STAFF EDITORIAL | BOYCOTT THE U.S. NEWS RANKINGS | SEE FORUM, PAGE 6 TUDENT IFE THE SINDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY L IN ST. LOUIS SINCE 1878 VOLUME 129, NO. 3 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2007 WWW.STUDLIFE.COM Graduate student slain Campus card expands to on- in summer tragedy campus stores BY PUNEET KOLLIPARA SENIOR STAFF REPORTER been successful in the book- store so far. The Washington Univer- “Since we’ve been letting sity student ID card’s campus people know, they’ve been card account underwent an activating their cards and expansion this summer and it’s been working really well,” now offers several new ser- said Jones. “From talking to vices to students. students, they’re very happy The campus card account, that they can use the card in which was created last year the store.” to allow students to pay for Students agree with Jones, laundry, vending items and especially because of the printing with their ID cards, card’s convenience for emer- now permits students to use gency and incidental expens- their ID’s to pay for items es. purchased at the University “I think that it’s good. It Bookstore, Bear Necessities, makes it so that you don’t the Edison Theatre Box Office have to carry as much money and the 560 Building. around,” said Jim Stevens, a According to Paul Schim- sophomore majoring in com- mele, assistant to the direc- puter science and engineer- tor of operations at Dining ing. “I could just put money Services and a chair of the on it and then just in case Campus Card Steering Com- I needed something and I mittee (CCSC), aside from didn’t have cash with me, I some minor technical glitch- could use it.” es and laundry machine mal- “I think that it will be real- functions, the initial expan- ly useful to not have to carry sion of the ID card and the cash and just be able to use creation of a campus card ac- it pretty much everywhere on count in the fall of 2006 was campus,” said Sophie Cohen, a resounding success. a junior in the College of Arts DAVID HARTSTEIN | STUDENT LIFE “What we wanted to do, and & Sciences. “I think the book- A memorial to Emmalee Terrell sits amidst students at work Tuesday afternoon in the law school’s Students Commons area. the big part of our mission, store will definitely be really was to improve campus life nice, because I know there and that’s where we’ve really are some times when I’m on made our difference,” said campus and I don’t have any BY PERRY STEIN what actually occurred. Student Commons room that In memory of their daugh- Schimmele. “For the most money and want to get some- CONTRIBUTING REPORTER “It’s a real tragedy,” said will be displayed through ter, Terrell’s parents estab- part I’d say it was a tremen- thing quickly.” Morris. “I feel pretty com- this week. Here, students can lished the Emmalee Terrell dously successful program.” The campus card account Remembered by friends fortable to say that this was learn more about the schol- Memorial Scholarship. The According to Schimmele, expanded to include West as genuine, charismatic and the result of a domestic issue arship and leave her and her scholarship will be awarded students now do more loads Campus in the fall of 2006 optimistic, 2007 Washington that took place earlier that family messages in a memory to a law student and will help of laundry and buy more and North Campus in Janu- University graduate Emmalee day.” book. promote diversity within the vending items than ever be- ary 2007. In late July 2007, Terrell was found dead along Terrell’s friends now re- “I never saw her in a bad school. fore, largely because of the two locations at the School of with her boyfriend on Mon- member her for all her good mood,” said Brandon Arrey, According to Law School convenience factor of not Medicine—the Lobby Ferrall day, August 8. Terrell was to qualities. a fi rst year law student at Associate Director of Devel- having to carry coins. Learning and Teaching Cen- attend the University’s law “In all my experience with Washington University who opment Christine Karsh, who At the Danforth Campus ter and the Sea Shell Café in school this fall. undergraduates I don’t think also met Terrell at FSAP. “She is organizing the funding for Bookstore, students have the McDonnell Science Build- Terrell and her boyfriend I met anyone who gave off was always upbeat.” the scholarship along with slowly begun to catch on to ing—also started to accept of about two years, Bobby Ca- the same vibes as she did,” Despite her tragic death, Vice President of the Black the new campus card fea- the campus card. pone, were discovered inside said Erica Jones, a fi rst year her friends will always re- Law Student Association ture. According to Schimmele, his home in St. John, Mo. Ac- law student at the University member Terrell for her posi- Deanna Atchley, the schol- “A lot of people intend- the CCSC is considering the cording to Captain J.R Mor- who met Terrell before their tive outlook on life. arship will be offi cially an- ing to pay with traditional addition of non-food items at ris, assistant chief of the St. freshman year at the Fresh- “She was a very attractive nounced in November and means…are still doing so,” Bear Mart to the list of items John Police Department, the man Summer Academic Pro- person who lit up the room will most likely be available said Rodney Jones, assistant that can be purchased with investigation of this appar- gram [FSAP]. “I never saw her when she walked in,” said for a student for the 2008-09 store director. “But we are the campus card account. ent murder-suicide is almost have a bad day. She was al- Anthony Grice, a friend who school year. trying to get the word out to Currently, those items can closed. Although the exact ways smiling. She would nev- worked with her at the law Donations to the Emmalee everyone in the most efficient only be purchased with cash details of the incident have er emphasize the negative.” fi rm Blackwell Sanders this Terrell Memorial Scholarsh ip way possible.” and not with meal plans. He not been released, Morris There is a temporary me- summer. “She had an imme- can be mailed to Washington Though Jones did not pro- did not provide an exact date said that the detectives have morial set up in Terrell’s diate impact when she met University School of Law, at- vide any numbers, he did say reached a solid conclusion of memory in the law school’s people.” tention Christine Karsh. that the campus card has See CARDS, page 3 Abortion in Missouri may be restricted to St. Louis BY ANDREA WINTER temporarily blocked the law’s that the new requirements in St. Louis, it would create not from Missouri. As a re- think it’s an important is- NEWS EDITOR enforcement until a hearing for an “ambulatory surgical undue hardship for many sult, many students are re- sue because it affects women takes place on September 10. center” are “medically un- women who do not have the luctant to get involved with throughout the state,” she Under a new state law, St. The Planned Parenthoods necessary” to the health of money or time to travel up to Missouri state politics. said. Louis could become the only of Kansas and Mid-Missouri women. six hours for an abortion. Hague said that it can be Although this law spe- place in the state of Missouri fi led a federal lawsuit last The Missouri legislature, One student organization, diffi cult for her to get club cifi cally pertains to abortion where abortions will be per- week in an attempt to strike the majority of which is pro- Students for Choice, plans to members engaged in these facilities in Missouri, Gee formed. down the new law arguing life, maintains that the law is directly address this issue types of issues because the stressed that this law should The law, Missouri House that the law infringes on the necessary to ensure the safe- next week. Senior Liz Hague, fi ght for reproductive rights not be a concern not only to Bill 1055, which was passed reproductive rights of wom- ty of abortions. the co-president of Students has moved from the national women in Missouri but all last spring, requires that the en. The prospect of this new for Choice, said that her club level to the state level. women. Planned Parenthoods in Co- “We believe very strongly law going into effect has been will have information sheets “It’s often diffi cult to get “Supporters of these re- lumbia and Kansas City, Mo. that the legislation has noth- on minds of some Washing- and letters available at the students to care about in Mis- strictions want to cloak them halt their abortion services ing to do with protecting ton University students. student Activities Fair for souri,” she said. with health and safety con- until costly renovations are women’s health and safety “Basically it’s just a sneaky students to contact represen- Ariella Kahn-Lang, a se- cerns yet these requirements made. Since the centers do but has everything to do with way to make abortions un- tatives. nior from Boston, Mass., said do nothing to make what is al- not have the funding to make limiting access to abortion,” available to most of the “My hope is that a judge that she was concerned about ready a safe procedure safer,” these changes, the only abor- said Alison Gee, the vice state,” said Saskia Shuman, will look at it and say that this new law even though she said.