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No full textScannedII071SabaH is a Bosnian-language weekly newspaper that was published in the United States between December 1997 and October 2014. It was founded in Astoria, NY. In 2006, publishing was relocated to St. Louis, MO, but the newspaper continued its national distribution. A typical issue contains about 50 pages and features bold headlines and many photos, with articles from both Bosnia- and US-based contributors. SabaH was established to help Bosnian immigrants deal with life in their new home and keep them informed of events in their war-torn country. Its name translates to 'sunrise', symbolizing the arrival of a new generation of Bosnian immigrants in the US.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue. This project was made possible by a generous donation from Susan Powers of St. Louis, MO. Digitization is ongoing
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No full textScannedIII122SabaH is a Bosnian-language weekly newspaper that was published in the United States between December 1997 and October 2014. It was founded in Astoria, NY. In 2006, publishing was relocated to St. Louis, MO, but the newspaper continued its national distribution. A typical issue contains about 50 pages and features bold headlines and many photos, with articles from both Bosnia- and US-based contributors. SabaH was established to help Bosnian immigrants deal with life in their new home and keep them informed of events in their war-torn country. Its name translates to 'sunrise', symbolizing the arrival of a new generation of Bosnian immigrants in the US.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue. This project was made possible by a generous donation from Susan Powers of St. Louis, MO. Digitization is ongoing
University News - Volume 100[a], Issue 005 (January 28, 2022)
No full text24 pages.VOL. C No. 5 / January 28th, 2021 UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
Photo By Abby campbell COver design by Grace Dunlavy
DoLPHins find new
home on grand lawn
n 1938, Mary Bruemmer
began her first days at
Saint Louis University as
a student studying edu-cation
and history. It was
impossible to know the
great impact this small, 5
feet 1 inch to be exact, young woman
was going to have on the atmosphere
at SLU.
As a student, Bruemmer champi-oned
change by following her pas-sion.
Marching into the office that
was home to the University News,
Bruemmer demanded that women
have a voice in the school newspaper.
With her demands met, she earned
the position of editor in chief,making
her the first woman to do so.
Bruemmer was inducted into the
women-only Jesuit honor society
Gamma Phi Epsilon which would
later be integrated into Alpha Sigma
Nu. After graduating with honors and
high marks in 1942, Bruemmer was
offered the position of Dean of Stu-dents
but declined.
“She simply hadn’t lived enough
life yet. She was just so thoughtful
about life,” stated Mary Krieg, a close
friend of Bruemmer and former pres-ident
of SLU’s
Women’s Com-mission.
In 1956, Bruem-mer
returned to
SLU after travel-ing
and working
in the radio communications field,
again breaking barriers in a relatively
male-dominated work environment.
She began by working in residence
halls with students.
Nancy Culbert, who has been
reading through Bruemmer’s ap-pointment
journals since her passing,
states that there were many things
Bruemmer did at SLU that not many
people are aware of. “In 1962, she was
on the planning committee for the
Peace Corps at SLU. She knew it was a
way to give students opportunities to
work for the greater good. She didn’t
talk about that hardly at all.”
Her true passion was working
with SLU students and this became
even more apparent as she began
her position as Dean of Students in
1972. She assisted students on both
an administrative and personal level.
Krieg told the story of Mary assisting
a female student who was pregnant
and whose parents had disowned
her. “Mary went to SLU donors and
got money to help her finish college,”
Krieg recalls.
This story is just one specific ex-ample
of the work Mary Bruemmer
did for women at SLU. “She was the
self-appointed greeter to all women
who joined the ranks of St. Louis Uni-versity,”
Krieg stated.
Ellen Harshman, Dean Emerita
of SLU, recalls the day she herself was
welcomed to the University by Brue-mmer.
“She was giving me tips for
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interviews and recommending me com-mittees.
She specifically recommended
me to the Women’s Commission.”
The Women’s Commission, initially
called the President’s Advisory Com-mission
on the Status of Women, is one
of Mary Bruemmer’s living legacies. A
federal directive issued in 1978 stated
the inclusion of women to be essential
to all universities. According to Krieg,
Bruemmer quickly took the directive to
President Paul C. Reinert and advocated
for the launch of the Women’s Commis-sion.
SLU’s Women’s Commission is a
group of female staff that have been
identified as leaders in their commu-nities.
Since its founding, the Women’s
Commission has undertaken several
projects to promote the inclusion of
women in the workplace. At the helm
of it all was Mary Bruemmer, a constant
source of support and leadership for the
organization.
“Her first love and the thing that she
devoted most of her time to was SLU’s
Women’s Commission. She watched
over the commission as it evolved and
ensured that it was living out its mis-sion,”
Harshman stated.
Kellisa Fiala, former president of
SLU’s Women Commission, and Emily
Boyd, current president, reflected on
Mary Bruemmer’s presence within the
commission.
“She would always make a point to
tell us that we had put on a nice event
and give us positive feedback on the
women that we nominated as leaders
for the year. It always made us feel good
to be recognized by her for all our hard
work,” Fiala stated.
Mary Bruemmer received the com-mission’s
first Woman of the Year award
in 1977. The award goes to women who
embody the mission of SLU while
demonstrating a commitment to
professionalism, diversity and men-torship.
Fiala confessed that with Brue-mmer
receiving the first Woman of
the Year award, there was pressure
to find women of equal prestige and
accomplishment in the later years.
However, the commission has high-lighted
several astounding women
since 1977.
Boyd confessed that seeing
Bruemmer at meetings felt some-thing
similar to seeing a real-life ce-lebrity.
“She was just a legend,” Fiala
agreed.
The Women’s Commission and its
successes were on Bruemmer’s mind
until the tragic day she passed away.
Nancy Culbert stated, “The last time
we discussed the Women’s Commis-sion
was not long before her death.
She held it as a great point of pride
that SLU’s commission was the only
one still operating, to her knowledge,
continuously since the directive in
the early 70s.”
Now, after the passing of Mary
Bruemmer, the commission is look-ing
for ways to continue her legacy
and get more individuals involved.
The commission typically hosts an
event, open to all students and staff,
once a month. The events range from
discussions of economic inequali-ty
to luncheons to attending a SLU
women’s basketball game.
Additionally, the commission
is seeking motivated female student
leaders to join a new group called
Women Empowered. The students
not only get to engage in program-ming
for this organization but get to
take leadership roles by running the
committee.
“There’s so much room right
now for students to shape what this
program looks like,” Boyd stated.
The involvement of students is
the new lifeblood of SLU’s Women’s
Commission. Mary Bruemmer truly
believed in the students at SLU and it
only makes sense that they will now
be keeping her legacy alive.
Mary Bruemmer worked tire-lessly
to advance the rights of wom-en,
students, and anyone else who
needed support and the impact she
has had on SLU cannot be overstated.
“She was a woman of small stature
but great reach,” said Culbert.
MARY BRUEMMER
AND THE WOMEN’S
COMMISSION
By GABBY CHIODO
News Editor
Mary Bruemmer seated at far left, Photo Courtesy of Jesuit Bulletin
News
By ALLIE RASHID
Contributor
ollowing a dif-ficult
fall 2021
semester, Saint
Louis Uni-versity
began
mental health
a w a r e n e s s
and suicide prevention training
for Housing and Residence Life
(HRL) staff.
Led by Communities Healing
Adolescent Depression and Sui-cide
(CHAD), the training focused
on various topics such as suicide
risk among college students, po-tential
barriers to help-seeking,
assessing risk factors, navigating
conversations on these topics,
SLU protocol for crisis response
and self-care.
After SLU grieved the loss of
two students in the fall semes-ter,
a Change.org petition cam-paigned
for improving mental
health policies while students
voiced their disappointment with
the campuses counseling depart-ment.
The Director of Housing and
Residence Life, Manisha Ford
Thomas, provided insight into the
training and what it holds for the
HRL staff and the student body.
Ford-Thomas said: “We com-plete
training every semester
which supports being trauma in-formed
and having mental health
resource knowledge. This partic-ular
training, our focus was more
intensive in this area.”
The training took place from
January 12-14 and was an in-per-son
interactive event which in-cluded
different cases and open
discussions and online modules
were part of training. CHAD
speakers collaborated with the
HRL staff and guided the students
through the training.
The SLU staff also completed the
Mental Health First Aid (MFHA)
course. Ford-Thomas explained,
“The skills-based training was
focused on mental health and
substance-use issues and offered
many resources to connect Billikens
to appropriate employee and commu-nity
resources.
The current staff is now equipped
with three-year certification.” HRL in-tends
on providing the MFHA training
to incoming staff members each year.
Elisabeth Vaughn, a junior resident
advisor, mentioned that the training
event included information on iden-tifying
risk factors in students such
as depression, suicidal thoughts, and
how to ask difficult questions.
Vaughn said the training “addressed
the situation head-on but in a sensi-tive
way.” Vaughn also emphasized
that mental health crises are a com-mon
situation she sees as a residence
advisor, so this training was necessary
long before the last semester. Howev-er,
it was the events of fall 2021 that
made the department handle and see
it in a more active way.
Vaughn mentioned that she wished
this type of intensive training could
have occurred earlier, arguing that it
could have created a different envi-ronment
surrounding mental health
last semester.
One-on-ones with RA’s will be
used in the future to assure students
they are cared for. Vaughn said, “per-sonally,
I hope to be more confident
with this training carrying out con-versations
that I was already having.
Having a guide to look back on defi-nitely
makes you feel more qualified
or confident in the delivery.”
The skills that the HRL staff
learned will allow them to connect
with the students in a different way
than before. This is a big step to-wards
removing the negative stigma
surrounding mental health on SLU’s
campus, as the university takes steps
to address the struggles that students
face.
While the nature of these con-versations
may be difficult, this train-ing
proves that they are still abso-lutely
necessary. The established
partnerships with CHAD and the
MFHA courses shows that SLU is tak-ing
steps towards navigating mental
health on campus and addressing how
depression, anxiety, addiction or sui-cidal
thoughts impact people walking
right among us on West Pine.
F hat once was
a classic back-ground
for pho-tos,
a popular
hang-out spot for
many students
and an overall
SLU staple—a pond with seven ce-ramic
dolphins—is now the Inter-disciplinary
Science and Engineer-ing
(ISE) Building.
These beloved dolphins were
promised a return, and three years
later, that promise is set to be ful-filled.
“I remember taking a picture
near it for SLU 101, like every
group did, and I watched one group
stand in it to take a picture,” senior
Ayeza Syed said.
“I also remember watching a
video where the Muslim Students’
Association did a scavenger hunt
and people swam in the pond.”
After 26 years on campus, the
dolphins went for a swim in 2018
to make space for the new science
building on campus. Toward the
end of 2021, construction for a new
Dolphin Pond began.
“It was a landmark of the cam-pus.
Often we would reference
‘meeting up at the Dolphin Pond,’”
alumnus Mustafaa Mahmood said.
“It was very nice to walk by on the
way to class.”
The upcoming pond’s location
is near Grand Hall, making it view-able
to both the SLU community
and the public. Part of the prom-inence
of this structure is due to its
sheer size; the old pond stretched
120 feet long and the new one is ex-pected
to be 96 feet in length.
“I just came to school one day and
there was a bunch of construction
in that area and then [the Dolphin
Pond] was gone,” Syed said.
“I always like throwing pennies
into fountains and making wishes, so
that was always there freshman year
whenever I wanted to do it.”
As the dolphins have been kept
in a warehouse and had no on-cam-pus
presence the past three years,
to many freshmen, the concept has
sparked some questions.
“I was confused because I had never
heard of the previous Dolphin Pond,
so I thought it was a bit random,”
freshman Saima Farook said.
“Since I had no idea, I thought they
were bringing real dolphins, so I got
excited. But then someone told me
about the previous pond.”
For many alumni, this pond brings
back fond memories, but to present
students, it is an opportunity to make
new ones.
“I didn’t really get why they spe-cifically
wanted dolphins because I
thought they would do something re-lated
to our mascot, the Billiken. But,
overall, I think it would be a pret-ty-
looking fountain in a central part
of SLU,” Farook said.
Overall, the SLU community is ex-cited
about the scenery these sculp-tures
will provide.
“Honestly, I like [the new location]
more because it is in a more central
part of campus and I would walk past
it more often than I did before,” Syed
said.
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DOLPHIN POND RETURNS TO
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By FATEMA REHMANI
Staff Writer
HRL HOSTS MENTAL HEALTH
TRAINING
Photo Courtesy of Abby Campbell
he Omicron variant
of COVID-19 quick-ly
spread to be-come
the dominant
variant of the virus
both in the U.S. and
around the world,
and COVID-19 case numbers rose
dramatically in the U.S. in January
2022.
In response, Saint Louis Uni-versity
officials have imposed new
restrictions and other changes for
the spring semester, hoping to limit
the virus’s transmission. Some pri-or
restrictions still remain in place,
while others have gone away fol-lowing
new data. Here’s what has
changed at SLU.
One major change this semes-ter
is the cancellation of “internal
events” until Jan. 31 and “external
events” until March 1. SLU defines
internal events as those where few-er
than ten percent of attendants
are guests and external events being
greater than ten percent guests. For
external events, guests were already
required to show proof of vaccina-tion
or a negative test result within
72 hours of coming on campus.
The restriction excludes events
being held at Chaifetz Arena, such
as basketball games, as the stadi-um
is under the separate guidance
of both the city and the CDC, the
school said. Also excluded are “inte-gral”
events, which include enroll-ment
activities and those related to
the university’s accreditation. De-partments
or student organizations
wishing to host events they believe
are integral must submit a request
to the Designated Event Review
committee. The internal event re-striction
may be extended past Jan.
31 if the university does not believe
the vaccine booster shot require-ment
is being met at that time.
Groups of people meeting to-gether,
whether informally or for an
activity, are still allowed without re-strictions
such as social distancing.
As before, face masks are required
indoors except when eating. Em-ployee
meetings may also continue
in person, but virtual meetings are
now encouraged, the school said.
As for COVID-19 vaccine boost-er,
unlike neighboring Washigton
University in St. Louis, doses will be
required for students and SLUCare
employees by Jan. 31, and by Feb. 28
for all other staff. An online portal
originally opened at the beginning
of the fall semester has since been
reopened to submit proof of vacci-nation
or an exemption request. The
vaccine requirement is also in place
for contracted employees, such as
those working in food service, secu-rity,
or construction.
Students or employees who
have received prior COVID-19 vac-cines
but wish to receive a medical
or religious exemption from the
booster shot specifically are re-quired
to apply for an exemption by
those same dates. Those who have
already been approved for exemp-tions
by the university for previous
doses do not need to apply again.
Causes for a medical exemp-tion
include an allergic reaction to
the vaccine or its components. The
university said it will not exempt
students and employees from the
vaccine requirement based on pri-or
COVID-19 infection, and will not
grant religious exemptions to Cath-
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(Abby Campbell / The University News)
olics over concerns about fetal cell
lines, following a December 2020
decision by the Vatican’s Congrega-tion
for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Until further notice, only those
affiliated with the university, such
as students and employees, will be
allowed in residence halls. Students
staying in residence halls are still
allowed to have other students stay
overnight with them under the up-dated
policy.
While masks are still required
inside university buildings, as they
were during the fall semester, the
university will not require N95 or
KN95 face masks except in specific
clinical settings where local policy
takes precedent.
In classrooms, seating charts
were previously used for contact
tracing, but the university has de-termined
they will no longer col-lect
seating charts from instructors.
According to provost Mike Lewis,
only one case of transmission out
of about 1,100 was traced to a SLU
classroom, and it remains possible
that transmission occurred else-where.
The Simon Recreation Cen-ter
is holding vaccination clinics
open to all members of the public
on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the
remainder of January and through-out
February.
Vaccines are available either by
appointment or by walk-in. Both the
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will be
offered. The Pfizer vaccine will be
available from 10 a.m. to noon and
the Moderna vaccine from noon to
2 p.m.
And as a final layer of pro-tection,
beginning Jan. 23, the uni-versity
is conducting surveillance
testing using a random 10 percent
sample of on-campus students, a
measure the school most recently
took during the spring 2021 semes-ter.
Students selected to be random-ly
tested will be notified by email
and given instructions to report at
the Simon Recreation Center. Test-ing
is required for those who are
randomly selected.
By ALEX ROZAR
Staff Writer
As thousands of SLU
students return to the
city, COVID rages on.
Attempting to slow the
surge, administration is
implementing
additional
regulations that will
temporarily alter
campus life.
OMICRON VARIANT ALTERS
PLANS FOR SPRING
SEMESTER
he new year brought
about significant change
in Missouri, as the state
minimum wage was
raised to 12 Minimum Wage
Initiative, the proposal stipulates that
the state minimum wage be raised 85
cents every year until 2023, when the
12 in
2023.
“For a very long time, the push to
raise the minimum wage has been syn-onymous
with workers’ rights, the fight
for 15 is more the norm now.”
On May 7 2020 as the pandem-ic
surged across the region, hospital
workers at SSM Health Saint Louis Uni-versity
Hospital protested in demand of
better pay and protection. The conver-sations
with workers and unions con-tinued
over the months. In Nov. 2020
President Pestello announced a plan to
implement a 13 an hour starting this year,
making its minimum pay higher than
the state of Missouri’s. Additionally,
the union representing Sodexo work-ers
at SLU has been able to negotiate a
bonus of up to 11.15
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By UlAA KUZIEZ
Associate News Editor
BRIAN GUERIN
Staff Writer
(Abby Campbell /The University News)
Sodexo. She said that the pandemic cou-pled
with low wages has taken a toll on
workers.
“We just got an increase and I’m glad
we did. So they can get more workers in
here to help us out,” Wade said. “We are
overworked. We are very short staffed.
So if they raise their money, maybe they
will get people who want to work with
them. Because who wants to work for
$10? We have to pay our bills.”
Working alone at Simply To Go in
the Busch Student Center from 7:00 a.m.
to 7:00 p.m. for most days of the week,
Wade looks forward to getting support in
the near future. She hopes service work-ers
at SLU and across Missouri will bene-fit
from the state wage increase.
“We already coming out in the pan-demic
to serve these babies [Wade’s en-dearing
reference to students]. We take
a risk on our lives, get corona. But they
really gotta appreciate what we are do-ing
and give us a little something back
too,” Wade said.
Junior student worker Lacey Thomas
who has a desk job this semester recog-nizes
that while the minimum wage will
give her more of an opportunity for fi-nancial
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University News - Volume 101, Issue 002 (October 21, 2022)
No full text24 pages.VOL. CI No. 2 / October 21st, 2022 UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
photo by abby campbell
COver design by diana Jakovcevic
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By KATERINA SUPER
News Editor
(Katerina Super / The University News)
RUGBY X ZETA HOSTS “PINK OUT”
O n Saturday, Oct. 15,
the SLU men’s club
rugby team partnered
with the SLU sorority
Zeta Tau Alpha, Kappa
Omega Chapter, and
raised almost 400 and will split the
proceeds evenly.
“So many people were coming
up to our table asking us about
the Zeta and rugby philanthropies.
We were able to educate and raise
money for breast cancer education
and awareness and mental health”
said Haley Knueppel, a member of
Zeta.
Like the men’s rugby team’s
campaign for mental health
awareness, Zeta has hosted a
number of events to raise money
for the Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation. Teien said they
have raised almost $8,000 from
various events they hosted this
fall, including their “Big Man on
Campus” competition and “Think
Pink” Carnival.
“Knowing players on the team
made it more personal too. Cova,
one of the “Big Man on Campus”
contestants this year, is on the
[rugby] team and it was fulfilling
to watch him play and be a part
of something that is important to
him” said Kneuppel.
Teien said they hope to continue
raising money with their upcoming
“Pink the Rink” Hockey Game and
philanthropy sisterhood event.
The “Think Pink” benefit game
marks the end of the men’s
rugby season. Reflecting on the
season, Volcy says his team feels
good as they wrap up with their
philanthropic efforts.
“I definitely enjoy it more because
of the people I’m surrounded
by. There’s a lot of great guys on
the rugby team, my roommate
[Anthony] included. Despite how
difficult the sport may be, the
people you’re surrounded by make
it worth it,” Volcy said.
“We were able to
educate and raise
money for breast
cancer education
and awareness
and mental
health”
- Haley Knueppel,
A Zeta member
News 03
his past February,
at the start of Black
history month, Harris-
Stowe State University
received a bomb threat.
When Terri Foster,
administrative assistant
for the American Studies Department,
heard about the threat, she said
she gathered the department to
brainstorm ways to support Harris-
Stowe.
On Oct. 13, 2022 the department
hosted an event with Gregory S. Carr,
an assistant professor of Theater at
Harris-Stowe, to discuss ongoing
challenges facing Historically
Black Colleges and Universities
and opportunities for collaboration
between the two institutions.
“There’s no reason why we are so
close, and there’s no collaboration,
I just don’t get it,” Foster said. “SLU
struggles with reaching the African
American community. All we have to
do is open the door and allow them
to come in and allow us to go there
because we have to bridge that gap
somehow. I’m hoping the talk we had
was the beginning of that bridge being
built.”
HBCUs receive bomb threats
According to the Department of
Homeland Security, at least 49 HBCUs
were targeted with bomb threats
in the first few months of 2022,
including Harris-Stowe. The Biden
administration labeled the incidents
“hate crimes” and in February, the FBI
launched an investigation into the
threats. Nine months later, there have
been no arrests.
The American Studies Department
had hoped to host the event about
HBCUs soon after news broke about
the threats in February to show
immediate support because of a
scheduling conflict.
“ Unfortunately, it is still just as
current and urgent a topic, not just
with the specifics of ongoing bomb
threats, the most recent which was
about two months ago, but also in
the broader context of other kinds of
threats and obstacles to HBCUs,” said
Heidi Ardizzone, American Studies
associate professor who sat with Carr
on the panel.
Carr recalls how he felt when he
learned about the threats.
“It was hurtful. I had already been
through this before but to see
my students go through it, it did
something to me,” Carr said.
In August, Harris-Stowe received
another bomb threat, Carr said,
reintroducing a sense of fear for
students and staff.
“It’s not a new thing, it’s not an
anomaly. We know historically that
institutions of higher learning that
are Black have been terrorized, there
is no other word you can say,” Carr
said. “They have been terrorized, they
have been burned down, they have
been threatened.”
History of Harris-Stowe
Before emancipation, there were
locations for Black education that
existed illegally and were often
targets for violence, Ardizzone says.
Post-Civil War, there was a national
push for HBCUs, but Carr says Harris-
Stowe’s history is “unique” as two
previously segregated institutions,
Harris Teachers College and Sumner
Normal School, were joined together.
The earliest predecessor of Harris-
Stowe, the St. Louis Normal School,
was established in 1857 for white
students in St. Louis, later renamed
Harris Teachers College. A second
predecessor institution was Sumner
Normal School, which was formed in
1890 as a school to educate and train
future Black teachers of elementary
schools. In 1924, the Sumner Normal
School became a four-year institution,
and its name was later changed to
Stowe Teachers College, in honor
of the abolitionist Harriet Beecher
Stowe.
“There’s this huge gap of 33 years
of Black people not being able to
get some formal training to teach
children,” Carr said. “Then these two
institutions go on this parallel path
work for a while,”
These two higher learning schools
were merged by the Board of Education
of the St. Louis Public Schools in 1954
as an initial step to integrate the
schools.
“There’s some bad blood because
once the two came together, the
president of Stowe Teachers College,
Dr. Harris, was fired. They decided to
erase Stowe from history,” Carr said.
Twenty-three years later, the alumni
of Stowe Teachers College held a silent
protest at the Board of Education
demanding a change to the name. The
Board approved the change.
“That’s where the hyphenation
comes from, Harris-Stowe. I always
tell people this [hyphenation] is a
result of social activism,” Carr said.
Working at an HBCU, Carr says his
role as an educator is deeply rooted in
activism.
“I see us at the juncture in time, very
much like W.E.B. Du Boise and Booker
T. Washington at the beginning of the
20th century, seeing these individuals
coming from the farms to HBCUs to
learn,” Carr said. “Instead of them
coming from the farms [today], they
are coming from urban areas.”
Opportunities for collaboration
Across SLU, there have been various
collaborations with Harris-Stowe
through the Theater Department
and articulation agreements via the
Engineering Department. The two
universities also have joint tuition
exchange agreements which allow
students to take courses at each
other’s campuses.
In addition to being an instructor at
Harris-Stowe, Carr is also a doctorate
student in the SLU American Studies
Department, linking the two together.
While this individual connection
has been fruitful, Ardizzone says a
more “structural” relationship will
strengthen their ties.
“I think that we could be better
neighbors and raising consciousness
on our campus is the first step in
doing that,” said Emily Lutenski,
American Studies associate professor
and department chair. “There are
communities on our campus that are
already enmeshed with Harris Stowe.
For example, Black fraternities and
sororities that are city-wide already
have these robust cross-campus
networks. But for so many, especially
non-Black students and faculty, we
are not paying enough attention to
what we could do to be good allies.”
Federal grants, Carr says, are
an opportunity for large-scale
cooperation between the two
administrations because of continuous
interest in funds.
“I hope that we can just cross
Compton,” Foster said. “That’s all it
takes, just cross Compton or meet in
the middle if necessary, just to bring
the two universities together.”
While a small department, Foster
says American Studies is “mighty” as
it brings important and often unheard
conversations, such as this cross-campus
event, to the SLU community.
“If we really want to be people for
others, we have to start at home and
our home is right here across the
street. We have to start opening up
and step out of [our] bubble…We’re
safe and they’re not…We need to let
them know that [they’re] not alone,”
Foster said.
SLU American
Studies and
Harris-Stowe panel
discusses threats,
opportunities for
collaboration
Department hopes
this conversation
will be the start of
many more
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News Editor
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News
n July 5, SSM Health
announced that it
officially assumed
ownership of SLUCare
Physicians Group from
Saint Louis University.
This agreement is an effort to
improve Saint Louis’s healthcare
network by formally combining the
medical expertise and practice of the
two groups. SSM Health, SLUCare
Physician Group and Saint Louis
University School of Medicine have
partnered for decades to deliver top
rated healthcare to the community.
Now, through fully integrating, the
two groups hope to provide the
community with more functionality
and accessibility to care.
Three months into the merge, the
results continue to unfold. According
to the announcement, patients
will experience improved access to
healthcare in terms of accessibility
to “highly specialized procedures”,
“clinical trials” and “life-saving
treatments.” The integration also
includes an investment in the
medical school to “expand clinical
research,” “medical training,” and
“education” across all of Saint Louis.
“In this early stage, we have not
seen obvious improved primary care
access,” Dr. Christine Jacobs, Dean
of SLU School of Medicine who has
worked on the SLUCare and SSM
Team, said.
Still, she said the historic partnership
between the two organizations has
left the citizens of Saint Louis hopeful
for the future of their healthcare.
The relationship between the two
groups extends back more than
a century. In 1903 SSM Health’s
founding congregation granted SLU
School of Medicine students access
to their hospital for education
and training. After 30 years of a
productive relationship (in which
SLU’s School of Nursing was also
established), SSM Health Saint Louis
University Hospital was opened on
South Grand Blvd in 1933.
From 1933 to 2015, the hospital
was sold to a variety of organizations,
Tenet Health Corporation being
one of largest. In a turn of events,
SSM Health once again acquired the
harnell Peters’ boss
describes her as an
“academic unicorn,”
a scholar who stands
out as having unique
research interests and
talented teaching skills. Peters, is
one of three new assistant professors
who joined the Communication
Department this fall at Saint Louis
University.
She began studying communication
as an undergraduate student and
said she quickly fell in love with
the field. Since then, she has been
researching critical interpersonal
and family communication, critical
science and technology, and Black
communication studies.
“It was so surprising to me that I
could be in a class studying, reading
textbooks, reading articles that
are directly related to my everyday
experience,” Peters said.
Her master’s thesis reflected this
relevance. She explored racial and
familial identity through original
research on the Roberts Settlement,
a pre-Civil War African American
settlement founded by some of her
family members in Indiana.
“I was able to share that
research with the Board of Roberts
Settlement, with the descendants at
a homecoming that year and to stay
connected with those folks,” Peters
said. “There was a woman writing a
play about the settlement, and she
was able to use some of my research
to formulate that creative endeavor.”
Despite being an integral part of her
professional life, academic writing is
not the only medium she practices.
Peters is also a poet.
“I like the playfulness [of poetry].
It’s fun to be able to break rules and
to not have that attached to more
professional expectations,” Peters
said.
She said she remembers watching
hours of poetry videos on YouTube
before composing her own. Though
she had no formal training, through
practice, she gained the confidence to
write and, eventually, publish.
Un-Becoming is her first published
chapbook, a collection of poetry
centering around “the reality of
blackness in Middle America.”
“I love that collection because this was
something that I could come home to.
No matter how stressed or uncertain I
was about the future, I could work on
this,” Peters said. “I remain proud about
that.”
After getting her masters from Bowling
Green State University, she moved to
Utah for her doctorate program at the
University of Utah. Her new workplace is
closer to Indiana where her family still
lives, but Peters said she was excited to
join SLU for another reason.
“I resonate with the Jesuit mission’s
focus on social justice and focus on
doing good in the world. I see my
teaching as a way to do that,” Peters
said.
The department’s search for new
faculty members began in fall 2021.
With over 100 candidates, applicants
were narrowed down to semifinalists,
which the search committee then
interviewed.
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n Tuesday, Oct. 11,
SLU students flooded
into the Busch Student
Center, anxiously
waiting in line for the
doors to a university-sponsored
drag show to
open.
At the same time, a small group of
protesters stood at the intersection
of Laclede and Grand Avenue. Their
signs read “Homosexual acts are
intrinsically disordered. Under no
circumstances can they be approved”
and “Sinful lifestyles such as LGBTQ
etc. gravely offend God.” Students
passing by demonstrated their
disapproval of these messages and two
female students kissed directly in front
of the group.
All six of the non-SLU-affiliated
protestors interviewed were led by a
man who identified himself as a priest.
He denied having parochial affiliation
and declined to give a personal name.
The self-identified priest stated, “We
are here to uphold the teachings of the
Catholic Church.” He and his group
maintained that the event promoted a
sinful lifestyle.
He also expressed his frustration with
SLU’s support of the event. He states
that the administration has ignored
complaints from himself, a Catholic,
and others. “Parents who pay for their
children to go here have complained
to the university. I don’t have enough
money to get in the door.”
The group reached out to SLU College
Republicans in hopes they would join
in the protest. According to Carter
Fortman, Chairman of the Missouri
Federation of College Republicans
and SLU sophomore, the information
was passed along to its members but
most chose not to join the unidentified
group.
Fortman claims that the issue he,
and many members of his group, had
with the drag show is centered around
the inequality of representation for
SLU conservatives in comparison to
representation of SLU liberals. “We
tried to bring speaker, Matt Walsh,
who talks about defining a woman and
we weren’t allowed,” Fortman said.
Fortman is referencing SLU’s decision
to relocate Matt Walsh, an American
right-wing political commentator and
author, to an off campus venue.
Fortman also stated that the SLU
administration denied their request
to host Elisha Kraus, conservative
commentator, writer, and podcaster.
“Elisha is very Christian, but she’s
not inflammatory. So these things not
being allowed to happen, that’s the
real problem.”
Fortman also spoke with the
Young American Foundation (YAF),
a conservative youth activism
organization that offers SLU College
Republicans support, for an article
written by a YAF staff member about
the drag show being hosted on a
Catholic Campus. The article, however,
personally targeted Thomas Patterson,
a SLU employee, for his involvement
in hosting the drag show. The article
included personal photos of Patterson
and information on how to reach him
but SLU administration has since
taken down Patterson’s profile from
the SLU website. Fortman claims this
was not his intention when he spoke to
a YAF representative about the article.
“I think the main focus of the article
should have been the drag show,”
Fortman stated.
And yet, the drag show continued
as planned. Students attending,
approximately 300, vastly
outnumbered the six lone protestors.
The Wool Ballroom was transformed
into a lively atmosphere with a long
O
stage, spotlights, and upbeat music.
Students buzzed with excitement,
taking pictures and chatting loudly.
The show featured seven different
entertainers, many from the local St.
Louis area. Host and performer, Roxxy
Malone, opened the show by setting
ground rules that promote positivity
and respect for the entertainers. Many
of the costumes worn by performers
were handmade with beads, jewels, and
bright colors. They entered through
curtains to songs sung by Beyoncé,
Lady Gaga and a variety of other pop
stars.
The show was interactive and
a student-faculty competition
transpired approximately halfway
through. Faculty contestants featured
Sarah Cunningham,Ph.D SLU’s Vice
President of Student Development,
and Katie Heiden, Ph.D a member of
SLU’s School of Medicine. Students
picked as contestants were student
body President, Aric Hamilton, and
sophomore, Emma Lercher.
To Lercher, the show was about
more than just the free Fright Festival
tickets she won. “I’ve been watching
Drag Race [a reality show where drag
queens compete against each other]
since 2020. It honestly got me through
quarantine. So now that this event is
here at SLU I’m really happy,” she said.
The drag show was not just about
bright colors and bright lights. The
meaning goes much deeper for many
celebrating National LGBTQ history
month. “I think queer and drag history
is mostly erased when it comes to
talking about American history. So
I think it’s really great that SLU is
highlighting it with this event and I’m
just really excited.” Lercher said.
Members of the Rainbow Alliance,
a group that seeks to support members
and allies of the queer community of
SLU, echoed Lercher’s sentiment.
“We’re so excited to have a big event
that’s just a celebration of queer joy,”
By GABBY CHIODO
Managing Editor
executive board member of Rainbow
Alliance and SLU junior, Abby Pribble
stated.
While the performers’ energy certainly
celebrated their identities, they
also took time to address the events
going on outside the Wool Ballroom.
Specifically, Malone acknowledged
the protestors standing on the street
by saying, “This is no place for hate.”
Malone closed the show by telling the
audience to lead with love, even when
others do not.
Malone has always believed in
leading with love but claims it can
be difficult at times. “What we do is
not the social norm, by any stretch of
the imagination. It’s honestly more
protested than anything because it
does mess with gender so much. And
it’s a huge topic that the country is
dealing with, are you binary? And we
showcase that [gender] doesn’t exist
and that’s hard for some people.”
Andy Whorehal, another performer,
agrees that people’s aversion to drag
comes from a place of fear. “I think
a lot of people are afraid to not be
normal but nobody is actually normal.
It’s not necessarily normal to do drag
but it’s fun and creative.”
For Whorehal, drag is also about self-expression.
“When I first saw a drag
performer on stage, it was game over. I
was like ‘Wow yeah this is what I want
to do,’ and I’ve centered my whole
life around it and it’s really increased
my confidence and comfortability
with myself,” he said, “It’s been life-changing.”
Malone, however, loves drag for
a different reason. “Drag, for me, is
an escape from reality. My everyda
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