www.insidevandy.com FRIDAY, GALE GENEVIEVE NOVEMBER 21, 2008 THE VOICE OF VANDERBILT SINCE 1888 120TH YEAR, NO. 80 / The Vanderbilt Hustler Vanderbilt The / ADMINISTRATION: Students join in discussion with Board of Trust members. SEE PAGE 3 BOYLE: ‘Freakonomics’ writer Stephen Dubner puts oil addiction into perspective SEE PAGE 6 Number of bowls open for Commodores has an agreement that it will Last two games send nine of its teams to bowls will determine following the 2008 season. With No. 1 Alabama and No. game location. 3 Florida meeting in the SEC Championship game on Dec. 6, by DAVID RUTZ the winner will almost certainly Sports Specialist go to the BCS Championship game while the loser will play in For the rst time in a long time, the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. the Commodores are looking to Next up in the pecking order play meaningful football past are the New Year’s Day bowls; November. Vanderbilt has only appeared Vanderbilt may still have in three bowls in its history and two games left in the regular none of them were in January. season, but speculation about is year, the Commodores have which bowl may invite the a very good chance. Commodores has been ongoing e Capital One Bowl has since the team’s 31-24 victory the next pick and will almost against Kentucky. e end result certainly take Georgia. e will depend heavily on how the Cotton Bowl and the Outback team closes the regular season. Bowl have the next selections, “ ey certainly know what with the Cotton Bowl usually the situation is,” said Vanderbilt selecting the next best team from coach Bobby Johnson of his the SEC West and the Outback players. “We’ve been pretty Bowl taking the next best team even-keeled and we’re trying to from the SEC East. keep it that way.” e Cotton Bowl will likely With the postseason in mind, take LSU, as the Tigers are Vanderbilt’s showdown with second behind Alabama in the archrival Tennessee tomorrow West. at leaves Vanderbilt in takes on more signi cance than the East for the Outback Bowl, ZAC HARDY / The Vanderbilt Hustler usual (see page 8 for the game but only if the Commodores Team captains Reshard Langford (33), George Smith (88) and Brad Vierling (60) have made it clear that they don’t intend to let up now that the Commodores have become bowl eligible. preview). can nish out the season strong. “ e rst step is to beat the South Carolina is a tough in choosing from the SEC; have the sixth and seventh picks: their fans can bolster the town’s from which bowl it will get an University of Tennessee,” said contender for the bowl, as it has representatives have said they the Liberty Bowl in Memphis economy. invitation; if the Commodores junior center Brad Vierling. a larger fan base than Vanderbilt, would like an 8-4 team from the and the Music City Bowl here in e eighth and ninth picks go win out, they could be playing on “ ey’re our biggest rival. We’re but the Commodores won when conference, which Vanderbilt Nashville. It’s unlikely the Music to the Independence Bowl and New Year’s Day. ■ red up about it and we’re going the two teams met this season. would ful ll if they win out the City Bowl would take a local team Papa John’s Bowl, respectively. to be ready to play.” e Chick- l-A Bowl in Atlanta rest of their schedule. because representatives would Both of Vanderbilt’s remaining — e SEC contributed reporting e Southeastern Conference on Dec. 31 has next priority Two bowls based in Tennessee rather have a visiting team so games are crucial for determining to this article CAMPUS LIVING University, electric service Blackout hits dispute cause of blackout Med Center by RUTH KINSEY across campus was wiped out: News Contributor alarm clocks didn’t sound, lights with steam remained dark and the wireless Students across campus woke Internet connection shut off. up yesterday morning to darkness Students and faculty experienced and cold showers. difficulties printing papers, shortage At approximately 7:30 a.m., photocopying lecture outlines and a campus-wide power outage arriving to class on time. Although by ALLIE MORRIS shortage, none of the occurred and lasted for roughly the university tried to maintain Science & Medicine Specialist Medical Center Buildings two and a half hours. According its normal class schedule, some had heat or domestic hot to a statement released by the classes were disrupted due to a An orange alert was water. university, the power outage was lack of light. called at the Vanderbilt While some of the caused by a failure at the Nashville “My country music class was University Medical Center elective surgeries had to be Electric Service’s Sharondale cancelled this morning. It’s in yesterday after a power postponed until the next substation and a subsequent Sarratt Cinema, so it was pitch outage produced an day, a small number were malfunction at the Vanderbilt black in there,” said sophomore unexpected steam shortage delayed until later that power station. Catherine Ruelens, a student in at two hospitals. day. However, Teresa Corlew, one of the cancelled classes. Both the Vanderbilt “The surgeries were the NES director of corporate Computer services such as University Hospital and the looked at on a case-by- communications, said she believes ACORN and Discover Library Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s case basis … when the the power outage was caused failed, and campus security also Hospital experienced steam went out we had more by problems with electrical became an issue as dorm doors had steam shortages that no ability to sterilize equipment in the Vanderbilt to be left open due to the failure of lasted from 9 a.m. until 1 additional instruments,” substation and not with the NES the card reader system. p.m. The shortage caused said Assistant Director apparatus. The electrical failure also the postponement of a of Med Center News and “NES staff helped Vanderbilt staff affected the Vanderbilt steam small number of elective Public Affairs Jerry Jones. to isolate and do some switching plant, which heats the water and surgeries and was not a The Vanderbilt Medical (to fix the breakdown), but the buildings on campus, resulting in result of any redundancies Center had experienced problem was with Vanderbilt cold showers for many students. built into either of the a similar steam outage equipment, and no one here is Although the electrical power was hospital’s electrical roughly a month ago, when certain why the power outage restored at around 10 a.m., the CHRIS PHARE / The Vanderbilt Hustler systems. a Nashville pipeline was happened,” said Corlew. heat took much longer to reinstate, A power outage blanketed the campus for nearly two and a half hours on Thursday As a result of the steam disrupted. ■ During the blackout, electricity returning at around 1 p.m. ■ morning, Nov. 20. Some morning classes were cancelled due to the temporary blackout. SPORTS: Men’s basketball loses to Illinois in disappointing game, snapping 20-game home win streak. SEE PAGE 8 Over 35,000 unique visitors and hundreds of thousands of ad impressions each month. 2 Friday, November 21, 2008 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com FROM THE BLOG SNAPSHOTS compiled by EVE ATTERMANN WEATHER NEWS BRIEFS WEATHER.COM TODAY Auto aid effort collapses in Congress as layoffs loom for Big Three World AIDS Week WASHINGTON (AP)—The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, December 1st through December 5th desperately sought by Detroit’s beleaguered Big Three, collapsed Submitted by Tara Welytok on 11-19-08, 1:44 p.m . Thursday as Congress drew the line at one more bailout and Democrats said they wouldn’t even consider it until the companies On December 4th VanderbiltCARES will be putting together an AIDS produced a convincing plan for rebuilding their once-mighty Memorial Quilt to celebrate the struggles of those who have been infected HIGH 39, LOW 20 industry. and to show Vanderbilt’s support. Panels can be made by organizations or Sunny The demise of the rescue — at least for now — left uncertain the individuals, and can be picked in the CPH in the back room on a table. They fate of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC, and need to be returned by Wednesday, December 3 by 5pm to be part of the sent Wall Street spiraling to its lowest level in years. The Dow Jones TUESDAY industrials dropped 445 points, the second straight plunge of more display. The panels will be judged based on creativity and and adherence to than 400, and hit the lowest point in nearly six years. the World AIDS Day theme. The winner will be awarded a $200 gift certifi cate The carmakers have been clobbered by lackluster sales and to the restaurant of their choice! choked credit, and are battling to stay afl oat through year’s end. For more blog entries, go to InsideVandy.com Failure of one or more of the Big Three would be a severe further blow to the fl oundering economy — and to many Americans’ view of the nation’s industrial strength — and throw a million or more additional workers off the job. HIGH , LOW Just Thursday, the government reported that laid-off workers’ 48 27 new claims for jobless aid had reached a 16-year high and the Partly Cloudy number of Americans searching for work had soared past 10 million. Congress approved a measure to extend jobless benefi ts through the holidays, and the White House said President George STAFF W.