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EVAN WISKUP | STUDENT LIFE With just minutes to go before the vice presidential debate’s live broadcast, the debate hall audience waits in anticipation for what is widely acknowledged to become the most-watched debate of the election season. In attendance were politicians from both major parties, over 400 student lottery ticket winners, camera crews, photographers and moderator Gwen Ifi ll. VP candidates fulfill expectations Protests end in disbandment

government of Spain, a NATO render.” shirts, but you might as well be group, a pro-life group known as Palin, Biden ally. Claiming that their positions Mood on in- wearing white robes,” said Mahon- Operation Rescue, but Mahoney’s Not surprisingly, the war in on global warming represented ey in reference to the clothing of the speech did not permit time for Op- clash on energy, Iraq proved to be a heated debate the most fundamental difference tramural fi elds Planned Parenthood protesters and eration Rescue to speak. topic tonight. between his ticket and McCain the Ku Klux Klan. Remaining were the University Iraq in debate Biden criticized McCain’s war and Palin’s, Biden said that global toned down Planned Parenthood protes- Conservative Leadership Associa- strategy, saying, “For John Mc- warming is undoubtedly man- tors walked out shortly afterwards, tion, whose student representative Cain, there is no end in sight to made. Palin said she did not want Scott Fabricant and remaining sympathetic protest Caleb Posner spoke about the dan- Perry Stein and end this war.” to argue the cause and chose in- Contributing Reporter groups left with them. The Christian gers Iran posed, and the Florida Se- Jeremy Rogoff Equally perturbed by the Dem- stead to propose solutions through Defense Coalition originally intend- News Staff ocrat ticket’s strategy, Palin said, ed to split its time with its parent See IM FIELD, page 4 “Your plan is a white flag of sur- See DEBATE ’08, page 2 The Washington University In- tramural Field, its views blocked off Despite countless media jabs from everywhere else on campus, predicting the worst, Alaska Gov. served as a space for protesters that Sarah Palin’s preparation seemed was distant from the goings-on in to pay off as she and Sen. Joe the Athletic Complex. Biden (D-Del.) went head-to-head Spontaneity in so-called pub- in the most anticipated debate of lic viewing area was discouraged this election cycle. as speakers had to register in ad- Falling into their predicted vance in order to appear before the roles in the debate, Biden estab- crowds. lished himself as the veteran by While more traditionally liberal welcoming Palin with a “Nice to groups, such as Pride Alliance and meet you,” while Palin painted Planned Parenthood, spoke, reli- herself as someone free of Wash- gious pro-life groups also paid the ington influence and in touch with campus a visit. Among these groups the feelings of mainstream Amer- was the Christian Defense Coali- ica by using an anecdote involv- tion, whose debate presence con- ing soccer moms to stress the dire sisted solely of its director, Patrick state of the country’s economy. Mahoney. The economy dominated the “We’re a group committed to first segment of the debate as challenging the church to live their each candidate aligned with his or faith in the public square on a num- her party’s traditional economical ber of social justice issues,” Ma- views. Biden advocated for mid- honey said. “Poverty, racism, we’re dle class tax cuts, while Palin de- pro-life, human rights, free speech, fended tax cuts for corporations. pretty much all the things Senator Turning to foreign policy, Obama is not committed to. We’re Biden focused on Pakistan’s threat actually here to pray too.” as a nuclear power. Upon taking the stage, Mahoney Palin, although agreeing that launched into a charged speech, Pakistan posed a global threat with lambasting Obama for not donating a nuclear weapon, emphasized the a larger share of his fundraising to recent military successes in Iraq. charity, not visiting storm battered Additionally Palin, like Sena- areas of the Texas coast, and living tor John McCain in last week’s what he considered a “disconnect- presidential debate, chose to fo- ed” lifestyle. cus on Senator Barack Obama’s Mahoney’s speech aroused the willingness to sit down with Iran anger of protesters representing President Mahmoud Ahmadine- Planned Parenthood, resulting in jad, calling his action “outright heated verbal exchanges on both dangerous” and “beyond bad sides. Mahoney accused Planned EVAN WISKUP | STUDENT LIFE judgment.” Parenthood of being created to LUCY MOORE | STUDENT LIFE Biden provided a rebuttal by The two vice presidential nominees, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, debated eliminate black people through John Oliver of the Daily Show leads a group of students in a chant about attacking McCain and saying that Thursday night at the Athletic Complex. abortion. improving the environment outside of the DUC next to the IM fi eld. he wouldn’t sit down with the “You’re wearing your pink ® One Brookings Drive #1039 Newsroom: (314) 935-5995 Editor: [email protected] Please #330 Danforth University Center Advertising: (314) 935-6713 News: [email protected] www.studlife.com St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Fax: (314) 935-5938 Calendar: [email protected] Recycle 2 STUDENT LIFE | NEWS News Editor / Ben Sales / [email protected] FRIDAY | OCTOBER 3, 2008

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domestic energy production. out Obama’s plans and most im- Biden, Palin follow predicted roles “Energy independence is the portantly work to reinstate the key to our nation’s future, to our middle class. He elaborated on economic future and our national that statement, saying that he security,” Palin said. would not follow the lead of Vice Candidates Throughout the debate, both President Dick Cheney. candidates depicted themselves as “Vice President Cheney has highlight differ- in touch with the country’s middle probably been the most dangerous class, alluding to their families and vice president in this nation’s his- ences in debate their small-town backgrounds. tory,” Biden said. Palin continuously referened Palin delivered a similar an- Jeremy Rogoff her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, swer but joked that she and Mc- Staff Reporter even mentioning her brother’s Cain have their differences. third grade class when prompted “What do you expect of a team about her education plan. of mavericks? Of course, we are Thursday night’s debate fea- Biden talked about his home- not going to agree on everything,” tured much of what both presi- town of Scranton and the econom- she said. “He has never asked dential campaigns had promised, ic struggles his family faced as a me to check my opinions at the as Senator Joe Biden touted his child. door.” experience tied with Obama’s vi- In arguably the most anticipated Throughout the debate, how- sion, and Sarah Palin attempted to question of the debate, moderator ever, the message from both par- appeal to mainstream America. Gwen Ifill quoted the cliché “The ties was that these next four years In what was widely consid- next vice-president is a heartbeat would have to place the American ered to be a referendum on Sena- away from being president,” and people first. tor John McCain’s choice for vice asked each candidate what he or “And at the end of the day,” president, Governor Sarah Palin she would do if they unexpectedly Palin said, “as long as we’re all of Alaska, while at times hesitant became president. working for the greater good, it’s and often vague in her responses Biden said that he would carry going to be okay.” to weighted policy questions, ex- ceeded the low expectations that had been set for her.

SCOTT BRESSLER | STUDENT LIFE See SPIN, page 4 3,100 members of the press applied for credentials to the vice presidential debate; the media fi ling center was one of Students at debate many media strongholds during the debate. enjoy University’s in their own words moment in spotlight “ON THE ON ON FOREIGN ECONOMY ENERGY RELATIONS

Go to a kid’s soccer The chant is “drill, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong game on Saturday, and baby, drill.” And that’s Il, the Castro brothers, turn to any parent there what we hear all across others who are dangerous on the sideline and ask this country in our ral- dictators are one that Ba- them, “How are you lies because people are rack Obama has said he

ALIN feeling about the econ- so hungry for those do- would be willing to meet omy?” And I’ll bet you, mestic sources of energy with without preconditions P you’re going to hear to be tapped into. They being met fi rst. And an is- some fear in that par- know that even in my own sue like that taken up by governor ent’s voice, fear regard- energy-producing state a presidential candidate ing the few investments we have billions of bar- goes beyond naivete and that some of us have in rels of oil and hundreds goes beyond poor judg- the stock market. of trillions of cubic feet of ment. clean, green natural gas.

John McCain has I promise you, if an at- If John really want- LILY SCHORR | STUDENT LIFE voted 20 times against tack comes in the home-

ed to eliminate [tax funding alternative en- land, it’s going to come as Wash. U. students display their tickets to the vice presidential debate on breaks], why is he add- Thursday, Oct. 2 outside the Athletic Complex. ergy sources and thinks, our security services have ing to his budget an I guess, the only answer said, it is going to come additional $4 billion is drill, drill, drill. Drill from al-Qaida planning a lot of politicians what Wash. U.’s all in tax cuts for Exxon- Dan Woznica we must, but it will take in the hills of Afghanistan Staff Reporter about,” Cosey said. Mobils of the world 10 years for one drop of and Pakistan. That’s where Outside the Debate Hall, many stu- that, in fact, already dents fl ocked to the numerous popular oil to come out of any of they live. That’s where they have made $600 bil- The Athletic Complex was abuzz personalities present at the event, in- the wells that are going are. That’s where it will with excited students Thursday night, as cluding celebrities such as Katie Couric, lion since 2001? BIDEN to begun to be drilled. come from. And right now the lucky few granted access to enter the The Daily Show’s John Oliver, and ac- that resides in Pakistan, a Debate Hall enjoyed an environment of tress Rosario Dawson. senator stable government needs to famous faces coupled with an enormous Sophomore Taylor Martin described media presence and a sense of political seeing Dawson as a heartening experi- be established. We need to import. ence. support that democracy by “I really feel privileged to be here,” “I felt encouraged that a fairly big helping them not only with Troy Cosey said, a junior in the Busi- celebrity, out of all the things to do in ness school. “I feel like an ambassador the world, chose to be at a politically their military but with their here.” important event,” Martin said. governance and their eco- Going into the debate, Cosey said he Inside the hall, students were im- nomic well-being. felt that even though he was a guest at pressed by what many saw as a com- the event, he felt like a representative of plete transformation of the gym with Washington University. ” “I’m still a host, and I’m showing See AMBIENCE, page 4 FRIDAY | OCTOBER 3, 2008 News Editor / Ben Sales / [email protected] STUDENT LIFE | NEWS 3 Biden takes STUDENT LIFE One Brookings Drive #1039 the debate, #330 Danforth University Center Media frenzy begins well before debate Saint Louis, MO 63130-4899 students say News: (314) 935-5995 Advertising: (314) 935-6713 Wrighton: ‘This Michelle Merlin Fax: (314) 935-5938 Contributing Reporter e-mail: [email protected] will be the most www.studlife.com heavily watched Copyright 2008 The excitement surround- political event in ing the vice presidential debate Editor in Chief: Sam Guzik this past week climaxed as many Associate Editor: Indu Chandrasekhar history’ students chose to attend viewing Managing Editors: David Song, parties of the vice presidential Trisha Wolf, Brian Stitt debates. Senior News Editor: Ben Sales Across campus, students felt Senior Forum Editor: Jill Strominger Perry Stein and Senior Sports Editor: Joshua Goldman Jeremy Rogoff that Sen. Biden had won the de- Senior Scene Editor: Michelle Stein News Staff bate. Senior Cadenza Editor: Cecilia Razak “I think that Biden’s coming Senior Photo Editor: Lucy Moore off really well, using a lot of logic Senior Graphics Editor: Michael and evidence,” freshman Brook Hirshon As the vice presidential candi- McKeown said during the debate. News Editors: Perry Stein, Kat Zhao, dates sparred and debated political “Palin just seems to be avoid- Puneet Kollipara policy, much cacophony occurred ing questions and changing the Forum Editors: Tricia Wittig, Tess outside the debate hall in “Spin Al- subject when Biden has her in a Croner, Dennis Sweeney, Bill Hoffman, Aditya Sarvesh ley,” one half of the recreational gym corner.” Cadenza Editors: Stephanie Spera, where hundreds of reporters scurried McKeown was one of about David Kaminsky to spin their stories on the event. fi fty students to watch the debate Scene Editors: Shayna Makaron, Lana Equipped with 70 40-inch fl at SCOTT BRESSLER | STUDENT LIFE in Graham Chapel, where she en- Goldsmith, Brooke Schachner screen Sony televisions, hundreds Hardball host Chris Matthews chats with Tony Potts, host of Access Hollywood, one of the many media groups that joyed the small crowd. 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In total there comfortable commenting.” Copy Chief: Brian Krigsher Howard Fineman, columnist for were ten different fact sheets ranging Others felt unsettled by the Copy Editors: Sophie Adelman, Al- Newsweek and a regular contributor from bipartisanship to the timetable emptiness. lison Kong, Michelle Merlin, Rachel to MSNBC on Hardball and Count- of the war in Iraq. “Lots of my friends didn’t Noccioli down with Keith Olbermann, added The Obama-Biden camp did not know this was an opportunity Designers: Mia Feitel, Evan Freedman, that the reaction of the campaign issue any fact sheets. or that you could get tickets. It Susan Hall, Katrina Jongman-Sereno, managers and media members in Sophomore Jeremy Carlson serve would be much better if there Liz Klein, Courtney LeGates, Chris Spin Alley serves as a strong indica- as a debate volunteer that copied and were more people here, “ Natalia Maury, Ashley Nault, Lauren Perlmut- ter, Joe Rigodanzo, Eric Rosenbaum, tor of the how the candidates fared. delivered the debate fact sheets to the Lamberova said. Katie Sadow Michael Yang, Kim Yeh “One of the things I actually look press. 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us. You have so many that are politi- ing stand and used it as a platform for Students express cally minded that want to talk to us,” expression. Mooney said. At the booth, CNN provided but- themselves to First-time voters Erica Cole and tons with various bipartisan slogans, Brianna Davis spent the afternoon as well as buttons printed with “I am CNN recruiting other new voters to report Anti ___,” urging students to fi ll in their opinions to the CNN booth. the blank. The sophomores view “Election Morrow wrote “I am Anti-Igno- Caroline Pogue and Express” as an important way to mo- rance” on her button. Ben Sales bilize young voters. “You can’t have an ignorant per- News Staff “As a fi rst time voter, it is our job son running the country,” she said, to stand up as a youth of a nation and and although Morrow is excited to show our stuff and that we can make have a female vice presidential can- decisions that affect our lives,” Davis didate, she said, “Palin is ignorant. I Washington University’s fi rst- said. “This is the best election to vote don’t think McCain is ignorant, but time voters turned out for CNN’s in for the fi rst time.” Palin is.” “Election Express Yourself” tour At the prospect of having either a Other button-makers opted to bus, set up outside the Danforth Uni- female vice president or an African- use the pins for personal statements, versity Center on Thursday. American president, Davis said, “Ei- some more serious than others. But- The interactive area offered op- ther way it goes, we’ll have a diverse tons ranged from the environmental, portunities for voters to weigh in administration.” such as “Anti-Meat” to the bizarre on issues through activities ranging “This election will go down in and satirical, such as “Anti-Children from crafting buttons to fi lming their history,” Cole added. and Puppies.” own video responses that will be Both students are interested in A freshman also took advantage broadcast on the CNN Web site. campaign issues, though they do not of the buttons, choosing one that The bus has been traveling city to think all fi rst-time voters are as in- read: “I totally disagree with every- city in order to get public opinions, formed as they should be. thing you just said.” according to Ryan Mooney, the mar- Audrey Morrow, a sophomore The freshmen, another fi rst-time keting manager for CNN strategic and fi rst-time voter, was “extremely voter, said he was “pretty much just marketing. excited” to be involved with such an messing around” at the CNN activi- “It’s been great. Washington Uni- important election. She took advan- ties, but was overall impressed with versity has been a perfect spot for tage of CNN’s political-button-mak- the set up.

IM FIELD from page 1 curity Council, which advertised With the last of the protes- Thomas Knapp, vice presiden- their documentary about radical tors fi nished in the fi eld, attention tial candidate for the Boston Tea Islam, titled “Obsession.” turned to protesters on Big Bend Party, a splinter libertarian party, The Florida Security Council Boulevard. These protesters pep- was also present. Knapp founded LANE S. GOODMAN| STUDENT LIFE also warned demonstrators of the pered the lawn, carrying anti-Palin the party in 2006 to fi ll a void in Students wave to the MSNBC cameras while watching Andrea Mitchell on the stage outside dangers of Muslim student associa- signs with slogans reading, “Why the country’s libertarian culture tions and their alleged fundamen- is Sarah Palin an NRA member? during the last Senate campaign. Graham Chapel. talist links. Shotgun Weddings” and “We can He views his party as a much more “Organizations such as CARE see Russia from St. Louis!” solid libertarian group than the bet- or the Muslim America Society or However, not everyone on the ter known Libertarian Party. Muslim Students of America have lawn expressed antipathy for Palin. “We are a libertarian party, not AMBIENCE from page 2 been indicted as front organiza- “It’s nice to fi nd a woman that’s the Libertarian Party,” Knapp said. tions for the Muslim Brotherhood, strong and conservative and who “This year the Libertarian Party several students were given access to an organization created in 1930 for knows that real women don’t kill nominated a conservative republi- which they had once been familiar. “It was really cool,” said junior Erin “Spin Alley,” the media center set up the sole purpose of instituting Sha- their children,” said Ruth Cos- can rather than a libertarian. This “It looks nothing like the gym used Kane. “I was totally blown away.” in the Athletic Complex’s recreational ria law throughout the world and grove, one of the protesters. year we nominated our fi rst presi- to look,” junior Emily Jacobson said Kane said she was impressed by gym for pundits and politicians to taking over the world,” said Rich- Some of the protesters carried dential ticket, Charles Jay from from inside the hall. “It’s really unlike both Palin’s and Biden’s performances. gather and “spin” the debate in various ard Swier of the Florida Security signs for Bob Barr, the Libertarian Florida, and myself from right here anything I’d have ever imagined.” Bill Lowry, a Political Science profes- directions. Council. candidate for president. in St. Louis.” The fl oor of the gym was carpeted sor who viewed the debate from inside Seen in the Alley were campaign over, massive light fi xtures were set up the media fi ling center, felt the same. managers for both parties, as well as overhead, and an enormous red, white “It was a competent debate,” Lowry such famous public fi gures as Rudy and blue stage, fl anked by twenty-foot said. “I think basically both of them did Giuliani, Joe Lieberman and Missouri American fl ag signs, dominated the what they had to do. Palin did not em- Senator Claire McCaskill. scene. barrass herself. She showed she could At one point, a group of students MEDIA from page 3 Immediately before the debate, be articulate and relatively competent. surrounded McCaskill and asked her Chancellor Wrighton and Student And Biden was very forceful and very what she thought of the University. thrives on this type of environment. a while, and I don’t remember any- 2004,” Wrighton said. “This will be Union President Brittany Perez went up substantive.” “I love Wash. U.,” said McCaskill. “They were great. It was hard thing this intriguing,” Bash said. the most heavily watched political on the stage to address the audience. Kane said that, in particular, she felt She followed with a plan of her own for me to hear, but it was so great. “I’d say that in terms of the energy, event in history.” The two thanked the hundreds of Biden’s comments on Obama’s envi- to begin fi xing the nation’s economic We love doing live shows,” Mitch- it’s night and day compared to the Bash added that the University people involved in preparing for the ronmental and energy policies would problems. ell said. last debate.” campus was so charged that it did debate and encouraged University stu- resonate strongly with students on cam- “My plan for economic develop- With 3,100 credentialed media Chancellor Wrighton added that not even feel like a political event. dents to continue the political engage- pus. ment for the state of Missouri: throw a members, the most ever for a vice the media presence on campus last “The feel and the atmosphere ment they had demonstrated already by “I think one of the things people net over Wash. U. and tell all the kids presidential debate, CNN political night was unmatched, and enhanced and the energy is more like going to voting in this year’s election. have seemed most active about has that go to college here they cannot leave correspondent Dana Bash attributed the political energy on campus. Vegas for a prize fi ght than going to After Biden and Palin fi nished de- been Green Action, and I think that’s when they graduate. They must stay in the unprecedented attention this “The media presence on this oc- St. Louis for a political debate.” bating, students leaving the hall spoke something that Biden hit on really Missouri.” event has garnered to Palin. casion is far greater than either of with high enthusiasm about how the well,” Kane said. “I’ve been covering politics for the presidential debates in 2000 and evening had played out. After most of the crowd had left,

Students look to focus election on environment SPIN from page 2 Biden, as in previous debates dur- “We cannot slow up on education, Jeremy Rogoff our vote.” ing the presidential primary season, because that’s the engine that is going Staff Reporter Despite the numerous organizations appeared calm and defi nitive, choos- to give us the economic growth and and interest groups that have converged ing to make most of his comments di- competitiveness that we need,” Biden on campus, the Green Action-Power rectly toward the camera, as if to talk said when proposing solutions to the A national student movement and a Vote coalition gained considerable at- straight to the American people. current economic slowdown. local campus group combined on Thurs- tention from the press, partly due to Both candidates assumed the roles “Energy independence is the key day to call for voters to make the envi- the presence of miniature windmills on that their campaigns had promised. to this nation’s future, to our economic ronment their top priority. Mudd Field in front of Graham Chapel Palin, speaking in plain language future, and to our national security,” Green Action, a Washington Univer- and in front of Olin Library throughout about issues ranging from the current Palin said. “So when we talk about en- sity student group with a focus on envi- the day. fi nancial crisis to the war in Iraq to ergy plans, it’s not just about who got ronmental activism, and Power Vote, a “I’m impressed with how into and nuclear proliferation, sought to relate a tax break and who didn’t. And we’re nationwide non-partisan organization how responsive [students] are to what every topic to the country’s middle not giving oil companies tax breaks, that seeks to elevate climate change is- Green Action has to say,” junior Alex- class, of which she repeatedly said she but it’s about a heck of a lot more than sues in this year’s election, worked for a andra Fine, a Green Action-Power Vote was a part. that.” common cause. On debate day, affi liated coalition member who aimed for her Commenting on the current prob- At several points during the de- students erected nine-foot windmills group to collect 1,000 signatures for lems on Wall Street, Palin spoke in bate, when Palin appeared hesitant on around campus, near areas where live Power Vote by the end of the day, said. broad terms. an issue, she pivoted to the topic with television broadcasts were taking place. The group of over 40 Green Action “We have the opportunity to learn which she has dealt most intimately: “People often times quarantine the members had garnered more than 700 a heck of a lot of lessons out of this energy. environment as its own separate issue pledges at the University, pushing the and say never again will we be taken When challenged to refute a claim and put it so far down the list, and often- nationwide total to 187,206 signatures advantage of,” Palin said. that Biden made about McCain’s com- times they forget that national security as of Thursday evening, according to Later, Palin struck the same chord ments toward the mortgage market, and the economy are all totally contin- the Power Vote Web site. regarding the source of the mortgage Palin responded: “That is not so, but gent on the approach we take on the Fine added that Power Vote has got- crisis, saying, “Darn right it was the because that’s just a quick answer, I environment,” freshman Emily Averna ten some but not enough attention from predator lenders. There was deception want to talk about, again, my record said. local and national media swarming the and corruption.” on energy versus your ticket’s energy The joint effort spent the day trying campus for the vice presidential debate. Biden answered his questions with ticket, also.” to enlist young voters to pledge their “So far we’ve gotten some [media detailed policy prescriptions in an ef- Following the debate, surrogates vote for “clean and just energy,” accord- attention] but we deserve a lot more. fort to emphasize his knowledge about for each campaign thought the debate ing to Power Vote’s Web site. The issues we’re talking about are those each issue, and often lashed out at the brought out each candidate’s greatest Specifi cally, Power Vote distributed of all youth and anyone who wants a fu- record of John McCain. qualities. a petition requesting students to support ture here.” On the economy, Biden attempted “She understood where the coun- candidates who support “green” jobs, The group made appearances on lo- at once to paint the differences be- try would go, and she had a personable investing in clean energy, cutting global cal television affi liates and was featured tween the two candidates and to high- nature,” Lindsay Graham, Senator warming pollution, ending dependence in a national segment on CBS’s “The light his own credentials. from South Carolina, said of Palin’s on unclean sources of energy and reen- Early Show.” “So what you had is you had over- performance. “She related to people gaging as a leader in the global com- Averna was one of at least a dozen whelming ‘deregulation,’” Biden said at a level that you don’t see in Wash- munity. The national Power Vote goal is Green Action members who were of the recent fi nancial crisis. “You had ington.” one million pledges. dressed in green and were holding a actually the belief that Wall Street Some Democrats, following the “We are trying to collect one million windmill at the taping of “The Early could self-regulate itself. And while debate, focused on Palin’s scant re- votes across the nation to show politi- Show” at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday. Barack Obama was talking about re- sponses to the environment. cians that the youth care about clean “We can vocalize the concerns of instating those regulations, John on “As Joe Biden pointed out very energy, green jobs and climate change,” college students,“ Averna said. “Youth 20 different occasions in the previous effectively, you can’t fi x the problem sophomore Peter Murrey, a member of are really invested in our future.” year and a half called for more deregu- unless you point out the source of LANE S. GOODMAN | STUDENT LIFE Green Action, said. “Youth are going lation.” the problem,” Susan Rice, a foreign to be an important part of this election. With additional reporting by Puneet A student for Power Vote outside Olin Library. Power Vote is a While both candidates played the policy expert and advisor to Obama, If [the candidates] don’t talk about the Kollipara, Becca Krock and Johann bipartisan effort to help raise congressional awareness for environmental roles that fi t their strengths, their dis- said. “That’s a grave concern, one you environment, we are not going to listen Qua Hiansen issues. tinct styles indicated the clear differ- would expect she would well under- to them. We’re not going to give them ences in background and philosophy. stand.” FRIDAY | OCTOBER 3, 2008 News Editor / Ben Sales / [email protected] STUDENT LIFE | NEWS 5 REDNECKS FOR OBAMA Howard Dean visits Dems Democratic Committee Chair addresses students

Puneet Kollipara and David Song News Staff

Though Joe Biden’s name has been uttered countless times among cam- pus Democrats, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean briefl y stole the spotlight on Thursday afternoon, when he addressed a packed house of College Democrats and Stu- dents for Barack Obama in the Edison Theatre at 1 p.m. The former Vermont governor spoke for roughly 20 minutes. Harshly criticizing Republican presidential nominee John McCain, he called on audience members to mobilize and get other voters registered to vote for Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presi- dential nominee. “If all you do is vote, you get a D,” Dean said in his speech. Dean also criticized McCain for giving tax cuts to the richest Americans and for supporting the spending of $10 billion a month in Iraq but neglecting MATT LANTER | STUDENT LIFE to address rising tuition and health care costs. Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, spoke with “That money belongs here in Mis- College Democrats and Students for Barack Obama on Thursday afternoon. souri, so kids can pay student loans, so grow up with the lots of different peo- Obama or the Democrats too well; we can have adequate health care, so ple. You did grow up with the lots of he talked about restoring moral high elementary schools and high schools different people,” Dean told reporters ground [with torture] but he still wants work properly and so that we can have after the event. to impose our will around the world by jobs in America,” Dean said. The DNC Chair inspired some stu- keeping [military] bases in 140 coun- Additionally, Dean asserted that dents. tries,” he said. Obama maintained the moral high “Dean has been a hero and role After criticizing McCain’s support ground in the election, frequently com- model for me. He’s really true to his for fi nancing the war in Iraq, he ex- pared the former President John F. Ken- ideals, even voting against the war in pounded on what Obama and running nedy with the Democratic nominee. Iraq while he was running for presi- mate Sen. Joe Biden would do to tackle So many students came to the event dent,” junior Todd Zimmer said. “His rising tuition costs. that it had to move from the Gargoyle message that we need to be active and “Ultimately, what you’re going to Edison Theatre. Students expressed do work politically needs to be broad- to have to do, which I think is a very support for Dean’s message of bipar- cast loud and clear.” good thing, is have is a national service tisan unity and the urgency of young “He’s wholly supportive of demo- program, which doesn’t have to be JOY WANG | STUDENT LIFE people’s involvement in politics. cratic ideals, not just the party. He ex- mandatory, but where you get serious The chairman also took photos emplifi es his message of unity, and he credit toward your college education Rednecks for Obama visited the Wash. U. campus to voice their opinion this week. They describe themselves as “a with students after the event and spoke trashes John McCain because of his by giving two years before you go [to group for working men who like guns, who like to hunt, who like the earth.” with media. support for partisanship,” junior John college],” Dean said in the interview. Dean said that, with Missouri as a Peters said, referring to what Dean de- Dean said that such a program swing state, he believes enough col- scribed as McCain’s “us versus them” would be benefi cial because students lege-age voters could be energized for attitude. would receive money in exchange for Obama to win the state. However, sophomore Jeff Dreifus their service. Local anti-war protesters “People have a different view un- expressed skepticism regarding Dean’s der 35. In the civil rights generation, message. With additional reporting by Sha- march on WU campus we tried to do the right thing but didn’t “I don’t think he really represented ron Barbour

David Song and flag,” he said. War’s protests, is a war veteran Instead of red and white stripes whose 19-year-old daughter served Kat Zhao and stars, Elliot’s flag is adorned in the Iraq War. She was raped and Planned Parenthood News Editors with bright stripes of rainbow killed in 2005, but the military has colors and a sewn on imprint of yet to confirm details; Johnson has a picture displaying a red horizon enlisted the help of Missouri Rep. St. Louis resident Andrew Elliot overlooking the sea. William Clay to access informa- speaks out against stood near the corners of Forsyth Elliot made the flag himself and tion surrounding her death. and Big Bend Boulevards, holding says he hopes to replace the Amer- “My fight is to get justice for an anti-war poster and waving a ican flag with it. He runs his own my daughter but this is not just a large rainbow-striped flag. blog, which primarily consists of fight for my daughter,” Johnson Elliot participated in a rally poetry that promotes peace. Elliot said. “This is a fight for women McCain on campus hosted by Instead of War, an or- says he hopes his blog will help considering the military to making ganization whose activities during spread the word on what he calls it safe for them to fight.” David Song debate night centered on several the “new freedom free, and not the Other speakers included a Managing Editor speakers whose families are per- freedom fee.” woman whose house was fore- sonally affected by the war and the According to Elliot, his demon- closed and a cancer patient being economy. stration for peace also comes with denied healthcare. Planned Parenthood, and its po- The speakers demanded en- a demand for change. Though some demonstrators in litical arm of the St. Louis Region, trance into the debate hall; their “I don’t know who is represent- Instead of War protested against ADVOCATES, responded to Sen. effort was meant to symbolize ing peace, or if Obama is repre- problems in the economy and the John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin’s their call for community voice. senting peace. But if they are not war, others protested the nature records on women’s reproductive For Elliot, the flag is a symbol representing peace, they need to of the debate itself. Andy Haslet, rights on campus during the vice of peace and the most important change,” he said. “Change needs coordinator of the Peace Economy presidential debate. element in his political and anti- to happen, but it needed to happen Project, called for greater sub- Planned Parenthood has also war expression. yesterday.” stance in the questions posed in endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for “I’m not even here to really Dr. John Johnson, one of the president, the second time the protest; I just want to show my central speakers in Instead of See PROTESTS, page 12 92-year-old organization has en- dorsed a presidential candidate. In 2004, Planned Parenthood endorsed John Kerry. Paula Gianino, president of AD- VOCATES and alum of Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work, critiqued Middle-aged Republican McCain and Palin’s voting records on reproductive rights. “We really believe the future of women’s reproductive fi ghts is re- ally at stake in this election, given picketers stir controversy the next administration will be able to dominate probably two to three Supreme Court justices—that is Johann Qua Hiansen and “I think that having older volun- “What does it actually matter critical,” she said. Dan Woznica teers wasting time and space on a col- whether they’re even from here?” Bu- Gianino referenced McCain and Student Life Editors lege campus by just holding placards kowski asked. “Why does it have to be Palin’s refusal to support the right to and taking away opportunities from just Wash. U. students?” abortion even in the case of rape or LUCY MOORE | STUDENT LIFE the students who actually go to Wash. Other students such as junior Jacob incest. She also cited Palin’s history U. is detrimental not only to why Wash. Vineberg only minded the position of as Governor of Alaska and mayor Planned Parenthood was one of the many groups that fl ocked to Adult members of the Republican U. holds the debates, but kind of tears the signs. “If they were further back, it of Wasilla at points where she acted campus before and during MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ broadcast. They came Party who gathered behind MSNBC’s down the nice atmosphere that we have would be okay,” Vineberg said. “The against reproductive rights. specifi cally to express their opinions against the McCain Palin ticket’s live broadcast from Graham Chapel here,” Guthorn said. really big McCain and Palin signs were “We know that while mayor, Pal- postions on women’s health with large McCain-Palin signs touched Sophomore Justin Samakow, cam- large and really obstructive.” in approved the city charging women off controversy among students on paign coordinator for the College Re- Sophomore Alex Bensick, however, for their own rape test kits. It took an Thursday. publicans, disagreed. believed that it was important for the act by the Alaska state legislature to to make it clear that McCain and Pa- honey spoke out against Obama and Many of the Washington University “I personally think it’s good that adults not to be mistaken for students. stop this practice, which was mostly lin are not our candidates, and [that] Planned Parenthood, comparing the students felt that the adults used the me- they’re here,” Samakow said. “It’s good Midway through the afternoon, being conducted in Wasilla.” we endorse a presidential candi- latter to racist groups, and claiming dia to misrepresent the political views that they’re helping out.” Bensick and other students held up a Gianino believed that “Palin date—and that is Obama.” that of abortions given, a high per- of students at the University. Samakow felt that the sign-holders sign that had arrows pointing to the oth- may even be more conservative and Jill Hansen, a leader of the Uni- centage goes to African American “They were just pushing their way helped to show that the University has er sign-holders and said, “These People extreme than McCain,” but there versity students with ADVOCATES, women. from the back,” freshman Jed Jackoway a substantial moderate and conservative Are Not Students.” was no major difference between agreed with Gianino. Members of ADVOCATES said. “It was just obnoxious.” presence, not just a liberal presence. “Since it’s being held at Wash. U.’s the two’s policies. And although “There are a couple of important booed Mahoney, and the two en- Members of the group said they Like Guthorn, junior Lauren Bot- campus,” Bensick said, “it sort of pres- Planned Parenthood acknowledges issues, and McCain and Palin have gaged in an impromptu argument were volunteers from Illinois, but would terson felt the adults misrepresented the ents a false image of students here.” Biden’s vote for on the ban of par- voted against women’s issues with and verbal fi ght. After the ADVO- not give details about how they gained true political climate on campus. Although the majority of the McCa- tial-birth abortions, Gianino assert- respect to health care and access to CATES members left, a University access to campus. “They don’t even go here,” Botter- in-Palin sign-holders refused to speak ed that Biden maintains a division sex education,” Hansen said. “Biden alumna from the 1980s, Rhoomma Ben Guthorn, president of the Col- on, who took issue with the signs them- to the press, Linda Scheaffer of Illinois between his religious beliefs and his has a longer pro-woman history in Duffi , and Mahoney later exchanged lege Democrats, felt that the adults selves, said. “We have makeshift signs. defended the group’s actions. role as legislator. his legislation.” heated words with Mahoney and were wrong to hold signs at the stage, They have big poles.” “I just want to support Palin,” “Our involvement this afternoon Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of were later interviewed by a local especially since he saw some of them Junior Tegan Bukowski, holding Scheaffer said. “I think she was a won- with the activities surrounding the the Christian Defense Coalition, news station. had credentials allowing access to the a McCain-Palin sign, questioned this derful choice for vice president.” debates are to continue to educate later decried Planned Parenthood’s debate hall. reasoning. voters about the voting records, and efforts on the Intramural Field. Ma- 6 STUDENT LIFE | NEWS News Editor / Ben Sales / [email protected] FRIDAY | OCTOBER 3, 2008 THE ARRIVAL

MATT MITANG | STUDENT LIFE Senator Biden and Governor Palin arrive with their families at the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport on Thursday, October 2. debateinterviews Laura 538 Schwartz Student Life interviews Host of CBS’s ‘Trail Mix’ sits political polling guru down with Student Life

On Thursday, Student Life’s the youth vote in Missouri, and dependent and conservative side, Student Life reporter Scott Fabri- to one or two specifi c examples, she SL: Do vice presidential candi- Puneet Kollipara talked to po- could it tip the race one way or [is] having people openly question cant talked to Laura Schwartz, who can keep command of those answers dates have a big effect on the outcome litical blogger and polling expert the other? whether she is able or qualified to hosts CBS’s “Trail Mix,” a segment of and that’s very important because of an election? Sean Quinn, a Clayton, Mo. resi- do the job. We go into these Mc- The Early Show covering what most she’s got some work to do. dent, about the presidential race SQ: In Missouri the youth Cain offices and see volunteers; of the media doesn’t cover for this Unless there’s a huge gaffe, it’s in Missouri, the vice presidential vote’s going to be important. It’s they’re not there to volunteer for election cycle. Now, Joe Biden’s biggest downfall really about the top of the ticket. You debate and recent political polls. going to be important in places John McCain, they’re there to is exaggeration. But I think that he rec- lead from the top; the VP presidential Quinn writes for the polling and like Pennsylvania and Michigan volunteer because Sarah Palin is ognizes that downfall and has worked candidates can act as the attack dogs. analysis Web site fivethirtyeight. [and] Virginia, where the Obama on the ticket and she excites them. on it and I expect him to be very crisp They can attack the other person on com. See studlife.com for the campaign was really putting in If they were to boot her from the Student Life: So what do you think in his responses and I think he will go the top of the ticket so the principal complete interview. a lot of effort. Now, we haven’t ticket, game over. Maybe the ex- about Washington University so far? on the attack on John McCain. He’s candidate can talk about how they can seen a lot on the McCain side. As pectations are so low that she’ll not attacking Palin, he’s attacking the make people’s lives better and not be far as youth vote, to the extent that be able to pull out some kind of Laura Schwartz: It’s great. [The issues and telling the audience why the bad guy. In the case of Sarah Palin, Washington University students “victory” just by not having any students] are involved, and not just in- they’re important to him. And his big- McCain needed a boost, and she gave Student Life: Where does Mis- and students at Columbia and type of moments like she’s had volved for one candidate or the other, gest strength is knowing those issues. him one, and that’s since disappeared. souri currently stand in the presi- Rolla and Kirksville all across the on the recent Katie Couric inter- but [because of] the issues. I think that He’s lived them, he knows them, and You’ve got to go with the long-term dential race, and what have the state turn out, it’s one those possi- view, for example. If she does do is so important for students to get in- the voters have no doubt in their mind effects. polling trends been? ble ways that that 0.4 percent that terribly, it really could affect the volved. You don’t have to be red, you that he’s familiar with them. we project McCain to win Mis- numbers. don’t have to be blue, you can be inde- SL: What can Washington Univer- Sean Quinn: As of [Thursday] souri by, we might actually see pendent and just focus strictly on the SL: In the wake of Hillary Clinton, sity students do to help? morning, our projection for Mis- that Obama wins because these SL: What should students take issues. do you think Sarah Palin was picked souri is a very narrow McCain little percents add up because he from the debate? because she’s a woman? LS: This year, the youth have a win; I think we had McCain by turns out the college vote. SL: Okay, let’s get down to poli- chance to prove the critics wrong. less than a percent. And in fact we SQ: It’s an amazing oppor- tics. Palin and Biden: What are their LS: I think that absolutely went Each year, the youth vote has gone saw at least one poll, if not sever- SL: How do vice presidential tunity because this election has biggest weaknesses and their biggest into it, most observers would say so up, but it hasn’t gone up as much as al, that show Obama ahead. Based debates affect polling numbers, been the most dramatic election. strengths? especially given the lack of a vetting it goes up in enthusiasm. Youth voters on the track record and based and how is this debate different This is something they’re going process that we in the media were told have not turned out in polls in correla- on track records of these differ- from others? to remember 20, 30 years from LS: Palin’s biggest strength is that about. McCain had met her once be- tion to their grassroots activism. And ent pollsters, we’ve been able to now. Voters get to weigh [which] she comes across as very likable. She fore in February at a governor’s meet- this year, because they did turn out predict that Missouri, in Novem- SQ: In past history, it doesn’t way they want to go. Even though presents herself as just down-home ing and he’d spoken to her maybe in the primaries, they’ve got to keep ber, should be a very narrow Mc- seem to be a big deal when vice McCain and Obama aren’t here, Sarah. She could be your neighbor. once or twice on the phone, but that’s focus, they’ve got to do absentee bal- Cain win. As we get more data, if presidents go at it. What we have these two picks have had just as unclear at this point. They wanted to lots if they’re registered somewhere polls keep coming in stronger and here, though, [is that] tonight is much drama packed into them in Her biggest weakness is what I capitalize. When they announced it, it else, they’ve got to take the free bus- stronger for Obama, that trend’s a little bit of an anomaly. I can’t a short period of time. One way call “the Ramble.” As we’ve seen in was the Saturday after the Democratic ses from campus to polling places, to going to show that it’s moving recall from looking [at] past vice or the other, whether Sarah Palin the Katie Couric interview last week National Committee [DNC], and the prove they are voting and they are a towards Obama’s direction, [and] presidential history any moment lives up to expectations or not, for example, when she’s uncertain of biggest hurdle the DNC had to unity force, and from then on they will be we’re going to see a flip. where we have a candidate who, it’s going to be a night that people an answer or when she’s trying fi t too was bringing the Hillary Clinton vot- taken in the utmost seriousness. And [as it] seems from all sides, not talk about for a long time. much into an answer, she rambles. But ers into the fold. they should be—they are the future. SL: What is the importance of just the liberal side, but the in- tonight, if she could keep her answers FRIDAY | OCTOBER 3, 2008 News Editor / Ben Sales / [email protected] STUDENT LIFE | NEWS 7 Credentialing Students row in front of MSNBC delayed for many not an election where I just want to sit cused on Iraq, it also touched on some students here can discuss their opinions Drawing attention, around and talk about the issues. Yes, of the topics that have reigned in the freely,” Bensick said. “It says a lot about confrontation be- we need to talk about the issues, but I’m public consciousness over the past few a community where you have this kind also angry because there’s a lot of lies months, such as McCain’s age, and of thing going on where you have peo- media members and a lot of bulls---.” Republican vice presidential nominee ple discussing their various beliefs and tween two students Wood, in turn, cited his experience Gov. Sarah Palin and Obama’s respec- you have a nice forum for that without turns hostile as a marine. tive experience. things getting too ridiculous.” “You’re actually looking at someone When Rappaport suggested the pos- Wood also felt that the debate was Josh Goldman and authorized by the Secret Service. Ben Sales and who has been a small-unit executor of a sibility of Palin rising to the presidency positive. Johann Qua Hiansen We’re already toast for the 5 Craig Ostrin lot of these foreign policy decisions,” were McCain to die in offi ce, Wood dis- “It started off pretty infl amma- Staff Editors [p.m.] and 6 [p.m.] spots,” Phil News Staff Wood said. “And I’m not exactly happy missed the idea. tory,” he said, “but through a process of Witt, a reporter for WDAF-TV with the way things have gone. But it’s “This is the fi rst time in a long time healthy dialogue, we were able to see Kansas City, a Fox News affili- not enough for me to get up and start where age and experience is a liability,” eye to eye.” ate, said. Two students, one a McCain sup- ripping people apart.” Wood said. He was also happy that the argu- Many members of the na- Witt and his cameraman had porter and Iraq veteran, the other a Rappaport argued that, while many Rappaport argued that the issue was ment drew spectators, provided that it tional media and campaign teams been waiting since around 2 p.m. Obama supporter, had a heated argu- accept the surge as a success, he feels “particularly pertinent given who [Mc- educated them. waited for hours at the media to gain access to the debate site. ment about the Iraq war yesterday that “right now we are paying Sunnis to Cain’s] vice presidential candidate is.” “[It was a good thing] only if people welcome center in the Laboratory “If we got our credentials now drawing a large crowd. fi ght for us.” “Palin has as much, if not more, walked away more informed. I don’t Sciences building on Thursday in [3:50 p.m.], we might be able to The argument continued for 20 min- Wood laughed at Rappaport’s asser- experience as Barack Obama,” Wood want to polarize this process any more order to receive their credentials get there even scrambling for six utes. tion. said. “The difference is, we have her on than it already is.” to enter the Debate Hall and Spin o’clock,” Witt said. Joel Wood, who served two tours of “I was there twice,” he said. “I was the bottom of our ticket as opposed to Wood admitted that the argument Alley, an unexpected delay. Members of the Commission duty in Iraq, struck up a conversation there when the war started, I was there, the top.” became heated, and, at times, a little too “This is the worst debate on Presidential Debates scram- with John Rappaport, an Obama sup- in Anbar, for my second deployment, The argument soon petered out, but personal on both sides, but that he had screw-up since the sound went bled while trying to get their cre- porter who was demonstrating loudly in right when Fallujah was going down. left an impression on the surrounding expected the tension. out at the 1976 Ford/Carter de- dentials as journalists, camera- front of Graham Chapel. That’s when the confl ict was at its dark- crowd. Sophomore Alex Bensick said “I’m not saying it’s right. At the end bate,” Thomas DeFrank of the men, reporters and bloggers were “I can’t help my tone,” Rappaport est point. That’s when Iraq was the dark that the spontaneous debate demonstrat- of the day, I’m human, and this is some- New York Daily News said. “This forced to pace around the LabSci said, “because I’m f---ing angry at peo- side of the moon. And we didn’t pay ed positive aspects of the intellectual thing that I’m passionate about as well,” is total chaos. Clearly there’s atrium waiting for debate access. ple like George Bush and the way they anybody to fi ght for us.” environment at Washington University. he said. “It’s hard not to react humanly been a credentialing meltdown. While unclear why credentials run this country. I’m pissed off. This is While the argument mainly fo- “I think it’s a good example of how to stuff like that.” They’ve had 60 days to get this were delayed, LabSci started to right.” empty around 2:30 p.m. after at DeFrank, a White House cor- least one member of most media respondent since the Lyndon units was cleared to enter the Johnson administration, traces Athletic Complex. Washington State U. not bitter over missing debate the problem to the presidential Theories ranged from prob- debate at the University of Mis- lems with background checks Michelle Merlin dates] would be Clinton and Giuliani.” sissippi, where reporters used compiled by the Secret Service Contributing Reporter WSU’s application for hosting credentials with the pictures of to confusion between which da- the debates began with a new faculty other people. tabase was being used to retrieve member who had previously worked “I registered online before the personal information needed at Michigan State University, and had the deadline date,” Ai Awaji, the for passes to be issued. When Washington University re- enjoyed hosting the event before. Like Washington D.C. Jiji Press cor- The Washington University ceived the offer to host the vice presi- Washington University, WSU went respondent said. “They said my Office of Public Affairs was un- dential debate in November 2007, it through the CPD’s application process name was on the list.” affected by the delay, as it was was the second choice for an event that for months. Compounding the issue was able to issue restricted access pundits never predicted would amass “[We] had good cooperation with the fact that many journalists de- passes and distribute press kits to the media attention it did. the community,” Tinney said. “It was a cided to come to the debate at the any journalist when requested. The fi rst choice of the Commission useful exercise for us, but [in the end] it last minute after the credential- Susan McManus, professor of for Presidential Debates (CPD) was didn’t work out.” ing period was completed. political science at the University Washington State University’s campus Although the debate wouldn’t have “Some members of the me- of South Florida and correspon- in Spokane (WSU), a school making been right on campus, there was still dia said that they had credentials dent for WFLA-TV, the Tampa its fi rst bid to host a presidential debate. some political interest amongst the stu- when they did not,” Rod, a repre- NBC affiliate, waited for hours Though it received an offer to host the dents who were already tuned into poli- sentative of the CPD who did not to get her credentials despite re- vice presidential debate, WSU declined tics, according to Tinney. give his last name, said. ceiving conformation from the because administrators worried about This debate would have been es- While he acknowledged that CPD that she was granted debate fi nding enough corporate sponsors for pecially important to WSU students, some individuals with confirmed access. the event. because Palin went to the University of credentials were yet to receive “It’s really frustrating because “It seemed like it was a stretch for Idaho, located less than 10 miles away passes, he would only add that my students and our viewer audi- a presidential debate. It seemed like from the WSU campus. those who asked for credentials ence in Tampa, a battleground with a vice presidential debate it would “I think there’s a local tie in there,” at the last minute could not gain state, are very, very interested be harder,” said James Tinney, WSU’s Tinney said. debate hall access. in this debate, and we’re thrilled director of media relations. Currently, the political makeup of Though credentials were be- that we have the opportunity to At the time, it did not appear as the student body seemed unaffected by ing issued, the delays forced come out here and cover it,” Mc- though the vice presidential debate this connection. changes to broadcast schedules. Manus stated. “They just tell us would get as much attention as it has, The campus is located in eastern “They [the people inside Lab- to wait. Many of us would like especially since previous vice presiden- Washington, a very conservative part Sci] just can’t do anything for us. to run around the campus to get MCT CAMPUS tial debates traditionally drew viewers. of the state. Because college campuses The clearance needed is in the photos to bring back home and Washington State Unversity’s mascot, the Cougar. Before coming to “We had to make a decision based often incline toward the left side of the Athletic Complex. I’ve covered stories to tell on the evening Washington University in St. Louis, the Commission on Presidential Debates on the information we had at the time,” political spectrum, however, Tinney felt many events and political hap- news, but we are just staring at Tinney said. “Now at that point every- that the students’ political views were penings that required credentials each other.” asked Washington State to host the vice presidential debate. body thought [the presidential candi- split fairly evenly. Obituary: James DEBATE WATCH IN THE DUC Andrew Benecke

of the Mary Institute & St. Louis Country Day School Class of 2006, and was honored in 2006 as a Presi- dential Scholar. He transferred to Washington University after briefl y attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Katy Southworth, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, at- tended high school with Andrew and recalled his excellence in academics. “We had AP Chemistry together and he pretty much taught the class,” Southworth remembered. “He was really quick-witted and really smart.” In addition to his academic achievements, Andrew is remem- bered for his warm personality and Dan Woznica strong faith in Jesus. Staff Reporter He is survived by his father, Dr. James Benecke, Jr., and mother, Bar- Andrew Benecke, a third-year bara Benecke. economics and systems engineering A memorial service will be held major, died Monday, Sep. 29, after for Andrew at Twin Oaks Presbyte- a six-year battle with osteosarcoma. rian Church, 1230 Big Bend Blvd. He was 21. in Ballwin, Mo. on Saturday, Oct. 4 Benecke was a highly accom- at 1:00 p.m. A private burial will be plished student—he earned a perfect held at Forever Bellerive in Creve MATT LANTER | STUDENT LIFE ACT score, was co-valedictorian Coeur. Many students gathered in the DUC to watch the debate. These gatherings occurred all across campus, including in Edison Theater, Ursa’s, and Graham Chapel. Editor’s Note WINNER from page 3

Students who watched the debate in Union President Brittany Perez spoke “It’s really nice to see political activ- was unpopular. Due to the nature of de- the Danforth University Center (DUC), at the end. ity around [the debate], but it seems like “I felt that some of facial expressions where 200 people gathered in Tisch “I loved that she spoke about edu- a show,” Kristyna Solawetz, a senior and laughing got to be out of place,” bate reporting, many News Commons, felt the results were the cation,” junior Stephi Blank said. “Her who watched the debate at Steinberg Meagan McIntosh, a junior, said. same. speech could have been stronger, more Hall, said. “Even though it’s a good ex- But McIntosh still enjoyed the de- articles today were written “This debate just solidifi ed my faith forceful—but I love what she had to perience, it’s too theatrical.” bate. in Obama and Biden. I think that most say. She spoke beautifully.” Nonetheless, the focus of the night “They both had good arguments. in tandem, and many of of the students here, including me, Others at Edison enjoyed the debate was on the issues for most students, as They both did equally as well although would agree that Biden won the debate as well. opposed to the atmosphere. I would like to say Sarah Palin would the staff writers involved tonight,” Jessica Katzenstein, a junior, “In Edison Theatre, It was great es- “I don’t agree with the two other have won. I also liked that they agreed in each article could not be said. pecially when Wash. U. would be men- candidates so I don’t want to waste my on so many issues,” McIntosh said. Some conservatives were also dis- tioned, people would be enthusiastic and vote on them. Even though my vote But the students watching at Ursa’s, individually credited. pleased with Palin. cheering and stuff. A lot of Biden’s little isn’t going to change the election, no as at every other location, seemed to “I thought she would have done a facial expressions would get a lot of individual vote will. I think it’s much lean toward support for the Democratic better job,” freshman Ryan Rubin said. laughs from the crowd or funny things more important to make a statement candidates. “Biden did a good job connecting with that Palin would say like doggone it and about my opinions,” said Mitch Port, “I don’t have any opinions on Sarah the audience.” stuff,” junior Mitch Jenkins said. the president of College Libertarians, Palin that don’t involve obscenities,” - Ben Sales, News Editor Other students watched the debate at Not everyone thought that the at- who watched at Ursa’s. Margaret Hemkens, a senior, said. Edison Theatre, where political experts mosphere at the watching sites was so All of the viewing parties reported lectured before the event, and Student inviting. that Biden’s smirking while Palin talked 8 STUDENT LIFE | FORUM Forum Editor / Jill Strominger / [email protected] FRIDAY | OCTOBER 3, 2008

STAFF EDITORIAL VP DEBATEFORUM REACTION Biden’s understanding Improve health care

ealth care is an impor- parents’ insurance reasonably ask This method of provision spends about 16 percent of its leads to debate win tant issue, both nation- why they should have to pay for must be scrapped or strongly national income on health care, ally and for Washing- coverage that could not get used. supplemented. With the stakes of far more than any other nation ton University. Ultimately, however, the con- unemployment so high, few will in the world, and the costs are Jill Strominger reiterated that health care and HIn 2006, there were 47 million cerns about Wash. U.’s particular be willing to remain outside the projected to keep rising in the Senior Forum Editor education were priorities. He also Americans, or roughly 15 percent plan only obscure a much bigger workforce for even a short period future. This is not a sustainable gave several examples of his own of the population, without health and more important issue. In a of time. This leads to inflexible path, and health care spending, foreign policy beliefs including insurance. While this number does country where health care was labor markets and inefficient like everything else, is subject have to admit, despite mis- the policies he would’ve liked to include many who are eligible more widely available, the issue outcomes, as people will often be to Stein’s Law: If something pronouncing “nuclear” and enact in Lebanon and his position for Medicaid but have not chosen of students buying into a plan unwilling to strike out on their cannot go on forever, it will stop. avoiding a few too many ques- about Kosovo. He was also able to to sign up, it is still a sobering they will not use would not arise own as entrepreneurs or leave bad Difficult choices will have to be tions, I like Governor Palin. discuss, in depth, some policy ini- statistic. The wealthiest country in in the first place. The fact that jobs to find better employment. made about how to contain future IHow can you not like someone who tiatives he would like to undertake the world should not be leaving so the University must take on such This method of provision is bad spending if health coverage is to gives a shout-out to third graders that have not previously been major many of its own behind. The next an inefficient plan because of the even for employers such as GM become more widespread. Do we watching a debate for extra credit? talking points, including possible president must take measures to high risk of uninsured students is who are now finding themselves force the insured to bear some She’s defi nitely a patriotic, upbeat action in Darfur. ensure that this insurance gap is a serious problem. unable to keep up with rising of the costs of their coverage to person and I would probably enjoy When Governor Palin was asked closed within the next four years. At the root of many of our insurance costs. Furthermore, the prevent extravagant consumption? watching a soccer game with her. what promises she and McCain At Wash. U., the administra- health care problems is the unemployed are precisely those Do we limit the coverage of medi- But the right person to vote for might have to recant given the tion has worked to tackle this standard method of health insur- who are most at risk of being cal procedures with high costs and is the person who shows the best recent economic developments, she problem by implementing a ance provision in the U.S.: as overcome by health care costs, as low benefits? We do not know the ability to reason, the best ability to did not think the economic changes university-wide health insurance an employee benefit. Under the they have little money to spare to answer to these questions, but it is lead our country into the future and would have any effect on McCain/ program for students. This plan current system, the money spent purchase private insurance. crucial that they be asked. the best ability to deal with new Palin policy. It is certainly possible ensures that uninsured students by employers to insure their How exactly we will move These are difficult problems, challenges. that the economic conditions will do not fall through the cracks into employees is tax exempt. The away from employer-provided without easy solutions or silver It’s important to remember that not affect how McCain/Palin would bankruptcy or worse due to cata- unemployed or self-employed, coverage is unclear and up for bullets. However, this only makes the challenges of the future will budget. But the economic crisis strophic health problems. How- on the other hand, must pay for debate. But whatever changes are it all more important that the next be different from the challenges of will at least change the amount ever, many Wash. U. students are health insurance plans out of their decided upon, the next president president should devote a great today. No matter what policy deci- of revenue the government would understandably dissatisfied with taxable income. Because of this, must have a plan for how we deal of effort to find the best way sions are made about today’s issues, receive from taxes. This means that the health insurance plan offered and the staggering price of private are to control rising health care forward. in four years, the next debate will economic conditions would have by the University. The plan’s cov- insurance, people overwhelmingly costs that threaten to spiral out of be about how the leader made solid to either affect the McCain/Palin erage seems meager, and students acquire health insurance through control. decisions despite unpredictable plan for spending or their plan for who are already covered by their their employers. The United States currently circumstances. tax cuts. And though Governor Palin As we make decisions about certainly seems like a patriotic our future, we need to place an person who wants to do right by emphasis on how the candidates Americans, she hasn’t given us a lot make decisions. Though candidates’ MCT EDITORIAL CARTOON of information about her ability to stances on current issues includ- reason and think through problems. ing tax policies, foreign policy Last night, we heard Governor Pa- and climate change give us insight lin reiterate Senator McCain’s for- into how they might reason in the eign policy lines about Obama. We future, it would be foolish to vote also learned that she supports Mc- based on a particular policy. We Cain’s “all-of-the-above” approach need to elect someone who has the to alternative energy, believes in judgment to continue to identify the importance of education, and issues and take stances with which wants to do right by Americans. All we will continue to agree. of these feelings are important and In this debate, Senator Biden will help progress the United States. demonstrated a deeper understand- But, we still don’t know specifi cally ing of the issues facing our country. how Governor Palin will infl uence His ability to show the complex Senator McCain as the vice presi- nature of the challenges we face dent of the United States. and the complex responses they Conversely, Senator Biden was require gives me confi dence that able to give specifi c answers that he will help Senator Obama to lead offer insight into how he thinks. our country well. Palin’s responses? For example, when asked how the Well, at least she loves Israel. economic crisis might affect some of the promises he and Obama made to the American public, Biden Jill is a senior in Arts & Sciences and the was able to list specifi c changes Senior Forum Editor. She can be reached that would have to be made and via e-mail at [email protected]. The conscious non-vote

Brian Dorne campus, it may seem blasphemous Op-Ed Submission that someone isn’t voting for Obama or McCain. But, in our two- party, winner-take-all-of-the-white- s a college student dur- house electoral system, it is impor- ing a general election tant to note that the two broad-based year, I have had the parties capable of winning do not opportunity to take part represent the concerns and values of Muslims are at peace with you Ain registering voters during registra- all registered American voters. And tion drives across campus that were while I’m not going to debate the sponsored by the Gephardt Institute, merits of a multiple-party system another question. Why has this manipulated. Voices may be added tack. As a Muslim who has never Student Union, the Congress of or any other voting system in this A do-it-yourself collection of hair-raising images or omitted. And documentation been at war with anyone, I list five the South 40 and numerous other country, I WILL argue that our and wild claims about the danger could be made to look authentic. of them here. student groups. These efforts should present system does not support the guide to disarm Muslims pose to the democratic If you watch the film by yourself, First, the movie tells you that be lauded as one of best ways to voice of all opinions. So please stop west —made in 2006—magi- and have no way of evaluating in a Muslim country, a non- prevent potential voters from being yelling at the people who voice their fear-mongering cally resurfaced on the eve of the its content, chances are you will Muslim is supposed to be killed disenfranchised by the sometimes opinion by choosing not to vote for general election? This is a valid be persuaded. Rather, you will be or sold like an animal. Look in confusing practice of registering to either of your candidates. concern. terrified. your neighborhood or among col- vote. Some may argue, “But Brian, Fatemeh Keshavarz Since some other newspa- That 28 million free copies of leagues, relatives and friends for However, in this article I seek I don’t like either candidate 100 Op-Ed Subission pers don’t seem to have had the “Obsession” is landing on door- an ordinary fellow American who not to address voter registration, percent but I’m still voting for who insight to ask this question, you steps in swing states at this point has travelled to a Muslim country Obama, McCain, Biden, Palin, I want to run the country more! might have received a copy of in time speaks for itself. Nonethe- in recent years. Ask if he or she horserace journalism, the vice This is important stuff! This is the f you read “When being this hair-raising “documentary.” less, people (particularly profes- felt the threat of being abducted, presidential debates, the politically- future!” impolite is imperative” by 28,000,000 other people are about sors of Religious Studies such converted, sold or killed at any- motivated evils of the Democratic However, there is still a notable Caleb Posner (Sept. 26), to receive it (or have done so as Professor Omid Safi at UNC) time during his or her stay in that Party, the politically-motivated evils minority of voters who feel that you may be wondering why, already). And you all have one have been digging deep in search country. of the Republican Party…you get simply because they prefer one Ias the article points out, the St. thing in common: you belong to of the sources of financial support Second, the movie claims that the idea. Instead, I hope to address of the two potentially victorious Louis Post-Dispatch has rejected a sought-after group of people: for this massive campaign of fear. the Egyptian textbooks tell school and hopefully alleviate the griev- candidates over the other, they an offer made by the Clarion the residents of a swing state I’d say more power to them. Any children that Muslims should kill ances toward a small but sometimes cannot consciously give a vote of Fund to provide free copies of a estimated to be undecided voters. campaign of emotional manipula- non-Muslims and take over the vocal minority this election cycle: confi dence toward either candi- “documentary” called “Obses- The film is supposed to convince tion reminiscent of fascist-like world. Egypt has millions of Cop- the Conscious Non-Vote. This is a date’s platform. These people are sion,” a special value-added insert you that your country is at war ideologies that have resulted in tic Christian inhabitants. In fact, voter who seeks not to vote for any completely validated in their action. to its paying customers. I have with the majority of Muslims who massive human tragedies should they form 20 percent of the Egyp- candidate in the general election Do not berate them and pester them not approached the Post-Dispatch are willing to conquer America, be exposed. For now, however, tian population. Ask yourself how through an informed decision. to find out the answer but I guess kill or convert you, and establish there are easier and more practical For the politically inclined on See DORNE, page 9 they have been puzzling over a fascist empire. Images can be ways of countering this scare at- See KESHAVARZ, page 9

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Senior Sports Editor: Josh Goldman Aditya Sarvesh FRIDAY | OCTOBER 3, 2008 Forum Editor / Jill Strominger / [email protected] STUDENT LIFE | FORUM 9 VP DEBATE REACTION The deftest Both candidates deserve extra credit sport Bill Hoffman like a gentleman, albeit one who BBC that he would never call the he does not have any power over Forum Editor really enjoys grinning. A lot. outcome of Iraq a “victory,” and that Iranian foreign policy! That power Palin brushed aside the negative “it’s not war with a simple slogan.” belongs to Supreme Leader Moham- Kate Gaertner tive views of a Southern population expectations just as deftly. Was this I suppose that since we’ll never win, mad Khatami, the same man who Staff Columnist now alienated by the Democratic he Gaffe Machine versus really the same woman who shocked and Palin won’t surrender, we really controlled it during the moderate party. The two parties we have today the Empty Suit. Work- the nation with her incoherence and will have to stay in Iraq for 100 and conciliatory tenure of the previ- have evolved into what they are ing class Catholic versus ignorance only a few days prior? I years. I can’t imagine why Biden ous president, Mohammad Khatami. he men who drafted our because they have accommodated shotgun-totin’ evangelical. guess I’ll just have to believe my didn’t point this out. The overlap of the candidates Constitution never wanted the changing views of the public. ScrantonT versus Wasilla. lying eyes, because Sarah Palin was Biden also lost out big on a could be as interesting as their political parties. In fact, It is important to remember that No one really knew what to on her game tonight. She effectively chance to draw contrasts between differences, however. There was John Adams and his great democracy—and yes, I think it expect, and that made this vice avoided any “deer-in-headlights” the two candidates on women’s exactly zero difference in the FederalistT cronies were decidedly is still appropriate to believe that we presidential debate the most exciting moments, and she even managed rights. Biden, the man single-hand- candidates’ answers on Israel and against them. Adams wrote, “There are capable of great democracy— in recent memory. Does anyone a throwback allusion to one of the edly responsible for the Violence Palestine. Biden praised himself for is nothing I dread so much as a has a basis in deliberation, not in remember Cheney’s debate with Ed- most famous of Reagan’s beat- Against Women Act, would have his unwavering support of Israel in division of the Republic into two mere aggregation of votes. The de- wards? Does anyone even remember downs of Carter in the 1980 debates been wise to draw this contrast with the third person (I’m not kidding). great parties, each arranged under its liberation that occurs within our two that Lieberman, now an Independent (“There you go again”). Whenever Palin, who presided over Wasilla at Overall though, both candidates leader and converting measures into pluralist political parties—between sprinting to the right, was nearly a she became comfortable with the a time when it forced rape victims brought their A-game and scored opposition to each other.” interest groups and legislators, Democratic veep? topic at hand, her natural charisma to pay for their own “rape kits” to points at one time or another during Adams wanted more unity; most constituents and representatives, I have to admit that my heart immediately shone through with a investigate the crimes against them. the debate. Though I think Biden who denounce our system today citizens of all different colors and leapt into my throat when I saw twinkle in her eye. An ideal time would have been dur- was the winner at the end of the day, want less. Today, there are some types and opinions—is not only Biden grip Palin’s arm during their Still, I don’t think she showed ing Palin’s unironic denunciation of Palin’s performance was more than who denounce “politics as sport,” desirable, but necessary. Political handshake in a decidedly un-frater- a whole lot of improvement on Iran for suppressing women’s rights. adequate. McCain’s campaign: It’s claiming that presidential elec- parties provide a means for accom- nal way. Was the man who called substance. Her plan for Iraq: We’ll Biden also deserves credit for (still) alive!. tions become gross spectacles of modation. When a conservative Obama the fi rst mainstream, clean win! Withdrawing our forces would dispelling some of the more fool- statistics, during which the voting fi nancier from New York City and a and articulate African-American be “waving the white fl ag of sur- ish myths widely propagated by issues are decided by interest groups deer hunter from Arkansas can agree presidential candidate going to slip render!” Nevermind that Maliki the McCain campaign and rarely and the media, and political par- to support the same candidate, effec- up and fulfi ll the prediction that has endorsed Obama’s plan for scrutinized by the press. Mahmoud Bill is a senior in Arts & Sciences and ties manipulate the public through tive deliberation has occurred. Some he’ll look like a sexist or a bully? withdrawal. Nevermind that General Ahmadinejad may be every bit a forum editor. He can be reached via advertising. Moreover, there seems sort of unity has been reached. Thankfully, Biden handled himself Petraeus himself recently told the the nutcase he appears to be, but e-mail at [email protected]. to be this inherent assumption that Adams’ complaint against party the public is ignorant: that we vote politics was that they factionalize. on the basis of character, that we But now, in 2008, I can’t help but walk into our voting booths on think that factions are what we need. Election Day and mark down an Adams’ version of unity was always arbitrary preference and go about a stretch, even in an electorate our lives as before. The success of consisting entirely of white males; the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth it is impossible in our own pluralist four years ago certainly attests to society. But small-scale unity can Student Union this ignorance. exist, and our best hope for it, ironi- Political parties, it is said, enable cally, is through the deliberation this public ignorance. By streamlin- within two opposed yet accommo- ing the entire gradient of political dating factions. viewpoints on an infi nitude of issues Yes, we are given two packages into two candidates, political parties and asked to pick one, and yes, Treasury misguided simplify politics. We are given two perhaps this is a little degrading. packages and asked to pick one, and But party politics ensure that we are to some, this is degrading. each capable of affecting govern- But if we look to history again, ment. It is through political parties Adam Ralko Members of the Treasury son undermines Ben’s argument for this in future deliberations. we will see that political parties are that people with no governmental and Ian Hermann primarily became concerned with denying our funding and may have Our nation is now facing a themselves agents of change. John experience might enact a change in Op-Ed Submission the amount of money that has been helped the Treasury reach a better $700 billion bailout on Wall Street, Adams’ own party died out because policy; it is through interest groups already allotted to the College decision. Additionally, the Treasury and this is certainly an issue that it could no longer hold its footing. that social concerns become politi- Republicans for speakers in the (and Ben) seemed to ignore the fact will defi ne the waning days of the The great threat to any political cal concerns. So perhaps politics is lthough the events sur- past two academic years (Mike that we were planning to co-sponsor presidential campaign. Our school party is its eventual irrelevance, and merely a game. But it is a deft sport, rounding yesterday’s Huckabee at $16,000 and Alberto this event with three other groups, was given the opportunity to hear because of the competition between where the rules change every second vice presidential debate Gonzales at $31,000). A similar ar- an approach that the Treasury a brilliant economic mind in Ben two parties, each must stay on its and the teams constantly reas- certainly made for an gument was made by Ben Guthorn, actively encourages. Thus, Ben’s Stein discuss this monumental toes and remain relevant. In the semble. I can think of nothing more excitingA time on campus, students president of the College Demo- charge that the Treasury “cannot topic, yet SU passed on the offer. 1850s, the Democrats did every- enjoyable to watch. were unfortunately denied one ma- crats, both on the pages of Student continue to fund individual groups We appreciate those members of thing they could to accommodate jor event during the past week. The Life and in person at the Treasury at such a rate” is not applicable to the Treasury who maintained their pro-slavery arguments, because College Republicans, along with meetings. He lamented the $30,000 this situation. willingness to fund this event, but they lacked public backing without Kate is a sophomore in Arts & Sci- the Student Investment Fund, Delta honorarium that would be paid to Finally, the individual po- it is disappointing that some of the South. In the 1960s and ’70s, ences and a staff columnist. She can be Sigma Pi and Theta Xi had planned Stein, questioning the worth of this litical opinions of certain Treasury their colleagues sided with Ben the Republicans took measures to reached via e-mail at kgaertner@wustl. to co-sponsor Ben Stein on October proposed speech. However, this members came to light during the Guthorn in not funding, as he accommodate the socially-conserva- edu. 1 to discuss the economic issues collective argument by Ben and the discussion regarding the fi nal vote. described, “this minority group.” facing the nation in the upcoming Treasury lacks objective analysis. One member in particular encour- We would have expected a better election. Two weeks ago, the SU For example, the College aged her colleagues to “keep in attitude toward minorities from the Treasury gave every indication that Democrats brought Paul Begala to mind that we would be having a president of the College Democrats, funding would be approved as long campus last semester at a price of conservative speaker who believes and we would have expected fairer KESHAVARZ from page 8 as security access could be obtained $15,000. Yes, that was about half in intelligent design speaking on treatment from the Treasury. Now, for Stein to speak on campus the the price of Gonzales, but we had campus the day before the debate the biggest name to speak on cam- day before the debate. That access more than 500 students fi ll the 560 when the national spotlight would pus this election season will have have they survived living in Egypt Fifth, when images of large was subsequently granted, Graham Building for the former Attorney be on us.” We fi nd the implication been Mo Rocca, a mere comedian. for thousands of years? Then, and loud crowds in the film Chapel was booked, and the con- General. When asked by our vice of this statement insulting as it Maybe it’s just us, but this is no locate an Egyptian Copt through frighten you, imagine someone tract was nearly drafted. Then, at president about Begala’s crowd, suggests that hosting a conservative laughing matter. We thus urge the your local library, university, the taking a few shots from the GOP last week’s Treasury meeting, those Ben shook his head and would not would embarrass the University. Treasury to refocus its efforts on internet and/or friends. Ask that convention’s loud chants, put a same members did an about face even comment. We can only assume Furthermore, the topic of his speech funding pertinent speakers. person if he or she ever saw such scary voice over, add a few shots and voted to reject our appeal for that he failed to fi ll up Louderman was to be the economy, and his a statement in his or his children’s of American soldiers breaking into funding by a margin of 9-7-1. 458. But let’s say (generously) purportedly objectionable views school books. Iraqi homes in the middle of the This came as quite a disap- that Louderman holds 150 people on intelligent design are hardly Adam is a third-year student in the Third, invite a Persian speak- night, and throw a few statements pointing surprise. What could have and that all those seats were taken. relevant to that discussion. The School of Medicine and former President ing friend (of whom hundreds from right wing shows into the happened during the intervening The price per person would still Treasury members are elected to of the College Republicans. Ian is a junior of thousands live in the U.S.) to mix. It could be sold to Muslim week to bring about this change of be more than 60 percent greater make fi scal decisions, not to dictate in the Olin Business School and Director watch the movie with you. When audiences as “The American War heart? The answer is pretty simple: than the price per person attending what opinions are acceptable, and of Public Relations for the College Rela- supposed scenes from Iranian on Islam.” politics. Gonzales’ speech. Such a compari- they would do best to remember tions for the College Republicans. TV are shown, they will tell you Finally, please send this simple that the actual language they hear guide to a friend who has been is not Persian but Arabic. The terrified after watching Obsession documentary makers did not know and tell them to vote for Mr. Mc- what they were piecing together. Cain only if they like four more They banked on the fact that the years of what they have experi- DORNE audience will not know that either. enced for the past eight years… Fourth, the film interviews not because Muslims are at war from page 8 supposed Muslim fundamental- with America. They are not. ists who have turned nice, loving for making an informed decision. I’ve got the power? and truthful after conversion to Fatemed is Chair of the Department of Yet, I would encourage those Christianity. Ask yourself why Asian and Near Eastern Languages and who seek not to vote for a candi- you should trust them anymore Literature at Washington University and date in the hysteria of our general now than when they were ruthless the author of “Jasmine and Stars: Read- election cycle to look at the ballot Tess Croner it up, that’s between them and out of change my shirt and put up my hair, terrorists—if indeed they were ter- ing More than Lolita in Tehran.” closely and decide if there are Forum Editor my hands. Yes, I understand that I’m but I don’t exactly have the funds for rorists. If not, why are they lying? state or local issues that they feel the one who sold my soul. I made the massive plastic surgery (why mess strongly about and vote for them. choices that got me into this mess. with perfection anyway?). And my Don’t let the overriding focus our hen I was younger, And I make choices all the time— body never listens to me—it trips political media places on McCain around eight or nine, I’ve hardly surrendered my free will. me up with every step and occasion- LETTER TO THE EDITOR vs. Obama deter you, the Non- I was the master of But now I more vividly understand ally makes me stutter instead of Voter, from voicing your opinion my own universe. I the distinction between good choices speak. What kind of control is that? on other issues also on the ballot. Whad all sorts of ideas about control— and bad choices, and the pressure to And sure, I’m free to make my own Feel for conservatives Your right to vote is a privilege namely that I had a lot of it. I made make the good ones has reached a choices, but you already heard what I that begets you a certain amount of up all my own games and managed crescendo. So what choice do I really think about that. So for now, I know Dear Editor, responsibility to make an informed to coerce the neighborhood kids have? what’s advisable and what’s not— and conscientious choice; don’t into playing them with me. I did my And here I am, so much older, I’m trying my very best to stick with As a recent graduate of Wash. U. (2008), I’ve found myself limit that privilege by only taking a homework in a fl ash and then did so much more experienced, so much advisable. I guess even freedom has checking the Student Life Web site to get updates about the vice stand on the most covered issue. my friends’ homework just to speed learning under my belt. Of course, its limits. presidential debate. In the process, I stumbled upon Tricia Wit- As for both the McCain and things along. I raised generations one thing I’ve realized is that there I’ve decided it’s a great miscon- tig’s letter about being a Republican at Wash. U. Obama supporters, a few words of silkworms from egg to moth—a is no such thing as control in healthy ception that power comes with age. As an ardent liberal currently working for the Democratic par- of advice: while I would discour- child’s turn at playing God (I was relationships (well, there is self- I could never be powerful now the ties efforts in this election, I actually must agree with most of the age you to take in this election as both provider and occasionally, sadly, control—but who has that?). You just way I was when I was in elementary points in her editorial. a political sport or competition in destroyer). I even believed I could have to let go—isn’t that what they school. The years have made me a One of the things I loved about Wash. U. was its liberal and the way our 24-hour news cycle alter the truth with a colorful and always say? Well, I have absolutely tad more impotent, all this learning accepting atmosphere. As an openly gay (not “homosexual,” Ms. does, don’t let anyone deride you pervasive set of lies (my years as no desire to exercise power over and experience dumbing me down. Wittig) student, this was especially important to me. That being for your informed political choices. a compulsive liar ended when I hit other people. But hey, the timing is But perhaps there is something to said, during my experience here, I often noticed that the student Your voice is your own and it puberty—I promise). In the orchestra always off, or the distance too great, letting go of the desire to control. I body as a whole could be very hostile to the conservative opin- should be only yours, free from the that is life, I was my own conduc- or the circumstances too bizarre. I now recognize that I don’t have total ion. Part of being open and tolerant is tolerance of diverse politi- tyranny that sometimes leaks into tor. I set the tone and the pace for sure would like to have a little more authority over my time, my body, my cal opinions. Especially at an academic institution, it is important popular opinion. With this in mind, the whole performance—and that’s power over some of that stuff. I’ve feelings or (much more generally) that there be a voice for all legitimate political ideologies. People remind yourself that as this elec- exactly how I liked it. tried to fi ght all those things in the my life. And that is becoming more being allowed to express their political beliefs without fear of ret- toral marathon sprints to a close Things have really changed, past and have only a bruised ego and and more OK. So is just stepping ribution helps enhances the learning experiences of all students. those folks on the other “team” needless to say, with college suc- a fat lip to show for it. Is that really back and appreciating how my world Furthermore, when liberals berate and belittle their conser- may hold voices and opinions just cessfully beating into my brain that I fair? Should there really be so many and the people in it are helping to vative counterparts, it does in fact contribute to the destructive as strong as your own. So before have no control. Okay, an exaggera- things that affect me that I can’t do shape me. Maybe the weight of all image of liberals as elitist and somewhat hypocritical. you greet them with bile, try to do tion—I have very, very little control, anything about? Shouldn’t I be al- the things I can’t control will help me So I encourage all students to listen, discuss and yes, politely so with respect or tact fi rst. certainly in contrast to my godlike lowed to fi ght back? be strong enough to muscle myself disagree when appropriate, in their political discussions. Insults early days. I mean, look at my life You’ll tell me what any knowl- into changing for the better. Maybe I and the silencing of conservative opinions do nothing to advance now. A day without the library is a edgeable person would tell me: the should start raising silkworms again. the state of political discourse at our school and in our country. day loaded with guilt. My time is only thing I can ever have control Who knows, you might even find you agree more with conserva- Brian is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences. currently under lease to fi ve different over is myself. But what does that Tess is a senior in Arts & Sciences and tives than you think. And that is okay. He can be reached via e-mail at brian Wash. U. professors and this newspa- really mean? I have only minimal a forum editor. She can be reached via [email protected]. per. However they choose to divide control over my appearance: I can e-mail at [email protected]. Sean Karunaratne Class of 2008 10 STUDENT LIFE | CADENZA Cadenza Editor / Cecilia Razak / [email protected] Z FRIDAY | OCTOBER 3, 2008 CADENALBUM REVIEW PRODUCT REVIEW MOVIEA REVIEW New Surrender Nick and Norah’s Anberlin Infi nite Playlist The iPod nano Sha Sha Lu Nora Long Cadenza Reporter Cadenza Reporter new Like it or not, indie is slowly “One or more of the songs you have becoming the new mainstream. selected to import have already been im- Little did early online worshippers ported. Do you want to replace existing of afro-punk-reggae-pop (clearly, songs and import them again?” the more descriptors, the indie-er) Anyone who has iTunes and is also a band, Vampire Weekend, see the fan of Anberlin should be familiar with Cecilia Razak band’s first album debuting among this error message—the group has a Senior Cadenza Editor Billboard’s top 20. Now their song tendency to re-release old songs. In this appears in the soundtrack of a major case, the culprit was “Feel Good Drag.” motion picture, alongside the likes Not only was the song, more reminis- of We are Scientists, Band of Horses cent of Good Charlotte or Linkin Park pening the case housing the Say you’re jogging while listening to the and other bands that the cool kids than Anberlin’s usual sound, released new iPod nano might just be a “Yellow Submarine” album, and have gone listen to. “Nick and Norah’s Infinite as a single before New Surrender came religious experience. If angels through all the songs with lyrics. You’re into Playlist” is an offspring of this new out, but it wasn’t even close to new in don’t sing as the clear plastic the boring instrumentals now, but don’t want indie generation, eagerly embracing August. “Feel Good Drag was originally door swings back, it’s only to stop to switch albums. Just give the thing the concept of musical soulmates: part of Anberlin’s fi rst well-known al- because Apple hasn’t yet stashed the recording a good, hard shake, and it will automatically two people who absolutely belong bum, “Never Take Friendship Personal,” Oin the packaging. switch to song shuffl e. The up-and-down of together because, oh my god, their which came out back in 2005. It was The nano is a feat of design. It’s 3.6 inches your jogging, however, doesn’t bother it a iPod playlists are totally the same. even popular enough to make it onto the tall, 1.5 inches wide, thin enough to fi t three bit. You may now have to deal with “Aaron’s “Nick and Norah” tries to be Tooth and Nail Records compilation CD. times over in an envelope and slightly ovular, Party: the Aaron Carter mix,” but it’s worth everything at once—hipster yet So much for the history lesson. If with a curved crystal glass display screen. It the risk. still mainstream-friendly, fast- you can get past the fact that Anberlin is fi ts easily in hand, and the curved edges mold Apple’s newest and most excitedly hyped paced, intimate, profound, realistic trying to trick their way into a resurgence comfortably into the fold between thumb and feature, the Genius Sidebar, is featured yet dream-like. Unfortunately, the in popularity for their old material, “New palm as you spin the click wheel. It makes prominently. Hold down the center button on resulting concoction produces the Surrender” is defi nitely worth adding to the generation-two nano look like a slide rule, a selected song until a menu pops up, and the effect of bland nothingness. your music library. Anberlin has always the original iPod like an abacus and all other Genius is the fi rst option. It suggests like- The premise runs as follows: had a feel for the art of the CD—all the products like those pieces of knotted string the minded songs for purchase from iTunes. If you When the fictitious band, Where’s songs on a given album may be great, Incas used to count on. And this is just talking haven’t already, you will have to download Fluffy, announces a surprise concert but they’re best experienced all together, about form. iTunes 8, free from Apple, and turn on the at an undisclosed location, our two preferably in one sitting. “New Surren- As for function, the nano does everything Genius function for this to work. protagonists are brought together der” puts songs like “New Resistance,” previous products have done, with a few Unlike Microsoft’s Zune or the Touch, for a night of self-discovery as they the fi rst song on the album and a surpris- touted upgrades, and everything an MP3 the iPod nano doesn’t connect to the internet romp through New York City. Nick ingly metal one, right alongside much player should do. It holds either eight or 16 (so you can’t automatically buy new music O’Leary (Michael Cera), the only more acoustic love songs. It can get gigabytes of music, movies, videos, podcasts, suggested by the Genius) and no iPod models straight member of his band, The pretty diffi cult to characterize the group photos and games. It will play a day of straight have an AM/FM tuner (though you can buy an Jerk Offs, still suffers the heartbreak with one particular sound, just because music or you can watch a movie and a half per external attachment for radio). The nano also of his split from the seductive and they have so much variety from song to a single battery charge. won’t charge from older generations of USB unfaithful Tris. To console himself, song. Even within a given song, such as Snazzy new features include an acceler- power adaptors, so if you don’t want to charge he continues to send her personal- “Breaking,” there are several different ometer—like the iPhone and Touch, the nano directly from your computer, you might need ized, meticulously-packaged mixed musical infl uences that emerge during knows when you’ve fl ipped it to its side and to upgrade power adaptors. CDs. As Tris throws each CD away, the course of the song, meaning quick adjusts the aspect of its screen— and nine But even with these minor shortcomings, who happens to pick them out of the changes from the gentle acoustic guitar different colors for its exterior and a shake Apple and its iPod prove themselves a force to school garbage but Norah Silver- and crooning vocals, to a more uptempo, shuffl e. be reckoned with, and entertain in the process. berg (Kat Dennings). She adores the tonally complex chorus, to a suddenly What’s that, you ask? playlists and even appreciates the and shockingly distorted bridge from album art. What can only follow is a a synthesizer and back to the original sound for the big fi nish. This kind of variation could make for a choppy experience, but somehow, ★★✮✩✩ directed by Peter Sollett

and starring Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Ari Graynor, Alexis Dziena

iPOD REVIEW : MUSIC OF CECELIA RAZAK release date October 3, 2008 Song titles A-Z:“Aaron’s Party” Aaron Carter chance encounter one night between “Zombies Walk” Sufjan Stevens/Kanye West mashup the two, followed by multiple ad- ventures as they search for Where’s ★★★★✮ Fluffy, chase down Norah’s intoxi- for fans of The fact that the fi rst song on this iPod, alpha- A few hip-hop standards like Ja Rule’s “Put cated best friend Caroline, break old betically, is a cut off of Aaron Carter’s seminal It on Me” pop up here and there but do not domi- relationships and make new ones. Switchfoot, Counting Crows, All party album notwithstanding, the track list on this nate the proceedings. One is much more likely to With so many to-dos on Nick Time Low MP3 player is certainly befi tting that of a Cadenza spend time with Aimee Mann and Sufjan Stevens and Norah’s plate, it comes as no editor. And Cecilia Razak isn’t just any Cadenza than Jay Z and Girl Talk on this music mix. wonder that the camera zips audi- tracks to download editor, she’s THE Cadenza editor. All in all the music offers a good entry into ences from place to place. It is New “Miserabile Visu (Ex Malo While movies have always been her strong Razak’s music taste. It can’t really be described as York-in-a-minute, as we hop from suit, the well-managed playlists featuring hip a party Pod, but it certainly offers enough variety raucous night clubs to nondescript Bonum),” “Retrace,” “Burn Out indie-rockers like Frou Frou, a strong presence to get a bumping groove going with some careful streets and adjacent convenient Brighter (Northern Lights)” from the often underappreciated soul god Sam prep work. It certainly shows that Razak values stores to NYC landmarks like Times Cooke and the complete works of Randy New- artists who are storytellers (Randy Newman, The Square, the Brooklyn bridge and in the experienced hands of lead singer man prove an open musical taste with no fear of Zombies, Warren Zevon, Aaron Carter) which Grace Church. Regrettably, the lack Stephen Christian, it all fl ows together. overrepresentation (The Beatles and Mr. Newman fi ts with one who spends so much time watching of flow and coherence between the The CD is characterized by its subtle are obviously heavy favorites). movies. scenes results in an overall impres- vocal harmonies, the wistful lyrics that, The iPod itself is a standard size video model, Perhaps the most refreshing element is that sion of messiness. as college students with our whole lives bound lovingly by a homemade carrying case this iPod features no crafting: There is no artifi cial Amidst their nocturnal esca- ahead of us, we might be just a little bit fashioned from black duct tape and what appears rounding of the music library to make the owner pades, the development of Nick and young to appreciate, and of course the to be some semi-offi cial document on Washington seem more broadly interested than she is. There Norah’s relationship becomes lost in guitar work. University letterhead. Though the model allows are a few atypical tracks here and there, but not the telling. It appears merely as an That said, one song does stand out as for it, no videos populate the iPod’s memory enough to suggest any intentional shaping. The artificial outgrowth of their shared the best on the album, and maybe even banks; instead Razak opts for various NPR pod- music sticks a little too close together, but shows music tastes and shared company the best the group has ever come out casts and a healthy number of playlists named for a broad range of the same kind of music from the for the night. with. This is “Miserabile Visu (Ex Malo friends, real or imagined. ’50s and ’60s through Oasis into Radiohead and As expected, Cera plays the Bonum.” The title seems pretentious, The music sampling leans toward the multiple remixes and mash-ups. sweet, sensitive, slightly clueless especially since Latin is one language individual song based variety, as opposed to one All in all this was not a totally inspiring listen- character as he always has, with not easily translatable online, so I have based on complete albums. Razak’s iPod features ing experience, but a pleasant one, and refreshing the same mannerisms he always no idea what it means. everything from the standards (Radiohead’s “OK at that. Too many iPods are bloated with tracks has. He is one character who goes The song itself, however, more than Computer,” the funnier “Flight of the Conchords” never listened to. This is not a problem with through the stages of preteen (“Ar- makes up for any ostentation in the title. songs) to more offbeat attractions (the melancholy Razak’s iPod, and while no one will be demot- rested Development”) to adolescent If at all possible, listen to it in surround Human Being“She’s Too Good for Me” by Warren Zevon, ing her to Music Editor anytime soon, she shows boy (“Superbad” and “Juno”) and sound or with headphones. The fi rst Position Positionand an hilarious meditation on the state with the enough of a knowledge and sense of history to now to the adolescent boy who has impression is of some manner of acoustic lowest highest point by Canadian rockers Moxy make her presence as ruler of all things Cadenza a learned to play bass guitar. Never- instrument throbbing back and forth Furvous). happy sign for the future of Student Life. theless, it is Cera who saves this between your ears, as if the song itself is film from sinking too far into the pit bouncing around in your head. True to -Brian Stitt, Managing Editor of mediocre romantic comedies, and Anberlin, the song phases back and forth he does so simply by being himself. through several styles, but in six and a Those who have enjoyed his past half minutes, it reaches an epic level, performances will surely enjoy almost comparable to a truly classic rock his awkward humor in “Nick and anthem like “Stairway to Heaven.” The Norah,” particularly those interac- Latin title is only refl ected in the snatch- tions with his queer, endearing band es of haunting, wordless vocal music like members. something out of a cathedral, since the Unfortunately, Cera’s lovable song itself is obviously in English. stiffness is matched by Dennings’ After several listens, I’m still not plain, prosaic stiffness. Perhaps the sure what the lyrics are about, just that movie makers wanted to portray the phrase “look, children, to the Eastern two characters that were both closed sky” is repeated many times to great off to the world behind their own effect. It’s the song you can imagine protective bubbles before finding painting a masterpiece to, or maybe just each other. However, they seem to turning on the visualizer and being hyp- remain closed off for an awfully notized. If you don’t want to buy the CD, long time—long enough for a city defi nitely download “Miserabile Visu,” as energetic as New York to swal- but as the fi nal track on the CD, it means low up much of the spark remaining more, the culmination of the auditory in the story of the protagonists. adventure that is “New Surrender.” FRIDAY | OCTOBER 3, 2008 Sports Editor / Josh Goldman / [email protected] STUDENT LIFE | SPORTS 11

SPORTSWOMEN’S SOCCER Athletes register students to vote Bears suffer setback on road Dan Chen come up with a win,” Mehner said. The three goals scored against Sports Editor Johann Qua Hiansen Each volunteer worked two- Wash. U. were a season high and came Sports Editor hour shifts during the drive. The after the team had surrendered fi ve drive went from 1-11 p.m. and goals over its previous eight games. registered slightly fewer than 50 On Wednesday, however, the defense students. The Washington University wom- did not clamp down like it had been Student athletes at Washington “It’s good for people to take en’s soccer team dropped a heart- doing in the previous weeks, and the University organized a non-parti- a stand and vote especially since breaker to the Division-II Missouri team also failed to clear the ball from san voter drive that took place on we’re hosting the vice presidential University of Science and Technology around the net. Sept. 24 outside the Athletic Com- debate,” senior Krystyn Stowe of on Wednesday with a score of 3-1. Af- Injuries did not help the Lady plex. the women’s track team said. “Ei- ter winning two straight road games Bears’ defense, as junior Emily Byls- Senior Sean Wallis and junior ther everyone was already signed and four overall, the Lady Bears again ma was out with an injury while se- Ross Kelley of the men’s basket- up or eager to register.” fell while off Francis Field, where nior Carly Anderson was limited by ball team came up with the idea The drive even garnered some they are a mediocre 2-2-1. illness. Wash. U. was forced to change and organized the drive only one media attention as KPLR St. Louis During road games, the team has its formation and use only three backs week earlier. Wallis got the ball CW 11 interviewed a few of the played inconsistently, often allow- instead of the traditional four. rolling by presenting the idea at student volunteers. ing the fi rst goal, which happened “We had to play with a three-back a meeting of the Student Athletic Both soccer teams, the foot- Wednesday night. set more than we were used to… Advisory Council, which helped ball team, the volleyball team, the Throughout the fi rst half, Wash. it added to the confusion,” Mehner advertise the drive. cross country teams, both tennis U. controlled the tempo of the game said. Wallis and Kelley drew their teams and the swimming and div- and played aggressive soccer. They Despite being down 3-0, the Red inspiration from their class, Top- ing team are in season. “A lot of actually led the competition in terms and Green managed to score one goal. ics in Politics: Campaigns and athletes, particularly those in sea- of shots taken and pressure applied. Senior Caitlin Malone took a pass Elections. “Since we are the ones son, were very happy to be able to However, despite the offensive force from junior Carter Schwarberg and getting booted from our home (the fi ll out a registration card so easily exerted, the team was unable to fi nd put it into the back of the net. AC), we felt like this would be a and conveniently,” Kelley said. the back of the net. “After Malone scored the goal, we good opportunity to get involved According to Stowe, Athletics “We played really well in the fi rst seemed to get into it. We just weren’t before it shut down,” Wallis said. Director John Schael gave the ath- half; we really controlled the game,” consistent,” freshman midfi elder Lee “Between practice and school, it’s letes permission to register voters senior midfi elder Lauren Mehner said. Ann Felder said. a tough demographic to reach, so outside the Athletic Complex but She also emphasized that the team If the Bears did in fact regain that we wanted to make sure everyone told them they could not set up a cannot afford to start slowly and needs fi re, rhythm and intensity, it could not was registered.” table. “We had to be careful not to to start strong with a fi re and carry that have come at a better time. Washing- According to Wallis, the Col- create a fi re hazard,” Stowe said. passion throughout the game. ton University starts conference play lege Democrats gave the athletes With permission to stand out- Once the second half began, the Sunday, Oct. 5 at Carnegie Mellon the voter registration cards and a side the Athletic Complex, the vol- Lady Miners quickly scored three University. little training in how to properly unteers were able to get students goals in the fi rst 20 minutes before the “It’s a bump in the road. We need fi ll them out. “That being said, it registered in about one minute. Bears had a chance to adjust and react to focus on putting the game away was a non-partisan voter registra- “It was very convenient to be to the sudden attacks. when we have control of the game. tion drive, not pro-Obama or pro- able to register right outside the “They went on a scoring run and It’s a wakeup call, [and] it’s a good McCain,” Wallis added. AC,” freshman Brittany Hassel- got three fairly quick goals…we bat- time to come. Our fate is still in our MATT MITGANG | STUDENT LIFE “They did a phenomenal job,” bring of the women’s basketball tled really hard, but we weren’t able to hands,” senior Shirey Lane said. Junior back Cassie Scaman controls the ball playing against Wartburg College. College Democrats President Ben team said. “It was nice to have Guthorn said. “They should re- someone I knew help me through ceive all the credit.” the registration process.” The 10 student athlete volun- At the end of the drive, Wallis STUDENT LIFE presents a guide to places of worship in the WU community teers came from a diverse mix of and senior Tyler Nading collected teams including men’s basketball, the cards and mailed them to the volleyball, women’s soccer, track appropriate authorities. “It was a and softball. “It was great to see great way to engage the athletes athletes from all the sports get be- in the political atmosphere around hind this drive,” Kelley said. campus,” Wallis said.

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PROTESTS Over 400 students received debate tickets from page 5 Craig Ostrin and chair of the Vice Presidential dents in the lottery. all the CPD tickets in the hands of “I’m very excited,” he said. Contributing Reporter Debate Steering Committee, said. 389 students came to the draw- students allowed 43 students who “I’m just looking forward to “Because this is not like a theater ing, leaving 43 tickets to spare. were not in the lottery to receive hear[ing] both of them. I’m on the where we know how many seats With such a substantial number of tickets. Students targeted for the fence right now, so I want to hear the vice presidential debate. A total of 432 students re- there are, literally, until 48 hours tickets remaining—and no way of second distribution of tickets in- what they have to say.” “These debates are very co- ceived tickets to the vice presi- up to the debate they were still contacting the students with lower cluded campus leaders, volun- Overall, the debate’s focus ordinated, very planned,” Haslet dential debate—close to three setting the number of seats on the lottery numbers—University ad- teers and students known to the seemed to be on Alaska Gov. Sar- said. “They’ve got a scripted set of times the number of students who floor.” ministrators decided to give tick- administration. ah Palin, as many students went questions that are very rehearsed. had received tickets at previous There was no shortage of inter- ets to student leaders who were The total 432 tickets distrib- into the debate with their eyes on We want to know how their poli- debates. est in attending the debate: 7,148 not a part of the lottery. uted to students do not include an her. cies will affect the little guys… The tickets, which were allot- students applied for tickets before According to Assistant Vice unknown number of students who “I pretty much have a very By spending money on the war, its ted to Washington University by the lottery closed on Friday, Sept. Chancellor for Students Jill Car- received tickets from the media Tina Fey-opinion of Sarah Palin taking away precious funds from the Commission on Presidential 26. Initially the University ex- naghi, there were three options: outlets for whom they were work- right now, so it’ll be interesting investing in these important is- Debates (CPD), were first dis- pected to receive tickets for only the University could have let the ing. whether the extra training she’s sues.” tributed through the University’s 100 to 150 seats, but as the week seats go empty, given the tickets Freshman Parsa Bastani was done for this has gotten her up to Haslet and other protesters in lottery system. When the number progressed, it quickly became to administrators or given them to one of the lucky few who received date,” junior Emily Lebsack said. Instead of War created homemade of tickets available exceeded the clear that more seating would be students they know. a ticket but was not in the top 300 “As for Biden, I have a lot of re- tickets, which they presented to number of lottery numbers drawn, available. “[Letting the seats go empty] lottery. spect for him and for his experi- debate officials on campus. These tickets were distributed to student “I’m just so thrilled,” Wild would have been a crime, and “I was pulsating entering, be- ence.” homemade tickets, according to leaders. said. “We thought we were going giving the tickets to administra- cause I wasn’t originally supposed Haslet, were meant to call atten- “The real reason we had more to get 150 students in and we got tion and faculty would go against to have a ticket,” he said. “It was With additional reporting by tion to the need for transparency seats in there was that we had a nearly three times that many.” everything we stand for, and what such an electric atmosphere.” Sam Guzik and Dan Woznica. for the average citizen. lot more partial and obstructed Because the University was we have done in each debate we As an undecided voter, junior “These are tickets that have view seats on the sides,” Rob given so many tickets, more tick- got,” Carnaghi said. Jimmy Cox was focused on the been certified by the people,” Has- Wild, assistant to the Chancellor ets could be distributed to stu- In the end, the decision to keep issues. let said. “We, the people here, want these questions to be inserted in the debate. There’s some legitimacy to the neutrality of scripted ques- tions, but we could have learned those answers weeks ago. There’s nothing said that will be new.” Though demonstrators Denise Devaro and her sister were not affiliated with the Instead of War protesters, they sought to bring attention to the issue of women’s rights and abortion. The sisters held signs reading “Pro-Life Mama for Obama” and “Catholic Mama for Obama.” “As a Catholic, I feel that peo- ple who are not pro-choice are anti-abortion, because if you’re truly pro-life, you have to support life in all its phases,” Devaro said. “I’m in favor of universal health- care, and education, and children, and people who are indigents. I believe that as one of the richest countries in the world, we should be taking care of people who have the least.” Near the end of the rally, the In- stead of War protesters marched up Big Bend Boulevard, attempting to gain access through the barricades. The group, numbering somewhere between 60 to 100 protesters, ar- rived banging homemade drums made from plastic buckets. The protesters, however, stopped at a fence in the road that blocked the path to the Athletic Complex. On the other side of the fence, six St. Louis County police officers on bicycles lined up in two rows directly facing the protesters. No violence ensued, but the pro- NEVER testers stood and beat their drums for approximately ten minutes. “We want substance, not the same old song and dance,” they chanted. The protest eventually disband- LET THEM FORGET ed and the protesters left the area. Elliot believes that it may be too late for the changes that the pro- testers demand to turn the country around, but he says he is still pro- that testing because “[he doesn’t] want to see anyone else die.” “I came here to protest the war, because it’s unjust. It’s not right TIME. for people to go to war without the people to vote on it,” Elliot said. “Voting people have the right to Whether it’s a camera phone to capture those vote on going to war and on any- thing that the government does that unforgettable moments or a smartphone to involves the people.” e-mail them to the world, with all the newest phones, the one you want is here.

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fellowship Class matters: From classroom crush to real Eric Rosenbaum dorms. However, he still under- provide advice about research and effects. While Danforth 4 residents Scene Reporter stands that what he and his peers do graduate opportunities to interested like Bono, they do not completely romance this year will infl uence what hap- freshmen. As a psychology student understand what his role is on the pens to the program in the future. and teacher of the class “Psychol- fl oor. Tim Bono could pass for an un- “I volunteered to be the guinea ogy of Young Adulthood,” he has “I don’t really know what he dergraduate. Not only does he look pig,” Bono said. contributed his knowledge. For does, but he’s a nice guy,” resident Willie Mendelson anything you see on that person’s young and sound young for an ’05 One of Bono’s early ideas was instance, the RAs of Danforth 3 Joe Greer said. “There are so many Staff Manager Facebook, even if you do stalk Wash. U. graduate and a Ph.D. stu- to concentrate his efforts on a single asked him to organize a presentation elder fi gures already.” him or her daily. dent, but he also lives on the South freshman fl oor. At a meeting with on confl ict resolution. The future of the program is If you fi nd yourself in a large 40 as the only graduate student in RAs early this year, he met Dani “I kind of like having a grad stu- already in doubt. While there are “Mean Girls” is one of my fa- lecture environment and notice Shepley Hall. Porter and Mike White, the RAs for dent here, just so I know what life is no reasons to think that it will be vorite movies for a number of rea- that cute guy who comes to class Bono is among the fi rst wave of Danforth 4. Together, they worked like after graduation,” said resident canceled, in an experiment such as sons. Not only is it based on my every day, you’ll know that he graduate students in a revived pro- out a plan for Bono to join the Greg Gerold. “You have RAs on the this one, anything can happen. hometown—and quite accurately probably cares about schoolwork, gram called the Graduate Fellows fl oor in certain activities, including fl oor, but they’re just a year or two The live-in aspect may disappear so—but it also features a variety which is always good. Though it Program. A fellow works with one weekly fl oor brunches. As a result, older than you.” in future years. According to Bono, of romantic issues and plights may be hard at fi rst, sit next to residential college; Bono is the grad- Bono has become a sort of fl oor VIP. In addition, Bono is learning there has been talk of building common to many young adults him one day. Flash a charming uate fellow with Danforth, Shepley “I missed fl oor brunch once, and a lot himself. Part of his motiva- effi ciency apartments for graduate in the real world. Oh, and even I smile, and you can even ask to and Wheeler dorms. I really heard about it,” he said. tion for taking this position was to students above the eatery of the new have to admit that Lindsay Lohan borrow a pencil/pen/piece of pa- Offi cially, the program allows Resident Amanda Freedman experience his area of study more Wohl Center. In that case, graduate looked smokin’ in this movie. per. Just don’t let him look in your recent alumni to live with under- could not be happier with her gradu- immediately than he had in the past. fellows, whatever their role, would Regardless, one issue pre- backpack to see that you actually graduate students and act as liaisons ate fellow. Vice Chancellor for Students Jill likely move into those apartments. sented in the fi lm deals with have one and are just asking to between students, the Residential “He helped us get second place Carnaghi told him prior to gradua- As for Bono, his future is also Lohan’s character pretending to initiate conversation, because then College Director (RCD), Corner- in WUTube,” she said, referring to tion and the proposal of the program uncertain. He had sworn to himself not understand a class she is in so he may think you’re crazy. stone and Residential Life. In real- the annual video-making competi- that he should look for something that he would leave St. Louis after she can be tutored outside of class Another tip is to try to talk ity, the fellows’ real responsibilities tion among freshman fl oors. “He like it. graduation, but keeps fi nding new by the guy of her dreams. While with that person after class. That are outlined on the job. was very serious about learning how “You learn so much from reasons to stay. Finally, he may have this led to further consequences, is, if you and a friend grab lunch Bono spent a lot of time last year to snap right.” students that you gain invaluable a chance, but is no longer sure that I couldn’t help but sympathize and happen to see that cute girl looking into similar arrangements at More importantly to Bono, perspective,” Bono remembered he wants to go. with Lohan’s character. Keyword: sitting with her friend, it is more other universities and came up with however, he has been able to use Carnaghi saying. “I do have a pretty fi erce al- character; not actually sympathiz- than all right to walk up to her, some ideas, including proposals that his experience to help students. As Despite these measures of suc- legiance to Washington University,” ing with Lindsay Lohan, since say hello and make a comment graduate fellows live in residential an alumnus, he has been able to cess, there are some disappointing he said. that’s pretty hard to do. After all, about that day’s class, like how what are we supposed to do when boring it was, or laugh over an we want to spend time with that absurd comment some other stu- attractive individual in our class dent made in class. Eventually, if outside of class? How do we win love is in the cards, you guys can that special someone over and fi nd start eating lunch together. Given out what he or she is really like time, this can lead to hangouts off outside of an academic setting? campus. Let’s say you are in a small If you want to take eating class, and in this class there’s that lunch together to the next step, good-looking guy or girl you want tell that person that you guys to talk to, get to know better and, should make a time to hang out if there’s chemistry, spend time that weekend or go out one night. with outside of the classroom. It can be said causally, while Hopefully, your professor will simultaneously allowing you to encourage class discussion and get the message across that you’re maybe even small group work. If into him or her. You can also ask so, do everything in your power to that person to study with you, try to work with that person. since group studying is both fun You can even just walk up to and productive—well, some- them one day and say, “I really times. More importantly, this is a liked what you said about...” or nonchalant question, and a study “What you said about this or that date could with time progress to text was so interesting.” It’s as romance. All you have to do is simple as that. communicate. A compliment always proves So the next time you want helpful in the game of love, and to pull a Lindsay Lohan and are this can easily lead to a bond and tempted to pretend to be stupid an excuse to work together. If just to have that special someone you don’t actually think what that tutor you, don’t. After all, playing person says is interesting, either dumb probably won’t work—we move on or, if you are just that are pretty bright kids. Just re- attracted to that person physically, member to be yourself, talk to the fi nd some other compliment. person you’re interested in and if Just don’t be overly mania- it’s meant to be, it will be. WUSTL PHOTO SERVICES cally friendly, and never refer to Students relax outside Danforth House on the South 40. The William Greenleaf Eliot Residential College is now home to a new graduate fellow as part of a program aimed at providing regular guidance from a different perspective.

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“A Child’s Guide to Modern Interrogation Techniques.” Feeding through the Band —Jason Anderson, senior

Rachel Metter ticket sales or merchandise into org and see what’s happening. has major plans to expand. “I see Scene Reporter the mouths of hungry children. Let’s go to the LiveFeed event us becoming a national organiza- The organization works close- and make a difference.’” tion in the next five years through ly with Operation Food Search As of now, the campus pro- campus chapters. It will virally “‘Wars of Chocolate’—a work of Imagine this: Your favorite and their backpack program, gram is looking to get as many spread,” Graham said. fi ction in which people shoot canons band is coming to St. Louis, and which gives these hungry children people involved as possible. LiveFeed’s current approach to with fl ames of chocolate and people you’re super-pumped to see them a backpack full of nutritious food Sophomore Josh Truppman, who its national development is host- are boiled in chocolate.” play. And by purchasing a ticket, for the weekend. The concept is to recently joined the group, really ing “battle of the cans” events at —Hunter Zupnick, senior you are single-handedly feeding bring it back on Monday to be re- enjoys the fact that there is no local high schools and presenting a hungry child in St. Louis for filled for the following weekend. hierarchy yet. “How we’re operat- information about the program. the whole weekend. LiveFeed, It only costs four dollars to feed ing right now is that everyone is Ideally, seniors will get excited one of St. Louis’ newest and most a child for that amount of time. equal, and the organization is a about the organization and spread innovative non-profit organiza- LiveFeed makes it incredibly easy team. I’m excited to be involved the information at their future tions, is making this scenario a for people to donate to a good at such an early stage,” he said. respective college campuses. “A choose-your-own-adventure reality, “ending hunger, one show cause without any extra effort. Kurtz agreed. “Someone can Graham said, “Anybody at any fantasy novel about a world with at a time,” as its slogan proudly LiveFeed has grown very do an event and run with it if they other university could set up a seven dimensions and no gravity.” declares. rapidly in the past year and is want to.” LiveFeed chapter. They would —Ellie Elster, junior and Kevin In November 2007, Tom currently establishing its first LiveFeed St. Louis and just need to get in contact with us, Banas, senior Robinson, LiveFeed’s founder, campus chapter here at Wash. U., LiveFeed Wash U. have plans to and we have a package of materi- came up with the idea to take which will serve as the model for work closely together, but each als ready to go.” events that were already happen- future campus chapters. is an entity of its own. The city As of now, though, the Wash. ing in the St. Louis area and give Outreach coordinator and organization will be the campus’ U. chapter is trailblazing the first them a cause. In St. Louis alone, senior Steve Kurtz is working support network, and each group campus pathway to ending hunger there are 135,000 people who go hard to ensure that the ultimate will function to serve the same through concerts and entertain- hungry each day. Many children goal of fully integrating LiveFeed purpose but will hold independent ment. depend on school lunches to into every entertainment event events. “The Book of Answers: All of get them through the week. The on campus is reached. Currently Amy Graham, director of If you are looking to become Them.” LiveFeed concept is a clever and he manages livefeed.org, which operations of LiveFeed St. Louis, a part of this innovative and —Sydney Rossman-Reich, mutually-beneficial idea: The or- lists all entertainment events said, “The Wash. U. chapter will exciting precedent, e-mail Steve freshman ganization hooks up with as many happening in the St. Louis area, always be a unique example Kurtz at [email protected]. If entertainment events in the area including non-LiveFeed events. because of the natural collabora- you would like to volunteer for as possible by promoting them “We want people to say ‘Oh, I’m tion with the city.” But it’s not LiveFeed St. Louis, e-mail Amy at and channeling a portion of the bored…let’s check out livefeed. stopping here. The organization [email protected]. Compiled by Felicia Baskin

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Kate Gallagher the host told us that there would be bread crumb outer layer and the quite as exciting as the western After all that pizza you’d think was better than the pie; it’s a close Scene Reporter a 30 to 45-minute wait for a table. creamy cheese inside. Need an- addition in my opinion, but it was that we’d be ready to go home, call. While we waited, I took in the other reason to order the pi’tites? still a very good, savory pizza. but we couldn’t leave Pi without All in all, we had a great night atmosphere, noting the busy bar The waiter assured us that they’re The thin-crust “Lincoln Park” had trying dessert. Guess what it was? at Pi. I can safely say that the What do you think of when area, the hardwood floors and the baked not fried, so they not only a completely different feel than the That’s right—the only dessert Pi pizza was delicious. In fact, I had you hear the word “pi”? Math white walls with black polka dots. taste a lot better than Bear’s Den other two pizzas. It was very light offers is pie. Made with the same some of the leftovers for break- majors, engineers and pre-meds We were finally seated in a din- mozzarella sticks, they’re actually with a crunchy crust and no sauce cornmeal crust, they offer an apple fast this morning. Is that weird? may begin to quickly rattle off the ing area away from the bar. It was better for you too. at all. It was topped with moz- pie as well as a seasonal pie. We Maybe, but the pizza was just that digits 3.14159—okay, that’s as far still quite noisy, which I suppose After we had finished our zarella, garlic olive oil, zucchini, decided to try the current seasonal good! So next time someone asks as I remember. Meanwhile, food- was a testament to Pi’s popularity. pi’tites, the pizzas arrived. At Pi, fresh tomato slices, feta and fresh pie, a peach pie. It was topped you about Pi, don’t start reciting ies like me will inevitably think Our table was hardwood with no you have several different options basil. The “Lincoln Park” was a with a lattice crust and accom- digits. Instead, wisely reply, “Ah, of lemon meringue or chocolate cloth, adding to the restaurant’s in your pizza selection. They offer nice complement to our heavier panied by creamy cinnamon ice yes it’s located on the Loop. Let’s silk, or maybe fresh blueber- casual feel. I sat on a wooden eight different specialty pizzas— deep-dish pizzas and would be a cream. My suitemate and I are still go this weekend. I hear they’re ries and pastry crusts. Yet, now chair while my friends sat on a four deep-dish style and four thin- wonderful choice on a hot day. debating whether the ice cream also open for lunch.” when you hear someone say “pi,” green wooden bench. The walls crust style. You can order either a be prepared to think outside the were painted a buttery yellow, and large or small size. You also have box—unless you’re thinking about our napkins were checkered red the option of creating your own a box of pizza. and white. While this may seem pizza. When I told my suitemates like a strange hodgepodge of col- We decided to try the “western that I’d never eaten Chicago-style ors and designs, it really worked addition,” “south side classico” pizza before, they flipped out. well, creating a hip, happy and and the “Lincoln Park.” My “You’ve never had Chicago-style vibrant atmosphere. Our waiter personal favorite was the western pizza before?! Did you grow up in arrived quickly and took our drink addition. This pizza consisted of a remote cave?” No, I just grew up orders. I decided to try the special mozzarella, ricotta and feta cheese in Ohio. Jeez. The next question organic iced tea. This unsweetened blended with spinach, mushrooms, I asked, of course, was where I iced tea had a nice hint of mango onions and garlic. All of the ingre- could find Chicago-style pizza flavor, but it was too bitter for dients tasted extra fresh. In case in St. Louis. “We’ll go to Pi!” me and no sugar was provided. you’re not familiar with Chicago- they exclaimed, and that was the Fortunately when I told the waiter style pizza, let me explain that the beginning of my love affair with I needed sugar, he rushed to get it cheese was on the bottom and the the new pizza place located on the for me. sauce was on the top. The deep Loop. Once our waiter explained that red sauce consisted of chunks of With its specialty Chicago- the pi’tites are an appetizer, we tomato and was neither too sweet style pizza and eco-chic atmo- decided that we had to have them. nor too sour. The pizza was packed sphere, Pi is not your typical St. The six pi’tites arrived on a long with spinach, and the ricotta Louis pizzeria. Waiters serve white plate. These delicious round cheese offered a creamy texture, deep-dish cornmeal crust pizza, morsels were made of fontina complementing the unique, gritty sporting shirts that say “Green is cheese blended with prosciutto yet satisfying texture of the corn- the new black.” Pizza boxes have and rolled in bread crumbs. Once meal crust. The garlic flavor was the recycling symbol on them, and I cut into them, the soft, creamy recognizable yet subtle. organic drinks are offered. cheese spilled out. Dipped in a red The south side classico pizza When we arrived at Pi on a marinara sauce, the pi’tites had a was also a deep-dish specialty, Saturday night around 7 p.m., it slightly smoky flavor with a hint which consisted of mozzarella, was hopping. The tables on the of rosemary. What really made this sausage, mushrooms, green bell patio were full of patrons sharing appetizer stand out was the mix peppers, onions and the same fresh KATE GALLAGHER | STUDENT LIFE large pans of pizza. To our dismay, of textures between the crunchy tomato sauce. This one was not The “Lincoln Park” is one of the many unique pizzas served at Pi, the hip, eco-friendly pizza joint located on the loop.