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THETHE VVOICEOICE OOFF VVANDERBILTANDERBILT SSINCEINCE 11888888 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2007 • 119 TH YEAR, NO. 19 THE WALL compiled by HARISH KRISHNAMOORTHI IMAGE week TODAY Campus engineers Alternative Spring Break Benefit raises body The benefi t will feature food and entertainment by a cappella groups drop into E-Week and will take place in image awareness the Student Life Center Ballroom from 5-7 p.m. Student organization has positive effect Tickets are on sale at the Sarratt Box Offi ce on students with disorders, image issues. for $8 or at the door for $10. Groups and by CHRISTINE BROWN someone alienates them and student organizations Staff Reporter can actually damage their can receive a discount. healing process.” All proceeds go to Senior Regan Bush, a IMAGE addressed the issue Alternative Spring Break. student who has recovered of body image in the media from anorexia, may never and how that infl uences THURSDAY, FEB. 22 have shared her story eating disorders at a Tuesday Networking confi dently if she had not met discussion. Th is program your way to an 2006 graduate Katie Protos looked at how the media internship session and become involved with the infl uences the public and The session will provide student organization IMAGE. aimed to off er students ways you with tips on how “I was anorexic in my to combat negative media and when to search senior year of high school; confrontations. and the benefi ts of when I came to Vanderbilt, IMAGE will hold a forum interning. The session I was in recovery, but I was entitled, “Bodies Across will also explain how still looking for people who Cultures” today at 12:10 p.m. to use networking to encouraged positive body in the Student Life Center fi nd internships. The image and self-acceptance,” and a nutrition lecture event will take place said Bush. “So I searched tonight at 6:30 p.m. in Sarratt in Student Life Center, around the campus, and after 363. Th ursday, there will be Room 220 from 4:30- meeting Katie I a panel discussion 5:30 p.m. found IMAGE. led by people who She was also have survived eating THURSDAY, FEB. 22 in recovery disorders. Open Mic Night at herself and I think there’s “Th e survivor the Writing Studio understood the such a pressure panel discussion Take fi ve minutes in the pressures that to focus on the is a very deep spotlight to showcase students face opportunity to your original works of at Vanderbilt. number on the look at how eating poetry, songs, fi ction, T h r o u g h back of your disorders have non-fi ction or satire. IMAGE I found aff ected someone’s Sign up online at www. a group that was jeans. We en- total life and the life vanderbilt.edu/writing/ willing to reject courage people of their family and events.html, at the that ultra thin to get rid of friends,” Protos said. Writing Studio or at the stereotype.” “It is particularly door. The event takes S t u d e n t s those. powerful because it place from 9-11 p.m. in met Monday —Regan Bush, senior is students’ stories, Alumni Hall, Room 117. in Furman for people just like you the fi rst event and me who have THURSDAY, FEB. 22 of IMAGE week to discuss struggled with this, who you MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler how they can best approach may have never thought have LAN Party in Sarratt Freshman Fred Hijazi prepares to compete in the egg drop competition held Tuesday afternoon in Featheringill Hall as a part of E-Week. Student Center friends whom they believe struggled with these issues.” —See video coverage of the egg drop on: Come for a full night of have an eating disorder. Th roughout the week gaming tournaments IMAGE is a student IMAGE will raise awareness on PlayStation 3, Wii, organization designed to with a table on the Wall XBox and even the raise awareness about eating featuring a lifesize Barbie Alternative Spring Break disorders and negative body doll. Th ey will also sponsor a N64. Show up early to get raffl e tickets for image as portrayed in the clothing drive, where students free game copies, a media. An event each day this are encouraged to give away console (either wii or hosts benefi t today week will address diff erent clothes that are too small for Xbox 360) and other issues surrounding eating them. door prizes. Come to Proceeds to offer financial aid to participants. disorder illnesses. “I think there’s such a play, watch or just eat “It is an activist group not a pressure to focus on the the food. The event by KELSEY PENDLETON as Momentum, Swingin’ Dores and Shun support group,” said Protos. number on the back of your will take place from 7 Contributing Reporter Minutia, a medical school band. Senior “We are a group where people jeans. We encourage people p.m. to midnight. Bart Freeze and sophomore Jade Morales can go and express their to get rid of those,” Bush said. Alternative Spring Break, the largest will also perform. Larry Dowdy, dean frustrations with body image Although IMAGE is FRIDAY, FEB. 23 student organization on campus, will host of electrical engineering and computer on campus, vent about body particularly active this week, AND SATURDAY, a fundraiser Wednesday. The benefit, science, who has participated in 15 ASB image and eating concerns it has had a positive eff ect on FEB. 24 which is in its second year, has become trips, will speak. but use that energy to do many students at Vanderbilt Dance Marathon the major fundraiser for scholarship Senior Sarah Reinhold, public relations good.” who have been struggling Support the Monroe funds available to ASB applicants. chair for ASB, said she expects a large Protos discussed various with body issues. Carell Jr. Children’s The average cost to participate in ASB crowd this year. tactics that students could “IMAGE was a place where Hospital at Vanderbilt is $260; however, “We’re trying to use to approach their friends I could talk about body by coming to Dance some sites grow more and give at the Monday event. For image,” Protos said. “I could Marathon. The event where airfare is out more aid every instance, she recommended talk about eating disorders, is this weekend, Feb. necessary can We don’t feel like money should be year until we can meet being caring but fi rm and and it didn’t have to be secret. 23-24, 7 p.m. to 9 cost more than a factor that inhibits students from everyone’s needs up confronting the issue by It was always nice to have a.m. in the Student $500. to 100 percent,” she being honest but not accusing IMAGE when I would start to Recreation Center. “This year, we being able to participate in ASB. said. your friend. Above all, she struggle again; it was a place There will be food, gave out about —Stephanie Saclarides, ASB Education Co-Chair ASB Benefit will be stressed the importance of to reground myself. IMAGE prizes, entertainment ten thousand held today from 5-7 friends in dealing with eating is a great way to use our own and games. Tickets dollars in financial aid, and one of the big p.m. in the Student Life Center Ballroom. disorders. experiences to help other are $10 and a silent contributors was last year’s ASB Benefit,” Tickets are available at the Sarratt Box “Th is event is mainly people.” ■ auction will take place. said ASB Treasurer, senior Marcela Office for $8 or at the door for $10. aimed at helping people For more information Camargo. “We don’t feel like money should be a communicate with their —Listen to IMAGE President Reagan Bush visit www.vudm.org. This year, ASB Benefit will feature factor that inhibits students from being friends, help them in the discuss her struggle with anorexia and refelct a buffet with samplings from local able to participate in ASB,” said ASB right way,” Protos said. “Too on the role IMAGE played in supporting her recovery on: restaurants including Maggiano’s, Boscos Education Co-Chair, senior Stephanie often friends have the best Check out and Calypso Cafe. Live entertainment Saclarides. ■ intentions, but the way that http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu for more events. will be provided by student groups such they go about talking to

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CORRECTION The photo in the Feb. 19 issue IN THE KNOW entitled, “Students use local The news you need — in brief Danny Glover makes center to climb,” was innacurately compiled by HARISH KRISHNAMOORTHI credited to Mason Hensley. Tyler Hagen shot the photo.The Hustler regrets the error. CAMPUS Vanderbilt economist James Foster to be Vanderbilt appearance WEATHER compiled by HARISH KRISHNAMOORTHI honored in Mexico TODAY A Vanderbilt University economist will be honored this month in Mexico; his work on anti-poverty measures is one to support living wage of the foundations of Mexico’s “Oportunidades” program to help the poor. James E. Foster, professor of economics and senior fellow at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Public Policy Studies, will receive a rare Honorary Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo. In the 135-year history of the university, only six other people Isolated Storms, 60/41 have received the honor for “professors and researchers for their … science working toward the improvement of the THURSDAY living conditions and welfare of mankind.” Foster will be presented with the honorary degree Feb. 23 at the university. “I feel incredibly honored by this,” Foster said. “How nice that people whom I’ve never met have read my work and feel that it’s worth noting.” Th e “Progresa” program in Mexico, now called “Oportunidades,” was crafted by Mexican economist Santiago Levy, who used Foster’s system of measuring SunnySunny, 61/33 poverty in order to identify the correct participants for his program. FRIDAY Levy instituted a system to pay poor families to keep their children in schools and take them to medical clinics for health care. Th e program has proven so successful that 25 countries have adopted versions of it, and Michael KELLY HOCUTT / The Vanderbilt Hustler Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, is considering off ering Actor Danny Glover visits Peabody on Tuesday to promote Vanderbilt’s living wage campaign. He also participated in a town hall meeting at the similar incentives to the poor in the city. Scarritt-Bennett Center hosted by the union representing Vanderbilt’s lowest-paid workers. SOURCE: VANDERBILT NEWS SERVICE Ugandan music compiled by Vanderbilt MostlyMostly Cloudy, 57/45 ethnomusicologist to fight HIV/AIDS As part of the eff ort to combat HIV/AIDS, Smithsonian Supreme Court VUPD CRIME LOG compiled by HARISH KRISHNAMOORTHI Folkways Recordings will release a new a new album of uplifting music from Uganda compiled by a Vanderbilt Feb. 18, 2007, 1:55 a.m. — ethnomusicologist. A person was arrested for “Singing for Life: Songs of Hope, Healing and HIV/AIDS in throws out $79.5 driving under the infl uence on Uganda” is set to release Feb. 20. Greg Barz, associate professor 21st Avenue South. of ethnomusicology at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, is Feb. 18, 2007, 2:45 a.m. — responsible for the compilation. Th e CD shares the “Singing for Life” title with a 2006 book he wrote about the role music million verdict against A person was hit by a taxi cab driver after an argument in Lot and storytelling play in eff orts to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS 73 of the shuttle lots. Victim in Africa. was transported to the hospital “Sonically, it’s a luxurious experience,” Barz said. “When I listen to the CD, I can picture the people dancing. I’m hearing cigarette company for non-life threatening injuries. communities. Some people will just put it in their CD players and groove to really great African music. Ruling could bode well for other businesses Feb. 19, 2007, 12:30 a.m. “But I think the majority of people will be suspicious, in a — A verbal argument ensued good way. Th ey’ll be compelled to put the story together with seeking to limit big-money settlements. between subjects resulting in the music, which we’ve made easy with the artwork and liner rocks thrown from a vehicle in notes. When you get the broader perspective, the experience is Lot 25 on 24th Avenue. elevated to a powerful understanding of the healing potential by MARK SHERMAN was encouraged to punish Philip Morris Associated Press Check out http://police.vanderbilt.edu/ that can be unleashed when the arts and medicine combine for health problems suffered by every crimelog.htm for complete listings. eff orts.” Oregonian who smoked its cigarettes. Barz has been studying the role of the arts in combating The Supreme Court threw out a $79.5 Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices SERVICE GUIDE HIV/AIDS in Africa since 1999. HIV infection rates have fallen million award that a jury ordered a Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and The Vanderbilt Hustler (ISSN from 30 percent to 5 percent in Uganda over the past decade, cigarette maker to pay to a smoker’s David Souter, joined with Breyer. 0042-2517), the student newspa- and Barz argues that eff orts to convey good information by widow, a ruling that could bode well for Dissenting were Justices Ruth Bader per of Vanderbilt University, is pub- storytellers, dancers, musicians and other artists have played a other businesses seeking stricter limits Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, John Paul lished every Monday, Wednesday on big-dollar verdicts. Stevens and Clarence Thomas. Ginsburg and Friday during the academic prominent role in that success. year except for during exam peri- SOURCE: VANDERBILT NEWS SERVICE The 5-4 decision Tuesday was a victory said Tuesday’s ruling made punitive ods and vacations. The paper is not for Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris USA, damages law even more confusing. printed during summer break. Engineer wins NSF award for Internet initiative which contested an Oregon Supreme Jesse Williams died of lung cancer in The Vanderbilt Hustler allocates Professor Yi Cui has earned recognition and funding for Court decision upholding the jury’s 1997 at the age of 67. He had smoked one issue of the newspaper to each student and is available at a novel idea — one that could give multimedia streaming verdict. two packs a day of Philip Morris-made various points on campus for free. service YouTube a run for its money. Yet the decision did not address a key Marlboros for 45 years. Additional copies are $.50 each. Th e Vanderbilt assistant professor of computer science and argument made by Philip Morris and His widow argued that the jury award The Vanderbilt Hustler is a computer engineering has won a prestigious National Science its supporters across a wide range of was appropriate because it punished division of Vanderbilt Student Communications, Inc. Copyright Foundation CAREER Award for his research on peer-to-peer businesses: that the size of the award Philip Morris for a decades-long © 2004 Vanderbilt Student Com- networking to enable peer-to-peer multimedia streaming over was unconstitutionally large. They had “massive market-directed fraud” that munications. the Internet. hoped the court would limit the amount misled people into thinking cigarettes LOCATION He intends for his system to allow entrepreneurial Internet that can be awarded in punitive damage were not dangerous or addictive. The Hustler offi ces are in 130 streaming video services to succeed without investing large cases. She won compensatory damages of Sarratt Student Center on the Instead, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote $800,000 and punitive damages of $79.5 Vanderbilt University Campus. amounts of capital on hundreds of computer servers. His plan Address postal mail to VU Station will involve the computers of the subscribers themselves, in his majority opinion that the award million, 97 times the compensatory B 351504, Nashville, Tenn. 37235- who will share video-streaming data with other subscribers to Mayola Williams could not stand damages, in the fraud lawsuit she filed 1504. through an automated system. because a jury may punish a defendant against Philip Morris. A state court AFFILIATIONS Current multimedia Internet streaming services, such as only for the harm done to the person previously cut the compensatory award The Hustler is a member of the As- who is suing, not to others whose cases to $500,000, which is unaffected by sociated Collegiate Press, Colum- YouTube, must rely on centralized control by dedicated bia Scholastic Press Association, computer servers. Th e current system requires the streaming were not before it. Tuesday’s ruling. College Newspaper Business and of multimedia data to individual computers through “To permit punishment for injuring The case now goes back to the Oregon Advertising Managers, Southern Internet connections, resulting in bottlenecks and slowed or a nonparty victim would add a near high court, which could order a new University Newspapers and the standardless dimension to the punitive trial, reduce the award or reinstate its Southeastern Journalism Confer- interrupted delivery. ence and is an associate member In Cui’s system, subscribers’ computers could become part damages question,” Breyer said. decision. ■ of the Associated Press. of the multimedia-streaming service network, allowing their The company had argued that the jury TO ADVERTISE available bandwidth to be borrowed to stream multimedia Display ads: (615) 322-4237 or signals to other peer computers on the network. Th is approach e-mail advertising@vanderbilthu stler.com could reduce the price of the multimedia streaming service, Display fax: (615) 322-3762 help eliminate bottlenecks and distribute the electronic traffi c Offi ce hours are 10 a.m. — 5 p.m., more effi ciently. It could also enable multimedia-streaming Spring Forward Monday — Friday services to enter the industry without investing as much Visit us online at http://www. vscmedia.org/advertising.html capital in servers and bandwidth subscription. TO REPORT A NEWS ITEM “Th e NSF sponsorship will enable us to assess networked Campus news: Call 322-2424 or e- computers’ ability to transmit multimedia data based on mail [email protected] the customary use of the computer, the inferred bandwidth Entertainment news: Call 343-0967 available to the computers and a variety of customer usage or e-mail vibe@vanderbilthustler. com patterns,” Cui said. He will test his system through the Sports results: Call 343-0967 or e- Open Source Teaching service, using his system to deliver mail [email protected] multimedia educational materials freely. CORRECTIONS SOURCE: VANDERBILT REGISTER The Hustler strives for accuracy and fairness and will correct errors Young heart patient shares his story of substance. See our correction policy on the Opinion page for through children’s book information about notifying us. At noon on Feb. 14, 8-year-old Nathan Stickles held a book PRINTER signing for patients and families in the Pediatric Cardiac Clinic. The Hustler is printed at Franklin Stickles is the main character in a children’s book written by ������������������������������������������ Web Printing Company in Franklin, Tenn. 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VSG survey receives MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler overwhelming student The Rev. James Lawson addresses the freshman class with a lecture entitled, “Making the Most of What You Have,” as a part of Vanderbilt Visions. response. Iran will not disarm before Western nations by ALI AKBAR DAREINI The Security Council has set for negotiations to start. Associated Press Wednesday as a deadline for Iran to stop “The condition they set for talks is a by KRISTEN CHMIELEWSKI uranium enrichment or face further condition that deprives us of our rights,” Asst News Editor President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad economic sanctions. Ahmadinejad said of the United States said Tuesday that Iran would only halt Ahmadinejad spoke in a far more and its Western allies. “We have never More than 1,100 students responded to the Vandy its uranium enrichment program and conciliatory tone than the one he usually been after confrontation and tension. Vans survey last week, providing helpful insight return to negotiations if other Western adopts, avoiding fiery denunciations of We have always been for dialogue but for both Vanderbilt Student Government and the nations do the same. the West with a call for talks. dialogue under fair conditions.” administration in their efforts to improve the overall Ahmadinejad told a crowd of “We are for talks but they have to be fair Enriched to a low level, uranium is quality of the program. thousands in northern Iran one day negotiations. That means both sides hold used to produce nuclear fuel but further Newly elected VSG president Cara Bilotta said she ahead of a United Nations Security talks under equal conditions,” he said. enrichment makes it suitable for use in was thrilled with the overwhelming response to the Council deadline that it was no problem However, he added that it was building an atomic bomb. survey. for his country to stop, but that “fair talks” unacceptable for countries to demand Ahmadinejad said Iran would not give “I read all 776 written responses and received great demanded a similar gesture from the that Iran stop its nuclear activities without in to coercion and warned the United constructive feedback,” Bilotta said. West. reciprocity. States and its allies they will fail to force it A plurality of the respondents, 40.8 percent, were “That ... we shut down our nuclear “We say how is it that your (nuclear into give up its nuclear program. sophomores, and 86.4 percent of total respondents fuel cycle program to let talks begin. It’s fuel) production facilities work 24 hours “If you want to speak from the position felt Vandy Vans were necessary to ensure the flow no problem. But justice demands that a day, but you feel threatened by our of power and make use of the oppressing of students to and from The Commons and main those who want to hold talks with us shut newly established complex, and we need leverage of some international campus. down their nuclear fuel cycle program to shut it down for talks,” he asked. institutions, you have to know that you General themes from the written response option too. Then, we can hold dialogue under a Iran has long insisted that it will not will fail against the unity and resistance of the survey included requests for more of the larger fair atmosphere,” Ahmadinejad said. stop its nuclear activities as a condition of the Iranian nation,” he said. ■ vans, additional stops at Sutherland and Crawford Houses, and Memorial and East Halls, and including Mondays in the Peabody-Branscomb shuttle. The administration has reviewed the survey, and Bilotta plans to meet with the Vanderbilt University Police Department in the coming weeks to discuss the feasibility of the student comments. Bilotta plans to propose the addition of Mondays to the Peabody-Branscomb shuttle this semester due to the large amount of campus and organizational activities and meetings that occur on Mondays. Other concerns, such as the addition of vans and stops, require more time before they can be enacted. “Larger issues require incremental change,” Bilotta said. “Hopefully over the summer we can begin to make improvements, because we have to take into consideration the cost of the vans, vehicle maintenance, gas prices and the acquisition of new drivers.” The larger issues Bilotta plans to confront include the addition of several more of the larger “Omega” vans, increasing service to 24 hours and creating various new stops at The Commons. Extra stops were excluded from Peabody this semester due to the construction of new residence halls and concerns about longer route times. Student respondents to the survey reported that wait times for the vans vary from five to 15 minutes. With the addition of new vans to the route, these times would be cut significantly. Sixty percent of respondents agreed that a wait of five minutes was a reasonable amount of time to expect a van to arrive. There were also various misconceptions Bilotta wished to clarify. Several students requested schedules for both the express and regular vans, but traffic often makes these schedules impossible to manage. Currently the regular van arrives at regularly scheduled intervals. Several years ago the Student Government Association and Interhall added the express van, which would operate without a schedule and continue its route, stopping to pick up students only if they were already waiting at the stop. As a result, it is possible for both the regular and express vans to occasionally meet at the same stop. “I know it’s frustrating to see the express and regular vans back-to-back at times. Unfortunately, because of the differences in travel between the two vans, that will occasionally happen,” Bilotta said. Another misconception concerned the revival of the reverse route to speed up travel times. A reverse route was tested years ago when Vandy Vans was conceived as SafeTrips. However, the reverse route actually took longer due to all the left-hand turns on the route. “It’s not to say we can’t try to revive the reverse route, but my gut instinct is that it’s not likely the route will be successful,” Bilotta said. Although students proposed the addition of a downtown route last year, Bilotta found less than 1 percent demand for such a route. “If anything, we had a few requests for adding Sportsman’s as a stop,” she said. In all, Bilotta said she found the feedback from the poll invaluable. “I hope when issues appear in the future that students will be equally as responsive as they have been for the Vandy Vans survey,” Bilotta said. ■ 4 Wednesday, February 21, 2007 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com OPINIONOPINION THE OUR VIEW LETTER VANDERBILT HUSTLER Diplomacy Editorial Board Defense of a cause is the only GLENNA DEROY defeats war Editor-in-Chief moral course of action ALLISON SMITH Vanderbilt students have held the reputation of staking one’s reputation on a social movement. News Editor being apathetic for longer than many current students This, however, is a risk worth taking. Every day, groups in serving CEAF LEWIS realize. John Sergent, who later sponsored the first of Vanderbilt students coordinate to tackle issues, and anti-segregation resolution in the student government, whether one agrees with them or not, their willingness Opinion Editor describes his experience during the early days of the to fight for their beliefs is commendable. Every single U.S. interests JARRED AMATO movement: “I knew what was good and what was time one takes a moral stance on a controversial issue, Sports Editor right, and the divinity students were protesting and he risks offending his acquaintances, his friends and were marching around Kirkland Hall, but I was a first- his family, but his conscience remains clean. To the Editor: DARCY NEWELL semester student in college, I had joined a fraternity, I As the great community organizer Saul Alinsky Reading Michael Wilt’s Feb. 16 column Life Editor had a girlfriend — life was great, and I didn’t want to writes, “Once you accept your own death, all of a about the importance of victory in Iraq hear about it.” sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about made me think. I could see his sincerity NICOLE FLOYD Sergent’s first-year perspective strikes a familiar note your reputation. You no longer care except so far as Focus Editor in the importance of “victory,” in the with scores of Vanderbilt students. To be sure, we do your life can be used … to promote a cause you believe importance of striving for what is best not live in the 1960s and, for all of the pundits’ talk, the in.” Alinsky is quite extreme, and his words are quite for American soldiers, the people of Iraq nation is not nearly as polarized as it could be. We are theatrical; nobody is expected to die for the living wage STAFF and finally American citizens. But I have not, after all, on the verge of another Civil War, and the or to accept imprisonment for promoting the free to question if prolonging this war is really News Editor vast majority of students live very comfortable lifestyles. market. However, if we are to shake this reputation as the Allison Smith what is best. The lack of a great polarizing issue on the scale of the ranks of the apathetic we must stand up for our beliefs. The first point I would like to make is Asst. News Editors draft surely contributes to a general air of apathy on Whichever side we choose as individuals is immaterial; that opinion polls tell us something of Eve Attermann campus, but one must also remember that in today’s the important thing is to defend one’s morality lest he what American soldiers, and Iraqis both Kristen Chmielewski ever-competitive workforce there is much to risk in bargain it away for the sake of comfort. Harish Krishnamoorthi want, for what it is worth. In February of 2006, 72 percent of US troops said Opinion Editor they wanted the war over in 2006. Only Ceaf Lewis one in five support “as long as it takes.” Additionally, 70 percent of Iraqis want Sports Editor Jarred Amato a U.S. timetable for withdrawal, ranging from 6 months to two years. In my mind Life Editor then, opposing an unending war puts one Darcy Newell more in accordance with the feelings of those directly involved. Asst. Life Editor Cappi Williamson As for Iraq’s effect on our safety, remember that the National Intelligence Focus Editor Estimate reported that the Iraq war was Nicole Floyd increasing the threat of terrorism. So what I am driving at is that if we Asst. Focus Editor Sydney Wilmer examine what is truly in the best interest for Iraqis, U.S. soldiers and ourselves, Supervising Copy Editors we may find that the Iraq Study Group’s Sara Gast recommendation of a “diplomatic Elizabeth Middlebrooks offensive” has higher chances of achieving Copy Editors our goals than does prolonged fighting. Emily Agostino Look how well diplomacy worked in North Medora Brown Korea. Rejecting diplomacy outright in Cory Cox favor of more force doesn’t seem right in Ashley Evans this light. To me it seems to be protecting Garrett Faulkner Keegan Gabel the ideology of might makes right, and Jessica Pack shock and awe military diplomacy in lieu Amy Roebuck of doing what reality is telling us is best. Martiez Sanders Paul Fleming Senior Reporters Andrew Barge Graduate School Christina England Don Wright—MCT Will Gibbons Andrew Hard Sydney Wilmer COLUMN LETTER Marketing Director Court rush reveals George Fischer We must sweep out television’s trash Advertising Manager Vanderbilt’s David Fotouhi MATT GRIMES programming becomes inundated fireworks explode. Guest Columnist with a blitzkrieg of commercials And then there is July, the ugly Advertising Staff promoting special guest stars and duckling of the bunch, the white Angela Booker misplaced priorities Justin Gonzales Don’t you long for the time when hypersensitive plot lines oftentimes Michael Jackson among his black Emily Lineberger seemingly trivial plot details would not in keeping with a show’s tone, all brethren. In the summer month, To the Editor: be slowly peeled back like layers of an in an attempt to heighten ratings and there is usually no new installment Was it with intentional irony that The Hustler Art Director onion in the elevator conversations to determine local advertising rates. of sitcoms but, instead, a smattering Matt Radford paired two front-page stories: first, the “well- between Meredith Grey and Derek Sweeps can have both beneficial and of racially- and/or sexually-charged spent,” $25,000 fine to Vanderbilt due to a Designers Shepherd? Aside from it being the detrimental effects alike to television reality shows that no one will mobbing of Memorial Gym, and second, John Cassie Edwards longest elevator ride west of the broadcasting. watch and a Lifetime-cum-NBC Edwards’ letter to the chancellor in support of Laura Kim Mississippi, the scenes served a soap The major sweeps occur in movie about a James Patterson- the living wage movement? The Hustler states Hunter Kinsella opera-like function, allowing for a November and February, often esque heroine investigating “even Chancellor Gordon Gee rushed the Elizabeth Middlebrooks natural (and occasionally chaotic) denoted in the past by “Will & Grace” crimes following abuse from her Katie Quille court, by many accounts leading the pack.” escalation of events throughout the bringing Harry Connick Jr. into a alcoholic father and her rape by a It’s a sad commentary that Chancellor Gee VSC Photo Manager course of a single episode. story as Eric McCormack’s non-gay still-as-yet-unidentified criminal chose to lead the pack in spending $25,000 to Mason Hensley As it stands now, Meredith foe — again. As episodic dramas and the protagonist is determined to dance on a basketball court, yet has chosen Grey finds herself in an alternate comedies approach their season apprehend before she will be truly not to lead the pack in guaranteeing a decent, Asst Photo Managers dimension amid the company of finales, there appears another round at ease with her humdrum life. Mark Beneke living wage for all of Vanderbilt’s employees. Lauren Fondriest two deceased yet strikingly chiseled of sweeps in May. This particular But in November and now You may celebrate someone’s ability to throw hunks in a blatant appeal for higher month often featured “Friends” February, the general public finds a ball in a hoop, but I will celebrate when none Senior Photographers spectatorship. concluding with a wedding, a birth, itself subjected to ludicrous and, of Vanderbilt’s employees are forced to live in a Tyler Hagen Yep, it’s February sweeps. a drunk wedding, Tom Selleck sometimes, embarrassing and Kelly Hocutt homeless shelter or out of a car. The editors of For those of you unfamiliar with wanting a wedding, two characters preposterous stories featuring their The Hustler wrote that this mobbing of the court VSC Director television slang, “sweeps” refers not having unexpected sex, a guest star favorite programs. helped Vanderbilt gain “a tremendous amount Chris Carroll to any sort of clocking of athletic and character having unexpected Fox’s “24,” a show known for of pride and self-respect.” Imagine the pride opponents or chores done for sex, two characters wanting sex with bringing back recurring characters and self-respect we would gain from knowing Asst. VSC Director your mother on a bright Saturday one another but opting for another in sporadic fashion, returns the Jeff Breaux that all of the people that make this university morning. Rather, these sweep periods available mate, or a revelation conniving former President function are treated fairly. Asst. VSC Director refer to four chunks of time during concerning love and sex in general Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin) and Paige Clancy which television networks conduct with Ross usually being awkward. his mentally unhinged designing Mike Pullmann, Pre-Doctoral Fellow polling sweeps on smaller markets Or, if you really want to up the ante, woman of a wife, Martha (Jean Center for Evaluation and Program that are not usually calculated in send the six principal characters Smart, bless her soul) in a conspiracy Improvement weekly measures. As a result, normal to a foreign location and watch the Please see GRIMES, page 5 Vanderbilt University

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Stand and be judged by the GRIMES: Television regresses into mediocrity THE VERDICT Hustler opinion staff! From GRIMES, page 4 Day ode to love — is marketed as an perhaps even a necessary evil. Peanut butter Peter Pan and Great Value brands may have destined to be more crazed than Jack’s “ER event you can’t afford to miss.” I beg to differ. “ER,” once a mainstay been linked to an outbreak of salmonella terrorist brother. “Law & Order” (any Trying not to be overshadowed, staple of caliber and class, has poisoning. When will we learn that peanut- of them, pick your favorite franchise) Shonda Rhimes, creator of “Grey’s regressed into mediocrity, its cast butter-and-raw-chicken sandwiches are brings in a washed up has-been to Anatomy,” has concocted an “ER” lineup as unpredictable and unstable delicious but deadly? portray a grieving parent/sibling/ event of her own — crash a riverboat as a Quentin Tarentino film or Britney neighbor/person afflicted with mental into a passenger ferry because of a Spears’ mental health. Critical darlings Video games Recent studies show that surgeons who play illness invariably involved with the stunningly low fog bank and force the such as “Arrested Development” and video games may be more effective at their case. “Seinfeld” was impeccable save interns of Seattle Grace into action. Let “Freaks and Geeks” remain relatively jobs, particularly at delicate television-guided for its series finale, a spectacle of a trial me tell you, everything’s going down true to their narrative threads, never operations. Finally, our investment in an Atari Jaguar just might pay off! in contrast to the typical 30-minute on Grey’s Anatomy — Izzie drills holes once jumping the shark, a la “Happy span known for being a show about into a man’s head, George searches for Days.” There is not one episode of the Asteroids Apparently an asteroid named Apophis may nothing. “Criminal Minds” dragged in a missing boy, Alex rescues a pregnant Jason Bateman comedy I would not hit Earth in 2036. People probably will not James Van Der Beek to boost their post- woman whose makeup reminds me watch; each 22-minute bloc of time enjoy the headline “Earth to be destroyed” that Super Bowl time slot this past January, more of Barney than of a severely flows easily, untainted by the misuse of morning. but not even Dawson could paddle the injured patient, and a blonde girl visiting celebrities or the supplanting A 58-year-old IBM employee has been fired sinking ship out of that creek. makes a case for becoming the star of of a contrived narrative. Internet for visiting an adult chat room from his work Perhaps the granddaddy of all the next “Children of the Corn.” Bring back the gradual progression addiction computer. He is now suing the company, claiming lunacy, the Sweepsmaster of the boob Oh, yeah. And Meredith Grey dies. of a story, despite the implications of protection due to his Internet addiction. Most tube, is “ER,” a show known for exiting/ I hate the sweeps periods. Sure, they sweeps weeks. Show the true nature of pull high-profile names into shows a television show, and ferry accidents people with Internet addictions manage to keep killing off cast members when a jump it in their pants during the workday, so sympathy to provide a much-needed oomph to won’t be necessary. Nor will guest star in ratings is necessary. There was the is in short supply. intern killed by the schizophrenic, Dr. floundering, but at what cost? Should appearances by dead corpses. Greene’s death by tumor, Dr. Carter’s these strategies detract from the quality In short, bring back the elevator talk, Robert Adler The co-inventor of the remote control died of random foray into South Africa, and, of the broadcast, lending nonsensical even if it is the longest elevator ride heart failure Feb. 15 at the age of 93. If he’d this cynic’s favorite, Dr. Romano’s episodes to a year’s work? Some believe west of the Mississippi. gotten off the couch he could have lived to demise by crashing helicopter. Indeed, compromising the integrity of a program 120. now every episode of the hospital for two or three episodes two or three —Matt Grimes is a sophomore in Vinton Cerf The Google vice president and “founding father drama — including the Valentine’s times each year is perfectly acceptable, Peabody College. of the Internet” claimed a day will come when we connect our socks and our wine corks to the Internet. We can’t wait until our footwear gets COLUMN hacked on a daily basis. Sorority affiliations displace individual identities Drugs An Ohio police officer expressed surprise that teenagers were using “the big pockets in the JUSTIN POYTHRESS both of them of mass genocide or child their sorority to become their identity, pants” to hide drug paraphernalia. Stupid kids Columnist cannibalism. “How could you think . . .” placing far too much value on their and their rock music. was her response of shock and disgust. memberships and not nearly enough Before I begin, I want to be clear that After a little consideration, I decided to on their own identities. All this does is Bionic eyes Scientists claim bionic eyes could restore sight to the blind in as little as two years at a cost of I have no intention of ranking sororities call her out on this point. “Really? Is it perpetuate stereotypes of sororities. $30,000 each. “Blade Runner” is now one step in any way. However, I do want to really that bad to be Chi Theta Alpha? I I have noticed the destructive closer to becoming a reality. address an issue related to the fact that didn’t know they were that awful.” She capability of this habit: consider the many people already have some type immediately changed her response: women who do not get into sororities Sylvester The actor may be banned from entering of ranking system as to which sororities “No, no! It’s not that; I have a lot of they feel are “right” for them. This can Stallone Australia if convicted of smuggling illegal collect the best girls, whether they admit friends in Chi Theta Alpha,” similar to be very damaging to a woman’s self- steroids into the country. Only 192 countries it or not. how someone accused of homophobia esteem if she judges herself based on to go! I want to use a story to illustrate this or racism would defend themselves by her memberships rather than her value idea. I recently attended a fraternity claiming to have gay or black friends. as an individual. The Bahamas Immigration minister Shane Gibson has resigned following allegations that he gave Anna Nicole party, and as I chatted with a fellow I think the sorority system is wonderful I encourage sorority women to Smith special treatment when she wished student, I made the grave mistake of and forges great bonds of friendship and remember that time at the beginning of asking her to remind me of her sorority to immigrate to the island nation. It’s nice to sisterhood. However, I have noticed a the second semester of your freshman know that some corrupt officials aren’t in it for affiliation. She immediately grabbed disturbing trend as many Vanderbilt year, when all of you stood on equal her closest friend from the same the money, preferring fully clothed hugs from sorority women link themselves ground, awaiting the assignment of washed up porn stars instead. sorority and said, “You know; just think quite strongly with their respective your social future for the next three and of the best sorority!” I paused for a while organizations. It is one thing to have a half years. Take pride in yourself, not Spearmint According to recent findings, spearmint tea and guessed (the letters have been pride and love your sisters, but it is quite in what letters you wear. may reduce excessive body hair, but it also changed). “Chi - Theta - Alpha?” another to fawn over women whose reduces male libido. 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Prediction: Vanderbilt 74, Mississippi State 68 MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler Senior Dee Davis and the rest of the women’s basketball team are ranked 12th Junior Shan Foster hugs his mom, Anita Harris, after the men’s basketball team Junior David Price, the ace of the Commodore pitching staff, said the team’s recent Baseball and have won six straight games by an average of 23.5 points. stunned No. 1 Florida last Saturday. The Commodores are now ranked 17th. No. 1 ranking by Collegiate Baseball won’t be discussed much by players. Lipscomb at No. 1 Vanderbilt Today JARRED AMATO a $25,000 fine from the SEC and a No. 17 ranking by the Associated Press. This is 4 p.m. CT Sports Editor the highest ranking since 1993, when the team was eighth. They were also back Hawkins Field in the ESPN-USA Today poll (at No. 21) for the first time since 2004. The Commodores There are currently only two schools that have their men’s and women’s Vanderbilt has now won an impressive 12 consecutive games at Memorial Gym (6-0) will play for the basketball teams and baseball team in the top 25. The North Carolina Tar Heels and is off to its best league start in coach Kevin Stallings’ era. They are 17-5 in the first time as the No. 1 are one. The second? None other than your Vanderbilt Commodores. last 22 games and have beaten six top-25 teams, second most in the nation. team in the country. Not bad for a school that was supposedly too small and too smart to compete “I think they were an NCAA tournament team before we played them,” said Freshman Mike Minor with the nation’s best. Not bad for a school without an athletic department, Florida coach Billy Donovan. “I do have a lot of respect for their team. They have gets his first career billionaire boosters or lower academic standards for its players. earned and deserve the right to be in the NCAA tournament.” start, while Vanderbilt Vanderbilt baseball earned a No. 1 ranking by Collegiate Baseball on Monday, Still, Stallings, who was named one of 15 finalists for the Jim Phelan National looks to avenge men’s basketball is ranked 17th after upsetting Florida and women’s basketball Coach of the Year Award yesterday, isn’t ready to make that claim. last season’s loss to is ranked 12th after winning its sixth straight game. We might as well start calling “I’ve done a real good job not speculating and not looking,” Stallings said. “I Lipscomb (5-2). 2007 the Year of the Commodore. couldn’t tell you what our RPI is. I couldn’t tell you where we were in last month’s Prediction: Vanderbilt Base-ballin’ bracket if we were in it or out of it or on the fence or blowing bubbles. At the end 10, Lipscomb 2 For junior All-American David Price, the fact that the Commodores are ranked of the season, we’ll add them up and see if we have enough.” No. 1 for the first time in school history comes as little surprise. The Commodores return to action tonight when they play Mississippi State, Women’s Basketball “Coach (Tim) Corbin told me that there was going to be a day like this, and I tied for first in the SEC West, in Starkville. No. 7 Louisiana believed him,” Price said. “Our team has been pretty good all season long about not having a big letdown,” State at No. 12 Before Corbin arrived in 2003, Vanderbilt had gone five seasons without a Stallings said. “We’ve won a number of pretty good games against ranked teams Vanderbilt winning record. Now, it’s poised to make a run at Omaha, although Corbin is far so our team has been down this path before. I think the thing that most enables Thursday from satisfied yet. you to stay away from a letdown is the fact that Mississippi State is playing great 8 p.m. CT “Anything can be taken away from you the minute you start feeling too good basketball.” Memorial Gym about yourself,” he said. “My job as a coach is to make these kids realize what Women’s basketball on fire No. 12 Vanderbilt their potential is, and their potential is far greater than what we’ve played up to All teams want to peak around tournament time, and that’s exactly what Melanie has won six this point. To be a national championship team, you have to continue to improve Balcomb’s squad is doing. The Commodores (23-4, 9-3 SEC) have won six in a row, straight games by throughout the season.” outscoring opponents by an average of 23.5 points per game in the process. commanding margins There’s little doubt that this group will. Off to a 6-0 start, including three “Their execution is the best I think I’ve seen in women’s college basketball,” but will be tested wins over top-25 teams, the Commodores join women’s basketball (1993) and said South Carolina coach Susan Walvius. “Vandy reads very well so they exploit Thursday by No. 7 women’s golf (2004) as the only sports to achieve a No. 1 ranking in school your defense, and they exploit how you are reacting to them.” LSU. Commodore history. The three seniors are playing exceptionally well, most notably SEC Player of seniors Dee Davis, The team is hitting .340 with six homers and 17 doubles, while the deep the Week Caroline Williams, who scored 50 points in a pair of victories last week. Carla Thomas and pitching staff has a 1.83 earned run average. Additionally, Collegiate Baseball, Williams now leads the nation in 3-point shooting at 50 percent and is shooting Caroline Williams will the nation’s oldest college baseball poll, named Price a National Pitcher of the 92 percent from the foul line. play their last home Week for his outing on Sunday. Williams, along with classmates Carla Thomas and Dee Davis, will be honored games in the black Men’s basketball riding high Thursday during Senior Day festivities following the team’s home game against and gold so make sure While much of college will be a blur 20 years from now, storming the court after LSU. to come cheer them Vanderbilt upset No. 1 Florida is something fans and players will never forget. It’s hard to think of a better time to be a Commodore fan, and hopefully the ■ on. The way they’ve Because of their victory, the Commodores (18-8, 8-4 SEC) were rewarded with best is yet to come. been playing, it will definitely be worth it. Prediction: Vanderbilt 70, LSU 66 Byars deserves league’s top honor Men’s Basketball No. 25 Alabama at by CHIP ROBIE needs to do so the most. He’s averaged 20 points, Tennessee Sports Reporter 4.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists, while shooting 53.6 Wednesday percent, in eight games against ranked opponents. 7 p.m. CT Before basketball season began, Vanderbilt was While his thunderous dunks and his uncanny Although both teams picked by the media to finish fourth in the Eastern ability to hit shots after double-pump fakes have have underachieved Division of the Southeastern Conference, and made their way onto Sportscenter, Byars’ defense this season, they will junior Shan Foster was the only Commodore to has been truly impressive. Whether containing probably get to the garner an All-SEC vote. a substantially larger Al Horford or switching to Big Dance. Tennessee When the Commodores opened the season 1- defend a quick point guard such as Taurean Green, (18-9, 6-6) needs to 3, the nadir of which included a loss to Furman at Byars has proven himself to be versatile. win this one at home, home, even the preseason prediction looked a little Simply put, Byars is a Renaissance man on the while Alabama (19- optimistic. court, and deserves to become the first Commodore 7, 6-6 SEC) looks to What caused the turnaround? Let’s start with SEC since Dan Langhi (2000) to earn SEC Player of the stay on top of the Player of the Year frontrunner Derrick Byars — the Year honors. mediocre SEC West. same player reporters didn’t even consider among “He might be able to do more things on the It is currently tied the league’s best only a few months ago. basketball court than any kid I’ve ever coached,” with Ole Miss and “Derrick is our backbone right now. He’s the guy said Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings. “He’s got Mississippi State. who’s getting it done for us,” said senior Dan Cage. freakish talent. There’s nothing he can’t do. He can Prediction: Alabama “We’re winning, and no one thought we would. defend, he can rebound, he can score, he can pass 80, Tennessee 72 Derrick is one of the biggest reasons for that.” and he can handle the ball.” Byars was just named SEC Player of the Week for Winning the award won’t be easy, however. Byars Women’s Tennis the second time after dropping a career-high 32 faces stiff competition from Tennessee’s Chris No. 3 Georgia Tech points on 11-of-15 shooting against South Carolina Lofton, who makes a 3-pointer look like a free at Vanderbilt last Wednesday and torching then-No. 1 Florida for throw. In addition, Louisiana State’s Glen Davis, Thursday 24 points, eight assists and five steals on Saturday. the reigning player of the year, has put together 2:30 p.m. CT “Without question, Derrick Byars should be some gaudy numbers, but will be hurt by his team’s Currey Tennis Center considered for the SEC Player of the Year,” said disappointing season. The Commodores Florida coach Billy Donovan. One could make the case that any of Florida’s will have a tall task Byars’ accomplishments have been nothing short starters are worthy of the award, but their balance Thursday as the No. of remarkable. He is averaging 19.7 points per game may be what hurts them the most. None of them 3 Yellow Jackets in SEC play, which is second best behind South are as irreplaceable as Byars, who has led the come to Nashville. Carolina’s Tre Kelley. Commodores to an 18-8 record, including 8-4 in Prediction: Vanderbilt He also boasts the highest field goal percentage the SEC. 4, Georgia Tech 3 among guards (51.8 percent), is sixth in 3-point “Derrick is, in our minds, the best player in the shooting (41.3 percent) and eighth in steals (1.5 per league,” Cage said. “He does so many things that game). He is also averaging 4.9 rebounds and 3.2 don’t show up in the stat sheet. If the season ended RECORD: 54-33 MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler assists. today, he’d get a lot of votes, and he’d get all of our Vanderbilt senior Derrick Byars is among the SEC leaders in several categories Additionally, Byars plays his best when he votes. He deserves it.” ■ and a main reason for the Commodores’ success. The rest of the league is taking www.insidevandy.com The Vanderbilt Hustler Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7 Sailing stuns Charleston Lacrosse to capture regatta cruises in by JARRED AMATO “It was a lighter breeze so there was opener Sports Editor lot more strategy than usual, which worked to our advantage,” Landstreet HUSTLER STAFF REPORT The Vanderbilt sailing club arrived said. “Since we don’t get to practice with modest expectations at Lake very often our boat-handling isn’t as Th e Vanderbilt women’s lacrosse Hartwell in Clemson, S.C., for the second good as other teams, so we rely on what team kicked off its 2007 season in style, North Points Regatta. we know from sailing when we were cruising to an 18-5 victory over Albany The team was competing against younger.” on Monday. 10 other schools from the Southeast, Vanderbilt has competed in two “It’s just what you want to see on the including national powerhouse College regattas already this spring, and travels fi rst day,” said coach Kathy Swezey. of Charleston, ranked fifth in the to North Carolina State this weekend Led by four goals each from junior Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association of and Tennessee the following weekend. Margie Curran and sophomore Cara America, and had not practiced much They hope to finish in the top six in Giordano, the No. 19 Commodores recently due to the cold weather. the South Atlantic Sailing Association’s burst out to a 10-0 lead midway through But the Commodores not only held North Division. the fi rst half and never looked back. their own — they won. As Vanderbilt’s oldest club sport, Th e Commodores scored three goals “We were pretty pumped,” said junior sailing has been on campus since 1962. within the fi rst two minutes of the Beverly Landstreet. “It is impressive The club now includes over 30 members contest and outshot the Great Danes when we do well against teams like and has received tremendous alumni 25-6 in the fi rst half en route to taking Charleston, who live on the water.” support recently. a 13-1 lead. Competing in six races at the lake, Last summer the club purchased a “I am pleased with our team’s Vanderbilt placed in the top three in 13-foot Boston Whaler motorboat for performance,” Swezey said. “Th ere every one. The club’s A division was use as a safety and coach boat, which were several girls that popped into my skippered by Landstreet and crewed by will allow them to practice more easily mind that had great games, and then I Becca Dunny, while the B division was and to host regattas. The club also has realized I was thinking about just about Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt sailing club skippered by junior Noah Walcutt and eight Flying Junior dinghies maintained everybody. I feel like every person on The Vanderbilt sailing club held off No. 5 College of Charleston to win the second crewed by freshman Steve Knubley. at Percy Priest Lake. ■ our squad stepped up.” North Points Regatta of the spring season in Clemson, S.C., on Saturday, Feb. 10. Curran led the way for the Commodores, registering four goals and an assist. Giordano added four COLUMN goals while senior Kendall Th rift had three goals and an assist. It was also a big afternoon for the NASCAR has no place on Bristol’s network Commodore freshmen. Anastasia Adam tallied two goals and an assist, ALEX BARD sport, just as much as horseracing is); I’m just With a healthy proportion of people holding while Sarah Downing, Carter Foote Columnist expressing my shock at its rise in popularity this attitude, why would ESPN dedicate an and Laura Keenan also scored goals to and its ability to take over ESPN afternoons. entire week to the sport? Sure, some people aid in the victory. Last week, I called my friend back in Boston Call me old fashioned, but I’d rather discuss don’t like baseball, but you don’t hear them “We could tell from the fi rst time to check what was on ESPN at that moment. basketball or spring training than hear about question its qualifi cation as a sport. they stepped onto the fi eld in the fall I was stuck watching NASCAR Week instead new restrictor plate regulations or Dale Some things should remain in their place. that they were going to make a big of Pardon the Interruption, but I was sure this Earnhardt Jr.’s feud with his racing company No one is challenging the South’s reign on impression on our program, and they must have been Southern regional coverage. (and, yes, I blame George W. Bush and Trey NASCAR (nor Skoal nor John Deere tractors), have,” Swezey said. “None of them play Alas, I was wrong. He told me, “NASCAR Wingo for the fact that I know what those two and thus the sport should remain in its roots. nervous or tight. Th ey just go out and is on,” followed by some words you just things mean). I have few outlets at Vanderbilt to remind play confi dent, and that’s exactly what can’t print. I couldn’t believe that the most I understand that there is a whole science myself of my home in New England, and the we want to see from them.” important sports network was previewing and strategy to stock car racing. I don’t boys in Bristol rank near the top. Th e victory celebration will be the NASCAR season for an entire week. understand, however, why 300 million I get NASCAR out my window every short-lived for the Commodores, who Apparently the South did rise again in the Americans are being subjected to NASCAR morning, I don’t need it on ESPN every now turn their attention to defending form of 500 miles of left turns. coverage, especially when there exists people afternoon, and I don’t think I’ll be alone when national champion Northwestern. I’m not trying to start the sport/non-sport like my mom who say, “Can’t you just go and I gladly welcome back Tony, Mike, Stat Boy Th e Wildcats come to Nashville on debate (for the record, I think of NASCAR as a watch a highway for fi ve hours instead?” and the “Happy Happies” this week. ■ Sunday. ■

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“There just seems to of the Focus section, be a lot of activism on W campus. It just seems like there are always The Hustler examines things going on that reach beyond the social activism on campus. Vanderbilt community. Even if we aren’t extremely active, we Throughout Vanderbilt’s try to be.” —Alex Howard Freshman history, students have taken

“I think Vanderbilt is involved. We started part in a wide array of social Alternative Spring Break, which has become a national movements — from the civil organization, impacting thousands rights movement to living of people. That is a big contribution to Vanderbilt, wage — in an effort to stand Nashville and other communities.” —Gian Rossi up for what they believe Sophomore

“I would say we in. The following articles are very active, as evidenced by illustrate the struggles they organizations like Alternative Spring Break. Even if people have faced as well as the aren’t particularly active, they are at least successes they have achieved. socially aware.” MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler —Allison Musto Students gather around Kirkland Hall in support of a living wage at Vanderbilt. The living wage movement is one of many examples of social activism on campus. Senior

“I don’t think Vanderbilt students Instigator of Vanderbilt desegregation are aware. Vanderbilt is a bubble, and I think we don’t know what is going on outside of now serves as professor of medicine it. We are so busy we don’t even notice our John Sergent reflects on past, compares classmates to today’s university. own social problem, which surprises me by GLENNA DEROY year, then-sophomore Sergent THE LONG ROAD TO DESEGREGATION Tennessee and its border states. Editor-in-Chief spearheaded the successful Sergent began to do what he could “I found myself frequently being the because this is the student-led effort to bring black the following year, becoming the only person in a large group or in the most boring campus When Professor of Medicine John undergraduates to Vanderbilt. first student body representative dorm that actually not only favored on the planet.” Sergent looks around, he sees a different At that time, Vanderbilt would only to introduce an anti-segregation desegregation, but had been through it —Broderick Stewart Vanderbilt than the one from which he admit black students if a comparable resolution to student government. and thought it was no big deal,” he said. Sophomore graduated in 1963. program did not exist for them in “The typical things we dealt with were “I was really probably the only person A c c o r d i n g Nashville. Thus, all undergraduate things like whether the alley behind the I knew, of my good friends, that had “We are infrequently to Sergent, schools and the medical school were TriDelt house ought to be one-way or ever gone to school with a single black a socially aware Vanderbilt entirely off-limits to black students. two-way,” he said. “So one day, in the person.” campus, but I think during the 60s The university expelled civil rights middle of debating the alley behind In speaking with students, Sergent that is coming around was not only activist James Lawson, a student in the TriDelt house, I proposed a bill that discovered that many did not really with organizations apathetic but the Divinity School, during Sergent’s we should ‘recommend to the Board of understand what desegregation would like LIVE. Most people also “incredibly first year on campus, and despite his Trust that Vanderbilt admit qualified entail. For instance, one sorority don’t give a damn, or homogeneous.” better instincts, the freshman did Negro applicants.’” woman was surprised to hear that they just don’t know “It wasn’t nothing. The resolution failed by one vote, but white and black students would live in what’s going on. There just that it was “I knew what was good and what Sergent and his followers proposed that the same dorms once black students apathetic; it was was right, and the divinity students a student body referendum be held a were allowed to attend the university. are a few kids that that everybody were protesting and were marching month later. Still other students could not fathom SERGENT are trying to make a pretty much around Kirkland Hall, but I was a first- Battling a student apathy that “would the possibility of a desegregated campus difference, though.” had similar backgrounds and similar semester freshman in college, I had be hard to describe,” Sergent and other — or country, Sergent said. —Franklin DeFelice Junior ideas about everything,” he said. joined a fraternity, I had a girlfriend supporters such as former Hustler “I can remember a lot of friends “You may feel it’s apathetic now, — life was great, and I didn’t want to editors Lamar Alexander and Roy who said it will never happen,” he said. but you had a Muslim president of hear about it,” he said. Blount Jr., sought to educate the student “Arkansas or Alabama or wherever they “I think it is a very the student body a few years ago. Sergent said that although it is hard body in almost every way possible were from will never desegregate, and peripheral part of the Vanderbilt, of the top 30 universities to imagine today how much courage — from public debate to newspaper they really believed it. It was such an campus. Most students in the country, has the fourth highest it took for students to join the civil editorials to group meetings. ingrained part of the life they grew up are satisfied with their percentage of blacks in the freshman rights movement, he does not know “That was a very interesting month,” with. People today don’t realize it was wallets, income and class. I promise you. It’s a very why he waited as long as he did. he said. “I just made myself available. as rigid here as South Africa.” standard of living. different Vanderbilt.” “I think the answer to that is I would go to talk to anybody — The referendum lost by approximately People at Vanderbilt He said that Vanderbilt owes its simply inertia,” he said. “Everything sororities, dorms, whatever. It was the 100 votes, Sergent said, but the failure don’t need very much, active student body to the increased was going so well. I think you most interesting experience.” may have been a blessing in disguise, so they don’t do very diversity of today’s university, for tend to compartmentalize things Sergent said that most students he as the board voted to desegregate the much. I think this is which Sergent laid the foundation in because you couldn’t live with it spoke with did not have the experience university in its next meeting. his time on campus. if you didn’t. You either make the with desegregation that he did. Halfway “My thinking is that (Chancellor sad because since we When Sergent arrived at Vanderbilt decision that you’re going to become through his high school career, Sergent’s Harvie) Branscomb wanted it to lose don’t need so much, “there were probably three black completely radical and work every high school in Frankfort, Ky., underwent a because if it had passed, the board we have more ability students on campus,” but by the day, every minute to change the peaceful, relatively uneventful integration. members were so reactionary, that they to change things than time he left, the board had voted to system, or you compromise and you According to Sergent, Vanderbilt in probably would have just said, ‘We’re other people.” desegregate the university. compartmentalize and you take that those days was an intensely Southern not going to do it. We’re not going to —Seth Harkins As a student government senator part of your life and you do what you school, with about 85 to 90 percent let the students push us around,’ and it Freshman during the 1960-61 academic can.” of the student body coming from might not have happened,” he said. ■ www.insidevandy.com The Vanderbilt Hustler Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9 Vanderbilt alumnus draws from experience to author activism handbook Administrators and students analyze current campus movements. by SYDNEY WILMER Asst Focus Editor

Less than five years ago Jennifer Dillard was a sophomore in Vanderbilt’s College of Arts and Science. Heavily involved in what is now LIVE and Vanderbilt’s chapter of the Sierra Club, a national conservation and environmental organization, Dillard learned a great deal about activism and the obstacles associated with it. Though she said the success of these organizations during her time at Vanderbilt was limited at best — Sierra Club losing its battle for purchasing more expensive Green energy from TVA in 2002, and experiencing the university’s first open aversion to the living wage issue — she said the struggles changed her perception of the world around her. “I learned more from working on the living wage than I learned in any of my classes,” Dillard said. Today, Dillard, now a law student at Georgetown’s Law Center, is compiling a handbook to help guide Vanderbilt student activism; in doing so, she hopes to impart some of this wisdom both on the organizations she helped found and on new ones like the Vanderbilt Biodiesel Initiative. “A university is a huge bureaucracy,” she said. “Having a road map for that is helpful.” Though at this point the manual consists of a series of questions, Dillard said she hopes she can answer them from her own experience. The questions address a range of problems, including dismissive administrators and publicity generation. “Students need to know these are the tactics that work and these are the people in the administration that can help,” Dillard said. Dillard admits that most of her knowledge stems from her MASON HENSLEY / The Vanderbilt Hustler own mistakes. Blaming Sierra Club’s choice to circumvent Activists march in support of a living wage. Jennifer Dillard said she hopes her student activism handbook will help guide the fute the administration in creating a Clean Energy Proposal for Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Michael Schoenfeld said Professor of Sociology Larry Isaac. However, he did explain, the initiative’s failure, she explained that working with the LIVE’s protest was an “ultimately counterproductive and not within the context of campus, “I can understand how some school, though difficult, is a crucial step in forwarding campus particularly effective form of protest.” might see it as forceful.” movements. Though Gee said that “the university is comfortable in its “In the 1960s, though, it wouldn’t have seemed shocking,” “We probably should have done a little more research and position” concerning living wage, he encouraged the group to Issac said. worked directly with administration before we presented our try creating more student-based coalitions and bring the battle proposal,” she said. back to campus rather than attempting to generate national STRUGGLING FOR SUCCESS Dillard stressed that the university likes to have ownership of publicity. The struggle has not been easy, even for an organization initiatives. “We won’t do anything with a gun to our head. They should like SPEAR, which Gee praised for its persistence and “It is hard for the person in charge of a university to look like stop joining in on union tactics and start developing common inclusiveness. they are taking someone else’s proposals,” Dillard said. “They ground,” he said, making reference to Danny Glover’s recent “I think there is a sense in the administration that student want it to look like they had a lot to do with the proposal. They appearance on campus and a letter former Senator John groups get started, get really excited, last for about two years, don’t want to feel like they were backed into a corner.” Edwards sent to Gee in support of a living wage. get busy, graduate and disband,” Magill said. Dillard said considering this may have changed the outcome Others say the comparison between SPEAR and LIVE in Magill explained that one of the biggest obstacles is proving of the Sierra Club’s initiative. regards to tactics, is, as SPEAR advisor Linda Rosencrantz said, to the school that the organization is “not going anywhere.” “an unfair one.” Today Magill said she feels “recycling and environmental EXAMINING THE TACTICS Even Dillard, who agrees that working with the administration stewardship have become a part of the community because In the midst of LIVE’s living wage campaign and in light of is the key to success, disapproves of the comparison. the university has taken ownership.” SPEAR’s recent victory in establishing a sustainability coordinator “I think it is an ideological problem,” Dillard said. “If the “I think SPEAR is doing the right thing,” Dillard said. “When position in December, the creation of a student activism administration has made up its mind you have to try a new we have a giant coal plant on campus, it is hard for the handbook seems an appropriate measure, said SPEAR President, approach. We don’t want to make them feel like they are forced administration to shut an environmental organization down. I senior Jenny Magill. For Dillard, the contrast between these two to do something, but we can’t go halfway. You have to make it think the living wage has done a lot too, though.” student movements lends itself naturally to one question: What a big issue.” Dillard explained the living wage group always expected they factors lead to successful student activism on campus? “The problem we face is in order to get this message across, would eventually need to take more drastic measures. “I have been doing this for 26 years,” said Chancellor Gordon we have to present it in an unconventional way,” said Eric “If the school is opposed to it, if they don’t agree with Gee. “Many students engage in what I call guerilla theatre. They Schechter, mathematics professor and unofficial LIVE faculty it ideologically, saying things like, ‘I’m against the living don’t do their homework. They protest.” sponsor. wage,’ you have to approach it from a much more aggressive “Then you have students that do their homework. Those who Schechter said this, in turn, gives the group a radical image. angle.” do their homework, create a base of student support and start “Unfortunately, if you go through the regular channels, it For Dillard, who watched and participated as both the building coalitions — those have been the ones that make the doesn’t get you noticed,” Schechter said. “When the university environmental movement and the living wage movement most impact,” Gee said. is under no legal obligations to recognize the cause, publicity is gained momentum on campus, social activism is a complicated Gee explained that an organization must work closely with the only tactic at our disposal.” issue. In the handbook, she hopes to illuminate the different administrators and be patient. “We tried to go to the proper venues,” said LIVE’s Daynes. approaches students can take in the course of activism, but she “I would model SPEAR as a group that has done the kind of “We went to the young board of trustees and met with faculty, recognizes that these courses may not apply equally to different work that breeds success,” said Gee, adding that LIVE’s tactics but we weren’t being taken seriously.” movements. have been “less effective.” Daynes said, though, historically, “No social movement ever “Oftentimes the kinds of tactics people will use have to do with After last semester’s storming of the Board of Trust meeting really follows the rules.“ the obstacles they confront; if a movement isn’t hitting obstacles in December, some students and administrators have called Some do not see LIVE’s tactics as radical. they can follow (less shocking) tactics and get more support and LIVE’s tactics into question. “I think they’re effective,” said sophomore Aziz Malik. “If get somewhere,” Isaac said. “It’s usually when they hit obstacles “I think we have been misrepresented in a lot of ways,” said they’d only held up posters (and) handed out pamphlets, I that they start taking different tactics.” ■ LIVE member, junior Taylor Daynes. “A lot of people think of us don’t think they would have reached this level of success.” in terms of the union, and we are not involved with the union. In relation to other, larger movements, “it’s not that extreme —Elizabeth Middlebrooks contributed reporting for We are just friends of the union.” because tactics of larger movements have been violent,” said this article. Vanderbilt Biodiesel Initiative seeks following Student-led movement competes for mtvU, General Electric $25,000 grant. by NICOLE FLOYD GARRETT FAULKNER reliable alternative to petroleum-based fuels. The VBI will require transportation vehicles about the project,” Riley said. Focus Editor Contributing Reporter With the assistance of biodiesel and a biodiesel manufacturing center before Should the VBI not receive the grant, they manufacturers, VBI hopes to produce 100 any significant production can begin. Plant plan to appeal to corporate sponsors. The Vanderbilt Biodiesel Initiative (VBI) has gallons of fuel per week at the outset, with Operations already has a number of diesel Petty said he feels the VBI’s success is yet to gain a large student following, despite additional production to commence as early vehicles that would be able to make use of contingent on the ability of WilSkills to gaining publicity after being chosen as a finalist as summer 2007. biodiesel fuel, but VBI collaborators hope continue this initiative into the future. He said in mtvU and GE’s ecomagination Challenge. Vice Chancellor of Plant to fund additional transportation vehicles this sometimes proves to be difficult due to “I actually haven’t heard anything about the Operations Mark Petty said and the manufacturing center with the grant the nature of student-led movements and the biodiesel movement,” said freshman Bryan he is excited and optimistic offered by the ecomagination Challenge. turnover in leadership that occurs frequently. Edwards. “I’m pretty clueless … I haven’t seen about the possibility of Competition sponsors mtvU and General “I think they are positioned to make this a any posters around campus.” biodiesel production. Electric will play a role in determining the long-lasting part of their legacy,” Petty said. The VBI, a division of WilSkills, hopes to “It’s a very distinct winner, but an open online vote tally Sophomore Hallie Shoffner said the great secure a $25,000 grant from mtvU to facilitate possibility,” Petty said. w i l l also help determine the part about the biodiesel initiative is that it is the production and use of biodiesel in “There certainly outcome. Therefore, already underway. university vehicles. In the process, they also aim is legitimate use VBI collaborators find it “It’s here. It’s now,” Shoffner said. “It’s to teach the community about sustainability, for this … we imperative to inform something that every student can participate as well as renewable and cleaner fuel. would really like to the student body in to make a real difference right here on Due to the newness of the group, graduate take advantage of this as about the project campus.” student Derek Riley, one of the primary a project.” in order to garner Riley said he is confident that a broader initiators of VBI, is not yet concerned by the lack Vanderbilt Dining votes and raise knowledge of the project will come in due of student knowledge about the movement. has also lent their support to popular support. time. “This group started not too long ago, so it is the initiative, offering to donate Up to this point, “I think it would be great to have a large student still in its infancy,” Riley said. “It’s kind of tricky any vegetable oil waste from campus dining members of WilSkills have relied mostly on following, but I think having a dedicated student because it is difficult to get people excited about centers to the project. word of mouth to get their ideas concerning following is more important,” Riley said. biodiesel vehicles because most Vanderbilt “We’re real enthusiastic and excited about biodiesel out into the community. The winner of mtvU’s ecomagination students do not commute to campus.” the biodiesel initiative and the exposure So far, Riley said he believes their efforts are Challenge will be selected in March. Biodiesel is an organic fuel source derived it’s getting on campus,” said Jay Spiegel, paying off. Interested students should vote at http://www. from a mixture of vegetable oil, methanol purchasing manager of Vanderbilt Dining “Our group has tripled in size, and we ecocollegechallenge.com by March 2. ■ and lye. It can be used by itself in any modern Services. “We are in the middle of discussions have gotten many e-mails of support from diesel engine, or blended with ordinary diesel with the folks putting together the campus- various administrators, students, community —Kristen Chmielewski contributed reporting fuel; it is widely regarded as a cleaner and more wide initiative.” members and other people who have heard to this article. 10 Wednesday, February 21, 2007 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com FUNFUN && GAMESGAMES SUDOKU TO SOLVE: Fill in the blanks so the numbers 1-9 appear just once in each horizontal row, vertical column and 3x3 box.

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