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For more information, please contact [email protected]. / Medical News: WUSTL docs help Hoop dreams: Women's, men's Washington People: Shimabukuro keep Cinderella teams' dreams alive hoops finish second, third nationally passes along her love of WUSTL 8 March 22, 2007 record.wustl.edu Washington University in St Louis Caves threatened by county development BY TONY FITZPATRICK loss of caves is not on anyone's radar screen, and I think it Iissouri's caves are leg- should be." endary, having served as Criss conducted the study Mibeer storage sites, speak- with collaborators Jennifer Lipp- easies, outlaw hideouts and the mann, a graduate student in setting for some of Mark Twain's earth and planetary sciences; most memorable scenes. Everett Criss, Robert Criss' son; But a new study shows two and G.R. Osburn, laboratory ad- centuries of development have ministrator in earth and plane- eliminated or destroyed many tary sciences. The study appears caves in St. Louis County. as the sole entry in the journal "Caves have been discarded by Missouri Speleology (Vol. 45, No. developers with the same impuni- 1,2007). ty as trees," said Robert E. Criss, The researchers determined Ph.D., professor of earth and the condition of most of the planetary sciences in Arts & Sci- county's 127 known caves, which ences and co-author of the study. are a feature of karst terrain. "Things are developing so rapidly They found that 24 caves have in St. Louis County and elsewhere been lost to or modified by re- that we should try a little harder cent development and suburban to protect our natural habitat. expansion. That number includes There is no law in Missouri to 16 obliterated caves or entrances, protect caves on private land, and three that likely have been de- G.R. Osburn maps Merrell Cave in St. Louis County. Osburn is part of a team of researchers who found we don't seem to have any proto- stroyed and five that have been the area's 127 known caves in poor shape due to suburban sprawl and development. col as to what is acceptable. The See Caves, Page 6 Anti-immigration ordinances voided in law clinic victory African-American Faculty and students in the a fair-housing agency. ness permits for five years for any That law also was chal- theater: Keeping School of Law's Civil Rights "Judge Wallace is 100 percent business that "aids and abets ille- lenged in court, and the judge and Community Justice Clinic correct in her ruling," said Karen gal aliens or illegal immigration." ordered another injunction. the stage lights on earned an important victory of L. Tokarz, J.D., LL.M, professor of The bill also prohibited illegal In the lawsuit seeking to national significance in their law and executive director of the aliens from leasing or renting void both ordinances, those fight against the City of Valley Clinical Education and Alterna- property and levied a $500 fine bringing suit claimed the ordi- BY LIAM OTTEN Park's ordinances aimed at tive Dispute Resolution programs, for violation, as well as declaring nances subjected landlords and immigrants. who is among the counsel of the city English-only. businesses to penalties that Throughout the 1960s and In a ruling March 12, St. record. "The anti-immigration When a lawsuit challenging state and federal law do not 1970s, African-American actors, Louis County Circuit Judge ordinances enacted by Valley Park the ordinance was filed Sept. 22 allow and promoted discrimi- writers and directors inspired by Barbara W. Wallace voided two are clearly illegal under Missouri in St. Louis County Circuit nation. They also argued that the Black Arts Movements formed ordinances enacted by Valley state law." Court, the judge ordered an in- immigration law is a matter re- dozens of regional theaters in Park that forbid employers to The city's ordinance made na- junction to stop the city from en- served for the U.S. Congress cities around the country. hire and landlords to rent tional headlines when the Board forcing the ordinance. and federal law. Yet in recent years, several lead- property to "illegal aliens." of Aldermen of Valley Park — a The next day, the Board of Al- The court sided with the ing African-American companies Working with several local southwest St. Louis County town dermen modified the law but still plaintiffs, holding that the or- — such as the Freedom Theatre in and national lawyers, the clinic of fewer than 7,500 people — made it illegal for business own- dinances are "void in their en- Philadelphia, the Jomandi Theatre represented a group of land- passed it July 17, 2006. The word- ers and landlords to hire or rent tirety" in that they exceed the in Atlanta and lords and business owners and ing called for the denial of busi- to illegal aliens. See Decision, Page 6 the Crossroads Theater Compa- ny in New University warns stagnant Brunswick, N.J. — have been biomedical funding may forced to cut staff, cancel sea- stall research progress sons or close BY CAROLINE ARBANAS their doors en- tirely. Himes Washington University joined a consor- "We've lost a tium of leading U.S. scientific and half-dozen of the larger compa- medical institutions March 19 to warn the nies," said Ron Himes, founder U.S. Congress that persistent flat funding and producing director of The St. of biomedical research could thwart ad- Louis Black Repertory Company, vances in treatments for such diseases known as The Black Rep, and the as cancer and Alzheimer's. Henry E. Hampton Jr. Artist-in- Following the Senate Residence in the Performing Arts ^^^^ Appropriations Labor- Department in Arts & Sciences. ^ ^ HHS Committee hear- "Nobody seems to quite under- ^ ing on funding for the stand why." National Institutes of The subject is the topic of a se- Health (NIH), WUSTL ries of lectures and panel discus- and the eight other in- sions sponsored by The Black Rep rstitutions issued a report and WUSTL March 24-April 12. at a Capitol Hill press Collectively titled "Beyond August: - conference on funding The State of African-American Stanley for U.S. medical re- Theater," the series coincides with search. a new production of playwright The 21 -page report warns that multiple What S the WORD? A recent temporary installation by Kiyoto Koseki, a senior sculp- August Wilson's "Gem of the years of stagnant budgets for the NIH has ture major in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, greeted drivers and pedestri- Ocean," which debuts at The Black ans on Skinker Boulevard outside the College of Art's Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall. hindered scientific progress, resulting in Rep March 28. The piece, constructed of plywood and paint and standing about 6 feet high, explored the promising research being halted in mid- Himes said some companies connections between language and artistic form as well as the use of unconventional ven- have been unable to build corpo- stream, young investigators leaving careers ues. "While the constructed word may just be a representation of itself, the various mean- rate support and do major fund in science and an undermining of U.S. ings it can assume — the concept of the word, any word, 'The Word' or mutual agreement global leadership in biomedical research. — demonstrate a plasticity of language that challenges the authority and accuracy of aca- raising and that reduced federal, The group says Congress needs to pro- demic nomenclature and definitions," Koseki said. state and local funding have hurt. See Funding, Page 6 See Theater, Page 6 ^> 2 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Azariadis given Mallinckrodt distinguished professorship Costas Azariadis, Ph.D., profes- the Mallinckrodt legacy. Azariadis sor of economics in Arts & joins William F. Tate, Ph.D., pro- Sciences, has been named fessor and chair of education in an Edward Mallinckrodt Distin- Arts & Sciences, and Murray L. guished University Professor, Weidenbaum, Ph.D., professor of Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton economics and namesake of the announced. Weidenbaum Center on the Econ- A formal installation ceremony omy, Government, and Public was held Feb. 1 in Holmes Lounge. Policy, both in Arts & Sciences, The Edward Mallinckrodt Dis- with the title. tinguished University Professorships "Costas Azariadis' distinguished honor Edward Mallinckrodt and his scholarship and expertise in son, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. macroeconomics have already "Both father and son were suc- contributed significantly to our cessful chemists, prominent busi- Department of Economics," said nessmen and generous philanthro- Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive pists supporting higher education," vice chancellor, dean of Arts & Sci- Wrighton said. "The Mallinckrodt ences and the Barbara and David family's philanthropic interest Thomas Distinguished Professor in Washington University has in Arts & Sciences. "His enthusi- spanned many decades, and both asm and collegiality are great addi- men have given considerable time, tions to Arts & Sciences." talent and gifts to help make our Azariadis works on multiple institution as great as it is today." equilibria and stabilization policy, Wrighton also noted that both men the dynamics of economic devel- served on the University's Board of opment and the role of imperfect Trustees.