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Basketball Teams Move Forward in Tournament the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 VOLUME 134, NO. 41 MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013 WWW.STUDLIFE.COM STAFF EDITORIAL: WHERE YOUR VOTE COUNTS AND WHERE YOU HAVE NO CHOICE (FORUM, PG 4) ANNE HATHAWAY CUPCAKES GALORE REACTIONS TO SAE Five reasons to love the Scene sits down with the Students respond to the Oscar-winning actress owners of The Sweet Divine fallout from last week (Cadenza, pg 8) (Scene, pg 7) (Forum, pgs 4-5) Basketball teams move MythBusters hosts forward in tournament talk limited training Men defeat for explosive jobs Spalding in first round SAHIL PATEL MANAGING EDITOR Even if the official celebration was last week, Saturday might as well have been the Washington University men’s basketball team’s Senior Day. Seniors Rob Burnett and Ben Hoener carried the No. 17 Bears to a 70-61 victory over Spalding University in the first round of the NCAA Division III national championship tournament. The win advances Wash. U. to the second round, where it will face rival Illinois Wesleyan University next Saturday. It was the seniors who car- ried the Bears down the stretch as Hoener and Burnett scored ZOE KLINE | STUDENT LIFE 23 of the Red and Green’s final Junior Alan Aboona drives past a Spalding University defender to break the Golden Eagles’ press. Aboona struggled with his shot after hitting his first two three-pointers of the game and finished with eight points. SEE MEN’S B-BALL, PAGE 6 Women move on to NCAA Sweet 16 ZACH KRAM this maxim, relying on its deep Points were at a premium SPORTS REPORTER corps of reserves for scoring and against UT-Dallas: both teams JUSTIN ZHENG | STUDENT LIFE defense in eking out a pair of shot worse than 35 percent from An old adage about basket- wins last weekend. the field, and there was only one Grant Imahara was one of two MythBusters to speak in Graham Chapel Satur- ball states that while depth is On Friday, senior Kristin Anda made three-pointer in the game. day in the final event for EnWeek. At the discussion, Imahara and fellow host Tory Belleci spoke about their experiences on the show. crucial in the regular season to came off the bench to lead the The Bears led 26-23 at halftime offset injuries and keep players Bears with 16 points and nine but shot a mere 20.6 percent MICHAEL TABB working in production and getting fresh, it loses its importance in rebounds in a 45-40 first-round in the second half, and an 11-0 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF a job in model-making at Industrial the postseason as playing rota- victory over the University of second-half run by the Comets Light and Magic, the visual effects tions shorten and stars play more Texas at Dallas. The next night, turned the score in their favor. Days before heading to New company founded by George Lucas minutes. In the opening round of a balanced attack and a 50-25 A layup with 10:34 remaining Mexico to try flipping a vehicle with and owned by Lucasfilm. Imahara, the NCAA Division III national rebounding advantage paved gave UT-Dallas a 38-34 lead, but a rocket-propelled grenade, two who graduated from the University championship tournament, the way for the Red and Green it was the last field goal that the MythBusters closed Engineers Week of Southern California with a degree Washington University’s wom- to defeat host Rhodes College, by recounting their experiences with in electrical engineering, worked SEE WOMEN’S B-BALL, PAGE 6 en’s basketball team countered 78-75. the show while offering minimal for the same studio before joining advice for special effects enthusiasts. MythBusters in the show’s third Hosts Tory Belleci and Grant season. Imahara, while not the original Before their stint at MythBusters, MythBusters, have been with the Belleci and Imahara worked on film Students, alumni drive TEDxWUSTL Discovery Channel show since its sec- enterprises including the second and ond and third seasons, respectively. third Matrix movies and the recent Their Saturday appearance before Star Wars trilogy. a nearly full Graham Chapel centered “We worked on the bad ones, the on anecdotes about on- and off-screen ones that sucked,” Belleci said. drama and explosions—fueled by 12 Over their ten seasons with the tons of assorted explosives—before show, they have tested everything from audience members came to the front whether many exotic meats taste like to ask questions. chicken to whether hardened cement Both said that little could have could be removed from a cement truck prepared them for the careers they cur- using explosives—Belleci’s favorite rently have in response to a number experiment. of students who asked for how they Imahara estimated that they are could get more involved in the show or completely shocked by their results the industry. about 10 percent of the time. “I don’t think any formal education The show’s 2013 season begins really prepared us for this crazy, crazy April 7. lifestyle,” Imahara said. “We have so many crazy myths Belleci, whose background is in coming out. We just have been—this effects, said his current career is an last week— testing zombie myths. extension of lifelong interests. Now I know a lot of you are like, “I didn’t realize it at the time, but ‘That’s not science,’ but we did set growing up I was training to be a some parameters…very scientific. But MythBuster,” Belleci said. “I was it’s so cool,” Belleci said. COURTESY OF ADITI GUPTA always super curious. I used to jump They will also be retesting a myth off my parents’ house onto old mat- from their seventh season, when they Chizom Okebugwu (center) and Jason Onugha (right) from Rhyme n Reason performed with Rhett Koonce (left) and Satcher Hsieh (not pictured) Saturday in the inaugural TEDxWUSTL conference. tresses, I almost set my parents’ house tested whether they could split a boat on fire a few times, I was almost in half with a snowplow blade. ALEX LEICHENGER “Cultivate the Intellect.” since the organization’s founding. arrested for making pipe bombs. So it While many of the myths they test NEWS EDITOR TED, which stands for Sophomore Elliot Louthen was like, I have been kind of blowing come from their producers, Imahara Technology, Entertainment and brought TEDx to the University, stuff up and doing crazy things ever explained the search process as “kind Seven speakers and one group of Design, began in 1984 as a confer- starting on the process last year. since I was little.” of like Mad Libs…exploding noun of musicians told stories of identity, ence to assemble great thinkers from “I looked into going to one of the “I joke about this pipe bomb, but I death.” social issues and pursuing ambi- those three fields to present their main TED conferences and real- almost got arrested, and I see the chief Junior Chelsea Greenbaum, presi- tions at the inaugural TEDxWUSTL ideas. TED now hosts two annual ized that they cost $6,500 to go, and of police from my town. Whenever I dent of EnCouncil, asked the hosts conference. conferences, and TEDTalks posted there’s only two a year and you have see him, he’s like, ‘Man, I’m so glad I what myths they would personally The theme of this year’s online have drawn millions of views. to be invited, so I’m like, there’s no didn’t arrest you…you’ve found your want to test if they could. Imahara TEDxWUSTL conference, presented Independently planned TEDx con- way I’m doing that,” Louthen said. calling,’” he added. said he would like to test the myth to a crowd capped at 200 people in ferences are among several of the Belleci went to film school at San Steinberg Auditorium Saturday, was other TED programs introduced SEE TEDX, PAGE 2 Francisco State University before SEE MYTHBUSTERS, 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. LOUIS, MO 63130-4899 [email protected] FAX 314.935.5938 2 STUDENT LIFE MICHAEL TABB | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | [email protected] MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013 MONDAY 4 TUESDAY 5 WEDNESDAY 6 CHANCE OF RAIN SNOW PARTLY CLOUDY theflipside 52 / 36 41 / 25 39 / 25 EVENT TEDX FROM PAGE 1 CALENDAR Two seats unclaimed He learned about TEDx students to take the same heed MONDAY 4 conferences hosted by schools of their inner voices when in upcoming SU races like Harvard, Stanford, USC making life decisions. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics NEWS STAFF for the Art or Architecture School and Northwestern. Scully had his own inner Spring 2013 Lecture Series SPSenateRING seats, leaving the positions for “All these great schools reckoning in 1974, when Umrath Hall, Umrath Lounge, 4:30 p.m. “Why are U.S. Prisions So Religious? The Most races in this week’s Student write-in candidates. have them, and they were hav- Formula One driver and Ascendance of Faith-Based Programs in an Union elections are uncontested,ELEC Below isT theI listO of allN theS candi- ing great members of their personal friend Helmuth Age of Punitive Incarceration” by Tanya with only one class council and two dates campaigning as of Sunday. communities share ideas,” Koinigg was decapitated in Erzen, Catherine Gould Chism Scholar in the Treasury seats contested. MAY Elections5 are online and happen on Louthen said.
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