TODAY’s WEATHER LIFE SPORTS A look at what to do in Check out where Vanderbilt ranks Nashville this weekend in latest SEC power rankings SEE PAGE 4 SEE PAGE 5 Sunny, 85 / 59 THE VANDERBILT HUSTLER THE VOICE OF VANDERBILT SINCE 1888 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 WWW .INSIDEVANDY.COM 122ND YEAR, NO. 42 CAMPUS SPEAKERS CAMPUS SPEAKERS Author, satirist Mortenson to speak on shares his campus Oct. 19 KYLE BLAINE experiences, News Editor Best-selling author and satirist Christopher Buckley will be attending a book signing on Oct. 19 at the Vanderbilt advice with Bookstore from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Buckley will lecture in the Student Life Center Ballroom at 7 p.m. students Buckley achieved critical acclaim with his novels “Supreme Courtship” and “Thank You for Smoking,” the latter of which was made into a film starring Aaron Eckhart CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY and Katie Holmes. Buckley also served as chief speechwriter to Vice President George H.W. KENNETH KHOO/ The Vanderbilt Hustler Bush, and has written for a Greg Mortenson, author of “Three Cups of Tea,” addresses a crowd at Langford Auditorium on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. number of national newspapers GETTING and magazines including The THE TICKET New York Times and The Wall JENNIFER GRASCH high school or college. Not a single one. It educating women,” said senior Hei Street Journal. • Tickets are available now Staff Writer certainly illustrates a change.” Choughuri. “My mom is the one who This is the first event sponsored and must be picked up In 1996, Mortenson founded the Central taught me all about Islam. I still can’t win a by the Vanderbilt University in advance at Sarratt Author and activist Greg Mortenson Asia Institute. The agency now oversees debate with her.” Speakers Committee this year. Student Center. lectured twice at Vanderbilt on Wednesday: more than 165 schools and has educated Sophomore Sami Safiullah agreed. “For over a year, our once exclusively to first-year students and over 64,000 students. In 2001, less than “Women are the foundation of the committee has been talking • Admission is free to once to upperclassmen and the community. 800,000 students were enrolled in school society. They raise the children, and they about bringing Chris Buckley Vanderbilt students with The award-winning humanitarian also in Afghanistan. By June 2010, that number still have control,” Safiullah said. to speak,” said Speakers valid ID. met with a smaller group of students at the had risen to almost nine million students, Although the CAI has been successful Committee Co-Chairman Ethel Community Partnership House and hosted including 2.8 million girls, the increase is in increasing educational opportunities Mickey in the press release for • Only one free ticket per a dinner at the dean of the Commons’ largely due to CAI’s work in the region. for girls, one of the organization’s main the event. “We’re very excited to Vanderbilt ID. residence, providing opportunities for Of the 64,000 students educated in CAI principles holds that local governments be bringing one of the most well- more intimate discussion. schools, nearly 46,000 are girls. Emphasis have the responsibility to educate their known and funniest novelists in • Tickets will be available Mortenson is the author of “Three Cups on female education is the cornerstone of citizens. America to campus.” to the general public of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Mortenson’s philanthropic efforts. “Right now, we are doing a lot of work with Buckley’s “Losing Mum and through Ticketmaster at Peace … One School at a Time,” which was “Education has to be our top national the governments to petition them to take Pup: A Memoir” documents the 615-255-9600 or www. the first annual Commons Reading book and international priority, including over the schools,” Mortenson said. “These 11 months between 2007 and ticketmaster.com. Gen- given to all members of the first-year class education for girls,” Mortenson said. “If schools are not our schools; they should be 2008 during which he coped eral admission tickets are over the summer. we don’t educate girls, communities will supported by the local communities.” with the passing of his father $10. Mortenson opened his lecture on never, never change.” In closing, Mortenson offered advice to and well-known conservative, Wednesday by expressing how impressed According to Mortenson, educating students who are drawn to philanthropic William F. Buckley, and his • Student tickets are $5 for he was with Vanderbilt students. women leads to decreased infant mortality work. mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley. non-Vanderbilt students “Earlier today, I met with about a dozen rates, decreased birth rates and increased “If you want to go out into the world and “Students are going to love with valid school or student leaders,” Mortenson said. “When quality of life through better health and do humanitarian work, first make yourself Buckley. He’s a great writer, he’s university identification. I asked how many of them were involved sanitation in the homes. a strong person — mentally, physically, very funny, and he also tells These tickets are also in community service, every single one Vanderbilt students, both female and academically — and then go out into the great stories about his parents, available at the Sarratt raised their hand. Then I asked the older male, supported Mortenson’s somewhat world. You have to make yourself strong who defined the conservative Student Center box office adults in the room how many of us had unusual take on education. because it’s difficult work,” Mortenson moment in our country for a and Ticketmaster outlets. been involved in community service in “I definitely agree with his views on said. ■ generation,” Mickey said. ■ CAMPUS NEWS DREAM fails to pass in U.S. Senate KYLE BLAINE act would allow undocumented productive members of society,” undocumented immigrants News Editor immigrants to attend institutions said senior and Vanderbilt are graduating from U.S. high of higher education by providing Student for Nonviolence Rep. schools each year without The 2011 defense conditional permanent Benjamin Eagles. the ability to further their authorization bill, which residency to illegal aliens up to The “opportunity” Eagles refers education. included the provisions of the age of 35. to applies specifically to high “We are wasting away the Development, Relief and Supporters of the bill school graduates of good moral generations while we wait for Education for Alien Minors on campus emphasize the character who were brought this bill to pass,” Post said. (DREAM) Act, failed to pass difference it will make in the to the U.S. as minors and have Critics say there are serious through the Senate Tuesday, lives of high school students who lived in the States continuously problems with the bill, pointing with a vote of 56 to 43. do not have the opportunity to for at least five years prior to the to the potential for fraudulent The DREAM Act sparked pursue a college degree under bill’s enactment. claims and a chain amnesty debate on campus last week current legislation. According to organizer for effect, in which eligible students when Vanderbilt Student “To me, the bill is about giving Tennessee Immigrant and would then be able to petition Government tabled a resolution opportunity to undocumented Refugee Rights Coalition for the green cards of relatives. CHRIS HONIBALL/ The Vanderbilt Hustler endorsing the legislation. The immigrants so they can be (TIRRC) Amelia Post, 70,000 Please see DREAM, page 2 Students gathered in Sarratt 112 on Sept. 20 for “Dream University,” sponsored by the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Coalition. Over 35,000 unique visitors and hundreds of thousands of ad impressions each month. 2 Friday, September 24, 2010 THE VANDERBILT HUSTLER www.InsideVandy.com DORM ROOM SPOTLIGHT CRAWFORD HOUSE 420 Photo of the week: “Step Afrika!” wows TYLER BITTNER/ The Vanderbilt Hustler Crawford House President and freshman David Pack and his roommate, freshman Jack Kuhlenschmidt, show of their dorm room named the “Kuhlenschmidt-Pack sanctuary.” TYLER BITTNER “for reminiscing the craziest three days of our lives,” Staff Writer Pack said. Rounding out the room is the gaming trifecta When not busy representing his contingents, — a PS3, Xbox 360 and a “forest green N64,” which, Crawford House President freshman David Pack according to Pack, is used for “Super Smash Bros. and his roommate, freshman Jack Kuhlenschmidt, only.” Pack also proudly displays his homemade, live in an atmosphere of “Fung Shui” in room 420. “hand-crafted” sunglass holder. According to Kuhlenschmidt, the vibe is “not really However, the room 420’s “most essential” objects a material thing, (but) something you feel when you are not necessarily its most obvious. For Pack, his walk in the door.” most essential possession is his Aveeno Active LIWEI JIANG/ The Vanderbilt Hustler Crucial to the “positive energy” of the Naturals Daily Moisturizer, which the two use “to Performance by Step Afrika!, the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradi- “Kuhlenschmidt-Pack sanctuary,” Pack said, is the keep us silky smooth at all times.” Kuhlenschmidt tion of stepping, on Tuesday, Sept. 21, at the Blair School of Music’s Ingram Hall. The company has pair’s collection of posters, which range from the cites his vial of Yinchiao oil as his favorite item, a been featured on CNN, BET, PBS and NPR. Notorious B.I.G. to “Pulp Fiction.” The roommates, “Chinese herb miracle drug” that prevents any L.A. transplants and friends since the seventh grade, illness. 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