,ndex M. u u Around the world Opinion ...... 6 at SIUE Lifestyles ...... 8-9 T i l C Sports ...... 10-14 with Inti Puzzles ...... 15 week Classifieds ...... 16 A J eW s t l e See Lifestyles ______Alton - East St. Louis - Edwardsville Thursday, October 19, 2006______www.thealestle.com ______Vol. 59, No. 18 Chancellor expresses hope for future Spam Alestle News Staff Report continues Chancellor Vaughn Vandegrift used die ongoing “e” campaign to demonstrate student success at to present SIUE during his State of the University address Tuesday. problems Vandegrift said in his third annual address as chancellor that average ACT scores for this year’s by Holly Meyer freshman class went up to 22.8, Alestle News Stringer from 21.9 in 2003. The national average for Illinois is 20.5. Since the senders of “We must admit students electronic junk mail continue to who are ready to succeed,” improve their skills faster than Vandegrift said in a press release. spam filters can function, the The chancellor also referred amount of spam that infiltrates to the community colleges in the the SIUE Web mail accounts has Metro-East region such as Lewis increased. and Clark Community College “Spam is sort of like the and Southwestern Illinois Internet equivalent of bulk mail,” College. He said the schools do Director of Academic Computing well in preparing students to John Drueke said. jump into the university’s four- According to Drueke, year degree program and he plans identifying an e-mail as spam is to build stronger relationships not difficult to do. Some of the prominent topics he said spam with them. Christal Beck/Alestle Vandegrift also covered the Chancellor Vaughn Vandegrift shows enthusiasm while presenting the university’s “e” commercials during promotes are dating, prescription university’s plans to renovate the his State of the University Address Tuesday in the Morris University Center’s Meridian Ballroom. drugs and information on the Science Building, the building of stock market. a new science laboratory and likes of Harvard, Yale and accumulated more than 100,000 the university’s economic impact | “It is all sort of shady,” discussed changing the freshman Princeton. visitors among sporting events, direcdy and indirectly was $356 Drueke said. seminar curriculum. He also Vandegrift said that SIUE is performances or student visits million last year. He did acknowledge that not applauded die senior assignment becoming “an economic engine and contributed at least $43 all spam is suspicious advertising; program after its top-10 ranking committed to helping our region million to the area economically. however, it is all unsolicited e- in the 2007 U.S. News and grow,” according to the press According to a study by the Alestle News can be reached at mail messages. World Report, pitting it with the release. He said the university Economics and Finance faculty, [email protected] or 650-3527. Drueke attributes the increase of spam in general to the | financial incentives given to spammers to send more mail in mass quantities. Voters can start casting ballots for elections “It must be profitable or they wouldn’t do it,” Drueke said. by Maggie Willis Many of those students can’t According to an information Alestle News Reporter make it home to vote due to a technology newsletter Drueke hectic schedule, the lack of gas wrote, “In September 2006, As many students know, the money or fear of missing class, SIUE received 18,614,566 e-mail general election is fast approaching. and may have missed the messages, of which 3,984,165 However, many students deadline to register in Madison (21.4 percent) were delivered. may not know when, where or County. Or they may just be The rest were spam or virus- how to vote. hesitant to vote on local infected.” “Everything begins with candidates. According to Drueke, the voter registration,” Madison “People sometimes like to university controls its spam County Clerk Mark Von Nida vote on candidates from back problem by using a spam filter. said. home that they know,” Von Nida The filter is much like a virus Students must vote in the said. protection program. It shows the precinct they are registered in. To Those students need not fret. updates of the latest spammers’ e- see what precinct they are As long as they can provide a mail addresses, just as the virus registered in, students may refer legitimate reason for why they protection programs show the to their voter registration card. cannot vote in their precinct in newest viruses. Students registered in the person, they can still vote by The spam filter is checked SIUE precinct can vote from 6 obtaining an absentee ballot. frequently for new spammers. а.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 7 To get an absentee ballot, Then, the new spammers are in the Mississippi-Illinois Room voters must call the county clerk’s added to a list to prevent their on the second floor of the Morris Andy Rathnow/Alestle office of the county where they messages from being delivered to University Center. Glen Carbon resident Eileen Kamphoefner takes advantage of early are registered to vote to request the SIUE Webmail accounts. Students can also vote on voting Monday in the Madison County Administration Building. an application. In cases such as Drueke said the university Saturday, Nov. 4, at the county Beginning Monday voters throughout the state can cast their ballots Chicago, Aurora and Peoria, the for the upcoming election. devotes a lot of time and money clerk’s office from 9 a.m. to county clerk may direct them to to keeping the amount of spam noon. The last day to vote in Election Day, Nov. 7, may vote at However, as Chancellor the board of elections. that enters the SIUE server under person at the County Clerk’s their specific precinct from 6 a.m. Vaughn Vandegrift pointed out The application will arrive in control. office is at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. to 7 p.m. If students registered in his 2006 Report to the the mail and must be filled out, However, spam still reaches б. by mail, they may be asked to University, SIUE students come signed and sent back to the students’ Webmail accounts show a valid ID prior to receiving from 101 Illinois counties and 44 Students voting on General their ballot. different states. VOTING/pg.2 SPAM/pg.4 www. thealestle. com Thursday, October 19, 2006 VOTING Getting to know your government from pg. 1 without providing a reason or Each week, the Alestle will feature an officer of Student Government. county clerk’s office to receive the actual absentee ballot. Voters excuse. A list of the locations can Have a question for your Student Government officials? Let us know! must fill in their voting be found on the county’s Web hope to contribute to the field students to ensure that all information and return the site, www.co.madison.il.us. through research and to share students, both current and absentee ballot prior to Thursday, On Oct. 24 and 25, SIUE my knowledge with others by prospective, can not only afford Nov 2, or in time to be at 'the students registered in Madison professing in academia. a college education, but will county clerk’s office by Election County need venture no further leave here as better-educated Day. than the second floor of the What are other organizations members of society. Early voting will be MUC to participate in early you are a part of? performed on electronic voting voting from noon to 7 p.m. in I am the president of the The university is about to machines with a paper trail that the Hickory-Hackberry Room. Sociology Club and the celebrate its 50th anniversary. Name: Laurie Estilette Students may bring an SIUE academic chair of the Where do you see SIUE in stores every ballot style in the Student Government Title: Psychology Club. another 50 years? county, permitting any voter in picture ID as their display of Senator In 50 years I envision SIUE as Madison County to vote at any valid identification. Hometown: Rayne, LA Why did you join Student a well-respected, highly valued designated location. Early voting makes voting Age: 36 years young Government? university. I see members of However, in an effort to more convenient, especially for Major: Dual degree - When faced with important SlUE's alumni, faculty, prevent voter fraud and double elderly, those who will be out of psychology/sociology decisions, such as increased students and athletes making voting, state law now requires town on Election Day, and voters fees and tuition, I felt the headlines with their Why did you come to/stay at early voters to display valid with busy schedules, such as interests of non-traditional achievements both SIUE? identification to an election SIUE students, faculty and staff. students were overlooked by academically and I came to SIUE because of official before receiving a ballot. Questions about the Madison Student Government. professionally; convenience. As a non- Valid forms of ID include a County early voting at SIUE can be traditional student with family current driver’s license, state- What do you feel is the most directed to Suzanne Kutterer- obligations, it wasn’t feasible important issue facing Student Other comments? issued ID card or another Siburt, SIUE Volunteer Services, for me to attend a university Government and the student Numerous campus-wide government-issued ID with a by e-mail at [email protected]. farther away. I am also at SIUE body right now? How do you committees offer opportunities photograph. because of the quality of the For additional questions, plan to address it? for students to provide input Starting Oct. 16 and ending education I am receiving. contact the Madison County Among the many important into university decisions. I Nov. 2, Madison County voters Clerk’s office at 692-6290 or visit issues we are faced with right encourage my fellow students, can participate in this early voting What are your future plans? www.co.madison.il.us. now, I believe the accessibility both traditional and non- After graduating, I plan to enter process, which allows them to to a college education by a traditional, to get involved in graduate school for further cast their ballots before Election diverse population is the most the governance and operations study in social psychology. Day at any of 15 designated Maggie Willis can be reached at important. I plan to work of SIUE. After obtaining my Ph.D., I locations around the county [email protected] err 650-3527. closely with administrators and

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In the story "Board OKs funds for student facility” in the Oct. 17 edition of the Alestle, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Administration Rich Walker’s name was printed with an incorrect title. The Alestle regrets the error.

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SPAM from pg. 1 because the number of spammers here to get off of our mailing list1 in continues to increase rapidly, and a spam message, you verified that your e-mail address is valid and #4 Club Centre, Edwardsville, IL the university has difficultly keeping (next to MotoMart) up with all of the new spam usefiil tor even more spam.” Finally! Phone: 618-692-4531 addresses. The best way for students to w s L m According to senior Jesse deal with spam that has already A prescription with side effects you want, Riley, spam shows up in his inbox been delivered to their accounts is m frequently not to contact the spammer and For a free nutrition booklet with cancer fighting recipes, call toll-free 1-866-906-WELL “Practically every time I delete the e-mail. or visitwww.CancerProject.org check (my Webmail account),” “The best advicc is don’t All coupons must be redeemed by October 30, 2006 Riley said. respond to it,” Drueke said. Drueke said there are measures that students can take to lessen the amount of spam they receive. Sports Rehab According to the information Holly Meyer can be reached at Do You Want to Work With Athletes? technology' newsletter, “If you ‘click [email protected] or 650-3527. Logan's Department of Sports & Rehabilitation is designed to assist students in the management of injuries & assist in the treatment of patients in a clinical setting. Police Reports Traffic Master’s Degree in Sports Science & Rehabilitation 10-13 ► Unique Dual-Degree M.S./D.C. & Independent Graduate Police issued Matthew Swaner a citation for speeding on South Degree Formats University Drive.

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Saturday and Sunday Post-Dispatch Other 10-17 Available on Saturday afternoons Police arrested Terrell Ferguson for tampering with smoke detectors and possession of cannabis in Cougar Village. Thursday, October 19, 2006 www.thealestle.com 5 Campus Scanner Annual Art and Design Faculty Exhibition: View an exhibition of artwork by faculty of Art and Design. The all day exhibition will be shown through Sunday at the New Wagner Gallery in the Art and Design Building and at the University Center Gallery in Morris University Center. The gala closing reception will be held from 8 to 9 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call 650-3071. Appetizers Cougar Kids Treat Baking: Come tour the kitchen of SIUE Dining Services from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in the Morris University Center Lunch & Dinner and help make delicious treats afterwards. The event is free for an SIUE Sushi • Noodle • Sake Student Family Pack consisting of 3 children and 1 parent and $5 for an SIUE Employee Pack consisting of 3 children and 1 parent. For more Chicken • Steak • Seafood information, contact Rachel LaRussa at [email protected]. SUSHI & JAPANESE GRILL Menu Items Subject To Change Mountain Bike Tour of SIUE: Register for a free mountain bike tour of Tel: 618.659.9400 Fax: 618.659.9444 SIUE by Friday. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday come see the all the 1025 Century Drive • Edwardsville beautiful scenery our campus has to offer while getting in shape and Off Route 157 Behind Scott Credit Union DINE-IN or CARRY OUT having a good time. For more information, contact Mark at 650-3235.

Little Red Riding Hood: Come view the famous fairy tale as performed by the Piwacket Theatre for Children at 7 p.m. Saturday in Dunham Hall Theater. Tickets are $5, but students can get 2 complimentary tickets with their Student ID. For more information, contact SIUE Box Office at 650-2774.

Share Food: Come help out at the local Share Food co-op program by packaging and carrying food out to customers’ vehicles from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. All volunteers will be leaving from Parking Lot B at 8 a.m. Advance sign-up in the Kimmel Leadership Center is required. For more information, contact Suzanne Kutterer-Siburt at [email protected].

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AltonAlestle - East St. Louis - Edwardsville Past time Megan McClure Editor in Chief to raise Courtney Rakers Managing Editor Kristen Reber minimum Assistant Managing Editor Zach Groves Assistant News Editor wage Matthew Bruce Sports Editor (MCT) — A comedian once cracked that if you laid all the Katy Hartwig Photo Editor world’s economists end to end, they still wouldn’t reach a Eric Brinkmann conclusion. So when 650 of the Chief Copy Editor nation’s leading economists, Heather Wilshire including five Nobel laureates, Darlene Wyatt rally together, it’s time to pay Katie Patterson attention. Copy Editors That’s just what happened Megan Gattung last week when some of the Advertising Resuming talks with North Korea ______nation’s top Maurice Bishop by Trudy Rubin produced enough fuel to make or its behavior. Just as the joint scholars said it’s Molly Maurer From The Philadelphia Inquirer dozens of bombs. statement was signed, U.S. time for Maggie Rhynes the Congress to raise Graphics/Production On taking office, President officials were pursuing (MCT) - North Korea’s Bush labeled North Korea part of international bank sanctions W ire the federal Lance Speere apparent test of a nuclear weapon the “axis of evil” and made clear against North Korea. These may minimum wage. Adviser has provoked another debate he was more interested in have been justified in principle - If lawmakers don’t follow Mike Genovese over whether it’s worth “regime change” than talks. Then the Pyongyang regime is a that advice in the session Graphics Supervisor negotiating with in 2002, U.S. officials found notorious counterfeiter and scheduled for late November, Aria Capel rogue states. evidence that North Korea was smuggler - but the timing they are shirking their duty to Graduate Assistant From I believe cheating on the agreement, by seemed designed to kill any deal. America’s working families. The Debbie Roberts the this is not the pursuing a secret effort to enrich Now North Korea has tested federal minimum wage hasn’t Office Manager Wire moment for a uranium. The United States drew a weapon and is poised to make gone up since 1997 and is now at Schalene Houston ~ U.S. dialogue back from the Agreed more bombs. Once again, the its lowest level, when adjusted for Sarah Streubing with Pyongyang. This dangerous Framework, and North Korea White House must choose its inflation, in 50 years. Office Secretaries regime, with its record of illegal expelled U.N. inspectors and approach to this regime. If you had polled economists weapons sales, must be disabused started making nuclear weapons. Talks with North Korea are on minimum wage a generation The first copy of each Alestle of any idea that it can get a free Yet, a simple cost-benefit horribly frustrating, and it is ago, you would have found many is free of charge. pass to the nuclear club. U.N. analysis shows that the Agreed unclear whether Kim will ever skeptics. Most would have said Additional copies cost 25 cents. economic sanctions are crucial, Framework had still been a give up his weapons. He may it’s better for the market to set backed by a united front of U.S. success. Clinton’s negotiations have taken the lesson from the wages, or that a higher minimum Letters to the Editor Policy: and Asian powers. Also crucial is stopped a program that was Iraq invasion (as Iran has) that wage could cripple job creation. The editors, staff and publishers of the Bush’s warning that North Korea already capable of making bomb nukes are his guarantee of Since then, however, two Alestle believe in the free exchange of ideas, concerns and opinions and will will be held accountable if it material. The secret uranium keeping power. There is strong ; things have happened. Wages for publish as many letters as possible. passes nuclear material to other program, by contrast, is a long­ Bush resistance to talks - the bottom tier of American workers have plummeted steadily, Letters may be turned in a t the Alestle states or groups. term undertaking, and there are especially direct talks - or sending office located in the Morris University But then what? I’ve talked to no signs that it has produced a U.S. emissary along the lines of and a sophisticated new batch of Center, Room 2022 or via e-mail at no one - dove, hawk or owl - weapons material. a Carter. And the chances of ! empirical saidies has found that [email protected]. who believes sanctions alone will True, the Clinton success are much slimmer now modest increases in the minimum All hard copy letters should be typed and force Kim Jong II to give up his administration’s negotiations than under Clinton. wage have extremely small, even double-spaced, betters should be no arsenal. Nor does anyone believe didn’t end North Korea’s nuclear But at some point the White negligible effects on job creation. longer than 500 words. military force is a viable option program, but they did delay House will have to decide “If you had asked me 20 Please Include phone number, signature, (provided Kim doesn’t sell his weapons production for eight whether it wants to pursue the years ago, I would have said, class rank and major. plutonium to al-Qaeda or Iran). years. Some on the Bush team small chance of freezing ‘Find some other way to help We reserve the right to edit letters for Unless sanctions are crafted now advocate bombing Iran’s Pyongyang’s program, or at least low-income workers,”’ said grammar and content However, care will to prod North Korea back to the nuclear energy facilities just to limiting the number of weapons. Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate at be taken to ensure that the letter’s table, it’s hard to see any chance delay the Iranian program by As Gary Samore of the Council MIT. “But today, the only way to messagg is not lost or altered. of curbing Pyongyang’s nuclear perhaps 3 to 5 years. on Foreign Relations said: “If characterize the research literature Letters to the editor will not be printed program. But can talks with Since the collapse of the they only have enough material is to say that this could do much anonymously except under extreme Agreed Framework on the Bush circumstances. North Korea work? for six bombs, they are less likely good at very little cost.” Republicans claim that the watch, North Korea has to sell it than if they have enough The backdrop to the Wfe reserve the right to reject letters. Clinton-era negotiations with produced around six to 12 for 24 bombs.” economists’ statement is that North Korea were a failure and nuclear weapons. Perhaps Bush will listen to today’s economy isn’t delivering The Alestle is a member of the Illinois demonstrate why talks are President Bush finally his father’s key adviser, James for huge numbers of workers. College Press Association, the Associated Collegiate Press and U-WIRE. pointless. But that assessment decided, during his second term, Baker III, who is already tasked Productivity and corporate stands history on its head. to try negotiations in concert with reassessing America’s Iraq profits are rising, while wages are The name Alestle is an acronym derived from the names of the three campus In 1994, North Korea was with our Asian allies. He finally strategy. stagnating or falling, especially locations of Southern Illinois University threatening to quit the Nuclear let U.S. negotiator Chris Flill “I believe in talking to your for the low-skilled. Inequality is Edwardsville: Alton, East St. Louis and Non-Proliferation Treaty and meet directly with North Korea enemies,” Baker recently said. approaching its highest level in Edwardsville. turn spent reactor fuel into officials within those six-nation “It’s got to be hard-nosed, it’s got decades, resulting in millions of The Alestle is published on Tuesdays and bomb-grade plutonium. The talks. This direct dialogue led to a to be determined. You don’t give families being priced out of Thursdays during fell and spring Clinton administration prepared promising joint statement in away anything, but in my view, decent housing, higher education semesters and on Wednesdays during for a military strike, but then September 2005, in which it’s not appeasement to talk to and a sense of participating in the summer semesters. For more turned to President Jimmy Carter Pyongyang pledged to dismantle your enemies.” nation’s progress. Congress information, call 650-3528. as negotiator in Pyongyang. its nuclear program in return for Baker has already spoken doesn’t have many remedies for Have a comment? The result was the 1994 security guarantees and aid. with an Iranian representative. the rise in inequality, but the Let us know! Agreed Framework, under which Those talks eventually fell Will Pyongyang be next? minimum wage is a good one. Send us an e-mail: North Korea sealed its Yongbyon apart, too. Many experts believe [email protected] reactor and fuel rods and put that a key cause was disagreement (c) 2006, The Philadelphia (c) 2006, Star Tribune The Alestle them under U.N. inspection. within the administration over Inquirer, Distributed by (Minneapolis), Distributed by Campus Box 1167 Had that reactor not remained whether the U.S. goal should be McClatchy-Tribune Information McClatchy-Tribune Information Edwardsville, III. 62026-1167 frozen until 2002, it could have to change North Korea’s regime Services. Services. Thursday, October 19, 2006 www.thealesde.com

FEEL THE BEAT GET OUT THE VOTE CAMPAIGN SEPT. 19-NOV. 7, 2006

Voter Registration Voter’s Rally Sept. 19-21; 10am-2pm;MUC 10am-2pm, Quad SIUE north entrance Tues. Oct 3—5,2006 Oct 3-5; 10am-2pm; Quad The Feel the Beat Get OUT the Vote rally will con­ sist of different speakers throughout each day of the event, who will talk about issues such as the environ­ Voting: 101 ment, education, immigration, jobs/wages, healthcare, Sept. 27; 1 lam-1 pm; Willow Room women’s issues, taxes/retirement plans, gay marriage, Learn all you need to know on the how stem-cell research, and anti-piracy laws for music and to, where to, and when to, of voti ng. movies. In between each speaker there will be a performance by bands representing such genres as classic rock, R&B, country, reggae, gospel, alternative, and much VOTE more. The presenters who will be speaking about issues will have a table providing literature on the issue they Rally Reflection represent throughout the whole event There will also Oct. 10; 4pm-6pm; Goshen be a concession stand sponsored by various student Lounge organizations. Learn the seriousness of voting and how your actions influence poli­ tician. Once we get them to agree to Attack on the Media support an issue, how do we hold Oct. 12; 4pm-6pm; Goshen Lounge them accountable. Discuss how and why the media is so skewed and how influential they are to society’s way of thinking and functioning. Learn new ways to obtain news information.

View and Chew I View and Chew II Oct 24; 6~9pm; Religious Center Oct. 31; 6-9pm; Religious Center Watch a documentary dis­ Watch a documentary showcasing cussing how dependent America’s a corrupt campaign of one New­ economy is on Latino labor and then ark, NJ mayor in 2002 and then participate in a group reflection . Don’t be a Sueker-Vote! participate in a group reflection . (Early voting) Oct. 24 & 25; I0am-6pm; Hick- ory/Hackberry Room (Election Day) Nov. 7; l-9prn; Goshen Lounge Vote at MUC and receive a sucker. Vote on Nov. 7 and watch the results in the Goshen Lounge.

Sponsored by: United Congregations of Metro-East, SIUE Raise Your Voice, Student Leadership Devel­ opment Program and Volunteer Services, College Democrats, S.O.T.A., League of Women Voters Collaborating Campus and Community Organizations: Catholic Student Newman Association, Stu­ dent Government, Making Waves Questions or comments regarding this section? Contact Assistant Coming up: Managing Editor Kristen Reber Find out what’s coming up in Arts & Issues at 650-3531 or See Tuesday’s Alestle L ife s t y le s [email protected]. 8 www.thealestlexam Thursday, October 19, 2006

Photo Courtesy of Ali Soltanshahi A performer models traditional Indonesian dress during last year’s International Night. Tickets are still available for this year’s performance. Event to bring international tastes, sounds and fashion to campus

by Lony Less “We also borrow from the sounds of classic Alestle Lifestyles Stringer American swing-style standards, as well as having Latin and Brazilian influences,” Voelker said. "any cultures, one world” is the In addition to music and dance, the festival cc theme for this year’s will feature an international fashion show with M i.International .Week and culmral styles from every nation participating, International Night 2006, sponsored by the including the United States. Campus Activities Board and the International Mathias Akuoko, a student from Ghana, is Student Council. chair of the planning committee for International The International Week festival is from 10 a.m. Night. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 25 and “The fashion show is usually the highlight of 26, in the Morris University Center’s Goshen the event,” Akuoko said. “We’Îl be experiencing Lounge. world culture in its excellence, and so many of International Week will feature over 15 them, all in one place.” countries, including booths from related student Another important feature of this year’s event organizations such as the ISC and CAB. will be the international cuisine, which is prepared Each booth will display cultural elements by the students. relevant to a particular nation. The displays will The menu will include numerous include photos, slides, artwork, history and international delicacies from many counties and personal interaction with students who are eager to regions, including Nepal, Ghana, India, Ethiopia, share their nation’s cultural diversity with the local China, the Middle East and Latin America. community. “It’s going to be like visiting 10 different This year’s event will feature a wide range of restaurants in 10 different countries, all in the ethnic cuisines, performers, dancers and musicians, same place!” Thapaliya said. all representing the countries they originated The International Week Festival will also from. feature the Ambassador Program, which is The purpose of this occasion is to promote to intended for local area middle school students, as the local community the cultural diversities of the well as students from early childhood international students attending SIUE. centers. The event is being planned by the ISC, which Each participant will receive a passport consists of eight separate committees that meet on booklet, which can be signed and stamped at each a weekly basis to discuss issues concerning the booth. Partakers will be introduced to several international students and their interaction with the social aspects of each representative nation, university and local community. including the language, both written and spoken. Each committee deals with issues ranging from International Week has free admission tor the advertising and planning, to food, fashions and entire public. decorations. Tickets for the International Night, which Rupak Thapaliya, a student from Nepal, heads will be held on Saturday, Oct. 28, from 6 to 9 the ISC. p.m. in the MUC’s Meridian Ballroom, will cost “Every year,” Thapaliya said, “we try and $10 for students, $12 for faculty and staff and $14 portray diversity on campus, sharing the culture so Photo Courtesy of Ali Soltanshahi for the general public. that others can learn from it.” Dancers perform an African dance during International Night 2005. Tickets are available at the MUC’s Some of the performing highlights of this International Night 2006 will be held Saturday, Oct. 28, in the Information Center. Morris University Center's Meridian Ballroom. year’s event will include belly dancers, Hawaiian For more information, call International dancers and live music by the bands Sunshine and “Our band can be described as a hot-club-style of Gypsy jazz,” Student Services at 650-3785. Dizzy Atmosphere. Voelker said. One of the founding members of Dizzy “We were influenced a great deal by the Hot Club de France,” Atmosphere is Christopher Voelker, who plays the which was a band in the late 1920s headed by jazz guitar legend Lony Less can be reached at alestlelifestyles Cäißmail. com violin. Django Reinhardt. or 650-3531. Thursday, October 19, 2006 www.thealestle.com 9

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"My music taste is anmmg except emo, country; hip-hop/rap, andR&B. There isn t just one mood that this musk would apply to, it's i f very complex in nature." I n fa m o u s Song Title Artist Album By Chris Vognar Infamous” into “Capote for Dummies” mode. “The Kill” 30 Seconds to Mars The Dallas Morning News But by showing Capote in the midst of the high life, As a cocktail party McGrath sets up “Diary of Jane” “Phobia” raconteur and gossip-mad the writer’s New York socialite, Truman transformation “Happy?” Mudvape “Lost and Found” Capote lived a life of from proudly comedy. As the emotionally frivolous literary “Disconnecktie” Norma Jean “O’God, The Aftermath” wasted, ethically figure to burned out compromised author of husk. “Attack” 30 Seconds to Mars “A Beautiful Lie” “In Cold Blood,” he took The catalyst for a nosedive into tragedy. this change? Bond. “Pet” A Perfect Circle “Thirteenth Step” “Infamous,” the James Bond. Or at second big-screen least the guy who plays A Perfect Cirde Truman show to arrive him in the upcoming “Casino Royale.” in the last 12 months, “The End” The End “The All Star Sessions” shows us how the Daniel Craig plays murderer Perry Smith as writer’s life jumped “Eraser” “Smile Empty Soul” genres. What begins as a sensitive tough guy, not as tortured as the Clifton “Moving for the sake of a mischievous frolic Underoath “Define the Great Line” gradually becomes a Collins, Jr. model in Motion” sad tale about a sad “Capote” but more man. cultured. He may have Timing is a blood on his hands, but he funny thing in the does not think it was right movies. This time the way Capote took a last year, Philip hatchet to Marlon Brando in Seymour Hoffman that mean profile in “The was wowing New Yorker.” McGrath dares critics and to visualize what “Capote” building buzz for the only hinted at, with a jail cell Oscar he went on to win. His Capote was a kiss that sends Capote reeling fine performance with tragic heft, but Toby Jones, ~ in one of Jones’ finest Sing along: Grab a cup of coffee and a seat in Starbucks moments. Gazing in the mirror after the the English actor who plays the writer in the new for some live tunes from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Thursday in the encounter, he looks euphoric, then, in a flash, film, seems more like the true man. He’s less Starbucks in the Morris University Center. For more subdued, less aloof, more externalized. He’s a fuss devastated. Capote needs his new love to die and an incorrigible gossip. He’s slighter in build, before “In Cold Blood” gets information, contact Debbie at 650-2305. with a nervous mouth and jaw, and he moves and finished. talks like a loose cannon. With his bounce and Where “Capote” proscribed its tragedy Catch a show : See the Insane Clown Posse on their flamboyance, you have no trouble imagining him almost as a matter of fate, “Infamous” lets it Hallowicked Clown Tour 2006 at Pop’s in Sauget. Doors open as the life of the party - until his party ended in develop and simmer. “Capote” has more weight, Kansas with a multiple homicide and his and the dour emotional tension of a at 6 p.m. Ticket prices are $27 in advance or $30 at the door. nonfiction masterpiece. Bergman film; it’s a more substantial piece of All ages are welcome. For more information or to order tickets “Infamous” and “Capote” are not merely work. But the extroverted “Infamous” may very online, visit Pop’s Web site at www.poprocks.com. both about the same person or “character,” as well be more daring. It lets Jones do a full-flower Capote was known to call a real-life subject. They Capote, continuously called “ma’am” by the Go Over the H edge: Jump into the pool and catch a are also about the same period of said person’s curious Kansas townfolk, before chronicling his life, and the same fallout resulting from the same torment and compromise. It shows us the writer free showing of “Over the Hedge” in the Vadalabene Center tumble down the same slippery slope. “Capote” before the fall, which makes the impact hurt even Pool. Sponsored by Campus Activities Board and Campus won the race to the finish line, and “Infamous” more. Recreation, the film runs from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Friday. For will almost certainly fall victim to a Capote fatigue more information, contact Keith at 650-3242. factor. Grade: B + But “Infamous” still manages to carve out its own caustic space in the consciousness, an Starring Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Have a Laugh: The Pageant is giving patrons another impressive feat given how recently “Capote” hit Craig, Jeff Daniels, Sigourney Weaver, Hope chance to catch comedian Jim Gaffigan after his sold-out Davis and Peter Bogdanovich. Directed by the scene. Friday performance. Gaffigan, who most recently appeared on Working from George Plimpton’s book Douglas McGrath. Rated R (language, violence, sexual content). 118 min. Late Night with Conan O’Brian sharing his short series, “Pale “Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Force,” will perform again at 10:30 p.m. Friday. Ticket prices Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall for all seats are $29.75. For more information or to purchase His Turbulent Career,” writer and director Douglas McGrath gives us plenty of Capote in his tickets, visit the Pageant’s Web site at www.thepageant.com. element of high society soirees with the likes of Photo Credit: Toby Jones stars as Truman Babe Paley (Sigourney Weaver), Slim M eet a Survivor: “Survivor: Panama Exile Island” Keith (Hope Davis) and Bennett Cerf (Peter Capote in "Infamous." (Warner Independent Bogdanovich). One by one, they face the camera Pictures/MCT) finalist Cirie Fields will be visiting Scrubs & Beyond’s before a mock-up of the Manhattan skyline. Heritage Place location from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at These mock interviews, which include Sandra (c) 2006, The Dallas Morning News. 12571 Olive Blvd. in Creve Coeur, Mo. to sign autographs Bullock’s passable Nelle Harper Lee, tell us more Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information and photos for fans. For more information on the free event, Services. than they show us, and too often they push contact Katie Bryant at [email protected] or visit www.scrubsandbeyond.com. Volleyball @ Drury - Saturday, 3 p.m. Women’s Soccer vs. UW-Parkside - Saturday, 3 p.m., GLVC Questions or comments regarding this section? Quarterfinals Contact Sports Editor Matthew Bruce at Men's Soccer vs. UMSL - Saturday, 6:30 p.m., GLVC Quarterfinals 650-3524 or [email protected]. 10 Thursday, October 19, 2006 SIUE fall teams gear up for postseason SIUE runners host GLVC teams for conference title by Matthew Bruce Junior Sam Christie and Alestle Sports Editor freshman Stacey Briggs also saw their best finishes at Border Wars. The SIUE men and women’s “It’s good to see that at the cross country teams will look to end of the season that you’re still be on their toes Saturday when getting personal records,” SIUE they host the Great Lakes Valley sophomore Kelly Flounders said. Conference Championships at “Then that means that you the Cougar Cross Country actually have been doing good in Course. training.” SIUE Assistant Coach Eileen McAllister said she is looking for both teams to make strides past “Our focus has performances from a year ago, when the men finished fourth always been and the women settled for seventh. regionals and “Third and fourth spots are Pete Ridens/Alestle where we want to be on the conference.. .we’re SIUE senior forward Mike Banner manuevers past the University of Indianapolis’ Brian Fishback during an Oct. 6 2-0 shutout over the Greyhounds at Korte Stadium. Banner is the Cougars’ leading scorer. men’s side,” she said. “For the women we definitely want to always focusing improve upon last year and see further on ” how high we can place.” Cougars tops at GLVC tourney SIUE is coming off the -Erik Steffens, by Marty Jenkins Louis. UMSL has a record of 9- managed to outscore their Border Wars, which they hosted SIUE junior Alestle Sports Reporter 5-2 on the season with a 6-5-2 opponents 27-3 during their Oct. 7. The women finished 14th mark in the conference. current eight-game winning out of 29 teams while the Cougar The No. 8 SIUE men’s Even though UMSL is the streak. men took 17th. Brown has led SIUE all soccer team will look to keep its lowest seed in the tournament, Six of those wins have been Freshman Kayla Brown season, running to the Cougars’ winning streak intact when it hits the Cougars are not overlooking shutouts due to solid defense and keyed the women’s team, fastest team time in all but one the patch Saturday evening at the anyone. SIUE sophomore goalkeeper finishing at 18 minutes, 33.84 race this year. Great Lakes Valley Conference “It is important for this team Nicholas Frasca. seconds to place 14th overall. It Tournament Quarterfinals. to work on doing die little things During the regular season, was her fastest mark of the year. RUNNERS/pg. 13 SIUE, with a 10-2-1 GLVC better in this game,” SIUE Head Frasca was third in the conference record, is the No. 1 seed in the Coach Ed Huneke said. “The with a goals-against average of tournament. The opening game, team’s that are in this tournament 0.60 per game. at 6:30 p.m. at Korte Stadium, are improved and it is important SIUE has posted eight pits SIUE against the No. 8- for us to not be overconfident.” seeded University of Missouri-St. The red-hot Cougars have MEN’S SOCCER/pg. 14 Women’s soccer begins postseason at home by Mallory Hensley first round of tournament play. tournament,” SIUE senior Alestle Sports Stringer Thanks to a boost of energy outside midfielder Kayla Fromme during the second half of the said. “Our chances are good to j In two days, the SIUE season, the girls fought their way win the whole thing.” women’s soccer team will step on to an 11-4-3 overall record. They The Cougars will enter the the field and kick off on the Great are 8-3-2 in the GLVC, earning tournament fresh off an Lakes Valley Conference them the No. 3 seed. The UW- encouraging streak o f wins. Prior Tournament. There is no place Parkside Rangers are 8-4-1 in the to Sunday’s tie with Grand Valley like home for the Cougars, who conference and are seeded No. 6. State University, who ranks No. 8 host University of Wisconsin- “We need to stay focused in the nation in Division I I polls, Parkside at Korte Stadium in the and get excited about the SIUE had strung together seven | consecutive victories. “Our finishing was not great in the beginning of the season. | We were in a bit of a score j drought,” SIUE junior defender Whitney Hanson said. “Lately we have had a lot of girls step up and play really well. I am looking forward to seeing what we can do in a big-time game.” Sophomore goalkeeper Kaci Backs, who recorded three shutouts in the regular season, is credited with much of the recent success. A strong defensive line consisting of Hanson, Elizabeth Ball, Padra Bencini and Kelly Limpert also anchors the team. Pete Ridens/Alestle “We are on a roll right now. Katy Hartwig/Alestle SIUE midfielder Kelly Limpert, left, races past Grand Valley State SIUE junior Erik Steffens runs at the Border Wars Saturday, Oct. 7, University’s Ashley Elsass during a 0-0 tie at Korte Stadium Sunday. WOMEN’S SOCCER/pg. 14 at the SIUE Cross Country Course. Thursday, October 19, 2006 www.thealestle.com 11 Meet Mr. Heavyweight

455 pounds. “There were guys there who SIUE’s Cole “I am very competitive,” lifted 700 pounds,” Bensa said. Bensa said. “One of my buddies “Granted, those guys weighed Bensa owns two is into lifting. I started out trying 300 or 400 pounds themselves. to break his records. Once I Pound for pound, if you look at state records shattered those, I set my eyes on the ratio between weight lifted something bigger. and body weight, I had the for weightlifting “When I first started, my heaviest lift,” he said. goal was to be able to bench- Currently, Bensa weighs 188 by Mallory Hensley press 405 pounds,” he added. pounds and is contemplating his Alestle Sports Stringer “Then it turned into 500. Now I next move. He ruled out the use have my heart set on 600 pounds. of any illegal substances in his SIUE junior Cole Bensa I think I am addicted to the training. wants to pump you up. competition.” “A lot of people give me (a When Bensa started lifting hard time) about steroids and weights as a freshman in high supplements,” Bensa said. “I have school, he wanted to get fit and CCI never been on any steroid in my be in peak physical condition for 'I am very life. I try to stay away from hockey season. One fateful day, supplements, too, except for the the Edwardsville High School competitive. occasional low dose of protein. I hockey team made a trip to the -Cole Bensa, am really proud that I have been YMCA, and Bensa. never looked able to accomplish what I have back. SIUE senior without steroids.” Nearly eight years later, Bensa does not plan on Bensa holds two bench-pressing lifting competitively for much records in the state of Illinois. The Son Light Power Illinois longer, citing the fact that so “It’s more of a hobby than State Fair Bench Press/Deadlift much stress on the body is bad anything. Cole lifts to keep in competition was held on Aug, 20 for the heart. shape,” said Michelle Bensa, at the State Fair in Springfield. “There is a national Cole’s mother. “Cole has always The tournament featured competition in November which been athletic. He is really between 40 and 50 lifters. is held in Las Vegas. I’ve done conscious about what he eats. He The five-foot, three-inch some research and found out the just wants to be healthy.” construction management major top weights. I have beaten those In 2005, Bensa began weighed in at 183 - just enough records before, just not at a competing in statewide to make him ineligible for the competition where it really tournaments. He initially set a 181-pound weight class. Instead, counts,” Bensa said. “I know that state record by lifting 420 Bensa competed in the 198- I’ve got the physical capabilities pounds. Later, he blew his own pound weight class. to set new national records. I just record out of the water, first His 540-lb. lift at the State need to go do it.” Christal Beck/Alestle logging a 435-pound lift before Fair set the new junior men’s SIUE junior construction management major Cole Bensa pumps iron settling with the current 181- division record and earned Bensa Mallmy Hensley can be reached at Tuesday in the Student Fitness Center. Bensa shattered his second pound teenage division record of the “Best Lift” title. alestlesports (¡¿¿mail. com or 650-3524 state bench-pressing record in August, lifting 540 pounds.

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Hanson said. “Now is the time to “We are looking forward to leave everything we have on the playing the teams we could have field, because there isn’t anything performed better against. A after this.” rematch will be fun, so we can The Cougars and the show the conference how good Rangers take the field at 3 p.m. Nothing says you care quite like a Q-Cash Card™. Pick one up at the restaurant for a $10 minimum or online our team is. We did not prove Saturday. GLVC semifinals are at www.qdoba.com for a $20 minimum. It's just the right amount for friends, family and co-workers. Every that in some o f the games,” slated for next Friday. Q-Cash Card is refillable when used up. so they can keep it as long as they want. 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The place in those categories with 167 losses were the team’s first GLVC points and 54 total goals on the Friday Oct. 20 defeats since Oct. 18, 2002. Now year. The Rangers are ranking the Cougars are back on track first in assists per game and goals and they are getting hot at just per game. the right time. There are a host of teams \ * 7:00 pm / “We are playing very well that could pose a threat to SIUE right now and we are continuing in the GLVC Tournament besides to grow stronger as a team,” Parkside. SIUE sophomore forward Ross One of those teams is the \j£ i ncjoor p00| Beveridge said. “We have to keep No. 2-seeded Northern Kentucky working hard and concentrate on University. The Norse boast a 12- not becoming complacent and 2-2 overall record, which is better overconfident.” than SIUE’s 11-3-3 mark. No. 16 Beveridge, along with NKU is currently riding a nine- freshman forward Kevin Bielicki game winning streak. / FREE V and junior midfielder John If the Cougars get past Matthews are in a three-way tie UMSL, they will meet the winner for goal scoring leaders on the of the No. 4 Rockhurst vs. No. 5 squad with five a piece. Lewis match. 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