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THURSDAY OCTOBER 25, 2012 VOL. 124, ISS. 47 WWW.INSIDEVANDY.COM AN PARTY ALL AMERICAN Rap artist Hoodie Allen will headline Thursday’s Block Party on Kensington Place following the release of his recent EP ‘All American’ By ETHAN DIXUS sionate about since I was a little kid, so “Those guys brought me in when Life reporter there’s nothing better,” he said. people only knew me from free mixed -------------------- However, life as a performer can be tapes,” he said. “(They) allowed me hectic and worrying at times. to get my music in front of more Music used to take a back seat to “It becomes your full responsibil- Vandy kids.” academics for Steven Markowitz. ity, so in that way it’s sort of stressful,” Currently, Markowitz “For the longest time it was some- Markowitz said. “I think as an artist I’m is working on making thing that I did while I was doing other still learning and getting better … as a mixed tape and a things,” said Markowitz, the frat-rap my audience grows, I’m growing as an full-length debut rising star better known by his stage artist, so I don’t think I’m in the fi nal album for 2013, name, Hoodie Allen, who is headlining place where I will be at the end of the as well as Thursday night’s Block Party on Kens- day (in) how I want my sound to be.” planning ington Place. As Markowitz continues to develop another After studying marketing and fi nance his music, he is constantly striving tour. at UPenn’s Wharton School, Markowitz to improve his showmanship. That graduated in 2010 and went on to work includes maintaining an interactive at Google, using all of his spare time on presence both online and at shows in his music. an effort to more closely involve fans “It was something that I wanted in the experience. to put a lot of time into, but I was still He has found the college scene to a student at UPenn, and I worked at be an especially comfortable atmo- Google, so I had to work on music at sphere for his performance style. night.” “It’s different from other types of After his 2012 EP “All American” touring because you really get to debuted at No. 10 on Billboard’s Top entertain people who may not be as 200 Albums, he was no longer just an familiar with you as a hardcore fan internet sensation. Since then, he has at a show would be,” he said. toured the country twice and per- Markowitz has been a part of the formed overseas. frat-rap scene since the beginning Though the transition from Google of his career. He began working with employee to rapper was somewhat producer RJF after the two met at unorthodox, Markowitz found it was an Alpha Epsilon Pi party while at the best move for him. UPenn, releasing street albums “Ba- “When I fi nally made the jump, it was gels & Beats” and “Making Waves.” liberating in a way,” he said. “I could The duo went on to win MTV’s “Best dedicate all my time to music.” Music on Campus Award” in 2009. According to Markowitz, the best part Vanderbilt is one of the many about having transitioned is waking up universities Markowitz has stopped at to do something he loves. before, having performed at the Sigma “It’s something that I’ve been pas- Chi house in 2011. BLOCK PARTY: QUICK FACTS What: Block Party Music: DJ Tyrus Briggs long-sleeved Who: Coach James and rapper Hoodie Allen Homecoming Franklin, football team Food: SATCO and T-shirts captains, the Spirit of McDougal’s Gold Marching Band Free Giveaways: When: Thursday, 7-10 Neon sunglass- p.m. es and Where: Kensington Avenue PHOTO FROM “ALL AMERICAN” ALBUM COVER Strange honeymoon That’s racist! Obama releases for Vandy alum Virginia Abernethy, Vanderbilt professor emeritus, has been la- second-term plan for Courtney Dillard graduated from Vanderbilt in 1992. When beled as an “unabashed white supremacist” by the Anti-Defama- she got married in July, she and her husband Matt We- tion League and a “full-fl edged professor of hate” by the Southern ber decided to embark on a unique honeymoon. Poverty Law Center (SPLC), according to an article in The education For fi ve months, the newlyweds will Tennesseean. The SPLC has added Abernethy to its list The Obama campaign released a 20-page booklet this drive from their home in Portland, Ore., of 30 new leaders to watch on the radical right. week detailing the President’s plan if he wins a second to Portland, Maine, and back, stop- Abernethy says that she is not a white suprema- term in offi ce. One page of the booklet details his plans for ping along the way to have breakfast cist but an “ethnic separatist.” the future of education, including some ambitious goals with complete strangers. According to “Separatism says, ‘Birds of a feather fl ock for higher education. a press release, they hope to challenge together,’” Abernethy told The Tennessean. “I say, One of the main goals outlined in the pamphlet is to attitudes of insularity and the nega- ‘Let them.’ What I see is rampant racial discrimi- have the USA obtain the highest rate of adults holding tive narrative of “stranger danger” in a nation against European Americans. And I am not college degrees in the world by 2020. This would be a large divided America. in favor of discrimination.” improvement on America’s current No. 14 ranking. The couple fi nds people to share Abernethy appears on Tennessee ballots as a vice To achieve this, the booklet outlines the goal of cutting breakfast with through a variety of ways, presidential candidate for the American Third Posi- tuition growth by half over the next 10 years by “creating including social media, bulletin boards tion Party, an obscure whites-only political party, incentives for schools to keep tuition down.” In addition, and chance encounters. When the trip is according to the article. Hate group trackers criticize the booklet proposed tax credits to make college more af- done, they’ll select 50 of their experiences at Abernethy for using her academic status to give cred- fordable and double the number of work-study jobs. breakfast for a book, “Breakfast with Strangers: ibility to neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups. In addition, Obama would seek to encourage partner- 50 Meals across America.” Abernethy, who retired from Vanderbilt more ships between businesses and community colleges to The couple will be arriving in Nashville than 20 years ago, still visits her Vanderbilt train two million workers for higher-paying jobs, accord- on Friday and sharing breakfast with offi ce three days a week. ing to the booklet. a stranger on Saturday morning. — Jenna Wengler, news staff reporter — Sam McBride, news manager — Sam McBride, news man- ager STEVE GREEN /VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012 THE VANDERBILT HUSTLER u WWW.INSIDEVANDY.COM campus ? WHERE THEM MENINGITIS OUTBREAK SQUIRRELS By CHARLOTTE GILL News staff reporter AT? -------------------- Vanderbilt medical staff members are leading the charge to combat the fungal meningitis outbreak that originated in the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts. Dr. Bill Schaff ner, No one may have said it, but we were all thinking infectious disease specialist and chair of the Department of Preventative Medicine at Vanderbilt, gave his take on Vanderbilt’s involvement. it: Vanderbilt’s infamous squirrel population Dr. Schaff ner is serving as the interface between the Vanderbilt Medical Center and the public, and is educating the community seems to have dwindled. Don’t panic, according about the events surrounding the outbreak. He stated that Dr. April Pettit, a specialist in infectious disease, to campus sta : The squirrels are fi ne. “broke the case” with her diagnosis of fungal meningitis, fi nding it “suffi ciently unusual” that her patient had received an epidural with a steroid injection two weeks prior to his visit. Pettit’s call to the Tennessee Department of Health launched an investigation that led to the notifi cation of the Center for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration and the ensuing national investigation. Schaff ner said Pettit’s diagnosis was made in “textbook fashion … It could be used as a case study for further study in public health.” Several authorities within the Tennessee Department of Health also serve as volunteer faculty at Vanderbilt’s Medical School and in courses for master’s degrees in public health. Of these authorities, Dr. Marion Kainer performed one of the initial investigations of the outbreak. Other Vanderbilt doctors that continue to play a role in LUIS MUNIZ / THE VANDERBILT HUSTLER the national public health investigation include Dr. Timothy Jones and Dr. John Dunn. By HANNAH SILLS students may see less of the bushy-tailed tree “We don’t want the squirrels to get so asser- According to Dr. Schaff ner, eff orts to control the outbreak News staff reporter dwellers. tive, to get so used to seeing humans that they include educating potential victims and doctors around the -------------------- “I think it’s probably pushed some of our don’t have any fear of them and start going up country regarding this rare form of meningitis, sequestering and squirrels across campus,” Petty said. “There’re to people,” Petty said. withdrawing all contaminated medicines and closing down the The beloved squirrel population of Vander- compounding center in question.