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Public Health: Alive and well at SLU Undergraduate program flourishes, embraces Jesuit mission

SGA initates plan to turn ‘Flex’ into donations

By KATHERINE KELLIHERStaff Writer

What began as a stu-dent’s idea has turned into a program that could feed thousands of impoverished people living in the St. Louis community.

The new Flex to Feed program on campus is a program designed to donate the leftover flex ‘dollars’ stu-dents have not spent at the end of the semester and do-nate it to the St. Louis Food Bank.

For every dollar that the St. Louis Food Bank re-ceives, they are able to cre-ate four meals.

The project began last se-mester when Tarek Adam, a Saint Louis University medical student, spoke with some friends about creating a program that could utilize the leftover flex dollars at the end of the year to help those in need.

“I’ve always had an in-terest in serving those in need,” Adam said.

Adam said that he felt this program was a good idea in light of the Universi-

Senior Chelsea Jaeger was a sophomore pre-medical biology major the first time she heard of Public Health.

“I heard about it in a pre-health meeting at which the director of the Public Health Undergraduate Program at the time, Michael Rozier, was speak-ing,” Jaeger said. It was a brand-new program that had just started.”

Jaeger says she chose pre-med because she always loved the idea of helping people and serv-ing the community in that capacity, but something about her major just wasn’t fitting with her person-ality.

“Sitting in that meeting, something finally clicked,” Jaeger said, “The social justice, the com-munity initiatives, the wide scale prevention, it all just made sense to me.”

Jaeger switched to the Public Health undergrad-uate major very soon after. She joined the now 250 students who have committed to the three-year-old program, housed in Saint Louis University’s School of Public Health.

“Public health is a field that seeks to make populations healthy by preventing disease and pro-moting health at the public population level,” said Edwin Trevathan, Dean of the School of Public Health, “We take a look at health promotion and disease prevention on a grander scale.”

The SLU School of Public Health was founded in 1991 and is the only Jesuit school of Public Health in the United States. The school is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, making it one of the 49 accredited Public Health schools in the country. Pulling from the Jesuit tradition of the University, The School of Public Health attests a commitment to collaboration, justice and practice.

By KRISTEN MIANONews Editor

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DPSEP: Cyclists encouraged to lock bikes on campus

Speakers to address partisanship

Remembering September 11, 2001

A rash of bicycle thefts on campus has prompted DPSEP to act: students can get free bike locks while supplies last.

John Schuler / Photo Editor

By PATRICK GRILLOTStaff Writer

By WOLF HOWARDAssociate News Editor

Students and faculty reflect in memoriam of the victims of 9/11. The Beta Theta Pi fraternity hosted a memorial on the anniversary of the tragedy at the Clocktower.

Ryan Doan / Staff Photographer

Bob Beckel and Cal Thomas are coming to Saint Louis University on Sept. 18, 2012 to speak to SLU students about the issues Americans face in the up-coming election.

The free event, titled “Common Ground: How To Stop The Partisan War That’s Destroying Amer-ica,” is meant to be a dia-logue concerning how the partisan divide in American politics is doing more dam-age than good to our coun-try.

Each speaker holds very different views. Bob Beckel provides the liberal voice as a co-host on the television show “The Five” on Fox News Channel; Cal Thomas has been a syndicated con-servative columnist since the ‘80s. Collectively, they attempt to get to the root of the issues we face as a people, and remove the par-tisan shade that prevents politicians and citizens from cooperating.

The speaking event is a continuation of their bi-weekly USA Today column called simply, “Common Ground.”

“We thought it was an in-teresting take on elections,” said Mitch Garrett, chair of the Great Issues Commit-tee. “This is a more overall view on the whole election. It’s something that people don’t really talk about when they’re thinking of their candidates.”

According to Garrett, Beckel and Thomas will take turns talking about a specific problem from their standpoint, and then pres-ent a conclusion about how to bridge the gap between the ideological differences

See “GIC” on Page 3See “DPSEP” on Page 3

More than 400 students have signed up their bicy-cles with the Department of Public Safety and Emer-gency Preparedness since it launched its bicycle regis-tration program last spring.

The amount of bicycle theft on campus prompted the decision to initiate the bicycle program, accord-ing to Connie Tillman, the emergency preparedness coordinator for DPSEP.

When a student brings their bicycle to DPSEP, the department enters the seri-al number, make and model of the student’s bicycle into the National Bike Registry, a database licensed by the National Crime Preven-

tion Council and utilized by law enforcement officials across the country. When stolen bicycles that have been registered are recov-ered, police and public safe-ty departments are able to identify the owner and find her contact information.

Assistant Director of Field Operations for DPSEP Christopher Bingham, who reviews all theft reports, be-lieves that the prevalence of bicycle theft has decreased since the program began, though he did not have exact numbers. He said, “about four or five bike thefts have been reported since move-in.”

Bicycles were reported stolen to DPSEP on Sept. 7 and 9. One had a combi-nation lock; the other had a cable lock. Neither was

registered with the depart-ment.

DPSEP maintains a run-ning total of all thefts on campus; its records only discriminate between thefts over or under $500 in value, but does not specify the type of item stolen, such as bicycles.

While there have been several bicycle thefts on campus, Tillman noted that many perpetrators have been arrested and the bicy-cles have been returned. On Friday, Sept. 7, for example, DPSEP was able to return a stolen bicycle to a student even though it had not been registered. When the stu-dent contacted DPSEP, they registered the bicycle and released it to her.

None of those arrested for bicycle theft have been SLU students. “They look like students,” Tillman said, concerning the culprits. “They’re walking around with a backpack on. It’s not like they stand out in the crowd.”

Sophomore Kim Tieu shared her perspective on bicycle theft at SLU as she locked her bicycle to the rack outside Ritter Hall. Tieu’s friend had her bi-cycle stolen from campus last spring, but the bicycle had been registered with DPSEP and was recovered and returned to her. When Tieu brought her bicycle to campus for the first time in August, she brought a U-

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Let Us Introduce You: Sean Everson Weatherman has never seen a tornado, likes sports

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2:15 p.m. - DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY

A contract security officer was mon-itoring the cameras and observed a white vehicle strike a bollard light in the Quad, causing damage. Upon officer’s arrival, the vehicle was run-ning, the doors locked and the ve-hicle was unoccupied.

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7:21 p.m. - STEALING UNDERA SLU student reported to DPSEP that she secured her bike to the rack at Marchetti East on Thursday, Sept. 6. When she returned on Sun-day, Sept. 9 her bike was missing. Her bike was secured with a cable lock and was not registered with DPSEP.

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THE SLU SCOOP

By KRISTEN MIANONews Editor

Want to know what the weather will be tomorrow? Junior Sean Everson can tell you. This meteorology major made his big screen debut this year as the new SLU-TV weatherman. He attests his passion for the weather was something he grew up with, as this Omaha native has seen some of the widest weather extremes.

“In Omaha you can have summer temperatures over 100 and still get huge thun-derstorms and tornadoes, but in the winter, it can be below zero and blizzards,” Everson said. “Seeing all different kinds of weather really stuck with me.”

Everson scored the job after shadowing last year’s weatherman, David Koeller. Koeller was graduating and unless someone stepped up to fill the role, Saint Louis University was going to be without a weatherman.

“David had no one to take his place, so I asked if he wanted help,” Everson said. “He was glad to show me the ropes and how to put the forecast together. At the end of last year he let me do my first weather fore-cast during finals week.”

Despite having done several forecasts since, Everson is still getting used to seeing himself on televi-sion.

“Seeing and hearing yourself is weird,” Everson said. “You think you sound one way, but its always dif-ferent. I enjoy it, though.”

According to Everson, his favorite part of the job is also the part he finds the most challenging.

“I enjoy the challenge of forecasting,” Everson said. “You would have to be a wiz-ard to predict the weather 100 percent all the time.”

Everson knows firsthand that a weatherman can’t always be right. One of his first forecasts this year came close being wrong.

“I forecasted for sunny skies and 90 degree weath-er. There were going to be

thunderstorms the next day, but a band of storms came through and it just missed us to the south,” Everson said. “You could see it pass by. I was like ‘Oh man, I’m going to get one of my first forecasts handed.’ We had wind, but no rain.”

Everson has also found that the trials of a weather-man extend beyond wrong forecasting. Sometimes, people get annoyed when the weather is forecasted correctly.

“Sometimes, I’ll forecast for hot weather and get peo-ple like ‘Why did you make it so hot!’” Everson said. “And I’m like, I can’t control it. I just put up what I see.”

Everson said modern technology and resources make the job a bit easier, but he still feels there is a lot left to learn about put-ting together a forecast. He hopes to refine his skills over the next two years

Over the summer, he had an opportunity to learn from one of his idols. Dur-ing an internship at Chan-nel 6 in Omaha, Everson

got to work with Chief Me-teorologist Jim Flowers.

“Jim Flowers has been there for as long as I can remember,” Everson said. “I grew up watching him, so getting to work with him was incredible.”

Though he’s been watch-ing the weather a while, Everson regrets to say he has yet to see a tornado.

“I am a meteorologist-sand am from Nebraska, which is in tornado alley, but I’ve never seen a torna-do, which surprises a lot of people,” Everson said.

Everson’s favorite kind of weather is severe weath-er, so tornado spotting is high on his meteorological to-do list.

When he’s not watching the weather, Everson en-joys watching and playing sports. He is also a member of Oriflamme, the Micah program and the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Program.

Whether rain or sleet or snow, Everson is here to keep you up to date on the weather conditions.

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SGA Kicks-Off Year with Inauguration

Kristen Miano / News Editor

The 2012-2013 Student Government Association Executive Board stands to take the Oath of Office at the SGA Inauguration Ceromony of the 40th General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 12 in DuBourg Hall. After speeches from several Executive Board and faculty members, the entire senate was sworn into office. SGA will begin having its Association meeting on Sept. 19 in the SGA Senate Chambers.

ty’s Jesuit mission. Adam met with Matt

Ryan, last year’s Student Government Association President, to discuss the idea and see how they could put it into action.

“Ryan was very open to the idea and without him, I’m not sure if we could have gotten to this point,” Adam said.

Former President Ryan said he thought it would be a good project to get going.

“When Tarek first pre-sented the idea, I knew that this was something we needed to take seri-ously and I thought it was a great opportunity to help our community,” Ryan said. “The Flex-to-Feed program was significant for two rea-sons. One, it got a lot of student engagement on the issue. Many students felt passionate about this and expressed that to SGA. And two, it embodies why we are here. To help others and serve for the greater glory of God.”

Ryan also encouraged Adam to get student sup-port.

of either political party and work together to solve the issue.

Garrett believes the event will be quite different from the dialogue we hear in our daily lives.

“I think this is good for any college kid,” said Gar-rett. “It’s not something the media focuses on or people focus on.”

The event is not about having a debate about which side is correct. Rath-er, the focus is on having a conversation concerning how each side is trying to solve a common problem, and finding a middle place where we can actually make progress.

“They’ll make fun of cer-tain policies but then say ‘it doesn’t matter, the root of the problem is such and such,’” said Garrett. “It’s kind of funny, but they poke fun at each other because they’re friends.”

Flex: program plans to donate money to local food pantries

GIC: Event to pres-ent different views

shaped lock and reg-istered her bicycle with DPSEP.

For students who do not have a lock of their own, DPSEP is also distributing free U-shaped locks to stu-dents who register their bi-cycles with the department. It has given more than 200 of these locks to students since move-in began on Aug. 22, which has boosted the program’s popularity among students, according to Tillman. While a chain lock is better than no lock at all, Tillman recommends using an alloy-hardened, U-shaped lock that cannot be cut.

Aside from the bicycle registration program, Till-man is also focused on out-reach to students.

She and Pasquale Si-gnorino, who oversees crime prevention and public affairs for the department, have presented at several University 101 classes in the past week and are im-proving efforts to com-municate with the campus community through the

DPSEP: U-shaped bike with registration

“It is important to us that we have a unique covenant in Public Health,” Treva-than said. “It tells us who we are and it’s something we really emphasize here.”

The covenant, which is a unique aspect of the School of Public Health, is a state-ment of the school’s values of love, responsibility, trust, acceptance, concern, per-sonal development, balance and partnership. Through these aspects, the school seeks to create a person-centric mission.

Trevathan also said what sets Public Health apart from other medical studies is its multiple discipline ap-proach to attacking health problems.

“We take a problem and attack it from different per-spectives,” Trevathan said. “We have lawyers working on how vaccine policies should work, epidemiolo-gists tracking epidemics, statisticians that compile data on disease and epi-demics, behavioral scien-tist working to change how people response to a flu out

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break and working to stop the spread and health man-agement to handle the in-flux at the hospital. We are truly multi-disciplinary.”

In addition, Trevathan said the programs the school offers are unique because many have a global and community focus.

“We focus on certain ar-eas in St. Louis, and we are a very global school,” Trev-athan said. “Our intent is to focus on communities and produce tangible improve-ments where we serve.

The School of Public Health began as a gradu-ate school, offering degrees in Epidemiology, Environ-mental and Occupational Health, Biosecurity and Disaster Preparedness, Health Management, Be-havioral Science, Health Policy and Biostatistics.

“Schools of Public Health came about because there was a need for people with advanced degrees to run heath care systems and departments,” Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Darcell Scharff said. “It’s always been a masters pro-gram at SLU, but the under-grad program is a fairly new degree.”

Continued from Page 1 The graduate school of Public Health currently hosts approximately 325 students, with some of the more popular fields of study being Epidemiology and Behavioral Science.

The graduate school re-cently added a new program designed specifically for in-dividuals already working in health management.

“We just started the E x e c u t i v e Management of Health Ad-ministrat ion P r o g r a m , ” Schraff said, “It’s a pro-gram for those who want an advanced degree and want to hone their health management and executive skills in order to be more effective.”

The fairly new under-graduate program is still growing, but it has already grown significantly in popu-larity since it’s inception. The program, which began with only 60 students, has already quadrupled in size.

“There is a debate if the undergrad program is a practice degree or a liberal arts degree,” Scharff said. “Our program is some-where in the middle. We teach undergrad students basic entry-level public health skills.”

The undergraduate pro-gram offers three different majors for students: Public

H e a l t h , E m e r -g e n c y Manage-ment and H e a l t h Manage-m e n t . “ H e a l t h Manage-ment is a field that f o c u s e s on the manage-ment of h e a l t h systems,

like hospitals,” said Treva-than. “It’s one of the top in the country and is quickly growing.”

Emergency Manage-ment is the management of health disaster responses after events such earth-quakes, hurricanes or dis-

ease outbreaks. The focus on the program, according to Trevathan, is to prepare for the disasters and main-tain health in spite of the situation.

“Emergency manage-ment is something that came about after 9/11 and often attracts first respond-ers who might not have a bachelor’s degree,” Scharff said “It’s still a fairly new area in public health.”

Though the program is still growing, the students in the Public Health Un-dergrad seem enthusiastic. Jaeger, who is majoring in Public Health, is also the president of the Public Health Undergraduate Stu-dent Association.

Though the organization is only in its second year of chartered status, it had been an active presence on SLU’s campus.

“The goal of our group is to bring public health to life for the students in the School of Public Health,” Jaeger said. “We already had 26 students join this year, which was double the previous year. We’re very excited to see the interest.”

PHUSA not only serves as a liaison between the

School of Public Health and the undergraduate students, but also hosts a speaker series to address issues in public. The group has organized its own ser-vice days in addition to par-ticipating in the University Service days and provides resources to students look-ing to make a career out of Public Health.

According to Trevathan, one of the goals for students graduating from the under-graduate program is that they enter the health field with a new perspective.

“Undergrad is designed to help our graduates see the world differently and go on to improve health from whatever perspective they have in life, no matter what the field,” Trevathan said.

As Jaeger finishes her last year of undergrad, she said she is excited for the opportunities public health has opened up for her.

“I found my passion for my future career,” Jaeger said. “I was really excited to have a more clear pur-pose. Public health is every-where. It is a great under-graduate major because it really shows the health field through a fantastic lens.”

I found my passion and my future career. I was really excited to have a more clear pur-pose. Public Health is everywhere.

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-Chelsea Jaeger

Adam made a petition to SGA to start the program.

The petition was sent out in an SGA email and received approximately 600 student signatures.

With the support of the students, Adam and Ryan then took the peti-tion to Paul Tay-lor, di-rector of B i l l i k e n D i n i n g Ser vices, and the two par-ties be-gan talks to get the F l e x - t o -Feed plan u n d e r way.

O v e r the past summer before the start of the 2012-2013 school year, Adam and Taylor met with current SGA president, Blake Exline, to discuss de-tails of the program.

Exline said he liked the idea because it gives stu-dents another and a differ-ent chance to participate in service for the surrounding

St. Louis area. “I think students will be

excited about the possibility of helping out our commu-nity,” Exline said. “We live in an impoverished area, where people do go hun-gry.”

T h e c u r r e n t status of the proj-ect is that B i l l i k e n D i n i n g S e r v i c e and SGA are work-ing to-gether to complete a shared document that will s p e c i f y how much and of what will

go to charity, specifically the St. Louis Food Bank.

“We’re working to make sure Chartwells and SGA are on the same page,” Ex-line said.

The logistics of the pro-gram should be finalized within the next couple of weeks.

Mary Dunn, marketing

Garrett thinks the mes-sage Thomas and Beckel present is relevant to all SLU students, despite the fact that both speakers are much older than most col-lege students.

“Partisan politics really doesn’t have a specific age group,” Garrett said, “so I think it’s just as relevant as anyone else [who would speak]. They’re talking more about how they’re trying to break that gap be-tween the two groups.”

The event will follow the common format of GIC speakers, with a 50-minute presentation by the speak-ers followed by a 30-minute question-and-answer ses-sion with the audience.

According to Garrett, there will be a voter reg-istration table outside the event so that students who aren’t registered yet can get involved in this year’s elec-tion.

Doors to the event will open at 6:30 p.m. at the Wool Ballrooms in the Busch Student Center.

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DPSEP Facebook and Twit-ter accounts.

DPSEP has also insti-tuted a new text messaging system.

People can now confi-dentially report any crimi-nal or suspicious activity by texting a summary to 274637 (CRIMES), which will be sent to DPSEP. Stu-dents can also text HELP to the same number to re-quest immediate DPSEP assistance.

A recently created DPSEP website, which Till-man calls an “enhanced lost and found,” allows students to report items that they have misplaced or lost, as well as browse items that others have found and turned in to the depart-ment.

“There has been no ac-tion,” according to Till-man concerning a DPSEP proposal from last year to have drug dog searches in residence halls, but noted that three more emergency phones have been installed since last school year. The locations of all emergency phones on both the Frost and Health Sciences Cam-puses can be found on the DPSEP website.

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...I knew this was some-thing we needed to take seriously and I though it was a great opportunity to help our community... Many students felt pas-sionate about this and ex-pressed it to SGA.

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”-Matt Ryan

director of Billiken Dining Services, said that Chart-wells is look forward to the chance to work with stu-dents in this capacity.

“Chartwells is extraor-dinarily pleased to partner with St. Louis University on one of the most unique and impactful programs in the entire country,” Dunn said. “The uniqueness of the Flex-to-Feed program is that everyone on our campus can participate, and the impact is that the truly needy in our community will benefit.”

The contract between Chartwells and SLU is due to end in the summer of 2014. At that time, SLU will begin to look at contracts from other food service providers, including Chart-wells, and decide whether or not to continue on with Chartwells or start a new contract with a different company.

Exline said that program will continue regardless of which food service the Uni-versity contracts with.

“Either way, no matter which food provider SLU has, we want to keep up the Flex to Feed program,” Ex-line said.

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Quotesof the week

“You would have to be a wizard to predict the weather 100 percent all the time.

”- Sean Everson, SLUTV Weatherman

See Page 2.

“What’s unique about social media is the immediacy by which many people have a thought and then share a thought.

”- Janet Oberle, Associate Director of Athletics

See Page11.

Erika Klotz / Chief Illustrator

Ask yourself: On a typical day, what do you do first, check your Facebook or brush your teeth?

If you chose Facebook, you’re probably not alone. And if you answered “Neither, I check Twitter,” you’re not exactly unique, either. The use of social media has practically become a daily ritual in American so-ciety, especially on college campuses. Most SLU stu-dents use Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn or one of their variants, and many check more than one of these sites on a daily basis.

Perhaps it isn’t that far fetched to compare social networking with a morning routine like brushing your teeth. By grooming and dressing ourselves, we choose what face we want to show the world. Our on-line profiles have become another set of fronts that we put on each day, and we spend nearly as much time and energy monitoring our online appearance as we spend on our physical appearance—perhaps even more.

What is the relationship between our online selves and our real-world selves? We may never even con-sider asking this question, but it is an interesting way to think about social media.

Is the persona we create on our favorite social net-work truly reflective of who we are? Is it genuine? And if that online personality is not in fact genuine, then what does that say about our online relation-ships? How many of our online contacts can truly be called our friends, especially those with whom we have little contact in real life?

Moreover, it is becoming increasingly clear that using social media comes with significant risks. When we create our online image, we must carefully consider what we want the world to see, not just now,

but for the rest of our lives. As our generation enters positions of responsibility in business and govern-ment, who knows how many revealing photos and off-color comments will be unearthed by enterprising netizens? The errors of our youth will be immortal-ized in data caches worldwide.

The use of social media affects more than just our public image. Given how much we are exposed to these types of media, it is inevitable that they will impact the way we think and act. If you look long enough into the void that is the internet, the void starts to look back into you.

How has social media affected our ability to com-municate? Due to the fast-paced nature of the internet, most social media posts consist of terse statements, possibly high in witticisms but low in meaningful con-tent. This form of writing may be detrimental to our ability to form coherent, well-considered ideas.

Additionally, with modern social media we run the risk of becoming trapped in a feedback loop of stale ideas. It is easy to shut out those with opinions dif-ferent from our own and become trapped in a bub-ble where everyone agrees and “Likes” each others’ ideas without any critical discourse. The sites them-selves encourage this by directing us to those pages we view the most.

Social media can be a powerful tool. Still, it is vital that we think critically about how we use that tool and how it affects our development. Otherwise, social media may give us the illusion of being connected while in reality we become increasingly isolated. We must be careful not to invest so much in our online personas that we hinder the development of the per-son outside the screen.

SLU likes to tout its commitment to diversity. Just recently, plans were announced to renovate the Bau-man-Eberhardt Center and transform it into a Center for Global Citizenship. Flags from dozens of nations line the top of the building.

Truly college is a time for exploring different cul-tures and ideas, and at SLU there are many resources to facilitate that process. Yet at the end of the day, it still falls to individual students to reach out and take advantage of those opportunities.

It can be intimidating to engage with an unfamil-iar culture. The Cross Cultural Center is dedicated to promoting multicultural inclusiveness, but it still takes courage to cross its threshold if you know don’t know anyone within. However, this experience can be enlightening in itself; to consciously enter into a situ-ation where you are unfamiliar give you perspective on the challenges of creating a diverse and welcom-ing university community.

There are many groups at SLU dedicated to rep-resenting the various cultural, religious, and ethnic identities that make up our student body. There are also a variety of events on campus that foster mul-ticultural education and discussion. Every month, the “I AM” Discussion Series explores issues of so-cial justice and multiculturalism. In the spring, Atlas Week is reserved as a time to increase awareness of global issues through presentations, discussions and events, culminating in the Billiken World Festival and the Parade of Nations.

Opportunities to experience other cultures aren’t limited to SLU’s campus, either. Every fall the Festi-val of Nations in Tower Grove Park brings together people from all over the world to share their crafts,

foods and arts. In September the St. Nicholas Greek Festival celebrates Greek heritage and traditions. Even events like Oktoberfest, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Mardi Gras offer a taste of different cul-tures for those willing to explore beyond the Ameri-can drinking holidays.

Perhaps these large festivals don’t produce the dialogue that is most important in fostering diversity, but multicultural education is about more than just discussing other cultures. It is about experiencing them, tasting them, dancing them, feeling them and hearing them.

To that end, the best way to learn about other cul-tures is perhaps unrelated to anything planned at all. The most meaningful experiences of diversity occur when we simply befriend people who are different from ourselves.

This doesn’t need to happen in a dedicated build-ing or at a planned event. Your fellow students have a wealth of traditions, culture and heritage that they would probably be more than willing to share with you, and you in turn can share your own experiences with them. And you can make friends with people of any culture based on any shared interest you might have, be that movies, music, fencing or philosophy. In these relationships boundaries are truly broken down and candid discussions of multiculturalism can freely occur.

College is the time to have these experiences. So go out there and meet people. Push your boundaries. Learn something. Ultimately, a diverse community is not something that can be created for us; it is some-thing that we must choose. You can bring a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink panaka… or sake…

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Feminism, for everyone

OPINION 5unewsonline.comSEPTEMBER 13, 2012

With election season in full swing and political ideologies becoming ever more polarized, we could all do with a little wisdom.

There is a tradi-tional Af-rican phi-l o s o p h y c a l l e d U b u n t u , which in s i m p l e t e r m s means, “I am who I am be-cause of

who we all are.” Archbishop Desmond

Tutu explained: “A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirm-ing of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, based from a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a great-er whole and is diminished when others are humili-ated or di-minished, when oth-ers are t o r t u r e d or op-pressed.”

I am a w o m a n ; I am a daughter; I am a best friend; I am a writ-er; a run-ner; a girl to people who know me, but never to someone who has just met me; I am a person with a dis-tinctive laugh. I identify as part of a collective of wom-en, as an individual and as an integral part of our col-lective humanity.

One of the hot topics in this election is women’s rights. And obviously I do not think that we will all agree on all these issues, but I believe that in order to try to solve these problems, we have to try to under-stand each other.

And to try to understand each other, we need to rec-ognize each other’s human-ity and acknowledge that we come from a wide range of experiences and back-grounds.

I feel that a lot of this election has been centered on what is best for wom-en—or what select people think is best for women—and on what the woman’s place is in our country.

I believe that my identity is tied up with the identity of both that of the woman collective, as well as that of the human collective. But my best interests and my place in the world are not necessarily tied up with ei-ther one of those, because in addition to being a wom-an and a human I am also Hilary, an individual—me.

Some say that women are the creative force in the uni-verse; women are the bear-ers of our children, the ves-sels for new life. But what if a woman doesn’t fit into that mold? Or what if she is a vessel not for a child, but for the discovery of a cure for cancer? Or for a piece of writing that changes our worldview? Or for a beauti-

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ful bike race, a loving adop-tion, a clever catchphrase? And, of course, a woman most definitely might be a vessel for the life of a child.

But why is it assumed that all women are called to be mothers? That all wom-en, a diverse, rich, beautiful collective of humans, are all supposed to be doing the same thing? The same thing could hardly be said of men.

To try to put me or any person into a box is to deny us our full potential—and to deny us our right to ful-fill our potential is to deny yourself and our humanity its possibilities.

Through the lens of Ubuntu, my identity should not be a threat to yours and my potential should not be diminished, cannot be diminished without also diminishing that of our hu-manity.

And yes, this may sound vaguely familiar, maybe a little feminist-y, but definite-ly not as closed-minded as

you might h a v e t h o u g h t . B e c a u s e contempo-rary femi-nism, at least the feminism that I sub-scribe to, is not of the man-h a t i n g , hairy, ex-clusively-l e s b i a n ,

aggressive variety (al-though I have been known to sometimes be hairier than the average woman—but that, too, is my right).

The feminism that I be-lieve in, that I am passion-ate about, is that which demands equality for all—regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, ability, age. My feminism is that which recognizes the sys-tems of oppression that are at work in our society and tries to dismantle them.

In my opinion, a matriar-chy is just as harmful and oppressive as a patriarchy. The power-based struc-tures that keep other people down are the very opposite of Ubuntu.

A person of Ubuntu does not feel threatened that oth-ers are able and good.

If we can recognize the goodness in others, the abil-ity in others, the humanity in others, then maybe these Facebook debates, these arguments over which par-ty is more selfless, which ideology is most closely aligned with Western mo-rality, maybe these debates and arguments can turn into productive conversa-tion - into a healthy, dy-namic and fruitful dialogue. Maybe when we recognize the goodness, the ability, the humanity of others, we will be able to meet people where they are and see the value in their contributions.

When we recognize our collective humanity, the hu-manity of discourse can be elevated and we can begin to understand each other—and maybe, we will be able to begin to solve some of these problems.

The feminism that I believe in, that I am passionate about, is that which demands equal-ity for all—regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, ability, age.

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-Hilary Korabik

As a college sophomore, I witnessed the debate be-tween Jack Kennedy and

Dick Nix-on. After the de-bate, local television guys and f a r m e r s t a l k e d a b o u t it for w e e k s . T h e Y a n k e e n a m e d J a c k

looked too smooth (i.e., dis-honest guy from up north). Tricky Dick needed a shave and sweated too much. Ev-eryone forgot everything the candidates said, and re-verted to cheering for their team and throwing insults at the other team.

My observations came from relatively uneducated farmers in a redneck quasi-confederate region in Ken-tucky.

Then, I returned to cam-pus where the language was no different. Groups of students had formed fan clubs for the political par-ties, third parties, religious organizations and even a white-power group.

Students cheered for their Clubs, without much regard for substance or facts. The Club members identified themselves as the good guys, and they were eager to identify the bad

guys - all in the mode of be-ing a member of their Club. The frequently-heard state-ment was something like “I am a member of Club X, therefore I believe Y and Z,” where Y and Z could be almost anything. The mes-sages all distilled to “our Club is right and good, and all others Clubs are wrong and evil”.

National Tragedy and Local Reality

In fall of 1963, I was in a graduate physics course with an attractive smart woman (at a time when I had no female peers in engi-neering). On Nov. 22, 1963, at the end of class, a secre-tary came to the classroom and announced that Presi-dent Kennedy had been shot and killed.

Suddenly, the attractive smart female student start-ed cheering and laughing and jumping like a cheer-leader after a touchdown. She ran out of the class-room exclaiming that she could not wait to tell their Club’s faculty advisor. As she ran from the classroom, the rest of us sat silently in disbelief.

Her club’s celebration made sense only in the model of her Club cheer-ing for their good guys and wishing the worst for those whom the Club labeled as the bad guys.

A Challenge to Stu-

dentsFifty years later, not

much has changed. Univer-sity campuses and student centers are littered with propaganda from political and religious clubs – using the same old language.

Is it possible for intel-ligent college students to think rationally, and still join a club whose manifesto says: we are right and good, and everyone else is wrong and evil? Or are we simply incapable of forming opin-ions that differ from our peers, parents and religious advisors?

I challenge SLU Students to defy the trend toward the irrational frenzy associ-ated with the political cam-paigns. Look for substance and reason, and reject the “we good, they evil.”

Some SuggestionsIf you say “get govern-

ment off our backs”, have someone kick your butt or give you a head-slap. I’ve heard that slogan all my life, and almost always, the speaker wants more gov-ernment for his Club mem-bers and less for others.

If you start a sentence with “I am a member of Club X, therefore I believe ...,” then bite your tongue, and ask yourself if you “be-lieve” or just verbalize what Club X believes?. If you say “I am a ____,” where the Blank may be conservative, liberal, Catholic or nerd, ask

yourself what that means, who made you a Blank, and why one would choose to join a Club of Blanks.

If you advocate “religious freedom”, ask yourself what that means. That phrase is currently used in Europe to advocate male circumci-sion. In parts of Asia and Africa it means female cir-cumcision (a.k.a., female genital mutilation). From time to time in the U.S., re-ligious freedom has meant the freedom to use drugs or alcohol, to reject contracep-tion, to accumulate tax-free wealth, to exclude “colored people”, to lobby politicians, and even to use poisonous snakes in religious rituals. When is religious freedom about religion, and when is just a mechanism to benefit a Club?

Discuss the problems at Penn State, an excel-lent university, where Club membership and Club loy-alty made members deaf and blind to reality and morality. The Club and the leaders of the Club became more important than their victims.

I am not suggesting that you should change your beliefs, or your club mem-berships. I am suggesting that you should understand your beliefs and member-ships by looking beneath the slogans and labels. That type of understanding should be a primary goal of your college experience.

Clubs, political and otherwise

The ongoing presidential race is analogous to a horse race in front of the Ameri-can people that pits Re-

publican ideology a g a i n s t D e m o -c r a t i c ideology. It should have al-m o s t n o t h i n g to do with the can-d i d a t e s . C h o o s e e i t h e r

candidate on many issues and you will see that they have flipped positions a multitude of times, so much so that it becomes mind-numbing to keep track of who stands for what posi-tion.

Students in higher edu-

cation are often so flush with optimism for the fu-ture that they disregard past decisions, mistakes and history itself. College students want to believe in theory and making that theory a reality, but so often that view is misguided.

President Barack Obama campaigned on the idea of changing the culture of Washington, D.C., and rightly so, because at that time it was becoming aw-fully partisan and divided. President Obama sold the public and many voters in the youngest demographic on the idea that he was dif-ferent and that he had the will, the motivation and the tools to change the entire atmosphere of political cul-ture.

President Obama duped us. One might argue that he just didn’t know what he

was getting into or just how bad things had become. If a superbly-educated man that had already spent many years in politics could be “unaware” of what he was about to encounter, then why would anyone assume that he knew any-thing about foreign policy, the economy or education? Those situations cannot be rated as improved since he took his seat in the Oval Of-fice. I guess he didn’t real-ize how “bad” things had become in those sectors.

In a recent interview with Charlie Rose, Presi-dent Obama “opened up” and issued his number one regret – that he couldn’t change Washington’s cul-ture and that the political back-and-forth had been so nasty.

Excuse me if I issue a rude wake up call to

everyone: he is doing it again. How could he re-ally get away with saying something like that after the television ads that he has run against Republican nominee Gov. Mitt Romney this summer? Watch his interview and then watch the commercials that ran almost simultaneously on other networks that dispar-age his counterpart on a personal level.

The second part to this argument is that Mitt Rom-ney does not get a free pass. He has changed his posi-tions on abortion, health-care, education and the economy so many times that is has become pointless to keep count. Now he’s trying to tell the American public, namely during the Republican National Con-vention, that he is a man that has honor, kindness

and generosity. The RNC was about making Romney connect with regular Amer-icans. He wants them to trust him.

Come to think of it, both candidates are running for the trust of the American public. Put your trust in either candidate and one is surely to be burned. Say, President Obama, what is your opinion on gay mar-riage, the status of Guan-tanamo Bay, or just on war in general? Don’t answer, it was rhetorical. Hey Mitt, everyone feels so connect-ed to you now. How fast can you remove Romneycare, er, I mean, Obamacare?

The central point to this entire argument is that when you boil everything down, you are electing an ideology to solve this na-tion’s problems. Don’t be naïve and think that either

candidate is above his par-ty. Heck, for the second election cycle in a row, the person listed second on the ticket, Paul Ryan, has gen-erated more enthusiasm than the man on the top of the ticket. Who gave, by most accounts, the most electric and motivating speech of the Democratic National Convention? Wel-come back, Bill Clinton -- Obama needed that.

Now, hopefully you look at this presidential race dif-ferently. Maybe now politi-cians will have to be more than easy talkers to sway a young person’s vote. Look at what both parties have done in power and look at their future visions of this country. That should be the way you vote. If you vote for the man, you are throwing your vote away. The horse is the small actor

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The Presidential race: When voting, pick your party, not your man

This is indeed a sad time for all of us. Laclede’s; we used to call it “Club LA,”

or some-times “La La’s.” I hope that s h a r i n g my grief will aid all of us in easing the afflic-tion of our loss.

T h e memories I have of

Laclede’s are bittersweet. But mostly, Laclede’s filled the role of a tough-love minded elder sibling—teaching us some painful lessons, but loving us just the same. As badly as a Long-Island-iced-tea-night may kicked us while we’re down, we would still return the next weekend (and to a warm welcome, at that). Laclede’s took us under its wings, accepted us along with our naïveté, and pro-vided us with our first bar scene experiences. It in-troduced us to dance-floor make outs—what every girl dreams of starting at age 5…

But Laclede’s developed some important skills, too. Namely, the strategic ID “pass-back” as perfected by a friend of mine. She once tallied 5 pass-backs in one night. Is there a place on her résumé for that?

Another important skill I honed at Laclede’s was the ability to recognize—for lack of a better term—bullshit. Girls, skepticism is always safe. Do you really

think the man lurking in the corner wearing Ed Hardy is a striker on SLU’s soccer team? No. Just, no.

And I cannot forget the time when a strange boy snaking through the crowd behind me threw up on my brand new sweater—the third cardigan I had lost, ru-ined or had stolen within a span of a few months.

The first closing of Laclede’s led to “CheA+ers.” I believe it was an effort to legitimize the restaurant/bar for everyone 21 and old-er. Really, they just switched which sides the men’s and women’s restrooms were on, surprising nearly-uncon-scious youths who depend on their familiarity of the layout of the bar to make it to the correct bathroom. The only other change was the addition of beer pong tables that worked against their goal because adults either: A) don’t know what beer pong is, or B) are des-perately seeking to return to that age from the midst of a mid-life crisis.

Regardless, the shift to CheA+er’s preserved the essence and history of Laclede’s. It was not as emotionally taxing as the shift to the new era rung in by The Shack. The exo-dus of Laclede’s/CheA+er’s nearly tops the list of events that marred our adolescent memories, along with the declaration that Pluto is not a planet.

But I ought to broach the subject that affects suc-ceeding generations of Bil-likens: where will the fresh-men go?

Laclede’s has always

been fundamental to the Freshmen Year Experi-ence. What first comes to mind when one thinks of FYE is the Billiken and Je-suit trivia and never-ending games of “scoot your boot.” But over summer break after your first year of col-lege, did you and your high school buddies go around the circle saying your fa-vorite Ice Breakers? Or did you share crazy stories that took place at Laclede’s, fea-turing the friends that those Ice Breakers led you to?

Laclede’s, along with “Lofting” and confusedly lingering near Moolah, were parts of freshman year that seniors consider a nec-essary stage of our colle-giate careers. They brought upon us a coming-of-age, rather than a time of shame.

Now, we respectfully welcome The Shack to the SLU-Midtown area. Upon The Shack’s opening, I promptly went for a meal and was impressed by the food, service and abun-dance of natural light (I mean sunlight, not Natty). But the dance floor is gone,

filled in with dining tables. I could not help but no-

tice the prevalence of bacon jam: a bacon-based relish that found its way into sev-eral menu items and claims to be “soon-to-be-famous.”

Can bacon jam sufficient-ly fill the void in our hearts left by an establishment that hosted our first bar en-counters and supported al-cohol’s prodding us to leave our inhibitions at the door?

Let’s remember Laclede’s for all of the memories (or lack thereof) that we have from there. We should live our lives in a way that celebrates the les-sons that

Laclede’s taught us, in a way that transcends how those who do not share our experiences superficially view the establishment. This past week, The Shack greeted new customers with strict carding, indicat-ing the inauguration of an-other upperclassmen bar and the retirement of a hub dedicated to preparing hor-mone-raging freshmen for pubs, clubs and everything in between.

An elegy for Laclede’s, Midtown institution

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MYTH: Lightning never strikes the same

place twice.

It may make us feel safe but this saying is nothing

more than an old wives tale. Not only does lightning

strike the same place twice, it tends to attack there multiple times. Remem-

ber, lightning prefers high trees and buildings, making

them more susceptible to repeated strikes. The

Empire State Building gets hit as many as 25 times a

year! Bust.

MYTH: Heat lightning is caused by hot

weather.

Heat lightning is actually just flashes from distant lightning storms that are

too far away for the sound of thunder to reach us. The

term heat lightning was coined because it usually

happens during hot summer weather. This is not a spe-cial type of lightning, just a

different perception. Trust.

MYTH:Rubber shoes

insulate and protect from lightning.

In theory, this sounds cor-rect. Rubber is an electrical

insulator—a material that does not allow electricity to flow freely—but a sole of a shoe is not large enough to halt the shock. Air is also a good insulator and that lightning already traveled a few miles, making your half-inch of rubber pretty

useless. Bust.

Turf vs. Grass on the Vandy FieldUnrooting The Truth To Health and Environmental Safety

John Schuler / Photo Editor

A look from midfield at the new synthetic turf on the athletic field located on the corner of Vandeventer and Laclede

By GABBY GEERTSScience Editor

The decision to spruce up the athletic field located on the corner of Vande-venter and Laclede avenues was an easy one.   The grass was spotty and the holes were deep, making this field a swampland for sprained ankles.  

This past summer, grass was pulled up from the field and replaced with an artifi-cial alternative—turf.

Today’s artificial field turf has three layers--shock absorbing, drainage, and surface. The surface is meant to imitate grass and is made of silicone coated polyethylene plastic blades and a few inches of “infill” that keeps the blades up-right.  This infill can consist of recycled tires, ground-up athletic shoe soles or spe-cial rubber.

Anthony Breitbach, cer-tified athletic trainer and director of the SLU Ath-letic Training Education Program, specified, say-ing  “the new generation of synthetic turf is more tech-nologically advanced than it was years ago; mirroring grass well.”

Eric Anderson, director of Campus Recreation, said one of the main reasons for the switch was “pure play-able hours...It doesn’t need the time to rest like natural grass does,” Anderson also adds, “although it is artifi-cial, it looks natural.”

  Both these reasons add to the positive conclusion of choosing turf over grass; however the debate still persists, asking if artificial turf is safe for human and

environmental health.  Studies of soccer teams

have reported that there is no difference in incidence, severity, nature or cause of injury in teams that play on synthetic turf versus grass.  

Another study conduct-ed over the past five years looked at football injuries in high school athletes.   The research found that there were roughly 10 percent more injuries when played on artificial turf in com-parison to grass surfaces. However, the severity of the head and knee injuries was greater on grass fields.

Digging deeper, the same study shows that sur-face to skin injuries and muscle strains were more frequent on artificial turf while concussions and liga-ment tears more prevalent on grass fields.  

“Feet do not stick to turf, allowing feet to slide and pick up easier, making or-thopedic injuries less com-mon on turf,” Breitbach added.

While there wasn’t a sig-nificant difference in the incidence of injuries on the two fields, there was a dif-ference in type of injury,

time lost on injury and loca-tion of injury.  Injuries were less severe and had a quick-er recovery time when in-curred on artificial turf.

Additional precautions should be taken for turf burns though.   Breitbach explained that these burns can deposit infections in the rubber and spread to other athletes.   He advises that any abrasions that look infected should brought to the attention of student health for fear of MRSA in-fections--a contagious staph bacteria that is potentially dangerous.

So why is artificial turf better on the body?

Natural grass is more susceptible to deterioration from constant use, creat-ing a surface similar to the one found on the moon--full of bumps, craters and holes.  This unlevel playing surface lends itself to more injuries.

Combine daily wear and tear with poor grass main-tenance and end up with a field that loses its resiliency and cushion.  Artificial turf has been shown to reduce

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It has become a rare phe-nomenon to walk from one side of campus to another and not see someone lis-tening to music. Whether that is someone with Beats plugged into their iPod, or Bose headphones in a Zune while listening to Pandora, or even with Skullcandy plugged into a smartphone. But are there long term side effects to listening to music religiously?

Scientists are coming out with hard evidence saying there is.

Cars bustling by with horns blaring, a jet over-head soaring by, a fire truck making its presence known while an entourage of ambu-lances are following in pur-suit. In the hectic society in which we live in, plugging in to drown out the noise, with more favorable noise such as music, can too often be the quick fix we go to in order to restore balance in our lives. But just as fight-ing fire with fire only leads to third degree burns, fight-ing noise with noise will inevitably result in irrepara-ble damage to our ears and possibly loss of hearing all together.

To understand why plug-ging in and dialing up can cause damage to our ears, we have to understand the anatomy of the ear.  

Depending on the me-dium you use to listen to music, the pinna, or outer ear, may not be used. But all forms of headphones and speakers have their sound collected in the outer ear canal, which is just past the pinna.

Once in the canal, the sound vibrates against the eardrum which in turn causes the three tiny bones in the ear to vibrate. When the incus, malleus and the stapes, the three tiny bones in the ear, are vibrating, they cause the tiny hairs in the cochlea to send elec-trical signals to the brain. The brain then interprets the signals as a rock solo, the base being dropped or

a melancholy country tune.The most sensitive parts

of your ear are those tiny lit-tle hairs inside the cochlea. Those hairs are essentially responsible for your hear-ing. It is precisely these little hairs that are subject to the most damage.

Audiologists call it Noise Induced Hearing Loss when those hairs are over stimu-lated to the point where they snap.

Sound is measured in a unit called the decibel. For an increase in ten decibels, the sound is ten times as magnified. To our ears, an

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increase of ten decibels sounds twice as loud. The safe zone, as marked by audiologist, tops off at 85 decibels.

But how loud is 85 deci-bels?

The humming of the re-frigerator peeks at 45 deci-bels while a normal con-versation wavers around 60 decibels, a dial tone comes in at 80 decibels while heavy city traffic, while sitting in the car, is   85 decibels. Compared to sitting in a

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Cyberwarfare poses a significant threat

By PATRICK HITCHENS Staff Writer

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We are at war. Thought provoking, no? Despite what many people may be-lieve, the wars in Afghani-stan and Iraq are not the only ones we are fighting. The United States is fight-ing a war that many people fail to recognize on a daily basis -- a cyberwar of epic proportions. Cyberwarfare is not a term restricted to the movie or TV screen, but rather a daily war waged between superpowers on a global scale. This cyber-war has become the new cold war -- a war with seri-ous political and economic consequences. However, unlike the Cold War b e t w e e n the Unit-ed States and Soviet Union, this war is not an arms race. In-stead, it is i n c r e a s -ingly asym-metric in n a t u r e and in a constant state of flux. The teams are not set, and there exist no rules of engage-ment. We are playing for keeps.

Cyberwarfare is politi-cally motivated computer hacking in order to conduct espionage and/or sabotage missions. It has become one of the largest forms of information warfare and currently in a gray area of conventional warfare. The United States Department of Defense (DOD) formally recognized cyberspace as a new domain in warfare, becoming the fifth element in the DOD’s full-spectrum dominance. In his 2010 book, “Cyber War,” U.S. government security ex-pert Richard A. Clarke lays out an excellent definition of cyberwar: “Actions by a nation-state to penetrate another nation’s computers or networks for the pur-poses of causing damage or disruption.” In 2010, top

American lawmakers, cit-ing The Lipman Report, warned that the threat of a crippling attack on telecom-munications and computer networks was significantly on the rise.

Cyberwarfare has many dangerous implications for both nations and individu-als. This scare has contin-ued to gain attention in the media, particularly with regards to China and the U.S., as both have a history of waging cyberwarfare against one another, as well as against other target na-tions. Chinese, North Ko-rean and Russian hackers have become significant ag-gressors and are suspected of carrying out hundreds of

high level a t t a c k s a g a i n s t the United States, oth-er Western p o w e r s and sev-eral cor-porations. N A S A r e p o r t e d that on four sepa-rate oc-c a s i o n s ,

suspected Chinese-backed military assets interfered with two U.S. government satellites (Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1) in 2007 and 2008 through a ground station in Norway. These attacks underscore the po-tential dangers posed by government backed hack-ers, or even rogue entities.

Recently, high-profile viral threats Stuxnet and Flame have demonstrated to the world that we have entered an era of cyber-attacks that threaten to penetrate and sabotage critical control and monitor-ing systems, demonstrating that cyber-attacks have the power to create real-world impacts. Stuxnet was a so-phisticated computer worm designed to infect the su-pervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCA-DA) configured to control and monitor specific

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Deciding to run a mara-thon is exciting and sparks motivation in many run-ners; however, it can seem like an overwhelming un-dertaking, especially if you’re a first timer to 26.2. The first step is to make a mental commitment to the race. From there, it is a blend of training, nutrition, and injury prevention to en-sure a successful race

To begin with, develop-ing a training plan encour-ages consistency each week and also allows a person’s strength and endurance to build up gradually.

According to Runner’s World, it is best to regu-larly run three to five times a week for about a year before attempting a begin-ner’s marathon training plan. Generally, the plan consists of three or four running days, two or three cross training days, and one or two rest days.

On the running days, the majority of these runs are easily paced and within the same mileage range of each other. One run, usually on the weekend, is called the long run where the mileage is higher than any of the previous days that week. In most training plans, the longest distance for the long run is either twenty or twenty-two miles.

On cross training days, a person can choose from a variety of activities, such as yoga, swimming, strength training, or the elliptical. An important aspect of the training plan, cross train-ing allows different muscle groups to work besides the ones used while running, which leads to a stronger body and prevents injury.

The final aspect of the training plan, rest days are just as important because muscles are allowed to rest and repair themselves. Since exercise causes mus-cles fibers to break down and build back up in stron-ger formation, rest days are needed in order to allow this to occur. Otherwise, a person is at greater risk for injury and exercise burn-out.

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Within the past few weeks, scientists have dis-covered a new planet, and it might sustain life. The plan-et, named Gliese (Gl) 163c by scientists, exists in the Dorado constellation, ap-proximately 49 light-years away from planet Earth.

It orbits around Gliese 163, a red dwarf star, which is a smaller, cooler star rela-tive to the sun. Scientists are aware of one other iden-tified planet orbiting Gliese 163 and are researching a potential third planet.

The first identified planet orbits Gisele 163 in just 8.6 days, the newly discovered planet, Gl 163c, orbits in 25.6 days and the third po-tential planet takes 669 days to complete its orbit. These numbers vary greatly from Earth’s typical 365.25 days to orbit the sun.

  It’s hard to imagine life on a planet where a year is over in just 25.6 days -- less than one month in our minds. However, scientists feel confident that some type of life is sustainable on GI 163c.

Despite its surface tem-perature of roughly 60 de-grees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit), it is still pos-sible for extremophilic mi-crobrial life forms to sustain life.

Such organisms thrive off of the extreme condi-tions, which are just what they need in order to live and reproduce.

 However, as most organ-isms on Earth cannot sur-vive in temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius (122 de-grees Fahrenheit), Gl 163c does not appear to have the potential to sustain us and our typical plants and ani-mals.

Based on its relatively short orbital period, it is clear that this new planet is physically much closer to its star than Earth is to the sun. This shorter distance allows GI 163c to receive 40 percent more energy than Earth.

Currently, the size and compostion are being stud-ied; it is thought that the new planet is composed of mainly rock and water and is roughly seven times the size of planet Earth.

Gl 163c is what is known as an exoplanet, which is a

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planet outside of the solar system. It was discovered by European HARPS, a re-search group that finds and investigates new planets. According to HARPS, red dwarf stars are among the most common type, and about 40 percent of these stars may have habitable planets. Furthermore, Gl 163c ranks fifth in the re-

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Runners take to the streets of Chicago, a world famous marathon, in 2011. Marathon participants endure rigourous training and strict dietary requirements to prepare.

In terms of the train-ing plan’s structure, most marathon training plans assume the person has experience running. The first week’s runs begin at three miles and the follow-ing weeks build up from there. However, the last three weeks of the plan are dedicated to tapering. This means more rest and less running. Although it seems counterintuitive to back off training right before the big day, this process allows for muscle damage repair and improved immunity. Also, studies saw that aerobic capacity does not change at all.

The second component, proper nutrition, is neces-sary to supplement the intense physical training. Roughly ninety minutes into vigorous physical activ-ity, additional calories are necessary to meet energy needs. During the mara-thon event, the general guideline is to ingest 200 calories per hour. This can vary from person to person based on what they are com-fortable with. Race snack ideas include sports gels,

jelly beans, fruit snacks, or pieces of an energy bar. It is important to test out dif-ferent foods during long training runs in order to see what does or does not cause gastrointestinal upset.

In terms of fluid intake, it is important to listen to one’s own body. Active.com recommends taking small sips whenever feel-ing thirsty or every ten to fifteen minutes. Again, it important to test out differ-ent amounts during train-ing runs to see what works best.

Finally, injury prevention is key to ensure safe and en-joyable training. Runner’s World lists the ten laws of injury prevention, which are applicable for every rac-ing distance.

For example, it is impor-tant to know the limits of one’s own body. The body needs time to adjust to the mileage changes each week, and it is acceptable divert from the plan by a week or two if the plan is causing harm.

Another example is the importance of strength training. By training other

muscle groups, the body can reach proper alignment during the running stride, which prevents a misstep and injury. A final example is to consistently ice and stretch after a run.

Dynamic stretching, which involves movement while stretching such as jumping jacks or swinging the arms back and forth in front of the body in a self-hug position, is important before a run. It allows the body to warm up while pre-paring the muscles for the work ahead.

Static stretching, such as ankle-holding quad stretch-es or calf stretches against a wall, are needed after a run to assist in the muscle repair process. 

Overall, training for a mar-athon requires dedication to a plan and passion for the final goal. While it may seem daunting, it is a rewarding experience to line up at the start after several months of training and preparation. The feeling of success at the end is definitely worth all the work that went into prepar-ing.

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search group’s current list of six potentially habitable exoplanets.

While excitement sur-rounds the new planet’s dis-covery, there is still much to be learned about its contents and atmosphere. Space travel advancements will be necessary before any concrete conclusions can be made.

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industrial processes. Essen-tially, Stuxnet was designed to infect the software con-trolling industrial machin-ery in order to disrupt or destroy machinery. Stuxnet was notoriously deployed against the Iranian nuclear program in order to destroy or damage centrifuges used in the enrichment of nucle-ar fuel. In response to the Stuxnet virus, Iran announced plans to disconnect all govern-ment ministries and state bodies from the Internet proper (going “black”) and operate on a private net-work (intranet) in order to shield itself from outside at-tacks.

Outside the realm of gov-ernment-s p o n -s o r e d h a c k -ers, the lines are b lur r ed . The term h a c k t i v -ism is a l o o s e l y a p p l i e d t e r m used to describe groups and individuals uti-lizing digital tools in the pursuit of political ends. Here, shadow alliances are forged, and unpredictability thrives. The term advance persistent threat (APT) is used to define “a group, such as a foreign govern-ment, with both the capabil-ity and the intent to persis-tently and effectively target a specific entity,” according to Dell SecureWorks.

APT status is no longer restricted to nation-states but could now be applied to groups outside the control of governments.

Infamous activist entities such as LulzSec, Anony-mous and TheJester have been responsible for very public high-level attacks on governments and corpora-tions alike. These groups could very possibly be con-sidered APTs as they con-tinue to consolidate their methods.

Unlike government-controlled hackers, these groups have no country be-hind them, and their actions are guided by their own unique politics. Cyberspace has enabled these groups to thrive largely due to the open nature of the Internet.

A figure known as The Jester (aka th3j35t3r) so-lidified his status as a ma-jor hacktivist in the world of computer vigilantism by conducting ongoing attacks against Wikileaks, Islamist websites, 4chan and Iranian assets.

He claims to act largely out of American patriotism and has yet to be identified. The Jester utilizes multiple

types of attacks to disable his targets. His most fa-mous tool is an attack plat-form known as XerXes Tor-hammer utilizes the TOR network to launch concen-trated attacks in order to shut down target websites. Whenever successful, The Jester tweets “Tango Down” to signal a completed at-tack. Individuals like The Jester further complicate the field of cyberwar. With no specific allegiances, they remain unpredictable threats capable of wreaking havoc anywhere, anytime.

Anonymous & Lulzsec have the potential to be-come household names, in that their attacks have grown increasingly larger in scale and have suc-ceeded in disrupting many government and corporate websites. Anonymous, in

par t icular, has made a name for it-self as some-thing of a digital “Rob-in Hood” in that it seeks to fight for free speech, democracy and against any form of digital

censorship. In 2012, Time magazine named Anony-mous as one of its Time 100 most influential people in the world. The politics of Anonymous often play out in the form of large-scale at-tacks against groups Anon-ymous thinks are encroach-ing on the rights of others. Anonymous came out very strongly against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) -- a piece of legislation viewed by many as an attempt to censor and control the In-ternet.

In January of 2012, mas-sive direct denial of ser-vice attacks (DDOS attack) were launched against any websites of groups in favor of the bill, including web-sites of the U.S. Depart-ment of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation. This particular attack was cited by Anonymous as one of the largest single attacks in history.

Cyberwarfare will con-tinue to develop as a major threat to both personal and national security.

The U.S. government has recently taken several steps to beef up its cyberwarfare capabilities, namely with the Pentagon’s creation of the U.S. Cyber Command, headed by General Keith B.

Alexander, director of the National Security Agen-cy (NSA). U.S. CyberCom-mand is tasked with rap-idly building up our nation’s defenses against external threats. Our nation is con-stantly at risk of attack; the new terrorists sit behind keyboards, not Kalash-nikovs and suicide vests.

car during traffic, a hand drill is 90 decibels and an iPod, with its volume turned to maximum, blasts a whop-ping 104 decibels.

Hearing loss is common among humans and even other mammals. That is because the tissue inside the ear dies off as we age. Unfortunately for those of you who love loud music, the increased volume along with the added exposure, only makes the deteriora-tion process go faster.

Whoa now, before you go throwing your iPod away and going to dust off the record player, audiologists across the world have a great message for you: fur-ther Noise Induced Hearing Loss is 100 percent avoid-able!

You can take simple pre-cautions in order to reduce your risk for Noise Induced Hearing Loss. The first and easiest is what is known as the 60/60 guideline. The 60/60 guideline states that listening to 60 minutes worth of music at 60 per-

cent volume is best in order to avoid any damages to your hearing.

The next step is ordering a good pair of headphones. Since there are many dif-ferent types of headphones out on the market, you want to get ones that match your intentions.

Regardless of if you like over the ear, around the ear or in the ear headphones, you want to buy ones that cancel out environmental noise as much as possible.

That way, you do not have to turn up your music as much, effectively dialing down the decibels.

 In today’s society, music is as much a part of us as are our genetics.

Music has the power to make us smile, touch our soul and to bring us to tears. Audiologist are not trying to take music from us, they are just making sure we get to enjoy it down the road.

So make sure you dial back the volume and listen in moderation, because life without music, well, try to unplug yourself and think about what a life that would be.

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the impact of the injury from the shock absorben-cy of the surface that also helps with resistance to ro-tation and slipping.

However, artificial fields tend to trap heat more than natural grass potentially making the field too hot to handle. So, the claim that

the artificial field offers more playable hours might not be the case during the summer. 

A study conducted at Brigham Young University found that the synthetic football field averaged 117 degrees; an adjacent natu-ral grass field averaged  78 degrees.

These high tempera-tures bench the field from

play during warm days--days which occur frequent-ly on campus.  Coaches and players should be aware of this to prevent incidences of heat stroke, muscle cramp-ing, dehydration and gen-eral fatigue.      

While playing time on the field will increase with the installation of the turf, birds, animals and in-sects have to find another

home.   Natural grass gen-erates oxygen, reduces greenhouse gases and fil-ters rainwater; artificial turf does not.   This makes the field an undesirable habitat for SLU’s creature friends.

Despite this, SLU has weighed the other positives and negatives of the turf versus grass debate and has come out in the favor of synthetic.

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A local artist displays and sells paintings in a booth at the seventh annual Art Outside fair hosted by Schlafly’s Bottleworks in Maplewood this past weekend.

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(Top) Brothers Seth and Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers perform at the Outside Lands in 2009. (Bottom) The album artwork for The Avett Brothers’ new album, “The Carpenter,” which was released on Sept. 11.

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Okay, I’ll admit it. When I first heard the bluegrass-pop-folk fu-sion of The Avett Broth-ers, I thought they were newcomers on the scene. I found their sound to be incredibly modern, perhaps even ahead of its time. Yet, as I viewed their discography, my jaw dropped. This North Carolinian band has been pumping out southern sound since the turn of the new millennium. Their characteristic genre-busting music hasn’t changed much in 12 years: think Bill Monroe meets Kings of Leon. “The Carpenter,” the band’s seventh stu-dio album, retains classic Avett Brothers roots, al-beit with a louder, grittier undertone.

The Avett brothers are guitarist/vocalist Scott Avett and pianist/vocalist Seth Avett. Bass guitar-ist Bob Crawford, cellist Joe Kwon, and drum-mer Jacob Edwards pro-vide some much needed depth to the band’s soul-ful sound. Scott can also pluck a mean banjo riff, as is beautifully exempli-fied in their album single “Live and Die.”

Lyrically, “The Car-penter” is a darker, more complex album than the band’s previous work. Drawing painful inspira-tion from bass guitarist Bob Crawford’s daugh-ter’s recent battle with a cancerous brain tumor, the band confronts life, death and unwavering love. Ranging from bal-lads like “The Once and Future Carpenter” to hard-charging harmo-nies like “Paul Newman Vs. The Demons,” The Avett Brothers’ newest and most meaningful al-bum leaves nothing to be desired. Though some die-hard Avett Brothers fans may harken back to

the days of softer, more understated albums like “Talk On Indolence,” “The Carpenter” is a ma-ture work with plenty of substance. The Avett Brothers aren’t kids any-more and it shows in this seventh album.

Much to my pleasure, the album doesn’t lay stagnant with one type of song dominating the album. Contrarily, The Avett Brothers arranged “The Carpenter” with short-attention-spanned listeners in mind. The first track on the album, “The Once and Future Carpenter,” lures you in with complex but ef-fortless guitar flow and deep, introspective lyr-ics. “Live and Die,” the next song on the album, is heavy with a rich banjo backdrop and a catchy chorus, completely

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Local artists had the opportunity to exhibit and sell their wares this past weekend, as Schlafly Bottleworks in Maple-wood held a quaint, friendly art festival.

Known as “Art Out-side,” the Schlafly-spon-sored festival has been an annual gathering for the past seven years and is open to artists who live within a 125-mile ra-dius of the St. Louis area. The various types of art ranged from traditional styles to more abstract ones, and artists used all types of media, including but not limited to paint-ing, photography, cloth-ing and woodcarving.

It was a bright warm day, and the ambience was informal and cheery. Forty or so artists set up their work under small tents and guitar music played in the background as children ran around

and adults drank their beer. Some artists were more seasoned and had come to the festival year after year, while others were there for the first time. John Goessmann, whose paintings were surreally abstract, said that Schlafly “well sup-

ported… and took care of the artists” in a way that many other art festi-vals do not. Many artists were pleased that the fes-tival was tailored for lo-cal artists; many of them needed more exposure to the public in order to exhibit their work.

Carmelita Nunez, a ce-ramic artist who creates bowls, vases and wall art, summarized this attitude, feeling delighted that “lo-cal art is represented.”

The fact that they make a point of being lo-cal is important,” Nunez said.

Ceramicists such as Nunez, Jimmy Liu (whose teapots were el-egant yet fantastic--in the shape of animals and nature) and Mitch Mitch-ell (who created motor-cycle saddles, purses, and belts) also enjoyed the way the Schlafly fair was set up for artists and their work.

Mitchell remarked that he was “glad to dis-play [his] work, [loved] the atmosphere”…and that “Art Outside” was held in response to simi-lar Clayton fair, which tends to be more compet-itive and exclusive.

Other artists were in-terested in art as a deco-rative tool, the way many people traditionally think of it. Joe Farmer uses different types of mixed media, often ordinary objects such as spoons, metal scraps, and even an old video recorder, to create sculptural figures,

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Just when you think a pat-tern might develop, “Win-ter in My Heart” comes in slowly and, ultimately, never builds to much more than a gloomy expression of depression.

This pattern, or rather lack thereof, continues throughout the album. “The Carpenter” has enough lyri-cal and musical variety to appeal to any situation or listening taste.

The tracks that most resonate with my musical fancy are “Paul Newman Vs. The Demons,” “Geral-dine” and “A Father’s First Spring.”

I encourage you to buy the album, and yes, I did actually say buy. Support these guys; they deserve it.

The Avett Brothers will be at The Fox Theatre on Sept. 29, but the show is al-ready almost sold out. The brothers are famous for their captivating stage per-formances, so if you snag a ticket, consider yourself lucky.

It was the voice of the lead singer ... that stole the show. It truly blew my mind and kept me wanting more.

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-Johnny Rowell

On Sept. 11, 2012, the Heartless Bastards took the stage at the Firebird to wow audiences with their unique sound and presence.

Hailing from a small town in Ohio, the Heartless Bastards showed that they are ready to make their presence known in the big city.

The band released their fourth album, “Arrow,” in February of this year after a three-year hiatus. Since then, they have continued to rise in popularity.

Fronted by singer-gui-tarist-pianist Erika Wenne-rstorm, the band consists of three other members,

including Dave Colvin on drums, Jesse Ebaugh on bass and Mark Nathan on guitar. The band’s sound f u s e s b l u e s , g a r a g e and even c o u n t r y melodies to produce a refresh-ingly real show.

“ T h e blues rock ‘n’ roll band was a sound worth lis-tening to after I first heard them on a late night show earlier this year,” said soph-omore Johnny Rowell who, like many listeners, stum-

bled upon the band and wanted to hear more.

While the band might at first seem like your run-

of-the-mill g a r a g e band, the extremely t a l e n t e d W e n n e r -storm lifts the band to a whole new level.

We n n e -r s t o r m ’ s g r a v e l l y voice filled the small space of

the Firebird. It wasn’t long before the crowd let go and danced along. Her’s is a voice in a category of its own—powerful and deep.

“It was the voice of the lead singer, Erika Wenner-storm that stole the show. It truly blew me away and kept me wanting more,” Rowell said.

All of the instrumentals were well-performed, but it was her voice that made this a show worth seeing.

Unfortunately, Wenner-storm’s voice might be the only thing that keeps you going through the entire show or album.

The sound of each song is very similar, and the set seemed to blend together as the night continued.

With more variance throughout, the band would be impossible to turn off.

Regardless, this band is worth a listen and a spot in any album collection.

After moving around some old CD shelves last week, on-campus radio sta-tion and studio, KSLU, has added another element to their repertoire—a spot for live music.

KSLU is a student-run ra-dio station that broadcasts online. It offers a high-qual-ity studio and recording for students, and now general manager Grant Nikseresht is aiming to make the office a sanctuary for SLU artists.

With a small stage and some open area, the office-turned-venue promises an intimate setting for both artist and audience. It is also the host of KSLU’s 24-hour broadcast this Friday.

Starting at 7 a.m. on Fridays and going until 7 a.m. on Saturdays, KSLU will be open to any and all music fans looking to fill their weekend with music and fun. Aside from the live broadcasts going on, all are invited to come in and learn about the broadcasts, meet KSLU, or just hang out and

talk music and life with oth-ers.

To enhance the fun, KSLU is encouraging live music from SLU’s finest. Though the stage is not large enough to hold a full band, Grant Nikseresht calls it a perfect spot for acoustic artists, small duos or trios and other small acts.

Friday night starting at 8 , the Vanilla Beans take stage, but other than that, all spots are open. Near the time of the Vanilla Beans show is most encouraged, but any time is great.

So if you are a SLU art-ist, looking for someone to hear your song, KSLU has got just what you are look-ing for.

Contact Grant Nikseresht at kslu.gm@gmail.com for more infor-mation on how to be a part of the music coming out of the lower level in Busch Student Center.

Stop by any time Friday morning until Saturday morning to be a part of a great event in the SLU mu-sic community.     

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wall art and welded piec-es. He was happy that “Art Outside” put the em-phasis on “ emerging art-ists” as well, that many people who’d gone there for the first time could learn more about art fes-tivals and selling their work. There were pho-tographers such as Brad-ley Bauer and other art-ists such as Maggie Filla, a printmaker and man-ager of the Firecracker letterpress. Using an old

form of printing, Filla’s art is an exciting throw-back to the 1960s and pop art; many of Fire-cracker’s posters pro-mote different aspects of St. Louis. There were many more, whose work was spectacular. Overall, the art fair itself was an impressive op-portunity for creative, local artists to showcase and sell their pieces to the public; it was down to earth, informal and well-run thanks to Schlafly’s support.

Saint Louis University is located in the center of such a large city that many students find it difficult to get off campus and really experience all St. Louis has to offer.

This past weekend, just a few city blocks away from campus,  Hispanic Festival, Inc. provided St. Louis with another spectacular cultural event: the Greater St. Louis Hispanic Festival.

  All weekend, Kiener Plaza was alive with the proud  colors,  inviting sounds and enticing smells of the greater St. Louis ar-ea’s diverse Hispanic com-munity. 

On Saturday, the festival filled the streets with its parade of Hispanic nations, where people representing all the different branches of the Hispanic community in St. Louis marched in their home country›s colors.

  Crowds of St. Louisans were able to purchase the wares of local vendors sell-ing anything from hand-made clothing to home-made salsas.

For those who are not usually exposed to Hispanic culture the festival provided a new experience along with the comfort of know-ing that all vendors are local St. Louisans.

  Performances, which ranged over the course

of the weekend, included music from live bands, singers  and various danc-ing groups. DJ Wildhorse mixed traditional Latin mu-sic with the contemporary, livening the festival with a dancing beat.

A series of contests in-cluding a dance contest and a singing contest filled the spaces between perfor-mances and allowed crowd participation, which only added to the fun.

  To entertain children, there was a petting zoo that included chickens, horses and a pony.

A professional  clown danced around the grounds of the festival, telling jokes and playing tricks. There was also a St. Louis based balloon animal artist provid-ing kids with a free token to take home.

  Hispanic Festival, Inc. is a non-profit organization composed of volunteers that coordinate Hispanic festivals and presentations throughout  the St. Louis area with the purpose of uniting all Hispanics in cel-ebrating their rich and col-orful heritage, as well as sharing it with the Greater St. Louis area.

Portions of the profit made from these events go towards college scholar-ships for underprivileged Hispanic students  and  a program that provides one family a year with essentials during the Christmas sea-son. 

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Sports and Social Media: The New AgeIn the age of Twitter, are colleges censoring their athletes?By CHARLES BOWLES

Sports Editor

Social media is the most rapidly expanding form of communication today. Facebook, Instagram, Twit-ter and all the social media sites in between make us more connected to our fa-vorite people, friends and athletes. Because they are easily accessible, social media sources have been seen as a marketing tool for various college athletic pro-grams.

However, social media sites have recently been the subject of investigations and policing by the NCAA. The University of North Caro-lina’s latest football scandal was discovered through pictures posted on Twitter by two former players. This led to sanctions against UNC and the NCAA charg-ing UNC with not properly monitoring the social media of its student athletes. The University of Alabama just received secondary viola-tions for “accepting two recruits’ Facebook friend requests before the allowed date,” according to the As-sociated Press.

Since then, the NCAA and many schools have be-gun to crack down on social media use. Some institu-tions have gone as far as banning social media use for its players. What does this mean for the over 300 athletes at Saint Louis Uni-versity? Do institutions now have to monitor every ath-lete’s social media accounts and blogs? This is a tough, but important question go-ing forward as social media continues to expand and its enforcement begins to take shape for the NCAA and its respective institutions.

“To say that it is not just social media in a bubble, but it is social media as an-other place you are going to

make decisions [that repre-sent your team, the depart-ment, the institution, and your family]. What’s unique about social media is the immediacy by which many people have a thought and then share a thought,” As-sociate Director of Athletics Janet Oberle said.

Oberle acknowledged that the athletic department did not have a formal social media policy until last year, but that it was drawn from the institution’s social me-dia policy.

The social networking policy is one page of the stu-dent-athlete handbook. The

section on social network-ing use give a set of useful guidelines like: keeping set-tings on “private,” personal liability for any violations against other students, not posting inappropriate pho-tos, and many similar guide-lines. All student-athletes must agree to allow access to any social networking site they use to the Depart-ment of Athletics compli-ance staff due to, “NCAA monitoring requirements.”

Oberle also said that the institution has had some sit-uations of where they have had to “educate” an athlete after improper use of social

media. Oberle also cited gam-

bling on college athletic as a key reason as to why many institutions are now crack-ing down on social media.

“Gambling is one of the key reasons that high pro-file sports are beginning to really track because there is serious money gambled on college sports and the NCAA has a specific inter-est in not having that be the case and not having student athletes engaged in that (activity),” Oberle said.

While there is a crack-down on social media for athlete, social media has

become a new ground for recruiting, tracking players and other important tasks. The sport that receives the most attention on social me-dia is men’s basketball.

“The marketing oppor-tunities are endless with so-cial media,” Director of Bas-ketball Operations Mike Lepore said.

Lepore recently started a Twitter account for the men’s basketball team and created an Instagram ac-count for men’s basketball team. Lepore believes that using Instagram and post-

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University of Lousiana- Monroe

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The Warhawks rallied from a 21-point deficit to shock No. 8 Arkansas 34-31 in OT. It was LA-Monroe’s first win against a ranked opponent. With the loss, the Razorbacks dropped from The Associ-ated Press Top 25.

While Mother Nature helped to shorten the game and prevent No. 6 Florida State from covering the 70-point spread, the Tigers still lost 55-0. They’ve now been outscored by a com-bined 139-0 in their first two games.

Savannah State Tigers (again) Jarvis Jones

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The University of Geor-gia linebacker registered 8 tackles and a sack, forced a fumble and then snagged an interception in UGA’s 41-20 win over Missouri.

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Set up at home: SLU owns Chaifetz in tourneyWomen go 2-1 at the annual Hamilton Classic

By NATE CREECHStaff Writer

compete at that high level.”The Billikens, playing for

the first time this season in Chaifetz Arena, first went up against the Purple Aces of Evansville on Friday night. Ruling the court, SLU ended the Purple Aces’ first night in St. Louis with a 25-21, 20-25, 25-17, 25-19 win. Anna Church dominated the service line, recording 3 aces in the match. Carly Marcum added 17 kills for the offense while Megan Gilbert added another 13. Grace Bonoma anchored the defense with 28 digs, a new season-high.

SLU went head-to-head against the Redhawks of Southeast Missouri State the next afternoon, down-ing them in four sets, win-ning 25-19, 19-25, 25-22, 26-24. Lauren Baumet led the attack with 21 kills, followed by Lindsey Din-kelacker and Marcum with 9 each. Cassie Clarke once again showed her ability to carry the team with a sea-son high 51 assists, aiding the offense to 60 kills. Din-kelacker led the defense with 26 digs while Cassie and Grace added 16 and 14, respectively. The Redhawks finished the Classic in sec-ond place with a 2-1 record.

After winning six of the eight sets they had played coming into the showdown

Saturday night, the Bills were swept by the South Florida Bulls, 20-25, 21-25, 25-27. Clarke once again aided the offense with 28 assists. The Bills and Bulls were tied six times the first set and nine times the third set, but the Billikens could never pull away. The Bulls lead the entire second set.

“Clearly we were disap-pointed in our last match loss. We were close, we just made some mistakes on some plays and that is a good South Florida team. We are going to need to play a bit better to beat those re-ally good teams,” Miller commented after SLU fell to South Florida. “We’re encouraged about what our team has accomplished the past few weekends, so we are looking forward to our next weekend at North-western.”

The Billikens head to Northwestern University to compete in the Wild-cat Classic next weekend, where they are slated to play Western Michigan, Northwestern and Dela-ware. The following week the team will be opening up Atlantic 10 play in Cin-cinnati against Xavier Uni-versity. After two weeks on the road, the Bills will be home again on September 28 against Duquesne.

Marcia E. Hamilton would have been proud of the fight the Billiken vol-leyball team put up this past weekend at the annual Marcia E. Hamilton Clas-sic. The tournament was established to honor Ham-ilton, who lost an eight-year fight with breast cancer in 2010. SLU faced the Uni-versity of Evansville on

Friday night and Southeast Missouri State on Saturday afternoon, collecting their fourth and fifth wins in six matches.

“It was a good competi-tive tournament, I think all the teams here had good, tough matches, which was one of our objectives,” Head Coach Kent Miller said after his team went 2-1 in the tournament but finished in third place. “I’m excited that we were able to

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Junior Grace Bonoma picking up a dig in the Billikens’ victory against Evansville on Saturday.

Every Sunday afternoon during the c o l l e g e f o o t b a l l s e a s o n , fans and a n a l y s t s a l i k e c l a m o r about af-ter release of the lat-est top 25 rankings. Similarly, this past

Wednesday, US News & World Report released their annual rankings of colleges and universities, creating an equally chaotic scene among prospective under-graduates and their parents. Only they’re not trying to decide who will participate in a silly BCS Champion-ship game; they’re deter-mining the rest of these players’ lives.

Americans are obsessed with rankings: the best plac-es to live, retire or work. The happiest places, the saddest places. But nowhere are rankings more ubiquitous than in sports and in higher education. And look no fur-ther than Father Biondi’s August Message for proof they matter to the

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Billiken 5K

SLU hosted the fourth annual Bil-liken 5K on Sept. 8th, benefiting The SLU Cancer Cen-ter. John How-ard won the men’s race, while Kelsey Rowe won on the women’s side.

Basketball Schedule Released

The men’s basketball sched-ule was released last week. The Billikens open play Nov. 9 vs. South Carolina- Upstate. See page 12 for more details.

BILLIKEN SCOREBOARD

W 3-1

Volleyball

W 3-1

L 0-3

Men’s Soccer

L 1-2

Women’s Soccer

T 1-1

L 1-2

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Programs gather weekend wins

After training all sum-mer, the men’s and wom-en’s tennis teams got off to a fast start this past week-end at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center.

Both teams competed in a two-day round robin tournament in Forest Park with Southern Illinois Uni-versity- Edwardsville and Morehead State University.

“It was really dominat-ing, I’m very proud of the team and these are good results to see for the first week of competition,” Coach John Zych said of the teams’ performances. He added, “Everyone re-ally took initiative over the summer to prepare, and it’s obviously paying off now.”

Because tennis athletes must take it upon them-selves to practice during the summer months, Zych was happy to see his team in such fine form after just two weeks of classes.

The cold front that swept over Forest Park this week-end was also a welcome change from the intense heat all summer. On a ten-nis court, temperatures consistently rise 10-15 de-grees higher than the atmo-spheric temperature.

Over the weekend, the women recorded a 17-5 record overall, led by first-place finishes at the one and two singles spots by Stepha-nie Hollis and Mia Elmore, respectively. Brooke Urzen-dowski tied for third in the three singles round-robin to round out a singles sweep for the Billikens.

Not to be outdone, the men finished with a 16-9 overall record with four first-place finishes. Pat Kel-la won one of the singles draws and freshman Miguel Flores added victory in an-other.

“Miguel really worked hard to prepare this off-season and become NCAA eligible.” Zych said of his highly regarded freshman from Mexico City. “It’s al-most like a pyramid and we only see the top of all the hard work that goes into it.”

After the solid start though, Zych still isn’t ready to make any predic-tions for the season.

“We’ll prepare well and do the best we can work-ing to improve. If we do our best at working hard, results will follow,” he said.

Both teams seek to con-tinue their dominance this Saturday at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, followed by matches at Bradley the following week.

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By MARCO DIROMAStaff Writer

Kingsley Bryce’s second-half goal was not enough as the Billikens lost their sec-ond game of the season in a 2-1 overtime thriller.

“After coming off two big wins, our team feels confi-dent enough that we should win every game,” said Grad-uate Assistant coach and former SLU player, Blake Schneider.

The Billikens squared off against the Denver Uni-versity Pioneers on Satur-day afternoon in hopes of notching their third win in a row.

To accomplish this though, the Bills needed to go through a tough Denver University squad.

SLU came out on point in the first half, moving the ball with precision passing which lead to multiple scor-ing opportunities.

The Pioneers’ offense was also spot on from the beginning of the match, generating a few of their own chances. However, neither squad had anything to show for their efforts as the first half ended at a 0-0 deadlock with the Bills tal-lying 5 shots and the Pio-neers adding 7.

The fans did not have to wait much longer to see the game’s first goal. Midfield-er Bryce drove in his first goal of the year in the 46th

minute. “‘Sweets [Alex Sweetin]

tried to play a through ball to Adnan [Gabeljic] but it happened to fall for me, and I hit it well,” Bryce said. “It just felt good to finally get that first one.”

The Bills’ happiness was short-lived, however, as the goal by Bryce seemed to spark the Pioneers’ offense. From then on, the Pioneers unleashed a relentless at-tack on the Bills’ defense, forcing them to play most of the second half on their heels.

In the 74th minute, Den-ver’s hard work material-ized into an equalizer as midfielder Mark Weigand collected the ball from the

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Midfielder Kingsley Bryce gets back on defense in SLU’s overtime loss to Denver.

clearance off a free kick and leveled the game at 1-1.

At the end of regulation time the two sides were level 1-1, sending the match into overtime. In the 96th minute, Denver put the fin-ishing touches on a hard-fought contest.

SLU was rewarded a free kick from 50 yards out, but the Pioneers caught the Bills on the counter attack. Pioneer forward Ryan Dod-son beat goalkeeper Nick Shackelford for the golden goal, solidifying the win 2-1.

The Bills look to get back on track with their winning ways on Septem-ber 15th in a match versus the University of Evansville Purple Aces.

Women’s soccer continues to struggle, falls to Iowa

Charles Bowles/ Sports Editor

Iowa controlled posession on their way to a 3-0 win at Hermann Stadium on Sept. 12, 2012.

By CHARLES BOWLESSports Editor

The women’s soccer team was defeated at Her-man Stadium by the Iowa Hawkeyes 3-0 on Wednes-day night.

Iowa’s Ashley Catrell scored the first 2 goals for the Hawkeyes and Cloe Laclasse scored the third goal of the game for the Hawkeyes.

Iowa continued their un-defeated season as the Bil-likens fell to 1-4-2. Catrell scored in the 28th minute and the 52nd minute and Laclasse added another

goal in the 59th minute.Iowa controlled the pace

of the game and was more aggressive on offense. However, the Billikens had 10 shots on goal compared to Iowa’s 7 shots on goal. Also, the Bills had six cor-ner kicks while Iowa had just five corner kicks.

The Billikens will head on the road this weekend across the Mississippi River to Southern Illinois at Ed-wardsville. The game will kickoff at 1 p.m. After that, they head north to play De-paul University in Chicago.

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administration. “Our School of Law has

also struggled with a drop in national rankings, falling out of the top 100 for the first time three years ago,” Biondi said.

Some schools have even channeled their inner Ber-nie Madoff to manipulate their position in the rank-ings. Emory University, ranked No. 20 in last year’s edition, recently admitted to misrepresenting enroll-ees’ SAT scores and high school standing when re-porting data.

The US News rankings have created a BCS-like framework: a handful of elite universities maintain their positions at the top, passing the crown around amongst themselves. Now that 10 years of public out-cry has led to the termina-tion of the BCS system, isn’t it time that the college rank-ing system experiences the same fate?

The beauty of the NCAA Tournament each March is the acknowledgement that all schools can compete on a level playing field. Even little Butler University can make a run to face the mighty Duke University in

the National Championship game. It’s time for universi-ties to put their egos aside and acknowledge the truth that some schools (yes, schools you’ve never even heard of) are also very good at educating young people. Much like college football has managed to keep Boise State and Texas Christian University outside its gated community, the most elite of higher education insti-tutions have managed to maintain their place atop the ivory tower with little question.

Rankings work in sports for a few reasons. First, teams have to prove them-selves on the field every week. Second, it’s a much simpler task judging the ability of a small team to score a few touchdowns or baskets than it is judging the ability of a vast institution to educate an even more vast number of minds. Finally, rankings are produced to help crown a champion at the end of a season.

The only thing that dis-mantled the BCS system in college football was con-tinuous uproar from the parties involved that the system was unfair and the realization that there was a better way.

And, when it comes to ranking colleges, there cer-tainly is a better way.

It’s imperative that ad-ministrators don’t become slaves to the rankings, eyeing any small jump as a success and resorting to any means to accomplish this goal. Rankings are not the end game. To build a respectable basketball pro-gram, one doesn’t simply bemoan the current posi-tion and set a goal to leap-frog the rankings. Hire a new coach, build a new are-na to attract new recruits, and pledge continued sup-port and resources to the program. The rankings and accolades will follow in due time.

Too many schools now treat higher education rank-ings in this same manner, eyeing a higher ranking and not thinking of the means to attain it.

The most important part is the process: the graduates and young minds molded during the journey. As anyone who has played even intramural football can attest, it’s not the accolades that matter; it’s what hap-pens in the meantime that’s the most fun and meaning-ful. And so it should be with higher education.

By TONY TRAINAAssociate Sports Editor

ing videos on Twitter could be a way to set the team apart in terms of social me-dia use.

“It is a way to give back to the fans and give them an inside perspective of what goes on in the team, howev-er, you must balance what you give fans because you cannot give them too much info,” Lepore said.

That balance is very dif-ficult. However, Lepore thinks that the best “pull” to the program is the basket-ball players on social me-dia sites, promoting their togetherness, and showing their individual personali-ties.

“The genuineness is something that I have not seen at other programs. They are able to represent their program best by show-ing their character on social media,” Lepore said.

Despite all of this, ath-letes still run the risk of having conversations or thought posted on a nation-al stage.

After Rick Majerus’ leave of absence was announced, teammates Dwayne Ev-ans and Cody Ellis posted tweets reacting to the situa-tion, which were eventually posted on STLToday and ESPN. Players were not al-

lowed to speak to the media following the announce-ment, but this shows the power that social media can have and how it can be used.

Oberle said a classic example that she uses for athletes when talking about their social media use is a conversation involving three former SLU basket-ball players about who was the messiest person in the room.

Oberle said that while the conversation was harm-less, someone copy-and-pasted the conversation, generating over 50 com-ments on billikens.com.

“While that instance was insignificant, the flipside is that if you post some-thing incredibly negative or something that is inappro-priate, that is the impetus of why schools are begin-ning to monitor social me-dia with more regularity,” Oberle said.

Social media is at an in-teresting crossroads of new regulations for athletes and new marketing strategies for the athletic programs.

The biggest question that everyone involved in athlet-ics is still trying to answer is how to find a balance in social media use for all par-ties involved in this big, ex-panding social media world.

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