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The Vanderbilt Hustler Vanderbilt www.vanderbilthustler.com MONDAY THE VOICE OF FEBRUARY 13, 2006 VANDERBILT 118th YEAR SINCE 1888 No. 15 TThehe VVanderbiltanderbilt HHustlerustler CRIME Car chase ends on Peabody Suspect eludes police for half hour before crash near West Hall. BY RYAN FARHA a little aft er midnight on Sunday. “A car came around the corner, three patrol cars and nearly hit two HUSTLER REPORTER Th e chase started on Edgehill Av- fl ew through Demonbreun, going offi cers on foot. According to po- A car chase early Sunday morn- enue and was terminated aft er 26 60 miles per hour with pedestrians lice, the vehicle was only going 20 ing in downtown Nashville lasted minutes. walking across the street,” he said. to 30 miles per hour. thirty minutes before the suspect However, a West Precinct offi - “He went around the circle, did Police tried to spike the vehicle was apprehended in a crash on cer spotted the stolen vehicle near a few loops, came back through, twice but Stewart was able to con- Peabody campus. Belmont University, and a second made a left , and went back down tinue on his course, eventually Th e crash occurred by the vol- pursuit was initiated. Th e suspect, another street.” driving into the circle behind West leyball court next to West Hall, the 33-year old Marcus Stewart, spent “He was crossing over medians, Hall. Wyatt Center and the Village at half an hour trying to evade police driving the wrong way up streets, When he realized that the circle ROBERT PROUDFOOT/The Vanderbilt Hustler Vanderbilt. throughout the Vanderbilt area. and he ran into the side of one of was a dead end, he drove onto the Police inspect a green BMW after forcing the car to a stop between two trees on Peabody South Precinct Police began Sophomore Matthew Foust was those big police vans,” Foust add- grass, heading towards 21st Ave- early Sunday morning. Residents of West watched the event from the second fl oor pursuit of a green BMW, which was present at Demonbreun Street to ed. nue. Several patrol units continued balcony. stolen in Shelbyville, Tennessee see Stewart’s erratic driving. During the chase, Stewart hit Please see CAR, page 3 ENVIRONMENT King Gee dances all night long RITES Work group developed to promote awareness Courtesy of BEN FOLDS.COM Students initiate program Ben Folds was announced as the main headliner for encouraging dialogue. this year’s Rites of Spring. BY TANYA ALVAREZ HUSTLER REPORTER VPB announces In an eff ort to create better environmental awareness throughout campus, Vanderbilt envi- ronmental groups have joined together to create Ben Folds as a sustainability work group. “We are taking ideas from other colleges to fi gure out what we want to do Rites headliner because it has to fi t with what Vanderbilt wants,” Nashville resident creates said Jenny Magill, Presi- excitement for annual event. dent of SPEAR (Students EVAN SCHLESSINGER / The Vanderbilt Hustler Promoting Environmen- Chancellor Gee and his wife Constance dance amidst students at the fourth annual Chancellor’s Costume Ball on Saturday night. BY JORDAN MAMORSKY tal Awareness and Recy- HUSTLER MANAGING EDITOR cling). Th e Vanderbilt Programming Board con- “Th e group was formed to create a sustain- HEALTH fi rmed that Ben Folds will be the main head- ability dialoged at Vanderbilt; provide a forum liner for Rites of Spring, ending rumors gen- for groups on campus to share ideas, informa- erated by an on-campus prank that he was the tion and resources and to act as a cleaning house headliner two weeks ago. for all sustainability related projects and initia- Breakthrough chemical found Folds will be Saturday’s headliner and the tives,” said Kristen Shepard, director of Environ- last artist to perform in this year’s festival. oped at Brigham Young University, is mental Health and Safely Management System HIV research conducted at Vanderbilt Medical Center. “At this point all we can confi rm is that Ben still years away from the human testing and Sustainability Coordination. Folds will be this year’s headliner,” said senior BY BEN SWEET stop the Human Immunodefi ciency stage, but it has already created wide- Vanderbilt already has programs in place Kevin Bielke, Bands Chair for VPB. “We will HUSTLER NEWS EDITOR Virus’s ability to infect cells. spread optimism in the fi eld. designed at benefi ting the environment, like the have a lot of critically acclaimed bands this Th ere is a promising new weapon in Unlike most treatments currently “Th is is a novel approach to stop- MTA bus ride program, which gives employees year, we’re really excited.” the fi ght against AIDS, and it’s a power- being tested which attack the virus only ping the virus infecting other cells,” said the option to take the bus to work for free. Sunday’s announcement comes aft er a ful one. aft er it has infected the cells, CSA-54 Roger Pebody, Terrence Higgins Trusts’ “We also hosted a computer recycling eff ort campus prank by the Slant, which had spread A chemical compound called CSA-54, works to prevent new cells from being treatment advisor. “However it is very with Dell that collected 100 tons of computer inaccurate rumors about the concert series, which was recently tested at Vanderbilt infected. early test tube research and is many equipment,” Shepard said. most prominently claiming that Folds would by Associate Professor of Microbiology “We have some preliminary but very years away from clinical trials. We will However, according to Magill, many be Saturday’s headliner. and Immunology Dr Derya exciting results,” Unutmaz said. “Th is is need to see tests on humans before we environmental groups on campus have Ironically, two weeks later the Slant’s prank Unutmaz, has been particularly important as a compound can know its true value.” been completely disconnected, making was actually proven true. “We had an off er out shown to that targets the viral membrane is likely In the past 20 years, HIV has killed it diffi cult to get much accomplished. Th is group before the whole Slant prank had happened— to be eff ective against all strains of the more than 25 million people world- will help by fostering communications between he hadn’t accepted yet,” said senior VPB co- virus, regardless of mutations as the vi- wide. multiple disciplines and departments. chair Matt Meiners. “Within a week he con- ral membrane remains unchanged. Reporting from the BBC online con- For example, Jeff Gowdy, the President of Net fi rmed, it might’ve actually been the day aft er. Th e new chemical, devel- tributed to this story Impact Group from Owen was there, and the Th at’s why it was so ironic” President of the Law Environmental Group Ben Th e VPB harbors no ill will towards the Dickson, was also there. If we just do things with SERVICE Slant and even believe that the hoax helped SPEAR, we need to contact other groups to get per- foster more excitement for this year’s con- mission for what we want to do. Th is way we are all certs. in the room, discussing what each one of us is do- Vandy helps out Tulane student media “I thought it was good because it got the ing and fi guring out if we can help each other.” whole campus talking about it and everyone “Th ere are a lot of student, faculty, admin- BY ASHLEY ZALESKI Last Wednesday VSC director forts to collect seven computers from thinking about Rites,” said Bielke. “We got a HUSTLER REPORTER istration, and staff groups that are interested in Chris Carroll and Assistant Director Murfeesborro public schools. VSC really good impression from what the student sustainability.” Shepard said. In an eff ort to speed the Katrina Jim Breaux traveled to New Orleans, also benefi ted New Orleans based body thought aft er the prank, it just stole our “Th e sustainability work group is giving us recovery process, the Vanderbilt Stu- donating 15 computers to the organi- Xaiver and Dillard Universities, part- thunder.” an opportunity to communicate between these dent Communications (VSC) board is zation. ners of Tulane’s communications de- Having to compete with a lot of other ven- groups, and hopefully will make Vanderbilt a sponsoring Tulane’s student commu- VSC contributed eight Macintosh partment. ues in Nashville, the VPB is pleased with this Please see RECYCLING, page 3 nications organization. computers, while also organizing ef- Please see VSC, page 2 Please see VPB, page 4 OUR VIEW BASKETBALLCOLUMN NOTABLE POLL WEATHER INSIDE Read why the Hustler Read the Hustler Read columnist Chad In the Bubble 2 THE editorial board feels sports team’s cover- Burchard’s response that the Vanderbilt age of the Men’s to Chis McGeady’s An estimated 4488% In History 2 Programming Board Basketball victory column on immi- one billion Percentage of Crime Report 2 WALL has succeeded this over powerhouse gration. Burchard valentine Americans who year by signing a Kentucky and the feels that America’s cards are sent Opinion 6 support monitoring headliner for Rites of Women’s basket- founding fathers did each year. Our View 6 — without a court 40 30 Spring that is popu- ball’s loss to No. 5 not intend endless Approximately HI LO warrant — some Sports 8 lar among students. Tennessee. immigration. 85 percent of U.S.-based calls with » Extended forecast on page 2 See Page 6 See Pages 6-7 See Page 6 all valentines Fun & Games 10 suspected links to are purchased by terrorists. women. » CNN 2 NEWS The Vanderbilt Hustler | Monday, February 13, 2006 WORD OF THE DAY THIS DAY IN HISTORY FORECAST 1542 The fi fth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, TUESDAY was executed for adultery.
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