Well-meaning non- Posh pashminas set the TODAY’S WEatHER smokers intrude on The Commodores came up personal freedoms… trend for the week on: just short this weekend For more, see Opinion, page 4 against Kentucky … Partly Cloudy, 71/51 For more, see Sports, page 6 Extended forecast, page 2 THE VOICE OF VANDERBILT SINCE 1888 monday, november 12, 2007 • 119TH YEAR, NO. 73 THE WALL CAMPUS NEWS BRIEF compiled by REBECCA TYRRELL VUPD officer found dead in home TODAY Family of a Vanderbilt police officer found him shot to death Tuesday night, according Accessorize for a From student to soldier to Vanderbilt University Police Department. Cause and Dodecs Police in Murfreesboro arrived at Officer Fashion for a Cause Iraq deployment forces senior Daniel Crowell to trade David Carey’s home 12:15 a.m. Wednesday, presents Accessorize finding him dead from an apparent “self- for a Cause at 7 p.m. in ‘Vanderbubble’ for battlefield. inflicted gunshot wound to the head,” a press release says. Ingram Hall. Local and by SYDNEY WILMER important, though. His death is being investigated. student vendors will Asst News Editor “College-age students Murfreesboro officers went to Carey’s sell jewelry, cosmetics forget that the vast majority residence at 8:40 p.m. Tuesday at the and clothing. A portion Daniel Crowell will get of soldiers over there putting request of VUPD, who wanted Carey to get of the sales will benefit the chance to practice the their lives on the line are their in touch with his agency about a family emergency, but the officers failed to make the Boys and Girls Clubs Arabic he has studied for peers,” Crowell said. “We get over two years, though not this false sense of distance contact with him. of Middle Tennessee. —For world and national news briefs, turn to page 2. A Dodecs concert will during a typical study abroad from these people. We are follow at 8 p.m. experience. the same. Not so long ago, we Crowell, a 21-year-old senior would all be in the same boat and lance corporal in the on the same path.” TODAY United States Marine Corps Many students “see the Week teaches Mayfield Lecture Reserves, has been called to conflict as an entity in and of Series active duty and withdrawn itself, a wad, a faceless mass,” The Mayfield from Vanderbilt to deploy to not a conflict made up of community and the Iraq. human lives, he said. international Office of the Dean of “When I found out, I was But this problem extends Students will present shocked, but from the time beyond Vanderbilt to the first installment of I enlisted I knew this was a encompass society in general. awareness a new lecture series possibility,” the Islamic studies Crowell attributes the from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in minor said. “It is sort of the disconnect partly to culture by EVE ATTERMANN Furman Hall, Room application of everything I but also noted a limited Middle Asst News Editor have done for the last three Eastern studies program Students can travel the world this week without 114. The lecture will and a half years.” shares the blame. leaving Vanderbilt. feature Chris Barbic, a His unit has been called to “You always hear about the In an effort to promote global awareness and Vanderbilt alumnus, Iraq five times since the war ‘Vanderbubble,’ where we are conscience, International Student and Scholar who will speak on began in 2003. But he said “it isolated from Nashville, but by Services and the Vanderbilt International Office his experiences with doesn’t really hit you until you extension, we are also isolated are coordinating International Education Week, inner-city education. get that letter.” from the rest of world,” he said. an annual initiative of the U.S. Department of Crowell has tried to focus “Vanderbilt itself doesn’t give State and U.S Department of Education. Today AND more on his personal life since its students a deep look into the International Education Week will be comprised TUEsday that day, he said, marrying Middle East. Unless Vanderbilt of a series of films, country spotlights, discussion Taste of Asia tickets his high school sweetheart, a students actively pursue (the sections, lectures and cultural expositions for Taste of Asia tickets will student at Western Kentucky topic) apart from Vanderbilt, students interested in broadening their global be on sale on the Wall University, two weeks ago. Vanderbilt lets them down.” perspective. “My wife and I have always Crowell hopes to find Please see EDUCATION, page 3 and at the door Nov. 13 planned on getting married answers to many academic at 6 p.m. in the Board of when we both finished questions in Iraq, but for now, SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR INTER- Trust room. undergrad,” Crowell said. he said he tries to keep an NATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK “When this came up, we saw open mind about what he will Monday TUESDAY, NOV. 13 no reason to put it off.” learn. Genocide lecture Crowell said he enlisted in “I don’t have any grand Kickoff Alpha Delta Pi sorority, the Reserves rather than ROTC statements about all of this. 11:30 a.m to 1 p.m., Student Life Center, Suite 103 with several other for the frontline exposure and This is something I thought Photo illustration by MAtt RADFORD / The Vanderbilt Hustler TARAB Middle Eastern Musical Experience help with graduate school I needed to do. I am just one organizations, will 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Rand Terrace present “Actions Speak payments. of many that are proud to go —To listen to a podcast of Crowell’s inter- Louder Than Words: The chance to see a “highly there. view, go to: Country Spotlight: Argentina ■ An Introduction to politicized” war in human “It is in no way exceptional.” 4 to 5 p.m., Sarratt 189 terms strikes him as most Genocide and How Tuesday You Can Help” at 7 p.m. Experiencing the Taste of Turkish Culture in the Ben Schulman 12 to 1 p.m. Sarratt 189 Center for Jewish Life. Country Spotlight: South Africa TUESDAY, NOV. 13 New biography paints 4 to 5 p.m. Sarratt 189 ‘Witness to —For a full calendar of International Education Week events, Innocence’ go to www.vanderbilt.edu/isss Amnesty International presents “Witness Vanderbilt founder in to Innocence,” a documentary on the Dancing Deltas first hate crime after Sept. 11, in Wilson Hall, ambiguous light Room 103 at 6 p.m. A reception and panel by KELLY SWOPE about the commodore in an American Many of Vanderbilt’s contemporaries discussion will follow. Staff Reporter history class in high school. She said considered the $1 million gift to be the he was always portrayed as a sort of “greatest philanthropic gift in American THIS WEEK Flipping through the preface to “robber baron,” doing whatever it took history” to that date, Renehan wrote. YouTube/CNN Debate Cornelius Vanderbilt’s new biography, to gain wealth and recognition. Yet more than 130 years later there is The Election Alliance the reader finds an immoral financial Klein also said she did not think the skepticism about that donation, since ’08 will tape student juggernaut with few concerns beyond university likes to connect its endeavors Vanderbilt never visited the university questions for the GOP his private ambitions. to the legacy of Vanderbilt. that bears his name. YouTube/CNN Debate Edward J. Renehan Jr.’s “Commodore,” “He doesn’t really have a good image. Please see COMMODORE, page 3 the first re-evaluation of Vanderbilt’s They’ve almost separated the name on the Wall Monday life since 1942, focuses deeply on from him,” she said in reference to his through Thursday the ambiguity of the entrepreneur’s lifelong quest for wealth. from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. professional self and the untold secrets According to Renehan, Vanderbilt The questions will be of his personal life, including his many admitted he had an “insane” pursuit posted on YouTube affairs and a chronic case of syphilis of wealth, a trait that allegedly shaped and used in the Nov. that led to dementia. him into a massive public figure with ALEX HOLMES / The Vanderbilt Hustler 28 debate if selected. With the recent publication of minute private concerns. Seniors Kristen Hendricks and Erin Crosby, members of Renehan’s biography, many students Little is mentioned of Vanderbilt’s Delta Delta Delta sorority, support a sister during their are revisiting their perspectives on the philanthropic gift to start the annual benefit,D elta Underground. The Sunday event benefited the Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital. See http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu legacy of their university’s founder. Central University of Nashville, later for more events. Sophomore Katie Klein first learned renamed Vanderbilt University. 2 Monday, November 12, 2007 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com STEPHEN BUCKLES compiled by JUDY WANG Economics professor Stephen Buckles takes a moment to answer some WEATHER questions about majoring in economics, the United States and his favorite compiled by REBECCA TYRRELL IN THE KNOW leisure reading. TUESday The news you need — in brief compiled by REBECCA TYRRELL THE VANDERBILT HUSTLER: What advice can you give to a student who’s intending to major in economics? STEPHEN BUCKLES: Well, I think in terms of selecting a major, students should pick things they really find interesting. I think students WORLD should take some economics regardless of their major. If they really enjoy thinking and using economics, then they ought to think about economics as a major. The most important thing that goes into selection of a major is: Can you be passionate about it? Board at Colorado State considers changes to publications policy VH: What do you feel is America’s biggest economic threat? SB: Well, we don’t have a whole lot of threats.