Plans to Bring Back Sociology Department Set in Motion with Thorp
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the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 VOLUME 135, NO. 44 THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014 WWW.STUDLIFE.COM RED CARPET BBALL PREVIEW The best dressed A rundown of the this awards upcoming men’s & season women’s games EDITORIAL CARTOON (Cadenza, pg 6) (Sports, pgs 8-10) (Forum, pg 4) Plans to bring back sociology department Annual Green Cup leads set in motion with Thorp, Schaal’s support to record EMILY SCHIENVAR NEWS MANAGER high energy Twenty-three years after being reductions dissolved as a result of ongoing controversy and diminishing size, DYLAN BASSETT a sociology department may return STAFF REPORTER to Washington University. As a historically contentious This year’s Green Cup resulted department, it was shut down in in a greater amount of energy 1991 because of its small size and reduction than has been seen in weakened state. any of the past years. Dean of the Faculty of Arts & The Green Cup consists of Sciences Barbara Schaal is working dormitories and fraternities com- with the provost and an internal peting against one another for the committee to bring the discipline prizes of a giant check for $300, back. cupcakes, reusable kitchenware “It was really clear that in order and the Green Cup trophy by for our University to address the using as little electricity as possible major issues of the day, we needed during the month of February. to have sociology...we have the No. Washington University students 1 school of social work, we have used more than 100,000 fewer the law school, medical school… kilowatt-hours of electricity than and all of those hinge on the field they would use in a typical month. of sociology. They come together, PAUL LEINWAND | STUDENT LIFE ARCHIVES “For a sense of scale, a typical and then there’s this kind of hole,” Students marching from McMillan Courtyard to Brookings Quadrangle on April 17, 1989 protested the abolishment of American house will use around she said. the sociology department. A two-hour rally featuring student and faculty speakers followed the march. 10,000 kilowatt-hours in a year,” Dean of Academic Planning Director of Sustainability Phil Henry “Roddy” Roediger III intellectual material that we don’t as engineering is to physics and department, it was based more on Valko said during the Green Cup agreed, noting that he has run into have in Arts & Sciences and we chemistry. It’s the applied part of financial reasons, according to for- award ceremony. “In a single a problem in his own department don’t have for our undergraduates sociology. Sociologists study social mer Dean of the Faculty of Arts & month…just by flipping off lights, of psychology because of sociol- to take courses in.” issues; social work people try to Sciences and current professor of unplugging devices, being con- ogy’s absence. Roediger noted that an attempt fix them. We have the No. 1 social physics Martin Israel. scious of your consumptions and “About 10 to 12 years ago, some to bring back the department sev- work department without a sociol- “The actual closing of the really engaging with the spaces undergraduates came to me after eral years ago failed when the ogy department. They all think it’s department was my decision,” you’re inhabiting, you reduced as some horrific murders, and they economy crashed but that the nuts, too. The dean of social work Israel said. “When I became much energy as would be used by said to me, ‘We’d really like to take University now has a financial is trying to bring it back, too. So dean, the department of soci- about 10 American houses, which a course on the criminal mind, and standing that could support the there’s just lots of reasons to do it ology was down to six faculty; is huge.” there doesn’t seem to be anything addition of the department. He and not any reasons not to do it,” there were three assistant profes- The Lee/Beaumont residen- like that in psychology.’ I said to stated that based on rankings, Roediger said. sors and three tenured professors. tial college was victorious in the them, ‘Well, the way academics Washington University is particu- Despite rumors that heavy politi- It was a small and rather weak residential college portion of the divide things up, that really should larly strong in the social science cal leanings and a Washington department. Basically, the issue competition, besting Liggett/ have been part of sociology...there departments, and sociology is nec- University doctoral student’s was to bring it up to the standards Koenig by a single point. would typically be a few people in essary to supplement these other Tearoom Trade study about homo- of a [Washington University] Emily Wen, a freshman and sociology that would cover crime,’” disciplines. sexual activities in Forest Park he said. “There is a huge swath of “Social work is to sociology were the cause of the closing of the SEE SOCIOLOGY, PAGE 3 SEE GREEN CUP, PAGE 2 JUDAH FRIEDLANDER Underused Underpass space to see renewed use from WUSTL athletics JOHN LIN Underpass spot does not seem to much could do what they want CONTRIBUTING REPORTER be stirring up too large a commo- with it,” he added. tion, leaving premier wall space To Joe Worlund, associate ath- For the past few semesters, the blank is still an issue. letic director, the presence of blank southeast wall of the Underpass “The Underpass was redone dur- Underpass space was news. facing the South 40 has been ing the summer of 2012. [Congress “To be honest, I knew that peo- left largely blank, but it may see of the South 40] and Red Alert ple reserved sections but didn’t renewed use by the athletics [who had spaces reserved before know that [SU] reserved sections department. the reconstruction] were both for specific groups. I don’t know While this space was originally approached and asked if they if it is the coaches or the athletes reserved for athletics by Student wanted their space again. CS40 or someone from Red Alert that Union, changes within Red Alert, responded, but Red Alert never are supposed to reserve the wall the University’s student-run sports really got back,” he said. “Last space,” he said. fan group, has resulted in the spot school year, CS40 asked if they According to Worlund, Red being forgotten for the past year. could use Red Alert’s space and Alert is not as strong as it had been According to Michael Land, vice were told that they could since ath- a few years back. president of public relations for letics wasn’t really using it.” “Two or three years ago, Red SU, no one has approached him “Unless athletics steps in and for the space. Although the blank say that they want it, CS40 pretty SEE UNDERPASS, PAGE 2 SU general budget passes with W.I.L.D. increase, no funding for Bauhaus MANVITHA MARNI and freshman class councils and fencing, security and other NEWS EDITOR Happy Hour, as well as addi- costs associated with hosting tional funding for the executive Bauhaus outdoors accounted for In a vote with no opposition appeals account. up to half of the $26,270 allo- Tuesday night, Student Union Junior Nick Palermo, vice cated for the event in 2013. Treasury and Senate passed president of finance, said that “The big thing about Bauhaus a general budget that saw an SU did not fund Bauhaus is that while it’s definitely a increase in W.I.L.D. talent fund- through the general budget in an tradition for the Architecture ing but eliminated Bauhaus’ effort to encourage Architecture School to do it, there’s a huge direct funding. School Council (ASC) to amount of cost associated with The budget was passed 18-0-0 consider its expenses more care- having it where it is,” Palermo in Treasury and 18-0-1 in fully. In particular, SU hoped said. “We are hoping to encour- ZOE KLINE | STUDENT LIFE Senate. ASC would change the loca- age Architecture School Council Judah Friedlander performs his standup comedy routine Wednesday, March 5 The budget of $2,685,109.21 tion of Bauhaus away from the to work on finding a location in Edison Theatre as part of Social Programming Board’s spring comedy show. also included an increase in Givens Hall parking lot. Friedlander and Mike Birbiglia co-headlined the show. SEE Q&A, PAGE 7. funding to junior, sophomore According to Palermo, SEE BUDGET, PAGE 2 CONTACT BY POST CONTACT BY EMAIL CONTACT BY PHONE ONE BROOKINGS DRIVE #1039 [email protected] NEWSROOM 314.935.5995 #330 DANFORTH UNIVERSITY CENTER [email protected] ADVERTISING 314.935.6713 ST. 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