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Two prominent University events were held this weekend on campus—Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights and Dance Marathon, one of the largest charity fundraisers on campus. Left: Diwali, put on by Ashoka, performed three shows to sold-out crowds over the weekend in Edison Theatre. Right: From Saturday night to early Sunday morning, Dance Marathon raised more than $134,000 for Children’s Miracle Network.

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In spite of President Obama’s calls for bipartisan health care reform, only one Republican congressman—Rep. Anh Cao of Louisiana—voted for the House’s sweeping health care overhaul bill on Saturday.

Partisanship is common in national politics and is also alive at Washington University. Mem-bers of political student groups on campus say they use the parti-san divide to foster debate.

Senior Ryan Winograd, presi-dent of the College Republicans, said political disputes do occur between students at the Univer-sity, but usually they are purely intellectual.

“I’ve had debates and I’ve had arguments with students. It’s never gotten violent. Ever,” Win-ograd said. “I guess that might be an issue at some schools, but I don’t think that’s an issue at Wash. U. I’ve defi nitely seen yelling, heated, maybe some name-calling.”

One upcoming debate between the College Republicans and College Democrats is Cam-pus Crossfi re on Monday night. Each group will have a represen-tative debating the issue of health

care. The debate will consist of 45

minutes of formal debate, fol-lowed by 15 minutes of questions from the audience.

“It’s always fun,” said junior Katherine Berger, president of the College Democrats. “We always end up having the Demo-crats on one side of the room and the Republicans on the other, and there’s cheering.”

Winograd said he values the debate created by disputes among those with differing viewpoints. Although he said some politi-cal discussions on campus are unproductive, he believes it is important for the College Demo-crats and the College Republicans to play a leading role in promot-ing productive discourse.

“We defi nitely have stu-dents with differing opinions, and you do see them arguing about it sometimes. Sometimes it happens in a manner that I think fosters good discourse and enlightenment, perhaps on both sides of the issues, and other times it occurs in a way that is completely unproductive,” Win-ograd said. “I think the goal of the College Republicans and College Democrats should be to make sure that those sorts of debates and discussions happen in a way that is educational and

not confrontational.”Berger said she considers the

partisan divide on campus to be a source of debate rather than a confl ict.

“I think that people who are really interested in politics and particularly interested in partisan politics know that your political beliefs do not necessarily defi ne who you are as a person, although it’s certainly an important part of it,” Berger said. “At least in my own experience, as much as we might argue over health care or the economy or the war, [or] whatever the subject may be, we’re all students. We’re all on that same sort of level.”

Winograd argued that debates and discussions between people with differing opinions are vital to the development of knowledge about an issue.

“[Dialogue is] the only way you can truly question your beliefs, grow your beliefs [or] change your beliefs,” Winograd said. “Maybe you actually know everything and that dialogue, the discourse strengthens your beliefs. But when it gets to the point of yelling or name-calling, you’re not really debating any-thing. You’re just staying with what you believe; you’re not questioning what you believe in any way.”

Another collaboration effort between political student groups is in the works. The College Democrats, College Republicans and the Association of Black Stu-dents (ABS) are coordinating another health care debate. The debate will involve politicians and policy experts from both ends of the political spectrum.

“That’s an example of more than just our two groups work-ing together, but, more broadly, [we will work] with other groups in the school to bring what will hopefully be an enlightening dis-cussion to campus,” Winograd said.

Winograd hopes these events will help to inform the public of important political issues.

“What’s important for me is …that when people make deci-sions, they are as well-informed as possible so that they can then apply their ideology and decide what their preferred outcome is,” Winograd said. “I may not agree with it—that’s fi ne. I actu-ally really enjoy debating with students whom I disagree with to see why I disagree with them. What’s frustrating is when I’m debating with someone who doesn’t really have good reasons for their beliefs. For me, it’s more fun when they’re very well edu-cated about [the issues].”

College political groups debate health careKelly FahyStaff Reporter

Carl Phillips, an English and African-American studies professor at Washington Uni-versity, has been selected as a fi nalist for the National Book Award for his work, “Speak Low,” published in 2009. He has received two prior nom-inations for the award and progressed to the level of fi nal-ist, for “From the Devotions” and “The Rest of Love: Poems,” for which Phillips also won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry.

“Speak Low” is one of fi ve selected works in this year’s poetry titles for the National Book Award. The award will be given on Nov. 18 in New York City. Each winner will receive $10,000 and a bronze statue; each fi nalist will receive $1,000 and a bronze medal.

“I am excited and honored and kind of nervous. I’m in good company with the other writ-ers,” he said. “Awards are never in my mind when I’m writing. Writing is a way of answering a life question. Prizes are kind of

distracting in a way, and I think you’re a poet if you’re writing poems and if you do win a prize then it doesn’t mean you’re a poet. There’s a kind of random-ness to prizes.”

Phillips said in regards to the work, “I think it’s got a cer-tain greater clarity, but it’s hard for me to separate a book from the others because I think of it as one big poem. I like to think that it does something experi-mental in an unusual way.”

BiographyPhillips graduated magna

cum laude from Harvard University in 1981 with a Bachelor’s degree in Greek and Latin. He received his master’s degree in Latin and Classical Humanities from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

After Phillips was accepted into former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s creative writing program at Boston University, his writing career took off.

Phillips has written 10 col-lections of poetry. He has been recognized for his literary tal-ent since his fi rst book, “In the Blood,” which won the 1992 Samuel French Morse Poetry

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Professor fi nalist for

National Book AwardEliza AdelsonNews Manager

For the second time in the fi nal half of Saturday’s game against the University of Chi-cago, junior running back Jim O’Brien was free.

He had zipped past the entire Maroons defense and was now in open fi eld, with nothing between him and the end zone.

“I looked back a few times, just to gauge where [the defen-sive players] were at, just ready to maybe high step or something if they were going to dive,” O’Brien said. “It was just running as fast as I can, really just nothing else, hoping that I could beat them out.”

O’Brien’s run, a 51-yard touchdown with 9:32 left in the fourth quarter, put Washing-ton University on top for good, 31-30. His career-high 163 rushing yards made the differ-ence in a 44-37 rallying win on Senior Day, regaining posses-sion of the Founder’s Cup for the Bears.

“The season hasn’t exactly

gone how we planned or wanted it to, but, regardless of the record…if we’re 8-0 com-ing in or 0-8 coming in to this game, it’s going to be the same just because it’s such a big game for us,” O’Brien said. “We were ready to get that Founder’s Cup back on our side.”

Since the creation of the University Athletic Association

in 1987, Wash. U. has faced Chicago annually, marking the very fi rst UAA game. The Bears are 18-6 in the series and 18-10 all-time against the Maroons.

After a 14-yard rushing performance in the fi rst half, the ground unit picked up 284

O’Brien’s yardage, 3 TDs

speed WU past ChicagoAlex DropkinSports Editor

Junior running back Jim O’Brien runs the ball through the University of Chicago defense during Saturday’s 44-37 victory. The win was the last home game of this season, with the seniors being recognized before the game and head coach Larry Kindbom recognized for his 20 years as the Bears’ head coach during halftime.

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Religious groups on cam-pus will be hosting events this coming week to raise awareness about different religions and bring the Wash-ington University community together under the umbrella of pluralism.

Pluralism Week will start off on Monday with a panel of rabbis to discuss Judaism and the differences between its sects. Tuesday will include an event hosted by the Catho-lic Student Center (CSC). In addition, Luke Timothy John-son will give a lecture titled “The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why It Matters.” Wednesday will feature a talk on Islam. Idan Raichel, an Israeli music artist, will per-form on Thursday.

This is the first year reli-gious groups have come together for Pluralism Week. Sophomore Hannah

Rabinowitz, the organizer of the week, plans to continue the concept into the future.

Rabinowitz started Plu-ralism Week to educate the University’s campus about different religions.

“The goal is to really edu-cate Wash. U.’s campus in general but also people who are involved in specific reli-gious culture and life on campus [and] to expose peo-ple to the cultures of other religions,” Rabinowitz said.

Sophomore Kelly Dia-bagate, the Muslim Student Association’s (MSA) coor-dinator of Pluralism Week, wants students to learn more about Islam.

“I want students to learn that Islam is not so different than other religions,” Diabag-ate said. “We hold the same values and especially when it comes to Judaism and Cathol-icism, we all have the same roots.”

Another aspect of Plu-ralism Week is that many

different religious groups are working together on campus. According to participants, there have previously been few coordinated activities between the different groups. The planning for the week has involved the Jewish Student Union (JSU), Atma, MSA and the CSC.

More programs will be coordinated by JSU and MSA in the future after this week of activities, according to Rabinowitz.

Rabinowitz said she first wanted to start Pluralism Week to increase religious dialogue on campus.

“Hopefully it will create a more inclusive environment and an environment where there’s more understanding and where people are more comfortable talking about religious issues with one another,” Rabinowitz said.

Diabagate agreed with Rabinowitz.

Campus faith groups host religious awareness weekLauren OlensAssignment Editor

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Campus Crossfi reUrsa’s Stageside, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.The College Democrats and College Republicans will debate over the hottest political issue this fall—health care reform.

Panel on denominations of JudaismDUC 276, 8–9:30 p.m.The Jewish Student Union will host a panel of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform rabbis to discuss the similarities and differences between these denominations.

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InternationalDrug adviser firing prompts uproar in UK

U.K. politics have erupted in controversy after the sacking of governmental drug policy adviser David Nutt, the chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Nutt publicly said that scientifi c research has shown marijuana and ecstasy to be less harm-ful than they are currently classifi ed as under U.K. law.

Other members of the committee have spoken out against the dismissal, saying that the government ignored independent scien-tifi c evidence and suppressed free speech to push its agenda. Lord Paul Drayson, the chief science adviser to the government, incited further controversy by urging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to reverse the decision. Other members of the drug committee have threatened mass resignations, and two have already quit.

Nutt, a scientist, said in a public statement that cigarettes and alcohol are much more dangerous than marijuana and ecstasy. He argued for a new system of classifi cation that would rank drugs in a “harm index.” Alcohol would rank fi fth after cocaine, heroin, barbi-turates and methadone. Tobacco would be ninth, more harmful than marijuana, LSD and ecstasy. (Becca Krock)

House narrowly passes health care bill

The House narrowly passed a fi nal version of the health care reform bill on Saturday night that would cost $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years.

Only one Republican congressman voted for the bill, freshman Rep. Anh Cao of Louisiana. Thirty-nine Democrats voted against it. The Senate must still pass its version of the bill, and the two cham-bers must negotiate over a fi nal version.

Prominent features of the bill include coverage for 36 million currently uninsured Americans, subsidies for low- and middle-income Americans, and expanded Medicaid. If passed, there would be a government-run insurance plan. But in contrast to earlier plans, it would not create signifi cant competition with private insurance companies because it would only be open to a small number of indi-viduals who cannot get insurance through work and would not offer lower premiums. Insurance companies would no longer be able to deny care due to “pre-existing conditions,” drop customers when they become ill or charge older customers more than twice as much as young ones.

The bill still faces strongly divided opinions in the Senate, but Democrats hope to pass a fi nal version before the end of the year. (Becca Krock)

Discussion on violence against womenSeigle L006, 8 p.m.As part of Feminism Awareness week, the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department will show a documentary, “Sin by Silence,” about abused women who themselves became violent. The documentary will be followed by discussion.

Mix It Up DayDUC 276, 11 a.m.–2 p.m.Mix It Up Day is an annual nationwide event that promotes crossing cultural boundaries. There will be free food from St. Louis restaurants and activities to encourage mingling.

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“In the Heights” will open at the Fox Theatre on Tuesday and run until the Nov. 22. “In the Heights” was nominated for 13 Tony Awards in 2008, winning four, including Best Musical. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer and composer, fi rst wrote “In the Heights” while an undergraduate student at Wesleyan University.

“In the Heights” explores Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, a Dominican-American neighborhood. The music refl ects Dominican-American culture, with hip-hop, salsa and meringue.

ArtSci Council will be selling tickets for the Thursday, Nov. 12, show on Tuesday and Wednesday this week in the Student Union offi ce from 11 a.m.–1 p.m. Tickets will be $15.

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In the Nov. 4 article, “Bears one point from UAA crown,” it was incorrectly stated that women’s soccer at least needs to tie the University of Chicago for the UAA title. Women’s soccer needed to beat the University of Chicago in order to capture the UAA title. Student Life regrets the error.

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Prize. Phillips is committed to

teaching at the University, where he works alongside grad-uate students in the creative writing program.

Rebecca Jensen, a creative writing graduate student whom Phillips taught for two years, said Phillips’ poems possess an uncommon humanity.

“There is a universal qual-ity to what he writes. I always feel like I learn something about life and human nature whenever I read any kind of his poems,” Jensen said. “So not only do they kind of bring you in through their beauty and the elegance of their style and his unique sense of words, but there’s a deeper resonance there.”

Alec Hershman, a graduate student who is one of Phillips’s advisees, said, “As a teacher he’s a very sympathetic reader, he’s quite good at taking stu-dents’ work on its own terms and really offering feedback that way. And as a writer there’s nobody else who really sounds like him right now; he’s done such an interesting job of bring-ing syntax back to poetry.”

PHILLIPS from page 1yards on 20 carries in the sec-

ond. The Maroons outgained the Bears in total offense, how-ever, 541-418.

O’Brien’s fi rst touch-down of the game came on the Bears’ fi rst possession. His 3-yard touchdown run capped a 10-play, 74-yard drive, high-lighted by a 30-yard tailback pass from none other than O’Brien himself.

Chicago tied the game on two plays, ending a drive with a 27-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Mar-shall Oium. He had 401 passing yards on the day. A Chicago rushing touchdown made the score 13-7 minutes later.

Sophomore linebacker Daniel Sufranski intercepted Oium’s pass one possession later, returning the ball 29 yards to the Chicago 6-yard line. On fourth and goal, the Bears faked a fi eld goal, taking the lead on senior defensive back Bryce Buchanan’s pass to junior line-backer Nick Diehl.

“Our coaches had noticed...that when we line up for fi eld goals, [Chicago] leaves the tight end completely untouched,” Buchanan said. “We fi gured if we just faked a fi eld goal and had him just run out for a

pass, he’d be wide open, and he was.”

Chicago’s fumble at its 3-yard line set up another score. Junior Tim Johnson’s 22-yard fi eld goal gave the Bears a 17-13 lead with 14:05 left in the fi rst half. Two more Chicago touchdowns in the quarter, however, put Wash. U. in a 10-point defi cit.

Oium threatened to put his team ahead even further, tak-ing the ball down to the 9-yard line with under a minute in the half, before Buchanan inter-cepted his pass on second down. Despite the pick, the Maroons took a 27-17 lead into the break.

“We went into halftime and decided that as seniors, that’s not how we wanted to go out,” Buchanan said. “We came out on fi re the second half.”

With 4:02 left in the third quarter, O’Brien blew by the Chicago secondary for an 85-yard rushing touchdown. Chicago stretched the score to 30-24 with a 27-yard fi eld goal, but shortly after O’Brien broke for his third score of the game.

“We just kind of had to throw everything out and just get back to the basics,” O’Brien said. “They took it to us in the

fi rst half…Nobody wanted to lose like that, to go out on that note back here at home.”

Seniors halfback Greg LaChaud and running back Matt Glenn each had rushing touchdowns in the fourth quar-ter, 59-yard and 1-yard runs, respectively. Glenn’s came with two minutes left in the game, ensuring victory.

“When you have multi-ple backs [scoring], it usually comes down to the offensive line,” head coach Larry Kind-bom said. “They made some good adjustments during the ball game.”

The victory gives the Bears (4-5, 1-1) a shot at a UAA title in the fi nal game of the season next weekend, on Sat-urday, Nov. 14. A win will not come easy against No. 9 Case Western Reserve University (8-0, 2-0) in Cleveland at noon (ET).

“Case has been undefeated the past couple of seasons going into our game, and we’ve played them [closely]. We’re not going to hold anything back here,” Buchanan said. “We’re going to go up there to Cleveland and see if we can play spoiler and take one away from them.”

BEARS from page 1“I also hope that students

will learn that only through respecting each other can we ever achieve some type of peace in the world,” Diabag-ate said.

Other students said they think that the topic of religious pluralism is not as noticeable as it could be on campus.

“I wouldn’t say there’s not an open dialogue, but I definitely think there is not as much effort put into dis-cussing religious diversity as racial or cultural diversity,” sophomore Catie Gainor said.

Gainor added that she believes students do not dis-cuss their individual religions often.

“I don’t think anyone feels like they can’t talk about their religion, but I don’t think anyone feels especially encouraged to do so either,” Gainor said.

Sophomore Ingold Huang said he also felt that students do not spend much time creat-ing an open religious dialogue on campus.

“It seems to me that…students at Wash. U. in gen-eral would be interested in an occasional discussion about religion, faith and philosophy

about life, death and an afterlife, but most Wash. U. students are really busy with their studies…and tend to be more interested in finding their careers rather than pon-dering the mysteries of life and death,” Huang said.

Many students also men-tion that they know plenty about the monotheistic religions but are lacking knowledge about many poly-theistic Eastern religions.

“I feel I know a bit about Judaism since Wash. U. has a populous Jewish community, but otherwise I do not really know that much about other religions,” sophomore Will Stock said.

Rabinowitz said she believes that Pluralism Week is already making a difference.

“[Since future coordinated programming has been dis-cussed,] it’s already opening that dialogue a lot more than it was before we started orga-nizing this event,” Rabinowitz said.

Pluralism Week will con-clude with an Interfaith Shabbat Service, a trip to a Hindu temple and mass at the CSC over the weekend.

FAITH from page 1

Not all fat cells mean weight gain.

National researchers in cell biology have identifi ed proteins that turn normal skin cells into brown fat cells, which use energy to generate heat.

“Energy only gets burned when your heart beats or your muscles walk up a fl ight of stairs or when you breathe,” said Clay Semenkovich, chief of the division of endocrinology, metab-olism and lipid research at the Washington University School of Medicine.

Brown fat cells do not store energy. They burn it without carrying out a function, such as beating the heart or walking,

Semenkovich said.Until recently, scientists

believed that only animals and human babies had brown fat cells. But researchers discovered brown fat cells in adults when PET scans showed higher rates of glucose metabolism in patients who had been waiting in cold waiting rooms at their doctors’ offi ces.

Brown fat evolved to help people and animals in cold environments stay warm, Semen-kovich said.

“People were freezing in the waiting rooms, and they were actually turning on brown fat,” he said.

The presence of brown fat cells in human adults carries implications for obesity research.

“People who are overweight have much less active brown fat,” Semenkovich said.

Researchers at Harvard engi-neered skin cells from mice and humans to become brown fat. This technology requires further research, though, before scien-tists can test it on humans.

“There’s always a disadvan-tage to tricking the body into doing things that it probably should not do,” Semenkovich said.

With brown fat, that disad-vantage stems from the heat that the cells release. The excess heat could lead to dangerous and pos-sibly deadly fevers in humans.

In the early 20th century, a chemist identifi ed 2,4-dinitrophe-nol, a chemical that produced the same effects as brown fat cells.

“At one point somebody esti-mated that there were perhaps 500,000 people who had taken doses of this industrial chemical,” Semenkovich said. “It really did

make them lose weight, but it also made them show up in emergency rooms with such dangerously high fevers that they died.”

Brown fat cell technology will require extensive research into controlling heat release.

“I want a therapy for people who are morbidly obese…but we’re going to have to be very careful about the way this is done or we’re going to cause a whole new set of problems,” Semenk-ovich said.

Weight loss research has implications for nutrition as well. Connie Diekman, director of University nutrition and former president of the American Dietetic Association, sees students on campus attempting to lose weight by changing their food intake and exercising.

“What many students get

caught up in, though, is it doesn’t happen as quickly as they want, so they wonder about the fast loss, whether it’s the pills, whether it’s the diet, whatever it might be,” Diekman said.

Diekman said that while obe-sity research is essential to provide an understanding of metabolism, the public should approach weight loss techniques cautiously.

“You want to follow guide-lines that are based upon what we know,” Diekman said. “Don’t change every time a new research study comes out.”

Currently, the scientifi c evi-dence shows that food changes are the proven method of losing weight.

“Physical activity alone will not do it,” Diekman said.

Diekman works with chefs on campus to create healthy food

options for students. She also works to educate the Univer-sity community on healthy food choices by writing informational brochures placed on the tables at dining locations such as Wohl Dining.

Sophomore Stephanie Trim-boli fi nds that eating healthily on campus is “easy if you want to,” but she does not see much evidence of the administration’s attempts to educate students on healthful eating choices.

Despite nutritional guidelines, the implications of new weight loss research remain appealing to the public.

“It’s so seductive to people to be able to take something that will solve their problems without hav-ing to exercise [or eat less] that someone will always wind up doing it,” Semenkovich said.

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Brown fat cells provide hope for obesity research

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Juniors: It’s time to start thinkingabout Commencement speakers

STAFF EDITORIAL

You may be absorbed in the midst of recovering from your junior mid-

terms, struggling through your writing intensive, and enjoying or preparing for your semes-ter abroad, but—as diffi cult as it is to believe—hotel rooms for May 2011 are already fi lling up because of overzealous parents’ reservations. Believe it or not, it’s time for you to start thinking about Commencement speak-ers too.

Though the process by which a Commencement speaker is chosen appears to be relatively secretive, we believe that student input about the kind of Com-mencement speaker we want is worthwhile.

Every year, seniors express strong opinions about the chosen speaker. Some seniors saw Chris Matthews as overtly politicized in 2008; last year’s audience found Wendy Kopp’s speech un-engaging.

In this particular year, hot-button issues on our campus and in our nation have included tolerance, pluralism and the

environment. We would like to see a speaker who can allude to issues such as gay rights and coal utilization while also conveying a broader, more universal message. A good speech, we feel, is one that goes beyond talking points to deliver a message that is both interesting and profound.

Although it’s three semesters away, the Class of 2011 needs to make their voices heard, start a dialogue and ensure that they have a Commencement speaker that represents their class.

Though the University has its own criteria for choosing a Com-mencement speaker, throwing around these criteria have led us to a few recommendations for the committee that chooses the speakers, including the students who serve on the committee:

The following is the Student Life Editorial Board’s short list of Commencement speakers.

Al Gore: We had to do it. He may be a far reach, but we should keep pushing for him every year until he says yes. Activism on green issues has been a prevailing theme during our college years and one that we have proven we

are passionate about. Having Gore speak at Commencement would be a great way to send us off into our green futures. Whether people agree with his agenda, his appearance will gen-erate interest and impel us to engage in conversation about a sustainable future. Not to men-tion the fact that he was our vice president.

J.J. Abrams: The creator of “Lost” and “Alias,” Abrams is a pioneering entertainer in touch with the college demographic. He can speak about the infl uence of popular culture on a generation that has been—and will continue to be—defi ned by the media. On top of that, the crazy storylines of his shows are proof that he will deliver an engaging and enter-taining speech.

Dave Eggers: We could go so far as to say that Eggers is the lit-erary voice of a generation. He’s engaging, brilliant and success-ful—Eggers has topped the New York Times Best-Sellers List, is a Pulitzer Prize fi nalist and founded the prestigious McSweeney’s literary journal. Eggers also offers insight for those students

outside the literary circle, having received a 2008 TED prize for his work to improve education by setting up innovative tutoring centers and personally calling on community members to engage with local public schools. For us political junkies and media devo-tees, Eggers won a “Courage in Media” Award by the Council on American-Islamic Relations for his book, “Zeitoun.” His writing has even seeped into Hollywood: Eggers wrote “Away We Go” and co-wrote the “Where the Wild Things Are” screenplay with Spike Jonze.

Paul Farmer: Having founded Doctors Without Bor-ders, Farmer presents a similar appeal to 2009 Commence-ment speaker Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach For America. Farmer’s organization provides free health care to Haiti and eight other countries in the develop-ing world. On top of his inspiring humanitarian mission, Farmer is known to be a dynamic and effec-tive speaker. Student groups have already demonstrated interested in his projects, and Farmer’s speech has the power to motivate

students on his quest to cure the world.

Tom Wolfe: A prolifi c observer of American culture, Wolfe wrote “I Am Charlotte Simmons”—a reeling chronicle of the culture at elite universities in the 21st century. This perspec-tive, along with Wolfe’s thorough examination of other cultural trends over a long career, ensures that he can speak to the struggles our generation will face as we move into a new decade. Besides, Wolfe is known for wearing only white suits, and we’d like to see him in a green commencement gown.

Michael Pollan: The author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food,” Pollan is an inexhaustible cultural critic who has reconfi gured the way we think about food. Pollan’s work forms links between agriculture, economics, nutrition, sociology and culture, and we think that his big-picture philosophies are well applied to a generation that will continue to interpret these links as we age.

Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert: No explanation needed.

Last year, my allergies caught up with me —for the third time in my life, I actually had

an asthma attack. Thankfully, SHS managed to come to the rescue—they were extremely helpful and very thorough. While the staff consists of very professional and kind people, I don’t know if I can say the same about the administrators of SHS. As each year passes, they seem to get worse and worse. Just a

month ago, my roommate tore a ligament in his leg due to a sports injury—but in his words, “apparently people don’t get sick on Sundays.”

To exacerbate the problem, due to the overfl ow of students entering SHS, each student only gets a very brief consultation. Of course, this is to be expected from a relatively small clinic that has to take care of a com-paratively large student body, but the real problem lies in the price structure: I have yet to hear a compelling reason that health insurance from the University is mandatory.

I understand the main moti-vation behind making health insurance mandatory: as a matter of public health. If everyone is insured, the risk of disease break-outs is theoretically reduced. I admit that making health insur-ance optional does pose the risk of having people uninsured, and some students could opt out of the University’s health cover-age while having no alternative insurance. Such a gap could, in theory, lead to an outbreak due to one infected vector of transmis-sion. But I am still not convinced that these problems will sur-face at a school like Washington

University. It’s painfully obvious that Wash. U. is largely com-posed of privileged students from wealthy backgrounds. If there is a risk from uninsured students, the risk would be very small, and I have a hard time buying the notion that a signifi -cant number of students would opt out of University health cov-erage if they did not have an insurance plan of their own.

While it may be naïve to assume that there would be no risks from making University coverage optional, the benefi ts outweigh the risks. Currently, every student pays a mandatory

fee for health services that most will never use. Most seri-ous problems end up with the bill passed to a larger hospi-tal anyway, and the mandatory insurance does not cover pre-scription medication, which is (for better or worse) what most students will end up going to SHS for in the fi rst place.

Of course, this sketch of an argument does not get at the true root of the issue, and I don’t expect to make a fl aw-less argument in 500 words. But I believe that the status quo is equally unacceptable. We pay a signifi cant sum of money for

health coverage that we don’t necessarily need, and the result is not only the draining of pock-etbooks, but also coverage that meets neither the needs nor the demands of many students.

Ultimately, giving the free-dom of choice back to the students is the best option, and one that should be taken seri-ously as an alternative to the current system, which is inad-equate in a very real way.

Students should have freedom of choice when it comes to SHS insuranceAJ SundarForum Editor

AJ is a sophomore in Arts & Sciences. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

WUSET is in need of revision

On Oct. 28, Student Life published an article discussing the recently formed

student group called Wash-ington University Students for Endowment Transparency (WUSET), a “New student group pushing transparency in endowment.” WUSET, acting in support of a group known as the Responsible Endow-ments Coalition, has begun to gain recognition on campus, claiming it promotes “respon-sible” investments. While the purported pros of this organi-zation make it seem as though this group of students is pre-senting the administration with a delicious candy apple, they fail to take into account that—caramel coating aside—their idea is fi lled with worms. WUSET is bad. Let’s talk about why.

The most important ques-tion to ask is, what exactly constitutes a “responsible” endowment? According to www.endowmentethics.org, such an endowment is one that “screen[s] out or divest[s] from particular investments, such as in tobacco…” Addi-tionally, these endowments make “proactive investments in companies or projects that align with the institution’s mis-sion, such as green energy or low-income housing…” Now I won’t say that green energy is a particularly bad investment

or that tobacco is an especially good place to park endow-ment funds. But I will say that opening up the endowment to student opinion could have potentially serious conse-quences for the student body.

The endowment, accord-ing to the University’s Web site, is a collection of funds designated for such purposes as supporting “professorships, scholarships and fellowships, research, the libraries, teach-ing, curricular development, buildings and grounds, tech-nology, and new or evolving academic programs.” In short, it provides money to sup-port just about everything a university does. Endow-ments operate as giant pools of money that are invested; the returns from said investments are then used for the afore-mentioned purposes. If the University’s money is invested well, then it ought to reap a higher return. This translates into more spending on the part of the University to improve itself. Note that it also yields more fi nancial aid for needy students.

I truly wonder why WUSET would push an agenda that severely limits the types of investments that the school can make. It seems strange that the betterment of the University could be put in jeopardy because the school may soon have to weed out putting its money in anything that could be construed as con-troversial. The University is very vocal about its politics,

and if WUSET accomplishes its mission of endowment transparency, the University as a whole could be very much worse off.

I will not go as far to say that this notion of “responsi-ble” investing is entirely bad and that the school should pour its money into blood-soaked African confl ict diamonds. I only say that opening the endowment’s components up to scrutiny by a student body more concerned with myo-pic politics and less informed about investing is not the best idea. Take the following two investments as hypothetical examples: The Vanguard Con-sumer Staples ETF (NYSE: VDC) and Market Vectors Global Alternative Energy Trust (NYSE: GEX). In the past six months, one of these ETFs has risen 18.73 percent. The other has dropped 3.14 percent.

I’ll cut to the chase and say that the alternative energy investment is the one that dropped. But out of the two, it’s the only viable investment according to the Responsible Endowments Coalition. The consumer staples ETF, which puts its money in a well-rounded mix of companies whose products have relatively stable demand, invests 7.07 percent of its assets in Philip Morris International. Ciga-rettes, as noted above, are a no-no under the “responsible” endowment scheme.

I’ll respond to the sup-posed evidence in favor of a

responsible endowment. The $150,000 Wesleyan Student Endowment, a “responsible” endowment, has outperformed the market. It now stands at $150,065.46, according to an article on the Responsible Endowments Coalition Web site. That’s annually a 0.04364 percent return. In the past year, Altria (another cigarette manufacturer) is up roughly 3 percent.

Call it irresponsible, but making money is what the

endowment is supposed to do. Before the student body throws its support behind WUSET, I urge everyone to consider whether it’s worth potentially hindering our endowment’s future growth just to help a few misinformed and quixotic students sleep better.

Richard Jesse MarkelStaff Columnist

Richard is a junior in Business. He can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

ERIN MITCHELL | STUDENT LIFE

SPORTSSports Editor / Johann Qua Hiansen / [email protected] | NOVEMBER 9, 2009 STUDENT LIFE | SPORTS 5

Despite holding an undefeated streak dating back to Sept. 5, the Washington University women’s soccer team (14-3-1, 5-1-1 UAA) could not overcome the University of Chicago on Saturday, Nov. 7.

The Bears, who entered the game one point ahead of the Uni-versity of Rochester, failed to secure an outright University Ath-letic Association (UAA) title with the 3-0 loss.

Both teams will have a share of the UAA crown because Rochester tied with Case West-ern Reserve University. But the Red and Green will receive an automatic berth into the NCAA tournament because they defeated Rochester 2-1 in an earlier season matchup. The appearance will be the team’s seventh consecutive.

The fi rst goal against the Bears occurred 24 minutes into the fi rst half when a Chicago forward shot the ball through the legs of fresh-man goalkeeper Clara Jaques, about 10 yards away. The Maroons stifl ed Wash. U.’s offense for the whole game, even though both teams were allowed 11 shots and six corner kicks.

“The biggest challenge, I think, was getting our rotational offense together,” senior captain

Carter Schwarberg said. “[Chi-cago] packed a lot of people in the back, and our forwards had some trouble connecting with each other.”

The second half saw the Maroons’ lead jump by two goals. Eight minutes in, Chicago mid-fi elder Emily Benoit was able to shoot above Jaques’s reach. As the time ticked away, Wash. U. turned up the heat to try to turn the game around, but Chicago matched its intensity. With 10 minutes left, the Chicago offense once again lit up for a give-and-go 12 yards out.

“It’s a conference game, so all these games, they really mat-ter. Every team in our conference is really good…[The games are] always battles and you really just have to be on top of it if you want to win,” senior captain Libby Held said.

As NCAA play approaches, the team hopes to have senior Caryn Rosoff available. Rosoff was absent from the Chicago game because of the lower calf strain injury she received last weekend against New York University.

“We just learned that no matter what, no matter how well we’ve been playing the past couple weeks, we can’t be complacent,” Schwarberg said. “Always on our toes, always ready for the next person no matter what happens.”

Some players said the team

just never really found its groove in the game. The Bears are still confi dent, however, even with the disappointing loss.

“In terms of the tournament, we might have a little bit harder of a seed.” Schwarberg said. “We might have to play a harder team

earlier on in the tournament, but I’m not worried about it.”

Tournament seeding will be determined Monday during a live broadcast on the NCAA Web site.

With additional reporting by Hannah Lustman

Sadie MackaySports Reporter

Bears fall to Chicago, tie for UAA crownWOMEN’S SOCCER

Sophomore Emma Brown had two shots in the Nov. 7 loss to the University of Chicago. Wash. U. tied for the UAA title with the University of Rochester and earned an automatic NCAA bid.


The Division I Southern Illi-nois University Carbondale women’s basketball team received a wake-up call from Washington University as the Bears defeated the Salukis 84-74.

“No team can expect to walk in the gym and win,” graduate stu-dent Jaimie McFarlin said. “You have to play to win.”

Wash. U. kept the game tight throughout the fi rst period despite shooting 12 for 32 from the fi eld. The fi rst half featured six ties, but the Salukis took a one-point lead into halftime on a jumper by Saluki leading scorer Stephany Neptune. Neptune, a Division II All-American at Tusculum Col-lege last year, had 25 points and 15 rebounds.

Inside the locker room during the break, the Bears talked about their strengths and weaknesses. Many members of the team had faced similar pressures before in last year’s exhibition game against SLU and in the Final Four at Hope College.

“We didn’t come here to play a close game,” co-captain senior Zoë Unruh said. “We came to win.” With that mantra and

renewed focus, Wash. U. started the third quarter with four consec-utive fi eld goals.

The Bears shot 59.3 percent in the second half and went on a 19-5 run late in the game. Unruh, who had scored only fi ve points in the fi rst half, added 16 points to lead the Bears.

The Salukis’ height helped them out-rebound the Bears 41-29. Despite that advantage, the Bears persevered. In one instance, sophomore guard Dani Hoover squeezed through three defenders who were at least 6 inches taller than her, and scored a layup to beat the buzzer, according to McFarlin. The Red and Green also forced 26 turnovers while committing 18 of their own.

Wash. U. closed out the game by going 11 for 12 from the line in the last four minutes of the game. “It felt really good to walk off that court being the D-III that beat the D-I,” McFarlin said.

The Bears are ranked No. 1 in multiple preseason polls and have high hopes for the season.

“We made a statement to ourselves that we can compete with anyone, we can beat any-one,” Unruh said. The Red and Green open the regular season at home on Nov. 15 at 1 p.m. against Augustana College.

Johann Qua HiansenSenior Sports Editor

Lady Bears top Division I SIUC

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

The Washington University women’s volleyball team lost a match this past weekend for the fi rst time in nearly a month and a half as it dropped the fi nal match of the University Athletic Asso-ciation (UAA) Championship in a sweep to Emory Univer-sity (25-18, 25-19, 25-21) in Chicago.

The loss, the team’s fi rst since a loss to University of Missouri-St. Louis on Sept. 22, cost the Bears a UAA title and spoiled an otherwise stellar weekend of play in which the team swept Rochester Univer-sity (25-15, 25-13, 25-23), Case Western Reserve University (25-17, 25-21, 25-14) and New York University (25-13, 25-17, 25-14).

“Certainly we played an incredibly motivated team, and we didn’t execute the skills very well,” head coach Rich Luene-mann said.

The Bears hit a roadblock early on when freshman setter Marilee Fisher injured her ankle in warm-ups for the fi rst match. Freshman Meg Buker took her place and averaged 29 assists per game for the tournament. Her strong play was a key part

of the Bears’ success in their fi rst three matches.

“You always have to go with that mentality of being prepared to go in,” Buker said. “I have a great team there to support me. That takes a lot of the pressure off because you know that you have fi ve other girls who are going to take care of business and have your back.”

Against Rochester, sopho-more Lauren Budde put on a tremendous showing, registering 16 kills to only one error while also tallying 12 digs. Budde put up a similar line in the following game against Case, with 13 kills and 12 digs.

On Saturday, the Bears came out strong again in their win against NYU. Senior co-cap-tain Erin Albers picked up 13 kills to lead the team, which had one of its best offensive days of the season with a .390 hitting percentage.

So after three strong perfor-mances to begin the weekend, what happened against Emory?

“Really we just kind of got frazzled in that last game, it was just mental mistakes, men-tal errors,” sophomore Tricia Brandt said. “We had a few too many serve-outs.”

Certainly the Bears didn’t do themselves any favors against Emory, registering 20 errors.

Their .150 hitting percentage was also one of their lowest out-puts of the season.

“For whatever reason, that was probably not our usual self out there,” Buker said. “And we seemed to have a hard time getting the momentum back or maintaining it in the fi rst place.”

Despite the loss, the Bears seemed content with how the weekend went. “We really played well and Meg really stepped up under the pressure and she just did a great job,” Brandt said. “We had a really strong tourna-ment in all of our games, except this last one.”

With Wash. U. being picked as regional site for the NCAA tournament, which starts next weekend, the Bears have a great chance to put this loss behind them. Given that the team that has fi nished second in the UAA Tournament has won the national title each of the last two years, the team certainly isn’t put off by this one loss.

“When we got together at the end, I just said, ‘I want every-body to take two minutes and give yourself a little kick in the butt and evaluate what you could have done better,’ and certainly we’ll focus on that,” Luenemann said.

With additional reporting by Hannah Lustman

Kurt RohrbeckSports Reporter

Volleyball takes 2nd at UAAsVOLLEYBALL

Freshman Meg Buker sets the ball in the UAA championship match against Emory University on Nov. 7. Buker stepped in for the entire tournament as classmate Marilee Fisher injured her ankle during warm-ups on Nov. 6.


CHICAGO—When an offi cial’s call dictated the deciding goal in the game against the University of Chicago, the men’s soccer team’s fi nal game ended much the same way the season fi rst began.

Near the end of the game’s fi rst overtime period, junior Randall Schoen was whistled for a foul at the top of the box. The play set up a penalty kick for the Maroons’ Stanton Coville, who converted to end 99 minutes of scoreless play. In the team’s double-overtime home opener on Sept. 1 against Illinois Wesleyan, two Washing-ton University goals were called back by offi cials.

“Obviously we weren’t pleased with the result. The game was pretty emblematic of our season in a lot of ways in that I thought we were the better team, but we just had what I thought was an awful call go against us,” junior captain Alex Neumann said. “A lot of times this year we have been the better team, but we’ve just gotten unlucky bounces, unlucky calls, and things just haven’t turned out

the best for us.” Both teams took very few

shots; Wash. U. recorded nine, while Chicago took 11. In the sec-ond half, the Bears controlled the ball, moving much of the play to the Maroons’ defensive half. Despite the counterattack, the Bears took only two shots in the second half.

“I thought especially in the second half and in the overtime, the team played really well. I was just really proud of the guys,” said senior captain Nat Zenner, who did not play due to injury. “I couldn’t have asked for anything more, and it’s frustrating to lose on a pretty bad call.”

The two teams played a phys-ical game. Each team was issued three yellow cards in regulation. Prior to the game, the Bears had only received six yellow cards in the entire season. The offi cials also called 38 fouls.

“[The team] played very, very well. There was no difference between our team and theirs—I think my team is better than Chi-cago, but they’re good,” head coach Joe Clarke said. “Again, we gave up the odd goal.”

Clarke said the game illustrated

improvements the team has made throughout the season in midfi eld play.

“Our entire midfi eld had changed from last year, essentially, except for Zach Hendrickson. And so that was the biggest thing, devel-oping that midfi eld and creating an understanding, and that gradually got better and better and better,” Clarke said “I think we became a strong group going in both direc-tions. [We] just needed to be better in the two penalty areas.”

Zenner highlighted the team’s enduring spirit.

“We got a lot better [at] our ability to really play hard the whole game and be a diffi cult team to play against,” Zenner said. “Not only is that our team’s great-est strength, but it’s also the thing we improved upon most this year was just being really, really diffi -cult to play against and showing a lot of heart throughout the whole game.”

After the game, the team’s fan base, traveling from multiple states and international locations, honored seniors Zenner, captain John Hengel, goalie John Smelcer and Ryan Grandin.

“I love my seniors. They’re all

going to be very hard to replace. Johnny Smelcer I think helped elevate this program probably as much as any player in their time, in their career…Johnny Hen-gel has been our leading scorer three out of his four years. He’s

just a kid [that] if he gets the ball around the box, he’s just our best sharpshooter,” Clarke said. “Ryan Grandin hasn’t gotten the time that others have gotten. He’s han-dled that like a great team player does…Nat Zenner has been a two-

year captain. He moved around to a lot of different positions and always responded well.”

The Division III Men’s Soc-cer Championship bracket will be released today, and the Bears are eligible for an at-large bid.

Hannah LustmanSports Reporter

Controversial call ends season, mirrors its beginning

Junior John Duncan dribbles the ball as a University of Chicago defender attempts to knock it loose in the Bears’ 1-0 loss on Nov. 7.


WeekendscoreboardWomen’s soccer

Saturday, Nov. 7: No. 8 Wash. U. 0, Chicago 3

Men’s soccer

Saturday, Nov. 7: Wash. U. 0, Chicago 1 (OT)

Football

Saturday, Nov. 7: Chicago 37, Wash. U. 44

Volleyball

Friday, Nov. 6: No. 3 Wash. U. def. Rochester 3-0 (25-15,

25-13, 25-23)No. 3 Wash. U. def. Case

Western Reserve 3-0 (25-17, 25-21, 25-14)

Saturday, Nov. 7: No. 3 Wash. U. def. NYU 3-0 (25-

13, 25-17, 25-14)No. 4 Emory def. No. 3

Wash. U. 3-0 (25-18, 25-19, 25-21)

Club men’s water polo at nationals

Third-place game: Wash. U. falls to NYU 8-7

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Chances are, sometime in your life, at a bar mitzvah,

dinner party or other special event, you have been a part of a mystery party. You know the one: Actors perform a murder and some of the subsequent pandemonium, and then you’re

supposed to guess whodunit. Most of the time, there is some level of audience participation, but the ending is always already decided. Until now, that is.

That’s right. In Cast ‘n’

Crew’s production of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” the audience members don’t just guess how everything turns out, but they actually get to vote on who should have done

it. The fi rst act of the show is a musical performance of Charles Dickens’ fi nal work, but unfortunately, Dickens died suddenly without fi nishing his mystery and without leaving any notes about how it would have ended. Thus, during inter-mission, the audience gets to decide three things: the true identity of a mysterious detec-tive who appears in the second act; which pair of characters should become lovers; and, most importantly, the murderer of Edwin Drood.

Altogether, this means there are more than 840 pos-sible combinations of endings, which virtually guarantees that each audience will get a unique viewing experience. Even the actors haven’t rehearsed every possible ending. Accord-ing to director Marley Teter, “What we do is rehearse each candidate for detective as the detective and each candidate for murderer as the murderer.

It’s tricky, of course, because the murderer’s confession song is the climax of the show, and no single candidate for mur-derer will ever have rehearsed his or her song even a fraction as much as the rest of the show has been rehearsed, since he/she has to trade off at rehears-als with the other candidates. But isn’t that what makes it exciting?”

So if, like me, you read choose-your-own-adventure books as a kid and wished that concept applied to more than just books; if you crave control over your theater-going experi-ence; if, in short, being a part of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” sounds like an exciting way to spend an evening, then get your ticket now. They are avail-able for $5 at the DUC from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. all this week. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, with 2 p.m. matinees on Saturday and Sunday.

‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’Nora LongCadenza Reporter

“I’m rubber and you’re glue…” No, not that kind of comeback (though that is a clas-sic). Every year, singers, actors, movie franchises and companies make big comebacks that shake up the entertainment world. This year saw the return of diva Whit-ney Houston, the “Star Trek” franchise and “Melrose Place.” While not every comeback is successful or well advised, some returns to the spotlight are big and successful enough to change the industry. This decade has been full of awesome come-backs, but there are only fi ve that can be considered “best,” so let’s jump right in.

5) Mickey Rourke: In the mid- to late ’80s, Mickey Rourke grew to sex symbol fame with popular and critical successes “9 ½ Weeks” (with Kim Basinger), “Year of the Dragon” and “Angel Heart” (with Lisa Bonet). Unfor-tunately, stories of him being diffi cult on set started to leak out, leaving directors wary of work-ing with him. In the early ’90s, Rourke decided to change career paths to boxing and mutilated his face in the process (it was so bad that he needed facial recon-struction). Once he retired from boxing in 1995, Rourke tried to return to acting but had little success until 2005’s “Sin City.”

Rourke’s big comeback came in 2008 with his award-winning role in “The Wrestler,” a fi lm about a down-and-out wrestler who struggles with his newfound insignifi cance (a story eerily similar to his own). In this role, Rourke won huge critical acclaim and a Golden Globe for Best Actor. He now has two impend-ing successes on his plate (“Iron Man 2” and “Sin City 2”) that will no doubt cement his place back in mainstream Hollywood.

4) Paula Abdul: Paula Abdul made a name for herself as a choreographer and successful singer in the ’80s and early ’90s. She released two multiplatinum albums (“Forever Your Girl” and “Spellbound”) and multiple hit singles, including “Straight Up,” “Opposites Attract” and “Rush Rush.” After a battle with bulimia, Abdul released “Head Over Heels” to only moderate success, after which she took a break from music. Then, in 2002, Paula returned to the spotlight as one of the three judges on the outrageously successful Fox real-ity show “American Idol.” More than ever before, Paula was a household name who was rec-ognized by people of all ages. Since then, Paula has become a bit of a laughingstock, as she has appeared intoxicated on the reality show and has since left the show. Despite this change in public perception, Abdul’s return to the spotlight is nonetheless

noteworthy.3) Neil Patrick Harris: In

the late ’80s and early ’90s, Neil Patrick Harris starred as a teenage doctor in the dramedy “Doo-gie Howser, M.D.” The starring role catapulted the child actor

to fame and acclaim, but after the show ended in 1993, Harris all but disappeared. Though he certainly starred in movies and TV shows, he could never again match his previous success. That is, until he starred in the stoner

comedy “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” in 2004. The next year, Neil returned to TV prime time with the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” which has since garnered him three Emmy Award nominations. Along with his success in the sitcom, Harris has starred in the brilliant Web series “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” and entertainingly hosted the Tony Awards. Neil has once again become a household name.

2) Britney Spears: Every-one knows this story, as it is perhaps the most reported exam-ple of the celebrity comeback. At the turn of the millennium, Britney Spears was at the top of her game: Her fi rst single (“...Baby One More Time”) had just gone number one in the U.S., and she was about to release her second album (“Oops!… I Did It Again”). Fast-forward to 2004: Britney married her backup dancer Kevin Federline (or K-Fed, as he is commonly known), and everything started to go downhill. In the years that followed, Britney went into rehab, walked into a gas sta-tion bathroom barefoot and attacked a paparazzo’s car with an umbrella (all of which was religiously covered by the tab-loids). Then in the fall of 2007, Brit released her fi rst album since 2003, “Blackout.” Although the album was a moderate success (it did produce a top-10 single with “Gimme More”), there

were still doubts about her men-tal state. Throughout the next year, Spears continued to clean up her act and released her sixth studio album, “Circus,” in the fall of 2008 to greater success: It debuted at number one and produced Spears’s second num-ber-one single, “Womanizer.” Since then, Britney has embarked on an extremely successful world tour, released another number-one single—the recent “3”—and appeared completely sane in the tabloids. Britney’s back!

1) Apple: You might not remember a time when Apple Inc. wasn’t the hottest computer and electronics company. In the early ’90s, Apple achieved moderate success with its PowerBook, as it crept up on Microsoft’s market share in the computer industry. Through-out the mid ’90s, though, Apple seemed to be unable to fi nd its new hit product. In 1998, it released its fi rst iMac and fi nally returned to profi tability (which it hadn’t done since 1993). While this was certainly a success, Apple’s real comeback came in 2001 with the release of its now ubiquitous iPod. As I’m sure all of you know (considering the vast majority of you have iPods), the iPod ended up being a roaring success, breathing life back into the computing company, which has since revolutionized the way we buy music and the way we use our “phones.”

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SCENEScene Editor / Paula Lauris / [email protected] | NOVEMBER 9, 2009 STUDENT LIFE | SCENE 7

There are some things that always equate to a good time: good music, a good cause and an open bar. This Friday, Nov. 13, the Linus Foundation will be hosting its semi-annual shin-dig that will feature all of these things and might just knock your socks off.

Several Washington Uni-versity seniors started the Linus Foundation in 2002. Commit-ted to the idea that “every child deserves a security blanket,” the foundation began plan-ning events to benefi t children’s charities. Seven years later, the foundation has spread and now has branches in nine cities.

This fall’s St. Louis event is called Fallin’ for Linus, and its proceeds will go to local foun-dations: Together We Can and Lydia’s House. Together We Can is a nonprofi t company work-ing to introduce higher standards in early child education, while Lydia’s House provides housing and support to abused women and their children. The party is being held at Neo on Locust, 2801 Locust Ave., and is open to anyone over 21 willing to buy a

ticket. In the past the event has attracted around 600 people—alumni, undergraduates and graduate students, as well as any-one who has attended other Linus events.

What’s so great about this fundraiser? First off, it offers an open bar. To ensure safe trav-els to and from the event, buses will be running between Brook-ings and Neo all night. Second, it’s a chance to dress up and feel pretty; the event has a cocktail attire dress code. And last but not least, there will be live music and dancing. This year’s band is Boom, and Josh Dembling, a senior organizing the event, has promised that “they will bring the fi re.”

A ticket to the event costs $45 if you buy it before Friday and $50 at the door. While that may be an expensive price, just remember that it’s a fun night out and the money goes to charity.

“There’s no other way to put your money towards a great cause that helps women and their kids and at the same time have a great time,” said Molly Wyler, a senior member of the Linus Foundation.

While our pockets might not be very deep right now, neither are those of nonprofi ts. “Because

of the recession, these charities are not getting any help,” senior committee member Eric Cohen said. The event raised between $2,000 and $4,000 in the past and, given current ticket sales, promises to be just as successful this year.

The four seniors and fi ve juniors helping to plan the event also guarantee that the cost will be well worth it. “Anyone who’s been to the event says it’s one of their favorites of the semester,” senior Therese Fox said.

If you’re interested in attend-ing Fallin’ for Linus, tickets will be on sale Tuesday and Thursday in the DUC or available online at http://www.linusfoundation.org/events.php. Raffl e tickets can also be purchased for $2 at the DUC, online or at the event. Prizes include Blues tickets, res-taurants gift certifi cates and even memorabilia autographed by Kings of Leon.

We all know you’re planning to go out Friday night. So instead of the typical frat party, why not go to Fallin’ for Linus and help out some local charities? That way, no matter how bad your hangover is the next morning, you won’t feel guilty about hav-ing had an awesome time.

Other happenings

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Haps Going green with Greenvelope

Whitaker St. Louis International Film FestivalNov. 12-22 at various theaters across the city, including the Tivoli, the Hi-Pointe and the St. Louis Art Museum. The 18th annual festival features movies from all over the globe and from all levels of notoriety; fi lms sometimes come from up-and-coming no-names or may star A-list actors like Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore. Tickets are $10 a show.

Habitat for Humanity Trivia NightNov. 13 in Mallinckrodt Food Court from 6-8:30 p.m. Form a team of friends to compete for prizes, help Habitat and show how smart you are. Register at habitat.wustl.edu/trivia.

PrethunderdomeEvery Wednesday and Saturday until Dec. 19 at White Flags Projects, 4568 Manchester Ave. A free art exhibit exploring the end of the world, the disintegration of society, and the emotions and fears that come with doomsday.

Festival of SpainNov. 14 at the Polish Heritage Center, 1413 N. 20th St., noon-10 p.m. A family-friendly festival celebrating Spanish culture with dance, movies, music, food and more.

Have you ever wanted to start your own business? Did you let your age, experience, knowledge or savings limit you from begin-ning your own venture? Like many students involved in the Student Entrepreneurial Program here at Washington University, freshman Sam Franklin launched a company that provides online invitations, and he did it from his Seattle home. Franklin took a gap year before beginning at Wash. U. in order to focus his efforts on Greenvelope.

Student Life: Tell me about your background.

Sam Franklin: I’m from the Seattle area and have always liked entrepreneurship. Though I graduated from high school with the Class of 2008, I deferred a year from entering Wash. U. When I was younger I ran a pressure washing company, and while at home, I delivered pizzas at night and worked on this proj-ect during the day.

SL: What are you most pas-sionate about?

SF: Since I’m from the Pacifi c Northwest, I’ve always been involved in outdoor activi-ties, as well as lacrosse. Seattle’s all about being green, and I’m glad I get to take a part in that.

SL: What are you currently studying at Wash. U.?

SF: Possibly entrepre-neurship. I’m also really into communication design.

SL: What do your parents do?

SF: My dad’s an orthope-dic surgeon and entrepreneur. He owns a surgical center.

SL: So, how did you come

up with such an idea? SF: I was reading an article

by USA Today about people who have done e-vites. It sounded like a cool idea.

SL: Why wedding invitations?

SF: I identifi ed an issue: people want formal wedding invitations but also want to be environmentally friendly. With Greenvelope, they can get the quality they need and save the environment at the same time.

SL: Was it necessary for you to take a year off?

SF: Defi nitely. It’s a full time job. Luckily there are lots of resources here, and practic-ing what you learn makes classes more relevant.

SL: How did you fund the company?

SF: During my high school years, I ran a pressure washing company and saved a lot of the money I made. Also, while I was at home I had two jobs, one of which was selling pizzas.

SL: What was one of the most diffi cult obstacles you had to overcome when creating a company of your own?

SF: Working on Greenve-lope was very time consuming. I worked with two developers and two designers. This project taught me about time manage-ment and how to make diffi cult decisions.

SL: What sets Greenvelope apart from other e-vite Web sites or companies?

SF: My Web site’s very inter-active, and there are no annoying advertisements. Usually with other sites you fi nd many ads and tacky and limited options. Greenvelope offers a wide range of traditional wedding templates. Save time. Save trees. Save

money. SL: How many employees

do you currently have?SF: Just two; I’m working

with a designer and a devel-oper. Later when the company expands, I’ll probably add more people to the team.

SL: How has business been looking so far? Are you working on any other projects?

SF: It looks great. I’ve got-ten very positive feedback from some family, friends and young couples. With my course load, I’m unable to take on any other projects, but I do have many ideas for the future.

SL: Where do you see your company going in the next fi ve years?

SF: I want to expand into other types of invitations—bat and bar mitzvahs, business and corporate events, etc.

SL: What advice do you have for entrepreneurial-minded col-lege students like yourself?

SF: There are so many good ideas out there. Usually people are scared their ideas will get stolen. However, they need to talk to people. Don’t be paranoid that people will take your ideas. Being young defi nitely helps, and it also doesn’t mean you’re inca-pable. Effective communication and surrounding yourself with like-minded passionate people will help you succeed.

With that being said, go out and talk to people. We’re for-tunate enough to have a great support team and to go to school with many talented and gifted students.

If you are interested in learn-ing more about Greenvelope, go to http://www.greenvelope.com.

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