FEATURES OP/ED A & E SPORTS Christine Harris on the Schnorr reminds us what Stuart Dempster Women's soccer gains points move out of Brechin Place makes Lawrence great comes to play over the weekend >> page 5 >> page 6 >> page 8 >> page 10 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009 Vol. CXXVII,THE No. 5 LAWRENTIANLawrence University's student newspaper since 1884 www.Lawrentian.com Lawrence awarded C in sustainability on Green Report Card Maija Anstine the worst grades for Green Building, low-flow fixtures. Older buildings, Staff Writer Endowment Transparency, and too, have been retrofitted with more Shareholder Engagement. energy-efficient insulation, new win- Lawrence has scored a grade of Green Building dows and fluorescent light bulbs. C on the 2010 Green Report Card, Jeff Clark, associate professor LEED certification often costs a system used by the Sustainable of geology and faculty associate to tens of thousands of dollars, some- Endowments Institute to grade col- the president for Green Roots, did thing that Lawrence takes into con- leges on their level of sustainability. not expect the poor Green Building sideration in trying to balance sus- The newest results were released score, a D, saying he "would be tainability and visibility, especially Oct. 10. surprised if they didn't revisit that when operating within the small The Sustainable Endowments score." The Warch Campus Center, budget of a small school. Institute collects its information built to LEED Gold standards "should "We still have a lot to do with from four separate surveys: campus have done it," he said. conservation first," said Clark, add- operations, dining services, endow- The campus center is still await- ing that conservation would be a ment investment practices and stu- ing certification, but, Clark noted, more efficient use of the resources dent involvement. These surveys "Other schools with the same situa- that Lawrence does have. "We need are sent to 332 schools across the tion scored substantially higher." to do what works best for us right United States and Canada. Though the campus center is the now." The Green Report Card takes only building Lawrence has submit- Climate Change & Energy into account a variety of factors: ted for LEED certification, there are Lawrence was given a C for Green Building, Climate Change & many other buildings on campus Climate Change & Energy, another Energy, Transportation, Endowment that could meet LEED standards. category in which a larger endow- Transparency, Shareholder Hiett Hall, for example, was built to ment could have played a benefi- Engagement, Administration, LEED standards when it was com- cial role. A significant portion of Student Involvement, Food & pleted in 2002. questions for this category regarded Recycling, and Investment Priorities. Additionally, Youngchild, school-generated renewable electric- Out of these, Lawrence Science Hall and Briggs Hall have ity. received the best grades in Food & all gone under renovations within Recycling, Student Involvement and the last 10 years to make them greener, including timed lighting and See Sustainability on page 2 Photo by Stacy Day Transportation. Lawrence received The Warch Campus Center is currently being evaluated for Gold LEED certification. Steitz '62 awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry Lawrence receives SAMHSA Michael Schreiber and biochemistry at Yale University Although Rosenberg said he had Copy Chief and an investigator with the Howard "no idea" Steitz would be a Nobel Hughes Medical Institute. laureate, he was sure Steitz would grant for suicide prevention Thomas Steitz '62 became When he was at Lawrence, Steitz "be a good scientist." Erty Seidel counseling services applied for the Lawrence University's first Nobel was mentored by Robert Rosenberg, Rosenberg added that Lawrence's for The Lawrentian grant. "We want to make sure that laureate Wednesday, Oct. 7 when the emeritus professor of chemistry at liberal arts environment fosters the the students who need help, get Lawrence University and adjunct pro- kind of meteoric career that Steitz Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences At the beginning of this month, help," said Fuchs. fessor of chemistry at Northwestern has achieved. announced that the 2009 Nobel Lawrence University received a The grant is defined broadly. The University. Rosenberg served as a "At Lawrence, classes are small, Prize in Chemistry would go to Steiz, $300,000 grant from the Substance first year's allocation will go toward professor of chemistry at Lawrence and the faculty takes a personal Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Abuse and Mental Health Services determining what programs will ben- from 1956 to 1991, when he retired. interest in students," Rosenberg said. Ada Yonath "for studies of the struc- Administration dedicated to out- efit Lawrence students the most. Rosenberg recalled that Steitz "A good student can take advantage ture and function of the ribosome." reach programs related to stress SAMHSA consultants and Lawrence "was clearly a very strong student, of that faculty contact to learn more In addition to the prestige asso- and suicide. The money will be dis- staff will work with Lawrence stu- with a keen curiosity and a drive to than he or she could learn from class ciated with a Nobel, each scientist persed over three years in amounts dents to find the best mix of out- learn as much as he could." alone." will receive a third of the 10 mil- of $100,000 each year. reach programs. According to Rosenberg, Steitz Rosenberg provided some advice, lion Swedish kronor prize, valued at According to Kathleen Fuchs, One such program is "Gatekeeper turned a critical eye to many aspects saying that current Lawrence stu- approximately $1.4 million. director of counseling services, stud- Training," or training of student of his studies. "When he spent a dents will find great success in their All three scientists have success- ies completed in 2006 and 2008 leaders to be more accessible to term at the Associated Colleges of careers if "they are smart enough fully mapped the molecular struc- showed a high level of stress among the Midwest program at Argonne and work very hard." ture of the ribosome using a tech- Lawrence students. Concerned, See Suicide prevention on page 2 nique called x-ray crystallography. National Laboratory, he had sensible One seminal paper detailing Steitz's criticisms of his research supervisor work, titled "The Complete Atomic there," Rosenberg said. He added that, like so many Structure of the Large Ribosomal DENVER — Colorado will become NEW YORK — Wednesday, the Subunit at 2.4 Å Resolution," Lawrence students, Steitz had broad In other news... interests in the liberal arts and the first state in the nation to Dow Jones Industrial Average appeared in the journal Science in lower its minimum wage when the closed above 10,000 points for 2000. music. NEW YORK — Tuesday, Ford "A liberal arts college like announced the largest recall in wage drops from $7.28 to $7.24 the first time in over a year. This According to a press release next year. Coloradoans voted to tie boost follows the announcement from the Royal Swedish Academy Lawrence encourages student history, recalling 4.5 million vehi- breadth, and Tom [Steitz] took cles made with faulty switches minimum wage to inflation, and by JP Morgan Chase of a $3.6 bil- of Sciences, ribosomes "produce because of falling costs of living in lion profit for the third quarter. proteins, which in turn control the advantage of that opportunity," said that were fire hazards. The switch, Rosenberg. "One reason that he came a cruise control deactivation the current economy, the lowering Investors see this boost as a mile- chemistry in all living organisms. As of the minimum wage is the unin- stone of the economic recovery ribosomes are crucial to life, they are to Lawrence was that he would be device, can leak fluid, overheat, able to continue study on his trum- smoke and then burn, said the tended consequence of this vote. from the financial crisis. also a major target for new antibiot- —www.nytimes.com —www.nytimes.com ics." Thus, ribosome research has a pet at the Lawrence Conservatory." National Highway Traffic Safety large impact on human health. Steitz graduated from Lawrence Administration. Currently, Steitz is the Sterling cum laude with a bachelor's degree —www.cnn.com professor of molecular biophysics in chemistry. SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Hi: 49°F Hi: 53°F Lo: 32°F Lo: 43°F 5-DAY 5-DAY Source: Source: weatherbug.com Mostly cloudy Mostly sunny WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy Rain showers Partly cloudy THE LAWRENTIAN 2 NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009 Civil War scholars honor Abraham Lincoln's legacy Amy Sandquist Both professors evaluated would have allowed the South to Southern ideology. which Lincoln dealt with such strong, Staff Writer Lincoln's legacy in innovative ways, secede and the Union to dissolve. Burton argued that this expo- conflicting pressures. comparing struggles that the United Later in his lecture, Burton theo- sure allowed Lincoln to understand Burton, too, acknowledged the Lawrence recently hosted a two- States faces today with those faced rized reasons for Lincoln's success- Southern honor and pride and modern Civil Rights movement's ten- part lecture series on the Civil War during Lincoln's presidency. ful maintenance of the United States. helped him to relate to and value the dency to classify Lincoln as a racist, era sponsored by the Wisconsin McPherson and Burton passion- To explain Lincoln's political Southern states during the Civil War. but he firmly believes that historical Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. ately credited Lincoln with single- strength, Burton cited a little-dis- In both talks, the professors ana- figures should be judged within the Pulitzer Prize winner James handedly preserving American cussed aspect of Lincoln's presiden- lyzed people's changing perceptions context of their own time and place.