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Gallery FAB, inside the BY CHARLIE BAILEY through. Fine Arts building, is Senior Writer Although these measures are good, currently home to an they are not perfect. One of the easiest eclectic array of quilts The aftermath of the recent sexual devices that are used to prevent such woven together by St . . assault outside The Meadows apart acts is the 'buddy'. system. Criminals Louis artist Gail Ritzer. . ment complex has many students are predators that prey on vulnerable apprehensive about traveling around people in vulnerable situations. So if campus at night. The case has been there is no situation, there most likely recently turned over to the St. Louis won't be a crime. County Police Department for further Some area colleges have been hit . investigation. The evidence that has very hard by the amount of assaults been collected is now being analyzed that transpire throughout a school year. for possible DNA matches. Southern lllinois University UM-St. Louis police Capt. Robert Edwardsville had a string of assaults Smalley said, 'These types of crimes and robberies in the past 2 years. This are a rare occurrence here, because we is mainly due to the fact that the uni have more officers on foot and versity is a large campus and has many patrolling in cars from 5 p.m. to early students. This can be troubling for the in the morning." security that patrols their campus and "This security measure has always similar ones in size. One of the main . been the same," said Smalley. Because reasons that colleges are so defense UM-St Louis has their own police sta less to criminal behavior is that there is A See page 3 tion specifically for the campus, the an open door policy. People are crimes that take place on campus nor allowed to visit campus without notice mally are not felonious. or evidence that they were even there. At many other area colleges, And because students are now emerg depending on the size and anlOunt of ing in all age groups, no one can be Grammar students, security measures are taken ··considered atypical. very seriously. Some schools depend Although security is not foolproof, now required solely on the security or the police that it is there so students should feel com patrol the campuses. Others schools fortable when going about their daily have installed call boxes in areas that and nightly tasks, knowing that there "This security measure has always been the same," said UM-St. Louis police Capt. Robert Smalley. for English are harder to patrol, such as quads or are people that are there to help and to Because UM-St. louis has their own police station specifically for the campus, the crimes that take majors• trails that students have to travel prevent crimes from occurring. place on campus normally are not felonious .
BY SARA PORTER Senior \'vhtet· Campaign raises goal and money UM-St. Louis Besides reading "Catcher in the BY ANA ALVAREZ ma]onty 'of students are not even knew exactly where to donate, both Rye" or writing an essay about per ...... aware that United Way is holding a Crawford and Behle said they is awarded sonal experiences, starting this fall StailWriter ~ fund-raising campaign on campus. c: would. Crav.ford added, "I've donat English majors will have to relearn When approaching UM-St. Louis Jason Cra.wford, II junior, said, 'Tm a. ed to the United Way before." the basics of subject-verb agree $490,000 on University Drive, you mi-gbt not aware. I heard there was fund Stnden who would like to ment. notice a large diagram indicating the r . iug for New York, but not the. donate contact Academic That's because Tr ditional can Affairs United Way's fund-raising goal of United Way." secretary Debra Lew is at lewis BY FARIKA RUSLI Grammar has been added as a $55,000 between 11 and Oct. Sarah Behle, also a junior, did not it dj @m x.umsl.edu or StafJ\Vriter required course for English majors. Oct. 51 6-5372. 24. What is the history of United know about the campaign. ''I know "All incoming English majors ~ They can also stop by the Academic Way on UM-St Louis and how are about the United Way, but I didn't ~ office in 426 Woods Hall. will be required to take Traditional Affairs The U.S. Department of Housing students participating') know anything about it here." Students can make a donation by Grammar starting this fall or given and Urban Development awarded a "It's always been successful," With the exception of the diagram check. Faculty may also contribute the option of testing out of it," said Community Outreach Partnership said Jerry Durham, the Vice on North Campus and a few posters by payroll deduction. Either way, Barbara Kachur, associate profes Center grant of $399,566 to UM-St. Chancellor of Academic Affairs scattered around, it is difficult to they can specify a cenain agency sor and chairperson of the depart Louis on Sept 28, 2001. commenting on the history of the know not only when the fund-raiser they would like their money to go to, ment of English. The grant was submitted by the United Way fund-raisers on campus. is taking place, but also where to OT they can simply donate money to For English majors who have UM-St. Louis Public Policy In the 1999 Campaign. the goal donate. This is because the United the United Way and let the money be been UM--St. Louis students since Research Center. Dr. Alan Artibise, was $49,000 and lTM-St. Louis Way campaign has traditionally divided among ditferent organiza Executive Director of the Public before the requirement, Kachur raised $54,982. In the 2000 focused more on donations from the tions. Also, contributors can make a says that they don't have to reserve Policy Research Center, will direct Campaign, the goal was raised to faculty and employees of UM-St. separate donation to the Sept. 11 an extra space in their schedules. the project, with Kay Gasen serving $51,000 and $54,060 was raised. Louis, and not the students. Fund, in which case their donation 'Those who are already students as Project Manager. UM-St Louis also ranked 5th for "We have not really asked stu would go strictly to the Sept. 11 Co=unity Outreach Partnership can grandfather out of the require donation participation out of all the dents in the same way we have asked Fund and not towards the United ment, so they don't have to take it" Center grants totaling $8 million educational institutions in the St. employees to give," Durham Way campaign on campus. For teachers, the cbange in were awarded nationwide by HUD Louis region, including Washington explained, "because most students Durham also noteD that another to only 25 colleges and universities. requirement was brought up University and the St. Louis Pubhc work and go to school and might not goal of United Way was to increase because of certain issues. "A lot of Those grants will be utilized to help Schools. Because of the donations, be well-off, and We respect that" The large diagram, placed on the percentages of those who give, them employ the knowledge, creativ people in the department noticed the United Way is able to serve over Durham further noted that since Univeristy Drive, indicates the not necessarily just the amount. With ity and energy of their faculty and the quality of writing had declined United Way's fundraising goal of 170 organizations in St. Louis. It is many students co=ute to UM-SL Oct. 24 approaching, Durham is students to create stronger and in the last five years," said Barbara $55,000. also important to note that 92 percent Louis, they are probably more active optimistic that the students and fac healthier neighborhoods. In St. Van Voorden, lecturer in of the donations go straight to the within their own communities, ulty ofUM-St. Louis will contribute. Traditional Grammar. 'There have give what they are comfortable with Louis, the grant will link UM-St. organizations. which is also good. "I would be "I'm confident that people will con Louis with co=unity partners in been problems with basic concepts, giving." But even with this history of par thrilled to receive contributions from tinue to give to this campaign," he Old North St Louis, a neighborhood such as subject-verb agreement and When asked if they would con ticipation and surpassing goals, a students," he said. "They should said. in the City of St. Louis. other basic issues," tribute money to United Way if they The grant has four components, For students, it presents a each involving different academic refresher course on things they disciplines. Projects will include learned. '1 took grammar in high Political school in 1997, and the instructors science Prof. Martin Rochester Neighborhood Stabilization and Historic Preservation, here touched on the basics," said professor Environmental Health and Safety, Amy Johnson, a senior and English J. Martin Home Maintenance and Financial major. ''It was just assumed that we Rochester s:peaks about terrorism Literacy, and Community knew it" believes Organizing and Leadership. For students, there is also an that this BY ELIZABETH WILSON 5 of NATO being enforced for the Asked about why UM-St. Louis option of taking a test by the depart will be a ...... ······· .. St~jj\T1;;te:;. .. ···· .. ···· ·· ···.. ·.. first time since its creation. Article 5 chose these activities, Kay Gasen, ment of English, so they don't have long war and we "'-_____ states, director of the three-year grant pro to take the class. This is an option Recently, political science profes "The Parties agree that an armed gram, explained, ''We have worked Johnson supports. sor J. Martin Rochester gave a attack against one or more of them in with neighborhood residents for over "As long as you can test out of speech entitled "We1c.ome to the 21st Europe or North America shall be a year, and these were the areas that it., it should be okay, but they Century: The. World Trade considered an attack against them all they thought were most important. shouldn't make anyone take it," CenterlPentagon Bombings and and consequently they agree that, if They set the priorities and we Johnson said. Their Implications for America and such an armed attack occurs, each of responded by gathering the appropri A proposal was made by the the World." It was an attempt to put them ... "rill assist the Party or Parties ate university resources." members of the English the events of Sept. I t into a larger so attacked by taking forthwith, indi Gasen also stated that the Department to make traditional context, to try to make some sense vidually and in concert with the other University's participation will grammar a requirement in the sum out of it and to specU!l.ate where we Parties, such action as it dee/JlS nec involve eight credit' courses. These mer of 2001, and voted unani might be heading: essary, including the use of armed are classes that already exi~t, but will mously by the English Rochester no1ed that Sept. 11 was force, to restore and maintain the be focusing their study and class pro Department ... .. ~ ...... -...... -...... , ....;...... an unprec.edente.d event for the security of the North Atlantic Area" jects on the neighborhood. see GRAMMAR, page 10 United States. The last time we had Other nations not in NATO have Several are history and nursing: been attacked at home with such joined us on the war against terror classes, Nursing faculty and students magnitude was at Pearl Harbor in ism. Pakistan is one such nation. The will work with community partners:: 1941. Most of our wars have been United States usually has a hard time the City of St. Louis health depart-. IND x fought abroad. Because of this act of getting them to cooperate in any ment and the St. Louis Lead' terrorism our national psyche ",ill thing, yet recently we have gotten Prevention Coalition to examine: Bulletin Board 2 never be the same, and our domestic their full cooperation. Rochester environmental health conditions that: ...... -.. ,., ...... politics such as educ.ation have been praises President Bush for aU that he cause lead poisoning and asthma in: .~~~.t.':Jtf!!:~...... ,...... } put on the badcbumer. ha<; done recently. Like many other the neighborhood and find ways to .9.p..i ~;{)n.~ .. ,...... 1. He thinks we meaning the Americans, he agrees that this will be improve the health of its residents. .~ .s.1?:{).~.~ ...... _ ...... 5 . United States and OlIT 'posse' of other a long war and we cannot fight it It will also involve eight graduat .. Arts & Entertainment 6 countries) will prevail over a few alone. - ...... ' ...... thousand thugs. He mentions Article see GRANT, page 10 ~.~~.5:ifi.f!!:.~ : ~ ...... ? ~... p.i:l~~{)~ .. .S.ClY.s...... ~. .Page 2 The Current October 22, 2001
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Mallager 'P' Monday Noon Series Join us while we pray for the campus and the ~~::::~~::~:fix::es~um::es::s~~==~All listings use 516 pre ____ -.;------MutSln1i Igarashi • Photo Director world in the 1viillemuum Student Center. room l Emily Un1bi9-.t. Featw-es Edito'- . 316. at 1:00 p.m. Susan Yoder-Kreger, Ph.D. candidate in Dave Kinworthy • Spom EdilG1- Spanish. University of Virgina, presents Thursday 25 Friday 26 Rhashad Pittman • NelL~' Editor p some of her observations about several Center for the Humanities catherine • M-E &liiOl' Marquis-Homeyer works by contemporary Latin-American Twilight Retreat St.L Public Libraries women auLhors. Event will be held in the Judith A. Cochran. E. Desmond Lee Professor Erik Buschardt • Ire/) Editor Elliott Reed' Comx)JIisl lC. Penney Conference Center, room 229. of Tutorial Education. and Farzad Wafapoor, "Seeing God Through Tears" will be held on Oct. TIle St. Louis Public Library will be holding a Z.arina 5yed--Khaja. Busilless .is:-;ociale The event is free and open to the pUblic. lecturer for the commU!ucations depanment, 26.2001 from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at the South preview of their book sale from 4:00 - 8:00 p_m. will hold the first in a series of "Learn-ins" in James Lawy' Disfl ib. Hallager Canlpus Residence Hall Chapel. join Father Joe at the Central West Branch, 1415 Olive Street re~ponse to the events of Sept. 11. For more Thraiya AI-Taai • ,:"';1 Rr:p1-esetl1atire ,. Horizons Peer Educators Kempf as wc pray about and explore the mystery 30.000+ books will be available for sale over the infurm:llion contact the Center for the of suffering from a Catholic perspective. For Renee lImidon' Proofl-eader Humanities at x5699_ weekend. Admission is free for friends and vol Staning today and running all week, the more information, contact Father Bill Kempf at unteers, $5 for general public. Jennifer Dodd • [ w illies i1ssod(l(il Horizons Peer Educators will be sponsoring (31 4) 385-3455 . DeIyte Robbins· Copy Edr/or Alcohol Awareness Week. TIle event will be Crusade for Christ held in the roTImda of the Millennium Student Come and join students from all over St Louis at Crusade for Christ Sunday 28 Staff Writers! Center, second tloor. All students are welcome Photographers: our weekly Metro meeting at Covenant Seminary to attend_ For more information, please contact Join Campus Crusade for Ouist for Bible Study Catholic Newman Center Sara Porter, Charlie Bright, Joan at 8:00 p.m. For m re information, visit our web us at x5730. in the Millennium Student Center, room 316, Henry; De\yle Robbins, Jason Meyer, site at wwwcccstiouis.org. The Catholic Newman Center is hosting Mass at Chartes Bailey, Sara Sorrenson from noon to 1 :30 p.m. the South. Campus Residence Hall starting at Beth Grindstaff, Kelli Salt, Dawn • Wednesday24 Symington, Farika Rusli Missouri Baptist Medical 8:30 p.m. All students are welcome to attend. Assoc. Black Collegians Center for the Humanities The ball is located across from the University The fl.1issouri Baptist Medical Center Mobile Me.adows apartment complex and next to the 388 Millennium Student Center The Associated Black Collegians will be holding Mammograph Unit will be on the campu of the All are invited to attend a fiction reading at Optometry Building. 8001 Natural Bridge Road . a general assembly meeting at 12:30 in the Uni 'ersity at the Millennium Student Center 7:30 p.m. in the Millennium Student Center St. Louis. Missouri 63121 Millennium Student Center, room 314. parking lot from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. To make room 302. Award-winning writer Richard Newsroom. (3 14) 5J 6-5J i4 an appointment, call (3 14) 996--5170 or (800) Advertising. (314) 516- '3.16 BU1-gin will read from his works. 870-5731. Business. (:514) 516-5 115 Fax • CI-I) 516-68n campus: 388 .lIiffeJrllium Student Center email: THE CANIPUS CRINIELINE cun' [email protected] website: .October 13 , 2001 progress involving several persons. open. A Gateway computer and a notified of the theft of a Sprint cellular bttp:" lIu:w.lbe wTelltollJine.com ' At 8:53 a.m. the University Police The fight had actually be~n on the General Electric microwave were phone from the lobby of the Kathy J. were notified of a burglary at an MetroLink train. Several people stolen. Weinman Building. The cell phone was ~ he CLnent is pWfished weekly on • office at 59 Seton Hall. It is unknown assaulted one person. The person taken between 9:00 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. I.. Mondays. Advertising rates available l4'OfI ~ Terms, rnnditions and .. if anything was taken. The incident sustained serious head injuries. October 17r 2001 restrictions apply. 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Submit your lellers to: Tbe Currenl fax: E-mail: 388 Millennium Student Center 314-516-68ll [email protected] 8001 Nalural Bridge Road 1 SI. Louis, MO 63121 1I left Coast. Hight Job. LrUm lillie rdilor IhOUillile hrief and 1Ii0le HoI met~ ZOO ,,,d!.ill lit lil!ll pre[mlJ{t We edit {eUm [or ddrit},leHglli iIIl1l lrammaf. All ~lIelllBUll be signed and indudt d ilaytim! pIIoHt oamlltr.!IUd!D~ should allO ilIdude liIeir studenl lD oamb«. October 22, 2001 Page 3 Jefferson Stories woven within quilts Barracks: A BY EMILY UMBRIGHT public history," said Ritzer, who Gallery FAB, Staff Editor received her bachelor's degree in fine Celebration inside arts at the University of Missouri Stitched the seams of every the Fine within Columbia. "Quilts tell the smail, per quilt lies a story. Gallery FAB, the sonal stories that make the larger sto of the Citizen Arts · . venue located mside the Fine Arts ries possible. It is this rich narrative building, building, is cUrrently horne to an is cur tradition that keeps me mvolved in eclectic array of quilts woven togeth quilt making." Soldier rently er by St Louis artistGail Ritzer. Thematically, Ritzer touches· on home to BY DELYLE ROBBINS These quilts, however, are no ordi . time periods from which quilts were ...... -.. . an eclec~ Staff WI-iter nary quilts. They are distinctly mod an integral part of tradition. She tic array em, and yet at the same time, they draws quotes from favOlite poets, as of quilts For over 175 years, Jefferson hold a certain traditional qUality. well as lines from her own poetry. woven Barracks has played an active role in together Quilting is a rdatively new art Ruth Bohan, chairperson of the maintaining the tradition of the citi by St. fonn for Ritzer, who has experiment Department of AIt and AIt History, zen soldier. Because the United ed with pamting and ceramics m the says of the exhibit, "Combming Louis States has predominantly relied on a past. Such experience thrusts itself diversity of materials with mgenuity artist Gail volunteer military, the life and history Ritzer. upon the quilts, which at first glance of purpose, Ritzer broaches such of Jefferson Barracks also reflects the look like rustic paintings. She mcor complex topics as the settlement of lives arid histories of the men and porates beads, leather, and even vin the American West, the American women who passed through it on tage postcards and toy soldiers mto quest for mdependence, the media their way to various duty stations the quilts to not only add texture and rich world of the silver screen and the around the world. The effort to pre dimension to the non-conventional creativity of artist Georgia O'Keeffe." serve the base as a historical site fabrics, but also to convey a stOlY. "Story Quilts by Gail Ritzer" will comes from a desire to chronicle the "Quilts have served as documents cover the walls of Gallery FAB until role military service has played m of domestic history m much the same Nov 30. Gallery hours are Mon-Fri 9- American life. way that books have recorded our 9 and Sat. and Sun. 10-5. John D. Havens, Adjutant General of the Missouri National Guard, wrote, "The legacy of countless sol diers who have passed through the BOOK REVIEW gates will be lost forever unless we step forward and accept the challenge and opportunity to preserve this won 'Natural Bridge' brings literature from UMSL derful post." Jefferson BarTacks is currently the site of a National Guard post and a editors. "Our previous volume, vol Candy" by Janles Yervin about chil- the rebellious. self-centered Arlene in BY SARA PORTER small museum, with a park and the ...... " .... ,. . .. ,' ...... " ...... " ...... ume four, edited .by Mary Troy, was · dren receivmg candy from their bick- her pursuit of Edie's boyfriend, and Senior Wiriter Veterans' Hospital close by. Plans to primarily on short fiction, and volume ering parents, and Briggs Seekins' later Arlene's husband, Paul. expand the site to include an interac For a graduate student mterested m seven will be edited by Earnmon WalL · "Miles of Arabian SancL" about a sol- ''Ten Forever," by Arnie Cooper, is tive museum complex are outlined in creative writing and curious about the Earnmon is dier m the a moving essay about David, a schizo the UM-St Louis Museum Studies process of writing and publishing, he Irish Persian Gulf. phrenic man who lived with Cooper's publication, "Jefferson Barracks: A or she may want to take part m the AInerican, so a Many of the family for a time. Cooper pulls no Celebration of the Citizen Soldier." editing process by joining ''Natural lot of the con works present punches as he realistically desclibes Recently, the National Guard Bridge literary Magazine." tent will focus unforgettable the symptoms of the illness through extended its grant to the Museum "'Natural Bridge' is a literary mag on that" images through David, revealing him through the con Studies dep3.Itment to continue azIDe m the order of lots of others," The current their language fuSion and paranoia of the disease. development of the project. Plans are said Dave Carkeet, doctorate m writing volume, num and description, Cooper also does a wonderful job for the completion of the museum and a senior editor for the magazine, ber five, devot proving the writing about the bond David had with complex at Jefferson Barracks and editor of the upcoming issue six. ed mostly to very best in Cooper, a small child at the time. The around 2oo5 , provided financial ''We love to display the best of fic the "longer their fields. The two's closeness as "children" is both backing is. obtained. Both Sen. Jean tion writing, poems, essays, and oth poem," pre- poe m sweet and heartbreaking, as is David's Carnahan and Rep. Dick Gephardt ers," Carkeet said. sents some "Streetwise," despair as Cooper leaves home. have endorsed the University'S plans. ''Natural Bridge," which started in well-liked by Miriam "Cheechako on the Kenai River. Purchased in 1826 by the United May 1999, incorporates graduate stu pieces. Carkeet Sag a n. , Alaska," by Frank Von Zant, gives a Sta~ government for a S-dollar gold dent participation in editing duties for said particular describes a car very vivid description of an enigmatic piece, Jefferson Bar-racks becarne the the magazine by allowing a student to ly, "Educating accident in a character called Old Cowboy, as a first permanent military installation accept, reject, and edit stories. Andy." about very chilling thing Of nighanares: "A native callcd west of the Mississippi River. From Carkeet believes this helps the stu an autistic manner: 'The Old Cowboy staggers from the tree . that time t the present it has acted as dents in a few ways·. "They learn to child, written sound of that hovering above me, toothless and a transfer station and training ground think and vi"w works critically. and by Deanna car - Metal on wrinkled, a finger looped in his pants, for new soldiers in eVelY major con they learn what editors want, whether Jent. and imp a ct/Th e lips puckered and pointing. face quiv tl i t ince tl1e Blackhawk War. it be from the ivlissouri Review. Paris "Lubing," a sOllnd of your ering with suck sound and laughter. Famous military men, including Reviews, and the criteria involved in short story by voice after you eyes loose and scaring me." Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, editing," Carkeet said. Roger Hart, about an auto mechanic, died." The "Natural Bridge" accepts and William T. Sherman, have been ''Natural Bridge" is in its fifth vol were both well received. "Cousins," by Elaine Ford, tells the works from poets, essayi ts, fiction associated with Jefferson Barracks. ume and is published twice a year by "'Educating AIldy' was very well story of two estranged cousins, writers, professors, and even first time TIle American cavalry began at the department of English. It repre received," Carkeet said. "It really takes reserved Edie and wild Arlene, who are writers with one exception. Jefferson Barracks. Originally called sents selections of various poelll5, you into that family and it's very per reunited after a tragedy. Ford character "We don't allow any ubrni sions th e 1st Regiment of Dragoons, it was short stories, personal essays, transla sonal and factual. 'Lubmg' is a very izes the two women in various points from UMSL . tudents or faculty." fomled in 1833 to assist in moving tions, and different forms in literature. funny story by a retired high school in their lives: as teenagers in the early Carkeet said. 'We want to ke p the troop wiftly in the West. "Each volume is catered towards a teacher who lives in Missouri." fifties, young women in the sixties, and process clean. Also, the stud nts get Re toration of the stables will EDITOR basic theme," Carkeet said. Some of Many of the works take on various senior citizens in the nineties. Ford also their work evaluated in cl 5eS. This these themes center around the various subjects, such as the poem "Free brings out a memorable character m present~ a break from that.' , set' JEFFERSON, page 8 E MILV UMBRIGHT ...... -. Span}: food for thought Features Editor From Africa to St. Louis, phone: 516-5174 Spam: It. 1. A finn, salty substance comprised mostly of meaty fax: 516-6811 by-products sold in cans in grocery stores across America. 2. An anonymous message massively distributed via the Internet, clog- · student shares her story ging inboxes and networks across the globe. Halloween is here. BY JENNIFER DODD Army. It's really nice working for the came the tragedy of her father's death fear. Now, anyone receiving a warning ...... __ ...... " .. . army now, because I have a steady and is enrolled at UM-St. Louis. "I Let the ghastly ghouls, BY EMILY UMBRIGHT Features /lssociate purporting to be from the Center for paycheck and not so many fmancial enrolled at UMSL in the faU of 2000, blood-sucking varn- Staff EditoT Disease Control regarding Flesh Imagine guns firing, soldiers womes," said Bestman. arId my major is psychology/commu Funny how definitions can change Eating Bananas, for example, can log being shot, and families being tom Another reason to fight for this nications. I took a semester off last pires, and wandering with the generations. While many onto the site and check its validity by apart. Jatoe Bestman, ajunior at UM country is that Bestman is now a spring so I could have my souls corne out! In true people can probably describe in great searching the site's indexes and cate St. Louis didn't have to imagine this citizen. "On July 2, 1997, I baby in August." detail their personal experiences with gories. The site provides the facts and scenario, it was her reality. Bestman became an Anlcrican citizen. It She has a very full Halloween fashion, UM the second definition of Spam, few plans of action for people who receive is from West .Aflica, in a country was pretty special, because it plate. trying to juggle a have acrually come into contact with notices ranging from e-mail taxation called Liberia was a couple of days before maniage, school and a St. Louis will celebrate and are able to give a firsthand courtesy of the u.s. Postal Service to In 1990, Bestman and her younger the fourth of July and the TV job. "1 work dUling the day the hoLiday With a cos- account of what is bemg described in AOL 4.0 upgrades. Nothing is too out brother decided to leave Africa stations broadcasted the cere for ti1e Anny and I am tak the first definition of Spam. And yet, landish or serious for HoaxBusters. because a huge war began there. mony and interviewed me. I ing 7 hours worth of evening tume contest and we all know what is meant by both The site has even adapted to the Bestman and her brother were still have the tape," exclaimed classes. I also have a baby definitions. changes in spam mail smce the Sept. refugees, and with the help of the Bestman. due in December," said pumpkin carving con One Spam expert offers her advice 11 attacks. They address the WTC United Nations, they came by plane Bestman has still had Bestman. test on Oct. 31 from for swallowing a mouthful of Spam: picture with a face in the smoke, say to the United States, leaving their to deal with some Recently, 'The best way to eat it is to slice it, fry ing that while lhe picture is authentic, father behind. "My mother had been other hardships Bestman's family 12: 30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. it, and put it on a sandwich." the actual face in the clouds,claimed living in St. Louis since 1978, and since she has situation has What is crucial in·the Spanl state to be that of the Devil, is a matter of that is the TIlain reason why we were come to St. inlproved. Her on the second floor of ment is her mentioning of this over interpretation. able to come to this country," said Louis. "Last year grandfather the MUlennium Student whelming desire: to fry Spam, which Photographer Mark D. Philips Bestman. my Dad, who on her moth she claims, "makes it taste better." backs up the information provided by With all this moving around and has sixteen er's side, who Center. Awards will be HoaxBusters in his statement posted adjusting to a totally different cultme, kids and is still This insight can be applied to the sec is part given for Most ond definition, in addition to the firsL on www.Steliarimages.com: '1 can you'd think the last thing Jatoe would American and In efforts to fry electronic spaID not explain how or why this hap do is bury her nose in a book, but that part African, Gruesome and Most and other forms of e-mail terrorism, pened, but those who think I some is what she did. "I enrolled at Forest returned to Computer Incident Advisory how doctored the photograph are Park Community College in 1992, Africa for a Original. Capability, CIAC, has launched an · wrong ... e-mails tell me how scared and I got my associates degree. My while. informative website called the rest of America is. Please do not major was general transfer," said Although HoaxBusters at www.Hoax let this photograph add to that." Bestman. Bestman's life Busters.ciac.org. Other related items like the With a couple of years of college . has had it's ClAC was established in 1989 to "Afghanistan Women's Rights" peti under her· belt, BestU1an went job share of ups provide the U.S . Department of tion that bas been circulating the net, hunting and enrolled at UM-SI. and downs, she WEB Energy v.-ith information and aid in are also true according to the website. Louis. "1 decided to major in biology, is still trying to relation to computer security inci However, the site wams that the valid and I tri~ fmding a job as well. reach her ity cannot be prove n because signa Unfortunately, I had a very hard time dreams. "I still Didn't find that certain denK Its mission is "to apply cyber column or human inter trying to find a job, and lowed UM could security expertise to prevent, deteCt, tures cannot be checked. The petition est story this week? react to and recover from cyber inci also gives sparnmers access to a list of St. Louis a lot of money. I decided to n't take pe0- drop out for a while and join the it and dents for the US DOE and other e-mail addresses made from the Log onto national stakeholders." To help the ple who responded to the petition. anny. Another reason why I dropped had a average Internet user do something Most peOple educated about virus out was my GPA had dropped dra mas - www.thecurrenton with the spam stored in their tempo threats and annoyed by the anony matically. AJso, I didn't have any s j v e line,com r1llY Internet files, CIAC has posted mous mail simply toss the junk mail health insurance," said Bestrnan. stroke, ... and browse our an extension to their more technical away without so much as even glanc Bestman is no GI Jane, but she and be was archives of new and pub site--HoaxBusters. ing at it. So why do these spammers isn't a slouch when it comes to never able to fully junior majoring in The initial sense a receiver gets continue to go on? defending her country. "I joined the recover from it,'" Biology at UM-St. lished stories. louis. from these junk or chain letters i~ one Army reserves in 1996, and in 1998 I said Bestrnan. of shock, annoyance, or sometimes see SPAM, page 8 decided to go active duty with the Bestman over- Page 4 The Current October 22,2001 I OUR OPINION Where's. my stuff? ~ The issue: So, in the span of about 20 hours, I At the office later that Saturday - UMSL Bulletin is misleading managed to lose, cir almost lose, the My connection with my family, as Every year: the University following articles (in chronological journalism has a way of training peo order): . ple to shut off the outside world (how With midterms behind us and only your favorite phantom class here. publishes the Bulletin of ever close that world may be); my six weeks left in the semester, many of The length of time students have classes. This book lists aU of At a 'book reading' on Friday sanity. caused by a mix of disconnec us are looking ahead to new things. waited for a class listed in the Bulletin the classes that potential night - My wallet; contalning about tion and incompetence (some mem Christmas is just around the comer. to be offered varies according to their and current students may $44 in cash, seven phone numbers (all bers of our staff opted out of work and after that all-too-brief break tolerance level. Most of us give up choose from, along with a business contacts, of course), three over the weekend); ~md a fe,v winks comes spring semester. Spring sched-. and enroll in another class that fits our short des~ription of each credit c3J'ds, an UM-St. Louis ill, a of sleep. ules have been posted on the UM-St. schedule. Only occasionally do we let class. However, many classes Six Flags season pass and my spare Louis website, and many of us have our minds wander to think, "I wonder listed in the BuUetin are not car key, my UM-St. Louis lanyard; . At a Greek mixer that evening - been busily pemsing the offerings try what a class on the Afiican Diaspora offered in either the Fall or with my primary car keys, both my Some more dollars (T-shirt for $15, ing to put together a workable sched would have been like?" Spring semester- main office and· my personal office tickets to Eckert's Farm for $3 and a ule. The question has to be asked: Why keys, my lab key from Chemistry brar.vurst for another $3); my keys That's when reality begins to jolt us are all those courses listed in the We suggest: OU, circa Fall 1999, a broken Ford (that's three times) dues to a wayward out of our end-of-October euphoria. Bulletin if they are not going to be insignia (remnants of a road trip gone prank from a group of fraternity Of all the wonderful, interesting offered? Doesn't that represent false The University make a better awry) and the key to my girlfriend's brothers (ob, they 3Je my favOlite); offerings listed in the Bulletin. rela advertising? effoft to update the Bulletin heart (a small, pewter key that she my depression, as my .brothers (as tively few appear on the schedule. Not Perhaps these courses 'were once and omit those classes that gave me almost 10 well as the sisters of only will they not be offered in the offered or may be offered again at are not being offered. The months ago); a 3/4- our partner sorOlity) SpJing, but many of them have not some distant future date. Does their. Bulletin is published yearly, full bottle of helped me have a good been offered in years. absence reflect lack of student inter s.o there is no added cost. If 'DeKuyper' Apple time and look for some Students considering enrolling at est, or does the University lack the classes are announced at the Pucker (a strange shining light; a bit of UM-St. Louis may be intrigued by the funding necessary to offer them? last minute, they can be concoction that I respect for others (1 classes li sted in the Bulletin under Either way, it does not seem fair to advertised on campus. swear was non-alco swore a bit no thinking 'Ancient and Modem Greek' or wave the carrot of non-existent class holic); my aforemen about tl1e age group 'Biblical Hebrew.' How about es in front of the noses of expectant So what do you think? tioned girlfriend that mainly patronizes 'Advanced Interviewing Techniques' students. (three times, to be the farm) and my inhi or 'Storytelling')' Or 'Play Writing,' or The Bulletin is published once a Tell us what you think \ Drop exact); my cellular bitions about the spirits 'Intro. to Acting?' Then there's 'The year. It seems to be a simple thing to us a line at the office, 388 • phone, which I had (Eckert's has the least Marxist Heritage' or 'Mock list only thosc classes that will realis MSC Of online at: just purchased for the scariest of all haunted Constitutional Convention.' They all tically be offered within the next two better part of $300 on hayrides in the modem sound so interesting. You can insert years. thecurrentonline.com to activate; my sobri NICK BOWMAN world). ety (self-explanatory) Editor-in-Cbief and my automobile The word stuff is GUEST COMMENTARV (that's probably for the better). fairly broad. It C3Jl be somethings as little as a key or a dollar or as large as At my parent's house on Saturday a relationship of a life. It's surprising morning - My keys (for the second how much 'stuff' we lose in a life To 'sportswriter' Dave Kinworthy ... time); my wallet (for the second time, until you look at how much we time); and my integrity (my parents accumulate during that span. First of aU let me say that I use the writes for a college paper or whatever ters paradise. how come thc record has were able to tell that I had been out A good friend, and fraternity term "sportsvniter" loosely. Second. I you call it would have put the minimal never been broken there? How many doing some 'wunentionables' the pre brother, of mine once said that one got violently ill when I read your arti effort into researching some facts. In Cubs have lead the league in homers vious night). thing that separates us from the ani cle. Can I ask how you got this job') I your eyes hitting homers at Wrigley besides Sos:l.' The only one I can think mals is the po\ver of discretion. Our reali7.e that this wa.~ an article based on Field and Pac Bell Park is the easiest 6f is Andre Dawson, but I wouldn't At Six Flags with my family - My innate ability to analyze, weigh and opinion and that is fme , but there were thing to do in baseball. You give no expect you to know that. It would family, more precisely, my little choose such 'stuff' as paper vs. plas also some "facts" mixed in with your credit to Barry Bonds or Sammy Sosa, require a tiny bit of effort to look that brother, 11, who likes to run off with tic, boxers vs. briefs, Catholicism vs. opinion. The only thing that was mi ss tlley are just lucky to play in homerun up. arld you have proven to be inca large, furry animal caricatures. I Protestant, and countless other con~ ing is the proof to back anything you parks. You said that when light field is pable of that. almost lost my father to cancer, but tlicts is why we are in charge. The say. At one point you actually said lithe shorter than left field in a ballpark there Another thing. what is with the 90+ his colostomy was a success. He two most powerful words in the proof is there." Where is if) r have is something wrong. Is there anything games cormnent? When did they start should fully recover soon. I may still English language tr1UY are 'Yes' and looked and I can't find it. Was it left out wrong with Yankee Stadium? playing 90+ home game '? That is lose my mother to a similar problem 'No.' on accident or did you just feel like When Babe Ruth hit 60 homers and exhibit "N when discussing your lack (brain cancer) but won't know the making factless statements? The title Roger Maris hit 61, the right-field of baseball sense. Then you go on to results of that for a while. This caused ... grant me the serenity to accept confuses me the rna t. You say that fe nce down the line at Yankee Stadium say that at least the Cardinals made the me to lose my composure, as these fhillos that 1 cannot change; Barry' mouth is too much for baseball, was 296'. Is this ever brought up when playoffs. Well. I think one of your announcements came as I was board courage to change the things I yet in the second paragraph you bash discussing the great Bube Ruth? Sure, points was that even though Bonds hit ing 'The Bannan' for another thrill, can; him for not talking. Which one is it? Is Pac Bell Park has a short right-field 73 homers it did not do his team any which, incidentally, caused my to m1d tfle H'isdol71lO know the dijfer- it his mouth or lack of talking that ie porch at about 310', what about where good. What was the Cardinals record in almost lost my lunch (a lunch that ence ... luining ba." balJ'l a majority of homers go. the power 19987 caused me to lose about $6.00 and -Reinhold Niebuhr What is a fake homerun '? If you are alley . At PBP it runs about 420'. at I have a friend that goe t UMSL, change). talking about the 73 moonballs that Busch Stadium 372'. You also made the and he Jelt compeJJed t send this "arti BoneL.; hit th.is past regular seaso~ then tatement that B h 't!rl.ium was the I " to me. J wish h would 1m e 11 ;VeJ; you have an interesting way of describ epitom ( a pit hers ballpark. sent it to me. Just knowing that there is ing homers. You said he has a ocky You must have oyerlooked the fac t omeooe out there who thinks this way ,Sights and sounds of fall attitude. is that what makes his homers that Darryl Kile's ERA his last three makes me question the human race. I fake? He has even refused to give inter years at Busch is a little more than a run beg of you to stop wIiting about base Not too long ago, I was getting rounded by stalks of com. Squash, views you wrote. so what. higher than 00 the road.. If this article ball. The world will be a better place if ready to leave my apartment. I had gourds. Indian com, and pie pumpkins EDITORIAL How come you didn't mention that was written after the end of the 1985 you never mutter the word "baseball" everything: my books, my keys. and decorate the displays. at the begimling of the 1999 season se..1Son, then you might have a point, ever again. When you get done with an my wallet. I then walked out the door Taking a walk within my grocery BOARD McGwire said that he would refuse to but since then the fences at Busch have article don't just look it over for spelling and realized I forgot my jacket. As I store is pure delight. The floral talk about the homenm record. What been moved in almost 10 feeL an.d grammar errors. Ask yourself, liDo went back in to grab my jacket. it department is ready for fall with har N ICK B O WMAN does he portray on the field '! You \vrote I didn't hear any media criticize the I really want other humans to read this, fmally occurred to me. vest decorations. Beer displays with a STEVE VALKO that what he portrays on the field is organization when this happened. I was and in the process tell them that I have It is officially fall. football theme are more visible. The EMILV UMBRIGHT what baseball should never be about. If also amazed to fmd out that from 1998 the inability to form an opinion aside Fall has always been one of my bakery department bas a new taste of hitting over .300 with 70 homers, and - 2000 McGwire's stats at Busch stadi from what I hear on TV')II Also, favorite seasons. There always seems the season (c3J'UInelized apple pie) DELvLE R OBBINS getting on base in more than half your um were better than his on the road. IN remember that as 100ig you write 3Jti to be a special sense of optimism and that is to die for. at bats is somethi.ng that basebalJ EVERY CATEGORY. Most impor cles there will always be guys like me anticipation in the air. The baseball sea "Our Opinion" reflects the should not be about, I don't know if I tantly he hit 19 more homers in at who have nothing better to do than to The atmosphere at son has ended, and majority opinion of the want to watch baseball anymore. Busch in that period. The most obvious tell you how wrong you are. UM-St. Louis at the now the playoffs have editorial board In case by now you have not thing that you are overlooking is that Get rid of your small-minded atti beginning of the year begun. Even though noticed, I do not like you one biL Your any of the homers that Bonds, Sosa, or tude and be objective, look at the other is full of fresh excite the Cardinals lost in third paragraph is the one that really McGwire hits \'.-ould be out of any side of the story, and look up some stats ment. The campus heartbreaking fashion, ticks me off. It is the best evidence of park. to SUppOlt your claims. You have seems more subdued it's still exciting to your lack of knowledge and lack of You have overrated the importance mined my week. God help us all if you due to the midtemlS, watch baseball with LEIIERS understanding of the game of baseball. a ball park plays with these three guys, actually become a sportswriter. but still the excite all the marbles on the Did you do any research for tlns arti therefore making your article useless. ment lingers. line. And as much as I cle? would think that someone who lfWligley Field is such a homerun hit- MAIL I Fall also means can't stand the New The Current Homecoming for York Yankees, I 388 lI1illennium Student Center high schools. My 15- wouldn't be sad to see 8001 Natural Bridge Road year-old sister went to them ""in it all this St. Louis, MO 63121 her fIrst year due to the crr Homecoming dance a STEVE VALKO cumstances New couple of weeks ago...... " Yorkers must endure. FAX Managing Editor (314) 516-6811 My sister dressed up Fall also means like a beautiful young • UMSL Bulletin pro football is in full E-MAIL How do you feel about the lady, . and had a wonderful time. It swing. I usually have to work during info@theculTenton]ine.com • Losing 'stuff' in your life seemed like she was in grade school Sunday afternoon, but it's great to so long ago. watch Chris Berman Sundaynight on topics we've written about? • The sights and sQunds of fall Working in a produce department, "NFL Primetime" describe the game Letters to the editor should be fall is deflnitely one of the best sea highlights in colorful fashion. I'm brief and those not exceeding sons to work. The homegrown and also very happy since my favorite 200 words will be given prefer • Submit a Letter to the Editor new crop apples 3JTIve at the time, teams (since I was a little tyke) the ence. We edit letters for clarity, along with the caratnel apple dip. The San Francisco 4gers, are 4-1 after five length and grammar. All letters You can make your voice • Write a Guest Commentary chilled, pasteurized apple cider arrives weeks (Son)' Rams fans, old habits must be signed and include a for .the season. Prepackaged apples die hard). daytime phone number; • Visit the Oniine Forums with nuts and caramel on them find Fall brings about new sights, tastes Students should also include heard in a variety of ways! at thecurrentonline.com their way onto shelves. Pumpkins are and experiences. It's just a shatne that their student ID number. displayed on bales of hay, and are sur-· fall happens only once a year. . by Keith Tyhurst Angie Snydi!r Nakisha Miller Gina Johnson Junior I Chemistry Freshman I Nursing . Senior / Finance Graduate / Optometry " " " I know there is adequate " security on North Campus. I think that there could be For the n'Io$t part, yes. We cOuld have a few more I've heard the lighting is more police presence. lights in the parking lots. poor on So.uth Campus \fJ " " " , " Page 5 '. ,Leadiag tbe Gliarge for me .River:w{jm~o thi~ ~n fa going to betlie ~eI from last )lear'S' team. "\\lith Lynetferwellenj baving -2002 Riverwomen Roster NAi Player Hometown Ht. Yr. 11. Kamj Berry Iowa City, Iowa 5-7 J,r. G • Pla,yer 50 KellJ .Blunt Jesup, Iowa 5-11 Sr. f 32 42 Tameka C8rtei' Downers Grove, III. 5-10 Fr. F 14 Jarrett Brown 24 Larissa Cordiano Melbourne, Australia 5-10 Jr. F 10 Deryn Carter 41 Katy Gwaltney Fairfieldr III. 5-9 Sr. G/F 22 Ross Cherepkai 33 Ebonie Halliburton Belleviller III. 5-7 Fr. G 3 Jo'Van Fisher 12 MerieUe Hobson St. Charles, Mo. 5-8 Fr. G EDITOR 11 Justin st 34 ChrIsty Lane Imperial, Mo. 6-0 Jr. G/F DAVE KINWORTHV 24 Jonathon Griffin 52 Krista Longseth Beaver Dam, Wis. -3 r. C Sports Editor -7 r.; phone: 516-5174 23 ~Ruffin Chicago, III. 5-6 r. G fax: 516-6811 Daryl Saine 6-6 215 F 44 Lauren Weitzel St. Charles, Mo. 6-0 Fr. C 33 Jim ScbeIlcI'l t.4 200 F 54 Lynette Wellen AviSton, III 5-11 Sr. F THIS 0 Jessica Woods Coppell, Texas 6-0 Jr. Fie WEEK 14 Mariela Miles Kansas City. Mo. 5-9 Jr. G Photol 1bc CU1Tt!fl1 Volleyball drops close contest to Lewis Soccer R·Women no. 3 in GLVC ST. Lours, MO - The UM-St. The third game \ as ,mother ba k Louis volleyball team dropped a close and fonh battJe wi th neither team 24 With one game left, UHSL prepares/or post-season match to Lewis U niversity 3-0 establi shing control earl I . UM-St. at Bellarmine Saturday afte.moon. Neither team led Louis had the largest lead, three BY CHARLIE BAILEY to give the Riverwomen a lopsided Bessie Black, who has scored 17 goals by more than five points in any of the points, at 8-5 early in the game before Women 1:30 p .m. halftime advantage. and an incredible 47 points on the sea Sf at! rfiri! er three games. but Lewis held on for the Lewis CanlC back to tie dle game at JO The Riverwomen showed compas son. win, taking each game by scores of 32- JO . The game would be tied fOT the Men 3:30 p.m. The Rivelwomen, who are winners sion for the Panthers early in the sec In a close match, the Riven'lomen 30,30-26,30-27. 12th time in the game at 17-17 befo re 27 of there last six and who are ranked ond half, waiting six minutes before fell to the top team in the NCAA D-II The first game was a back and forill Lewis would take control. SCaling the third in the Great Lakes Valley tacking on another goal. Siemens 3-1. Northern Kentucky netted two battle as neither team led. by more than .n ext two points and never relinquish at Truman State Conference, are coming off a punish scored off a pass from Haunn at the ball s in the first half and held a 2-0 fOUT points. It was tied nine times in ing the lead. The Flyel would lead by ing victory · over the Kentuck}' 51: 13 mark of the second half. lead at the 45:00 mark. UM-St Louis the early going when a Lewis point as many as five, 29-24, before a late Men 11 :00 a .m. Wesleyan Panthers. The Riverwomen Siemens later returned the favor to bounced back late in the last half. with made the ga.rne ll-ll. The FI yeTs then UM-St. Louis nm clo ed the lead to 28 traveled to Owensboro, Kentucky to Haunn, as she recorded the second Alaina O 'Donnell scoring from seven extended out to a four point lead on a three pOi nts, 29-27, before Lewis battle the 5-8-0 Pandlers of Kentuck}' goal of the game at the 63:34 mark. yards out, but the Norse would close couple of occasions, the last coming at closed o ut the ganle and the match L inco!n Wesleyan. As the game started, the Both Haunn and Siemens had tom the door, scoring off a corner kick at 25-21. UM-St. Louis then fought back with a 30-_7 win in game three. 1:00 p.m. scoring came early and often. The first points in the game. the 81: 07 mark to defeat the and trailing 28-25 scored the next UM-St. Louis was led by Mameen goal came at the 6:20 mark, as super With a 6-0 v.in, the Riverwomen, Riverwomen 3-1. three point to tie the game and eventu Monal1an with J 3 kills and nine digs. freshman Sonya H aunn scored to allowed only 3 shots the entire game. After the Northern Kentucky ally took a 30-29 lead before Lewis Holly Zrout added 1 i kills and 11 digs make it 1-0, This offensive juggernaut, similar to match,· the Riverwomen then hosted closed the game with three straight and Nikki Pagels recorded a game Volleyball The second came from a usual the Rams, kept pouring it on, scoring no. 27 ranked Indianapolis this past point to take game one 32-3 0. high seven blocks. source of offense, Lindsey Siemens. two more goals, the seventh by Deidre Sunday. The teams went into double In the second game, the The Ri veI'Women fell to 11 -15 on Siemens, who is having a great offen Bauer and the eighth by Lindy Filla. overtime before ending the match in a Rivemomen jumped out to a 4-0 lead, the se" on and L7 in the GLVC. T 1- 27 sive year, scored the second and the As the whistle blew, Rebecca Senn 0-0 tie. This game marked the fmal but Lewis canle back with a 9-1 run to St Louis will be in action on the road third goal. The first at the 9:21 mark recorded her eighth shutout of the sea home match of the season. and the take a 12-7 lead. The Fl. ers extended next weekend when the !eanl na vels to at St. Joseph's on an assist from Haunn and the sec son and the Riverwomen left the blue Riverwomen seniors celebrated their their lead to six points at 22-1 6, but play t St. Joseph' on October 27 and 2 p.m. ond late in the first half after Regan grass state with a decisive victory. final home game in uniform with a UM-St. Loui" fought back and scored then play at Quincy on October 30 Dyro delivered a beautiful pass to The Riverwomen played host to short reception the next five poip.ts and closed the before clo ing out the reguhr season at Siemens. the number one team in the country, The Riverwomen will travel to game to just one point at 24-23 . Le'.v is home on November 1-3. As the first half came to a close, Northern Kentucky, this past week Bellarmine University for a make-up then closed the game scoring fom of H ekey the Panthers let Lindsay Jones sneak end. The Norse from NKU are unde game Oct. 24 before beginning the the last six points to win game t\ '0 30- (re/ea e courtesr oj Todd 14-0. GLVC Toumament Oct. 3 I-NovA. past yet another goal at the 34:33 mark feated at The Norse are led by 26. Addington. UM-St. Louis SID) 26 Jordan's return to the NBA is 'for the game' at Northerf! Illinois 9 :30 p.m. Michael Jordan, the "air" to the me') He would not, and Jordan knows up with Cardinal Ritter graduate and be a winner on the court. National Basketball Association, is that he can once again dominate the center Jahadi White. There is just The experience that Jordan will be 27 fmally back amidst high scrutiny from N13A like he did years ago. Sme he enough talent on this team, compared bringing to this youthful Wizards Eastern !!Hngis the media. But dlank goodness he is might have lost a little hang time on to the Bulls of old, but the are not team will only benefit them. When back. hi s jW11per, but when you know the used to winning. Their confidence is Jordan leaves and retire, for his third TBA The · N13A has gone through a game as well as Jordan does, he does not there because of the lack of win time, the Wizards will be a re-estab change ever since Jordan left after · not need hang time to make a ba,ket. ning seasons in the pa~ t few years. lished teanl in the NBA. He will not winning his last championship with TIle one thing that Jordan lacks is a Can Jordan really build this team and do to the \VLZards what Jerry Krause the Chicago Bulls. Kobe Bryant, sUPPOlting cast around hinl with the make a run at the playoffs'1 Not yet. did to his Chicago Bulls and djsman VInce Carter and Shaquille O'Neal Washington Wizards. In Chicago, He first has to establish himself with tie the team. have been the superstars of today, but Jordan had decent point guards. the in his team as the leader and move the However court-savvy Jordan is , WEB they do not do the little things that present overrated Scottie Pippen and leanl's confidence in a forward direc he is al so business-savvy, and that is Jordan did to gain recognition. some other players to compliment his tion. Can Jordan be satisfied widl a one of the main reasons why he is log onto Jordan is the best example of what. game. Pippen drew attention. and .500 record thi s next season? back. He wants to see a team that he a student bf the game of basketball is. when that happened, Jordan excelled. I just cannot see Jordan being sat has inve"ed his time, money and W'N'N.umsl.edu/ He works hard at his game, and now Pippen, as proven, is not as good, isfied with this, and that is one of the energy in win. He will not be satisfied serv,ices/athletics · LATEST Scoop the critics are saying he is too old to though, without Jordan's presence on major reasons why he gave up his par with a .500 team. He wants to win and for the latest sports news come back. Well, everyone is going to the 'cOUlt. He did not even start for the tial ownership with the WlZards. He make a statement to the world: that he and information DAVE KINWORTHY be proved wrong. Why would a man Portland Trailblazers this past seasoll. thought he could teach some of these is the best player that has ever played. come back to set himself up for fail- In Washington, Jordan will team younger players about what it takes to Page 6 The Current October 22, 2001 'Riding in Cars' is a smo~th trip BY CHARLIE B R!GHT ...... -.· · e ·; i~·o. ; : ' \~·~; 1· t~~ ·· · -."...... ' The movie "Rjding in Cars with Boys" is a symbolic joumey through the life of Beverly Donofrio (Drew Barrymore). It canies the audience through every major pan of her life, from childhood to motherhood, all focused on her relationships with the men around her. The movie begins by focusing on the relationship with her father, played by James Woods. The scenes beQNeen \Voods and Barrymore are outstanding, hands down some of the best moments in any drama this year. Jan1es Woods is one of the most believable actors around, whose characters always seem to corne alive in moments, and his performance here was a plime • example of what Woods does best. As • a police officer, Woods has to deal • with his waY'FJ.rd daughter"' s perpet ual problems with the law. For her prul, Banymore is an excellent teen. but is a hard sell as a .. '. _----- mom in her mid thirties. It's partly because of her baby face and partly ; EDITOR because the movie switches back and forth from Bev at flfteen to Bev at Beverly Donofrio (Drew Barrymore) and husband (Steve Zahn) star in 'Riding il) Cars with Boys.' thirty-five, while Barrymore doesn't CATHERINE change at all. Donofrio (Bev's son) is an impres Playing Bev's primary love interest utes too long. One that comes to mind in theaters. It's not a romantic comedy M ARQUis-HOMEYER ...... Overlooking the chru1ges in age sively developed character, through is Steve Zahn, whose work in movies is a scene in which Beverly slides or a lighthearted romp on why love A&E Editor (which Woods puUs off far better), whose eyes the evenl~ in the film are like "Saving Silverman" proved that down the stairs, a process that was always triumphs, and shows very there are very few prob1ems with tlns interpreted. Most notable of the he could be funny. He truly shines funny in a sick sort of way the first starkly that sometimes it doesn't. phone: 516-5174 powerful film. Watching Beverly JasoD.'! are Logan and Cody Arens, here in a deeply dramatic role. Zahn QNO or three times, but had me check "Rjding in Cars with Boys" is far mature from a small girl to woman who play him at ages 3 and 6. respec and Woods work magic together in ing my watch after about a dozen more serious than it sounds, and far fax: 516-6811 hood is enough to make even the tively. The range of facial expressions one scene, leaving me \vishing only repeats. Still, its length doesn't take more promising than the previews most callous observer sympathize and authenticity of character in these that there were more between them. away from its meaning or distract made it out to be. If you're in the with her, and it brought much of the two alone are enough to make the The film's greatest fault is its from the awesome difficulties and mood for a good cry or just something screening audience to tears. movie worthwhile. Mika Boorem length, which stretches to ruuund QNO long-suffering nature of the teen a little different, this is a movie that Stealing the spotlight, as they tend ("Hearts in Atlantis") gives a brief but hours and fifteen minutes. While each mother as shown in Beverly. can really shake up the way you look to do, are the movie's children. spectacular performance as a young scene was individually well-con It's funny and tragic, beautiful and at things, an impressive feat for any A&E Played by a half dozen actors, Jason Beverly. structed, they often went several min- dark, and easily one of the best dramas film. Campus - - - Calendar CD RE-VIEWS Premiere album 'Is This It' EVENTS Strokes rock'n'roll back to life BY E MILY U M BRIGHT It sound' like omething Squeeze out in the lyrics: ''Take me away/ See, w uld do in the early '80s. The I've got to explainfTIlings, they have ~;;;(/ff Editor scratchy lyrics, belted out before the changedfm such a permanent way." 'Odober Welcome back. Kotter' If there "StoplLet me go" chorus line, add tex The sound is a little bit darker; the bass could be a sowldrrack for the now ture and energy to the song as it winds is a little heavier; the solos are a bit extinct '70s sitcom. "Is This It" by The dov,'ll to a Li hed chum- lamming end- more cal1ered, It is a moment in the 22 Strokes would be up for nomin tion. ing. The energy comes back for album fbr consideration and reflection. Monday Noon Series. Susan The fi ve piece outfi t, hailing from the next two songs, This is not to say the other songs are New York City, revive and enli 'ens "Barely Legal" shallow, but rather they appeal to a lis- Yoder-Kreger, Ph.D. candidate the long-dormant simplistic . . straight and tener because they are an alternative to in Spanish, University of forward rock'n'roll sound. Rock'n'roll the cOIlu11Only confronted fee.lings of seems to be going back to its roots. as anger and despair. Virginia, will give a lecture on recent releases by bands uch as Black Going back to the Rebel Motorcycle Club, The lightness, the "Latin American Women Intemational Noise Conspiracy, and energetic Writers Provide Strategies for The Greenhoms resunect the tradi party tional rock sound that fOlmd itself at sounds Empowerment" in room 229, a loss somewhere beQNeen the self of "Last The 'Freshmen' J.e. Penny Building. pitying lyrics and aggressive noise dominating modem rock today. Admission is free. The -graduate this year The Strokes are yet another pondering Monday Noon Series is spon band pumping life back into thoughts of time again. Groups like Fuel, BV JULIE GIRARDIER the mummified corpse of the previous ...... " ...... -.. . Lifehouse, Train, Barenaked Ladies, sored by the Center for roc;k'n'roll. With the release song and erase SpeCial to The CWTent Vertical Horizon, and so on are taking Humanities. of "Is This It," the band them. The ring In today's fickle music environ over alternative radio stations proves they can create ing of the song ment, it's not often that a band has the throughout the country. The Verve bright and cheerful rock provides a tempo chance to fail and then try again. Pipe can certainly be categorized with .26 with a nostalgic air for rary escape as it, Many "one-hit wonders" are popular this group, but they are different for polyester, afros, and like many of the for a fleeting moment, release a many reasons. They use elements of . The National Shakespeare tight t-shirts. other songs, sounds sophomore album that does poorly, classic rock, blues; pop, and folk like it was being emit Company will perform "As You The CD begins and are dumped by their labels. The without trying too hard to be original. with a sort of wind ted from a record play Verve Pipe is an exception to this rule. "Underneath" is following in the Like It" in the J.c. Penny ing down record er rather than a CD After their multi-platinum release, footsteps of "Villains" in several player sound player. "When it "Villains," in 1996, and their # 1 hit, ways. The songwriting shows a return Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. before bouncing Started," the eighth track, 'The Freshmen," The Verve Pipe to their roots, passing up the strange Tickets are available at the on with distort appears to be another released their self-titled album in and uninspired songs they used in ed lyrics and a cheerfully spirited song. 1999. The albunl had disappointing their 1999 album. Also, they seem to Student Activities Office. repeti ti ve Vocalist Julian Casablancas results on the charts and sold few be paying attention to what is going music-box has something that many front records. on in today's music and choosing to sound. The men as of late seem to be lack Two yearS later, Brian Vander Ark, fit in rather than invent something 29 ironically titled ing-the fearlessness to actually A.J. Dunning, Doug Corella, and new. Monday Noon Series. second track, 'The sing in harmony with every Donny Brown have tried once again. "Never Let You Down" is not the Modem Age," keeps a "1'1, ' ••• ' ••• .• dynamic glide of the music. "Underneath" was released on Sept. only song from the album headed for D.Coleman, photo critic, will steady beat with its pounding drums e St,.o~ '~'~'< : .•". "Trying Your Luck" is another 25, 2001 by RCA, and is getting pos radio. Others, like "Only Words" and and jingly in die-rock guitars. discuss "Photography es .....: _...... example of this fearlessness. The ' itive listener and critical reviews. The "Happiness Is," already have RCA Sounding kind of like catchy techno~ ., dramatic belting of his lyrics sound first single, "Never Let You Down," is abuzz. They are catchy tunes ' that Censorship in the United trance sound but with guitars, the song "Someday." The strangely in line with a scraggly, punk leading the way for this pop-college make you smile no matter what yom will make you want to bop around the simple approaches to rock Morrissey. Blended with the rock-infused album. mood. This is a far cry from their pre States," in room 229, J.e. room like a dancer in "Footloose." It is these songs make the listening poppy music, the chanson creates a Already, "Never Let You Down" vious work that was considered dark Penny Building. Admission is as if the band is poking fUll at modem experience enjoyable, as the band scuf bittersweet air. is the 4th most requested song for the and gloomy. musical methods by creating similar fles with an innocent game of love. "Is This If' provokes an answer to week of Oct 15 on St. Louis' own The Verve Pipe's newest album is free. The Monday Noon Series sounds with "old-fashioned" inSU1.1- The sixth track, "Alone, Together," listeners combating the problem of WVRV-FM 101.1. It has also been one you won't find yomself running is sponsored by the Center ments. The staple of the song, a v,.ild is a definite high point to the album. "nu-metal." Rebellion, the idea featured on the WB's "Dawson:s out to buy, rather as you walk through vintage guitar solo, rings rebelliously Maybe it is because the lyrics are rela encompassing all modes of art, exerts Creek," a show that is known for record stores, The Verve Pipe's for Humanities. in sync with the style of the band, but tively understandable, but this song itself in The Strokes' premier album launching songs and their writers into "U,nderneath" display might catch ont of time with the reality of the lis- . depicts the modem detachment a per with the nostalgic energy of youthful the stratosphere of popular music. your eye. You'll pick up the album, tener. son feels "alone and together" with rock'n'roU. So turn up the volume and Some say we are reproducing the listen to it, and will like what you "Soma" has a squeaky quality to it. another person. This alienation comes " welcome back Kotter. "Matchbox Twenty" sound time and hear. MOVIE MARQUEE Support an original American industry: go to the movies Evelyone is high on patriotism miss out on some great fUms. various countries participated in the with the high polish and production The American film industry has . right now, and one of the suggestions For a forcign-Ianguage filni to birth of film - but the American film values . of Hollywood and the some special problems it is facing for expressing your palJiotism has make it to the English-language domi community invented most of the visu American film industry. Although right now, some of which I discussed been to get out and help support nated American screens, it has to be allanguage and grammar of film in the they might sometimes be surpassed on in a previous column and some of American businesses. Recently, I saw really outstanding, so the ones that are 1910s and 1920s - the stuff that made . the level of meaningful messages or which I'll discuss in a future column. an article that advocatecl this idea and offered to us are the cream rising to the flim into the movies. What's more, creativity by foreign products, While many big movie studios are at suggested that people also show their top. Hollywood in the '20s put out the American movies still rule in' broad least partially owned by foreign fearlessne~s in the face of terrolism by However, I want to· promote the films that made movies a worldwide popularity worldwide. Indeed, investors, the character of the industry going to see off-beat fIlms and foreign idea of seeing any film right now. The popular art form - the most popular American movies are one of the rea still remains Amelican and mostly language fllms, confronting their fears truth is that Hollywood is one of this entertainment medium in the world. , sons the Taliban and bin Laden hate us based in L.A. It's still a homegrown of subtitles and the unknown. This is country's biggest businesses. Even today, American films are the - because we export our culture sub American industry. So, go to the CATHERINE an idea I fully support. Especially, Hollywood didn't really invent motion most popular movies worldwide. Consciously through the stOlies of our movies. It's your patriotic duty. . pictures - a number of inventors from (1) . MARQUIS-HOMEYER people who pass on subtitled movies Nobody in the world makes movies movies. October 22, 2001 The Cu rrent Page 7 Haunted house review: It's a scream BY CATHERINE through, so this isjust the female point MARQUiS-HOMEYER of view. Staff Editor We started off our haunted evening with a visit to 'The Darkness' in With Halloween fast approaching, Soulard. Located in the former Welsh we thought it might be fun to review an Baby Carriage Factory, right next to all-American phenomenon: the big; the Soulard Farmer's Market, there flashy haunted house. In a time of could hardly be a better location for a heightened patriotic feeling, I thought haunted house. The spell cast by loom a visit to · a velY American theatrical ing hulk of the dark, brick factory is a experience like a haunted house was bit undermined by the blaring music of somehow oddly appropriate. After all, the rock station broadcasting from the Halloween is an ' American holiday, front of the building and by the crowd celebrated here as nowhere else. of excited, mostly young people stand Once the arena of local homemade ing out front in line for tickets, but it 'haunted houses' sponsored by com also firmly sets the tone for an evening munity organizations and the funhous of fun. Occasionally, costumed actors es or carnivals, in recent years haunted worked the crowd, producing more houses have become big theatrical pro that a few jumps from the people wait ductions. Along with the increasing ing in line. Once we worked our way size and elaborateness, these commer past the security guards stationed next cial haunted houses come with a much to the gargoyle at the entrance, we higher price tag. But judging by the mounted tlle stairs into the factory lines to get into these extravaganzas, itself, passing ghostly-themed black the price hasn't been a deterrent. and blue murals painted on the walls. So The Current set out to review a At the top of two flights of stairs we couple big haunted houses. Two of reached the entrance to the exhibit • these extravaganzas are 'The At the entrance, we faced a very Darkness' in Soulard, and well-done, eerie porch on a tum-of 'Screarnworld' in Fenton. The same the-last-century house, surrounded by company runs the two attractions. 'The a Gothic yard and gates, all shrouded Darkness' is $13.50, or $17.50 if you in theatrical fog - a very effective also want to visit the Titanic-themed beginning indeed. A large group of us left: The Welsh Baby Carriage Factory 3D and blacklight exhibit at the end. was directed through the doorway to smoke stack. 'Screamworld' is $14.50 including its the first room of the house, with again Above: Food, rides, attractions and 3D exhibit. Both attractions have car a very spooky atmosphere set, only games were common themes at 'The nival rides that cost extra You can also now with visual references to the orig Darkness' and '$creamworld.' purchase a pass for both attractions for inal Frankenstein movies. Here, we $22. They are open from 7:00 p.m. to were given the rules of the house - 1:00 am. on Fridays and Saturdays, don't touch the actors, don't touch the with spooky pamtmgs. Animated fading letters spelling out the original which at times was impenetrable. that she didn't particularly care for the 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Sundays sets and no eating, drinking or smok exhibits are mixed with live actors, factory name. The courtyard is also Natasha commented that she preferred music, and would have preferred more ilirough Thursdays, and they will oper ing. Then each small group was admit whose screams and taunts mix with me filled with slightly eerie-looking carni the actors to me animated exhibits, and sound effects or animals sounds ate through Oct. 31. ted to the spook house, with a pause pervasive "scary movie" music. val rides and games, which gives the that they were best when they were instead. The house was scary and Since people typically go to haunt between groups (a very good idea in There is a long passage of total haunted house a very atmospheric fin portraying a character, rather mat just atmospheric, without being overly ed houses in groups, The Current sent pacing groups) so each group was a bit darkness in the middle of the exhibit, ish and a place to linger after me expe jumping out to scare you. gory. We enjoyed me experience but iliree students to check out these two isolated. which was very disorienting, hence the rience. We all agreed the actors were very weren 't breathlessly terrified. big attractions. I was accompanied by Of course, your group wasn't house's name. The exhibit is a good At the fmish of the tour, r asked my good and that the sets were excellent. Next we ventured out to two female students, whom I will call entirely isolated - screams of previous long ramble, and will not seem too companions for their impressions, and Both Mortitia and I agreed that the total 'Screamworld' in Fenton. This exhibit Mortitia and Nastasha in the spirit of groups fill the warehouse, but the short, but if you want a bit more at the found that we agreed on many things darkness portion haunted house was is billed as a Halloween theme park, the season. Mortitia is rather an afi dense fog and dinllights made it diffi end there is the 3D exhibit. about 'The Darkness.' While she too long, and we Liked the ghoulish sets and indeed it is not the usual self con cionado of haunted houses, and so was cult to see anyone else, and at times, Finally, we exited the building into enjoyed me overall experience, and exhibit., better. None of us cared tained haunted house, Lke 'The our expert, but all three of us like difficult to see anything. The maze of a courtyard at the back of the factory, a Mortitia commented mat she thought for the 3D blacklight exhibit, which Darkness,' but spooky stuff. An attempt to also recruit the haunted house takes you past sev wonderfully spooky looking spot dom there was too much fog and that she was actually more for younger kids and a student of the male persuasion fell eral eerie sets and the halls are lined inated by a looming white tower with preferred dim light to the heavy fog, was overlong. Mortitia commentec'. see HAU N T ED, page 1U - - . MOVIE REVIEW ' ~ ~:I:...... ~t Castle' is a1most on target BY CHARLIE BRIGHT assigned a white hat or a black hat it seemed, to the sensitive audience Senior Writer within moments of their introduc in the theater than it did to the two tions. These assigrtments make the dimensional characters on the Robert Redford is getting old. It's entire film predictable, despite an screen. Also, the soundtrack proved a sad thing, really, especially since excellent execution of the story, to be obtrusive into the movie's he doesn't seem to have noticed. In written by David Scarpa. This is slower parts with a piercing trumpet 'The La~t Castle," he plays the fall Scarpa's first produced screenplay, seeming to fill every quiet moment en General Irwin, formerly of the and it is a good concept, tllOugh it with sound. Jerry Goldsmith put U.S. Army. The film takes place in a lacks the subtle sense of oppression together some excellent music, but it symbolically interesting reverse cas within lie prison that made movies too often was put in the foreground, tle, one designed to keep prisoners like "Shawshank Redemption" rather than remaining behind the inside. Having been sentenced to a great. In fact, despite his obvious front lines. ten-year term in the prison (for rea depiction as an evil character, 1 There weren't a lot of terribly sons that don't become clear until found myself sympathizing with original scenes, and even the battling late in the movie), General Irwin is a Gandolfini's Colonel Willter. Being towards the end hearkened to i\lel celebrity to the former military types the warden over a group of ex-mili Gibson's "Braveheart" so strongly Prisoner Irwin (Robert Redford, right) helps his fellow inmate Yates (Mark Ruffalo) escape from the wreck .. within. This angers the prison war tary murderers is a tough job, and that I had to stille a chuckle while age of a downed helicopter in 'The Last Castle.' den, Colonel Winter, played by when they revolt against him, it's characters were clubbing each other James Gandolfini, best known for almost sad in a way. I had a hard to death. A small change in editing tie:' it worked much better as a mod gi ve. a great performance that might role on his part. The interpersonal his work on HBO's "Sopranos." The time sympathizing with a bunch of and camerawork might have turned ern symbol than as a source for have been even more impressive ten scenes were good and a few of the t\vo are destined to clash in a way cold-blooded killers, no matter how these scenes into something memo strange parallels with the Middle years ago (I readily admit that I fights were good. but "Last Castle" liat is both tragic and strangely nice they seemed as individuals. rable and remarkable, but instead Ages. cringed in horror when he removed couldn't seem to decide if it was seri comedic. The movie has a strong patriotic made it seem like a parody of a film The movie isn't bad, and that's his shirt for one scene). Gandolfini's ous or depressing, which was the pri The conflict is established early, mge that it exudes at every turn. depicting Medieval times. Though highly important to note. 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Tlus research is the first to show that Clinebell's nocturnal investigations researchers who specialize on that spe oped to an impressive degree of detail, In addition these new discoveries, pollinators are that paJticular when it have revealed that a species of insect, cific family of plants. One of these and that the combination of such Oinebell has also succeeded in making comes to their choice of flower species. commonly kllO\vn as "antlions," are families, called the Onagraceae. which detailed information from so many his pollination project one of the most A bee species that pollinates inlPOnaTIt pollinators of the Gaura plant botanists affectionately refer to as specialized disciplines has never been detailed and comprehensive pollination On~"TIIceae flowers tends to pollinate species. Onagrads, aJ'e the subject of one of the attempted for any other plaJlt family. studies ever attempted, and so his find only Onagraceae and not members of The antlions belong to the order of Garden's most unusual and iImo\'ative Another special thing about the ings are likely to be more informative other flower families; if their preferred insects known as the Neuroptera, reseaJ'ch projects. Onagraceae project is that tbe and influential tban most pollination species of Onagraceae is not available which are sometinles known by their The Onagraceae project at the reseaJ'Chers are using molecular and biology projects. tbey tend to move to another closely common name "tbe "lacewings." Garden draws upon the skill of some of genetic data, rather than the physical Clinebell has been collecting speci related species of Onagrad, but not to ClinebeII discovered tbat these antlions the most talented prof ssionals from charactelistics of the flowers to figure mens of pollinators from different other species. are major pollinators of Gaura species MIC A H IS51TT several specialties to create a more out the I'Clationships between the differ species of Onagrads in aJl effort to Clinebell has also decided to use after dark along with several species of .'Sc/e~;~ :e Coi IIlilni st comprehensive pictme of the ent plant species. Hoch believes that determine what species of insects are statistical data in his pollination study, moths. This observation of pollination Onagraceae than any other plant fami these techniques have greater reliability the major pollinator> of this family and which is quite different from most pol by antlions is the first time that any of ly. This pmticular plant family has been than the usual techniques, and so their which insect species visit wluch flow lination studies that are commonly the lacewings or Neuroptera has been The Missouri Botanical Garden tbe subject of Garden research since the fmdings will be more reliable and use ers. Clinebell has increa~ed the detail of descIiptive rather than quantitative in observed as pollinators, and so this plea~es tbousands of visitors evelY year Garden's .inception. during which time ful than the usual data taken from the his study by expanding to collect data nature. He has enlisted the help of finding represents a very significant with its anlazing diversity of beautiful tbe project has been enhanced by new physical characteristics of the flower>. over tbe entire span of the diurnal Angela Crowe, aJl wldergraduate stu discovery for the field of pollination plant species and its interesting special research techniques and Dew special The idea of this project is to try to (daily) cycle and over the yeaJ'ly cycle dent from Fontbonne College, as an biology. The discovery of a new exhibits, but the heart of the Garden is ists. All of these developments add to understand one conununity as com as well. intern to handle tbe statistical portion of species of pollinator is a very signifi behind tbe scenes, in the research the complexity of the eventual picture pletely as possible, and so tbe team is Most pollination studies investigate his pollination study. Crowe is going to cant finding. but the discovery of an department. The research depaJtment's that will be created of the Onagrads. combining information from different only certain times of the day or night, test Clinebell' s statistical information entirely new order of pollinators is an PhD.'s, graduate students, and sizable Dr. Peter Hoch, a plant taxonomist geographical areas and utilizing as but Clinebell expanded his investiga for its mathematical significance and even more inlportant and surprising staff of employees conduct cutting edge at the Garden, has studi d the Onagrads many different aspects of biology as tion to cover the whole picture by col create a quantifiable way to comrmmi accomplishment for this project. reseaJ'ch looking into important aspects for the last thirty years. He and Dr. possible. Tlus project will allow a pic lecting pollination data from tbe early cate the findings of his research. Clinebell's research adds to tbe of plant biology. There is a small Warren Wagner from the Smith 'ouinn ture of a plaJlt conununity in a state of morning into tbe late night hours, using The statistical analysis already com body of knowledge being gathered at department at the GaJ'den that conducts Institution in Waslungton D.C. are in evolution. and attempt to show hO\'.1 tbe black lights to collect data long after pleted by Crowe confirms that the pol the Garden and contributes a new applied research, looking into the rela charge of the Onagraceae project, genetic and molecular characteristics sunset In addition, he has conducted linators of the focal plant commlmities dimension to tbe Onagraceae project. tionship between hUll1an cultures and which is not only conducted at the of me plants have changed over time his insect collections at different times have very clear preferences for certain In the future, projects dealing with plant communities and the ways tbat Missouri BotaJucal Garden but also at and how these changes relate to tbe of tbe year, which provides monthly plant species, and tend to divide tbe other species may follow the example hlunans use plaJlts and plant products. the Smithsonian and other institution change that we observe in the outward surveys of pollination across the sea community between tbemselves and of The Onagrad Project and may begin Most researchers at the garden study around the world. Post-doctoral student physical characteristics of the plant~ sons and a seasonal variation over the pollinators who prefer other plant fam to attempt the incorporation of many plant taxonomy, which deals witb nam Rachel Levin is working on gene and their flowers. Along witb this will course of an annual cycle. ilies.It is easy to see from Crowe's data cli£ferent types of information into their ing plants and figuring out tbe evolu sequencing for tbe Onagraceae. This be an idca of how tbe plants have Clinebell's srudy has revealed some tbat even though aJl insect may polli studies. This study is the most com tionary relationships between them. gene sequencing work is one method mm'ed geographically as the family very unusual facts about tbe pollination nate more than one Onagrad species, plete project tbat tbe garden has ever Most of the taxonomic I'CseaJ'chers that researchers use to determi ne tbe changed tbrough evolution, and of certain flowers. Different species of depending on environmental condi attempted because each of its compo (or taxonomists) at tbe GaJ'den use the genetic relationships between groups expanded and contracted its geograph pollinator>, like certain bees, wasps, tions, they seem to show a definite nent projects, the pollination, the bio physical characteristics of flowers to of plants. Jorge Crisci and Liliana ical range. Fmally. this project 'Will and moths, are very specific about fidelity for the Onagraceae family. geography, and the genetics and mole detern1ine how closely related different Katinas are \ 'orking on the how how these plants have evolved to which species of flower tbey choose to Clinebell's and Crowe's work is cular study. have endeavored to make plant species aJ·e. They then attempt to Biogeography of the [muly, wluch be part of a community, investigating pollinate. Before Clinebell's project, going to be published in a technical their own work as elaborate and com give these plants scientific names tbat deals with the geographical distribution how they have related to the other this aspect of pollination had never article in an upcoming issue of tbe prehensive as possible. A study of this reflect their evolutionaJY history, and to of plants. Both Dr. Rob Ruguso and Dr. plants that hare tbeir geographical been conclusively demonstrated; 'Annals of Botany'. This article 'Will scope revolutionizes current under figure out which plants came first in the Ric ClinebcU work on the pollination range and how tbey have evolved with researchers of pollination had no hard talk specifically about the plant com standing regarding the transfoffimtion history of plant evolution. of the Onagraceae, studying d1e insect their particulaJ' pollinators. data tbat showed how specifically cer munities that are found in the Gaura of plant communities over time and Witb such a large job on their hands. pollinators and how they utilize their Some of the must interesting tain pollinators choose which t10wers Calylophus glade.s, which are located through tbe span of evolution. Garden researchers split their plants plant hosts. Irearch that has come out of the to pollinate. Species of insects may in the MonnahaJls sandhills of Texas. Speaking about the scope of this study, into geographical area5 such as North Hoch believe ' that what makes the Onagraceae project is p:ut of the polli simultaneously pollinate several In addition, Clinebell is also preparing says. "We are talking about evolution AmeIica, Asia, and Africa, and rhen the Onagraceae project unique is that each nation studies of Oinebell. He has col- species of Onagraceae, but they rarely, another article dealing \vith some of tbe in motion." J E F F ERSON, from page 3 SPAM, from page ...... 3 give visitors a taste and feel of the marked a watershed in the slavery born. as well. It was said in General HoaxBusters says a junk mail ini sounds technical aJId credible. Butwith In addition, responding to junk mail importance of tbe cavalry of the 19th debate. served time as J. personal ser uhennan's obituary, '1l1e American is tiator may simply want to see how faJ' just a little bit of double-checking on and chain letters often gives sparnmers century. 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Have you ever thought of taking a Lutherans, Jews, Bikers, alcoholics, observation, they also conduct inter Reidhead spiritual retreat, connecting with devout Catholics, even atheists - you yjews that provide rich data of per aBd wite God? Have you wondered what goes name it - they are seeking spiritual sonal interest. The interviews are a Mary Anne on in a monastery? guidance in monasteries." look at individual desires, and moti have lbeen : A recent campus survey revealed He said that it could be for a num vations that lead them to seek spiritu evaluatimg that most students believe in a God ber of reasons, one being that these . al guidance from monastic life. sp'iritual and have a concept of spirituality. individuals are not completely satis Traditional practices of a 'movements Only about half of them practice reli fied with the knowledge they gain monastery include 'ora et labora,' .and main gion. The survey, conducted by The from their churches or lifestyles. which is work and prayer, intellectual stays of 'U.S. {:urrent last Wednesday, consisted of Mary Ann Reidhead said, "Many development, and recreation. The monasteries. t;hirty students: Jewish, Catholic. people come to the monasteries Bible is the source of scripture and Muslim, Islamic, Hindu, Christian, because they know they are missing prayer. Some of the monasteries and atheist who were randomly cho something and feel a lack of true spir operate colleges from the premises. Sen at Thomas Jefferson Library. Of itual life." She said the question that The Reidheads described the atmosC the 30 students surveyed, 27 said they is brought to the surface is why are· phere as low organizational and that believe in a God, 22 rate the impor they beginning to seek monasteries the ability to convert members comes ~ce of spirituality as a 7 or higher on now when many have been around from the absence of pressure to do so. a scale of 1-10, and 18 answered yes for hundreds of years? The Reidheads' research is focus when asked if they practice religion. The Reidheads have been interest ing on what these people are receiv • These findings coincide with ed in monastic life for 14 years_ Van ing from monastic life and the nuts ~search that is seeking to answer Reidhead, anthropology professor and bolts of keeping a monastery some spiritual questions. Ongoing and co-founder of the Center for functioning. One aspect of their work research by Professor Van Reidhead Human Origin and Culrw-al Diversity, as anthropologists challenged them to ~d his wife and research partner said that he has always been interest bridge the gap to understand the peo ¥ary Ann may shed some scientific ed in culrw-al evolution. His main ple they were observing. The ~ght on spirituality and the contribu- research question seeks to understand Reidheads said they had to learn to 1!i.ons of monastic life. how the tradition of ancient monas communicate with inhabitants of the • With grants obtained from the teries has stayed intact for over 1,500 monastery who speak in a language ,fetzer Institute, Public Policy years. with a "God-centered focus." ~esearch, and the UM Research Early in his career, his interests The Fetzer-funded research, three Board, the Reidheads have been eval involved prehistoric archeology. He years underway, will focus mainly on uating spiritual movements and main became interested in the study of . how faith effects health and aging and ~tays of U.S. monasteries. One aspect monastic life by accident, when he a report will be finished by the end of ~fthe research will be the completion met a monk while conducting the academic year. Public policy CJf a statistical method to identify and research on community life with research and University board-funded quantify spirituality. A cooperative Native Americans. He and his wife research will focus on understanding ~ffort involving other UM-St. Louis now commit anywhere from one to the causes and results of the oblate professors will add to the finished three months out of the year to travel movement in community life and report. and observe monastic life. This how it effects indiyjduals and their : Not aJJ people who go to a includes living in the monasteries. community along with the monastery. monastery stay there; many attend The Reidheads travel to various Professors contributing to the study I;)!treats and remain affiliated. Lay monasteries across the U.S., includ are Ivlargo Herwicz, who developed a • people who seek spiritual fulfillment ing Pennsylvania, Kentuck.Y', Kansas, step-by-step methodology to verify in monasteries define the oblate and Utah, to perform participant the existence of spirituality, George movement. Van Reidhead said that observation. This involves working, McCall, who will assist in translating this movement has tripled nationally attendirig prayer services and studies, the results for the general population over the past five years. He said, "the and recreation. Both have lived with to understand, and Gary Berger, who fluidity of the monastic em ironment, nuns or monks respectively for designed the final stages of psycho because of its spiritual orientation. weeks, up to a month at a time. They metric testing. ,-.ow are so many parking stickers being stolen? . • BY ELIZABETH WILSON parking stickers being stolen? taping them to the windows. The stick are because of the rising parking fees. Another reason for the increase in The increasing parking fees at UM The stickers are nearly impossible ers are usually tolen from the students Those fees are currently $18 per credit thefts is that people think they have to St Leuis leads to thefts as past years Sta!fWl1'ter to remove from the windows without doing this who are negligent iu locking hour and not to exceed $288 for 16 or pay for a permit for every car they have shown . Until something is Eighty-three parking sti kers h.ave destroying th.em. However, Sgt. their-vehicles before heading to class. more credit hours according to the drive. That is not true. If a person has a resolved about tbe fees, please use some been reported either lost or stolen as of GdTdiner has noticed that not all stu Sgt Gardiner implies these stickers UM-St Louis Student Planner. Most valid parking permit and drives an alter common sense and affix the stickers Oct. 11, according to Sgt. Bruce dents are affixing the stickers to their are better than prior static cling permits. people would rather take the chance get nate vehicle to campus, all they need to properly. That is the best way to prevent . Gardiner. However, only one sticker windshields. A lot of students are plac There were more reports of them stolen caught stealing than pay the parking do is stop by the police department and your sticker from being stolen. Afso has been recovered. How are so many ing the stickers on their dashboards or that our current stickers. Most of thefts fees, Sgt. Gardiner stated. pick up a free temporary permit. don't forget to lock your vehicle! GRAMMAR. franz page 1 , ...... ----_ .. -..... ~ .. ,.. _.- _ ...... "It will give students the fundamen the rules" Van Voorden said. "It helps going in~o Engli.sh education. 'They tal knowledge that they should have to have a handle on the basic tenns of have to go and teach English cJasses, known," Kachur said.. gramnlar so you can untangle a com and we don't feel confident enough Instructors like Van Voorden feel plicated Milton sentence." sending anyone who doesn't know teaching traditional grammar brings "It enriches your level of reading," their basic skills," Kachur said.. students to the basics of English. ''In Van Voorden said. "Grammar is the basic fundamental general. there has been a movement ill Kachur believes that learning tradi building block of English education." English from teaching an emphasis on tional grammar is beneficial for people GRANT. from page 1 ...... , ...... ~ ...... " .. . research assistants, five continuing strategies focusing on a bicycle tour, maintain an office in the neighbothood, education courses and the on-site oral history documentary, community headed by a full-time community involvement of faculty and staff. The museum and archeological digs. The development professional. They will continuing education courses include a other projects are just getting started. be hiring a person to wOlk with the staff new Neighborhood Leadership For completing the projects, VM in the offices of the Old North St Louis Academy Program that will be initiated St. Louis will work with community Restoration Group, located at 2800 N. in January. partners in the grant, including the Old 14th Street Some of the projects have already North St Louis Restoration Group, "This project represents'an exciting been underway - particularly those that Gateway to Financial Fitness, City of opportunity for our faculty and students focus on history. A history class worked St. Louis Department of Health, to become involved in one of St. Louis' in this neighbothood last semester with Missouri Historical Society, Grace Hill oldest neighbothoods, proyjding many a neighbothood committee, and they Settlement House, and Parent Link. opportunities for hands-on projects and were involved !n selecting the specific· Gasen said VM-·St. Louis will shared learning," Gasen said. HAUNTED, from page 7 ...... " ...... is rather a small amusement park with ruined the effect On the other hand, actors, all teens according to the park's a Halloween theme. The amusement some of the sets were very good, and supervisor, took their breaks out in the park features carnival rides and the enthuSiasm of the actors often over park, sipping sodas while watching the refreshment stands, much like any car came the lack of an all-encompassing wrestlers with the crowd. The appear nival, along with six spook house effect The 3D black-light exhibit, with ance of the actors still in costume but exhibits: a wax museum, two haunted an Egyptian theme, was better than the out of character might kind of spoil the house mazes, a black-light and 3D one at 'The Darkness,' but was still effect for some, whereas the actors at exhibit, a haunted ride, and a tradition perllaps geared to the younger set. We 'The Darkness' never appeared out of al amusement park ride of scares. Jt all agreed that the hayride was the character, and apparently took their also featured costumed wr~tlers stag scariest and the traditional carnival ride breaks behind the scenes. Of course, ing matches in a ring, an unusual addi the most ghoulish. part of this is a practical consideration, tion. The attraction is much less con Mortitia pointed out that the two as there was nowhere else for the per trolled and orchestrated than the usual attractions seemed to have different formers to go at the isolated haunted house. A pass to the park gets audiences, and Natasha concurred. 'Screamworld,' and maybe some you into the park, a visit to· all six Natasha . pointed out that 'The patrons might get a kick out of watch exhibits plus a second visit to one of Darkness' had more college-age ing the wrestlers while standing next to them. The exhibits are spread through patrons, and even family groups, while a guy unperturbed by the bloody spike • out the park, mixed in with the carnival 'Screamworld' was almost entirely in his head. rides and the refreshment stands. teens, from middle school to high We enjoyed the haunted houses, The experience with school 'Screamworld' had the more especially the more polish¢ 'The 'ScreamworJd' was very different For graphie and gory effects, and the carni Darkness,' but had a bit of a problem one thing, you had to wait in line for val ride and hayride especially might with the cost When it comes down to each exhibit, and the lines on Friday be tab much for the younger ones, she the price, we all a,greed that the attrac night were often quite long. However, continued.. 'The ·Darkness,' on the tions were a bit expensive, although you could also pace the evening's other hand, was so much more pol they are probably in line with other big enjoyment to cover the whole evening ished and .well-produced, but with less haunted houses. We tended to think: by visiting the rides or watching the gore, that it would appeal more to the that 'The Darkness' was the better deal, wrestlers between visits to the exhibits, college-aged and young adults, as well and if you reaJJy liked haunted houses, whereas a visit to a traditional haunted as to afew families with older kids and then the package deal of bothattrac house is over all at once. There were teens. We all agreed that the Soulard tions for $22 was the best deal. We more actors in the 'Screamworld' setting added tremendously to the weren't convinced that big commercial exhibits, who put on a very enthusias effect of 'The Darkness,' and Natasha haunted houses were the best deal for tic show, but the displays lacked the . added that for those over 21, there was your Halloween dollar, or a must-see high polish and complete immersion of also Soulard nightlife nearby, so your for everyone who likes spooky stuff. effect of 'The Darkness.' group could make a night of it, where On the other hand, they have been very Too often, the lack of an enclosed as 'Screamworld' was rather isolated popular and, judging by the crowds, building made it too easy for a peek at out in the country. appear to be worth the money for the surrounding fairground to break the Something that Mortitia noticed many people looking for Halloween spooky atmosphere and sometimes about 'Screamworld' was that the fun.