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No full textUniversity News - Volume 099, Issue 008 (January 23, 2020)
No full textMislabeled as Volume XCVIV. 24 pages.VOL. XCVIV No. 8 / January 23, 2020 UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
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02 NEWS
Photo Courtesy of Amelia Flood.
ast Thursday, Jan. 16,
SLU hosted its annual
memorial tribute for the
Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr., honoring the life and
legacy of King as well as
those in the St. Louis area
that exemplify King’s vision of justice and
racial equality.
The event is held each year as a remind-er
of King’s visit to SLU in 1964, when he
addressed a crowd of nearly 4,000 in the
former West Pine Gym. King’s visit to SLU
in 1964 came just two days before he was
honored with the Nobel Peace Prize and
two months before his “I Have a Dream”
speech.
For the past nine years, the Universi-ty
has organized the memorial tribute
to mark King’s visit, with an awards cer-emony
that recognizes those working in
King’s legacy in the St. Louis communi-ty.
The memorial tribute also features a
keynote address by a notable voice for
civil rights. In years past, keynote speak-ers
have included Martin Luther King
III, King’s eldest son, and UN Ambassa-dor
Andrew Young, both influential civil
rights figures.
This year, the noted journalist, author
and television personality Roland Martin
gave the keynote address. Martin, who
has written three books, including “Speak,
Brother! A Black Man’s View of America,”
has made an illustrious career discussing
current events from an African-American
perspective.
Martin was named journalist of the year
in 2013 for his efforts to chronicle issues
facing African-American voters during
AWARDS
CEREMONY
HONORS
MLK’S
LIFE &
LEGACY
By CONOR DORN
Associate News Editor
Memorial tribute
features St. Louis
community
leaders with
keynote speech
from Rowland
Martin
the 2012 presidential election, including
voter suppression and intimidation. In
2008, he received the President’s Award
by the National Association of Black
Journalists for his multi-platform advo-cacy
work.
Before Martin’s keynote address, the
audience heard remarks by President
Fred Pestello, Ph.D., and SLU alumnus
Michael P. McMillan, the president and
CEO of the Urban League of Metropoli-tan
St. Louis.
Pestello and McMillan were joined
by the Vice President for Diversity and
Community Engagement, Jonathan
Smith, Ph.D., in an award ceremony hon-oring
those in the St. Louis community
furthering Dr. King’s legacy.
Though the recipients devote their en-ergies
to a diverse array of causes, from
education inequality to health care re-form,
they are united by their commit-ment
to leading lives of public service
following Dr. King’s example.
To begin the award ceremony, Denise
Hooks-Anderson, M.D., an assistant pro-fessor
in the Department of Family and
Community Medicine, was awarded the
Donald Brennan Humanitarian Award
for her advocacy work related to health
disparities and inequality.
The Organization of the Year Award
was accepted by Wendell Kimbrough on
behalf of Area Resources for Community
and Human Services (ARCHS). The or-ganization
“funds and strategically en-hances
initiatives that improve the lives
of children and families” in especially
disadvantaged areas of St. Louis.
Art McCoy, Ph.D., the superintendent of
the Jennings School District, was award-ed
the Education Leadership Award for
his efforts to combat inequality in edu-cation.
Under his leadership, the classes
of 2017 and 2018 in the Jennings school
district achieved a remarkable 100 per-cent
graduation and career or college
placement.
Congressman William Lacy Clay was
honored with this year’s Political Lead-ership
Award. Clay serves as Missouri’s
senior Democrat in Congress. Currently
in his tenth Congressional term, Clay
is the Chairman of the House Financial
Services Subcommittee on Housing,
Community Development and Insur-ance.
In that capacity, he has advocated
for fair housing and consumer protec-tion
and fought discriminatory practices
such as redlining.
In his acceptance remarks, Clay empha-sized
his debt to King and his legacy as
well as other civil rights leaders, echoing
King’s famous declaration that “Anyone
can be great because anyone can serve.”
The final award was the inaugural
Whitney M. Young Humanitarian Award,
which was given to Michael and Neomi
Neidorff. Neidorff is the president and
CEO of Centene Corporation and has
worked to implement programs and ser-vices
under Medicaid and Medicare.
The event was capped off by Roland
Martin’s keynote address examining
King’s life and legacy. At the outset of
his address, Martin made it clear that
his remarks might be tough for some to
hear. He warned the audience: “It is my
job to make people uncomfortable.”
Martin’s speech focused on King’s leg-acy
in the 21st century, asking the au-dience
to avoid appropriating King and
his legacy and instead focus on imitat-ing
his commitment to political action.
Martin issued a challenge to the audi-ence—“
Don’t you dare quote Dr. King
unless you are willing to live like Dr.
King.”
For Martin, King was more than just a
man who gave speeches on racial equal-ity,
but a man radically committed to
social justice in all spheres of life who
paired his electrifying speeches with
tangible political action.
Martin challenged his audience to live
as King lived, striving for direct and sus-tained
action on behalf of the marginal-ized
and downtrodden.
News 03
By MIKHAIL FAULCONER
Staff Writer
he SLU chess
team finished
2019 with a
string of high
finishes in re-cent
tourna-ments.
They
now look forward to the Presi-dent’s
Cup, or “Final Four,” the
collegiate national championship
of chess in early April.
After taking the Midwest Col-legiate
Chess and Blitz Cham-pionships
in October, the team
travelled to China in November
and took third place at the World
Prestigious University Chess Invi-tational,
placing ahead of presti-gious
universities such as Harvard
and Oxford. The team also defeat-ed
its host, Nankai University.
SLU chess team coach and
grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez,
the first grandmaster from Cen-tral
America, stated that this was
the team’s first time competing
internationally as a team, al-though
most of the team’s mem-bers
have competed extensively
as individuals in the past.
Then, SLU finished again in
third place at the competitive
Pan-American Intercollegiate
Chess Tournament, which deter-mined
which teams would com-pete
in the President’s Cup in New
York. The Pan-American Tourna-ment
is different from most col-legiate
chess tournaments in its
structure.
Ramirez explained, “It’s a very
unforgiving tournament, simply
because it’s a very short event.
Tournaments of this strength are
usually nine rounds long, which
gives a little more wiggle room for
mistakes ... In this case, we had it
really rough. We got defeated by
Texas Tech, which is one of the
best universities in the country,
and the fact that we got matched
in the last round with number one
by rating, which is Webster Uni-versity.”
SLU went on to defeat Webster,
which has won five of the last
seven national championships, in
the last round of the Pan-Amer-ican
Tournament. SLU Chess
Team grandmaster Alex Ipatov,
currently ranked 142nd amongst
active players in the world by the
International Chess Federation,
defeated Aleksander Lenderman,
ranked 131st, of Webster, which
Ramirez said was the highlight
of the tournament. Ipatov com-mented,
“[Beating Webster] felt
very good. They are our arch-ri-vals
and the highest ranked colle-giate
team in the nation. We are
second.”
In 2018, SLU placed fourth at the
President’s Cup. Fellow St. Loui-sian
Webster University also qual-ified,
whose team has won the
President’s Cup five times in the
last seven years. SLU will again
face off against Webster and Tex-as
Tech, as well as the University
of Texas at Dallas, in New York
this April. In contrast to other
tournaments, the President’s Cup
features only classical chess, in
which matches can last for hours
as opposed to minutes in blitz or
other formats. In addition, teams’
aggregate scores are as import-ant
to winning the tournament as
victory in individual matches.
Founded in 2015, the team has
expanded from five to thirteen
members, which allows them
to field multiple sets of players
within a single tournament. The
SLU Chess Team features six male
and two female grandmasters.
Ramirez commented that the
team has also grown closer and
developed more chemistry in a
relative short period of time since
its founding.
Another factor conducive to the
team’s success and in attracting
new talent is St. Louis’s chess en-vironment.
Ramirez said, “There’s
no other city that has the cur-rent
chess ambiance in the U.S.
or maybe in the world. I think for
chess players it’s kind of a mec-ca.
There’s always top level chess,
lectures, opportunities ... we have
the resources to be one of the
best.”
T
ast month,
Ameren Mis-souri,
an energy
company based
in St. Louis, be-came
the latest
group to assist SLU in redevelop-ment
projects that are currently
underway in the neighborhood
after their donation of a 2.1-acre
site to the university.
The site, which sits just past
the Metrolink station near SLU’s
Medical Campus, was once home
to an electrical substation. But af-ter
Ameren began using a differ-ent
substation, the site became a
storage place. The property is re-portedly
worth around 500
million and has currently raised
1 billion
has been invested in the area for
various projects, including the
SSM Health Saint Louis Univer-sity
Hospital, the City Foundry,
the Amory project and the Iron
Hill development site. These sites
will hopefully inspire new restau-rants,
retail space, homes, hotels,
apartments and medical services
to arise in the area.
According to Brooks Goedeker,
the Executive Director of the St.
Louis Midtown Redevelopment
Corporation, there are no de-cisions
made on the use of the
Ameren site yet.
The Chairman and President of
Ameren Missouri stated that he
believed SLU had the “right vi-sion”
to use the property in a way
that will compliment the projects
currently underway in Midtown
St. Louis.
According to Daniel Monti,
Ph.D., a sociology and anthropol-ogy
professor at Saint Louis Uni-versity
who specializes in urban
redevelopment, SLU-sponsored
residential development in Mid-town
is attractive because resi-dents
will see their neighborhood
as a part of a large institution.
“Think of it like a mall,” said
Monti, “SLU is like its flagship
store.”
Monti said that the redevel-opment
of the area is important
because everyone would prefer
great neighbors as opposed to
vacant space. While parts of the
Midtown area have taken decades
to develop and become safe in-vestments
for developers and
institutions, Monti believes that
the new projects being sponsored
by SLU will be successful in their
goal of making this part of St.
Louis an even better place to live
and do business.
L
By SAVANAH SEYER
Staff Writer
(Riley Mack / The University News)
AMEREN DONATES
2,000 in scholarships when the
program officially launches. SLU’s
Division of Student Development
is providing the resources to get
the esports program off the ground.
“I don’t have to know how to play
esports to understand that this
program makes students excited
to learn and feel a deeper sense
of belonging in the SLU commu-nity.
That is what matters most,”
said SLU President Fred P. Pestello,
Ph.D.
The home of the new varsity pro-gram
is a space recently converted
by the university in the lower level
of the Busch Student Center known
as the Esports Gaming Lab. The lab
features 12 stations for PC gaming
and three large TV monitors with
the three major gaming consoles
(Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Nin-tendo
Switch). This space will be
open for general student use when
the varsity team isn’t practicing.
The official ribbon cutting cere-mony
for the Esports Gaming Lab is
on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 3 p.m. Until
the ribbon cutting ceremony, the
lab is not officially open to general
student use.
In an effort to help guide the ef-forts
of SLU’s new esports team,
an advisory group of students,
faculty, staff and administrators
was recently formed. Senior Nich-olas
Chiu, who was the founder of
SLU’s club esports team in 2017,
serves as the varsity program’s di-rector.
SLU’s eSports Club, founded
by Chiu, originally started out as
a club for players of Super Smash
Bros, a popular fighting game. The
club has since branched out into
other games to become the Univer-sity-
sponsored esports team that it
is today.
In regard to what led to the push
for the Esports Gaming Lab, Chiu
stated, “It got to the point where we
needed more space and branched
out to more games, there’s a huge
community outside of just the
Smash Bros. community, especially
at SLU.”
Another factor that played a siz-able
role in the establishment of
SLU’s esports program and the
building of the lab was the recep-tion
that Chaifetz Arena’s hosting
of the North American Spring Split
for League of Legends last year. The
event sold out Chaifetz in only two
days and showcased how much of
a demand there was for an esports
program among the SLU communi-ty.
The Esports Gaming Lab in the
BSC will serve the dual purposes as
both a recreational and competitive
space for gaming, at least during
the first semester. The varsity side
is in the back with all of the com-puters
while the spaces with the
TVs and consoles are for general
student use when the varsity team
is not using the space. “Eventual-ly
we’re probably going to move a
bunch of these recreational video
games to the Bill Grill,” said Chiu.
While this space is still in the
process of construction, the plan is
to put these recreational consoles
in the back of Bill Grill near where
the pool tables are. The idea for
this renovated section of the Bill
Grill with the recreational consoles
is to be like a “PC cafe” where you
can “get a drink, where you can get
food, and sit down and relax,” ac-cording
to Chiu. However, since the
Esports Gaming Lab was built for
SLU’s new esports program, the lab
will primarily serve the purpose as
a practice space for the program’s
varsity teams.
With 12 state-of-the-art PC gam-ing
stations installed as a part of
the lab, Chiu believes that this
space will greatly contribute to the
success of the esports program.
Though the technology and reno-vations
may seem extravagant to
some, the team believes it will be
key to their success as a program.
“Some [players] say that when
a game doesn’t run well enough,
you could misclick or something
like that,” said Chiu, “but when
you come here, it’s a whole differ-
E
(Jack Connaghan / The
University News)
At 12:29 a.m. on Jan. 18, a student
contacted the office of Public
Safety after drinking eight shots
of tequila and requested medi-cal
assistance. The student was
conveyed to Barnes Hospital for
treatment.
At 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 18, a SLU
student was found in an intoxicat-ed
state just before the SLU basket-ball
game. Chaifetz First Aid Staff
was called and the student was
escorted out of the game for treat-ment.
St. Louis City EMS transport-ed
the student to SLU Hospital for
further medical attention.
On April 7 at 7:29 p.m., a man
who attended the cheerleading
event at Chaifetz Arena exited
the building. He walked behind
his vehicle and began to urinate
when a DPS officer spotted him
and took him into custody. He
was released soon after.
By COLIN THIERRY
Staff Writer
ent game. [Players] are in a space
where they can talk to each other.”
Chiu stated that this dynamic is
especially important because a lot
of online gaming is usually played
alone, where players communicate
over headset but not in person.
“[The lab] is really nice for play-ers
to talk one on one and really go
over the problems they have as a
team but also as students a
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No full textUniversity News - Volume 099, Issue 010 (February 20, 2020)
No full textMislabeled as Volume XCVIV. 24 pages.VOL. XCVIV No. 10 / February 20, 2020
COVER Design by Rebecca LiVigni
UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
SLUPER
TUESDAY
Candidates & Students
Prepare for the SGA Election
on Tuesday, Feb. 25
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02 NEWS
The three presidential candidates sitting in anticipation for the next question (Riley Tovornik / The University News).
n Feb. 18, the 2020
SGA Presidential and
Vice-Presidential Debate
was hosted at Carlo Au-ditorium.
The candidates
took time to outline the
issues central to their
respective campaigns and why they are
worthy of votes from SLU students. While
there was only one candidate running for
three of the five positions, the President
and Vice President of Academic Affairs
positions had at least two candidates run-ning
against each other for the vote.
The candidates for SGA President were
first up to the podium. The three candi-dates
debating were Alhan Sayyad, Joseph
Reznikov and Maggie Kenney.
Sayyad is a junior who currently serves
as the Vice President of Finance for SGA.
Sayyad touted her experience in SGA
since enrolling at SLU as her main quali-fication
for the job. One of Sayyad’s main
goals is to “destigmatize SGA on campus”
and to make it a more welcoming place
where all students can get involved. Next
year, Sayyad would look to “incorporate
non-SGA affiliated students on univer-sity
committees” so that more students
can have their voices heard. As president,
Sayyad wants to be “a voice and resource
for students.”
Reznikov is a junior who, as part of his
platform, wants SLU to be “more equi-table,
more transparent, more engaged
with our St. Louis community and more
mission-inspired.” He has been involved
in SGA since his freshman year at SLU,
with the majority of his commitments
on the Academic Affairs. “I’ve really en-joyed
collaborating with the administra-
SGA
CANDIDATES
PRESENT
THEIR
PLATFORMS
AT DEBATE
By COLIN THIERRY
Staff Writer
tors, students, faculty and staff in these
roles,” stated Reznikov. Through various
leadership positions he has held at SLU,
Reznikov believes he has engaged with
SLU’s Jesuit Mission in “a real and inten-tional
way” and looks forward to using
his experiences “both inside and outside
SGA to positively impact the student
body.”
Kenney is a junior who has served as
a Chartered Student Organization (CSO)
leader the past three years. She believes
that her experience in leadership roles
working with SGA, the Student Involve-ment
Center and other administrators
has given her a clear idea of the changes
needed to be made and has also given her
“relatable insight into what students are
feeling and thinking about their roles on
campus.” Kenney said she is passionate
about “making sure that SGA’s mission
to be a resource and voice for all students
is truly fulfilled by our members.” Ken-ney
pointed to the efforts made by her
campaign to reach out to every student
organization on campus, ensuring “that
every voice is heard.” She also stressed
the importance of providing student or-ganization
leaders with the resources
needed to be successful. As SGA Pres-ident,
Kenney wants to make sure that
the Jesuit mission is emulated inside and
outside the classroom “in a completely
holistic sense” and to embrace student
diversity on campus.
After making opening statements, the
candidates answered questions submit-ted
by the election commission and SLU
students.
When asked about the role of the SGA
president on campus, Reznikov said he
envisions the president as a “visionary”
who, along with the cabinet and sena-tors,
would create a culture informed by
SLU’s Jesuit Mission.
Kenney stated how as president she
would want to encourage an inclusive,
innovative environment where students
“develop academically.” She also point-ed
to her desire to put an emphasis on
students’ physical and mental health,
which would help create this environ-ment
of academic success.
Sayyed elaborated on her desire for a
more welcoming and equitable campus,
especially for students from underrepre-sented
backgrounds. She stated how SLU
has had some problems with “diversity
bubbles” within and around the univer-sity’s
community. As president, Sayyed
said she would work to break down
barriers between groups at SLU and be-tween
students and the St. Louis area in
general.
The only other contested position was
for the role of Vice President of Academ-ic
Affairs, with Faith Nixon and Sophia
Izhar debating.
Nixon is a sophomore who has held
many leadership positions at SLU and
currently serves as a committee chair on
the Food Advisory Board. Nixon stated
that her campaign is about “equity and
inclusion.” She emphasized her cam-paign’s
focus “on faculty involvement
and development.” Nixon also pointed
to the importance of providing more ac-ademic
resources for students, particu-larly
undergraduates. She put an empha-sis
on wanting to focus more on the arts
and humanities at SLU as she believes
that the university is “slowly focusing
more and more on STEM.”
Izhar is a sophomore running on
Sayyed’s ticket who has served as a sen-ator
for the College of Arts and Scienc-es
and has sat on the Academic Affairs
Committee. Through her service in var-ious
leadership roles, Izhar said she has
been able to see how SLU functions in
an academic setting. One of the stated
goals of her campaign is “making sure
there is representation of marginalized
identities” on all university committees.
Additionally, Izhar touched on how she
wanted to centralize various student re-sources
in one location so that they are
more easily accessible for SLU students.
After Nixon and Izhar finished their
debate, some candidates for uncontest-ed
VP positions went up to the podium
to discuss their platforms. This included
Armina Osmanovic (Vice President of
Finance), Helena Cooper (Vice President
of Communication and Internal Affairs),
and Nandhineswari “Eshu” Senthikuma-ran
(Vice President of Diversity & Inclu-sion).
Presidential and
VP candidates
discuss their
vision for SLU’s
future
NEWS 03
By CONOR DORN
Associate News Editor
his year, each
We d n e s d a y
during the
month of Feb-ruary,
a group
of SLU student
volunteers are
hosting a winter shelter at Man-resa
Retreat Center. The shelter
has successfully provided food,
warmth and comfort to guests on
the past three Wednesdays of this
month and will be open for the fi-nal
week on Feb. 26.
The shelter opened for the
first time last year in January, as
St. Louis experienced a polar vor-tex
that saw single digit tempera-tures
and wind chills well below
zero.
In response to the danger-ous
drop in temperature, senior
Devonn Thomas and a group of
friends and associates negotiated
with university administrators in
an effort to put SLU’s resources
to use. The shelter provides an
emergency location for some of
St. Louis’ unhoused population,
the demographic at the most risk
when temperatures begin to fall.
In just a few hours, the shelter
transitioned from idea to reality.
As temperatures dipped below 10
degrees, the volunteers were able
to secure the various resources
necessary and space at Il Monas-tero
Banquet Center for the initial
run of the shelter.
On the first night the shel-ter
was open, 11 individuals were
served, eating meals provided by
Sodexo and sleeping on cots bor-rowed
from the Simon Recreation
Center. Volunteers also brought
blankets, coats, scarves and other
winter needs. The shelter contin-ued
the following night, shifting
location to Manresa Retreat Cen-ter,
which was better equipped
with basic necessities and was
able to serve more guests.
According to graduate stu-dent
Mae McConnell Curry, these
first two iterations of the shel-ter,
though chaotic and frenzied,
were a success. “We got people off
the streets and we housed them,
which was our goal,” she said.
Once the polar vortex passed,
those who had participated in
running the shelter began to look
ahead for ways to make the shel-ter
a more permanent resource
for those in need. While the frig-id
temperatures spurred the SLU
community to action, the core
team’s goal was to institutional-ize
and solidify the endeavor so
that the shelter might run on a
consistent basis, regardless of the
outside temperature.
The core group of volun-teers
spent the rest of the spring
semester in meetings with fac-ulty
solidifying plans for the
shelter for the next winter. They
discussed the obstacles that they
had faced the previous year and
developed strategies to serve
their guests most effectively.
One difficulty, especially giv-en
the impromptu nature of the
first two iterations of the shelter,
was that many of the volunteers
did not know each other and thus
lacked the mutual trust that is in-tegral
to the smooth operation of
a shelter.
McConnell Curry said, “one of
our biggest takeaways from last
year is that in order to run the
shelter successfully, core leaders
and volunteers...
t
eports of food
poisoning have
arisen from
multiple SLU
students after
eating at the
Jimmy John’s
on Laclede Avenue. This was ac-companied
by a closure of the es-tablishment
by the St. Louis City
Health Department.
Jimmy John’s, the sandwich
shop located on Laclede Ave-nue
across from the Vandeventer
soccer fields, is one of the few
off-campus dining options for
SLU students within walking dis-tance—
that is, until multiple stu-dents
became ill shortly after eat-ing
at the sandwich shop, some
even being hospitalized.
“I will never eat Jimmy John’s
again in my life,” says Nandini
Fonseca, a sophomore interna-tional
business student. Fonseca
claims to have gotten sick on Jan.
19, the day after eating a Jimmy
John’s tuna sandwich.
Fonseca fell ill after attending
a campus retreat for a SLU orga-nization
that was catered by Jim-my
John’s. Following the retreat,
Fonseca claims she “couldn’t
even open a gatorade bottle.”
This account is similar to four-teen
other students who attended
the retreat, such as Baker Mitch-ell,
a junior business student.
“From 7 p.m. on Sunday until
about 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, I
threw up twelve times,” claims
Mitchell.
Eventually, Mitchell’s room-mate
had to take him to the emer-gency
room, and he was hospi-talized
on the evening of Jan. 19
along with another student who
attended the retreat.
One week later, during the
weekend of Jan. 25, the Jimmy
John’s on Laclede Avenue was
shut down. A City of St. Lou-is
Health Department sign was
soon posted on the door claiming
an “Order of Cessation” for the
restaurant.
The Health Department sign
was soon taken down that week-end
and replaced with a Jimmy
John’s sign, this one apologizing
for being closed due to a “water
main break.”
Jeff Lewis, manager of the Jim-my
John’s on Laclede Avenue, re-peated
this claim, telling the Uni-versity
News that Jimmy John’s
was shut down due to a water
main break in the restaurant.
Lewis stated the water main break
did not affect the quality of food
at that time, and he especially
pointed out that the City Health
Department sign was only posted
to make the water main break “of-ficial.”
However, Kim Vanden Berg,
Public Information Officer for
the Department of Health, stated
that the restaurant was closed be-cause
they “received complaints
of persons experiencing gastro-intestinal
illness following dining
from the establishment.” The City
Health Department says that Jim-my
John’s was able to reopen “af-ter
it was determined there was
no risk to the public.”
With the “water main break”
now fixed and all students from
the retreat now healthy, it is un-likely
that the SLU community
will know what exactly caused the
illness.
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his week, the
Center for Ser-vice
and Com-munity
Engage-ment
and the
Cross Cultural
Center have
teamed up to sponsor SLU’s sec-ond
ever UndocuWeek, a week-long
series of events aimed at
bringing awareness to the issues
and circumstances surrounding
immigration in the United States.
The first UndocuWeek, held in
2019, brought students from all
corners of campus together to
discuss the challenges that un-documented
migrants face due to
their status and the state of the
immigration system, an ever-in-creasingly
hot-button topic in to-day’s
society.
For their second annual Un-docuWeek,
the events were
planned and put together by a
team of students and SLU Com-munity
members, including
sophomore Andrea Somoza, who
is the President of the Caribbean
and Latin-American Student As-sociation
(CALSA), junior Grace
Kanary, sophomore Joanna Wil-liams,
as well as seniors Marissa
Ornelas and Jibril Muhammad,
both of whom were involved in
planning and creating the first
UndocuWeek.
This year’s theme is centered
around “Bridging the Gap: Dis-tributing
the Tools for Commu-nity
Empowerment.” According
to Joanna Williams, a student in
the College of Arts and Scienc-es
and an intern with the Center
for Service and Community En-gagement,
the theme is focused
on “how attendees to the events
can go beyond hearing stories or
doing service and start to think
deeply about what it means for
a community to be empowered,
and what different individuals
can contribute to that empower-ment.”
The first event, on Tuesday,
Feb. 18, was “Chisme y Comida,”
meaning “gossip and food.” The
event was an opportunity for stu-dents
to share food together and
have a discussion about “commu-nity
empowerment with the im-migrant
community as a focus.”
On Wednesday, CALSA host-ed
an event called “Barriga Llena,
Corazon Contenta,” which means
“full stomach, happy heart.” This
was another event during which
members of the SLU Community
could share food, potluck-style,
and engage in conversations with
one another over the topic of im-migration.
On Thursday, the keynote ad-dress
will be given by Carolina
Rubio Macwright, and the fol-lowing
day Macwright will host
a “Know Your Rights” workshop.
Macwright was born in Bogotá,
Columbia and moved to the U.S.
at the age of 20, where she went
to art school and then law school.
Macwright works as an immigra-tion
lawyer, an artist and an ac-tivist
focusing on immigrant and
humanitarian rights. She blends
her talents and passions together
in ways that reach those in need
the most. For example, Macwright
has developed workshops that
“mix legal rights, empowerment
and hands-on experimental arts
mediums, such as clay and cook-ing.”
By bringing together differ-ent
groups of people through
hands-on and artistic expres-sions,
Macwright—and all of the
Week’s hosts—are able to educate
and empower participants of their
workshops.
T
n Feb. 11, The
Wellness Ago-ra,
created by
the Anthropedia
Foundation and
sponsored by
SLU, opened their doors to the
public. After being approached by
the previous owner, the Wellness
Agora is now located where the
Library Annex once resided.
One of the main purposes of
the center is to help people reach
their fullest potential and relieve
the stress that drags them down
through a bio-psycho-social-spir-itual
model. The Anthropedia
Foundation, which sponsors The
Wellness Agora, was founded by
Lauren Munsch Dal Farra, P.h.D.,
Sita Kedia, P.h.D. and Kevin Clon-inger,
P.h.D. in St. Louis in 2004.
Cloninger, Executive Direc-tor
of the Anthropedia Founda-tion,
as well as Lara Pennington,
MSW, Director of Development
and Community Engagement for
the Anthropedia Foundation, felt
that there was a lack of well-be-ing,
self-knowledge, meaning and
purpose in today’s individuals
alongside a world that is increas-ingly
unstable.
“Twenty years ago when we
were getting started, it was not
obvious to anyone that these
problems would be as bad as they
are now,” said Cloninger.
Sensing the degree to which
individuals’ stress was affecting
them, Cloninger felt that some-thing
had to be done to help, and
The Wellness Agora was born.
The Wellness Agora offers var-ious
ways for individuals to not
only learn how to reach their full-est
potential and decrease stress,
but also to teach others to do the
same. These come in the form of
coaching and different services
that target an individual’s biolog-ical
and psychological well-being.
By being coached, an individual
can learn how to lead a better,
more fulfilling life. By becoming
certified in a training course, an
individual can share what they’ve
learned and help others to follow
in the path of a healthier lifestyle
and being.
“I went through the training
with that personal development
in mind, but also for the profes-sional
implementation of the cur-riculum.
And I fell in love with the
curriculum,” stated Pennington
on her experience before joining
the team in April of 2018.
Osha Chesnutt-Perry, a junior
at SLU, reflects on her time with
Anthropedia and The Wellness
Agora with gratitude. “I have
been fortunate to try some of
these services in New York and
have already reaped benefits in
decreasing my anxiety and look
forward to continuing to use
what’s offered here to support my
academic and professional pur-suits,”
stated Chesnutt-Perry.
The services offered by The
Wellness Agora target an individ-ual’s
body and mind, seeking to
help relax, renew and recharge.
Some of these services include an
iso float, a thermal relax, infrared
sculpt, biobalance and various
other biologically based services.
For all services, students in
the St. Louis area will receive a
25 percent discount. For all SLU
students with a valid ID, they will
receive a 50 percent discount.
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By KLAUDIA WACHNIK
Staff Writer
(Jack Connaghan / The University News)
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hristina Greer,
P.h.D., Associate
Professor of Po-litical
Science at
Fordham Univer-sity,
gave a lecture
titled “Challenges to Democracy:
Activism, Education and the 2020
Elections” to a crowd of about for-ty
SLU students, faculty and mem-bers
of the community in the Busch
Student Center on the evening of
Wednesday, Feb. 19. She was the
keynote lecture of SLU’s “Black Fu-ture
Month.”
Greer’s research has fo-cused
on politics from the local to
the national level, specifically on
topics related to African Ameri-cans
and urban communities. She
is currently researching and writing
a history of all African Americans
who have run for electoral office in
the United States.
Her lecture was divided
into a few sections. She began with
a slideshow of photos of Shirley
Chisholm, a Democratic represen-tative
of New York, and Charlene
Mitchell, who ran for president in
1968 under the Communist Party,
two of the first black women to run
for national political office in the
U.S.
Greer used these figures
to lead into discussing problems
of intersectionality in the history
of women’s and minorities’ civ-il
rights, as well as discussing how
alternative political parties are of-ten
ignored by history, even while
their ideas are absorbed. She stated,
“Just because someone didn’t win
doesn’t mean that they should be
erased from history.”
Following her discussion of
the legacy and imperilment of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Vot-ing
Rights Act of 1965, Greer talk-ed
about the difference between
descriptive and substantive poli-tics
and its relation to the current
Democratic Party primaries. She
defined descriptive as voting for
candidates based on demographics
and substantive as voting based on
shared beliefs or policy aims, ar-guing
that it is significantly more
difficult for black voters and par-ticularly
black women to have both
aspirations met in the same candi-date.
Finally, Greer discussed some
of the primary issues threatening
American democracy. She argued
that “extreme voter disenfran-chisement”
and declining separa-tion
of powers at the federal level
were two of the greatest threats,
but she also expressed optimism
at grassroots organizing, increased
voter turnout and the growing
number of minority candidates.
One recommendation Greer...
c
ast week, Kara-mo
Brown, the
first openly gay
black man on a
reality TV show,
came to SLU as
a speaker for the
Great Issues Committee in col-laboration
with Rainbow Alliance
and Black Student Alliance.
Brown is best known for his
role in the mega-hit Netflix series,
“Queer Eye.” The show is centered
around the idea of helping every-day
people become the best ver-sions
of themselves. Brown plays
a key role in this show because he
helps these everyday people im-prove
internally by focusing on
the social and cultural aspects of
their lives.
At the GIC event, Brown re-flected
on the trials and joys he
experienced in his life that shaped
him into who he is today and gave
him the desire to make an impact
on others.
From the start, Brown distin-guished
himself from other guest
speakers by introducing the inter-viewers
instead of vice versa and
pulling his chair closer to the stu-dents.
Zahva Naeem, host of the
event and Associate Chair of GIC,
said, “The ability to establish that
rapport so quickly and to show
that he was genuinely excited to
be there was one of the most im-pactful
things about him coming.”
Brown’s authenticity and kind-ness
are what stood out about him
the most, Naeem said.
Brown spoke on his intersec-tional
identity with the audience.
As a black, gay man, as the son
of an abusive father, as a social
worker and as the father of two kids,
he showed the audience the impor-tance
of proudly embracing these
characteristics. Each of his numer-ous
identities individually play an
integral role in his life and holisti-cally
makes him who he is.
“Karamo described how realiz-ing
that you’re not just defined to
one identity can help you realize
your own positives which will push
you toward self-improvement,” said
Vandana Mishra, a freshman in at-tendance.
He then explained how he com-bined
his two passions, acting and
social work, to reach a larg