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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009 • 121ST YEAR, NO. 42 • THE VOICE OF VANDERBILT SINCE 1888 JUSTIN MENESTRINA The Vanderbilt Hustler The Vanderbilt Hustler www.InsideVandy.com H1N1 Top 10 vaccine outstanding arrives at VUMC seniors by SARA GAST MEREDITH ACKERMAN ELLEN BLACK by SARA GAST Hometown: Alexandria, Va. Hometown: Marietta, Ga. News Editor News Editor School: Peabody School: Arts and Science Activities: Chi Omega Sorority Activities: Vanderbilt Cross and KYLE BLAINE From the initial 56 candidates for outstanding senior, the top 10 have been (President), AmbassaDORES, Country, Track and Field, Kappa Staff Reporter decided by approximately 2000 student votes from Wednesday’s election, said Students for Students Delta Sorority (Treasurer), Phi Dwayne Elliott, the director of student campus events for Vanderbilt Programming America, Commit to Be Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity e H1N1 vaccine has come Board. e winner will be announced at the homecoming game next weekend. Fit!, Vanderbuddies, Dance to Vanderbilt, but it’s not for photos provided by VANDERBILT PROGRAMMING BOARD Marathon students, yet. Jerry Jones, assistant director and regional news director for the medical center’s O ce of News and Public A airs, wrote in an e-mail that Vanderbilt University Medical Center received approximately 1,000 doses of the FluMist earlier in the week. is form of the vaccine is the active nasal spray and can be delivered to people ages 2-49. According to Jones, VUMC expects to receive the TRACY BRANDING ANDREW ENKEBOLL ALEX HILLIARD SCOTT KRENITSKI inactivated, injectable vaccine Hometown: Libertyville, Ill. Hometown: Auburn, Ala. Hometown: Lafayette, La. Hometown: Towaco, N.J. within the next two weeks, which School: Arts and Science School: Engineering School: Blair School: Peabody will be only for those involved Activities: Vanderbilt Activities: Vanderbilt Performing Activities: Vanderbilt Baseball, Activities: Ingram Scholar, with VUMC who have direct Programming Board, Vanderbilt Arts Council, Vanderbilt Student SEC Academic Honor Roll, Manna Project International, contact with patients who could Danceline (Captain), Vanderbilt Government, Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University Athlete Vanderbilt Programming have in uenza symptoms. Marching Band “Spirit of Gold” Leukemia and Lymphoma of the Month, Substitute Board: Music Group, Vanderbilt Dr. Louise Hanson, the (Offi cer), VUceptor, Order of Society, Original Cast, Spotlight for The Establishment Jazz Club Soccer, Presbyterian medical director of student Omega (Secretary), Vanderbilt (Director), Beta Upsilon Chi Band, Nashville Philharmonic Student Fellowship, Vanderbilt health services, said the Student Student Volunteers for Fraternity, Wesley/Canterbury Orchestra, Student National Bluegrass Group, Beta Upsilon Health Center is unsure when Science (Team Leader), Delta Fellowship, Vanderbilt University Education Association, Chi Fraternity the shipment of H1N1 vaccines Delta Delta Sorority, College Concert Choir, VUceptor, ITS Vanderbilt University will come in for students or how Scholars Program, Habitat for Help Desk, Math Department Bookstore (Employee) many vaccines Student Health Humanity Spring Break (Web Admin Assistant) will receive, but she expects the health center will receive more details shortly. As soon as they do, a mass e-mail will be sent to students, she said. Once the  rst shipments of vaccines arrive, the order of students who will be targeted for vaccination will depend on risk level, with higher risk students such as those involved in medical care of in uenza patients or those with chronic illnesses like asthma or diabetes FABIANI DUARTE TACARA HARRIS RALPH PASSARELLA MELISSA ZHU being targeted for vaccination Hometown: Laceys Spring, Ala. Hometown: Huntsville, Ala. Hometown: Loretto, Tenn. Hometown: Houston, Texas  rst, Hanson wrote in an e-mail School: Arts and Science School : Arts and Science School: Arts and Science School: Arts and Science ursday. Activities: Chancellor’s Activities: Alpha Kappa Alpha Activities: Best Undergraduate Activities: American Red Cross Once those students have Scholar, Coca-Cola National Sorority, Inc (President), Hank Cancer Research at the at Vanderbilt (President), been vaccinated, Hanson Scholar, Vanderbilt Student Ingram House, The Commons American Association National Youth Council said the H1N1 vaccine will be Government, Residence (Head Resident), Chancellor’s for Cancer Research’s American Red Cross, o ered to the general student Education Head Resident and Scholar, Department of International Conference, Vanderbilt Student Government population. Resident Adviser, VUceptor, Student Athletics (Tutor), YES (Founder and President), (General Secretary and H1N1, commonly referred Think Gold, Act Green Coalition Voices From Our America First author publication in Student Service and to as swine  u, is a strain of (Co-Founder), Alternative Project (Research Assistant), the journal Clinical Cancer Technology Committee Co- in uenza A that hit campus Spring Break, Spanish Vanderbilt Students Volunteer Research, First author chair), Delta Gamma Sorority, during the  rst month of school. Its symptoms and e ects are translator, Sigma Nu Fraternity, For Science, Big Brothers Big publication submitted to the Biological Science Department clinically no di erent than that of Vanderbilt Association of Sisters of Middle Tennessee, journal Nature Medicine, (Researcher), Asian New seasonal in uenza, Hanson said Hispanic Students, Vanderbilt Habitat for Humanity, Voices of Sigma Phi Epsilon (Vice Year Festival, Campus in an earlier interview. Students Concert Choir, Masala SACE Praise Gospel Choir, Preston President), Kids and Computers Crusade for Christ, Asian can go to the Student Health (Diwali), AASA (Asian New Taylor Ministries (Volunteer), (Treasurer), Vanderbilt American Christian Fellowship, Center to receive a seasonal  u Year Festival), MOSAIC (Host), Invisible Children (Volunteer), University Top TENN Scholar, Alternative Spring Break, IT vaccination. Order of Omega Greek Honor Women’s and Gender Studies StarBRITE Cancer Research Student Leader, Commodore Hanson also wrote that Society, Lotus Eaters Society, Steering Committee, Vanderbilt Grant, Ambassadores: Dore for Yearbook, Alpha Epsilon Delta, although Student Health is not Alpha Lambda Delta/Pi Epsilon University Alcohol Task Force, a Day (Host) National Scholar Honors concerned about running out Sigma Freshman Honor Sociology Majors and Minors Society of seasonal  u vaccines, but she Association, National Pan- Societies said since the same companies Hellenic Council Please see H1N1, page 4

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Lewis, ERIC GLASSER / The Vanderbilt Hustler Vanderbilt, Belmont, Lipscomb, Wash., where they participate in a 32-day Members of the ROTC dive into the pool at the Student Recreation Center during a combat water survival training exercise on Thursday afternoon. Vanderbilt’s ROTC program is one of the most selective offi cer-producing programs in the nation. Tennessee State, Trevecca, Fisk, Aquinas, evaluation of their skills. At the LDAC American Baptist College and Free Will this summer, 50 percent of Vanderbilt Baptist Bible College. cadets received the highest grade of “E,” Casimes agreed with Durham’s program and said, “the sta knows as individuals,” Durham wrote in an  e Go Gold Battalion has become which means “exceeds the standard,” sentiment. how to work together and demonstrate e-mail. increasingly competitive and is one of while only 17 percent of national cadets “Since we pull from already impressive teamwork, and the cadets feed o Casimes wrote too about the the most selective o cer-producing did so. schools and programs in the Nashville that.” Durham likened the ROTC sta ’s importance of that close connection. programs in the nation. Enrollment was “For almost 50 percent of our battalion area, it is no surprise we ranked so well,” attentiveness to professors on campus. “ e Go Gold Battalion is my home up 49 percent for the program this year, to get ‘E’s’ is really special,” Durham Casimes wrote in an e-mail. “Just like the small class sizes in and the cadets are my brothers and raising the program’s enrollment from said, “and it re ects the high level of Wilburn also puts an emphasis on Vandy’s classrooms, we cadets get a sisters,” Casimes wrote. “You come in 53 cadets last year to 79 cadets this year, preparation and dedication our cadre the con dence and quali cations of lot of personal attention from cadre. an individual and you leave a family of Wilburn said. give to us.” the professionals and sta leading the  ey really care about us as a team and leaders.” ■ H1N1: Seasonal fl u Beautiful is coming back vaccine supplies low onto Vanderbilt’s campus From H1N1, page 1 make both the H1N1 and seasonal in uenza vaccines and are by HAYLEY KARLAN include a weeklong program of informal therefore under a dual demand right now, it has been harder to get Staff Reporter discussion groups that will be held in  ve BRINGING BEAUTIFUL BACK the regular seasonal u supply. of the houses on  e Commons, as well as When: 1-3 p.m. on Saturday “We still have seasonal u vaccine but not as much as we usually Sarah Russell wants to “Bring Beautiful organizing a variety of on-campus speakers Where: The Commons Lawn have this time of year,” Hanson wrote. “We will get the rest of our Back” to Vanderbilt. and setting up a Web site.” What: A “celebration of personal health supply … but it may not arrive until later this month or in early Russell is the senior behind the I Am  e a rmation segment of the campaign and beauty” sponsored by Panhellenic November. As a result, this may mean that during our fall vaccination Beautiful Campaign, a student e ort to will kick o Saturday with the “Bringing Council, Vanderbilt Student Government program, many students may get both H1N1 and seasonal vaccines promote healthy body image and eating Beautiful Back” event at the Commons and the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s at the same visit.” disorder awareness on campus.  e from 1-3 p.m. Sponsored by Greek life’s Center. The event will promote positive Student Health has given about 1,900 seasonal vaccines so far, campaign is built upon the principles of Panhellenic Council, Vanderbilt Student body image and overall health wellness. she added. It saw record-high numbers of patients for the  rst a rmation, education and support, and Government and the Margaret Cuninggim Various Nashville agencies and business couple weeks of the semester, but Hanson said now Student Health is intended to help raise awareness and Women’s Center, the event will have a fair- will be present to education and inform receives only 5-9 cases of u each day, with more common illnesses educate the campus community about like feel with music, food and resource women of their services. Food and music and injuries making up the majority of clinic visits. healthy body image and the e ects of tables.  e a rmation campaign seeks will be provided.  e H1N1 vaccine the medical center received this week was eating disorders. to spread a positive mindset in regards to manufactured by MedImmune in Gaithersburg, Md., and is Russell was inspired to start the campaign one’s body and health. reach beyond the Greek community. processed under the same protocols as the seasonal u vaccine, last spring after a personal experience “ is event will include information “While the campaign is primarily geared Jones wrote.  e vaccine received approval from the U.S. Food and made her realize the lack of resources for booths from both campus and Nashville toward members of the Panhellenic Drug Administration on Sept. 15. students dealing with image issues on organizations whose work includes community, many of the programs will VUMC is among the  rst centers in Nashville to begin using the campus. promoting healthy body image.  ere will be o ered to men and women all around vaccine.  e local health department will follow suit on Monday. ■ “I came up with it as a T-shirt idea be presentations made by the sponsoring campus,” he said. “Additionally, while originally,” she said. “After a Panhellenic organizations and food for attendees eating disorders and body image are often delegate mentioned it at a meeting, though, to enjoy,” said Joe Guerreri, a graduate considered women’s issues, the campaign “O NE OF THE MOST DEEPLY MOVING it expanded into a bigger idea.” assistant for the O ce of Greek Life. recognizes that men must be part of the ROMANTIC FILMS IN MEMORY.” Russell formed a campaign committee Russell says the location of the event was solution and that these are also issues that KENNETH TURAN, and three sub-committees, one for each of chosen carefully. a ect men.” “TO QUOTE KEATS: ‘A THING OF the campaign’s principles. “We purposely wanted it to be on  e Russell thinks one of the biggest BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER.’ SEE IT.” A.O. SCOTT, “Each committee has di erent Commons,” Russell said. “ ere’s a lot of challenges will be creating a lasting responsibilities. As the head of the pressure coming in to Vanderbilt, especially change. “★★★★★” education committee, my role is to ensure among women.  ere’s fear of not being “It’s going to be a slow process, but I that we are working towards our goal of accepted, and we want people to know that believe we can make Vanderbilt an even educating students about what it means you can be whoever you want to be.  at’s better place than it already is,” she said. “I to have a positive body image and raise the most beautiful thing.” want it to be easy to get help, and I don’t awareness about eating disorders,” said Guerreri hopes that the campaign, want anyone to feel like they are alone. I sophomore Anne Horigan. “Our plans technically a Panhellenic initiative, will want the campaign to be sustainable.” ■ Kids get a ‘Healthy Head Start’ by MALVI SAVANI Kristy Hamilton, the president Staff Reporter of the organization, mentioned “the importance of instilling the “I wanna get my face painted!” message of healthy living” as BELCOURT THEATRE CARMIKE THOROUGHBRED and “I want a pumpkin painted one of the primary motives of 2102 Belcourt Ave. 20 FRANKLIN (615) 383-9140 633 Frazier Dr. (615) 778-0770 on my arm!” were some of the the event.  rst exclamations of the 120 She said Healthy Head Start kids who descended on Alumni wanted to dedicate a day to Lawn yesterday afternoon. providing more healthy, fresh 2" x 4" FRI 10/9 Healthy Head Start, a student food options to kids who come THE VANDERBILT HUSTLER organization that works with kids from “parts of town considered from organizations including as ‘food deserts.’” the YMCA, CWA Cayce Center “Nutrition is a life-long thing and Martha O’Bryan Center to … not just something that lasts teach them healthy-living habits for a month,” said freshman CHRISTOPHER HONIBALL / The Vanderbilt Hustler COOLEST THING IN FITNESS! to prevent childhood obesity, Andy Han, who added that the Jaheem, a student in the Preston Taylor Ministries after-school kicked o its  eld day with Field Day is “a nice way to mix program, fi ghts in a tug-of-war during the fi eld games that Healthy numerous activities ranging service and helping out — not Head Start organized for local students in kindergarten through (circle one:) Artist: (circle one:) AE: (circle one:) ART CHECKfrom a three-legged relay race to just little kids, but anyone.” ■ eighth grade to teach them about healthy eating and exercise. 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Please do this few weeks and I think I’ve come up with a plan you will very much Life Editor enjoy. Many people have wondered, speculated and pondered how AVERY SPOFFORD works. quickly and Providence will be the sight Objects fall apart, as they say. e of our meeting. someone goes from fashion magazine intern to wilderness enthusiast, Asst. Life Editors rains and misery of football around Now, with my sincere heart in the and part of the answer lies in my previous outdoor experiences with ZAC HUNTER me required me to purchase Zoloft for Nashville, I await your replies. ASB. Fasten your seatbelts, because apart from covering the lectures CHARLIE KESSLERING seasonal depression, and now I cannot and whatever wild surprises come my way, the next few weeks will CHRIS MCDONALD pay for my thin jeans and vanilla lattes. Go with God, be devoted to the many adventures of ASB trips to Yosemite and HOLLY MEEHL My dear friends who are great in talents Katherine Marshall Miller Monterey. We’ll start with Yosemite, after all that is where I fi rst came NIKKY OKORO are not knowing where they will go and I in contact with Wilskills people and practices through Sara and Alex. am in fear of the time in which I cannot —Katherine Miller is a senior in the College Multimedia Editor SYDNEY WILMER a ord to duplicate thousands of resumes of Arts and Science. She can be reached at Read blogs and more on InsideVandy.com to preserve my warmth in the cold nights. [email protected]. Supervising Copy Editor DIANE BECRAFT VIRGINIA HORNBLOWER COLUMN InsideVandy Director KATHERINE MILLER this week in InsideVandy Developer Quotes Life is bitter-tweet BEN GOTOW 1. “BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT MY RECORD , IT ’S Marketing Director VERY CLEAR WHAT I’VE DONE . AND THAT IS … If Twitter were a person, it abbreviation. GEORGE FISCHER NOTHING .” would certainly make it onto the I recently had an experience that was Fred Armisen impersonating President Barack Obama Forbes Most Powerful Celebrities decidedly un-Twitter (un-tweety?). At the end Advertising Manager on the Oct. 3 episode of “Saturday Night Live” in the list. Like Oprah changed the way of last semester I went to see the radio show “A CAROLYN FISHER women think, shop and read, Prairie Home Companion” live at the Ryman. show’s fi rst pointed satirical sketch aimed at Obama. and Brangelina changed the is may sound like a grand old bore to many Asst. Advertising Manager standard for how many babies people, but for me it was the perfect way to DAVIDA MAJORS “IT’S THIS . IT ’S A VERY SIMPLE PLAN : THE 2. KATIE are appropriate for one family to de-stress at the end of a long semester and to REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE PLAN IS : DON ’T GET SICK . DES PREZ Advertising Assistants have, Twitter changed the way continue a lifelong family tradition of Saturday STEPH GOLDBERG … SO THE REPUBLICANS HAVE A BACKUP PLAN … Columnist that people of a certain generation evenings listening to the radio. JACKIE KONOPA THEY WANT YOU TO DIE QUICKLY IF YOU GET SICK .” — ours — communicate. A number of elements came together to make LAUREN MENINO Alan Grayson, a junior Congressman from Florida, Twitter is all about exposure: letting friends this particular night one that left such an un- KELLY SMITH said in a speech on Sept. 29 on the fl oor of the House of (and friends of friends … and those people’s Twitter imprint on my mind. e evening was ANDREA WEIAND Representatives, attacking the Republicans for a lack of friends) know what you are doing at every impressive because of its many facets. All of moment. Everybody pause — I’m about to take the sounds, senses and feelings that coalesced Art Director cooperation or alternatives. a shower. Now, I’m out and it’s sandwich time. to create the atmosphere of that night are MATT RADFORD It’s easy to wonder where this desire for impossible to synthesize into a Tweet. ey’re 3. “FOR (THEIR ) STUDIES OF THE STRUCTURE AND Designers such widespread exposure comes from. hard to synthesize here, actually, but writing FUNCTION OF THE RIBOSOME EMILY GREEN .” Americans are famous for their vehement about them in an extended form imbeds the IRENE HUKKELHOVEN Professor Gunnar Oquist said while presenting the defense of privacy, at least in the judicial various features of my night at “A Prairie Home KAT MILLER Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, sphere. Perhaps Twitter is the result of our Companion” even further in my consciousness ELIZABETH VINSON Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath on Oct. 7. desire to create closeness without subjecting so that I can e ectively share them, even if only ourselves to too much vulnerability. We can as an experience that has helped to form my Editorial Fellow “IT MADE MY STOMACH TURN .” craft a censored common experience behind general outlook on life. Twitter doesn’t work ERIN PRAH 4. Bertha Lewis, chief executive offi cer of ACORN, said the veil of the BlackBerry-to-computer screen. that way; instead, it allows one to compress Photography Editor on Oct. 6 at the National Press Club in Washington on the “Hey, remember that time when I got out of the rather than process the happenings in one’s life ERIC GLASSER secret videos recorded by student investigators revealing shower and made sandwiches? Good times.” in order to make room for more Twitter-sized ACORN workers promoting tax fraud and prostitution. Broadcasting the small moments of one’s life, musings and wonderings. Director of Photography though, seems to detract from its wholeness. I know I sound rather cantankerous, putting MARGARET FENTON 5. “I AFFIRM , IN CATEGORICAL FASHION , THAT WOMEN Each Tweet is giving away a small piece of one’s on my “kids these days” hat. But seriously, kids. unique experience. e charming facets of life Put down the cell phone and pay attention to WERE RAPED , NOT JUST ONE WOMAN .” VSC Director lose their ability to render one fascinated when what’s happening to you instead of thinking CHRIS CARROLL Mamadou Mouctar Diallo, an opposition leader in they are so widely disseminated in a way that is constantly about how you might translate it Guinea, said in a New York Times article on Oct. 5 about impossible to meaningfully process. In general, into a Tweet. Asst. VSC Director a suppression of a peaceful demonstration by the ruling JEFF BREAUX if personal experiences can be condensed into PAIGE CLANCY military junta in which 157 were killed and dozens of 140 characters — fewer than in this sentence —Katie Des Prez is a junior in the College women were raped in broad daylight. — they are either not worth sharing or have of Arts and Science. She can be reached at been stripped of their signi cance through [email protected]. Compiled by David Lee

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COLUMN “To my biology professor: Why would you let a girl sitting right in front of you PAINT HER NAILS during class? Do you not have any balls, or does she own Best weekend ever them?” Parents’ weekend is as many sophomore parents showed revelation by my parents that they “To the girl who passed out in front of our suite and a joy that only comes up as freshman parents. Again, the would not be making the journey wet herself: Thanks for cleaning up your mess. The once a year. e only reasoning is clear: love. next year. Instead, they have already 14th floor looks much better with that huge spot.” purpose of the weekend e freshman parents have only paid planned to go biking in France. It’s is to compare how one tuition bill so far and as such still ridiculous. Even if they weren’t coming What is on your mind? The Rant “Careerlink is an embarrassment to the university. much the parents love love their kids. However, as time goes to see me, they could at least watch is your place to anonymously Step it up. We can do better than job posts about PHIL their children. Some on and the list of bills paid to Vanderbilt Vanderbilt lose to some powerful sound o on any issue you will make journeys from Southeastern Conference team after tutoring for $20 an hour. I didn’t come to a top 20 INGRAM want. To submit to The Rant, foreign countries just to sitting in hours and hours of lectures school for this.” Columnist see their kids for a few on a Saturday afternoon, but they e-mail opinion@insidevandy. days — parents who The cause of the prefer France to that. com or go to the opinion page on “I thought we were done wasting newspaper space love their kids — while others decide differences in love Either way, I feel sorry for them. InsideVandy.com. against driving a mere half-hour from Parents’ weekend is always one on inane articles written by members of the Todd their Nashville suburb — parents who, is the difference in of the most happening weekends family when Neily graduated. Guess not.” for a lack of a more appropriate word, wealth around Vanderbilt. ere’s so much “dislove” their kids. interesting stu to do that one “Just because a gay male feels that the LGBTQI center e cause of the di erences in love becomes longer, parents start to wonders why Vanderbilt doesn’t host is all good does not mean that the women in this is the di erence in wealth because, wonder how much they love their kids. it every weekend. If I had things my as any good American knows, Fewer and fewer parents attend Family way every weekend would be Family campus feel the Women’s Center is being run as well money equals love and love equals Weekend until the year after senior Weekend, but for now I’m stuck as it should be.” money. Looking at the stats from last year no parents at all show up. Let that eagerly anticipating next year … with year’s parents’ weekend, one clearly sink in: No parents showed up this year or without my parents. “Why are there schedules of the cross country team sees a pattern: Nearly half as many for the Class of 2008. Clearly, their deep posted around campus? I think I would rather gouge senior parents showed up for Family reservoirs of love have gone the same —Phil Ingram is a sophomore in Weekend as junior parents, nearly half way as their  nances. the School of Engineering. He can my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon than watch a as many junior parents showed up as What made this shocking discovery be reached at philip.d.ingram@ cross country race.” sophomore parents, and nearly half even more troubling to me was the vanderbilt.edu. Compiled by Ryan Sullivan A lesson on intolerance in the 21st century ALLENA Family Weekend is a time most experienced a disturbing reversal of time. We are supposed to be the agents of change for feel a pang of hypocrisy in the sentiments that we BERRY Vanderbilt students looked forward were driving along West End to the Target o of our world, the forces to be reckoned with for a as a nation have progressed at all. Guest Columnist to with joyful anticipation. I knew I White Bridge Road when we saw the woman in brighter, more hopeful tomorrow, can we stand It’s my goal to shake up the complacency could expect at least two free meals front of us roll down her window, lean out of her idly by while such paradoxes of racial acceptance around racial issues and get students thinking out of the arrangement (which wasn’t a bad deal, car and shout a derogatory racial slur at us (and exist within our own city? Are we OK with the about their own racial footprints. Start to think provided that all I had to do was look acceptable you don’t have to use your imagination to guess fact that I, as an African-American female, can about it in this way: If you were interacting with and make sure my dorm was void of any items at what that slur was). Why? It was clear that we be accepted within the hallowed halls and shady someone who happened to be of a di erent racial suggesting impropriety). Plus, I could leave most were in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong oak trees on campus, but as soon as I go outside background than you, does a discriminatory word of the entertaining to the wonderful people of time (after all, as I’m sure the woman thought to of the comfortable con nes Vanderbilt provides, pop into your head, with or without provocation? Vanderbilt who excel at putting on a show for herself, who was I to expect to ride to Target sans I must step back 60 years of proposed “racial e answer to that question, my friends, is what our generation’s version of the helicopter parent. discrimination?) progress”? With diversity education presumably we need to work on before we can think of ere was little room for error in this dog and is being my  rst experience with such overt, at the forefront of most institutions of higher ourselves as a nation truly progressing in race pony show, and all I had to do was sit back, relax and random, racism, I felt shocked and confused. education, we cannot allow all our credos of relations. and reap the bene ts. I thought to myself, “Isn’t this 2009?” Isn’t there acceptance and integration to become merely It’s a question I will be thinking about the next But, like the best laid plans of mice and men, a man of color running our nation? Surely, that talk. time I go to Target. this utopian ideal of a weekend devoid of drama did not just happen. But it did. And sadly, it is still But as I sat on the side of the issue where I was fell to waste. On Saturday evening, after spending happening all the time. not merely a student in a classroom learning —Allena Berry is a sophomore in Peabody College. the afternoon traversing around Nashville’s is incident got me thinking more and about racial discrimination but one of the people She can be reached at allena.g.berry@vanderbilt. tourist trap — er, I mean, downtown — my family more about my Vanderbilt community. If we who actually experienced it, I couldn’t help but edu.

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Vanderbilt’s student radio station WRVU 91.1 has made the top 25 in MTVu’s Woodie Award competition for best college radio station. Go to radiowoodie.ratemyprofessors.com to cast your vote! 8 Friday, October 9, 2009 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com Sports COLUMN WEEK 6 The offense atones for its sins SEC POWER by DAVID NAMM how antsy and anxious I was; after all, you’ve seen me in the Sports Reporter no-huddle set before. at RANKINGS Enough with the negatives, though. In the end, we are Dear Vanderbilt Commodore Defense, linked by our love of the game, our love of the fans, our love Well, here it goes. I’ve wanted to say this for a while of Vanderbilt. Let’s try to put this dry spell past us, shall we? Compiled by Greg McMillin now, but I haven’t quite found the words until now. Our I promise I’ll put out this week against Army, and we can go Vanderbilt at Army relationship is just so … so rocky, that I feel I have to address from there … you know, get back to .500, see where things SATURDAY, OCT. 10 this before I lose you — and our season — forever. go. Maybe I can give you a breather after a strong run up the 1. Florida (4-0, 2-0 SEC) KICKOFF IS AT 11 A.M. CDT It truly is hard to describe just how sel ess you are and middle, or an 8-yard slant, or a 14-yard out route to the tight Last week’s open date TV: CBS COLLEGE SPORTS have been for the past  ve weeks. You have stayed out end. Maybe we can step 5 yards forward instead of 5 yards could not have come at RADIO: 104.5 FM a better time for Florida on the  eld for me when I repeatedly fail to pick up  rst backwards. Maybe, just maybe, we can make this work. as Tim Tebow used the downs, pouring out sweat as I continue another porous Otherwise, it’s only fair to let you move on and defend The Commodores (2-3, 0-3 Southeastern Conference) bye week to recover from performance. You have made big plays to give us hope — someone else. From now on, this love — this season — is on face the Black Knights (2-3) for the fi rst time since his concussion against to give us a chance — only to see me botch another snap, me. I truly hope, for both our sakes, I can actually complete 1991 in trying to get back to .500 on the season. Kentucky. This week’s another series, another game. Somehow, you’re always this attempt. game at LSU will be the there to try to pick me up when I fall, when I fail (and, Vanderbilt won that game, 41-10, and lead the all- Gators’ biggest challenge admittedly, that has been often). Essentially, what I’m trying Sincerely, of the season. time series 4-3, including a 3-1 mark in West Point. to say is that you complete me. Your O ensive O ense And I complete nothing. 2. Alabama (5-0, 2-0) I would like to take this opportunity to o er a formal After beating Kentucky 38-20 in Lexington, the apology on behalf of myself, the Vanderbilt o ense, to you Crimson Tide travels to for all I have done to wrong you in our tenuous relationship Oxford this week to take this season. Oh, you say all the right things, of course, on No. 20 Ole Miss in one putting part of the blame on your shoulders in our highly of the more intriguing public relationship. conference games of the Even so, we both know the truth: I’m the one letting us year. down. If I could call something other than a quarterback draw, other than a halfback draw, other than an option 3. LSU (5-0, 3-0) The Bayou Bengals retain read (that always leads, in case you haven’t noticed, to the their No. 4 national rank- running back taking it o -tackle for a loss), maybe things ing in the polls this week. would be di erent between us. Maybe things would be They escaped from Athens better. Maybe we would be better. with a 20-13 victory over Nevertheless, the reality of the situation is that I have Georgia after a question- been terrible to you. Awful. Miserable. Unbearable. Take able unsportsmanlike Saturday, for example. You tried to treat me to a nice, conduct penalty against candlelit dinner, deciding graciously to feast on Ole Miss the Bulldogs. quarterback Jevan Snead’s propensity for risky throws and 4. Auburn (5-0, 2-0) ordering us an Upset Special to share. How did I reward you The Tigers vaulted into the for this gesture? By not taking a single bite. top 25 this week with their I had more false starts (11) than pass completions (10), win in Knoxville on Satur- more penalty yards (74) than passing yards (69), more day. A win over Arkansas punting yards (276) than total o ensive yards (240). You would give Auburn its rst must have asked for the check faster than Kanye West got 6-0 start since 2004. Last on stage at the VMA’s, but I couldn’t tell. I was already out CHRISTOPHER HONIBALL / The Vanderbilt Hustler year seems like a long the door, done with another date — another drive — all too John Cole just misses a touchdown catch in a Sept. 19 game against Mississippi State. The Commodores have still not time ago. soon. In fairness, though, you should be able to understand cracked double digits in points in a conference game this year, and they rank 113th in the nation in passing offense. 5. Georgia (3-2, 2-1) Coming o a gut- wrenching loss to LSU, Mental focus key for Vandy Despite struggles, there’s the Bulldogs will head to Knoxville this week to take by DANIEL MARKS by junior running backs Patrick Mealy on Tennessee. Sports Reporter and Kingsley Ehie who have combined no quarterback controversy to gain 562 yards on the ground thus far 6. South Carolina (4-1, After a frustrating 23-7 loss to Ole this year, and by freshman signal-caller 1-1) Miss, the Commodores head up to West Trent Steelman who has 299 rushing The Gamecocks won Point to face the Army Black Knights. yards and 163 passing yards. Despite not their third in a row with a Both teams sport identical, frustrating seeing a lot of the triple option over the victory over South Carolina 2-3 records through  ve games. past few years, the Commodores have State, despite going into  is could be a good time for the very sure tacklers in the secondary led by halftime with only a Commodores to visit West Point, a place Casey Hayward, Myron Lewis and Sean 3-point lead. where discipline and concentration are Richardson, who along with Zac Stacy necessary not only on the playing  eld and John Cole, is expected to return 7. Ole Miss (3-1, 1-1) The Rebels can jump back but in the classroom and battle  eld as for Saturday’s game after a one-week into the SEC West race with well, because their loss to Ole Miss was absence. a win over No. 3 Alabama de ned by multiple mental mistakes Speaking of the secondary, when on Saturday. Houston Nutt where they demonstrated both a lack of Army goes to the passing game, it has CHRIS PHARE / The Vanderbilt Hustler is 5-8 against top ve discipline and concentration, two tenets a unique weapon in 6-feet-10-inch Vanderbilt quarterbacks Larry Smith (left) and Mackenzi Adams throw at practice teams, including a win of West Point life. wide receiver Ali Villanueva, who will on Oct. 7. Smith has struggled during a 2-3 start but still has the faith of the coaching over Florida last year. Addressing those issues was a point of surely pose match-up problems for the staff. Adams has been a voice of guidance for Smith in his capacity as a back-up. emphasis this week. cornerbacks as no player in the defensive 8. Arkansas (2-2, 0-2) “We just worked the same thing we do back eld measures in at over 6-feet-2- by ERIC SINGLE “Most de nitely, being the quarterback The Razorbacks dominated in practice every week,” said Vanderbilt inches. Villanueva has 12 catches on the Sports Reporter and the leader of the team, I put it upon Texas A&M in the new coach Bobby Johnson. “We try and year, including three touchdowns, but my shoulders, and it’s my job to get the Cowboys Stadium with a rep and we do our plays, do it the right has yet to face a secondary as strong as Vanderbilt’s adventures on o ense in team back together and start playing much 47-19 victory. Arkansas way, do it fundamentally correct, and Vanderbilt’s. SEC play so far this season have some better and executing better,” Smith said. returns home to play hopefully we won’t (be penalized).” While it is important that the Commodores fans re ecting on two of In his weekly call-in show on 104.5 the Auburn in what will be a In addition to dealing with trying to  x Commodores prepare themselves for the most nebulous, dangerous words in Zone on Monday, Johnson emphasized the big test for the Hogs. their mental mistakes, the Commodores the triple option, and for the mammoth football: quarterback controversy. underappreciated continuity that comes will be facing the unique triple option Villanueva, the message this week Behind redshirt sophomore starter Larry from keeping his starting quarterback in 9. Mississippi State (2-3, o ense, something not seen in the has been  xing their mental mistakes Smith, the only Commodore quarterback for the whole game. 1-2) Southeastern Conference. especially since they are facing one of in over a half-century with a bowl victory, “ e quarterback has a lot of If the Bulldogs have any  e best way to deal with the o ense? the most disciplined programs in all of stands redshirt senior Mackenzi Adams, responsibility where he’s seeing things out hope of making it to a bowl game this season, “Beat the system,” Johnson said. college football. hero of landmark victories against No. 6 there, and you take him out of it, they may they will have to beat a “ ey have a good amount of running “We need to concentrate better, it’s as South Carolina in 2007 and No. 13 Auburn do something he hasn’t seen,” Johnson high-powered Houston backs they like to rotate in and out, and simple as that,” said redshirt senior center in 2008. After an 0-for-9  rst half against said. “You put him back in there, and team in Starkville this their quarterback is good at running Bradley Vierling. “We shot ourselves Ole Miss that left some fans calling for they run a coverage or blitz that he hasn’t week. the o ense, so we aren’t focusing on in the foot last game, and when you Adams, Smith settled down to complete 10 seen because he was over there on the stopping one particular player, but on make mistakes the other team is going of 18 passes in the second half, including a sidelines. 10. Tennessee (2-3, shutting down their system.” to capitalize, and we can’t continue to 7-yard touchdown throw to Udom Umoh, “ is is a decision that we don’t take 0-2)  e triple option o ense is powered make mistakes if we want to win.” ■  nishing with 69 yards passing. lightly. I mean we look at every one of Quarterback Jonathan  e Commodores rank 113th in the them.” Crompton must play country in passing yards per game this With nine career starts for the mistake-free if the Vols season, and naturally the quarterback Commodores, Adams brings a much- hope to have any chance position comes under the strongest needed voice of experience to a young against Georgia this examination from fans and the media group of quarterbacks. Saturday. during droughts in the passing game. To “I just try to help as much as I can from his credit, coach Bobby Johnson refuses the sideline, use the experience I’ve had, 11. Kentucky (2-2, 0-2) to be swept up in speculation as his team especially coming up with these SEC The Wildcats are still look- approaches the season’s halfway point. games, having already played against some ing for their rst SEC win “A lot of the things that are happening of these teams,” Adams said. “I just try to this week as they travel to Columbia to face South aren’t Larry’s fault, and it’s hard for people tell him what I’m seeing out there and talk Carolina. to see that … Some of the things that with him about what he’s seeing, just any happen around Larry need to improve, way I can help.” 12. Vanderbilt (2-3, 0-3) and that gives him a better chance to be No matter how he contributes to the After another disap- successful,” Johnson said in an interview o ense in the next seven games, Adams pointing SEC loss, the Com- with 104.5’s Wake Up Zone on Tuesday. understands the state of the o ense and modores will travel to West “Just like everyone on our team, and every where it needs to go from here. Point this week to take on one of our coaches, Larry can do better.” “We obviously have to be better if we’re Army. Then the schedule CHRISTOPHER HONIBALL / The Vanderbilt Hustler Smith understands his responsibility going to win some football games, whatever gets nasty for the rest of Bradley Vierling (60) and the offensive line have hurt themselves with numerous false to come through when the team makes that might be, we have to  nd a way to get the season. start penalties. Staying mentally focused will be a point of emphasis against Army. mistakes. more yardage and score more points.” ■ www.insidevandy.com The Vanderbilt Hustler Friday, October 9, 2009 9 Youth, excitement mark Commodore soccer Vanderbilt swim program hosts Arkansas, LSU by DAVID RUTz team cohesiveness and also Fellow junior freestyler Anna by DAVID RUTZ goals in conference play. Sports Editor the approach that the team has Fargo is loving the enthusiasm Sports Editor “Confidence is bred through scoring goals and taken to the season. It seems demonstrated by the younger scoring goals breeds confidence, so when you miss The Vanderbilt swim and to be much more focused on swimmers, both in their training Vanderbilt (7-4-1, 1-3 Southeastern Conference) a sitter in front of the net like we have consistently, dive team is half the size of day-to-day training and getting and in their sheer excitement finishes the back half of a four-game homestand this their shoulders drop a bit and they find themselves other Southeastern Conference ready and being prepared totally about collegiate competition. weekend when Arkansas visits Friday at 7 p.m. and chasing, because the other team gets a new life,” said programs and has more than for our meets.” “It’s really nice to have a new LSU plays Sunday at 1 p.m. Vanderbilt coach Ronnie Woodard. twice as many freshmen than it A team consisting of eight group of freshmen who are The Commodores split the first half last weekend, The Georgia game in particular was an example has upperclassmen. freshmen, five sophomores, ready to go, and they’re really beating Tennessee in overtime, 1-0, on a sudden of that, as the Commodores had numerous No biggie. The team has two juniors and one senior will pumped about the season so death goal by junior forward Molly Kinsella to snap a opportunities in the first half to jump out ahead embraced the adversity any compete in its first meet of the that helps us upperclassmen two-game losing streak. but were unable to do so. Once they fell behind the program brought back to 2009-10 season this weekend. doing it,” Fargo said. It was Kinsella’s fifth goal of the season, to go along Bulldogs in the second half, Vanderbilt had to change life has to deal with, and the The Commodores travel to The path to a program with her eight assists to lead all Vanderbilt players its offense system and still could not score. Commodores have done it the Tuscaloosa for a dual meet reaching that level of team with 18 total points. “The bottom line is if we don’t start finishing our hard way. with Centenary and fellow SEC cohesion has been a long one. They were shut out by 22nd-ranked Georgia on chances, the next seven games are going to be very Vanderbilt looks to maintain school Alabama. Through the first two seasons, Sunday however, 3-0. long for us,” Woodard said. the momentum from last season “It’s the first college dual meet the Commodores did not win The opponents this weekend represent the best Sunday marked the first time all season the where the Commodores won for half our team, so it should be a single meet, but they finally and worst of the SEC West, as the Razorbacks (6-3-3, Commodores were held without a goal. their first dual meet since the exciting,” said junior freestyler broke through with a victory 0-3-1) have yet to scratch out a conference victory Game-winners: Kinsella’s heroics against early ‘90s and broke numerous Jennifer Molchan. over Centre and Rhodes in and sit in last place, while the Tigers (8-2-2, 4-0) are Tennessee marked her second game-winning goal school records. Organ has noted the Nashville on Oct. 11, 2008. undefeated in SEC play. of the season, putting her in a tie with freshman Head coach Jeremy Organ has chemistry the team has enjoyed Also, last season Molchan The Commodores are 0-2-1 in their last three midfielder Chelsea Stewart in that category. been there every step of the way since training began the first broke a 19-year old record in the games against LSU, while they knocked off Arkansas It’s hard to win in overtime,” Kinsella said. since the team came back from week of September, despite 100-yard freestyle with a 52.21, two years ago when the Razorbacks last came to “Everyone’s tired, everything is getting pretty slow. It’s a 14-year absence in December considerable turnover since last sophomore Allie Voss (1:04.11) Nashville. always good to get an overtime win. After 90 minutes of 2006 and has marveled at the season. set a record in the 100-yard Finishing chances: Vanderbilt’s struggle so far you’ve worked too hard to get out with a tie.” progress during the tumultuous “The team’s meshing very breastroke, and sophomore through four games in the SEC has been not making The 1,657 fans who saw the win on Oct. 2 were the period. well. Probably the most cohesive Laura Dillon (2:19.56) broke the good on scoring opportunities, only notching three most of the season at the VU Soccer Complex. ■ “We’ve made huge strides unit we’ve had since the four Vanderbilt record in the 200- from that first year,” Organ years,” Organ said. “Everyone’s yard breaststroke. said. “Not only in our ability to really close. They’re all getting Dillon will likely also swim compete in all the events, but along very well.” butterfly events for Vanderbilt this season. Sophomore diver Nicole Woodworth returns after a freshman campaign that saw her earn a school record score in the one-meter dive. With the signing of freshman backstroke specialists Chelsea Morey and Rose Cornelson, Organ has never had a team this deep during his tenure. The team is just as young as usual, but the difference in attitude, and expectations, for this group is palpable as they approach the meet at Alabama. “It’s a very good group,” Organ said. “Everybody’s pretty zac hardy/ The Vanderbilt Hustler excited. There’s some nervous Vanderbilt and Marshall swim during a dual meet at the Centennial energy out there, but once you muhaimin aminuddin / The Vanderbilt Hustler Sportsplex in Nashville on Jan. 31. The Commodore program is em- Chelsea Stewart (17) tries to get around Tennessee’s Amy Harrison (22) in Vanderbilt’s 1-0 win over the Vol- barking on its fourth season since returning in December of 2006. put on your cap and goggles, (you) get ready to go.” ■ unteers on Oct. 2. The Commodores will cap their four-game homestand when they host Arkansas and LSU.

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