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Jan. 17, 2012 VOL. 45; ISSUE 1364 TheWWW.THECURRENT-ONLINE.COM Current Last year’s tornadoes leave mark one year later By Cate Marquis, page 2 NIKKI VAHLE / THE CURRENT ALSO INSIDE ‘Tinker,Man Eating Tailor, SandwichSoldier, Spy’ MLK winner recognized Men’s basketball 77 ThomasNew art Alfredson installation reimagines feeds one the man spy 1312 Essay winner Andrew Smith interviewed 14 Tritons pulling ahead in the standings 2 | The Current | JANUARY 17, 2012 | WWW.THECURRENT-ONLINE.COM | | NEWS TheCurrent VOL. 45, ISSUE 1364 News WWW.THECURRENT-ONLINE.COM Yesteryear’s tornadoes still leaving marks in EDITORIAL Editor-in-Chief....................................................Matthew B. Poposky Managing Editor.........................................................Jeremy Zschau St. Louis; updates on damages and recoveries News Editor..................................................................Hali Flintrop Features Editor............................................................Ashley Atkins Sports Editor...............................................................Owen Shroyer A&E Editor...................................................................Cate Marquis Tornadoes of New Year’s Eve and Good Friday 2011 Opinions Editor....................................................Aladeen Klonowski Copy Editors......................Sara Novak, Caryn Rogers, Casey Rogers Staff Writers.................................................................David von still marking communities, birth rebuilding projects Nordheim, Yusef Roach, Eli Dains, Dan Spak, Joseph Grate, Dianne Ridgeway, Janaca Scherer, Sharon Pruitt, Leon Devance, Saad Sharieff CATE MARQUIS DESIGN A&E Editor Design Editor..............................................................Janaca Scherer Photo Editor....................................................................Nikki Vahle For the recent New are still recovering from ripped up on that street.” deal with that situation as Web Editor.....................................................................Yusef Roach Year the weather was 2011. “Everything is not When the tornado hit, well.” Staff Photographers.......................................Jarred Gastreich, Sarah surprisingly mild, but necessarily back to normal Perniciaro was at his job at The First Baptist Lowe, Jenny Meahan a year ago it was wild. but I think we are settling Bailey’s Chocolate Bar in Ferguson church at Royal Illustrators................................................................... Karlee Sellars Tornadoes on New Year’s into a new normal,” Pam Lafayette Square. “I was at and Florissant was hit. Eve ushered in 2011, a Hylton, assistant to the work but my parents were “We were blessed that BUSINESS rough weather year in City Manager of Ferguson, home. They were down in all the damage to the Business Manager.........................................................John Wallace Missouri. said. “There are some the basement. They said buildings were in the Advertising Director.......................................................John Wallace The National Weather businesses that are still they just barely got down education buildings. Distribution Manager......................................................Mavis Hollis Service reported that working on recovering, in the basement in time for Our worship center was Advisor......................................................................Charlotte Petty nine tornadoes touched and there are still some the tornado to come by,” virtually untouched by CONTACT US down in and around homes that are in that Perniciaro said. the tornado,” associate St. Louis around mid- repair process.” Homeowner’s insurance pastor Ron Beckner said. Address 388.MSC,.1.University.Blvd day on December 31, Royal Avenue, which helped. “We are pretty “Although it came through Saint Louis, MO 63121-4400 2010. Hardest hit was runs between North much re-built now... A on Good Friday, right Newsroom 314-516-5174 Business/Advertising 314-516-5316 Sunset Hills, where a Florissant Road and N. couple of months after the after we had had our Good Fax 314-516-6811 tornado rated EF-3 on the Elizabeth Avenue, was tornado, everything was Friday services here in the E-mail.(General) [email protected] National Weather Service’s one such street heavily fixed up,” Perniciaro said. church, we were able to E-mail.(Advertising) [email protected] Enhanced Fujita Scale damaged in the tornadoes. Not everyone in the have a candlelight service E-mail.(Employment.Inquiries) [email protected] destroyed several homes “There is one street called neighborhood recovered as on Easter Sunday morning E-mail.(Tips / What’s Current) [email protected] and killed one person. Royal where the tornado easily. “There are at least that was incredible,” Twitter umslcurrent On April 22, 2011, basically went right up one or two abandoned Beckner said. Facebook The Current Good Friday, an EF-4 the street and ripped most houses on the street, and Repairs are still tornado ripped through of the trees out of the a couple more in the underway and that total ABOUT The Current the St. Louis North front-yards. This was an neighborhood,” Perniciaro cost of repairs would come The Current is the student newspaper at the University of Missouri- County area. It tore area where the front yards said. to “around two and three- St. Louis, printing weekly through the fall and spring semesters on through Maryland probably had not seen the “We had 700 homes quarters million dollars.” Mondays. Advertising rates are available upon request; terms, condi- Heights, Bridgeton, light of day in fifty years. that were damaged,” “A lot of those houses tions and restrictions apply. The Current, financed in part by student Lambert St. Louis Suddenly, all that tree Hylton said of Ferguson (on Royal) have been activities fees, is not an official publication of UM-St. Louis. International Airport and canopy they were used as a whole. “We still have restored and are being put The University is not responsible for the content of The Current and/ or its policies. All materials contained in each printed and online is- Ferguson, a community to is now gone, so they about 93 homes that back together, with some sue are property of The Current and may not be reprinted, reused, or near the University of are struggling with a new are in the repair phase. areas that are a little slower reproduced without the prior, expressed and written consent of The Missouri-St. Louis campus. normal.” The city is tracking and to recover and homes that Current. Despite widespread “I live on Royal. The trying to encourage the have been abandoned,” The Current accepts letters to the editor. All letters should be brief, property destruction from tornado pretty much tore restoration of those homes. said Hylton. “But I think and those not exceeding 250 words will be given preference. The Cur- the Good Friday tornado, down one side of that However, some of them, that slowly but surely the rent edits letters for clarity and length, not for dialect, correctness, in- no one was killed. street,” Mark Perniciaro the homeowners did walk whole community is on tent or grammar. All letters must be signed and must include a daytime Many communities said. “A lot of houses were away, so we do have to the way to recovery.” phone number and, where applicable, student number. The Editor-in- Chief reserves the right to respond to and to deny any letters. WEATHER AFFILIATIONS MON. 59 TUES. 36 WED. 34 THURS. 45 FRI. 52 SAT. 54 SUN. 60 30 18 27 30 36 43 38 NEWS | | WWW.THECURRENT-ONLINE.COM | JANUARY 17, 2012 | The Current | 3 Mitt Romney and President Barack ObamaThe win UNDERCURRENT Iowa caucus Traditionally unconventional caucus attendees’ voices are heard in end results DIANNE RIDGEWAY Staff Writer Winning the first round percent of the vote and refer to themselves as the cally, allowing time to per- of Iowa to the other,” said the caucus. “The whole of the presidential nomina- candidate Jon Huntsman “99 percent” based on the suade the neighbors before American political blog thing that makes Iowa im- tions in Iowa last week, got .6 percent of the vote. statistic that one percent of casting votes. Republicans DailyKOS. The party later portant is the media that it President Barack Obama Also joining the Iowa Americans own the major- typically write their votes released a statement chang- generates for the winner,” and Republican frontrun- caucus this year was ity of wealth, leaving the on blank pieces of paper, ing their position, deciding said David Yepsen, politi- ners Mitt Romney and the group Occupy Iowa remaining 99 percent in then submit them. to count and report the cal reporter, Des Moines Rick Santorum had an Caucus. They visited need. Events aired on the The controversy re- 136 votes. Register. “It’s the cover of eventful and controversial Democratic offices, Barack cable channel C-SPAN