University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (2010s) Student Newspapers 10-1-2012 Current, October 01, 2012 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: http://irl.umsl.edu/current2010s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, October 01, 2012" (2012). Current (2010s). 117. http://irl.umsl.edu/current2010s/117 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (2010s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. October 1, 2012 Vol. 46 Issue 1386 News 3 A&E 6 Features 8 Opinions 10 Comics 12 Mon High: 67 Low: 54 Tue High: 69 Low: 54 Wed Homecoming Step Show kicks off Homecoming Week Photo by Ahmad AlJuryyed/The Current UMSL steps it up for Homecoming ANYA GLUSHKO for UMSL’s Homecoming Spirit Week. This year’s Features Editor “…The energy in the building was almost show was a success, with attendance nearly High: 76 October’s Homecoming Week brings University of exceeding the auditorium’s capacity at about Low: 58 Missouri–St. Louis’s traditions and rituals to life like fire… We have been tired from practice 500 attendees. on campus. The first event to kick off “The show is a very interesting experience,” Homecoming Week is Associated Black because we worked very hard for the whole Cecil Clay, junior, public relations, said. Thu Collegians’ annual Step Show. month, but as soon as we got on a stage there “Watching videos on YouTube is way different and The Step Show is a significant part of African is not as interactive.” American culture. was a rush of adrenaline.” — Cohill There were six teams of Associated Black “It was a culture-based experience,” Candice Collegians competitors. Each step team brought Stevenson, sophomore, mathematics, said. Alpha Phi Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta. Lindenwood, St. Louis University, Washington its own style and performed with energy. “Every generation adds their own twist to it. It’s Local St. Louis-wide chapters of fraternities University and others. “It was flashy, but it was fun and entertaining at never the same.” and sororities competed for $1000 for first “Oh, get loud, get loud,” shouted someone the same time,” Karlyne Killebrew, sophomore, High: 78 UMSL’s Associated Black Collegians step team place, $500 for second place and a trophy from the crowd in the J.C. Penney Conference English, and one of the Associated Black was in charge of the event, which featured the for third place. Winners also got bragging rights, Center auditorium, which was filled withCollegians steppers, said. “The audience Low: 48 D-9 (otherwise known as the divine nine), of course. pumped-up viewers on Thursday night. shouted and cheered for us. They snickered at historically black fraternities and sororities. Presenters gave shout-outs to the schools that The seventh annual Associated Black Collegians our mistakes, but they were very supportive for Fri Competing teams included Kappa Alpha Psi, attended the Step Show: Harris-Stowe, Homecoming Step Show set the pace of events all of the teams.” (continued on page 9) Improvised Shakespeare makes fun CATE MARQUIS setting for the comedy. The latter is a graduate of Webster University’s characters would be created on the spot. “If you High: 61 Editor-in-Chief The five men of the Improvised Shakespeare Conservatory of Theater Arts, while Bland is a ever wonder where the story is going, so do we,” Low: 45 Last November, the Improvised Shakespeare Company appeared onstage before the two- two-time Jeopardy winner. Swen said. Company filled the Blanche M. Touhill Performing thirds-full house on Friday dressed in laced-front Swen noted that it would be the play’s world The suggested title for the Sept. 28 show was Arts Center’s E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee puffy shirts, black knee pants and brightly- premiere - and its final performance - all in“Chastity Belts and Beards.” The troupe withdrew Sat Theater with uproarious laughter with their colored stockings that suggested Elizabethan one evening. He promised that the play and the briefly from the(continued on page 6) improvised Shakespeare-style plays based on a styles while also looking a bit improvised. title suggested by the audience. Blaine Swen, the troupe’s creator and director, This year the popular comedy improv troupe explained the basic premise of the evening’s returned for a three-show run, one on Sept. 28 entertainment: Using only a suggestion from and two on Sept. 29. The theater space was the audience, the troupe would create an entirely set up cabaret- improvised play in High: 60 style, with small Using only a suggestion the style of William Low: 42 round tables in the from the audience, the Shakespeare using space in front of the language of the stage and the troupe would create an the Bard. The Sun box seating and entirely improvised play troupe bowed traditional seating heads in unison in the rest of in the style of William at the mention the theater. Small Shakespeare using the of the playwright, electric candles setting the tongue- flickered on tables language of the Bard. in-cheek tone for draped with dark red tablecloths as waiters in the evening. High: 61 vests circulated among the patrons taking drink Besides Swen, the players were Joey Bland, Brendan Dowling, Josh Logan and Jake Schneider. Low: 42 orders. The club-like atmosphere was the perfect Improvised Shakespear delivered plenty of laughs with improv play Photo by Ari Scott 2 UMSL’s independent student news October 1, 2012 thecurrent-online.com Your weekly calendar of campus events. “What’s Current” is a free service for Volume 46, Issue 1386 student organizations. Submissions must be turned in by 5 p.m. the Thursday before publication; first-come, first-served. Listings may be edited for length www.thecurrent-online.com What’s Current and style. E-mail event listings to [email protected], with the subject “What’s Current.” No phone or written submissions. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 Catholic Volunteer Network speaker Editorial Staff Learn more about volunteer organizations that serve kids, the homeless or Homecoming Kickoff Fair others, or involve travel, groups that need you for the summer or for a year, at Homecoming officially begins with our kickoff fair, 11a.m. - 2 p.m. on Thomas the Catholic Newman Center, 5 - 6 p.m. For information, contact Rachelle Jefferson Library Lawn. Enjoy food, games, activities and more to start off Editor in Chief Cate Marquis Simon at 314-385-3455. Managing Editor Sharon Pruitt Homecoming week with a fun-filled day celebrating with UMSL students, News Editor Sharon Pruitt faculty and staff. For information, contact the Homecoming Steering THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 Committee at 314-516-5291. Features Editor Anya Glushko National Student Day Sports Editor Leon Devance Monday Noon Series: “The Inverted Forest” Celebrate National Student Day at campus bookstore, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. with A&E Editor David Von Nordheim book reading refreshments and 25% discount on UMSL clothing and gifts. Winner of Opinions Editor Hali Flintrop John Dalton, associate professor of English, reads from and discusses his National Student Day contest, which recognizes student community Copy Editors Sara Novak, Caryn Rogers, new novel, “The Inverted Forest,” a story of unlikely devotion and sudden involvement, will be announced. For information, contact Stephanie Eaton at Casey Rogers crisis at an isolated Missouri summer camp, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. in J. C. Penney 314-516-5765. Staff Writers Matt Poposky, MaddieHarned, Albert Conference Center. “The Inverted Forest” was chosen by the Wall Street Eastern District Court of Appeals Nall, John Hoffman, Kathryn Bewig, Journal Book Lover and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as a best novel of the year. The Eastern District Court of Appeals travels the state of Missouri to give Dalton directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at UMSL. For information, Blair Conner, Garret King students and the general public a chance to witness court proceedings. Court contact Karen Lucas at 314-516-5698. in session 10 a.m. - noon in J.C. Penney Summit. For information, contact Design Staff “Greeks, Mathematics, and Neuroscience” Center Karen Pierre at 314-516-5823. for International Studies talk and reception In ancient Greece there were two opposing views about the human mind: Internships 101 Workshop provides an introduction to internships and explains the internship Design Editor Christian Kessler Plato thought that every human being possesses a priori knowledge, whereas search process, 2 - 3 p.m. at Career Services, 278 MSC. Register for Photo Editor Ahmad Aljuryyed Aristotle emphasized that the mind is a ‘tabula rasa’ which is inscribed workshop at careers.umsl.edu. For information, contact Rachel Boehlow Web Editor Christian Kessler through experience. Athanassios Fokas, MD/PhD in applied mathematics, at 314-516-5317. Staff Photographers Yeseul Park, Leon Devance, California Institute of Technology, will discuss philosophical mathematics Jenny Lin theories of the ancient Greeks, within the context of modern neuroscience. Homecoming activities Illustrators/Cartoonists Lee Sellars, Zach McDaniel, Reception 7 p.m., lecture 7:30 p.m. in Century Room A of Millennium Student A whole day of Homecoming activities, including Greek vs. Roman Volleyball Jason Williams, John Clifton, Center. For information, contact Bob Ell at 314-516-7299. (fraternities and sororities vs all others, 3 - 5 p.m. at Oak Hall volleyball court), Christian Kessler Chili Supper (chili and hotdogs, right after volleyball at Oak Hall, 5 - 6:30 Homecoming Outdoor Movie: “Brave” p.m.) and Lip Sync Competition (7 - 9 p.m. at MSC Pilot House).