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BY JOSH RENAUD The policy was developed by a University notifies them with a letter. To accomplish that, campuses will student, if it receives written recom senior editor committee of administrators and stu The policy prevents the University send materials to parents of students mendation from a health care provider dents, headed by Stephen Lehmkuhle, from discussing with parents details of aged 18-21 and encourage them to dis that notification wouldn't be in the stu After spirited discussion, the UM System vice president for an incident without the student's con cuss the consequences of drinking and dents' interest. University of Missouri Board of Academic Affairs. It allows the UM sent. drug use with their children. Parents 'The final version is about as good Curators voted 6-3 to approve a campuses to notify parents of under Gary Grace, vice chancellor for will be presented with the conditions a compromise as the students are parental notification policy at its meet age students after their child commits Student Affairs, said the Board of parental notification and given a going to get, at least those of us who ing March 22. a "severe" initial violation of the stu encouraged administrators not to use choice not to participate in the pro are against it," said Joe Flees, an The idea of parental notification dent conduct code concerning alcohol the policy as a punitive measure, but as gram. UMSL student and member of the has met with some student opposition and controlled substances, or after sub a way to encourage good communica The policy also includes provisions Associated Students of the University on all four UM campuses. The UMSL sequent violations. tion. to exempt students who are married or of 11issouri. "Some of the [exemp SGAAssembly recently passed a reso Students will be given a 48-hour 'They wanted us to encourage can demonstrate fInancial indepen tions] were things that we had suggest- lution urging administrators to consid period to notify their parents on their these issues before [students] come to dence from their parents. The Campus invaded er other altematives. own, if they wish, before the college," he said. University can also choose to exempt see PARENTS, page 9 by gargantuan mutant goose Barnes College battles nursing shortage Violations Where did this monstrous genetic freak of nature come BY DALILA WAHEED prompt from? How will the campus special to The CU1Tent survive? Find out the answers Barnes College of Nursing is internal audit to these and other questions fighting in a battle against the nation in The Stagnant, our annual wide nursing staff shortage, which April Fool's Day parody poses a threat to general health care. at two charter tabloid! The College of Nursing has expe rienced a 50 percent decline in schools ... Tabloid insert emollment since 1994, said Jerry Durham, dean of Bames College of Nursing. BY RHASHAD PITTMAN While nurses are the number one sta./J l1'1"iler providers of healthcare in the coun try, said Durham, the need for them is A charter school official said that an BRIEFS not being met. Last year, in St. Louis "internal audit" of two UMSL-spon alone, there were 1400 nursing open sow:! charter schools is being conduct ings, according to the Missouri ed after the recent discovelY of emoll Nelson accepts Hospital Association, said Durham. ment violations at Thurgood Marshall "[It is] both a curse and a bless Academy. position at UWT ing," said Durham. Doug Thaman is vice president of Students are aware of the short operations at Beacon Educational age, said Peggy Ellis, director of the Management, an education firm that BY TIM THOMPSON MSN Program. oversees the Academy as well as St. staff writer 'They are thrilled of course, Louis Charter School. He said that because it means that they can get a some students who live in the county Jack Nelson has accepted job ea."ily, quickly, and most of them are attending the city school, which is a the position of vice chancellor haVe a choice:' said Ellis. violation of state law. So far, about four for Academic Affairs at the '"It's good for us," said Lisa Koob, students at the Academy have been University of Washington also an accelerated BSN senior. found ineligible, he said. Tacoma. His duties will com "But, at the same time, I don't know. 'The board of that school would mence with the 2001-2002 aca When we get out there we're going to have to make a decision on whether demic year. be overworked and underpaid." they will let dle child finish the school NeLson held the same posi The College of Nursing has year," he said. tion at UMSL for three years implemented programs that will Thaman said the enrollment issue before resigning in the summer attract more students to the nursing carne ab{)ut because some city resi of 2000. He had continued field. dents felt that certain parents of stu working here as a professor in The Accelerated Baccalaureate dents living in the county were provid the philosophy department. Degree Program was created particu ing "fictitious addresses" to send their UWT differs from UMSL in a larly for people who want to change kids to the Academy, a charter school variety of ways . First of all, it career:;. It allows anyone with the located at 4300 Goodfellow Blvd. in is a new campus, having exist proper course work and prerequisites the city. ed for just over a decade. to obtain a degree in 15 months. "There were some city parents who Second, it currently serves only An on-line degree is offered to were aware of county parents sending juniors and seniors. Third, UWT working nurses, who obtain an asso their child to charter schools," he said. is relatively small with a mod ciate degree, or to anyone who has '"A lot of it canle about because a par est array of graduate programs. completed the proper course work. Jennifer Hites, a registered nurse, fills out a patient's chart in the emergency room at Christian ent didn't care for another parent. UMSL and UWT are similar in The College of Nursing has been Northeast Hospital while Sylvester Thmipseed, an emergency medical technician, prepares for Regardless of how it came about, it one way, though. They are busy recruiting high school students. another call. Last year there were 1400 nursing openings in 5t. Louis, according to the Missouri brought OUl issues that needed to be both experiencing rapid growth "If you come straight out of high Hospital Association. The Barnes College of Nursing is working to alleviate this nursing shortage. addressed and resolved." and expansion. In fact, UWT is school you can finish in a little over Under state law, to be eligible to increasing at an annual rate of three ye.ars, with two semesters and that were once for men only, but men passion for medicine and science," cent are under 30." attend charter schools- which are pri nearly 15 percent. summers," said Durham. have not moved to traditionally said Bethany Metz, an accelerated Health care will soon face nurses vately ]Un schools supported by state When asked how he felt 'We have lots of things to offer," women-only fields, said Durham. In BSN senior. "I jll~tlove it and I like who want to slow down, if nut retire, money-students have to live in the about leaving, Nelson said, "I said Durham. "All we need is stu the field of nursing, where 94 percent people, and helping people'"' so there is more shortage projected. city or live in a county school district enjoyed working at UM-St. dents." of nurses are women, that prospect is 'There's so many things you can said Durham, that participates in a voluntary tnlIlsfer Louis, but feel that I accom This nursing shortage is caused by frightening to general healthcare. do with a nursing degree," said Koob. Nursing salaries have been tlat for program, Thaman said. plished as much as I could many variables and is predicted to "The women's movement has "I mean you can work in a hospital, the last five years, said Dumanl. The voluntary transfer program accomplish in St. Louis." only worsen if conditions are not moved women to work out~i de of the you can work in an office, Yl)U can "Caring doesn't pay as much as allows city students to go to schools in Nelson also described his changed. home in fields other than teaching, work in sales, you can go into busi healing or some other jobs," said the county and viee versa, he said. future goals. Women want to get out of the nursing and library sciences," said ness .. .Ifs just a diverse degree."' Durham. Tharn,lIl said that he didn't think "I look forward to working business, the workforce is aging, Durham. \'lith many younger women stray The starting salary for nursing is most of the parent'> whose kids were with other administrators and salaries are too low and the increased But, in an era when "women's ing fium the field, the work force is good., said Ellis. But there is a cap on ineligible had "malicious intent." the faculty of UWT to build a healthcare need has lead to a staff of work" is being ousted, some women aging. salary increase. "Some of this is really clerical vibrant new institution that overworked nurses. still find the field attractive. "Forty-four is the average age of will serve the needs of both Women have moved into fields '"I went into it because I have a nurses," said Durham. "Only 10 per- Sf'e NURSING, page 9 . rd' .. I' )' (IIlti ...... ·It on the B oa . . II 'Illdenl orgmllZ(l /01 :, Josh Renaud - Edllor·il/·Cbie( ~ to II ~ ..... if dxvge: d· - Anne Porter· .IIanaging Edilor . Boa rd is (l sPITiee plOdded J I"ee Q '1 :,aTi'nl Erents Blllletin Bexlr IS) TIle CU/7'I2il1 fr 'ellis BlillelP I . . . . D lIill l! Jar WUiIIisSJOI15 10 7 Je · nxmimtions a/ld is Oil Inshirah • Busines..' ,Ifanager UI> I ' and di!'IS lO n~ . em . '.. '0' to student a " AI - Bawazeer C;;iumil1' depm tlll ~ .. 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'ociate .On-Campus Interviews Power: Science Education from 9 a.m . to 4 p.m. at 126 Dave Kinworthy • Spans Edifor Career Services at UMSL organizes this Challenges in an Era of exhibition that opens today with a Millennium Student Center, There is catherine - ,\&£ Editor free all-day event at 327 Millennium Conservative Restoration" will be pre reception from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at a fee of S13.30 to cover the costs Marquis-Homeyer Student Center. Students must be regis sented by Dr. William C. Kyle, Jr., at the 362 Social Sciences and Business of take· home materials. For Erik Buschardt • W€b !la/lOr tered with the Career Services in order Millennium Student Center, Century Room Building. The exhibition continues details, call 516- 5380. Zarina • Bu;:;il1t?SS 14,s'sociate to participate. For details, call 516- B, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. For more infor until June 28. For details, call 516- Syed-Khaja 5111 . mation, call 516-5767. 5273 . Maggie Matthews· ,-'0 Representaliue Sunday, Apri I 8 Charlene Hoskins - ,4t/ R~p resentatiue • Looking for a Bible Study .Meeting for OUT -UMSL's Lesbian, -Meeting for HISLA and Spanish Club candace Mangin - Prod. .4s;ociale Non -denominational Bible Study meets Bisexual, Gay, and Transgendered will be organized at noon in order to .Catholic Mass will be held at the Mutsumi Igarashi - Photo Associate South Campus Residence Hall Chapel in Room 313 of the Millennium Student Alliance-in Room 385 at the discuss plans for Mirth Day. Great V"JOIeta Dimitnwa - Prod. ,is..'1,·{(lIlt Center, from 11 a.m. to noon. There is Millennium Center, Student ideas and volunteers needed. at 7:30 p.m . CoprEditor also a meeting on Wednesdays from Organization, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tiffany McPherson • Di;,1rib. Assislant 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Bring your Call Mathew at 516-5013 or at 636- Friday, April 6 Monday, April 9 Theresa Autry - Pro(J/iWlder lunch. For details, call 516-6901. 230-7483. James Laury' \reb :\ssislalll .Soup with Sister 12:05 p.m. at the -Monday Noon Series ·Catholic Mass will be held at the Catholic .Diversity in America: Cultural Catholic Newman Center, 8200 Natural "Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Staff Writers: Differences will be held at 211 Clark Dutiful Daughter" will be presented Newman Center at 7:30 p.m. at 8200 Bridge, across from the West Drive Nick Bowman, Charlie Bright, Natural Bridge Road, located across Hall, from 12 :30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Call entrance to North Campus. For more by Linda Kick, senior lecturer of Lori Callander, Jer\nifer Dodd, from the West Drive entrance to North 516-6807 for more information. information, call 385-3455. English at UMSL. The lecture is from Stefanie Ellis, Rhashad Pittman, Campus. For more information, call noon to 1 p.m. at 229 J.e. Penney Sara Porter, Tim Thompson, Emily Umbright, Steve Valko, 385-3455. Thu rsday, A pril 5 Building. Free and open to the public. Saturday, April 7 Tom Weathersby Please call 516-5699 for more informa - "The City"-Digital Photographic tion. Wednesday, April 4 ·Self-Defense Seminar for Women will 8001 Natural Bridge Rd. Works by Thomas E. Patton is an St. Louis, Missouri 63121 Newsroom. (31415ii:r5F-; Advertising. (31,,) 5/6·5316 Business - (314) 51fJ.51 75 THE CAItAPUS CRINIELINE Fax • (311) 516-6811 campus: j88 ,Hillel/Ilium Studf!11t Center March 15, 2001 parking. The permit was confiscated. roof, and doors. Hall reported receiving numerous harass email: A vending machine at the Kathy J, The incident is being referred to the ing telephone calls and pages from anoth [email protected] Weinman Building on the South Campus Student Affairs Office. 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EOE See you at the fair! ~ ____~_PU~lIC SCHOOLS April 2, 2001 'tire Current Page 3 • on I~-' 1'> ,. ' ,,, ,, . , . BY SARA PORTER • • • • •• ' .0 • • • ~ ... _ , • • • ~ • • •• • ' " _, •• • • • _ ...... "., ••• • • that the first act seemed over staff writer before it began, and the perfoIID ers helped further the story with ~\'-.., their acting and their hilarious ~~~..,.,..,.... John Plllllip Sousa's operetta facial expressions, such as in a • "EI Capitan," which was per touching song from Isabel to her f'" formed by the U¥SL . Opera imprisoned "father," made hilari Workshop, has a confusing plot, ous by tbt;: rebel's crocodile tears overwrought characters, silly at her expense. songs, a climax that arbitrarily Osbourne's Medigua, "EI ends, and I haven't had a better Capitan," was a hilarious center to time watching a play in a long the piece, always acting as tbe time. brave hero to the rebels, but con The plot takes place in nine fiding to the audience his true teenth-century, Spanish-occupied motives in a one-liner. Part of the Peru and revolves around Don humor of the character involved Medigua (Justin Osbourne), a his costume, with an Einstein-like cowardly eccentric viceroy who fright wig and a Fu Manchu-like just replaced the former viceroy, mustache, Osbourne looked every Don Cazarro (Chris Weller) . Bent bit a smooth con artist and coward on taking back his title, Cazarro , as he manipulated the rebels. brings rebel forces together, Two favorites of the audience including his daughter Estrelda were Rowbottom's Morghanza (Robin Mik) · and her fiancee, and Mosier's Pozzo. Rowbottom Scaramba (paul Robinson), while gave a commanding performance awaiting help from a legendary as Medigua's domineering wife, soldier, "EI Capitan." When especially at the beginning where Medigua receives word that "EI she does her best Queen of Hearts Capitan," in reality an ally of his, impression by commanding the has been killed, Medigua himself rebels to be gone. The biggest F.. assumeS the role of the soldier. scene stealer, though, was Mosier . '.""""V":"'" ..• .,. """ "W Other problems abound as as the thoroughly confused neu Medigua's cowardly servant rotic Pozzo. His best song was Pozzo (Joseph R Mosier) one in whjch he had to act as assumes his role and gets arrested, Medigua while Morghanza and and Medigua gets involved in a Isabel are singing to him as a wife love triangle with the amorous and daughter. The expressions on Estrelda and his nagging wife . his face while acting the devoted Princess Morghanza (Terree lord were charming. Rowbottom). 'Meanwhile, there is The one thing that doesn't fit is another love story between the love story between Isabela and Medigua's daughter, Isabel Verrada. Their one duet is beauti (Christina Rios), and a nobleman ful, and Rios and Boyer had two named Verrada (Keith Boyer). of the best singing voices in the With so many subplots and production. However, their love songs to the story. the operetta John Phillip Sousa's exciting operetta HEI Capitan" was performed by the UMSL Opera Workshop in .s .~ ()r?, .. ~.~ ~ ..~i~. ~11.. .s. ~ ~.h. ...s ~() .r1: .. stJr,i .f~ the J.C. Penney Auditorium on March 22-24. moved aiong at a fastpa'ce, so fast see EL C APITAN, page 8 I . UMS! Go ~el Choir a spring '!flusical success BY KIMBERLY SILVER Marcellous T, Rose Hill Baptist cuity can be. He used his rap to ... ~...... ~ .-...... _. .. -...... speci,a[ to Tbe Current Church Youth Choir and the minister to the audience. adorable Minter Boys. The entire evening was a suc The choirs performed several cess. The Master of Ceremonies, Imagine this : Over 50 choral selections that immediatel); had the Pastor Linda Mitchell of Union voices a rap artist:, a live band and audience dancing and clapping Vine Missionary Baptist dancers that made the entire audi their hands to the music. Church,was full of energy. ence jump to their feet for each Many people sang along to Throughout the program she song. familiar tunes. It was quite an ex.pe repeated the familiar adage, "When No, I'm not talking about the rience. Some might call it a gen praises go up;' and the entire audi EDITOR Outkast concert This show was uine praise party right on UMSL's ence shouted in unison, "blessings absolutely free and il was right campus. come down!" lJMSL students, par WE NEED ONE! here on our own campus Friday, At one point, I had walked out ents, staff and friends of the UMSL ...... f ••• • • •••••• . • • • March 23. side to make a phone calL I could community all came together to features editor For those of you who were barely hear a dial tone because it enjoy the positively powerful there, you know exactly what I'm was as loud as Cicero' s on a event talking about For the rest of you Saturday night Needless to say, I Lena Thomas, President of G phone: 516-5174 who didn't make it, you missed out gave up trying to make that call and PHI says, "It was a blessing to see fax: 516-6811 on a soulful and spiritually uplift went back to inside to the musical. God being expressed on ' UMSL's ing event. So allow me to fill you Marcellous T, an upcoming campus" U1YfSL Gospel Choir is ill. gospel rap artist, performed a con an organization that accepts all UMSL Gospel Choir hosted troversialpiece, a song entitled faiths and ethnicities. Shasta Ellis, their very own "Spring Musical "Nlight Not Mean Much," whicb . the president of UMSL Gospel EVENTS 2001" which featured Rutgers dealt with the touchy subject of Choir, comments, 'We make music University's Liberated Choir all premarital sex. This song raised our ministry and would like for the way frOlll New Brunswick, N.J. eyebrows and spirits because sexu anyone who is interested to join our Performances were given by ality usu~Uy is !,lot openly dis choir." If you would like to find UMSL Gospel Choir, Freshman cussed in the church. Marcellous T more information about how to join The UI'i.SL Gospel Choir perfonned with the Rut ger Choir in April soloist Dianna Dyson, Rutgers attacked the issue by reminding us the choir, you sbould call 516c UMSL's spring musical in Century Hall at the Millennium Student Choir. Rutgers . Dancers, bow dangerous and painful promis- 4024. Center. 30 The Sheldon Art Galleries pre sents "AIDade: the Cultural History of Sports 1929-2000," a tribute to sport's illustrator, Amade. Tickets are available by calling Metrotix at (314) 534- 1111. For more information, call Gallery 210 exposes hidden time wa_ the Sheldon at (314) 533-9900, or check out the website at BY EMILY UMBRIGHT have no more studying to do. exposed from the chunk of spot slides of Jupiter, and sketches of tures made of glass, and stone. www.sheldon concert hall .org. 2 ~ wildlife are scattered between the staff writer What do you do? You walk gloss, textured ,\lrap of clay. The The memories of the former room towards the doors and notice a clay has a look of freshly dug layers of gl:.tss giving the impres echo into waves that form the art. The Honorable Mi.chael sign hanging from one of the rock. The dishes look worn but sion of an explosion of a world You are in another world. Harcourt, former premier of classroom doorways . . "Gallery conjure nostalgic inlages in your with many great accomplish The center of the room's ener British Columbia, will give a lec Maybe this has happened to 210," you muse, "I've always mind. This exhibit is not only a ments. This leads back to the gy lies in "Allooma," a tall cylin ture at UMSL regarding metropol you.You walk into the second wondered what was in there .. .. " representation of an archeological memory idea that was explored in der-like sculpture emitting a green itan issues at 7:00 p.m., as part of floor of Lucas Hall with an agen Catch the exhibit at Gallery excavation, but also an excavation the smaller sculptures. hue. A mirror hangs above it, the University 'S Public Policy da: to get to class on time. With 210 before it closes Oil April 4. into the individual's mind. One mural not (0 be over exposing the scientific-looking Research Center. The Lecture is two minutes remaining, the hall The gallery is excavating To the right of the entrance looked is the "Potato Patch. ' Your top composed of green and blue free and open to the public. For way is a madhouse filled with stu "Archeology," a three-dimension stand three large, layered rectan eyes will be immediately drawn to circles. It looks like a sort of futur . more information, call Katheline dents engaged in conversation al interactive exhibit by local gular glasses. This is "The the concentric movement of rocks istic plant Just one thing, is this Kornfeld at (314) 727-0600 or blocking your path. Other stu sculptor and Washington Wasteland," a collection of mixed resembling potatoes. The potatoes room the future, or is it the past? email her at kornfeld@moenvi- dents line the walls waiting for University professor Ron Fondaw. media preserved in glass. The idea spin downward into a black hole. You'll have time to ponder that ron.org. their professors to arrive and Walking into Gallery 210, you of a forgotten, or even doomed, You will move closer to the whole as you walk to your next class. unlock the classrooms. You make find that many of Fondaw's sculp world lingers in the memory to see what it is made of. You will Unfortunately, you are not in a The Fox Theatre presents it to your class at the end of the tures swallow up the room. The between the layers of glass. even reach out to touch it. only to time warp, but rather in a small "CopoCabana," Tuesday-Friday at hall by the drinking fountain, only essence of .the first room is con Especially the piece entitled "If . fuid yourself being sucked into a gallery inside Lucas Hall. Due to 8:00 p.m" Saturday at 2:00 and to discover a sign hanging on the tained in smaller sculptures like Given Another Chance," which vortex. the escapist quality Fondaw's 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 and doorway reading, "Profe.ssor X's "Aunt Verna's Lamp·' and sits on it burned sewing cabinet When you come out, you find sculptures bring, you have been 7:00 p.m. Tickets range form 10:30 class catJ.celed. ~ Sighing, "Aladdin." The earthy looking that looks as if it were pulled from yourself in another room, cooler, sucked into the past, and have lost $22-$58.00. Tickets are on sale you turn around and begin the trek masses of clay resemble what a house neighboring Chernobyl darker, and with the hum of the air track of time. You hurry out of the now and are available at the Fox back down the hall. would be found at an archeologi during the explosion. Melted conditioner, you feel as if you are quiet room, facing the body of stu Theaters box office and all You glance at your watc.h. It cal dig. In "Aunt Verna's Lamp," down glass jars border the glass in a cerebral "no place:' where the dents head on. Don't worry Metrotix locations. They can also reads 10:29. It's too early to eat a porcelain teacup sitting on a windows looking into what memories originate. The walls though, you can return. The be purchased by calling Metrotix. lunch, dl you actually came to stack of saucers, and an old vase, appears to be a swarm of worldly have a greenish glow. The room is Gallery is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at (314) 534-1111 or visiting their school pFepar·ed today" so you slightly sbattered. are somewhat items. Wooden block letters, rawer, stripped down with sculp- Tuesday till Saturday. website at www.metrotix.com. · Page 4 LETTERS Slavery reparations ad raises free speech issue UMSL roads need major repair work reedom: the meaning of the pbere of colleges as centers of learn word is the basis on which the ing, debate and educational experi F founding fathers built this mentation. COlllltry. Mo t of the papers declined to I know everyone is frustrated with new garages, but let's try and get conditions on South Campus. With freedom comes responsibili run the ad becnuse of its controversial the parking situation on campus and these roads in better sbape! I mean It 's like driving through a mine ty, and the obligations to defend and nature. Four agreed t publish it and so am 1. For the past two seme ters I fi Id! E very time 1 get to cbool I give me a break-I-70 is in better understand it, of those three ran apologies. -have been driving out to UMSL from dread driving on campu. for fear my shape than the roads on campus! In Many ))eQple, aldlOUgh they m~y Wilh Febru31.'Y tIS the _ Igarashi. tJlut su"'" bY staff photographer Colleen Kelley Jimm Haney Joseph Litsch Paul D. Puricelli Junior / Business Admin. Junior / Psychology Senior I Anthro., Geography Senior I MIS ----,,------,,------,,------,,--- One year I told'my boyfriend I . I called my sister at school I phone my boss and told him I broke up with him. He hadn't and told her she forgot to turn s'wap out a shampoo from a was with the IRS and he was realized it was April Fool's yet, in a term paper. She actually bottle with nair. r . going to be audited so he believed me. believed I was her professor! " ----,,---- " ---'-- " ---,=-- Aplil 2, 2001 '1Jw. Current Page 5 Lions' roar becomes kittens' purr J j I ""':""'~-' ~/ VMSL Rivermen slide by '. Lindentuood U tuith 4-3 win in extra innings BY NICK BOWMAN contest in the fourth inning on a solo ...... "" ... , ... " ...... " .. " ..."" .. . staff writer home run off the bat of Oscar Bernazard, and added to the lead in For many collegiate baseball the fIfth inning as Bernazard batted players, the prospect of playing a in Juan Rios to take a 3-1 lead. game in front of the lights at a pro UMSL responded with a hot bat fessional baseball park is a dream in the seventh inning with Brett far from reality. Katz knocking a solo homerun shot :;-.,.> .. .,.,;; ..:,.<" ".~-,': . /f But for the UMSL Rivermen, the to right-center and Buddy Simon hit l dream came true, at least for one another solo homer in the same / night, as UMSL took on direction to tie the score at 3-3 head Lindenwood University at TR. ing into the eighth. Katz again came Hughes Baseball Park in O'Fallon. through for the Rivermen, scoring . ».,,,·:. ..., .. :·. •-.wk; .;...... ·~-"·.w...... ,,':""-'. i "It was great to be able to play at the go-ahead run from a line drive to 1 TR Hughes," said head coach Jim right and giving the Rivernlen a 4-3 1 .~ Brady. "Anytime you can play in a lead. setting like that, you've got to get Greg Bierling, who was credited excited." with the win, retired the Lions in The game, however, was less order in the bottom of the eight and than steIlar for the Rivermen as they Keith Wallace did the same in the squeezed a 4-3 win out of the Lions ninth, recording his second save of in extra innings. the season and securing a 4-3 "Sometimes a win is a win, and UMSL victory. we played just good enough to win," With the victory, the Rivermen said Brady. improved to 8-7 on the year and will UMSLjumped to an early lead in head into conference play above the the fIrst inning, with Brody Jackson .500 mark. But 8-7 is far from the taking a sacrifice out to score Bryan expectations of this team according Beckmann for the game's fIrst run. to Brady. Lindenwood responded in the bot "So far we've been a bit of a let tom of the inning, scoring in similar down," said Brady. "I expected a Darren Brune Tbe C/l1-rent fashion and evening the game 1-1. Riverman Greg Bierling leans into a pitch at a recent game. The Rivermen recently defeated Lindenwood took control of the see BASEBALL, page 12 Lindenwood University, which brought their record to 8-7. f Basketball Rivermen take Baseball/Softball stock of season, look forward Stats Over Break BY NICK BOWMAN GLVC. Although UMSL was oust GLVC All-Conference Team. The Rivermen Riverwomen I staff /llriter ed in the first round of both tOllll1a team is voted on by the coaches of ments, there is no denying that this the GLVC. at Bellarmine W 12-5 v. Lewis W 5-1 DAVE KINWORTHY Since taking the helm of the is definitely a tcam on the rise. Ross led the team in scoring this sports editor men's basketball program at "We've been accomplishing our year with a 14.9 average. He also at Bellarmine W 9-8 v. Lewis L 5-1 UMSL, lVlark Bernsen has slowly goals in these seasons," said led in total assists with 62 ard seen his alma mater rise from the Bernsen. 'This season, we warted steals with 43. His scoring average at Bellarmine L 4-2 v. Wisconsin-Pksd L 5-0 phone: 516-5174 6!lar'i of the Great Lakes , !ley to finish above .500 (the Rivermen also placed him among the t p 15 at Lincoln W 13·4 v. Wisconsin-Pksd W 3-2 fax: 516 -6811 Conference to a perennial post-sea finished 14-13) and we warted to in the GLVC. Coleman pl aced 11th son teanl. qualify for the GLVC tournament. in the GLVC in rebounding with an at Lincoln W 8-7 at Missouri-Wstrn L 8-7 In 1999, Bernsen took a team We accomplished both of those average of 6.4 per game, while still that was coming off of a six-win goals and next year, we'll work on scoring an average 11 .1 per contest. at Missouri-Wstrn W 7-5 campaign and sent it to the confer that." "If you're going to have any v. Quincy L 3-1 ence tournament. This season, The team is beginning to gain success in any sport, you're going G Bernsen sent that same team to the recognition within the conference. to have to have the pLtyers," said v. Quincy L 7-5 post-season armed with a .50D Two senior Rivennen, Greg Ross Bernsen. "If we can build on their Baseball record and a No.6 seed, the highest and Michael Colemar, received Source: UMSL Alhlelics Website such finish since UMSL joined the honorable mention berths on the SI!f! BASKETBALL, page 12 at Harris Stowe 3JXI pili . 7i IrS.. Apr. 3 Riverwomen wind up with back-to-back losses to Truman v. Quincy 2:{)() Pili. W·'ed. . AP1 ~ 4 BY TOM WEATHERSBY 'That's what was so frustrating," Jackson is hitting .432 with a slug- .. " ...... ',". special to Th e Currpnt Bonee said. "If we would have played ging percentage of .784. better defensive I. . we might have had Langenbachcr, Andrea Wirkus, Softball The UMSL women's softball team a charce to win. We did play better in Chrissy Griefe and Allison Maurer fol was swept in a doubleheader at the second game. We just couldn't get low with all batting at least .330. at Central Missouri State Trumar State on March 21 , losing the the offense going." T!Uman State added a !Un in the J.OO /) /11. I'(ed.. Apr. q first game 7-2 and then dropping the The Rivenvomen did get two runs bottom of the third ard kept the second game 8-1. in the top half of the seventh, on the Riverwomen silenced. In the fourth v. SIU Edwardsville hot bats of Cluistine Langenbacher and innings, Truman State hung In the first game Truman State got flfth l:()() pm . Sal , Apr 7 on the board first, scoring a run on a ard Kelly Jackson. Langenbacher sin three more runs on the Riverwomen in single in the second inning. In the gled with one out ard Jackson hit her each inning. The Riverwomen eventu third, Trumar added arother run, third home run of the season to make ally fell 8·1. blinging the lead to 3-0. The the score 7-'2, which is how the game "When Ollr offense gets going Riverwomen were unable to counter ended. Jackson and Largenbacher we're gonna be tough ," Bonee said. the score. continued to swing the bat well. "But we have to prepare mentally. It's Tennis In the fifth inning Truman State "I just go up ard try to put the ball just our mental game we'll have to unloaded four runs off starter Megan in play," Jackson said. "I don't go to improve or I'll have to fInd players at SIU Edwardsville Kuebler, to blow the ganle wide open the plate looking for hits." who can. You can't have mental break 3 00 pm . \red. Apr ~ and push the lead to 7-0. Head Coach In the second game, Truman State downs, especially against teams like Lesa Bonee was not happy after game again started off by jumping on top 1- Truman. We have conference play v. Washington (Mo.) one as the Riverwomen could not 011 a single in the first inning. In the beginning. We have to do better" o 3:00 pm. n1llr .. Ap l ~ 5 manage to get any nms. top of the thinl UMSL tied the game ''We have to be ready to take the '1£ anything, Truman is a very, very 1-1 and scored on Jackson's double to field," Largenbacher said. gooo tean1 that's ranked nationally," give the Riverwomen their only run of "Conference is starting. We have to be Bonee said. "They are a great tearl, the ganle. ready to play mentally. Coach got on Darren Brune 77lt? CiIlTent but we didn't play well mentally at all. "'').,Ie couldn't get the offense and us and we have to do better." Visit the UMSL athletics We had mental breakdowns on our defense to click together," Jackson These two losses brought the website at Kelly Jackson prepares to deliver a pitch at a recent game defensive coverage." said. "It was like the offense was up Riverwomen down to 6-6 on the sea against Lewis. The Riverwomen lost two games to Truman State Truman State was able to capitalize here ard the defense was down. We son, with the team now concentrating www.umsl.edu!services! prior to facing Lewis. on UMSL's breakdowns. need to play an even game." on successful conference play. athletics! athletics. html U M SL sports must push harder to make playoffs e1come back from Spring since getting off to a .500 season at 7- Brady at the helm and as the defend new, I mear not a young team, but program. TIle men's team thus far has Break, fellow students. It is 7. Jim Brady, in his tenure as the. ing Great Lakes Valley Conference rather a group of junjor college play a 5-2 overall record, with only one W spring season ard the base UMSL baseball head coach, has champions, UMSL will rally this sec ers along with seleer players from last conference loss to Southern Indiara, a balls and softballs, along with tennis never, in the past four years since I ond part of the season. season's team. The group had a great dominant team who came into the balls, are hitting mid-stream light have been here, gotten off to such a The women's softball team got off fall season, but needs to play like they contest at 11-2 overall ard were the now. slow start. But do not worry fellow to a great start this season under Lisa have the desire to win the close con winners of the conference last season. The Rivermen and Riverwomen in athletic department, heavy breathers Bonee, hut lately have failed to sweep ference ball games. Andrea Wirkus, The goal this year for the the sports of baseball, softball and and critics. Coach Brady wiIl make both g;unes in their doubleheaders. the NCAA Division II leader in triples Riverrnen has been to oust tennis are cunently in the middle of this teanl succeed and the passion that The team may lack that one dominant last year, is a proven winner with the Indiarapolis and this team has what it their seasons and all teams are quite he has for the game itself will not get pitcher (like Kathleen Rogaz) for Rivenvomen ard if arything, she will takes to do it. With a young Matt competitive. The Great Lakes Valley away from him this season. No matter now, but Meghall Kuebler is coming not allow the Riverwomen to falter Vaulkhard at No. 1 singles, the veter Conference is no joke and aryone who says d1at the men's baseball team on strong as oflate and has rallied this down the stretch lUn this season. ars of Josh Heape, Minh Phan, Eric who follows the Rivermen and may not have what it takes this season team on her back. The biggest and yet the least sur Schrumpf and Ryan Trela will all L4.TEST Scoop Riverwomeu should know that now is with their slow start, Brady will The softball program, at 9-11 prising aspect of this spring season is have to be at their best when the the time to make a push to the front. answer the critics with a huge second overall and 2-2 in the GLVC, has [Q the men's tennis program. Head Rivennen make their run at the No.2 DAVE KINWORTHY The men's baseball team is hope half of the season. No Rivermen's have a strong second half of the sea Coach Rick Gyllenborg bas done a position in the conference. fully hitting their full potential, ever baseball team will ever fail with son under this new team. When I say great job ever since he took over the Page 6 1k Current April 2, 2001 Epic duel captivates audiences in 'Enemy at the Gates' BY T IM THOMPSON who hurl their troops at the Germans staff Ilwiier like pigs being led to the slaughter. The film also accurately portrays Military history buffs and movie the chaotic situation at the Stalingrad goers enticed by drama and adventure docks, where soldiers trying to defend alike, will have a sense of fultillinent the city become hopelessly entangled after viewing "Enemy at The Gates." with civilians desperate to leave. Starring Jude Law, Ed Hanis, One of the most riveting scenes Joseph Fiermes, Rachel Weisz and takes place on the boat trip across the Bob Hoskins, ''Enemy At The Gates" Volga when makeshift Russian troop keeps the audience mystified at the ships are strafed by Stuka Dive incredible courage of two snipers Bombers from the Luftwaffe's Third deteonined to eliminate one another in Aitilcet. In order to avoid the Gelman the midst of a ferocious battle that is planes, some Russian soldiers leap deciding the course of world history. into the river and are promptly shot by The setting is the autunU1 of 1942. their own sadisti<: officers. when Hitler's Nazi Germany is at the These initial episodes leave the apex of its power. Gennan forces audience mesmerized. The authentici .... dominate most of Europe, and Russia ty is grand and the camera work .- is on the verge of collapse . astonishing . The Nazis have struck repeated The setting of Stalingrad itself is massive blows at the Russi;.llls, forcing also brilliantly recreated. In the real them back to a small industrial city on battle, the city \\ "s leveled by thou the Volga River named Stalingrad. s,mds of Luftwaffe aircraft, and by the The movie opens with a spectacu autunm of 1942. had been reduced to lar series of dramatic 'cenes depicting the ignof CATHERIN E MARQUIS-HOiiiiiEyER Sal y's folly: the crack in 'Talley 's Folly' a&e editor BY EMILY UMBRIGHT ty to include his audience, who in turn tant from St. Louis who plays off the phone: 516-5174 Yarf I{'rite}" thin their suspension of disbelief. stereotypes but cannot bring himself Matt's awareness of the audience to enlist in the war, desires the rural fax: 516-6811 Theatrc-g'1CfS of the Repertory seems to dissolve with the appearance simplicity that Sally represents. Sally, Theatre escaped into the World War II of his romantic interest, Sally Talley, the street-smart fann girl, dreams of home-front in Lanford Wilson's played by Kelly McAndrew. Crickets living in a place '.vith Ie 's ignorance ''Talley's Foil:,," directed by Steve chirp in the background, an occasion and wants out. Despite the roles they Wuolf, on Friday March 16. TIle play al frog croaks, the moon rises, giving play. Matt is really the dreJl11er, and Muse runs through April 13. the illusion of time passing by. The Sally is really the pragmatic one. What began a') a slice of American audience is still with Matt but he for Matt makes reference to his love for life in a time of war kept alive with gets. The moment the couple engages puzzles repeatedly, and these two fill victory garde ns, wru' bonds, and in conversation, the audience becomes in each other's gaps petiectly. There womenjoining the work force, ended mere spectators in Matt's attempt to is one problem, however. If they are April with the audience's total engro" 'ment '\valtz" with Sally while she clings to such a goGil match, why does she con in the psychology of two separate her identity. tinue to push him away? individuals who attract ~ md repel each TIle set, designed like a horseshoe, Throughout the everling, the emo 6 other into state ' of confusion. is perfect for staging conversational tions 'Swing from expressions of love The dimming of the hou 'e lights interaction between the two charac to alienation. TIley dance taking turns Funky Meters blur:; the distinction between the audi ters, who at times stand on opposite moving two steps forwand and a step The Pageant ence's reality and the act rs ' r ality. sides of the set '.'lith a creek running back, with Matt getting closer to his Matt Fri edman. played by Geoffrey between them. Matt refers to the goal of cr~c king Sally's shell and hop Just Add Water Cantor, delivers his opening mono evening as a waltz because when he ing to obtain her to acceptance of his Mississippi Nights doors logue in an engagingly comical man advances to her mentally, she pulls maniage proposal. She demands that 8 p.m. ner, giv ing the audience the grand away. He blings up a valid point he leave her ooathouse, which he tour of the set. He 'onfronts the audi about human nature, in that each indi does. but not without attacking her Juliana Theory en e head on. luying out the center of vidual is a metaphoric egg who, at lack of nostalgia firs t. At this Creepy Crawl Lebanon, Mn." in rebti n to the times, bumps intu another egg but des 1110menL a band in the distance begins ooathouse where the play takes place. perately protects the sheU from being playing which cau<;es her to foUow 7 He illustrates the artificiality of the cracked. What Matt does not know is him with her eyes. Just her look pre play by explaining how reflections of that while he protect'> his yoke from vents him from leaving. ruld again, the Swag with The the moon are created with 'tage being splattere.d onto the dock, Sally is dance begins. Greenhorns and lights. However, he also say that he doing the same. SkeJet'.'ns ar-e exposed and the Holy Infants is not a romantic, which as the play The audience Can see that the two audience fulds their characters vic- Rocket Bar proves is nO[ all together true. Matt's characters are petiect for each other. see FOLLY, page 7 8:30 p.m. opening monologue extends his reali- Geoffrey Cantor as Matt Friedman and Kelly McAndrew as Sally Talley Matt, the book-smart Jewish accoun- 12 Guster The Pageant door 8 p.m. Hot Water Music with 'The Caveman's Valentine' is Reynolds returns in 'Be Leatherface L. Creepy Crawl standard Samuel Jackson Careful What You Pray For' 13 BY RHASHAD P ITTMAN reoccurring mental battles with a pow erful character in his mind called BY KIMBERLY SILVER The young Samantha soon finds Almost the entire cast has incredible Chuck Berry with Leon staff writer ...... -.- . .. " ..... "." Stuyvesant. The hunt ultimately leads special to the current herself in a mentally and physically vocal ability, which contributes to Russell and The Morells Samuel L. Jackson may have to a well-known photographer, David abusive maniage. Her hilarious the quality of the play. The costumes The Pageant slightly changed his look from a more Leppenraub (played by Colm Feore), Lisa G. Reynolds returned to the friends, Michael and Carmen, try to are dazzling. Shirley MllIdock glides clean-cut appearance to that of a who takes photos of people who are in Gateway City last weekend with her rescue her but to no avail. Through ar'ound in satin pajamas that are 14 rougher, thick-bearded, and dread pain and have been suffering from it own original play, "Be Careful What the power of prayer, by herself, her nothing short of royal. Later, she Vitamen A CD release locked schizophrenic homeless man, for years. You Pray For," at the Fox Theatre. family and her friends, she is deliv appears OD stage decked out in a gor party but his onscreen presence and persona Jackson's pelionnance is as excel Her play combines comedy, drama ered from her terrible situation. "Be geous cranbeny red, three-piece silk Mississippi Nights have hardly changed at all in his new lent as always, as his central character and music to minister to the audi Careful 'What You Pray For" serves as suit that would make even the most 8 p.m. movie "The Caveman's Valentine." carries the artful movie and its well ence. The play is about Samantha a highly effective wake up call. If you fashion savvy woman want to run to The film is based on a 1994 Edgar written sClipt to the heights of upper Stuart, a teenage girl with an arnaz allow its message to reach your heart, out Dillard's ruld recreate the image Award-wiIUling novel by George class New York society and back ing voice who discovers what she it simply reminds you that " all that for herself. But wait a minute' The 18 Dawes Green and directed by Kasi down to the common folk and the believes to be love and prosperity glitters ain't gold." fellas were equally impressive, Cuba At the Drive In Lemmons, whose first effort was an lower-class world. Somewhere in outside of her Christian home. She Lisa Reynolds put her heart into Gooding Sr. could easily grace the Mississippi Nights artsy New Orleans- based film, called between, danger penneates through ends up marrying 29-year--old Bobby writing this play. It was so powerful cover of GQ. We definitely will not 7:30 p.m. "Eve's Bayou," also starring Jackson. out both worlds, combining them into Wallace. This man is sexy, lich and that one minute the perfonners had forget bad-boy Bobby Wallace, who Jackson plays Romulus Ledbetter, a hellish, colorful ride through the powerful. Everything a girl prays for you falling out of your chair with looks like he could be tucked away 20 a former JuUiard piano student who is mind of Romulus. right? Wrong I It turns out that her laughter and the next minute the sheer in the pages of Ebony magazine. Dropkick Murphyis living in a cave at a New York park. Jackson plays the part as well as new husband does not have Christ in intensity had you hanging on to the Hats off to the costume managers Mississippi Nights 'When Ledbetter encounters a life anyone could. He takes it to its limit, his life. Deep inside, he is full of rage edge of your seat. and stylists. 7 p.m . changing valentine hanging from a but doesn't go any further than his and truly miserable. Young The musical performances are During intermission, playwright tree right outside of his "home," the usual trademark dramatic roller-coast Samantha suffers because he!" hus simply amazing. Shirley Murdock's and former Fox Theatre employee String Cheese Incident suspense ride begins. er persona. I like his style, the calm band makes her just as miserable. has a rich voice that carries you deep Lisa G. Reynolds was honored for The fanner pianist Romulus trans warning of his rising voice to a thun- Painfully she leams that no one and into the plot of the play. Cuba her work. Ten year-s ago, she created Fox Theatre fonns into a detective arld goes on a nothing can stand without Christ. Gooding Sr., who plays Samantha's 8p.m. witch hlmt for the killer despite his see JACK SON, page 7 Not even a maniage. protective father, is equally effective. see PRAY, page 7 The columnist takes a spring break holiday or my column this week, I'm work hours (if you were unlucky Getting away from the movie break, I'm hoping to have a little wind up doing more productive and taking the week off. If you're enough to be too broke to leave theme, I also don't know what's hap "down time" to do a little goofing useful things than this, but hey, a girl F expecting a really coherent town). And even Current staffers get pened in the news over the interven off. In tlns highly efficient world, can dream, can't she? column, you can probably stop read spring break, too, although I'm not ing week. Maybe the stock market quality goofing off is very underrat I hope everyone did something ing right now, and get back to class. going anywhere myself. bounces back. Maybe they find mad ed. I'm planning on sleeping late at they enjoyed over spling break, even It's not happening. Mentally, I'm on The result is that some of the top cow disease in New Jersey. Maybe least once, and doing something if it was just making more money for spring break. ics I could have written about are in tlley'll find Russell Crowe has mad purely for the entertainment value to the serious-minded. Hopefully, the By the time you read this, spring the future for me but in the past for cow disease - no, wait, now I'm back myself, like read arl interesting new weather was nice enough that every break will be over but as I write this, you. As I write this, I don't know yet to movies. book or finally go see the Van Gogh one could get outside a bit, and feel spring break has not yet begun. In who won the Academy Awar-ds. TIle I'm sure more announcements exlnbit at the Art Museum, or hear like spring is finally getting here. order for YOLl to read this on the first St. Louis Film Festival's Best of Fest about finding new genes will be Ptah Williams play fabulous jazz Crocuses are coming up in my front day after the end of spring break, this mini festival hasn't yet taken place. made, although no one could guess piano at Riddle's Cafe, or watch yard right now, and will probably be MARQUEE RAMBJJNGS article had to be written before we all "Josie and the Pussy Cats" hasn't yet which ones will be uncovered. I'm some silly video or DVD I've fading out by the time you read this, took off for wanner climes (if you opened in theaters. OK, so maybe sme stories about the spread of hoof aJready seen dozens of times. Or CATHERINE as daffodils are starting to corne up. were lucky enough to go to Florida some of these events are more inter arld mouth disease are still running. maybe I'll try to figure out "the Welcome back to camp's. Say, MARQUiS-HOMEYER over the break) or took off for more esting than others. Although I'll be in town for spring Sims" on my computer. Probably, I'll what did I miss over Spring reak? April 2, 2001 "11te Cu rren t Page 7 Three bands make more noise ENEMY, Jrompage 6 .JACKSON, from page 6 BY 'CHARLIE BRIGHT despite ill health that would leave With a slightly softer sound, a heap of rubble, a fact that is vivid The film takes an eventful tum derous yelling of damning words, but staff Il 'riter him recuperating for days, Matchbox Twenty let the audience ly displayed by director Jean when the Germans send the head of it's getting old, He doesn't transcend After a brief interlude, Everclear listen and sing quietly to the music, Jacques Annaud, their sniper school, Walther Koenig, the role and make me forget that he's took the stage behind by stOlm. Art rather than shouting over the pande The producers of this fIlm also played by Ed Harris, to find Zairsev Ledbetter and not Jackson. He sparks Jamie wasn't in any of the tJu'ee Alexakis, the band's highly recogniz monium as it had been forced to do went to great lengths acquiring exact and kill him, some good laughs, then becomes bands that rocked the Savvis Center able frontman, rocked the stage with only mUlUtes earlier. replicas of German tanks, nucks, One of the best lines of the fIlm very selious and loud, and is always on March 21, but she was a perfect a large group of St. Louisans. The band changed its name for half-tracks, guns, and unifOlms, takes place at Genmm Sixth ArTIlY inaiguing, But that's nothing new example of what is right with t Just think what the Symphony could do. 50% Off for College Students Must have valid student & photo I.D. at time of purchase. Applies to Orchestral and Pops Series Concerts only. Seating is at the discretion of the SLSO Box Office. Powell Club excluded. Prior sales excluded. S6INT LQUIS ~ ORCHESTRA ww'w.slso.org 314.534.1700 . Page 8 ~Ite Current April 2, 2001 'Violence, Cinema, and Atnerican 'A Heartbreaking Work' Culture': What more could you want? lives up to its name BY CATHERINE and historical as the seminars cover by dual discussions grouped under BY SARA PORTER M ARQUiS-HOMEYER the role of violence in film, fUm gen the headings "Why There is No staJrzl'nte; ' staff editor res that use violence, and ideology in Such Thing As Gratuitous filmmaking. More than 30 speakers, Violence" and "Serial Killers as I have to admit that when I first The effect of violence in films on including fUm scholars from a vari Symbob" at 11 :00 a.m. The confer heard the title of "A Heartbreaking society has been a subject of debate ety of universities, as well as schol ence then moves on to a series of Work of Staggering Genius." I thought since the movies began. "Violence, ars from other fields and other talks on "Postmodem Perspectives one of three things a) the author is real Cinema, and American Culture" experts will discuss a wide range of on Cinematic Violence" and ly conceited b) it's a parody making nUl takes a scholarly look at the role topics that span the history of film, "Violence andJas Satire" at 1:45 of what critics would say about the movie violence plays in the evolu with discussions including "Before p.m. At 3:45, the da) 's events con book or c) he's hopeful that critics 'Will tion of American society. The dis 'Blood and Holes': Violence in clude with a conference-wide lec ay that about the book. Having read cussions are sure to be fascinating Hollywood, 1896-1960," tnre "Seeing Dying," by Carol the novel, I can say it's d) none of the and thought-provoking. "Postmodem Cinema and Death of Clover of University of Califomia above. Instead, author Dave Eggers ill a bewildering array to discus the Hero," "Empire of the Gun: The Berkley. gives a humorous and, yes, sometimes sions covering everything from Ideology of 'Good iolence' in The conference resumes on heartbreaking account of a young man "Fight Club" to horror films to film 'Saving Private Ryan'" and Saturday with two groups of talks suddenly orphaned. noir to "Birth of a Nation," UMSL's "'Mission I1npossible 2' , or Alice in under the headings "Gender and \\'hen Eggers was lv,cnty-one, he Center for the Humanities will Cruise land, .. covering a kaleido Cinematic Violence" and lost both of his parents to cancer in the explore the topic of violence in film, scope of films and genres that ''Aesthetics of Violence III course of five weeks. The novel mostly in a series of seminars on campus employ movie violence of various Cinematic Horror" at 9:00 am. deals with his later years, moving to entitled "Violence, Cinema, and fomIs. There will be a lecture by \VtIliam San Francisco. founding a satire maga Amelicfui Culture" on Friday, April The conference is filled with dis Miller. University of Michigan zine . . 'Might, ., and raising his younger 6 and Saturday, April 7. cussions over two day, often gi\'ing School of Law for the whole con brother, Toph. who was seven at the TIus could be the treat of the year attendees a choice of topics to be ference at 11: I 5 a.m., entitled time of their parents' death. for serious film fans, as well as those covered in a series of talks. Each "How Would You Like Your The novel is hilarious in many interested in popular culture from an day's program runs from 9: 00 a. m. Vengeance Served'}" 'The two after places, such as his work on "Might," intellc:ctual view, or those interested to 5:00 p.m., with a break for lunch. noon groups of discussions are list which he conceded was a "staff of five in violence in society. And maybe Those attending can chose as many ed under the headlines "Spectacle in a broom closet" It also deals with those who are just curious about the lectures as they would like to hear. and Ideology" and "Violent the everyday annoyances that first time topic. The conference begins at 9:00 Auteurs" at 1:45 p.m. The entire parents encounter, such as fighting with This seminar seems to offer a.rn. Friday with several discussions conference wraps up at 3:30 p.m. his little brother over chores and his something for every ftIm fan. Topics scheduled under the heading with a lecture by Noel Carroll of the constant fear when the boy is out of his range from the psychological and "History and Typography of University of Wisconsin-Madison sight. philosophical to the technological Violence in the Cinema :' followed titled "On the Grotesque." It's also very moving in many chap More details on the conference ters. Egger's real emotions show when are available through brochures dis de.scribing the deaths of his parents, . FREE TEST, with immediate results. tributed on campus and from the cspecially his mother 's, and his strong detects pregnancy 10 days after it begins . UMSL Continuing Education and affections for Toph, and the near deaths Outreach office. The eminars take of two of his fiiends , one in a car acci . PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING &.. ASSISTANCE. place [Jt the J. C. Penney dent and one by attempted suicide. ration gets in the way, such as when he though one could hear it spoken aloud. All services (Ire free and confidential. Audiwrium and are frce, but Despite the heavy handedness of the shifts tenses from present to past and It bas a strange effect, but it works. require registration. 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Opens in theatres Wednesday, April 11 April 2, 2001 <'//re Current Page 9 Nick Bowman will take over Mock t rial team comes out as editor in chief of The Current on the first day on op after year of struggles ofinterses sion. Bowman is a BY RHASHAD PITTMAN On the last day of the tournament at primarily raised most of their own of their lead attorney, who had been sophomore " -"~~aff ; ; ; ;'~'t~; ' " ...... the awards banquet, one surprised money through alumni and local participating in mock Ilial competi double tearn member stood In complete judges and attorneys. Their local attor tions since the sixth grade. He would majoring in After a year of frustrating times astonishment with her eyebrows ney coaches, Chuck Caisely and Matt later be named an All-American attor communica with team members quitting, a lack of raised and her mouth wide open when Devoti, volunteered their time. The ney. tion theory funding for expenses, and numerous her name was called .. University did provide hotel expenses The judges that presided over each and English other hassles, UMSL's mock trial team Mitten, one of four first-year mem and a rented van for the trip at practi round based their score on every rhetoric. triumphed their trials by competing in bers, came home with All-American cally last-minute notice. aspect of the trial: the opening and the American Mock Trial status for her role as an attorney in the Either way, the whole experience closing statements, the direct and cross Association's (AMTA) national com competition. It was the only award was something they'll probably never exanrinations, and the willlesses' per petition this March in St. Paul, Minn., UMSL received. forget, even through those treacherous formances. UMSL won their first in only their second year of existence. "Once they got to the higher-rank years of law school. Just being able to round, against Texas A&M, but lost 'That's a very impressive feat," categories I thought my chances were meet and receive pointers from people tl1eir next three. said Mike Johnson, publicity chairper shot," she said. "I couldn't believe it. 1 like Edward Toussaint Jr., a classy One of UMSL's plaintiff attorneys, son of AMTA's Board of Directors. couldn't believe it." judge of the Minnesota Com1 of Suedmeyer, who recently graduated "We don't have many teams to do that. As a whole, the team was success Appeals, and Andrea George, an with plans of attending Baylor The last one Lcan remember that did it ful just to qualify at such a high level insightful federal criminal defense University's law school, is content was Harvard" so quickly. attorney, was worth the struggle. with her team's pelformance. And even though UMSL's team In the midst of their jubilant jour ''I've seen a lot of sterling argu "Since this is our second year, I didn't make it to the national champi ney, the Cinderella team was fortunate ments," Toussaint said, reflecting on . think we did pretty well," Suedmeyer onship in Des Moines, Iowa, they've to have a coach that brought champi his years of judging collegiate mock said. New Current editor to developed experience and skills that onship experience with binl. trial competitions. 'The competition is "Success depends on team chem will last a lifetime. Steve Caliendo, a Political Science pretty high." istry," she added. "We have to be able In all his 16 years as an educator Professor, coached the Purdue "There are some students that I'm to mesh at all times in all siruations." emphasize personnel and 20 years as an attorney, Johnson University mock trial team to the absolutely amazed are students," Dowd, a prosecuting attorney and says that he's never found a progrdlll championship competition in Des George said, adding that some of the willless on the team, says that as a wit tI that has so many benefits for students, Moines in the 1997-1998 school year. students she witnessed had "the pres ness facing drilling,.une xpected ques BY DAN GALLI way through the ropes. When people "" " ,' ...... ·n · .' . .,· .. ·.· such as "teaching students the ability His experience was essential in the ence of a professional" and were, at tions, it was all about "mindset." speCial to The Current leave, someone will take their spot," to think quickly, adaptability,. ..(and) national competition, where UMSL times, even more prepared. "I only had to know one thing," she Bowman said. "Thi s will cut a lot of teamwork," he said. and about 46 other colleges and uni The entire competition consisted of said, "know my part inside and out." Joe Harris, a fomler editor in chief holes and the paper will nm a lot ''It's probably the single most ben versities went at it like the power four rounds for each team, which was As both an attorney and witness, of The Cim'em, told Nick Bowman smoother." eficial educational oppOl1linity that houses at the NCAA basketball tour basically a trial each round that lasted Dowd stressed how important it was shortly after he was hired that he Bowman's other main goal is to they will participate in," Johnson said. nament that was simultaneously about three bours. The ilial was based not to get the facts of the case mixed would one day be an editor, On March increase disllibu tion of the paper. He For future lawyers, "You can't beat underway. Ironically, the mock Ilial on a case conceming the death of a up. 19, tllese words proved prophetic as wants off-campus distribution to other it for preparation to go to law school," national championship competition in man who was trying to summit Mount 'That could be devastating for your Bowman was officially approved by campuses in the area and also to the he added. Des Moines would feature the top 64 Everest, the tallest mountain in the side," she said. the University Assembly Student community. His goal is to be able to This year's UMSL's mock trial teams nationwide, like the NCAA bas world at over 29,000 feet. The man's Michael White, a Political Science Affairs and Student Publications deliver the paper throughout the sur teani. consisted of teanl presideD( ketball toumament does. spouse later sued the tour service that major like many of his teammates, Committee to be the next editor in rounding area. Matthew La Martina, treasurer Seasoned teams with strong mock led the summit, clai.mi.ng their negli said that he thought the team did well, chief of the paper "We can then tell advertisers we Danielle Smith, Lakisha Dowd, trial traditions like Yale University, gence caused her husband's death. It especially with such little support Bowman is a sophomore double adveltise in the community. We hope Jennifer Suedrneyer, Charlie Rosene, Syracuse University, and University was a harder case for the plaintiff than from the University. majoring in communication theory to be able to raise ad rates by 10 per Homecoming Queen April Cline, of California-Berkeley were compet for the defense, most agree CHARTER. frorn page 1 ONE -ACT PLAYS WILL BE HELD IN BENTON ...... -...... , ...... errors as well." he said. Thaman said. measures tl1ey intend to take," he said. Thaman said that some of the fam Despite the problems, TIlaman is "We have several issues that we are THEATRE (BE NTON 119 ) ON,' ilies were probably not aware of the pleased that so many parents are inter working on with Thurgood Mar'shall state requirements and may have just ested in charter schools. [Academy]," Samples said. "We are been an:tious to send their children to 'The interest is definitely there," he waiting on a response from all those a new school that they heard was said. issues." THURSDAYJ APRIL qTH FROM- opening up. St. Louis Charter School. Bob Sarnples, director of Samples decline to conm1ent on 5247 Flyer Ave., had simi lar problems University Communications, said that what those issues were. with unknowing parents, he added. UMSL has contacted officials at both "We've received some phone calls LJ :OO 6:00 PM. 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A addition, the warden and assistant th e US prison sys the soulhwestern por hi, 1775 expedition discovered th e hi ghest point on the islan d. and gigantic cell house, capoblc of hold wardens also resided on the island . tem. For on March ~ ti on o f San Franc is co Ihere, sun'ounded it with more than [00 in g more than 500 inmates, was con In its 20 years of operation as a 2 L 19('3. the I'in a l 9: Bay, just one: m ile The: R oc k' ~ coreer as a govern cannon. By the l-ate [950s Alcntraz structed where the citadel had been. Federal Prison, The Rock was wit ,-' ; . "::- : . and the first law-breakers were trans ness 10 14 escape attempts. The most group uf pri."oncrs 11' .... _ - ••• - fr om th e. famed ment-run fac ility commenced during h.::came the most fortified lllilital'y • • • jI " • embarked from "The Fisherman's Wharf. the early 18505, when president site on the western coast of the ferred th ere that autumn. violent of these took place on May 2- Rock. " Li [(Ie or no vegeta Fi llmore issued an executive order United States. and stood poised to The federal government decided 4, 1946. when six in mates jumped an Alcatraz was one. TIM THOMPSON ti on can be found on transkrming the island into a mili defend the entrance into San to build a maximum-security fa cility unanned guard. li fted his keys and gained access to several reserve of the mllst famous lJistory colLlIJlI1 ist the island because of tary t'cn1ress, Francisco Bay against an y intruder. on the island of Alcatraz in a deter concctional fac i Iities the numerous inter This action was undertaken in It was all for naught. There mined attempt to combat the soaring weapons, They managed to tem in the world. Cold. mysterious. and locking boulder fOllll ations. from response to the explosive growth of weren' t any in l'asions, and by 1909, crime rate that was engulfing poraril y g ai n control of the cell isolated, it housed some of the most which it s ni ckn ame, "The Rock." San Francis( o resulting from the the island was home to no more than America during the late '20s and house. wagin g a ferocious gun battle notorious villains in U.S. hi stOry and origi nates. Californ ia Gold Rus h, Fillmore a few dozen military prisoners. early' 305. with numerous conectional officers. Extraordinary crime figures such 111e six men were eventually over as A I Capone, George "Machine whelmed by a company of marines Gun" Kell y, Alvin Karpis, and who were transported from the main Arthur "Doc" Barker were all even land. tually transferred to The Rock. The most famous escape attempt Perhaps the most famous of all from Alcatraz c ulminated on the inmates was Robert Stroud, ni ck night of June 11 , 1962, when Frank ifference named the "Birdman of Alcatraz." Morris and brothers John and Unfortunately, he has become some Clarence 'Anglin dug out the rear of what of a folk hero, and a H oll ywood their cells, climbed up the utility cor A Summer Can Make film starring Bert Lancaster even ridor of the cell house, and using a depicted him as such. In reality, he rati made out of stolen raincoats, was a deranged fanatic w ho struck managed to reach the frigid waters of There's just nothing better than getting women and had committed double San Francisco Bay. homicide. The dummy heads they had con to that point in your life where your Alcatraz was designed to keep all s tructed to fool the nighttime guards of the rotten eggs in one bas ket. ""ere di scovered in their beds early hard work pays off, and you finally There were a precious few privi the next morning, at which time the leges. Prisoners were kept isolated in greatest manhunt in United States have the job you were meant to have. cells barely six feet w id e. There were history was immediately undertaken. Sign up now for summer classes at 17 counts each day, and periodic To this day, none of the ir bodies shakedowns. There were a lso 100 have been recovered. The questi on of UM - St. Louis and get to that point guards stationed on the island. This whether or not they actually beat The ~sual[y averaged out to one officer Rock is still hotly contested. sooner. Concentrated four- and eight for every three convicts, the highest Escalating operational costs led ratio in the hi story of the U.S. prison Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy week surruner ~lasses will give you the system. to officially close Alcatraz less than a Most of these guards actually year later. credits you need, and still leave you lived on the island with their families Today, Alcatraz Island is part of in specially constructed apartme nts. the National Park Service, attracting with summertime to spare. 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Join the University Program BoardHI The University Program Board (UPB) is comprised of fifteen chaired committees who are broadly representative of the composition of the student body. The board is the caretaker of the Student Activity fees allocated by the Studnt Activities Budget Committee for subsidizing co-curricular programs. Through their concentrated efforts a variety of educational, social, cultural, recreational and entertainment programs, which meet the diverse needs and interests of the University of Missouri St. Louis Community .are designed and implemented. For' m.ore information ..on how you can join for the 2001-2002 school year, call 516 - 5291 . . April 2, 2001 ~k- Current Page 12 . Tennis team serves defeat to opponents Rivermen take one win and loss over break, bringing overall record to 6-2 BY DAVE KINWORTHY Great Lakes Valley Conference. Four of the six singles matches 7-2. With the loss, the Rivermen fell doubles matches with only the No. 1 Jefferson College. staff editor The Rivermen swept all six of the went three sets, with all four favor to 2-1 in conference play. Phan at the doubles match, featuring Vaulkhard The Rivermen move on to play at singles matches with Matt ing the Rivermen in the end at the No. 3 singles spot and Trela and .~~.~~ ~ .~ .~~.~ ..!~?,.,!~.p'qEi~.? ...... BAS K E TBALL. from page 5 much better showing in Florida, tent, and we need to eliminate that. kicked off Great Lakes VaJley achievements and improve, it will tion," said Bernsen. "We had Ross 2002 campaign, only four letter and in these first games, and 1'm We're only hitting at the .200 level Conference play. and are beginning make everything go along better." and Coleman before I came here and winners will return. not going to make any excuses. with an aluminum bat. We've got to take form. For the six departing seniors, this a couple other guys who have been "We're aware of the holes that We've squandered a lot of opportu to do a better job and put teams "This team is beginning to take season was bittersweet. For Ross here a couple of years and now it's those six guys will leave for next nities." away when we can." shape," said Brady. 'Tve seen and Coleman, this marked the end of time for the couple of juniors that season," said Bernsen. "We want to As a team, the Rivermen are With only four seniors on the more positives than negatives on a long stay. Ross has been a ' are corning back and [tbe new establish a competitive practice set batting only .277, while opponents squad, chemisty is something that the field and I see the potential for Riverman for four years, while recruits] to build on that." ting where everybody is competing are at the .307 mark. will have 'to be learned. With a trip us to improve." Coleman has donned the red and Bernsen does stress, however, every day. That is the only way that "We have to swing a better bat," to Bel1armine two weekends ago, gold for three, sitting through multi - that those SL,( are not done at UMSL. a team can get better." said Brady. "We've been inconsis- the Rivermen have officially pie losing seasons under former "Now they've got to focus on the With the addition of Craig Head Coach Rich Meckfessel before more important goal, and that is to Harbaugh as an assistant coach, ending their college careers not on a graduate," Bernsen said. "Many of recruitment should be very solid. loss to Northern Kentucky, but on a them are on track to graduate in the "Coach Harbaugh has a great winning season. Brian Markus, spring and I'm very proud of what knowledge of the area and knows Luke Harms, Anthony Love and they've accomplished both on and who to go for ill the midwest. He has Michael Hamilton cap off the list of off of the court." a great ability to recruit, and when departing Rivemlen, Looking at next season, Bernsen you need six to seven quality guys, "Those guys really started this is aware of the holes that he will he can get them for us." . program heading in the right direc- need to fill. Heading into the 2001- & Take the practice GRE! 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