancellation EM MCPHIE NEWS EDITOR

The final semester of Washington University’s Global MedPrep Scholars Program is at risk of being cancelled due to fears over the coro- navirus outbreak which would result in a complete lack of opportunities for students to study in mainland China. The University has offered students the opportunity to study abroad in Shanghai during the fall semester for the past 25 years. Due to increasing administrative difficulties, the pro- gram was set to end after fall 2020. However, the program may have already had its final semester as a result of the dangerous conditions created by the coronavirus outbreak, GRACE BRUTON | STUDENT LIFE which originated in Wuhan, China The front entrance of the Kappa Sigma house on Fraternity Row. Kappa Sigma has placed two pledges on suspension due to allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. and is estimated to have affected over 60,000 people worldwide. JAYLA BUTLER AND TED And they wouldn’t really specify situation. Edison said. One of the students who was MOSKAL what it was… [and] we ended up Bennett based her counsel on the Both Edison and Krohn explained hoping to participate in the Global NEWS EDITORS giving the kid a bid,” sophomore fact that there have been no formal that they were instructed to not seek MedPrep Scholars Program was Logan Krohn, Kappa Sigma’s social allegations against any pledges. out any information about the alle- sophomore Jessica Huang. Following accusations of sexual chair said. “We have given all of the assis- gations as a fraternity because they “They held a meeting on Tuesday assault against students in Kappa Separate accusations were tance we can to the chapter in terms did not have the proper training. saying they were strongly considering Sigma’s spring pledge class, the fra- made against another pledge, who of guidance and where to go from They were, however, told that they cancelling the program due to safety ternity placed two new pledges on had allegedly thrown a drink at a here... but because we do not have could evaluate the validity of a claim concerns surrounding the spread of suspension. woman. the jurisdiction to dictate member- if someone were to approach the coronavirus,” Huang wrote in a state- The controversy’s escalation “At the time of bid vote, I was ship in fraternities and sororities, chapter with information and act as ment to Student Life. “I was really was motivated by a comment on a aware of basically the totality of this there’s nothing else that we can do,” they saw fit. looking forward to going, since it was GreekRank.com post titled “Who incident, presented it at the chapter, Bennett said. “We can’t go asking people if they a great opportunity to shadow in hos- wins cross bids?” Jan. 30. The com- and also talked it through with the Senior Sam Edison, a member of can give us information; we can’t go pitals that practice a different form of ment alleged that among Kappa young woman who was involved Kappa Sigma, said that Bennett had asking sororities to reach out and ask medicine than the United States.” Sigma’s new pledges were “someone and we decided, with all the relevant been in contact with Kappa Sigma for information on behalf of us... but Applications for the Shanghai pro- super problematic” and a “rapist.” information being disclosed, to still for “so long that she had to report it was kind of described as a very gram were due on Feb. 1. Assistant During the spring rush process, extend a bid,” Krohn said. these stories to Title IX,” as she is a fine line,” Krohn said. Director of Overseas Programs Kappa Sigma was notified by other As discussions over the two mandatory reporter. If the fraternity were to find Carrie Canham and other study fraternities that they had dropped pledges continued on GreekRank. According to Edison, the Title anything that corroborated the alle- abroad faculty members announced one of the students rushing. com and within the Greek com- IX Office concluded that there was gations, Krohn added, he would at a Feb. 11 meeting that the decision “Basically their rush chairman munity, members of Kappa Sigma not enough information available to personally not hesitate in voting to over whether or not to cancel the pro- called one of our rush chairmen and reached out to Campus Life’s open up a case and that they did not drop the students from the pledge gram’s final semester would be made said, ‘Hey, just wanted to let you Coordinator of Fraternity and have any additional guidance. class. by the end of February. know we dropped this kid for stuff Sorority Life Molly Bennett for “They weren’t sure what we were that happened in our basement.’ guidance on how to navigate the supposed to do in this situation,” SEE SUSPENSION, PAGE 2 SEE SHANGHAI, PAGE 2

Washington University School of Medicine to introduce new curriculum next year

TED MOSKAL a major revamp after twenty-five best practices as well as educational “One is a social medicines to continue their studies under the NEWS EDITOR years with only minor updates. theory to design an ideal curricu- thread, which is woven throughout old curriculum, although they will Additionally, the University’s lum that would help us meet our the curriculum in all four years,” be able to take advantage of the new The Washington University upcoming accreditation process goals,” Aagaard said. “And then Aagaard said. “And then the sec- opportunities offered by the gate- School of Medicine plans to revamp prompted administrators to shift to we charged the second committee, ond is through an intentional and way curriculum. its entire curriculum starting in the a competency-based curriculum, called Greener Pastures, with doing required community engagement “[Students enrolled in WUSM 2020-2021 academic year. which many other medical schools quality improvement: taking the cur- curriculum where we’re… pro- before the curriculum change] will The new “gateway curriculum,” have adopted. rent curriculum, learning about what viding [students] with structured have the opportunity to partici- which is structured around the three “In competency curriculum, you other schools have done and suggest- opportunities within the commu- pate in innovative pilot programs/ core concepts of competency-based actually define: ‘What does society ing an improved or enhanced plan.” nity that will help them address courses/rotations including those learning, integrated education and need from a graduate?’” Aagaard In an effort to include current some of these long standing social involving basic, clinical, social and community engagement, has been said. “So [at] our medical school, medical students in the curricular inequities in our city.” community sciences—especially in in the drafting stage since the 2017- what do we think are important development process, a third advi- The previous curriculum had the fourth year,” WUSM’s website 2018 academic year. outcomes that all students should be sory group called Golden Horizons employed a traditional learning writes. “Any participation in new Due to logistical considerations able to achieve at the time of gradu- was also formed. structure, with students starting programming will be elective, and caused by a shorted preclinical ation? And defining those standards “We were asked to take what off by learning certain medical there will be no changes to the cur- period, the school’s incoming class and then designing the curriculum we liked from the models we had concepts and later applying those rent graduation requirements for size was lowered from around 125 backwards from those standards and seen, our own ideas, and our expe- concepts in later clinical and students entering in 2019.” to 100 for the 2019-2020 and 2020- goals.” rience as students to create our research stages. The new gateway Reflecting on the impact of his 2021 academic years, but will return Due to the significance of the ideal curriculum,” third-year medi- curriculum will break up this struc- work at the Golden Horizons com- to 125 after that. potential curricular shift, Aagaard, cal student and Golden Horizons ture by adopting an integrative mittee, Morris emphasized how “When you’ve shortened the Dr. Thomas De Fer and other committee member Jason Morris learning system. the process of seeking input from preclinical curriculum… there will administrators employed a variety wrote in a statement to Student “Integration means that you’re faculty, residents and especially be an overlap in the clinical space of methods to garner feedback from Life. “We looked at mentorship, learning things simultaneously and students had added valuable new between the last class of the tradi- all groups who would be affected by meaningful early clinical exposure, in context,” Aagaard said. “And aspects to the gateway curriculum. tional curriculum and the new class,” the new curriculum. After a kickoff community engagement, academic so this curriculum integrates basic “These components help update WUSM’s Senior Associate Dean for retreat involving faculty, students, individualization, professional iden- science, clinical science and social the medical school experience to Education Dr. Eva Aagaard said. residents and others, administrators tity formation.” science throughout the curriculum not only stay current with current “And so to address the ability to created two committees to guide the In order to address concerns that through all three phases. And that’s educational literature, but also to accommodate students in the clinical process forward. the University was not adequately the first time we’ve done that in at produce future physicians who are workspace, we needed to decrease “[First we created] a working engaging in the St Louis commu- this medical school.” equipped with the skills and knowl- the total number of students.” group called Blue Skies, which was nity, the working groups also came However despite these radi- edge to excel and be leaders in the According to Aagaard, the charged with blowing up the whole up with two programs to encourage cal changes, students currently changing landscape of modern school’s curriculum was due for thing and, and using evidence-based this type of engagement. enrolled in WUSM will be allowed medicine,” Morris wrote.

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Incarceration is joining forces tutional and to publicize the “What we need is pub- with city-wide efforts to shut movement. lic pressure, public support EVENT CALENDAR down the Workhouse, a “The justice system, not just from high-ranking, respected medium-security penitentiary here in Missouri, but every- institutions, organizations in St. Louis, for its inhumane where, is rotten to the core,” and people,” Bordeaux said THURSDAY 13 conditions and its dispro- Bordeaux said at the meeting. at the meeting. “It would be portionate number of Black Alia Nahra, Interrogating like a bomb went off in the inmates. Incarceration’s vice presi- mayor’s office if the chancel- A Conversation with Angélique Kidjo Close the Workhouse, the dent of communications, lor of Wash. U. came out and Women’s Building Formal Lounge, 12 p.m. campaign that encompasses emphasized the importance said, ‘We support the Close Three-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo is a true global superstar who has recorded Action St. Louis, ArchCity of getting the University com- the Workhouse campaign. 13 albums and performed at top venues around the world. Born in Benin, Kidjo and her Defenders, The Bail Project munity behind the movement We support decriminalizing band will celebrate the electrifying rhythms, vocals and sounds of Africa, with music from and the Advancement because of the University’s poverty, we support reen- throughout Kidjo’s storied career, including music from her two most recent projects: Project, is the latest manifes- visibility in the St. Louis area. visioning public safety, we a celebration of the great Celia Cruz, and music from her re-imagining of the Talking tation of efforts to abolish the “I think it’s really easy for support investing in people Heads’ “Remain in Light” album. The conversation will be led by Lauren Eldridge Stew- Workhouse. Wash. U. students to talk and communities, not jails art, assistant professor of Ethnomusicology. According to Close the about things and care about and police.’” Workhouse’s action report, things on campus and focus The University’s Public Constructing and Deconstructing Antibiotics 99% of inmates are legally their lives on the academia Affairs department did Academic and Research Building, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Room 449, 12 p.m. innocent, but cannot afford side,” Nahra said. “Mass not respond to requests for Contrary to popular belief, antibiotic resistance is not man-made and is not always a bad the bond set while they await incarceration is such a visceral comment. trial. The campaign argues issue everywhere, but there’s In an interview with thing. Microbes have been making and breaking antibiotics for hundreds of millions of that the Workhouse, which so much movement around Student Life, Bordeaux rec- years. Antibiotic resistance and antibiotic biosynthesis in the natural world have reached costs the city $16 million the issue in St. Louis that it ommended that college a steady state. Anthropogenic use of antibiotics can tip the equilibrium towards antibiotic annually, perpetuates the doesn’t seem to make sense to students interested in getting resistance in certain environments, including farms and hospitals where antibiotics are criminalization of poverty just have students doing that involved in the movement do needed most. Despite our entry into the era of antibiotic resistance, an argument will be and disproportionately targets in the classroom.” their research before coming made that the future is bright for antibiotics thanks to Nature’s rich chemical inventory. Black St. Louisans. To officially close the to conclusions. Lessons from microbes and the antibiotics they produce provide foresight into the existing “The Workhouse, I like to Workhouse, the campaign “First thing, know the facts, methods for constructing and deconstructing antibiotics to manage antibiotic resistance. say, is a monument to white is working to secure the sup- because there’s a lot of disin- Two case studies from my laboratory demonstrating the power of antibiotic foresight supremacy and racism in port of St. Louis mayor Lyda formation out there. And this will be highlighted in this lecture: tetracycline inactivating enzymes, a case of antibiotic St. Louis...” Inez Bordeaux, Krewson, who has the power particular city administration destruction and non-ribosomal peptide beta-lactones, a case of antibiotic construction. the manager of community to close the Workhouse is sowing those seeds of dis- collaborations for ArchCity herself, and the Board of information,” Bordeaux said. FRIDAY 14 Defenders, said. “Anytime Aldermen, who control the “They want people to be con- you have 50% of the popu- city’s funding decisions and fused about the numbers and lation of a city being Black, could cease the Workhouse’s the reasons and why we need Roundtable: ‘Informal Cities, Urbanism & Race in Brazil’ and you have 90% of the jail funding. Bordeaux also called to close the Workhouse.” Women’s Building Formal Lounge, 3 p.m. population being Black, what attention to Kim Gardner, Interrogating Incarceration Roundtable conversation with Brodwyn Fischer, of the Department of History and direc- is that if not racism?” who does not have the power is continuing to circu- tor of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago. Interrogating to close the Workhouse, but late a 2019 petition for the Incarceration’s ultimate goal has worked to decriminalize University to support the SATURDAY 15 is to raise awareness of crimi- marijuana in St. Louis, which Close the Workhouse move- nal justice inequalities among results in fewer people being ment in order to be able to BearFIT Skills: Deadlifting the student body. On Feb. 11, sent to the Workhouse, where demonstrate the level of stu- Gary M. Sumers Recreation Center - Burmeister Lounge, 1 p.m. the group invited Bordeaux to many detainees have been dent support to Chancellor BearFIT Skills is a series of complimentary classes open to every member of Sumers speak at their second meeting accused of lower-level crimes. Andrew Martin at a later date. Rec that will take any range of participants, novice to advanced, through a specialized exercise skill or piece of equipment. Each class will have a different focus for the hour during which you will have the opportunity for hands-on experience performing the skill and learning how to utilize it within your own workout. You will work with one of our certified BearFIT trainers in order to receive expert instruction and guidance and answer any questions you may have.

SUNDAY 16

Welcome Neighbor STL Syrian Supper Dinner Catholic Student Center, 5:30 p.m. As a part of Interfaith Week at Wash U, Sigma Iota Rho and the Catholic Student Center at Washington University are co-sponsoring a Welcome Neighbor STL Syrian Supper Dinner! The meal will be cooked and presented by a local Syrian refugee. Join beforehand CURRAN NEENAN | STUDENT LIFE for the World Mass at 4:30PM! If interested in attending, a $10 donation is optional, but A guard tower sits above the yard outside the St. Louis Medium Security Institution. WU students highly encouraged to offset costs and support the refugee cooks! are rallying behind a campaign to shutter the prison, which is informally known as the Workhouse.

SUSPENSION from page 1 Despite the guidelines who lived on their floor. Krohn said. “So my first posi- that we need to be vigilant comfortable sharing.” these kids did, but because of from Campus Life prohibit- “I identified the source of tion was to remove myself about,” he said. According to Krohn, the the fact that there are rumors ing the chapter from further the rumor, the half-truth it as much as I could from the Kappa Sigma followed up future of the alleged perpe- out there.” investigating the situation, was based off of,” he said. idea of this big investigation the sororities’ concerns with trators in Kappa Sigma looks Krohn detailed his per- Krohn said that he began Again, Krohn noted that by asking peers, specifically a letter to the Greek Life bright. sonal intention to reach out to conduct a personal inves- he did not specifically ask women in the freshman community apologizing for “Although they’re on sus- to every sorority chapter on tigation by reaching out to about sexual assault, but class, if they could, not on remaining silent about their pension, they’re still part of campus. He is currently in various freshmen, sopho- rather tried to identify a my behalf but for my sake, voiced concerns. The letter their pledge class involved communication with the mores, fraternity members “pattern of disrespect.” His tell me any information they also explained that they had in all solely fraternal aspects executive board of a soror- and even high school friends decision to look into the over- had…But in no way was I met with the University. of pledging,” Krohn said. ity chapter and has offered of the pledges in question. all reputation of the accused ever seeking out information “We are truly sorry if our “So they will still be involved to hold open forums for any The investigation was not pledge rather than investi- that was specifically about silence was perceived as with the process, having fun, sorority members to discuss specifically in the context gate the specific allegation sexual assault.” indifference to the issues of a part of the house.” the situation. of sexual assault, he said, of sexual assault, he said, Lacking concrete findings sexual assault,” the execu- However, Krohn and When asked what advice but about any questionable was due to his goal of being about the alleged assault, tive board of Kappa Sigma Edison did not entirely dis- she would give to sorority behavior. trauma-informed. Krohn acknowledged that wrote. “We are not waiting avow the allegations that had women concerned about “Simply stated, all I was “The last thing I wanted there was some ambiguity for this incident to blow over been made. their safety at Kappa Sigma able to find was that these to do was to...make any per- remaining in the situation. but we need time to ensure “I don’t think we decided events, Bennett said it was up kids have pretty glowing rep- son on this campus feel like “I can’t say that [the allega- we take the most responsible that it wasn’t a credible con- to them. utations,” Krohn said. their story or their lived expe- tions] are for sure true or for course of action. While it is cern,” Krohn said. “I think “Everyone can make their Krohn said he then went riences were being sought sure untrue, but I like to oper- not our intent to put the onus we were aware that people own decision,” Bennett said. even further, uncovering the out, especially for political ate as if we still have—this is on you to fix the situation we could have felt unsafe, not “If someone does not feel identity of the alleged victim reasoning or in a way that gonna sound silly—a mys- created, we would greatly only because there were cred- safe, then they do not have to and reaching out to students was potentially threatening,” tery rapist among the ranks appreciate any input you feel ible allegations of things attend a social event.”

SHANGHAI from page 1 Canham did not respond to improve,” Kansupada wrote to go abroad. The only other became interested when he who applied to participate in the United States and other requests for comment. in a statement to Student program open to all pre-med learned about the Shanghai in the fall 2020 program was parts of the world.” “Although it was very dis- Life. “From my point of view, students takes place in France program and felt that it lined excited for the experience. Similar to Huang and appointing, considering the February is too premature to over the summer and requires up perfectly with his goals. “It’s the best of both worlds Kansupada, Wang is not sure program is in a hospital setting call the trajectory of the virus students to take two years of “Study abroad is important to get the cultural aspects of if she will go abroad at all if it makes a lot of sense,” wrote until August.” college-level French prior to because it allows us to not a study abroad program but the fall 2020 program is can- Huang. “Now I just have to At the Feb. 11 meeting, fac- attending, which is prohibitive just visit other countries as also a very unique educational celed, especially with so few figure out alternate plans for ulty members said that it was for students who already have tourists but to live in a differ- opportunity shadowing differ- options for pre-med students. studying abroad...there’s a pos- necessary to make the decision a taxing pre-med course load. ent society as a resident, and ent medical facilities in China, “I think there’s so much sibility I won’t go abroad at all so early because the planning MedPrep Program Director it’s hard to find time in life both traditional Chinese else to explore,” Wang said. anymore.” process for the program typi- Gregory Polites declined to to live in another country for medicine and more mod- “When you’re thinking about Sophomore Jeevun cally begins in March. comment. months at a time,” Kansupada ern hospitals,” Wang said. studying abroad, you want to Kansupada disagreed with the The closure of the Shanghai The Shanghai program wrote. “[The Global MedPrep “I was interested in that be immersed in like a culture University’s approach. program will not only leave a provided a more accessible Scholars Program] was unique aspect because I wanted to be that you’re excited to learn “They can begin to make vacuum for students who wish option for pre-med students. in the culture and opportuni- exposed to a diversity of dif- about. It would be great if we plans and then cancel later to study in China but also for Kansupada was not originally ties it provided.” ferent facilities and compare could invest in more opportu- should the epidemic not all pre-med students hoping planning to study abroad, but Sophomore Jackie Wang, them with medical facilities nities like this.” THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020 DORIAN DEBOSE & MATTHEW FRIEDMAN | SENIOR SPORTS EDITORS | [email protected] STUDENT LIFE 3 SPORTS BY MATTHEW FRIEDMAN SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

As a freshman, Stephanie Li rarely swam the breaststroke. Three years later, she holds the WU record.

Senior Stephanie Li with them. I think that’s what think our coaches are really joined her rural New York is inspiring. committed to the energy of town’s YMCA club swim the practice and helping to team when she was seven STUDENT LIFE: I’ve heard keep us motivated. We feed years old, following in her about these intense morning off of that energy to hype brother’s footsteps. Many practices that the team does. each other up, especially in of her friends were on the What does an average one of those early morning prac- team and she enjoyed the those practices look like? You tices. It always helps that we daily two-hour practices, mentioned how being around have our radio going and we so she stuck around. By your teammates doing all of have a peppy playlist. the time she got to high their hard work is inspiring. school, Li was one of the Walk me through what that STUDENT LIFE: What kind best swimmers in the region, hard work looks like on a of songs do you listen to dur- winning conference all-star given day. ing practice? awards and being named COURTESY OF CHRIS MITCHELL her division’s first team Most LI: Swimming is basically LI: Usually it’s a Pandora Senior Stephanie Li slices through the water during a heat at a meet in the Millstone Pool. Af- Valuable Swimmer from equivalent to a part-time job. radio or something. I don’t ter coming to WU expecting to swim the individual medley, Li has excelled in the breaststroke. 2012-2015. When she joined We do a practice every day really know who sets the sta- the Washington University except for Sunday and then tion. I think it’s sometimes swimming and diving team in we do a double, which is a just pop. Usually we hear 2016, she thought she would [weight] lift and a swim. We a bunch of the same songs mainly be swimming the indi- do that three times a week. over and over again, which I vidual medley. That changed Take this morning for exam- think is inevitable because of quickly after a conversation ple: I got on [the pool] deck the algorithm or something. with head coach Brad Shively at like 6:20 [a.m.] and got all We hear a lot of The All- her freshman fall, and last my stuff. Everyone’s kind of American Rejects. We always spring, she broke the school sleepy, but you say hi to each hear some Green Day. record in the 200 breaststroke. other and scarf down the rest Li sat down with me to dis- of your Clif Bar or whatever. STUDENT LIFE: If some- cuss her career ahead of this Our coach, Brad, always one had to choose the season’s University Athletic gives us a chalk-talk, so we anthem of the Wash. U. ESCAPE WITH YOUR Association championships, all converge by the board swimming and diving team, which began yesterday after- and he reads the practice to do you have an idea of what SWEETHEART noon and continue through us. Then we get in and we do it would be? Saturday. our warmup, usually some TO THE CHESHIRE kicking and pulling, and then LI: My freshman year, STUDENT LIFE: What’s we do our main set. Then we it was “Closer” by The your favorite part of swim- warm down and usually at Chainsmokers. I think the ming? Is there a single aspect the end we’ll do a dry land, song was really big then of it that you think is particu- which is abs: push-ups, sit- and it was always play- larly fun? ups, you know. We do boxing ing in practice. Whenever sometimes. I heard the song, everyone STEPHANIE LI: There are would start singing and then a lot of things I like about STUDENT LIFE: Boxing as dancing a little on the wall swimming, but in particu- in punching things? Why do between sets. When I hear lar here at Wash.U. I really you do boxing? that song, it makes me think like being on a team. The of good times and the team team here at Wash. U. is so LI: It helps you work on your being happy and celebrating Enjoy a charming boutique hotel experience good. There’s so many great core strength. We’re not nec- together. And then it helps swimmers on our team. Back essarily always just hitting get me through the set. and romantic getaway with luxurious accommodations, home at my high school, our each other. There’s rotational swim program wasn’t that stuff and this windmilling STUDENT LIFE: Gotcha. modern amenities and four delightful on-site dining spots. strong. Coming here and thing we do with boxing We discussed the vibe at the being surrounded by so many gloves, so it adds weight to beginning of practice. What SIT BACK AND ENJOY OUR awesome swimmers has been your hands. 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TYLER SABLOFF friends you’re spending etc. Make sure you smell wearing distressed, punky SENIOR EDITOR the day with, a lot of stress good and that your hair is clothing, you could can come with trying to well kept and not greasy. probably get away with a It’s about that time of look as good as possible Just do everything in your well-fitted leather jacket. the semester when actually for your Valentine. So I power to make sure your But don’t wear a leather getting up in the morning have a few tips on how to body is clean and kept jacket covered in patches and getting dressed is an look great on your V-Day before you even think of and chains over a t-shirt impossible struggle. I’ve date, no matter what your putting on clothes. You with a bunch of holes in been pretty much resorting plans are. don’t want to show up it. Later down the road to cycling through a few For starters, make to your date looking once you two really know pairs of joggers and hood- sure to dress for your like a million bucks each other that would be ies for the past few weeks, occasion. If you plan but smelling like a perfectly fine, but for a not really paying too much on going to the 801 three-week-old gym first impression it’s just too attention to how well I Chophouse, you sock. Again, this is much. dress around campus. probably want to wear probably obvious, Other tips I’ve given But I figure that I, along something classier but don’t discredit before also apply to this with others who find than you usually wear, how important it is as well: Wear clothes themselves struggling to like a blazer or even to just be clean. that fit you properly, find the motivation to put a casual suit. But don’t In terms of a first date, don’t wear something themselves together in the show up to your first date don’t wear something too too beaten up or dirty and morning, just need a little in full black-tie if you’re bright, flashy or over the make sure everything is kick to get them motivated. just meeting at Seoul Taco. top. If you really don’t matching. To be honest, if And, as luck would have You may look good as hell know the person’s vibe it’s a good match it really it, the rapid approach of in that well-tailored power yet, wearing something shouldn’t matter to the Valentine’s Day provides suit, but you’re gonna look overly extravagant could other person how well you just that. ridiculous given the set- come off as intimidating dress. However, showing Love is in the air, and ting, and may even scare or overstimulating if the you put in the effort to with it comes a desire to off the other person. other person isn’t expect- look your best for them is impress. Whether it be This may go without ing it. That isn’t to say you incredibly flattering. So your significant other, that saying, but clean your- have to show up looking don’t put too much weight person in your Monday- self up. Take a shower, like a nondescript gray on how you look, but Wednesday 10 a.m. class get a haircut, wash your blob; it’s good to interject know it can’t really hurt you asked out, the top clothes before putting some of your personal- you to put in the effort to person on your Datamatch them on, put on deodor- ity into how you dress. If start the date with your list or just a group of GRAPHICS BY CHRISTINE WATRIDGE ant and cologne/perfume, you’re into the trend of best foot forward.

‘Incorporating what you love to eat’: WU dietician discusses ‘balanced’ eating

JADEN SATENSTEIN choices. What does “health- don’t like to use because SENIOR SCENE EDITOR ful” mean to you? it is so ambiguous and it doesn’t really have a clear With midterms starting REBECCA MILLER: definition…The biggest mis- and the semester kicking into I guess it depends on the conception that I see is that full gear, crafting a nutritious, person. I’m a big advocate, people label foods as ‘good’ well-balanced diet is often nutritionally, that each versus ‘bad’ or ‘healthy’ the last thing on Washington person is different and that versus ‘unhealthy.’ And I’m University students’ minds. we all need and want differ- a big proponent that there With so much going on, it ent things from our foods, are no bad foods for you. We can be hard to put the time right? So “healthful” for me can work into your person- and energy into making is going to be incorporating alized meal plan, nutrition sure one is eating food that what you love to eat. And plan, goals, any foods that provides the energy and are there ways to make it you really like. And then we substance they need. more filling for you, more can sneak in ways for you to In order to make things energizing for you? Because learn to like new foods or try simpler for students, Dining really the goal here is to get them in a new way. Services launched Bear through your four years of From social media, from Balance 2.0 this semester, a your study, five years of peers, from growing up, from combination of the former study. So you need to have high school pressures, family Bear Balance and Bear’s good brain food and have pressures, whatever it is…we Choice (previously called good fats, good protein, good start to label foods as, ‘I can’t Connie’s Choice) pro- vegetables for antioxidants have this, I can only have grams. Now featuring more and good fiber from whole this. This is good. This is “healthful” options than ever grains. bad. Carbs are bad. Fats are before in dining halls across bad. Animal-based proteins campus, Bear Balance allows SL: What kind of feedback are bad.’ And so the goal students to easily find meals have you received from here is balance. that meet specified criteria, students about the program including being 100% whole as well as meal options they SL: What are small ways grain and containing zero want to see? students can improve their trans fat and less than a well-being in terms of food teaspoon of added sugar. RM: I haven’t heard and nutrition? These meals are meant negative feedback for Bear to be filling, nutritious and Balance. I think we’re still RM: So small things, core energizing while still tasting kind of in the building, things, nutritionally, would good. Some recent options promoting phase of it, or be to try to get yourself on have included African red re-promoting, that phase. a flexible meal schedule. potatoes with chickpea Feedback that I hear when I So that means not skipping tagine in the Danforth meet with students one-on- meals, because then you’re University Center and spe- one is more, ‘We want to running on empty. Your gas cial pasta and stir fry options grow plant-based protein, tank has no gas or your body in Bear’s Den. plant-forward meals, vegetar- has no fuel from food. You Student Life sat down ian, vegan-friendly options.’ need to fuel yourself, and with University dietician that means eating roughly Rebecca Miller, who has SL: What do you think is every three-ish hours after been working on enhancing the biggest misconception having a breakfast within the Bear Balance program students have about what the first hour or so of getting since she started her position they eat? A lot of people see up in the morning. So that’s in June 2019, to discuss how healthy eating as weight loss, what people tend to not do. college students should be so what do people not under- They tend to skip meals, they thinking about what they eat. stand about what ‘healthy’ don’t eat breakfast, and so means? they’re basically expecting STUDENT LIFE: Many their body and their brain of the signs for the Bear RM: Healthy is kind of that to run on no energy. So we Balance program refer to its term that some dietitians or need to give your body some meals as more “healthful” some health professionals energy. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 , 2020 ISABELLA NEUBAUER & SABRINA SPENCE | SENIOR CADENZA EDITORS | [email protected] STUDENT LIFE 5 CADENZA

5 love songs to listen to this UDI HILES: Valentine’s Day

JORDAN COLEY only thing better than I’m so glad I did. His song like the rapper, portrays SENIOR EDITOR capitalistic holidays that “i’m in love” is upbeat, a perfect and intriguing feed on our emotions for danceable and about amount of duality. After an insanely long profit is music! Do artists burgeoning love. The way January, we’ve finally use capitalism to profit Jones sings about being in Vintage reached February, which off of their own emo- love is truly infectious and NIKI means Valentine’s Day tions? Yes. But do they makes you wish you were is coming up. And the verbalize their feelings of in a blooming romance This song is basically love better than we ever yourself. the real-world actualiza- could? Also yes. So with tion of the sparkle emoji. that, here are 5 cute love LOVE. FEAT. Inspired by Ghost Town songs to listen to this ZACARI. DJs’ “My Boo,” “Vintage” Valentine’s Day season! Kendrick Lamar, is a buoyant and incred- Zacari ibly catchy song about i’m in love rekindling an old flame. Elliot Jones Kendrick Lamar is, Love is messy, compli- and I cannot stress this cated and sometimes even To be honest, I have enough, my idol. On reckless, but this song no idea how I first came “LOVE.” Lamar pairs holds space for that and across Elliot Jones, but his rap skills with singer even celebrates it. Plus, Zacari’s soulful sound in the music video is a cin- order to create an incred- ematic masterpiece. ible and layered love song. flow and you have an The track catches Lamar Right There iconic song about the both professing his love Ariana Grande, joys of being in love, for his partner and ques- Big Sean even if these two aren’t tioning the unconditional anymore. element of their relation- I knew I couldn’t write ship. The track, much an article about love ILYSB songs without throwing - Stripped in this classic throwback. LANY Have I routinely listened to this song since it came The stripped version out in 2013? Absolutely. of ILYSB has fewer bad” and the love fused in “Right There” catches production elements than the lines is clear. There’s Grande using her vocal the original version, mak- nothing like hearing Paul prowess to commemorate ing it both more intimate Klein—the band’s lead being in a loving relation- and more vulnerable. The singer—croon the sappy ship that she knows is chorus of the song reads lyrics, and it’s the perfect just right. Partner that “Oh my heart hurts so song to share with your with Big Sean’s unique good/I love you babe, so special someone.

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Netflix highlights Black comedy: ‘Astronomy Club’ provides relatable humor

SABRINA SPENCE that’s not my cup of tea. “SNL” doesn’t have good race relations and the including “Big Brother”- getting so old that their SENIOR CADENZA EDITOR However, a few weeks content, because it does. media’s representation style confessionals where skin finally cracks or about ago, I decided to give it a It’s to say that I can relate and attitude towards Black the team talks directly to a pimp who becomes a Sketch comedy isn’t my chance and I was pleas- to everything in this show people, especially when it the camera. Throughout substitute high school thing. “SNL” maybe has antly surprised. because I have a connec- comes to film. The show is these segments, they act English teacher to fulfill a couple of sketches that I “Astronomy Club” is tion with it—every joke also a commentary on pop as over-the-top versions his community service like, but I’m not a fan of a a Netflix original sketch is a Black joke because culture and politics that of themselves so that the hours. There are things lot of them; everyone else comedy series featuring an they’re Black people showcases the Black per- audience can get a better in this show that I didn’t seems to laugh, so objec- all-Black cast of comedi- who are highly skilled at spective on what it means understanding of who think I would find funny tively I have to assume ans from the Astronomy what they do. They make to be Black today while they are as people. or knew I thought were that they’re funny. Club, a New York-based people laugh, and they maintaining the jokes and “Astronomy Club” funny. “Astronomy Club” I’ve never watched improv and sketch comedy make me laugh. While comedy. never runs out of laughs, has brought out a sense of anything on Comedy group formed in 2014. they do create a sketch The reality TV ele- whether with a joke about humor that I didn’t know Central, so I assumed Eight team members— comedy show, it has an ment comes in between the phrase “Black don’t could be touched by a that maybe my sense of Jonathan (Jon) Braylock, interesting twist. Various the individual sketches, crack” and someone sketch comedy show. humor was broken—the Shawtane Bowen, sketches are mixed with majority of entertain- Raymond (Ray) Cordova, reality TV-style clips ment media that people Caroline Martin, Jerah that feature all eight cast tended to find funny, I Milligan, Monique Moses, members living together just didn’t. But now I’m Keisha Zollar and James in a house: the Astronomy in the mainstream (kind III—make up Astronomy Clubhouse. of). At the beginning of Club, which is also the Every episode starts this year, I noticed the Upright Citizens Brigade’s with a sketch before the release of a new Netflix first all-Black team. opening credits. The show, “Astronomy Club.” Their self-titled show, sketches themselves tackle I didn’t know what it was “Astronomy Club,” is the a range of topics, but they so I didn’t watch it—it “SNL” that I can relate focus on the experience sounded science-y and to. This is not to say that of African Americans,

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I’m hungry for a change

TYLER SABLOFF campus and, some days, finding truly healthy and there’s a problem. Squarepants. I shouldn’t U., bowl-shaped containers, SENIOR FORUM EDITOR spend hours upon hours filling options isn’t easy. And of course there is have to resort to eating a please! on campus without time to With some small excep- Subway, the king of subpar side dish of roast veggies as Rebecca Miller, if you’re like to eat. I enjoy go back home for a meal, tions, the late-night meal food. Easily the healthi- a meal just because I don’t reading, throw me a bone. food. Eating is proba- I am left either having to options available to students est and most cost-effective want a meal that’s been I’m really only writing this bly the only thing I do stock up on snacks and fill on campus are either very option available at that dunked in a vat of grease. because I know myself, I on a daily basis that my backpack with enough unhealthy or just not good. time. Subway, whose bread Now there is another and I know that I have very is consistently pleasurable. Tupperwares full of pasta For those of us stuck on is reminiscent of rubber option: pre-buying one of little self control over my And I’m not a picky eater in and chicken to get me campus into the wee hours and whose chicken barely the packaged sandwiches eating habits. I’m the type the slightest. When some- through lunch and dinner or of the night (for example, qualifies as “meat,” is the or salads and saving it for of person who can eat an one asks me what I would buy food from the various those of us who have to best way to get a filling, later. However, I’m just entire bag of Donettes in like to eat, my response locations in campus build- create a newspaper every semi-healthy dinner if gonna be blunt: These are one sitting without even is usually “Idk, anything ings. The former usually Wednesday), food options you’re stuck on campus. gross. Soggy sandwiches noticing just because I except black licorice.” isn’t very feasible with the are limited. My options past Don’t get me wrong, I and limp lettuce do not can’t stop myself. So if my Living off campus for amount of textbooks and 5 p.m. are to go down to the enjoy Subway from time make a good meal. And only options are quesadil- the last two years has given assorted junk I have to carry Danforth University Center to time, but if I had to eat this might just be petty, but las or a half ‘n’ half, I’m me a great deal of indepen- around on my busy days, food court for a greasy it every night, I would go I hate the stupid boxes that going to get one of them dence with what I eat: what and since Wash. U. forces quesadilla, a greasy slice insane. the packed salads come and hate myself for it later. types of food I eat, how you to take a meal plan no of bad pizza or a greasy I recognize that even in. The dumb rectangular But if, say, there was also much I eat and when I eat. I matter your housing situa- pile of chicken fingers and late at night there is the shape full of indents and an option for maybe, like, usually go shopping roughly tion, I figure that I might as fries. Now, I love half ’n’ option of the salad bar ridges makes it so difficult a rotisserie chicken breast every two weeks and try to well spend some of those in halfs and would probably (which I don’t trust during to mix up the salads and get and some roasted potatoes buy things that will last that these instances. eat them every day if that flu season) and just getting everything evenly coated right next to it, I would time span and stretch me far However, there’s a prob- wouldn’t absolutely drive the veggie side from the with dressing. Nothing is be more inclined to push enough to keep up a healthy lem with this: The options my cholesterol through the grill, but both those options worse than getting a forkful myself to eat that. Please, diet while also being cost available to students in roof. But when that is pos- kind of end up feeling of bare leaves while the top Rebecca, if Costco can sell effective. most of these places aren’t sibly the healthiest option like the Krusty Krab salad of the salad is just drenched full rotisserie chickens for But because I live off very good. Specifically, I have available for dinner, scene from Spongebob in dressing. Please Wash. $5, why can’t we?

Why don’t Black people just make their own awards shows?

JAMILA DAWKINS ourselves? for Best Picture—which is crowd—and who is on dark-skinned people— and performers navigate CONTRIBUTING WRITER A variant of this argu- the product of that initial Twitter talking about them strive to explain these an industry that functions ment was common among work. the morning after? Black- discrepancies. Cultural less like the BET awards ack in 2016, disgruntled white people Even in those first specific content often draws phenomenons like Black and more like the Oscars; in a video during the integration of strides, though, there were Black audiences, perhaps Panther and The Cosby showing producers that posted to her American culture in the Black people who were due to the sentiment that Show seem to indicate Black characters can win BFacebook Jada mid-to-late 1900s: Why skeptical of pursuits to fit the entertainment “isn’t steps in the right direction, Oscars, too, makes finding Pinkett-Smith, respond- don’t Black people make into mainstream mea- for white people,” (despite but Black-focused content work and success easier for ing to and supporting the their own awards, their sures of success. James the fact that Black people remains disproportionately every Black performer. #OscarsSoWhite contro- own baseball teams, instead Baldwin—later quoted by consume primarily white consumed by Black and Black people need to see versy said, “Here’s what of encroaching on white Dr. Martin Luther King content all the time). This brown people. Black people winning. But I do know. Begging for spaces? Jr.—put it best in his 1963 isn’t necessarily surpris- To toss aside organi- I’d argue that white people acknowledgment, or even In spite of these objec- book “The Fire Next ing—much of the reason zations that have been need to see it just as much, asking, diminishes dignity, tions, Black people pushed Time”: “Do I really want to why diversity has been so the gold standard for if not more. It’s a way of and diminishes power. We their way into these spaces be integrated into a burning hard to achieve in media, decades, then, seems naive. saying, “We can do what are a dignified people, and and made history as they house?” Black folks saw the and thus, in awards shows, Black-centered awards you do, and better—and on we are powerful, and let’s did it (Sissieretta Jones stacked odds, the racism is the notion that white celebrations are important, your turf!” Pinkett-Smith not forget it.” as the first Black woman ingrained in these institu- audiences simply won’t but they also often boil isn’t wrong: we are digni- It’s an age-old senti- to perform at Carnegie tions and wondered if they relate to or show up for down to “preaching to fied and powerful. But the ment that’s resurged in Hall, Hattie McDaniel as might be better off creating Black characters. Theories the choir”. Black artists call for more diverse nomi- recent years’ conversations the first Black person to their own spaces, seeking like the racial empathy achieving these main- nations is less “begging about diversity in awards win an Academy Award). approval within themselves gap—observed in stud- stream markers of success for acknowledgment” and shows: Why should Black Even today, Black people rather than without. Many ies such as “Racial Bias signifies growth, progress, more demanding it—for people beg for the scraps continue to set firsts admirable awards shows in Perceptions of Others’ and history in the making. ourselves and for everyone of attention from these in media and awards have risen out of this desire Pain” by Sophie Trawalter, Moreover, the winning after us. old, white and exclusion- shows—Beyoncé as the first to uplift our own, such as Kelly Hoffman, and Adam of awards like Oscars As for Baldwin’s ques- ary organizations? Why Black woman to headline the BET Awards and the Waytz, where white functions as a career and tion—King’s solution to not acknowledge ourselves, Coachella, Moonlight as NAACP Image Awards. respondents reacted more box-office boost in a way being integrated into a support ourselves and the first film with an all- But who watches these strongly to light-skinned that Black awards shows burning house? “Become celebrate ourselves by Black cast to win the Oscar shows? Who is in the people being harmed than never have. Black actors the firefighter.”

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MATT SINGER The Champions League Atleti vs. Liverpool: No weeks ago, and still sit just a Blues, and my heart desper- League. The Champions SPORTS COLUMNIST (UCL), the greatest sports one in European football point off the top. However, ately wants to pick them, but League is their main focus competition in the world team is hotter than defend- they are winless in their my head’s winning out this at this point, and that could It’s February right now, (fight me), returns on ing champions Liverpool last four games. Tottenham time. Bayern advance. be for the best. Kevin De which means a few things. Tuesday after a 10-week F.C. They’re 22 points clear started the new year by Man City vs. Real Bruyne has been electric It’s still winter, and we’ve got break. For those not in the Premier League and going winless in their first Madrid: This is undoubtedly this year, leading the league another month to go until it’s well-versed in European haven’t lost a league game three games before reeling the crown jewel of round in assists by a wide mar- officially over, even though soccer, the UCL pits the since January 2019. They off a six-game run without of 16 ties. The two-time gin. With him in form and Punxsutawney Phil prom- top European clubs against did struggle a bit in the a loss. That includes a 2-0 defending Premier League orchestrating the attack, City ised an early spring because each other. Teams from group stage of the UCL, victory over Man City where champions against 13-time always has a chance. It’s he didn’t see his shadow England, Spain, Italy, losing to Napoli early on, they registered a whopping European champions Real going to be tight, but City (another wonderful February Germany, France and more but they ended up win- two shots on target. Harry Madrid. After starting the will move on. tradition), but for whatever go up against one another on ning the group. Atleti and Kane remains injured while season slowly, Real have I also think that reason it’s still freaking cold Tuesdays and Wednesdays are always Christian Eriksen has left come alive over the last Barcelona, Juventus, and and gloomy and what’s up throughout the season. Next a threat in Europe, but they for Inter, but I have a feeling couple months and now sit Atalanta will move in their with that, Phil? Tuesday, the knockout stage haven’t looked as strong as newly bald José Mourinho alone atop . Besides ties. After the round of 16, February also brings about begins. There are 16 teams they’ve been in recent years. and his merry men will come a recent slip-up against Real a draw will determine the everyone’s least favorite holi- left in the competition, nar- Liverpool should advance. out on top in this tie. Sociedad in the Copa del bracket for the quarterfinals day unless you’re within the rowed down from 32 in the Dortmund vs. PSG: This Bayern vs. Chelsea: At Rey, Real haven’t lost since and beyond, so we don’t first few months of dating group stage and 79 in total could be an absolute cracker times this season, Chelsea October. know who will be playing someone: Valentine’s Day. (a lot of teams participate of a tie with arguably the have looked like a team and seem to who yet. However, it’s hard Something’s in the air, but it in qualifying, but the com- two best young players in the capable of pulling magic be back to their best, and to bet against Liverpool right ain’t love. I think those peo- petition really begins in the world, Dortmund’s Erling from nothing, such as the Federico Valverde has been now. No one in Europe has ple down the hall are burning group stage). In the knockout Haaland and PSG’s Kylian game in Amsterdam against a revelation in midfield. been more dominant than incense. People in committed stage, clubs play two-legged, Mbappé, going head to Ajax. However, they’ve also City have been hot and cold the Reds. If anyone could relationships and marriages home-and-home ties. The head. Mbappé is already one looked completely lost, and this year, at times looking potentially stop them, it’s feel pressure to do something leader on aggregate—total the five best players in the recently, the latter seems to like their dominant selves. likely to be Man City or special and romantic while goals scored—advances to world at just 21 years old. be more common. They’ve However, they’re also a dis- Bayern. But right now, I single people sit on their beds the next round. If the two Meanwhile, Haaland burst struggled for consistency in tant second in the Premier can’t pick against Liverpool. and cope with their depres- teams are tied after both onto the scene this season the league since November sion by reading other single games, the leader on away at Red Bull Salzburg before and have had no creative people’s tweets and listening goals scored goes on. If they joining Dortmund in the spark in Christian Pulisic’s to “Marvins Room.” are tied on away goals, they winter transfer window. This absence since New Year’s So, February is the worst go to extra time. If the tie is tie will feature goals aplenty, Day. He should hope- MATT’SMATT’S PICKSPICKS and we should all lose faith still not broken, the winner is but Dortmund’s inability fully be back this weekend in our romantic lives and decided on penalty kicks. to defend will doom them against Man United (knock Atleti vs. Liverpool Phil’s knowledge of meteo- There are some sumptu- in the end. PSG will win on wood), but he can’t be rology, right? Yes, but there ous matchups in the round a knockout tie for the first the only source of creativ- Dortmund vs. PSG is one good thing to come of 16 this year, and I’m time since Neymar’s arrival ity on that side. Bayern, on out of February. Something going to go through some of in 2017. the other hand, haven’t lost RB Leipzig vs. Tottenham we have all been waiting a them, make my predictions RB Leipzig vs. Tottenham: since Dec. 7. They retook long time for. Is it a good and speculate on the rest of While not the flashiest the Bundesliga lead a couple night’s sleep? The Iowa cau- the tournament. Sound fun? matchup, this might be of weeks ago, and Robert Bayern vs. Chelsea cus results? The actual Iowa No? Well, you’ve made it the most unpredictable tie. Lewandowski has been caucus results? No, February this far. May as well finish Leipzig were first in the arguably the best player in Man City vs. Real Madrid means the return of… the article. Bundesliga just a couple Europe this season. I love my GRAPHIC BY MIA GOLDBERG

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