By KRISTEN MIANONews Editor

Last year Saint Louis Uni-versity’s campus observed events that included students being threatened, crosses that represented the LGBT com-munity stolen and other bias incidents that detrimentally affected students. This year, Student Government Associa-tion is taking p r o a c t i v e measures in order to aid in the fight to eliminate such inci-dents from campus.

“We as the students of Saint Lou-is Univer-sity should be open to growth in seeking to develop an in-clusive atmosphere,” reads a whereas-statement in the most recent SGA proposal that has, after its passage, formed a coalition to handle the task of fully developing and distrib-uting a student creed.

“This is not necessarily a holistic creed in the sense of how students should be act-ing physically, mentally, so-cially or spiritually but more of a creed of what it means to be a member of this commu-nity and how to help foster a community of inclusion,” SGA President Courtney Anvender said.

This creed began its for-mulation over the summer months, and has since been a collaborative project between SGA and many of the mul-ticultural organizations on campus.

In terms of the most cur-rent draft of the creed, Vice President of Diversity and Social Justice Oscar Vasquez stated that for the most part, “[The organization’s] opin-ion was that it looked really good.”

One such multicultural group that was considered was Rainbow Alliance.

Thomas Bloom is the pres-ident of the organization and was a co-sponsor of the reso-

lution.“As students and as mem-

bers of the SLU community, we all hold some responsi-bility when our fellow stu-dents are victimized and op-pressed,” Bloom said. “The newly formed creed coalition is about taking accountabil-ity for our shortcomings and building a strong commu-nity.”

S o m e senators ex-pressed con-cern with the fact that the creation of the creed was not shared with the wider SLU con-s t i t u e n c y . Therefore, they felt that it might not fully em-

body the values of the campus in its entirety.

“This creed was sent out to all of [Senate] so there’s 13,000 students represented right there. Hopefully every-one did their job and read the creed,” Anvender said, re-sponding to the inquiry refer-ring to the fact that the sena-tors represent the larger SLU community.

Another senator asked about how this creed differs from the “We Are All Billik-ens” campaign that was spon-sored by the Great Issues Committee last year.

“I feel that ‘We Are All Billikens’ was a temporary thing,” Vasquez said. “The in-tent of the coalition is to carry this [creed] for years and years to come. The continu-ity of the coalition will be sig-nificantly longer than the ‘We Are All Billikens’ campaign.”

Vasquez expressed that ideally there will be a “Creed Week” after students come back from winter break.

It will be during that week that the creed will be released and distributed.

Participation in the coali-tion is open to any interested student, regardless of mem-bership in SGA.

Another resolution and bill were also passed in Senate.

By SEAN WORLEYAssistant News Editor

Campus events prompt SGA action

By ASHLEY SELASContributor

1 in 100 American adults is incarcerated at some point in his/her life.

On average, 60% of individuals without an education will be sent back to prison after being released.

0-15% of individuals with an education will be sent back to prison after being released.

30 Years Ago in Missouri:3,000 prisoners

7,000 on parole and probation

1 in 31 adults is in prison, on parole, or behind bars.

Today in Missouri:31,000 prisoners

75,000 on parole and probation

A study of 200 inmates found that the only program with a 0% recidivism rate was a college-in-prison program.

SLU is the only college with a college-in-prison program in Missouri.

Program educates prison community

College In Prison aims to give inmates opportunity

Inmates at the Bonne Terre prison listen to theology professor Grant Kaplan during a lecture offered through the Saint Louis University In Prison Program. SLU is the only college that offers such a program in Missouri.

Submitted Photo by Mary Gould, Department of Communication

The Saint Louis University College In Prison Program is an initiative that started in 2008 that brings college courses into the Bonne Terre prison.

The program so far has just offered a certificate in theology to inmates, but the program is expanding off four new, general education certificates to a larger number of students.

The SLU CIPP was started by Kenneth Parker, an associate professor of historical theology. Parker got the idea for the program after a watching a particular episode of 60 Minutes that covered other college in prison programs.

“I was given a nudge by one of my tenants, a woman who was in and out of prison 11 times in her early life, but a woman of sterling character now,” Parker said. “She saw the same episode I did. And I said that’s such an incredible idea, taking college courses into prisons. I’d do it, but I’m much too busy. And she had this wonderful line and said, ‘No ones too busy to do the right thing once they see that it needs to be done’.”

Parker said that he took this as a nudge from God to get something started. Eight months later, he found himself inside the Bonne Terre Prison in Missouri with a class of 15 students.

The program took about two and a half years to implement the certificate of theology so that the Department of Corrections could get a feel for the program. A year and a half ago, the department came to Parker and requested that they expand the program.

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Panel addresses educational successBy KRISTEN MIANO

News Editor

On Sept. 22, the Saint Louis University Theology Club held the “Finding Christ in Prison: What We Learned About Learning in Prison” panel discussion.

The event featured speakers who had taught in SLU’s College In Prison program: Kenneth Parker, Grant Kaplan and Ron Modras. Each spoke about their experiences teaching inmates at the Bonne Terre Prison in Missouri.

Parker spoke about how he came to find the program, as he attests that the project is not his own. The idea came to him after he watched an episode of 60 Minutes, which featured the college-in-prison program at Bard College.

“I thought ‘Someone should do this at SLU, but I’m too busy,’” Parker said.

Parker went through with the idea anyway after a conversation with a tenant of his, who assured him that there was always time to do the right thing. He recalled that once he was in the prison classroom, he was struck by the intensity of the students and their “intellectual starvation.”

“I remember one student in particular who was afraid he was going to lose his spot when he was on probation. He said ‘This class is the only thing I have to live for right now.’”

With a grant from the Hearst Foundation and the support of various faculty members at SLU, Parker will be expanding the program to include more courses and a tract for the prison staff.

Modras, a professor in the theology department, taught in the program last fall. He spoke about how even though we are at different places in life we are all apart of the Jesuit family. He had two stories to share about members of the “family.”

The first was about Paul, a student inmate who grew so passionate about the Jesuit philosophy that he came to Modras and expressed his desire to do the Spiritual Exercises.

The Spiritual Exercises usually require a mentor of some kind to complete. Paul had no access to a mentor, so Modras gave him a book on how to do the Exercises alone.

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SLU-Fuse aims to assist low-income students

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The newly formed creed coalition is about taking accountability for our shortcomings and build-ing a strong community.-Thomas Bloom

Medical program takes honors

High school students take part in an anatomy experiment during the AIMS program.

Submitted photo by AIMS Program

The Adventures in Medicine and Science (AIMS) Program of Saint Louis University placed second out of 160 programs in the 2008-2009 Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration Pinnacle competition. AIMS is the only program of its kind in the country that gives students of all ages an opportunity to experience anatomy, health and science education in a real tactile way.

Lisa Suggs, AIMS program manager, said that the goal of the program is to educate future health care professionals.

“Everyone can remember the event that sparked their passion in a particular subject, and we get to provide those inspiring events to kids every day,” Suggs said.

AIMS program strives to teach youth about basic anatomy and health care, help high school and college students understand premedical career options, and bring families together through family medical school labs.

The AIMS program possesses a variety of workshops aimed to excite students and health care professionals that are interested in all areas of medicine. The programs that are offered for middle school students concern basic anatomy and health. With some of the workshops and presentations pertaining to damaged organs, students can see what the effects of certain health practices are. Therefore, good practices can be reinforced in a learning atmosphere, Suggs said.

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By ALLEGRA MERRIWEATHER

Contributor

Saint Louis University Undergraduates for Socio-Economic Diversity, known as

SLU Fuse, is working to make economic diversity a reality on SLU’s campus through awareness promotion. University Fuse, or U-Fuse which is the coalition under which SLU Fuse operates, works to improve socio-economic diversity, as well as awareness at our nationís top colleges and universities.

“[SLU Fuse] wants to strengthen the already-existent organization and give the same opportunities to all students,” Jamie James, SLU Fuse board member and at-

large liaison member on the national board, said.

Two years ago, James partnered with two students from Washington University in St. Louis and one student from Duke University to form U-Fuse, to address socio-economic diversity among college students.

Socio-economics is the study of the relationship between economic activity and social life.

The field is often considered multidisciplinary, using theories and methods from sociology, economics, history, psychology and many others.

James said that one major push SLU Fuse is addressing is the promotion and advertisement of scholarship opportunities at

the University. There is an emergency

fund in place that many don’t know about until it is too late to use, James said.

Assistant Provost of Financial Services Cari Wickliffe stated that only about 50 to100 students are taking advantage of this fund.

Wickliffe said that the aid is also only offered on a first come, first served basis and should only be used as a last resort.

James said that the goal for SLU Fuse this year is increase awareness. The board has incentives in place to acclimate students to the campus, such as working with the Trio campaign, a federal Read and Recycle

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Rubina BaigLet Us Introduce You

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By MAHA SALMAN Contributor

Senior Rubina Baig has just assumed the new role as president of the Diversity Leadership Cabinet, and she said she has big plans.

Though she was born in Chicago, Baig’s family is from Hyderabad, India. Baig said her ties to her culture remain strong, and that her curiosity for different cultures grows more by the day.

“One of the great things about my heritage is the value of family and the beauty of Indian culture and tradition,” Baig said. “Food, clothing, music, dance, art all have developed greatly over the course of centuries, and the influence of surrounding countries is evident in them. On the other hand, it is amaz-ing to see how other countries’ traditions have been affected by Indian culture, too.”

A biology and pre-medical major, Baig said she came to SLU, “wanting to try some-thing different.”

Therefore, upon arriving at SLU, Baig joined the Filipino Student Association, where she served as secretary her sophomore year. Baig said that, soon, FSA became her family. It was not until her junior year that Baig said she decided to join the Diversity Leadership Cabinet.

“The DLC is important to me because each little initia-tive we start becomes wide-spread really fast,” Baig said.

The DLC serves as the stu-dent voice for diversity and social justice concerns on campus. The organization is made up of various represen-tatives from the different eth-nic and social justice groups within campus, and strives to promote diversity and social justice awareness.

The basic initiative that the DLC wishes to represent on campus is to display respect and appreciation for the dif-ferent cultures and ethnic groups on campus.

“This year, my goal is to bring the definition of diver-sity to mean more than a dif-ference in race or ethnicity. Diversity actually encompass-es every difference between every student,” Baig said. “No matter how big or small that difference, respect is going to be addressed to each per-son.”

Baig said her new plans consist of a Student Creed,

which she has revised and edited along with Student Government Association President Cour tney Anvender.

“The Creed was something that we felt we needed last year. Some students men-tioned there was no sense of ritual or ceremonial pledge of entrance into the University, and many organizations have their pledge to enter as a member of that organization. So, over the summer, I draft-ed a creed that I thought sat-isfied the need for acceptance and respect of differences, as well as called for the best character of students, kind of defining the ‘ideal’ Billiken,” Baig said.

Baig said that she and Anvender have been work-ing on this creed over the summer and hope to finalize it soon.

She said she also wants to expand the Diversity Leadership Cabinet to make it more prevalent on campus.

Baig is also working on a video project for her organiza-tion. She has been in contact with a video company and has been striving toward creating

a video that will “[showcase] and [encourage] respect for different ethnicities and cul-tures,” she said.

Baig said that she thinks scientific phenomena are interesting, and has been cap-tivated by the field since junior high. Baig said she decided to study biology and pre-medicine and that she enjoys the learning experiences that have been available to her through her major.

“Right now, I’m dissecting sharks in my anatomy class, and over the summer I went spelunking every other day in my cave biology class,” Baig said.

“I wouldn’t trade this expe-rience for anything.”

After graduation, Baig plans to attend medical school and is seeking to become a pediatrician because she said she loves working with chil-dren.

When she is not studying, Baig enjoys making music, visiting the tennis court and hitting the dance floor to show off her hip-hop skills. She also said she is learning to play classical piano with a little help from her roommate.

DLC chairwoman promotes diversity, dissects sharks

Griesedieck tower receives renovations

Griesedieck Hall, cur-rently home to 484 freshmen and sophomore students, has been under construction since students moved onto campus in mid-August.

However, students said that they know little about the construction being done on the building that they call home.

“I don’t know what they are doing,” freshman Griesedieck Hall resident Amanda Porter said. “Maybe they are build-ing us a swimming pool up there.”

According to Dawn Aldrich, associate director of Housing and Residence Life, the resi-dence hall is undergoing a tuck-pointing procedure.

Tuck-pointing, which

Aldrich said is a common con-struction process, involves replacing and repairing the mortar between brick joints. Even the most structurally sound brick buildings require tuck-pointing maintenance eventually; mortar deterio-rates over time from being exposed to the elements.

Aldrich said that leaks had been occurring in a number of rooms last year, and that the tuck-pointing procedure would ensure a tight seal to prevent water from entering the rooms through fissures and in the brick.

Aldrich said that the proj-ect is now in its final stages.

“They are done grouting the brick and have begun cleaning and sealing. The projected is expected to be completed by the first week in October,” she said.

Aldrich also responded to rumors about the Griesedieck Towers that have been spread across campus.

“There are no bricks fall-ing from the building,” she said.

“And the new mattresses in the Griesedieck building were not purchased because the old ones had bed bugs.”

The Griesedieck Tower received a major facelift in 2004, which included the addition of the dining hall.

Since then, only minor maintenance renovations have been completed on the building.

The Griesedieck renova-tions do not include plans for a rooftop swimming pool, but students can look forward to remaining dry and comfort-able in their leak-free dorm rooms.

By MEGAN SAKSEFSKIContributor

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Billikens and students alike came out for Quad Day on Sept. 22. Quad Day featured an out-door showing of Toy Story 3 and games to celebrate Homecoming Week.

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News 3SLU goes the virtual distance

More than 900 students, faculty and staff of the Saint Louis University community came together this summer in order to improve and main-tain a healthier and more active lifestyle through the “Walk to Madrid” program, held this year from June 1 to Aug. 24.

The general goal of the pro-gram was for the participating teams to take a virtual walk – that is, to travel the equivalent distance without actually hav-ing to walk across the Atlantic Ocean – from the SLU cam-pus in St. Louis to the SLU campus in Madrid, a distance of 4,415 miles, according to the program’s website. In order to accomplish this task, participants were encouraged to take 10,000 steps per day.

The idea came from collaboration between Human Resources, Campus Recreation and SLUCare Cardiac Rehab.

“We wanted to incorporate the concept of 10,000 steps each day with walking to our Madrid Campus,” Eric Anderson, director of Campus Recreation, said. “Overall, it was meant to increase par-ticipants’ physical activity through a team concept and share weekly tips related to overall wellness.”

The teams were made up of five to 10 students, faculty

or staff, and each team mem-ber received a pedometer to count his or her daily steps.

At the end of every week, the teams would sum up their total steps and use the pedom-eter to calculate how many miles they had traveled.

The program was both competitive and cooperative, with each team fighting for awards for the most miles trav-eled, while at the same time combining their totals into one huge step-count in order to reach the Madrid campus, which is approximately 8.8 million steps from the Frost Campus clocktower.

Along with step totals, each week was complimented by a “Tip of the Week” to help participants stay healthy and keep going.

Some topics included proper shoe choice, target pulse and heart rate, work-out information and maintain-ing an exercise program well after the “Walk to Madrid” competition was complete. Competitions also included awards for team spirit, best walking photo and most improved team.

Anderson said that the pro-gram was a great success, with some teams walking a distance equal to cities like Pittsburg, Washington D.C., and the number one team, Extreme Heat, making it to the Atlantic Ocean.

In total, the participants made it to Madrid and back

three times for a total dis-tance traveled of 28,287 miles, and a total step-count greater than 56 million.

Heidi Buffington, team captain of the Stride Rights, one of the top five teams at the end of the program, said that the program had a posi-tive effect on those that were already physically active, as well as those who didn’t exer-cise as much.

“For people who aren’t usually active and maybe should be, it was a fantastic program,” Buffington said.

Buffington is an employee at SLU’s Madrid campus and participates in triathlons. She said that, for her, the program didn’t change much about daily life, but for those on her team that were less athletic, she saw definite improve-ment.

“Many people on my team were commenting that they were taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or were spend-ing time walking after meals,” Buffington said.

Buffington also mentioned that, for the most part, step-counts improved week by week for her teammates and herself. In the end, her team walked 601 miles, a mileage greater than the distance from St. Louis to Pittsburg.

“We’d have conversations about how we did during a specific week and I think this helped to keep us going,” Buffington said.

by WOLF HOWARDContributor

Contest participants walk to Madrid campus six times

SLU recognized for post-military education

For the second year in a row, Saint Louis University was honored as a “MilitaryFriendly School” in G.I. Jobs’ list. G.I. Jobs is a magazine for military mem-bers in transition that offers advice on education oppor-tunities, career tips and how to adapt to a “post-military” lifestyle.

This year, SLU was fea-tured among the top 15 per-cent of colleges as an institu-tion that is giving veterans the best possible educational experience.

Specifically, the magazine listed several criteria for this honor: “efforts to recruit and retain military and veteran students, results in recruit-ing military and veteran stu-dents, and academic accredi-tations.”

“We are a University with many opportunities for vet-erans and the military, but I think we mainly received this honor because of our involve-ment in the Yellow Ribbon Program,” Veteran Certify Official Jennifer Matteson said.

The Yellow Ribbon Program started in August 2009, when the post-9/11 G.I. Bill was registered.

This bill created caps on the maximum free tuition awarded.

It paid up to the highest public in-state undergraduate tuition and fees.

To make it more affordable for the military and veterans, SLU made a deal with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to cover 50 percent of the remaining

SLU tuition left after the G.I. bill. The V.A. ended up matching what was left, and this encouraged veterans to pursue an education.

“This Yellow Ribbon Program now covers roughly 50 students at SLU and it works on a first come, first served basis. I think the fact that SLU took this opportu-nity to help out the veter-ans right away gave us the honor,” Matteson said.

The Office of the Registrar was unable to tally the exact amount of military and vet-erans at SLU, but Matteson said that she roughly certifies around 160.

“I think it’s great that

SLU has the Yellow Ribbon Program,” Air Force veteran Sheena Yates, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said.

Matteson also said that SLU has many other higher education opportunities for veterans and the military.

“SLU allows students to take online classes if they are currently doing military ser-vice. The Graduate Business School and Professional Studies School also evaluate military service and trans-form it into credit through the American Council,” Matteson said.

Clayton Berry, director of Media Relations, said that he feels this award exempli-fies the values the University upholds.

“This honor recognizes our commitment to expand-ing higher education opportu-nities for veterans and mem-bers of the military,” Berry said.

“At SLU, it’s our mission to form students as men and women for others,” Berry said. “The men and women of the Armed Forces have already lived this mission by serving our country.”

by NIHARIKA GOPARAJUStaff Writer

Kenneth Parker answers questions at the “Finding Christ in Prison” panel Wednesday night.

Prison: Program has positive effect on inmates

SLU Fuse: Campus organization seeks to assist students of low socio-economic status

AIMS: Medical department awarded for innovative efforts to educate young students

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“Paul said [the Spiritual Exercises] gave him strength to keep going. The Spiritual Exercises, which he made on his own, were giving him strength,” Modras said.

The second story was about another student named Jim. In one of the readings assigned, Jim expressed a serious problem with the use of the word “integrity.” He had been subjected to a screening, which required him to urinate for testing. He protested, stat-ing he was unable to urinate on command. The officer con-ducting the test responded by saying that, “the integrity of the system says you need to urinate on command,” and punished him by putting him in solitary confinement for eight months. The same officer later reduced his sen-

“So, along with Heather Rich from the Corporate Development Office, we worked to put together a grant application to the Hearst Foundation, which turned out to be successful,” Parker said.

The Hearst Foundation is a private foundation that works in the fields of education, health and social service. The SLU CIPP received about $150,000 from the Hearst Foundation to put together a program that will provide education for both inmates and prison staff members.

Parker recalled how pleased the program officer from the Hearst Foundation was with the program.

“She said that this is the most inspiring site visit she had in her 23 years with the Hearst Foundation,” Parker said. “It’s because of our stu-dents. They’re very impres-sive men who have been transformed by the experi-ence of education.”

The revamped program will begin in January and will have a curriculum featur-ing parallel courses for the inmates and the custody offi-cers.

College- in -Prison Programs have been shown to have a positive effect on those who participate in them.

On average, once an indi-vidual has been incarcerated, there is a 60 percent chance that they will be incarcerated again. When an incarcerated person is educated, however, that chance drops to below 15 percent.

“We see this as a matter of civic responsibility. It is the most effective way to create a safer society and to turn some bright people into law-abiding citizens, rather than warehouse them in prisons at $40.000 a year,” said Parker.

To date, 15 students have graduated from SLU CIPP. With the Hearst Foundation grant, the program is looking to expand its courses from a certificate in theology to an associates degree in arts.

Parker stated that it is a small program, but little more

can be afforded since Pell Grants were pulled for col-lege-in-prison style programs.

The Pell Grant is a grant program that provides aid pri-marily to low-income under-graduate students.

In 1994, an initiative by Senator Jesse Helms barred access to these grants for incarcerated individuals, forc-ing roughly 350 prison educa-tion programs to shut down across the country. The argu-ment was if Pell Grants were given to prisoners, law-abid-ing citizens would not receive them. At the height of the use of Pell Grants for incarcer-ated persons, however, only six tenths of one percent of the grants issued were given to prisoners.

“It was a small sum, but it made a huge difference in prison life,” Parker said. “And our hypothesis is having even a small population going through an undergrad degree program will have a positive effect on prison culture. “

Currently, SLU’s program is the only college-in-pris-on program in the state of Missouri.

It is unique in that it serves not only the inmates, but the prison staff as well.

Dr. Tobias Winright, a pro-fessor of theological ethics, can attest to how important it is that the prison staff is included. Winright worked his way through college by taking jobs in law enforce-ment, including some time as a corrections officer in a maximum security facility.

“I know from experience that [prison staff] also often lacks adequate resourc-es with which to pursue a degree in higher education, so doing this will hopefully head off any bitterness they might have harbored toward inmates benefitting from this program. Plus it should prove rewarding to these officers participating both personally and professionally,” Winright said. “This program may indeed spark a much needed rethinking of prisons, and I know colleagues at other uni-versities who are expressing interest in transplanting simi-lar programs to their institu-

tions.” Parker believes that the

heart of SLU CIPPs is in the Gospel of Matthew: 25.

“Matthew: 25 is the parable about the king who says to the righteous welcome, because when I was hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, a stranger and in prison, you were present to me. So often all those other dimensions of what Christ said we should do, we think about in very conscience and deliberate way when we think about social justice. And it’s often that last part, ‘in prison’, we leave off the list.”

Parker states that working in a prison changed where he sees Christ in the world. To see Christ in prison is a pro-found realization for him.

The change the program has had on the inmates has also been dramatic. In his graduation address, inmate and student, Raymond Scott, spoke of how important the experience in the classroom.

“There have been so many memorable people, places and events…but I think the most important thing is that we learned about the human condition and we have grown a little closer to God,” Scott said. “What if we, the bottom rung of society, could have a positive effect, not only on other prisoners, but on the very society we have been removed from?”

As the program expands, Parker hopes to see the sup-port extend from the prison to the community.

“What I’m conscience of is that the issue of incarcera-tion is not just about people locked up, but the children of the incarcerated,” Parker said. “They are being effect-ed emotionally, academically, they’re living circumstances are not the best.”

There is also hope that the program can extend to youths who may be at-risk.

“For me as a theologian, I’m speaking from the heart when I say this is God’s proj-ect,” Parker said.

SLU CIPP creates a lot of hope within the commu-nity that real change can be brought to the prison system across the board.

to 25 different states and Canada.

These teleconferences are broadcast in several classrooms at once, allowing for the students to correspond with the medical professional doing the demonstration.

Suggs said that the AIMS program exhibits great potential to grow in the coming years, with student attendance increasing significantly as more programs are installed and new innovations are added to the AIMS mission.

“We believe that through AIMS, we advance the mission of the University by inspiring the next generation of medical professionals and raising awareness of healthy living that improves the quality of life for all,” Suggs said.

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Panel: Professors share stories of teaching in prison tence and took him out of confinement.

“When he told the story,” said Modras, “there was no anger, no resentment.”

To Modras, Jim was an example of forgiveness we rarely ever see.

Dr. Kaplan, another theolo-gy professor, spoke about his recent experience teaching in the Bonne Terre Prison.

“I had to go through an ori-entation process. The impres-sion I got from the orientation was that the prisoners may seem nice, but they are really all out to manipulate you. And before you know it, you’ll be a drug mule or something.”

Kaplan admitted that he was a little scared when he first walked into the class-room, but he soon came to realize that the inmates were normal people and he was

merely adhering to an image he had built about them.

One of the most impor-tant things he realized about the program was the sense of belonging and kinship that was built in the classroom.

“It’s not so much they taught me and I learned a lot, but the sense of belonging was what mattered. At the end of the class, I felt some sadness. And I really miss those guys,” Kaplan said

The panel was followed by a short question and answer session, much of which addressed the future plans for the program.

The night ended with an opportunity for the students in attendance to meet with leaders of various service organizations to learn how they could get involved with similar programs.

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Graphic by Ryan Giacomino

grant given to first genera-tion graduates, and present-ing preview days for incom-ing and prospective students and prospective students in the fields of math and science to decrease the drop-out rate among students, which James said is “huge.”

Federal Work Study and Careerlink programs can be difficult for students to find, and, according to James, it took her until her second semester of freshman year

to learn how to apply for a job she said she had needed since the beginning.

Another initiative that SLU Fuse has in place is one that seeks to aid anyone desiring to “go Greek.” James said that no one should be denied the opportunity to participate in Greek Life because of a nega-tive financial situation.

A possible solution would be for alumni members to contribute to a fund to help people who may not be able to afford the dues and cost of membership.

Ray Vollmer, the program’s coordinator, said that AIMS teaches anatomy so that students can do better in the classroom while learning the power of a healthy lifestyle.

“Giving young people an opportunity to learn more about their bodies and how to remain healthy is very rewarding,” Suggs said.

High school students have been participating in week-long AIMS summer workshops where they can be exposed to real anatomical experiences, such as suturing labs that they conduct themselves, as well as demonstrations from SLU’s medical school professors on the latest techniques in surgery.

AIMS also offers The

Incredible Human Body, a program offered to families who can experience the body in 3-D with a state-of-the-art operating microscope and a fully-dissected human cadaver.

The facilities within Young Hall, where the AIMS program is located, are innovative with an auditorium to house large 3-D presentations, as well as several labs each containing a monitor so that as students are physically working with the different specimens, it is easy to follow along with the instructor.

The AIMS program gathered international attention when the virtual anatomy classroom came to fruition in 2002, with the teleconferences reaching

SLU Fuse was created to increase diversity awareness on campus and to show the University community the importance of tolerance and understanding of others.

Student diversity on cam-pus ranges from low-income status to legally emancipated students to single parents.

SLU Fuse will continue to work toward these initiatives even after James graduates in December.

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SLU extends its Jesuit mission, breaking barriers and bars, to educate

Summer exhales its final breaths these days; we revel in the heat of the sun by day and feel the chill of fall creep at the onset of night. When we make our hurried escapes from cold, air-conditioned rooms to the refreshing glow of the sun outside, our skin tingles and warms with the thrill-ing change of temperature. We relish this freedom from the constraining classroom.

Ironically, the classroom is where the incarcerated at the Eastern Reception and Diagnostic Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Mo. are experienc-ing a similar rejuve-nation. The Theology Department at Saint Louis University recent-ly started the College in Prison Program there, which gives these indi-viduals opportunities to earn an associate’s degree in theology. With our Jesuit mission in mind, professors are helping inmates in the process of recovering stable societal niches.

The program has potential to cultivate bright futures. A majority of inmates that receive some kind of education while serv-ing their time will successfully integrate into society – only a very few relapse into crime. Guards are also included in this pro-gram; since guards tend to be on the same socio-economic level as the people they watch, they equally gain greater access to better job opportunities with a degree. We act as men and women for others by not only helping some of the most neglected

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people on the social spectrum avoid harm-ful behaviors, but also by ensuring the safety of surrounding community members outside of prison.

We are taught in theology that divin-ity lies in love and kindness for others, an idea grounded in the sophism of shared humanity. Doctrine aside, this holds true as a maxim: we deserve kindness as human beings and we are moved by it. Theology,

while based in Christian pedagogy and doctrine, introduces us to a moral compass that can gear us toward becoming kind individuals. The altruism that this program extends toward inmates can help improve the rehabilita-tion process that so many jails disregard or neglect; they can gain more than a degree from their time spent in these congruous

and communal learning environments.Theology shouldn’t be the only subject

taught, however. The program can give more to these people, should other degrees be made available. We want to see the pro-gram expand to include other majors, per-mitting inmates to seek different jobs with more stable futures, post-prison.

This program embraces the notion that people deserve to transform their lives. Through that gradual process of imbibing the knowledge that we call education, we hope that released inmates will not only be rejuvenated by a vivacious sun after the cold of their long years in prison, but also empowered with a degree in hand.

Throngs of students would likely flock to the Busch Student Center’s Wool Ballrooms if Malcolm Gladwell were to comply to a last minute talk while promoting his latest book. Chaifetz Arena would be packed if Lance Armstrong were to schedule a short appear-ance at Saint Louis University after speaking at another venue. Situations like these occur more frequently than one would predict. As a result, many events are booked in such a fashion.

More precisely, other institutions are those that schedule events in an approach of such happenstance and flexibility.

Due to a combination of work by Department of Student Life and Student Government Association (though mainly the former), SLU’s student body can anticipate a decrease in politicians, academics and media personas that grace our campus.

Plain and simple, SLU students – as well as organizations – are hurt by a very recent policy change. If not for a member of SGA, a participant in a Chartered Student Organization (CSO) or a student with his/her ear to the ground for the procedural campus rumblings, the policy itself would not attract much attention or be of much interest.

SGA amended the requisite number of days necessary to seek approval for events – such as speakers – and increased the amount of formal paperwork, as well. Prior to the change, the administration required five business days to authorize hosting any event.

New policy disallows flexibility for small CSO events

We are taught in theology that divinity lies in love and kindness for others, an idea grounded in the sophism of a shared humanity.

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Now, 20 business days are required. After receiving confirmation of the event five busi-ness days after booking a room, CSOs now have to suffer through a near month-long wait before they can actually host it.

If an entire month is needed to authorize an event, SLU students can say goodbye to the prospect of impromptu visits from indi-viduals of interest as their schedules open unexpectedly.

Opportunities are not all that will be lost, however. By bringing fewer speakers and hosting fewer events, the possibility for small-er CSOs to grow and increase involvement from students may present itself. Therefore, a less impressive request for funding is then generated at the close of the year, and the likelihood diminishes for the organization’s survival in subsequent semesters.

SLU is an institution of higher learning that prizes augmenting its students’ aware-ness of dynamics in their surrounding envi-ronments.

Why, then, make providing supplementary educational activities, like listening to presen-tations from scholars, more difficult?

All aspects of our campus, whether admin-istrative or student-run, must work in tandem to put the interests of the student body first.

The jump from 5 business days to 20 may appear marginal, but the effect will certainly be felt when we begin to wonder why authors and dignitaries are speaking at every school but ours.

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Lettersto the editor

In an editorial published last week, the author voiced an opinion about the job that Student Ac-tivities Board did, or, as indicated, failed to do, in putting together this year’s homecoming festivities. I would be remiss in my duties as president if I did not reply to this editorial in the organization’s defense. Many months of planning went into mak-ing sure that homecoming would live up to student expectations.

Much of the work was accomplished during the summer, when committee members were scattered across the globe and were supposed to be enjoying their break. I never heard a complaint when they were asked to give up their time to spend hours planning for homecoming.

During our planning, one of the challenges we ran into was the cancellation of the concert’s headlining act. We confirmed the event with hip-hop artist B.o.B., but he backed out at the end of July to take part in a European tour. We consulted to compile a list of alternate acts, and contacted our production team for availability and price. How-ever, we can only send out one bid at a time, also causing a delay in solidifying an act.

We have a budget that designates an amount for homecoming to cover all costs associated with it. Some acts were too expensive. Other acts took several weeks to respond, even though there was consistent follow-up on our end. After reviewing the student body surveys, we were finally able to match an act on the list with one that was available: Tonic.

The choice may not be the top preference for everyone (as any artist really is), but we believe that everyone who attends the concert will have a fantastic time rocking out with their friends and fellow students.

In closing, everyone is entitled to voice their opinions about the homecoming celebration. All comments will be welcomed and would prove valuable for the future. However, we ask that this feedback be given in a productive and appropriate manner, and not in a disrespectful editorial, where no one person takes responsibility for the com-ments made. SAB is here to serve the students and I am very proud of the job we have done thus far. I know how much effort and time was involved in the planning, and hope that all of the students and alumni and their families will have a wonderful, enjoyable time.

Hope to see ever yone there!

-Stephanie Hart, President, Student Activities Board

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I’m a big believer in the idea that life is about the journey, not the destination. However,

I think that this popu-lar saying lacks some i n s i g h t . Sure, the journey is important, but how do you start it if you don’t know from where you are start-

ing? The starting point. To me, it is just as crucial as the journey itself.

Whether we’d like to admit it or not, our past, our back-ground and our upbringing all have something to do with who we are as individuals to-day. If your goal is, to change who that person is or, like myself, just try to understand that person better, you have to look at the start-ing point. I’m a De-t r o i t e r. I was born and r a i s e d five min-utes out-side of Motown.

I ’ m a proud c i t i z e n of Hock-e y t o w n and a true lover of the Motorcity. Detroit is home.

It is my starting point, and like any map, I would not be able to find direction without it. Although I may name my starting point after an actual city, it doesn’t mean that its location is what makes it im-portant. Location really has nothing to do with a journey.

While it may be more ex-citing to tell a story that hap-pened in New Zealand instead of New Jersey, location isn’t what makes a journey suc-cessful.

Yes, I would much rather visit Prague than Pittsburgh, but that is not to say life les-sons cannot be learned any-where and everywhere.

I believe a starting point is not a certain location, but is rather the aspects of life that have created an individual be-ing.

Detroit means more than just a set of city limits to me.

It’s a rhythm that, over time, tends to synchronize with the beat of your heart.

It’s a collaboration of people working together, whenever and however, to bring back a once-thriving and unique culture that was lost amongst years of turmoil and defeat.

It’s hope. This is where I have started my journey. I have started with the rhythm of Detroit pulsing through my veins and the never-ending beauty of hope keeping me determined to find my path, just as Detroit is trying to find its way back to its own.

Just as Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, has inspired me to pursue this journey of self-discovery, I have been deeply inspired by another writer to never let my starting point out of sight.

Another native Detroiter, Chris Hansen, affected me

with his Dateline NBC spe-cial about Detroit in ways that I didn’t r e a l i z e until I be-gan writ-ing this column. I was more than ex-t r emely lucky to get to hear Mr.

Hansen speak right on SLU’s campus just days after I real-ized how crucial his work has been to my own path of self-discovery.

After a wonderfully funny and motivational speech, I spoke to him one-on-one about our shared hometown. It seemed obvious to me that both of our starting points were Detroit.

However, my talk with him fueled something else within me – passion. “Find passion,” he told us near the end of his speech, and I believe that is what I am doing now.

Together, my hope and my passion will lead me on a jour-ney of growth I never really knew could be so enlighten-ing and inspiring.

Laura Hicks is a junior in the College of Education and Public Service.

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Newspaper and book industries in decline

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Laura HiCks

People defined by their roots and passions

As a little girl I can still remember waking up each morning and going in the

kitchen to find my p a r e n t s with the newspaper spread out in front of them.

Peop le could al-ways count on finding a news-paper on their front

porches if they subscribed to it, and if they didn’t, then it would be nothing to walk down the street and buy one for 75 cents or so.

However, it seems recently that not only the newspaper industry, but even the paper book industry, is in decline.

People are stepping out to get the newspaper off their driveways, and reading that their once-reliable paper is go-ing out of business, while oth-ers are reading ads for new computer books.

Last year newspapers lost $37.85 billion in total revenue. That is $7.5 billion less than in 2007.

Print advertising, which helps keep newspapers run-ning, declined by 17.7 per-cent.

Anyway, what I am trying to say is that technology is definitely changing our lives each and every day — and this is a fine example.

It is so simple just to turn on one’s computer and find the big headlines or even to log into the newspaper’s own website. It seems reporters are now writing for the ar-ticles on the Internet, rather than the articles in the paper.

Recently, devices like the Kindle or Barnes and Noble’s Nook are replacing paperback books with computerized ones. They advertise that the books are downloaded from the Internet and are cheaper than store books.

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Eating competition contrary to SLU mission

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The school year is now in full swing, and campus activi-ties have begun to expand the

waistl ines of our so-cial calen-dars. Thus, a note to the wise: Moderation and mind-fulness is necessar y to promote a healthy, well-round-ed gradu-ate. One

such event that needed care-ful consideration was the $250 Graduate Challenge.

On Sept. 9, Saint Louis University promoted The U’s student food challenge in that week’s issue. The competi-tion described a successful challenge as the complete consumption of the restau-rant’s featured sandwich: The Graduate.

The Graduate is comprised of two beef patties, four strips of bacon, two chicken strips, a fried egg, chili, four cheeses, fried onion strings and cheese sauce.

Upon devouring this mam-moth meal, the challenger is rewarded with a cash prize.

The event’s proceeds will be given to the SLU Center for Entrepreneurship scholar-

ship fund. At face value, this appears to be a simple nov-elty event, involving one of America’s growing “sports”- competitive eating, while rais-ing funds for financially chal-lenged students.

Competitive eating has many critical claims that ques-tion the individual practice of said activities.

For instance, participants may experience threats to their personal health: car-diovascular related illness, spiritual conviction – sins of gluttony, suffering invading nausea and vomiting without compensation, etc. However, given our shared value of freedom, we recognize that all participants will make their choice based on indi-vidual motives and justifica-tion, which may or may not be linked to their personal values.

To those persons we say be careful: You may mirror disparaging actions of your academic institution.

The purpose of this re-sponse is to question whether competitive eating is consis-tent with SLU’s Mission state-ment, the shared principles and values upon which the University founds its actions.

Although a complete ex-egesis is beyond the scope of this response, we provide the following excerpts which

may provide initial points for reflection. The SLU Mission Statement reads:

[SLU] is dedicated to lead-ership in the continuing quest for understanding of God’s creation and for the discovery, dissemination and integration of the values, knowledge and skills required to transform society in the spirit of the Gospels.

[SLU] fosters programs that link University resources to local, national and inter-national communities in col-laborative efforts to alleviate ignorance, poverty, injustice and hunger; extend compas-sionate care to the ill and needy; and maintain and im-prove the quality of life for all persons.”

Before parsing-out the rel-evant concepts within our ex-cerpts, let’s first consider a few facts associated with food, global suffering and poverty.

Currently, 68 percent of Americans are either over-weight or obese.

In 2006, more than one-third (831,272) of all deaths were related to a form of car-diovascular disease.

Six million children die in the world every year, due to starvation and malnutrition.

Meat-eating alone contrib-utes to two of the top three causes of global warming.

Given the juxtaposition of

global famine and local abun-dance, how does SLU’s pro-motion of engulfing food for personal motives bed with an orientation toward inte-grated Christian values, for example ‘dissemination and integration of the values...to transform society in the spirit of the Gospels,’ ‘efforts to alleviate ignorance, poverty, injustice and hunger; extend compassionate care to the ill and needy; and maintain and improve the quality of life for all persons?’

If Christian values speak to promoting behaviors that at-tribute value to ourselves and others, then a justification to encourage our students to waste food and poorly treat their bodies is hypocritical at best and heretical at worst.

In the future, let us con-sider, when we mindlessly act without consideration of our core community values, that our actions and behaviors become our core values we hold.

Jesse Walls, MSW, is the Sr. Research Assistant at SLU Family and Community Medicine.

Fred Rottnek, MD, is an Associate Professor at SLU Family and Community Medicine.

The reality of transpor-tation for most college stu-dents can be a thorny subject.

Generally, t h r e e options are ava i l ab le to car-less Saint Louis University s t u d e n t s who must commute to the m e d i c a l c a m p u s for class.

Opt ion one, walking, is not a bad choice.

It’s great cardiovascular exercise and helps reduce a college student’s sky-high risk of blood clots from sitting in class all day.

Option t w o —riding a bicycle—offers a s c e n i c p e d a l a c r o s s the Grand B r i d g e , and chal-l e n g e s students to an always-exhilarating game of “dodge-the-oncoming-pedes-trians-on-the-narrow-side-walk”. Finally, there is the third option, which although the most unreliable, contin-ues to be the most popular: the shuttle.

If the current shuttle sys-tem is the very best trans-portation service that the University can provide between campuses, SLU’s medical campus commuters will face severe difficulties come winter.

As a student without an automobile at SLU, I have found my options for getting from place to place fairly lim-ited.

I could live comfortably with the limitations—if I had a reliable method of getting to my classes on the medical

campus. At present, the untimely

nature of the shuttle buses has left me late for class on a total of four occasions, and my punctuality is not the issue.

I arrive at the shuttle stop well before the suggested time, and have often found myself opting to walk rather than stand around wondering if the shuttle were making its stops on time. Inclement weather also often prevents myself and other students from deciding to walk to class.

Overall, the shuttle bus has proved itself to be less reliable than Wikipedia.

If the University intends to have students moving from campus to campus, they should certainly provide a simple way for students to get

where they have class.

W i t h cold weath-er and the G r a n d B r i d g e c l o s u r e q u i c k l y approach-ing, the a l r e a d y over f low-ing shuttle

buses will likely experience a vast increase in student trav-elers.

The current scramble for shuttle bus seats resembles something close to the final scenes of Titanic, a microcos-mic drama of its own.

There is very clearly a sup-ply-and-demand issue, and to ensure that all SLU students can move about easily, the University needs to obtain more shuttle buses.

Larger buses would also be a valid option.

Any new improvements to this current terrible situation would likely be highly valued by the thousands of SLU stu-dents commuting to and from the medical campus.

Megan Saksefski is a fresh-man in the School of Nursing

to the bookstore and the eu-phoria one feels after select-ing a favorite? I admit, as an avid book-lover and college student that even I have suc-cumb to modern technology and bought a book to avoid getting hold of a car in a busy city like St. Louis and driving.

Secretly, though, I will sometimes go to my book-store when I am at home and buy books the old-fashioned way.

Don’t get me wrong: I do like computers and technol-ogy.

In a lot of aspects, it makes all our lives easier. However, as I grow older I find myself reading the newspaper while eating my bowl of cereal in the morning.

It is my time to catch up on what is going on not only in the world but in my own city. I’m too lazy to go to my lap-

top; and by the time I would think to, I’d be done with my cereal and too busy to look up the daily happenings of the world.

Some people might argue that the economy is what is hurting the once-flourishing industry, and while that is in-deed true to a point, I believe the downfall of printed papers continues as Internet access becomes more accessible. However, one should not panic—for newspapers and printed books are long from dead.

The process of newspaper and book printing dates back several centuries and will continue for years to come. Though, with the increase in technology, there might be a day when one wakes up and there will be no newspaper waiting to be read.

Paper boys will no longer

get up at the crack of dawn, and what we will then rely on to inform us of the world’s ac-tivities will be the sources on the Internet.

The world is continually changing, but reporters will still be the first to cover a big story and authors can contin-ue to write.

It is just the way we read or receive these works that will change.

So while the world contin-ues to grow and change with better and more efficient ways of doing different activi-ties I think I will try to move along with what the future has in store.

But I will certainly try to hold on to the old way of do-ing things for a little while longer.

Nicole Palazzolo is a fresh-man in the College of Arts and

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Almost, Maine tells love stories

Saint Louis University’s University Theatre will be-gin its 2010-2011 season with Almost, Maine, written and originally directed by John Cariani.

“Almost, Maine is a roman-tic comedy that highlights many different love stories with magical twists thrown into them all,” freshman As-sistant Stage Manager, James Hawkins said.

The play takes place in the fictional, northern town of Al-most, Maine and follows the story of Almost’s residents as they find themselves fall-ing unexpectedly in and out of love.

“What makes the show so entertaining is that all the characters are so literal. If they say, ‘I’m falling in love with you,’ they are literally falling down. It’s hilarious,” Hawkins said.

There is one particular scene that illustrates the ro-mantic nature of the play best, and it just happens to be senior cast member Chris Lyons.

“’Getting it Back.’ Con-sidering the play is a bunch of love stories in a mythical setting, this scene best estab-lishes the narrative and is also the most moving of all the scenes,” Lyons said.

The cast is made up of 10 actors: five women and five men. Each of the actors plays two different characters throughout the show. They have been doing four and five hour rehearsals every day.

Tom Martin is the director of the production.

“I always enjoy rehearsals with Tom. He is interested in getting into the ‘meat’ of the story in its own unique way,” Lyons said.

Lyons feels that he is able to identify with his character best in the scene “Story of Hope.”

“Everyone has had some-one in their life that they re-gret losing; this scene is all about that,” Lyons said

Almost, Maine is creating a buzz around campus with stu-dents expressing excitement for the play.

Freshman Arthur Congo is excited to see his resident ad-visor, Billy Bommarito, in the upcoming play.

“Billy really supports all of us in whatever we do, so it

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Seniors Erin Almand and James Canfield are part of the cast for romantic comedy Almost, Maine. This is the first production for the Saint Louis University Theatre’s 2010-2011 season.

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will be cool to watch the show and be able to support him. I look up to him, and I know he’ll appreciate his floor being there,” Congo said.

The actors are not the only ones preparing for the up-coming play. There are many more people who have been contributing to the prepara-tions for the production, such as the set and costume de-signers.

“I haven’t really started working on anything yet, but

I love theatre, and I am so ex-cited to get started on creat-ing costumes. I want to meet everyone in the production.” costume designer Felice La-vergne said.

Since it first opened in the winter of 2005, Almost, Maine has been produced in the United States, as well as places around the world, such as Australia, Germany, Korea and the United Arab Emir-ates.

“The show is coming to-

gether wonderfully. It’s so fun to be a part of. It’s going to be great once it’s all put togeth-er,” Lyons said.

The show opens Oct. 1 and runs on the weekends of Oct. 1 and Oct. 8. Shows will take place in Xavier Hall Theatre on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. The theatre is located on the lower level of the building.

Tickets range from $7 for students to $10 for adult gen-eral admission.

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Tonic will be the opening act at the 2010 Homecoming Concert on Sept. 24. The rock band from Los Angeles formed in the 90s, and has since released five albums.

‘If you could only see’ Tonic at Homecoming

After much speculation, Student Activities Board re-leased the name of their act: Tonic. The band will be per-forming at the homecoming concert, which will take place on Sept. 24.

Upon mentioning the name of the act, many are confused and unfamiliar with whom they are. However, mention the name of their hit ‘90s song “If You Could Only See” and some of this confusion is lift-ed.

This rock band was formed in Los Angeles in the early 90s by singer Emerson Hart and guitarist Jeff Russo who were childhood friends. Shortly af-ter, bassist Dan Lavery joined them.

They released their first album, “Lemon Parade”, in 1996. The album went on to reach platinum status and its hit “If You Could Only See” was the most played rock song of 1997. It also contained lesser-known songs such as “Open Up Your Eyes,” “Casual Affair” and “Wicket Soldier”.

After the success of their debut album, the band re-leased two more: “Sugar” in 1999 and “Head on Straight” in 2002. Sugar contained songs such as “Knock Down Walls,” “Sugar,” and “You Wanted More,” which was featured on the American Pie Soundtrack. “Head on Straight” included songs like “Take Me as I Am,” “Believe Me,” and “Do You Know.”

However, after nearly ten years of touring, the band de-cided to take a break. During this break the three musicians worked on solo projects. Hart released a solo album in 2007 called “Cigarettes and Gaso-line.” This album produced two Top 20 singles. Lavery built a recording studio and

had the opportunity to record and tour with acts such as The Fray. Russo composed songs for film and television shows such as Crossing Jordan along with releasing an album with Low Stars. In addition, they all took time to spend with their families.

In 2009, the band released “A Casual Affair: The Best of Tonic” which was made up of 12 songs from their three al-bums.

However, in May 2010 the band came out of hiatus and released new material in the form of a self-titled album.

This album contains songs such as “Release Me,” “Daffo-dil,” and “I Want It to Be.”

Since their formation, the band has sold over four mil-lion records, had six top ten singles, released platinum al-bums and received Grammy nominations.

The band has been on tour since May promoting their new album, and are set to play four more shows after their performance at SLU.

“The group has some good classic songs that fit the val-ues of homecoming well, and their type of music fits the bill

By ASHLEY JONESArts Editor

for what many SLU students ask for when polled about the concert,” Coordinator for Stu-dent Activities Janelle Dens-berger said.

SAB president Stephanie Hart had a similar opinion, “We are glad to have them.”

The concert will begin at 7 p.m. and will take place in the Georgetown Parking Lot behind Griesedieck Hall. The opening act will be St. Louis resident Javier Mendoza.

For more information about the band, their music or their tour dates, visit tonic-online.com.

On Sept. 27, renowned writer and poet August Klein-zahler will join Saint Louis University as its Jean Drah-mann writer-in-residence.

During his stay, which will continue through Oct. 8, Kleinzahler will be giving a live poetry reading, in addi-tion to a talk on the craft of poetry.

“His poems often have a de-lightful, sardonic humor and crackling energy. Reading him, one feels that anything might enter the poem; any-thing might happen,” associ-ate English professor Devin Johnston said.

Kleinzahler comes to St. Louis after recently complet-ing a series of readings in Australia. He is traveling here from California, where he has lived for over 30 years. Despite his current residen-cy, he was raised in Fort Lee, N.J., which he considers to be his home.

Kleinzahler has authored of a dozen books of poetry and prose. He was most recently awarded the 2008 National Books Critics Circle Award in Poetry for his book Sleeping It Off in Rapid City.

Allen Ginsberg is famously quoted as saying that Klein-zahler’s “verse line is always precise, concrete, intelligent and rare - that quality of ‘chis-eled’ verse memorable of Ba-sil Bunting’s and Ezra Pound’s work. A loner, a genius.”

In response to Ginsberg, Kleinzahler was very modest and self-effacing.

“He’s very kind... he was a very sweet man... quite a mar-vel... the young man he met was certainly not a genius... [Ginsberg] probably knew that quote would follow me around in a nice way... he did me a kindness,” Kleinzahler said.

The writer had the oppor-tunity to study under Basil Bunting at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

Kleinzahler said that “learn-ing that a poem is a composi-tion that is meant to be read aloud in oral medium as it sits on a page like a musical score waiting for the voice bring it to life...” is one of most impor-tant things he learned with

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“Tonic. I’ve only heard one single and I don’t even remember what it’s called. My friend on SAB showed me the original list and there were a lot of good bands on it, but oh, well.

Brendan Waldoch,

Sophomore, John Cook School of Business

“Tonic? I’ve never heard of them. What kind of music is it?”

Joanna Hoge, Senior,

College of Arts and Sciences

“I don’t know the band that is headlinging Friday night. I would like to see The Beatles, or The Apples and Stereo. They did a show last year and are a really fun, electron-icy-pop band. ”

Mark Perniciaro, Sophomore

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This year marks the start of the 100th season for the West End Player’s Guild, which is one of the oldest continually operating theatre companies in St. Louis.

They will be putting on a performance of A Picasso. Directed by Steve Callahan, A Picasso is a fictional story that takes place during the Nazi occupation of Paris in World War II. The Nazis have entered Paris and are stealing art by the ton.

Aside from just merely col-lecting art, they also wish to destroy all art that they deem “degenerate art,” which is any type of art that is not realistic in nature. In other words, there is no surrealism, no cubism, no abstract paintings and most importantly, no Pi-casso.

The story is about Pablo Pi-casso, played by Kevin Beyer, and a woman from the Nazi ministry of culture named Miss Fisher, played by Mag-gie Murphy, whose job it is to verify that the looted Picasso paintings are authentic and not forgeries.

“They aren’t going to burn a forgery; they want to burn the real thing,” Callahan said.

In essence, there are three different realities happening in the play.

“She’s under pressure to get the authentication done. He’s fighting like hell to save his art. And in the process we find out a lot about Picasso and his attitude toward art,

By MATT BOMMARITOStaff Writer

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Miss Fischer (Maggie Murphy) lights a cigarette for Pablo Picasso (Kevin Beyer) in A Picasso.The play begins the 100th season for the West End Players Guild.

Guild celebrates 100th season Opening with performance of Picasso

Based on Chuck Hogan’s novel, Prince of Thieves, Ben Affleck’s The Town delivers

a drama-filled ac-tion flick. Though he both wrote and direct-ed the film, Affleck still has time to give a star per-formance. And al-t h o u g h

slow at times, the gun fights and realistic storyline ulti-mately save The Town.

Taking place in blue-collar Charlestown, Mass., the film follows four bank robbers’ endeavors in a town where everyone knows the busi-ness of everyone else. Affleck delivers as Doug MacRay, a mastermind career criminal who lives his life day to day. As the movie begins, Doug

his fellow partners [and] his attitude toward women. He was a notorious [ladies’ man]; he ran through women like they were going out of style,” Callahan said.

One of the main works of art that is discussed during the play is Picasso’s Guernica. During the Spanish Civil War, the government of Spain com-missioned Picasso to paint a mural to be exhibited in the Spanish pavilion of the 1938 Paris World’s Fair. Picasso did not really know what to paint until Guernica happened.

It was a small town in Basque country that was a very involved with anarchist and communist resistance against Franco’s fascist gov-ernment. Franco commis-sioned the help of the Nazi government in Germany, which was eager to test out its new air force. It was the first time a city was bombed from airplanes. It was so cata-strophic and terrifying that Picasso decided that that was what he was going to paint for the World’s Fair. Naturally, the Nazis want to destroy a paint-ing that depicts them and fas-cism in a negative light.

The dialogue between Pi-casso and Miss Fisher is the central element of the story.

“This struggle that goes on between Miss Fisher and Picasso is intense; it is pas-sionate, it is cunning,” Calla-han said. “They almost come to a deal, and she is willing to half-believe some of his lies, and he kind of agrees with something that would satisfy her. There is almost a meet-

How many pairs of shoes are in your closet? Do you really wear every single pair? Many people do not consider how many shoes they have accumulated over time. When Wayne Elsey, CEO and found-er of Soles4Souls, asks these thought-provoking questions, he helps people realize a bet-ter use for those dusty pairs of sneakers.

Back in 2004 when a cata-strophic tsunami struck Southeast Asia, Elsey, like many, was left wondering what he could do to help. He decided to focus his efforts on one mission: shoes.

Through his efforts, he was able to donate over a quar-ter million shoes to disaster victims. His motto is simple: changing the world one pair at a time.

Since then, the non-profit organization that became known as Soles4Souls has do-nated over 11 million shoes to those affected by other natu-ral disasters. The organiza-tion has been able to continue their efforts with the help of donations and volunteers. However, the Nashville-based charity is now experiencing a

Affleck’s ‘The Town’ presents surprising drama

ing of the minds, but then it falls apart.”

The play also takes a deep-er look into Picasso’s psyche and character, as well as into political, social and cultural is-sues.

“What an incredibly pro-ductive genius. Treated his women like dirt, he really did. But he cared about the stuff he put out,” Callahan said.

This year is the West End Player’s Guild’s 100th season of theatre. It originally started out as a loose association of people that would do theatre in each other’s houses. The Players, as they were called, put on their first show in 1911. The Players are unique in that they completely embraced all aspects of theatre.

“It was a situation of: To-day, I’m going to be the lead in the show, and the next time I’ll direct it, and next time I’ll set up the chairs. And it’s so amazingly rare to have that because usually in a theatre group everyone wants to be in the show,” President Reneé Sevier Monsey said.

She went on to say that, in the future, she hopes for West End Player’s Guild to reach out to the community more and strengthen ties with the local area performing arts high schools.

If you are planning on go-ing to see A Picasso, reserva-tions are suggested. It will be playing Sept. 24- Oct. 3 at the Union Avenue Christian Church in the Central West End, 733 Union Blvd., St. Lou-is, MO 63108. Tickets are $18 each.

By MARIA MULDOONStaff Writer

crisis of their own. They are running out of shoes

Their intense and constant aid to victims of natural disas-ters has bled dry their supply of new and gently-worn shoes. The shortage is a two-part problem, according to Elsey.

“First, Americans are hurt-ing…In everything from the economy to the job market, Americans everywhere are struggling,” he said.

With an increased pov-erty rate of 14.3 percent and an unemployment rate of 9.6 percent, many people and businesses are just not able to be as generous as they once were.

The second part of the problem is that the organiza-tion has simply spread itself too thin with their generosity. Members have made it their mission not only to bring shoes to those recently af-fected by disaster, but to con-tinue supporting those who need it.

Soles4Souls is still sending thousands of shoes to Katrina survivors in the Gulf region while struggling to aid the three million people left desti-tute after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

“Today we shipped out one million pairs of shoes to Hai-

ti,” Elsey said. However, to him, that is not

enough. The commitment Elsey and his staff have to their cause has pushed them to stretch the limits and still succeed.

It is obvious that he fully believes in the mission of his organization.

“Eleven million is admira-ble, but it’s nothing compared to the 300 million that still don’t have shoes,” he said.

Elsey hopes to gain sup-port not by boasting, but by creating awareness about the problem.

“There is a big need out there [for shoes]; we need help filling in that gap,” he said.

Elsey is calling on every single American to help.

“Americans go clean out your closets!”

Those who do not have shoes to donate can still help. For every dollar donated to-ward Soles4Souls, a pair of shoes is donated to someone in need.

Currently, there are three drop-off locations around St. Louis. For more information regarding donations, drop-off locations, as well upcoming events, visit their website at www.soles4souls.org.

Non-for-profit provides shoes to those in need

and his partners James 'Jem' Coughlin (Jeremy Renner), Albert 'Gloansy' Magloan (Slaine) and Dino Ciampa (Titus Welliver) rob a bank in Rastafarian skeleton masks. It becomes clear very quickly that this is not their first bank robbery, as they execute their plan precisely and efficiently.

However, this moment rep-resents the dividing point for the rest of the film, as Doug and Jem slowly move down two different life paths.

As the robbery occurs, the bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall), is forced to open the vault, and Doug takes pity on her. Meanwhile, Jem beats the other manager's face with the butt of his rifle. Fearing Claire could reveal their identities, Doug stalks her and falls in love.

However, as more robber-ies further fuel the hunt of the four friends by FBI agent Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm), Doug and Claire's relation-

ship becomes complicated. And, as a final robbery of Fen-way Park is planned, Doug has to choose between the friends who he grew up with or his new life with Claire.

The film's realism left me feeling as though I grew up with the four friends.

The cinematography of Boston is excellent, and sig-nificantly adds to the home-town feel.

The bank robberies are enjoyable, with gun fights ex-hibiting the truth in a man's desperation to make a quick buck.

The surprising twist, how-ever, is not the ending, but in the ever-present drama of the film. Doug's life is full of hard-ship.

While this often engages audience members, the film does drag at times.

However, overall, The Town was an entertaining film, and I look forward to Ben Affleck’s next directorial effort.

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Bunting.Kleinzahler said that he

is always working on some-thing.

“When something is ready to pop, it makes itself known to me. I don’t really control it.

My writing has a life of its own, and I think that’s one of the upsetting things about poetry for me, because I can’t control it,” he said.

During his visit to SLU, Kleinzahler expects to spend time with students and fac-ulty, sharing his work and his experiences.

He looks forward to getting the opportunity to sit down with students and discuss the craft of poetry and writing.

Kleinzahler’s poetry read-ing will be on Sept. 28 at 4 p.m. in Boileau Hall.

His lecture on the craft of poetry will be on Oct. 5 at the same time and place.

For more information, go to the Sheila Nolan Whalen Reading Series website, at http://www.slu.edu/x33351.xml.

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Prefuse 73 and Royal Bangs played at the Billiken Club on Sept. 22. Above Guillermo Scott Hendren of Prefuse 73, an experimental hip-hop producer, plays the key board.

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SLU announced the women’s basketball schedule.The 29-game slate includes 13 teams that advanced to postseason play a year ago and 10 teams that won 20 or more games.

“It’s competitive, regionally-driven and diverse, and it gives our St. Louis-based fans plenty of opportunities to see us play at home,” head coach Shimmy Gray-Miller said.

Nov. 4 UMSLNov. 7 RockhURSt Nov. 12 WiScoNSiN Nov. 14 MoRgaN State Nov. 17 at BUtLeR Nov. 19 at aRkaNSaS Nov. 21 MURRay State Nov. 24 at iNdiaNa Nov. 28 at SiU- edec. 2 at SiU-cdec. 4 at BRadLey dec. 12 Mo. State dec. 17 MeMphiS dec. 19 FLoRida dec. 22 evaNSviLLe dec. 30 at BaLL State JaN. 2 at teNNeSSee JaN. 8 SaiNt JoSeph’S* JaN. 12 daytoN* JaN. 15 at La SaLLe* JaN. 19 at U-MaSS*JaN. 25 FoRdhaM* JaN. 30 chaRLotte*FeB. 2 at teMpLe* FeB. 5 geoRge WaSh.* FeB. 9 at dUqUeSNe* FeB. 13 at R. iSLaNd*FeB. 16 XavieR* FeB. 19 at chaRLotte* FeB. 23 St. BoNaveNt.* FeB. 26 at RichMoNd*

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University News

After recieving ideas submitted by the stu-dent body, the Athletic Department has select-ed 10 possible names for the student cheering section. Students are encouraged to vote for the new name via their SLU email address.

The winning idea and the new name will be announced in next week’s edition of The University News.

Men’s soccer team enters new era

“I like the fact that the peo-ple that support the program and are interested in the pro-gram want us to be national champions. Those are the kind of people I like having around me—alumni that want us to be national champions, an athletic director in Chris

May that wants us to be national champions.

“If I felt that this was a rebuilding 20-year, 10-year project, we’re happy with where we are in life type of job, I wouldn’t have taken it.”

These lofty goals motivate McGinty as well as his players. Freshman Christian Briggs says McGinty emphasizes the goal of the national championship to motivate the team.

“I think every time we go

By ANDREW BUSHStaff Writer

When the Saint Louis University men’s soccer team squares off against Drake this Saturday, Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Robert R. Hermann Stadium, homecoming will have a different feel for the first time in a decade. The halftime fireworks will still be there—but the head coach will be different.

This time last year, Dan Donigan was still the head coach of the SLU men’s soc-cer team. His team would eventually advance to the second round of the NCAA tournament before losing in overtime against Tulsa.

Meanwhile, Mike McGinty was an associate head coach at the University of Virginia, who finished their season with a victory over Tulsa for the national championship.

Now, as the Billikens (1-2-1) prepare for the home-coming game against Drake (3-4), Donigan is coaching at Rutgers University (3-1-1) and McGinty has taken over the reigns of the program that Donigan led to 118 victories.

“When I did my homework, SLU was I place I felt I could come and build on the work [Donigan] had done, build on the work other coaches before him had done, and I felt that I could win a nation-al championship here. I just came off a national champion-ship and I want to win another one,” McGinty said.

But why did McGinty decide to leave the program that had just been crowned national champions and come to SLU?

“I was the associate head coach at Virginia—and here, obviously, I’m the head coach,” McGinty said.

“So that was the differ-ence for me—to go out and have complete reins of the program.

“I had been at Virginia for 11 years. I learned a lot with the coaches that were there. I was fortunate with a lot of great players there, but there was nothing left for me to do there.

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The Billikens celebrate a goal during an exhibition game against Evansville. The entire freshman class attended the game, which doubled as a spirit contest between the dorms.

Women’s soccer nearing conference play

By MICHAEL JOHNSONStaff Writer

Jenny Hummert and Jessie Jarrett are only 10 games into their collegiate soccer careers, but head coach Tim Champion needs them to per-form like seasoned veterans.

Injuries to upperclassmen have forced the pair of fresh-men to play contributing roles in games, even though they lack experience.

Hummert and Jarrett are not intimidated by the tall task of playing as true fresh-men. Their fearlessness and positive attitudes allow them to flourish in their roles on the field.

Hummert, a St. Louis native, attended St. Joseph’s Academy. She started at mid-fielder for all four years of high school and led her team to a 20-1 record as a senior.

Mostly, she has made a smooth transition to the col-lege game.

“I was a little nervous at first, but because the team was so welcoming and help-ful, it made the adjustment a lot easier.”

Hummert claims her vision of the field to be her strength, but knows there is plenty of room for improvement in her game.

“I need to be more of a team player, improve my through balls and work on connecting passes with my teammates. If I can get better at all of those things, it will lead to more goals for my [team],” Hummert said.

Hummert realizes the need to work well with team-mates. Unlike high school, at Saint Louis University, she deals with girls from all over the map.

Jarrett hails from Dayton, Ohio. She attended Bellbrook High School, where she played four years as a varsity

forward. In her senior cam-paign, she led the Bellbrook squad with 26 goals and dished out 11 assists.

Jarrett hopes that her high school success carries over to college and has set high goals for her career at SLU.

“I want to win an [Atlantic 10] championship in my four years,” Hummert said. “I will play my best and hopefully score some goals along the way.”

Jarrett’s competitiveness and aggressiveness are evi-dent, even in everyday life. “I enjoy taking people on,” Jarrett said.

And Jarrett is not only excited about the high-profile games. In her short time at SLU, she has come to appre-ciate the chemistry the team has formed and the energy surrounding practices and games.

“My teammates are really great, and we all get along and have a lot of fun,” she said. “I also like playing in col-lege more than high school because the atmosphere at the games is much better.”

Champion likes what he sees in the duo and feels the sky is the limit for Hummert and Jarrett.

“Both of them have the potential to be impact players in the future,” Champion said. “They are both very techni-cally gifted, smart and fast players. Now, it is just a mat-ter of maturing and getting more comfortable.”

Champion witnesses their hard work paying off.

“You can see it. They are getting better and more com-fortable every week.”

With players like Hummert and Jarrett leading the youth-ful but talented team, it is a safe assumption to say the Billikens should be a danger-ous team in the A-10 for the next four seasons.

“We won a national cham-pionship and an ACC cham-pionship, and if I was going leave, that’s the way I wanted to be remembered—and it was perfect timing for me and my family to come out here,” McGinty said.

For McGinty, coming from the University of Virginia to SLU has not c h a n g e d the expec-t a t i o n s regarding the suc-cess of the men’s soccer team. At each university, the fans and alum-ni expect to see their team compete for a national cham-pionship. But McGinty does not consider those expecta-tions problematic.

“I have pretty high expec-tations for myself, I have high expectations for my players,” McGinty said.

SLU was a place I felt I could come and build on the work other coaches before me have done.

“”—Mike McGinty

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Men’s soccer head coach Mike McGinty served at Virigina and Wake Forest before coming to Saint Louis University.

New head coach looks to reinvigorate storied program

Pair of freshmen waste no time making presence felt

SLU ends homestand with two 0-0 drawsBy TYLER VACHIO

Staff Writer

The Saint Louis University women’s soccer team hosted two games last weekend, both ending in scoreless draws.

In their first game against Missouri State on Sept. 17, the Lady Bills registered a 17 to 3 shot advantage against the Bears, but were unable to put the ball in the net once.

After two overtime peri-ods, the game ended in a scoreless draw, putting the Billikens at 1-4-3 on the season. This was the third consecutive scoreless draw between the Billikens and the Bears (4-3-1).

This was also the Billikens’ third tie of the season.

“Even though we didn’t put one in, we put some good things together and played with confidence,” head coach Tim Champion said.

Although the Bills never scored, Champion says it was their best offensive match all season.

The 17 shots fired were the most on the year.

Junior midfielder Colleen

Kustura had a career high four shots, senior midfielder Christina Brown fired three shots on goal and freshman midfielder Jenny Hummert also had three shots on Friday night.

Two days later, the Billikens looked to change their luck against Loyola (Md.). The rainy weather in the St. Louis area made for a wet field at Robert R. Hermann Stadium for the Billikens and the Greyhounds.

The wet field conditions did not stop the Lady Bills from breaking their previ-ous shot record from Friday night.

The team fired 19 shots against Loyola, upping their ante set two nights earlier.

The defense also looked good against Loyola. The Greyhounds were held to one shot in the final 65 minutes of the game.

“I’m certainly not unhappy with the way we’re playing,” Champion said.

“We’re playing hard, the intensity level is up and we’re getting more and better scor-ing chances.”

But once again, after 110 minutes of soccer the Lady Bills were not able to put one in the net.

It was another scoreless draw, leaving the Billikens at 1-4-4 on the season.

Sophomore goalkeeper Katie Walsh recorded her fifth shutout of the season, as she denied all five shots on goal from the Greyhounds.

Sophomore fullback Maggie Baumann had a career-high five shots during the game, and Hummert had three shots on goal. Hummert also had a chance late in the second overtime to put home a goal for the Billikens.

The freshman midfielder had a breakaway with 30 sec-onds remaining on the clock. Hummert beat the goaltender to the right side, regained control of the ball and fired a shot to the lower right side of the goal.

The ball was deflected by a Greyhound defender and kicked out of play.

The women head to Iowa City this weekend to take on the Iowa Hawkeyes on Sunday, Sept. 26, at 1 p.m.

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Head coach Tim Champion addresses his team after last weekend’s tie with Missouri State.

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Sports10America’s best sport to watch is...

With October right around the corner, the MLB regular season will finally be wrap-

ping up, the NFL will be in full swing and the c o l l e g e f o o t b a l l season will begin con-f e r e n c e play. But the most e x c i t i n g thing in

sports won’t be the baseball playoffs, and certainly won’t be just another weekend of football games.

The NHL is back. Don’t get me wrong, I love

football, baseball and basket-ball; I played all three in high school and have never played an organized game of hockey in my life. But when it comes to watching a game, nothing can come close to hockey. The speed and energy on the ice cannot be matched from start to finish by any other sport.

A recent Wall Street Journal study found that the average NFL game takes over three hours, but has only 11 min-utes of game play. The rest of the time is taken up by hud-dles, replays, commercials, timeouts and all that other jazz. Hockey is all action, all the time. In this game, 60 minutes on the clock means 60 minutes of action. There is no downtime or standing around talking about the next play.

Everything happens on the fly in hockey, and the excite-ment never stops for the full 60 minutes. Basketball is the only other sport that can make the same claim… but the NBA has become syn-onymous with boring since defense left the league.

In the game of Lord Stanley, you get the best of both worlds. You get the physicality and agility of foot-ball, as well as the endurance and constant action of basket-ball. It’s got football’s bone-crushing hits and basketball’s breathtaking breakaways.

And, oh, yeah: It’s on ice.So as baseball season

winds down and football sea-son drags on, America’s most exciting sport is right around the corner. And, hey, maybe sports fans in this town might actually have something to cheer for.

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Bills soccer season off to slow start

With both the Saint Louis University men’s and wom-en’s soccer teams nearly half-

way done with their r e s p e c -tive cam-p a i g n s , b o t h squads are u n d o u b t -edly mildly d i s a p -p o i n t e d with their r e c o r d s . C o a c h e s

and players surely expected to see a higher number in the wins column.

The men have shown immense potential and prom-ise, working with a young squad and a new coaching staff. Last weekend’s Tulsa game provided a tremendous opportunity to earn national recognition, but the young team failed to play at the top of their game.

“We just didn’t play well,” sophomore Alex Sweetin said. The loss to Tulsa, ranked No. 3 in the nation, dropped the Bills to 1-2-1 on the season.

This weekend, the Billikens have a crucial match-up with the Drake Bulldogs.

This match will likely be tough on the Billikens, with Drake coming into the game 4-0-0.

As for the Lady Billikens, the girls dominated Loyola (Md.) last weekend, amass-ing more shots on goal, con-trolling possession, string-ing great passing sequences together and taking 10 corner kicks.

The Bills had an impres-sive 19 shots in the game, but were never able to catch the back of the net.

The women’s team has a strong core of players, includ-ing freshmen Jenny Hummert and Jessie Jarrett, and sopho-mores Allison Hu, Katie Walsh and Maggie Baumann.

With about 10 matches remaining for both squads, the teams are poised only to improve. Coaches from both teams say with confidence that the Billikens are play-ing well, though they are not getting the results they are looking for.

Many parallels can be drawn between the two teams. Ultimately, SLU is a soccer school at heart and has the teams to prove it. Their records are just not showing it.

Commentary

Luke BieBer

Junior volleyball player leads the court, classroom and community

By WILL WHITEHEADStaff Writer

“Student-Athlete:” a phrase used by schools everywhere to say that they put academics before athletics.

Recent news provides examples of some schools who take the term and the priorities seriously, while others avoid the combination altogether.

By definition, student-athlete is a term that describes the direct balance of a full-time student and a full-time athlete, meaning that an athlete must be a stu-dent first.

Saint Louis University junior Amelia Karges, a nutrition and dietetics major and a volleyball player from Joliet, Ill., fits the true definition perfectly.

During her sophomore year, Karges went on a mission trip to Punta Gorda, Belize. Her mission was to build a library at the school in San Marcos, a small vil-lage in Punta Gorda.

Now how does a full-time college student, a volleyball player with a 3.78 GPA, have time to do all of this?

First, it is a mentality. “I wanted to do some-

thing to benefit others who are less fortunate,” Karges said. “It also allowed me to experience a new cul-ture.”

Second, she had to find time. “It was over spring break, so luckily I did not

have to miss any school,” Karges said. “I had to miss one practice, but my

coaches were totally supportive of my decision to go on the trip.”

Karges said that her family, her teachers, her teammates and her coaches have been sup-portive from the begin-ning.

“Going to Belize on this SLU mission trip was honestly one of the best decisions I have ever made,” Karges said.

“It was definitely life changing because I was able to gain a new perspective on my own life and appreciate things so much more.”

Victor Liou / Photographer

Going to Belize on this mission trip was honestly one of the best decisions I have ever made.

“”—Amelia Karges

McGinty: Team looks to rebound this weekend

to practice it’s always on our mind—we are definitely a very goal-oriented team,” Briggs said. “We think about a lot of things when we train, but it’s [the national championship] that everyone wants.”

Briggs admits that one win out of four games to start the season was not what the team had in mind, but is confident that the team can improve.

“It’s not going to be easy—but once we buy into his phi-losophy what he’s coaching we believe that the goals that we have set will be attained. Coming from a place like Virginia, he has a lot of expe-rience—we need to buy into his philosophy and continue to work hard every day,” Briggs said.

McGinty also is blunt in acknowledging that he is not satisfied with the performanc-es of his team so far.

“If I was 4-0 I wouldn’t be satisfied, either,” McGinty said.

“One thing as a coach, I don’t think you’re ever sat-isfied—you can always do something better. We talk about it every day, what could we have done better? If I was 4-0 or 0-4, it doesn’t matter—I still wouldn’t be satisfied.”

As a head coach, McGinty will always find something for his young team to work on.

When SLU takes the field against Drake this Saturday, the team may not entirely satisfy McGinty. But after an overtime loss last year, a homecoming victory would be more than satisfactory for Billiken fans.

Ryan Giacomino/Photographer

Anne Kordes (center) and her staff look on during a Billiken match. The Bills play Dayton and Xavier this weekend.

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Sports 11

A-10 battle at Chaifetz Arena

By DERRICK NEUNERAssociate Sports Editor

Saint Louis University and the University of Dayton may be 333 miles apart, but when it comes to Atlantic 10 Conference volleyball, their rivalry becomes an epicenter of excitement.

Consider this: the last time the Billikens lost to a confer-ence team other than Dayton was in 2007. The Flyers defeated SLU in the 2009 A-10 Championship and shared the regular season crown with the Bills. The story was a bit dif-ferent in 2008: SLU won the regular season title after beat-ing Dayton. This year, Dayton and SLU are 1-2 in pre-season picks in the A-10 Conference.

In short, there may be no better rivalry in the A-10. Like Jekyll and Hyde, you can’t have one without the other.

“The rivalries and competi-tiveness in the league are at an all-time high,” Billikens head coach Anne Kordes said. “We have a larger target on our

backs this year. We are going to have to work extremely hard to defend that ranking, and we know that because the A-10 programs have done nothing but get better.”

No. 19 Dayton (9-3) rolls into St. Louis this weekend, kicking off A-10 play, to take on the freshly-stocked 5-7 Billikens. SLU graduated five seniors in the spring and fea-tures new play-ers at every position.

The game begins at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24 at Chaifetz Arena. A pep rally for stu-dents will be held on the concourse of the arena, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Free food will be served, and fans will receive a Billiken Blue-Out T-shirt.

While neither team is guar-anteed a win, the one guaran-tee is that the rivalry will be taken to a whole new level.

“We absolutely still expect it to be [a battle] this year again, as they have some real-ly good players returning and their freshman class is ridicu-lous,” UD head coach Kelly Sheffield said. “The coach over there does a great job, and what I’m really excited about is playing them twice this year … Both of these two schools need to play each

other twice a year.”

Dayton will have a lot on the line Friday at Chaifetz. The team is currently on a three-game win-ning streak and is nation-

ally ranked. SLU, on the other hand, looks to regain some footing after a sub-.500 start. Kordes calls conference play “a new beginning” for her young team.

Part of that young team, freshman middle blocker

Andrea Beaty, has been a force at the net for the Billikens; she’s blocked a team-high 31 kills so far this season. She also understands what the Dayton vs. SLU duel means.

“If we beat them, it means a lot more than if they beat us,” Beaty said. “I love play-ing the games where people think the other team is better than you, because that’s the chance to show people, ‘no, we are good.’

“I can see it on [my team-mates’] faces. It’s a big deal [playing Dayton]. We’re going to show them that they aren’t better than us.”

As if the intensity sur-rounding the match couldn’t get any higher, junior Alyssa Deno calls the Friday night match a turning point in the season for the young Bills. Deno explained that, while the team may not have a win-ning record, it is a winning team.

“This would be a huge win, not just because it’s our rival, and it’s our first A-10 game,

6-11 center commits to Billikens

By DERRICK NEUNERAssociate Sports Editor

The Saint Louis University men’s basketball team received a verbal commitment on Sept. 21, from 6’11” center John Manning of Chantilly High, Va. Manning is the first verbal commitment for the Billikens for the 2011 recruit-ing class.

His commitment will become official on Nov. 10, the start of the early signing period.

Manning was a fourth-team all-area selection in Washington, D.C., who made his final decision to come to SLU over Tulane.

He also considered going to George Mason, William and Mary or Central Florida, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

“There’s a lot to like [about SLU],” Manning said to the Post-Dispatch.

“The coaching staff, the players, the facilities, the school itself. It was really tough to decide. Both schools had lot of great things about them, but in the end, the staff and [head coach Rick] Majerus’ history [with get-ting big men into the NBA] was really impressive.”

ESPN.com’s National Recruiting Director Paul Biancardi said that Manning’s skill set will be perfect for Majerus’s system. “[SLU] was looking for a true center who could be a factor in the A-10, and in Manning they found that.

“Manning has terrific hands, showing the ability to catch passes anywhere in the paint … He’s almost ambi-dextrous in the paint. He can shoot jumphooks with either hand, which makes him very difficult to guard.”

Manning will provide more height, power and points at the forward position immedi-ately for SLU.

The Billikens season tips off on Nov. 12, at Chaifetz Arena against Austin Peay State.

but they ranked, and to beat a ranked team would be huge,” Deno said. “It would set the tempo for conference play.”

It would also go a long way toward rebuilding one of the biggest success stories in SLU history.

“This is a year for us to grow as a team and fix our little mistakes,” Deno said. “This is a huge year for [Kordes]. She’s used to hav-ing a team that wins all the time, and she’s had to be a teaching coach more than she has in the past. So we are all growing together.”

Playing Dayton will be tough for the Billikens, but the team will have to rebound quickly; the Xavier Muskateers come calling on Sunday, Sept. 26. Beaty says the team will be ready.

“Not one team has come in and beat us without passion ... we’ve been playing our butts off,” Beaty said.

“We have the chance to play great and do great things this weekend.”

Billikens face No. 19 Dayton, rival Xavier in weekend tilts

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Senior Megan Boken and sophomore Andrea Beaty rise to block a spike from a Lipscomb middle hitter. The Billikens won two out of three this weekend.

It’s a big deal playing Dayton. We are going to show them they aren’t better than us.

“”—Andrea Beaty

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The Fabulous Fox Theatre is just one of the many artistic attractions that can be enjoyed in the Midtown neighborhood. The Fox opened in 1929 and cost an estimated $5,000,000.

Mark Campos / Photographer

By KRISTIN McGUIREStaff Writer

and By JONATHAN ERNSTEditor-in-Chief

New business brings revitalizationMidtown St. Louis Guide

The University News

What students say:

“Being so close to the Art District of St. Louis provides great opportunities for SLU students to see various shows and get off campus a bit.”

– Junior Kate Lucas

“There aren’t too many places that offer such a variety of life and culture; from the movie theater and bowling at the Moolah to the amazing shows at The Fox, I never run out of things to do in the Midtown area.”

–Sophomore Jack Brentin

distance from campus:

0.8 Miles

What to check out:

-The Fox Theatre

-Powell Symphony Hall

-Pappy’s Smokehouse

-Museum of ContemporaryArt

What to Watch for:

-Fox Theatre: Celtic

Thunder in October, “South

Pacific” in November and

“A Christmas Carol” in

December

-Chaifetz Arena: Vampire

Weekend in October and

Carrie Underwood in

December

- Museum of Contemporary

Art: exhibitions including

Miriam Böhm & Agency,

John Smith, and Laura Riboli

& Simon Denny

knoWn for

-The Art District

You can find out more about Midtown by visiting midtownalley.com or

grandcenter.org

Midtown: the great Arts District of St. Louis. And what’s even better? We’re already here! Midtown, one of the 27 neighbor-hoods of St. Louis, lies between Olive and Delmar.

It’s taken more than a cen-tury for the Midtown that Saint Louis University students know to develop into the bustling cen-ter it is today, home to The Fabulous Fox Theatre, Saint Louis University Museum of Art and the Chaifetz Arena.

Midtown centers around The Fox and stretches east to Midtown Alley.

In 1876, when the city’s bound-aries were set past the Forest Park area, Midtown essential-ly consisted of country fields. SLU’s move from downtown to Midtown came in 1888 with the completion of DuBourg Hall.

At this time, all University operations were held in DuBourg. Enrollment totaled about 400.

According to the website for the History of St. Louis Neighborhoods, the early 1900s saw a boom in the commercial sector with some business and theatre openings.

Various theatres such as The Odeon Theatre, The Empress and Victoria opened in this decade. In 1913, Grand Central opened on Grand and Lucas; it was the first theatre in St. Louis built exclusively for motion pic-tures.

The Fox Theatre opened on Jan. 31, 1929 with 6,000 seats. At the time, it was the second-largest theatre in the world.

The Fox brought success to the area; the estimated cost of the theatre was $5,000,000, and it was the peak of luxury during its time.

Despite The Great Depression and World War II, the area was in its prime during the 1930s.

In 1946, SLU purchased the Samuel Cupples House. This historical manor was purchased by the University for $50,000 and was used as office space until 1970.

In 1959, the campus expand-ed with the construction of Pius XII Memorial Library. SLU’s for-mer president Rev. Paul Reinert resisted moving the campus westward, and in doing so, he

may have saved the Midtown area.

A declining and outwardly-expanding population and tax base in the 1960s halted the city’s theatre and entertainment district, causing a near disap-pearance of the Midtown neigh-borhood.

An area that once boasted eight theatres, dozens of busi-nesses and a regional transpor-tation hub was declining rapidly.

Instead of moving, the cam-pus expanded east of Grand Boulevard in 1962, where the Busch Student Center and sev-eral classroom buildings now stand. Despite the University’s expansion, the 1970s brought a decline in prosperity when The Fox closed its doors in 1978, due to a decline in attendance.

The reopening of The Fox and the Sheldon Concert Hall in the 1980s rejuvenated the area with the return of crowds and entertainment venues.

Now, 50 years later, this same area now known as Grand Center, has propelled into a thriving arts and entertainment district, marked with renovation, reconstruction and new life.

Restaurants

Pappy’s Smokehouse is argu-

ably the best place to get some BBQ in St. Louis. With entrees under $10, it makes for a good, hearty meal for college stu-dents.

If you’re just looking to grab a burger, The U is another cheap eating option. But if you’re inter-ested in a bit more upscale of an evening-perhaps you’re tak-ing out a nice girl?- try either Triumph Grill on Olive Street or Vito’s on Lindell Boulevard. If you’re just looking for a cool place to study and grab a coffee, Café Ventana is a cute French Quarter Bistro that’s right on campus.

Entertainment

With The Fox Theatre, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Sheldon Concert Hall, there is never a dull moment in Midtown.

You can check out smaller concerts in the intimate setting of the Sheldon Concert Hall, snap it out to music at Jazz at the Bistro or be astounded by the huge shows performed at The Fox.

Additionally, the Moolah (originally designed to be a tem-ple), holds apartments, a bowl-ing alley and a movie theatre. And you can’t forget the Chaifetz

Arena, right on our campus. In addition to holding our basket-ball games, Chaifetz also hosts a ton of big-name bands and performers.

Attractions

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art are two unique attractions in Midtown.

The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art is known for its promotion of tolerance between religions.

The Contemporary Art Museum, located on Washington Blvd., has been displaying avant-garde artwork since 1980. Dating back to 1842, St. Francis Xavier College Church is another place to visit in Midtown. Aesthetically speaking, the building alone is enough reason to visit.

For something a bit differ-ent, you can explore EarthWays Center, located in Grand Center. This center’s mission is to edu-cate the general public about sustainability and recycling efforts.

EarthWays Center is a three-story Victorian residence built in 1885 that is now used to demon-strate practical demonstrations of energy-efficient systems.

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Vegetarian-friendly Pho Grand is just one of the ethnically diverse restaurants that the South Grand neighborhood has to offer.

Mark Campos / Photographer

By KRISTIN McGUIREStaff Writer

South Grand is often called the “International Community” of St. Louis. An ethnically diverse neighborhood, South Grand is not only close, but also safe and affordable.

With an eclectic variety of boutiques, restaurants and coffee shops, you will not be disappointed with the great people-watching opportunities.

The neighborhood consists of turn-of-the-century architecture and the historic brownstone houses that are home to residents of diverse nationalities, races, ages and sexual orientations.

This charming, authentic neighborhood lies between Arsenal and Utah, along South Grand.

Restaurants

It is recommended you try something new in South Grand. With such diverse options for dining, why choose something ordinary? Pho Grand is a vegetarian-friendly Vietnamese restaurant with entrees between $10-15. If you are looking for something a little cheaper, you could visit Chimichanga Mexican and try their classic Chile Verde.

Although not terribly adventurous, dining at the City Diner is a must for Saint Louis University students. This typical ’50s themed diner has surprisingly good burgers, and they serve breakfast at any time. But if exotic is your style, feast on Middle Eastern food at Al Waha Restaurant and Hookah Lounge or on Thai food at the King & I.

Entertainment

The Upstairs is a great place to go to dance and hear some local DJs spin every night of the week. The Upstairs is located on the corner of Grand Boulevard and Hartford Street.

But the best way to find music in South Grand is at restaurants that host live music and entertainment. If you enjoy jazz, it is essential that you check out the Dave Stone Trio at Mangia Italiano. They perform at the Italian bistro every Friday night at 10. At Café Natasha, you can sample some shish-ka-bob and watch belly dancers perform

Neighborhood augments international flavorat night. And if you so choose, feel free to enroll in some dance classes at Floored on Grand. They offer a variety of courses, from swing dance to Flamenco.

Attractions

There is no way you can live in St. Louis without trying Ted Drewes Frozen Custard.

There are two locations in South Grand alone, and they make for great hang-out spots. Merb’s Candies, another way to satisfy your sweet tooth, has been hand-making chocolates since opening in the 1920s.

In terms of quaint shops, Earth, Wind and Bead (which sells Native American jewelry and art) and Dunaway Books (which sells used and out-of-print books) have some out-of-the-ordinary merchandise.

Some annual events hosted in South Grand are a holiday walk in November, a Chinese New Year celebration in February, a house tour in April, the South Grand Bike Tour in May and the Festival of Nations in June.

South Grand St. Louis GuideThe University News

What students say:

“South Grand is a very diverse area that welcomes people of all creeds, colors and sexual orientations.”

-Senior Kathryn McCulley

“South Grand is awesome because it is an area of town where you can try as much authentic ethnic food as you want. There are also really unique supermarkets and coffee shops!”

-Senior Emily Frankoski

distance from campus:3.2 Miles

What to check out:

- Mangia Italiano music on

Friday nights

- Merb’s Candy

- Pho Grand

-International grocery stores

What to Watch for:

-The holiday house walk in November

knoWn for:

-Ethnically diverse dining

You can find out more about South Grand by visiting

southgrand.org.

Tower Grove St. Louis GuideThe University News

Located south of Saint Louis University, the Tower Grove neighborhood offers a pleasant escape from city life.

It is comprised of residen-tial divisions, like Compton Heights and Shaw; shopping and eatery; and two large parks, Tower Grove and Compton Hill Reservoir Park.

The area begins blocks away from SLU and is centered around Grand Boulevard.

Tower Grove Park came to be in 1868, and was created by Henry Shaw.

The Water Tower was origi-nally built as a standpipe. The area was growing and the deliv-ery system of water needed assistance. To make it more aes-thetically pleasing, a tower was built around the pipe in 1898, complete with an observation deck at the top.

It was adored by visitors of the 1904 World’s Fair because of its impressive views.

In 1929 the standpipe was retired, due to advances in water delivery to the surrounding areas.

The Tower was kept open until 1984, when serious safety problems were discovered.

It was due to be demolished in 1995. Luckily, residents of the area thought it was too good to lose.

The Tower was reopened in 1999 after massive renovations.

The Grove provides breathtaking views Restaurants

MoKaBe’s Cof feehouse, located on Arsenal, features a large menu with several vegan options. Meals like the “Who Needs Meat?” sandwich and the “Lou Melt” four-pound cheese-burger make their lunches and dinners more than your average café meal.

However, nothing tops the Sunday brunch, which features everything from a broccoli Swiss quiche to French toast to meat-free sausage patties.

The brunch is an all-you-can-eat buffet with both traditional and vegan-friendly items, and is available until 1 p.m. It is so pop-ular with guests that employees constantly appear to be adding more food. Along with these hot items, fresh fruits, muffins and juices are also served.

The atmosphere inside MoKaBe’s is almost as impres-sive as the food.

The restaurant has two levels of seating, with handmade piec-es of work adorning its walls.

Hours of operation aim at both the early birds and the night owls, opening at 9 a.m. and closing at midnight. Since it is a quick MetroBus ride away, it could easily be a great con-tender for off-campus food.

Entertainment

Although admiring the parks and Water Tower are quite entertaining, they are not the only activities in the area.

What students say:

“It’s a place to experience open grass, which might not be easy to find in a city.”

–Junior Bilal Mahmood

“It’s pretty cool. It’s a safe neighborhood. The gardens were pretty.”

–Freshman Monique Johnson

distance from campus:

2.9 Miles

What to check out:

-Tower Grove Park

-The Water Tower

-City Diner

-MoKaBe’s

-Hartford Coffee Company

-Gelateria Del Leone

What to Watch for:

-Open Mic Night Fridays at

Hartford Coffee Company

-Tower Grove Farmer’s

Market, Saturdays through

Oct. 23 at Tower Grove Park

-Water Tower tour, Oct. 2

at the Reservoir Park Water

Tower

knoWn for:

-The Water Tower

-The pavillions and ponds

-The Farmer’s Market

You can find out more about Tower Grove by visiting

towergrovepark.org

By JULIA CHRISTENSENContributor

Tower Grove Park offers a break form the hustle and bustle of city life with its grassy areas, ponds and cultural-themed pavillions.

Noah Berman / Photo Editor

Soulard

In addition to providing aesthetically pleasing landscapes, Tower Grove Park also has a number of paths that can be enjoyed by bicyclists and pedestrians.

Mark Campos / Photographer

The enjoyment continues at the Hartford Coffee Company, on the corner of Hartford and Roger, with Open Mic Night. Hartford offers affordable coffee drinks and unique meal options, including the spicy jalapeño-bacon Grand B.L.T. and Tower Grove Club.

Finding Hartford Coffee Company can be a little difficult, as its impressive garden blocks the view from the street. There is a small outdoor nook with tables and chairs surrounded by a jungle of shrubbery, flowers and grasses.

Inside, there is a retro play-area for children and an eat-ing counter (perfect for laptops) amidst the pastry display case, booths and cash register.

Open Mic Night takes place every Friday, from 7:30 to 9:30.

Attractions

Visiting the Tower Grove area simply would not be complete without seeing the Water Tower

or Tower Grove Park. The Water Tower, which is

open for tours from April through November on the first Saturday each month, is surrounded by a lush, grassy area, a large sculp-ture and a pond complete with a fountain. The tours cost $5 per person.

The walk up the stairs may be slightly grueling, but it is bro-ken up by landings and historic pictures.

At the top, the views are so breathtaking, it validates the exercise.

Down South Grand is the spectacular Tower Grove Park, featuring themed pavilions and carriage houses, along with gar-dens and trails.

The pavilions feature varying architectural themes, including Turkish, Chinese and Classical Revival.

The park also includes four full-length statues, six marble composer busts and several ponds, complete with water lil-ies.

Mark Campos / Photographer

Soulard St. Louis GuideThe University News

Soulard is a historic French neighborhood located just south of St. Louis City. It is named after Antione Soulard, who was given the land by the Spanish government in the 1790s. The area is known for its farmer’s market (right and lower left). It is also known for its celebrations, such as Mardi Gras, which is the nation’s second largest.

Andrea Royals / News Editor

Soulard, a small community just south of St. Louis City, is a historic French neighborhood named after Antoine Soulard. Soulard was given the land by the Spanish government in the 1790s as payment for his services as surveyor general of Upper Louisiana.

Following Soulard’s death in 1825, a legal battle began between Soulard’s widow, Julia Cerre Soulard, and the City of St. Louis over the rightful ownership of the land.

In 1836, she acquired the deed for the area.

In her will she donated two blocks for a farmer’s market, which is known today as Soulard Market. In 1841, after her death, Soulard was annexed to the City of St. Louis.

Around 1850, Soulard became a ‘melting pot’ of sorts, due to the influx of German, Irish, Bohemians, Lebanese and many other types of immigrants that flocked to America.

Today, Soulard is best known for its festive nature, with several well-attended celebrations throughout the year.

It is also known for its famous landmarks, such as the Anheuser-Busch Brewery and Soulard Market. Soulard is one of the oldest communities in St. Louis, with many of its original Americanized-European buildings still standing.

Restaurants

Soulard is home to around 50 popular restaurants and bars. Some of the most notable restaurants in the area include the Market Grill, Llywelyn’s Pub, John D. McGurk’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, Sage, and Molly’s.

The fairly new Market Grill is a nice place to visit and it is located on the corner of Lafayette and Eighth Street.

Historically rich neighborhood known for celebrations

Entertainment

Every night of the week, including Saturday and Sunday afternoons, the 1860 Saloon located on 9th Street, provides live Blues music brought to you by bands that include Soul Reunion, The Blue Tones and Tony Campanella, along with local acts.

Many other neighborhood restaurants such as The Old Rock House, John D. McGurk’s Irish Pub & Restaurant and the Broadway Oyster Bar supply live music by local acts on the weekends.

What students say:

“I love the Soulard area. They have some of the best restaurants in the city!”

-Freshman Jared Castillo

“I’m excited to go to Mardi Gras this year. I’m from Louisiana, so it will be interesting to see how it measures up to New Orleans’ celebrations.”

-Freshman Felice Lavergne

distance from campus:

4 Miles

What to check out:

-Historic Soulard Market

-Anheuser-Busch Brewery

What to Watch for:

-Oktoberfest: Oct. 8-10, $5

general admission

-The 9th annual Twilight

Hayride Pub Crawl: Oct. 22,

$10 admission

knoWn for:-Farmer’s Market

-Mardi Gras Celebration

-The restaurants

You can find out more about Soulard by visiting

soulard.org.

By SHELBY ROZIERContributor

Soulard Preservation Hall serves as a concert venue, meeting place and reception hall. It also has available an auditorium for theatrical productions, put on by community theaters.

Attractions

Soulard contains some of the most interesting places in St. Louis. You can stop by the Historic Soulard Market, an outdoor farmer’s market open year round, Wednesday through Sunday.

Take a tour of the famous Anheuser-Busch Brewery,

where you can visit the famed Clydesdale Paddock and Stables, the Beechwood Aging Lager Cellars, the historic Brewhouse and the Bevo Packaging Plant.

For visitors over 21, the brewery provides a Hospitality Room, where you receive two free samples of Anheuser-Busch products.

Soft drinks and pretzels are also available.

Every year, Soulard hosts the nation’s second largest Mardi Gras celebration. Other popular events include Oktoberfest, Bastille Day and The Barkus Pet Parade.

Vinnie Schneider / Photographer

Vinnie Schneider / Photographer

Central West End St. Louis GuideThe University News

The Central West End is famous for its eclectic variety of dining options. It is also known for attrac-tions such as the Cathedral Bascilica of St. Louis (above), which was built in 1999.

Mark Campos / Photographer

By ASHLEY SELASContributor

The Central West End is a place where all of the corners of the world meet- right here in St. Louis.

This area of St. Louis reached full development in the late 1800s, with the architecture frenzy of the 1904 World’s Fair ultimately leading to an array of classic buildings to set the precedent for this beautiful private area.

The Central West End takes great pride in neighborhood organizations that create a united spirit among residents and visitors.

Geographically, the Central West End lies in the center of St. Louis to the west of the Midtown area, directly across from Forest Park.

Cathedral Square is an important neighborhood that is defined by its cul-de-sacs and beautiful residential living.

It is known as the special business district, where the historic Fullerton’s Westminster Place- as well as the landmark Catholic church, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis- is located.

The Cathedral is acclaimed for standing as a testament to both Byzantine and Romanesque style structure, as well as housing the world’s largest collection of mosaic art.

The charm of the area is infectious, as cafes line the street, art galleries appeal to the imagination and upbeat boutiques and relaxing pubs provide a wide variety of ways to enjoy the true St. Louis spirit of life.

Restaurants

The Central West End is entirely famous for the dining along the streets and trendy flavors that will entertain all selective palates.

A unique event that is very popular is a “mirthday,” in which a restaurant is selected monthly to have a happy hour in which the community gathers to enjoy company and great new tastes.

Special restaurants in this diverse area of St. Louis range from sweet and savory Bissinger’s Chocolate Lounge, to the Drunken Fish sushi restaurant, to the Cupcakery- which stands as Missouri’s first gourmet cupcake shop and is sure to win over your sweet

Central West End: Corners of the world meet

tooth.Entertainment

This area of St. Louis is known for hosting a variety of events to maintain its eclectic standards.

A well-known annual event that is held in June is the Central West End Association’s Art Fair and Taste, which features a diverse array of over 60 regional artists, as well as a popular film festival.

In regard to daily enjoyment, many restaurants in the Central West End offer live music, including the Drunken Fish sushi bar and the West End Grill and Pub.

The Chase Park Plaza Cinema is a great place to catch the latest movies; this popular movie venue that is a historic building with a lot of character and entertainment value.

Attractions

Aside from the tantalizing food, stylish music and beautiful homes that comprise the Central West End, there are even more events and galleries to explore in this neighborhood.

An outstanding life-sized bronze sculpture of Pope John Paul II is located outside of the

distance from campus:

1.4 Miles

What to check out:

-Cathedral Bascilica

-The Cupcakery

-The Drunken Fish

-Chase Park Plaza Cinema

-Third Degree Glass Factory

-Vino Gallery

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-Neighborhood organizations

-Beautiful residential living

-Restaurants

You can find out more about The Central West End

by visiting thecwe.orgCathedral Basilica of St. Louis, and this was erected in honor of Pope John Paul II’s visit to St. Louis in 1999.

The Chase Park Plaza is being newly renovated with hotel accommodations, as well as private residences.

A unique place to check out in the Central West End is the Third Degree Glass Factory, which features beautiful displays of blown glass, and for those who like to get creative with their wine, the Vino Gallery is a must see in this neighborhood.

Mark Campos / Photographer

The Hill

Above: SLU senior Mike Callahan competes in the 2009 Giro della Montagna.Below: In addition to its food, the Hill also boasts hosting part of each year’s Gateway Cup bike races. The Giro della Montagna, the third of four races, is held each September and is the oldest bike race in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.

Ryan Giacomino / Photographer

The Hill, one of St. Louis’ most iconic neighborhoods, is most known for its deep heritage, notable location and phenomenal food.

Bound by Kingshighway, Hampton and Fyler Avenue, The Hill is a mile and a half trip from the Central West End MetroLink station and can be reached by walking or by a transfer bus ride.

The highest point in the city lies within the appropriately named Hill at the intersection of Arsenal and Sublette. Granted to Charles Gratiot in 1798 by the Spanish government, The Hill was soon bought by the familiar names of Peter Lindell, Henry Shaw and Frances Sublette, as well as David Graham, J.F. Cooper and J.W. Hall.

Italian immigrants working in the clay industry, which blossomed in the area after clay deposits were found in the 1830s, were especially prevalent in the 1890s, and, today, the Italian culture continues to define The Hill.

The close-knit community that has stemmed from these ancestral roots is merely another aspect of The Hill that makes it so interesting.

Somewhat of a 24-hour neighborhood, there is always some sight to see or some event to attend in the area.

Restaurants

Some claim that the best Italian food outside of Italy itself can be found on The Hill. Favazza’s, Joey B.’s, Giola’s, Lorenzo’s and Cunetto’s House of Pasta are renowned for their classic Italian dishes and patron favorites.

If looking for some diversity, Anthonino’s Taverna and Modesto provide excellent Greek and Spanish options, respectively. Besides the restaurants, The Hill offers specialty food shops like Di Gregorio’s Market and international market J. Viviano and Son, Inc. If the lines at Ted Drewes are too long, Gelato di Riso may be a worthy alternative, providing classic Italian treats.

Entertainment

The Hill boasts several

Little Italy offers a great taste of St. Louisseasonal entertainment opportunities.

The Hill is also privileged to be the home of the “Giro della Montagna” Labor Day professional bicycle race, and the community celebrates Columbus Day with a myriad of activities, including a neighborhood-wide parade.

A neighborhood procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi and an annual Soap Box Derby are other exclusive Hill customs.

Besides these annual events, learning to play a game of Bocce at the Italia-Americana Bocce Club, exploring an age-old Italian past time, is popular year round.

Attractions

The culture of The Hill itself is likely the greatest attraction in the neighborhood that a visitor could explore. From the red, white and green fire hydrants to Elizabeth Avenue, where baseball greats Yogi Berra, Jack Buck and Joe Garagiola lived, The Hill offers a variety of sights.

St. Ambrose Church is another important stop, as it has acted as one of the strongholds of The Hill since the neighborhood’s rise.

St. Ambrose is not only known for its beauty and history, but it still hosts the Winter Opera St. Louis, St. Joseph Day Celebration and multiple flea markets throughout the year.

By STEPHANIE MUELLERContributor

What students say:

“[Modesto] serves amazing Spanish appetizers. You can keep ordering tapas through-out your dinner, and they are quick about giving you your food. The calamari is my favorite!”

-Freshman Isabella Grigsby

distance from campus:

3.5 Miles

What to check out:

-Great Italian food

-Elizabeth Avenue

-St. Ambrose

What to Watch for:

-Columbus Day Festival

-Christmas on the Hill

knoWn for:

Restaurants

You can find out more about The Hill by visiting

hill2000 explorestlouis.com, thehillstl.com

The Hill St. Louis GuideThe University News

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Delmar Loop St. Louis GuideThe University News

The Loop offers a number of restaurants, such as Blueberry Hill and Delmar Restaurant and Lounge. It also has many venues for music lovers to enjoy, such as The Pageant and Cicero’s.

Andrea Royals / News Editor

By JULIA CHRISTENSENContributor

The Loop, located in University City, is one of St. Louis’s alterna-tive havens. Stretching 10 blocks down Delmar, The Loop is home to St. Louis landmarks such as Blueberry Hill and The Pageant, and is located a quick MetroLink trip away from campus.

The Loop, named after the trolleys that used to literally “loop” the area, began to grow with shops and restaurants in the 1970s. At the time, legis-lation was pushing small busi-nesses in the area, which caused the sudden growth.

The Loop was named “One of the 10 Great Streets in America” by The American Planning Association.

There is currently a push to reinstate trolleys in this historic area. A miniature of the neigh-borhood, that features model tracks in place, sits on display in a window on a street near Blueberry Hill.

Restaurants

Blueberry Hill is undoubtedly the most well-known restaurant in The Loop. Its pop culture-themed décor, abundant beer selection and frequent musical guests make it one of a kind.

However, it’s not the only great place to eat.

Since 1947, Fitz’s Root Beer has been quenching St. Louis’ thirst at drive-ins in Richmond Heights and, as of 1993, right across the street from Blueberry Hill at the corner of Delmar and Leland.

The menu offers a variety of items, from the expected ham-burger and sandwich selection, to fish tacos and tilapia. Nine Fitz’s pop options are available, including Fitz’s classic root beer and its fruity cousin, Orange Pop.

While eating, guests can watch the soda being bottled in the old-fashioned bottling area that sits behind a viewing win-dow in the main dining room.

Entertainment

Big-name bands frequent-ly rock Delmar’s well-known Pageant stage. Pin-Up Bowl, a 1950s-themed bowling alley is decorated with illustrations of classic female pin-up girls, a truly unique bowling experi-

Loop hosts plethora of musical acts

ence. It has a large bar and a small number of lanes, making it either a social place to gather or an intimate alley to perfect your strike.

The Tivoli Theater is the per-fect place for that ‘dinner and a movie’ date. The marquee lists films of every style: cult classics, independent movies and foreign films are all welcome.

Unique stores line the streets, such as Phoenix Rising, which houses an eclectic collection of gifts and jewelry, and Vintage Vinyl, a music store with a stag-gering selection of records and

What students say:

“It’s a good place to hang out. It’s more of the hipster scene than any other place. I’d recommend it to the younger crowd. It has a lot of good venues.”

–Sophomore Samantha Donovan

distance from campus:

5 Miles

What to check out:

-The Pageant

-Blueberry Hill

-Fitz’s

- Avalon Exchange

-Vintage Vinyl

-Star Clipper

-Phoenix Rising

-Timeless Authentic Garments

-Cicero’s

What to Watch for:

-The Avett Brothers, Sept. 24

at The Pageant

-Reel Big Fish and The

Aquabats, Oct. 14 at The

Pageant

-Chuck Berry, Oct. 20 at

Blueberry Hill.

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Concert VenuesCDs. Vintage and second-hand stores, like Avalon Exchange (previously known as Rag-O-Rama) and Timeless Authentic Garments, offer unique mer-chandise; shopping on Delmar is a one-of-a-kind experience.

Attractions

The sidewalks on The Loop are dotted with stars that mir-ror Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The St. Louis Walk of Fame fea-tures 125 stars, each dedicated to the celebrities that hail from the Gateway City. Recognizable

names include John Goodman, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Pulitzer, Yogi Berra and Ulysses S. Grant.

The Plant Walk, another cus-tomized sidewalk attribute in The Loop, informs pedestrians when they have reached each planet on a to-scale Solar System.

Local shop Star Clipper cre-ates quite the buzz with its large collection of comic books and graphic novels. The store also features imported snacks, col-lectible figurines and blind-box models and grown-up quarter machine toys.

You can find out more about The Delmar Loop by

visiting VisitTheLoop.com and FitzsRootbeer.com.

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Laclede’s Landing St. Louis GuideThe University News

The Gateway Arch was completed in 1965 and has since become the fourth-most visited tourist attraction in the world. Laclede’s Landing also offers attractions such as Busch Stadium.

Andrea Royals / News Editor

By KATHRYN PALMERContributor

In 1763, Pierre Laclede, along with his 14-year-old lieutenant Auguste Chouteau and a crew of 30, set out from New Orleans to explore the Illinois Country and establish a fur-trading post.

The next year, Laclede selected a site below the union of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, along the bluffs that formed the west bank of the Mississippi River.

In 1784, the location was cleared and temporary cabins were built. Laclede named the settlement St. Louis in honor of the patron saint of the king of France. Soon, the village became the center of commerce with furs as the main source of exchange for goods.

Today, Laclede’s Landing, a nine-block industrial area that once housed companies producing coffee, leather goods, mattresses, tobacco, whiskey, candy and machinery for the barges, features some of the most distinctive restaurants and sidewalk cafes in St. Louis.

Visitors to Laclede’s Landing can experience the charm of cobblestone streets and century-old brick and cast iron façade buildings as they browse through specialty gift shops.

The Landing is within walking distance from Busch Stadium, the Edward Jones Dome and The Gateway Arch.

Restaurants

As the name implies, The Drunken Fish is a great place for cocktails and sushi.

This Japanese eatery boasts arguably the best sushi in St. Louis, along with great music and a trendy atmosphere. For more of a quiet, family-friendly atmosphere, try the Old Spaghetti Factory.

This friendly restaurant features a homey atmosphere and delicious pasta dishes. For burgers, pizza, sandwiches and soups, try Joey B’s.

This restaurant is known as a great sports bar for after a Cardinals game. Stop in Hannegan’s Restaurant and Pub for an interesting atmosphere and great food.

The interior of Hannegan’s is modeled after the Senate dining room, with each booth having

Landing gives a glimpse of St. Louis history

a plaque dedicated to a Senator who voted to repeal Prohibition.

The Royal Dumpe is the nation’s longest-running dinner theatre. Here, transport to Medieval times with pageantry and costumes.

Entertainment

At night, horse-drawn carriages and live music add to the atmosphere. Ride a replica of a 19th century steamboat on a Gateway Riverboat Cruise.

The steamboats depart frequently during the day from the levee below the Arch.

Additionally, there are specialty dinner cruises that offer stunning views of the city.

Choices include live music with explosive percussion on the St. Louis Fireworks Cruise, a vibrant band on the Blues Cruise and even a Lock-N-Dam Cruise for those curious to investigate how Missouri manipulates its river.

Or stay on shore and pedal along the river on the Riverfront Trail bike path, which passes through The Landing’s streets.

Attractions

A visit to St. Louis would not be complete without visiting the Arch.

Since 1965, when construction workers placed the final piece of steel at the apex of the Arch,

What students say:

“I really enjoyed going up into the Arch. It was neat to see the city from that perspective.”

-Freshman Christina Gabany

“The area around the Arch is usually pretty fun. There are concerts there and different sorts of festivals and such. Also, there is always a really good fireworks display on the Fourth of July.”

-Freshman Patrick Jennewein

distance from campus:

3.5 Miles

What to check out:

-Edward Jones Dome

-Busch Stadium

-The Gateway Arch

What to Watch for:

- Rocktoberfest

knoWn for:

-Horse-drawn carriages

-Live music

-Rides up into the Arch

You can find out more about Laclede’s Landing

by visiting lacledeslanding.com.

over 25 million sightseers have journeyed to its top.

The Arch towers as the 630-foot tall gatekeeper to the Midwest, the tallest monument in the United States and the fourth-most visited tourist attraction in the world.

Also, be sure to visit the Old Courthouse, which housed many pivotal Civil Rights cases especially during the Civil War.

Here, African American slave Dred Scott fought for his legal right to freedom; the first trials in his case occurred in 1847 and 1850.

Also at the Old Courthouse, Virginia Minor challenged the 14th amendment, which excluded women from voting.

Forest Park St. Louis GuideThe University News

Andrea Royals / News Editor

By KATERINA CANYONContributor

At 1,371 acres, Forest Park is one of the largest urban parks in the country. It contains sand volleyball courts, golf courses, tennis courts and an ice-skating rink.

Path systems for bicycling, roller-blading and running serpentine throughout the park. There are several public sports fields so visitors can play softball, soccer, football, rugby, lacrosse, archery and cricket. The park holds several lakes, many of which allow fishing.

Forest Park encompasses over 140 acres of wildlife including forests, prairies, and wetlands. John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest contains over 200 species of birds. It is also home to coyotes, turkeys and other wildlife.

Forest Park officially opened to an estimated crowd of 50,000 people on June 24, 1876 and hosted the World’s Fair in 1904. During the World’s Fair, Forest Park had over 100,000 visitors a day, for a total of over 19 million visitors the whole year.

In 1927, more than 100,000 people gathered in the park to welcome Charles A. Lindbergh back to St. Louis after his non-stop flight from New York to Paris. In 1968, St. Louisians congregated in this park for a memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Restaurants

For a pleasant meal in a romantic setting, the Boathouse provides a delicious meal on the patio overlooking the lake. The restaurant also offers boat rentals for a fun afternoon on the water or a romantic boat ride.

If you’re looking for something quick, the Saint Louis Zoo has many options. The Painted Giraffe Café offers sandwich and salad options. For something sweet, the Ice Cream Oasis has a wide variety of ice cream treats.

Want to go upscale? Try Bixby’s at the Missouri History Museum. This restaurant serves fine cuisine and has Champagne Sunday brunch with a buffet of quality meats and desserts.

Entertainment

Forest Park offers some of the best free entertainment you

Park demonstrates the nature of St. Louis

can find in St. Louis. One of the many events that visitors enjoy is the Twilight Tuesdays concert series hosted on Missouri History Museum’s front lawn several times throughout the year.

In September, Forest Park hosts the Great Balloon Race, Balloon Glow and the St. Louis Wine Festival. Both of these events feature live musical performances.

In addition to the ice-skating rink, many visitors enjoy the

What students say:

“It’s not far away from the school, so I like to go there to run and to take advantage of nature.”

-Senior Margot Thomas

“Growing up in St. Louis... Forest Park became this big free playground for me.”

-Freshman Luke Sapa

distance from campus:

3.5 Miles

What to check out:

-St. Louis Zoo-The Boathouse-Jewel Box-St. Louis Science Center

What to Watch for:

-Moonlight Paddleboat Picnics -St. Louis Wine Festival, Sept. 25 -SciFest 2010, Oct. 12-17

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-Recreation, museums, zoo and fitness

To find out more about Forest Park, visit www.ForestParkForever.org.

sledding available at Art Hill during the winter.

Visitors to the zoo enjoy the Wild Lights holiday lights display that runs on selected nights in November and December.

Attractions

Featuring works from several cultures throughout the world, St. Louis Art Museum is known as one of the nation’s finest art museums.

Another museum worth a visit

is Missouri History Museum which hosts continuing exhibits on St. Louis History.

The St. Louis Science Center holds an OmniMax theater and a planetarium and has over 700 hands-on exhibits.

St. Louis Zoo features well over 5,000 animals from 700 species.

In celebration of its 100th anniversary this year, it is hosting a Zootennial that will be featuring several special exhibits.

Andrea Royals / News Editor

Forest Park is one of the largest urban parks in the country. Along with golf courses and tennis courts, it also has The St. Louis Zoo, The St. Louis Science Center and the St. Louis Art Museum.

Andrea Royals / News Editor

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St. Louis provides an eclectic group of attractions

Top left, bottom left and bottom right photos by Andrea Royals / News Editor. Top Right photo by Mark Campos / Photographer

St. Louis offers a plethora of attractions. Fitz’s (above) located in The Loop, is a good place to get a burger and root beer, which is bottled on location. The ‘50s-themed City Diner (upper right), lo-cated on South Grand, provides the typical diner food. The Tivoli Theatre (bottom right) is also located in The Loop. This theatre hosts a variety of movies. The Gateway Arch (below) offers rides to the top, which provides a great view of downtown.

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