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VOLUME 38 March 6, 2006 ISSUE 1118 Flogging Molly at Pop's See page 8 ii.......... ~~ ...... ~ ................................................................ UN~OFMI~UR1-ST.wum Students Suspended baseball "would pay players back on team BY PAUL HACKBARTH edly involved in the theft Five base­ surcharge _~ " .' ____ " ___" ......• _ •.. __ _• ._ _... ............ '··.·HM ...•...• _ News Editor ball players were suspended, but -~ since then, all five players have been Two weeks after arrests were reinstated, according to Pat Dolan, under new made in connection with a theft from director of athletics at UM-St Louis. Dick's Sporting Goods in West Dolan released an official state­ County, no charges have been filed. ment regarding the suspensions, "Chances are, charges won't be which states, 'Tho players served \> Metro plan filed until April," said Lieutenant Paul one-week suspensions; three players Banta of the Des Peres Police served two-week suspensions, Department said last Thursday in a including missing the first four games BY PAUL HACKBARTH AND phone interview. of the season." HALEI PAIGE Banta said the reason for the delay Dolan said the University plans to is that a prosecuting attorney from the reassess the situation if a prosecuting N;;;;;liditor ar;;[StajJWni;;--- St Louis County Court has not been attorney from the county court choos­ assigned to the case as of yet. es to file formal charges against any After Metro proposed three The players' names will not be of the baseball players. new plans for student passes, UM­ released until formal charges are The UM-St. Louis Rivermen St. Louis has proposed an alter­ made, Banta explained. baseball teari1 will play with a full nate plan that hopes to be a com­ Adam D. Wisemanl The Current The decision was made to suspend roster against Bellarmine on prollllse among . students, the the baseball players who were report- Saturday, March I L University and Metro. The current For years, the Benton-Stadler Hall science complex has been in need of renovations. Now, UM­ agreement with the University St. Louis stands to receive $18 million from the proposed sale of MOHELA assets. ,~ expires in August 2006. Reinhard Schuster, vice chan­ cellor of Administrative Services, outlined the new surcharge pro­ MOHELA plan will help fund Curtis testifies at Capitol. posal in a fax memo dated Feb, 24. - . The surcharge proposal is an alternative to the fixed price sys­ tem that Metro proposed last in favor of legislation for It) month. Under the fixed price sys­ Benlon-Stadler renovation tem plan, UM-St. Louis would purchase 26,000 passes at a rate of voting student curator $16.99 per pass. This amounts to But many at UMSL want the plan to fully fund $31 million project $441 ,740 for one year's worth of Maria Curtis Metro passes for students, .. BY SEAN MICHAEL BY MELISSA S. HAYDEN Student Currently, the pass program Under the Lewis and Bruce WIlking, professor and chair Staff Writer Representative ~ budget totals $155,000. This fig­ StajJWriter Clark Discovery Initiative: of the department of physics and ure is based on the amount of astronomy_ 'The claim is that it to the &;ard of money collected by students who $18 million of the $450 million would not. The way it's being pre­ The Board of Curators passed a Curators favors currently fund the program The UM-St. Louis Faculty Senate sale of MOHELA assets would fund sented, it's kind of a win-win situa- resolution in January opposing the legislation that through a 75-cent per credit bour and Student Gevemment the renovation of Benton and tion." student representative having a vote, would give the fee built into the infrastructure fee. Association passed resolutions Stadler Hall!;. ~zzou would W:tlling said the MOHEI.A sale but several bills in support of the stu­ student curator That leaves $286.740 in encouraging the Missouri legislature receive $80 million. appears to be the most immediate dent curator are moving along in the amte_ remaining costs, which would be to use money from the Lewis and way to get the money needed for the legislation process. supported by a new surcharge. Clark Discovery Initiative to fully What the SGA and Faculty renovations of these buildings. On Tuesday, Feb. 21, Reps. Bryan Schuster collected data from fund renovations of Benton and Senate are calling for: According to Lav;.Tence Barton, Pratt and Jim Avery testified before University files and records and Stadler Halls. chemistry professor, Benton Hall is the Missouri House Higher explained. However, one UM-St. used that data to propose this new According to both resolutions, Full funding of the $31 million the oldest building on campus and Education Committee to roll their Louis student disagreed with Curtis at surcharge plan. approximately $450 million will be renovation project. UM-$t. Louis Stadler Hall is "two years younger." respective bills, HB 1308 and the hearing. In the memo, Schuster outlined generated by the initiative "to sup­ leaders say the campus should He recalls talk of renovating the HE 1229, into substitute legislation. Charles Stadtlander, senior, public how the surcharge would bedivid- port higher education and life sci­ receive more, since UM-St. Louis undergraduate teaching labs since In addition, Senator Chuck Graham policy, and president of the Log .,. ed, The plan calls for students who ences projects." This money will students make up approximately 1990. of Columbia is still waiting to have Cabin Republicans of Greater St. ­ are part-time to pay one surcharge come from a portion of the sale of 91 percent of MOHELA loan 'The labs are beginning to show his bill, SB673, heard. Louis, told legislators he agreed with and students who are full-time to Missouri Higher Education Loan users in the UM System. their age. It's getting to be more of a Student Curator Maria Curtis the board's resolution. pay a different one, Authority assets. challenge for the instructors to teach favors the proposal and testified for it 'The Board of Curators is sup­ According to Schuster's calcu­ The Faculty Senate's resolution Missouri. Not everyone agrees," said in those facilities," Spilling said. in Jefferson City that Tuesday. posed to serve as checks and balances lations, a part-time student would states that renovations of Benton and Christopher Spilling, professor and One of the biggest problems, 'We're working very hard to get for the administration, and there is a pay $4 per credit hour and a fun~ Stadler Halls will cost $31.5 million. chair of the chemistry and biochem­ according to Wilking, is the improp­ these bills passed, and I think it's problem when the administration time student would pay $2 per 'The money has to come from istry department er functioning of the hoods, which incredibly important to the students applies direct pressure to the student credit hour. These surcharges somewhere, and I think the governor '1 don't quite understand what all are used to remove gases from the that they receive a vote on the Board committees who are also selecting the would be added into the 75 cents is being creative in where he's look­ the implications are for students or if chemistry labs. of Curators," Curtis said. student curators," Stadtlander said. that goes toward the infrastructure ing for sources of money to improve this would make it more difficult for 'The students favor this bill, and fee. higher education in the state of students to get financial aid," said see SCIENCE LABS. page 12 they support it very strongly," Cmtis see STUDENT CURATOR, page 12 For example, a student with 12 credit hours would pay $24 for the ---._--------_._-_._------- ,~ surcharge plus $9 to be put toward the infrastructure fee, which Author and syn­ would total $33 with subsidy for a dicated sex semester Metro pass. Columnist focuses on columnist Dan In the memo, Schuster noted Savage talks to that the purchase of passes would a crowd of close be voluntary and said the survey to 200 on I ~ showed that only 1 in 3 students gay rights and ex-gay Tuesday night in on campus favor "acquiring" a the Millennium Metro pass. Student Center. This proposal has not been reparative therapy His appearance approved yet, so alternate plans was sponsored for the future of Metro passes still by the University hang in the balance, Schuster said, BY NAKENYA SHUMATE Carpenter said, ''We are always Program Board, - - - - - ....- - - trying to find people that students PRIZM and ~ He added that keeping the passes StajJWriter ,. would mean an increase in fees for would be interested in." Student Life. the service of using Metrolink. ''PRIZM has been very active in In addition to Schuster's study, Stepping out into the sea of advertising and promoting the talk," the - Student Government applause, Dan Savage, author of the said Carpenter. Association will distribute its own syndicated column 'Savage Love,' Throughout his career, Savage has survey to shed light on the fre­ made his appearance at UM-St. promoted gay civil rights and dispels quency in which students use Louis. the negativity of stereotypes against I Metrolink. ''We want some sort of Shanna Carpenter, senior, com­ gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgen­ numbers for Metrolink when we munication, and member of the dered individuals and couples. sit down and talk with them about University Program Board, said At the heart of Savage's talk was students passes," SGA President Savage was chosen because "he the topic of ex-gay reparative therapy D ' Andre Braddix said. stood out as someone young and and Love Won Out, a movement pr0- for gay people, While the topics like crowd.

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