October 5, 2009 FALL WILD 2009: K’NAAN - PASSION PIT - DESKHOP - METHOD MAN - REDMAN
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Miss the political statement Look at photos of the Read about the football team’s win ata W.I.L.D. on Saturday? We W.I.L.D. crowd, over Rhodes College on Saturday. WILD didn’t. Check out the video performers and speakers. SPORTS, PAGE 7. ata www.studlife.com PHOTO, PAGE 6 2009 STUDENT LIFE the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since eighteen seventy-eight Vol. 131, No. 19 www.studlife.com Monday, October 5, 2009 FALL WILD 2009: K’NAAN - PASSION PIT - DESKHOP - METHOD MAN - REDMAN LEFT, CENTER: PRINCETON HYNES | STUDENT LIFE; RIGHT JOSHUA GOLDMAN | STUDENT LIFE From left to right: A crowd of students cheer and dance as they listen to opening act K’Naan at W.I.L.D. in Brookings Quad TO READ MORE ABOUT FALL on Saturday. Method Man, half of the Method Man-Redman duo, raps during their headlining performance. Indie-electronic musicians Passion Pit, an opening act, take the stage at W.I.L.D. W.I.L.D., TURN TO PAGE 3 Enforcement of health policy on baking restricts student groups Students push Jack Marshall policy, most notably Challah certifi ed off-campus kitchen to confi dent that Challah for honorary degree Staff Reporter for Hunger, which bakes chal- bake challah. Hunger will be able to use the lah using campus ovens. The Although Hillel has a com- ovens in the either the Reform new policy forbids them from mercial-grade kitchen for Synagogue in the Central In order to sell baked good selling challah not bought baking kosher food, using the West End or the Conservative on campus this year, students from stores or cooked in com- kitchen to bake would be too Shaare Zedek Synagogue in for sex researcher will need to use commercial, mercial-grade ovens. much of a liability issue for a University City. department of health-certifi ed “It completely disbanded student group to use, accord- “I feel much more confi dent Re-I Chen and Peter Zhu time, hired her as a research ovens. the organization,” sophomore ing to Schimmele, since the about the future of Challah for Contributing Reporters assistant to undertake a com- Although the announce- Hannah Shaffer, co-president kitchen is maintained by the Hunger now than I did earlier,” prehensive scientific study of ment of this policy coincided of Challah for Hunger, said University and not Hillel. Shaffer said. human sexuality. with the outbreak of H1N1, last Wednesday. “We now have “Commercial-grade equip- Schimmele acknowl- While many recognize Though Johnson did not Paul Schimmele, assistant nowhere to bake.” ment is expensive and needs to edged the health department’s Washington University for have a college degree, she to the director of operations Since Shaffer said it is not be maintained at a particular guidelines, and said that the its world-class, cutting-edge contributed enormously to in Dining Services, said economically feasible for the level,” Schimmele said. “It’s University must abide by medical research, few people the burgeoning field. She that the timing is merely a group to purchase challah not something we can let any- health regulation laws. know that the institution also recruited healthy volunteers coincidence. from a store, the student group one use.” pioneered sexuality studies in and observed and analyzed The policy switch was will have to resort to fi nding a Shaffer, however, is See BAKING, page 2 the 1950s. Even fewer know the physiological changes that prompted after a student group about the pioneer herself, the occured during over 10,000 contacted the St. Louis County mother of the scientific study cycles of sexual stimulation. Health Department with ques- of sex and sex therapy: Vir- The methods John- tions on how to properly ginia Johnson. son developed to diagnose handle food. On Tuesday, Thomas and treat sexual disorders The University was con- Maier, the author of the newly and dysfunctions are now tacted and subsequently published book “Masters of known as sex therapy. Her reexamined its own policies Sex: The Life and Times of groundbreaking work led on how student groups should William Masters and Vir- to the publication of the handle food in order to abide ginia Johnson,” will lead a best-selling books “Human by county health guidelines. panel on campus entitled “A Sexual Response” in 1966 This change led to a ban on Legacy Ignored? Virginia and “Human Sexual Inade- the sale of food cooked in non- Johnson and Sex Therapy at quacy” in 1970. commercially-certifi ed ovens. WU.” Despite Johnson’s sig- “We don’t determine where The panel is the result of nificant contributions, the the food is coming from, but a partnership between Stu- University refused to give if we’re staying within health dent Forum on Sexuality, the her an academic appointment department guidelines, it has Brown School Student Coor- and slighted her contribu- to come from a commercial dinating Council and the tions, at one point describing operation, or at least some- School of Law. the research as conducted thing that is certifi ed by the The legacy of Johnson by “Masters with Johnson” health department as meeting began in 1957 when William instead of the attribution those standards,” Schimmele Howell Masters, an asso- “Masters and Johnson.” said. SAM GUZIK | STUDENT LIFE ciate professor of clinical “[Johnson] is really a Student groups have been Current sophomores Hannah Schaffer and Elana Nemitoff prepare challah in the Mudd kitchens obstetrics and gynecology severely affected by the new last year. Challah for Hunger, a social action group that sold challah to raise money for charity, has in the medical school at the See JOHNSON, page 3 been unable to bake on campus this year because of health regulations. UTrucking gets blast from past Jennifer Wei the University. Contributing Reporter During Needle’s four years at the University, he realized the extent of students’ needs While Washington Uni- to transport items from school versity students were busy back home at the end of the moving into their dorms or academic year. apartments in late August, a In his senior year, Needle special guest paid a visit to partnered with his roommate the UTrucking storefront on and lifelong friend Jon the South 40. Mark Needle, Laranch to pursue an unusual a University alumnus, intro- endeavor. duced himself as the original “Being someone who grew founder of UTrucking to the up in NYC, I knew that trans- current student owners, senior porting stuff to and from Ben Schutzman and juniors school posed a major problem, Jordan Weinberg and J.D. particularly for upperclass- Ross. men,” Needle said. “There was “We knew a student had a large enough market of stu- founded [UTrucking], but we dents who came from the New had no idea who it was,” said York vicinity to fi ll at least Ross, current chief fi nancial two 26-foot Ryder trucks.” offi cer for the student-run But the task of shipping business. friends’ belongings took COURTESY OF MARK NEEDLE Needle graduated from the more than just renting out two Mark Needle, an alum and the original founder of UTrucking, paid a visit to the company’s storefront in August. Olin Business School in 1977 trucks. with a Bachelor of Science in “We began advertising was no Google at the time— The two young entrepre- “We were willing to do it the people that signed on,” Business Administration and a in Student Life and putting plotted out a drop-off strategy neurs knew they had to gain a for less money than the compe- Needle said. “People trusted degree in accounting. His son, up fl yers. We handled phone and loaded the trucks accord- competitive edge to outbid stu- tition—UPS. We had personal Max, is a current freshman at calls, bought maps—there ingly,” Needle said. dents’ shipping alternatives. relationships with almost half See UTRUCKING, page 3 One Brookings Drive #1039 Newsroom: (314) 935-5995 Editor: [email protected] Please #330 Danforth University Center Advertising: (314) 935-6713 News: [email protected] St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Fax: (314) 935-5938 Calendar: [email protected] Recycle 2 STUDENT LIFE | NEWS News Editor / Kat Zhao / [email protected] MONDAY | OCTOBER 5, 2009 weatherforecast Tuesday 6 Wednesday 7 Partly Cloudy Thunderstorms High 70 High 69 THE FLIPSIDE Low 54 Low 46 Local International eventcalendar Mo. bomb expert dismisses new al-Qaida Second city places last in Olympic bid; technique Rio selected to host in 2016 Al-Qaida has implemented a new method of suicide bombing Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics swiftly ended that involves placing a small bomb in a body cavity, spawning Friday afternoon as members of the International Olympic Com- MONDAY 5 the nickname “keister bomb.” But Paul Worsey, a Missouri Uni- mittee (IOC) eliminated Chicago in the fi rst round of voting in versity of Science & Technology researcher and explosives Copenhagen. “Up” Movie Screening inventor, said the threat of this technique is minimal. Chicago garnered only 18 out of 94 votes in the fi rst round, DUC, Tisch Commons, 8 p.m. Last month, a suicide bomber named Abdullah Hassan Tali’ compared to 28 votes for Madrid, the leader in the fi rst round. Filmboard will be showing Disney- al-Asiri attempted to kill a Saudi Arabian prince using such a This defeat marks a sharp blow for Chicago, which had been Pixar’s “Up” in the DUC Commons. device. From a video made prior to the failed attack, it was esti- backed by an impressive mix of celebrity power such as Oprah mated that the bomb was 3 inches long.