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B-BALL WEEKEND CDs! IN YOUR INBOX The women’s and the men’s Cadenza today reviews basketball teams won and lost Sign up for StudLife’s e-mail edition and get the brand new Beirut and campus news in your inbox every weekday. respectively this weekend. Thursday albums. INSIDE PAGE 5 PAGE 8 STUDLIFE.COM Sthe independentTUDENT newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis LIFE since eighteen seventy-eight Vol. 130 No. 61 www.studlife.com Monday, February 23, 2009 SHOW ME YOUR MOVES! McCaskill discusses benefi ts of stimulus for universities Puneet Kollipara and Becca Krock News Staff Sen. Claire McCaskill and lo- cal university and business lead- ers expressed confi dence in the stimulus package’s ability to boost higher education and the St. Louis economy at a press conference Saturday at Washington Univer- sity. McCaskill, D-Mo., joined Chancellor Mark Wrighton and Larry Shapiro, dean of the School of Medicine, in the Whitaker Hall lobby. The group, which also includ- ed other local business and school MATT MITGANG | STUDENT LIFE leaders, pledged that the stimulus would increase research funding Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., MATT MITGANG | STUDENT LIFE for universities, help students pay speaks at a press conference in Whi- A member of WU Cypher break dances Friday night at Ursa’s. The night’s performances for Hip Hop Night drew large crowds. The evening also included for college and bring jobs to St. taker Hall on Saturday afternoon student musical performances by The Odd Couple and PARA.dox. More than 50 students were in attendance. Louis. about the expected impact of the “This bill will not cure the ill- economic recovery bill. ness, but it will stop the bleeding,” McCaskill told reporters. for all of us, so we’re interested Signed into law by President in expanding our commitment to Obama on Tuesday, the nearly new knowledge in science and en- $790 billion package includes gineering.” Painting program under $275 billion in tax cuts, invest- The University, Wrighton said, ment into alternative energy and would make good use of any stim- infrastructure and other spending ulus money it receives by hiring projects. new employees, attracting indus- The stimulus package includes try to the region, helping create criticism from past interns a $3 billion boost for the National new companies and preparing stu- Science Foundation and $10 bil- dents to enter the workforce. lion over two years for the Nation- The School of Medicine al- Dan Woznica al Institutes of Health. Both agen- ready receives $400 million in scheme where you focus on quick by the company,” Griesemer said. major who spent most of her in- cies award competitive research competitive research and contract Staff Reporter money and view people as a means “The company had no handle in ternship painting, said she agrees grants to universities. grants each year. Shapiro said the for getting what you want, so only my painters.” with Griesemer that the company McCaskill called the package University could stand to get “140 a few people succeed,” junior Sean Phelps, vice president of leaves interns feeling unprepared a “good compromise” between million incremental dollars over Several Washington University Dustin Griesemer said. CWP for Missouri and Kansas, and treats them unfairly. spending and tax cuts. The senator the next two years” if universities students who interned last sum- Griesemer claims that the com- said that the company provides “What I gained from this com- added that the package will save get the new funding in the same mer with College Works Painting, pany originally conducted a series several opportunities for interns to pany is a complete loss of inno- or create between 3 million and proportions as they do now. an organization that helps college of interviews that led him to be- train their newly hired painters. cence in this world and in people,” 4 million jobs, with “hundreds of The additional funding, Sha- students create independent paint- lieve he would be well supported In addition to being instructed Bhatia said. thousands” in Missouri. piro said, would not only boost ing businesses, are speaking out in managing his small business, by the interns, said Phelps, painters Specifically, Bhatia expressed Because the University is the research and enable greater capi- against the company, which they but he claims he was left feeling can be educated on-site by district concern over the company’s man- third-largest employer in the re- tal investments for research at the feel treated them unfairly. ill-equipped to succeed. managers or at training sessions agement of its interns’ incomes. gion, Wrighton said that any ad- University, but “would translate The students claim that College Griesemer said that he was ini- held at local Sherwin-Williams re- Bhatia said that even though ditional funding to the University into perhaps 350 to 500 new jobs Works Painting (CWP) led them tially told he would not have to do tail stores. the company took 40 percent of enables it to play a “critical role” at an average salary of $52,000 to set up small painting business- any painting himself. The com- Furthermore, said Phelps, in- the profits she earned, it took no both in short-term job creation and per year.” es under the impression that they pany told him all of his paint jobs terns rarely have to participate in fiscal responsibility if her jobs did the long-term goal of furthering Rob Wild, assistant to the would be given ample assistance could be done by painters whom he the painting itself. not generate profit. scientifi c progress. chancellor, told Student Life that from CWP. Those students said would hire and whom the company “For 90 percent of our interns, “They set it up so that if you “We feel that an investment University students involved in that as the summer progressed, would then train. Both of those, he they paint for a day or two to train fail, it’s not on the company, it’s in science is one that can provide research would benefi t from the they received less support than ex- said, turned out to be false claims. their painters and when they’re at 100 percent on you,” Bhatia said. an immediate—an immediate— stimulus’s funding, provided that pected. “It says in all the documenta- the paint trainings that we have, Griesemer said that few in- economic benefi t,” Wrighton said. faculty continue to compete for “Basically the program thrives tion that’s been given that the and that’s it,” Phelps said. “But an investment in science because it’s built on a pyramid painters are going to be trained Junior Rani Bhatia, a biology See PAINTING, page 7 will also hold long-term rewards See McCASKILL, page 7 WU scholarships, initiatives aim Student Union introduces to increase minority enrollment fall of 1987 and was originally just communication between students Brittany Farb equipment, tech committees awarded to black students. Four from differing cultural back- Staff Reporter years ago, however, the program grounds. changed to include students of all “It keeps those students sepa- Alan Liu ment purchases and keep an in- groups as a result of pressure from rated from other students,” he said. Staff Reporter ventory of equipment bought by Studies have shown that black the U.S. Department of Education. “It doesn’t really help in creating SU. It will also help maintain, male students often feel isolated, “Now, we primarily look for bonds among all students. It sort of store and organize equipment for marginalized and invisible on pre- students that highlight those things helps to foster a community within Under its recently passed Ex- use by student groups. The EC is dominantly white campuses. that were important to [Ervin’s] a group.” ecutive Committee Restructing also looking to establish a lending In order to counteract such ex- life,” McLeod said. Other universities are taking proposal, Student Union recently system for SU-recognized student periences, Washington University Aaron Hutcherson, a member similar strides to promote success added the Equipment and Student groups. has made strides to make minority of the Association of Black Stu- among minority students. In 2005, Technology Advisory Committees One of the most important tasks students and faculty members feel dents (ABS), feels that minority Ohio State University opened to help manage Student Union of the EC, according to Glaser, is welcome when they get to cam- students are welcome here as in- the Todd Anthony Bell National spending. keeping tabs on what equipment is pus. dividuals and as a group. But he Resource Center on the African Applications are currently be- located on campus, and then cen- “Recruitment of students and said that there is still room for im- American Male to inspire growth, ing accepted to fill out each of the tralizing that information. faculty members must be our pri- provement, specifically in terms of academic achievement and profes- new committees. “A lot of times, groups will ority,” said James McLeod, vice funding programs the black com- sional leadership through special- Since the restructuring propsal come to Treasury and ask for COURTESY OF PETER GLASER chancellor for students and dean munity feels are important and in ized programs. was passed, the new bodies have equipment that we either already of the College of Arts & Sciences. recruiting minorities to the school. These programs include ear- The newly formed Equipment each begun to set up operations own or other groups are asking “However, we can’t stop at recruit- “One thing I know [the Univer- ly-arrival freshmen orientation and prepare to work. for,” Glaser said.

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