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FEATURES OP/ED A & E SPORTS Melody Moberg works Canada offers alternative World Music Concert Borresen adds double the Clean Plate Challenge solution to drug problem relieves stress double-double >> page 5 >> page 6 >> page 9 >> page 10 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 THE LAWRENTIAN Vol. CXXVII, No. 13 Lawrence University's student newspaper since 1884 www.Lawrentian.com Disney presents on peace, accepts honorary degree Maija Anstine their country. negotiations to take place within Staff Writer Disney told the audience the building. the same story that the Liberian With the tale as illustration, Abigail Disney, philanthropist women had told her: Civil unrest Disney explained, “Peace is some- and award-winning film producer, and tyranny had consumed the thing you make and not something delivered a convocation address country when former Liberian you can take for granted ... peace titled “Peace is Loud” in the president and “vampire on ste- is something you do; peace is a Memorial Chapel Thursday, Jan. roids” Charles Taylor was in power, verb. We all choose peace or not 28. As part of the same convoca- having sucked up public resources every day with every action, deci- tion, President Jill Beck present- and “gutted institutions.” sion or omission we make in our ed Disney an honorary doctor of The women in Disney’s film daily lives.” humane letters degree. overcame religious barriers to Disney also emphasized the The ceremony opened with band together, first fasting, sing- necessity of cooperation, stating, traditional Balinese music from ing and praying on the sides of “We are all interrelated and inter- Lawrence’s Cahaya Asri Gamelan roads frequently driven on by the dependent. Every day we are bol- ensemble. Beck called Disney a president and eventually following stered and empowered by thou- their government to peace talks in sands of little moments of faith Photo by Tara Atkinson “compassionate philanthropist, Disney presents on her documentary and peace. filmmaker, ambassador of justice Ghana. The women took drastic and generosity of which communi- War. We have been treated to an heard at the beginning of the con- and fervent champion of women’s measures, locking arms around the ties are made.” Orwellian spectacle full of lan- vocation, and how the music is rights,” before presenting her with building and taking the warlords War is “the failure of women guage designed to disguise,” she able to turn “disparate pieces into the honorary degree. hostage. and men to live in respect and said, referencing the way our cul- one unified whole.” Disney’s address focused on The police began arresting the empathy,” Disney said. ture has glamorized conflict, spe- “No one person can solve any her 2008 film, “Pray the Devil Back women for “disrupting the jus- Disney also addressed the cifically by “sanitizing” the con- of the problems this world faces,” to Hell.” The documentary tells tice,” which inspired one woman trouble that American audiences flicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Disney said, “but then again, no the story of a group of Liberian to strip naked, which, as Disney who have never seen war might The filmmaker ended her one person is expected to, either ... women who broke down barriers put it, is “as ballistic as an African have in identifying with the film. speech with a reference to the and that’s how change is made in of religion to stop the prolonged, woman can go.” The police refused “We are at war, but few of “alchemy” of the Gamelan music the world.” bloody war that had taken over to arrest the women, forcing peace us have seen war since the Civil Phi Delta Theta chapter loses house, charter for 2010-2011 Amy Sandquist joined Phi Delta Theta during his Phi Delta Theta only had eight Staff Writer sophomore year and elaborated members. The fraternity has this week that the Phi Delts had struggled over the past couple of The Phi Delta Theta chapter at their charter taken away due to low years to attract new pledges. Casati Lawrence University lost its char- member numbers and insufficient believes Phi Delta Theta’s decreas- ter Jan. 22, meaning the fraternity grade point averages among those ing membership correlates with will no longer be recognized as a members. Lawrence’s now defunct wrestling part of Lawrence’s Greek system. According to Casati, Phi Delta program. Rumors that the Lawrence adminis- Theta’s official charter guidelines “As the wrestling program tration had a say in the fraternity’s require that the “minimum size started getting smaller and smaller undoing circulated around cam- of each chapter ... as of May 1 of and was then suspended last year pus, but in a letter to the editor in each year must be 35 or greater, due to low interest ... that hurt last week’s Lawrentian, former Phi or must be of size at least equal to us a lot,” Casati said. Similarly, Delta Theta president, Marc Casati, the average fraternity chapter size Phi Delta Theta used to recruit highlighted the administration’s off all fraternities on the campus at which the charter is located.” Photo by Lauren Mimms innocence in the charter loss. Former Phi Delta Theta members will no longer qualify for formal group housing. Casati, a senior biology major, When its charter was revoked, See Phi Delt on page 2 Alum team Lawrence Undead wins 45th Annual Great Midwest Trivia Contest Katie Van Marter-Sanders Various teams then call in with the Part of the fun seemed to be in an ample supply of caffeine, beer and rotary phones to a half-dozen Staff Writer answers. taking silly questions seriously, as and food.” laptops and cell phones.” This trivia contest includes members of the winning team Greg Another key to Trivia success He continued, “The current The team Lawrence Undead, unusual questions, as well as extra Griffin, the campus center director, was giving teammates a schedule, iteration is very different, but just a group composed mostly of tasks players are asked to do, and his daughter Marianne, Plantz Greg Griffin said. According to as fun ... a bunch of people sit- Lawrence alums who have been known as action questions. One Hall RHD, both alums, seemed to Greg Griffin, this involved “getting ting around trying to answer stu- playing trivia for years, won the team responded to an action ques- think. people to alternate sleep schedules pid questions that no sane person Great Midwest Trivia Contest XLV. tion by staging a Bris, a Jewish cir- Greg Griffin discussed his for- so you don’t have everyone play- would ever care about.” The team of self-proclaimed “dedi- cumcision, to the sound of Britney mation of a “war room.” According ing at 1 a.m. and nobody playing When asked why she plays triv- cated players” stayed up for about Spears’ “Hit Me Baby One More to him a proper war room consists at 5 a.m.” ia, Marianne Griffin said that she 39 hours during the two-day non- Time.” of “large conference tables with all The way people answered their played because she “got to hang stop contest. In Lawrence’s contest, the players sitting around it, comput- questions has changed consid- out with all my friends ... we had During Trivia, players tune into last question of the year before is ers and phones ready, a couple erably over the years, said Greg a few Trivia-virgins on our team, the Lawrence’s WLFM to hear ques- always the first question for the of dry erase boards, box loads of Griffin. He reminisced that the con- following year. crap for action questions ... and test has evolved “from 1,000 books tions read by the trivia masters. See Trivia Contest on page 2 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Hi: 24°F Hi: 22°F Lo: 11°F Lo: 8°F 5-DAY 5-DAY Source: weatherbug.com Chance of flurry WEATHER FORECAST Chance of flurry Mostly cloudy Mostly cloudy Partly sunny THE LAWRENTIAN 2 NEWS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 will change spring term. No Phi Delt longer considered a formal group, former Phi Delta Theta The Great Midwest Trivia Contest XLV continued from page 1 members can no longer take from the football team, but part in the formal group hous- that source “dried up” as well, ing meal plan, which allowed Casati added. them to eat half of their meals Phi Delta Theta members together in the house. Next also struggled to maintain the year, the group will be ineli- grade point average required gible to apply for formal group by the national chapter. housing. Difficulty with transfer cred- Although disappointed by its and members withdrawing his fraternity’s revoked char- from classes are among the ter, Casati remains optimistic reasons that Casati believes for Phi Delta Theta’s future at the group was having difficulty Lawrence. In 2009, the fraterni- maintaining the necessary 2.5 ty celebrated its 150th anniver- GPA. sary at Lawrence and boasted Fraternity members did one of the longest continually not receive any warning about open chapters of Phi Delt. their chapter’s potential dis- In fall 2012, Phi Delta solution until it was too late. Theta recruiters plan to return “All our members were real- to Lawrence to attempt to ly shocked by the decision,” reestablish Lawrence’s charter. Casati explained. “Although we Casati notes that when the knew we were a small chapter, Monmouth College Phi Delta we thought we were at least Theta chapter faced similar making progress and heading circumstances, the college was in the right direction.” able to successfully rebuild Because Phi Delta Theta the fraternity and has had 97 members live in formal group members join in the few years housing at 738 E.