INTERACTIVE BUDGET INTERACTIVE ONLINE NORMAL NEXT TO 6 CADENZA, PAGE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES 7 SCENE, PAGE the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 Monday, April 18, 2011 Vol. 132, No. 73 www.studlife.com Washington University in St. Louis DISSECTING THE BUDGET Holi turnout hindered Proposal would increase senior class council funding, encourage major speaker, put AC funding up in the air by inclement weather SENIOR CLASSASS COCOUNCIL TOTALAL BUDGET 37,000.00 2,375,820.00 50,000.00 ACC 2,484,907.42 25,000.00 not funded next year* CO-PROGRAMMING (NEW NEXT YEAR) 15,000.00 This year 235,000.00 Next year * might change over the summer 326,000.00 JOHN HERGENROEDER | STUDENT LIFE SALARIES Washington University students throw water balloons at each other as part of Holi, a traditional Hindu festival. About 150 students participated. MICHELLE MERLIN funds. the coming year, Katz has allot- SADIE SMECK Holi celebration in India this & MICHAEL TABB While the new budget closely ted $115,000 in a separate, large NEWS EDITOR year was March 20. NEWS EDITORS follows last year’s, there are a speaker appeal account. While While it usually draws hun- number of notable changes. Katz envisions this funding Cold and windy weather on dreds of students, this year’s The proposed Student Union as going toward one speaker, Saturday afternoon dampened attendance fluctuated around budget for 2011-2012 will be pre- Potential elimination of Athletic Treasury will be able to put this the turnout at Holi, the annual 150 as students came and left sented to Senate and Treasury on Complex funding toward multiple speakers or return water balloon battle held on the during the roughly forty-minute Wednesday for a vote. The joint The current proposed budget the money to the general appeals Swamp. event. SU session will be held in Simon does not include funding for the account if it wishes to spend the The event, which was origi- “I had a lot of friends that were Hall at 9 p.m. and will be open to Athletic Complex. Last year, SU money otherwise. nally scheduled for Friday planning on going and ended up all students. paid $25,000 for students to use This fund is intended to encour- afternoon, was postponed to not going; I had some friends The budget is taken from the the AC for free. If SU does not age Treasury representatives to Saturday because of a county- that went and then left early. It Student Activity Fee, an under- pay for the AC next year, stu- fund one major speaker. Treasury wide tornado watch. was not a particularly enjoyable graduate fee equal to 1 percent dents will likely have to pay $45 to denied a request of over $100,000 Ashoka puts on the event to temperature,” sophomore Allie of tuition. The proposed budget use the cardio room. The weight to finance a talk given by Bill celebrate the traditional Hindu amounts to $2,484,907, compared room and other facilities will still Maher. festival. The actual date of the SEE HOLI, PAGE 2 to $2,375,820 for 2010-2011. be available to students free of The change is due to the tuition charge. Class Councils increase announced earlier this According to Katz, SU may Katz’s version of the budget year and assumes an undergradu- choose to allocate money for the allocates $50,000 to the senior Students to construct ate population of 6,050—which AC over the summer, using unused class council, up from $37,000 doesn’t include students who go funds from last year. Katz will be this year. Because the senior class abroad. working to gather student input council’s budget was cut down outdoor recreation area Junior Cody Katz, vice presi- before making this final decision. from $50,000 two years ago, every dent of finance, compiled the senior class council has appealed budget after meeting with student Large Speaker Appeal Fund for executive funds to help pay for at elementary school group leaders and administra- To encourage SU Treasury tors to determine how to allocate to fund one major speaker for SEE BUDGET, PAGE 2 CHLOE ROSENBERG designing the project this spring. WU baseball shatters steals record SENIOR NEWS EDITOR Their original plan was to build a garden and greenhouse in the Architecture students are cur- back of the school. in win over Principia College rently working on a project to Half of the group’s $15,000 affect practical change in the St. budget came as a grant from ALEX DROPKIN The Bears now have a total of pushing his season record to 4-1, Louis community. the Skandalaris Center, and an ASSOCIATE EDITOR 106 swipes this season with 10 Berman struggled early. The Washington University anonymous donor provided the games remaining on the sched- Principia jumped ahead in Design Build Studio is landscap- rest of the money. The Washington University ule, and they have eclipsed the the first inning on a two-RBI ing the grounds surrounding The group decided to expand baseball team (24-13, 3-3) ‘stole’ team’s previous single-season double, and then scored again on Patrick Henry Downtown on its designs following dona- a victory over Principia College record of 93. a throwing error. The Panthers Academy, a St. Louis elementary tions of construction resources. on Saturday, breaking a school “We try to play aggressive in managed four hits in the first, school. The group then traveled down- record in the process. all aspects of the game. We try but were held to just five through The participating students town to ask students what they Freshman Kyle Billig had five to be aggressive when we’re the rest of the game. hope to provide the children would like to see in their school’s steals as the Bears ran rampant pitching, we try to be aggressive “A big part of it was get- attending the academy with an backyard and formulated a multi- against the Panthers. The team on the bases and we try to be ting behind hitters and having open outdoor recreational area part plan for their design. stole a season-high 15 bases in a aggressive at the plate,” Duncan to throw them good pitches for the next school year. The final design includes the 14-4 mercy-rule win. said. “It is an attitude that we that were easy to hit,” Berman “We decided it needed to be a original garden, as well as an “I’ve scouted [Principia] and have, and we’ve been able to turn said. “I figured it out; it was a little more than just a garden— outdoor classroom, a large out- kind of knew what to expect that attitude into a lot of runs. mechanics thing for me, sort of right now…they play on asphalt door field for playing sports and and I knew we were going to be [Saturday’s game] was a great a timing thing, but I struggled and have a very limited recess an active play area that includes able to take advantage of that example of it, because we stole because I couldn’t get ahead of because they have no place to a natural playground. matchup with our speed,” head more bases than we have all year guys, which is something that play,” said senior David Adkin, “The community has been coach Steve Duncan said. “There in any single game.” has been happening over the last one of the architecture students extremely receptive in donating aren’t many catchers that we’ve Sophomore Taylor Berman couple [games].” working on the project. a lot more than we would have played against that can shut took the mound, pitching a The Bears got two back in the The group, consisting of ever thought was possible, and our running game down; we’ve seven-inning complete game bottom of the first. After Billig architecture students and several we can do more than we would played against two or three that while giving up four runs, two was hit by a pitch to leadoff the students in the College of Arts & have ever thought we could do. have, but for the most part, we of which were earned, and nine Sciences, started to look into the DESIGN know we can run on anybody.” hits. Though he got the win, SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 5 project last semester and began SEE , PAGE 2 CONTACT BY POST CONTACT BY EMAIL CONTACT BY PHONE ONE BROOKINGS DRIVE #10323 [email protected] NEWSROOM 314.2335.5995 #330 DANFORTH UNIVERSITY CENTER [email protected] ADVERTISING 314.2335.6713 ST. LOUIS, MO 233130-482323 [email protected] FAX 314.2335.5938 2 STUDENT LIFE MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2011 theflipside MONDAY 18 MONDAY 18 TUESDAY 19 SUNNY 73 / 59 Immunology Research Seminar Series Tuesday Tea @ 3 Eric P. 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